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John DiMattina
John DiMattina, 100, of Longboat Key, died May 9.
Born Nov. 13, 1908, in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was the second of 10 children born to Italian immigrant parents. He worked as a stockbroker and moved to Longboat Key in the early 1970s, after his company set up an office in Sarasota.
Mr. DiMattina was an original owner at Beach Harbor Club. He was a member of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church.
Mr. DiMattina is survived by his daughter, Faith Quinn, of London, and two grandchildren.
A funeral will take place Thursday, June 4, in Nacrawsburg, Pa.
Blanche Miller
Blanche Miller, 95, of Fairfield, Conn., and Longboat Key, died May 6.
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., Mrs. Miller was an avid bridge player and golfer.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Benjamin. She is survived by her daughters, Joan Burman, of Westport, Conn., Vivian Hyman, of Woodbridge, Conn., and Betsy Radler, of Fairfield; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Private services were held by immediate family members. Memorial contributions can be made to the Jewish Home for the Elderly, 175 Jefferson St., Fairfield, Conn., 06825.
John Schuler
John Schuler, 82, of Longboat Key, died May 12. Born April 10, 1927, in British Guiana, he was a former resident of St. Louis.
Mr. Schuler is survived by his wife of 60 years, Gerry; daughters Deborah and Pam; and sisters Marie Sharp, Doreen Janco and Monica Schuler.
Services will be held at a later date. Memorial donations can be made to the University of Florida, Department of Pediatrics, www.peds.ufl.edu.


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The delectable Sophie Dahl brings her culinary prowess to television with a six-part cookery series, The Delicious Miss Dahl, marrying her talent for storytelling with fresh, enticing recipes.
The delectable Sophie Dahl brings her culinary prowess to television with a six-part cookery series, The Delicious Miss Dahl, marrying her talent for storytelling with fresh, enticing recipes.
Initially known for an international modelling career, Sophie turned her focus to writing and is now a best-selling novelist and columnist who has written widely about her passion for food and cooking.
For Sophie, food and emotion are inextricably linked. Each episode of The Delicious Miss Dahl therefore, is themed around an emotional thread including romance, nostalgia and escapism. With food as the centrepiece, she revisits treasured places, revealing the personal resonance behind each of her recipes.
From the stony Sussex beach she played on as a child, to a hidden urban cemetery and its messages of enduring love, Sophie reflects on moments in her life that have shaped her approach to food. Sophie's quirky and unique approach to cooking makes this series a real feast - earthy, funny and, above all, straight from the heart.
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We chat to Sophie to her about the show, her favourite dishes and even Manly beach!
Why do you think Australians will love your series The Delicious Miss Dahl?
"It would be bold of me to assume they will love it – I can only hope people will appreciate it for the reasons I made it – that it involves lots of gorgeous food that is simple to make and then eat with great gusto! To my mind it should be a relaxing cosy thing to curl into of an evening, like putting an old jumper."
What is your most memorable moment from the series?
"When we made the nostalgia episode I went down to the seaside town that my granny had lived in, that I hadn't been to since she died, in 1997. It was odd to suddenly walk on the beach again, as a grownup, in a place that was such a formative part of my childhood. It was bittersweet."
In the show you explore the connection between emotion and food, what would you cook for a table full of your loved ones?
"My loved ones are a greedy bunch – I would make a huge mixture of things, a little risotto to start, and then probably a roast chicken with some bread sauce, roast potatoes and roasted beetroot, and a bowl of peas and mint, I would then have to have a cheese plate (for my brother Luke who like me, dreams of cheese) with quince and oatcakes, and then if everyone was still alive, a plum sorbet."
If you could cook one dish to sum you up as a person, what would it be and why?
"Something straightforward but with a sense of humour. I don't know – help – a raspberry fool?"
Have your experiences as a writer and a model influenced your cooking? Is so, how?
"I stopped modelling four years ago, which was somewhat of a relief, but the travelling I did then had a big impact on my cooking and the sort of food I was exposed to. I love that cooking has a narrative like writing. I think they are quite closely connected, in that they are both intuitive and full of humour and magic."
Who has been your greatest cooking influence?
"I'm a big fan of people who can write about food with the same alacrity that they cook it, Ambrose Heath from the 1940's, Simon Hopkinson, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson."
What's your naughtiest cooking secret?
"I did once pretend that I made a cake that I very much did not make. It happened all by accident, someone had sent me a cake, and challenged me to a baking competition, and it was in my kitchen. I served it to some kids I teach an English class to and their parents who I did not know very well, said to them "Look Sophie's gone to all the trouble of making you this lovely cake." At which I nodded and said "Uh huh," somewhat vaguely. The irony is, it was a faaaaar better cake then I ever would have made, so the chick who sent it would have won the baking competition hands down."
If you could invite anyone, which three people would you love to have at your dinner table?
"Mary Magdalene, Winston Churchill and Mata Hari."
If you had to cook one dish for the rest of your life, what would it be?
"I cannot commit to that. It would be awful."
Have you ever travelled to Australia? If so, what did you think of the food?
"I've been to Australia twice and I ate beautifully both times I was there. My husband and I went to an amazing place in Melbourne this year, it has a cheese shop attached and we ate ourselves silly. We also did a great deal of good eating down in Manly Beach."
What is the key ingredient to becoming a great home cook?
"A willingness to experiment and keep learning."
THE DELICIOUS MISS DAHL screens Mondays at 7.30pm from September 20 on LifeStyle FOOD, FOXTEL and AUSTAR. Click here for more information and recipes from the show.... Read more.
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PHILADELPHIA – Brad Lidge takes the ball for the Phillies, but somewhere, the Irish eyes are smiling.
That's because Lidge is one of Notre Dame's own — an alumnus who once was the Big East Conference pitcher of the year. That was in 1998, when Lidge went 8-2 and recorded 92 strikeouts in 80 1/3 innings, and this year, the Philadelphia closer added the National League's Comeback Player of the Year Award to his resume.
Cheer, cheer for Old Notre Dame, wake up the echoes cheering her name.
The comeback nod for Lidge was well deserved.
In 41 save opportunities in the regular season, Lidge took the ball. On all of those 41 occasions, Lidge received the obligatory handshake from his catcher and extended his consecutive-saves streak to 44 with three saves carried over from last season with the Astros.
Lidge will need a season in 2009 similar to this one to match Eric Gagne's 84 consecutive-saves streak that ended in 2004.
Lidge notched 19 saves but blew eight opportunities last season in Houston, but he erased all the bad memories in 2008.
"I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results," Lidge said. "I always felt I was going to come back and pitch to the best of my ability."
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The right-hander is making his third trip to the postseason and would like to make a return trip to the World Series. Lidge made two relief appearances for Houston in 2005, and took a pair of losses, as the White Sox swept the Astros to take the title.
Lidge allowed a walk-off homer to Scott Podsednik in Game 2 in that series and an RBI single to Jermaine Dye, which produced the lone run in the Game 4 clincher.
What though the odds be great or small, old Notre Dame will win over all.
The move to Philadelphia has changed the fortunes for Lidge, who was born in Sacramento, Calif. He attended Cherry Creek High School near Denver before moving on to Notre Dame.
There have been six former Notre Dame players to play on winning World Series teams, and Lidge would like to join that list. The last was Craig Counsell, who earned rings with the Marlins in 1997 and again in 2001 with the Diamondbacks.
The others were Cubs right-hander Ed Reulbach (1907-08), Red Sox pinch-hitter Jean Dubuc (1918), Tigers first baseman John McHale (1945) and Phillies right-hander Ron Reed (1980).
A couple of years ago, Lidge made the pilgrimage to the campus after the Fighting Irish had reached the NCAAs.
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While her loyal sons are marching, onward to victory!
Mike Scarr is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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BROWNSVILLE — Gunmen presumed to be Mexican drug operatives opened fire today on a couple riding water skis on the binational Falcon Lake reservoir, possibly killing the husband and sending the woman fleeing frantically to the U.S. side.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said the couple — believed to be from McAllen — had crossed to the Mexican side when they came under a spray of bullets by two boatloads of men. The man, 30, was shot in the head and his wife said she fears he is dead.
