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Dr. Kleinberg specializes in the radiation treatments, including stereotactic radiosurgery, of brain and spinal tumors. Areas of research include both tumors arising in the central nervous system and tumors metastasizing from other locations. He also specializes in the treatment of esophageal tumors and has led national clinical trials in both therapy of brain tumors as well as esophageal cancer.
Dr. Kleinberg has been recently named in the US News and World Report list of top 1% of doctors in his specialty. He is the co-chair of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Brain Tumor Working Group, Vice-Chair of the NCI Cooperative Group Steering Committee for Esophageal and Gastric Tumors, and is a member of the NCI Cooperative Group Steering Committee for Gastrointestinal Tumors. He is also on the American College of Radiation Oncology Neurologic Cancer Practice Accreditation Team.
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- Radiation Oncology at Sibley Memorial Hospital
- Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences - Molecular Radiation Science
- MD, Yale University School of Medicine (1989)
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Radiation Oncology (1993)
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Heath, E.I.; Burtness, B.A.; Kleinberg, L.; Salem, R.R.; Yang, S.C.; Heitmiller, R.F.; Canto, M.I.; Knisely, J.P.; Topazian, M.; Montgomery, E.; Tsottles, N.; Pithavala, Y.; Rohmiller, B.; Collier, M.; Forastiere, A.A. Phase II, parallel-design study of preoperative combined modality therapy and the matrix metalloprotease (mmp) inhibitor prinomastat in patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma. Invest New Drugs. 2006 Mar;24(2):135-140.
Kleinberg, L.; Gibson, M.; Yang, S.; Forastiere, A.A.; Putnam, J.B. Primary Combined Modality Therapy for Esophageal Cancer. Oncology. 2006;20(5):505-511.
Donawho, C.K.; Luo, Y.; Luo, Y.; Penning, T.D.; Bauch, J.L.; Bouska, J.J.; Bontcheva-Diaz, V.D.; Cox, B.F.; DeWeese, T.L.; Dillehay, L.E.; Ferguson, D.C.; Ghoreishi-Haack, N.S.; Grimm, D.R.; Guan, R.; Han, E.K.; Holley-Shanks, R.R.; Hristov, B.; Idler, K.B.; Jarvis, K.; Johnson, E.F.; Kleinberg, L.R.; Klinghofer, V.; Lasko, L.M.; Liu, X.; Marsh, K.C.; McGonigal, T.P.; Meulbroek, J.A.; Olson, A.M.; Palma, J.P.; Rodriguez, L.E.; Shi, Y.; Stavropoulos, J.A.; Tsurutani, A.C.; Zhu, G.D.; Rosenberg, S.H.; Giranda, V.L.; Frost, D.J. ABT-888, an orally active poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor that potentiates DNA-damaging agents in preclinical tumor models. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2007 May 1;13(9):2728-2737.
Gerber, D.E.; Grossman, S.A.; Zeltzman, M.; Parisi, M.A.; Kleinberg, L. The impact of thrombocytopenia from temozolomide and radiation in newly diagnosed adults with high-grade gliomas. Neuro-oncology. 2007 Jan;9(1):47-52.
Kleinberg, L.; Forastiere, A.A. Chemoradiation in the management of esophageal cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Sep 10;25(26):4110-4117.
Kleinberg, L.; Gibson, M.K.; Forastiere, A.A. Chemoradiotherapy for localized esophageal cancer: regimen selection and molecular mechanisms of radiosensitization. Nature clinical practice. 2007 May;4(5):282-294.
Kretschmar, C.; Kleinberg, L.; Greenberg, M.; Burger, P.; Holmes, E.; Wharam, M. Pre-radiation chemotherapy with response-based radiation therapy in children with central nervous system germ cell tumors: a report from the Children''s Oncology Group. Pediatric blood & cancer. 2007 Mar;48(3):285-291.
Lawson, H.C.; Sampath, P.; Bohan, E.; Park, M.C.; Hussain, N.; Olivi, A.; Weingart, J.; Kleinberg, L.; Brem, H. Interstitial chemotherapy for malignant gliomas: the Johns Hopkins experience. Journal of neuro-oncology. 2007 May;83(1):61-70.
Ford, E.; Purger, D.; Tryggestad, E.; McNutt, T.; Christodouleas, J.; Rigamonti, D.; Shokek, O.; Won, S.; Zhou, J.; Lim, M.; Wong, J.; Kleinberg, L. A virtual frame system for stereotactic radiosurgery planning. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 2008 Nov 15;72(4):1244-1249.
Kleinberg, L.R.; Brock, M.V.; Jagannath, S.B.; Forastiere, A.A. Cancer of the Esophagus. In: Abeloff, M.e.a., editor. 4th Edition ed, Clinical Oncology. New York, NY: Churchill-Livingstone; 2008.
Lin, S.H.; Kleinberg, L.R. Carmustine wafers: localized delivery of chemotherapeutic agents in CNS malignancies. Expert review of anticancer therapy. 2008 Mar;8(3):343-359.
Guss, Z.D.; Batra, S.; Li, G.; Chang, S.D.; Parsa, A.T.; Rigamonti, D.; Kleinberg, L.; Lim, M. Radiosurgery for glomus jugulare: history and recent progress. Neurosurg Focus. 2009 Dec;27(6):E5.
McGirt, M.J.; Than, K.D.; Weingart, J.D.; Chaichana, K.L.; Attenello, F.J.; Olivi, A.; Laterra, J.; Kleinberg, L.R.; Grossman, S.A.; Brem, H.; Quinones-Hinojosa, A. Gliadel (BCNU) wafer plus concomitant temozolomide therapy after primary resection of glioblastoma multiforme. Journal of neurosurgery. 2009 Mar;110(3):583-588.
Meguid, R.A.; Hooker, C.M.; Taylor, J.T.; Kleinberg, L.R.; Cattaneo, S.M., 2nd; Sussman, M.S.; Yang, S.C.; Heitmiller, R.F.; Forastiere, A.A.; Brock, M.V. Recurrence after neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery for esophageal cancer: does the pattern of recurrence differ for patients with complete response and those with partial or no response? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009 Dec;138(6):1309-1317.
Frazier, J.L.; Batra, S.; Kapor, S.; Vellimana, A.; Gandhi, R.; Carson, K.A.; Shokek, O.; Lim, M.; Kleinberg, L.; Rigamonti, D. Stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of brain metastases: an institutional retrospective analysis of survival. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 2010;76(5):1486-1492.
Li, S.; Kleinberg, L.R.; Rigamonti, D.; Wharam, M.D., Jr.; Rashid, A.; Jackson, J.; Djajaputra, D.; He, S.; Creasey, T.; DeWeese, T.L. Clinical results of a pilot study on stereovision-guided stereotactic radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiotherapy. Technol Cancer Res Treat. 2010 Dec;9(6):603-617.
Tryggestad, E.; Christian, M.; Ford, E.; Kut, C.; Le, Y.; Sanguineti, G.; Song, D.Y.; Kleinberg, L. Inter- and Intrafraction Patient Positioning Uncertainties for Intracranial Radiotherapy: A Study of Four Frameless, Thermoplastic Mask-Based Immobilization Strategies Using Daily Cone-Beam CT. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Oct 15.
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Editors Note: This is the third in a series of feature stories on the student-athletes, coaches and teams who make up the fabric of the Cal State Northridge Athletic Department.
