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There are two groups in the non-native English speaking student population: international visa students and immigrant students. There are great differences in terms of learning styles and educational backgrounds between international visa students and immigrant students. When it comes to the immigrant student group, we should recognize generation 1.5 students.
The term "1.5" refers to students who have characteristics that lie between first and second generation immigrants (Harklau, Losey, & Siegal, 1999). It is important to note that the term is a designator that points out the in-between identities of such students even if they are fourth or fifth generation in terms of the immigrant histories of their families. Generation 1.5 students can fall into a broad range: some were born abroad but immigrated to the US, and some were born in the US but grew up speaking their heritage language at home (Roberge, Siegal, & Harklau, 2009).
Their literacy practices are quite different from those of international visa students since they had part of their K-12 education in the US. Although it cannot be applied to all international and immigrant students, recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of each group can help faculty design and implement more effective class activities and assignments.
The majority of the non-native English speaking students on our campus are generation 1.5 students, especially Asian 1.5 generation students. We do not have the exact enrollment data for 1.5 generation students on our campus since there is no visa data to track. When they apply to UWB, some of them indicate English as their native language and some don't (depending on when they came to the US and how long they've stayed here). The latest enrollment data of international students on our campus can be found here.
Harklau, L., Losey, K., & Siegal, M. (1999). Generation 1.5 meet college composition: Issues in the teaching of writing to US-educated learners of ESL. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Roberge, M., Siegal, M., & Harklau, L. (2009). Generation 1.5 in college composition: Teaching academic writing to US-educated learners of ESL. New York, NY: Routledge.
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by Tena Starr
"It's kind of a nightmare."
That's how Brandon Tanner of Glover described this summer's weather and his own efforts to put in hay for his dairy cows.
"It's one of those things where you're forced this year to get what you can get when you can get it," Mr. Tanner said. "There's no planning, no helping other people. It's sort of you do yours when you can do it the best you can."
He said he managed to get his first cut, as usual, back in May.
"Soon as I got done haying we had a snowstorm," he said.
Mr. Tanner isn't alone in his frustration with this year's odd weather and, lately, relentless rain.
Farmers, strawberry growers, boaters, anyone who enjoys a day at the beach — they're all likely to say "Enough already."
Although Mother Nature isn't.
There's some hope that by the end of the week the stubborn weather pattern will break down, permitting a couple of consecutive rain-free days by the weekend, said meteorologist Lawrence Hayes at the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury.
The problem, he said, is that Vermont has been stuck in between two upper level features involving a serpentine jet stream that moves northward. The sources of its air is the Gulf of Mexico and the southeast coast, hence the subtropical air in Vermont.
Also, "the air has been so copiously humid (dew points around 70) that any shower that forms is risk of generating at least moderately heavy rain," Mr. Hayes said by e-mail.
The result of all this has been a lot more rain than usual, as well as more rainy days, in both May and June.
According to the Chronicle's weather records (which record weather in West Glover) precipitation in May was 7.88 inches — almost double the long-term average of 4.03 inches, and exceeded only in May of 2011. It also snowed in May. The Chronicle's weather records go back to 1987.
In June, there was some rain in West Glover on 21 out of 30 days. It added up to 6.23 inches, well above the long-term average for June of 4.14 inches.
In St. Johnsbury the 14-day stretch of measurable rainfall from June 23 to July 7 was the longest consecutive day stretch there during the warm weather season, meaning May through October, Mr. Hayes said.
For most, the soggy weather is simply an annoyance. But for some, it has economic consequences, as well.
Peak View Berry Farm in Orleans doesn't have any strawberries at all this year, although it's not due to the wet weather that's plagued so many strawberry growers in Vermont.
"We lost our strawberries in January when the thaw came and then it got so cold in February," said Michelle Bonin, who owns the farm with her husband, Marcel. "The thaw literally pushed all of our plants out of the ground. That was something we'd never seen."
The Bonins have since put in 13,000 new plants and are hoping to have a crop from the ever bearers in October. But even tending the new plants is tough with the wet weather.
"A few days ago I wanted to cultivate my strawberries and couldn't because of the mud," Marcel Bonin said. "The ground is saturated. I'd have a mess."
In Westfield, Gerard Croizet at Berry Creek Farm said he's lost 20 to 25 percent of his strawberries to the weather, mold in particular.
The berries are big, although softer than usual, and the yield has been good, he said.
It could be a lot worse, though, Mr. Croizet said. "I know some people lost most everything."
"I'm not depressed," he added.
Both the Croizets and the Bonins grow vegetables as well as berries, and say that weeding is a big problem with their fields so wet. And while some crops are doing well in the subtropical weather, others are struggling.
Mr. Croizet said he's worried about disease at this point, particularly late blight, which might make an early appearance due to the moisture.
"I don't remember nonstop rain like that," he said.
"I think it's extraordinary, I think it's quite dramatic for the whole area," Mr. Bonin said about the unusually long stretch of rainy days.
He said his Orleans farm stand is usually open by the last week in June. It's not this year. "I don't have anything to put in it," Mr. Bonin said.
For dairy farmers, the persistent rain not only makes it hard to make any hay, but also the quality suffers.
Most farmers make round bales these days — those plastic wrapped bales that resemble giant marshmallows. It takes a comparatively short stretch of dry weather to make a round bale as opposed to a square one, but this summer has daunted even those attempts.
It takes at least a couple of days to "put up something that's not going to be an ice cube," Mr. Tanner said.
If the hay is too wet, it will be frozen solid come winter when the farmer wants to feed it to his animals, he said.
That's one problem. Another is that some fields are so wet farmers can't even get on them to hay.
And yet another is that grass, especially orchard grass, declines in quality — meaning it loses protein — once it begins to head out.
"You can always supplement grains in order to make up what you lost on your grass, but especially the past three years, that's been sort of unaffordable," Mr. Tanner said.
He said that last year, a classic summer, he squeezed in five cuts of hay. "This year, so far, I've done one. I'll be lucky if I get three."
Evan Perron isn't overly worried about the weather, even though he's one of the few who still makes square bales.
"The hay I cut will be just fine, for horses, ponies, sheep, it will still be 10-12 percent…it's nothing you could turn into milk and survive," he said.
Mr. Perron said that when he was a kid it was common to wait until after July 4 to start haying. "There was a time we might not have thought much of it," he said about the long rainy stretch. "We'd just be a week late."
But now that people try to get 20 or 30 percent protein from their hay, "it's a pretty big deal," he said.
"I don't think I ever recall such a soggy streak as this one."
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Michael Johnson, Town of Lewiston finance director and long-time community leader, has announced his candidacy for the Town of Lewiston supervisor on the Democrat Party line. He is well regarded for his work with members of all political parties for the benefit of the Lewiston residents.
"I have worked closely with the supervisor and the board to manage the town's finances for the past four years," Johnson said. "During that time, I was able to lower the town's insurance costs and office supplies, as well as work diligently with the department heads to purchase items through competitive pricing and conservative procurement policies by reviewing the contracts and purchases. This was all accomplished while providing the same quality services the residents of Lewiston well deserve. I am choosing to run for supervisor because I have a sound understanding of the town's finances and the importance of fiscal responsibility. It is important to continue with the conservative policies that we have implemented."
Prior to becoming finance director, Johnson served as town councilman for 14 years, gaining valuable experience in the operation of town government. Over his terms, he has been a liaison to all departments and served as police commissioner in the later years. He has proven that he can work with local governments and the community, and he has a good relationship with state and federal representatives.
Johnson is also experienced in the private sector, where he has worked as a real estate broker for more than 37 years. He owns his own business, Johnson Appraisal Company, and he is an associate broker with Realty USA. His community involvement includes: financial secretary for the Knights of Columbus; member of the Loyal Order of the Moose; the 3F Club; and serving an usher at St. Peter's R.C. Church.
