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For most babies, burping midway through the feeding and afterward will release any air bubbles that can trigger gas. Try burping your baby during his natural pauses in feeding, such as when he slows down after finishing the first breast. While a few babies need to be burped more frequently, many parents make the mistake of disrupting feedings with unnecessary attempts at burping. This prolongs the feeding time, frustrating a hungry baby, which can increase air swallowing. Trapped air can cause immediate discomfort, make a baby feel full before he.
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HPHS on Lockdown After Shells Found
This email came from the district minutes ago:
Highland Park High School is in lockdown after a box of .22-caliber shells were found in a boys bathroom. Police are investigating. Students are not being released at this time.
More details as we get them.
Update at 12:45: Our own Chris McGathey is on the scene, and he said students have been sent home.
By Dan Koller Feb. 27, 2013 | 11:08 am | 11 Comments | Comments RSS
11 comments to "HPHS on Lockdown After Shells Found"
I believe that police are doing all they can, but in lieu of having an office stationed in each bathroom, what else can you do? Camera’s are already located outside the bathrooms, and you are just infringing on others privacy with any further actions you take. How the action of one or several effects many.
While the school seems to be handling this the best they can, there wasn’t an active, uniform policy re: cell phones in yesterday’s lockdown. My child was able to text me, but I know a few parents whose children were prohibited from using their phones for the entire lockdown. In this day and age, kids need to be allowed to text parents during such events. Especially when the lockdown is roughly 2 hours long.
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In Part I of my Sundance article series I wrote about the ASCAP Music Cafe and all the wonderful performances I got to see. Now I want to talk about the films – the heart of the Sundance Film Festival. This is my first official winter living in Park City and my first official Sundance experience. Luckily, my co-worker and friend, Jaci, is an established local and she knew how to go about getting tickets. I have to give her a special shout out for waiting 2+ hours in line to get our tickets, as well as waiting even longer to get Best of Fest tickets. Also, as an official Sundance Provider, Park City Lodging, Inc. is given a handful of movie tickets, which are then passed out to employees on a first come, first serve basis. Needless to say, I think I was pretty spoiled this Sundance…
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Thursday, Jan. 19 – In fact, I was the first responder, and therefore, secured two tickets to the opening night movie premier of Hello I Must Be Going at the Eccles Theatre, as well as two tickets to the opening night party at the Legacy Lodge at the base of Park City Mountain Resort.
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Hello I Must Be Going, directed by Todd Louiso, stars Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner, Christopher Abbott, John Rubinstein, Dan Futterman and Julie White. This film was submitted in the Dramatic Competition and I thought it was going to be a little boring; but I have to admit, the film is quite funny, quirky and kept me interested. Without spilling the beans, the story revolves around a woman (Melanie Lynskey), in her mid-thirties, divorced and has to move back home with her parents. She starts a secret love affair with a younger (much younger) boy and the story unfolds from there. The best part of the films at Sundance?… the Q&A session with the actors and director after the film is over. Once this concluded, we hoped on the bus and headed to Legacy Lodge, which is at the base of Park City Mountain Resort, for the opening night party presented by Stella Artois. The line was crazy long, so we pulled a MacGyver and sneaked in the back door. Free Grey Goose Vodka and all you can drink Stella showering from the bar and into the hands of the attendees, as well as mini apps were served. Photographers were everywhere, but unfortunately I had no celeb sightings. I did get to meet some producers and fellow Sundancers. That’s the coolest thing about the Sundance Film Festival… no matter where you are, you’re bound to meet someone and spark a cool conversation with them. These are the things you don’t forget…
Ai Weiwei's famous hand gesture
Tuesday, Jan. 24 – Film: Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry. I have to (sadly) admit, I’m 26 years old and this was the first movie I’d ever seen by myself. The experience itself was quite awesome and one that I will repeat… and I couldn’t have asked for a more moving and inspiring film. If you don’t know who Ai Weiwei is, get your head out of the clouds and get your Google on. This documentary film – directed, produced and co-edited by Alison Klayman – follows the life of Ai Weiwei, “China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic” (). It’s a film that makes you look at life from a different perspective and realize that while majority of people are living in their social “bubbles,” there are other people in the world who are taking action to make a difference – to stand up for the rights for mankind… for you. This film won the US Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance. I highly encourage you to learn about this man, to read about his impact, view his artwork, to see this film and to keep yourself informed on what’s going on in the world. Unfortunately, Ai Weiwei was not able to attend the film himself due to a prior arrest by the Chinese police and government, but the film spoke for itself. I immediately joined his Facebook page and signed up to receive emails and notifications. I hope this film moves you… in a positive direction.
Thursday, Jan. 26 – Film: Big Boys Gone Bananas, a film by Fredrick Gertten, is another documentary that makes you think… think about the practices of big corporations, how they treat their employees – and the products they produce and sell – and then you consume. Big Boys Gone Bananas follows the Swedish Filmmakers Fredrick Gertten and Margarete Jangård as they are sued by the Dole Food Company for their first documentary Bananas, which was selected to premier at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. After we saw this film we immediately went home, turned on Netflix and watched the prequel, Bananas. I recommend seeing both films and doing your research about the corporations you support. Needless to say, I don’t buy Dole products anymore… but you should see the film(s) and make your own judgment… just sayin’.
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Friday, Jan 27 – Film: We’re Not Broke, directed and produced by Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce, Executive Producer, Charles Davidson. This is a documentary that tells the story of “U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars in income tax, and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets…and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.” () This is another film that looks at the practices of big corporations in America, and I was highly disturbed and angry after seeing this film. I don’t want to sound like a cynic, but these films truly make you think about what’s going on the world and sometimes what you find out isn’t always so pleasant. We are living in a time and age where people are going back to the streets, signs in hand and protesting government for change. This is one of those films that makes you want to grab a sign and join the crowd…
Sundance Film Festival – Best of Fest
Monday, Jan. 30 – The Best of Fest Films are selected by the audience; hence, the audience awards. At each film you see, you are given a ballot and are asked to rate the film from one to four stars. After the Festival ends, the Sundance Institute presents complimentary screenings of award-winning films to locals in Salt Lake, Park City, Sundance Resort and Ogden. The screenings are free and we must pick up our tickets on a first-come, first-served basis. You don’t know which film you’re seeing until the winners are announced and the schedule is posted. Based off the tickets we received, we were selected to see The Invisible War, which won the Audience Award: Documentary, and Searching for Sugar Man, which won the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary. To view a complete list of films that won awards, click here.
When we found out we were getting the opportunity to see Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul, we couldn’t have been more thrilled. There was a lot of hype about this movie, and we actually got to see the main character, Rodriguez, perform live at the ASCAP Music Cafe before seeing the film, which was kind of like witnessing a little piece of history. The film was everything I thought it would be and more. Uplifting, great music and overall, a mind-blowing story. Rodriguez is a rock musician who had his chance for stardom back in the 70s, but for some odd reason his music did not sell in the U.S. He stops making records and works in labor and construction for the next 30 years while living in Detroit. In the meantime, he becomes insanely popular in South Africa – I’m talking bigger than Elvis. A few people start to get curious on who this Rodriguez guy is, yet there is no information on the man. And there’s even rumors that he killed himself or died. To make a long story short, the men go on a journey to find out more about the “Sugar Man,” and where it leads them is an amazing and crazy surprise! Imagine living this ordinary life, working hard to make ends meat in Detroit, a simple and humble life; meanwhile, you’re more famous than Elvis in another part of the world. GREAT. FILM. And GREAT MUSIC. Google, download, listen and enjoy. Click here to visit the official website.
The Invisible War was a different experience than that of Searching for Sugar Man. This film, directed by Kirby Dick, exposes the ugly truth that takes place in the U.S. Military – rape and sexual assault against not only women, but men as well. It was hard to watch this film at times because it’s hard to believe the rate of occurrence, the number of incidents that are ignored and many that aren’t reported because the women are threatened with loss of rank or even death. The film follows the lives of several women who formerly served in the Military as they share their stories and struggles. I had to hold back tears. It’s truly sad to see what these women (and men) are going through, as well as what our government is doing about it – or should I say, not doing about it. I encourage you to please learn more, visit the website (click here) and sign the petition to help stop this madness that has been going on for far too long in our very own Military… it’s sad, pathetic and heartbreaking. But it’s the truth. And it’s happening. Now. And you can take small actions to make a big difference.
This concluded my first official Sundance Film experience. As you read, I saw mostly documentaries. Some people don’t like to watch documentaries because they are “depressing” or “sad.” For me, documentaries are the truth, change, good and evil, pain and perseverance. Some films are sad, but what’s cool about documentaries is that you most likely have the opportunity to do something about it – to help push for change – for more good. We can always do better. Do more. And I can’t thank the Sundance Institute enough for giving filmmakers and artists the opportunity and platform to showcase their work to the world. It was truly an unforgettable week in Park City, Utah.
February 29th, 2012 at 5:31 am
It was a fabulous event like always.
The films were fantastic and the snow was starting to build up. Now I know that Park City has the luxurious resorts (see: ) yet it is a place for people from all walks of life.
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As Neo Classical’s second author, Ms. Mulcahy took over the column in June, 2007. After playing several years as a full-time violinist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Mulcahy has enjoyed a productive career as a freelance violinist in Chicago, where she performs regularly with Music of the Baroque, the Chicago Opera Theater, and the Milwaukee Symphony. Prior to her job in Richmond, Ms. Mulcahy has served as a principal violin in several Regional Orchestras and as a substitute violinist with the Baltimore Symphony and the Washington Opera Orchestra. Additionally, Ms. Mulcahy has performed in the Grand Teton Music Festival since 2003.
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We owe our existence to the wild.
The wild permeates and sustains us; it is our home, though our increasingly unnatural lives, lives distracted by artifice, obscure that brute truth. The boundaries between our wild bodies and the wild cosmos are in fact imagined, and we feel the actual oneness – wander it, play with it, play in it, play through it – in the sports we love.
To drop into a crushing wave or paddle a frothing rapid, to sail into icy seas, to set forth on a sliver of ice with little or no protection – in all endeavors where there is no turning back, we expose ourselves to the spontaneity of creation and to forces more powerful than we are. The clutter, distraction, bureaucratic rules, control, management and conformity of our daily life shrink to irrelevancy. We discover what is beyond artifice – a direct confrontation with the natural world, the final exam, the blunt presentation of the self.
Evolution is an autonomous process and we are a product of it just as the butterfly and the shark are. Ecologists speak of autonomous ecosystems, though they admit they don’t have the slightest idea how to create one. Compound self-words are commonplace in science – self-replicating (DNA), self-regulation (Gaia), self-organization (the synchronized flight of birds) and self-similarity (snowflakes, river systems, mountain ranges). Ultimately, the cosmos is making itself; we’re but a minuscule part of the drama.
Autonomous systems pervade our bodies. Our autoimmune system decides what belongs here and what does not. The autonomic nervous system is not subject to our control, yet our heart beats, our lungs breathe, our synapses fire. There are ten times more microbial organisms in and on my body than human cells, and they are integrated, nested, active, self-organized ecosystems within the larger ecosystem community that is me. The late, great microbiologist Lynn Margulis recently described humans as “walking, talking microbial vats.”
We are also autonomous beings who cherish freedom, the opportunity to organize our lives as we see fit – to choose. And choice is key. Everything may be connected to everything else, but each being is unique, each event, each experience – you’ve never had it before and you’ll never have it again. But the self still must choose a path.
The wave you’re surfing? Each liter of seawater contains 10 billion viral particles, mostly bacteriophages. They kill 100 million metric tons of microbes every minute; their DNA is the most abundant on planet Earth. And your longboard is ripping right through it all. When you wipeout, you fall into them and they embrace you.
Still sucking air after the last pitch? That air contains viruses, bacteria, seeds, spores, pollen, algae, bits of spiders, aphids, beetles and mites – in addition to the innumerable particles courtesy of our civilization. The bacteria in your lungs – 2,000 of them per square centimeter – are sorting and absorbing the mess, and signaling to autophages in your cells to eat the bad guys raw.
