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School-age children development
Well child - ages 6 to 12
School-age child development describes the expected physical, emotional, and mental abilities of children ages 6 to 12 years.
School-age children most often have smooth and strong motor skills. However, their coordination (especially eye-hand), endurance, balance, and physical abilities vary.
Fine motor skills may also vary widely. These skills can affect a child's ability to write neatly, dress appropriately, and perform certain chores, such as making beds or doing dishes.
There will be big differences in height, weight, and build among children of this age range. It is important to remember that genetic background, as well as nutrition and exercise, may affect a child's growth.
A sense of body image begins developing around age 6. Sedentary habits in school-age children are linked to a risk for obesity and heart disease in adults. Children in this age group should get at least 1 hour of physical activity per day.
There can also be a big difference in the age at which children begin to develop secondary sexual characteristics. For girls, secondary sex characteristics include:
- Breast development
- Underarm and pubic hair growth
For boys, they include:
- Growth of underarm, chest, and pubic hair
- Growth of testicles and penis
By age 5, most children are ready to start learning in a school setting. The first few years focus on learning the fundamentals.
In third grade, the focus becomes more complex. Reading becomes more about the content than identifying letters and words.
An ability to pay attention is important for success both at school and at home. A 6-year-old should be able to focus on a task for at least 15 minutes. By age 9, a child should be able to focus attention for about an hour.
It is important for the child to learn how to deal with failure or frustration without losing self-esteem. There are many causes of school failure, including:
- Learning disabilities, such a reading disability
- Stressors, such as bullying
- Mental health issues, such as anxiety or depression
If you suspect any of these in your child, talk to your child's teacher or health care provider.
Early school-age children should be able to use simple, but complete, sentences that contain an average of 5 to 7 words. As the child goes through the elementary school years, grammar and pronunciation become normal. Children use more complex sentences as they grow.
Language delays may be due to hearing or intelligence problems. In addition, children who are unable to express themselves well may be more likely to have aggressive behavior or temper tantrums.
A 6-year-old child normally can follow a series of 3 commands in a row. By age 10, most children can follow 5 commands in a row. Children who have a problem in this area may try to cover it up with backtalk or clowning around. They will rarely ask for help because they are afraid of being teased.
Frequent physical complaints (such as sore throats, tummy aches, or arm or leg pain) may simply be due to a child's increased body awareness. Although there is often no physical evidence for such complaints, the complaints should be investigated to rule out possible health conditions. This will also assure the child that the parent is concerned about their well-being.
Peer acceptance becomes more important during the school-age years. Children may take part in certain behaviors to be part of "the group." Talking about these behaviors with your child will allow the child to feel accepted in the group, without crossing the boundaries of the family's behavior standards.
Friendships at this age tend to be mainly with members of the same sex. In fact, younger school-age children often talk about members of the opposite sex as being "strange" or "awful." Children become less negative about the opposite sex as they get closer to adolescence.
Lying, cheating, and stealing are all examples of behaviors that school-age children may "try on" as they learn how to negotiate the expectations and rules placed on them by family, friends, school, and society. Parents should deal with these behaviors in private with their child (so that the child's friends don't tease them). Parents should show forgiveness, and punish in a way that is related to the behavior.
It is important for the child to learn how to deal with failure or frustration without losing self-esteem.
Safety is important for school-age children.
- School-age children are highly active. They need physical activity and peer approval, and want to try more daring and adventurous behaviors.
- Children should be taught to play sports in appropriate, safe, supervised areas, with proper equipment and rules. Bicycles, skateboards, in-line skates, and other types of recreational sports equipment should fit the child. They should be used only while following traffic and pedestrian rules, and while using safety equipment such as knee, elbow, and wrist pads or braces, and helmets. Sports should not be played at night or in extreme weather conditions.
- Swimming and water safety lessons may help prevent drowning.
- Safety instruction regarding matches, lighters, barbecues, stoves, and open fires can prevent major burns.
- Using an appropriate car seat and wearing seat belts is the most important way to prevent major injury or death from a motor vehicle accident.
- If your child's physical development appears to be outside the norm, talk to your provider.
- If language skills appear to be lagging, request a speech and language evaluation.
- Keep close communication with teachers, other school employees, and parents of your child's friends so you are aware of possible problems.
- Encourage children to express themselves openly and talk about concerns without fear of punishment.
- While encouraging children to participate in a variety of social and physical experiences, be careful not to over-schedule free time. Free play or simple, quiet time is important so the child does not always feel pushed to perform.
- Children today are exposed, through the media and their peers, to many issues dealing with violence, sexuality, and substance abuse. Discuss these issues openly with your children to share concerns or correct misconceptions. You may need to set limits to ensure children will be exposed to certain issues only when they are ready.
- Encourage children to participate in constructive activities such as sports, clubs, arts, music, and scouts. Being inactive at this age increases the risk for lifetime obesity. However, it is important not to over-schedule your child. Try to find a balance between family time, school work, free play, and structured activities.
- School-age children should participate in family chores, such as setting the table and cleaning up.
- Limit screen time (television and other media) to 2 hours a day.
American Academy of Pediatrics. 2022 Recommendations for preventive pediatric health care. Pediatrics. 2022;150(1):e2022058044. PMID: 35921638
Finkelstein LH, Feigelman S. Middle childhood. In: Kliegman RM, St. Geme JW, Blum NJ, Shah SS, Tasker RC, Wilson KM, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 21st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2020:chap 25.
Marcdante KJ, Kliegman RM, Schuh AM. Normal development. In: Marcdante KJ, Kliegman RM, Schuh AM, eds. Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2023:chap 7.
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God wants you to take your next step spiritually. That could mean getting baptized, committing to digging into the Bible each day, discovering how God wants to use you to help others, or just learning more about God's plan for your life. New Life's classes are all about those next steps.CLASS 101
This basic introduction to our church family is designed to clearly explain who and what our church is. You'll learn about our beliefs on salvation, our statements of purpose, and our church's strategy and structure. You'll also hear about the history of our church, how the five biblical purposes are necessary to fulfilling God's calling for your life, and the plans for the future of New Life Fellowship. At the end of class, you'll be given the opportunity to decide whether to complete the membership process by filling out and signing the membership covenant.CLASS 201
Do you want to become more like Jesus? CLASS 201 will help you develop the habits you need to jump-start your spiritual growth. It will give you an overview of the four basic spiritual habits every Christian needs in order to grow: daily time in God's word, prayer, tithing, and fellowship.
Did you know that God created you with special gifts intended for his purposes? God didn't design ministry for just a few – he made each one of us a minister. At CLASS 301, you'll learn how God can use your Spiritual Gifts, your Heart, your Abilities, your Personality, and your Experiences (S.H.A.P.E.) to minister to the needs of others.
In CLASS 401 you'll discover your life mission and how you can be a part of God's plan to reach out to the world. This class will help you:
- Develop a personal perspective of the Gospel message
- Develop your personal story of how God has worked in your life
- Build confidence in sharing your story
- Understand the P.E.A.C.E. Plan and how you can begin to be a part of it.

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February 22, 2011
New Haven, Connecticut – February 22, 2011 – Woodbridge is pleased to welcome Richard Clepper as Senior M&A Advisor for Transportation and Logistics.
Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Dick has over 35 years of experience in the operating performance of companies in the motor carrier and logistics segments of the North American transportation industry.
Dick has held a number of senior management positions in sales and operations through his career, principally at Yellow Transportation and is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a BS in Transportation.
Mr. Clepper will focus on providing sell-side and buy-side services to Woodbridge clients in the Transportation and Logistics industry.
"I understand the challenges transportation and logistics firms experience and am eager to bring that understanding to Woodbridge clients as they navigate the sale of their business or the acquisition of a complementary company," said Mr. Clepper.
Woodbridge, LLC., an international M&A firm, was founded in 1993 to provide divestiture and acquisition services to middle market companies.


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New research suggests that the very oldest pieces of rock on Earth – zircon crystals – are likely to have formed in the craters left by violent asteroid impacts that peppered our nascent planet, rather than via plate tectonics as was previously believed.
