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A World of Resources for K-12 Teaching
In this Information Age we are instantaneously aware of international events and how these events affect our communities, our countries, and us. Television and the Internet are the primary media conduits of international news, but the conflict between entertainment value and educational value often limits their capacity to convey a concrete understanding of global issues to their audiences.
To meet the needs of students today, teachers must have a base of expertise grounded in the realities of the "e-world," in which increasing access to information necessitates a broader intercultural understanding. The ability to interpret and incorporate current issues into classroom teaching requires an understanding of historical, cultural, political and economic contexts, and an awareness of available teaching resources. In support of this broader understanding, the U.S. Department of Education (the department/ED) awards funds for an array of programs designed to facilitate access to internationally-focused professional development and curricular resources for K-12 (elementary and secondary) teachers. During a summer, an academic year, or year-round, there are overseas study opportunities, training institutes, and teaching materials available at low or no cost to savvy educators who know where to find them.
The Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 provides two programs that offer overseas learning opportunities for educators. Each summer, under the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program, approximately ten four-to-six-week seminars provide 160 humanities, social sciences and language educators with introductions to different non-West European countries. Participants are responsible only for costs relating to the pre-departure orientation (estimated at up to $350). Airfare, room and board, tuition and fees, and program-related travel in the destination country are provided by the seminar. Eligible participants include not only K-12 teachers, but also faculty and administrators from two- and four-year colleges, librarians, museum educators, and media or resource specialists with curriculum development responsibilities. In summer 2003, seminars designed for elementary and secondary school educators were offered in New Zealand; South Africa; Thailand and Vietnam. A specialized language program was offered in Japan. For secondary and postsecondary personnel, seminars were offered in the Czech and Slovak Republics; Mexico/Costa Rica; Sri Lanka/India; and Brazil. Additionally, a program specifically for community college personnel was offered in India and Nepal. A similarly exciting array of seminars was developed for 2004. More information on the seminars and how to apply is available through the department Web site (http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html).
Another Fulbright-Hays program, Group Projects Abroad provides overseas training, research, and curriculum development opportunities organized by U.S. colleges and universities, state departments of education, and private non-profit educational organizations. Through short-term (5-6 week) seminars, curriculum development teams, 3-12 month group research projects, or advanced intensive language institutes, participants obtain valuable overseas study experience that hopefully translates into enhanced curricula at their home institutions. Many Group Projects respond specifically to regional educational priorities. For example, a 2002 Connecticut State Department of Education short-term seminar in China established a core group of teachers now serving as staff development presenters for district professional development programs. A curriculum development project hosted the same year by the University of Arkansas at Monticello involved six weeks of researching, planning, and designing curricular materials in South Africa in order to improve the teaching of African studies in Arkansas schools.
|"This was a wonderful program, and I am deeply grateful that people care about teachers and recognize that it's important that teachers have these sorts of opportunities…. These sorts of programs
inspire teachers to take on larger tasks and dream bigger dreams, because things that were so foreign become more clear."
- from a participant's evaluation of the Connecticut State Department of Education's 2002 seminar, "Changing China: Economy in Transition"
Associated costs to the GPA participating educators vary based on the individual project, with the Federal support defraying a large portion of expenses. Unlike for the Seminars Abroad, Group Projects participants apply directly to the institution hosting the project - or they design a project that meets needs they have identified and submit a proposal to ED. Project abstracts and contact information for the funded projects are on the department Web site, as is information regarding how to propose a Group Project (http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html).
In addition to funding these overseas study opportunities, ED supports networks of Centers for International Business Education (CIBEs), Language Resource Centers (LRCs) and National Resource Centers(NRCs) at institutions of higher education across the country. These centers, funded under Title VI of the Higher Education Act, serve as coordination points for foreign language, area, and international studies teaching, research and outreach. As such, they collaborate with and provide extensive services for K-12 and postsecondary educators.
Thirty Centers for International Business Education located in 21 states serve as national resources for the teaching of improved business techniques, strategies, and methodologies emphasizing the international context in which business occurs. They include among their activities programs for K-12 audiences, such as business language training workshops and curriculum resources for teachers, guest speaker bureaus, international studies summer institutes, and joint curriculum development projects. The CIBEs' unique curricular partnerships with schools provide students with exciting opportunities. For example, the University of Colorado at Denver's Japan High School Mentor Program pairs high school students with business executives in order to learn about Japanese culture, business protocol, and how to do business in Japan. The Georgia Institute of Technology's Model High School International Business Program has developed a student-run trading company to teach import and export processes, a school store to teach business life skills, and a network of Cooperative Global Business Education Programs fostering joint projects with high schools in Estonia, England, Brazil, and Jamaica. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is sponsoring a three-week Virtual Trade Mission to Africa - a web-based curriculum designed to increase high school students' and teachers' understanding of the political, social, environmental, and economic variables involved in global trade. For grades 3-5, the University of Memphis has developed a global connections curriculum and teacher resource guide centered around five learning themes: Our Place in the World; Peoples of the World; Global Connectedness; Global Responsibilities; and Global Careers. These are but a few examples of the interesting ways in which CIBEs' resources are being utilized to strengthen K-12 education. A more complete synopsis is found in "International Business Education: Outreach Initiatives for Grades K-12," available on the CIBEs' joint website. Compiled and edited in Fall 2002 by the Centers at Purdue University and the University of Memphis, this publication is a handy guide to the CIBEs' present and future K-12 partnership efforts.
As the program name suggests, the Language Resource Centers (LRCs) focus research, programs and services on efforts to improve language instruction nationally. Fourteen LRCs are housed at large universities known internationally for the quality of their foreign language programs, and involve leading foreign language specialists from across the country as board members, program planners, and active participants. All LRCs sponsor summer institutes or training workshops for language educators and post articles, newsletters, and other resources on their Web sites, which can be reached through links from the LRCs' joint site (http://nflrc.msu.edu/). Michigan State University's Center for Language Education and Research also offers on-site workshops for teachers at minimal cost to the hosting school.
Although all of the LRCs engage in outreach to teachers, Iowa State University's National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) specifically focuses on improving elementary and secondary student learning of foreign languages. NFLRC is a partnership involving national leaders in K-12 foreign language education, K-12 teachers and district supervisors of foreign language, and personnel from both Iowa State and the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC. Its initiatives include preparing teachers in using effective teaching strategies, using new technologies, administering and interpreting foreign language performance assessments through NFLRC's week-long summer institutes, ongoing research, and dissemination projects. NFLRC summer institutes provide ongoing learning experiences by involving participants in pre-institute planning and group work, as well as post-institute dialogue through e-mail exchanges.
The Language Resource Centers' offerings are not limited to French, Spanish and German. Their authorizing legislation emphasizes the importance of the LRCs in meeting needs for instruction of less-commonly-taught languages, and indeed, several LRCs focus specifically on providing resources for teaching the languages of non-Western world regions. These include the National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University, the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region at Indiana University, the National East Asian Languages Resource Center at Ohio State University, the South Asia Language Resource Center at the University of Chicago, and the National African Languages Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin.
While the LRCs are expressly engaged in developing resources for language learning, the National Resource Centers focus more broadly on foreign language, area and international studies. Consequently, their professional development programs and teaching resources are designed not only for language teachers but for educators from any field who desire a broader understanding of the contemporary world. Engaging in teacher training activities is a requirement of the NRCs' federal funding. They do this by organizing public programs and professional development workshops; managing lending libraries and "travel boxes" of curricular resources; developing Web-based teaching materials, bibliographies and interactive learning objects; hosting "Teachers as Scholars" programs that reconnect teachers to the world of academia and lifelong learning; and coordinating speakers bureaus - to name just a few of the NRCs' K-12 outreach activities. Currently, 118 centers across the country are building bridges between elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools with initiatives to deepen the schools' understanding of people and events outside the United States. A contact list of centers, complete with their Web addresses, and center abstracts organized by world region focus are available through the ED Web site at (http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsnrc/awards.html).
