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Posts for: January, 2013
Practical tips for parents looking to break sucky habits:
1. Don't Plug the Baby
Because no parent likes to hear their baby cry, it can be tempting to help, hush the baby by plugging in a pacifier, thumb or bottle. Weigh this impulse against the possible long-term difficulties and address why the baby is crying. Try the reassurance of holding the child for a period of cry time to release the day's energy and allow the child to fall asleep before encouraging the thumb, finger or pacifier.
2. Pacifier or Fingers and Thumbs
A pacifier has the major advantage that it can be gradually limited during the day, and eventually used at bedtime only. While habitual sucking on anything can create dental malformations, pacifiers may exert less pressure against the teeth than thumbs. However sucking can be more intense with a pacifier, which leads to greater potential for a dental cross bite. NEVER dip a pacifier in something sweet to encourage use; this has devastating effects on baby teeth as they come in. Speech–Language pathologist at Mercy Service Club Autism Center Laura Keehner advised parents to "choose a pacifier over a thumb and keep the habit to sleeping time and not all day long." She explained that this allows for more normal tongue and articulator movement during the waking hours, so toddlers don't "talk around" a pacifier.
3. Reducing the Habit
After age two the sucking habit is less a physical need and is more emotional. The longer the habit persists the more difficult it is to break. If your child has celebrated his second birthday, you should consider reducing pacifier use.
Start by noticing when and where the sucking is prevalent; is it with a favorite toy or blanket? You can start by limiting the 'props' during the day, keeping them only in the bedroom. Offer reassuring hugs instead of putting something in the child's mouth (including food, milk or juice). Avoid reacting strongly to these limits; rather than 'rules' use good humored, gentle reminders such as "teddy stays in your crib" or "no blankets in the kitchen."
4. Stay Positive
As soon as the child is able to engage in self-responsibility, the process of ending the finger or thumb habit can begin. Ending the habit is more of a process than an event, and it's critical that parents approach this with gentleness and kindness, or the habit may become more intense. No punishing, no negativity—only measures to reinforce and assist, so you can positively work together. The child must also be at a stage where she is psychologically equipped to want to change, and choose to participate in the process. Think of this like potty training time, when time and intent are focused on the desired outcome. Understanding the readiness of the child is the key to success with changing these habits. Discuss it, but don't make it an argument. A gentle discussion at a dental visit can help set the stage to move in the right direction.
Dr. Valerie Peckosh, a Dubuque dentist who specializes in pediatric dentistry, shared ideas that have worked well in her practice. To be successful, all of these require the commitment and willingness of the child and the patience and perseverance of the caregivers to stay with the process. Use encouragement and positive words like "this will help you remember" or "this will help remind you to choose" rather than "this will make you stop."
- Use a positive reward system. Keep a chart, decide on a gift or treat.
- A fabric style band-aid on the finger or thumb can be a helpful daytime reminder.
- Attach a sock with a few stitches to a pajama sleeve to help keep thumbs and fingers out of the mouth during sleep time.
- For known 'sucking times,' use a distraction technique to keep hands busy. For example, carry extra toys in the car to occupy the child's attention, or at home have a squeeze ball available when watching television.
Any parent will tell you that this process can wear on your patience, but in those moments, remember the peace and comfort the pacifier or thumb brought. Then look ahead to the beautiful smile your little one will shine back at you.
This blog post is continued from Sucky Habits: Part One.
The original article appeared in Parenting Today & Tomorrow magazine.
It can begin even before birth, it can give comfort and security and it can ultimately cost a lot of money to solve the problems that it can create. What is it? It is your child's thumb- or finger-sucking habit, or use of a pacifier.
But isn't the sucking impulse essential? Absolutely! Sucking is the only way an infant takes in nourishment. It is a newborn's reflexive response that seeks food, comfort, soothing and the transition from wakefulness to sleep. The big question is: How and when is it time to stop?
With ongoing sucking habits, changes in the development of the mouth and teeth can start between the ages of two and three years. The duration, intensity and frequency of the habit can increase the potential for later problems.
The longer the sucking habit persists, the stronger the sucking habit is and the more often your child uses their finger or pacifier, the higher the probability that your child will have structural orthodontic problems—a cross bite in the back teeth (where the top teeth fall inside the bottom teeth when you bite down), or an open bite (that pushes up the roof of the mouth and pushes the teeth out and forward). "Buck teeth" that stick out, or a "tongue thrust" that can lead to a lisp are also possibilities.
Dr. Chad Morarend, an orthodontist with Dubuque Orthodontic Associates, said that "prolonged sucking behaviors result in the malalignment of the teeth and underlying bones. We encourage early diagnosis and timely orthodontic intervention." He recommends early diagnosis to treat "simple orthodontic problems before they become complex and more expensive." Discussing dental development is a great reason to make that first visit to the dentist by your child's first birthday.
So what can a parent do to both use this comfort tool but also know when it's time to make some changes?
As with most things—especially in dentistry—prevention is key. Many children stop the sucking habit on their own, especially if it does not become a battle of wills between parents and child. A conversation with your dentist or physician can assist you in assessing the appropriate timing related to the emotional and physical development of your child.
Be sure to check back next week for a list of practical tips to help break these sucky habits!
This article orginally appeared in Parenting Today & Tomorrow magazine.
I love it when it is a new year! I love when the sands of time wash away the old year and we embrace the hope and promise of a new year!
For many it's a time of new beginnings and resolutions. In the past week I have noticed how many times I have said to our friends sitting in my treatment room, "That would be a great New Year's resolution!" (Bill would be the first to tell you I am great at making resolutions for others!)
One young woman, who we see each year when she returns for her holiday visit to her family, shared that since her visit last year at this time she had not missed one day of flossing!
"After years of sporadic flossing, (at best!) Sharon finally found the key to motivating me. I was concerned about some new staining between my teeth and after she worked so hard to remove it, I asked her the best way to prevent it from coming back. Regular flossing was the answer! I decided to try an experiment: floss every day for a year until my next visit and see if they noticed. I was pleased with how quickly it became a part of my routine. Now I can't think of going to bed until I have both brushed and flossed my teeth. A year later I was rewarded with no staining and my healthiest gums ever. Just ask my dentist!" ~ Jenny E.
Wow! It worked! The habit Jenny began last year had not only the cosmetic effect that was her motivation, but I immediately asked her what she had been doing differently because her gum tissue was in excellent health. Happy dance!!
This week I was reading an installment from one of our dental practice coaches, Kirk Behrendt of Act Dental Coaching, and he gave these statistics:
- 45% of people make some type of resolution
- Just 8% of people always succeed at their resolutions
- 24% of people have never achieved any type of resolution…EVER
In this month's article Kirk suggests that instead of making resolutions to instead try making commitments. He says, "Resolutions are more about the use of 'willpower' and changing the things you don't like about yourself. Commitments, on the other hand, are appointments with yourself (or others) to hold you truly accountable to a result."
I really like what Kirk has said, both for myself for this new year, and also as a way to be a 'coach' to the people that come to us for better dental health. We believe that becoming healthy is a 'process' or 'journey' - and one of our foundational practice commitments is to help people attain the level of dental health they desire. When we can share that intention together GREAT things happen! Look at Jenny – what an inspiration! In this coming year we look forward to your appointment with us so we can hear about the 'appointment you made with yourself' for your commitment to health and your intentions that have become actions! Perhaps daily flossing?
