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HERSHEY, Pa. – It can't get any sweeter for Barry University men's golf.
Barry defeated Lynn by four strokes to break a 2-2-1 tiebreaker in the NCAA Division II National Championship match Friday at the par-71, 6,984-yard Hershey Country Club course. It marks the Buccaneers' second national title in the program's history.
It is the school's second national championship in two weeks, and 11th in the university's 29-year athletic history.
"I told my team to save every shot," Barry 11-year coach Jimmy Stobs said. "'It's a one-hole tournament, make par.'"
That's what Barry senior Marcus Segerstrom did on the 456-yard 18th hole to tie Lynn's Jose Andres Miranda. Both shot 78. Segerstrom birdied the 356-yard No. 5 hole to take a one-stroke lead. But despite falling two strokes behind after the 12th hole, Segerstrom made par on Nos. 14 and 16, while Miranda bogeyed both to draw even.
Bucs junior Scott Smyers dropped his match to Daniel Young by four strokes. Smyers shot 84 in the frigid, windy conditions, while Young settled for an 80. That gave the Fighting Knights a 1-0-1 lead.
Barry senior Simon Forsslund, who bought his time, waiting the majority of the season to compete, delivered in a big way. Forsslund defeated Ernesto Vitienes by eight strokes to even the match at 1-1-1. Forsslund birdied the 414-yard, par-4 12th on his way to a 79. Vitienes shot 87.
"Simon played great," Stobs said. "For Simon to shoot that … that's one of the reasons he was in the lineup because I knew he was tough. He proved me to be correct."
Bucs junior transfer Jared Dalga fell by two strokes to Filip Timmerman, giving Lynn a 2-1-1 lead. Dalga shot 83, and Timmerman 81.
It all came down to the final match, featuring National Freshman of the Year Adam Svensson of Barry and Lynn's Roberto Francioni. Svensson birdied the fifth to take a one-stroke lead. But after dropping a stroke on both 11 and 12, the Buccaneer rookie fell behind by one stroke. Svensson made par on the 467-yard, par-4 15th to knot the match.
"He asked me on 16, 'How do we stand?'" Stobs said. "I said, 'It's a three-hole tournament. We have to win this match."
Both Svensson and Francioni bogeyed 16, but the Bucs' freshman made par on 17 to take a one-stroke lead.
"On 18, he asked me where we stand," Stobs said. "I said, 'Just execute your shot. Don't worry about where we stand. I wouldn't be standing here if we didn't have a chance.'"
Svensson hit a 190-yard approach shot over the chocolate-like water to within 20 feet of the flag, while Francioni came up short of the 18th green. Svensson two-putted for par, and Francioni bogeyed to give the title to the Buccaneers.
"It's amazing that we all pulled through," Svensson said after his 4-over 75 final round. "It's like a high. I couldn't have asked for anything more as a freshman at Barry."
Forsslund couldn't have scripted it any better, himself.
"I couldn't have asked for anything else to end my college career," Forsslund said. "It feels great. This is what you work so hard for. It's been a fun ride being in college. I can't see it ending any better than this."


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on my needlesTuesday, July 21, 2009
This is my new project. I became completely obsessed over it after seeing the one spiralstitch made. And it just happened to be Classic Elite design by Pam Allen. Bonus. You know how much I love their pattern/yarn combination.
The construction is really interesting and I am loving it. Starting on the right sleeve, working around the back and to the left sleeve.
After you finish the top, you pick up and work the body of the sweater. Very little finishing. Another bonus! Knit in all stockinette out of 100% cotton, this makes for an easy knit while clocking the hours at the pool. If it is as cute as it is as fun, I can see this in another color in my wardrobe. I'm thinking grey. Or black. Or olive. Or brown. Or........
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That looks absolutely gorgeous. I love the color. And why not a second...or third? Hey, take it from the bag lady here. You can never have enough beautiful knits that you enjoy and in your hands passes the time beautifully, summer, fall, winter or spring! :)ReplyDelete
Peace and pool ripples to you and yours!
The color is beautiful. I can't wait to see it when it's finished.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the diagram. Your labels were so clear and helpful. You picked a great color. Let us know how it's going!ReplyDelete
I love genius knits! Looks awesome!ReplyDelete
Oooh, thank you for sharing! That is one darn cool cardigan. Must go now to add to my Ravelry queue ....ReplyDelete
CUTE!!! i love it... i vote for the next one to be in green :)ReplyDelete
Yes,it does look like Whisper sans the mind-numbing slow-goingness of it! Looks fab, Leslie.ReplyDelete
What unusual construction and design. FUN! I think you need to do it in olive next.ReplyDelete
I am still hanging on by my toenails to see what you come up with for Libby out of Spud and Chloe. I am loving the colors of that yarn, and since my youngest daughter is the about same age, I am anxious to see what you come up with. HURRY!!!! ~Jan
neat construction.. I love creative knits like thatReplyDelete
no way! I have that pattern on my to do list! I love that marled yarn that they used in the model. (I'm just watching to see if it goes on sale anywhere) Yours is going to be beautiful. I'm so glad you showed how the construction of it is laid out. Way too cool! Another gorgeous knit you'll have before long.ReplyDelete
Oh, I LOVE that construction. It always lays so well on my irritatingly narrow shoulders!ReplyDelete
You always find the spiffiest patterns. I love the yarn color, too. And the yarn itself seems, at least in the photographs, to have an attractive sheen. <3 Gorgeous!
Oh, I LOVE that construction. It always lays so well on my irritatingly narrow shoulders!ReplyDelete
You always find the spiffiest patterns. I love the yarn color, too. And the yarn itself seems, at least in the photographs, to have an attractive sheen. <3 Gorgeous!
Wow. That looks like it works up pretty fast too. (I vote for a second one in blue!)ReplyDelete
I've been crushing on that pattern on Ravelry for months now! I opened your blog and thought "SHE'S MAKING THAT SWEATER!?!?!?!"ReplyDelete
I just love, love, love it, but am currently trying to justify spending 15 on the book alone...
Can't wait to see how yours turns out!
I like this sweater. It's very stylish without being over the top. I have to think about this. I think my old fashion consultant Michelle would approve of this.ReplyDelete
I love the empire waist! I have the pattern book and have been torn between the empire waist cardigan or the open cardi. One thing I know for sure...you picked the perfect shade of purple!! It is just beautiful.ReplyDelete
Hi,Sandra here from Northern Ireland, just found your blog from "A friend to knit with" and love that cardi you knitted. However I can't seem to find where to purchase the pattern.Been on Ravelry...I am a member... but where do I go then? Love your knitting so I'll be back!!ReplyDelete
Cardigans are the best, especially ones without buttons to mess with:) I love the color too, really nice.ReplyDelete
The color is going to look great on you!ReplyDelete
This is my favorite piece, to date, that I have ever knit.
The color is so pretty...ReplyDelete
I need to make this! Gorgeous - thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
What an unusual construction and what a great color! Happy knitting by the pool!ReplyDelete
I love Classic Elite patterns too! They used to come to the local yarn/fabric shop with a trunk show of the latest patterns. I miss that now that the store closed. Your sweater is coming out beatifully, and the color is so pretty!ReplyDelete
I love it! Can't wait to see it finished and on you ;-)ReplyDelete
I'm busy knitting a pair of socks for a friend's birthday then I plan on starting some Christmas knitting! I'm blogging at my daily blog more right now, if you get the chance pop over!
Very interesting construction. I like your color choice(s) too.ReplyDelete
This is looking beautiful! I just happened to see this pattern on Ravelry and want to make one, too. I love the unusual construction. This does seem like the kind of thing to have in multiple colors :)ReplyDelete
this looks like the perfect sweater for a pregnant chickie like myself. love it.ReplyDelete
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NetWellness is a global, community service providing quality, unbiased health information from our partners. NetWellness is commercial-free and does not accept advertising.
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Genes are the tiniest piece of human information. They serve as the body's blueprint of heredity. Genes are made of DNA, which are double stranded molecules (like beads on a string) of protein within our cells. These proteins contain four letter codes, A, G, C, T, that interlock to form different sequences. The body has about 25,000 genes. Together, they make up the plans that determine how the body will develop, grow and function.
Genes do not float freely in the body. They are housed in molecular compartments known as chromosomes. If genes are the blueprints, chromosomes are the binders that hold the pages together and keep them organized. Humans have 46 chromosomes. There are 2 sex chromosomes and 22 pairs of non-sex chromosomes. Females have 2 X chromosomes and males have 1 X and 1 Y chromosomes. The chromosomes are housed within the nucleus of the human cell.