Rocks that formed over the course of Earth's history allow geologists to infer things such as when water first appeared on the planet, how our climate has varied, and even where life came from. However, we can only go back in time so far, as the only material we have from the very early Earth comes in the form of tiny, naturally occurring zircon crystals.
Naturally then, the origin of these crystals, which are approximately the width of a human hair and more than four billion years old (the Earth being just over four and a half billion years old), has become a matter of major debate.
Fifteen years ago these crystals first made headlines when they revealed the presence of water on the surface of the Earth (thought to be a key ingredient for the origin of life) when they were forming.
Ten years ago, a team of researchers in the US1 argued that the ancient zircon crystals probably formed when tectonic plates moving around on the Earth's surface collided with each other in a similar fashion to the disruption taking place in the Andes Mountains today, where the ocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South America.
However, current evidence suggests that plate tectonics – as we know it today – was not occurring on the early Earth. So, the question remained: Where did the crystals come from?
Recently, geologists suggested these grains may have formed in huge impact craters produced as chunks of rock from space, up to several kilometres in diameter, slammed into a young Earth. To test this idea, researchers from Trinity College Dublin decided to study a much younger impact crater to see if zircon crystals similar to the very old ones could possibly have formed in these violent settings.
In the summer of 2014, with the support of the Irish Reseach Council (IRC) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the team collected thousands of zircons from the Sudbury impact crater, Ontario, Canada – the best preserved large impact crater on Earth and the planet's second oldest confirmed crater at almost two billion years old.
After analysing these crystals at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, they discovered that the crystal compositions were indistinguishable from the ancient set.
PhD Researcher in Trinity's School of Natural Sciences, Gavin Kenny, is first author of the article which explains these findings, and which has just been published in leading international journal, Geology.
Gavin Kenny said: "What we found was quite surprising. Many people thought the very ancient zircon crystals couldn't have formed in impact craters, but we now know they could have."
"There's a lot we still don't fully understand about these little guys but it looks like we may now be able to form a more coherent story of Earth's early years – one which fits with the idea that our planet suffered far more frequent bombardment from asteroids early on than it has in relatively recent times."
Kenny recently travelled to the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Houston, Texas, to present these findings to the space science community.
He added: "There was a lot of enthusiasm for our findings. Just two years ago a group2 had studied the likely timing of impacts on the early Earth and they suggested that these impacts might explain the ages of the ancient zircons. They were understandably very happy to see that the chemistry of the zircons from the Canadian impact crater matched the oldest crystals known to man."
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Explore Thailand Isan Province of Loei and Discover a Land Before Time
April 24, 2017Explore Thailand Isan province of Loei and discover a land before time
Credits: The Tourist Authority of Thailand
Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery
Explore Thailand Isan. Thailand is an ancient land and wherever you wander you'll discover customs and traditions that are centuries-old yet thrive to this day. In Loei, a prime example of antiquity, is the colourful Phi Tha Khon Festival, where the locals dress in colourful masks, and carry symbols of fertility. The province's landscape itself is more ancient still formed over millions of years before humans; Thais, tourists or otherwise walked the earth. Here, you can travel back in time and explore the geological wonders.
Explore Thailand Isan
Loei's Nong Hin region is rich with limestone formations, which were once below Palaeozoic oceans some 540 to 250 million years ago. Over the millennia, these sea-beds were thrust skyward and the result is today's topsy-turvy landscape. There are huge trees, greenery and vines growing on top of huge barren boulders and cliff faces, as if they'd been planted by garden-loving giants. It's a landscape so primaeval that you almost expect a toothsome Tyrannosaurus Rex to burst from the undergrowth at any moment.
These hills are often compared with the amazing rock formations of Kunming in China where the thrusting crags have inspired local artists and craftsmen for centuries, making the region a tourist magnet. But here in Loei, you often have the limestone's peaks and caves all to yourself, and this tranquillity makes it feel like an untouched Eden.
The best place to start exploring is Nong Hin Village, which has a visitor centre at Suan Hin Pha Ngam, a garden area surrounded by an amphitheatre of stone. It's a popular spot for photos, but if you want to explore the area more deeply, climb aboard one of the nearby e-taen tractor trucks that take you right into the limestone crags. There are jungle trails to follow, but first take the metal steps up to a sturdy metal platform, this is the park's best viewpoint and you are rewarded for your climb with a 360-degree view of the limestone crags. The locals have named the peaks after the creatures they evoke; a rather flattened turtle is the most memorable but there are also elephant and dinosaur shapes to discover as you descend and continue further along the trail.
Explore Thailand Isan
Down the road there's another Pha Ngam walking trail, and you can actually enter into the limestone itself and explore the caves, hollowed out by dripping water over millions of years. Impressive displays of Mother Nature's artistry lie deep within. And just like the peaks above, the cave's ancient stone formations are named after the shapes they take on. In the torchlight you'll see an impressive mermaid, a shark, two dogs kissing, and various dinosaur body parts. If often takes a little imagination to make the figures out, but there are genuine fossils of ancient sea creatures to be found too, and the guides can show you the best ones.
You do need to go with a guide, many of whom are young local students who really know their stuff and the best routes to take; without them you could easily get lost in this Loei labyrinth.
At places where the sunlight pierces through the rock, greenery and vines crowd into this underworld and large bats, unaccustomed to visitors flap away over your head, resentful at the disturbance. It's not unknown to come across the occasional snake either, so watch your step.
Explore Thailand Isan
After ducking through crevices and caves the 800-metre trail eventually leads through hidden orchards and then to the top of the limestone crags where you traverse precarious paths, scale steep metal staircases and feel dizzy at the alarming drops to either side, but the views and greenery make it worth the effort. The difficulty of the terrain means that Suan Hin Pha Ngam is an undisturbed nature reserve; the area is home to a wide array of birdlife and some stunning plants.
It can be tough going so you need good footwear and do take water. There are plans to make this trail more user-friendly in the next few months, so to experience the Pha Ngam trail in the raw, it's worth making a visit now.
But whenever you go, this lovely area of Loei is worth seeing and not just because it emulates China's Kunming. The region is unique in itself and offers walks, waterfalls treks, views, and experiences that few places can match. So come explore this timeless and untamed land – adventure awaits.
- Nong Hin is around 50 km from Loei town and there are local buses. If you have your own transport, take Highway 201 and follow the signposts.
- The Suan Hin Pha Ngam part and trails are open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and a guide should be hired. The tractors from the visitors' centre to the viewpoint are around 20 Baht per person.
- If you want to walk the trails, strong shoes are essential and a torch would be useful. Take sun screen and plenty of water.
Read related travel feature articles:
A very Thai time in the lovely hills of Loei
The lowdown on lovely Loei, the emerald of Northeastern Thailand
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In Book #3 of my SCARY STORIES Series — launching this summer, so don't make any plans — and I mean that, no plans whatsoever — I featured a whole mess of crows in the story. You know, when it comes to foreshadowing and a general air of ominousness, nothing beats a murder of crows.
We have Van Gogh to thank for that, his intimations of mortality in the great painting, "Wheat Field with Crows."
And, of course, there's Hitchcock. This is one of my favorite scenes in the history of film, the essence of suspense, the knot slowly tightening, the shots of the crows gathering, cut to Tippi Hedren smoking her cigarette unawares, and back and forth, back and forth, until we get that great shot of Tippi watching one crow in flight across the sky until it lands on the playground. And her eyes grow large. In the background all the while, children sing an American variation of a Scottish folktale, "Risseldy, Rosseldy." Young, innocent voices. That's cinematic perfection right there. I've watched it a dozen times.
So I stuck some crows into my story, black harbingers of doom!, and even included a small tribute to a scene from "The Birds." (Kids these days are always clamoring for more allusions to 1960's films. It's just the kind of thing that young readers nowadays expect to find in their chapter books.)
Crows are basically gross, for the most part. But useful as nature's trash collectors. They eat the road kill, smashed squirrels and flattened chipmunks, and I think we can all agree that we're grateful for that. Thanks, crows!
