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For nutrition info, moms like the Web best
A Web site is a better source of information on nutrition than a video game or printed pamphlet, according to a study of low-income mothers reported in the January issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
Led by Kami J. Silk, Ph.D., of Michigan State University, East Lansing, the researchers presented 155 low-income mothers with nutrition information in different formats. One group played a video game in which a series of entertaining activities were used to communicate nutrition facts. Other groups received the same information in a Web site format or a printed pamphlet.
Responses suggested that the mothers liked the Web site format best. They paid more attention to information presented on the Web site and understood it better. They were also more likely to say they would go back to the Web site for nutrition information, compared to the video game or pamphlet. "Nutrition literacy" scores were higher for women who viewed the Web site. On follow-up testing two weeks later, mothers assigned to the Web site were no more likely to retain the information than those who saw the other two formats.
Efforts to increase nutrition literacy among low-income families have focused on brochures and other printed materials. Video games seem to be a promising "edu-tainment" approach to communicating health information—the game holds the person's attention while communicating the health message.
However, the new results suggest that, when it comes to getting nutrition information, mothers prefer a Web site over a video game. The researchers were not surprised by the result: "[R]esearch suggests that Web sites are most often used for information, whereas games represent intellectual challenges."
While technology is not a "panacea" for health education efforts, "it can perhaps be argued that Web sites are a smart strategy in certain contexts and groups," Dr. Silk and colleagues write. Video games might be more successful in a younger audience, although this should also be confirmed by research. The researchers conclude, "Future interventions that integrate media need to consider how people use media in addition to what media they use."
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Four Jobs in One Day
Bookkeeper, lunch lady, classroom aide, and crossing guard — it takes four different jobs to put together a single living wage.
A Day with Mrs. D
Deb De Grave, an education support professional in the northern Wisconsin village of Denmark, punches four different timecards each day. From breakfast to lunch duty, account-keeping to classroom-assisting, she rushes from school to school, job to job. She loves each one, but she needs each one, too, to make any kind of living. Even after 20-plus years, a classroom aide here can't expect much more than $12,000 a year. And the cost of health benefits continues to rise. De Grave has a co-worker in the food service department who works four hours a day, pays for her share of family health insurance, and sometimes takes home $4 a day.
"You got a haircut!" De Grave exclaims (left). Nodding proudly, the newly buzzed student walks away with a healthy breakfast. De Grave's first job of the day is helping elementary students get ready to learn. "Do you want a milk with that, Sam?" After everybody fuels up, she shuts down her till, hustles outside, and hops into her red minivan. At 8:20, she pulls up to the early education center. At 8:30, the middle school. At 8:35, it's off to the high school. At each one, she cheerfully greets the office staff, sorts through her keys, and empties a lockbox of lunch receipts.
Past the trays of Tater Tots and hot dogs, De Grave balances the food service accounts in a small office in the high school cafeteria. During this part of her day, she works for the district's food service department—but her boss, the guy standing over her shoulder and chatting about the Brewers' last innings, is from a private company, Taher. De Grave has nothing but compliments for Josh Good, a fresh-faced chef who reminds his employees that they're one team. But it can still be bad business. Half of the ladies are Taher employees, not union members, and don't get the same benefits: no paid holidays, no personal days, and the last pick of overtime hours. And it could get worse. Taher recently lost its contract to Chartwells, a company that isn't exactly famous for its employee-friendly policies.
De Grave adds the cash and pastel personal checks— "I've got so many Robinsons, so many Schlies to keep straight!"— totalling $2,426. This year, lunch receipts have held steady, but she sees the poor economy reflected in a 15 percent decline for the 35-cent "milk break." "If parents are having hard times … milk break is kind of a luxury." At 11, De Grave jumps back into her car and delivers her cash bag to the local drive-through bank. Is she nervous carrying around that kind of money? "Noooo," she laughs.
"All right, what do you have for me?" De Grave asks kindergarten teacher Deb Van Goethem. For the next 90 minutes, De Grave pairs up with kids, operates the copy machine, and does whatever her teachers need to work effectively. On this spring morning, the 4-year-olds are writing descriptive Mother's Day books. "My mom likes to eat…salit," writes one. (How healthy!) De Grave pauses over another and says, "Wow! Pretty neat! Do you like Doritos, too?"
Back to the early elementary center, where De Grave runs two lunch sessions. "Mrs. De Grave, I can't eat oranges! This hurts me!" says one boy, revealing a gap in his smile. "Chew on the other side!" she cheerfully retorts.
"I'm watching you!" De Grave puts the eye on a 4-year-old boy goofing in a hallway line. "Come here, please! Do you want me to tell your mother about this?" Like 80 percent of NEA's support professionals, De Grave lives and volunteers in the community where she works, which gives her authority and credibility with children and parents. Everybody knows Mrs. D. She looks like the "average ESP" in other ways, too—she is a woman (87 percent are), over 40 (the average age is 49), with more than 10 years of experience.
After a quick (and unpaid) break at home, De Grave grabs her stop sign and steps into the car and bus lanes. "One day a kid zoomed through here and up to the baseball field, and I followed him right there and said, 'Alex, if you don't slow down....'" De Grave helps dozens of students cross safely—sometimes shivering through freezing rain and snow.
Today, at 3:20 p.m., after the chatter has quieted and the bus drivers have waved goodbye, she looks both ways and says, "Nobody on the sidewalks! I'm done."
Photos: Philip Weston
View the slideshow below for a glimpse of De Grave's typical workday.

