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"My child is often disrespectful to me. She talks back in a sassy manner, yells at me, and sometimes calls me names. The more I punish her, the worse it gets."
Children learn from the examples they see. Too many parents expect their children to be respectful when they are not respectful to their children. Punishment is not respectful.
1. In a calm, respectful voice, tell your child, "If I have ever spoken to you that way, I apologize. I don't want to hurt you or be hurt by you. Can we start over?"
2. "You are obviously very upset right now. I know it upsets me when you talk that way. Let's both take some time out to calm down. We can talk later when we feel better."
3. Another possibility is to say what you will do. "When you talk disrespectfully to me, I will leave the room. I love you and want to listen to you when you are ready to talk respectfully. I love myself enough to walk away from verbal abuse." Calmly leave the room without saying a word. If your child follows, go for a walk or get into the shower. After a cooling-off period, ask, "Are you ready to talk with me now?" If you are not too upset, try hugging your child. Sometimes children are not ready to accept a hug at this time. Other times a hug changes the atmosphere for both of you to one of love and respect.
1. Be willing to take a look at how you might be teaching the very thing you abhor in your child by being disrespectful to her. Many parents have been shocked when they overheard their children talking to their dolls because their children were very good at mimicking how they were talked to.
2. If this is a recurring problem, put it on the family meeting agenda for discussion. Sometimes a discussion is enough to help the individuals involved cooperate to stop the problem.
Children can learn that it is not okay for them to be disrespectful to others or to tolerate others being disrespectful to them.
This is a good time to act instead of react. It is very tempting to get revenge by punishing when your children hurt your feelings. This models disrespect while trying to teach respect.
From a note sent by a grateful parent: "I'm all choked up right now because my fifteen-year-old daughter just came in and said, 'Mom, are you planning to do some washing today so that I can include my jeans, or should I put a load in before school?' It was such a respectful departure from 'Mom, have my jeans washed when I get home from school!'
Thank God for family meetings and calm dialogue instead of yelling, reacting, and the angry feelings we have known."
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OTTAWA — The federal government will refund up to $130 million to skilled workers who applied to Ottawa to come to Canada before 2008 in a bid to get rid of a backlog of about 300,000 applications through legislation.
The plan, outlined in part in Thursday's budget, ultimately will allow the government to ensure skilled newcomers actually meet current labour market needs.
The budget didn't include plans to legislate away the entire backlog of nearly one million, which includes another 160,000 skilled workers who applied after 2008.
While all departments were asked to slash spending by five to 10 per cent, Citizenship and Immigration was spared some of the harshest cuts.
The department will cut about $179 million over three years — nearly $23 million of which will come from the Immigration and Refugee Board.
Much of the savings will result from "reducing overhead costs and continuing to streamline operations and program delivery" at foreign visa offices.
In Hong Kong and Delhi, for example, a significant amount of office space is devoted to the pre-2008 backlog of skilled workers. With that eliminated through the refund program, officials suggest there will be reduced overhead.
By centralizing part of its visa processing, the department will also "reduce duplication and overlap" and ensure that those who are applying from within Canada are processed in Canada, according to the budget.
The budget also seeks to "better align the temporary foreign worker program with labour market demands."
The plan, which will be unveiled in full in the coming months, seeks to encourage Canadian employers to consider the domestic labour market before hiring overseas workers to fill gaps, by giving them access to Canada's pool of employment insurance recipients.
While many temporary foreign workers are employed seasonally in the agriculture sector, officials say there are also other shortages — for example, of lawyers in Saskatchewan — and that this is not about putting unemployed Canadians to work picking fruit.
The budget also calls for a new skilled tradespeople stream under the federal skilled worker program to attract more plumbers, electricians, crane operators and construction workers.
As a result, sources suggest the current annual federal cap of 10,000 skilled worker applications is likely to increase.
"Our government will reform Canada's immigration system to make it faster and more efficient," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said.
"We will ensure it is designed, above all, to strengthen Canada's economy. As a result we will be better able to fill gaps in our labour force. We will attract more of the entrepreneurs we need to create good jobs and long-term economic growth."
NDP immigration critic Don Davies called the skilled worker refund an "admission of failure" and suggested it's clear the government has no idea how to solve the backlog problem.
He believes Immigration Minister Jason Kenney should have fought harder to spare his department from any cuts and should have pushed for more money to hire staff and upgrade computer systems to improve transparency and speed up the processing of applications.
"The immigration system is in crisis," he said.
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A piece of metal fell from the sky and crashed into the roof of a Denton County mobile home over the weekend.
Rachael Thompson and Richard Myszkowski heard a loud bang Saturday morning while they were feeding their 11-month-old inside their home on Seaborn Road near Ponder.
When they went outside to inspect, they found what looked like a metal turbine on the roof of their mobile home.
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Thompson said it weighed only a few pounds but hit with enough force to put a large gash in the metal roof.
"It was like somebody threw a hammer at the house," she said. "What else is going to fall out of the sky?"
Luckily, the object didn't penetrate the home, as the family of five was inside at the time.
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Most departments and offices at Stockholm University are located on the main campus at Frescati, north of the city centre.
Stockholm University is situated in the middle of Sweden's first national city park and is characterised by natural beauty, unique architecture and contemporary art. The University is located only ten minutes from the urban buzz of Stockholm city centre, with easy access to shopping, music, fashion, architecture and culture.
The University is easily reached by public transport within the Stockholm region. Air, road and rail connection are also excellent. Full details are available on the page Getting to the University. A simple journey planner is available on this page, which allows you to search for journeys on public transport within the Stockholm region.
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The "high level" recommendations that will be used to draft future EU legislation also attack David Cameron for failing to automatically implement proposals by the Lord Justice Leveson inquiry for a state regulation of British press.
A "high level" EU panel, that includes Latvia's former president and a former German justice minister, was ordered by Neelie Kroes, European Commission vice-president, last year to report on "media freedom and pluralism". It has concluded that it is time to introduce new rules to rein in the press.
"All EU countries should have independent media councils," the report concluded.
"Media councils should have real enforcement powers, such as the imposition of fines, orders for printed or broadcast apologies, or removal of journalistic status."
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Real energy reductions in real buildings
The European Union is committed to reducing energy consumption in the built environment. As heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems (HVAC) account for around 11% of the total electricity consumption in Europe (according to figures from the EC Joint Research Centre), these systems are an important element in the EU's commitment. In this article, we find out more about two specific aspects of HVAC energy-efficiency; both focus on how important it is to understand how commercial buildings operate in real life as the first step on the road to reducing energy consumption.
Firstly benchmarking of in-use energy data. To understand, improve and legislate on energy consumption in commercial buildings, proper quantifying of existing energy performance of HVAC components in-use is vital. This is where the iSERV project comes in. Funded by the EU's Intelligent Energy Europe, iSERV provides continuous monitoring and benchmarking of HVAC systems. Participants will be able to link energy use at HVAC component level to the activities served. To find out more, we interview Dr. Ian Knight, Reader at Cardiff University and iSERV project coordinator.
Dr. Knight has been involved in research into the performance of buildings and building elements for over 20 years, particularly in the area of reducing Carbon emissions from the built environment. Dr. Knight holds a BSc(Hons) degree in Fuel and Energy Engineering and a Physics PhD.