The Even-Keeled Kevin Guppy
By Chris Podbielski, Media Relations Intern
Northridge, Calif. - Kevin Guppy played basketball, football, soccer and the drums. He's athletically, musically and socially minded, pursuing a degree in Sociology with a focus on Criminal Justice, and considering a possible future in firefighting. One might think this particular California State University, Northridge soccer goalie shows a lack of focus...but one would be wrong.
Head Coach Terry Davila, head coach of the Matador men's soccer program remembers a tough match against a rival school in which Guppy showed tremendous poise, especially for a freshman. He describes the 2005 game in which the opposing fans packed in five feet behind Guppy's cage, screaming obscenities and insults throughout 90 minutes of play.
"Kevin was playing in a big game against a rival school and in a very hostile environment," remembers Davila. "And the other team's fans knew his grandmother's name, and they knew his girlfriend's name and his mother's name, and they went after him and they were saying things that you wouldn't even hear in an R-rated movie. And he handled himself extremely well."
Indeed, Guppy played impressively in that season-ending match against that team that shall not be named. He saved three goals during regular play, finally allowing one (resulting from a turnover) in sudden-death overtime. His concentration proved amazing under such circumstances.
"Most people probably would have flipped out," said Davila. "But Kevin was able to maintain himself and showed me what a tough-minded human being he really is and I gained a lot of respect for him after that."
The net minder excels in the classroom as well as on the pitch. Guppy won All-Big West Academic honors this year with a grade point average of 3.63. The junior with 62 saves last season and a school record-breaking 9 ½ shutouts in 2005, has a future as diverse and personally fulfilling as his hobbies. Coach Davila chalks Guppy's many successes up to his upbringing. The goalie's parents and grandparents attend every game and offer invaluable support, guidance and role models. Guppy agrees with Davila's assessment.
"I'm a family oriented guy and I most admire my grandfather who was a firefighter for 37 years," the goalkeeper explains. "If professional soccer doesn't work out, that's the route I'd like to take. Firefighting is just a way for me to give back to the community."
But who can say if professional soccer won't work out for this achievement-minded student athlete? The firmly-grounded Guppy once went an impressive 457 minutes without allowing a single goal during his play between the pipes. During the Matador off season, the student athlete minds the net for the San Fernando Quakes in an effort to stay focused and keep in shape.
"He's going to have a great life," Davila predicts. "I can see him being a professional goal keeper or a firefighter, even a fire chief--he has those kinds of leadership qualities."
And leadership is not just something learned--though he will do more of that at the NCAA Leadership Conference this month, one of two students from CSUN invited to the event. For Guppy, leadership also needs to be shared. Whether it's working with the athletic advisory council on campus, or holding a steady backbeat so others can follow along, the Matador junior focuses on other goals besides the pitch-related ones.
"Just giving back, realizing the reality of the fact that other people and other walks of life don't always have the opportunities necessary--the ones that don't have the things I have. Helping those people and giving back to the community is what I find most rewarding."


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The fantastic ice range of the Cordillera Huayhuash is renowned for knife-edged 20,000-foot peaks that attract mountaineers from around the world. Seven of Peru's highest peaks rise from this dramatic massif, whose awesome beauty can be seen in the gripping adventure film Touching the Void. Our challenging 14-day trek crosses seven high passes as we circle the entire range, with nearly continuous panoramas of towering Andean giants, including Yerupaja (21,759'), second highest mountain in Peru. Our adventure culminates in an optional climb of Diablo Mudo (17,235'), a non-technical snow peak with panoramic views across the entire Huayhuash. Sunny blue skies, mild daytime temperatures, and a profusion of edelweiss and purple lupine make these mountains an alpine paradise.
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As Republican leaders watch with horror Newt Gingrich's one-man campaign to bring down the party's likely presidential nominee, they should remind themselves of this: Gingrich is a monster of their own making.
The former House speaker has almost no public support. In New Hampshire, 90.6 percent of Republican primary voters cast their ballots for somebody else. In Iowa, 86.7 percent of caucus-goers chose somebody else. In the two states combined, Gingrich received fewer than 40,000 votes – a tally that wouldn't even land him on some city councils.
But there are 5 million reasons Republicans have to fear Gingrich. That's the number of dollars billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson gave to a pro-Gingrich super PAC — the largest contribution to a candidate's cause in U.S. history. This allowed the Winning our Future PAC to buy $3.4 million worth of ads in South Carolina — enough to saturate the state with poisonous messages about Mitt Romney. The 29-minute video taking apart Romney's performance at Bain Capital, released Wednesday, provides a taste of what's to come in the next week.
Liberals have complained for two years about the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which made such unlimited contributions possible. But Republicans on Capitol Hill resisted attempts to limit the damage of the decision — and now Gingrich is teaching them the consequences of their own actions.
Having fully recovered from his pledge last month to run a "relentlessly positive" campaign, he arrived in South Carolina on Wednesday with renewed defiance of those Republicans who have called on him to soften his attacks on Romney.
"I think that the American people deserve to know things," he told reporters in Rock Hill, S.C. "I'm prepared to have people be irritated on the right and the left."
But people on the left are delighted with Gingrich just now. He and his allies are making the case against the likely Republican nominee better than President Obama and the Democrats ever could.
"Consider Mitt Romney," says a new Gingrich web video, set to clown music and featuring a highlight reel of Romney's verbal gaffes: his claim that "I like being able to fire people," his argument that "corporations are people," his explanations for the lawn company he hired that used illegal immigrants, his $10,000 wager with Rick Perry, his fears about getting a "pink slip," his claims of hunting for "small varmints," his belief that his dog enjoyed riding in a kennel strapped to the top of the Romneys' car, even his awkward attempt to sing "Who let the dogs out?"
Rick Perry has joined in with attacks on Romney's "vulture capitalism." But Perry's words don't matter much because he doesn't have a fresh $5 million contribution to devote to disemboweling Romney. Gingrich was more likely the one Romney had in mind when he complained Tuesday about the "bitter politics of envy." Romney, on his way to South Carolina, complained explicitly that Gingrich was against "free enterprise."
Romney has it wrong. Gingrich's attacks on him are the very essence of free enterprise: They're helped by campaign finance laws that sell elections to the highest bidder. For those Republicans who thought that unlimited political contributions would be a good thing for their party, it's a delicious irony that a casino billionaire is using his money to underwrite a populist assault on the GOP front-runner.
"Crony capitalism, where people pay each other off at the expense of the people of this country, is not free enterprise, and raising questions about that is not wrong," Gingrich said in South Carolina. Americans, he said, should know whether businesses are "fair to the American people, or are the deals being cut on behalf of Wall Street institutions and very rich people.''
If Republican elites don't like millions of dollars being spent to amplify that anti-Romney message, they have only themselves to blame.
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Jerry Gaff and Tom Hitt at the P.I.G. 12/12/12
By jcoyne on December 12, 2012
Jim sits down with Jerry Gaff and Tom Hitt at the Presque Isle Gallery Coffeehouse for some conversation on music, documentaries, social media, and play some songs against the sounds of cappuccino and espresso makers. Gaff leads at the beginning, followed by Hitt about midway into the recording after discussing live performances and "off the […]
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THE ALTERNATIVE OF WILLIAMSBURG. Attributed to Philip Dawe; printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennett, London, England, February 16, 1775. Black-and-white mezzotint engraving. OH: 14 1/4"; OW: 10 1/3."
