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text: Forbes Posted February 5, 2006 A couple of weeks ago I picked up a couple of items that I found on E-bay for the back of our bar. The first was an unopened and sealed ½ Pint of Old Taylor (100 proof; Made Fall 1916; Bottled Fall 1931). The American Medicinal Spirits Company distributed this whiskey. From what I have read so far, this is one of a few companies that were licensed to lawfully sell whisky during Prohibition. Going by the dates, this would be fifteen-year-old bourbon. I believe this is more aged than normal for that time period but I assume they bottled their store of barrels, as they needed for the whiskey to supply the hospitals and pharmacies. Is this correct? Is there anything else that anyone can tell me about this Old Taylor whiskey? Separately, I found a medical prescription for "whiskey†also dated in 1931. So what would be the common reasons that a Mr. T.E. George of Sacramento, California receives a prescription for in 1931? My question is, what were the medicinal uses for whiskey? Were medical reasons made up to distribute the product? Thanks in advance. Todd Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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Vegetarian and vegan food
This article is a travel topic
Vegetarians and vegans can eat quite well in most countries. The traditional cuisine and the style of eating in many countries can make it a bit difficult for vegetarians or vegans to find food without animal products in it. However, most cultures have a at least a few vegetarian dishes, and many, if not most restaurants are willing to leave out or substitute animal ingredients.
Take your diet into consideration when planning your trip. Where will you be going? There will be a greater variety of food available in big urban centers then there will be in rural areas. If you want to visit a tiny village in rural Vietnam, fine, but be prepared that you may have to limit the variety in your diet, or work with restaurants or others feeding you to come up with food to your liking.
Research the cuisine for the place you are going. There will be a couple of vegetable/grain dishes everywhere so you'll have something to order in restaurants. This will also give you an idea of local cooking techniques; often times innocent looking vegetable dishes will be cooked in a meat stock, or contain fish sauce.
Look up lists of vegetarian restaurants and grocery stores in the area you'll be staying, check the destination guides for the area you will be visiting for information. Try local vegetarian groups in the area you'll be visiting.
Among countries in which vegetarianism and veganism is not the norm, those in the West tend to be the most accommodating, and even non-veg restaurants, particularly in the Netherlands, Denmark, the US and the UK, generally offer several vegetarian options.
Other countries, such as India and Taiwan, have a tradition of vegetarianism and so finding suitable meals in these places will not be a problem.
Language and cultural issues[edit]
In some countries and cultures (especially developing countries where focus is often on getting any sort of food) vegetarianism/veganism is rare. People may feel insulted when you turn down the meat dish they have prepared for you. Come up with a short explanation and be prepared to repeat it. If you're vegetarian/vegan for non-religious ethical reasons, in places with a language barrier or strong food/host tradition it's usually best to refrain from explaining out your beliefs and go with something inarguable (medical reasons, something vaguely religious or cultural). Be polite and apologetic as you would anywhere.
The tiny book Vegan Passport (ISBN 0907337309) contains a short explanation of what vegans eat, don't eat, and why. This is explained in about 40 languages, one page per language, and all you have to do is to show the right page to the restaurant staff. Another source of very brief listings of what vegans eat/don't eat, in many different languages, is available from the International Vegetarian Union's [1].
In some cultures, there may be an vegetarian tradition of some kind that you can compare your diet to. In countries with Buddhist sub-populations, some vegetarian travellers find that calling their diet "Buddhist" is the simplest way to explain it.
Be as considerate as you are in your home country. If you are staying long term with someone or eating dinner at their house, let them know about your diet. Ask if you can bring food, give them examples of common local vegetarian dishes. Let them know that you don't mind them eating meat/milk/eggs/cheese.
When all else fails, find a grocery store or local vegetable market. You can make a meal yourself, together with a camping stove or kitchen.
Air travel[edit]
Most full service airlines that serve meals on-board offer a vegetarian choice. You should request the vegetarian meal at the time of your reservation, and to be sure reconfirm with the airline 72 hours before departure. If you book online and there is no option to select your meal, you should call the airline. If you forget at the time of booking, there is little prospect of requesting one at check-in, however it always pays to ask on the plane, as often there can be a spare meal that meets your requirements. If not, the meal without the heated component can often be vegetarian.
Full service airlines use codes internally with their caterers to select meal types. The codes applicable to vegetarians and vegans are:
At airports removed from the airline's home ports the food can depend more on the catering available at the remote airport than the airline. Sometimes the different vegetarian styles will give different meals, but it is quite common for a VGML to be served, even if you order a VLML.
Discount airlines, and some full service airlines on short sectors do not serve food or have food sold from a trolley. Usually there is a vegetarian option, but you can usually check the inflight menu in advance on the website, or third party sites that have meal information.
It is an unfortunate fact of flying that sometimes the full service airline loses a meal order, or the salad sandwich on the discount airline is sold out, or not available on a flight. It's always a good idea to take snacks on board just in case.
Best and worst regions[edit]
While it is possible to some extent to survive as a vegetarian or vegan anywhere on Earth, some countries' cultures make this easier than others'. Generally, Western, Northern, and Southern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United States, and Canada are among the best in this regard, while Central Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, and rural Africa and Latin America are among the worst.
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There are some cities in the world that are completely vegetarian. Examples are: Haridwar, Rishikesh, (complete, please). Non-vegetarian food is prohibited in those places, alas sometimes eggs and products containing eggs can be sold in the outskirts. As well, if you buy cheese, it can contain rennet, some beverages/yoghurts/icecreams etc. can contain coloring agents from insects (as everywhere in the world) and cosmetics etc. can be tested on animals. Clothes/footwear from leather can as well be sold.


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A 'Vicerian' Woman Is Confident!
Posted by: Michele Cohen
The 'Vicerian' woman is someone who is confident in whatever walk of life; whether she is a CEO at the helm of a corporation, or a jet-setter traveling to the next exotic destination. When she steps into a room, people want to know who she is, what she does, and where she comes from.
Being awarded the Freida Fehrenbacher Travel Fellowship and the Tiffany Foundation's Women's Leadership Fellowship while at Moore allowed me to travel to Ghana, where I studied native West African techniques like Kente Cloth Weaving and Adinkra stamping that helped inform my design aesthetic.
The focus of my brand is to celebrate the world through fashion. My experience with the local artisans in Ghana helped me understand my subconscious attraction to certain colors, patterns, and natural materials.
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The Steroid Era: It Ain't Just in Baseball
I'm sure you all heard the news today. A high-profile name linked to steroids, threatening to tear the ballroom dancing world apart.
I'm sorry, did you say ballroom dancing?
That's right, folks. In her blog today, Dancing With The Stars contestant Jewel revealed that she came down with tendinitis in her knee. She went on to say:
"Hopefully these steroids will really do the trick and I can keep bad flare ups at a bay in the future."
So there it is – admission that she's juicing.
If you're anything like me, your first response was: Jewel has a blog? And people read it?
If Jewel pulls this thing out and wins it, I think we're going to have to talk seriously about an asterisk.
In other news – this a little more baseball-related, it was great to be at work this morning and see the Astros-Braves game on ESPN. For a baesball addict with serious withdrawals, this was precisely what the doctor ordered.
Though Sergio Perez and Rule 5 pick Gilbert De La Vara (two pitchers not expected to make the 25-man roster out of camp anyway) blew the lead established by the Astros offense, Roy Oswalt, Brandon Backe, and Alberto Arias, there were a lot of positives in this game.
First and foremost, Christopher Johnson. With the quagmire that is the Astros' third base situation – where all talk has been of Aaron Boone and Geoff Blum creating the worst platoon situation mankind has ever envisioned – Johnson is emerging as the guy to beat at third. He still probably needs some time in AAA before he's called up full-time, but the way he's seeing the ball right now, he's making the most of his time in Spring Training.
It's still very early, of course, but this is very promising. Aside from Blum, he's the most competent defender at third base, as well, so the faster he proves himself ready, the better.
The second player to make the organization notice him is John Gall. Gall has always shown an ability to hit in the minors, but hasn't gotten regular work at the Major League level. With the lack of outfield depth in the Astros' organization, this may well be his time to break through.
He's been putting together some very nice at-bats in this very young Spring Training, and looks like he may be forcing a tough decision. We'll see if he can keep it up.


