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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Bruce M. Challinor,
v. Docket No. CR-08-402
Teachers' Retirement System,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Robert H. Minasian, Esquire
Cynthia J. Aziz, Esquire
Minasian and Aziz
127 So. Broadway, P.O. Box 346
Lawrence, MA 01843
Appearance for Respondent:
Robert G. Fabino, Esquire
Associate General Counsel
Teachers' Retirement Board
One Charles Park
Cambridge, MA 02142-1206
Administrative Magistrate:
Judithann Burke
Petitioner who wished to purchase his prior vocational service failed to rebut the presumption that the Invoice and accompanying letter were sent to him in February 2007. He is no longer able to purchase that service.
Pursuant to G.L. c. 32 s. 16(4), the Petitioner, Bruce M. Challinor, is appealing from the May 29, 2008 decision of the Respondent, Teachers' Retirement System (TRS),denying his request to purchase vocational service pursuant to G.L. c. 32 s. 4(1)(h ½). (Exhibit 3). The appeal was timely filed. (Exhibit 4). A hearing was held on September 4, 2008 at the offices of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (DALA), 98 North Washington Street, Boston, MA.
At the hearing, fourteen (14) exhibits were marked. The Petitioner testified in his own behalf. The Petitioner also presented the testimony of his wife, Susan Lang. The Respondent presented the testimony of Adam Travinski, TRS Senior Service Representative. Both parties stated their arguments for the record. The proceedings were stenographically recorded. No audiotapes were made. The transcript was received at DALA on October 1, 2008 thereby closing the record.
Based upon the testimony and documents submitted at the hearing in the above-entitled matter, I hereby render the following findings of fact:
1. The Petitioner, Bruce M. Challinor, d.o.b. 09-15-1951, was first enrolled in the TRS on September 1, 1978 and he has been a member since that time.
2. On March 8, 2006, the Petitioner, a teacher of culinary arts and a pastry chef, applied to the TRS to purchase his prior vocational work experience in accordance with G.L. c. 32 s. 4(1)(h ½). (Exhibit 1).
3 On February 13, 2007, the TRS notified the Petitioner that that he was eligible to purchase three years of credit for his prior vocational work experience and that it had enclosed an invoice, both via regular mail. (Exhibits 8 and 9).
4. In February 2007, the Petitioner was out of work on disability. He had undergone numerous surgeries for cancer. He was taking the prescription medication Percocet during February 2007. He was receiving a large amount of mail at his home during February 2007. (Testimony and Exhibit 4).
5. The Invoice that was sent to the Petitioner in February 2007 instructed the Petitioner that he had "180 days from the mailing date of the invoice in which to act". The Petitioner was further advised that he had to (1) purchase said service in a lump sum within 180 days of notice, or (2) to enter into an installment agreement, by August 12, 2007 (180 days from the invoice mailing date). (Exhibit 8).
6. The Petitioner neither purchased his vocational service in a lump sum nor entered into an installment agreement with the TRB on or before August 12, 2007.
7. On May 22, 2008, the TRB received the Petitioner's second application to purchase his vocational service. He indicated that he intended to retire on September 16, 2008. (Exhibit 2).
8. On May 29, 2008, the Petitioner's request to purchase his vocational service was denied because he had failed to purchase this service or enter into an installment agreement on or before August 12, 2007. (Exhibit 3).
The Petitioner is not entitled to prevail in this appeal. He has failed to meet his burden of proving that the TRB has applied the statute or regulations incorrectly in his case. He has also failed to rebut the presumption that the Invoice to purchase his vocational service and the accompanying letter were mailed to him in February 2007.
In his July 2008 letter of appeal, the Petitioner reported that he was taking medication and was in poor health in February 2007. He had a lot of mail related to his medical treatment and disability leave coming to his house during that period. He reported in one of his phone conversations with TRB staff that he wasn't paying too much attention to time requirements in February 2007 when he had much more to think about concerning his health. It is reasonably inferred, notwithstanding the recent contentions of the Petitioner and his wife, that the invoice was received and tossed aside or inadvertently thrown out during February 2007 when the Petitioner was otherwise physically and mentally preoccupied.
Unfortunately, the statute does not provide for any exceptions due to life's unforeseen circumstances. G.L. c. 32 s. 4(1)(h ½) provides:
Any member in service of the teachers' retirement system …who is or was employed as a teacher defined by section 1 in a vocational technical school or in a public school's vocational technical program approved by the department of education under chapter 74 may receive creditable service for any period or periods of prior work experience in the occupational field in which the member became a vocational- technical teacher…No credit shall be allowed until the member has paid into the Annuity Savings Fund of the system before any retirement allowance becomes effective for the member, in 1 sum, or in installments, upon the terms and conditions that the board prescribes…Members in service of a retirement system who make application for this creditable service shall be notified by the retirement board of their eligibility for such creditable service, and, if they are eligible, shall also be notified by the retirement board that they have the following options: (1) purchase said service in a lump sum within 180 days of notice, or (2) to enter into an installment agreement within 180 days of the notice to pay service. (Emphasis added).
Because the Petitioner failed to pay for the service in a lump sum or enter into an installment agreement before August 12, 2007, he is no longer entitled to purchase that service.
Accordingly, the decision of the TRB is affirmed.
So ordered.
Division of Administrative Law Appeals,
Judithann Burke,
Administrative Magistrate
DATED: July 24, 2009


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No exotic dancing license for Gilford clubBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
October 10. 2013 9:15PM
GILFORD — Selectmen gave unanimous approval to the owners of the Lakes Region Cafe and Tavern for a new entertainment license Wednesday night, minus the request for exotic dancers, in part because the town says the owners haven't guaranteed potential dancers' safety.
The club featured female exotic dancers until October of 2011, when police raided the club and arrested several dancers on drug charges. The club was called Mardi Gras North Cabaret at the time.
At a state liquor commission hearing in the spring of 2012, it was revealed that during a private dance at the club, one dancer said a customer "bit her on the breast," according to Town Administrator Scott Dunn.
"Because of that, if the license were approved (by the selectmen), we want to ensure the safety of dancers," Dunn said.
The club's owners, Willard Drew and Tom Lyons, were represented at Wednesday night's meeting by their attorney, David Bownes. They were asking for a new entertainment license that would allow exotic dancing and other adult events such as "wet T-shirt" and "hot legs" contests at their club.
The club lost its license with the town and its state liquor license following the October 2011 drug dealing arrests of several dancers at the club.
In the summer of 2012, Drew asked for a renewal of his entertainment license to include exotic dancing, but two selectmen — Kevin Haves and John O'Brien — voted against it, with one selectman — Gus Benevides — voting to allow it.On Wednesday night, the selectmen approved the entire entertainment license — minus exotic dancers. Dunn said the club owners are expecting to regain the club's liquor license in coming weeks.