The hand gripping your ice tool? Each carbon atom in your flesh, each calcium atom in your bones, each iron atom in your blood, each sodium and potassium atom in your neurons, the aluminum in the tool’s shaft, the steel in the tip – more carbon and iron – all were forged in the nuclear furnace of dying stars, some now billions of light-years away – and speeding farther away each moment. And yet you are still connected to them.
But still – wild, wandering play must be chosen. So act accordingly. Make the drop, leave the eddy, lunge into an irreversible move. Subvert, once again, for pure fun, the mind’s survival habits and society’s machinations.
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M. Teresa had the determination of a terrier, and chps 4-6 illustrate this over and over in the book Come Be My Light.
Here’s the big picture. M. Teresa, to fulfill the mystical vision she got from Jesus about forming the Missionaries of Charity for the poorest of poor in Calcutta, had to get permissions at various levels:
Her vow as a Loreto sister had to be annulled since it was conventual.
Her spiritual director had to give her permission.
The Archbishop of India had to give her permission.
The Pope, or Rome, had to give her permission.
When she first told her director, Fr. Van Exem, he told her to keep the idea to herself for months. Then she was given permission to work with the Archbishop, a certain Perier. The latter simply wanted time to gain clarity of her motive and the will of God. He deliberated for a long, long time — about a year. Then Rome was slow and then she was saddled with some criticisms and some envy and some politics and it took a long, long time for her to have a vision and to establish a ministry.
The determination of M. Teresa is a powerful testimony of her will, her confidence in the vision, and her commitment not to let go until God had gained the upper hand. Her determination reflects her faith.
“Day after day,” she writes to the Archbishop, “hour after hour, He asks the same question: “Wilt thou refuse to do this for Me?” I tell Him that the answer is with you” (66).
The Archbishop both knew the power was in his hands and he knew as well that he had to discern God’s will for the missionary work in Calcutta. The time of testing drew out of M. Teresa clarity as to what the Missionaries of Charity would do: essentially they would sell out for God, their fires would burn for the missionary work to the poor, they would totally depend on God and identify with the poor.
Involved in this time of testing were some potent experiences of union with Christ. I think these times of union also influenced her perception of darkness: “There [where she was then residing] as if Our Lord just gave Himself to me — to the full. The sweetness & consolation & union of those 6 months passed but too soon” (83).
She speaks of a three-fold vision of being summoned by Jesus and the crowd of the poor to “Come,” of Mary’s words for her to “Bring them to Jesus — carry Jesus to them,” and a vision of darkness enveloping the crowd and words from Jesus and Mary to go to the crowd. “Will you refuse to do this for me?”
Once she gained approval, however, there were still challenges and tests. She got final permission from Rome on August 8, 1948. 9 days later, August 17, 1948, “clad in a white sari with a blue border, Mother Teresa … set out to begin a life as a Missionary of “Charity” (121). She chose to leave with just five rupees
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Halifax is a pretty and colorful city that I got to explore briefly over two days. Thanks to a half-day Your Cab minibus tour guided by Jonathan Duru, a first generation African-Canadian from Ghana, I got an in-depth insight into the communities from the past to the present.
In the shadow of the MacKay suspension bridge, we trod through Seaview Memorial Park off Barrington Road, where a memorial cairn stands in remembrance of the displaced settlers of Africville. What was in 1840 a community teeming with farmers, skilled laborers, and families on the coveted harbor lands, was turned into a rail yard and city garbage dump until residents were forcibly relocated in the 1960s. If your ancestors started out here, your relatives would have ended up in the tenements of northern Halifax.
The faces of former Africville residents can be glimpsed in a dedicated section of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia (BCC) in its sister city of Dartmouth. The BCC is purposely located at the corner of Cherry Brook Road, gateway to the 80-percent Afro-Canadian Cherry Brook community (Black communities are almost unheard of elsewhere in Canada). Names you’ll find in this community are Clayton, Gough, Sparks, Johnson and Bundy.
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If your family search reveals that you have distant relatives on the peninsula’s northern tip in Pictou County, 2010 is the year to come meet them. The New Glasgow Homecoming Committee holds a weeklong family and town reunion every five years in the community-built Africentric Heritage Park where a pyramid structure composed of stones gathered from Africa, Europe, the U.S. and Canada, represents the different paths the people took to get here.
Cape Breton
People with Barbadian origins will come closer to their roots by heading towards the eastern-most end of the province, Cape Breton. The Cape Breton Miners Museum commemorates the West Indians who came to Glace Bay to work in the coal mines and steel mills.
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The New England ports of Boston, Maine, and Halifax, Nova Scotia are popular with cruisers who love the convenience of driving to New York City. Here is a Canadian reenactor.
Over the past decade, cruise ship companies like Carnival Cruise Lines have expanded the number of U.S. ports in which they dock and convenient places to board now include New York City, Baltimore, Norfolk, Va., New Orleans, Galveston, Texas and Mobile, Alabama.
These locations allow travelers the opportunity to simply drive to the nearest port, park their cars in designated lots and step aboard the cruise ship, eliminating the additional expense of airfare.
In 2011, the Carnival Glory featured New England/Canadian cruises that are popular with travelers on both sides of the border.
Hector and Karyn Leyva of Fresno, California celebrated their 30th cruise in October aboard the Carnival Glory out of New York. Though the couple has been cruising for years, this particular itinerary from New York, to Boston, Portland, Maine, St. John and Halifax, Nova Scotia provided a perfect chance to see the eastern part of the country and the glorious fall colors.
On this trip aboard The Glory that I took with my husband Weller, the ship was filled with mature cruisers, both in age and number of times cruising, and few children because it was the fall.
Passengers like the Leyvas had chosen the cruise because of the itinerary, while others, like the members of a Canadian genealogy society, chose the Glory because they wanted to visit the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Passengers love the experience of sailing out of New York City past the Statue of Liberty.
The Carnival Glory, which received a multi-million dollar renovation in 2010, can accommodate 2,974-passengers spread over 13 decks. More balconies were installed during the refurbish, and a two-level, Serenity adults-only retreat was added with rattan-inspired lounges and even hammocks.
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----- Original Message ---------- Original Message ----- From: Kay LeeSent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: VALDES TRIAL - DAY ONE FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH
THE BEGINNING
Three in the morning came way too early. After staying up half the night making signs like our big sparkly "Making the Walls Transparent", we were all gulping down coffee between yawns and loading the car. But - when you are on a mission, all things are possible and with renewed energy, we hit the road as planned at 4am.
We drove the three hours from Titusville to Starke under cover of darkness. The three of us, Joann, Kelsie and I, spent the hours making up chants for the Bradford County Courthouse: "DOC, we're looking at you...How many others have you done this to?" and the chants for Florida State Prison, where we planned to vigil afterwards: "Warden, warden, hear our plea...No more guard brutality!"
Lindy had driven from St. Pete and for awhile we thought we had lost her when communication was cut off by our dying cell phone. None of us had exact directions but, just as the sky was beginning to turn from black to blue, we pulled up at the Denny's' Restaurant two blocks from the courthouse and, like serendipity at its finest, there sat Lindy waiting for us. Our team was complete.
We thought we had penetrated enemy lines for sure. Heck, Starke is not just another little prison town. It's THE prison town that put up a big sign at the local church right after the guards killed inmate Frank Valdes: "Correctional Officers, Look up! God Loves You!". (I always figured they forgot that God Loves the prisoners too.)
So, we figured we were in for hard stares, kids giving us the bird, and adults throwing eggs (Hey, I have already been through all that before in this town.) All four of us were wearing our MTWT t-shirts (Thank you, Bea) that say on the front, "THE LAW SHOULD APPLY TO PRISON GUARDS TOO!" and on the back, "Florida Department of Corrections" with a line drawn through "corrections" and "CORRUPTIONS" written in bold red.
We were pretty surprised when the people who stopped us to ask about the shirts were really polite and interested: The desk clerk next door said, "Oh, does the trial begin now? God, I'm glad I'm not on that jury!" A family visiting their prisoner in Union CI donated three dollars and we gave them a shirt. One man said he was sent from the Washington DC department of corrections to help out at Union (What's that about?) and his response to our t-shirts was, "There's corruption in the prisons in DC too!"
At 8:00am, we drove over to the courthouse, unloaded our signs and went to work.
We walked past the piles of construction out front and stood by the street where lots of people could see us. We held up signs with messages like, "HONK! D.O.C. Corrupt!" and "Call the Feds!" We were really surprised how many car horns we did hear, although I mentioned to the others not to get too excited; that some of the honkers could be uneducated people who thought "D.O.C." meant doctors (and that's a-whole-nother issue).
Well, we weren't there very long before a young cop stopped to question us. I always appreciate the presence of the cop cars, because people who don't pay attention when you're out there alone, always rubberneck when that flashing light is spinning.
The cop wants to know what we think we're doing. I say in essence, "Valdes trial, free speech, public property." He says in essence, "Speech is free. Don't want you to get hurt. Have a good day."
The only other notable incident involving a cop, was when an officer pulled his cruiser into the driveway and asked Kelsie what we were doing. She replied, "Protesting corruption in the prison system." He took the flyer, smiled and remarked as he drove off, "I can buy that."
Lindy shakes hands with Judge Turner.
Meanwhile, Lindy goes back to her car to get another sign. A man in a suit sees her pulling "Pray for Prisoners" out of her car and he says, "Pray for me too. I'm the judge in this case."
We did have one very aggressive negative reaction from a couple in a pickup that matches the description of many guard vehicles; you know, big truck, darkly tinted windows. The couple stop on the road, the man driving asks for a flyer, only to throw it rudely back at us. He drove off squealing tires and screaming, "I'm a guard and my name is (unintelligible). Come and get me!"
Another pickup truck drove by us a little later. The driver read the signs, grinned and held his D.O.C. badge up to the window. I swear, the DOC presence was everywhere!
Anyway, about 11:00, as we were packing up our signs, a very nice fellow stopped his sedan beside us in the parking lot and called us over to the open window. He said when he saw us, he just had to talk to us. He then told us a long, detailed, very sad story about his cousin, the D.O.C. employee Frank Valdes was sent to prison for killing. He felt the inmate kind of 'got what he deserved'.
I explained that we cannot allow ourselves to react on the same level as the people we put behind bars or we are no better than criminals ourselves. We did finally agree that there are some bad apples wearing uniforms, and we did agree that there are prisoners who should not be in prison. We shook hands and parted with a little more understanding of each other's views.
Our little crew then drove over to the complex of prisons in Starke/Raiford, Union CI, FSP, and New River CI (where Gary Waid first reported the ongoing beatings in a series of letters to Florida media). Florida State Prison, where the Valdes murder actually happened, continues the severe abuse of prisoners to this day and I like to remind them that we are watching.
We park in the grass beside the entrance road to New River CI and I'm giving the others quick instructions, because I've vigiled there at FSP a lot of times over the past couple of years and I know that the tower calls the warden when they see us drive up and I'm sure prison employees will descend on us within minutes. And, as usual, they showed up very quickly.
We were told we couldn't picket there. I told them that I had established that right years ago. They finally agreed to our right to free speech on public property (the right-of-way by the side of the road.)
We were told to move our cars, but they didn't know where we should move them to. So, they finally said we could leave our cars where they were.
Major Jarvis from New River CI came down to introduce himself. "WHY do you want to do this NOW and HERE?" I explained that we were doing it NOW because the Valdes trial started today and HERE because this is where the murder took place. He responded, "The only people who will see you today are prison employees." I told him that was fine. I explained that, although there is a core of unprofessionals we want to get rid of, all in all we believe most DOC employees are fine people doing their best with a difficult situation." He agreed. We talked a little about both of us wanting professionalism from employees of the DOC. He wished me the best, and then he moved over with the other employees, who sat in their vehicles on the grass and talked while we did our job.
The others ladies with me moved across the entrance road to show the signs to waving prisoners on the Union yard. I stood by the road in front of New River, watching the faces of the people passing by. Major Jarvis was right. The observers were mostly prison employees. Although many looked unpleasant, no one bothered us with the small crowd of DOC employees sitting right beside us like our own personal vigil security.
