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Leadership in business is about causing diverse teams of people to fully engage every day, and perform year round with little or no real practice. Chris Lytle said in his book The Accidental Sales Manager, "You're the sales manager but you don't manage sales. You must coach the players to do what it takes to win instead of trying to coach the score."
Coaching is different from managing, training, or mentoring. Telling people what to do is not coaching. People don't like to be told what to do, but rather, prefer to be enabled and helped. They want to be involved. As the old maxim goes, "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, but involve me and I learn." Coaching subscribes to this, and inspires people to become better in everything they do. It emphasizes the development of individuals and improving their performances gradually, which is a more practical approach than telling people what to do, which will be met with resistance.
Coaching is not Training
While training and coaching both promote learning, they do so in different ways:
- Training is about teaching specific skills or knowledge – Coaching is about facilitating someone else's thinking and helping them learn on the job.
- Training usually takes place off-site or in dedicated classes – Coaching takes place in the office and (when carried out by a manager) can be integrated into day-to-day workplace conversations.
- Training is more typically carried out in groups – Coaching, though it is sometimes in groups, is usually a one-to-one process, tailored to the individual's needs.
- Training is usually delivered by an external consultant or dedicated internal trainer – Coaching can be delivered by an external consultant, or by a manager.
Coaching is not Mentoring
There are some superficial similarities between coaching and mentoring, as they are both typically one-to-one conversations aimed at facilitating professional or personal development, but there are also significant differences:
- A Mentor is usually a more senior person who shares experience and advises a junior person working in the same field. A coach is not necessarily senior to the person being coached, and does not typically give advice or pass on experience. Instead they use questions and feedback to facilitate the other person's thinking and practical learning.
- A Mentor is not typically the manager of the person being mentored, but someone who is available for advice and guidance when needed. Coaching is frequently delivered by managers with their teams.
Coaching is not Counselling
Like mentoring, there are also some superficial similarities between coaching and counseling. They are both typically one-to-one conversations aimed at facilitating the personal development of the client, but there are also significant differences:
- Counselling and therapy deal with personal problems, Coaching addresses personal and professional performance.
- Counselling begins with a problem, coaching can begin with a goal or aspiration.
- Counselling is sought by people having difficulties, coaching is used by high achievers, beginners or people who are just stuck.
- Many forms of Counselling focus on the past. They look at the origins and resolution of problems. Coaching focuses on the future and developing inspiring, workable solutions.
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1. My name is Anand Patil, I have developed a web project with my partner.
2. We both are using Tom Cat 6.0. And eclipse Juno as a IDE
3. My partner is using operating system Windows 07 and I am using operating system Windows XP.
4. All project files are exported on Windows 07 by using File System through eclipse juno
5. When I import all project files by using File Systems on Windows XP through eclipse juno it gets imported properly.
6. Now I have added a simple code System.out.println("check point one"); with other SOP. After addition of a small code
I run the server, and when I check the output I donot get my newly added SOP message. The out put that I get is of previous code.
7. This shows that updations in code are not working properly.
8. Can any body will help me in getting out of this problem?
9. I think may this problem is due to use of different operating system. Is it so?
Actions taken to solve this problem are as bellow -
1. We checked BuildAutomatically check mark from proect ment, that was on.
2. We also clicked on clean option from project menu and we also refreched project list.
3. We also deleted the whole project, server and workspace.
4. We re-created workspace on different location and then re-imported the project.
5. We also cleared Work directory that is present in ProgramFiles of TomCat server directory.
By taking all above actions still we are facing same problem.

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~ gather fresh herbs and cherry tomatoes~
~once the veggies are little sauted add eggs, top with tomatoes and fresh herbs~
~add fresh grated Havarti cheese, salt and pepper~
~toast wheat bread and top with sunflower sprouts~
~I added a little bit of cheddar~
~serve with a side of fresh fruit and enjoy~
~ Garlic, herbs, tomatoes, and squash from our little garden.
~~ Corn, brown eggs, and sunflower sprouts from the Urban Market , which is just down the road from us.
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However, in the last few weeks the full reality of running a bakery has hit me. I have hired 4 assistants in the last eight weeks, three of whom have already had quit or had to be let go for various reasons. My fourth assistant started a few weeks ago as full time, but recently switched to part time. So I now only have twenty five-ish hours of help a week. The rest of the time it's basically my sole responsibility to do all the ordering, the tweaking of the recipes, the majority of the baking, developing new products, sourcing packaging for those products, scheduling deliveries of the baked goods, and all sorts of other little things that get slipped into the everyday flow of things.
There have been many thirteen hour days. There has also been a lot of sweat and even tears. When I allow myself to stop thinking about everything I still need to do and realize how much has been done since the doors opened in May, it's pretty amazing.
Sometimes it's nice to just sit back and let yourself enjoy something simple like these popsicles. Something you didn't have to spend hours making and that feels refreshing. The raspberries also are tart enough to counteract the sugar. Because no matter how badly I want to tell people that I have not overdosed on sugar, there are definitely days where I don't want to test another cupcake or cookie or cinnamon bun for a very long time.
Raspberry Popsicles
adapted from Family Kitchen
1.5 cup frozen raspberries
1 cup coconut water
1 cup apple juice
2 tablespoons agave nectar
Combine all ingredients in blender and puree until smooth. Freeze for at least 2 hours before snacking. Quantity will vary based on the size of your popsicle molds, but this made 8 for me.


