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A Deafening Silence
School Incident Involving a Student's Suicide Attempt "Never Happened"
Dave Arnold
A custodian I know was going about his daily routine one day when he entered the boy's restroom and heard a loud "click, click, snap." The custodian was ex-military. He knew the sound of a revolver when he heard it. Fortunately, this one had been cocked and fired on an empty chamber.
He later told me, "When you have become familiar with firearms, you will never mistake that sound for another."
Revolvers hold six rounds. He was immediately concerned that the next "snap" might shut down on a bullet. He quickly started kicking stall doors open. Again, he heard "click, click, snap."
Gun at School
He finally kicked in a door to find a frightened teenage boy standing with a revolver to his head. Without a word, the custodian bulldogged the boy and a struggle ensued. The custodian is big and muscular, but the boy was quick and determined. He put up a good fight.
To the custodian's horror, the trigger snapped again during the struggle. Again, the chamber was empty. The custodian finally managed to subdue the boy and get hold of the pistol. He then delivered the boy and firearm to the principal.
The custodian expected to see a police car arrive on campus with lights flashing and sirens blaring. Instead, he was told that school officials would handle the situation in their own way. The custodian was ordered back to work without being questioned about the incident, or the severe cuts and bruises he sustained during the struggle.
"Never Happened"
The next day, the principal, superintendent, and a military officer from a nearby base called the custodian to the front office. They told him to forget about the boy, the gun and the struggle. "The incident never happened," they said. The custodian might have been shot by a student and "it never happened?" He was ordered to not say anything to anybody.
Later that day, the custodian noticed the boy in school, as if, well, the incident had never happened. Was the boy counseled for the event that "never happened" in which two lives might have been lost? Could the boy attempt another suicide? Could he shoot others? Why was he allowed back in school so soon? Was the gun loaded?
These nagging questions still cause an emotional response from the custodian, though he is retired now.
Some of the individuals involved were high-ranking military officers. Before I could report this story, I agreed with all involved not to reveal names and places, other than to say it occurred at a large, wealthy school district that encompassed a military base.
Many of the students at this school were military dependents who had traveled with their families from country to country, base to base, school to school. There is no place that many of them can call home. Lasting friendships are hard to maintain, I was told. Add that to normal teenage angst, and it can mean deep emotional trouble. The custodian was aware of these characteristics, he said, but never realized they could lead to the cover-up of an attempted suicide on campus involving a gun.
Nowhere to Turn
At the time of the incident, the custodian was in a wall-to-wall Association of teachers and ESPs, though the ESPs had just been privatized. The custodian had been forced to work for a contractor at about half what he had earned previously. Even worse, the teachers didn't want ESPs in their Association since they were actually employed by a contractor.
Teachers were trying to divorce themselves from ESPs. So, in one hand, the custodian is facing a school cover-up. In the other, he is apprehensive about the Association's support.
After two weeks of reflection on the incident, he realized how close the student had come to killing the two of them. He never learned if the gun was loaded, but the emotional experience of the incident became more than he could bear.
Post Stress
He would often go to work and find himself emotionally overwhelmed. He needed professional counseling, he said.
Fortunately, his wife and pastor knew the story and supported him. Thanks to them, he said, he survived this confusing episode in his life. I call him a hero because of his courage, inner-strength and determination to survive the opposing powers that often exist in a school setting.
Many ESPs I know are often overwhelmed by well-connected, strong-minded and powerful authority figures. Fortunately, most of us have our local Associations to watch our backs. The custodian was somewhat alone, yet he didn't quit.
He worked a few more years after the incident before taking an early retirement. I could see that reliving those memories bothered him. Two lives might have been lost if that day. We'll never know, since it never happened.
This is the third and final installment in a series of articles featuring ESP heroes. The first two columns are titled, "Bravery Unrewarded" and "Putting Others First."
(Dave Arnold, a member of the Illinois Education Association, is head custodian at Brownstown Elementary School in Southern Illinois. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NEA or its affiliates.
Dave's View has been discontinued following the retirement of its author, Dave Arnold. Even though new columns will not be posted, we encourage you to review past columns.