Since the beginning of time, people have recognized the concept of inheritance - that is, traits that are passed down from generation to generation. In most situations, those traits are looked at with pleasure, "she's got her father's eyes." However, when there is a genetic condition in the family that causes disease, illness or birth defects, there is usually great concern. Genetic disorders, while individually not very common, make up a significant portion of health care concerns. There are more than 6,000 known genetic disorders.
Any individual or family with an actual or potential concern about a diagnosis, recurrence risk, treatment or surveillance regarding a specific condition or birth defect often may seek guidance and counseling from a genetic counselor.
Genetic counseling is the process of providing individuals and families with a medical history or increased personal risk for a genetic condition, or those at risk for having a child with a birth defect or genetic condition:
Medical geneticists and genetic counselors are health professionals with specialized training and experience in human and medical genetics and counseling who can give information and supportive counseling concerning many disorders or abnormalities. Genetic specialists should have certification from the American Board of Genetic Counseling or the American Board of Medical Genetics.
Genetic counseling is not about preventing the occurrence of a genetic disorder. Rather, the objective is to provide education and counseling about the possible risks, complications, and implications of genetic conditions. Counseling also is designed to provide support and educate families about available resources. Persons at risk for a genetic disorder, or those at risk for giving birth to a child with a birth defect or genetic disease, may feel overwhelmed sorting through other factors that may affect a person's decision making process including:
By providing expert information and helping individuals consider and explore the possibilities, genetic counselors can reduce confusion and promote informed decision-making. In addition to helping to educate and facilitate, the counselor also serves as an advocate, offering support regardless of the choices made. The goal is to help you arrive at a decision with which you are comfortable.
During the visit, depending on the issue or condition, you may be asked to supply:
If the issue relates to the diagnosis of a genetic condition, the members of the genetics team will discuss how the condition can be managed and what the long-term implications are of having the condition. The genetic counselor can educate you about tests that determine whether or not a person is a "carrier," that is, someone who has an abnormal gene that could cause birth defects or disease in her children. If you are a carrier, genetic counseling can help determine the likelihood of passing on an abnormal gene. If you have a disorder or carry genes that may increase the chance you could develop a genetic disorder, genetic expertise can help determine the likelihood (recurrence risk) of the disorder arising in other family members or in yourself.
The family tree or pedigree is similar to a road map back into time that can help shed light on the future. Thus, discovering whether someone is at risk for a genetic disorder requires knowing with great accuracy your health history and that of your family.
When used in medicine, the pedigree is a historical diagram that traces family genetic characteristics, health problems, and disorders. Because charting a pedigree involves keeping track of many pieces of information, a diagram is made using symbols. The symbols distinguish males and females, show blood relationships among family members, and indicate relevant individual genetic traits.
Properly diagrammed, the pedigree will provide helpful details about each individual in the family and how the extended family (grandparents, uncles, aunts, grandchildren, in-laws) fared health-wise over time. Details provided by the pedigree include:
It is helpful to obtain some of this information before coming to the genetics clinic. This typically involves calling on certain relatives to ask them questions about the health of your grandparents, spouses, siblings, sons, daughters, etc.
To learn more about genetics and genetic counseling, please visit:
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Dear Diary,
I had another night of restlessness so I put it to good use by staying up until 3:30 am CDT working on events in the Genea-Blogger Games. It was a great way to pass the time! Here's what I've done:
1. Go Back and Cite Your Sources!
Despite my jump start before the sounding of the gun on Saturday, I was able to get 50 more - more like 122 - citations either entered or seriously corrected. Most of these were for the descendants of Charles McEntee.
With that number of citations, the Platinum medal is secured.
2. Back Up Your Data!
Although I had performed a backup to my 250GB external drive on August 1st, I took time last night to reorganize my entire genealogy folder structure. This was in conjunction with #3 below where I tagged over 200 photos and scanned images. With the new structure, and shedding many MBs of unneeded, duplicative data, I redid the backup.
So with A, B, and C completed, I can garner at least a Gold medal for this event.
3. Organize Your Research!
As stated above, and taking about two hours of my time, I redid all my Tags in Windows Vista Windows Explorer for photos of headstones, scans of obituaries and death notices, military records etc. One point of frustration is the inability to create tags for PDF documents and for RTF documents. I simply saved the RTFs as Word files in the DOC format and then was able to tag them.
With that and entering new data for McEntee descendants of Charles McEntee in my database, I have B, D and E completed for another Gold medal so far.
4. Write, Write, Write!
I finished my submission for the 4th edition of Shades of the Departed and posted it to my blog. I also participated in a new meme created by Lori Thornton at Smoky Mountain Family Historian about stores and pre-posted that item.
I am working on a biographic sketch that is not complete but I have pre-posted many of my entries for when I am away on vacation. I may also volunteer for an upcoming carnival - I am leaning towards Cabinet of Curiosities.
So with B and C complete I at least have the Silver medal.
5. Reach Out & Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness!
I have joined several new blogs on Blog Networks over at Facebook most notably the Forensic Genealogy Blog run by Colleen Fitzpatrick.
In terms of what could constitute an indexing project, I added more burial records with headstone photos over at Find A Grave.
With B and E complete, this means another Silver medal.
So my standings, so far:
Go Back and Cite Your Sources - Platinum
Back Up Your Data! - Gold
Organize Your Research - Gold
Write, Write, Write! - Silver
Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness - Silver


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Thursday, May 30, 2013
La Pomme de ma Tante
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Your watercolors are just great..I thought they ere to be your real tante's apples..is my memory correct? You have a range there?ReplyDelete
A dentist?
Anyway this ms range sure is productive:-)
Were you not even tempted to eat parts of the dough that had touched the compote?:-)
I would have for sure..Replies
No not tempted but I put it under the hot water anyway just in case I changed my mind later.Delete
I am not to be trusted where cake is concerned.
How can she have good apples at this time of year? Have they been stored all winter....and she grows varieties that store well?ReplyDelete
I would be happy to sit around eating the scraps you discard...strictly for purposes of economy.Replies
Give me your address.Delete
Sending crust scraps a toute a suite!
Something is confusing me.ReplyDelete
I live in NJ and apples don't come out till much later. Are French apples that much different? Are those this year's apples?
Beautiful pictures btw.Replies
I think it's the tail end of the Autumn season..soon to be gone from the marche.Delete
We used to live next to the University of Minnesota Experimental Apple Orchard. I have not had an apple as good as those anywhere else. I'm partial to the crisp, juicy, slightly tart varieties that are harvested after the first frost. Alas, in Florida no such thing.ReplyDelete
I am telling you my typing is awful!ReplyDelete
I meant I think you have a TANTE there?
Oh lala..my apologies.
j'aime beaucop le pain aux raisins, quand je suis à paris je le mange toujours! Carol, excusez-moi, je nage pendant tout l'année, mais je n'ai pas encore essayé une piscine in Paris, où tu vas? Est-ce quelle est propre? Est-ce qu'il y a beaucoup de monde? Thanks you very much HelgaReplyDeleteReplies
Check out the Paris piscine web site HelgaDelete
I go to Blomet in the 15 th which is enorme-50 mt.
I think they are all propre (I have visited at least 7-8) IMHO
I admire your willpower...and drowning the leftovers was a brilliant move.ReplyDelete
No Texas loyalty here. I prefer Royal Gala...from New Zealand. However, if we were talking peaches (which we're not), nothing beats the fruit from Fredericksburg. ;)
on week-end!! x Katie
It wouldn't be the first time I've committed death by drowning to a temptress pastry...ReplyDelete
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Vanessa and I shared a bottle of the sparkling apple juice that we bought from the apple lady. OMG, it was the best ever!!! I think we are going to run back over there on Sunday and pick up some more. We haven't eaten the apples yet that we bought, but they will be hard to beat our Washington state apples! CarolynReplyDelete
Sorry ladies, NOTHING beats Ontario apples (in the fall) and summer strawberries here in Canada. ;)ReplyDelete


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Volunteer Pages
Volunteer Registration and Certification Requirements
All AYSO volunteers (coaches, team administrators, referees, field monitors, board members, etc) must register as a volunteer each and every year. This annual registration is required as part of the many steps AYSO takes to adhere to the appropriate policies and regulations that concern volunteers who work with children. The registration site, www.eayso.org is maintained by AYSO national and is separate from the Beverly Hills AYSO website found at www.ayso76.org.