All in all they were not an unpleasant bunch, and since we could see we were holding them from their regular work, we politely kept is short and after maybe 30 minutes, we packed it up and headed home.
It was good knowing that so many supporters on the internet were aware of each stage of our protest, thanks to Joyce's email updates. Thank you also to everyone who made the trip possible. Your concern made us fearless.
It was a productive day.
I sure do Love my FREEDOM OF SPEECH and urge everyone to use all their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms often. If we don't, it is certain we will lose them.
Kay Lee
1290 Overlook Terrace
Titusville, Florida 32796
321-383-3000
Making The Walls Transparent (MTWT)
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*A Times Editorial
A case for cleaning up our prisons© St. Petersburg Times,
published October 11, 2001
The beating death of Frank Valdes, a death-row inmate at Florida State Prison, allegedly at the hands of the men who were there to guard him, raises deeply troubling questions about the state's continued tolerance of brutality at its prisons.
Why is it that we can't seem to keep sadists and brutes out of state uniforms? And why is the grievance procedure at state correctional facilities, the one internal mechanism an inmate has to alert prison management to problems of excessive force, so unresponsive to legitimate complaints?
As Times staff writer Adam Smith vividly described in a recent story detailing the state's case against eight corrections officers indicted in Valdes' death, Valdes died a much more painful death than he would have faced from lethal injection -- his sentence for the murder of a corrections officer.
On Friday, the trial begins for five of those guards who allegedly broke Valdes' body and punched and kicked his face so brutally that he was barely recognizable. According to fellow prisoners on X-wing, Valdes was left in his cell for hours after the final assault, groaning in pain and gasping for breath. Medical personnel were not summoned until Valdes was dead.
It's hard to explain away a corpse, but the corrections officers tried, claiming, as a group, that Valdes' injuries were self-inflicted -- that he launched himself from his bunk, head-first. The story unraveled, however, when the medical examiner found Valdes had suffered 22 broken ribs and a smashed face and had a boot print on his torso, not the kinds of injuries that are self-inflicted.
Whether these men are ultimately convicted is less important than how the prison system deals with its serious staffing and systems problems.
The grievance procedure at Florida State Prison is apparently a bad joke. Prison officials had been warned just days before Valdes' murder that rampant abuse was occuring in X-wing -- the prison's building for incorrigible inmates. An inmate wrote in an emergency grievance that prisoner beatings were occuring regularly and pleaded for an investigation "before we are killed." In a response that shows how the officiousness of bureaucrats contributes to an environment that tolerates prison brutality, the inmate's emergency grievance was rejected because his request was found not to be of an emergency nature and was therefore improperly filed.
The prison's personnel problems are sadly obvious and should have been so to prison administrators for a long time. Instead, prison officials gave supervisory and training authority to men like Sgt. Montrez Lucas, who apparently thought beating inmates and getting away with it was some kind of sick game. He taught new recruits ways to avoid excessive force charges: When kicking an inmate, be careful not to leave a boot mark, he warned his class. Lie on your reports; just make sure everyone has the same story, he told another. By the way, the medical staff will sometimes help with the coverup, he confided.
Lucas proudly showed one class a stack of excessive-force allegations he had beaten over the years. Yet this man was moved along in his career and promoted by James Crosby, warden of Florida State Prison at the time of Valdes' death.
Crosby, too, has been promoted since Valdes' death; he's now a regional prison director.
What is Florida's Secretary of Corrections Michael Moore thinking? Crosby is at the helm of a prison so full of brutal guards and inept or indifferent grievance administrators that a man died under his watch. And what is the system's response? Promotion.
Frank Valdes and the men who occupied X-wing are unsympathetic characters. Their crimes put them behind bars and their attitude got them a pass to X-wing. But that doesn't make them fair game for sadists in uniform. This is Moore's problem, but he seems to be too busy looking for another job to pay attention to the system he is charged with administering.
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I just added this picture of him in the sewing room, this is where he love to be and when he was a young pup he would sit in the chair behind me as I sewed. (I think if you click on the photo it will enlarge)
This morning he woke up at 2 AM not doing well at all and at 5:30 this morning he passed away.
Life certainly won't be the same around here, he loved to be with me in the sewing room.
Rest In Peace my Sweet Boy Rudy
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Hi Dorothy so sorry to hear about Rudy's passing. The only thing I don't like about having our wonderful pets! Thinking of our. Susie x
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A native of Princeton, DeMars attended St. Cloud State University and Luther Seminary, St. Paul. DeMars and his family moved to Paynesville from Milaca where they had lived 10 years.
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Earlene Beth Wisdom, 63, of Young, died Oct. 21, 2005. She was born Dec. 24, 1941 in Globe.
Mrs. Wisdom is survived by her children, Tracie and Lee Barnes, Eddie and Candy Wisdom, and Carolyn and Bill Saldeen; grandchildren, Donna and Aaron Kryszak and Kersha Saldeen; and great-grandchildren, Tiena Wisdom and Shilee Wisdom.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Earl and Nina Cline; and grandson, Daniel Lane.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26 at Young Cemetery in Young.
Arrangements handled by Messinger Payson Funeral Home.
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O’Brien said he supports the reform plan’s goals, the involvement of businesses and corporations in setting school standards and the use of test scores to track student progress.
However, he said the overwhelming emphasis on test scores in a few core academic subjects won’t make up for recent declines in teacher pay coupled with increases in class sizes and educational bureaucracy.
“I think we’re moving in the wrong direction,” said O’Brien, whose district last year closed an elementary school and raised average class sizes. Some grade levels went from an average of 22 students per classroom to more like 32 students per classroom, he said.
“I have some big concerns. A lot of research shows that we’re going counter to what has worked.”
Public opinion polls reflect the public’s qualms about K-12 education in Arizona. For instance, recently the Morrison Institute at Arizona State University released a survey showing that education ranks as the third highest priority among voters, behind immigration and job creation.
Only 6 percent of the public rates schools as “excellent” and another 39 percent as “good.” However, 30 percent rank schools as “poor” and 11 percent as “very poor.”
Two thirds of those surveyed said academic standards in schools aren’t high enough and a similar percentage said the schools should include more vocational education.
Some 70 percent of those surveyed rated pre-school and kindergarten programs as “very important,” although the Legislature cut funding for both this year.
O’Brien said, “I’m concerned that we’re cutting back on things that we know work — like all-day kindergarten and instead doing things we aren’t sure will work.”
The reform plan embraced by Gov. Brewer and state Superintendent of Education John Huppenthal attempts to address some of those concerns, with tough new standards and potentially serious consequences for schools whose students fail to hit the benchmarks in core subjects, mostly reading and mathematics.
The new state standards evaluate schools mostly based on student scores on the AIMS test, especially the progress made by the bottom 20 percent of students.
State education officials are still refining the rating system to include more weight for things like graduation rates, but schools essentially rise and fall based on student test scores in core academic areas.
Numerous national studies suggest that family poverty and education levels have a much greater impact on student test scores than does the curriculum, teacher training or even core variables like class sizes. The state’s child poverty rate has risen sharply as a result of the recession, especially in Payson where a daunting 70 percent of the children in the district now qualify for free and reduced lunches based on family income.
The new state standards have caused a decline in the rating of many schools.
That includes Rim Country Middle School, which went from “performing plus” to a grade of D, when the state changed the rating system. Once the new system fully takes effect, schools that get a “D” three years running would be considered “failing” and therefore subject to state takeover.
Gov. Brewer appointed former Intel Corp. Chairman Craig Barrett to head the new Arizona Ready Council, in addition to an array of business and educational leaders from across the state.
Barrett has said Arizona schools rank in the “bottom 10 percent” nationally, but rejected the idea that the state’s ranking had anything to do with being 47th nationally when it comes to per-student spending, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
He said schools should pay more for teachers with hard-to-find qualifications like math and science and emulate charter schools, which don’t have to abide by the rules concerning teacher training and credentials that affect public schools.
Some researchers say that on the whole, charter school students don’t do any better on standardized test scores than public school students, especially when school size is considered.
O’Brien said he supports the effort to get business leaders more involved in education reform, since they can help keep schools focused on the skills graduating students need to thrive in the job market.
He also supports the emphasis on ensuring students master basic skills in elementary school, based on research showing that most students who haven’t mastered core skills by third grade will struggle for the rest of their time in school and suffer a much higher dropout rate.
“It’s too soon to tell” whether some of the latest reforms will help, he said.
“But we’re also eliminating things we know work, like all-day kindergarten. And perhaps going from 20 to 25 kids in a class won’t make a huge difference, but going from 22 to 32 certainly will. It’s not just about money, it’s about how you use the money.”
He said the tendency to blame teachers often misses the point. “We need to raise the bar in terms of teacher preparation and standards and with that we need to raise the status of the profession and the compensation.”
He said international studies of countries with the highest rated schools like Finland and Singapore have generally concluded that those systems have high teacher standards and prestige, but relatively few other requirements and tests.
“Those systems rely very little on standardized testing, but have an extremely rigorous program for teachers. If they don’t measure up, they let them go — but they let the teachers perform. The idea that we’re just going to focus on punishing the weakest teachers isn’t going to make things better.”
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Chris Avakian leaves little doubt the current Payson High School boys soccer team is the finest in his five-year tenure as head coach of the Longhorns.
“It’s the strongest, no doubt about it,” he said.
The praise is especially meaningful since last year’s team advanced to the Division IV state tournament semifinals before being eliminated by a nationally top-ranked Blue Ridge team that, after edging PHS 3-1, went on to win its third consecutive state title and finish the season with a 50-plus-game winning streak.
Today’s Horns probably solidified their lofty standing with the coach on Saturday, Oct. 13, in Chino Valley with a 1-0 nail-biting win over the previously undefeated Cougars.
Noe Vega paved the way to the stunning upset, scoring the game’s only goal and thwarting a Chino Valley shot attempt when the Horns were playing without a goalie.
“He was very definitely the player of the game,” said Avakian.
The win was a pay back of sorts for the Horns’ 3-0 loss to Chino Valley in a season-opening game played Sept. 8 at Rumsey Park.
The difference in Payson’s two performances, Avakian said, was, “In the first game, we were without some players who were ineligible, which hurt us.
“In the second game, we ratcheted up the defense, which helped us win.”
With Saturday’s loss, CV falls to 8-1 in power point rankings. Payson’s victory improved the Horns’ record to 5-2-3.
As of press time, however, the Longhorns win in Chino Valley had not been posted in the power point rankings.
When it is, the Horns should move up from their current No. 5 ranking among the 23 teams in Division IV.
The win over the Cougars assures PHS a berth into the state tournament when it kicks off Oct. 26 at a site to be determined.
But before the Horns can begin looking forward to the postseason, the players must take care of business today, Oct. 16, in a regular season-ending clash in Snowflake.
A win over the homestanding Lobos would most likely earn Payson a higher and more advantageous seed into the state tournament. A loss, however, could mean a lower state seed.
Snowflake enters the game with a 6-2 mark and ranked sixth, just one notch below the Longhorns.
The match will be the first of the season for the two teams that have long been rivals in every prep sport.
Blue Ridge, a three-time defending state champion, remains atop the power point rankings with its 6-0-2 record.
The Yellow Jackets’ two ties have been against the Longhorns by scores of 3-3 and 0-0.
In addition to last week’s win over Chino Valley, the Horns tacked on an additional “W” by whipping Round Valley 3-0 Oct. 9 in Eagar.
In the win, Bubba Nielson scored one goal and Kaylan Hinton tallied two.
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN – South County Hospital was the only hospital in Rhode Island to earn a Gold recognition for the American Heart Association as a Fit-Friendly Worksite, the hospital announced Thursday.
Fit-Friendly Worksites are recognized by the Heart Association as employers who “go above and beyond” when it comes to employee health, according to a hospital release.
Criteria for Heart Association distinction include walking routes, walking programs and tracking tools, a smoke-free environment, and exercise and yoga classes.
“We work hard at South County Hospital to provide a work environment that promotes good heart health,” Sherri Zino, South County Hospital cardiopulmonary services manager, said in a statement. “It is especially important to not only encourage healthy living, but to set an example to the community.”
