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Students in Cañon City schools can look forward to meeting some new friends when classes resume Aug. 22.
"Phil My Plate," "Trey Spork" and, of course, the "lunch lady" are part of a new cast of characters who will teach younger students the importance of healthy eating habits and active lifestyles.
The characters are part of a proposed marketing campaign created by Director of Nutrition Services Adam Merlino.
"We'll use those characters to teach lessons and market eating healthy meals," he said. "In about a week we will introduce them on Facebook - a page called Team Nutrition."
He said kindergartners are more likely to learn from fun characters than an adult with a bunch of impressive credentials.
The upcoming Facebook page will feature recipes, health tips and more. Merlino said he also plans to be engaged in the district's wellness committee.
Merlino reminds the community that the free summer lunch program continues through Aug. 2 at Cañon City High School School, 1313 College Ave. Hours of service are 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday- Friday. Adults 19 and older pay only $4.
"Parents know their children are getting a healthy lunch," he said. "It's already prepared following some guidelines and there is no thought process required - you just show up and it's a balanced meal."
Parents may find nutrition information at the district's nutrition website, www.bit.ly/14VkIWX


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This is the first time that the Law Enforcement Certification program at CVTC is tackling the subject. They still go over the same stuff as before too: how to maneuver a sqaud car, fire a weapon, and deal with legal issues, but emotional health could just be the most important thing on the syllabus.
*CG 2line Officer Jack Corey
"It's been kind of a trap that law enforcement has fallen into over the years," said Officer Jack Corey of the Eau Claire Police Department.
"So the fact that it's being addressed, that's a very good thing."
It's when the little things that cause stress start to build up when officers can suffer the greatest harm, usually caused by excessive spending, gambling, drinking, or extra-marital affairs.
A vicious cyle can follow too. When you're in debt, you have to work more to earn more money, and that opens an officer up to a situation that's even more dangerous.
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"You can never stop learning in this job, you've always gotta work on your communication skills-maybe you've got problems with something, you've always got to work on something," said Class President Erik Dunn.
"It's conciousness raising is what we called this in the 70's," said Pastor James Schaefer, who teaches the students.
"I'm under the impression that they're gonna make it a regular part of the curriculum."
The way the students are taught to deal with everyday stress is to exercise control in their lives whenever they can, mostly during their free time.
Balancing that can help the students balance out their priorites on the job, their instructors say.
Officers have known about this kind of danger for years, but it's been a tough sell because officers are typically thought to be impurvious to things like stress.

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Shaun Maloney admits Scotland's confidence dented following Wales defeat
Shaun Maloney admits Scotland's confidence is at an all-time low following Friday's World Cup qualifying loss to Wales.
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Scotland, who now lie bottom of Group A, led at the break but two goals within 93 seconds from Chris Coleman's side following Robert Snodgrass' red card saw Wales claim a 2-1 win at Hampden Park.
Scotland have just two points from their five qualifiers and new manager Gordon Strachan has a major task on his hand to lift his players ahead of his first away match in charge against Serbia.
Maloney said: "It's a very low dressing room. The last 20 minutes, when we were down to 10 men, it was very difficult to even get near the ball.
"The more results go against us confidence will be dented. We have just lost 2-1 at home in a must-win game so it's a pretty low dressing room and it's going to be pretty difficult to pick everyone up for Tuesday.
"The next couple of days it will be difficult to get any sort of positives. After a couple of days we might find the odd one. Grant Hanley played particularly well for us in one of his first matches.
"For the first 15 minutes Wales were dominant and after that we kind of got to grips with it. That might be a slim positive for us."
Scotland's two remaining home games are against the unbeaten top two, Croatia and Belgium, and Maloney is aware they need to improve.
Maloney said: "It's obviously been a terrible start. It's a bit cliched but we just have to think about the Serbia. We obviously have to improve and just try to get a decent performance.
"There has obviously been a lot of disappointment with the start to the qualifying campaign and it will be hard to get out of that.
"Obviously you do feel the pride of the nation and we want to finish as high as we can. But we just literally need to take it to the next game and we need to improve."


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I agree with Esme Echo that it would have definitely changed Charlie. But I think it would have changed Bella too had she stayed with her dad. Remember, Bella didn't think highly of herself when she came to Forks. But consider her background: she came from a big city, where there is a much more diverse mix of kids, and where there are usually more people to compete with at school for attention. Bella also concentrated on her mom, and I think that Bella let a lot of her emotions rest on her mom as well. After all, if her mom was more important than she was, then that would explain why Bella felt "uninteresting" when she came to Forks.
However, if she had been raised in Forks, she may not have had the same sense of her own "uninterestingness". She definitely could have concentrated on her own emotions more, rather than her mom's. That means she could have gone two ways: felt more depressed about herself, or felt much more full of herself than she was. I'm inclined to think that she would have been slightly more aware of her own self-worth. The way that the boys at school treated her probably would have changed her attitude once she was exposed to it for years at a time growing up. Either way, this would have changed her relationship with Edward. If it were the first, she would definitely have been stronger, and probably not the Bella that he knows and loves. The feelings on his side might not have been nearly what they were, and voila! He gives into the temptation to kill her.
On the other hand, if she were weaker. . .first of all, she might not have let her relationship with Edward develop at all, because she wouldn't have felt worthy of him. And if she did, she definitely would have committed suicide when he left, meaning that the story is over, let's all go home.
But I think what is more interesting is the idea that Bella's sense of her own "uninterestingness" is fueled by her mother, if not caused by it. Remember, Bella tells Edward that her mother is eccentric, and prettier than she is. That would give Bella a reason to believe that since she isn't like her mother, that she isn't worth the attention and love that Edward is giving her.
Okay, I am going on waaay too long about something that is purely theoretical in the first place. I am going to move on with my life now. . .okay, maybe not, but I will attempt to do so.


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In PES you pay only for the service you receive
How do you see the PES schemes in the Danube Basin, in Bulgaria and Romania, which WWF is developing?PES is a relatively new mechanism. It has grown systematically in the last 20 years and exploded in the last 10 years. Watershed services – one of four types of PES, is the most common, while carbon sequestration is the largest in volume of transactions. The other two environmental services are biodiversity and cultural/aesthetic values. The Danube region is a prime target to start exploring the possibilities of applying PES mechanisms. In Bulgaria WWF is already developing four pilot schemes which are testing the viability of this finance mechanism. The Danube is a massive water body and 19 countries are part of its watershed. Any changes in the quantity or quality of the Danube will have a very serious impact on the land mass which is adjacent to the river. It is a river that very much defines the life of many countries and people. It provides water for domestic consumption for many important European capitals. So, if - for example - the levels of pollution and contamination grow out of control, the impacts are going to be felt immediately. Or, if for some reason a mismanagement of upstream water bodies affects the quantity of water, a significant segment of the population is going to be affected downstream. Or if you want to use the river just as a motorway to promote commerce and make it more amenable for transportation of commodities using bigger ships, then the biodiversity of the watershed is going to be affected as well. From an economic, environmental, political and social perspective, the Danube has an important role to play in the overall integration of livelihood, conservation and development.
Why are watershed PES schemes most popular?Because water stress is becoming a serious issue all over the world. The sources of fresh water are very limited. The problem of water has to do with the quantity, quality and distribution of opportunities to get access to this water. Payment for watershed services is one way of re-establishing the equity of access to water not only within countries but also between them.
