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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Southern Hospitality
My mom, sisters and Annalise and Amelia all met up in Savannah where sister Caitlin lives and works. They've been at the beach everyday and been enjoying a little southern hospitality - the guest of Richard Eckburg, a patron saint of Army Rangers everywhere but especially in Savannah. He invited them all out to the Pink House. I, on the other hand, have my last radiation treatment tomorrow. I am done (almost.) And ready to get back to what everyone describes as the 'new normal.' Will let you know how it goes.
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 6:26 PM
If you are a survivor, watch this...
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 6:15 PM
Row, row, row your boat...
Deb Charles is a friend. She also lent me her 'husband' before my mastectomy. (That's a pillow with two arms that helps you sleep, silly.) She's a fighter!
Deb Charles is a friend. She also lent me her 'husband' before my mastectomy. (That's a pillow with two arms that helps you sleep, silly.) She's a fighter!
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 6:13 PM
Saturday, June 19, 2010
An interesting life
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 2:08 PM
Thursday, June 10, 2010
My little man
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 7:48 PM
Can't wait for 2012!
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 10:50 AM
It's my party and ....
I don't know why I started crying. I didn't mean to. I guess it is the normal reaction to the letdown.
May 17 wasn't even my birthday, but it might as well have been. My real birthday had come and gone. I was going through the motions on that day: April 20 - two weeks to the day after my surgery. I think I was still in shock or anesthetized and all I really wanted to do was talk to my oncologist, Claudine Isaacs, who I was supposed to see later that day. Andrea and Anamarija and Sarah Williams had brought me one Georgetown Cupcake, which I devoured. I plan to allow myself one once a year (except this year I have already had two so I guess I won't get my next one until 2012.) On my real birthday, I was distracted and trying to look excited when my friends showered me with love, attention and presents. And I mean shower. You have no idea how good my friends are. I am still getting these amazing vegan dishes dropped at my doorstep because my friends are so generous (and they don't trust me to stay on the straight and narrow. They know that my mouth says 'whole grain' but my mind says bagel with cream cheese. They know how important a low saturated fat, organic, vegan diet is in terms of keeping this cancer at bay for the next 3 years, which is the danger period and so they continue to spoil me with the wonderful Christine Merkle, who has taught me to even like kale. Actually, I really don't like kale, but I know how good it is for me and now I eat it because without Tamoxifen or Herceptin, food is my best pharmaceutical defense in keeping this cancer at bay.)
I was about to tell you about May 17. That's when the love affair began (some might liken it more to a crack addiction. Let's just say it is very SJP.) It was supposed to be a normal day. I'm not even sure if I had started radiation yet. It is all a bit blurry. But my Italian friend and neighbor Adele had made a reservation at Cafe Milano in Georgetown for lunch - to celebrate. It was a little overcast but when the plate of prosciutto arrived and the exquisite course upon course of Mediterranean plates kept coming we might as well have been in sunny Tuscany or Sardinia.
They offered us champagne. They could tell we were celebrating. They didn't know I no longer drank. I took a token sip. Adele is one of the warmest, most thoughtful people I know (and I know many) and she is INSANE when it comes to spoiling a girl. I remember when we moved into our new house, she sent as a house warming gift the most exquisite orchid that I have EVER seen. Magenta and architecturally perfect. The kind you see in a hotel lobby or a painting. It sat in my front hallway and picked up the shades of pomegranate in the painting that Jerusalem artist Andi Arnowitz did and the suzainy from the Old City of Jerusalem that was woven into another beautiful piece that I bought before leaving Israel. But I digress.
At the end of the meal Adele said (and there was no stopping her - trust me, I tried): "We are now going to pick out a pair of those Louboutins!" No, no, no - in neither language did it work. I relented (ok - secretly it was the most exciting gift I had ever received - other than the time that my friend Eve surprised me with a Georges Reich handbag for my 30th birthday in Moscow a decade earlier!) We got in the car and went to Saks and tried on every pair. She and I both strutted back and forth in front of the mirror. What to do? It's not every day that you get to even try on a pair of Louboutins. They make you want to put on a ball gown and walk up the front steps of the Met just so you can flash those cherry red soles to the world. And you know that there isn't a man out there who would understand this. In fact, they don't even know what the red sole means (until they get the bill). Women don't wear these shoes for men - they wear them for other women - that's how crazy we are. We carefully wrap the shoes in red felt bags with a romantic signature from the Parisian artisan who made them. I chose black eel skin - open toed - they must be 6 inches high. And yet they are comfortable. That is the beauty of a Louboutin. Of course, they are excessive. That's the point. That's why women who are wearing them smile as if they have a terrible secret. It's a love affair pure and simple. We tried on so many pairs - should we get closed toe - a little lower - maybe I would wear them more often, if they were shorter. No, no, no. The decision was made when another woman who was eyeing a pair of Manolo Blahniks looked at me and said, "Those (the shorter ones) look mother of the bride. THOSE (the taller ones) look like they should be used for kicking down doors. Sold!
Adele and I hugged and we made our way back home. Kids would be arriving from school soon. They saw the box and asked what was in it. I didn't have the heart to tell them that they may not be able to go to college or we may have to sell our house and move because of my new addiction. (I told Adele that I would be recalling this day - May 17 - at my first "Shoe-a-holics Anonymous" meeting!) I planned to wear my new friends to a military dinner later in the week. I would be wearing them every day except my toe nails fell off a few days later from the chemo. I mostly wear closed toe shoes right now despite having bought a zillion sandals at DSW when summer started. But somehow I don't mind the lack of toenails - they don't bother me so much that I would go and glue on some fake ones - too scared of the glue. In fact they don't bother me at all. I don't have to clip my toenails anymore to run. Their new growth remind me of my new hair - like crocuses that suggest winter is at an end and sunny days are on their way. So occasionally I wear my Louboutins just in front of my full length mirror with my exercise pants rolled up. They will look so much better when I have toenails again.
So you would think that a day could not get any better. (And it shouldn't have, really.) But then Ingrid called. She said she had something to drop off on her way home from work and she couldn't wait until Paul got home. I said, "Come on over." She rang the bell. Izzy barked. She handed me a box. It was flat - like a frame. It was a frame. I pulled it out and there it was a black and white lithograph from the cover of the Joshua Tree album. Bono looking off in the distance two and a half decades earlier. At the bottom was his signature. It said, "Jennifer: Love, Live, Peace, Strength. Bono." I squealed. But this wasn't any autograph. There was a back story. On September 29 a day after I was diagnosed, we had been in back to back doctor's appointments since 9 am - first two separate breast surgeons, a quick PhD in oncology, my Ob/gyn who found the tumor, a plastic surgeon who marked up my chest and had me rotate in front of the Sears backdrop for the "before" pictures, and finally my oncologist, Claudine Isaacs. We told our story over and over. We listened. We cried. My mom and Greg accompanied me. I remember Dr. Isaacs crouching in front of me as my shoulders lifted and fell as I heaved with grief. I pleaded with her, "I have to survive this. I have three children. Give me everything you've got." Seven days later a nurse would be looking for a vein and slowly shooting me up with adriamyacin. Claudine crouched in front of me and said, "We are going to get you through this." September 29 was exhausting. I was catatonic at the end of the meetings. Not broken but tired.
I also had tickets to U2. My friend Paul Nevin called and at that point we hadn't told anyone - we hadn't had time. Paul was calling to tell me he had also gotten tickets for that night - at the last minute. I told him I didn't think I could make it. He said, "Nonsense - we'll pick you up - you can sleep in the car on the way to FedEx field. You are coming with us." And I did. My sister Caitlin and I piled into the back of Ingrid's car. Their friend Julia from the State Department was in the back seat as well. She could sense we were in shock. We didn't talk. Caitlin just kept squeezing my arm. What a sister - what a day. The traffic was slow (it was like the opening line of "Beautiful Day") suddenly we saw the stadium in the distance. It was pulsating like the Emerald City. The concert had started. We hurried. We got to the entrance and I handed the guard the printed tickets that Uncle Barry had secured from his cousin John, former Nirvana manager. But Barry was out of town and he had received two sets of tickets in the mail so he gave the second pair to other Godchildren - as he is want to do. They were good tickets - they always were. I knew immediately what had happened. He had given all four of us the same seats. I told Paul and Ingrid and Julia to go ahead. And without missing a beat (fortunately, I was carrying way too much cash in my bag - a bad habit from Moscow when there were no banks). I marched over to a scalper and asked him, "How much?" Too much. I gave him all I had and Caitlin and I had two tickets to the field. We pushed our way through the crowd and made our way pretty close to the stage. The music pulsed. I was still in shock. We sang at the top of our lungs and hugged each other....
