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Though the process of posting bail is a critical part of criminal law, it's also a complex procedure that not many citizens fully comprehend. Here's a quick rundown of what you need to know about bail. Bail refers to the money temporarily given to a court to get a suspect out of jail. Bail bonds serve as a guarantee that the suspect will appear as required in court on a designated date. If the defendant does not appear at court, he or she forfeits the bail money. In most cases, part of the bond is kept by the court (or a bondsman, if used) regardless.
The legal process of posting and paying bail dates back to the early colonial court system. The fundamentals of the process have remained largely the same. The reforms that have been made deal mostly with which crimes make suspects ineligible for bail. In modern America, almost every suspect is granted bail, except in capital offenses and cases where the court expects the suspect is a flight risk. However, a suspect's entitlement to bail varies from state to state. After the bail amount is determined, the defendant is allowed to make a phone call to find someone to post bail. Sometimes, this process involves a licensed bail bonds company in Irvine, a third party who posts bail in exchange for a portion of the money, or a premium, that usually equates to about 10% of the bail bond.
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- Recognizance - If the person who has been arrested is ROR (released on recognizance), he or she is agreeing to appear in court. The defendant does not have to post bond unless he or she does not show up to court.
- Citation Release - If the defendant is "cited out," he or she does not remain in jail very long. The arresting officer issues the defendant a citation requiring the defendant to appear in court.
- Surety Bond -A surety bond is the type of bond that comes to mind for the majority of people. A surety bond will always involve a third party, usually a bail bond agent. The Irvine bail bond agency posts bail in exchange for a premium on the bail bond, taking on the responsibility of forfeiting the bond money if the defendant does not show up to court.
- Cash bail - A court orders a cash bond when the defendant seems likely to jump bail. Obviously, for this type of bail, only cash is accepted.
- Property bond - For this type of bond, the defendant puts forth his or her property as a guarantee that he or she will appear in court. If the person who has been bonded out chooses not to follow court orders, they are forced to relinquish the property. In many cases, the value of the property must be more than the standard amount of bail.
- Combination - Sometimes, the court permits the defendant to post bail while also specifying certain restrictions, such as drug testing or counseling.
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Willaim Abrahams, O. Henry Prize Stories editor, has taken a new direction this year and decided to award only a First Prize. It's important to remember, Abrahams says, that all these stories are winners, merely by their inclusion in the collection. But this year's First would be in a special category off by itself in any collection.
Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl," originally published in The New Yorker, is inspired by the Holocaust. It is a rare writer indeed who can make art of this ugliest of human tragedies. This tale, only slightly removed from reality, will behard for some readers to bear. Abraham's point in choosing it is that so far few writers have dared to use the subject in fiction. "The Shawl" is the story of a mother's love as she hides her babe inside a shawl on her way to an unknown destiny. There is no happy ending.
One good reason for faithfully reading the O. Henrys every year (besides keeping up with the best current short fiction), and even for going back to a collection for a given year, is that they make a record, in filtered form, of the issues of our times. In this volume, for instance, are sensitive stories about such issues as abortion, divorce, and homosexuality.
There is an inordinate amount of writing that borders on the fantastic in this collection, but perhaps even that escapism is indicative of our times. At least one story is just plain gory.
But ther is genuine humor to be found in spurts in this collection as well. Most of the chuckles to be had are contained in John irving's "Interior Space," which editor Abrahams has kindlay placed directly after Ozick's "The Shawl."
In "The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon" one has an opportunity to see how well a given story speaks for its Creator's sense of literary timelessness. Many of these stories were first published in the 1930s, and, like the stories of William Faulkner, they speak of a ruined civilization that is now barely visible to us: the Old South. But these tales are not merely geographical reports on the demise of a culture. They are all records of the struggles of the human spirit to survive.
Professor Maury, often a character in Ms. Gordon's fiction, is an outsider who merely married into the Southern family around which many of these stories revolve. Professor Maury is Ms. Gordon's ultimate vision of the country gentleman: courtly to men and protective of women, always fair and loyal to his friends, he is a sportsman, a fisherman, a poet. When a female friend is wronged by her husband, an elderly Professor Maury hurts for her in his own terms. "He had been ill . . . for two weeks. She had nursed him well and he had recovered. . . . But here was a kind of death. She lay there like a shot bird."
This nonflowery description of a woman's suffering is significant because it is presented from the point of view of a man. And herein lies a clue to Gordon's lasting appeal.
There are very few woman writers who have thus far created believable, sensitive men. Ms. Gordon is one of the few who have.
Violence, when it occurs here, is always under the surface, not experienced outright. It is perhaps only another sad remark upon our own day if one in a while these stories happen to strike us as too gentle.


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Okay, so maybe saying that orchids are weeds is a bit of a dramatic exaggeration. However, while mowing the trails on our St. Joseph County, Indiana property yesterday, I had to slam on the brakes inches from mowing the fourth orchid species that we've documented on our property, October Lady's Tresses (Spiranthes ovalis var. erostellata). If you're a follower of this blog, you may know that the previous three orchids we'd found on our property were Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera), Purple Twayblade (Liparis liliifolia), and Green Twayblade (Liparis loeselii). After finding the third of those, I asked readers of this blog (tongue in cheek) which orchid species we would find next. Keith Board has to win some kind of prize for predicting that we would find this species. My find today is even more interesting because I saw this species growing on the St. Joseph and Elkhart county line on Friday last week and came home to look for it on our property in a young successional wooded area. I struck out. I guess I was looking in the wrong place and instead needed to be sitting on a riding mower to find it.
Sure, a weed is often defined as a plant out of place. In that sense, I don't necessarily consider orchids weeds. However, the more I see and learn, the more I think that many of our orchid species require disturbance to grow, reproduce, and continue to be evident above ground, and without that disturbance, they cease to exist (at least until the disturbance returns) (see the dialog in the comments of this post for a discussion on this topic). In this case, the orchid I found is growing right at the edge of the trail that I mow regularly, in old-field, with mostly non-native species and weedy native species such as Tall Fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus), Riverbank Grape (Vitis riparia), and Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans ssp. negundo).
