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Letter to the Senate urging action to keep children safe
July 10, 2014
Dear Senator:
On behalf of the three million members of the National Education Association and the students they serve, we urge you to take action to ensure the safety and well-being of America's children, including those who immigrated here—recently as well as long ago. Fixing our broken immigration system is a top priority for educators because it has a profound impact on our students and their families.
We are in the midst of a human tragedy that underscores the need for comprehensive immigration reform. Children from Central America are fleeing violence and coming to the United States in search of safety. We should respond to them with our finest ideals, not our worst fears. America's own laws as well as international standards require us to make sure the best interests of children are paramount, that those in genuine need of safe haven do not get sent back to the violence they escaped, and that all those who claim to need protection have a full and fair proceeding—with legal representation—before a life-or-death decision is made.
We must treat these children humanely, with dignity. Those who are fleeing violence need protection. We must keep the safety and security of the children at the forefront of our minds. Instead of imprisoning them in detention centers while they are in the United States, we should release them to families and community groups who can care for them and ensure they follow through with their court proceedings.
Unfortunately, some are exploiting child refugees to score political points and justify inaction on immigration reform. Not only are they demanding that we treat eight-year-old refugees as criminals, they are calling for the deportation of students brought here as children—young people who are Americans in every regard except for paperwork.
The United States is a nation of immigrants, and how we treat new immigrants reflects our commitment to the values that define us. NEA continues to press the House to support common-sense immigration reform that:
- Creates a realistic path to citizenship for aspiring Americans who call the United States home. Our broken immigration system is draining America of the talent and resources this nation needs to compete in the global economy of the 21st century. We urge all lawmakers to take into consideration the many ways in which aspiring Americans contribute to our country and help strengthen our economy.
- Preserves the unity of families, traditional and nontraditional. Family unity plays a critical role in student success. We urge all lawmakers to consider what it means to be a child living in fear that our nation's immigration policies will break up your family, forcing you to choose between your country and your loved ones—mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers.
- Creates an expedited path to citizenship for students brought to the United States as children. Such students entered this country through no fault of their own. We urge all lawmakers to support the DREAM Act to provide an expedited path to citizenship for those who graduate from high school or earn a GED and an expedited path to citizenship on a par with the DREAM Act for our littlest aspiring Americans—children too young to have graduated from high school.
As educators, we encounter aspiring Americans in our classrooms and schools every day. For the sake of our students and their families, we urge action now—not later—to make comprehensive immigration reform a reality at last.
Mary Kusler
irector, Government Relations


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Magic bullet
In the 1800s medical scientists discovered micro-organisms, such as staphylococci and streptococci, were causes of disease, and began to investigate them with microscopes. The physician Paul Ehrlich, who worked in Robert Koch's bacteriology lab, searched for chemicals that would stain specific germs to make them more visible under the microscope. He reasoned that he could not only stain but also attack these germs if he could find a chemical that would both attach itself to the germ and kill it. He called these chemicals 'magic bullets'. (According to an old superstition, bullets could be charmed to make sure that they would hit a particular person.)
Ehrlich intended that his modern, chemical version of 'magic bullets' would hit the specific germ, but not damage anything else in the patient's body. Ehrlich and his co-workers tried hundreds of chemicals on the microbes that caused syphilis. In 1909, Ehrlich's new colleague Sahachiro Hata (1873-1938) brought with him a method of producing syphilis infections in laboratory rabbits, and discovered that drug no. 606 worked. The first 'magic bullet' had been found, and was marketed under the name Salvarsan. Encouraged by this success, Ehrlich and other scientists, such as the German physiologist Emil von Behring, proposed that researchers should develop specific drugs to target specific germs, attacking the cause of the disease directly, rather than treating the symptoms.
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T Lenoir, 'A magic bullet: research for profit and the growth of knowledge in Germany around 1900', Minerva, 26/1 (1988), pp 66-68
J Mann, The Elusive Magic Bullet: The Search for the Perfect Drug (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
A tiny single-celled living organism too small to be seen by the naked eye. Micro-organisms that cause disease are called bacteria.
The study of a group of single-celled organisms called bacteria.
A technique in which cells or thin sections of biological tissue are placed in coloured dyes (stains) to make them visible through a microscope. Staining heightens the contrast between transparent cell or tissue components.
The science of the functioning of living organisms and their component parts.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The brand new Birmingham-Southern swimming and diving program participated in its first-ever meet today, hosting the Panther Relays at the Birmingham CrossPlex, where they finished second overall.
The Panthers recorded a team score of 790, behind first-place Sewanee with 858. Berry was third with 736, followed by LaGrange with 296 and Bethel with 210.
BSC won the women's 200-yard free relay, a team consisting of freshmen Peyton Langley, Molly Waddell, Emily Harris, and Kristen Stempak, as well as the women's 300-yard back relay, with freshmen Hailey Morris, Hannah Busk, and Lauren Kinsey making up the team.
The Panthers also won the mixed 400-yard free relay, swam by Stempak and Waddell as well as Saul Hack and Drew Priede. Freshman Lauren Robertson, Harris, and Kinsey also combined to win the women's 1500-yard free relay, and on the men's side, freshmen Wil Cushman, Mark Izbrand, and Priede also won the 1500-yard free relay.
Junior Cody Spradlin won both the mixed one-meter and three-meter diving events, with sophomore Hank Ballard placing second in the one-meter.
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Emergency Preparedness is a Most Popular Summer Camp Merit badge and an option for Eagle Scout. ◄ Prev - Next ►
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- Emergency Preparedness merit badge is on the Eagle Scout required list (requirement 3.g.). It is one choice of a group of two merit badges (or Lifesaving) on the list.
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Three top House Republicans asked the White House to delay finalizing the 2017-25 fuel economy rules.
The Detroit News reported that House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who chairs the subcommittee overseeing regulations, and Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., an auto dealer, wrote to the Obama administration's top regulatory review official, calling for further review.
The committee asked Boris Bershteyn, acting administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, "to return the rule to the agencies for further consideration of its adverse consequences to consumers and the economy."
"Higher fuel efficiency standards is a goal I share — but not at the expense of consumer safety and not when those rules are implemented under a cloak of secrecy in a manner outside the law.The process followed by Obama administration officials to develop these standards was politicized, not rooted in sound science and was a political end run around seasoned experts who are required by law to lead the process," Issa said.
Kelly said "the new CAFE standards will limit choice, compromise safety, and increase costs for millions of Americans who are already struggling to get by in the Obama economy. The American consumer was not given fair representation at the CAFE negotiation table, and they have since been put on the menu."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week abandoned a self-imposed deadline of finalizing the 2017-25 rules by as early as today (Aug. 24), with one House Republican suggesting the administration was having second thoughts.
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Since the 1970s, Hirudo medicinalis, better known as the European medicinal leech has been routinely used to drain blood after reconstructive surgery, particularly in finger reattachment and reconstructive surgery of the ear, nose, lip, and eyelid.
Further north in Scotland, many records were found including: Henry Leche held a tenement in Glasgow in 1325. "Henry Leche, is later referred to in a safe conduct by Edward III of England in 1348 as "Hector medicus David de Bruys." From another reference to him in 1369, he turns out to be a MacBeth, perhaps one of the family of hereditary doctors of that name so famous in West Highland history. Wilham de Lech or Leche was burgess of Aberdeen, 1362. He may be William Leche, merchant of Aberdeen, whose goods were plundered in England, 1370, when his ship was driven ashore in Kirklee Rode, Suffolk." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
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Cliff Bleszinski Leaves Epic Games
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Except, you know, this guy made games that some people actually like. I don't think Cliffy ever had a Daikatana incident.
