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From Digital Audio Recording to Audio CD: Part 3 - iTunes and CD burning
In the previous two how-to tutorials, we worked in Audacity with a digital audio file. Now we'll export it from Audacity, import it into iTunes, and burn an audio CD with it.
Part 1: Getting your audio into Audacity, whether by opening a digital audio recording made elsewhere, or using Audacity to record directly to your computer.
Part 2: Making minor edits to increase sound level.
Part 3:(You are here!) Exporting your recording to a file format that iTunes can use and creating an Audio CD.
Part 4: Dividing the audio into sections based on topics of discussion using Audacity's Label Tracks.
(note: I may expand sections if any one of them gets to be too long. This section will be updated as I go.)
First, we work in Audacity to export the audio file to a WAV file (reminder from the little extra section in Part 1: WAV is an uncompressed file format. We likes that, we does!)
- In Audacity, go to the File menu and choose Export…
A Save dialog box appears.
- Choose WAV from the file format pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box.
(If you wish, navigate to the location where you wish to save the file)
- When all settings are to your liking, click the Save button.
An Edit Metadata dialog box appears.
- (Optional) Fill in any information you wish about the Artist Name and other information.
(For a single WAV file that will become an Audio CD, this step is not as critical as when you divide up the recording into sections that will become tracks of a CD. More on this in Part 4.)
- Click OK.
The Edit Metadata dialog box disappears, and an Export file progress bar appears.
- If necessary, save your Audacity project and quit Audacity.
Then, in iTunes, do the following (here's a brief preview; the full explanation is in this 2-minute screencast):
- Go to iTunes preferences and disable the option where iTunes copies files into the iTunes library when you import.
- Create a new playlist, and rename it for the audio file
- Import the audio file into that playlist
- Burn a CD.
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That's it! You have an audio CD. The next segment will discuss more advanced techniques in Audacity.
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Even my granddaughter will be impressed with my new-found knowledge (I started to say skills,but that will have to wait as the "proof is in the pudding."
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It was almost like a party atmosphere at the American Red Cross blood drive at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church last week. Music was playing, people were talking and laughing, and lots of good-looking cookies and treats were set out on several round tables by the kitchen. I did not expect a blood drive to look like so much fun; I also did not expect to get roped into giving blood myself.
I am not good with medical things. If I get a sore throat bad enough to merit a doctor visit, they have to tie my hands down to do a throat culture. I do not like needles either. As a mother of four children, I learned to do bandages and peroxide sufficiently, but I always cried for or along with my babies when they had to get shots as youngsters. I know it hurt me more than them.
So why would I even venture close to a blood drive? I went to find a story, and certainly did not plan to give blood, but once I got there I was so impressed with the people I met. I was inspired to step out of my comfort zone, and believe it or not, I gave blood.
When Teresa Fraley, the American Red Cross recruitment representative, greeted me at the front table, I knew I was in trouble. Even after I explained to her that I was there to report on the event for the newspaper, she had the audacity to ask me if I was going to give blood.
Then I met Aldina Franz and Shirley Kasper. I was so impressed to learn that they gave blood every chance they got. Combined, they have given 226 pints of blood through the years. To them giving blood was no big deal, didn't take much time, certainly didn't hurt any, and it was a good thing to do.
Maybe it was meeting Burt Nichols, who gave a double pint that afternoon — a process by which his red blood cells were removed and then his plasma returned, that pushed me over the edge into blood donordom. It took him twice as long as the regular donor, but that didn't seem to faze him.
When I asked why he did that, he said, "Well, I got plenty of blood. More than I'll ever need. Why not?"
Still, I mumbled a few lame excuses about not liking needles and having a tight schedule for the day when they asked if I was going to give blood.
It wasn't until I was out in the parking lot and almost home free, that I saw Kay Klassen exiting the building. Now I know she is a busy woman but she found time in her day to give blood. I went back in.
Nurse Janet Herrell told me they accepted four types of blood — O+, O-, B-, and A-. I thought maybe I would be off the hook because I didn't know what type of blood I had, but no such luck. They wanted it anyway.
After a brief interview, I found myself on a comfortable lounge gurney, squeezing a squishy ball and watching another nurse poke around my inside elbow for a nice vein. I had to look away.
The initial prick didn't hurt much, but the fact that I had not prepared to give blood worked against me.
Usually people who plan to give blood drink a lot of water 24 hours ahead of their appointment. They are also supposed to eat a hearty meal with protein.
Well, I skipped breakfast except for a cup of coffee, and ate a tossed salad for lunch. I think I had a glass of water two days before … how does that happen? Still, I was thus far committed to giving blood so I stayed with it.
Because my body wasn't very hydrated, my blood dripped slowly. I was glad to find out that I had some, but I didn't much like it when the extraction needle had to be reinserted and repositioned. But I survived. And I have to say, I did better than one young man on a gurney somewhere behind me did.
The people in white coats assured me that the young man was fine, but still my blood dripped slowly … at a level three instead of eight. Eventually a better needle position made my blood flow faster, and then just like that I was done.
I felt a bit lightheaded, but not enough to admit it to my escort. I enjoyed a brownie, orange juice, and water at the "recovery" table where many other donors also sat. It felt good to be part of humanity doing something positive for others. Though my experience was not perfect, I might do it again. I like to think that my blood might help a trauma patient, someone needing surgery, or an individual fighting cancer. I'm proud of myself, and thankful I got to meet such nice people as Teresa, Aldina, Shirley, Burt, Kay, and many others who were at the blood drive last week. They inspired me to give blood, and I did it, and survived.


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Nokia has taken to their Conversations blog this morning to answer some questions regarding the recent Microsoft announcement. The most frequently asked inquiries were taken to Tuula Rytilä, who heads up Nokia's marketing, for clarification on exactly what is happening going forward.
For the most part, Nokia illuminates questions on branding transition, including the relevant "Nokia Lumia" name. The Microsoft-Nokia deal transfers the name "Nokia" over for mobile phone use to Microsoft for ten years, along with the 'Lumia' and 'Asha' brands, which will be owned by Microsoft.
But as pointed out during the conference call yesterday, Microsoft is taking this opportunity to streamline their branding. In other words, saying 'Nokia Lumia 1020 with Windows Phone 8' or any variation will eventually become a thing of the past. What it will be, remains to be seen but it's clear that 'Nokia' won't be used in future Lumia devices. In fact, it's not even clear that 'Lumia' will be used either, though it could be phased out.