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Transforming the Jewel
In a cool spring night, the new prototype of a Pebble Beach family rolls up to the entranceway outside the venerable Lodge in a late-model SUV. If they own a set of golf clubs, they've left it at home.He works in the film business; she does interior design. They've driven up from Southern California with their two young daughters to celebrate his birthday. They'll visit the nearby aquarium in Monterey, get spa treatments and shop. She can't wait to sit on the terrace of the Lodge at Pebble Beach and gaze out at the spectacular view, to visit the Beach Club if the weather warms, maybe even take a tennis lesson. He's eager to eat at several of the resort's restaurants. And golf, the raison d'etre at Pebble Beach from the day it opened in 1919? Actually, he confides, nobody in the family has the slightest interest.
Going to a golf resort to eat, relax and pointedly not play golf may seem like a curious way to spend a vacation, but Pebble Beach is not just a golf resort anymore. The celebrity-studded ownership group has transformed it into the ultimate connoisseur's retreat since buying the property five years ago. And by broadening the Pebble Beach brand, the owners have created the possibility of future line extensions.
In the same way that Las Vegas managed to grow its appeal from gaming and floor shows to dining, shopping and sports, the Pebble Beach name, which traditionally revolved around golf, has become shorthand for good living. The Club XIX restaurant now offers 33 different bottlings of Opus One, a highly touted new chef, pre-Castro Cuban cigars and 150-year-old Cognac. The spa features huckleberry herbal body wraps and chai soy mud masks, and the Beach Club provides tennis lessons for guests.
"We have guests who have come to play golf at Pebble Beach, and that's their No. 1 reason, their No. 2 reason, their No. 3 reason for being here," says Bill Perocchi, the resort's chief executive officer, who arrived in 1999 after stints at General Electric and Doubletree Hotels knowing almost nothing about golf. "But now, we get other people who have come to experience the spa and the beauty of the area, and to eat at four or five of our restaurants. Twenty percent of our revenue now comes from the retail shops on the property. Two years ago, we didn't have a kids' store, for example. Now we do, and it's doing very well."
Instead of getting the man of the house to Pebble Beach for a long weekend, the whole household now comes for a week. "Your spouse can come, your kids can come, there's just a lot to do," says Tom Klein, who owns Rodney Strong Vineyards and is a minority shareholder in the resort. Klein comes to golf more often than ever because his wife can spend a day at the spa. Then they dine together. Golfers now account for about 75 percent of the resort's guests, according to Perocchi, down from probably 85 percent only a few years ago—but even golfers have to eat, and a growing number of them are enjoying the massages and spa treatments and drinking big-ticket wines. As a result, non-golf revenues and profits are both higher than what the courses are generating.
This wasn't just a case of "polishing the jewel," as the previous owners—Japan's Taiheiyo Club and Sumitomo Credit Service Co. Ltd.—liked to call Pebble Beach, but keeping pace with the market. Former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who made a fortune in the travel industry, and Dick Ferris, who helped found the Westin hotel chain before running United Airlines, are travel professionals, while Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood and golfer and businessman Arnold Palmer presumably get around enough to spot a trend. They know that what were once the spoils of staying at the poshest resorts—the spacious health clubs and showcase wine lists, the plush robes and high-thread-count sheets—are now de rigueur at every Park Hyatt, Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis. To stand out, Pebble Beach had to offer more.
At the same time, the golf landscape has changed in America, in quite literal fashion. With signature courses such as Bandon Dunes in Oregon and the TPC near Jacksonville, Florida, sprouting from sand and weeds, Pebble Beach can no longer count on its standing as a golf resort to sell its product. Too many other choices exist for the vacationer seeking a memorable golf experience—and world-class coddling the other 18 hours a day. Pebble Beach had to be more luxurious than the other golf destinations—and, from the other direction, offer better golf than the resorts it competes against for today's luxury consumers.
Beyond that, its elderly customer base was dying, replaced by the younger, newly moneyed golfers who wanted a hotel that played to their demographic. "What you used to see here," says Laird Small, the director of Pebble Beach's Golf Academy, "were men in their mid- to late-sixties, usually at the top of their game in business, or already retired. Today's player is more likely to be in his forties or fifties. He's better-traveled and more sophisticated."
In 1998, the old Cypress Room, perhaps the stuffiest place to eat a meal in North America, was ripped apart and replaced with the Stillwater Bar & Grill, all curves and colors, which wouldn't look out of place in one of Bill Kimpton's boutique hotels.
A year later, the investment group headed by Ueberroth, Eastwood, Palmer and Ferris bought the four golf courses, two hotels (the Lodge at Pebble Beach and the Inn at Spanish Bay) and scenic 17-Mile Drive for a cool $820 million. Since then, the shift in emphasis has accelerated. The 22,000-square-foot spa, with 20 treatment rooms, a Flotation Wrap suite, a beauty salon and multi-head showers, was completed in 2000. Casa Palmero, a secluded, 24-suite oasis-within-a-resort, was constructed out of a 1927 estate once used as the residence of Pebble Beach's general manager.
Every room in the Inn and the Lodge was renovated earlier this year, at the cost of $15 million. Furnishings that used to look like your grandmother's apartment have been replaced by decor you'd be proud to own yourself. Even the custom-designed soap in the rooms is a mission statement. "We spent a lot of time arguing about the right scent," says Janine Chicourrat, the manager of the Lodge. "It had to be manly enough to appeal to our traditional clientele, but also feminine enough to appeal to women."
Like any resort with character, Pebble Beach is an extension of its owners. At a corner table of Club XIX on a quiet Monday night, Ueberroth, Eastwood, Ferris and Perocchi, four of the resort's seven board members, talk quietly over dinner and a modestly priced Gary Farrell Pinot Noir. Along with the absent Palmer, they represent the most iconically American group of business investors who ever have combined on one project. Consider that Palmer is one of the best-loved American athletes, the first golfer to attract a mass following. Ueberroth was not only the guardian of the national pastime as baseball commissioner, but also produced the unrelentingly patriotic 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Eastwood is this generation's John Wayne. When they reclaimed Pebble Beach after a decade of Japanese ownership, Americans cheered.
Beyond that, all four of the celebrity owners were Pebble Beach regulars who had been coming to the property for years before they purchased it. They understood the balancing act that would be necessary to maintain its tradition and history and to attract today's customers. "When you have a property like Pebble Beach, you need to be very cautious," says Ueberroth. "Bill Perocchi has brought together a group of leaders that can both respect the past and improve the property for the future. Doing that is an art form."
Club XIX is a case in point. It was set for demolition until a bright, young manager named Ed Swartz was hired from a Mississippi casino in early 2003. Swartz asked for three months to prove himself with the old concept. A year later, revenues in the room are up 40 percent. "And profits," Perocchi says with a Cheshire-cat smile, "are up 200 percent."
That pays for a lot of sand traps.
Swartz's Pebble Beach is an epicurean's delight where the rarest, most exalted—and expensive—treats can be found. His wine list is replete with old Bordeaux. Kobe beef, flown in from Japan, is served with a mélange of 19 vegetables. Krug Champagne flows freely. And Swartz has added profit centers such as a $1,200-a-pour 1937 The Macallan single-malt Scotch, a $525-a-pour Hardy's Perfection Cognac that dates to 1850, and a cigar list that includes Gurkha His Majesty's Reserve at $450.
It seemed like a gamble at the time, but now he can hardly keep the rarities in stock. Only Las Vegas's Bellagio sells more Hardy's Cognac than Swartz, and the comparison is apt. Pebble Beach now celebrates the spirit of glorious excess almost as well as the Vegas casinos, but with golf taking the place of gaming. Once upon a time, this publicly accessible resort had more rules and regulations, stated and unstated, than most private country clubs. Today, it is governed by an attitude of personal accommodation. "If they want a Caesar salad," Swartz says, "we give them a Caesar salad. Whether it's on the menu or not."
At the Inn at Spanish Bay up 17-Mile Drive, Roy Yamaguchi's fusion cuisine hardly calls out for a 1970 Pichon-Lalande, a 1998 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Richebourg or some of the other gems on the wine list. But that hardly matters. In the same spirit as the Vegas high rollers, guests come to Pebble Beach with money to spend and only a few days to spend it. They want a terrific bottle of wine with dinner, no matter what dinner happens to be.
During this year's AT&T golf tournament, food and beverage manager Roberto Arjona put together a private meal for 14 guests at Casa Palmero that included 1982 Château Margaux, 1966 and 1970 Château Lafite, six more bottles of first-growth Bordeaux—and a stack of $13 hamburgers from the Tap Room bar. "These people know exactly what they want, and they can afford it, whatever it costs," Arjona says. "If they feel like having hamburger with a fine French wine, they do it."
One guest called Arjona aside during the meal service. "Forget all these fancy wines," he whispered. "Bring me a Budweiser."
The spirit of accommodation pays off. Last year, a husband and wife from New York visited the Club XIX patio for four consecutive evenings after dinner. They smoked Gurkhas or 1955 Montecristos at $270 a stick, drank $525 Cognac and spent "at least $1,250 a night," according to Swartz. On the final night, the husband bought 15 of the $270 Montecristos to take home.
In January, Club XIX raided the nearby Park Hyatt Carmel Highlands Inn in Carmel Highlands for highly touted chef Rick Edge. At first glance, the move seemed curious for Edge. Eating and drinking is to Highlands—the site of the annual Masters of Food & Wine event that brings together some of the best chefs and winemakers in the world—what golf is to Pebble Beach. Edge had star billing at Highlands, a Park Hyatt budget, and Wolfgang Puck, Mario Batali, Robert Mondavi and their brethren regularly tasting his work. At Club XIX, he knew, his culinary creations would always be secondary to the golf. But when he visited Pebble Beach, Edge was instantly smitten with the clientele. With the amount of money that the resort's guests regularly spend—Club XIX's average check is $120 a person—Edge understood that the finest ingredients in the world would be within his reach. "Anything he could possibly imagine that he might want to cook with," says Swartz. Kobe beef is just the beginning.
At the spa, personal gratification is offered on a treatment menu that can climb toward four figures in half a day. Sure, spas elsewhere in North America can compete with this one, but none allow one member of the family to while away the hours encased in mud while another hooks balls into the Carmel Bay wind from the 17th fairway. And the spa also helps the resort connect to the community. You've always been able to get a tee time at Pebble Beach more easily by renting a room for a night than by buying a $10 million home along the fairway, which was appropriately democratic but tended to put up a wall that separated the resort from the rest of the peninsula. Now locals use the spa as a point of access, visiting for massages or day treatments.
From there, they might eat a meal at Stillwater's or up the road at Roy's and tell one another that they really should come to Pebble Beach more often, whether they end up golfing or not. That's an affluent year-round community that previous owners had never bothered to tap into.
>pAll of these new diversions have a strategic purpose. As long as the Pebble Beach name is synonymous with the golf course, business opportunities are limited to these properties on this stretch of coastline. But if an equity can be created that transcends these 18 holes, the Pebble Beach name becomes exportable.
The current ownership group is too smart to diminish the brand by spinning off Pebble Beach resorts as if they were Bennigan's franchises, but a well-placed Pebble Beach East or Pebble Beach South would be the most exciting new development in American luxury properties since Amanresorts crossed the Pacific. Such an idea is under consideration, though no site has been found.
When his group bought the property, Ueberroth characterized Pebble Beach as the best name in American hospitality. Five years later, his stewardship and Perocchi's vision have only made it better.
Bruce Schoenfeld is a regular contributor to Cigar Aficionado.

