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BOSTON An astonishing manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers took several violent turns and left one suspect dead, while the other was still on the run Friday, amid a frantic multi-city search and urban lockdown that played out live on television and social media.
One ethnic Chechen, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers very early Friday morning, while his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, fled and eluded capture. Thousands of law enforcement officers were on his trail, amid hovering helicopters, swarming SWAT teams and several controlled explosions.
Much of the city shut down for the day, as officials urged Boston-area residents to remain secure in their homes.
"We've followed a number of leads that have taken us to a variety of places in eastern Massachusetts," Massachusetts State Police Col. Timothy Alben said at a briefing early Friday evening. "There is much left to be done. . . . Unfortunately, we don't have a positive result at this point."
Boston officials, though, were sufficiently confident shortly after 6 p.m. to lift the stay-at-home dictate that had temporarily stilled one of the nation's most vibrant cities.
"There is still a very, very dangerous individual at large," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said shortly after 6 p.m., but he added, "We can return to living our lives."
Patrick's green light for the city's mass transit system returned at least a touch of normalcy to a metropolis that's been stricken since the Monday bombings and that went into full-scale lockdown Friday. Boston officials had halted the city's mass transit system and urged residents to "shelter in place" before finally giving workers the go-ahead to leave for home in the early afternoon. While mass transit resumed about 6 p.m., the Boston Bruins and the Red Sox canceled their night games.
Even the downtown streets in Boston were deserted, with few people out and most stores closed. An Au Bon Pain restaurant that posted it was closing at 4 p.m. was quickly mobbed, as if a hurricane were approaching. Patrons grabbed bottles of waters and cleaned out the case of ready-made sandwiches.
The chilling emptiness of a major city's streets was unprecedented, said Brian Michael Jenkins, a transportation security expert at the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University. Jenkins noted that though parts of cities were shut down during hostage situations and gang standoffs, not even the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks brought New York City to a complete standstill.
"We're in absolutely new territory," Jenkins said in an interview. "It's extraordinary."
Officials also locked down and later evacuated the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a campus about 60 miles from Boston where the younger Tsarnaev is a student. By midafternoon, National Guard helicopters were landing at the campus and off-loading what appeared to be SWAT teams.
While Boston's streets were empty, electronic airwaves and the Internet were jammed as television crews swarmed Tsarnaev family members for interviews from Maryland to Canada, and as far away as Russia. Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook lit up with news, rumors and commentary.
The number of people following Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Twitter feeds skyrocketed to more than 35,000 in just a few hours. The FBI used the Twitter messaging system to alert citizens that the surviving brother might be driving a "1999 four-door, green Honda Civic with Massachusetts license plates," only to cancel the alert an hour later.
Meanwhile, his former classmates at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School posted online expressions of sorrow.
"He's a smart guy," his aunt, Maret Tsarnaev, told reporters in Canada. "Studied well."
Investigators identified the two brothers as suspects in the Monday bombings, which happened around 2:50 p.m. near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blasts killed three people, including 8-year-old Martin Richard, and wounded nearly 200. Physicians have performed multiple amputations on victims, whose ages range from as young as 2 to as old as 78.
The unanswered questions include, beyond the location of the suspected bomber, any idea of motive or explanation for how the two brothers came to be possible murderers.
"Somebody radicalized them," the brothers' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told reporters outside his suburban Maryland home late Friday morning.
In one hint of potential radical interests, a profile published under Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's name on Vkonta, a Russian-language social media site that resembles Facebook, had links to news videos about terrorist attacks on the subways in Moscow and in the Belarus capital of Minsk.
The violent odyssey that began Monday resumed Thursday evening just a few hours after the FBI released photos and videos of suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, when a security camera in a convenience store in Cambridge captured an image of one of the men.
At 10:30 p.m., Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, was found fatally shot in his cruiser. He was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The two suspects then carjacked a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint, reportedly identifying themselves to the car's owner as the perpetrators of the marathon bombing. The car's owner escaped half an hour later at a gas station and the SUV headed toward Watertown, about eight miles from downtown Boston. Police chased the suspects, even as they tossed several explosive devices at officers from their car.
About 12:45 a.m., gunfire broke out between the suspects and police in Watertown. Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Police Officer Richard H. Donohue was badly wounded in the shootout. Tamerlan Tsarnaev also suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at 1:35 a.m. His younger brother got away in the car, reportedly running over his brother in his haste and setting off a chase that led to close police scrutiny of area."We are progressing through this neighborhood," Alben told reporters about noon Friday. "We are going house by house, street by street."
The uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told reporters that the brothers were ethnic Chechens, though they were not born in Chechnya. The younger brother was born in Kyrgyzstan, Tsarni said. An aunt, Toronto resident Maret Tsarnaeva, said on Canadian television that the father worked as a lawyer and in an "enforcement" agency in his home country, which she said eventually put him at risk.
"He is a soft-hearted, loving father," the aunt said.
The aunt said she was living in the United States in April 2002 when Dzhokhar arrived along with his mother and father, while the other brother and two sisters remained with relatives in Kazakhstan. The family petitioned for refugee status; the father and mother are now living in the capital city of the Russian republic of Dagestan, where the father, Anzor, told television reporters Friday that he suspected his sons may have been set up as fall guys for what he denounced as a heinous attack in Boston.
"I honestly can't imagine who could do this," the father told a Dagestan TV station. "Whoever did this is a bastard."
The family has been disrupted in recent years, and interviews, social media and public records suggest they weren't close. Tsarni told reporters he had little contact with his brother's family, but he would not elaborate on why. A sister of the two suspects, interviewed by the FBI in suburban New Jersey, told reporters through a crack in her door that she had not been in frequent touch with her brothers.