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Schools We Can Envy
Diane Ravitch
Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational
Change in Finland?
by Pasi Sahlberg, with a foreword by Andy Hargreaves
Teachers College Press, 167 pp., $34.95 (paper)
Tuomas Uusheimo
The Kirkkojaervi School in Espoo, Finland, which
accommodates about 770 students aged seven to sixteen and
also includes a preschool for six-year-olds; from the
Museum of Finnish Architecture's exhibition 'The Best
School in the World: Seven Finnish Examples from the 21st
Century,' which will be on view at the American Institute
of Architects' Center for Architecture in New York City
this fall
In recent years, elected officials and policymakers such
as former president George W. Bush, former schools
chancellor Joel Klein in New York City, former schools
chancellor Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., and
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have agreed that there
should be "no excuses" for schools with low test scores.
The "no excuses" reformers maintain that all children can
attain academic proficiency without regard to poverty,
disability, or other conditions, and that someone must be
held accountable if they do not. That someone is
invariably their teachers.
Nothing is said about holding accountable the district
leadership or the elected officials who determine such
crucial issues as funding, class size, and resource
allocation. The reformers say that our economy is in
jeopardy, not because of growing poverty or income
inequality or the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, but
because of bad teachers. These bad teachers must be found
out and thrown out. Any laws, regulations, or contracts
that protect these pedagogical malefactors must be
eliminated so that they can be quickly removed without
regard to experience, seniority, or due process.
The belief that schools alone can overcome the effects of
poverty may be traced back many decades but its most
recent manifestation was a short book published in 2000 by
the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.,
titled No Excuses. In this book, Samuel Casey Carter
identified twenty-one high-poverty schools with high test
scores. Over the past decade, influential figures in
public life have decreed that school reform is the key to
fixing poverty. Bill Gates told the National Urban League,
"Let's end the myth that we have to solve poverty before
we improve education. I say it's more the other way
around: improving education is the best way to solve
poverty." Gates never explains why a rich and powerful
society like our own cannot address both poverty and
school improvement at the same time.
For a while, the Gates Foundation thought that small high
schools were the answer, but Gates now believes that
teacher evaluation is the primary ingredient of school
reform. The Gates Foundation has awarded hundreds of
millions of dollars to school districts to develop new
teacher evaluation systems. In 2009, the nation's chief
reformer, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, launched a
$4.35 billion competitive program called Race to the Top,
which required states to evaluate teachers by student test
scores and to remove the limits on privately managed
charter schools.
The main mechanism of school reform today is to identify
teachers who can raise their students' test scores every
year. If the scores go up, reformers assume, then the
students will enroll in college and poverty will
eventually disappear. This will happen, the reformers
believe, if there is a "great teacher" in every classroom
and if more schools are handed over to private managers,
even for-profit corporations.
The reformers don't care that standardized tests are prone
to measurement error, sampling error, and other
statistical errors.1 They don't seem to care that experts
like Robert L. Linn at the University of Colorado, Linda
Darling-Hammond at Stanford, and Helen F. Ladd at Duke, as
well as a commission of the National Research Council,
have warned about misuse of standardized tests to hold
individual teachers accountable with rewards or sanctions.
Nor do they see the absurdity of gauging the quality of a
teacher by the results of a multiple-choice test given to
students on one day of the year.
Testing can provide useful information, showing students
and teachers what is and is not being learned, and scores
can be used to diagnose learning problems. But bad things
happen when tests become too consequential for students,
teachers, and schools, such as narrowing the curriculum
only to what is tested or cheating or lowering standards
to inflate scores. In response to the federal and state
pressure to raise test scores, school districts across the
nation have been reducing the time available for the arts,
physical education, history, civics, and other nontested
subjects. This will not improve education and is certain
to damage its quality.
No nation in the world has eliminated poverty by firing
teachers or by handing its public schools over to private
managers; nor does research support either strategy.2 But
these inconvenient facts do not reduce the reformers'
zeal. The new breed of school reformers consists mainly of
Wall Street hedge fund managers, foundation officials,
corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, but
few experienced educators. The reformers' detachment from
the realities of schooling and their indifference to
research allow them to ignore the important influence of
families and poverty. The schools can achieve miracles,
the reformers assert, by relying on competition,
deregulation, and management by data--strategies similar to
the ones that helped produce the economic crash of 2008.
In view of the reformers' penchant for these strategies,
educators tend to call them "corporate reformers," to
distinguish them from those who understand the
complexities of school improvement.
The corporate reformers' well-funded public relations
campaign has succeeded in persuading elected officials
that American public education needs shock therapy. One is
tempted to forget that the United States is the largest
and one of the most successful economies in the world, and
that some part of this success must be attributed to the
institutions that educated 90 percent of the people in
this nation.
Faced with the relentless campaign against teachers and
public education, educators have sought a different
narrative, one free of the stigmatization by test scores
and punishment favored by the corporate reformers. They
have found it in Finland. Even the corporate reformers
admire Finland, apparently not recognizing that Finland
disproves every part of their agenda.
It is not unusual for Americans to hold up another nation
as a model for school reform. In the mid-nineteenth
century, American education leaders hailed the Prussian
system for its professionalism and structure. In the
1960s, Americans flocked to England to marvel at its
progressive schools. In the 1980s, envious Americans
attributed the Japanese economic success to its school
system. Now the most favored nation is Finland, and for
four good reasons.
First, Finland has one of the highest-performing school
systems in the world, as measured by the Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA), which assesses
reading, mathematical literacy, and scientific literacy of
fifteen-year-old students in all thirty-four nations of
the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), including the United States. Unlike our domestic
tests, there are no consequences attached to the tests
administered by the PISA. No individual or school learns
its score. No one is rewarded or punished because of these
tests. No one can prepare for them, nor is there any
incentive to cheat.
Second, from an American perspective, Finland is an
alternative universe. It rejects all of the "reforms"
currently popular in the United States, such as testing,
charter schools, vouchers, merit pay, competition, and
evaluating teachers in relation to the test scores of
their students.
Third, among the OECD nations, Finnish schools have the
least variation in quality, meaning that they come closest
to achieving equality of educational opportunity--an
American ideal.
Fourth, Finland borrowed many of its most valued ideas
from the United States, such as equality of educational
opportunity, individualized instruction, portfolio
assessment, and cooperative learning. Most of its
borrowing derives from the work of the philosopher John
In Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from
Educational Change in Finland?, Pasi Sahlberg explains how
his nation's schools became successful. A government
official, researcher, and former mathematics and science
teacher, Sahlberg attributes the improvement of Finnish
schools to bold decisions made in the 1960s and 1970s.
Finland's story is important, he writes, because "it gives
hope to those who are losing their faith in public
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Richard Petty's wife, Lynda, helped start a benevolent fund for injured members of the NASCAR community.
RANDLEMAN, N.C. — Lynda Petty, the wife of NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty, died Tuesday after battling cancer for several years. She was 72.
Petty Motorsports spokesman Jeff Dennison said in a statement that Petty was surrounded by her family when she died at her home in Level Cross.
He said she had been fighting cancer for the past several years.
Lynda Petty helped start the Racing Wives Auxiliary, a benevolent fund for injured members of the NASCAR community.
The group was formed by the wives of drivers, crews and sponsors.
"Through the years, Lynda became an integral part of the NASCAR landscape. We have lost a true friend, who will be missed each and every day," said NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France.
Besides her husband, Lynda Petty is survived by son Kyle, two daughters, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
"It was no secret that she was the cornerstone of the Petty family; a woman of humility and extraordinary strength," said Austin Petty, Lynda and Richard's grandson and chief operating officer of Victory Junction, a camp for children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses.
"While we mourn her death, we also celebrate her life and the profound impact she had on those who knew her," Austin Petty said.
A private memorial service is scheduled for Reverie Place in Randleman. No date or time was given.