"They saw them approaching and started revving it up back to the U.S. side," Gonzalez told the Associated Press. "The guys just started shooting at them from behind."
According to unconfirmed reports, the woman circled back to get her husband but the gunmen continued shooting, even after she crossed back to the U.S. side.
Gonzalez said he had contacted the Mexican consulate for help finding the husband. As of late Thursday afternoon, he was tracing down leads with the FBI, said Mary Pulido, a dispatcher fielding a barrage of press calls.
"I do know that it happened on the Mexican side, that's what's making the investigation very difficult," she said.
The shooting follows reports in May that boaters in the famed bass fishing oasis were at risk of being shaken down by "pirates" lurking on the Mexican side.
The 60-mile long Rio Grande reservoir is shared by the United States and Mexico, and due to its location along sparsely populated Starr and Zapata counties is believed to be a favorite location for trafficking drugs.
Rep. Aaron Peña, D-Edinburg, who along with state Rep. Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, recently traveled to the area for a briefing by the Texas Department of Public Safety on Falcon Lake dangers said that any gunfire that took place on the U.S. side of the lake — in some places demarcated by floating markers — would represent a serious step over the line for a drug war that's "getting out of hand."
"These guys are getting very aggressive," he said. "It's a significant incident, but it has international ramifications if the shots continued into our side. This was just a couple of people having a good time."
Peña, as chair of the emergency preparedness committee, said the incident strengthened his resolve to fight budget cuts for DPS, who along with Border Patrol agents patrol the lake.
"They're essentially the Texas marine force," he said. "We need them to protect our citizens and keep our lakes safe."
Thursday's reported shooting comes during what may be the most deadly and prolonged streak of Mexican drug cartel violence in memory.
In May, the Texas Department of Public Safety reported several incidents of pirates shaking down U.S. boaters. The robbers in at least one case posed as Mexican federal law enforcement, searching fishing boats for guns and drugs and then demanding cash at gunpoint.
The DPS issued a statement warning people not to cross to the Mexican side of the lake. Boaters were encouraged to file a float plan with family members.
"The robbers are believed to be members of a drug trafficking organization or members of an enforcer group linked to a drug trafficking organization who are…using AK-47s or AR-15 rifles to threaten their victims," it said. "They appear to be using local Mexican fishermen to operate the boats to get close to American fishermen."
The warning came as the county of Zapata geared up for a summer of fishing tournaments, prompting the chamber of commerce to say that the warning was drastic and that people were safe if they stayed in U.S. waters.
Falcon Lake was formed by a dam in 1953 to conserve water for agriculture and control downstream flooding.
Mexican Pirates Attack US Couple on Falcon Lake; Husband Missing, Feared Dead
Mexican pirates operating on Falcon Lake, which is shared by the United States and Mexico, on Thursday shot an American tourist who had crossed the border on a Jet Ski.
Tiffany Hartley, 29, said her husband, David Michael Hartley, 30, was shot in the back of the head as they tried to escape an ambush on the lake, The Associated Press reports.
Hartley tried to turn around to save her husband but said she had to continue to retreat when she heard bullets whizzing by. Today, search teams continue to comb the Texas side of the lake for David, who is presumed dead. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he had asked the Mexican consulate to conduct a search on his country's side of the lake as well.
Falcon Lake pirate gangs in May after a spat of robberies prompted the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue a bulletin warning Americans to stay in U.S. waters. Authorities believe the pirates are offshoots of Mexican drug gangs operating in the area.
On April 30, five American fishermen crossed the border to explore Guerrero Viejo, a town that was abandoned and flooded when the Rio Grande was dammed to create Falcon Lake in 1953. The Americans' boat was boarded by four men who said they were federal police but were not wearing uniforms.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said the men demanded to know if the fishermen had drugs before making off with $200. They also had several tattoos of the letter "Z," raising suspicions that they were members of the Zetas drug cartel, which controls territory in northern Mexico.
Like the fishermen, the Hartleys had crossed the border Thursday to see Guerrero Viejo. Gonzalez said today that the gunmen chased the couple into American waters, according to the AP. He also said he suspects they returned for Hartley's body or let it sink to the bottom of the lake in the hopes of destroying evidence of his murder.
Falcon Lake, which is approximately 50 miles south of Laredo, Texas, is a water sports and fishing destination, making it a prime target for an unusual brand of piracy. There have been at least five reported attacks on the lake this year, although none of them was deadly.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department spokesman Mike Cox told the AP that the last reported sighting of the pirates was on Aug. 31, when boaters reported seeing gunmen in a small craft with "Game Wardin" spelled out in duct tape on the side of the boat.
Search resumes for US man shot in Mexican waters
SAN ANTONIO — Texas officials planned Friday to renew warnings about pirates marauding on a U.S.-Mexico border lake after a Colorado tourist was gunned down in Mexican waters while his wife dodged bullets and raced her Jet Ski back to American soil.
Search teams combed the U.S. side of Falcon Lake for David Michael Hartley, 30, whose wife told police he was shot in the back of the head Thursday after being ambushed by gunmen on boats.
The gunmen are suspected pirates who have turned Falcon Lake, a waterskiing and bass fishing hotspot down the border from Laredo, into uneasy waters for fishermen and boaters. There have been at least five reported run-ins with pirates on the lake this year, though prior holdups had never been deadly.
Hartley's fate was unclear. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said 29-year-old Tiffany Hartley fears her husband is dead. She circled back on her Jet Ski to rescue him but had to retreat when she heard bullets whizzing by.
Gonzalez said he had contacted the Mexican consulate to ask them to search for Hartley on its side of the lake.
"I'm not trying to place the blame on her or him," Gonzalez said. "But we've told people not to go over there, and now this happens."
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department spokesman Mike Cox said Friday that the state planned to issue a fresh warning to boaters about staying on the U.S. side of the lake. The last warning came in May, and some campers on the lake have taken to arming themselves.
Falcon Lake is a dammed section of the Rio Grande that straddles the border. The border is marked by 14 partially submerged concrete towers that mark the Rio Grande's path before the lake was created in 1954.
According to Gonzalez, Tiffany Hartley told police that the couple rode their Jet Skis for sightseeing and to take pictures of a famous church in Old Guerrero. They were riding back when they saw the armed gunmen on the boats, and immediately began racing back to U.S. waters.
David Hartley didn't make it. His wife told authorities he was shot in the back in the head; Cox said one of the boats may have crossed into U.S. waters briefly while trying to run down Tiffany Hartley.
Cox said Tiffany Hartley estimated that the shooting took place about five to six miles from the Texas shoreline where she parked and called for help.
In April, pirates robbed another group of boaters who also went to Old Guerrero to see the church. Cox said the most recent reported pirate sighting had been Aug. 31, when boaters saw gunmen riding a small skiff with "Game Wardin" misspelled in duct tape on the side of the vessel.
Cox said it appeared the pirates were trying to imitate state game warden boats they have seen patrolling the lake.
Gonzalez has previously chalked up the dangerous waters as the product of fighting between rival Mexican drug gangs.
Violence on the Mexican side of the lake has been climbing for several months, as a fractured partnership between the region's dominant Gulf Cartel and its former enforcers, the Zetas, plunged many of the area's Mexican border cities into violence.
Agents feared Mexican drug cartel attack on border dam
An alleged plot by a Mexican drug cartel to blow up a dam along the Texas border — and unleash billions of gallons of water into a region with millions of civilians — sent American police, federal agents and disaster officials secretly scrambling last month to thwart such an attack, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
Whether or not the cartel, which is known to have stolen bulk quantities of gunpowder and dynamite, could have taken down the 5-mile-long Falcon Dam may never be known since the attack never came to pass.
It may have been derailed by a stepped-up presence by the Mexican military, which was acting in part on intelligence from the U.S. government, sources said.
The warning, which swung officials into action, was based on what the federal government contends were "serious and reliable sources" and prompted the Department of Homeland Security to sound the alarm to first responders along the South Texas-Mexico border.
Mexico's Zeta cartel was planning to destroy the dam not to terrorize civilians, but to get back at its rival and former ally, the Gulf cartel, which controls smuggling routes from the reservoir to the Gulf of Mexico, said Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez, head of the Southwest Border Sheriff's Coalition, as did others familiar with the alleged plot.