A modernized brand could help Microsoft in pushing its hardware to carriers and customers. A 'Windows Phone 1020' is certainly a lot simpler than the current naming conventions, which are made redundant with the presently separate products lines. Likewise for a 'Microsoft Lumia 1020', should Redmond opt to downplay the OS. It will also signify a true merger of the hardware and software, with little distinction.
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Rytilä answers some other questions, including continued support and whether or not we can believe Microsoft will maintain the quality engineering that we've come to expect form Nokia. Here, Rytilä uses an interesting anecdote about the two teams:
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When you are installing Gentoo (or any other distribution, or even operating system for that matter) you make choices depending on the environment you are working with. A setup for a server differs from a setup for a workstation. A gaming workstation differs from a 3D rendering workstation.
This is not only true for choosing what packages you want to install, but also what features a certain package should support. If you don't need OpenGL, why would you bother installing OpenGL and build OpenGL support in most of your packages? If you don't want to use KDE, why would you bother compiling packages with KDE support if those packages work flawlessly without?
To help users in deciding what to install/activate and what not, we wanted the user to specify his/her environment in an easy way. This forces the user into deciding what they really want and eases the process for Portage, our package management system, to make useful decisions.
Enter the USE flags. Such a flag is a keyword that embodies support and dependency-information for a certain concept. If you define a certain USE flag, Portage will know that you want support for the chosen keyword. Of course this also alters the dependency information for a package.
Let us take a look at a specific example: the
By correctly defining the keywords you will receive a system tailored specifically to your needs.
There are two types of USE flags:
A list of available global USE flags can be found
A list of available local USE flags can be found locally in
In the hope you are convinced of the importance of USE flags we will now inform you how to declare USE flags.
As previously mentioned, all USE flags are declared inside the
The profile your system listens to is pointed to by the
Let us take a look at this default setting for the 2004.3 profile:
(This example is the sum of the settings in base, default-linux, default-linux/x86 and default-linux/x86/2004.3)USE="x86 oss apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode fortran f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib"
As you can see, this variable already contains quite a lot of keywords. Do
not alter any
To change this default setting, you need to add or remove keywords to the
For instance, to remove support for KDE and QT but add support for ldap, the
USE="-kde -qt3 -qt4 ldap"
Sometimes you want to declare a certain USE flag for one (or a couple) of
applications but not system-wide. To accomplish this, you will need to create
For instance, if you don't want
dev-db/mysql berkdb
You can of course also explicitly
dev-php/php -java
Sometimes you want to set a certain USE setting only once. Instead of editing
As an example we will temporarily remove java from the USE setting during the installation of seamonkey.
# USE="-java" emerge seamonkey
Of course there is a certain precedence on what setting has priority over the
USE setting. You don't want to declare
To view the final
# emerge --info
If you have altered your USE flags and you wish to update your entire system to
use the new USE flags, use
# emerge --update --deep --newuse world
Next, run Portage's depclean to remove the conditional dependencies that were emerged on your "old" system but that have been obsoleted by the new USE flags.
# emerge -p --depclean
When depclean has finished, run
# revdep-rebuild
When all this is accomplished, your system is using the new USE flag settings.
Let us take the example of
# emerge --pretend --verbose seamonkey These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/seamonkey-1.0.7 USE="crypt gnome java -debug -ipv6 -ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznopango -moznoroaming -postgres -xinerama -xprint" 0 kB
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Now run
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Well you all went perfectly nuts for the vegetarian idea and I was inundated by your favourite vegetarian recipes. I mean... there must have been at least 10!!!!
I haven't cooked any of them yet because I haven't had a chance to go to the shops again for the ingredients - mostly more butternut squash and a large sack of lentils by the looks of things. But such is the life of a duty cook that when the evening rolled around again I had to make supper for my hungry husband with no vegetarian option available.
In times of stress such as these, I like to ask myself "What would Judge Judy do?" But this isn't very helpful in the kitchen because I imagine what Judge Judy would do would be to get a Chinese takeaway. Or have her own personal chef knock up a pizza. (She is worth $90m, Judge Judy. Ninety. Million.)
So instead I asked myself, what would K-Mid do? There was a lot of talk around the royal wedding of what an excellent short order cook the Duchess of Cambridge was at university. Short order cooking, for those of you who don't know, is stuff like macaroni cheese, bacon and eggs and shepherd's pie - simple kitchen suppers. So I asked myself "What would K-Mid do?" and the answer came back to me that she would probably make a spanish omelette.
It so happened that in Waitrose the other day I stumbled across a cooking chorizo by a company called Unearthed, who - if I'm not mistaken - are new to the shelves of Waitrose. And I like to investigate new things in Waitrose. So I had some chorizo and I had a potato and I had some eggs and I had some onions and off I went.
And it was great, as Spanish omelettes always are.
Not meat-free, but I never made any promises. I never signed anything.
Judge Judy would approve.
Spanish omelette for 2 hungry people, or 4 less hungry with a salad
5 eggs
6 Unearthed cooking chorizo sausages, cooked and diced. Or really any chorizo you like
a long sloop of cream if you have it but don't worry if not
1 large onion
olive oil
groundnut oil
1 large baking or waxy potato
some fresh oregano and sage if you have it
salt and pepper
monteray jack or cheddar cheese - this is optional if you think it's a calorie too far
1 Peel and chop your potato and then if you can, steam it for 25 minutes. I really advise the purchase of a steamer, I use mine all the time. It's Le Creuset. I love it. If you don't have one, you can balance a colander over a pan of boiling water and chuck any old lid that fits on top
2 Chop and sautee the onion in a sloop of groundnut oil, a sloop of olive oil and about 25g butter. Do this in a pan big enough to take the entire omelette. It doesn't have to be non-stick because this has got quite a lot of oil in it so shouldn't stick to the bottom too badly. But use a non-stick if you like.
Sprinkle over a large pinch of salt, which stops the onion burning. Don't know why so don't ask - and don't CARE so don't tell me. Throw in the sage and the oregano if using.
3 Cook and dice the chorizo. Incidentally, my husband is something of a tapas and Spanish food enthusiast generally and says that this chorizo is very good. You can either cook it in the oven or in a frying pan. It will leak orange gunk everywhere. I'm sorry about this, but it's just the way with chorizo.
Put on your grill to full bongos.
