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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The owners of Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in Hartsville and Lafayette, Tenn., will pay $40,000 to settle a race and gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its lawsuit, the EEOC asserted that the Piggly Wiggly locations owned by MWR Enterprises Inc. II violated federal law by maintaining policies and practices that intentionally failed to hire African-Americans because of their race for positions at the company's Piggly Wiggly store in Hartsville and Lafayette. The EEOC further charged that the company maintained a segregated work force and an established practice of not hiring males for cashier positions at the same locations.
Using race or gender as a basis for hiring decisions or job assignments violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit on Sept. 28, 2010 (Civil Action No. 3:10-cv-00901) in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation voluntary settlement through its conciliation process.
"The law is clear – employers may not refuse to hire applicants based on their race or gender," said Faye Williams, regional attorney for the EEOC's Memphis District Office. "The EEOC will continue to ensure that such barriers to employment are removed."
In addition to monetary relief, the four-year consent decree entered by the Court requires Defendant MWR Enterprises Inc., II, to establish a written policy which provides that all job assignments will be made without consideration to gender; establish guidelines and procedures for processing employment applications; provide Title VII training on race and gender discrimination to its managers; meet recordkeeping and reporting requirements; and post a notice about the lawsuit and settlement at its store locations.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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At Narragansett Creamery, we make cheese everyday because we love to and because we believe in freshness. We use local milk, kind bacteria, vegetable-based rennet, salt and nothing else. While we are not certified organic, we are thoughtful in our actions and our purchases. We support fair-trade and local ingredients to the best of our ability and our farmers pledge to not use growth hormones. We are proud to be a family-owned company supported by the Southern New England community we belong to.
Our Cheeses
Mozzarella: With buttery aroma and a feathery finish, our mozzarella is so good you'll want to eat it all before you get home. Ask us about Ovoline, Ciliegine, Perlini and Curd.
Smoked Mozzarella: The same lovely mozzarella but gently smoked over real Cherry and Oak wood-chips. Only available in 8 oz. hand wrapped balls.
Atwells Gold: Italian-style cheese, aged 10-12 months. This versatile cheese is sliceable, meltable, and snackable. It is our flagship cheese and we think you'll love it.
Grilling Cheese: This Mediterranean Style cheese can be grilled, baked or fried. It ends up keeping its shape on the outside but becoming oozy and delicious in the middle. Think 'grilled cheese' without bread!
Divine Providence: This semi-aged Gouda-style cheese has a natural-rind and a nutty, smooth finish. It is cave aged for 3-5 months and only available on a limited basis.
Salty Sea Feta: Crafted from whole milk and sea salt, our feta won a Gold Medal at the Wisconsin World Cheese Championships! Our 'Ocean State' fans were as proud as we were.
Renaissance Ricotta: Heated in a steam kettle then hand-dipped into traditional tins, our Renaissance Ricotta can be enjoyed savory or sweet. This cheese has won many awards and once you taste it, you'll know why.
Queso Blanco: A version of farmers' cheese, our Queso Blanco is clean, crisp and full of bouncy texture. Baste it in olive oil then put it on the grill or under the broiler. It gets soft and crispy but doesn't melt.
Queso Fresco: This Latin cheese is similar to our Queso Blanco but more crumbly. It's meant for pupusas, bean soups or taco salads. We make it in big 12+ lb wheels which crumble a bit when cut.
Angelito - Plain, Garlic & Herb, Jalapeño: This spreadable cheese, similar to cream cheese but lower in fat, is simple, fresh and made without stabilizers! Sold in 8 oz packs and commercial sizes.
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Olive Treasure: An outrageous spread made with Kalamata olives, our Salty Sea Feta, oregano, garlic and olive oil. Eating it will bring you right back to that Greek island vacation.
Yogurt - Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry: Our Tuscan-style yogurt is made with fresh milk, probiotic cultures and nothing more. The milk is unhomogenized, meaning you will find a small layer of cream on top. Available in: Plain (whole milk), Vanilla (low-fat) and Strawberry (low-fat).
Crescendo: This specialty cheese is our version of Stracchino di Crescenza. The Northern Italian recipe yields authentic tangy flavor with soft creamy texture. We make it in small batches by hand, so there's limited quantity. We've won a few blue ribbons with this gorgeous rindless cheese.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A two-year-old girl has been severely burned in suburban Atlanta in a freak accident after gasoline poured on an outdoor slide to make it slicker ignited from static electricity, police said on Tuesday.
The toddler and her four-year-old sister were playing on a swing set on Saturday when the gasoline was put on the slide, said Keith Brooks, chief deputy of the Walton County Sheriff's Office.
Investigators do not know which of the two siblings poured the gasoline but determined, after finding no other ignition source, that static electricity sparked the blaze, Brooks said.
"This was a freak accident," he said. "It's definitely strange that something like this would happen."
The two-year-old was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Atlanta and put into a medically induced coma to help her cope with the pain from her critical injuries, Brook said.
Grady Health System, the hospital where she was taken, declined to comment on her condition on Tuesday.
No charges are expected to be filed, the chief deputy said.
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This is the last post that I'll be making on this page. I've transitioned my blog over to my new website where everything Untold Imprint related will reside in one cozy little space – shop, blog and upcoming events. Hope you'll visit me there!
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Saturday, November 29, 2014
shop small
small business saturday SALE is going on in my Etsy shop – through Sunday night at midnight.
~ use coupon code SHOPSMALL for 25% off all orders over $10 ~
& thank you to everyone for supporting small businesses!
Monday, November 17, 2014
melting pot
necklaces in my shop made with old beads, bells, amulets, and pendants from India, Nigeria, Italy, Thailand, Indonesia, Ethiopia, France, Myanmar and North Africa.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Another year of Brimfield came to a close yesterday and I must say, after three years of being a Brimfield dealer and shopper, I really do leave that little town with a heavy heart. It's not just the experience of selling our wares and meeting customers – it's the fellow dealers and their dogs, spending time with my Mom and my sister Zoe (who comes for every show), drinks at the end of a physically exhausting day, quiet early mornings among the tents, and stories – lots of stories. I found some beautiful things that I'll be listing in my Etsy shop in the coming weeks and above are a few beauties that I left behind ... along with sweet Greta, who stole everyone's heart.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
cutch & sandalwood
I naturally dyed scarves last week with Cutch and Sandalwood. The colors are dreamy – neutral mocha brown and the palest blush pink. Both Cutch and Sandalwood are trees native to Asia. The dye stuff comes from the heartwood of these trees. I'm really enjoying the process of naturally dyeing fabric. It's slow and satisfying. Planning to do a bit more in the Fall months ahead. In the mean time, these cotton gauze scarves are in my SHOP. They're screen printed in antique gold with my 'Meditation' pattern – a repeating seated Buddha – randomly arranged along the length of the scarf.
Sunday, August 3, 2014
I decided to use some of my vintage textiles to make pillow covers. My first collection is made from a French linen sheet dating to the early 1900s and pieces of a Thai batik tribal garment from the 1960s – they were meant to be together.
In my SHOP now.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
vintage textiles
vintage textiles newly added to my SHOP this week. each one lovelier than the last . . .