This is the second consecutive year that South County Hospital was recognized by the Heart Association.
Since its 2007 inception, more than 5.6 million employees at more than 2,500 worksites have participated in the American Heart Association’s Fit-Friendly program.
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Elliott Carr Cutler (July 30, 1888 - August 16, 1947), surgeon and medical educator, was born in Bangor, Maine, the son of George Chalmers Cutler, a lumber merchant, and Mary Franklin Wilson. Cutler attended both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, receiving his medical degree in 1913. He traveled to Heidelberg where he studied pathology for one summer. Cutler then served as surgical intern at the newly opened Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where he assisted surgeon Harvey Cushing. In 1915 Cutler joined the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris, and upon his return he was named resident surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1916 Cutler declined William S. Halsted's invitation to run the Hunterian Laboratory at Johns Hopkins, opting to study immunity at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in order to benefit "from the stern discipline of a meticulous laboratory worker," Simon Flexner ("The Education of the Surgeon," p. 467). America's entry into the First World War Prompted Cutler's return to France as a captain in the Army Medical Corps assigned to the Harvard Unit, Base Hospital Number 5.
After the war, Cutler returned to Boston, joining Cushing's staff at the Brigham Hospital as resident surgeon. In the spring of 1919 he married Caroline Pollard Parker, who had also worked at Base Hospital Number 5 in France. The couple had five children.
From 1921 to 1923 Cutler directed the laboratory of surgical research and was an associate in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He left Harvard in 1924 to become professor of surgery at Western Reserve Medical School and director of surgery at the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, where he continued his laboratory work. He returned to Boston in 1932 when he succeeded Cushing as Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon in chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The last fifteen years of his life were primarily devoted to surgical practice, teaching, and research at Harvard. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the governor of Massachusetts appointed Cutler medical director of the state committee on public safety. In 1942 he was again called into active service in the Army Medical Corps. During the war he served as chief surgical consultant and later as chief of the professional services division in the office of the surgeon general, European theater of operations. As chief surgical consultant, he played an active role in obtaining blood from the United States for use in treating wounded soldiers. In 1945 he was appointed brigadier general and received a second Distinguished Service Medal, as well as the Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire.
Cutler introduced several new techniques into cardiac surgery, a field then in its infancy. In 1923 he performed the first successful surgical operation for mitral valve stenosis. The possibility of surgical treatment for patients with constricted or diseased heart valves had been actively pursued for two decades by surgeons, who had attempted to approximate the condition in laboratory animals. Two years of research on animals at the Harvard surgical research laboratory emboldened Cutler and cardiologist Samuel A. Levine to attempt a surgical intervention in a young female patient with mitral valve stenosis. The surgery, hailed as a milestone by the British Medical Journal, proved to have a mortality rate of 90 percent; abandoned by Cutler in 1928, surgical repair for mitral valve stenosis was not reattempted until 1945. Cutler's other surgical innovations included the development of surgical instruments and techniques for treatment of pulmonary embolism and pericarditis and the development of surgical methods to treat patients with congestive heart failure, including the surgical removal of normal thyroid glands for relief of angina pectoris. In addition to more than two hundred scientific papers, he published in 1939, with Robert Zollinger, the ATLAS OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS. (In 1993 Zollinger and Robert Zollinger, Jr., published the seventh edition of the ATLAS.)
As an animal experimenter and director of a surgical research laboratory, Cutler, like other researchers of his era, encountered criticism from American antivivisectionists concerned about the welfare of animals, especially dogs, used in research. In his laboratories, Cutler gave humane treatment of research animals high priority. In 1926 he became actively involved in organized medicine's defense of animal experimentation when he succeeded Harvard colleague Walter Bradford Cannon as chair of the American Medical Association's Committee for the Protection of Medical Research. For twelve years, until he reentered military service in 1942, Cutler monitored professional and popular reports of animal experimentation in an effort to forestall legislative restrictions on animal experimentation. In order to demonstrate humane conditions in research laboratories, Cutler arranged in 1938 for a photographer from LIFE magazine to photograph experimental surgical procedures on anesthetized dogs at Harvard, surgery that allowed students to "perform their first operation on man as surgeons and not as butchers."
In addition to his activities in defense of animal experimentation, Cutler held leadership positions in a number of medical societies, including the presidencies of the American Surgical Association (1947) and the Society for Clinical Surgery (1941-1946). He was one of the founders of the American Board of Surgery and served on the editorial boards of several major medical and surgical journals. The recipient of a number of honorary degrees, he was named an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1943 and awarded the Henry Jacob Bigelow Medal by the Boston Surgical Society in 1947. Cutler died from prostate cancer in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1965 Harvard Medical School established a professorship of surgery in his name.
Bibliography
The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard holds a large collection of Cutler's office files from the years 1921 to 1942, which encompasses his teaching, hospital work, research, publications, and activities in defense of animal experimentation. In addition to the ATLAS, Cutler's major works include "Cardiotomy and Valvulotomy for Mitral Stenosis," BOSTON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL 188 (1923): 1023-27, with S. A. Levine; and "The Surgical Treatment of Mitral Stenosis: Experimental and Clinical Studies," ARCHIVES OF SURGERY 9 (1924): 691-821, with Levine and Claude S. Beck. For Cutler's role in efforts to upgrade surgical training, see his remarks delivered at his acceptance of the Bigelow Medal, "The Education of the Surgeon," NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 237 (1947): 466-70, and Peter D. Olch, "Evarts A. Graham, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Board of Surgery," JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 27 (1972): 247-61.
For biographical information, see Frederick P. Ross, "Master Surgeon, Teacher, Soldier and Friend: Elliott Carr Cutler, MD (1888-1947)," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY 137 (1979): 428-32. Cutler's role as a surgical innovator is discussed in Judith P. Swazey and Renee C. Fox, "The Clinical Moratorium: A Case Study of Mitral Valve Surgery," in EXPERIMENTATION WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS, ed. Paul A. Freund (1970). Useful obituaries can be found in SURGERY 23 (1948): 863-66; NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 237 (1947): 681; JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 135 (1947): 47; and the NEW YORK TIMES, 17 Aug. and 24 Aug. 1947.
-- Susan E. Lederer THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, copyright 2000 American Council of Learned Societies. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.
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Home > National Parks of Canada > Fire and Vegetation Management in the Mountain National Parks > Wildfires > Vermilion Pass Burn
On July 9, 1968, lightning struck the slope of Mount Whymper at the north end of Kootenay National Park. Driven by strong winds, the fire spread rapidly. Over the next three days, fire-fighting crews struggled to control the flames. On the fourth day, it rained and the flames began to subside. When the smoke cleared, over 2,950 hectares of subalpine forest had burned. Since then, the Vermilion Pass Burn has changed dramatically. So have our attitudes about fire.
For most of the last century, our society regarded fire as a destroyer and suppressed it even in national parks. During this time, animals were often used as fire-prevention symbols. Images of Bambi fleeing the flames and Smokey the Bear's burnt paws reinforced the idea of fire as evil.
Over the last two decades, we have discovered that fire plays an essential role in nature. The Vermilion Pass site is one of the most extensively studied burns in all of Canada. From this and other studies we now know that many plants and animals are adapted to fire and the conditions it creates.
Shortly after the Vermilion Pass fire, many people remarked how barren and desolate the landscape looked. But the forest was not destroyed. It simply moved to the next stage of a natural cycle of growth and renewal.
Even as the rocks cooled, the forest was reborn. The wood consumed by the flames was converted to a mineral-rich ash, releasing a flush of nutrients that was taken up by new plants. The thick forest canopy was burned away and sunlight shafted to the forest floor, warming the soil and creating an ideal seed bed.
The searing heat of the fire opened the cones of the lodgepole pine, scattering the seeds onto the forest floor. Some shrubs, like false azalea, were burned to the ground but sprouted anew from underground roots. A pink carpet of fireweed spread through the burn.
Immediately after the fire, woodpeckers moved in to feast on insects that colonized the dead trees. Elk and moose fed on the lush new growth. Predators followed. Gradually, the blackened landscape was transformed into a forest brimming with life.
Fire not only acts as a recycler and renewer but also rearranges vegetation in a continual cycle of change. Over time, fires burning across the landscape create a mosaic of different vegetation types and ages. The result is a mix of forests, shrublands and meadows. This diversity of habitats and the edges between them, are favoured by wildlife and support many species.
Today, fire managers recognize that fire suppression has denied fire its natural role in the forest. They are working to sustain fire-dependent ecosystems, while still providing fire protection.
In most parks we cannot take a "hands off" approach. Fires burning uncontrolled pose too much risk to life and property. To safely restore fire's ecological role, a program of prescribed (or planned) fires is used. These fires may be started by lightning or by park staff. Trained specialists decide where, when and under what conditions such fires will be permitted to burn.
Of course, some fires will always have to be put out. This includes fires that threaten people, facilities and adjacent lands.
Fire is just part of the ecosystem puzzle. Parks Canada is cooperating with other groups to address a variety of ecosystem concerns over the broader landscape. Only by working together can we sustain our native plants and animals and the ecological processes that link them to the land.
To experience the Vermilion Pass Burn today, take a walk along the Fireweed Trail. Interpretive signs tell the story of the burn and explain fire's role in the forest. Bring your binoculars -- you can expect to see birds and wildlife. Take a picture and come back in ten years to see the changes that time will bring.
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Home > National Parks of Canada > Jasper National Park > Activities > Summer in Jasper > Summer Trails Guide > Columbia Icefield
For these hikes, travel 90; Goats and Glaciers Viewpoint, 38 km; Sunwapta Falls, 55 km; Bubbling Springs Picnic Area, 60 km;.
Beauty Creek and Stanley Falls 6.4 km return (2-3 hours)
Trailhead: 90 km south of Jasper, one-half kilometre past Beauty Creek Hostel, look for a small pulloff and hiker sign on the left (east) side of the highway.
The trail follows a low dike across a wet area to the old, torn-up BanffJasper Highway, completed in 1940 and since realigned. Turn right and follow the old route until you reach a bridge abutment, where a rough trail branches to the left and continues along the narrow, deep limestone gorge of Beauty Creek. Caution: no guardrails! The trail passes by seven small waterfalls before reaching Stanley Falls, which is higher. If you see a little grey bird jumping in and out of the cold glacial water, it's an American dipper.
Athabasca Glacier Forefield 2 km to the toe of the glacier and back (30-60 minutes)
Trailhead: 105 km south of Jasper, directly across from the Icefield Centre building, turn right onto the Athabasca Glacier access road. Park soon after, where the road turns right again, in a small lot by a gate..
Toe of the Athabasca Glacier 1.5 km return (60–75 minutes)
Trailhead: directly across from the Icefield Centre building, turn off Highway 93 onto the access road for the Athabasca Glacier. Turn right soon after, and follow the road down to the parking lot. The trail begins by the interpretive signs in the southwest corner of the lot.. The upper loop gives great views of the toe of the glacier and surrounding features.
Wilcox Pass 8 km to the pass and back, 11.2 km one way to Tangle Falls (4-6 hours)
Trail. A side trip of 200 m across the tundra to the left (west) will take you to a grand view of (left to right), Mt. Athabasca, Mt. Andromeda, the Athabasca Glacier, Snow Dome, the Dome Glacier and Mt. Kitchener. Note: the pass area can be snowy until late July.
Most hikers go no farther than the summit marker, but good route-finders can follow the indistinct, boggy trail northward. Keep to the left, along the base of Wilcox Peak, until you descend steeply past two small ponds, after which the trail improves. It follows the valley of Tangle Creek down to Highway 93 at the Tangle Falls parking area, 96 km south of Jasper.
Parker Ridge 5.2 km return (2-3 hours)
Trailhead: 8.8 km south of the Icefield Centre on Highway 93, past Hilda Creek Hostel. Look for the hiker sign at the large parking lot on the right..
Nigel Pass 14.4 km return (full-day hike)
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Warning!
