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I am always warning my kids not to spill things… "Don't spill that… chocolate stains". So, many times I'll get the question asked of me by my kiddos, "Mommy, does this stain?". I'm not sure if they are asking because they want permission to spill something, or if they are going to gauge my response in advance before they tell me that they spilled something.
So, yesterday when I was making breakfast and had the blueberries out on the table for them to help themselves to, I heard my 4 year old say under her breath, "Uh ohhhhhh". Then, I heard the words, "Ummmmm, mommy? Do blueberries stain?" It was at that point that I turned around to see my two year old (who you know has been a challenge lately) covered from head to toe in a blueberry stain of a mess. I am not exactly sure what she did with those blueberries… I'm assuming she used them as body paint… but she sure had fun doing it.
Luckily, I had enough remaining blueberries left from her experiment to make this tasty Blueberry Coffee Cake from the May 2008 issue of Cooking Light. This cake is moist and flavorful… and the turbinado sugar on the top really makes this recipe complete.
Worth any stains you might endure (and the extra baths and loads of laundry), this cake is a delightful breakfast treat.
Blueberry Coffee Cake is my entry in Cook Sister's Event – Waiter, there's something in my… berries, featuring fresh berries of the season.
Blueberry Coffee Cake, from the May 2008 issue of Cooking Light
This cake is a delightful breakfast treat.
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg white
- 1 1/3 cups low-fat buttermilk
- cooking spray
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 1 tablespoon turbinado sugar
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk.
- Place granulated sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 2 minutes).
- Add vanilla, egg, and egg white; beat well. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix after each addition.
- Spoon half of the batter into a 9-inch round baking pan coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle evenly with 1 cup blueberries.
- Spoon remaining batter over the blueberries; sprinkle evenly with remaining 1 cup blueberries. Sprinkle the top evenly with 1 tablespoon turbinado sugar.
- Bake at 350° for 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
Recipe Notes
So - you love blueberries? Check out these other great recipes by food bloggers: Blueberry Pie - from me (aka Dine and Dish) Blueberry Breakfast Bars - from Farmgirl Fare Blueberry Lavender Cream Pie - from The Kitchn Blueberry and Nectarine Cobbler - from Baking Bites Blueberry and Cream Cheese Braid - from The Fresh Loaf


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Be wary with weeds over harvesting time
Farmers are being urged to play their part in stopping the spread of dangerous weeds in the Waikato region.
Farmers are being urged to play their part in stopping the spread of dangerous weeds in the Waikato region.
A company which owns a Cambridge dairy farm has been fined a total of $26,000 for a range of offences relating to the property.
Changes to the region's bus network will be phased in over the next two years following today's adoption of a new public transport plan for the Waikato.
A solution has been negotiated to a long standing flood plain issue concerning a number of residents next to Cook Stream at Cook's Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula.
Waikato Regional Council is this Thursday holding its council meeting in Paeroa as part of moves to make meetings more accessible to the public.
Waikato Regional Council's free park and ride bus services are back for this month's Balloons Over Waikato premier event, the Nightglow.
Waikato Regional Council says it is closely involved in a wide range of policies, projects and programmes to address water quality issues at Lake Karapiro and other lakes and waterways.
Another record turnout of between 650-700 farmers at the 2015 Waikato Effluent Expo demonstrated an ever increasing industry commitment to improving effluent management, says Waikato Regional Council.
Drop in sessions and an online survey are giving the public an early chance to have their say on the future of the Waikato and Waipa rivers.
The public's voice is now being sought on a new 10-year plan that will play a key role in shaping the Waikato region's future.
The Waikato region is a big food producer through its farming sector, helping feed the nation, and the world.
Nearly 60 exhibitors are lining up for this year's Waikato Effluent Expo at the Mystery Creek events centre near Hamilton next Tuesday 17 March (St Patrick's Day).
More than $1 billion worth of funding to finish the Waikato Expressway is the fruit of tight collaboration and strong advocacy by the region's councils and stakeholders, says the regional transport committee.
The importance of the Waikato and Waipa rivers to the region's tourism sector has been emphasised at a workshop for a key project designed to protect and restore the waterways.
The multi-agency regional transport committee has thrown its weight behind police moves to crack down on motorists using highways for racing, burnouts and other dangerous activities at sites around the region.
Approval in principle has been given to an extension to the timeline of a key project designed to better protect the Waikato and Waipa rivers.


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The event: In a tent beside the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the Weinstein Co. threw a lively after-party bash, which drew many of the biggest stars who had attended the Golden Globe Awards. There, the champagne flowed, as did the Fiji Water, a sponsor of the effervescent affair.
The crowd: After winning for lead actress in a dramatic TV series for "House of Cards" on Netflix, Robin Wright said she was still in shock. Looking especially elegant in her backless beaded frock, she and new fiancé Ben Foster then spent much of the night dancing.
Leonardo DiCaprio, another of the night's victors, stopped by, his Golden Globe in hand. (He got the lead actor in a movie comedy or musical nod for "The Wolf of Wall Street.") And Bono, on arriving, made a beeline for party host Harvey Weinstein, who cheerfully welcomed his steady stream of VIP guests.
Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson and CAA's Kevin Huvane were among those sharing a sofa marked "August: Osage County." This group too took a moment to dance.
The high-spirited soiree also drew Steve Coogan, writer and star of "Philomena," another Weinstein film; plus Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz, Taylor Swift, Kevin Spacey, Aaron Paul, Heidi Klum, Kerry Washington, Bradley Cooper, Corey Stoll, Sean P. Diddy Combs, Usher, Naomi Watts, Kate Beckinsale, Les Moonves and Julie Chen, Kristin Chenoweth and Dana Brunetti, Dermot Mulroney and Tharita Catulle, and more.
The scene: Never mind that there wasn't a dance floor. The upbeat music moved many to dance between the seating areas. And for anyone feeling the need for a touch-up, Laura Mercier make-up artists delivered quick fixes from inside a make-up booth, during the long party-packed evening.
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If you're visiting for work in Warrenton, VA, the hotel offers free wired and Wi-Fi access, a meeting room and a 24-hour business center. The Airlie Center, Warrenton Training Center, Fauquier Hospital, FAA, Lockheed Martin, Greystone, Pepsi Cola, and other major area corporations are all nearby, so you can travel to meetings effortlessly.
Wonderful attractions abound in this town, much to the delight of the hotel's leisure guests. While in Warrenton, you can attend equestrian events, such as the Virginia Gold Cup. Visit scenic Skyline Drive, Civil War sites or enjoy a concert at Jiffy Lube Live. Afterward, sample award-winning wine amidst breathtaking views of the Blue Ridge foothills during a tour of the Fauquier County Wine Trail.
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17 Again, the LA premiere last night. As you'd expect, there was a strong Disney contingent present to support Zac Efron. The Mouse's current favourite son was joined by the Mouse's current favourite family – LipGloss and the Vagina Virgins together for one screamworthy evening!
Lip, as you can see, is once again working those inturned feet. His ridiculous hair sideswept perfectly, his pixie features arranged appealingly on his face – this is not a boy, this is a cartoon character.
As for the Jonas Brothers, the middle one seems to be feathering his coif 70s styles. This must be why he's considered the most attractive. I have no idea who's doing the considering. All I know is that it's not me. I pick the youngest one. Of course I do.
Duana has the most hilarious reaction to these kids. Like instant revulsion. Like how regular people would react to maggots. She's probably muttering under her breath in disgust as she reads. The irony of this never fails to amuse me.