But in the process, massive amounts of agricultural land would stand to be flooded as well as significant parts of a region where about 4 million people live along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The dam along the lower Rio Grande was finished in 1954 as part of a joint U.S.-Mexico project to collect water for flood control, hydroelectric power and water for drinking and agriculture.
Gonzalez's agency was among many that responded, as did the U.S. Border Patrol, the Texas Department of Public Safety and even game wardens, who put more boats on the water.
Citing security concerns, neither Homeland Security nor DPS commented.
"We trust that DPS and their federal and local law enforcement partners are constantly collecting intelligence and monitoring all threats to Texas and taking the appropriate action to protect our citizens from those who would do us harm," said Gov. Rick Perry's deputy press secretary Katherine Cesinger.
Varying credibility
Law enforcement officials huddled at the dam, near Rio Grande City, to discuss the threat and how to stifle it, said an officer who attended the meeting.
Officers interviewed by the Chronicle gave the warning varying degrees of credibility. They noted that among the Zetas ranks are Mexican military defectors who were trained in special forces tactics, including demolition.
Special cameras were set up along the dam, which has six 50-foot-tall steel gates, and lawmen hid in brush.
A Mexican military spokesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he had not heard of any threat to the Falcon Dam and expressed doubt that the Zetas would try such an attack.
"This isn't the way these groups operate, they have never attacked installations like that," he said.
Rick Pauza, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, in Laredo, said the port of entry at the dam had been at a heightened alert due to violence in Mexico.
Residents warned?
The attack may have been thwarted in Mexico. It raises the fear of what the powerful cartels could do.
"It would have been a hell of a disaster," said Gene Falcon, director of emergency preparedness for Starr County, site of the dam. "There was plenty of concern."
With handbills and bullhorns, members of the Zeta cartel are said to have warned the civilian population on the Mexican side of the river near the dam to get out of the area, according to residents and intelligence information from law enforcement officials.
A border law enforcement official told the Chronicle the warnings originated in part by the seizure of small amounts of dynamite near the dam, and the discovery of a copy of the alert on the Mexican side of the border.
Capt. Francisco Garcia, of the Roma (Texas) Police Department, said there was no way to know what the traffickers were capable of doing, but bringing down the dam would require nearly a tractor-trailer full of dynamite.
"As far as blowing it up — making it fall apart completely — it would have to be something like 9/11," he said. "By the time they'd start to do something, there will be so much law enforcement there it'd be ridiculous."
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[The new trailer shows] Woody and the gang at Sunnyside Daycare. Where life among the toddlers looks like something out of "Lord of the Flies." … Buzz and Co. get absolutely brutalized by these 3-year-olds. Which is why they decide that "We're busting out of here." The only problem is – during their initial escape attempt – the Space Ranger gets severely damaged. To the point that Woody & friends are forced to hit Lightyear's reset button. Which then puts Buzz into Spanish-speaking mode. … When Buzz is in Spanish-speaking mode – he then becomes this hot-blooded, flamenco-dancing romantic figure prone to grand gestures. Which Jessie winds up being quite taken with.
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick say we'll be dropped into the middle of the zombie apocalypse, without seeing how it all began. [ShockTillYouDrop]
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The ninth episode, "The Real Ghostbusters," will featur Demian, a short, chubby copier repairman who's nerdy on the outside, but sensitive and heroic on the inside. We'll also meet Demian's friend Barnes, a gawky stereo salesman who also has heroic aspirations and a surprisingly courageous side. [Spoiler TV]
Doctor Who
Presumably, neither the robe nor the gigantic North Face jacket are part of the new wardrobe:
Here is the description for the third episode, "Belle Chose:"
Echo and Victor's imprints collide when Echo is sent on an assignment as a fun-loving, seductive college student and Victor is imprinted as the psychotic nephew of a Dollhouse shareholder (guest star Michael Hogan).
And below are images from the episode, complete with croquet mallet-wielding Echo:
Episode seven, "Meet Jane Doe," will include a sheriff by the name of Rand, a Texas good ol' boy. [Spoiler TV]
Another filming location was spotted, this time at St. Francis West in Hawaii. [LOST Spoilers]
The title of the fourth episode will be "The Substitute." Rumor has it the episode will focus on Locke. There is some speculation that we will be seeing a false Locke who will be revealed to be a shapeshifter. [Ausiello]
In an interview with MTV, Cam Gigandet offers more details about the space madness thriller:
It's basically a deep-space syndrome that people get, a type of psychosis. There's all sorts of symptoms, whether it's paranoia, you're seeing things, hallucinating, dreaming up all sorts of weird scenarios. It's something that, when you have it, you aren't aware that you have it... Yeah, and they all have no memories. This crew, this capsule or sleeping pod that they're in ... when you're in there for long enough and it preserves your life, you end up losing your memory. While they're trying to figure out all this stuff, they don't know what happened in the past, where they've been, what they've done. Any of that stuff. So you're always suspicious of everyone ... that's one of the cool things about this movie. They're always suspicious, and slowly their memory starts coming back. It's like this puzzle that they put together.
He also mentions the movie's monsters and says that the reason for the monsters' existence is more interesting than the actual monsters. [MTV Movie News]
Stargate Universe
Meet Eli in Sky1's promo:
We'll get another dose of Leonard Nimoy and more on Olivia's past in the fourth episode, "Momentum Deferred:"
Recuperating from the traumatic and alarming meeting with Massive Dynamic founder William Bell (guest star Nimoy), Agent Dunham consumes a powerful "fringe" concoction that Dr. Bishop prescribes to stimulate her memory. Meanwhile, the Fringe Division investigates a series of robbery cases that are tied to shape-shifting. As clues are tracked and memories are jogged, another woman experimented on by Dr. Bishop is introduced and a flashback reveals more about Olivia's visit to the alternate reality.
Plus, stills from the episode with Nimoy and Charlie-who-isn't-Charlie:
NBC delivers a new promo for next week's episode "Ink:"
The fifth episode of the season will be called "Chuck vs. First Class." [ChuckTV]
Taylor Lautner has his shirt off yet again, while Robert Pattinson is fully clothed with shining eyes:
Cam Gigandet also talks a bit about Priest, in which he plays a part-vampire sheriff:
It's like a Western set in this alternate reality where you have these creatures, these vampire-like people. It's like The Searchers. It's a journey movie. You can look at it from a horror point of view, but we've always thought of it as a story of these people on a journey, coming into their own. That's what my character does. He starts off as someone who's scarified so much and been thrown into this world that he didn't choose. And he grows into a man who can take care of himself and is confident in his choices.
Additional reporting by Alexis Brown.


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Are your tired to hear your children say, "I'm bored"? Trying to limit their time with TV and video games? Wondering how to make sure they are prepared for a new school year in the fall? Now that summer vacation is underway, you may be left wondering how to keep your kids occupied without the structure of school, homework, sports, and other after-school activities. Here are three tips for whipping your family's summer into shape (and having fun while you do it!).
Get Active
If your child seems to spending too much much time on the couch-or-in front of electronics, it's time to get outside and be active as a family.
• Set aside an area of your yard as a garden and allow your children to choose, plant, tend and harvest the plants.
• Check out local state parks and nature centers that offer walking and biking trails, canoeing, horseback riding or other activities.
• Hold a time treasure hunt in your backyard, suggests Marc Sickel, founder of Fitness for Health. Another of his suggestions: "Design your own obstacle course using household items such as sheets, empty boxes, chairs, and sticks that can create tunnels, hurdles, and mazes. Create teams,parents versus kids or sibling versus sibling."
Go out and about
Your local community probably offers a variety of learning and exploring opportunities. For resources, use your area newspaper or websites that have a calendar of events. Consider these possibilities:
Most libraries offer weekly story times for younger children, a summer reading program to encourage children of all ages to set reading goals, and special presentations that may include music, crafts, or visitors from local museums, all for free.
Natural history museums, art museums, zoos, and historical sites usually offer interactive areas for children, tours created especially with families in mind, or special events designed for young guests. Many also offer discounted admission on certain days to encourage summer visits.
Jaylene Garau, author of The Motivated Child, also suggests considering a behind-the-scenes tour. "Some of these places offer these tours free of charge. Who knows, it may inspire your child to pursue a career that they may have never thought of."
