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For the father, the choice was obvious: An engineer with several jobs yet little money, he saw no future for his daughter and son in their struggling country, Ecuador. Eight years ago, he paid coyotes to smuggle him into Texas, then headed to New York, where his wife and children flew in as tourists, and stayed.
But the consequences of that clear-cut decision — the immigrant's perennial impulse to uproot for the sake of the next generation — have been anything but simple.
The daughter excelled in her Queens high school and graduated from college with honors, but at 22 is still living in this country illegally. So while her former accounting classmates hold lucrative corporate jobs and take foreign vacations, she keeps the books for a small immigrant-run business, fears venturing outside the city and cannot get a driver's license in the country she has come to love.
Meanwhile, her 17-year-old brother, who was born in the United States during an earlier stay and is thus an American citizen, enjoys privileges his family cannot, like summers in Ecuador with his cousins. But bored and alone most afternoons, he declared last fall that he wanted to move back to the old country.
"How can he even think that?" said his mother, stunned. "We're sacrificing ourselves so he can get a better education and a better job. After giving up everything to come here, he — the only one with papers — wants to go back?"Continue reading the main story
These four — who let a reporter and a photographer trail them only if they were not identified, for fear of being deported — are part of a growing group of what are often called mixed-status families. Nearly 2.3 million undocumented families, about three-quarters of those who are here illegally, have at least one child who is a United States citizen, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Nearly 400,000 of them have both citizen and noncitizen children.
Their ranks are fed by the unending tide of illegal immigration, and by federal laws that deny legal status to foreign-born children — who had no say in moving here — while granting citizenship to their American-born siblings.
And as their numbers rise, they are challenging the most stubborn stereotypes of 21st-century immigrants: that they fit neatly into separate groups — legal or illegal, here to stay or bent on returning home. That they are mostly men on their own, making independent choices.
In fact, most immigrants live in families, with a blend of legal statuses, opportunities and dreams. To spend time with this Queens family is to see, up close, how the growing disparities within immigrant homes are pulling their members in opposite directions and complicating efforts to plan a common future.
The four are now split between two households, and between those who expect to stay and those who would return to Ecuador — a tally that keeps shifting. The daughter, despite tireless efforts to get ahead, feels she is losing ground and worries that her brother takes his citizenship for granted. The son, despite his freedom, carries the weight of his family's highest hopes.
Their status is also mixed in less obvious ways. The mother, 47, who gave up her fledgling career in Ecuador as a computer systems analyst and now baby-sits for a living, has not had anywhere near the same opportunities in this country as the father, also 47, who found rewarding work as a draftsman. Increasingly dissatisfied, she has tried in vain to leverage her son's citizenship to get a green card granting her permanent residency.
Still, they are a loving family, and better off than many illegal immigrants, making a comfortable life in a city that welcomes foreigners, with or without papers. The parents are among a rising proportion of illegal immigrants with higher educations — at least one in every four are believed to have had some college — abandoning careers back home to try to vault their children into the American middle class in a single generation.
Yet as each year brings new setbacks, they hear the clock ticking and push their children harder. For all the daughter's high ambitions, the mother never misses a chance to point out a simple solution to her career impasse: find an American husband.
One Saturday night last month, the family gathered to celebrate the daughter's 22nd birthday in a Chinese restaurant where most of the tables were filled for a raucous wedding reception. As they waited under the swirling disco lights for dishes of pork and seafood, the parents asked the children about their plans — for school, for work, for life.
The son was characteristically vague, saying only that he wanted to attend college. The daughter, as usual, had her future worked out in fine detail: graduate school, community work, a life of service and independence.
But they could barely be heard above the dance music pounding through the restaurant. As a toast was raised to the bride and groom, the din grew louder. Dozens of guests clinked their spoons on glasses.
The mother grinned and leaned in close to the daughter. If she were to be married, "that's how it would be," the mother suggested. "Everybody making noise."
The daughter looked away in silence.
A Costly Education
The girl was smart, very smart. At age 7, she was working the cash register at her parents' small office-supply shop in Ecuador. By 9, she was absorbed in math, poring over her schoolwork long after everyone else had gone to bed.
And as she neared her 14th birthday, the father began to think the unthinkable: taking the family back to the United States to put her through college.
They had been here before. After graduating at the top of his class from the polytechnic university in Quito, he had moved to New York in 1986 — legally, on a student visa — for graduate studies in engineering at City College, intending to return home to his wife.
But when the couple learned she was pregnant with their first child, he dropped out and took a factory job — violating the terms of his visa — then arranged to have his wife and baby daughter smuggled into Texas and spirited to New York, where he felt he could best provide for them.
"I knew I was passing into illegality," said the father, a trim, youthful man with an engineer's matter-of-fact manner. "It was a very difficult decision to make. But I had to support them."
In time, they moved to Miami and had the son, born an American citizen. But their hopes of a prosperous American life eluded them, and in 1992 they returned to Ambato, the agricultural hub in Ecuador where the father had grown up.
And now, as their daughter raced through Catholic school there, skipping two grades and outpacing her classmates, the father worried about the quality of schooling in Ecuador, where the economy was slipping into chaos. He resolved to give her, and her brother, the American education he never completed.
His own father — a man with a third-grade education who supported 10 children and became chief of the repair shops for Ecuador's national railroad — blessed the move back to the United States. The old man had taught him to do whatever it took to provide for the family. "He always said you should go to bed thinking about what you were going to do tomorrow," he said.
His wife's father, however, had a different motto: Always keep the family together. She was crushed at the prospect of leaving hers, a close-knit clan of urban professionals who begged her to stay.
Her first American sojourn had been ego-crushing for her, a college graduate working in a mattress factory where West Indian supervisors addressed her as "muchacha." Girl.
"Do you know what this is like?" asked the mother, a woman of quiet poise. "To be around so many uneducated people? But I had to be with my husband."
'I'm Going to Seattle'
They arrived in New York in 2001. The father found work with a Queens construction company owned by Chinese immigrants, taking precise measurements at work sites and turning them into computerized drawings. He makes more than he would in Ecuador, and enjoys the chance to showcase his skills and get around the city, into well-appointed offices and high rises.
The mother, meanwhile, cares for children in cramped apartments not nearly as nice as the rambling, modern house she grew up in.
The discrepancies between their lives frayed an already strained relationship; they separated four years ago. The children spend most weekdays with their father, in the narrow attic of a dark house in Elmhurst, Queens, owned by his brother, a legal resident who arrived in the 1970s. On weekends, they take the subway and a bus to the basement apartment their mother rents in another Queens neighborhood, Bayside.
All the work and shuttling around leave the family little time together. Sometimes the father takes the son to soccer games, where he and other immigrants talk about friends who have gone home or died. The mother speaks regularly with her three sisters in Ecuador by webcam, and fills her iPod with melancholy songs from her homeland. As the most adventurous of the sisters — the first to learn to drive — she feels a growing restlessness.
Coming home from a meditation class one Sunday in February, she had barely removed her coat when she jolted the children with an announcement: "I think I'm going to Seattle." A friend in class had told her that Washington did not require a Social Security number to obtain a driver's license.
The daughter was alarmed, fearing her mother could be arrested on the trip. But the mother pressed ahead, buying plane tickets for herself and her son. She asked the daughter to help her find a hotel.
Instead, the daughter stayed up one night talking to a friend who had gotten a Washington license, who said the mother would have to pay $3,000 for forged documents attesting to her residency and employment. First thing the next morning, the daughter called her mother. "There's no way you can qualify," she said. "There's too much danger that you can be caught."
The mother reluctantly agreed to forget the trip, and the hundreds of dollars she lost on airfare.
"My hopes are dead," she said recently. "Right now we're just focused on the education of the children and their future. Let them reach their goals and have their dreams."
Firstborn, Second Class
On her days off, the daughter occasionally rewards herself with a concert or a meal out. But one afternoon in a noisy Colombian restaurant in Jackson Heights, her eyes strayed from her coffee cup to the sidewalks along Roosevelt Avenue, crowded with illegal immigrants who toil in kitchens or clean homes.
"I used to think I was different because I went to college," said the daughter, who speaks softly and can still pass for a high school junior. "But I'm no better than anyone else. Like them, I don't have my documents. So I'm just one among millions."
She is also among an estimated 65,000 young people who graduate from American high schools each year without immigration papers, according to the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington, D.C. Like many children brought into the country illegally by their parents, she began to understand just what that meant when she approached a high school guidance counselor about college.
"She asked me for my Social Security number," the daughter recalled. "She said she couldn't help me with applications without one. So I went home and asked my father for it. He told me, 'Oh, you don't have one.' "
She quickly learned the other things she would not have: the scholarships her teachers had assured her she would win, the chance to attend a college out of state, or any hope of softening the consequences of her parents' move. It is nearly impossible for an illegal immigrant child to become a legal resident without going back to the native country, then waiting a requisite 10 years to apply.