AYSO has recently introduced electronic signature capabilities that will make volunteer registration MUCH EASIER. As a returning volunteer, you will no longer be required to print your volunteer registration forms and submit them to the region. You only need to update/verify your registration information, electronically "sign" the document on the eAYSO website and you're done.
Volunteers that are new to AYSO or that have never before registered as a volunteer at eAYSO must still submit a printed copy of their volunteer form with a valid ID. Typically this is done at a certification course such as a coach or referee clinic or a safe haven course.
The process is fairly straightforward once you login to the eAYSO website. Additional information on how to register as a volunteer can be found on our eAYSO Registration Guide. If you have any issues with registration, please contact the eAYSO Help Line at (866) 588-2976.
In addition to annual registration, AYSO requires each volunteer to be properly certified for the particular job they will be performing during the season. For ALL volunteers, including Team Administrators, this requirement includes AYSO's Safe Haven training which covers basic safety and health information policies. Coaches must be properly certified as coaches for their division (U6, U8, etc.) and volunteers who wish to become referees must take the Basic Referee Course (at a minimum).
AYSO offers Safe Haven Training as an online course. For those of you that need to complete your Safe Haven Training, this can be a very quick and easy way to get it done. The course can be found on the AYSO Online Training website. Once you enter the site with your AYSO ID, click on "Courses" and you should see "Course MT02 - AYSO's Safe Haven" under the topic SAFE HAVEN. Once you complete the course online, your certification will be attached to your eAYSO online record automatically.
AYSO recently introduced training on the topic of concussions. The course uses information from the "Heads Up: Concussion in High School Sports" initiative developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Like Safe Haven, the course is offered online on the AYSO Online Training website. It is under the SAFE HAVEN topic and is called "AYSO CDC Concussion Awareness". Our regional policy requires all coaches to take this course but AYSO strongly recommends that all volunteers (coaches, referees, field monitors, team administrators, etc) complete the Concussion Awareness course.
In order to maximize our region's compliance with AYSO national requirements for volunteers, we enforce the following policies:
- Registration: ALL coaches, referees, and team administrators must be registered at eAYSO for the current season.
- Safe Haven Certification: ALL coaches, referees, and team administrators must be Safe Haven Certified.
- Coach Specific Certification: ALL coaches must be properly certified for the division they plan to coach. For example, a coach that is planning to volunteer in U10 must have a U10 Coaching Certification. Coaching certification for a different division will not satisfy this requirement. Any coach that has not satisfied the requirements above will NOT be assigned to a team in the fall. Additional detail on Coach Certification, including a list of clinics offered in our region can be found on our Coach Certification page.
- CDC Concussion Awareness: ALL coaches in all divisions must also complete the AYSO CDC Concussion Awareness training. Once you complete the online traning, you will not have to repeat the course in the future.
- Referee Specific Certification: ALL referees must be certified by taking, at a minimum, the Basic Referee Course. This requirement is in addition to the registration and safe haven requirement listed above for all volunteers.
- Volunteer Point Allocation: ALL Referees, Field Monitors, or other volunteers earning points must be registered in eAYSO for the current season AND be appropriately certified in order to allocate points. The system will not allow you to allocate your points if the system does not indicate that these requirements have been met.


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Family Activities
The City Park (Városliget in Hungarian) is packed with things to do and places to see. The park was the main venue of the millennium celebrations in 1896. Behind Heroes' Square lies the ice-skating rink which is a lake in the summer wit…
Right across from Széchenyi Thermal Bath is the Amusement Park, whose history dates back to the beginning of the 1800-s. The original park was called Vurstli.
The zoo offers a mix of exotic and domestic animals.
The City Park (Városliget in Hungarian) is packed with things to do and places to see. The Central Europe's one and only permanent circus building hosts not only circus performances, but also concerts, fashion shows, and sports events, a…
The Hungarian Railway Museum Foundation was set up by MÁV Rt. and MÁV Nosztalgia Kft. in November 1999. The objectives of the Foundation are to collect the railway relics of the past; to develop and operate a permanent railway exhibit…
Located in Marczibányi Square, the Millenáris Park was originally the site of the Ganz Electrical Works Factory.As part of the rehabilitation of this industrial area, a 3,5 hectare park was established, with a large exhibition hall. …
Hundreds of animal species and lush vegetation await to be discovered within the walls of the Tropicarium.
Under Castle Hill, as part of the vast Castle Hill cave system, a labyrinth has been located. It is the easiest one to visit, as there are no ladders to climb... just stairs...


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The NSX is absolutely gorgeous. Must get a lot of looks on the street!
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i have always loved the nissan NSX
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Forest Paper Co. smokestacks, Yarmouth, ca. 1900Item 67659 info
Yarmouth Historical Society
The soda process, invented in 1854, used poplar wood, pre-barked and shipped in four-foot long logs. They were then sliced into small chips, cleaned, and put into large digesters that pressure-cooked the chips.
Once the digesters were full, soda or lye was put in at high heat to reduce the chips to pulp.
The pulp was then strained or dried and sent off to papermakers all over the world. Yarmouth's Forest Paper Company soon became famous for its quality product.


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Raiders members launch 2012 Membership
Raiders members launch 2012 Membership
The Canberra Raiders have kicked started their 2012 Membership drive with a launch at Canberra Stadium today, where 2011 members signalled their intentions to stick with the Green Machine for the new season.
Raiders star and member number 5422, Terry Campese, joined some of his fellow members from Bay 53 at Canberra Stadium, to show their true colours and reinforce the message to Raiders fans that membership is about belonging.
Like all Raiders players Campese buys his membership each and every year, along with memberships for his family and friends.
Campese said the message from most of the Raiders fans was coming through loud and clear that they stick with the club through the good times and bad and said he hoped to see a rise in membership numbers in 2012.


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The Bruins' three-game winning streak and one-shootout victory streak both came to an end tonight, but they had nothing to hang their heads about while leaving Atlanta.
Arguably, Boston played its best game of its road trip so far in outshooting the Thrashers 44-32 in a 3-2 shootout loss.
The Bruins lost the shootout 2-0 and are now 2-0-1 with two games left on their five-game road trip.
Here's a glance at the box score:
•Goaltender Tim Thomas, making his season-high seventh straight start, stopped 30 of 32 shots to earn the point. But he was unable to stop the Thrashers' two shooters, Bryan Little and Tim Stapleton.
•Patrice Bergeron and Blake Wheeler scored Boston's goals, while Tobias Enstrom scored both of Atlanta's goals — both on the power play.
•Wheeler led the way for the Bruins with five shots on goal. Five other players (Milan Lucic, Mark Recchi, Zdeno Chara, Marc Savard, Michael Ryder) registered four shots on net.


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The economic transformation of the industrial Midwest will continue to be a principal reality in the communities served by our stations, WBEZ, Michigan Radio, and WCPN ideastream, and the coverage of that change will continue to be our priority.
But change, as our project name implies, is inescapable, and we are not immune. This blog will continue to be a repository for coverage about this topic, However it will not continue to be updated with the frequency it has for the past two years.


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Lori Ann "Blondie" Sprenger, age 45 of Melrose, died peacefully surrounded by her family after a courageous battle with cancer on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at her home in Melrose.
Lori Ann "Blondie" Sprenger, age 45 of Melrose, died peacefully surrounded by her family after a courageous battle with cancer on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at her home in Melrose. Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m. Monday, July 23, 2012 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Melrose with Rev. Marvin Enneking officiating. Inurnment will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Patton-Schad Funeral Home in Melrose and one hour prior to the mass at church on Monday. Parish prayers will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening at the funeral home. Arrangements were made with Patton-Schad Funeral & Cremation Services of Melrose.
Lori Ann Bauer was born November 29, 1966 in Melrose, Minnesota to Ervin, Jr. and Cecilia (Wiechmann) Bauer. Lori graduated from Melrose High School in 1985. She was united in marriage to Timothy "Tim" Sprenger on October 15, 1988 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Melrose. Lori opened her own daycare at their home in 1997. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Melrose and Sts. Bernard and Elizabeth Society. Lori loved life and lived it to the fullest. She loved shopping, traveling, camping, and going to the beach. Lori enjoyed watching television and going to the movies. She was a wonderful wife and mother and an excellent daycare provider.
