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Kiddy relies on local talent to build Potomac State
by Mike Mathews The Cumberland Times-News
KEYSER, W.Va. — Few people have a better eye for spotting talent than Potomac State College men's soccer coach Ray Kiddy.
Fewer, still, have done a better job at molding talented players into successful teams.
It's been proven year after year, and this year is no exception. Potomac State is 14-2 and the No. 1 seed in the Region XX, Division III Tournament, and plays in tonight's 7 o'clock semifinal at fourth-seeded Anne Arundel.
When the Catamounts, unranked but receiving votes in the most recent national poll, take the field tonight more than half of the starters will have come from local high schools, something that Kiddy had hoped would someday be the case when he took over the program three years ago.
"We were trying to build for this. I wanted a good mix of local kids, about a 50-50 split, because I always thought we had good kids here," said Kiddy.
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"Having played college soccer and having coached at Potomac State, Allegany and Catonsville, I felt that was the way to go. I know how local soccer has improved. Mountain Ridge, with two state championships, is a great example of that, and I thought we could do this with local kids.
"We have more travel teams coming out of this area and playing in Morgantown, Baltimore and Gettysburg areas than ever before."
The six local starters are Justin Winebrenner, Chris Ranker and Zachary Saylor (Mountain Ridge), Steve Holtschneider and Jeffrey Trautwein (Northern Garrett) and Garrett Kiddy (Allegany).
Add Conner Eberly, Brandon Cutter and Jordan Cook (Mountain Ridge), Jacob Strawn (Hampshire) and Dan Atkins (Allegany), and the local count is up to 11. Count Conor Fungaroli (Chestnut Ridge), Cody Wedge (Meyersdale) and Caleb Goodin (Bedford), and it's 14.
Kiddy took over a program that had won three games in 2009, and put together consecutive 8-6-1, 10-5-1 and 14-2 seasons.
Winebrenner and Holtschneider are two of 17 sophomores on this year's 24-man roster. The sophomore class has a 24-7-1 record at PSC.
"Justin and Steve will be tough for me to replace with local guys next year. We've got good local talent, but you just don't get any better junior college players than them,'' Kiddy said.
Winebrenner has four goals and four assists and Holtschneider six goals and one assist.
The roster includes a Times-News player of the year (Ranker, 2011), an offensive player of the year (Ranker, 2009, 2010), a defensive player of the year (Cutter, 2010), and a goalkeeper of the year (Eberly, 2011).
"Chris is aggressive, has great speed and is good with the head and balls of the shoulder. He wants to play at the next level and he can play at the next level if he keeps improving," said Kiddy.
"Brandon went to Frostburg State his first year for academics. When he saw Justin and Zachary and the other guys at Potomac State playing soccer, he really began missing it, and he came over this year and has been a great asset.
"The same with Garrett (Kiddy). Garrett went to WVU his first year and enjoyed it there, but missed soccer and wanted to come back. He's our right midfielder and I'm proud of what he's done, too.
"When I recruited Conner, we had a lot of conversation about him wanting to play in the field. He's the first one off the bench for us, and is playing in the field and doing a very good job."
Eberly was one of the MVPs in the M&T Bank Senior Classic a year ago, one day after being in goal and booting the game-clinching penalty kick in the state championship game against Manchester Valley.
Nationally, Ranker is 11th in goals (14) and 30th in points (30) among Division III players.
Potomac State's gotten big contributions from the local players on its roster, and certainly the same can be said of the out-of-town players.
Kiddy found out about goalie Fungaroli, of nearby Bedford, by seeing a film of him on the internet. Two years later, he's gotten calls from a number of schools, including the University of San Francisco, this week.
"Conor also wants to play at the next level, and he definitely can play at the Division I level,'' said Kiddy.
Fungaroli is 11th in the nation in goals against (0.73 per game) and 27th in save percentage (.804).
Trey Ogilvie, of Winchester, Va., and Gudiel Guzman, of El Salvador via Berkeley Springs, are also nationally ranked. Ogilvie is 18th in goals (12) and 36th in points (25) and Guzman is 29th in assists (7).
"I spend a lot of time recruiting. When you want half your kids to be local, you have to see a lot of games," said Kiddy, who also sees a lot of games because of his role as an assistant principal at Allegany High.
Kiddy has a 260-154-20 record in 34 years of coaching soccer, which also included time as head coach at Allegany, Beall, Bishop Walsh, Fort Hill and Mount Savage high schools.
The youngest Kiddy son, Gabe, is a senior at Allegany and will be at Potomac State next year.
"He knows how many games I go to and how much recruiting I do, and says he has a recruiter in the house every night."
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The situation looks worse if iTunes is discounted. Excluding iTunes, only 27% of the BAFTA award winners are available, with 29% of the best British films. Only 6% of the best 50 British films are on Film4 OD or Virgin Media, with 14% available through a LoveFilm subscription and 4% through pay per view on LoveFilm.

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Gothenburg is smack dab in the middle of a major methamphetamine trafficking corridor.
With federal restrictions on the purchase of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine (some of the ingredients used to make the drug) more meth is manufactured in Mexico and brought to the United States using major corridors like Interstate 80.Dr. Sandra Wells of the public health department of University of Nebraska Medical Center told local Rotarians Monday that much of that meth—and what is still made in homemade labs—affects not only the user but those who live in the household.
And, although there are numerous reports on the overall dangers of meth use and production, she said the actual health consequences of second-hand exposure are largely unreported.
The assistant professor in the department of environmental, agricultural and occupational health sees second-hand exposure to meth as an increasing health problem in Nebraska and the nation.
"But most published work is about the health effects on users," she said. "There is very little there about second-hand exposure."
Wells, who joined UNMC in 2009, started researching problems from exposure to meth while at the University of Montana at Missoula with help through the National Alliance of Drug Endangered Children.
At her UNMC lab, research is done on respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other environmental factors such as meth.
"We're seeing kids with respiratory symptoms from homes where meth is used or manufactured," Wells said.
Whether that is caused by the drug itself or poor household conditions is what the researcher wants to find out.
When meth is heated, Wells said the drug vaporizes and creates small particles that go deep into the lungs.
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Your cooking recipes...hints and tips.
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Open fridge.
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(16-04-2012 03:19 PM)Anjele Wrote: We love breakfast foods at our house, may have to try the Egg Bake..especially since we will have company here in a couple weeks. No available goats though...would evaporated milk be better than regular whole cow's milk? I use it a lot in things I want to be creamier.Haven't tried evaporated milk. I have been known to top up my milk with a little cream though.
Also, if you cook up some crumbled bacon, you can toss it right into the mix! I think next time I'll try diced sausage. Thanks for the idea!
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I learned this from a friend and have modified it a bit over the years.
My favorite way to make cedarplank salmon.
You'll need:
- 2 tbsp crushed nuts (I prefer almonds and walnuts, crush them finely)
- 1/2 cup (up to 1 cup if you have a giant flank) of brown sugar
- 1 tsp chives
- 1 tsp to 1 tbsp of cayenne pepper (depending on how spicy you like it), can be substituted with finely ground habanero in very small amounts if you prefer extremely spicy
- A few finger pinches worth of salt
- Mix all ingredients into a rub in a small bowl.
