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The law in North Carolina is clear. Public records belong to the public.
We oppose any attempts by any public body to impose fees that would discourage access to public documents.
We believe if the proposal before the Brunswick County Board of Education moves forward, that's exactly what will happen.
Last week, Brunswick County Schools' Policy Committee discussed adopting fees for "excessive public records requests." Board members will review this at their Dec. 1 meeting.
Brunswick County has a growing population of retired senior citizens.
Although they're not working anymore, you can be sure they have no plans to take it easy. From volunteering at schools and with church and civic organizations, to taking part in senior athletic leagues and games, Brunswick's senior population is active and making important, positive impacts on this community.
Being a parent is a tough job, and it's one that doesn't come with an instruction manual. Parents learn by doing and drawing on their own experiences and from those around them. Many look for positive role models to help them along the way.
That's why programs like the Communities in Schools Parenting Education Program are so important.
For 12 weeks, any parent in Brunswick County can be a part of the program that uses trained facilitators to work with parents and children. They focus on parenting, life and family skills.
In this difficult economy, when many Brunswick Countians are unemployed or facing reduced work hours and pay cuts, it can be difficult to find affordable medical care.
That's why free clinics, like New Hope and Brunswick Adult Medical Clinic, are so important.
Last week, volunteers and officials with New Hope Clinic broke ground on a new, much-needed, larger facility. It's a move required after the clinic has experienced an increase in the number of people who need its services.
When Brunswick County Schools Superintendent Katie McGee first met Bob Grimes, he left a lasting impression, she recalled.
Since then, Grimes appears to be leaving an impression on just about everyone he meets, including his peers in the school district.
Friday, Grimes, the North Brunswick High School principal, was named Brunswick County's Principal of the Year.
Grimes was bestowed the honor for a number of achievements, including leading NBHS from being a school in turnaround status to one that had the largest increase in proficiencies for 2008-2009.
Those who knew Carl Bazemore say he was a quiet man who got along well with others. He is noted for his public service, particularly to Sunset Beach where he served for 12 years on Sunset Beach Town Council.
In addition to maintaining a council seat for three terms, Bazemore also served on the Brunswick Beaches Consortium and was a chair of the South Brunswick Water and Sewer Authority's stormwater management program.
It's been a difficult year for some Brunswick County residents. As the economy has suffered, many people have found themselves with reduced hours or out of work altogether.
In Brunswick County, the unemployment rate was at 10.5 percent in September, relatively unchanged from August's rate of 10.6 percent.
Funding for a state program, however, is helping to breathe new life into job searches and skill creation.
There is a battle ongoing this election season in Carolina Shores.
Problem is, one of the contenders being pulled into the ring isn't even up for re-election.
In recent months, Carolina Shores commissioner Gere Dale has made it clear he has a real problem with the way mayor Stephen Selby does town business.
All politics are local. It's an old saying, but very true. Next Tuesday, residents of the 19 Brunswick County municipalities will have their opportunity to cast their votes for who will lead their communities.
The people throwing their hats in the ring do so for various reasons. Hopefully by now, you have had a chance to meet candidates in your community and find out their thoughts on issues important to you. If not, you still have a little time remaining.
Brunswick County Schools Superintendent Katie McGee's tenure has been a mix of accomplishments and contention.
Under McGee's leadership, dropout rates have been reduced, test scores have gone up and facilities have been constructed and improved.
But unfortunately, many of the district's accomplishments have been overshadowed by controversy.
Many residents have been wondering what will happen to the current Brunswick Community Hospital site once it relocates to its new facility next year.
Brunswick County Commissioners have an idea—they'd like to see the site used as a Veterans Affairs facility. Recently commissioners committed to working with state and federal agencies to see if this concept can become a reality.
When we heard last week a Brunswick County Detention Center officer had released the wrong inmate from jail, we wanted to know how that could happen.
Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram had an answer. It was "careless," he said, not an "accident."
Detention officer Jamie Lynn Jenrette released Rosher Rodriquez-Aguilar, 27, without properly checking his photo and identifying armband, Ingram said. The mistake ultimately cost Jenrette her job, indicating what appears to be a zero-tolerance policy for such behavior by the sheriff's office.
We've said it before, and we'll continue to say it until elected and government officials in Brunswick County clearly get the message—doing public business out of the public eye is wrong and violates the spirit of open meetings and public records laws.
Last week, we took Carolina Shores commissioners to task about seeking a consensus on a public matter through e-mail, only to turn around and find out Brunswick County Board of Education members have done the same.
Gere Dale, does the town of Carolina Shores have something to hide?
Why is it you're expending so much energy to keep public business behind closed, locked doors?
On multiple occasions, when approached by a Beacon reporter about issues we believe are of public record, you have spent more time questioning the reporter's sources than answering questions.
Charles Warren is right, sometimes you have to take drastic actions, but his proposal to freeze school board funding is just plain wrong.
Last week at the Brunswick County Commissioners meeting, Warren proposed county commissioners freeze school funding until the Brunswick County Board of Education "gets their act together."
In a country founded on principles of freedom—including the freedom to choose—it makes sense that Brunswick County Schools administration has offered parents a choice regarding student viewing of the president's recent educational message.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama delivered a message to the nation. The message was directed toward school children and many schools across the country allowed students to view it as it aired lived.
If even some of the claims made by Brunswick County Schools former central office employee Sherry Dove are true, Brunswick Board of Education members should be concerned.