Find an opportunity for your family to serve together at a local nonprofit, your church, or a nursing home. Teens will also benefit from volunteering on their own; especially with an organization that matches their interests or career goals, such as an animal shelter for an animal lover. And even small children can get involved in raising money for an organization or a cause by holding a lemonade stand or yard sale.
Keep Sharp
Your children may rebel against the thought of doing "school work" during summer vacation, so keep it fun when reviewing their skills with them and preparing for another school year.
Take your children with you on shopping trips and have them assist in staying within a budget, calculating discounts and determining which products are the better value. Richie Holmes Grant, owner of Innovative Study Techniques, also encourages families to plan a summer budget together: "[It will] help your child gain a better appreciation of household finances. You can make it simple or more complex, depending on your child's math level."
Problem-solving skills can be built by encouraging children to invent a new game or to use their imagination to build something new out of common household items.
Find books that relate to your children's interests. Your children's librarian will be able to make recommendations or offer lists of books or authors based on books or topics your child likes. Creating a book club for your child and their friends is a great way not only to motivate them to read, but also to encourage them to share their thoughts about what they are reading. For the meetings, have your child plan games and snacks that are based on the book the club is reading.
Creative writing can be used as a way to help your children improve their writing (and handwriting) and to learn more about themselves. Lisa Anne Louise Rentz, a creative writing instructor, recommends using prompts to get the creative juices flowing. For example, give them the beginning of a sentence and ask them to finish it. Once they've done that, have them keep writing and develop the idea into a short story they can read aloud.
Sara Rowe is a writer and editor who have been published in numerous magazines. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware.


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I am sure that all good family historians have moments that they regret ... I wish I knew what questions to have asked my grandmother, Nana, Marian Evans Dakin, before she died in 1974. As a result of not knowing ANYTHING about the DAKIN family back then, my work was extensive to piece together the story. I only knew my grandfather's name (he died when my father was 2 years old) and that he had died in the 1918 flu pandemic, along with his son and mother-in-law in less than one week.
When I was in high school, Nana brought some small brownish pictures of something [she said it was a power plant that her husband Rob worked on] to share one year when she came for her annual visit. Of course, I was the uninterested teenager. I'm not sure anyone else in my family was much interested either. I think she brought them out just once during her annual six-month visit.
Years later, I was a 20-something who would drive down to visit her in Connecticut. I helped her go through various things in her house, and made note of who she wanted them to go to and what things were. Of course, we didn't find EVERYTHING since there still were surprises when I was her executrix cleaning out her home. By then, I had enough sense to start asking some questions about the family -- clearly not all of the ones I should have, but I made a start. On one visit, I asked her about those pictures of the power plant. "Of, those, I gave them to the power company."
I contacted the power company and was told they did not know where the pictures were, but they did share some information on the power plant which helped me to understand how it worked along with some of the history of the Bulls Bridge Power Plant in Gaylordsville, Connecticut.
What I never asked my grandmother was the "rest of the story" which turned out to be quite interesting.
This year's Christmas present for my family is what I learned about this story AND about the DAKIN family.
In my grandmother's desk, when she died, was one of the surprises for this executrix -- the negatives for the pictures my grandfather, Rob Dakin took of the building of the addition to the power plant. This book, Bulls Bridge: The Story of a dreamer, a family farmer, a camera and the building of a power plant, is the result of much research. It is not only the story of the power plant but includes information on the DAKIN family line, all the way back to Thomas Dakin, the immigrant settler in Concord, Massachusetts by 1652.
The "Readers Digest" version of the story of the power plant is about a politician with a dream to harness the Housatonic River, a farmer who sells a convoluted part of his farm for the canal to be dug right across the fields and past his house, a farm boy who watches the canal and power plant emerge, and then, the power plant is finished and does NOT bring any power to the surrounding neighborhood! The high school boy, goes off to college (first in family), comes back as an assistant engineer and works on the addition to the plan which brings power to the neighborhood and documents it all with his camera. His pictures from 1912 are included in the book.
I learned a lot about my ancestors as people as I researched this book -- this was not a compilation of just dates. Oh how I wish I had the sense to talk to my grandmother about this before she died in 1974.
The link for this post is: http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-regrets-and-redemption-lead-to.html
©2013, Erica Dakin Voolich
For years I've tried to climb numerous "brick walls" as I've worked on my family history -- many of my challenges are my women ancestors. I've met many wonderful, helpful genealogists, town clerks, historians, and societies along the way. Some of the names I'm working on: DAKIN, WORTHINGTON, SEARING, RICHARDSON, DeLOSS/LOSS, COPELAND, HARVEY, WRIGHT, EVANS, HELSTEN, SMITH (Conn.), HEARTY, ROBBERT, BOGART, NYE, BLODGETT & COBB.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
My Regrets and Redemption Lead to a Present for my Family
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Eliminating the Estate Tax
These legal strategies can help keep your wealth intact for your heirs.
Legally eliminating the estate tax might sound impossible, but if you know the right tax rules and how to organize those rules for your specific situation, you can achieve this goal.
Consider Joe, age 62, who started Success Co. 34 years ago. He now has two significant sources of income: Success Co. and the various other assets he has accumulated. Joe's after-tax income far exceeds the money he and his wife, Mary, also 62, need to maintain their comfortable lifestyle. Unfortunately, every additional $1 million he earns will feed $400,000 to the estate tax monster. Without a comprehensive estate plan, time favors the IRS.
A comprehensive estate plan is designed to deliver every dollar of your wealth on the day you die—all taxes paid in full— to your heirs. No two estate plans are ever exactly the same, but there are certain core principles and strategies that can be used to virtually eliminate the estate tax. Each significantly reduces the potential tax burden and enables the asset owner to maintain control of it, if he or she so desires. Three basic strategies are:
Gifting programs
These include the $5.25-million one-time exemption ($10.5 million, if married) we discussed in
this column last month. It should be used as soon as possible, especially for assets likely to increase in value or throw off a large rate of return. Another such gifting program is the annual $14,000
exclusion ($28,000, if married) that enables you to donate that amount to each of your heirs every year.
Discounts of assets for tax purposes
This amounts to a 40-percent discount in the value of a business like Success Co. For example, a $20 million business is only valued at $12 million for tax purposes. Two key strategies for taking advantage of this discount are:
1. Intentionally defective trust (IDT). Joe creates an IDT and sells Success Co. to it with his son, Sam, named as the beneficiary. The entire transaction is tax-free, and the company is out of Joe's estate. Joe also can gift as much as $17.5 million (before discounts) to the IDT tax-free.
2. Spousal access trust (SAT). Creating such a trust would enable Joe to continue to receive income from Success Co. while eliminating as much as $10.5 million out of his estate. To do so, he would gift $17.5 million in company stock to Sam tax-free. With the 40-percent discount, this amounts to a $10.5-million one-time exemption.
A 35-percent discount also is allowed for investment-type assets such as stocks, bonds, CDs, real estate, interests in partnerships and similar assets. The key strategy for capitalizing on this discount is transferring such assets tax-free into a family limited partnership (FLIP). Then the FLIP interests can be gifted to your heirs.
Funds in a qualified plan
Qualified funds, which include 401(k)s, IRAs or the like, normally are double taxed, both
with income and estate taxes. So for $1 million in funds, $730,000 goes to the IRS and only $270,000 to your family. The key strategy here is to use a "retirement plan rescue" to turn these double-taxed dollars into tax-free dollars.
All the strategies outlined here should be your weapons of choice to kill the estate tax monster if you are worth about $18 million or less. But what if you are worth more? You should still take full advantage of the opportunities they offer, no matter how large your estate is today or is likely to become. However, if your estate is worth more than $18 million, you must get your wealth into a tax-free environment and keep it there until your death to really wipe out the estate tax.
For estate-tax purposes there are only two tax-free environments: life insurance and charitable donations. In fact, if you are charitably inclined, it is a cinch to beat the estate tax. But let's assume you want all your wealth to go to your heirs and to charity only if it does not reduce the amount your heirs will receive. Insurance can be a super tax and economic weapon for the mega-wealthy if you and/or your spouse are insurable.