For the daughter, that is out of the question. "All my friends are here," she said. "All I know is here. If I returned, I'd be lost."
Scholars who study illegal immigrant families say it is usually the older children who recognize their parents' sacrifice and work hardest to achieve. But those are the same children most likely to have been born abroad.
Luckily for the daughter, she lives in New York, one of 10 states that allow illegal immigrants to pay resident tuition rates at public universities. With $5,000 a year from her father and a baby-sitting job, she attended a highly ranked college in the City University of New York, posting a 3.8 grade point average in accounting.
But the young woman so adept with numbers still lacked the Social Security number needed just to file an application for a job or summer internship. So as her friends — many of them children of immigrants with papers — landed $70,000-a-year jobs, she scoured college bulletin boards for a small business willing to risk hiring her for half that.
"Sometimes I felt like crying or screaming," she said. "Some of my friends knew why I didn't apply for corporate jobs. But other people who didn't know would criticize and judge me. They thought I was lazy or stupid not to apply."
She was eventually hired as a bookkeeper by a small firm that provides immigrants — the dark humor is not lost on her — with information on visas and government policy. She is paid on the books, thanks to the tax identification number the federal government provides to people without Social Security numbers, and she pays taxes — $2,000 on this year's federal return.
Though overqualified and underpaid for the job, she rarely complains. Instead, she and her boyfriend — a college student from Mexico who is also in the country illegally — spend their free time volunteering with the New York State Youth Leadership Council, an immigrant group pushing Congress to pass the Dream Act, which would grant legal status to high school graduates who were brought to the United States by their parents.
Her mother prefers a quicker solution: Dump the boyfriend and marry an American. "The ends justify the means," the mother said. "I tell her, 'Think about it with a clear head. If it doesn't go well, you could always separate.' "
At first, the daughter was aghast at the notion of marrying for reasons other than love. But as another spring arrives with no change in immigration policy, she has begun to waver.
"I'm thinking, it might be worth giving it a try because this is so frustrating," she said. "It's actually getting to me."
'He's a King'
Above a plastic heart dangling from the wall, two photographs in the mother's apartment neatly sum up the passions of her children. The daughter stands, beaming, in cap and gown. The son, in shorts, goofs around with his cousins on a South American beach.
The son is tightly tied to Ecuador. As the only family member who can travel freely, he has spent three summers there, playing soccer and going to amusement parks with cousins, including two boys he has grown so close to that everyone calls the trio "Los Compadres." Back in New York, he sends them messages constantly via e-mail and Facebook.
He seems far less emotionally connected to Queens, where he comes home after school to an empty apartment to do homework. His mother frets about him. "He needs the warmth of family," she said.
But the family, here and in Ecuador, insists he stay in the United States. "As a citizen, all doors are open for him," the mother said. "He knows there is a difference, that he can do what we cannot."
Their hopes for him sometimes edge into impatience. As mother and daughter watched "Hairspray" one Saturday afternoon, the son dozed in his dark bedroom.
"He's a king," said the mother, who wishes he would take a part-time job, for the discipline and spending money. "In Ecuador, nobody works until they graduate from college. But we're in the United States now, and a different society has different customs. He should work."
"He wants to work," the daughter insisted. "But my father won't let him. He wants him to study."
Indeed, the father has counseled him not to be lured by the quick money that leads other neighborhood boys to drop out of school to work at delis or construction sites for $500 a week. Concerned that the son's grades have slipped, he closely follows his schoolwork, meeting often with teachers.
The daughter watches over him, too. In many mixed-status families, siblings clash: The older child, without papers, often has to work harder to succeed and resents the privileges the younger child enjoys as a citizen — especially if he seems not to be taking advantage of them, said Walter Barrientos, a founder of the Youth Leadership Council.
The daughter speaks of her brother with obvious affection. But as he remained out of earshot in the other room, she vented a mounting frustration.
She had taken him to meetings of the youth group, but he showed little interest in helping its campaign for the Dream Act. "He doesn't see how difficult it is for us not having documents," she said. "And he sees how it is for me — I can't go back to Ecuador or get a better job. It's unfortunate, when somebody close to his heart is suffering."
She feared that as a high school junior, he was nearing graduation without a serious plan. "Knowing I couldn't get a scholarship, that pushed me even more — it pushed me to work hard," she said. "For him, he has all the possibilities, but he's not thinking. It's hard to understand what he's thinking."
In some ways, he is just a typical 17-year-old, stingy with words. His thinking has actually changed: Over the last few months, he has stopped talking about a return to Ecuador and started exploring the notion of studying architecture at an American college.
But he has also dropped hints that he feels the pressure many citizen children of illegal immigrants experience.
"Maybe they expect too much of me," he confided. "But my family wanted me to come here. It's better for me, and better for my sister."
Half a world away, the sunny duplex apartment the family built during their last stay in Ambato sits vacant, though filled with their possessions — family photos, the son's action figures, the daughter's books — as if awaiting their return. Relatives beseech them to come back, even promising jobs to sweeten the offer.
The parents resist their pleas. They have not come this far, sacrificing their own careers and comforts, to miss seeing their children succeed in America.
If that day comes, both parents say they will gladly return to their homeland — even the father whose firm decision brought them all to the United States. Ecuador is the land he loves. New York is only the means to an end.
"I crashed a party I was not invited to, and one day I'll be asked to leave," he said. "I know. This is a place to work. Not to die."Continue reading the main story


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The faithful people who founded and have sustained University Baptist Church for more than 125 years have left us a legacy of compassionate ministry, prophetic witness, inspiring worship, and meaningful outreach to the University community and our international neighbors. As we move forward, we seek to remain faithful to that legacy and branch out into new directions as the Spirit of God leads us.
Here are a few of the ways we will seek to accomplish those goals in the coming years:
- Continue our outreach to international women through the INCH program
- Expand our role as a congregational partner with NSI
- Rebuild our ministry to the students, faculty, and administration of the Ohio State University through programs and initiatives here at UBC and through participation in a new collaborative group of progressive churches in the University District
- Seek new ways to reach out to our LGBTQ neighbors with a healing word of grace and acceptance
- Engage with community partners and other local congregations to work toward racial reconciliation and pursue justice for our African American neighbors
- Continue to engage in efforts to reform the criminal justice system in Columbus and hold the police and government officials accountable when they fail to provide equal justice under the law to all citizens
- Seek out relationships with other Baptist congregations in the city that are predominantly African American
- Increase our participation in ecumenical cooperation and interfaith dialogue
- Provide more opportunities for Christian education and spiritual formation for all age groups
- Take part in local service projects on a regular basis
- Commission groups to do short-term mission projects, both in the US and internationally
- Discern ways that we can become more ecologically responsible and reduce our carbon footprint as individuals and as a congregation
- Explore new avenues of prayer, worship, and spirituality
- Employ missional practices that take us outside the walls of our building to do meaningful work in partnership with our neighbors

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This is the third and final blog showcasing the artists taking part in Derbyshire Open Arts this May at Studio 61 Gallery, each year we aim to bring you a variety of styles by emerging and established artists, below are the artists statements and works by three of those taking part this year.
Ruth is a town and landscape artist working mainly in Interactive Atelier Acrylic and produces paintings that at first glance could be mistaken for far more glamorous climes when in fact many are local scenes of everyday towns in Derbyshire. Ruth also produces more abstract mixed media work of British landscapes she has visited. Ruth has just finished her Ripley Rattler series which will be shown at DH Lawrence museum in Eastwood during June and July. Currently working to commission with plans for a new series of work that will be displayed in 2016.
Ruth is part of the g2g group that promotes the work of artists that show work at Studio 61 Gallery and Cromford Studio and Gallery as well as help promote the historic surrounding area in between. Ruth is also a co opted member of Derbyshire Open Arts and is assisting running the social media for 2014. Always keen to use her knowledge and network to help out at events and recently was a member of the steering committee for Art in the Round run by Derby College.
New for this year has been demonstrations for small local art groups and workshops for Nottingham arts organisations. Ruth's work has been exhibited in Sydney, London and she has taken part in over 100 shows both in the UK and Australia during the last ten years.
'Artywood' by Dianna Lee
Dianna's varied work includes murals, illustrations, slate and wood art.
Her oak original paintings and prints from her full range will be on display at Studio 61 this year for Derbyshire Open Arts.
The wood art is painted onto oak panels suitable for internal and external displays.
These paintings use the wood grain to enhance the picture with wood dyes, inks and oils for water, meadows or landscapes.
She paints these oak images from inspiration from the natural habitat, unlike her illustrations which are mainly fictional or inspired by current trends in lifestyle.