Dunn said the town has not received adequate answers to questions pertaining to dancer safety, as well as how the owners will prevent drug sales from occurring at the club in the future, and how it will prevent other issues relating to a case of alleged improper liquor sales.
Bownes said Thursday he plans to answer the questions, though he said he has already answered them in the past.
"We plan to run a clean, safe, business," Bownes said.

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The Secretary, his agents, employees, and contractors shall have the right to enter upon any land where the emergency exists and any other land to have access to the land where the emergency exists to restore, reclaim, abate, control, or prevent the adverse effects of coal mining practices and to do all things necessary or expedient to protect the public health, safety, or general welfare. Such entry shall be construed as an exercise of the police power and shall not be construed as an act of condemnation of property nor of trespass thereof. The moneys expended for such work and the benefits accruing to any such premises so entered upon shall be chargeable against such land and shall mitigate or offset any claim in or any action brought by any owner of any interest in such premises for any alleged damages by virtue of such entry: Provided, however, That this provision is not intended to create new rights of action or eliminate existing immunities.
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Brothers Anton and Rio Ferdinand are expected to join Jason Roberts in leading a black player boycott this weekend.
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Queens Park Rangers' Anton and Rio, the Manchester United defender, plan to refuse to wear Kick It Out T-shirts in protest at the Football Association's handling of the John Terry affair.
The Ferdinands are upset over the four-game ban and fine handed out to the Chelsea captain by English football's governing body for using racist language in an exchange with Anton last year and Terry's subsequent opaque disciplinary action from his own club.
The brothers will be joined by Reading striker Roberts, who told Sky Sports News of his plan to boycott the shirts after Terry revealed his decision not to appeal the FA's punishment.
Roberts said: "It seems like the authorities don't have the stomach to take this on, and if the players don't take it on then nobody will."
Roberts believes Terry's four-game ban is "nowhere near what people expect" and says it is down to players to take a lead.
Roberts has called on Chelsea to come down hard on their captain after a club statement confirmed Terry is facing internal disciplinary action.
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NCITS/J13 Document Repository
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The document repository of the NCITS/J13 technical committee for Lisp, which maintains the ANSI standard for Common Lisp.
Steven M. Haflich
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The chair of the NCITS/J13 technical committee for Lisp, which maintains the ANSI standard for Common Lisp.
The Common Lisp Document Repository
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The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you r...
What read-delimited-list will and won't do, and changing the reader syntax in CL
Last modification: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:09:39 GMT
A short article on the Common Lisp reader that explains what READ-DELIMITED-LIST actually does, which is not what is usually expected, and how to change the reader syntax.
Default values for get &c
Last modification: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:49:41 GMT
A short article on the default values for property list accessors.
Snarfing files into strings
Last modification: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:00:44 GMT
A short article on how to read a file into a string in a way that takes the external encoding into account.
Printing unreadably
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A short article on how user-defined code should conform to the printed representation of objects (*PRINT-READABLY*) required by the Common Lisp reader.
Last modification: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:00:28 GMT
A Common Lisp language extension for adding first-class lexical environments, a.k.a. "lexicons".
Erann's Lisp utilities
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A small set of Common Lisp utilities for string and symbol operations, CLOS, mapping, flow control, anaphoric macros, and more.
MOP Retrospective - Gregor Kiczales speaks to lispvan
Last modification: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:38:19 GMT
A blog entry by Bill Clementson with a link to the audio recording of a talk given by Gregor Kikzales at the Vancouver Lisp Users Group (lispvan) meeting of June 28, 2006. The meeting was based on a q...
Lisp as an Alternative to Java
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A Lisp version of the test program from "Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Issues to Interpersonal Issues" (1999)
Guy Steele's FOO language
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Guy Steele's "FOO" language, as found on the ll1.mit.edu mailing list.
The Idiot's Guide to Common Lisp Packages
Last modification: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:24:13 GMT
A tutorial by Ron Garret on Common Lisp packages. It covers symbols, values and the REPL loop, interning, home packages, exporting symbols and using packages, shadowing, and DEFPACKAGE.
The Idiot's Guide to Special Variables and Lexical Closures
Last modification: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:15:00 GMT
A tutorial by Ron Garret on Common Lisp special variables. It covers variables and bindings, lexical and dynamic scope, DEFVAR, and lexical closures.
Last modification: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:44:47 GMT
A toolkit for specifying how to make copies of CLOS objects.
Last modification: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:38:24 GMT
TwinLisp is a language with C/Java - like syntax, but with internals and abilities of a Common Lisp (it is a twin of a lisp internally).
Last modification: Fri, 19 May 2006 07:24:08 GMT
CL-AJAX is Richard Newman's Common Lisp library to allow for remote invocation of functions through Javascript. Quoting John Wiseman's writeup: ... lets you use Lisp to leverage the XMLHttpReque...
Last modification: Sun, 07 May 2006 09:31:56 GMT
A compatibility layer on top of various CLOS MOP implementations, with some additional reflection capabilities.
Last modification: Mon, 01 May 2006 09:53:36 GMT
The lisp-cgi-utils is a software package for developing CGI scripts with Common Lisp. It implements a very basic HTTP/CGI interface (sending headers, getting GET/POST and environment variables) and of...
A simple metaobject protocol for packages
Last modification: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:12:39 GMT
A sketch proposal of a meta-pbject protocol for Common Lisp packages. It is based on the idea of associating to each package a corresponding class that represents it.
Kent Pitman's Publications
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A collection of research papers, journal articles, essays and other Lisp writings by Kent Pitman. Covered topics include Common Lisp design and standardization, Artificial Intelligence, software engi...
Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp (French)
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"Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp" (PDF in French) and Lisp Programming Examples: - Computing influence spheres for atoms in a protein. - Functions to compute frequencies of characters, ...
KM: The Knowledge Machine
Last modification: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:54:31 GMT
KM is a powerful, frame-based knowledge representation language with clear first-order logic semantics. It contains sophisticated machinery for reasoning, including selection by description, unificati...
Last modification: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:32:06 GMT
CL-HTTP is suite of an HTTP 1.1 compliant and SSL-capable tools for creating Web applications written in ANSI Common Lisp that includes: A Sophisticated Server, A Programatic Client, A Caching Proxy, ...
Richard Fateman
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papers and programs in lisp for symbolic mathematical computation and other tasks.
Last modification: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:19:02 GMT
A dataflow, constraint-management extension to CLOS. It allows the creation of classes whose instances "have slots whose values are determined by a formula", like cells in a spreadsheet. Arbitrary Com...
List comprehensions, after Python
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An implementation of the GATHER macro, which generalizes the list comprehensions facilities of the Python programming language.
FOR: iteration in the style of Python
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An implementation of a FOR control structure macro similar to that of the Python programming language, which is based on iterator objects.