Quick crow story:
My wife Lisa is the best mother in the world. She's tied, actually, with a long list of other mothers, but she's right there at the top, tied for first place. One Easter long ago, when Gavin (13) and Maggie (12) were probably 3 and 1 1/2, Lisa woke early in the morning to set up an Easter egg hunt. We had a nice, woodsy backyard at the time. Plastic eggs? What? Is that what you're thinking? Oh, please. No, Lisa used actual hard-boiled eggs and hid them around the lawn. Under bushes and often right there in the middle of the lawn, since at the time the kids were young and not exactly the best Scotland Yard had to offer.
Later it was time for the egg hunt. And lo, there were no eggs. Or, at least, very few to be found.
What happened to them? Where'd they go? We didn't know. So we set out an egg in the middle of the lawn, ducked back inside, and watched by the window. Within two minutes, a big black crow landed, grabbed the egg in its talons, and flew off for a hearty breakfast.
While thinking about crows, and researching them ever-so-slightly, I came across this, which is why I began this post in the first place.
Oh, and here's the brief excerpt from SCARY TALES, Book #3. In this scene, three students are trapped inside a school, surrounded by zombies, or ghouls, or whatever creepy thing they are out there. It's not good. For a variety of reasons — the best one being "for dramatic purposes" — Carter decides to go for help. He needs to quietly make his way two blocks through the night fog, avoid the zombies that seems to be aimlessly milling around, find his folks, get help, and save the day.
(I know, it's sounds kind of dumb, but it's a lot of fun.)
Here goes . . .
Carter stepped out into the mist with supreme calm. Cool as a lake. It was foggy, but he could still see about 30 feet in any direction. He gave a thumbs-up to the worried faces that stood vigil at the door.
It's all good.
A crow landed near his foot, cawed noisily. Then another, and another. Carter stepped cautiously, not wishing to disturb the birds. He noticed a dark figure ahead and veered away from it.
CAW-CAW! Carter looked up to see a crow dive-bombing from above, talons out. The black bird hit Carter's head at full force, wham, and tore into his scalp.
"Ow, shoot," Carter cursed. He staggered a step, dazed, and waited for the dizziness to pass. Carter tenderly probed the injury with his fingers. His scalp was torn. Under a loose flap of skin, his flesh felt like raw hamburger. It was wet.
He checked his fingers. Blood. Lots of it.
Oooooaaaaannnn, oooooaaaaannnn.
The moans came, louder and louder, from every direction. As if the creatures were calling to each other. Now more shapes appeared in the distance, moving toward him. "It's the blood," Carter thought. "They smell it."


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What's Your Financial Health Score?
What's Your Financial Health Score?
Can a 5-question test predict how wealthy you will become?
Provided by Peck Financial Advisors
In the future, will you become wealthier or poorer? Who knows, right? It seems like you would need a crystal ball to really answer that question given life's up and downs. What if the answer is right in front of you? What if you can determine it from your present financial behaviors?
Two economists present a brief questionnaire – and an audacious claim. Last month, the Center for Household Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published an article titled "Five Simple Questions That Reveal Your Financial Health and Wealth." The authors, William Emmons and Bryan Noeth, argue that your answers to these questions can effectively predict your financial future.1,2
Q: Did you save any money last year?
Q: Did you miss any loan or mortgage payments in the past year?
Q: Did you have a balance on your credit card after the last payment was due?
Q: Do liquid assets make up at least 10% of the value of your total assets?
Q: Is your total debt service (i.e., the cash you devote each month to paying principal and interest) less than 40% of your income?1
The Federal Reserve has actually asked these questions of consumers for decades as part of its Survey of Consumer Finances. Studying the eight SCFs conducted from 1992-2013, Emmons and Noeth looked at the answers respondents provided to these questions and the level of personal wealth they reported. Their assertion: "In summary, good financial health – as measured by our simple five-question scorecard – is highly correlated with the accumulation of wealth."2
As part of their research, Emmons and Noeth scored the answers. A financially positive answer to a question was assigned 1 point; a financially negative answer, 0 points.2
The average total score (across more than 38,000 households) was 3.01. The highest average score to a question was 0.91 (the one about debt load being less than 40% of income) and the lowest average score to a question was 0.27 (the one about the percentage of liquid assets among total assets).2
There was a surprising conclusion. The authors found that education was no reliable indicator of personal wealth. When it came to being rich or poor, well-educated individuals had no leg up on lesser-educated individuals.2
What's your score? If you are able to successively answer the above questions with "yes," "no," "no," "yes" and "yes", your household is probably in pretty good financial shape – or better. In simple terms, those answers would get you a 5.0.
Here's the bottom line. If you save money consistently and maintain a good cash position, if you make loan and mortgage payments on time and pay off 100% of your credit card debt each billing cycle, if you avoid debts that put a strain on your budget ... congratulations. You are doing the right things on behalf of your financial life and promoting your chances to build wealth.
If you'd like to see the precise methodology the researchers used and their definition of a "positive" and "negative" answer for each question, you can go online and download Issue 10 of the St. Louis Fed publication In the Balance (which contains the article and the scorecard) at stlouisfed.org/publications/itb/.
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The Water of Possibility
Twelve-year-old Sayuri and her little brother Keiji find real excitement in the small Alberta town they've moved to, in the form of a magical Middle World behind a door in their cellar.
The last thing twelve-year-old Sayuri wants to do is move to the country, on "a trip to eternal boredom." Sayuri loves her life in the city and her achievements as a competitive swimmer. But her father, a nurse, has found a job in rural Alberta.
Sayuri is also not impressed by the dilapidated old house they rent. One day after school, she and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore.
When Keiji, who has serious asthma, gets lost, Sayuri must find him. A giant yamanba woman, a shapeshifter fox, and a green water sprite called a kappa all help her on her way. In the meantime, Sayuri discovers and helps attack an evil blight that has befallen Middle World.
As Sayuri struggles to battle this great evil, find her brother, and lead them both home, she finds new strength in herself and grows in wisdom. Finally, she does find her brother and together they stand before the magic Water of Possibility. They must find the courage to each take from it one good and one bad thing. When they do this, and confront their worst fears, they are also able to find their way home.


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FRESNO, Calif. -- Tragedy struck at the ballpark on Tuesday night when the man leading a taco-eating championship suddenly choked and died.
The Grizzlies have now canceled a professional taco-eating championship scheduled for Saturday.
The rest of this weekend's Taco Truck Throwdown events will go on, as planned.
Dana Andrew Hutchings loved sports and having fun, so a taco-eating contest in the middle of a Fresno Grizzlies game seemed like the perfect combination for him.
Those tacos would be his last meal.
"He apparently began to choke, so Fresno Grizzlies medical staff rushed over, started to give him first aid and then turned him over to American Ambulance," said Tony Botti with the Fresno County sheriff's and coroner's office.
Paramedics tried to clear food out of Hutchings' airway, but he died less than 30 minutes later. An autopsy has now confirmed that he choked on food.
He'd made a strong impression before his death, sharing his strategy with fellow fans at the game.
"He said he was going to enter a taco-eating contest and has been not eating all day to make himself a winner," said Eric Schmidt.
He says Hutchings also mentioned he was diabetic and had a couple beers, so he offered the man some food, but Hutchings was saving himself for the competition.
And when the contest showed up on the Jumbotron, the strategy seemed to work at first.
"He was winning," Schmidt said. "I mean, he was hungry, you could tell. My son and I were standing there like 'oh, there's the guy.' And he was winning because he was starving."
But then he stopped eating.
Schmidt saw him try to chew a little more and then the big video screen went dark.
He saw paramedics working on Hutchings in a hurry, and found out later they couldn't save him.
The victim's medical history and whether he was diabetic will be part of the county coroner's investigation.
Though the autopsy determined his cause of death was choking, toxicology reports might take a month or more.
Hutchings' family is remembering the 41-year-old for his loves.
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"My brother Andrew was a fun-loving guy," Mecca Hutchings told Action News. "He had a great sense of humor and liked to make people laugh. He was an avid supporter of Fresno State."
He leaves behind two teenage children.