Among the many assertions made in the lawsuit against the district, including claims that Superintendent Katie McGee may have treated an employee improperly, is the claim the board gave Dove only one hour of a nine-hour closed session grievance hearing to present her side of the case.
On Tuesday, children of all ages headed back to school in Brunswick County. It was a time of tears for some parents who sent their little ones off to classes for the first time, while others celebrated the end of summer and the return to the classroom.
Throughout the community, Brunswick County educators and their support staff have a lot of hard work to do. State and national test scores keep them busy, but they must also focus their attention on molding and mentoring each and every child they encounter.
Friday night will be a big night for Brunswick County, most specifically Brunswick Community College.
Beginning at 6 p.m., activities will kick off to celebrate the second annual "Dancing with the Brunswick County Stars."
The event raises money for scholarships for Brunswick Community College students and will feature dancers from the community along with their talented, professional dance partners. Many have been preparing for this event for months.
Brunswick County government made a good step toward operating as an open and transparent government when it decided to install a computer terminal at the county complex where government e-mails can be accessed by the public.
The public e-mail computer terminal is in the lobby of Building I at the county government complex in Bolivia. Business hours are 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
By using the computer, citizens can have access to correspondence that takes place within the county's e-mail system.
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We are a startup in the online insurance comparison field of The Netherlands.
On our portal, users will be able to find information regarding insurances, compare insurances or discuss them.
For each of the 23 insurance types, we would like to have an unique illustration which describes/'illustrates' this insurance.
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• You have an insurance for the moments that it "goes wrong" - the fact that you are prepared for these moments improves your current feeling of happiness (=the result of having a good insurance). Please try to express this "result" in the images.
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Za Trip 2011 | Wednesday Worlds in Mol and a visit to Ridley
Ah, the vacation spot on the 'Silver Lake' (Zilvermeer). An in-land oasis where 1000's of Belgians enjoy themselves lying lazily on the white beach sand every summer, basking in the sun. But come January, Mol-Zilvermeer becomes a place of intolerable suffering…where Champions are made and where the best of the 'old' classes can have a shot to don the illustrious dark blue World Champion's jersey for their efforts competing in the Cyclocross Master's World Championships. Mol is epic. Mol is beautiful. Mol is a phenomenal place to have a 'cross. It will be missed, but the excitement for Master's Worlds in Louisville, KY USA is reaching a fever pitch.
Pete and Za Boys packed up their rental Sprinter van and headed to Mol Wednesday for a 'Wednesday Worlds" of their own. They pre-rode this Saturday's World Championship course, and Pete checks in. You'll also see that they had a field trip to see our very good friends and BoulderCX sponsor Ridley Bikes. See those photos below from Michael Robson's professional lens.
And now, "Turbo Pete" Webber!…
Hey Cyclocross Fans!
Yesterday, Wednesday, our crew travelled to Mol to pre-ride the track for Worlds.
The course is pretty awesome. It is mostly flat, with a good mixture of high speed and slower sections. There are a zillion turns, mostly fast and with a good groove. There are a few tight 180s with a deep rut defining the best line. You've got to be balanced on the bike and hit the rut while leaning and turning. The main challenge is sand. There are two major sand pits, one is a long beach section, the other is in the forest. Both are ride-able if you hit the ruts right, but if you screw up you can loose significant time. They are pretty fast when you have a clean line, but traffic will up the difficulty. The beach section is directly following the start/finish, and it will be chaos on the first lap. Since call ups are in a random order, luck will play a big role. It will be essential to get thru the beach clean on the first lap.
Most of the course is under a canopy of pine trees, and the pine needles are combined with a dark, sandy loamy soil. In some places it is hard-pack, in other places it is loose and rutted. Water drains quickly, so mud will not be an issue. There is one set of 6 log stairs, and one set of double planks. No running otherwise. Overall, the technical challenge is moderate. The physical challenge is definitely high. The soft ground requires power, the many turns require sprinting, and the sand pits keep your heart rate pinned. The rider with good legs, high-end speed, solid technical skills, and no mistakes will win.
Thanks for the update Pete!
It also must be remembered that this crew of guys are amazing bike nerds. I mean, Michael Robson in himself is at galactic levels of bike geek-dom. I am often in awe…and in shock…at the time he spends tweaking and experimenting with bikes. So, he and Ward put together some "Cross Tips" for us. Check 'em out…
Here are a collection of photos from the course. Note the mixture of sand and loamy soil. I remember those roots REALLY vividly!
Finally, as mentioned, the squad donned their 'day clothes' and visited our amazing friends and BoulderCX Sponsor, Ridley Bikes. I've written enough about their amazing products having been on X-Night's and X-Fires the last 2 years. Game changing. Michael Robson, pro photographer, Aussie (Oi! Oi! Oi!), mad crosser and friend snapped a beautiful essay below. The Ridley operation is surgically clean. Amazing…


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Training Program in Cell and Molecular Biology of Reproduction
This training program, which is located primarily at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in Worcester with additional mentors at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (UMass Amherst), provides postdoctoral training in a broad range of subjects central to modern reproductive biology, including regulation of human embryonic stem cells; germ cell determination, differentiation, and aging; male and female gamete biology; fertilization; early development; and paternal epigenetic inheritance. The program is interdisciplinary and draws upon faculty from the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Radiology (Division of Cell Biology and Imaging), Molecular Medicine, Pediatrics, Neurology and Physiology at UMMS and the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at UMass Amherst. The 18 training faculty members are all outstanding scientists who are bringing cutting-edge molecular and cell biological techniques to bear on important problems in reproductive biology. The Program is designed to provide an in-depth experience that will prepare trainees to take positions as independent investigators in academia or industry.
