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December 26, 2006
AUGUSTA, Ga.---Funeral arrangements have just been confirmed, and James Brown's widow is out in the cold. But was Tomi Rae Hynie really his wife?
The body of James Brown was brought back to Augusta from Atlanta this afternoon. Rev. Al Sharpton was at the C.A. Reed Senior Memorial Funeral Home to offer support to Mr. Brown's family.
Funeral plans are complete. On Thursday, Mr. Brown will lie in state at the Apollo Theater in New York from 1 until 8 o'clock. A private ceremony for family will be held Friday in Augusta, and on Saturday, a ceremony for the public will be held at 1 o'clock at the James Brown Arena, with the Rev. Al Sharpton officiating.
Mr. Brown's body will be buried near the arena off Sand Bar Ferry Road, next to where his father and mother are buried.
Mr. Brown's producer and longtime friend Charles Bobbitt had this to say yesterday: "He was all for children, all for America, and all for love. His thing was, 'I never met a person that I didn't love. I've met a person that I didn't like, but I've never met a person that I didn't love'."
Those words were echoed by many folks in Augusta today.
Mr. Brown's family is now at his Beech Island home. However, one woman is not there. Tomi Rae Hynie is the Augusta woman who was by James Brown's side on and off for almost a decade. She says she is his legal wife; however, longtime Brown friend and attorney Buddy Dallas says she was only his estranged girlfriend.
It's a legal battle that was first made public at the gates of Brown's estate home in Beech Island. Hynie was photographed at the gates and claimed she was locked out.
Tomi Rae Hynie shared her emotions over her husband's death openly with Augusta at his statue on News 12, and now she's telling everyone that the Godfather of Soul was in fact her husband. She says she is hurt by recent allegations that she wasn't the legal wife of James Brown, only his estranged girlfriend.
"It's a blatant lie," she told News 12. "I just don't understand. I really don't. I'm confused and I'm very hurt."
Brown's attorney and longtime friend Buddy Dallas says the marriage never existed because Tomi Rae was already married at the same time she exchanged vows with Brown in 2001.
"I got married 12 or 13 years ago, and I got married for about 24 hours," Tomi Rae said.
She says she married the man for love, but claims he married her for a green card...and paid to have the marriage annulled.
"This is what fraud is," Tomi Rae said. "When you take a young girl who is vulnerable and pretend to marry her under false pretenses. That's fraud."
She says once she and Brown found out the marriage had never been legally annulled, they went to Charleston together to finish the paperwork.
"Judge Segars Andrews ruled it void inabnicio, which is one step further from an annulment," Tomi Rae said. "What that means is, it is void from the start and everything after that is legal and valid."
Tomi Rae says she does have the documents from Charleston to prove her claims, but they are locked up in the Beech Island home she shared with Brown until his death.
Attorney Buddy Dallas adds that battling for the estate is premature. He is grieving the loss of his dear friend, Augusta is grieving the loss of its favorite son, and the world is grieving the loss of the Godfather.
Tomi Rae was not by Brown's side when he died. She says she was seeking treatment at a California retreat for her addiction to medication. She says Brown encouraged her to go and that the two spoke every day up until his death. She added they had plans to renew their vows over Christmas here in Augusta.

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ASUS is having some fun with us in gearing up for Computex and has now released three teaser videos which when taken together lead us to believe that they are going to be unveiling a new Transformer which can dual-boot or at least run Windows 8 and Android.
The first video, "The Incredible Transformations," was released a couple days ago and told us to not get set into one form and that the cloud is ever changing. It then flashes the outline of what looks like a Transformer device with the dock below it.
So that wasn't terribly informative, but this morning ASUS has added two more teaser videos and while they are still quite nebulous the first of these new videos does offer a bit more information as at the very end you see a drop of water splitting in two with the Windows 8 logo on one and the Android logo on the other.
For the sake of completeness I'll include the final video, but it doesn't really tell us anything more other than maintaining the theme of two things coming together as it shows a board with "Tai" on one side and "Chi" on the other. It then spins until the words appear to be next to each other.
Now how exactly this would be implemented is of course left completely unanswered by the videos. It could be a true dual-boot with users opting to use Windows 8 or Android as they start the device or they could use something like BlueStacks to run Android on Windows. It also leaves open the question of whether we are talking about Windows 8 proper or the horrifically named Windows RT.
ASUS hits the stage on June 4th at Computex so we'll have all the answers soon enough.
I know we have a fair number of ASUS Transformer fans so would you like a little Windows 8 with your Android next time around?


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LOS ANGELES —Embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling said he was set up to make racist comments in a taped recording that led the National Basketball Association to ban him for life from the sport, CNN reported on Monday.
"Yes, I was baited," Sterling, 80, told CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 in an interview to be broadcast on Monday. "I mean, that's not the way I talk. I don't talk about people for one thing, ever. I talk about ideas and other things. I don't talk about people."
More than two weeks have passed since an audio recording emerged in which Sterling chastised a female friend for appearing in public with "black people," including retired NBA great Earvin "Magic" Johnson.