The Fresno Grizzlies team president Derek Franks announced Wednesday that World Taco Eating Championship will be canceled after the deadly incident.
Franks released this statement following Hutchings' death:
"We are devastated to learn that the fan that received medical attention following an event at Tuesday evening's game has passed away. The Fresno Grizzlies extend our heartfelt prayers and condolences to the family of Mr. Hutchings. The safety and security of our fans is our highest priority. We will work closely with local authorities and provide any helpful information that is requested."


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Represents a postal address, e.g. for postal delivery or payments addresses. Given a postal address, a postal service can deliver items to a premise, P.O. Box or similar. It is not intended to model geographical locations (roads, towns, mountains).
In typical usage an address would be created via user input or from importing existing data, depending on the type of process.
Advice on address input / editing: - Use an i18n-ready address widget such as https://github.com/google/libaddressinput) - Users should not be presented with UI elements for input or editing of fields outside countries where that field is used.
For more guidance on how to use this schema, please see: https://support.google.com/business/answer/6397478
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{ "revision": integer, "regionCode": string, "languageCode": string, "postalCode": string, "sortingCode": string, "administrativeArea": string, "locality": string, "sublocality": string, "addressLines": [ string ], "recipients": [ string ], "organization": string } |
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The schema revision of the All new revisions must be backward compatible with old revisions. |
regionCode |
Required. CLDR region code of the country/region of the address. This is never inferred and it is up to the user to ensure the value is correct. See http://cldr.unicode.org/ and http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/30/supplemental/territory_information.html for details. Example: "CH" for Switzerland. |
languageCode |
Optional. BCP-47 language code of the contents of this address (if known). This is often the UI language of the input form or is expected to match one of the languages used in the address' country/region, or their transliterated equivalents. This can affect formatting in certain countries, but is not critical to the correctness of the data and will never affect any validation or other non-formatting related operations. If this value is not known, it should be omitted (rather than specifying a possibly incorrect default). Examples: "zh-Hant", "ja", "ja-Latn", "en". |
postalCode |
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sortingCode |
Optional. Additional, country-specific, sorting code. This is not used in most regions. Where it is used, the value is either a string like "CEDEX", optionally followed by a number (e.g. "CEDEX 7"), or just a number alone, representing the "sector code" (Jamaica), "delivery area indicator" (Malawi) or "post office indicator" (e.g. Côte d'Ivoire). |
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Optional. Highest administrative subdivision which is used for postal addresses of a country or region. For example, this can be a state, a province, an oblast, or a prefecture. Specifically, for Spain this is the province and not the autonomous community (e.g. "Barcelona" and not "Catalonia"). Many countries don't use an administrative area in postal addresses. E.g. in Switzerland this should be left unpopulated. |
locality |
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sublocality |
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recipients[] |
Optional. The recipient at the address. This field may, under certain circumstances, contain multiline information. For example, it might contain "care of" information. |
organization |
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Oregon added almost 60,000 new jobs in 2016, up from the 55,600 jobs that were created in 2015. Year-over-year, the state increased employment by 3.3%, down slightly from the third quarter's 3.5% increase, but impressive nevertheless.
In December, the state unemployment rate was 4.6%, well below the 5.5% rate seen at the end of 2015. Given this substantial growth in jobs, we will certainly see incomes continue to trend higher, which will act as its own economic boost at the regional level.
- Home sales continue to slow, with sales up by a marginal 0.1% in the quarter relative to the same period in 2015. In total, there were 15,140 home sales.
- Sales rose at the fastest rate in Skamania County, which saw an annual increase 36.8%. There were also noticeable sales increases in Wasco and Linn Counties. The greatest declines in sales were seen in Clatsop, Crook/Jefferson, and Tillamook Counties.
- While year-over-year sales rose in 11 counties, 15 counties saw transactions decline.
- Both supply constraints and unrealistic price expectations from some sellers are pushing sales activity lower.
- Average prices in the region rose by 10.9% year-over-year to $332,996. This is up from the annual increase of 8.1% seen in the third quarter of the year.
- Klickitat County saw the greatest annual price growth, with homes selling for 57% higher than a year ago, but this is mostly a function of a market that has very few home sales.
- All but one county saw prices rise when compared to the fourth quarter of 2015, with several counties continuing to exhibit significant increases in average sale prices.
- Home prices remain well above historic averages and are likely to remain that way through 2017.
- The average number of days it took to sell a home in the region dropped by 13 days when compared to the fourth quarter of 2015, and is two days less than the third quarter of this year.
- The average time it took to sell a home during the fourth quarter was 81 days.
- Jackson, Jefferson, and Wasco Counties were the only areas where the average time it took to sell a home rose, but I see no cause for concern at this point.
- Homes sold the fastest in Washington and Multnomah Counties, where it took an average of 27 and 31 days respectively for homes to sell.
The speedometer reflects the state of the region's housing market using housing inventory, price gains, sales velocities, interest rates, and larger economic factors. Economic growth in Oregon continues to trend well above the nation and it is one of the fastest-growing states in the country. The region's housing market is benefitting greatly from this economic vitality.
Sales activity continues to slow, but this has not adversely affected home prices. The market still clearly favors sellers and, even with recent increases in mortgage rates, this is likely to be the case through 2017. As such, I have left the needle at the same spot as third quarter.
Matthew Gardner is the Chief Economist for Windermere Real Estate, specializing in residential market analysis, commercial/industrial market analysis, financial analysis, and land use and regional economics. He is the former Principal of Gardner Economics, and has over 25 years of professional experience both in the U.S. and U.K.


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Rosewill Expands, Consuming Everything In Its Wake
by Dustin Sklavos on January 9, 2013 3:26 AM EST- Posted in
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Okay, so consume isn't entirely accurate. But what started as NewEgg's house brand has continued to show unusual vitality and growth each year, and here at CES 2013 we continue to see them growing and expanding. Rosewill may have begun as a house brand, but in the process they're evolving into something bigger. Try to imagine Sam's Choice or Insignia products, but with gradually increasing quality, and gradual appearance on store shelves outside of their home base and you might get some idea of what's going on with Rosewill.
As far as cases go, Rosewill is aiming to follow up our personal favorite Thor v2 enclosure with something they call Throne. Throne is an essential refinement on the Thor v2 design, including integrated dual-channel slider-based fan controls, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, and a hotswap SATA bay. At the same time you get a slightly cleaner look (available in white with blue LED fans or black with red LED fans). We should be getting one in for review sometime in February if not earlier.
What we already have in for review, and should be going up within the next couple of weeks, is the Armor Evolution. The Armor Evolution was geared to be a reasonably small case that could still support an E-ATX board, but Rosewill's engineers extruded the top vents to increase headroom for 240mm/280mm radiators. From the looks of it, the Armor Evolution could wind up being a smaller, more affordable alternative to the Thor v2 (already a budget champion in its own right).
Rosewill is also continuing their mechanical keyboard push, and their keyboards continue to rank among the most affordable entry-level mechanical keyboards available. I spoke with a product manager who asserted a desire to keep the designs as clean and simple as possible, and that conservative approach is something I can get behind. This year they had a dual-illuminated keyboard available called the Helios, with both green and red backlights, along with toggleable brightness and illumination zones. It's an attractive keyboard and will be available with four different types of Cherry MX switches (black, blue, brown, and red), but I'm still waiting something with straight-up color-configurable backlighting like Alienware laptop keyboards. Given the increased complexity of implementing that kind of solution in a mechanical keyboard, I may be waiting a while.
Outside of their peripherals, Rosewill was showing off their monstrous Hercules 1600 power supply. It's the size of a small shoebox and features 80 Plus Silver certification and modular cabling. It also includes a turbo fan switch for when powering just two GTX 690s isn't sufficient, and comes with all-Japanese capacitors and a five year warranty.
And lest I forget, something I found pretty cool: they're offering a super-slim HDMI cable with RedMere technology. The cable is designed to only function in essentially one direction (one connector is labeled source and the other TV), but it's substantially thinner at every point than a conventional HDMI cable. I think I was mostly just happy to find an HDMI cable that would actually fit the oddly low-placed HDMI port on my Radeon HD 7750.