Postdoctoral trainees are supported by a National Institutes of Health-funded Institutional National Research Service Award as well as by individual research grants. Potential applicants to the program are requested to contact specific faculty members of interest by e-mail, or write to the Program Director:
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Monday, August 19: Watch J.C. Penney, J.P. Morgan
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25 November 2012
Upgraded to APEX 4.2 and....Goodbye Website!
It is, when you think about, a lot like playing god. You get to create your own world and invite people to inhabit it.
But creating (and maintaining) worlds can be really difficult.
For example, this weekend we upgraded to APEX version 4.2.
And after we were done with the upgrade, which occurred without any complications and resulted in successful upgrades for many of the applications running in this APEX instance, we found that the PL/SQL Challenge webpages had become, how shall I put this, blank.
Nothing visible on the page. No HTML to be rendered.
And, strange to say, at this point (22:00 UTC on the 25th of November) we do not yet know what is wrong or how to fix it.
I guess I don't have to tell you troubling it is for me to write the above sentence, but I must.
So as I board a plane to return home from a weekend in New York with my family, I hope that something happens in the next two hours and the website comes to life.
If not, we will just have to do without the PL/SQL Challenge for a little bit. My apologies to all of our devoted players.....
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Looks like we will not have the site back up for the 26 November quiz. Our apologies. I do expect that it will be available for Tuesday, 27 November.ReplyDelete
13:20 UTC, 26 Nov: I woke up to find the site back - sort of. You can now see pages, but when you try to take a quiz, APEX reports a session state protection error. So now we are looking into that.ReplyDelete
Taking site down to apply a patch that hopefully addresses SSP errors.ReplyDelete
The patch seems to have done the job. You can now take quizzes. We will continue to test the site, and see if there are any other issues.ReplyDelete
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I like the comparison with "a god" :) :)
All I can say at this moment is that this one (aka the PL/SQL Challenge team) was much more successful than the other one ...
I will try to play later today and hope for the best.
Hope it did not "succeed" to spoil your weekend :):)
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Mon., April 20, 2009
IBIUNA, Brazil – The Tampa Bay Rays are hoping a few Brazilians can handle a bat better than they kick a soccer ball.
Convinced that this nation of 190 million people is loaded with untapped baseball talent, the Rays are looking to break into the land of soccer by becoming the first Major League Baseball team to sponsor an academy in Brazil.
The Rays will invest $6.5 million in the next five years in the academy, which will train future players and promote the game locally. Up to 4,000 young people will have a chance to learn the sport at a free after-school program.
"Brazil has been good at producing athletes," said Andres Reiner, special director of development for the Rays. "Brazil has a lot of people, millions of young people and not everyone can play soccer. If they aren't good soccer players they can be good baseball players."
Reiner said that in the long term, when the Rays' Brazilian academy proves to be successful, other teams will start scouting in Brazil and even set up their own academies. The Rays already have two academies in Latin America, in Venezuela and in the Dominican Republic.
Adriano de Souza, a Brazilian who played professionally for various major league teams and is the coordinator of the academy, said he wants to change the way the sport is viewed in Brazil.
"We not only want to give the opportunity for people to learn baseball, but we want to make baseball more popular among the public," Souza said.
The academy will be constructed with Brazilian federal funding in Marilia, a city in the interior of Sao Paulo state. The mayor of Marilia, Mario Bulgareli, said the city will provide transportation to and from schools and the Rays will provide the equipment and administration.
The facility is expected to be built in July and could open later this year.
"The academy will give an opportunity to low-income children to play a sport that they might not have had access to before," Bulgareli said.
Jorge Otsuka, president of the Brazilian Baseball and Softball Confederation, said the main reason that baseball hasn't grown in Brazil is because of the cost of equipment, which has to be imported. He also said that baseball needs more funding, both from the private and public sector, noting that the confederation has been receiving less money since baseball was dropped from the Olympics.
Otsuka said the Rays' academy may help generate a little interest here.
Although baseball was first introduced by Americans who came to work in Brazil in the 19th century, the sport is mainly played today by the country's large Japanese community. Many of current Brazilian players learned the game after being invited to try it by a Japanese-Brazilian friend or hearing about it through relatives.
According to MLB, there are 11 Brazilians under contract with major league organizations. And the Brazilian Baseball and Softball Confederation said there are another 11 Brazilians playing professionally and semiprofessionally in Japan.
The Brazilian baseball confederation already administers a baseball training center, built by a Japanese company in 2000, in the small town of Ibiuna, an hour outside Sao Paulo. It houses 45 Brazilian teenagers who train to be on the Brazilian national team.
Rafael Villaman, a Dominican coach working for MLB's International Envoy Program, is in Brazil for four months helping players at the training center and trying to get more Brazilians involved.
"I have seen a lot of players here with talent," Villaman said.
Souza thinks the most important thing to get Brazilians playing baseball is to develop Brazilian coaches who can create a style for teaching the sport. Souza hopes that the academy will help do that, noting that it will also help train coaches and physical education professors.
"Baseball in Brazil doesn't have an identity," Souza said. "We need to create that identity, a style, a way we play so that we can have a solid way of understanding the sport."