We'll miss you bro. Good luck in all you do.
Perhaps not specifically, no. Having said that Cliff, like Romero, never stopped at a chance to thrust himself in the spotlight like some kind of game developer socialite. There's such a thing as being in tune and in contact with your player base, and then there's being an shameless attention whore.
Although I'm not sure what's comparatively worse: Romero's hilarious little oopsie with Diakatana, or Cliff kicking UT and it's fanbase through the front doors of Epic as quickly as he could so his new girlfriend, Gears of War, wouldn't get jealous.
"best known for his work on the Gears of War franchise"
I still remember getting my ass kicked on DM-Hyperblast in Unreal Tournament. Good times.
Cliffy was a hell of a developer, but it seemed like he had grown disenfranchised with his work and the industry in all the interviews he made. Maybe he can start up another studio after taking some time off.
God the nastiness of some people about this is fucking infuriating.
The guy helped make some highly acclaimed games that a lot of people enjoyed and was a face of the industry. One who really valued the fan interaction. A trait you'd all be crying about if Gabe Newell left Valve.
Maybe that's why Half Life 3 isn't out, because then the gaming gods would, in some way, force Gabe Newell to leave.
I'm curious if we'll see a difference in the games EPIC makes without his influence.
Considering that he has done more PR then anything else lately maybe he is headed to
Just to piss off Steve Ellis.
Jazz Jackrabbit!
So yeah. Best of luck to him in future.
I honestly stopped paying attention to Epic Games when they abandoned Unreal and royally screwed People Can Fly. (there's a reason three key designers leave a company shortly after a game release, and it isn't because they have "other interests")
At the same time, Cliffy B was primarily responsible for the creation of Gears of War. A series that was very commercially and critically successful. So there's that too.
It's just, every time I hear the guys name, after putting aside the thought of the blatant use of his charismatic nature as a PR personality, all I can think of is, "Oh...that guy. The guy responsible for some of the worst maps in Unreal Tournament."
So, yeah. I don't know. It's a petty thought but, I mean, it's the only thing he's done that has had any kind of significant impact on me. Still, I'm kind of indifferent. His leaving doesn't really affect me.
Regardless, best of the luck to the guy. For what it's worth, he's still a hell of a programmer and designer. It would be a shame if he left the industry.
Hope he finds something meaningful and enjoyable to do, assuming he does.
Cliff's contribution to the The Bed Messer series was huge, it was strong beforehand, mind you, but he added what it was missing; an, I don't know what. What does his leaving Epic suggest? The Bed Messer 5, perhaps?
Never did agree with all of the guy's ideas and views, and wasn't much a fan of Epic's recent games, but I can't deny they made some pretty awesome stuff.
Hope he finds success in whatever he does next!
I wish him well in his future endeavors.
Add Peter Molyneux to that list.
Also, I hope Fortnite turn out ok.
After only 20 years in the industry he's leaving it entirely? Or is he going to continue other projects on a smaller scale on his own? I really hope that he does not up and leave, as it really says something about the whole state that the industry is in.
See, in most every other medium, the people that work in their respective industries can stay in it an upwards of several decades. You still have people in their 70s working in the film industry, musicians are still playing their music on tours and turning out albums way after their prime, writers will still write even if only moderately successful.
Yet, for some reason in this industry, the average lifespan of someone is just around 20, maybe 30 years, with people quitting the industry before their 50s. That is just for the big kahunas in the industry, this includes people in the lower echelon of the industry. That, to me, suggests a lot of developer burnout either from the heavily intensive (probably unethical) work ethics in the industry or just plain creative depletion in the industry. The industry isn't developing a wizened higher up, there are hardly any auteurs or singular people that drive innovation in this industry in comparison to other mediums as everything is mainly done through committee, and while there is nothing wrong with that per se, there is only so much you can do through a group effort.
I dunno, maybe I'm over reading it, but I can't be the only one concerned that people like Will Wright or Sid Meier give up on the industry after only, what, 20 years? Musicians and directors stay in their industry for twice as long, maybe even more.
I've always thought this guy was a bit of a douche, never met him of course, so I don't know.
I wonder what Epic will be like now?
I liked the GoW Games too, darnit. I hope he gets his deserved break time from the industry then. People can love their job so much, but everyone get's a little burned out eventually. :)
Well Cliff... you, er... had a funky name.
The longer the better. Really, why do people find giant manchildren who act like cocky highschool jocks appealing? The man could have been leaking talent from every orifice, he still had one of the most unlikable public personas in media.
The douchebag in charge of the Gears of War atrocity is gone?
Generic Brown Cover Based Shooter Male Power Fantasies?
Also, didn't Cliffy B. fire an employee for being gay or something a few years back?
Hey, maybe the next gears game will actually be good now
Yeah but he did have a John romero incident when he publicly said Eurogamer's review was wrong because he factually knew gears 3 was better than 2 or some bullshit
NO! now who will make sure Epic games character designs have that massively over-muscular look! The characters will all look more human and less like scientific abominations! Oh noes! The horror!
On a more serious note, its good to see the guy leaving to do something else with his life. Its easy to get stuck doing the same thing forever and never explore possibilities. That said, I want your fucking job man, I want it! Give it to me!
Dude the game industry has only been around for 35 years pretty much. (or 42ish if you count the very earliest stuff)
You expect someone to have worked in the industry since Pong? Don't you think that's a touch unrealistic? Even someone like Richard Garriot has only been around since 1980. Peter Molyneux since 1982 and these are some of the oldest guys around.
Also how many actors have come and gone? Many Thousands. That's how many.
I see this as a good thing. I really don't think his latest design work (ie, everything since and including gears of war) was good at all.
No, I expect people to be able to last more than 20 years just like most other mediums (which was the 1990s, my god do I feel old), and 30 years is still right around what I said before. I do not expect people since the Pong era to be sticking around since, and this is key, many of them were already old during that time and can't reasonably stay.
Nowadays, young people are entering the industry and leaving it at a much higher turnover rate than other industries, this is fact. I wish I had the article, but I do recall reading that people who work in the games industry end up retiring at an earlier age than people who work in other industries (feel free to prove me wrong if you can find otherwise, I genuinely hope that this is not the case). Cliff Bleszinski entered the industry at a fairly young age, and yet at age 37, where actors and directors and some musicians would be at their prime, he is already leaving it (until he states otherwise, this is what I am assuming)? That is a ridiculous turnover rate no matter how you spin it.
This is something that isn't just going to fix itself in the next 40 years, especially with how rapidly the industry has already become a mainstay in entertainment. The argument of "the industry hasn't been around for as long! Let it mature!" doesn't really hold water, at least for me personally, as this industry evolves extremely rapidly, more so than any other medium. It has taken only 20ish years since the 70s for games to be a main part of people's daily lives, it took movies much, much longer.
You'd be surprised how many actors are still working, either for direct-to-video movies or just minor roles. And not just actors, directors and writers and editors, along with musicians and whatnot.
And there's a difference between an actor/director/musician that failed to make it big in the first place, that is entirely on the individual. What I am saying is that people who are successful in their respective industries tend to stay within it one way or another, either continuing to act or perform, or becoming catalysts for other performers by creating agencies and whatnot. The games industry is not doing this, instead chewing up and spitting out people within it when they are creatively dry.
Suddenly, there was a deep, Cliffy B shaped hole in my heart.