As seen in the photograph below, the flowers of October Lady's Tresses (also known as Oval Ladies'-tresses) are usually in three spiraling ranks. The flowers (and specifically the lip) are smaller than many of the other members of the genus Spiranthes, with the lip reaching only approximately 5.5 mm; the other two species that have flowers that minute in the lower Great Lakes region have either a yellow or green spot on the upper surface of the lip. The lip on October Lady's Tresses is quite recurved and is usually inrolled, giving it a narrow appearance. Another good field character used to help identify October Lady's Tresses is seen in the photograph above... notice that the leaves are present and conspicuous when the plant is in flower.
Whereas many of our Spiranthes grow in full sun habitats, October Lady's Tresses is more shade-tolerant and does best in openings in woods, along trails, and in young successional woods. It also is found in thickets and in old-fields. When forests mature and less light can reach the forest floor, this species tends to be less prevalent, an indication that it requires disturbance. You can see the habitat where I found the plant on our property in the photograph below (it is just about in the middle of the photo). Not an area that anyone would consider "high quality" by any means.
The range of October Lady's Tresses includes the eastern United States and the province of Ontario. However, it is not known from more than a large handful of counties in any of the states in which it occurs, and its county distribution is fairly even over its range. That said, this species is increasing its range and distribution, likely in part due to the increased level of disturbance to our natural areas. So... is it just a weed? Certainly a unique and welcomed one on our property!


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Game in borderless mode is displaced every time i turn it on
Everytime I start playing league of legends, game window is displaced beyond display, I have to use WinSpy everytime to get it to right position, because of other reasons I have to play it in borderless mode
Anyone has any idea how to make it start in right position?
Or in other words, is there something in registry that saves window position? and how do I get to that?
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Hi, i am having this same problem, i thought it was due to a recent patch they launch it a couple of weeks ago, but they ignore the problem and i started searching for problems related to the Graphic card, although i think it is their fault.
NOTE: I use Dual Screen, and since i was having problems with this i was using FULL SCREEN option, and when the game launches the rest of my background applications runing maximized go offscreen as well, or a bit to the left the same width the game itself. What program do you use? WinSpy? gonna check it out, but prefer to resolve the problem by the root and not with other programs :S
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Exactly the same problem although my window is moved a bit futher and up
Ive learned that you can use Task Manager to move window into the right place by selecting the aplication with RMB and clicking on Maximize, but that just replaces WinSpy, you still have to do that everytime.
Its extremely annoying, but whats even more annoying is that noone knows how to fix it...
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I did in fact noticed i could do that with task manager, but i noticed the window "shows" in the right position, but the mouse only interacts in the coordinates the window was before, wich means (in my chase) that i cannot pan to the right, nor bottom since it is where the window borders where before.
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Rail budget: 10 reasons why you should book a train ticket
Railway minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday announced the Modi government's first rail budget. A look at the minister's maiden budget featuring a number of passenger-friendly announcements.india Updated: Jul 09, 2014 10:40 IST
Railway minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday announced the Modi government's first rail budget. A look at the minister's maiden budget featuring a number of passenger-friendly announcements:
1) Internet and workstation facilities will be provided on select trains
2) Cooked, ready-to-eat meals of popular brands to be served and action will be taken against vendors for poor food quality. Orders can be placed by phone. Food courts to be introduced at major stations.
3) Future e-ticketing to support 7,200 tickets per minute and to allow 120,000 simultaneous users. Currently, the IRCTC's ticketing website handles around 2,000 tickets per minute. Internet-based platform and unreserved tickets can be booked.
4) Several tourist trains will connect pilgrim centres across the country. Devi Circuit, Jyotirling Circuit, Jain Circuit among others have been identified by railways for running pilgrim trains.
5) The rail budget promises cleaner trains. CCTVs will be used at stations to monitor cleanliness and third party inspections will be introduced. Separate housekeeping wing at 50 major stations.
6) Number of mechanised laundries to be increased for quality bedrolls in AC coaches. Onboard housekeeping to be extended to more trains and RO drinking water will be introduced on experimental basis.
7) Women RPF constables will escort coaches reserved for females; mobile phones to be provided for all RPF escort teams.
8) Mobile-based wakeup call system and arrival alerts to be put in place for passengers.
9) Summer internships to be initiated for undergraduates of engineering and management studies.
10) Setting up of a railway university for technical and non-technical subjects. Tie-up with technical institutions to be introduced.
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Associated Press Cardinal Adam Maida, left, congratulates his successor, Bishop Allen H. Vigneron, who was named archbishop of the Detroit diocese. The appointment was announced yesterday.
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DETROIT - Pope Benedict XVI announced yesterday the retirement of Cardinal Adam Maida and the appointment of his successor, Bishop Allen Henry Vigneron, as archbishop of Detroit.
The new position marks a homecoming for Archbishop-elect Vigneron, 60, a native of Mount Clemens, Mich., who has been bishop of Oakland, Calif., since 2003. He will become the 10th bishop of Detroit and the first who was born in the six-county archdiocese.
The Detroit archdiocese includes Monroe County, which borders Toledo, as well as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Lapeer, and St. Clair counties.
The archbishop-elect acknowledged the economic downturn in Detroit, the center of the struggling U.S. auto industry, and pledged to provide spiritual guidance to the 1.4 million Catholics in the archdiocese.
"I recognize that this challenge for our civic community is - as all societal problems are - a pastoral challenge as well," he said. "To that challenge, I want to bring all the riches of grace which the Holy Spirit has bestowed on the church."
Archbishop-elect Vigneron (pronounced vih-NYEER-on) graduated from Sacred Heart Seminary High School and College in Detroit, where he and Cardinal Maida held their news conference yesterday morning.
After earning a bachelor's degree with majors in philosophy and classical languages, Archbishop-elect Vigneron enrolled at the Pontifical Gregorian University at the North American College in Rome and received a bachelor's degree in sacred theology in 1974.
He received his master's and doctoral degrees in philosophy from the Catholic University of America in Washington.
Ordained a priest on July 26, 1975, Archbishop-elect Vigneron was named auxiliary bishop of Detroit on June 12, 1996.
"On this first day of my appointment as archbishop, my thoughts and prayers are particularly focused on the priests, the deacons and seminarians, the religious, and the lay faithful I will serve here," he said. "Because I am a son of this archdiocese, they have long been dear to me. Now that I have become the spiritual father of this local church, they are even dearer."