Nineteen-year-old Leonardo Reginatto, who became the first Brazilian signed by the Rays on Feb. 2, is training at their academy in Venezuela. The shortstop said he is convinced that if the sport is to spread in his country there needs to be Brazilian baseball star on a major league team.
Reginatto says he "hopes to be that Brazilian."
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Brussels, 25 June 2012
Fiscal Union
We are in a defining moment for European integration and for the European Union as a whole. The lessons of the past have taught us that further integration within the Euro area is indispensable to complete the economic and monetary union. A fiscal union is one of the main building blocks required to ensure smooth functioning of our common currency. This new architecture would provide a clear vision of the future of the EU's Economic and Monetary Union and guide the reforms and decisions necessary for the euro area and its Member States to tackle current challenges.
Since the beginning, the Commission has been committed to deepening monetary and economic integration of the European Union. In May 2008, the European Commission issued a communication marking 10 years of Economic and Monetary Union (see IP/08/716). It set out the need to improve the euro area's governance and coordination of economic policies. It recognised that this will involve both deepening and broadening economic surveillance arrangements to guide fiscal policy over the cycle and in the long term and, at the same time, address divergences in growth, inflation and competitiveness.
Considerable progress on strengthening EU economic governance has been made since then:
1. What have we achieved?
1.1 European Semester
The economic crisis revealed a clear need for stronger economic governance and coordination at EU level. This is why, in May (see IP/10/561) and June 2010 (see IP/10/859), the European Commission proposed to create a European Semester to introduce effective ex-ante coordination of fiscal and economic policy plans at European level, before decisions are taken on budgets at national level – in line with both the Stability and Growth Pact and the Europe 2020 Strategy.
This new governance architecture was approved by EU Member States on 7 September 2010. Before then, discussions between the EU and Member States on economic priorities and structural reforms took place through different processes. Reports were issued separately and decisions spread across the year with no clear synergies or linkages.
The European Semester begins with the presentation of the Annual Growth Survey (most recently in November 2011). This is where the Commission sets out the priority actions for the EU in terms of public finances, structural reforms and other growth-enhancing measures. The Annual Growth Survey forms the basis for discussions among Heads of State or Government at the Spring European Council, which sets the economic policy framework for the EU for the coming year. Subsequently the Member States submit their national reform programmes (on economic and employment policies) and stability or convergence programmes (on budgetary strategies) to the Commission for assessment. The results of that assessment, against the priority areas defined in the Annual Growth Survey, are the country-specific recommendations that are endorsed by the European Council in June.
1.2 "Six pack" laws
The "six-pack" set of EU legislation resulted in a strengthened Stability and Growth Pact. It was proposed by the Commission on 29 September 2010 (see IP/10/1199), approved by Council and EP on 28 September 2011 (see MEMO/11/647) and has entered into force on 12 December 2011 (MEMO/11/898). Comprising five Regulations and one Directive, the six-pack covers fiscal but also macroeconomic surveillance, and provides for sanctions on those euro area Member States that deviate from the rules. It has already proven to work.
It marks a major milestone in Europe's economic governance and crisis response as it represents a decisive step towards a functional framework to complement monetary union with a real economic union.
2. What is in the pipeline?
2.1 "2-pack" laws
These two draft regulations build on the "six-pack" rules by further strengthening the coordination of budgetary policy in the euro area. They were tabled by the Commission on 23 November 2011(MEMO/11/822).
The first draft regulation aims to further improve fiscal surveillance by establishing a common timeline and common rules to allow for more active prior on ex ante monitoring and assessment of the budgets of euro area Member States. Essentially, Euro area Member States would be required to submit their draft budgetary plans for the following year to the European Commission and the Eurogroup (made up of Economic and Finance Ministers of the 17 euro area Member States) in October, along with the independent macro-economic forecasts on which they are based. This will allow the Commission to issue an opinion on such draft budgetary plans which will feed into the national budgetary debate, notably concerning the appropriate implementation of EU policy guidance. In case a plan seriously breaches the EU fiscal rules, the Commission will ask the Member State in question to present a revised draft budgetary plan. This builds on the Stability and Growth Pact, under which Member States present the main characteristics of their medium-term public finance plans to the Commission and the Council in spring.
The second draft regulation aims to improve surveillance of the most financially vulnerable euro area Member States.
The "2-pack" is currently being scrutinised by both the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. The Commission is working towards a fast approval of an ambitious version of its draft laws.
2.2 Fiscal Treaty
The Fiscal Treaty (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance) is an intergovernmental treaty that was signed by 25 EU Member States on 2 March 2012. It demonstrates the willingness of the Member States to enshrine the very culture of financial stability in their legislation, mirroring the EU fiscal rules at national level. This had been a missing link in the EU budgetary surveillance framework. If a country does not properly implement the new budget rules in national law and fails to comply with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that requires it to do so, the ECJ can impose financial sanctions.
The Treaty is currently in the process of ratification by Member States.
2.3 Stability Bonds
In November 2011, the Commission presented, together with the two-pack, a Green Paper on "the feasibility of introducing Stability Bonds" (MEMO/11/820) to structure the political debate in the EU on the rationale, pre-conditions and possible options of financing public debt through European Stability Bonds.
Such common issuance of bonds by the euro-area Member States would imply a significant deepening of Economic and Monetary Union. It would create new means through which governments finance their debt, by offering safe and liquid investment opportunities for savers and financial institutions and by setting up a euro-area wide integrated bond market that matches its US Dollar counterpart in terms of size and liquidity. The fiscal framework underlying EMU would similarly undergo a substantial change, as Stability Bonds would need to be accompanied by closer and stricter fiscal surveillance to ensure budgetary discipline.