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World Trade Center, Bangalore, will be ConvaTec India HQ
Bangalore: Medical technology firm ConvaTec opened an office at the World Trade Center, Bangalore, which will serve as the headquarters for the company's Indian operations. The India office was inaugurated by the CEO of ConvaTec, Mr Ken Berger, on Friday, December 14, 2012. The company has also set up a warehouse at Nelamangala on the outskirts of Bangalore, and expects to expand across the country.
"We are excited to begin our operations in India. With a fast-moving economy, India is on the cusp of exciting times, and ConvaTec is committed to growth and a long-term presence in the country," said Mr Ken Berger, CEO of ConvaTec. "We look forward to bringing innovative healthcare technologies and treatments to the Indian market. We view this as an important first step in building a strong presence in an important growth market for ConvaTec."
ConvaTec will market and distribute a variety of innovative medical products to hospitals and other healthcare providers in India. These include advanced wound dressings for patients with acute and chronic wounds such as burns, diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, and venous leg ulcers; and products for those with an ostomy following surgery for colorectal cancer or inflammatory bowel disease. In addition, the company will provide a wide range of hospital products, including catheters and other products used to manage incontinence and support critical care.
"India is making rapid strides towards world-class healthcare, and ConvaTec is uniquely positioned to address these growing needs," said Mr Anand Shirur, managing director for ConvaTec in India. "We are bringing affordable, high-tech solutions to hospitals and wound clinics, enabling easy access and benefits from the latest medical technologies."
As in many countries, hospitals and clinics in India face the challenge of providing advanced treatments for increasing incidences of lifestyle and chronic diseases. "ConvaTec is committed to meeting the needs of healthcare professionals and patients in India with unique products that promote healing, improve care and guard against infection," added Mr Shirur.


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Without Oklahoma Small Business, No New Jobs for Four Years
Small business job growth represented all of the net job growth in Oklahoma from 2007-2010 according to recent U.S. Small Business Administration data.
"This is a striking statistic that reflects the importance of entrepreneurship in Oklahoma," said Dottie Overal, Oklahoma SBA district director. "Without small business, Oklahoma would have been dead in the water when it comes to job growth."
The statistics are included in a new Small Business Profile of Oklahoma (http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/ok12.pdf) that demonstrates that in the four years from 2007-2010, net new job growth came from businesses with less than 500 employees, despite an overall weak employment situation.
More than 54 percent of Oklahomans worked for the 332,998 small businesses or self-employed in Oklahoma.
Overal reminds Oklahomans starting or growing a small business to take full advantage of the programs and services offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
"Starting your own business or expanding your business can be frightening," she said. "But the path is much smoother if entrepreneurs take advantage of SBA counseling services provided through our partner organizations, SBA loans through participating banks, and SBA guidance into the opportunities provided by federal contracting."
The Oklahoma District Office of the SBA is responsible for providing businesses with tools for enhancing and growing their businesses. It also oversees the delivery of SBA's programs throughout the states such as:
- Free counseling, advice and information on starting a business through SCORE, the Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers, and the Women's Business Center. These organizations also conduct training events throughout the district.
- Financial assistance for new or existing businesses through guaranteed loans made by area bank and non-bank lenders.
- Business development assistance via the 8(a) program, available to businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
- Veterans assistance through the Boots to Business program and dedicated lending programs for Veterans
For more information on any of these programs, contact the Oklahoma District office at 405/609-8000.


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I am so excited to host the Book Blitz for Grade A Stupid by A.J. Lape. The Blitz will run on 16th and 17th March. This book is highly rated and currently free in US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia. It is only Rs. 60 in India.
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Grade A Stupid by A.J. Lape
Series: The Darcy Walker Series Book 1
No. of Pages: 375
Publication Date: November 2012
Genre: Young Adult Mystery, Thriller, Humor
DARCYVILLE: Where stupidity is celebrated with a deadly dose of sin.
Fifteen years ago, Darcy Walker's parents thought it was a good idea to give her a unique name: Darcy, meaning "dark walker." Whether that was a stroke of genius or stroke of stupid, they definitely nailed the irony. She lacks direction, her grades stink despite a high IQ, she's boringly average--although flirting admirers claim otherwise--and God help her, she's infatuated with a bad-boy.
A bad-boy that her hottie best friend, Dylan, wishes would get acquainted with his fist.
And, oh yeah, there's that tattoo that was a royally stupid idea.
With her life spiraling out of control, everything changes when she skips class and finds a dead body...in fact, it gets worse. It jump starts Darcy's inner-verb, and her brain hardwired for action gets caught up in a situation she can't let go.
Set in the fictional Cincinnati town of Valley, Ohio, Darcy falls into a world of threats, violence, and gangland exploits chasing down every clue to finger the murderer. When a fellow misfit is arrested for the crime, Darcy goes from zero-to-sixty trying to clear his name--constructing aliases, breaking the law, everything that makes perfect sense to her but reeks of Grade A Stupid to everyone else.
Trouble is...will she live to see sixteen?
"THERE WAS ALWAYS a boy in your life that common sense and the prayers of parents told you to stay away from: fast talker, fast car, and fast hands. He was the boy your father kept a loaded shotgun by the door for and met on the front porch if he ever thought about venturing onto his property…let alone the threshold. He was the tall, dark, mysteriously handsome, and uncharacteristically quiet one that made you wonder what was going on in his head, and that little voice in your head said it wasn't always so honorable. He was the boy you broke all of the rules over because bad-boys equaled excitement and the rebel in you liked the ride."
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Cutlery Tattoos Are the New Tribal
Forget cupcake tattoos (No, really, can we please?). Fetishizing dining apparatus, nothing says "I'm uber-serious about what I put in my mouth" more than a cutlery tattoo. While most folks eat with forks, knives, and spoons in their hands, these people eat with them on their hands. If you're thinking about getting a tattoo, nothing says "I'm hungry" like some silverware, right? Below, a gallery of inspiration, including some celebrities (ooooh, Top Chef's Michael Voltaggio!) and a special appearance by yours truly.