Johnson served this country in the U.S. Air Force with the 914th Air Wing at the Niagara Falls Air Base. He has two daughters and three grandchildren who live in Lewiston. He resides in the Village of Lewiston. He is the son of Donna Johnson, who is co-chair with Sue Ehmke for his campaign.


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"People skills" are important when you're out on a work dinner (or a date). The next day at the office, no one should mention your name in the same sentence as Animal House or Pretty Woman.
The Three Golden Rules
When you're out on a business dinner, follow the three golden rules.
1. You're not there to eat
A work dinner is a social occasion with an agenda. Eating might be your number one priority, but it's not the priority of your boss. This is not a pie-eating contest.
2. Follow your host
Do you remember the game "Simon Says?" Imagine Simon is your host (your boss or the person who sets up the meal). If Simon orders dessert, you can order dessert. If Simon wants to jump out of a plane, strap on your parachute. (If the waiter offers to take your order first, you can firmly but politely defer to your host.)
3. Be discreet
If you're not the host, you're invited to be part of the evening, not to be the star. Show that you're interested and informed, but don't try too hard to impress.
You may meet your Maitre D' when entering the restaurant. Ladies, the "D" may pull out your chair. Gentlemen, the "D" may put your napkin on your lap. He's not trying to be fresh. Just say thank you and move on.
If the "D" doesn't take care of your napkin, seize the moment and do so yourself. Your napkin should be on your lap at all times (or your chair if you have to excuse yourself from the table).
Once seated, do not pick up the menu right away. Talk to those around you. Create a comfortable atmosphere. You will be fed. (We promise.)
Since you may not know many of the people at your table, ask someone you do know for information about the others prior to the meal. Then you'll have some ammunition for small talk. But never go overboard. If you ask your client about her favorite movie, Bridget Jones's Diary, and her allergy to bee stings, that might be a little creepy.
The Handshake
On a business dinner, it's always nice to extend your hand when you first meet. (No fist bumps.) A proper handshake involves eye contact and a three-second, firm grip. That's it. Anything else could be considered hand jive. And don't count to three out loud.
Unfortunately, many people's handshakes can be classified into one of two categories:
The Fish:
A limp shake with no eye contact.
The Gorilla:
Not just a handshake, but a signal that says: "I can break you."
Try to find a happy medium -- say, a camel, or whatever.
Glasses and Bread Plates
You've taken your seat and are ready to claim your bread plate and water glass. Unfortunately, all of the place settings are so close to each other that you don't know what is yours.
Which glasses do you drink from? The ones on your right or left?
To avoid looking like a dinner rookie, remember this:
Glasses are on your right. Your bread plate is on your left. If anyone tries to use your glass or plate, tell him to back off.
Alternatively, place the blame on yourself and use the line, "I already used that glass to rinse my retainer."
Here's a memory device. Imagine these are your hands:
Hold your hands out in front of you and make "ok" signs. Use a little imagination, and you'll see a "b" for "bread" on your left and a "d" for "drink" on your right.
Ladies, monitor your lipstick when going out on a work dinner. If you're wearing too much lipstick, you'll get the "Lips on the Glass" look, which scares people. The same holds true for gentlemen.
Ordering Food
If you're on a business dinner, you're probably imagining a word next to all items on the menu: FREE.
Yes, most business dinners mean free food for you, but you still let Simon show you the way. If Simon orders an appetizer, you should order an appetizer or a salad. It's no fun to watch a table of people eat. But if Simon only gets an entree, you're probably out of luck ordering goose livers.
Once you've decided on your meal, remember to close your menu. It seems obvious, but if you leave it open the server won't come to your table for your order.
General Menu Lingo
Bouillabaisse (bool-yuh-beys):
fish soup (with vegetables)
Tartare (tahr-tahr):
raw meat or fish
Escargot (es-kar-goh):
cooked snails, usually served as an appetizer
Ceviche (suh-vee-chey):
raw fish
Gnocchi (nok-ee):
potato dumplings
Carpaccio (kahr-pah-chee-oh):
raw beef (appetizer)
Venison (ven-uh-zuhn):
deer meat (think Bambi)
Caviar (kav-ee-ahr):
fish eggs
Foie gras (fwah grah):
rich, buttery, and delicate ... goose liver
Red mullet (red muhl-it) :
fish, not a bad haircut
Sushi Lingo
Sushi (soo-shi):
raw fish or shellfish over rice
Maki (mah-kee):
rolls made of raw fish or some other item (like cucumber) wrapped in rice or seaweed
Sashimi (sa-shee-mee):
raw fish without the rice (you can remember this with "the fish shee-mees off the rice")
Wasabi (wa-sab-ee):
very spicy horseradish that looks like Play-Doh
Here's what you do. Add a little wasabi to the top of your food. Using chopsticks, dip your food in soy sauce and then your mouth. Chew, swallow, and smile. Then say, "This is pretty good sushi" (even if you've never had sushi before).
Steak Lingo
To look smart in a steakhouse, know that meat is muscle. People like unexercised, tender meat (like filet mignon). So if your significant other gives you hard time for looking "unexercised," tell him/her to treat you like a filet mignon.
T-bone and porterhouse:
Each is made up of two pieces of meat: a filet and a strip (one on each side of the bone). The porterhouse has a bigger filet than the T-bone.
Rib eye and prime rib:
These are the same cuts of meat, but each is cooked differently. The rib eye is grilled while the prime rib is slow roasted.
When your food arrives, you're going to look down at your place setting and see an ocean of silverware before you. Use the diagram above to help you navigate the high seas.
When figuring out what silverware to use, the rule of thumb is always to work from the outside in. The first courses will use the outer utensils.
Never allow used silverware to rest on the table. It should always be on your dish.
If you have two teaspoons, the outside spoon is reserved for throwing, not the inside spoon. If you throw the inside spoon, you'll look foolish. Actually, we can't find a good reason for a second spoon other than pretension.
You should always "butter your plate" first and use this butter for your bread. You want to avoid continually returning to the original butter. "Can you pass the butter ... again ... please?"
After Dinner
Once you've finally finished eating, put your silverware on your plate, fork tongs down, in roughly a 4 o'clock position. In nice restaurants, servers are actually trained to look for this position; when they see it, they know to take your food.
Generally speaking, you shouldn't ask for a doggie bag if you're out on a business dinner. Again, you don't want to call attention to yourself by saying, "Hi everybody. I'm poor. I get to eat this for lunch tomorrow." If you're puritanical about not wasting food, ask for a smaller portion when you order.
Business dinners are notorious for lasting a long time. Once the meal is over, get comfortable and take your cues from Simon.
Story Time
On Bert's first business dinner, he knew that one of the "Golden Rules" was to follow his boss's lead. When his boss ordered steak, Bert ordered steak. When his boss chatted about golf, Bert chimed in the best he could. ("You always use the big end of the stick to hit the ball.") Unfortunately, Bert got so caught up in this game that he followed his boss into the restroom without thinking twice.
This may have been okay, but the rule "Men Don't Go into Ladies' Restrooms" supersedes all three of the Golden Rules.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. – MirrorMirror, the award-winning temporary street tent designed by University at Buffalo architecture professors Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis, again has been recognized by the international design community.
The dazzling, mirrored festival tents recently were announced as the winner of two 2014 AZ Awards, earning both the "People's Choice Award" and an "Award of Merit" in the Temporary Architecture category. Sponsored by the design magazine Azure, the AZ Awards represent an international snapshot of top architecture and design.
This year's competition drew 652 entries from around the world. Both a Jury and People's Choice award were presented across 13 categories, from residential and landscape architecture to interior and furniture design to student projects. An Award of Merit was given to 36 projects.
MirrorMirror, including eight tent units, currently is on display through Aug. 15 at the Canalside cultural and entertainment district in downtown Buffalo.