The Green Paper on Stability Bonds needs to be followed up with a roadmap that outlines the necessary deeper fiscal and economic integration in order to minimise moral hazard and ensure fiscal sustainability, in other words, the features of an economic - and political - union required to make mutualisation of debt rational.
3. The way forward
Recent years have seen an unprecedented strengthening of coordination of economic and fiscal policies at EU level. This has been accompanied by an expression of solidarity to support financially vulnerable euro area countries through the building-up of the euro area's firepower in the form of the EFSF, and the ESM (which should be effective in July). The renewed intensification of the sovereign debt crisis demonstrates the need to build further on these achievements, and map out the main steps towards full economic union, to complement and strengthen the existing economic and monetary union, as the European Commission has advocated and implemented in the past years. A fully-fledged economic union would require more decisions taken at European level when it comes to public expenditure, revenues and borrowing, and thereby a higher degree of political integration. This should obviously entail commensurate steps that ensure democratic legitimacy and accountability.
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Attic – huh? Now wait just one minute. You want me to go where?
I haven't been up to the attic since my divorce three years ago. Normally it's not an issue, I am perfectly happy to let boxes of lord-only-knows-what stay locked away up there. But the one thing I know that is being held hostage? Christmas decorations. Each year Christmas rolls around and each year I am armed with a litany of excuses for why we can't decorate a tree. Holiday travel…we'll do it when we get to your grandparents'…let's not confuse Santa. But this year Little Chick caught me off guard when she asked sweetly, "Mommy, this year can we please please please decorate a Christmas tree for our house?" So I knew what had to be done. I was headed to the attic.
Forget the nostalgia of seeing boxes from the house where we were first married, wedding albums, or Little Chick's baby crib, I was in true physical danger. I almost killed myself up there yesterday! There's no flooring, and no electricity so I was dangling on the foldable stairs trying to hoist heavy, poorly labeled boxes over the edge. I needed someone to catch them. I broke a few Spode mugs and some ornaments because I chucked boxes from the very top instead of negotiating them carefully down the stairs. No, it wasn't pretty, but in the end I prevailed. I kicked that attic's ass.
But conquering the attic was only part of the challenge. The truth is that sprucing up a spruce is desperately depressing when you're freshly divorced. I pictured my daughter and me hanging out alone, quietly stringing up lights. But this year Christmas finally feels light. I'm ready for some new traditions. For example, my ex would never agree to a white artificial tree. A little campy I know, but I think they're fun. Each year he had the same response: When Pigs Fly. So as a consequence of freedom, part of my amnesty package so to speak, I treated myself to a white Christmas tree. And it's dreamy.
We had a ball decking the hall. I rearranged the furniture to place the tree in a whole new spot, everything fresh. At first it looked a little lean since all our presents are all shipped to grandparents' house. So I gift-wrapped the empty ornament boxes and stuck them under the tree as props. (Lord knows I wasn't taking them back to the attic.) We celebrated with holiday cupcakes and hot chocolate and exchanged a few early treats. Confused by all the activity, our sweet dog Gus was stealing ornaments so we would chase him through the house. He barked wildly, holiday tunes blared, and Little Chick and I were rockin' around the Christmas tree. It was a laugh-riot.
So in the holiday spirit of sharing and caring, I'd like to share a little caring advice. If you have a friend who's freshly separated or divorced, be their holiday SWAT team. Show up with the wine and Christmas music. Haul boxes from the attic, unwind lights. Add some laughter and remind them that things do get better. The day will come when their freedom will be a blessing, not a death sentence. Christmas will once again feel magical. And pigs really can fly.
I know it's true because these little piggie angels are all over
my very first white tree.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Attica! Attica!
Attic – huh? Now wait just one minute. You want me to go where?
Posted by Chick at 5:23 PM
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What a great story! It's got to be an awesome feeling that you got to do it your way and you shared quality time with your daughter (and doggie). Everything is right with that picture. Wrapping the ornament boxes was an ingenious idea.
- December 3, 2007 at 7:05 PM
- someone taking up the space in the universe that is rightfully yours said...
Hey! Funny story...really great...I'm glad to have found your blog, and glad that you've found mine.
- December 3, 2007 at 8:41 PM
nice post and let's not let the divorce swat team be limited by wine...a little Jack Daniels works as well....:):):)..It's not the color of the tree but the spirit behind my old uncle Alf used to say...enjoy...:)
- December 3, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Dropping by to say hi. :-)
Like others, I like the way you write. :-) The tree looks good and I bet it'll be awesome with the lights on.
Send my love to Gus too! lol
- December 3, 2007 at 11:18 PM
I would say "all you have to do is ask" but truthfully I should have offered. Happy to help you put everything back up in the attic.
- December 4, 2007 at 7:20 AM
Yay for new beginnings.
And yay for you for being so brave in that attic.
- December 4, 2007 at 7:22 AM
- Christine said...
rick -- thx a million! and to tell you the truth I've already slated you to help me haul it back up
and thx to everyone who has offered to help. we're going to have to have a party after the holidays to get my boxes back up there!!
thx everyone for all the great comments/msgs
- December 4, 2007 at 7:30 AM
- Anthony said...
Your stories are great! As a young college guy, I can't exactly identify with where you're coming from, but that's makes your stories all the more interesting.