OT: Well, best of luck to him wit his future pursuits. I'm not a big Gears fan, but I always found what he had to say funny for some reason. It's going to be hard to think of Epic games without thinking about Cliffy B anymore.
This comes as a huge surprise to me! I thought he was spearheading the development for Fortnite. That, and he just recently came off a GameTrailers segment and Reddit IAMA.
In either case, I wish him the best! Does anyone else feel a headline reading Cliff Bleszinski opening up a mobile gaming studio coming?
It's because he HAD a personality.
Judging by nigh every other post in this thread, I think it's prudent to say you're wrong.
Goodbye sweet prince
But really, its kind of weird seeing him leave Epic since everything seems to go fine and he looked like he was doing what he liked (he always looks super excited when talking about Fortnite, and that game is the type of game that he wanted to do for some time now). He also sounded really thrilled for the Oculus Rift, he even mentions them in the Gametrailers Bonus Round recently has the next big thing.
This really just came out of nowhere.
Please allow me to drop the following names...
Bobby Kotick
Cliffy B may not have been the most mature guy on the block, but I'll say this for him, he was one of the more positive influences upon gaming. (Mostly...) Plus he's not generally trying to bleed gamers dry or trying to ban any game with so much as handbags at dawn in terms of violence.
On a scale of 1-10, I'd say I give zero fucks about this. I hate Cliffy B and find him to be one of the most immature and irritating personalities in the gaming industry.
Thanks for the Gears of War and all, Mr. Bleszinski, but please... stay away for a very long time.
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Traditional Home salutes the modern woman who believes that while charity begins at home, it doesn't end there. No matter how elegant her blouse, she is willing to roll up her sleeves and help.
This marks the fourth year that we have had the pleasure of introducing you to the five national recipients of our annual Traditional Home Classic Woman Awards. Every year we wonder how the next year's crop can possibly equal the extraordinary nominees who have gone before. And every year we are humbled and impressed by the stories you send to us about women—from a volunteer who went from bagging groceries on Thursdays to directing a community food bank to the founder of an ambitious global center for education and collaboration in science and technology.
Once more it was almost impossible to choose. What struck us most about the five women we ultimately selected was their refusal to see a problem and remain indifferent. Forged by the fire, each one of them suffered from problems that prompted them to seek solutions: separation from loved ones, illness, troubled children, suicide, the loss of a beloved neighborhood to crime. On the following pages you will meet our five recipients, who will be honored at a ceremony in New York City on November 10. We think you will be as impressed as we are with their stories, their energy, their insights, their humanity, and their service. Like us, we think you're going to be touched by the ideals they share: Love is not onlysomething you feel, but something you do.
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Sharon Adams
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When Sharon Adams was growing up in Milwaukee's Walnut Way, a neighborhood of sturdy old homes sheltered by canopies of trees, gardens thrived as well as extended families. There was connectedness and what Sharon calls a sense of "greening."
As a young idealist in 1968, her schooling and career pointed her east, for a time, to Detroit. There, she says, "I saw the contrast between communities that were barren and torn apart by race riots and the very affluent communities. That was a defining moment for me; I learned to be a bridge." Eventually she took what she had learned -- "a peaceful but confident and spirit-driven way of finding equality" -- to a job directing the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York. When she moved back to Milwaukee in 1997, however, the years had not been kind to her old neighborhood. Prostitution, gangs, and drug activity resulted in ugly, sometimes fatal scenarios against a backdrop of trash-filled lots and boarded-up houses. Fear ruled the streets like an unseen emperor.
In 1998, Sharon, husband Larry, and others founded Walnut Way, turning the neighborhood from one that was preyed on to one that was prayed for -- and fought for. They were guided by the example of a gentle neighbor, Emma James, who built a new home in the then-dangerous old neighborhood and refused to move -- literally -- when she was shot at in the street. Sharon says in a tone of wonder, "She stood her ground!" So has Walnut Way. Today it serves more than 1,000 people by facilitating the rehab of old houses and building new ones (100 so far); converting a drug house into the Walnut Way Neighborhood Center; and cultivating gardens. Walnut Way has also established a nursery of trees to extend the urban canopy that once sheltered a little girl with big ideals, ideals that have taken root where she, too, stands her ground.
Becky Douglas
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A mystery of life is that every beginning foretells an ending. For Becky Douglas, a tragic ending -- her beloved daughter Amber's death by suicide at age 24 -- was the beginning of a mission that would take this housewife and mother of nine not only to the ends of the earth but also into uncharted territory in her own heart.
While going through Amber's things after her death in 2000, Becky discovered that this lifelong champion of the underdog had been sending money to an orphanage in India. Becky asked that memorials go to the orphanage, and the response was so generous she was invited to join its board. When she traveled to India for the first time in 2001, droves of leprosy-affected beggars -- some without limbs or eyes -- swarmed her cab.
"Their suffering was so palpable it hurt to look at them," Becky recalls. On a 120-degree day, her cab was at a stoplight when a woman who had no legs crawled up. The driver directed Becky to tell her to move. She remembers, "I rolled the window down and our eyes connected. She asked me to help her children. I realized she was a mom like me. When I came home, I was haunted by that mother's eyes. I was just one person -- not a doctor, not someone who had ever run an organization -- but I could do something. I invited three friends to meet at my kitchen table."
Thus began Rising Star, which now works with 44 colonies of leprosy-affected Indians and attracts passionate volunteers. It opened and operates a school and two homes for children, easing them into the mainstream through education. It also operates a traveling medical clinic and a micro-loan program so adults can forsake begging to start their own businesses. (One woman gained independence via a five-dollar iron.) What about that mother without whom Becky -- who has now traveled to India 26 times -- might have forgotten a problem that seemed too big to tackle? "I look for her every time I go back."
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United Through Reading
San Diego, California
When Betty J. Mohlenbrock was 3, her father left to serve in the Navy in World War II, a proud but difficult time for her family. History repeated itself in the Vietnam era when she was a young wife and mother, and her husband, a flight surgeon for the Navy, was gone so long that their 2-year-old daughter didn't recognize him on his return.
Those experiences led Betty, a reading specialist from a long line of teachers, to found United Through Reading in 1989. Today its simple but powerful mission is: Film parents on duty for the military reading books to their children, and send DVDs home so the kids can read along with their own copy of the book, thus fostering both familial bonds and essential reading skills. Many young children talk back to the on-screen image and take the DVDs to bed with them; one DVD prompted a communication breakthrough with an autistic son. Because children thrive on repetition, seeing and hearing their parents over and over helps ease the pain of separation.
"I believe very strongly that reading, and particularly reading together, is the glue of our culture, starting in the family," Betty says. "It establishes the joy of reading in children's hearts." The organization (with First Lady Laura Bush as honorary chair of its Military Program) has served 460,000, expanding to children with parents in prison and to children whose grandparents live far away. In one instance, a mother who would not permit contact between her son and his incarcerated father relented because of the program. Today the father and son are rebuilding a relationship through DVDs and phone calls.
United Through Reading's goal is to expand nationally into all armed service branches, says Betty, whose slogan is "Onward and Upward!" What does this visionary do in her down time? Read the Harry Potter and Narnia books to her grandchildren, of course.
Beverly Circone
Kids 'n Kamp
Columbus, Ohio
Beverly Circone is the first person people call when they have good news, and also the first person they call when they have bad news, say those who benefit from Kids 'n Kamp, the organization that she founded in 1982 to support the families of children with cancer.