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SPECTATORS at a PRINT-SHOP in St. PAUL's CHURCH YARD. Printed for Carington Bowles, London, England, ca. 1760. Black-and-white mezzotint engraving with hand color. OH: 14 1/2"; OW: 10 ¾."
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Cunne Shote, the Indian CHIEF. Engraved by James McArdell after a painting by Francis Parsons, London, England, ca. 1762. Black-and-white mezzotint.
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The print and map collections at Colonial Williamsburg provide a window into the 18th-century world. Household inventories, newspaper advertisements, merchant's orders, and personal correspondence suggest that a wide range of printed material was enjoyed by colonial Americans.
The collection is strong in prints and maps known to have been used in America, but the Foundation also seeks to acquire period graphics that illustrate 18th-century life in general. This aspect of the collection provides historical documentation to aid in the modern interpretation of the restored town of Williamsburg. Scenes that depict everyday life such as dining, playing games, or routine domestic activities provide an important visual resource to understand the taste and social behavior of our forebears. Prints illustrating shop interiors or tradesmen at work show how objects were produced and marketed. Social and political cartoons indicate trends in fashions and customs, ideas, and attitudes that were rapidly adopted by English and Europeans living in the American colonies.
Graphics that suggest what Europeans knew or believed about America from the time that the English first settled the New World through the American Revolution provide another focus for the collection. Maps tell us what was known or believed about the land, suggest how people traveled and traded, and record routes taken across the oceans and continents.
Books about Colonial Williamsburg Prints and Maps
Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America
A splendidly illustrated volume which goes beyond standard cartobiliographical analysis to examine the inspiration behind the production of seventy-three maps, atlases, and sea charts.
By Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro
This splendidly illustrated volume goes beyond standard cartobiliographical analysis to examine the inspiration behind the production of seventy-three maps, atlases, and sea charts. The first part describes what maps reveal about the history of the American nation and explains why they were important to their owners. The second part discusses the rare atlas owned by John Custis of Williamsburg. An overview of the English map trade in the late seventeenth century is also included. Published in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers Colonial Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series 448 pp., 186 color illustrations, 97 black-and-white illustrations, 11 5/16 x 9 1/4 2002 CW No. 961508 Hardbound ISBN 0-87835-214-0 $95.00


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I ordered a copy of the first ever print issue of Paper Mache magazine via their online shop last week then went off to Melbourne for t...
I ordered a copy of the first ever print issue of Paper Mache magazine via their online shop last week then went off to Melbourne for the weekend and forgot all about it. I got home yesterday to find it in the mail, and oh my it is stunning! Definately not just a kids mag! how gorgeous is the cover photo? and the styling inside is equally as beautiful. Oh and this video they shot makes me smile.....
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oh wow, never heard of this magazine before :) the video was darling! they are the most adorable pair yet! thanks for sharing <3ReplyDelete
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seriously, is this really kid's magazine? woww!!!ReplyDelete
@Miy ~ I wish some of the clothes came in my size! everything is so prettyReplyDelete
how good is it!ReplyDelete
haha my friend and i call it kinder-hipster hahah but not in a bad way :P
Oh my gosh I love the video! Is it wrong to be jealous of an 8 yr old? Love all the hair, the outfits, and how cute were the kisses! Gush.ReplyDelete
Just ordered myself a copy. It looked waay too lovely to pass up.ReplyDelete
this is really lovely...and the video - oh my, how cute! sunny greetings from germany, geissleinReplyDelete
This looks beautiful! But I feel bad, I have never heard of this magazine before, have I been living under a rock? I wonder if we have it here, it's so pretty.ReplyDelete
Så sött! Thanks for sharing. xReplyDelete
oh I love such Magazines! I want to order it!ReplyDelete
looks like a fabulous magazine! i will definitely need to order this.ReplyDelete
The magazine looks very nice as also the video.ReplyDelete
That video is spectacular. It made me grin from ear to ear. The magazine looks very beautiful as well.ReplyDelete
Seems like a very nice magazine. I want one too...ReplyDelete
It looks so lovely! Just might have to get a copy for myself.ReplyDelete
great, another cool magazine out!ReplyDelete
loove magazines like these ala frankie, etc xxReplyDelete
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It is such a cute magazine - my tiny people would look so cute in these clothes, but I wish they came in my size!ReplyDelete
Wow indeed!ReplyDelete
A kid magazine? I think it's better than some I've seen!
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Lovely magazine and short film. I love how at the end the little boy wipes his mouth after kissing the girl. So cute.ReplyDelete
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this is my favorite magazine at the moment! : )ReplyDelete
oooh la la, looks glorious - I will have to order a copyReplyDelete
i heart this video!ReplyDelete
i thought exactly the same thing. i didn't know it was the first in print - i was wondering why i'd never spotted it before.ReplyDelete
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this looks really interesting, I don't know why I've never heard of it beforeReplyDelete
wow this is so beautiful Liss! It's like Frankie meets Free People for kids. *gush*ReplyDelete
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Iceland: rising from the ashes (part 1)
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Four years after the crash of its banking sector, Iceland is growing again. But as our reporters find out, the unresolved Icesave dispute continues to poison relations between Reykjavik and its European partners. We talk to Iceland's president who tells us why he remains opposed to EU membership, and we look into the role of women on this liberal island. And in this land of geysers and volcanoes, we explore the many possibilities of geothermal power.
Director: Caroline de Camaret
Presenter: Christophe Robeet
Producers: Alix Le Bourdon, Julie Dungelhoeff and Salima Belhadj
Reporter: Julie Dungelhoeff
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How Acquired: Selected by the Galaxy in the second round (24th overall) of the 2013 MLS SuperDraft.
College: Played all four years (2009-2012) at the University of Michigan ... Played 14 games his freshman season, starting 10 and scoring a goal. Named to Big Ten All-Freshman team ... Played 25 games in 2010, starting 24. Picked up an assist in the regular season and another in Michgan's 3-2 overtime win over Maryland to advance to the 2010 NCAA College Cup ... Started all 20 games in the 2011 season, playing a team-best 1,781 minutes and playing the entire match 10 times. Picked up two goals and an assist. Named Second Team All-Big Ten ... Started all 17 games he played in 2012 despite missing nearly a month with nose an appendix injuries. Named team captain, scored three goals on the season.
Prep: Graduated St. Paul Catholic High School in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where he starred for the soccer team.
Club: Played for St. Catharine's Concord Gunners. Won Ontario Cup in 2007-2008. Represented Ontario at the Canadian Club national championship in 2007, where the team took fourth place.
International: Former member of the US U-20 national team.
Personal: Holds both Canadian and US nationality.


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Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
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Indo-Pac. j. phenomenol. (Online) vol.11 no.1 Grahamstown Mai. 2011
The experience of violence by male juvenile offenders convicted of assault: A descriptive phenomenological study
Pieter Basson; Pauline Mawson
Statistics from both South Africa and the United States of America indicate that the phenomenon of violence amongst youths is increasing. This implies that a larger number of youths are being exposed to the experience of violence and thus present with the complex and multi-dimensional effects of such an experience. Past research has centred mostly on the causative factors that can be statistically represented, with little focus being paid to the juveniles' in-depth, subjective experience of the phenomenon. For the male adolescent, the experience of the phenomenon of violence is complex, diverse and may span across many aspects of his life, including physical, psychological, personal and social dimensions. Three participants were sourced from the Leeuwkop Juvenile Correctional Facility in Johannesburg and interviewed for the purpose of this study. The participants were selected based on their age (between 13 and 19 years of age) and the type of crime that they had committed (assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, common assault or indecent assault). In accordance with the phenomenological approach, open-ended interviews were used as a research method in order to allow for the participants' unique and subjective experience of the phenomenon to emerge. The researchers found that the phenomenon of violence is characterised by the juveniles' experience of external events that provoke a certain response manifesting itself in violent behaviour. The responses described by the participants were mostly emotional in nature and included emotions such as anger, rage and fury. The experience of violence also holds certain consequences for the male juvenile offender. The most common consequence experienced by all three participants was their subsequent arrest and incarceration in a correctional facility.