Using both oak and slate makes her paintings versatile. The wood paintings can be as large as 4' x 8', some of which have been commissioned for displays outside creating the effect of an external mural.
She qualified as a clothing designer and interior designer in 1990 and worked for High Street brands for many years. Her experience in both design areas has provided the flair and knowledge that she has today to produce these pieces of art available from 'Artywood.'
Studio 61 is a working art studio and gallery in the Derbyshire Dales featuring the watercolours and oils of Artist Karina Goodman.
My inspiration comes from the varied landscapes and landmarks and a love of the sea and Cornwall, always with the emphasis on colour and atmosphere.
I specialise in watercolours and recently started using oils as I felt I wanted to create more depth of colour and texture. My watercolours are colourful and quirky or atmospheric using different types of salts, squirting lots of water and then waiting to see the results. I am fascinated with ravaged trees and skies and this is reflected in my more atmospheric watercolours.
My passion for walking gives me the opportunity to acquire some amazing photographs and my landscapes are mainly from photos taken whilst out walking or from images floating around in my head...
I would describe my life as happy and hectic! With two teenagers, a busy husband, a dog and running my business, time is of an essence; my days out walking are 'recharging the batteries 'days.
Derbyshire Open Arts Weekend takes place 24th - 26th May 10 - 5 pm everyone is welcome to join us and refreshments will be available.


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CPS Coaching Group for Educators
Think:Kids is excited to offer our first CPS Coaching Group for Educators beginning in January 2017. This coaching group is available for those working in educational systems who have attended a Think:Kids Tier 1 and/or Tier 2 training in the past 2 years. The goal of this group is to help participants apply what they learned in training in their own work with challenging students in their schools.
Coaching sessions will be held via video conferencing and will meet bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates (schedule subject to change):
Jan 11th
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Feb 8th
March 1st
March 15th
March 29th
April 12th
April 26th
May 10th
May 24th
June 7th
June 21st
As this is our first time running this group, we are offering it at an exciting discounted rate of $300 per participant. The group is limited to 12 participants and will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. We expect the group to fill quickly so register as soon as possible!
NOTE: Submission of the registration form below does not guarantee you a spot in the group. After receiving your registration form, we will contact you as soon as possible to let you know whether or not there is still space in the group. If there are spots available you will receive a link for registration payment to secure your spot.
Please be advised: this coaching group will be hosted via video-conference. Access to the above listed technology is a requirement for participation.


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Following a fateful trip to India in 2012, newlyweds Tasha and Mark Lemley came home with a love for traditional Chai and an idea: to bring a piece of Indian culture to Nashville while pairing it with their desire to bring change to a local community.
While in a market in Mumbai — a place Tasha describes as "beautiful and chaotic" — athe two were introduced to traditional Indian Chai.
"That Chai… just cut through all the chaos," Tasha said. She and Mark began their journey trying to recreate the magical drink from the Indian market.
After reaching out to Indian friends and learning the secret behind traditional Chai, the wheels began to turn for Tasha. She is no stranger to social enterprises, street sales and breaking down barriers: she helped found The Contributor.
"I thought, 'In India, you have impoverished individuals selling Chai on the sidewalk, what if we do that in some capacity here in Nashville?'"
Together, Tasha and Mark partnered to bring this vision to life in the form of their brainchild, Chai Wallah. Creating this business was a natural fit for the pair, as Mark has over a decade's worth of experience in the coffee industry and Tasha has a burning desire to help marginalized groups.
"I'm passionate about street sales and people interacting with each other that think they're different (from) each other," Tasha said. Chai Wallah employs formerly homeless women to bring their business to life.
Creating Chai takes approximately 8 hours to make just one batch, and Tasha says the women are part of the whole process.
In an effort to further the good in the Nashville community, Chai Wallah has recently partnered with Sow Good, "an incubator for civic and social innovation," according to director Mark Eatherly. The joint effort has founded Greenhorn, a project designed to aid refugees. The idea is to have refugees create the local foods that represent their cultural backgrounds and have those products sold to restaurants and cafes. The proceeds will fund a hospitality training program for the refugees.
"The hospitality industry is in desperate need of qualified staff, and refugees need jobs when they arrive in Nashville," Eatherly said. "Since it's designed to be self-sustainable, the program can continue as long as the food keeps selling."
The first food item in development by Greenhorn is called Achaar, similar to a relish or chow-chow from South Asia. The Achaar is being created by Bhutaneese refugees currently in the Refugee Agricultural Program sponsored by the Nashville Food Project. The Achaar will be unveiled at the Tomato Art Festival in August.
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Capitol Alert
VIDEO: California Assembly candidate Jim Cooper
Jim Cooper hopes to make the leap from Elk Grove City Council member to California Assembly member, and he stopped by The Bee's Capitol Bureau to tell us why. You can read a excerpts of the conversation in Wednesday's paper, but the clips below should give you a window on Cooper in his own words.
Cooper has an extensive background in law enforcement. He said California's realignment plan, which addresses prison overcrowding by shifting some inmates to jails, needs to be changed.
During his time on the Elk Grove City Council, Cooper was among those championing restrictions on so-called big box stores. Here, he explains his reasoning.
Proposition 30's tax increases should be extended to fund education programs like universal preschool or kindergarten, Cooper said.
Call Jeremy B. White, Bee Capitol Bureau, (916) 326-5543.


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Several weeks ago we attended an open house of a community organic garden in an outer suburb of Lima, Villa Maria del Triunfo. It is about a hectare and operated by a large group of neighbourhood families. The project began with funding from a United Nations grant and the support of the municipality. Another volunteer has been conducting an ethnographic survey of this place so I had wanted to visit for some time, and this open house presented a perfect opportunity.
The day involved tours of the garden, workshops on composting, planting, and there was a small market for the visitors. It certainly was amazing to step out of the above ground metro line station, looking around for the garden and seeing this huge green space in the middle of a high density poor desert neighbourhood. It was easy to spot the green!
I learned that the way the place is organized is that each family gets a small plot and they decide what to grow. If a family doesn't use their plot they forfeit it and it gets used by someone else. The initial aim of the project was to grow food for the families, families who had come from the countryside but had to escape the violence during 1980-2000 and so came to Lima with nothing. Some of them do go to organic farmers markets to sell their produce.
I was surprised that there wasn't a coordinated program where they collectively decide what to grow, instead it is an individual family's decision. This place seemed to me to be the perfect opportunity for a cooperative. I was also surprised that from what I could see it seemed each family for the most part grew the same fruits and vegetables. Alas the available produce was limited at this time of year so I wasn't able to get my weekly produce. I also learned that they didn't really eat many vegetables prior to coming to Lima, only mainly corn & potatoes, which really surprised me. I always thought if folks eat mainly meat then this isn't a sign of poverty, but not here it seems. (I have to say I am becoming quite disgusted by the quantity of meat consumed). Many were actually growing eggplant which isn't a common veg for Peruvians at all (and not one of my favs either). They do grow lots of greens but mainly to make various sauces, not so much eating fresh.
The view from the road walking up from the metro station
Info sign – no need for words!
Some of the plants under cultivation: bananas, various greens, peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, sweet potato, beans, etc…
Sugar cane?
Cassava plants
Passion flower vines with fruit
Creepy scarecrows
Staircases – we are in what is called the ceros – desert mountains/hills, quite colourful in a sea of desert
Fencing: scrap anything wood or metal, stones/rocks, tires and bushes
Me & Moises Quispe, executive director of the Asociacion Nacional de Productores Agroecologicos (National Association of Organic Producers), in one of the greenhouses before he facilitated a workshop.
Cacti seedlings – these are like the prickly cactus I am familiar with but of course they grow much larger. The fruit they bare is actually called 'tuna' here. It has beautiful pink flesh with lots of seeds so not my cuppa tea for just eating as is, and I have to say the juice tastes a bit odd so I prefer it mixed with other juices.
Bathtub seedlings
Electricity towers in the middle of the garden
The sports field
The neighbours
Overall it was very impressive. Little by little these families and this neighbourhood are improving their quality of life, a great model for other communities in the greater metropolitan area of Lima, especially considering this is situated in a desert. They will need all the help they can get with climate change.


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Dr Sidya Raghavan
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Toowoomba-based GP Dr Sidya Raghavan has had a fascinating GP journey spanning two continents not to mention her experience in rural Australia.
Dr Mike Hurley
Senior Medical Educator – Rural Advisor
Meet Dr Mike Hurley, medical educator and GP specialising in anaesthetics and emergency. He also has the opportunity to work with his wife, Dr Jaime Hurley.
Dr Lesley Palmer
Medical Educator – Training Advisor
Dr Lesley Palmer guides registrars through their training to ensure they meet the training rules and are managing their work alongside any personal issues.