Your writing has a certain authenticity and distinctive style that's really refreshing. I think you'll go far with this thing. Good luck!
- December 4, 2007 at 9:40 AM
- Rachel said...
Congrats on your fabulous campy white tree! Love it.
You're taking a huge step in starting new traditions! It's great for you and huge for Little Chick!
Adore your page. Texas rocks. And love the piggy angels!
- December 4, 2007 at 10:41 AM
- H said...
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU! And, I love your white tree with pink flying pigs. Your story is invaluable to women who are divorced, separated or about to be divorced. Thank you for sharing it.
Re: the attic and all that old marriage related stuff...I have this image of your old life hanging over your head (literally). In the world of feng shui, it would be so liberating for you to get rid of that stuff or at least parse it down and only keep things you absolutely can't part with and store it somewhere other than over your heads - like, in a garage or yard shed!
Thanks again,
- December 4, 2007 at 12:56 PM
- Jodi said...
Found you through Plane Jane Mom.
Beautiful tree!
- December 4, 2007 at 3:07 PM
- Getty72 said...
Hiya :)
What a wonderful looking tree and those pigs look fantastic. I wish you a very very very Merry Christmas and I hope 2008 brings you much good fortune, lots of good health and bucket-loads of happiness. Take care ~ Graham :)
- December 4, 2007 at 4:50 PM
- Patricia said...
The tree is adorable!
- December 4, 2007 at 9:07 PM
- Tot's Mom said...
White tree looks good... it gives a magical and snowy feel to it somehow.
Glad to add you onto my blogroll. You write very well!
- December 4, 2007 at 11:32 PM
- Mississippi Songbird said...
Great story!
I enjoyed your blog. I'll be back again.. Happy Holidays!
- December 5, 2007 at 12:27 PM
Beautiful tree Cristine. That's a great tradition to start. Being once divorced this post sort of brought back a few "memories". I agree with the holiday SWAT team idea. That would have helped alot back then. Great site! I'll be back regularly. Keep the coffee hot!
- December 5, 2007 at 1:09 PM
- mikster said...
Good for you! I've been divorced for a number of years and if it weren't for my kids I'd probably not get into decorating myself. The girls are pretty insistent on this.
(And not everyone can claim conquering an attic either...lol)
- December 6, 2007 at 9:40 AM
- Olga, the Traveling Bra said...
My first time here - what a great blog! I adore your flying piggies too! Will be back for more!
- December 6, 2007 at 10:24 AM
- Honeybell said...
So happy to have found you! And I LUURRVE your white tree!
- December 6, 2007 at 10:37 AM
- RuffleButts said...
New beginnings are always good, especially when you are creating your own path! It's funny, after my parent's divorce when I was 4, my mom has never put up a Christmas tree. It never really bothered me because that became my norm. I count my blessings for my husband who forced me to put up a Christmas tree our first year together and now every year since. It really is a warm and exciting feeling to walk into a room with a beautifully decorated tree!
- December 6, 2007 at 11:56 AM


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I walked the grueling 200 yards through the parking lot to the street today, and flagged the bus down. It worked this time, but I got the second bus instead of the first. It landed me downtown after 7:00, but not by much.
*cough* SOME PEOPLE *cough* think my sleep schedule is a joke. Let me tell you about last night. I think I finally schlepped my haggard carcass to the coffin around 3:00AM. There was no way I was going to be eager and willing to skip my happy ass to the curb by 5:45. I needed at least 3 hours of sleep. At least we got our mattresses and box springs set up last night, so my slumber took place on a real bed instead of some queen size balloon.
I am capable of functioning on as few as two hours of sleep per day for a short period of time. Alternatively, I can go as many as two consecutive work days without sleep, provided I'm given the opportunity to get plenty of rest before and after such a sleep-deprivation marathon.
Some great things came from yesterday's festivities. For one, my Sun Ultra 5 is finally set back up. I packed it away several weeks ago, and have been missing it ever since. It's pictured abstractly above, in whole in this photo or you may want to read my review of it here if you like nerdy hardware talk. It's kind of slow, but it does exactly what I need a workstation to do, and does it well. Next, of course, is our big (for us) television. I don't like TV too much, but my wife and I do enjoy watching movies. The bed was a welcome addition to our apartment last night, and we finally got our fish tank and microwave moved over as well. Things are coming together quite nicely at the new pad. I hope to get my new Delta Vincent Bicycle Rack hung up tonight, although my Interior Designer suggests that it gets displayed inside the storage closet, so you won't be likely to see cool bikes hanging from a wall in my living room as shown on the product's website. Once my wife and I have everything in place, I'll snap some photos.
Finally, I have a question for my readers. I don't have the time to set up a formal poll. What should I do when accounting for walking? I have a spreadsheet where I count bike commute days and miles. Keep in mind, I already do a fair amount of walking around downtown. Do I:
A) Get some fresh batteries in my pedometer and track walking miles just like I count my bike miles?
B) Ignore walking entirely, not logging any car-free commute miles if I hoof it.
Or do you have a better suggestion? Let me know!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Hoofed it today
I walked the grueling 200 yards through the parking lot to the street today, and flagged the bus down. It worked this time, but I got the second bus instead of the first. It landed me downtown after 7:00, but not by much.
2 comments:
- Apertome said...
I would say dust off the pedometer, but then again, I'm a data junkie. I don't have a pedometer, but I don't do enough walking to warrant logging it.