MirrorMirror was developed by Davidson, clinical assistant professor of architecture, and Rafailidis, assistant professor of architecture, through their Buffalo-based practice, Davidson Rafailidis. It was the winning entry for the 2013 IDEAS CITY StreetFest Tenting Competition, which asked an international field of designers to reimagine temporary street tents as provocative spaces for the public to gather and interact. That competition was sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and New Museum in collaboration with Architizer.
MirrorMirror features a simple 45-degree-angled gabled roof made of mirrored panels and an aluminum frame. Multiples of its 12-foot by 16-foot base unit can be combined to create a barn-like structure for larger gatherings. The panels, which reflect public interactions below and the sky and surroundings above, are sheathed in Mylar mirror foil, a material often used as glassless mirrors in dance studios.
"The AZ award is especially exciting for us, as it attracts an incredible amount of international submissions every year," says Davidson, whose research and practice collaborations with Rafailidis explore heightened physical relationships between buildings and users.
Adds Rafailidis: "We are also excited to see the tents adopted into a wide range of different events and sites so naturally. This allows us to study the main concept, which is a structure that blends in all sorts of unknown future settings and a structure that relates to people independently from any specific use."
For the past year, the tents have been on display at the New Museum, a leading contemporary art museum in Manhattan. This summer, the New Museum has loaned them out for a series of festivals and events in Buffalo. In June, the tents were featured at a gala at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
MirrorMirror's current installation at Canalside is being offered in collaboration with the echo Art Fair, a juried fine art exposition that will take place at the Erie County Public Library Sept. 6-7.
The tents will return to the New Museum in the fall and will reappear on the streets of Manhattan for the 2015 IdeasCity festival.
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Candidate packages available Monday
Homeowners wishing to run this spring for a position on the board of directors or for neighborhood representative or alternate neighborhood representatives in their neighborhood can pick up respective information packets beginning Monday by seeing Miranda Graham in Palmetto Commons. An application must be submitted no later than Feb. 24 resident services in Palmetto Commons.
Sun City residents will vote for new community leaders in April; the final day to vote is May 1. Residents will elect one resident to the board of directors, and 20 neighborhoods will elect neighborhood representative and alternate neighborhood representatives. More information about the election and a timeline can be found on page 15 of the January Issue of SunSations. A letter outlining the election process was also delivered with the January SunSations.
Sign up for Valentine's Day Golf
Grab your sweetheart for a special Valentine's Day golf outing at Okatie Creek Golf Course on Feb. 14. Enjoy breakfast from 7-8:30 a.m. at the British Open Pub before a 9 a.m. shotgun start. This 18-hole event will be in a two-person shamble format. Both players tee off then switch drives on the second shot, and then play their own ball for the remainder of the hole.
Flights will be determined by combining the two partners' handicaps and dividing by two. Sign up in either golf shop or on the Internet as a couple. You can select another couple to play with at registration or be paired within your flight the day of the event. The $25 registration fee includes breakfast and prizes. The field is limited to 64 couples, so sign up today on the Golfnet tournament system (www.golfnet.com) or in the golf shop. Deadline for registration is at noon on Feb. 10.
Nominate a volunteer
The Leadership Development Committee's Awards subcommittee is accepting nominations for the 2011 Volunteer Awards and 2011 Board of Directors Awards. Nominate your friend or neighbor whose volunteer work makes a difference. The board of directors award is the most prestigious award given to Sun City residents. It recognizes those longtime volunteers whose service has had a measurable effect on the community. The annual Volunteer awards recognize residents who give their time and talent to make great impacts on the community. Guidelines and applications are available on pages 25 through 28 of your January Issue of SunSations. You can pick up nomination applications and a copy of the guidelines in Pinckney Hall, Palmetto Commons, Magnolia Hall ticket counter or at Hidden Cypress and Purrysburg Fitness Centers.
Applications for both awards will be accepted in Palmetto Commons through Feb. 15. The Awards Ceremony will be held on April 22 in Magnolia Hall. The ceremony is open to all Sun City residents.


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Lenovo sets sights on server, storage incumbents
If not IBM's System x and BladeCenter, then what?
Chinese PC maker and server and storage wannabe Lenovo Group has an appetite to buy itself some market share in the systems racket, say the company's top brass. In fact, it wants to double its market share in this space.
That seems like a less ambitious goal than acquiring IBM's System x and BladeCenter x86-based server business, as was rumored in mid-April. That acquisition seemed to be accelerating toward a done deal, but then fell apart at the end of April.
The stickler for the deal? IBM wants between $5bn and $6bn for that x86 server business.
Based on what everyone presumes are pretty low margins in that business, that would be a very high multiple for an acquisition, but based on the fact that buying System x and BladeCenter would vault Lenovo instantly into the number three position in the x86 server racket, behind HP and Dell, there is more value in that biz than just revenues and profits. IBM has a vast business partner channel that would also be transferred to Lenovo, instantly giving the Chinese company entrée into the largest customers in North America and Europe.
IBM has about a 25 per cent share of the server business, including System z mainframe, Power Systems, and x86 iron, and its x86 server business accounts for about 10 per cent of worldwide server revenues. Lenovo, by contrast, may be fast-growing, but it has only about 2.5 points of revenue market share. Buying IBM's x86 racket would quadruple its market share.
One might argue that Lenovo could digest IBM's x86 server business and turn it around successfully, much as the company has done with IBM's PC business, which it acquired for $1.25bn back at the end of 2004 and which has helped Lenovo to grow to be about a third of IBM's size.
One could argue that Lenovo knows more about how to run a profitable business than IBM, but that's not true. Lenovo raked in only $127m in net income on sales of $7.83bn in the latest quarter. What Lenovo has figured out how to do is make commodity hardware and not go broke. And if it wants to be a more profitable company, it is going to have to go upscale.
That means fat, juicy servers and even fatter and juicier storage arrays.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said that the company had aspired to double its revenue to maybe 5 per cent of the market, or even quadruple it to 10 per cent. "Today's market share is too small," Yang said, adding that a good acquisition "could speed up the process."
Yang was interviewed on Thursday at the Fortune Global Forum in Chengdu, China, and also spoke to the Wall Street Journal, saying that "servers and storage is the business we want to expand and develop."
Silicon Graphics, which makes shared-memory supercomputers, more traditional parallel clusters, and energy-efficient hyperscale servers, would be a much easier acquisition, with SGI having a market capitalization of $482m. SGI might be worth as much as $600m to $650m if someone wanted it badly enough.
But as a supplier of systems to US government agencies, being a Chinese vendor has national security implications.
Cray is another possible takeover target for Lenovo, but the same national security issues prevail. The smart thing might be for Lenovo to snap up Asian server makers Dawning and Inspur – probably not an attractive option for the Chinese central and regional governments, who no doubt want second and third sources on gear – and possibly buy Super Micro as well.
Super Micro has a market cap of $455m on Friday, and ships about 60,000 boxes a quarter plus a slew of motherboards and could make Lenovo the king of the whiteboxers. Super Micro knows how to make cheap machines, and SGI has its own NUMALink interconnect, and those are worth something.
Dell and HP are not going to get out of the x86 server business, so forget that. Oracle could probably be talked out of it if the price were right, and the server alliance between Big Larry and Dell announced this week is not a strong one. It is not like Oracle said it would OEM servers from Dell for its Exadata, Exalogic, and Exalytics "engineered systems", after all.
There just are not a lot of easy options to building market share for Lenovo, other than having the Chinese government lock out IBM, HP, Dell, and Fujitsu for the Middle Kingdom – a move that would certainly cause a big stink with the World Trade Organization and the server makers.
SGI and Super Micro, for maybe $1.3bn together, would be a good place to start, if it can be done politically. ®


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"My family's really about service work and giving back," she says. Ms. Costello herself began volunteering in elementary school, at a soup kitchen managed by her mother. "That's one of the things I liked about U of D," she says, using students' nickname for the University of Detroit. "They're clearly focused on the community they're in."