Dr Ben Mitchell
Medical Educator – Research
As a GP, teacher and researcher, Dr Ben Mitchell divides his time between GPTQ, The University of Queensland and his Brisbane practice.
Dr Danielle Arabena
Medical Educator – Indigenous Health Training
Dr Danielle Arabena is not your usual medical educator. Descended from the Meriam Mer people, Danielle was called upon to become a doctor.
Dr Jan Hanson
Assistant District Medical Educator – Remediation
Dr Jan Hanson, Mackay-based GP and medical educator, was hooked on medicine from the age of nine when she witnessed the first heart transplant.
Dr Jaime Hurley
Assistant District Rural Medical Educator – Darling Downs & West Moreton
Medical Educator – Hospital Programs & Hospitals Liaison Officer
Dr Jaime Hurley, a GP with special skills in obstetrics talks about the importance of reopening maternity services at Beaudesert Hospital.
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Dr Sue Masel
Rural Supervisors Liaison Officer – Corporate
Dr Sue Masel, Goondiwindi-based GP, shares her experiences as a country GP and how she supports other rural GPs.
Dr Steve Kearney
GPTQ Supervisor Liaison Officer and Brisbane North District Supervisor Liaison Officer
The skills Dr Steve Kearney learned as a doctor in the Army have served him well for his role as a GP supervisor.
Dr Andrew Weissenberger
District Supervisor Liaison Officer – Gold Coast
Gold Coast GP Dr Andrew Weissenberger shares his love of teaching registrars and supporting GP supervisors in his role as GPTQ's District Supervisor Liaison Officer for the Gold Coast.
Trish Cuthbert
Practice Manager Liaison Officer
Stanthorpe-based practice manager Trish Cuthbert speaks about her role as the support person for all the practice managers in GPTQ's training region.
Dr Christopher Soo
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Dr Ghazal Ghodosi
Rural Registrar Liaison Officer
Dr Ghazal Ghodosi is a GP registrar based at Murgon in rural Queensland. Here she talks about her role as GPTQ's Rural Registrar Liaison Officer providing support to rural registrars.


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Thanks to the efforts of groups like the American Heart Association, many older individuals in Denver and Houston have a basic idea of the lifestyle choices that can promote heart health. As well as steering clear of sodium- and saturated fat- laden foods, this involves engaging in regular exercise.
Unfortunately, while some people may find cardiovascular routines like an early morning jog to be an invigorating start to the day, for others it just isn't something to spring out of bed for. So, how can those who simply aren't exercise-inclined still reap the benefits of jogging for heart health and aging longevity? A new study has revealed that a brisk walk may be just the trick.
According to WebMD, scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California discovered that walking at a rapid pace was comparable to running in reducing the risk of high blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as the likelihood of developing diabetes.
"Both of these activities reduce risk factors, and if you expend the same amount of energy you get the same benefit," staff scientist Paul Williams told the source.
So, if you never quite understood a friend's eagerness to spend 30 minutes sprinting around a track, take comfort in the fact that you can achieve similar heart-healthy results on your own terms. Plus, if you opt for a brisk stroll in lieu of something faster, you can easily turn this daily exercise into a social event, as you're less likely to gasp for breath as you try to keep up a conversation.
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He does, though, get visits from the likes of Anthony, his son with Rebecca West, and from Rebecca herself, who, despite her long ago divorce from HG, still loves him in a way. In the extract below, Rebecca is travelling home from visiting HG. Among what they had talked about was Anthony's wish to divorce his wife, Kitty, because he'd met Someone Else who he liked better:
Travelling from Marylebone to High Wycombe in a stuffy first-class railway compartment, in the company of three elderly businessmen with bowler hats, peeping at her from time to time over their evening newspapers, Rebecca is overwhelmed by dread. The sense of a curse working itself out in delinquent fathers over several generations.Living as we do in today's enlightened times, we can read Rebecca's musings only in aghast, as we reflect on the fact that the lot of Rebecca was once upon a time the lot of so many other women too.
Her father had deserted his family when she was eight, going off to South Africa on some vague business venture and disappearing without trace, leaving his wife to bring up Rebecca and her two sisters on barely adequate means. Then she herself had to bring up Anthony on her own – admittedly with more generous financial support from his father, but HG kept his distance and his freedom – and now Anthony is planning to leave Kitty to bring up his children on her own. And what was the reward for the mothers whose lives were pinched and frustrated by the responsibility thrust upon them? They became the object of their children's displaced resentment, that was their reward.
She never gave up hope that her beloved Daddy would somehow return to the family with an honourable explanation for his absence, like the father in The Railway Children (how she had wept over the ending of that book!), until she was thirteen, when they heard that he had died. Later she learned from her mother that he had been an incorrigible philanderer, seducing their own housemaids and resorting to prostitutes.
She recognises in retrospect that she was a difficult disruptive child and adolescent, always quarrelling with her sisters and criticising her mother; Anthony was the same when he was growing up – hero-worshipping his absent father and blaming her for all the miserable experiences of his schooldays. She can so easily imagine little Caroline and Edmund [Anthony's and Kitty's children] in years to come repeating the same mistake, adoring Anthony and inflicting the same undeserved punishment on Kitty, as she struggles to bring them up, run the farm and, if she is lucky, find a little time for her art.
The feminism Rebecca campaigned for all her adult life has liberated women sexually – the bolder spirits among them anyway – but it has not redressed this fundamental imbalance in the relations between men and women: the female instinct to nurture their offspring and the male instinct to spend their seed promiscuously.
HG is simply a more intelligent and more successful version of her father. Even Henry [Rebecca's current husband] has disappointed her in this respect. Unfailingly kind and protective, admiring and supportive of her work (gamely escorting her around Yugoslavia in dirty trains and flea-infested hotels when she was researching Black Lamb and Grey Falcon), possessing impeccable manners, and enough money to allow her to live in some style, he is in every respect the perfect spouse, except that he is prone to infatuations with pretty young women, and he hasn't made love to her since 1937.
Lying beside him in bed one night she cried out in the dark: 'Why don't you make love to me any more?' But he was asleep, or pretended to be, and said nothing. She has had other lovers herself, of course, since then, though none at present. She reflects despondently that her sexual life may have come to an end.


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The Argentinean actor Sebastián Rulli, a previous Man of the Month here at Cisoto Fotos, is causing a sensation by appearing nude on stage in the play P.D. Tu gato ha muerto. Said play is the Mexican version of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, which was filmed as a movie starring Steve Gutenberg and Lombardo Boyar (in the Rulli role). For more fotos of Sebastián Rulli in the role -- some of them not quite safe for work -- see this foto gallery from Terra and this thread on the Dreamcaps forums.
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One of the most important components of the safe operation of your garage door is your spring.
Without spring or springs working right, your garage door cannot open and close easily.
The spring acts essentially as a counterbalancing mechanism for your garage door. If your garage door system is out of balance, generally the solution is to replace your springs.
We always recommend you have a professional garage door company evaluate your springs before doing ANYTHING. Springs help to hold the weight of your door, so trying to repair them yourself can cause injury or death!
Garage Door Spring Types
There are 2 types of garage door spring: torsion springs and extension springs. Understanding the difference between the two can help you find and select a spring system that is best for your garage door.
Torsion Springs
Torsion springs work by using torque to stabilize your garage door. Torsion springs are attached to a metal shaft at the top of your garage door.
Torsion springs are available in different types: standard, steel rolling, and one-piece curtain door.
Torsion springs are sturdier. They will generally last longer than extension spring. Of course, because of this, torsion springs are more expensive. They should last 15-20,000 cycles.
Extension Springs
Extension springs extend to close the door and "spring" back into their original form when the door opens.
Extension springs are generally mounted on the side of the garage door or on top of your garage door tracks.
Generally, residential garage doors have 2 extension springs mounted on each side. Commercial doors will have multiple springs on each side.
Extension springs are more affordable, but will only last about 10,000 cycles. To put that in years, if you open your garage door 4 times a day on average, extension springs will last about 7 years. With torsion springs, you could get 10-14 years.
Talk to a professional about which spring system will make the most sense for your garage door and garage setup. If you are in the Houston area, give Perfect Solutions a call!


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September 2016 Foundation Update
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Every spring, the Foundation celebrates its 545 Donors with a special night out. On April 29th, we are headed for an evening of complimentary wine tasting at the charming and delightful JM Cellars in Woodinville.
If you are not already a 545 Family, become one today and join us for our annual donor-appreciation event. 545 is the flagship fundraising program of the Foundation. 545 Donors agree to give $500 each year for 5 years.
Free transportation to the winery is provided from the school. Catch up with friends on the bus before settling in for a night to remember at JM Cellars.
