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Living with chronic disease doesn't have to define or limited you. You can find happiness and joy in every day—with diabetes.
8 Ways to love life (with diabetes)
Eat well - Eat organic (when possible), whole foods, fruits and veggies. Power your day with good food—your diabetes will thank you.
Check your blood sugar - This is the window into your body that's accessible all day long. It's impossible to manage diabetes without knowing your numbers.
Move your body - Our bodies are built to move. Find what you love to do, and do it often. Exercise makes our bodies more efficient and more responsive to the diabetes medications we give it.
Have gratitude - As difficult as life can be with a chronic disease, there are always things to be grateful for; sometimes its the disease itself, as it shapes a healthy lifestyle. The Good Men Project recommends that we should: "Tell someone you appreciate her/him every week. Gratitude is part of the importance of sharing. Say thank you every day. Through your gratitude, you remind yourself of how blessed you are. Through your gratitude, you make the world better."
Sleep well- Sleep isn't over-rated, it's a necessary and vital part of our wellness. Too little sleep increases cortisol levels which in turn increases blood sugars.
Help others - You can make the world a better place and improve your health in the process. Volunteer, be active, start with an organization close to your heart such as the American Diabetes Association, there's opportunities in your home town.
Embrace diabetes - The only way out is through. By ignoring or making the personal decision to reject diabetes will equate to feeling ill in time. It's important to remember that you aren't sick; you have a manageable disease.
See your care provider regularly - Keeping appointments will improve your health over the course of your lifetime.
To learn more on this topic:
Slideshow: Living to Inspire
First-Hand Tips for Growing Old with Diabetes
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text: Surgical Therapy for Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Modern Era: A 10-Year SEER-Medicare AnalysisNathan, Hari MD, PhD; Hyder, Omar MD; Mayo, Skye C. MD, MPH; Hirose, Kenzo MD; Wolfgang, Christopher L. MD, PhD; Choti, Michael A. MD; Pawlik, Timothy M. MD, MPH, PhDAnnals of Surgery: December 2013 - Volume 258 - Issue 6 - p 1022–1027 doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31827da749 Original Articles Abstract In Brief Author InformationAuthors Article MetricsMetrics Objective: We sought to quantify the use of and analyze factors predictive of receipt of surgical therapy for early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Background: The incidence of HCC is increasing, and the options for surgical therapy for early HCC have expanded, but the use of surgical therapy for early HCC has not been examined in a modern cohort. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed using data from the 1998–2007 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked database. Data were analyzed for patients 66 years of age and older with early HCC (tumors ≤5 cm without metastatic disease, nodal metastasis, extrahepatic extension, or major vascular invasion). Both Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results and Medicare data were used to ascertain receipt of therapy as well as comorbidity burden and other patient and hospital variables. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to analyze factors associated with receipt of therapy. Results: Our selection criteria identified 1745 patients for this study. Most patients had tumors between 2 and 5 cm in size (n = 1440, 83%). Solitary tumors (n = 1121, 64%) were more common than multiple tumors (n = 624, 36%). A total of 820 patients (47%) with early HCC received no surgical therapy. Among 741 patients with solitary, unilobar tumors and microscopic confirmation of HCC, 246 (33%) received no surgical therapy. Of 535 patients with no liver-related comorbidities, 273 (51%) did not receive surgical therapy. In multivariable analysis, patient age, income, tumor factors, liver-related comorbidities, and hospital factors were associated with receipt of surgical therapy. Conclusions: Although some patients with early HCC may not be candidates for surgical therapy, these data suggest that there is a significant missed opportunity to improve survival of patients with early HCC through the use of surgical therapy. The use of surgical therapy for early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has not been examined in a modern cohort. We sought to quantify the use of and analyze factors predictive of receipt of surgical therapy for early HCC. These data suggest that there is a significant missed opportunity to improve survival of patients with early HCC through the use of surgical therapy. From the Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Reprints: Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, MPH, PhD, FACS, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N Wolfe St, Harvey 611, Baltimore, MD 21287. E-mail: email@example.com. Disclosure: The authors declare that they have nothing to disclose. © 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.


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College of Menominee Nation: EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge and a lesson in Great Lakes recycling 101
Dr. William Van Lopik, College of Menominee Nation professor of the Implementing Sustainable Development classes
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
This is the first of several vidoes explaining the tribes numerous projects that included cleaning up the reservation, replacing gang symbols with Native American art, teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture.
In part one, the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative looks at the many recycling projects of the College of Menominee nation.
(Keshena, WI) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena is being praised for its massive cleanup projects during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge - involving over 100 projects across eight states that comprise the Great lakes basin.
The college of Menominee Nation held a pharmaceutical and electronic waste collection as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
Other tribal projects during the challenge included the clean up of two reservation communities by tribal school students, The Menominee Teen Court Panel, and many other volunteers.
All classes at the tribal school taught the students about the sturgeon, that is a vital part of Menominee legend and heritage.
Called the protector guardian of Menominee wild rice, the sturgeon used to spawn on the reservation until a man made dam blocked the route so the sturgeon could not reach their ancestral spawning grounds.
The students also whitewashed gang graffiti at a skateboard park replacing it with American Indian art.
Adults participated in the challenge in a big way - as the tribe's Solid Waste and Recycling Department held curbside e-waste collections during Earth week 2008 - and all month accepted e-waste at the transfer station. Cardboard and other items are also recycled by the Menominee tribe.
Native American and other students also made garbage monsters at the Keshena Public Schools with help from their parents using common every day trash from home. The students made a presentation on how to be reuse stuff they normally thrown in the trash like plastic jugs.
More than four tons of e-waste and other recyclables - plus litter - was removed from the reservation during April.
Faculty and students brought their old computers, cell phones and medicines to an e-waste and pharmaceutical collection site at the tribal college in Keshena, Wisconsin to help a federal Earth Day challenge to clean up the Great Lakes Basin, while younger students cleaned up the reservation and whitewashed gang graffiti.
At the College of Menominee Nation, the Earth Day 2008 e-waste and medicine collections went smoothly as people turned in hundreds of items.
Over 23 pounds of medicines were turned in including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries.
The collection is among numerous Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW) projects that are part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that runs through the end of April.
Gang graffiti was whitewashed from a skateboard park wall near the tribal school by K-8 students. The MITW youth honored Earth Day and replaced graffiti with positive Native American symbols.
"The younger students put their hands in paint and made flower hand prints on the wall," said teacher Beth Waukechon. "All week students have been cleaning up the reservation, and one student was so inspired she wants to start an Earth Club."
On Friday, April 25, over 180 students cleaned up litter around the community of Neopit.
"The students are giving thanks to Mother Earth for all that she had done," Waukechon said. "They are taking a moment each day to do that."