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Using Candy as an In-School FundraiserPosted on 06/29/2009 by Howard Gottlieb
Obviously the whole point of using candy as an in-school fundraiser is that the kids will be able to sell to their fellow students, either at lunch time, between classes, or after school. However, selling on school grounds is something you'll have to get permission from the school to do, and this may not be a straightforward as you think. In some school districts in certain states, there are now laws that regulate the nutritional content of any food that is provided on school grounds. This would carry across to your in-school fundraiser as well, and that's something you need to find out about well ahead of time. You don't want to pay for cases and cases of chocolate bars, only to find out after they're delivered that the school won't allow the students to sell them to other students on school grounds. So get your permissions sorted out first before you try to organize an in-school fundraiser like chocolate.
So what if the school can't give that permission, what then? There are certainly ways around this. Of course you could just restrict your group to selling outside of school, but you can also choose a healthier product and see where that gets you. Things like Welch's Fruit Snacks, for example, are still sweet treats, but are fat free and a more nutritional alternative to things like chocolate or lollipops. If your school will give permission for you to sell these instead of chocolate, then that's your in-school fundraiser problem solved.
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Peanut FREE $1 Chocolate Bars
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Hershey $2 Candy Bars
This new $2 Hershey's Fundraising Candy Variety Pack offers bigger bars, the biggest brands and the biggest profits. These candy bars are much larger than the $1 candy bars.They are easy to sell and can help you make bigger profits on every sale.
Chocolatiers Candy Bar Fundraiser
You can still make high profits with a candy bar fundraiser. Our Chocolatiers Candy Bars offer profits as high as 60%. There is a small one case minimum and shipping is always FREE. These candy bars are manufactured in a peanut free facility and guaranteed to be peanut free.
Original One Dollar Chocolate Candy Bar Fundraiser
The Original One Dollar Bars comes in two different variety packs. These are our best selling candy bar fundraisers. They offer the largest one dollar fundraising candy bar that is manufactured in a peanut free facility.
Welch's Fruit Snacks
People struggle when choosing a product for a youth fundraiser because of childhood obesity. If you are looking for a healthier alternative to chocolate bars or lollipops, consider selling our Welch's Fruit Snacks Variety Pack. The snacks are 100% Vitamin C, an excellent source of Vitamins A and E, FAT FREE, Made with real fruit and have no preservatives.
Yummy Licks Round Lollipops
Yummy Licks are our #1 lollipop. They come in an assortment of all your favorite flavors. Yummy Licks Round lollipops are packaged in cases of 640 lollipops. Inside the case are 8 packages with each package containing 80 lollipops. You will make 50% profit selling just one case. Shipping is FREE.
Color Xploder Lollipops
Color Blasters are a fun candy. These swirl lollipops look like a tie-dyed shirt. All of the different flavors are thrown together and you get a unique mixture of color and flavors. Since no two lollipops are exactly the same you get to offer new fresh products each time someone buys one of your fundraising lollipops. There is only a one case minimum.
Specialty Lollipops
Are you looking for custom lollipops? We have heart lollipops, star lollipops, lips lollipops, Valentine lollipops, Halloween lollipops, Christmas lollipops, if fact we have lollipops for just about any occasion. You can make great profits with lollipop fundraisers anytime of the year. Click here to see all our selection of wholesale lollipops and wholesale suckers!
Sports Lollipops
If you are raising money for sports teams consider these fun lollipops. Your lollipop fundraiser can be specific to your particular sport. We have Baseball lollipops and Football lollipops. If we do not have your particular sport we have a great selection of other fundraiser suckers that will work well.
Sour Mania Lollipops
Sour Mania Sour Pops are one of our top elementary school lollipop fundraisers. Both kids and adults love sour candy. These are the original sour lollipops. It is definitely one of the top choices for a school needing to raise easy money.
Hot Pops
Made with real chili, Hot Pops Lollipops are an enticing combination of sweet and spicy. Hot Pops Lollipops come in an array of colors and a variety of flavors including: Watermelon, Pineapple, Orange, Lemon, Mango, and Green Apple.
Chocolate Lollipops
Chocolate fundraising lollipops are a great way to combine the ease of selling lollipops with the popularity of selling chocolate candy. You'll find chocolate lollipops that cover the major holiday selling seasons along with sports specific lollipops. You sell the lollipops for $1.00 and make 40% profit.
Smencils scented pencils made from recycled newspapers are perfect for schools. Each scented pencil sells for $1 and are shipped in cases containing 10 buckets with 50 Smencils in each. Smencils are available in two varieties. Regular Black Lead as well as assorted fun colors. Best of all shipping is FREE!
Jack Links Beef Jerky
Jack Links Beef Sticks are a great alternative to candy fundraising. The beef sticks meet or exceed most school nutritional standards. The sticks sell for only $2 each. You can purchase as little as 1 case and shipping is absolutely free
Baseball Lollipops
Baseball lollipops are a great way for baseball teams, players or organizations to raise money all season long. Baseball lollipops are packaged in cases of 640 lollipops. Inside the case are 8 packages with each package containing 80 lollipops. You will make 50% profit selling just one case.
Christmas Lollipops
You will increase your lollipop sales during the holiday season with these great Christmas Lollipops. They are packaged in cases of 640 fundraising lollipops. Inside the case are 8 packages with each package containing 80 lollipops. You will make 50% profit selling just one case. And shipping is free
Heart Lollipops
Of course Heart shaped lollipops virtually sell themselves leading up to Valentine's Day. But they sell well any time of the year. There's a 1 case minimum, shipping is free and you will make 50% profit on each fundraising lollipop sold. Each case comes with 640 heart lollipops.
Lip Shaped Lollipops
Want a new product to increase your lollipop fundraising sales? Consider our Lip Lollipops. They sell well any time of the year but do especially well around Valentine's Day. There is only a 1 case minimum and you will make 50% profit on every lollipop you sell.
Main Street Sweet Shop the Ultimate Candy Fundraiser
The Main Street Sweet Shop has reinvigorated candy fundraising. People are excited about the fun new products, they love the 1 case minimum, they appreciate the free shipping and they really love the high profit percentages. Everyone loves gummy bears and sour gummies!
Pretzel Rods Fundraiser
You have to try our irresistibly sweet and salty chocolate covered pretzel rods! The Rods are dipped in milk chocolate and then rolled in delicious select toppings including crushed candy coated chocolates, toffee, and rainbow sprinkles. The mixture of salty pretzel, sweet chocolate, and toppings is sure to satisfy all cravings!
Cal Pack Healthy Snack Fundraiser
This is the original Pak that started it all. Still, the best selling healthy snack fundraiser in America. The Cal Pak is CA SB-12 compliant with 35-10-35 regulations in California, so it can be sold on campus during school hours. Also, CA SB-12 serves as the template for many other states which have recently added regulations. There are 66 snacks in each Cal Pak and 4 Cal Paks in each Mastercase.
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I went on Amazon to check if there was a "books by parents of celebrities" section – no dice. But really there could be: Jaid Barrymore (mom of Drew), Lynne Spears (mom of Britney), Debbie Nelson (mom of Eminem), Nancy Aniston (mom of Jennifer) and Kit Culkin (father of Macaulay). I'm sure I'm missing some, but that's not exactly an illustrious list, is it?
Pattie Mallette, mom of Justin Bieber, is currently on tour for her new book, Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom. Line-ups that start at the crack of dawn, screaming and hysterical fans, posters, gifts - does this sound like your usual book tour? Well it is when your target audience is Beliebers.
The Ottawa Citizen recently profiled Ms. Mallette, and the hysteria she brings, not to mention the narrative her team tries to enforce:
"Although Mallette's handlers warn interviewers to focus on her book and not her son's recent headlines, her book tour unabashedly rides on her pop star son's massive popularity. While people lined up waiting for her, an MC with a microphone threw Bieber trivia questions at the crowd. For most people lined up with a book in their hands, it was a stop on the way to the concert. "
When you put your son's name in your book title (and in your Twitter bio), what do you want people to think? What do you want them to ask you?
And if Justin wasn't pissing in buckets and acting the fool everywhere he goes, would Pattie's handlers be so quick to discourage questions about him? Probably not, and this is really sh-tty for Justin.
Is there anyone in that kid's life who isn't living off his fame, his name and his money? Eating his food, driving his cars, living in his house? I know, I know – he needs to pull his pants up and stop spitting, but having people indulge you and having people actually want what is best for you are two completely different things. His public choices might be poor and Pattie doesn't need to publicly defend them, but if she is going to use his name – literally – to sell books, what does she owe him?
This is the imbalance that creating a career off your kid must have – yes you are the parent, but when you are relying on them for your livelihood, are you going to eventually be motivated enough to keep quiet when they are being sh-theads? (And let's face it, at 19, we were all sh-theads.)
This isn't to say Pattie's all fluff. She has lived quite a life - sexual abuse, depression, teen pregnancy, finding religion; it is a heavy story that some girls may benefit from hearing. Pattie's take is that she reels them in with Justin, then gives them her story in order to reach out to the ones who need to know they aren't alone. Great in theory, but when girls are weeping at your feet, is the message getting through? Or is this just another way for them to worship at the altar of Bieber?
Instead of encouraging this ravenous consumption of her son, it would be nice for her to guide girls into finding their own voices, their own talent and their own reason for pushing through all the sh-tty things life can throw at them. Being the mom of the boy they adore definitely gives her a unique place in their heart, but she's also capitalizing off their high emotions and misguided hero worship to sell books.
Would she ever tell the girls to forget about the boy (including Justin) and focus on themselves? I don't know, I haven't read the book. I also hope USE A CONDOM is chapter 1, 2 and 3, but I doubt it.