4 Whisk up the 5 eggs in a separate bowl with cream if using and season cautiously as the chorizo is quite strong.
5 Add the potato and the chorizo to the onion and shift around carefully so's not to mash the potato up too badly. Then pour over the egg mixture and give the whole thing a shake. Turn the heat up to medium and keep an eye on the pan. Little bubbles ought to start coming to the surface after about 4-5 minutes.
When you reckon the bottom's firming up (oh how I wish my bottom would firm back up) grate over some cheese and slide it under your redhot grill for another 3-4 minutes or until you reckon it's done.
Depending on your pan, you may not be able to turn the whole thing out, but you certainly ought to be able to cut triangles directly out of the pan without too much bother.
We ate this with a very crunchy salad, a lot of Tabasco sauce and some beer.
Why are children so keen on The Gruffalo? I read it for the first time this morning and it was okay, but its cult status is baffling. Mog the Forgetful Cat or Six Dinner Sid or The Tiger Who Came To Tea are surely more moving, generally. You will note a strong feline theme. I did call my child Kitty, after all.


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"Every parent needs mentors. Each one of us needs wise, helpful parents as we journey through parenthood. We'll be more successful if we have other parents who mentor and support us.
As a parent, it's too easy to take the parenthood pathway alone. Everyone is busy. Sometimes it can seem like too much just to keep up with the daily schedule of getting kids out of bed and to school, doing your work or volunteer work, getting kids to and from activities, feeding the family, getting kids to bed, and having family time. Some days can feel like an insurmountable challenge to meet.
That's why parents need mentors. We need other parents to talk to, brainstorm with, get advice from, and serve as wise guides and supports. I've always worked hard to network with other parents. True, not all are helpful, but when you find the mentors, the wise sages, that's when you know that you're not alone and that you always have someone who has thoughtful things to say.
I remember having trouble with one of my kids at the preschool age. My child was headstrong and would not listen. When he got upset, he would hide under the dining room table and wail for 45 minutes straight. Right through dinner.
I was stumped. I was frazzled. I "googled" for advice and tried it, without any success.
Then I called one of my wise sage parents. This was a parent who was now a grandparent, who had raised four kids and had encountered all kinds of issues. Her advice? Well, she had two. The first one was: Let him wail. Eat dinner. Then do the dishes. Keep an eye on him, but let him scream it out until he was exhausted.
Her second bit of advice? Crawl under the table and sit with him. Be as calm as possible. Just be with him. Let him know that you're not afraid of his tantrum and that you're always there for him.
What amazed me was how both bits of advice worked. I didn't do them at the same time, but I began to realize that sometimes it was better for me to give him space and other times, it was more effective for me to crawl under the table and be close to him.
Once my son was calm, we took the plate of food out of the refrigerator and warmed it up. When he wanted something else to eat, we were firm. This was what we were having for dinner. We really wished he would eat with us, but we also understood how hard it is to eat when you're upset. We were compassionate but also set boundaries.
The tantrums didn't subside quickly, but gradually they did. I believe this sticky situation in our household changed because of my parenting mentor. She had been through all kinds of situations with her kids and grandkids. She was patient and wise and knew how to show a better path for this rookie parent.
Since I have two kids, I've seen how I've needed parenting mentors at different times during my parenting journey. When my kids became teenagers, I sought out the wise counsel of a couple of parents who I considered mentors. We never used the word mentor, but it was obvious that these parents were doing just that—mentoring me.
Besides having parenting mentors for myself, I now try to be a mentor for other parents. I never give unwanted advice, but I get to know the parents around me. I build relationships with them. I find out what they love about parenting—and what baffles them. I talk about what I enjoy about parenting and what has bewildered me. I then encourage them to find a wise parenting mentor. A few have come to me, and I know others have found other mentors.
It doesn't matter who the mentors are. What matters is that you don't feel alone as a parent, that you build meaningful relationships with other parents and find parenting mentors who can make the parenting path much easier and smoother."
Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Peter C. Scales, Jolene L. Roehlkepartain, Carmelita Gallo, and Stacey P. Rude, Building Strong Families (Minneapolis: Search Institute, 2002), http://www.search-institute.org/content/building-strong-families-2002


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While Linburg Ellison sprayed down the white Savannah-Chatham police SUV, John Roberts rendered it spotless with soap, a brush and some elbow grease.
The pair was among a large group of recently released felons that spent the day Friday washing dozens of police vehicles at the department's five precincts as part of the Savannah Impact Program's Work Ventures project.
Since it was started in 2001, the Savannah Impact Program - a venture that uses resources from the Savannah-Chatham police, Chatham County Adult Education, Georgia's Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Georgia Department of Corrections, Juvenile Justice and Labor - has worked with about 600 local felons to steer them from a criminal lifestyle and learn the values of becoming productive members of society.
It's impact has been significant, said Julian Miller, police spokesman. In an area where recidivism rates are high, about 87 percent of felons who have participated in the Savannah Impact Program have turned their lives around and avoided additional jail time.
"SIP's mission is to steer former offenders from criminal activity to productive work," said Police Chief Willie Lovett, who helped start the program. "Most returning felons quickly become recidivists because they know nothing else or have no place to turn. SIP's record of addressing those issues is impressive. It is one of the most important programs this department - or this area - has."
The Work Ventures project - that in addition to holding car washes has included landscaping, building maintenance and graffiti removal - isn't necessarily designed to teach specific skills, Miller said.
Instead it focuses on teaching felons the value of taking pride in working hard, even for long hours.
It also allows participants in the program the opportunity to demonstrate many qualities employers are looking for such as dependability, honesty, customer service and professional appearances, Miller said.
Ultimately, he said, its aim is to help its participants land jobs so they can provide for themselves and their families and not consider committing crimes.


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I once worked with a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bill Gleason, who was writing more than 30 years ago that football should go back to leather helmets.
His theory was that there would be fewer injuries if players had to worry more about their heads when they made contact, that maybe they would stop treating their helmets like weapons.
I thought Gleason had played too many games without a helmet.
It didn't take many years of watching players dive head first into plays for me to change my mind.
Gleason was correct. He would fully approve of the NFL's new rule adopted Wednesday by owners that prevents players, offensive and defensive, to use the crowns of their helmets outside the tackle box — tackle to tackle within three yards of the line of scrimmage — for forcible blows.
For several years, the NFL has passed rules to protect offensive players. Now the league is treating defenders as if their safety counts too.
