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Late last year, Roxborough resident Celeste Hardester had decided it was time for a change of pace. She had been working as a photographer since 2006, having gone into photography after leaving Hal Lewis, an advertising agency where she had risen from a photo researcher to a CFO and part owner in 20 years.
She had recently become active with the Central Roxborough Civic Association and had grown to enjoy community work.
"Photography is wonderful and challenging," she said. " Yet, it's really hard to work on your own."
So last winter, she began looking for work and stumbled across an ad on craigslist that was just about perfect. The ad was for the Chestnut Hill Community Association's Community Manager, the title of the association's executive director. In July, she was officially hired and began work in September.
"It spoke to me," she said of the job description. "I wanted to use my background in management and my recent knowledge and understanding of volunteer and civic work. It struck me as a coalescence of my experiences."
It might seem like a circuitous path, Hardester has been between business and artistic work her whole life.
In the early 1980s, she had returned to Philly a 20-something with 10 years of experience as a silversmith and gift store operator in Bar Harbor, Maine. She had amassed a sea shell collection in Bar Harbor and, seeking its sale, ended up a volunteer at the substantial malacology (seashell study) collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
When a phone call came in from the owner of what was then a small graphic design firm, Hal Lewis, she agreed to do some photo research for the firm and soon joined.
When Hardester began at Hal Lewis, it had 10 to 12 employees. It's business was creating images and ads for pharmaceutical companies. While Hardester was there, the company landed an expanded role with Merck and became a full-fledged advertising firm, complete with copy writers and sales people.
"I ended up doing a lot of different things, creating on the fly," Hardester said of her time at Hal Lewis. "I took on things to fill specific needs I edited copy, proofread, researched."
Lewis died in 1998 and the company's ownership transferred to a number of long-time employees who held shares in the company. But after 20 years, Hardester decided she didn't want to spend her whole life as a CFO.
"I didn't want to stay there, " she said. "I realized I had taken the safe route."
So now, after five years of running her own photography business, a path that took her to Ireland for nine months to work on profile and landscape photos, Hardester is embarking on another substantial career shift.
(Though she has not abandoned photograhy. She is still keeping her Manayunk studio and currently has a number of her photograhs hanging in Roberto's Trattoria in Erdenheim.)
It's been about two weeks now since Hardester officially began work as the Chestnut Hill Community Association's Community Manager. She's been attending community meetings and taking the temperature of the community as a whole.
So far, she says, she's been impressed by the the association's many committees and the level of committee member involvement, particularly the Land Use Planning and Zoning and Development Review committees, two committees tasked with evaluating zoning changes in the neighborhood.
"I'm really impressed by what I've seen," she said. "I know it takes practice to interact well with people and be professional. They do that."
Beyond that, Hardester said she's interested in answering some of the big questions that face the association.
"I'm interested in the role of the association," she said. "It's a tremendous association that's easily undervalued. I want to understand what's here and try and help the association move forward."
It's part of the larger challenge ahead of Hardester as she tackles the many issues the 60-year-old civic association faces – how to retain membership and engagement at a time when what it means to be a community have been shifting dramatically. The challenge is something Hardester says she's up for.
"I've certainly heard of how disagreeable things can be here," she said. "But in a lot of ways, I think, that's people being people. I want to try and help at this point, to learn what's going on and understand what's here."
Finally, she's eager to hear from residents.
"I want to get to know the community and learn about what is important to them," she said. " I am making phone calls and meeting people on the street and all around."
To contact Hardester, call her at 215-248-8811 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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After a 91-73 loss at Buffalo Wednesday night, the men's basketball team is in need of a win to snap a three-game losing streak.
The Chippewas return home Saturday for a 7 p.m. tip with Miami (Ohio) as both teams enter the game at 2-5 in the Mid-American Conference.
Not only are their records identical, their statistics mirror each other.
They are both in the middle of the pack in scoring offense with CMU at No. 5 at 67.1 points per game, while the RedHawks are at No. 8 with 65.1 points per game.
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Neither team has been a force on the boards. Miami is the worst rebounding team in the MAC, as its been out-rebounded this season by an average of 7.1 per game, while the Chippewas are ranked No. 8 in rebounding, giving up an average of 2.4 boards per game.
If there is one thing these two teams excel at, it's ball control.
Junior guard Quinten Rollins has led the RedHawks offense by taking care of the ball.
Miami averages 13.2 assists per game, with 4.3 coming from Rollins.
The RedHawks defense might give up points and not crash the boards, but they pressure as they lead the MAC with 9.4 steals per game.
Who else is leading the steals but Rollins, who ranks second in the MAC with 2.2 per game, giving Miami the second-highest turnover margin, forcing 2.47 more turnovers than it gives up per game.
Freshman guard Chris Fowler will be the one up to the challenge.
Fowler is looking to crack the top-10 this season in assists in a single season. He has 101 assists, giving him 5.1 per game, good for fourth in the MAC, and he needs 30 to be tied with Peter Lambropoulos (1983-84) and Ryan Jansen (1995-96).
Fowler also has the fifth-best assist-to-turnover ratio, averaging two assists for every turnover, leading CMU to the third-best turnover ration in the MAC.
One more similarity comes from the bench.
Both teams have first-year head coaches.
John Cooper is in his first season as the head coach of the RedHawks after a strong season as the head coach at Tennessee State, where he led the Tigers to wins against Murray State, Miami (Fla.) and South Carolina and just missed out on a NCAA Tournament berth.
Before his time at TSU, he was an assistant at Auburn, Oregon and South Carolina.
Leading the Chippewas into the game is Keno Davis, who was the 2008 AP Coach of the Year while at Drake and coached Providence to an upset win against then No. 1 Pittsburgh.