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The humble fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster
An Introduction
André Karwath
Morphology of Drosophila melanogaster
V. Hartenstein, FlyBase
Color graphic side view of the exterior morphology of Drosophila melanogaster.
Drosophila melanogaster is commonly known as the fruit fly, a little insect about 3mm long and 2 mm in width. Its eggs are about half a millimeter long. Like all insects, Drosophila is covered in a chitinous exoskeleton; has three main body segments; and has three pairs of segmented legs. And as with other flies, Drosophila has a single pair of wings on its thorax middle section. The last segment of the thorax has a pair of rudimentary wings called halteres that serve as "knobby" balancing organs.[1]
Drosophila's life cycle
Like all members of the order Diptera, Drosophila goes through the entire metamorphosis cycle. Reproduction in Drosophila is rapid.[1] The female after mating will lay approximately 400 eggs which take about 12 hours to hatch. Over the next six days, the continuously growing and eating larva will molt two times and end up as an immobile pupa. During the four day metamorphosis stage,[2] the larval tissues are reabsorbed and the imaginal (adult) tissues undergo extensive morphogenetic changes to form adult structures.[3] Twelve hours after eclosion, the adult Drosophila becomes fertile and the female becomes receptive to courting males.[2]
The period of time is quit sensitive to temperature. The above times represents 25°C (77°F) and decreasing the temperature down to 18°C (64°F) will double the development time.[2] A single pair of flies can produce hundreds of offspring within a couple of weeks, and the offspring become sexually mature within one week.[1]
Geographical distribution
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The above figure shows the origin distribution of Drosophila melanogaster.
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The modern day distribution of Drosophila melanogaster.
Originally native to the Old World tropical regions, man has introduced Drosophila melanogaster to every continent of the world except Antarctica. It can survive in a wide range of habitats. It is limited by cold temperatures and the lack of water. Drosophila can adapt to temperatures that are colder then it could normally survive in by utilizing buildings built by man. The only aspects that limit the habitats Drosophila melanogaster can live in is temperature and availability of water. The preference for moist environments is indicated by its scientific name, Drosophila, which means "lover of dew."[1]
Drosophila's behavior
T. Chapman, PLoS Biology
A Drosophila melanogaster couple mating.
Jim Kalisch, UNL Entomology
Drosophila melanogaster larvae feeding in a peach.
Drosophila melanogaster has simplistic behavior. They are easily drawn towards light or the smell of any food source, and will almost indiscriminately mate with any individual of the opposite sex.[1]
The adults thrive on rotting plants, spoiled fruit and fermenting liquids. The female looks for fruit that is green or only slightly ripened fruit. Her objective is to find fruit that will be just starting to rot when her eggs hatch.[1]
Pure gold — Drosophila use in biological research
Paul Whitington, U of Melbourne
Drosophila melanogaster in an incubator
"Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most valuable of organisms in biological research. Originally, it was mostly used in genetics, for instance to discover that genes were related to proteins and to study the rules of genetic inheritance. More recently, it is used mostly in developmental biology, looking to see how a complex organism arises from a relatively simple fertilized egg." Now most of the research is concentrated in embryonic development, but there continues to be research focused on the development of the compound eye, the wings, legs, and other organs. "Drosophila is so popular, it would be almost impossible to list the number of things that are being done with it."[2]
Gary Hime, U of Melbourne
Researcher sorting Drosophila melanogaster.
"Drosophila has been used as a model organism for research for almost a century, and today, several thousand scientists are working on many different aspects of the fruit fly. Part of the reason people work on it is historical — so much is already known about it that it is easy to handle and well-understood — and part of it is practical: it's a small animal, with a short life cycle of just two weeks, and is cheap and easy to keep large numbers. Mutant flies, with defects in any of several thousand genes are available, and the entire genome has recently been sequenced."[4]
Model organism with super genes
Dr. Elissa Lei, NIH
Drosophila salivary gland polytene chromosomes.
"The genes involved in the development of Drosophila, with few exceptions, are the same as those involved in the development of higher organisms. Developmental biology studies the sequential activation and interaction of genes, in relation to developing morphology. Right now, Drosophila is the only organism for which one can begin with a list of genes active in the egg and follow the morphological changes and gene activations through to adulthood.[4]
"Drosophila studies have provided the widest knowledge base available for any single organism; accordingly, developmental biologists use the fly to ferret out the activity of genes with similar functions in higher organisms. Despite its small size, the fly is by no means a small developmental problem. Drosophila is just one level of magnitude less complex than you or I. If you know the genes involved in the development of the fly, you also know, to a reasonable approximation, the genes involved in the development of the worm, the fish, the mouse, and for that matter, ourselves."[4]
Fruit flies relate to human
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Drosophila melanogaster is used to study medical conditions in humans.
"Believe it or not, fruit flies have many things in common with humans! Fruit flies and humans share many human disease genes, cellular processes, brain cell development, and behaviors. For example, fruit flies that are deprived of sleep have reduced ability to learn. Fruit flies also can sense the direction of gravity."[4]
- Miller, C.; Drosophila melanogaster (On-line), Animal Diversity Web; 2000. Accessed October 27, 2008 @ http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Drosophila_melanogaster.html.
- Manning,Gerard; A quick and simple introduction to Drosophila melanogaster; The WWW Virtual Library: Drosophila; October 1, 2006. Accessed October 26, 2008 @ http://ceolas.org/VL/fly/intro.html.
- Wikipedia; Drosophila melanogaster (webpage); Wikipedia; Wikimedia Foundation; October 12, 2008. Accessed October 27, 2008 @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster.
- Brody, Thomas B.; Meet the Interactive Fly; The Interactive Fly [edition 53], sponsored by Society for Developmental Biology (http://www.sdbonline.org/); August 24, 2008; Accessed October 27, 2008 @ http://www.sdbonline.org/fly/aimain/1aaintro.htm.
- Navarro, B. J. and Elland, Carol (Editor); Studying Drosophila; Flies in Space (website); NASA; September 2006. Accessed October 27, 2008 @ http://quest.nasa.gov/projects/flies/species.html.
A Selection of Good Drosophila Books for Beginners
|A "brilliant book for the beginners to get a feel of Drosophila. Majority of new fly workers use this as a guide to understand various aspects of fly genetics, as it is well written.This book covers all important aspects which one encounter while studying Genetics of fly. Hence makes it a must read for all beginners" — Hoxful
|The book takes a practical approach to performing various experiments with flies.
|An edited book that covers lab culture, molecular biology, and mutagenesis techniques.
|This is a reprint of the classic 'Demerec' book of 1950. Much of the descriptive biology of the fly is covered in this book.
Fly Pushing: The Theory and Practice of Drosophila Genetics
Drosophila: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)
Drosophila: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)
Biology of Drosophila
A Selection of Additional Internet Resources
- FlyBase
FlyBase is the core Internet resource for Drosophila researchers, with information on stocks, genes, mutants, researchers, publications and much much more.
- The Interactive Fly
An ambitious and extensive hypertext encyclopedia of fly genes and developmental processes, and a great starting point.
- FlyMove
Excellent learning resource, with extensive pictures and animations of embryonic development.
- The Animal Diversity Web
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. Animal Diversity Web has thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. This online encyclopedia can be used as a science learning tool and a virtual museum. It is written largely by and for college students.
- The Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites — one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species. Each site has content ranging from historical literature and biological descriptions to images, videos and distribution maps.
- Other resources
A link to a page on The Interactive Fly website with a list of other resources.