"We know that Mother Earth can shake us off at any moment," she said. "We are the ones that need her, she doesn't need us."
"Clean up the Rez Day" was held on Thursday, April 24 at the tribe's Youth Development and Outreach program. The Menominee Teen Court Panel and volunteers cleaned up garbage, said Claudette Hewson, MITW Restorative Justice Coordinator.
The teen panel, ages 14 to 17, is a peer review for youthful offenders sentenced in tribal court who "need to learn healthy behaviors," Hewson said. On May 2, at-risk teens will paint over more reservation gang graffiti.
Sponsors include the tribe's Community Resource Center, Menominee County Police, Menominee Tribal Police, Tribal Clinic Wellness Program (Maehnowesekiyah), Probation and Parole, Community Recycling Project, Recreation Department, EarthHealing.org and the U.S. Post Office in Keshena.
Earth Week tribal school classes applied subjects like math, history and others to different aspects of the life cycle, biology and value of the sturgeon, an important fish to the Menominee tribe.
Overseeing the pharmaceutical collection was Heidi Cartwright, pictured on the left above, a part-time Manawa police officer and college police science instructor.
While hosting the collection, the college's Implementing Sustainable Development class found out they won the National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant through Coca-Cola, said professor William Van Lopik, Ph.D.
"One of premises of the class is to do things, not just talk about what we are going to do and how the world is going to be changed, but having students do things," Dr. Van Lopik said.
The grant pays for 50 recycling bins that the college plans to share with the tribal school.
The class has participated in the ten-week Recycle Mania project two years in a row that involves weighing recyclables as they leave the building. This year, the class ranked 136 out of 200 colleges and universities with 8 pounds of recyclables per person, beating out Ohio State and Georgetown, Van Lopik said.
The MITW held curbside pickup of electronics during Earth Week. A couple thousand pounds of electronics were turned in at the MITW transfer station since April 1. The total is expected to reach several tons.
Native American students recently created "Garbage Monsters" out of bottles, paper and other items found in their trash in a project at the Keshena Public Schools, said Diana Wolf, MITW Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator. After naming their monsters, the students explained other uses for the garbage.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office, also in Chicago, in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan.
I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
Related website about Keshena, Neopit, the College of Menominee Nation and Menominee County, WI:
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin official website - homepage:
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Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Youth Development & Outreach
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Great Lakes Inter Tribal Council
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The College of the Menominee Nation (abbreviated CMN) is one of 34 tribal based community colleges in the United States. The college's main campus is in Keshena, Wisconsin and has another campus in Oneida, Wisconsin. The college is one of two tribal based colleges in Wisconsin.
The tribal college was chartered in 1993. The college began offering classes in the 1993 Spring semester. The College of Menominee Nation was granted full accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission on August 7, 1998. The college is a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC).
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With her rich mahogany and gleaming brass, the legendary Sea Cloud travels under 30 billowing sails trimmed by hand. Her original owners, heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financier E. F. Hutton, desired a craft like no other. They spared no expense to create the largest private sailing ship ever built and in 1931, Sea Cloud was launched. In the '30s and '40s, as she sailed the world, the four-masted beauty was host to leaders including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Sweden's King Gustavus V. Now carefully restored by a team of master craftspeople, this great lady continues to offer elegant quarters, fine dining, and impeccable service. Praised by the world's most discerning travelers, Sea Cloud receives consistently high rankings from Condé Nast Traveler.


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Tiago Espinha wrote: > Dear all, > > My name is Tiago Espinha and I participated in last year's edition of > Google Summer of Code. I've decided to participate again this year Welcome back and thanks for pulling DERBY-728 out of the freezer. It is an often requested improvement. I put the labels "mentor" and "gsoc" on the issue which is this year's process for introducing it as a google summer of code idea. For GSOC you are not limited to the ideas marked in Jira, but can introduce your own idea as long as you find a mentor willing to pick it up. I have always been a bit skeptical of code generation tools. It has been well over a decade since I have even looked at one, but my experience was that while great for prototyping, they just did not produce maintainable or properly commented code and were not practical when working on a mature existing code base like Derby, but am willing to be proven wrong. As for something meaty for your thesis, DERBY-472 Full text indexing and search is forever popular. DERBY-11 is a more SQL focussed project but should be a challenge. DERBY-672 user defined aggregates might be interesting too, but I don't know how much work it is exactly. I think there may be some pending XML work too. Unfortunately though I can't step forward as a mentor on any of these and hope you will work on DERBY-728 this summer and start on a feature of some sort in the fall. Kathey
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Record Ticket Sales and Gate Numbers Eclipsed for UFC 129
When the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heads into the Rogers Centre on April 30th, it will be making some ground breaking history for the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. Not only will UFC 129 be its first ever event in Ontario, but ticket sales and gate numbers will shatter previous highs for the most popular MMA promotion in the world.
"I always talk about how big Canada is and how big we're growing internationally, etc, etc, so it was a big move to put 42,000 tickets on sale," UFC President Dana White said on a recent media call. "Every time we go up to the Bell Centre, we sell that thing out. We added tickets, we got to 23,000, but the question was 'how many more people are really looking for tickets?' Is it 25,000? Maybe it's 29, 30. When we put 42 on sale, I'll admit that I was a little nervous about it, and I didn't know. I'm absolutely blown away by the response."
The 42,000 tickets initially put on sale were scooped up in just minutes after their release, and the total attendance numbers will eclipse a record 55,000 patrons. The gate for the event will be well over $11 million as well, which is also a North American record for the sport.
"We sell out arenas here (in the United States) all the time, but the reality is as we started to take this thing internationally, and what I've been saying for a long time, that this is going to be the biggest sport in the world, and I think people might not think I'm nuts anymore," White continued. "We're in half a billion homes right now on television worldwide, and we're working on some deals right now, and we'll get them done in the next few months, that will put us in over a billion homes worldwide on television. And as we start to go into these different territories and sell out the way we have, it just shows that what I've said is absolutely correct. People all over the world love to see a fight, and I think this fight at the Rogers Centre has become such a big event. It's not just people from Toronto buying tickets, and I'm looking into that right now. People are coming from all over the world for that event."
Also joining White on the media call was Tom Wright, who formerly worked as the Commissioner of the Canadian Football League and now runs the Canadian office for the UFC.
"We went to great lengths to set up the Rogers Centre to make it a fantastic experience," he remarked. "We built this virtual venue, we advertised it, we promoted it. We did everything because we took nothing for granted. And I think we did all that homework, and it paid off."
Fighting in the main event of UFC 129 will be Welterweight Champion and native Canadian Georges St. Pierre, who will defend his title against Jake Shields. If he wins that pairing, St. Pierre will next face UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva in a proposed superfight.