He has served on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee on doctrine and the subcommittee on the catechism, and serves as trustee of the National Catholic Bioethics Center; St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, Calif., and the Catholic University of America.
Cardinal Maida, 78, a native of East Vandergrift, Pa., has been head of the Detroit archdiocese since June, 1990.
Pope John Paul II elevated him from archbishop to cardinal in November, 1994.
Cardinal Maida submitted his resignation when he turned 75 in March, 2005, as required by canon law.
Newly named Pope Benedict asked him to continue serving as archbishop of Detroit until accepting his resignation yesterday.
The cardinal will serve as apostolic administrator of the Detroit archdiocese during this month's transition.
Bishop Leonard Blair of the Toledo diocese studied at the North American College in Rome at the same time as Bishop Vigneron, and the two served simultaneously in Detroit, where Bishop Blair was auxiliary bishop from 1999 until his appointment to Toledo in 2003.
Archbishop-elect Vigneron will be installed as archbishop of Detroit in a service at 2 p.m. Jan. 28 at Detroit's Blessed Sacrament Cathedral.
Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, outreach director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, was critical of Archbishop-elect Vigneron's handling of the clerical sexual abuse crisis when he was bishop of Oakland.
"Vigneron fits the mold of recent papal appointees who tend to be extraordinarily conservative yet very media savvy," Ms. Dorris said in a statement. "In public sometimes he says refreshing things, but in private he largely acts in the same secretive, hurtful ways, especially regarding clergy sex crimes and coverups."
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The Interreg V-A Italy-Slovenia programme will support 3 typologies of projects as follows:
1) Strategic projects, which assume a greater relevance in terms of implementation of the EU and Programme strategies concentrating efforts for a stronger cohesion of the new eligible area. By concentrating significant resources on specific thematic issues, strategic projects aim at producing positive and long-lasting outcomes in the entire cooperation area, strengthening cooperation opportunities and fostering joint experimentation and implementation. These projects ask for specific and increased institutional and technical competences in order to ensure deeper impact and benefits for the whole cooperation area.
A limited number of strategic projects will be implemented in a top down approach under Priority axes 1, 2, 3 and 4 for a total allocation amount of € 27.000.000 (ERDF) with the following breakdown:
Strategic projects will be based on the principle of equal partnership, i.e. each project will include at least two Italian Partners (one from Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and one from Veneto Region) and two Slovenian. The principle shall be applied only for this type of projects . Given their strategic nature, strategic projects will be selected through an institutional top-down approach through which focused themes will be identified in order to foster their expected impact and contribution to the overall Programme strategy. Each strategic project will count on financial amounts ranging approximately between 1.5 and 4 M€.
This is the fifth call of the Programme and its notice is also published on the Official Bulletin of the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia No 6 dated 7 February 2018. Information and documents related to this Call are available here (in Italian and Slovene language only).
2) Standard projects. On September 30th, 2016 the first calls for standard project proposals n. 1/2016 1b, 2/2016 4e, 3/2016 6c, 6d, 6f e 4/2016 11 ETC closed: 160 project were proposals submitted to confirm the high level of interest of the cross border area in response to the Programme challenges.
On June 28th, 2017 the Monitoring Committee approved the ranking lists of the the first calls for standard project proposals n. 1/2016 1b, 2/2016 4e, 3/2016 6c, 6d, 6f e 4/2016 11 ETC. Out of 160 project proposals submitted, only 27 standard projects are financed..
3) ITI projects. On May 3rd, 2017 the Subsidy contracts for the two ITI projects approved by the Monitoring Committee on 22nd-23rd February 2017 were signed. The two projects with acronym "Isonzo-Soča" and "Salute-Zdravstvo" will be implemented in the framework of the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) of the cross-border area of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) named "GECT GO / EZTS GO", which includes the Municipalities of Gorizia (Italy), Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Šempeter-Vrtojba (Slovenia). The first project involves the realization of the "Cross-border Nature Park of the Isonzo- Soča river" and includes both infrastructure investments (cycle paths and recreational areas) and territorial marketing activities. The cost of the project is EUR 5 million. The second project involves the development of a cross-border network of socio-health services for the community of the "GECT GO / EZTS GO" area. It will be implemented through the cooperation of bodies and institutions operating in the socio-health sector of the two States and three Municipalities. The cost of the project is EUR 5 million. The implementing body of both projects is the "GECT GO / EZTS GO".


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08 News Search
We learn about the major news search tools, as well as how to integrate them with your knowledge of RSS.
Class held on 10/05/2009. (student notes; possible questions).
Class structure
- Go through "At beginning of class" information
- I'll lecture for a bit using some slides (as a PDF)
- Work on today's news search exercises.
At beginning of class
On your own
- Read the current to-do list on the course home page.
- I will keep this up-to-date for each class. I hope this will make it easier for you to figure out just what it is that you're supposed to be doing (and when) during the semester.
- No grades (too much other prep going on)
News search
- General news search
- Historical
- Google News Archive Search
- Newspaper Archive (requires paid subscription)
- International
- Local newspapers
Print newspapers
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WASHINGTON, April 22 — The firing of a veteran Central Intelligence Agency officer who has been accused of leaking classified information is a rare and dramatic move, yet C.I.A. officials say it is only the beginning of a campaign to stanch the unauthorized flow of information from the spy agency.
Porter J. Goss, the C.I.A. director, has for three months carried out one of the most intensive leak investigations in the agency's history, using polygraph tests to determine who at the agency may be behind what Mr. Goss says is an explosion of damaging leaks to the news media.
According to C.I.A. officials, staff members have been summoned by the agency's Security Center to undergo polygraph tests in an effort to find out who revealed to reporters information about classified programs, including the agency's secret overseas detention jails for high-level Qaeda detainees.
It is uncommon for C.I.A. directors to make leak crackdowns a priority of their tenure. Mr. Goss's use of "single issue" polygraphs in a leak investigation — which led to the firing on Thursday of the C.I.A. officer, Mary O. McCarthy — is a sign of how serious he is about enforcing discipline in the agency's ranks.
When Mr. Goss took the helm at the C.I.A. in September 2004, he inherited an agency that was widely viewed in Washington as being at war with the Bush administration.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Goss, a longtime Republican congressman, was mulling retirement when President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney pressed him to take the C.I.A. job, in part to rein in what they viewed as a coordinated campaign of leaks to the news media from C.I.A. insiders hostile to the administration.