A group of NRC outreach professionals has organized a collaborative International Studies Outreach Web site which was launched in July 2003. This Web site, Outreach World, features:
- exemplary instructional units (including multiple and stand-alone lesson plans) produced by teachers participating in NRC and LRC workshops;
- annotated listings of recommended K-12 educational resources available through the centers and on the commercial market;
- a national calendar of teacher training activities listed by focus, date, sponsor, and U.S. locale;
- guidelines for best practices including guides for developing innovative multidisciplinary instructional materials;
- contact information for international and area studies experts available for consultation -- including teachers, scholars, librarians, multimedia specialists, professional associations, the center outreach personnel;
- and select news items relevant to the K-12 outreach community at large.
This joint effort is the first site dedicated to providing comprehensive and direct access to the teaching resources available through the Title VI centers. It can be reached at: (http://www.outreachworld.org).
Of the 14 international education programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad and Group Projects Abroad and the Title VI CIBEs, LRCs and NRCs provide the most extensive array of resources specifically for K-12 educators. However, there are other programs that can be used to enhance the international aspects of elementary and secondary teaching. The Undergraduate International Studies & Foreign Language Program has recently helped to internationalize pre-service teacher education programs at Western Kentucky University and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and the International Research & Studies Program funds research and materials development projects, including the development of materials and assessment instruments for K-12 language teaching.
Together, the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs provide a comprehensive set of opportunities for strengthening international teaching through critical collaborations among educators, improved access to high-quality professional development opportunities, and the creation and dissemination of teaching materials. Thanks to them, a world of educational resources is available to assist teachers in breaking through today's "sound byte" mindset and providing students with a deeper understanding of the world in which we live.
Web links:
- US Department of Education International Education Programs Service: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html
- Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html
- Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html
- Centers for International Business Education (ED Web site): http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpscibe/index.html
- Language Resource Centers Program (ED Web site): http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpslrc/index.html
- Language Resource Centers Program (joint Centers' Web site): http://nflrc.msu.edu/
- Center for Language Education & Research on-site training workshops: http://clear.msu.edu/clear/professionaldev/onsiteworkshops.php
- National Resource Centers Program: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsnrc/index.html
- International Studies Outreach Website:http://www.outreachworld.org


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Whenever we talk about solar installations on buildings, the first picture that comes to mind is that of a blue roof covered in solar panels. And, I am sure not many of us have imagined an entire blue building, with every wall, and every inch of the roof covered with solar panels. The Tokyo Institute of Technology has done exactly what none of us can digest; they have built a new building, which is entirely covered in solar installations. The aerial view of the building makes it seem impermeable and rather quirky, but it's not the looks, it's the technology that makes it sapient.
Tokyo Institute of Technology is considered as a prestigious university the world over and in fact the best in Japan. The unveiling of its self sustaining building has enhanced its image for the eco conscious community. The exterior of the Environment and Energy Innovation Building including the roof is covered with 4500 panels. These panels have a total capacity of producing 650 kilowatts of power, which is further supplemented by 100 kilowatts of fuel cells.
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Happy New Year.
Hope you all have enjoyed the holidays and all of the sporting events.
What a great time of the year. The NFL is gearing up for the playoffs, college bowl season is fantastic, out-door hockey, and college basketball has started conference play. Plus international soccer leagues are about to open transfer season and the NBA has been strong since the season started.
But let's start with my favorite NFL Team – The Minnesota Vikings. Who are now taking the week off to rest before their match-up next weekend.
The Vikings beat-up a tired, ready-to-be-done New York Giants, 44-7. Yes – we are back on track! I would be very careful about getting to comfortable with a win against a team that had a 0% chance of making the playoffs.
Let's recap:
After the Vikings started 10-1 and gave a win away to the Steelers, they lost 3 of their last 5 games and really showed flaws – but we will not getting to that now.
Let's look at their schedule.
- Of the thirteen different teams the Purple played in the year, only five had winning records. The Packers (11-5), Steelers and Ravens (9-7), Cardinals (10-6), and Bengals(10-6).
- Twelve wins were against teams with a combined record of 66-94, highlighted by wins against Green Bay (2 wins), Baltimore, Cincinnati, and two 8-8 teams in the 49ers and the Giants.
- Four losses to Arizona, Chicago (7-9), Carolina (8-8) and Pittsburgh with a combined record of 34-30.
- Total combined record of all opponents = 93-115*.
*Some of the numbers may look off – but I only used the records of conference opponents once.
I know you can only play the teams on your schedule, but there has to be more concern about a team that has played so inconsistently against poorer teams. The Vikings have weapons all over the field – yet there now is an uncertainty that was not there in the first half of the year.
Losing E.J. Henderson was huge, Antoine Winfield missed a good deal fo the season, and Bernard Berrian is finally healthy. Bryannt McKinnie is playing better of late, but was awful for a while. The offensive line as a whole needs to give Brett Favre time. Jared Allen looks like every other defensive end in the league, not like Allen who was an MVP candidate. That falls on the defensive cordinator for not scheming enough to get Allen away from double and triple teams, because you know Allen's motor is not problem.
We still have Favre, AP, Percy and Rice – the Sydney Edition – and very good defense. Yet, I have this feeling that the Cowboys or Eagles are going to come to the Dome and blow it up.
The thought of the Vikings woes have not kept me up at night – I have a six-week-old baby girl to do that for me – but there has to be concern running through this organization. Head Coach Brad Childress has never been in this situation – a first round bye. A lot will be said about what kind of coach he really is with this much time to prepare. Childress – prove you are worthy of the contract extension. Because I don't think you deserved it.
Best College Basketball Program Of The 2000's
I started this around Christmas, and totally forgot about it. But this decade has been quite the decade for College Basketball powerhouses to reestablish themselves and new ones to appear.
So here the suspects: Michigan State (Champs in '00), Duke('01) UConn ('04), UNC ('05 and '09), Florida ('06 and '07), and Kansas('08). I did not include the '02 Maryland and '03 Syracuse – no real reason to explain.
And here are the Top Five.
Honorable Mention: UConn – The Huskies have been monsters in the Big East and had a great team in '04. But they were a George Mason run away from their second title of the decade in '06. Can you imagine that game Florida Vs. UConn? Just to get to the Championship game. So much NBA talent – head – going – to – explode.
5. Duke – Winning in 2001 with arguable the best team of the decade – Jason Williams, Shane Battier, Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy, Nate James and Chris Duhon. Had more wins in the 2000's than any other program with 291, won 7 ACC Tourney Championships and four regular season Championships. But played in only two Final Fours and came up very short later in the decade – by Duke standards.
4. Florida – I know what you are thinking how can the only back-to-backers in the decade be 4th. A couple of reasons. The "What have you done for me lately" mentality kicks in hard since the last title. Only won three SEC tourney championships, but only one outright SEC regular season championship and two co-championships.
3. Kansas – Consistency kills. From Roy Williams to Bill Self, the Jayhawks never slipped. Never fell into the funk that Florida did. One very good team with Kirk Hinrich, Nick Collison that played in two Final Fours and then one great team in the 2008 Jayhawks, led by Bradon Rush, Mario Chalmers, Sherron Collins, Darrel Arthur, and Darnell Jackson. They also dominated the Big 12, like no other powerhouse dominated their conference with seven total regular season Championships.
2. Michigan State – One National Championship, four Final Four's (with the '99 Final Four, they made three appearances in a row. Only other team to do that is UCLA in the last ten years). Fall victim to the fact that they never dominated a conference that was very weak for most of the decade, winning only three regular season Championships and only one tourney crown in 2000. The 2005 team is one of my favorite teams of the decade with Shannon Brown, Maurice Ager, and Drew Neitzel which beat Adam Morrison's 43 points and Gonzaga in triple-overtime in the Maui Invitational.
