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Sometimes knowing truth from error is difficult, but our Heavenly Father has given us powerful gifts to help us distinguish between God's truths and Satan's lies.
If you've ever taken a test with true-or-false questions, you know it's sometimes hard to spot a falsehood. Likewise, in the big questions of faith, belief, and everyday living, while it is extremely important to be able to tell the difference between what's true and what isn't, it's not always easy.
However, we need not fear like unprepared test takers. Our Heavenly Father has blessed us with many gifts to help us recognize His truths and the adversary's lies.
Different Kinds of Falsehoods
First, to illustrate a point, here's a little true-or-false quiz for you:
- The moon is green. True or False
- Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 12 astronaut who was the first person to walk on the moon, said that the event was a "giant leap for mankind." True or False
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) program couldn't go to Mars in 1969, so they had to go to the moon. True or False
- Solar winds, radiation, cosmic rays, and other obstacles would have made the manned moon landings impossible, plus the photographs looked altered and the eyewitness accounts disagreed on some details, so the U.S. government must have staged the whole thing. True or False
The answer to each question is False, and these questions represent some basic types of falsehoods you will likely encounter.
Question 1 is a simple untruth, a blatant error. Question 2 is a partial truth, which is tricky, since it pairs one or more truths with a falsehood (it was Apollo 11, not Apollo 12—gotcha!). Question 3 contains a false dichotomy, or a situation where only two options are presented that aren't really the only options (NASA could have chosen not to go anywhere, for instance). Question 4 is a "logical" argument, which piles on reasonable-sounding but often faulty evidence in order to lead to a specific mistaken conclusion.
Modern Lies
When it comes to the things that influence your thoughts, beliefs, choices, and behaviors—the things that have potentially eternal consequences—it pays to look out for different kinds of falsehoods, since Satan, "the father of lies" (2 Nephi 9:9), will use any method he can to deceive us. Here are some examples of how he's doing it today, as well as examples of how we can respond with the truth.
Simple Untruth
False Idea: Pornography is normal and doesn't hurt anyone.
Where It Leads (Big Lie): Go ahead and view pornography.
The Truth: Pornography distorts our view of sexuality, can be addictive, deeply harms us spiritually, and can destroy relationships.
Partial Truth
False Idea: Each person is unique and can live as he or she chooses, so how you feel about and express yourself are the most important things in your life.
Where It Leads (Big Lie): You shouldn't let God or the Church tell you how to live, so go ahead and do what you want if it makes you feel good.
The Truth: Each of us is a unique child of Heavenly Father, who wants us to become our best selves and to become like Him. Obedience to His commandments helps us gain ultimate joy.
False Dichotomy (Only Two Options)
False Idea: The Church preaches against certain lifestyles; therefore, it is intolerant and hates people—it is not accepting and loving.
Where It Leads (Big Lie): Since the Church is intolerant and hateful, it deserves to be criticized, ridiculed, and condemned, so you should stop associating with it.
The Truth: Not accepting someone else's lifestyle does not equal hatred and intolerance. We can show compassion, respect, and kindness to everyone—including people whose lifestyles run contrary to God's laws—while staying true to God and His commandments.
"Logical" Argument
False Idea: Some things in the Book of Mormon are refuted by current scientific evidence, and the accounts of how it was translated are inconsistent, so Joseph Smith must have made it all up or copied it from somewhere.
Where It Leads (Big Lie): The Book of Mormon is not true and Joseph Smith was not a prophet, so stop associating with the Church.
The Truth: Science affirms many things in the Book of Mormon, and the "evidence" against it is flawed. But the most important evidence for it is the witness of the Spirit telling you it is true and that Joseph Smith was a true prophet. (Learn more about the Book of Mormon translation.)
How to Know the Truth
So where does a more complete view of the truth come from? How are we able to see through the falsehoods? Here are some of the powerful gifts Heavenly Father has given us to distinguish truth from error.
- The Light of Christ. "The Light of Christ … prompts all rational individuals throughout the earth to distinguish truth from error, right from wrong. It activates your conscience."1
- The Holy Ghost. "The Spirit of truth … will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13).
- Scriptures. "God uses scripture to unmask erroneous thinking, false traditions, and sin with its devastating effects."2 The Book of Mormon is especially important in this regard, for it "exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention. (See 2 Ne. 3:12.)"3
- Modern prophets. "[A prophet's] responsibility is to make known God's will and true character to mankind. … A prophet denounces sin and foretells its consequences."4
- Education. "A saint … seeks learning by study, and also by faith. Education … enables one to discern truth from error, particularly through studying the scriptures. (See D&C 88:118.)"5
Though it may not always be easy to answer True or False when facing all the different ideas out there, the gifts Heavenly Father has given you can help you pass the test.
Join the Conversation
Things to Ponder for Sunday
- How has Heavenly Father helped you recognize the truth?
- How can you combat error?
- How can you encourage others to find out the truth?
Things You Might Do
- In church, share how you came to believe that the restored gospel is true.
- On social media or below, share a truth and how you know it.
This article originally appeared in the April 2014 Liahona and New Era.
- Richard G. Scott, "Peace of Conscience and Peace of Mind," Ensign, Nov. 2004, 15.
- D. Todd Christofferson, "The Blessing of Scripture," Ensign, May 2010, 33–34.
- Ezra Taft Benson, "The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God," Ensign, May 1975, 64.
- Guide to the Scriptures, "Prophet."
- Russell M. Nelson, "Thus Shall My Church Be Called," Ensign, May 1990, 16.


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A couple of weeks ago, a website called CollegeStats.org published a ranking of the Top 5 Languages to Learn in College. They wrote and asked me to post a link here to their list. Since I'm here in the leafy environs of Tuscaloosa now, this is an ideal time to blog about it. Alas, after reading the list CollegeStats.org put together, I wrote back and told them I didn't agree with their reasoning. In the spirit of civil discourse on the 'Net, I invited them to collaborate with me on a revised list. They said no, but said they didn't care if I mentioned their list with my own point of view, so I'm guessing this is a case of "all publicity is good publicity".
This then is the list of CollegeStats.org's Top 5 Languages to Learn in College:
- French
- Mandarin Chinese
- Korean
- Arabic
- Spanish
First, bravo for CollegeStats.org for taking up the subject. Second, these five languages all have rich cultural and literary traditions and interesting applications. If I suggest some swaps, I mean no slight to one language or another. I'll say up front, however, that naming the list as "the best languages to learn in college" necessarily frames the choice in terms of future employment or utility. I deeply "get" that college should provide more in the way of cognitive development, decision-making skills, citizenship, and the like than just job skills, but the cost of college is nose-bleed high right now so I think it's rational to link college expenses, at least in part, with future job prospects.
I'm a Francophile American. I was in Paris just 3-4 days after 9/11, and the outpouring of solidarity and support from complete strangers—warm hugs, free drinks, houses draped with massive American flags—was unforgettable. The French were there for us, and I'll never say "freedom fries".
Speaking or reading French still confers a lot of cosmopolitan polish. Practically speaking, so much of English comes from French that learning French improves your English. The same can be said of Latin. It would make me happy if Louisiana would go beyond a superficial embrace of its French heritage and learn a little French. Even un peu.
In terms of utility, however, outside of metropolitan France and Quebec, French is of limited use. There's a long list of Francophone countries, especially in West Africa, and if any of those places are where you intend to live or do business, French is an excellent choice. Otherwise, I'd keep French on the list, but not higher than #5.
There's a boom in Korean culture and business now, Hallyu, which I blogged about last year. I'm a fan. Korean's an intricate and complex language combined with a writing system that's both elegant and practical. 1.7 million Americans identify as Korean-American. The Korean economy is humming along and has risen in size to #15 in the world. I'd love to see Korean keep growing. So I only write this with affection, but I don't see Korean in the top 5 yet. If you have any plans to live or work in Korea or a Korean-speaking environment abroad, however, learn Korean now.