The comments, recorded with Sterling's consent according to an attorney for the woman he criticized on the tape, caused a fire storm of outrage after they were posted online by the celebrity website TMZ.com.
The league slapped Sterling with a $2.5 million fine after he admitted the voice on the recording was his. The NBA owners have started the process of forcing him to sell the team, which he bought in 1981 for $12.5 million and is now worth at least $575 million, according to Forbes.
Meanwhile, his wife, Shelly Sterling, said she believed the comments might point to dementia.
She told ABC News her husband had said he didn't remember making the remarks that were on the recording.
"I said, 'Well, this is the tape.' And he says, 'Hmm. I don't remember it,'" Shelly Sterling said. "That's when I thought he had dementia."
Asked about his comments about former Los Angeles Lakers player Johnson, Sterling said, "If I said anything wrong, I'm sorry."
"Has he done everything he can do to help minorities? I don't think so. But I'll say it, he's great. But I don't think he's a good example for the children of Los Angeles."
The woman Sterling was speaking with on the tape, 31-year-old V. Stiviano, had a low national profile before the recording of Sterling's comments was released. She had been a fixture at Clippers games and was often seen with Sterling at social events.
"An 80-year-old man is kind of foolish, and I'm kind of foolish. I thought she liked me and really cared for me. I guess being 51 years older than her, I was deluding myself," Sterling said of the relationship. "I just wish I could ask her why, and if she was just setting me up."
LeBron James said Sunday after the Miami Heat practiced for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Brooklyn Nets that NBA players believe nobody in the Sterling family should be able to own the Clippers if he's gone.
"As players, we want what's right and we don't feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team," James said.


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The busy economic and earnings calendar this week will give stocks a clear directional nudge after they reached milestone levels late last week. Rampant optimism, stemming from positive economic data and a decent Q4 earnings season, has pushed the S&P 500 to above 1500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average within a few hundred points of its all-time high.
This morning's strong December Durable Goods Orders report will likely help sustain the momentum of the last few days, though the earnings report from Dow component Caterpillar (CAT - Free Report) appears to be on the weak side. But irrespective of today's market action, there is no shortage of catalysts this week, including the January nonfarm payroll report on Friday and Wednesday's Q4 GDP report to potentially the market to new heights.
The December Durable Goods report was particularly strong, with the headline gain of +4.6% coming in better than the expected +1.6% gain, while the prior month's +0.7% change was left unrevised. Excluding transportation orders, which tend to be 'lumpy' from month to month, order increased +1.3% compared expectations of +0.4% gain and the +1.2% increase in November (revised down from +1.6%).
Non-defense capital goods orders excluding transportation, which is considered a proxy for capital spending in the economy, also increased at a better-than-expected +0.2% pace. Corporate spending had been softening lately after staying fairly strong earlier in the economic recovery, but today's durable goods report shows that it may not be that bad.
Other key economic data this week include the first read on Q4 GDP on Wednesday, which is expected to show a sub-1% growth rate due largely to temporary factors related to government spending and Sandy related disruptions. The January non-farm payroll report coming out on Friday is expected to show job gains of about 160K, though the sharp drop in weekly initial Jobless Claims data increases the odds of a positive surprise.
We also have the FOMC meeting on Wednesday, though the only point of interest in the post-meeting statement will relate to how the central bank characterizes the current state of the economy.
The earnings calendar is extremely crowded this week, with 105 S&P 500 companies reporting Q4 results, pushing us beyond the halfway mark by the end of the week. This morning's major earnings reports are a bit on the weak side, with Caterpillar and Biogen Idec (BIIB - Free Report) missing expectations, while Roper Industries (ROP - Free Report) beating on earnings but missing on revenues. Yahoo is the major earnings report after the close today.
Total earnings for the 150 S&P 500 companies that have already reported Q4 results as of this morning are up +0.3% from the same period last year, with 63.3% of the companies beating earnings expectations with a median surprise of +2.4%.
Revenues are up +4.9%, with a much stronger 62% of companies beating top-line expectations with a median surprise of +0.6%. This is a better performance than what this same group of companies reported in the preceding quarter, but broadly in-line with the past year.
The composite Q4 earnings and revenue growth rates, where we combine the results of the 150 companies that have come out with those of the 350 still to come, is showing positive +0.3% and negative -0.6%, respectively. This means that earnings growth rate has effectively flat-lined.
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As Afghanistan approaches their August presidential election, the potential for voter fraud that infringes on women's rights is gaining visibility. Women have been registering to vote in suspiciously high levels in regions of the country where women rarely travel. In a press conference, Dr. Sima Samar, chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission explained that "men are just bringing the names of a woman and getting registration cards on their behalf and that is why I can say there is a possibility of fraud," Reuters reported.
Samar further explained "Two issues are of concern for me. First is that the right of the woman to cast her vote will not be given to her, and the second is that it's possible that there will be serious fraud in the election by this method," reported the Associated Press.
