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UNDP remembers Sandy victimsOct 29, 2013
On the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy making landfall in the United States, UN officials are reminding the public not to forget the storm's less documented Caribbean victims.
Commemoration ceremonies will take place around the northeast USA today, particularly in New York, where Hurricane Sandy caused over US$ 18 billion worth of damage to the city. Sandy's anniversary is heavily featured on local media.
A recent editorial, written by Heraldo Muñoz, Director of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, calls on New Yorkers not to forget that the US was indeed the last stop on Sandy's tour of destruction.
"Sandy, one of the largest Atlantic hurricanes on record, rumbled across the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and other countries before finally reaching the eastern seaboard of the US," says Heraldo Muñoz in the Aljazeera online editorial.
One year on from the hurricane, UNDP says that recovery efforts from the storm are underway, but some UNDP officials say that the suffering of those in developing Caribbean nations may have been underplayed.
"Because of socio-economic vulnerabilities, people in developing countries are often less prepared for a large event and unfortunately are not as quick to bounce back or recover," says Jo Scheuer, UNDP Coordinator of Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery. "While the mainland US suffered greater losses in terms of total fatalities and the extent of damage, for the Caribbean nations, Cuba and Haiti in particular, the storm was comparatively more expensive – having a much more profound impact on local livelihoods and the GDP," adding that in Haiti, the storm intensified the humanitarian crisis caused by the 2010 earthquake.
But like Munoz, Scheuer is quick to point out that efforts to help prepare Caribbean nations for disaster minimized the potential loss caused by the storm. "In Cuba, UNDP support to the government over the years has made that country particularly good at preventing deaths from hurricanes. Over the last 10 years, less Cubans die in the hurricane season than in any neighbouring states. Likewise in Haiti, earthquake recovery projects set up by the Government and supported by the UN have helped mitigate the impact of storms."
Projects undertaken in Haiti include disaster- resilient construction for homes, sea walls and flood barriers, as well as short term employment to generate income and rebuild better.


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Steve Jobs isn't saying why he's taking a medical leave. Is that fair to Apple investors?
On Monday, Apple revealed that the company's co-founder and longtime CEO, Steve Jobs, is taking a medical leave of absence. The news came in a note sent to all company employees. "I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company," Jobs explained. "I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy."
The medical leave will come as little surprise to Apple employees, shareholders, and watchers: Jobs has suffered from serious health problems for years. In 2004, he was treated for a form of pancreatic cancer; in 2009, he underwent a liver transplant.
In the cold terms of company value, Jobs' health is a problem. Investors consider him the driving creative force behind Apple's most successful products, including the iPod, iPad, and iPhone—Jobs doesn't disabuse them of the idea—and the company's growth into the second-most-valuable on Earth. But Jobs' hesitancy to reveal details about his own health is also problematic, making it difficult for investors to consider whether and how his ailments might influence Apple going forward.
Indeed, Jobs is unusually—and, frankly, irresponsibly—cagey about his medical status. Consider his bout with cancer. In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had an "islet cell neuroendocrine tumor" rather than a more typically fatal pancreatic adenocarcinoma. At first, he attempted to treat the disease with a special diet rather than with invasive treatments. But in July 2004, he opted for surgical tumor excision with no chemotherapy or radiation. He did not reveal he had the cancer, or the surgery, until after the fact. Shareholders only found out when Jobs knew he had cancer in 2008.
More recently, he revealed that he suffers from a hormone imbalance and that his body does not take up enough nutrients from food. That condition seemingly led to a 2009 liver transplant, again revealed after the fact. But Jobs has never named a diagnosis, and nobody really knows what is wrong. (Common guesses include cancer and celiac disease.) His weight fluctuations—he ranges from gaunt to gaunter—have become a cruel fascination of the press, and his evasions about his weight and general wellbeing have confused and angered Apple investors and leaders. Jerry York, a former member of Apple's board (now deceased), was perhaps most vocal about his frustration. He reported that Jobs' lack of clarity "disgusted" him in an interview with the Wall Street Journal and said he considered quitting the board in protest.
Today's 112-word disclosure keeps with the pattern. Investors know Jobs is sick enough to take medical leave. But how sick? And from what? Nobody knows. Shareholders do not know whether he is leaving to undergo a procedure that might dramatically improve his health. They do not know whether he is seeking another unusual treatment. They have no idea whether he is on the verge of death. And they have no idea what happens to Apple if he's no longer at the helm.
That is a big problem. According to Bloomberg, Apple's stock has gained 37 percent per year, on average, since Jobs started his second tenure as chief executive in 1997. Though markets were closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day when news of Jobs' leave broke, foreign investors have already started selling off Apple stock—this, despite the fact that the stock hit an all-time high last week, as the company is expected to announce blockbuster earnings on Tuesday afternoon. In Germany, Apple shares dropped nearly 10 percent in the hour following Jobs' announcement, cutting more than $30 billion from the company's value in minutes. (When the trading day ended in Frankfurt, the stock had rebounded slightly, ending 6.7 percent off.)
Surely the sell-off will continue in the United States. Investors aren't just pricing in bad news about Steve Jobs' health. They're pricing in uncertainty about whether Jobs' condition is so bad that he won't return. Are Apple shareholders owed more information? Or is Jobs' desire for privacy both lawful and legitimate?
The answer to the first question is yes and no. While publicly traded corporations need to disclose events and changes that might "materially" affect the company, the Securities and Exchange Commission does not specifically require disclosures about CEO health. That vagueness in the law means that Apple has remained within the letter of the law with its disclosures. But that doesn't mean it is keeping with the spirit of it. Indeed, Apple gives the public the bare minimum of information, leaving watchers to read wildly into any statement. The point of the disclosure law is to reduce investor uncertainty and company opacity. Perversely, Apple's disclosures tend to introduce it.
Jobs' insistence on privacy when it comes to his health has renewed calls to re-examine the SEC laws about CEO disclosure. Legal experts and business professors say it would probably be legal for the SEC to declare that information about CEO health is "material." Professor Alexa Perryman of Texas Christian University and three co-authors note that the SEC could beef up its disclosure requirements while protecting CEO privacy. Perryman et al. suggest that the SEC require publicly traded companies to disclose when the CEO has an illness that immediately endangers his or her life, that requires a lengthy absence, that has the potential to shorten his or her lifespan, or that might influence his or her ability to do his or her job.
Jobs' situation might fall into any of the categories. But to the detriment of Apple investors, nobody knows for sure.