Arabic's getting a lot of attention too. There's so much ignorance about Arabic-speaking nations and cultures in the West, this can only be a good thing. And yet also, looking at utility as measured by the size of national economies, the World Bank listed four Arabic-speaking countries in the top 50 nations in terms of GDP in 2011: Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Their combined GDP about equals that of Australia. I am 100% behind Arabic instruction. Arabic language and literature have deep riches to explore, and there are countless reasons to learn and enjoy Arabic. I just don't see it in the Top 5 yet unless you have a specific personal or professional (business or diplomatic) interest.
Rounding out CollegeStat's list were Mandarin and Spanish, and I agree that they belong there. Here's my list:
- Mandarin Chinese
- Something relevant to YOU
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Pick one: Latin or French
With my #2, I try to inject something into the list that CollegeStats ignores, and that's you. I don't believe language learning is a one-size-fits-all thing. The cognitive benefits of learning any foreign language are the same, and I say people should choose the language they'll go the furthest in. Yeah, I said that utility is important. Well, fluency can lead to job opportunities, but if you force yourself to study something you don't connect with emotionally, you'll never get to fluency. If you're an Italian-American and have Italian-speaking relatives, learn Italian. If you eat dinner in an Ethiopian restaurant in your neighborhood every couple of weeks, and that's your only exposure to a foreign language, dabble in some Amharic. If you're a Chinese-American, but you feel passionately about Cantonese instead of Mandarin, learn that.
I'm putting Japanese on the list, and OK I speak Japanese, but Japan is still the world's third largest economy. Japan has had a tough couple of decades, but you can't ever count the Japanese out.
For my last, I'm suggesting that people pick between Latin and French. Both of these languages contributed so much to English that learning either will add clarity, nuance, and color to your native language. Some professions draw on one more than another. Going to cooking school? French. Law school? Latin.


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Martina Thornton was sworn in as a new county manager for the County of Dukes County on August 8, 2012.
From MGL Chapter 34A, Section 18. B. (iv) The executive power of county shall be exercised by the county manager.
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(a) Report annually to the commissioners, the advisory board on county expenditures and to the people, on the state of the county, the work of the previous year, and he shall also recommend to the board whatever action or programs he deems necessary for the improvement of the county and the welfare of its residents. He may from time to time at his discretion recommend any course of action or programs he deems necessary or desirable for the county to undertake;
(b) Prepare and submit to the board for its consideration and adoption an annual operating budget, and a capital budget, establish the schedules and procedures to be followed by all county departments, offices and agencies in connection therewith, and supervise and administer all phases of the budgetary process.
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(d) Supervise the care and custody of all county property, institutions and agencies;
(e) Through the county treasurer, have oversight on the collection of revenues, audit and control all disbursements and expenditures and shall prepare a complete account of all expenditures;
(f) Sign all contracts, bonds or other instruments requiring the consent of the county;
(g) Organize the work of county departments subject to the administrative code adopted by the board. He shall further review their administration and operation and make recommendations pertaining thereto to the board;
(h) Review, analyze and forecast trends of county services and finances and programs of all boards, commissions, agencies and other county bodies, and report and recommend thereon to the board;
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(k) Assure that all terms and conditions imposed in favor of the county or its inhabitants in any statute, franchise or other contract, are faithfully kept and performed;
(l) Serve, as ex-officio, nonvoting member of all appointive bodies in county government.
(v) The county manager:
(a) Shall supervise, direct and control all county administrative departments;
(b) Shall appoint the deputy manager, if that position is created by the board, the heads of all county departments and divisions created within such departments, and all other administrative officers and county personnel the manner of whose appointment is not prescribed elsewhere in this section;
(c) May, at his discretion, remove or suspend any official in the unclassified service of the county over whose office the county manager has power of appointment;
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Leonard Schmidt, 87, Salina, entered immortality on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Mr. Schmidt was born June 19, 1925, in Hillsboro, Kan., the son of Benjamin B. and Agnes Woldt Schmidt. He was one of 11 children.
Upon graduation from high school, Mr. Schmidt served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945 during World War II and was stationed in Japan during the Korean War from 1949 to 1953.
He married Dannette Ellen Strand on Aug. 25, 1953, in Salina.
After his marriage, he attended Kansas Wesleyan University on the G.I. bill and graduated with a bachelor's in business. Mr. Schmidt's first job upon graduation was administrator of then Asbury Hospital. He then worked for the U.S. Postal Service until his retirement.
Upon retirement, Mr. Schmidt volunteered for R.S.V.P. and the Presbyterian Manor. He was a member of the Salina Scottish Rite, the ISIS Shrine, and a charter member of the American Legion in Hillsboro, Kan. Mr. Schmidt was a member of First Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Leannette Montgomery of Salina; a son, Benjamin Schmidt of Enid, Okla.; a grandson, Nathan Speed of Salina; a sister, Marjorie Penner of Green River, Wyo.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Dannette, in 2002.
Services were scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 23, at First Presbyterian Church in Salina. Burial is at Roselawn Memorial Park in Salina. Mr. Schmidt lay in state Monday, Oct. 22, at Ryan Mortuary, Salina.
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I've always had a love of pandas and penguins, so I knew that the next tote bag I made had to be panda or penguin related; panda seemed easier as there are only 2 colours, so that's what I opted for
Calico/white fabric:
2 x Main body parts. 50cm x 34cm
1 x Strap. 10cm x 115cm (which would be cut in half).
2 x Liner for top of bag. 34cm x 12cm (can be anything over 12m)
2 x U-shaped for ears (slightly smaller than black jersey version)
Black jersey
4 x U-shaped for ears.
2 x Eyes shape
White jersey
2 x inner eyes shape
Sewing machine
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Iron/ironing board
Put 2 of the U-shaped black jersey cutouts together. Sew around the U-edge, about 0.5cm from the edge. Turn inside out, then you have one ear.
Repeat for 2nd ear
Take one of the main body parts. Measure 14cm to the right of top left corner, and 22cm down from the top left corner. Cut this triangle out. Do the same for the right side of the fabric (it'll be symmetrical)
From the top of the main body, measure 17cm down the hypotenuse (the line you just cut). This should be where the top of your ears sit.
Place your ears (right side by right side) in the position as described, and then sew all three bits together. (Main body, ears, and the triangle you just cut out).
Repeat for other side.
For this, I used a blanket stitch for the black jersey, and then I used the sewing machine to sew on the white eyes. You can use either method, but the blanket stitch will give the eyes a fuzzy look (and I thought the sewing machine would have less control, but if you go slow enough it should be fine).
For the mouth, i just drew it on with pencil and then ran over it with the sewing machine
Fold the strap piece in half (width wise). (ie it goes from 10cmx115cm to 5cmx115cm).
Open up, and fold into quarters. (Pressing with the iron after each fold would make it easier).
You'll now have no mucky edges, so you can do a straight stitch a few mm away from the side down both sides (length ways). Then you can cut it in half, and you'll have 2 straps. (2.5cx57.5cm)
This bit is optional, but I think it makes the inside of the bag less messy. You can skip this if you wish, and sew handles directly onto the main body of the bag.
Take the liners, and tidy the long edges by folding it down by 0.5cm and 1.5cm, and then straight stitch a few mm by the side.
Attach the straps 7cm from the edge, and sew the strap on with a square and a cross in the middle (extra strength to hold stuff in your bag properly). Remember to keep the mucky sides together, as the point of the liner is to make it more pretty.
Repeat for other liner.
LINER to MAIN BODY:
Pin the liner to the main body (wrong side to wrong side). Straight stitch across the top, making sure the handles come out at the right place and is perpendicular to the bag
Repeat for other side.
