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Money Smart Week 2012, April 21-28, is a series of classes and activities designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. Held in coordination with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Money Smart Week brings experts to the public for great learning opportunities.
Full details about Money Smart Week events are available on the Calendar.
Except where noted, all meetings are free and held at the Fond du Lac Public Library. Most do not require registration.
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• Dollar Design Contest. Prizes awarded in two kids' age categories for creative new designs for the U.S. dollar. Official entry blanks available at the library's Children's Desk and at many area financial institutions. Entries due April 14.
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• Living for Women conference, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at UW-Fond du Lac. Features keynote address from Dannelle Gay, of Madison, How I Saved $40,000 in Less than a Year, and breakout sessions. Cost to attend: $5 in advance, $10 after April 14. Registration form available online, at the library's Help Desk and at CitizensFirst Credit Union.
• The Big Read, 1 p.m. Stories and activities for kids kindergarten through third grade. Families that register in advance will receive a free copy of the book, The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Commercials. Register at the Calendar or by calling the Children's Desk at (920) 929-7080, ext. 127.
• Penny the Pig, 2 p.m. Parents will learn how to teach their children good saving and spending habits. Children ages 3 to 10 with parent will receive a free piggy bank.
Monday, April 23:
• When I'm 65, 1 p.m. Learn about Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare Part D and Social Security.
• Job Changes and Your Retirement Assets, 1 p.m. Learn how to manage your retirement accounts in the face of a job change, with information on tax implications and alternatives.
• Cutting Back and Keeping Up, 2 p.m. How to get a handle on finances and financial stress, with tips on creating a monthly budget and getting your spending on track.
• Investing Fundamentals Everyone Should Know, 6 p.m. Discover how low expenses, tax efficiency and the proper asset allocation result in successful investing.
Tuesday, April 24:
• Long-term Care Insurance and Home Health-care Law, 9 a.m. An overview of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance and its regulatory authority, including Wisconsin Long Term Care and Home Health Care Insurance laws
• Estate Planning: Documents that Speak for You When You're Not Able, 10:30 a.m. Reasons and realities behind wills, trusts and financial and health care powers of attorney, with an explanation how they can help avoid court proceedings.
• Avoiding Identity Theft, 6 p.m. Learn more about identity theft and how to deter, detect and defend yourself against it.
• Credit Reports: Why They're Important and How to Improve Yours, 7 p.m. Learn how to improve your credit score, clean up your credit and get a free copy of your credit report.
Wednesday, April 25:
• Where Does My Money Go?, 9 a.m. Learn money management skills and receive materials to help you be in charge of your finances. Session is hands-on and interactive.
• Outlook and Opportunities, 10 a.m. Discuss current topics of concern to investors, including the slow pace of economic recovery, inflation, interest rates, rising deficits and the upcoming presidential election.
• Medicare Made Easy, noon. Learn how Medicare works, what A, B, C and D stand for and what your options are. Find out if there's extra help for lower-income or high medical expense situations.
• Do I Need Long-term Care Insurance?, 1 p.m. Answers to the questions: What is long-term care? Will it be necessary to my insurance portfolio? How much will it cost? How much do I need?
• Home Buying Basics, 6 p.m. Learn about the home-buying process and what programs are available to help homebuyers.
Thursday, April 26:
• Upcycling … From Trash to Treasure, 6 p.m. Learn about how upcycling – taking materials considered scrap and turning them into valuable media for artwork. Learn how to repurpose.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – John McCarthy and Tommy Wingels sent the San Jose Sharks into a nearly three-week Olympic break on a winning note.
McCarthy scored his first goal since 2010 and Wingels had the game-winner for the second straight night to help the Sharks beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 on Friday.
"You feel the atmosphere now," San Jose captain Joe Thornton said. "Guys are excited for the break. It's always nice to win before things like this or Christmas. The guys will enjoy the break and come back ready to work for the second half."
Patrick Marleau also scored for the Sharks, who won three of four following a three-game losing streak to reach the break in second place in the Pacific Division. Antti Niemi made 19 saves.
The Sharks will be a different team when they next play Feb. 28 in Philadelphia, with the expected return of injured players Logan Couture, Raffi Torres, Matt Nieto and Tyler Kennedy.
"We're 80 points at the Olympic break," coach Todd McLellan said. "We would have been probably pleased with that at the beginning of the season considering some of the players we lost over and throughout the year. We go into the break satisfied. Coming out of it we have work to do."
McLellan also broke Darryl Sutter's franchise record by coaching in his 435th game. He already is the franchise leader in wins with 257.
Ryan Johansen and Boone Jenner scored for the Blue Jackets, who trail Philadelphia by one point for third place in the Metropolitan Division after losing tight games on consecutive nights in San Jose and Los Angeles. Sergei Bobrovsky made 44 saves.
"Obviously, you don't want to go into a break with a loss but we have been playing great hockey the past few games," Johansen said. "The boys battled hard and we just fell a little short."
Columbus got worn down in the third against the more-rested Sharks, especially on an extended shift early in the period that led to Wingels' goal. With the Blue Jackets unable to change a tiring unit under relentless pressure from San Jose, Wingels knocked in a rebound of Jason Demers' shot for his second goal in two games to make it 3-1.
"The third goal was obviously the big one," Columbus coach Todd Richards said. "They had momentum at that point. If it's a one-shot lead, it's something we can do."
Jenner scored midway through the period on Columbus' second shot of the third when Johansen set him up following a turnover by Demers.
Columbus took advantage of a San Jose turnover to get on the board 18 seconds into the second. Thornton's clearing attempt from the corner was knocked down just inside the blue line by Johansen, who quickly flipped a wrist shot past Niemi before he could react to cut the Sharks' lead to 2-1.
Bobrovsky, starting on back-to-back nights for the first time since the opening two games of the season, fell into a 2-0 hole less than halfway through the first period.
McCarthy, who cleared waivers and was sent to the minors last week, made the most of his opportunity in his return after an injury to Nieto. McCarthy won an offensive zone faceoff against Brandon Dubinsky to start his second shift of the night and went straight toward the net.