NCASE: case using a jump-table
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An implementation of the NCASE control structure macro, which has semantics similar to CASE but is able to optimize certain cases with a jump table.
Global lexical variables
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An implementation of global lexical variables.
Subject-verb-object syntax
Last modification: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:20:21 GMT
A library that provides a subject-verb-object syntax for function calling similar to that of object-oriented languages.
Last modification: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:14:30 GMT
CFFI interface for Graphviz, integrated with cl-graph.
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A library that parses a string into one of the Common Lisp number types, or signals an error if it is not possible.
Defaulting optional arguments for generic functions
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An implementation of CLOS "wrapping" methods. They are "like around methods but happen outside them (so: before and after), and the least specific wrapping method is outermost". They provide a clean w...
Hierarchical packages
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An implementation of hierarchical packages, i.e. packages with a hierarchically structured namespace. It is based on the Allegro CL hierarchical packages by Franz, Inc.. This is part of the Lisp hacks...
Read-time packages
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A library that makes it possible to read an entire Lisp form in the context of a given package by switching packages at read time. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
Abstract classes
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An implementation of abstract CLOS classes, i.e. classes that can be subclassed but not instantiated. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
Applicative iteration
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A library that provides for Common Lisp the syntax of Scheme's named LET construct. In addition, it generates a loop even on implementations without tail-call elimination. This is part of the Lisp hac...
Collecting lists forward
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A library for traversing lists and collecting elements backwards. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
Conduit packages
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Conduits are a generalization of packages. They allow the definition of packages that extend other packages in some way, such as having some symbols from another package. This is part of the Lisp hack...
Lisp hacks
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A collection of small libraries for packages, dynamic variables, lists, iteration, CLOS, and HTML generation.
Last modification: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:28:34 GMT
AspectL is a library that provides aspect-oriented extensions for Common Lisp / CLOS.
MOP Feature Tests
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This package provides a test suites for checking what CLOS MOP features a Common Lisp implementation supports.
Language Constructs for Context-oriented Programming
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ContextL is an extension to the Common Lisp Object System that allows for Context-oriented Programming. It provides means to associate partial class and method definitions with layers and to activate ...
Lisp code from Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach
Last modification: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:39:20 GMT
Common Lisp code for solving basic AI problems, from the definitive textbook on intelligent agents by Russell & Norvig. The website also links implementations in other languages (java, python, c++, p...
BKNR Datastore
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The bknr datastore is a persistence system based on transaction logging. Similar to Java Prevalence, it logs all changes to the persistent data to a transaction log file on disk. Snapshots can be wr...
Knee-jerk Anti-LOOPism and other E-mail Phenomena
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"Knee-jerk Anti-LOOPism and other E-mail Phenomena: Oral, Written, and Electronic Patterns in Computer-Mediated Communication" is a paper by JoAnne Yates and Wanda J. Orlikowski. MIT Sloan School Work...
Common Lisp FAQ for comp.lang.lisp newsgroup
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A set of frequently asked questions posted regularly to comp.lang.lisp. Topics include implementations, mailing lists, object-oriented programming and CLOS, FTP resources, windowing systems and GUIs, ...
Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers
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Collection of papers on programming languages research, including some on Common Lisp implementation issues and CLOS.
"A Survey of Current CLOS MOP Implementations"
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This paper surveys implementations of the CLOS MOP in some of the more popular implementations of Common Lisp. First a brief overview of the CLOS MOP is given. A number of Common Lisp implementations ...
CLOS in Context: The Shape of the Design Space
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Chapter written by Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard P. Gabriel and Jon L. White for the book "Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective" (edited by Andreas Paepcke, MIT Press, 1992). It examines the ...
CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming
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Paper by Richard P. Gabriel, Jon L. White and Daniel G. Bobrow published in the Sep. 1991 issue of CACM. It discusses how CLOS combines previous programming traditions and ideas.
The Common Lisp Object System: An Overview
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Paper by Richard P. Gabriel and Linda DeMichiel published at ECOOP 1987. It introduces the major ideas of CLOS: generic functions, classes and inheritance, method combination and the meta-object proto...
PCLOS Reference Manual
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Hewlett-Packard HPL-91-182 technical report by Andreas Paepcke, 5 December 1991. The document combines the manuals of versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 of the CLOS-based PCLOS persistent object store. The fir...
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A series is a data structure much like a sequence, with similar kinds of operations. The difference is that in many situations, operations on series may be composed functionally and yet execute iterat...
Gray Streams
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Text of the failed ANSI X3J13 issue STREAM-DEFINITION-BY-USER. It has become an informal, de-fact standard for user-defined I/O streams in Common Lisp.
Common Lisp HyperSpec (TM)
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An online document mechanically derived from the ANSI Common Lisp X3J13 standard. It contains the full text of the ANSI standard, but does not have the same formal and legal status.


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University of Vermont
2011-12 Online Catalogue
Special Education (Master of Education)
This master's program is designed to prepare students to collaborate with families, educators, and other professionals and service agencies in the development, implementation and evaluation of instructional programs and supports for learners with disabilities in integrated school and community settings. The program requires that students have appropriate professional experience.
Three primary areas of emphasis within the program are Consulting Teacher/Learning Specialist, Early Childhood Special Education and Intensive Special Education. All three areas have State of Vermont approved licensure endorsement tracks, and successful completion leads to a licensure endorsement for special education in Vermont.
- Special Educator - Consulting Teacher/Learning Specialist: Students are prepared to collaborate with families, educators and other professionals in the design, implementation and evaluation of instruction for learners with mild to moderate disabilities in integrated regular elementary, middle or high school classrooms.
- Early Childhood Special Education: Students are prepared to provide individualized, family-centered special education services to young children with disabilities and their families through both direct and collaborative delivery systems coordinated with social service agencies in integrated home, preschool and community settings in rural areas.
- Intensive Special Education: Students are prepared to provide direct and collaborative instruction to learners with moderate to severe disabilities on the basis of identified activities, skills, adaptions and transitions needed for learners to function in current and future integrated school, home and other community environments, with services involving learners' parents and a variety of professional disciplines.
In addition, a Certificate of Advanced Study (Post-Master's Certificate) with a usual total of 36 credit program may be arranged for applicants who have already earned a Master's degree.
Additional information on the above should be requested from the Program Coordinator.
General Requirements
Specific Requirements
Specific courses are required for each area (Special Educator - Consulting Teacher/Learning Specialist, Early Childhood Special Education or Intensive Special Education), as well as a full year internship. Students seeking admission to a licensure endorsement track must meet additional requirements. Contact the Special Education Program for assistance with questions on admissions requirements.
- Colleges and Schools: College of Education and Social Services. Graduate College.
- Departments and Programs: Education Department. Integrated Professional Studies Department.


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NEW YORK (AP) — For many in the Northeast, the warnings were eerily familiar: Stock up on food and water. Stay off the roads. Be prepared to lose power.