The key to the game will come down to ball control.
Will Fowler be able to protect the ball from Miami's pressure defense, or will that pressure be too much?


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- Fashion Dubrovnik said...
It must be hard see your parents divorce, I'm sorry for that. Hope you are good now (with your health)
- September 18, 2011 at 12:13 AM
- chow (heart+bleecker) said...
i identify so much with everything you said. i dont see myself like that either...it seems to impossible to be happy with one person for so long. I'm sorry your parents are divorcing. hope you're well xx
- September 18, 2011 at 12:21 AM
- Pipsa said...
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- September 18, 2011 at 2:50 AM
- Chantelle said...
Good luck with the transitioning hun! I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by long, loving marriages. I don't see how it's plausible in today's society (we're quite selfish nowadays, consistently chasing our own happiness and forgetting compromise must occur in relationships), but for some crazy reason my parents are happily in love after 29 years. I'm hoping I'll get that too, but I'm a realist like you. If it doesn't happen, I won't be devastated. Accept it. Move on.
- September 18, 2011 at 4:10 AM
- Lagers tabberas said...
My wife moved house today. We have three kids, 12, 9 and 4. I's Okey. After beeing married four times (five kids) I´m convinced that marriage is a form of codependency, compareble in structure with all kind of addiction, alcoholism, for example. With that conviction it was more easy to pass by the divorce.
I'm 60 on my 24th, my kids, the old ones as the youngster often see me cry, not because of sadness more as a balance to all laughter. They are not a shamed!
- September 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Lisa said...
Oh I'm so sorry to hear that sweety! I think you're so brave to talk about it like this, my parents divorced about 7 years ago as and I was completely devastated. Personally I think I'll never fully accept it. Strangely enough I still believe in love, and maybe in marriage as well. I don't know whether it's the thing for me, but what I do know it that there are couples who have been married for ages and who are still in love. I'm hoping it will happen to me as well, but if it doesn't I think I'll be able to accept it. Good luck with everything and get well soon!
Lots of love, Lisa
- September 19, 2011 at 10:30 PM
- Violet said...
I hope things get better around your house. i know its hard living in a house when the adults have had enough of each other. thank you for sharing that i think your so brave to do so.
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Don't worry, my parents are divorced too. It aint easy but it happens and your a lucky girl to have them both xx
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1. Hurricanes and the utilities
Memo to local newspaper editors and television news producers in today's hurricane zone: Assuming your community loses its power, find out which of the CEOs responsible for the utilities in your area have generators at their homes. If your reporter can't get on the CEO's property to look for one, just have him or her show up outside after it gets dark and see if the lights are on.
The only catch is that the CEO has to live in your region, meaning that the company responsible for the cutbacks in repair crews that could result in the lights staying out across parts of the Northeast for days isn't yet part of some far-flung conglomerate. As I pointed out here about a year ago, the guy responsible for the prolonged power outages last fall in my area of northern Westchester in New York sits atop a company based in Spain.
2. What's the story at Time?
With the imminent demise of the print version of Newsweek, I'd like to know what's happening at Time.
For years, we've watched the Internet and cable news scoop newspapers with breaking news, which forced newspapers to do the feature and explanatory stories that the newsweeklies did. Does that, along with the more general flight from print to digital reading, make the plight of all the newsweeklies so hopeless that Time's time is running out, too? Or have managing editor Rick Stengel and his team, who have stated repeatedly that the print magazine is thriving, found some secret survival sauce? Does being the last man standing among the three newsweeklies mean a prolonged death or a solid future?
Although Time now boasts a circulation of 3.3 million (which is more than double Newsweek's), it's down from more than 4 million just six years ago. And it's impossible to tell how many of those subscriptions are highly discounted.
More than that, the look and feel — and the appeal — of the Oct. 29 edition that landed in my mailbox a week ago Saturday makes me fearful that Time's days are numbered, too.
The cover pitching the issue as a "Special Report on Higher Education" was dark, crowded, and downright ugly. Then again, every editor and art department can have a bad week, especially when they try a stunt like making their cover for an education feature look like a messy blackboard and it only works for those at the magazine in on the joke. My problem with that edition of Time was more fundamental: By the time the next edition arrived last Saturday, I realized that I had not opened this one yet. And next to it on a table in the kitchen was the issue from the week before that one, which I realized I had not opened either.
I'm a magazine junky. Plus, I just wrote a book about education. So what stopped me from diving into my Time?
It's not that it didn't have some really good stuff; indeed, Time has some of the best reporters and writers in the world, and the Oct. 29 edition showed them off. It's just that all the stories that I wanted to read — such as Joe Klein's savvy column on the presidential debates and Amanda Ripley's long, smart report on online college courses versus on-campus learning — I had already read online, along with some good online-only features, such as the daily "Swampland" political report. That's not bad for Time as a franchise, because it makes its best online material free only to those who have paid for a subscription. But it does not bode well for the continuation of print.
One element of how Time is now selling subscriptions online suggests real weakness in its print franchise. You can buy an "all access package" — meaning all the appealing subscriber-only content on the website, the tablet edition, and the print magazine — for $30 a year. But if you want to buy just the tablet edition, that will cost you $2.99 a month, or $35.88 a year. In other words, Time will pay you $5.88 for the privilege of sending you the print magazine every week along with providing all the digital material.
To be sure, there was a two-page spread in the print edition that was terrific and could not be replicated (to my taste, at least) online: an unforgettable color photo of the space shuttle Endeavor as it was being rolled from Los Angeles International Airport to its new home at the California Science Center. Photographer Chris Carlson caught the shuttle towering over the houses along an L.A. street like some kind of monster in a horror movie. But I hadn't picked up the magazine until I decided to write this column, so I hadn't noticed it, and if I had, it alone would not have compelled me to buy a print version. Besides, the photo credit says that Carlson is an Associated Press photographer, which I assume means I could have seen the photo elsewhere, too.