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Work in the arena of parental alienation in the UK has, until recent years, been primarily undertaken by psychiatrists and psychologists, many of whom are now retired. In comparison to countries like the US and Canada, work in this arena is in its early days of delivery, with few academics working in the field and even fewer practitioners. As a practitioner who has worked in the field for many years, alongside one of the most eminent and well known psychiatrists for a time and now at the Family Separation Clinic, I consider myself to be something of an experienced hand. As I move into the work of research therefore, I feel that I have reached a place where my experience, in wading around, neck deep with parents in the cess pit of their lives, qualifies me to set down some markers for the parental alienation debate in the UK. What follows is, I hope, a clear and unequivocal call for the movement to raise awareness of parental alienation in the UK and the work that goes on around it, to stay on track and up there with the best of the work being undertaken internationally. My fear being that within some camps, the drift is towards something of far less quality which could actually prove to be dangerous to the families who come into contact with it.
Working in the field of parental alienation does not allow one to become complacent, neither does it allow one to sit on the fence. Fence sitting, which in my experience is caused by wooly thinking and lack of courage, causes, in the alienation process, entrenchment of the problem and pressures the child further to mainain the stance. Practitioners working in this field should have the courage of their convictions and be prepared to act and take the consequences. Anything less is to fail the child and add to the problem.
People who work in this field should be involved with families at every level, they should, to follow my earlier analogy, get into the cess pit and get dirty with the families that they are working with. To do anything less is to intellectualise the approach and intellectualising the approach causes more problems not less. It is quite simply, in my view, not possible to sit on the edge and observe. All of the key figures in parental alienation work, from Gardener to Baker, to Bala to Warshak to Gottleib to Lowenstein and Weir here in the UK, got in the shit and walked with families. If your therapist is not walking in your shit with you, as well as the other parent's shit and your children's shit too, you are not working with an alienation specialist, you are working with a therapist who knows a bit about parental alienation. Do not be fooled, because the two are very different things.
The reason that I write these things is this. In order to be able to fully and comprehensively treat a family where alienation strikes you have to be able to do what Alajandro Jodorosky called acts of 'psychomagic'. Bear with me, its not as bonkers as it sounds. As Karen Lebow, in Amy Baker's recent book, working with alienation children and their families, states
'The shaman understands that to be human is to be interdependent and that interdependence evolved for survival of the early rigours of daily struggles in prehistoric times. Sunning kills the human spirit and destroys the ability to function as an individual. Being interconnected means survival. Support group leaders who facilitate healing among targeted parents use many of the same techniques and carry out similar roles to a shaman. The shaman contains the memory, history of the community and like the group leader, facilitates healing comfort and education..'
Whilst Jodorosky has his own brand of shamansim, all practitioners who work with alienation must also develop theirs. To fail to do so, is to leave the families that we work with wandering around in the dark not knowing what to do. Anyone working in the field of parental alienation must know everything about the families they work with, everything about the world that they live in and everything about the tensions and terrors that intersect their lives. To do anything less is to refuse the responsibility that comes with doing this work, which is the responsibility to carry, for as short a time as possible, the burdens of the family and to absorb, as much as possible, the toxicity which is washing around each and every member. Being prepared to walk with those families, carrying and absorbing until the system is cleansed, is an absolute necessity. This work is not for the one session a week therapist and it is not for the person who sits in their office expecting people to come to them. This work is about living, breathing, people and the terrors that face them and just like in the US and Canada, my deepest hope is that the UK will develop a tribe of these people, each capable in their own way of taking on the challenges.
The core of what we do as alienation specialists is give of ourselves, in all of our strengths and weaknesses. This is not the work of the lofty expert and the distanced, intellectual mind. This is the work of people who bleed, of people who can get things wrong as well as right and who can know the difference and keep on keeping on. In relationship with people who face being shunned and shut out from their children's lives, one has to know the kinds of terrors that they face, the walls that they have to climb and the seemingly insurmountable barriers that are set in their way. All of the key practitioners across the world, are involved in the (small p) political aspects of working with alienation and are, in their own way, working to raise awareness of the ways in which issues like feminism, domestic violence and false allegations are part of the landscape where alienated families walk. Debates around shared parenting, the need for two parents, the role of fathers and more are part of the narrative which surround parental alienation work and there is a clear recognition that the polarised debate is something which does not need to be changed by the practitioner, but understood.
In a recent workshop in London attended by a number of Family Therapists, CAFCASS officers and Social Workers, I asked the question which for me defines the difference between someone who is cut out to do this work and someone who is not. The question is do children need two parents? The dividing line was so stark that it was shocking. All of the Family Therapists said no and that to ask the question was to be offensive to single parents, everyone else said yes, of course they do. Within that one session I saw the way that the political correctness of the family therapy community stymies its ability to think beyond borders. Whilst I am sure that there are many family therapists who can cross them, it is clear that there is a group of family therapists working on parental alienation who are staying firmly within them.
One of those family therapists is a regular contributor to the comments on this blog and I have thought long and hard about how I deal with something that he sent to me and others recently about attending a Women's Aid conference. Nick Child has a website called For all That, on which he discusses the issue of parental alienation and refers to me at one point in the following manner –
"Collective homeostatic forces keep them and their views in place. Few are going to venture over to the other side to find out what makes them tick. To modify their arguments or terminology – eg to see diversity or commonality in the beloved or hated banner of 'feminism' – is not acceptable to their tribe or flock. In personal asides, such leaders will say that, when it comes down to it, they cannot let down those desperately needy followers who look to them to support and speak for them. This is then the position of a shepherd of a flock, or indeed of a patriarch (or matriarch) of a tribe. Thus for example – and here this is a positive compliment not a criticism – Evan Stark serves as a patriarch of the women's movement against domestic abuse, while Karen Woodall presents as the matriarch of the men's movement against their exclusion from families. However genuinely knowledgeable a shepherd or patriarch is in serving their flock or tribe, when it comes down to it, things that may be more ritual or tokenistic than rational may also be highly valued – like howling at the moon or burning banners."
This piece of rhetoric, appears to have me down as someone who has not seen both sides of the story and effectively dismisses all of the years that I spent in the feminist movement, seeing the world through the eyes of women first and everyone else second. To have me down then as the matriarch of the men's movement and someone who speaks only for one side of the polarised debate is actually offensive, though I have not said so publicly until now. Given that Nick feels free to write of me in this manner, I feel that I also have the right to share the following and the concern that it raises for me, about the work he is undertaking in Scotland around parental alienation.
Nick recently wrote to me and other professionals recently about his attendance at a Scottish Women's Aid conference, a venture he described as seeing things from the other side of the polarised debate. This is how he summed things up.
'So my shocking recommendation is that men should warmly and respectfully join or at least join in on Women's Aid as an organisation and their events. And perhaps other women's organisations too. Especially men who have been victims of domestic abuse. They should join with a blind eye to the parts of WA that would normally rile them. They should join genuinely with compassion for any victims including women victims. And of course for children in the middle or victims. They should join genuinely as men who want male abuse to stop. Those men who have been victims should also join genuinely as natural allies of other victims who happen to be female. They should do so uncompetitively, being open to how different experiences may be different, and some may be worse – eg women's experiences may be worse in several ways. What, if anything for example, is the equivalent for men victims of abusive women, of male abuser's stalking and coercive control after separation? Surely men and women victims would do well to respectfully compare notes and experiences?'
To say that I was speechless to receive this was an understatement, having recovered myself however, this is an excerpt from my reply.
Let me make this absolutely clear. I am not and never have been and never will be part of the men's movement. Neither will I ever again be part of the feminist movement. It is within that space however, which is created by a gendered war between men and women that families where alienation strikes are struggling and so it is into that space that I put myself, over and over and over again, in order to bring about change and healing. Writing as I do, about the inequalities and the gendered discrimination which is written into the legislation that surrounds these families is part of my work to raise awareness of what is happening their world. I do not attempt to brush over the reality, nor do I dismiss either side's lived experience, I know there are women who are beaten, savaged and raped in the world and I also know that there are men who suffer in the same way. But I know that one side gets help and the other gets not very much at all, which is why I speak out and speak up, because unless I do so, I contribute to the problem rather than helping to resolve it.