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Yes, the GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion is really making a strong debut. With it's unique design, the new board is already building itself quite the resume. A few weeks ago, a Secret OC session took place at the GIGABYTE HQ where a total of 9 World Records, 22 Global Firsts and 25 Hardware Firsts were accomplished by 7 of the world's finest overclockers, all using the X99-SOC Champion. Within these achievements, an impressive performance was submitted by HiCookie with the Highest DDR4 Memory Clock at 4014.6 MHz!!
Well ladies and gentlemen, our famous overclocker just can't be stopped! Yesterday, HiCookie with the help of Jake and Sofos1990 managed to push this limit to an incredible 4184MHz using Corsair's Dominator Platinum memory modules. Now THAT''s a performance!
Since Z97-Force LN2's memory record, a new standard has been establish to claim top memory scores. So we took out the big hardware, a very expensive oscilloscope, to prove that no cheating took place. Here is the video:
And to top it off, today HWBOT.org published their December achievement review. Taking the first place for this month's most used Motherboards for WR and GFP at HWBOT (… drum roll …) The GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion!! Here is the press release: http://hwbot.org/news/11725
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Tibetan medicine holistically restores and maintains balance of the body's various systems through a variety of treatments, including diet, behavior modification, and the use of medicine and accessory therapy. Tibetan medicine is delicately responsive to patients' complete symptom patterns—no complaint being disregarded. Its wide variety of curative techniques are clearly explained. Dr. Donden's book was seen on NBC's Dateline during a feature on Tibetan medicine and breast cancer.
""I think this book is the best work on Tibetan medicine ever to appear in English." —Dr. Barry Clark "Health through Balance represents Dr. Donden's masterful distillation of the thousand-year-old Tibetan medical tradition." —East-West Journal "An exciting and absorbing description—must reading." —John Tigue, Explorations"


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The acclaimed author is writing a memoir about his not-so-open marriage.
Aug. 10, 2007 -- "Did I have lust in my heart? Is that what you want to know," asks acclaimed journalist Gay Talese.
"Of course I had lust in my heart. Did I ever fall in love with another person? No."
Talese, considered a founding father of new journalism and the author of 12 books, did more than lust. He also, at times, acted on that lust. "But that," he says, "is old news."
Following a recent report in the New York Daily News that Talese, 75, was reportedly working on a tell-all memoir about his nearly five-decade "open marriage" to book editor Nan Talese, he wanted to set the record straight.
"It's just not true," he tells ABC NEWS.com "I'm sorry it's not true, because it would be a better story. I don't have an open marriage. If I had an open marriage, I would have written about it long ago."
Talese had an affair in the late 1970s. It featured in "Thy Neighbor's Wife," a groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction published in 1981 that examined American attitudes about morality in the last days of the sexual revolution.
In an effort to understand American sexual mores, Talese operated massage parlors in New York City, attended a nude beach near his hometown of Ocean City, N.J., and visited a nudist camp called Sandstone in Southern California, where "nudists gathered and there was also consensual adultery."
Talese confirmed that he is working on a memoir, and it is about his marriage to wife Nan. The book is the third in a series to be published by Knopf. The first, "Unto the Sons," was about his parents' immigration from Italy at the turn of the 20th century. Last year, he published "A Writer's Life," an autobiography about his prolific career as a journalist.
Part of the as yet untitled and unfinished memoir is about the tumultuous times in his marriage when he was working on "Thy Neighbor's Wife."
"When I started 'Thy Neighbor's Wife' in the early '70s, there was an awful lot of stress in this marriage. There was a time it looked like it wouldn't last. I was researching the book and running massage parlors a block away from Random House," he says.
Talese says the upcoming memoir would be "a writer writing about a 50-year experience with a person. Into that relationship there are a number of other characters -- friends, writers, people we knew. It's about two people under the same roof from the period of the late 1950s through the 21st century."
He said the memoir would be told through the vantage points of them both. Talese has hired a former New York Times colleague to interview Nan independently and get her take on the same events Talese will discuss in the book.
The couple lived in New York City and kept a summer home in Talese's boyhood town of Ocean City. They raised two daughters together.
Earlier this year, Nan Talese had a heated exchange with talk show host Oprah Winfrey over the publication of James Frey's book, "A Million Little Pieces." Nan edited the memoir, which made Oprah's Book Club, but the story was later discovered to be a hoax.
Gay Talese also told ABC NEWS.com that he was working a new version of "Thy Neighbor's Wife" that would take a new look at sex in America at the turn of the 21st century.


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It seems unlikely our nation's highest court would ever need to ruminate over alfalfa. But Roundup Ready alfalfa recently had its day in the Supreme Court. It was the Court's first case involving genetically modified food products.
On June 21, the Supreme Court ruled 7-1 (Justice Stephen Breyer did not participate) to lift a nationwide ban on glyphosate-resistant alfalfa, reversing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that prohibited sale of the crop. Roundup Ready alfalfa will not be available for purchase until the USDA–Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) completes its final environmental impact statement and issues a record of decision for the petition.
Ron Tombaugh can't wait. The Streator, Ill., hay grower and crop producer planted one field of Roundup Ready alfalfa in 2006 before the injunction, but due to wet weather had to replant part of the acreage with non–Roundup Ready seed, preventing him from taking advantage of the chemical application benefits.
"The advantages are higher-quality forage and longer stand life," he says. "Roundup Ready alfalfa may go six or seven years compared to five with traditional varieties, and that helps offset the extra seed cost."
Questions arise. Why was the case brought to the courts? Monsanto Company v. Geertson Seed Farms had the Supreme Court justices asking this very question during the May hearing, with Farm Journal reporting on the struggle.
A group of alfalfa seed producers, organic farming organizations and nonprofit environmental groups brought the suit, alleging Roundup Ready alfalfa threatens the genetic integrity of the crop. A California district court issued an injunction and ordered APHIS to prohibit the sale of Roundup Ready alfalfa until another environmental impact statement (EIS) could be prepared.
Monsanto appealed that decision to the Ninth Circuit Court, which twice refused to overrule the district court. The company then brought its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2005, APHIS declined to prepare an EIS and deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa, putting no limits on planting, harvesting or selling it. This came after a public comment period when 520 people and organizations opposed Monsanto's position for deregulation while 137 supported it.
Science behind the issue. APHIS staff is currently reviewing the 145,000 comments submitted on the draft EIS and will consider the comments as they prepare a final EIS determination.
"While the RR alfalfa case is very specific to alfalfa, the case has attracted other supporters that want to ensure that these determinations continue to be science-based," says Mark McCaslin, Forage Genetics president. "This case has demonstrated that what is at risk, I think, is the ability of U.S. producers to continue to have timely access to new traits that have been proven safe and add value to their crops," he adds.
Grow together. One issue in the Roundup Ready alfalfa case that applies across all traits and crops is the issue of coexistence. Can growers of biotech, conventional and organic crops coexist to serve multiple domestic and international markets?
"What makes coexistence possible is rigorous stewardship programs for seed production, production practices, grain handling, harvest, etc. The alfalfa industry has spent a lot of time lining out on paper what these coexistence strategies should look like and how to implement them," McCaslin says.
Will export markets balk at Roundup Ready alfalfa? "It's going to be an education process," grower Tombaugh says. "I think when they realize it's safe for their animals, it will be fine."
Until the dairy industry stabilizes, Tombaugh isn't expecting to increase his alfalfa acres. But he knows several other growers who have waited to seed new alfalfa, hoping Roundup Ready varieties would come back on the market. "Just like corn or soybeans, biotech isn't for everyone. It's not an issue of Roundup Ready alfalfa for me, it's the issue of having the customer for the hay once it's baled."