Of the issue's 80 pages, I counted just 20 of paid advertising, four of which were appeals by charities that obviously did not pay full price. There was also a 17-page "Special Advertising Section" on, guess what: "Milestones in the History of Higher Education." Paid for by the Carnegie and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations, the section was actually pretty interesting once I tried to read it in order to write about it, but I never would have read it otherwise. And although it was public-spirited, its positioning next to the real editorial copy on the same broad subject could have confused anyone who might have read it into thinking it was written by Time's reporters.
So, I'd like to see a story that probes whether anyone is still reading the weekly print version of Time.
Another key question: What's the subscription renewal rate and how has that trended recently? High renewal rates are a magazine's ultimate measure of health. Low rates — or "high churn" — require a constant treadmill of expensive subscription promotion campaigns and ultimately mean that the water is circling the drain.
There's also the accompanying issue of who's still advertising in the printed Time, and with what results. And what do Time's advertisers say about trends in their buying and about whether Time has been more willing lately to offer discounts off of its rate card?
Finally, what do Stengel and Time Inc. CEO Laura Lang say about the future of print? In addition to what they will say officially, a determined reporter ought to be able to find out about any plans in the works that they aren't ready to talk about either to end print or to cut back to, say, a monthly version, while convincing subscribers who originally signed up for a weekly print edition that what is already a rich supply of compelling digital content is worth the same or more than what they used to get in print.
3. Five looming post-election crises:
This story in Saturday's New York Times, about how mismanagement at the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may result in a lag in weather satellite coverage sometime around 2015 that will render us unable to track and predict hurricanes, illustrates a key law of journalism: Sometimes the best stories are in the most seemingly boring corners of the bureaucracy.
Just the phrase "Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" is enough to put most people to sleep. But read the story. It's got money: this is a $13-billion program that ran off the rails and is likely to suffer huge cost overruns beyond that sum. It's got scandal: that $13 billion has been wasted, according to one report, on a "dysfunctional program that had become a national embarrassment due to chronic management problems." And it's important: the lapse in satellite coverage will "threaten life and property" around the world, a review panel warned.
So, if I was running the Washington Post or the DC bureau of any major news organizations, I'd put a reporter on this project: Find the five most obscure but important government programs that are so screwed up and so important that a new Romney or Obama administration had better jump in and fix them immediately. The way to start is to read the reports of all the independent inspector generals who work in every government agency. That's apparently what generated this Times story about how in three or four years we may have even more to worry about when another Hurricane Sandy looms offshore.
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SMR1000 Pro Club-Line Multi Squat Rack - The SMR1000 commercial multi rack system is the perfect machine for providing all size users a safe and comfortable platform to maximize squats and pressing motions. 1/4 solid steel gun rack style liftoffs provide multiple positions for a comfortable starting position. Rock solid adjustable safeties allow users to work out safely and maximize their load. The 2x3 11-gauge steel frame holds up in any heavy use environment. The back frame is extended to allow spotters easy access. Integrated weight storage keeps the plates right where you need them. The SMR1000 has integrated pegs for strength bands for extreme plyometric training. The integrated chinning bar allows users to incorporate pull ups, chin ups, inversion, ab slings and other body weight resistance systems for amazing versatility. The SMR1000 is an uncompromised monster free weight system. The SMR1000 multi power rack system is perfect for heavy use, heavy load environments, like schools, military, police and fire departments. Assembled dimensions 89 H x 80 L x 71 W. Assembled weight 315 lbs. Lifetime Warranty on frame and welds for full institutional use. Max weight capacity 1000 lbs.
SFID325 Commercial Flat-Incline-Decline Bench - Designed to meet any facilitys requirements without breaking the bank. Utility benches are a critical part of any commercial or vertical market facility. Home use benches often incorporate leg attachments that get in the way of many exercises. Home use benches also do not have the quality to hold up in a commercial environment. The SFID325 satisfies both of these needs in an affordable quality bench. The back pad and seat pad adjust individually of each other. Back pad adjusts flat, incline (15, 30, 45, 60 and 80 degrees) and decline (-18 degrees). Seat pad adjusts flat, 10, and 18 degrees. 2"x3", eleven-gauge steel frame. Thick durable upholstery holds up in any setting. Oversized wheels with a front transport handle make the SFID325 very easy to move. The perfect match for dumbbell workouts, smith machines, squat racks and power racks, the SFID325 is an essential bench for any facility at an amazing value. Assembled dimensions 18 H x 57.5 L x 25.5 W. Assembled weight 74 lbs. Lifetime Warranty on frame and welds and One Year Warranty on upholstery and grips. Max weight capacity (including user) 1000 lbs.
OBPH Series Premium Bumper Plates - Made in the USA with recycled materials and a Stainless Steel bushing for long life and durability. Fully Commercial Rated, these bumper plates are made to withstand the abuse in any weight room environment. The Premium Bumper plates wont chip floors, and are quieter and safer than cast plates. These durable plates are thinner than most bumper plates allowing users to load more weight on bars and weight carriage systems. The plates have been proven in the toughest gyms, colleges and home use for over 10 years. Plate Diameter 17 3/8 (all sizes). Plate widths - 1 1/4 (10 lb), 1 7/8 (15 lb), 2 3/8" (25 lb), 3 (35 lb), 3 3/4 (45 lb).
OB86LPB 7 foot Olympic Power Bar - Precision engineered from high-strength, stress-proof alloy steel with rolled-in knurling to avoid adding stress points. Weight 20kg (44 lbs). 86 overall length. 28.5mm diameter grip. 50mm diameter bushing sleeves with 17.5 inch length. Deep diamond knurling. 1000 lb. capacity with anti-rust zinc finish. MADE IN THE USA.