Survivors include her husband, Tim Sprenger of Melrose; children, Cassidy and Brady Sprenger, both at home; parents, Ervin, Jr. and Cecelia Bauer of Melrose; brothers, Gary (Jackie) Bauer of Melrose, Glenn (Amy) Bauer of Melrose, Mike (Lucy) Bauer of Melrose, Joey Bauer of Melrose, and Kristie (Gary) Mayer of Melrose.


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October 2003
The opportunistic infections of HIV disease were easy to recognize because they stood out so starkly against the typical health status of the young, productive middle-class persons who first came to the attention of doctors in California and New York. Eventually, the set of symptoms that prefigured AIDS became well known and the disease was understood to progress along a continuum from primary infection to a terminal stage.
But if AIDS had first appeared among people with poor health and many other problems (and there is evidence that it did) it would not have been so easily discerned. While AIDS allows a number of characteristic infections to cause disease, for most of the people in the world with HIV, these occur on top of endemic infections or health problems that can be deadly in themselves. For too many people in the world, the burden of disease they face is amplified by HIV.
HIV exists in a complex web of interactions with other infections and pathologies. Some venereal diseases, such as herpes and chlamydia, may enhance the likelihood of becoming infected through sexual contact. Other problems, such as addiction and mental illness, also increase the risk of acquiring HIV and other infections, and, for the infected, make care and treatment much more difficult. Chronic poverty, lack of education and inadequate infrastructure may also be considered pathologies that exacerbate and sustain poor health.
HIV is a transmissible infection acquired through sexual contact, during birth, or by contaminated blood, that depletes an individuals immune capacity to fight off deadly infections and some cancers. Nearly 50 million people may be infected with HIV, and HIV disease killed more than three million people last year, with this number set to rise dramatically in the coming decade. An estimated five million people will become newly infected this year, with rates of new infections poised to explode in Asia and Eastern Europe. Currently, about 70 percent of all people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease mostly affects women, children and young people, most with few economic resources. Treatment is effective but out of reach for most who need it due to cost.
Selected Preventable Causes of Death
|Cause of Death
|Deaths in 2001
|Diarrheal diseases
|Perinatal conditions
|Childhood diseases
|Liver cancer
|Lung cancer
|Traffic accidents
|Source: The World Health Report 2002, WHO
Tuberculosis is a contagious respiratory infection that follows poverty and urban crowding, infecting 30 million each year and killing 5,000 people every day. Worldwide, TB is the leading killer of people with HIV, and the course of both HIV and TB is much more rapid and deadly in persons with both infections. In Africa, half of all TB cases are associated with HIV, and although relatively rare in the U.S. due to robust prevention and treatment efforts, 10 to 20 percent of TB cases are associated with HIV.
Malaria is endemic in many resource-poor tropical and sub-tropical regions where the Anopheles mosquito thrives, particularly in Africa. Worldwide, as many as 500 million cases of clinical malaria occur each year and over 3000 people die each day -- many of them children in Africa. For people with HIV, especially pregnant women, episodes of acute malaria are complicated and more serious.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is responsible for chronic liver infection in 350 million people around the world and is a major contributor to 1.4 million annual deaths from liver disease and cancer. Transmitted by sex, blood or at birth, chronic HBV infection is a long, slow illness that can produce serious liver damage later in life. In the developing world, particularly in Asia, most HBV infections occur in children, with from 50 to 90 percent of those exposed developing chronic infections. Individuals with chronic HBV infection from childhood have a 25 percent lifetime risk of dying from liver disease. In addition, persons with both HIV and Hepatitis B may be more likely to develop serious liver disease than those with HBV alone.
Infection with another liver virus, hepatitis C (HCV) is nearly universal among injection drug users with HIV in the U.S. Worldwide, an estimated 170 million people are chronically infected with HCV. With a long, slow course of progression, many people infected with HCV during the 1970s and 1980s are now experiencing serious liver disease, including cirrhosis and cancer. For those with HIV, liver damage may be more severe and treatment less successful. In the developed world, where death rates from AIDS have plummeted due to antiretroviral therapy, liver disease has emerged as one of the leading causes of mortality in people with HIV.
The Top Ten Risk Factors for Disease and Injury Throughout the World
|In Developed Countries
|In Developing Countries With Low Mortality
|In Developing Countries With High Mortality
|Source: For the year 2000. The World Health Report 2002, WHO. Annex Table 14
Collectively, these diseases may be responsible for over six million deaths per year, with many more trailing in their wake as the burden on economies and health care capacity becomes overwhelming. Increasingly, the fear that destabilized societies and economies may impact the security of Western nations has stimulated a great deal of rhetoric and an increasing amount of money dedicated to addressing the burden of disease in the world. Hopefully, several emerging global partnerships will be able to direct a coordinated and effective response to these threats as the promised resources become available.
Indeed, there are opportunities to be mined in these overlapping epidemics. Infrastructure in place to deliver TB treatment has been proposed as a platform on which to build a network to provide antiretroviral therapy. The high rate of antenatal clinic attendance in some parts of Africa gives an opportunity to detect HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, forestalling transmission to infants and preventing complications due to malaria.
The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) was established to respond to these intertwining threats and has taken the first tentative steps towards underwriting expanded treatment programs on a country and regional basis. Although commitments to spend $2 billion by 2005 have been made, so far only $150 million has been disbursed. Despite the growing recognition that these diseases are a linked catastrophe, political will by the donor nations has lagged and the GFATM remains underfunded.
The Gates Foundation recently committed $168 million to fighting malaria and has issued challenges to develop affordable tests to diagnose infectious diseases and monitor therapy for HIV. The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is a $200 million partnership with the National Institutes of Health to get scientists to address open scientific questions in such fields as childhood vaccines, insect control, nutrition, and new treatments for debilitating latent infections that impede international development.
But the largest world body addressing the multiplicity of disease in the developing world is the World Health Organization (WHO), which, together with the UNs UNAIDS and other partners has launched an ambitious plan to bring HIV treatment to 3,000,000 people who need it over the next two years. While the thrust of this program is to procure drugs and diagnostics and establish guidelines for treating HIV with a restricted list of standard regimens, the necessary expansion of training and capacity improvement in the health care sector to allow ARV delivery is also expected to strengthen the ability to deliver a broader range of health services.
Despite the existence of an effective vaccine for hepatitis B virus, few children in the worlds poorest countries have been immunized. WHO is a leader in the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), another broad-based partnership with the mission of vaccinating as many children as possible against preventable disease, such as hepatitis B.
WHO is also a leading agency in the Stop TB Partnership, a global association of all organizations and individuals working to control and eliminate TB in the world. Stop TB has set a goal of reducing the global burden of the disease by half by the year 2010. The means to accomplish this require a broad commitment from governments and NGOs to "ensure that every person with TB has access to a cure, that vulnerable populations are protected from infections, and that the social and economic damage of TB is minimized."
Roll Back Malaria is another WHO-founded global partnership with a goal of cutting the worlds malaria burden in half by 2010. With a shorter treatment period, effective prevention technology and recent successes in fighting malaria in affected countries, this effort may have the best chance among the large-scale disease initiatives for hitting its marks. Demonstrating success in rolling back malaria on a global scale is seen to be crucial for demonstrating that similar large partnerships for TB and HIV are feasible.
World Health Organization (WHO): www.who.int
UNAIDS: www.unaids.org
Global Fund for AIDS, TB & Malaria: www.theglobalfund.org
Global Alliance for Vaccines: www.vaccinealliance.org
Roll Back Malaria: mosquito.who.int
Stop TB Partnership: www.stoptb.org
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Prosecutors review findings in case of man left paralyzed while in custodyBy KATHY MARCHOCKI
Union Leader Staff
February 15. 2014 10:57PM
MANCHESTER - Investigators have completed their inquiry into how a Manchester man suffered a broken neck the left him paralyzed from the neck down, and their findings now are being reviewed by the county and state prosecutors.
Deputy New Hampshire Attorney General Ann Rice and Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia M. LaFrance will meet this week to jointly review police reports of what happened to Fern A. Ornelas, 54, while he was in the care or custody of Elliot Hospital, Manchester police and the Hillsborough County House of Corrections between Oct. 15 and 17.
Barring the need for follow-up investigations, the prosecutors expect to release their findings by month's end, Rice said.
If the investigation results in no criminal charges, the investigation would conclude with the release of a report, she said. If prosecutors determine criminal charges should be brought, no report would be released and they would proceed through the criminal courts, Rice explained.