-- Sharon Kuttler, RDH


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HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A New Jersey mother is accused of running a prostitution operation in her home with help from her husband.
CBS2's Hazel Sanchez reports police said this was happening in the quiet suburb of Mount Olive in Warren County and that it's not the first time Michelle and Matthew Bishop have been in trouble with the law.
Mount Olive police said they had been investigating Michelle Bishop for several months before arresting her on Sept. 9 for selling sex services out of her family's apartment on Brock Lane.
She was charged with prostitution and released, but police said last week she was back to her old tricks.
On Friday, police got a call about a suspicious man in the Hackettstown neighborhood. Police said when an officer arrived, he saw Matthew Bishop walking around this parking lot, then trying to avoid the officer by walking into the couple's apartment.
The officer knocked on the door and found Michelle Bishop and evidence she was engaging in prostitution.
Parents in the neighborhood said they sympathize with the Bishop's two daughters who live with their parents.
"It's kind of sickening," Sergio Estrada said.
Police said the couple faces prostitution and drug possession charges. Matthew Bishop is also charged with selling drugs.
Isn't there a song about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GL9JoH4Sws

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The 4 night/5 day Camping Kruger National Park safari tour is an ideal option for travellers who want to experience the wonders of South Africa's iconic national park and its incredible animals and birds, including the famous Big 5.
Discover why the Kruger National Park is one of the most popular safari destinations in Africa. The 5-day Kruger classic camping safari offers wildlife enthusiasts the opportunity to thoroughly explore South Africa's oldest and largest national park which is renowned for its incredible biodiversity, outstanding Big 5 sightings and fascinating cultural heritage.
Guests stay in tented accommodation at Pretoriuskop Rest in the Kruger Park. A highlight of the tour is the sunset/night drive on the first night in an open safari vehicle with a professional SANParks' ranger who's allowed to take guests out into the bushveld well after the normal gate closing times.
Kruger National Park open vehicle safari tour; sunrise and sunset game drives.
Pretoriuskop Rest Camp is located in the southern section of the Kruger National Park which is renowned for its incredible biodiversity, high concentration of animals and prolific birdlife. It's surrounded by kiaat woodlands and savanna grasslands which is home to the Big 5 and an array of antelope.
Accommodation at Pretoriuskop Rest Camp ranges from budget-friendly campsites for tents and caravans and self-catering ensuite bungalows to family cottages and luxury guest houses. A recent addition is a tented campsite that is situated on the fenceline overlooking the surrounding leafy woodlands.
There is a fully-stocked convenience store at Pretoriuskop Rest Camp and a fast-food restaurant which offers tourists simple, affordable meals. Pretoriuskop Rest Camp is best known for its spectacular swimming pool that's built up against a flat granite boulder.
We depart from Johannesburg between 06h00 and 08h30 depending on collection arrangements. It's a 5-6 hour drive that takes you from the Highveld on a scenic route down the Lowveld escarpment to the main entrance to the southern section of the Kruger National Park. Stop for lunch enroute (for your own expense).
Settle into your safari tent at Pretoriuskop and freshen up. Depart for a late-afternoon game drive in a SANParks open safari vehicle with a Kruger Park ranger. They're allowed to take guests out for night drives and return to Pretoriuskop after normal gate closing times.
Please note: Children 6 years and younger are not permitted on open safari vehicles.
A 3-course al-fresco dinner under the stars served at our private camp within Pretoriuskop.
Included: Dinner
Early wake-up call because the best time to see game is as the sun is rising. There's time for tea or coffee and rusks (South African dunking biscuits) before departing for the early morning 3-4 hour game drive.
Return to Pretoriuskop late morning for Brunch and a few hours of relaxation in your bungalow or around the camp swimming pool. Depart for a late-afternoon game drive same time as the first day.
A 3-course al-fresco dinner under the stars served at our private camp within Pretoriuskop.
Included: hot beverages and rusks, light Brunch and a 3-course dinner
Wake up early for hot beverages and rusks and then depart for a sunrise game drive. Enjoy a light breakfast back at Pretoriuskop Rest Camp before packing up and departing for Johannesburg.
Arrive in Johannesburg between 17h30 and 18h00, depending on late-afternoon traffic.
Included: Hot beverages and rusks plus light breakfast
Guests are collected and dropped off at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. By special arrangement, guests can be collected from hotels or guest lodges in Johannesburg or Pretoria for an additional cost.
Collect OR Tambo: 08h00
Drop-off OR Tambo: Between 16h30 and 17h00
Guests can also be collected and dropped off at Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport on the outskirts of Nelspruit. We can accommodate alternative times and/or late arrivals for an additional cost.
Collect KMIA: between12h00 and 13h00
Drop-off KMIA: between 12h30 and 13h30
If you want to fly out of Nelspruit and not travel all the way back to Johannesburg with us, we can drop you off at the airport between 12h30 and 13h30. For transfers out of these scheduled times, consult with your booking agent. Extra charges may apply.
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If you plan to fly out of OR Tambo International Airport on the last day of the safari tour, we suggest reserving a domestic flight that departs no earlier than 19h30 and an international flight that departs no earlier than 21h00.
For overnight accommodation close to OR Tambo International Airport, we recommend Saba Lodge. The lodge is owned and operated by Moafrika Tours and complimentary transfers to/from the airport and Saba Lodge are available on request.
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Some close ups:
I adhered a strip of paper down the page and layered clusters of fussy cut flowers under the right side of it.
The tsukineko gold embossing powder and the Maggie Holmes alpha stickers were a perfect match...as were the Nuvo Crystal Drops.
I clustered more fussy cut flowers around the left side of the photo, using a lot of foam dots to create dimension.
I embellished the flower centers with black Nuvo Crystal Drops.
I love how this page came together. I adore all the fussy cut flowers...totally worth the time I spent cutting it.
Thank you for visiting my blog today...I hope that you found inspiration here♥


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I was happy to see a Beck album squirreled away here in this North Woods cabin, because it's been drawn to my attention how unfairly I treated Beck in earlier reviews (just as an aside)—as well as Jeff Beck—and I say unfairly, because I'm actually a fan of both those artists, but they are both an easy target for some cheap laughs. But I do have the highest respect for both, and neither of them can help it if they have to share a name with Glenn Beck. What is Beck's real name, by the way? Since the internet is still out, I'm going to guess: Johnny Langetree. I'm probably not far off. This 1994 album is on K Records, my favorite label of all time—and this was released around the time his first really huge record came out and made him huge—I can't remember the name of it, but Beck fans know the one. I've never heard of this one. It's what would be considered "Lo-Fi" I think, and I love the sound—a lot of it is like a guy with a guitar in a room—but some songs with additional instruments and musicians—and both approaches work here.