1. North Carolina – Two National Championships, four Final Fours, and probably has built the biggest and best recruiting/NBA pipeline ever. UNC does not rebuild – they "reload". But then you have the Matt Doherty fail. Doherty took the team from No. 1 in the country in his first season to 8-20 in his second to 17-15 in his third. He had players, the same players the Williams won with in 2005. We can not forget Tyler Hansbrough. Without him, 2006 would have been difficult. This program has returned to dominance and there is not end in sight.
Coach of the Decade Award – Tom Izzo. Roy Williams would be a very close second, but Izzo just wins. And like many of the top coaches, his passion is obvious. Izzo has also become such a part of the community like that make the fans love him even more.
College Basketball Mini Hits
- Evan Turner is expect to be back tonight against Indiana, earlier than first thought. And all is right in the Buckeye nation.
- No. 4 Purdue beat the Gophers pretty handily, 79-60. The first half was close only because the Boilermakers could not shot the ball. That changed in the second half.
- No. 2 Texas was pushed by Arkansas 96-85. Even with foul trouble, Damion James won the game with a couple big jump shots to seal the game.
- UNC lost to Charleston 79-82. While it is big for Charleston, it is still early January. Everything will be OK. UNC will be just fine, they just need to get healthy.
Landon Donovan Has Arrived In England
The US Soccer golden boy is set to begin his 10-week loan with Everton which is a soccer club in the English Premier League.
"I am ready to enjoy it and I want to personally get myself sharp while I am here," Donovan said Tuesday. "Tim Howard has had nothing but great things to say about this team so I am excited. Going into a World Cup year this experience will keep me sharp."
The loan is great for Donovan as he has come into his own as a player. With his showing with the US in the Confederations Cup and with the LA Galaxy, Donovan is looking to replace the issues he has had in Europe with a good spell with Everton.
This loan also increase the amount of attention surrounding the US National Team's opening group stage match against England in South Africa this summer. SideNote: ESPN will be showing World Cup games in 3-D. WHAT?
Donovan will need sometime to get back into shape, but this is a great situation for him. Donovan is a very sensitive person, and his play fluctuates with his emotions. So having Howard there is key. A fellow American who has seen Donovan play to the best of his ability and can be there to give guidance if needed.


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Friday, February 18, 2011
Thank You...
Thank you, thank you, thank you...to Medgadget, to Epocrates, and to Lenovo, for uniting our community by offering a glimpse of the numerous, amazing medical blogs "out there" through your annual contest. Like last year, my eyes are a little brighter to such infinite talent in the medical writing world. Thank you for your energy brought to this endeavor. To my fellow nominees and winners, my heartiest congratulations on your recognition. Well-deserved and well-placed, each and every one of you. To my fellow nominees and finalists in the Best Literary category, it is truly my honor and pleasure to be listed beside each of you. A reward in and of itself. Thank you for your passionate words and eloquent insights.
Finally, to my readers--my amazing, faithful, insightful, intelligent, and devoted readers--I thank you always for your support, for embracing my words, and for making this such a thrilling personal experience. Your friendships and kindnesses outweigh any awards or votes I may ever receive. Thank you...
There are times when I simply cannot believe that I have been blogging for over a year. November, 2009, in fact, was the official start of this endeavor and now, with the blink of an eye, we sit in the year 2011 with anticipation for another spring and summer to roll around.
When I had first started out, I was diligent and adamant about posting three stories a week, aiming for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Although it was extremely hard work and, at times, exhausting, the rewards were worth it. I remember being in Hilton Head, last March, and staying up until 3 am to finish a post for that Wednesday. Of course, the next day I was a mess on the tennis courts, but I reasoned it was a small price to pay.
As some of you may have noticed, then, I've slacked off a bit since those days of three posts a week. It was late fall/early winter when I finally was able to breath out and not carry around too much guilt if I didn't get several postings done in one week. Sure, I think about writing a story here and a story there, but it was also nice to focus a little more on work, on family, and, especially, on my kids. Something had to give and, unfortunately, it was my blogging.
That said, I am going to try harder to pick up the pace again. Some weeks may entail only one posting, some weeks two. I think the days of three postings a week, though, may be behind us. I thank you, though, for sticking this out with me. The only reason I am still going, of course, is because you, the reader, have been so committed. For that, I thank you.
Finally, I have been asked repeatedly over the past year if there are any posts that are my absolute favorites. It's a question that I can't answer. I view my posts, my stories, as works of literature (in a feeble sort of way), and I don't know if I can pick out a batch of favorites. I do know that the majority of my stories focus on compassion and kindness and those little, obscure moments of humanity that many might miss. When I finish another posting, if I am smiling, then I know I have done some good.
Intrigued by the question, though, I did review my library of postings and was able to pull out several that really hit home with me. And my readers. If you are a new reader to my blog, this might be a great way to catch up on some of my perspective. If you are a tried and true steady reader, these old stories might be a fun read (again). I thank you for visiting some of my older works. So, onward...
If you want to learn a bit more about me;
Against The Norm
The Quivering Finger
Blogging & Me
More about my family;
My Buddy, For Always
Dear Australia
The Fringe Benefits
The Beaten Path
A Mother's Cry
Grandpa's Grandkids
Heroes Among Us--Gigi
A Love Story
The Emaciated Shoulder
No Second Chances
This Father's Daughter
The Damaged Eyes of Alcoholism
The Appreciative Cashier
No Love For A Father
The Pit Stop
The Witness
Please Make Her Comfortable
The Half-Load Predicament
All Bound Up
My John Deere Cap
Double Crack
It Wasn't Me!
How's that for a start? Looking at the list myself, I keep wanting to add to it...it's hard for me to pick one "baby" over another. Some of the funnies, even, have gotten me into trouble. Can you do me a favor, though? I would love to hear from you--to know what previous postings or stories may have hit home with you, hit that raw nerve or made you smile or burst out laughing. Even from ones I haven't mentioned.
Again, big thanks and kudos for all of your support over the past year. I am a lucky and fortunate guy. Happy (and sad) reading...and have a great weekend. See you next week...
14 comments:
- jimbo26 said...
Thank YOU Jim , from another Jim in the UK . :-)
- February 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Love, love, loving your writings and your heart... Keep up the fabulous work! Hugs
- February 18, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Congrats Jim!
I have been reading your blog for about a year and half. I don't think that I have ever commented though. Time for a change. I find all of the posts very thought provoking and so uplifting. One such post was about the brother who saved his little brother from a fire-cracker. I teared up many times. Your blog is great because there is compassion, tough love, and just good old fashioned love and most of all your faith (religous) that pours from your writings. To pick one or two would be impossible because of the emotions that come pouring out of the reader. No wonder there is a list. Great job and Thank you for sharing. The posts are so powerful that more than once I thought you should share them in a book.
- February 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- Unknown said...
Jim, I always wondered how you were able to keep up that "three posts a week" pace! Whew!
I don't blame you for not trying that again, but I am glad to hear you are going to try and post a little more frequently than you have been of late.
I have been following your blog since the beginning and I look forward to many more posts!
Looking at you list of favorites, some of them I remember without rereading (because they touched me in some way). A Mother's Cry, Heroes Among Us - Gigi, No Second Chances and My John Deere Cap.
Of course, if I had the time to review your blog, I'm sure I would come up with many more. Thanks for sharing these stories with us!
- February 18, 2011 at 12:15 PM
The link to PLZ MAKE HER COMFY does not work.
- February 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM
- Katie Axelson said...
I remember when blogs were MWF. Not going to lie, that's how I told the days of the week that Christmas break.
In general, I rarely reread anything. Life's too short and there's too much new stuff to read... but more than once I have found myself scrolling through the archives to reread posts that have touched me in one way or another. Of course, I can't think of any off of the top of my head. But next time I'm creeping on an old post, I'll make a new comment.