The cost of life insurance and its death benefits are influenced by your age, health, market conditions and other factors. Joe and Mary purchase a $10 million second-to-die policy with an annual premium of $125,000. If they live another 32 years, that premium cost will total $4 million, but that $4 million cannot be plundered by the estate tax. So, in the end, Joe and Mary really will have contributed $2.4 million and the IRS $1.6 million—the 40 percent saved in estate taxes. The overall tax and economic result is that we've turned $2.4 million into $10 million tax-free.
Note: In most cases when such large insurance policies are purchased (those with about $100,000 or more in annual premiums), the client does not pay the premiums out of pocket but instead uses "premium financing" in the form of a bank loan to pay them.
If you are not "insurable" for some reason, a host of charitable strategies can enable you
to enrich your favorite charity without reducing your family's inheritance. You should review all the possibilities as part of your comprehensive plan.


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St. Bonaventure University is showcasing the creativity of its alumni in an online Holiday Gift Guide.
"The concept for this online guide arose early in 2013. So, while the sun shone brightly in the sky and the leaves were green upon the tress, visions of sugar plums, arts and crafts, and customized experiences were dancing in our heads," said Monica Mattioli, executive director of alumni operations at St. Bonaventure.
Initial traffic to the site since launch has been high, Mattioli said.
"The winter holidays are a time for giving gifts and spending time with loved ones. The guide is loaded with popular gift choices that should help to ease the stress and frustration of last-minute shopping," she added.
Visit the St. Bonaventure alumni gift guide at www.sbu.edu/AlumniGiftGuide.
This project is a free community service to St. Bonaventure alumni and transactions are handled directly with the vendors themselves. Additional alumni vendors are added on an ongoing basis, so shoppers are encouraged to visit the site often for updates.
About the University: The nation's first Franciscan university, St. Bonaventure University cultivates graduates who are confident and creative communicators, collaborative leaders and team members, and innovative problem solvers who are respectful of themselves, others, and the diverse world around them. We are establishing pathways to internships, graduate schools and careers in the context of our renowned liberal arts tradition. Our students are becoming extraordinary.
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Throughout the holiday week, YourObserver.com will be counting down the top 12 stories of 2009 (one from each month) from our Longboat, East County and Sarasota Observers. Check back each day for a reprinting — and any relevant updates — of the biggest news items of the year.
LAKEWOOD RANCH — A fourth East County school will have a new leader next fall.
Mike Wilder, principal at Lakewood Ranch High, has accepted another position within Manatee County Public Schools.
His last day at Lakewood is June 25.
Wilder has been Lakewood's principal since 2002, when he took over for founding principal Roy Larson. Beginning July 1, he will serve as the district's coordinator of school leadership development, taking the post vacated by Dr. Lyn Boyer.
"I first heard from other people that I was retiring about two years ago," Wilder said, laughing. "But really, I've been thinking about the direction I needed to go on a personal level for a while now.
"Change is always good," he said. "There's always a lot of anxiety surrounding change. But I've been here for seven years now, and I think it's time for a change. I still have a lot of energy and a lot of love for Lakewood, and I really want the school to do well. But I think it's time for a change."
In his new role, Wilder will assist principals and other leaders in all grade levels.
"Lyn Boyer was the person I called in those first few years when I needed support after I became principal," Wilder said. "She really was my mentor, and I valued that relationship. I thought it would be cool to be able to work with new principals that way and form those kinds of relationships."
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Of all of his memories at Lakewood Ranch, perhaps none is as sweet as one of his first. Wilder's first year as principal was also the year the Mustang baseball team made its historic state championship run.
"My wife and I were at one of the games," Wilder said. "It was the fifth inning, and one of our kids was up to bat and fouled the ball off. It was coming right for us, and it was going to hit my wife.
"Instinctively, I stuck my hand out and caught it barehanded," he said. "It brought the house down, and all I was trying to do was protect my wife."
Perhaps that's the best way to describe Wilder's role at Lakewood: the great protector. During his tenure, Lakewood both has enjoyed tremendous success as well as endured unimaginable grief. Bad decisions by both teachers and students brought national attention to the school on several occasions. But through it all, Wilder stood firm as Lakewood's leader.
"All of these experiences I've had here — they've all been a blessing to me," he said. "I don't think of them as bad or good. They've all guided me in my life.
"There have been so many things that have brought tears to my eyes," Wilder said. "I definitely will miss the kids, the faculty and staff and the parents — everything that made this a great community. We really do have a remarkable community here in Lakewood Ranch."
Although he won't be occupying office space on campus next year, Wilder's influence won't be far from Lakewood. In his new role, Wilder will be a key adviser for his replacement and will help that person transition into the school's next principal.
The district posted the position June 11. The posting expires on June 24, at which time an interview committee comprising one district official, one Lakewood faculty member, one parent and one community member will meet the eight to 10 candidates and whittle them down to three.
The Lakewood community will be able to meet the three finalists at a forum. Superintendent Tim McGonegal also will interview the three finalists. From those interviews, along with feedback from the community forum, he will make his recommendation to the Manatee County School Board.
Linda Nesselhauf took over as Lakewood's principal.
Contact Michael Eng at [email protected].


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Just the other day, we reported the sad and not at all surprising news that George Lucas has once again tinkered with his Star Wars films for their upcoming Blu-ray debut. One of the more striking edits in Star Wars: The Complete Saga is the inclusion of the universally panned "NOOOO!!!!" cry from Darth Vader into Return of the Jedi. That report was confirmed, and now we have two more clips of Lucas' "improvements" to the ever-changing franchise. Apparently Ewoks will now blink, because of the fan outcry that the creatures were just too damn unrealistic, and in A New Hope Greedo still shoots first, but the cut is a bit tighter. If that wasn't enough, we also have a clip of the CGI Yoda that we previously learned will be replacing puppet Yoda in The Phantom Menace. Hit the jump to watch Lucas' handiwork.
Here are the new clips, which are from the actual Blu-rays (via Steve):
And here are the two previous edits, for those who missed them:
NOTE: The Vader clip is from the actual Blu-ray, while the Obi-Wan's Krayt Dragon Call clip features the leaked audio synced up with the corresponding scene.


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For Pets Best Insurance
Pets Best Insurance solicited questions from our Facebook page fans relating to pet health, happiness and everything in between. Dr. Fiona Caldwell, a practicing veterinarian at Idaho Veterinary Hospital weighs in! Read on to see if your question was answered:
Question: We adopted my Mom's female cat when Mom passed away a few months ago. Our two male cats have begun spraying all over the house. Please tell me how to get them to stop!!!
Dr. Caldwell: Inappropriate urination can be a very frustrating part of owning cats! The very first thing that needs to be done is to ensure there isn't a medical reason, such as urinary tract infection or feline cystitis as a cause for the inappropriate urination. Do this by making an appointment to see your veterinarian. Some medical causes can be serious, including bladder stones. After your veterinarian has determined this is a behavioral problem, there are some things you can do to help.
First, ensure you have at least one litter box for each cat, even an additional one over that number can sometimes be helpful. If you have three cats, at least 3, if not 4 boxes are needed. You must keep the boxes extremely clean. Scoop daily. If your male cats are spraying vertical surfaces, such as walls, furniture, etc this means they are marking their territory, which could be due to some underlying anxiety. The addition of the new cat is likely responsible for this anxiety, but you can try to ease their transition to multi-cat household.
It sounds silly, but try making the litter boxes as private as possible. If a cat is shy about using it, or feels exposed, or if another cats gang up on it when it is using the box, the cat may develop an aversion to the box. Make sure the size, depth of litter and type of litter is one they like. Cats are incredibly picky about this. You may have to experiment with scented and unscented and clumping and non-clumping litter to determine the best one.
Also, it is VERY important to completely clean the soiled urine spot with an enzyme cleaner. If the cat can still smell the urine there, it will attract additional spraying. You may even consider a professional cleaner if the staining is severe. If you are still having problems, go back to your veterinarian. There are some anti-anxiety medications and feline pheromone sprays that might be beneficial for you.
Question: My 7 yr old Chihuahua is losing his teeth and it smells really bad he doesn't let me near his mouth he cries when I try what can I do about the smell?