"You've got to get yourself together, you've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it...It's a Beautiful Day...Don't let it get away....Where the streets have no name....See the stone set in your eyes, see the nail twist in your side... on and on."
I slept on the way home. It was a Beautiful Day. But there is more. When Ingrid arrived with the framed autographed photo of Bono she told me what had happened. Her friend Julia was planning to attend the Atlantic Council dinner this year and guess who was coming to dinner? Bono. He was seated at her table in fact. The serendipity! So Ingrid plotted and schemed with Julia for her to go up to Bono and tell her the story of my diagnosis and that we were at the concert that night and ask him to sign a napkin. He did one better and Julia, who by the way in the meantime, had moved to Japan, managed to get it framed and shipped and Ingrid had just gotten it in the mail.
May 17. What a day - and it wasn't even my birthday. But every day seems to be these days. Go figure. It's not been all bad, I must say, and I feel a little bad saying it.
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 10:28 AM
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Day 22
I am always late for radiation. I go every day. And every day it's the same story. I procrastinate. Try to squeeze in a few more e-mails. Sort through my old magazines so that I can take a pile to donate to the waiting room. Play with Luke after the kids go to school. Water some flowers. Take time for a real oatmeal - the one that takes 30 minutes to cook - not the instant. Chop the walnuts and dates, even though it is almost 9 am. I am supposed to be there, checked in and changed into my gown by 9:15 am. (I put one gown on facing frontwards, the other backwards - for modesty, of which I no longer have any. In fact I could walk into the waiting room without a gown and it would be all the same to me. (Except I wouldn't want to offend the nice older woman who is always knitting as she waits for her husband who I assume is being treated for prostate cancer.) I show everyone my breasts now because frankly I am as detached from them as if they are an elbow - no more, no less - so there is really very little to be modest about and besides I chose a very immodest cup size). Radiation at Sibley is almost like the drive-through window at McDonald's. You have a blue i.d. with a barcode that you flash after the automatic sliding doors allow you into the sunny lobby. You might as well be flashing your library card. Then you are supposed to change quickly in a locker room that really feels like it is a changing room at a spa without the Enya. I pride myself on changing in seconds flat once I flash my i.d. I always wear my gym clothes. I never have a bra on. I toss my shirt in a locker. I toss the gowns over my Lululemons. I am seated before they can even round the corner looking for me. They expect me to be late, but not because I am a slow changer.
In the beginning I was late because I always got slowed down at the parking lot. I would always be fumbling for my parking pass and because my arms didn't lift all that well after the mastectomy and my steering wheel was tight, I'd nearly wipe out the automated post in front of the security gate. I could never get close enough for it to read my parking pass because, again, my arms and pectoral muscles were so sore that I rarely cut the turn into the parking lot just right. The first few times I was too far away and had to get out of the vehicle, which annoyed me. Next time I would try to cut it closer until two of my four wheels rode up on the curb - all that stood between me and the automated scanner that was supposed to make my life easier. I nearly hit that post at least two times a week. Now my arms have a bit more range of motion and I find the whole thing a bit less unwieldy. It all added to my sense that this radiation thing was really annoying and pretty inconvenient after the year I have had. 33 sessions. Daily except the weekends and holidays. It is the reason I am always late. I don't really want to be there. Anita, the technician in a lab coat who runs my 'linear accelerator', said on Monday, "It's official!" I knew what she was talking about. The fact that I am always late - not too late but about 10 minutes late every day. She repeated, "It's official." And then I explained that it really wasn't anything personal just that I really didn't want to be there. (People are slotted in pretty tight and you aren't supposed to be late or you lose your place in line like at a Baskin Robbins.) She said early on they had switched my time to 9:30 am and not told me. She said, "Now don't you start coming at 9:45 now that you know. Just pretend your appointment is at 9:15." I got there at 9:25 this morning and declared to Anita that I was 'early.' She laughed.
There aren't a lot of jokes on the linear accelerator, but I keep trying. It's a little harder now that my right chest wall, breast and underarm are the same color as my skin was that time at the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi circa 1992 when I didn't put on sunblock and sat by the pool after a tough stint in Somalia during the famine. My legs that night looked like something out of that Coppertone ad from the 70's with the dog pulling the little girl's bikini down and all you could see is burn. I had forgotten about the altitude. That was my last real sunburn. In fact, I really should have had melanoma not breast cancer given my lack of pigmentation and bad relationship to the sun.
I try to make the technicians laugh. I asked them if they could even up my tan this time (the side that they radiate is now a geometric red burn that itches. It is making it hard to wear sundresses and I am ready for the next 10 sessions to come and go. The 99.7 percent aloe vera that my friend Pamela gave me hasn't really worked. It's not her fault. It is mine. I didn't follow the protocol exactly right. Friends and the nurses at Sibley swore by a French product called Biafine and scared me about putting anti-oxidants such as vitamin E and C on the radiated skin. They said Dr. Gage (Sibley's Irene Gage, the world renowned radiation oncologist that Sibley recruited from Johns Hopkins) wanted to make it burn. They wanted the free radicals from the radiation to break down the walls of any rogue leftover microscopic cancer cells. Who knows? I have used a combination of aloe and Biafine cream, a tube of which is about 18 dollars in Paris. There it can be bought over the counter at a pharmacy. It costs the same here in the U.S. with a prescription IF you have insurance, unless you try to go back to CVS and ask for another tube sooner than the 21 day period that United Healthcare has determined you should make it last. I had been slathering the stuff on and was duly annoyed when I went back on Day 18 and asked for another tube and was told it would be 80 dollars and then the pharmacist asked if I could stretch what I had until Monday. Maybe that is why I am burned. I have run out again and have no idea what day I am on and whether insurance will pay for another tube.
When I lie down on the table, the radiation comes in several bursts. I raise my right arm over my head - in a "fight the power" pose. I couldn't do that at first so clearly the PT is working, but it still gets stiff. Receiving the radiation feels no different than getting an x-ray. In other words, you can't feel it. It's what it does later. Barbara and Anita always mark me with Sharpies once I lie down and pull one arm out of my gown. A few dots over the tattoo. They line up the red laser light lines that look like a sniper rifle's target and I close my eyes. I am no longer charmed or fooled by the fake trompe l'oeil palm trees or backlit beach scene staring down at me from the ceiling and at the foot of the machine. I don't have long enough to fall asleep. "Do you snore," General Petraeus asked me recently? I guess he found it relaxing getting radiation, but I don't have enough time for REM sleep. I usually have just enough time to say the Lord's Prayer when the first burst of radiation which is accompanied by a small alarm so that you know not to move or breathe. I nearly always make it. "Our father who art in heaven..." On the next burst I usually picture napalm. "Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Then I say to myself "all-y-all-y out come free." I have no idea why we used to say that as kids when we played Foxes and Rabbits in Mr. King's yard with Gretchen Barbash, Moira Mulroney, Liza Johnson and the other neighborhood kids. That was what whoever was 'it' would yell at the end of the game when it was safe to come back to base because the game was over. "Lead us not into temptation..." like the Georgetown Cupcakes that Komen handed out and which I resisted at VP Biden's house and then on race day only to tell Amelia as I saw the pink boxes in my refrigerator that the girls had left behind that this was my biggest 'temptation' to which she replied, 'Just like in your prayers at night.' She remembered the word 'temptation.' "And deliver us from evil..." And then I start to speed up because the first burst is usually coming to an end. So I slur the ending: "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen." The next two bursts are shorter. Then they turn on the light, the table lowers and returns to the start position, and Barbara, the technician, comes in to tell me that it is 'ok to put my arm down'. I would if I could but it is frozen in the 'fight the power' position and so I slowly will it to lift - slowly - and it crosses over my forehead and over my heart as if I am making the sign of the cross. Then the feeling starts to come back. I put my arm back in my gown and I sit up and I squint from having lain there with my eyes closed and my contacts in. My eyes adjust. I grab my purse and head back to the locker room. I immediately apply the Biafine in the changing room and walk out of the hospital a little more raw and burnt but with my head held high. What's my choice? Just ten more to go. I feel like the little engine that could.