Around the beginning to 2011 I looked back at my posts for 2010 and tried to pick a few favorites. Well, a few turned into a lot, and I finally decided that the "My Collection of Favorites" was just going to have to stay as a draft because I like all of them... Good for you for being able to narrow it down!
<>< Katie
- February 18, 2011 at 7:32 PM
- Winking Doll said...
Congrads! And keep posting :)
- February 19, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- thatsit said...
The Damaged Eyes of Alcoholism really hit home for me. I didn't have near the struggles your patient did but your story showed me the direction I could have gone. I go back to that story occasionally on a bad day and remember, I can fail at a million things in a day but if I'm sober at that end of the day the day was not a failure.
Thank you.
- February 19, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- Marcy Hall said...
go, jim, go!!! :) do what you are comfortable with. we are all with you. rabbits included.
- February 19, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Rositta said...
It doesn't matter how often you write or not, I will always read your posts. I've pretty much stopped blogging, I just found that after 5 years I ran out of things to write about. You on the other hand always have lots to say. The stories that touched me the most are the ones about the elderly...ciao
- February 20, 2011 at 12:05 AM
Double Butt is number one~! Also, the woman who talked to you in the variety store and her daughter needed a psych eval prev. night— totally weird, but I bet happens a lot?!
Congrats on your nomination! Well-deserved. Glad you're taking family first! Three a week is a lot, maybe one, or one every other week. Children are only children until they're adults, and then they're not children anymore, but having their own...
- February 20, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Smalltown RN said...
That's a great list....I have read most of those posts. I don't think I can get use to calling you Jim...you are "Doc" to me and always will be.
I have so enjoyed your blog...you are a natural storyteller...hence your blog title.
Your ER stories are so true to life and have touched me in so many ways. Like you I have seen humanity at is worst and best...and out of quite dark moments comes light.
What I can't believe is that you have only been blogging for such a short period of time and have managed to gain such a following...your words and posts explain this .....
Congratulations Doc....keep the true to life stories coming.
As for the frequency of posts...post when you can...not as a duty...we will all be here to read what you post when you do!
- February 22, 2011 at 1:18 PM
- Karen said...
Oh, no! Just when I thought I had the vision out of my mind, you point us yet again to DOUBLE CRACK! Arghhhh! LOL No, I won't be reading that one again, but thanks for posting these. I may have missed some along the way and it'll be nice to go back and take a look.
- February 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM
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Woto Jim! Snuck back here for a quick peek and spotted this post. I agree with other commentors here that however often you write, I will read. I'm here not for the quantity, but the quality. I don't get here enough these days; I wish I could, but when I do, it's like chocolate and rose. Huzzah!
It's difficult to pick a single post. I giggle, I tear up, I have been rendered speechless on occasion. However, the most memorable would have to be No Nadia. I told my kids about that one and, ma-yan, my son STILL goes on and on about black-and-blue-ball-smacker!! *sigh*
If I may murder the words of another famous storyteller, Write On Good Sir, Write On!
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Devilish dilemma: Pick up what you pay for
When Needful Things, the used-furniture and collectibles shop on West Main Street, opened in the mid-'90s, I was charmed by the name. I knew it came from a Stephen King book about a similar shop that was run by the devil.
I also knew the place had to be a bit idiosyncratic, as it doesn't have a telephone– which meant that when Needful Things customer Robin Stafford emailed me about a dispute she was having with the shop, I knew I'd be interviewing the owner, Jack Lord, in person.
But first, Stafford's story. In June, she bought two leather chairs from Lord for $150 and said she'd return to pick them up. Lord asked that she do that within two weeks. But "things kept coming up," Stafford wrote in her email, "namely that my three children were always with me, and I don't have room for the chairs when they're in the car." Then Stafford and her family went on vacation.
"When we got back, there was an unfriendly message on voice mail asking me to get the chairs." (Perhaps Lord's aversion to telephones only applies to incoming calls.) On August 6, about six weeks after the purchase, Stafford's husband went to the shop and was told by Lord that he had sold the chairs to someone else and, she claims, that he wouldn't refund the $150.
While Lord was willing to issue store credit, Stafford wanted her money back. So she went to the shop and claims that Lord was "incredibly rude," refused again to return her money, and "suggested that she check with other stores in town" to learn their policies.
"I asked where the sign was about the policy, and he pointed to a small, handwritten" sign, she wrote, "taped inside a 3 1/2 x 5 picture frame that was anything but obvious."
She later dropped a letter off at the shop, asking for $125; she would be willing to forfeit $25 and consider it a "handling fee." A week later, having heard nothing from Lord, she contacted me.
I began by calling two similar businesses, Circa and 2nd Wind, to see how they handle unclaimed furniture. Circa owner Jackie Binder says that she's never had the situation arise, but that she'd "probably just give a refund" for the same amount, unless she'd ended up selling the item for less than the customer had paid.
Pat Millen, co-owner of 2nd Wind, once waited between six months and a year for a customer to return before she reluctantly sold the furniture. Although she would have returned the money in full, the original buyer never reappeared. (When I called, coincidentally, she was again– for only the second time in 2nd Wind's history– trying to get a customer to pick up his merchandise; for six months the store has been waiting for the man to claim furniture he paid almost $1,000 for.)
When I visited Needful Things, I asked Lord if his policy was posted anywhere, and he pointed to a sign on the wall that states, in big letters, that unclaimed merchandise will be subject to resale after 30 days. He also showed me the small notice Stafford saw, which was almost completely obscured by the merchandise around it on a counter. Stafford claims that the wall sign wasn't there when she went in.
Lord and Stafford have known each other for several years; Stafford used to work for Terracottage before it left West Main Street for Belmont (and was renamed Two French Hens). Because of Stafford's background in the field, Lord believes she should have realized what a problem storage is for such stores and simply claimed the chairs within two weeks.
Lord told me that, after receiving Stafford's letter, he mailed her a check for $125. When she didn't receive it, he paid her in cash.
I asked Lord why he doesn't have a phone, and his answer was simple: "I don't want one." When I suggested that perhaps being accessible by phone would make situations such as Stafford's easier to resolve, however, he refused to budge.
Finally, I asked why he had named his business after a store owned by the devil. He laughed and replied, "I'm only a minor demon." Well, that's a relief.
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The male dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, are known to marine biologists for their messy social entanglements. Their relationships with each other are so unusual—they're more like the intricate webs of the Mafia than the vertical hierarchies of chimpanzees—that, in a new paper, one team of scientists argues that the dolphins live in a social system that is "unique among mammals." Intriguingly, the researchers also suggest that these complex, and often cooperative, relationships may stem in part from one simple, unexpected factor: the dolphins' low cruising speed.
Mammals have evolved a variety of social structures. For example, chimpanzees live in what ethologists call "semiclosed groups"—that is, a community comprised of individuals who are well-known to each other. The members generally aren't friendly to chimps in other communities; the males practice what's known as community defense, patrolling and guarding their territory and fighting their neighbors. Inside that tight group, the chimpanzees also have male-male alliances.
At first glance, dolphins seem to have a somewhat similar social system. Two or three adult males form a tight alliance and cooperate to herd a female for mating. (Female dolphins rarely form strong alliances.) Other male teams may try to spirit away the female—particularly if she is in estrus. To fight back, the first-level alliances form partnerships with other first-level alliances, thus creating a larger second-level alliance. Some of these second-level alliances have as many as 14 dolphins and can last 15 years or more. On some occasions, the second-level alliance can call in the troops from yet another group, "a third-order alliance," as the researchers call them—leading to huge battles with more than 20 dolphins biting and bashing each other with their heads and tails over the right to keep or steal a single female.