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Conficio - Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - link
I'm still waiting something with straight-up color-configurable backlighting like Alienware laptop keyboards.
I'm still waiting for a keyboard with an curved, split key layout like the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with mechanical switches and an affordable price. No backlighting required, not sure if all types of MX switches are needed. Could be mail order only, although ability to see and touch it in a store would be great. -
Kibbles - Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - link
The hdmi cables look just like the ones I got from monprice. They're nice. I ended up replacing all my bulky ones with these. These are also the only ones that fit on my SG08. The hdmi port on my pc is partially blocked by the case... I don't know why they put in that lip... -
Aikouka - Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - link
That part of the article piqued my interest! So, I went to NewEgg, and lo and behold, they had them in stock. Not only did they have them in stock, but the 15 foot cable is on sale for $16.99 (at time of writing)!
That's a fantastic deal! I ended up ordering a few cables to "retrofit" my living room. I already have a white variant of the Monoprice RedMere cable, so I'll compare them. -
xcomvic - Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - link
I am a big NewEgg fan, and so obviously I have bought some Rosewill things in the past few years. I won't lie, I think some of their stuff is just crap and fail rather quickly after their first use, and many of the reviews on NewEgg will agree. But I think they are going into the right direction with their "budget" cases (so many features with a nice price) and their Mech Keyboards are getting better and better. I already have a Corsair K90, so I won't need one of these, but still, good stuff from Rosewill. I do find that HDMI cable intriguing and will get a few to test them out. Sometimes cheap does not mean crap...


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Elizabeth Amour (pronounced to rhyme with 'claymore') was a Glasgow Girl - she attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1908 to 1912. After that she settled in Edinburgh and set up Bough Pottery, which continued until 1942.
Like Jessie M King, she bought blanks from various sources which were decorated by herself and other members of her family and then glazed. The pieces were initialled by the individual decorator and the word 'Bough' was added. RA, for instance, indicates Elizabeth's brother, Richard, who lived from 1900 to 1949.
The last member of the family to continue this work was Christine Amour (Chrissie), who went on decorating pots possibly as late as the 1970s, but not under the name of Bough Pottery. She died in 1974.


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As everyone was talking Clint and I decided to go on a date. Natasha Romanoff aka the Black Widow, Hannah Romanoff aka Jo Jo, Kimmy Stark aka Super Z, and Alice Waters aka Weather Woman helped me get ready. They put me in a one shoulder strap black median dress and black ankle length 2 inch heel boots. They gave me bracelets and necklaces to put on along with my medallion that I don't remember getting from. My hair was curled and soft. The girls were finishing up my makeup "Hold on. There anda look beautiful."
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I curled into a ball crying as Thor went to get Nikki and Loki. The nightmare of Nikki's last screaming and Loki's neck cracked. Clint was trying calm me down "Just take a deep breath. Just breathe." I tried to but the nightmare was killing me inside. Then Loki and Nikki ran in and I couldn't hear what they were saying to me. All I could hear is the man laughed in my head "Ahh my sweet, sweet Loka. anda can never hide from me." I screamed when someone grabbed my face putting it in their hands.
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Harvard University, one of America's premiere academic institutions, is coming under fire for running an advertisement in its campus newspaper questioning the reality of the Holocaust.
Recently named for the second straight year as the No. 1 school in U.S. News & World Report rankings of American colleges, Harvard is known for its rigorous scholarly standards and prestigious reputation. On Tuesday, however, The Harvard Crimson, in what it said was an error, ran the Holocaust-questioning advertisement, which had been rejected by the paper over the summer. In response to the commotion created by the ad, Crimson President Maxwell L. Child released a statement Wednesday citing three weeks of summer vacation between the submission of the advertisement and the publication of the paper as the explanation for why the ad "fell through the cracks." "We want to stress that we do not endorse the views put forth in any advertisement that runs in The Crimson, and this case was no different," Child said in a letter to Crimson readers. "We will work hard to avoid such lapses in communication in the future, and hope our readers will accept that yesterday's error was a logistical failure and not a philosophical one." The ad, paid for by Holocaust denier Bradley R. Smith and his Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, primarily raises questions about then-Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's account of World War II and the existence of Nazi gas chambers. It is widely accepted that approximately 5.7 million of Europe's 7.3 million Jews perished during the war. In total, historians say, between 11 million and 17 million people were killed by the Nazi regime, including religious and political opponents, ethnic Poles, Romani, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, homosexuals and people with disabilities. Smith said he is not surprised by the reaction because "it's taboo, and has been taboo from the beginning. When you break a culture-wide taboo, supported in theory and practice by the state, the university and the press, you create a fuss." Smith said that he made the deal with the Crimson in July, but was never made aware of any plan by the newspaper to cancel his ad. While he has not yet received a refund for his pulled notice, he said he expects the paper to "do the right thing about the money." Bernie Steinberg, president and director of Harvard Hillel, a Jewish campus organization, said on Wednesday that the advertisement was "obviously a shock to see." But the group's students reacted appropriately, he said, and the incident should be seen as an example of "extraordinary mature student leadership in response to an unfortunate situation." The Crimson was very responsive after many people in the Harvard community, including numerous members of Harvard Hillel, contacted the paper expressing their concerns, he said. Harvard Hillel's student president, Rebecca Gillette, circulated a letter saying she thought the situation was being appropriately addressed. "The fact that organizations and individuals like that publicized in this advertisement still exist today is frightening and disturbing, but unfortunately it seems that Holocaust denial will persist for years to come," she said. Robert Trestan, civil rights counsel for the Anti-Defamation League of New England, said Smith and his organization have placed ads in approximately 15 college papers around the country so far this year. He said he finds it shocking that such an advertisement would fall through the cracks, as Child said. "Would an ad that questions whether the world was flat or that slavery never happened in America have fallen through the cracks" he asked. He said his organization will continue to work with college newspaper editors to educate schools that they don't have an obligation to publish questionable advertising. Al Tompkins, a faculty member at the Poynter Institute, billed on its Web site as "a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalism," said he hopes this will become a "teachable moment." "It seems to be a big mistake and obviously nothing meant to offend anyone," he said. Because student publications are meant to be teaching tools, "the key is not to not make mistakes, the key is how they respond to mistakes in a forthcoming and transparent manner," he said. He recommended that the Crimson return any money associated with the advertisement. Child's statement in the Crimson said that was being done.


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Barry Alan Pincus (aka Barry Manilow) was as big a hit in the 70's as he was in the 80's. Manilow was his mother's maiden name, a name he adopted at his Bar Mitzvah. In fact, in 1978, five of his albums were best sellers at the same time, which few musicians have been able to replicate (Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson are on that short list, for example). Manilow has had so many top 40 hits over the years, it is not feasible to list them all here.
In the 1960's and early 70's, Manilow worked as a commercial jingle composer and performer. He was involved with jingles from State Farm, KFC, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, McDonald's, and so many more. By 1970, Manilow was being used by Bette Midler as both a piano player and producer. Manilow's first solo album, a self-titled album, was released in 1973. By 1974, Barry Manilow II was released, which featured the hit song "Mandy". This song started a run of 70's hits for Manilow, including songs like "Weekend in New England", "Ships", "Looks Like We Made It", "Can't Smile Without You", "Ready to Take a Chance Again"," I Write The Songs", "Ready to Take a Chance Again", and "Copacabana". Manilow was also a popular feature on network television, including several television specials and the made for TV movie Copacabana.
During the 1980's, Manilow continued cranking out the hits: "The Old Songs", "Somewhere Down the Road", "Read 'Em and Weep", and "I Don't Want to Walk Without You". After the early 1980's, although Manilow stayed very busy, he never hit the top in the same way again. This isn't to say that he dropped off the music planet. He continued performing, releasing, and even acting as the years rolled on. At the time of this writing in early 2013, the Barry Manilow Discography was as follows:
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- 1978: Even Now
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- 1979: One Voice
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- 1982: Here Comes the Night
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- 1983: Greatest Hits Vol. II
- 1984: 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe
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From Steve Yegge's "Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp":
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humans. Cherry Cordial here. Former vampire stripper currently residing on the
fourth planet from the sun, aka, Mars.