The front and back covers are black and white photos of Beck, looking very young, outside with bare trees in the background. On the front cover there's an underage looking blond guy, and I have no idea who he is—maybe in town for a Gus Van Sant shoot. They're standing in what could be a cemetery (which would be appropriate, given the title), in front of what could be a coffin, with what looks like a children's book sitting on it. Beck is holding a Silvertone acoustic guitar, and he's wearing a Kool-Aid scarf, which he probably didn't get paid enough to wear, and maybe didn't even make the Kool-Aid big-wigs happy, at least until his next record went gold (or was it called "Gold?")
The record starts with a traditional blues number, and for my money (which would be $0, as I didn't buy this) it is a perfectly nice cover—though if the whole record was more of the same, I wouldn't be real thrilled. I imagine there were blues snobs who took the record off after this song and never even heard the rest. Well, that's your loss, because the next song, "Sleeping Bag"—with some simple drums and slide guitar—would have made me fall in love with Beck, had I heard this back a quarter century ago. There are a couple of songs where he's joined singing by Calvin Johnson (you can't mistake his voice)—the singer for one of my favorite all-time bands, Beat Happening (and producer of this record). The song "Asshole" is another standout, not just for the why-haven't-I-written-a-song-called "Asshole" title, but for its catchiness, as well.
There's one song that kind of sounds like people doing their interpretation of early Pavement, and another song that makes me think of the Silver Jews. The album cover doesn't credit the additional musicians, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were—or later became—well known for this or that (I mean, hopefully, good things, like music!) "Girl Dreams" is another good one. And "Painted Eyelids." And the last one. Holy shit, this is a good record! And I might have missed out if I'd been able to go online and get tickets to the opera—that is, if there was opera around here, and I liked opera. Is that a Datsun, blurred in the picture on the back? Does anybody remember Datsuns?


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Two Common Types of Email Fraud
We are about to enter (arguably) the busiest season of the year: kids are going back to school and back-to-back holidays. All of us are so busy with our personal lives that some things will inevitably fall to the wayside. Your financial assets should not fall into that category.
I recently attended Schwab's Cybersecurity & Fraud Prevention conference and would like to share some information about email fraud to ensure that our clients are keeping themselves safe.
I've outlined two email tactics that fraudsters are actively using to target unsuspecting targets. 2018 has been the year of data theft. About 40-50% of all fraudulent cases involve email.
Not "fishing." Phishing is when someone sends you an email with links that say "Click Here" or "Open This." When you click on the link, malware is installed on your computer to either capture all of your keystrokes (so that the fraudster can capture the passwords to your financial accounts) or to set up an auto forward on your email account. Sometimes, the malware disappears. Meaning it infects your system and then self-uninstalls, left untraceable to the common eye.
A common example that I've seen is when a fraudster crafts an email that looks like it's coming from your banking institution. The email has all of the right logos, disclosures and may sound legitimate, but it will provide you with a direct link to login. A legitimate email from your financial institution will not send you a direct link to their login page, instead they will ask you to login without giving you a link.
Spoofing happens when someone masks the actual email sender's name with a false email address. Fraudsters will use this tactic to sometimes engage in a conversation with their target, or send them false information. One way to ensure you aren't getting "spoofed" is to toggle over the sender's name in the email and see if you recognize the email address.
One of the riskiest periods for spoofing happens when you're in the middle of a real estate sale or purchase. Whenever you receive wire instructions from the title company via email, always call the title company directly and verify the instructions before submitting the wire.
How can you prevent yourself from falling for these tactics?
1. Don't open emails from senders you don't recognize.
2. Periodically check to make sure that your emails aren't set up to auto-forward to an address you don't know.
3. Add dual factor authentication wherever possible. It is sometimes a pain to have passwords for your passwords, but personally, I'd rather deal with that than the alternative.


text: Wake-Up Muffins I first started getting my hands dirty in the kitchen when I was an eight-year-old covered in flour while making homemade pasta with my Aunt Pam. I had so much fun making it, but most of all I just adored eating that fresh and perfectly tender noodle (it also didn't hurt it was coated in alfredo sauce!). Since that moment I knew that the act of cooking food was just as important as the deep enjoyment of eating it. With a focus on healthy meals, but of course balancing that out with indulgent treats, my blog is a documentary of my culinary adventures as I both succeed- and fail miserably- in making inspirational dishes that can easily be made at home. I hope you love my creations as much as I do! 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup fine cornmeal 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1 Tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 cup coconut oil (or softened butter) 1/2 cup Greek yogurt 1/4 cup milk 1 tsp almond extract juice of one orange (about 1/4 cup) 1-2 tsp orange zest (from one orange) 1/2 cup fresh, frozen or dried cranberries 1 Tbsp grated fresh ginger 1. Preheat oven to 350ºF and spray or line a muffin pan. 2. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the coconut oil, yogurt, milk, and almond extract. Stir just until combined, then add the orange zest and juice. Stir in the grated ginger and cranberries. 3. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the tops bounce back when you press the tops lightly. Tranfer to a cooling rack until they cool completely. Makes 12 muffins. WWW.EATINEATOUT.CA 61


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In episode 213, Jack and Miles are joined by writer Amy Lam to discuss the legend Aretha Franklin, the new film Crazy Rich Asians, Jason Kessler being humiliated by his father, Alex Jones and InfoWars holding strong, how #MeToo comebacks may be here soon, heartwarming stories that are a disguise for late-stage capitalism, and more!
1. Aretha Franklin, the 'Queen of Soul,' Dies at 76
2. WATCH: Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song You Lied
3. Crazy Rich Asians isn't about money, it's about entitlement—and that's a good thing
4. The organizer of the Charlottesville rally just got humiliated by his own father
5. Bans don't seem to be lessening reach of Alex Jones, InfoWars
6. Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
7. When Is Time Really Up? #MeToo Movement Grapples With Paths to Redemption
8. Men "Brought Down" by the #MeToo Movement Are Back
9. Charlie Rose Will Reportedly Host a Show About Men Brought Down by #MeToo
10. Matt Lauer still has ties at NBC News, where colleagues believe a professional comeback is possible
11. Casey Affleck's Dark Secret: The Disturbing Allegations Against the Oscar Hopeful
12. FX boss on how Louis C.K. could return to TV
13. The Redemption Narrative in the 2017 Oscar Nominations
14. Mel Gibson has set the blueprint for a #MeToo comeback. Expect other men to follow it.
15. Where are they now? Why 'sh---- media men' keep getting second chances
16. Donating vacation time to new moms is a trendy co-worker baby shower gift
17. I'm Insanely Jealous of Sweden's Work-Family Policies. You Should Be, Too.
18. Trump's military parade is now estimated to cost $92 million – $80 million more than earlier estimate
19. WATCH: Aretha Franklin- I Never Loved A Man (Demo Version)
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van Praagh, Peggy (1910–1990)
van Praagh, Peggy (1910–1990)
British ballet dancer who was largely responsible for the development of the Australian Ballet. Name variations: Dame Margaret van Praagh; Dame Peggy van Praagh; known professionally as Peggy van Praagh, despite the penchant for adopting exotic or at least dignified names among the ballerinas of her day. Born Margaret van Praagh on September 1, 1910, in London, England; died in Melbourne, Australia, on January 15, 1990, at age 79; daughter of a family doctor; educated at the King Alfred school in Hempstead and then trained under a series of dancers and dance teachers; received her diploma from the Cecchetti Society, in 1932.