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There is one week left to submit nominations for Hoch Publishing Company's True Meaning of Christmas charity donation. Nominations slowed down this week, but several readers made donations directly to the pool of money that will be given out.
Phoebe Janzen of Florence nominated Big Brothers Big Sisters of Marion County. She praised the non-profit organization's work providing mentoring to local children.
Greenwood Stables and Equine Rescue received a third nomination, this time from Bryan Grosse of Marion. He wrote that the horse rescue has rehabilitated and found new homes for 25 horses in six months. He said the group could use money to file for status as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization to make it easier to help more horses.
Rene' Starkey of Florence nominated the Florence Public Library.
"I was so excited to learn about this charity event and could not wait to submit my cause," she wrote. "Our library recently lost two of its computers due to being outdated. They also are in need of building repairs and other supplies that exceed their existing budget. As a small town, we do not have a lot of activity places where children as well as adults can go. Our library is a vital source that would be sadly missed by all if lost."
Starkey is raising funds for the library at Auntie M's Diner where she works. But she said the money raised isn't nearly enough to meet the library's needs.
Starkey's nomination was selected in our random drawing Tuesday, so she can pick up a $25 gift certificate at the newspaper office. This certificate is good at businesses participating in our True Gifts promotion.
While the number of nominations declined this week, a couple more businesses have partnered with the newspaper to increase the amount to be given. Carlsons' Grocery and Marion Health Mart Pharmacy are accepting "Santa Bucks" found in this week's Marion County Record. For every Santa Buck spent with them, the donation pool will increase.


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Kevin Kouzmanoff doubled twice off Bronson Arroyo, who has received scouts' attention as Cincinnati fades from contention, and added a tiebreaking sacrifice fly tonight that gave the San Diego Padres a 3-2 victory over the Reds.
For only the fifth time in July, the San Diego Padres had something to celebrate.
Kevin Kouzmanoff doubled twice off Bronson Arroyo, who has received scouts' attention as Cincinnati fades from contention, and added a tiebreaking sacrifice fly tonight that gave the Padres a 3-2 victory over the Reds.
Adrian Gonzalez also homered for the Padres, who are 5-20 since July 1.
"Wow! It's been that long," closer Heath Bell said, reminded that he got his first save in 10 days. "It's definitely nice. We haven't won that many games."
Neither have the Reds. They've dropped 13 of 17, knocking them out of contention and drawing scouts to see who might be available for trade.
Five of them sat behind home plate and watched Arroyo (10-10) give up three runs in 6 1-3 innings. He allowed nine hits, seven of them for extra bases. Kouzmanoff put the Padres up 3-2 with a sacrifice fly in the seventh off Nick Masset.
Kevin Correia (7-8) bounced back from his worst start of the season by going six innings and allowing a pair of runs. Three Padres relievers took it from there, striking out seven of the nine batters they faced over the last three innings. Bell pitched the ninth for his 25th save in 26 chances.
"That was unbelievable," Correia said, referring to the bullpen's showing. "I don't think you could have a better three innings than they had. They didn't make a bad pitch for three innings. That's pretty impressive."
The Reds have to decide whether to deal in the next three days, before the non-waiver trading deadline.
"We've been inquiring, searching," manager Dusty Baker said. "Everyone wants our top, top guys."
Arroyo comes with a hefty contract that would be part of any discussion. He's making $9.5 million this year, and his deal jumps to $11 million next season, followed by an option year that can be bought out for another $2 million.
Arroyo is streaky - he got pounded in three straight starts, then went on a 16-inning scoreless streak over his next two. He was coming off a 6-2 loss to the Dodgers on Wednesday, when he lasted only 5 1-3 innings.
The Padres had a homer, a triple and five doubles off Arroyo, but couldn't get more than the three runs. Kouzmanoff doubled home a run in the first inning - he's 11 for 16 career off Arroyo - and Gonzalez hit a solo homer in the third.
"That was a good baseball game," Arroyo said. "I threw the ball pretty good. Kevin threw the ball pretty good. Both teams played well."
The Padres got two regulars back from the disabled list on Tuesday. Catcher Henry Blanco and second baseman David Eckstein had been sidelined since early July with strained hamstrings. Both started and went hitless.


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Pantry Progress, Phase 2, is done. I added these white bins from Walmart to house the canned goods, rice, peanut butter, granola bars, etc. It's working out great! See Phase 1 here.
Our blonde puppy, Rory, is a bit of a hoarder. She doesn't chew bones– she cherishes them. She doesn't shred stuffed animals– she carries them around and won't let them out of her sight. We often find her on her bed, surrounded by toys and bones and all of her other cherished possessions.
Her very favorite toy was Mr. Lion. (Scott named him that.) Rory carried Mr. Lion everywhere and had been known to sleep with him as her pillow. It was pretty adorable.
A few weeks my parents came to visit, and they brought their golden retriever puppy, Sassy. Sassy proceeded to shred Mr. Lion to pieces while Rory watched in horror. (We weren't home, so I'm imagining that's what happened.)
I felt so bad for Rory. Her precious toy was gone forever. At least, I thought he was. We thought we had thrown away all of the shredded pieces of the stuffed animal, but I guess we forgot one. Rory has been carrying this little stuffed leg everywhere she goes. She just can't give up on Mr. Lion just yet.
Is that not the most pitiful thing you've ever seen?! Breaks my heart!
Last weekend I went to Houston for a mini-reunion with some of my college volleyball teammates. I had forgotten what it was like to walk around with tall girls en masse– everyone stares! It's so funny. I guess it is unusual to see a bunch of 6 ft+ women walking around the mall. (I'm not 6 ft. tall normally, but I had heels on that day. I was bringing down our height average because I'm the shortest at 5'9.)
They also have an Etsy store where they sell jewelry and modern typography as cake toppers. Pretty awesome! It's my new everyday necklace, and I've gotten a lot of compliments. I first mentioned this necklace a couple of weeks ago, when I first fell in love with it.
• I want this pear tea towel. I love pears!
• I also want this polka dot notebook. It's right up my alley.
• Pottery Barn is having a clearance event right now, along with Pottery Barn Kids. Lots of cute stuff there!
Do you have fun plans this weekend? I'm going to visit the autumn display at the Dallas Arboretum– pumpkin madness! I can't wait. I'm throwing my best friend a dinner party for her birthday on Wednesday so I'll be running down the last minute touches for that. Should be fun!
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This collection of eight idyllic strands clearly shows why the Caribbean is the world's greatest beach destination. Many wonderful stretches of coast lie adjacent to the region's resorts, but the beaches featured here are stripped down to their essence: sand and sea, usually with a sprinkling of palms to complete the fantasy.
It's no coincidence that each is close to a coral reef — the main source of the dazzling white sand that sprinkles ashore as a sugar-soft treat for your toes. And the warm sea that bathes these shorelines is so clear that the blazing Caribbean sun hits the ocean floor nearly full strength, bouncing back to color the undersides of passing clouds with the same luminous turquoises, blues and greens that the water displays. You can't drive to any of these spots, and you often have them to yourself. Best of all, if you haven't seen them yet, there's still time: Nearly all are protected as national parks so they'll remain just as beautiful for generations to come.
Slideshow: Caribbean way of life Mopion, a dollop of sand surrounded by a transparent sea, is quite literally a poster child for the Caribbean. It has appeared on dozens of magazine covers — including this one. Photographers lucky enough to visit St. Vincent and the Grenadines for a shoot find their shutter fingers involuntarily shaking when they see this superlative sandbar that looks almost too perfect, as if it were created for a Corona commercial. Without even a single palm tree, the only speck of shade on Mopion is from a thatch umbrella. The nearby private-island resort Petit St. Vincent sets up fantasy beach picnics here for its guests, while yachties and those staying on Mayreau or Union Island use Mopion as a snorkeling and tanning excursion.