And contribute to the problem is what I am afraid Nick Child is doing in his exhortations to abused men to get alongside women's rights organisations and see them as their natural allies. With all of the privilege of never having suffered at the hands of a woman and never having experienced alienation directly, it is ever so easy to reduce the bloody, nasty, vicious mess that is lived experience of mothers and fathers in this arena to platitudes and broken narratives. The truth of the matter is that men AND women can be violent people and men AND women are harmed, sometimes very severely by the nature of that violence. Situating oneself however, in the safe space which is governed by feminist narratives of patriarchal power and control, fails those men AND women who do not fit this paradigm and failing to see Women's Aid, for the political entity that they are, with all of their industrial strength funding and ability to dominate the landscape of family violence, is to spectacularly fail families. In the real world, where power and control are behaviours which are utilised on both sides and where both sides can and do kill and both sides can and do inflict serious and significant harm, the issue must not be reduced to the simplistic words tweeted by another attendee of the same conference…
Great conference today. Heartening to hear @KennyMacAskill acknowledge 'domestic abuse happens because of inequality between men and women'
Try telling that to the dad with his head cracked open by a cricket bat and the man who died because he didn't put up his wife's summer house on the day her period was due.
The truth of the matter is that family violence, like false allegations, like shared parenting debates, like arguments over whether children need two parents or not are critical issues in this field and working with them from the feminist paradigm is not going to do anything other than cause more harm, more hurt and more damage to children. Its not possible in my mind to do any of this work from naive perspectives, it takes courage, guts and steely determination, to do what is possible even when it goes against the populist approaches.
The space in which we work with alienation is, to my mind a sacred space and one in which the narratives that are shaped and formed by direct experience in the field must reflect reality, not the hopes and dreams of politically correct therapists and their ilk who seek to do good. In writing this blog I know that I am setting down a marker. I am also publicly disassociating myself with any of the work being undertaken in the field of parental alienation by the Association of Family Therapists with whom Nick Child works. I have thought long and hard about doing this publicly, knowing that all voices raising awareness of parental alienation are important but I have decided that on balance, given the nature of what I consider to be an exremely worrying suggestion by Nick Child that it is important that I do so. My work with parental alienation, in that sacred space, demands of me the courage to stand by my convictions and I am concerned about the damage that well meaning therapists, without any real experience of the field, can do. All voices speaking about parental alienation are not the same and I accept that others in the field will speak differently to me about aspects of their work. But this kind of thinking and rhetoric does not belong in the sacred space that alienation specialists work in and for me, broken narratives like this belong elsewhere, not near people whose lives are already massively under pressure.


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Researchers at the University of Delaware have provided what is believed to be the first experimental evidence that plants can take up nanoparticles and accumulate them in their tissues
The laboratory study, which involved pumpkin plants, indicates a possible pathway for nanoparticles to enter the food chain. The research also reveals a new experimental approach for studying nanoparticles and their potential impacts.
Yan Jin, professor of soil physics in the University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and John Xiao, professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, led the study, working with colleagues Jung-youn Lee and Harsh Bais at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, a premier research center at the University of Delaware.
The results were published in a cover article in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring and also were highlighted in Chemical Biology, a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Nanoparticles are bits of chemicals a thousand times smaller than a human cell. While nanoparticles occur naturally in the environment, they increasingly are being manufactured for use in electronics to cosmetics, fuel cells to medical procedures.
Yet the human and environmental health risks associated with these tiny engineered particles are not well known. Because chemical compounds can take on different properties at such a reduced size--lead in a pencil reportedly becomes stronger than steel, for example--there is concern that these invisible particles could easily be breathed in by humans and animals, with damaging or toxic effects.
"Plants serve as a foundation of the food chain," noted Jin, who was recently named a fellow of the Soil Society of America. "We demonstrated this possible route for nanoparticles in the environment--whether it poses potential harm to human health depends on many factors. This is a preliminary study, which we hope will spur additional interdisciplinary research by the scientific community."
The researchers chose pumpkins for the study, Jin said, because they take in a lot of water and are easy to grow.
The plants were grown hydroponically in an aqueous medium to which nanoparticles of iron oxide, or magnetite, a magnetic form of iron ore, were added.
After 20 days of growth, the plants were cut into pieces and dried in a vacuum dessicator. A magnetometer was then used to detect if any of the particles had been absorbed by the plant.
"Our study was a worst-case scenario in order to test the feasibility of our approach in being able to detect the particle," Xiao noted. "It really provides a new technique for doing this kind of research."
Xiao, who directs the Center for Spintronics and Biodetection at the University of Delaware, noted that the magnetometer used in his physics research is similar to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which uses a powerful magnetic field and radio-frequency pulses to produce images of internal structures in the human body.
The magnetometer subjected the dried pumpkin plants to a low-frequency monotone to vibrate them. The vibration revealed each tiny particle of magnetite's unique magnetic signal and, thus, exact location inside the plant.
The researchers noted that in their initial screening tests, no magnetic signals were detected in lima bean plants compared to the strong signals in pumpkin plants, which suggests that different plants have varied responses to nanosized particles.
Additionally, while the pumpkins were studied primarily in aqueous media, the researchers also tested the plants in sand to which nanoparticles were added, where there was little uptake, and in soil, where there was no uptake of nanoparticles at all, according to Jin.
Jin noted how important interdisciplinary collaboration has been to the research and said she hopes to see plant scientists and molecular biologists involved in future studies to see how nanoparticles actually get into plants.
"Some believe it is a passive process; others are convinced it is an active one," Jin said. "There could be whole other lines of research," she noted.
"It's like a saying we have in Chinese," Jin added. "You throw out a brick and hope to attract a jade."
The saying, which is a Chinese way of showing humility, demonstrates the speaker's hope that others will improve on an idea.
"We want to stress that our study is very preliminary, and we hope it will stimulate more research in this area," she said.
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CRESTVIEW � Waste Management is replacing diesel garbage trucks with vehicles running on compressed natural gas, or CNG.
CRESTVIEW � Waste Management is replacing diesel garbage trucks with vehicles running on compressed natural gas, or CNG.
"CNG vehicles reduce diesel fuel by an average of 8,000 gallons a year per vehicle, along with a reduction of 22 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per vehicle, annually," a company news release stated.
The new trucks � which cost about $350,000 each � are more fuel-efficient and quiet than their diesel counterparts, the company stated.
The company's environmental sustainability initiative requires phasing out its current trucks, 80 percent of which will switch to alternative burning fuels by 2020.
"Natural gas is so much better for the environment," said Crestview resident Lynn Yort, of Waste Management's Gulf Coast region. "We plan to have all of the (local) diesel trucks replaced with the CNG trucks by the end of this year."
More than 30 such vehicles � some of which were displayed Friday at the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce office � will collect garbage for thousands of residents in Okaloosa County, including Crestview.
Waste Management serves nearly 4,000 north Okaloosa County residents who get pick-ups twice a week: once for garbage, and once for recyclable products, Yort said.
The company's other eco-friendly business practices include recently developing a solar-powered trash compactor that can alert the operator when the canister is near full.
"It will actually send a text message to that person," Yort said.
This would keep personnel from constantly monitoring the compactor.
In addition, the company's website, wm.com, provides teacher's educational materials on how to improve environmental sustainability.
"It will actually give you an entire lesson plan," Yort said.