Wait. What?
Vampires on Mars? When did that
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there isn't enough space to regale you with my adventures, do check out the
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pan of brownies made ahead of time and cooled. The human used Duncan Hines family size (13 x
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bag of frozen Bing Cherries, thawed and patted dry (or Maraschino work too,
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the brownies into a large bowl. Then add about half to three quarters of the
chocolate frosting and work it into the crumbled brownies. Add more frosting if
it's too dry. The idea is to use enough to form balls that hold together.
about a tablespoon of the mixture into balls. Poke a hole, insert a cherry then
seal it inside with the brownie mix.
the balls onto a sheet pan lined with parchment or wax paper, then freeze them
about 20 minutes.
melt the chocolate until smooth. The human tells me she used the microwave and
a bit of coconut oil.
the 20 minutes is up, dip each ball into the chocolate until coated. Let the excess
chocolate drip off, then place on a sheet of wax or parchment paper.
all the bombs are coated with chocolate, put the pan in the fridge until ready
to eat. When ready to serve, let them sit for a bit at room temperature before
serving them.
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Dead Girls Don't Sing
The Undead Space Initiative
Book Two
Casey Wyatt
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Time Travel
Publisher: Casey Wyatt
Date of Publication: 12/18/17
Number of pages: 338
Word Count: 93,000
Cover Artist: Kim Killion Designs
Tagline: Time will have its way
Book Description:
When former vampire stripper Cherry Cordial settled on Mars with her undead family, she thought she'd left her chaotic past behind her. After finding her mate and becoming the first vampire to give birth, she's hoping to lead a drama-free life.
Naturally, the universe has a different plan. When mysterious undead space travelers arrive, an ancient Martian plague is released, infecting the undead. To find the cure she must return to Earth. All she needs to do is travel into the past, confront her own tangled history, and not break the space-time continuum. But if Cherry's learned anything, it's that her life is never that easy.
Tiny pokers stabbed
my eyes.
Another body,
warm and hard, spooned against my backside.
Ian always felt
so good, comforting and real.
His hand wrapped
around my waist, cupping the underside of my breast. A cool sheet slid off my
bare shoulder.
I was naked and
in bed. A snippet of memory interrupted my appreciation of my husband's hand.
Wasn't I running
from something . . .?
Fingers trailed
along my spine, heading south. The touch was wrong, unfamiliar and rough.
Hold on. That
wasn't Ian. I shouldn't feel the warmth of sun against my skin either. We lived
on Mars, where it was colder than a witch's tit.
If not Ian, then
who was touching my inner thigh?
My eyelids
snapped open like a shade on a spring. Bolting upright, I bared my fangs and
grabbed the man's wrist.
Oh, holy hell. I
was in bed with another man. I rolled away and slammed into a different body.
Shit, make that two other men. Two eye-poppingly gorgeous men.
Hey, I might be
dead, but I'm not dead dead.
"Mistress? Have
I displeased you?" said the man whose wrist I was about to shatter. Stunning
blue-gray eyes. Dark stubble lined his chiseled jawline. His dark hair was
mussed and complimented his swarthy skin tone. Dried blood smeared his neck. A
red trail led to puncture marks.
The other man's
brown muscled chest rose and fell in rhythmic sleep. His body was fully exposed
on the white sheet. Puncture marks lined his neck, his groin and his very erect
My cheeks heated
like a furnace. Clearly, we'd had a good time.
"No. Leave me.
Both of you go to your rooms." I dropped his wrist. The man woke his drowsing
companion, and they left as I'd commanded.
Damn. I wished I
could get the other men in my life to be so compliant.
Other men? There
were other people important to me. Why couldn't I remember them?
I'd kill Jonathan
if he was messing with my mind again.
But yet... that
idea didn't feel right.
Somewhere in a
dead corner of my memory, this moment seemed familiar. Jonathan, sensing my
unhappiness with our "arrangement," had spent the early years of our relationship
attempting to please me.
This must have
been my slut phase, where we'd bring home gorgeous men and I would feast and
fuck while he watched. I enjoyed knowing it bothered him that I wouldn't sleep
with him. Only the mortals that we found in gaming dens, brothels, even at
society events. The only other thing I would take from Jonathan besides his
money was his blood, and only out of necessity.
Fucking hell.
Ian's go-to phrase—I remembered him now—helped resurface the reason why I was
reliving this not-so-proud moment in my past.
The plague. The
Lost Ship. The time stream. My daughter.
Oh, dear God. I
hoped she was safe.
"Good morning,
my pet." Jonathan read a page of the morning newspaper while sipping tea from a
dainty cup. He sat on the balcony situated outside my bedroom. From his vantage
point, he could view the bed and my doings in Technicolor glory.
My heart lurched
at the sight of his arrogant beauty. I had forgotten how full of life he'd
been, especially in this time period. And, oh, how handsome he was. His raven
hair glossy with blue highlights sparkled in the early morning sunshine. The
strong line of his jaw and perfect Roman nose coupled with full lips made it
hard not to stare at him. He hadn't yet acquired the weariness that having a
Family would place on him.
In later years,
after much bitterness between us, I no longer saw him anymore. The beauty was
tarnished, and we became as passionate as two coworkers passing the time until
their shift ended. He had become someone I had to endure rather than enjoy. Not
that I ever really "enjoyed" him because of the circumstances surrounding our
sham marriage.
The horrid image
of his death, when he'd knelt, offering Thalia his head, shattered the peaceful
moment. With a plaintive look, he commanded that I accept his fate and mine. We
both knew that Thalia, the dead queen's heir apparent, was a vindictive bitch.
She blamed me for her mother's death and Jonathan refused to bow down to her.
So, he did what he always did. He protected his Family by sacrificing himself
so we could escape. In his last moments, regret had filled his eyes. The wish
that we could have been different together had been silenced forever.
Seeing Jonathan
again and remembering was worse than reopening a wound and rubbing salt in it
with a lemon juice chaser. If only I could apologize to him for how awful I'd
been. I hadn't been blameless in wrecking our relationship. I could have tried
harder to accept my fate instead of punishing him at every turn.
The temptation
to blurt out the truth bubbled inside, until I had to force myself to look away
from him. Would this Jonathan be willing to help me? Or would he use my current
predicament to his advantage?
No. I couldn't,
wouldn't chance it. Not with the entire colony's lives hanging in the balance.
Could've, Should've. Sew it on a patch and you'd have my life's motto.
Yup. Regrets
Jonathan placed
the teacup down and smiled. "Did you enjoy yourself? You seemed a bit surprised
when you awoke."
Surprise didn't
cover how I felt. That word was too puny, too inadequate. After a few seconds,
I found my voice again.
"Yes, we had a
good time. Thank you." It sure looked that way.
He acted like
finding his wife in bed with other men was no big deal. It wasn't like I would
keep them. To him they were more like pets or meals with legs.
But now, with a
century of wisdom tucked under my belt, instead of relishing in his annoyance,
I realized something. He was sad. With himself or me, I wasn't sure. And it
didn't matter. I had a mission to accomplish. A future to save.
About the Author:
Casey Wyatt grew up in a mid-size Connecticut town where nothing exciting ever happened. To stem the boredom, she read fantasy and sci-fi stories, imagining her own adventures in her head. Not much has changed since she's grown up, only now she's a multi-published author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels. In her spare time, she loves all things geeky, hangs out in museums, and collects stray cats.
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The Bayaka Pygmies are one at least eleven different Pygmy groups in Central Africa. They are original inhabitants of the section of the Congo-Basin rainforest found in the southwestern Central African Republic and northern Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) between the Sangha and Ubangui Rivers. They freely cross the border between countries. The total Bayaka population is approximately 50,000. There are at least five different regional names for the Bayaka (Bambendzele, Baaka, Biaka, Beka and Bayaka). Over the years, anthropologists have used the terms Aka, Binga and Bambenga to refer to them. The language of the Bayaka, Yaka, is classified as Bantu C 10.