One new rule prohibits peel-back blocks inside the tackle box. It has been mislabeled as "The Brian Cushing Rule" because the Texans linebacker suffered a season-ending injury last season on a peel-back block, but that block already was illegal and should have been called a penalty because the blocker came from outside the tackle box.
More controversial is the new helmet rule as it applies to running backs, much of the criticism coming from running backs. But why should they be protected from helmet-to-helmet hits, as they are now, if they can still initiate contact with their helmets?
Some of them will have to re-learn how they play the game, just as defensive players have had to do.
Jeff Fisher, a member of the competition committee that made rules changes recommendations, said the league wants to eliminate "that play where two players are coming together …and dropping their helmets where they make contact with (the crown).
"Face good, hairline good…but when the crown comes down, we're going to have issues. Basically, the best way to phrase this is we're bringing the shoulder back into the game. We all know the helmet is a protective device. It's not designed to be used like it's being used of late and we want to protect our players, specifically out in space."
Running backs will have to be smarter. It's time for them to use their heads, not their helmets.


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Gail Goestenkors, who never came close to reaching the huge expectations she brought to Texas' women's basketball five years ago, resigned Monday.
Goestenkors had two seasons remaining on the seven-year, $7 million deal she signed after taking Duke to four Final Fours. At UT, her teams managed just one NCAA tournament victory.
This season, the Longhorns limped to an 8-10 record in the Big 12 — their second consecutive losing conference season — and lost to West Virginia in the first game of the NCAA tournament.
In five seasons at UT, Goestenkors was 102-64 overall. She told reporters on Monday that she was not pressured to leave and was asked to stay by women's athletic director Chris Plonsky, but Goestenkors said staying was "not fair to the program or the university."
"I feel like the time has come," Goestenkors said. "I'm tired."


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SOUTH PORTLAND — Even if the sky does not fall completely, the portions that do drop could land hard on city property taxpayers.
That was the essence of a Wednesday night workshop involving the City Council and School Board at City Hall.
What had been intended as a chance to review finances and provide council input on possible increases in the education budget became an examination of the proposed biennial budget from Gov. Paul LePage and the possible loss of state aid to the city and schools.
LePage's biennial budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 proposes to suspend municipal revenue sharing, shift percentages of excise taxes on large commercial vehicles, and reduce sharing of taxes on business equipment.
City Manager Jim Gailey and Finance Director Greg L'Heureux have estimated passage of the budget with no changes would lead to $2.8 million in lost revenue, adding 88 cents, or almost 5 percent, to the current property tax rate of $16.50 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Last month, Mayor Tom Blake said it was his goal to keep any property tax increase at 1 percent for the entire municipal, school and county share of the city budget. Absent any elements of LePage's proposed budget passing as proposed, Gailey and L'Heureux made an early estimate of municipal operations requiring a nearly 2.9 percent property tax increase, primarily based on an expected 10.2 percent increase in health insurance premiums.
Gailey said the early expectation of needing $496,000 in property tax revenue comes before he has met with department heads to review their budget requests. The municipal budget will be presented to councilors March 18.
At the outset of her presentation, School Superintendent Suzanne Godin said similarities abounded in the potential financial forecast to property owners.
In the LePage budget, general purpose education aid is expected to remain constant through the next budget cycle. But Godin said she has learned from the Maine Department of Education that the current curtailment of $411,000 in subsidies is likely to continue.
The Legislature is still deliberating the $35.5 million budget curtailment for the current fiscal year announced by LePage late last month. Included in the curtailment is $12.6 million in education subsidies, which would reduce anticipated state aid in South Portland from $3.1 million to $2.7 million.
Proposed changes to pension funding for teachers would be felt in the Essential Programs and Services formula used to determine subsidies. Godin said the shift could hurt the local budget because the department might not be fully reimbursed for what it spends on retirement funding that is now supplied by the state.
A late development Wednesday also troubled Godin; she said state reimbursements based on providing services to low-income students could be reduced by $372,000. In a worst-case scenario, Godin said, state budget changes could lead to a $2.2 million to $3.1 million budget gap.
She said the School Department is just beginning to formulate a budget and did not have preliminary estimates of the impact on property taxes.
Auditors reports prepared by Hank Farrah of Runyon, Kersteen and Ouellette show a $10.6 million balance of unassigned funds in city operations, and about $1.1 million in unassigned funds in city schools.
Colchester Road resident Albert DiMillo Jr. told councilors he believes the school department will have a real surplus of $5 million by the end of June, and has been misreporting surpluses and designating funds that should be part of the annual budget referendum vote.
Godin responded by noting the recent audits found no flaws in the department's fiscal accountability.
Councilors and School Board members are expected to hold another workshop Feb. 28, with a clearer picture of the direction of the state budget.
David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidHarry8.
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For the second year in a row, multiple graduating Hope College seniors have received highly competitive fellowships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Danielle Johnson of Kalamazoo, Robin Litscher of Lebanon, Ind., Lani Pickard of Minnetonka, Minn., and Molly Smith of Urbana, Ill., all of whom graduated in May, have received fellowships to teach English abroad during the coming year.
Last year, four graduating seniors or recent graduates also received Fulbright fellowships to teach abroad, and Hope has had multiple other recipients through the years. During 2008-09, Hope tied for 30th nationally among Bachelor's institutions for the number of students receiving the awards.
"That we have multiple students receive Fulbrights makes it look easy, but that's far from the case," said Dr. David Cunningham, who is a professor of religion and director of the CrossRoads Project and serves as the Fulbright Program advisor at Hope along with colleague Dr. Janis Gibbs of the college's history faculty. "The Fulbright program is highly selective - only about 1,500 fellowships are presented nationwide each year. It is a tremendous compliment to our students to have received them, and a strong affirmation of the high quality of a Hope education that we have had multiple students receive them."
Danielle Johnson, who majored in English with a writing emphasis and Spanish, will be teaching in Spain.
Robin Litscher, who majored in philosophy and German, will be teaching in Germany.
Lani Pickard, who graduated with a Latin American humanities composite major, will be teaching in Colombia.
Molly Smith, who majored in athletic training, will be teaching in Malaysia.
In addition to the three students who received Fulbrights, multiple graduating seniors or recent graduates have received English teaching assistantships from the French government. The French-government awards are also made based on the recipients' applications to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
° Allison Templeton, a 2009 graduate and chemistry major from Appleton, Wis., will be teaching in Montpellier.
° Sarah Williams, a 2009 graduate and dance and French major from Indianapolis, Ind., will teach in Nantes.