How are you going to get people to pay for services which, to them, have no value because they are currently free?There are two positions. Firstly, the amount of water that has been taken for granted and used freely is diminishing. All of a sudden the corporate users of water - bottling, cement or energy companies –realize: "Hey, this water is really decreasing and is going to impact my business". There is an awareness of the scarcity of water which is becoming a serious concern for the large corporate users of water.
Secondly, an integrated view is developing. People are connecting the scarcity of water downstream to upstream changes. In many watersheds where we developed our EPWS Programme upstream areas are populated by poor farming communities. The actions they exert upon the land have a direct impact on the quantity and quality of water. Like it or not you have to deal with water managers upstream because those are the stewards who are going to undertake the required steps to restore the ecosystem capacity to provide the water services downstream. So the free water use is a thing of the past because of growing water scarcity on the one hand, and on the other because of the obvious connection between upstream and downstream habitats providing the foundations for agreements such as PWS.
How do you price an ecosystem service?Valuation of ecosystem services is quite a problematic issue because people are trying to put a price tag on a service that is not entirely "marketable" by definition. There are all kinds of philosophical, ideological and scientific issues around the "marketing" of nature. There are some who are highly critical of mechanisms by which nature is "for sale", whereby nature is transformed into a market commodity. It is argued that there is the risk of misusing what nature provides by transforming it into a commodity like a car, a shirt or a table. However, we must consider that in programmes such as EPWS you provide an environmental service in such a way that you restore nature's capacity to provide such services. There is a tangible result which is a water service different than its source: nature. In addition to this there is an intangible improvement of the system itself that in the long run is going to permit the continuation of the provision of these services. A hydroelectric dam which produces "X" MW of energy needs a constant volume of water. But if something is happening upstream – deforestation, changes in the rain cycle – which is going to affect the volume of water, the hydroelectric business is going to suffer. If the volume of water is restored, the hydroelectric business is going to improve. Part of such benefit is the payment that must go upstream to pay for the restoration of the ecosystem. So the notion of improving the profitability of the downstream user and the cost of changing the land upstream are two of the main components of evaluating the ecosystem service.
So this is not a gimmick to make the business pay?No, in PES there is the contingency principle – you pay only for the service you receive. This type of contractual association between buyers and sellers is managed by very strict regulations monitored by independent bodies.
Why is PES getting more popular?People are becoming more environmentally aware, in general. There is much bigger concern whether because of global warming or the increased fury of nature – tornados, hurricanes, through all those manifestations people are perceiving that there is a human action which is modifying the natural cycles. This is generating an increased consciousness and awareness about the need to maintain and restore an ecosystem balance. We have to use innovative mechanisms available to us to restore balances. What used to work in the past is not working nowadays.
Can you give examples of successful PES schemes around the world?The two most well-known cases in the developed world are the Vittel (Nestlé Waters) in north-eastern France - paying farmers to adopt more environmentally friendly practices, and the case of the Catskill Watershed Corporation where New York City Municipal Government pays for water services. In Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia there are schemes run by the governments. In Peru a scheme was started by us (The WWF - CARE Consortium) and it is now continued by the government. In China the PES approach is also being explored.
Do you believe that in the end the market will save the world?No, we have to save the world in spite of the market, which has to be more responsible towards human needs and respect the environment. Under the global crisis people are interested in keeping their jobs. Energy production and food security are also priorities. These urgent demands place environmental regulations as secondary matters. We have to understand however to what extent environmental decay is a significant component of the economic crisis. Profits are made out of nature and people, and not the other way around. If you destroy nature, you are going to end up with empty bags.
When PES cannot help?It is not the answer to every single environmental problem. There are many options that are much more effective. PES works under very special conditions that must be established in advance. PES cannot resolve all the problems once and for all. It is one approach among many.
It cannot resolve the managerial problems connected with the misuse of natural resources, nor the governmental and legislative limitations that prevent the manipulation of the environment to produce contracts among water users. PES cannot deal with environmental damages created by natural disasters.


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Unusually no April foolishness from the forums it seems.
No, no, he did. In the everything else section, at least. Officially, this makes him king.
That comment made me think Google had some sort of Breaking Bad reference if you went to ABQ on Quest mode....Lego, I am disappoint.
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Lindenwood University's 2012-2013 Nonprofit Professional Development Series will continue with two presentations scheduled in February. "Maximizing Nonprofit Collaborations" will be on Wednesday, Feb. 6, and "Cause Marketing" will be on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Both take place from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Memorial Arts Building's Latzer Hall.
The first workshop will include discussion on best practices for common types of collaborations found within nonprofits, including mergers, shared resources, fiscal sponsorships, and joint program alliances. The presentation will be delivered by Chris Miller, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Mission Center, which educates nonprofit professionals, board members, and donors on the creation more efficient, effective, and sustainable organizations.
The presentation on Feb. 20 will cover the alignment of corporate and social sectors in order to reach common goals, including raising awareness, generating funds, and building organizational reputations. The address will be given by Kristin Williams, Executive Director of the St. Charles City-County Library Foundation, and Victoria Schmitt Babb, Community Engagement Director of Unlimited Play.
The Memorial Arts Building is located on Lindenwood's main St. Charles campus. The cost to attend is $15 per individual workshop in advance or $25 at the door if space permits.
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When a Premier League footballer retires from the beautiful game they usually either step away from the game completely, go into punditry or begin their coaching courses to become a qualified football coach.
Some former players fail to make the grade in coaching and others have made the transition from playing to coaching with relative ease - with new Manchester United manager David Moyes being a prime example.
Here GMS takes a small group of former British international stars who have what it takes to become a Premier League manager in the near future.
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Kane edges St. Marys in overtime
The Kane wolves girls soccer team picked up a big win Wednesday with an exciting overtime victory of St. Marys. The visiting team got on the board quickly with just over four minutes into the game Holly Shields scored unassisted. Then with only four minutes again Shields had an assist to Shannon Bridges to put the Lady Dutch ahead 2-0.The Lady Wolves found themselves on their heals in the first half. Then with 25:51 left in the game Kelsey Johnson got a pass from Chanda Paup and put Kane on the scoreboard. In just 10 seconds the Lady Wolves were able to take control of the ball and Dawn Saquin found Taylor Bucheit who tied the score at 2-2. Both teams would exchange shots on goal but were unable to penetrate the goalie. The game then would go into overtime.The crowd was a little concerned as the home team had to defend the worse part of the field. That didn't seem to make any difference in the girls as they kept the pressure on and with only six minutes left in the first sudden death period Paup made a nice pass to a streaking Bucheit who put in the winning goal."The girls had a difficult time playing on today's field, but, it didn't shut them down," said Kane head girls soccer coach Allie Saquin. "Some of our shots on goal were limited, but, we told the girls to just keep taking them. See full article by purchasing the Oct. 6 edition of The Kane Republican.


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Walking the floor of the Craft and Hobby Association (CHA) Trade Show is always an adventure! What could possibly be more exciting than getting to see three huge showrooms of brand new products that you can hardly wait to get your hands on? Only one thing: getting to share that experience with your girlfriends!
From the very beginning, the i {heart} papers team has had strong ties to Paper Craft Planet and I adore Susanna. :) Our mutual love of paper and paper-crafting was the foundation for our friendship, and CHA has given us the opportunity to meet face-to-face and translate those online friendships into real life. It's so much more fun in person than it is on screen!