James Sheppard came up with the loose puck and fired a shot from the faceoff circle that deflected off McCarthy's stick and past Bobrovsky for the opening goal. It was McCarthy's first since Nov. 6, 2010, against Tampa Bay, ending a drought of 73 games.
"It's been a long time and it felt really good to get one," McCarthy said.
Marleau struck less than 5 minutes later with his first goal in seven games. Bobrovsky made a sprawling save to rob Brent Burns in front, but the rebound went to Scott Hannan at the point. He fired a slap shot that Marleau deflected for his 23rd goal.
The Blue Jackets had their chances in the first period, but Johansen missed the net on an early breakaway and they failed to convert a pair of power-play chances. They also had an apparent goal waved off when Jenner knocked in a rebound with a high stick.
NOTES: Referee Mike Hasenfranz left the game with an apparent injury, and the third period was played with only one referee. … The Sharks lead the NHL with 60 goals in the first period. … Demers returned to the lineup after missing three games with a lower-body injury.

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|2009-03-07, 21:52
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character cover cd
I really like this album. My favorite song is probably "Zankoku na Tenshi no Thesis" by Hinagiku. I mean what can you go wrong with adopting from one of the best songs in the history of anime and it is sung by my favorite character, Hina.
For those of you who have no idea what am i am talking about, "Zankoku na Tenshi no Thesis" is the opening song from the anime, Evangelion.
|2009-03-07, 22:05
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It's probably Cruel Angel's Thesis just for the pure win of having Shizuka Itou cover that song as Hinagiku. That said, I enjoyed Maria's, Wataru/Saki's and Ayumu's nearly as much.
Also, like the above poster, I rather enjoyed Ryouko Shiraishi's take on the fourth ED as Hayate.
|2009-03-22, 13:22
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This is amusing. Saw the tracklist for the second season ED, and while the one we'll hear in show is Hina and the student council trio, the single will also include a version with Yukiji as the chorus and a version with Hamster as the chorus. Small changes, but ones I await hearing.
|2009-04-15, 11:30
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Alright, bit of an update on the music for S2.
Two character song CDs (both to be released 6/24) recently appeared in the listings. The first one is for Nagi and the second one is, to the surprise of no one, Hina.
Also, all the sources I've seen have been listing "Honjitsu, Mankai Watashi Iro!" as the first ending theme, which means that this season is bound to be at least two cours.
|2009-05-19, 15:42
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|2009-06-01, 18:13
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
Thanks to the website, info on the first two character songs I mentioned some posts back. Character songs 3-6 out of 8 have also been confirmed. They are, in order: Maria, Hayate, Ayumu and the student council trio of lovable idiots.
Nagi's song titles are "Straw Hat Fantasy" and "Shootin' Star".
Hina's song titles are "Do my Best!" and "I miss You".
|2009-06-10, 12:09
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Izumi is the best!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: DE, USA
Age: 28
Listening to Honjitsu, Mankai Watashi Iro with Ayumu as the chorus... I was kind of expecting Ayumu to sing a bit more.
Still good, though. Don't know if I care for the one with alcoholic Katsura singing chorus.
|2009-06-10, 12:35
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Belgium
Age: 28
Another music CD called "HINA Festival & Carnival / HINA matsuri" has been scheduled to release on the same date as Nagi and Hina's character albums. (06/24)
I suppose this means we'll get to hear some singing in episode 12 (having my hopes on cruel angel thesis).
Found the details here : http://www.hayate-music.com/hinamatsuri/
Btw, there was also an extra on the "Honjitsu, mankai watashi iro" CD.
A 1:30~ music video with only Hina scenes. Pretty cool for Hina fans ^.^
|2009-06-10, 22:38
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Izumi is the best!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: DE, USA
Age: 28
It's better than alcoholic Katsura saying something about Dom Perignon and just shouting in a weird voice, at least. >_>
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Here is a sentence from one of the standard introductory textbooks. It is not particularly difficult per se, but I am not entirely satisfied with my translation. Could someone suggest something better than my clumsy rendition?
οὔτε καλὸν οὔτ' ἀγαθὸν τὰ τῶν ἄλλων κλέπτειν. ἀδικοῦντες γὰρ οὐ τῑμῶνται ὑπὸ τῶν πολῑτῶν οὗτοι, οἳ ἂν ὑπὸ τῶν ῥητόρων κλοπῆς γράφωνται.
To steal the things of others is neither noble nor good. For when they do wrong, they are not honored by the citizens, if anyone is indicted of theft by the orators.
The second sentence is a present general conditional with a relative protasis that is preceded by the apodosis. But I can't seem to put this into a smoother translation.
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Chelsea Handler's romance with rapper 50 Cent ended after one of his former lovers made an appearance on her TV show.
The funny woman was first linked to the hip-hop star in 2010 when they were photographed enjoying a night out together, but the stars dismissed talk of a budding relationship.
Handler finally confirmed the romance last year during an interview on Piers Morgan's CNN show, but they split shortly after.
Now the comedienne has revealed the pair never spoke again after she hung up on him at work when he called to warn her she was set to chat with one of his ex-girlfriends.
She tells E! Online, "We dated for a couple months and then we had a falling out. One of his ex-girlfriends was coming onto my show.
"(He called to warn me and) I was like, at my job. It was just so juvenile, I was at work. I hung up and I've never spoken to him again. I do think he's a really nice guy and I think he's smart in a certain way."
The star admits the "In Da Club" rapper was a big hit with her superstar best pals Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
She adds, "My friends all loved him, my friends fell in love with him. They loved that I was dating him. They were like, 'Chelsea, come on.' They were both laughing really hard at it. … I mean, everyone was."


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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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It wasn't until today at lunch that I realized the 3 year "anniversary" of Kate's brush with death had come and gone. April 21, 2007.
For those not in the know, I'll do a quick recap.
Kate was born. They said she had seizures so they put her in the NICU and placed her in a phenobarbital coma for the next 6 weeks. Each time they tried to wean her, she would "seize". On more than one occasion (twice while laying on my stomach), she would "seize" and the process would start all over. Atavan, phenobarbital and all kinds of other crap.
Turns out she was twitchy. Benign Myoclonus of Infancy.