- Lay salmon on cedarplank that has been soaked for appropriate time (I prefer an already prepared flank of salmon, but with skin on the bottom, putting skin side down onto the plank)
- Apply rub graciously to the salmon, give it a rub down, smack it a little, call it sexy names. "You sexy fishy you." "You like that don't you." and "You sexy thang." work great.
- Put the Plank with salmon on the grill with the grill at temperature and let it cook for 20-30 minutes
- When the salmon is done it should be at temp all the way through middle, should be flaky and at temp in the middle (if you are unsure, the middle should be the same color as the outside pretty much)
- Be VERY CAREFUL taking the salmon off the grill, sometimes the planks will start to smolder and can catch fire if you aren't careful. If it's easier, take the salmon off the plank and onto a plate at the grill, then squirt down the plank to avoid fire hazard. If it's a good plank soaked for long enough they shouldn't have this issue.
Enjoy the tasty salmon goodness. The brown sugar ends up glazing and melting onto the salmon, makes it ever so sweet and you get a nice spicy bite from the cayenne pepper while the moisture stays inside from the brown sugar. Killing and eating fishies never tasted so good.
17-04-2012, 12:16 AM (This post was last modified: 18-04-2012 06:17 AM by aurora.)
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Rack of Lamb with a red wine jus and baked vegetable mornay. (Great for dinner parties)
Cooking time: 1 hour approx
Oven temp: 190 degrees Celsius
Prep time: 30 mins approx
Serves 4
2 Rack of Lamb - 16 cutlets (approx 4 cutlets per person)
1 litre of beef stock
1 cup red wine
2 cups port (fortified wine)
1 Tblsn cooking oil
1/2 Tblspn butter
1 carrot
2 potatoes
1 zucchini
1/2 doz broccoli florettes
1/2 doz cauliflour florettes
1 onion (quartered and deconstructed)
1 Tblspn butter
1 cup white flour
2 cups milk (approx)
2 cups grated colby cheese
Melt butter and oil in shallow frypan on high heat, add racks and cook until sealed (browned) - remove
Place in oven baking dish (on baking paper) and cook for approx 20 mins (oven times may vary). Remove, place on carving dish and cover loosely with foil. Rest for 10 minutes.
Pour beef stock ,red wine and port into a medium saucepan, bring to the boil then immediately turn to simmer. Reduce liquid by 2/3. It will become almost syrupy, turn off heat. To be reheated when required.
Peel and chop vegetables into equal sizes (more or less). Steam until just tender.
Place in casserole dish.
Make a bechamel sauce:-
Melt butter in a medium saucepan, add the flour and stir until combined - it should become thick and almost paste-like.
Slowly add the milk, a little at a time (to prevent lumps) and when sauce is not too thick (and not too watery) add the cheese. Take off heat.
Pour over the vegetables. Grate parmesan cheese on top. Place in moderate-hot oven (approx 200 degrees celsius) for approx 10 minutes or until top is golden brown.
To serve -
Place lamb racks (can be carved into individual cutlets) on plates. Spoon over red wine jus (after reheating).
Place vege mornay on table for guests to help themselves.
Serve with a Penfolds Bin 128 or 389 (red wine).
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Shannows Lamb Tagine (feeds six)
[*]2 large onions
[*]shot of olive oil
[*]1 tbsp ground cumin
[*]1 tbsp ground coriander
[*]1 tbsp ground cinnamon
[*]3 cloves of garlic
[*]lamb leg or shoulder, boned (1kg)
[*]lamb or veg stock (200ml)
[*]2 tbsp honey
[*]juice of a small lemon
[*]5 or 6 tomatoes
[*]2 fistfuls of dried apricots
[*]fistful of flaked almonds
[*]1 tbsp salt and ground black pepper
Brown lamb & onions in a pan until they've got some colour. Put it in the slow cooker or an ovenproof container with the spices, lemon juice, garlic, stock, honey and tomatoes. If you're using an oven, go for "low and slow" about 160 degrees for 3 hours. 30 minutes before serving, chop the apricots into chunks and add them (if you're using an oven, keep the lid off for the last 30 mins - with the slow cooker I tend to add a bit of corn flour to thicken the sauce a bit). Toast some almonds in a pan for garnish and cook couscous (instructions are on the packet)....serve with a bit of yoghurt...awesome.
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Some of these recipes sound mouthwateringly good and I cant wait to try them out
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(16-04-2012 11:26 PM)Logisch Wrote: I learned this from a friend and have modified it a bit over the years.
I do this all the time except that I use lemon instead of the cayenne... and I mix the sugar and lemon with olive oil and paint it on... Love them planks, I grill most anything on them. Trouble is sometimes I forget to soak them ahead of time and dinner gets delayed...
I love to grill and you'll find me out there any time of the year. I built a shelter for it and call it my outdoor kitchen.
Grilling is fast and simple and it is always good. And I just enjoy spending time outside, I unwind there and I have had more good ideas while grilling than you can shake a stick at. Sometimes I "preheat" the grill forever because I just like standing there gazing at the view and letting my thoughts run freely...
I have a bread machine and make my own bread, my favorite is whole wheat with a lot of little seeds in it, like sesame and flax etc, plus some finely chopped walnuts. The scent of the bread is heady, it makes the whole house smell wonderful. And it is so simple, throw in your ingredients , push the button and leave. Come back to nice, fluffy, incredibly good bread hot from the "oven".
Cinnamon raisin bread is also very fragrant and almost like cake...
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Dom, that's a killer looking outdoor kitchen. I'm starting one myself this year. Any tips?
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Pineapple Upside Down Cake
One box pineapple upside down cake or yellow cake if you can't find it. (number of eggs, oil as noted on whatever cake mix you get)
One cup brown sugar (light or dark...your preference)
One stick butter or margarine
Can of pineapple...I have used the ring slices and have used chunks and crushed..all work well.
Small jar maraschino cherries
Preheat oven as noted on the cake mix. I melt the stick of margarine in a 13x9 pan while it's preheating.
Mix the cake according to box directions except...replace as much of the water as you can with juice drained from the pineapple.
Put the brown sugar in the pan and mix with the margarine and spread across the bottom of the pan.
Put on your pineapple...if I use rings, I put a cherry in the center of each one. If I use chunks or crushed, I just add some for color...you can actually skip the cherries if you want, but it does make the cake look festive.
Carefully pour the batter over the brown sugar and pineapple.
Bake according to instructions...you may need to add up to 10 minutes...check with a toothpick. These seem to take a little bit longer than a plain cake mix.
Take cake out of the oven and let it sit for about 10 minutes. I take a cookie sheet wrapped with foil and place it on top of the cake pan. Carefully (but quickly) flip over. If it sticks a bit sometimes dropping it from a few inches over the counter will loosen it up. Remove the cake pan leaving the cake on the cookie sheet.