The company constantly seeks ways to recycle items found in its many landfills, she said.
"We are the largest recycling company in the nation," Yort said. Recycling is important and we (all) need to get better at it."
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Roman towns in Spain: a journey to the past
Carranque Archaeological Park
Learn about life in Spain during the Roman Empire by visiting the Roman towns. There are numerous archaeological sites throughout the country. All you have to do is choose an area. Go back to the times of the gladiators and emperors, and learn something of the civilisation that gave Spain such a priceless cultural legacy.
In this journey, one of the things that will become evident about the past is that the houses in ancient Hispania had heating systems, running water and thermal baths, that their occupants used instruments such as nail clippers, and that hunting was of great importance in their daily lives, as illustrated by the themes of the mosaics and by the weapons and utensils discovered at excavations.
There are countless Roman sites throughout Spain and some of them, such as those at Tarraco and Mérida, even have UNESCO World Heritage status. Alongside these major archaeological sites are smaller but equally interesting sites, often based on old Roman towns in beautiful natural settings. Just a few examples are the Carranque Archaeological Park in Toledo; the Roman towns of La Olmeda and Quintanilla de la Cueza in Palencia; the ruins at Oliva de Plasencia in Extremadura; the Roman towns of Els Munts and Centelles in Tarragona; the Roman city of Baelo Claudia in Tarifa… and so the list goes on.
The archaeological sites often also include exhibitions, audiovisuals, reproductions, explanatory panels and scale models to provide visitors with a more complete insight into daily life in these settlements. One such site, for example, is the Museum of Roman Towns at Almenara-Puras, 55 kilometres from Valladolid. The only museum of its type in Spain, it is perfectly integrated with the surrounding landscape and, with exhibits of remains recovered from a stately house from the 4th century AD, enables visitors to learn about life in a farming town during the days of the Early Roman Empire.
Visiting the Roman towns in Spain will take you on a journey through rooms, palaces and burial grounds; you will admire temples and statues dedicated to the ancient divinities; beautiful mosaics and paintings of incalculable artistic merit; marble columns and old stone walls; the remains of ceramics, glass objects, coins and tools; dishes, containers and decorative elements; arches, bridges, vestibules and courtyards; water tanks; pantheons... a whole host of monuments just waiting to be discovered. All in all, an enjoyable and fun way to learn about one of the most fascinating periods in Spanish history.


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Bill Nunn, who passed away Saturday, starred in over 71 film and television roles over the span of his career. His roles ran the gamut from newspaper editor Joseph Robertson in "Spider-Man" (2002) and its sequels to playing opposite stars like Harrison Ford, Whoopi Goldberg and Hugh Grant in films like "Regarding Henry," "Sister Act" and "Extreme Measures."
But to a generation of film fans, Nunn will forever be immortalized as 'Radio Raheem' from Spike Lee's 1989 classic, "Do The Right Thing."
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"Do the Right Thing" (DTRT) may have been controversial in its time, yet it plays alarmingly contemporary in light of recent deaths of black men at the hands of police. The scene featuring the death of Nunn's character could be ripped from today's headlines and, with little tweaking, be substituted with Eric Garner, Terence Crutcher or Keith Lamont Scott. But beyond its lasting social significance, the film was also a showcase for a group of largely unknown actors who have gone on to become major players on both the big and small screens.
Samuel L. Jackson: To kids today, Jackson may be Nick Fury of "Avengers" fame or the guy pitching you Capital One Credit cards, but at the time of his casting as Mister Senor Love Daddy in DTRT, Jackson had less than a dozen film credits to his name. One film, "Sea of Love," listed him simply as Black Guy in the credits, while he had a memorable turn as Hold-Up Man in Eddie Murphy's "Coming To America." He's come a log way in the years since, playing everything from his Oscar-nominated role as Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction" to Mace Windu in "Star Wars" episodes I, II and III. At one point, Jackson was recognized as the highest-grossing actor of all time, but he was recently surpassed by Harrison Ford.
Jackson now has 166 film credits to his name and counting. He'll reprise his role of Nick Fury in "Avengers: Infinity War" in 2018.
John Turturro: A veteran actor of more than 100 film and television productions, Turturro actually made his screen debut as an uncredited extra in Martin Scorsese's 1980 classic "Raging Bull." He had small roles in big films including "The Color of Money," with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, and Woody Allen's 1986 "Hannah and Her Sisters" before catching the eye of director Spike Lee, who cast him as Pino in DTRT. He quickly became a favorite of the director, appearing in no less than seven Spike Lee "joints" over the course of his career.
Turturro most recently captured raves and critical acclaim in the HBO miniseries "The Night Of."
Martin Lawrence: Lee cast Lawrence in DTRT for his first film role, although the character he played, Cee, didn't have much screen time. Lawrence went from that bit part to major Hollywood roles starring opposite Will Smith in "Bad Boys" and "Bad Boys 2" and spawned his own "Big Momma" movie franchise. The comedian also starred in a TV series "Martin" from 1992-1997.
Lawrence recently confirmed he and Smith will be partnering again for a third film in the "Bad Boys" franchise.
Danny Aiello: With the exception of stage and theater actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, many of the actors appearing in DTRT were relatively new to their craft. Danny Aiello was the other notable exception, having already been a movie veteran when he appeared in the film. With credits including "The Godfather: Part II" and "Fort Apache the Bronx," Aiello added a certain amount of gravitas, complexity and humanity to what could have been a two-dimensional role of pizzeria owner Salvatore "Sal" Frangione.
Aiello was rewarded for his effort with the only acting nomination bestowed on the film at the Academy Awards: best actor in a supporting role.
Now 83, Aiello is still acting. He most recently appeared in the 2014 film "Reach Me" with Kyra Sedgwick and Thomas Jane.
Giancarlo Esposito: Long before he terrified TV audiences as drug kingpin Gustavo Fring on the hit "Breaking Bad," two-time Oscar nominee Giancarlo Esposito brought the character Buggin' Out to life. He had his "brand new white Air Jordan's" stepped on by a Larry-Bird-T-shirt-wearing neighbor in DTRT, and the rest was history.
Esposito has gone on to have a prolific career in both television ("Breaking Bad," "Once Upon a Time," "Revolution") and movies ("Derailed," "Sherrybaby" "Waiting to Exhale"). Nominated for a supporting actor Emmy for "Breaking Bad," Esposito is currently one of the stars of the Netflix musical drama "The Get Down."
Rosie Perez: Rosie Perez burst into the public consciousness in the musical intro of DTRT, which was her film debut. Perez has gone on to a long career in films like "White Men Can't Jump," "Fearless" and "It Could Happen to You."
In 2014, fans got to see another side of Perez as she joined the hit daytime talker "The View," opposite Whoopi Goldberg and then co-host Rosie O'Donnell, before departing the program in 2015.
Spike Lee: Lee wrote, directed and starred in DTRT, which was nominated for two Academy Awards, including best original screenplay. It was Lee's third major film production and the first to deal head-on with the issues of race and police brutality. His two preceding films, "She's Gotta Have It" in 1986 and "School Daze" in 1988, only flirted with the idea of sexual politics and racial inequality.
Lee now has 66 directing credits under his belt and was also nominated in 1998 for his documentary "4 Little Girls." Lee received an honorary Oscar in 2015, but still called for an Oscar boycott in 2016 to protest the lack of diversity in Academy Award nominations.
Upon hearing of Nunn's death, Lee took to Instagram and Twitter to mourn the passing of his friend.