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award (1953); Royal Academy of Dancing Award (1965); Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1966); Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1966); Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1970); honorary doctorate, University of New England (1974); honorary doctorate of letters, University of New South Wales (1974); Distinguished Artist Award of the Australian Art Council (1975); honorary doctor of laws, Melbourne University (1981).
Made her debut at the London Coliseum (1929) opposite Anton Dolin in Revolution; danced for the Camargo Society (1930–33), in ballets Revolution (1929) and Adam and Eve (1932); danced with Ballet Rambert (1933–38), in ballets Mephisto Waltz (1934), Valentine's Eve (1935), Circus Wives (1935), The Planets (1937), Dark Elegies (1937), Jardin aux Lilas (1938), and Gala Performance, Soirée Musicale; was co-director of the London Ballet with Maud Lloyd (1939–40); was a teacher and dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet (1941–46), for ballets Coppélia, Les Patineurs; was producer and ballet mistress with the same company (1946–52); was associate director of the company (1952–55); was a freelance producer and television dance director (1955–62); served as director, Borovansky Ballet, Melbourne (1960); was artistic director of the Australian Ballet (1963–74, 1978–79), with Robert Helpmann from 1965; retired (1979).
Ballet dancer, teacher, and artistic director, Margaret van Praagh was born in London on September 1, 1910, the daughter of a family doctor of Dutch descent, and was educated at the King Alfred School in Hempstead. First exposed to dance when taken to a Christmas pantomime at the age of three, she began performing dance pieces for her family, relatives and guests. Encouraged by her parents, she was soon studying ballet under Aimée Phipps and Margaret Craske (1892–1990).
At the time that van Praagh began her studies, there was no native ballet in Great Britain, classical dance being regarded as a predominantly French, Italian, or Russian art. After the Russian Revolution, however, a number of ballerinas of the first rank settled abroad, including Matilda Kshesinskaia in Paris and Tamara Karsavina in London. Both began to teach. The great Anna Pavlova also settled in London, and though she was almost constantly on tour, her repeated performances in Britain made a strong impression on a generation of young girls (and not a few boys), who went on to become members of the first generation of British classical dancers.
In classical ballet, Peggy van Praagh received her main training under Margaret Craske, the leading exponent in Britain of the teachings of the Italian ballet master Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928), who had settled in London in 1918 and whose method of training for the classical ballet had a major influence on ballet in the Western world. Craske had studied directly under Cecchetti and then had danced with the brilliant and innovative Ballet Russe of Sergei Diaghilev. Van Praagh also trained later under the British dancer Lydia Sokolova (1896–1974) and the Russian émigré Vera Volkova (1904–1975), and studied mime with Tamara Karsavina and modern dance with Agnes de Mille (1905–1993).
Peggy van Praagh made her debut at the London Coliseum in 1929, in the ballet Revolution, in which she partnered Anton Dolin (1904–1983), who was one of the younger members of the Diaghilev troupe in its last years. Having made her debut, van Praagh thereupon began studying regularly with the Camargo Society under whose aegis she performed in Anthony Tudor's Adam and Eve.
The deaths of Sergei Diaghilev in 1929 and Anna Pavlova in 1931 had created a momentary crisis in the dance world of Britain, for upon the deaths of their founders, both of their companies immediately disbanded. On the other hand, these closings set free a number of important dancers who immediately began to generate creative activity on their own. The Camargo Society was an organization founded after the death of Diaghilev by Ninette de Valois , Philip Richardson and Arnold C. Haskell for the production of ballets in Britain. The Society, in which Karsavina was also active, established a school of ballet at the Sadler's Wells theater in 1931, staged ballets there and at the Old Vic (becoming known as the Wells-Vic Ballet), and encouraged such new young British choreographers as Anthony Tudor (1909–1987) and Frederick Ashton (1904–1988).
Leaving the aegis of Camargo, van Praagh then danced as a soloist with the Ballet Rambert (1933–38), founded by Marie Rambert , a dancer of Polish origin, who like Peggy van Praagh had studied with Craske, and had been teaching in London since 1913. By then, the Ballet Rambert had become a major force in the formation of British ballet. While dancing with the group, van Praagh created roles in several other ballets by Anthony Tudor, including that of Episode from His Past in Jardin aux Lilas (1936), Russian Ballerina in Gala Performance, Bolero in Soirée Musicale, and Mortal Under Mercury in The Planets. She also created both female roles in Dark Elegies (1937), works which became standards in the repertoires of British ballet companies. Her other roles included the Chatelaine-Bride in La Fete étrange and Venus in The Judgment of Paris.
Peggy van Praagh's performance in Jardin aux Lilas (also known by its English title Lilac Garden), a ritual of bereavement set to the music of Gustav Mahler's melancholy Kindertotenlieder, was particularly impressive and has been called the great breakthrough in her career as a dancer. Originally creating the role of Episode in this work, she later danced the part of the heroine Caroline. The ballet concerns a young woman, Caroline, about to be married to a man she does not love. At a party in her honor, she meets not only her former lover but also the woman (Episode) who has been the mistress of the man to whom she is about to be married. The ballet has been described as a continuous series of secret meetings, sudden interruptions and hasty partings, "the characters concealing their anguish behind a mask of upper class manners." The final irony of the ballet is that, "though all these people are well-to-do, their money and social positions actually hinder their search for personal happiness." With its heavy psychological overtones and generally dark mood, Jardin aux Lilas was considerably more weighty in theme and content than the typical stuff of ballet plots, and Peggy van Praagh triumphed in both roles that she undertook. Lilac Garden was probably the high point of her career as a dancer, and it was what brought her to the attention of everyone in the nascent British ballet world of that time.
In 1938, at age 28, van Praagh became one of the two principal dancers of Anthony Tudor's short-lived London Ballet, a position she held for two years. Tudor was arguably the first important English choreographer, and like Anton Dolin had been one of the younger members of the Diaghilev's Ballet Russe. In 1939, he left the London Ballet to go to America, and van Praagh and Maud Lloyd took over the direction of the company. Great things were expected of the London Ballet, but it lasted only until 1940. It was at this time, with the outbreak of the Second World War, that those unable to fight took it upon themselves to do whatever they could for the war effort. Van Praagh's contribution made a great impression at the time. With most of the theaters closed because of the fear of nighttime air raids, she introduced a series of afternoon performances at the Arts Theater called "Lunch-Hour Ballet," a much-appreciated booster to wartime morale.
The year after the dissolution of the London Ballet, van Praagh joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet of Ninette de Valois, later to become the Royal Ballet. Though engaged as a teacher with the company, she was soon performing as principal dancer in such roles as Swanilda in Coppéllia, Blue Girl in Les Patineurs. After the war ended in 1945, van Praagh, though only 35, retired from dancing but remained with the Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet in both a teaching and administrative capacity. Ninette de Valois, who with Lillian Baylis had founded the school that evolved into the Sadler's Wells Ballet, was a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, as well as a first-rate administrator. The skills she saw in Peggy van Praagh would lead to van Praagh being endowed with the future responsibilities that would make her name on the international ballet scene.