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Winter storm: What LI needs to know
* CURRENT SITUATION: Suffolk police are urging residents to stay off the roads as conditions remain hazardous across the island. Some parts of Long Island have been socked with more than 2 feet of snow, including Medford, which was hit with 33 inches.More information »| Mobile link: newsday.com/weather
* SCHOOL CLOSINGS: At least 29 districts have announced school closings for Monday as of 10:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a Newsday/News12 database. Included are: Bay Shore School District, Brentwood Schoold District, Central Islip School District, Commack School District, Comsewogue School District, Connetquot School District, Eastport School District, Elwood School District, Half Hollow Hills School District, Hauppauge School District, Harborfields School District, Huntington School District, Islip School District, Kings Park School District, Longwood School District, Middle County School District, Miller Place School District, Mount Sinai School District, Northport-East Northport School District, Patchogue-Medford School District, Port Jefferson School District, Rocky Point School District, Sachem School District, Shoreham-Wading River School District, Smithtown School District, South Country School District, South Huntington School District, Three Village School District and Wyandanch School District. See the latest closings » | Mobile link: newsday.com/closings
* TRAFFIC: The Long Island Expressway has reopened from exits 57-73, and Sunrise Highway has reopend. Latest traffic and transit info
* OUTAGES: As of 5:48 a.m. Monday, 135 LIPA customers remained without power. Those without power should call 800-490-0075, report outages online at liaccount.com/outage or text OUT to 695472. Gas leaks should be reported to National Grid by calling 800-490-0045.
*ABANDONED VEHICLES: Suffolk County police released a phone number (631-904-3050) for motorists who had to abandon their vehicles on the LIE during the snowstorm. Motorists who had to leave their vehicles on local streets or Sunrise Highway should call the precint neares their vehicle.
First Precinct, 631-854-8100
Second Precinct, 631-854-8200
Third Precinct, 631-854-8300
Fourth Precinct, 631-854-8400
Fifth Precinct, 631-854-8500
Sixth Precinct, 631-854-8600
Seventh Precinct, 631-852-8700
Northern State Parkway from New York City line to Exit 42, call Sabre Towing, 516-333-4000; east of Exit 42, Higbie Towing, 631-587-2600;
Southern State Parkway from city line to Exit 27, call All County, 516-378-9486; east of Exit 27 call Sabre, 516-333-4000
Wantaugh Parkway, Northern State to Southern State, call Sabre, 516-333-4000; south of Southern, call All County, 516-378-9486
Ocean Parkway in Nassau, call All County, 516-378-9486; in Suffolk, call Higbie, 631-587-2600
Meadowbrook and Loop, call All County, 516-378-9486
Bethpage State Parkway, call Sabre, 516-333-4000
Robert Moses Causeway, Saktokos and Sunken Meandow Parkways, call Higbie, 631-587-2600
* LIRR: The Long Island Rail Road said it will operating near normal service on nine of 11 branches Monday morning. The LIRR advises customers to visit www.mta.info/lirr and refer to the LIRR's "Modified Schedule 4" for train times.
* BUS AND AMTRAK SERVICE: Nassau County's NICE Bus service is operating normally. Suffolk County Transit service is expected to return to normal operations Monday. Amtrak service to Albany was operating at a normal schedule; Amtrak was scheduled to return limited service to Boston Sunday.
* AIRPORTS: Air travel crept to back to life Sunday at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, where US Airways was scheduled to resume service at noon, and Southwest Airlines, the airports busiest carrier, was supposed to begin flying at 4:50 p.m. A total of 14 flights were cancelled today at LIMA, according to FlightAware.com, an online flight tracker. Flights at Kennedy Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Newark Liberty in New Jersey and Stewart International in West Chester resumed Saturday, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In all, there were 18 cancelled flights at Kennedy; seven at LaGuardia; 13 at Newark and 14 at Long Island MacArthur today. Track individual flights here | Mobile link: newsday.com/flighttracker.
* STAYING WARM: If the power goes out, it's important to know how to stay warm. Gather together. A crowded room becomes warmer than one with just a few people inside. Close doors to all but essential rooms. Open curtains and shades to let the sun's warmth in, then close them at dusk. Wear extra, loose layers of clothing and a head cover, and use layers of blankets on beds. Do not use electrical generators inside, prop open the oven door or keep oven burners on.
*SNOW SHOVELING TIPS: Wear breathable layers, and avoid heavy woolen clothing, manmade materials or other materials that don't allow perspiration to evaporate. Push, don't lift. If you push the snow to the side rather than trying to lift the snow to remove it, you exert less energy thereby placing less stress on your body. Take frequent breaks and stay hydrated. Pay attention to your surroundings. When shoveling snow near streets, be aware that vehicles may not have good traction in the snow and ice.
* KEEP PIPES FROM FREEZING: The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office reminds residents to keep faucets running on a slow drip if there is any danger of your water pipes freezing. The most vulnerable pipes are those that run through unheated crawl spaces or unprotected areas of the home.
* CLEAR HYDRANTS FOR FIREFIGHTERS: Water utility New York American Water asks homeowners and local businesses to take a few minutes to make sure they keep areas surrounding fire hydrants clear so firefighters can connect their equipment without delays.
*KEEP PETS SAFE: Be alert to frostbite: Skin can turn red, gray, white or scaly. If you believe your pet has frostbite, contact your veterinarian immediately. Always keep ID tags on your pets in the event they should get lost during the storm. Be sure to walk your dog on a leash and minimize exposure time, also taking care to keep all of your pets clean and wiped down after going outside (road salt can irritate or burn pets and can sometimes cause more serious conditions like seizures). If in doubt, be sure to keep your pets indoors throughout the duration of the storm.
*WHO TO CALL: Emergency phone numbers and contact information in your town.
North Hempstead
Call 311 or 516-TOWN-311 for a service representative or go to northhempstead.com.
Call 516-489-5000 or visit townofhempstead.org.
Oyster Bay
Go to oysterbaytown.com or call highway department to report downed trees at 516-677-5757.
City of Glen Cove
Go to www.glencove-li.us or call 516-676-2000.
City of Long Beach
Visit longbeachny.org or call city hall at 516-431-1000.
Visit townofbabylon.com or call the public safety department at 631-422-7600 to report downed trees.
Call the highway department at 631-451-9200 to report downed trees or visit brookhaven.org.
East Hampton
Go to town.east-hampton.ny.us or call the highway department to report roadway obstructions at 631-324-0925.
Visit huntingtonny.gov or call its 24-hour emergency number, 631-271-2157 or 631-271-6573, or for downed trees or snow-clearing issues 631-499-0444.
Visit townofislip-ny.gov or call 631-224-5600 to report downed trees or power lines.
Call the storm hotline at 631-727-3200 or visit townofriverheadny.gov.
Shelter Island
Visit shelterislandtown.us or call 631-749-0291.
Call the Public Safety Department at 631-360-7553
Go to southamptontownny.gov or call 631-283-6000.
Visit southoldtownny.gov or call 631-765-1800.


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Miss Angola has been named this year's Miss Universe.
Leila Lopes beat out 88 competitors to win the beauty pageant's top prize for the African nation after deftly answering a question over which physical characteristic she would change and why.
"Thank God I am very well satisfied with the way God made me – and I wouldn't change a thing," the 25-year-old said, adding that she considered herself endowed with inner-beauty.
U.S. & World
She replaces last year's winner, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico.
In the final moments of NBC's telecast from Sao Paulo, Brazil, 23-year-old Olesia Stefanko of Ukraine was named first runner-up, and 25-year-old Priscila Machado of Brazil was second runner-up. The third was Samcey Supsup of the Philippines and the fourth was Luo Siln of China.
Miss USA, 21-year-old Alyssa Campanella from Los Angeles, did not make the top 10.
The top five candidates had faced a final questions round and stroll in their evening gown.
Miss Ukraine said the one person she would trade lives with from history was Cleopatra because, "she's a very powerful and strong woman who is very much worthy of respect."
"I think a woman can also be a leader like Cleopatra," she said.
Miss Philippines asked whether she would change religious beliefs to marry the person she loved, said she would not.
"If someone loves me they should love my God too," she said.
Miss China said she believed each country has "its own rules and regulations," which she would keep in mind when judging whether public nudity was appropriate.
Home crowd favorite Miss Brazil and Miss Angola both said that people should "respect" one another.
The contestants had spent the past three weeks in Sao Paulo, trying to learn samba dance steps, visiting impoverished children and kicking a football around for cameras as the globe's biggest beauty contest is held in Brazil for the first time.
This year's contest generated headlines when Miss Colombia Catalina Robayo was told to wear panties.
Before the contest began, judges offered little insight into who they thought might win.
"I know my job and I'll be tough, but fair," said pageant judge and journalist Connie Chung. "You have to keep in mind that these women are not objects just to be looked at. They're to be taken seriously. I want to choose somebody I take seriously and the world takes seriously, too."
The pageant, hosted by NBC "Today" anchor Natalie Morales and the Bravo network's Andy Cohen, was distributed to about 170 countries. The contest is co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC, and was judged by celebrities including Connie Chung, supermodel Isabeli Fontana and Indy race car driver Helio Castroneves.
Morales, who is half Brazilian, said that "what's most important is for the women to be beautiful inside and out."