As we walked the CHA floor we were drawn to certain products and projects...when we discussed them over dinner we discovered some emerging trends. That's what today's challenge is all about.
Of course, not everyone can attend CHA. We were quite sorely missing some of our team mates...and the general public is not eligible to attend. Thankfully, those of you who couldn't be there can live vicariously through the next best thing: photos! Check out these in this post from Susanna, and several posts from MoxieFab!
For my card today I am highlighting chevrons. They were EVERYWHERE. (And don't forget Mint Motif's Beyond Borders, recently featured in Stamp It! 3 Ways has a chevron in it!) But for today, I used Paper Smooches Forest Whimsy set along with Sentiment Sampler, stamped in Memento inks. I popped the focal image and the handcut cloud out on some dimensionals (more on order!) I used My Mind's Eye Away We Go pad for both background papers and the paper for piecing the hat. I added some Liquid Pearls and Crackle Accents on the beard and boots for extra texture, my oval Nesties and layered some faux suede ivory ribbon and some ivory lace from my stash as the final finishing touch.
Here is the lineup for today's trendy challenge. Be sure to hop along and leave UNIQUE comments for all the participants. I'll be drawing a random commenter from all the comments to win a trendy prize pack! (CONTEST CLOSED) Here are the links for you!
and our guests from PCP:
Adela Rossol
Lisa Somerville
Lyn Bernatovich
Susanna Boyd
Taylor Usry
Wendy Price
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While global greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar, U.S. emissions are back down to where they were in the mid-1990s. This decline is partly due to the economic downturn, but a key contributor has been electricity generators' shift from coal to natural gas.
Natural gas generated 30 percent of U.S. electricity last year, doubling in a decade. But there are opportunities beyond electricity generation – in buildings, manufacturing and transportation – where expanded natural gas use could help reduce emissions in the near and medium term.
A new report by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions examines both the challenges and the opportunities in leveraging the U.S. natural gas boom to cut emissions.
The opportunities for reducing greenhouse gases we found include:
- Increased direct use of natural gas in homes and businesses by replacing certain electric appliances, such as space and water heaters, with natural gas models.
- Expanded use of natural gas-powered fuel cells and microturbines producing efficient, on-site energy that makes use of waste heat.
- Manufacturing growth with lower emissions by using natural gas in more efficient combined heat and power systems.
- Reduced reliance on petroleum and reduced emissions by substituting natural gas for diesel and gasoline in centrally fueled fleets and heavy-duty trucks.
To maximize the climate benefits of increased natural gas use, we must overcome a number of challenges. First and foremost, we must continue to take steps throughout the natural gas system to reduce leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is the primary component of natural gas.
To achieve the steep carbon reductions needed in the long term, we must also ensure that abundant natural gas doesn't crowd out zero-carbon energy sources such as wind, solar and nuclear, and that it doesn't deter energy efficiency and carbon capture-and-storage technologies. Natural gas and renewables should be thought of as complements, not competitors. Natural gas can back up solar and wind, which aren't always available, and renewables can hedge against price swings in natural gas.
Substituting natural gas for other fossil fuels cannot be the sole basis for long-term U.S. efforts to address climate change. But strategically used, natural gas can provide measureable, near-term climate benefits. And in the long run, natural gas combined with carbon capture and storage could provide a nearly zero-carbon energy alternative.
Opportunities to meaningfully address the nation's energy and climate challenges won't materialize on their own. We'll need to educate consumers and manufacturers about their options and encourage innovative financing models and incentives to extend natural gas lines and promote on-site power generation. State polices will also need to be aligned to encourage development of distributed generation technologies.
Done in the right way, the United States can leverage this natural gas boom to help both the economy and the climate.


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The RMU Island Sports Center on Neville Island runs a draft league. You sign up and get drafted onto a team and the teams are different from season to season. I think they'll allow you to be drafted on the same team as one other person.
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Currently doing an interview with Mo on 1530AM. Some of these are paraphrased, but you get the idea. Just thought I'd share.
Walt Jocketty on Shin-Soo Choo
"Joey Votto sent me a text after the trade last night and he was very excited."
"We've tried a couple of different deals for CF types that fell through. We talked to Cleveland about Choo last year at deadline, but this one came together kind of fast over the past couple of days. We put this together Sat, Sun, and Mon. Finalized late last night, about 9PM. It was a deal we felt was very important to us. Hurt to give up Didi. SS is "locked up" with Cozart for 5-6 years."
"With the way the money has gone, we don't know what to expect going into the future. If we sign him, great, if not, we know we have BH to take over."
"We'll let the year play out (2013) before visiting trying to sign Choo to extension."
"One of the deals we had in place required trading a few of our top young pitchers. Just not something we wanted to do."
"This is probably the best lineup we've had here...at least in my time."
"We think Choo will be at least average in CF. He came up in SEA as a CF then moved him to RF because they had, I think, Adam Jones there as well. We think he should be able to cover CF here at GABP, which isn't really a very big CF."
"Dusty and I have discussed moving Bruce to CF. I thnk we're going to go into ST with an open mind but we'd prefer to keep Jay in RF."
"If Hannahan gets done, he'll be a LHH that'll play several INF positions."
"Hannahan/Donald will not proclude us from bringing back Scott."
"If Rolen does come back, he's thought about how he'll adapt to a lesser role than what he's used to."
"We want to go into ST with flexibility in the rotation. Chapman could start, or could start in the bullpen and then start later in the year. I think our pitching staff and roster is pretty well set. I like competition but we'll still look for ways to add depth to the organization in AAA and AA."
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You've been eyeing the next table at the coffee shop. It is not the woman sitting there, nor her croissant. You have laptop envy. She's typing away on a slick, super-slim MacBook Air. It would be so great to be able to fit your computer into your handbag—and not dislocate your shoulder. There is, however, the $1,000 price tag.
Enter the new Samsung Chromebook. It looks like the MacBook Air. The screen is the same size, the weight and thinness are comparable, it boots up in seconds, and the battery enables it to run for more than six hours.
And it costs just $249.
Too good to be true? Well, you won't be able to run Photoshop or Microsoft Word.
The Chromebook runs Google's Chrome operating system. In Chrome, all of the applications run in the browser. You can do word processing with Google docs and basic photo editing with PIXLR.
If you already do most of your everyday tasks in the Google-verse (Docs, Gmail, calendar, chat, etc.), the Chromebook is perfect. If you need specialized software, it will probably disappoint.
Currently Google Drive is offering 100GB of free space for two years if you buy a Chromebook. And GOGO is offering 12 free inflight wifi passes to use while you're flying.


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Indians outnumber non-Indians in the Peruvian highlands. Many of them, in cities such as Ayacucho, Huancavelica, and Huancayo and hosts of villages continue to farm and produce handicrafts much as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Now they use cell phones and the Internet, but their native dress and languages and their nearness to the soil help them maintain their identity as a people apart. Host Dave Yetman meets Quechua people and learns from them about their fascinating past and present.
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When Laura Johnson scored 32 points against Concordia on Dec. 31, the Bethel College guard and Millbrook native had no idea she was beginning a historic week.
"When coach (Jody Martinez) told me I'd scored 30-something, I thought, 'That's awesome," Johnson said this week. "But it didn't take long for me to forget all about that game and go on to the next one."
In "the next one," Johnson scored 24 points and had five rebounds, two assists and three steals in a 71-62 defeat of Mount Vernon Nazarene on Jan. 2. She then totaled 21 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals in an 80-71 victory over St. Francis (Ind.) on Jan. 5.