Great warm...store leftovers in the fridge so it doesn't ferment, reheats nicely in a few seconds in the microwave if you want. Very moist and tasty. Very retro. I remember them being popular when I was a kid.
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A: MPC is an audio file format used by Musepack. Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160–180 (manual set allows bitrates up to 320) kbit/s. It was formerly known as MPEGplus, MPEG+ or MP+. MPC files are compressed audio files based on MPEG-2 algorithms. MPC files do not use a constant bitrate, but have a changing bitrate that adapts to the need of a specific portion of the audio data. This allows for higher-quality audio. The psychoacoustic model of MPC is based on MPEG ISO model 2, but is extended by CVD (clear voice detection). The quantization algorithm of the MPC encoder performs spectral shaping of the noise, called adaptive noise shaping (ANS), in order to overcome the low frequency resolution of the polyphase quadrature filter bands. Musepack is mainly optimized for transparent encoding at the "--standard" preset (175-185 kbit/s). Very few optimisations have been made at lower bitrates (like 128 kbit/s). Musepack is a purely variable bitrate format and does not work at a constant bitrate. A big part of Musepack's quality comes from its highly variable bitrate handling which results in low bitrate for less demanding regions of the audio data and higher bitrate where it's needed. This allows MPC files to be as small as possible and not lose any valuable bits like encoders that work at a constant bitrate. After all, the purpose of a lossy audio encoder is to provide the highest possible quality at the lowest possible file size, and Musepack represents progress, as opposed to old, suboptimal legacy methods.
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A: ALAC Apple Lossless, also known as Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation, developed by by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music and playback on iTunes and QuickTime and on Apple iOS devices, including the iPhone, iPad and iPods. The ALAC data compression method is "lossless", meaning it reduces the size of audio files with no loss of information. Apple Lossless supports up to 8 channels of audio at 16, 20, 24 and 32 bit depth with a maximum sample rate of 384kHz. Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a. This extension is also used by Apple for lossy AAC audio data in an MP4 container (same container, different audio encoding). However, Apple Lossless is not a variant of AAC (which is a lossy format), but rather a distinct lossless format that uses linear prediction similar to other lossless codecs. Its compression isn't quite as efficient as FLAC, so your files may be a bit bigger, but it's fully supported by iTunes and iOS (while FLAC is not). These other lossless codecs, such as FLAC and Shorten, are not natively supported by Apple's iTunes software (either the Mac OS or Windows versions) or by iOS devices, so users of iTunes software who want to use a lossless format which allows the addition of metadata (unlike WAV/AIFF or other PCM-type formats, where metadata is usually ignored) have to use ALAC. All current iOS devices can play ALAC–encoded files. ALAC also does not use any DRM scheme; but by the nature of the MP4 container, it is feasible that DRM could be applied to ALAC much in the same way it is applied to files in other QuickTime containers. According to Apple, audio files compressed with its lossless codec will use up "about half the storage space" that the uncompressed data would require. Testers using a selection of music have found that compressed files are about 40% to 60% the size of the originals depending on the kind of music, which is similar to other lossless formats. Furthermore, compared to some other formats, it is not as difficult to decode, making it practical for a limited-power device, such as older iOS devices. Partly because of the use of an MP4 container, Apple Lossless does not contain integrated error checking. When decoded, the ALAC stream is identical to the original uncompressed audio file, bit-for-bit. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec sources are available under the Apache license.
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Many SQL books and tutorials recommend that you "avoid cross joins" or "beware of Cartesian products" when writing your SELECT statements, which occur when you don't express joins between your tables. It's true that you need to ensure that your join conditions are adequately stated so that you don't accidentally produce this effect, but it is not true that you should avoid these types of joins in every situation.
Cross Joins produce results that consist of every combination of rows from two or more tables. That means if table A has 3 rows and table B has 2 rows, a CROSS JOIN will result in 6 rows. There is no relationship established between the two tables – you literally just produce every possible combination.
The danger here, of course, is that if you have table A with 10,000 rows and Table B with 30,000 rows, and you accidentally create the product of these two tables, you will end up with a 300,000,000 row result -- probably not a good idea. (Though it is great for creating test data and the like.)
So, how can this ever be useful? Actually, if you do lots of report writing in SQL, a CROSS JOIN can be your best friend.
Suppose you need to write a report that returns total sales for each Store and each Product. You might come up with this:
SELECT Store, Product, SUM(Sales) as TotalSales
FROM Sales
GROUP BY Store, Product
Easy enough – except when the requirement states "show $0 if a store had no sales of a particular product". The above query won't do that – it returns no rows at all if a store had no sales for a particular product.
The solution? Well, hopefully in your database you have a table of Stores and a table of Products. A cross join of the two results will return 1 row per combination of Store and Product:
SELECT S.Store, P.Product
FROM Stores S
CROSS JOIN Products P
That result is the perfect starting point for the results we wish to return -- now we just need to return the sales for each combination. We already have written that in our first attempt, so now we just need to combine the two:
SELECT S.Store, P.Product, ISNULL(C.TotalSales,0) as TotalSales
FROM Stores S
CROSS JOIN Products P
(SELECT Store, Product, SUM(Sales) as TotalSales
FROM Sales
GROUP BY Store, Product) C
S.Store = C.Store AND
P.Product = C.Product
The SELECT is derived logically from our requirements. We start by considering all combinations of stores and products, and from there we show any matching sales data. Our primary, driving rowset is actually not the transaction table, but rather the cross join of two entity tables! It might seem very counter intuitive if you haven't approached the problem from this angle before, but it leads to very simple and elegant ways to solve rather complicated problems using SQL.
The solution uses what I call "the report writers magic formula":
(A x B ) -> (C)
In my made up notation, the above reads "A cross joined with B, left outer joined to C ". A and B represent master tables of entities in your database, and C represents a summarized derived table of a transactional table in your database.
Some important things to note:
Take the previous SELECT statement, for example: Note that the inner SELECT is grouped by Product and Store, which ensures that we return 1 row per combination of Product/Store -- which perfectly matches what the cross join creates. If we wanted to show only data for 2005, we would put the filter on the TransactionDate column within the inner SELECT (since that is the part of the statement in which we collect and summarize our transactions), but if we want only ProductID #23, we do that in the outer SELECT (since that is where we determine the population of Stores and Products to return):
SELECT S.Store, P.Product, ISNULL(C.TotalSales,0) as TotalSales
FROM Stores S
CROSS JOIN Products P
(SELECT Store, Product, SUM(Sales) as TotalSales
FROM Sales
WHERE TransactionDate between '1/1/2005' and '12/31/2005'
GROUP BY Store, Product) C
S.Store = C.Store AND
P.Product = C.Product
P.Product = 23
The CROSS JOIN technique can apply to many situations – to return total labor cost by office by month, even if month X has no labor cost, you can do a cross join of Offices with a table of all months. Another classic example is showing all GL transactions for a specific set of companies and accounts, returning all accounts and companies even when they have no activity.