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Thales Communications Inc.,
Clarksburg, Md., in 2005 to upgrade communications equipment
in all of the service's 270-foot cutters with the Series 5000 HF (
High-Frequency) system that includes
transceivers, power amplifiers, couplers, Automatic Link Establishment modems and associated
spares. Under a secondary Determination and Finding (D&F) contract signed Nov. 22, Thales will
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The older cutters had a Near Vertical Incident Scattering [NVIS] antenna,
but they never used it because it was so unreliable. It was called a "towel
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The NVIS solution, through the Series HF 5000 system [with a flexible,
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The nuns of a convent in suburban Chicago took to the streets Wednesday in their fight to close a neighboring strip club some supporters call a "disgrace."
The Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, of Melrose Park, were joined by community members as they marched from their convent to the front of Club Allure, which abuts their property to the south.
"This is the sixth adult entertainment club in the area of 5,000, so enough is enough," Sister Noemia Silva said.
The nuns this week filed suit against the strip club, saying it creates a common law nuisance and is operating in violation of state law. The lawsuit claims the club breaks a state law prohibiting adult entertainment clubs within close proximity to schools or places of worship.
"It's property line to property line, so there is no distance. It's flush with their property," said Thomas Brejcha, chief counsel for the Thomas More Society which helped with the lawsuit.
The suit further contends that the nuns are constantly exposed to indignities like "public violence, drunkenness, and litter," along with discarded contraceptive packages, even used syringes.
"Operation of Club Allure since last autumn has been in open and defiant contravention of the Illinois state law that mandates a 1,000 foot buffer zone between such an adult entertainment facility and places of worship or schools," the suit states. "The Sisters' property is a place of worship which includes three chapels within the three buildings on their property immediately adjacent to the strip club."
The suit names the club's owners and the Village of Stone Park, the west suburban community which granted its license to operate.
The club's Robert Itzkow vehemently denied the allegations.
"It's absolutely absurd that people can make these types of claims without any kind of backing at all," Itzkow said. "Our calls for service may be less than at the convent."
Itzkow says there's only been one police report in the entire 11-plus months that the club has been open, and "we dealt with that immediately." In total, he says, the police have been called only three times
"We're not a nuisance to them," he said. "Nuisances cannot be perceived. They have to be real and there is no actual evidence that we are a nuisance. You'd have to have police reports to back them up and there just aren't all these police reports."
Allure's owner, Sean O'Brien, feels the suit is a misuse of the law. He says even before he moved in, he tried to create an establishment that would not disturb those who live near it.
"This is a problem in idealogy, not a law problem," O'Brien said. "We can't move these places. These licenses are few and far between, so they are fought for and they are hard to obtain. You can't get the licenses and move to another area, it doesn't work like that."


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The film academy's board of governors voted Wednesday to present honorary Academy Awards to stuntman Hal Needham, documentarian D. A. Pennebaker and arts advocate George Stevens, Jr. The group also announced that producer and philanthropist Jeffrey Katzenberg will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Needham has more than 300 feature films to his credit as a stunt performer and coordinator. The academy recognized him in 1986 for a camera car and crane he developed that allowed greater versatility in shooting action sequences. He also directed such films as "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run."
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Brantley Gilbert's 'Halfway to Heaven' Album Achieves Gold Status
Thanks to recent news about his 2010 album release going gold, Brantley Gilbert is probably on cloud nine this week. 'Halfway to Heaven' contains the country star's No. 1 hit 'Country Must Be Country Wide,' as well as his current Top 15 single, 'You Don't Know Her Like I Do' -- a song which likely helped the release sell 500,000 copies.
"Man, to have 'Heaven' go gold means a lot to me," Brantley said (courtesy of GACTV). "I never thought my first major release would sell 500,000 copies. Thanks so much to the BG Nation and all y'all who bought a copy."
'Halfway to Heaven' hit the airwaves in March of 2010 and was re-released as a deluxe version on September 13, 2011.The re-release features remixes of all the tracks, as well as several new tracks that were not on the original version of the album. The record performed well on the charts, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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Sunny Hostin is a legal analyst on "American Morning."
NYPD detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper gambled on a bench trial.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- None of us was there that fateful night when a young man lost his life on his wedding day, the night three New York Police Department detectives lost their careers and lives as they knew them.
But the people who were there told their version of events. And the judge, also sitting as the jury, decided whom to believe. Isn't that the very crux of our judicial system?
I predict that the Sean Bell case will be examined in law school classrooms across the country. It has given us a bird's-eye view into a courtroom practice that many had never heard of: the bench trial.
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution ensures that we have the right to a trial by a jury of our peers in a serious criminal case. But as with all rights, you can voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently waive that right and instead have your case tried by a judge.
That is what Michael Oliver, Marc Cooper and Gescard Isnora did. Many thought it was a gamble. It was a gamble that paid off.
Justice Arthur Cooperman, a 74-year-old bench veteran, acquitted all three detectives. The public is outraged. But it shouldn't be. Cooperman did what we ask every juror to do: consider and determine the facts of the case -- that is, what he believed to be the true facts -- from among all of the evidence in the case. Watch why the judge didn't believe the prosecution witnesses »
In a criminal trial, jurors are instructed that a defendant does not have to prove his innocence. It is the prosecution that has a very high burden, to prove the charged conduct beyond a reasonable doubt. Jurors are also given specific instructions on how to weigh evidence in every single criminal case. In fact, I've heard it so many times that I can recite it from memory:
As judges of the facts, you alone determine the truthfulness and accuracy of the testimony of each witness. You must decide whether a witness told the truth and was accurate, or instead, testified falsely or was mistaken. You must also decide what importance to give to the testimony you accept as truthful and accurate. It is the quality of the testimony that is controlling, not the number of witnesses who testify. If you find that any witness has intentionally testified falsely as to any material fact, you may disregard that witness's entire testimony.