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A comparison of purchasing power around the globe, 2010 update
Oslo, Zurich and Geneva again the world's most expensive cities.
According to a UBS study, Oslo, Zurich and Geneva are the world's most expensive cities once again this year, followed by Tokyo, Copenhagen and New York. The lowest prices for a broad basket of goods and services can be found in Mumbai, Manila and Bucharest.
Price levels in Auckland and Sydney have risen substantially due to the strengthening of the Australian and New Zealand dollars, putting the two cities in the top third of the 73 cities surveyed. Caracas, in contrast, has become much cheaper than it was a year ago. Inflation has been extremely high in Venezuela at +40 percent, but this was more than made up for by an almost 50 percent devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar.
Purchasing power greatest in Zurich, Sydney and Miami
Employees in Zurich, Sydney, Miami and Los Angeles enjoy the most purchasing power from their hourly wages (after taxes). In many cities in developing nations, significantly lower wages mean that domestic wage purchasing power is still more than 80 percent lower than in Zurich. Employees in Jakarta, Nairobi and Manila had the lowest purchasing power among the cities surveyed.
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Breunig: No day at the beach
I always like a little quiet time in the big sandbox.
A beach can defy the very definition of solitude. Even when a beach is crowded, the experience tends to be personal. We read books. Or listen to music. Maybe we snooze. Some of us still swim. What we don't do is chat up neighbors. It might have something to do with the skimpy dress code. People just tend to be chattier when they're at, say, a baseball game. And wearing clothes.
Such social cues mean squat to a 2-year-old. I'm here at the beach foolishly thinking I can teach The Kid the sublime joys of tossing a blanket, book, snacks (and yes, shovels) into the backpack for a few hours in a more relaxing corner of this flip-flop world. He dutifully removes his sandals and grabs corners of the blanket to help me spread it out. After 2.8 seconds of bliss, some kids at a summer camp catch his eye and he wanders away.
Before I can say, "Wait, that's not how it works ...," he settles in beneath a grove and starts playing cars with a boy about three times his age. Dozens of children swirl around us.
I am paralyzed. There is not a chapter on this in my beachgoers handbook. I used to be a camp counselor and the concept of crashing another camp still sounds like a cable-TV sequel to a 1970s Bill Murray flick. Doing it as an adult is an invite to the police blotter. But there really isn't much choice. I plop down in the sun-dappled sand ("dappled" is the most inviting of sands) and wait for someone in a camp shirt to shoo us away. Instead, an 8-year-old reaches over, pours said sand on my arm and pretends to scrape it off. I don't know this game.
"I'm shaving you," he explains.
I'm fearful he's prepping my left wing for surgery.
Meanwhile, another lad of some 7 years stops by to engage me with the "Infinite Jest" version of his tale about how "when I was a kid, my sister bit me in the back."
I suspect The Kid is once again mocking that I make my living trying to get strangers to talk to me. In past episodes, he's grabbed a kite from a stranger, crashed soccer games, plucked ear buds from a young woman doing stomach crunches and grabbed my hand to dance salsa in front of a group of tipsy men. He's writing the plots, and I'm the comic relief. I have no clue how escape this shorefront operating room. If I could just get to my phone, maybe I could send a Twitter message to Miss Manners seeking advice.
Right on cue, an adult spots the stranger in their midst. Before I can stammer an explanation, she recognizes The Kid.
"Look, it's The Kid," she says (yes, I'm maintaining the allusion). "And The Kid's daddy."
It turns out the camp group is from his playschool, where the counselors have worked with him. Apparently, his contact list is already a lot deeper than mine. He probably has more Facebook friends, too.
After a while, he is vexed by the toy cars his new pals are sharing with him. They aren't off-road vehicles, and keep getting stuck in the sand. He flees to create anarchy elsewhere.
He runs a few laps around the main building, pausing to play hide-and-seek. Turns out you can lose at this game. I've lost him. The Kid's mommy will not be happy about this. The ladies room is the only place left to look. Just as I contemplate my next move, he jumps at me from behind, declaring victory.
He scrambles over to check out the menu at a nearby counter. When I reveal that I have to retrieve cash from my backpack, he points at me, tells the vendor, "No money," and resolves the matter by sitting with another family and sampling their cheesy fries and remnants of their hot dogs. He seems to think a la carte samples are free. Thankfully, these new friends also welcome the opportunity to share.
We circle back to our blanket for another 4.6 seconds of bliss before the beach boys are broken up again. A large family settles nearby. The children run to the water, giving The Kid the opening to wedge himself in the center of eight women clad in saris and tunics and sitting in a half-moon. It looks like a scene from Disney Junior's first Bollywood movie.
The Kid is entranced. He looks over at me as though he's ordering his favorite beach cocktail, aka, watered-down apple juice.
"Ouchie?" he inquires, pointing to one woman's foot.
"No, that's a toe ring," she explains.
He seems to be learning something. I seem to be learning, too. Not all strangers in life are this welcoming. On other occasions, he has approached children with the offer of a hug and been greeted by a mom's hand in his chest and a screech of "No thank you."
I get it. We need to respect personal space. But if we all saw the world through the eyes of a child, we'd figure out that we are never alone in the big sandbox.
John Breunig is editorial page editor of The Advocate and Greenwich Time. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com; 203-964-2281; http://twitter.com/johnbreunig.


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Next Episode of Lassie (US) is
not planed. TV Show was canceled.
From its earliest days, television has numbered animal performers among its most memorable and beloved stars. Buttermilk, Trigger, and Rin Tin Tin are only a few of the many that come to mind. But one would be hard pressed to name a more famous TV animal star than Lassie, a rough collie who was the central character of a long running television series which aired from September 1954 to March 1973..
Novel and Film. Lassie first appeared in 1938 as a character in a short story written by Eric Knight for The Saturday Evening Post. Knight's tale of a collie traveling hundreds of miles to be reunited with her master was widely popular. The author expanded the story to a full length novel and published the work as Lassie Come Home in 1940. MGM executives recognized the novel's potential as a feature film and Lassie Come Home was released in 1943. The film starred Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, and Pal, a collie owned and trained by Rudd Weatherwax. Pal starred in six more MGM Lassie films before Weatherwax, in lieu of back pay, received the rights to the Lassie name and the Lassie trademark.
Television Show. After completing the MGM Lassie films, Weatherwax left Hollywood and toured America with Pal for several years. Pal performed as "Lassie" in a variety of venues to great acclaim. Television producer Robert Maxwell was present at one of Pal's performances and persuaded Weatherwax that the dog's future lay in television. Lassie went into production and the show debuted on CBS Sunday September 12, 1954.