For Beverly, circumstances conspired in a way that did not seem coincidental when she and her husband, Nick -- who was then recuperating from cancer he was not expected to survive -- watched the CBS show Sunday Morning, in which Charles Kuralt visited a camp for children with cancer. "Nick and I knew immediately this was what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives."
Twenty-six years after their first weekend summer camp, Nick is thriving -- and so is Kids 'n Kamp. With 200 volunteers (most are parents of sick children), it serves 370 families and has grown to include tutoring for children, quilting weekends for moms, respite weekends for parents, mom's and dad's dinners out, counseling, family activities, a partnership with a children's hospital, scholarships, support for bereaved families, and financial help for families who are torn between paying for treatments or utility bills. "We are the first organization to focus on the families of children with cancer," Beverly says proudly, adding that siblings, particularly, need support because they can feel "lonely, afraid, neglected, and even guilty, because Mom and Dad must focus so intently on the patient-child." Brothers and sisters are welcome at family activities and at camp -- the one place, a child confided to Beverly, where they are treated as specially as their sick sibs.
These days the ever-practical, ever-compassionate Beverly is learning Spanish in order to reach out to Hispanic people in her community. But in any language, her most eloquent volunteers are former child cancer patients who are now grown up: All they have to say to families with a sick child is, "Here I am."
Marta Schneider
Children's Home Society of Florida
Vero Beach, Florida
"Happy birthday! You're 18, and now you're homeless." That's the bleak message that children in Florida who "age out" of the foster care system receive, says Marta Schneider of Vero Beach, who for 10 years has served on the Indian River Advisory Board of Florida's Children's Home Society (CHS), headquartered in Winter Park.
"Many of these children have been abused or neglected," she says, "have one or both parents in jail or dead, or don't know where their parents are. In many cases, they have been in and out of foster homes, have understandably chosen wrong paths, and don't have GEDs, let alone high school diplomas. Their chances of making it on their own are one in a million, if that. Growing up is hard enough, even if you have two caring parents."
Marta knows about that firsthand. She and her husband had challenges raising their own three children, all of whom had serious problems but are now thriving adults. That experience drew her to CHS, where she was instrumental in opening a Girls' Group Home for girls ages 12 to 18 who have fallen through the cracks of the foster care and adoption systems. Marta also used her interior design skills to guide the decorating and furnishing of its bedrooms with fun, youthful themes like Jungle Boogie and Magical Mermaid.
Now she's cajoling donors for $5 million to establsh a transitional home for young adults 18 - 23. (She's already halfway there!) Residents will be required to go to school, work, participate in a mentoring program, and pay graduated rent. "I don't really like asking people for money," she admits. But when she sees a former girls' home resident graduate and plan a career in sports therapy for overweight teens, it's worth the effort. "If we care about where our country is going," Marta says determinedly, "we have to break this cycle."


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George Bush's Paintings Aren't Funny
But they are fascinating.
The greatest work of art George W. Bush ever took part in was in 2008, when an Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at his head. "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog," screamed the journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who had been arrested twice by U.S. forces during the occupation.
Bush dodged the shoes with the same ease with which he'd had dodged consequences all his life; those for drunk driving, for ruined companies, stolen elections, war crimes, the destruction of Zaidi's country.
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After he dodged the shoes, Bush joked about free countries. Meanwhile, guards beat Zaidi bloody. Police tortured him during the nine months he served in jail.
Bush's first art exhibition, "The Art of Leadership: A President's Personal Diplomacy ," lacks the apt metaphor of Zaidi's shoe throw. Bush's 30 oil-on-board portraits of world leaders will hang at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas through June 3. As artifact, they're fascinating, even if as art they're not.
We first got a glimpse at Bush's paintings in 2013, when a hacker leaked an early batch online. Two nudes went viral—Bush's feet in the bath and Bush's back in the shower. What was up with all that bathing imagery? Was he trying to wash out that damn spot? Presidential flesh is still a rarity, even though Bush was renowned for giving unwanted massages, choking on pretzels and wiping his sweaty hands on Bill Clinton's shirt. But those nudes, unlike the latest paintings of world leaders, were not meant for public consumption. Bush's exhibition is for posterity. A gift from him to us.
Bush paints like a freshman art student attempting alla prima, which means doing a whole painting in one sitting. It looks easy but often comes off terribly when done by newbies. As you apply fresh paint strokes, the ones you just did smear hopelessly. All your colors mash to mud. I don't say this to criticize Bush. I still can't paint in oils. Waiting for each layer to dry before you do the next is torture—though not the kind Bush is familiar with.
Oil paint is the least transparent and most frustrating of mediums. Staring at a finished painting from the outside, it is almost impossible to figure out the infinite manipulations that went into its creation. A Velazquez is as hard to decipher as a covert government agency.
Bush's portraits of world leaders are copied from Google Image Search. Since the birth of photography, most artists have used photo reference, but I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't take advantage of his unique access to his models. After all, Bush wouldn't want to pull a Shepard Fairey and have some disgruntled photographer come after him for copyright infringement. It's embarrassing enough that bands are suing because their music was played to torture prisoners at Guantánamo.
Photo reference, overused, lends itself to a stiffness. Accidents of lighting and position get overemphasized if you don't take them into account. Was Bush really apt enough to deliberately paint Ehud Olmert's mouth open in a sneer of horror? Or did he just choose a photo that caught the Israeli prime minister mid-speech? I would compliment Bush on nailing Vladimir Putin's blank sociopathy. He did say, looking into the Russian leader's eyes, that he "was able to get a sense of his soul." But knowing Bush, I have to credit the photo. Putin always looks like that.
Art is supposed to show sophistication, introspection. Unlike our current president, Bush never seems to be a sophisticated or introspective man. But as someone who sometimes paints for 14 hours a day, I think the ethical power of creativity is overrated. Art, books, music—these are joys and addictions, but they no more make you moral than playing checkers does. If they did, Obama, a man steeped in great literature, wouldn't incinerate kids with drones.


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Have you ever settled on something you really wanted to achieve, knocked yourself out to bring your dream to fruition and then, when it came true, decided you didn�t want it?
Neither have we.
But the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has. Last week, following an extended lobbying campaign, it won election to the United Nations Security Council. The other nations chosen for membership celebrated. The Saudis, however, made a grand show of declining the honor � something no nation has ever done.
The Security Council is an odd hybrid. It consists of five permanent members � the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain � each of which has a veto over any decisions. It also has 10 members chosen for two-year terms that don�t carry a veto. Among the others elected last week are Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Nigeria.
The Saudis weren�t feeling like Groucho Marx, who said he wouldn�t belong to any club that would have him as a member. They�re unhappy with the conduct of the Security Council � and apparently the Obama administration � and decided to use this opportunity to deliver a loud slap in the face.
Unhappy with the conduct of the Security Council � well, who isn�t? Americans don�t like the Russians and Chinese vetoing action on Syria. The Russians and Chinese don�t like the Americans interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. Some governments resent the council because it�s too powerful, others because it�s not powerful enough. There is no Goldilocks at the U.N., saying things are just right.
The Riyadh regime has several complaints. In its refusal, it said the council has failed to provide �the Palestinian cause with a just and lasting solution for 65 years.� In another jab at a certain Jewish state, it expressed dissatisfaction that the Middle East has not been freed of all nuclear weapons.
The Saudis also accused the council of �allowing the ruling regime in Syria to kill and burn its people by the chemical weapons ... without applying deterrent sanctions.� (After the U.N. decision, the head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, said he plans to curtail cooperation with Washington in assisting the rebels in Syria.) They cited �the inability of the Security Council to carry out its duties and responsibilities.�
Of course failures to reach agreement and take action desired by some observers is a feature of every human institution that consists of more than one person. The surprise about the Security Council is not that 15 different governments sometimes can�t reach a consensus. It�s that they ever do.