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Johns Hopkins University receives billions of tax dollars and for the past 23 years they have used these tax dollars to support a Center for Gun Policy and Research ("Gun research is not biased," May 20). What a waste of our tax dollars.
Most Americans know that people kill people and that criminals do not purchase legal guns. We have had gun laws on the books for many more years than this center at Johns Hopkins and most Americans understand when people work for a certain group, there will always be bias because they want to protect their job.
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Man running with beer draws Manchester officers' attention
February 22. 2013 1:20PM
MANCHESTER - Police tend to take notice when they see somebody running down the middle of the street with a 30-packof beer.
Just asked Eric Hehir, 36, of Dorchester, Mass., and Craig Hamilton, 26, of 47 Pennacook St. who were arrested after police spotted them about 1 a.m. Thursday running down Chestnut Street, near Pearl Street.
Hehir was carrying the beer, police said.
Officers tried to stop them but police said they both kept running. They caught up to Hehir, after police said he dropped the beer, and eventually caught up to Hamilton and arrested him after a brief struggle.
Hehir had just stolen the beer from TN Convenience, 90 Bridge St., and was trying to get away when patrol officers saw him and Hamilton running down Chestnut Street, police said.
Hehir was charged with theft and resisting detention, while Hamilton was arrested for resisting detention.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Ryan Anderson scored 23 points, Brian Roberts doubled his career high with 18 assists and the short-handed New Orleans Hornets beat Denver 110-86 on Monday night, ending the Nuggets' 15-game win streak.
New Orleans, playing without its starting backcourt of Eric Gordon and Greivis Vasquez, won its third in a row and was in control all the way.
Roberts, a rookie making his second start, had 11 assists by halftime, two more than his previous best. Anderson was 5 of 11 on 3-pointers, and the Hornets sank 14-of-25 3s as seven players scored in double figures.
Danilo Gallinari had 24 points for the Nuggets, who were without starting point guard Ty Lawson (right heel injury) for the third consecutive game.
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This course introduces students to the basic concepts and logic of statistical reasoning and gives the students introductory-level practical ability to choose, generate, and properly interpret appropriate descriptive and inferential methods. In addition, the course helps students gain an appreciation for the diverse applications of statistics and its relevance to their lives and fields of study. The course does not assume any prior knowledge in statistics and its only prerequisite is basic algebra.
We offer two versions of statistics, each with a different emphasis: Probability and Statistics and Statistical Reasoning. Each course includes all expository text, simulations, case studies, comprehension tests, interactive learning exercises, and the StatTutor labs. Each course contains all of the instructions for the four statistics packages options we support. To do the activities, you will need your own copy of Microsoft Excel, Minitab, the open source R software, TI calculator, or StatCrunch.
One of the main differences between the courses is the path through probability. Probability and Statistics includes the classical treatment of probability as it is in the earlier versions of the OLI Statistics course.
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There are two versions of the OLI Statistics course: Probability and Statistics and Statistical Reasoning. Both versions have four units with the difference between the two versions being in the third unit (Probability) as outlined below.
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- Producing Data. This unit is organized into two modules – Sampling and Study Design.
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- Probability. As stated above, this is the unit where the two versions of the course differ. In the Probability and Statistics course the unit is a classical treatment of probability and includes basic probability principles, conditional probability, discrete random variables (including the Binomial distribution) and continuous random variables (with emphasis on the normal distribution). The probability unit of the Statistical Reasoning version of the course essentially acts as a "bridge" to the inference section and includes only those concepts necessary to support a conceptual understanding of the role of probability as the "machinery" behind inference. Both probability parts culminate in a discussion of sampling distributions that is grounded in simulation.
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Freakazoid! is an American animated television series, produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation that aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997. Then, after cancellation, reruns aired on Cartoon Network until early 2003. Bruce Timm, best known as a major principal of the DC animated universe, originally intended it to be a straightforward superhero action-adventure cartoon with comic overtones, but executive producer Steven Spielberg asked series producer/writer Tom Ruegger and the Animaniacs team to turn Freakazoid! into a flat-out comedy.
The show chronicles the adventures of the title character, Freakazoid, a manic, insane superhero who battles with an array of super villains. The show also features mini-episodes of adventures of other bizarre superheroes.
Dexter Douglas (Freakazoid's alter ego) gained his superhero abilities from a computer bug, which zapped him into cyberspace and the Internet (similar to digitization in TRON). References to TRON and other sci-fi movies were scattered throughout the show's two season run. Freakazoid's arch-nemesis, Armando Gutierrez, also gains his powers this way. After his first defeat, Gutierrez has half of his body covered in circuit-like glowing lines, like a TRON-inspired Two-Face.


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Virginia Verhoff, Department of Heath Promotion & Exercise Sciences
Dr. Virginia Verhoff, who was Co-Chair of the Health Promotion and Exercise Sciences Department, received her B.S. degree in Biology from Molloy College, M.S. degree in Education from Iona College in New York, and PhD degree in Education from Capella University. She has dual teaching certification from New York and Connecticut, and nine years teaching experience in Biology. She also holds Health Education Certification and Drug Education Endorsement from the State of Connecticut, has taught health, provided professional training workshops for teachers and other school personnel, and was a Drug Education Specialist and curriculum developer for a local high school.
Dr. Virginia Verhoff's primary professional responsibility at the University is coordinating the B.S. Degree School Health Program for students aspiring to become State certified health teachers. Her dedication to the teaching profession is to instill upon her students accurate information in the health and education areas of academia, as well as the need to be critical thinkers and life-long learners.
Dr. Verhoff's focus to obtain NCATE (National Council for Accredation of Teacher Education) Certification for the Health Education Program was accomplished in 2009. She is a member of the Connecticut State Steering Committee, which introduced and implemented the Health Education Assessment Project (HEAP) into the Connecticut public schools, and she is a member of the CT State Pilot Program assessing student teaching procedures and evaluation. Additionally, Dr. Verhoff belongs to the CT Education Accreditation/Re-accreditation visiting team for higher education.
Dr. Verhoff has served the larger community by working as coordinator of a Substance Abuse Prevention Program; Teen Pregnancy/Parenting Program; and Directed a Shelter for Women with Children who were homeless. Presently, she assists and advises a local coalition against substance abuse through a Drug Free School Grant. As a certified classroom teacher, she taught Biology and Health in grades 4-12 for nine years.