Television producers chose the American Midwest for the show's setting rather than the British countryside of the novel and films. On a weatherbeaten farm lying on the outskirts of the fictional town of Calverton, Lassie became the protectress and companion of first, 11 year old Jeff Miller (played by Tommy Rettig) and, in the fourth season, 7 year old Timmy Martin (played by Jon Provost).
The show's timeless theme of a boy and his dog found fans across America. Week after week, audiences tuned in to enjoy the show's simple but satisfying formula: get the boy in trouble, have the dog save the boy, and let the boy learn a moral lesson from the experience. Scripts ranged from rib-tickling comedy ("The Lion" 01x08) to deeply felt sorrow and heartbreak ("Cully's Revenge" 09x18).
Lassie featured minorities at a time when America was being torn with racial conflicts and transformed by civil rights legislation; Olympic champion Rafer Johnson and baseball great Roy Campanella made notable appearances. Asian and Hispanic characters also appeared on the show. In its earliest Miller Family seasons, Lassie was ahead of its time in depicting a single parent household.
The boy and his dog theme remained a constant for the series' first ten years. In the eleventh season however new vistas opened for Lassie. Where her adventures in the first ten seasons had occurred within the coziness and safety of a small farming community, her future adventures would involve far flung wilderness travels in conjunction with the USDA Forestry Service. Lassie would no longer be the protectress of boys but the companion of men.
Lassie can best be appreciated by dividing its 19 year run into five distinct periods: the Miller Years, the Martin Years, the Ranger Years, the Lassie Alone Year, and the Holden Ranch Years.
The Miller Years (1954-1957). The first three seasons of Lassie chronicled the lives and adventures of the Millers, a poor farm family living on the outskirts of the fictional Midwestern town of Calverton. Ellen Miller was a young widow raising an 11 year old son named Jeff with the help of her father-in-law George "Gramps" Miller. In the premiere episode of the series, Jeff received an adult collie named Lassie as a bequest from a neighbor.("The Inheritance" 01x01). Stories during the Miller Years related Jeff's adventures with Lassie on the farm, at school, and in Calverton.
Some of the semi-regular characters during the Miller years included Jeff's buddy Sylvester "Porky" Brockway, Porky's father Matt Brockway, Jenny, the telephone operator, Miller family neighbor Jim Teal, and Clay Horton, a constable.
The Martin Years (1957-1964). At the beginning of the fourth season (1957), a waif-like runaway named Timmy was found hiding in the Miller barn. The Millers took a liking to the boy. Ellen contacted a social worker as well as Timmy's elderly and ailing guardians to discuss Timmy's situation. It was agreed by all that Timmy would benefit from a temporary sojourn on the Miller farm and Timmy was welcomed into the Miller household for the summer("The Runaway" 04x01).
As summer came to a close, "Gramps" died and Ellen decided to sell the farm to Paul and Ruth Martin. The childless Martins adored Timmy and adopted him. Jeff made a gift of Lassie to Timmy and she remained on the farm. The Millers moved to Capitol City ("Transition" 04x27). Late in the fourth season, Paul's uncle Petrie Martin arrived on the farm to help with the work ("The Ring" 04x20). It was thus that the popular and well loved "Timmy and Lassie" years began.
The Martin Years were the only time during the show's entire run that Lassie was a member of a traditional father-mother-child family and stories early in the Martin Years focused on Timmy's growing pains ("The Bike" 04x15) and his adventures with Lassie ("Bessie" 07x27). As the show moved into the early 1960s, environmental awareness, preservation, and conservation became a theme in many of the episodes ("Operation Woodland" 09x28).
Semi-regular characters during the Martin years included Timmy's friends Scott Richards and Boomer Bates, neighbor girl Wilhelmina "Willy" Brewster, (played by producers' Jack and Bonita Granville Wrathers' daughter Linda), Jenny, the telephone operator, veterinarian Doc Weaver, Timmy's schoolteacher Amy Hazlit, hardware store owner and Fire Chief Ed Washburne, Sheriff Miller, and eccentric, nature loving farmer Cully Wilson.
The Ranger Years (1964-1969). When the eleventh season opened, Timmy was a teenager and Lassie's role as protectress of a boy strained credulity -- many felt Timmy was old enough to take care of himself and no longer needed a nursemaid. It was decided by the powers that be that the Martins would emigrate to Australia and Lassie would be forced to remain in The States as a result of Australia's strict quarantine regulations. In a painful three-part story, Timmy transferred ownership of Lassie to his elderly friend Cully Wilson. The Martins departed for Australia and Cully, after suffering a debilitating heart attack, transferred ownership of Lassie to Ranger Corey Stuart, a member of the U.S. Forest Service ("The Wayfarers" 11x01-03).
Over the next few years Lassie enjoyed a variety of outdoor adventures with her owner Ranger Stuart but early in the fifteenth season (1968), Stuart suffered severe burns fighting a forest fire. His injuries would take months to heal. Two of Corey's fellow rangers -- bachelors Bob Erickson and Scott Turner -- became Lassie's "godfathers" during Corey's lengthy hospitalization ("The Holocaust" 15x03-04). The wilderness adventure themes of the Corey Stuart episodes were continued through the two Scott and Bob years. Joining the stout hearted rangers as a semi-regular character was an Aleut youth named Neeka.
The Lassie Alone Year (1970-1971). When the seventeenth season opened, Lassie was on her own with no explanation offered as to the whereabouts of rangers Erickson, Turner, or Stuart. The men had simply been dropped without ceremony from the series.The good dog wandered from place to place helping needy humans and animals. Poor Lassie had become, in essence, a stray. This was the series' last network season; Lassie would enter syndication the following year.
The Holden Ranch Years (1971-1972). In the syndicated eighteenth and nineteenth seasons, Lassie found a place on the Holden Ranch, a foster home for boys run by Garth Holden. The Holden Ranch Years opened with Lassie still travelling about alone and helping needy animals. In the first episode of the syndicated years, Lassie was swept away in a torrent. Two young men associated with the Holden Ranch spotted her in the waters and rescued her. Her life thereafter was involved with the boys on the Holden Ranch and their neighbors in nearby Solvang, California. A blind girl and her mother living near the Holden Ranch had prominent roles in the story as well as a female veterinarian working in a nearby park for abandoned and abused animals. The syndicated series held the potential for a new lease on life for the show but a change in America's cultural winds brought Lassie to a close.
In the early 1970s, America entered an age of cynicism. The country had suffered a decade of unrest, of scandals high and low, assassinations, college protests, civil rights demonstrations, the introduction of the pill, women's lib, challenges to prevailing mores, and the war in Vietnam. America had been shaken to its core. The apple pie wholesomeness of Lassie appeared dated and ironic to a nation innundated nightly with tv news programs exposing the underbelly of American life. Brash, in-your-face sitcoms like All in the Family and Good Times were the order of the day. Lassie, one of the best and most loved shows in tv history, came to a dignified close at the end of its 19th season in 1973.
Lassie is an integral part of television history and can be seen occasionally in reruns. Selected episodes are available on DVD. Lassie has never been "off the air". The show is timeless in its content and appeal; it's a genuine television classic that will continue to attract viewers and create new fans in the years to come.
Lassie Notes and Trivia
* Lassie debuted on CBS Sunday, September 12, 1954 in the 7:00 PM (EST) time slot and remained in the 7:00 PM time slot on CBS for 17 years.