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 8:53 PM
Monday, June 7, 2010
Diary of a Race
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 11:43 AM
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Later this year in Jerusalem...
Here's what you may not know about Komen. This is the 30th anniversary of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Nancy Brinker, who I am seated with here on the set of Shannon Bream's show on Fox today, is the sister of Susan G. Koman who died of breast cancer. Thirty years ago, Nancy promised her sister that she would find a cure for breast cancer so no woman and her family would ever have to go through this again. Since then Komen has become the second largest donor to cancer research after the U.S. government. Since 2006 Komen has given 26 million dollars to study Triple Negative breast cancer (the kind I have and the kind Nancy Brinker had - she and her sister were both BRCA1 carriers.) Komen is in your corner if you are a woman and that is why they can get 40,000 people on a Saturday at 7 am to show up on the Mall in Washington to Race for the Cure. I used to be a bit annoyed when I would see the road closures and all that pink. I didn't 'get it' until I 'got it'. From now on I'll be out there wearing a whacky outfit and running beside women who are wearing t-shirts that say "These breasts are fake...my real ones tried to kill me." And "Save Second Base." I even hear that Apple has a new ap - the iTit. Don't ask. And on October 28 - a year and a month after I was diagnosed - I'll be in Jerusalem with my kids and Greg for another historic race. The first Race for a Cure in Jerusalem. The city walls are going to be pink and it will be a homecoming for our family that I will never forget.
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 7:50 PM
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Kids for a Cure
With my goddaughter Clara Scholl who came down from New York with her mother, Chloe. And the other rugrats who rallied out of bed at 5:45 am this morning!
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 9:43 AM
We did it!
We were in it to win it and we did! We raised more than $24,000 - yay, team! There were 40,000 people there today. Komen raised 4.2 million dollars. Wow. Breast cancer had better be scared! Thanks to Gretchen Gailey and Katy Ricalde for leading our team. Gretchen's sign was fab. Katy is just, well, Katy. Caroline Shively brought her baby. Mike Tobin came in from Chicago. Cara Schayer and Emma Haberl raised the most money from Fox. Marty Hill ran like he meant it. Adrienne Ross was there with us til the bitter end. And Colleen Williams stayed with me and Amelia to coax the shorter legs along the run. There were others. You know who you are. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. It was a terrific day.
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 9:36 AM
Friday, June 4, 2010
Go Fox Trotters!
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 6:43 PM
$23,000 and counting...
That's what we have raised so far. We have until midnight to reach our goal of $35,000. Greg and the girls and I just returned from Vice President Biden's house where he and his wife Jill hosted the launch for the Komen Race tonight. It was a lovely tented affair at the Naval Observatory. We walked there. The kids had their picture taken with Joe - I told them not to call him Joe. They ate hot dogs (some things haven't changed). I ate cole slaw and string beans. Amelia introduced herself to Mrs. Obama's mother, who was gracious enough to tell her that she would tell Malia and Sasha that they had met (which made Amelia's night). When we were leaving we were all given a pretty pink box with a Georgetown cupcake inside. (Carbo loading?) When we got home, I gave mine to Rose.
Annalise and Amelia and friend Mizia are now marking up their t-shirts for the big race tomorrow. I keep telling them we are "in it to win it!" Lights out soon. 0 dark 30 wake-up call so that we can be at the start line at 7 am. G'night.
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 6:25 PM
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Please help... support our Komen team June 5
It is the last week of fundraising and we need your help. Press the link below and join our team or simply donate if you can't find your running shoes. Every bit helps. xoxo
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 11:05 AM
Do fatty diets during pregnancy increase cancer risk for our kids?
And these are my Top 10 Nutritional Tips for Cancer patients:
Top ten nutritional tips for Breast Cancer Patients:
1) Eliminate all processed foods.
2) Eliminate everything white: sugar, white breads, white pasta and white rice.
3) Eliminate alcohol - more than 2 drinks a week can increase the chance of a recurrence by two-thirds, according to recent studies presented at the annual San Antonio Breast Conference.
4) Add a scoop of Chia seeds to your oatmeal, smoothies, or quinoa - chia are 'flax on steroids.' Read "Born to Run" about the Tarahumara tribe in Chihuahua, Mexico.
5) If you eat meat make sure it is all highest grade, grass fed, no hormones added.
6) Eliminate dairy - drain on your immune system, potential pathway of hormones into your body. There is a reason that Asian countries have low rates of breast cancer - they don't eat dairy.
7) Any fish should be wild caught - no predators that have high mercury levels. Farm raised - never.
8) Drink 6 cups of green tea a day. Drink filtered water, bubbly water and green tea only - sodas and juices have too much sugar - raises your glycemic level and insulin levels - no good for Triple Negative breast cancer in particular. I allow myself one cup of black coffee each morning because it is full of anti-oxidants. Never drink any bottled water from plastic bottles - think how much plastic leeches into that water when it is shipped and left baking in the sun. Add lemons and cucumbers and limes to your water for flavor and sleep with a pitcher of water next to your bed - make sure you have drunk it by morning.
9) Make sure that you have grain-based protein with every meal - steel cut oatmeal, quinoa, lentils, black beans - you will lose muscle mass during chemo, if you don't eat enough protein. Add a scoop of powdered protein to your organic frozen berry smoothies, if you need more protein.
10) Buy only organic fruits and vegetables - preferably locally grown and in season. Only buy organic berries - great anti-oxidants but be careful of the pesticides - remember Andrew Weil's Dirty Dozen - the 12 most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables. Use fresh ginger for its anti-nausea qualities. Ginger and garlic and turmeric are great natural cancer fighting spices.
Two great go to breakfasts for chemo and after: steel cut Irish oatmeal, chopped walnuts (anti-inflammatory), chopped organic Medjool dates, agave nectar (the only sweetener I use because it has the lowest glycemic index and is made from cactus nectar. Or whole grain (darkest possible) toast with avocado and olive oil on top - and sea salt sprinkled on. Never use iodized salt - sea salt retains all of its natural minerals - refined salt loses any of its nutritional value.
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 10:49 AM
Vaccine to prevent Breast Cancer?
Posted by Jennifer Griffin at 10:46 AM
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The former leader of an air cadets' group is expected to stand trial on charges of sex offences against a teenage girl.
James Dodd, 41, of Masefield Avenue, Holmewood, Chesterfield, was the commanding officer of the 1803 (Hucknall) Air Training Corps squadron.
Dodd appeared at Nottingham Crown Court facing charges dating back nine years.
His case was adjourned until a plea hearing on July 24 and a trial is expected from September 29.
When he appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court in March, Dodd was accused of five offences in Hucknall between September 24, 2005, and September 25, 2006.
Four were for allegedly committing sexual acts and one was for allegedly inciting the girl to engage in sexual activity. Dodd was also accused of possessing two indecent photographs of children between September 24, 2005, and May 1, 2013. He was released on conditional bail.

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The St. Andrew's Medical Mission, founded in 1913, is a testimony of faith and vision, as well as a living miracle of God's love and compassion for mankind. Inspired and guided by God, many different hands have steered the course of the Medical Mission.
The Mission was initiated by Dr. Charlotte Ferguson-Davie, a medical doctor and wife of the first Anglican Bishop of Singapore. Her compassion for the sick poor and her tireless effort led to the opening of a dispensary at Bencoolen Street on St. Luke's Day, 18 October 1913. Over the years, it set up and consolidated various health services ranging from dispensaries in the early years, St. Andrew's Mission Hospital in 1923, St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital for Children in 1939 and St. Andrew's Community Hospital in 1992. The work of the Medical Mission has had one common thread - meeting the healthcare needs of the underserved and the disadvantaged.
Today, St. Andrew's Mission Hospital (SAMH) is a non-profit voluntary welfare organisation. Its services have expanded and evolved holistically so as to minister not just to the physical well-being but also to the emotional, social and special needs of the community. It has been repositioned to be the corporate headquarters that oversees the operations of:
St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Clinic
Providing general outpatient services, and mobile medical services to communities-in-need
St. Andrew's Community Hospital
Providing rehabilitative and sub-acute care
St. Andrew's Lifestreams
Providing training and education in counselling and pastoral care
St. Andrew's Autism Centre
Providing comprehensive services for autism care
St. Andrew's Nursing Home
Providing psychiatric long-term care
St. Andrew's Senior Care - JOY Connect
Providing (dementia) day care, day rehabilitation, centre-based nursing and integrated homecare services
Our vision: To be a light in a dark place, that ignorance would be replaced by knowledge and understanding; physical distress by comfort and healing.
