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Diary ng Panget follows the unattractive and penniless Eya Rodriguez (Nadine Lustre) as a struggling scholar at a private school. But when she lands a job as a personal maid for the rich and spoiled Cross Sandford (James Reid), she finds out that her paycheck may not be worth the monstrous treatment of her good-looking yet hard-to-please boss.
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I arranged for a babysitter before I knew what the evening agenda was. My husband knew and that was all that mattered.
The night before our less-than-ordinary evening away, Gabe handed me a glassine envelope thick with papers. In years past these strange and lovely envelopes have included cards for no reason other than to say he loves me, plane tickets to catch our dinner reservations in San Francisco and a simple note inviting me to lunch on top of a parking garage where we would be seated at the vintage table I had been eyeing in the window of the Antique Mall.
Tonight the envelope held two thick card stock brochures. One had "CALDER" printed in bold primary colors down the right edge and the other had a flawless rendering of a male face, pensive, in agony or joy – I can not tell from the partial sketch. The name Michelangelo in bold and all capitalized letter was printed under the drawing. Museum tickets were attached to the brochures with the help of a gold paperclip.
To see two artists that I admire in such completely different ways, joined together by a paperclip was both odd and thrilling. In the midst of unpacking boxes and setting up our home I had no idea that merely a couple miles from our new home the museum was temporarily housing the works of these two masters.
While I admire the imaginative and playful work of Calder it was the thought of viewing some of Michelangelo's sketches that brought a joyful tear to my eye.
Seven years ago I studied Michelangelo's art while standing right in front of it. While traveling in Italy I mimicked his masterpieces in my sketchbook while reverencing the beauty of his chiseled style. His muscular figures intrigued me as I would often wonder if women were indeed that buff in those days and/or if men actually found that attractive. If that's the case I have some serious iron that needs pumping.
Arriving at the museum we quickly rode the escalators to the fourth floor – bypassing the permanent collection to spend our limited time viewing the mobiles of Calder and the sketches of Michelangelo.
Gabe and I would weave through the pieces loosing each other as we felt drawn to different places. We would reconnect in front of a masterpiece to share our latest insight with excitement and inspiration in our voice. He carried his sketchbook and took copious notes – which I found highly attractive in a nerdy art student sort of a way.
As I entered the Michelangelo exhibit I briefly noticed an enlarged sketch that was printed on the wall marking the entrance. In my mind I thought "that looks like a grocery list." I laughed and questioned my own sanity. "Not everything has to be about food Ashley." I scolded myself.
Boy did I prove me wrong. Walking up to the actual sketch it indeed was a list of food. In this drawing Michelangelo was telling his servant what he wanted to eat. Many servants, at that time, were illiterate so he was aiding the translation by communicating in the language he had perfectly mastered – drawing.
On the left side of the sketch a list of dishes penned in Italian that I was trying like mad to translate. The informative museum note next to the piece said he was asking for things such as wine, bread, anchovies, fennel soup and more wine. On the right side were corresponding images of the food items he desired.
Michelangelo saw himself as a sculptor which is evident in his paintings. The figures are chiseled, refined and seem to possess 3-D qualities. But the sketch of his breakfast, lunch and dinner is very relaxed. While his perspective is still as precise as the real thing the lines hint at what the object is meant to be. They are merely a few strokes of the quill that shows playfulness and incredible skill.
Of course I loved this drawing because of the subject matter but also it showed the reality of Michelangelo that I had never seen. He never intended for these sketches to be public. It was his desire that people saw his creations as being divinely inspired rather than carefully planned and practiced. It is in his humanness that we can truly celebrate the master that he was.
I left the museum flooded with the inspiration I came seeking.
Further inspiration was found in dessert.
We continued on the theme of Italian masters and dined at Spinasse in Seattle, renowned for its interpretation of traditional Italian cuisine specific to the Piedmont region in Northern Italy.
While dinner was a progression deep developed flavors, fresh, local ingredients and the creamiest polenta that I've ever had the pleasure of eating – it was the dessert that was as inspired as the sketches that left me changed.
Gianduja semifreddo served with dark chocolate and feuilletine. Creamy and sweet, matched with bitter and crisp. Simple flavors, executed flawlessly and served in an unpretentious manor. There was no need for fancy squiggles or two tone sauces blending into one another in concentric patterns with the help of a toothpick – each bite was perfectly balanced and exciting.
What I'm taking away from this evening, 1. I must re-create that nutty and chocolate filled dessert. 2. From here on out my grocery lists will be sketched – they're so much more fun that way. 3. Life is filled with masterful people. Honor the beauty they create by humbly learning from them that you too might someday have the privilege of being an inspiration and have the opportunity to reflect the ultimate Beauty.


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Bookworm in Review: Casual Gaming Classic
Ask me about word puzzle games for the PC/Mac and I would have to point to Bookworm as the definitive game for the genre. Taking its cue from a popular expression for a book lover, the custodian of the library, Lex the Bookwarm is an adorable cartoony worm with spectacles, keeping watch over a crazy assortment of tiled letters that must be formed into words to keep Lex happy. Feel free to discuss this review of Bookworm in our forums.
Bookworm took its sweet time before porting from the PC to the iPhone in mid-2009. In the meantime, a dizzying slew of word games have come out specifically on the iPhone platform – some original and some just variants of Bookworm – making competition quite stiff even for the casual game juggernaut PopCap Games.
There are two game modes – classic and timed; the former ideal for the casual player or newbie while the timed one is for the more experienced Bookworm player. Playing Bookworm is quite simple and easy to learn. Form words from the 7X7 grid of random letters – the minimum is three letters – but if you have a sharp eye and do a little planning, you can form longer words for more points. There's another good reason for forming the longest words you possibly can – use too many short words in succession and you invite the wrath of the burning tiles. Burning tiles eat the other letters below within seconds. Failure to use them to form words pronto before they hit the bottom and it's game over for you. At the same time, there are special green and yellow tiles that provide a neat multiplier for racking up more points to advance to the next level. If you run out of words or just panicking, you can shake your iPhone/iPod Touch to shuffle the tiles – at a price, though, since you get more burning tiles as penalty. Form certain words and you get to unlock collections (e.g. animals, food,etc.) – a nice touch to enhance the game's replay value.
The PC game was likable and incredibly addictive – to an extent, this port delivers largely the same experience but customized for the iDevice. Instead of frantically typing words while beating the burning tiles, words can be tapped successively or traced along a path with the finger and tapping sends them to the library for points. Here's where I had some problems – the tiles are too small and it's hard to form words precision. It's quite a challenge to undo misspelled words, especially when there are burning tiles left and right. The additional step of confirming the word by tapping it before sending it, while necessary, sometimes results in tapping another letter – requiring an undo, and so on.
While the game provides a collection of personal bests, it would be nice to see online scoreboard and social media integration especially since this game enjoys a huge following.
Amid a large and diverse offering of word puzzle games, Bookworm is and will always be a pleasure to play on any platform. Nothing beats this word puzzle classic, and at a friendly price you get tons of replay value and wordsmithing pleasure.
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This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
In India monkey business takes on a whole new meaning. Hanuman langurs are trained in New Delhi to scare off aggressive rhesus monkeys and other wild animals that might roam into public spaces and cause mischief. When the city hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games last October, its municipal council used 38 langurs to help with critter control.