Ornelas, who lost his job at Shaw's when the South Willow Street supermarket closed in September, went to the Elliot Hospital emergency department Oct. 15 because he had stopped taking his medications, friends and family said. While there, he allegedly assaulted a security guard Oct. 16, who in turn used force to subdue him.
Ornelas was transferred to Manchester police headquarters for booking on a simple assault charge, then taken to Hillsborough County House of Corrections about midnight Oct. 17. Ornelas was returned to Elliot Hospital about 9:30 that morning with what family and friends say was a broken neck that left him paralyzed.
He was transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In December, he went to Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center in Greenfield.
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LONDON – The final whistle was accompanied by a loud chorus of boos at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, a sound all too familiar to Rafael Benitez, who could use a friend and a victory in the worst way.
Chelsea blew a two goal halftime lead at home to Southampton and came away with a disappointing 2-2 draw just hours after the news broke that Pep Guardiola, Roman Abramovich's first choice to manage his club, elected to take less money and fewer headaches and signed a three year contract with Bayern Munich.
Guardiola is the big winner of course since the former Barcelona manager had his pick of jobs with Chelsea and perhaps Manchester City at the top of the list. A day earlier, the Premier League was buzzing after Guardiola was quoted as saying that his goal is to one day manage in Europe's top league which only fueled speculation that Abramovich, Chelsea's free spending and desperately impatient Russian owner, was about to get his man.
Money -- and Abramovich has plenty of it -- can certainly buy you yachts and allow you to overpay for a floundering striker like Fernando Torres. But money, especially Abramovich's money, couldn't buy Guardiola because money doesn't buy trust. Abramovich the billionaire goes through managers the way spoiled children discard toys and Guardiola wasn't about to become Chelsea's 10th manager in 10 years.
Since leaving Barca, Guardiola has been living in New York and seems to enjoy anonymity on American soil. I've run into him at Red Bulls games and recently at a Knicks-Spurs game at Madison Square Garden. He looks well and sounds great. Why allow Abramovich to spoil a good thing.
That Guardiola picked Bayern Munich, the team Chelsea defeated last May to capture its first European title, probably burns Abramovich just a bit. So yes, that makes Pep the winner in all this.
The loser, of course, is Rafa who is about as unpopular at Stamford Bridge as an Arsenal supporter would be. Fans here have never embraced the idea of the team sacking Roberto Di Matteo and hiring the former Liverpool boss on an interim basis. There was a sign of "Rafa Out" on display on Wednesday and Benitez further infuriated fans when he replaced Frank Lampard with Torres in the 79th minute.
Torres lost possession on two occasions and wasted a good scoring chance when he missed the target from 16 yards out. Chelsea now sits 13 points behind leaders Manchester United and just two points ahead of fourth place Tottenham.
On Sunday, Chelsea's crosstown rival Arsenal comes calling and things could get worse before they can improve. Benitez is not sure if defender John Terry will be available for the London derby. Lampard struggled at times against Southampton with a move to the Los Angeles Galaxy all but complete. A source close to the club has called it "all but done."
Terry and Lampard are a huge part of the club's rich and deep history. They've experienced the lows and highs together but now one is injured and the other's mind seems to be elsewhere. Change is coming at Stamford Bridge. The fans sense it and they are uneasy about.
The club has the resources to stay near the top of the table for some time. But that same money that overpaid for Torres and bought Demba Ba from Newcastle United, couldn't buy Pep Guardiola's trust.
Every man has a price. And it's good to know that Guardiola stands for something. In the end, this is Rafa's mess to fix until Abramovich eventually finds someone else to take his cash. Anybody know what Jose Mourinho's asking price is these days?


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Appearing in a predominantly gay Chicago neighborhood, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said he plans to capitalize on what he sees as a competitive advantage over most other Midwestern states when it comes to gay marriages. Minnesota recently legalized gay weddings, but the Illinois Legislature adjourned its last session without a final vote.
It's Rybak's own twist on a common practice among politicians trying to lure away companies with tax breaks and other promises, and he says he makes no apology for the pitch.
"Have you met Mayor (Rahm) Emanuel?" he joked when asked about the famously competitive Chicago mayor. "He would do it to me every day of the week."
Rybak stressed he wants Illinois to pass such a law. But in a news conference in which he mixed jokes with a serious message, he said that the longer that state takes to legalize gay marriage, the more money that will flow out of the state and into Minnesota, and all the hotels, caterers, florists, bakers and others that make money off weddings.
"If I was the mayor of not only Chicago but any city in Illinois I would be really frightened," he said. "Chicago and all of Illinois stand to lose all of those tourism dollars from people who have a choice."
Both Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn, both of whom support legalizing gay marriage, also pointed out the potential for lost tourism dollars when reacting to news that Rybak was coming.
Rybak said he hoped that same-sex couples would be swayed by his reminder that Minnesota is so close — six hours by car and a fraction of that by jet. His campaign aims to cut into the number of gay and lesbian couples that are traveling to Iowa to get married by convincing at least some of them to "turn left at Wisconsin" and come to Minneapolis.
"You can hop on a plane this afternoon, go to Minneapolis and get married and come home tonight and be eligible for veterans benefits and all those other (federal) benefits," he said, explaining that married couples are eligible for hundreds of federal benefits that are not available to couples in civil unions.
He said Iowa illustrates that there is a big business waiting to be tapped. Even with politicians doing little to advertise that same-sex marriages are legal in Iowa, there have been nearly 6,000 same-sex marriages there between 2009 and 2012, according to state statistics. And the state from which the third most couples was coming from, following only Iowa itself and Missouri? Illinois, with 544 of its same-sex couples crossing the border to marry there. Well over 300 couples made the trip from Minnesota, too.
That has translated into big business in Iowa.
"We have now built an industry that now has an annual income of $11 million last year," said Beau Fodor, a Des Moines wedding planner who focuses on same-sex weddings, adding that a gay wedding website he started now has more than 80 vendors on it.
He said he thinks the business will not dry up now that Minnesota is making its push, explaining that a $30,000 wedding would cost $50,000 in Minneapolis.
Rybak is taking his pitch to Colorado and Wisconsin — two states where same-sex marriage is not legal — in the next couple weeks. But starting in Chicago was no accident. Rybak explained by pulling a quote that has long been attributed to bank robber Willie Sutton, who is said to have explained he robbed banks because, "That's where the money is."
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- Japanese Grand Prix
McLaren not quick enough - Button
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- Japanese Grand Prix
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Jenson Button said McLaren was not quick enough to challenge for any higher than third place in the Japanese Grand Prix after finishing fourth.
Having started eighth, Button found himself third exiting turn two as he avoiding the first corner crash between Romain Grosjean and Mark Webber. However, Button couldn't make progress and had to settle for fourth place despite pressuring Kamui Kobayashi to the line, and he said it was disappointing not to be able to capitalise on the impressive start.
"The start was good, the start off the line was good; I got past Fernando [Alonso] and another car so I was already up to seventh and then I got round the incident and I was third," Button said. "So a fantastic start but we couldn't really do a lot with it, fourth was not what we were hoping for from that position but that was what we got; we just weren't quick enough out there."
Button also said that Kobayashi would have held him off more comfortably but for a poor middle stint of the race.
"I think he actually controlled that (last) set of tyres pretty well. On the second set he didn't - he had destroyed them after just a few laps - so that's why I was able to get close, but that set he controlled a bit better. The last lap is when they started to go and I got close but the only way I could get DRS was to brake so late for the chicane and every time I tried I locked up and ran wide.
"It's not a bad result considering where I started; I was third after turn two but our first pit stop we got a little bit wrong and it's very difficult to overtake as we found out and Felipe [Massa] was able to jump us. It was always going to be difficult to beat Felipe because he started the race with new tyres because he started tenth but he didn't actually get in to Q3 so he had brand new tyres. But anyway, not bad, fourth place, some more points but I don't think we had the pace today."
Having radioed in to the team on numerous occasions complaining of a gearbox problem, Button revealed he felt it was an issue with the box following pit stops.
"It kept going in to neutral, kept missing gears and going in to neutral. It was after the stops for about three laps each time so I kept changing down and there's no gears - it was in neutral - so it was tricky, but then the guys said there was no problem so I guess it was just syncing the gears after the pit stops."


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Wondering how her life would change because of "Divergent," Shailene Woodley reached out to "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence. Lily Collins, whose starring role in "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" and subsequent sequels could vault her to a similar level of fame, doesn't ask for advice from actors. She observes.