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Rising Insurance Premiums No Surprise
CalPERS, the retirement system for California state employees, wants Congress to do something about rising insurance costs. It complains that insurance premiums it pays for its employees, their dependents and retirees has increased 60 percent since 2003.
CalPERS president Rob Feckner says, "We hope [President Obama] doesn't give up on the public plan option. We think that's the right way to go," though the Sacramento Bee adds, "he was expressing his personal opinion, and CalPERS has not yet issued a formal position on the controversial public plan option."
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Uhm, sure.
Anyway, is it any surprise that CalPERS premiums … or those of any employer, are up? There are several causes, no doubt. But one important one is that the cost of health insurance is largely invisible to the insured, so the most powerful agent in restraining costs in any industry — a self-interested customer — is largely absent. The irony is that the burden is ultimately borne by employees themselves; when employers pay more for insurance, they have less money to give in pay increases.
On a related note, a few nights ago, I was talking with some neighbors, comparing notes about a hailstorm that came through a year ago. One woman suggested that she got payment for "damage" to her house that was not caused by the storm. She added, "Hey, insurance was paying, why not?" Take that scenario, multiply it a few times, and you start to get a comparable situation in health insurance.
It's that kind of attitude toward health insurance that helps drive costs higher.
(Cross-posted from State House Call.)


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The Urpiano Beach is located in the Nothern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, 3km South of the Pacuare Nature Reserve where Rainforest Concern has the reforestation programme. Urpiano is a 4.5km strip of beach located between the Caribbean Sea at the East and the Tortuguero Canal at the West.
From March to June every year the leatherback sea turtle come to nest in this area including Urpiano beach. As well as the leatherback, the green turtle and the hawksbill also come to nest in smaller numbers. Rainforest Concern's present proposal is to protect these turtles from poachers and hunters.
Unlike Pacuare Reserve, which 6km of beach has been protected for 25 years, the Urpiano beach has never been protected. Historically, this beach has been known as a place where poachers and hunters come to poach turtle eggs and kill the turtles.
However, in its first year of being monitored we are already seing successes.
Please click here for our 2017 article on Urpiano and its successes in it's first year.
Please click here for our 2017 article on Pacuare Nature Reserv.


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IDSN - Interior Design
IDSN 101. Intro to Interior Design. 3 Credits. (3 Lec) F,S
This course introduces design as it relates to interior design, architecture and related professions, through the study of the elements and principles of design and the ways in which humans interact with designed environments and elements. (ARCH majors substitute ARCH 121).
IDSN 110. Hist of Dsgn I Ancnt-1900. 3 Credits. (3 Lec)
This course offers exposure to stylistic variations found in interior design of the ancient world and traditional Europe. Students will become aware of how these styles have been the impetus for pre-1900 architecture and decorative arts in America. (ARCH majors substitute ARCH 322/323).
IDSN 111. Hist Dsgn II 1900-Contemp. 3 Credits. (3 Lec) S
This course is a continuation of the study of the development of the interior environment from the 19th century to the present. The difference in the basic philosophy between 19th and 21st century design is emphasized. (ARCH majors substitute ARCH 322/323).
IDSN 122. Textiles and Interior Finishes. 3 Credits. (3 Lec) F
This course includes the study of textiles and interior finishes used by interior designers. Students will gain familiarity with a wide range of textile products used in both residential and commercial interiors including fiber content and yarn type, application and labeling, performance and maintenance. Students will also study the range and application of wall, ceiling and floor finish materials commonly used in interior design.
IDSN 130. Interior Design Graphics. 3 Credits. (2 Lec, 1 Lab) F,S
Interior Design Graphics provides interior design students with a basic knowledge of building structures, construction techniques, and building materials. It introduces the technical skills needed to read and to produce drawings used in the practice of interior design, including floor plans, interior elevations, reflected ceiling plans, and detail drawings. (ARCH majors substitute ARCH 151/152).
IDSN 131. Presentation Drawing. 3 Credits. (3 Lec) S
PRE or CO-REQUISITE: IDSN 130 (or ARCH 151/152)
This course presents the elements of two- and three-dimensional design as related to interior representational drawings. Emphasis is on one- and two-point perspective drawings and sketching. Addition of color to drawings by use of hand and digital methods is introduced. (ARCH majors substitute ARCH 261/262).
IDSN 135. Fundamentals of Space Planning. 3 Credits. (2 Lec, 1 Lab) S
PREREQUISITES: IDSN 101 (or ARCH 121) and IDSN 130 (or ARCH 151/152).
This course explores the physical and psychological concepts pertaining to interior spaces. Students work with commercial design programs, schematic planning tools, commercial furniture, and universal design concepts to create functional space plans that meet program criteria. Students will explore space planning in relationship to plumbing and mechanical systems and apply NKBA kitchen and bath space planning guidelines. The basic space planning skills and terminology learned are applicable to the NCIDQ exam.
IDSN 150. Digital Technology Lab. 1 Credit. (1 Lab) F,S
PREREQUISITES: Either DDSN 101 or CAD 1 & 2 or DDSN 118/DDSN 131.
This course reinforces basic digital drafting principles and commands through repetition and skill building in a lab setting. Students are required to bring their assignments and outside work to gain practice and competence in digital drafting. This is a collaborative studio environment where students will gain knowledge from shared experiences. Students will advance and apply digital skills through the production of course work assigned in other classes. Students will learn production tips and shortcuts from faculty.
IDSN 225. Light/Color/Lighting Systems. 3 Credits. (3 Lec) S
Prerequisite: IDSN 101, IDSN 130.
Students will explore color theory, human response to color, and the properties of light and color. Students will also gain knowledge in lighting systems and specification of lamps and fixtures. The student will learn practical methods for applying these elements of design and demonstrate competency in color usage and lighting systems by designing projects including reflected ceiling plans, lighting and color specification.
IDSN 240. Studio I Residential. 4 Credits. (4 Lec) S
Prerequisite: WRIT 101, DDSN 118/IDSN 131, CSTN 173, IDSN 135, IDSN 225
This course is a laboratory experience with real-life & hypothetical design projects. The focus of Studio I is primarily residential. Students will develop 2 or 3 complete presentations including but not limited to floor plans, interior elevations, interior perspectives, color board, room finish schedule, and a budget. Students will make oral presentations using the presentation boards to illustrate their design solutions.
IDSN 250. Studio II Commercial. 4 Credits. (3 Lec, 1 Lab) S
Prerequisite: IDSN 101, IDSN 130, DDSN 131, CSTN 173, IDSN 131, IDSN 135, IDSN 225.
Completion of all first year IDSN program courses with a C- or better. Studio II is an advanced laboratory class which focuses on commercial design projects, some for actual clients. Advanced space planning, utilization of appropriate codes and specification writing will be covered. Students will develop 2-3 complete presentations including but not limited to floor plans, interior elevations, interior perspectives, color boards, and specification schedules. Students will make oral presentations using the presentation boards and CAD drawings to illustrate their design solutions.
IDSN 255. Environmental Design Studio. 4 Credits. (4 Lec) S
Completion of all first year IDSN program courses with a C- or better. This course is a lecture/laboratory experience with a focus on an environmentally sustainable design project. Students will develop complete presentations including floor plans, interior elevations, interior perspectives, finish schedules, and make presentations digitally. Emphasis is on the design process and LEED goals.
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IDSN 266. Kitchen and Bath I. 4 Credits. (3 Lec 1 Lab) F,S
Prerequisite: IDSN 101, IDSN 130, DDSN 131, CSTN 173, IDSN 131, IDSN 135, IDSN 225.
Completion of all first year IDSN program courses with a C- or better. Using the National Kitchen and Bath Association guidelines, students will learn the fundamentals of kitchen and bath design, using NKBA's drawing and presentation standards. Analysis of client needs, specifying products, creating design solutions, residential plumbing and mechanical systems, project drawing and documentation will also be covered.
IDSN 275. Professional Practices. 3 Credits. (3 Lec) S
Prerequisite: IDSN 101, IDSN 130, DDSN 131, CTSN 173, IDSN 131, IDSN 135, IDSN 225.