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been watching on bbc3
so far only bloc party have excited me ... the doves are a bit too laid back , and i guess theres a reason theyre called babyshambles
so far only bloc party have excited me ... the doves are a bit too laid back , and i guess theres a reason theyre called babyshambles
Re: glasto so fari chuckled when i saw that ... some friends of mine are down there , and for one of them its his first festival experience
Re: glasto so farsomeone is on RIGHT NOW and theyre a bit bland.
I've had a running commentary from a DiSer - lots of water, boats and cows?
Re: glasto so faroh I saw him too! I love it when the really bored/stoned people happen to also be the really tall ones, whom the camera cannot hide, no matter what!
Re: glasto so farIs anyone watching the White Stripes, they are poor at the moment.
Re: glasto so farDid you register that username just to answer this post? ;-)
Re: glasto so farActually, White Stripes did get better after I posted that last comment, some good guitar bits, Ball And Biscuit sounded good.
Re: glasto so farcollected thoughts:
christ. i thought i couldn't hate nigel kennedy anymore but i've been proven wrong.
nice to see bloc party's vocalist smiling for once.
oh look, a 'you are here' flag. i see what they've done there.
and finally: hahahahaha, you're all sodden and probably choking on your shitty overpriced mushrooms while i'm here with a cup of tea and some malt loaf. thus, i win.
Re: glasto so farbest flag/banner i've seen at a festival said 'i love myself', considering it was a young kid who came up with it. still doesn't beat the 'i kill cats t-shirt' i spotted at reading once.
does it ever seem to anyone that jack white looks like he's going to kill meg if she fucks up - the way he keeps looking over as if to say 'bitch, don't ruin the ending of this song'. s'all dressed up as are they brother/sister or lovers - no really its a torvill and dean relationship, maybe
Re: glasto so farwas that back at the campfire? pigeon on toast for breakfast?
Re: glasto so farfair point, i suppose i'd never considered the pigeons before. i thought music was more the domain of magpies
Re: glasto so farbloc party were ok in parts but shambolic in parts, could be the sound i guess... bleh
Re: glasto so farNot that anyone's going to admit it, but the Killers were fucking brilliant.
Re: glasto so farim not gonna argue ... of all the six bands they seemed to show last night the killers and bloc party were probably the most entertaining.
the pixie character in bloc party seemed to have guitar trouble during every song except the pioneers but it didnt damage the performance at all.
anyone else notice that they showed the same songs from the same sets all bloody night - doves, babyshambles, killers over and over ... come on bbc theres tons of bands on this weekend try and show some more of them!
Re: glasto so farI can't remeber how many times I saw the sets from Royksopp and The Killers. Too many.
Re: glasto so farAnyone see K.T. Tunstall's BBC2 live set? She really impressed me, especially as she was experiencing technical difficulties left, right and centre. I wasn't a fan before but I might get the album on that performance.
Re: glasto so farI'm quite shocked. Every act I've seen (that I quite like) have been excellent. Interpol were brill, despite Banks' weak voice. And surprisingly, I thought Keane were great. I know they're fat and uncool bla bla bla, but they did an amazing set.
Re: glasto so farAnd last night I got home about 1 ish and went on the interactive bit to look at who I could see and on three of the four channels it was Razorlight.
On another note, I enjoyed New Order's set.
Re: glasto so farThe Kasabian singer looked like Obi Wan Kenobi in the new Star Wars.
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Have finally finished off the end of year reports for the class that I am teaching at the moment. I thought reports were painful at home, but having to write reports on 30 children that I hardly know is much worse. I won't say that I will never complain again, because we all know that as soon as I go home and write my first batch of Aussie reports I will be whinging at top note again. I'm just going to have to say that ALL REPORTS ARE EVIL and leave it at that.
3 weeks and 2 days left of school and then it is holidays. Thank goodness. I am very keen to finally have the summer holidays my brain keeps telling me we should have had by now. Even though it is currently colder here in London than it is in Sydney.
Karen and I are off to Portugal on Friday for the weekend. We got some wonderfully cheap tickets on British Airways and a good deal on a hotel that is right next to a shopping mall and 5 minutes from the beach. My mission this weekend is to sit on the beach and read a book only leaving the sand in order to browse the shop windows. Not very cultural I know, but it's all my mushy brain can cope with right now.
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I guess I was pretty naive when I started writing the first Aten Sequence book back in 2007. I just sat down at my laptop one Sunday and started typing. After typing five whole pages I was pretty impressed with myself. Who knew that I could string so many words of fiction together? Perhaps not surprisingly, not a single one of those first words actually made it into the final draft, but they will always be important as the first steps in my writing journey. I even have them saved somewhere on my laptop.
|Cynthia Marsh - Author of The Aten Sequence Books
But what I did not know then was how much other stuff I would need to learn in order to get my books written, produced and sold. Because I chose to go down the self-publishing route, I quickly worked out that being an indie author means you either have to do everything yourself or pay someone else to do it for you. Oh, the lucky writers who just happen to be partnered up with a cover designer, editor or file formatter that will do freebies for them!
Like many authors, I have done a lot of things myself and paid to have some other things done for me. My first foray into self publishing, which was a bit of a test really, was my collection of spooky short stories 'Ghosts and Other Really Big Surprises.' This was a totally DIY project and I put the cover together myself, formatted the file for Kindle Direct Publishing and uploaded it. I have recently been wrestling with it in CreateSpace, so that I can have a printed version for sale and not just an ebook.
For The Aten Sequence Books, I wanted to have professional book covers designed. I also wanted them to be available on more online book retailing sites. So I chose to use BookBaby and have been very impressed with them so far, as they took my somewhat sketchy brief for the book covers and produced something very close to what I had envisaged in my mind's eye.
But it is the book marketing and promotion that I have found the most challenging so far. Write it and they will not necessarily come! Now that self-publishing is so accessible and can be done for free, there are thousands upon thousands of indie books out there. Some are amazing, some are good and some are ....., well just are. But the challenge is how do I make my Aten Sequence Books stand out among so many others clamouring to be downloaded onto the e-readers across the globe? How do I persuade a potential reader to take a punt and spend some of their hard earned cash on a book written by an unknown author?
I was so focussed on the writing and editing side of things, that I neglected to read the advice on starting to promote your book at least a year before its release. So I am already a late starter in the promotion game. But impatience doesn't help anything. This is a marathon, not a sprint, and I have set my goal as doing one thing a day, however small, to market my books and get them out there. So you can imagine how excited I was when I saw that standoutbooks were looking to interview indie authors and they agreed to interview me.