The only good that came out of that was that we couldn't have given 2 shits about her hands.
Fast forward 2.5 years and many, many hospital visits later, the doctors felt Kate was ready to get her tonsils and adenoids removed. You see, they believed that in conjunction with her Laryngeal Tracheal Malacia (in my terms, a floppy airway) her adenoids and tonsils were affecting her breathing in a negative way.
So there she went into the OR waving like a little princess on the cart. Surgery went fine and I spent the day with Kris and her. I then went home. About 4:30 that morning I got a text from Kris, Kate had crashed (lungs stopped working). I drove about 1 billion miles an hour to the hospital to find that Kate had stabilized.
Later that afternoon, Kate's heart just quit working. They revived her and got her stable again. An hour or so passed and it happened again. In a very "out-of-body" experience, we were discussing how long to keep trying to save her with the doctor.
Thankfully she eventually stabilized and 4 weeks later came home...addicted to morphine.
Within 3 months though, Kate took her first steps. She has progressed very well since that time...albeit slowly. Lately we've taken on behavioral and speech therapists who spend about 10 hours a week with Kate at our house.
The speech doctor believes Kate can read and showed Kris...so we got her an adaptive learning device which, sure enough, she knows which button is cookie (it's a word, not a picture).
She continues to inspire and amaze all those who know her. We consider ourselves very lucky Kate walked into our life.
So, here's to Kate who kicked death square in the balls!
3 comments:
- The Mop said...
GO!!! Kate
- April 22, 2010 at 9:49 PM
- Noons said...
Well done, Kate! You show them!
- April 22, 2010 at 10:07 PM
- Kris said...
I can't believe I am going to say this BUT, the day came and went and I thought naught of it until this posting 2 days later... Never thought I'd forget this date but thankfully I did after 3 years! That's my girl... Still kicking ass and taking names'
- April 23, 2010 at 4:20 AM
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After enjoying its longest tournament run in 13 years, the Florida women's basketball team has witnessed a flurry of personnel losses this offseason.
After enjoying its longest tournament run in 13 years, the Florida women's basketball team has witnessed a flurry of personnel losses this offseason.
Three Gators players have decided to leave the program, including Sydney Moss, fellow freshman guard Chandler Cooper and junior center Vicky McIntyre, UF confirmed Thursday.
"Sydney wants to be close to her mom and home. We wish her, Chandler and Vicky the best," sixth-year coach Amanda Butler said in a statement.
An All-SEC Freshman Team selection, Moss was Florida's second-leading scorer last season at 11.8 points per game and also led the Gators in assists with 143. Moss joined the Gators following a stellar prep career at Union (Ky.) Boone County, where she was named 2012 Kentucky "Miss Basketball" as a senior.
Cooper, a native of Clarksville, Tenn., played in just three games during her lone season at Florida due to a left foot injury and announced she will transfer to Lipscomb University. Her father, Al Cooper, played college basketball for the Bisons from 1986-1990.
On June 7, Cooper tweeted: "Thanks for everything UF. Not an easy decision, but the right one. Could not be more excited to start moving in the right direction! #LU."
Following her transfer from Oklahoma State in 2012, McIntyre averaged 4.8 points and 3.8 rebounds in 29 games this season with Florida before missing the team's final eight contests for personal reasons.
Neither Moss nor McIntyre has stated a possible transfer destination.
Florida finished last season with a 22-15 record, highlighted by a trip to the semifinal round of the WNIT. Moss, who played the second-most minutes of any UF player, earned a spot on the WNIT All-Tournament Team after leading the Gators in scoring (19.6 ppg) and rebounding (9.0 rpg) in five postseason games.
Prior to the untimely departures of Moss, Cooper and McIntyre, the Gators were slated to return 12 players with senior forward Jennifer George as the team's lone anticipated loss.
Heading into next season, Florida adds three newly eligible players, including McDonald's All-American signee Ronni Williams and transfers Cassie Peoples and Antoinette Bannister.


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Another View - Kevin Baine: No, the Hobby Lobby ruling won't deny anyone contraception
VIRTUALLY ALL of the criticism of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision has assumed that women who work for Hobby Lobby and other religious businesses will lose their free contraceptives. That's false. As Justice Samuel Alito explained in his opinion for the court, the effect of its ruling on these women's access to contraception is "precisely zero."
The reason is this: the regulations under the Affordable Care Act already provide that if a religiously affiliated employer has a genuine religious objection to including those services in its insurance plan, the insurer must provide them separately at no cost to the employee.
The government had limited that work-around to nonprofit organizations — such as universities and hospitals. The Supreme Court simply held that religiously oriented for-profits should get the same accommodation. In other words, when there is an alternate way of providing services to employees without forcing religiously motivated businesses to compromise their principles, the government must choose the path that is "least restrictive" of religious freedom.
The result is that the women employed by Hobby Lobby will receive reproductive care from their insurer, same as if the government had won — at no cost to them — as long as the Obama administration tweaks the existing regulation to conform to the court's ruling. Critics who say that the Hobby Lobby opinion undermines women's right to reproductive health care do not seem to have read the opinion. The right to free exercise of religion protects not only the right to believe what one chooses, but to exercise one's religion in all phases of one's life, including one's professional life. That right is protected explicitly by the first clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The right to reproductive freedom is also protected by the Constitution.
But there is no constitutional right to have the government, much less a private employer, subsidize one's reproductive choices. Here the court simply said that the government should not make a religiously motivated employer pay for services that it views as the moral equivalent of abortion — specifically, the morning-after pill and two types of intrauterine devices — if there is another way to fund those services without imposing the cost on the women employees themselves.
Of course, the significant legal issue in this case was whether for-profit businesses have rights of religious freedom at all. More precisely, as the court saw it, the question was whether individuals forfeit their right to run their businesses according to their religious principles when they choose to organize as a corporation. The court held that merchants should not have to decide between giving up their right to religious liberty and forgoing the benefits of incorporation (principally, the limitation on personal liability) that their competitors enjoy. Constitutional scholars can debate that point.