Sunday, July 13, 2014
squam art workshops
Many of you may know that I was recently at Squam Art Workshops for their Spring Art Fair and that I fell in LOVE with everything about the place. It was a magical evening among the trees, on a beautiful lake, with the kindest and most creative people. Sounds pretty much like heaven, right? If you follow Squam (and you should!) you've seen a gorgeous, ethereal, woven heart filled with twinkling white lights in many of their photos. Well, that heart was made by the extraordinary Harriet Goodall. Harriet is a sculptural basket maker and she led a workshop at Squam last year called, Gift of the Heart, where she shared her process and taught how to make the exquisite heart shape sculpture. Here's the most exciting part – Squam is offering Harriet's workshop online this summer through August 31st ! That means that from anywhere in the world, at any time of day or night, you can experience the magic of Squam.
All the info you need to join the class is detailed in this link:
HUGE thanks to Elizabeth, Squam's magnificent leader, for being a torchbearer in the handmade community – nurturing endless opportunities of connection, learning, and creative goodness.
Happy Summer and Joyful Weaving! I'll 'see' you in class . . .
(...below are a few more of my favorite moments from my weekend at Squam Lake)
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Police: NYC Subway Push Victim Was From India
Police: NYC Subway Push Victim Was From India - seattlepi.com
The man who was shoved to his death in front of a subway train Thursday night was a 46-year-old from India who lived in New York City and worked for a printing business, police said.
Investigators on Friday searched for an unidentified woman who rose from a bench and suddenly pushed the man in the back with both hands, sending him flying onto the tracks as a train entered an elevated station in Queens.
Police released surveillance video of the woman fleeing the area and have been interviewing witnesses, including some who said she was mumbling and cursing to herself before the attack.


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The most thrilling performance in the Met's season came at its very end, and it was a revival at that. I wasn't fortunate enough to catch Teresa Stratas as Alban Berg's Lulu (she sang it at the Met premiere of the complete version of the work in 1980), but I have seen later revivals of the famed John Dexter production, with Catherine Malfitano and Christine Schäfer. Both had their merits, but neither one approached the brilliance of the recent outing, with Marlis Petersen in the title role. I saw it on May 12, and Petersen was a revelation, as completely satisfying as I had found her disappointing in the Met's Hamlet two months earlier. The entire cast, in fact, seemed unusually in sync with each other, as if they all understood the real point of Lulu: that it's an extended sick joke. But most of the credit for the success of the performance belongs to Fabio Luisi, the Met's recently appointed principal guest conductor. This Lulu was a tantalizing promise of what Luisi may bring to his future work with the Met orchestra. I've never heard a live performance of this opera in which the score's bluesy, subversive wit rose to the surface so consistently. And the audience was keen to what Luisi was up to, laughing out loud at several points, and not just at Lulu's magnificently amoral antics onstage — they seemed to be laughing at the effects served up by the orchestra. This hasn't been the case in past performances I've heard conducted by Met music director James Levine. Although Levine always drew beautiful, transparently detailed work from the players, he never quite seemed to be in on the opera's central joke. Masterful as his touch was, it felt that he conducted the work with a straight-faced sobriety, a certain portentousness — as if the entire opera were to be done in the tone of the chilling final scene. Much of what makes that last scene so powerful is that what comes before it doesn't really prepare us for it — we've had the rug ripped out from under us.
In the 1980s, when I worked on the performing arts staff of the 92nd Street Y, the program's director, Omus Hirshbein, worked overtime bringing a wide range of twentieth-century music to the Y's somewhat hidebound audience. I used to answer many of the letters from subscribers who wrote in angrily protesting that they had to sit through works like Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht or Berg's Chamber Concerto, which they usually derisively characterized as "new music." Berg was near completion of Lulu when he died in 1935, but for me, the Met's recent performance carried the wallop of discovery. This time around, it really did seem, in so many ways, like "new music."
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No one's calling it a "campaign" event. But the presidential campaign took an unexpected tack Wednesday as President Barack Obama flew in a helicopter — with Republican nemesis Chris Christie — to inspect storm damage in battered New Jersey.
After the aerial tour, the two traveled to a community center in Brigantine, northeast of Atlantic City, where about 50 people had taken shelter and other residents were visiting for food, a hot shower or to power up their cellphones.
After both men doled out hugs and handshakes, Christie said it's "really important to have the president of the United States" in New Jersey.
Obama was equally effusive about Christie, telling residents that "your governor is working overtime" to repair the damage from the storm.
"The entire country has been watching what's been happening. Everybody knows how hard Jersey has been hit," Obama said.
And he promised that the federal government was "here for the long haul."
Later, they praised each other at a news conference. "Governor Christie has been responsive, aggressive, and made sure the state got out in front of this storm," Obama said.
At the same time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted New Jersey a temporary waiver on Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel requirements to help counter a shortfall in fuel supplies in parts of the state for sales through Nov. 13.
Had Obama been traveling with any old Republican governor, few would have taken notice.
But Christie is not any old governor. He's young, at 50, and a possible Republican presidential contender as soon as 2016, should Mitt Romney happen to lose.
And he's not just any critic of Obama. As keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention in August, he was the party's critic-in-chief.
Christie has continued to play that role as one of the highest-profile surrogates for the Republican presidential nominee, Romney.
Indeed, it would be hard to find a more unlikely duo six days before a presidential election — and Christie knows it.
"If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don't know me," the New Jersey governor said Tuesday.
He was responding not to the announcement of the joint tour, which had yet to become public, but to questions about all the praise he has been heaping on Obama during and after Sandy hit New Jersey.
The unlikely partnership began just hours after the worst of the storm knocked out power for 2.4 million people in New Jersey, south and west of New York City. Christie was quick to applaud Obama and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in interviews on major television networks on Tuesday morning.
"The federal government response has been great. I was on the phone at midnight again last night with the president personally," he told NBC's "Today" program.
"The president has been outstanding in this. The folks at FEMA ... have been excellent," said Christie, once thought to be a contender for the White House this time around or possibly Romney's vice presidential pick.
"I don't give a damn about Election Day. It doesn't matter a lick to me at the moment," Christie later told reporters in a press conference about the storm damage. "I've got bigger fish to fry."
Sandy made landfall in New Jersey on Monday night, leaving behind a trail of flooded homes, toppled trees and downed power lines in the nation's most densely populated region. At least 30 people were reported killed along the eastern seaboard.
Obama's handling of the storm's aftermath and Romney's response to it have the potential to become political issues, and both campaigns are taking care to avoid missteps.
Obama again canceled his formal campaign activities for Wednesday to deal with storm recovery efforts. Romney on Tuesday transformed what was intended originally to be a campaign stop into a storm relief event in Ohio.
Liberal group Americans United for Change was quick to circulate Christie's comments.
Earlier on "CBS This Morning," Christie said he spoke with Obama three times on Monday as the storm hit. Obama declared New Jersey a major disaster area so the state can quickly receive federal aid.
"I can't thank the president enough for that," Christie told CBS.
And what about Romney?
Asked on Fox News on Tuesday whether he would tour stricken parts of his state with the Republican nominee, Christie said:
"I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested. I've got a job to do here in New Jersey that's much bigger than presidential politics, and I could care less about any of that stuff," he said.
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US SUPERGRID DEVELOPMENT BLOCKED BY JURISDICTIONAL, FUNDING DISPUTES[Permalink]
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FERC Enters a Maze of Questions About Renewable Energy Transmission
By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire, New York Times, November 23, 2009
The spread of wind and solar power is being held back by fragmented policies on paying for new transmission lines to carry renewable energy, said a group of leading transmission providers in a petition to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Members of the WIRES association called on FERC to establish "on an aggressive schedule" clear, comprehensive national guidelines covering the complex and politically charged issue of allocating costs among consumers for new multi-state transmission lines.
FERC has solicited views of industry, environmental and consumer groups on transmission planning and cost allocation policy, with a filing deadline today, indicating to industry officials that the commission may seek to break new ground on the issue.
FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff told a conference Friday that transmission costs must be spread more widely. "We need to see how we can do it across interconnections."
Two decisions this year by separate U.S. courts of appeal, and different approaches taken by the full House and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, threaten to stymie transmission expansion for renewables.
FERC's traditional, case-by-case approach to regional transmission line cost determination -- relying on informal, consensus-based negotiations -- is not working for new long-distance power line proposals that cross regional grid boundaries, said the WIRES group. Its petition was filed with FERC Thursday by its president, Paul McCoy, who is also the president of Trans-Elect Development Co., and WIRES counsel James Hoecker, FERC chairman in the Clinton administration.
31 states in search of a plan
"The lack of transmission infrastructure is among the critical obstacles to the development of wind, solar, and other forms of renewable energy which are frequently located far from major electric load centers," the WIRES petition (pdf) says. Whether Congress ultimately adopts national renewable electricity standards or not, 31 states have done so, and these targets can't be met in many cases unless power can move across regional grid organizations, it adds.
"The 'clean energy economy' will necessarily await a better Commission resolution to this challenge," said the WIRES group, which includes the grid operators in California, the Great Lakes and most of the mid-Atlantic region.
FERC's policy review comes amid an expanding debate over how high-voltage lines should be planned, sited and paid for.
At the beginning of this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and renewable energy advocates supported a national "green superhighway" concept -- an overlay of new lines to deliver wind and solar energy. State regulators and transmission owners pushed back, arguing that planning decisions should come from existing regional organizations.
Seminal question: Who pays for the lines?
"Siting, cost allocation and planning issues are often controversial because in many situations, someone's gain comes at someone else's expense," said David Coen, commissioner of the Vermont Public Service Board and the incoming head of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, in testimony to Congress in June.
In general, new transmission lines should be paid for by generators whose new projects require more transmission capacity, he said, except where a broader sharing of costs is approved by individual states.
Renewable energy advocates say that state vetos could cripple plans for long transmission lines that carry wind from and through sparsely settled states to urban centers.
FERC's role has been unsettled by a decision (pdf) by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in August that disallowed the commission's intentions to spread or "socialize" costs for new high-voltage long-distance transmission lines widely among customers in the PJM Interconnection.
The court majority said FERC hadn't made the case for its position. The court ruling is an invitation for FERC to justify its approach more clearly, said Christine Tezak, an analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co.
The Energy Department will be funding new studies about the grid's future. A coalition of 23 energy companies and grid operators -- the Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative -- is expected to get one of the DOE grants. It advocates a "roll-up" of regional and state transmission plans into a comprehensive expansion strategy for the grid east of the Rocky Mountains. Some industry officials fear that this approach would get bogged down, delaying transmission expansion.
Will there be a Cabinet-level answer?
President Obama has pushed transmission policy up to a Cabinet-level issue, convening top advisers and Cabinet leaders to work on the issue. The administration has produced a memorandum of understanding among federal departments and agencies about coordinating transmission expansion in the West, where the huge tracts of federal land open possibilities for new lines. That option is not available in the East.
The meetings are aimed "at sharpening the administration's thinking" on transmission, said one official. "We have an opportunity really rethink the system in some fundamental ways, and we have to do justice to the opportunity."
The Conservation Law Foundation filed views with FERC last week on behalf of itself and nine other leading environmental organizations, urging the commission to set national rules for transmission cost allocation. The rules would give predominant weight to recommendations by new planning organizations that would be created in the Eastern and Western interconnections, based on formal agreements by state governors.
While that path would seem promising in the West, some governors in the Northeast oppose paying for long-distance transmission projects to bring Great Plains wind power to their states. They will do their own wind projects, they say.
"We're organized to do it in the West," said Rick Sergel, chief executive of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., the grid's operations monitor. "They just need to get to the finish line," he said in an interview. The finish line is much farther away in the Eastern grid interconnection. Transmission projects "hopefully will be done with the authorities that exist today. If not, that will have to change," he said.
'Glacial progress'
"We are making glacial progress," said one administration official. While the recession has bought some time, that reprieve is temporary. "Substantial increases in renewable energy require a much stronger, flexible transmission. We need a federal law that gives structure to planning."
The Senate Energy Committee's bill would create a transmission planning process that does begin with regional needs, but would authorize FERC to pull disparate regional plans together.
However, the bill contains an amendment by Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) that would require FERC to make detailed cost-benefit analyses in allocating transmission costs.
FERC would have to show that costs allocated to state customers are "reasonably proportionate" to "measurable economic and reliability benefits," noted a letter (pdf) to congressional leaders this month from WIRES and 60 other energy companies and environmental organizations.
"This language threatens to hamstring FERC," inviting disputes, lawsuits and delay, according to the Nov. 3 WIRES letter. In the House, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) heads a group of legislators who do not favor strong federal transmission rules.
Hoecker said in an interview that he did not think FERC would go so far as to prescribe a single specific nationwide cost allocation rule. But it can spell out overarching policies. "Anything they could do to narrow the field of debate on these issues would help expedite decisions" and strengthen the commission's position in court, he said.


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Justin Timberlake, SAG-AFTRA Reach Agreement on 20/20 Experience World Tour Dancers
Under the agreement, performer earnings count toward pension and health benefits eligibility.
Justin Timberlake and SAG-AFTRA have reached an agreement for the dancers on his 20/20 Experience World Tour to be covered by the SAG-AFTRA Touring Agreement, the union announced Friday.
Under the agreement, performer earnings count toward pension and health benefits eligibility. The deal also provides touring companies with what the union called "improved budget flexibility through direct negotiations with performers."
SAG-AFTRA president Ken Howard applauded Timberlake and the SAG-AFTRA dancers who worked to unionize the 20/20 Experience tour.
"This is a wonderful result for SAG-AFTRA members and Justin Timberlake. Justin was very open to signing the agreement and personally making sure the deal got done," Howard said. "As a leading recording artist and actor, Justin's support for his fellow SAG-AFTRA members in unionizing his tour was a key element in concluding this agreement. I thank him for taking the lead."
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This is the first time that member performers have successfully organized dancers employed on a specific tour under the SAG-AFTRA Touring Agreement. The agreement was previously utilized to cover touring back-up singers for James Taylor, Reba McIntire, Martina McBride, Blues Traveler, Josh Groban and Jefferson Starship.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, SAG-AFTRA national executive director David White called the agreement "precedent setting" and added, "I'm genuinely excited about this deal. We are expanding our presence in this area."
Assistant national executive director for sound recordings Randy Himes also praised Timberlake and the dancers.
"The physical demands of touring are tough on our artist members and those members that tour with them," Himes said. "I applaud the dancers for their dedication to this new agreement and give Justin the credit he richly deserves for stepping up and taking care of his elite dancer group. It's just another reason why Justin continues to be one of the most respected performers in the media entertainment industry."
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Boston (July 13, 2011) - Hospitals struggle to prevent the infections that complicate treatment for cancer, joint replacement, heart surgery and other conditions. Hospital-acquired infections are often resistant to multiple antibiotics, leading to approximately 100,000 deaths and more than $30 billion in additional health care costs yearly. New drugs are being developed to combat these infections, but resistance invariably emerges to these last-line drugs.