It is so very clear that Cooperman did exactly what any juror was supposed to do.
He listened to the evidence. He learned that Club Kalua, the strip club that Sean Bell and his companions were at that night, had been at the center of neighborhood complaints, drug activity and prostitution arrests, which is why undercover officers were there in the first place.
He heard the consistent grand jury testimony of all three defendant police officers. He heard the testimony of Detective Hispolito Sanchez, an undercover officer inside the club who heard Bell's companion, Joseph Guzman say "Yo, get my gun" and heard Sean Bell threaten to beat up a man near an SUV.
And he heard the testimony of Guzman, who denied, contrary to the testimony of other witnesses, that he uttered the words "Go get my gun." Cooperman also learned that Guzman had spent five years in prison for robbery and drug convictions for selling crack and was suing for $50 million in civil court.
It was clear that Guzman was the linchpin of this case. If you believe him, that the officers shot at Bell and his friends for no reason at all, the officers are guilty. If you don't believe him, then his statement -- "Go get my gun" -- sent the night into mayhem, causing the officers to believe that the men were armed and justifying the officers' actions that night.
Guzman was combative on the stand, irreverent. During his cross-examination by attorney Anthony L. Ricco, who represented Isnora, he shot back: "You know what needs to happen? This needs to happen to your family."
In explaining his decision, Cooperman said prosecutors had not proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt because of a combination of factors. Chief among them: inconsistent statements by prosecution witnesses, their demeanor on the stand, their interest in the outcome of the case and their motives to lie.
"These factors," the judge said, "had the effect of eviscerating the credibility of those prosecution witnesses."
Translation: The government could not prove its case against the officers because the judge didn't believe Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman. They are suing the police department for $50 million. They blew the case for the prosecution.
This is not over. There is a civil case pending, and the standard of proof is much lower. The feds are now looking at it. And we will be watching and deciding what and whom to believe. E-mail to a friend
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8 things debt collectors won't say
As posted on May 15, 2012 on money.msn.com
By Gerri Detweiler, Credit.com
The calls may be scary, but you do have rights you should know about. Here are some things to know before you decide how to respond.
It should come as no surprise that if you fall behind on your bills, you may hear from debt collectors. If they do call, you will almost certainly hear that you need to pay them and that you need to do so immediately. But there are a number of things that they aren't likely to tell you, and knowing these things can make all the difference in resolving your debts.
1. Some of our threats have no teeth
If you can't pay the collector the amount he is demanding, or refuse to give your bank account or debit card number to make the payment, the debt collector may threaten to "put you down for 'refusal to pay.'" But that's "a meaningless phrase in the debt collection world," says ZipDebt.com founder Charles Phelan, who coaches consumers trying to settle debts. He elaborates:
"When a collector says, 'We are going to inform your creditor that you are refusing to pay this bill,' they are just using reverse psychology. Your creditor has already figured out that you aren't paying the bill, or they would not have sent your account to a collection agency in the first place."
Another example? Bogus deadlines. Says Phelan, "Collectors will always try to create a false sense of urgency by imposing a series of deadlines, after which 'this deal will no longer be available.' The reality is that settlement or workout offers tend to improve over the course of a typical three-month collection assignment."
2. We have to stop bugging you at work if you tell us to
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is very clear on this point. Once you tell a debt collector that your employer doesn't allow you to talk with her while you are at work, she must stop calling you there. Yet in its 2011 Annual Report to Congress about Fair Debt Collection Practices Act complaints, the Federal Trade Commission noted that in 2010 it received 17,008 complaints related to debt-collection calls to consumers at work, up from 11,991 complaints the year before. "By continuing to contact consumers at work under these circumstances, debt collectors may put them in jeopardy of losing their jobs," notes the FTC.
3. We can't blab about your debts to others
Debt collectors are generally allowed to discuss your debt with only you, a co-signer, your spouse or your attorney. They may not discuss your debt with neighbors, relatives who aren't obligated to pay the debt, or co-workers. In fact, they are generally allowed to contact third parties only to locate you, and once they have found you, contact with third parties must stop. Consumer lawyer Sukhman Dhami of the Dhami Law Firm, explains:
"We call these 'third-party disclosures,' a violation of Section 1692c(b) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and they are exceptionally common, particularly when the debt collector leaves a message on a public answering machine. These public answering machine violations are called 'Foti' violations after the landmark case Foti v. NCO Financial Systems, 2005.
"If a debt collector leaves a message for you on any conventional answering machine or any shared/open-access voicemail system, they are likely to violate the third-party disclosure restrictions per Foti, so save any machine message and/or voicemail which a debt collector leaves for you!"
He goes on to warn, "If a debt collector contacts third parties, we want to know about it, because chances are that the collector violated one or more provisions of the FDCPA."
4. Your debt may be too old for us to do anything about it
"Stale debt is not collectible," advises Atlanta bankruptcy attorney Jonathan Ginsburg. "Every state has a statute of limitations that makes debt of a certain age not collectible. Debt collectors are not currently obligated to advise you that they cannot sue you or legally ding your credit report if you refuse to pay stale debt."
In most states, the statute of limitations runs four to six years from the date you last made a payment. And that's the catch. "In some states, a voluntary payment on a stale debt can revive the debt and make it legally collectible," Ginsberg warns. But don't be surprised if you hear about a very old debt. "Stale (or zombie) debt is big business," he adds.