The important thing is to practice with very small sets of sample data until you get a feel for how it works. Also, you should explicitly state CROSS JOIN in your SELECT so that it is very clear that you intend for this to happen and it is not the result of missing joins.
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Believe it. "The Lego Movie" is the funniest, most fun movie in (insert considerable amount of time), and I can't wait to see it again. By the way: It's written and directed by the guys who helmed the excellent "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and directed the surprising "21 Jump Street." "Lego" isn't some run-of-the-mill, kids-only shrug fest like virtually every other animated effort out there. Its whizzing, 3-D depiction of Legos -- oops, apparently the plural of Lego is Lego -- feels fresh and exciting. And the movie's hardly an ad for toys. It's a sincere, hilarious endorsement of imagination and what it can be used to build.
Soon-to-be-huge-movie-star Chris Pratt ("Parks and Recreation," "Guardians of the Galaxy") voices Emmet, a lonely construction worker whose great achievement is being an instruction-following cog in the machine. His favorite song is the society-wide hit "Everything is Awesome," his favorite restaurant is "any chain restaurant" and his favorite show is TV's beloved "Where Are My Pants?" which sounds like something out of "Idiocracy." Emmet's life changes when he stumbles onto the Piece of Resistance, which, according to a prophecy relayed by wise old Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), means Emmet is the most important person in the universe and the key to stopping President Business (Will Ferrell) from destroying the world.
The rate of jokes in "The Lego Movie" is beyond mega-fast, and if I told you the percentage of winners you'd call me a liar. Emmet develops a strong connection with and fondness for a brave woman who goes by Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and who, to Emmet's chagrin, is dating Batman (Will Arnett). Some may find "The Lego Movie" too fast or random; I thought it was an exhilarating, perfectly voiced sprint. When it breathes, it knows how to value collaboration and independence, involved parenting and adolescent freedom, a kid's perspective and an adult's sense of humor.
That balance prevents what could have been a patronizing view of blue-collar workers and folks who don't shoot for the stars. Instead, the film teaches kids and reminds adults that you are the primary excitement manager of your life. Anyone can be great, and "The Lego Movie" shows that any movie can be great too.
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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez: Yamato Pit Stop!
Justin Bieber dons a "K" cap while stepping out of Yamato restaurant with his on-and-off again girlfriend Selena Gomez on Friday (November 16) in Encino, Calif.
The 18-year-old singer and the 20-year-old actress reportedly didn't have a good dinner together. Here's how it went down, according to the photographers. Justin and Selena left in separate cars after staying inside of the restaurant for a quick five minutes. Afterward, Justin drove to Selena's house, but was denied entry through her gate.
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The National Cotton Council is the primary coordinator of the forum, which seeks to strengthen U.S. cotton's competitive position in domestic and world markets and to increase industry members' profitability. The objective for reaching that goal is to speed the transfer of pioneering technology to U.S. cotton producers and other industry members via that forum.
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The conferences will again feature special workshops and seminars, The Cotton Foundation Technical Exhibit and the cotton technical conferences. A conferences' information booklet will be mailed in mid-September to previous attendees, and the information will be posted on the NCC's web site, www.cotton.org/beltwide. For further information, contact the NCC's Debbie Richter, P.O. 820285, Memphis, TN 38182 (901) 274-9030 Fax (901) 725-0510 or e-mail: [email protected].
The Beltwide Cotton Conferences brings together those with a stake in a healthy U.S. cotton production sector, including industry members, university and USDA researchers, Extension personnel, consultants and allied product and service providers.


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Joseph "Joe" H. Kaczmarski, of Smyrna, passed away on Saturday, May 5, 2012. He was 70.
Joseph "Joe" H. Kaczmarski, of Smyrna, passed away on Saturday, May 5, 2012. He was 70.
He was born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., and graduated from Frontier High School, near Buffalo. He was a career enlisted medic in the United States Air Force and served in the Vietnam War. He retired from service in 1981. He was an avid collector and a car enthusiast, and was a big fan of Elvis and Frank Sinatra.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Stanley and Helen Kaczmarski; his in-laws, Bernard and Katherine Morman; his brother, Walter "Wally" Kaczmarski; his brother-in-law Gene Schrubb; his sister-in-law Deborah Kaczmarski; and his nephew Gregory Kaczmarski.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Katherine (nee Morman) Kaczmarski; son, Robert (Sandy) Kaczmarski; daughter, Karen (Wayne Bonnett) Kaczmarski; daughter, Tracy (Mark) Judd; grandchildren, Andrew and Brent Kaczmarski; sisters, Joan (late Gene) Schrubb, Margaret (Joseph) Terrizzi, Patricia (Ed) Darling; brothers, Paul (late Deborah) Kaczmarski and David (Debbie) Kaczmarski; a brother-in-law, Wilson (Sue) Morman; a sister-in-law, Mary Ann (Pete) Varanko; numerous nieces, nephews and friends, and faithful dog, Tess. Special thanks to all the wonderful staff at Courtland Manor Nursing Home and Delaware Hospice.
Mass of Christian Burial will be offered Wednesday, May 9 at 2 p.m., at St. Polycarp Catholic Church, Ransom Lane and South St., Smyrna. Friends may call from noon until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Matthews-Bryson Funeral Home, 123 W. Commerce St., Smyrna. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, Smyrna.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in his memory to the National MS Society, PO Box 4527, New York, NY 10163; the American Cancer Society, 92 Reads Way #205, New Castle, DE 19720; or to a charity of your choice.
To send a letter of condolence, visit www.matthewsbryson.com.
Arrangements are by Matthews-Bryson Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Smyrna.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
ABC's "This Week" — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
NBC's "Meet the Press" — Geithner; Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
CBS' "Face the Nation" — Geithner; Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.
CNN's "State of the Union" — Geithner; Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.; Gov. Brian Schweitzer, D-Mont.
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Women in Science: Janet Kavandi
Carthage native and outstanding Missouri University of Science and Technology graduate discusses space exploration.
Three NASA astronauts -- all graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology and veterans of the space shuttle program -- discussed their careers and the future of space exploration during an event on the Missouri S&T campus.
The free event, titled "The Moon, Mars and Beyond: A Discussion With Three Astronauts," featured astronauts Col. Tom Akers, Dr. Janet Kavandi and Dr. Sandra Magnus.
Kavandi earned a master's degree in chemistry from Missouri S&T in 1982. A native of Carthage, Mo., she also holds a bachelor's degree from Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. In 1990, Kavandi earned her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Washington-Seattle. Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in December 1994, she has flown on three shuttle missions. Her first shuttle flight, in June 1998, was the final space shuttle docking mission with the Russian space station Mir.
In February 2000, on her second mission, Kavandi served aboard the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which mapped more than 47 million miles of the Earth's land surface. She currently serves as director of flight crew operations for the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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UAB Entrepreneurs Connect Alumni Online
By Tara Hulen
UAB School of Business associate professor Molly Wasko, Ph.D., LinkedIn is more than a social media site for professionals. She views it as a rich source of data for her research into the development of online communities—and a business opportunity that could benefit universities, their students, and their alumni.For
The result is inDegree, an alumni tracking service that helps universities find and connect with graduates and collect a range of useful information from LinkedIn profiles. InDegree won the grand prize of $100,000 in seed money in the 2012 Alabama Launchpad business plan competition, a program of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama Foundation.