° Ashley Holtgrewe, a 2007 graduate and communication and psychology major from St. Peters, Mo., will teach in Martinique.
° Anna West, a 2008 graduate and English major from Birmingham, will teach in Caen.
Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Grant recipients include recent college graduates and graduate students, college and university instructors, and professionals in other fields.
The U.S. Student Program is designed for recent college graduates, master's and doctoral candidates, young professionals and artists, with awards supporting an academic year of study, research or teaching assistantship experience. The program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.


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In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and other individuals who shaped the Civil Rights Movement, the college kicked off a week of events for students and community members alike.
The first is the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march, which took place on Monday, Jan. 20. Participants in the march walked from Reid Campus Center to the Land Title Plaza, where they held a vigil and listened to musical performances.
Interim Director of the Intercultural Center Matt Ozuna believes the march is a great opportunity to bring the larger community together to acknowledge the efforts of Civil Rights leaders.
"The holiday serves as a wonderful opportunity for members of the Whitman and Walla Walla communities—from all backgrounds and beliefs—to come together, overcome indifference, and build relationships of trust, tolerance, and respect," he said.
Next on the agenda is a lecture by Diane Nash, a Civil Rights activist who participated in the Freedom Rides and in a successful sit-in campaign in Tennessee. Nash will speak on Thursday, Jan. 30 in Cordiner Hall.
Intercultural Center Program Advisor Kyle Martz '07 encourages everyone to take advantage of this unique chance to hear a first-hand account of such an important time in our history.
"Historic figures who can personally speak to events as momentous as the Civil Rights Movement are becoming increasingly rare, and so we should consider ourselves fortunate to have an opportunity such as this."
A group of students from Whitman, Walla Walla Community College and Walla Walla University will also have the unique opportunity to attend a workshop on nonviolent resistance with this prominent Civil Rights Movement leader. Attendees will discuss nonviolent strategies and hear more about Nash's experiences.
In addition to these events, community members were invited to attend a film screening of "Freedom Riders" and to hear a lecture about the importance of the Civil Rights Movement from Dr. Kate Shuster. Shuster is a researcher of education reform and a key organizer of Whitman Teaches the Movement, a program in which Whitman students teach lessons on the Civil Rights Movement in Walla Walla Public Schools.
Martz believes these events give community members the chance to learn from historical leaders and to implement change today.
"I believe that the value of learning history is to not repeat history's mistakes, and MLK Jr. faced many of our historical mistakes head-on," he said. " It's important for every member of this society to acknowledge what he did, and know the history of what he did and why, so that we never slide back into those mistakes, and continue to move forward and work to end oppression, racial or otherwise."


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The Disenfranchised, Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-spouse Dies, edited by Peggy Sapphire. Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., Amityville, New York. Paperback. 217 pages. $49.95.
Reviewed by Tena Starr
Some time ago a friend called to say that her ex-husband had died. It was startling, it was sad, of course, and it was unfamiliar ground.
How, I wondered, did she experience her ex-husband's death? Obviously she grieved on behalf of her children, but what about herself?
How exactly does one feel about the death of a person once beloved enough that the plan was to spend the rest of life together, but years later is maybe no more than an acquaintance, perhaps even disliked — but still connected through children and mutual history?
These are the questions Peggy Sapphire, a counselor and poet from Craftsbury, sets out to answer in this fascinating book, an anthology of heartfelt, first-person stories written by people who have experienced the death of a former partner.
The Disenfranchised tackles a complex and overlooked subject, one that many will find themselves grappling with as divorce rates climb and the population ages. As a former spouse, you're likely not expected to deal with funeral arrangements, burial, or all the other important and, in some ways soothing, rituals that go with death. If your ex has remarried, perhaps you're not expected to make more than a perfunctory appearance, maybe none at all. Personal grief could be slight, or it could be overwhelming.
But in either event, the surviving spouse is often "disenfranchised," maybe not expected to mourn at all.
"The writers whose work you are about to read were largely left to their own devices as they sought solace or needed compassion as they stood apart — the 'ex,'" Ms. Sapphire wrote in the preface to the book. "A few tell of compassionate friends and family, and in one case, an exquisitely sensitive clergyman. But for most, no such condolence was forthcoming."
Judging from the stories told in this book, there's nothing simple about dealing with the death of a former spouse. The men and women who responded to Ms. Sapphire's request for their stories tell complicated ones jumbled by a whole stew of emotions: grief, anger, resentment, relief, guilt, and regret.
There's Rosemary, for instance, who felt anger at the timing of her ex-husband's death and its effect on their children — even in death he had managed to disrupt the lives of his children, she said.
She also expressed relief. "After his death, I just kept telling myself, 'thank God it's over,'" she wrote. "Finally there would be no more havoc wreaked by this man. There would be aftermath, yes, but nothing freshly complicating coming at us."
Many of these stories are harsh. No one goes through divorce unscathed. Through necessity the essayists here take a look at the marriage itself and the reasons why it died, in many cases an explanation for how the surviving spouse responds to the subsequent death of a former partner.
If there's any common thread, it's maybe best illustrated by Elizabeth, who tells the story of her first marriage, the unexpected death of her ex-husband, and the equally unexpected feelings of loss that accompanied it.
They were married young, in the early 1970s, both considering themselves, in their ways, a part of the counterculture of that time.
"He wanted to be a radical, and I wanted to be a hippie," Elizabeth wrote. "I saw him as a way to get revenge on my conservative grandparents; he viewed my trust fund with desire. We played a lot of Scrabble, smoked a lot of dope, and went to college. Reality set in when our daughter was born in 1975. It was time to grow up and get jobs, which I did."
They divorced, went their ways, and changed enough that the once radical young husband was in the process of trying to get his early marriage annulled — infuriating Elizabeth — in order to become a better Catholic, when he suddenly died.
"When I answered the phone and heard my daughter say, "Dad's dead,' I actually said, 'You're kidding.'"
Elizabeth had hoped for some sort of reconciliation as time passed; now it was too late, and the depth of her grief took her aback.
"Even though you were divorced, there's a lot of history there," she wrote. "The more I let myself feel the more I realized the loss. There was no one else who remembered when I worked for The Galloping Gourmet. He was the one who helped me with the first awkwardness of motherhood.
"An entire clump of my life had just disappeared. It wasn't until he was gone that I understand how important he'd been to me."