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Virginia's major party candidates for governor are taking more than two-thirds of their campaign contributions from outside of Virginia.
Campaign finance data analyzed by the nonprofit and independent watchdog of political cash, the Virginia Public Access Project, shows that Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli received more outside political money than any governor's race on record.
Only 30.5 percent of Cuccinelli's fundraising through August came from Virginians, and it was only 26.6 percent for McAuliffe. The opposite was true for Libertarian Robert Sarvis, the only Virginia-born candidate, who raised 68 percent of his scant $66,060 inside the state.
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Since VPAP began tracking state political fundraising in 1997, candidates for governor on average got about 66 percent of their contributions from individuals with Virginia addresses or Virginia-based companies. In the 1997 race, for instance, Democrat Don Beyer received 82.3 percent of his funding from inside Virginia in his unsuccessful race against Republican Jim Gilmore, who raised 67 percent of money within Virginia.
Those figures represent only direct contributions to candidates and don't include millions of dollars flowing into Virginia from allied organizations independent of the campaigns themselves such as the Republican Governors Association or the anti-Cuccinelli NextGen Climate Action Committee, a nonprofit that does not disclose its donors.
Such organizations have already spent at least $5.5 million in Virginia on media advertising alone so far to influence the only competitive governor's race in the nation this year, according to VPAP.


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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County deputies are investigating an attempted sexual battery at Disney's Art of Animation Resort after a worker said a man forced himself on her.
Deputies said the woman, who is a housekeeping cast member at the resort, told them the man attempted to sexually batter her March 28 just after 2 p.m.
The victim said she found the door of Room 6526 ajar and when she went in to clean the room, the man attacked her, according to the report.
The victim was able to fight the man off, but received minor scratches to her chest, according to deputies.
WKMG-TV reports the man then fled the area.
Deputies have released a composite sketch of the culprit, who is described as a Hispanic male in his early 30s, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 260 pounds with short dark hair, brown eyes, thin eyebrows, a non-descript tattoo on her upper right arm and a mole on the right side of his face.
The man was wearing a dark-colored ball cap with "NYP" on the front, a white T-shirt with a red Air Jordan logo on the front and khaki shorts, deputies said.
Deputies said there is no surveillance footage and say that the unidentified man has detectives exploring all possible leads.
"I have my husband with me, we feel safe," said one guest from Texas. "We are aware of our surroundings and stuff."
Disney released a statement on Wednesday, saying "We are very focused on the well being of our Cast Member and have been working closely with the Orange County Sheriff's Office to assist their investigation."
Disney continued, saying "providing a safe environment for our Cast and Guests is our highest priority. In addition to our own extensive security team (more than 1,000 Security Cast Members), the Orange County Sheriff's Office has a presence on our property 24 hours a day."
Contact Orange County deputies if you have any information on this incident.


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Long-time Cambridge lawyer Paul Gargano is appealing a recent court ruling alleging he stole $67,000 worth of heat from his building at 4 Canal Park.
Long-time Cambridge lawyer Paul Gargano is appealing a recent court ruling alleging he stole $67,000 worth of heat from his building at 4 Canal Park.
Last month, a Middlesex Superior Court Judge ruled that Gargano — who owns 5,000 square feet of commercial space in the Thomas Graves Landing building along with 166 condominiums — never paid for his own share of gas heat from 1996 to 2004, by tapping into the residential line.
In her ruling, Judge Nancy Holtz concluded that in December 1995, Gargano approached the condo association asking to switch his unit from electric to gas heat, with the condition that he install a separate meter and pay for it on his own.
But that was reportedly never done. It took years for the association to realize that fellow unit owners were subsidizing his energy consumption.
"That cost was, in turn, made part of the common expenses passed along to Gargano's fellow unit owners [who pay for electric heat]," Holtz wrote, adding that Gargano was aware of the situation.
As a result of the alleged nine years of unbilled energy, Holtz ordered Gargano to pay $67,380 in gas assessments, $88,500 in fines and $75,000 in attorney's fees.
Gargano told the Chronicle that he plans to appeal the judge's decision, which he said is inconsistent and unfair compared with a prior ruling from a different judge in 2006."This has been a bizarre situation," he said.
According to Gargano, a Cambridge resident who has practiced law for 45 years and was active in city politics, a previous court ruling was in favor of his case after filing Declaratory Judgment action.
"You have two judges that are inconsistent with each other," he said.
Gargano argues that he shouldn't pay the back fees since he claims utilities are a common expense contained in his condominium fee.
Attorney Edmund Allcock of Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks in Braintree, who represents the condominium association in the case, said Gargano was offered the chance to pay up front in 2004, but he refused.
In October 2006, Gargano's gas line was shut off and turned back to electric heat, which he is now billed for monthly.
Holtz labeled Gargano's testimony as "wholly noncredible."
"This was no oversight or minor slip by Gargano," she wrote. "It was misconduct in any reasonable reading of the facts in this case. This was little more than theft of services and Gargano got caught."


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The UK's newest progressive extreme metal juggernaut, The HAARP Machine, has created quite the buzz within the metal world upon announcing their worldwide signing to Sumerian Records. However, most people don't realize how forward-thinking this band is and how attuned they are to the socioeconomic issues that plague today's society. Their message and music is truly the definitive of progressive metal. Expect the band's much anticipated, debut full-length album in late 2011 and this disc is definitely going to turn some heads.
Al Mu'min (guitars) states: "Our debut album is an amalgamation of many influences across the spectrum and lyrically addresses many of the socioeconomic and political issues in our society today. We hope it will open doors for listeners and broaden their musical horizons as well as spark an interest in areas that dictate our lives, but are swept under the rug to maintain the status quo and keep the populace aloof to the sick capitalist venture of the big money cartels. We feel very fortunate to be in this position and wish to use this opportunity to spread the word on social change via the application of the scientific method for the betterment of humankind. There IS an alternative to the un-sane society we live in and it is our duty to this planet and all its inhabitants to awaken the sleepers. We can no longer ignore the writings on the wall. The time for change is now."
The HAARP Machine started in 2007 as a creative outlet for Mu'min to express his musical passion and with the hopes of turning it into a career. He composed his first album in his bedroom on his own between '07 and '09, whilst trying to find able musicians who shared the same passion and drive. After failing to ever get a solid lineup, he recorded a few demos which got some attention, but ultimately went unnoticed for the most part. Things soon charged once Mu'min contacted Dan Foord (Sikth) in autumn of '09 to session on an EP he planned to release to get people's attention and give the music a chance. This collaboration worked and soon people started to listen. He now had something to attract serious musicians and finally solidify a line-up.
Unfortunately, Foord couldn't commit to being in a full-time band and the search then began for a replacement who was more inclined to commit to potentially touring. That replacement was soon found in Craig Reynolds (Viatrophy). He was contacted initially to session live, but he was so impressed once he heard the material that he expressed interest in becoming a full-time member. Over the course of the next year or so The HAARP Machine went through many line-up changes. During that period they released a pre-production demo just to maintain what little interest they had when out of nowhere Sumerian Records' owner Ash Avildsen reached out to Mu'min to offer the band a record deal.