For the week of Dec. 31 to Jan. 6, Johnson averaged 25.7 points, 5.7 rebounds, three assists and three steals per game. That happened to be the first week that the NAIA chose its first Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Week for the 2012-13 season, an honor it gave to Johnson. She was also the Player of the Week for the Crossroads League and for the National Christian College Athletic Association.
"I was kind of clueless about it," Johnson said. "I knew I had a decent week because my coach was telling me I should get Player of the Week in conference. The next thing I knew, I had gotten the Christian national (award). Then my coach told me about the (NAIA) one."
Only one other player in Bethel's history, current assistant coach Natalie Young, has ever been named a NAIA Player of the Week in women's basketball.
"I don't think I realized at first how big a deal it was until I was reading the article that Bethel wrote about how the only other person from the Lady Pilots to do it was Natalie Young," Johnson said. "She's amazing. She's someone with their jersey retired. When I realized I was sharing something like this with her, I was like, 'Wow. It's a bigger deal than I realized.'"
In a Bethel release, Martinez called the NAIA honor "one of the most difficult achievements a player can earn at this level."
"I am very proud of Laura for this recognition by the NAIA," Martinez said in the release. "She has done amazing things since she has been at Bethel, especially these last two seasons, and she continues to get better each day because of her work ethic."
'A perfect journey'
After graduating from Newark High School in 2009, Johnson attended Olivet Nazarene University and played one season of basketball for the Tigers. She had also strongly considered attending Bethel out of high school, so when she decided to transfer, her choice of destination was an easy one.
"It was a combination of things," Johnson said of the decision. "I think I almost settled for Olivet because it was closer (to home). My best friend from high school went there and I got to room with her.
"Olivet was a huge part of how I got to where I am. You know what they're going to do — shoot threes all the time. That helped me a lot with my three-point shooting. I thought I would like that style of play, but once I got there I realized it wasn't my favorite. I felt like it eliminated part of my game, their style of play.
"(Martinez) had told me that if anything doesn't work out, that I had his number and could give him a call, so I did. I'm so grateful that it has all worked out the way it has."
Johnson appeared in 27 games, starting two, for Bethel in 2010-11. She averaged 2.74 points per game. By 2011-12, she emerged as the Lady Pilots' leading scorer, averaging 15.76 points per game. She started 31 of their 33 games and averaged a team-high 30 minutes per game.
That increase in responsibilities has continued into this season. She has started all 21 games and averaged a team-high 32.7 minutes per game. Her scoring is up to 20.0 points per game for a team with nobody else averaging over 11.3.
"Coach does a good job of ... monitoring how we're doing. We practice hard, but when we have busy stretches, he tries to save us for game day," Johnson said. "He talks a lot about the minutes I'm getting. But honestly, between media timeouts and our timeouts, I feel I get decent breaks."
Johnson has made 67-of-164 three-point attempts this season (40.9 percent) and is 85-for-98 (86.7 percent) from the free-throw line.
"I think it's just me putting time in," Johnson said. "My confidence is growing each game. ... I student taught last semester, so I didn't have a lot of free time. Now I'm trying to come in (and shoot) between classes whenever I can. My teammates' faith and trust in me helps, and they do a great job of getting me the ball."
Ten regular-season games remain for the Lady Pilots before the Crossroads Tournament. Johnson hopes their season, and her career, extends beyond that.
"A huge thing is if we can get to the NAIA Nationals again and win our first game. That's definitely the goal," Johnson said. "Last year we lost 11 games, and six of them came from this point in the season on, so finishing strong is definitely a goal.
"It's just great having the support of my family in going farther away. I love when they get to come to games, even though the drive out here isn't the greatest," Johnson added. "And I wouldn't be where I am if it wasn't for Christ. I never thought in a million years I could be at this level. I think him for it all. It's been a blessing — a perfect journey — how I got here."
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When Laura Johnson scored 32 points against Concordia on Dec. 31, the Bethel College guard and Millbrook native had no idea she was beginning a historic week.


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Jumping off 30 feet walls and clambering through rickety shafts are actions usually reserved for Hollywood and prime time TV, but two inmates in Germany have hit the headlines after escaping from their cell with the help of a screwdriver and some knotted-together bed sheets in a prison break fit for the big screen.
The two Poles, imprisoned in the southern German city of Nürnberg on remand, performed the spectacular prison break by climbing through the roof of their cell toilet, crawling into the loft of the building and then using their bed sheets to abseil down the outer walls of the detention center.
"The walls are almost 15 meters high. If the sheets had ripped they would have fallen to their deaths," a prison spokesman told reporters.
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Ever wanted to see a lamb talk? Ever wanted to see a lamb say the word "Yeah!" surprisingly loudly? Well then, today is your lucky day.
As you might have guessed, after first spying this video, the internet promptly went - as they said in the '90s, at least - 'mad fer it', with it swiftly achieving meme status just on the power of talking baby sheep alone.
Sure, the Alsatian with the surprised face in the background helps, there's no doubt about that, but was mainly the unexpected sound from the sheeplet's mouth that made it the viral sensation that it's become. (For the lamb in his original incarnation, see this video by YouTube user camelsandfriends.)
Just as a teaser of what the web's been up to with this joy of a clip, here's Usher's Papers with a little bit of sheepy goodness thrown in. Amazing stuff, no?
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Was it a boy or a girl?
Now, I think it's a little early to start imposing roles on it, don't you?
I learned how to clean up forensic evidence from my basement....
Thank you Wikipedia!
Which is particularly annoying because deletionists will be happy to tell you that Wikipedia Is Not A Manual Or Guidebook, so this could never have happened with Wikipedia in the first place.
I previously challenged anyone to link to a wikipedia article which is provably wrong in a key fact presented and hasn't been corrected for more than a week. The best people came up with are spelling errors and questionable references. So as far as I am concerned, peer review system makes Wikipedia more reliable than an average printed manual or guidebook where any mistakes couldn't have been corrected since I bought it.
Well, you could try wiggling out of this one on a technicality, insisting on an article that is provably wrong in key facts and has been for more than a week, rather than one where that exact situation occurred but the article was later corrected after more than a week. But I'm sure you wouldn't do that, since that would be an artificial limitation.
So perhaps you should look at this version of an article about Colin Pitchfork, a convicted child killer: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colin_Pitchfork&oldid=141669223 [wikipedia.org] . Among the other false key facts presented in the article for twenty-five days (over three weeks):
* the city and the county where the murders occurred;
* the years where they occurred;
* the existence of a third murder;
* the year of Pitchfork's confession;
* the date and year of Pitchfork's sentencing;
* the name of the initial incorrect suspect;
* the affiliation of the scientist who developed the technique that identified Pitchfork;
* how Pitchfork's ruse to defeat forensic testing failed.
That's a bit more than "spelling errors and questionable references."
Mars XXX. Google it: The first hit is a Wikipedia article describing Mars candy bars, which says that the XXX variant is gold-wrapped and filled with bourbon. Every other hit for "Mars XXX" relating to candy is a copy of the Wikipedia article. This part of the Wikipedia article hasn't changed for months (at least).
I'd like to think that if Mars were selling bourbon-filled candy bars, that someone would've mentioned it outside of Wikipedia. Alas.
Except the point the GP was making is that the content wouldn't be in Wikipedia in the first place, so it's accuracy is hardly relevant.