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Greater China Director Changhua Wu was featured on BBC's HardTalk this month. Changhua fielded a hard-hitting and incisive line of questioning from host Stephen Sackur. Her responses painted a stunning picture of a country undergoing rapid transition: politically, economically, and environmentally. Yes, China's emissions are worrying, she concurs. An enormous amount must be done. But she contends, the country is making great strides already. Walking Sackler through some of China's promising commitments, progressive initiatives and fast-spreading innovations, Changhua reveals a China that, in many ways, could be well on its way toward a low-carbon future.
SS: You run a Beijing think tank which is devoted to sustainable development trying to control climate change. Does your heart sink when you look at the reality of what is happening in China?
CW: Not really. I do know how challenging it is. But [when you] look at what is going on already, on the ground, here in China: in terms of the political will; the policy and laws regulations; the leadership and emerging leadership from China's business community - as well the increasing awareness among public consumers about climate change issues and environmental issues. I am hopeful.
China is already the number two polluter in the world today, on track to being number one, to overtake the United States.SS: That's an incredible optimistic spin on a reality which is very depressing. China is already the number two polluter in the world today, on track to being number one, to overtake the United States. That is the reality and it is frightening.
CW: It is. And it's unavoidable, if you look at the reality and the numbers. China is at the stage of rapid industrialisation as well as urbanisation...We have a huge population base: 1.3 billion people already here. People are looking for a better lifestyle, a better life quality... [but] people are taking action. Not only here in this country - if you look at the national level and local level - but also internationally. I think there has been increasing awareness and also political will emerging at the international level - particularly dealing with climate change issues...
SS: International will but also international concern... they see the reality out of this window. They see that Beijing is one of the world's top twenty polluted cities, and perhaps fourteen or fifteen of the others in the top twenty, according to the World Bank, are also inside China. And they believe that is a clear sign that China has got its environmental policies wrong.
CW: If you look back historically like sixty or even one hundred years ago: look at the UK, look at North America. What did you see then? You probably would see an even worse situation in many, many cities - in London, in Pittsburgh, places like that... Today it's a totally different situation. We have better awareness, we have knowledge, we have the will and the policies, as well as [that] awareness. We have the tools and solutions now. Yes we have to acknowledge the problems, the challenges that we are dealing with at this moment, in China in particular. We are hopeful because there are solutions. And people are willing to take solutions, to take action, to deal with the problem.
Of course you would wish that things would be taken care of faster than you would expect: then that would take more effort, commitment from the international community as well as from here.
SS:... Is authoritarian rule the best way to deliver on climate change?
CW: Well again this is making an interpretation. This is not a simple process. The good thing, positively, is that the government decided to make a commitment.
SS: How do you solve the problems presented by this basic fact: China get two thirds of its energy right now from coal, which is the dirtiest form of energy production. How do you overcome that basic fact?
"Today it's a totally different situation...We have the tools and the solutions now."CW: It is a fact unfortunately... [But when] you look at the action, the investments, the policies, the financing, the technologies, everything here around clean coal technology. It's happening here already. China actually has now the first supercritical technology units for power generation, which probably has the highest energy-efficiency level -
SS: These are just experiments aren't they? I know your think tank helps to finance these experiments and is very actively involved in pushing new ideas and innovation. But they are still at the testing stage. It's no good testing things and telling me that that makes a difference when many, many dirty coal fired power stations in the old form are still being built.
CW: I wouldn't really think that way... You need a lot of technologies; you need to experiment. China is moving very, very fast towards alternative energies, including renewable energy. If you look at wind and solar, China has been doing a dramatic and very impressive job already. You have really the leading Chinese companies supplying the European and North American markets with solar PV. And we have lots of wind power units actually installed here on the ground, operating already...With all these things combined together, it is hopeful that the situation will definitely get better.
"This system in many, many ways works better. As long as there is a top management commitment - the political will - things happen here."CW: ...Here in China, I wouldn't say it's totally authoritarian at this moment, compared to a couple of decades ago. It is very different now. China is in a stage of transition...But with the current system in place, at this moment: in many, many ways particularly coming down to climate change issues, this system in many, many ways works better. As long as there is a top management commitment - the political will - things happen here.
SS: If that's true, why does the Economist magazine report that the very ambitious energy intensity reduction targets, that have been put in place by the government here, are being missed?...It comes back to this point of the nature of the government. How can the failure be so bad if the government and the leadership have decided it must be so?
SS: Well that's the message you give me: that there's got to be all this co-operation, there's got to be awareness raising, there's got to be new incentives, there's got to be innovation. All sorts of positive messages... [all] more carrot than stick. Let's talk stick for a second. For a start do you believe that China as part of a post-Kyoto global agreement should sign up to binding cuts in emissions?
CW: That's a tough question -
SS: That's why I am asking. Do you believe they should?
CW: Down the road, somehow -
"Countries across the world are facing this issue of whether to and how to establish a really meaningful post-Kyoto agreement now. China has to decide NOW."SS: It's not a question of down the road. It's about now. Because countries across the world are facing this issue of whether to and how to establish a really meaningful post-Kyoto agreement now. China has to decide NOW.
CW: I think my answer will be really around [the] kind of target. China is setting a lot of targets already, meaning energy efficiency targets, renewable energy, as well as [for] forest carbon sinks...[and] shutting down all the polluters, everything like that. If you think that's good enough, then China is there already....
SS: I am talking about the sorts of binding commitments from China...that would say: "By a certain time you have to reduce your emissions to this level; you have to stop some of the growth that you have planned, because it is not sustainable."
CW: ... China will definitely make its commitment, as the Bali process showed. The government have decided to take on certain actions, commitments, and it is included in the Bali road map already. Meaning they are going to set specific targets, measurable reports, that will be verifiable. But in terms of what that means: what kind of targets they will be? Will they be the same as the Annex 1 countries at this moment, that say by 2010, by 2020, we are going to cut emissions by 50 or 20 percent compared to 1990 level?
SS: Do you know what they are saying? In the European Union and in Britain they are saying we will commit to cut by 60% by 2050. Is that realistic in China?
CW: No. Honestly, no. We don't even have an understanding of what the base line is at this moment. I just don't feel it is realistic.
SS: Given that China by then will be the world's number one polluter, by some way, what you' re telling me is worrying, is it not?
SS: The final thought. It seem to me what the Chinese government says it can do is something unprecedented, truly historic. They say that they can develop China, grow in the most remarkable way and somehow break with the cycle we have seen, in all industrial societies, which links growth in per capita income to growth in consumption of energy. The Chinese say for the first time ever they can be an economy, a society, that breaks that umbilical cord. Do you believe that?
CW: I do, actually...It is possible. With the technology level at this moment; with the financing resources; the investments and interest from the financing sector in new technology... And the political will is there. I think it is doable. And China is trying very, very hard to be the showcase and to demonstrate that it is doable.
SS: You are a remarkable optimist.
CW: I am. Otherwise I wouldn't be in my position, honestly...
Thanks to the BBC for the permission to post this transcript from the interview on this website
"In terms of putting a cap there - saying that by 2020 the Chinese will commit [reductions] compared to 2005 as the baseline year... it's a tricky question in a way: Is it a 'should'? Or [is it] whether it's doable..."It is worrying. There's no doubt about it. China is the [world's] biggest country and by then very possibly China will be the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Actions have to be taken. But in terms of putting a cap there - saying that by 2020 the Chinese will commit [reductions] compared to 2005 as the baseline year... it's a tricky question in a way: Is it a 'should'? Or [is it a question of] whether it's doable...All the countries really 'should'. Definitely everybody has to cut their emissions... That's where we just started the process at this moment. I don't have a definite answer at this moment.