"I never imagined that the children of my brother would be associated with that (bombing)," the uncle said, adding that they "put a shame on our family, (they) put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity."
Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov, in a Russian-language Internet posting translated by McClatchy, vigorously distanced his war-torn country from the two suspects.
"It would be useless to try to make any connection between Chechnya and these Tsarnaevs, if they are indeed guilty," the president wrote. "They grew up in the United States, their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. The roots of this evil must be sought in America."
Christopher Swift, adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University, further pointed out that there are big cultural and language differences between Arab and Chechen Muslims.
"They are totally different cultures," Swift said. "It's like Greek people going to Ireland. . . . There's a big difference between Irish Catholicism and Greek Orthodox Christianity as practiced in Greece."
The older brother, Tamerlan, was studying at Bunker Hill Community College and had been a boxer. He was married.
The younger brother, Dzhokhar, was a naturalized U.S. citizen who came to the United States in 2002 and attained his citizenship on Sept. 11, 2012. Known by friends and family members as Jahar, he was a student and wrestler at the Dartmouth satellite campus of the state university.
Lindsay Wise, Chris Adams, Erika Bolstad and Curtis Tate of the Washington Bureau contributed.


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Editorial board member Joe Rago on why the health-care exchanges in Oregon and Massachusetts failed. Photo credit: Getty Images.
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Cooking fires are the No. 1 cause of home fires throughout the country. With firefighters responding to three times as many emergencies during Thanksgiving, the Firemen's Association of the State of New York is providing the following safety guidelines to ensure New Yorkers have a safe holiday.
"At a time when families and friends should be enjoying the holiday, we often see tragedies unfold due to unsafe cooking practices," said FASNY President James Burns. "These guidelines, if followed correctly, will ensure a safe Thanksgiving."
The most common factors in home cooking fires and ways to avoid them:
•Unattended cooking, the leading cause of fires in the kitchen - Stay in the kitchen while you are frying, grilling or broiling food. If you leave the kitchen for even a short time, turn off the stove. If you are simmering, baking, roasting or boiling food, check it regularly. Remain in the home while food is cooking, and use a timer to remind yourself that you are cooking, as guests, phones, children, pets and other activity can easily distract a cook.
•Objects near the cooking catching fire - Clothing ignitions lead to approximately 16 percent of home cooking fire deaths. It is important to wear short, close-fitting or tightly rolled sleeves, as loose clothing can dangle onto stove burners or gas flames and catch fire. Keep the cooking area clean and combustible materials away from your stovetop. Built-up grease as well as oven mitts, food packaging, wooden utensils, towels, curtains and other materials on or near the stove can catch fire.
•Cooking equipment unintentionally turned on or not turned off - Be on alert! If you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol, don't use the stove or stovetop. Have children turned the stove on?
•Deep-frying turkeys - Turkey fryers that immerse the turkey in cooking oil at high temperatures pose a significant danger of hot oil being released or spilled during cooking, leading to devastating burns, other injuries and property destruction.
•Hot cooking oil exposed to water or outdoor elements - If rain or snow strikes hot cooking oil in propane-fired turkey fryers designed for outdoor use, the result can be a splattering of the hot oil or a conversion of the precipitation to steam, which can lead to burns. Frozen and defrosting turkeys also create the risk of contact between water and hot cooking oil, which can cause severe scalding or other serious injury.
FASNY's recommendation to those who insist upon fried turkey for Thanksgiving: Cooking it yourself should be considered a fire hazard. Obtain it from professional food providers who are experienced in this specialty preparation.
If you do have a cooking fire:
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•For an oven fire, turn off the heat and keep the door closed.
•Do not use water to put out a grease fire. Use an appropriate fire extinguisher, or baking soda, salt or a tight lid. Keep the lid nearby when you're cooking, to smother small grease fires. Smother the fire by sliding the lid over the pan and turn off the stovetop. Leave the pan covered until it is completely cooled. Always keep a box of baking soda near the stove.
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This is a NAFEMS accredited course.
FEA has become widely used and universally accepted in many industry sectors. In order to derive maximum benefit from the available technology, engineers should learn about the strengths of numerical techniques and how to apply them. At the same time, guidance on how to avoid the inevitable pitfalls will prove invaluable throughout the engineer's career.
NAFEMS, the only vendor neutral, not-for-profit organization with the aim of promoting the effective and reliable use of FEA, addresses this requirement by providing this three day example-driven, practical course.
The course offers excellent guidance on how to assess and plan the task of carrying out a structural analysis using FEA. A clear understanding of the objectives of each analysis is vital and a road map for achieving this is presented. A review of the tradeoff between available resource and analysis methodology is given.
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This course is aimed at practicing engineers who wish to learn more about how to apply finite element techniques to their particular problems in the most effective manner. The material that is presented is independent of any particular software package, making it ideally suited to current and potential users of all commercial finite element software systems. This course is a must for all engineers aiming to use FEA as a reliable predictive tool for thermal, stiffness and stress analysis.
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We started with the basics. What is your favorite book?
In Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, Henry Jenkins defines participatory culture as one:
1.With relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
2.With strong support for creating and sharing one's creations with others
3.With some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is
passed along to novices
4.Where members believe that their contributions matter
5.Where members feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they
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Not every member must contribute, but all must believe they are free to contribute when
ready and that what they contribute will be appropriately valued
So, maybe our little displays don't hit every one of those marks, but the introduction is there.
1. Anyone can participate
2. It is public, so it is shared, and we encourage creativity and interaction
3. Well..this one is a stretch.. but we are purposefully starting off with easy prompts this year, and I am hoping that as people get more comfortable with the public sharing, we can move on to deeper ideas and conversations on the displays.
4. Students see other students enjoying the boards
5. The students are having fun creating a type of collage of ideas and humor. They are connecting with what each other writes and sometimes building upon it.