Another area of focus for the EU is new buildings that overall consume almost no energy. These nZEB or nearly zero-energy buildings could be viewed as an important part of the solution to improving HVAC energy-efficiency. EU Directives already require that new buildings occupied and owned by public authorities must qualify as nZEB buildings by 2019, and that all new buildings must be nZEBs by 2021. But as we hear, unless designers remember to 'keep it simple', nZEBs will not provide a simple solution to reducing energy consumption.
We hear more about nZEBs from Prof. Dr. Jarek Kurnitski from SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund and at Tallinn University of Technology. Professor Kurnitski has been involved in working to improve the energy efficiency of the built environment for many years. Before coming to SITRA, he was Professor at the Helsinki University of Technology, where he led the Indoor Climate and Energy Performance Centre research. He is also a Vice-President and Board Member of REHVA, The Federation of European Heating and Air-conditioning Associations.
Grundfos met both men at the REHVA Annual Conference and Meeting 2012 on HVAC Technology and Energy Retrofitting, held in Timisoara, Romania.
iSERV – serving up continuous monitoring and benchmarking
Dr. Ian Knight had been involved in previous EU projects that indicated possible savings of up to 60% in individual HVAC systems with the help of detailed in-use energy data. The iSERV project ('iSERV' was derived from 'i' for Inspection and 'SERV' for Services, which is what HVAC systems are commonly referred to as) was therefore created with funding from the EU's Intelligent Energy Europe programme to quantify the existing energy performance of HVAC components and systems as achieved in practice. The Energy Conservation Opportunities (ECOs) uncovered will then be made freely available. The aim is to contribute to reducing the total EU electrical energy use by around 2%.
There is a lack of real in-use energy use data for HVAC system components. iSERV has been designed to produce a large dataset of sub-hourly energy use in European HVAC systems and their components.
Dr. Ian Knight
Dr. Knight, how will iSERV benefit participants and others?
IK: iSERV addresses the problem of improving the energy performance of HVAC systems in EU buildings in practice. We have developed the most straightforward process of entering buildings to the iSERVcmb database using the data entry spreadsheet, which is designed to link together in one space all the information about HVAC system components.
Participants need only enter the required data including:
- Consumption data on HVAC system components, sensors and utility meters
- Information regarding the floor area and activities served
- Ongoing sub-hourly data for at least the chiller, recorded over a full year.
With iSERV we now have the chance to look into the detail of the energy consumption of HVAC systems in buildings.
Dr. Ian Knight
The data collected by the iSERV project will be used to derive initial benchmark energy use ranges for the energy consumed by HVAC components servicing specified end-uses, areas and hours-of-use. This will enable bespoke benchmarks for, and a clearer understanding of, individual HVAC systems. At present we are recruiting HVAC system owners, operators and system or component manufacturers etc.
Will participants be able to gain a better understanding of their systems?
IK: Yes, as the data increases reports will begin to include comparison with other compatible systems. This will include reports on the bespoke performance of their HVAC systems and targeted feedback on potential energy conservation opportunities (ECOs) for their specific system.
What about long-term benefits for participants?
IK: Understanding and managing their HVAC energy consumption more effectively. Understanding the causes of variations in HVAC system energy consumption in similar systems, which will deliver benefits such as:
- More confidence in investment in improving the energy efficiency of poorer performing systems
- Better choice of replacement components
- Financial benefits from more focussed investment in energy efficiency that is also easier to justify
- Greater savings than are possible from inspection alone.
IK: There has been a lack of information on which to base policy decisions and future legislation regarding achieving energy efficiency in HVAC systems in the EU. This situation is now changing. The project hopes to contribute towards returning control over the delivery of energy savings to the actors in the sector, so that it would not matter how you reach the required energy use targets provided you can demonstrate that you have done so through the monitoring. This would allow innovative techniques and approaches and acknowledge that all actors can play a role in highlighting good performance and helping move towards the near Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) required for 2019 onwards.
All interested actors who wish to participate in the iSERV project can visit the project website at http://www.iservcmb.info/.
Keep it simple: operating nZEB buildings
Designing nearly zero-energy buildings that real people can operate
The European Union's Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires that from 2019 onwards 'all the new buildings occupied and owned by public authorities are nearly zero-energy buildings' (nZEB) and by the end of 2020 'all new buildings are nearly zero- energy buildings.' In this article we get some answers about where nZEB buildings are right now.
Professor Kurnitski, what needs to be taken into account in the optimal energy management of nZEB buildings?
JK: In practice there are two types of nZEB buildings. On the one hand there are very complicated buildings that are not easy to operate, which tend to have complicated ventilation and cooling systems, mostly hybrid systems. For example, nZEB buildings designed with natural ventilation with limited controls often come to rely on occupant behaviour in opening and closing windows, blinds etc.– and that leads to less than optimal usage, incorrect operation and wasted energy.
One the other hand, there are buildings that are like normal buildings when it comes to operation. The Environmental Centre building in Helsinki is an example of this, with one borehole cooling system and a simple ventilation system, so it is not much more complicated than a conventional building. I believe that systems like this will be very important in the future. We should remember that somebody always has to be able to install, balance, operate and maintain the systems in nZEB buildings, so keep it simple and use high efficiency components and systems.
We need to put more effort into designing buildings that are simpler to operate
Professor Kurnitski
What about the role of pumps and other HVAC components in nZEB buildings?
JK: Pumps, fans and other HVAC components are important. If these components are designed to operate in a simple system, then it is particularly important that they are high-efficiency components. One major trend in the design of nZEB buildings is towards low pressure, low velocity, sometimes self balancing systems that also deliver high efficiency.
Why do nZEB buildings fail to live up to expectations?
JK: One reason is that they can be too complicated. Another factor is that the design can be too optimistic. Also, what we are seeing are unexpected factors such as office appliances that are in fact dominating in the energy balance of the building.
What we are now seeing with nZEB buildings is that that office appliances have in fact become a major component in the energy balance
Professor Kurnitski
For an nZEB building in Paris, France, measured energy use showed that office appliances consumed twice as much energy as the designers had allowed for.
Has your research identified common technical features of nZEB commercial buildings?
JK: Yes, there are some general features that are common. On an overall level, nZEB buildings combine demand reduction with effective systems and on-site renewables. In general they typically share features such as:
- Water based distribution systems for heating and cooling with better energy efficiency than air based systems
- Wide range of energy sources such as heat pumps, District Heating, bio-CHP, solar PV and thermal
- Heat recovery ventilation, often demand controlled, by centralized or decentralized systems
- Free cooling solutions combined with mechanical cooling via evaporative or ventilative cooling etc.
- High efficiency heat recovery
- Optimized building envelope and effective external solar protection
- Utilization of thermal mass and other passive measures.
What else is needed for nZEB buildings to become more widespread?
JK: Building regulations remain the major driver here. Energy performance targets established by e.g. the EPBD (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive), and set in national building codes are important. We need to bear in mind that there is less than seven years until new public buildings will be required to be nZEB buildings under EU regulations. Energy performance improvements will also happen for existing buildings, but not yet to nZEB performance level as this is not realistic for existing buildings.