"My Dear Friend, My Dear Morehouse Brother- Da Great Actor Bill Nunn As Most Of You Know Him As Radio Raheem Passed Away This Morning In His Hometown Of Pittsburgh. Long Live Bill NUNN. RADIO RAHEEM Is Now RESTING IN POWER. RADIO RAHEEM WILL ALWAYS BE FIGHTING DA POWERS DAT BE. MAY GOD WATCH OVER BILL NUNN."


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FORT MEADE, Md. - A huge database of troop names and email addresses an Army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyberattacks on service members, a government witness said Monday as the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning entered its third week.
Manning, a 25-year-old Oklahoma native, has acknowledged he sent more than 700,000 battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and other materials to the anti-secrecy website, but he pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a veritable address book of troops deployed to Iraq. The military's so-called "Global Address List" included the names, ranks, email addresses and positions of all 74,000 U.S. military personnel who were in Iraq in early 2010. WikiLeaks never published the list.
As part of the theft charge, prosecutors on Monday struggled and then abandoned an effort to prove the list had monetary value.
"Much more dangerous to us as the Army or as the government is the ability to ... to target individuals" with those emails, said CW4 Armand Rouillard, a cyberthreat analyst testifying for the prosecution.
Foreign adversaries could use them to "spear phish," or target those addresses with fake offers meant to trick troops into clicking on links that would download malicious programming onto their government computers, Rouillard said.
He was one of 10 witnesses to give evidence as prosecutors continued moving quickly through Manning's court-martial at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. The former Army intelligence analyst is charged with aiding the enemy. He has acknowledged sending reams of government secrets to WikiLeaks, but says he didn't think it would hurt national security. Manning says he leaked the material in order to expose wrongdoing.
The military judge, Col. Denise Lind, said no more evidence will be presented until June 26. She will hear oral arguments Tuesday on evidentiary issues. The prosecution and defense will spend the next week negotiating written statements to be submitted on behalf of 17 witnesses.
So far, the military judge has heard from more than 50 of the government's approximately 140 witnesses. Last week's testimony involved battlefield reports and videos. And still go come is evidence about 250,000 diplomatic cables Manning allegedly stole from a State Department database that WikiLeaks published.
Other testimony Monday included statements by a former official at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who said sensitive documents were released regarding the system there.
Leaked threat assessments about detainees at the prison included personal information the U.S. had gathered on them as well as information on how they were captured, who they associated with and so on, said Jeffrey Motes, an intelligence analyst at the prison who gave evidence in a written statement Monday. He said the documents included recommendations for handling of the detainees and might have included information the prisoners did not know the U.S. had collected on them.
A former Guantanamo commander, Rear Adm. David Woods, said in a statement the documents also revealed sources of U.S. intelligence and other types of information that "could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security of the United States" if publicly released.
AP writer David Dishneau contributed to this story from Fort Meade.


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Family Circle 2010 Fiction Contest: "The Ravens Are Leaving the Tower"
Sarah Grubb's story, "The Ravens Are Leaving the Tower," won third place in the Family Circle 2010 Fiction Contest.
I hail a cab at Gatwick airport; throw my backpack in the trunk and sink into the creaking leather seats. Rain drizzles down the glass; little rivulets of water create lines in my view of the approaching city. My eyes close and a sour feeling rises from my stomach. When I open my eyes at a stoplight, I force myself to look straight ahead. I want to collapse on a soft bed and take a long nap, but I haven't even booked a room in London. Sixteen hours from now, I'd be in Paris.
The rain slows and comes to a stop as the cab drifts through the streets to the Tower of London. It hits me as I get out and hitch my backpack on my shoulders. I'm alone.
I stroll through the grounds, snapping photos, and trying to blend in with the crowd. I hover near a tour group. The guide is talking about the ravens, "...raw meat and bird formula biscuits soaked in blood. They also enjoy a whole rabbit now and then." I follow the group to a line for the Crown Jewels. I take a picture with a guard and buy a postcard from the shop.
On narrow streets, I look for the tube station that's supposed to be nearby. On the train, I pull out the postcard from my pocket. I can tell the truth; it's cold, grey, and I hate being alone. My mother will read it and show it to my father, saying, "I knew this trip would be a mistake. She should be at home." I write:
The grass at the Tower of London is impossibly green. Ravens strut their giant, shiny black bodies on the neatly manicured lawn. I'm sure they cut each blade with a pair of expensive scissors. It looks fake. The legend says that if the ravens leave the grounds, the kingdom will fall. I saw one fly away.
P.S. The kingdom did not fall.
Harrods Department Store is packed. I'm pushing my way through the front door when a security guard pulls me aside.
"You can't have that giant pack in here," he says.
I tighten the straps of my bag a little tighter.
"Take it to the coat check," he says, looking at the green canvas bag in disgust.
I want to leave. I want to explain myself, but I blink back tears and follow his order. I clutch my passport, money, and camera to my chest as I weave my way through the Food Hall. I order lemon at the Gelato counter, though I hate lemon, but it's Eliza's favorite.
Going to Harrods on an April day is like going to the mall before Christmas. And not that tiny mall on Harrison Street. The big one, out by the airport. I had lemon gelato, it was sweet. I wish you—I scratch that out with my pen and write, It wasn't that good. Maurizio's is better.
I wander through the toy department, past rows and rows of stuffed animals. Eliza's room is full of them; she already has two turtles, an elephant, and a trio of bears. I have no idea what possesses people to buy children's toys for a grown woman, but Eliza displays them proudly. They were better than flowers; she'd said when I complained about our neighbor, who'd brought over a drunk-looking Teddy bear wearing a t-shirt that says, "Feel Better Soon!"
Outside on the sidewalk, I throw my hand up for a cab.
The line for the London Eye strings around a giant carousel. I don't have much time. I'm directed into a pod with a family. They don't say "hello," or ask where I am from, so I sit on the bench inside and press my forehead against the thick plastic, as we raise high above the River Thames. The muted navy sky blends into the ornate buildings across the river. The wheel turns, and I'm on the ground again.
In Paris, I sit at an open café by the Eiffel Tower and pull out my third postcard.
The Seine is a dark vein that moves slowly through the sprawled out city, I write. Eliza had shoved her sleeves up the night before I left, revealing her purple and green bruised skin. I'm turning into a California raisin, she'd said, laughing.
I eat my ham and butter sandwich on thick French bread and inhale the cool air. I look up and see an owl perched on a streetlight. His head sways from side to side, but his eyes never move.
"Can I sit?"
I look down to see a boy standing over me, blond hair hanging in his face. There are three empty chairs beside me, and nearly every other table is full.
"Fine," I say, though I'm sure he can tell the displeasure in my voice. His name is Michael, he tells me. He's nineteen, from Seattle, and doing a semester abroad in Paris. Later, I write that Michael is French with thick eyelashes and long, wavy hair. I write that when I'd showed him her picture, he said, Magnifique.
The non-postcard version goes like this: We sit in uncomfortable wicker chairs and swallow each chewy piece of bread with a swig of water. I wait for my check for too long and when the café lights come on, illuminating Michael's open and uncomplicated American boy face, I throw my money on the table and say goodbye.
I have two assignments for Paris: ride the elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower at night and have a picture taken of me standing beside the Mona Lisa, imitating her enduring smile. At the top of the Tower, I'm unsure of what to do so I take pictures of the tops of houses and the lights. So many lights.
On the ground again, I go in a souvenir store to buy something for Eliza, but everything I see is useless. What would she do with an Eiffel Tower pencil holder? A Mona Lisa magnet?
I sit on a curb in Barcelona, waiting for a bus. An older couple sits on a nearby bench.
"Can you understand what they're going on about?"
I turn to the bench. A British woman is motioning towards a couple fighting in Spanish a few feet from us. "No, sorry," I say. "Something about the color yellow, I think."
I nod, with a slight expression of guilt, but their faces both explode in smiles.