Ok, I'll bite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_iron_cookware#Seasoning [wikipedia.org]
Seasoning isn't magnetite formation, it's amorphous carbon formation. Someone got blueing confused with seasoning. Not too many people at home boil their pans in potassium nitrate and lye to season them. Worse, the article says something about oil protecting the metal from the oxygen in the air so that rust won't form, yet the formation of magnetite requires oxygen to react with the iron.
A friend of mine once changed the article for the movie Beaches to indicate that Arnold Schwarzenegger had a small, and uncredited cameo.
Wikipedia is the best thing to happen to gambling since rigged dice and double sided coins.
Maybe the computer wasn't close at hand.
Wait, if you were home, why would you need mobile internet? Or were there other circumstances keeping you from accessing your home net connection?
Because he did not want to have to Goggle "how to clean afterbirth off of a laptop"...
"how to clean afterbirth off of a laptop"
Yep, this story. - Pretty disruptive for people who need a (quick) answer and not your stupid comment.
Wait, if you were home, why would you need mobile internet? Or were there other circumstances keeping you from accessing your home net connection?
Because he did not want to have to Goggle "how to clean afterbirth off of a laptop"...
Can't clean laptop! The goggles, they do nothing!
The internet can be used to answer all sorts of questions! I recently left my laptop unattended in the living room, and when I came back "How to get a threesome in Dragon Age" was in the search box.
The only question now is which one of my roommates needed to resort to a FAQ to figure that one out...
...to catch a critter that got into my basement.
Yeah, it's called get a cat
I think your sig actually paraphrases what the article said.
If one doesn't know how to, how does one learn to google something on the internet?
I tried that, and now I'm just scared. [imageshack.us]
how is babby delivered?
"Yahoo" lives up to it's namesake again.....
The AT&T EDGE service on my Blackberry would have delivered the information by the baby's 1st birthday if I was lucky. That is making the assumption that the built in browser could actually load the webpage.
He probably read this wikiHow article [wikihow.com]
You would think in all those nine months of labor the thought to read about delivery would cross his mind...
You should make a commercial about your experience with AT&T. Oh wait, there's a SLAPP [wikipedia.org] for that...
(Yes, for the legal pedants out there, I know it's not the same, but nothing else rhymed quite the same. It's satire, lighten up already.)
I don't want to imagine what would happen if the mobile phone in question was windows mobile based!!
Now I must hide quickly because I can hear the astroturfers running already..
Disclaimer: I own a mobile phone based on windows mobile 6.1.
or tell them it actually comes out of a different hole
That's how you know it's going to be a lawyer.
(apologies to NewYorkCountryLawyer and cpt kangarooski)
Anyone faced with a woman about to deliver, and their first thought is "I know, I'll go search around on google" is my hero.
Between Balls and Stupidity.
Glad he got it done!
Glad he got it done!
At that point, neither he nor his Blackberry had much to do with the proceedings!
Anyone faced with a woman about to deliver, and their first thought is "I know, I'll go search around on google" is my hero.
I don't know. FTA:
Five minutes after the delivery the midwife arrived to cut the umbilical cord of their fourth child.
What kind of geek is he when he can't master delivering a baby the forth time around? I would have memorized the wiki-article by now.
the real headline ought to be: "Mother ejects baby in uncomplicated delivery"
What on earth has the mother got to do with it???
Yeah I'd like to hear the stork's side of all this.
The survival rates for childbirth without medical support are lousy enough to make medical support a generally good idea; but it isn't as though humans are exempt from the general mammalian ability to deliver live young without dying.
We've already got a sky-high miscarriage rate, a fun fact nobody likes to talk about in public. Something like 1/3rd of all pregnancies in the US result in miscarriages. Though I am aware of no science supporting this, I suspect it has to do with 2-3 generations full of people being born that otherwise were not healthy enough for one reason or another. Nature kinda takes care of this on its own.
I know it sounds cruel and insane, but part of me really thinks that we're fucking ourselves over long-term by providing such "excellent" health care. We're almost completely bypassing natural selection...
Bullshit. From fittingly/where-else Wikipedia:
Determining the prevalence of miscarriage is difficult. Many miscarriages happen very early in the pregnancy, before a woman may know she is pregnant. Treatment of women with miscarriage at home means medical statistics on miscarriage miss many cases.[28] Prospective studies using very sensitive early pregnancy tests have found that 25% of pregnancies are miscarried by the sixth week LMP (since the woman's Last Menstrual Period).[29][30] Clinical miscarriages (those occurring after the sixth week LMP) occur in 8% of pregnancies.[30]
The risk of miscarriage decreases sharply after the 10th week LMP, i.e. when the fetal stage begins.[31] The loss rate between 8.5 weeks LMP and birth is about two percent; loss is "virtually complete by the end of the embryonic period."[32]
Likelihood of miscarriage drastically increases with the mother's age; the average age of mothers at childbirth has steadily increased in the past decades, although I was very surprised to see it's still at 25 in the US. So it's got fuck all to do with "bypassing natural selection".
We've already got a sky-high miscarriage rate, a fun fact nobody likes to talk about in public. Something like 1/3rd of all pregnancies in the US result in miscarriages.
Yes, miscariages seem to naturally occur often in humans [wikipedia.org], 40% according to the sources that wikipedia cites. (specially with older parents, where the gametes had accumulated more mutations).
Well, you know what ? Mutation DO happen. A child has NOT a carbon-copy of the same genetic material as the parents.
A mutation could be catastrophically bad, slightly bad, neutral, slightly good or miraculously good.
The slightly good/bad and the miraculously good is what make evolution work, no matter how much the Creat
Yes, but isn't it cool that if you found yourself in a scenario where a woman is giving birth you could quickly find out what you should do?
The survival rates for childbirth without medical support are lousy enough to make medical support a generally good idea
According to the article, the "google-delivered" baby-girl was the mother's fourth pregnancy and fourth birth.
That means that all previous 3 of them went ok, and that the mother has quite some experience.
Also, as the whole story happened in a country were medical assistance is available and as the parents seem not to be against assistance (the mother seem to be checked by a midwife on a regular basis. they even called the midwife back - she just didn't manage to arrive soon enough), we can presume that they had pre-natal assistance (Echography, etc.) and we can assume that the doctors and mid-wife saw nothing peculiar or dangerous in advance either.
If there's no peculiar bad luck (like the unlucky baby entangling herself in the umbilical cord while exiting), chances are high that everything will go ok this time too. The father needed only to assist the mother, not to be able to react and start an emergency resucitation or whatever.
So although a medical support would have helped in case of some catastrophic event, the chance of such a catastrophic event where pretty low in this peculiar couple's situation.
but it isn't as though humans are exempt from the general mammalian ability to deliver live young without dying.
Well, on the other hand humans have a couple of problem. Unlike carnivore mammalian, our women tend to give birth to a rather single huge fair-developed baby instead of several small partially developed kittens/puppies. This size-problem is further worsened by the fact we are the only bipedal, upright-walking mammals and thus have pelvises which are optimized for a different bio-mechanical everyday use as the other mammals.
So quite a lot of thing can go wrong. Slightly more than with cats and dogs, for example.