Pin both main body pieces together, right to right side. I found at this point it was useful to pin the ears away from the edge of the main body piece, for piece of mind.
I used pinking shears when cutting the fabric, so I didn't finish the edge properly (as I don't have an overlocker). If you don't have pinking shears, you can use a zig zag stitch.
Then simply sew around the edge, and flip over.
This is my first tutorial, so please comment and let me know how I'm doing. I can verify any bits that didn't make sense.


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High demand and tight supplies are painting a bullish picture for the poultry industry.
Nutrition, taste and cost are pushing more Americans to put poultry on their plates. According to a survey commissioned by the National Chicken Council, the 1,000 respondents ate an average of 6.1 chicken meals or snacks within a two-week period. That's a 17% increase from 2012 findings.
"With the tight supplies in the cattle and hog herds, and accompanying record beef and pork prices, it's not surprising to see a double-digit increase in chicken consumption this year," says Tom Super, National Chicken Council vice president of communications. "What is surprising to me is that health and nutrition and taste both topped cost as the reason consumers are turning more to the original white meat."
In its July 2014 World Agricultural Supple and Demand Estimates, USDA forecast broiler production to be higher in 2015. This is a result of lower expected feed costs, which will support a more rapid increase in production.
Bob Utterback, Farm Journal Economist and president of Utterback Marketing, says the current poultry situation of tight supplies and high prices is similar to the corn market a few years ago.
He thinks the poultry sector will be the first of the meat industries to expand, followed by pork. "When the expansion happens, it will come fast and furious," Utterback says. "The market never lets you easily get short at the top of a market."
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- Millennial respondents (ages 18-34) remain the most likely to eat chicken meals or snacks frequently.
- The primary reasons for eating more chicken from a grocery store are health/nutrition (34%), taste (32%) and cost (17%).
- Women are somewhat more concerned than men about both health/nutrition and cost.
- One in five respondents were likely to buy more chicken at restaurants and other food service establishments.
- Chicken consumption does not differ significantly by gender.
- Midwesterners ate the lowest number of meals or snacks that contained chicken in the two week period prior to the survey. It is the only region where the rate of consumption did not increase since 2012.
- Men, younger adults and those with at least three people in the household are more likely than counterparts in increase their consumption of chicken.
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Slight detour from my project... Just wanted confidence I could decode JSON data, at least in Perl.
I wrote a little decode for Strava ride data using Perl. The code, which I call "Strava_to_csv", requires a command line option specified as follows:
Strava_to_csv -activity activity-number
where activity-number is the number of the activity.
It's nothing fancy, and not very robust. It expects all data to be scalar except for "latlng", which is an array of two numbers, the first the latitude, the second the longitude. It worked for me.
This code uses the JSON module version 2.53 from CPAN. There's a lot of stuff there about encoding type, but since Strava is unicode, it worked simply.
The code is written for Linux and maybe OS/X: it uses a system call to the "wget" command to download the URL (a Perl package for HTML could be used instead).
Anyway, here's my code. This hardly took any effort at all, maybe 30 minutes, which makes me wonder why it's taken me until now to get around to doing it. Since my blog has such narrow columns many of the lines may wrap around (sorry).
Okay, back to Java...
#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use JSON; use Getopt::Long; my $activity; my %options = ( "activity=s" => \$activity ); die "$0 : illegal command line options specified: @ARGV\n" unless GetOptions( %options ); die("$0: must specify activity with -activity option") unless(defined $activity); my $url = "http://app.strava.com/api/v1/streams/$activity"; # slurp undef $\; open FP, "wget -O - $url |" or die("ERROR opening url $url\n"); my $s = <FP>; my $json = JSON::PP->new; my $data = $json->decode($s); # check to make sure array lengths are the same my $ndata; my $k0; my @keys = keys %$data; for my $k ( @keys ) { my $l = scalar @{$data->{$k}}; die("zero length data element $k found\n") unless ($l); unless (defined $ndata) { $ndata = $l; $k0 = $k; } elsif ($l != $ndata) { die("keys $k0 ($ndata) and $k ($l) reference arrays of different length\n"); } # special case: we expect latlong to be an array of length 2 if ($k eq "latlng") { unless((ref $data->{$k}->[0] eq "ARRAY") && (@{$data->{$k}->[0]} == 2)) { die("$k expected to reference data arrays of length 2\n"); } } elsif (ref $data->{$k}->[0] ne "") { die("data element $k expected to be scalar; reference found instead."); } } # print label line my @labels; for my $k ( @keys ) { push @labels, ($k eq "latlng") ? "lat,lng" : $k; } print join(",", @labels), "\n"; # print data lines for my $n ( 0 .. $ndata - 1 ) { my @data; for my $k ( @keys ) { if ($k eq "latlng") { push @data, @{$data->{$k}->[$n]}; } else { push @data, $data->{$k}->[$n]; } } print join(",", @data), "\n"; }


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A dip into Triassic seas
Mark Wilson June 13th, 2010
MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL — We wish there was still some water in those seas because it was 41°C (106°F) this afternoon, but alas the only water we saw was that which was warmly sloshing in our plastic bottles. Today we looked at the Middle Triassic in the southern limb of Makhtesh Ramon as part of a project for Sarah Greene, a graduate student at the University of Southern California. She is working on fossil shellbeds as indicators of the tempo and mode of the Triassic recovery from the Permian extinctions. We are providing information from the Gevanim and Saharonim Formations. The shellbeds were easy to find, describe and measure.


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Feldpost im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Didczuneit, Veit; Ebert, Jens; Jander, Thomas (Hrsg.)
'Schreiben im Krieg - Schreiben vom Krieg.
Feldpost im Zeitalter der Weltkriege.'
Klartext Verlag Essen 2011. Gebunden; 538 S. ISBN 978-3-837-50461-3
Cape, Ruth (Hrsg.):
'Youth at War. Feldpost Letters of a German Boy to His Parents,
1943 to 1945'.
(= Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature).
New York: Peter Lang Publishing 2010. Gebunden; 234 S.
Rezensiert für den Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung bei
H-Soz-u-Kult von: Kaci McAllister, Historisches Seminar,
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
E-Mail: kaci.mcallister(at)gmail.com
Personal correspondence has been viewed by scholars as an important
contribution to the understanding of key historical figures and
intellectual movements for centuries. But with the rise of social
history over the course of the last one hundred years, letters have
become instrumental in the exploration of "the lives of the poor and
powerless in society".[1] More recently, an academic tug-of-war has
ensued as scholars attempt to determine exactly where the boundaries of
the genre lie. Much of the debate centers around Feldpost letters from
World Wars I and II, which may be able to provide insight into a period
of history with which society still struggles to comprehend. "Schreiben
im Krieg, Schreiben vom Krieg" is a compilation of essays exploring a
wide variety of topics related to Feldpost letters from the First and
Second World Wars. The topics range from the importance of studying
letters, to the unique challenges they present, to what can be learned
from their content; each author has his or her own ideas about where and
how Feldpost letters fit into current research and themes in modern
European history. Although the edition hardly offers a consensus among
academics as to how exactly wartime letters can or should be best
interpreted, many of the ideas it presents complement one another, while
still others offer different perspectives or even contradictions. The
scope of the material and the sheer wealth of information the edition
contains insure that it is a gold mine for scholars interested in the
many applications of Feldpost letters in the field of modern history.