Dr. Caldwell: It is very important that you take your Chihuahua to a veterinarian for a complete oral examination. Undoubtedly he will need a complete profession dental cleaning, possibly with extractions of the diseased teeth. In addition to being smelly, the infected teeth can injure the liver, heart and ultimately short his life. Please do this as soon as you are able.
Question: What to do when a cat suddenly swallows a foreign object, like an elastic hair tie. I have a cat who gulps down little things that get dropped (instantly – no chewing or anything!), and is time I didn't get to it before he did!
Dr. Caldwell: This can be a very serious medical emergency, especially with cats and string-type objects, like dental floss or sewing thread. The best thing to do in this situation is to contact your veterinarian if this happens. Some small objects can pass without harm, but the safest thing to do is seek medical advice.
Question: Appreciate any suggestions for resources we can check out to help us better care for a dog we recently adopted that has a neurological issue preventing him from walking very far before he spins and falls. Have seen vet specialists and xrays do not reveal much.
Dr. Caldwell: This sounds like a frustrating issue and I applaud your efforts to diagnose him thus far. If I can give you any advice, it is to continue to seek out new opinions, just because one veterinarian is stumped doesn't mean that another one is. Keep trying! You might seek the nearest veterinary university setting in your area. Depending on where you live this may be quite far, even in another state. Most have research and teaching hospitals that handle referrals from all over the nation, as well as challenging and unusual cases.


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People always ask you what breed your dog is and for many, the only answer is mutt. That is the mixed breed that usually gets rescued from a shelter or given to you because someone got them for free and couldn't keep them. Abby was a mutt, given to me by my daughter when she was first living on her own and obviously did not realize that raising animals cost money. Abby was a mix breed of beagle, basenji, and human. I threw in the human part because I believe she really thought she was a human.
I got her when she was big enough to fit in my hand. At that time I was in between churches, a rough time for a pastor, and she was a convenient thing to occupy my mind and my time. During that year, we did everything together. I taught her how to do tricks, she went fishing with me, and she even road the motorcycle with me. I had never had an inside dog, and to be honest, never intended to have one, but, she worked her way in.
I have a habit of giving people and I guess pets too, nicknames. She had two. G-dog, that stands for girl dog. She would respond to that and as the years went by, she even knew that I was talking to her when I just called her G. Her other nickname was Babygirl. That was what I called her when it was just me and her and we were chilling together, either kicked back in the recliner together or laid out on the couch. If I called her that, she expected some lovin'. I heard that you really only give nicknames to people and things that you are really fond of. I guess that's true.
Abby was 12 years old. She got sick Friday night, nothing to be alarmed about, just some pukin'. For a mutt, she was very expensive. She had a sensitive stomach, she had incontinence and had been on meds for that forever. I think I spent more on her than anyone could spend on the most elaborate pure breed. But this time, I guess it was worse than an upset stomach like it had been so often before. By Sunday morning she had not eaten in two days. She loved eating, so I knew that to be a problem, but she was still walking around and looked okay. I was going to take her to the vet first thing Monday morning, and even cancelled going fishing with a friend because of it. Sunday night she was sleeping in my recliner, then got up and went to lay under the AC vent. About 3am she had her first seizure. It was bad and I pick her up to comfort her, and knew that she would not be here much longer. After several more seizures and an hour later, she died in my arms.
Someone once told me if it hurts really bad, it must be love. It was just a dog though. But God gives us opportunities to experience love in some crazy ways. Some might question why God would let us love something so much then take it from us. I look at it differently. He could let us never love at all. Everything on this earth is His and He loves us enough to let us experience loving His creation.
Job 12:10 –The life of every living creature and the spirit in every human body are in his hands. God does not have to let us love things that He owns. The years of pleasure and joy and yes, love I experience with G-dog was worth the hurt I feel right now.
I don't know if dogs go to heaven. I told people that she would because I helped her accept Jesus. But I do know that every creature on this earth is precious to God. Matthew 10:29 –Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission. So God knew when Abby was taking her last breath. It was His plan. God knows our pain and knows our sorrow when people and things close to us die. Death does have a sting, because it is the enemy. It takes the things we love. But what if we never knew that love?
But death can't take the memories and the joy. It can't take away the love. Love lasts forever. Time will ease the pain, but the pain is a reflection of the love, now with no recipient.
I am really gonna miss my dog, even if she was a mutt. Thanks be to God for letting me take care of her for 12 years. It was worth every minute, even the last few painful ones.


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While SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said in mid-December comments first reported on Bloomberg that the agency would issue a proposed fiduciary rule this year, she also stated in the Bloomberg interview that a fiduciary rule proposal will be "business model neutral" and allow brokers working with retail investors to sell proprietary products and charge commissions.
Industry officials say exactly how the SEC crafts this "business model neutral" approach will be crucial to determining whether the agency actually ends up putting brokers under a fiduciary mandate.
"If by 'business model neutral' the intention is simply to make provision for commissions and proprietary product, I am neither surprised nor too concerned," says Harold Evensky, president of Evensky & Katz Wealth Management in Coral Gables, Fla., and a member of the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard. "That is assuming that the core elements of a fiduciary relationship are included" in the final fiduciary rule.
However, "if by 'business neutral' the result is the one sought by many in the brokerage and insurance industry, i.e., redefine 'fiduciary' as enhanced 'suitability' with opt-out provisions, then we will end up with the worst of all worlds."
Yet others say that taking a "business model-neutral" approach is the "balanced" way to go. While there's no doubt that the SEC is "trying to walk a fine line given the political and economic realities" as it develops the fiduciary rule, says Brian Rubin, a partner in the law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, "promoting a 'business model-neutral' formulation is a very balanced approach," and is "consistent with what [Schapiro] has been saying for a while."
A strict fiduciary standard, Rubin adds, "would have called into practice and likely prohibited many common practices such as selling proprietary products."
The SEC has been receiving pressure from Congress and broker-dealer trade groups since Dodd-Frank was written into law about how the agency should write an expanded fiduciary standard. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, told SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro in a May 31 letter that while Section 913 of Dodd-Frank gives the SEC the authority to establish a new fiduciary standard of care for broker-dealers, "the requirement that the new standard be 'no less stringent' … was not intended to encourage the SEC to impose the Investment Advisers Act [of 1940] standard on broker-dealers, but to ensure the new standard would not be a 'watered down' version of the investment advisors' fiduciary standard."
Section 913 of Dodd-Frank allows principal trading and proprietary products as well as charging brokerage commissions, says David Tittsworth, executive director of the Investment Adviser Association in Washington. "It's no secret that Section 913 of Dodd-Frank represented a compromise among competing interests," he said.
The question of whether brokers should have the same fiduciary duty as investment advisors has been and "continues to be very controversial," Tittsworth says, and "Section 913 reflects that controversy."
Indeed, Knut Rostad, president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, adds that while Dodd-Frank "states clearly that commissions and proprietary products 'in and of themselves' do not presumptively breach the fiduciary standard," Section 913 "does not state that any particular commission transaction and its facts and circumstances are 'protected' from fiduciary requirements." Like a non-commission transaction, Rostad continues, "it needs to be evaluated on its own merits. In this sense, there is less than meets the eye in applying 'business model neutrality.'"
Section 913 creates a "fairly complicated roadmap" the SEC must follow in crafting a fiduciary standard, Tittsworth adds. For example, "it gives the SEC explicit authority to issue rules that would apply the same standard of conduct that investment advisors have. But it also states that the receipt of commissions and sale of proprietary products will not, in and of themselves, be a violation of that standard. And it would apply when brokers are providing "personalized investment advice about securities to a retail customer."
Warns Tittsworth: "The SEC must take into account each and every word of Section 913 as it considers crafting a rule." The agency must be "very mindful of potential legal challenges that may result, including providing a robust cost-benefit analysis that would pass judicial scrutiny. If the Commission proposes a rule, it will be subject to the Administrative Procedures Act process that allows all interested parties to comment."
Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), said at a recent CFA conference that she believed the SEC was "paralyzed" in moving forward on a fiduciary rule by a small portion of the broker-dealer community who she said are dependent on variable annuity sales. That group, she suggested, would likely challenge a fiduciary rule proposal in the courts.