But some believe that the problem has grown under Mr. Goss's leadership, and many see Ms. McCarthy's firing as an effort by Mr. Goss to send a message to the agency's rank and file.
"I think it's a recognition that there has been a loosening of discipline" at the agency, said Richard Kerr, a former C.I.A deputy director.
Some in the intelligence community deny the charge that C.I.A. officials are a primary source of leaks. Unlike members of Congress or civilian policy makers at the Pentagon, the State Department and elsewhere, C.I.A. operatives and analysts are given routine polygraph tests at least every five years, in which they are asked whether they have disclosed classified information.
Mr. Goss, who spent a decade as a C.I.A. officer early in his career, has railed against leaks to the news media in private meetings and public testimony, arguing that they help America's enemies and undermine the C.I.A.'s relationships with foreign intelligence agencies.
"Such leaks also cause our intelligence partners around the globe to question our professionalism and credibility," Mr. Goss wrote in an Op-Ed article for The New York Times on Feb. 10. "Too many of my counterparts from other countries have told me, 'You Americans can't keep a secret.' "
A former intelligence official who remains in contact with many current C.I.A. officers said Mr. Goss was still viewed as an outsider. "There's a great sense among C.I.A. folks that the administration regards them as the enemy," the former official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he said his current employer did not want him to comment publicly on controversial issues. But he said most intelligence officers were "horrified" at leaks and would support the dismissal of leakers.
The current round of polygraph tests is aimed at specific leaks, including information published in The Washington Post late last year about C.I.A. detention centers. The articles won a Pulitzer Prize for Dana Priest, a Post reporter.
"This was one program that they really did try to protect," said one recently retired C.I.A. operative, who was granted anonymity because he was discussing classified information. But he said Ms. McCarthy most likely had knowledge of the detention program and other "compartmented" programs because she worked in the inspector general's office, which is investigating the detention and interrogation of C.I.A. prisoners.
Ms. McCarthy's dismissal has touched off a partisan fight in Washington.
Democrats noted that Mr. Bush himself was recently revealed to have approved a leak of Iraqi weapons information in 2003, and one former intelligence officer praised Ms. McCarthy as a hero.
"There is absolutely no question that Mary acted in the finest traditions of the republic, helping reveal and reduce terrible violations of international law and human rights by the C.I.A.," said Robert D. Steele, a former C.I.A. officer who now runs a private intelligence company.
Congressional Republicans said Ms. McCarthy's dismissal was a decisive step toward tightening the handling of secrets about classified intelligence operations. Senator Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican and chairman of the intelligence committee, praised the move and called for leakers to be prosecuted "to the fullest extent of the law."Continue reading the main story


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Ufa squares are decorated with New-Year Trees. Today, the "Forest Beauty" in Zaton residential neighborhood is started to be decorated. In addition to the multi-coloured garlands the New-Year Tree will be embellished with unique handmade ornaments made by townspeople, local craftsmen — creative, enterprising people living and working in the neighborhood. Both children and adults took part in the creation of the festival. As part of the organized regional contest "Winter Patterns" for the best New-Year ornament residents and students of educational institutions made 507 toys.
Snowmen, penguins, balls, Christmas wreaths, robots, airplanes, cartoon characters — there is no limit to fantasy of craftsmen. One of the most popular crafts were ornaments in the form of monkeys — as you know, the Fire Monkey is a symbol of the coming year according to the eastern calendar.


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I think another issue regarding the Wii U is Nintendo are in many ways a victim of their success. When the Wii was released devs were a bit 'meh'. The Wii then started selling like nothing before and devs wanted to jump on board, only problem was by this point the Wii was now a party machine and selling so many cheap 1st & 2nd party games the big devs pulled away knowing it wasn't the place to sell AAA titles.
Maybe now that Nintendo want to go back down the serious route and have more 3rd party titles the 3rd party devs are still a bit pissed off about the fact that they couldn't join in the Wii gravy train.
And another point is the Wii as far as I recall was by far the biggest selling platform of the last generation (e,g 360, PS3 & Wii), made at a small cost and not expecting much this made Nintendo Billions. It still sells well today so this gives me hope that Nintendo do have the financial muscle to keep with the Wii U and not 'Take it behind the barn' and do the right thing.
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Koo Ja-cheol's desire to put in a strong shift for his team is something that has quickly been detected out by Mainz boss Thomas Tuchel.
The 24-year old South Korean midfielder, who arrived at the Coface Arena from Wolfsburg last month, scored in last weekend's 2-0 win over Freiburg in just his second appearance for die Nullfunfer.
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WOLFEBORO — The Child Advocacy Center of Carroll County's newest staff member is furry, friendly, and loves children.
Westin, a two-year-old golden retriever, joined the Center's Child Protection Team last week where as as a therapy dog he will interact with the children and their caregivers.
Child Advocacy Center of Carroll County Executive Director Elizabeth Kelley worked with Dot Hyde-Williams, trainer and founder of Assistance Canine Training Services in Tuftonborough, to obtain a therapy dog for the center.
"This is something we've always wanted to do. The kids that come into the center need some comfort. A dog can provide the type of comfort people can't," said Kelley.
The Child Advocacy Center of Carroll County is a public/private partnership. According to its web site, carrollcountycac.com, the center is a a 501(c)3 non-profit charity, which embraces a coordinated, comprehensive and systematic approach to deal with issues associated with child abuse. The Center represents both a place and a process designed to provide child victims and their non-offending family members with resources and advocacy efforts.
The "process" utilizes a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team approach, known as the Carroll County Child Protection Team, to support the investigation and prosecution of crimes against Carroll County's children.
Westin is now a part of that Child Protection Team — and a member of Kelley's family. He greets and interacts with children and families at the center, where his loving nature puts traumatized children at ease.
"He loves people and he loves kids. He is really gentle with them. He has empathy," Kelley said.
Hyde-Williams said Westin has been in training with her since he was eight weeks old. He was selected for the CCCAC job due to his gentle, loving nature.