* Lassie was portrayed by 6 different but related dogs through the 19 year run of the series. All Lassies were male dogs and the last five Lassies were descendants of Pal, the first Lassie. Pal, the Lassie of the MGM films, played Lassie in the premiere episode "The Inheritance" (01x01) and "The Well" (01x24). Both episodes were the first filmed. Pal then retired and the role of Lassie was passed to his son Lassie, Jr. (aka Junior).
* Lassie won two Emmys for Best Children's Series (1954, 1955) and was one of the longest running series in television history with 19 happy, productive seasons.
* Campbell's Soup Company sponsored Lassie for the show's entire run and insisted their products be displayed on the set. Countless bowls of soup were served at mealtimes in the Martin kitchen.
* The Lassie "Whistle" Theme was used as the Main and End Title music during the Martin Years (1957-1964). Muzzy Marcellino whistled the tune and Les Baxter is credited with its composition.
* Joey D. Vieira played "Porky" Brockway in Lassie under the stage name Donald Keeler. Vieira was the nephew of dancer and film star Ruby Keeler and took his stage surname from his aunt.
* The show's theme music from its first few seasons was also used in Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda.
* Leave It to Beaver players Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers, Ken Osmond, Richard Correll, Stephen Talbot, Tiger Fafara, and Madge Blake all made guest appearances on Lassie.
* The exact location of the Miller/Martin farm was never disclosed. Early in the series it appeared to be a temperate Midwestern state like Iowa or Indiana. During the Martin years a dry southwestern location in California was strongly suggested. In one episode, Timmy wears a Cub Scout uniform with shoulder patches that appear to read "California" and in yet another episode Ruth, Timmy, and Lassie drive to the Grand Canyon.
* Timmy's checkered shirts were custom made and several were always available during filming. One of his checkered shirts is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution next to Archie Bunker's chair. Timmy's sneakers were black high tops.
* When Hugh Reilly was fired from Lassie, he was offered the role of The Professor in Gilligan's Island. He didn't want to return to full time work immediately and turned the offer down.
* Lassie made TV guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Donna Reed Show.
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Continuation Conservation Award
Ronald G. & Marilyn Hiebert
Ron Hiebert and his wife, Marilyn, of Hillsboro have been conservationists for 42 years. They won a banker award in 1993. Hiebert worked with technicians when the current Natural Resources Conservation Service was known as the Soil Conservation Service. He owned a paddle scraper and did his own conservation work. He and his brother used the scraper to build waterways and terraces in cropland fields as they were designed by technicians. He continues to add to his list of projects, like the diversion terrace that was recently completed in conjunction with a neighboring landowner to eliminate a ditch that was cutting through their fields.
Young Farmer Conservation Award
David Rziha
David Rziha moved his family back to his roots in Tampa three years ago. They have established a 1,200-acre farm and a cow/calf operation. With the assistance of the National Resources Conservation Service staff, Rziha has implemented several rangeland practices including cross fencing, water supply, brush management, and prescribed grazing management. He also has applied conservation practices to cropland.
Banker Award
Don and Kevin Suderman
Don Suderman and his son, Kevin, of Hillsboro did not like the ditches that formed in their cropland fields after rainfall events. They wanted to keep the good top soil that was washing away. They installed 14.62 acres of grassed waterways, 45,175 feet of gradient terraces, and 801 feet of diversion terraces. They also planted eight acres of brome grass. The Banker Award is sponsored by Marion County Bankers Association and the Kansas Bankers Association.
Banker Award
Doyle Wiebe
Edith Unruh owns land in northwestern Marion County. Her son, Gary Unruh, decided in 2002 that it was time to close ditches and plant brome grass in those areas. Finding he needed assistance, he called the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Marion. They helped him lay out 20.8 acres of grass waterways and 23,894 feet of gradient terraces. Doyle Wiebe of Durham farms the land and uses no-till along with the conservation practices to almost eliminate soil erosion. Marion County Bankers Association and Kansas Bankers Association sponsored this award.
Rangeland Award
James Owens
James Owens assists a calf in learning to find its mother's milk on Woody Creek Farms northeast of Durham. He and his wife, Debbie, will receive the Rangeland Award. The Owens have used the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to help improve their rangeland by removing brush and installing water supply. They also practice prescribed grazing and burning. The award is sponsored by Marion County Conservation District and Sharp Bros. Seed Co., Healy.
Service Award
Gerald "Jerry" Rziha
Gerald "Jerry" Rziha of rural Tampa will receive the service award from Marion County Conservation District. He served on the district board from 2009 to 2012.
Conservation Teacher Award
Brian Stucky
Brian Stucky, an art instructor at Goessel Elementary School, will receive the 2012 Teacher Award. His students have participated in the conservation poster contest for the past 20 years. This year, students from Goessel, Hillsboro, and Centre have submitted 144 posters. The top posters in each age group will be entered in the state contest.
Farm Bureau Grass Buffer Award
Errol Wuertz, Jr.
Errol Wuertz Jr. of McPherson stands in a grass buffer on his land in East Branch Township. He will receive the Buffer Award, sponsored by Marion County Farm Bureau Association. He has established 3.8 acres of field borders and two acres of grassed waterways. He recently bought another property with filter strips and waterways already established.


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California-based apparel company Sol Angeles teamed up with the U.S. Open's official beer sponsor, Heineken, to create a limited-edition apparel collection for this year's event. Called the Heineken Tennis Classics by Sol Angeles, the collection is sold exclusively at the Heineken Lounge at the Tennis Center.
SA's husband-and-wife design duo, Eli and Lindsey Myers, designed six pieces that include distressed tees, pullovers, windbreakers, canvas bags (our fave!), and hats priced between $30-$80.
Swag: Heineken also doled out 20,000 Sol Angeles-designed hats to attendees of the U.S. Open tournament.
More: Visit Sol Angeles' website for a look at the brand's non-tennis collections.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Jenny Finora laughs when people ask her how she could ever do it. Work with your husband. Is she crazy? The Coker College women's basketball coach just shrugs off the remarks as she continues to build a program with her husband, Vic.
"It's funny because I get that all the time," said Jenny, who just finished her second season coaching the Cobras. "I wish I had a dime for every time someone asked me that. Coaching with Vic is so much fun. I wouldn't have it any other way."
The Finoras bring a unique aspect to the world of coaching. Jenny is the head coach and Vic serves as her assistant. They share this rare combination in women's basketball with only six other colleges in the country.
Jenny is originally from North Vernon, Ind., while Vic hails from St. Catherines, Ontario, just outside Niagara Falls. The two met while at the University of Kentucky, where Jenny was a four-year player and Vic a graduate assistant for the men's basketball team. They were married in 2008.
After Kentucky, the two floated across the globe to coaching stops in Alabama before spending the past year in Iceland. They each enjoyed what they were doing – Vic was coaching a men's team while Jenny was coaching and playing professionally – but a recurring theme continued to emerge wherever they went – they were apart more than together. That meant it was time to find something new.
Getting to Coker
While looking to get back into the coaching realm in the states – and finding a place to be together – Jenny came across Coker. She flew to Hartsville from Iceland for the interview and fell in love with the place. The next step was getting Vic, who was offered a professional coaching position in Iceland at the same time, on board.
"Once he came to visit Hartsville, he was sold," said Jenny. "The thought of being together and being able to work together was too great of an opportunity to pass up."
As usual, Vic agreed.
"It wouldn't have worked for us to be that far apart," he said. "We have to be together. Some people can do it, but we just can't."