Immediately following the war, the Sadler's Wells Ballet was invited to establish its home at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. This created a great deal of soul searching on the part of de Valois, partly because of the obligation to serve as the ballet for the operas staged at the Sadler's Wells Theater, and partly because of the increasing sense that the company had a responsibility to tour in the provinces. The solution settled upon was the establishment of a second, smaller company, averaging 30 dancers, that would remain at Sadler's Wells as the Sadler's Wells Ballet Theater and that would undertake the chores of touring. Though de Valois held the title of general director of the new company, van Praagh served as its ballet mistress from 1946 to 1952 and then as the company's artistic director from 1952 to 1955. In these roles she busied herself with the multifarious details of managing a large company while de Valois saw to the negotiations and planning that led to the establishment of the original Sadler's Wells company as the Royal Ballet. Between 1949 and 1958, van Praagh also staged several ballets for BBC television, serving as the organization's ballet producer. As a teacher, she nurtured such dancers as Elaine Fifield, Maryon Lane and David Blair. These instructional, administrative, directorial, and production experiences were to serve van Praagh well when she transferred her activities to Australia.
For all her success with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Theater, which with great diplomacy, tact and sympathy for her dancers, she had led through its formative years, and to which she had given a stamp of true independence and individuality, van Praagh never felt truly one of the company. While most of the members of the organization, slightly more than a decade old, had been with it from its inception, she had joined it not as a beginner but as someone entering from another company outside of it. She was particularly disappointed when the directorship of its touring company, which she had expected to be offered to her, was denied, and she resigned in 1955. Van Praagh then offered her services as a freelance artist which were immediately taken up. Traveling to Canada, West Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the United States, and France, where she staged various ballets by Ashton, de Valois, and Tudor, she brought considerable international luster to the reputation of British ballet. Among her various productions in these years was The Rake's Progress for the Munich State Opera and The Sleeping Beauty for the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1956–57.
In 1957, Peggy van Praagh journeyed to Toronto, where she served as guest producer for the National Ballet of Canada. Ballet as a native art was then new to Canada, the company under the direction of Celia Franca being then only five years old. At that time there was not only no government support for the arts in Canada but there was not even a national arts council. Thus, to raise funds, the ballet was forced to compete with other dance companies, symphony orchestras, and even medical research for such private donations as might be managed, all in a country with at that time fewer than 30 million people. Despite these drawbacks, Franca had put together a company of 36 dancers, 14 of them men, and had developed both a surprisingly large and varied repertoire and an ambitious schedule of touring around the vast country. Van Praagh worked for two months with the company's summer school, teaching the students Ashton's Les Rendezvous. She was a great inspiration not only to the company but also to Franca and to those who supported her work. Following her success in Toronto, van Praagh taught briefly at the Royal Ballet School in London in 1958, and the same year she also served as guest producer for the Norsk ballet in Oslo, Norway, and directed the resident company of the Edinburgh International Ballet in a production of Ballet Premières staged for the annual Edinburgh Festival. The following year, she was in the United States serving as a guest teacher at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow summer festival, the socalled "University of the Dance," then still under the direction of the renowned Ted Shawn.
In 1960, van Praagh made her first visit to Australia as the artistic director of the Borovansky Ballet, a company founded by the Czech dancer Edouard Borovansky who had died the year before. Borovansky, who had formerly danced with Pavlova, had struggled for some time to establish a permanent ballet company and school in Melbourne, which, without government support, had been drifting toward financial ruin. The call to take over his foundering company proved to be a turning point for both van Praagh and the development of serious dance in Australia. On her opening night, she made a curtain speech pressing for national support for a native ballet. Soon after, she made a plea to the Australian government to consider the establishment of a national ballet company. Surprisingly, her proposal fell upon sympathetic ears, and two years later she immigrated to Australia permanently, returning by government invitation to become the first artistic director of the new Australian Ballet (1963), a position she held until 1974, jointly with the Australian-born dancer Robert Helpmann for the last nine years (1965–74). The Borovansky Ballet, or what remained of it, was merged with the newly founded company and a permanent ballet presence in Australia was born.
During her Australian years, van Praagh devoted herself tirelessly to sowing the seeds of the British classical ballet tradition in the then not especially promising soil of a country devoted to athletics. Upon arriving in Australia in June 1963, she embarked on a tour of the Australian provinces, visiting every state to conduct auditions for the Australian Ballet. The summer was spent in planning, the company being formed and coming together for the first time on September 3. Eight weeks were spent in rehearsals in Melbourne, which became the central base of operations for the new formation.
At its inception, the Australian Ballet consisted of 44 members: a corps de ballet of 16
women and 12 men, 12 soloists and 4 principals. Of these young people, 42 were native Australians, and two were especially imported, one, Caj Selling, as a principal dancer and the other, Karl Welander, as a senior soloist. The news of the formation of the Australian Ballet created a considerable stir both in Australia and abroad. No fewer than 11 of the dancers returned to their homeland to take part in the project and Ninette de Valois lent Ray Powell in the role of ballet-master to help van Praagh in the formation of her company, eventually extending the loan indefinitely. The remaining 31 dancers were students, some trained in the Royal Ballet School in London, some in Australian schools and some drawn from the Borovansky Company. The problems involved in developing a uniform style for a company whose members had been trained in such a variety of dance traditions were formidable but eventually were successfully overcome. The original repertory of the Australian Ballet consisted of standard classics (Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, Coppelia), revivals of British ballets (Les Rendezvous, Lady and the Fool, One in Five), and a few new works, including Melbourne Cup, choreographed by Rex Reid, Just for Fun (Ray Powell), and The Night is a Sorceress (Reid), which was actually a revival of a work earlier performed in Melbourne by the Victorian Ballet Guild. The company gave its first performance in Sydney on November 3 with Sonia Arova and the famous Danish premier danseur Erik Bruhn as guest artists, and there and in other Australian cities it had a most encouraging success.
By 1965, van Praagh felt sufficiently confident to take the Australian Ballet abroad to the International Festival of Dance in Paris, where she won a prize for her production of Giselle. Two years later, she took her company on a wider international tour, performing in London, Canada, China and elsewhere in the Far East. Everywhere, the Australian Ballet, so recently put together, was recognized as a company of international stature.
Apart from her teaching chores, van Praagh took on all of the major and ceaseless administrative burdens of running a ballet company. It was she who was responsible for the continuous efforts to raise money, lobby politicians, charm wealthy patrons, give interviews, and see to the publicity. Robert Helpmann, who had made a celebrated name for himself in London, was of inestimable service to her in this last regard simply by being the kind of attention-getting personality whose every activity caught the notice of the press. Her one regret as the increasing success of her company began to make itself felt was that she had been unable to find or develop in Australia a choreographer of the caliber of those such as John Cranko and Kenneth MacMillan, whom she had sponsored in Britain during her years with Sadler's Wells.
In 1970, van Praagh's distinctive achievement was recognized, and her career was crowned when she was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II , the female equivalent of a knighthood, one of eight ballerinas to have been so honored. The others were Adeline Genée (1878–1970), Ninette de Valois (1898–2001), Marie Rambert (1888–1982), Alicia Markova (1910—), Margot Fonteyn (1919–1991), Beryl Grey (1927—) and Merle Park (1937—). Among her other activities, Dame Peggy van Praagh was an examiner and council member of the Cecchetti Society from 1935 and taught for the council in its summer seminars in the United States. She staged Soirée Musicale for the Robert Joffrey Ballet in America, and in 1961 was a guest teacher for the Ballet International du Marquis de Cuevas, during which time she gave lessons to Rudolf Nureyev upon his defection from Soviet Union. She was the author of two books, How I Became a Dancer (1954), written for children, and The Choreographic Art (1963) with Peter Brinson, a work which had a broad influence in its field.