Unless you are with a professionally guided group, stay within the safe, fenced-in area of the Athabasca Glacier. Over the years several people have died from falling into crevasses. These deep, ice-cold cracks in the glacier lie hidden below a thin covering of snow that may collapse under a person's weight. Millwellsplaces where meltwater plunges down deep vertical shafts in the iceare slippery around their entrances and extremely dangerous. Glacier travel outside the safe area should be attempted only by experienced and properly equipped mountaineers.
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Because the two sides couldn't agree on a price, the judge heard evidence and expert testimony at trial to help him calculate it for them. The outcome could have implications for other disputes involving so-called standards-essential patents.
When companies agree to have their patented technology incorporated into a standard, they're required to license the technology to others on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
Microsoft filed its lawsuit against Motorola Mobility, since acquired by Google, because it said the company was asking too much for the use of its patents. Microsoft says the rate should be set by looking at patent pools like the one formed around MPEG LA. Motorola favors a method based on two companies negotiating and says its rate is fair.
The outcome is seen as important because it could establish a methodology for calculating royalty rates for standards-essential patents, which could then be applied to other cases where essential patents are in dispute.
The trial, at the U.S. District Court in Seattle, is being held in two parts. The first was to determine a fair royalty rate, and the second will be to determine if Motorola breached a contract by charging Microsoft too much.
The judge hearing the case, James Robart, asked the two sides to file further legal briefs by Dec. 14, according to a reporter in the courtroom. He's not expected to arrive at his decision until next spring, according to other reports from the court, around the time that the second phase of the trial will begin.
James Niccolai covers data centers and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow James on Twitter at @jniccolai. James's e-mail address is [email protected]
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"Several factors are driving the strong growth in Bluetooth and even more in Wi-Fi chipset markets," notes practice director Philip Solis.
"Average selling prices for both technologies continue to fall. Wi-Fi will get a big boost from Wi-Fi Direct, which allows direct peer-to-peer communication between devices at short range.
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Investors have taken legal action against HP over its botched acquisition of Autonomy, which shareholders claim has resulted in the company's falling stock price.
The suit follows HP's announcement of a £5.5 billion writedown of Autonomy, after an internal investigation allegedly found that the British company was substantially overvalued at the time of acquisition. It said that Autonomy had misrepresented its financial performance, including its revenue, core growth rate and gross margins, and misrepresentation of its business mix.
Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch completely denied the claims and instantly reverted the blame back to HP and the auditors that were involved with the acquisition.
Both the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the UK's Serious Fraud Office have been alerted to the claims.
According to the Financial Times, the class action suit that has now been filed against HP claims that it issued false and misleading statements on its financial performance and prospects between August 2011, when the Autonomy deal was announced, and 20th November this year, when it announced the multi-billion pound writedown.
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, a firm specialising in class action lawsuits, filed against HP on Monday in San Francisco, and named only one investor that has been affected, Allan Nicolow.
He bought 200 shares in May at $21.87 (£13.64) each. HP shares closed at $11.71 (£7.30) on 20th November.
The suit names Leo Apotheker, former CEO of HP, Meg Whitman, current CEO, Cathie Lesjak, chief financial officer, and Jim Murrin, former chief accounting officer.
It claims that when HP had agreed to acquire Autonomy 'in principle', the defendants (Apotheker etc.) were looking to unwind the deal "in light of the accounting irregularities that plagued Auonomy's financial statements."
The suit also claims that the defendents had concealed from investors the extent of the decline of HP's Enterprise Services Business, which is made up largely of its $14 billion (£8.7 billion) acquisition of EDS.
Research group IDC has said that HP customers should seek 'formal assurances' about the future of Autonomy's products.
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Despite the huge interest in Microsoft’s Surface tablets the company’s share of the booming tablet market is expected to be miniscule this year, dwarfed by iPad and Android .
Microsoft Surface tablet
ABI Research expects Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows RT-based tablets to account for only 1.3 percent of 2012 global shipments; having little impact on the market this year.
See also: Microsoft Surface review
This is due to lack of adoption for Windows 7, but primarily due to the late-in-year launches of Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems (estimated to become available in select devices starting in October).
Related: Windows tablets reviewed
Microsoft is starting with a two-prong device strategy: a Windows RT-based ARM tablet powered by an NVIDIA applications processor, and a Windows 8 Pro tablet based on Intel’s x86 architecture.
Visit: Microsoft Surface RT vs Apple iPad comparison review.
Each will appeal to a different audience type, offer different features and functionality, and be available for different price points.
In 2011, 98 percent of all media tablets were based on ARM processor architecture.
This fragmented OS strategy with Windows RT and Windows 8 mirrors Google’s mobile plan, which has been chastised for by developers of the Android OS., predicts ABI,, says ABI.
Tablet Advisor: Tablet PC reviews and reviews
Waynebaal said: Wowa device not expected to be released until October 2012 will only have aminusculepercentage of 2012 sales Amazing bit of insight from the analysts
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Windows 2000 Professional, the desktop part of Windows 2000, is more stable, more secure, and easier to use than Windows NT 4 Workstation. It's not an obvious upgrade for every system, but medium-size and large enterprises should strongly consider Windows 2000 Professional for new systems. And unlike Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 Professional is a great notebook OS. For the average home or home-office user or the less savvy small-business user Windows 2000 Professional is still a little too large and too complex compared with Windows 98.
Windows 2000's user interface closely resembles that of Windows 98, with a few new bells and whistles thrown in. For example, the new Personalized Menus feature tracks your use of the interface and hides options in the Programs list that you have not used recently. You can see the hidden options by clicking on a double arrow at the bottom of the menu.
Windows 2000 also includes all the goodies that come with Internet Explorer 5, such as the ability to drag items directly to, from, and within the Start and Favorites menus. You can shut off parts of the default interface, such as the Quick Launch bar next to the Start.
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The concept of the Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania Contest has its roots in the 1960s, when the eyes and ears of our country’s citizens were focused on the high-spirited, commitment-minded younger generation. Across the nation, credit unions were taking a serious look at how they could better serve young members and gain their loyalty. As the average credit union membership approached middle age, youth came to be regarded as a vital resource.
The Youth Ambassador Contest of Pennsylvania began as the Miss Credit Union of Pennsylvania Contest in 1971. Five years later, credit union leaders took a hard look at the nature of the contest and decided that some changes were in order. In 1976, the first Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania Contest was held. Young credit union members, aged 17 to 25, were eligible to participate, regardless of sex or marital status.
Over the years, hundreds of young people have been involved with the Youth Ambassador Contest, in the process learning more about the unique financial institutions of which they are members. Many have gone on to achieve leadership positions in credit unions and chapters.
The Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania Contest is actually a three-step process. Each participating credit union selects one candidate to compete in a chapter-level contest. Chapter winners, or Chapter Youth Ambassadors, compete during the State Finals, held as part of the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association’s Annual Convention, where the Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania is named.
The chapters play a central role in the process. Each chapter must first decide to host a contest. The chapter then invites individual credit unions to select and send candidates to the chapter-level contest. Without chapter participation, young people from credit unions within that chapter cannot advance to the State Finals.
The Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania is selected each year during the State Finals, held in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association’s Annual Convention & Exposition. Each Chapter Youth Ambassador becomes eligible for the State Finals. From among the chapter winners, the judges select the new titleholder.
Contestants are judged by the results of a written examination, an informal meeting with the judges and a short oral presentation during the contest itself.
Judging the Candidates — The state-level judging will be based on the same criteria and valuations used at the chapter level: Credit Union Knowledge – 35%; Ability to Communicate – 35%; Personality – 20%; and Professional Appearance – 10%.
Written Examination — The credit union knowledge portion of the judging will be determined through a written examination. This portion of the State Finals should not be difficult for the candidate who is familiar with the credit union operation, history, and philosophy. The PCUA makes an informational mailing to all contestants in January, well in advance of the State Finals, so they can prepare for the written examination. All contestants are provided with the same materials from which the exam questions are taken.
Oral Presentation — Each contestant will be asked to present a short two-minute speech on a pre-selected credit union subject as part of the State Finals. This presentation will be given before an audience of persons attending the PCUA Annual Convention. The contestants will be provided with a list from which they may choose their own speech topic.
Contest Awards — The first-place winner receives a $1,000 cash prize. The first and second alternates receive $750 and $500 respectively.
The role of the Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania will be an active one. The Youth Ambassador will take part in a number of PCUA-sponsored promotional activities, such as speaking at the Association’s conferences and speaking at chapter meetings. He or she may be called upon to attend various meetings or functions throughout the year.
To protect the interests of the credit union movement, all appearances of the Youth Ambassador as a representative of the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association must be coordinated by and cleared through the PCUA.
The Youth Ambassador will be expected to speak for and to work for youth involvement in credit unions throughout the Commonwealth. He or she will have the opportunity to travel to several areas of the state, meet interesting people, and will receive significant personal recognition for the credit union, chapter, and PCUA. It will be a year of new friendships and personal enrichment — one not readily forgotten.
The Youth Ambassador will be expected to represent the credit unions of the Commonwealth to the very best of his or her ability in all official functions and appearances involved with the title.
Expenses — The PCUA will remain in contact with the Youth Ambassador and will make arrangements for attendance at events to which he or she is invited. Out-of-pocket expenses of the state Credit Union Youth Ambassador in connection with approved functions will be paid by the PCUA.
The Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania Contest is sponsored annually by the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association and its member credit unions through participating chapters.
1. Contestants must be at least 17 years of age and no more than 25 years of age by December 31 prior to the State Finals, held in conjunction with the PCUA Annual Convention in spring.
2. Contestants must belong to a PCUA-affiliated credit union and must be sponsored by a chapter that has provided equal opportunity for all its member credit unions to participate in the competition. Equal opportunity includes advance written notice of the chapter contest simultaneously given to all credit unions in a chapter area.
3. Each participating credit union in the chapter-level contest may be represented by only one contestant. Each eligible chapter may be represented only by one contestant in the State Finals. If more than one contestant exists, a winner must be decided. For credit unions that have branches in other chapter areas or are associate chapter members, the credit union must participate in the contest of the home-based chapter.
4. Chapter contests may be held between June 1 and December 31. Chapters must submit a completed Chapter Participation Form to the PCUA indicating that they plan to sponsor a contest. Chapters must inform every credit union in the chapter in writing that a contest will be held; the PCUA will notify credit unions at the chapter’s request. A copy of this announcement must be received by the PCUA in advance of the chapter contest.
5. Judging at the State Finals will be based on the following criteria:
A portion of the judging at the State Finals will be based on a comprehensive written examination, and a portion on an oral presentation before a credit union audience.
6. Individual credit unions and chapters may devise their own judging criteria or may use the State Finals criteria as a model. The criteria should include the candidates’ knowledge of credit unions. The credit union contest and chapter contest should give a candidate experience in speaking to an audience on a credit union-related subject, in preparation for the State Finals.
7. If they so choose, individual credit unions and chapters may award prizes, cash or otherwise, to their youth ambassadors and alternates at the end of a contest.
8. Each credit union will be responsible for its candidate’s expenses in connection with the chapter contest.
9. Winners of credit union contests automatically become eligible for a chapter contest, provided all rules have been properly observed and the chapter has agreed to host a contest. Winners of chapter contests become eligible for the State Finals, provided all rules have been properly observed.
10. Each sponsoring chapter must provide to the PCUA, no later than December 31 of the year in which the chapter contest is held:
In the case of a candidate under 18 years of age, a photo release form must be signed by the parent or guardian. Materials should be forwarded to: Credit Union Youth Ambassador Contest Coordinator, Pennsylvania Credit Union Association, 4309 North Front Street, P.O. Box 60007, Harrisburg, PA 17106-0007.
11. The chapter is responsible for expenses incurred in connection with the State Finals. Chapter expenses at the State Finals include:
The PCUA will make individual room reservations for all contestants for the state finals. Arrangements can be made for a spouse / guest / signficant other to attend, subject to approval of the chapter or sponsoring credit union (which is paying the bill). The PCUA will not make reservations for family members.
12. The winner of the state contest will hold the title of Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania (unless revoked for cause) for one year, until a successor is selected at the following year’s convention. Cash awards will be presented to the Youth Ambassador, First Alternate, and Second Alternate.
13. Individuals receiving the title of Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania become ineligible to re-enter future contests.