"Seniors are constantly targeted for old debts," says Alex Viecco of New Era Debt Solutions. Viecco says his firm is seeing a trend where debts that were the result of identity theft are "coming back around for consumers. They certainly do not remember it, and suddenly (collectors) act as if it was theirs." He says his firm also hears from clients who complain about old medical debts that should have been paid by the insurance company and resurface years later.
"Never admit to any debt without first getting more details," recommends Viecco. At a minimum, you want to establish that the debt is legitimate, you owe it, the collector on the other end of the phone isn't a scammer, and the statute of limitations hasn't expired.
At the same time, don't assume that just because a debt is older it can't be collected, or that it can't affect your credit reports. "There are a handful of states that do require the collector to tell the consumer that they cannot be sued," says Mark Schiffman, director public affairs for ACA International, a trade organization for collections professionals. "While it is true that every state has a statute of limitations, which varies by state and by debt type, and that a collector may not sue or threaten to sue a consumer, the collector may still seek to collect the debt from the consumer so long as it is within the guidelines of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act." He also notes that under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, collection accounts may be reported for seven years.
5. We are under pressure to collect, just as you are to pay
Collectors "work on sliding scale commissions, and the quicker they get someone's money, the higher the commission," says Philadelphia debt-collection abuse lawyer Michael Forbes. "If they don't get your money within a fixed period of time, your account will be sent back to the creditor."
So while collectors may pressure you to pay right away, staving them off a bit might work in your favor if you can't afford to pay the full amount you owe. "Collectors will generally not share that they may take a lower settlement offer at the end of the month in order to meet a quota, or nearer the end of the assignment contract when the creditor is going to pull the account back," says Michael Bovee with DebtConsolidationCare.com, a free, online debt-advice community website that includes sample debt collection letters. He explains that most assignment collection accounts (where creditors assign debts to collection agencies rather than selling them) stay with collectors for 90 days. Any accounts that are not collected at that point may go back to creditors, usually to be placed with another collection firm. And while collectors may insist that you pay the full balance you owe over time, they may actually prefer to get a smaller, lump-sum payment, says Phelan. Why? "They get paid commissions much faster that way!"
6. If we really want to play hardball, we will have to sue you
If you owe unsecured debt such as credit card debt, collectors must typically sue you before they can go after your property, including money in your bank accounts, or try to garnishee your wages. Threatening to take such actions before they have sued you and won a judgment may be illegal. Even threatening to sue you to collect a debt may be illegal if the collector has no intention of doing so.
The FTC reports that in 2010, more than a quarter of all FDCPA complaints reported that third-party collectors falsely threatened a lawsuit or some other action that they could not or did not intend to take. In addition, 18.6% of FDCPA complaints alleged that such collectors falsely threatened arrest or seizure of property. No doubt some of these complaints involved overseas payday loan collection scammers. Still, some involved calls from collectors in the U.S. trying to collect legitimate debts.
"Debt collectors use applied psychology to persuade and threaten consumers to pay debt," Ginsberg explains. "Often this psychology involves veiled threats of criminal action or litigation when these options are not available."
7. Paying off this debt won't help your credit scores
Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a collection account will remain on your credit reports for seven years and six months from the date you fell behind with the original creditor. Collectors may make it sound like paying off collections account will improve your credit, by telling you that they will update your credit report to "paid in full" status. But this probably won't help your credit scores. Collection accounts are negative, whether they are paid or not.
In an article titled "Will paying a collection improve my credit score?" Credit.com's credit scoring expert Tom Quinn wrote:
"The fact that a collection account is on your credit report (regardless of balance) is, in and of itself, predictive of future risk, as research shows that consumers with collection accounts on their credit report are less likely to pay as agreed in the future than consumers with no credit report blemishes."
On the other hand, paying the collection account may stop the creditor or collector from suing you, and a judgment on your credit report could hurt your credit score even more. Additionally, some mortgage lenders may require you to pay or settle collection accounts before giving you a loan.
8. You probably don't have to pay your deceased relative's debt
"Collecting debts of the deceased is a growing and lucrative business. Creepy, huh?" says Mary Reed, the co-author of more than 20 legal and financial books (including the book she co-authored with the writer of this article, "Debt Collection Answers: How to Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights.") But generally, she points out, you aren't responsible for the debts of relatives who died unless you were a co-signer, or the debt belonged to your spouse who died and you live in a community property state. Creditors or collectors may try to collect from the estate, if there is one. If the person left nothing, however, then they may simply be out of luck. Although they are supposed to tell you that you don't have to pay the debt, they may conveniently leave that out or gloss over it.


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CAMP LEATHERNECK – More than 20 vehicles of varying shapes and sizes kick up dust and sand as a combat logistics patrol drives through Afghanistan.
Marine Corps Cpl. Armando Muniz, a loadmaster with 4th Platoon, 2nd Combat Logistics Battalion, 15th Combat Logistics Regiment, keeps track of everything the patrol drops off and picks up and makes sure everything gets to where it needs to be.
Muniz's battalion supplies food, drinks, building materials and equipment to the Marines and other coalition forces throughout Helmand province.
"We take everything from point A to point B and sometimes even C," Muniz said.
A loadmaster's duties range from ensuring everything is loaded safely and securely to making sure gear is signed over to the proper person. Muniz said he also makes sure he knows what the Marines need for future deliveries.
"Sometimes Marines don't always get everything," he said. "I talk to the Marines. When I'm back, I make sure we load it on the next convoy. If there are other Marines going back to the base, I'll give it to them."
It is this kind of dedication that developed Muniz's reputation for being professional and helpful. If they need anything, Marines know to seek out Muniz when the logistics patrol arrives at their base.