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Royals Top Rockies Behind Moustakas
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Much-maligned Mike Moustakas hit a three-run double in the second inning, and Jason Vargas and the Kansas City bullpen made the meager offense work in a 3-2 victory Wednesday over the Colorado Rockies for a two-game sweep.
Vargas (4-1) did not allow a hit until the fourth inning and did not allow a run until Drew Stubbs belted a two-run homer to left in the seventh that made things interesting.
Louis Coleman got the Royals out of the inning without any more damage, and Kelvin Herrera worked a perfect eighth before Greg Holland survived a shaky ninth for his 10th save.
Jhoulys Chacin (1-1) allowed the three runs that Moustakas drove in but otherwise pitched well for Colorado. He allowed seven hits and a walk over six gritty innings.


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Each month, GMRI hosts a Lunch & Learn tour of our lab and education facility located on the Portland waterfront.
This informal session — geared toward community leaders, supporters, and friends of GMRI — provides an introduction to our work and an opportunity to better understand GMRI's role in the community. Join us to hear the latest news about the Gulf of Maine, meet GMRI staff, and enjoy casual conversation over lunch.
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With all of the various realities populating the "Fringe" multiverse, it might be difficult for the devoted fans of the show to imagine a world without it.
But as the series begins its final descent toward the season-four finale, with the fate of a fifth season still in limbo, the creators and cast turned out at WonderCon to tease big things in the episodes ahead, in hopes of two alternate realities: a) the faithful turn out in ratings-raising droves to help push another season forward or b) to go out with a satisfying bang.
"I think that what we're really excited about, from now forward, is that the beginning of the season was really much set up for payoffs that are starting to come fast and furious now, for the rest of the season," executive produce Jeff Pinkner tells PopcornBiz. "I think that when we set out to tell this story with an alternate timeline and Peter disappeared and then Peter came back, we had a lot of confidence in the face of a lot of network and studio nervousness of whether or not we'd be able to stick the landing, as it were, of the season. I think that we're not looking backwards from the ending."
"It was with challenges, and it required a tremendous amount of hard work and juggling balls in the air for us, but I think that it's been an incredibly satisfying season," adds Pinkner, "because it's really paid off a lot of things that we set up back in Season One. It's made us revisit things that we set up in Season One, texturally, thematically, character-wise. I think that this season has felt like it's enriched the show now, again, looking back from the episodes that we know are still to come, in a way that is better than maybe we would've even hoped for."
Series star John Noble says viewers haven't seen the last of the ongoing variations of Walter Bishop and his alternate-universe and alternate-timeline counterparts that he's been pleased to sink his teeth into over the last few years.
"As we move forward, we're going to see a couple more versions of Walter as well, which we've never seen before: future ones," says Noble. "I don't know what's going to happen in the final episode, except there has to be a payoff. The last lot of episodes that we've been making, I promise you, have just been some of the best that we've ever done – so powerful and so thought provoking. Difficult, too, but we're building towards what has to be a meeting of the titans – Walter is one of them – and there's going to be clash of titans. What happens to him, I don't know. I'd like to think that he wins the day."
Also getting to delve into alt-versions of her character is Blair Brown, after the previous introduction of Nina Sharp's sinister doppelganger (whom she's affectionately dubbed "Mean-a").
"Something interesting happens in the very next episode, what her fate is, which kind of stops her in her tracks," says Brown. "Then there's another version of Nina that comes along that's quite unusual. So I've had fun in the past several weeks."
Some new faces won't be played by the regular ensemble, says Pinkner, with the addition of two new mysterious characters to close out the season. "What we can tell you is that both Henry Ian Cusick and Georgina Haig are spectacular," he promises. "We can't really reveal anything, sadly, about the roles that they play or their story function."
Joshua Jackson remains tight-lipped about what's in store for Peter, who's reality-lost journey has guided much of the season's story direction, but he did reveal how much fun he's had constantly figuring out the new dynamic between Peter and his reality-shifted Walter and Olivia (Anna Torv).
"For as much time as I've spent with John working out the father/son relationship and for as much time as Anna and I have spent in this really tortured kind of work dynamic and then love relationship and then epic love relationship and then we don't know each other anymore, it's been fun to reset all of those relationships and go back to almost a new version of what a new show would be," Jackson says, though he admits remembering which version of who is being played in each scene gets tricky.
"That's 'Fringe,'" he grins. "It's a little bit confusing sometimes, but it's been fun.
Executive producer J.H. Wyman says that the Mar. 23 episode, which marks his directorial debut, is the 19th of the season, and the fans who've paid exceptionally close attention to the structure of prior season may have an inkling that it will be a game-changer."[Episode] 19 is traditionally a deviation, so that's a hint," he says.
As far as planning for an endgame, Wyman and Pinkner are optimistic that the probability of a fifth season remains strong. "Nobody has given us ever any indication to think that we need to know about this date, or whatever," says Wyman. "We're just doing our show and if they tell us yes, then great, but if they don't, well, that's a tragedy and we'll have to live with it. It hasn't changed our opinions on what we do one iota…We knew from the beginning, from season one, where we were going, so traditionally we've ended on chapters. A chapter ends every year, which is sort of our creative choice, and it turned out to be a good one because just inherently that's a very satiating idea. Something comes to an end and there's a possibility of a future, like, 'Oh, wow – I can imagine how they got on after this.' That's okay for me. If I was a viewer I'd be like, 'You know what, I believe they're all going to be okay and I can see their lives and I can feel it and I spent four years with these people. I f**king feel good.' That's all we really care about."
Jackson says the hyper-involved fans have pulled out all the stops to voice their desire to see the show stay on the air, including mailing Walter's favorite candy to the head of the network.