For the second time in two years, the administration staked out a strong position in opposition to a claim of religious liberty, only to be slapped down by the Supreme Court. In the 2012 Hosanna-Tabor case, the government argued that a religious school's supposedly unjust dismissal of a teacher who led students in daily prayer and taught religion classes did not implicate the free exercise of religion at all — a position that Justice Elena Kagan called "amazing" at oral argument and the court later rejected 9 to 0.
In this case, the government argued that the right to free exercise of religion was not implicated at all in a merchant's religiously motivated conduct. This time it lost that argument 5 to 2. So if one is looking for winners and losers in this case, one should count the decision as a significant victory for religious liberty, a substantial defeat for the government, and no less than a draw for women's rights.
Kevin Baine, an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C., is a former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall who has litigated cases of religious freedom for more than 30 years.


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According to their findings, while genetics and environment are major contributors to cancer risk, the simple decisions made each day often matter too. Whether you are picking up a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of suntan lotion, or your walking pace, studies show the power to influence cancer risk is in your hands.
Diet and physical activity in lung cancer risk prediction for current, former, and never smokers. Abstract no. B143
People who have quit smoking can further reduce their risk of developing lung cancer by adding lots of vegetables to their diet - as measured by eating four or more servings of salads a week - compared to people who quit but do not eat their veggies, report researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The investigators also found that physical activity like gardening reduces risk of developing the cancer in former-smokers by up to 45 percent, compared to former smokers who dont garden.
We are trying to understand what components of lifestyle can reduce lung cancer risk in people who have quit smoking - which has been a neglected field of study, said Michele Forman, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas. Although this is a very preliminary analysis, it gives us some important clues about how everyone - smokers and non-smokers alike - might be able to reduce their risk of developing lung cancer.
The research team also found that current smokers have a two-fold higher risk of developing lung cancer if they eat three servings or less of salad a week, compared to current smokers who do eat four or more salads weekly. Reduction of risk through gardening was about the same (33 percent) as seen in former smokers, they found. The investigators are also exploring the role of diet and physical activity in lung cancer risk for never-smokers.
If you are worried about lung cancer risk, this study shows that you may benefit from eating a healthy diet and being physically active, Forman said.
The data come from M. D. Andersons case control study of lung cancer, involving more than 3,800 participants. Its unique design matches lung cancer patients at M. D. Anderson with participants who are treated at a Houston HMO and divides them by smoking status. So, for example, a person who has never smoked but who developed lung cancer would be matched with a never-smoker who is cancer-free, and the same pairing process is done for former and current smokers with and without lung cancer. All participants are non-Hispanic whites.
The model has already identified a variety of epidemiologic risk factors for lung cancer due to exposure to second-hand smoke and to dust, family history of cancer, history of respiratory disease in the patient and smoking history. With those variables, the discriminatory power of the model was modest.
This study added diet and physical activity to the list of potential factors, making it the first risk prediction model to address both of these variables at the same time, Forman says. To do that, investigators asked participants about eating salad because salad is a marker for consumption of many vegetables, and polled participants about gardening activity because we found that gardening is one of the few activities that people with lung cancer report doing, she said.
According to Forman, the researchers do not know yet whether those habits of eating well and exercising are a marker for other lifestyle factors that might be even more important, such as lack of alcohol consumption. We have a lot of puzzles in the picture yet to analyze.
Gender differences in antioxidant activity, DNA damage, and vasculature in ultraviolet light exposed skin. Abstract no. B144
A novel study in mice suggests that men are more prone to developing cancer than women because of gender differences in antioxidant levels and the ability to repair DNA damage.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that when exposed to the same degree of damaging ultraviolet (UV) light, the skin of male mice suffered more genetic damage than that of female mice. As a consequence, the male mice developed more squamous cell skin cancers, and these tumors formed faster and grew more aggressively than those that developed in the skin of female mice.
These results may explain why men develop three times as many squamous cell skin cancers as women do, and may also offer a clue as to why men are more prone to cancer development in general, says Kathleen Tober, Ph.D., a research scientist in Ohio States Department of Pathology.
Men get more skin cancer than women and it has classically been thought that the reason for this is lifestyle - men spend more time outside and are less likely to use sun protection, Tober said. "Our data suggests that while that may be a factor, an even more critical reason for this difference is that female skin may be better able to combat the damaging effects of UV exposure.
Based on our data, it would be a reasonable hypothesis that one of the underlying mechanisms for this is that men might have less overall antioxidant levels and diminished DNA repair capacity, she said.
Approximately half of the 2 million-plus cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. are non-melanoma skin cancers. Squamous cell carcinoma, with 250,000 new cases annually, is the second most common cancer in the country. While it is not always a fatal cancer, it does account for about 2,000 cancer deaths a year.
For years, the projects lead researcher Tatiana Oberyszyn, Ph.D., assistant professor at Ohio States Department of Pathology has studied gender differences in non-melanoma skin cancer. She and her laboratory had initially discovered through controlled experiments that gender and its associated variables accounted for the difference between male and female rates of developing squamous cell carcinomas.
In this study, the researchers discovered that, to their surprise, male mice had less inflammation following exposure to UV light than did female mice, but they had increased oxidative DNA damage possibly due to insufficient levels of proteins that repair DNA damage.
When equally exposed to sunlight, female skin turns pink and swells up - two classic signs of a sunburn, Tober said. "Male skin doesnt have as robust of a sunburn response to UV exposure but the genetic damage that male skin incurs is actually greater than female mice.
Our data tells us that female skin has more antioxidants, compounds that scavenge DNA damaging chemicals, and potentially more mechanisms to repair DNA damage than male skin, she said. These gender differences suggest that female skin has a higher capacity for repairing sunlight induced DNA damage than does male skin. Without complete repair of this genetic damage, male skin is more prone to skin cancer than is female skin.
These findings suggest that gender may need to be considered when it comes to controlling cancer, the researchers say. Until those strategies are determined and whether you are male or female, it is best to take caution when it comes to sunlight exposure, Tober said.
Nicotine metabolism among African American and white smokers: Group and intraindividual differences in glucuronidation. Abstract no. B122
It has long been known that African-American smokers have a harder time giving up cigarettes, and now researchers from the University of Minnesota may have found a potential biochemical explanation.