While she said there is broad consensus that this fiduciary rule should move forward, Roper also lamented that "it seems almost impossible to make progress. We hope by sometime next year we'll see something, but don't bet the farm."
Roper added that another stumbling block for the SEC is pressure from Capitol Hill on the agency to perform a more robust economic analysis on the rule.
Still, other industry executives are "encouraged" by Schapiro's comments that a fiduciary rule will be business model neutral. Dale Brown, president and CEO of the Financial Services Institute says that FSI "has been calling for a uniform fiduciary standard since the beginning of the regulatory reform debate" and that FSI is still working "to ensure the proposal creates a new uniform fiduciary standard while maintaining client choice and client access to affordable advice." With Schapiro's comments, "the SEC is showing a real willingness to understand our industry and our clients' needs, which is refreshing."
Dan Barry, the Financial Planning Association's managing director of government relations, said Schapiro's reported comments "are consistent with the language in Dodd-Frank and with what has been expected," preserving proprietary products and commissions. What will be important, he said, is setting up rules that allow for proprietary products and commissions while "making sure that investors are getting advice that is in their best interest."
The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) says that a new fiduciary standard of care rule "should respect the business differences between investment advisors and broker-dealers." On average, NAIFA says that most of its members serve investors with annual household incomes of less than $100,000. "Therefore our fundamental concern is that the potential additional costs and increased potential for liability of applying a 'one-size-fits-all' fiduciary standard of care to the broker-dealer business model could result in middle market investors having less access to affordable financial services that are currently being delivered by our members."
Whatever form the fiduciary rule proposal takes, as Tittsworth notes, like the 3,500 comment letters that the SEC received when it was drafting the Section 913 study, "there will be no shortage of opinions about every aspect" of the SEC's rulemaking.


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Man Accused of Attacking Captain on Towboat
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A towboat worker is facing federal charges that he choked his captain into unconsciousness as the vessel was traveling up the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 30-year-old David Roberts is charged with an act of violence against and incapacitating an individual aboard a vessel, as well as endangering both the vessel and those on board.
Court papers don't specify what prompted Roberts' alleged dispute last week with the unidentified captain aboard the Miranda Paige.
Authorities say Roberts pulled the captain away from the boat's wheel and choked him, causing the vessel to veer sharply toward the Illinois shoreline. Another worker on board took control of the boat, and the captain survived.
A message seeking comment was left Thursday for Roberts' attorney, John Rogers.


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I was curious if anyone has found more information on how damage is calculated and/or outlined in abilities?
From what I can only assume, and PLEASE correct me and/or add to this effort, that:
1) Every point spent in your hero's main stat increases damage by 1
2) Every point of Strength increases HP by X amount (only an assumption based on trends, tool tip doesn't show for me using the steam client)
3) Every point of Agility increases Speed by X amount
4) Every point of Intelligence increases Resistance (to all?) by X amount
5) An Ability's Damage correlates to it's color (Grey = Physical, Red = Fire, Blue = Cold, etc.)
6) There are Racial Damages that only work vs certain enemies
If anyone has numbers for calculating damage, calculating DPS, Damage mitigation, types/effects of status elements, or anything else that you may think will help would be greatly appreciated!
I personally love what this game is striving to be and what potential it has; though I'm a bit stuck on how to improved my game play progress as I get farther in.


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"Doc: A Memoir" tells story of pitcher's fall from the top
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FAIRFIELD -- He was somewhere out on Long Island, in some apartment in some housing project. The night had been filled with alcohol and drugs and now, Dwight Gooden was just another junkie, strung out and passed out.
When he eventually awoke, Gooden turned on the television. There was a parade taking place on TV, a parade to celebrate the 1986 World Series champion New York Mets, and Gooden was supposed to be on one of the floats. Instead, he was hungover in some low-income apartment.
Eventually, he drove himself back to his home. Alone, Gooden closed the drapes and sat in the darkened room. When the phone rang, he didn't answer it. He simply sat there in the dark, crying.
He was just 21 years old.
For Gooden, it was one of the low points on a road that took him to hell and back.
One of the premier pitchers in the major leagues going back to the mid-1980s, Gooden spent 11 seasons with the Mets before bouncing around between the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the last five years of his career. After being released by the Yankees in spring training of 2001, Gooden retired. His career record was 194-112 with an ERA of 3.51 and 2,293 strikeouts. He was the National League's Rookie of the Year in 1984, the NL's Cy Young Award winner in 1985, and in 1996 with the Yankees, he pitched a no-hitter.
For all his talent, Gooden could have been so much more. But his was a career intertwined with drugs and alcohol. And it almost killed him.
"That was one of my deepest secrets. I would talk a little about it in previous interviews, but I would never tell the whole story," Gooden said about missing the parade. "But at this time, I felt it was time to remove the mask and come clean on everything."
Gooden more than comes clean in his new book, "Doc: A Memoir," what some critics are calling "a bruisingly honest story of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time." On Wednesday night at the Edgerton Center at Sacred Heart University, Gooden joined former major leaguer, ex-manager and current SHU athletic director Bobby Valentine to speak about his baseball career, his addiction and his life, which now includes being clean and sober for two years and working with at-risk children and adults in a "Talking Baseball and Beyond" lecture in front of about 400 people.
"Doing (the book) was great therapy for myself," Gooden said. "Telling that story (of the parade) was like lifting a great burden from me. From that, I've been able to now send the message to kids in schools, kids that are incarcerated. It's helpful for me to share my story and try to help others from maybe going through the problems that I went through."
And there were plenty of problems. Failed drug tests. Numerous rehabs. Run-ins with the police. Arrests. Jail time. A season-long suspension from baseball in 1995. Thoughts of suicide. Once, Gooden was clean and sober for seven years, only to fall right back into the same nightmare with drugs and alcohol. Finally, in 2011, Gooden went to rehab again. This time, he hopes, for the last time.
"That was painful, to lose those seven years (of sobriety)," Gooden said. "But it was just too easy to fall back into the same lifestyle. It's not like you're starting over, you're starting right where you left off.
"Finally, I just decided I had to do whatever it takes to save my life. If I didn't do that, the next place I was going to go was to the cemetery."
Today, Gooden works with at-risk children and adults at halfway houses, treatment centers, churches, even prisons.
"It's great. I get a lot out of that," Gooden said. "To share (my story) and know that it might save a life, it's great.
"I couldn't have done this five years ago, I wasn't ready. I wasn't sure I was ready to give (drugs) up. Today, I can say that I am."
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This sorting activity addresses critical-thinking skills, observation and categorization processes, and reading comprehension and writing skills, while at the same time providing teachers with a vast array of diagnostics through observation of student interaction and conversation. Students work as a class to sort books, first according to their covers and then according to their topics. They explore whether books could be included in multiple categories and whether some groups could be broken down further. Next, students work with a partner to sort twelve books. They orally explain their sorting criteria, and then record in writing what categories they used and why. Students may also compare and contrast two books using an online Venn diagram.
Venn Diagram: Students can use this interactive Venn diagram to compare and contrast elements of books they like to read.
Flood! Interactive Book Sorting Tool: Students can use this resource, from PBS Kids' Between the Lions, to sort books online.
Students are asked to make comparisons in virtually all areas of the school curriculum. Observation and categorization are a basic part of the science process, and in math comparisons are made of shapes as well as quantities. In reading, we ask students to compare text content to their own experiences, to other texts, and to the world at large. According to Piaget, children of this age are still developing the ability to simultaneously consider two qualities, such as recognizing that an object may be smaller or bigger than other objects, or in this case, that a book might be similar to and different from other books. Having students observe details in illustrations and explain similarities of text and subject matter may help them see that a book might fit into more than one category, and also that categories can change. This can set the stage for later work in literature analysis, science process work, and mathematical understanding.
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Piaget, Jean. 1970. Genetic Epistemology. Columbia University Press.
Ebbers, Margaretha. "Science Text Sets: Using Various Genres to Promote Literacy and Inquiry." Language Arts 80.1 (September 2002): 40-50.


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As you kick off your 4th of July with family, friends, and all that Independence Day has to offer, here is some fun historical holiday trivia, plus, recipes and great gift ideas to go along with all your festivities.