"My cousin lives in South Carolina! We were just there last summer. Donna Flannery? Do you know her?" the woman asks.
"Now, why would she know Donna?" the man says to her, shaking his head. "What, you think she knows everyone in the country?"
Their pale, white faces are flushed bright red from the sun. They look uncomfortable in their khaki shorts and running shoes. "Why are you all by yourself?" the woman asks me.
After her diagnosis, Eliza had sat my parents and me down to tell us the news. My mother later confessed that she thought Eliza was going to tell them she was gay. My father had expected to hear that she was pregnant. Neither of them were prepared for cancer.
You know, Eliza said to me that night, you hear about all these people with cancer, how one in six people have either had it or will, but I'm the first person I know.
Do you want an award? I'd asked. I was fifteen at the time.
Maybe I'll get to do Make a Wish.
Stop it Eliza, you're not dying, I'd said.
That was three years ago. In Barcelona, the woman waits for my answer. "My sister is dying," I say.
"Oh dear," the woman says. "That's too bad." She fans herself with a map, uncomfortable with me and my dying sister.
I write: I met an adorable British couple while waiting for a bus. There's nothing else to say about them, so I continue with, Barcelona is beautiful, the sky is bright blue and there are mosaics everywhere. On Las Ramblas, there are parrots in cages, men in silver paint pretending to be statues, and a pregnant woman dressed as a fairy in a bright, purple dress.
I arrive back at the airport with half an hour to spare before my flight to Venice. I check in at the counter and when I say my name, the employee stops clicking her fingernails over the keyboard.
"There is a message for you," she says, with a thick accent. "It is from a Claire Connelly. I will print it out."
My heart pounds as I wait to read the message from Mom. I know that this is it—Eliza is dead. She'd not waited for me to come back and tell her all about Europe. I'm doing a horrible job anyway—the postcards are full of lies. The woman hands me a slip of paper. This is it. It's happened.
Forget about Venice. Eliza is in the hospital. She's waiting for you, but I don't know how long she can wait. Come home.
On the flight to Venice, I can't find a blank postcard, so I use the catalog from the seat pocket in front of me.
E, I write between pictures of bottles of wine, I'm on a plane to Venice so don't worry, I won't forget to feed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square and ride a Gondola and see the Bridge of Sighs. I'll do all of those things and then I'll be home.
P.S. I have so much to tell you.
P.P.S. That means don't go anywhere until I'm home.
The airport in Venice exits directly to a marina, and I take a boat taxi to the sinking city. I speak Spanish, hoping it sounds enough like Italian to get by.
"De donde esta St. Mark's Square?" A little louder. "Donde esta?" I forget all of the tenses but it doesn't matter. No one pays attention to me. I follow the labyrinth, walking deeper and deeper to the center.
The Square is flooded. Wooden planks intersect the area for people to get from one side to another. For ten minutes, I stand on the unflooded edge of the square and throw seed to the pigeons flying around the water. I find my way to the Bridge of Sighs, where I ask Gondolier if he will take a picture of me sitting in his Gondola.
I take a speedboat back to the airport. We lurch over a breaker from a passing boat, and my body flies up from my seat.
I won't make it. If she's dead, what does this trip matter? Why couldn't "Win a hot dog eating contest" have been on her bucket list instead of "Backpack through Europe?"
Venice is everything you imagined it to be. So many couples in love. I watched a wedding party in the Square, fed the birds, and rode a Gondola through clear green water.
P.S. Remember when we were little and you said that you wanted to grow up and be a giraffe? I think you meant you wanted to be tall. I bought you a Venetian mask decorated like a giraffe so now you can be one.
The plane rises over the sea, and I climb further and further from Eliza's dream.
The doors to the hospital whoosh open and I think about when I had my tonsils taken out years ago. I'd refused to go inside. I sat on the sidewalk, my hands propping up my chin while my mother first cajoled then threatened me. Eliza had sat beside me, whispering in my ear, What are you afraid of? It will only hurt for a little, but it will be over soon.
My father walks through the doors as he'd done dozens of times, but I hesitate with my hands full of postcards and gifts. Panic spread through me, my blood traveling so fast I think I can't breathe. I hear a screeching noise, and a nurse that's smoking says, "Damn hawk is such a nuisance."
I watch its golden wings circle over the courtyard, swooping and gliding in the creamy blue sky. I bite my lip and go inside.
My mother rushes to hug me in the hallway. "Go ahead in," she says.
Eliza is awake when I walk into her room. Her skin has a yellow tinge and her green eyes look as if they are covered in a thin film.
Her rasping voice startles me. My body shakes as I hug her skeleton body.
"Tell me everything," she says. "Show me everything."
I place the postcards beside her on the bed and begin with London. "My cab at the airport was one of those black ones like you see in the movies and my driver said things like 'Cheerio' and called me 'love.' The Tower of London has a view of the Tower Bridge. You know that famous bridge in London? The one with the nursery rhyme? It's called 'Tower Bridge.'"
When she closes her eyes, my heart nearly stops until I see her chest rising and falling with each hardened breath. She still has a smile on her face, so I continue. Two hours later, my parents insist that I take a break. I wander through the corridors until I come to a gift shop with a rack of postcards sitting outside the doors. I choose one depicting our city.
When I arrive back at her room, there are two doctors standing over her bed. My heart jerks. In Europe, I'd thought about her death and if it would happen too quickly, just like her illness. The doctors speak in low tones, and I move to try and peek at Eliza between their bodies.
My father faces my mother and me, gulps as if he can't catch his breath, and says to us, his voice breaking, "How do we...I just don't...They say we should say what we want to say now."
There's nothing else to say. For the past three years, she'd downplayed how sick she was. What do I say? Don't leave me. Don't go. Don't let this happen.
I pull out my pen and begin to write.
I wasn't scared before. You told me before that it will only hurt for a while, and then the pain will dull. The memory won't be as sudden. I believe you. But I don't understand how you can talk about yourself like that. You so readily accepted your death. Today I watched your eyes light up when I talked about the mass of pigeons in Venice that descended on whoever had food, their attention focused solely on that one person. I know you would hate to be that person.
I didn't get a chance to tell you but as I was leaving the square, the pigeons scattered and flew away.
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Though I just posted about these guys back in July, I'm not going to lie, I have a huge e-crush on RRRRRRRROLL (previously). This anonymous collective of five photographers and artists create a new animated GIF every single week that might as well arrive in my feed reader wrapped in a bow. Do yourself a favor and follow their Tumblr, bookmark it, subscribe to their feed … whatever. It's like internet vitamins.


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Variables and the information about the variables are stored in various types of data and documentation files. You need to know what information is in these files and how to access them to prepare for your analysis. Use this documentation to decide which variables to include in your analysis, identify the file locations and variable names, and consult the data file documentation for detailed data processing and analytic information.
Task 1: Decide Which Variables to Include
Your analysis will require a subset of the variables available in NHANES II. To decide which variables are needed in your analysis, you need to review the survey documentation.
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The team working on Tigerstripe uses an agile process to work towards a release. Each release is typically made up of 5-6 iterations and each iteration is three weeks long.
The following are the list of defect/enhancements that have been addressed for each iteration:
Note: Not all the defects required code changes. Some of them were marked as duplicates or they've already been fixed in the past. However, everything has been listed to indicate what we've looked into.


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Years ago, I wrote a friend, H. Jefferson Powell, at Duke, that I felt I had a stake in his winning his argument from Episcopal theology, in his great book, The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism.