Daptomycin, a new antibiotic approved by the FDA in 2003, is used to treat infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, including staph and microbes known as enterococci. Scientists in the Department of Ophthalmology at Mass. Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, and the pharmaceutical company Cubist, which produces daptomycin under the trade name Cubicin, teamed up to discover the basis for resistance that has now begun to emerge to daptomycin in the enterococci. Their discovery of a new mechanism of resistance is described in an article in the current (July) issue of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
In a two-week experiment, investigators were able recreate the development of resistance in the laboratory in a manner similar to that which occurred in the hospital. Using new genome sequencing technology, they resequenced the entire genome of the resistant enterococcus strain to identify all of the genetic changes. The researchers found changes in genes that they were also able to identify in hospital daptomycin resistant strains. Mutations in a gene encoding an enzyme called cardiolipin synthase were able by itself to confer daptomycin resistance to a laboratory strain of enterococcus.
"Knowing the changes that correspond with resistance not only tells us what happens in resistant strains, it tells us much about how exactly how the antibiotic works, providing new ideas for better treatment and next generation drugs," observed Dr. Michael S. Gilmore, a scientist at Harvard Medical School and the Mass. Eye and Ear, and the corresponding author.
Dr. Gilmore credits a large part of the success of this study to the genomics skills of first author and postdoctoral associate Dr. Kelli Palmer, and to the collaboration with industry partners Dr. Jared Silverman and colleagues from Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Drs. Gilmore and Silverman have been collaborating in a university/industry partnership, the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance, which aims to build interdisciplinary teams to understand resistance and develop new treatments for resistant infections.
Authors: Kelli L. Palmer, Anu Daniel, Crystal Hardy, Jared Silverman, and Michael S. Gilmore (list of affiliations available in the PDF)
Grant Support: Portions of this work were supported by NIH grant AI072360 (to M.S.G), the Harvard-wide Antibiotic Resistance Project AI083214, NIH fellowship support grant to EY020734 to K.L.P., and Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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LOL! Complete with VOX quotes and comments about PZ!
Despite his half-hearted disclaimer at the end, this guy pissed everyone off-- theists, atheists, parents of autistic kids, great schadenfreude!
Money shot is in the comments:
About 95% of the atheists I have met seem to be "quarrelsome, socially challenged men." If there is a correlation, and the problem is a type of "mind-blindness" then it should not be surprising to find that reason-based arguments are ineffective when trying to change their opinion of God. We Christians tend to treat atheism as if it was some form of Enlightenment-era rationalism and provide arguments that appeal to their reason.HAHAHAHA! Im always a man. Im a 'man' in research. Im a 'man' in classes. Im a 'man' in the gym. Im a 'man' in religion. Im a 'man' with the best boobs in town *thumbs up* ROFL!
But as Dawkins and Co. have shown, their views on God have little to do with reason and rationality. In fact, they are almost pathologically unable to recognize just how weak their arguments are – and therefore find it hard to understand why "bright" people don't accept them too.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Company Must Now Supply Information to Cooperate With Federal Agency's Investigation of Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Retaliation
MINNEAPOLIS – In a ruling issued late on March 8, 2010, Magistrate Judge Janie S. Mayeron of U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota ordered the Minnesota-based frozen food delivery company Schwan's Home Service to comply with a federal government subpoena by March 29, 2010. The subpoena, issued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) pursuant to an investigation of a charge of sex discrimination filed by former Schwan's employee Kim Milliren, seeks personnel information about persons employed as general managers at Schwan's facilities nationwide from January 1, 2006 to the present.
The EEOC filed its subpoena enforcement proceeding on October 5, 2009 (EEOC v. Schwan's Home Service, Misc. Case No. 09-84 (JRT/JSM)) after first giving Schwan's several opportunities to provide the requested information voluntarily, which would have allowed the investigation to remain confidential. In opposing the EEOC's enforcement of the subpoena, Schwan's accused the EEOC of pursuing a "fishing expedition" and suggested that the EEOC may be engaging in misconduct.
On July 3, 2007, the EEOC's Minneapolis Area Office received a charge filed under Title VII by Milliren, alleging that she was discriminated against on the basis of gender and subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation during her employment with Schwan's Home Service. Milliren was selected to participate in Schwan's General Manager Development Program, a training program that trains candidates to be location general managers at its warehouse depots throughout the country. Since that time, the EEOC has been investigating whether Milliren and other women were subjected to sex discrimination in the General Manager Development Program.
John Rowe, director of the EEOC's Chicago District Office which is managing the investigation said, "Make no mistake about it; the EEOC will take recalcitrant employers to court and will enforce its subpoenas. As the court's opinion demonstrates, the EEOC is on solid legal footing to seek information it deems relevant during an investigation of systemic discrimination."
EEOC Regional Attorney John Hendrickson added, "Employers who try to thwart an EEOC investigation by resisting a subpoena do themselves no favors as they will likely end up on the losing side in court, and they will make the investigation public. Ongoing EEOC investigations are not matters of the public record unless and until we are forced to go to court to enforce a subpoena."
Schwan's Home Service is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Schwan's Food Company, based in Marshall, Minn. Schwan's Home Service, the company's home delivery service, has approximately 500 sales and distribution centers throughout the United States. The Schwan Food Company is a multi-billion-dollar private company with approximately 18,000 employees worldwide.
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing discrimination charges, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Baton Rouge Sheraton Hotel Fired Employee Because of Gender and As Retaliation for Complaining, Federal Agency Said
HOUSTON — Columbia Sussex Corporation, which owns and operates hotel properties across the United States, has agreed to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The settlement resolves the charge of a former banquet manager, Richard Knight, who claimed that Columbia Sussex fired him from its Sheraton Hotel in Baton Rouge, La., because of his sex, male, and because he complained that a female co-worker was not disciplined for the same purported infraction.
According to the EEOC's suit, Columbia Sussex terminated Knight because he complained about the general manager's better treatment of Knight's female co-worker during a meeting. In that meeting, the general manager ultimately demanded that Knight go into his office without the presence of a human resource representative, but did not force Knight's female co-worker to proceed without a representative. When Knight asked the general manager whether he was granting privileges to the female manager that he would not grant to Knight, the general manager replied that he could do whatever he wanted and then he immediately terminated Knight. The female manager was not disciplined.
Sex discrimination and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (No. 07-701 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement.
In settlement of the case, Columbia Sussex agreed to pay compensation to Knight for losses he sustained, and to rehire him at one of its hotel properties. Columbia Sussex entered into a three-year consent decree, agreeing to annual training of personnel regarding sex discrimination and retaliation. Columbia Sussex also agreed not to rehire the official who had terminated Knight.
Knight commented on the settlement, "I am very grateful that the EEOC brought this case on my behalf. I love the hotel industry. My main goal was always to get my job back. I am excited to get back to work with Columbia Sussex in my chosen field."
Jim Sacher, the EEOC's regional attorney for the Houston District, which encompasses EEOC litigation in Louisiana, said, "This is a constructive outcome for the EEOC, Mr. Knight and for current and future employees of Columbia Sussex. The EEOC takes all claims of sex discrimination very seriously, including those where the victim is a man. The Commission also closely scrutinizes retaliation claims, because they fundamentally impact our ability to enforce the law, encourage a fair workplace and seek relief for victims."
According to company information, Columbia Sussex, a privately held corporation, has approximately 70 hotels across the United States, the Caribbean and Canada, operating under brands such as Marriott, Hilton, Westin and Sheraton.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov .


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The school funding debate shifts to Texas high school football in a new video highlighting a campaign about the impact education budget cuts are having beyond the classroom.
The video, "Will Our Friday Night Lights Go Out," is produced by the Progress Texas PAC as part of a campaign the group has launched called "Save Texas Football."