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Migrating whales dazzle boaters off N.J. coast
ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- Don and Merryl Richards were fishing off the coast of Deal on Monday when they were visited by a large sea creature of the deep.
"We heard this spout sound and we turn around and there was a whale," said Merryl Richards, 61, of Livingston. "We just stopped fishing and enjoyed the show."
Richards said the whale breached three of four times, each time with hundreds of menhaden, an oily bait fish, in its mouth. She estimates the whale was bigger than the 33-foot boat they were in.
"We've traveled to Alaska, Australia and Boston and have seen them, and this was as good a show as any," Richards said.
In the last week there has been quite a show off the coast as whales in the middle of their annual migration have dazzled many by breaching the surface and landing with thunderous splashes.
"To think you can pay for tickets to Sea World to see whales, but they're right here off the coast," said Mike Brown, 41, of Manasquan. Brown and his family saw a whale from their boat a mile off Mantoloking Beach on June 7.
The following Sunday, a father and daughter were kayaking off the Lavallette beach when a whale came within 30 feet of one of their kayaks.
The proximity of people to the whales during the migration makes Bob Schoelkopf, Founding director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, a little nervous.
He warns that while it might be tempting to follow the whales, some people are getting too close because a whale can become very aggressive. Especially mothers protecting calves.
"A 50-foot whale can take its tail and sink a 20-foot boat. A kayaker could be a sitting duck," he said.
The whales are more plentiful off the coast now because of the annual spring migration. But exactly how long they will be here the experts aren't sure. It could be a week, a month or possibly longer.
"(The) whales that you see along the coast are moving from their southern winter grounds to their northern summer grounds," said Jackie Toth Sullivan, a marine biology professor at Stockton State College.
"There have been a number of humpback whale sightings close to the shoreline," said Sullivan. "Other whales passing through the area are right whales, minke whales and fin whales, but these typically occur a bit more offshore than humpback whales."
Sullivan said the whales are filter feeders and don't have teeth. They are feeding on tiny plankton and small fishes.
All whales and dolphins are federally protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and some of these are designated as endangered by the endangered species act said Sullivan.
"The right whale in particular is considered highly endangered. By law, boaters are supposed to keep a distance of 100 feet from whales (and) 500 yards from right whales," Sullivan said.
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Dominica Overview
Dominicadŏmĭnē´kə [key], officially Commonwealth of Dominica, republic (2015 est. pop. 73,000) consisting of the island of Dominica (290 sq mi/750 sq km), located in the Windward Islands, West Indies. Roseau is the capital and chief port. The island, of volcanic origin, is mountainous and forested, with a wide variety of flora and fauna and an extensive national park system. Dominica is subject to frequent destructive hurricanes. The population is largely of African or mixed European and African descent. More than three quarters of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, the balance mainly Protestants. English is the official language, but a French patois is also widely spoken.
Bananas are the chief commercial crop and export. Citrus, coconuts, and coconut oil are also exported, and mangoes and root crops are raised. Industry is generally limited to food processing and the manufacture of soap and other coconut-based products. Tourism is a growing industry, but Dominica remains one of the poorer Caribbean nations. The main trading partners are Great Britain, the United States, and China.
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Catholic Refugees in Balkans Deserve Justice, Bishop Says
In the Bosnian Serb Republic, the Catholic population has fallen from 220,000 to 11,500 since the Yugoslav wars ended in the 1990s.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — A bishop in Bosnia-Herzegovina says that Catholic refugees from the Yugoslav wars conducted in the 1990s continue to suffer and face barriers to their return home.
"Croatian Catholics must finally be put on an equal footing with the other two ethnic groups," Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka told the charity Aid to the Church in Need Nov. 29. "They must be allowed to return from abroad, and possibilities must be created for them to build up a life in their hometowns."
In the early 1990s, the breakup of Yugoslavia worsened tensions over territory and the future of minority ethnic groups and erupted into wars primarily involving Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs and Muslim Bosniaks.
The war killed more than 100,000 and displaced hundreds of thousands. After NATO bombings, the Bosnian war ended in 1995, with the Dayton Accords, signed by the presidents of the countries of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia.
Church sources say only a little more than half of the 835,000 Catholics who had lived in Bosnia-Herzegovina before the civil war live there today. In the Bosnian Serb Republic, one of the two constitutive divisions of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Catholic population has fallen from 220,000 to 11,500.
Bishop Komarica, who is head of the bishops' conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina, lamented that Catholic Croats "have not received a cent" of international funding intended to help repatriate refugees.
Catholics who return to their homes have "no guarantee for a sustainable return, no houses, no work, no electricity, no roads, no medical provision and no schools." He stressed that Croats "must finally be put on an equal footing with the other two ethnic groups."
Catholics with Croat names often have more difficulty finding work, he added.
The refugees are "citizens with no established rights." The bishop said that "hardly any of the local politicians take up their cause," especially in the Bosnian Serb Republic, though some have promised action.
Bishop Komarica warned that Bosnia-Herzegovina suffers from instability that discourages the foreign investment needed to help the economy.
"This country, which was divided unnaturally and unjustly into two by the Dayton Accords in 1995, is sinking into social and political chaos," he said.
The Dayton Accords split the country into two autonomous entities: the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Banja Luka, Bishop Komarica's see, is the de facto capital of the Bosnian Serb Republic.
The bishop charged that there has been a "betrayal of European values and principles" and "a failure to comply with international agreements" in the country. He called this a "disgrace" both for the country's politicians and "the international politicians who are responsible for the Bosnia and Herzegovina."
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Cotton and rice farmers have come to think of Sen. Charles Grassley as a pretty tough customer because of his attempts to tighten payment limits at a time when farm programs have been the only thing standing between some of them and bankruptcy.
But even cotton and rice farmers might have been a little taken aback by a recent quote attributed to the Iowa Republican after Congress passed the much-criticized corporate tax bill. Among many other things, the bill includes language that bars deductions for the donation of automobiles to charities.
Stung by criticism of the provision, Grassley said he hoped the change will shut down "billions of dollars in tax shelters and shady tax practices." He also criticized charities for "thinking it's all right for someone to cheat on his taxes to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars as long as the charity gets $50 out of it."
This comes, mind you, after Grassley helped write a bill that gives an estimated $77 billion in tax breaks to U.S. manufacturing companies and another $43 billion in reductions for U.S. companies with overseas operations.
The staff of the Senate Finance Committee, which Grassley chairs, later said ending the ability to deduct the "fair market value" of the donated vehicle will add $2.4 billion in government revenue over the next 10 years. (Owners will still be able to deduct the actual sales price of the automobile.)
The corporate tax bill or American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 began as an attempt to address a World Trade Organization panel ruling that the Foreign Sales Corporation/Extra-Territorial Initiative provisions in the U.S. tax code were an illegal export subsidy.
The European Union complained that allowing U.S. companies, including grain and cotton merchandising operations, to bring profits from foreign sales into the United States at a lower tax rate allowed U.S. crops to be sold at lower prices.
Farm organizations worked for months to try to change the law to avert the imposition of tariff duties on U.S. exports to the EU that began in March, but it didn't begin to gain traction until someone decided the bill could become a vehicle for other changes to the tax code.