All participants in the State Finals, including the first and second alternates, may not compete during the immediate following year. After skipping one year, participants in the State Finals may compete again for the title, after repeating the process of being sponsored by a credit union and a chapter.
14. In the event that the Credit Union National Association, Inc. or any of its affiliated organizations should sponsor a regional or national contest, the Credit Union Youth Ambassador of Pennsylvania will be expected to compete as a representative of the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association.
15. If for any reason the Youth Ambassador should be unable to complete his or her one-year term, the title will be passed to the First Alternate. In the event that the First Alternate is unable to serve, the title will pass to the Second Alternate.
16. Ineligible to participate at any level of the competition are employees and directors of the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association and its affiliated organizations, and members of their immediate families. Staff members of the Association and its affiliates are prohibited from serving as judges of any Youth Ambassador Contest (including Chapter contests) in the state.
Everyone benefits by participating in the contest, because it generates interest and excitement for members of all ages and demonstrates that credit unions are interested in the future of young people. It teaches young members about credit union history, philosophy, and operations. And, most importantly, it helps prepare young people for leadership roles in the credit union movement.
If you have questions, contact:
Janet Johnson, Association Communications Specialist
1-800-932-0661 ext. 5233;
Mailing address:
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The Nokia N8 User Guide recently found at Nokia’s Server
The file is located on Nokia’s own site, so this should be the final version.
Download the Nokia N8-00 User Guide here.
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Chimney Rock DGC
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Course Description:
400' down fairway for #2. Into the woods for holes 3-5, then back out for 6-9.
Course Established: 2003
Additional Course Information:
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Directions:
From Route 22 take Chimney Rock Rd. north 3 miles to the park on right. 1st tee by basketball courts.
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Blocking Software Reports
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Blocking Software Reports
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1. First, try a circumvention site like.
Be sure to type https at the beginning of the URL, not 'http'. Even though this site has
been widely known for months, many networks have their blocking software set up incorrectly so
that sites beginning with https:// are not blocked, and
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4. If you're trying to get around blocking software that's installed on the local computer, and
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(These instructions include tips on how to tell the difference between blocking software that's
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Past news items that generated the most interest:
Report on double standards for anti-gay "hate speech"
Peacefire created four pages, on free servers such as GeoCities, which consisted of anti-gay
quotes copied from four different conservative
Web sites: Dr. Laura,
Concerned Women for America,
Family Research Council and
Focus on the Family. Using anonymous HotMail accounts,
we then sent the URLs of the newly created pages to six blocking software companies, recommending
that they block the newly created pages as "hate speech".
After the companies had agreed to block the sites we created, we told
them that all the quotes on those pages had been taken from the four conservative Web sites, and
asked why they didn't block those pages as well. The blocking companies did not block those
Web sites and did not respond to our inquiries.
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For five months, the makers of WebSENSE blocking software published a daily list
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that were using those competitors' products, could access the WebSENSE site and
get a list of unblocked porn sites, by clicking a link agreeing that they were over
18 years of age.
Human rights pages blocked
In December 2000, Peacefire released
Amnesty Intercepted, a report on
human rights pages including Amnesty International that were blocked by blocking software.
Candidates' sites blocked during 2000
elections
In November 2000, Peacefire released a list of political candidates whose sites had been blocked
as "pornography" by major blocking programs. One candidate had carried the statement on his
Web site, "We should demand that all public schools and libraries install and configure Internet Filters."
He changed his position after finding out that his own site was blocked, and later became a plaintiff
in the ACLU's lawsuit to overturn a law requiring blocking
software in schools and libraries.
Pro-blocking site blocked
In July 1997, librarian David Burt launched the now-defunct FilteringFacts.org site, advocating the
use of blocking software in libraries. The site was later
blocked as a "Drugs/Alcohol" site
by SurfWatch (which has since been bought out by Cyber Patrol).
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Registration 7-8pm. Located near the entrance of the Compton Gardens Conference Center
Optional guided tours of the Trails at 7pm & 7:30pm
312 N. Main Street, Bentonville
Stroll our unique and lovely grounds while sampling the best of wine and paired food accompaniments. Later, enjoy the evening with friends at tables arranged both on the grounds and inside the Center. Complimentary champagne and perhaps your favorite wine of the evening will be available with a sumptuous array of hors d’uevres for your pleasure.
Cost is $75 per person.* All funds raised will support programs under the direction of The Peel Compton Foundation
Attendance is limited, so reserve your space by calling 479.254.3870 or by registering using the form below
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Pegasus Theatre announces new “Living Black & White” show
World premiere of a brand new Harry Hunsacker adventure coming to the Eisemann Center at the end of the year.
Full Moon Murders Previews
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- 29th
- 8PM
- Charles W. Eisemann Center
- 2351 Performance Drive
Richardson, TX
- Age limit: All ages $10 - $20
Pegasus Theatre returns again, with the world premiere of a brand new Harry Hunsacker adventure presented in "Living Black & White" called Full Moon Murders! Kurt Kleinmann returns as Harry Hunsacker in this production at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, directed by Susan Sargeant. The cast features Raymond Banda, Josh Glover, Todd Haberkorn, Tim Honnoll, Greg Pugh, Mike Schraeder, Ben Schroth, Carrie Slaughter, and Laura Yancey. Rodney Dobbs will design the set; Sam Nance will design the lighting; Aaron Patrick Turner will design the costumes.
There will be a special New Year's Eve performance with Black & White party favors, live entertainment, champagne and dessert after the show, and a toast to the New Year with the cast and crew on December 31, 2007 starting at 9 p.m.
John Creighton lives with a curse on his head—a curse that will transform him into a werewolf during the first full moon after his 30th birthday! When bodies start turning up near his home he fears the worst. Is he doomed by his family name or is there something even more sinister afoot? It’s up to would-be actor turned would-be detective Harry Hunsacker and his paid-by-the-hour assistant Nigel Grouse (along with Lt. Foster of the real police) to get to the truth. An affectionate parody of the Golden Age of detective films of the 1930s and '40s, this new comedy murder-mystery will delight the whole family.
Full Moon Murders! opens officially on January 3, 2008 and runs through January 27, 2008, for a limited engagement, with performances Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets for are on sale now online or by calling 972-744-4650.
Performances are January 3 - January 27, 2008 with a special New Year's Eve performance and preview performances on Saturday, December 29, 2007 and Sunday, December 30, 2007.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Photos: NFL wives’ fashion show models clothing by Dallas designer Abi Ferrin
The clothing is termed, "fashion with freedom and purpose."
DALLAS The NFL Wives Retreat fashion show on Saturday showcased Dallas designer Abi Ferrin's new fall collection. Hosted at Ferrin's studio at the South Side Lamar building by Willis & Woy Sports Group, NFL wives from all over the U.S. came together to enjoy fashion, shop, and even model the fabulous clothing.
Four mannequins dressed in Ferrin’s hottest designs were placed right at the entrance, with handbags by Lisa Barfield and bulky jewelry by Nest Jewelry placed on the mannequins and on tables.
When the NFL wives arrived, there was never a dull moment. Endless vodka and champagne was poured while the women chatted, skimmed the clothing, and tried on favorites. Renee Reese, wife of former NFL player Ike Reese, organized the event.
Sherice Brown, wife of Tim Brown, former wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders and 1987 Heisman trophy winner, modeled a fuchsia colored dress by Ferrin. The extremely sweet Julie Dorenbos, wife of Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos, modeled a cute outfit and donned her own pair of chic camouflage stilettos with a brown Ferrin romper. Two other wives enjoyed the event: Brooke Jones, wife of Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Sean Jones; and Megan Brown, wife of wide receiver free agent Reggie Brown. We were surprised we didn’t run into any Dallas Cowboys wives.
Ferrin took us behind the scenes of her studio, where we saw an open space with sewing machines, a dry erase board, and clippings of fabric – the studio of a mastermind. Ferrin’s collection is sold at her studio in the South Side Lamar building, Rich Hippie at Inwood Village, and The Shak by Stanley Korshak.
We had the chance to talk with Ferrin about her fall collection, the event, the future, and her Freedom Project, a humanitarian effort to empower Nepali and Cambodian women by teaching them to make fashion items.
PegNews: How did you get involved with the NFL Wives Retreat event?
Ferrin: Lea from Willis and Woy has been supporting our brand for a couple of years, and she made an introduction to Renee Reese, wife of former NFL Ike Reese. She has started introducing us to other player’s wives … and we connected with other players' wives in the area. They do an annual retreat and they like to have a shopping event, and asked me if I would host it.
What inspired your fall collection?
I guess I did a kind of [an] architectural collection for fall. I didn’t have a specific location in mind. It's very architectural, modern, clean edges and lines. I was inspired by a lot of different women in the different areas I worked with in Nepal and Cambodia … We did a lot of industrial zippers and we did the kimono sleeves.
Are there any specific colors for the fall?
We have taken charcoal as our black for the fall, and emerald and plum for our holiday collection. My holiday collection coming in is very romantic and we have some lace and sequin.
What can we expect for spring?
I am really excited about spring because I was able to go to Saint Tropez in July and get inspiration. We are doing 1950 themed French Riviera Saint Tropez. We are going a different direction; I usually do bold strong colors … We will bring softer colors, bringing in sands and beige. We will have a little pop of choral, and turquoise and aqua. Brigitte Bardot is our muse.
What inspired you to make the Freedom Project handbags?
These handbags are actually not made by me. They’re my designs but they’re made by women rescued out of human trafficking situations. They are then trained, loved on, and put into a shelter situation, and once they get strong enough, they get to choose what kind of project they might want to be involved in to build a career. They are taught how to sew, carve, and create jewelry.
How did you come up with the overall idea for the Freedom Project?
My sister is a fulltime humanitarian, and I initially thought I would finance her with the success of my business once it grew, but before I even got successful, she identified these people … They were selling crafts and I saw the skill-set, and I said ‘Well, I can design the pieces and use them in my collection.’ Each garment has a button in the hangtag, so each garment sold supports them even if it’s not in the detail. And that’s why our tagline is Fashion with freedom and purpose.chrisg88, anonymous:
Great read. Very rich in content, got the recap of the event, interview with the designer and information about a great cause.
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Photos: Knitting fools yarn-bombed Dallas Heritage Village
Now through April 27, barnyard animals made of yarn are making an extended visit.
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The vegetable garden behind the Gano-Log House gets bombed with yarn carrots, potatoes, and bunches of radishes.
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Lurline Russle has been familiar with knitting since high school, but didn't pick the hobby back up until a little over a year ago when she discovered the Dallas Yarn Bombers group. She knits the water fountain on Main Street at The Heritage Village in Dallas on Sunday, March 10, 2013.
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The Bombers don't just create beautiful works of art on trees; they also knitted horses at The Heritage Village in Dallas.
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Residential concern: David Chalke, of Tyabb, is worried the permit conditions at Tyabb Airfield are not being adhered to. Picture: Gary Sissons
A TYABB resident has called on Mornington Peninsula Shire Council to monitor the Tyabb Airfield more closely to protect the safety of nearby residents.
David Chalke said he was disgusted by a response he received from the shire which stated it would not be monitoring the airfield during the Tyabb Air Show on March 4. "That is the day of all days the council should be monitoring it."
Mr Chalke said he was primarily concerned for residents' safety, following numerous accidents over the years. Last August, a pilot was lucky to walk away from a plane which crashed at the airfield.
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Mr Chalke said problems arose mainly from the airport being largely unmonitored. "It is basically a paddock where people take off and land planes without any supervision.
"These are amateur pilots who only fly on the odd occasion, they aren't commercial pilots landing at Tullamarine. If it isn't monitored, the potential for something going wrong is greater."
Mr Chalke said there needed to be a measure of supervision from federal authorities to ensure the airfield was properly controlled.
He has claimed a number of bomber and jet planes at the air show exceeded the airfield's size limits and larger planes exceeded noise restrictions.
"The noise can be quite horrific. You can be out in the garden with a brush-cutter and ear plugs and still be able to hear the noise. The smaller aircraft aren't a problem, it is just the bigger planes."