To complicate matters, no one else grasped how important he'd been either. The support of family and friends, who would help mourn the death of a spouse, was largely absent in the case of an ex-spouse.
"No friends seemed to understand how the death of someone I'd never even mentioned could hurt so much," Elizabeth wrote.
Ms. Sapphire is not, herself, dealing with the death of a former spouse, but her ex-husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, she said, and chances are good that she will be one of the disenfranchised.
Referring to her children, she wrote, "With their father's death will come the death of my only companion and witness to the intimacies and circumstances of 17 years of marriage, begun when I was 20 and he was 23…the first marriage for each of us, two pregnancies, first birthings, first parenting anxieties, early poverty, first professional positions, first home and mortgage, first credit card debt, first and continuous arguments about money, first and fatal disenchantments. These are the thoughts that led to my decision to seek the stories you'll find here."
Each of those stories is followed with commentary by Shirley Scott, a grief counselor who takes a look at how and why the essayists here feel the way they do. The book also notes that a recent report indicates that 78 percent of those who survived the death of a former spouse reported feeling grief.
What a complex subject Peggy Sapphire has so beautifully tackled. The stories, and the poetry, in this book are deeply personal, well written, often painful, and always enlightening.
contact Tena Starr at [email protected]
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|Sweet and tart, these old fashioned lemon squares are a classic.
Lemon SquaresI'm not a huge sweets eater, although I do have a few recipes here for some of my favorites. I don't tend to crave after a sweet as much as something savory and salty, unless it's those basic things - like homemade brownies, chocolate cake, pig pickin' cake, or these lemon bars.
They're old fashioned, which is what I tend to lean toward more it seems when it comes to desserts, but it may be more because they are rich in that sweet and tart thing I love so much. Here's how to make them.
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Recipe: Lemon Squares©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 50 min | Yield: About 12 squares
For the Crust:
For the Filling:
- 2-1/4 cups all purpose flour, divided
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup unsalted cold butter
- 4 large eggs
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Extra powdered sugar to sprinkle on top
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. For the crust, combine 2 cups of the flour with 1/2 cup of powdered sugar. Slice the butter into the flour mixture and use a pastry cutter to cut the butter in. Line a lightly greased 13 x 9 inch baking pan with parchment paper, leaving some extra along the edges as handles so you can lift the dessert out of the pan after it cools. Add flour mixture to the pan and press into pan, using a bit of flour on your hands if it tends to stick. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes, or until lightly browned.
For the filling, whisk the eggs; add the sugar and lemon juice and whisk together. Combine the remaining 1/4 cup of flour with baking powder and add to egg mixture, whisking it in. Pour the batter over the cooked crust. Bake at 350 degrees F for an additional 25 minutes, or until set. Cool completely on a wire rack. Lift out of pan, sift some extra powdered sugar over the top and cut into bars.
Cook's Notes: For a little more zing, add in the zest from the lemon. For this recipe, I used juice from Meyer lemons, but you may substitute regular lemons from the grocery store. The Meyer is a bit of a sweeter lemon, but I think that there is enough sugar to compensate for the difference, though you may like it a bit sweeter.
Lemon Crumb Bars: Combine 1 cup all-purpose flour with 1/2 cup light brown sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon with 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled. Sprinkle mixture on top of batter, pressing in lightly. Bake as above.
Orange Squares: Substitute orange juice and zest for the lemon.
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Well it's just a mad, mad world, isn't it?
Little did I know when I wrote that last post (which was really depressing...sorry about that) that I was 4 days pregnant.
Jesse and I have tried to get pregnant for 4 years and obviously hadn't been having much luck.
We were going to start the adoption process in the next year or so. I wasn't too stressed about it. I just wanted to get the Graves Disease taken care of and then we'd get the ball rolling on having a baby.
When I found out I was pregnant I was overwhelmed. I read up on babies born to mothers with un-treated Graves Disease and the odds of my little babe being born with Graves Disease was extremely high. I just felt so guilty that I was going to make this innocent little baby go through so much. But Jesse gave me a blessing and it said that this baby was coming when it was supposed to and that it would have extra protection in my belly. And that everything would be fine. So when I think about it too much or start feeling guilty I just re-read my journal entry from the night Jesse gave me the blessing and the anxiety is lessened.
Since then, we have found out that we are having a boy! And he is growing healthy and strong. And everything looks "normal" as far as they can tell. I can't tell you what a relief it all is.
I am 24 weeks and I am still sicker than a dog. But I don't care as long as this little boy continues to grow healthy and strong. I will go through whatever I have to if it means he can have a healthy and strong body. I pray every day that he will.
I am still scared to death to be a mom, and I don't know if I'll ever be ready, but I am so grateful that I am pregnant and that the Lord has blessed me with so much!
Monday, March 19, 2012
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Well it's just a mad, mad world, isn't it?
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5 comments:
- Down By the Bey's said...
First off-I'm so excited for you! I don't think anyone ever feels "ready" to be a mom, but I know you will be AMAZING! I will definitely praying for both you and your little baby. I'm so sorry things have been so rough with your pregnancy and in general. You are one tough chick! I hope that you start to have some good days mixed in with the sick days. I miss you! Congratulations Chels!
- March 19, 2012 at 9:50 PM
- Codi said...
Congrats on the baby boy!!! I am happy to hear that he is growing healthy! Sorry to hear that you are still feeling sick. That is the worst:(
- March 20, 2012 at 4:53 PM
- Perschon Family said...
yay for you guys having a little boy! i'm so sorry you are still so sick!!! good luck getting through this last part! you're getting close!!
- March 21, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- Angela said...
I am so excited that you are having a boy. You guys will be such great parents. I don't think anyone is ready to be a parent but the great part is your kids love you even if you make mistakes. Sorry you are still sick, that is rough. Think about the sweet baby you will get in the end. Congrats!
- March 24, 2012 at 9:28 PM
- Britt said...
I realize this is an old post but I just wanted to say you are awesome and I am so excited for you guys!
- July 8, 2012 at 7:19 PM


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Agnieszka Radwanska reaches third round at French Open
Paris, France – Fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska was a second- round winner Wednesday at the French Open.
The 2012 Wimbledon runner-up Radwanska cruised past American Mallory Burdette 6-3, 6-2 on the famed red clay at Roland Garros.
Radwanska has never advanced beyond the fourth round in Paris. She was a third-round upset victim here last year.