"We had him in training and it became obvious — he never met a person or a child he didn't like. His attitude is, 'I never met you but I love you.' And he really loves children," said Hyde-Williams. Characteristics of a good therapy dog include basic training skills for obedience, good manners at home and in the workplace, and a calm and confident demeanor, she adds.Kenney said the center received some funding for Westin through the Bald Peak Charitable Foundation and other donations. Since beginning work last week, she said Westin is fitting in well.
"He has a calming presence," she said. She said before child advocacy centers were established, children who were the victims of physical or sexual abuse were required to go to a police station and were "treated like victims of any other crime." Headquartered in Wolfeboro at 56 Union St., the CCCAC is located in a cozy cottage, furnished like a family living room, with comfortable, private spaces for interviews.
"Just having the kids walk into our space here, they feel a bit of relief. This is a warm, friendly place where they can be safe, and the dog puts them at ease," said Kenney. "We're pretty excited to have him," she added.


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Financial adviser and napkin artist Carl Richards wrote about this recently in the New York Times.
He says instead of calling it an emergency fund, a better name might be "uncertainty fund" -- a term originally coined by fellow financial adviser Manisha Thakor.
"My thought was that the term 'emergency fund' was generic and had the sort of standard thumbs of rule applied to it," Richards explains. "You're supposed to have two to twelve months of money set aside, and I just thought we need to look at this at a new angle. Where's the uncertainty life in you life? Where is risk coming from?"
Richards says figuring out what type of uncertainty you have in your life should have an impact on the size of your uncertainty fund. If your job is pretty stable -- which might not be many of us -- your uncertainty fund doesn't need to be as big as someone who, say, takes a lot of risk in his or her professional life.
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"Maybe find some income on the side. Maybe pick up an extra shift at work and not spend it -- even if it's cash in the Mason jar underneath the bed. Some plan to get there. What I've found is that as soon as we get some plan to make progress, we start to feel better and that starts to build on itself and it starts this wonderful cycle of good feelings about money instead of bad," says Richards.
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I have written many columns lately about college-level courses in high school, and I apologize for offering one more. Those who are sick of the topic should read no further, but instead e-mail this column to any Advanced Placement (AP) teachers they know, since I am about to reveal that many of them don't measure up and should seek some other line of work.
This is not my opinion, but the view of former college philosophy professor William Casement, expressed in his article "Declining Credibility for the AP Program" in the Fall 2003 issue of the Princeton, N.J.-based journal Academic Questions, published by the National Association of Scholars. And believe me, if you chat up a good sampling of the professoriate at our nation's finest colleges, you will find many agreeing with him.
I have had a long telephone conversation and exchanged e-mails with Casement since I read his provocative article last summer. He is a conscientious and thoughtful person who has done useful research on selective colleges' tightening of credit for AP courses. I also think he is completely out of touch with the reality of both the AP courses and teachers he dismisses and the freshman college introductory courses and professors he embraces. After two decades of observing the depth and power of college-level courses, including AP and International Baccalaureate (IB), in high school and the inferior teaching of the college introductory courses, I think Casement and many of his friends in academia need to take a much closer look at what is actually happening in high schools, and in their own college freshmen courses. But it is not fair to ridicule Casement's argument before he has a chance to make it, so here is a summary of what he says. The Academic Questions piece is not available online at the moment, but the journal's managing editor John Irving (email@example.com) might send you a copy if asked and Casement (firstname.lastname@example.com) says he would be happy to get e-mails.
In the article, Casement points out that many selective colleges have made it more difficult for students who took AP courses and tests in high school to gain college credit for their work. This trend has accelerated in college academic departments as the number of college freshmen who arrive annually with AP tests on their records has reached the one million mark, and it continues to climb.
"Selective colleges are increasingly wary of the program, and tightening further on the award of credit," Casement says. The AP exam is scored on a point system, 5 points being the equivalent of an A in a comparable college introductory course and a 3, the equivalent of a college C-plus, the lowest score that will earn college credit. One way colleges have tightened credit, Casement says, "is to reject not only scores of 3 but also of 4, leaving only scores of 5 as credit worthy."
"Policies like these are not simple administrative fiats, but a collection of decisions by individual departments," he says. "The matter usually lies within departmental control, and at various other schools -- William and Mary, Carnegie Mellon, Washington University (St. Louis), and Carleton, to name a few as examples -- several departments now require a score of 5, although other departments do not."
I hasten to mention that there remains a big difference between the way college departments award credit for AP and IB and the way the admissions offices of those same colleges regard the college-level courses. The faculty Casement has spoken to are suspicious of the whole idea of high school kids taking college courses, but the admissions deans love it, and want to see a big helping of AP or IB in every applicant's resume. Casement doesn't deny that, but his concern is what happens to those bright young people after they are admitted and try to get credit so they can take more advanced courses their freshman year.
"AP is talked about in the meetings of the Ivy League deans, where the growth and quality of the program are a significant concern," Casement says. "One veteran of these meetings summarizes the group's misgivings: . . . 'I think that we are unanimous in wanting to see AP as a means of placing students in appropriate college courses but not as a substitute for the full experience of a residential college. . . . [E]ven when our faculty are willing to allow students with AP to place out of introductory courses, they rarely believe that the AP experience is equivalent to those courses.' "
Casement says that colleges have little confidence in the ability of AP teachers and their students to handle the subject matter as well as college instructors and undergraduates. And because average AP scores have not dropped as much as he would expect given the increase in the number of AP examinations, he thinks the AP program cannot be providing as demanding and useful an academic experience as introductory college courses.
And therein lies a curious double standard. Casement's view of AP is based on a wealth of information about Advanced Placement, willingly provided by the College Board, but he has almost no information about the college introductory courses that he says are so much better. It is like betting on a horse with no record but a well-regarded trainer, not exactly the way to have a good day at the track.
Casement suggests that the College Board has not kept its AP exams at a college level. The College Board says it has, and offers as proof the fact that it gives AP tests to samples of college freshmen every five years or so and compares their introductory course grades to their AP scores. Casement complains that the five-year gaps are too large, since AP test taking is growing so fast, but he uses the College Board data anyway, without any apparent embarrassment, to buttress his points.
Among the questions Casement does not consider are these: how many colleges give a nationally standardized exam to students who have completed their introductory courses to see how much they have learned compared to what they might have learned in an AP course? How can we be certain that the professors who organize those introductory courses and write the exams are not just teaching and assessing a few peculiar issues that interest them, rather than the topics outlined in the college catalogue?