But are these dolphin battles analogous to what male chimpanzees do? That is, are the dolphin alliances also fighting over territory? To find out, a research team headed by Richard Connor, a cetacean biologist at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, tracked 12 of the second-order alliances in Shark Bay—a 13,000-square-kilometer bay in western Australia—during the peak mating season from July to November over 6 years. The scientists monitored a 600-square-kilometer region of the bay, keeping tabs on every member in each alliance, the ranges, or areas, they regularly traveled, their behaviors, whether the males had a female with them, and—when there was a battle—which groups came to each other's aid. Connor's group then calculated the total home range for each alliance and mapped the degree of overlap between ranges.
The team discovered that, unlike chimps, none of the male groups were patrolling and defending a large community territory. Instead, the dolphins live in a society with a mosaic of many overlapping male and female ranges, without any apparent boundaries. "There isn't a community border that males or females are patrolling," says Connor, whose team reports its findings online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Instead, he says, they live in an open society, with groups teaming up for a bit and splitting apart—all the while doing what Connor summarizes as "soap operatics," trying to stay on top of who did what to whom, while deciding whether they should stay friends or become foes.
"It's just unprecedented; there's nothing like this in other mammal societies," says Srđan Randić, the study's lead author and Connor's former graduate student, who is now a doctoral candidate at Paris University-South XI.
Although bonobos, orangutans, and Western gorillas have less hostile relationships with neighboring groups than do chimpanzees, none of these species has the tolerance of the dolphins, or their ability to form alliances outside of their immediate community. Among mammals, only elephants come close; though they live in matrilineal groups, elephants maintain relationships outside of these, forming large, stratified societies. But even these large societies are still primarily with close kin and are not changeable as are the dolphins' alliances.
Because female dolphins give birth to only single calves that are separated by several years, the males cannot count on forming alliances with close kin. Instead, male dolphins must learn how to make and maintain friendships—demanding social skills that are likely to have contributed to the dolphins' large brains, says Connor. But it's not just the number of social relationships the dolphins must maintain, he adds. "It's the uncertainty of those third-level alliances. It's those guys you rarely see. What have they been up to since the last time you met them? Are they still on your side?"
Among mammals, humans, elephants, and dolphins are ranked highly by scientists for their level of social cognition—a convergence that Connor's team suggests may be due in part to the minimal amount of energy these species expend when just cruising along. The dolphins, they add, offer a model for how a low cruising speed may lead to social smarts. Because the Shark Bay dolphin population is large and has overlapping territories, it doesn't take long for one group of dolphins moving at their normal speed to meet up with another, possibly competitive, group. In those situations, the dolphins are forced to do the two things that scientists say enhance social cognition: make many friends and form group alliances. Or as Connor puts it, "If you're going to run into your enemies, you better be with your friends, or have some that are close by, willing to be recruited."
"It's an extraordinary study and shows what you can learn from a long-term project on a fairly undisturbed [dolphin] population," says Peter Corkeron, a cetacean biologist with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
As for the suggestion that there may be a connection between social complexity and low-cost locomotion, just think about what happened when humans got the wheel, says Richard Wrangham, a primatologist at Harvard University. "Invent the chariot, and win an empire!"


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The Time Machine in Alphabetical Order (2010) - Thomson & Craighead
The Time Machine in alphabetical order is a complete rendition of the 1960's film version of HG Wells Novella re-edited by us into alphabetical order from beginning to end. In doing so, we attempt to perform a kind of time travel on the movie's original time line through the use of a system of classification.
We consider this experiment as using what we have decided to call 'a constrained editing technique' in light of the literary artistic movement Oulipo who would make works through the use of constrained writing techniques.-- FROM THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT
oops (2010) - Chris Beckman
Somewhere between a home-video mixtape and a postmodern travelogue, "oops"—a ten-minute art video composed entirely of appropriated YouTube videos, seamlessly stitched together via a motif of camera drops—serves both as transportative adventure and metaphorical elucidation of YouTube itself (i.e. endless related videos), exemplifying the Internet's infinite repository of "throwaway" social documentation. From suburbia to subterranea, the radically shuffling environs induce a vertiginous yet aesthetically contextual thread—a transcendent, reincarnating POV; our omnipresent Camera—by which, the nature of the ultra-verité videos, eschewing any filmic grounding, plunges the viewer into a relationship of fleeting immediacy w/ its many videographers: a self-portrait at arms length, the digital blur of an obscuring thumb, a disembodied narrating voice.
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In order to explore the contradictions and the potential of time- based art, especially in its cinematic guise, I trace a number of overlapping and conflicting genealogies of film and video art. I believe that only by creating a constellation of such genealogies can the logic and structural antinomies of film and video art—and of time-based art in general—be brought into relief and related to the wider changes in the political economy of time during the past decades, during which the West has seen a gradual demise of Fordist assembly-line production and a disintegration of the strict separation between work and "free time." The classic alternation of work and leisure can be called, with Guy Debord, a form of pseudocyclical time, an apparent return to agricultural, "mythical" cycles in a temporal regime built on irreversible, historical time—or rather, on a reified form of such historical time, that of commodity production.
"Once there was history, but not any more," because the class of owners of the economy, which is inextricably tied to economic history, must repress every other irreversible use of time because it is directly threatened by them all. The ruling class, made up of specialists in the possession of thingswho are themselves therefore possessed by things, is forced to link its fate with the preservation of this reified history, that is, with the preservation of a new immobility within history.7
This immobility is manifested in pseudocyclical time, a commodified temporality that is homogenous and suppresses "any qualitative dimension" or, at most, mimics such dimensions in moments of sham liberation.8 For Debord, time-based art from the 1960s could consist only of such pseudoindividual, pseudoliberatory moments ...


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Writing medical malpractice insurance isn't an easy way to earn a living. But ProAssurance (PRA) is doing a pretty good job.
At any unpredictable moment, a runaway jury can hit a medical provider -- and hence its insurer -- with a big award. Doctors and hospitals feel that the premiums charged by malpractice insurers are already plenty high, and they balk at premium increases. Profit margins are hard to maintain, and the incidence of claims is hard to predict.
Despite these obstacles, ProAssurance, a malpractice insurer based in Birmingham, Ala., has shown a profit in every year for the past decade. The year just concluded looks likely to be its second best, with earnings of $4.52 a share, $0.12 behind the record total of $4.65 a share in 2011.
ProAssurance is also a debt-free company, an attribute you don't see too often these days. Of the 500 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, only 21 are debt-free. (ProAssurance isn't in the S&P 500.)
On top of that, ProAssurance's stock is inexpensive. It sells for only 10x the past four quarters' earnings and only 1.2 x book value (corporate net worth per share).
Of the six analysts who publish opinions on ProAssurance, five rate it a Buy. But as far as I've noticed, no one is pounding the table for it. The one analyst who rates it a Hold is J. Paul Newsome of Sandler O'Neill -- and he has rated it a Hold since at least June 2010. Back then, the stock was $30. Now it's at $46.
What's more, the analysts' price target hardly seems aggressive. The consensus is that the stock should hit $50 by a year from now. I believe a more reasonable one-year price target would be $54, which would be up about 17% from Thursday's closing level. That figure would be 13x analysts' consensus guess about 2013 earnings, which is $4.18 a share.
The dividend yield isn't bad, a little over 2%. In my opinion, there is ample room for the dividend to be raised in the future.


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It's an unseasonably cold day in Seattle, and Rebecca is standing in her kitchen, preparing for her regular Sunday afternoon outing. As she gathers her backpack and grocery bags, her dog sniffs around excitedly, anticipating the long walk and treats that await.
In the course of their errands, Rebecca and her dog will visit several stores and coffee shops, a bakery and a chocolate factory. But instead of walking in the front door, she plans to head out back and go Dumpster diving.
Rebecca, 51, owns a small duplex and has a job running an art program for a health care organization. She's also an artist in her own right whose accomplishments include a piece that hangs in the Seattle Art Museum.
And she gets 99 percent of her food from the Dumpster.
"It's so easy to eat for free," she says. "The only things I buy are butter and milk."