Investigators discovered that African-American smokers may have significantly lower levels of an enzyme that metabolizes nicotine and nicotine by-products, compared to Caucasians who were exposed to identical nicotine patches. The findings suggest that African Americans may experience higher nicotine levels per cigarette, which would help explain why quit rates are lower among this group.
Smokers adjust their level of smoking to maintain blood levels of nicotine, which are determined in part by rates of nicotine metabolism, and while we cant say from this study that differences in metabolism definitively account for lower quit rates, it could very well have an impact, said Jeannette Zinggeler Berg, an M.D./Ph.D. student in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota.
In past studies, elevated levels of the nicotine-related molecule, cotinine, have been observed in African-American smokers compared to Caucasian smokers. Cotinine is a direct metabolite of nicotine - a product of nicotine metabolism - and so it is a marker for exposure to tobacco, Berg says. It is not carcinogenic and is not an addictive component of tobacco, but the more of it a person has in their blood, the more nicotine they have been exposed to, Berg said.
But researchers have debated whether differences in cotinine seen in African Americans is due to the common use of menthol cigarettes by the group, or to the fact that these smokers may be getting more nicotine per cigarette because they are smoking longer or inhaling more deeply.
In this study, Berg and her colleagues examined different markers of nicotine metabolism in 95 daily smokers who, during the study period, were required not to smoke and to wear a nicotine patch. They specifically looked at levels of glucuronides, which represent a pathway by which the liver metabolizes nicotine and cotinine, preparing these chemicals for urinary excretion. A low blood level of glucuronide can indicate an inefficient excretion pathway for nicotine, cotinine, and other substances such as pharmaceutical drugs, Berg says.
At the beginning of the study and after the participants started using the patch, nicotine metabolites were measured in urine samples. Both when subjects were smoking (baseline urine sample at the start of the study) or when they were on the nicotine patch, the percentage of cotinine in the glucuronide form was significantly lower among African Americans compared to Caucasian participants (at the start of the study: 66 percent versus 82 percent; on patch: 41 percent versus 62 percent). Glucuronidation of nicotine was also lower among African Americans compared to white participants on the patch (16 percent versus 30 percent).
The higher levels of free cotinine seen in past studies between race groups could be explained by lower levels of glucuronide, which helps break down cotinine, Berg said. If cotinine is a marker of nicotine in the blood, people with higher levels are more likely to have trouble giving up cigarettes.
Researchers are continuing the study by examining racial variation in two glucuronide enzymes in liver samples. The differences we have seen could be explained by a number of factors, including environmental causes, and we hope to tease these influences apart, Berg said.
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VA, GEORGIA -- Like everyone else says we were promised all these amenities water park, golf course, horse riding and all that was built was a hotel which I've never stayed there the entire time I've had this timeshare. Why would I drive 7 hours away to stay in a hotel that has nothing around it. I have been trying to figure out how to get out of this mess. Since I had it has been the biggest waste of my time. I have told my wife to let it go, to default, better that than paying for nothing that I've been paying for years now. Such a waste and no way to get out of it.
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA -- In 2007 my husband and I purchased timeshare at this location. We were sold on the ability to give it to our children and share the experience with family and friends. But after visiting this location we have definitely had a change of heart. The selling point was the water park. We have yet to see anything resembling a water park. As a matter of fact the pools, rooms, stairwells, and decks aren't well maintained. It's as if they forgot about the location's day to day management. We thought this was a great idea at the time but now we know better. How can they get away with not proving the quality services and other amenities they assured us would be available?
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA -- In or around Summer 2005, my at the time husband and I signed a contract to be members of an indoor water park. Two days following the signing, my husband got hurt and we could no longer afford it. At that point I called colonial Williamsburg to start the process of cancellation. They informed me I had to do so in writing, my first mistake being I did not send it registered mail and maintain a copy.
I kept receiving billings, in September 2006 I called to verify the account had been canceled, at that point I was informed it was indeed canceled. Several years later, much to my surprise, I was being sued... FOR $24,000.00! The original contract however was, if I remember correctly, approximately $11,000. As my ex-husband is currently slipping below the radar, I have been going at this on my own. After hiring a lawyer and losing the suite for lack of evidence of my cancellation, I expressed my grief to a personal friend who sells time shares himself. I was then informed that the ENTIRE thing had been a huge rip-off and it was supposed to be built 10 YEARS AGO!
I have since been looking into these matters myself trying to find out what exactly he meant. I PERSONALLY VISITED THE 'PROPOSED' WATER PARK'S SITE, WHICH DOES NOT CURRENTLY EXIST (WHICH THEY CAN NOT GET THE PERMIT FROM YORK COUNTRY TO BUILD) AND SPOKE WITH A REPRESENTATIVE, COME TO FIND OUT THEIR BUILDING PERMIT HAS EXPIRED AND THEY ARE USING THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY TO POSTPONE EVEN LONGER! ALL OF WHICH I HAVE TAKEN PICTURES OF DATED SEPTEMBER 17, 2010.
I have found HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of complaints, all encompassing the same things. Currently I am doing my own investigation, possibly with the assistance of an attorney soon. My goal being to get a class action suite going. Where we currently stand people is on the edge, with strength in numbers and all of your stories to send in, this could very reasonably be resolved.
Please e-mail me your stories and any contact information if you wish to join in or be of assistance. I DO CURRENTLY HAVE A LAWYER, who may be interested in taking over the class action suit, additional lawyers to be brought on if necessary.
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA -- If you're expecting to find the water park you were promised when you purchased you time share at Colonial Crossings of Williamsburg, don't look too hard. You won't find it. We bought here in 2005, took the tour, saw the giant color renditions of what the water park would look like and were told the construction that was in progress was related to the water park. It was not, they did build two new buildings with much better accommodations, but no water park.
It's the details we discovered are as much a problem as the missing water park. Units are not always clean and ready for guests, decks always need attention. We've been here every year since we bought in and not once have we had a deck that is clean. Seems like everyone spills everything on the deck, but it's never cleaned up. Last year we arrived and went to the Managers Welcome Party expecting it to be like the year before, it was not. Instead of a catered pool side party, with a band, about 30 guests were crammed into a small room off the sales lobby. They actually had punch in construction site type coolers.