These primates are valued as more than security guards. Hindus revere them as a symbol of the monkey deity Hanuman, whose simian army helped rescue Sita, the god Rama's wife, from a demon king, according to a Sanskrit epic. Langurs' black faces and extremities call to mind the burns that Hanuman suffered in the course of his heroism.
The lifestyle of the monkeys reflects this state of grace. In the city of Jodhpur, at the edge of the Thar, or Great Indian, Desert, some 2,100 wild langurs regularly leap into human society to sample its goods. Local Hindus share picnics in parks and turn shrines into buffets of offerings for the monkeys. Some let the holy beasts glean from their gardens.
That's a nice change of pace from life in the Thar, where sizzling heat and scant moisture make survival a challenge, and the monkeys must scrounge for plants and occasional insects to eat. Since most langurs are tree dwellers, these often scamper high on the desert cliffs or perch on nearby rooftops.
But the human population is growing fast in the region these days, and people may be tempted to retaliate if the monkeys' garden incursions turn into full-fledged crop raids. Even animals this beloved could wear out their welcome.


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|*October 23 - 29
Read for This Week's Study: Daniel 5
Memory Text:
| "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your
own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct
your paths"
As this chapter opens, we see a great banquet hall with a thousand guests. The "thousand" is no exaggeration. Kings in the ancient world were known for their lavish banquets.
Throughout the chapter, Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar (Dan. 5:2, 11, 13, 18, 22), referring to the fact that his mother, Nitocris, was probably Nebuchadnezzar's daughter. The word father in the Semitic languages can refer to any ancestor or predecessor, not only to the immediate parent. Mephibosheth is called the son of Saul (2 Sam. 19:24), whereas he was really the son of Jonathan (2 Sam. 9:6). Christ was called the Son of David (Matt. 9:27), not because David was His immediate human father but because He was from the lineage of David (Luke 2:4).
The Week at a Glance:
|What was the king's sin? Why did he react as he did to the handwriting on the wall? Why was the king "without excuse" for his actions? In what sense are we all, as Romans 1:20 says, "without excuse"?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, October 30.
|October 24
The Handwriting on the Wall (Dan. 5:1-9).
When in 539 B.C. Cyrus, the Persian king, marched against Babylon, King Nabonidus, of Babylon, met him with his forces at Opis, on the Tigris, in an attempt to prevent Cyrus from crossing the river. The Babylonians suffered a disastrous defeat, and the Persians pushed immediately through to Sippar, on the Euphrates. Cyrus captured Sippar without a fight in October of 539 B.C. According to the Babylonian chronicle, Nabonidus fled south. Belshazzar, his son, stayed in Babylon, about thirty-five miles south of Sippar, trusting in its strong fortifications.
Surrounded by the enemy, why would Belshazzar give such a banquet and send for the vessels from God's temple (Dan. 5:1-4)?
Was it an act of defiance aimed at the Persians and a show of confidence in the strong walls of Babylon? Or was it simply a festival that happened to fall on this particular date? Whatever the reason, Belshazzar's pride and reckless state of mind are shown by his command to bring the vessels from the house of Yahweh.
Read verse 4. Though they were praising the gods of the vessels, how was this an act of defiance against the God of the temple from which those vessels were taken? See Exod. 20:4, 5; Isa. 45:5; Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 1:17.
No matter how drunk the king and his guests were, they quickly sobered up when they saw the "fingers of a man's hand" writing something on the wall. All of a sudden, the revelry stopped, and a deathly silence filled the room.
What was the king's first reaction when he recovered from the initial shock? Dan. 5:7.
Belshazzar calls for an interpretation, but once again, as in the case of his grandfather, the wise men of Babylon are unable to help the king. The inscription was in Aramaic, which, like Hebrew, is written only in consonants, and it was so short that though they could read the individual words, they did not understand their meaning.
|Look at the reaction of the king to the writing that he didn't understand (vs. 6). Without even knowing what the words meant, he was afraid. What does that reaction imply?
|October 25
The Queen's Counsel (Dan. 5:10-12).
The confusion of Belshazzar and his nobles must have lasted for some time. The news of what had happened was carried throughout the palace and reached the ears of the "queen' who had not been present in the banquet hall. Her identity is uncertain. It was not one of Belshazzar's wives, because they and his concubines were already at the feast (vs. 3). Scholars are divided as to whether it was Belshazzar's mother or his grandmother, the wife of Nebuchadnezzar.
The importance of queen mothers is widely attested to in ancient Near Eastern sources. Often the mother of the reigning king held a more important position at the court of her son than his own wife. An inscription from Haran speaks of the influence Belshazzar's mother had on the career of her son, and the Greek historian Herodotus reports that Nebuchadnezzar's wife was renowned for her wisdom. He credits her with the development of the defenses of Babylon.
The king called in all the wise men but Daniel. What does this omission imply about how far removed the king was from the past and the spiritual lessons that he should have learned?
When the queen mother entered the banquet hall, she was able to calm the frazzled king. She remembered that on at least two prior occasions Daniel had been able to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, and she must have concluded that if anyone could solve this riddle, it would be Daniel. He evidently was in retirement at that time, though he still lived in Babylon. At the right time, God had the right man ready..
What reasons did the queen give for her confidence that Daniel could decipher the handwriting on the wall? Dan. 5:11, 12.
Before urging her son to call Daniel, the queen mother sang the praises of the aged prophet. Her words remind us of Nebuchadnezzar's confession in Daniel chapter 4. The fact that she mentions the name of Daniel twice indicates that she was well acquainted with him. If she was Nebuchadnezzar's widow, it is possible that she shared her husband's conviction regarding Daniel's God.
|What lesson do her words about Daniel suggest regarding the power of personal influence? Be honest with yourself: What kind of influence do your words project upon those with whom you come in contact? What do you need to change?
|October 26
Without Excuse (Dan. 5:13-24).
From the way Belshazzar greeted Daniel, we may conclude that Belshazzar was not personally acquainted with Daniel, or he had not seen him for many years. It seems that when Nebuchadnezzar died more than twenty years earlier, Daniel retired from public service. However, the fact that Daniel, in his old age, entered the services of the Persian kings (Dan. 6:1-3) indicates that his retirement from Babylonian politics was not a result of ill health or old age. His public censure of Belshazzar (Dan. 5:22, 23) may have been one of the factors that led Darius to hire the services of Daniel.
Why could Belshazzar offer Daniel only the third place in the kingdom (Dan. 5:16)?
Officially, Belshazzar's father, Nabonidus, was still the king of Babylon. Belshazzar, as coregent, was second in command; therefore, he could offer only the third place to the person who could interpret the writing on the wall.
As we see later, Daniel had no difficulty interpreting the words; but before he did so, he wanted the king to know the reason for the impending tragedy. By recounting the history of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel reminded King Belshazzar that it was the Most High God who had granted Nebuchadnezzar, and by implication also Belshazzar, the authority to rule Babylon (Dan. 5:18, 23). He pointed out that at the end of Nebuchadnezzar's insanity, the king acknowledged that" 'the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses'" (vs. 21, NKJV).
What was Belshazzar's great sin in the sight of God? Dan 5:22, 23.
Although Belshazzar knew firsthand what had happened to his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar, he failed to learn from Nebuchadnezzar's experience. His grandfather had been proud, but he had repented and had become a child of God. Belshazzar, on the other hand, chose to defy God's law and authority and refused to humble himself. His sin, therefore, was great and the judgment speedy.
|In a sense, Daniel was telling the king that he was "without excuse" (Rom. 1:20). Why, in the end, are we all "without excuse"? Even more important, why does the fact we are "without excuse" make the Cross even more crucial to us?
|October 27
Weighed and Found Wanting (Dan. 5:25-29).