The overall purpose of the edition is to highlight the increased
usefulness of Feldpost letters to modern research as access to
eyewitnesses dwindles (p. 12). The greater purpose, however, extends
beyond their meaning to research and into their meaning to humanity: "Ob
wir aus der Geschichte lernen, hängt maßgeblich von unserem
verantwortungsbewussten Umgang mit ihr ab" (p. 12). The book begins with
several essays on the history of Feldpost in Germany and is then divided
thematically into five major sections: theoretical questions,
international perspectives, gender-specific writing, Feldpost in
literature, art and media, and, fifth and finally, practical
illustrations and case studies. Each section contains between five and
twelve essays that explore themes such as Feldpost letters as objects of
public reflection or the wartime experience of German soldiers stationed
in France during World War II (p. 383, 511).
Many contributors focus on the important role Feldpost can play in
modern historical research in spite of the challenges the genre
presents. Michaela Kipp identifies Feldpost as a rich and irreplaceable
supply of commentary on soldiers' perceptions of world, situation, and
self (p. 458). Using the letters of two German soldiers stationed in the
Soviet Union, Kipp demonstrates that the systematic evaluation of
Feldpost letters can in fact shed more light on the psyche of the German
soldier, and in turn help answer the larger questions surrounding
research on national socialism. In his article on Feldpost and
narration, Christian Heuer discusses Feldpost letters' relevant
functions as Ego-Dokumente in historical didactics, including acting as
sources of information on everyday routines at the front and at home,
the mental and physical impact the war has on individuals, and
linguistic patterns of interpretation. He views letters as documents of
communicative and cultural memory and as sources of the retrospective
history of certain groups and communities (p. 66). However, he places
emphasis on the fact that letters do not necessarily provide insight
into the "reality" of the past, but rather into the way that historical
subjects construct their own narrative identities (p. 72). Ingo Stader
emphasizes the importance of Feldpost letters from World War II in
determining the effectiveness of the Nazi propaganda campaign (rather
than any "real" insight they may offer into the wartime experience of
their writers), drawing a comparison between Feldpost and modern social
Elke Scherstjanoi takes a critical stance on the genre of Feldpost,
delving deep into the genre's limitations with references to the
published World War II letters of Heinrich Böll. She raises a crucial
point when she reminds the readers that Feldpost research should avoid
taking the polarized "perpetrator-victim" point of view (p. 119). Such a
view accomplishes little and fails to answer key questions, such as why
the writer shares specific information with the recipient, what he or
she may have consciously omitted, or what kind of function the exchange
of letters played in society (p. 124). She cautions strongly against the
overestimation of Feldpost as a genre: "Feldpostforschung kommt ohne
andere Quellen, darunter andere subjektive (Tagebücher, Berichte,
Erinnerungen), und ohne strengste Quellenkritik nicht aus" (p. 122).
In spite of the challenges they face when working with Feldpost letters,
most contributors to the edition choose to focus on what can be learned
from them, rather than what cannot. The objectives, approaches and
ultimate findings of the authors vary considerably; for example, an
essay on Feldpost as a medium of social communication by Clemens
Schwender presents a case study that uses letters to investigate the
psychology of gossip (p. 127). He tests his thesis using the nearly two
thousand items of correspondence between a husband and wife from World
War II, identifying the material as authentic insight into the mood of
the couple (p. 131). From a methodological standpoint, Schwender's
contribution is outstanding, as it provides a detailed explanation of
his process of random sampling, including corresponding data tables (p.
132). Other popular topics in the study of military history are included
in this edition, including articles on the experience of the "foreign"
as well as war as an adventure or positive experience as reflected in
soldiers' letters (p. 178). Kerstin Wölki focuses on letters written by
German soldiers stationed in France during the Second World War and
explores the idea that many behaved as if on vacation, as they were
neither at home or completely integrated into their new surroundings (p.
519). Her essay provides valuable new information to this area of
research and draws not only upon Feldpost letters but also diary
entries, demonstrating the close relationship between these two types of
primary sources.
Another new addition to the current study of Feldpost is Youth at War, a
bilingual edition of preserved letters written by a fifteen year old boy
whose childhood was cut short by Germany's need for more manpower in
World War II. The editor, Ruth I. Cape, examines the letters as
historical sources and bases her interpretations of them on the
biography of their writer, Gerhard G. Gerhard served in the war from
1943 to 1945, first as a member of the student anti-aircraft artillery,
then in the compulsory national labor service (R.A.D.), and finally in
the German navy on the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. In 1945, he
spent three months in an American prisoner of war camp and then returned
to his home of Bühl, which was located in the French-occupied war zone.
The one hundred and forty letters were found in his home shortly before
his death in May of 2008, tied neatly together and arranged
That their author is so young and that almost every letter he wrote home
was preserved make the letters particularly unique. By publishing the
edition, Cape attempts to "provide a close and, in many respects,
unfiltered look at a specific historical and social environment" (p. 3).
Whether or not a collection of letters can actually accomplish such a
task is open to debate, a fact which Cape herself recognizes:
"Obviously, they cannot be interpreted as an objective and complete
description of war reality. Rather, they are selective and a mixture of
war experiences, rumors he might have heard, his assumptions about
future events, and conscious or unconscious omissions" (p. 17). But even
while taking such limitations into consideration, she refutes the
position that Gerhard's letters merely represent letter-writing
conventions of the times, instead stating that, "in their frankness they
present an abundance of information, genuine human feelings, concerns,
and hopes that allow the reader to look into the heart and mind of this
boy, who might very well represent the sentiments of many other young
soldiers who served in the Second World War" (p. 17).
Upon examination of the letters themselves, they do appear to reveal
more than just the superficial correspondence of a child to his parents.
Alongside the expected mundane descriptions of daily military life and
laundry lists of requested items, Gerhard also writes, with a startling
sense of maturity, about how it feels to spend Christmas away from home,
and how he regrets having taken his mother's "thoughtful care" for
granted while living at home (p. 46, 65). Because the collection seems
to be almost entirely complete, it is possible to observe changes in
Gerhard's personality through his writing style. Most remarkable are his
growing sense of awareness of what is happening around him, and his
developing understanding of what home means to him (p. 80, 101).
Cape's introduction offers a wealth of ideas about ways the letters can
be interpreted. She answers many of the questions that surround a
collection of German letters from World War II; for example, questions
regarding censorship (both internal and external) and the writer's
possible identification with Nazi ideals. She also provides useful
background statistics, such as that there were "approximately 400
military post offices with eighteen workers per office who handled
around 40 billion letters during the six years of the war" (p. 11). The
structure of the edition is simple, with a lengthy introduction followed
by the transcribed letters first in English and then in their original
One major strength of the edition is Cape's inclusion of a variety of
suggested approaches for further study of this particular collection of
letters. She purports that they could be used to explore sociological
themes like "family and friendship dynamics during war times," or the
cultural history of a nation (p. 17). Her emphasis on asking questions
rather than answering them gives the reader a chance to consider his or
her own ideas about how Feldpost can contribute to modern historical
research. In a brief departure from strict academics, she even suggests
that Gerhard's letters could serve as the basis of a piece of
literature, diary, or short epistolary novel: "A reader with an interest
in creative writing may use his Feldpost as the basis for composing
letters to which Gerhard might have responded. What is written in the
mail sent to him is a question that constantly arises while one reads
his lines" (p. 19).
In the introduction, Cape outlines her principles of translation,
stating that she seeks "to be as literal and exact as is consistent with
readable English" (p. 20). But many of the translations are rather
disconcerting in their directness, preserving German punctuation even
where incorrect in English (p. 30, 40, 76). Knowledge of the German
language is helpful for getting a feel for Gerhard's style in the
translations; someone without that knowledge might find the odd word
order and strange punctuation distracting.
Despite the occasionally dubious translations, the English section of
the edition makes for an interesting read at the very least because of
its numerous explanatory footnotes. The footnotes contain helpful
clarifications for abbreviations, places, people, and especially unclear
situations that arise in the letters. In one letter, Gerhard alludes to
a situation involving Russian prisoners of war, telling his parents they
can draw their own conclusions from the incident (p. 69). In the
corresponding footnote, Cape clarifies the meaning of the exchange,
concluding that, "As a member of the student anti-aircraft artillery (in
German, Luftwaffenhelfer or Flakhelfer) one was ranked below those
Russian voluntary assistants" (p. 123).