"When people call our office looking for gear, they ask for Cpl. Muniz by name," said 1st Lt. Andrew Schlottmann, Muniz's platoon commander. "He's earned himself a reputation with the Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines. They know when he shows up, he's there to work, and they take him very seriously."
When a patrol arrives at a forward operating base, there are a lot of moving parts. Each base receives specific items and quantities. In addition, Marines at each base might have something to return with the convoy. With more than 20 vehicles and 60 Marines and sailors moving around large boxes of cargo, the importance of a loadmaster quickly becomes clear.
"Corporal Muniz is always the first person on scene when we get to other FOBs," said Sgt. Bryan Hall, a security team leader with 4th Platoon. "He's always coordinating with the other units, and he makes the unloading and loading a lot easier."
Muniz is active when the logistics patrols arrive. He makes sure the correct personnel sign for items, checks unloaded gear and accounts for loaded gear.
"He's also on the trucks with the Marines undoing straps and unbinding chains," Hall said. "He doesn't just sit there and tell people what to do. He gets his hands dirty and works with the Marines."
For Muniz, who volunteered to become a loadmaster before deploying, the job is the next challenge he is trying to conquer. But, he said, he enjoys working under the stress and time sensitive conditions.
"After my first two deployments, I wanted to move up to a bigger challenge," he said. "When I'm loading, sometimes I feel like I'm playing Tetris. I'm trying to load as much as I can on one vehicle safely."
Muniz may compare his job to a game, but he takes his job seriously.
"I play a supportive role for the guys out there in the fight," Muniz said. "I want to make sure they have everything they need."
With winter fast approaching, Muniz's job as loadmaster will not slow down. He will continue to make sure Marines and coalition service members throughout Helmand province receive the necessary gear and supplies to continue operations.


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Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most beloved children's books out there. The editor and illustrator of A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, Margaret Ferguson and Hope Larson, shared their thoughts on adapting the classic and its enduring message.
Margaret: I have a confession to make.
Hope: What's that?
Margaret: I didn't read A Wrinkle in Time until I was an adult and got my job at FSG. My childhood favorites were the Little House on the Prairie books. I always wanted to be a pioneer girl and loved how the family lived off the land. What do you think it is about Wrinkle that made it your childhood favorite?
Hope: Most of the books I read as a kid were based in what I thought of as "olden times"–A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty–or else were high fantasy, like The Black Cauldron, The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia. Wrinkle felt very fresh and different, starting out in the real world and then going on a quest across the universe.
Margaret: I think those of us that our bookish have always felt that books are our friends. Even now, I re-read the Wilder books when I need to be reminded of a simpler life. Before the adaptation, did you re-read Wrinkle on a regular basis?
Hope: Yeah, it's one I came back to over and over, along with the rest of the Time Quartet. Until I left for college, if I was stressed out, or if I had a nightmare, I would go downstairs and raid the bookshelf for one of my childhood favorites and read it until I fell back asleep.
Margaret: Were there any surprises when you-re-read it to prepare for the adaptation—something you had to think about in a different way as you tried to visualize how you were going to translate words into art?
Hope: The mental images I had of the main characters were way off. My theory is that this has to do with the book covers. I tried to stay as true as possible to the descriptions that are actually in the book.
Margaret: Are there any other books that you return to year after year that you first read as a child?
Hope: I don't do much rereading anymore because there's so much new stuff for me to read. There's a huge pile on my nightstand that never goes away, and because so many of my friends are writers and cartoonists and screenwriters, there's always a manuscript waiting in my inbox, too. I've been meaning to reread Wait Till Helen Comes and Matilda.
Margaret: I remember being so impressed when I first read your script for the adaptation and then thinking, but it is too long—not as in wordy, but as in the number of pages would make for an expensive production cost. But as we tried to cut scenes, we soon realized that it was like a house of cards—and that the most important thing was to try and stay as true to the original as possible. How could we disappoint so many fans? I know this made more work for you, but in the end are you glad that this is the decision we made? If so, why?
Hope: I'm so relieved we were able to make such a long book. My concern was never making more work for myself, but doing the story justice. It is like a house of cards–so delicate, most of it resting on L'Engle's dialogue. I didn't want to end up with an adaptation that felt truncated, or relied heavily on caption boxes to get you from point A to point B in the most economical way. There's no way to tesser through A Wrinkle in Time. If you take shortcuts in a book like this, you damage it.
Margaret: I never told you this, but at one meeting in the office everyone thought I looked like Meg which is, of course, quite flattering given our age differences. Did you model the character after someone you know? (I know it can't be me not just because of the age gap but because you started character sketches before we first met.)
Hope: That's awesome! And no, I didn't. If anything (and this is going to sound totally narcissistic) she's modeled on me. One of those weird things about being a cartoonist, and this happens to most of us, is you draw everyone looking like you. Even it's not intentional. I think it has to do with your own face being the one you see the most; your face becomes the template you start from. I actually look a lot more like Meg now than I did when I started drawing the book–I have a bob with bangs, I have big nerd glasses. It's kind of embarrassing.


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WALLED LAKE, Mich. – Carelessly smoking may be to blame for a 60-year-old Walled Lake woman being severely burned Monday morning in her home.
The incident happened just before 5 a.m. in the Walled Lake Villa apartments.
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For almost two decades, the naturally gifted ballerina has studied nearly every form of the art with the exception of ballroom. While she's experienced her fair share of success, Katherine also felt the desire to help others learn and enjoy her favorite pastime. In 2006, she joined Diane Moore Dance Academy's teaching staff, helping with several classes, including the Miracle Dancers, a group of students with varying types of special needs. Becoming part of the team has been rewarding for Katherine, who's watched several of the children overcome personal obstacles to excel at jazz, ballet and clogging, becoming crowd-favorites for audiences throughout the city.