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GDKR50 Kettlebell Storage Rack The Body-Solid GDKR50 is a compact kettlebell storage solution for home or studio and provides storage for 6 total kettlebells of any size from 5 lbs. to 50 lbs. Three offset shelves provide easy access for all 6 kettlebells. The modern design complements any fitness room. Silver powder coat finish on frame with black trays. Assembled dimensions 19 L x 20 W x 21 H. Assembled weight 19 lbs. Kettlebells sold separately.
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BSTPB Series Plyo Box Platforms Body-Solid Plyo Boxes are a must-have training tool for explosive jump and speed training. Athletes of all levels use these boxes for forward, lateral, and other plyometric jumping drills. Increase not only in your vertical jumping ability, but also drastically increase foot speed, cardiovascular endurance, overall leg strength and health, and "out of the blocks" explosion. The number of exercises you can perform are endless and only limited by your creativity. Professional, college, high school and even grade school athletes can improve performance and increase speed agility and all around fitness levels with plyometric training. Features heavy-duty 1 square steel construction using 12 gauge steel tubing with 300 lb. weight capacity to withstand years of abuse by athletes of all sizes. Red scratch-proof powder coat finish. Platforms are reinforced 1/2 plywood covered in non-slip rubber surface. 24 tall plyo box weighs 30.8 lbs and has a 23.2 X 23.2 base with 16.05 x 16.05 top platform.
BSTB Series Resistance Lifting Bands - Lifting bands offer a contrasting method in an exercise program where the weight resistance changes at different points in a lift. Each strength band is suited towards a particular fitness routine such as speed/agility training, jumping, flexibility, stretching, plyometrics, rehabilitation, and power lifting. These 41 elastic bands are a cost effective and simple way to add intensity to any training routine. Why use lifting bands? Lifting bands offer a contrasting method in an exercise program where the weight resistance changes at different points in a lift. Using bands will make the weight increase through the concentric and eccentric portions of a lift that will result in greater speed and acceleration. The BSTB3 and BSTB4 work well for stronger bench presses and lower body exercises.
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iOS £1.49
This retro effects app lets you mix up chemicals and flick on the red light, all from the comfort of your very own virtual chemical darkroom. It's well worth visiting Uncle Stu's seedy Photo Emporium (an in-app store) and spending the extra £1.19 for the extra chemicals with ongoing updates, but if you don't want to splash out on extras you can still achieve great results. Surprisingly addictive and your lungs won't suffer in the process.
TiltShift Generator
iOS, 69p
Spice up your photos and spew your creative juices all over your pics, with a host of effects for your snaps. This includes soft focus, blurring, vignetting, colour, brightness and contrast adjustments. Results are awesome, you get to explore your artsy side and your subjects can look like anything from tiny toy models in over saturated miniature to hazy dream-like characters.
You Gotta See This
iOS, £1.49
Not just a cool name for an app, this is without a doubt something you should all have loaded onto your iThings. First off, it'll save you from spending mega bucks on a camera with panorama mode (unless you don't have an iOS device). It takes multiple shots while automatically stitching your photos together as you pan across, saving you the hassle of misaligning shots and screwing up the photo. Genius.
Almost DSLR
iOS, £1.49
It goes without saying your iPhone isn't going to replace your DSLR, but with this app it makes a bloody good attempt. It appeals to your inner control freak by forgoing the iPhone's standard settings and putting a number of photo enhancing features at your fingertips. Choose the resolution, manually set and lock the focus and exposure, and have control over white balance. Grid lines help you align your shot, while controls for flash are also available. The only downside? There's no zoom.
Pano Android
iOS, £1.49
This unassuming app stitches together multiple photos into a seamless panoramic image. Only, unlike other panorama apps, you have to manually line up and stitch together you shots to create your panoramic masterpiece. So it's not perfect, but if you like to be a bit more more hands-on with your photo-taking this'll do nicely.
Photoshop Express
Android, iOS, £free
Carry Adobe Photoshop in your pocket at all times – albeit a heavily cut-down version of the real thing. It lets you make those necessary image edits to give your snaps the glossy wow factor they should have had in the first place. A few quick adjustments can make a real difference to even the most sketchy snapshots and with Photoshop's free 2GB of online storage at the ready, there's plenty of room to get your creative hat on.
Android, iOS, £free
e-Cards are the new way to bestow birthday cards upon your loved ones. Why waste time at your local card shop when you can whack four photos into one of the hundreds of available themes, throw in a message and send it to a lucky recipient either via email or social network. It's also a great way to disguise your forgetfulness and failure to actually go out and buy a card.
iOS, £1.49
The king of retro camera apps is still taking the lead as the most retro, despite many competitors trying to knock it off its pedestal. It's not quite 'real' retro, but as we're all too aware, real retro requires much more money than paying for something to live in your phone. A handful of film, lens and flash effects are on hand, but a quick Hipstapack purchase means you can extend your effects library and get a bit more creative.
WP7, 79p
Everyone loves the spontaneity of instant snaps and while Polaroid cams have long been replaced as the must have instant camera, it doesn't mean you can't create their white-framed effect elsewhere. Enter Apict. In some ways it's actually better than the real thing by letting you write info on the bottom of the Polaroid-style print. Unlike real Polaroids, you can put more of a personal stamp on your work by applying retro effects, cropping and rotating images.
iOS, £1.49
Sometimes pictures speak louder than words. But when you combine the two, you get an image that reaches out from the screen, grabs you by the cojones and shows you exactly what it's thinking. Just take an image from your library, add your literature and play around with the style until you're left with an amazing typographic work of art.