Some Middle East experts think the Saudis are reacting to another development they view with alarm � the prospect of a rapprochement between the U.S., a longtime ally of Riyadh, and Iran, a hated enemy. They also opposed President Barack Obama�s decision to withhold some military aid from the government of Egypt.
What the Saudis hope to accomplish with this gesture is a mystery. Once they�ve had their moment in the spotlight, the Security Council will go back to handling the important business assigned to it � and the Saudis will be shut out of the deliberations. The Obama administration, meanwhile, is not likely to change course on Syria, Iran or Egypt to pacify the Saudis, whose views had already been taken into account and disregarded.
This step won�t enhance their influence in Washington or Turtle Bay. Just the opposite. The Saudis may feel better for what they did. But after they�ve taken their ball and gone home, the game will go on without them.
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David Gore, Fla. killer, set to die by lethal injection
STARKE, Fla. — David Alan Gore was set to be executed Thursday nearly 29 years after murdering 17-year-old Lynn Elliott, whose attempted escape ended a string of rapes and murders that shook the quiet coastal town of Vero Beach.
In all, Gore killed four teenage girls and two women. Elliott's murder is the only one for which he's condemned. He was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison. It's a day her parents have been waiting for — they say living for — and one they many think should have come years ago considering there is no doubt he committed the crimes and he has shown no remorse for the killings.
"For us it's been a nightmare, because I just turned 81. I was beginning to think that I might die before he went," Carl Elliott, the girl's father said.
Jeanne Elliott almost did die. About two years ago she was in a coma and doctors told her son to begin making funeral arrangements.
She suddenly began recovering and she said she believes it was because of her wish to see Gore die first.
On July 26, 1983, Gore and his cousin, Fred Waterfield picked up Lynn Elliott and her 14-year-old friend hitchhiking to Wabasso Beach north of Vero Beach. They took them at gunpoint to Gore's parents' house. Waterfield left and Gore raped the girls, who were bound in separate rooms. Elliott freed her legs and ran naked from the house, hands still tied behind her back. Gore, also naked, chased her, drug her back toward the house as she kicked and screamed and then shot her twice in the head. Police were called after a boy witnessed the murder. Gore was caught and the other gir rescued.
After his arrest, Gore admitted to killing three other girls and two women and led authorities to the bodies of four of the victims.
He was sentenced to life in prison for the other murders. Even though there's no doubt he committed the crimes and even though he showed no remorse for the killings, Gore managed to stretch out his appeals and remain on death row 28 years after he was condemned.
Gov. Rick Scott signed his death warrant after the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers asked him about the case.
"I've been waiting for this day for years. I would've saved the state a lot of money if they let me. I'd do it myself and have no qualms about it," said Mike Daley, whose wife, Judy Kay Daley was killed by Gore in July 1991.
Daley was Gore's third victim. He disabled her car while she was alone on a secluded beach, then waited for her to try to start it.
When she couldn't, he offered her a ride, raped her, killed her, then chopped up her body. More than two years later, he led authorities to where he buried her skull, hands and feet. He said he threw the rest of her body in a canal.
Five months earlier, Gore kidnapped, raped and murdered Ying Hua Ling, 17, and her mother, Hsiang Huang Ling, 48. Their bodies were stuffed in steel drums and buried in the orange grove where he worked.
Gore was arrested in July 1981 after being found in the back seat of a woman's car. He was shirtless and had a cocktail in one hand and a gun in the other. He also had handcuffs, rope and a police scanner. Gore was sentenced to five years in prison, though he was paroled and served only about a year-and-a-half. He soon began killing again.
In May 1983, Gore and Waterfield picked up two 14-year-old hitchhikers, Barbara Ann Byer and Angelica LaVallee. The girls were raped, killed and dismembered. While Gore says Waterfield was his partner throughout the killing spree, this was the only case that earned Waterfield a murder conviction. He is serving back-to-back life sentences.
Like Daley and the Elliotts, Nancy Byer also expressed frustration that it's taken this much time to execute the man that killed her daughter.
"It's gone on so long that it's just exhausting. I'm just so ready for it to be done. I'm ready for him to be gone. He has harmed so many people," said Byer, who will travel with her husband from their home in Ashville, N.C., to witness the execution. "You have to wonder why. Why drag it out like this?"
The Elliotts will also watch on the other side of a glass partition after Gore is strapped into a gurney and has IV needles stuck in his arm. They look forward to the moment.
"He looked over at as a couple of times in the trials," Carl Elliott said. "And if we can make eye contact with him in there, it would be great. I'd like to."
This article was provided by The Associated Press Wire. (Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Met Office forecasters are predicting temperatures rising next week for the start of the July.
The Met Office blog adds: "In contrast to June so far, which has seen temperatures often near or just below normal, next week could see a real change in the way it feels – with hot days and humid nights, especially across the south.
"The UK is likely to be near the boundary between a tropical continental airmass and a tropical maritime airmass over the Atlantic, but we do expect to see temperatures rise across the whole of the UK for the start of July.
Highs across much of the country are likely to reach the low 30s Celsius with a small chance of values in the mid 30's here.
But as ever, the longer-range forecast is subject to change: "It's worth saying that there is some uncertainty about how much of the hot weather from the continent will reach us, and it may only last a couple of days before temperatures drop a little.
"As is traditional with hot weather in the UK in the summer it may end with thunderstorms."
Check the latest local Met Office forecast at metoffice.gov.uk.


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We kick off Steelers Week here at the Nest with this very special piece of investigative journalism from Goob. During the Ravens' bye week, Goob went undercover to a Steelers bar down in Raleigh to talk to some towel wavers. He asked them some "tough" questions to try to expose them for the fairweather bandwagon riders they are, and the results were…well, see for yourself:
In honesty, all of these people seem very nice, and we wish them happy healthy lives. Of course, things would have probably went over a lot differently were Goob to have worn his signature Beak Hat and purple jersey. So let's just hope those long aforementioned happy healthy lives involve LOTS of watching their beloved group of yellow-and-black-wearing criminals losing football games, specifically to the purple and black, and especially this coming Sunday night.


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Suspect in Youth Soccer Coach's Murder Flees to Mexico
(NEW YORK) -- A man suspected of murdering and mutilating a New York youth soccer coach has fled the country, according to police.
Michael Jones, 25, was stabbed numerous times in the chest, ear and neck in an attack that left blood on the sidewalk. He was left to die around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Authorities were reportedly close to making an arrest when suspect Orlando Orea, 32, managed to leave the country, according to ABC News' New York station WABC.
Orea also goes by Orlando Gutierrez and Orlando Estevas.
When authorities discovered Orea's name on Tuesday afternoon, they immediately put him on a no-fly list, but it was too late. He had gone to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and paid cash for a last minute Aero Mexico flight, according to WABC.
Jones was in his fifth season as a soccer coach for the Red Bulls' youth training program. He is originally from Liverpool, England. Police do not believe robbery was the motive since Jones' wallet and phone were found at the scene.
Detectives are looking into whether the killing may have been a case of mistaken identity. They are investigating whether there was a dispute at a bar in the area before the killing that did not involve Jones, according to WABC.
The suspect may have been in a dispute over a woman, ran out of the bar, saw Jones and possibly mistook him for the person involved in the argument.