"Our audience has been so passionate and so dedicated and [FOX] is drowning in Red Vines on a daily basis, so there's no more love for the show or support for the show that can be shown," says Jackson. "The ratings are what they are: they've stabilized there, so that's not even the issue anymore. Creatively I think the boys are still swinging for the fences. It doesn't feel like the show is exhausted creatively, either, which is a bad place. You never want to overstay your welcome. So at this point, they're going to figure out if those numbers work, and that's just the reality of TV."
"I think that we all actually feel very hopeful/confident that we will get to continue telling these stories on FOX," adds Pinkner when asked if they were considering a shift to a cable network, the big screen or even a comic book continuation. "We know the stories that we want to tell and then the medium in which we get to tell them, we'll see, but right now we're feeling very hopeful that it'll be in the same format that we've been telling them in."
"We're more worried for our fans." Adds Wyman, "because we know how devastated they would be, and so we consider that."


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Mysterium Horrendum: Mysticism & the Negative Numinous
According to Rudolf Otto's 'Idea of the Holy', while elements of a so-called 'mysticism of horror' are well-acknowledged in Hindu traditions, this remains an under-recognised, yet undeniably present, strain in Western Christian mysticism. This paper explores Otto's account of the 'negative numinous' with specific reference to the under-examined notion of the mysterium horrendum: a variant of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans in which the element of dread is 'cut loose' and 'intensified' to the point of 'the demonic'. Drawing particular attention to accounts of the darkness, absence, and wrath of God in Western Christian mysticism, the lecture questions the essential relation between the demonic and the divine elements encountered in the numinous.


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by Barbara Sherf
In the late 1990s, a colleague sent local licensed professional therapist and Blue Bell resident Elizabeth Venart a magnet that's still on a filing cabinet by her desk with a quote from Kobi Yamada that reads: "Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down." (Kobi Yamada is the President and creative mind behind Compendium Inc., a custom publisher, creator, and distributor of inspiring, sustainable gifts and greeting cards.)
Venart continues to find inspiration in that quote. At the time she received the magnet, Venart was working for others in a non-profit and had a vision to create a community of holistic practitioners. After a decade of plotting and planning, she founded The Resiliency Center in Ambler, where colleagues, family and friends recently held a fifth anniversary celebration.
"I'm still flapping my wings as it's growing. I am resilient," Venart said with her trademark giggle that is infectious in the "Laughter Yoga" classes she leads on Monday mornings for $5 of unadulterated fun. The center is also offering a host of free classes throughout the fall.
"We live in a stressful world, and it's hard not to have anxieties and traumas in our lives. Discovering how to be resilient is how we help," said the red-headed, 44-year-old innovator who had a vision that continues to thrive. Located in an historic building at 602 S. Bethlehem Pike that still feels like the home it once was, the center sits in the anchor of the Ambler Professional Center at the intersection of Bannockburn Road.
Venart is one of three full-time holistic health practitioners and seven part-timers who share the homey space while working to heal the whole person. "I realized early on that there was no one path toward healing, and to have practitioners from all different modalities under one roof was always the original vision," Venart said.
One of those practitioners is Jodi Schwartz-Levy, PhD, a somatic (body-oriented) psychologist. A pioneer in the field of somatic psychology, Schwartz-Levy creates a dialogue in which the language of the body makes her an expert in mind/body integrative health. The Flourtown native and Mt. Airy resident, whose late mother founded the Carol Schwartz Gallery in Chestnut Hill, and whose father, Elliot, continues to run the business, has been with the center from the start.
"There have been a lot of shifts, but this place has been resilient. It's still in process, and I feel honored to have been in such a warm, safe environment watching it grow," she said during the anniversary reception in a shared meeting room, a space where visitors are asked to remove their shoes before walking on the rose-colored wool carpet as it is used for laughter yoga, meditation, writing workshops, QiGong, and other healing arts. It is also home to a monthly group of two dozen holistic practitioners who come to network. The monthly meeting is free, but there is typically a waiting list to join.
In the beginning, apartments made up the second floor, but now it is space for practitioners, including a toy closet full of toys where Kathleen Krol, a licensed clinical social worker and registered play therapist teaches play therapy. Dean Solon, retired from the IRS, leads free twice weekly open meditation groups at the center on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings.
"There are so many beautiful, lovely, kindhearted people who have sat with me here," said Solon, a Blue Bell resident. Asked whether he sees himself there in another five years, he answered, "May it be so. I bow to the will. If it happens, it is icing on the cake and cream in the coffee."
Shannon Haughey came back for the celebration after being certified at the center to do infant massage therapy. "I love that they have this web of people all in the healing arts," she said.
Venart's husband and parents were on hand to mark the occasion. Her mother, Sue, was beaming. "I'm so proud of her. She wanted it for so long and made it happen." Her father, Neil, nodded in agreement.
Venart had the vision for a healing space for a decade and brought in fellow full-time practitioner Jeffrey Katowitz, a licensed marriage and family therapist who co-facilitates a support group with Venart for male survivors of sexual abuse.
Chestnut Hill resident Tracey A. Smith-Diggs, M.Ed. CTRS, a wellness educator, trainer, and recreational therapist, started out at the center. "It's such a good feeling of support when you come through those doors," she said, adding that she is able to talk openly about issues facing African Americans with Venart.
Venart said to the 50 attendees of the anniversary celebration that she hopes to continue to grow the center until she is of retirement age and then leave it in capable hands.
For more information about The Resiliency Center and its free events, go to www.theresiliencycenter.com.
Barbara Sherf is a writer and personal historian who can be reached at email@example.com.