On the other hand, we're social animals and have probably lived in small packs and tribes for quite a long period. Chances are high that, even with our cavemen ancestors young first-time mother could receive help from more experienced members of the tribe. (Supposedly, prostitution isn't the only job which could be called "the world's oldest profession")
For years I told people, "the information revolution has not yet begun." About six months ago, while eating breakfast at a little, podunk diner in a town of around 500 people, I got curious about what causes Tidal Locking. [wikipedia.org] So, without thinking about it, I whipped out my iPhone and looked it up using Wikipanion.
Then, I realized what I was doing. I, as someone who knows basically nothing about orbital mechanics, was sitting in a little diner on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere and had access to more information than I could possibly use on an obscure, orbital-mechanical phenomenon. All on a whim. That's when I decided that "the information revolution has begun." It's not well-begun, it's not finished, it's not even fully taken shape yet. But it's begun.
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it's not finished
If the information revolution ever finishes, you won't read about it on the internet.
FWIW, IMHO, the "information revolution" as you call it, has begun, has taken shape and is beyond the hype.
Sure it'll change in the future; information may become easier or quicker to access, information may get different qualitative properties, but right now any information can (atleast technically) be shared with anybody around the world.
Nobody would say the industrial revolution is "not well-begun, not finished and no
No, you're not correct. Being able to look up useless information isn't helpful. That's mostly useless. You could very well have waited until you got access to a public library and had the same effect.
It's being able to have instant access to information that you can then use to further your goals that you will be empowered to affect change. And I think we've been there for a little while, eg stock research. It used to take subscribing to paper information, and the speed of your reactions were dictated
There is another side of the story, though I'll agree it's effects may not be as important: in ages past, you, being Sir Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein, would be intrigued by that idea and would think about it, learn some math, tinker with it and eventually maybe produce something of monumental importance. I imagine someone like Einstein asking himself "what happens if you travel the speed of light?" then looks it up in Wikipedia and reads "Nothing much." then shrugs and continues with his merry life...
And now I'm installing Wikipanion on my iPhone, continuing the revolution.
Seriously, thanks for mentioning this. I didn't know about this app but it's going to make wasting time on Wikipedia while on the can^Wtrain so much easier.
That's when I decided that "the information revolution has begun."
You mean that's when you realised the information revolution had begun. We've been able to access wikipedia on our phones long before the iPhone came around - and I'd argue that the 'revolution' didn't begin just because you're reading about orbital mechanics with your phone instead of your laptop.
When will the revolution be finished? Perhaps when we can access the internet with a neural interface?
I just looked up the article. Not that I exactly plan on doing things this way, but in a pinch the information could prove useful in a couple of months.
...what followed was the most perverted and erotic delivery ever outside of hentai.
Ah well, atleast ONE thing google helped bring into the world that is no longer in Beta.
I thing we are always beta, evolutionary speaking.
That we have to google how to have a baby. Your deity must be proud! Or Darwin. Here I was thinking we're the smartest we've ever been... and we need instructions on how to reproduce. Never mind that 2000 years ago, even 200 years ago, most everyone was illiterate. And 20,000 years ago, they probably didn't even realize babies come from sex. (Actually many tribes consider the baby in proportion to the number of contributing men). What ever would we do?
No, he was finding out what he needs to do to deliver a baby. It's not about her having a baby.
Add to that there are a myriad of things that can go wrong.
You might not how very few babies in industrialized nations die at birth.
It seems to me using science to get better survival rates is a good thing.
It's a good thing he didn't have a Blackberry Storm to mash his query out on, or he would have been confused by the instructions on "how to slither a navy"
Why would you want to start your child's life with an increased risk of death?
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2975 [sciencebasedmedicine.org]
http://getbetterhealth.com/homebirth-risks-babies-three-times-more-likely-to-die/2009.11.12 [getbetterhealth.com]
the data is very good.
Heck, man. Just being born guarantees death.
But I can just imagine myself trying to look up how to deliver a baby on my phone's Internet browser. I wouldn't even get "how to" entered with T9 before I passed out.
Most people would simply deliver a baby through a vagina...
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E.T.E.B.O.N. (Eigen Tabak en bollen om niet), a fraternity (corps) of the students of the Mennonite Seminary at Amsterdam, formerly connected with the fraternities of the University of Amsterdam, was founded on 7 May 1814. The association song is the Latin Patriam Canimus. Its colors are red, white, and blue—-the colors of the Netherlands. Nearly all the ministers of the Dutch Mennonite churches were members of this corps as students. The records of its meetings are written in verse. Admission is bound with certain mysterious ceremonies. Formerly a pilgrimage was made every two years to Hotel de Grebbe at Rhenen on the Rhine.The 25th, 50th, 75th, 80th, 100th, 125th, and 140th anniversaries were celebrated, and Gedenkschriften were published on a number of these occasions. At the end of World War I (ca. 1918) the E.T.E.B.O.N. broke its connection with the student fraternities, and has lost much of its importance.
Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1914): 59-68; (1953): 17 f.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 612.
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Provide for the esoteric, exotic, and impractical in the curriculum; the practical and pedestrian will take care of itself. If it does not, you have not lost much anyway; so I think the impractical things are the most practical and important in the long run. (Herman Wells, 1980)
Herman Wells was president of Indiana University and one of the great educational leaders of the twentieth century. His father was a banker, and Wells himself studied business administration and served as dean of the IU business school before becoming the university's president. However, he had a deep appreciation for music, theater, history, and other liberal arts.
Today, and thanks entirely to Wells, Indiana University is one of the nation's best public universities. It has the top university music school as well as many outstanding science and technology programs. Every administrator in higher education should follow the example of Herman Wells in supporting the liberal arts, even when it is difficult to explain what the practical benefit of the arts and humanities is.
Follow Wells, I say–but only to a certain point! That is the surprising point I wish to offer you as a history professor. Since Wells declared his important message in 1980, the academy has changed. Professors in the liberal arts are much more specialized than they used to be. They are also much more focused on their research projects as opposed to offering students a broad and stimulating introduction to what Wells called "the esoteric, exotic, and impractical." As a result, the language of the liberal arts has become not merely impractical but irrelevant. Impractical means that a subject offers no immediate material benefit. Irrelevant means that a subject never engages the challenges of living outside the academy.
In addition, the pressure to publish books in order to get tenure is so intense, that liberal arts professors frequently (not all the time but frequently) are more focused on their own careers than in the future of their students. Thus, while business and engineering schools typically track what happens to their alumni in order to measure the success of their programs, liberal arts departments typically do not—maybe the faculty don't want to know what the fate of liberal arts students is?
The ideal education combines practical and liberal elements. Developing fine writing skills, a sense of aesthetics, a sense of the past, an understanding of world religions—these are not merely frills but are the foundation of mature conversation and ethical decision-making. At the same time, the ideal university would also require students to do all or most of the following:
• A professional or political internship outside of the university, or a course on leadership
• A course in accounting, economic theory, or entrepreneurship
• An advanced class in information technology or computer science
• A workshop in career counseling
A great liberal arts student will always find a way to network himself or herself into the professional world after graduation. But most history, most English students are just average, if that. They are not going to become professional scholars or journalists. In fact, liberal arts majors are increasingly becoming the default majors of mediocre and sub-par students. There is a serious risk that these students will neither humanistic nor professional skills.
At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, there are a variety of good opportunities for a student to receive a balanced education, that is, a practical liberal education. An anthropology student can do a minor in Information Technology, or participate in the Entrepreneurship Initiative. There are also a variety of interdisciplinary programs, like the Bachelor's Degree With Individual Concentration, in which students can use their imagination to combine courses from across the university into a coherent major that is both intellectually and professionally acute.