The video suggests that slashed education funding and public school privatizing have gone so far that Texas traditions like the "Friday Night Lights" are jeopardized.
"I don't think Texans realize the full extent of damage being done to education and our way of life," said Progress Texas PAC director Glenn Smith. "Several schools have instituted pay-to-play programs and, in many cases, sports and other extra-curricular activities are simply being eliminated to make up for the loss of state money. People who think football is protected from all of this are simply mistaken."
The video, which is being distributed to sports writers, political writers and broadcasters around the state, features interviews with two of the actors from the hit TV series, "Friday Night Lights." Aaron Spivey-Sorrells and Jonathan Palafox were also Texas high school football standouts. Spivey-Sorrells played "Coach Spivey" on the TV program. In addition to his role as "Putnick," Palafox was a stunt double on the series.
In the video, produced at Satellite Studio Productions of Austin, Spivey said reducing the availability of sports will put many young people into situations where they will have fewer choices and may make bad decisions.
"If you take away sports out of high school," he said, "Take sports out of the community, next thing you know kids can't turn anywhere but to do damage, to do wrong, to do bad. I would tell them, face to face, I would say hey, imagine if your child was out there and didn't have anything to turn to. And he turns to bad. What would you blame it on?"
Save Texas Football also argues in the video that the voucher plan being pushed in the next legislature by state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, will further endanger funding for sports and public education. It's projected that 600,000 students will leave public schools for private or online virtual educations over two years. The reduced enrollment could drain an estimated $1 billion a year from state funding for local districts, complicating current budget problems.


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On extended view
Main Building - Lower Level Gallery
This exhibition offers visitors a glimpse into the lives of the Delaware Indians over a two hundred year time span. From the 1740s to the 1890s, many of New Jersey's Indians moved out of the state ahead of the ever-expanding non-Indian population. Artist and chronicler of American Indians, George Catlin (1796-1872), noted as early as 1832 that the Delaware were among the most relocated Indians in the United States. This exhibition tells the story of these migrations.
In the late 1800s and into the 1900s, the Indians that remained in New Jersey survived by adapting to a market economy. They developed handcraft industries which produced items desired by non-Indian settlers. The Indians produced baskets and other woven items such as mats and brooms, as well as carved wooden pieces such as mortars and shovels.
The descendents of the Delaware Indians who left New Jersey, as well as those who stayed, continue to follow and adapt their cultural and religious traditions, thus preserving them for future generations and sharing them with all other cultures.
The objects on view, which date from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, include a woman's blouse with silver brooches, splint baskets, a wooden shovel, a leather pipe bag decorated with glass beads, children's moccasins and a child's basket.
The exhibition was made possible through funding support provided by PSEG Foundation, with additional generous support provided by the Friends of the New Jersey State Museum.


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Saint Bettelin
- Bertram
- Bertellin
- Bethlin
- Bethelm
Spritual student of Saint Guthlac of Croyland. One of several hermits around Croyland in Lincolnshire, England who were subject to the monastery there.
Some stories claim Bettelin was a Mercian nobleman married to an Irish princess. While the two were travelling through a forest, the princess went into labour. Bettelin went for help, and while he was gone the princess delivered the baby; the two were eaten by wolves. This traumatic event reputedly sent Bettelin to the hermitage. The reliability of the story is, well, questionable.
- 8th century of natural causes
- the remains of his shrine are found in Staffordshire, England
- "Saint Bettelin". CatholicSaints.Info. 22 September 2016. Web. 16 September 2019. <>


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Mystery Worshipper: Flounder.
The church: First Congregational of Hancock, New Hampshire, USA.
Denomination: Congregational (United Church of Christ).
The building: The church is a quintessential steepled white clapboard New England meeting house. The town hall is on the first floor, the sanctuary on the second. The building and sanctuary are painted a classic creamy white. There were beautiful arrangements of native wildflowers on the altar from the previous day's wedding. A small pipe organ sat off to the left of the altar and a baby grand piano to the right. First Congregational is an old and much loved place.
The church: This small, intimate parish was established in 1788. The meeting house was built in 1820 and was moved to its present location in 1851.
The neighbourhood: Hancock is a lovely rural town in southwest New Hampshire near Mt Monadnock. The church is located in the center of town and is set among a few old buildings across from a tiny police station. On the day of my visit, I observed people riding through the town on horseback. While the town is well-kept, it is not (yet) slick and artificial like a tourist area. Unfortunately, there are signs of encroachment by outsiders here. Sadly, like everywhere else in southwest New Hampshire, Hancock is fated to become yet another suburb of Boston.
The cast: Rev. Matthew S. Crebbin, pastor and teacher; Bob Johnson, music director; and Bob Fogg, worship leader.
What was the name of the service?
Worship Service, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost.
How full was the building?
About half full. People were spread out, so it's just a guess.
Did anyone welcome you personally?
No. The ushers had gone to their pews by the time we got there.
Was your pew comfortable?
The pews were standard wooden pews with comfortable cushions. Unfortunately, they were too short in the back and dug into the area just above my lower back. Within 10 minutes I got pretty sore. There were no kneelers.
How would you describe the pre-service atmosphere?
We were a few minutes late, so I cannot say.
What were the exact opening words of the service?
We arrived during the opening hymn, so the first spoken words we heard were, "Please join us for the invocation and confession."
What books did the congregation use during the service?
The United Church of Christ 1974 Hymnal; The Bible, Revised Standard Version; and a weekly bulletin.
What musical instruments were played?
A small, sweetly voiced pipe organ, a piano, and an acoustic guitar. The music director played a selection by Robert Schumann (I think) on the piano.
Did anything distract you?
The piano was slightly out of tune. There was no air conditioning. Because there was no breeze, even the ceiling fans and the open doors were ineffective at dispelling the heat and humidity.
Was the worship stiff-upper-lip, happy clappy, or what?
This was your traditional simple, straightforward Congregational service. The only thing remotely approaching happy-clappy occurred when the minister played the guitar and led us in a folk-style hymn.
Exactly how long was the sermon?
16 minutes.
On a scale of 1-10, how good was the preacher?
8 The minister's style was immediate and approachable. He didn't refer to his notes excessively, and at one point he moved away from the pulpit to be closer to us. Sometimes he swayed back and forth slightly.
In a nutshell, what was the sermon about?
The sermon was based on Luke 12:13-21 and was about wise stewardship. What are our priorities in life? Will we work ourselves to death to the exclusion of our family and friends? Will we become enslaved to money and allow it to be our idol? Or will we choose to use our resources to glorify God and help those in need?
Which part of the service was like being in heaven?
The beauty of the area with the trees and mountains in the distance. The sense of peace there. The warmth and immediacy of the service, especially the communion. I was deeply moved.
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
Nothing, really beyond my splitting headache from the stifling heat and humidity!
What happened when you hung around after the service looking lost?
There was no opportunity to feel lost, because one member of our party was the church secretary. People were reserved but quite friendly; the music director and I had a very nice little chat about music.
How would you describe the after-service coffee?
Ice tea was served in plastic cups. There was a tasty spread of fresh fruit, homemade cookies (mmm!), cheese, and crackers.
How would you feel about making this church your regular (where 10 = ecstatic, 0 = terminal)?
8 If I lived there, I'd definitely consider it. The only thing I'd miss would be the Episcopal liturgy that I love so much. The music director seemed like he would be open to exploring interesting literature, which would be a major consideration.
Did the service make you feel glad to be a Christian?
What one thing will you remember about all this in seven days' time?
The sense of peace and the beauty of the area.