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Animal Species:Eastern Snake-necked Turtle
The Eastern Snake-necked Turtle lives in freshwater environments and feeds on aquatic invertebrates, tadpoles and small fishes.
Standard Common Name
Eastern Snake-necked Turtle
Alternative Name/s
Long-necked Tortoise, Stinker
As its name suggests, this turtle has a long neck, which is usually about half the length of its carapace (shell). It has webbed feet used for swimming and digging. The colour of the carapace varies through shades of brown.
The terms turtle and tortoise are often used interchangeably and can cause some confusion. In the past, all freshwater turtles were called tortoises and marine turtles were called turtles. The more recent convention has been to restrict the term 'tortoise' to the purely land-dwelling species. As such, Australia has no tortoises.
Size range
26 cm
The Eastern Snake-necked Turtle is found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, south-eastern South Australia.
The Eastern Snake-necked Turtle lives in freshwater habitats including wetlands.
Most of the Eastern Snake-necked Turtle's time is spent in the water, but it can make overland movements in search of new waterholes and nesting areas.
Feeding and Diet
The Eastern Snake-necked Turtle feeds on aquatic invertebrates, tadpoles and small fishes.
Other behaviours and adaptations
Also known by another common name of 'stinker', the Eastern Snake-necked Turtle can eject pungent liquid gland secretions from its 'armpits' and groin when handled or disturbed.
Life cycle
In summer, female Eastern Snake-necked Turtles dig holes in sand or in soft sediments along stream banks and lay about ten eggs.
Predators, Parasites and Diseases
The Eastern Snake-necked Turtle's eggs occasionally provide a meal for Water-rats and lizards. Hatchlings are eaten by fish and birds, and adults may be killed by cars while moving overland.
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It isn't often that you get the chance to help a new literary sensation. A few years ago, I got a friendly note from Uwem Akpan, a Nigerian Jesuit who was studying theology in Kenya. Uwem had written an article for America in November 1996 with the felicitous title "Nigerian Roman Catholic Something." It was a model of good writing. Along with his letter he included a packet of a few short stories, which he asked me to read and, if I felt they were good enough, suggest a few places for possible publication.
The stories, which focused on children in Africa, were dazzling: full of energy and color and humanity. But I sheepishly told Uwem that I knew little about short stories. I enjoy reading them, particularly those by Ernest Hemingway and Andre Dubus; but I don't have any advanced degree in writing (or any advanced degree at all), so I couldn't say anything more constructive than that I had enjoyed his writing immensely. As for places to send them, I suggested a few publications that I knew regularly feature short fiction—The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's—and wished Uwem well in his writings. I felt bad that I wasn't able to recommend more magazines.
Roughly a year later, I received the most surprising message I've ever read. It was from Uwem. "Dear Jim," he wrote, "thanks very much for your advice. The New Yorker has accepted my short story and will soon be publishing it."
I had to read the message twice. Surely he couldn't mean The New Yorker, the Holy Grail of writers. Not that Father Akpan's fiction wasn't superlative, but an acceptance in The New Yorker is considered nearly impossible even by authors who are household names. Maybe Uwem meant another magazine with a similar name, I thought.
A few months later, in The New Yorker's 2005 summer "Debut Fiction" issue, there appeared one of Uwem's stories, "An Ex-Mas Feast," along with a photo of the Jesuit standing alongside the other debut authors.
In a recent visit to America House, in between visits with his new agent, his editor at The New Yorker and the staff of Little, Brown, which will be publishing his first collection of stories, Uwem filled me in on the rest of his tale, which is almost as colorful as his short stories.
After accepting his story, for example, The New Yorker had asked him to prune it from 24 pages to a more modest 14 pages. But Uwem replied that in the four months between his last submission and their response, the story had in fact grown to 30 pages, and he hoped to keep it at that length. His professors and friends at the University of Michigan, where he was completing his master's degree in writing, were horrified. "You said that you didn't want them to edit it?" they said. "You can't say that to The New Yorker!" Fortunately, his editor came around to his point of view, and the story appeared more or less whole.
I was also delighted to learn that the famous New Yorker fact checkers live up to their reputation for precision. Was Uwem, they wondered, certain about some unusual Swahili words he used in his story about Kenyan children? (Local Kenyan children often use a slangy mixture of Swahili and English, called shengi.) The magazine had a hard time verifying some of the words and questioned their provenance. Uwem noted that the shengi had been vetted by an editor of a Kenyan Internet magazine, which had published an earlier version of the story. The fact checkers contacted the man at his post in Nairobi. Yes, he said, these are the correct words.
The second of Uwem's pieces, on Rwandan children caught in the 1994 genocide, appeared a few months ago in the magazine. When I asked how he could write so convincingly about Africans from such varied parts of the continent, he said that he began with the story itself, then carefully added specifics from the region, always checking with experts about local facts. "One of my writing professors said that you can write anything you want about a character," he said, "but if you get a street name wrong, and someone knows it's wrong, it will destroy the story for that person."
Uwem Akpan, I hope, will soon be a name you will search for in your local bookstore. The New Yorker is already helping with that. In early October, Father Akpan participated in a New Yorker "festival" of writers. His brother Jesuits, especially in the North-West Africa Province (where his royalty checks will be put to good use) are thrilled by his accomplishments. As for me, I am delighted with his sudden success and happy to have had a minuscule part in his astonishing story.
Shortly after reading his e-mail indicating that The New Yorker had accepted his piece, I sent Uwem my congratulations and said that things would have to change. From now on, I would be coming to him for advice about publishing.


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Prospect forward Trisha Benson had a good night on the stat sheet Friday against visiting Wheeling, as evidenced by her 6 points and 6 rebounds.
But it was more on the defensive end of the court -- as usual -- that the junior made her presence felt in a 62-39 Knights Mid-Suburban East victory.
Just days after holding Hoffman Estates standout and Old Dominion recruit Destinee Young in check in a Prospect crossover victory, Friday Benson had the unenviable task of shadowing Wildcats sophomore guard Deanna Kuzmanic -- another of the MSL's top players.
And although Kuzmanic did get her points -- a game-high 21 of them, in fact, in another strong performance -- Benson made the soph work hard for every single one, and limited limited her to 7 points in the first half when the contest was still in doubt.
"Trisha's effort doesn't go unnoticed," said Knights coach Ashley Graham. "She did a phenomenal job on Destinee, and here tonight she switched over from (forward Young) to a point guard (Kuzmanic), and did an incredible job on her as well.
"She does a lot of the little things that go unsung, but believe me, her teammates and I notice. She's always in the right place at the right time. Trisha's our go-to player on 'D'."
Benson was a bit fatigued after the game, but that'll come from playing the entire contest full-tilt end-to-end until coming out with 2:59 remaining as Graham cleared her bench.
"Deanna is a great player," said Benson of her Wildcats counterpart, "and we weren't going to let her beat us tonight. Our goal was to limit her touches and keep her off the boards."
The Knights charged out of the gate and opened up a 23-7 lead midway through the second quarter after junior guard Kristen Frasco made a steal and coast-to-coast layup, followed by a driving basket by senior Adriane Falagario.
Prospect (6-2, 1-0) led by 17 at the half, then the Wildcats (2-6, 0-1) made a third-quarter run helped along by 5 of Hannah Dobrowski's 8 points on the evening.
An electrifying spin move to the basket and layup by Kuzmanic cut the deficit to 11, but the Knights responded behind Taylor Will.
The 5-foot-10 sophomore scored 8 of her team high 17 points in the second quarter, then two consecutive 3s from Michele Molini to open the fourth put the game out of reach.
Molini finished with 12 points on 4 3's, while Falagario added 11 and Catherine Sherwood scored 8.
Coach Graham, though, was more impressed with her player's effort on defense.
"We held them to 11 points in the first half," said Graham, "and that's a testament to our team 'D'."


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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – In response to student and employer interest, Oklahoma Christian University (OC) has launched an actuarial science program.
Associate Professor of Business Finance Jody Jones said the actuarial science industry is ranked as one of the best professions in the United States.
"Working as an actuary is consistently placed among the top four jobs in the Jobs Rated Almanac," Jones said. "The profession offers high pay, high job security and low stress. With a number of recent OC math and finance graduates entering the field, we thought this was a great time to start a more specific program."
Jones and Jennifer Bryan, associate professor of mathematics, developed the program in consultation with OC alumna Cindy Smethers, vice president and product actuarial director at American Fidelity Assurance in Oklahoma City.
"A few years ago, Cindy reached out to us looking for high-achieving interns," Bryan said. "That experience has been great because her company has hired OC student interns every semester, which led to other companies recruiting our students. Those students have done excellent work and usually have a job waiting for them before they graduate. Our new program should allow for even more students to have that experience."
According to Scott LaMascus, OC's vice president for academic affairs, the new program combines advanced academic study with the development of practical skills that are in demand in the industry.
"This actuarial concentration allows students who have an aptitude for higher-level mathematics to pursue a career in an area that will only continue to grow as Baby Boomers retire," LaMascus said. "Our professors have really responded to the requests of some of our most ambitious students by creating a demanding program that meets the needs of this growing field."
Students interested in OC's actuarial science program can major in either mathematics or finance, then choose the actuarial science concentration. Previously, Jones or Bryan created different plans for individual students.
Jones also feels OC's focus on faith will make the university's actuarial students attractive to employers.
"I often hear employers compliment OC on producing students who have a firm grasp on ethical behavior and a dedicated work ethic," Jones said. "We look forward to impressing those values on our actuarial students as well."
Oklahoma Christian, recognized as one of the best universities in the western United States by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review, offers undergraduate programs in more than 60 fields of study, an undergraduate Honors Program, and graduate programs in accountancy, business, engineering, ministry, and divinity.
For the last three years, the cost of attendance for OC undergraduate students has stayed the same, making Oklahoma Christian the only university in the state and the only reporting member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities that did not raise its total price. More information is available at www.oc.edu/value.