"A lot of the advice I get from the actors I work with or [others] are just by watching how they handle themselves, and that for me teaches me a lot," says the 24-year-old actress ("Mirror Mirror") who, yes, is the daughter of singer Phil Collins. "Just because they are so themselves and it hasn't really gone to their heads. It's just really cool to see them still be themselves."
In "City of Bones," opening Wednesday, Clary (Collins) doesn't exactly know who she is after learning that she is a half-human, half-angel Shadowhunter, who joins hunky Jace (Jamie Campbell Bower) and others in the war against demons. At the Peninsula Hotel, Collins (who also will star in the planned adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies") talked about awful pickup lines, everything happening for a reason and the unifying power of the Fresh Prince.
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In "City of Bones," you play a half-angel. Has anyone ever used the pickup line on you, "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"
[Laughs] No. I remember though my friends and I got this amazing flash card book when we were in high school that had the worst pickup lines. I remember that was one of them. Just horrendous. Never try it. But there are some amazingly, immaculately bad pickup lines.
What else do you remember from there?
"Are you wearing space pants? Because your ass is out of this world."
"Space pants."
I know, right? Go try that on someone; see if you get slapped.
I think I will. My wife will appreciate that.
I'm sure she will.
Maybe I'll try it on her first.
Don't blame me, please. [Laughs]
I know you were a big fan of the "Mortal Instruments" franchise and read the books. Are there other books you've read and imagined yourself in the lead role?
I was obsessed with "Harry Potter." I loved Hermione. I think Emma was amazing as Hermione and perfect, but I definitely daydreamed about playing Hermione.
You talking about this fan dream coming true of playing Clary reminded me of Mark Wahlberg in "Rock Star," where he's this big fan of the band and becomes the lead singer. I'm sure that's what you were thinking of too.
Yeah, actually I was channeling Mark Wahlberg in this movie. [Laughs] I felt like a total badass rock star the whole time. He gave me some tips actually. No, I really was a huge fan of the books. Actually meeting [author] Cassandra [Clare] to me was very strange. I met her on the phone first, and we were talking about other actors for different roles. It was just so bizarre to be consulting with the person who had created this character that I now was playing.
"Let me tell you how it's going to be."
Yeah, exactly! But she wasn't like that though, which was cool because I would think—this was her baby, right, so she would be more, "This is how it's going to be, ABC, you have to do this," and she was very much like, "I trust you. This is your character. It's a total collaboration, but you're the actor, so run with it." And that was really a nice surprise to have the support but also the freedom to go experiment.
You auditioned for Bella in "Twilight" and the lead in "Snow White in the Huntsman." You look up to Kristen Stewart and respect what she's done, but was there any part of you with "The Mortal Instruments" that was like, "Phew, this is mine"?
It wasn't a phew, but it was like I'm a huge believer in everything happens for a reason and with this specific story Clary goes after her mom. And that's what fuels the whole journey for her, and her relationship with her mom is what stuck out for me as being this really important one to explore because I am so close with my mom. We're like best friends, and so the relationship similarities between Clary and Jocelyn and my mom and myself were just so strangely connected to me that I thought, "Wow, this really must have been what I should be doing." And also I've done other projects before this. I'm still very new in my career, but I've learned a lot since the beginning and I think timing is everything, so I wouldn't have been the person I am now doing those projects.
I know it wasn't easy to run around in heels for the movie. Can you demonstrate how it looked at first when you were starting out?
I didn't actually ever fall. I never tripped, which was interesting because I've actually grown up loving wearing heels. So I wasn't nervous. Iit was more like doing it at three or four in the morning, running up stairs. But the guys always had my back, so it wasn't too bad. But I'm a pretty good heel runner.
Was it staggering around a little bit for a while?
The second day of filming I bruised my tendon on my foot because one of the stunt guys rolled over on his bike. So I was kind of making sure my right foot wasn't twisting and stuff because otherwise you break your foot, you're out of the movie.
You said you grew up a lot during the movie and learned a lot about yourself. What do you feel like you learned?
Well, running around in heels and a short dress at two or three in the morning with the guys. Confidence. I know that's a silly way of building confidence, but it made me feel stronger when I could keep up with the guys in girly circumstances.
What do you mean?
In the way that I was dressed. The guys didn't have to deal with the way that I was dressed. They obviously had Shadowhunter gear on. I was able to keep up with them and not fall behind. Like my stamina and my endurance was much better because I was training. Also she's thrown these who/what/when/where/why sessions every five minutes and has to react differently while never making herself a victim. And for me I learned a lot about how to deal with different situations in different ways, and even though I'm not fighting physical demons in real life, everyone has demons of their own that you can kind of learn to cope with. And I think Clary helped me face some of them or deal with them in different ways.
Tell me a rap song you know all the words to.
"Fresh Prince of Bel Air," but don't ask me to do it right now because then I won't remember it. [Laughs]
Come on. Let's see if you can do it.
No! I honestly—
What if I get you started?
"In …"
"Now this is the story …"
Oh god, no!
"This is the story all about how …"
"All about how my life got turned upside down ..."
"I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there …"
"Just sit right there …" I don't know right now! [Laughs] Honestly, I'm not the biggest rap person, but on set we would all start singing it, and once everyone starts singing it, it gets stuck in my head.
Why that song on set?
I don't know! Not on this movie; I just did a film "Love Rosie" in Dublin, and for some reason no matter where you are in the world, everyone knows that song.
Do you prefer Genesis or Phil Collins solo?
[Laughs] Phil Collins solo because some of the songs are closer to me.
Or about you.
Not about me! One was written for me, so it's like post-my birth. [Laughs]
On if this is her first time in Chicago: "I was trying to think about that in the car. I might have come when I was a kid. I don't remember it. And for some reason I have memories of being in Wrigley field. Because we drove by and I know the sign is so popular and everyone's seen it, but I truly had like a flashback."
What she hopes to do in the "City of Bones" sequel "City of Ashes," which begins filming in a few weeks: "Way more action. For me at least. Because I get to show potential in the first one, but it's really just scratching the surface because I just find out that I'm a Shadowhunter. So I think in the second one now I'm already into that world it gives me the opportunity to do way more fighting."
On "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies": "We're waiting for a new script. I am playing Lizzie Bennet. I don't know yet timing-wise. I know that it's a dream job for me. 'Pride and Prejudice' is something I've read over and over and over and over again, so I'm super excited."
Her guilty pleasure TV show: "'Real Housewives' of anything. [Laughs] I love watching the drama of it. It's just fascinating to me, what these people get up to in their lives. It's just the best at the end of a long day to just turn on and start laughing."
A movie that scared her: "'Paranormal Activity' I recently was just introduced to, and I don't know what took me so long but I watched it last Halloween and it scared me. I had nightmares."
On whether she and "Mortal Instruments" co-star Jamie Campbell Bower are dating: "I can only talk about him as an actor."
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BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2012) - MWC -- Quickoffice, Inc., the global leader in mobile office productivity solutions, announced today its VP of engineering David Halpin will speak at MWC 2012 in Barcelona, Spain on February 28. Joining a panel of leading industry luminaries, Halpin will explore the extent to which the enterprise is becoming increasingly mobile and personal, as a result of the growing consumerization of IT. Attendees will learn about how the enterprise can most effectively mobilize their workforce securely, evaluating the different methods and approaches.
Session title: Mobile Enterprise: Maximizing workforce productivity in the age of consumerization
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Moderator: Nicholas McQuire, research director of mobile enterprise strategies EMEA, IDC
Panelists: David Halpin, VP of engineering at Quickoffice; Juan Carlos Lopez-Vives, CEO at Telefonica Multinational Solutions; Fernando Alvarez, VP mobility solutions practice leader at Capgemini; Alan Panezic, VP enterprise product management and marketing at Research in Motion; and Srinivas Krishnamurti, senior director mobile solutions CTO Office at VMware
A top-grossing, cross-platform mobile application, Quickoffice has extensive experience developing and deploying enterprise-grade mobile Office solutions to address growing mobile worker productivity demands. Consumers are increasingly influencing not only the type of products leveraged by companies, but also the way they prefer to work and collaborate, forcing IT departments to re-evaluate their tools and strategies. Halpin will discuss these trends and how to adapt to emerging BYOD policies, and mobile and cloud computing deployments. Panelists will explore solutions that are successfully mobilizing the enterprise, how to most effectively utilize these technologies and challenges faced by mobile network operators and other service providers in rolling out new services. Attendees will walk away with the best tools and strategies for today's mobilized, responsive and socially-connected world.