Completion of first year IDSN program courses with a C- or better. This course is an introduction to business principles and practices related to the interior design profession. Topics include business procedures, methods of charging, and steps involved in business formation. Use of contracts and specifications to achieve desired objectives is covered, as is marketing of professional services and promotion of the firm. A portfolio, resume and cover letter will be completed during this class.
IDSN 291. Special Topics. 1-3 Credits.
IDSN 292. Independent Study. 1-3 Credits. (1 Ind; 6 cr max) On Demand
Max 6 cr.
PREREQUISITE: Consent of instructor.
Directed research and study on an individual basis.
IDSN 298. Internship. 3-5 Credits. (3-5 Ind; 5 cr max) F,S
PREREQUISITE: DDSN 118 or IDSN 131 and CSTN 173, IDSN 135 and IDSN 225.
This course is a variable credit class which gives the student 90 hours of experience in the daily operation of an interior design firm or a related business. It provides monitored experience in dealing with clients, customers and other business persons. The student will encounter opportunities to utilize skills and knowledge acquired in previous interior design courses. The discussion and reporting component of this class will be managed online.


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Anders Thomas Jensen
Born 1972, Denmark. Screenplay-writer on a number of Danish feature films, including the two Dogme films The King is Alive / The King is Alive (2001), selected for Un Certain Regard, Cannes, and Mifune / Mifunes sidste sang (1998), a Grand Prix and Silver Bear winner in Berlin. He has also written the screenplay for Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak / Skagerrak (2003), as well as Susanne Bier's Open Hearts / Elsker dig for evigt (2002) and Brødre/Brothers (2004). His contribution to short films is studded with awards: In three consecutive years he had a short film nominated for an Acadamy Award. These were all written and (or co-) directed by Jensen himself and produced by M & M Productions: Ernst & the Light / Ernst & Lyset (1996), Wolfgang / Wolfgang (1998), and Election Night / Valgaften (1998), the latter being recipient of an Oscar. His feature film debut Flickering Lights / Blinkende lygter (2000) was a box office success, and praised by critics who ranked the film as a brilliant and witty buddy movie. The Green Butchers (2003) was Anders Thomas Jensen's second feature film. Adam's Apples is Anders Thomas Jensen's third feature film.


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text: Babycakes is a labour of love. It is what we have made out of several scribbled, feverishly footnoted, yellowed recipes and years of many fun baking adventures in Mumbai. We at Babycakes believe that baking is best when from the heart. Nothing makes us happier than your love for what we do. Your crazy and wonderful cake requests keep us going and inspire us to keep baking for every occasion, real or conjured.


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Sizing Up the Universe
Wearing my science writer's hat (actually, it's a beanie with a propeller), I've been spending a lot of time lately interviewing particle physicists. They're very smart people who unfortunately tend to talk about "quantum chromodynamics" a bit promiscuously. They discuss muons, bosons, leptons, fermions, gluons and various other kinds of shmutzions that I can never keep straight. Fortunately, they're tolerant of idiots, and don't seem to mind when I ask questions like, "So how big, exactly, is a smithereen?"
Recently I visited Fermilab, a government complex west of Chicago where scientists smash together particles to see what kind of nifty stuff will spurt out. They use a collider called the Tevatron, which is 6 kilometers (11,765 miles, by my back-of-the-envelope calculation) in circumference. Big science is employed to make little particles into littler particles. The collider is hidden under a berm that circles a tall-grass prairie. An adjacent farm has a small herd of buffalo, who are no doubt worried that they'll be put into the collider and smashed into cows to produce beefalo.
Nature is incorrigibly complicated, and there's a list of things that continue to perplex physicists. They're not yet sure what the universe is made of at the fundamental level. They're not sure why the universe exists at all. Or whether there are parallel universes or hidden dimensions. Even gravity remains enigmatic. It's extremely confounding stuff if you're a physicist -- but it's also job security.
Fortunately, the universe has the remarkable quality of being constructed in such a way as to be describable with chalk. Physicists always carry chalk, and you rarely see them more than 15 paces (23 cubits) from a chalkboard. Clearly whoever put this particular cosmos together had some kind of teaching gig.
One of the things particle physicists have learned is that the universe contains a lot of nothingness. It's mostly empty out in space, and mostly empty even inside the atom. The Tevatron tries to crash protons into anti-protons, but the particles tend to miss one another or just whoosh right through each other without the really interesting chunky parts, the fabled quarks, coming into contact, and the collision is something of a dud. The one predictable effect is that some boring ol' gluons will fly out. No one cares about gluons. It's like having a vicious pillow fight that results in nothing but a few feathers drifting to the floor.
The collider and its powerful particle beam are hidden behind protective walls. The visitor sees pipes, cables, humming machinery. There's a control room with lots of monitors. What you can't see are the exotic particles. You can't catch some in a vial and sell them in a gift shop. Not only are they way too small, they're unstable and decay in a jiffy (7.3 nanoseconds). Also, we're way, way too big to be messing with these things intimately. We're bloated creatures trapped in the macro world. Compared with an efficient little particle, we're all enormous, sloppy, jiggly sacks of goo.
As huge, blobby organisms, we should probably be more appreciative of the tiny particles and unseen forces that make our existence possible. Most of us know a wee bit about the Periodic Table, which lists all the named elements very neatly by number, but we pay no attention to its equivalent in physics, the Standard Model. The Standard Model isn't quite as orderly as the Periodic Table. In fact, it's kind of raggedy. It has all these odd components, strange stuff that you'd expect to find in that Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish . . . "From here to there, funny things are everywhere."
But maybe that's another thing we should be happy about: If the universe were purged of all its ungainly eccentricities, it might be nothing but pure energy. It might be a beautiful, glowing, heavenly cosmos without the interesting quirks.
Fermilab theorist Joe Lykken told me, "Elegant laws of physics give you boring universes that don't have anything in them."
So we'll take this universe, which, while difficult to understand, is still capable of producing astounding miracles -- such as human beings and Tevatrons.
Read Joel Achenbach weekdays at washingtonpost.com/achenblog.


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One thing that annoys many Lion users is "rubber-band scrolling": When you scroll to the end of a page in many apps, the page seems to continue scrolling a bit, then bounces back. OS X Hints reader Havner found a way to remove this effect.
As with so many other 'hidden' settings in OS X, the fix for this is just a Terminal command away:
defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0
In Terminal, enter that command then press Return. It should stop the behaviour in the Finder, Mail, Preview and TextEdit, among other applications; it does not, however, work universally, Safari being one notable exception.
If you want to revert to the standard bouncy behaviour, just run this command in Terminal:
defaults delete -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding
In both cases, you'll need to quit and relaunch any applications that displayed the rubber-band effect. If you find that this works with more than the applications listed above, post your success stories in the comments below.


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Plastex Matting News
Therapeutic matting
Heronrib matting, manufactured by Plastic Extruders Ltd, is being enjoyed by visitors and patients at a new physiotherapy pool in an orthopaedic rehabilitation hospital in Athens, Greece.
The matting is installed throughout the tiled pool area, the access steps, pool surrounds, walkways and showers in order to provide a safe surface which is slip resistant, warm and comfortable to stand on. Cable ties have been used to secure the matting on the steps to ensure they remained stable for users - even when covered with water.
Heronrib is manufactured from hardwearing non-porous vinyl with a two layer open grid construction and channelled underbars to help water drain away easily in all directions. The matting has an embossed slip resistant surface and impregnated anti-bacterial and anti-fungal additives. This ensures that it is not only safe underfoot but also hygienic for bare feet because it reduces the risk of cross-contamination. It also makes it ideal for use in hospital, healthcare and other hygiene-sensitive environments.
The matting, available in several colours, is supplied in 10m long rolls and widths of 50cm, 1m and 1.22m.
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November 1, 2013 (CHICAGO) --One of the best chess players anywhere took on 10 inmates at the Cook County Jail, and there were a couple of twists.
Timur Gareev played 10 games all at once, and while blindfolded.
He was told how each inmate played and then had someone make his moves for him while he visualized all 10 chess boards.
Gareev is the number 3 ranked chess player in the country.
His goal is to someday play 50 games at once.


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Picture the scene. You're in a bustling restaurant in Tokyo, staring blankly at an indecipherable menu of Japanese script with no hope of knowing what you're about to order. Now, imagine a pair of glasses that in the blink of an eye would translate the whole menu, allowing you to tell your sashimi from your chicken katsu.