The snowstorm sweeping through the region brought with it echoes of Superstorm Sandy, if not in intensity, in the dread of residents waiting to see what a new storm would bring.
The snowy, windy system that bore down on the Northeast on Friday was expected to drop 8 to 16 inches on the areas hardest hit by Sandy, a swath including New Jersey, New York City, Long Island and Connecticut.
A moderate storm surge was possible, too — but nothing like the waves that drowned much of the region in late October. Still, the prospect frightened Eddie Malone, a resident of Lindenhurst on Long Island whose house has been under renovation since Sandy's flooding wiped out his first floor.
"I'm not afraid of the snow — instead, the sea surge, it may be 7 feet," Malone said. "I think Sandy was 12 or 13 feet, but 7 feet scares me. ... We had no power for two weeks, and now I'm afraid we are going to lose it again."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sought to reassure folks, saying nothing like Sandy's surge was expected and stressing that no evacuations were being ordered, as they were before the superstorm.
"Sandy was a big storm that was devastating to a lot of people," he said. "I don't think this storm is going to do that."
In Fairfield, Conn., 65-year-old teacher Kathy Niznansky braced for potential flooding just about a month after she was able to return to her house near the beach. She worried about her sump pump failing if she loses power around high tide.
"If we have another one, sometimes I think maybe you should move," she said. "I think if I got water in my house from this storm, I think it would really do me in."
Hemlock Hardware in Fairfield did a brisk business on shovels, batteries, firewood, salt, sand and sleds. The store was getting a lot of calls for generators, too.
"There's definitely a change in response to storms now," said owner Scott Pesavento. "Power outages, I guess, is the first concern now when they hear 'storm.'"
Al Terrile, a 69-year-old retired Southport resident, stocked up on batteries, a box of firewood and a light at the hardware store. He lost power for four days during Sandy.
"Maybe nothing will happen but just in case," he said. "It seems like our electrical system has suddenly turned fragile."
At the Jersey shore, where waves of 12 feet and moderate flooding were possible, Brick Township and Toms River issued voluntary evacuation orders for areas still recovering from Sandy.
"We're telling people, if they can, find shelter elsewhere," said Edward Moroney, a Brick Township spokesman.
In New York City's Staten Island, at a tent shelter set up for superstorm victims still living without power, volunteers used tarps and a makeshift drain to keep the bad weather out. Manager Donna Graziano said she feared the new storm would keep her regulars away.
"A lot of residents don't have the means to cook anything," she said. "I'm sure for tonight they'll make arrangements, but it's heartbreaking to me because I hear their cries every day. I give them their hugs."
Douglas Beman, 30, of Greenburgh in the northern New York suburbs, was thinking of Sandy — and the long gas lines that followed it — as he filled his Chevy Tahoe and a 5-gallon gas can at a Mobil station.
"Sandy taught me this lesson: Stock up on gasoline," he said.
In coastal areas of Queens and Long Island, not nearly recovered yet from Sandy, memories were easily stirred.
"A little snow doesn't scare me," said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens. "But if we were talking about the type of damage that Sandy did, I'd be gone. I would leave New York right now."
Contributing to this report were Alison Barnwell and Sophia Hall on Long Island, Associated Press videojournalist Bonny Ghosh in New York and AP writer John Christoffersen in Fairfield, Conn.


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yo ppl, i just wanna take a survey of what you think the most popular and "deadly" virii are or were? just curious
Windows ME
no, no str34m3r, script kiddies are the most dangerous...well, most annoying, @least
got in the guiness book of records for most destructive, and i piggybacked on Klez (which disables the AV scanner)
heres the babble from symatec
Due to the decreased submissions, SARC has down graded this threat level to 3 from 4.
The CIH virus, also known as Chernobyl, was first discovered in June 1998 in Taiwan. According to the Taipei authorities, the CIH virus was written by Chen Ing-hau, and the name of the virus derived from his initials.
CIH is a very destructive virus with a payload that destroys data. On April 26, 1999, the payload triggered for the first time, and caused many computer users to lose their data. In Korea, it was estimated as many as one million computers were affected, resulting in more then $250 million in damages.
In April 2000, although the virus is rather old, Symantec still believes the virus is in the wild and may cause damage to computer users who are using outdated virus definitions or who are not using antivirus software.
Also Known As: Chernobyl, PE_CIH, Win95.CIH, Win32.CIH, W95/CIH.1003, CIH.Spacefiller
Type: Virus
Infection Length: Up to 1KB
Number of infections: More than 1000
Number of sites: More than 10
Geographical distribution: Medium
Threat containment: Easy
Removal: Moderate
Threat Metrics
Payload Trigger: W95.CIH V1.2 and V1.3 (April 26), W95.CIH V1.4 (26th of any month)
Payload: Destroys data and possible damage to CMOS
\"Windows has detected that a gnat has farted in the general vicinity. You must reboot for changes to take affect. Reboot now?\"
Gotta be :
2. Win ME
\"I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.\"
For me, the most deadly virus is when the creator of the virus doesn't even know how to create the antidote for the virus he made.
Listen closely to your enemies. They tell you your faults.
Politroyx > check out this thread :-)
Uhh...lets c:
Theres the person who creates a virus in 2 minutes and sends.
Then theres one who spends a hella long time writing a script as long as a webpage and harder to "kill".
Hey, its almost July 4 and I wonder if theres a new virus for that holiday?
lol There's a new virus for everyday, whether it's a holiday or not. It's kinda sad. I always check out the recent viruses on Symantec, and I'm just amazed at how many new ones are discovered on a daily basis
Forum Rules


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You will learn
In most cases, a live OData service will be available when building an application. For times when a service is not available, it is still possible to build apps with SAP Web IDE with a file-based data model and then run on simulated data (referred to as "mock data" in SAP Web IDE). Once the data service is available, the app can then be configured to run against the service rather than the mock data with no other changes. The mock data approach is also useful if you want to prototype an app and have realistic data appear in the UI.


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Goodman's 'Rock n Roll' prompts fearful look back at Plastic People story
So I'm watching the Goodman Theatre's staging of Tom Stoppard's "Rock n Roll," and I've got this sinking feeling. Yes, it's partly because Goodman's seats are too short for my legs. And because the play isn't wholly working for me (too much bombast, too predictable a soundtrack, too much strain by Stoppard to make his themes come together).
But mostly it's because a seminal Czech rock band, Plastic People of the Universe, plays a key role in the play, and I gradually come to remember that early in my journalism career, I did a story on the Plastic People, or a fraction thereof, coming to Chicago. My growing fear, as I squirm in that upper-row seat, is that I'll call up the clip and see the callow work of a clueless 20something venturing into Cold War politics and coming out the sheltered rube.