Being a typical introvert writer, my first concern was what was I going to tell them? I mean I write stories about other people, not about me. How was I going to make me interesting? There is a myth that writing is a glamorous profession. Well maybe it is when you get to the level of success enjoyed by J K Rowling and others, but for us relative newbies writing means hours hunched over your laptop at home, quite often still in your pyjamas and picking cornflakes out of your hair. So I had to put on my big girl pants and open up about myself, my writing and my books. Not easy at the start, but as I started answering the questions it started to flow and I amazed myself at how much came out.
I have to give standoutbooks a big thank you, as I think they have done an amazing job in putting the interview together online. It looks really professional and I am very proud of it. I'd also really like to thank them for giving a few of us indie authors the chance to talk about our books. We are all looking for a break, that first elusive whiff of a winning streak and I don't think people realise how much it means to us when you tweet about our books, share our posts on Facebook , comment on our blogs or write a review on sites like Amazon or Goodreads. So thank you to everyone who has ever shown their support for The Aten Sequence Books. So make an indie author happy today and tweet this post or share it on Facebook – go on, you know you want to!
In case you missed this awesome interview you can catch it here - Author Interview: Cynthia Marsh


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Watching the World Jr Championships this weekend I had very mixed feelings. On the one hand, the next generation of World and Olympic champions seems to be developing quite nicely. So nice in fact, that it will not be easy for us (the US) to hit that magical 30 medal mark in major championship competition as the rest of the world continues to progress.
With the exception of the US and Kenya with 15 medals each, the distribution of medals was pretty even globally. Kenya's juniors mirroring the efforts of their senior counterparts by dominating the distance events by scoring in every event 800 meters and up. Similarly, most other nations seemed to mirror their senior counterparts as well. Cuban's scoring well in the jumps, Ethiopians in the distances, Russian's the race walk and pole vault, etc. The big anomaly being the performance of the European juniors in the sprint and hurdle events where they had large numbers of athletes making the semi finals and finals.
This may be in part because the entry limits are different – only two per country on the junior level as opposed to 3 per country on the senior level – but that doesn't account for the medals that were being won. A young Brit won the women's 100. A Hungarian was the silver medalist in the men's 400. And though Asian, not European, a Japanese sprinter won the men's 200 followed by a Belarusian. Great news for the sport in general as competition makes for a better sport. But with so many nations performing well in their "traditional" events, if they are making inroads into what have been our "traditional" medal events, where does that leave US hopes for the future?
Well, taking a look at US results there is good news and bad news. The good news – we scored in the field events. We scored a gold medal in the Hammer, as Connor McCullough had the second longest throw in the world by a junior this year at 265' 0". We picked up a silver in the women's discus with Erin Pendleton (180' 4"0 and a bronze in the triple jump with Omar Craddock (53' 3"). Huge for us to score in these events on a global stage. We also did what our seniors have failed to do in the last couple of majors – won all four relay events. As our junior squads easily handled their global counterparts in the baton events. Perhaps they should be brought in to give our senior relays some pointers, as their passing was crisp and their athlete placement was dead on. We also scored silver and bronze in the men's 800 (Casimir Loxsome and Robby Andrews). An event that we have had a serious drought in at the senior level.
In spite of these positive's however, there were some negatives. In the events that we are traditionally strong in, we were quite weak. We only picked up one gold medal in the sprint and hurdle events – Stormy Kendrick's victory in the 200 at 22.99. We had no finalists in the men's 200 or the men's 400 hurdles. And we only placed 5th in the men's 110 hurdles and 6th in the women's 100 hurdles.
More as I looked through the results, we had very few athletes that seemed to be performing at their best levels. There were few personal or seasons best being set by our young people. And many were well below their performances of earlier in the year. This eerily mirrors what we saw from their senior counterparts in Beijing and Berlin! In fairness to our junior athletes, however, I believe the reasons to be quite different. Historically we see this type of performance routinely from our junior teams. We our not always represented by our best athletes, as many are involved in other activities during the summer – specifically preparing for college and college related activities. And I'm not sure that we have a real comprehensive junior program here in the US.
Yes, we have club teams that take part in track and field activities during the summer. But I'm talking about a comprehensive development program where we are bringing together our best young people into some sort of system to help them prepare for international competition. To my knowledge there is little contact with these young people once they earn their spots on the World team. It may not be a bad idea to bring them together for a "Summer Camp" if you will. Two to three weeks of work with a staff of perhaps collegiate coaches, to help enhance the talent that they are already exhibiting. Yes, I know that a handful are already in college and have had a season under the guidance of a college coach. But many of these young people are high schoolers getting their feet wet on the big stage for the first time. And I think that USATF should look upon this as an opportunity to lay the groundwork for our teams for the future.
We also have to look at the fact that as high school athletes, many of these kids have been attempting to compete at a high level since May. Most have State Meets that fall somewhere between the May and June – including qualifying meets that lead up to them. There are also the various post season invitationals that most of these kids get invited to – Golden South, Golden West, Nike Nationals to name but a few. Then there is the USATF Championships meet where the team is selected at the end of June. All of which can explain why a youngster like Josh Mance could run 45.90 over 400 at the beginning of June yet is only able to muster a 46.84 at the finals of Worlds. Or even a college freshman like Robby Andrews who had to go through the NCAA championships system, then our USATF championships system, then Worlds. Andrews looked good running 1:45.54 at the NCAA Championships in the beginning of June but was having a hard time holding on in Moncton finishing in 1:47.00.
Looking at it from this perspective, we ask a lot of these young people, many of whom are getting their very first taste of international competition. We've seen how hard it is on the elite athletes to ask their bodies to perform at a high level over and over. It's got to be harder for young people who are still developing – not just physically but also emotionally. Because we don't just ask them to compete, but to leave home, go to a foreign place, and to pull it all together and give us their best performance. Still, at the end of the day, these kids were atop the medal count with Kenya and that says a lot about the youngsters that we sent to Canada. I applaud their efforts and look forward to seeing many of them repeat their performances in the future. And as much as we count medals at these events, here in the US our "developmental program" continues to be the collegiate system. We see glimpses of our future stars at these events, but it is still the college system and college coaches that really prepare our athletes to move on to the next level. And events like World Juniors serve as a great springboard to their collegiate destinations and their future growth.


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Here is a table that I made a year ago for someone at work. It has 2 extensions that take it out to 96" long and it is 40" wide with bread board ends. I also make two benches to go along it. the finish is Mirror Cote Epoxy with several cotes of poly and finished with paste wax and steal wool.
thanks for looking and as always questions are welcome.
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#1 posted 01-11-2016 12:17 AM
great job even though the wood is 120 years old the construction isn't but you made so it looks like it was made 120 years ago you honored that wood very well my friend, beautiful piece.
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#2 posted 01-12-2016 01:00 AM
It turned out really well! Nice way to honor the history of that wood, and preserve it for future generations!
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#3 posted 01-12-2016 09:31 PM
Super nice, great looking table. Since it was made with 120 year old wood, I guess it's an instant antique. Either way, beautiful work.