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In 1951, Dr. Fernand Lamaze introduced a method of childbirth in France by incorporating techniques he observed in Russia. Named after Dr. Lamaze, the method consists of childbirth education classes, relaxation and breathing techniques, and continuous emotional support of the husband and a specially trained nurse. Lamaze childbirth educators teach a series of classes for women and their partners during the last trimester of pregnancy that prepares them for labor and birth. These classes focus on the normal process of labor and birth, as well as strategies that women and their partners can use to enhance the progress of labor and to reduce pain and fear. The classes include information about complications and medical options, so that new parents can make informed decisions should they need to do so.
Women have always prepared for the birth of their babies. Until recent times, women learned about childbirth from their mothers and sisters. Birth took place at home, and family rituals and traditions ensured that women were confident in their ability to give birth. Family and/or wise women in the community provided comfort and encouragement through labor, as well as in the days and weeks after birth. Much of this family-centered or community-centered approach to childbirth has been lost as families are becoming more distant geographically and healthcare has become more hospital centered. Lamaze childbirth classes are designed to provide the knowledge, skills, and support that will help you give birth with confidence.
Lamaze classes focus on much more than just breathing. Most Lamaze teachers concentrate class time on normal labor, birth, and on the many choices that expectant parents have today regarding their childbirth experience. Pregnant women and their partners practice various positions that will facilitate the normal progress of labor and birth. Partners and other support persons learn massage techniques to ease the pain of labor and enhance relaxation. Comfort measures such as hydrotherapy, the use of heat and cold, and pressure are discussed and- when possible-practiced. Much time is spent on relaxation skills, including breathing strategies and skills that can be used throughout life in times of stress. Communication skills are practiced between the pregnant woman and her partner, and in preparation for communicating with the other members of the health care team. Class members discuss what they would like for the childbirth experience and what they can do to help make that experience happen.
Some time is spent on problems that occur during labor and birth and what the pregnant woman and her partner might need to know. Information is provided about anesthesia and medical procedures so that women can make informed choices about what is appropriate for their particular experience. Fear is reduced by learning what happens during labor and birth, and confidence is increased by learning skills which help the pregnant woman to manage the pain and stress of labor and birth. New innovations in maternity care are discussed. Most classes also spend time on breast-feeding, other aspects of the postpartum period, and making the most of shortened stays in the birthplace.
An exact number is not available but we do know that Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators (LCCEs) teach more than 150,000 Lamaze classes every year, which are attended by more than 2 million parents. This represents about one quarter of American women who give birth.
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March 17. 2013 8:10PM
Middleton workers get raise; budget gets trimmed
By JOHN QUINN
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MIDDLETON - Even though residents were shocked by their tax bills last year, they felt town workers deserve a small raise as they could cut back in other areas.
Selectmen Chair Todd LaPierre said the spike in the tax rate occurred last year, since the town did not have unspent funds to help offset the 26-percent increase, as officials have been able to do in the past.
As a result, officials attempted to limit increases where they could. Residents decided to heed the selectmen's recommendations for articles 3 and 5, which include the budgets for general government and the highway departments, respectively. They voted 42-34 to add $3,771 to Article 3 and 37-31 to increase Article 5 by $3,745.
As a result of the $7,516 increase, the overall operating budget is $1,522,014. It is $46,360 - or 3.2 percent - larger than last year's budget of $1,478,572.
The budget committee thought a 2-percent raise for town employees was an appropriate balance between keeping taxes down and retaining experienced staff, most of whom did not receive any increase last year. Selectman Terry Laughy said the raise is a small way to make up for no pay increases last year.
"It's not a lot of money, but it's well-deserved," Laughy said.
The budgets of other departments - including police, fire and recreation - factored in the raises by prioritizing their purchases.
Police Chief Randy Sobel said the department decided to wait to purchase tablet computers - which officers could use to check motor vehicle records and complete paperwork on the road - because they felt buying a rifle and a ballistic shield were more important.
Janet Kalar felt the town needed to increase the fire chief's salary by $24,500 to encourage more candidates to fill the role and have someone available to respond for emergencies during the workday for 30 hours a week. While residents felt it was too soon for the town to have a full-time chief, it encouraged discussion. According to the town report, firefighters responded to 135 calls, while ambulance crews went to 103 calls in 2012.
Acting Fire Chief Jason Roub said local personnel responded to about 70 percent of the calls for assistance. He added the town has mutual aid agreements with neighboring departments, who responded to the remaining emergencies.
Fire Capt. Lon Berry said he doesn't believe the town is ready for a full-time chief, but he feels it can still attract good candidates to lead the department.
Residents decided to trim articles 8, 9 and 10 in half. As a result the town will now will appropriate $100,000 to continue the maintenance and reconstruction project along King's Highway and Ridge Road, add $10,000 to the highway department's vehicle fund and spend $10,000 to trim trees along certain streets, respectively.
Road Agent Rick Washburn, who decided to get another year out of the existing vehicles, reminded residents that road repairs will "not go far with that kind of money."
While members of the selectmen and the budget Committee recommended lower amounts, residents voted 54-9 in favor of Article 12, which adds $10,000 to a fund to fight exotic weed growth in Sunrise Lake, and unanimously decided to accept $2,400 in grant money. The town would use the money to treat the lake for milfoil and pay for divers to remove the invasive plants during the fall.
While the town has not had to spend on the issue in the past, more milfoil was found in the water in the past year, according to Evelyn Campbell, of the Conservation Commission.


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Former Barcelona star Henrik Larsson feels Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo is unfortunate to be playing in the same era as Lionel Messi.
Larsson has stressed that Ronaldo has a lot of quality as well, but believes he is no match for the Argentina internationa.
"I don't think there's too much difference between the two of them because they are both great players," Larsson told Xarxa.
"Cristiano is unlucky to be playing at the same time as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.
"Messi has won the Ballon d'Or in the past few years, four years in a row to be more precise.
"He is from out of this world. He's so good that it's almost incredible. When you see him with the ball at his feet it's hard to believe that anybody else could do the same. He's a fantastic player to see."
Messi has already netted 34 goals in 22 Liga appearances for Barcelona this term and signed a new contract at Camp Nou until 2018 on Thursday.