Casement told me he does not know of any colleges that give an AP-like test to confirm that their introductory courses are fulfilling their promises. I contacted 10 colleges and universities around the country and found no evidence of such an exam being given anywhere.
Officials at several of the colleges who are restricting credit for AP and IB told me they have no research that would show if their introductory courses are better or worse than AP or IB. Furthermore, few of them have any research that shows how well a student who has been given credit for AP or IB does in the next level course, when compared to students who took the college's introductory course rather than skipping it with high school credit.
Casement cites one such study by two departments at Harvard that led that university to decide that only grades of 5 on AP tests could be used for credit in any department. This was because students in three courses who got credit for scores of less than 5 did not do as well in follow-up courses as students who had taken the college's introductory courses.
That was one small study. I found another selective college has done another small study that reaches a different conclusion. At Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., students who skipped introductory calculus by getting a grade of 4 or 5 in AP calculus AB or BC had an average grade of 11 out of 12 points in its follow-up calculus course. This was better than the average grade of 9.51 for all students in that follow-up course. The same thing happened in Spanish. Students who skipped the equivalent course at Claremont McKenna by scoring 4 or 5 in AP Spanish had an average grade of 11.29 in the college's follow-up course, which was higher than the average grade of 10.68 for all students in that course.
Many colleges cloak the quality of their courses in respectful adjectives without much data to support their claims, and Casement provides cover for them by overlooking several possible explanations for their tightening of AP credit that have nothing to do with any decline in the quality of AP courses. College department heads, for instance, might be downplaying AP because they are unfamiliar with the AP program's strengths, since few professors have spent any time recently inside an AP class. Or they might want to show themselves academically tougher than rival colleges also recruiting high-scoring freshmen. Or they might be concerned that too much AP credit would force them to cut back on their introductory courses, which provide jobs for their graduate students and junior professors. There is not much research to back up these speculations, but neither is there much to support Casement's argument about a decline in the quality of AP.
In an interview, Casement accepted the traditional position of colleges when challenged about the quality of their teaching. He said they are respected institutions with long histories, and that should be enough for everyone when compared to an organization like the College Board that is trying to protect its franchise. Or as Casement put it, ignoring colleges' own tendency to distort facts in their own marketing campaigns, "I would trust whatever assessments the colleges make, whether they have formal data or not, more than I would trust what the present College Board has to say about its data."
You read that right. I showed the quote to him, and he stood by it. I put off writing this column for awhile, figuring he would step back off that precipice, and see that he was accepting all the college assertions on face value, but he stuck with it. Then last week Linda Seebach, editorial writer and columnist with the Rocky Mountain News, scooped me with a good piece about Casement's article, so I couldn't wait any longer. She suggests that somebody give the same standardized tests, maybe parts of the Graduate Record Examination, to AP and college introductory course students and find out who has been taught best. Casements wants AP students to take college tests and have professors grade them.
Until something like that happens, colleges will never accept the notion that mere high school teachers could ever match their elevated level of instruction. The National Research Council, for instance, indulged in this nose-in-the-air, double-standard in a 2002 report, "Learning and Understanding," by the Committee on Programs for Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in American High Schools. It attacked the College Board for producing AP courses and tests that it said were too broad and shallow. But that same panel overlooked the fact that the AP courses and tests were designed by College Board committees to be virtually identical to the introductory college courses that the National Research Council panel members, many of them college professors, chose not to criticize.
College faculty, at least in my experience, rarely suffer from any lack of self regard when they are comparing themselves to high school teachers. They have impressive degrees, and assume that makes them great educators who know what is best for their students, or at least puts them at a higher level, both intellectually and socially, than those high school AP teachers without the proper credentials.
Casement notes that, according to the College Board, only six percent of AP teachers have doctorates and only about half hold master's degrees "in an academic discipline . . . consistent with the AP course that they teach." He asks: "At what colleges would a faculty profile like this be considered acceptable -- roughly half of the faculty lacking in master's degree in what they teach?"
This sentence awakened sour memories. It was very early in my life as an undergraduate that I learned about the great gap between academic credentials and teaching ability. My introductory college courses were sleep-inducing lectures in large halls with hundreds of students who had little access to their professors and tried, but failed, to get useful insights from the teaching assistants we saw once a week. My sons and their friends attended similarly large private and public universities, and had the same complaint. The message to college freshmen was and is: absorbing this stuff is your job, not ours. This approach encourages memorization and regurgitating the textbook on exams, but you are paying $40,000 a year for it, so you figure it must be good. And the colleges have made sure there is no higher ed version of an independently graded AP or IB test to prove otherwise.
Now let us look into the AP and IB courses. There are usually no more than 20 to 25 students per teacher, and three to four hours of class a week. Students have many opportunities to ask questions, float theories, debate important points and get regular feedback -- rather than the standard college midterm and final -- on how they are doing.
There are some bad AP and IB teachers out there, just as there are bad college instructors, but in my experience, good AP and IB courses are more common than good introductory college courses. AP teachers like Eric Rothschild in Scarsdale, N.Y., or David Keener in Alexandria, or Jaime Escalante in East Los Angeles, Calif., have used simulations and humor and visual aids and knowledge of each student to make those classes work, not something you usually find in big university lecture halls.
College professors are terrific at advising graduate students on their research, but what we are talking about is teaching introductory calculus, or biology or economics to teenagers, which takes patience, clarity and attention to individual student needs. The last time I checked, those were not qualities that universities looked for when handing out PhDs.


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As a child I read every comic book printed, but I never collected them in spite of my mania for accumulating everything from pebbles to paper napkins. No doubt some rare early issues went through my hands, but the deal with my dad was: Read and return.
He had a newsstand in his drug store and brought home one of each issue, then took them back to throw in a box with other unsold magazines that were returned to the distributor. It didn't make him popular with the news agency that had to sort them and tear off covers to receive credit, but it was all in the family. The manager married my aunt. (By the way, if you see piles of coverless books for sale today, they're stolen.)
No wonder I found Dick and Jane readers painfully dull! Who could care whether Sally's cat climbed a tree after reading Batman or Superman's adventures? And, I have to confess, I've seen all the superhero movies, including this summer's Black Knight, Hellboy II and Ironman.