Surveillance footage shows Jones walking near his attacker before the stabbing, but it is hard to tell if the two were having a conversation or exchanged any words.
The video shows a man walking away from the scene with long, dark hair in a ponytail. Police estimate he is between 25 and 30 years old.
Jones' family lives in England and was shocked to hear about his death.
"It's unbelievable. It's like you feel it hasn't happened and you're going to wake up and it's all a dream and you can wind the clock back so we're not in this situation," Jones' father Perry Jones told the BBC. "But, obviously, we are and that's not going to change."
Jones had followed his passion for soccer to the U.S. and his father said Jones loved his New York lifestyle and was hoping to get a visa and build his life here.
Loved ones are gathering Wednesday in Westchester, N.Y. for a memorial service for Jones.
"He's a great guy," roommate and fellow coach Karl Hogan told WABC. "[An] honest guy and very passionate about his job and worked very hard, always thought about the kids."
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2014 Scott Speedster Bicycle Recall
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Scott has voluntarily issued a safety recall on its 2014 model year Speedster 30 and 40 and Contessa Speedster 25 and 35 bicycles.
The recall issue
These bicycles have been recalled because the fork steerer can break (the steerer is the part of the fork that's hidden inside the frame). If this happens, it poses a fall hazard to riders. The recalled Scott bikes were sold at authorized Scott dealers at retail and online between about August 2013 and May 2014 for between $1,000 and $1,300.
There has been 1 reported incident of a fork breaking. No injuries have been reported.
How to identify if you have this bicycle
This recall involves model-year 2014 Scott Men's and Women's road bicycles. The models recalled are the Scott Speedster 30, Speedster 40, Contessa Speedster 25 and Contessa Speedster 35.
The bikes have the brand name "SCOTT" and the model name "Speedster" on the frame. They were sold in Black and White with blue, green, purple or teal accents.
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The 5 serial-number ranges below (in bold) are included in the recall. The serial number is printed on a white sticker and embossed on the underside of the bicycle frame near the front chainrings (sprockets).
AS30500001–AS30504930, AS30700001–AS30704651, AS30900001–AS30903278, AS31100001–AS31103744 and AS40101604–AS40105463.
The remedy
If you have one of these bicycles, please stop riding it immediately and return it to us (or your nearest authorized Scott retailer) so that we can replace the recalled fork.
Scott USA contact information
For more information, call 888-607-8365 ext. 2012 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, email email@example.com, or visit www.scott-sports.com and click on "Safety and Recalls" at the bottom of the page.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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The Kena Alliance, a 501C3 nonprofit, identifies value in innovation and turns it into wealth. We work with Latin countries. So far, this has included: Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil. We train/guide small to medium-sized companies grow their businesses globally. Our goal is to have these enterprises sell more and expand their influence worldwide--leading to the creation of jobs in their areas of origin.
Our headquarters are in Silicon Valley and our areas of expertise include: information and communication technologies, agribusiness, biomedicine, cleantech, and nanotechnology. We look for companies with innovative, high value potential (often translates into companies with intellectual property).
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We like our old design, but since we are changing our name we can no longer emphasize the "IP" part of our old logo (attached below). Therefore, we are looking for a simple logo with 2-3 conservative colors; it needs to be serious. We want to convey the idea that we are economically improving Latin regions by helping its key players access the global market.
Kena is an end-blown flute that has a range of two octaves. It was orginally played by the Incans. It would be interesting if the logo combined this flute (representing Latin America) and somehow made it a global object--this is not necessary, but we would be interested.
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Fresh Video from the Interop Show Floor in VEGAS!
Having a lot of fun this year at Interop 2012. We are shooting and editing in a much tighter workflow so that we can publish these things same day and thank gosh! The stories are numerous and oh so timely. Follow along as I attempt to recap our first full day on the show floor.
Meet PAM
Jim Frey recently wrote a white paper called Closing the Loop for Effective Network Operations Management and he stopped by to chat about some of the key points made.
As he describes it: Cisco has developed and introduced Prime Assurance Manager with one essential goal in mind – to provide end-to-end operational monitoring visibility, spanning data center to and through the branch, as a means for facilitating efficient operations and proactively protecting network-delivered applications and network availability, network performance, application performance, and end user experience data across both wired and wireless environments, coupled with troubleshooting and reporting features.
Jim is going to be going even deeper with an hour long seminar on May 15.
My First Cloud
Yair Dolev was our guest for the topic of 'Intelligent Automation for the Cloud' now in a cool starter Edition!
If you want to read a bit more – check out Jason Schroedl's announcement or Rodrigo Flores opinion as well.
Love that new API smell
Jimmy Ray was so excited to talk about the Gateway Services API with Patty Medberry.
This web-based API brings new applications and services on Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) and TDM gatewaysThese applications allow real-time monitoring, control and security of voice traffic traversing the voice network edge, whether via TDM or SIP trunking.
The innovation that come out of this kind of openness is well represented by what SecureLogix has done for example. Jim Duffy covered this down for Network World.
You're only limited by your imagination – if your ready for the details, you need to head over to the Cisco Developer Network
Ready for the Cloud?
Prashanth Shenoy chatted with us on two different subjects; the results of the Cloud Survey that was just released. It actually looks like the information here is really building good momentum for new hardware and software announcements specific to these needed capabilities that will be released in June at CiscoLive.
Jimmy Ray kept Prashanth on the subject of Cloud Readiness as they dove into the key network challenges and requirements for deploying private cloud applications like virtual desktops. They dove into Citrix-ready WAAS and how Cisco routing infrastructure technologies like Application Visibility and Control and UCS Express for application hosting can help address these challenges.
Dude, Where's my Internet?
BYOD is one of the other hot topics throughout the entire show floor this week. We started our coverage with Network Management. The Cisco Prime family has some skills to brag about in this area. Consulting Engineer Tomer Hagay showed me how we can easily identify who and how users are connected to the network. Using first the ever powerful Cisco Prime NCS (Network Control System) and then the all important monitoring datail, the incredible visibly we now have through Prime Assurance Manager. The key for me is how we use these tools to eliminate the hit and miss guesswork that often characterize how we troubleshoot mobile devices and ensure that we have the insight and the tools to go after the right problem, right away.
Be sure and follow our official twitter feed twitter.com/ciscocin. Jimmy Ray and I try to retweet as much as we can so no harm in following our channels as well. All the shows are going out as fast as we can compress and upload at techwisetv.com
If you are here at the conference – come say hi!
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Media - Round 19 SCG - Greg Inglis
Top 10 Tries of 2019: Number 10
Steven Marsters 'looking forward' to Rabbitohs journey
Your Rabbitohs at the 9s
Quietly spoken yet quietly confident - Edene Gebbie
Graham wins World 9s with Kangaroos
Let's do this! A Night with John Sutton
What were your favourite moments of 2019?
What are your favourite tries of 2019?
Membership Reaches 20K for 2020


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Back Country Trout
If you are looking for a fly fishing vacation of a lifetime, you will love the Central South Island of New Zealand. Allow Kevin Payne, to take you on a guided experience specializing in sighted fly fishing for wild brown and rainbow trout.
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- Intimate knowledge of the rivers
- Strong relationship with private land owners
- Born and raised in Central South Island
Best time of Year
Oct - Apr
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The Kiwi style of spotting and stalking wild rainbow & brown trout is what makes your fishing experience here exciting, challenging, and unique.
Being guided is the best way to maximize your fishing time while in the South Island. Your guide, Kevin, specializes in spotting fish with a trained eye and puts you in the best position to try and fool these crafty trout with nymphs and dry flies.