And, we leave everyone's contributions up, and although not everyone participates, everyone knows they can.
I can't get the students to participate on the blog or the Facebook page, but on the display, people are engaged. I wonder why that is - maybe the anonymity? the ease? the joining in on something similar to public conversation? I like the participation, the ease, and the building of culture that is happening through these simple displays. I think the students are learning that we care about what matters to them.
Another type of participatory display came from our graduating seniors last year. One boy wanted to put up a display of his favorite books, then other seniors wanted to do it too. This year we have a senior in charge of the weekly Senior Displays, where a senior puts out 10 favorite books from their 7th-12th grade experience at our school. While a student's display is up, we take his/her picture with the most favorite book and make a READ bookmark. This is a nice memento of their library lives, and I know some of the kids really enjoy the experience.
We are always looking for ways students can participate in the library, and displays are just one aspect. Do you have students help with displays? How are their interestes told through displays?


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John Treder wrote:>> you must consider that she gave that advice in the bad old days <<
I know, Jenise. And yet it does work, and I don't always have a bottle of white open to drink. I also keep a bottle of inexpensive dry sherry around. Try adding a teaspoonful to a cheese omelet sometime!
I want to second what John said. White vermouth has that interesting bouquet of herbs that can make a soup.
Read this article about Waterzooi -- a Belgian soup from Ghent that was originally made with fish. As the canals around Ghent silted up they started making it with chicken. But it's good either way. (The page takes a while to load on my MacBook)
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And when I don't have white wine I'll gladly sip a tumbler of vermouth with an ice cube.
ALSO I'd like to second the fact that they hand-make wonderful vermouths in Spain, and if you find that you are lucky. My neighbor met a bartender who gave him a bottle of his own special vermouth -- I tasted it and it was fine stuff.


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The venue for Sarah (Coleman '06) Toth's performance under the bridge at 83rd and Figueroa Streets in Los Angeles was hardly ideal. Traffic rumbled overhead, and distant sirens wailed. The ministry team that invited the soprano to sing, however, had prayed for God's presence and blessing on the Bible study that regularly convened beneath the overpass, and the prostitutes and other street people it drew.
"I sang a simple piece, there, under the bridge where the sound could resonate and carry over the sirens," Sarah recalls. Her clear, even tones filled the night and lingered in the memories of her listeners. Months later, they still talk about Sarah's gift and ask when she will return.
"The encompassing sound of a live classical voice can touch you in a deep place," she shared later. "It is tangible, physical. It brings joy. Many people have never heard a live operatic sound before. Those are the best people to sing for."
Sarah is grateful for such opportunities. They remind her how the Holy Spirit blesses others through her voice, an instrument she has meticulously studied, practiced, critiqued, and polished in classrooms and on stage. She currently dedicates 12 hours each day to post-graduate studies in opera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia and preparation for her lead role as Elisetta in the Conservatory's upcoming production of Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage) by Domenico Cimarosa.
The constant assessment of her vocal skills is demanding, but Sarah enjoys the opportunities it presents for solving problems. "I love talking with speech therapists," she confesses. "We have to know the same things about vowel and consonant formation, what the tongue does, what the jaw does. I love figuring out just the right way to deliver a phrase so that it is beautiful and communicates the text and intention of the words and the music."
She sifts through hours of instruction stored in her memory and recordings she keeps of her voice lessons for solutions to vocal problems that arise. "It could be as simple as my jaw gripping on this 'm' when I sing 'amore,' creating tension that prevents a successful high note."
Thorough preparation clears up more than uncertainties about vocal technique for Sarah. Coaching sessions from various experts help her learn how to express the music and enhance the message with movement and acting. Language studies ensure her fluency in Italian, French and German. Dance plays a part. She even dips into psychology to identify the personality types of the characters she plays. "Opera is so multidisciplinary," she says. "When it's done well, it can be very exciting."
"Well done" for Sarah and her opera colleagues comes as the result of continual analysis of their skills followed by self-correction. Sarah likens the process to an athlete immersed in training, but she finds the self-centered image unsettling. "It's difficult to know how to live by faith," she says, "in a discipline that is all about 'me.'"
The daughter of Free Methodist missionaries Jerry '84 and Jan (Kamp '80) Coleman, Sarah benefited from frequent exposure to God's Word in her formative years. She engaged her talents in church by leading worship and playing guitar, piano, and flute. Still, she credits her college experience as making that faith her own. "GC helped me think through my faith and claim what I believe," she explains. Sarah now finds herself repeating that process. This time, however, she is determining her identity as a Christian opera performer committed to excellence in her craft.
"The discipline of singing tells you to focus on yourself and spend hours practicing so you can be better; it's always me, me, me," she says. Sarah has learned instead, to shift her internal spotlight from "me, the performer and rising star," to "me, God's child and channel for His glory." The humble approach opposes the usual image of opera's self-absorbed diva, but Sarah likes the doors of understanding it opens.
She now sees practice as equipping her voice to be the best possible channel for God's use. She sees performance as an opportunity, primed with prayer, for God to fill her with His glory and pour that glory out on her listeners, no matter what is on their hearts, no matter the language in which she sings, no matter the words of the song or that the venue is just folding chairs under a bridge with traffic rumbling overhead and distant sirens wailing.
"Performing, by itself, is empty and one-dimensional," she observes, "but by allowing the Holy Spirit to work through me, it can touch people deeply. It can reveal things in their hearts and uncover secrets."
For Sarah, there is joy in performance when the breath flows freely, the notes come easily, and critics pronounce the music "glorious." Yet, the vibrant soprano keeps it all in perspective with this thought: singing that wins a rousing ovation today is a mere shadow of the singing that will fill God's eternal kingdom. Sarah knows that the best singing is yet to come.