Both "Schreiben im Krieg, Schreiben vom Krieg" and "Youth at War" offer
extensive information on the current stance of research regarding
Feldpost letters and can guide readers to a better understanding of this
challenging but exciting genre of primary sources. While recognizing the
limitations that Feldpost letters present, the editors of both volumes
generally emphasize their role in the study of the wartime experiences
of common soldiers in World Wars I and II. Few would argue today that
Feldpost letters are truly authentic accounts of individual lives.
Ultimately, however, it is critical to remember that every collection of
letters may be examined within the greater context of the genre, but
must be evaluated on an individual basis. Certain letters may only be
able to reflect the effectiveness of propaganda or the letter-writing
conventions of their times, while others may hold the potential to
become "partially a mirror of a historical time period" (Cape, p. 6).
And because of their mystery, their banality, and above all their
possibility, Feldpost letters will likely remain a heavily debated genre
among historians and academics in the years to come.
[1] Miriam Dobson, Letters, in: Miriam Dobson / Benjamin Ziemann (eds.),
Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth-
and Twentieth-Century History, New York 2010, p. 59.
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I left home intending to climb up to Altopiano del Cansiglio, and then continue with the short steep climb from Piancansiglio to Monte Candaglia. I reached Sarone and headed upward- it was already uncomfortably hot at 0830. The climb went well despite the heat, and I survived to reach the cool beech forest at 850 meters. From here things got easier on up to La Crosetta at 1118m. I noticed traffic was unusually heavy on this beautiful June Sunday and began doubting my plan of climbing the narrow lane to Monte Candaglia. The prospect of descending through a swarm of hikers headed upstream wasn't inviting. So on a whim I continued to Campon at the north end of il Cansiglio to check out a side road I'd seen on a map.
At Campon you turn left on a narrow road signed Mezzomiglio. I've climbed to Mezzomiglio from Lago Santa Croce previously, but never knew there was another way. This paved road continues left at the next junction, ascending steeply. The pavement ends, then there is a fork, with the right signed Mezzomoglio and the left marked simply Sentiero Naturalistico. I impulsively went left. The dirt road was well-packed and not bad at all on 23mm slicks. After awhile it leveled out around 1300 meters and a mountain biker caught up with me from behind. He was very friendly and we laughed about me riding this bici di corsa on a mountain dirt road. I asked on a hunch if it went to Monte Pizzoc and he said si, and confirmed that the strada was bene all the way. He urged me on "Forte!" and rode away.
For several years I've eyed a nice dirt road turning off the Monte Pizzoc paved road around 1340 meters. I figured I'd hike it or mountain bike it someday. Now I was on it, though starting from the opposite end, pedaling through solitary, dense beech forest, going slow so I wouldn't hit a random boulder or gully. It continued uninterrupted like this for 8.5 km of pure joy. There was only one tough patch, just before joining the Monte Pizzoc paved road there's maybe 100 meters of 12%, big rocks, loose gravel. I stood, kept loosing traction, sat and mashed the pedals over the obstacles. Then it gets nice and gentle again. I did have a sort of mechanical problem- the rear water bottle cage kept loosening from all the shaking. I'll Loctite the bolts- don't want to overtorque those inserts in the carbon.
Descending on the paved Monte Pizzoc road was crowded with gawking cars and motorbikes. Sad to see Italian vehicles have now gotten so fat that two of them can't pass without one or both going onto the verge along the pavement. Why so big?
The descent from La Crosetta was much better- no traffic problems. The ride home felt like I had a tailwind (despite the heat). This is a wonderful ride- I'll do it the opposite direction next time.
|Strada del Taffarel through beech forest
360˚ of beech tree forest
|The road passes through several nature reserves
|Steep paved road from Campon up to start of more-level dirt road
|Strada del Taffarel from Km 49 to 57.5


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Microsoft has revealed that during Q2 of its 2013 financial year it has broken revenue records with a taking of $21.5 billion. $6.38 billion of that grand total was actual profit, providing shareholder's with $0.76 per-share. While EPS was down year-over-year, net income is reported to be up from $5.87 billion a year ago. It's looking good for the company.
The Windows division was responsible for approximately $5.9 billion of Microsoft's revenue, up 24 percent from a year ago. This is mainly down to the release of Windows 8 late last year. It's somewhat interesting to note that while its Windows division was pushing forward, its business department was seeing a drop in revenues of 10 percent to $5.7 billion year-over-year.
Entertainment and Devices also saw revenues continuing to fall with the quarter ending with $3.77 billion reported. It's a 7 percent decrease compared to the same period last year, but is a jump over $1.95 billion in Q1 2013. Unfortunately this division is tied with the Surface, which hasn't gained as much traction as many hoped. This could be down to consumers waiting for the Surface Pro to launch, but we are speculating.
Online Services expanded, hitting $869 million in revenue, an 11 percent increase year-over-year. Advertising revenue was also up noticeably at 15 percent, which is largely down to increase in revenue-per-search. While it's not taking over the web anytime soon, it's positive to see Microsoft's online properties adding to the pool.
Growth overall wasn't at ridiculous levels, but it was notable and inline with what was expected from Wall Street. It's good to see Microsoft still hitting out and improving in areas it has struggled in for some time. We'll have a more in-depth analysis up soon with the earnings call taken into account and included in the updated coverage.
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Bulldogs Complete Four-Game Road Trip Against Ivy New England Rivals
Yale Game Notes | Dartmouth Game Notes | Harvard Game Notes
Yale-Dartmouth Video | Yale Harvard Video
Yale-Dartmouth Live Stats | Yale-Harvard Live Stats
Ivy League Standings | Ivy League Statistics
Yale Basketball On Twitter | Yale Basketball On Facebook
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Bulldogs (16-6, 6-2 Ivy) are coming off an unforgettable 59-58 victory at Columbia last Saturday. Yale, which has won four of its last five games, rallied from a 21-point deficit with 11:30 left in the second half. The significance of that victory will only grow in the annals of Yale history if the Bulldogs keep winning. Yale enters the weekend in second place in the Ivy League, one game behind Harvard. The Bulldogs travel to Dartmouth on Friday and then have a showdown with the Crimson on Saturday. Both games begin at 7 p.m.
The rally against Columbia ties for the 18th biggest second-half comeback in NCAA Division I history and is the third largest second-half comeback in Ivy League history. It was the sixth time this season the Bulldogs won despite trailing at the half. Senior Reggie Willhite played a key role in the victory, scoring six of Yale's last nine points, including a driving layup with 13 seconds left that was the game-winner. He finished with a career-high 24 points. Willhite is closing out his career in style. Since the first meeting with Harvard on Jan. 27, he is averaging 15.0 points, 7.2 rebounds and has 24 assists and 15 steals. Greg Mangano continues to lead the Ivy League in scoring (18.4 ppg.), rebounding (9.6 rpg.) and blocks (52). Yale's 16 overall victories are the most since the 2001-02 team won 21.
Overall, Yale leads the Ivy League in scoring (71.1 ppg.), rebounding margin (+6.1) and assists (14.2 per game). The Bulldogs are second in scoring margin (+5.5) and blocked shots (93).
• The overtime game with Cornell was Yale's first of the season. The Bulldogs hadn't lost an overtime game since falling to Harvard in 2010.
• Michael Grace scored a career-high 15 points in the game against the Big Red. He was 5-of-9 from the field and 4-of-6 from three-point range.