This feeling is so strong, it probably makes it harder to settle into the play. So I get back to the office and, with dread, search my byline and "plastic people" in the Trib archives. I promise I would have posted it no matter what I discovered. But the result, below, is a lot better -- more detailed, longer and more sophisticated -- than I expected. As I read it, I remember that the 25-year-old me had some solid guidance from the late Jim Yuenger of the foreign desk. And it actually works, I think, as a solid complement to our other coverage of the play.
Date: Sunday, April 30, 1989
Section: TEMPO
Edition: FINAL EDITION
Page: 1
Zone: C
Source: By Steve Johnson.
Illustration: PHOTOS 3
PHOTO: Photos by James F. Quinn. `Pulnoc` (`Midnight`), a Czech rock band, as it started into its post-midnight performance a week ago at Chicago Filmmakers.
PHOTO: Milan Hlavsa, Pulnoc`s bassist and leader.
PHOTO (color): Photo by James F. Quinn. Milan Hlavsa (left) and Karel Jancak, of Czech band Midnight.
Two decades ago, members of Plastic People of the Universe were singing American rock to appreciative Czech audiences; last weekend, at a North Side Chicago theater, they did the opposite. The journey from Prague to Belmont Avenue was a labyrinthine one.
It began the way many rock and roll trips do: with a teenage boy`s first hearing of the seminal New York band, the Velvet Underground. In this case, the boy was a Czech, Milan Hlavsa, and the honesty and urgency of the music resonated within him.
The band he went on to form could not be so direct, and its path was full of roadblocks: an authoritarian shove into another kind of underground; furtive concerts at friends` weddings and farmhouses, some of which burned shortly after their performances; a mass arrest, a famous trial and jail time; near-legendary status at home and abroad; a saxophonist exiled to Canada; and numerous other odd twists and dark turns that could take place only in a state grimly determined to muzzle the beat of Western culture.
For the band, it ends-or continues-on a happier note, with a name and lineup change (to Midnight, featuring three original Plastic People), a restoration of public performance privileges, and a first, very American tour. They`re playing at least 8 cities in 17 days, with a drummer who didn`t bring his drumsticks, a borrowed cello because theirs was smashed in the airplane cargo bay, a keyboard that at first would not work on the 110-volt electrical system here, and a lead singer who quit her teaching job to come and who is six months pregnant, with twins.
But for the band`s compatriots back in Czechoslovakia, a country not yet as accommodating to glasnost as neighbors Hungary and Poland, the news is not so bright.
``It`s very nice that we can just sit here and talk,`` Hlavsa said through an interpreter, before the two Chicago shows. ``But we should not forget that our friends in Czechoslovakia are in jail. One of them is Ivan Jirous. And one is Vaclav Havel, the playwright.`` The concerts, Hlavsa said, are dedicated to them.
Jirous, the band`s onetime artistic director-philosopher, is serving a 16-month jail term for organizing a petition protesting the death of a human rights activist in police custody, said Janet Fleischman, a research associate with the human rights group Helsinki Watch. Arrested in October and sentenced in March, Jirous` sentence was upheld on appeal Monday. He has spent 8 of the last 15 years in jail.
``He`s looked on by, especially, the younger generation of activists that`s now coming into its own as a symbol of cultural resistance,`` she said. Havel, a leading dissident whose barn was the recording studio for one Plastics` album, ``Passion Play,`` was sentenced to nine months in prison in February, reduced to eight on appeal. The charges, Fleischman said, were unauthorized assembly and sedition. He led a January march to lay flowers on Wenceslas Square in Prague to mark the 20th anniversary of a desperate act of protest there: Jan Palach, a university student, set himself on fire.
Plastic People was born of the societal flowering known as Prague Spring, in the tenuous months after August, 1968, when the Russian tanks rolled in, and before the ensuing cultural clampdown was in full effect.
In the early days, ``they made up in energy and showmanship for what they lacked in musical ability,`` wrote Paul Wilson, a Canadian who had moved to Prague in 1967 to study socialism first hand.
They played Doors and Velvet Underground songs, as well as compositions of their own, on a stage that featured a flying-saucer prop and the English-language banner, ``Jim Morrison Is Our Father!``, according to a memoir Wilson wrote for Musician magazine in 1983.
By the time Wilson joined the band in autumn, 1970, the group had lost its official status and been forced underground by its refusal to stop singing English lyrics, however unintelligible, and by its refusal to stop making music that clashed with the bureaucratic definition of acceptability.
By his count, they played only 15 gigs in his two years with the band, in venues that weren`t exactly Madison Square Garden. Wilson left the band-amiably, he said-when Vratislav Brabenec, a talented saxophone player, joined it in 1972. Brabenec, supported by Jirous, insisted that Plastic People play only original songs, and one of Wilson`s chief contributions had been his ability to sing English lyrics.
The band continued playing and rehearsing whenever and wherever possible. Police harassment became routine at their concerts, but a major underground music festival, in January, 1976, took place unimpeded by the authorities.
Two months later, Wilson wrote, 27 people, mostly members of the Plastics and other underground bands, were arrested, their equipment, much of it homemade, confiscated.
``There was an immediate response in the Western press to that, because it was a bizzare thing to arrest a rock band,`` Wilson said in an interview from his home in Toronto, where he works as a translator and as literary editor of The Idler, a literary magazine.
``The regime, to kind of counteract what they saw as propaganda from the West, put together a television documentary about the underground musical scene. And it portrayed people in it as long-haired basket cases and psychedelic drug addicts and sort of variously slandered them.
``The regime, in a sense, shot itself in the foot over that one. From that point on, the Plastics` status was assured as the premiere underground band.``
That summer, the trial took place. Jirous and Brabenec were given jail sentences, and Hlavsa said he spent half a year in prison, too, for ``hooliganism.``
The trial led to a coalescing of the cultural and political opposition. ``Normally they would not have had anything to do with each other,`` said Wilson, who was told to leave the country by July, 1977. ``They came together over the defense of the Plastic People and decided they could form a platform.`` Charter 77 is the name of the group formed and their statement of principles.
The band`s songs, which deal with themes more personal than politcal, were not the problem. ``We are not and have never been political,`` Hlavsa said, ``but rock and roll in itself in Czechoslovakia is political. . . The establishment made us political. We never wanted that. We were just kind of forced into that.``
Although it is being promoted as such here, and although they play a few songs from the old days, ``this band is not the band Plastic People,`` said Hlavsa. ``Plastic People were disassembled two years ago.``
The story of how the change, seen in some quarters as a sellout, came about is not entirely clear, but Wilson suggested that ``the legend was getting a little too heavy to handle. It`s one thing to have a reputation;
it`s another thing not to be able to play.``
Two years ago, according to Hlavsa and Ivo Pospisil, the band`s manager, Plastic People thought they had a good chance to reestablish themselves officially. They were scheduled to participate in a concert in Prague, but two days before, the police notified them they couldn`t play after all. Hlavsa described it as an ``emotional shock.``
A couple of days after that, they got an offer from Brno, the country`s second-largest city, to play there, but under the condition they do so with a new name. Band members were split on whether to accept the offer, and ended up not playing. Hlavsa said that by this point, relationships within the band had begun to disintegrate.