Click here to read more about Sarah.
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Player requests more flexibility regarding "weekday" definition
"Hello All, The initiative is very nice, instructive and entertaining. But there is a small problem with those of us for which week-end means Friday+Saturday, rather than Saturday+Sunday (in Israel for example). And, unfortunately, we cannot always access the computer on week-ends, due to various reasons. So, a most welcome enhancement would be to allow for a few days more for completing each quiz, instead of "closing" it the same day. I'll be grateful if you could consider favourably such an enhancement, just to open the contest for "a wider world" ! Thanks & Best Regards and Many congratulations for the initiative!"
Sigh. I can definitely see how this could cause some problems for players in Israel. I wonder if this is an issue in other countries? Please reply to this blog if you have a similar difficulty. The number of players from Israel does seem low, given the amount and sophistication of Oracle development in that country.
As for what we can do about it: I am really not sure. Allowing multiple days to answer would require many changes in our website and backend. And then it would no longer be a daily quiz.
We are looking at ways to build some "forgiveness" into the system, so you could miss some quizzes and not be penalized quite as badly. We are also considering offering different levels of play (daily quiz, 3 times a week, etc.). If you really could not answer five times a week routinely, you might consider playing at a different level (different "league"). But that is all still in the future.
What do our other players think about this?
Regards, SF
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Why not a quiz every day (or workday) and you could answer till 3 days more...ReplyDelete
The ranking and the answers would only be public afterward (after 3 days for instance). that would allow people miss two days (they would answer next day to three questions) and also make the new ranking and anti-cheating better.
As I also suggested (by feedback button) I think that "no answer fast" was ranking too high and maybe an option like "non of the others" should be an answer in several question but maybe not in all. I explain: sometimes we are not thinking like PL/SQL developers (solving a puzzle) but only trying to figure out if there is an error in the question. I think that the answer(s) should be selectable (not allow "no answer") to make sure that typo errors in the questions are understood by everyone to be typo error and not a "trap" (unless it's real a trap but one of the answers would say that).
- Anonymous06 July, 2010 04:06
I suggest it should be daily, as in 7 days a week. Sure, the Sat+Sun questions might get a little less traffic, but with the "forgiveness" in the system for missed questions it should pan out.ReplyDelete
Blogspot is having problems with comment moderation and is wiping out comments, so I post this for Jeff:ReplyDelete
I suggest it should be daily, as in 7 days a week. Sure, the Sat+Sun questions might get a little less traffic, but with the "forgiveness" in the system for missed questions it should pan out.
Having Friday's question open until Midnight Sunday GMT would help those of us a long way East of Greenwich (London) where Midnight Friday GMT is actuall mid day Saturday and where Friday afternoon is always a rush to wrap things up for the week-end.ReplyDelete


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In late August, baby boomers (and others whose teen years were spent in a haze of marijuana smoke) seemed to get the comeuppance they had long feared: A study suggested that early and frequent pot smoking resulted in depressed intelligence scores well into adulthood. But a new analysis suggests that in assigning blame for the lower IQ scores they found, the authors of that study may themselves have gotten caught in a haze of confusion.
Social and economic disadvantage in youth -- a factor that predisposes kids to early marijuana use as well as to adult lives that suppress intelligence scores -- may explain the earlier findings, asserts a Norwegian economist writing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The original study, led by Duke University researcher Madeline Meier, is described here in a Booster Shots blog post (and here's the abstract). It found that in a large group of New Zealanders tracked from birth to age 38, those who initiated marijuana use before 18 and who smoked marijuana most frequently in adolescence had IQs that were five to six points lower by age 38. In adulthood, they performed, on average, more poorly on tests of reasoning, attention and working memory than did those who smoked little to no pot before the age of 18. The latter group picked up on average a point or two on IQ tests and fared better on tests of "executive function."


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As workers struggle in today's sinking economy, their battles to stay afloat are spreading to the home front. Parents who once spent their free time with their children are now plotting ways to save their mortgages, find new jobs or stretch limited budgets to pay mounting bills. The additional stress can worsen existing problems, such as depression and substance abuse, making the children the latest victims of the nation's financial turmoil.
"Children's mental health is very much a function of their environments – their communities, schools and families. So what happens in the larger society tends to have repercussions on kids," says Malia McCarthy, program director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program at UC Davis.
Unfamiliar surroundings
During this economic downturn, evictions and home foreclosures have been particularly common. That means children are being uprooted from familiar home and school surroundings at an unusually high rate.
"Children get plucked not only from their former schools and all the supports available to them there, but also their local support systems of friends, neighbors, clergy, coaches, etcetera. And some move to areas that may be more dangerous than their previous situations, which exacerbates the stress," McCarthy says.
For those already grappling with domestic problems, economic woes can strain family bonds to the breaking point, says Anthony J. Urquiza, director of mental health services for the UC Davis Children's Hospital CAARE (Child and Adolescent Abuse Resources and Evaluation) Center.
"They don't have a lot of coping resources to start out with. When you increase the amount of distress in these families, it can increase the amount of domestic violence and drug and alcohol abuse." In the face of so many pressing concerns, children's emotional needs – for love, attention, and reassurance – can easily fall through the cracks. "Parents can become so preoccupied meeting basic material needs for their families that they can lose sight of how critical their emotional resources are to their children," McCarthy says.
Unhealthy cycle
Over time, an unhealthy cycle develops. Children in crisis require parental help and attention. Their parents are juggling extra jobs to make ends meet and have less time to spend with their families. And previous opportunities for children to interact with adults, such as youth after-school or sports programs, are becoming luxuries fewer communities and families can afford.
Left unaddressed, stresses at home can lead children to misbehave as a way of getting their emotional needs met.
"Sometimes kids with behavioral difficulties," McCarthy says "can be acting out a symptom of the entire family's inability to function."