The Voice-Tribune caught up with Katherine to learn more about her experience with Diane Moore Dance Academy and the Miracle Dancers, who will perform Dec. 15 at the Fern Creek Fire Department.
When were the Miracle Dancers formed?
I believe this is the 20th year. The group has been growing for quite a while. It had been small for a while, and right when I got involved it was really starting to grow.
How did you become involved with the group?
Miss Diane (Chambers, the owner) had asked a few of the older dancers at the time if anyone would be interested in helping with the group, and I had always been interested in the Miracle Dancers and always liked watching them perform.
How many students are on the Miracle Dancers?Â
Between 50 and 60.
What type of dance do you teach them?
They do jazz and lyrical. It's kind of a mix of jazz and ballet. They also do clogging and vocal (performance).
We mostly teach the class as one unit. Typically we have two teachers in each class, so one will often teach as a standing dancer, while the other teaches as a dancer using a wheelchair. We try to teach each child how to work with their body and make the most of their abilities.
What do you find is the best approach in teaching the Miracle Dancers?
One of the easiest ways to teach someone how to dance in a wheelchair is to get in a wheelchair. … We'll actually get in the chairs to try to understand how (the kids) move. … Sometimes you'll have to ask a student how something will work for them or get in a chair and try it yourself. We just see what the kids can do.
How often do the Miracle Dancers perform?
Usually throughout November and December we have around 12 performances, and in spring, anywhere from six to 10.
What do you love most about working with the Miracle Dancers?
Really the most fun part about it is being able to teach someone how to do something that I love. … It's really exciting to be able to teach someone who's maybe been told they can't do it that they really can dance.
Do you teach other classes outside of the Miracle Dancers?
I'm involved in a few other classes. I have a group of 5-year-olds who do ballet and tap, and a big ballet class with (6- through 9-year-olds).
Do you still perform on your own?
I actually do perform with the Miracle Dancers, and (I) also have a small group that's (made up of) me and one of my other good friends who's a ballet dancer and a close friend who's in a wheelchair.
What is your ultimate goal with dancing?
I really just like what I'm doing now. I like working with the Miracle Dancers as far as teaching at the studio. I'm really happy with what I'm doing now, so as long as I can do that, and it continues to grow … and we're able to take (every single) kid who wants to dance. … That's really my goal.
The Miracle Dancers will perform in a Christmas showcase with Diane Moore Dance Academy on Dec. 15 at Fern Creek Fire Department, 6200 Bardstown Road.Â
The event is free, but donations are appreciated for the Miracle Dancer Scholarship Foundation. Sugar and Spice Donut Shop will be selling donuts and coffee at the event to benefit the Miracle Dancers as well.


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During Lubbock Lemonade Day, Tra braved the cold weather and held a lemonade stand in order to raise money for Make-A-Wish. In 2014, Make-A-Wish granted Tra's wish to go to Disney World. Years later, he still remembers the trip as "awesome." He wanted to raise money so Make-A-Wish may continue to grant wishes. Learn about Tra and his lemonade stand.
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Tunisia has weathered riots, political squabbling, and economic crisis since protests toppled its former dictator two years ago, kickstarting the Arab uprisings. Today, this fledgling democracy suffered a new blow: its first murder of a political leader, which prompted the prime minister to dissolve his government.
It's not clear who gunned down Chokri Belaid, an opposition politician and fierce government critic, or why. But his death highlights both the fragile security and fraught political climate in Tunisia, where leaders and citizens alike are still getting the hang of democratic rule.
Tunisians made history in January 2011 by forcing then-president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali from power after a two-decade rule. The following October, elections were swept by the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which now leads a coalition government it formed with two secularist parties.
The government has struggled, however, to relieve economic malaise that deepened after Mr. Ben Ali's removal as uncertainty spooked tourists and investors. Critics have also blasted Ennahda in particular for failing to discipline violent Islamic extremists, as well as rowdy pro-government groups.
Mr. Belaid was such a critic. Just yesterday, he used a press conference to accuse Ennahda of ignoring violence by the Committees to Protect the Revolution – pro-government activists who say they aim to root out elements of Ben Ali's regime and have brawled with antigovernment protesters.
"There are groups within Ennahda that … are pushing the country toward violence," he told Tunisia's Nessma TV at the Tunis headquarters of the Popular Front, a grouping of leftist opposition parties of which he was a leading member.
This morning, Belaid was shot several times as he left his house. He was taken to a nearby clinic, where he died, reported The Associated Press. According to Ziad Lakhader, a Popular Front leader quoted by Reuters, Belaid was struck by four bullets to the head and chest.
Human Rights Watch urged Tunisian authorities to bring Belaid's killers to justice, reversing what it describes as a failure to crack down on violence.
"This assassination is the gravest incident yet in a climate of mounting violence," said Eric Goldstein, the group's deputy Middle East and North Africa director. He cited attacks on journalists, activists, artists, and others, "many of which the authorities did not investigate, let alone prosecute."
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Ennahda's leader, Rached Ghannouchi, called the killing an "ignoble crime," the AP reported, and urged authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. President Moncef Marzouki, from the secularist Congrès pour la République party, vowed that Tunisia would overcome attempts to derail its democratic transition.
Tunisian democracy will depend in part on cooperation among leaders. The governing coalition must tackle economic and security problems, and hold new elections expected this summer. At present, it has been stricken for weeks by squabbling over a long-delayed ministerial reshuffle.
Thousands of Tunisians who took to the streets today to protest in Tunis and other cities condemned not only Belaid's killing, but also the government they say bears responsibility for broader problems. In the capital and elsewhere, police fired tear gas to disperse crowds.