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I recently got a tour of the Spangler Candy Co., a family-owned firm in Bryan, Ohio. The company makes 10 million Dum Dums lollipops there every day, and it has a whole separate building where it stores the sugar — enough to fill eight Olympic-size swimming pools.
The CEO, Kirk Vashaw, says he wants to expand the factory and make even more candy there. There's just one thing he needs.
"Let us buy sugar on the free market," he says.
As it turns out, there are two prices for sugar: the price you pay in the U.S., and the price you pay almost everywhere else in the world.
The price in the U.S. is about 15 cents a pound higher than the price in the rest of the world. That costs Spangler Candy an additional $3 million a year.
The higher U.S. sugar price is spelled out in U.S. law. You can find it right here, in the latest version of the farm bill, which says the U.S. government shall guarantee a minimum price for sugar that is not to drop below 22.9 cents per pound.
Because of the higher price here, lots of candies that used to be made in the U.S. — Life Savers, candy canes — are now made overseas.
Candy makers have been fighting the sugar thing in Congress for years, but they keep losing to sugar farmers.
A few days after my trip to the Dum Dums factory, I went to Sabin, Minn., to meet a sugar beet farmer, Blane Benedict. "Our family's been farming here since the late 1870s," he told me as he showed me around the farm.
People in Sabin say the whole local economy benefits when the farmers start turning their beets into sugar. Benedict says the farmers need that special protection in the law because sugar farmers in other countries get help from their governments, too.
But Daniel Sumner, an economist at the University of California, Davis, who used to help set farm policy, doesn't buy it.
"It's a very common rationalization: 'The other kids are doing it,' " he says. Sumner points out that the sugar lobby spends more than all the other agriculture lobbies on political campaigns.
Of course, the candy makers have their own proposed legislation that would get rid of the sugar price rule — and, they say, would help keep candy-related jobs in the U.S.
That bill comes up regularly in Congress but always loses. The latest farm bill, which would extend the sugar program, is expected to pass.
President Obama's administration is pushing to revive American industry, but some industries continue moving overseas, including production of hard candy. One reason is that U.S. candy makers keep losing a fight every time the Farm Bill comes up for renewal. Zoe Chace of NPR's Planet Money team is here to explain, and begins her report from the floor of the Spangler Candy Company in Bryan, Ohio.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: Some candy's still made here. Take lollipops, specifically Dum Dums.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Do you like orange?
CHACE: Sure.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It's a warm orange Dum Dum.
CHACE: Being in a candy factory is like being in a giant's kitchen. KitchenAids as tall as basketball hoops tower over us. Dean Spangler, the former head of the Spangler Candy Company, shows us around.
DEAN SPANGLER: We use about 100,000 pounds of sugar a day.
CHACE: He takes us into a whole separate building, just for this one ingredient. Four huge tanks of liquid sugar, enough sugar for about four days' worth of candy. These guys make 10 million Dum Dums a day. But the current CEO, Kirk Vashaw, he has even bigger dreams. He would up production at this plant, buy the subdivision across the street. If only he just had this one thing.
KIRK VASHAW: I ask them to guess: What's the one thing that you need? And people guess lower tax rates, and how about workers comp reform?
CHACE: He gets this laundry list of anti-regulation suggestions, but even if they got all these things put together, he says, that is not what's holding his company back.
VASHAW: If I paid zero taxes and got all those other things, it's not as important as the one thing that I need: Let us buy sugar on the free market. And there's this silence, and then this kind of collective, huh?
CHACE: Vashaw explains there are two prices for sugar: the price you pay in the United States, and the price you pay almost everywhere else in the world. The price you pay in the United States, over the last decade, it's about 15 cents more than you pay outside the country. If you're in the business of making candy, that adds up to a lot of money.
VASHAW: We're using 100,000 pounds a day. That's $15,000 a day.
CHACE: Comes to three to $4 million a year, and it's the law. It's right here, actually, in the latest version of the farm bill, Subtitle D: sugar. The U.S. government shall guarantee a minimum price for sugar that is not to drop below, quote, "22.9 cents per pound," end quote. That's for sugar beets. No matter how low the price goes in the rest of the world, here in the United States, you'll be paying at least 22.9 cents.
This is the fight the candy makers have been losing, losing it to these guys.
BLANE BENEDICT: We're driving into the field where we're going to plant sugar beets in 2013, and the snow is only about three inches deep at the moment right here.
CHACE: Blane Benedict is a sugar beet farmer in Sabin, Minnesota. Flat, flat, flat out here, low gray sky.
BENEDICT: Our family's been farming here since the late 1870s.
CHACE: Benedict says they need that line in the law. They need that special protection, because his competitors in other countries, they're getting help from their governments, too.
DANIEL SUMNER: It's a very common rationalization: The other kids are doing it, or that other guy's a bully or something.
CHACE: Daniel Sumner is an economist at UC Davis. He doesn't buy this argument. He used to work in the government, setting farm policy. Sure, other countries help their sugar farmers, he says, but there are other ways of dealing with that than by enshrining a minimum price into law. There's the World Trade Organization, set up for complaints just like this.
Really, he says, the sugar subsidy is political. The sugar lobby spends a ton of money on political campaigns, more than all the other agricultural lobbies. But it's not just farmers and their lobbyists who argue for these subsidies. We found Chris Lange and Judy Hanson hanging out at the Crow Bar in Sabin, a dive bar right in the shadow of the grain elevator.
They said, sure, farmers out here are rich. The rest of us benefit, too. You should see this sleek little economy wake up at harvest time, when the farmers start turning the sugar beets into sugar.
JUDY HANSON: There's a bad smell in the air, but it's the smell of money.
CHRIS LANGE: Smells like money, exactly.
HANSON: It smells like money.
LANGE: It smells like money. So it smells like success. It smells like people are getting shoes on kids' feet. It smells like we're building stuff, and everything trickles down from that.
CHACE: Back in Ohio, the Spangler Candy Factory, they'll tell you the opposite story. Because of the sugar price, they've had to move some production to Mexico. Candy makers have their own bill that would get rid of the sugar subsidies. It comes up regularly. It always loses. The farm bill, though, with the sugar program extension, it's expected to pass.
Congress will decide it's okay for our candy to come from Mexico if our sugar comes from Minnesota. Zoe Chace, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Francisco Portillo, Javier Saviola and Roque Santa Cruz all chipped in with goals before a late strike from the young midfielder himself sealed the points for the Andalusian outfit.
After recent home defeats against Real Sociedad and Rayo Vallecano, Isco stressed the importance of a response from los Boquerones.
"The truth is that we have not found our rhythm in the last two home games, so we were very determined today to avenge the last two defeats, and we proved that through Portillo's early goal," he told Goal.com.
"After the last two defeats here at La Rosaleda, this is the best way to move forward. It was a convincing victory, and we had a spectacular game. You cannot ask for more.
"Valencia are a very strong team, but tonight we were on top and superior in all aspects of the game. There are words no words for this game; it was indescribable. We delivered a great performance.
The 20-year-old attacking midfielder also faced questions about his own future at the club, and remained coy on the subject.
"It is the future, and nobody knows anything about the future. I am calm and play as always. The only thing I can say is that I want to be at the top level with Malaga."


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PRINCETON — Festival 56 has announced Princeton native and longtime festival volunteer and stage manager, Zach Fiste, is joining the staff as the festival's production manager. In June, Festival 56, Illinois' largest summer theatre festival, will launch its 10th anniversary season in Princeton.
In professional theatre, the production manager is responsible for overseeing the nuts and bolts of bringing each show to the stage, so that the artistic director can concentrate on the design and aesthetics of the production.
Fiste started with Festival 56 as a high school volunteer in 2004 and worked as a carpenter each summer until he left for college in 2008. He returned to the festival in 2011 after studying stage management at Webster University and has been a seasonal stage manager with the company since. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the Zearing-Phillips Award that recognizes outstanding contributions to Festival 56.
"When we started to look for someone who really understood the festival's philosophy, pace and quirks, who could work closely with Dexter, Zach was the natural choice. He loves Princeton and he loves the festival," said Maureen Droessler, president of the Princeton Theatre Group.
The addition of Fiste to the festival's staff will allow Artistic Director Dexter Brigham to take on some new projects as well. While continuing his work to grow and develop the festival, Brigham will add a new title to his list of accomplishments. In April, he will begin splitting his time during the non-summer months between Princeton and Midland, Mich., where he will be the managing director of Centerstage Theatre and Choirs at the Midland Center for the Arts. During the summer months, Brigham will be in Princeton full-time directing the Festival 56 summer season.
"I am very excited about this opportunity to work with Zach on the Festival 56 10th season, and for such a wonderful organization as MCFTA to welcome me on board," said Brigham. "I feel like my life just got twice as great. Festival 56 is a bedrock commitment in my life that will never go away. I look forward to many, many years living and working in Princeton."