It's no secret that American culture is a consumer culture. We like big cars, big houses and big bags of things bought at big malls and big-box retailers. On the opposite end of the spectrum are the few people who call themselves anti-consumerists, freegans, frugalists or just plain Dumpster divers. Whatever the moniker, these people delight in drastically reducing their consumer spending, finding life's essentials at bargain prices or paying nothing at all.
"I like getting stuff free. It's like a treasure hunt," says Ran Prieur, 40, who lives in Washington state and whose extremely frugal life includes occasional Dumpster diving. "It's kind of similar to what you get from gambling."
It's hard to say how many people are trying to live this way, but frugal communities say they are seeing more interest. A couple years ago, a group of friends in San Francisco made a compact to try not to buy anything new for a year; now there are "Compactors" all over the world. The Freecycle Network, through which people give away stuff they no longer need rather than trashing it, boasts thousands of participants.
Freegans — whose efforts to live outside the conventional economic system may include hitchhiking, foraging for food and eschewing regular jobs — say there is growing interest in adopting at least parts of their philosophy.
"A lot of people are recognizing that there are a lot of ways that people can provide for their needs," said Adam Weissman, a spokesman for the main freegan Web site.
Being thrifty
Rebecca, who asked that her real name not be used because she worries she could lose her job if her employer knew about her Dumpster diving, doesn't need to get food for free.
She says she likes the thrill of the chase, and the surprising bounty of good food she finds. And despite holding a steady job and having grown up in an affluent family, she says she sometimes worries she won't have enough money. She also likes to "save a little here, save a little there," so she can afford splurges like a laptop computer and keep funding her art.
For Rebecca, browsing Dumpsters also is a way to protest the country's rampant consumer culture. She has salvaged furniture, clothes, art supplies and even appliances. Still, even she isn't totally immune to the culture she avoids — feeling blue recently, she went in for a little retail therapy and bought a new pair of sneakers.
Rebecca grew up in Greenwich, Conn., the daughter of an ad man. As early as high school, she remembers searching through garbage while walking the streets of New York City. Her mother would walk ahead, pretending not to know her. Nobody else bothered her.
"That's when I really started liking things cheap," she says.
After high school, Rebecca went to art school, but in 1979, she decided to drop out and head to Seattle. Her artwork includes materials she's found in the garbage or on the street.
To many first-time Dumpster divers, the most surprising thing is how much good stuff is out there.
Prieur, for example, says his trash bin excursions have netted him smoked salmon, high-end bacon, olive oil, plenty of produce and other goodies. Prieur, who owns a piece of land but has no permanent home, estimates that when he's staying with his sister in Seattle, he gets 20 to 30 percent of his groceries from garbage bins.
His habit elicits mixed responses. A favorite item at his sister's house is "Dumpstered" apple pie. But he'll sometimes invite people over for dinner and get the cautionary response: "Just promise not to put any Dumpster food in it."
Says Prieur: "There's a big emotional thing attached to not eating out of the garbage."
Baby squash, popcorn and granola
When Rebecca reaches the grocery store, she moves with purpose across the parking lot to a fenced-in Dumpster. With practiced nonchalance, she opens the gate and walks in, closing it behind her. On the ground, she immediately finds a bag of baby squashes. They go in the backpack to be steamed up for dinner.
Next, she hikes herself up and peers in the Dumpster itself. Out comes a bag of popcorn, a bag of granola and a package of rice. All are torn, but the contents appear clean.
"Aw darn," she calls from within. "A box of chocolates — but they're empty."
Rebecca passes up pasta and a few other items, explaining that she prefers ready-made food because she doesn't like to cook.
The granola isn't her taste, either — she's a self-described picky eater — but she can give it to her boyfriend.
She also passes up a bag of flavored potato chips, explaining, "I don't like salt and vinegar."
Climbing out of the Dumpster, Rebecca opens the gate again and heads out.
In 10 years of serious Dumpster diving, Rebecca says she's never gotten sick eating food from the trash.
She has only occasionally been hassled by a store manager, but she will usually talk her way out of it by spinning a story that she recently lost her job. People sometimes lecture her, telling her eating out of a Dumpster isn't good for her. She generally plays along with the spiel, "because most people assume that's who you are — either homeless or mentally ill," she says.
'I hope that Starbucks has some decaf'
As she heads further into Seattle's University District, Rebecca's on the lookout for coffee.
"I hope that Starbucks has some decaf because I'm out of decaf," she says.
But after rifling through several garbage bags, she only comes up with a pile of breakfast sandwiches. She feeds one to her dog.
In her escapades, Rebecca has found CDs, a $100 bill, an answering machine and a five-pound bag of coffee. It often amazes her to come across perfectly good things in the trash, and she will find herself speculating about what personal decision — a fight with a boyfriend, maybe? — would cause someone to throw out something like a CD.
Around the end of the school year, Rebecca will spend more time in the neighborhood near Seattle's University of Washington to forage for things that people throw out when they move — art supplies, coffee makers, that sort of thing. She also likes to hit the fraternity houses.
"Good God," she says, "they'll throw out everything."
251 million tons of trash
The same could be said for Americans in general. Americans produce about 4.6 pounds of waste per person per day — or nearly a ton a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
For many who get their essentials secondhand or for free, one motivation is that they are disgusted by such waste. But their lifestyle is dependent on the consumer culture that they reject.
If Americans didn't demand pristine produce and bread baked fresh daily, there would be little for Dumpster divers to find. And if we didn't lust for new couches long before the old springs had gone soft, and new jeans months before their current ones had developed holes, there would be little for thrift store aficionados and garage sale lovers to buy.
Frugalists say they there are plenty of places to find stuff, if you know where to look. They get things on the sidewalk, through Internet posts and at organized giveaway events.
Laura Thompson, 57, does most of her "shopping" in the bathtub, with a stack of catalogs that she never orders from. When she really needs something, she either goes to a thrift store or tries to find it for free. Recently she lamented that she needed a raincoat, and a friend who likes secondhand shopping gave Thompson the one she was wearing.
Thompson is most meticulous about one thing: paper towels. She's had the same roll of Costco paper towels since March 2006, and she estimates that there's still about an inch left. If a houseguest asks for a paper towel, they most likely will be turned down.
Thompson only uses paper towels for "icky" jobs, like getting oil off anchovies. She relies on rags and cloth napkins for most other needs. She does have a little bit of a cheat, though: If she goes to a restaurant and is given a stack of paper napkins, she will take those home and use them.
Thompson, who also lives in Seattle, has been trying to conserve paper towels for about 10 years, motivated by a combination of environmental activism and lifelong frugality.
'Down to the underwear'
Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller once held high-powered telecommunications jobs and were self-professed yuppies. Then in the mid-1990s, they read a book called "Your Money or Your Life" and had a revelation: They could just stop working.
Since then, they have lived on investments, occasional sales of Blix's crafts and, in recent years, Heitmiller's part-time work as a handyman. They are so enamored of their simple lifestyle that the Seattle couple even wrote their own book about it: "Getting a Life."
One day in early spring, Blix was dressed in a pink sweater, turquoise turtleneck, khaki pants and knit socks. Everything she was wearing had come from a secondhand shop, "down to the underwear," she noted — except the socks, which were knit by a friend.
When Heitmiller asked his wife whether everything he was wearing had come from a secondhand shop, too, she looked him over quizzically and said she didn't know what underwear he was wearing.
Blix and Heitmiller started their post-regular work life living on about $30,000 a year. Lately, their budget has crept up to about $45,000, largely because of rising costs for health insurance and a decision to eat more organic food. They also travel more often to California now to visit their grandchildren.
To maintain their lifestyle in a comfortable three-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex, the two have become avid secondhand shoppers, as well as what Blix calls "curbside shoppers." That means that they find things, like their coffee table, sitting outside with a "free" sign on it. Other items, including a television and kitchen table, were inherited.
The hardwood floor in their house was salvaged from another house, and Heitmiller bartered his handyman skills in exchange for some leftover carpeting they used elsewhere in the house.
