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Back from the water - The Toadies return with full steam and new songs
It would be somewhat of a fib to say the Toadies are back though they took a small break several years ago. The alternative rockers from Fort Worth have decided to return to the stage and bring along some new music with them.
Vocalist Todd Lewis, guitarist Clark Vogeler, drummer Mark Reznicek and bassist Doni Blair will return to Beaumont to play The Gig on Crockett Street on Wednesday, April 4 with doors opening at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance and can be purchased online at thegigbeaumont.com, any Florida Tans location in Southeast Texas and Guitar & Banjo Studio (4381 Calder Ave) in Beaumont. The show is restricted to ages 18 years and older.
The band formed in 1989 and released their first national recording Rubberneck in 1994 via Interscope Records and featured the hit singles "Possum King" and "Tyler" along with favorites "Mister Love," "Backslider" and "I Come from the Water." The album was an instant platinum seller and the band toured non-stop.
After the tour, they went into the studio and recorded Feeler but Interscope canned the album and the band grew frustrated and had to take a break. When they finally returned to the studio, Vogeler said they used some songs from that recording and created their second official major release, Hell Below/Stars Above in early 2001. It was then when longtime bassist Lisa Umbarger left the band.
During the hiatus, Lewis and Rev. Horton Heat drummer Taz Bentley formed the Burden Brothers, Reznicek joined a country act called Eleven Hundred Springs and Vogeler moved to California and went to film school.
The Toadies reunited for a show here and there, but then Lewis parted ways with his band and called him and Reznicek in August of 2007.
"He (Todd) started writing songs and said they sounded like the Toadies," said Vogeler. "He told me and Rez he had these songs and wanted to know if we wanted to do an album. It was good timing."
The band signed a deal with indie label Kirtland Records and recorded No Deliverance, which was released in August in 2008 followed by Feeler in 2010.
The Examiner spoke with Vogeler over the phone about the longevity of the band and plans for new music.
In a crazy music world, how have the Toadies been able to remain relevant?
I don't know about the word relevant, because I'm not sure we are. I look around and there's not a lot of bands who do loud guitar rock anymore. We keep doing what comes out of us naturally. In Texas, people do still like rock-and-roll as well as the big cities. It seems that even though the times have changed, people have stuck with us and we are very fortunate for that.
Some bands change their sound. Why has this band stayed true to its original sound?
That's always first and foremost in our minds. The lucky thing about the way we play music is, when we start playing guitars and Todd starts singing it pretty much sounds like a Toadies song even though you may have never heard it before. We know not to bring in drum machines and keyboards. It's pretty easy for us to stick to what the Toadies' sound is.
Do bands need radio these days?
I think they need radio less and less and it's really a good thing because radio has gotten worse and worse. The Internet has changed everything. Bands go from beginners to headlining tours in no time. Lana Del Rey played 'Saturday Night Live' before she released a record. There are dozens of bands like that. If you want to sell 500,000 albums, you are going to need it. It's just a weird thing. On the Billboard album charts, you hardly ever see the rock albums. That doesn't mean bands can't still tour and have a good fan base and a career.
Any new material on the way?
We recorded six songs for an EP and just last week we decided to turn that into an album. We were set to release the EP in late May but we are going to ride the momentum into a full record. I would say the album will probably be out in August or September. We are playing four of the new six songs recorded on this tour and we think the fans will enjoy them.


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Hip-Hop Shakedown
Show comes to abrupt end after police swarm club
| 3/4/2014, 1:07 p.m.
In the book "Art of War," mastermind general Sun Tzu proclaims that "the whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent," and on Saturday, at the Blue Monk there was certainly confusion injected between the grooves of Hip-Hop that were meant to be the star of the night.
Three of the biggest homegrown Hip-Hop acts in the city, Luck-One, Mikey Vegaz, and Illmaculate, were billed to headline an intimate stage at the restaurant and entertainment venue located at Southeast 33rd and Belmont.
The sold-out show however was brought to an abrupt halt once Illmaculate took the stage, stating that he would not perform as a result of the ever-swelling police presence that began to engulf both the immediate blocks around the venue, and inside.
The enforcement action was what many in Portland's hip hop music scene see as on-going, targeted police harassment of rap shows.
Over 20 officers from the Portland Police Bureau as well as a Portland Fire Marshal ended up being at the Blue Monk that night. The authorities said they went to the entertainment site initially over concerns about possible gang affiliations, but then escalated their response over fire safety issues because it appeared the downstairs venue was overcrowded and they couldn't get a radio signal or cell phone connection to reach 911 dispatch.
The fire marshal, Portland Fire Bureau Inspector Rob Cruser, talked with the Portland Observer on the night of the event.
He said he personally counted 135 bodies in the performance area. An official police report quoted the tally as "at least 120 people in the room;" and the Blue Monk website said they have a capacity of 100 in a cabaret-style setting.
Cruser denied that there was an effort to shut down the show, but said he did require that the crowd get thinned down to a legal capacity.
"I didn't shut down the show off immediately, which I could've done," Cruser said. "I wanted to work with the promoter to see if we could keep the show going."
He said he picks a "handful" of shows to check in on nightly, and Saturday's inspection was random.
But according to Portland Police spokesperson Sgt. Pete Simpson, the initial response was for something else. Simpson says the Police Bureau's Gang Enforcement Team, communicated its concerns about seasoned performer Mikey Vegaz' gang ties, an allegation the rapper denies.
According to the official police report, two police officers and the fire marshal arrived at the Blue Monk at 10:18 p.m. Saturday, and communicated their concerns about fire code violations to the venue owner Sheri Deitrick. It was nearly a half hour after the show was set to begin. Police said they were "intimidated" by one of the performers and other customers who were upset about their presence and used derogatory language, so they called in more police backup.
Bryce Trost, of Green Luck Media Group whom promoted the show, says after Vegaz' set was over officers switched their attention from concerns over "gang presence" to the venue's capacity, "It was extremely frustrating. I understand to a certain degree, the concern about the gang-related aspect. I don't understand shutting down the entire square block."


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Jeff Paster, a developer of luxury homes in California's Marin County, couldn't find a buyer for the brand-new waterfront mansion he listed in January for $45 million.
He's expecting that one will turn up at an auction this weekend, with a starting bid set at $25 million.
"People at this income level always have money," Paster said in an interview at the 15,000-square-foot (1,400-square- meter) residence on Belvedere Island, a tony enclave north of San Francisco that's known for views of the downtown skyline and Golden Gate Bridge.
"We had qualified buyers circling for months, but with no sense of urgency. This sets a deadline."
Technology executives paying discounts to listed prices have been active buyers of luxury properties this year in the San Francisco Bay area, where the growth of social-media and Internet firms including Twitter Inc. and Yammer Inc. has created a new wave of millionaires.
Some older homes sat unsold for years before finding buyers, said Rick Turley, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage of Northern California.
In 2012, there have been 13 publicly recorded transactions for more than $10 million in exclusive San Francisco neighborhoods such as Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights and Sea Cliff, according to DataQuick, a research firm. That's up from six sales last year and a dozen in 2007, the previous high mark. The numbers don't include deals in expensive areas outside the city, such as Belvedere or Tiburon, in Marin County; Atherton in San Mateo County; or Palo Alto in Santa Clara County.