Peninsula Aero Club president Peter Bernardi said the air show was run strictly in accordance with permit conditions. "No planes that landed at the Tyabb Air Show were above the weight limit. We stuck to the permit conditions."
Mr Bernardi said there were no safety concerns with larger planes landing at the airfield, which was a rare event.
He said there were some planes displayed at the air show that did not fly and other, larger planes flew over the site but did not land. Mr Bernardi said he was not aware of any other complaints about the air show.
Mr Chalke said he had no problem with the airfield as a whole, and just wanted to see permit conditions enforced.
Shire statutory planning manager Angela Hughes said the Tyabb Airfield was subject to three planning permits, issued in 1965, 1972 and 1991,
These permits aimed to limit the impact of the airfield on the surrounding township.
The shire told the Weekly that sustainable environment director Stephen Chapple wrote to the Tyabb and District Ratepayers Association on February 21 in response to queries about how the council would monitor planning permit compliance at the air show.
Mr Chapple stated the council would exercise its discretion not to take any enforcement action for the Tyabb Air Show.
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STANDING AGAINST THE BIG BANKS AND WALL STREET—For more than 20 years, Consumer Program Director Ed Mierzwinski has helped us stand up against big banks and credit card companies.
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• Control corporations that are “too big to fail.” Banks shouldn’t be able to freely gamble with taxpayer money covering the bets. We must rein in institutions whose risky investments threaten the larger economy.
In short, we’re fighting for a financial regulatory system that guarantees consumers and taxpayers are protected from the predatory practices at the heart of this problem. And we need to provide consumers a seat at the table when it comes to oversight of the nation’s financial system.
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When the Penguins and the Flyers meet up, it's not a matter of if a fight will break out, it's a matter of when. It wasn't one of the usual suspects, though...at least not on the Penguins side. Rather than Eric Godard, it was Craig Adams going at it with Philadelphia's resident goon (or at least one of them) Ian Laperriere.
This one broke just over a minute into the game right out of a faceoff. Lappy connected several times with Adams' helmet, but Adams came back with a punch that didn't exactly connect, but helped get Lapperriere's helmet off. That's as far as it got, though, because as Lapperriere shifted his weight, Adams pushed him down to the ice. Very quick, and not much to look at.
This won't be the last time you see a Penguin fight a Flyer this season, and chances are Lapperriere will be involved again. Adams isn't known for his fighting (he only had two fights last season, both before he came to the Penguins), but you'll definitely see one of the Penguins pound on a Flyer again.
As for this one? Since neither player really got any kind of an advantage and it ended so quickly, I'm calling it a draw. Hopefully we'll see something better when the Penguins meet the Maple Leafs tomorrow. After all, we get to see our old buddy Colton Orr again, and we all know what happens when he's involved.
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Britain's Prince William, speaking for himself and his younger brother, condemned a new book about his mother, the late Princess Diana, on Friday at his first major news conference. "Of course, Harry and I are both quite upset by this -- that our mother's trust has been betrayed and that even now she's still being exploited," William, wearing a wheat-colored pullover sweater, told a group of reporters. The book, "Shadows of a Princess" by Diana's former private secretary (from 1987-1996, a year before her death), Patrick Jephson, reportedly portrays Diana as a scheming rebel who fabricated the truth, schemed, indulged herself in quack health therapies, binged on sweets and loved dirty jokes. In an excerpt that appeared in Sunday's Times of London yesterday, Jephson, who maintains that his book is a balanced portrait, writes: "She would laugh at anything. Sometimes I thought you could read her the phone book in a funny voice, then look at her expectantly, and she would laugh. She was that desperate to be happy."
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Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson and boyfriend Justin Mikita took in a performance of The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil at The Mirage in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Accompanied by a small group of friends, the couple attended LOVE as part of a birthday celebration for Mikita.
"They kept it low-key by ordering a few Fiji waters to sip on during the show," a source tells PEOPLE.
Afterwards, Ferguson, Mikita and their friends went backstage to meet the cast and crew.
It's all part of Mikita's "birthday week" celebration, as Ferguson Tweeted, sharing a photo of his beau with a festive birthday treat.
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This hippopotamus, born last week at the Cango Wildlife Ranch, weighed just 11 lbs. at birth. He was named after Prince Harry "as he shows true grit and is passionate about Africa," says reserve manager Rob Hall.
"Our little guy is already proving he's made of similar stuff and is determined to make the most of life."
Unlike his namesake, this Harry was rejected by his mother, Hilda, so the calf is being hand-reared by the sanctuary's staff. He gets bottle-fed every three hours, and will continue to receive round-the-clock care for the next three months.
Pygmy hippos are critically endangered in the wild, with fewer than 3,000 remaining.
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Rule they have practical advantages that encourage men to apply them regularly..
If the trouser were longer, it would create a puddle of folds that could ruin the silhouette of a suit, dragging the eye down and making a man look shorter. If the trouser were shorter, it would flap around the ankle and remove any elegance – probably reminding the viewer of a schoolboy in short pants.
That’s why the rule, or guideline, exists. But once you know this, there is nothing wrong with breaking it. Knowing why the rule is there helps you break it well.
For example, men on the European continent tend to wear their trousers shorter than is recommended here. They do that because they wish to expose their footwear, and perhaps their socks, to more inspection. Both are more a part of their outfit than for a English or American man. To quote one famous Italian “I don’t necessarily want people to see my socks, but I want to make sure they can see my shoes.”
Now, if men on the continent simply wore their trousers shorter, they would encounter the aforementioned problem with flapping. But they aware of the rules and why they exist. So they wear their trousers narrower as well, fitting them closer to the ankle and minimising any flapping. Hey presto: the shoe is on display, the silhouette is intact, but it is still possible to walk with elegance.
Once you know why the rules are there, you can work out how to break them effectively.
Traditionally trousers were always worn to just reach the shoe without breaking. Trouser legs were often quite wide, so flapping could probably not be avoided (maybe by using thicker fabrics). Do you know when and why this changed? Would it be acceptable for a businessman today to wear trousers the traditional way?
Loekee, you are right that that was the traditional length in the 20s/30s. The flapping aspect was helped a lot by the fact that they wore much thicker materials, largely flannel and tweeds, which do not have the potential airy problems of worsted.
This combination could work well today but, like high-waisted trousers with braces, you would have to realise that it would characterise of you as of a certain time or generation
I only like the look of the man on the far right... but his tie seems disproportionally wide, and he also seems to be wearing pleated trousers without a cuff. I don't care much about 'rules' per se, but I do like clean lines and a balance of proportions.. though it does seem that 'classic' men's style, strictly speaking, has truly evolved from sack suits to trim suits. I hope we don't regress.
Simon,
When I go to my local tailor to have trousers hemmed he always finishes them at an angle, i.e. longer at the back than at the front. I've not been bold enough to question him about this (he's been a tailor for half a century almost) but I do wonder whether this is customary?
Have you ever come across this? Should I ask him to hem the trousers at a normal 90 degree angle to the legs?
No Peterjan, as far as I know it's normal to have them a touch longer at the back to create coverage at the back whilst meeting the higher part of the front of the shoe without creating too much of a break.
I don't think it's universally true, or even generally true, that men in Europe normally wear trousers shorter. I've had numerous pairs made and not once have they been short. In fact I'd compare them as closer to English tailoring, which to me shares less of a tradition with American tailoring in terms of trouser style and length.
I have some questions regarding trousers issue.Firstly, what is the perfect trousers length and secondly, should I get a flat-front or pleated trousers taking consideration of my height between 5'3 and 5'4 with waist of 26' and small body frame.To find a suitable style/fit that complement my body type has been difficult for me.Hence any help/guide is highly appreciated.
it's not true that men on the continent wear trousers shorter. they do it mostly in italy, some in france and spain, but rarely in other continental countries. in german speaking countries as well as scandinavia they wear them rather too long and wider than in latin countries.
Hi Simon
Is there any chance you could give your thoughts on ideal trouser hem width/ I know it depends on the style of the suit and/or general outfit but it would be interesting to get your thoughts on this subject as it seems to be something that is quite difficult to get right!
Thanks
Nick
Hi Nick,
It is definitely an issue of personal choice, as it so driven by the style of the suit. I usually go for 16 or 17 inches, but some tailors go for 18 inches. If going to an established tailor, I would let them choose. If you want to choose, perhaps measure a pair of trousers you like.
It will also slightly depend on your shoe size.
Best
Simon
Simon,
Can you help? I wear long socks and have started wearing shorter, slimer trousers. This combination has the unfortunate consequence of causing the trousers to catch on the stop of the sock, thus bunch at the knee and exaggerating the shortness of the trousers. Gianni from Sartoria Vergallo suggested a band of lining at the back of the trousers at top-of-the-sock height, which has helped, but not eliminated the problem. Do you have any further suggestions?
Thanks, Llywelyn
Hi Llywelyn,
Not really, other than Gianni's idea and perhaps wearing cotton or cotton/silk socks which will have less friction than wool.
Unfortunately long socks were and are largely worn by those whose trousers are rather wider than that.
Simon
Surely wearing shorter trousers necessitates the wearing of long socks in order to avoid the dreaded bare-calf?!
Llywelyn
Absolutely. But perhaps not so narrow as to stick on the sock. Turn ups might help weigh the trouser down too
Thanks for your reply Simon. I had some Kilgour RTW slimmed slightly to 16 inches in the end and am pleased with the result. They were previously 18 inches and I felt they had a slightly 'bootcut' look to them which was horrible!
Many 'chino' type trousers seem to go to 15 or even 14 inches now which I think looks a bit extreme on a suit if you are trying to achieve a classic look.
Thanks anyway.
Regards
Nick
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TRENDY, oozing style and typifying the good things in life - that's the Italian town of Sorrento which looks out over the Bay of Naples.
Now after a radical re-design the same description applies to its four-wheel-drive namesake - although it's spelt slightly differently.
The all-new Kia Sorento, which goes on sale on February 1, has been transformed. Out goes the macho Arnold Schwarzenegger image and in comes the sporty, sexy supermodel look.
The car has been totally re-invented with the emphasis on a trendy lifestyle vehicle rather than an out and out off-roader.
Designed in California it's now available with either two or four-wheel-drive so it can still handle tough conditions and is still ideal for towing but now you get an even better on-road experience.
The new model is now very definitely a premium product but without a premium price tag. Take the Kia badge off the front and replace it with an up-market German name and you would have to pay an extra £10,000 for it.
Kia says it makes no apology for the car not being as 'rough and tough' as before as it now has 'urban sophistication'.
Certainly if you opt for the top-of-the-range KX-3 model at £29,795 you get an awful lot of sophistication. A six-speed automatic gearbox, full leather seats, an electric panoramic sunroof, electrically adjustable driver's seat and self levelling headlights are just a few of the features on board. Even the mid-range KX-2 at £25,495 comes with full leather.
Despite the new slimmer look the car still has seven seats, although the two rear seats cleverly disappear beneath the floor to create more luggage space when not in use. And by pushing the dashboard further forward and the rear tailgate further backwards there is an increase in the overall space for both passengers and luggage.
In fact if you fold the middle row and rear row of seats down you get a hefty 1525 litres of luggage space, making this SUV a very viable alternative to a much larger MPV. If you leave the middle row of seats in place you still get 531 litres - which is a massive 96 litres more than the previous model.
For buyers who genuinely don't need four-wheel-drive the Sorento is now offered with front-wheel-drive with prices starting from £20,495 for the 2.4-litre petrol model and £22,495 for the 2.2-litre diesel, although the spec on these options is not as luxurious as on the four-wheel-drive models.
The new 2.2-litre diesel engine replaces the larger 2.5-litre used in the previous generation Sorento, and despite being smaller it's quicker, quieter, more fuel efficient and cleaner.
On the road the Sorento is as easy and light to drive as a family hatchback despite its size, which will endear it to a wider range of buyers.
It's quiet, refined, has an distinct up-market quality it and feels anything but bulky to handle.
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All Sorentos have six airbags as standard and a brand-leading seven-year warranty.