Blix keeps a list of things that they would like to have, and she says she's often surprised at how things fall in her lap. Recently they were considering buying some items for their front yard when a friend called with some mulch to give away.
"If you put a need out there in the universe, you'll be surprised," she said.
Blix doesn't think she spends more time shopping than most Americans spend at the mall — the very mention of which makes her physically shudder. The couple goes out for a meal about once a month, and they'll occasionally visit a coffee shop. Heitmiller has a cell phone for his handyman business; Blix does not want one.
'A leftover from previous thinking'
Blix, 58, and Heitmiller, 62, say that, in deciding to live simply, they also are forced to talk honestly about money, something many couples don't do. Still, like any couple, they have the occasional financial disagreement. The difference is that their most memorable disagreement is one that most couples wouldn't remember at all.
What happened is this: Blix took a Costco gift card she'd received and bought a new set of flatware, to replace the set Heitmiller had had since his first marriage in 1968, without so much as a word of discussion beforehand. To Heitmiller, it was an "oddity" that she would buy something new to replace something that worked just fine. To Blix, it was her money and she wanted new flatware.
On the rare occasions Blix has spent money like that, she calls it "a leftover from previous thinking," when she was more beholden to money.
The idea of not working sounds great to a lot of people, but there are downsides. Health care costs have risen substantially, and without an employer the couple is left to foot the bill themselves until Medicare kicks in. They have a high-deductible policy that doesn't cover prescription medication.
Over the years, the couple also has noticed that they have grown away from many of their old friends, although now they have a new group of friends who think more like them, including those active in what is called the Voluntary Simplicity movement.
Blix says another problem she has is "time management," meaning what to do with all the time she has because she doesn't work. "You really are faced with, 'What am I going to do with my life?' " she says. "It's something that I definitely work on."
Three Dumpsters of bread
It's looking more and more like rain as Rebecca walks along the water and through a park, pausing briefly to admire the view of Seattle's downtown. The aroma of rosemary and yeast fills the air. She is nearing one of Seattle's favorite artisan bakeries.
Behind the bakery sit three tan Dumpsters, each filled with nothing but bread — every type you can think of, bagged and looking as mouth-watering as they do on the shelves at Whole Foods. It doesn't even smell bad here — the store's other Dumpsters, containing actual trash, are around the front of the store.
Rebecca pulls out a loaf of ciabatta for herself, and then roots around for a whole-grain loaf for her boyfriend of 18 years. He's not much of a Dumpster diver himself, but he will eat some things she finds.
A white hatchback pulls up and three young guys get out and head for the Dumpsters. Methodically, they begin gathering bread for themselves and their friends. They pause, arms and mouths full of bread, to discuss the merits of ciabatta vs. olive bread. No one comes out of the bakery to bother them.
Next, Rebecca heads toward an outpost of the local food co-op. Behind the shiny new building are two large Dumpsters, and next to those someone has set aside produce boxes. Rebecca says the good fresh fruits and vegetables are usually in there, but today they are empty. No matter; hiking herself up on the large Dumpster, she finds the mother lode — a breakfast burrito, samosas, pulled pork sandwiches and vegetarian burgers, all individually wrapped in tinfoil and some still warm. They aren't set to expire until the next day.
"This is a nice catch today," she says.
It's raining as she begins the long uphill trek back to her house, her backpack filled with enough food to last a couple of days, until her next trip through the city's Dumpsters.
"I'm a working girl," she says. "I have a job. I own my own house. And I Dumpster dive. So there you go."
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Following Chaput into the political fray
RENDER UNTO CAESAR: SERVING THE NATION BY LIVING OUR CATHOLIC BELIEFS IN POLITICAL LIFE, by Archbishop Charles Chaput
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Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver refuses to be quiet -- especially when it comes to Catholic politicians and abortion.
The outspoken Capuchin has repeatedly told elected officials who support abortion rights they shouldn't take Communion. And he's quick to correct Catholics who compromise on the issue.
Chaput's new book, Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life , is a call-to-arms for fellow Christians to follow him into the political fray.
Religion News Service caught up with Chaput to talk politics and theology, as the Democrats were holding their national convention in his backyard. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Religion News Service: Democrats are meeting in your hometown. Does that make you want to run for the Rockies?
Chaput: (Laughs) No, this will be an interesting week. But I have no desire to run. I welcome the Democrats with enthusiasm and pray they make good decisions in their choice of platform and candidates.
The Democrats already modified their platform on abortion. Do you like the changes?
In some ways I think it's worse than before. They took out the part saying that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare," and they added a modifier saying they "unequivocally" support it. That concerns me.
People probably don't know that you worked for the presidential campaigns of Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. So are you a secret liberal?
I don't know what that word means anymore. I certainly believe we have a common responsibility for each other. That would probably put me in the camp of those who think government should be more involved. If that makes me a liberal, I'm a liberal.
Some Catholics accused you of partisanship in 2004, when you publicly and frequently criticized Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry. Do you ever worry about crossing the line?
Partisanship is foolish for the church. If you are too much in line with any party, the party takes you for granted. But I wrote my book (Render Unto Caesar) to tell Catholics not to be frightened of that possibility. Wanting to protect human life is not a partisan issue.
People say the Catholics bishops' 2007 guide to "faithful citizenship" was aimed, in part, to quell the partisanship that erupted in 2004. Do you think that's true?
It's a much clearer presentation of abortion being the foundational issue of our time. Catholics are not single issue voters. But it's important to remember that the Civil War was fought over one issue.
You write in your new book that it would be "cowardly" not to criticize politicians who support embryonic stem cell research. Why have you not said anything about Sen. John McCain?
It's important that Sen. McCain makes his position very clear. If he publicly embraces embryonic stem cell research ...
But he has, many times. His position is well-known. In an article criticizing "Catholics for Obama" you took the trouble to find Obama's positive rating from Planned Parenthood of Illinois. Why don't you know this about McCain?
If a group came out "Catholics for McCain," I would criticize anyone who takes such a position (for embryonic stem cell research). You write an article and send it to me and I'll comment on it.
In a conflict between Catholic doctrine and the Constitution, which should a Catholic politician obey?
I don't see how this is possible. Our church has been in peaceful coexistence with our Constitution since the beginning. But a Catholic is always obliged to follow God's law rather than human law.
You write that Catholics who vote for pro-abortion rights politicians will have to explain themselves to aborted fetuses in the afterlife. Will they also have to explain themselves to war dead and victims of torture?
Absolutely. They're going to be waiting there for our response. It will be a moment of great embarrassment.
That aside, why should non-Catholics agree with church teaching on abortion?
This is not a Catholic position, it's a human rights issue that our faith encourages us to support. To identify this as a Catholic issue is a trap. It was the law of the land for decades. It was the way human beings thought human beings should be treated. That's the kind of question that irritates me.
You criticize Catholics who favor Obama, whom they disagree with on abortion but support for other reasons, saying such compromises have been made for 30 years and "and we still have about a million abortions a year." But haven't anti-abortion Republican presidents been sitting in the White House for 20 of the last 28 years?
I'm not a Republican nor promoting a Republican cause. It's issues that count. If we haven't made progress, let's keep trying. To give up is a foolish thing to do.
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Channing Tatum welcomed a baby girl with wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum on May 31 in London, where the 33-year-old actor was filming. Nearly a month later, the 33-year-old dad shared some friendly parenting advice with Extra cameras while promoting his action flick, "White House Down."
"I'll give you some baby advice, you're not going to do anything for the first six months," he said. "You're just like, can I have the baby at some point today?"
And you're never going to be so excited when something poos, cause it's like, 'Aw yeah, I'm in the game!' Let me have it, give it to me,' And then you give it back to her cause you know you don't really do very much.
Jamie Foxx, who has two teenage daughters of his own, piped in with some wisdom of his own.