Kai Eide, the United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan, told Reuters that "Of course we are worried about the irregularities [in registration], but...there is still a possibility to correct much of this on polling day....We know that during the last election there was rather serious fraud at that level on polling day and immediately afterwards, and that is what the system we are trying to put in place now is intended to minimize."
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Report: Madonna Charity Targeted by Grand Jury
Roger Friedman is reporting that the Kabbalah Centre and Raising Malawi—a charity Madonna co-founded with Kabbalah guru Michael Berg—are under investigation by the IRS. According to Friedman, at least two people have been called before a grand jury to answer questions about both organizations.
It's not clear what investigators are looking into. Raising Malawi is being sued by 80 of its employees after the board was forced to scrap a planned $15 million girls school in Malawi over charges of lavish spending and lax accounting. And the Kabbalah Centre of course rips people off by selling magical bracelets and bottled water.
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The event, slated to take place from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Campland on the Bay on Pacific Beach Drive, is hosted by San Diego EarthWorks (producers of the San Diego Earth Day Fair), Friends of Rose Creek and Campland on the Bay.
The free festival will feature music, entertainment, barbeque, art, activities and displays.
The Rose Creek Fest will also offer participants a rare chance to help restore the Mission Bay marshes located near the mouth of Rose Creek. The last remaining original wetlands in Mission Bay Park, the marsh reserve is normally closed to the public to protect the sensitive habitat for wildlife, according to event organizers.
However, because of its location near the base of an urbanized creek system and the bay's circulation, the marsh accumulates large amounts of trash and non-native plants.
"It's critical that we protect and preserve this valuable wetland," said Isabelle Kay, manager of the University of California's Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve, part of the Mission Bay Marsh, together with the city's Northern Wildlife Preserve. "The Mission Bay marshes are home to many of San Diego's sensitive bird species, including the endangered light-footed clapper rail."
Kay is organizing the seventh annual "Love Your Wetlands Day" with Friends of Mission Bay Marshes to gather volunteers to help restore the marsh. This is a unique opportunity for San Diegans who care about protecting their local wetlands to experience an up-close and personal view. This year, the service event will occur during Rose Creek Fest from noon to 2 p.m., with check-in at Campland's Dogwood Park beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Volunteers who are at least 8 years old and don't want to get too muddy can collect trash along the edge of the marsh. More adventurous folks who are at least 12 years old and willing to brave the tidal mudflats will be asked to trek into the marsh to look for and remove non-native mangrove plants.
Kay, who said volunteers should "expect to get dirty," will provide gloves and trash collection supplies. All volunteers should wear close-toed shoes and minors must be accompanied by their parents or guardians.
Pre-registration is not necessary and more information is available at www.earthdayweb.org/RCF/KendallFrostCleanup.html.
The Rose Creek Fest will have many other activities for all ages to celebrate and learn about the creek. Special features include: The Rose Creek Rubber Duck Derby presented by Think Blue San Diego; CreekWalk led by Friends of Rose Creek; a community mural-painting project; bird-watching with San Diego Audubon Society; an environmental magic show with Dr. Wilderness; bird-of-prey demonstrations by The Raptor Institute; and activities for all ages provided by Ocean Discovery Institute.
For more information about the inaugural event, the marsh cleanup and volunteer opportunities, visit www.rosecreekfest.org.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! I am counting down to 'Super Saturday' which is when the St Patrick's Parade and Festival is scheduled to commence. This will be my first St Patrick's Parade and Festival celebration as an offical resident of Dublin, GA. I came to the event last year but I have a special sense of pride in knowing I am now an offical resident of Laurens county. I mark my one year anniversary as resident of Dublin on April 30th.
Now, for the the latest developments at the Capt Hardy Smith house. The last entry stated, 'the stairs will be built'. The stairs have been built and the space above the rooms in the back of the house have been fully utilized. We now have, relatively speaking, a workable kitchen. We are able to cook and use the oven, microwave to cook our meals and sit comfortably at our table to enjoy our meals. We are in the process of preparing to install cabinetry to begin the next phase of the kitchen renovation project. Temporary yet strong laminate flooring has been installed in the kitchen. We plan to tile it at a later time. We have to do alot of major projects on the house in stages because there is so much work to do. It is time to replace the air filter. So we are waiting for someone to come out to replace it and to show us how to do it as well.
The bathroom is over 95% complete. Just 2 coats of tan trim in the crown molding and the ceiling need to be painted. We have had to postpone painting due to other projects. I have already put up pictures and other things on the walls to make the bathroom look 'homey'. The utility room is working beautifully and long showers are a wonderful luxury we take advantage of every day. Check out: email@example.com for the most recent pictures of the bathroom. The linen cabinet is FINALLY done...Well, almost! I want to paint a design on the front of the doors. I am researching my options. I have spring type arrangement of flowers adorning the top of the cabinet.
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"The Biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his Ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?"
Judith Hayes
"We have fools in all sects and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because [they were] written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?"
Lord Byron
The eminent and brilliant (though fiendish and fictional) psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, MD, had no respect for psychology. He simply did not believe it was a science. Cutting Ray Liotta's skull open and sauteeing portions of his brain while talking to him (in the movie "Hannibal") – now, THAT'S science.