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Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Confession Tuesday: New Year's Edition
Dear Reader,
It's been a new year since we've last connected. It's been a new year, a lot of chocolate, a week in my pajamas since we last spoke.
I could go on like this for hours. It's almost the second day of 2013, so let's move forward--
To the confessional--
I confess I like doing nothing. Not answering the phone. Watching Glee reruns. Not getting out of bed. Not leaving the house. It kind of scares me and yet makes me feel thankful for not having any place to be.
I confess that today, I showered and dressed and went out onto Puget Sound (that large body of water between Seattle and rural Washington) on a surfboard. It was beautiful. I saw killdeer, a kingfisher, a blue heron, and a harbor seal, who I learned was named "Andre." (Yes, that's a bit weird.)
I confess I love doing nothing. And I know the more nothing I do, the less I want to do. Bodies and humans are funny this way, bodies in motion stay in motion. Bodies at rest, stay in their pajamas.
I confess my house is a mess, but I'm not cleaning it up until Christmas break is over. This is because I know that "winter break" is a synonym for "no one is putting anything away."
I confess I have a future goal of living on in a waterfront home. I don't care if I own or rent it, I just want to be there. Give me my own patron. Let me be independently wealthy. Or just let it all work out. I don't need much, but I love the sea more than I realized and I want it to be my neighbor.
I confess I hope of doing a brainstorm of all my resolutions, but for today, this is what you get.
Happy New Year!
~ Kells
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Look at you! Standing on a surfboardReplyDelete
and smiling! May all the days of 2013 be clear sailing~ err, paddling.
Yes, I believe in PJs.
Love, ox.
I love doing nothing. I love doing nothing after eating chocolate. That's a good day in my book.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, and thank you so much for the card! XO
See you in March at AWP, I hope.
And a Happy New Year to you!ReplyDelete
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For more than 1,000 years, this hat survived in a tomb preserved by the dry climate and sandy soil of Egypt. Textiles from Coptic tombs offer insight into the lives of the early Christians of Egypt, including what they wore, and how they wove and stitched together garments. Look for the small earflaps around the base.
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US Marines investigate singing squaddie
Does war make you less sensitive, and tone deaf?
The US army is investigating whether a video which purports to show a serving Marine singing and playing the guitar on YouTube is genuine.
The clip appears to show a chubby US soldier playing acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone in front of an audience. The man's voice might upset Simon Cowell, but it is hardly the most offensive video the Marines have made in Iraq. Last year, US police investigated website www.that'sf**kedup.com where serving soldiers were trading stills and videos of dead and injured Iraqis and Afghans - along with porn clips.
Called "Hadji Girl" the lyrics are more or less what you'd expect. It's not the most culturally-aware composition you've ever heard but presumably the squaddie wasn't recruited for his singing ability.
A spokesman for the Marines told AP the video was: "inappropriate and contrary to the high standards expected of all Marines." He did not confirm whether the man was a serving soldier but said it was being investigated. The Marines are being investigated for some real crimes in Iraq, like the alleged massacre in Haditha, rather than just crimes against musical good taste.
If you're searching for music/marine/iraq clips we found this much more fun clip
Or Hadji Girl is here at the time of writing.


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The point of not buying new books is to read down the stacks of books I've got. Clearly I will never get to just-in-time inventory status like some people I know (even, inexplicably, some people I am related to). It used to be important to have all the information I might want at any given moment on hand—what if I needed to remember the Proto-Indo-European root of the word "liver?" Or learn how to write a sonnet? Or find out what the per capita GDP of Botswana is? You used to need to have a reference library for those sorts of things. Now, of course, you can look up almost anything you want to know online in a few seconds, instead of spending hours rummaging around in the stacks (provided, of course, you know how to identify reliable information). As a marketing professional, I spend a lot of time thinking about information overload, and the difficulties we face when trying to attract the attention of a public that is actively trying to ignore any message that isn't critical. Even thinking about the overload is stressful, and experiencing it, as we do every day, is mind-boggling. Literally. I read somewhere that a single weekday issue of the New York Times contains as much information as the average 18th century individual faced in an entire lifetime. True? I don't know, but it's plausible--and that tells you something right there. At the same time, the amount of knowledge that is literally at our fingertips is breathtaking. In my pajamas, at half past midnight on a Monday, I can take it into my head to learn Urdu—and I can start right now. Or I can wonder what the second verse of Cowgirl in the Sand was—and find it immediately. I can get Census data, or historical maps; I have access to the entire photo collection of the Library of Congress and the documents in the National Archives. It's astounding.
While I'm looking all these things up online, though, my print library is languishing, getting dusty on the shelves. Admittedly, print fulfills a different function from online resources. But still, every hour I'm goofing around online is an hour I used to spend reading....so the books pile up and pile up, and here we all are, Miss Havisham among the cobwebbed dishes of the wedding feast.
But, of course, I do read, and I read every day. My reading curriculum is whim-based. I often go on jags, where I read everything by a particular author, or six books in a row set in the Russian winters, or two months of nothing but space opera. I read only for my own pleasure and to enhance the value and enjoyment of my life. That means I don't have to finish anything I'm not enjoying, and I don't have to read the scary parts, and I can read just the good parts of the same book three times in a row if I want to. At the same time, I feel a sort of voracious anxiety, knowing that life is finite and I might not have time to read everything I want to. The days of lingering illnesses and long sea voyages are gone, which is a shame, because they afforded lots more time for uninterrupted reading.
The moral hazard (as it were) is that whim-based reading sometimes require access to books that aren't already in the house. So the curriculum now, at least for a while, is more restricted. It's strictly physically determined: I'm going to read through a stack, a pile, or a shelf at a time, and see what serendipity brings.
I'm starting with the stack closest to the bed, as listed on the left under "On the Night Table." First up is Wish Her Safe at Home, by Stephen Benatar, which, so far, is lovely. I bought it at the Borders in Arborland, the one that's closing, last week for full price, because I felt sorry for them. It was worth it; it's one of my favorite genres, the one of quiet novels about slightly nutty British women.
What are you reading?
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Norman Parsons, former Sea Cliff mayor, dies
During and after his long career in corporate personnel management, Norman Parsons found plenty of time for volunteer work, serving as mayor of Sea Cliff, president of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and in other roles.
Parsons, 81, died Tuesday at home after a long battle with cancer.
He was born in Whitestone, Queens. He moved with his family to Beechhurst, Queens, as a teenager and graduated from Bayside High School. He received a psychology degree from Queens College and a master's in clinical psychology from Columbia University.
His first personnel management position was at New York Telephone, where he met his wife of 47 years, Linda.
After 16 years at New York Telephone and later AT&T, he worked for the College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. He retired to open his own personnel search firm for nonprofit organizations.
While trying to find a personnel director for St. Christopher's orphanage in Sea Cliff, he ended up taking the job himself and continued with the organization for five years as it expanded into other services. He retired for good in 2000.
In Sea Cliff, he also served as village trustee (1974-78); member of the zoning appeals board (1981-82); mayor for four terms (1983 to 1991); and planning board member (1993-2000).
He was also co-chairman of the North Shore Environmental Alliance, a group that opposed overdevelopment of the Glen Cove waterfront.
Parsons joined the Oyster Bay-based Theodore Roosevelt Association in 1991, serving as president in 2001. "He played a number of different roles," said the current president, Tweed Roosevelt of Boston.
Parsons was working on an association project -- rehabilitation of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park on Oyster Bay Harbor -- at the time of his death. He was a member of the community committee that erected a statue of Roosevelt at the entrance to the hamlet.
He was also on the board of Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New York for a decade. "And he held every position you could except for priest and janitor at St. Luke's Church" in Sea Cliff, his wife said.
Other survivors include daughters Pamela Parsons and Catherine McGinley, both of Sea Cliff; a son, John of Philadelphia; and six grandchildren.
Visitation will be Sunday at Whitting Funeral Home in Glen Head from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Luke's Episcopalian Church in Sea Cliff.