"All of the stuff that your parents did to you, you're doing to try and it's not going to work," the 45-year-old actor said. "You be the father and you be the friend. You keep the doors open so they can come talk to you."


text: With Wall Street closed this morning and many people apprehensively awaiting Hurricane Sandy's approach on the East Coast, news site webpages were being constantly refreshed with expectant eyes looking for images of devastation. Droves of professional photographers put on their rain boots and set out to the front lines to be the eyes of news outlets, only to find not much going on yet. Aside from significant flooding in smaller towns, it looked like a normal rainy day. As photo editors watching the wires, and knowing how calm events like this can be right up until they're not calm at all, we here at Raw File sometimes marvel at photographers' ability to create something out of nothing. Here are some of our favorite creative techniques the pros use to infuse drama into a frame so that their images get picked for event stories, even when there's no news yet. The Silly Moment Stand outside anywhere long enough with your eyes and mind open, and you'll probably stumble across an odd visual moment. The pros are able to actually capture these on camera. All you need is two disparate elements, like bright public works suits and a Christmas tree, or a strange transitional moment, like someone running in the rain, to make an editor's highlight reel. Bravo to Brendan Smialowski and Jim Watson. Top photo: A reporter runs from Air Force One after U.S. President Barack Obama returned at Andrews Air Force Base Oct. 29, 2012 in Maryland. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. Bottom photo: Public Works personnel try to secure a tree while high winds begin to blow through Ocean City, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.The Literal Message Some editors don't want to ask too much from their audiences. These guys are best served by the literal photo. Story about Obama addressing the nation about the storm? How about a wet window with Air Force One in the background. Story about how the storm is affecting the presidential campaigns? How about a campaign sign underwater? Top photo: An Obama campaign sign rises above the floodwaters in front of a home as rain continues to fall in Norfolk, Virginia. Steve Helber/AP. Bottom photo: Air Force One arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in the rain from approaching Hurricane Sandy. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.Zig While Everyone Else Zags Kudos goes to Joe Cavaretta in Florida for this shot of sunbathers at the beach in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Its contrast to the rest of the photos makes it stand out, and also gives some temporal context by showing that the storm will eventually pass for those about to feel its full force. The contrast in the photo itself between people relaxing against the sand wall built to fend off Sandy's surge adds another level to our appreciation. Photo: A group of tourists from Argentina in Ft. Lauderdale Beach, Florida. Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/MCT via Getty Images.Go Graphic When in doubt, use an otherwise boring scene to make something graphic. Placing lines in the right place catches the eye and distracts the viewer from noticing you just shot a lock on a gate. Photos: The Petworth-Georgia Avenue metro station was closed for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call.Vignetting Perhaps the cheapest but most effective technique is to make your photo look like an instant classic through vignetting. It could be any other cloudy day, but next to a headline about a hurricane, the darkened corners pump up the drama just enough to hit home that ominous feeling. Photo: Two people stand near the edge of the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.Composition Wizards A well-placed vanishing point and tilted horizon is one of our most appreciated ways to squeeze water from a visual rock. These scenes have nothing going on, but the eye is drawn to them and doesn't want to look away. For photographers, this is like seeing a well-executed double play. It looks effortless and elegant, but it's hard to pull off. Top photo: A man watches as the tidal surge begins to cover the beach in Ocean City, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images. Bottom photo: Storm surge hits a small tree as winds from Hurricane Sandy reach Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Jessica Hill/AP.The Lone Walker These photos evoke more of our sympathy than appreciation. These poor photographers just have to sit there, waiting for someone to walk through their shot so that it means something instead of nothing. Instead of a plain scenery shot, now viewers can identify with a person and imagine what it's like to be there. Extra points for a dog. Photo: A partially submerged Coles Avenue in Amityville, New York. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images.Force It Located in an area that hasn't seen any waves yet? Make them yourself by grabbing a shot of cars driving through water. No need for your colleagues on the beach to get all the shots. Photo: A New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle drives through a flooded area of the FDR Drive at 116th Street in New York. Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images.


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Lawmaker to introduce legislation to require independent radiation tests of X-ray scanners
Steve Watson
January 31, 2012
The ranking Republican Senator on the Homeland Security Committee is poised to introduce legislation this week that would force the TSA to have independent tests carried out on the Backscatter radiation body scanners currently in use in hundreds of airports nationwide.
"Our bill would require the independent study on the possible health effects of the x-ray radiation emitted by some of the scanning machines and give airline passengers, especially those passengers in sensitive groups, such as pregnant women, clear notice of their ability to choose another screening option in lieu of exposure to ionizing radiation," Senator Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told The Register in an email.
Propublica reports that Collins' bill would make it a requirement for the TSA to find an independent laboratory to thoroughly test the levels of radiation being emitted by the scanners and evaluate the potential health risks.
"The peer-reviewed study, to be submitted to Congress, would also evaluate the safety mechanisms on the machine and determine whether there are any biological signs of cellular damage caused by the scans." the report states.
A draft of the bill requires the DHS's Under Secretary for Science and Technology to identify and contract with an independent testing lab "in consultation with the National Science Foundation, from among laboratories with expertise in the conduct of similar studies."
"I have urged TSA to move toward only radiation-free screening technology," Collins said in a statement to ProPublica. "In the meantime, an independent study is needed to protect the public and to determine what technology is worthy of taxpayer dollars."
Back In November, TSA head John Pistole reneged on a promise to the Senate to instigate further studies into the safety of radiation firing body scanners. Pistole had promised to commission further independent research into the safety risks associated with full body scanners, following a Europe wide ban on the machines. However, within two weeks the TSA head had backtracked, saying further study was unnecessary at this time.
Furthermore, despite numerous reports earlier this month suggesting that the TSA had agreed to buy equipment to test employees for radiation exposure, the agency itself later announced it has no intention of doing so.
The LA Times reported that the agency was planning to equip its security officers with individual radiation dosimeters, to test the levels of radiation they were being exposed to from backscatter x-ray body scanners.
However, a post from the TSA's official blog said that the Times report "missed the mark" and that there was no need for further testing.
Despite these claims, documents obtained by The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) show how the TSA "publicly mischaracterized" the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in stating that NIST had positively confirmed the safety of full body scanners in tests.
Numerous other studies conducted by prestigious universities and health authorities, including Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, the University of California, and the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, have warned that the devices will lead to an increase in cancers.
Despite the fact that almost every independent study has concluded that the machines will cause cancer cases to increase, the TSA routinely denies the threat, and has even claimed that the Johns Hopkins study validated the safety of the scanners, when in fact it said the opposite.
Johns Hopkins' biophysics expert Dr Michael Love warned that, "statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays," after conducting a study of the naked body scanners.
Scrutiny over radiation exposure was heightened recently following apparent efforts by the TSA to cover-up a "cluster" of cancer cases amongst scanner operators at Boston-Logan airport. According to FOIA documents obtained by the EPIC, when Union representatives in Boston discovered a "cancer cluster" amongst TSA workers linked with radiation from the body scanners, the TSA sought to downplay the matter and refused to issue employees with dosimeters to measure levels of exposure.
The documents indicated how, "A large number of workers have been falling victim to cancer, strokes and heart disease."
As we reported earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security is also set to expand the use of X-ray scanning machines at US border crossings, despite the availability of millimeter-wave machines that do the same job without emitting harmful radiation.
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It started out rough for the Lady Racers, but the UNOH women's basketball team is on a five-game winning streak after beating Walsh University on Wednesday and improving 7-8 midway through the season. And we're not just doing it against the cupcakes -- Walsh, Malone Univerity and Taylor University are all well-established and respected programs.
Senior guard Amanda Francis (Sidney Fairlawn H.S.) was named WHAC player of the week, too ... http://www.unohracer...article/726.php
This is a fun team to watch, getting out in transition and averaging almost 74 points per game.
Our next game is 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4 against Siena Heights University ... come on out and take in a game!
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