Out of this controversy, a year or so later, came Midnight, which features three original Plastics: bass player Hlavsa, rhythm guitarist Jiri Kabes, and keyboard player Josef Janicek, all of them at least 38 years old. The four other members-Petr Kumandzas (drums), Tomas Schilla (cello), Karel Jancak (lead guitar) and Michaela Nemcora (vocals)-range in age from 24 to 30.
``The situation now is much healthier than toward the end of the days of Plastic People,`` Hlavsa said, ``because just before the end we were only able to perform in private houses and everything was unofficial and basically the same people attended each concert.
``But now we have, for instance, five concerts a month and always 500 people attend, and it`s always a different 500 people than the week before.`` He said the band`s concerts are always attended by plainclothes police, but this is the norm for rock bands there. There have been no confrontations with the authorities, though members begin each show with a few words about the plight of Jirous and Havel.
Hope Carr, the tour organizer, said a friend of Hlavsa`s who lives in New York describes their sound as ``Slavic soul,`` and aptly so. The brooding, bass-driven music features sometimes fiercely dissonant guitar solos and soaring notes from Nemcora that introduce optimism into the darkness. Though the band`s music is more pop than that of Plastic People, Debbie Gibson will not be recording Midnight songs anytime soon.
At the two Chicago shows, organized here by the not-for-profit Southend Musicworks and the first on the tour, they played songs whose titles backed up Hlavsa`s assertion that the band is not overtly political: ``Hey Pal,`` ``Weird, She`s Weird,`` ``She Donned the Leather,`` and ``Song for Christa,`` written after the death in July of former Velvet Underground singer Nico, whose real name was Christa Paffgen.
Band members, all of whom hold down day jobs, left Czechoslovakia on tourist visas, although not without some delays, Carr said: ``They left as tourists, but they became a band here.``
After concerts last week in Northhampton, Mass., New York City and Knoxville, they play Sunday and Monday night at D.C. Space in Washington. Friday and Saturday, they are scheduled to play in San Francisco and Seattle before returning home May 9, and other shows may be added.
Audiences seem to be reacting favorably to the music, Czech lyrics or not. ``Most rock bands,`` Carr said, ``when you hear them for the first time, you don`t hear the words. You get the feeling. I`ve made up my own words to them, some of which are funny.
``We thought for a while that one of the songs was about Smurfs. They`re saying, `Smurf! Smurf! Smurf!` And actually what they were saying is smrt, which is `death.` ``
Hlavsa, who expressed surprise at the busy tour schedule arranged for them, said he senses that the political situation in Czechoslovakia is beginning to brighten, despite the darkness symbolized by their friends` imprisonment.
A week ago, he said, authorities announced that 50 authors whose books had been banned since 1968 could again be published. On the radio, you can hear bands that you never could. And ``you can even read about Plastic People in the official newspapers, which has not been heard of before.``
He added, ``as far as we know, the confiscated equipment (from the 1976 trial) went to a prison in western Czechoslovakia, where the prisoners are using it in their free time.``
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This Week In Island History
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, June 21, 1912
When the town meeting opened there was a larger attendance than usual and during the first hour 57 voted. After this the ballots came in more slowly and in spite of every effort of more than usual of workers, aided by good weather and numerous carriage and automobiles, only 229 of a possible 267 voters deposited their ballots.
The entertainment and social given by the Greble Glee Club Wednesday evening in the Gardner Hall held for St. Mark Church was one of the best attended ever held here.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 17, 1937
The Allen estate on Lincoln Street, for several years conducted as a summer boarding house by Mrs. John Wiseman of Newport, is being razed by A. Everett Tefft.
Much of the material and the plumbing fixtures of the John Price Wetherill cottage, now being demolished by Peckham Wrecking Company of Newport, are being sold to Newport and New York buyers.
From the Newport Daily News, June 18, 1937
The John Clarke School boys of Newport came to Jamestown Thursday in charge of Mr. Derwallis, manual training instructor, and played the boys of the Thomas H. Clarke School. The latter won 16-14.
From the Newport Daily News, June 21, 1937
LeRoy F. Meredith, auctioneer, sold Saturday afternoon, the Watson cottage on the corner of Narragansett and Clinton avenues, which was bought by Daniel F. Murray of Jamestown. This is one of the oldest houses on the island and few now living can remember when the town post office was located in one of the rooms.
From the Newport Daily News,
June 22, 1937
The band concert which was to have been given Monday evening by the WPA orchestra of Newport was postponed to next Monday evening on account of the inclement weather, and will be given Monday evenings hereafter, with the exception of July 4.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News,
June 21, 1962
A ceremony of farewell to the familiar Brenton Reef Lightship when it leaves its station off Newport permanently, when replaced by the Brenton Light Tower, and the possibility of the ship being placed in Newport as a museum, were suggested last night to the [Newport Town] Council.
From the Newport Daily News,
June 23, 1962
A Navy ship that will be used for oceanographic purposes will be christened in honor of the late Rear Adm. Charles H, Davis, a former Jamestown resident who did scientifi c explorations while on active duty. He died in the early 1920s.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News,
June 21, 1987
"Beavertail," an art show and sale for the benefit of the future Beavertail Maritime Museum, will be held Sunday. The Rhode Island Parks Association, a nonprofit organization that supports projects in the state parks, is seeking to raise $85,000 to renovate the Beavertail assistant keeper's house as a maritime museum and visitors center for the Bay Island Parks, of which Beavertail is part.
From the Newport Daily News,
June 23, 1987
Ignoring a state-imposed deadline, the Town Council Monday night continued a resolution supporting the preferred cross-island connector road alternative to July 13. The state Department of Transportation had asked the council to approve a resolution by the end of June.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 19, 1997
(Photo caption) Ben Anderson makes a mold of the shield and sheep on the town marker at the four corners. Anderson will use the mold to make a new shield to replace one that is missing.
The third annual Ferry Days celebration this weekend promises to bring old-fashioned family fun to East Ferry through remembrance of Jamestown's ferryboats.
Despite the constant drizzle and occasional downpour, the weather couldn't dampen the spirits of the 47 students from Jamestown who graduated Friday night from North Kingstown High School.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 20, 2002
The Town Council Monday wrestled with information about the town's new highway barn and found the data lacking. It was estimated that the size of the new barn would cost at least $1 million, and some have said it is too big and too expensive.
Among much pomp and circumstance, 61 Jamestown students graduated from eighth grade Tuesday night, preparing to leave the island to delve into their high-school years.