It's the stuff of movies, but thanks to advancements in augmented reality, such a solution is just around the corner. At the end of September Japanese mobile company NTT Docomo demonstrated its menu translating Intelligent Glasses at Ceatec 2013, an IT and electronics exhibition in Japan.
Augmented reality, or AR, allows a wealth of digital information – from graphics, reports and statistics to video and audio – to be superimposed on physical objects, melding the physical world with a computer generated one, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual. And all you need is a smartphone or tablet.
While menu translating glasses are a bit further off – Docomo hopes to have them ready for sale by 2020 – augmented reality apps are already having an impact on our lives. By pointing a phone or tablet at food packaging, newspapers, and even the street, users of apps such as Blippar and Layar can find recipes, breathe life into column inches, and get information about local restaurants, cafes and bars.
There is even a free app from Nokia, called Internship Lens, which lets job hungry students and graduates in the United States hover their mobile over a company's building to find out if any internships are on offer.
"The future of augmented reality has enormous potential, and the present is just hinting, really, at what the possibilities might include," Dr Chris Brauer, founder of the Centre for Creative and Social Technologies (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London, told CNBC.com.
"With advertising, marketing and branding, there are enormous implications – there will be no need to physically deface the world, and probably, it will ultimately mean the end of billboards."
The numbers look healthy, too. A report from Juniper Research predicts that in 2013 AR apps on mobiles will generate revenues of almost $300 million, and that by 2017 2.5 billion AR apps will be downloaded onto mobiles or tablets every year.


text: Adjunct Faculty Daniel D. C. Don Nanjira, Ph.D. Daniel Don Nanjira has over 35 years of successful professional and academic background as a Diplomat, Teacher, Lecturer, Writer, Human Rights Advocate, and Expert on International Development and Global Negotiations of the United Nations system. He holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, transferred from the University of Nottingham, England; a B.A. and M.A. summa cum laude from the Universities of Lodz and Warsaw, Poland,and many other Academic Credentials, including Certificates of Advanced International Studies acquired from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS, Washington, D.C. : 1975 - 1977 ). Most of his training, lecturing, courses and other academic engagements date back to 1973, and have been conducted in Colleges and Universities in Africa, Europe and USA. Dr. Don Nanjira is originally from Kenya. He is proficient in a number of languages. He is fluent in his native Vernacular ( Luhya ) and Swahili languages, and several other languages and dialects spoken in Kenya and East Africa. He is also fluent in English and Polish, and can communicate in other languages, including in Italian and French. He was a student of classical studies, studied Greek and Latin, and translated for seven years, many classical works like Cicero's, Vergil's, Homer's, and works on Caesar . Dr. Don Nanjira held progressively responsible positions in the Kenya Government, and has an employment record in the Kenyan Foreign Service extending over a period of 25 years, during which time he served as a diplomat and Ambassador to 6 European Countries ( Italy, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta ) with residence in Rome, where he was also Ambassador / Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kenya to the UN Agencies based in Rome ( the Food and Agriculture Organization ; the World Food Programme;the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the World Food Council. From Rome, Ambassador Don Nanjira was posted to Geneva in 1992, where he served as Ambassador / Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations Organizations based in Geneva and Switzerland, including the GATT / WTO, WIPO, and ILO, as well as to the UN system Organizations based in Vienna, Austria ( including the Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), and other UN system Organizations based in Vienna. For years prior to his appointment as Ambassador, he had been seconded by his Government to the United Nations, and served the UN from New York. He retired from the Kenya Civil Service in 1995, when he was offered senior positions in the UN system. First, he served as Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) on Policies for Africa. In 1997, he was co-employed by the WHO and the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) as their Regional Representative for North America with residence in New York. As Special Representative of the Secretary-General of WMO, he dealt with issues of weather and climate change, and global warming, and attended many conferences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC). In 2005, he began to teach as an adjunct professor. In addition to his work at Iona, he has taught at several colleges and universities, most recently: Hunter College of the New York City University, Columbia University's School of Public and International Affairs ( SIPA), and Manhattanville College. His most recent courses include: American International Relations and Diplomacy, African Development and Security, Economic Development of Africa, International Business in Africa, International Relations of Africa and Diplomacy,Swahili Language and Culture, Africa in World Politics, Introduction to African Studies I and II, History of Modern Nigeria; and The Making of South Africa. His publications include a book and a number of Articles on Africa, development, energy, environment, and human rights, and on other issues. Book: "The Status of Aliens in Easy Africa. Asians and Europeans in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya" - Praeger Special Studies, New York, 1976 This study analyzes the legal, political, social, racial, economic, business, immigration and ethnocentric problems of Europeans and Asians ( Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis ) in Africa, with East Africa as a case study . Forthcoming book ( 2010 ): African Foreign Policy and Diplomacy from Antiquity to the 21st Century. Peter A. Korn, BBA, MGA Peter A. Korn has served as a public administration practitioner and professor for many years. He has extensive experience in public budgeting and finance, labor relations, municipal law and local government management in New York State. During his 40-year public service career, he was Budget Director of Rochester, NY and city or county administrator of Long Beach, Rochester and New Rochelle, NY, Broward County, FL and Peoria, IL. He served as chief administrative officer overseeing the management and direction of the government, supervising operating agencies and providing policy guidance and options to local legislative bodies that set policy and enacted laws and ordinances. For five years, he was a professor of public administration at SUNY-Brockport and Nova University (FL), where he taught labor relations, budgeting, public personnel administration and decision-making. He has held adjunct appointments at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, and Iona College, New Rochelle and has authored a number of papers in such areas as financing alternatives for city school districts, oversight functions of public authority boards, use of video in municipal public relations, and reservoir management. During his career, he has been a municipal magistrate, library trustee and board member of a public water authority serving 400,000 people. Several of his administrations won significant awards including an All-America City Award from the National Civic League and the first Ford Foundation/Harvard University Award (1986) for Innovative Use of Technology in Local Government. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Service Award for contributions to local government management from the International City/County Management Association, one of only 80 awarded in the, then, past 43 years. Since 2002, he has been an arbitrator/mediator and administrative hearing officer. He has served on commercial and labor arbitration panels since 1978 and has heard cases where issues involved discharge, discipline, contract language and securities. He holds a BBA from The City College of New York and an MGA from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania.


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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - March 28, 2017) - West Mountain Environmental Corp. (the "Company" or "WMT") (TSX VENTURE:WMT) was informed by its Chinese legal counsel on March 27th, 2017 that its motion to remand its contract dispute with Shanghai Hehui Environmental Technology, Co. Ltd. ("Hehui") to arbitration in conformance with the terms of the contract between the parties was denied. The Intermediate Court ruled that as the contract between the parties did not specify an arbitrator, the Intermediate Court would hear the case. As a result of the ruling and based on the recommendation from Chinese legal counsel, WMT will file an objection of jurisdiction to the Intermediate Court on April 5th, 2017 at which time an official hearing for the case will be set.
About West Mountain
West Mountain is an established Canadian environmental solutions company specializing in the thermal treatment of a variety of hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams. Through its subsidiaries it employs a unique indirectly heated, closed loop technology that allows it to extract even the most hazardous contaminants from soil and industrial sludge converting much of it into reusable oil and synthetic natural gas that it uses to sustain the process. This methodology offers significant opportunity for greenhouse gas reduction over traditional hazardous waste destruction technologies. The Company's management team maintains expertise in hazardous waste management and contaminated site remediation with experience spanning North America and 15 countries internationally.
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LOS ANGELES --For the second time in less than two weeks, the UCLA men's basketball team received a commitment from a five-star high school prospect. Tony Parker, a center out of Georgia, gave his commitment to the Bruins, vaulting UCLA to the No. 1 spot in ESPN's recruiting class rankings.
Parker is rated as the No. 26 overall prospect by ESPNU and he will be joined by three fellow ESPNU 100 prospects in small forward Jordan Adams, point guard Kyle Anderson and shooting guard Shabazz Muhammad.
Muhammad, the nation's No. 2 overall prospect according to ESPN, committed to UCLA on April 11 and stated during his announcement the intention to convince Parker to join him in Westwood. Adams, a fellow Georgian, along with Anderson, have been recruiting Parker since they committed in the fall as well.
The Bruins beat out Duke, Ohio State and Georgia for Parker's services and will now turn their focus to transitioning the highly touted freshmen into their program come summer.