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LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks were set to end the year up 15 percent but dipped on Monday as U.S. politicians prepared for last-minute talks to avoid a fiscal crunch of spending cuts and tax hikes that could drag down the world economy.
In Washington, the two political parties are set to hold further talks to try and find a way to avoid the $600 billion "fiscal cliff" due to kick in from the start of January.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate would resume sitting at 11 a.m. Washington time on Monday (1600 GMT), to continue discussions, but there were still significant differences between the two sides.
After a subdued day in Asia, where Japan's Nikkei as well as a number of other indexes had already shut for the year, European stock markets opened fractionally lower.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 <.fteu3>, which has risen roughly 16 percent this year, was down 0.1 percent as London's FTSE <.ftse> and the Paris CAC 40 <.fchi> both started a shortened trading day in negative territory. German markets were closed.
"Volumes are very depressed and we're going to see a lot of cash off the table and investors are probably going to take profit on cyclical shares," Ishaq Siddiqi, a market strategist at ETX Capital, said.
Siddiqi said a failure to avert the "fiscal cliff" may push the FTSE back to a late November low of 5,800 in the coming sessions.
Midnight on Monday marks the deadline for a U.S. budget deal, though the government can pass legislation in 2013 that retroactively prevents going over the cliff, an option that is viewed as politically easier.
In currency markets, the U.S. dollar last stood at 85.78 yen, having retreated from Friday's high of 86.64 yen, which was the greenback's strongest level versus the Japanese currency since August 2010.
As the year draws to a close, the dollar is up about 11.9 percent against the yen, putting it on track for its biggest percentage gain versus the Japanese currency since 2005.
The euro was down 0.16 percent to $1.3192 on Monday. An agreement on the U.S. budget would be viewed as positive for riskier currencies such as the euro and Australian dollar, while a deadlock is deemed positive for the haven and highly liquid dollar.
Gold was $1,664.10 an ounce by 0810 GMT, up around 6 percent for the year and is on track for a 12th consecutive year of gains on rock-bottom interest rates, concerns over the financial stability of the euro zone, and diversification into bullion by central banks.
Oil prices slipped on Monday for a third consecutive session on the U.S. budget crisis, with failure to reach a solution seen likely to cause a large drop in fuel consumption.
Brent crude slipped 23 cents to $110.39 a barrel, but is set to post a 2.8 percent year-on-year increase in 2012, up for a fourth consecutive year.
(Additional reporting by Francesco Canepa; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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"An intelligent polemic. . . . Largely persuasive." –The New York Times Book Review
"Essential. . . . Lozowick contends that the story of Israel is, crucially, the story of its wars–and that any attempt to evaluate Zionism must be anchored in the larger context of the morality of war." —National Review
"Unusually illuminating. . . . Liberal American critics of Israel who wonder why Israeli intellectuals don't share their views will find Right to Exist eye-opening." –Philadelphia Inquirer
"Where has this book, or others like it, been all this time? . . . A powerful handbook for anyone interested in Israel." –The New York Post
"[Lozowick] concedes basic justice in the Palestinian cause, and he deals respectfully with the arguments made by both sides. . . . He is also honest about such matters as the historic cohabitation of Muslims and Jews." —Los Angeles Times Book Review


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Same here. These are some of my favourite lines of the record.A_2015 wrote:Ive had acoustic version of Demons playing for the last hour on repeat. The rawness of the lyric 'you're not delivering a perfect body to the grave, and time is not there to be saved. Life is a holiday, a moment stolen from the black, before the demons drag you back.' Definite shivers and hair standing up on back of neck moment.
I thought the same thing after hearing Song For Josh a couple times and crying every single time. Definitely an addition to my "songs not to listen to in public" list. Though I'm slightly making progress.lambeek wrote:Wailed like a baby on hearing Song For Josh - such a truly heartbreaking song. Not sure that will be something I can listen to regularly, until I can hear it in public without sobbing.
What else... The Angel Islington is the perfect start, The Opening Act Of Spring got me to sing along on first listen and the acoustic CD is just perfect.
I can't wait for my CD to arrive so I can have a better look at the lyrics.


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California's first application in the contest for money for school improvement under President Obama's $4.35 billion "Race to the Top" program was all but laughed out of Washington. The state was ranked 27th out of 41 states that applied, and didn't receive a dime even after the state legislature tweaked laws and Gov. Schwarzenegger put what little political capital he still has behind the effort. Federal reviewers of California's application were withering in their assessment -- finding that the state shouldn't receive funds because teachers' unions oppose the president's demands for higher standards and because education officials seem incapable of overseeing school money.
In the face of that rejection, it seemed likely that California wouldn't even bother to resubmit an application for a second round of "Race to the Top" money. But this morning came news that at least one Californian -- Schwarzenegger -- hasn't given up. His education secretary, Bonnie Reiss, who is also one of the governor's closest friends, has submitted a scaled-down application that focuses on improvement in three large urban school districts: L.A. Unified, Long Beach and Fresno.
It's not a bad idea; California can argue that it can keep a closer eye on "Race to the Top" moneys if they go only to a handful of places. But the state remains a longshot to receive funds. Union skepticism of Obama's education policies is strong all three of those big districts. And L.A. Unified is famous for bureacratic bloat and fiscal mismanagement.


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Uruguay president blasts FIFA with obscenity, calls ban of Suarez 'fascist'
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay's famously casual President Jose Mujica has tossed some earthy expletives at FIFA over its four-month ban of Luis Suarez.
Mujica referred to FIFA as "bunch of old sons of whores" as he welcomed Uruguay's team back from the World Cup on Sunday. He put his hand over his mouth in mock horror at the expletive, but when a journalist for state television station asked, he said, "Publish it."
He also referred to FIFA's stiff penalty on Uruguay's star striker as "fascist," though he said that Suarez could have been sanctioned with a lesser sentence.
The president's comments reflect the angry mood in Uruguay, a small country that is proud of its outsized soccer accomplishments, which include two World Cup championships.
Uruguay was bounced out of the World Cup on Saturday with a loss to Colombia, playing without Suarez. FIFA banned the striker from nine national team games and for four months from all FIFA-governed soccer activity for biting an Italian defender — the third time in his career he's been sanctioned for using his teeth on an opponent.
Many in Uruguay questioned whether there was any bite at all, and argued that other players have used tactics just as rough without being punished.


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A bad traffic jam tests the patience of even the most leveled-headed drivers. But the state of New Jersey has found a way to use big data and analytics to make nerve-racking, bumper-to-bumper rides a thing of the past.
By teaming up with software startup Inrix, a traffic management center in Woodbridge, N.J., leverages the massive amounts of data produced by drivers' smartphones and GPS signals for realtime monitoring of traffic conditions. According to a story from the Wall Street Journal, the center has a 22-foot mounted screen that displays up-to-date traffic information for 2,600 miles of state roads.
Apparently, this high-end analytics engine has already paid off; after noticing a huge stretch of stopped traffic on Interstate 80 caused by an overturned car, New Jersey officials were able to respond faster than ever, and had the accident cleared within 30 minutes. Without the data, they said, the accident could have sat for hours.