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I'm very pleased to announce the publication of an important resource for Georgia researchers. Slave Importation Affidavit Registers for Nine Georgia Counties, 1818 – 1847 contains abstracts of affidavits recorded in distinct volumes or sections of volumes for Camden County, Columbia County, Elbert County, Franklin County, Jackson County, Jasper County, Morgan County, Pulaski County, and Wilkes County.
The registers for Richmond County will be published in a future, stand-alone volume because of the large number of affidavits recorded there.
These affidavits were created as the result of a December, 1817, Georgia law requiring all persons bringing slaves into the state to register with a county court. As an example of the range of data found in these records, see my previous post transcribing three Oglethorpe County affidavits. Information mentioned could include not just the name, age, and occupation of the slaves, but also the place of origin (usually generalized, e.g. South Carolina) and familial connections.
Two indexes were created to assist researchers in using the text, the first a Surname and Place Index, and the second a Slave/Master Index. I caution researchers to read the entire section for their county of interest, as some slaves were claimed to have been introduced by different people.
For those interested, here is a select list of places mentioned, other than the nine primary counties: Alabama, Appling Co., GA, Charles Co., MD, Florida (the territory), Person Co., NC, Charleston, SC, Virginia, Warren Co., GA, Washington Co., GA, Wayne Co., GA, Wilkerson Co., MS.
Slave Importation Affidavit Registers for Nine Georgia Counties, 1818 – 1847 is an 8″ x 10″ paperback, with 104 + x pages, and was published by Bone Diggers Press. The retail price is currently $14.99. To purchase a copy, please visit the book's eStore. In about a week, this volume will also be available through Amazon.com.


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MARSHFIELD — For the first time in the history of Massachusetts high school wrestling, a girl has won an individual state championship.
North Andover senior Danielle Coughlin won in the 106-pound weight class at Wednesday's Division 2 state tournament in Marshfield.
Her victory also helped North Andover win the team title for the fourth consecutive year.
Coughlin said the fact that she'd wrestled in big matches in the past gave her a mental edge.
She says most girls don't want to wrestle because they have to go up against boys, but she says it's something she has "gotten used to."
Coach Carl Cincotta says her early triumph was the key to paving the way for the team title.
(Video via BostonHerald.com)


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The Friend of a Friend mentoring program in Baltimore is doing more than providing support for incarcerated men; it is inspiring a movement for serious reform of the criminal justice system, from the inside out.
Madeline Schaefer sits down with participants as they share stories of the program's success and their own transformation. By learning how to deal with conflict nonviolently, and by connecting with one another, participants are reclaiming their voices and speaking truth to power.
You can read more about the Friend of a Friend program in the summer issue of Quaker Action or read about Lucy Duncan's visit to the program when the men talked about the meaning of love.
To listen to more audio stories, see the Calling forth the Goodness podcast page, or subscribe to the podcast through iTunes so you don't miss future episodes.
Produced by Madeline Schaefer. Music by Quakers.
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Mike: Words are cheap, and seldom true, but love and Friend of a Friend speaks volumes for me and you...
Madeline: On this episode of Calling Forth the Goodness, I sit down with participants in AFSC's "Friend of a Friend" program in Baltimore as they share stories of how this grassroots mentoring program is building a network of trust and self-determination that is transforming U.S. prisons from the inside out.
Sitting in the cafeteria of Hagertown's Correctional Facility in Maryland, Tafari—a current employee with the Friend of a Friend's work release program—would regularly hear seemingly cryptic messages over the intercom.
Tafari: Friends, Friends, you know what I mean, they would call it over the intercom. And I would joke and at that time I wasn't really conscious or really aware of the things I was doing. I still was rippin' and runnin' still you know trying to dip and dab, playing both sides of the fence
Madeline: Eventually, a few of Tafari's friends convinced him to give it a try and attend one meeting.
Tafari: When I went to the program, I seen that it was the best of the best. You know, people of different backgrounds coming together, trying to build something. And when I seen that I was like, man, this is something, you know, that I never thought would exist.


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I've always wanted what my hairdresser and I called "mermaid hair". In other words, hair long enough to provide a substantial amount of modestly, should one be inclined. For when the apocalypse vaporizes fabric, or something like that.
In December, I willingly had about 6 or 7 inches cut off, the health of my hair required it. That's what it feels like to take a bunch of steps backwards. What's the opposite of mermaid hair? Billy Idol hair? Ok, so not quite that drastic but somewhere in the ho-hum middle.
I have resisted the urge for a maintenance trim since December. Tenacity and laser-sharp focus on the end results at it's finest. Professional advice carelessly tossed by the wayside. It's my hair, after all. And as my sister said, if you want you hair to grow out, you really have to stop cutting it.
This coming Friday, I'm scheduled for the trim. All this to say, yes, my hair is up because it has looked better, and in a very short while, it will again.
I'll just distract you with my mermaid nail polish until then. Look, squirrel!
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Aqua cashmere cardigan/Bloomingdale's, cyan blue skinny pants/Urban Outfitters, orange tunic/Urban Outfitters, salmon tank/Nordstrom's, mustard scarf/You Be Cheeky Boutique, red acetate watch/Vestal, hair band/ModCloth


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Before getting it, I was sure that I'd not be satisfied with the overdriven LED of this light. But now, after one nicht with that gorgeous moon-like flood beam, I have to say that I'd not like it any dimmer. It is perfect like this.
What a little gem. A precious little sweet thing.
And the threads are smooth like butter in the sun.


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HTML::FormHandler::Generator::DBIC - form generator for DBIC
version 0.29
form_generator.pl --rs_name=Book --schema_name=BookDB::Schema::DB
--db_dsn=dbi:SQLite:t/db/book.db > BookForm.pm
rs_name -- Resultset Name
schema_name -- Schema Name
db_dsn -- dsn connect info
class_prefix -- [OPTIONAL] Prefix for generated classes (Default: '')
label -- [OPTIONAL] Flag to toggle generation of form labels (Default: 0)
label_column -- [OPTIONAL] Flag to toggle generation of dummy form labels_columns for type: 'select' (Default: 0)
This package should be considered still experimental since the output, of the generated classes will be changed from time to time. This should not impact the main usage for this module that we had in mind, that is generating the initial version of a FormHandler form class, copying it to the project and modifying it.
This script is installed into the system with the rest of FormHandler.
FormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Gerda Shank.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.