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Charles John "Chuck" Boonstra passed away on Sunday evening, April 3, 2011, in Hood River, Ore., where he had lived for the last three years both at Parkhurst House and Providence Brookside Senior Living Center. His three children had gathered to be at his bedside: John Boonstra, of Hood River, Suzanne Lake-Daniels, from North Branch, N.J., and Michael Boonstra, from New York City.
Since moving here from Huntsville, Tenn., shortly after his 90th birthday, he has been close to his oldest son John and his family, wife Vicky and daughters, who have enjoyed having him close, visiting him often and bringing him home for meals, holidays and outings. Chuck was thrilled to be close to his grandchildren in the last years of his life filled with joy in their company.
Chuck touched many lives. As a minister of the Reformed Church of America in Three Oaks, Mich., Orange City, Iowa, Rochester, N.Y., and Gilderland Center, N.Y., and then for the Presbyterian Church USA in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Huntsville, Tenn., he married, baptized, brought into church membership and memorialized countless people. He was a big part of the growth of the churches and enabled the justice ministries of the communities in which he served.
He was still a member of the Presbytery of East Tennessee of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) at the time of his death. This, his last church, in Huntsville, Tenn., was the home where he leaves his heart.
When his successor oversaw the dedication of a new church building, the fulfillment of a life dream of the congregation, Chuck participated in the design of the stained glass windows and commissioned a grand piano in memory of his mother, Helen Boonstra, who was a beloved friend of the congregation, and who spent many weeks in their presence getting to know them and visiting Chuck for extended stays. She became a close part of their community - so close, in fact, that when parishioner Sen. Howard Baker brought then-President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, to church one Sunday, she was the only one outside the congregation who was invited to attend.
His ashes will be buried in the cemetery he helped create on a hill behind the church and the house where he lived for almost 35 years. A memorial service will be held at that time, in late June.
While Mr. Baker was senator, Rev. Boonstra was invited to Washington, D.C., to be chaplain for a day, and opened the Senate Chamber with a prayer that is now part of the congressional record. His mother, family and friends were in attendance in the gallery and later lunched with Sen. Baker in his office.
Chuck was born in Muskegon, Mich., to John Charles Boonstra and Helen Borgerding Boonstra, the oldest of six children. He performed in many plays in school and loved to fish and hunt, which he continued to do for most of his adult life.
As the announcer of a gospel hour featuring a male quartet, broadcast from a local funeral home, he met his wife, Olive Mae Green, who was the accompanist. He attended three years at Calvin College and graduated from Hope College in Holland, Mich. He went on from there to graduate from Western Theological Seminary.
His first church as pastor was in Three Oaks, Mich., where Suzanne was born. For the 30 years that he was married, his wife Olive was organist at each church he served. At his next church in Orange City, Iowa, where his two sons were born, there were people who were not even members who attended his funerals because they admired how uplifting they were and how each one celebrated the life of the deceased instead of dwelling on the death.
In Rochester, N.Y., in the 1960s, he was very active in the Urban League supporting community organizers like Saul Alinsky, seeking to bridge the fractious divide that separated the races in those turbulent years of riots and separation. Part of that movement put pressure on Eastman Kodak and other employers to institute job training for the hard-core unemployed.
His final service with the Reformed Church was in Guilderland Center in upstate New York. It was there that he divorced and moved to St. Petersburg where he was briefly remarried. Subsequently he became assistant minister at a Presbyterian church, and was then called to the church in Huntsville where he found great joy and fulfillment.
His work in Huntsville, Tenn., extended beyond the boundaries of his church. He was active in the local food pantry and ministered to the needs of many in the area. When he found he wasn't able to sit outside in the summer because of the many mosquitoes, he built several houses for purple martins, nature's best insect control, which were not known to summer there.
The first year they found the little houses and came year after year to his delight and that of his neighbors who commissioned that he build similar accommodation for the birds in their yards. With the help of friends, he also built a huge screened-in back porch there where he hosted many parties, especially the eggnog party at Christmastime that was an eagerly anticipated event in the community each year.
He is survived by a sister, Annamae Johnson, of Muskegon; his ex-wife Olive; three children; daughter-in-law Rev. Vicky Stifter, of Hood River, son-in-law Wayne Daniels, of North Branch, N.J.; four grandchildren: Seyeon Malott, Kayla Charles Boonstra and Everley Olive Grace Boonstra; a surrogate grandson from Sarajevo, Darko Latic, and a step-granddaughter, Glynis Daniels, and step-great-grandson, Evan Shieh, of Bethlehem, Pa.
Plans for contributions for a memorial in Chuck's name are being formulated.
Please visit www.andersonstributecenter.com for details and photos.
Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals, Receptions, Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000.
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Fifty Shades of Gray (Matter)
September 23, 2013
I recently had an MRI done that discovered white spots on my brain. Scar tissue. Most likely caused by the hard knocks of life you can say. One in particular. Three years ago. I became a victim of a hate crime. Because I am ... GAY.
I have to admit, I had many brushes in life, but none as close to death as this. Although, to this day, I have no memory of that dark day or the months preceding it. What I do have is a police report and a court transcript of the trial that ended in an acquittal for the defendant. The jury's reasoning was that since I fought back I was in-turn an equal participant. So much for the defense of defending yourself.
I now have a new diagnosis of post-traumatic stress syndrome to add to my portfolio of maladies that includes, but is not limited to HIV+, bi-polar and obsessive compulsive disorder. The only enrichment I have is to live life every day to the fullest. And literally as if it were my first.
You see, what prompted me in getting an MRI was that for the past several months my short-term memory was exactly that. At times, the forgetfulness spread like wildfire and burned out all memory of just minutes before.
My biggest issue was in remembering to take my HIV meds. From the very beginning, I've always hid them away in the linen closet beneath the towels along with my psych meds. Call me crazy, but rarely did I miss a dosage. My philosophy of out-of-sight-out-of-mind had suddenly turned into exactly that.
My HIV and psych meds are now placed conspicuously on the nightstand. They're the first thing I see in the morning when I wake and the last thing at night before I retreat. Throughout the day it has become a continuous reminder of my status and the stigma attached to it.
Although, not all is lost. The hidden shame has finally come out of the closet in many ways. It's like that old saying: "If it doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger."
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Female Infertility
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Infertility is not being able to conceive after a year of trying. This means having regular, unprotected sex. About one-third of cases are caused by male factors. An equal number are caused by female factors. In the remaining cases, the cause is unknown or is due to problems with both partners.
Successful conception involves many steps:
- An egg is released from the woman's ovaries (ovulation).
- The egg travels to the fallopian tubes. Here, the man's sperm can fertilize it.
- If the egg is fertilized (conception), it moves down the fallopian tubes to the uterus.
- It implants itself into the wall of the uterus. It then begins its 40 weeks of fetal growth.