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Each February we celebrate the heritage, achievements and turning points for African Americans in the United States. This year we mark a pivotal moment in our history: 2014 is the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
This year's theme for the month, "Civil Rights in America," celebrates that landmark legislation.
As we at OPM work to create a Federal workforce that reflects the bright mosaic of the American people, we should take time to reflect on the trailblazers and civil rights leaders who chose to continue their service to the American people by becoming Federal workers.
Just two years after President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, he appointed Robert C. Weaver as the first Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development. Weaver's Federal service dated back to President Roosevelt's administration and he became the first African American to hold a Cabinet post.
And we shouldn't forget that such more well-known African American leaders as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to sit on the United States Supreme Court and Colin Powell, the first African American Secretary of State were, in fact, Federal workers. Their service, and the example set by President Obama, can be traced back to that July day in 1964 when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
We must carry on with the work of making the Federal government a welcoming and engaging place for all Americans to work. We must make sure that young people making career choices, new members of the Federal service, employees in the middle of their Federal careers and those about to retire get the encouragement and tools they need to succeed.
Here at OPM, leaders are working with the Blacks in Government organization to mentor BIG members and to help mentees reach their professional development goals.
Throughout the history of the civil rights movement in America, people of African descent have formed organizations and coalitions to promote the battle for equal rights. The Colored Convention Movement, the Afro-American League, the Niagara Movement, the National Council of Negro Women, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference carried the banner of equality when allies were few.
In the modern era, groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, and the Congress of Racial Equality have fought for and protected equal rights.
In his proclamation commemorating National African American History Month, the President calls on us to "honor the men and women at the heart of this journey – from engineers of the Underground Railroad to educators who answered a free people's call for a free mind, from patriots who proved that valor knows no color to demonstrators who gathered on the battlefields of justice and marched our Nation toward a brighter day." You can read the President's full proclamation.
So during this month and all through the year, we should take time to pause to reflect on where we have come as a nation in the struggle for equality, and what we need to still do to realize the full promise of that groundbreaking piece of legislation that 50 years ago forever changed the face of this great country.
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I seems inevitable that the People's Republic of China and the Holy See will eventually establish formal diplomatic relations. Whether this takes months or years, both China and the Vatican have reached an understanding of their mutual interests. China, for its part, seems intent on resolving both its "underground" Catholic Church problem and the Tibet/Dalai Lama issue before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which will be the occasion for a worldwide view of the new China. Entry into the World Trade Organization and commercial ambitions in general have driven this development.
Both Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state, have strongly stated the church's desire to normalize relations with the largest country on earth. Tangible gestures by both sides indicate the increased pace of reconciliation. Cardinal Godfried Daneels of Belgium and Cardinals Theodore McCarrick and Roger Mahony of the United States visited China in recent months and were received by China's Foreign Ministry and by Ye Xiaowen, head of the State Bureau for Administration of Religious Affairs, which manages church activities. In a breakthrough meeting last October, Cardinal McCarrick spoke with Jia Quingling, the fourth highest official in the Chinese hierarchy. New bishops have been installed in Shanghai and Xian with the public approval of both the Chinese government and Rome, as have at least three auxiliary bishops.
What will all this mean for China and for the church? The prevailing wisdom has been that the major impact would be on China. The Vatican would recognize Taiwan as part of China, the "underground" church would be reconciled with the official church, and Rome would formally have influence over the appointment of Chinese bishops. Many believe these issues have largely been settled already, as Betty Ann Maheu (Am., 11/7/05) has suggested. Archbishop Claudio Marie Celli, on the other hand, who oversaw the Holy See's China policy, has said an agreement will depend on its beneficial effects for the Chinese church.
Less attention has been given to the impact rapprochement with China might have on the universal church. It is possible that the Holy Spirit, in the mystery of divine providence, is using developments in China to guide the church into the future. Four areas are particularly salient.
One is the notion of collaboration, espoused by the Second Vatican Council. In recent decades a trend toward centralization of decision-making in Rome has been apparent. Because of the constitutional role of the government in church affairs in China, the Vatican will necessarily be in a position of sharing decision-making power with local bishops through secular authorities. The actual extent of this might be minimal. Nonetheless, collaboration in some form will be required through the Bureau for Administration of Religious Affairs. That could have implications throughout the universal church, depending on the model of power-sharing that develops.
A second area involves the ordination of bishops. For years the Chinese government has insisted on appointing the bishops without interference from Rome. This has been a well-known problem both politically and doctrinally because of the importance of apostolic succession. If the two sides have reached a mutually acceptable accommodation, this obstacle to reconciliation will have been substantially resolved. But a little-recognized aspect of the issue could have significant implications for the universal church: Under current regulations, the appointment process for bishops in China includes a local election. Typically, the local authority nominates two men. The local clergy and lay leaders, including religious women, then vote. The top vote-getter is then named bishop. (In recent elections, though, the sitting bishop has made known the candidate who has received prior approval from Rome.) A key element in the process is that the winner must receive approval from 50 percent of the eligible voters. In effect, the local church has a veto over episcopal appointments. While the process can, of course, be easily manipulated by pressure from the authority, its mere existence could provoke interesting dialogue in the universal church about the appointment of bishops worldwide. While this process might be modified in a diplomatic relations agreement, its similarity to the role of the local church in the early days of Christianity is noteworthy.
A third intriguing aspect of developments in China concerns evangelization and the missionary call of the church. In part because of its historical experience with foreign missionaries, China's religious affairs regulations prohibit evangelization by foreigners while allowing it from within. This is not likely to change in a diplomatic relations agreement. The effect is that the old model of church—sending external missionaries from outside—could develop into a new model in which the church encourages and supports the internal missionary call of the local faithful.
During a recent conference in Chengdu I visited the local cathedral. With me was a young university graduate student, a nonbeliever. Among the many people praying in the cathedral was an elderly Chinese woman who was intoning novena prayers. After I asked her questions about the local diocese, she began speaking to my Chinese colleague, and I witnessed proselytizing taking place according to this new model. The woman gave my colleague prayer cards and invited her to Sunday Mass. Under Chinese regulations, that elderly woman is permitted to be the missionary. The foreigner may be present but may not be the missionary. Similarly, last month in Beijing a university professor gave me a leather-bound Chinese/English Bible. While I am not permitted to give out Bibles in China, my Chinese friends are. In fact, the professor told me that he regularly gives Bibles as gifts to his nonbelieving friends. This paradigm of "missionary" could well advance understanding of the evangelizing role of the faithful in the local church.
Finally, the church in China may well provide the universal church with a refreshing role model of orthodoxy and devotion. In my 23 years' experience with Catholic communities in China, I have seen a fervor of faith and devotion that perdures and is truly edifying. The malaise of faith and devotion that we now often experience in the Western church could well be tempered by our faithful brothers and sisters in China.
That the church in China might have a providential role in the future of the universal church should not be surprising given its remarkable history. While not widely known in the West, for example, Jesuit missionaries arrived in China well before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. Most notable were Mateo Ricci, Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest, who mastered Mandarin and Chinese culture. Through their expertise they gained access and acceptance in the power circles of 16th- and 17th-century China and became esteemed advisors in the emperor's court. While teaching science and technology to their Chinese colleagues, they adapted Christianity to Chinese culture in the way the Second Vatican Council would encourage centuries later. They offered Mass in the vernacular, wore vestments like Chinese shamans and preached the Gospel using Confucian concepts. They appeared to be on the verge of converting the elite when Rome ordered a halt to their Chinese-style Catholicism. Arguably, China might have become a Christian nation then through a monarchical process similar to the experience of European nations. Ricci died a national sage and was buried in Beijing. During the cultural revolution of the 1960's, when anything Western was desecrated, Ricci's grave was protected. It is an irony and paradox that his tomb is located in what is now the Beijing Communist Party training academy campus. He is honored in Chinese history books as Li Mateu, the Chinese name he adopted.
A similar paradoxical event in China occurred in the 1990's. Mother Teresa believed, from the time she founded her Missionaries of Charity, that China had a special role to play in the universal church. She dreamed of working there. Because of my access as a professor and corporate emissary, I became involved. Part of that effort resulted in her visit to Shanghai in 1993, where she prayed with the Bishop of Shanghai at the Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan and spoke to the several hundred seminarians of the diocese. Sheshan is a hilltop outside of Shanghai and is itself a citadel of paradox. In the latter part of the 19th century, Jesuits built an astronomical observatory on Sheshan to look at the heavens through the eyes of science. Adjacent to it they built the basilica, dedicated to Christ's mother, for looking at the heavens through the eyes of faith. Today, nonbelieving Chinese come on pilgrimages to the observatory, which is now a museum. Christian Chinese travel there from all parts of China to honor Mary much as Western Christian pilgrims come to Lourdes. Mother Teresa was thrilled to be there. Until the day she died, she carried with her a small statue of Our Lady of Sheshan given to her by Shanghai's bishop, Aloysius Jin Luxian.
The role of business, economics and commerce has been critical in these developments. Christians tend to forget that the flow of commerce was key to the flow of grace that converted pagan Rome. When merchants embraced Christianity, they became the "missionaries" whose work contributed to the conversion of Constantine and the rise of the Roman Catholic Church. A similar phenomenon has been central to the unfolding of the church in China. Western corporations and the Internet are replete with Judeo-Christian perspectives and values. Money does talk; and some of that talk is homiletic in substance, subtle and flawed though it may be.
My own experience is illustrative. From the early 1980's I lectured in management departments of Chinese universities. The first lectures, I was told, were being offered to help students understand Western culture, which conditions the thinking and practice of business in the United States. A senior Chinese professor suggested that I begin with explanations of American holidays. To my surprise, the students were fascinated with these American celebrations. "Tell us about Christmas and Easter," they asked, and "What about Valentine's Day?" As I responded I realized that many of our secular holidays have Christian origins. St. Patrick's Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving, for example, capture the Chinese imagination. In the paradoxical disguise of business concepts and managerial interests—and well within the strict rules about proselytizing in China—Christianity was being propagated through explanations of saints and customs!
The paradox appeared even more sharply some years later, when at universities in Shanghai and Beijing I routinely assigned the Bible in business management courses to help students fathom the Western business mind. While operating within the rules of my host country, respecting Chinese sensitivities and serving the economic interests of China, I could—in the name of commerce—let the Gospel speak for itself.
Both past and present aspects of the church in China suggest a special role for the Catholic Church there. As reconciliation between Rome and Beijing looms, a new day of grace for the universal church may be dawning on the Chinese mainland. In divine wisdom, business and commerce, as well as the Jesuits and Mother Teresa, have been key factors in this phenomenon.
We tend to overlook, however, that long before Ricci, there were others who entered China to proclaim the Gospel. One was Blessed Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan, born in 1265. He went to the distant missions of the Franciscan Order in Asia: to the Indians, the Tartars and finally to the Chinese. He established the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the city of Peking, then known as Cambalek. He brought many thousands to the Christian Faith and is rightly called "The Apostle to China." On his way back to Avignon to report to the Pope on the progress of Christianity in China he died in the friary of Udine on January 14th, 1331.
Malachy McBride, OFM Capuchin
We tend to overlook, however, that long before Ricci, there were others who entered China to proclaim the Gospel. One was Blessed Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan, born in 1265. He went to the distant missions of the Franciscan Order in Asia: to the Indians, the Tartars and finally to the Chinese. He established the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the city of Peking, then known as Cambalek. He brought many thousands to the Christian Faith and is rightly called "The Apostle to China." On his way back to Avignon to report to the Pope on the progress of Christianity in China he died in the friary of Udine on January 14th, 1331.
Malachy McBride, OFM Capuchin