In her later years, Dame Peggy, who had never married, was afflicted with serious arthritis and in 1974 was forced to retire for a time because of ill health following her third hip operation. After her recovery, however, she returned to teach at the Australian Ballet School (1975–82) of which she was a council member, and returned to the Australian Ballet as artistic director for two final years (1977–79), after which she retired definitively at the age of 69. Still suffering from arthritis, van Praagh was in poor health for the last decade of her life; she died in Melbourne on January 15, 1990, at the age of 79. A handsome, dark-haired woman, gifted with a warm and vivid personality and a keen intelligence, she was noted for her theatrical flair, musical sensibility, administrative and educational skills, and great zest for life. Her death was mourned internationally, above all in Australia where it was treated in the press and other media as an event of national importance.
Dame Peggy van Praagh was a fine dancer, whose strong technique and expressive dramatic range made her especially effective in semi-character roles, but she was not a great one and in the history of British ballet she has been over-shadowed by her better-known contemporaries. She was, however, a great dance teacher and one who inspired enormous dedication in her students. One of her most significant achievements as an instructor was the manner in which she managed to reconcile the requirements of the traditional conservative ballet audience while at the same time deepening and satisfying the creative needs of a youthful and vigorous company through the undertaking of innovative and experimental ballets. A pioneer and a missionary, van Praagh devoted the last half of her professional life to sowing the seeds that would lead to the successful development of two national ballets of international stature, one in Canada and the other in Australia. To the extent that ballet has become an accepted and permanent feature of the cultural life of both of these large and increasingly important countries, she has earned her place in the history of world dance.
Andrews, Deborah, ed. The Annual of Obituary, 1990. Chicago-London, 1991.
Music Department, Free Library of Philadelphia.
Sexton, Christopher. Peggy van Praagh: A Life of Dance. South Melbourne, 1985.
Van Praagh, Peggy. How I Became a Dancer. London, 1954.
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Bland, Alexander. The Royal Ballet: The First Fifty Years. Garden City, NY, 1981.
White, Joan W., ed. Twentieth Century Dance in Britain. London, 1985.
Woodcock, Sarah C. The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet. London, 1991.
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Orchestra Fees
The following are the fees due for the 2020-21 school year. We accept checks (written to Richardson Area Orchestra Club [RAOC], cash, or credit card payments through Charms. Each student in the RHS Orchestra is responsible for the program's operation. The philosophy is that each high school student will share an equal part of the financial responsibility of funding orchestra program expenses not provided by the district. Some of these expenses include special music arrangements, contest entry fees, instruments, equipment and repair not provided by the RISD, clinician fees, food and drinks for orchestra activities, orchestra banquet expenses, rental of off-campus performance venues, scholarships, and orchestra club administrative costs such as website maintenance, postage and printing. Please refer to the RHS Handbook for a complete breakdown of fees.
RHS Orchestra Handbook 2020-21
9th Grade - $180.00
10th & 11th Grade - $155.00
12th Grade - 180.00
Add $100.00 to total amount if using a school-owned instrument
10th & 11th Grade - $155.00
12th Grade - 180.00
Add $100.00 to total amount if using a school-owned instrument
Add the RHS Orchestra to your Tom Thumb card! Turn in the Reward Card application at the courtesy counter and link your card to the RAOC account through the Good Neighbor Program. Tom Thumb will pay us a percentage of our account total, so be sure to use your card every time you shop!


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Quarry Manager - Cornwall
Sorry, applications for this position have now closed
Colas currently have an opportunity available within our Products division as a Quarry Manager based at our Carnsew Quarry in Cornwall. The quarry is sited within the Carnmenellis Granite Intrusion producing high quality coarse-grained silver-grey granite, in a full range of products to meet demand in all sectors of the construction industry. Our Ammann asphalt plant produces a full range of asphalt products for the Cornish market, has associated hot storage and the ability to incorporate recycled material.
Due to the recent news from our head office in France that Colas UK will be receiving significant investment to grow the UK business, there couldn't be a more exciting time to join us!
You will be responsible for the operational, commercial and financial management of the quarry and asphalt plant with full responsibility for the profit and loss, workforce, health and safety compliance and developing new commercial opportunities, therefore the role requires someone with a strong commercial acumen.
You will:
- Be an experienced Quarry Manager and ideally a member of the Institute of Quarrying.
- Have excellent knowledge of quarrying regulations and health and safety compliance, ideally NVQ Level 5.
- Have the ability to build strong relationships with potential customers, identifying new business opportunities with support from the sales team.
- Have a sound technical understanding of the duties you will be involved in on a daily basis within the quarry environment.
For more information or to apply, please contact Brigitte Hill on 0121 561 5561 or [email protected].


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We have just returned from another wonderful summer in Italy and instantaneously I am feeling the cold! It may still be August but judging by the current weather forecasts 'that great British summer' is long gone. So for now, sartorially, thoughts have turned to Autumn. I'm now thinking pieces that will see me through to winter.
Suede is top of my list for the new season. I fell in love with a suede trench at the beginning of summer which I wore to bits already. Sadly it's gone missing?? How can that happen – last seen in my car. I think about that coat always…Anyway, with suede in mind I'm just about giving up hope and getting something new. I would love the same but feel reluctant. As an alternative I might invest in these. Top of my lust-list. A perfect flat, for a mother, mother-to-be, or just a girl that loves a shoe.
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That is not only cool but impressive. I didn't realize how WPBeginner started. Congrats to him and all his hard work. 3 years is a good milestone for websites.
WPBeginner Turns 3
When WPBeginner was launched in 2009 by Syed Balkhi, founder of WPBeginner and owner of Awesome Motive Inc., he had no idea of the success that it would become today. WPBeginner started out as a project meant to be a site where new WordPress users can interact and help each other out. This is what Balkhi said way back then:
I want WPBeginner to be a community site where anyone can contribute, therefore I have left the option for anyone to contribute their resources. There is no possible way that I can collect all plugins, or new themes releases, therefore developers are welcome to write about their products on WPBeginner. This is advertising for them without any cost, and resourcesful information and tools are being offered to new wordpress users.
The goal of my team is to make WPBeginner a one stop shop for all WordPress users.
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Since that time, WPBeginner has been a wonderful and reliable resource for new and experienced users alike providing quality tips, tricks, hacks and other resources to the WordPress community. In the last three years, WPBeginner has received a lot of press and mentions in sites like WIRED, Mashable, Smashing Magazine, SitePoint among many others. It has also helped hundreds of thousands of WordPress users around the globe with around 80,000 subscribers who enjoy regular WordPress updates and news roundups.