It goes without saying that I jump at the chance to add superhero postcards to my collection. They're not terribly common, probably because copyright laws discourage unauthorized reproduction of the comic strip heroes, and they're not especially old either. Superman, the grand old man of incredible heroes, debuted 70 years ago, and the postcards I've gathered are considerably more recent.
A good beginning to a superhero collection is a set of Marvel Comics cards. They were obviously issued in book form, since one end of each card is perforated. Still a great find, they picture all the major Marvel heroes from the 1940s to the '70s. Captain America leads the way with his team, the Avengers. It includes some lesser known characters such as Red Skull, an enemy sent against him by Hitler himself. In all, there are 32 cards in the set, including famous superheroes like Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel (from the politically correct '60s), X-Men, Daredevil, Thor, his enemy Loki, and the Invaders, a team that helped fight World War II.
Superman is in a class by himself, and Metropolis, Ill., has claimed him as their favorite hometown boy. One continental size postcard shows the "Largest Superman Mural in the World." Another, with multiple views, shows a billboard painting of Superman, a painting on the town's water tower, a Superman award and Superman's only official phone booth. You almost expect him to be in front of the town hall handing out autographs. A few years ago DC comics issued a limited edition reproduction of the Superman #1 comic book. It came with a postcard of the historical cover which prompted me to buy a comic book for the first time since my children stopped reading them. For Batman fans, postcards copyright 1966 play into the popularity of the TV series with balloons of sometimes humorous dialogue. They were published by National Periodical Publications and printed by Dexter Press. I have Series #1, which has 10 cards. I don't know if other series were actually published, but here's a hint about Dexter Press cards. They tend to get cloudy or smudgy, but they can be restored with a light coat of gloss acrylic spray available in most craft stores. Follow directions on the can and practice on a common card first.
The U.S. Postal Service has issued series of stamps picturing superheroes and comic book covers. Finding (or creating) postcards franked with them can also make nice additions to a superhero collection.
Given their scarcity, superhero postcards are relatively inexpensive, but if the movies are any indication, they have great future potential.
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So many problems!
Hi, about 2 days ago, I powered on my PC and it said I needed to run start up repair, so I did. After running it said my hard drive had failed, bearing in mind this PC is only 3 months old and I had anti virus protection on there, also I had not downloaded anything on there for around 2 weeks. It had done this a couple of times before but never said my hard drive had failed.
I tried many methods of troubleshooting but still nothing, the only option I had was to reinstall windows 7. I realise now that this was a bad idea. Everything was going fine until after it had restarted to complete the installation. It had frozen just near the end, I was there for 2 hours waiting for it to finish, and I had had enough. I turned the PC off by the power button, now when I start it up, it goes to the windows splash screen and then the windows installation starts again. However, it says something like "Starting windows installation" and then my PC restarts and just keeps doing the same thing on repeat. I have taken the installation disk out and set my hard drive to the first boot device and still no result.
I realise now that I shouldn't of tried installing windows again and should of just sent my PC back to get repaired. My question is, when I send it back will I be able to get my data back from my failed hard drive after doing a clean install of windows that didn't finish?
Sorry if this didn't make sense, I tried my best to explain my problem, I hope somebody can answer my question.
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I'm afraid that your data is probably gone. If it made it that far I'm sure its gone. Can you boot into safe mode?
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If it said HD failed, why reinstall Win7?
If your PC is less than a year old you have a hardware warranty, so contact Tech Support to replace the HD.
Once you replace the HD follow these same steps to get a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 which will remain that way as long as you stick with the tools and methods given.
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|09 Mar 2013
I'm going ring up the manufacturers later too see what they can do, I have a warranty on it so all should be good.. I hope.
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If it will in fact boot into Win7 then you may be able to rescue your data, if necessary from boot disk using Copy & Paste - in Windows Recovery Console or Paragon Rescue Kit Free Edition 11.0 Free CD
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SWOSU Talent Show Coming April 6
Southwestern Oklahoma State University's Bulldog Blitz Talent Show will take place this Wednesday, April 6, at 6 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center on the Weatherford campus.
Twelve individual and group contestants will compete for $500 first place individual and $1,000 first place group awards. Admission to the show is free, and the public is invited.
"We have an extremely talented field of contestants this year," said Collegiate Activities Board Director Cody Sims. "You don't want to miss this night of talent and excitement."
There will also be a $100 prize for the campus organization that brings the most people. There will be a signup sheet at the CAB table in the Fine Arts Center lobby.
This year's talent show contestants are:
- Tony Maxville – Music
- Melissa Paige – Singer
- Lyle Clayton – Stand-up Comedy
- Terry and Donnie – Duet
- Rachel Denison – Tap Dancing
- Tucker and Tyler Hayden – Duet
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Watch Frontline's The Choice 2008 Online
Thanks to Agnes Varnum at Doc It Out for the heads up about this. Frontline's The Choice 2008 is available to watch free online in its entirety. I've only watched part of it so far but it's definitely vital viewing on the political and personal histories of Obama and McCain and I'm looking forward to watching the rest when I can give it my full attention (although giving ANYTHING my full attention at the moment is proving tricky).
Also, women of the world I do salute you but make sure you vote. Emily Wilding Davison threw herself in front of the King's horse in the UK for the right to vote. All we have to do is go to the polling station.


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Your sweetheart: Sweetheart, will you marry me?
You: Ooohhh…Ummm– How much of that ring is diamond?
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You: Sure, but, like, the band? Is the band diamond, too, or just like…?
Your sweetheart: No…Just the diamond is diamond.
You: Ohhh…
Your sweetheart: You wanted the entire ring to be made out of diamond? Are you serious?
You: I just thought you loved me enough not to skimp on the diamond part of the ring.
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You: You don't have to get upset. I should be the one getting upset.
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You: Funny how you didn't take me for a woman of TASTE.
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Susi Ganesh's SHORTCUT ROMEO has its market Premiere at CannesRajesh Kumar Singh, Glamsham Editorial
SHORTCUT ROMEO an Indian film produced and directed by Susi Ganesh starring Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ameesha Patel, and Puja Gupta had its market premiere at the 66th Cannes Film Festival on 22nd
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May 2013. The premiere was attended by the writer producer Susi Ganesh, Ameesha Patel, Puja Gupta and a good number of global distributors, buyers and sales agents.