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The Rock Around the Block Parade debuted at the Sesame Place theme park in 1997, replacing the "AmaZing Alphabet Parade". The parade continued to run daily at the park until October 31, 2010; it has since been replaced by the Neighborhood Street Party parade.
- All songs are sung by the Sesame Street characters and played via pre-recorded tracks. Many lyrics are changed to include references to Sesame Street characters.
- Rock Around the Clock
- Dancing in the Streets
- Let's Twist Again
- At the Hop
- Shake, Rattle and Roll
- Surfing Safari
- Surfin' USA
- Wipe Out
- Rubber Duckie
- Splish Splash
- Put Down the Duckie
- Heart of Rock n Roll is Still Beating
- Tequila (lyric changed to "Hola!")
- Get on your feet
- Conga
- Happy Birthday
Parade features
- Big Bird (the grand marshal), Cookie Monster, Telly, Elmo and Zoe lead the parade on foot.
- Jackman Wolf, serves as the parade DJ from atop a giant Jukebox float.
- A giant Elmo balloon
- A large float with Oscar popping out of his trash can
- A large Mr. Snuffleupagus balloon (the largest balloon in the parade)
- Hoots the Owl rides a float designed to look like the Birdland night club. Bert and Ernie, dressed in jazz attire (sunglasses, black shirt and berets) also ride the float, coming off to dance in the street and interact with viewers at points along the way. On days that the park has a special musical guest, such as Christy Carlson Romano, they appear on this float.
- Count von Count rides a float seated at a giant pipe organ, occasionally coming off to dance and interact with guests.
- A float with a large drum set being played (at times) by Elmo
- A large tropical bird float features Rosita and Prairie Dawn in tropical garb.
- A Birthday Cake float for the 30th Anniversary
- A large Big Bird balloon float brings up the rear, with honorary Birdketeers riding and waving to guests.
Special guests
- At a 1997 launch year event, dancers from American Bandstand appeared. Various Philadelphia and Los Angeles regulars appeared at the event.
- Christy Carlson Romano appeared in the parade in May 2007 and June 2008.
- Bob McGrath appeared in the parade in June 2007.[1]
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UB has been a local leader in tackling today's sustainability issues and sharing our knowledge.
Take Joseph Gardella, professor and Larkin chair of chemistry at UB. For nearly 20 years, Gardella has taken students in his Analytical Chemistry of Pollutants class into neighborhoods across Western New York where citizen groups are tackling environmental issues.
The students work with residents, visiting their basements, backyards and playgrounds to gather scientific data using the same analytical chemistry techniques employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"What's special about Dr. Gardella is that he's researching, publishing and working with students, but he's also adding this extra element, bringing his expertise right into the community," says Cathy Burack, associate director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), which honored Gardella with its Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach.
As director of UB's Center for Educational Collaboration, Mara Huber has worked to build a university partnership with local schools and beyond.
Huber and several UB colleagues conducted a fact-finding mission in Tanzania that has resulted in a program to improve educational and economic opportunities and health services for girls in Tanzania's remote Mara region.
For the center, it's about aligning resources with an area's needs to achieve the greatest impact. "There is absolutely no reason why we can't do great things together in terms of making a difference in a sustainable way," Huber says.
Founded in 1990 by Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, the Urban Design Project seeks to make better places and strengthen communities in a variety of ways through the study and practice of urban design. The Urban Design Project helped create the WNY Environmental Alliance and Environmental Congress, which is working toward a broad-based, comprehensive strategy and campaign to create a more environmentally sustainable Western New York.
The UB Regional Institute (UBRI) is a research and public policy division of UB that provides objective analysis to drive crucial decisions for public, private and nonprofit clients in the Buffalo Niagara region.
UBRI and what was then the Urban Design Project partnered on a $2 million U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant to develop a plan that supports affordable, economically vital and sustainable communities. The research team will develop a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development for Erie and Niagara counties, focusing on housing, food systems and climate action planning.


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Deconstructed warm taco salad (gluten, grain, dairy and nightshade free)
For the meat:
1 lb of ground antibiotic-free chicken or turkey (sub beluga lentils for a vegan option)
1 cup cooked sweet potato (sub canned pumpkin or whatever you have on hand)
2 medium carrots, grated
1/2 large sweet onion
juice of 1 lime
1 TB grapeseed oil
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground coriander
sea salt and pepper
1/2-1 cup of unsweetened milk of your choice (I used So Good unsweetened coconut milk)
For the kale:
1 bunch organic kale
1 TB grapeseed oil
sea salt and pepper to taste
all-over sprinkle of garlic powder
- Chop onion, grate carrot and saute both in the grapeseed oil over medium until the onion is translucent.
- Add the chicken/turkey, cumin, coriander, salt, pepper and lime juice. Saute the meat, breaking up the chunks until most of the pink has disappeared.
- Add the sweet potato and the milk to make it creamy.
- Cover and simmer on low until cooked (another 5-10 minutes).
- While simmering the meat, wash and chop the kale into fine pieces (postage stamp sized).
- Heat a second pan on high and add the grapeseed oil. Once the pan is hot, drop in the kale, salt, pepper and garlic powder and saute until slightly wilted. This will take mere moments (a minute or two).
- Arrange a "bed" of kale on each plate then spoon the "taco" meat on top.