Working together was somewhat of a new thing for the Finoras. They had to learn how to complement each other's coaching style on and off the court, but it didn't take long for them to get in sync. It's not uncommon to hear Vic's voice over Jenny's if you are at a game, but that's because he's making sure Jenny's instructions are heard by the whole team. Make no mistake, though, Jenny is the top dog and makes the final calls.
"It's all her," Vic says with a smile.
Being together is a big plus for these two, as well as Coker. The thing is, they can thoroughly trust one another with coaching decisions. When it comes to an offensive play call, who to substitute, or what kind of player to recruit, Jenny and Vic know they can rely on each other to make the call. These factors are ones that they both knew would be to their advantage when they arrived on campus.
Turning things around
Jenny came to Coker in June 2010 and Vic arrived shortly after in July. Things weren't easy from the start, as they inherited a team they didn't recruit and went 5-21 in the first season. After the season, they hit the recruiting trail hard.
Turning around a program is part of the culture-changing atmosphere Coker athletics is experiencing these days. The Finoras were tasked with reshaping the attitude and perception of the program. The first step was finding kids who love basketball.
"That was big for us because we wanted girls who enjoy playing," said Vic. "We now have kids that come in the gym (and practice) on their own. They're competitive in practice; they want to win drills. They get mad if their team loses in practice. We didn't have that last year."
New players were brought in, but things didn't get any easier to start the second season. The team struggled to find its identity and chemistry, losing the first 12 games. The Cobras found life, though, going on a late-season run that was good enough to make the playoffs. They dropped a heartbreaking overtime game to North Greenville in the Conference Carolinas tournament quarterfinals, finishing the season with an overall record of 11-16 with an 11-6 mark in conference play. Reaching the postseason was a huge victory for the Finoras, the team and Coker.
"When we first qualified for playoffs, it gave me goosebumps," Vic said. "We worked so hard to get to that point, and it seemed like it wasn't going to happen. We were wondering what we were doing wrong as coaches. The kids stayed positive and really came around towards the end. I can't wait for next year; we're going to be really good."
As more players the Finoras recruited have come in and meshed with the current roster, the team started winning and the atmosphere around campus changed. Making the playoffs was a big deal. People are talking and there is a buzz about the program. A great aspect about the Finoras is that their doors are always open. They share an office right outside the gym (you can't go into the building without seeing them), and players and members of the community are welcome to stop by any time.
"We are big on building relationships," said Jenny. "It starts with our recruits and their families. It's all about making a connection. We like to be an outlet for our kids for anything. Our door is always open."
Looking ahead
If you happen to catch them on the recruiting trails these days, you'll notice something else happening with the couple – Jenny is pregnant. Their first child, a baby boy, is due in June. But don't think that stopped her from coaching through the season and continuing to lock up prospects.
"It's actually worked to our advantage," Jenny said. "I'm proving to recruits that Vic and I are starting a family and building a foundation at Coker. We bought a house and are planning to be here for a while."
The opportunity they've been given is win-win by all accounts. While Jenny admits to missing her time as a player, she is OK with how her situation turned out. Both are coaching, together, and are able to do be around the game they love.
"I feel so fortunate," Jenny said. "I get to work with my spouse and we have a son on the way. What more could I ask for?"
Says Vic: "We're together…that's all that matters."
*Note: Along with the Finoras, five other husband-wife combos exist in women's college basketball: Jennifer Rizzotti and Bill Sullivan, University of Hartford; Caleb and Nicole Neiman, Kentucky Wesleyan College; Kellie and Jon Harper, North Carolina State; Tom and Nicki Collen, University of Arkansas; Leon and Dawn Neal, Evangel University; Kristy and Kelly Curry, Texas Tech.
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|2012-07-10, 21:39
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Given how the strips are actually web-released (unlike the OTHER Yuru-Yuri spinoff), I'm wondering if they're going to do what Gan-Gan Online does with its series (Danshi Kokousei and Watamotte), meaning the strips are going to be compiled in print form in the future?
|2012-07-21, 07:42
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At least we have a true pairing now unlike the usual flippant shiptease. Now I'm more interested in Nadeshiko's romance than in the other Yuru Yuri "couples" (except for maybe HimaSaku). The Ohmuro family is clearly the best family of the series
I liked Megumi the most, but at the same time, I think the answer is most likely Ai. Nadeshiko doesn't seem like the "sadist" type Megumi thought she was and Nadeshiko was the one who knew about Ai's tastes. Besides, Ai and Nadeshiko spoke very formally to each other (or at least there was no banter going on between them like between Nadeshiko, Miho and Megumi) so perhaps they're doing this to hide their relationship?
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|2012-07-21, 08:53
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I'd like it to be Megumi but my guess would be Miho...
And yep, her romance is now more interesting than yuruyuri itself At least we're now getting one official pairings
..btw, have you seen the covers for Yurihime that Namori illustrated? The short-haired girl really reminds me of Nadeshiko...though she's not the same person Which is good because those covers are all about NTR w
|2012-07-21, 09:19
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For those who haven't seen the covers, here are two images I found that explain everything:
Anyway, I'm always shipping best friends with each other, and it's no different this time.
|2012-07-21, 09:23
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She does looks like Yui now that you've mentioned it But with her blonde hair and because of what happened in oomuroke ch 3, I quickly assumed that she was Nadeshiko
|2012-07-22, 08:46
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Hmm it's actually quite interesting the way ch 3 end up. I means when was the last time a pairing partner was hidden , leaving 3 candidates and readers to guess.
And the three ladies were incredible cute as well.
The more common set-up will be Ai's. Miho's will be too HNNNGGG when they are on scene, and probably won't be as interesting. Megumi...hmm it's quite original to have such pairing
|2012-08-07, 15:15
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I really love Megumi. I really do. Whenever her heart goes doki doki for Nadeshiko, I just want to hug her because her chances of being Nadeshiko's girlfriend are decreasing with every chapter. She's such an adorable, masochistic girl. ( And she reminds me of myself, a masochistic reader of Oomuro-ke...I hate the way namori teases us, but I kinda enjoy it, too ;___; )
Miho on the other hand, seems like the most likely choice now. I think that before this chapter, everyone already wrote her off - but she's made an impressive comeback this week. I personally don't like her at all, so I sure hope she isn't Nadeshiko's girlfriend. But I don't want to see her paired off with Megumi either ("pair off the spares", with NadeshikoxAi and MihoxMegumi) because I like Megumi even more than Nadeshiko, so there's no way I want to pair her off with Miho ^^;
One thing makes me hopeful: Chapter 3 seems to have "promoted" Ai, chapter 6 Miho. Knowing what a troll/tease namori can be, should we expect lots of delicious MegumixNadeshiko teasing in chapter 9?
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lol I'm too late for this...
anyway I think nadeshiko's GF is megumi, reason it was because of this tsundere/ S&M thing (although miho is a strong contender in this). It seems like every 10pm nadeshiko expect a call from someone or she's about to call someone, I don't know why it has to be 10pm (chapter 3 pg5 & chapter 10 pg6) but my guess is because her girlfriend is busy like having a part time job and who among them got a part time job? (chp3 pg4) megumi
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Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Shahid Reads His Own Palm and the memoir A Question of Freedom, blogs about Washington, D.C.-based writers who are making marks.
"Flat Langston" made quite an uproar last year during the Association of Writers & Writing Programs [3] annual conference. For those who are unaware, there was once a cardboard cutout of Langston Hughes at the Busboys and Poet [4]s 14th Street location. It was there before poet, photographer, go-go aficionado, and D.C. native Thomas Sayers Ellis relieved it of its duties. The uproar isn't as important now, forgotten as most things are forgotten.