But back to the details, it doesn't seem like anyone has the job of managing the day to day aspects of ensuring details are taken care of. When the pool opens each day, it's void of towels until you remind the Event Staff kid watching the pool. Same with towels in the fitness room. The stairwells in our building are filthy as are the windows you have to walk past climbing the stairs to your unit. It's in the details. I could go own, but the bottom line is that if you can get a unit for what you feel is a good price, and like coming to Williamsburg, then buy. If you're looking for the next Great Wolf Lodge, then this is not it, and may never be.
Lastly, when you get a call the week before your visit for a member update, don't go. It's a sales pitch to get you to upgrade. We went last year, were promised a dinner voucher but when we asked about the water park the sales guy knew nothing. When asked if this was a member update on the facility, he said yes. But then wanted to shift back to the sales pitch. Our time was wasted and the guy never gave us the voucher.
WILLIAMSBURGS, VIRGINIA -- I purchased a Timeshare at Colonial Crossings in Williamsburg, VA. I am not satisfied and they totally misrepresented what the timeshare was offering. We were shown the drawings for what was to come... a beautiful water park, on the wall for completion in 2011. What a great place this was going to be. I was so excited that I was going to have a lifetime of excitement for us to take our grand-kids to. I cannot logon to my account and the prices of other exchanges are higher than booking trips yourself. We now learned that there will never a water park and I am displeased to be lied to in this tough economy.
This would have been a great place being close to home and being grandfathered as an original owner, know what another scam... I am willing to join up with others to sue them to get back what we were lied to about getting. I could have brought another timeshare someplace that offers these services, even if I had to pay airfare...
My husband and I purchased a Time Share at Colonial Crossings in Williamsburg, VA several years ago. We were shown the drawings for what was to come... a beautiful water park... what a great place this was going to be for us to take the grand kids to. We pay the mortgage payment every month and the quarterly Maintenance Fees. After the expected completion date went by and heard nothing more about the water park, we drove there... nothing had been done... no ground breaking... nothing. We spoke with management and were told that with the economy, the Board of Directors didn't feel it was prudent to enter into any construction loans.
Yet, I read that this is not the real reason... that the property cannot obtain the proper approvals from the County.
The folks who created this Time Share were slick... there is no mention of the "proposed' water park in the contract... yet it's what the entire sales pitch was based on... so I was told by them that there was nothing I can do. From what I'm finding, none of the re-sale places will touch this property... If any owners want to pursue this misrepresentation of the facts, count us in. I will gladly testify to what we were told and what is the reality.
200 ENGLISH GARDEN WAY, VIRGINIA -- I was told 4 to 5 years ago that Colonial Crossings would have an inside water park by the next year and that if I bought a timeshare I could enjoy the park with friends 12 months a year. I have asked every single year since and still no water park. They have built more timeshare units, again promising the buyers the same lie about an inside water park but still have not come through.
I have complained to the BBB and Va. Consumers Affairs office and written about everyone I can but still nothing. Buyers beware, Colonial Crossings will lie and twist things around trying to get a sell. And once you buy don't think you can sell it, it doesn't work that way. You are STUCK! Colonial Crossings will do anything to get you to sign. DON'T BELIEVE THEM... THEY ARE LIARS!!!
23606, VIRGINIA -- Colonial Crossings of Williamsburg Va this place is fake as it could get I mean they promise a waterpark were's it at? They promise all these things to do and its nothing but a scam you pay all this money out for the place for what a swimming pool and a room I'm mean if I wanted that I would stay at a nice hotel with the same thing a pool and a room. Also you pay for a maintenance fee when the place is still dirty.
So why pay for any of this its not what they said it was going to be as much as I spend on this scam I could stay at a nice hotel every other month or go on a vocation some were nice for the money that I spend there. If anyone reads this I highly tell you please don't get involved with this scam its not what they say it is.
WILLLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA -- I own one timeshare in Williamsburg w/ RCI reservation. Have many weeks, can go hundreds of places in US & overseas but usually can't get "the good places" even after years on a list. BUT a new timeshare came to Williamsburg, VA in 2005, Colonial Crossings, PUSHING AN INDOOR WATERPARK outside LAZYRIVER, HORSEBACK RIDING, etc. WE COULD NOT GO THERE WITH OUR OTHER TIMESHARE BECAUSE THIS COMPANY ONLY USED INTERVAL RESERVATION SYSTEM, NOT RCI.
So we bought because my precious grandson was only 1 and wanted it FOR HIM. (Otherwise, we had gone to Williamsburg our whole life, and would never have visited our timeshare there). GUESS WHAT, THEY VERY CAREFULLY DID NOT MENTION ANYWHERE IN OUR CONTRACT ANYTHING ABOUT THE ABOVE AMENITIES. It's 2009 and STILL NOTHING! I did get one letter about "water problems". I've been told I can't file a suit because it's past the statute of limitation!
I still owe thousands and this will ruin my credit because I REFUSE TO PAY ANY LONGER! What's there now? The original old buildings, which smell musty and something is wrong with the air/heat/ventilation and a small new section with NO FURNITURE YET. My friends visited and LEFT AFTER ONE HOUR~! I need help?
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA -- I really wish would have read this before I bought in because we took the ride for the water park as well. I did not know about the horses but the pond was also mentioned. The guy that set up our contract was supposed to be the owner's son. I emailed him recently only to find out he was no longer with Colonial Crossing or in the state of VA. They also had us to purchase this quality time program in that you pay 149 a year from and you get to use other vacation spots and you can only book for a week at at time and even with the points you have, it will still cost you 600-800 a week.
Oh, and if you can't go the old week guess what, YOU LOSE OUT. Now we have gotten two months behind in our payments and Resort Funding who was aware we filed bankruptcy are using all kind of threatening tactics to collect, and I have been paying them just not what they want. I really wish I would have read this first.


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I present all three workshops at my library branch every year, and have been getting between 8 and 18 attendees each time. I realized right away that parents were coming to more than one, either because they had children in more than one age group or because their child "graduated" to the next age group between sessions.