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JLo pregnant!
On camera.
Check out Jennifer Lopez in Pasadena on the set of The Baster. Oh wait, no. The Back Up Plan. The Baster is the one with Jennifer Aniston…right?
F-ck. How do you keep track?
Very efficient use of resources, non?
Anyway, in addition to getting back to work on movies, JLo will also be recording a new album due out later this year and is writing songs about her children:
"I worked on music while I was pregnant and while I was at home, but now to really get into it and focus on it and to finish the project is exciting. You can't help but put not only your kids into it, but to put anything you are going through in your music. That's the only thing you can really sing or write is stuff that you know. The more music you make and the more that you get into it and the more you write, the more you realize that's all you can write."
Now all I can hear in my head is A New Day. No one does cheesy mom music better than Celine.
Photos from Flynetonline.com


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This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed.
Tragedy was not averted at Seattle Pacific University Thursday afternoon: A man fired gunshots that killed one student and left three injured. The potential massacre was cut short, however, when Jon Meis, a 22-year-old engineering student, pepper-sprayed and tackled the gunman, who had paused to reload. The shooter, Aaron Ybarra, later told detectives that he'd wanted to kill as many people as possible.
Meis was working as a student building monitor when he rushed to subdue the shooter. Seattle Pacific officials declined to share details about the 22-year-old's building-monitor job, saying the institution was not commenting on its security programs at this time. Officials also declined to confirm whether Meis was carrying pepper spray as part of his campus job. (His roommate told the Seattle Times that the student takes the spray with him wherever he goes.)
At a time when concealed-carry advocates often insist that allowing students to carry guns will improve campus safety, experts say students—typically armed with defensive spray and training in radio dispatching and verbal commands—already make outsized contributions to campus security.
Student security jobs such as Meis' are a fixture at "a very large number of universities and colleges across the country," said David Perry, assistant vice president for safety and chief of police at Florida State University.
"It's almost a common practice, if not a best practice, to employ student escorts, student security officers, on colleges and universities," he said.
Perry, president-elect of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, which represents more than 1,200 colleges and universities in 20 countries, stressed that Meis' intervention in the campus shooting was unusual.
"He was heroic," Perry said. "He went above and beyond what the training and what the requirements were for this job. I applaud him for going above and beyond that to protect human lives. But he wasn't trained to be proactive; he's trained to be in a defensive posture and report that immediately to dispatch and police."
Institutions routinely employ students as security guards to "serve as a force multiplier"—extra sets of eyes and ears that can report suspicious activity—for campus police units, Perry said.
At the University of Michigan at Flint, officials credit the increased use of student patrols with a reduction in campus crime, MLive reported.
The job description varies from institution to institution. The University of Nevada at Las Vegas employs six student security officers, said Lieut. Jeff Green, an officer in the UNLV department. UNLV's student guards are outfitted only with radios. They receive "no formal training" apart from learning how to use these devices, which keep them in constant communication with dispatchers, Green said.
At LeTourneau University, a small Christian institution in east Texas, student guards made up the bulk of the campus-security apparatus for about 30 years. Until January 2009, the school had no police department, said Terrance Turner, LeTourneau's chief of police. Student officers patrolled the campus and reported to two professionals. Four part-time and two full-time police officers now supplement the student workers, Turner said.
The Texas institution currently employs 11 students as guards. Each "recruit" (as Turner called them) receives 40 hours of field training, including empty-hand martial arts tactics. All student guards carry pepper spray, Turner said. He recalled only one instance in the past 10 years when a student guard used the spray in an altercation (it was during a theft).
Perry said best practices for institutions that employed student guards included training the students in "verbal judo" to help them issue commands authoritatively, and giving the guards pepper spray to use defensively.
In a statement released Monday, Meis said he was able to stop the shooter "through God's grace." The student, who has attracted more than $50,000 in unsolicited gifts for his honeymoon, requested in the statement that any future donations go to the Seattle Pacific victims.


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Stone-cold focus: Staff writer learns the ropes of ice climbing
I felt like a badass as soon as I picked up the ice tools and strapped on the crampons.
Never mind that I had no idea what I was doing with the tools, or that it took me about 10 minutes to put on the crampons. I scrambled more than hiked up the Lighthouse Trail at Peoples State Forest in the northwestern Connecticut town of Barkhamsted, panting under the weight of my snowboots, snowpants and seven layers of clothing.
I was going on an ice climbing excursion, and, in my mind, it would be an elegant affair-precise swings of the ice axes and clean digs of the crampons into ice. I would wow my guide, Matt Shove of Ragged Mountain Guides, with my athletic prowess and natural instincts on ice.
But image alone won't get you far, and I quickly realized that the reality would be very, very different.
First, it was cold. Twenty degrees cold. I hate being cold. (I must have decided this was a good idea while sitting in a warm bed, coffee in hand.) I began to wonder what the greater challenge of the day would be: staying warm or Arctic-Spiderman-ing up a sheet of vertical ice.
Second, if you've never done any kind of outdoor activity out in the cold in bulky winter clothing, it's like this: One second you're overheating under all the layers and wishing you could take your hat off, if only you weren't wearing a pair of gloves inside fat, clumsy ski mittens that you can't get off easily. The next, you stop moving and your hands go numb, and you desperately yearn for a full-body dunk in hot chocolate.
I exaggerate. I actually had been looking forward to giving ice climbing a try since fall. I'd been shocked to learn that you can, in fact, ice climb right here in Connecticut. Other spots in New England might have more ideal winter conditions for this most winter of sports, but I was drawn to the idea that a sport that appeared so extreme was actually quite accessible. And that you could make a day trip of it.