Home Demand
"Over a long listing period, it's hard to say what will happen, because obviously the market is constantly changing," Turley said. "The success of tech and social media means people are looking very generally at San Francisco and the Silicon Valley as places to live because these businesses are sourced here. It's highest on their radar."
Initial public offerings in 2012 by Bay-area companies raised a record $17.5 billion in public equities markets, including sales by Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc., Yelp Inc. in San Francisco and Workday Inc. of Pleasanton, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The total is more than double the $8.3 billion reached in 1999, the height of the dot-com boom.
This year's Bay area IPOs generated $9.4 billion in cash for selling shareholders. Other investors have been able to generate money before initial stock sales through the rise of secondary-share markets such as SharesPost Inc.
Yammer Founder
Yammer founder David Sacks, who sold the social-media company to Microsoft Corp. in June for $1.2 billion, earlier this year bought an unfinished home in Pacific Heights that had been listed for $38.5 million. The transfer tax indicated a $20 million sale.
Sacks's new residence, built in the style of a French chateau, was last purchased by John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix, who paid $32 million in 2002, said David Barrett of listing brokerage Warwick Properties Group.
"It's built to be the finest residence in San Francisco, from limestone quarried in France and with the same glaziers who worked on the Eiffel Tower renovation," Barrett said.
This month, Jay Paul, the San Francisco-based developer of 6 million square feet of Silicon Valley offices, including Google Inc.'s four-building complex in Sunnyvale, completed a purchase in the same neighborhood, said a person with knowledge of the transaction who asked not to be named because it hasn't been made public. The house sold for $28.25 million, said Dona Crowder of TRI Coldwell Banker, a co-listing broker on the home. She declined to comment on the buyer.
Seller Deals
The deal was at a 48 percent discount to the asking price in 2007, around the time U.S. housing prices peaked. The seller had most recently sought $34 million, Crowder said.
Paul didn't return a telephone message seeking comment.
In some cases, luxury discounts this year in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley are a reflection of aged homes built decades ago that needed extensive renovations, Crowder said. Sellers were also motivated by the prospect of higher capital gains taxes in 2013, she said. Her listing on Broadway in Pacific Heights received higher bids in the past, including one earlier this year, which were rejected by the seller, she said.
"The generations are turning over in this neighborhood," Crowder said in a phone interview. "If it were understood back then that record prices were being offered, it would have been wise to sell" in 2007.
Dorsey, Benioff
Jack Dorsey, a Twitter co-founder, paid $9.9 million in February for a "humble" two-bedroom house in Sea Cliff that had been listed for $12.5 million, said Olivia Hsu Decker, owner of Tiburon-based Decker Bullock Sotheby's International Realty and Dorsey's agent on the deal. Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff bought a nearby house in 2009, Decker said.
The Sea Cliff neighborhood is named for its location high above the Pacific Ocean, west of the Golden Gate. In May, Dorsey, who is known to take public buses to work, tweeted a quote from the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, "I need the sea because it teaches me," Decker said in an e-mail.
Other multimillion-dollar homebuyers this year include Mark Pincus, founder of online game maker Zynga Inc. He purchased a Pacific Heights house in July for $16 million after a $500,000 price cut, said Decker, who represented him in the past and also is the listing agent for the Belvedere home.
Rising Prices
The region's broader housing market is also showing strong demand, bolstered by the addition of 32,400 new jobs in the San Francisco metropolitan area in the year through November. House and condominium prices in the nine-county Bay area last month rose almost 21 percent from a year earlier to a median $438,000, the highest since August 2008, according to San Diego-based DataQuick.
Paster has been developing the Belvedere estate since 2008, when he acquired two adjacent lots for $9.3 million, and put the property up for auction in November after two price reductions, the most recent to $35.9 million. The decision was made with the aim of "causing those interested to act," he said. There is an undisclosed reserve beyond $25 million.
"This is one-of-a-kind property," he said in an interview at the home earlier this month, seated behind a French antique desk in the library, the town of Sausalito visible through floor-to-ceiling windows behind him. "It's like a Picasso. How much is that worth?"
The 1.14-acre (0.46-hectare) site hugs the shore, with the house laid out in two wings on three levels. The seven bedrooms and living areas have mahogany flooring, and the nine bedrooms are tiled with marble and limestone. Terraces paved with fossil stone from India are accessible from most rooms on the main floor through oversized folding doors.
'Beautiful Spot'
Belvedere, about 17 miles (28 kilometers) north of San Francisco by car and less than a square mile in size, became a favored spot to build summer homes at the end of the 19th century, said Dave Gotz, archivist of the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society. The community, connected to Tiburon by a natural causeway so not technically an island, had the virtues of a warmer climate compared with the windy city.
"It's a beautiful spot, with small streets and steep hillsides coming down on the west side," said Mike Fuson, Belvedere's interim city manager. "The housing stock is expensive."
--With assistance from Ari Levy in San Francisco and Lee Spears in New York. Editors: Christine Maurus, Kara Wetzel
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A JUDGE told a former teacher he is "finished" in the profession as he was jailed for sexual offences against a 15-year-old schoolgirl after grooming her online.
Judge Francis Sheridan said former Holmer Green history teacher Luke Fisher betrayed the trust of the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and abused his position as he sentenced him to 18 months behind bars this morning.
Fisher, 28, of Pinkneys Drive, Maidenhead, pleaded guilty last month to one count of meeting a child following sexual grooming and three counts of sexual activity with a child under 16.
He dramatically changed his plea on what would have been the first day of his trial at Aylesbury Crown Court on April 1 after previously denying all the charges.
Judge Sheridan said: "You were a teacher and a popular one at that. Staff liked you, that is obvious, and your colleagues liked you, but most of all your charisma and age enabled youngsters at the school who had problems to come to you, and that is to your credit.
"You did not set out to groom [the girl] that came about when you were talking to her as a teacher about personal difficulties. You became sexually attracted to her and it was a gross misuse of your position.
"Her parents were entitled to know their young daughter was going off to school in a healthy and safe environment.
"You utterly betrayed the trust of the school and her parents and worst of all the fact that [the girl] made it clear she wanted it to stop you blanked her at school and left her feeling rejected instead of helping her.
"This is a sad case because this is the end of your career and you have set this young lady back in her emotional development because of your actions. This man is finished, he will never teach again in this country."
Fisher, who worked at the school for about four years, began sending Facebook messages to the pupil after consoling her over problems she was having at home.
He reassured the girl about her appearance and said she was 'pretty', eventually inviting her over to his house where, during the second visit, he began to touch her sexually.
The pupil then told him she wanted it to go no further and later reported the meetings to teachers at her school.
Judge Sheridan added that the school was blameless of any of the charges and acted swiftly and appropriately when they learned of the crimes.
He said: "Holmer Green School adhered to the very best practice in these circumstances.
"They carry no blame for what happened and behaved exactly as they should and they deserve credit for this."
Barrister for the defence Alisdair Williamson said although it should not detract from society's "abhorrence" for the crime, Fisher had shown remorse for what he had done and knew his life was "in ashes".
He said: "He does not skulk in the shadow like those in his position often do. He has taken the trouble to tell this court that he is not the sort of man we see before these courts.