Where To Stay Nearby: The private-island Petit St. Vincent Resort (800-654-9326; www.psvresort.com) features 22 cottages.
The Saltwhistle Bay Club (784-458-8444; www.saltwhistlebay.com) on Mayreau offers 10 suites, a restaurant, a bar and a boutique.
In Pirates of the Caribbean, loopy but lovable Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) relates the horrors of being marooned on a tiny deserted island. Later, he's dumped on the same spot, this time with the luscious Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), who soon discovers that Sparrow's first visit involved nothing more horrible than sitting on a perfect beach and drinking rum — much like a modern Caribbean vacation. To film this scene, the director picked Petit Tabac, a slash of soft, deep sand crowned by a shock of green palms that is one of St. Vincent and the Grenadines' shining jewels within the Tobago Cays National Marine Park.
Where To Stay Nearby: The private-island Petit St. Vincent Resort (800-654-9326; www.psvresort.com) features 22 cottages.
The Saltwhistle Bay Club (784-458-8444; www.saltwhistlebay.com) on Mayreau offers 10 suites, a restaurant, a bar and a boutique.
Get out your crayons and draw the classic uninhabited island. Start with a patch of stubby sea grapes punctuated by palms of various heights. Completely surround the mottled green trees with a ring of sand; you're going to need a light touch to add just the slightest hint of pink. On the island's west side, gradually fade sky blue into cobalt to represent the gentle slope of the sea bottom as it falls into a deep channel. On the east, extend a broad turquoise lagoon out to a thick band of reef. If you're good at detail work, fill the lagoon with sea turtles and tropical fish. If you're not artistic at all, simply drop anchor in the BVI to see Sandy Spit in living color.
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Where To Stay Nearby:The Fort Burt Hotel (284-494 -2587) on Tortola has 19 rooms and suites, and ocean-view dining.
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The 154-unit Long Bay Beach Resort & Villas (800-943-4699; www.longbay.com) features two restaurants, three bars and two pools.
Tortola's Prospect Reef Resort (800-356-8937; www.prospectreef.com) is a 137-room property with two pools, three restaurants and a spa.
The Sandcastle (284-495-9888; www.sandcastle-bvi.com) on Jost Van Dyke has four beachside and two garden-view rooms.
Storms and currents constantly work on Sandy Island. One year the winds and waves will topple palms and scoop away sand; the next year — or even the next week — visitors will find a new stretch of beach, or that the lagoon has changed shape. What doesn't change is the basic combination of a long sweep of sand that embraces an excellent snorkeling reef. With the green hills of Carriacou just across the channel as a backdrop, day-trippers wade into the warm water and fin over fish-filled shallows. Off the far end of the beach, away from the cluster of trees where picnickers set up their blankets, a few kicks will carry snorkelers over a deep drop-off where they can watch for big rays and passing pelagic fish.
Where To Stay Nearby: The Caribbee Inn (473-443 7380; www.caribbeeinn.com) is a 10- room hotel with a French-Caribbean restaurant.
Aside from Gran Roque, which has some towering cliffs, the collection of islands 100 miles off the coast of Venezuela called Los Roques — The Rocks — is anything but rocky. The 40-some uninhabited cays are all either low-lying lengths of shimmering white sand protected by coral reefs or dense tangles of mangrove forest
bordering extensive bonefish flats. Gran Roque hosts the only permanent residents of the archipelago, which has been protected as a national park since 1972. The other islands, like Fransiqui, a five-minute boat ride from Gran Roque, are dream
destinations for day-tripping windsurfers, fly fishermen and beach aficionados.
Where To Stay Nearby: Macanao Lodge (011-58-212-979-2796; www.macanaolodge.com) is an all-inclusive eight-room hotel with a communal terrace and TV-viewing room.
Even though Tahiti Beach shares Elbow Cay with quaint and popular Hope Town, its secluded location at the southwestern tip of the island — and the fact that no road leads to the sand — ensures that it remains an uncrowded dream beach. Tahiti owes its South Seas moniker to the enchanted Bali Hai feel of otherworldly isolation, background of lush palms and view of Great Abaco. Visitors staying in Hope Town or who ferry over from the other Abacos hike or bike out to the beach, while those taking advantage of the island chain's ideal cruising grounds motor over in their dinghies. Bonefish feed in the shallows, which wrap around tide-rippled sandbars — ideal for strolling and sunning — that reach into the Sea of Abaco.
Where To Stay Nearby: The Abaco Beach Resort & Boat Harbour (800-468-4799; www.abacoresort.com) has 82 rooms, suites and villas with balconies or terraces, and an international-cuisine restaurant.
The Bahama Beach Club (800-563-0014; www.bahamabeachclub.com) features 19 fully equipped two- to four-bedroom condos and use of the Treasure Cay Hotel Resort's amenities.
The Banyan Beach Club (888-625-3060; www.banyanbeach.com) has one-, two- and three-bedroom condos with patios or balconies.
The Lofty Fig Villas (242-367-2681; www.go-abacos.com) offers six cottages with private porches.
The 1,500-acre Treasure Cay Hotel Resort & Marina (800-327-1584; www.treasurecay.com) offers 87 rooms and suites. Golf, tennis and fishing are available.
Where To Stay Nearby: The Canoa Coral by Hilton (800-774-1500; www.coralbyhilton.com) is an all-inclusive 532-room hotel with two spas and pools, a kids' pool and restaurants.
Located in La Romana, Casa de Campo (800-877-3643; www.casadcampo.com) has 293 rooms and suites with terraces. Rates are $183 to $312 in low season ($299 to $580 high).
Three pools, four restaurants and four bars are onsite at the all-inclusive 500-room Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach (800-898-9968; www.vivaresorts.com).
The Viva Wyndham Dominicus Palace (800-898-9968; www.vivaresorts.com) is an all-inclusive 330-room hotel with five restaurants, three bars and shared amenities with Dominicus Beach.
Only sailors and scuba divers who set out on either liveaboards or long-range day boats know of Conception Island, one of the Bahamas' far-out Out Islands dotting the eastern reaches of the archipelago. The sheer coral wall here is one of the most dramatic underwater sights in the world, and the two long pristine beaches not only serve as reward for those humans who make it here, but also as a prime nesting area for endangered sea turtles. The whole island, as well as neighboring Booby Cay, is protected as a national park, providing rookeries for sea birds and sanctuary for migrating species. The water surrounding Conception is about as clean and clear as it gets, and the snorkeling is superb.
Where To Stay Nearby: The Cape Santa Maria Beach Resort (800-663-7090; www.capesantamaria.com) has 20 villas on four miles of undeveloped beach.
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Courtesy of the Players Trust, the children will receive round-trip transportation to the game, meet the players, and receive free tickets, food, beverages and souvenirs.
This season, Buses for Baseball will provide transportation and personal greetings for more than 750 underprivileged children attending Major League Baseball games as invited guests of their big league heroes. Buses for Baseball will provide many of the children with their first chance to attend a Major League Baseball game.
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Fed Survey: A Third of Americans Say They're Worse Off Post-Recession
More American households say they are worse off rather than better five years after the recession, a new Federal Reserve survey found.
The report, released for the first time on Thursday, found 34% of households said they were "somewhat worse" or "much worse" financially in 2013 compared to 2008. Only 30% reported being better off to some degree.
Considering that respondents were asked to compare their incomes to 2008, during the depths of the recession, "the fact that over two-thirds of respondents reported being the same or worse off financially highlights the uneven nature of the recovery," the Fed report said.
That data comes from the Fed's Survey of Household Economics and Decision Making. The survey was conducted for the first time last year as part of the central bank's effort to monitor America's recovery from the recession and identify any risks to households' financial stability. The new report offers a view of how households assess their own situations that is not found in other U.S. data sources.