The Bayaka call themselves Bisi Ndima, the people of the forest. Their identity is tied to their relationship with Komba (the Yaka word for God) who created the forest and gave it to the Aka to use. A large body of fables defines their relationship with Komba. There is little tribal solidarity among the Aka. The little unity that exists between the different clans comes only when the Aka of different regions participate together in spirit rituals and through intermarriage among Aka clans.
The Bayaka interact with the sedentary village farmers who settled along the rivers and roadways of their territory. These villagers, referred to collectively by the Bayaka as Bilo, represent over 48 different ethnic groups of diverse origins and languages. The Bilo marginalize and denigrate the Bayaka in order to use them as a cheap source of manual labor. Traditionally they referred to the Bayaka as animals. Lack of solidarity makes the Bayaka easily exploited by the Bilo as well as by the local regional and national political leaders.
The Bayaka are masters at exploiting the resources of the forest, but the traditional hunter- gatherer lifestyle has not prepared the Aka to meet the demands of contemporary socio-economic conditions. The creation of National Parks has locked them out of traditional hunting territories. Logging operations swell the populations of remote forest areas. Market hunting wipes out the game to feed those associated with logging and supply the bush meat trade for in larger cities and villages. The Bayaka welcome assistance from sympathetic outsiders to help deal with these changes.
The Aka traditional religion developed to meet the needs of a forest society of subsistence hunters and gatherers. As the traditional lifestyle becomes less and less viable due to forest degraded by logging and the bush meat trade, the traditional religion becomes less and less relevant. This leaves the Aka of these degraded areas without spiritual moorings and very open to the Gospel which will fill the void. As Bayaka churches emerge they are a force for unity among the Aka people. Christian leaders emerge as spokesmen for the Aka people.
The Central African national translation organization ACATBA working with a translation agency has finished the translation of the gospel of Luke in Yaka. The Luke booklet in Yaka is being distributed, but Bayaka Christian leaders still need help transitioning to Yaka Scriptures from Bibles in Lingala (the language of the Republic of Congo) and Sango (the language of the Central African Republic). There is a need to test the translation for comprehension in the Yaka dialect spoken in the Republic of Congo.
As the vision for missions is promoted in Central African and Congolese national churches, the Bayaka have increasingly become a focus for missions' ventures from these national church associations. International missions working with the Bayaka include United World Mission, Grace Brethren International Mission and the Swedish mission Interact. The Bayaka are resilient. They are used to outsiders imposing their own agenda and will. Mission ventures can fall into this category. To prevent this possibility, the focus should be on promoting contextualized worship forms, the use the Bayaka language in worship and a commitment to work exclusively through Bayaka Christian leaders. The biggest need for expatriate missionaries is in the area of development. The Bayaka cry out for help with schools, literacy work and vocational training to deal with the contemporary socio-economic realities.
The Bayaka of the Likouala Region of the Republic of Congo have formed the Bayaka Association to be a voice to the local, regional and national government on issues of exploitation. When they get on the radio, they are able to address the specific needs of the Bayaka people and help break down stereotypes. There are several NGO's that fund human rights seminars for the Bayaka of the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo. These are worthy efforts since they bring together the Bayaka leaders who would not otherwise have contact.
Scripture Prayers for the Pygmy, Bayaka in Congo, Republic of the.
Profile Source: Paul Ohlin, United World Mission |
People Name General | Pygmy, Bayaka |
People Name in Country | Pygmy, Bayaka |
Natural Name | Bayaka Pygmy |
Alternate Names | Aka; Baka; Bayaka; Binga; Bisi Ndima; Yaka |
Population this Country | 47,000 |
Population all Countries | 73,000 |
Total Countries | 2 |
Indigenous | Yes |
Progress Scale | 5 ● |
Unreached | No |
Frontier People Group | No |
GSEC | 1 (per PeopleGroups.org) |
Pioneer Workers Needed | |
People ID | 10859 |
ROP3 Code | 101463 |
ROP25 Code | 300989 |
ROP25 Name | Bayaka Pygmy |
Country | Congo, Republic of the | ||
Region | Africa, West and Central | ||
Continent | Africa | ||
10/40 Window | No | ||
Persecution Rank | Not ranked | ||
Location in Country | Likouala, Sangha, and Cuvette departments. Source: Ethnologue 2016 |
Country | Congo, Republic of the |
Region | Africa, West and Central |
Continent | Africa |
10/40 Window | No |
Persecution Rank | Not ranked |
Location in Country | Likouala, Sangha, and Cuvette departments.. Source: Ethnologue 2016 |
Primary Religion: | Ethnic Religions |
Major Religion ▲ | Percent |
Buddhism |
0.00 %
Christianity (Evangelical 25.00 %) |
50.00 %
Ethnic Religions |
50.00 %
Hinduism |
0.00 %
Islam |
0.00 %
Non-Religious |
0.00 %
Other / Small |
0.00 %
Unknown |
0.00 %
Primary Language | Yaka (Central African Republic) (47,000 speakers) |
Language Code | axk Ethnologue Listing |
Primary Dialect | Beka |
Dialect Code | 18408 Global Recordings Listing |
Language Written | Yes ScriptSource Listing |
Total Languages | 1 |
Primary Language | Yaka (Central African Republic) (47,000 speakers) |
Language Code | axk Ethnologue Listing |
Primary Dialect | Beka |
Dialect Code | 18408 Global Recordings Listing |
Total Languages | 1 |
People Groups | Speaking Yaka (Central African Republic) |
Primary Language: Yaka (Central African Republic)
Bible Translation ▲ | Status (Years) |
Bible-Portions | Yes (1938-2007) |
Bible-New Testament | No |
Bible-Complete | No |
Possible Print Bibles | |
Amazon | |
World Bibles | |
Forum Bible Agencies | |
National Bible Societies | |
World Bible Finder | |
Virtual Storehouse |
Resource Type ▲ | Resource Name | Source |
Audio Recordings | Audio Bible teaching | Global Recordings Network |
Film / Video | Jesus Film: view in Yaka | Jesus Film Project |
General | Scripture Earth Gospel resources links | Scripture Earth |
Photo Source | Nathan Zuck |
Map Source | Anonymous |
Profile Source | Paul Ohlin, United World Mission |
Data Sources | Data is compiled from various sources. Learn more. |


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Christine S. Spencer
dean, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences
Additional Role:
professor, School of Health and Human Services and School of Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
Phone: 410.837.6134
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
S.M., Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health
A.B., Bard College
I became interested in studying health care while I was in college. It started in a women's history class, while I was writing a paper that examined the relationship between midwives and physicians in a struggle for professional dominance.
I discovered my love of research during my senior year while digging through the dusty basement stacks at the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, looking for medical articles from the 1800s that discussed the uses of electricity in medicine. I was looking for clues regarding the concerns of the American people during the 19th century and possible solutions involving the application of a then-new technology: electrotherapeutics. Patients and physicians alike believed electricity, considered the "life force," to be a cure for almost all medical and social ills. I explored the far-reaching and varied applications of this technology as a window into the mindset of the time period.
When I emerged from the basement in the library, I was looking up at the Harvard School of Public Health. I realized immediately that I wanted to become involved with more contemporary issues in the health-care field. So I enrolled in the school and earned a master's degree in health policy and management and then a doctoral degree in health economics. While in graduate school, I was able to work and study with many leaders in the health field. I was part of the research team that developed the Medicare physician payment system that is still being used today.
During that time, I became especially interested in issues surrounding access to care for vulnerable populations. My current research still revolves around that theme, whether it is access to care for people with disabilities or disparities in health-care quality. I still enjoy doing research, but an Internet search engine is a far cry from the dusty basement stacks where I started.


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Letters to the editor April 7
Dreyfuss almost made the cut
Thanks so much for the thoughtful write-up about "Jews and Baseball" in The Jewish Chronicle ("Hey 'Jews and Baseball' makers, you forgot Barney Dreyfuss," March 31).