"Everyone here is calling for a new revolution," says Rachid Fettini, a businessmen in the rural town of Sidi Bouzid, where uprisings against Ben Ali erupted two years ago.
Protestors in Sidi Bouzid set fire to the police station, he says, with some accusing security forces of complicity in Belaid's killing. By this evening, police were absent, while Army soldiers – typically trusted by ordinary people – had deployed amid general calm, Mr. Fettini says.
Fettini says he has no political affiliation, although he is critical of what he calls the government's failure to ensure order and prosperity. Beyond that, he says, "I'm afraid to see the country reach this point – where democrats can be assassinated."


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The papaya fruit (p.Carica) is one of God's greatest gift to Man. It can easily grow in most types of soil with tolerable pH level and bears nutritious fruits. The papaya plant is cultivated or grows wildly in most areas of the tropics. The fruits, weighing 200 grams to 20 kg. can be cooked as vegetable like our famous tinola and achara, eaten as a nutritious breakfast or desert and can provide a good source of livelihood as it has a ready market in any urban center.
Through the years, this lowly plant became the subject of plant breeders due to its nutritional as well as industrial value. Papein from papaya was found to have many industrial uses, mainly as meat tenderizer to cosmetic raw material. Breeders have developed F1-hybrid varieties tolerant to the papaya ring-spot virus, the curse to most growing areas, better yielding and good tasting. KNOWN-YOU SEED CO. of Taiwan and the Fengshan Tropical Horticultural Research Station in Taiwan have been in the high-yielding, great tasting RED LADY F1-hybrid variety, now known world-wide.
The RED LADY qualities - HIGH-YIELD AND GREAT TASTE - made it the favorite of growers and consumers. It is used for cooking as well as countless recipes for dessert and healthy drinks. Papaya is rich in vitamins A, C and Potassium. It also has small amount of thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, has low calorie and low sodium content.
In Taiwan, the 500cc papaya shake, blended chilled papaya mixed with milk, became a national health drink for several years. With proper fertilization and care, the chilled papaya fruit can be a primary ingridients for many great tasting recipes.
Green papaya is a rich source of Papein, a popular meat tenderizer. Recently, papaya whitening soap became a popular household beauty product.
RED LADY F1-hybrid from KNOWN-YOU SEED CO. Plants are vigorous productive and tolerant to papaya ring spot virus. Plants begin to bear fruit a 60-80 cm. height and have over 50 fruits per plant in each fruiting season. Its productive commercial life is 2 years. Fruits are short-oblong on female plants and rather long-shaped on bisexual (bakla) plants, weighing about 1.5 to 2 kg. Flesh is thick, red, with 13% sugar content and aromatic. A goog shipper. Great for fresh market and for processing as dehydrated fruit and achara.
RED LADY PAPAYA Dispersal Program
This Livelihood program through the distribution of two-month old RED LADY papaya seedlings grown in the barangay-based seedling nursery is a very effective and high-impact project that can be easily implimented by LGU, baranagay, school or NGO in the Philippines.
A vaiable barangay-based project of 3,000 to 5,000 seedlings will cost 30,000 - 50,000. This includes the cost of a seedling nursery made of wood or bamboo, RED LADY papaya seeds, seeding culture and distribution expenses or about P10.00 per seedling.
To implement these are some useful figures. 100 seedlings can be planted in each location as a barangay-based commercial plantation or 5 to 10 seedlings can be distributed to each backyard garden. 1 papaya plant per 5 persons can be good ratio. This can supply a kg. of papaya per person monthly. A cheap and ready source for vitamin A, C and Potassium for all.
The papaya sa Barangay can be a good livelihood opportunity for rural as well as urban communities.
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Thanks to Android's exponential growth as a mobile OS, quite a few handset manufacturers like Samsung and HTC have also grown leaps and bounds. While LG also manufacturers Android handsets and tablets, the Korean company has not been as successful as the other Korean company – Samsung.
LG was the first company to release a dual-core powered Android handset – Optimus 2X/T-Mobile G2X – but the extremely unstable software on the phone and some niggling build quality issues made a dent on its sales. Hopefully, the upcoming handsets from the company will be much more stable, software wise, and will improve the company's dwindling profits.


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The Total Unduplicated Reach and Frequency analysis (TURF) is a method that can be deployed to increase sales/reveunues by making optimum use of the available resources, or to smartly make use of available slots to provide facilities so as to reach the maximum number people without occurence of any duplication of choices. The model allows you to simulate and see the effects on the reach if selected choices are changed. Andrew Jeavons, who has over 20 years experience in market reserach and customer psychology speaks about the use of TURF analysis.
Ivana from thirdforce.com joined by Craig from shiftselling.com elaborately discuss the decisions based on changing behavior of customers in a 'trend confluence'. The spotting of the right event to be used as an opportunity is the decisive factor in getting high quality leads.
Ditch the pen and pad, and save trees! SurveyPocket is the offline survey app presented by SurveyAnalytics. The app can be used on iPads, iPhones and iPods to fetch the surveys created in SurveyAnalytics platform and run them in an offline mode, store the responses and upload them back into the system whenever internet connection is available, which makes the results available for analysis instantly. Esther and Andrew discuss all the different options available with the app and with their experience in market research, how the app is going to make it easy to gather feedback in an offline mode.
A look into the mobile ecosystem and a change in the patterns reveals that the research through surveys in largely going to be over mobile phones. Smart phones have revolutionized the way people interact. Vivek Bhaskaran, CEO of SurveyAnalytics LLC talks about the expected changes in the way surveys are going to be used and explains how SurveySwipe - the mobile feedback platform caters to the needs created by these changes.