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A Calhoun County Commission meeting took an unexpected turn Tuesday. At the end of the meeting, a commissioner called for a grand jury investigation of several county officials and their spending practices.
Commissioner Danny Ray Wise specifically targeted County Administrator, Sonny O'Bryan and Clerk of Courts, Ruth Attaway.
Wise claimed O'Bryan spent too much on travel expenses, among other issues.
He also pointed the finger at his fellow commissioners, by asking for a review of the county's bidding and spending practices. Wise said he was well aware that request would lump himself in the category of those being investigated also.
"I want to be held to the fire too" Wise explained. "If I've done something wrong, I'll own up to it."
Wise said he had several issues he wanted investigated. In addition to the travel expenses, he said he thought the county administrator position itself was not only unneeded, but not supported by any county ordinance in the bylaws.
But O'Bryan disagreed. "We've got legal council sitting there. If there needs to be an ordinance in place, I would suggest our legal council bring it before the board and get one passed" O'Bryan said.
But Attaway explained, Wise had been well aware of O'Bryan's travel expenses. The commission had to approve all requests before she could issue checks.
"If someone said, 'I didn't know that was being paid', well then they're not being very careful in their obligations to be responsible when they sign off on those vouchers" Attaway told us.
News Channel 7 asked Wise if he had been approving the expenses during the eight years he has served on the board. "Yes I did" he answered. "And if it's wrong, I apologize and I want to make it right."
O'Bryan didn't buy Wise's explanation."A guy that sits on the board for 8 years and doesn't understand the process? Please."
Both Attaway and O'Bryan said they thought the commissioner's actions were politically motivated. Wise is leaving the commission in Nonmember and recently lost his own bid for clerk of courts.
"He ran for clerk and he didn't get elected" O'Bryan said. "Now, if I ran for clerk and got 630 votes or less, I'd be ill too."
We asked Attaway if an impending investigation left a bitter taste in her mouth as she finished her term as clerk and prepared for retirement in November.
"You can't feel bitter whenever it's just one person. Especially a recently defeated person who's probably feeling very wounded at this time" she told us.
Wise said he was considering his options regarding the possible investigation.


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Here you see the preparation of a local delicacy, halawat al-jibn. Raw cheese is soaked, so the salt content decreases, then it is melted, stirred, stretched resulting in a cheese-based dough. That is rolled, cut and filled with kashta, a creamy dessert filling, and rolled into a cylinder. That may be cut in pieces and if things are not sweet enough topped with pistachios and drenched in honey (from the Lonely Planet guide). I developed such a liking for it I would not rest until I found it in other cities too. But here I saw the most shops selling it, and in some cases exclusively, no other sweetmeats, let alone ice cream (though it is great with ice cream, and the quality of ice cream in Syria is magnificent).
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It's a good time to be a woman. Via Reuters:
U.S. health insurance companies must offer women free birth control and other preventive health care services under Obama administration rules released on Monday, a historic decision supported by family planning groups and opposed by conservative groups.
The rules from the Health and Human Services Department are part of the nation's healthcare overhaul and largely follow recommendations from an advisory group released last month.
The U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, commissioned by the Obama administration, recommended that all U.S.-approved birth control methods — including the "morning-after pill," taken shortly after intercourse to stop a pregnancy — be added to the list of preventive health services.
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Like most things culinary, a salad is only as good as its base and ingredients. Anemic greens and tasteless bottled dressings can turn a potentially wondrous meal into an object of disdain for kids and adults alike. Chances are, if you don't like your salad, perhaps you never tasted one properly prepared.
Lately, my greens of choice are organic baby lettuce, arugula, frisée and mache, a tender, melt-in-your mouth lettuce I fell in love with in France. I think they have the most assertive flavors. Once in a while I'll toss in some mesclun, red or green leaf lettuce or romaine, for variety. And I'll admit to a guilty pleasure: iceberg lettuce. It may not pack the same nutritional punch as its darker green cousins, but I adore its creamy, nostalgic flavor. [Hey, there are worse guilty pleasures, right?]
- Beans [eg, chick peas, edamame, black beans]
- Grilled veggies [eg, eggplant or zucchini]
- Thinly sliced onions [transforms a salad!]
- Citrus [eg, clementines, orange or grapefruit sections]
- Nuts or seeds, dry or toasted
- Raisins; dried cranberries, apricots, or cherries
- Fruit [eg, strawberries, grapes, blueberries, pears, apples, raspberries, pomegranate seeds]
- Cooked or steamed veggies – a great use for leftovers [eg, mushrooms, asparagus. broccoli]
- Ground flax seed – for omega 3s and nice nutty flavor
- Baked or cooked tofu; cooked tempeh
Homemade dressings are simply the best. Hands down, they are tastier, not to mention cheaper, than most bottled dressings. Changing your dressings often helps keeps salads interesting.
Since I've been super busy lately, though, I have been leaning on store-bought dressings. I will say you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find the proverbial prince. My observation is that all store-bought, low-fat dressings, frankly, suck. Buying the full-fat version and watering it down just a bit works better for me. Two store-bought dressings I really like [watered down a tad--they are too rich as is] are Genji Ginger-Miso and Whole Foods Ginger Sesame.
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The CRM/Salesforce Opportunity
Berridge: "Traditionally, CRM [was an] internally focused application that housed data -- that had the goal of giving employees a 360-degree view of the customer. But what we believe the new CRM to be, and what we really believe the new bottom line to be for companies, is customer engagement. That means CRM is becoming an outside-in initiative.
"The richness of the functionality that's available in the B2C world is suddenly being translated to the B2B world. And, in our opinion, Salesforce is the de facto platform to make that happen."
And for solution providers? "There is a tremendous opportunity to deliver services that help organizations become aligned with what the customer experience should be," Berridge (pictured) said. "There's a tremendous opportunity to help organizations define what innovative business processes will increase customer efficacy and customer engagement."


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Washoe County children who skip school will have truancy officers to deal with.
Law enforcement agencies again are teeming up with the school district to round up kids who cut class and get them back in school.
On Thursday, students getting off the bus at O'Brien Middle School in Stead were greeted by the Washoe County Sheriff Departments Mobile Command Unit in the parking lot.
The vehicle displayed a banner that read "Truancy Sweep."
"When they actually got off the bus today, they knew that all these agencies are taking truancy seriously," said Mike Martino of the Washoe County Juvenile Services Department."
Officers combed the North Valleys area, looking for students who should be in school. Twelve students were caught.
Officials said the sweeps will continue every week in other areas around the county.
"We can't say where we'll be or when," said Janet Carthen, a Washoe County School District truant officer. "We'll do it at different times and different days each week.
"The kids are smart. If we did it the same time and same day, the kids would know and they'll tell each other."
Officials said truancy is often the first sign of trouble and early intervention is key to turning around troubled youth.
"If we get to the kids who are showing truancy tendencies in the seventh, eighth or ninth grades, then we have a better chance to turn them around," said Kathleen Sandoval, program director of the Children's Cabinet, a non-profit group offering social services.
"Once they get to 10th 11th or 12th grade, then the chance of making a big impact on them is not very good."
Students who are picked up are taken back to school and their parents are contacted. Some are referred to social services agencies.


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**Bladder Cancer
**Bladder Cancer
**Urinary Incontinence (UI)
**Urinary Incontinence (UI)
According to [http://www.nafc.org/ National Institute for Continence] UI affects 200 million people worldwide including 25 million adult Americans that suffers from transient and chronic UI[5].