"He is a teacher who fell for a pupil and that is his downfall. His life is in ashes and his father is in bits. He can be rehabilitated because he has acknowledged what he has done and he is prepared to seek medical help for his depression.
"This is never going to happen again, it grew up because of a particular situation and a young man found himself wanting in the crucible where he found himself placed."
Fisher was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for each of the four counts, to run concurrently.
He has been placed on the sex offenders register for ten years and given a prevention order banning him from unsupervised contact with under-16s for five years.
Holmer Green Senior School Headteacher, Michael Jones, said: "The running of our school has not been affected in any way. We are confident that our safeguarding and child protection policies are and have always been strong and robust and the safety and well-being of our students remains our overarching priority."


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Loj Banhammer
Proposed Canon
Strengths: Philosophy, Peace, Moderating Discussions
Weaknesses: War, Naivety, Dealing With His Daughter
First Appearance: TBFGK 82
King Loj Banhammer was the Royal, human and final Ruler of Faq before he was croaked.Erf-b1-p082 Jillian Zamussels is his daughter and an heir to his throne. His rule was, until the end, peaceful and avoided conflict.
He had multiple Casters. In order to remain out of the conflict that rages across Erfworld, he relied on his Foolamancer (Jack Snipe) and Predictamancer (Marie Lavraie) to conceal his cities. He had few Warlords and did not think much of them, lacking any use for them.Erf-b1-p082
After his Predictamancer foretold the eventual fall of the kingdom, King Banhammer ordered an heir popped. The heir, Jillian, did not have the philosophical temperament Banhammer had hoped for, leading to problems in their relationship. According to Jillian, Banhammer was very rule-bound, obsessed with philosophy, and uninterested in military matters.Erf-b1-p082.
King Banhammer was croaked during the assault on Faq by Stanley the Plaid. This attack was orchestrated by Wanda Firebaugh in an attempt to pry the Arkenhammer from Stanley, but the plan failed when Stanley proved too powerful.
The Principles of Peace
According to IPTSF Text 58, Banhammer wrote a treatise of his philosophies called The Principles of Peace. In it, he discourses on the different Principles, which include the Principle of Mutual Benefit, and the Principle of Generosity, and the Hierarchy of Good. Within the Hierarchy, he ranks what he terms as Services, based on which are of the greatest Good.
As of IPTSF 58, we only know of the Services Life, Love, Harmony and Wisdom. Wisdom is ranked over the others, because:
- You must understand that the progression of the world is toward a greater Wisdom. Individual Life must perish, but Wisdom well-served can accumulate. It will serve and enrich new Life as new Life inevitably generates! So the hierarchy does not imply that Wisdom is greater in value than Life, but that the service of Wisdom is of greater importance because it also serves Life and Love and Harmony and all the other Goods.
Banhammer's book was eventually published. It was later read by Lord Crush of Firstpost, who was interested in it because he studied bubble kingdoms.
Jillian Zamussels
Banhammer popped Jillian as an Heir, after hearing a Prediction about the fall of Faq.
From the very first, their relationship was fraught. Banhammer was a pacifist, a philosopher; Jillian an uncouth, efficient croaking-machine. A level of compromise was reached by letting Jillian spend most of her time away from Faq on mercenary missions. This allowed her to serve Faq in her best capacity, without causing any strife in the court.
Despite butting heads on many issues, Jillian was always loyal to Banhammer. At no point did she consider Turning or revolting.
- It is possible that his croaking is shown on page 147Erf-b1-p147. The body size seems to match with King Banhammer. Erf-b1-p082
- Defeated as Stanley relates in text update 27 Erf-b2-pT27 that Wanda immediately croaked and uncroaked the King when his dwagons stormed Faq.
Banhammer may have intentionally caused the strife between himself and his daughter. Popping an heir would not have changed the Prediction concerning his Kingdom: With or without an heir, it would still have been destroyed. From Jillian's temperament, he would know that she would have died in glorious battle defending her kingdom futilely making her popping a waste of effort; however, by being away from Faq at the time of its fall, she would become a Barbarian Warlord at his croaking, then could return to Faq and reclaim it, resurrecting and rebuilding the dead Side.
Real World References
His name is a reference to the power wielded by an administrator to ban or block users of internet media.
His name might also be a reference to the proverb "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword", since he and his city were defeated by the power of the Arkenhammer.
Lojban is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language based on predicate logic.
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The 2013 NFL draft concluded a mere three days ago. So you know what that means? It's time to start predicting the 2014 draft.
Sports Illustrated writer Chris Burke's first 2014 mock draft is pretty interesting. Burke has Texas A&M's Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel, who will be a redshirt sophomore and thus will be eligible to enter the draft, going No. 18 overall to the Minnesota Vikings.
Here's how Burke assesses Johnny Football as a pro prospect:
Manziel's a tough one to peg. He doesn't have great size or an elite arm, and his live-it-up lifestyle might scare some teams away. And yet, if he dominates the SEC for a second straight year, it would be tough to drop him very far. And Minnesota, barring a Christian Ponder breakthrough, could be ready for another change at QB.
Manziel isn't the only Aggie who Burke projects as a first-rounder. He also has offensive tackle Jake Matthews (No. 6 overall) going to the San Diego Chargers and wide receiver Mike Evans (No. 24) joining the New York Giants.
In this mock, the Texans have the 29th pick (meaning the writer expects the team to be among the league's elite) and are thinking defense, selecting Florida State linebacker Christian Jones.
Here's Burke's scouting report on Jones:
Something tells me Jones, who had 95 tackles last season, will ultimately be picked higher than this. He can get into the backfield, diagnose plays and track down running backs. Jones could develop into the total package.


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Situated on the northern coast of Sardinia, it includes the Olbia, Lori, San Paolo and San Teodoro villages and there are two rocky islands Molara and the Molarotto reef. The falaise on the Southeast side of Tavolara reaches 100 m in height. The whole area is characterised by a strong hydro dynamism and the only seaweed present is Halimeda tuna. The entire area is representative for the Sardinian coasts and the crystal-clear waters are a true paradise for divers.
The borders of the Park are signed by Capo Ceraso and Punta Isuledda, between which we have a landscape made of solitary caves, coloured reef, and high cliffs.
The island is the smallest kingdom of the world, reachable with boats that leave from Porto S.Paolo (about twenty minutes). It is four kilometres long standing on a granite base of rectangular shape; on the corner are Punta Timone, Punta del Papa, Punta la Mandria and Coda di Terra. The eastern part is a military area, while to the West is Spalmatore di Terra where are beaches, the small harbour, some houses and restaurants. The island, joining Molara isle, is included in the Tavolara-Punta Coda Cavallo Protected Marine Area (1997) that goes from Capo Ceraso to Punta Isuledda.
The beautiful Molara Island, a geological and environmental continuation of the coast of Coda cavallo, is made of small grain pink granite mixed with grey-rose granite from the Plutone Granitico of Gallura, which emerged during the orogenesis in the late Palaeozoic era.
Molarotto is a small island situated at 5 miles from Tavolara. Its has about 20.000 square meters and the highest point reaches 54 m. Giant granite blocks are populated by water birds form the coast reef.