What was the message of the handwriting on the wall? Dan. 5:26-28.
Babylon covered an area of approximately two square miles. The total length of its inner and outer walls was about thirteen miles long; the double wall fortifying the city measured more than ninety-six feet in width. (See The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 4, p. 795.) It was a religious center without rival. "A cuneiform tablet of Nebuchadnezzar's time lists 53 temples dedicated to important gods, 955 smaller sanctuaries, and 384 street altarsall of them within the city confines."Page 797. The center of Babylon's glory was the famous temple tower Etemenanki, dedicated to the god Marduk, which was 300 feet square at the base and more than three hundred feet high. In ancient times it was only surpassed by the two great pyramids at Giza in Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar's reputation as a builder has been preserved in the writings of the Babylonian priest Berossus. (See Josephus, Against Apion, 1.19.)
As soon as the boastful words," 'Is not this the great Babylon I have built'" (NIV), had left the monarch's lips, judgment was meted out, and he became insane. What do we know about the sickness with which Nebuchadnezzar was afflicted?
Nebuchadnezzar possibly suffered from a form of insanity in which a man thinks that he is an animal. It could have been lycanthropy, which is the wolf-man syndrome, or boanthropy, in which a person thinks he/she is an ox. A Babylonian cuneiform text, published in 1975, may refer to Nebuchadnezzar's madness. The text states that the king gave contradictory orders, refused to accept counsel, showed love neither to son nor daughter, neglected his family, and no longer performed his duties as head of state. (See Siegfried H. Horn, in Ministry, April 1978, p. 40.) In Aramaic, the inscription consisted of a series of four words. Because Aramaic, like Hebrew, was written only with consonants, the way in which the words were to be read depended on which vowels were supplied. To the wise men, the letters M N M N T Q L P R S N did not make sense. Some of them may have seen the names of three common weights on the wall, "a mina, a mina, a shekel, and a half-shekel' but translated into modern weights, what did "a pound, a pound, an ounce, and half an ounce" mean? Daniel read them out as "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" and then gave the interpretation: "numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided." The repetition of the first word is a solemn emphasis, just like Jesus' words "verily, verily" in the New Testament (John 3:11, 5:24).
MENE means "numbered," because the days of Belshazzar's reign had been numbered, and God had decided to call a halt. TEKEL means "weighed." Belshazzar's life and actions were placed on one side of the scales, so to speak, and God's law on the other side. Belshazzar's side, unfortunately, was found wanting. PERES means "broken" or "divided." Belshazzar's kingdom was about to be broken and given to the Medes and Persians. There is a play on words here, because the consonants for the word divided are the same as for the name Persian (paras).
The message, then, was clear and specific. God had numbered or added up the crimes of the king and completed their tally. The period of Babylon's political supremacy was coming to an end. Besides the dreams of Nebuchadnezzar and the deliverance of the three Hebrews from the fiery furnace, the mysterious handwriting on the wall was another example of God's direct intervention in human affairs.
|If our lives, like Belshazzar's, were placed on a balance (our life on one side and God's law on the other), would we fare much better? And even if we fared better, would we fare well enough? After all, whose lifeeven that of the most saintly Christiancan stand before God's holy law (Rom. 3:23)? In that sense, we aren't all that different, really, from Belshazzar. However, we believe that there is a crucial and defining difference between us as Christians and this king: our faith in the God in "whose hand thy breath is" (Dan. 5:23). Read the following texts: Psalm 130:4, John 5:24, Romans 8:1, Ephesians 1:7. How do they explain what we have in Christ that makes all the difference between us and this king, who was doomed now and forever?
|October 28
Babylon's Fall (Dan. 5:30, 31).
While at times God delayed judgment to give people the opportunity to repent (Jonah 1), in Belshazzar's case the time of probation was closed.
How the Persians were able to penetrate the seemingly impregnable defenses of the city is explained by the Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote some eighty years after the event happened. He writes that Cyrus diverted the river Euphrates by redirecting its flow, causing the river level to drop as it went beneath the city wall. When the water reached about midway up a man's thigh, the Persian soldiers entered the city via the riverbed. So sure the city could not be taken, the Babylonians grew careless. Thus, the Persians came upon them by surprise and so took the city.Herodotus, The Histories (Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1954), pp. 90, 91.
From the Babylonian chronicles we learn that Babylon fell on the sixteenth day of Tishri, or on October 12, 539 B.C., in terms of our calendar. Belshazzar was slain, but his father, Nabonidus, who had fled south, surrendered and committed himself to the mercy of Cyrus. According to a Greek report, Cyrus spared his life and gave him a residence in Carmania, a Persian province located along the north shore of the Persian Gulf.
What are some parallels between the fall of literal Babylon in 539 B.C. and the fall of spiritual Babylon in the time of the end? Jer 5:8, 51:13, 51:45, 51:60-64, Rev.14:8, 17:1, 18:4, 18:21-24.
Around 597 B.C., when Babylon was at the pinnacle of its power, Jeremiah prophesied that Babylon would become " 'a heap, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant' " (Jer 51:37, NKJV). Yet, after its fall to the Persians, it remained an important city. Alexander the Great planned to make it the capital of his empire, but he died prematurely. One of his generals, Seleucus Nicator, chose Opis, to the north, as his capital, which he named Seleucia after himself. He used millions of bricks from Babylon to help build his new capital. Babylon, therefore, sank slowly into obscurity. As century succeeded century, it gradually fell into decay. By A.D. 200 the place was deserted.
Covered by the shifting sands of the desert, it became a lost city until archaeologists uncovered it in the nineteenth century.
|October 29
Further Study:
|Read Ellen G. White,
Prophets and
Kings, pp. 522-538.
"Belshazzar had been given many opportunities for knowing and doing the will of God. He had seen his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar banished from the society of men. He had seen the intellect in which the proud monarch gloried taken away by the One who gave it. He had seen the king driven from his kingdom, and made the companion of the beasts of the field. But Belshazzar's love of amusement and self-glorification effaced the lessons he should never have forgotten; and he committed sins similar to those that brought signal judgments on Nebuchadnezzar. He wasted the opportunities graciously granted him, neglecting to use the opportunities within his reach for becoming acquainted with truth. 'What must I do to be saved?' was a question that the great but foolish king passed by indifferently?'Ellen G. White, Bible Echo, April 25, 1898.
Discussion Question:
Belshazzar was acquainted with many of God's actions; yet, he
deliberately chose to ignore them. Why do we all tend to do the same thing;
that is, ignore what God has done in our life or in the lives of others?
What's the main reason?
What practical steps can we take when we weigh our lives in the balances and find that they are wanting? Why is the Cross the first place we must go if we want to change?
What is the relevance of this chapter to the second angel's message, in Revelation 14:8?
In Daniel 5:23, Daniel tells the king that he has ignored the God "in whose hand thy breath is." What does that statement mean? How does it fit in with the overall context of the previous chapters?
|In spite of the experiences of his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar, with which Belshazzar was acquainted, the king chose to defy the God of heaven and suffered the consequences. It is a sad commentary on the fact that the wisdom of parents and grandparents cannot always be passed on to the next generations. The individual's eternal destiny rests on his or her own choice.