We can cater to all skill levels from children and novices through advanced casters.
This region boasts a mix of spring creeks, freestone rivers and large braided glacial rivers. We make you an itinerary tailored to suit you and your holiday plans,
Your Guide
- President of NZPFGA (member since 1998) and Elected three-term councillor on the Central South Island Fish & Game Council
- Represented by numerous overseas travel agencies
- Holder of a first aid certificate, 4WD certificate and OSH safety plan
Dirección física
Back Country Trout, 103 School Road, Fairlie, Christchurch - Canterbury, 7925, New Zealand.
Horario de apertura
- Horario comercial:
- Daylight Hours
- Meses de funcionamiento:
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Oct, Nov, Dec
Precios y condiciones
- Otros cargos:
- $850 for one person $850 for two people
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- We work with clients to put together complete packages if required. Groups of more than two can also be catered for.


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Faith: Pilgrimage
Ever since Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales, the idea of a pilgrimage has been an essential part of the artistic imagination surrounding faith. Pilgrimages still take worshippers on journeys all over the world, from Mecca in the Middle East to Buddha's birthplace in Nepal. Show us photos of your pilgrimage, or shots capturing someone else's spiritual journey.
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In many instances the speech disturbance appears to be precipitated by such situations as a change of surroundings, the advent of a younger child in the family, or by a family environment in which parents are overly concerned with childhood speech interruptions, which occur normally. Negative reactions to the stuttering frequently create feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, which, in turn, intensify the condition. Parents with young children who stutter have been urged by specialists to help their children develop positive attitudes about themselves and their speech. Older stutterers are taught to understand what processes interfere with fluent speech and to speak without the disruptions caused by tension. Psychiatric treatment and group psychotherapy have been helpful for many.
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TV Review: Comedy as the new religion: holy offensive or just damned funny?
In Easter week, we view religion through the prism of an atheist comedian and the eyes of a convert
Vicars with funny false teeth and a trio of bewildered priests on a remote island are fine in their gently humorous way, but for the former Conservative party politician and Catholic convert Ann Widdecombe the way stand-up comedians use Christianity for snarky bitter fodder is both a mystery and, well, no laughing matter. In a serious documentary, Are You H aving a Laugh? Comedy and Christianity (BBC Two, Wednesday), she explored why Jesus and the sacraments, as well as the broad notion of Christianity, are now the butt of so many comedy monologues and sitcoms in a way no other religion is.
The comedian and atheist Marcus Brigstocke explained, with all the desperate earnestness of a comedian talking about comedy, how he is a "political comedian, primarily" and that "nothing is off limits". He seemed taken aback and even chastened when she said, with intense feeling, that "for me and many Christians the mocking of Jesus Christ is incredibly hurtful."
At least Brigstocke showed up. Widdecombe said most comedians and Christians she approached would not take part. Talking publicly about religion, she concluded, was now just one of those things people in Britain won't do. Sex and politics? Fine. Religion? Not so.
It's all about context, anyway. Jokes about Christianity work only where knowledge of Christianity is part of the culture. The blessed-are-the-cheesemakers scene in Life of Brian is funny, said the comedian Steve Punt, only because the audience understands the biblical reference.
Stand-up comedians tend to preach to the converted. There's an assumption that everyone in the audience thinks the same way, and more than one of the contributors talked about the wider acceptance of an atheistic point of view in Britain, a very different scenario from 50 years ago.
Widdecombe cuts an eccentric figure. At one point she continued her narration, in garish Widow Twankey make-up, from her dressing room during a panto performance. And when she cast a censorious eye on sitcom scenes, she didn't pretend to be a neutral observer.
She certainly didn't look pleased with the former archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey, who talked about liking Life of Brian , saying that "the mature Christian response is to have a sense of humour".
One atheist comedian
All the stand-up routines and sitcoms in Are You H aving a Laugh? showed that Britain seems to be falling down with atheist comedians, but watching Would You Believe: Nothing's Sacred (RTÉ One, Sunday), we appear to have one: Abie Philbin Bowman. That can't be right, can it?
It was an interesting profile of the stand-up comedian, whose one-man shows include Jesus: T he Guantá namo Y ears . He's an atheist: his parents, the broadcaster John Bowman and the psychiatrist Eimer Philbin, decided against baptising their youngest child, letting him find his own way to religion.
The everyday scenes in their house were lovely, and the support his family give him was obvious, although his parents, far from being stage-door gushers, were measured, even analytical, in their response to his act.
Philbin Bowman said much the same things as Brigstocke about wanting to "provoke and challenge", to use comedy to "make the world a better place", and that "offence is collateral damage in the battle to change hearts and minds". We saw his comedy-club set, and the jokes about the church or anything else weren't the least bit shocking for the audience – once again, preaching to the converted. But, for me, the one about the ashes of his late brother, Jonathan, was too much.
The presenter, Mick Peelo, perhaps a little weary of Philbin Bowman's talk of "surprising people with the truth", mischievously asked him about one of his funnier riffs about the then pope, Benedict XVI, being like a Bond villain. "But the truth is, the pope is not a Bond villain," said Peelo, deadpan. The comedian launched into an explanation, not getting Peelo's subtler humour.
Lifestyle pilots
Last year, under the Format Farm banner, RTÉ screened half a dozen lifestyle and entertainment pilots, the idea being that the station would work with independent producers to create formats that could be marketed to other broadcasters. Two have made it as RTÉ series. They are the harmless couples'-night-out show Six in the City (RTÉ Two, Monday) and The Takeover (RTÉ Two, Thursday), presented by the publisher and Newstalk broadcaster Norah Casey.
The idea for The Takeover is based on the universal truth that workers always believe they know better than the boss. The twist is that the companies featured are in trouble and the boss is asked to step aside while the employees come up with ideas to turn the business around.
The pilot, which was shown in September, was filmed at the Tea Time Express bakery in Dublin, where the workers were already on a three-day week. There was something deeply uncomfortable about looking at desperate people trying to think of ways to save their jobs, for our entertainment. Their big idea was cupcakes. Casey beamed, the bosses looked worried, the credits rolled: job done. The trouble was, the next we heard about Tea Time Express was the report that it closed before Christmas with the loss of those 30 jobs.
This week's second episode in the newly commissioned series saw the hairdressers at Ultimate Hair and Beauty, a Dublin city-centre salon, take over the business for 10 days. The boss was suitably stick-in-the-mud and the staff were great, sparky and enthusiastic about the experiment.
In an early scene the boss called the 35 staff together for a meeting. The voiceover didn't have to remind us how terrifying such a call-up is in any faltering workplace, and the tears welling up in the eyes of some of the women showed they feared the worst. It seemed cruel.
And there's something phoney about a show that presents itself as a quasi-business programme but doesn't give figures or budgets. It's not even clear what Casey's role is. At least if the programme brought in a team of experts – equivalents to Mary Portas, Gordon Ramsay or Feargal Quinn, who have fronted such shows – to advise and help, it might not look quite so exploitative.
I hope that Ultimate Hair and Beauty isn't in trouble, that it was in it for the hour of free publicity, and that the joke is on us.


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What's wrong with Obama?
President Barack Obama says that he is less concerned with scoring "style points" for his improvisational handling of the Syria crisis than in "getting the policy right." This dismissive defense comes at the precise moment that Washington is awash in brutal critiques of the Obama leadership style.
The president's harried, serial about-faces on Syria — coupled with the collapse of Larry Summers's candidacy for chairmanship of the Federal Reserve — have combined to highlight some enduring limitations of Obama's approach to decision-making, public persuasion and political management.