Wasko, chair of UAB's Department of Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods, started inDegree with Alex Miningham, one of her M.B.A. students at Florida State University, where she taught prior to UAB. The two had worked on a similar idea after Wasko started using her own LinkedIn profile as a sort of research project. Soon, an unmet need became obvious. "I noticed that everybody (at the university) was coming to me to find out about alumni networks," Wasko says. "I noticed it was a very powerful tool for staying connected to our alumni and helping our current students network with the alumni who came before them."
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Universities face a challenge in staying up to date with students and alumni as information about them gets thinner and less accurate over time, Wasko says. She saw the self-maintained profiles on LinkedIn as a potential way for collecting and maintaining accurate data.
"We are a trusted third-party data integrator that provides business intelligence for universities," says Wasko, who oversees the technology that powers the service. "We can match your alumni database to LinkedIn profiles. Our primary customer is the dean or associate dean in a business school who is in charge of tracking outcomes for accreditation."
InDegree also can gather permission from alumni to allow universities to tap into personal profiles for additional information, such as resumes, that aren't visible on public pages. By granting that permission, alumni can show their degrees as verified by their universities, and they can easily connect with other verified alumni by searching by degree type, specific job, location, or other criteria.
"We want students and alumni to use their LinkedIn profile as their alumni profile so they have to maintain information in only one place," she says. "We are trying to make that strong university tie available and actionable to our students and alumni, which gives them a value proposition where it's worth staying connected."
Branching Out
Because the social media world constantly evolves, Wasko says inDegree is looking at an array of networking technologies. Particularly promising is BranchOut, a business-focused app that allows Facebook members to quickly form a professional networking page using job-related information from their profiles—while excluding less professional postings.
In April 2013, inDegree was purchased by HEPdata, Inc., a provider of matching gift data and data enrichment services designed specifically for non-profit organizations, says Wasko. inDegree's services give university clients a "seamless solution" for advancement and development efforts by appending updated employment data to records, in addition to HEPdata's other offerings, Wasko explains.
inDegree is now in use at the UAB School of Business, where it is used for tracking placements for national accreditation. It is also used by Lisa M. Schwiebert, Ph.D., associate dean for postdoctoral education in the UAB Graduate School, to maintain a database of postdoctoral alumni—a "pretty amazing group" that has been hard to track to gather information, Wasko says. From there, Wasko will present to other groups on campus to see if they are interested in using the service.
Wasko says that the Alabama Launchpad prize has helped position inDegree as an emerging industry standard for tracking the student placement and career success outcomes required by most accrediting bodies for higher education. For more details, visit indegree.com.


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UK punters happy to pay £3 to top up e-wallets
We never knew you were so keen
A survey of UK attitudes to mobile payments reckons that £3 a time is the sweet spot for topping up wallets, with 65 per cent of you looking forward to pay-by-tap.
Paying for the privilege of adding credit to a purse was the option selected by 34 per cent of respondents to the survey, which was carried out by marketing consultants Simon-Kucher. Less popular options included paying a set fee per transaction (17 per cent), paying a percentage of each transaction (14) or paying a monthly fee (22 per cent).
Having established that users want to pay every time they load money onto the wallet (paying nothing wasn't an option) the public was asked how much they'd be willing to shell out every time they wanted to transfer funds to their phone.
Fascinatingly almost 40 per cent of people said 25 pence was just too cheap, which is very magnanimous of them. £3 was the point at which the majority though it prohibitively expensive, so Simon-Kucher concludes that to be the maximum services will be able to charge.
Prepaid cards often charge a fee for topping up: Orange cash, for example, will charge up to £1.50 if topped up at a post office, but that drops to nothing if the money is transferred using a debit card. Google's pre-paid card (as opposed to Google Wallet which hosts cards) isn't charging anything at all to top up the balance, at least until the end of 2011.
Existing wallet schemes, such as the Google Wallet and the UK's Orange Quick Tap don't charge the user anything at all. Load Google Wallet with your Citi card, or Orange Quick Tap with your Barclaycard details, and you'll pay nothing at all for the convinence of paying with a tap of the handset.
Neither Google nor Orange makes any money out of proximity payments, the pennies collected on each transaction go to MasterCard in both cases. And it is pennies: literally a penny a time for low-value transactions on Visa's PayPass, ramping up to four pence for anyone spending a tenner. Not enough to get very excited about unless you're really upset at the eight pence shops currently pay on every Chip & PIN transaction.
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Another View - Mark Huddleston: UNH committed to online courses, affordable educationMARK HUDDLESTON
February 27. 2014 10:10PM
In reading your Feb. 20 editorial about my State of the University address, I was heartened to see that the Union Leader shares my passion for making a high quality UNH education more affordable and accessible for New Hampshire students and their families. I was surprised, however, that your analysis misread some key points in my remarks, particularly in regards to our ongoing commitment to integrating online education.
In the nation's intensely competitive field of more than 4,000 higher education institutions, UNH is clear about its role: We are a student centered, research intensive, highly engaged, residential public university. Rightfully so, only a small portion of institutions claim this role: no others in New Hampshire and a handful in New England.
UNH is filled with brilliant researchers and students from all over the world studying a range of disciplines, from complex ocean engineering and coastal mapping challenges to the radioactive microbursts above the Earth's atmosphere that disrupt global telecommunications. What is particularly unique about UNH are the many opportunities undergraduates have to pursue this work alongside some of the world's top researchers.
However, while we are enjoying great success, we also know that the field of higher education is changing, and changing quickly. As my speech stressed, the single greatest threat to UNH's future would be a failure to adapt to this radically altered environment.
Today, we are not only adapting, but in many respects are leading the way. Our eUNH online learning options have grown considerably, with more than 350 online courses last year. These classes include those that can be taken entirely online as well as hybrids, which bring online students to campus for important hands-on learning experiences. Recently, we launched an online master of social work (MSW) degree program, the first online MSW option in the state. The majority of our courses during the recent January term were also online. These are great options for students to gain UNH-quality education and earn credits, often at lower cost.
At the same time we are strengthening eUNH, however, we are also transforming the way we deliver a world-class residential education and hands-on research that supports New Hampshire's economy, communities and quality of life. Our challenge lies in how to best integrate our existing facilities and resources with new technologies in ways that improve teaching, learning and research — and, let me stress, make UNH more affordable and accessible to students from all walks of life.
Our work to offer online learning options, develop research, build private philanthropy and create partnerships with New Hampshire businesses is vital to our mission to improve the quality of a UNH education while controlling costs for our students.
Thank you for sharing UNH's commitment to delivering tremendous value to those we serve, and for keeping student affordability and access at the heart of your concerns for New Hampshire's flagship public research university.