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Today's Meditation
Read Psalm 19
The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.
-Psalm 126:3 (NIV)
AFTER a day of rain, a rainbow appeared. A glorious rainbow spanned several miles of Atlantic coastline. I took several pictures. However, the magnificent rainbow looked like only pale crayon lines in my photographs. I might as well have tried to capture the ocean in a bottle.
Photographs and paintings give us only a hint of the real thing. We fully appreciate the majesty of creation and the emotion it evokes only when we experience it. We come to appreciate God more fully only when we know our Creator firsthand, too. Is that really possible, to know God personally? For many years, I did not think so. I felt disconnected from God. The Bible seemed like ancient history, not God's word.
Fortunately, my family and friends already had personal relationships with God. I listened to their stories of God's blessings in their lives, and I wanted to know God too -- to feel God with me every day. I disciplined myself to read my Bible daily. I took several Bible study classes to understand God's laws, lessons, and miracles. explored my many questions about God. Gradually, God became real to me. I confessed my sins, and God blessed me with forgiveness. Then God brought me into a joyful, loving relationship that continues to grow as I continue to study, pray, and serve others in Christ's name.
Deanna Himelick
(Florida, USA)
Prayer: Dear Father, thank you for your love and for bringing us into relationship with you as we seek you through praying, reading scripture, and serving others. Amen.
Thought for the day: What am I doing to build a relationship with God?
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"When I perform, I perform the repertoire of Peter, Paul and Mary. That's my music," said Yarrow, the Peter in the legendary folk trio.
When you go to a Peter Yarrow concert, be prepared to join in the sing-along.
Don't worry, you'll know the words.
"When I perform, I perform the repertoire of Peter, Paul and Mary. That's my music," said Yarrow, the Peter in the legendary folk trio that lost Mary (Travers) to cancer in 2009.
"In a way, it feels like a Peter, Paul and Mary concert except that I ask the audience to sing on almost all the songs because that's what really makes me feel very, very good. When people sing songs, they get close and they feel very special toward one another. They open their hearts. If it's a sad song, it binds them together. If it's a happy song, that binds them together." The songs will next be heard at the River Club Music Hall in Scituate at 8 p.m. Friday. Yarrow, 75, will sing "Blowin' in the Wind" and "If I Had a Hammer." He'll summon youngsters from the audience to the stage when he does "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
"I'll sing "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and ask the audience to sing Mary's part and the chorus," Yarrow said of the group's only song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts (1969). "They get to be Mary and I get to be Peter and we get to remember her." In between the music, Yarrow will tell the story behind some of the tunes, offering an historical perspective of the oft-turbulent 60s, when folk music frequently was a vehicle for war protest songs and other cries for social justice.
In the forefront were Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and, yes, Peter, Paul and Mary. PP&M, in fact, were with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 during the Civil Rights March on Washington that spawned King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
A New York City native and Cornell University graduate, Yarrow still is a crusader. Now in its 15th year, his Operation Respect is a non-profit organization that works to assure a schoolchild's learning experience is free of bullying, ridicule and violence. He produced a one-hour "Concert for Newtown," airing on PBS, whose message is that out of tragedy great transformation toward civility can arise. And he wrote a song based on a poem by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, with a 14-track CD one result.
Another crusade of Yarrow's is mobilizing a battle against bullying in Japan's schools and finding a way to reduce the alarmingly high rate of suicide among the youth in that Far East nation.
Peter, Paul and Mary first performed in 1961 at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village and went on to sell millions of records worldwide. Since Mary's death, Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey have performed together, but more frequently solo.
How much does Yarrow miss Mary Travers? "It's different than I thought it would be," he said. "I don't really feel, in a certain way, that she's gone. Every time I sing a song, it's in my nature to feel her presence. She's in my voice. She's there. I have that constant contact with her. It was that way when she was alive and it is now that she's passed. Singing is a continuing celebration of what Mary did."


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Research support was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.
"This is the bigger picture," said John Kraintz, with a sweep of his arm, indicating the roughly two dozen remaining tents pitched around him on a muddy, pockmarked field between the city dump and the slow green waters of the American River. Kraintz is a thin man of 57, a former electrician who had lived in Sacramento's parks and riverside lots for seven years. His home had been right here–in Tent City.
Kraintz had relocated to Tent City's outer boroughs. Its downtown, which briefly attracted camera crews from all over the world–a Third World shantytown in the capital of the richest state in the richest country!–was a couple of hundred yards away. Depending on whom you ask, somewhere between 150 and 300 people lived in Tent City between November and April. But by the third week in April, when I visited, most had already packed up. Some had migrated to this spot to avoid police attention. But the cops came, handing out notices announcing, "It is unlawful to camp in the City of Sacramento" and giving people two days to leave. ("This is not camping–we're living!" yelled one of Kraintz's neighbors.) By the end of the week, everyone had left. Tent City, for that moment at least, had disappeared.
Few people there, though, doubted that it would be back. Tent City is less a single location than a nomadic but constant phenomenon, a shifting blue-tarped shadow to the glass and steel American metropolis. In good times and bad, Tent City comes and goes, forms and scatters and takes shape again. Despite its momentary dispersal in Sacramento, it is still out there–in Seattle, Portland, Reno, Providence, Fresno, even in the sprawling exurbs of southern California in the small city of Ontario. Tent City existed at the height of the real estate boom too, hidden in plain view, an omen for anyone willing to look.
While recent media accounts portrayed Tent City's incarnations as creatures of the recession–reborn Hoovervilles for the laid off and the foreclosed–shantytowns have been a periodic but permanent feature of American urban life for at least the past two decades. They are what connects us to São Paulo, Lagos and Mumbai, physical manifestations of our growing inequality and societal neglect. Seattle saw its first Tent City in 1990. The area now boasts three, one dating back to 2000, another to 2004. Portland's Tent City ("Dignity Village") has been around since 2001. No one living there, says resident Gaye Reyes, is recently homeless. In California's San Joaquin Valley, the City of Fresno last fall began distributing a $2.3 million settlement to homeless people whose property was destroyed when the city repeatedly razed its Tent City between 2004 and 2006, at the apex of the economic boom.


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WICHITA — A Wichita man who stabbed another man to death at a party is convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
Dat "Tommy" Nguyen was convicted Tuesday in the December death of 27-year-old Tan T. Nguyen. The men were not related.
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But prosecutors say the victim was being held down by several other men when Nguyen stabbed him in the back.