Despite relatively few Americans feeling their finances are improving, most appear to be faring relatively well. The survey found 23% reported "living comfortably" and 37% said they were "doing OK." Less than 40% said they were "just getting by" or otherwise struggling.
The survey also drilled down into several specific topics:
The financial crisis rattled the housing market, but Americans now feel pretty confident about their real estate. The survey found 40% of homeowners expect the value of their property to increase in the next year, while less than 10% anticipate values to decline in the coming 12 months.
A majority of renters, meanwhile, say they'd like to buy a home but are financially blocked from doing so. In the survey, 45% said they rent because they can't afford a home and 29% said they do so because they can't qualify for a mortgage.
Almost half of Americans have largely failed to plan for retirement, with 24% saying they've given "a little thought" to the subject and 25% saying they've done no planning at all.
Of those surveyed, 31% said they have no retirement savings or pension—including 19% of those ages 55 to 64.
The long-term shift from defined-benefit plans, such as pensions, to defined-contribution plans, such as 401(k) accounts, "places significant responsibilities on individuals to plan for their own retirement, (but) only about one-fourth appear to be actively doing so," the Fed report said.
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A vast majority of Americans had some form of health insurance last year—before plans offered under the Affordable Care Act took effect—but many still struggled with the high cost of medical care.
Despite 84% of Americans having coverage, only 21% of those surveyed said it was likely that they could afford to cover a major out-of-pocket expense. As a consequence of that inability to pay, a quarter of respondents said they had avoided seeking medical treatment in the past year.
Five years after the start of the recession, "a small, but significant, core of respondents continues to experience economic hardship on multiple dimensions," the Fed report said. "A sizable fraction of respondents appear to be financially vulnerable to unexpected events such as a serious illness, unexpected expense or job loss."


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The NH Buenos Aires Latino hotel is conveniently located in the vibrant San Nicolas neighborhood. The Obelisco and the Avenida Corrientes, where guests will find lively restaurants and theatres, are only steps away. Also within walking distance are the Colón Opera House, Casa Rosada, and Plaza de Mayo. The subway stop is 50 meters from the hotel and provides great connections to the rest of the city, plus the Sheraton Convention Center is 20 minutes away on foot.
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LIVINGSTON, Texas - Black Friday turned violent in Livingston.
Alicia Spore said she got into a bare-knuckle fight with another shopper at a Walmart late Thursday.
"When she swung at me and I leaned back, she hit my baby in the face," Spore said.
Spore said her two-year-old daughter, Isabella, was sitting in a shopping cart. Spore said that other shopper, Rhonda Bland, 42, appeared to be drunk.
"This lady had come out and cut me off and hit me with her buggy," Spore said. "I've got my two-year-old in the buggy and [Bland] started hollering and cussing."
Spore said the fight quickly escalated after Isabella was hit.
"I grabbed her and just started beating her until she hit the floor," Spore said. "She fell into a glass display behind her that had computer on sale. She fell into that and came at me again, so I grabbed her and just started beating her again."
Spore said she knocked Bland down three times before several other shoppers intervened.
Bland was arrested and the fight created buzz in the small town.
"It's uncalled for," one resident said.
Spore and her daughter went to a local hospital to be checked out. They were not seriously hurt.
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our miraculous daughter
When I found myself pregnant at the age of 19 in an era when pregnancy without a partner was not acceptable and one was generally looked down upon for their wayward ways, and when abortion was not legal or a viable option, I decided that I would put the baby up for adoption. When my daughter was born at the old Letterman Hospital with Dr. Harry Beaver performing the delivery, I took one look at her and knew she was mine for the long haul. It turned out that I had passed on to my lovely daughter a genetic mutation that occurred spontaneously at conception and, to be discovered much later, it was so rare that there are only 17 other known cases in the world. Initially the doctors thought that the physical problems were due to rubella (german measles) that I had been exposed to while I worked as a corspeman in the hospital at Hamilton AFB. Due to this and the fact at that time the state was trying legalize therapeutic abortions, my daughter and I were interviewed by Walter Cronkite for his tv show. I was asked that if I had known that my daughter was going to have these anomalies, would I have elected to have an abortion. My daughter was, at that point, a beautiful little girl of about 18 months. And I loved her with all my heart. My daughter had to have open heart surgery early on (and by the infamous Dr. Norman Shumway at Stanford Hospital, a pioneer in cardiac surgery), she had cataracts and subsequently develped glaucoma, and multiple other problems. She was transferred to UCSF medical center initially and later followed by Dr. Tarnoff at Kaiser San Francisco.
Throughout the years I discovered that althought my daughter had multiple physical problems, her brain was not affected. In fact, she is an extremely bright young woman. She managed, with limited vision, to graduate from Mercy High School with a gpa of 3.8, went on to Humboldt State University, worked in high school cleaning houses, working as a server in a food court, later in college worked in a home for very disabled people, found her way on buses, Bart, and has been generally independent throughout her life. She even at one point traveled to Europe on her own.
She found herself on SSI early on in her 20's and hated it. She wanted desparately to be independent . She found that the State Department of Rehab would assist her with computer studies. She had majored in education as a student but found, at that time, it was difficult to get into this field with limited vision. After completing the computer couse that rehab offered she was able to find a job at Wells Fargo working at night in the credit card department. In the interim she met her husband and became pregnant with her first child.
The morning that her daughter was born, we received a call from the hospital that her daughter had developed congestive heart failure. The feeling of dejavu was unreal for me! It was shortly after that we discovered that my daughter's physical problems were due to a spontaneous genetic defect. Her daughter had all the same anomalies that my daughter had but several that were more serious. However, the National Institute of Health invited us back to Bethesday, Maryland, several years ago to do more studies on both my daughter and grandaughter. It is still considered a very rare genetic disorder.
After the birth of her daughter, my daughter's glaucoma became worse, a surgical procedure was attempted to assist the drainage of fluid in the eye. It did not work and subsequently my daughter had to have an enucliation, i.e. her right eye had to be removed!
In the interim, my daughter has gone on to be promoted at Well Fargo into a vip position, after 19 years, she is currently working on her MBA, has successfully been a single parent (her husband and her separated several years ago and are still friendly) of two children ( her son was born 12 years ago, perfectly normal. The genetic mutation only affects the females conceived and about 50+% of the time. If a male is conceived he would die in utero). She is now almost completely blind but has a special computer program at Wells that allows her to do her job. She has been praised over and over by her supervisors at Wells, has received numerous awards, and is loved by her clients. She has gone though numerous surgeries due to her congenital problems and then six years ago found that she had breast cancer. She went through mastectomy, chemo therapy, radiation therapy, and lots of support groups, all this without a partner. She did have alot of family and peer support, thank God. After the breast cancer ordeal she suffered a brown recluse spider bite while playing with her children in their front yard. She was hospitalized and the infectious disease physician who cared for her said that she had never seen a recluse spider bite in real life, only in text books.
Several years ago her daughter, who had also developed glaucoma at this point, was advised by her opthalmologist to have a drain put into her eye. Once again the procedure did not work and my grandaughter lost the vision completely in her right eye. She was ten years old. And until that time had vision enough that she probably could have driven a car at the age of 16. But that is no longer so. However, she is now 15 and is taking courses this summer to be a camp counselor and wants very much to work next year, if possible, at Enchanted Hills Camp in Napa. This is a camp started by Rose Resnick/Lighthouse for the Blind. My grandaughter has attended that camp every year for the past four years. My grandaughter also skis, she is going to Colorado this summer to rock climb, white water rafting on the Colorado river, horseback riding, and, of course, she will fly to Denver on her own.
I decided to write this article because my daughter and grandaughter are miracles to me and my family. My husband, who adopted my daughter when she was three, and I are proud of all of our children, but we feel so incredibly blessed with these two miraculous people, especially our daugher.