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Windham selectmen reject 2 bids for skate park equipment
WINDHAM — Though bids for the town's obsolete skate park equipment closed on Monday afternoon, the town still hasn't found a suitable buyer.
During Monday's meeting of the board of selectmen, members unanimously rejected two bids — one from Merrimack resident John Gallagher and another from the town of Salem.
Gallagher offered $850 for the site's unused ramp sheets, while the Salem Recreation Department expressed interest in purchasing three of the site's 11 skateboard ramps, along with the plywood sheets and two grinding bars, for $4,100.
The board is holding out for a buyer interested in purchasing the entire package.
The most recent bidding period marked the second round in the process of trying to sell the equipment, which is currently sitting unused in the shuttered Griffin Park skateboarding area. This past spring's round of bids yielded equally disappointing results.
Town Administrator David Sullivan told selectmen they could either accept one of the more recent bids and then try to sell off the remaining equipment, or list the entire package on GovernmentDeals.com, an online auction site geared specifically toward municipalities.
The board voted unanimously to try selling the skate park equipment online.
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How long is marriage supposed to last? "Till death do you part." It's in the Bible, Romans 7:2, NIV. "For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.."
Marriage is more than just a piece of paper and a promise. It is union joined by God. It's in the Bible, Matthew 19:4-5, NKJV. "And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
God is particularly displeased with people who divorce spouses who have always been faithful. It's in the Bible, Malachi 2:14-15, TLB. " 'Why has God abandoned us?' you cry. I'll tell you why; it is because the Lord has seen your treachery in divorcing your wives who have been faithful to you through the years, the companions you promised to care for and keep. You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. Therefore guard your passions! Keep faith with the wife of your youth.
How does God feel about divorce? It's in the Bible, Malachi 2:16, TLB. "For the Lord, the God of Israel, says he hates divorce and cruel men. Therefore control your passions—let there be no divorcing of your wives."
God knows the pain of having an unfaithful spouse, and still offering forgiveness to the unfaithful one. It's in the Bible, Jeremiah 3:14, " Return, O backsliding children," says the Lord; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion."
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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Richard P. Bradley,
v. Docket No. CR-07-396
Boston Retirement Board,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Richard P. Bradley, pro se
8 Glenhaven Road
West Roxbury, MA 02132
Appearance for Respondent:
Edward McKenna, Esq.
66 N Street
South Boston, MA 02127
Administrative Magistrate:
Sarah H. Luick, Esq.
Pursuant to G. L. c. 32, § 16(4), the Petitioner, Richard P. Bradley, is appealing the decision of the Boston Retirement Board, classifying his job in connection with his retirement, in Group 1 instead of Group 4. (Exs. 1 & 2) A hearing was held April 23, 2008, at the offices of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (DALA), 98 North Washington Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, pursuant to G. L. c. 7, § 4H and 801 CMR 1.01, et seq. Various documents are in evidence. (Exs. 1 - 8.) One tape was used. The Petitioner testified. Both parties made arguments on the record. ("A" & "B)
1. Richard P. Bradley, d.o.b. 4/9/48, worked for the City of Boston's Property Management Department prior to his retirement from the City of Boston effective April 30, 2007. (Ex. 6. Testimony.)
2. Mr. Bradley's last job was Principal Administrative Assistant. He held this position from 1994. It was a general job title that did not address his specific duties within the Boston Property Management Department. (Ex. 6. Testimony.)
3. The duties of Mr. Bradley's last job were those of the new job created once he retired called Chief Building Construction and Repair Director. (Testimony) The job announcement for this position contained a short account of the job's "essential functions," examples of duties, and skills to possess:
Under administrative direction performs work of considerable difficulty in directing repairs, renovations and alterations to all buildings under the care and custody of Property & Construction Management requiring the application of professional engineering principals and the exercise of unreviewed and independent judgment and performs related work as required.
Supervision Received: Commissioner of Property & Construction Management & the Deputy Commissioner of Property & Construction Management.
Duties and Responsibilities include: (but not limited to)
- Responsible for all repair improvements and alterations of all buildings and property under the care of the Property & Construction Management Department.
- Supervises the daily activities of all Alteration & Repair Division personnel; receives verbal and written requests for work to be performed; evaluates the requests, inspects the site and determines the means to effectively repair or complete the improvement.
- Determines whether repairs or improvements are performed by in-house crews or outside contractors.
- Prepares written instructions, specifications, estimated costs and bid documents for repairs, alterations and improvements performed by outside contractors.
- Schedules all repairs, alterations and improvements between city Departments and in house staff and/or Contractors.
- Conducts post construction inspections to ensure proper compliance and approval of partial or final payments.
- Represents Property & Construction Management on Capital Construction projects, works with Project Managers, Architects, Engineers and various departments to successfully design and complete construction projects.
- Manages work closely with the Property & Construction Management Departments Build Systems Engineer, Building Superintendent.
- Prepares purchase orders for supplies, equipments and tools for the Alterations and Repair Division.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Applicant must possess a working knowledge of building,
plumbing, electrical, fire and other regulatory codes. Have good understanding of MGL Chapter 149, Chapter 30 and related regulations as they pertain to awarding of contracts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Must possess good writing and communications skills and have basic computer skills. (Ex. 7)
4. The job announcement for the position of Mechanical Equipment Repairman Foreman within the Boston Property Management Department, a position Mr. Bradley directly supervised, lists a requirement of five years experience in the construction trade with preference given to electrical experience, two years of "supervisory experience in the construction trade," an "ability to translate general instructions and implement construction plans," the capability "to read plans and specifications," and holding a "Builders License or Trade License" with preference given to an "Electrical License." (Ex. 7. Testimony.) The job announcement provides the "essential functions" of the position as follows:
Under general supervision of the Alterations and Repair Manager, the Mechanical Equipment Repairman Foreman is a working Foreman, supervising the day to day activities of his/her work crew.
- Takes general instruction and implements work plan to achieve desired results, orders stock and supplies to carry out projects, transports crew to job site, works with crew or independently on projects, secures equipment and supplies, secures permits from Inspectional Services Department.
- Approve/disapprove vacations and time off for crew members to insure efficiency of unit.
- Prepares and keeps calendar of jobs.
- Responds to emergencies and other duties as required.
- Operate stationery and portable power tools and equipment.
- Train staff in proper construction techniques. (Ex. 7)
5. Boston City Hall houses "electrical generating and power distribution facilities" in its basement mechanical room area. Mr. Bradley works only at City Hall, and his duties include directly supervising the licensed electricians, both City of Boston employees, as well as outside vendor electricians, who work on these facilities and electrical equipment. Mr. Bradley is not an electrician, and does no hands-on work with the electrical equipment or facilities. The two electricians he supervises come under the job title of Mechanical Equipment Repairman Foreman within the Boston Property Management Department. (Exs. 2, 4 & 8. Testimony.)
6. The area within Boston City Hall where these facilities and electrical equipment are housed is off-limits to all city employees except the electricians and others accompanying such as Mr. Bradley in connection with his work. This is because of "the dangerous nature of the switchgear." The electricity in this area of the basement is distributed to "the many circuit breaker panels throughout" City Hall. There is also "a large emergency generator, which supplies emergency power" within City Hall when there is a power outage. The City Hall mechanical room equipment and facilities power the "elevators, emergency lighting and other critical components in City Hall." There are "40 electrical rooms in City Hall that are served, and the emergency generator also services Faneuil Hall. (Exs. 1 & 4. Testimony.)
7. The Boston Property Management Department "operates and maintains a large "trailer-mounted generator … [that] is used to produce electricity for events" in Boston including "the Boston Marathon, the Big Apple Circus, the North End Festivals, the Neighborhood Concerts and Movie Nights, and numerous other events throughout the City." The work of electricians involved in these uses of the trailer-mounted generator are supervised by Mr. Bradley. (Exs. 4 & 7. Testimony.)
8. The job functions Mr. Bradley supervised from 1994, involved at least eight positions including; two licensed electricians, unlicensed electrical helpers, one plumber, and one locksmith. Mr. Bradley had to travel to his staff's worksites which included about forty-six buildings across Boston. Mr. Bradley had experience in the construction trade and wrote contract specifications, including for electrical jobs. In terms of the City Hall electrical equipment and facilities, there was an inspection of them about once very two weeks. He relied on the knowledge of his City of Boston electricians to determine if there was a need for a repair or a need to install new equipment, and whether an outside electric services vendor would be needed. (Ex. 7. Testimony)
9. Boston City Hall is not a municipal lighting department created and governed by the provisions of G. L. c. 164. (Testimony)
10. When Mr. Bradley sought retirement, he received a Group 1 job classification from the Boston Retirement Board. As a result, Mr. Bradley petitioned the Board by letter of April 25, 2007 to request a Group 4 job classification because he supervised two electricians who were responsible for maintaining the Boston City Hall electrical facilities and equipment. (Ex. 3. Testimony.)