She could've faced her sister, Urszula, in the next round if the younger sibling, who knocked out Venus Williams in the first round, beat German Dinah Pfizenmaier. The German, however, prevailed in 6-3, 6-3 fashion and will next face the older Radwanska.
The first round was completed Wednesday after rain postponed multiple matches on Tuesday.
Former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka claimed a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Elena Vesnina -- her fifth win in five matches against the experienced Russian.
The third-seeded Azarenka reached the quarterfinals here in 2009 and 2011. The two-time Australian Open champion and U.S. Open runner-up will face Germany's Annika Beck in the second round.
Seventh-seeded former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova outlasted Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai by a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 margin. Kvitova reached the semifinals here last year.
Russian Maria Kirilenko, the No. 12 seed, moved into the second round with a 6-0, 6-1 rout of Nina Bratchikova.
A pair of upsets took place when Kaia Kanepi of Estonia took down 23rd-seeded Czech Klara Zakopalova 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 and American Jamie Hampton outlasted 25th-seeded Czech Lucie Safarova with a 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 9-7 triumph.
Other first-round wins on Day 4 came from Beck, Stefanie Voegele, Ashleigh Barty, Peng Shuai and Anna Schmiedlova.


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NEW ORLEANS - The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate with a drill more than two miles into the earth, and is anything but a sure bet on the first attempt.
Bid after bid has failed to stanch what has already become the nation's worst-ever spill, and BP PLC is readying another attempt as early as Wednesday, this one a cut-and-cap process to put a lid on the leaking wellhead so oil can be siphoned to the surface.
But the best-case scenario of sealing the leak is two relief wells being drilled diagonally into the gushing well - tricky business that won't be ready until August.
"The probability of them hitting it on the very first shot is virtually nil," said David Rensink, incoming president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, who spent most of his 39 years in the oil industry in offshore exploration. "If they get it on the first three or four shots they'd be very lucky."
For the bid to succeed, the bore hole must precisely intersect the damaged well. If it misses, BP will have to back up its drill, plug the hole it just created, and try again.
The trial-and-error process could take weeks, but it will eventually work, scientists and BP said. Then engineers will pump mud and cement through pipes to ultimately seal the well.
As the drilling reaches deeper into the earth, the process is slowed by building pressure and the increasing distance that well casings must travel before they can be set in place.
Still, the three months it could take to finish the relief wells - the first of which started May 2 - is quicker than a typical deep well, which can take four months or longer, said Tad Patzek, chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at the University of Texas-Austin. BP already has a good picture of the different layers of sand and rock its drill bits will meet because of the work it did on the blown-out well.
On the slim chance the relief well doesn't work, scientists weren't sure exactly how much - or how long - the oil would flow. The gusher would continue until the well bore hole collapsed or pressure in the reservoir dropped to a point where oil was no longer pushed to the surface, Patzek said.
"I don't admit the possibility of it not working," he said.
A third well could be drilled if the first two fail.
"We don't know how much oil is down there, and hopefully we'll never know when the relief wells work," BP spokesman John Curry said.
The company was starting to collect and analyze data on how much oil might be in the reservoir when the rig exploded April 20, he said.
BP's uncertainty statement is reasonable, given they only had drilled one well, according to Doug Rader, an ocean scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund.
Two relief wells stopped the world's worst peacetime spill, from a Mexican rig called Ixtoc 1 that dumped 140 million gallons off the Yucatan Peninsula. That plug took nearly 10 months beginning in the summer of 1979. Drilling technology has vastly improved since then, however.
So far, the Gulf oil spill has leaked between 19.7 million and 43 million gallons, according to government estimates.
In the meantime, BP is turning to another risky procedure federal officials acknowledge will likely, at least temporarily, cause 20 percent more oil - at least 100,000 gallons a day - to add to the gusher.
Using robot submarines, BP plans to cut away the riser pipe this week and place a cap-like containment valve over the blowout preventer. The company hopes it will capture the majority of the oil, sending it to the surface.
"If you've got to cut that riser, that's risky. You could take a bad situation and make it worse," said Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University professor of environmental sciences.
The latest attempt to capture the well comes after BP failed to plug the leak Saturday with its top kill, which shot mud and pieces of rubber into the well but couldn't beat back the pressure of the oil.
The location of the spill couldn't be worse.
To the south lies an essential spawning ground for imperiled Atlantic bluefin tuna and sperm whales. To the east and west, coral reefs and the coastal fisheries of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. And to the north, Louisiana's coastal marshes.
More than 125 miles of Louisiana coastline already have been hit with oil. "It's just killing us by degrees," said Tulane University ecologist Tom Sherry.
It's an area that historically has been something of a superhighway for hurricanes, too.
If a major storm rolls in, the relief well operations would have to be suspended and then re-started, adding more time to the process. Plugging the Ixtoc was also hampered by hurricane season, which begins today and is predicted to be very active.
Three of the worst storms ever to hit the Gulf coast - Betsy in 1965, Camille in 1969 and Katrina in 2005 - all passed over the leak site.
On the Gulf coast beaches, tropical weather was far from some tourists' minds.
On Biloxi beach, Paul Dawa and his friend Ezekial Momgeri sipped Coronas after a night gambling at the Hard Rock Casino. Both men, originally from Kenya, drove from Memphis, Tenn., and were chased off the beach by a storm, not oil.
"We talked about it and we decided to come down and see for ourselves" whether there was oil, Momgeri said. "There's no oil here."
Though some tar balls have been found on Mississippi and Alabama barrier islands, oil from the spill has not significantly fouled the shores.
Still, the perception that it has soiled white sands and fishing areas threatens to cripple the tourist economy, said Linda Hornsby, executive director of the Mississippi Hotel and Lodging Association
"It's not here. It may never be here. It's costing a lot of money to counter that perception," Hornsby said. "First it was cancelations, but that evolved to a decrease in calls and there's no way to measure that."
Yet there was fear the oil would eventually hit the other Gulf coast states. Hentzel Yucles, of Gulfport, Miss., hung out on the beach with his wife and sons.
"Katrina was bad. I know this is a different type of situation, but it's going to affect everybody," he said.


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Dr. Will wrote:Dear BFS Website,
My name is Dr. Anthony Will and I am a dual Board Certified Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & Family Medicine physician in Glendale, Arizona.
I am not an ALS specialist. My NMM practice is focused primarily on various pain syndromes such as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Fibromyalgia, and Sports related injuries. I have been involved in diagnosing three ALS cases in my 10-year career.