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Across the capital, anxious friends and chortling enemies alike are asking: What's wrong with Obama?
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Any fair answer would acknowledge Washington's impatient pack-of-wolves phenomenon — the tendency for the media and operative class to froth at the first sign of weakness — and would recognize that Obama has a foundation of genuine assets that have stayed intact during this summer of discontent.
But it's also true, as acknowledged even by sympathetic lawmakers and some former Obama West Wingers in recent background conversations, that his presidency is in a parlous state, with wounds that are lately self-inflicted. That's especially troubling because the unforced errors come in a second term when, historically, presidents are expected to be more clear-eyed and confident about the burdens of command. Here is a short list, based on nearly two decades of close observation of the presidency, of what's wrong with Obama — at the moment, anyway:
• His mind
Even Obama's biggest supporters may strain these days to recall one of the things they originally found most appealing about him: His obvious intelligence and the way it projected — casually articulate, coolly rational, comfortable with complexity and nuance. This seemed the perfect antidote to the fumbled syntax and glandular decision-making style of his predecessor.
( Also on POLITICO: ... and what's right with Obama?)
From a young age, Obama has always been oriented toward deliberation, contingency, and a careful calibration of possibilities and risks. In his twenties, he listened so intently — and responded so noncommittally — to the feuding factions of the Harvard Law Review that all sides believed he had heard them out, and made him their leader. As an Illinois state senator in 2002, he won early attention for a stirring speech against the Iraq War, but also took pains to make clear, "I don't oppose all wars," only a "dumb war" or a "rash war."
For all that some on the right see him as a dangerous radical, his political instincts have always been toward synthesis — borrowing ideas and language from multiple sides — and split-the-difference moderation. Early in his term, he settled on a market-based overhaul of health insurance with an individual mandate to buy coverage not out of deep conviction for this solution but because Republicans had once proposed the idea, even as most liberal Democrats wanted a more aggressive approach. Obama is a pathological rationalist, animated by his belief that the truth is usually not black or white but is found in the gray shades in between, and that reasonable people should embrace the seeming contradictions of divergent views to find a sensible way forward.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama calls for personnel review)
But presidents, like mere people, often discover that their flaws are a magnification of their virtues. This president lately has faced situations that cried out for a black-and-white sense of purpose, and unquestioned public command.
In Syria, he set a red-line warning against use of chemical weapons, watched the regime of Bashar Assad ignore it, then seemed to deliberate out loud through a kaleidoscope of options, from a military strike on his own authority, to a military strike with congressional assent, to diplomacy in league with a foreign leader, Vladimir Putin, who had spent the summer humiliating him in the Edward Snowden case. There is a coherent argument for military intervention. And there is another one for saying that that Assad's atrocities are tragic but a problem for others to solve. But the president's effort to argue both things came off as incoherent.
( WATCH: Obama's full speech on Syria)
With the Summers nomination, Obama had made it clear in conversations with aides and members of Congress that the strong-willed former Treasury Secretary was his first choice to take over the Fed — and he even came to Summers's public defense when critics attacked his personal and policy record. But Obama also allowed a vacuum to grow in which liberals in his own party felt no compunction about publicly registering their opposition, whatever their president's preferences.
The common theme in both episodes is that they were about projecting power, not summoning sweet reason. Obama's approach put him in the position of being bullied — in one case by a sworn enemy, in the other by ostensible friends — who could not have cared less about his own nuanced views. As Churchill once said of the Germans, "The Hun is always at your throat or at your feet."


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Body found near Texas marina apparently soldier
Investigators believe a man found dead in the water near a Central Texas marina after socializing with friends was a soldier at Fort Hood.
Waco police on Monday identified the man as 21-year-old Jackson Cole Taylor-Smith from the Killeen area.
Taylor-Smith was last seen before dawn Saturday with some friends. His body was discovered Saturday night by a houseboat owner in the Speegleville Marina area of Lake Waco.
Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton says autopsy results are pending. Police initially described the death as questionable.
Game wardens are assisting with the investigation. Further details weren't immediately released.
Officials at Fort Hood on Monday did not immediately confirm whether Taylor-Smith was a soldier at the post.


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A sloping house, moulded to the surrounding topography is another exciting design by Hof Architects. The site is located on the hill that surrounds Silveira Beach, south of the city of Garopaba in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
The project demonstrates a design solution on a challenging site which fulfils the focused requirements of a client, whilst providing a clear, readable design concept in relation to the landscape. This house turns the difficulty of a steep hill into a strong and central concept: it is an interpretation of a single-storey house on a slope. Since the planning constraints only allow a single-story buildings in the area, the architects have solved the issue by bending the floor to stay as close to the natural slope of the landscape as possible and minimize impact on the site.
The house comprises of a swimming pool, a panoramic terrace overlooking the ocean, an outside patio, three bedrooms and an open plan living room. There is a simple layout of the ground floor with a full height sliding glass connecting the pool, the outside patio, the open kitchen and the living room.
It effectively merges all these elements into one space and blurs the line between inside and outside. The lower level contains bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a view into the pool by a window in the internal corridor. Both levels are connected on each side of the house to create a continuous loop of movement and energy.
The roof of this sea-facing holiday house is used as a terrace to maximise its utilization and enlarge the view of the ocean. Three sides of the house are glazed to provide views across the ocean and surrounding hills intensifying the experience of the site's natural beauty.


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Ruth Madoff is now back up north after living with her sister in Boca Raton in the aftermath of her husband Bernard going to prison for his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Her New York attorney, Peter Chavkin, referred Friday to a written statement Ruth Madoff issued about her move.
"I moved back to the New York area for one reason: to spend time with my family, particularly [son] Andrew and my grandchildren, whom I love dearly," she said.
In her statement, Madoff referred to the loss of her son Mark, who committed suicide, and the difficulty in coming to terms with the ill deeds of her husband of more than 50 years. Bernard Madoff is now serving 150 years in prison for a scam that ruined thousands of investors, including many Palm Beach County friends and acquaintances.
"Despite this," she said in her statement, "I've chosen to move forward with my life and focus on my remaining family, particularly my grandchildren."
The New York Post in Wednesday's issue showed an unflattering picture of Madoff hauling a garbage can at her new home in Old Greenwich, Conn., that her son owns.
Madoff had been living in Boca Raton with her older sister and brother-in-law, Joan and Robert Roman, who let her stay with them despite being fleeced by her husband, convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, according to media reports and public records.
Robert Roman owns a condo, assessed at $250,000, at the Broken Sound community in Boca, public records show. Madoff listed the condo as her address to register her new 2011 four-door Honda Civic.
Before her husband was arrested, the Madoffs lived lavishly in a Manhattan penthouse and two mansions, one of them in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach seven-bedroom waterfront house sold after the feds listed a $6.5 million asking price. An auction of the mansion's contents yielded $500,000 last summer. Proceeds went to a fund to compensate Bernard Madoff's victims.
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If you believe all you read in the tourist guides, Spain's capital was never all that much to write a postcard home about. It was awarded its status in 1561 by King Felipe II. But the has-been city has now been revived into one of Europe's most energetic playgrounds.
Cruising through the heart of Madrid's Chueca district, the beautiful people all around us, we'd have to concur. The clock clicks from 01.59 to 02.00, and even though it's not the weekend, there's no sign of the Madrileños calling it a night. Bars are heaving, pavements are bustling and smiles radiate enthusiasm every which way you look.