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How the immigration deal got made
The meeting was supposed to be a half-hour update for immigration reform proponents — but they weren't about to let the Democratic senators get off that easily.
The advocates were furious that Democrats might cave to Republican demands to make the pathway to citizenship contingent upon border security benchmarks, including the sign off of governors from southwestern states. They felt locked out of the process. And now, they had no idea what the negotiators were trading away just weeks before the Gang of Eight's immigration bill was slated to be publicly released.
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Frank Sharry, a longtime proponent of a comprehensive bill, aggressively protested the border language to Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Robert Menendez — and as a whole, the group warned that if an anti-reform governor like Arizona's Jan Brewer were given veto power, the emerging proposal would be a "big problem for us."
( Also on POLITICO: Tragedy interrupts immigration momentum)
Schumer stayed at the February session an extra 40 minutes, even missing his flight back to New York, to reassure advocates that they weren't being sold out. But he also advised them to step back in line: "This is what we have to do to get a path to citizenship. You have to understand that."
The intense back-channel talks between members, staffers and outside groups have produced the most sweeping immigration bill in six years. The legislation comes after weeks of tense member-level meetings — often with powerful special interests they had to keep at bay in order to craft a fragile, bipartisan coalition. The deal required painful compromises, suffered near breakdowns and endured cooling-off periods, including when the group walked away from the negotiating table for part of the Easter recess before re-engaging in the horse trading.
Powerful aides to several senators, particularly to Schumer and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), pieced together a compromise driven as much by trying to get the policy right as by giving the senators a way to sell it politically.
Rubio emerged as a source of constant attention, concern and lobbying within the group. Republicans and Democrats were desperate to keep him in the fold, convinced that they needed his support to sell the proposal to deeply skeptical conservatives.
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"By the way, tell your boss he already paid for the caterer, he's got to go through with the wedding now," Schumer's chief aide Leon Fresco, fired off in an email to Rubio's negotiator, Enrique Gonzalez, when it looked like the Florida Republican was getting wobbly late last month.
President Barack Obama was forced to step in and personally convince Republicans that he was acting in good faith after the apparently inadvertently released draft of a White House bill.
After 24 meetings among senators themselves and marathon sessions between staff for months, the senators struck a deal that, if passed, would enact the most significant changes to immigration laws in nearly three decades. But to get there, they've had to cajole their longtime allies to get behind the effort and aggressively move to limit defections from major players who have the power to stop the bill in its tracks. And they went to great lengths to prevent media leaks, even instituting a self-imposed rule to thwart the press from staking out their consequential meetings.
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Consider this. Couples who have no apparent problems with fertility still have only a 25 percent chance of getting pregnant after one month of unprotected intercourse (1). After one year of trying, they have an 85 percent chance of succeeding (2). We say that if a couple still isn't pregnant after one, perhaps two, years of trying, they are infertile. It may be that they are one of the 15 percent who are fertile, but not lucky enough to conceive right away.
Dr. Polly Marchbanks, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, has poked some holes in how we define infertility. She has pointed to several studies that showed couples, when given a little time, can still get pregnant without medical help. One group of 1800 couples were considered infertile because they still weren't pregnant after one year of unprotected intercourse. Eighty-four percent of them, however, did eventually conceive, although it took up to 10 years in some cases (3).
Still, statistics are not carved in stone. How long it takes for a couple to conceive depends on how often they have intercourse, their age and health, and whether they time conception. Some experts suggest that a couple needs to have sex three to six times per week
to maximize conception. Older couples, say infertility researchers, aren't as sexually active as younger people so have a naturally harder time conceiving. Men and women over 40 also experience infertility for more untraceable reasons than younger couples.
Waiting for Baby
As many couples delay marriage and pregnancy, they are left with fewer years to conceive. In many cases these years are also less fertile. While women have been blamed for the higher infertility rates, both sexes are affected to some degree. Living in our world is not easy. We are faced with an increasing load of stress, pollutants, refined and processed foods, and sedentary jobs.
All of these factors plus the accumulative effect of disease and an aging body compromise health and fertility. It's important to remember that reproductive organs don't live in a vacuum. They must operate and cooperate with other parts of the body. If the reproductive system or some other part of the body isn't working right, then fertility suffers. In recognizing the wear and tear our bodies go through with age, some fertility experts suggest that couples over 30 seek help if they still aren't pregnant after six months without birth control.
Even though men are as susceptible to stress and unhealthy eating as females, women have been assigned the task of watching the biological clock. Unlike sperm, which are constantly being replenished, a female is born with all the eggs she will use in her lifetime. It is thus assumed that these eggs must lose some of their vitality with time.
Recent research has confirmed that a woman's eggs are responsible for her decreasing fertility (4). Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles went as far as to transplant fertilized eggs from young donors into menopausal women. The end
result was that nine out of the 14 older recipients became pregnant (5).
We've always assumed that because a woman's eggs are as old as she is, they must lose their fertility with age. But is there more to this picture that we can't see? Although a woman carries the same egg supply with her for life, these ova do not mature until the month they are released or discarded. Does this make a difference? Is it the egg that matures anew each month that dampens fertility or the body that supports reproduction?


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Metastatic Breast Cancer to the Liver
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My mom was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer to her liver last year. Her oncologist tracks her alkaline phosphatase level monthly, recently the numbers are climbing up, but her AST/ALT are stable. What could this mean?
Kevin R. Fox, MD, Assistant Director, Clinical Affairs and Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Alkaline phosphatase is an enzyme that is produced by the liver as well as the bone. In the setting of stable AST and ALT levels (which are enzymes specific to the liver), the rising alkaline phosphatase is more likely to be of bony origin. Alkaline phosphatase is typically released during periods of bone growth, and can rise and fall erratically with bone activity. If the patient has even a small amount of metastatic breast cancer in the bone, for example, the rising alkaline phosphatase could represent healing activity of the bone lesions.
All in all, the alkaline phosphatase is not specific enough to be relied upon on its own, and so I would recommend concentrating on the scans of the liver to make any assessments, as CAT scans and MRI scans are better for detection of suspicious lesions, and can be more specific than blood tests.


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This section explains password policy settings and provides a worksheet to help you define password policies that fit your requirements.
To use the default password policy, see Managing the Default Password Policy.
When you specify a password policy in Directory Server, you either modify or create an entry that includes the object class pwdPolicy(5dsoc).
When defining a password policy for a particular type of user, you need to consider the following:
How accounts get locked out when an intruder appears to be trying to crack a password.
See Policy for Account Lockout for details.
How password changes can be made.
See Policy for Password Changes for details.
What password values are allowed.
See Policy for Password Content for details.
How password expiration is handled.
See Policy for Password Expiration for details.
If the server records the time of the last successful authentication.
Subsequent sections in this chapter explain how you handle these areas of password policy. Use the Worksheet for Defining Password Policy to clarify each password policy that you plan to implement.
This section explains the policy attributes that govern account lockout.
A Directory Server account refers loosely to a user's entry and to the permissions that user has to perform operations on the directory. Each account is associated with a bind DN and a user password. When an intruder appears to be trying to crack a password, you want Directory Server to lock the account. The lock prevents the intruder from using the account to bind. The lock also prevents the intruder from being able to continue the attack.
As administrator, you can also manually render inactive an account or the accounts of all users who share a role. See Manually Locking Accounts for instructions. Yet, a key part of your password policy is specifying under what circumstances Directory Server locks an account without your intervention.
First of all, you must specify that Directory Server can use pwdLockout(5dsat) to automatically lock accounts when too many failed binds occur. Directory Server keeps track of consecutive failed attempts to bind to an account. You use pwdMaxFailure(5dsat) to specify how many consecutive failures are allowed before Directory Server locks the account.