Winemakers John and Peggy Bigelow will treat you to a private tour of the facilities and invite you to taste the many varietals offered. They specialize in handcrafted blends of handpicked grapes from low-yield vineyards. They age their special blends in French oak barrels. Choose your favorites and order a few for your cellar—a portion of your purchase will support the Foundation.
Veraci will have a wood-fired clay oven on site and be baking authentic Neapolitan pizza to go with that glass of Bramble Bump Red in your hand.
So raise a glass, have a slice, and take in the heavenly scent of the evergreen forest and beckoning candlelit interiors of JM Cellars.
This is a really fun night—Don't miss the bus!
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Free transportation to the winery is provided from the school.
Veraci will have a wood-fired clay oven on site and be baking authentic Neapolitan pizza to go with that glass of Bramble Bump Red in your hand.
To save your seat on the bus, please RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com
Thanks to all who joined us at the Duchess Tavern last Thursday for our Parents' Night Out. We had a nice intimate group of friends, neighbors and 545 families that gave us ample opportunity to catch up with each other, raise a glass, and discuss our children, the school and the Foundation.
Congratulations to the raffle winners–we hope you enjoy those wonderful bottles of wine from JM Cellars and complimentary beer and pizza courtesy of the Duchess. And special thanks to the Duchess for welcoming our group.
We look forward to seeing you all again at the JM Winery Social when the weather warms up: Mark your calendars for Friday, April 25th, when the Party Bus returns!
The Friends of Laurelhurst Foundation has been working in tandem with the PTA to identify areas of need at the school. As a result of this collaboration, the Foundation has issued a $3500 grant to finance the purchase of Reading Room books for kindergarteners and first graders, as well as Writers Workshop curricula for kindergarteners. In addition, a portion of the grant will co-fund Library furniture upgrades to benefit all students.
The mission of the Friends of Laurelhurst Foundation is to establish a $1 Million endowment to enrich the educational experience of children at Laurelhurst Elementary for generations to come. While the Foundation works toward this goal, each year it makes a financial award to meet an area of need and benefit today's children. The Foundation donors are pleased to support Laurelhurst students' reading and writing programs with this year's gift.
As we enter the Fall season, our thoughts turn to Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the Holiday season. But not so for our accountants. They would love us to do some effective tax planning before the end of the year. What better tax planning than to make your annual $500+ donation to the Friends of Laurelhurst Foundation today. When you make a charitable contribution in 2013, the Federal government is essentially paying 35% of the gift for you. What a great way to end the year! Thanks for all your support, and with your help, we look forward to making our next annual grant to Laurelhurst Elementary.


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Superman is one of the biggest and most popular heroes in the comic book world, partly because he's been around so long, but also because of his huge list of powers. If you count the power of flight, strength, heat vision, freeze breath, invulnerability, super-speed and X-ray vision, he has more powers than all the members of some super-teams have put together. While some people say that makes him boring or overpowered, Superman's fans know it's a big part of what makes him awesome.
RELATED: The Flash: 15 Powers You Didn't Know He Had
One reason Superman has so many powers is that, when he was first created, the writers would just give him whatever powers he needed at the time. Over time, some powers were phased out and new abilities were added. He has had so many superpowers that some fans might have missed them. Here are 15 of Superman's powers that you might not even have known he's had over the years.
The first power we'll cover will be from 1980's "Superman II," starring Christopher Reeve and directed by Richard Donner and Richard Lester. It's one of the best Superman movies ever made, but it also introduced some weird moments. In the movie, General Zod and his minions Non and Ursa from Krypton try to take over the world, ending in a climactic battle in Superman's Fortress of Solitude. During the fight, Superman ripped the shield logo off his chest and threw it at Non, causing the mute Kryptonian to get tangled up in a large cellophane trap.
The power to throw his shield logo is one of the most surreal and controversial moments in Superman's history. He's never done it before or since, and it's not even clear how Superman did it. The shield looks and acts like it's made of plastic wrap, except it also grows and becomes strong enough to hold Non prisoner until the shield just disappeared. Was it a hologram or hallucination? Was it actually some sort of real Kryptonian tech? We may never know.
Superman's catchphrase is "truth, justice and the American way," but he's a hero for the entire universe, not just the United States. He travels all over the world and even through space to save people, and that means he should have a serious language barrier. After all, he grew up in Kansas. Going to France or to the planet Apokalips would be a problem if it wasn't for his little-known power to translate all known languages.
The fact that Superman is an omniglot (someone who speaks multiple languages) is a power that goes back to his character before the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" in the Silver Age when he was much more powerful. It was said that his super-intelligence allowed him to instantly learn and understand any language spoken to him. He even once translated a mermaid's speech, so alien languages are a cinch for him. He hasn't used this power much recently, but in 2010's "Batman/Superman Apocalypse," fellow Kryptonian Supergirl learned English in a month, so it apparently runs in the family.
There are a lot of superheroes who have the power to pass through solid objects, including Martian Manhunter and Shadowcat of the X-Men. Superman had this power, too, although he hasn't really used it much. Its most infamous appearance was in "The Mysterious Cube," an episode of "The Adventures of Superman" in 1958. Written by Robert Leslie Bellem and Whitney Ellsworth and directed by George Blair, the show had a bizarre escape plan by a criminal that only Superman could solve.
In the episode, a wanted criminal named Paul Barton hid himself in a cube of super-strong metal, trying to get declared legally dead so he could be absolved of his crimes. To stop him, Superman learned how to vibrate his molecules to pass through objects and into the cube to capture him. He also did the vibration trick in his rematch against Doomsday in 2001's "Superman" #175, written by Jeph Loeb and penciled by Ed McGuinness. Superman doesn't do it much, because he'd prefer to smash walls, not pass through them.
You might think of Plastic Man and the Elongated Man when you think of shapeshifting, but now you need to throw Superman into that mix. Superman has one of the most famous and imitated costumes in comics, so it's rare when he changes his appearance at all, but he has used this ability a few times, so it counts. Once again, this power came in his Golden Age era, when Superman had "super-muscles" that could mold his face and body like clay.
In 1947's "Superman" #44, written by Bill Finger and penciled by Ira Yarbrough, Superman needed to impersonate a famous stuntman who worried he would be recognized. That's when Superman used his "super-muscular control" to change his face to perfectly copy the stuntman. However, in "Superman" #45, he topped himself by molding his entire body to look like an inter-dimensional warrior and escape from a cage. When you have super-muscles like that, you can do anything.
Everybody knows Superman's biggest weakness is kryptonite, but one of the Man of Steel's lesser known weaknesses is that he has no defense against psychic assaults. That means a lot of villains can attack his mind, even if they can't attack his body. Superman doesn't seem to have many psychic powers in his modern version, but in the past, his super-brain gave him the power of telepathy, meaning he could read and send his thoughts into other minds.
The most modern version of this power came in the 1993 TV series "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman." In 1996, the third-season episode "Through a Glass, Darkly" revealed that some Kryptonians had survived the destruction of the planet and lived on another world called New Krypton. Superman was taken by some of them, and discovered all Kryptonians spoke with their minds, but that hasn't been the case in other versions of Krypton.
Another power that started in the Golden Age and carried over into the modern era is Superman's telekinesis. Most comic fans know one of Superman's weaknesses is that he doesn't hold up too well against psychic powers, but don't know that he's had psychic abilities of his own. This power came up more in the Silver Age, but there was also a notable moment in the 1987 movie "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace." Directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Christopher Reeve, "Superman IV" involved a solar-powered clone of Superman named the Nuclear Man, who battled the hero around the world and even on the moon.
"Superman IV" was an awful movie riddled with plot holes, but one moment really stood out, and that was the Man of Steel rebuilding the Great Wall of China. Earlier in the movie, Superman and Nuclear Man destroyed it, and Superman went to fix all the damage they had done. Instead of just putting it back together with his super-speed, Superman just used a beam from his eyes that reassembled the Wall. Too bad he didn't use it to rebuild Metropolis in "Man of Steel."
Everything is super-powered about Superman, including his kiss. We're not saying that Superman is a great kisser (we have no first-hand knowledge of that), but rather that his kiss has actual powers that come with it. Specifically, Superman can erase someone's mind with just a kiss. Most fans know this power from "Superman II," where Lois Lane learned Superman was really Clark Kent, but Kent erased her memory of it at the end of the movie with his kiss. This came up in the comics, too.
In 1963's "Action Comics" #306, writer Robert Bernstein and penciler Al Plastino created a story that ended with Clark Kent and Lois Lane caught under the mistletoe at a Christmas party. At the encouragement of the others and Lois' amusement, Kent kissed her. To everyone's surprises, Kent gave Lois a kiss that almost knocked her out. Superman's a lover, not a fighter, but he packs a wallop either way.