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|My Father Knows, Part 2
Homer Trecartin
Michelle was still rejoicing over the news that her friend Sofia wanted to follow Christ when neighbors came to tell Michelle that Sofia was in a coma. Michelle rushed to the hospital and found Sofia lying unconscious. Bruises and wounds covered her body.
Michelle wanted to run from the room. What had she done to her friend by sharing Christ? How could her husband do this to her? Michelle took Sofia's hand and began to pray. As she prayed, she felt Sofia's hand tighten in hers.
Sofia came out of the coma briefly when her brother visited. She begged him to give his life to God; then she slipped back into the coma and died.
Michelle was numb with grief and guilt. She agonized over what she could have done differently to prevent this senseless murder. During the week of mourning, Michelle visited Sofia's home and sat with the women every day. She did it for Hans and Anna, to let them know she cared. But her presence had an impact on others, as well. Even Sofia's husband seemed to soften.
One day Sofia's husband came to ask Michelle's forgiveness for what he had done to Sofia. Michelle nodded, but in her heart a battle waged. How could she really forgive a man who had murdered his wife, the mother of his children, her friend?
Two years later he again visited Michelle. He wanted to remarry and wanted her advice. Michelle listened in stunned silence to this man's description of the woman he now loved. Michelle encouraged him to marry the woman.
Hans and Anna seemed to adapt well to their new mother. Then, without warning, Anna came to Michelle and asked to be baptized. Images of a bruised and beaten Sofia flooded Michelle's mind.
"No!" she whispered fiercely. "Anna, don't you remember what happened to your mother?"
"Yes," Anna said, "but I want to be baptized."
"But Anna," Michelle protested, "you must ask your father."
"My father knows," Anna replied, "and he is happy for me. He wants me to follow my conscience."
Tears of joy streamed down Michelle's cheeks as she hugged Anna tightly. She prayed for the girl, for her father, and for those whose lives will be touched by Anna's decision to follow Jesus.
Homer Trecartin is Secretary-Treasurer of the Middle East Union in Nicosia, Cyprus. This story took place in an undisclosed, predominantly Muslim country. All names have been changed.
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Paris Hilton is returning to reality… TV, that is.
The socialite, who formerly co-starred on "The Simple Life" with pal Nicole Richie, and starred in MTV's "Paris Hilton's My New BFF," will be featured in a new, still untitled reality series on the Oxygen Network.
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The show will follow Paris and three important women in her life: friend Brooke Mueller (the estranged wife of Charlie Sheen), Jennifer Rovero (the former girlfriend of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Playboy model, single mother of two, and Paris's full-time photographer), and Allison Melnick (an LA club promoter).
The docu-series will center around Paris as she "enters the next stage of her life," beyond what is seen in the tabloids. Kathy Hilton, the heiress' mom, will also appear on the show as "the voice of reason" and "the one who always tells Paris the truth."
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"Paris is magnetic in such a way that viewers are naturally curious about her and think they know her based on what they see in the media," Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development, wrote in a statement to Access Hollywood on Friday. "We're looking to truly bring an all-encompassing look at her life, friends, family, and relationships, all that's not represented every day. It's going to be a fascinating journey."
The New Untitled Paris Hilton project will be executive produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions founders Arthur Smith and Kent Weed, as well as Paris Hilton, Rick Hilton and Jamie Freed.
A premier date for Paris's new project has yet to be set.
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Chicago Blackhawk Patrick Sharp is a poster boy for good genes. Exceptional athletic talent. Check. Exceptional looks. Check. Exceptional intelligence. Well, his acumen on the ice and cogent comments on WTMX-FM's "Eric & Kathy Morning Show" (where he has a weekly gig when he's in town) speak volumes about his sharp mind, no pun intended.
Surprisingly, Sharp, a versatile forward who shifts between left wing and center, also is a poster boy for good, old-fashioned hard work. The physical kind, as in weight training, running and jumping to improve his strength, balance and speed. And he's very grateful to his taskmaster, Chicago Blackhawks strength and conditioning coach Paul Goodman.
"He changed my life. When I came here, I needed to improve in every area and focus on getting stronger and faster. His individual workouts are a big reason for my success on the ice," Sharp said.
Sharp admitted that getting traded to the ailing Blackhawks from the playoff-bound Philadelphia Flyers midway through the 2005-06 season was his wake-up call. "I could have been much better, but I didn't put a focus on training then. I wasn't lazy; I just didn't realize that the off-ice stuff made me better on ice," he said.
Sharp got the message loud and clear. "I woke up and started training harder. I realized it's up to the individual player to put the work in, and I do that now," he said.
That amounts to daily practice during the season and a couple of precisely targeted workouts dreamed up by Goodman during the week but never on a game day. "Playing takes so much out of you," he said. In the offseason, he works out two hours every morning — religiously, again with exacting exercises prescribed by Goodman.
Such as? "Hockey is all about balance and core. There are unlimited exercises you can do for that, and Paul and I start every workout with it," he said. His go-to tools are medicine balls in varying weights. "We do tosses and throw them around in different ways," he said. And his go-to standard for cardio and strength training: "Weight complexes. They're the hardest thing to do, but I feel great afterward."
Complex training — a type of weightlifting that involves a number of exercises performed in succession using the same exact weight — is meant to replace traditional cardio sessions and overcome the body's tendency to adapt to repetitive endurance activities. The goal is to complete all of the specified reps for each exercise and immediately move to the next without a break. This increases metabolic rate so the routine becomes a high-intensity interval training cardio session.
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Goodman's strategies have been so effective that Sharp has made extraordinarily speedy recoveries from an injured knee last March, returning to the ice a week ahead of schedule, and an emergency appendectomy three weeks before the 2011-12 season opener Oct. 7. He missed only two weeks of training camp and started the season on time.
"Coming back (from injuries) really has the most to do with self-discipline and how much you want to get out of your workout," he said.
The trade from Philly to Chicago also changed Sharp in another way: His jersey number changed from 9 to 10, an irony given the media attention he gets here for his model-perfect looks (Chicago Magazine named him one of Chicago's most beautiful people last spring). It turns out keeping his favorite number, which he chose to pay homage to his favorite player, former Dallas Stars forward Mike Modano, wasn't an option. "It was retired for Bobby Hull, so I went to 10 because that's the number my brother always used to use," he said.
And yet another change: Sharp added about 6 more pounds to his workout, lifting new daughter Madelyn Grace, delivered by mom Abby on Dec. 9.


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As November rolls forward, one end-of-year task that starts floating in my mind is holiday cards. This is usually a fairly time-consuming project for us, but I consider it to be a very worthwhile one. Here's how we do it.
Send it early.
With a large project like this one, it's incredibly easy to keep postponing working on it until you're throwing something together quickly and tossing it in the mail – or not even bothering at all.
My approach is to simply set a goal of mailing them out very early. Ideally, I try to get them in the mail before Thanksgiving. Seriously. This way, if I absolutely must slip a week, I don't panic about it.
Send them all at once.
It can be tempting to send them out in drips and drops, but that can be a mistake. If someone notices that you've sent a card to someone else but not to them (even though you've intended to do it), you've opened yourself up unnecessarily to a negative opinion. It's not worth it.
I usually work on mine gradually, keeping all of the finished ones together in a box. Then, when they're all done, I ship them off all at once.
Send one to everyone of personal or professional importance to you.
The first step in the process is to update my "master list" of people I intend to send cards to. I keep this as a Word document. It contains the most current addresses of everyone I would ever want to send a card to – personal contacts, professional ones, and so on.
I then go through and make a card individually for each one. I start off with a template of my own design, usually incorporating a family picture.