CHECK OUT: SHORTCUT ROMEO - Neil Nitin Mukesh fights without ropes and equipment
Speaking to Bollywoodtrade.com prior to the premiere Susi Ganesh said that the film will be released in Association with Mirchi Films (The Times of India Group) on more than 1000 screens domestically and in overseas markets and he expects it to be as big a hit as his Tamil film THIRUTTU PAYALE. He also mentioned that the Cannes premiere of the film has generated much interest among International buyers and sales agents and he is in the process of finalizing some really good deals.
The film reflects the contemporary society where everyone, especially the youth, looks for short-cuts to material success. SHORTCUT ROMEO is the first Bollywood film of Susi Ganesh Productions Pvt. Ltd. Its music is done by Himesh Reshammiya.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh is Editorial Consultant for Festivals and Markets for BollywoodTrade.com. He is a filmmaker, critic and market analyst)


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Looking for scientific evidence of the effectiveness of acupuncture for pain treatment? A recent article in The New York Times describes a long-term, well-constructed research project that bears out acupuncture's reputation for being an effective natural treatment for chronic pain, including pain related to migraines and arthritis.
Though acupuncture has been used throughout the world for thousands of years, questions about its effectiveness have sometimes limited its widespread acceptance. The people who've benefited from acupunture often swear that they've received true and long-lasting relief, but is their response merely psychological? The study detailed in the New York Times article Acupuncture Provides True Pain Relief in Study says the effects are real and lasting.
A new study of acupuncture — the most rigorous and detailed analysis of the treatment to date — found that it can ease migraines and arthritis and other forms of chronic pain.
The findings provide strong scientific support for an age-old therapy used by an estimated three million Americans each year. Though acupuncture has been studied for decades, the body of medical research on it has been mixed and mired to some extent by small and poor-quality studies. Financed by the National Institutes of Health and carried out over about half a decade, the new research was a detailed analysis of earlier research that involved data on nearly 18,000 patients.
The researchers, who published their results in Archives of Internal Medicine, found that acupuncture outperformed sham treatments and standard care when used by people suffering from osteoarthritis, migraines and chronic back, neck and shoulder pain.
"This has been a controversial subject for a long time," said Dr. Andrew J. Vickers, attending research methodologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the lead author of the study. "But when you try to answer the question the right way, as we did, you get very clear answers.
"We think there's firm evidence supporting acupuncture for the treatment of chronic pain."
The results of the study indicate that many people undergoing acupuncture treatments experience more than the placebo effect. For those suffering from chronic pain, this might not be The Answer, but acupuncture could be helpful as part of an overall pain-treatment strategy, particularly given that it is, as the Times article states, "relatively noninvasive and relatively safe."
K.C. Compton is senior editor at MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine, and formerly was Editor in Chief of our sister publications, The Herb Companion and GRIT. A huge fan of the food chain, from molecules to meals on the table, K.C. is passionate about the idea that most of what we need to be healthy can be found in the garden. Find her on Google+.
I was the biggest skeptic in the world and, completely desperate, gave acupuncture a try. It cured me of my back pain. Now I am pain free and an acupuncture-evangelist! And you know what else? Acupuncture doesn't cause any side effects to send you right back to the doctor. I was just reading about a new study, "Timely Analysis of Pain Relief Costs and Outcomes" that found we are spending millions of dollars on the pain caused by treating pain. If that's not a broken system, I don't know what is.


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Eight-year-old Lorien Evans doesn't go to school. She wakes up there.
Lorien, who lives in Eagle Rock, is one of a growing number of children who are being educated at home for reasons that range from their parents' conviction that the Bible mandates it to dissatisfaction with public education.
No bells ring in Lorien's school. No principal's voice booms over the public address system. There are no exams, no grades, no competition for the teacher's attention, no schoolyard pals--or bullies.
Lorien's teacher is her mother, Linda Evans, a former school librarian who devotes several hours a day to teaching Lorien and her siblings, Sarah, 5, and Andy, 3. While children in conventional schools are wriggling in their seats, Lorien curls up in the living-room rocking chair to read the library books that are her textbooks.


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"Recipes for Cakes Baked In Jars Ever baked cakes in canning jars? It's neat! ANY quick bread-type cake can be baked in canning jars. Lighter cakes tend to fall once the jar seals. I usually bake one jar first -- you have to know how high the batter rises. I usually fill ONE jar 1/2 full then bake it to see how high it rises, then go from there. You don't want the cake to come out of the top of the jar, only to within 1/4 to 1/2 inch from the lip of the jar. Write it down on your recipe (how far you filled the jars)! Once you've established how high the cake rises, you can go from there. The first time around is a bit tricky because you won't know how many jars you'll need. MOST of the recipes I've tried I end up using around 8. Sterilize as many jars as you think you'll need and go from there. Make sure your LIDS are new, the rings don't ha ve to be As the jars do seal, the cakes are as moist as the day you put them into the jars--sometimes MORE SO. The baking times will v"
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- 2⁄3 cup shortening
- 2 2⁄3 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 cups applesauce
- 2⁄3 cup water
- 3 1⁄3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Ground
- 2 teaspoons cloves, Ground
- 2⁄3 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
- Sterilize 8 (12 oz Ball Quilted Crystal - #14400-81400) canning jars, lids and
- rings by boiling for 10 minutes.
- Remove the jars and allow to air-dry and cool.
- Leave the lids and rings in the hot water until ready to use. Once the jars are cool enough to handle, grease them (use a pastry brush) with shortening (DO NOT use Pam or Baker's Secret); set aside. Cream together the shortening and sugar.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until the mixture is light and f luffy.
- Add the applesauce and water; set aside. In another bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cloves.
- Blend dry ingredients into the applesauce mixture. Fold in the nuts.
- Pour batter into the jars, filling them about 1/2 full.
- Place jars onto a cookie sheet or they'll fall over.
- Bake in a preheated 325-degree oven for 35-40 minutes or until a pick inserted deep into the center of each cake comes out clean.
- Remove jars from the oven, one-at-a-time (use HEAVY-DUTY MITTS, the jars ARE HOT!); place a lid, then a ring on top and screw down tightly.
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