I brought Peter Huoppi, The Day's director of multimedia, to document through video what would undoubtedly be a feat of unparalleled athletic skill. In the group outing were two other novices, including a Navy diver from Ledyard and a consultant from New York City.
Checking ice conditions
We met Shove at his company headquarters - his Manchester home - on an early Sunday morning in February. Shove, 33, who is certified by the American Mountain Guides Association, started the outdoor guiding company in 2009 and had recently returned from a 10-day backcountry expedition and the Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest.
He knew his ice, and he said Connecticut had plenty of good ice. You just had to keep a close eye on the weather and make sure conditions were suitable for climbing.
"The ice is a surface, just like snow," he said. "It goes through a constant freeze-thaw cycle, just like snow. And so the crystal structure of the ice changes dramatically, even day to day sometimes."
It turns out ice climbing is a close cousin to rock climbing, and the gear Shove outfitted us with was familiar: harness, helmet, belay device, carabiner. New were the winter boots and the sharp edges of the crampons and ice tools.
Shove takes his clients climbing where he deems conditions will be best, so I didn't know until just a couple of days before the excursion that our location would be Peoples State Forest, a park I'd never heard of before but immediately fell in love with for the name alone. In Connecticut, Shove also takes ice climbers to, among other spots, Beacon Falls in the Naugatuck Valley and Canaan Mountain in Litchfield County. New England, he said, offers some of the best conditions in the country for ice climbing.
"We just have really reliable ice climbing here because we have wet seasons," he said.
But because Connecticut isn't as cold as, say, New Hampshire, the ice climbing season is shorter - roughly Jan. 1 to March 1, whereas in the Mount Washington Valley, the season might run from mid-November to mid-April.
"I would say the difference is the temperature tends to be warmer," Shove said of ice climbing in Connecticut. "So you don't have to wear as much clothing, which makes you a little more nimble. It's more fun because you're not totally freezing your butt off."
Vertical progress
Properly geared up, we headed into the forest, stopping halfway up the trail to put on our harnesses, crampons and helmets. Shove showed us how to use one ice tool as a crutch to climb up and scamper down (I mean, carefully walk down) icy patches on the trail.
If I had just been out hiking, I might have walked right by the ice wall we were about to climb. The ice was a little skimpy - it would ideally cover the entire rock facade, Shove said - but it would still serve its purpose. In fact, a couple of ice climbers had beaten us there, and a couple more would come by over the course of the day.
Shove made the whole thing look easy. He found a pocket in the ice that could hold his weight, then swung his ax cleanly into it. The teeth bit into the ice with nary a loose chunk flying off the wall.
Swing, swing, dig toes in. Stand. Repeat.
In practice, it was a clumsier endeavor. The best "off-the-couch ice climbers," according to Shove, tend to be carpenters, because they're used to swinging a hammer. The rest of us could only hope for a precise swing on the second or third try. By then, I'd expended so much energy I wanted a break. Except I couldn't just let go and hang out.
I was roped in, so I never worried about falling to my death. But losing my grip and foolishly grasping at air to get back on the ice? Peter has those takes on film, but you, reader, will never see them.
Instead of clean digs into the ice, there were shallow crampon scrapes on the ice, like a cat trying to scale a sliding glass door.
But eventually, miraculously, I would find a crevice to sink my ax into, and it would feel solid, like a good handshake, and I would make vertical progress, and then, hey, look, I was at the top and ready to be lowered back down.
By the fourth climb, I was beat. I stopped minding the rules and haphazardly made my way to the top. I just wanted to be done.
Even with poor technique, though, reaching the top was immensely gratifying. Because I could have spent the day indoors, hating the cold.
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Why is Germany repatriating their gold?
This week few will have missed reports that Germany is getting closer to bringing its gold investment reserves home. Following questions asked in Parliament in 2012 regarding the 3,396 tonnes of gold bullion, the Bundesbank are set to announce tomorrow a new concept in how they store Germany's gold reserves.
Reported in an exclusive by German newspaper Handelsblatt, Buba intends to remove some of its gold held in New York, and all of the gold held by the Banque de France. Considering various representatives of the German central bank denied claims that they would be looking into repatriating the gold bullion investments, one has to wonder what's made them take such a decision.
When the repatriation issue raised its head late last year, the mainstream media coverage of Germany's actions regarding their gold reserves seems to have an underlying accusatory tone to it. It's almost as if by the Bundesbank openly admitting it is looking out for its own finances, for its own country and its citizens, it is being unpatriotic to the global cause of pretending that a highly leveraged, fiat money, banker-centric, government-spending driven economy is exactly how things work best.
Germany isn't the first country to ask questions about its gold bars, let alone repatriate it. Switzerland is also raising plenty of questions and Venezuela finished repatriating their gold earlier this year. So what does repatriating the country's gold say about the sovereignty?
1. Changing geo-political landscape
There are two geopolitical reasons for a country taking custody of another's gold; the first is for ease of transport for payment purposes, the second is to protect the gold from geopolitical risk.
The ease of transport for payment purposes can be argued to still be a relevant reason, particularly given moves by China, India, Russia and Iran to make gold payments for oil and wheat. However, the chances of the US, UK and France demanding payments in gold in the near future as they desperately try to prop up their own currencies is unlikely, particularly as Germany is a successful export nation to these countries. This was one of the reasons for Venezuela's movement of gold into Brazilian and Chinese custody – they're trading partners with useful exports and are more likely to accept gold.
Germany's gold was primarily kept in the US on account of the physical threat from Russia. This seemed reasonable at the time; the US was the bigger and lesser of two evils. The big guy in the playground can be an allay, for a time.