Write a handwritten paragraph inside each one.
With each one, I write a handwritten paragraph on the inside, usually something directly for that person, touching on something we have in common. I make sure to wish them well in whatever they're working on, particularly if there's something new in their life.
The handwritten paragraph doesn't have to be long. It's usually just a few sentences.
I don't turn it into a family newsletter.
I'm sending them a card because I care about them, not because I want to brag about my family. I can talk about my family through other communication by following up on questions that they might ask on the phone, by email, on Facebook, or some other form.
The purpose of the card is to simply say "I care about you." To me, a family newsletter doesn't say that at all.
Remember who the recipient is.
I usually make my own cards, mostly because it makes it easy to make variations on the cards. For some, a Christmas card is the best thing to send. For others, a more generic "season's greetings" card is much more appropriate. I don't view such a card as an opportunity for evangelism of what I believe.
Why put in all this effort?
When it all comes together, it's a powerful way of making sure that a lot of people I care about all have a clear message telling them, in a very personal way, how much they mean to me and how much I value them. A handwritten note really hammers that idea home.
For me, this is an incredibly enriching November project, one that helps me to maintain connections and relationships with a lot of people I care about.


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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is confident that "Jersey Shore's" second season won't disappoint fans of the hit MTV reality show.
"Season 1 was the best reality show in history," he told the Chicago Tribune. "Season 2 may be the best series ever. It's going to be legendary."
And The Situation, whose catchphrases helped make the MTV show a household name, said he's not preparing any material in advance for the upcoming season.
"I don't save material," he said. "That's called being on the spot."
As for what the future holds for the cast, he wasn't sure if Ronnie Magro and Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola were still dating.
"I think they broke up – I have no clue," he said.
According to a previous report from TMZ, the volatile couple split after the taping of the series' reunion show on January 21, but just days later, co-star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi told Us Weekly that the pair had gotten back together.
"You never know with them," Snooki said at the time.
But The Situation told the Tribune that he would be front and center when the show returned no matter what's going on with his castmates.
"I run that house," he said. "[Ronnie and Sammi] are the cartoon section. I'm the front page."
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Jamel Artis is third player to sign national letter of intent with Pitt
The University of Pittsburgh basketball program signed Jamel Artis from Notre Dame Prep school in Massachusetts to a National Letter of Intent. The Baltimore native joins Josh Newkirk and Michael Young as Pitt's 2013 fall signing class. The spring signing period began Wednesday and concludes on Wednesday, April 24.
Artis, a 6-foot-seven-inch combination forward, averaged 18 points, seven rebounds and four assists per game at Notre Dame Prep (Mass.) during the 2012-13 season. He earned All New England Prep School Athletic Conference honors and was a Second Team Class 2A All-State selection after guiding Notre Dame Prep to the National Prep Championship semifinals. Artis has been described as a tough, versatile performer who can rebound and create matchup problems.
Pitt concluded the 2012-13 season with a 24-9 record and advanced to its 11th NCAA Tournament in the last 12 seasons. Pitt also finished in fourth place in its final season in the Big East Conference. The Panthers enter Atlantic Coast Conference competition in 2013-14.


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Learn how to cook oxtail and everything else there is to know about this fabulous cut of beef.
This is the very first recipe that was ever posted on Greedy Gourmet. Miserable, bored and stuck in a rut with the food I was eating I missed home dearly and asked my mother for the family oxtail recipe. South African comfort food I call it, especially on those subzero evenings in winter. Yes, it does get cold there…
My favourite bones are the smallest ones. Dead easy to get the meat off, not as fatty and the meat itself is very tender. Try it and see for yourself!
What is oxtail?
There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding oxtail. In the olden days a castrated bull was known as an "ox" but these days cows' tails are chopped off too. So yes, it's a cut of beef, technically red meat and is classified as offal but is much less gross than it sounds. It's perfectly safe to eat and a tail weighs between 1-1.5kg (2-3lbs).
When it's winter and you're freezing cold and starving, oxtail stew will seem like food sent directly from heaven. The flavour is undoubtedly beefy with an unbeatable flavoursome richness that makes it the ultimate comfort food.
Where to buy oxtail
In South Africa oxtail is available in leading supermarkets but in the UK the offal is as rare as hen's teeth. The best thing to do is to go to your local butcher and order it. Extra tip: ask him in advance to segment the tails to save you time and trouble.
Thanks to gastropubs, the recession and TV chefs the price of oxtail has been steadily climbing in recent years. Nothing is as good as the real deal but you can possibly substitute oxtail with veal or beef neck, short rib, shin, shank or other various soup bones. Some people even recommend ostrich neck!
Nutritional Value of oxtail
Oxtail contains 50% protein and 50% fat and no carbohydrates or cholesterol whatsoever. For a 100g cooked serving (261.9 calories), 5.56g of saturated fat can be found as well as trace amounts of calcium and iron. The more vegetables and pulses you add to your dish, the healthier the recipe becomes.
Oxtail and Special Diets
Weight Watchers, Slimming World and other Low-Fat Diets: Since these diets are fat phobic you'll only be able to enjoy oxtail in minute quantities.
You can make the recipe below gluten free by using corn starch instead of flour to coat the meat with and if you use oil instead of butter it will be lactose/dairy free as well.
It's kosher and safe to eat when you're pregnant.
Herbs, Spices and Other Ingredients You Can Add To Oxtail
- garlic
- grapes
- gremolata
- Madeira
- mustard
- onions
- black pepper
- prunes
- shallots
- tomatoes
- red wine
3 Different Cooking Methods
Oxtail is a tough meat so forget about roasting or grilling it on the barbecue. The longer you braise it submerged in liquid, the better the results will be.
Slow cooker/Crock pot: In the morning add all the ingredients to the pot, switch on and leave for work. Dream all day about the awesome dinner you will be enjoying that evening.
Pressure cooker: It's late and you really, really, really fancy some oxtail stew and luckily pressure cooker will cut the cooking time by more than two thirds.
Oven: My preferred method of cooking oxtail. Prepare the pot at dinner time. Cook for three hours in the oven, then switch off the oven and let it stew all so slowly overnight.
What to serve with oxtail stew?
Here are a few ideas:
- Cheesy polenta
- Creamy mash
- Rice
- Couscous
- Sweet pumpkin mash or carrots
- Green vegetables
Burgundy wine pairs well with this meal.
Can you freeze oxtail?
Uncooked meat can be frozen for 6 months. If you set your freezer to -17°C (0°F) it will keep for 12 months. The cooked stew will keep in the freezer for 3 months but trust me, it will be long gone before then.
Can dogs eat oxtail bones?
It's hard to resist to treat our furry friends in life and your dog will think it's Christmas if you present it with some oxtail. A word of caution though. As a rule of thumb raw bones are better than cooked ones because of the risk of splintering. There have been times that the cooked oxtail bones were so soft that my then young dogs chewed through them with great ease. However, smaller bones prove to be a choking hazzard. A few years later Shacia howled of pain throughout the night and we even made an emergency call to the vet at 3am. It turned out bones got stuck in her digestive tract and it wasn't a pretty experience. After that my dogs never received a bone again. Rather safe than sorry!
The night before cooking oxtail, place your beans in a bowl with ample water to soak in. You can use any type of pulses you prefer. The original recipe, created by my mother, uses lentils.
It's not unusual for foam to form overnight. Make sure you rinse the beans thoroughly before adding them to the pot. Drain and set aside.