I wanted to make sure that there was as little overlap of content for these parents as possible, so I sat down with all 3 scripts, my list of anecdotes and quotations, the suggestions for activities to do with the kids, the books I like to use as examples, and so forth, and sorted them all out into 3 distinct piles. Now I know when I'm giving a talk that although we go over the 6 skills each time, the parents are getting fresh information each time.--Melissa Depper 14:05, 22 January 2007 (CST)
At first we tried doing the workshops for parents in the library and got little response. However, we got the workshop scripts approved for child care training credit (by the State of Maryland) and publicized it in the Child Care Newsletter our workshops were full and very well received. Many child care providers who were not coming to the library came for this training because it was FREE and nearby. --Sghoting 13:07, 13 December 2006 (CST)


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Finding Percent of a Number with Diagrams
Lesson 5 of 8
Objective: SWBAT find percent of a number by drawing a double line diagram.
Think About It
As today's class begins, students work independently on the Think About It problem. I expect that students will be able to create a double number line and figure out how many chocolate bars Nathaniel ate, based on our work in the previous lesson.
After 3 minutes of work time, I have a student share his/her work on the document camera. As a class, we check to be sure that the model:
- has units labeled for each number line
- shows the 0 candy bars/0% relationship
- shows the 40 candy bars/100% relationship
- has evenly spaced hatch marks
- has partitioned the percents by multiples of 25%
- has correctly partitioned the candy bar numbers
- has answered the question
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Intro to New Material
This lesson is an extension of the previous lesson. Students will use double number lines to find the percent of a number.
In this lesson, students will need to partition their number lines using 10%, 20%, or 25% and will then need to use the number line to find a percentage that is a multiple of the benchmark percent (40% or 75%, for example).
In the Intro to New Material section, we walk through two examples as a class. My focus here is two-fold:
- to give students the opportunity to practice using double number lines with percents with immediate feedback from me
- to have a whole-class conversation about which percentages to pick when partitioning the bottom number line
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Partner Practice
Students work in pairs on the Partner Practice problem set. As they work, I circulate around the classroom. I am looking for:
- Are students explaining their thinking to their partner?
- Are students showing all of the appropriate work in the work space?
- Are students working systematically/ designing accurate diagrams?
- Are students using benchmark percents effectively to determine the value of the part?
I am asking:
- How did you create your double number line?
- How did you determine the value of the part?
- How do you know that your answer makes sense?
- Ask clarifying questions if there are disparities between both number lines; check to see if computation is performed correctly.
After 10 minutes of work time, we come back together as a class to discuss the first problem in this section. First, I ask students how they chose to partition the number line. Some students will have chosen to use multiples of 10, while others will have used multiples of 20. I want students to see that either choice leads them to the correct answer.
Students then work on the Check for Understanding independently. After 2 minutes of work time, students turn and compare answers with their partners.
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Independent Practice
For Independent Practice, I ask my students to work on the problem set. A sample of student work is included, to give you an idea of what my students work will look like. Hear and see me complete a problem from the Independent Practice problem set here.
As my students are working, I am making sure that their models have all of the components listed in the Think About It section of this lesson.
There is a challenge question at the end of Independent Practice which can be used as enrichment for higher-level students. It can also be used whole-class, to build problem-solving strategies and perseverance will all students.
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Closing and Exit Ticket
After independent work time, I bring the class together for a discussion about Problem 3. I like Problem 3 because it requires students to analyze someone else's response. Students need to not only compare their answer with Keith's, but then also supply a strong written response for why Keith is incorrect.
Students then work on the Exit Ticket to close the lesson. An exit ticket sample is included here.


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Every time I really start to believe we've finally reached the tipping point for widespread adoption of renewable energy resources in this country, something happens to bring this intriguing market segment back in check. This time, the stagnant global economy is to blame.
Since the beginning of the year, you wouldn't believe how many renewable energy-related press releases, market reports, and new product announcements have crossed my desk. The Department of Energy (DOE) seems to issue a renewable energy press announcement on a daily basis. Solar manufacturers and research firms unveil new technology breakthroughs almost as often. And the wind power industry has made significant strides recently, accounting for 40% of the nation's new generating capacity in 2008. The sheer volume of news in this arena gives me hope that we, as a country, have finally accepted the fact that we must become smarter with the way in which we produce energy. But this lingering recession is taking its toll on this niche and dashing my hopes again. Following are just a few examples of the obstacles and opportunities that lie ahead.
Highlights from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) semi-annual "Consensus Construction Forecast" reveal that nonresidential construction spending will decrease by 16% in 2009 and another 12% in 2010. Couple this with the still stagnant residential market, and you can see there won't be much capacity growth to worry about in the short term. But despite the consistently poor construction outlook across the board, renewable energy players continue to push for change and rely on government assistance to keep projects moving.
On July 9, the Department of Treasury and the DOE announced that an estimated $3 billion will be made available for the development of renewable energy projects. This stimulus money will provide direct payments in lieu of tax credits. As you might expect, the announcement was well received by both the solar and wind industries.
"Financing for commercial solar installations, including utility-scale solar plants, has been impaired by great uncertainty in financial markets and anticipation of stimulus provisions like the grant program," says Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) in a recent SEIA press release. "Once [the Department of] Treasury begins accepting grant applications, the solar industry will create tens of thousands of jobs and spur investment in the clean energy economy."
Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), shares a similar view. "We believe these grants will help get our companies back on track, create more jobs, and balance our electricity portfolio with clean, renewable energy," she says. "The implementation of this program will be a welcome boost, just when we all need it."
When I read about these new developments, I admit I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I think enough is enough. The country is already in serious debt, having topped the $1 trillion mark for the first time in history. Our government cannot continue to fund every program under the sun and escape runaway inflation on the other side. On the other hand, I don't want to see all of the progress made in the renewable arena come to a screeching halt.
Because I, like many Americans, view our natural and renewable energy resources much differently today than in the past, I find myself in somewhat of a renewable energy conundrum. Do I continue to support government assistance or rally against it? At this point, I'm still sitting on the fence. Maybe your thoughts on the situation can help sway me one way or another. Shoot me an e-mail and give me your best shot. I'm always willing to listen.