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"Sleeping Beauty," from first-time writer-director Julia Leigh, an accomplished novelist, promptly establishes a dark and ominous in short order, but then limps forward toward an anticlimactic ending that fails to answer or even ask any deeper questions.
Emily Browning stars as Lucy, a college students hustling to make ends meet any way she can—short of actually working. She turns tricks, subjects herself to medical testing, and gets behind on her rent. She soon finds a job working at a dinner club where she must pour drinks while wearing only lingerie.
Lucy's boss, Clara, is so taken with her beauty and performance that she offers her a chance to be a "sleeping beauty," a job that entails letting man curl up beside her drugged out and naked for the night, with one very strict rule—no penetration. Sounds like an easy gig, right?
Browning gives a strong, assured performance as Lucy, imbuing her with a sense of mystery and boredom. It's a tough role, with limited dialogue, and a character who seems to habitually degrade herself for no apparent reason. And that's the film's primary failure, as Lucy inspires neither sympathy nor pity—she's effectively chosen sex work over office work, so she's made her own bed, if you will.
Rachel Blake is even better as Clara, the Madame for whom Lucy works. Perfectly coiffed and composed, she is all business, with a chilling delivery that makes her praise feel conditional and her warnings—"I am obliged to tell you there are heavy penalties -- very heavy penalties -- for any breaches of discretion"— downright terrifying.
Leigh has a nice perspective, with an incredibly strong eye for detail. Each moment looks like a carefully staged photo. But as pretty as her pictures are, they don't move. Everything in this film—the look, the pace, the action--is just a little too languid.
Leigh does do a commendable job of showing Browning in varying stages of undress in a way that is devoid of eroticism. Zack Snyder claims he was railing against objectification when his camera drooled all over Browning in "Sucker Punch," but Leigh shows him how it's done. Browning is far more exposed, both physically and emotionally, in "Sleeping Beauty," but there is not a moment's titillation. Leigh portrays sex work as being even colder and more commercial than the medical testing Lucy undergoes.
Ultimately, however, "Sleeping Beauty" is just that—something nice to look at that just sort of lays there, only barely holding your attention.
"Sleeping Beauty" opens in limited release this Friday


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Fayetteville Public Schools will provide each Fayetteville family an easy and informative student registration experience. To register a child for school, a parent/guardian of an elementary, middle, junior high, or Fayetteville High School child should visit:
FPS Central Registration Office
300 S. Ray Avenue
Fayetteville, AR, 72701
Open weekdays between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Phone: 479-973-8661
Fax: 479-527-3645
Central Registration staff will ensure each family receives the assistance needed to identify the student's zoned school, complete registration forms, acquire information, and/or obtain additional district services. FPS staff representing Special Services, Student Services, Gifted & Advanced Placement, ESL Services, and Health Services are on-site to assist as well. If you have any questions please call the Registrar Coordinator at 479-973-8661.
Note: Due to the application process, registration for the Pre-Kindergarten program, Fayetteville Virtual Academy or ALLPS School of Innovation should begin by calling the Registrar at the appropriate campus (Pre-K 479-718-0209; FVA 479-973-8674; ALLPS School of Innovation 479-445-1230).
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|Spanish Girl
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|National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
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|NGMA-New Delhi
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|Oil on Canvas
|Main Artist
|Amrita Sher-Gil (1913 - 1941)
|Artist's Nationality
|Artist's Life Date / Bio Data
|Amrita Sher-Gil flashed through the Indian artistic horizon like an incandescent meteor. Her place in the trajectory of Indian modern art is unquestionably pre eminent. Her aesthetic sensibility shows not surprisingly a blend of European and Indian elements. Her command over handling of oil medium and use of colour, as well as her vigorous brushwork and strong feeling for composition, all go towards giving a dazzling quality to her genius. Sher-Gil's sikh father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil was an owner of landed estates and among other things, he was also a skilled photographer. Her mother, Marie Antoinette was a Hungarian. Sher- Gil's art education was completed in Paris where she was influenced by the post impressionists like Gauguin. While her childhood years were spent travelling between India and Europe, she returned to India in the mid 30s of the 20th century with a wish to make India her home. It was at this time her ways of seeing changed radically. Sher-Gil looked at the Indian art traditions with a fresh eye and she gazed at the sad-eyed people around her with empathy. She became excited by the Indian miniature traditions and as a consequence of her travels to the rock cut caves of Ajanta and Ellora and through South India, her visual language underwent a dramatic transformation. Both the palette, which became saturated with intense reds, ochres, browns, yellows and greens, and her figuration expressed a new visual reality. But she interspersed these paintings of her land and its people with paintings that she practiced in Paris. It is interesting to note that in the mid-1930s, when Amrita Sher-Gil explored a new expressive style to represent the Indian themes that she painted, there was a lot of experimental work going on at the time. Rabindranath Tagore had already exhibited his expressionist style of painting in Europe and was vigorously continuing to paint haunting images. Jamini Roy was drawing critical attention with his folk idiom and the Santiniketan masters were engaged in making bold experiments with visual language. The dichotomy is perhaps one clue to her complex persona. Sher-Gil was passionate about life drinking what it had to offer to the dregs. And yet she harboured within her a deep sense of melancholy that found expression in the pensive faces of her subjects and their languorous poses. Sher-Gil's visual language introduced a host of new elements in modern Indian art. For one, her handling of the oil medium opened up new possibilities for a future generation of artists. Her distinctive vision left its mark on pre-Independence modern painting. Art historian and cultural studies analyst Geeta Kapur observed that she had feminized Indian art. Her female forms demanded attention. They were both sensuous and vulnerable. They were subjects and objects at the same time. Besides her subtly expressive representation of the female figure, Sher-Gil also wove in ingeniously narrative elements of miniature paintings in her work. Also,for the first time, we see intimate portrayals of domestic scenes. The NGMA has a large collection of 107 of her paintings covering an extensive range of her important works both from her Paris days and from her Indian stay.
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|Signed and Dated 'amrita Sher-Gil 1935' at the bottom right corner of the painting with brush in black colour.
|60 x 91.5 cm
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|This work may have been done by Amrita Sher-Gil during her student years at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in the early 30s of the Twentieth century.