Most cases of infertility are due to problems with ovulation or problems with fallopian tubes.
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Problems with Ovulation
If the egg is not released from the follicle in the ovary, you will not be able to conceive. Some factors that can cause problems are:
- Hormonal disorders
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome
- Ovulation disorder
- Ovarian cysts
Problems with Fallopian Tubes
If the fallopian tubes are damaged or blocked, it is difficult for the egg to be fertilized or to travel to the uterus. Problems can be caused by:
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Endometriosis
- Previous surgeries which have changed pelvic structures or caused scar tissue in the pelvis
- Ectopic pregnancies
- Birth defects
Risk Factors
Infertility is more common in women who are older than 35 years old.
These factors increase your chance of developing infertility:
- Very high or very low levels of body fat (resulting in lack of ovulation), obesity
- Excessive exercise (causing to severe a loss of body fat)
Chronic diseases, such as:
- Diabetes
- Lupus
- Arthritis
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Smoking
- Caffeine consumption
- Alcohol intake
Occupational exposure to:
- High temperatures
- Toxic substances
- Chemicals
- Pesticides
- Radiation
- Constant stress
History of:
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Endometriosis
- Polycystic ovaries
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Kidney failure
- Cirrhosis
- Pituitary tumors
- Anorexia nervosa
- Autoimmune hypothyroidism
- Uterine fibroids
- Pelvic surgery (including uterine surgery)
- Ulcerative colitis
- Crohn disease
- Epilepsy
- Cushing's disease
- Sickle cell anemia
- HIV infection
- Kidney disease
- Appendicitis with complications (ruptured appendix)
Medications, including
- Acetaminophen
- Ibuprofen
- Pain medications
- Antibiotics
- Antidepressants
During the first visit, you will both be evaluated. You will be asked about symptoms and medical history. Your doctor will look for physical problems that might cause infertility.
The following tests may be done to see if you are ovulating:
- Basal body temperature—rises at ovulation and remains elevated during the second half of your cycle and throughout pregnancy; you take your temperature every day and record it on a chart
- Blood test—to measure hormone levels
- Endometrial biopsy —to see if ovulation is causing changes in the lining of the uterus
The following may be done to check if your uterus and fallopian tubes are normal:
- Hysterosalpingography (HSG)—an x-ray of the uterus and fallopian tubes
- Transvaginal ultrasound—a device inserted into the vagina to take an image of the pelvic organs
- Hysteroscopy—a thin device inserted through the cervix to look inside the uterus
- Laparoscopy —a small device with a camera is inserted into incisions in the abdomen, allowing the doctor to examine the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and uterus
Treatment depends on what is causing the condition. Treatments can be costly and lengthy. They often are not covered by insurance.
Lifestyle Changes
Your doctor may suggest that you first try:
- Changing the timing of sexual activity to match your pattern of ovulation
- Maintaining a healthy weight
- Avoiding tobacco and alcohol use
- Avoiding excessive exercise
- Decreasing stress and getting help for depression
If you do not ovulate, you may be given medications that cause ovulation. The likelihood of multiple births is increased with these medications.
If the fallopian tubes are blocked, you may need surgery to open them. Surgery is also used to repair problems with organs or to remove:
- Ovarian cysts
- Fibroids
- Scar tissue
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
ART involves using human sperm and eggs or embryos in a lab to help with conception. The eggs and sperm can be from you and your partner or donated. ART methods include:
- Artificial insemination—semen is collected and processed in a lab. It is then inserted directly into the woman's cervix or uterus.
- In vitro fertilization (IVF) —several mature eggs are removed from the woman's body and mixed with sperm in a lab. The egg and sperm mixture or a 2-3 day old embryo is then placed in the uterus.
- Gamete or zygote intrafallopian transfer (GIFT or ZIFT)—an egg is removed from the woman's body and mixed with sperm in a lab. The egg and sperm mixture or a 2-3 day old embryo is then placed in the fallopian tube.
- Blastocyst intrafallopian transfer—an egg is removed from the woman's body, injected with sperm, and allowed to develop. It is later implanted into the uterus.
- Intracytoplasmic sperm injection—a single sperm is injected into the egg. The resulting embryo can be implanted into the uterus or frozen for later use.
Not all causes of infertility can be prevented. The following steps may help:
- If you smoke, talk to your doctor about ways to quit.
- Limit or avoid caffeine and alcohol.
- Maintain a healthy body weight.
- Protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) by using condoms . Minimize the number of sexual partners you have.
- Try stress management techniques .
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A group of four University of Delaware graduate students studying in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology bested teams from Penn State, Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland to win first place in a regional match in the Entomological Society of America's Linnaean Games, a competition in which teams are quizzed on entomological questions.
Having won the East Coast regional competition, the UD team will head to Austin, Texas, to compete in the national competition in November.
Team members include Scott Berg, Ashley Kennedy, Kaitlin Handley and David Gardner, all master's degree students, with Kennedy having just completed her program.
In the first round of the tournament, the team defeated Virginia Tech and later topped Penn State in the finals. Each round lasted about 20 minutes and consisted of 16 questions. If a team got an answer correct, they were given a bonus question.
While some of the other teams had coaches to help them prepare for the Linnaean Games, the UD team had no such help. "Some schools take it really seriously and every year they have coaches," explained Handley. "This is the first year that UD put together a team and it was all Ashley's doing."
Even though the team didn't have a coach, Kennedy was able to find something extremely helpful on-line that helped the team prepare for the competition — YouTube videos of past competitions. She transcribed the questions and the answers from those past tournaments and handed them out to her teammates.
Watching the videos of past tournaments, however, did have some consequences, as well, with team members getting a glimpse of just how challenging the questions would be. "Hearing some of the questions that Ashley transcribed and watching some of the videos, oftentimes, they'll ask a question and neither team gets it and then they'll just turn to the audience for fun and say, 'Does anyone know it?' and the audience is silent," said Berg. "So we were thinking that this was going to be pretty tough. But the questions they had this year — I don't know if it was just luck or what — but they seemed a little bit more manageable."
Kennedy also explained that while the team didn't have a coach, they didn't consider themselves underdogs. "We did have more of an advantage than some of the other schools just because we do have a good variety of entomology classes here that cover all the basic areas."
Gardner, who is relatively new to the entomology field having studied behavioral neuroscience as an undergraduate, agreed with that assessment, saying that the entomology department at UD is "great. The professors are great, colleagues are great, everyone is really interesting, so I enjoy it."
Winning the Linnaean Games was not the only prize the group took home from the conference as Berg also won second place in oral presentation.
The team is now looking forward to the national competition and attending the five-day conference, with the hopes of recruiting a coach to help them prepare.
Kennedy noted that Charles Bartlett, associate professor of entomology and wildlife ecology, has agreed to coach them prior to the national competition.
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