When it passed, the bill offered tax breaks to hundreds of companies and products, including an end to tariffs on imported ceiling fans, which Grassley reportedly agreed to at the request of Georgia Sen. Zell Miller. (Home Depot, which sells thousands of ceiling fans annually, is headquartered in Atlanta.)
Proponents claim the tax "savings" will be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes and eliminating obsolete corporate tax breaks. It's difficult to imagine how you can increase tax revenues by ending tax breaks no one uses, but that seems to be typical of the "smoke and mirrors" budget writing in Congress.
Meanwhile, the next time you hear someone complaining about government payments to "wealthy farmers" just point them to Sen. Grassley's new tax bill.
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She wasn't being an egomaniac. Instead, Damon--who'd been attacked and nearly raped and killed two and a half years earlier--was shedding her "Jane Doe" status while she faced her attacker in court.
"I survived. You have simply victimized yourself. I will be free for the rest of my life. You will be a prisoner for the rest of yours," she told him in front of a courtroom full of people and cameras.
Damon later said she decided to disclose her identity and speak in court "to help other people that might not be as able to come out and talk about difficult things. If I didn't come out and put my name out there, it would be just another case of someone almost murdered, almost raped, and that it would be another story that just passes by...if I were just to go by Jane Doe, which I did for two and a half years, up to this point, I think that people would be more apt to forget."
The short statement was put together in 90 minutes, and read from a script in case she lost her nerve or train of thought, but Damon said "it's nothing to prepare for, it's been in my mind for two and half years." She reminded other speakers facing difficult topics that "it's okay to give yourself permission to cry...so many times we're so embarrassed or so worried about what people will think."
Here's what you can learn from this famous speech:
- Your voice is a part of your identity: Damon could have submitted a written statement or saved her thoughts for therapy, and stayed anonymous and safe. But taking the risk to speak out loud and in front of cameras and witnesses underscored that speaking up can help define you as much as your name does. Are you representing yourself? Damon did, in spades.
- Facing your nemesis makes for powerful speaking: Sometimes only one person in the audience matters. Damon's attacker grins and avoids looking at her while she makes her statement, but she confronts him with pride and strength.
- Speak for yourself with "I" statements: No one can speak for you but you, particularly about such a violent and personal event. Using "I" is the way to start the sentences that describe how you feel. Damon does a good job avoiding all "you" accusations by alternating "I" and "you" statements that underscore the differences between herself and her attacker.


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Without going into detail, my son, much to his dismay at age 25 is back living at home. He is finishing his degree and looking to start a career. In the last year or so has he started to become serious about his faith, school, the future, and of course, relationships. Why?
Maybe because my husband and I have been married for over 37 years and although, imperfect as we are, we have set the bar high about committed relationships to both of our children. Surrounded by messages from media and seeing friends and extended family living together without marriage or having children out of wedlock, my husband and I commend him on his willingness to do things right and in order.
Because of the work I do for National Fatherhood Initiative my son has been maybe a bit over exposed to this great work we do. Talk of fatherhood seems to make it's way into conversations about almost everything.
As a Sr. Program Support Consultant for NFI, I connect individuals and organizations to research, resources, and tools that will help them engage and equip men to be involved, responsible and committed fathers to their child(ren). Why? The message is that father's are irreplaceable in their child's life. The other message that NFI consistently supports is the importance of the father's relationship with the child's mother.
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Before we invented Thanksgiving, dooming millions of turkeys each November, the feast of choice at holiday celebrations was rib roast. Once you've had the real thing, it's easy to dismiss all thoughts of bird and see why fifth-generation meat cutter Evan Lobel elevates prime rib to more than beef: "It's tradition. The aroma brings the family around the table."
The secrets of the perfect rib roast feast involve a holy trinity of meat selection, preparation and presentation.
Prime rib should be truly prime (less than 2 percent of all beef is so graded) with its signature high-level marbling. The streaks of fat within the eye of the roast lubricate the beef, while it cooks, and provide a burst of flavor. Lobel's of New York (www.lobels.com) dry ages its corn-fed prime beef as it creates a flavor that Lobel compares to a rich sauce reduction with an intense concentration, accompanied by an aroma of nuttiness.
Pasture-raised beef makes a tasty alternative to prime. At Montana's B Bar Ranch (www.whiteparkbeef.com), the rare breed of White Park cattle graze on five types of grass and two varieties of clover, as well as alfalfa. Ranch manager Wes Henthorne pastures his White Parks for up to 30 months, nearly twice as long as corn- or grain-fed cattle. "You get a wider palate of flavor from age," he says. "And we harvest cattle in late summer and early fall, when our grass is as good as it gets and cattle are gaining weight. That makes for our tenderness." Bar-B also dry ages its beef.
Rib roast deserves careful cooking. Executive Chef Hans Aeschbacher, of Smith & Wollensky Chicago (www.smithandwollensky.com), recommends seasoning with a mix of paprika, garlic, salt and pepper. He sets his beef in a pan lined with rock salt. "The salt adds flavor while keeping the beef juicy," he explains.
Cook at 325 degrees. A cut this fine warrants accurate monitoring with a meat thermometer. Remove the meat when it registers 120 to 125 degrees for rare, or five degrees more for medium. (an eight- to 10-pound roast will reach 120 in about two to two-and-a-half hours.) Now let it stand for up to an hour as it continues to cook. Condiments? Whip heavy cream and blend in horseradish. Or mix chives and horseradish into sour cream.
Late arriving guests do not worry this chef. He returns a "set" roast to a 145-degree oven. It will stay warm for hours while retaining its original degree of doneness.
Of course, a rib roast does not remain a table's centerpiece for long. Aeschbacher's serving directions: "Use an absolutely sharp knife and carve like you're playing a violin with long, gentle strokes."
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I used to love the feature of sorting the list of recipes in any category by how many times it's been reviewed, or how many stars it has, and I don't see that option anymore. If it's gone, can it be added back in? That was one of the main reasons I use this site for recipes and found it so incredibly handy.
Also, I don't see the category listed when I search for recipes. I used to search for key words, and if I didn't get what I wanted, at least the categories (example: Roasted Bell Pepper Hummus, Category: Hummus & Dips) that where shown next to the recipes name in the search results could direct me in the right direction.
I like the new look, but looks like my most favorite features have gone :(
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Star rating is coming, we just added stars back in so we have to write it into the code :)
Is there a way to see our own old posts or other people's? We used to be able to do that and it was useful for trying to track answers to questions, discussions etc.
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Beginning on April 2, 2005, the Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) will be presenting a new exhibit, "A rose by any other name...": Highlights from the Kenneth Rose Music Collection. Kenneth D. Rose was a faculty member at Ward-Belmont College in Nashville from 1918 to 1952. He began collecting in 1935, and assembled a vast and diverse selection of sheet music. This exhibit will focus on a few areas of his collection, such as Confederate sheet music, comic songs, minstrel songs, war songs, patriotic songs, and sports songs. Although these themes will be the primary focus of the exhibit, Rose also collected many other types of song sheets.