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This tutorial guides you through how to convert your PowerPoint presentations to play on a home dvd player.
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Step One - CaptureMost powerpoint slideshows have movement and animation. We want to preserve this animation on the dvd. For this we used a product called Camtasia to grab the slideshow and save it to a video file. You can read more about all the software we have used at the end of this tutorial.
Step Two - ConversionWithout getting too technical, your PC runs at a certain resolution (or quality), DVD's run at another resolution. Therefore we need to convert the captured video file to DVD quality. For this we will use a product called Nero Vision Express. We will create a nice DVD menu at the same time.
Step Three - Writing the DVDWe've capture the slideshow, converted it to DVD resolution, created a nice DVD menu, now all that is left is to write (burn) the DVD disc.
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- Do the capturing on your quickest PC
Step by Step Powerpoint to DVD Tutorial:
Step 1: Capture
|As mentioned in step 2 above, dvd has a resolution of 720x480. So we need to capture our slideshow at a similar resolution. In our case 800x600 is a close match to capture at, as we cannot set our PC to 720x480. Also 800x600 will scale down better than 640x480 will scale up.
|Change the desktop resolution to 800x600 by right clicking a blank area of your desktop, choose "Properties".
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Open your slideshow. We recommend having a totally blank first and last slide, or a slide that follows your template but with no content.
| Select the "Insert" menu and choose "New Slide", select the "Blank" Layout from the "slide layout" on the right of your screen.
Then go to your current last slide by holding down the "CTRL" key then press "End".
Then repeat step 5 to add a new last slide.
|Go back to your first slide (CTRL-Home), and select the "slideshow" menu, and choose "Slide Transition", make sure that "On mouse click" is ticked.
This will make the first slide pause before we start capturing our slideshow.
Then save your presentation. "File" > "Save"
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Select the "File" menu, choose "Save As...."
Change the "Save as type" to "powerpoint show (.pps)". Click "Save"
Quit out of powerpoint.
|Now we are ready to capture the slide show. Start Camtasia Recorder. Check that it is set to record the "screen" by selecting the "Capture" menu, choose "Input" and select "Screen".
|This step is optional, but we found it gave much better results with our particular presentation.
In Camtasia Recorder, click "Tools", then "Options", click the "AVI" tab along the top. On this page turn off "Auto Configure". Set the frames/sec to 10.0
Click "Video Setup". Untick "Key Frame Every 80 frames". Click OK.
Click the "Program" tab, Then tick "Boost priority during capture". Click OK.
| Navigate to your powerpoint show (the .pps file from step 7) using windows explorer or "my computer".
Double click your file e.g. mypres.pps
|The 1st slide will be displayed until you press a key to move on to the next slide.
Tip: We got better results if we went through the presentation once, before doing the actual capture. This allowed the PC to cache the presentation in its memory.
|When you press F9 Camtasia Recorder will start recording everything that happens on the screen. When you are ready, press F9, then press the space bar to start your presentation proper.
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|When you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter a filename.
Click "Save". Camtasia will save your capture as an .AVI file.
|That's it for Step One. We told you it was easy!
|View what we grabbed from powerpoint. How did we do that? We used Camtasia Producer to save our captured video file to a flash (swf) file. Trust us, when we say this powerpoint to flash is a very powerful feature of Camtasia.
Step 2: Conversion
|Start Nero Vision Express 2
|Click "Make DVD" and choose "DVD-Video"
|Click "Make New Movie
|Click the "Browse for media" button. Navigate to where you saved the original camtasia captured video file. Select the File and click "Open". Nero will display an icon to represent your video clip.
|Right click the newly added video clip icon and choose "Add to Project"
|Nero will add your video to it's storyboard
You can add transitions before and after each video clip using nero if you want to. We didn't.
|If you want to add any kind of soundtrack or music to your video clip, this is the time to do it. Click the "Show Timeline" button
Then simply browse to your existing audio clip, then drag it from the media list to the "timeline" area marked "Audio 1".
|Click the "Next" button.
If you want to add any more powerpoint slideshows, then repeat steps 3 through 6. Obviously you will also have to capture each presentation using camtasia by following Step 1: Capture.
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Click the "Video Options" button
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You can add backgrounds, change colors, fonts, etc. It's all fairly self explanatory.
For our DVD creation we choose "Layout 2", a still background image, and added a title of "Select a video show".
Click Next
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Notes from the Delta - August 2013 Newsletter
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Dear Team & Family,
It is with great pleasure I announce we have begun yet another year of KIPP Delta's climb up the mountain. The start of a new school year always fills me with a renewed sense of optimism about what the coming days, weeks, and months have in store. With this in mind, I wanted to offer thoughts on the state of our schools, the challenges we have to overcome, and why I am optimistic this year has the potential to be one of the strongest years in our organization's history.
Our standardized testing results from last year indicate there are several reasons to be incredibly optimistic about the progress we made. First, we were pleased to see that we outperformed state averages in over fifty percent of tested areas! On the NWEA MAP test, the standardized test used throughout KIPP, we were incredibly proud to see that one hundred percent of tested grade levels meeting their fall to spring growth goals- a first in KIPP Delta's history. Furthermore, the percent of students on grade level and college ready increased significantly. Finally, we are starting the 2013 school year with more students and staff than ever before. There is no doubt that we have some incredible positive momentum in our favor as we enter the new school year.
Despite making such positive gains, we do need to share information on a few state categorizations which will soon be made public. Arkansas, recently revised its accountability ratings through a waiver from Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Each school is now given new individualized targets or Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs), which are based on scores from the previous years. Each school is consequently given a status of "Priority," "Focus," "Needs Improvement," "Achieving" or "Exemplary" based on its ability to meet these AMOs. While our schools met their AMOs in literacy, none of our schools met their targets in math due to a high bar of performance set in 2011-2012. As a result, despite outperforming surrounding schools and the state in many areas, all of our schools will receive the "Needs Improvement" status. We feel strongly that this is not an indicator of the quality of our schools but rather a good reminder to continue to raise the bar.
As always, we invite you to reach out and visit our schools! To the entire KIPP Delta Team & Family, thank you for all that you do and let's make this a very special year for our KIPPsters!
Keep climbing,
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Oh, the Places You'll Go!