Science – and therapy
But psychology can be science – when it concerns itself with the description of behavior or the measurement of cognitive capabilities.
Psychotherapy, on the other hand, is not science. It's hard to say what it is. All too often therapy, supposedly curing by talk, is a bitch session; the therapist is a paid listener, because no one in the client's world will listen to his/her complaints.
Classical psychotherapy can go on forever. Back in Detroit, I knew a psychiatrist who for years spent tens of thousands of dollars annually on three- and four-times-a-week therapy sessions with another psychiatrist. Apparently he found himself endlessly interesting, because the analyst is supposed to say nothing.
Goals of therapy?
Insurance companies eventually caught on to this racket and started holding therapists responsible for goals and outcomes. Usually this means helping the client to better cope with his/her situation (because it's typically unchangeable), perhaps helping the less sophisticated clients understand their problems, or enabling the client to deal more constructively with difficult people.
So far, so good. But what happens when the client's belief system enters the picture? In "Modern psychology's God problem," Boston Globe, 10/16/11, Gareth Cook states the problem in the following words (and by "psychology," he means "psychotherapy," according to the above distinction):
"Modern psychology has a serious God problem. America is a deeply spiritual country. More than half of American say religion is 'very important' to them, and more than 90 percent profess a belief in a higher power. Yet psychology, as a scientific endeavor, has done almost nothing to understand how spiritual beliefs shape psychological problems or affect treatment."
Let's all get spiritual
Let's first stipulate that "spiritual" (i) is taken to be a good thing (note the praising adjective deeply, as opposed to, say rabidly or fanatically); (ii) can mean ANY interest in imaginary supernatural entities, whether Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sufi, Hawaiian, Native American (to New Agers, the last three, and all native cultures, are VERY spiritual).
So it's a very big tent: all you have to do is invest yourself heavily in an imaginary belief system, the older the better. In the context of the article, Cook refers only to mainstream American religions.
Voice of reason
OK, at this point the atheist hits a wall. What is therapy if not reality adjustment? We humans love to deny. The therapist can be the sober, kind voice of reason. He/she can pull the client out of denial and gently urge the client to face the reality of his/her situation and/or personality.
This approach goes under various names: cognitive/behavioral, rational/emotive, and others. For most neurotics, Albert Ellis' list of irrational ideas is all the therapy they need.
Debt of truth
The therapist owes the client the golden nugget of truth – else what is the client paying for? (I know, the right to gripe and have an interested listener. If only clients knew how the therapist's mind wanders as they prattle on.).
That's why this atheist has serious problems with the thrust of Cook's article: the solution to the "God problem" is "spiritually integrated" therapy. My 2nd wife was "deeply" into this – this craven pandering to the client's fantasies.
Cook correctly notes that "for those who are not religious, it is hard to understand how important religion may be to a patient, and how off-putting it can be when a therapist steers the conversation away from the spiritual."
And why not? If the therapist were to blend religion with therapy, he/she would be no better than a cleric, larding his/her advice with fantasy and imaginary friends. How does perpetuating the client's delusions improve his/her mental health?
Religion and therapy
Oh, yeah, maybe it's a band-aid, a psychological mind-trick. Thus Cook cites the example of a therapist who might encourage the client to think about all the things that God has given you, and this gratitude exercise will help reduce anxiety.
How does God help? Can't I just list the things I'm grateful for, without crediting God?
God harms as much as he helps. Encouraging people to think of misfortune as "part of God's plan" can make them passive and helpless. People who trust in God (in a survey Cook cites) were more tolerant of uncertainty and less prone to worry. Yes, and less likely to see the piano falling on them.
Plus, every day, religious clients bring their miseries to psychotherapists and ask why God would allow such a thing. In dealing with evil and sorrow, again, God is no help. He's a hindrance. Didn't he make or let it happen? Such conundrums make it harder, not easier for the believer to cope with the traumas that life deals out.
"Meeting patients where they are"
Cook ends with the idea of "offering a treatment option to the deeply faithful [there's that adjective again – does the therapist have to first evaluate the degree of the client's fanaticism/fundamentalism? – AMP]. It's about the field of psychology shedding its prejudices and preconceptions and returning to the first principles of therapy: meeting the patients where they are."
ROFGAR (rolling on floor, gagging and retching). Earlier in the article, Cooks says the same thing: therapists must "modify the tools of psychology to treat the devout."
This is why I could never be a therapist. I would want to deal with the underlying delusion, religion itself. A religious client would leave before the first session was over.
Pandering and faking
And what exactly happens if an atheist/agnostic therapist encounters a "deeply religious" client? Is the therapist to pander, to fake it, to buy into the client's fantasy/psychosis?
What if the client is a Hindu or a Wiccan or a Druze? Must the therapist bone up on every faith in this great land and play along with it? How can you look yourself in the mirror if you do that?
Is the goal of therapy to dissolve delusions – or to encourage them?