Mark Huddleston is president of the University of New Hampshire.


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What is surrogacy?
Surrogacy is where a woman carries a child for intended parents and relinquishs her parental status upon the birth of the child. This is commonly an option for male same-sex couples who wish to have a child together without sharing responsibility with the child's mother/s.
Surrogacy and the law
Surrogacy arrangements (involving opposite-sex couples, single men, and same-sex couples) are legal in the UK, however the law prevents arrangements being brokered on a commercial basis, and makes it an offence to advertise for a surrogate mother.
The UK's close regulation of surrogacy can make travelling abroad seem attractive, since surrogates and donor eggs may be more widely available in certain countries. However, it is important for couples to be aware that, whether they conceive at home or abroad, English law on parenthood applies. International surrogacy arrangements can be legally complex, and should not be entered into without legal advice.
Under English law, the surrogate is always treated as the legal mother of a child at birth. If the surrogate is married or in a civil partnership, her husband/civil partner is treated as the child's second parent. This excludes the intended father(s) from having any legal status at birth. If the surrogate is not married or in a civil partnership at the time of conception, the biological father will usually be treated as the child's legal father.
Parental orders
Couples who enter into a surrogacy arrangement may apply to the court within six months of their child's birth for a 'parental order' to acquire parenthood. Parental orders are designed specifically for surrogacy situations, and have the effect of extinguishing the status of the surrogate mother (and her husband, wife or civil partner), and granting full parental status to the applicants.
Following the grant of a parental order, the child will be issued a new birth certificate naming the applicants as the child's parents. Same-sex couples are able to apply regardless of whether or not they are civil partners or married, but they must be in a relationship. Single men remain ineligible.
To obtain a parental order, the court will have to be satisfied that the following conditions have been met:
- One of the applicants is the child's biological father.
- The applicants are over 18 and are applying as a couple within six months of the birth.
- At least one of the applicants is domiciled in the UK.
- The child is in their care at the time of the application.
- The surrogate mother (and her husband, wife or civil partner) consent fully and freely to the order being made.
- The surrogate mother has not been paid more than reasonable expenses or, alternatively, the court agrees to authorise any payments which have been made.
Surrogacy arrangements are legally complex and the courts consistently recommend that anyone considering embarking on surrogacy obtains specialist legal advice at the outset.
Our thanks to Natalie Gamble, fertility law specialist with Natalie Gamble Associates, for the information provided on this page.
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Reference Series Model 70S (1993-98)
The compact Model 70S was designed as a rear effects speaker in surround sound applications, but could also be used as a main speaker in a dedicated sub-sat system, in particular with the matching 40B subwoofer. Using the same Uni-Q array as in the Model 90 centre speaker, uniform coverage over the listening area was assured, as was the timbre match with Reference Series main speakers.
Reference Series Model 40B (1993-98)
Designed specifically to partner the 70S satellite speaker, but more than capable in a home theatre system based around any of the KEF Reference Series loudspeakers, Model 40B used the same twin coupled cavity bass loading technique employed for the top models in the range. Model 40B helped to strengthen the home theatre capability of the KEF loudspeaker range at a time when the market was growing rapidly and demanding quality products. For two-channel or multi-channel, the 40B gave the KEF customer increased flexibility in creating the optimum home audio system.
Specification: Model 70S
System type: Two-way, stand/wall-mount
Enclosure type: Closed box
Dimensions (H x W x D): 253 x 170 x 119mm (10 x 6.7 x 4.7 inches)
Weight: 3.1kg (6.8 lb)
Nominal impedance: 6ohms
Amplifier requirements: 10-100W (into 4 ohms)
Frequency range: 120Hz to 20kHz +/-3.0dB at 2m on reference axis
Sensitivity: 87dB at 1m on reference axis for a pink noise input of 2.83V (anechoic conditions)
Maximum output: 107dB on programme peaks under typical listening conditions
System: SP3182
Drive units: B160 bass/midrange unit (SP1320), NT19 tweeter (SP1352)
Crossover: SP2222
Specification: Model 40B
System type: Powered Subwoofer (150W)
Enclosure type: Dual coupled cavity
Dimensions (H x W x D): 565 x 280 x 480mm (22.2 x 11 x 18.9 inches)
Weight: 29.8kg (63.6 lb)
Amplifier requirements: 10-100W (into 4 ohms)
Frequency response: 35Hz to 150Hz +/-3.0dB at 1m on reference axis
Maximum output: 111dB at 1m (anechoic conditions)
System: SP3181
Drive units: 2 x B200 bass unit (SP1339)
Amplifier: SP2221
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Phil Parkinson insists City's pre-season week in Ireland is an essential part of his summer rebuild.
The Bantams will visit the Emerald Isle for the third year running as part of their preparations for next term.
The July training camp includes games against Dublin-based UCD and Shelbourne but Parkinson believes the most important aspect will be getting everyone together at close quarters.
With the City boss looking to revamp his squad, he wants the new recruits settled in before the season opens on August 9.
"I think it's very important because there is going to be quite a big change-around in the squad this summer," he said.
"It's vital we get all those players bedded into the squad quickly and that's why I feel the pre-season trip is so crucial."
City have been based at Johnstown House in Enfield, just outside Dublin, for the past two years. They are relocating this time but Parkinson reckons the new facilities will be just as good.
"We're going to a different venue, for a bit of a change more than anything, but going to Ireland serves us well," he said.
"We did look at other options but got the chance to stay at another training base which is top quality.
"It's reasonably cost effective and there isn't a great deal of travel involved. You look at some of the top teams who fly off everywhere and come back absolutely shattered.
"The journey to Ireland is a short one. It's easy to get to from Leeds-Bradford Airport and the pitches and weather are conducive for high-intensity training.
"We will be playing two friendlies as we have done in the past and I've always enjoyed going over there.
"The games are generally good because you are up against teams who are in the middle of their season."
City once again kick off their warm-up campaign away to Guiseley on Saturday, July 12 – just over five weeks from now.
After the Irish tour, they play Championship outfit Blackburn in the only home friendly before rounding off at Morecambe the Saturday before the new season. They are looking to fit in one more midweek game in between.


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President's trip to expand Brandeis' India presence
Lawrence, professors will explore links with Indian institutions
President Fred Lawrence and a small group of professors and administrators will visit India for two weeks in early February to explore collaborations in the sciences with leading Indian institutions, hold public discussions that raise the university's profile in the world's largest democracy and strengthen ties with Brandeis' growing network of Indian alumni and supporters.
The mission aims to expand Brandeis' global reach, enhance the multicultural character of the student body and further engage the campus community in the pursuit of social justice.
"There is a vast potential for collaboration between the United States and India," said Lawrence, who made numerous trips to the subcontinent as dean of the George Washington University Law School before he became president of Brandeis.
"Brandeis is renowned for the quality of our scientific research and teaching, and India has some of the world's finest scientific institutions," Lawrence said. "Social justice and sustainable development are areas of endeavor in which Brandeis is universally recognized, and activists in these fields, including many of our alumni, are working in India to make the world a better, healthier place."