You can substitute the shallots with a few onions in this recipe but once these little gems are cooked they literally melt in your mouth. You won't regret the hard work of peeling them.
To make life easier, place the shallots in a large bowl and pour boiling water over them and let them soak for a few minutes. This makes them easier to peel and less likely to make you cry.
Since the task is laborious and time consuming I tend to do this in front of the TV.
As I said you won't regret this!
No dish is complete without garlic.
Feel the meat to find the knots of "knuckles" of bones. Each lump is a separate vertebra. Push a large, sharp butcher's knife down between the vertebrae with even, firm pressure. You may have to press hard to cut through any cartilage or sinew between the two pieces.
Hopefully you can skip the previous step if your butcher already cut up the oxtail for you.
Now to trim off the excess fat.
Trim off as much fat as you can but if you start to take off too much meat you know you're overdoing it.
Each piece of oxtail should then be lightly dusted in a bit of flour. If you're gluten intolerant, use corn starch instead but use sparingly because corn starch's thickening quality if much more potent than flour's.
Heat a large pot with oil. When the meat hits the pan it should SIZZLE.
Fry the oxtail in batches if you have to.
Place the browned oxtail on a plate to one side and carry on with the next batch. Repeat until all done.
When all have been browned, return all oxtail to the pot.
Add the onions and garlic to the meat. If you can be bothered you can fry them a bit first if you like, before adding all the meat to the pot.
Next you add the beans that soaked overnight.
Add the red wine to the pot and let it simmer for a few minutes.
Then add the beef or vegetable stock.
Make sure there is enough liquid to cover the contents.
Sometimes I substitute the tomato puree and water with some passata which works just as well. Just use the same quantities!
Adding sugar is totally optional.
Bay leaves impart a rather serious flavour but with that said, this is a serious dish, is it not?
Stick the pot in the oven for 3 hours. Switch off the oven and LEAVE THE POT IN THERE until it has completely cooled down.
Ta-daa! A seriously good plate of food right in front of you. Very tender bits beef on the bone with sweet melt-in-the-mouth shallots and soul fulfilling beans.
Some people actually go to the trouble to remove all the meat and discarding the bones but it's a travesty! Sucking off the bones and gnawing off the gelatine is such fun!Print
Oxtail Stew with Beans & Red Wine
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Total Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- 150g (5 ounces) dried haricot beans
- 1.5kg (3 pounds) oxtail, segmented
- flour, seasoned with salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 30ml (2 tablespoons) vegetable oil
- 12 shallots, peeled
- 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- 250ml (1 cup) red wine
- 500ml (2 cups) beef stock
- 60ml (4 tablespoons) tomato purée
- 250ml (1 cup) boiling-hot water (optional)
- 45ml (3 tbsp) brown sugar (optional)
- 1 bay leaf (optional)
- 2.5ml (1/2 tsp) dried thyme (optional)
- 2.5ml (1/2 tsp) teaspoon dried sweet basil (optional)
- 2.5ml (1/2 tsp) teaspoon dried parsley (optional)
- Soak the beans in water overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4.
- Trim the excess fat from the oxtail.
- Heat the vegetable oil in a heavy-bottomed ovenproof pan over a moderate heat. Dust the oxtail in seasoned flour, then add to the pan and colour until golden brown on all sides.
- Add the shallots, garlic, wine and stock.
- Mix the tomato purée with the boiled water. Add the sugar to the tomato mixture to neutralise the acidity. Give it a good stir to remove all lumps and add tomato mixture to the oxtail.
- Rinse the beans thoroughly under running water and add to the meat.
- Add the herbs if desired.
- Bring the oxtail to a simmer and braise in the preheated oven. After 1 hour lower the heat to 150°C/300°F/gas mark 2 and braise for a further 2 hours.
- For best results, switch off the oven and let it cool down overnight. When it's cooled, place the pot in the fridge to marinate further.
- After it has been reheated, don't forget to remove the bay leaf.
- If you love baked beans, you'll be simply blown away by the the beans in this recipe. A great idea is to add even more beans to this recipe, but you'll have to add more stock to it to compensate. Just keep checking liquid levels during cooking and top up with water where necessary. You can freeze the excess beans separately from the meat and enjoy them on toast or a baked potato.
- Storage: Freeze for up to 3 months. It lasts for 3 days fresh in the fridge.
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Braise
- Cuisine: South African
- Calories: 1273
- Sugar: Sugars
- Sodium: 745 mg
- Fat: 56.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 49.9 g
- Fiber: Dietary Fiber
- Protein: 126.8 g
- Cholesterol: 413 mg


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Students With Physical Disabilities Speak Out on Challenges in School
Jay Spencer, a physically disabled sixth grader at Hayfield Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, says he wishes his mainstream teachers knew what it felt like to see how he sees.
"It's like if you put your finger in between your eyes and then it disappears," he says.
Jay, 12, has Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), an inherited retinal degenerative disease. People with this disorder typically have severe visual impairment beginning in infancy, or in Jay's case, when he was two years old. His fine vision is lost, and he can't detect light and color, but he can see shadows of figures.
Jay is one of 2.8 million school-aged children with a disability, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Of those children, many of them are included in general education classes in our public schools and the numbers continue to grow, especially among children with cognitive disabilities such as autism. The population of students with physical impairments may be smaller, but more and more educators have these students in their classrooms. Educators widely agree that all students can participate in the general education curriculum when provided with appropriate supports and services, but few of us really know what a school day is like for physically disabled students and how they think can we better accommodate their needs in our classrooms.
Much of it depends on their Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), but sometimes the best ideas come from the students themselves.
"A lot of teachers act like I'm totally blind, but I can see some things when I look out of the side of my eyes," he says, tilting his head to the right and looking out of the corner of his left eye. "Sometimes people think it's rude, like I'm not looking at them when they're talking to me, but it's the only way I can see."
Jay, who is on the cusp of middle school, shares his experience as a visually impaired student, and Curtis Whitley, who finished high school and is now an NEA Student Member at Cal State San Marcos in San Marcos, California, explains what it was like to go through school with cerebral palsy.
Though every student is unique and Jay and Curtis have very different disabilities, their stories reveal common themes. The one that emerges most often is that physically challenged students are, for the most part, just like any other student, and they don't want to be treated any differently because of their disability.
'You Just Gotta Try'
Curtis recalls an elementary school Field Day. Realizing that he couldn't participate in all of the games, he joined in when there were races around the track.
"I had a wheelchair then and I was burning rubber around the track," he says. "Everyone was cheering. Inclusion can happen every day, if we're being as inclusive as possible. You just have to let kids find a way to participate."
Jay is a competitive swimmer and wrestler, and even played T-ball when he was younger.
"A lot of people might say a blind kid can't hit a baseball," says Gina Spencer, Jay's mother. "But when all the other kids were signing up, Jay asked when he was going to sign up, too. If he couldn't think of a reason why he shouldn't play, why would anyone else? "
Jay is a natural athlete who has been swimming since he was a toddler. He began wrestling a few years ago and is one of the best in the league, with gold, silver, and bronze medals to prove it.
"In wrestling, I'm always touching the figure in front of me, so I don't really need to see," explains Jay, adding that one of his best friends, a fellow wrester and sixth-grade classmate, helps him learn the moves.
When it comes to sports, Jay says, "You just gotta try. Find one thing you're good at, and then stick with it."
Unfortunately, finding a sport isn't as easy for everyone, and is an ongoing struggle for Curtis.