Remember what we said about Superman's mental powers? That brings up another power he has, which is mind control. Yes, Superman can use his super-brain to force people to do his will. Once again, this is more of a Golden Age power, and even in the Golden Age, Superman didn't use it that often. However, there was a notable instance in 1947's "Superman" #45.
Written by Jerry Siegel and penciled by John Sikela, the issue had a story called "Case of the Living Trophies," where Superman was kidnapped by an inter-dimensional collector. He was kept in a case filled with gas that paralyzed him, leaving him a living trophy, just like it said on the tin. To escape, Superman used his "telepathic will control" to take control of the alien's mind and escape. It's a shame he never used his "will control" again, because if he used that more often, things might go easier for him.
You probably already know about Superman's heat vision, because it's one of his most iconic powers. What you may not know is one of the weirder things he's used it for, which is brain surgery. Superman can use his heat vision to cause some major damage if he wanted to, and he did so in 2001's "Action Comics" #775 against the ruthless antihero Manchester Black.
Written by Joe Kelly, and pencilled by Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo, Superman encountered Manchester Black as the leader of a vigilante group known as the Elites. The Elites are a violent group of superheroes who were willing to kill villains as their means of saving the world, which Superman had a big problem with. Manchester Black used his telekinetic powers to pinch blood vessels in Superman's brain in order to give him a stroke, but Superman got his revenge in the end. The Man of Steel used his heat vision to burn the portion of Manchester Black's brain that gave him his abilities, leaving Black powerless.
One of Superman's failings is that he can't be in two places at once...or can he? This brings us to another little-known power, the ability to copy himself. Superman has been copied and split into multiple versions many times, and in TV series "The Adventures of Superman," he discovered that he had the power to make duplicates of himself. In the comics, one of the most important and strangest moments came in 1998 in the storyline that came to be known as "Superman Red and Superman Blue."
Starting in "Superman" #122 (1997), Superman lost his usual powers and became an energy-based hero. Then in 1998's "Superman Red/Superman Blue," penciled by Stuart Immonen and written by Dan Jurgens, Superman had to escape from a trap by Cyborg Superman and split into two men who came to be known as Red and Blue. The two Supermen were forced to share their lives until finally merging together again.
Superman's strength is legendary and he's been shown in both the comics and the movies to be able to do everything from smashing mountains to moving planets, but what if he still wanted to give his fists a little more punch? How does he make his already super-strong punch even stronger? With his kinetic energy punch, a power that directs all the kinetic energy of his physical movement into his fists.
The kinetic punch made its appearance in 2016's "Action Comics" #49, created by Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder. Before the issue, Superman had lost his powers thanks to Vandal Savage and then exposed himself to kryptonite in order to kill his damaged cells (kind of like how chemotherapy kills cancer). Unfortunately, when he came out of the kryptonite, the process left him with powers hat were at a weaker level. To beat his enemies, Superman had to resort to his kinetic energy punch, which made an explosion on impact. The punch doesn't move planets, but it gets the job done.
Superman's five senses are just as amazing as the rest of him. He has super-vision that lets him see far away objects, zoom in to see microscopic creatures and even see through objects. He has super-hearing that lets him hear things in other cities and even other planets, and hear frequencies beyond the human range. Is it a surprise that his sense of smell is just as strong as the rest of him? It shouldn't be, but it might. The fact is, smelling things isn't something Superman makes a big deal out of, but we'll do it for him.
Superman's sense of smell is just as powerful as his sense of hearing. In other words, he can smell in ways that your average bloodhound could only dream of. He can smell a room and tell if there's a bomb in it or what chemicals are in something, just from the odor.
Now we're getting to one of Superman's most bizarre and obscure powers, and it's going to take some explaining. In "Superman" #125 in 1958 (Jerry Coleman, Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye), Superman was investigating a crashed spaceship when it exploded in his face. Afterwards, Superman discovered he lost all of his powers except invulnerability, and one little twist. Instead of using all his power himself, Superman could shoot out a tiny version of himself who was empowered with all his missing abilities.
The Mini-Me version of Superman could fly, had super-strength and all his other powers, but with the extra power of cuteness. When danger struck, Superman was forced to send out his doppleganger to save the day. The best part is that Superman ended up getting jealous of how much more popular his super-Oompa Loompa was, and destroyed it by sending it after a kryptonite meteor shower, proving it's not the size of the Superman but how you use it.
In the Golden Age, Superman's powerful lungs could do a lot more than just blow super-cold air. They could also perform what he called "super-ventriloquism," which is just what it sounds like (pun totally intended). That doesn't mean Superman would talk with a wooden dummy in his lap while he drank a glass of water. Instead, Superman could perfectly imitate sounds and the voices of others, as well as make it sound like what he was saying was coming from somewhere or someone else.
The power of being the world's greatest ventriloquist came in surprisingly handy in his adventures. Superman would often throw his voice to people like Supergirl to tell her things without being heard by others. Instead of yelling "Hey, Supergirl, get over here," Superman would throw his voice so it was like whispering right in her ear from 30 feet away. Over time, his super-ventriloquism disappeared, replaced by other newfangled contraptions like cell phones.
As we've gone over, Superman already has a ton of superpowers, but by the 1990s, he'd been pretty well nailed down. That's why 2015's "Superman" #38 by Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr. rocked the comic world by introducing a brand-new power for the Man of Steel. In a fight against the supervillain Ulysses, Superman pushed his heat vision further than he'd ever done before. To his surprise (and definitely to Ulysses' surprise as well), the Man of Steel unleashed a huge energy blast from every cell in his body that knocked him unconscious and left him powerless for 24 hours.
That explosion was what came to be known as the Super Flare. Superman was saved by Batman, who later explained that Superman's heat vision was always just a small focused amount of the total energy he could release. When Superman pushed it to the limit, the action caused him to release all the energy in his body at the cost of his powers. He basically explodes with the power of a small nuke without the inconvenient fallout.
Which power do you think he should use more often? Were there any powers you didn't know about? Let us know in the comments!


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Acting Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia said he had two hopes as he prepared to sentence Michael P. Milton for the repeated sexual assault of two young girls over more than a decade.
"First, that these two children are not scarred for the rest of their lives and that they are able to lead healthy lives. And second, that you are never released from prison," Buscaglia said.
With that, Buscaglia sentenced Milton, 41, to 25 years to life in prison on each of two counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, to run consecutively. He also ordered the maximum sentences for three other convictions.
A jury convicted Milton in January of the sexual assault charges, plus two charges of rape and one count of criminal sexual act against a child. Both victims testified about the assaults, which began when each girl was about 6 years old.
One victim is now 19; the other is 10 years old. Neither is related to Milton.
According to the girl's testimony, the abuse occurred at different times when each was placed in Milton's care by people who trusted him. To keep his conduct secret, Milton would either bribe the children, threaten them or convince them that they would get in trouble if they told.
The abuse finally was discovered in 2015 when the mother of the younger victim was looking for photos on Milton's phone and discovered video that he recorded while forcing the older girl to perform oral sex.
The mother immediately became fearful for her own children and asked her daughter to tell her if anything had happened to her.
The mother testified that, when her own daughter, then 9 years old, revealed what Milton had been doing, she still was in disbelief. She took the child to her own doctor and then to Women & Children's Hospital, where the mother's worst fears were confirmed.
On Friday, prosecutor Rosanne E. Johnson, chief of the DA's Special Victims Bureau, described the assaults as "a horrific breach of trust.'
She reminded the judge that Milton never voiced "the slightest bit of responsibility" for his actions.
Johnson praised both girls for their strength in being willing to testify, even though their experiences have left them cautious and mistrustful of people.
"He ruined her childhood," Johnson said of the older girl.
Johnson also told the judge on behalf of the young child of how the assault changed her from a little girl who always was happy to someone who felt depressed, confused and sad.
Defense attorney Robert M. Goldstein acknowledged the inevitability of a harsh sentence but said Milton continues to maintain his innocence of every charge except rape in the third degree for the incident captured on the cell phone recording. Milton previously claimed through his attorney that the contact was consensual sex, although he admitted the victim was underage.
Goldstein said that he will file a notice of appeal, which could be what Milton referred to when he had a chance to speak before sentencing. Milton gave an ambiguous response, saying, "I'm going to get the help I need -- whatever that may be."
In addition to the double sentences of 25 to life, Buscaglia issued orders of protection for both victim and for the younger child's mother.
Outside of court after the sentencing, family members, social workers and friends of the victims expressed gratitude for the outcome. Among the group, standing with the 10-year-old, was Argos, the therapy dog who has been at her side throughout the entire case. According to Andrew Skolnick, the dog's owner, the group planned to celebrate Argos's 12th birthday.