According to [http://www.nafc.org/ National Institute for Continence] UI affects 200 million people worldwide including 25 million adult Americans that suffers from transient and chronic UI [5].
Therefore artificial bladder will have a '''potential market''' and can improve human life and function.
Therefore artificial bladder will have a '''potential market''' and can improve human life and function.
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Anthony Atala, M.D. is the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and one of the leading scientists in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Short Biography
Dr. Atala graduated from University of Miami with Psychology major and completed a medical degree in urology from University of Louisville. He pursued a fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts (affiliated with Harvard Medical School) and started his independent career at the same institute developing artificial organs for humans. In 1999, his team reported the successful creation and transplantation of artificial urinary bladder in beagle dogs that showed excellent functional capabilities in terms of retaining urine and normal elastic properties [1]. After serving as the Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Cellular Therapeutics at Children's Hospital Boston, Dr. Atala later moved to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina and continued his seminal work of lab-grown organs. In 2006, his team reported succesful transplantation of engineered bladder in humans without any major complications. The patients were monitored for 5 years after surgery to determine long-term efects [2]. As of 2013, he is the W. H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
Major Accomplishments
- Developed and successfully transplanted lab-grown artificial urinary bladder using patients urothelial cells.
- Harvested amniotic fluid stem cells (AFS cells) from pregnant women, avoiding the ethical issues regarding the embryonic stem cells (ESCs).These cells are easier to culture and unlike ESCs they do not form teratoma. AFS cells are also pluripotent, thereby can differentiate into various tissue types and have tremendous potential for future regenerative medicine.
Awards and Honors
Dr. Atala have received numerous prestigious awards including-
- Christopher Columbus Foundation Award
- The World Technology Award in Health and Medicine
- Samuel D. Gross Prize
- Barringer Medal
- Gold Cytoscope award
In 2007, his work on artificial bladder was listed as Time Magazine's top 10 medical breakthroughs and No. 1 Top Science story by Discover Magazine. In 2009, U.S. News and World Reports featured Dr. Atala as one of the 14 pioneers of medical progess in the 21st century. Dr. Atala serves as editor and associate editor in many peer-reviewed journals including Stem Cells-Translational Medicine, Current Stem Cell Research, and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. He is also editors of numerous books in the area of regenerative medicine and urology. He published more than 300 journal articles and applied for or received over 200 national and international patents. He were also invited to give TED lecture on artificially-grown organs.
Artificial Bladder
- Estimated new cases and deaths from bladder cancer in the United States in 2013 [4]:
- New cases: 72,570
- Deaths: 15,210
- The need for artificial bladders is brought about by a scarcity of donor organs to treat a large number of various bladder diseases such as:
- Bladder Cancer
- Urinary Incontinence (UI)
According to National Institute for Continence UI affects 200 million people worldwide including 25 million adult Americans that suffers from transient and chronic UI [5]. Therefore artificial bladder will have a potential market and can improve human life and function.
Brief Timeline
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- 1996: Bladder shaped mold was created and was seeded with urothelial cells on the inside and muscle cells on the outside.
- 1998: Lab-grown bladder successfully transplanted into dogs. After one year, article published in Nature Biotechnology reporting that the bladder was fully functional for 11 months.
- 1999: Artificial bladders grown from patient's own cells were implanted into 7 volunteers between the ages of 4 and 19. All the patients were suffering from spina bifida, a birth defect that that leads to hardening of bladder tissue, building high pressure and damaging the kidney.
- 2003: The patent for the process was licensed to Tengion Inc. A company dedicated to providing solutions through regenerative medicine. Dr. Atala is said to be the scientific founder of Tengion.
- 2006: British medical journal the Lancet reported for the first time artificial organs have been successfully implanted in humans. This was 7 years after the original implantation back in 1999 and the report stated the volunteers were healthy and leading normal lives.
- 2009: Phase II clinical trials initiated and completed by Tengion for the artificial bladder (Neo-bladder Augment)
Making the Bladder
A very small piece of the bladder is cut off from the patient usually smaller than the size of a postage stamp. It is very important that the biopsied bladder piece be free from disease. A biodegradable scaffold is molded in the shape of a bladder, this is after a CT scan has been performed on the patient to check the precise dimensions. The cells obtained from the bladder piece are grown outside the body for 7 to 10 days. These cells are urothelial cells. After that are seeded or 'painted' onto the scaffold. This is now put into and oven like device at body temperature and 95% oxygen for about 6 weeks. After this time the organ is ready to be implanted into the patient.
The National Institute for Continence says that there are about 25 million adult Americans that experience transient or chronic Urinary Incontinence [7] The National Cancer Institute also estimated there would be 73,510 new cases of Bladder Cancer and 14,880 deaths in 2012 alone [6] From these figures we can see the potential market for the artificial bladder and the diseases it can provide a permanent solution to. [edit]Advantages & Current Limitations Regenerate native function and structure. This is important because current methods of bladder disease treatment involve the use of intestinal cells which are not 'specialized' to perform the relaxing and contracting functions of the bladder Eliminate the risk of organ rejection because the patient is using cells obtained from their own body Reduce or eliminate other adverse effects of existing procedures such as osteoporosis. Currently the orthotopic neobladder procedure which makes use of intestinal cells causes the body to absorb calcium and other substances that the bladder would originally get rid of (causing osteoporosis). Provide efficacy advances versus existing alternatives.
Right now, the biggest hurdle faced by Tengion is getting the artificial bladder approved by the Food and Drug Administration
Evolution-From the Lab till Now
The team, which began its work in 1999, followed the last patient for almost two years. In undergoing the experimental procedure, the patients skirted the typical side effects of grafts that would otherwise have been made with their own intestinal tissue. The rebuilt bladders, though, were up to three times more elastic and better at holding urine, the researchers report. In all seven patients, kidney function was preserved, the study said. The patients must still empty their bladders regularly with a tube but can avoid leaking in between. In a talk given during a TED conference, he aired a clip of one of the recipients of the artificial bladder 5 years earlier. The video showed that the volunteers in the 1999 study had reduced leaking from their bladders and given them an improved quality of life. "Now that I've had the transplant, my body actually does what I want it to do," she said in an interview last week at her uncle's house in Haddam, Conn. "Now I can go have fun and not worry about having an accident." -16-year-old Kaitlyne McNamara (Artificial Bladder recipient) [8] Tengion has completed phase 2 trails for the Neo-Bladder Augment, although its has not been approved by the FDA yet. They announced plans in April 2012 to commercialize Dr Atalas' work on the artificial bladder [edit]Funding
Dr Atala received a $1 million grant from the Department of Defense in 2008 to research potential methods of restoring severed limbs of soldiers In 2000, he was awarded the $100,000 Christopher Columbus Foundation Award given to a living American who is currently working on a discovery that will significantly affect society Tengion received $50 million dollars in series B financing for the Neo-Bladder Augment clinical trials and development
- [1] http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v17/n2/full/nbt0299_149.html
- [2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68438-9
- [3] http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BI108/BI108_2007_Groups/group10/tissue_engineering.html
- [4] http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/bladder
- [5] http://www.nafc.org/media/statistics/prevalence-2/


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I love these words by colleague Laura Packer as she writes in her blog on organizational storytelling. Once again, this article is a powerful reminder of the power of listening and it being the first skill a good storyteller develops.
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