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"A rose by any other name…": Highlights from the Kenneth Rose Music Collection
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Kenneth Daniel Rose (1888–1960) joined the faculty of the Ward-Belmont Conservatory of Music in 1918, and served as the head of the violin department from 1918 to 1952. Born in Wabash, Indiana, Rose studied at the Metropolitan School of Music and the Conservatory of Butler University, both in Indianapolis. Rose frequently traveled abroad, working under the tutelage of several noted musicians, including Suky in Prague, Arthur Hartmann in Paris, and George Lehmann in Berlin. During a stay in Chicago, he studied under Leopold Auer.
In Indianapolis, Rose served with the Germanhouse Orchestra and as Concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony. After relocating to Nashville, Rose was a soloist, guest conductor, and concertmaster with the old Nashville Symphony.
Rose began collecting sheet music in 1935 when he visited a small bookshop in northern Indiana. Previously a collector of rare books, Rose shifted his collecting focus when he "sensed that in these albums lay, quite possibly, the germ of a new and intriguing challenge." (Tennessee Historical Quarterly 15, no. 4, December 1956).
Within two years, Rose had discarded his antiquarian books in favor of "thousands of music sheets, many bound into volumes…. Little then was it suspected that this would lead to contacts with nationally known fellow enthusiasts, that libraries and universities would become interested supporters, or that the collection would assume its present proportions, eventually to be exhibited locally and elsewhere, with the supreme accolade of a display in Life" (Tennessee Historical Quarterly 15, no. 4, December 1956).
In addition to collecting sheet music, Rose studied Nashville's music history. In 1956, he donated his sheet music collection and his personal papers, the Kenneth Daniel Rose Papers, 1879-1957, to the Tennessee State Library and Archives. For those interested in reading more about Rose's involvement in music collecting, see "The Story of a Music Collection," in the December 1956 issue of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, available upon request. Please contact Gwynn Thayer at 615-253-3469 or email@example.com for a copy.
Wars, Presidents, Patriotism, and Politics:
In addition to collecting music sheets directly related to the Civil War or the Confederacy, Rose collected items pertaining to numerous political events, presidents, and wars, including the American Revolution, the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. He also acquired numerous patriotic American songs, including, most notably, the Star Spangled Banner and The Battle of the Wabash.
Confederate Songs:
There were approximately 6,000 separate music titles published in the Southern States during the Civil War; Rose himself collected about 275. About 175 of the music sheets were copyrighted in the South, and read "Copyrighted by the Confederate States of America." Some of the sheets were published without adequate supplies of ink, paper, and other tools used by printers. This could give music sheets published in the South a different appearance from those that were published in the North. Confederate music sheets were especially prized by music collectors.
Sports and Recreation:
One of Kenneth Rose's collecting interests was music sheets related to sporting events and recreational activities. He collected songs pertaining to baseball, boxing, tennis, cycling, yachting, aviation, horse racing, hunting, circuses, automobiles, and more. Many of the lyrics and cover illustrations of these music sheets capture the spirit of the times and enthusiasm and fanfare surrounding these new American pastimes.
The Minstrel Tradition:
Within the tradition of comic songs, minstrels were exceedingly popular in American culture beginning in the 1830s and throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. Much has been written about this tradition, for understanding this custom can reveal a great deal about relations between whites and African Americans in the nineteenth century. In many cases, white men dressed up as African Americans – the "black-face" minstrel tradition – and sang minstrel songs during rowdy theatrical performances. Blacks were frequently characterized as rowdy, comic fools. African Americans also created all-black minstrel shows, especially after the Civil War.
Jenny Lind's Nashville Visit:
The "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind (1820–1887), traveled throughout the United States from 1850 to 1852 with P. T. Barnum. She visited Nashville for two performances in 1851, on March 31 and April 2. A notice in the Daily Nashville Union on March 29, 1851, announced that "Jenny Lind, this wonderful woman, the very enchantress of song, is now coming up our river and is soon to be in Nashville." A large crowd assembled near Nashville's wharf to see her disembark from the steamboat from St. Louis.
The audience packed the old Adelphi Theater, once located on North Cherry Street and Cedar Street (present day Fourth Avenue North and Charlotte Avenue). In order to prepare for her visit, William Strickland, the architect of the Tennessee State Capitol, was hired to add a tier to accommodate a larger audience. The first ticket was auctioned off at $200, and Lind ultimately brought in more than $12,000 for her Nashville performances. Lind's numerous public appearances launched a fad known as "Lindomania"; many streets, schools, and theatres were named after her, and she achieved extraordinary popularity in America for a number of years.
For more information about Jenny Lind's performance in Nashville, see Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South, Nashville, Tennessee, by Martha Rivers Ingram with D. B. Kellogg.
Comic Songs:
Comic songs have a rich tradition that goes back to the beginnings of the human experience. Although many nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century songs have since been forgotten, they were at one time quite popular with a middle-class audience who was eager to buy song sheets and play the music in their homes.
Many songs mocked various types of people, including Quakers, New Yorkers, Germans, Chinese, Irish, Jews, and African-Americans. Dialect songs mocked accents and modes of speech. Other types of comic songs were character-based or topical in nature.
Davis, Louise. "Work of Three Centuries." Nashville Tennessean Magazine (November 5, 1950): 6-8, 22.
Dichter, Harry. Handbook of American Sheet Music. Philadelphia: Harry Dichter, 1953.
Elliker, Calvin. "Toward a Definition of Sheet Music." Notes 55, no. 4 (June 1999): 835-859.
Kenneth Daniel Rose Papers, 1879-1957, Manuscripts Section, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
"Kenneth Rose Funeral Tuesday; Noted Violinist," in The Nashville Banner (April 11, 1960): 8.
Levy, Lester S. "Sheet Music Buffs and Their Collections: A Personal Memoir." American Music 1, no. 2 (Winter 1983): 90-99.
Morrissey, Ralph G. "In the Air and on the Shelves." Nashville Tennessean Magazine (December 15, 1946): 28-29.
Morrissey, Ralph G. "The Singing Confederacy." Nashville Tennessean Magazine (January 5, 1947): 26-27.
Rose, Kenneth. "The Story of a Music Collection." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 15, no. 4 (December 1956): 356-363.
Rose, Kenneth. Vertical File at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
Rose Music Collection, Manuscripts Section, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
Wharton, J. G. "Humor, Sentiment, and Satire Basis of Songs Confederate Troopers Sang." Nashville Tennessean (March 1, 1942): A-11.
Wharton, J. G. "United States Needs Stirring War Song Like Martial Ditties of Confederacy." Nashville Tennessean (February 22, 1942): A-9.
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Last quarter, when Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that his company would invest $100 million in US manufacturing, Simon Grant, president and CEO of Automation GT, said the announcement provided a high-profile example of the recent onshoring trend, which is predicted by some to be at the forefront of company agendas throughout 2013.
According to Grant, the onshoring movement of returning outsourced manufacturing back to the US began with labor issues in China. China's low labor costs once compelled companies to outsource production abroad. Today, wages are five times higher than they were 12 years ago, and are estimated to continue rising at 18 percent a year, according to a recent article in the Huffington Post.
Companies were also prompted to reconsider the benefits of offshoring when Chinese workers began to resist poor labor conditions in the form of strikes and suicides. The problem became serious enough for the contract electronics assembler Foxconn Technology Group to begin automating its operations in China.