Fortunately, families have within their reach a few simple steps to alleviate some of the stress in the home.
Relieving tension
"Communicate with your partner about what's going on," Urquiza says. "There is a lot of benefit to being able to discuss with someone else how you're feeling. You might not find a solution every time, but saying the words and having somebody recognize your situation can alleviate some of your pain."
Don't be shy about reaching out to family and friends for assistance. Many are quite willing to lend a hand. Whether that means asking a neighbor to watch the children for an afternoon, or dropping the kids off at a relative's for the weekend, the respite can give harried parents a chance to visit the doctor, run errands, or take a break. Church and social groups may also be willing to volunteer their time and care.
Even something as basic as taking a walk together can ease family tensions.
"It gives parents and children a chance to be together and not be disturbed by the phone ringing and the TV blaring. Exercise is a natural antidepressant – it helps with anxiety and provides a sense of well being. And it's completely free," McCarthy says.
Cooking and eating a meal as a family can be equally rewarding. In a society where busy family members often eat alone and on the go, breaking bread together can build a sense of cooperation and provide a healthy source of nutrition, too.
Even so, says Urquiza, it's easy for parents to become too engrossed with daily battles to notice they have altered their behavior toward their children.
"If you find yourself yelling and screaming, hitting your kids, or fighting or arguing too much with your partner, that is a sign you may need some additional help."
For those who feel they need more support than friends and family can offer, Urquiza suggests contacting county Child Protective Services for assistance.
"They don't want to take your kids away. They want to help your kids be safe. Removing kids is a relatively small portion of what they do. They're much more involved in trying to help families stay together."
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U.S. Under-20 Women's National Team defender Crystal Dunn has been a member of the U.S. Youth National Team program since the Under-15 Girls' National Team. Dunn participated at the 2008 CONCACAF U-17 Women's Championship and the 2010 CONCACAF U-20 Women's Championship as one of the youngest members of both teams. This time around, she is one of the U-20 veterans and she took time to speak with ussoccer.com about becoming a leader and what life has been like moving from her native New York to college at North Carolina.
How has the run-up to the 2012 CONCACAF U-20 Women's Championship been for you?
Crystal Dunn: "The last two years have been pretty much like any other World Cup cycle. We have camps that meet once a month and it's a selection process again, trying to see which girls fit in with which other group of girls, so it's a whole process over again."
During the last couple cycles, you were one of the youngest and now you're one of the veterans. Have you embraced that role?
CD: "It is a change, I would say, because I feel like I really do have to lead by example. When I was a younger player I kind of had to prove myself. I still have to do that this year but it's just from a different perspective and now I feel like if the young girls have a question or have any doubts about anything, I think it's my role to be there to calm them down and reassure them on certain things."
Has anyone come to you nervous about the first game?
CD: "Not really nervous, I think everyone is just pretty much excited, which they should be. It's a really great environment and I'm actually looking forward to it. This is going to be my third CONCACAF qualifier so I'm excited about it. If anyone has little questions about anything, like how the environment is and things like that, I tell them basically that the fans are going to be loud and there are going to be a lot of cheering against you and they should look forward to it. It shouldn't scare them at all."
This is your third time through, like you said. How do you feel when you pull on the U.S. jersey?
CD: "Every qualifier has been a different experience for me. With the U-17s, it was my first World Cup qualifier so I was so excited and I didn't know what to expect. And then, with the 20s, I was one of the youngest and I was playing with so many older, great players. Now I'm actually one of the older players and it's just a different experience. I try to treat every experience like it's a different one because it is. It's a different group of girls and I'm looking forward to it like I did the other times that I played."
What is it like playing at North Carolina?
CD: "I love it so much. Anson [Dorrance] is great. He has a lot of experience and he's been a National Team coach. He's coached the greatest players to play the game and I feel like it's definitely rubbing off on me. I'm just taking in all of his insight. Some of his training habits are really just helping me improve as a player and it's a different feeling though, because I'm a college player now and I'm not playing with high schoolers and people like that, I'm playing with older girls on a daily basis. I'm really excited about it and I'm super excited to be there."
Can you tell us a little bit about the final stretch of training before coming down to Panama for the qualifying tournament?
CD: "Basically we had a camp in January, it was two weeks in Chula Vista, Calif., and it was so long but it was very much needed because we were a new team and we needed to really get the feel of each other and get some of the nicks out that we had. It was a great experience, definitely. Then we went to La Manga [Spain] about two weeks ago and we played Switzerland, Germany and Norway and they were great competition. We played well together as a team and I think that really boosted our confidence because coming off of playing those three great teams that already qualified. We definitely felt good as to where we were with a new team and new formation and things like that."
Last time around, when you were the youngest, of course the older players would joke around with you. Do you now joke around with some of the younger players?
CD: "It's all fun and games. It's not like the older players pick on the younger players, it's more them making fun of us than anything! We're a huge family so we have fun with each other and it's like joking around with your young sister for doing something silly and making fun of her later. It's a great atmosphere, I can't ask for anything more. We're all equals in this group so there really is no 'younger vs. older' or 'older vs. younger.' I think we're all equals on the field. Off the field, it's the same thing."
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
CD: "I do. I have an older brother. He plays baseball for the Cleveland Indians organization in the minors. His name is Henry Dunn."
So you come from an athletic family? Did your parents play?
CD: "No, they did not. That's what always gets people. My parents did not play any sports but they really encouraged their kids to play, which is something I really do appreciate from that perspective because they didn't play sports so they could have easily said, 'we didn't do it, don't do it.' It did help, though, having a sibling that was at least involved in athletics because he was always trying to get me to train."
You saw your brother go off and do his baseball thing, then you went from New York to North Carolina. How was that transition? What was it like leaving home?