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Google Issues Clarion Call for Project Ara Devs
Feb 27, 2014 12:44 PM PT
Google is ramping up its plans to bring the Project Ara modular smartphone to market by scheduling the first developer conference for the device.
The company will hold the conference on April 15-16 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. A limited number of developers will be able to attend the conference in person, but anyone can participate online through a live stream and interactive Q&A.
Project Ara's aim is to allow consumers to fully customize their smartphones by swapping interchangeable components in and out. The device has a core frame, called an "endoskeleton," that holds the other components together.
Users can change the modules depending on their needs and preferences: They might wish to have an extra battery in place of a camera, for example, or to exchange a large touchscreen for one with a physical keyboard.
Module Developers' Kit
The April event is the first of three Ara developer conferences Google plans to hold throughout the year. It will focus on the alpha release of the Ara module developers' kit, or MDK, which will provide developers with everything they need to create a module for the device, according to Google.
The open platform specification and reference implementation is likely to be released in early April, which is later than the previously announced winter window.
The conference will walk developers through current and planned features of the platform, including briefings and feedback sessions on the MDK, and unveil prize challenges. Google will reveal the full conference schedule in the next few weeks.
The Ara project accelerated after a Dutch design student revealed his idea for a similar initiative last year. Google has teamed up with Dave Hakkens, the creator of the Phonebloks concept, to cultivate his community of more than 950,000 supporters.
Vast Potential
"The potential for Project Ara is vast, at least if you consider the idea of easily customizable commercial smartphones important," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
"Personally, I love the idea of choosing phone features as easily as you would configure a Dell PC. Like other Google moon shot projects, [its success] depends on enticing and exciting developers. They'll be doing a lot of the Project Ara heavy lifting," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Does Google have everything it takes to lead in this [smartphone-driven] world? No, no one does," telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan told TechNewsWorld. "However, Google wants to attract all the ideas and people that will be involved with this new world. That's the entire point of Project Ara."
Google wants to attract "app developers large and small -- and new and old companies with ideas who want to change the industry," Kagan suggested.
Early Advocates
"This is a really interesting project but very different, and folks likely want to see if there are opportunities with the initiative," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.
By inviting developers to a conference at this stage, Google will "get early advocates and likely get some ideas they hadn't thought of," he noted.
"I have to say that this is really a moon shot project," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld.
"I don't see how this is going to get off the ground. How do you test and certify each potential phone configuration?" he wondered.
"How are these going to be less expensive than the solutions from [original equipment manufacturers] that have volume component-buying capabilities and mass production efficiencies? How are these piecemeal phones going to be competitive on features and functions? And how are you going to ensure that applications and user interfaces operate properly?" asked McGregor.
"From my standpoint, I am interested in this project because it offers me a cellular platform that I might be able to use in a different form factor and manner, such as [Internet of Things] applications," he continued. "However, I don't see the value in recreating the wheel."
Risk Factor
Whether Ara will prove a success remains to be seen, but Google is unlikely to be risking much with the endeavor.
"At this point, I don't see a lot of risk for Google," Pund-IT's King suggested.
"The company is leveraging already-existing assets, and I doubt it's made significant additional investments. If Project Ara lifts off, it could be a win-win for all involved," he said.
"The risk is small and will mostly be taken by those that actually build hardware," said Enderle. "It is an interesting idea, but one I think Apple would have been better at, because they'd focus more on the user experience. Google will likely focus more on doing everything they can -- and create a bit of a mess at first."


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ATLANTA (AP) - U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will be among those expected in Atlanta to mark the 20th annual National Public Lands Day.
Jewell and EPA Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe are slated to join hundreds of volunteers Saturday at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site.
Officials say National Public Lands Day is the largest, single-day volunteer effort on behalf of parks and other public lands. This year, more than 180,000 volunteers are expected to volunteer at nearly 2,200 sites across the country.
Those in Atlanta will be pulling weeds at the "I Have a Dream" International World Peace Rose Garden, removing invasive plants at Freedom Park and cleaning the interior of Ebenezer Baptist Church.


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Watch This Lace - Sonja's smashing Sorbetto
38 comments:
That's such a wonderful idea for a top with lace. I'll keep that in mind for my next summer top.ReplyDelete
I think this is my favourite make using the lace so far! Will be sad when watch this lace finishes next week!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous top - the sorbetto pattern is so versatile. Might have to give a yoke version a go myself!ReplyDelete
This is definitely my favourite so far too, it's so pretty! And I can't believe it's all based on the sorbetto, I love the way the yoke gives it a completely different look and feel. I will have to try it myself once I figure out how to do yokes! Thanks Sonja xReplyDelete
this is such a fun take on the sorbetto!ReplyDelete
Marie this series is so great! And what a brilliant take on the Sorbetto! I never got the darts fitted right on that but I might just steal the yoke idea and give it another try...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Jo, so glad you're enjoying it!Delete
- Anonymous10 February 2013 at 19:18
Thanks for having me, Marie! I had so much fun and I will really treasure this special garment! Can't wait to see the last two makes!ReplyDeleteReplies
No, thank you! ;o)Delete
Ps happy 30th birthday Marie! Hope you had the wickedest weekend ever! xReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks very much Sabs!Delete
Happy birthday Marie!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you lady!Delete
This is soooo pretty! Looks like the kind of thing I would end up wearing everyday- comfy and pretty! LOVE it! xxReplyDelete
So cute! this totally makes me want to use lace & revisit the sorbetto pattern. :)ReplyDelete
Oooh, that's so pretty! Perfect on its own or for layering!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10 February 2013 at 20:04
such a great reinterpretation! loved this series! sad its ending but got so much out of it! thanks!ReplyDelete
I love her take on the lace.. So far my favourite sorbetoReplyDelete
Super super cute! I love the yoked Sorbetto- such a fab idea, Sonja!ReplyDelete
This is lovely, and what a get take on the Sorbetto pattern.ReplyDelete
Such a pretty top.ReplyDelete
So very cute! Love itReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Marie!! :)
Thank you Rebecca!Delete
Loving everything about it!!ReplyDelete
What a cute way to use lace. I think it's perfect for Sonia's style: delicate but not too frou frou! The sorbetto vaiation is lovely too.ReplyDelete
I like it! In my normal life, I'm not much of a lace person either, so that's a really nice way to incorporate it. Also, I love your goofy gator pics. And if you ever figure out that clutter-banishing Photoshop command, let us know!ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous12 February 2013 at 05:03
Will do! If only there was one... sigh...Delete
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Beautiful Sorbetto, Sonja!! And I'm just loving the "Watch this Lace" makes that are popping up all over my blog reader! Thanks for thinking of such a fun project, Marie!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Sallie, so glad you're liking the series!Delete
Sonja, this is the coolest Sorbetto ever!!!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday, beautiful Marie! xoReplies
Thanks lovely lady!Delete
Sonja did a great job, so adorable!!ReplyDelete
Cute as ever! Love it. I need to get me some lace!ReplyDelete
Thats a super cute outfit, top goes lovely with your jeans!ReplyDelete
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Before joining SiteSmith, Mr. Rowell was Director of Enterprise Services for UUNET Technologies, where he led the team responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing support of large-scale enterprise environments in an outsourced model. Clients included AutoNation, Disney, The Go Network, Levi Strauss, Marriott International, mySap.com, Sony Playstation, and Symantec.
Mr. Rowell holds a B.S. from the University of Alabama and attended the masters program for engineering management at George Washington University.