In late May and early June, hundreds of our KIPPsters enjoyed their much-anticipated end-of-year field lessons. After working hard to earn their spot, students at KIPP Delta College Preparatory School (DCPS) and KIPP Blytheville College Preparatory School (BCPS) took off on adventures to destinations near and far. The BCPS Class of 2021 (4th Grade) spent three days in St. Louis where they toured Busch Stadium, attended a Cardinals' game, explored the City Museum, and enjoyed an engineering presentation at Washington University. The BCPS Class of 2020 (5th Grade) visited nearly every museum and monument on their five-day stay in Washington, D.C. The long drive was well worth it for these KIPPsters who packed their days full with new experiences. The Air & Space Museum, the Capitol Building, and the Natural History Museum were some of the favorites, though riding the Metro to American University was a thrill as well. The DCPS Class of 2020 spent several days exploring another capital – Nashville, TN. Students who earned this field lesson explored the Nashville Zoo, attended a Nashville Sounds minor league baseball game, and visited The Hermatige (President Andrew Jackson's house). Students also had the opportunity to meet some of their KIPP cousins at KIPP Academy in Nashville.
Both Classes of 2019 tested their grit on camping trips this spring. The BCPS 6th graders camped in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, while those from DCPS enjoyed Petit Jean State Park outside of Little Rock. Both groups were very new to camping, but their teamwork and optimism made for an exciting, character-building week. The Classes of 2018, from both BCPS and DCPS, each spent a week in New Orleans in June. Students enjoyed touring historical sites and museums, learning about the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, dressing up for a steamboat cruise, and exploring Louisiana State University. The Class of 2017 from DCPS capped off their middle school careers with a civil rights tour through Birmingham, Montgomery, and Atlanta. The week-long road trip gave students the opportunity to see historical landmarks that they've been learning about for years, as well as visit some incredible museums. Before turning around and driving home, students also enjoyed a couple fun days in Atlanta at the World of Coca-Cola and Six Flags Over Georgia.
Little Bites. Big Impact.
KIPP Delta Public Schools is hosting the first annual Little Bites. Big Impact. event on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at the Phillips Community College Fine Arts Center. Little Bites. Big Impact. is a tapas style event showcasing restaurants and chefs from around Arkansas and the Delta. Each chef will feature a "Little Bite" of their choosing at the event, and there will also be beer and wine for guests to enjoy. Attendees of the event will have the opportunity to sample each little bite, enjoy entertainment provided by the KIPP Delta choir and band, and take home a special handmade gift at the end of the evening.
KIPP Delta alumnus, David Bibbs, will be a featured pastry chef for the evening. David graduated with the Class of 2011 and now attends Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island – a competitive school with a world-renowned culinary program. Tickets are $45 in advance ($50 at the door) and sponsorships are available at three different levels. If you would like more details or are interested in purchasing tickets, you can do so here.
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January 2nd – 31st, 2018 McDonald's Discover Michigan Skiing Program Cross Country Ski Headquarters has teamed up with Michigan's McDonalds restaurants to offer an exciting and very affordable introduction to the sport of Cross Country Skiing in Michigan. The program is designed to introduce a healthy outdoor winter activity to anyone with an interest in outdoor winter […]Find out more »
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What do you bring to NAMI?
Because of my experience as a person living with Bipolar Disorder, I have a strong vision for NAMI SE MN and commitment to sharing the "real story" about mental illness: that recovery is not only possible, but we're surrounded by it every day.
What do you love about working here?
I love that my work is hardly work. My job is a blend of learning, creating and challenging, which gets my inner social justice fighter fired up every day!
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In restructuring the company, Adobe said it will focus on two market segments—digital media and digital market.
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SECOND DAY (Saturday in the Octave of the Ascension)
Come, Father of the poor; Come, treasures which endure; Come, Light of all that live!
The Gift of Fear
The gift of Fear fills us with a sovereign respect for God, and makes us dread nothing so much as to offend Him by sin. It is a fear that arises, not from the thought of hell, but from sentiments of reverence and filial submission to our heavenly Father. It is the fear that is the beginning of wisdom, detaching us from worldly pleasures that could in any way separate us from God. "They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and in His sight will sanctify their souls."
Come, O blessed Spirit of Holy Fear, penetrate my inmost heart, that I may set you, my Lord and God, before my face forever. Help me to shun all things that can offend You, and make me worthy to appear before the pure eyes of Your Divine Majesty in heaven, where You live and reign in the unity of the ever Blessed Trinity, God world without end. Amen.
Pater noster and Ave Maria ONCE.
Gloria Patri SEVEN TIMES.
Act of Consecration, Prayer for the Seven Gifts
Read more at EWTN.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
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Wednesday, April 24
On Shade & Colorism: P&G's My Black is Beautiful "Imagine a Future" Documentary"
Colorism and shadeism are such unfortunate realities of those of color. For years upon years the idea of being light skin is the right skin has been forced on us forcing many to internalize and others to project this same ideal on their own. Seven years ago beauty company, Procter & Gamble created the My Black is Beautiful initiative to celebrate the skin that we womyn of colour are in. Most recently, they joined the TriBeCa Film Festival, that's happening right now, to screen it's film Imagine a Future. The film aims to empower black womyn and tell our stories and conflicts with issues such as complexion, beauty, and self esteem.
While this story has been told multiple times before, I don't think that this is issue will get to old to share and discuss as it is a problem that is so prominent still in our communities. It's an important story to continually tell and to highlight the beauty of womyn of colour to remind those that doubt, that in all our many shades of glory that we are all beautiful.
The one thing that is interesting and can be noted about this all is that P&G is a global beauty brand that sells and advertises skin lightening products globally. I applaud the wonderful work that they are doing with My Black Is Beautiful and truly appreciate the messaging that they are trying to spread by telling these stories but I can't help but think that perhaps this messaging can get a bit diluted when this very same brand is part of the problem with pushing that light skin is the right skin mentality.
I would definitely still love to check out the film, which will air on BET July 5th and YouTube.
What are your thoughts, is the messaging that P&G is trying to give too conflicted based on their opposing interests or a positive effort by the beauty brand? Also, will you be watching the documentary?
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{not} over it
When we lived in HampshireI think we saw maybe three or four rainbows a year. They were rare. I would stop the car, grab a camera, take many pictures and freak out about them.
Here I seem to have moved to the Land of Rainbows because we see them all the time, sometimes three or four a day. Huge ones, vibrant ones, entire arches. {Yes it did rain in Hampshire, no it doesn't really rain more here}
As a photographer they just make me sooo happy. I still grab the camera and freak out about them. I am not over it ;)


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Though nothing beats a warm tomato just plucked off the vine, I'll eat canned tomatoes all year round, and frozen berries and peaches. But I really only eat asparagus in season, when it's fresh and tender, not woody and tough. There's a great new restaurant in ATL, Miller Union, that is doing this amazing little spring appetizer of grilled bread, a brie like "double cream" cheese, country ham and grilled asparagus. It's all of the comfort of a grilled cheese sandwich, but with many, many more layers of flavor: smokiness from the ham and the grilled bread and grilled asparagus, creamy goo from the warmed cheese.