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We of the Newport-Mesa are a lucky bunch. Players of the world's great classical music come to us. That said, it's always noteworthy when one of greatest orchestras comes to our doorstep.
The Vienna Philharmonic — the famed Austrian orchestra routinely touted as one of the top five worldwide — will be playing Mahler's Symphony No. 6 at 8 p.m. March 3 in our own Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. There will be a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk with Rich Capparela.
This one-night-only concert is thanks to the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the Irvine-based nonprofit that brings the county such high-class art.
This orchestra doesn't tour often, given its busy musical demands in Vienna, the Philharmonic Society says. It will be the orchestra's first Orange County performance since 2002, and before that, 1997.
The reason this orchestra is so famous is multifold. For one, it was formed in 1842 in the capital of the Western music tradition — Vienna — where many big names of the eras have strong ties: Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Mahler, Brahms, Bruckner, Schoenberg and the Strauss family.
Second, it has had no principal conductor since 1933. Since that time, it's been relying on a multitude of guest conductors — a list that is a real who's-who in the classical world — including Russian-American conductor Semyon Bychkov, who leads the March 3 performance.
It is also democratically self-governed.
Third, its players use modified instruments from the standards found in most major orchestras. Some are older models, while others are unique to the orchestra, the combined efforts of which reach back for a sound emulating the styles of the late 18th century. Indeed, this is a group that prides itself on being a musical monument to its city's own rich musical history.
Fourth, and most controversial, is that the Vienna Philharmonic is, for the most part, comprised only of men. And of the men chosen, most are from Austria and its environs. The orchestra maintains that its male-dominated sound is unique because it is males only, but some slow progress is being made to accept more women into the club.
Tickets can be hard to come by for this group, even in its hometown. As of Monday, most of the concert hall's 2,000-some seats were sold out. The only ones left were on the orchestra-level floor, costing either $150 or $165 a piece.
Visit https://www.philharmonicsociety.org/Vienna for more information or to buy tickets.
The Pacific Symphony hosts its second "Music Unwound" concert Thursday through Saturday with an examination of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner's ninth and final symphony. Each night's performance begins at 8 p.m., with a 7 p.m. pre-concert chat and post-concert conversation.
The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall lobby will take on a "cathedral-like" environment of lighting effects, a candlelight procession and Gregorian chants by the Nobertine Fathers of the Trabuco Canyon-based St. Michael's Abbey.
The Costa Mesa-based orchestra, under the direction of Carl St.Clair, is dubbing the series "Cathedrals of Sound" as part of its education-themed Music Unwound project.
The featured organist of the evening is the 34-year-old American virtuoso Paul Jacobs, who last week won a Grammy for a solo instrumental performance. The young Juilliard faculty member is also famous for his 18-hour, nonstop marathon performance in Pittsburgh of all of Bach's organ works.
The Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra then takes the hall Sunday at 4 p.m. The Irvine-based educational ensemble, under the baton of Maxim Eshkenazy, will have a performance that includes Gershwin's music from "Porgy and Bess" and his "Rhapsody in Blue."
In addition, members of the Pacific Chorale Honor Choir and solo baritone James Martin Schaefer accompany the group in a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Five Mystical Songs."
Ray Cheng, 16, is the pianist for "Rhapsody in Blue." Already the University High School (in Irvine) student has won a host of awards on piano and violin. He's been with PSYO for four years and is one of the group's concertmasters.
BRADLEY ZINT is a copy editor for the Daily Pilot and a classically trained musician. E-mail him story ideas at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This weeks Chopped Challenge was very special because it just so happened to fall on my birthday!
The ingredients I was given were very interesting, Sprinkles from Allison Davis, Hummus from Arun, Birthday Cake from Krista Lombardi and Artichokes from Angela Garner.
I decided to make a combination of sweet and spicy party dips including Birthday Cake Hummus and Spicy Buffalo Artichoke Dip.
The hummus was inspired by my favorite peanut butter hummus at the local farmers market and the buffalo artichoke dip inspired by my consistent need to add buffalo sauce to anything possible!
Ingredients (Birthday Cake Hummus)
- 2 cups birthday cake batter
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter (softened)
- 1/2 tbsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 15 oz can garbanzo beans (or chickpeas)
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp sprinkles
- pita bread (for dipping)
- vanilla wafers (for dipping)
Begin by combining the flour, salt and baking powder in a small bowl. In a large bowl beat together the eggs, sugars, butter, vanilla and coconut milk. Add the flour mixture and beat until well combined.
Place 2 cups of the birthday cake batter (recipe will make slightly more than that so you can bake up a couple little cupcakes on the side :-), garbanzo beans, tahini, lemon juice and sprinkles into a blender or food processor.
Sprinkles are fun!
Blend well, then serve topped with additional sprinkles!
I loved the vanilla wafers dipped into this hummus for a sweet treat!
I then prepared the spicy buffalo artichoke dip.
Ingredients (Spicy Buffalo Artichoke Dip)
- 1/2 cup vegenaise (or mayonnaise)
- 1/4 cup cream cheese
- 2 tbsp blue cheese dressing
- 2 tbsp buffalo sauce
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1 cup artichoke hearts (drained)
- pita bread (for dipping)
- wheat thins (for dipping)
Combine the first 5 ingredients in a blender or food processor and combine well. Next, add the artichoke hearts and lightly blend for 10-15 seconds. Pour into a serving bowl with a side of pita bread or wheat thins for dipping. I topped it with parmesan cheese and chives for a little extra deliciousness and color!
This is definitely my new favorite dip, it's kind of like if Spinach Artichoke Dip and Buffalo Chicken Dip got married, this would be their delicious little baby!
I will definitely be serving this at my Christmas Cocktail Party next weekend!


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TUSCALOOSA | Barbara Rountree doesn't plan on ordering rings to commemorate AHSAA championships during the 2013-14 school year, but the uniforms she requested are on the way.
TUSCALOOSA | Barbara Rountree doesn't plan on ordering rings to commemorate AHSAA championships during the 2013-14 school year, but the uniforms she requested are on the way.
Rountree is the director of the Capitol School, which is reviving its athletic program.
Created in 1993 as a charter school, the Capitol School will rejoin the AHSAA and offer six sports for girls and five for boys. The colors will be black and gold, and the teams will be known as the Owls.
Rountree has to work out a number of logistical problems, such as scheduling and locating practice sites, but the school is making its move now because of the interest among students and parents.
"Our Capitol School was founded on the curriculum of multiple intelligences, and one of those intelligences is bodily kinesthetics," Rountree said. "We've always had clubs and instruction, so every day since the kids were 5 they've been going to swimming one day, gymnastics one day, tennis one day, volleyball, basketball. So they've had instruction in all of these sports, but they've been as a club. Now, for the first time since about 2006, we're rejoining the Alabama High School Athletic Association, but the challenge is whereas before we just had three or four teams, now to rejoin we're under the new rules and we have to field 10 teams, at least five girls teams and five boys teams.
"Is this an undertaking to go from zero to 10 in just a few months? We've been planning for more than a year, but still we've got to be ready to rejoin in July and start playing the season Aug. 29."
Sports for boys and girls include swimming, cross country, soccer, tennis and golf, and girls will have the opportunity to play volleyball.
Rountree said she expects the older students who compete to set a positive example for the younger students. The student range is from pre-kindergarten through high school.
"They have role models academically," Rountree said. "They see the older kids going to take college courses in our dual enrollment/dual credit program. They see the academic achievements, but I think this gives them a chance to see the kids competing.