Child rapist sentenced to back-to-back life prison terms Melinda Miller Mar 3, 2017
MIAMI - U.S. authorities have charged an Arkansas man with sexually abusing children while working as a missionary in Haiti.
Daniel Pye became well-known among missionaries in Haiti as he helped coordinate relief efforts in Jacmel after the January 2010 earthquake. He was jailed for about five months in Haiti in 2011 amid a dispute with members of his U.S.-based mission over property belonging to their home for children.
Following a two-year investigation, prosecutors in Miami have charged Pye with four counts of traveling from South Florida to Haiti to engage in sexual conduct with children
A judge in Arkansas set bond at $5,000, but prosecutors filed a motion Thursday to reverse the decision. He remains in custody.
A Salem man is facing three counts child sexual abuse, according to officials.
Jeremiah William Hollis, 37, is believed to have sexually assaulted a female minor under 12 years old around Friday, February 17, according to a Marion County probable cause statement.
He is accused of forcing the minor to touch his genitals, touching an intimate part of the girl and engaging in deviate sexual intercourse with the girl.
He is charged with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of first-degree sodomy.
First-degree sexual abuse and first-degree sodomy are Measure 11 crimes that carry mandatory minimum sentences of 75 months and 100 months in prison, respectively.
Hollis was convicted of second-degree forgery in 2015.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Jonathan Mitchell Cooper, 31, was convicted of three counts of rape of a child, three counts of incest and one count of aggravated sexual battery after sexually assaulting a nine-year-old victim, the District Attorney General said in a release.
Cooper was set for sentencing on April 13. Each count of rape of a child carries a punishment between 25 and 60 years in prison without the possibility of parole. Once Cooper was convicted, his bond was revoked, and he was ordered into custody.
During Cooper's trial, an Assistant District Attorney explained that beginning in 2013, Cooper began to molest a nine-year-old child at their West Knoxville home. The assaults happened about 12 times over the next two years until the victim told their mother about them.
"Parents are supposed to protect their children, not prey upon them," said District Attorney General Charme Allen. "Because of the hard work of investigators and prosecutors in this case, this child is now safe."
At sentencing next month, prosecutors said they would ask for an enhanced sentence to ensure this offender can never harm another child again.
Child rapist ordered into custody upon conviction Mar 03, 2017
DOVER, Del. - A Dover man has been sentenced to life in prison on rape and sexual abuse charges, the Delaware Department of Justice announced Friday.
Eric Curry, 35, was caught having sexual intercourse with a young girl in November 2015 when the young girl's sister witnessed the crime. Curry was convicted of sexual abuse by a person in a position of trust or authority and second degree rape in a bench trial in December 2016.
Department of Justice officials say Deputy Attorney General Kathleen Dickerson secured the sentence.
Officials say Curry had previous convictions of aggravated menacing and second degree robbery, giving him the status of a habitual offender.
A 36-year-old Burney man who pleaded guilty in December to raping a 13-year-old girl and fathering her baby was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.
Adam Ted Goad, who must register as a sex offender if he's ever released from prison, kept his head bowed as Shasta County Superior Court Judge Cara Beatty imposed his life prison sentence.
She also ordered him to have no contact with his victim and her child for 10 years.
Goad took a plea bargain in December, pleading guilty to rape and a related enhancement in exchange for the 25-year-to-life sentence.
Initially charged with rape, aggravated sexual assault, lewd and lascivious acts with a child and other charges in connection with his original 18-count felony case, he was arrested June 2, 2015, more than a year after the teen had given birth to the baby.
Testifying at Goad's September 2015 preliminary hearing, now retired Shasta County sheriff's Detective Keith Sharp said the girl told him she had been sexually assaulted by Goad on numerous occasions, including once only days after he submitted his DNA to authorities investigating the sexual abuse.
Evasive and reluctant during initial interviews with authorities to name her baby's father, the girl later identified Goad after being shown DNA evidence that showed he was the father, Sharp wrote in an earlier sheriff's report.
A Department of Justice criminologist who tested Goad's DNA also testified at that hearing that while the DNA tests weren't a perfect match, it was "strong evidence" that he is the biological father of the baby girl.
Authorities have said Goad originally denied the charges, but later admitted to forcing himself on the teen once after they told him the teen identified him as the baby's father.
"Goad said he was drunk and stupid one time and that he didn't realize what he had done with (her) until (it) was over," Sharp wrote in his report.
The Shasta County District Attorney's Office said Goad was sentenced under a "one-strike law" for sex offenders that provides for potential life sentences for certain crimes if those crimes involve additional special allegations.
Goad had also been charged with felony sexual battery in an unrelated case in which a woman said she was sexually attacked by him in 2012, but that case was dismissed.
Rapist sentenced to life in prison Jim Schultz , Record Searchlight March 3, 2017
FARMINGTON — A 58-year-old Blanco man is facing felony charges on allegations he molested a young female relative on several occasions over a three-year span.
Joseph Martinez was arrested in February by the San Juan County Sheriff's Office after the pre-teen girl told a social worker he had touched her inappropriately, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
The first of the incidents occurred when the child was watching television about three years ago. The girl told police Martinez touched her stomach and her breasts under her clothes, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit alleges that incidents of sexual abuse continued over the past few years and included Martinez penetrating the girl. The girl alerted the counselor to the incidents after Martinez tried to rape her in February. She told police she kicked Martinez off of her during the incident and tried to punch him, according to the affidavit.
The girl was taken to the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Office, where a nurse found what appeared to be bite marks on her inner thigh, as well as bruises and abrasions on her legs, according to the affidavit.
Another young relative told police she would sometimes play doctor with Martinez, the affidavit states.
Martinez has been charged with criminal sexual contact of a minor in the second degree and criminal sexual penetration in the first degree.
Blanco man charged with child sexual abuse Hannah Grover March 3, 2017
A Gainesville man was arrested Friday after police said he beat and sexually assaulted a victim younger than 18.
According to a Gainesville Police Department arrest report, George Benny Bryant, 36, used a hard plastic jump rope to whip the victim "over the past several months," leaving significant scars.
The report said on or around January 30, Bryant sodomized the victim.
When authorities searched Bryant's residence Thursday, they reported finding 8.68 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Bryant was charged with sexual assault, aggravated child abuse, possession of drug equipment and marijuana and drug trafficking, jail records show. Bond was set at $500,000 and he remained in the Alachua County Jail Friday.
According to Alachua County Court records, Bryant has been arrested on drug-related charges at least seven other times since 1999, in addition to domestic battery and aggravated battery charges.
A man jailed for 15 years for the rape and sexual assault of a woman whose child he abducted in the same incident, has lost an appeal against his conviction.
Michael Murray (46), formerly of Killiney Oaks, Killiney, Dublin, was jailed for 15 years for rape, attempted rape, oral rape and aggravated sexual assault, child abduction, threats to kill or cause serious harm, false imprisonment and theft at a Dublin apartment on February 12th and 13th, 2010.
The Central Criminal Court had heard that Murray lured his female victim into an apartment by telling her that an elderly woman was dying inside and needed her help.
He tied her up and assaulted her before taking her son away abandoning him in a city centre square late at night. He returned to the flat where he drugged and raped his victim.
Murray had denied the charges. However he was found guilty on all counts by a unanimous jury decision.
His conviction was affirmed today by the Court of Appeal. The Director of Public Prosecutions are due to seek a review of his sentence on grounds that it is "unduly lenient".
Giving background to the case in the Cout of Appeal today, Mr Justice George Birmingham said that at 4.10pm on the date in question, the complainant, a young Chinese woman, was walking home from work in the Smithfield area of Dublin accompanied by her four year old child when she was "lured" into an apartment by Murray on the false basis that there was a sick lady inside who needed help.
Thereafter, Murray locked them both into the apartment and subjected to the woman to an "escalating and relentless ordeal of rape, attempted rape, sexual degradation and violence, drugging her, binding and gagging her and threatening to kill both her and her young son".
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Back when I worked at a fashion and beauty mag I had the chance to meet and interview Lulu Guinness. Well, where to begin? It was a talent and style crush from the outset. Her sense of humour, designs, elegance, the to-die-for spread on her place in an issue of ELLE Decor, her glamorous and privileged life in London. I didn't just love her, I wanted to BE her. I have considered her a personal style icon since. So, imagine my delight when I opened an e-mail today to find these lovely images, sent to me by my contact at IPC, the company that publishes Living Etc. Swoonsville!
At the risk of sounding like a complete obsessive freak, I discovered in the article that Lulu and I share a couple of passions: IKEA and diet coke. Two things about her that don't resonate with me: 1. she smokes. 2. she is divorced. Now, she is divorced from Valentine Guinness, he of one of the wealthiest families in the UK. So financially speaking, that can't be too bad for her. But I am a hopeless romantic and my heart breaks at the thought of a marriage split.