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I have done several cakes based on books that the birthday boy/girl have liked.
One of those cakes was based off the Warriors series on cat clans. It was for my niece. I can't remember the flavor of this particular cake, but it was covered in marshmallow fondant and colored with food gel to recreate the book cover. My niece loved it, so that's what matters.
Another one that I did was for my son who was all into the Percy Jackson book series at the time.
This is a round blue velvet cake decorated with crusting buttercream to represent the three head Gods, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A controversial campaign to reform California's public pensions faces an uncertain future after the state attorney general chose what the measure's backers consider to be unfriendly language for their proposed ballot initiative.
Chuck Reed, the mayor of San Jose and the driving force behind the proposal, told Reuters on Tuesday he will confer with supporters on whether to press ahead with trying to get the overhaul before voters later this year, and he might sue over Attorney General Kamala Harris' wording for the ballot. A decision should be made by the end of January, Reed said.
"It's inaccurate and that's a bit of a problem," Reed said of the attorney general's ballot summary, published late on Monday. The attorney general's office is tasked with writing the title and summary, limited to 100 words, for state ballot initiatives.
A Democrat, Reed has raised the ire of California's powerful public sector unions with his initiative after rallying San Jose voters to reduce retirement-related spending with changes to pensions offered by California's third-largest city.
Reed is particularly upset by the ballot summary's first sentence, which includes examples of politically popular public-sector workers. It says his measure "Eliminates constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits for current public employees, including teachers, nurses, and peace officers, for future work performed."
Reed's statewide measure has garnered national attention as it would amend California's Constitution to allow changes in the future pension benefits of current public employees to help local governments in the most populous U.S. state control rising retirement-related spending.
Courts have interpreted the Constitution as barring changes to pensions after a public employee was hired. A county judge recently ruled invalid a part of San Jose's pension reform requiring city employees to contribute more to their pensions to maintain pension benefits.
Pension spending has become a growing concern nationwide amid lean times for state and local governments, and is a prominent issue in municipal bankruptcy cases of Detroit and the California cities of Stockton and San Bernardino.
A top official in the union coalition set to fight Reed also criticized the description by Harris' office.
"We are disappointed that the Attorney General's title and summary of the Reed measure doesn't speak to the main motivation of its proponents: to slash the retirement benefits and retiree health care of current and future employees," Dave Low, chairman of Californians for Retirement Security, said in a statement.
Reed's campaign would need to collect 807,615 valid voters' signatures by June 5 to get the measure before voters. That would require raising funds to hire signature gatherers and for a bitter battle unions have vowed against the measure if Reed proceeds.
His campaign will likely conduct polls of the description of its measure to gauge voter reaction. Harris, also a Democrat, came under fire in 2012 for a description of another proposed ballot measure focused on pension reform. Supporters called their effort off after polling the description.
Reed said his campaign could file a lawsuit to try to force Harris' office to rewrite its description.
(Reporting by Jim Christie. Editing by Andre Grenonditing by Andre Grenon)


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MEDIA CONTACT: Rachel Day (617) 514-1662 email@example.com www.jfklibrary.org Read the 2009 winning essay by Margo Balboni. (pdf)Boston, MA- The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced today that Margo Balboni, a junior at Rockport High School in Rockport, Massachusetts, has won the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students™. Balboni will be honored by Caroline Kennedy during the May 18, 2009 Profile in Courage Award ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston for her prize-winning essay describing Baltimore City Councilman Nicholas D'Adamo's courageous efforts to pass legislation affording certain legal rights to gay constituents. The annual Profile in Courage Essay Contest invites students from across the nation to write an essay on the political courage of a U.S. elected official. The contest is a companion program of the Profile in Courage Award™, named for President Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage, which recounts the stories of eight U.S. Senators who risked their careers, incurring the wrath of constituents or powerful interest groups, by taking principled stands for unpopular positions. This year 1,464 students submitted essays from across the nation, including forty-nine states and American citizens studying in Canada, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The essay contest is sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and generously supported by Fidelity Investments. For more information on the Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students and the Profile in Courage Award, visit www.jfklibrary.org. In Balboni's winning essay, City Councilman Nicholas D'Adamo, she describes how D'Adamo changed his personal views on gay rights after listening to the experiences of gay constituents in his district. As a practicing Roman Catholic, representing a largely Catholic district, D'Adamo risked his career when he introduced a bill that would give gay partners hospital, prison, and funeral rights. He faced outrage from some family members and many of his constituents who strongly disagreed with his proposed legislation. Although the controversial bill D'Adamo submitted was withdrawn in 2003, Baltimore's City Council adopted a resolution on March 17, 2008 that encouraged the Maryland legislature to allow same-sex marriage. Balboni writes that "it was Nicholas D'Adamo who paved the way for the new bill by taking a courageous stand for an unpopular cause." [Editor's note: copy of the winning essay attached.] "Margo Balboni's decision to profile City Councilman D'Adamo shows an impressive understanding of political courage and its importance in our democratic society." said Al Hunt, Chairman of the Profile in Courage Award Committee. "This essay contest honors President Kennedy who believed deeply in the power of the individual and the promise of our nation's young people to make a difference in our world. We congratulate Margo on her achievement." "Fidelity congratulates Margo Balboni and all of the contest participants," said Doug Reed, Senior Vice President of Regional Management and Public Affairs for Fidelity Investments. "Fidelity's commitment to civic responsibility is a long, proud tradition. We are pleased to support this contest to encourage student leadership and civic engagement." Balboni will receive a $5,000 award for her first place essay. She and her family will be the guests of the Kennedy family and the Kennedy Library Foundation at the May 18th Profile in Courage Award ceremony in Boston, where Balboni will share the stage with this year's Profile in Courage Award recipients, Sheila Bair, chair of the FDIC, Brooksley Born, former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and the many women who worked with her in pushing for peace in their country. Margo Balboni is the daughter of Marianne Sheridan and Lawrence Balboni. Her older sister, Katryna, is a freshman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Balboni decided to enter the contest because she had heard about the book, Profiles in Courage, and thought that writing the essay would be an ideal opportunity to learn more about the leaders whose courage President Kennedy admired. After an extensive search of local newspaper articles across the country, she discovered Nicholas D'Adamo's story and was moved by his courageous action. Balboni serves as editor-in-chief of Rockport High School's newspaper and is involved in several social action initiatives, both in school and in the larger community. She and is co-founder and co-president of her school's Environmental Club. She also organizes fundraisers and educational programs about Darfur and is spearheading a campaign to bring a healthier menu to her school. Balboni has studied French and Spanish and plans to major in international relations. She hopes to volunteer with the Peace Corps after college. Balboni's nominating teacher, Mary Ellen Hart of Rockport High School, will receive a John F. Kennedy Public Service Grant in the amount of $500 to be used for school projects that encourage student leadership and civic engagement. Christine Boyer, a sophomore at the Turkey Valley Community School in Jackson Junction, Iowa, was selected as the second place winner in this year's contest for her essay on former member of the Des Moines School Board Jonathan Wilson. She will receive a $1000 prize for this recognition. Five students were also recognized as finalists in the competition. Those students are: Emily Flesch, a senior at Hermantown High School in Hermantown, Minnesota, who wrote about U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone; Susannah Jacob, a senior at Plano West Senior High School in Plano, Texas, for her essay on Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins; William Glidden, a junior at Suffield Academy in Suffield, Connecticut, who wrote about Massachusetts' Hampden County Sheriff Michael Ashe; Zhaokun Ma, a junior at Shaker High School in Latham, New York, who wrote about former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley and Hinh Tran, a senior at Monte Vista High School in Danville, California, who wrote about former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee. Each finalist will receive a $500 prize. Three students received honorable mention: Eric Dixon, a senior at Karns High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, for his essay on former Tennessee Governor Frank Clement; Mpaza Kapembwa, a sophomore at Cross Keys High School in Atlanta, Georgia, for his essay on U.S. Senator Russell Feingold; and Alison Podlaski, a senior at Homestead High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for her essay on U.S. Senator Vance Hartke. The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award is presented annually to public servants who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences. The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation created the Profile in Courage Award in 1989 to honor President Kennedy's commitment and contribution to public service. It is presented in May in celebration of President Kennedy's May 29th birthday. Described by one recipient as the Nobel in Government, the Profile in Courage Award is represented by a sterling-silver lantern symbolizing a beacon of hope. The lantern was designed by Edwin Schlossberg and crafted by Tiffany & Co. The winning essay by Balboni was chosen by a distinguished bipartisan committee of national, political, and community leaders. Al Hunt, Washington managing editor of Bloomberg News, chairs the twelve-member Profile in Courage Award Committee. Committee members are Michael Beschloss, author and presidential historian; David Burke, former president of CBS News; U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi); Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund; Antonia Hernandez, president and chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation; Elaine Jones, former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Caroline Kennedy, president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; Paul G. Kirk, Jr., chairman of the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University; U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine); and Patricia M. Wald, former judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. John Shattuck, chief executive officer of the Kennedy Library Foundation, staffs the Committee. Mr. Shattuck is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and a former U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic. Fidelity first began supporting the national essay contest in 2001. Students and teachers who participate in the Profile in Courage Essay Contest also benefit from two other generous in-kind donations. HarperCollins Publishers has donated copies of Profiles in Courage, President Kennedy's Pulitzer-Prize winning book, and Hyperion Books has donated copies of Caroline Kennedy's Profiles in Courage for Our Time, a book of 13 narrative essays exploring the political courage of the Profile in Courage Award recipients since its establishment in 1989. Copies of the two books have been distributed to teachers and schools to enrich classroom teaching and curriculum projects, as well as to encourage students to enter the Profile in Courage Essay Contest. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is a presidential library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration and supported, in part, by the Kennedy Library Foundation, a non-profit organization. The Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the Kennedy Library Foundation seek to promote, through educational and community programs, a greater appreciation and understanding of American politics, history, and culture, the process of governing and the importance of public service.