Similarly, we all have a stake in the choice of a pope. The pope affects brotherhood and sisterhood across faiths. Friends in both faiths have told us that Bishop Hubbard made a very positive difference in the relation of Catholics and Jews here. His work also reflected a shift in Vatican thinking. I suspect he knew his initiatives would be supported there. Popes matter. Read the rest of this entry »


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Large Cap Fundamental Value
H&W employs a research-driven, fundamental value investing approach. We invest in companies where, in our opinion, the present value of its future cash flows exceeds the market price. These opportunities often emerge because the market extrapolates current trends into the future, which leads to favoring popular investments and shunning others—regardless of valuation. Empirical evidence suggests that companies generating above average returns on capital attract competition that leads to lower levels of profitability. Conversely, capital leaves depressed areas, often allowing profitability to revert back to normal levels. The difference between a company's price based on an extrapolation of current trends and a more likely reversion to mean creates the value investment opportunity.
To uncover these opportunities, we employ a disciplined, bottom-up investment process emphasizing rigorous, internally-generated fundamental research. We believe the consistent application and depth of our independent research can maximize the tradeoff between value and risk providing superior returns to a static benchmark over the long term.
H&W subscribes to a team-oriented, five-stage process. The goal is to employ a consistent, repeatable approach and create a diversified portfolio that exhibits attractive risk/return characteristics.
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1. Idea Generation
We source investment ideas from screens of financial databases and from our investment team.
- Financial Database Screens
We use dynamic and flexible quantitative screens designed to filter a large universe of securities to identify those that appear to have attractive risk/reward characteristics. These screens evaluate similar risk and valuation criteria, but can be tailored for specific sectors/industries to emphasize the most relevant factors.
- Investment Team
We augment our quantitative screens with ideas sourced from our Analysts and Portfolio Managers. Based on their industry knowledge, contacts, experience, and discussions within the Sector Teams, our investment team identifies opportunities that automated screens can miss due to data issues or other limitations inherent with screens.
Once investment ideas are generated, an initial review is conducted to highlight the key investment merits and risks, verify the validity of the characteristics that attracted us to the security in the first place, identify any obvious issues/warning signs that need to be addressed, and provide a rough estimate of the risk/return profile.
2. In-Depth Evaluation
The in-depth evaluation stage of the process is by far, the most rigorous and time-consuming. This stage involves detailed research at the industry, company, and security level.
- Industry
Analysts conduct industry research concentrated on determining long-run margins and returns on capital. We seek to understand the factors that influence changes in supply and demand in order to determine normal industry profitability. Competitive analysis, akin to a Porter's Five Forces approach, is also evaluated to obtain a better understanding of industry risks. Our analysts accumulate a body of knowledge over years that enable them to respond to dynamic markets quickly.
- Company
Using the industry research as a backdrop, the Analyst conducts detailed fundamental research at the company level. We focus on the company's long-run normal earnings power, which is the sustainable cash earnings of a company under equilibrium economic and competitive market conditions. Company analysis focuses on full cycle profitability, capital intensity, free cash flow and financial leverage. Analysts meet with company management to better understand the company's business model by its various divisions, capital allocation policy, return potential of current capital programs, shareholder orientation, and overall competence.
Next we do a risk assessment, which entails a variety of both financial and non-financial factors. We assess the company's ability to survive temporary, short-term distress without impairing the long-term value of its franchise. This includes a review of its financial leverage, historical cash flow volatility, available liquidity, access to capital, exposure to extreme events, and unusual profit concentrations. To augment the risk evaluation process we have developed a red flags analysis, which is a list of questions that helps identify subtle but potentially meaningful risks. The ultimate goal is to identify attractively valued companies with acceptable risk profiles.
- Security
To quantify return potential, we employ an internally-developed, three-stage dividend discount model ("DDM"), using market-derived discount rates. The first stage uses explicit earnings projections for years one through five, which are derived from the Analyst's financial model. We assume that a company achieves normal earnings in year five. The second stage of the DDM reverts the company's returns to market averages over the next fifteen years. The third stage determines the terminal value of the stock. We determine the present value (price target) by discounting these values back at the cost of equity. Next the analyst provides a risk assessment highlighting critical issues that could affect the company and its stock price. Finally, the analyst summarizes the recommendation with an investment thesis and recommended weight.
3. Recommendation
Each step of the in-depth evaluation is subject to peer review. Peer review is organized through six Sector Teams composed of industry Analysts and dedicated peer reviewers. In addition to reviewing financial models and ensuring integrity/consistency, the reviewers play a devil's advocate role to challenge the thesis and modeling assumptions. The primary objective is to solidify our belief in valuation and security risk. Sector Teams also consider macroeconomic trends and the potential effect on the portfolio. Once ideas are thoroughly vetted, the Analyst and Sector Team jointly recommend a target weight.
4. Portfolio Construction
We employ a bottom-up, risk-controlled portfolio construction process with the primary goal of generating attractive risk-adjusted returns. Portfolio Managers, who are embedded within the Sector Teams, assess recommendations within the context of the overall portfolio. They consider the relative attractiveness of opportunities and assess the complementary nature of new ideas with the existing portfolio. Portfolio Managers have responsibility for creating and maintaining a target portfolio for the investment strategy, generating trades and assuring compliance with client guidelines—buy, sell, and monitor.
5. Portfolio Review
The investment team interacts on an informal basis constantly, which is our most important means of communication. Quarterly, the entire investment team meets formally to discuss portfolio positioning and any macro events that could affect the portfolio. We discuss portfolio performance, trading activity, and economic/industry events. Team members are encouraged to voice any concerns or new ideas in this medium, whether it is security-specific or otherwise.


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PORTLAND , Ore. – Willamette Tree Wholesale, Inc. has agreed to pay $150,000 to four Latino farmworkers to resolve a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, two sisters who worked at Willamette Tree's Molalla, Ore., farm faced extreme sexual harassment. One was taken to remote areas of the farm by a supervisor, coerced with pruning shears, threatened with termination and bodily harm and sexually assaulted repeatedly over several months. When informed by a coworker of the situation, Willamette Tree failed to investigate or respond. Ultimately, the woman was fired when she refused her supervisor's demands, according to the EEOC.
The other sister faced graphic sexual comments, propositions and groping by the same supervisor as well as a crew leader. The EEOC's lawsuit alleged that instead of taking appropriate action when she and her husband reported the harassment, Willamette Tree retaliated by terminating the woman, her husband and another close relative who also worked there.
Willamette Tree had moved to dismiss the first sister's claims, arguing she failed to file an EEOC charge of discrimination within the 300-day time limit prescribed by law. The court ruled that evidence of psychological damage to the woman due to the sexual assaults she suffered – including post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression, suicidal ideation, social isolation and panic attacks –justified a later filing of the discrimination charge.
"The judge granted 'equitable tolling' – basically allowing this woman extra time to file her EEOC charge," said EEOC San Francisco District Office Regional Attorney William Tamayo. "This is a significant ruling that recognizes the degree of trauma she suffered from the attacks as well as the threats to kill her and her family."
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC, et. al. v. Willamette Tree Wholesale, Inc., No. CV-09-690-PK, in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon) only after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Under the consent decree filed with the federal court, Willamette Tree agreed to pay $150,000 to the four workers and to provide anti-discrimination training for its managers, supervisors and employees. The company will also establish policies and procedures to address discrimination issues, report to the EEOC concerning any future discrimination complaints, and allow EEOC to monitor the work site for the next five years.