CD: "I will say playing with the National Team has really opened me up to different environments because now when I leave New York I don't get upset about it. I don't get homesick anymore. I see my family from time to time and it's really great when I see them, but when I'm away, I know I have their support and that's pretty much all I need. They're actually going to be here in Panama so I'm excited to see them. North Carolina is really no different from New York. The people are nice; you meet nice people, you meet mean people, it's a combination of everything."
Do you have any superstitions before games or before a tournament?
CD: "I'm really not a superstitious person but I believe that if our team has rituals, I really condone that everyone does their own thing and gets in their own mindset because everyone prepares differently. If you're the type that listens to loud music, go for it. I kind of like listening to music non-stop. I like to dance, I like to sing. I'm just that type of person. I'll probably be as lively as I can be before a game just to get myself ready and maybe get other people ready if they're kind of nervous or anything."
What's it like having players you've played with since the U-17 level and how do you work with players who are going through this for the first time?
CD: "It's great having them here because we've been through so much together and now we're meeting up again. It's great having new players and it's also great to have some familiar faces."
What is your favorite band, group or singer?
CD: "I'm a Beyoncé fan, for life. That is my girl. She's so talented. I've listened to her since Destiny's Child. Destiny's Child was definitely my No. 1, top group to listen to, but Beyoncé is definitely the star and I love her so much."
What is your favorite Beyoncé song?
CD: "Now, my favorite song is 'Countdown.' Her new album is really good and 'Countdown' is super fun. It's lively and I like really fast, up-paced dancing music."


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Mayor Don Wesely today released a recent CNN-Money Magazine article listing Lincoln as one of the best places for jobs in the country.
The Mayor said this reemphasizes that Lincoln's economy is doing very well. In comparison to other cities, Lincoln's unemployment rate is very low.
"The fact is Lincoln's average unemployment rate as cited in the CNN-Money Magazine article is about one-half of the national rate, and we are creating more jobs in the City of Lincoln," said Wesely. "The employment, construction and sales tax revenue numbers we released this week are hard statistics provided by the Nebraska Departments of Labor and Revenue and the City Building and Safety Department."
Figures from the Nebraska Department of Labor show that the annual average number of people employed in the Lincoln MSA (metropolitan statistical area) rose from 141,672 in 2001 to 148,013 in 2002, an increase of 6,341. The January 2003 figures from the Nebraska Department of Labor are not annualized, but show the number employed at 151,573.
Lincoln's average unemployment rate over the past twelve months is 2.9 percent, fifth lowest in the country among cities of similar size. (Other cities of similar population identified in the CNN-Money Magazine article are Madison, Wisconsin; Lubbock, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut.)
"The monthly unemployment figure for Lincoln does fluctuate, but the fact remains that we have more people working in Lincoln now than ever before," said Mayor Wesely. "We have more people working, and the City's population is growing, which makes our job creation efforts even more important."
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LSS Extra Points: One Goodbye and Many Excused Absences
As any Cowboys fan knows, the dog days of offseason are long and boring. Nearly every day you seek any news or rumors about your team and rarely come up with anything. Today I spent time with family and had a lazy day and what do you know, the Cowboys go and make a little rumble.
I know at least a handful of people who will be happy to hear this news…
The Cowboys have released Cory Procter. The 27-year old backup offensive lineman has been with in Dallas since 2005, though didn't debut in the NFL until 2007. He only started in 13 career games, 11 of those in 2008 while filling in for the injured Kyle Kosier. How dare they break up the band, eh, who needs offensive line depth anyway?
In other news, Sam Hurd and Patrick Crayton both missed OTAs on Monday. Hurd was on scene but out while recovering from offseason thumb surgery. Crayton is still demanding a trade, but no one seems to be interested. Have you Hurd Crayton wants out of the big D?
Marcus Spears also missed the practice because of a scheduling conflict according to several sources. Whatever that means?
Keith Brooking, Stephen Hodge and Akwasi Owusu-Ansah are all recovering from surgeries while Sean Lissemore and Scott Sicko are finishing up at college. Yes, okay they are excusable.
These workouts are voluntary but Coach Phillips made a good point saying… "Your competitors at your position are all here." Okay so he's no philosopher but you understand what he's saying.
You can argue either way, veterans can miss the practices because they know the drills but at the same time the new guys, younger guys are there practicing, busting ass to steal your place on the roster. Practice makes perfect!
That's all for now. Only 117 days until the 2010 season kicks off!


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Survey says...Are you measuring engagement, or only employee satisfaction?
Employee surveys. Can't live with 'em, can't…well, you know. Most "employers of choice" do some form of employee "satisfaction" survey. The question is: Is it worthwhile, and if so, why?
In the current economic climate, one might be tempted to ask: "Why bother?" With unemployment at record high numbers, one might assume that employers have employees "over a barrel," that they (the employees) don't have many other options, so it's not necessary to go out of our way to give them what they want.
This argument fails on (at least) two levels. Even overlooking the crass opportunism of such an argument, theatre operators need to recognize that while overall national unemployment rates climb to record levels, the current jobless rate for working-age teenagers (our key employment demographic) remains little changed over the last several years, at 21.6 percent.
The other way in which the "over a barrel" thesis might fail would be if we were only measuring satisfaction. But most companies that do this "right" aren't measuring mere satisfaction; they're measuring engagement. What's the difference? In a nutshell, satisfaction is simply how happy or content your employees are. Engagement is a measure of their level of motivation and their potential for discretionary effort. Big difference.
While satisfaction is certainly a component—or driver—of engagement, so are many other things, like trust, company pride, feeling valued, commitment, and feeling your work is significant or relevant. Given that definition, it's easy to see how someone could be satisfied, but not engaged. Having a bunch of happy employees might make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside; but it's not going to necessarily have any impact on the business.