I have been very impressed with the great encouragement and support that this website offers for many individuals that are effected by fasciculation's of unknown origin. These certainly can be a very scary experience.
I would like to share some very encouraging information based on my own experience with fasciculation's and seeking consultation by two Neuromusculoskeletal Disease Neurologists. Physician one at The Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale Arizona and physician two in private practice in Phoenix Arizona who operates an ALS Clinic and has cared for one of my past dear patients with ALS.
About 10 months ago, I like many others, had experienced an increase in stress in my life with the sudden onset of muscle twitches in the left foot and soon all over. Of course I knew that I was not experiencing any weakness, but like many I started to second-guess myself and I began my own obsession with daily strength tests. I even would ask my fellow partners and medical students to check my reflexes to ensure that they were not hyperactive. Finally it was time to see a specialist and obtain an objective non-biased evaluation. I had the MRI, EMG, and several detailed neurological exams. After two NMD specialists assured me that the fasciculation's were "benign" I finally let go of the worry and fear and now I barely notice them.
Here is some sage information shared by experts in the field of ALS with regards to fasciculations:
1. Everybody experiences fasciculation's.
2. They are more common with exercise, dehydration, caffeine use, increased anxiety and stress.
3. They are not an area of medicine that receives much research funding or medical education attention due to their non-life threatening status.
4. If fasciculation's are present without weakness or obvious muscle atrophy then it is NOT ALS.
5. Fasciculation do not precede weakness and thus will not turn into ALS later in life.
6. People with ALS present with unexplained weakness first, not just fasciculation's.
7. If a patient has a normal neurological exam and EMG they do not have ALS.
8. Treat underlying anxiety.
9. See a well-qualified physician and put your ALS Fear to Bed.
10. Breathe easy and laugh at them. They kind of tickle.
God Bless & Be Well.
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Above: an advertisement in Soho. This isn't last year's cover. This isn't this year's cover. We may have no interest in the swimsuit edition, but we understand that much. (TSF photo)
OK, we'll admit it: Brooklyn Decker is gorgeous. But what is the deal with straight guys and blondes with big breasts? We don't try to understand, but we do understand that this is Brooklyn's career. And she's pretty good at her job. That would mean she's a model, not an actress. If you would like to fight such a claim, just read the reviews (of her debut in Just Go With It).
Brooklyn graced the cover of Sports Illustrated for last year's swimsuit edition. This year, Irina Shayk (Cristiano Ronaldo's GF) got the nod.
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text: American racecar driver Trevor Bayne was born on Feb. 19, 1991, in Knoxville, Tenn. He started racing go-karts at the age of 5. During the following eight years, he won three world championships, 300 feature wins and 18 state and track championships. In 2004, he went to the Allison Legacy Race Series and became the youngest top rookie. In 2005, he became the series' national champion and winning races during the next two years. He moved to the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Southern Division when he was 15; he received the highest rookie honors. In 2008, he won his first race at Thompson International Speedway. He received the Sunoco Rookie of the Race honors in the Toyota All-Star Showdown in 2009. In 2011, he won the Daytona 500, becoming the youngest winner in the race's history at 20 years and one day.


text: Antonio Banderas studied drama before moving to Madrid to take the stage. The Hispanic hunk quickly hooked up with director Pedro Almodóvar who gave him small part in 1982's "Laberinto de pasiones" and he returned the favor by acting exclusively in the auteur's films until 1986. Still unable to speak English at the time, he fought his way phonetically through his first bona fide U.S. film, 1992's Mambo Kings." The following year he broke through to mainstream audiences by portraying Tom Hanks' lover in "Philadelphia" and continued his hot streak with "Interview With The Vampire," "Evita" (proving he can also sing and dance), "The Mask of Zorro," "Spy Kids," and "Once Upon A Time In Mexico." In 1995, the then-married Banderas met Melanie Griffith on the set of "Two Much." After a whirlwind romance and a quickie divorce from Ana Leza, whom he had wed in 1987, the new couple married in May 1996 and had daughter Stella in September of the same year. His distinctive accented purr was such a hit in the "Shrek" franchise that his Puss In Boots got his own spinoff. He also voices a bee in Nasonex commercials, owns part of a Spanish winery called Anta Banderas and directed "Crazy In Alabama."


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Vision 2030 sounds like a grand name for a big idea, and that's exactly what it is. It's a comprehensive overview of how Terrebonne Parish should develop and grow over the next 20 years.
Vision 2030 sounds like a grand name for a big idea, and that's exactly what it is.
It's a comprehensive overview of how Terrebonne Parish should develop and grow over the next 20 years.
The plan details the parish's shortfalls and strengths and outlines a blueprint for how to overcome the former and build on the latter.
This version of the master plan, an update to one last created in 2003, is nearly finished and ready for Terrebonne Parish Council approval.
A copy of the draft plan is available online at www.tpcg.org/view. php?f= planning&p=vision2030.
And it is the topic of a special Planning and Zoning meeting set for 6 p.m. Oct. 29 in the second-floor meeting room of the Government Tower, 8026 Main St., Houma.
At that meeting, officials will review the plan and accept a final round of public input. That's the final step prior to the Parish Council's planned adoption of Vision 2030 later this year.
Recommendations from the plan include turning downtown Houma into a pedestrian-friendly, prosperous economic center and ensuring that hurricane-protection and floodprevention work continues.
The first master plan, created in the mid-1970s, cited the need for things like land-use rules inside the Houma City limits. Those rules came into being a few years later.
The 2003 master plan sought to have those zoning laws applied in the fast-growing Bayou Cane. That too has since become a reality.
The projects outlined in the 2012 version of the master plan, like those included in prior versions, are recommendations that are subject to change as years pass and conditions evolve.
But as past versions have proven, the care and research that go into the document can help drive smart change in a world where change is inevitable.
It's also the end result of countless man hours, more than a dozen public meetings and input from people from all walks of life.
Ample opportunity exists for those who truly want to participate in the process. And there's yet one more meeting to be held so it's not too late to weigh in.
Too often, the direction of a community changes at the whim of politician or policy.
The people behind the master plan — those from the 1970s as well as those who have had a hand in its incarnations over the 40 decades since — had the foresight to devise a list of long-range goals and spell out specifics on how to achieve them.
The master plan is an achievement to be proud of, and the goals it outlines are worth striving for.
Vision 2030 offers a glimpse at the Terrebonne Parish of our future, and the future looks pretty good.