Lawrence, Vice President for Global Affairs Dan Terris and Professor of Physics Bulbul Chakraborty will explore collaborations with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore on the upcoming trip, building on groundwork by Eve Marder, the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfeld Professor of Neuroscience and head of the Division of Science, who visited Bangalore early this month.
Also participating in public and alumni events on the trip are Harleen Singh, the Helaine and Alvin Allen Assistant Professor of Literature and co-chair of the South Asia Studies Program, and Preeta Banerjee, assistant professor of strategy in the International Business School.
The schedule of events includes public forums in Delhi and Mumbai.
In Delhi, Lawrence and former Indian Attorney General Soli Sorabjee G '10, a renowned human-rights lawyer and free-speech advocate, will discuss "Justice in Diverse Societies," a conversation that will be moderated by Singh.
In Mumbai, the president will discuss "Seeking Social Justice" with Arjun Appadurai '70, president of the board of Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research, or PUKAR. Appadurai has held numerous high-level academic positions in the United states, Europe and India and is a leading anthropological analyst of modernity and globalization.
Anita Patil Deshmukh of PUKAR, Devika Mahadevan '00, Singh and Banerjee will respond to the Lawrence-Appadurai discussion. Mahadevan in 2010 was named the youngest winner ever of Brandeis' Alumni Achievement Award for her work with Mumbai Mobile Creches, a nonprofit organization that promotes the health and welfare of children of migrant workers growing up on construction sites in India.
The schedule also includes meetings with prospective students, meetings and meals with alumni and friends of the university and numerous meetings between Lawrence and Indian academic leaders.
The organization of the Indian mission is similar in many respects to that of the president's trip to Israel last summer, as the goals are generally similar. It stems from the strategic approach to the university's international mission developed by the President's Office and the Office of Global Affairs.
This calls for the university to respond to globalization in the academy and in society at large by identifying a number of countries in major regions of the world where valuable collaborations can be formed between Brandeis and local institutions. The approach is being taken initially in India and in Israel because in both countries Brandeis already has ongoing partnerships, activities and a strong alumni and student base. A previous mission to India was led by President Emeritus Jehuda Reinharz in 2010.
Lawrence and Terris will make a two-day trip to Singapore to meet with academic and business leaders and with alumni and potential students before returning to campus in mid-February.
"India and Singapore are both vital global hubs for science and education," says Terris. "If Brandeis is going to be a dynamic global player, these are two places where we need to build connections to attract students, collaborate on research and extend the university's social justice mission."
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Have you heard the story of the boy who came home from school on report card day and sheepishly handed his not-so-good marks to his father?
The dad studied the document, and color started rising up his face. But before he could say anything, the boy, with an artful shrug of his shoulders and a palms-up gesture of dismay, said:
"Gee, Dad, what do you think it could be, environment or heredity?"
The questions for us parents are, "How did our kids become who they are? Where did they get their personalities and their propensities? Why is it so hard to change them?"
The world has only two answers: As the boy said, "heredity and environment." Genetics and training. Nature and nurture.
The problem with that binary answer is that it doesn't explain the differences. Two siblings from the same gene pool, reared in the same home, yet different in almost every way. Even twins. And it drives most of us parents to distraction. Just when we think we have one child figured out ("I'm all practiced up now for the next one"), along comes another one for whom nothing works the same.
Is there another, third variable? We know the answer of course, and it is a huge one, probably more consequential than either of the other two. The biggest variable is eternity. The missing piece in the puzzle is the premortal life, where each of our children began their journey and became who they are.
As a brand-new, first-time mother in the delivery room, I (Linda) remember being so thrilled at the prospect of doing my very best to mold the sweet, little angel who had just emerged into the world into a wonderful individual. I had plans to make her into just the perfect balance of all that was admirable and good.
Now, after raising nine children, we have a whole new paradigm. We firmly believe the following: They are who they are! These beautiful people we joyfully greet and hold in our arms in the delivery room with eternity behind their eyes come already intact with a distinct personality, certain gifts and definite passions.
Knowing our children are our spiritual siblings and have been becoming who they are for the first side of eternity does not mean we cannot help them, teach them, improve them here in "middle earth." On the contrary, if we go about it lovingly and wisely, we can make a huge difference in the rest of their lives, not to mention the other side of their eternity.
But we need to understand that we are not starting from scratch. We are not their creators, or their makers, or their owners, nor are we fully responsible for all that they are.
One of the worst parenting analogies we have ever heard is the one that says, "Children are lumps of clay, and parents are the sculptors."
Do you have any lumps of clay? We don't! Mold them into whatever we want them to be? We don't think so! First, they're not that malleable, and second, even if you could make them into some perfect little cookie cutter of clay that extended your own ego and caused you no trouble at all, would you really want to, knowing that they are unique children of God with their own destinies and foreordinations?
A much better analogy would be seedlings in a nursery. You know how all the little plants look the same when they are just little green sprouts? But until you stop to read the little label on each one, you don't know if it is an oak tree, an apple tree or a lilac bush.
The fact is that we will never turn a pine into an oak, but the more we know about what each little seedling is, the better we can apply the right amount of water, the right kind of nutrients and make it the best pine tree it can be.
And that should be our goal.
Richard and Linda Eyre are New York Times No. 1 best-selling authors who are in demand throughout the world as speakers on parenting and life balance. You can visit them anytime at www.TheEyres.com or at www.ValuesParenting.com


text: The City Council voted Dec. 3 to punish Mayor Anthony Silva for breaking a rule on confidentiality last month when he released the name of a city manager candidate before the deal was done. The decision to admonish him followed a line of nearly 30 residents, some passionately talking about all the good Silva has done for Stockton and others scolding the council for working against the mayor. View clips from the meeting above, or watch the full meeting at stocktongov.com.


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GPSolo Magazine - September 2006
Practice Management
In Praise of Slowness
Consider the breakneck pace of the average law office. The phone calls, faxes, and e-mails never stop. Nor does the pres sure to squeeze in another client—or three. For those striving to make partner, it feels like survival of the fastest.
Of course, speed is not always bad. It can be fun, liberating, empowering. The problem, though, is that many of us have forgotten how to slow down, even for a day and even when we need to most. We are stuck in roadrunner mode and pay a heavy price for it.
So what is the cure for all this rushaholism? Simple: Just slow down a little. Get inspired by some ways in which others across the world are downshifting both on the job and off.
If you snooze, do you lose? Fact versus fallacy. Let's look at the workplace first. In contrast with the United States, working hours have been falling steadily in Europe. The result is a quality of life—think six weeks of annual vacation—that Americans can only dream about. Even in Japan, working hours are down and leisure is no longer a dirty word.
But this is about more than leisure. As well as making life more enjoyable, working less can mean working more efficiently. Often derided as lazy vacation-junkies, the French are actually the world's most productive workers per hour. And the citizens of Finland, Denmark, and Sweden all spend far less time on the job than do Americans, yet their economies rank among the most competitive in the world.