• Yale won for the third straight time at Columbia's Levien Gym. The Bulldogs have beaten the Lions six straight times overall.
• Jesse Pritchard's only field goal against Columbia was a big one, a three-pointer with 37 seconds left that pulled the Bulldogs within one.
The Big Green (4-20, 0-8 Ivy) is coming off a heartbreaking 58-55 loss at Penn last Saturday. The Quakers' Zack Rosen hit a long three-pointer with 3.4 seconds left to snap a 55-55 tie. Dartmouth features one of the top newcomers in the Ivy League in Jvonte Brooks, who earned the league's Rookie of the Week award for the third time this season on Monday. Brooks leads Dartmouth in scoring (9.0 ppg), minutes (27.9 mpg), free throws made (89) and free throw percentage (.788).
The Crimson (21-3, 7-1 Ivy) suffered its first Ivy League loss last Saturday, falling 70-62 at Princeton. Harvard, which hosts Brown on Friday, is riding a 25-game win streak at home, a program record. It is the second longest streak in the nation, trailing only Kentucky's 49 consecutive home wins. The Crimson leads the Ivy League in scoring defense (54.2 ppg.) and free throw percentage (.745). Kyle Casey (11.0 ppg.) is Harvard's top scorer.
The Bulldogs will be looking to sweep the season series from Dartmouth for the third straight year. Yale topped the Big Green 62-52 on Jan. 28. Reggie Willhite paced the Bulldogs with 16 points and nine rebounds. The Bulldogs have won 10 of the last 11 meetings with Dartmouth.
Harvard has won five of the last six meetings with Yale, including a 65-35 decision on Jan. 27. Yale has 115 victories all-time over the Crimson, the most against any opponent.
Bulldogs Visit Children At Smilow Cancer Hospital
The Bulldogs visited with children at the Smilow Cancer Hospital At Yale-New Haven on Jan. 5. "It was a great experience to go and visit some kids who possess so much courage and have overcome more adversity at a young age than most people have to deal with in a lifetime," said junior Austin Morgan. "It was fun to hang out with them, create some artistic banners and get to know such upbeat and positive children." The players and coaches spent nearly two hours with the children. Some stayed in the activity room and did arts and crafts. Sam Martin played one-on-one with a four-year-old in a play room. Others went room to room to say hello and small talk with patients. "The visit really helped put things in perspective," Martin said. "One boy's dad thanked me for spending time with his son because it was the first time he had come out to play in days. He also mentioned that his son had since been glued to SportsCenter hoping to see the Bulldogs. I didn't realize one visit could mean so much, but I'm happy it did." The visit left a lasting impression on all who attended. "I think I can speak for all who visited the hospital that we learned from and cherished the time those children afforded to us, not the other way around," Morgan said. "They made our day."
WILLHITE, MORGAN Earn Academic All-District Honors
Two Yale players have earned Capital One Academic All-District I honors. Senior Reggie Willhite and junior Austin Morgan were both named to the first team. Willhite is a political science major, while Morgan is an architecture major. Both players have started all 20 games for the Bulldogs. First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
Greg Mangano was a part of the 12-player roster that represented the United States in the 2011 World University Games in August in Shenzhen, China. In six games during the tournament, Mangano averaged 3.2 points and 3.2 rebounds. His top performance came against Mexico when he scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds. He added seven points, three rebounds and two blocks in the win over Finland. The team was coached by Purdue's Matt Painter. Joining Mangano on the Team USA roster were: Tim Abromaitis (Notre Dame); Marcus Denmon (Missouri); Ashton Gibbs (Pittsburgh); Draymond Green (Michigan State); JaMychal Green (Alabama); Scoop Jardine (Syracuse); John Jenkins (Vanderbilt); Orlando Johnson (UC Santa Barbara); Trevor Mbakwe (Minnesota); Ray McCallum (Detroit Mercy); and Darius Miller (Kentucky).
Jeremiah Kreisberg played for Israel at the Under-20 European Championships in July in in Sarajevo, Bosnia. He appeared in six games (he missed the last two games with a minor injury) and averaged 12.3 points and 5.7 rebounds, while averaging nearly 30 minutes per game. He led the team in rebounding and was second in scoring. Kreisberg headed to Tel-Aviv in June, spent three weeks training with the Israel team and took part in the team's preparation tour through Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Yale got a bit of a head start on the 2011-12 season. The Bulldogs spent 10 days in China last May and played four games, winning three, including a victory over a Chinese professional team. The trip allowed the Bulldogs to bond as a team and work on some things for the upcoming season.
Mangano and Kreisberg weren't the only players to have interesting off seasons. Austin Morgan spent two months in Mauritius, an island nation off southeast coast of Africa, as an Eli-Africa fellow. He helped run an after school program for local children, teaching a class on health and fitness. Sam Martin was in Washington, D.C., interning for Senator Jack Reed of his home state of Rhode Island. Freshman Armani Cotton founded DOSA (Division One Student Athlete) Basketball Clinic. After gaining approval from the NCAA and the Ivy League, Cotton ran two week-long clinics in New York City and three in Lake Naomi, Pa. Cotton created the program in an attempt to deflate the idea that being valedictorian and a star athlete are mutually exclusive. DOSA focuses on the values of hard work and discipline as well as basketball IQ and Division I skills in order to challenge campers intellectually and physically.
Reggie Willhite trained with former Duke stars Christian Laettner and Grant Hill earlier this fall. Willhite's father heard an interview with Laettner on the radio. Laettner mentioned he was looking for some Division I players on the East Coast to train. Willhite's father reached out to Laettner, who agreed to train Willhite. Reggie spent two weekends working out with Laettner and Hill. Hill's father is legendary Yale football player Calvin Hill.
Yale was picked second, along with Princeton, by the select panel of 17 Ivy media representatives who voted in the official Ivy League preseason media poll. The Bulldogs received one first-place vote and 103 points. Harvard is the league favorite with 16 first-place votes and 135 points. Princeton also had 103 points followed by Penn (90), Brown (62), Cornell (52), Columbia (50) and Dartmouth (17).
The John J. Lee Amphitheater, the home of Yale Basketball, was featured in ESPN The Magazine's College Basketball preview issue. The title of the feature is Grand Stands, the game marches on, but a dwindling number of college basketball cathedrals can still take us back to when it all began.
The Palestra in Philadelphia, Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse and Fordham's Rose Hill Gymnasium were the only other venues selected.
"To walk through these gates and settle into these seats is to remember the game's roots," wrote LaRue Cook. "Because sometimes sports aren't about results – they're about beauty and style and being connected to something bigger than the game."
Lee Amphitheater sits inside historic Payne Whitney Gym, which was constructed in 1931 under the direction of John Russell Pope. Yale's first basketball game was played there on Dec. 18, 1932, and it has been the home of the Bulldogs ever since.
Joe Vancisin, Yale's all-time winningest men's basketball coach, was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Nov. 20. Vancisin guided the Bulldogs for 19 seasons and won three Ivy League titles.
Vancisin, who entered as a contributor, joined players Ralph Sampson, James Worthy, Cazzie Russell and Chris Mullin, coaches Bob Knight and Eddie Sutton and fellow contributor Eddie Einhorn in the induction class of 2011.
Vancisin took over at Yale in 1956-57 and promptly led the Bulldogs to the first official Ivy League title. Yale then lost to North Carolina 90-74 in the NCAA Tournament at Madison Square Garden. The Bulldogs returned to the NCAA Tournament in 1961-62, dropping a heartbreaking 92-82 decision to a Wake Forest team that went on to advance to the Final Four. Yale shared the Ivy title in 1962-63 but fell to Princeton in a playoff game.
Vancisin, who had a 206-242 record as the Bulldogs' head coach, left Yale in 1975 to become the NABC's executive director for 17 years before his retirement in 1992.