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And you see the earth dead and barren. Then, when We send down water onto it, it quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind. (Qur'an, 22:5)
And you see the earth dead and barren. Then, when We send down water onto it, it quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind. (Qur'an, 22:5)
The Arabic word for "quivers" is "ihtazzat," meaning "to set in motion, come alive, quiver, move, stir; the movement and stretching of a plant." The word "rabat," translated as "swells," bears the meanings "to increase, grow in number, swell, grow, develop, rise (of a plant), provision, fill with air." These words describe in the most appropriate manner the changes that occur in the molecular structure of soil during rain.
The motion described in the verse is different from the movement of Earth's crust, such as when a portion of it moves to produce an earthquake, for it is only the soil particles that are moving. These particles are composed of layers, each of which is on top of the other. When water penetrates the layers, it causes the swelling of mud particles. The stages referred to in the verse can be scientifically explained as follows:
1. Quivering of the soil: The electrostatic charge on the particle surface that appears after the water falls on the soil in sufficient amount would cause its instability and quivering movements. This movement is stabilized only after this charge has been neutralized with an opposing one. The soil particle's moving and quivering is also due to its collision with water particles. Since the water particles move in no specific direction, the soil particles move as they are struck from all sides. Robert Brown, a Scottish botanist, discovered in 1827 that when raindrops fall on the soil, they cause a kind of shaking and vibration in the soil molecules. He described this movement of microscopic particles, which today is known as the "Brownian motion."1
2. Swelling of the soil: When it rains, those raindrops hitting the soil cause its particles to swell and increase in volume. This is because when there is abundant water, the space between soil particles, which allows water particles and dissolved ions to enter, increases. When water and the nourishing elements dissolved in it diffuse between the layers, the size of the soil particles increases. Consequently, these particles serve as water deposits that bring the soil to life. It is due to Allah's infinite grace upon humanity that this water is stored in this manner without seeping downward due to the action of gravity. If the soil could not hold water and these mineral deposits could not be laid down in the soil, the water would soak into Earth's deepest parts and, because of its resulting absence, all plants would soon die. However, our Lord has created the soil in such a way that various products can emerge from it.
3. Sprouting of the earth: When there is enough water in the soil, the seeds become active and absorb simple nutritious material. Growing plants meet their water requirements for 2 to 3 months from these deposits.
The above verse describes, in three stages, what happens when rain falls onto dry ground: the soil particles quiver, and the soil swells and then brings forth various products. These stages, which the Qur'an revealed 1,400 years ago, are strikingly parallel to the scientific descriptions. Another verse reveals this about plants:
A sign for them is the dead land that We bring to life and from which We bring forth grain, of which they eat. (Qur'an, 36:33)
A sign for them is the dead land that We bring to life and from which We bring forth grain, of which they eat. (Qur'an, 36:33)
1. Brian J. Ford, "Brownian Movement in Clarkia Pollen: A Reprise of the First Observations," The Microscope, 1992, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 235-241; http://www.brianjford.com/wbbrowna.htm
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According to a new report, Bachelor "winner" Emily Maynard, 25, is in talks to be the next Bachelorette with sources revealing it's almost a done deal!
UsWeekly is reporting the newly single Emily, who recently confirmed her break up with Brad Womack, is angling to become the next Bachelorette just a month after splitting from Brad.
"She hasn't officially signed on yet, but it looks like a done deal," a source reveals. And despite Emily's recent comments that appearing on the series was "the last thing on my mind," the insider adds that Emily is hoping to use her stint on the show to jump-start a broadcast career… of course. "She wants to be famous," the source says of the single mom to 6-year-old daughter Ricki.
And with the show ratings down about 10% this season with
the boring Ashley Hebert, ABC execs reportedly have high hopes for Emily: "They know she's a fan favorite," reveals a source.
In addition to boosting her profile, Emily is also reportedly ready to move on from her ex-fiance Brad. "He has issues, and you could tell from the start that it was never going to work with Emily," another insider reveals. A pal however insists Emily "gave it everything she had."
If Emily does indeed become the next Bachelorette, it is likely ABC will film her season right away instead of waiting until next year. Plus in looking at Ashley's final four, none of the men really seem like Bachelor candidates.


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Four batters getting four hits in one game tied an American League record. The Sox last did it on June 8, 1950, against the St. Louis Browns.
Ortiz 5 4 4 4
Manny 4 4 4 3
Nixon 6 4 4 3
Varitek 5 0 4 2
Ortiz hit long home runs in his first two at-bats (in the first inning, he and Manny went back-to-back for the first time this season). Ortiz also crushed his first one after the annoying Tampa Heckler had spewed only about three words! What Ortiz is doing is simply ridiculous at this point. I wasn't quite four years old in 1967, but older SoSHers say they haven't seen anything like this since Yaz during The Impossible Dream (and #8 was doing it in the field also).
After a triple in the fifth, Trot Nixon had a shot at the cycle, but he singled and flew to left. John Olerud singled and walked three times, and Alex Cora, after ending two consecutive innings with the bases loaded, knocked in two runs with a seventh-inning single. ... Fifteen runs on twenty-one hits and five walks against four hapless pitchers.
Nearly lost in the noise of the bats -- but no less important -- was Curt Schilling (7-6-2-1-7). A few Game Threaders were furious at Francona for leaving Schilling in during an obvious rout. I was not. If there was ever a chance for Schilling to stretch himself out a little, work on some pitches, do whatever he might need to do before the playoffs, it was last night, with a 13-run lead. He threw 110 pitches in seven innings before letting Manny Delcarmen and Lenny DiNardo finish up.
Hanley Ramirez (#60) made his debut, fielding a routine grounder to start the seventh and getting called out on strikes in the eighth. After fouling off four pitches, he clearly checked his swing on what should have been ball four. But Bruce Froemming called him out. Remy figured the umpire "has had just about enough of this game."
Great. So at the umpire's discretion, he can disregard the rules to end the game sooner. I hate that shit -- and it's surprising that it's tolerated so completely. You can't go two games without an announcer saying so-and-so's strike zone tonight is wide or tall or whatever, or noting how it obviously changes depending on the inning or who is on the mound. ... How about all the umpires call pitches according to the rule book and make their calls on the bases on whether the player is out or safe, not whether he's a future Hall of Famer or a rookie.
Since there have been comments about Johnny Damon's fielding skills, I would be remiss in not pointing out that Carl Crawford scored from second base on a sacrifice fly to center in the third inning. The ball was hit to the track and Crawford is very fast, but this was embarrassing. After Damon caught the ball, he drifted back three or four steps and banged up against the wall, then heaved the ball in. He has done that often this season and it has been completely unnecessary each and every time. It is only for show. And this time, it wasted valuable time, as Crawford never slowed down sprinting around third.
After leading 10-3, the Yankees again had to rely on Mariano Rivera to preserve a 12-9 victory against the Orioles. The standings remain the same: Sox over Yanks by .5, New York .5 behind Cleveland.
Tonight: Johnson / Lopez in New York and Wakefield / Kazmir in Tampa, both at 7:00.


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In the inaugural Storefront Playwright Project, the League of Chicago Theatres is providing window space at Expo 72 for emerging and established playwrights to work on a current writing project in view of the public in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. From a large screen in a window facing the sidewalk, the public will be able to read what the playwright is writing and watch the creation of the next great Chicago play in real time. The Storefront Playwright Project is taking place at Expo72 located at 72 E. Randolph St. in downtown Chicago, December 4 – 22, 2012, Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Storefront Playwright Project aims to support the playwriting community, increase awareness of emerging and established playwrights, and encourage audiences to engage more deeply with Chicago theatre and the creative process of writing a new play for the theatre. The League of Chicago Theatres will collect contact information from interested visitors who want updates on future developments of the playwrights' work.
"We were invigorated by the success of Write Out Front: A Playwright Happening in New York and decided to sponsor a similar program in Chicago," says Deb Clapp, Executive Director of The League of Chicago Theatres. "Chicago is the home to more world premiere plays than any other city. The Storefront Theatre Project gives us the opportunity to support our playwrights while giving visibility to playwrights, the art of playwriting and the active new play scene in Chicago."
Playwrights selected for the project will receive a stipend of $50 per day for a four hour time slot (10 a.m. – 2 p.m. or 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.) and will be promoted through on-site signage and social media, as well as on http://chicagoplays.com/component/content/article/34-chicago/182-storefront-playwright-project.html
The 2012 Playwright Schedule follows:
December 4
December 5
December 6
December 7
December 8
About The League of Chicago Theatres
The League of Chicago Theatres is an alliance of theaters which leverages its collective strength to promote, support and advocate for Chicago's theater industry locally, nationally and internationally. The League of Chicago Theatres Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the art of theater in the Chicago area through audience development and support services for theaters and theater professionals.
About The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is dedicated to supporting Chicago's arts and culture community. This includes fostering the development of Chicago's nonprofit arts sector, independent working artists and for-profit arts organizations demonstrating the City of Chicago's commitment to celebrating the arts.
For a comprehensive list of Chicago productions, visit the League of Chicago website, www.chicagoplays.com. Discounted tickets are available at www.hottix.org.
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Brainstorming Report outs
Saturday May 17, 9:15 am
Beyond Classroom Teaching
Developing ideas for new kinds of extracurricular or co-curricular experiences
Jackie Huntoon, Karen Grove, Joan Prival, Tom Lindsay, Cathy Summa
What other types of experiences would be useful for future teachers? What types of programs or experiences might bridge education and research in ways particularly useful for future teachers? What types of summer experiences would be useful? What types of internship programs would be particularly appropriate?
Types of experiences
Hit the ground running -- how do we help them do this -- and develop a set of tools to help them do this?
- mentoring science fair projects for K-12 students (and/or judging science fairs)
- get students into classrooms right at the beginning, even before declared teaching
- get involved in after-school (weekend) activities working with kids
- use museums and informal science areas -- cf NY Hall of Science: puts pre-service people into Museum of Natural History as "explainers" (rather than docents)
- preservice teachers do research project -- design into lesson plan/curriculum/unit plan related to research experience; include relevant standards and benchmarks in unit; include how standards can be addressed in multiple ways (or multiples standards, especially integrating standards in math, other sciences, nature and process of science standards) -- worry less about name of course, and more about content and skills you want to develop
- work with campus child-care center
- work with after-school/latch-key kids programs
- hands-on activities to aid visualization of complex 3-D relationships
- model different teaching techniques (jigsaw, etc) in classroom setting -- gives students simple experiments to use in future classroom, and also models pedagogy (i.e. teaching density, structural relations)
- get students used to using DLESE resources (needs more peer review before materials posted; needs to be really clearly tied to standards)
- use large, publically available data sets (NOAA, USGS, etc. -- weather, streamflow, etc.) in classroom activities to get preservice teachers familiar with datasets and how to use these in classroom setting participation in NAGT/NSTA/AGU/GSA etc, workshops (department could sponsor a student poster session)
Programs to bridge education & research
- develop lesson plans with research/capstone projects; incorporate standards and benchmarks into lesson/uni development
- use technology to help visualization of topics (climate, meteorology, SEM analyses)
- link the universities to K-12 schools via online offerings, remote instrumentation, etc.
Summer experiences
- College for Kids programs
- outdoor school (Oregon) -- middle school kids spend a week outdoors -- counselors were HS or college students; students who don't do well in traditional schools excel in this model
Internship programs
- NSF funded diversity program at SFSU -- 9th grade integrated science courses -- with preservice interns during the program; during academic year, the intern is out in the schools with the teacher; interns get actual classroom experience helping to implement activities associated with watershed theme; intern also gets experience helping to develop and implement lesson plans -- not necessarily students who are declared teaching majors -- K-12 program designed to attract undergraduates into teaching -- put STEM undergraduates into classrooms and give them experiences -- often grabs students into teaching.