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Thanks, Steph. Your kind words only encourage me.
Yes, it should work both ways. A religious therapist should be able to counsel an unbeliever without religion getting in the way. But that's not gonna happen.
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The Yamaha Clavinova range of digital pianos celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008. As the perfect end to this celebration year, the Clavinova CLP range has just been voted 'Best Digital Pianos' in a prestigious music industry survey.
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When Gate City Charter School for the Arts opens in September, every room will be the art room.
The new public charter school, which expects to enroll 100 students in grades kindergarten through fourth, will offer an arts-rich curriculum that incorporates drama, dance, music and visual arts in all academic subjects, including math, science and history. Teachers will encourage expression, foster imagination and use the arts to help students become critical and creative thinkers.
"Children are born curious and capable of learning," said Karin Cevasco, who started developing the idea for the school with local art teacher Rebecca Fredrickson in 2011, when her own two children were in pre-school.
Cevasco wanted her children to continue learning in a setting that cultivated creativity and expression, and she felt there should be a choice beyond a traditional, structured classroom. She and Fredrickson started talking up the idea of a school with an arts-integrated curriculum with local arts organizations and community leaders, and they found plenty of interest and support.
Long hours of research and planning and many meetings with local and state education leaders went into designing the school. Cevasco admits she didn't know in the beginning how much time and energy were needed to launch a charter school.
"You have no idea how much work it is," she said with a laugh.
And there were setbacks, like the state Board of Education's 10-month moratorium on new charter schools triggered by a concern over funding.
"It's been a long process, but we worked through it and came out stronger," said Cevasco.
And since winning official approval from the state last summer, Gate City Charter School for the Arts has been quickly moving forward, thanks in part to a three-year federal startup grant for charter schools.
The board of directors is expected to announce the location of the school this week, one of the big questions among many interested families. Cevasco wouldn't give out any early information on the site, but she did say it would be a Nashua address.
One of the other big questions Cevasco has been fielding is where Gate City Charter School stands in relation to the Common Core standards. Although the school will have its own unique curriculum, it will still be aligned to the standards, and students will take the Common Core-based Smarter Balance assessment test.
During the first year, the school will focus on its K-4 program, which will offer one kindergarten class, two multi-age classes for first- and second-graders, and two classes that team up third- and fourth-graders.
During the second year, the school will add multi-age classrooms for 60 students in the fifth, sixth and seventh grades. The school hopes to enroll 20 eighth-graders at the start of its third year,
Like other public schools, Gate City Charter School is free and open to all children in the area. If there are more applications than spaces, enrollment will be determined by a lottery.
Cevasco said the school will work with a special education liaison from the Nashua School District to accommodate any student with special needs and an individual education plan.
"It's our goal to meet all the needs of those students," she said, adding that the special education link is just one example of what has been a cordial and supportive relationship with Nashua public school administration and staff.
Nashua teachers who are working on curriculum that fits with the Common Core standards have reached out to the school with questions and ideas.
"We've gotten a lot of inquiries from teachers about how we are forming our curriculum," she said.
Funding for all charter schools is still a challenge. The state picks up the tuition costs and pays $5,450 per student, roughly one third of the cost of an education at a traditional public school. The Legislature is now reviewing a bill that would increase that funding to roughly 50 percent of what communities pay for students in their school systems.
Financing and development are two specialties that Cevasco said are in the capable hands of a talented board of trustees, with members bringing a wide range of experience in arts, education and management to the school.
John Keicher signed on last fall as the school's treasurer. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force, Keicher started a new career in a Waynesboro, Va., classroom through the Troops to Teachers program. He taught students how to repair computers and co-founded the Computer Redistribution Team, a nonprofit organization that provides free, refurbished computers to needy people around the world.
Keicher was pleased to put his experience in education and nonprofits to work for Gate City Charter School, and he said he enjoys working on big projects. But it was also the philosophy of the school that convinced him to get on board
"In my elementary school, it was all reading and memorization, and I just think of how much more interesting it would have been to learn math through music or history through acting something out," he said.
Keicher said his daughter was once in a skit that acted out the digestive system. Not only was it interesting and fun, Kiecher said, it's the type of learning that sticks with students.
For Keicher, a seat at the table of a team that's creating a school with a different approach to learning was too good to pass up.
"It's exciting to be able to start a school," he said. "You're talking about molding young minds. It's a big responsibility and a great opportunity."
Source: New Hampshire Union Leader – by Barbara Taormina
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Congrats! I love losing weight with little effort. I have lost 6 pounds this week but I've had to really work at it. No carbs AT ALL. and only drinking water. I've basically just eaten meat and veg!ReplyDelete
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You gotta remember when loosing weight sensibly its a marathon not a sprint!
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Wow! Well done, its so great your determined, I really should be too but I can't face fruit for breakfast :) LOL its a hard life for us girlies xxxReplyDelete
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the first 20 is the easiest. :)
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Blame deputies in death
In Tom Lyons' column Sunday about the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department shooting of Rodney Mitchell when he sped away after Deputy Adam Shaw stopped him for "allegedly failing to wear a seatbelt," Lyons stated that, "It was his panicked and dangerous decision to drive away that ."