- June 21, 2007 2:13 PM
- Frogman said...
That stack of Suns and the 1U looks so lonely. Maybe they'd like a nice rack to live in. :) Heck, mine got homes yesterday. I'll have to get something setup for my new rack cabinet in my basement of now, pure, evil, as it's painted black and red.
- June 21, 2007 6:25 PM
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Clyde M. Hallett, 79, of East Stroudsburg, died Friday morning, Jan. 25, 2013, at home while under hospice care. He was the husband of Ruthann (Bollinger) Pope Hallett, with whom he shared 12 years of marriage.
Born on April 27, 1933, in Poplar Bridge, East Stroudsburg, he was the son of the late Mahlon B. and Gene (Smith) Hallett and was a lifelong resident of Monroe County.
He was part-owner of Ray Hartmann & Son and later owned Buttermilk Falls Antiques in Minisink Hills.
Clyde was an avid fisherman and hunter, and one of his proudest moments was becoming a member of J&J Smart Charters of Alaska's Over 100-Pound Halibut Club.
He graduated from East Stroudsburg High School and was a veteran of the Korean Conflict, having served in the U.S. Army in Germany.
He attended the Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church, where he previously was a deacon and trustee and was part of the church since birth. Clyde also was a 50-year member of both Barger Lodge 325 Free and Accepted Masons, Stroudsburg, and the Marshalls Creek Volunteer Fire Company.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Saglinda M. Roberts of East Stroudsburg; two sons: David M. Hallet and his wife, Michelle, of Rexville, N.Y.; and Richard R. Hallet of East Stroudsburg; three stepsons: Brian Pope of Saylorsburg; Philip Pope of Stroudsburg, and Robert Pope of Siler City, N.C.; eight grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Nancy Hallett Treible and her husband, Russell, of East Stroudsburg; his mother-in-law, Bernadette Hartmann of Endicott, N.Y., who is 101; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Phillis M. (Hartmann) Hallett, with whom he shared 42 years of marriage at the time of her death in 1999.
There will be a viewing from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church, 5205 Milford Road, East Stroudsburg. The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. Friday at the church, with the Rev. Jeffrey Brower officiating. Burial will follow at Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial remembrances may be made to the Marshalls Creek Fire Company, P.O. Box 1, Marshalls Creek, PA 18335, or Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church, 5205 Milford Road, East Stroudsburg, PA 18302.
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Clyde M. Hallett, 79, of East Stroudsburg, died Friday morning, Jan. 25, 2013, at home while under hospice care. He was the husband of Ruthann (Bollinger) Pope Hallett, with whom he shared 12 years of marriage.


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Katherine Elizabeth 'Beth' Farnam
Katherine Elizabeth "Beth" Farnam, 40, of Benton, lost her battle with ovarian cancer on May 13. She passed away at her home surrounded by her family and friends.
Beth was born Nov. 20, 1971, in Little Rock to Michael and Marilyn Cruce Pollock. She graduated from J.A. Fair High School in 1990. Beth was employed as an administrative assistant for Dillards for the last 18 years. She enjoyed spending time outdoors, going to the lake, beach, traveling and spending time with family and friends. Beth was a strong and positive person who never complained about her condition. Her time here was a blessing to everyone that knew her.
She was preceded in death by her father, Michael Pollock.
She is survived by her husband, Jay Farnam; a daughter, Paige Farnam of Benton; her mother, Marilyn Nuckols and husband Virgil of Little Rock; a brother, Brett Pollock and wife Melissa of Benton; and her grandfather, C.B. Pollock.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at Ashby Funeral Home with the Rev. Scott Patton officiating.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 18, at her home, 3780 Steel Bridge Road.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or to Arkansas Hospice.
Online guest book: www.ashbyfuneralhome.com


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The OECD regularly publishes annual reports produced and submitted by OECD Member countries.
These annual reports are the only regularly published inventory of consumer policy measures in OECD Member countries. The submissions of Member countries are generally structured to review the following issues:
Institutional developments
Product safety
Protection of the economic interests of consumers
Consumer education and information
Complaints and redress handling
Consumer issues related to other policy areas.
The reports constitute a unique source of information for government, researchers, consumer advocates and members of the business community interested in following consumer policy developments in OECD Member countries.
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Ocean Acidification Impacts on Larval Shell Formation by Commercial Shellfish
Arctic Research Initiative/OCCI Funded Project: 2008
SummaryBivalved mollusks - including oysters, clams and scallops - represent some of the most economically valuable species in New England waters. These organisms build their protective shells from one of two forms of calcium carbonate (CaC03): calcite or aragonite, and some species use a combination of both forms. Today, the mid-latitude surface oceans are supersaturated with respect to both calcite and aragonite, and thus favorable for shell formation. However, the anthropogenic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, driven by fossil fuel combustion, is lowering the saturation state (Ω) of the surface oceans and recently-ventilated subsurface waters, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). This decrease in Ω is particularly strong at higher latitudes, due in large part to the strong temperature dependence of the solubility of carbon dioxide in seawater. Over the next 50-100 years, surface waters off the coast of New England will likely be under-saturated with respect to aragonite for several months of the year. This means that all shellfish, in protected or unprotected areas, will be exposed to corrosive seawater that will make shell formation more difficult and may even cause shells to dissolve. For this reason, there is growing concern over the potential for negative impacts of ocean acidification on recruitment and survival of commercially important shellfish species, should current trends in C02 emissions continue.