Funny thing is that when I look at these rooms and the rooms I am currently designing for my own home, well, they couldn't be more different. But there's still a part of me that longs for a violet linen settee, pink walls and, most of all, a townhouse in Notting Hill.
Oh yes, and last but not least, I named my girl after her, meet my Lulu:(Don't tell Ms. Guinness, but I think her K9 namesake bears some resemblance -- petite, feisty, raven-coloured short hair, likes to wear red, possesses a bit of French flair.)


text: Guyau 1 Report post Posted July 6, 2009 .On Logic, Aristotle and RandNormativity of Logic – Kant v. RandNormativity of Logic – Robert HannaBetween False, Invalid, and MeaninglessMeaningless TautologyAnalytic-Synthetic DistinctionPart 1 – QuinePart 2 – White and Rand-PeikoffPart 3 – Objective Analyticity~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~From First Section of "Induction on Identity"(1990 – Objectivity V1N2)"Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. . . . Logic is the art of noncontradicory identification" (AS 1016). I think this view is correct, fresh, and important."He whose subject is existing things qua existing must be able to state the most certain principle of all things. This is the philosopher, and the most certain principle of all is that regarding which it is impossible to be mistaken. . . . Which principle this is, let us proceed to say. It is that the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject and in the same respect" (Metaph. 1005b8–20). There are no contradictions in reality. Contradiction is the fundamental indicator of discordance with reality. Contradiction is the fundamental fallacy of deductive inference.Noncontradiction is the fundamental rule of valid deductive inference because identity is the fundamental law of reality. The law of identity is commonly stated as "A is A" or "a thing is itself." An existent is itself and not something else. Then an inference that something both is a certain thing and not a certain thing is faulty. A thing cannot both be and not be a certain thing. The ground of noncontradiciton, the ground of validity in deductive inference, is the law of identity.In moving from identity to noncontradiction, we move from "a thing is itself" to "a thing is itself and not something else." This maneuver draws to the fore our knowledge that any thing is a certain, specific thing. A thing is something. A thing is what it is. "To exist is to be something. . . . It is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes (AS 1016). This is the law of identity come of age.Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was cognizant of the intimate connection between the principle of (non)contradiction and the principle of identity. (Nicolaus of Autrecourt cognized much of the connection already in the fourteenth century; see Weinberg 1967, 9–30.) "The first of the truths of reason is the principle of contradiction or, what comes to the same thing, that of identity (Leibniz 1969, 385). By truths of reason he meant necessary propositions, and by necessary propositions he meant propositions whose contradictories cannot be true. By truth he meant correspondence of a proposition with reality, possible or actual (Leibniz 1981; see also Rescher 1979, 130–34).Primitive truths of reason, Leibniz called identicals. Among affirmative identicals are "the equilateral rectangle is a rectangle" and "A is A" and "each thing is what it is" and "at any given time a thing is as it is." As negative identicals, we have "what is A cannot be non-A." There are also negative identicals that are called disparates. An example would be "warmth is not the same thing as color" (Leibniz 1981, 4.2.361–63; 1966, 306).The principle of noncontradiction (or identity), according to Leibniz, tells us only what is possible, not what is actual. Its truth is founded in the essence of things. It is an innate truth, and it applies to ideas that are innate (such as geometrical ideas), which is to say ideas not derived from the senses, but ideas found ready in the mind. The principle of noncontradiction also applies to sensible truths, as when we say "sweet is not bitter." The actual is among the possible, and Leibniz might admit that the principle of noncontradiction has application to sensible truths without going on to sink the principle into the bedrock of the actual.As Leibniz saw it, truths of reason and their necessities do come from outside us "since all that we do consists in recognizing them, in spite of ourselves and in a constant manner." To demonstrate the existence of these necessities,"I have taken for granted that we thing and that we have sensations. So there are two absolute general truths: truths that is, which tell of the actual existence of things. One is that we think; the other, that there is a great variety in our thoughts. From the former it follows that we are; from the latter, that there is something other than us, that is to say, something other than that which thinks, which is the cause of the great variety of our experiences. Now the one of these is just as incontestable and as independent as the other . . . ." (1966, 307)In contrast to truths of reason, in Leibniz's analysis, are truths of fact. Truths of fact are known by observation and induction, not by deduction. Their truth "is founded not in the essence (of things) but in their existence; and they are true as though by chance" (Leibniz 1963, 274). Truths of existence are contingent. Truths of existence are true. They have hypothetical and physical necessity, if not absolute and logical necessity (Mates 1986, 116–19; Ishiguro 1982; Wilson 1976). But denial of existential truths does not result in contradiction, at least not in the finite mind of man. Really?—Aristotle 1941 [c. 348–322 B.C.]. The Basic Works of Aristotle. R. McKeon, editor. Random House.—Ishiguro, H. 1982. Leibniz on Hypothetical Truths. In Leibniz: Critical and Intepretive Essays. M. Hooker, editor. University of Minnesota.—Leibniz, G.W. 1963 [1666]. Dissertation on the Art of Combinations. Quoted in Copleston, F. 1963. A History of Philosophy, volume 4. Image Books.——. 1966 [1675]. Letter to Simon Foucher. In The Philosophy of the 16th and 17th Centuries. R.H. Popkin, editor. The Free Press.——. 1969 [1692]. Critical Thoughts on the General Part of the Principles of Descartes. In G. W. Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters. 2nd ed. L.E. Loemker, translator.——. 1981 [1704]. New Essays on Human Understanding. P. Remnant and J. Bennett, translators. Cambridge.—Mates, B. 1986. The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language. Oxford.—Rand, A. 1957. Atlas Shrugged. Random House.—Rescher, N. 1979. Leibniz: An Introduction to His Philosophy. Rowman and Littlefield.—Weinberg, J.R. 1969 [1948]. Nicolaus of Autrecourt. Greenwood Press.—Wilson, M.D. 1976 [1972]. On Leibniz's Explication of "Necessary Truth." Reprinted in Leibniz: A Collection of Critical Essays. H.G. Frankfurt, editor. Notre Dame.RemarkThe preceding contentions of Aristotle, Leibniz, and Rand are about logic, they are not presentations of the discipline that is logic. I wrote, in step with Leibniz and Rand, "the ground of validity in deductive inference is the law of identity." I should note that validity in deductive logic is more than consistency. The logical formula "p and not-q" is called consistent because it will be sometimes true, specifically, if the proposition p is true and the proposition q is false. The formula "p and not-p" is called inconsistent because it will be always false, whether p is true or false. The formula "if p, then p" is called valid because it will be always true, whether p is true or false (Methods of Logic [Quine 1982, 40–41]). There are many formulas that are valid, though, unlike the preceding example, they are not seen to be valid so quickly.To claim that logic is the art of noncontradictory identification is to set logic in its relations to metaphysics and to epistemology. That claim and my claim that the ground of validity in deductive inference is the law of identity are claims about logic. They belong to the philosophy of logic.Philosophy of logic is something in which philosophers engaged before this class of inquiry came to have its present name and scope. Kant was engaged in it when he conceived of transcendental logic as distinct from general logic. The latter was simply the discipline of logic itself, as it had been developed (mainly by Aristotle) to Kant's time, whereas the former was dealing with questions in philosophy of logic. Similarly, when Kant conceives of general logic as "the science of the necessary laws of the understanding," he is engaged in philosophy of logic. 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Drama therapy aims to help Lebanese prisoners
A drama therapy project inside the confines of Lebanon's Roumieh prison aims to help rehabilitate inmates, or make life-long incarceration and awaiting execution just a little easier to handle. Mana Rabiee reports.
This isn't routine theater. These are inmates in Lebanon's Roumieh prison - performing a play about living with mental health issues while incarcerated. Some of the performers, like some in the audience, suffer from mental illness themselves. An NGO called Catharsis designed this project as 'drama therapy' to help make prison life - or eventual rehabilitation -- a little easier .... but especially easier for inmates of the "Blue House", the part of the prison that houses men with mental disease. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED PRISONER ACTING IN PLAY, SAYING: "They stay all their lives in Roumieh prison, in a room, maybe humidity will eat them, nobody takes care of them, those of the blue house, that people say are crazy. They are really wrong to say that." Some of the men at Roumieh are here for life; others are awaiting execution - including some of the 40 or so men who are performing. The theater project is funded by a European Union human rights program that aims to help reform Lebanon's penal code system, which says "insane" prisoners must be kept incarcerated until they're - quote -- "cured from insanity". However long that takes. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED PRISONER ACTING IN PLAY, SAYING: "We have a very big message to tell our brothers in the blue house, to the people who are mentally ill, those not having justice: that we are with them, we are in solidarity with you, we didn't forget you."


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