Directory Server locks accounts strictly according to password policy. The operation is purely mechanical. Accounts can lock not because an intruder is mounting an attack against the account, but because the user typed the password incorrectly. Thus, you can use pwdFailureCountInterval(5dsat) to specify how long Directory Server should wait between tries before cleaning out the records of failed attempts. You use pwdLockoutDuration(5dsat) to specify how long lockout should last before Directory Server automatically unlocks the account. The administrator does not have to intervene to unlock accounts of users who make legitimate mistakes with no malicious intent.
If your user data is replicated across a replication topology, lockout attributes are replicated along with other entry data. The pwdIsLockoutPrioritized(5dsat) attribute's default setting is TRUE, so updates for lockout attributes are replicated with a higher priority. A user is thus limited to making pwdMaxFailure consecutive failed attempts to bind to any single replica before being locked out, and probably fewer attempts at other replicas before being locked out. For details about how to make sure that a user gets exactly pwdMaxFailure attempts before being locked out across an entire replicated topology, see Preventing Authentication by Using Global Account Lockout in Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2 Deployment Planning Guide.
This section explains the policy attributes that govern changes to passwords.
In many deployments, Directory Server is the repository for identity data. Users should be able to change their own passwords, as specified by pwdAllowUserChange(5dsat), so you do not have to change the passwords.
After you allow users to change their own passwords, you might also want to control the circumstances under which users can change their passwords. You can use pwdSafeModify(5dsat) to specify that users who change a password must provide the correct existing password before they are allowed to replace the password. See Modifying Passwords From the Command Line When pwdSafeModify Is TRUE for an example of how to modify the password. You can prevent users from reusing passwords by using pwdInHistory(5dsat) to specify how many passwords Directory Server remembers. You can also prevent users from changing their passwords too often by setting pwdMinAge(5dsat).
In many cases either you as administrator or some application that you manage creates user entries in the directory. You can assign a user password value to change when the user first binds to the new account. You might also have to reset a user password, after which the user should change the password when next using the account. Directory Server has a specific attribute, pwdMustChange(5dsat), that you can use to indicate whether a user must change passwords after the password value is reset by another user.
You can also specify that the Directory Administrator is not subject to policy when changing passwords by setting passwordRootdnMayBypassModsChecks(5dsat).
This section explains the policy attributes that govern password content.
Although password values are not generally returned in directory searches, an attacker could potentially gain access to the directory database. Therefore, password values are generally stored in one of the supported hashed formats that you specify using passwordStorageScheme(5dsat).
You can also enforce a check that passwords meet your definition of minimum password quality, by setting pwdCheckQuality(5dsat). The server then checks that the password does not match any of the values of the cn, givenName, mail, ou, sn, or uid attributes. The comparison of the password with any of these attributes is case-insensitive.
Additional checks are available with pwdCheckQuality(5dsat) set. You can enforce that passwords have at least a specified number of characters by setting pwdMinLength(5dsat). Furthermore, when the Strong Password Check plug-in is enabled, Directory Server checks that the password does not contain strings from the dictionary file that the plug-in uses. The server also checks that the password contains an appropriate mix of different types of characters.
You can enable strong password checking with the dsconf set-server-prop command. Use the pwd-strong-check-enabled property to turn on the plug-in, and restart the server for the change to take effect. Use the pwd-strong-check-require-charset property to specify what character sets to require in passwords. The pwd-strong-check-require-charset property takes a mask of the following values:
The new password must include a lower case character.
The new password must include an upper case character.
The new password must include a digit.
The new password must include a special character.
The new password must include at least one character from each of at least two of the above mentioned character sets.
The new password must include at least one character from each of at least three of the above mentioned character sets.
The default setting for the pwd-strong-check-require-charset property is lower && upper && digit && special.
This section explains the policy attributes that govern password expiration.
To ensure that users change their passwords regularly, you can configure Directory Server to have passwords expire after the passwords reach a certain age, by setting pwdMaxAge(5dsat).
Users must be informed that their passwords are going to expire. You can configure Directory Server to return a warning that the password used to bind is going to expire. Use pwdExpireWarning(5dsat) to define how long before expiration that the warning should be returned when a client binds. Notice that the client application gets the warning. The user does not get the warning directly. Client applications must notify the end user when the applications receive the warning that the password is about to expire.
You can allow users one or more tries to bind with an expired password, by setting pwdGraceAuthNLimit(5dsat). Users who failed to change their passwords in time can thus still bind to change their passwords. Be aware that, when a user binds with a grace login, the user can perform any operation. A grace login works as if the password had not expired.
Directory Server updates the operational attribute pwdChangedTime(5dsat) every time that the password on the entry is modified. As a result, if you wait to enable password expiration, user passwords that have already aged expire immediately when you enable password expiration. Use warnings and grace logins if this behavior is not what you intend.
This section covers the use of the password policy attribute pwdKeepLastAuthTime(5dsat).
When set, pwdKeepLastAuthTime causes Directory Server to track the time of the last successful bind every time that a user authenticates. The time is recorded on the pwdLastAuthTime(5dsat) operational attribute of the user's entry.
Because this behavior adds an update for each successful bind operation, the pwdKeepLastAuthTime feature is not activated by default. You must explicitly turn the feature on to use it in your deployment.
This worksheet is designed to help you define a password policy to implement either through the command-line interface or using Directory Service Control Center (DSCC). Use one worksheet for each password policy.
After you record the DN of the password policy entry, record your decisions about settings for attributes in each policy area. Also record your rationale for those settings.
Password Policy Worksheet
Password Policy Entry Distinguished Name
dn: cn=
Policy Area
Write Your Settings Here
Write Your Rationale for Settings Here
Account Lockout
Password Changes
Password Content
Password Expiration
Tracking Last Authentication Time
When the pwdCheckQuality attribute is set to 2, the server can perform additional checks. When the Password Check plug-in is also enabled, settings for the plug-in affect what checks are performed the on values of new passwords.


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Sailing with the Barbary on the Great Lake
A stunning cruise aboard the Barbary to the famous Maori Rock Carvings
I must be honest, I've lived in Taupo for nearly six years and I've never been on the lake! There's no excuse really, it's one of those things that was always going to be there so it could wait. Then I had a call from Sarah at the Barbary, she asked if I would like to take a trip on their boat to view the Maori Rock Carvings, I politely explained that I had my four year old son with me that day and she told me that he could come too. No reason not to then!
The weather was excellent, warm and sunny but not too hot. Skipper Jamie set sail from the Harbour using the whisper quiet electric engine (there wasn't much wind for the sails) and soon enough we were sailing around the various bays on our way. On our travels we saw a couple of the other operators namely the 'Fearless' and the 'Ernest Kemp' on their way too.
On board there are huge bean bags to sit or lay on and once you're in you don't really want to get out, they really are that comfy. Jamie provides informative and funny commentary throughout the trip, pointing out loads of interesting features whilst giving a few history lessons too. Soon enough we arrived at the Carvings and WOW they really are very impressive. At over 10m tall you can't help but be amazed at the skill and workmanship that went into it's creation and that of the smaller carvings to one side. We stopped for loads of photos, a complimentary beer and sausage before heading back the way we had come.
This trip was everything I hoped it would be, calm, relaxing, informative, scenic and stunning! The Barbary is a beautiful wooden yacht built in 1926 and once won in a card game by none other than Errol Flynn! It has been lovingly refurbished by the current owners and now offers the daily scenic tours as well as moonlighting during the evenings as New Zealand's only floating cinema! Each week a different movie is shown on their 3m outdoor screen whilst you relax and enjoy the free popcorn and licensed bar and enjoying the stunning Taupo sunsets on the lake!
The trip lasts between 2 and 3 hours (a long time for a 4 year old) but there is that much going on that even the most easily bored loved it, especially the yummy sausage and glass of juice! So next you come and play at Lake Taupo TOP 10 Holiday Resort be sure to take a trip on the lake with The Barbary.


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