The site has gone through a lot of design and content changes all in the spirit of improving and providing relevant services to its thousands of readers. Great things are also in the making. Balkhi has added more features to the site aside from its signature resources: WPBeginners BluePrint (free), Free WordPress Blog Setup, and WPBeginner Archives (library of knowledge). The new Videos Section contains 17 free tutorial videos for new WordPress users with plans of adding more videos for advanced users. A Freebie Section, a WordPress Web Hosting Guide, and a comprehensive Guides Section are all part of the new direction that WPBeginner is taking which will surely benefit not only the new WordPress user but the entire WordPress community.
WPBeginner also accepts articles on any and all tips related to WordPress. This is a great way not only for you to get exposure to a greater number of people but it also allows you to contribute and give back to the community by helping a new user just like you were enjoy and benefit from the WordPress experience. Congratulations to WPBeginner on your third year. May your tribe continue to increase.
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Monday, March 9, 2020 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Have you ever wondered what snakes eat? Snakes are carnivores and only eat other animals. They are definitely not vegetarians! Come to the Visitors Center to find out what's on the menu as you watch our resident serpents enjoy a meal.
No registration required
Fee: FREE
Location:Outdoor Discovery Center
4214 56th Street
Holland, MI 49423
Contact:Cost: Free
Event Website: Click to Visit
Organizer: Outdoor Discovery Center
Organizer Phone: (616) 393-9453
Organizer Email: [email protected]
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KTVI photographer saves accident victim
KTVI-TV St. Louis photographer Bobby Hughes and a homeless woman were
credited with quick action that saved the life of a driver trapped in a pickup
truck Wednesday night.
Hughes and Mary Whitehead, a homeless mother living in a shelter, were at the
scene of the accident before police and rescue workers to pull driver Doris
Householder from her burning vehicle, the Post-Dispatch reported.
Hughes heard the call on a police scanner that a truck had caught fire after
crashing into a utility pole.
Whitehead's car was stopped at a gas station near the accident.
The two extricated the driver from the mangled vehicle and, using roadside
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Free Event
This outdoor event takes place on the Ocean County College Mall. Free Parking is available in Lot 2. Rain Location: Grunin Center Main Stage
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About This Event
Celebrate the diversity of the Americas with the NJSO this summer. Explore the continents with concert, theater and dance music from Leonard Bernstein, José Pablo Moncayo, Astor Piazzolla, Florence Price, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. Hear hits from West Side Story and Porgy and Bess, travel to Mexico with Arturo Márquez's Conga del Fuego Nuevo and experience patriotic favorites along with Copland's classic "Hoe Down" from Rodeo.
NJSO Youth Orchestras Artistic Director José Luis Domínguez conducts the summer parks concerts, which are an annual tradition that reflects the Orchestra's commitment to bringing live symphonic music to communities throughout the state.
About the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Named "a vital, artistically significant musical organization" by The Wall Street Journal, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra embodies that vitality through its statewide presence and critically acclaimed performances, education partnerships and unparalleled access to music and the Orchestra's superb musicians.
Music Director Xian Zhang—a "dynamic podium presence" The New York Times has praised for her "technical abilities, musicianship and maturity"—continues her acclaimed leadership of the NJSO. The Orchestra presents classical, pops and family programs, as well as outdoor summer concerts and special events. Embracing its legacy as a statewide orchestra, the NJSO is the resident orchestra of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark and regularly performs at State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick, Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown and bergenPAC in Englewood. Partnerships with New Jersey arts organizations, universities and civic organizations remain a key element of the Orchestra's statewide identity.
In addition to its lauded artistic programming, the NJSO presents a suite of education and community engagement programs that promote meaningful, lifelong engagement with live music. Programs include school-time Concerts for Young People; NJSO Youth Orchestras family of student ensembles, led by José Luis Domínguez; and El Sistema-inspired NJSO CHAMPS (Character, Achievement and Music Project). NJSO musicians annually perform original chamber music programs at community events in a variety of settings statewide through the NJSO Community Partners program.
NJSO Information
Tickets are available online at njsymphony.org [Starry Nights event is Free], by phone at 1.800.ALLEGRO (255.3476) or in person. The NJSO Patron Services office is located at 60 Park Place, Suite 900, in Newark. Hours are Monday–Friday, 9 am–5 pm, and concert Saturdays, 11 am–5 pm.
For more information, visit njsymphony.org or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's programs are made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, along with many other foundations, corporations and individual donors.


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Denny and Vicki Bruns recently hosted a reception at their home in Madison for officials from the River Oaks Healthcare network of hospitals. Pictured during the presentation of a "campaign kickoff" donation on behalf of the hospitals are (l-r): Denny Bruns, CEO, River Oaks Hospital; Monica Daniels, United Way; Carole Burger, United Way; Bill Williams, CFO, HMA Division 4; Barney Daly, president of Trustmark North Metro and United Way cabinet chair; Brad Sinclair, CFO, Crossgates River Oaks Hospital; Joe Pinion, CEO, Central Mississippi Medical Center; Sherry Pitts, CEO, Woman's Hospital; Reed Hammond, assistant administrator, Crossgates River Oaks Hospital; and, Jeff Bedford, CFO, River Oaks Hospital and Woman's Hospital.
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On Jan. 3, a Texas man was arrested after police found marijuana and other drugs in his car during a traffic stop. The man tried to stop officers from approaching his vehicle by getting out and telling them he was a youth baseball coach.
According to media reports, the defendant was pulled over at approximately 6 p.m. near the intersection of East Texas Avenue and North Pearl Street for failing to have his headlights on. When the officer started walking toward the vehicle, he hopped out and said he was a Mart Youth Baseball and Softball League coach. However, the officer said he smelled marijuana and asked where it was coming from.
At that point, the defendant allegedly confessed that he had marijuana cigarette butts in the ashtray of his vehicle. He further admitted that he had four ecstasy pills in a backpack inside the vehicle. A search of the car allegedly yielded the ecstasy pills, a scale, multiple plastic baggies and a glass jar containing suspected marijuana residue. In addition, officers discovered that the defendant had an outstanding warrant for driving without a valid license in Waco, which is a Class C misdemeanor. He was arrested and charged with state felony possession of a controlled substance. He was held on a $3,000 bond. A representative with the Mart Youth Baseball and Softball League said the defendant may have been a volunteer coach for the organization in the past, but he is now banned.
Individuals charged with drug possession may wish to contact a criminal defense attorney as soon as possible. The attorney could review the arrest record and work to get the charges reduced or thrown out.
Source: Waco Tribune-Herald, "Police: Man claimed to be youth sports coach before drug arrest", Kristin Hoppa, Jan. 4, 2019


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I don't buy pumpkins anymore. We don't cook a big turkey on Thanksgiving either. There is still a tree at Christmas, but it is a very small simple tree. I think I have finally mastered downsizing the holidays. Now, if I could just figure out how to downsize everything else.
I'm going to miss those pictures of Saturn from Cassini. I wonder what the team in charge of this mission is going to do now? They spent more than a decade working together to learn about the planet and now their spacecraft is gone. I wonder if I'll see other missions on this kind of a grand scale in my lifetime? People still thought big when Cassini-Huygens was conceived in 1988. More than 5000 people worked on the project during it's lifetime. The 22 foot tall spacecraft weighed over 12,000 pounds and traveled almost 5 billion miles to take hundreds of thousands of pictures and discover 6 new moons. I wish were still doing things like this. We still could if we weren't tearing ourselves apart with hatred and bickering.