"We've already talked about the year. We're not going to be like the University of Alabama and be a national champion. We're going to be learning, and we're not going to win any games maybe this first year, so we've got to play for the joy of playing and to have good sportsmanship and to learn the rules and to be a good competitor. Gosh, if we were to win a game, won't we be excited?"
Rountree said the goal is to learn from each experience.
"I think that is so important, and we've always tried to do that as part of our curriculum," she said. "Now, for the first time in these children's school lives, we'll be competing again. I think it's going to be a challenge, but I certainly hope all of this effort is going to be worth it because I think it's going to give these kids new experiences and new memories and, hopefully, new achievements because these are skills they can use the rest of their lives."
Sophie Thomas, 12, plans to participate in soccer, volleyball and golf.
"I think it's actually a great honor to be part of the reviving teams at Capitol because for so many years we haven't had sports teams," Thomas said. "We know we probably won't be a state champion next year because we're just starting, but we're going to do our best.
"I'm actually a very competitive person. What I intend to get out of it is just being part of a team, just having the ability to work with so many people that I go to school with on a regular basis and to do that with sportsmanship and in a competitive way. I think it's a nice way to get to know each other more."
Josh Fording, 11, plans to be involved in swimming, tennis and golf.
"Everybody's been wanting sports programs for so long," Fording said. "To be part of the starting team is really something incredible, I think, and it's a great honor.
"I think just being involved in competition is really good. I'm going to try to improve my group-working skills and have lots of fun. That's the most important thing.
"I think it would really raise school spirit. It's going to bring everyone closer together so they'll know each other better and just be better people and better friends."
Each team will have a faculty advisor coach and a skills coach. Rountree has committed to head the swimming program with Shane Reeves as the skills coach.
Other faculty advisor coaches include Dane Blumthal, cross country; Donna Ploessl, volleyball; Monica Rodgers, soccer; Kacey Davenport, tennis; and Cailin Kerch, golf. Skills coaches who have signed on are Jeff Todd, soccer; Hal Hinton, golf; and Gigi Eyre, volleyball.
"We have seen a need for this for several years now," Rodgers said. "We started club teams and had such an interest and participation that the students just kept saying, 'We want to compete with other schools.'
"We have some really good athletes. We have some that have a long way to go, but with that said we want everybody to participate. We want it to be good, friendly competition. We want them to train and get in shape, and that has a lot to do with it too. We're very interested in building our teams and having our teams grow in number and grow in skill."
Rodgers said school officials have worked with representatives of the Tuscaloosa United Soccer League and Park and Recreation Authority to develop the soccer program. The school is located next to Capitol Park, which is a PARA park, and Rogers said the soccer teams have access to fields at Sokol Park and at the Bobby Miller Activity Center.
"All of us that have been on a team before, we understand that team camaraderie," Rodgers said. "Our students are so excited to have a team. We are going to play. We are going to have a good time, and we are building our program.
"They'll forever be remembered as these were the particular students who said, 'We don't care if we lose every game, we want to play and we want to start a sports program at this school and we're going to do it.' That's their mindset."
Eyre is a University of Alabama student from Daphne who played volleyball at Bayside Academy.
"I want to give them, first of all, the basic skills of volleyball," Eyre said. "With any student starting a new sport, it's difficult and you don't always succeed at first and that might be tough. I just want to give them a good role model as a coach and as a person and make them love the sport. I think that's the most important thing.
"It was very important to me. My high school team was very close. We did everything together. I think it gives you something to bond over and something to really share. I know my high school team was like a family."
Eyre said the plan is to conduct volleyball practices at the YMCA, but she expects the team to play all its matches at other school sites.
"That'll be a small challenge, getting fans out and everything, but I think it will be good to start with," Eyre said.
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More than any other conflict, the Great War inspired writers of all generations and classes, most notably among combatants.
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench warfare sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works-most of which were published posthumously-include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Insensibility, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility and Strange Meeting.
He was on the Continent teaching until he visited a hospital for the wounded and then decided, in September, 1915, to return to England and enlist. "I came out in order to help these boys – directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can. I have done the first" (October, 1918).
On 21 October 1915, he enlisted in the Artists' Rifles. For the next seven months, he trained at Hare Hall Camp in Essex. In January 1917 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant with The Manchester Regiment. Owen started the war as a cheerful and optimistic man, but he soon changed forever. After traumatic experiences, which included leading his platoon into battle and getting trapped for three days in a shell-hole, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment. It was whilst recuperating at Craiglockhart that he was to meet fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon, an encounter which was to transform Owen's life.
After returning to the front, Owen led units of the Second Manchesters on 1 October 1918 to storm a number of enemy strong points near the village of Joncourt. He was killed in action on 4 November 1918, only one week before the end of the war. For his courage and leadership in the Joncourt action, he was posthumously awarded the Military Cross., the Citation of which appeared in the London Gazzette on 29.7.1919.
Owen is regarded by historians as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. His great friend, the poet Siegfried Sassoon had a profound effect on Owen's poetic voice, and Owen's most famous poems (Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth) show direct results of Sassoon's influence.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!– An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.–
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,–
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
The title and the Latin exhortation of the final two lines are drawn from a poem of Horace (Odes iii 2.13):[3]
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
poplitibus timidove tergo."
"How sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country:
Death pursues the man who flees,
spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs
Of battle-shy youths."
These words were well known and often quoted by supporters of the war near its inception and, as such, were of particular importance to soldiers of the era.
Anthem For Doomed Youth
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
The bells were ringing on November 11, 1918, in Shrewsbury to celebrate the Armistice when the doorbell rang at his parent's home, bringing them the telegram telling them their son was dead.
"My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity." – Owen.
Move him into the sun –
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds, –
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved – still warm, – too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
– O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?


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Gut Health in Diabetes: It's What's Inside that Matters
Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH September 2006
The gastrointestinal tract, frequently referred to less appealingly as the "gut", is a complex, finely regulated ecosystem that involves the coordination of the nervous system; multiple organs including the stomach, the pancreas, the liver, and the intestines; and the presence of healthy bacteria that aid our digestion and immune system.
Few health care providers place as much emphasis on digestion and gut as do integrative medicine providers. This emphasis comes from a long held belief that optimal nutrition, digestion, and elimination are cornerstones to good health and long life.
Nutrition refers to the quality of foods that consumed and includes both the macronutrient content of food, e.g. carbohydrates vs. fats vs. proteins, as well as the micronutrient content of foods, e.g. chromium, zinc, vitamin B12, etc.
Digestion refers to our ability to break down food and absorb the nutrients properly.
Elimination includes our internal detoxification pathways, sweating, and our urination and bowel patterns.
The Complex World of Digestion
Digestion is quite complex and involves many separate steps including chewing, the production of saliva which begins breaking down food in the mouth, the production of stomach acid known called hydrochloric acid, the production and secretion of digestive enzymes mostly from the stomach and pancreas, and the transport of digested food through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, i.e. the intestines and colon.
Absorption of nutrients is also a multi-step process and includes the breakdown of food by the stomach acid and enzymes, modification of food by the normal bacteria in our intestines and colon, and finally passing nutrients through the gut wall and into the blood stream.
Many people have poor digestion due to stress, poor food choices, food sensitivities, increased consumption of alcohol, and the use of some medications (e.g. antibiotics and acid-suppressive medications). People with diabetes are even more likely to have impairments in this vital function because of long-term blood sugar elevations- and here's why…
Digestive Impairment in Diabetes
When the blood sugar becomes too high in the blood stream it begins to stick to cells and other structures in the body causing harm. Among the most affected tissues are the small blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients to the nerve fibers; this damage is called neuropathy and can occur on any nerve fiber in the body.