"I have cerebral palsy in all parts of my body and it affects everything, but it manifests in my lower body more," he says. "I have spastic dysplasia—that's when your muscles tighten up, and a lot of stuff is very tight. But my arms pick up the slack from my legs."
With more command over his arms, Curtis was able to play goalie on a grade-school soccer team, and when a kickball game would break out on the playground, he'd hit the ball with his crutch and another student would run the bases for him.
"My runner would jam! Lots of kids wanted to buddy up with me to be my runner," he says. "Sometimes I'd run the bases myself, and when I got tagged out, it would sting. But it stings for anybody who gets tagged out, doesn't it?"
Teacher Motivation is Key
In high school, Curtis realized his sports options were limited, and he felt left out of the athletic "jock" culture American high schools celebrate. Fortunately, his P.E. teacher in high school was especially inclusive. He'd find activities for him in the weight room, and when the high school held a jog-a-thon fundraiser, he set up cones for Curtis on the asphalt so he could complete the same distance the other students were running by doing laps around the cones in his wheel chair.
Curtis' advice to physically challenged students: "Life can be unfair, but it's still good. The quicker you accept it, the better off you'll be."
"He said, 'We've got money to raise, now get to it!'" Curtis remembers.
Both Jay and Curtis say that children with disabilities need to be pushed and motivated just as much as any other student.
Curtis says he was grateful for teachers like his sophomore year math teacher.
"He said, 'Hey Curtis, I hear you say you want to go to college. Then you need to get the heck out of special education classes, Dude! You need to figure out some way to get into mainstream.'"
So Curtis tried harder, and he got into more mainstream classes, and it paid off. He attributes it not only to teachers who pushed him, but his own determination that is born of having to overcome so many physical challenges and other people's preconceived notions about what those challenges mean.
"I would argue that in some ways, you have to be even more confident than physically-abled students," he says. "You constantly have to prove yourself—you have to prove that you belong in that room with everyone else and that you're just as capable as everyone else."
Parental Involvement Makes a Difference
When a student is Jay's age, it takes a little help from motivated parents, like his mom Gina, who is constantly advocating for him and seeking out the right teachers and administrators. He's had supportive and inclusive teachers at Hayfield Elementary, but his parents are a little worried about middle school next year.
When Gina toured the middle school, she wanted to visit the honors and AP classrooms. Instead, she got a tour of the special education resource rooms.
"He's an A student, but there are people at the middle school who assume his visual disability means he has a learning disability, too," she says.
"You expect that kind of assumption from the general public, but the schools are supposed to know their students better."
Gina says her son is a straight-A student not only because he's very intelligent, but also because he's a perfectionist. His dogged perfectionism helps him in some ways—visually impaired people need to be highly organized, with a place for everything and everything in its place. But perfectionists also put an enormous amount of pressure on themselves to never make mistakes.
His third-grade teacher was the first to tell him it was OK to make mistakes. "Everyone makes mis- takes," she told him. "And you are just like everyone else."
That went a long way toward building his self-esteem and confidence, Gina says. "He is like everyone else, and he needs to be reminded of that."
Inclusion is Invaluable
Spencer was also an elementary school teacher for 13 years, and she says Jay's third-grade teacher had that indescribable "it" factor that all good educators have. Jay can't see what his teachers write on the smart board or the chalkboard, and he needs them to explain what they're writing or what they're pointing at.
"My third-grade teacher always did that," Jay says.
Jay has no visual cues, so if a teacher assigns an essay and then points to a poster listing the five steps on how to check writing, he has no idea what his teacher is pointing at, and wouldn't be able to read the steps if he did. When there's a visually impaired student in the room, or a student with difficulties processing information, educators need to remember to not only point at the poster, but also to read it aloud so that all students in the class have a chance for it to sink in.
Here's what you should do, according to Jay: "Talk—a lot."
Jay's wrestling coach uses him in demonstrations so the other kids can see the moves, while Jay learns by doing.
Jay's third-grade teacher was a talker. "A really loud New Yorker," laughs Jay's mom. She also had a gift for motivating all of her students, and challenged everyone in the class to strive for more.
Here's what you shouldn't do: Leave disabled students alone. This is obvious for any decent educator, but Jay's second-grade teacher (who left the profession to start a family) had no experience with inclusion or mainstreaming and thought Jay would simply work independently from the rest of the class.
He spent a lot of time listening to books on tape and would sometimes become so engrossed he would lose track of time. One day he realized he'd lost track of so much time that he found himself sitting all alone in the classroom. His second-grade teacher had forgot- ten about him, ushered the other children into the room next door for read- ing, and turned off the lights. With the earphones on, he couldn't hear the class leaving. And with his visual disability, he could- n't see that the lights had gone off.
"I can't believe she just left me," Jay says.
That kind of negligence is the rare exception, and many educators actually go in the opposite direction.
"Sometimes teachers can be over-helpful," Jay says.
He wants to assure them that he's quite capable of keeping up with lessons—he has all the work-sheets and textbooks in Braille, and there's a lot of assistive technology online for the visually disabled that he takes advantage of. He also finds his way around the school quite well, and has a bunch of friends who help him navigate through the day.
It's in a caring teacher's DNA to want to be helpful, but both Jay and Curtis recommend that you let disabled students do as much on their own as they can, even if it's picking themselves up after a fall.
He realizes that teachers just want to help, but asks that they remain calm and realize that the "kid probably falls all the time. He's probably a pro at falling."
Rather than trying to help him up right away, he says they should take a breath and remain calm, because the other students take their cues from what their teachers are doing. Ask the student if he needs help, and offer an arm before grabbing him, Curtis suggests. If the student says he can do it on his own, let him—trust that he's done it before and is the best judge of whether he can do it again.
"I know it's a gray area, especially when it's a younger kid, so you have to make that adult decision, but err on the side of the student being capable," he says. "Then try to get the class back on track as soon as possible, because the last thing the student wants is to prolong the situation."
Addressing Classmates' Concerns
No student wants to be embarrassed in front of classmates—everyone wants to fit in, and belonging becomes especially crucial during early adolescence. Jay, who is on the threshold of adolescence, is anxious about entering his new school next year.
He doesn't like to walk with his cane, and though he will likely need it in the much bigger and more labyrinth middle school, he's not ready to admit it.
Like other young men his age, Curtis wants "to be successful, to have a wife, to just be happy."
Unlike learning disabilities, physical challenges are immediately recognizable, as Curtis remembers all too well. It was especially tough when it came to interacting with girls, he says, because "Prince Charming doesn't walk with crutches."
What scalded him the most, however, was being asked, "What's wrong with you?" He knew most children were just curious, but the phrasing implied that he was somehow not right, but wrong. After the initial hurt wore off, he'd explain that he was born prematurely, stopped breathing, and that his brain was deprived of oxygen.
"I'm very open to talking about cerebral palsy and raising awareness about disabilities, but kids can be so direct, and then boom, they're asking what's wrong with you."
Children are naturally curious, but to make it less uncomfortable for disabled students, it helps a lot if educators address questions at the beginning of the school year. At Hayfield Elementary, Jay's vision teacher conducts a presentation to let the other students know what to expect.
She shows them Jay's "Brailler," which is like a typewriter with a key corresponding to each of the six dots of the Braille code. She demonstrates how it works and then lets the students try it. At the end of the presentation, each student has a sheet of paper with his or her name in Braille.