Much of Germany's gold held in the US has never made it to Germany; it started life as German gold reserves in a US vault somewhere. This was on account of the European country running trade surpluses between the 1950s and the end of the Bretton Woods. German gold reserves between 1950 and 1971 went from zero to 3,600 metric tonnes, in the same period US reserves fell by 11,000 tonnes.
But the threat no longer remains, so why hasn't the gold been moved back to Germany? Handelsblatt reports that no gold will be kept in France by Germany. Presently 11% of the 3,396 tonnes is held there. As Bundesbank board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele said last year there was no compelling reason for storage in the French capital given the current geo-political landscape.
2. Do not trust the custodian country to keep track of it when lending it out
Back in the mid-1920s, the head of the German Central Bank, Herr Hjalmar Schacht, went to New York to see Germany's gold. However the NY Fed officials were unable to find the palette of Germany's gold bullion. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Benjamin Strong was mortified, but to put him at ease Herr Schacht turned to him and said 'Never mind, I believe you when you when you say the gold is there. Even if it weren't you are good for its replacement.'
Both GATA and Bring Back Our Gold argue that central banks have either loaned or "sold short" the majority of the country's gold. As GATA found out between 2008 and 2009 the Fed has gold-swap arrangements with foreign banks but keeps them secret. This practice of loaning out gold is not uncommon; it's the worst kept secret ever. However as Zerohedge point out this can lead to the eventual problem that no-one's sure whose gold is whose anymore having been a sort of pass-the-parcel for many years. There is now a debate as to whether Germany, or anyone else storing gold in a central bank abroad, owns allocated gold or is merely a 'creditor' on a metal statement.
The fact that there has not been an audit of Germany's gold for some time, not since 1979 in the New York Fed, gives some validity to GATA and others' concerns. Added to this the refusal by the Federal Reserve to conduct an independent audit of the gold reserves in Fort Knox, as campaigned for by Dr Ron Paul, and worries build as to whether the custodian is 'good for' the gold.
3. Do not trust the custodian country to protect the value of their own currency
As we said in the first point, much of the gold was originally stored abroad for safe keeping, particularly in regard to storing with the US Federal Reserve. However as two round of QE have shown and the third just beginning, the US aren't even willing to protect their own assets in the long-term, so are they likely to look after those of another country's when they realise the rest of the world doesn't want to use their currency anymore.
Every few months there is a discussion regarding what China are planning on doing with the gold they both mine and import every year, with many believing they are hoarding the metal as an insurance against the billions of US Treasury bonds, notes and bills they hold. Many believe they will issue some kind of gold-backed currency in the short-term and dump its one trillion dollars' worth of US Treasury securities. Whilst, at the moment the US seem to take their monopoly currency for granted, should the Chinese or anyone else behave in such a manner, the US will need to respond – most likely with gold, which on its own it does not have enough of.
The continual devaluation of the US Dollar is, of course, a good thing for the gold price and therefore, even more reason for countries to get it back onto home soil.
4. Foresee the need to protect the future of your own monetary system
Germany is the one country in the Eurozone which appears to be reminding everyone of how important it is to return to some resemblance of sound money. In the last few months we have listened to Jens Weidmann, President of the Bundesbank, compare the ECB's plans to the 'Faustian Pact'. However, thanks to the undemocratic nature of the Eurozone, fewseem to be listening. Like many of the disagreements in the past, the ECB finds a way to work around them or gently persuade member countries to support new measures – such as Draghi's OMT plans.
Germany, like other countries in the EU, has a responsibility to protect its citizens' wealth and standard of living. At the moment this is being threatened as the successful export country props up other fiscally different countries to its own. Gold, as we have long said, is a protector of wealth. The euro, many have said was designed to act 'like a gold-standard' unfortunately you can't dress up a fiat currency to glister, as it seems the Germans have realised.
This week it has been confirmed that Germany is on its way to a recession. 2012 Q4 GDP is expected to have declined 0.5%, whilst GDP for the year was below expectations at 0.8%. Plant and machinery investment declined by -4.4%.
5. It's yours, you want it where you can see it
As we work hard to show here at The Real Asset Company, when you buy allocated gold, you own gold, only you can instruct what should happen to it. The Bundesbank, and Venezuela before it, has done nothing wrong. This is despite mainstream coverage which wants to imply that the Bundesbank's decision to move 600 tonnes of gold from the Bank of England between 2000 and 2001 was a 'shock' and 'mystery'.
As we have outlined above, no one really knows how this financial crisis will unfold. Whilst financial crises have, unfortunately, become too frequent, in the last forty years, never has one been this contagious, far-reaching or beyond the understanding of the policy-makers. Why shouldn't the Germans get their gold back under control? They own it and most likely, they'll need it.
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Thanks for joining us again for the Ingredient Spotlight! Are you enjoying this feature? Tiffany and I love seeing all the amazing recipes you share. Recipe inspiration is always welcome here.
After a delicious quinoa week last week, we are on to a double feature this time: Potatoes & Bacon.
Here are our favorite recipes using potatoes & bacon:
Baked Potato Dip with Potato Dippers. A cream-cheesy sauce stuffed with spinach, bacon, broccoli and peppers, served atop a crunch homemade potato chip!
Zuppa Tuscana Soup. A knock-off of Olive Garden's version, this creamy soup combines bacon and potato with spinach and Italian sausage in a delicious soup that even freezes well.
Baked Potato Pizza. Use leftover mashed potatoes as the "sauce" on this pizza and top it with your favorite potato toppings – including bacon!
Chicken Cheddar & Potatoes. A simple skillet dish with fantastic flavor – brought about by the one and only, bacon.
I'm sure you have lots of ways to pair up bacon & potatoes – so bring on the recipes! I can't wait to see them.


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Today I have this card to show you with the beautifull Twenties Bohemian Greyscale by Emily Luella at Crafts & Me... I coloured her with Alcohol markers and enhanced with Colourblend pencils.