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On February 4th 2013, Ribbon Music is set to release We the Common, the third full-length album from critically acclaimed artist Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. You can listen to 'Holy Roller' - the first track to be taken from the album below. 'Holy Roller' will be released on December 10th.
Frontwoman Thao Nguyen notes that the track "was the first song I wrote for this new record…it marked a shift in how I operate. I was steadily, in an overdue way, becoming grateful for everything and everyone I had. I tried to capture a sense of revival and a determination to be better."
Listen to 'Holy Roller' here:
Recorded at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studios and Dallas' Elmwood Studio, We the Common was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky) and features a duet with Joanna Newsom on the track 'Kindness Be Conceived.'
Thao observes, "'We the Common' is an album about wanting to be a human who tries and is grateful for the opportunity. It is about wanting to be better and closer to people. I have had over a year respite from touring and recording—in this year I started really trying to be a part of the community I live in and the family I was born into."
The album is the follow-up to Thao's 2009 release Know Better Learn Faster, which Pitchfork praised for its "warm exuberance that keeps the music spry" while US magazine SPIN noted that Thao's "lazily smoky voice has its bitterly harsh moments, but her coolly analytical self-awareness stings the most."
Based in San Francisco after growing up in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at age 12. She has worked with a long list of acclaimed artists including Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Veirs and producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens) and has recorded a pair of critically acclaimed records for Kill Rock Stars: 2008's We Brave Bee Stings and All and the aforementioned Know Better Learn Faster with her backing band The Get Down Stay Down.
Since her last album Thao has worked with the artist advocacy non-profit Air Traffic Control and has volunteered extensively with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.
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FALL RIVER — The Diocese of Fall River will install its eighth bishop, the Rev. Edgar Moreira da Cunha, auxiliary bishop of the Newark, New Jersey, Archdiocese, in September.
Pope Francis appointed da Cunha to succeed Bishop George W. Coleman who, in accordance with church law, submitted a letter of resignation upon turning 75 years old on Feb. 1.
Da Cunha, 60, is the first Brazilian-born priest to become a bishop in the United States.
In his ministry in the Fall River diocese, da Cunha will shepherd about 302,484 people who worship in 84 parishes and 11 mission churches within 1,194 square miles, encompassing all of Bristol County, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and the towns of Mattapoisett, Marion and Wareham in Plymouth County.
"I see this as a gift from the Lord," da Cunha said at a press conference Thursday at the Fall River diocese's Highland Avenue building.
Da Cunha said the appointment would afford him a chance to "exercise his ministry."
He thanked his "beloved Holy Father Pope Francis for his confidence" and said he was looking forward to ministering in his new home in Fall River.
"I could never imagine in my wildest dreams standing here today as the future bishop of the Fall River diocese," da Cunha said.
Da Cunha arrived in Fall River on Wednesday evening. At the press conference, he was welcomed by Coleman and smiled easily as he spoke and shook hands with all present. He said he will return to Newark to continue in his present role as auxiliary bishop until September.
He said he wasn't aware if his appointment in the Fall River Diocese had anything to do with his background, or the strong Brazilian and Portuguese presence in the area.
He is fluent in those languages.
Da Cunha's installation as bishop of the Fall River Diocese is planned for Sept. 24 at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in Fall River. Details will be announced in the forthcoming weeks.
At St. Mary's noon Mass on Thursday, parishioners learned of the announcement and said they welcomed da Cunha to Fall River.
"Wow. That's fantastic. We have a lot of Portuguese people here," said parishioner Andre Nasser.
The Cathedral of Saint Mary offers a weekly Mass for the city's Brazilian population.
St. Mary's Rev. John C. Ozug said he had previously met da Cunha.
"He is certainly of the heart and mind of the good shepherd and is a holy reflection of our Holy Father Pope Francis himself," Ozug said.
Parishioner Martha Ratcliffe said it was the first that she'd heard of the new bishop.
"There'll be some adjustments," she said. "We'll have to see how this turns out."
Cindy Raymond noted that it would be good for the Portuguese and Brazilian residents in Greater Fall River.
"There's a lot of Portuguese people around here," Raymond said.
Local priests, upon hearing the news, welcomed da Cunha to Fall River.
"It should be kind of exciting," said the Rev. Bruce M. Neylon of Holy Trinity Church on Stafford Road.
He said the appointment would be a good thing for the city's immigrants.
The Rev. Maurice O. Gauvin recently took the helm at Espirito Santo on Alden Street.
"We're very happy to have him here," Gauvin said. "I look forward to meeting him."
Da Cunha said he had no specific plans yet for the Fall River diocese. He said he needed to "get to know" the diocese and learn its "greatest needs."
When questions about closing churches and schools were put forth, da Cunha said he did not know enough about the diocese to make any decisions. He said that "Catholic education is very important to our mission" and that he wanted the diocese to "continue to provide a Catholic education."
He was questioned about a statement by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which said da Cunha ignored the clergy sexual abuse issue in Newark. The network said he showed no real "courage" or "compassion" in those cases.
Da Cunha said he had been a vicar for one year at the time and it was not among his responsibilities to address the issues.
Da Cunha was born in Nova Fatima, Bahia, Brazil, on Aug. 21, 1953, the son of Manoel and Josefa Moreira.
He attended local schools in Nova Fatima, Bahia, including the minor seminary of the Vocationist Fathers in Riachão do Jacuípe. There he joined the Vocationist Fathers, also known as the Society of Divine Vocations.
Da Cunha studied philosophy at Universidade Catolica do Salvador and theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New Jersey, graduating with a Master of Divinity degree.
He was ordained to the priesthood for the Society of Divine Vocations, in the Church of St. Michael in Newark in 1982. Following his ordination, he served as a parochial vicar of St. Michael Church, and as director of vocations.
In 1983, when the archdiocese entrusted Saint Nicholas Parish in Palisades Park to the Vocationist Fathers, da Cunha was transferred there to serve as parochial vicar and vice superior of the local community and continued his ministry of promoting vocations.
As vocation director, he served on the board of the Eastern Religious Vocations Directors Association.
In 1987, he was appointed pastor of St. Nicholas Parish. In 1992, he was elected secretary of the Council of the Vocationist Delegation in the United States.
From 1994 to 2000, da Cunha served as novice master and director of the Vocationary, the house of formation that the Vocationist Fathers maintains in Florham Park, New Jersey.
His appointment as auxiliary bishop of Newark and titular bishop of Ucres was announced by the Holy See in 2003. He was ordained bishop that same year.
Da Cunha was appointed regional bishop for Essex County in 2003 and then vicar for evangelization in 2005.
He was named vicar general for the Archdiocese of Newark in 2013 and as such has since served as the principal deputy of the archbishop in the administration of the archdiocese.
Da Cunha said he was "grateful" for the kind welcome he has received in Fall River. He said he will count on Coleman's expertise in getting to know the community, its history and traditions.
"I know I have so much to learn," da Cunha said. "I'm willing to learn from them and to celebrate our faith in God together."
He said there was "reason to celebrate and rejoice."
Da Cunha is currently a member of the Newark Archdiocesan Board of Consultors, Presbyteral Council, the Clergy Personnel Board; the New Jersey Catholic Conference Board of Bishops and chairman of NJCC Public Policy Committee.