I was at Miller Union last night after attending the Vox Bee, a spelling bee fundraiser for Vox newspaper. Though I'd had two glasses of wine at the Bee–I wasn't driving–I couldn't resist ordering a Miller Thyme cocktail (get it?) at the restaurant. The Miller Thyme is made with gin, and thyme infused simple syrup, and "citrus fruits" as our server somewhat mysteriously told us. I'm assuming the fruits are lemons, but who knows. Maybe there's some magical, mystical citrus tree growing in Chef's backyard, because those Miller Thymes are pretty hard to resist…Even when you should.
I also had a fried softshell crab that tasted like butter, salt, and air. I felt so sad eating that crab, thinking about the contaminated waters from the BP oil spill. God knows if the ripple effect from that will ever end, and I'm aware of my complicity in the whole mess every time I fill up my car. It's not enough to try and support my local economy and buy foods in season and try not to drive as much–but it's something. A teeny, tiny pushing back.
I bought a whole bunch of produce at the farmer's market in our neighborhood last Saturday, and we've been eating salads all week. I've got this salad bowl that my mom gave me 15 years ago. It was carved by some dude in Vermont out of a single piece of wood. Gorgeous, gorgeous, and it's only grown more so with age. Years ago I dated a guy who worked with wood, and he went crazy over that bowl. Told me I needed to oil it, which I started to do, and now its developed a rich patina. (Oh my God, did I actually get to use patina in a sentence? And did I use it correctly?)
Salad tastes especially good from that bowl, even if it's super simple like the one we made tonight: bitter greens, carrots cut into coins, green onions, tomatoes, toasted walnuts, and a great bloomy goat cheese from North Carolina. Just water to drink, in deference to my overloaded liver from the night before. We used to have these fantastic salad tongs that are shaped like hands and called "Edward Saladhands" but one of them got dropped (note the passive voice here) and broke. So now we have only one Edward Saladhand. Edward Saladhands and Miller Thymes. Puns abound in our lovely, broken universe.
Elegiac sentences aside, here are some salad pics. (And please know I am not unaware of the very unsexy nature of salad pics. Lord, what would my 17 year old self say? But also please note the dark brown of the bowl's interior. It used to be about 10 shades lighter. Perhaps these pictures would be sexier if we all say patina as slowly as we possibly can?)
(Edward saladhand, missing his mate.)
peaches, also from the farmer's market, ripening in a brown paper bag. One of my favorite sights of summer.


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Date visited: 4th October 2012
Spring has truly set in! It was a hot 29 degree day and MerlinFan wanted to try Dessert Story, which is a shop that specialises in Taiwanese and Hong Kong desserts.
I quite liked the decor in the shop - it was decorated head to toe with red Chinese lanterns and an interesting wallpaper depicting shelves of books (behind me so you can't quite see it in the photo). The shop itself was not too small, but they could have made better use of the space had they not used such massive tables - I suppose they wanted to go for the full oriental experience :P
It was early afternoon on a weekday so it wasn't completely full. MerlinFan and I grabbed a menu and found ourselves a table. There were pages of desserts ranging from puddings, herbal series, sago, taro balls, snow ice, shaved ice etc etc and even pearl drinks. After deciding what we wanted, I saved our table whilst MerlinFan went to order at the counter. She said the staff was friendly and efficient enough.
MerlinFan and I decided to order two to share. Our orders came fairly quickly.
The Mango Snow Ice with Crystal Jelly and Mango Juice with Popping Pearl was what we both came to try. The snow ice was finer and creamier than regular shaved ice, more like shaved frozen yoghurt or sorbet. I loved the chewy jelly for texture and pieces of mango. The popping pearls were like huge caviar pieces that exploded in your mouth. The portion was huge - honestly I don't think I my photos quite captured the true size of the dessert.
|Mango snow ice $9.90
|Original Tofu Pudding $5.00
The snow ice dessert was definitely the better of the two. At almost $10, it was a bit pricey (the same price as a whole meal), however the portions of our snow ice and the other shaved ice desserts brought to other tables were huge so you can be totally Asian and just get one to share between two.


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Rhona Zerivitz, the owner of Rainbow Travel Services Inc. in Orlando, is organizing her annual bus trip to fashionable Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. The all-day trip is scheduled for Dec. 7, and the $40 fare includes round-trip transportation to Palm Beach, a box lunch and a fashion show at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Zerivitz, who has taken a busload of shoppers south for the past eight years, said about half of the 47-passenger bus has been filled, and she is taking orders on a first-come, first-served basis.


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LOS ANGELES — The mother of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez and her then-boyfriend will plead guilty to murder and torture charges in the boy's death, sparing them the death penalty.
KNBC-TV reports that Pearl Fernandez and then-boyfriend Isauro Aguirre will receive life in prison without parole in exchange for their guilty pleas to first degree murder and torture with special circumstances.
Both waived their right to appeal and will spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
Court documents made public in August revealed that Gabriel was doused with pepper spray, forced to eat his own vomit and locked in a cabinet with a sock stuffed in his mouth to muffle his screams.
Testimony also indicated that Gabriel was beat with bats, a club which knocked out his teeth, was shot with a BB gun, and was whipped with the metal part of a belt over eight months.
His siblings said Gabriel was often called gay, punished because he played with dolls and was forced to wear girls' clothes to school.
The Palmdale, Calif., boy died in May 2013, days after he was hospitalized with injuries including a cracked skull, broken ribs and burns.
Documents revealed that Gabriel remained with his mother and Aguirre despite several investigations by social workers. The incident prompted calls for sweeping reforms to the troubledLos Angeles County foster-care system because child welfare workers failed to remove the boy.
"For eight straight months, he was abused, beaten and tortured more severely than many prisoners of war," said Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami.
Four social workers would be discharged in connection with the Fernandez case and a blue-ribbon panel released a scathing report, recommending changes to the way the county handles abused children.
Gabriel's maternal grandfather has filed a civil wrongful death lawsuit against the county and the Department of Children and Family Services.
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If you are anything like me, you probably don´t have much experience with getting searched by police or other authorities.
The closest I ever got to a detention cell was when I slept in one, back in the days of hitchhiking in Cambodia in 2013, but that was because they invited us to hang our hammock in there, even providing us with an anti-mosquito spiral.
Apart from regular airport controls, I never got into a situation where an officer would really search through my stuff and ask me unpleasant questions. Until one dark cold night, as all the real scary stories start.
This is a tale of how we got thoroughly searched at a Greek border checkpoint.
It all starts with a Blablacar ride
We were hitchhiking in Greece in those weeks and it was not the easiest country to do so; after a month and a half of rather expensive travel in southern Europe, we were trying to get to Turkey as fast as it got. All we could think of was kebab and cheap veggies in some of those wonderful eateries you find in every town, but hey, hitchhiking in Greece proved to be a little tricky.