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Aurora Argentina
Daniel Blau Ltd. is pleased to present a unique collection of nineteenth century cyanotypes by Georges Poulet, in the first exhibition of its kind in the UK.
French engineer Georges Poulet's (1848 – 1936) photographs of railway construction in Argentina convey a sense of the pioneering spirit characteristic of the nineteenth century. These cyanotypes depart from customary notions of documentary photography, taking the viewer on an intensely atmospheric journey through the largely unspoiled Argentina of the late nineteenth century. They also reveal a desire to record technological progress in an artistic way. The mysterious blues produced by the cyanotype process create a special ambience, while the captions written elegantly in red ink at the bottom of each photo provide an element of narrative and of contrast.
Scientist Sir John Frederick Herschel invented the cyanotype (more commonly known as the blueprint) in the early days of photography. Engineers and architects used it to reproduce technical drawings, maps and so forth; but artists also employed the technique and its influence is evident in their work.
Poulet employs the advantages of the cyanotype medium: its ability to reproduce reality, and the blue that is an integral part of it. Blue, of course, has a metaphorical dimension, symbolising longing for far-off places. In one of those distant regions we encounter the subject of Poulet's series of cyanotypes: full of yearning, he shows us the railway in Argentina as in a dream, flooded in a melancholy blue.
Please join us for the opening of this exhibition on Thursday 31st May, 2012 from 6 – 9 pm at 51 Hoxton Square.
Abridged text from "Aurora Argentina", an illustrated publication accompanying the exhibition and containing a complete catalogue of Poulet's Argentinian cyanotypes.
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Plattsburgh, NY (PRWEB) October 29, 2015
On the Adirondack Coast we don't simply wait for winter, we welcome it. Visitors during the colder months can see why the Adirondack Coast's favorite color is winter white. Ski the greatest vertical drop in the east or venture miles of trails to experience true back country skiing, discover the thrill of ice fishing, enjoy a romantic sleigh ride or the quiet beauty of snowshoeing– just a few of the activities you can experience in our winter wonderland.
Downhill Skiing and Riding
Whether its first tracks or last chair, visitors have access to some of the East Coast's best alpine terrain via the Adirondack Coast. Unpack just once and experience some of the best skiing and riding in the east. The Adirondack Coast is less than an hour drive from Whiteface Mountain with the greatest vertical drop east of the Rockies. Known as the Olympic Mountain – having hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympic Games' – Whiteface offers exciting terrain and world class alpine events. Titus Mountain is ideal for families wanting gentler terrain and beginner glades, and nearby Beartown Ski Area is great for families.
Backcountry Skiing
Wanting to backcountry ski in the Adirondacks is only natural with our terrain and snow. Standing at 3,830' Lyon Mountain dominates the western sky of the Adirondack Coast. The large massif has long been a draw for backcountry skiers – and for good reason. Owned by New York State, Lyon Mountain, now classified as a "wild forest," was once home to the Lowenberg Ski Area. Today it has a strong local following for its reputation as a snow pocket. The trail is unmarked but most often ski tracks will lead the way up the 90-minute climb and down the gentle, gladed descent. A separate trail is available for snowshoers in search of the summit with its open views and abandoned fire tour.
Cross Country Skiing
The Adirondack Coast offers Nordic skiers an extensive network of trails, both groomed and natural, in your choice of park or natural setting. In their winter form, local parks and beaches, such as Point au Roche and Ausable Point, offer wonderful opportunities to explore the shoreline or tree-lined routes. Many cross-country ski trails are multi-use and offer snowshoeing tracks.
The Adirondack Region boasts more than 2,000 miles of hiking trails, traversing mountain peaks, winding through nature centers and along quiet forest paths. When the snow falls, these trails are transformed, offering incredible snowshoeing opportunities. Natural wonders such as Ausable Chasm, High Falls Gorge and Natural Stone Bridge and Caves along with the New Land Trust offer a unique snowshoeing experience.
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The winter months on the Adirondack Coast offer some of the year's best fishing. The ice fishing season typically extends from December to April. Species include northern pike, walleyes, tiger muskies, lake trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, landlocked salmon and a variety of panfish. Some of the most popular winter destinations in the Adirondacks are Lake Champlain, Chazy Lake and Upper Chateaugay Lake but dozens of smaller waters also offer outstanding winter angling. Ice fishing guides are also available to visitors on the Adirondack Coast.
Experience the Adirondack Coast at full throttle. With thousands of miles of snowmobile trails, there is no better way to explore winter's white landscape than on a sled. Race across frozen Chazy Lake, enjoy a large network of groomed trails in the Adirondacks or cross the border into Canada at Mooers/Hemmingford.
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Frozen Lake Champlain provides the perfect terrain for snowkiters looking to spend the day turning flips and tricks. Strapped in a harness, thrill seekers breathe in the fresh air, as winter winds glide skis and snowboards tethered to kites through the powder. Powerful winds make for an exhilarating ride, as experts can get up to going over 70 miles an hour, but for those seeking a cruise along the lake a smaller kite is all that's needed.
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Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting: December 4 in Downtown Plattsburgh, NY
Titus Mountain New Year's Eve Bash: December 31 at Titus Mountain in Malone, NY
Cock-A-Doodle-Shoe Snowshoe Race: January 17 at New Land Trust in Saranac, NY
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Inspired by the beautiful bogolan prints, this hand-painted cotton is printed using traditional West African Batik technique. A slim fit short sleeve shirt inspired by military shirts. The shirt can be worn buttoned up or loose. Design inspired by Malian bogolan, Hand-painted and Handmade in Ghana with local artisans. We work with an artisan in Cape Coast that has been batiking for generations. She learned from her mother who was also a batiker and her daughter is a batiker.
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I know I'm supposed to be using social media to promote my business, but I had no idea where I should be focusing my efforts or how I was going to find the time. Alex's workshop at SCORE San Diego was really great; far better than I had hoped for. She gave us some really great tools to help us manage our social media platforms and narrow our focus based on our industry. I am extremely busy trying to run a small business, but I know that social media is essential to helping it grow. I am excited to try out all of the things she taught us and hopefully watch my business grow as a result! It was well worth my time, thanks again Alex!
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It's easy to forget how close noisy and bustling U.S. 40 is as visitors drive along narrow roads, approaching the idyllic area encircling the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum in Oella.
The park and museum sit on a small portion of 142 acres tucked in the woods near Old Frederick Road in the historic mill town established in 1808, two years after Banneker's death.
Opened in June 1998, the museum celebrates Baltimore County native Banneker, an African-American who was a self-taught scientist.
In 1791, he helped survey and lay out the Federal Territory, now the District of Columbia.
Banneker is best remembered for the six almanacs he published after an exchange with Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about the injustice of slavery and the equality of men.


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