He has served as member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church; Committee on Migration; and currently is a member of the Sub-Committee on the Church in Latin America, the Sub-Committee on Pastoral Care of Migrants, Refugee and Travelers.
He is chairman of the Archdiocesan Implementation Team for the New Energies — Parish Transition Project in the Archdiocese of Newark.
He serves as a consultor to the subcommittee on Hispanic affairs; and as episcopal liaison to the Brazilian Apostolate in the United States.


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Rockies reward De La Rosa with Opening Day start
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa received a reward Wednesday after a long and triumphant journey.
A Tommy John elbow surgery cost De La Rosa 16 months, from May 2011 to September 2012. Finally healed, De La Rosa posted his best career year in 2013 -- 16-6 with a 3.49 ERA -- and was one of the brightest performers in a last-place season for Colorado.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa received a reward Wednesday after a long and triumphant journey.
A Tommy John elbow surgery cost De La Rosa 16 months, from May 2011 to September 2012. Finally healed, De La Rosa posted his best career year in 2013 -- 16-6 with a 3.49 ERA -- and was one of the brightest performers in a last-place season for Colorado.
The performance, his years of accomplishment in a Rockies uniform, and the fact he is healthy led Rockies manager Walt Weiss to name De La Rosa the starting pitcher in the season opener on March 31 at Miami. The Marlins will start righty Jose Fernandez.
"I think it was a hard time, the last three years," De La Rosa said. "Last year, I think of all the sacrifice I did, and rehab and everything. This year, I think it's going to be exciting for me. I'm ready for this, and I hope I can help this team to win a lot of games again."
Weiss is happy to reward De La Rosa.
"He's worked really hard, and he deserves it," Weiss said. "He's a great pitcher for us, a great pitcher at our park."
The decision also puts De La Rosa in position for two starts in April against the Giants, a National League West foe against whom he has had success (8-4, 3.90 ERA in 19 games, 16 starts).
Last season, De La Rosa, who turns 33 on April 5, matched the career-high wins total he established in 2009, but did it with a lower ERA, and went 10-1 with a 2.76 ERA in 14 starts at Coors Field. De La Rosa pitched through a bruised left thumb for much of the second half of last season.
The 2013 performance was enough to convince the Rockies to pick up his $11 million club option. Although he will be a free agent at season's end, De La Rosa has said he would like to stay with the Rockies.
De La Rosa was at his best after a Rockies loss -- 10-0 with a 3.52 ERA in 14 of those starts. Now the Rockies are counting on him to start the season on the right track.
"It's exciting for me," De La Rosa said. "It's an honor for me to be the Opening Day starter. It's going to be my first one. Not too many guys can do this in their career. I'm ready for the challenge."
Going into Spring Training, the Opening Day start was a toss-up between De La Rosa and righty Jhoulys Chacin, who also rebounded from injury in 2013 and went 14-10 with 3.47 ERA in 31 starts last season. But Chacin reported to camp suffering from pain and inflammation in his throwing shoulder and has yet to throw a bullpen session. He is improving but is still expected to miss two or three starts.
Still, De La Rosa expects the rotation, buoyed by the addition of left-hander Brett Anderson -- last season's Opening Day starter for the Athletics -- and with righties Tyler Chatwood and Juan Nicasio entering with another season's experience, to be a team strength. The Rockies have finished last in the National League West the last two seasons, but De La Rosa sees enough talent for dramatic improvement.
"We've got a lot of good pitching right here," De La Rosa said. "I think Anderson can be a No. 1, too. They say I will be the opener, and I said yes. It's an honor for me to be the Opening Day pitcher.
"It's a goal to be in the playoffs and go as far as we can. I think we've got enough talent to be in the playoffs or win the World Series. I believe in this team a lot. I think we can do it. We'll see what happens."
Weiss also revealed that he is considering using lefties De La Rosa and Anderson consecutively in the rotation. They work at different paces -- De La Rosa the most deliberately of any Rockies starter, Anderson at a lightning pace -- and are different enough to not create a problem.
"We can go either way there -- I talked about splitting them up early on, but that's not the priority, really," Weiss said. "We'll see. There's the possibility they could go back-to-back.
"It makes it tough on opposing left-handed hitters. If there's a semi-platoon, with two left-handers back-to-back, they're not going to sit a good left-hander out back-to-back. It kind of puts them in a spot to make a decision."
De La Rosa is thankful to be healthy enough to earn his status.
The elbow injury occurred on May 24, 2011. De La Rosa expected to miss about a calendar year and seemed ahead of schedule, but setbacks kept occurring. He didn't make it back to the mound until Sept. 20, 2012. The team was long out of contention, and De La Rosa spent so much effort rehabbing that he was not in good condition. He went 0-2 with a 9.28 ERA in three starts, and was a question mark heading into last season.
"It's hard when you get setbacks like I had that year when I got the surgery," he said. "It puts a lot of things in your mind, but I never gave up. I kept working the same way, and I'm here now. I've got a good year last year, and I hope I can have good years like I had last year, something similar or better than I had last year."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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A swipe of a red lipstick may have a transformative effect like no other, but could your signature crimson pucker be responsible for less-than-desirable changes, as well? A recent investigation by Good Morning America revealed that 12 of 22 of lipstick samples—or 55 percent—contained trace amounts of lead, some as high as 3.22 part per million. Lead is a potent neurotoxin that can cause learning, behavioral, and other problems, but even the worst offenders aren't guilty of anything illegal. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suggests a lead limit of 0.1 parts per million for candy, the cosmetics industry isn't beholden to any such threshold outside of California. (The Golden State recommends a maximum of 5 parts per million.) And because lead is considered an "unintended" byproduct of the manufacturing process, cosmetics manufacturers aren't required to declare it on their ingredient labels.Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
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None of this is news to regulators, of course. A 2011 investigation by the FDA uncovered varying amounts of lead in 400 shades of popular lipstick, among them L'Oreal, Maybelline, Cover Girl, and NARS. The lipstick with the highest lead concentration? Maybelline's Color Sensational Pink Petal lipstick, which topped out at 7.19 parts per million.
The upside is the fact that 10 of the lipsticks didn't contain lead, which proves it's possible to manufacture a lipstick without it.
The upside is the fact that 10 of the lipsticks didn't contain lead, which proves it's possible to manufacture a lipstick without it.
The lead-in-lipstick debate is one that resurfaces once every few years. The FDA and certain experts claim that lipstick, unlike candy, is ingested only in very small quantities, so any traces of lead that do exist are too minute to pose a threat. Anti-lead consumer advocates, including the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, however, insist that there is no such thing as a "safe" level of lead exposure.
Concerns abound, for instance, that a pregnant woman wearing lipstick can pass lead to her baby internally. "What we know now is that even the lowest levels of lead can harm your IQ, your behavior, your ability to learn, so we want to make sure that it is out of everything that is in the environment of children," Sean Palfrey, medical director for the Boston Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, a joint initiative by the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, told GMA.
Then there is the fact that 10 of the lipsticks the news program tested didn't contain lead. "That's the upside of your survey results," says Janet Nudelman of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. "Clearly the concerning part is that more than half of the lipsticks do contain lead, but half of them don't, proving that it's possible to manufacture a lipstick without lead."