This productivity is not hard to explain. When employees have enough time off, they come back to work refreshed and invigorated. They are more creative, too, because relaxation helps the brain slip into a richer, more nuanced mode of thinking. That is why our best ideas seldom come in the middle of a fast-paced meeting or in the final dash to make a deadline. They come when we engage in what psychologists call "slow thinking."
Fortunately, leading companies in the United States see the writing on the wall. For example, SAS, a software giant based in Cary, North Carolina, combines a 35-hour workweek with generous vacation benefits. The payoff is robust profits and a regular place in the top of Fortune's "Best Companies to Work For."
Even when the workday is long, carving out slow moments can galvanize staff and goose the bottom line. Lawyers at the Washington, D.C., office of DLA Piper Rudnick now get in touch with their inner tortoise during in-house yoga classes.
Pioneered by the dot-coms, chill-out rooms are springing up in the corporate mainstream. Take the enterprise-solutions behemoth Oracle. In its Tokyo office, where 12-hour days are common, it has installed a soundproof meditation suite with soft lighting and a wooden floor bordered by smooth pebbles and objet d'art. At first, staff stayed away, fearful that shifting down a gear would hurt their output. But many are now converts. "People who think that taking ten or 15 minutes to sit quietly in a room is a waste of time are wrong," one Oracle executive told me. "By slowing down a little, you come back to the fast part of your day with more energy and clarity."
Another way is to switch off the technology from time to time. Hewlett-Packard, which makes its money selling high-tech gadgets, recently warned that keeping cell phones and BlackBerry devices turned on around the clock leads to burnout and data overload.
That's why companies, even in very fast industries, are starting to put speed limits on the information super-highway. Software maker Veritas and others have introduced e-mail-free days. Ernst & Young encourages its employees not to check work messages over the weekend.
Turning the tables: The art of good living. Among the downshifts from the rush these days, many people are taking a less hurried approach to food and eating better as a result. Look at the rise of farmers' markets and cooking classes, or the renaissance of handmade bread, cheese, and beer. The Italian-based "slow food" movement, which stands for everything fast food does not, now has 80,000 members in 100 countries.
Slowness is even leaving its mark on urban planning. A "slow cities" movement is now spreading across Europe. The 60-plus member towns curb traffic, make more space for walking and cycling, and promote slow food. Their stated aim is to rediscover the lost art of good living. In North America, planners inspired by the new urbanism movement are building walkable neighborhoods that put people before cars and foster community spirit. "You live better when your neighborhood allows you to slow down and connect with other people," said one resident of Kentlands, a new urbanist suburb in Maryland.
Promoting daydreams: Slow- down to the future. In the same spirit, parents are rebelling against the trend for hot-housing children. Overscheduled and overworked, many kids today suffer from anxiety and even burnout. Living in fast forward is inimical to childhood. Drifting around, exploring the world at their own pace, even getting bored can teach kids how to think creatively and how to get along with others.
With the help of groups such as Putting Families First, many American parents are cutting back on extracurricular activities—which, of course, helps moms and dads slow down, too. Across the United States, a growing number of towns now hold slow-down days when teachers assign no homework, after-school clubs are canceled, and parents come home early for a family dinner.
Parents who think hot-housing is the only way to get their children into Harvard or Yale should heed the warnings now emanating from elite colleges around the world. Admissions officers everywhere lament the rise of a new kind of applicant: brisk, industrious, accomplished, but lacking spark and curiosity. "We are training our children to be workaholics," warned Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
A meeting with a group of teenagers persuaded Jones that elite colleges are sending the wrong message to parents and children. "I asked them: 'What do you daydream about?' and one kid said to me: 'We don't daydream. There's no reward for it, so we don't do it.' Boy, that hit me right between the eyes," she said. "Colleges have created mechanisms to crowd out the kids who are dreamers, to crowd out the kids who step off the conventional path and want to do something unique. But what does it mean to have a nation of kids who don't know how to dream?"
To send the message that less is more and that daydreaming is good, Jones has shrunk the section devoted to extracurricular activities on the MIT application form. She also travels across the United States to reassure anxious parents that slowing down will benefit their children.
Conduct at your own tempo. Of course, you can take this deceleration thing too far. Slower is not always better. Too much slowness is just as bad as too much speed. What we really need is balance—an understanding that sometimes fast is good, but that sometimes slow is good, too.
Carl Honoré is an award-winning Canadian journalist and former speedaholic who now lives in London. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Jenna Fischer Interview About Mom Clothes
Jenna Fischer Talks About Her Postpartum Nursing Wardrobe
If there's such a thing as a new mom uniform, Jenna Fischer's wearing it! Though the Office star looked lovely as she spoke with Kelly Ripa and Matthew Broderick on Live! With Kelly this morning, the discussion quickly turned to life with her 7-month-old son, Weston. The new mama said that she's been stuck in a rut, wearing nothing but sweatpants that are three inches too short, nursing tops, and — when leaving the house — hoodies. The best part of the look, she says, is that she doesn't have to change for bed at night! Watch the clip — which also includes details about Weston's take on life in NYC — and tell us: how long did you wear the "new mom uniform"?


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SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – A capital murder suspect and a convicted drug offender who were the subject of a two-day multiple agency manhunt after escaping a Texas jail are back in the lockup after being cornered in a barn some 20 miles away.
Brian Allen Tucker, who is awaiting a capital murder trial, was returned to the Hopkins County Jail on Thursday along with John Marlin King. It's the same jail in Sulphur Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Dallas, from which authorities say the two inmates fled on Tuesday.
Hopkins County sheriff's Sgt. Brad Cummings said authorities had received dozens of reports from people who thought they had seen one or both of the fugitives.
In the end, an attempt to pawn jewelry left in a vehicle the men allegedly stole in Sulphur Springs is what led authorities to their Cooper hideout, Delta County Sheriff Ricky Smith said. A Cooper pawn shop clerk's report led officers to the person with the jewelry, who revealed the whereabouts of Tucker and King, Smith said.
Federal, state and local officers raided the barn where the men were hiding in Cooper, 20 miles northwest of Sulphur Springs.
Officers also arrested Charles Ensey, the owner of the barn, and he was being held in the Delta County Jail in Cooper on Thursday. Smith said Ensey was charged with two counts of hindering arrest.
Bond was not set. Ensey was scheduled to go before a magistrate Friday.
Sheriff's officials said the inmates fled the Hopkins County Jail on Tuesday by scaling a fence or slipping through a gap in a perimeter fence, sparking a manhunt in the woods and areas east and northeast of the jail.
Tucker was being held on $1 million bond in the 2011 death of Bobby Riley of Mahoney. Riley was found strangled in his home and some music instruments and firearms had been stolen. Jury selection in the murder trial was set to begin June 3.
Tucker previously was convicted of burglary and driving while intoxicated, and has been arrested several times for violating parole.
King was being held on several charges, including evading arrest, burglary and possession of a controlled substance. According to court documents, he pleaded guilty last month to the possession charge as a habitual offender and received a sentence of 40 years in prison.