Fun 4th of July Quiz:
As America celebrates its independence, see how well you know your 4th of July history with this fun quiz (Answers at bottom. Don't peek!):
- During the summer of 1776, colonists created mock funerals of _______, illustrating the end of Britain's grip on America.
- ____________ was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
- The first American flag was sewn in May or June of 1776 by ___________.
- Congress declared 4th of July a federal holiday in ____.
- The Declaration of Independence was originally written by ________________.
- The first Independence Day celebration was in ____________ on July _, 1776.
- In Boston, the Boston Pops Orchestra ends each July 4th musical celebration with the ______________.
- Fireworks were originally an invention of _____________ that eventually made their way into 4th of July celebrations!
4th of July Eats & Tasty Treats
No Independence Day celebration is complete without a cookout or picnic with family and friends. Here are a few tasty 4th of July recipes to whet your patriotic appetite!
Start off your barbeque with some mouth-watering Grilled Beef Ribs! For a couple of nice side dishes, add some extra flavor to a 4th of July favorite with Red Skinned Potato Salad, or some Fair-Style Corn on the Cob. For dessert, try something a little different with a refreshing Strawberry Banana Smoothie!
These traditional and tasty alternatives can help turn any 4th of July celebration into a smorgasbord of savory eating that's sure to satisfy!
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Share your patriotic spirit by sending family and friends a 4th of July eCard from BlueMountain.com! Whether it's through an adorable 4th of July Talking eCard, or a simple Happy 4th of July digital postcard, you're sure to find some red, white, and blue that's right for you!
Once you've selected your eCard, sending is a snap! Email it or post to someone's Facebook page with just a click. Not a member? Getting started is easy! However you send it, 4th of July eCards are a great way to celebrate with style.
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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Jim McKay, One of the Last of A Disappearing Breed: A Real Journalist
McKay is best known for hosting the coverage of 12 different Olympic Games and for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports, for which he provided the famous opening narration: "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports...the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat...the human drama of athletic competition...This is 'ABC's Wide World of Sports!'"
Among the many honors that McKay received during his long, distinguished career, he was the first sportscaster to win an Emmy Award. He won a total of 13 Emmys, including both a news Emmy and a sports Emmy for his unforgettable coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Arab terrorists massacred 11 Israeli athletes. Once the deaths of the athletes were officially confirmed, McKay delivered the horrible news with just the right words and tone: "When I was a kid my father used to say our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized. Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said there were eleven hostages; two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight. They're all gone." McKay is the only person who has won Emmys for both sports and news coverage. His Munich coverage also earned him the George Polk Memorial Award, an honor that recognizes the best news reporting of the year.
As word of McKay's death spread throughout the sports world, tributes poured in from his peers and from the athletes he covered. Bob Costas said, "He brought a reporter's eye, a literate touch, and above all a personal humanity to every assignment. He had a combination of qualities seldom seen in the history of the medium, not just sports." Dick Ebersol, who worked with McKay at the 1968 Olympics as a 19 year old researcher and is now the chairman of NBC Sports, said, "He was truly the most respected and admired sportscaster of his generation and defined how the stories of sports can and should be covered. While we all know what an absolute titan he was in his chosen field, I will always remember him as an extraordinary human being guided by a strong moral compass."
Four-time Indianapolis 500 champion A.J. Foyt praised McKay for something that may seem minor but is actually quite meaningful: "He interviewed me many times and he was always a real gentleman. He didn't ask stupid questions."
With all the current nostalgia about the 1980s NBA Finals battles between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, it was jarring for me to realize that people who are graduating from high school this year were not even born when those games were played. Of course, the heyday of McKay's "Wide World of Sports" telecasts goes back even further than that; I was very, very young back then but I remember watching those shows and looking forward to hearing McKay's opening narration--I still get goosebumps when I hear him say "the human drama of athletic competition." If you are not old enough to remember the 1970s or 1980s it is difficult to really explain the significance of "Wide World of Sports," because now you can watch virtually any sporting event in the world on TV, on your computer or even on your cellphone. Scores and highlights are literally at your fingertips 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That was just a pipe dream back then; if you were a kid living on the East Coast and wanted to know the scores of West Coast games you sometimes had to wait almost a full day because that information would not be in the morning newspaper and may or may not have been mentioned during a local TV sportscast (SportsCenter did not exist until 1979 and did not become a TV staple for several years). In many ways, sports were a much more local phenomenon in that era, but "Wide World" provided a glimpse into the lives of athletes in different countries unlike anything else that you could see at that time.
Here is a very nicely rendered Jim McKay tribute by Jeremy Schaap, whose father Dick Schaap was also an exceptional sports journalist:
McKay Remembered as a Reporter With the Soul of a Poet
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James Kenneth McManus
September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008
We heard the, "thrill of victory,
and the agony of defeat"
We all knew when he said it
That, we'd be in for a treat.
Through the, "Wide World Of Sports"
He showed us places, never seen
From the North Pole to the South
And all of those, in between.
He spent years spanning the Globe
And brought us news and sports
And from the Olympics in Munich
He gave us all, those sad reports.
His passion was the sport of kings
Founder of the, "Maryland Million Day"
His love of horses and their races
Lasting, until his final day.
A legend in the sports industry
But, he left us so much more
Showed, it's how you play the game
It's not how much, you score.
This World will be a lesser place
Without his great charm and wit
Yes, he surely will be missed
Much more, than just a little bit.
Del "Abe" Jones
"Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology it is the evolution of creativity " copyright Del "Abe" Jones 1984
- Sunday, June 08, 2008 2:09:00 PM
I'm too young to remember Jim McKay, but from the articles and news footage I have seen, he was the blueprint for the Jeremy Schaaps, Bob Saunders and Bob Leys of the world. Not just for sports media but media in general. He will be dearly missed.
- Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:52:00 PM


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Scoble gave his feedback on the recent enhancements in Google reader. The reader team added social networking functionality as we have all seen. It really got me thinking. So here goes. What if I could correspond with friends within Google Reader. I know it is the "Inbox for the Web" but I want an extension of my Gmail inbox fully in Reader. For example, when you click the email button at the bottom of a post you can email to a friend. But, they receive that email in Gmail. How about a Inbox for Reader email within Reader? Send and receive emails related to Reader in Reader. Powered by Gmail it would label (tag) all mails sent and received from Reader with a Reader label. Many people use reader as a tool for blog research. Blog collaborators could then more easily exchange info.
Scoble does make a positive point with no. 14 on his list. "While I'm at it, I'd love to add a comment onto each item so I could tell you why I thought it was important." This is one things that draws me to Fav.or.it. Inline commenting the way fav.or.it describes it is cool. But commentary or notations within Reader for your friends only would be great also. Commenting of both types would be the best. Google Reader comments in my view would allow you to post a comment in at least 4 ways. 1 as a simple private notation for the user. 2 as a collaborative comment for friends. 3 as a comment for the world on the shared items blog. 4 as a comment for the author of the post inline (as Fav.or.it describes) . Commenting functionality is a necessary next step to Google Reader.
The Google Reader enhancements of the last few days although raw are for the better. I certainly hope that Fav.or.it, Bloglines, and any future competitor with a creative feature set will continue to push and challenge Google reader. I am confident that the Reader team will respond with enormous benefits to the end user.


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In September 2009, the NCCA celebrated ten years of the curriculum in primary schools. When launched in 1999, the Primary School Curriculum was described as evolutionary rather than revolutionary because it was founded on Curaclam na Bunscoile (1971) and it was developed by the NCCA through engagement with the partners in education. Read more.
The 1999 curriculum is structured in six curricular areas with 11 subjects. Curriculum aims, principles and features are explained in the Introduction and these underpin teaching and learning in all subjects. Curriculum content and teacher guidelines are provided for all 11 subjects. Since 1999, the NCCA has produced additional guidelines to provide practical support to schools on specific aspects of curriculum and assessment such as assessment and teaching students with special educational needs. To date, the NCCA has completed two phases of review to support ongoing improvement of the curriculum in primary schools. Further information on the NCCA's work to support learning and growing in early childhood and in primary schools is provided in the publications below.
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