I made the background with a 3d embossingfolder and Dew Drop inkpads.
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So why complain?
AASL and AISL compete for the same librarians. They are very different conferences, and in an ideal world, we could all go to both. From what I can uncover, in the 1980s the independent school librarians (from the Independent School Section of AASL) felt excluded from and ignored by ALA and AASL. They felt as a group that their unique needs weren't being met, and in particular, conferences had little relevance. They started AISL, with a yearly conference just about our issues (please tell me if I am mistaken). Frankly, I would love to see the amazing and active librarian leaders from each group merge the conference into AASL/ISS - imagine the preconferences, the leverage, the support, the sessions, and the parties we could have if we were all at the same conference!
I love conferences, but I hate deciding which to attend each year. Considering library budgets, school budgets, staffing, and time away from the students and teachers (or your family), we need to look carefully at each conference and make some important decisions. I interviewed several librarians about their thoughts on which conferences they like best. Here is what I found - please comment if you have something to add!
Conference Breakdown:
- Great networking with all types of school librarians (I met some of my library heroes there, like Buffy Hamilton and Joyce Valenza!)
- Good exhibit floor with several vendors
- ISS section always has some specialized sessions, a school tour, and a social.
- Great chance to meet many authors
- Large selection of sessions and pre-conferences to attend
- Casual alternative sessions in the "Blogger's Cafe" (new this past year)
- Great first-timer conference, because there is so much to do and so much going on, a good overview of the profession
- Too much about public school issues and programming
- AASL is too big and sometimes has ignored ISS
- Difficult to be involved in AASL if you don't know the right people (I'd disagree - they have been very welcoming)
AISL - every April
- Small, one hotel, very intimate.
- Sessions are often at the independent schools.
- Lots of free time to network and enjoy each other
"[W]hen I went to my first AISL meeting I felt like I had come home. It was just for librarians like me. They had the same problems, they had the same kids, headmasters, faculty, you name it. They had great ideas. It was a wonderful networking opportunity. It was great way to make really fine friends. It was a way to get involved and work and see something done quickly without dealing with a bureaucracy. They wanted something done, I did it. Now I run the list and the website and work with the technology committee. It's wonderful...If ... I had a new librarian and was advising them to go to only one conference, it would be AISL. It is the only conference where independent school librarians gather for three full days to talk only about their libraries and network. It's incredible. I wouldn't miss it for the world."
- CD McLean, Librarian, Berkeley Preparatory School, Tampa Florida
- Few vendors
- Few authors - but you really get a lot of time with the one or two who are there
- Less session choice (although this year's session choices look really great)
- Some newer librarians have complained that it can feel clique-y (AASL gets the same complaint, by the way!)
- Too much free time to be social, not enough serious professional development
- Sessions are sometimes at a beginner level, need more advanced topics (although this year's sessions look more varied)
I haven't been to this one yet, but I hope to attend this fall, because AASL is every other year. Many people love this conference. The only complaint I have heard so far is that school librarians don't like to be separated out into their own conference, but would rather be integrated into the regular conference. Attendees enjoy learning from all types of librarians.
ALA Annual - Every Summer
This is the big one. If you like lots of people, vendors, authors, and parties, this one is for you. Some independent school librarians feel lost at this conference; we come from such small communities. But others look forward to getting inspired at ALA, to network with the ISS group, to learn from other types of librarians (This is where I first heard of LibGuides two years ago), and meet authors (you can really get to know some, and hear others present). ALA has ISS sessions, school tours, and socials. It is less intimate and a bit overwhelming, but if you jump right in you can have an amazing professional development experience. Go to sessions about library design, technology, and issues concerning university librarians; all of which have information to bring back to our schools. And, since this is during summer, you do not have to miss school for it!
ALA Midwinter - every January
I haven't been to this one yet. I think it is mainly important for those wanting to do committee work, although I am hearing that for some committees you may not have to commit to going to this conference too, but can Skype in and electronically meet. More on that another time.
YALSA's Young Adult Literature Symposium - every other fall, alternating with AASL
This is a newer conference, and I haven't attended yet. It has a literature focus, and I hear that YALSA is very welcoming and fun to be a part of. Librarians who attended last time found it very valuable, and enjoyed the focused topic.
But There are MORE!
And what about state library conferences? Regional consortia professional development days? The School library Journal Leadership Summit? The International Association of School Librarians conference? And conferences that aren't just for librarians, like ISTE and CUE? What about curriculum mapping conferences? One-to-one laptop program training conferences?
And what of NAIS, the People of Color Conference, or other more school-wide issue conferences? Jump-starting creativity and promoting libraries are just two of the many reasons why we should be going to conferences outside of librarianship (read about it here and here!).
How can you balance the above with all the interesting library conferences? Add all this up, and mix in a bit of school retreats and field trips, and you could be gone from your library more than present.
How do you decide which conferences to go to, and how many? Do you have a favorite conference not listed here? What are your conference plans for 2010-2011, and why? Please share your ideas!


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One of my numerous little side projects has recently been ObjectStorageHelper, a library that makes it easy to read/write files in WinRT (aka Windows 8) applications. This is a short post to let you know that ObjectStorageHelper is now available in the nuget gallery and hence can easily be added to your WinRT applications by running the following command in the nuget Package Manager Console:
Massive thanks to Scott Lovegrove (@scottisafool) for helping me with this making this happen.
To read more about ObjectStorageHelper and what it can do for you please visit Generic Object Storage Helper for WinRT on Codeplex. I know of four apps in the Windows Store that are currently making use of ObjectStorageHelper, they are:
The following code shows how easy it is to store files using ObjectStorageHelper:
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