The cover story in the December issue of The Atlantic, "Why The Future of Industry Is In America," reported that US manufacturing is on the edge of a major resurgence as companies bring work back from China and other foreign countries.
Automation GT's Grant believes that operating automation abroad is no more effective than operating automation in the US, and for companies wishing to onshore production, automated robotics will play a key role. "We've seen a trend with companies wishing to be 'reshored'," Grant said in an interview. "They are not satisfied with the quality of products being produced abroad, and managing that from afar is a real challenge."
With automation, companies are able to bring manufacturing back to the US, respond to changing market demands quicker, protect Intellectual Property, and have total quality control. "From a financial and a logistical perspective, automated production in the US just makes sense," Grant added.
While consumer expectations for superior goods and services continues to grow, operating closer to the demand allows companies to reduce lead times, and keep up with the market's incessantly changing demands. Automation also offers the opportunity to reposition labor to carry out different tasks.
Grant said the importance of onshoring has been acknowledged by President Obama, with his proposal of tax relief for companies that return jobs to America. Obama also alluded to end the favorable tax treatment for companies who move work overseas, which will encourage the manufacturing pendulum to swing back.
What is your viewpoint? Tell us in the comments section below.
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About two months ago, Steve McCurry and his portraits were featured on this blog, with his world famous photograph of the Afghan Girl taken over 25 years ago mentioned in passing. This week's photograph draws some inspiration from that image, although it turns that inspiration into something both haunting and stirring. This is the portrait of another Afghan girl, Bibi Aisha as photographed by Jodi Bieber.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Jodi Bieber and the Other Afghan Girl
Posted by Jay at 8:25 PM
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Public Enemies: The FBI Most Wanted
Posted by Jay at 5:48 PM
The last two posts have dealt with images of criminals and lawbreakers of the past, so what better way to end this week than to feature the photographs and mug shots of America's most wanted fugitives of the present. These are the faces of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The Usual Suspects: Old Sydney Police Mug Shots
Posted by Jay at 8:43 PM
These aren't stills or publicity photographs for a 1920s era gangster film. Instead, these astonishing images are actually mug shots and booking photographs from criminals arrested in Sydney and around New South Wales in the early decades of the 20th century.
Labels: Crime, Mug shot, Peter Doyle, Portraiture
Monday, May 23, 2011
Weegee: The Papparazzi of the Night
Posted by Jay at 2:43 PM
It's time to step away from curious encounters in the country and focus on the seedier side of midnight in the city. Herein presented are the gritty photographs of lawbreakers, victims and crime scenes as seen by the early 20th century photographer Arthur Fellig, more popularly known as Weegee.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Amy Stein: Not So Domesticated Animals
Posted by Jay at 5:12 PM
What happens when humans encounter animals in the wild? Or better yet, what happens when wild animals encounter humans in the city? And do these rare and not-so-rare occurrences hold any lasting value beyond the moment? The answers to these questions might be found in photographer Amy Stein's Domesticated series.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Joel Sartore: Rare and Beautiful Creatures
Posted by Jay at 4:49 PM
A few days from now, the world will observe Endangered Species Day on May 22. That's the date set aside by the Endangered Species Coalition, a group dedicated to protecting creatures and their habitats that are in danger of vanishing. What better way to commemorate this occasion than to feature the photographs from Joel Sartore's Rare series.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Irving Penn: Small Trades, Big Pride
Posted by Jay at 3:17 PM
The previous couple of posts highlighted the gloomy side of labor, but those shouldn't dissuade you from the idea of manual labor or work in general. Both Lewis Hine and Sebastião Salgado sought to expose the hardships faced by laborers in their working environment, but Irving Penn's Small Trades project created half a century ago illustrates the exact opposite by portraying these workers in a beautiful light.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sebastião Salgado: The Modern Face of the Worker
Posted by Jay at 8:51 PM
The images of child laborers photographed by Lewis Hine in the previous post are like a faint memory from a distant past, but the reality of today's working man isn't so far removed from those of the previous feature. The harsh reality of manual labor as captured by Hine a century ago is still reflected in the faces of today's laborers as photographed by Sebastião Salgado.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Sunshine Award
Posted by Jay at 9:37 PM
A big thank you to Heel in Mint who runs the Heel in Mint Blog for nominating me for the Sunshine Award! If you want to learn more about the fashion industry, the Heel in Mint blog is your ticket.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Lewis Hine: The Littlest Laborers
Posted by Jay at 8:04 PM
This week saw many countries commemorate International Workers Day. While many labor groups use this day to advocate for improvements to their present working condition, this day should also be used to celebrate how much has improved for workers all over the world. These improvements are quite striking when you see the historic photographs of child labor as captured by the legendary photographer Lewis Hine.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Posted by Jay at 10:24 PM
With the news currently flooded with the news of Osama bin Laden's death, it would be a good breather to feature something different. Finishing off the first part of this blog's first astronomy series is a post that features neither a photograph nor a photographer. Instead, it's an amazing piece of artwork from a very talented artist.
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Hollywood Is Fed Up With Gwyneth Paltrow, Kim Kardashian Is Leaving the Country + More in This Week's Tabloids
We read Star, OK!, Life & Style, National Enquirer and Us Weekly this week, so you don't have to. It's June, so you should be outside anyway.
What's new? The Hollywood elite are finally as annoyed by Gwyneth Paltrow as the general public, Katie Holmes has a big ol' "I'm over Tom" smile on her face, Miranda and Blake are having twins – twin affairs that is, Miley Cyrus has an achy breaky heart, and all kinds of other really real stuff you'd have to read to believe.
Hollywood has turned on Gwyneth Paltrow. The poor dear is being ridiculed for being out of touch and mean. The Star says Jennifer Garner thinks Gwyn is the mean girl from high school, J.Lo thinks, "Most beautiful? That's a joke," and Angelina thinks she's arrogant and pretentious.
To which Gwyneth will most likely reply, "It takes one to know one." But only passive-aggressively through her holier-than-thou blog on Goop.
If you haven't had a good fright yet this week, there's a shocking claim about Justin Bieber: He's a dad. We were surprised to find out he was capable of such things since his voice hasn't even dropped yet, but it could be true anyway. Kanye West is just hoping the lucky lady is Kim Kardashian so he'll be off the hook.
The good news is that it's time to talk smack about Reese Witherspoon again. The bad news is, it's not because of something new. An ex of Reese's husband Jim Toth talked to Star and, of course, had only kind words about her former hubby -- like, "He's a slimy drunk."
Because as you know, exes always remember things exactly as they were with no bitterness whatsoever. Always. Not bitter.
Oh, and Amanda Bynes has reportedly been trading sex for drugs. Concerned friends close to the struggling former child star have been desperately trying to warn her that this will ruin any chances she ever had of donating blood and getting free juice and cookies, but she just stared glassily and said, "Cookies? Do we have cookies?"
Katie Holmes has a new man. But only in OK! magazine. The minx has been hot and heavy with her sexy co-star, Luke Kirby, having private romantic lunches in her trailer. We're just happy she's eating again (whatever it is). The Cruise years were pretty lean for her.