Nerve fibers control our sensations, our motions, and many processes we are not aware of - including digestion! Nerves from the brain regulate digestion very carefully and control the production of stomach acid, the release of digestive enzymes, and how rapidly food passes through the GI tract. If neuropathy occurs on the nerves that control digestion, reductions in hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes can occur, impairing normal digestion and thus absorption.
Also, if stomach acid production is reduced, bacteria that cannot normally live in the small intestine begin to grow. This abnormal gut "flora" causes changes in the normal breakdown of food and is known as small bowel bacterial overgrowth (SBBO). Fermentation can result and produce excess gas, impaired absorption, and cramping. These bacteria can actually begin to use the nutrients that you are supposed to be absorbing!
Finally, the changes in gut flora and the results of fermentation in the bowel can lead to the absorption of incompletely digested proteins and carbohydrates. Theories differ on how the next phase actually occurs, but the predominant theory is that this "malabsorption" may stimulate abnormal immune system responses to food leading to the production of antibodies. Antibodies are used by our immune systems to differentiate foreign substances from normal tissues; normally we do not develop antibodies to our food. Sometimes these immune responses are called "food allergies", however I prefer "food sensitivities" because these reactions are different than a bee sting allergy or a peanut allergy.
Just Theory or Science?
As frequent readers know, I am hopeful and inquisitive but also skeptical and therefore frequently turn to published science to debunk or support popular myths. The impact of diabetes on digestive health has not been thoroughly studied, but there are a few publications that support the theories described above.
Migdalis et al. demonstrated reductions in gastric emptying in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy; symptoms such as sensations of fullness and early satiety are signs of neuropathy (Migdalis et al., Clin Auton Res. 2001). Gaur and colleagues discovered that autonomic nerve dysfunction leads to paralysis of the gall bladder in patients with diabetes, leading to gallstone formation. The gall bladder is also a storehouse for bile acids needed to absorb fats and fat-soluble vitamins (Gaur et al. J Assoc Physicians India. 2000). Kostic and Secen measured pancreatic enzyme secretion in diabetic subjects following a high-protein meal and found significantly reduced enzyme secretion in those with symptoms of neuropathy (Kostic and Secen. Med Pregl. 1996).
Virally-Monod and colleagues measured the number of people with diabetes who have SBBO and found 43% were positive for SBBO when tested (Virally-Monod et al. Diabetes Metab.1998). Virally-Monod describes the consequences of SBBO as including chronic diarrhea; impaired function of bile; fat, vitamin, and micronutrient malabsorption; and worsening of gut motility problems.
According to Zietz and colleagues, gastrointestinal symptoms are present in 50-70% of people with diabetes with delayed gastric emptying and decreased mobility being the most common symptoms; they found 34% of people with diabetes tested positive for SBBO (Zietz et al. Diabetes Care. 2000). Flatulence (gas) and chronic diarrhea were the most consistent symptoms in those who tested positive. They also found the presence of autonomic neuropathy more consistently in those with SBBO.
How Do I Know if I Have Autonomic Neuropathy or Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth (SBBO)?
Some degree of autonomic neuropathy is quite common in people with diabetes. Low et al. found that 73% of people with diabetes have some degree of autonomic neuropathy (Low et al. Diabetes Care. 2004). Testing should be discussed with your endocrinologist, cardiologist, or diabetes specialist if you have unexplained chronic diarrhea, frequent heart palpitations, dizziness upon standing rapidly from sitting or lying, or unexplained urinary incontinence (inability to control or hold urine).
It is difficult to definitely prove the presence of SBBO in all people, however some testing is available. Testing includes hydrogen breath testing and sophisticated stool cultures. Hydrogen breath testing is not available everywhere but most regions have at least one hospital or medical clinic that performs the testing. Normal stool culturing is unlikely to discover SBBO, but more sophisticated testing called Comprehensive Digestion and Stool Analysis (CDSA) testing is available through some labs. CDSA testing often checks for less common bacteria, tests for abnormal digestion products from foods, and also tests for markers of inflammation in the gut.
Testing aside, your symptoms may give the best insight. If you have peripheral neuropathy, i.e. pain in your feet or legs and/or lack of sensation, it is likely autonomic neuropathy is present also. If you have improved your diet to be more whole foods based, (i.e. fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and lean meats) and yet frequent diarrhea, bloating, fullness after meals and gas remain, then an assessment and treatment to improve digestion and eliminate SBBO may be indicated.
What Can I do to Prevent and Treat SBBO?
The best prevention for both autonomic neuropathy and SBBO is achieving good blood sugar control! Following your doctors recommendations on medications, checking your blood sugar frequently, and following a healthy lifestyle of daily activity, stress management, and eating a healthy diet rich in fresh, whole foods are critical steps to good blood sugar control.
Identifying food sensitivities may also help the symptoms of SBBO, but will not cure the problem. Food sensitivities can be detected by one of several ways. The best way to definitively identify your food sensitivities is to undergo a structured elimination and challenge diet. This diet includes 2-3 weeks on a restricted diet eliminating the most common foods and chemicals to which people are sensitive. Following the elimination phase, individual foods are challenged. The challenge phase lasts another 1-2 weeks. It is best to have some physician assistance while going through this elimination diet because it can be difficult to follow and having support and reassurance is helpful along the way. Logging your symptoms and any reactions in a food diary can also be helpful during the process. While 4-5 weeks may seem like a long time, it is really quite short compared to the rest of your life!! Most naturopathic physicians and many dieticians will be eager to guide your through this process.
Blood testing that measures antibodies to food is also available, and although controversial and somewhat expensive, my experience is that patients who follow the results of their testing have significant improvements in symptoms! In fact, although not performed in people with diabetes, patients with irritable bowel syndrome who avoided reactive foods discovered on food antibody testing led to improvement in symptoms of pain, bloating, quality of life, and bowel satisfaction suggesting value in this testing and treatment approach (Zar et al. Scand J Gastroenterol. 2005).
If neuropathy is already present, vitamin B12 and alpha-lipoic acid have both demonstrated success in clinical trials for autonomic neuropathy and may be worth discussing with your complementary medicine provider (Taniguchi et al. Clin Ther. 1987; Sun et al. Acta Neuro Taiwan. 2005; Tankova et al. Rom J Int Med.2004; Ziegler et al. Diabetes Care. 1997).
If SBBO is suspected, optimization of stomach acidity and availability of digestive enzymes is critical; this can be accomplished through supplementation. Acid-suppressing medications, including over-the-counter antacids and drugs like Zantac®, should be avoided as suppression of stomach acid is known to contribute to SBBO (Lewis et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther.1996). If a stomach ulcer and/or reflux is present, the avoidance of trigger foods, weight loss, stress management and other possible treatments should be discussed with your provider prior to stopping any medication.
Supplements which improve SBBO include fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), probiotics like Lactobaccilus, peppermint and/or oregano oil (available in enteric coated capsules), and herbal digestive bitters.
Gut health in diabetes is complex and is impacted by the diet, blood sugar, the nervous system, the degree of stomach acidity, the availability of proper digestive enzymes, and having the normal bacterial flora. Symptoms of neuropathy and small bowel bacterial overgrowth (SBBO) are common in people with diabetes and include flatulence (gas) cramping, and chronic diarrhea. Testing and treatment is available for both SBBO and neuropathy. Since assessment and treatment of SBBO is not a routine part of conventional medical assessment in diabetes, a complementary provider may be a better source of information, assessment, and treatment.