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The early years of a child's life are very important. During the infant and toddler years, children grow quickly and have so much to learn. Some children and families face special challenges and need extra help. Early help does make a difference.
The Early Intervention Program is a statewide program that provides many different types of early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
As a parent, you help decide:
You are the most important person in your child's life. You know your child best. You understand your child's needs, and what is helpful and what is not. You have the most information about - and responsibility for - your child's growth and development. In a world of professional titles, consider yourself a Family Information Specialist!
If you live in Broome County and have any questions about an infant or toddler, please call the Broome County Early Intervention Program at (607)778-2851.
The Early Intervention Program offers many types of early intervention services. Early intervention services are services that are:
Here's a list:
Children are eligible for the Early Intervention Program if they are under three years old AND have a disability or developmental delay.
A disability means that a child has a diagnosed physical or mental condition that often leads to problems in development (such as Down Syndrome, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, vision impairment, hearing impairment).
A developmental delay means that a child is behind in at least one area of development, including:
Your child does not need to be a U.S. citizen to be eligible for services. And, there is no income "test" for the program. You and your child do have to be residents of Broome County to participate in the Broome County Early Intervention Program.
Mission Statement of the Broome County Local Early Intervention Coordinating Council (LEICC): To provide a forum for all Early Intervention program partners, parents, guardians, providers and Broome County Health Department staff to collaborate in identifying, evaluating, developing and implementing services that allow children to prosper, grow, and fully participate in society. This interaction allows for recommendations that will maintain program quality, enhance services, and ease transition to other programs.
Broome County has a local Early Intervention Coordinating Council made up of parents and professionals. The LEICC advises the Early Intervention Official about local early intervention issues - such as gaps in services.
If you have questions or are interested in joining the LEICC, please call us at (607)778-2851.
www.health.ny.gov/publications/0532/index.htm - The Early Intervention Program, A Parent's Guide
health.ny.gov/publications/0532/welcome.htm - NYS Early Intervention Website
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html - Developmental milestones


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TECH NOW: New Disney app tells your Story
TECH NOW: Hands on with Disney's new Story app
It's been nearly two years since I walked down the aisle with the love of my life, and I still haven't created a wedding photo album. I've even gone so far as to upload thousands of photos from that amazing day to Shutterfly, where they still live, just waiting for me to do something with them. All my mom wants for Mother's Day? A photo album from the wedding … this century.
This week, I tested a free iPhone app that Disney is set to launch today, called Story. The whole idea behind it is to finally do something with all the smartphone photos and videos you've captured that help show and tell the story of your life. But rather than making you sift through hundreds, if not thousands, of photos, then drag-and-drop each of them into a slot in an album outline, Story does it all for you. Fast.
When you open up the app on your iPhone screen, you see a My Moments heading and beneath that, a bunch of clean, upscale-looking photo books with your pictures already laid out. Story uses a time and location algorithm to figure out which photos and videos go where. You can take photos out or swap their placement, and personalize each photo book with captions, pages of text, themes, and layouts. Then, with one more tap, you can share the finished product with family and friends via e-mail or social media. The entire process, from a mishmash of snapshots to a beautiful digital storybook, takes about 30 seconds.
When I opened up the app, I had three photo albums waiting for me; one from my recent trip to Yosemite, another from my daughter's basketball game last weekend and another entire album filled with photos and videos from her first horse show of the season. Story did a really good job of putting them in the right places, based on when and where I was when I took them. It also seemed to guess which ones were the most important to me, because all of the best shots appeared in the largest photo slots. It's a bit uncanny that way.
I also created a new storybook from scratch, using all of the wedding photos that I have saved on my Photo Stream. That took the extra step of dragging and dropping photos, which took about two minutes, start to finish. From there, I could get as creative as I wanted, writing a nice narrative to explain what we were doing, what we were thinking, and what I hope we all remember when we're sitting around someday "remembering when." All I have to do come Sunday morning is push "send" on an e-mail and a photo album of my wedding day will be waiting for my mom when she wakes up on Mother's Day. Of course, I'll pretend it took me forever to create and say a very gracious, "You're welcome," when she tells me how much she loves it. It's a bummer that you can't actually print the books out yet. I'm sure my mom will ask about that. But Disney Interactive says that's coming later this year, along with the app's availability across iOS (right now, it's only on iPhone and iPod Touch), Android and other platforms.
Two other apps I've tested recently come pretty close to doing what Story does, but neither hits the mom target so spot-on. New app KeepShot has a leg up in that you can actually print physical photo albums from your cellphone shots for anywhere from $20 to $70, and they're delivered to your doorstep in less than two weeks. But you still have to drag and drop all of the photos into it, so it loses points for taking more time and work than Story. KeepShot is also only available right now on the iPad.
Qwiki is the only other app I've seen that aggregates your smartphone camera roll for you and lets you create mini music videos to save and share. But it tends to come across as a little too hipster cool and/or too high-tech for some moms I've talked with. Other favorite smartphone, photo-editing and sharing apps, such as Snapseed, Whip and Groovebook deliver one or two of the "what do I do with all these photos" solutions, but so far, Story still edges them out as being the most robust and mom-friendly. With Story, there aren't any additional bookmaking programs to worry about, no hours-to-days-long upload times, and you can do a simple zoom-in or squeeze-down, to get your photos just right.
When I asked Disney Interactive editor-in-chief Catherine Connors why creating an app like this is important to Disney's digital platform right now, she said it's a sign of the modern digital world we live in today. Moms are more mobile and more social than ever before. But if anything, we are more time-crunched than we've ever been. She says Story was created to help solve the problem of how we now share the most important stories of our lives, in our very own, modern — yet still meaningful — way. When I "amen sister'd" that, and pointed out that I haven't created a physical photo album of my own daughter since she was 3 (she's 12 now), Connors admitted she's never created photo books of her own kids, who are 7 and 4. With Story, I suspect that's going to change by Mother's Day, if it hasn't already.
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A few weeks ago, BIO submitted a letter and white paper (PDF) to the U.S. Trade Representative outlining recommendations for policies to pursue with TPP negotiating partners to ensure intellectual property protection for innovative biologic products. Standards that enable biotechnology companies to protect and leverage their intellectual property are of critical importance to companies seeking breakthrough treatments and cures for patients in need worldwide.
Implementing standards of protection that effectively protect innovation for biological products within the TPP region is an important issue for BIO and its members. The realities of modern research and development in this industry demonstrate that each TPP member has the potential to participate in the discovery and development of new biological products, or new uses of existing products.
The highly leveraged and disseminated nature of the biotechnology industry enables research institutions and small start-up companies in any TPP country to be the seed of this process of discovery, innovation and development. Indeed, there are numerous examples of an individual or small group of scientists, often located in a university or publicly funded research institution, starting a chain of events that make possible discovery and development of a new biological product. There is no reason why a scientist in any one of the TPP countries cannot become that seed of innovation and development.
This innovative potential requires an IP infrastructure that is certain and consistent throughout the TPP region. As we move to more tightly integrate the economies of the TPP countries and to promote collaborations throughout this region, discrepancies in the IP infrastructure will become substantial obstacles to collaboration. For this reason, it is imperative that the TPP create a set of strong intellectual property standards – particularly those governing data protection, patents and trade secret protection – that are relevant to biological products. BIO believes this approach will help achieve the TPP's vision of promoting high standards that integrate the trade and investment climate in the region.
In addition to strong IP protections, an extended period of regulatory data protection – beyond that given to traditional, small molecule drugs in the generic drug context – is essential to properly incentivize the development of new biological products and new uses of those products.