The first sister, a 40-year-old mother of five children, commented, "I'm not the same person nowadays. This experience left me destroyed inside." She and the other workers were represented in the lawsuit by the Oregon Law Center's Project Against Workplace Sexual Assault of Indigenous Farmworkers,
Mavel Morales, their lawyer from the Oregon Law Center, said, "Our clients suffered an intolerable situation, when all they wanted was to earn a paycheck to support their families. It took enormous courage for them to come forward, and when they did speak out to management, their complaint fell on deaf ears, and eventually cost them their jobs. With this settlement, we hope that their voices will encourage other farmworkers to stand up for their right to work free of sexual harassment and fears of retaliation."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado added, "This case reveals the extraordinary pressures these women faced to stay silent and submit to terrible violations out of fear for their own jobs and the livelihood of family members, as well as for their family's physical safety. We hope that this case sends a message to employers to beware abuses of supervisory power, particularly when this work force is so vulnerable to predatory sexual harassment. "
Tamayo noted the abundance of sexual harassment cases involving immigrant workers. He cited EEOC lawsuits against AllStar Fitness in Seattle, alleging that a Latina janitor was raped multiple times; Evans Fruit Company in Eastern Washington, charging sexual harassment of several Latina workers; Schiemer Farms of Nyassa, Ore., in which the employer paid $14,500 to two farmworker women who alleged being fired immediately after reporting sexual harassment on their first day of work; Frenchman Hills Vineyard in Othello, Wash., which paid $33,000 to a Latina worker sexually abused by a manager; Woodburn, Ore.-based Wilcox Farms, resulting in a $260,000 settlement in a sexual harassment case jointly prosecuted with the Oregon Law Center that involved a physical sexual assault; and Coalinga, Calif.-based Harris Farms, resulting in a $1,000,000 jury verdict for a farmworker who was repeatedly raped by a supervisor.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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2014: Starter at short for a second straight year … started all 41 games he played in there for the Engineers … CoSIDA Academic All-District … Academic All-NEWMAC … finished with a .306 average with three home runs and 30 RBI … shared the team and league lead with three triples … second in RBI and hits … finished in the top-10 in the NEWMAC in runs, home runs and RBI … shared the team lead with16 multi-hit games … drove in two or more six times … started the season with a 4-for-5 game with three RBI at the Apprentice School (3/14) … multiple hits games in five of his first six outings … two hits and a pair of runs scored against Brandeis (3/28) … heated up over the last couple of week of the season … started with a 3-for-6 game against UMass Boston (4/24) with three RBI and a run scored … combined to go 5-for-11 with a triple and six RBI in the doubleheader win at Wheaton (5/3) that gave MIT the NEWMAC title … 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI at Suffolk (5/5) … drove in two with a home run against Eastern Connecticut State (5/16) at the NCAA Tournament … 2-fpr-3 with an RBI and run scored against Tufts (5/16) … double and home run against St. Joseph's (5/16), driving in two and scoring twice … went a combined 6-for-15 at the NCAA Tournament to earn a spot on the All-Regional team for a second straight year.
2013: Took over at shortstop as a sophomore … started all 40 games there for the Engineers … NCAA Regional All-Tournament team … Academic All-NEWMAC … hit .299 with two home runs and 21 RBI … second on the team with 10 doubles … second with eight steals … finished among the top-10 in the NEWMAC in doubles … 12 multi-hit games … 2-for-4, including a triple, with an RBI and two runs against Clark (3/16) … drew three walks against Bard (3/24) … started a streak in which he recorded a hit in 13 of 14 games with a double against Western Connecticut State (3/25) … pair of stolen bases against Amherst (3/28) … 3-for-5 with two doubles against WPI (4/5), scoring twice and driving in one … 3-for-5 against Curry (4/10) … drove in a pair against Coast Guard (4/13) … 3-for-5 against Suffolk (5/6) with an RBI and a run … 3-for-4 against Mitchell (5/10) in the ECAC Tournament, including a pair of doubles … went a combined 5-for-9 at the NCAA Tournament, including a home run against Daniel Webster (5/16).
2012: Played in 19 games and started 10 as a freshman ... batted .256 ... drove in a total of eight runs ... had 11 hits in 43 at-bats ... scored seven runs ... went 3-4 against Gordon (3/9) with a home run driving in two ... had two hits and drove in and also scored two runs against Brandeis (4/4).
Off The Diamond at MIT: Majoring in computer science and electrical engineering … Software Engineering Internship at B-Line Medica … part of the electric vehicle team at MIT … member of Kappa Sigma.
High School: A 2011 graduate of East Chapel Hill High School … three-time letterwinner … two-time all-conference selection … team MVP and best hitter in 2011 … pitched school's first perfect game … National Honor Society.


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The 21st-ranked Harvard men's soccer team looks to snap a three-game winless streak, as the squad hits the road for away contests at Stony Brook Sept. 24 and Boston University Sept. 26.
The Crimson enters the weekend with a 2-1-2 overall mark, while the Seawolves stand at 4-4-0. The Terriers, who host Rhode Island Friday evening, head into the week with a 3-3-1 record.
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Harvard and Stony Brook have met one time, a 4-1 win for the Crimson at Ohiri Field Sept. 4, 2009. In that game, Austin Harms '12 made six saves, while Andre Akpan '10 tallied two goals and Desmond Mitchell '10 and Brian Rogers '13 netted a goal apiece.
The Crimson leads the all-time series against the Terriers 23-11-7, with the first game held in 1951. Harvard has won two of the last three meetings, including a 1-0 decision last season at home on Sept. 11. Jamie Rees '12 scored the lone goal for the Crimson, while Harms earned the shutout with a three-save performance.
About No. 21 Harvard:
The Crimson, which is ranked No. 21 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America/HendrickCars.com national poll and 24th in the Soccer America rankings, is hoping to find more offense after scoring only one goal in its last three games. Rogers remains Harvard's leading scorer with two goals and four points, while Zack Wolfenzon, Scott Prozeller and Ross Freidman have tallied a goal each. With two assists, Kyle Henderson paces the team.
Harms, who has 14 shutouts in his career to rank second in school history, boasts a 2-1-2 record with a 1.10 goals-against average and 19 saves. Harvard has both scored and surrendered six goals this fall. Opponents have an advantage in shots, 71-53, and in corner kicks, 23-11. Harvard is 1-0-2 in away contests entering Friday night's game at Stony Brook.
About Stony Brook:
The Seawolves have won three straight games against Dartmouth, 4-0, Central Connecticut State, 4-2, and Bryant, 2-1. With three goals and an assist, Leonardo Fernandes is Stony Brook's scoring leader with seven points, while Mehdi Belakehal (0-2-2) and Wilber Bonilla (1-2-4) are tied for the most assists on the squad.
In the cage, Stefan Manz has won four games to go along with two clean sheets, 24 saves and a 1.53 goals-against average. Opponents are outscoring Stony Brook, 13-10, including 8-6 in the second half, and have the edge in corner kicks, 38-31.
About Boston University:
The Terriers head into the weekend at 3-3-1, after falling to Brown, 2-0, Sept. 19. Aaron O'Neal has carried the BU offense, having scored four of the team's 10 goals, while Ben Havey (2-2-6) ranks second with six points on the year. In net, Brandon Briggs has shut out two opponents (Hartford, 3-0, and Columbia, 2-0) and is 3-3-1 with a 1.44 goals-against mark and 22 saves.
BU has scored 10 goals, while allowing 10 tallies by its opponents, but owns a large lead in shots, 120-87. In addition, the Terriers have earned 46 corner kicks, compared to 35 by opponents, and are 0-2-0 against ranked teams, having lost to then-No. 15 St. John's, 2-1, and then-No. 5 Boston College, 4-0.
They're Honored:
For their stellar play last weekend, junior midfielder Jamie Rees and sophomore Brian Rogers were named to the Lobo Classic All-Tournament Team.
Up Next:
Harvard will host Providence at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. The Crimson will then welcome archrival Yale to Ohiri Field Saturday, Oct. 2 for a 1:30 p.m. showdown.


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