We propose a suite of experiments in our Marine Calcification Laboratory at WHO1 to assess the impact of elevated atmospheric pC02 on early shell formation by larvae of several commercially important New England shellfish species. The impact of OA on larval shell formation is little studied but of particular concern because rapid accretion of a normal "D-shell", usually within 24 hours following fertilization, is a prerequisite for the successful recruitment of spat. Larvae may be particularly vulnerable because the first shell or prodissoconch 1, of all New England shellfish species is built from aragonite, the more soluble form of CaC03, even in species with calcitic adult shells. Furthermore, there is some evidence that accretion of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), the most highly soluble phase of CaC03, precedes crystallization to aragonite within 24 hours of fertilization.
We will examine and quantify the impact of OA on development of the larval D-shell in several commercially important shellfish, including sea and bay scallops, oysters and quahogs. Fertilized eggs will be introduced to seawater treatments designed to mirror conditions expected for the New England region over the next century. Our laboratory contains a bank of 24 ten-gallon aquaria, the CaC03 saturation states of which are set and maintained by bubbling with air-C02 mixtures precisely controlled using mass flow controllers, and monitored by intercalibrated determinations of gas-phase pCO2 and seawater pH, alkalinity, and DIC. All of our experiments to date have been run at 25°C. In this study we will use chillers to enable us to carry out our experiments at lower temperatures, matching those experienced by larvae in their natural environment (for example, 14°C for the larval sea scallops). Fertilized eggs will be acquired from the Scientific Aquaculture Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory (http://www.mbl.edu/mrc/research/aquaculture.html) and the Aquaculture Resource Center in Dennis, Massachusetts. Larval culturing will be carried out in small (1L) plastic beakers fed from the main tanks. A dedicated set of mass flow controllers is needed to enable us to carry out these experiments while simultaneously carrying out our ongoing NSF-funded tropical coral experiments.
The larval shells are small (-50 μm across) so we use microscopy (polarizing and SEM) and imaging techniques to identify and quantify morphological pCO2 impacts on earliest calcification. We will also use Raman spectroscopy to characterize shell mineralogy (calcite, aragonite, ACC) of harvested specimens. Our expectation is that this initial survey will provide the basic data necessary with which to build a comprehensive research plan for a full, externally funded proposal.


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If beautiful people were the same thing as beautiful production values, I'd be tempted to call "Easy Virtue" a beautiful movie. Freely adapted from the 1924 Noel Coward play, it stars Jessica Biel, who plays Larita, an American divorcée and racing car champion who marries upper-crust Englishman John Whittaker, played by Ben Barnes, the titular character in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." John's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker, are played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. That's a lot of eye candy.
But candy isn't terribly nourishing in the long haul, and "Easy Virtue" has more on its addled mind than treats. Lurking beneath all the flounciness and fripperies is an attack on the British landed gentry. The chief battle of wills here is between Larita, who comes from humble Detroit stock, and Mrs. Whittaker, whose spine seems made not of steel but of plutonium. She's so formidable, and so disapproving of Larita as her new daughter-in-law, that the environs seem to ice up whenever she's around.
Most of those environs consist of the Whittakers' vast country estate, which also houses John's two simpering, resentful spinster sisters (Kimberley Nixon and Katherine Parkinson). Between the ogre-ish mother and sisters and that gloomily imposing estate, "Easy Virtue" has the trappings of a fairy tale, with Larita as a kind of flapper Red Riding Hood. But Mr. Whittaker is no big bad wolf. As Firth plays him, he's the only family member, and that includes John, who truly understands Larita. Still a bit shellshocked from his service in World War I, he carries a world weariness that is easily the most authentic emotion in a movie that otherwise overdoses on artificiality.
Biel, for example, is required to take her character through a full emotional arc from giddy to sorrowful, but she doesn't have the chops for it. Surprisingly, she's better at playing the serious stuff. It doesn't help that the director, Stephan Elliott, has saddled her with an unbecoming peroxide coif, though her outfits are museum quality.
Biel also can't quite manage the brittle witticisms she is often required to dispense (some of which aren't so witty anyway – Elliott and his co-screenwriter Sheridan Jobbins, often try, and fail, to out-Coward Noel Coward). This deficiency is particularly glaring in her matchups with Scott Thomas, who is a master of enunciated hauteur. It's interesting to compare her performance here with the one she gave last year as the ex-con in "I Loved You For So Long" – one is ice, the other was all banked fires.
The filmmakers work in contemporary songs redone in 1920s jazz renditions, but this ploy only serves to reinforce the film's faintly mildewed quality. Its high spirits are, for the most part, forced. One sequence in particular, about a squashed house pet, is dragged on for so long that the ASPCA should protest. (Don't worry, no real animals were harmed, though the actors don't get off scot-free.)
In this day and age, is it still possible – or even advisable – to make one of these upper-crust extravaganzas? The recent "Brideshead Revisited," with a towering performance by Emma Thompson, would seem to answer in the affirmative. Like that film, "Easy Virtue" has aspirations to be much more than a comedy. It wants to flay, if only with a penknife, the entire British class system. But in order to do that, you first need a credential in short supply here: a sense of class. Grade: C+ (Rated PG-13 for sexual content, brief partial nudity, and smoking throughout.)


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E. Ness spits A Freestyle Live On Stage & Goes In On Chopper City! "I Smell Pu55y. Is That You Chopper"
E. Ness with P Cutta. Hit around the 1:20 Mark where he spits about Chopper City
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