As it happens, we were very aware of Barney Dreyfuss and his important role in baseball, and a scene about him had been in the film until late in the editing process. In the end, we reluctantly took his story (and those of several other fascinating and important figures) out for the sake of length and the dramatic arc of the film.
We hope that our documentary prompts people to explore more deeply the relationship between Jews and America's game, including the critical role played by Dreyfuss and other early Jewish owners. We are grateful to you for getting word out about the film, about Dreyfuss' contributions, and about the connections between Jews and the great baseball city of Pittsburgh.
Peter Miller
New York
(The author is the director of "Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story.")
Peace solution an urgent priority
Your March 31 issue contains two provocative opinion articles: the page 6 editorial about a hate-filled third intifada threat on Facebook — belatedly removed — ("The intifada won't start here, says Facebook"), and the guest column on page 8, "Why Israel should support Arab democracy."
The second article makes sense if we are alert to the present Middle East upheavals, which led to the nasty first one. Our Jewish organizations should recognize the new urgency of promoting an accelerated two-state solution.
Harold O. Levitt
Squirrel Hill
NACOEJ touted
The history and the present situation of the Jews in Ethiopia and in Israel would not be complete without the acknowledgement of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ).
This grassroots, nonprofit organization was founded in 1982, and its mission was and continues to be to help the Ethiopian Jews survive in Ethiopia, to assist them to reach Israel and to aid in their absorption there, and to preserve their unique and ancient culture. NACOEJ played a key role in the quiet rescue of Ethiopian Jews before and between Operations Moses and Solomon. In 1991, their staff in Addis Ababa assisted in the airlift of over 14,000 Jews during Operation Solomon, with NACOEJ staff flying out on the last plane.
In Ethiopia, their funds provide daily school lunches, adult education, employment, and religious programs and facilities for the 8,700 Jews awaiting aliya. In Israel, their programs include Limudiah: After-School programs of intensive education assistance for over 1,100 Ethiopian elementary school children; programs to sponsor over 1,300 teens attain quality high school education; college sponsorship for more than 300 Ethiopian-Israeli students to pursue university degrees. NACOEJ also operates a Bar-Bat Mitzvah Twinning Program and a school supplies collection program to provide basic essential learning materials.
All Jewish agencies and organizations contribute toward the mission of bringing Ethiopian Jews home to Israel.
Malke Frank
Squirrel Hill
Pittsburgh supports Leket
As chair of the Overseas Funding Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, I was pleased to read about Leket Israel in the March 24 edition of the Jewish Chronicle ("How Israel can feed more people without spending a shekel").
The Overseas Funding Committee, using money raised from the Federation's annual campaign, has directed significant funds to Leket Israel over the past three years. This past January, committee members visited the Leket warehouse during an annual program evaluation site visit in Israel.
Led by Joseph Gitler, the visionary who founded Table to Table in 2003 (which then merged with the National Food Bank in January 2010 to form the current Leket Israel), we heard firsthand about the ways the organization has been streamlined to collect and distribute food with optimal efficiency.
None of this work would be possible without the Pittsburgh community and, more specifically, the annual commitment from the Federation. It is precisely because of campaign dollars raised in Pittsburgh that Israel is coping with its "biggest threat" and reducing the number of people going hungry on a daily basis.
Laurie S. Moser
Squirrel Hill


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So in the end, it was the chief justice, John Roberts, providing the key fifth swing vote to uphold the health-care law. Roberts, the conservative appointee of George W. Bush, ended up siding with the liberal wing of the court.
To talk about that turn, I'm joined by Jeffrey Rosen, law professor at George Washington University. Welcome back, Jeffrey.
JEFFREY ROSEN: Good to be here.
BLOCK: We always tend to think of Justice Kennedy as the swing justice in 5-to-4 decisions. Here, you have Chief Justice Roberts - the only time he's been the tie-breaking vote - siding with the liberals in a 5-to-4 decision. Surprised?
ROSEN: This morning, I had convinced myself that it would not be 5 to 4 striking down the mandate. But I did not expect Chief Justice Roberts to be the only justice who joined the liberals.
BLOCK: Upholding the mandate?
ROSEN: Precisely so. And it shows exactly how dedicated Roberts was to the vision he articulated at the beginning of his term as chief justice; when he said that he thought that 5-to-4 decisions, Democrats against Republicans, were bad for the court and bad for the country. He cared so much about that, that he was willing, for the first time in his career, to cast the tie-breaking vote with the liberals.
BLOCK: You've talked to the chief justice about his legacy; about how he sees his role on the court. What did he tell you about how mindful he is of judicial activism, and how the court is perceived?
ROSEN: He told me at the beginning of his first term as chief justice, that he thought in a polarized age, it was bad for the court to be dividing along ideological lines. He said he would encourage his colleagues to converge around narrow, unanimous opinions. And he embraced his model, his greatest predecessor John Marshall.
Now, of course, he has had mixed success, but he recognized this as a defining moment. And he was so dedicated to his vision that, I think, he gets huge credit for really doing exactly what he said he would do.
BLOCK: On the other hand, a lot of people would point to the very controversial Citizens United decision, also 5-4, which he authored in 2010.
ROSEN: He did, indeed, and there are other 5-to-4 decisions that he has authored or joined, including that striking down affirmative action. And in fact, it's possible that now that he has the political capital that this decision gives him, he'll be more able next year to join 5-to-4 decisions - striking down affirmative action even more broadly, striking down the Voting Rights Act. So this is not the emergence of a new and liberal John Roberts. But it is a reaffirmation of the institutionalist John Roberts; the fact that in the crucial moments, he believed that the legitimacy of the court was more important than precisely what he thought the law required in any particular case.
BLOCK: You're saying he was guided more by legacy than by the particulars of this case, or no?
ROSEN: Yes. And, in fact, it's really much of what John Marshall did. Marshall was accused of "twistifications" by his archrival, Thomas Jefferson. But he would often pick and choose among legal theories, and engage in a sort of judicial jujitsu. And that's just what Roberts did here.
It's not that he didn't believe in his decision. But the fact that he would uphold it under the taxing power, and strike it down under the Commerce Clause, showed that he wanted to assemble a bipartisan coalition of justices for a particular result because he thought the legitimacy of the court depended on it.
BLOCK: There's a lot of anger among Republicans about how the chief justice ruled here. Do you think they would be right to see him as, say, another Justice Souter; somebody who'd been appointed by a Republican president, who was expected to uphold Republican leanings, and went the other way?
ROSEN: I don't think that conservatives will conclude that Roberts is another Souter. He's given them so much, and they know that he'll give them so much in the future, that they may be inclined to give him a pass on health care. And it was striking to hear Republican leaders in Congress saying that although they disagreed with the court's decision, they would, ultimately, respect it.
BLOCK: Jeffrey Rosen, thanks for coming in.
ROSEN: Thank you.
BLOCK: Jeffrey Rosen is law professor at the George Washington University; also, legal affairs editor of the New Republic.
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It's late afternoon on Tuesday, the eve of the eve of Thanksgiving, my absolute favorite holiday all year.
I am yearning to take a few days off, gorge on turkey and all the fixings (or as they say here in Houston, the fixins') and vedge out for a few days. I have no plans except spend some quiet time at home, continue moving my studio upstairs, and haul out the holiday decorations. (And hey, if I can swing a ticket to the New England Patriots-Texans game on Sunday…all the sweeter!)
Thankfully today I had a little visitor come to my office for a short while. Her name is Emily, and she is my coworker Rose Reyes' six-year-old granddaughter. Emily wanted to join me for "arts and crafts" and although I had stored all of my Open Studios supplies for the year, I was able to quickly find some Great Art Finds in the form of googly eyes, neon pompoms, and a glue stick. She pulled my blue velvet chair up to my desk, grasped a handful of Sharpies from my pen mug, and put her industrious self to work pretty quickly. Admiring my chalkboard and colorful chalk sticks, she then proclaimed that she first needed to create a "Thanksgiving mural" before she could add a "pompom googly-eyed turkey."
It was a great visit, and one that reminded me how fantastic this time of year is.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I hope yours is lovely,


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