"This just squashes any problems from the get-go," says Jay's mom. "Kids go home and tell their parents, 'Guess what? There's a kid in my class who can read with his fingers! It's so cool.'"
Curtis, who is studying to become a history teacher, is already educating children about students with disabilities like his. On Disability Awareness Day, he visits an elementary school on Camp Pendleton in California. He brings a poster he made when he was in fourth grade with pic- tures of him playing soccer, of his father in his mil- itary uniform, and of camping trips he went on with the Boy Scouts.
"Who likes to play soccer?" he asks. "Who likes to go camping? Who has a parent in the military?"
Every hand goes up.
"Wow, looks like we have a lot in common," he says. "Maybe we could have done this stuff togeth- er. I bet there are physically challenged kids here who also have all these things in common with you. Who knows, you could be BFFs!"
At the end of the day all of the students write about what they've learned, and Curtis gets copies. He says they always include that even though another student has physical differences, they could be "BFFs."
"My goal is to be a mainstream high school social studies teacher educating a rainbow of ability levels, including physically challenged kids," Curtis says. "Just being in front of them communicates the level of achievement they can reach."
As Curtis has learned—and Jay is learning— despite the constraints put upon them by society, the most powerful are the ones they put on themselves.
"Hearing a disabled kid say 'I can't' is like nails on a chalk board to me," Curtis says. "What I want to do is show them that they can. There's no giving up, and no excuses. Let's rock and roll! Now, that's for every kid."


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Nicotiana alataCommonly called Flowering Tobacco and Jasmine Tobacco, be sure to plant this where you can enjoy its amazing scent! Tall and elegant, with a mix of beautiful star-shaped flowers in shades of lavender, purple, rose, red and white. Flowers have a heavenly evening scent that is heavy and penetrating and stay open all day. The blooms are carried on long stems which are perfect for cutting. Summer Blooming. Full sun. Annual. Approx. seeds per packet = 3,000 (0.2 Gram Packet)
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Washington, DC - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that DOE is awarding nearly $40 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Florida and Maine to support clean energy projects. Under DOE's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, these states will implement programs that lower energy use, reduce carbon pollution, and create green jobs locally.
"This funding will allow states across the country to make major investments in energy solutions that will strengthen America's economy and create jobs at the local level," said Secretary Chu. "It will also promote some of the cheapest, cleanest and most reliable energy technologies we have - energy efficiency and conservation - which can be deployed immediately. Local communities can now make strategic investments to help meet the nation's long term clean energy and climate goals."
Today's awards to the State Energy Offices will be used to support state-level energy efficiency priorities, along with funding local conservation projects in smaller cities and counties. At least 60 percent of each state's award will be passed through to local cities and counties not eligible for direct EECBG awards from the Department of Energy. The EECBG Program was funded for the first time by the Recovery Act and provides formula grants to states, cities, counties, territories and federally-recognized Indian tribes nationwide to implement energy efficiency projects locally.
Projects eligible for support include the development of an energy efficiency and conservation strategy, energy efficiency audits and retrofits, transportation programs, the creation of financial incentive programs for energy efficiency improvements, the development and implementation of advanced building codes and inspections, and the installation of renewable energy technologies on municipal buildings.
Transparency and accountability are important priorities for the EECBG program and all Recovery Act projects. All grantees have specific measures they must take before spending the full amount of awarded funding, such as ensuring oversight and transparency, submitting a conservation strategy to the Department of Energy, and complying with environmental regulations.
Throughout the program's implementation, DOE will provide strong oversight at the local, state, and tribal level, while emphasizing the need to quickly award funds to help create new jobs and stimulate local economies. Communities will be required to report regularly to DOE on the progress they have made toward successfully completing projects and reaching program goals.
For a full list of awards to date, visit the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants Program Home Page.
DOE announced today that the following states are receiving their state-level EECBG awards:
FLORIDA - $30,401,600 awarded today
Florida will use its EECBG funding to promote energy efficiency across the state, including competitive grants to local cities and counties, energy retrofits for existing state buildings, rebates for plug-in electric vehicles, and education and training initiatives that will help reduce energy use and save money statewide. In addition to awards to smaller cities and counties, Recovery Act funding will help support the Sunshine State Building Initiative, which will fund the installation of a variety of energy conservation measures at existing state buildings. This will reduce energy bills for tax payers, while helping the state meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent by 2012.
The state will also establish a program to provide rebates for the purchase of hybrid plug-in electric conversion kits for residential vehicles and commercial fleets. Converted vehicles will be six times more fuel efficient than standard gasoline cars, achieving roughly 100 miles per gallon and reducing oil consumption by up to 70 percent compared to conventional gasoline vehicles. Additional EECBG funds will be used for a variety of education and outreach initiatives, including energy code training, programs to improve energy code compliance and effectiveness measurement, and education efforts. These programs will create hundreds of green jobs across the Sunshine State.
MAINE - $9,593,500 awarded today
Maine will use its Recovery Act EECBG funds to promote the development of clean and sustainable energy infrastructure, laying the groundwork for a more prosperous economy while saving or creating more than 100 green jobs in the state. Approximately sixty percent of the state's funds will be competitively awarded to local cities and counties for energy saving projects, such as financial incentive programs, energy efficiency retrofits, transportation programs, energy distribution measures, and the installation of renewable energy technologies on government buildings.
The remaining EECBG funds will be combined with Recovery Act funding from the State Energy Program to support the Large Project Impact Fund that will provide grants for large-scale commercial projects. Eligible activities for these awards will include improved insulation, air sealing, efficiency improvements in heating sources and distribution, efficiency controls and automation, efficiency upgrades in glazing, and other proven cost-effective measures.
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The most effective way to prevent fruit flies from coming into your house is to make sure that all of the veggies and fruits in your home are put away correctly as well as disposed of, outside of the household, if they begin to go bad. Failures do take place, nevertheless, and in case you would like to learn how to kill fruit flies, a little something you can do is have a look at killfruitfliesyourself.com. On internet websites similar to this you can learn all natural strategies to rid your home of fruit flies, for example working with a vinegar device. Fruit flies happen to be attracted to vinegar, as a result it could be an productive way to be certain that all of the fruit flies are gone for good from home.
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Over the next few months, nerd visionary Ariel Waldman is helping organize the global geekfest known as Science Hack Day — where a bunch of people get together for two days of collaborative mad science (this video is about one of the very first Hack Days, which was a tech-oriented event sponsored by Yahoo and the BBC in England). Want to join in? There could be a Science Hack Day in your city! Waldman writes in to io9 to say:
Science Hack Day is a 48-hour-all-night event that brings together designers, developers, scientists and other geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of collaboration, hacking, and building 'cool stuff'. Hacks from previous events have included things like the Particle Wind Chime that takes data from particle collisions and maps it to sounds to create an augmented diagnostic tool for accelerator laboratories to lamps that light up each time an asteroid passes close to the Earth.
Recently, Science Hack Day received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch the event into a global initiative, encouraging people around the world to organize Science Hack Days
We'll now be able to select 10 people from around the world who are interested in organizing a Science Hack Day to win a trip to San Francisco to attend the upcoming Science Hack Day in November (the deadline to apply is August 31).
Want to plan your own Science Hack Day, or enter to come out to San Francisco's Science Hack Day? Find out more about it on the Science Hack Day site. Remember, the deadline is coming up soon, so get the beakers bubbling and start your robot minions on that big project idea!
Here are cities where people are already planning Science Hack Days around the world - get in touch with your local science hackers via the Science Hack Day website:
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