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1. UMaine bounces back after a long dearth of live music, when it brings electronic music star Pretty Lights to the Alfond Arena on Friday for a night of beats and neon; there's an after party that night at Kingman's in Old Town featuring DJs Noremac Official and Skylyne. In Bangor on Friday, there's more post-Pretty Lights electronic with DJs Danny Wompz and TranceForm at Tantrum, or for those less inclined to heavy beats, there's the Moon Puppies at Nocturnem Drafthaus or there's songwriter Josh Damigo at the Big Easy. On Saturday, the Rock & Art Shop hosts the haunting folk duo Arborea at 7 p.m., while at Paddy Murphy's there's Chris Ross, at the Big Easy there's Sus4, at Nocturnem there's one of several CD release parties for soulful singer-songwriter Stesha Cano's new album, at the Next Generation Theatre in Brewer there's the freewheeling bluegrass ensemble Nevah, and up in Orono and Old Town, there's the Celtic rock sounds of St. Huckleberry at the Bear Brew, and at Kingman's there's the Blast Addicts. Wrap it all up on Sunday with the Adam Ezra Group at 4Points BBQ & Blues in Winterport.
2. Seriously, is there a prettier early fall weekend to be in Maine? I think not. On Friday, in Portland, the State Theatre hosts 90s rockers Candlebox with Hinder and Charm City Devils, while at Port City Music Hall there's Delta Rae with Jillette Johnson. Also on Friday, at the Big Easy, there's a celebration of the life of Portland musician Mike Allen, who passed away earlier this year; at Geno's, there's the Barnyard Stompers, the Aquanauts and the Watchers; and at Bayside Bowl there's Portland indie mainstays Phantom Buffalo with Dan Blakeslee. Moving onto Saturday, at the Big Easy there's Kenya Hall, Kristina Kentigian and Lady Essence as part of the Playing for Change Day festivities – and there's more Playing for Change fun at One Longfellow Square, with Anna Lombard, Pete Miller and Gunther Brown, there's hip hop with Cam Groves, Trails and Shane Reis at the Empire, and there's all ages fun with Beware of Pedestrians (pictured) at the Asylum. At Geno's there's punk rock with the Kip Brown Khronikles, Euphemia, the Gamma Goochies and Kid Sentiment, while at Mayo Street Arts there's Maine jazz with a CD release party for "The Acadia Session." On Sunday, in the afternoon at the State Theatre there's a children's show featuring Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell, while at night at the State there's roots rockers Dawes with Jonathan Rice, and at Geno's there's Upstart Fest, an all night party featuring nine fantastic Northeast rockabilly and psychobilly bands.
3. It's a great time to be a roots music fan on the Midcoast. Friday night at Billy's Tavern in Thomaston there's the gorgeous harmonies of the Ghost of Paul Revere, while on Saturday there's the Ale House String Band at Rock City Coffee in Rockland, and at the Strand Theatre, also in Rockland, there's mandolin legend Sam Bush. Meanwhile, across the bay there's the Blast Addicts at Sips in Northeast Harbor on Friday, the Junkyard Cats at the Thirsty Whale in Bar Harbor, also on Friday, and at Chummies in Ellsworth there's Oversoul on Friday and Octavia on Saturday. Finally, on Sunday acclaimed singer-songwriter Richard Buckner (pictured, above) is at the Lompoc Cafe in Bar Harbor.
4. It's Common Ground Fair weekend in Unity! The people! The food! The music! Pie cones and falafel and tacos and fried shiitake mushrooms and pumpkin milkshakes! Music from the likes of Audrey Ryan, Milk and Honey Rebellion, Meteora, the Toughcats, the Gawler Family, Putnam Smith, contra dancing and many many more! Learn about composting, or beer brewing, or solar power! Buy delicious produce and find cool handmade jewelry and handbags and clothing and all kinds of stuff! Look at all the adorable farm animals and watch the border collies wrangle the sheep! It's Friday through Sunday and it's $10, and if you've never been it's definitely a must-go.
5. The first weekend of open-to-the-public events at the Cross Insurance Center bring equal amounts of athletic prowess and entertainment. Friday and Saturday there's the Harlem Globetrotters, while on Sunday there's the first-ever local sports event at the new arena, when Bangor's own Central Maine Roller Derby takes on the Portland-based Maine Roller Derby RIP Tides at 3 p.m., and an intraleague scrimmage around 4:30. Come cheer, boo, scream or express your appreciation how you see fit for Maine's daring roller derby ladies. In between, there's a performance from When Particles Collide. Admission is $12 at the door. Support local independent sports and local music!


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Dr. Dennis Burkitt, the famous English physician, studied the differences between indigenous African bushmen and their "civilized" western counterparts. The bushmen seemed to be free of the scourges of modern life — including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.
Dr. Burkitt found that the average bushman had a daily stool weight of two pounds and the "civilized" men had a stool weight of only four ounces – that's 87.5 percent smaller!
The difference was in the amount of fiber they ate.
Today, the average American eats about 8 grams of fiber a day. But humans evolved eating 100 grams from all manner of roots, berries, leaves and plant foods. And the fiber is what helped those ancestors of ours stay healthy.
You need fiber to keep you healthy, and to provide food for the healthy bacteria that work within you to promote health.
Fiber can prevent obesity and all the chronic disease of aging. This is because fiber slows the rate at which food enters your bloodstream and increases the speed at which food exits your body through the digestive tract. That keeps your blood sugar and cholesterol in ideal balance — and quickly eliminates toxins from your gut and reduces your appetite.
Research shows that fiber can lower blood sugar as much as some diabetes medications, lower cholesterol, and promote weight loss.
One recent study showed that butyrate, made by intestinal bacteria from certain types of fiber, acts as a switching molecule that turns on an anticancer gene, and turns off colon cancer. In fact, fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of colon cancer by as much as a third and breast cancer by almost 40 percent.
It also lowers cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart disease by as much as 40 percent.
If you already have diabetes, adding fiber to your diet may even help you use less insulin. Plus, it's a great natural cure for constipation and irregularity, as we probably all know by now.
You should shoot to get 30 to 50 grams of fiber into your diet every day. The type of fiber you choose is important, too.
Most people think that bran is the best type of fiber to eat. But bran (wheat fiber) is mostly insoluble and doesn't get digested. Think of it as more of a scouring pad for your intestines.
That's good for getting you regular, but it doesn't help your health the way that soluble fiber does.
You'll find soluble fiber in fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds and most whole grains. The bacteria in your gut metabolizes the soluble fiber in these foods, and that's when the benefits start.
Soluble fiber helps lower cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin, prevent cancer, balance hormone levels, remove excess estrogen and reduce the risk of breast cancer, make vitamins and minerals, provide food for the colon cells, and more.
Glucomannan (GM) is a soluble, fermentable, and highly viscous dietary fiber that comes from the root of the elephant yam, also known as konjac (Amorphophallus konjac or Amorphophallus rivieri), native to Asia. The konjac tuber has been used for centuries as an herbal remedy and to make traditional foods such as konjac jelly, tofu, and noodles. More recently, purified konjac flour, or GM, has been used as a food stabilizer, gelling agent, and supplement.
What makes this fiber so super is the fact that it can absorb up to 50 times its weight in water, making it one of the most viscous dietary fibers known.
That means that GM can help you shed pounds. In many studies, doses of two to four grams of GM per day were well-tolerated. This amount also resulted in significant weight loss in overweight and obese individuals.
GM works by promoting a sense of fullness. Plus, it pushes more calories out through your colon, rather than letting them be absorbed. It also lowers the energy density of the food you eat. In other words, it bulks up food in your gut, creating a lower calorie content per weight of food you eat.
And since fiber has almost no calories but a lot of weight, adding it to your diet lowers the energy-to-weight ratio of the food that you eat. Studies show that the weight of food controls your appetite, so the fiber increases the food's weight WITHOUT increasing calories — a critical factor in weight control.
This powerful fiber may also control your appetite in other key ways.
For example, it sends signals to your brain that there is a lot of food in your gut and tells it to slow down on stuffing food in there.
GM also leaves your stomach and small bowel slowly because it is so viscous. By slowing the rate of food absorption from the gut to the bloodstream, GM reduces the amount of insulin produced after a meal, which also controls your appetite.
It may also increase the level of hormones in the gut (such as cholecystokinin), which is another way to control your appetite.
And finally, you lose more calories through stool because GM soaks up all those extra
GM can also help your health in other ways. In addition to weight reduction, GM has been studied for its effects on constipation, serum cholesterol, blood glucose, blood pressure, and insulin resistance syndrome.
Here are some simple suggestions for increasing fiber in your diet.
1. Get the flax. Get a coffee grinder just for flax seeds, grind 1/2 cup at a time, and keep it in a tightly sealed glass jar in the fridge or freezer. Eat 2 tablespoons of ground flax seeds a day. Sprinkle it on salads, grains, or vegetable dishes or mix it in a little unsweetened applesauce.
2. Load up on legumes. Beans beat out everything else for fiber content!
3. Bulk up on vegetables. With low levels of calories and high levels of antioxidants and protective phytochemicals, these excellent fiber sources should be heaped on your plate daily.
4. Go with the grain. Whole grains like brown rice or quinoa are rich in fiber, too.
5. Eat more fruit. Include a few servings of low-sugar fruits to your diet daily (berries are the highest in fiber and other protective phytochemicals).
6. Go nuts. Include a few handfuls of almonds, walnuts, pecans, or hazelnuts to your diet every day.
7. Start slowly. Switching abruptly to a high-fiber diet can cause gas and bloating. Increase your fiber intake slowly till you get up to 50 grams a day.
8. Consider a good fiber supplement. If you're have trouble getting your fill of fiber, choose a supplement that contains both soluble and insoluble fiber and no sweeteners or additives.
9. Choose GM. Many companies sell it in capsule form. You can take 2 to 4 capsules with a glass of water, 30 to 60 minutes before eating. Don't take any medications within 1 hour before or 2 hours after taking it because the fiber may absorb the medication.