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Nashville -- Wearing nothing but underwear during a display of passion that's bound to raise a few eyebrows and turn lots of heads, vegan couple Shena Anderson and Ryan Hendrix will passionately make out in a bed that will be set up on a street in downtown Nashville. While the not-so-discreet couple is getting it on beneath a banner that reads, "Vegans Make Better Lovers," PETA members will hand out copies of the group's "'Go Vegetarian, Go Vegan' Starter Kit" to gaping passersby. Anderson and Hendrix want people to know that they can do themselves--and animals--a big favor by going vegan.
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What's so sexy about going vegan? Besides the fact that heart disease, strokes, diabetes, obesity, and various types of cancer--all of which have been conclusively linked to the consumption of meat and other animal Anderson. "It's veggie burgers in the kitchen for a whopper in the bedroom!".
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For those of us with pets, we look forward to winter as a time of respite from the bugs that torment us and our pets. We look forward to a break from the sprays and gels and powders and medicines … all the things we try on our pets and in our home to keep the blood suckers at bay. However -- and we hope you are sitting down as you read this -- winter does not necessarily spell the end of bug season. Consider the following …
The flea is a very persistent and resilient pest with a very complicated life cycle. It is even capable of surviving in outdoor temperatures as low as the upper 30s. As long as an adult flea can find a suitable host to feed from (such as wild animals or your pet), it can stay warm and healthy through the cold season. Their pupae remain settled in their cocoons until it is warm enough to come out -- as long as they have been placed in a location where they are protected from freezing cold.
Generally speaking, 65-80 degrees Fahrenheit with 75-85 percent humidity is the ideal temperature range for growth and reproduction of fleas. However,.
For residents of the southern states of the U.S, where the winter season may only go as low as the 30s, fleas will often stay active throughout most or all of the winter season. Only sustained cold (less than 30 degrees) and low humidity levels will kill off the eggs, larvae, and adult fleas.
Ticks are also capable of surviving winter temperatures when they are able to find a host to feed from or a warm location to hide in during the coldest weather months. Generally, adult ticks will still be a threat when temperatures hover around 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
For this reason, if your pet spends time outdoors in the winter, tick prevention is still a good idea. And since most medications are designed to thwart both fleas and ticks, it's a good idea to use preventive medications through the year.
While most geographical areas do enjoy a seasonal respite from mosquitoes, the southern climes are still captive to their buzzing, blood-sucking schemes -- even in the winter. Mosquitoes, of course, are carriers of the heartworm parasite, a life threatening nematode that can cause severe disease and even death. (Note: the heartworm actually takes up residence in the lungs. Read more about the symptoms of heartworm infection in dogs and cats.) Even in areas where residents do not have to worry about mosquitoes during the winter, their return in the spring and summer months can catch you off guard. It is best to be pre-prepared.
To safeguard your dogs and cats against heartworm infection, veterinarians suggest using heartworm prevention medication year-round. This is a much easier method of prevention, since you won’t have to remember when to star, or find yourself rushing to get the medication, and you won’t have to worry about having your pet tested for heartworms before beginning a new round of medication in the spring.
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The final word on avoiding parasitic infestations of any kind is to use preventive techniques. Remember that while fleas, ticks and mosquitoes may seem to be merely nuisance pests, they are actually capable of causing severe health problems, from the above mentioned heartworm infection, to skin disorders and infections, to anemia. As the old axiom goes: It is better to be safe than sorry.
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The term glomerulonephritis refers to the inflammation and subsequent dysfunction of the glomeruli -- the small mass of capillaries in the kidney that filters waste products from the blood and into the urine so they can be secreted from the body. The most common cause of glomerulonephritis is the deposition and entrapment of antigen-antibody complexes (such as a toxin or enzyme) within the glomeruli. Moreoever, the disease affects both genders, but occurs in more often in males.
Symptoms and Types
Symptoms may vary depending on the underlying cause, like inflammation, infection, or neoplasia. In some cats, the only presenting symptom may be weight loss and weakness. In fact, many times, the condition is discovered incidental to a routine annual health screening, when increased concentrations of proteins are found in the urine. If the protein loss into the urine is severe, the cat may develop an abnormal collection of fluid in the abdominal cavity (ascites).
In cats suffering from advanced disease with kidney failure, there may be symptoms of increased thirst and frequency of urination, lack of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Those with a severe deficiency of the blood protein albumin (hypoalbuminemia), may suffer from a blockage of the lung's blood vessels, which causes respiratory difficulties or severe panting. High blood pressure, meanwhile, may cause sudden blindness.
Causes
- Inflammation
- Infections
- Idiopathic (unknown)
- Neoplasia (growth of tissue, tumor)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Long-term use of certain drugs
Diagnosis
You will need to give a thorough history of your cat's health, onset of symptoms, and possible incidents that might have led to this condition. A complete blood profile will be conducted, including a chemical blood profile, a complete blood count, and a urinalysis. The results of the complete blood count test are usually not significant. In severe cases, the biochemistry profile may reveal abnormally low levels of blood protein albumin (hypoalbuminemia) and high levels of cholesterol in the blood (hypercholesterolemia). The presence of blood protein albumin and other proteins in the blood may help your veterinarian in making the initial diagnosis. In cats with kidney failure, the urinalysis will reveal corresponding changes in urine.
Creatinine is a waste product normally excreted by the kidneys, and its presence in the urine is measured as a diagnostic indicator of kidney function. Urine protein testing is also performed, as the amount of protein found in the urine can also be used to evaluate and monitor kidney function.
A more specific test calculates the urine protein and creatinine ratio in order to give your veterinarian an idea of the degree of kidney damage. The extent of protein loss in the urine roughly correlates with the severity of the kidney disease. Therefore, measuring protein and creatinine ratio also helps in assessing treatment response and progression or regression of disease.
Diagnostic imaging can also be used for determining how diseased your cat's condition is, and what treatment needs to be applied. These procedures are helpful in the diagnosis of concurrent diseases and in evaluating the kidney size. Abdominal X-rays and ultrasound can be used to evaluate the kidneys and other abdominal organs, and can be helpful in performing a less invasive type of tissue collection for biopsy purposes. Your veterinarian may take a kidney tissue sample (kidney biopsy) to rule other causes of kidney failure, such as neoplasia or cancer.
Treatment
As most cases of glomerulonephritis involve an immune reaction (interaction of antigen and antibodies), the most specific and effective therapy is the control and elimination of such an immune reaction. However, finding and treating the exact disease process or antigen that is causing such an immune reactions is not always possible. Moreover, once renal failure has developed, the prognosis is often poor. The overall treatment of this disease depends on the cause and severity of the disease at the time of diagnosis.
Living and Management
Your veterinarian will recommend an individualized diet plan for your cat that is tailored toward kidney health. These patients often require low sodium and high quality, low quantity, protein diets. Because most drugs are eliminated through the kidneys, do not give your cat.
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Cork Pets require no food, little attention and hate to walk. Each Doxie begins as a carved wax sculpture and is then cast in pewter and polished to a high shine.
You can replace the cork with one of your own from a special bottle of wine or even add a longer wooden peg to get the full effect of a long Dachshund body in this cute pewter pet.
** Handmade in the U.S.A. BY Dachshund Lovers FOR Dachshund Lovers **
Measures: 2" tall x 3 1/2" long
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Senior pets can be just as joyful and loveable as their younger counterparts, but they do have special needs. As your pet reaches its golden years it is important to understand the changes in their health and behavior so that you can help them live their lives to the fullest. Petside delivers expert information and insight about senior dogs and senior cats including articles and videos exploring common senior pet health conditions, adopting an older pet, and end-of-life care.
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Muslim American Democrats
That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who are Democrats (37%) or say they lean toward the Democratic Party (26%).
Overall, 63% of Muslims are Democrats (37%) or say that they lean toward the Democratic Party (26%). Only about one-in-ten (11%), by contrast, are Republicans or Republican leaners, with the remainder (26%) unaffiliated with either political party. Democratic affiliation is much higher among Muslims than it is among the public as a whole: about half of Americans (51%) identify themselves as Democrats or lean Democratic. Republican affiliation is much lower among Muslims than among the general public (11% vs. 36%).
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The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today's most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life.
Jan 07, 2011
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) being convened under United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution 64/236.
The objective of the Conference will be to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and emerging challenges.
The two foci of the Conference will be (a) a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication (GESDPE) and (b) the institutional framework for sustainable development (IFSD). The Conference is to result in a focused political document, and both the Conference and the preparatory process are to carry out an overall appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. They are to ensure the balanced integration of economic development, social development and environmental protection, as interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development. Participation of all major groups is encouraged.
UNCED and WSSD are both remembered as Earth Summit 1 and Earth Summit 2 respectively; it is likely that UNCSD will be remembered as Earth Summit 3. With 70% of the Earth covered by the ocean, and given the importance of the ocean as the life support system of Planet Earth, now is the time for UNCSD to pay due attention to the needs of the ocean, and to the hundreds of millions of people who depend on healthy ocean ecosystems for their very survival.
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Some Good Financial News
Every to the media as the bad. So this week I set out to find some examples of financial good news.
I had to dig pretty deep, and I was disappointed to find that much of what gets reported as “good news” are really press releases sent out by companies and individuals looking to promote their latest charitable acts. While there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s disheartening to find that so much “good news” is really spin.
I did succeed in finding some positive news. It doesn’t make the ugly headlines go away or change the suffering of people having trouble making ends meet, but it made me feel better to turn off the ugliness for a while and find something positive.
1. Charity Raises Enough Money: It’s pretty rare for a charity to announce that it has received enough funding to reach its goals, but that’s what happened at Kiva, a non-profit dedicated to securing micro-loans for people in developing countries who want to start a business or buy an asset.
2. Boy Scout Finds Wallet and Turns It In: A Boy Scout in Michigan found a wallet containing $800 in cash and returned it to the person who lost it. Nice to see that some people still do the right thing. In a follow up story, I learned that someone found the boy’s missing wallet and returned it to him. What goes around comes around.
3. Maryland Enacts Law Enabling Young Adults to Stay on Parents’ Insurance Until Age 25: One less thing kids entering the real world need to worry about. Maybe some other states will follow suit. It would help kids get off on the right foot since so many starter jobs don’t pay benefits.
4. It’s Possible to Improve Gas Mileage by Changing the Way You Drive: You don’t have to suffer so much at the pump. Hpyermiling has allowed these people to outwit the gas companies, often to a large degree, proving that small changes make a difference.
5. Green Collar Jobs Might Spur the Economy: While large sectors of our economy may be having problems, green jobs are becoming more widely available and higher paying. This may be where true economic growth for the future lies, and it’s work you can feel good about.
6. Spending On Others Makes Us Happier Than Spending On Ourselves: We all kind of know this, but sometimes choose to ignore it in the face of rampant consumerism.
7. Congress Attempts to Rein in Credit Card Companies: New proposals were unveiled to try to curb some of the credit card companies slickest tricks. Whether it ultimately happens, we’ll have to wait and see. These things have a way of not materializing. However, in the interest of remaining positive, it’s good that at least they are trying.
8. Simon Cowell Discovers Philanthropic Side: Love him or hate him, at least he’s learning to be charitable, paying off one stricken family’s mortgage. He also claims that the experience taught him the value of giving. Maybe we’ll see more good works from him in the future.
9. Economic Crises May Be Good For You: Economic crises lead to weight loss and better health. In hard times you eat less and move more, making you healthier. You suffer now, but live longer.
10. Mother Rises Out of Poverty: Proving yet again that it is possible to better your circumstances through hard work and ingenuity, no matter how bad the economy.
11. It’s a Good Time To Be An Entrepreneur: The economic slowdown isn’t slowing down the growth of start up businesses. Since small businesses create 60 to 80 percent of new jobs in the U.S., that’s good news.
12. Former Microsoft Exec. Gives Big, And It All Started With a Vacation: Proof that breaking away and taking that vacation you’ve been putting off can change your life and the lives of others.
I hope this little trip into the positive made you feel a bit better about our world. It is possible to find genuine acts of kindness and success, even in these times. It would be nice if the media would spend some more time promoting good things rather than focusing only on the bad. We might all be a little happier.
Another tip: spend more time reading the local news sections of your hometown newspaper.
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