Maybe this is why I'm not all that excited about the iPhone X. We've gone from discovering the universe to discovering new ways to take a selfie. Who am I to criticize though. The folks in silicon valley who are discovering new ways to communicate with emojis are still doing more than I am. All I did today was go to the gym and use the wet/dry vacuum to suck more water from under the shower tiles.
I was looking for some alternate dog walking shoes while my boots are at the shoe repair shop. In a dusty corner of my closet, I found a pair of my Dad's boots I used to wear when it snowed. I forgot I even had these boots because it hasn't snowed much lately. What was amazing is that even though these boots were over fifty years old, they were still in better condition than most brand new shoes today. My Dad wore these shoes trapping animals in Alaska. I've worn them off and on for decades and they still look like they could last a lifetime. I know I sound like a broken record talking about shoddy, disposable products, but it's true. Nothing is built to last anymore.
I think I spotted the tip of a new nail starting to grow where Dash ripped his dewclaw out. He still doesn't want me near the area, so I try to clean the wound with saline solution while he is asleep. I'll be glad when his dewclaw has grown back. Dash is not a good patient. I still have to have him wear the cone whenever I'm not watching him closely.
My allergies didn't seem so bad today. I still used a lot of Kleenex and Visine, but it wasn't like yesterday. It's weird how the amount of pollen in the air can vary so much from day to day. I'm going to have to start checking the pollen count every morning.
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CB Averitt
Deque, Co-Lead Mentor
CB Averitt is a Principal Consultant with Deque Systems. He has been in web development for over 17 years and has experience with front-end and back-end development as well as design and user experience. He has completed hundreds of assessments and remediations in numerous technologies. He has conducted many at major accessibility conferences such as CSUN's "Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference" as well as Knowbility's "John Slatin AccessU." CB is a scuba instructor and a drummer, but not usually at the same time. CB has completed hundreds of assessments and remediations in numerous technologies such as web, PDF, and mobile. He has performed numerous presentations across the State of South Carolina. He has presented at major accessibility conferences such as CSUN's "Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference" as well as Knowbility's "John Slatin AccessU". CB has been a volunteer with The South Carolina Assistive Technology Advisory Committee (SC ATAC) for over 9 years.
Denis Boudreau
Deque, Co-Lead Mentor
A Montreal-based digital accessibility trainer and inclusive communications coach, I design strategies for inclusion and help people like you successfully integrate accessibility in their workflows.
I am the 2018-2019 Vice-President Communications of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (Montreal Chapter), the 2020 President-Elect, and a member of the Global Speakers Federation.
Having advocated social inclusion on the Web for over 18 years, I am a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in the Education and Outreach (EO) & Accessibility Guidelines (AG) working groups. I am also involved as a member of the Knowbility Experts network.
An admitted nerd with a fixation on UX and digital inclusion, I have a passion for design that emotionally resonates, is beautifully engaging, and delightfully accessible. I focus on accessibility and inclusive design for people with disabilities and aging populations.
Glenda Sims
Deque, AIR Head Judge
Glenda Sims is the Team A11Y Lead at Deque, where she shares her expertise and passion for the open web with government organizations, educational institutions, and companies ranging from small business to Fortune 50. Glenda is an adviser and co-founder of AIR-University (Accessibility Internet Rally) and John Slatin AccessU. She serves as a lead judge and trainer for Knowbility, an organization whose mission is to support the independence of people with disabilities by promoting the availability of barrier free IT. In 2018 Glenda co-authored the white paper "A11Y Wars: The Accessibility Interpretation Problem". Glenda gives back to the web by volunteering on the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group at the W3C.
Aaron Bramwell
Monkee-Boy Web Design
Aaron Bramwell is the Founder/CEO of Monkee-Boy, an award-winning digital agency known for changing the way people think about digital agencies and being the "missing link" in high-quality digital services.
For 20+ years, Monkee-Boy has helped leading organizations navigate the digital jungle to evolve online. Being on the front lines of selling, planning, designing and developing new digital experiences, the team at Monkee-Boy is on a mission to educate, champion, and create a more inclusive web, one experience at a time.
Brenda Adrian
St. Edwards University
Brenda Adrian is the Associate Director for Instructional Technology at St. Edward's University. She has volunteered for Knowbility for over 15 years. She has participated in the AIR competition on teams, as a non-profit, as an accessibility trainer and as a judge.
Lydia Harkey
Lydia Harkey serves as the IT Accessibility Director for Texas A&M Systems and several A&M System Members. Her primary role is to drive accessibility standards, policy and provide guidance to meet state and federal accessibility standards requirements. She has over 20 years of experience working in the accessibility program, web design, and development. Her recent affiliation includes member of W3C.org Education Outreach, Texas A&M Systems EIR Accessibility Workgroup, The Texas A&M University's System's Administrative Computing Council and the Universal Design for Learning/Accessibility Task Force, a sub-group of the A&M System's Council for Academic Technology and Innovative Education (CATIE). She has also presented at Accessing Higher Ground, CSUN, and A&M Technology Summit.
She has recently been selected to participate on the International Association of Accessibility Professionals Competencies Development and Review Committee, which will oversee the creation of IAAP's materials to support IAAP's Certification exams.
Ron Lucey
Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities
Ron Lucey is the Executive Director of the Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities. Mr. Lucey, previously served as the manager of the Accessibility and Web Support Unit for the Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) and has held several positions at DARS and its legacy agency, the Texas Commission for the Blind, which included the establishment of an statewide information and referral system and the creation of a blindness prevention program. He is a graduate of the University of Texas with degrees in government and communications. His perspective as a person with a vision disability has helped him effectively advocate for accessibility and the rights of Texans with disabilities.
Lucey served as an Austin city commissioner and as chair of the Austin Mayor's Committee for People with Disabilities, providing accessibility policy recommendations to the City Council and Austin's previous five mayors. His experience with the Austin Mayor's Committee gives him a focused perspective to support the mayors' and county committees through GCPD, as well as disability organizations throughout the state. Mr. Lucey comes with a wealth of knowledge on disability issues as well as effective leadership skills. In 2010, in recognition of his passion and commitment to achieving full inclusion of people with disabilities in the community, he was selected as the recipient of Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities Governor's Trophy, the highest honor awarded in our Lex Frieden Employment Awards.
Sucheta Narang
Wipro Limited
Apr 2019-present, Accessibility and Inclusive design Consultant
When we design for inclusion, we are designing for our future
selves and our ever-changing abilities. Sucheta Narang is and
Inclusive Design Consultant. She helps organizations take a broad
approach across their products, services, and workplace to ensure that
integrating accessibility and inclusive designs maximizes positive
impacts on their users, customers and employees with disabilities.
Connect, inspire, train and empower global organizations (across all
job functions) and develop a road map to include accessibility from
design stage. Ensure organizations have the right set of tools and
resources needed for inclusion and accessibility.
She partners with leaders across industry and benchmark best
practices. Ensure that organizations not only comply with
accessibility requirements, but they continue to innovate and improve
development practices across the industry, to achieve a more inclusive
and accessible world for everyone.