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A giant snake sat coiled in the center of South Coast Plaza's Jewel Court, keeping watch over a bounty of oversized coins, lush flowers and stacks of oranges. In its clutches was a glittering bronze fan, and red paper lanterns suspended from bamboo poles matched its ribbon-like tongue.
Along the upper floors of the rotunda, banners wished visitors "Happy New Year," in several languages.
The display, which will greet passing shoppers through Feb. 17 as part of the shopping center's Lunar New Year festivities, is meant to bring happiness, abundance and financial prosperity.
With Orange County's east Asian communities rapidly growing, and with exploding purchasing power making its way stateside from China, area businesses are hoping that nods to the Year of the Snake, which begins Sunday, will attract a piece of the good fortune.
"What you can see is that things like the Lunar New Year are not simply ethnic or in the margins," said Yong Chen, a history and Asian American studies professor at UC Irvine. "They're entering the mainstream with big players like South Coast [Plaza.]"
Disneyland Resort is featuring Asian-inspired menu items at restaurants throughout its parks and Downtown Disney, along with a number of performances this weekend by Asian American dance troupes, said John McClintock, resort spokesman. It's the resort's second year holding a major celebration.
It's also Starbucks' second year selling Lunar New Year-themed gift cards.
And South Coast Plaza, which for decades has billed itself not as a mall, but a world-class shopping destination, is leading the charge.
"They know the global market," Chen said. "They're visionary. The things they've done have been very effective."
South Coast Plaza's marketers have successfully tapped into Chinese demand for "lavish, bigger-name products." That demand, Chen said, is "growing at insane levels."
For example, he said, a popular brand-name outlet store might have a limit, "saying each customer can only buy 10 handbags — five with the logos, five without. It's that kind of consumption."
At least for now, that brand demand seems to be something of a one-way street, Chen said.
Asked if any Chinese brands were gaining the kind of cachet Western luxury brands enjoy, he quipped, "Call me back in 10 years."
In any case, Chen said, holiday spending in particular can be a huge boon for retailers.
"In China … the New Year has become more like Christmas," he said. "The Chinese expenditure during the Lunar New Year season may very well exceed that of American Christmas shopping. So it's incredible."
Among the more than 25 retailers at South Coast Plaza boasting special products or events for the Lunar New Year are luxury brands like Chopard, Fendi, Dior, La Perla and Tiffany & Co.
The MAC Cosmetics store will be the only location in North America to offer its "Year of the Snake" make-up collection.
High-end accessory designer Roger Vivier created limited editions of its classic Pilgrim clutch in two shades of bright red — available exclusively at its Orange County boutique.
Of Roger Vivier's three U.S. boutiques — the other two are on Madison Avenue in New York and in Bal Harbour, Fla. — South Coast Plaza "just made sense," Public Relations Coordinator Sarah Hauser said. "What's special about South Coast Plaza is it has such a diverse clientele."
Given the brand's high-end price point, catering to individual clients is a top priority, she said.
The crystal-buckled, silk satin handbag, which will run shoppers up to $1,725, is the brand's first foray into holiday merchandising, Hauser said.
Thursday evening, South Coast Plaza officially kicked off its celebration with a reception featuring, among other things, several members of the Asian Stilt Circus Performers and a performance by the Southern Wind Lion Dance troupe, a part of the Vietnamese Student Assn. at UCI.
While South Coast Plaza has celebrated the Lunar New Year for several years, this was the center's first large party.
Guests packed into the Jewel Court area to snack on dumplings from the popular dim sum chain Capital Seafood, and sip the evening's signature cocktail.
Executive Director of Marketing Debra Gunn Downing said about 1,100 people sent RSVPs to the party. The guest list, she said, was culled from stores' top customer lists, as well as outreach efforts into the local Asian community.
"We got an incredible response," she said.
Robert Sun, chairman of the American Chinese CEO Society, said recognition of a major Chinese holiday by a "mainstream business" like South Coast Plaza definitely greases the wheels of international commerce.
"South Coast Plaza has been friends working with our organization for years," he said. "They recognize us, and we recognize them."
Frequently, he said the society will bring delegations of visiting dignitaries to shop at the center.
That's exactly the idea, said Werner Escher, South Coast Plaza's executive director of domestic and international markets.
The party and festivities, he said, are just another aspect of South Coast Plaza's longstanding commitment to creating a shopping experience, which started decades ago with the addition of valet parking and concierge services.
"South Coast Plaza doesn't just draw from the core market," he said. "It is an international destination because of the experience."
While party guests said an annual South Coast Plaza party wasn't likely to supplant dinner with family or more traditional celebrations anytime soon, it was nice to see the holiday gaining more mainstream recognition.
"This is great," said Nancy Lee, 63. She said she'd noticed more recognition of the Lunar New Year over the past "maybe five years."
It makes her "kind of proud," she said.
Paul Lee, 52, said he was enjoying the party, though his friend, Peter Cheung, 32, said festivities in China are "more exciting."
Still, Lee joked, "I've never seen so many Chinese in one place."
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All in the Family: Meet the McDonalds
Chris McDonald introduces the players in the "McDonald Family IRONMAN Texas Battle."
by Chris McDonald
Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Texas is now a little over 10 weeks away and a few readers have been interested in how things are coming along with the "McDonald Family Battle."
If you missed the opening story on our family journey to the finish line, you can catch up here. In short, my father and both my older brothers will be taking on IRONMAN Texas with me on May 17th. This will be my dad's very first triathlon and a chance for the three brothers to beat up on each once again.
Some might think that the three brothers will all shake hands, hug and then go about the day cheering each other on, then pray that dad makes the finish line. This would make complete sense, but it's just not how things function in the McDonald household. Let me give a little background on each of us to try and make things clearer.
Neil McDonald (Dad)
Although IRONMAN Texas will be my dad's first triathlon (and also his first attempt at anything endurance related), it won't be his first attempt at being competitive. Dad, 67, (left, above) has been competitive in a few different sports, including hockey, cricket and golf. He still plays at a handicap of two. Now, these sports have not helped his ability to run a marathon or complete an IRONMAN race, but it has helped his ability to talk smack!
David McDonald (the Original)
David (right, above) was the first of all of us to complete a full-distance race. He is the reason I do the sport today. David, now 44 years old, competed in IRONMAN Australia in 2001 and, since then, has made two trips to Kona, where he has clocked a couple of sub-9:10 finishes. He is one of the hardest working people you'll ever meet. He also should be nicknamed "Mr. No Filter." If David is thinking something, it comes out of his mouth. He is a dream to coach, however. If I told him to jump, he would say how high? But, while he was up there he would shoot out some sarcastic remark about exactly how badly he is going to beat me.
Daniel McDonald (the Middle Child)
We've all heard about the middle child syndrome, the one who is forgotten and left out, not the first, but not the baby. My nickname for Daniel is "the sand bagger." Although he will never believe me, Daniel, 42, is by far the most talented of all of us. This is a guy who rates cleaning the toilet and sweeping the floor above swimming and running, but has competed in 20-plus IRONMAN races, including that little race in Hawaii in October. The polar opposite to David, Daniel is a nightmare to coach. If you want Daniel to do two reps of something, you tell him to do 45. Daniel is the guy who races his bike every other weekend, logs running across the street as a session and thinks falling in the creek is a swim. Yet he still goes between 10 and 11 hours every time he races.