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Brevity is the soul of wit.
…Said the author who wrote with lots of words, many of them long and obscure. Nowadays, it's fashionable to consider that concision is the hallmark of a well-organized thought process, and we laugh at the Victorian authors who spun ideas into whole paragraphs and wrote epigrams that filled a page (let us recall that they were usually paid by the word). All the same, I think it's valuable to revive and make use of the longer and seldom-used words, just to keep them dusted off and preserved for posterity.
The younger me, much like one of her favorite heroines, Anne Shirley, was prodigiously fond of long words, partly because they were uncommon and therefore seemed adventurous, partly because they were complicated and represented a challenge, and partly because of a lifelong fascination with words and language. (I do remember a phase when I would thumb through the dictionary at random, reading a page here and there and curating such dusty antiques as perambulate, peroration, and persiflage. Who knew that peruse means to read carefully and thoroughly, not scan quickly, as it is commonly used? Apparently, the dictionary knows this.)
Then in my teens I suffered a bit of a backlash, taking to heart my English professors' advice: "Never use a word of three syllables when a shorter one will do." Confronted with word counts in practical matters such as letters to the editor and college assignments, where being taken seriously was a greater concern than showcasing one's enormous vocabulary, it was natural as well as politic to trim down the excessive and the melodramatic.
Nowadays, however, I've found a good equilibrium. I don't study too hard for words of four syllables, but pretty much fall back on whatever comes to mind. If it just so happens that my mind is populated with lots of words, so be it. I'm always learning new words, I enjoy discovering new words, and I tend to assume that everyone else should like it too.
Such is not the case, as demonstrated by the proliferation of Cliff Notes, condensed books, and abridgements. Which, in my opinion, are bad enough, but at least adults can make an informed decision to choose the shorter version and be lazy efficient with their reading. It's quite another matter when mediocre knock-offs are peddled to gullible children as the real thing and serve to inform their budding tastes.
The reason this idea is so fresh (and emphatic) in my mind is that we were recently given a book that turned out to be abridged. That was bad enough, but it had, in fact, been adapted. I read in horror the first sentence, altered from the original to be easy for young minds to understand:
"Mrs. Rachel Lynde was a nosy neighbor."
In those few words this adaptation proposed to sum up a good paragraph or two from the original, which jocularly described Mrs. Rachel Lynde's capable character and employing such words as "dint," "wont," and "gauntlet."
There is a school of thought, I suppose, that holds that children must be enticed into enjoying reading by making them comfortable with familiar words and concepts; and then, once their minds mature, they can grapple with longer words and complex ideas. But how do they get to that point of maturity? How will they learn, if not by exposure to words and concepts that stretch their minds? (Rhetorical questions, obviously.)
I grew up reading voraciously, perusing many books that might have been considered beyond my age range. When I came across a word I didn't recognize, I learned what it meant by employing a few tricks:
- Figuring it out by context (although sometimes this served me poorly)
- Looking it up in the dictionary
- Asking my parents, who would tell me, "Look it up"
- Asking another adult, who might just tell me straight out
Alas, we don't actually have a physical dictionary handy in our house, which lack I mean to rectify. Usually when my kids (typically my independent readers, the two eldest) ask me what a word means, I verify their pronunciation by having them spell it out to me, asking them what they think it means based on the context, and then giving them the definition. Naturally we work in word origin, various other forms of the word, and synonyms, too. Maybe even a dissertation on rhymes (or, if applicable, lack of—what, for instance, do month, oblige, and orange have in common?) After all, you can never have too many words in mind.
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Texas sets man free from death row
Prisoner ordered free from Texas' death row
After 18 years of incarceration and countless protestations of innocence, Anthony Graves finally got a nod of approval from the one person who mattered Wednesday and at last returned home — free from charges that he participated in the butchery of a family in Somerville he did not know and free of the possibility that he would have to answer for them with his life.
The district attorney for Washington and Burleson counties, Bill Parham, gave Graves his release. The prosecutor filed a motion to dismiss charges that had sent Graves to Texas' death row for most of his adult life. Graves returned to his mother's home in Brenham no longer the "cold-blooded killer," so characterized by the prosecutor who first tried him, but as another exonerated inmate who even in the joy of redemption will face the daunting prospect of reassembling the pieces of a shattered life.
"He's an innocent man," Parham said, noting that his office investigated the case for five months. "There is nothing that connects Anthony Graves to this crime. I did what I did because that's the right thing to do."
An attorney for Graves, Jimmy Phillips Jr., said his client was released from Burleson County Jail, where he had been awaiting a retrial, at about 5:30 p.m.
Graves immediately went to see his mother in Brenham and reportedly spent the night near Austin. "The first place he wanted to go is to go hug his mama," Phillips said. "He is a free man, and he's home."
Graves called his mother to tell her he was coming home. Doris Curry left the house to pick up her youngest son, and by the time she returned home, Graves was already there, surrounded by family and friends.
"I hugged him and I hugged him and I cried and we both cried and we hugged and we cried," Curry said. "He said: 'Mama, it's over. Mama, 18 years we've fought this fight a long time. It's over. Justice has been done for me.' "
The 62-year-old woman said she never doubted the innocence of Graves, the eldest of her five children.
"A mother knows her child," she said. "I know what kind of person he was. He wasn't that person they built him up to be."
'He's lost a lot'
Curry said there is no way to ever fill the void of Graves' 18 years in prison, close to half his life. It is time gone that cannot be retrieved, she said.
"But he can build his life on what he has and move on," she said. "He's lost a lot. He was 26 years old when they took him. Now he's 45. He's got grandchildren he's never touched."
Graves' youngest brother, Arthur Curry, testified in vain at his 1994 trial, telling jurors that Graves had been at home sleeping at the time when the murders occurred. Jurors did not believe him, so his brother's return home carried a deep, personal significance.
"The sun couldn't shine any brighter," Curry, now 37, said. "It's just like celebrating a resurrection, almost, because it was almost like a death in our family. But it was a slow death, continuously, just waiting for that demise."
'I lied on him in court'
Graves was convicted of assisting Robert Earl Carter in the slaying of Bobbie Davis, 45; her 16-year-old daughter, Nicole; and Davis' four grandchildren, ages 4 to 9, on Aug. 18, 1992. Carter was executed in 2000. Two weeks before his death, he provided a sworn statement saying that his naming of Graves as an accomplice was a lie.
He repeated the statement while strapped to the gurney minutes before his death: "Anthony Graves had nothing to do with it. ... I lied on him in court."
Charles Sebesta, then the district attorney, did not believe Carter. Even after he no longer held the post, Sebesta held to his beliefs, calling Graves "cold-blooded" and taking out an ad in two Burleson County newspapers in 2009 to dispute media reports criticizing the conduct of prosecutors.
The evidence against Graves was never overwhelming, depending mostly on Carter's earlier accusation and jailhouse statements purportedly overheard by law enforcement officers. Even Sebesta acknowledged it was not his strongest case.
"I've had some slam-dunk cases," he said in 2001. "It was not a slam-dunk case."
Graves' appellate attorneys, Jay Burnett and Roy Greenwood, knew it was far less. They soon were convinced their client had no knowledge of or participation in the crime, just as he had claimed since the moment of his arrest.
Over the years, there was increasing evidence raised to doubt the validity of the conviction. Students in a University of St. Thomas journalism class worked with The Innocence Project at the University of Houston to review the Graves case in detail.
Nicole Casarez, the journalism professor who taught the class, and one of her students interviewed Carter's brother, whose affidavit along with other evidence they gathered helped persuade the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to order a hearing, which eventually led to the new trial.
"I think the dismissal motion filed this morning says it best: There is no credible evidence to inculpate this defendant," Casarez said Wednesday night. "I'm just thrilled that it has finally come to this. I think it was a lot of people working very hard, perhaps even divine intervention, so that it all worked out today."
Siegler was to prosecute
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Graves' conviction in 2006. A three-judge panel said he deserved a new trial after ruling that prosecutors elicited false statements from two witnesses and withheld two statements that could have changed the minds of jurors.
Graves eventually was returned to county jail with a bond set at $1 million, and Parham began to reassemble the case and review the evidence. He hired former Harris County assistant district attorney Kelly Siegler as a special prosecutor. Siegler soon saw that making a case against Graves was all but impossible.
"After months of investigation and talking to every witness who's ever been involved in this case, and people who've never been talked to before, after looking under every rock we could find, we found not one piece of credible evidence that links Anthony Graves to the commission of this capital murder," Siegler said Wednesday.
It was not that the case had gone moldy over the years, she said, but that it never really existed in the first place.
"This is not a case where the evidence went south with time or witnesses passed away or we just couldn't make the case anymore," Siegler said. "He is an innocent man."
Mike Tolson compiled this report.