So first and foremost, we need to make sure we're measuring the right thing: engagement. Happy employees are simply that: happy. There's little statistical correlation between simple satisfaction and business performance. However, there's ample statistical evidence showing a significant correlation between engagement and business results.
In a recent survey process at AMC, we found that our theatres with most improved employee engagement scores tended to have most improved business metrics as well, including better concession performance, better cost control, and better customer service metrics than those at less-engaged units. The correlation was so significant as to overshadow any impact from outside factors.
National employee engagement experts at Kenexa tell us that our experience at AMC is played out over and over again on a national level. So it's easy to make the case that engagement (i.e., discretionary effort) is even more crucial in the current economic climate than it is under milder conditions. So measuring it becomes just as important as measuring more traditional business metrics.
In addition, the simple fact that an employer cares enough to ask their employees what they think can have a significant impact on engagement and business results. This so-called "Hawthorne Effect" was named after the Hawthorne Works, home of a 1955 study that was commissioned to determine a connection between lighting levels and productivity.
The researcher, Henry A. Landsberger, determined that productivity improved in cases of higher light levels and lower light levels. Intrigued, he began manipulating other work conditions. He found that no matter what condition was being varied, productivity improved in both the test group and the control group. Landsberger concluded that the mere fact that the employees knew work conditions were being measured had resulted in higher levels of productivity.
So now that I've talked you into employee engagement surveying, how do you make sure you're doing it "right"? Here are some lessons we've learned at AMC.
First: It's important to note that anonymity is crucial for any employee survey, so utilizing a third party to conduct the research is almost an absolute requirement. No matter how open, honest and friendly your work culture is, your employees are going to be reluctant to voice their honest concerns if they can't do so without fear of retribution.
Second: Make use of existing technology (i.e., web-based tools) to conduct your survey. In today's world, especially given the tech-savvy employment demographic at our theatres, paper-based surveys are simply not conducive to high participation—and even less conducive to robust data analysis.
Third: Follow up. The most important—and most often missed—aspect of good survey practices is that once your survey results are in, you should share them with participants. You don't want your employees thinking that their concerns are just going into a "black hole."
Moreover, it's important to go beyond sharing and engage employees in a dialogue about the survey responses so that they can help you determine the causes of the issues raised. Surveys alone can rarely provide the level of detail necessary for impactful action. For instance, you may find out that your employees don't feel they're appropriately recognized for their work, but you won't know what specific actions (or lack thereof) are causing this impression until you engage in a dialogue with them. That's right; you have to talk, and, yes—I'm afraid—listen to them as well.
Lastly, we need to show our employees that we're actually doing something about their concerns. And it's not enough to simply act on those concerns; you may need to be really obtuse about it and tell them the reason you're taking these steps is based on their input from the survey: "You said this was a concern, so we're doing this …"
Compelling research shows that surveying employees and not following up (sharing, listening, acting) actually has a negative impact on engagement. In other words, you'd be better off not surveying them at all. Conversely, supervisors who do the best survey follow-up also produce the most engaged employees.
So at the end of the day, it's really not that difficult to measure employee engagement; and it's arguably as crucial as measuring more "traditional" metrics. In many ways, managing a business without measuring engagement is like driving a car without looking at the gas gauge. You can certainly drive without it, but eventually you're going to run out of gas—and probably at the most inopportune time…like, say, in the middle of an economic downturn.
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N5393C PCI EXPRESS® Electrical Performance Validation and Compliance Software
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Principais recursos e especificações
- Integrated receiver test calibration automation for N4903B JBERT Bit Error Ratio Tester available as an option.
- Test setup wizard guides you through test selection, configuration, connection, execution, and results reporting
- Measurement connection setups are displayed
- Oscilloscope setup is automatically configured for each test
- Test results report documents test configuration, measurements made, pass/fail status, margin analysis, and waveforms
- Switching solution for automated multilane testing
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- Wide-range of electrical tests are performed, significantly more than SigTest
- Consistent results with Sig Test for 1.0a, 1.1, and 2.0 analysis
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- PCI-SIG® compliance test fixtures
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- N5465A InfiniiSim Waveform Transformation Toolset (optional)
- N2809A PrecisionProbe oscilloscope cable and probe correction (optional)
- Use the N5467A User Defined Application tool (www.keysight.com/find/uda) to:
- Create and fully integrate custom tests, configuration variables and connection instructions.
- Insert external application calls into the run sequence, such as MATLAB scripts or your device controller.
- Configure additional external instruments used in your test suite.
The Keysight Technologies N5393C PCI EXPRESS electrical performance validation and compliance software provides you with a fast and easy way to verify and debug your PCI EXPRESS designs. The PCI EXPRESS electrical test software allows you to automatically execute PCI EXPRESS electrical checklist tests, and it displays the results in a flexible report format. In addition to the measurement data, the report provides a margin analysis that shows how closely your device passed or failed each test.
The N5393C PCI Express electrical test software includes test for verifying that your transmitter is compliant with the PCI Express 3.0 BASE specification at 8GT/s and includes new uncorrelated jitter tests, it calculates de-emphasis and preshoot values for specified de-emphasis presets and updated reference clock tests.
The N5393C PCI EXPRESS electrical test software also utilizes the Q-domain + Dual Dirac method for jitter separation described in the PCI EXPRESS 2.0 Card Electromechanical specification. This ensures that your Gen2 measurements will have absolute consistency with measurements made using the PCI-SIG's standalone Sigtest software. In addition, for Gen1 measurements, the N5393C optionally utilizes the clock recovery method used in the official PCI-SIG Signal Quality Test Methodology ("SigTest") application, ensuring that your test results are consistent with results from the SigTest application. For PCI Express 3.0 measurements, the N5393C incorporates new algorithms for calculating PCIe 3.0 specific parameters* including:
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Thanks for those generous sentiments
Probably the fact that Islam doesn't worship the same god as Christians do.