Rhonda McDonald (Mum)
Mum will be there on May 17th and will be our number one cheerleader, standing side by side with the number two cheerleader…
Shantel McDonald (the Poor Sister)
I couldn't leave my sister out. She will be there on race day with the pom poms as well.
Yours Truly (the Baby)
You know what they say about the baby…and "awesome" pretty much sums it up. Having David and Daniel (eight and nine years older than me, respectively) competing in sport, made me want to do what they did—only kick their butt at it. What I did learn—other than hard work pays off—is that I need to figure out how to have thick skin.
I will be writing updates on how our training is going here each month, providing insight into the trials and tribulations of training. I'll also let you in on how I'm helping my dad take on his first IRONMAN, and how I'm trying to pitt the two older brothers against each other—not that they need any help.
Stay tuned!
Chris McDonald is a six-time IRONMAN champion who was born and raised in Australia. He now lives and trains out of Austin, Texas. Visit his website at chris-mcdonald.net.
I: Introduction | II: Meet the McDonalds | III: Son, Brother, Built-In Coach | IV: The Most Rewarding Thing


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Jimmy Graham on USA Network's NFL Characters unite
Who, besides opposing linebackers, doesnt want to be pals with New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham?
Astin Randall, 14, got the chance thanks to cables USA Network. Their friendship is profiled in a new special, NFL Characters Unite, airing at 6 p.m. Friday (Feb. 10).
Graham is one of four NFL figures involved in the project, which is part of the networks long-running Characters Unite public-service campaign aimed at battling prejudice and discrimination.
For the special, Graham, Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy -- all of whom overcame social adversity early in life are paired with youngsters dealing with similar challenges.
According to the network, Randall lost his father to murder and his mother to drug addiction and was entering the foster-care system when teamed with Graham through the Boys Town Louisiana New Orleans center.
Hes gone through more than I can even imagine, more definitely than Ive gone through, said Graham, who lived in group homes and foster care as a child. Hes so smart, so driven. Some of the things hes told me from his story, its pretty amazing. Hes a great kid, and he definitely reminds me of myself. Its definitely a great relationship.
Grahams use of present tense is accurate. Though the special was filmed in early December, Graham and Randall have stayed in touch.
He has my number, Graham said in a Thursday (Feb. 9) phone interview. He has my email. He also has my managers contacts and he knows that if he cant get in touch with me, he can call her and she will immediately find me. That has happened a couple of times, and thats awesome.
I said, Listen, Im not one of those people who are here today and you dont see tomorrow. If you need anything, ever, you call me. Ill be there for you and help you as best I can.
One visit was a trip to the movies, including some pre-show arcade time.
Picture that scene. Few New Orleanians are more currently adored by men and women and boys and girls of all ages than Jimmy Graham.
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In response to strong national need and student interest, Hope College is expanding its nursing program.
Students begin studies in the program as sophomores, and since starting in 2002 the department has enrolled 36 students per year, for a total of 108 students in the nursing program at any given time. The program, which leads to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), is growing to 45 students per class year, a 25 percent increase that will be phased in beginning during the 2009-10 school year with the incoming sophomore class.
Nursing programs are addressing an increasingly critical national shortage of Registered Nurses, according to Dr. Susan Dunn, associate professor of nursing and chairperson of the department. According to projections in 2007 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one million new and replacement nurses will be needed by 2016, with government analysts projecting that more than 587,000 new nursing positions will be created through 2016, making nursing the nation's top profession in terms of projected job growth.
"The need is already here, and it's going to increase," Dunn said. "America is aging, and along with that the nursing work force is aging. Many nurses are going to be retiring at the same time that more Americans will need health care."
Nursing education at Hope began in 1982 through a program that the college operated jointly with Calvin College through 2003. When the two schools decided to establish independent programs, Hope set its 36-per-entering-class size based on projected student interest, and gained accreditation and state-board approval according to that total. Consistently, however, student interest has outstripped capacity.
"Unfortunately, each year we have to turn down some very good students because of the limit on our class size to meet accreditation standards," said Dr. James Boelkins, provost at Hope. "By making some modest staffing adjustments we will now be able to accept more of these excellent students, retain them at Hope and help them achieve their vision of becoming nurses."
The college has obtained approval for the increase from both the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the Michigan Board of Nursing. Hope recently received 10-year continuing accreditation - the maximum possible duration - from the CCNE. Hope had previously received five-year accreditation - the maximum available to a new program - in 2004.
Dunn feels that the college is well positioned to accommodate the increase, particularly given the outstanding resource of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center in which the building is based. The science center hadn't yet opened when the department was established, but since the building's debut in 2003, she said, it has served exceptionally well while also showing itself equal to handling more.
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U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, seeking to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, defended hydraulic fracturing as a job creator and said bans of the practice would kill thousands of jobs "overnight" in a visit to Durango on Sunday.
His "all-of-the-above energy policy" relies on fracking.
"If an energy ban were to take place in this state, you would lose 120,000 jobs overnight," he said. "Twelve billion dollars in economic activity would walk away and $1 billion in tax revenues that builds roads and schools in this state.
Colorado has some of, if not the most, stringent regulations in place. A hydraulic fracturing ban on the ballot would be devastating to our economy."
Gardner, a 40-year-old Republican from Yuma, was in Durango on a tour of Southwest Colorado; he's been to Montrose, Norwood, Telluride and Dolores on a trip that began July Fourth.
He's been called a GOP Young Gun – the Idea Man – by supporters. He's also been called "too extreme for Colorado" by critics.
On Sunday, he said he's working push ideas of renewable energy on his sometimes-skeptical party.
"We ought to be talking about good conservation policy," he said. "Good environmental policy and renewable energy. Ways that we can embrace an all-of the-above energy without just talking about gas and oil, but also renewable energy, like wind and solar."
He said Republicans should understand renewable energy is a "pretty good free-market principle."
Gardner supports oil seed used in bio-fuel production in Colorado – saying dry-land oil-seed farming would be phenomenal for the state's economy.
On March 1, he launched a campaign platform called the Four Corners plan.
"People say that Colorado is red or blue, but I've never looked at it that way," he said at The Durango Herald on Sunday. "Colorado is a state that reacts to people who can get things done."
The plan, he said, is built on economy, education, energy and the environment, to bring together the four corners of the state.
Although he has taken heat in the media for statements on personhood, abortion and birth control, as well as on immigration, energy and environmental policy, Gardner says he has appealed to members of opposing parties.
He has worked with No Labels and with a Democratic senator from West Virginia and a former governor of Utah to try to "cut through partisan gridlock."
"They gave me their first seal of approval for this campaign because of work we've done across the aisle to bring solutions to both sides," he said.
He said he's been working with Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., on an energy-efficiency savings program that finds ways for the federal government to reduce its own energy use.
"We could save $20 billion if they were more efficient," he said.
He's also working with U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D- Mich., to seek out government waste and overlapping programs and to reduce those expenditures.
He talked about caring for healthy forests and described himself as a Republican who wants to address conservation.
Gardner supports immigration legislation with U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, that would grant citizenship through service in the military.
"I can think of no higher affirmation or loyalty," he said.