Lyons' statement is correct, but is only half of the story.
If deputies had not made what evidence points to as a racist and unwarranted traffic stop, Rodney Mitchell would still be alive today. Rodney Mitchell is partly to blame for his death, but so is the Sheriff's Department.
Rodney paid for his mistake with his life. For justice to be served Sheriff's Deputy Shaw and Sgt. Troy Sasse (who fired the fatal shot) should both be fired and the sheriff should resign.
Tom Lyons said the lesson learned from this tragedy is that no one should run from the police, even if they are stopped illegally. But there is a second lesson to be learned: The Sarasota County Sheriff's Department can act in a racist and potentially illegal way and not have to pay for its mistakes.
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Kindness in emergency
Recently, Jefferson Center, a senior living residence in Sarasota, had to evacuate residents due to an FPL failure. Jefferson Center provides affordable housing to approximately 220 seniors.
I want to extend a sincere thank you to Florida Power & Light. FPL's supervisors and workers were very professional, helpful and couldn't do enough to help us.
I also want to thank the many hotels in the area near the airport. They helped me find and book rooms, and gave special care to our seniors and disabled residents. They couldn't do enough for us and were so kind and thoughtful! A very warm thank you to all of you!
Can you just imagine locating rooms for seniors who had nowhere to go during this emergency, especially during tourist season, spring break and 2,000 runners in town for the half-marathon? Wow! Thank you Sarasota for your kindness to so many!
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Youth for cyber defense
Regarding the article "U.S. tries to find young defenders of Internet sites" (Herald-Tribune, March 25): The escalating threat of attacks against the nation's essential electronic networks, as mentioned in your article, was the factor that drove the Air Force Association to create Cyber Patriot in 2009.
While the initial competition started with just eight Florida-based teams, Cyber Patriot has grown to be the premier national high-school cyber-defense competition. Its goal is to inspire high school students toward careers in cyber security or in the other science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines that are critical to our nation's future.
The Northrop-Grumman Foundation is the presenting sponsor and recently announced it will continue in that role through a $4.5 million, three-year grant to the AFA.
The 2012-2013 competition (Cyber Patriot V) included 1,225 teams from all 50 states, overseas territories and Department of Defense schools in Europe and the Pacific as well as teams from Canada. Eight teams from the Sarasota-Manatee area participated.
Registration for Cyber Patriot VI begins on April 1. We would like to challenge every high school in the Sarasota-Manatee area to have at least one team participate. Schools and organizations interested in more information or in registering to participate should go to the AFA website, www.afa.org, and click on the Cyber Patriot logo.
A side note: Cyber Patriot is the brainchild of S. Sanford Schlitt, a Sarasota resident and the immediate past chairman of the board of the AFA.
Michael E. Richardson
Sarasota-Manatee Chapter
Air Force Association
At STEMsmart summit
My son, who is a sophomore at Riverview High School, was fortunate enough to take part in the STEMsmart Student Summit last weekend. He had a blast and mentioned how excited he was to participate next year -- even before he and his teammate won a blue ribbon.
I encourage your readers to visit stemsmart.org to learn more about this education initiative and offer support where possible.
I would also like to extend a huge, heartfelt thank you to all who participated and made this event possible for our community, including STEMsmart, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, local business partners, student participants and the dedicated teachers and staff at the many participating schools from Sarasota and Charlotte counties.
Lisa Russell
Let Internet cafes be
Why should the Florida Legislature be so eager to shut down all Internet cafes? They don't pose a risk to me or my family like assault rifles and large bullet clips that spray 72 bullets a minute do.
Here they are throwing the baby out with the bath water again, just as they did with the brilliant legislation they enacted to require international driver's licenses.
Internet gambling does not scare me nor is it a threat to my family like jacked-up trucks and assault rifles are.
If they want to do something that makes sense, they should be asking the IRS why it didn't shut down the illegal gambling operation it had under investigation since 2007. Why did IRS continue to allow it to operate when it determined it to be a fraud?
And isn't it strange that Republicans want more laws when they are so against more government?
Leave the Internet cafes alone and please make better use of our tax dollars.
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Marion Cotillard & Marcel Walk in NYC
Marion Cotillard shares a sweet moment with her son, Marcel, as they go for a walk together on Saturday (February 11) in New York City.
The 36-year-old French actress is in town to film her latest movie, Low Life, where she stars opposite Joaquin Phoenix.
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Wine classification: do we really need it?