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Uncorporate: Social worker as rapper
At 14, Rob Hull was already something of a handful. He had a very-late-night radio show on WTJU that caused so much trouble that he's not sure longtime station boss Chuck Taylor would appreciate his even mentioning it today.
"Those were really wild shows," says Hull, now 29. "I had friends get arrested on the air. Once the fire station came down."
The other remarkable thing about Hull's radio show was that it was the first in Charlottesville devoted to rap music. As a white Southern kid, Hull didn't fit the music's typical demographic, but love for rock 'n' roll runs in his blood– his dad is a former rock critic for Creem.
"I'm very opinionated about music. I grew up listening to whatever," Hull says.
Growing up as the son of a rock critic had certain perks– the mailman always brought promo records. But while his tastes ranged as far south as Ralph Stanley, Hull found himself drawn to the urban noise of hip-hop.
"I knew I was a tourist," says Hull, whose day job now is working with seriously mentally ill adults as a social worker with Region Ten. "I wasn't trying to make money out of this. I knew it was about exploring a culture, uplifting a culture. Now rap music has assimilated."
Dismayed by the "mass-production, Wal-Mart music" knocking around inside the heads of kids today, Hull undertook the missionto create a new kind of record company. He founded Rugged Soul Records with two friends in 2000.
Rugged Soul's goal is twofold. Hull's first vision is to "create music that's going to be palatable but at the same time artistic." Secondly, Hull seeks to avoid the amorality plaguing corporations by refusing to become a corporation at all.
"Eventually we could pass this label on to some kids, and hopefully they would keep it going and keep it away from corporations," Hull says.
It's a noble idea, but one that has proven difficult to realize. "We got screwed," Hull admits about an aborted deal to release a record that would have put Rugged Soul "on the map." The label has struggled ever since.
"The thing about rap music is everyone is a f***ing hustler," Hull says. "Everyone's jumping over everyone else for a penny."
All is not lost, however. As DJ Rob A, Hull has released his own hip-hop recording, collaborating with local artists like J-Gifted and DJ Faust, which has attracted some attention. "There's a couple major rappers out there I'm talking to about using my beats," he says.
Whether Rugged Soul will get back on its feet, however, remains to be seen. Hull, who says he won't leave social work even if his label becomes profitable, still believes in its goal.
"We had a different vision," he says. "Our vision was just about social reform. That's what I do every day."


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I wasn't a huge fan of the transition between cool-down guns and ammo-using guns in Mass Effect 2, but none of that matters if each copy of the game came with one of these Volpin Props-created replica rifles.
Most of this rifle was made from cheap-ish parts, which doesn't matter, since it's put together with such precision and care—then painted to look like the real thing. [Volpin Props via Nerd Approved]


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Please welcome Simply Recipes guest contributor Garrett McCord. ~Elise
Red velvet cake is classic Americana cooking with its roots in the south. Deliciously festive, rich, flavorful, red velvet is like yellow cake but with a little kiss on the cheek of chocolate.
The red color can come from beets or even strawberries but personally I unapologetically prefer red food dye and in large quantities as it does a better job of disguising the brown chocolate without altering the flavor.
Be sure to be careful when putting this recipe together as the batter can stain, so you may not want kids putting it together (better to put them on frosting duty).
Adapted into little red cupcakes and topped with a dollop of cream cheese frosting, they make for a colorful and tasty dessert for late winter picnics and are especially sweet for Valentine's Day or for the Fourth of July if adorned with some blueberries.
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
- 1 1/2 cups of sugar
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) of butter, room temperature
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 2 1/3 cups of cake flour
- 2 tablespoons of Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 cup of buttermilk*
- 1 1/2 tablespoons of red food coloring
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of distilled white vinegar
Frosting ingredients
- 1/2 cup of butter (1 stick), room temperature
- 8 oz of Philly cream cheese (1 package), room temperature
- 2 - 3 cups of powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
*You can make your own buttermilk by adding a tablespoon of distilled white vinegar to milk and letting it stand for about 10 minutes.
The cupcakes
1 Preheat the oven to 350°F. Beat the butter and sugar in an electric mixer for 3 minutes on medium speed until light and fluffy.
2 Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until each is fully incorporated. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl to ensure even mixing.
3 In a large bowl, sift together the cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl whisk together the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla extract, and red food coloring.
4 Add a fourth of the dry ingredients and mix, then add a third of the wet. Continue adding in a dry, wet, dry pattern, ending with the dry ingredients.
5 Scoop into cupcake papers, about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way full. Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Rotate the pan after the first 15 minutes of baking to ensure even baking.
6 Allow to cool for one minute in the pan then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
The Frosting
1 Beat the butter and cream cheese together, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure even mixing.
2 Add the vanilla extract and mix.
3 Add the powdered sugar, continually taste to get to desired sweetness. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes.
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In keeping with the goal of supporting clinician-scientists, and in light of the challenging funding environment, the Department of Medicine Clinician-Scientist Start-up Stipend offers a stipend to exceptional clinician-scientists in the early phases of their careers. The details of the support provided, along with eligibility criteria, are set out below. Please contact the Research Administrator at email@example.com, should you have any questions or concerns about this program.
Full-time clinical faculty members in the academic position description of clinician-scientist who are recruited to the Department of Medicine as of July 1, 2015 at the rank of assistant professor are eligible to apply. Only those recruits who are the result of an external search are eligible for Clinician-Scientist Start-up Stipend.
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Exactly What The Mets Need
So it's official now: The Wilpons have found a minority investor who is willing to fork over $200,000,000 for 49% of the Mets' franchise – but unless the terminology is deliberately misleading, no final say over a team that the majority investor just mentioned the other day was "bleeding cash" and could lose $70 million this year.
So…now the team is going to bleed some of the new investor's cash? Did $34 million of David Einhorn's still-unapproved investment just go sliding down the proverbial rat hole before they could get him his new souvenir jersey with his name on it, right above the number "49%"?
And after what was thought to be a solid if lunkheadedly-run ballclub turned out to be in economic quicksand due to its association with the supposedly fabulous investment mega-money making genius Bernie Madoff, is it smart for the Wilpons and the Mets to now get into bed with a supposedly fabulous investment mega-money making genius David Einhorn?
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Einhorn may need to win the World Series of Poker Main Event this year to save the franchise. And in this year of declining registration in said event (due to "Black Friday" on US internet poker), it still may not be enough.
He was 18th in 2006 in the largest field ever.
Oh my God…Einhorn is a man!
Isn't Einhorn just an old friend of Selig's? Selig just called an old friend so he wouldn't have to take over a second team himself.
The Mets should climb into bed with the Dodgers. Imagine the sheet music that would result from that collaboration.
Hey Shoe! Why are we still awake? Don't you have to work tomorrow? I'm pictureing Thole and Ho. Oh no.
So tired I can't spell picturing. Nite. Nite.
Question: Wilpons(i) get into bed with Einhorn(y) after they just Mets? Yes! And the baby will be named Money Being Money. ;o)
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I must finish that horrible assignment tomorrow.What I must do is to use collections.sort method for sorting the course objects by their course codes.I did everything but couldn't do.plz help me if you can sort them,or tell me how to sort.here is the corresponding part of my assignment:
4. Include 2 sorting options that user can choose: one by course code and one by lecturer name AND surname. Both options should be in ascending order and you should use Collections.sort method. ListBox and TextArea should be updated to display the courses in selected order.