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Nancy Gara to be feted at "Sing Sisters Sing Women's Health Celebration"
The Auxiliary of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center will hold its second annual "Sing Sisters Sing Celebrate Women's Health" fundraising event on Wednesday, Sept. 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute in downtown Niagara Falls.
The event raises funds for women's health services at the hospital and its satellite facilities across Niagara County. Proceeds from last year's inaugural "Sing" supported the purchase of infant monitors for the hospital's expanded women's health OB/GYN unit.
The 2013 event will honor the late Nancy Gara, NFMMC director and member of the foundation board of directors. Gara was chairwoman of the "Sing Sisters Sing" event until her untimely death in May. She was a fierce advocate for women's health issues, and served as the "voice for those who had no voice," at the hospital for many years, said NFMMC President and CEO Joseph A. Ruffolo.
Gara was a 40-year veteran of the Niagara Frontier banking industry. Hired by Marine Midland Bank as a part-time teller in 1970, Gara rose through the ranks to become first vice president and branch manager of HSBC Center branch in Buffalo. She oversaw all retail and community activities for the former Marine Midland Bank and HSBC while managing the head offices in Niagara Falls and Buffalo. She was the officer-in-charge of closing the HSBC Center head office and safe depository upon the bank's branch network sale to First Niagara. At the time of her death, Gara was vice president and manager of First Niagara's Power City branch in Niagara Falls.
The "Sing Sisters Sing" event will include entertainment by Buffalo's Theresa Quinn Trio, a wine pull and basket raffle, and complimentary hors d'oeuvres. Presenting sponsor for the event is Susan B. Schoellkopf and family. Wine pull sponsor is Women's Medicine of Niagara. Sponsors include B&W Heat Treating Co., Samual J. Civiletto, Esq., Evergreen Floral, First Niagara Bank, Helen Lenahan, Niagara County Community College, Niagara Family Medicine Associates, Niagara Gazette, Pine Pharmacy, Rich Entertainment Group, and Sparkle Marketing & Events.
Further information can be obtained at the hospital's website, www.nfmmc.org. Tickets, at $40, can be purchased by calling Patty Berggren at 716-545-7012 or Judi Nolan Powell at 716-525-7625.


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All spring, summer, and early fall, Erik Jacobs will send occasional reports and photographs from his apprenticeship at The Farm School. This is his third in the series. To see his weekly photo updates, go to www.ploughandstarsproject.com
ORANGE — We forgot to put the sheep in the barn overnight and the gentle morning storm soaked through the coats of our 10 Border Leicesters. Normally rain is no big deal, but today it makes things difficult. Lambing season is on the way and we need to get the ewes out of their year-old fleece, but the March chill has hardened their lanolin-coated wool into a knotty, stiff mass. I flip number 35 onto her back and attempt to steady her wriggling body with one hand. With the other trembling hand, I reach across her pregnant belly, threading razor-sharp shears along her flesh and gingerly begin snipping.
"Shearing sheep is an awful lot like wrestling," explains Fred DePaul, an expert shearer from Plymouth, Vt., and our teacher for the day. "Except in shearing you get a fresh opponent each round."
DePaul has been shearing for 50 years — a number of wrestling matches I can hardly fathom as I strain to turn my first opponent on her side.
Before DePaul's arrival, rumors were circulating that one of last year's students took so long to shear his sheep it just plain passed out. "I love the students here," DePaul said, with an encouraging smile. "No one ever gives up."
Guess I'm finishing this one, I thought, daunted by the sweat and stiffness already plaguing my back.
As a student at The Farm School, I've been working out of this barn for six months now, forgoing my stable city life to train for a dream I was no longer willing to defer. We started by hauling in the end of last year's harvest and now we are getting set to plant out our own.
Just outside the barn, our farmhouse stands as a weather-beaten outpost in an ocean of mud and snow. But signs are stirring that the mucky tide will soon recede. Metal buckets decorate the base of sugar maples, overflowing with sap that we boil down until it becomes syrup. We've retired the temperamental wood-fired boiler for the year. And in our greenhouse, a 30-by-72-foot bubble of summer, leek and scallion seeds are already touching dirt and sending up curious green shoots.
That first sprout marks Point Zero in the circular calendar of life on the farm. Over the last six months, we've prepared for this moment with classes in botany, crop planning, and soil science. And over the next six months our lives will be ruled by the whimsies of the five acres of vegetables we first unleash from the unassuming little cardboard boxes that arrive regularly on our doorstep.
As seeds, our crops are at their maximum genetic potential, but inclement weather, pests, disease, and weeds degrade their latent bounty. Our job as farmers is to mitigate those threats and then stand back to let the plants do the rest. It sounds simple, but complexity is already starting to reveal itself: $7,000 in potential produce went to the compost pile this week because half our onions failed to germinate.
In our kitchen, where all of our produce for the year comes from our fields and our labor, fresh vegetables can't come soon enough. We've steadily eaten through our winter stockpile of canned tomatoes and frozen chard. What remains in our root cellar are runty, rubbery potatoes and sprouted onions. Fellow farmers Kim Rich and Anne Cavanaugh managed to wrestle a surprise hit lunch of butternut squash falafel out of the slim pickings, but I'm less of a chef and I dread repeating last year's notorious tuna pumpkin casserole the next time I'm on lunch duty.
Sunbeams burst through our dusty windows a bit earlier and linger longer these days, stretching our working hours: out by 7 a.m. and in by 6 p.m. Once lambing rotations start in April, this schedule will seem downright leisurely. We'll work in teams to check on laboring ewes every two hours, day and night, and do our best to assist if things get complicated — a task certain to put the awkwardness of shearing in perspective.
A few short weeks later, after the last lamb lies wriggling on the hay, our own baby will follow — hopefully not onto the hay. (I am married to Boston Globe photographer Dina Rudick.) Taken all at once, the impending tsunami of work and sleep deprivation makes me pant a little. But this is what I signed up for: A farm. A baby. A farm and all of its babies.
And that, I expect, is what will really take my breath away.Erik Jacobs can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.