He said he is also working on college-tuition savings programs and extensions of existing programs that would help families save for tuition and help college graduates pay off their loans.
Speaking about his reversal of positions on the "personhood amendment," which would grant rights to unborn fetuses, Gardner says a solution to many unwanted pregnancies could be found in making some birth-control options more easily available.
"In fact, we have asked the FDA to make common forms of more contraception available over-the-counter," he said. "I am pro-life, but I think this election is about the economy and getting people back to work," he said.
Over-the-counter birth control would take the politics out of the argument, he said.
"We have to shake things up a bit," Gardner said, saying sleep is for November.
"I've got two kids – 2½ and 10. This fight? A $17 trillion dollar debt? An economy that is lagging? We have to do better," he said.


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Almost 1 Of Every 5 Google Searches Shows Rel=Author In Top 100 Results, Study Shows
What began as an experiment 10 months ago is now showing up in nearly one of every five Google search results.
I'm talking about authorship — Google's use of the rel=author markup to identify content creators next to their content.
A new SearchMetrics study published this week says that about 17 percent of queries included at least one instance of rel=author within the first 100 search results. The company analyzed a million keywords — including a mix of navigational, information and transactional — and found that more than 170,000 included a rel=author display somewhere in the first 10 pages of results for each keyword.
What about on the first page, you ask? We asked that question, too, and SearchMetrics says its study found at least one rel=author integration showing up on page one for 3.07 percent of its one million keywords.
To be clear, SearchMetrics counted only the actual rel=author appearances in the main organic results; the study didn't count author appearances in the "People and Pages on Google+" content box that occasionally shows on generic queries.
SearchMetrics also put together a list of the authors who appeared the most in those one million keywords studied, and the author with both the most overall appearances (4,274) and the most appearances on page one (1,658) is Diana Rattray, a food author and contributor to About.com. SearchMetrics includes an Excel spreadsheet that lists the top 200 authors at the end of its blog post.
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I had never really thought about traveling to South Africa. Cape Town wasn't on my bucket list. But . . .
Kate, my daughter, a junior at Fairfield University, decided to do her semester abroad in Cape Town this spring through a Marquette University program. She is living in a house with 19 other students from various colleges in the United States. She volunteers two days a week teaching sixth graders, just started helping in an after-school program at a day care center, and goes to school at the University of the Western Cape three days a week. The program doesn't encourage family visits, as everyone is very busy between their service sites and their work at the university, but Marquette did suggest that if you really wanted to visit, the ideal time to do so would be at the end of March, when the students returned from their holiday tour of South Africa.
We began our adventure on March 27. A 15-hour flight to Johannesburg followed by another 2-hour flight took us to Cape Town. Flying in, the mountains are outstanding, running right down to the beautiful white, sandy beaches. What a huge, sprawling city! At the waterfront, hundreds of cranes were loading and unloading cargo from all over the world. There were some high-rise buildings, but not too many. It was a wonderful, clean, bustling city with so much to see and do.
Our first trip was to the waterfront, where there are lovely hotels and restaurants, shops, and boats of every size and shape, many for hire, even a huge Ferris wheel, the Wheel of Excellence. We went to the Robben Island Museum and took a fast ferry over to the island to see where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 20 years starting in 1964 for sabotage and treason.
The ferry was packed with 600 people from all over the world — people from Nigeria, the Netherlands, Germany, England, Zimbabwe, Japan, and China — but we were the only Americans on our bus when we got to the island. We heard about the conditions at the prison and why people were jailed there — mostly because they were black and their political beliefs were being questioned. What a somber, moving experience touring the island, seeing the limestone pit where the men were put to work seven days a week, and hearing about the horrible, squalid conditions they lived in, all told to us by an ex-inmate. Unimaginable. Truly sobering.
Another day we took a drive to Cape Peninsula National Park. We headed first to Muizenberg, a quaint little surf town with a wide sandy beach and wildly colored cabanas. Kalk Bay was next, with the railroad running right along the beach, colorful fishing boats, and charming touristy shops. Then came Simons Town, home to the South African Navy, a bustling little city right on the water; Boulder Beach, with its huge population of African penguins, and finally Cape Point, with miles of scrubland, ostriches and baboons roaming wild, and a beautiful lighthouse built in 1919.
The scenery is breathtaking — steep cliffs and rugged terrain, with beautiful rocky beaches. Heading back toward Cape Town, we went through Noordhoek and onto Chapman's Peak, an extremely high toll road overlooking the Atlantic with a straight, vertical drop. Not for those afraid of heights (like me). The road is closed when it is extremely windy and when rocks are falling!
In Hout Bay, where we stopped for a late afternoon dinner on the waterfront, seals swam around the harbor and there was a jumping seal that a boy fed with fish held in his mouth. We were in Camps Bay for sunset, with the Twelve Apostles mountain range looming overhead. Incredible.
We also spent a day in the wine region of Stellenbosch touring wineries and tasting wine and cheese. There are over 150 vineyards in the area and you can see vines for miles. The architecture of the town is Cape Dutch, beautiful houses with gabling and thatched roofs. The amazing botanical gardens of Kirstenbosch have thousands of acres of manicured gardens and sculpture gardens, hundreds of flower beds filled with native South African plants, including the protea, the national flower of South Africa.
When it was time to say goodbye to Kate, her friends, our lovely hotel, and wonderful staff and head off on our safari adventure, we flew back to Johannesburg, then took a 35-minute jet ride to Hoedspruit. As short as it was, we were even offered drinks and a sandwich on the flight! Looking down on the rivers and shrubland and Klein Drakensberg mountain range, we saw no signs of humans. A hotel shuttle bus met us at the tiny airport to take us to Chapungu, a private game reserve and our home for the next three days.
The road from the airport is paved for about three miles, then turns to red dirt. In the bushveld along the way, we saw wart hogs and guinea hens.
At the game lodge, where everything is outdoors, Jennifer, the manager, sat us down to tell us the rules: The sound of a drum means that meals are being served. No walking around at night without a night watchman. There was no telephone service, so if we needed to contact someone, we should use the whistle and horn in our tent.
We stayed in a luxury tent, one of eight tents, each very private. Along with four other people that had arrived the day before, we prepared for our first game drive after lunch, loading into a four-tiered Range Rover with Sipps, our driver, and Aubrey, our tracker. Every time we came upon some animals, Sipps stopped the truck so we could observe them and take photos. There were Cape buffalo, impalas, zebras, baboons, springbok, and giraffes.
Jennifer met us back at the game lodge that evening with warm towels to wipe the dirt from our hands and faces, then a glass of port to warm up. After a buffet dinner, we were all walked back to our tents for the night.
The wake-up call the next morning came at 5. By 5:45 we were at the lodge for tea, coffee, and juice, and then it was off again in search of elephants, hippos, rhinos, leopards, and lions. This time, when we returned from the drive, there was a giraffe, standing all alone 50 feet away from us. After two more game drives that evening and the next morning, we headed back Johannesburg to begin our journey home.
We met a couple from Johannesburg on our way to the airport who told us that we had to come back, fly into Jo'burg, then down to Port Elizabeth to take the garden route along the coast to Cape Town. What an amazing place! Everyone that I had spoken to about South Africa before we left all said that they couldn't wait to go back again.
Now I know why!
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