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Workplace email policy destroyed attorney-client privilege
Scott v. Beth Israel Medical Center, — N.Y.S.2d —-, 2007 WL 3053351 (N.Y. Sup. October 17, 2007).
Dr. Scott, who used to work for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, sued his former employer for breach of contract and a number of other different things. Before he was terminated, however, he had used his work email account to send messages to his attorneys, discussing potential litigation against Beth Israel.
When Dr. Scott found out that Beth Israel was in possession of these email messages, he asked the court to order that those messages be returned to him. He argued that they were protected from disclosure to Beth Israel under the attorney client privilege.
Beth Israel argued that they were not subject to the privilege because they were not made "in confidence." There was an email policy in place that provided, among other things, that the computers were to be used for business purposes only, that employees had no personal right of privacy in the material they create or receive through Beth Israel's computer systems, and that Beth Israel had the right to access and disclose material on its system.
Dr. Scott argued that New York law [CPLR 4548] protected the confidentiality. Simply stated, CPLR 4548 provides that a communication shouldn't lose its privileged character just because it's transmitted electronically.
The court denied Dr. Scott's motion for a protective order, finding that the messages were not protected by the attorney client privilege.
It looked to the case of In re Asia Global Crossing, 322 B.R. 247 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) to conclude that the presence of the email policy destroyed the confidential nature of the communications. The policy banned personal use, the hospital had the right to review the email messages (despite Scott's unsuccessful HIPAA argument), and Dr. Scott had notice of the policy.
The decision has implications for both individuals and the attorneys who represent them. Employees should be aware that when they are sending messages through their employer's system, they may not be communicating in confidence. And attorneys sending email messages to their clients' work email accounts, on matters not relating to the representation of the employer, must be careful not to unwittingly violate the attorney client privilege.
What's more, although the decision is based on email communications, it could affect the results of any case involving instant messaging or text messaging through the company's server.


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If you have been asked to give a anniversary speech to say thanks and love to pastor, so you trying to write that perfect anniversary speech.
How to Make the Pastor Anniversary Speech?
A perfect pastor anniversary speech is a speech delivered wonderfully and one that touch the heart and soul of pastor and the audience all in the right way. Your speech can be informal interspersed with humor or appreciation poetry. But the important thing is that you are sincere, real, and you.
The following tips will help you give the successful pastor anniversary speech.
- Prepare Speech Content. You will want to document all the important things you want to say, or ask people in your congregation for stories about your pastor to highlight your speech.
- Check Common Pitfalls of Speech. You should consider that one of common pitfalls when giving a pastor speech is the feeling of wanting to rush through the speech.
- Practice. Practice your pastor anniversary speech out loud if you finished. Rehearse in front of your family or friends for get a right feel for how long the speech will last.
- Speech and Gifts. After your speech you might want to present your pastor with a pastor anniversary gift. You might even want to include a letter or card either before or after your speech.
How to Write the Pastor Anniversary Speech?
The introduction about pastor is the big part. To create a wonderful and perfect anniversary ceremony/program/party speech, one must know how to play with words to play with the emotion of the audience.
Step 2
When writing about pastor, you must first by jotting down everything that you appreciate and special stories themed pastor's contributions and selfless.
Step 3
At the middle, the speech must slowly become intimate to your subject, appreciate your pastor and tell how your church has been positively affected by him.
Step 4
The most important and perfect thing is to keep the speech short, simple but yet meaningful to both the speaker and the audience. You know overly long appreciation speeches, no matter how thoughtful and organized, will soon lose its appeal.
Step 5
To close that speech, one may intersperse it with a lovely poem or a quote. A perfect appreciation speech is produced. Our hope, best wishes and prayer is that our partnership with him will continue for years to come.
Article Source: https://www.pastor-gifts.com/pastor-anniversary-speech


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