When we saw a Blablacar offer from Thessaloniki basically to the Greek border for 8 euros, we didn´t hesitate for a minute. Next morning, the deal was sealed and off we went in a car with two polite, well dressed and smart looking Turkish gentlemen.
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Their rented car was to be returned in Alexandroupoli, but since they were headed in the same direction as the two of us, we quickly agreed to share a taxi to the border with them in case we couldn´t manage to get a ride by the nighttime.
Which we, obviously, didn´t.
We probably should have slept at the small airport where they left us that afternoon. But no.
And so they picked us up at night, loaded our backpacks in the stuffed taxi driven by an obnoxious woman and that was it, we were headed to the border.
Somehow we failed to realize that a rude taxi driver, two Turkish men, one Colombian man and a Slovak woman who met each other right that day, in a cab crossing the border at midnight, was a good way to get into some trouble.
Interrogation at the Greek border
We worried a little bit when crossing from Albania to Greece earlier that month (as we heard it can be a tough one if you have a shitty passport), but we walked in faster than you can say tzatziki back then so we weren´t worried at all about leaving the country.
The officer looked me in the eye, then scoured further into the car, searching for more faces in the dark, looked at the passport again and…the questions started.
When did you meet? How did you meet? Why are you traveling together? played on repeat for a while and then we were not so kindly invited to step out of the car, take out our belongings and proceed to the small room for a further investigation.
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You can imagine that at that point, as a regular female paper-white Schengen passport holder, I was already a bit freaked out.
The following hour though (seriously, why do these officers ask the same thing four times in a row? Ah, I know, they hope I will say The Truth by mistake.) – now that made me shake like one of those tiny expensive dogs on a stroll in a commercial center.
Questions, scrutiny…
First of all, the Greek officers put on white latex gloves with a flapping sound while I pray to the goddess Fortuna so that it´s just a formality and not and actual cavity search.
Go figure. (Phew, no cavity search today!)
Next they take my husband with our backpacks to the small room and shut the door. He has to unpack everything and the men carefully go through every little bag, every single item being exposed and discussed, including my tampons, my mooncup, my pantyliners, dirty socks, (awful, after so much camping and hiking!) underwear plus several boxes of seeds, strings, metal wire and other assumingly suspicious hand crafts utensils.
While my generally badass Colombian husband is chatting up the bored officers with our hitchhike stories, I am turning red as a Valentine´s day heart-shaped balloon, imagining some unknown hands picking through the stuff I intend to insert into my hoo-haw later that month. (Yes, I consulted the Urban Dictionary for that synonym!)
Besides, I urgently need to pee. While a dude sitting at a wide table is asking me where I met those Turkish guys for the sixth time (can you believe they never heard of Blablacar, let alone Couchsurfing?), I am carefully sipping hot tea from a paper cup (they are nice like that), sweating and trying to keep my bladder a bit more tight than my composition.
…and more questions
Imagine the scene: I am sinking into a leather couch, explaining how such bums as we two travel around Greece (remember, my husband taught me, the best thing you can tell them is the truth and with a lot of details), trying not to pee my pants, while from the next room, I hear the officers laughing. Obviously, nobody can resist the Colombian charm.
Heeheehee, they go, Pablo Escobar bla bla bla…Narcos tatata and so on. Good. Even the border police watch TV series and think good old Pablo was some kind of a misunderstood Robin Hood with a funky moustache.
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Nobody asks me anything anymore (they probably pity me, which is for the better) and so I wait, feeling sorry for the Turkish guys whose passports have been equally collected and not sorry at all for the Greek taxi driver who was plain annoying all along. They must be cursing the moment they decided to take a Colombian across a border, I think.
Finally, the door opens, F. and the officers finishing their session on a high note, talking about drug laws in Latin America. They exchange a few words in Greek and call me in: it´s my turn. They ask me to pack our backpacks (a few feathers from the sleeping bag still floating around) and I fight the zippers with nervous hands while they go through my purse.
Looking impossibly nervous, I must seem like I have a kilo of cocaine stashed in my bra or something. (Fortunately not.) My stomach turns around in horror when the officer grabs a plastic bag and asks – and what is this?
"That, sir, are just…fried…cannabis seeds."
Why the hell do you have weed seeds on you?!
You see, not that I carry a pack of fried cannabis seeds at every moment (I´m not simple like that), but
these have somehow escaped my attention for too long. I got them with a cream at a summer hippie market (oil from cannabis seeds is actually my favorite eczema treatment) from some farmers and, needless to say, they were technical cannabis seeds. Ain´t nobody that stupid to fry smoking stuff, mind you.
I ate most of them, but never finished and when I boarded the plane to Sicily in September 2016, the seeds were still in my handbag. (Fortunately enough, the search never caught me with them…until now.)
Fuck my life, I think, I´m in trouble.
As you know, seeds fried with salt and pepper are not ever going to germinate, but when the border police saw the package, he must have been thinking I am nuts. Who else carries a pack like that in their purse? Yeah, I thought so. Only me.
Lucky me.
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You still have that shit? F. hisses at me and gleefully offers the officer a handfull of salty seeds to try himself which the guy demonstratively refuses.
At that moment, I want to stuff my burning face into the backpack I just managed to close without ripping off the zip.
The officer shakes his head in disbelief – I guess they don´t get these amounts of dumbness crossing too often – and waves us to the table.
They make us sign an agreement with the interrogation and luggage check and lead us back to the car where they hand us back our passports. (At that point, I feel like my bladder will soon explode or else I will perish, a victim of the same fate as Tycho de Brahé.) The Turkish people look at us with well concealed hate, we load our stuff back in the trunk and off we go.
Until the next imaginary line on the map.
Was it all because F. is Colombian? Or because we didn´t hand in his residency card along with the passport? Or because they didn´t stamp his passport back when we entered in the first place? Most probably the combination of all three.
Trouble at the Turkish border
The driver keeps complaining loudly about how nervous she felt and how she doesn´t want to have problems (keep telling me) when we arrive at the next stop.
The Turkish border officers, although they are probably suffering of the same boredom as their Greek counterparts, look somewhat more serious.
They look at us and glance at our papers, while the driver loudly and annoyingly tells everyone and no one in particular about our misfortunate one hour long break at the Greek checkpoint, stressing that she has no connection to us whatsoever. Turks unwillingly open our bags too, quickly examine the insides by touch and proceed to check the car papers.
So it happens that the cab doesn´t have the permission to travel abroad.
The one who is not allowed in Turkey is the woman and her yellow car.
After some more drama, she drives back and we continue, finally tucking our passports back in the safety. I pee behind some bushes and happy ending follows.
Only that, I forgot to check if they´ve put a stamp in my passport in all that confusion.
And they didn´t.
But that´s a whole different story.
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