The existing standards found in agreements between the U.S. and its trading partners provide a good foundation to build upon, but must be updated to reflect the realities and challenges facing developers of new biological products. In particular, given the challenges of securing broad patent rights that can cover variations of innovative biological products, and the need to ensure that investors see the potential to secure commercial success of these products, a period of data protection of not less than 12 years of duration is necessary. That was the period that the U.S. Congress found to be the minimum necessary to provide continued incentives to the biotechnology industry, and the investment communities upon which that industry depend, to develop new biological products.
The biotechnology industry is a dynamic, job-creating industry, and presents opportunities for every country in the TPP region. Indeed, the vast majority of biotechnology companies are small- and medium-sized enterprises. What these companies share is a philosophy that is critical to the task of developing biotechnology products – a willingness to take huge risks and invest in development of new technologies that will lead to new products and services that will improve peoples' lives.
BIO and its members believe a successful TPP Agreement will create an environment that promotes collaboration and innovation throughout the trans-Pacific region. With this letter and white paper, we hope to provide a better sense of the challenges biotechnology companies face in developing new biological products, and how those challenges translate into the need for effective intellectual property standards within the TPP region.
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Episode 4 of TUF 15 is on tonight, so I thought I would post my recap/notes from episode 3 to catch you guys up if for some reason your DVR esploded or something.
Tickle Isn't Funny
So, as is the norm in TUF seasons, there is a prankster/bad boy/villain emerging on the show and it's Chris Tickle. I don't know if it's through the magic of editing or if he really is the house douche bag, but he seemed to be the focus of much of episode 3.
He's the first to pull a "prank", and I use that term loosely. He was trying to move Faber's parking sign and broke it on accident, so he took it inside the gym and put it in a pile of tires. ZING!
He also was "giving the business" to Team Faber for not stepping up when Cruz put them on the spot last week.
On his way to training, Tickle passes Team Faber's John Cofer who said something about the way Tickle carries himself. Words are exchanged and it heats up enough that Cofer ends up asking to fight Tickle.
We saw a couple of fighters give their two pennies worth of thought on Tickle, most of them saying he was really annoying. If this MMA thing doesn't work out for them, they can always get jobs as personality evaluators because they were spot on.
Justin Lawrence and Cristiano Marcello (Live)
I'll be honest, I tried to think of some really nice ways to say this, but I couldn't. Team Faber's game plan for this fight sucked.
Marcello is a ground specialist, yet Faber and company felt that Lawrence would be expecting Marcello to take it to the ground so the best plan would be to keep it standing.
This was a horrible game plan and it showed as Lawrence put his hands all over Marcello for a round and a half. The Chute Box product (Marcello) looked hesitant on his feet and was never able to mount any kind of real attack. He did try to get it to the ground a couple of times, but they were half-hearted attempts and Lawrence was too smart.
I think Team Faber and Marcello should have used their hands only to set up the takedown. Maybe even by getting Lawrence to the fence, working into the clinch and getting him down from there.
It was not to be and Lawrence KO'ed Marcello with about 1:45 left in round two. This after winning round one easily.
After winning again Team Cruz was allowed to pick the next fight so they chose Myles Jury vs Al Iaquinta. I think this is going to be a really good fight.
My Thoughts
– Faber is a terrible coach. Great fighter…terrible coach. This was the worst game plan ever.
– All involved are trying too hard to find a "character" to stand out. Tickle isn't it.
– The cameraman slipping was pretty awesome.
TUF 15 Ratings
In case you are wondering (or cared) here are some ratings numbers I found on BJPenn.com:
Episode 1: 1.3 million viewers
Episode 2: 1.1 million viewers
Episode 3: 1.2 million viewers
Source: http://bjpenn.com/mmanews/2012/03/26/the-ultimate-fighter-live-on-fx-episode-3-ratings-report-17785.html
TUF Brazil
I have not yet watched it but I'm told that the TUF Brazil debut was great. If you have time, check it out. I'll do the same and give my thoughts next week.
The next episode of The Ultimate Fighter will air on FX on Friday at 9pm Houston time.
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In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health interviewed Latin@ poderos@s in Texas by asking one simple question: "What makes you poderos@?" Find out how each fierce poderos@ responded in this special blog series.
"My name is Patrick and I'm a poderoso on behalf of my immigration mixed status family, on behalf of my friends, and on behalf of those in the LGBTQ community who face similar fears every day. It is vital that we remember the immense contributions of immigrants to the very heart of this country, that we continue to give voice to our collective struggle — that we continue to come together to heal our hearts and mend our wounded spirits. My body, my heart, and my freedom is all I have to give as an organizer and activist for both immigrant and LGBTQ rights."
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Our son is coming home on leave today from the Army and we have to go to the airport in Spokane to pick him up. Not like you need a reason to cache but we are going to do a few on the way there. The weather is crappy today. I think it will be fun anyway. A little rain never hurt anyone. I can't wait to see our son. It's been 5 months! I will get lots of photos.
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Outdoor Fools Day Offers Food, Fun and Outdoor Activities
ATHENS—Life's better outside, especially during springtime in Texas. And nowhere will it be better on April 7 than at Outdoor Fools Day at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC).
The annual event will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and all activities are free with regular paid admission ($5.50 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3.50 children ages 4 to 12) to the center.
A short video of highlights from a prior year gives a taste of what Outdoor Fools Day is like; it can be found at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Freshwater-Fisheries-Center/128462433868391.
The purpose of the event is to showcase outdoor recreation opportunities in East Texas while teaching some of the skills that will help you enjoy them, such as camping, fishing, dutch oven cooking, birding and more.
The Blackland Prairie Raptor Center will display various birds of prey while explaining their place in the ecosystem and why it is important to protect them. You can get an up-close look at the birds during a 12 noon presentation in the Hart-Morris Conservation center, and they will also be displayed around the grounds at other times.
Returning for another year will be the popular Wildlife on the Move "The Unhuggables" show, which features a variety of animals and lots of information about them. Presenter Eric Brittingham delivers a rapid-fire presentation about the animals' habitats and conservation and debunks myths such as "snakes are slimy." You'll be able to prove that to yourself by touching a 12-foot python following 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. presentations in the Hart-Morris Conservation Center. Some of the creatures will also be on display at other times on the grounds near the Conservation Center.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Coastal Fisheries Division will present a salt-water touch tank that is always good for smiles and squeals as kids touch creatures that are harmless but don't look it.
The Lone Star Bowhunters Association and Dutch oven cookers are perennial favorites at Outdoor Fools Day. Young and old alike enjoy flinging arrows at life-size replicas of deer, hogs and turkeys almost as much as they like snacking on tasty goodies cooked over coals and served up warm.
Tracking dogs from Texas Trackers will do their thing along the Wetlands Trail, demonstrating how these amazing dogs with their sensitive noses can follow the trail of a wounded animal. They also love to be petted. (Please leave your own dog at home. Pets are not allowed at TFFC.)
Other exhibits will include a state park area that will help you learn how to identify animal tracks. There will be fly-fishing and kayaking instruction and information on hunter education. TFFC is one of the best places in the state to take your hunter education course, and you can visit with the instructors during Outdoor Fools Day.
Shopping for a variety of outdoor products will be offered by Cabela's, and the TFFC gift shop is well-stocked with snacks and fishing-related clothing and gift items.
Don't forget to bring an ice chest so you can take home some rainbow trout. Fishing is always free at TFFC, you never need a license, and bait and tackle are always furnished. You are welcome to bring your own fishing gear, but only single hooks with the barb mashed down are allowed.
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Outdoor Fools Day is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors: Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites—Athens; First State Bank; Schneider Electric; Dr. Mark Roberts, DDS; McDonald's—Lilly Enterprises; Red Hat Rentals; FutureMatrix, Inc., Aaron's Sales and Lease; Best Western Royal Mountain Inn—Athens; Cabela's; East Texas Medical Center; Friends of TFFC; and Wulf Outdoor Sports.
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