I don't know about you but I rather subscribe to the view that there is only one God to believe in. Therefore those who believe in God believe in God whether or not they have a good or a poor grasp of what God is.
What was said was Catholics and Muslims believe in one God and Eastern Orthodox Christian another God.The suggesting being Catholics aren't Christians at all.Is this your meaning?
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I think the general tenor is this:1. Moslems claim to worship the same God as Christians;2. Their beliefs about their god are so inconsistent with the Orthodox understanding of God that they must be speaking of a different deity - what we believe about our God and what they believe about their god are contradictory, and thus we must be worshipping different gods;3. The Catholics, however, have said that they worship the same god as the Moslems.  This is unfortunate, considering point #2.
Moslems believe in one God.
 They believe they worship the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses.
They believe in daily prayer, fasting, alms giving.
All these things are good things.
They are in error that do not worship the Trinity or recognize Jesus as God among other things.
I look on Mohammed much like I look on Arius, Joseph Smith, Charles Russell, or any other person who takes basic Christian belief and twists it to suit their heresy and parts from the Truth.
They are in error and need the Gospel.  That said, I don't believe it correct to say they worship a different God.  They believe wrongly about Him.
I don't recall during the Arian controversy any Church Father claimed they worshipped a different God.  Evangelization should start with points of common belief and practice and then pointing out their error.  How do you hope to evangelize them by approaching them with: "You worship Satan! Now let me enlighten you."?  It is much easier to approach them with: "We worship one God, but Christ and Mohammed have different claims and teachings.  Only one of them can be right."Fr. Deacon Lance
Let us use a metaphor.There are three chaps. A, B, and C.C is a fine follow.A knows C first hand ÂÂ and understands what he is like.B knows C only from gossip may up of half truths.A, and B are talking together and see C in the distance. Both A & B claim some knowledge of C. And so both A & B believe in C, however A's beliefs about C are correct, and ÂÂ B's beliefs about C are incorrect.In the same way both Christians and Muslims believe in the same God but have different beliefs about God. Muslims have incorrect beliefs made up by Mohammed and Christians have the Truth from the mouth of the Lord.
Indeed, that is the very heart of the matter; the late Pope sucking-up to Moslems
Alternatively, looked at from another point of view loving his neighbour. Helping to over come hostility and misunderstanding in order to pave the way for Muslims to be able to see Christianity without blinkers on and thereby come to the light of Christianity.
Is this not a good thing?Is anyone helped by maintaining enmity?
Alternatively, looked at from another point of view loving his neighbour. Helping to over come hostility and misunderstanding in order to pave the way for Muslims to be able to see Christianity without blinkers on and thereby come to the light of Christianity.Is this not a good thing?Is anyone helped by maintaining enmity?
The Koran.5:116 And when Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Didst thou say unto mankind: Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah ? he saith: Be glorified! It was not mine to utter that to which I had no right. If I used to say it, then Thou knewest it. Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I know not what is in Thy Mind. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower of Things Hidden ?
I have read the Koran I understand what Muslims believe and have said that it is incorrect.Why make up some great scheme about other Gods?I think you might like this link;http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm
I do not understand once concept of Islam. They achknowledge Jesus as a prophet but not as God. What Kind of prophet of God would lie about being the Son of God???
Out of fairness, they claim St Paul is the liar and that Jesus never said these things.  The best way to answer their claims is to show that St Paul is the reason we have a Gospel, and that you can't separate the Gospel from Paul.  There is no pre-Pauline tradition that he corrupted; no, you can't find anything beneath or behind Paul because his work was the Gospel itself.Anastasios
First of all as an Orthodox Christian and from what I have seen so far of Islamic religion I would NOT want to believe in the same God as they do.  And as far as I am concerned we dont believe in the same God.
I have spent several years in dialogue with Muslims apologists and I can say that they are very challenging opponents. We must be skilled in both Sacred Scripture and Tradition in order to defend our faith and articulate it with any possibility of eliciting conversion. Of course when those few do convert they are under a death sentence and even if such a sentence isn't carried out with any real sense of seriousness they are completely cut off from their culture and families.Last year I had the pleasure of witnessing the Baptism of a Muslim woman who married a Catholic man at our Parish and through her formation we all had an opportunity to share her lose of family and Muslim friends in Jordan and the real alienation such separation creates. I am prayerful that our Parish continue to give her the compassion and friendship those loses made in her life and in your identity as with give praise and thanksgiving for the life gained in Christ. Amen.
Moslem to Catholic. That's a step in the right direction ÂÂ
I personally welcome any and all involvment in ecumenical dialogue with Muslims by our Orthodox Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Truly such joint efforts would be helpful although I have not met any who are active in the Middle-east. Could you share with me any Orthodox missionaries which are active in or around Jordan?
I have no problem in engaging Moslems in dialogue. The problems rest elsewhere, not least that they themselves are told in the Koran that Christians are out to lie to them.
If you mention a truth about Islam, such as Muhammed had sex with a nine year old you can be accused in this country (Australia) of slandering a minority, or in a Moslem nation of 'insulting the prophet'. There's very little opportunity for open and honest dialogue.
You say some wise things here, but we still don't worship the same God (Moslems and Christians)
I appreciate your kindness here but I think we are getting our threads crossed at this time. Perhaps this is how it should be since our conversation has largely been about Islam and not the Late John Paul II.Unfortunately dear Brother it is very late where I live now and I most be off to sleep but I promise to address this further with you. I am very interested in dialoguing with you further on this matter and I will once I have so sleep.For now Pardon me and May God's Mercy and Peace fall upon you as rain. Amen.
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