11. By letter of decision of April 30, 2007, the Boston Retirement Board denied Mr. Bradley's request. The Board relied on an opinion it had from "Steven Crosby, Assistant Director" of the Boston Property Management Department that there is no electrical generating and distribution plant within Boston City Hall. The Board found that even if Mr. Bradley supervised the two electricians who repaired and maintained the electrical equipment and facilities within City Hall, that would not be sufficient to receive a Group 4 classification. In the letter of decision, the Board provided Mr. Bradley with his appeal rights, including the time limit for filing an appeal with DALA, explaining he had fifteen days from his "receipt of this notice," and including where to file the appeal. (Ex. 2)
12. The address listed in the Boston Retirement Board's letter of decision on where to file the appeal, was an out of date address for DALA. Mr. Bradley wrote a letter of appeal and mailed it to the no longer used address. The letter was post-marked April 15, 2007. The mailing envelope was stamped not deliverable by the post office and returned to Mr. Bradley. As a result, the Boston Retirement Board, by letter of May 25, 2007, forwarded Mr. Bradley's undelivered and returned letter of appeal to the proper address. In the letter, the Board sought an extension of time for the filing of Mr. Bradley's letter of appeal. The Board explained:
Through no fault of his own, he mailed the correspondence
to your former address, which caused a delay in the submittal
of his request for a hearing …. (Ex. 1)
The letter of appeal was received on May 29, 2007. (Ex. 1)
Conclusion and Recommendation
Timeliness of Appeal
I conclude that Mr. Bradley's appeal letter is timely filed. The reason it was not received timely upon his mailing of it on May 15, 2007, is because the address the Boston Retirement Board gave him for where to send the appeal was an old address for DALA. The envelope he mailed shows the letter was not delivered. Thereafter, the Boston Retirement Board mailed it to the proper address for DALA with the Board's letter of explanation that the appeal should be accepted due to its error in providing an incorrect address for Mr. Bradley to use. The appeal was not received until twenty-nine days after the date of the Board's letter of decision. Nevertheless, this reason for its late filing is sufficient to find the Board was basically reissuing its decision letter on May 25, 2007 to make timely the filing done by May 29, 2007. I conclude this was the intention of the Board in issuing this May 25, 2007 letter.
Further support for finding Mr. Bradley made a good faith effort to file a timely appeal is in the case of Falmouth v. Civil Service Commission & Deutchmann, 447 Mass. 814 (2006). The Supreme Judicial Court found it fair to assume once the decision letter was mailed, that it took a few days, two to five, for it to reach Mr. Deutchmann. The Court upheld the Civil Service Commission's use of the postmark rule as controlling on the timeliness of the G. L. c. 32, § 43 appeal with the Civil Service Commission, and noted how a number of statutes and some regulations contain "presumptions that mail delivery takes between two and five days." Id. at 816 at Footnote 3.
For these reasons, I find Mr. Bradley's appeal to have been timely filed.
Mr. Bradley's job duties included, not performing any licensed electrician work himself, but directly supervising the work of two licensed City of Boston electricians as well as any outside electrical vendors as they maintained and provided repairs to the mechanical room containing all the dangerous electrical switchgears, and to the emergency generator that services Boston City Hall and Faneuil Hall. These persons were also directly supervised by Mr. Bradley as they worked on the trailer-mounted generator used across the City for various events.
The provision of G. L. c. 32, § 3(2)(g) that Mr. Bradley has to satisfy concerning his last job worked in order to gain a Group 4 classification for retirement purposes, is the following provision:
Group 4 - … employees of a municipal gas or electric
generating or distribution plant who are employed as
linemen, electric switchboard operators, electric maintenance
men, steam engineers, boiler operators, firemen, oilers,
mechanical maintenance men, and supervisors of said
employees who shall include managers and assistant managers; ….
Mr. Bradley directly supervises licensed electricians who perform electric maintenance work. What there is no proof of is that Boston City Hall's mechanical room and emergency generator along with the trailer-mounted generator constitute a municipal electric lighting enterprise created and governed by G. L. Chapter 164. If it must be that in order to satisfy Group 4 criteria, then even though Mr. Bradley has shown his work entailed the direct supervision of "electric maintenance men," he cannot prevail in his claim.
In Tabroff v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board and Peabody Retirement Board, 69 Mass. App. Ct. 131 (2007), the Appeals Court addressed whether supervision of Group 4 employees during non-business hours or during emergencies is sufficient to satisfy being a Group 4 supervisor. Mr. Tabroff's job title was Supervising Electrical Engineer. He worked under the supervision of a manager and assistant manager who during normal work hours directly supervised the Group 4 employees. Mr. Tabroff's job description did not address having a regular duty of supervising Group 4 employees, but noted this duty existed during an electrical emergency due to his need to be on-call twenty-four hours a day. In Gaw v. CRAB, 4 Mass. App. Ct. 250, 256 (1976), the employee's title or job description was found to be largely controlling in determining whether or not a Group 4 classification was warranted. Mr. Gaw only occasionally directly supervised Group 4 employees, and he was not found to be employed as a supervisor of Group 4 employees to gain a Group 4 classification based on his job description not containing such a provision. Id. at 252-253. Mr. Tabroff, in contrast, had a provision in his job description that recognized he would be directly supervising Group 4 workers during emergencies so he was entitled to the Group 4 classification. Tabroff, 69 Mass. App. Ct. at 136-137.
Although his job title does not support a finding that Mr. Bradley supervised Group 4 employees, the job description information in the record does. The work of the persons he called electricians who now hold the job title of Mechanical Equipment and Repair Foreman, do hands-on electrical repair and maintenance work as licensed electricians at City Hall and with the trailer-mounted generator. The job description information in the record for Mr. Bradley's last job with the Boston Property Management Department does have him directly supervising the work of these Mechanical Equipment and Repair Foremen. This is sufficient to satisfy at least the Group 4 requirement to be a direct supervisor of persons who work on electrical maintenance and repair of electrical equipment and facilities.
The remaining issue is whether Boston City Hall's electrical equipment and facilities are what the Group 4 language intends to encompass. I conclude they are not. Rather, I conclude that they are not created and operated under the provisions of G. L. Chapter 164, so that Mr. Bradley cannot prevail in his claim. In Donnelly v. Boston Retirement Board, CR-02-164 (DALA, 3/31/03) (No CRAB Decision), even though Mr. Donnelly was a licensed electrician maintaining equipment needed for emergency electricity needs of the Boston Police Headquarters and for the District Police Stations, he could not gain a Group 4 job classification. NSTAR Electric was the primary supplier of electricity to the Headquarters and District Stations, so the Boston Police Department was found not to be operating a municipal lighting department under G. L. Chapter 164, and was not generating or distributing electrical power for use by or for sale to customers outside of the Boston Police Department. This reasoning also applies to Mr. Bradley's circumstances. No evidence was presented on what outside company supplies the main electrical power to City Hall, but that does not mean I can conclude Boston City Hall's electrical equipment and facilities operate as a municipal lighting department under Chapter 164. No evidence was presented that there are any paying customers and no evidence was presented to show that electricity from City Hall's mechanical room spread across the city buildings, just that the emergency generator serviced City Hall and the close by Faneuil Hall. I conclude this is not the kind of operation contemplated by the language in Section 3(2)(g) Group 4 for "electrical generating and distribution plant."
Further support for this conclusion is found in the Section 3(2)(g) Group 4 provision that makes only employees of Massport's electrical operations eligible under Group 4, presumably, even though Massport's electrical operations are not a Chapter 164 municipal lighting department. This is an exception to the general rule that reaches the Boston City Hall's electrical facilities. The provision states:
[E]mployees of the Massachusetts Port Authority who are
employed as licensed electricians, utility technicians, steam engineers, watch engineers, boiler operators, or steam firemen, and supervisors of said employees, at an electrical generating or distribution plant.
For these reasons, the decision of the Boston Retirement Board classifying Mr. Bradley's job in Group 1 is affirmed.
/s/ Sarah H. Luick, Esq.
Administrative Magistrate
DATED: March 13, 2009


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