My initial reaction to reading Matthew Jukes and Tyson Stelzer's (3rd) classification of New Zealand Pinot Noir was akin to that of watching your 15 year-old brother being dragged out of school to go and work in the mills. Why does such an interesting and growing wine country need a classification that only implies stasis?....MORE
Reclaiming wine's middle ground
I have a friend whose uncle is a pig-farmer in Normandy. The animals live in a big warehouse, where they are penned-in; they walk on grills so the excrement falls through and is easier to clean; and they never see the daylight, or a field....MORE
Online wine writing and ethics
'It's easy to have ethics when you've got lots of money,' was the oft-quoted, ironic call of the Wine Writers' Symposium session on wine writing and ethics. At least it was on Twitter. It's an ironic comment aimed, more likely than not, at the likes of Robert Parker who can afford to buy-in thousands of bottles a year and taste them while keeping to his high ethical standards....MORE
Gallo, Red Bicyclette, Pinot Noir and reality
What the E&J Gallo Pinot Noir scandal teaches us about our own connection wine, how we really taste, what this means about the 'mythology' of wine and our own perception of 'terroir'...MORE
Wine and health
More than ever, we live in a world of symbols. In a strange form of metonymy, our interpretation of what goes on around us often takes the radical part to symbolise the whole. Artists are a crazy bunch of pig-tattoists, Muslims are all potential terrorists, and all wine drinkers are alcoholics....MORE
The consumer must not become a wine critic
The title pretty much explains where I'm going. It follows Beverley Blanning MW's reappraisal of Tim Hanni MW's comments on her blog...MORE
Why Malcolm Gluck is wrong
When he wrote for wine trade mag Harpers many moons ago, Malcolm Gluck was one of those people I loved to hate. Harpers probably realised that there were many people like me who used to tear open the plastic around the magazine,...MORE
Do wine critics really talk bunk?
Not much by way of preamble: if you haven't seen this or this where have you been? The only point that everyone seems to have missed in the discussion about the need (or not) for wine critics is this:...MORE
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Russell F. Scheller, 87, of DeLand, Fla., formerly of Stroudsburg and Brodheadsville, passed away March 31, 2013, after a five year battle with cancer.
He was born May 22, l925 in Bushkill, to the late Ora M. (Eshback) Scheller and Russell E. Scheller.
He was a businessman in Monroe County most of his life as a partner in The Scheller and Kitchen Chrysler Corporation Automobile Agency in Stroudsburg, later owning and operating Scheller Chevrolet Automobile Agency in Cresco. In the early 80s he moved to Florida and started a wholesale electronics supply business, Florida Operators and Controls, which he sold in 1995. He retired and divided his time between his Florida home on Lake Beresford in DeLand, Fla., and a small farm in the north Georgia mountains in Young Harris, Ga.
He graduated from East Stroudsburg High School in 1943 and served overseas in the Army during World War II in the China, Burma, India theatre assigned to the 748th Railway Operating Battalion. He was tapped for special services by Melvin Douglas to play the saxophone in the band performing many USO shows in India. After military service he studied music and performed with well known bands.
Russell was a life member of VFW 2540, BPOE Elks 319, and a 32nd Degree Mason belonging to J. Simpson Africa Lodge 628 and The Lehigh Consistory. He was a member of the Moose Lodge 874 and a former life member of the Local Musicians Union. He was past president of The Pocono Amateur Radio Club in the early 1960s holding extra class license W4ZIP, and was active in amateur radio until the time of his death. He was past president of the West End Fair Association, vice chairman of The Monroe County Planning and Zoning Commission for many years. He also served on the Monroe County Soil and Water Conservation Board and the Monroe County Park Commission. He served as a director and later Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Franklin First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Wilkes-Barre. He is a long time member of the Lake Beresford Yacht Club and two Amateur Radio Clubs. He and Anita enjoyed many cruises in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
Russell was an intelligent, generous, and caring Christian gentleman, much loved and respected by his family, relatives, and many friends. He is survived by his loving wife, Anita M. Scheller, and three step children, R. Farley Palmer (Pam), Matthew A. Palmer (Sue), and Leslie Garvis (Andrew), all in Florida; and two nieces, Lynn Mary Burgoon (Bill) and Cynthia M. Zeman of Stroudsburg. His seven grandchildren are Nicole, Tyler, Kelly, Jenna, Alyson, Megan, and Matthew. He has many great nieces, nephews and a cousin. His son, Stephen P. Scheller and his sister, Evelyn (Scheller) Allen preceded him in death.
Memorial services will be held for family and friends in Florida and Pennsylvania. It is suggested that donations be made to your favorite charity in his honor. A Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at the Elks Lodge, Washington Street, East Stroudsburg.
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text: Gartner study finds digital marketing spending averages 2.5% of revenue Published on March 13, 2013. Stamford, Conn.—U.S. marketers spend an average of 2.5% of their total company revenue on digital marketing activities, according to a new report by Gartner Inc. The study, "U.S. Digital Marketing Spending, 2013," was based on an online survey of more than 250 U.S. marketers, conducted in November and December. The survey encompassed six industries: financial services, healthcare, high-tech, manufacturing, media and retail. According to the study, marketers spent an average 10.4% of their 2012 revenue overall on marketing activities, including salaries, advertising, research and software. Twenty-eight percent of marketers said they have reduced their traditional advertising budgets to fund digital marketing activities. Corporate website and digital advertising tied for the top digital marketing activity for marketing's success, while social marketing was the next most-important activity cited by respondents. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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U.S. Open Ref Is Charged With Murdering Her Husband With A Coffee Mug
Lois Goodman is a 70-year-old tennis official. Earlier today, she was getting set to officiate U.S. Open qualifying matches out in Queens, but instead she was rerouted to a Manhattan jail. She's charged with bludgeoning her 80-year-old husband to death:


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In recent letters to food marketers, the NCGA called on them to stop marketing products as not containing high fructose corn syrup, implying there is something especially unhealthy or unnatural about corn sugar.