OK! also touts amazing photos inside, but we've seen them and they just prove that the editors of OK! do not have a clear understanding of the meaning of the word "amazing." So there's that.
Plus, OK! has learned that Tom Cruise's jealousy has erupted over Katie's new "only in OK!" man. In fact, he was so pissed he allegedly showed up at Oprah's house at 3 a.m. last Thursday just to jump on her couch in frustration.
Christina Aguilera has been kind enough to let us all know "how I lost 25 pounds in one month." The photos of her without a head are pretty disturbing, but kudos to her on the weight loss anyway.
Brad Pitt has given Angelina Jolie an ultimatum. He said to his fianceé, "Marry me now!" Which has to be about the most romantic proposal we've ever heard. We would say that he swept her off her feet, but we know they're rich so they have people who do all their sweeping for them.
Life & Style
It was good news on the cover for Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton last week, so if we do the math, that means bad news for couple this week. And Life & Style delivered!
It has the exclusive story of Miranda's nights with another man. Now it's Blake's turn to have heartbreak after Miranda got close to a fellow country star on the road. Not that L & S is recycling their stories about the couple and just switching the names around or anything like that. This is for reals, you guys.
Get out your calendars, because there's an intervention scheduled in the battle to save Amanda Bynes. TLC and Bravo are currently fighting over who will have the rights to air the debacle. Meanwhile, Twitter users can expect an incoherent missive from Bynes both during and every five to 10 minutes after the event. And maybe a festive new wig for the occasion!
Kim Kardashian is leaving America? Stop teasing us, tabloid overlords. But on the off-chance it's true: Sorry, rest of the world. She's your problem now, suckas.
Life & Style went inside J.Lo's house and all they could say was, "Wow." Apparently, Jenny from the Block has become Jenny who owns the block. It's possible they also found Marc Anthony tied up inside a shoe box.
National Enquirer
They're no Miranda and Blake, but it seems like John Travolta and Kelly Preston are having some serious issues of their own.
First of all, gravity became a huge issue when Kelly collapsed after their $220 million divorce turned nasty. The divorce has now agreed to call her Miss Preston, but she still sobbed, "John will destroy me if I leave him." But it could just be the drugs talking now that we know about her shocking cocaine and pot addiction.
You thought it was Justin Bieber, but the National Enquirer has discovered that Ann Curry is the neighbor from hell. She's apparently always trying to fawn all over her neighbors and kiss their butts now that she doesn't have celebrities to interview anymore. She also still gets up really early in the morning, and let's be real -- nobody appreciates that.
We knew it would happen once Ozzie fell off the wagon: Brad Pitt is back on drugs, having had a relapse over Angie's cancer crisis. Well, it was time his personal habits actually matched his hair and beard scruff anyway.
America is on alert after a war hero was beheaded in London, having been butchered on a busy street by Islamic fanatics. If you were confused about whether this was officially a serious and tragic event, rest assured that it is -- otherwise the National Enquirer wouldn't be trying so hard to tastelessly exploit it to sell magazines.
Us Weekly
Get ready to cry your eyes out. It's over. Liam Hemsworth has dumped Miley Cyrus. The poor thing is crushed since Liam called off the wedding. And someone has already sent the magazine photos of the two ripped in half. (Such a time-saver, that.)
Of course, Us Weekly knows what tore them apart – both the couple and the photos – and why his family is so relieved.
All we can think about right now is Miley's achy breaky heart. And that her dad's annoying songs probably aren't much help right now.
The weight of Christina Aguilera's head clocked in a little lower on the Us Weekly scales. Either that or she's not spilling the secrets of the last five pounds, because here she's only claiming she lost 20 pounds.
She looks all kinds of wow, but those last five pounds are totes up to you.
We aren't sure if it was Regular Kim, Pregnant Kim or Vain Kim, but one of the Kim Kardashians went on a wild baby spree and spent $4,000 on a crib. Probably so she could get one big enough to hold all the wild babies she scooped up during said spree. (They bite.)
Finally, if you'd rather see shows about drugs than do drugs – no, we're not talking to you, Amanda Bynes – then you'll be excited over the 'Breaking Bad' reunion that was captured in Aaron Paul's wedding pics.
But if you're over that show and into 'Game of Thrones' now, you probably don't want to see anyone's wedding pics after Sunday's show. Because daaaaaaaamn.


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Biliana Kostova, B.S. '08
Business Administration, International Business
The University of Baltimore was the natural choice for Biliana Kostova, B.S. '08. For her, flexible class offerings were ideal, but as she explained she considered other factors in choosing UB.
"UB had great reviews," said Kostova. "It was close to home and I loved the midtown location. There are a lot of places for students to get together and work or socialize, coffee houses, restaurants and of course the UB Student Center. It was the perfect fit."
Like so many of our alumni, she shared her fondest UB memory—the time spent with her fellow students and her favorite professor, Alan Randolph.
"Professor Randolph is a great mentor with great teaching skills," reflected Kostova. "My fondest memory of UB is when I got to travel abroad to London with the International Business Practicum course. The learning experience gained from this class was very unique, as students got the opportunity to travel abroad and get the real-life feel of how international business works. Professor Randolph was there every step of the way, and he worked with the sponsor company's advisers and us, in order to find the best possible ways for marketing their product in the UK. It also brought our group much closer together, and we have kept in touch to this date."
She discovered that studying abroad in the global practicum class was also an advantage that correlated with her interest in working for a global company.
While attending UB, Kostova was hired into her current position at ICON Development Solutions, LLC and she credits finding her job with the networking possibilities available at UB. She also adds how helpful her program of study has been to her career. "Majoring in international business has helped my career tremendously. I took a lot of marketing, international economics and international business courses, which has set my mind to think globally and to always consider the culture differences we face."
One of the things about her current position Kostova truly enjoys is the teamwork. As she explains, "I love that I am part of such a great team that really makes a difference within our organization. The fact that I am part of a team of really hard-working individuals makes me want to be even better every day. " In her role as project coordinator Kostova's responsibilities at ICON include: planning and coordinating assigned single service stand-alone projects to ensure integration, coordination and consistency of processes throughout a project life-cycle; set up, organize, track and maintain clinical study and project documentation.
Personally and professionally Kostova has set herself solid goals in the coming year. She is planning on attending graduate school and is working to become a project manager. She is looking forward to advancing in her position and she adds, "I like the fact that what we do may actually have an impact in saving people's lives."
This Merrick School of Business alumni profile was added in February 2013.


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As a Coast Guard long-range interceptor passes by, New York Naval Militia crew members make a check of Patrol Boat
(PB) 440 following a patrol up New York's East River. The PB 440 is berthed at the Coast Guard station on Staten Island.
about a dozen people, making it ideal for boarding operations.
"The boat is great," Lucarino said. "It's roomy, it's stable and it's warm. When we do boardings from one of our
[Coast Guard] boats, we usually end up having to ride
outside. During the winter, that's not much fun."
Under an operating agreement with the Coast Guard,
the service supplies fuel for the PB 440 as well as the berth
at the Fort Wadsworth station. The NYNM can take out
as many as two Coast Guard boarding teams in a day.
"We are here primarily at the service of the Coast
Guard," Smith said. "Whatever the Coast Guard needs,
we are here to help them."