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Monday, November 16, 2009
Praise With Purpose
What I didn't mention is that Middle, who is 5 and a full year older than Baby, still can't.
As any parent knows, it is absolutely mindblowing that your children can all be SO DIFFERENT. With different abilities, different skills, and different physical and mental strengths, I often am amazed that all 3 of my boyz actually came out of the SAME WOMB.
That day, Baby first took the initiative and asked me to help him practice riding his bike. I obliged. Once Middle saw Baby having success, he, of course, wanted to try too. (A classic case of sibling rivalry at its finest, right?)
But Middle had trouble balancing. And subsequently kept falling each time I let go.
Both boyz began to get frustrated and impatient because they had to wait 5 WHOLE MINUTES (which apparently is like AN HOUR in kid-time) to take turns. So I got the grand idea to remove the training wheels from another bike. Problem solved.
Yet as Baby continued to get more and more successful, Middle became increasingly whiny and obstinate. Soon the "I can'ts" let loose.
And there I was, alternately trying to empower Baby with praise for his mastery of a new skill; yet at the same time trying to be sensitive to Middle and his feelings. (With Baby yelling as he zoomed by on the bike, "I'm 4! I can ride a bike! You're 5 and youuuuuuu can't!)
Needless to say, that was a day where my Mad Parenting Skillz were put to the test and one in which I was extremely grateful to be involved with the Fishful Thinking program. Please check it out - I promise you will learn something new!
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With Fishful Thinking, parents can:
*talk with kids about how to deal with the ups and downs of life
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*help kids develop an optimistic attitude that allows them to move past setbacks and obstacles
*help kids to develop their confidence and reach their full potential
*empower themselves to develop positive communication with their children and practice the skills with their kids using fun, easy activities
*connect with other parents to find solutions that help develop happier, healthier, more resilient children.
8 comments:
- Kelly said...
Excellent job! I also have 3 kids and sometimes wonder how they all came out of me! Just when you think you know them, they totally surprise me!
Enjoying my visit from SITS!
- Manic Mommy said...
So very different! I know that balancing act well; don't belittle the skills of one while trying not to inhibit the attempts of the other. Oy.
- Amanda said...
A delicate balance, always!
- Cheryl Lage said...
This is AWESOME. (We have not even attempted the two-wheelers yet, and our two are 8. Uh oh. I feel a wave of the "I can'ts!" coming on.
Thanks for the tips! :)
- Cyndy Bush said...
I might have kind of laughed a little at the image of Baby zooming by laughing....
Andrew is 10 and just learned to ride a bike.
- amanda said...
ugh. being a mom is so hard. especially trying to be a "grown up" mom.
they are lucky they have you.
- Sincerely Iowa said...
My youngest daughter was 8 before she got the guts to learn to ride. All of her friends would come over and want to ride bikes, and she would always say NO because she didn't want them to know she still had training wheels.
She finally just decided to do it one day-- it took her about 10 minutes.
- Paula Reece said...
I feel for you! If it makes you feel better, Boy #2 didn't learn to ride a two-wheeler until this summer, when he was 7 1/2! And Boy #1 actually taught him! Last year I tried but he was so wobbly even with the training wheels still on that I just let it go. Apparently he was ready this summer, so at least he's not going to go to middle school with his training wheels. I struggle with treating all 3 boys the same because they're not the same personality at all. They get so angry when they think I'm not being completely "fair," but what works for one doesn't necessarily work for all of them, and what one needs, the others may not. I think it's all a big ploy to make us feel more guilt.


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Clare Macintosh is a favourite go-to author for domestic thrillers. I Let You Go and I See You among others, were easy to read and kept me on the edge of my seat. So I was quick to read a copy of her latest novel, but it is completely different. This emotional book is still fiction but it gets personal–it is based on her own experience of losing a child.
The premise is heart breaking. Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers–unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors have no choice but to make the parents choose between painful treatments to prolong his life or allow him to die naturally. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son. The matter goes to court and what happens afterwards takes up the second half of the novel.
The suspense and intrigue is in how the tragedy plays out and affects people and their relationships. It reminded me of Jodi Picoult's bestseller My Sister's Keeper. The first half was beautifully written and I thought this would be a great novel that would be relatable and redemptive for parents in these types of nightmare situations. But with all due respect to the author for writing from the heart, I found the second half repetitive, pointless, overlong and there were confusing bits that I never understood. The narrative arc felt weak and I almost bailed on it many times. As for parents who actually have to make such an impossible choice, I think this would be a very hard and triggering book to read because of what happens, but I can't tell you why without giving spoilers.


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February 22, 2010
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As a seller today you are faced with a challenge when it comes to selling your home for a fair price and getting it done in a reasonable amount of time. Even though inventory is lower than it was five months ago, we are still looking at about 9 months of inventory in many areas.
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Steamboat Springs — A state bill that codifies interactions between cyclists and riders crossed the finish line in the state Legislature on Monday and awaits consideration by Gov. Bill Ritter.
After a three-month ride through the legislature, Senate Bill 148 – which includes a provision requiring motorists to give cyclists a 3-foot berth when passing them – overwhelmingly was approved in a 57-7 vote of the House and a 29-5 vote in the Senate. Rep. Randy Baumgardner, R-Hot Sulphur Springs, and Sen. Al White, R-Hayden, voted in favor of the bill.
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The final version of the bill passed by the General Assembly allows cyclists to ride two abreast but says they must move into a single file line if they are impeding the "normal and reasonable movement of traffic."
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