"Such innuendos are not scientifically supportable and they are offensive to the hundreds of thousands of U.S. consumers that grow corn as well as the many others in rural communities," NCGA CEO Rick Tolman wrote in letters to the chief marketing officers at Welch Foods and Dean Foods, producers respectively of Welch's Natural Spreads and TruMoo Chocolate Milk, just two examples of anti-HFCS marketing. "Your focus on health and nutrition are commendable and supportable. Those points can all be well made without the reference to HFCS."
While the March 21 letters did lead to a dialog with Dean Foods, their response to-date has been unsatisfactory, Tolman noted in a follow-up letter.
"As you pointed out, you are a significant user of HFCS in other products and are familiar with the science supporting the manufacturing, safety, and functional properties of HFCS. Therefore, you know there is no scientific basis for the preference you see from consumers. It is a misperception. A big part of that problem is that the type of advertising you are doing with respect to HFCS perpetuates this misperception. That is our concern. You are using a misperception to differentiate your product and therefore helping to perpetuate that misperception."
Click here to read the letters sent by NCGA.
Tolman also points out these facts about HFCS:
- The American Medical Association stated in June 2008 that high fructose corn syrup does not appear to contribute to obesity more than other caloric sweeteners, and the American Dietetic Association concluded in December 2008 that "No persuasive evidence supports the claim that high fructose corn syrup is a unique contributor to obesity."
- Further, the ADA also noted, "High fructose corn syrup ... is nutritionally equivalent to sucrose. Both sweeteners contain the same number of calories (4 per gram) and consist of about equal parts of fructose and glucose. Once absorbed into the blood stream, the two sweeteners are indistinguishable."
- High fructose corn syrup is made from corn, a natural grain product. High fructose corn syrup contains no artificial or synthetic ingredients or color additives and meets the FDA requirements for use of the term "natural."
When it comes to marketing products as HFCS-free, some popular food writers also consider it problematic.
The journalist Michael Pollan, an opponent of modern agriculture, recognizes a scam when he sees one. In his book Food Rules, he writes: "Don't fall for the food industry's latest scam: products reformulated to contain 'no HFCS' or 'real cane sugar.' These claims imply these foods are somehow healthier, but they're not. Sugar is sugar."
Food retailers themselves express frustration over rampant misinformation about food safety and nutrition, Tolman said. Companies like Dean Foods are very strong when it comes to fighting myths about milk and other dairy products, for example. It's time for them to put their advertising where their mouth is.
"Instead of exploiting myths about corn sugar, they should join us in exploding the myths by exploring the facts," Tolman said. "We urge our growers and others to take action and help inform companies like Dean about the truth behind natural corn products like HFCS."


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After stocks ended sharply higher Thursday, with the S&P 500 index at its best level in more than five years, Jim Cramer questioned why any investor would bet against any stock.
After stocks ended sharply higher Thursday, with the S&P 500 index at its best level in more than five years, Jim Cramer questioned why any investor would bet against any stock.
To illustrate his point, Cramer referred to airplane maker Boeing. Airlines scrambled on Thursday to rearrange flights as regulators around the world joined the United States in grounding its popular 787 Dreamliner passenger jets while battery-related problems are investigated.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all Boeing 787 planes until the aircraft are proven to be safe to fly following a string of issues in recent weeks. Japan's All Nippon Airways, which currently has 17 Dreamliners, said it will cancel a total of 30 domestic and international flights Friday, affecting nearly 5,000 passengers.
In light of these events, Boeing shares started the session in red, yet amazingly managed to close the session sharply higher. The stock is just shy of its 52-week high.
"It's a bear's worst nightmare, which is, of course, the single best possible dream for a bull," Cramer said.
How did Boeing's stock manage to rally on the same day the FAA grounded its jets? Cramer said investors may have realized that because all of its planes are grounded, there will be no more new images of smoking planes or people sliding down emergency chutes. In fact, he thinks investors probably were also happy that Boeing has a new battery source that it's ready to retrofit. It seems Boeing's problem, then, is likely baked into the stock, Cramer suggested.
"And that's the story of this market right now. The bullish facts are getting in the way of a bearish story," Cramer said. "Now, I will tell you, on any given day we are capable of a serious swoon and we are sure due for one, but this feels like one of those moments like the mid-1980s, where the bulls are just taking control a la Boeing today."
To Cramer, the bullish feel of the market should make investors cautiously optimistic.
"If Boeing didn't go down on what amounts to the biggest product recall in history, you have to be fearful of betting against any stock," he said.
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