"It's great to work with them," Lucarino said.
"There is good cooperation between the Coast Guard
and the militia. We're all doing this for the same reason: to keep people safe."
The one thing notable in its absence aboard the PB
440 is weaponry. The boat is not armed, nor are the militia members, as per New York State Division of Military
and Naval Affairs policy. During boarding operations, an
armed Coast Guard boat — such as the long-range interceptor with its bow-mounted M240 7.62mm machine
gun that accompanied the Maersk Georgia operation —
will escort the PB 440 in case any trouble does erupt.
Since militia members are not sworn law enforcement
officers — although Raynock works as a police officer in
Suffolk County, N.Y. — they also do not have authority
for search, seizure or arrest. They report suspicious or
unlawful activity to sea service authorities or local law
enforcement, who will then act on the situation.
When the PB 440 is not assisting with boarding operations, it conducts patrols in the waters around New
York City and portions of Long Island. Following the
Maersk Georgia boarding, the boat traveled up the East
River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, passing a number of barges, tugs and other commercial vessels in the
bustling New York Harbor along the way, as well as the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, the U.N. building, Roosevelt Island
and the mayor's residence at Gracie Mansion.
According to NYNM Rear Adm. John Ingram, the
deputy commander and New York Navy League member who accompanied the PB 440 on the East River
trip, "We're another set of eyes and ears. We look for
suspicious activity or boats that are somewhere they
shouldn't be and report what we see."
That makes for one more layer of homeland security
protection, which, when factored into the better communication and cooperation fostered between the maritime
services, law enforcement and homeland security agencies since 9/11, makes for better readiness, he said.
"We are much better prepared and much more
aware today than we were on Sept. 10 [2001]," Ingram
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VISION 2020: The Right to Sight is the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness, a joint programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
VISION 2020: The Right to Sight was launched in 1999. It sought to promote: "A world in which nobody is needlessly visually impaired, where those with unavoidable vision loss can achieve their full potential."
The VISION 2020 Global Initiative has subsequently been complemented and built upon by a series of additional plans. Read more…
World Sight Day
World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October.
Global Action Plan
A Global Target of reducing prevalence of avoidable visual impairment by 25% by 2019.
IAPB and VISION 2020
IAPB is the organisation that runs the VISION 2020:The Right to Sight global initiative.
Vision Impairment Facts
Blindness and Visual Impairment: Global Facts. Key numbers from the WHO and Vision Loss Expert Group


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At Funshop, an early childhood education program supported in part by the Springfield Park District, the "students" are children ages 16 months to 5 years and their parents or guardians. Together they attend weekly classes, encouraged by their teachers to explore the various play stations at their leisure.
Still, Funshop goes beyond teaching ABCs or 123s. It's a foundation for learning life skills, both for child and parent, says Funshop co-director Sharon Entwistle. Funshop, established in 1976, began as a support group, and 35 years later, that's still a big component of the program. The majority of the program's teachers are certified and many have been involved in Funshop from the beginning, either as a parent or as a member of staff, she says.
Funshop co-director Linda Berberet says the children learn social skills, listening skills and even stress management. S.T.A.R. power, which stands for "stop, take a deep breath and relax," is one element of Conscious Discipline. It is a concept of Dr. Becky Bailey from Florida that Funshop has incorporated into its program. Berberet says children and adults benefit from this lesson: She once heard a Funshop child tell her mom to use S.T.A.R power because her mom was looking tense.
That confidence doesn't go unnoticed later in life either, says Susan Lahndorff, a Funshop teacher.
When her daughter left Funshop for kindergarten, she immediately caught the attention of her kindergarten teacher because of the skilled, confident nature she had for her age.
Lahndorff says she remembers one boy who was part of the program in the past who she noticed always played with a space shuttle toy at Funshop and has since become an inventor of sorts within the space sector.
"I love Funshop because it's like Disney World to a kid's eyes," Lahndorff says.
Lynette Nelson, a Funshop graduate, says she also has many memories, but later made a new discovery. Her husband attended Funshop as a child, and they more than likely attended together without realizing it, more than 20 years ago.
The hands-on experience in class was valuable to Nelson, as were the teachers who served as positive role models, and who were like family to her, she says.
"That in and of itself you just carry with you your entire life and that's what you build upon…it really has helped us in every aspect of our life as we've grown older," Nelson says.
Nelson says she and her husband are looking forward to soon attending Funshop with their son, continuing the learning legacy.
Entwistle says she is very grateful to the Springfield community, especially for the support from families and the Springfield Park District.
"I think it's just amazingly wonderful to create a program where children feel connected and loved and valued and I think that's what Funshop is all about," Entwistle says.
Contact Hannah Douglas at email@example.com.
On Aug. 6, Funshop, the Springfield Park District's early education program for parents and children located at Lincoln Park, is celebrating its 35th anniversary to show its gratitude for support from the Springfield and surrounding communities over the years.
The celebration will be held rain or shine from 5-8 p.m. with registration beginning at 4 p.m. The free event, which is open to the public, will include activities like juggling, a magic show and Zumba, with a Movie in the Park showing of Toy Story 3 to end the evening.
Grand prizes will also be given including an iPad2 and a $250 Visa Gift Certificate among others. Optional pre-registration can also be made online at www.friendsoffunshop.wordpress.com.


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This is the latest in our series, First Time at a Bed and Breakfast?
People considering a B&B for the first time usually have lots of questions about what to expect.
One of the most common questions is "will I have my own bathroom?" Over 97 percent of the time innkeepers provide a private bath in some if not all rooms, according to PAII, the Professional Association of Innkeepers International. 94% of all Bed and Breakfast rooms have private baths. In fact, many inns have luxury items such as Jacuzzis, like we do at A Bed of Roses. The inn's website should indicate whether a bath is shared or not and don't be shy about asking. Each room at a B&B is likely to have different amenities, including the size, shape and type of bathroom. Premium branded toiletries are almost always provided in your bath as are robes. Some inns even offer their luxurious robes for sale.
"Can I get a king-size bed?" Each inn and each room is likely to offer different choices. Those furnished entirely with antiques, like ours, are unlikely to have king-size beds. They just didn't exist in Victorian times. Most antique beds in B&Bs have been modified to be able to accommodate queen size mattresses. Many inns furnished with reproduction antiques or new furniture will offer king-size beds. Most inns will offer luxurious bedding and linens. The room photos will give you a hint of what is to come. The bedding should look inviting and plush.
Your room will most likely have a TV, and some sort of internet connection. Nearly 90% of B&Bs offer free wireless internet according to BedandBreakfast.com surveys. At A Bed of Roses, we provide free WiFi throughout the house. Or you may just want to curl up by the fire. Many inns, like ours, have fireplaces in the rooms or in some of the common areas. Books, magazines, newspapers and board games are commonly available, as are brochures, menus from area restaurants and maps.
B&Bs come in all different sizes and architectural style. Typically they have 4 to 11 guest rooms, with 6 being the average. Inns and B&Bs are frequently historic properties with unique architecture, adding to the charm and variety of the amenities. According to PAII 36% have some sort of historical designation granted by historic preservation organizations. Your inn may have a story to tell!