All that to say, I love listening to stories of the District's past—about spots along the U Street corridor that once housed poetry, about Toni Asante Lightfoot's legendary reading series, and nights when Holly Bass, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore, Brandon Johnson, Ernesto Mercer, Joel Dias-Porter, and others could be found with a sheaf of poems in hand burning the night sky. I dig those stories. I dig, too, that nostalgia is the curse that ruins us. While we celebrate the folks who have made marks on the cultural scene of the District, it seems much too easy to forget about the folks who are making marks right now.
Alan King and Derrick Weston Brown, for instance, have both been putting in work as poets and workshop leaders around the city, working with the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop [5] at Hart Middle School and Ballou High School, respectively. Fred Joiner, a jack of all trades, along with Jon West-Bey, Executive Director of the American Poetry Museum [6], engineered a cultural exchange with Belfast. Add to that Kyle Dargan, assistant professor of creative writing at American University [7] and editor of Post No Ills [8]. Add still Simone Jackson of Sulu DC [9], Silvana Straw of DC Writer's Corp [10] and the Marpat Foundation [11]. More? Melanie Henderson, forth generation D.C. native and winner of the Main Street Rag [12] prize for her lovely collection of poems, Elegies for New York Avenue.
Still want more? Kim Roberts holds it down. Sarah Browning does her thing. So does Melissa Tuckey. Sandra Beasley. All of whom are wonderful, wonderful writers. Maybe this isn't a renaissance, but it damn sure isn't a drought.
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Pope Benedict XVI, dressed in flowing white robes and speaking from a 17th century altar—a tall, gilded canopy that sits above the ancient grave of St. Peter—decried what he sees as a manipulation of the world's poor. "The world is sadly marked by hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor," the pope said, "by the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated financial capitalism."
The remarks came in the pope's New Year's Eve Mass, in which the 85-year-old pontiff implored congregants to opt for peace in the upcoming year. "A new year is like a trip. With the light and the grace of God, may it be the start of a path to peace for every person, every family, every country and for the entire world," Benedict XVI said after the homily, from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square.
So, the pope joins a list of other influential world leaders who support increased financial oversight. If you consider the year we just had, it's not too great a surprise that the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made this comment. 2012 brought a 12-month span in which major banks like UBS and Barclays admitted to manipulating key interests rates that dictate the prices of many prosaic financial items, and HSBC admitted to laundering the money of drug kingpins and despots. And we're not even a decade removed from the financial crisis, where it seemed that institutions of all stripes piled into the sale and securitization of faulty mortgages—the SEC has investigated a number businesses, from Goldman Sachs to Bank of America.
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David Einhorn, founder of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, has moved markets with his powerful presentations on stocks he has decided to short and reaped sizable gains. The companies he targets typically have to respond to accusations leveled at them and after some time has passed, it becomes clearer whether Einhorn was right in his assessment. Perhaps most famous are his short positions in Chipotle (CMG), Lululemon (LULU) and Green Mountain (GMCR).
David Einhorn announced his short position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) in October 2011 at the Value Investing Congress. Shares began to plunge immediately, eventually bottoming at a 52 percent loss by about a month.
In his 110-page presentation, he accused the company of many transgressions. He noted that Green Mountain began in 1981 as a small café in rural Vermont, and enjoyed the effects of growth along with the expanding premium coffee industry in the 1990s. From 1991 to 2000, its revenues grew 25 percent a year. Then, from 2000 to 2005, growth slowed to 14% a year.
In 1998, it began to partner with Keurig, a single-cup coffee brewing machine maker to manufacture and sell the K-cups, and bought the whole company in 2006. Growth exploded at GMCR since then – revenue increased at a 57% CAGR from 2006 to 2010.
Shares of GMCR responded in kind, peaking around $107 a share in 2011, just before Einhorn questioned the situation in October. Then, in November, the company's shares plunged 39 percent the day after it announced its first sales miss in two years. Sales were $711.9 million that quarter, up 91% over the same period in fiscal 2010, but far short of analysts' expected $760 million.
"Our fiscal fourth quarter revenue growth of 91% was strong. This was off of our estimates as a result of a number of factors including changes in wholesale customer ordering patterns in our grocery and club channels despite steady consumer point-of-sale demand in those channels," GMCR CEO Lawrence Blanford said of the miss.
Einhorn gave his take on the shortfall in an exclusive interview with Reuters in December: "The thing about an investment like this is that there are really a lot of ways for us to come out well because the risk-reward for the stock is so poor. And there are so many problems that they don't all have to hit at the same time in order for us to get a good result. In terms of what actually did cause them to miss the quarter? It was largely a sales miss, which seemed to follow from the unexplained sales spike that we highlighted in the presentation," he said.
The company's stock seemed to level off after the fall though and had increased almost 10 percent by May, when it plunged a further 40% on lowered sales guidance. The price continued roughly flat for almost the rest of the year. In October, Einhorn reiterated his position on Green Mountain in his investor letter:
Regarding GMCR, we pointed out:
- It is implausible that the GMCR audit committee conducted a serious investigation of our allegations in a mere 23 days after last year's Value Investing Congress;
- GMCR management has trivialized the competitive threat posed by Starbucks' new Verismo coffee and espresso maker, and we see a risk that Starbucks will renegotiate or even walk away from its partnership with GMCR;
- GMCR's key patents for K-Cups have expired leaving the company in a vulnerable position because:
- It is the high cost producer in what will become a highly competitive commodity manufacturing business;
- GMCR does not control any important brands (its license deals with Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts and Smuckers are subject to renegotiation);
- There are nine competitors who are either already producing or about to launch competitive K-Cups and will have substantial capacity by the end of next year;
- GMCR recently lowered the list price of many of its leading products by about 8 cents per K-Cup. This will likely have a large impact, as last quarter GMCR only made 8 cents per K-Cup.
When Einhorn revisited the presentation at the Value Investing Congress in October 2012, shares fell only 2 percent during the talk.
Since announcing fourth quarter results on Nov. 27, however, shares have pushed up almost 44 percent after earnings beat expectations. Net sales were $946.7 million, up 33 percent year over year, and earnings were $91.9 million, up 22% year over year (which included an additional week).
Ninety-percent of the company's sales in fiscal year 2012 came from sales of its Keurig single-cup coffee brewing machines and related items. During the year it introduced two new brewing platforms, the Keurig Vue brewer and the Keurig Rivo Cappuccino and Latte system in partnership with Lavazza, along with multiple new beverages and a travel Vue model.
The company's gross margin for fiscal year 2012 declined to 32.9 percent from 34.1 percent a year previously primarily because the company invested more in new products such as the Vue brewing system. The company also cited as a reason "an increase in single-serve pack obsolescence."
The new coffee machines are intended to rival Starbucks (SBUX)'s new single-serve espresso maker, introduced in late 2012. Green Mountain also currently has a deal with Starbucks to sell K-cups for Keurig machines, which will continue even after competition intensifies between the two companies.
Green Mountain's outlook for the first quarter of 2013 is total net sales growth in the range of 14% to 18%. For the full year 2013, it expects total net sales growth in the range of 15% to 20% over fiscal year 2012.
Green Mountain currently has a P/E of 18.4, P/S of 1.5 and P/B of 2.9. Einhorn has not revealed yet whether he is has sold his position in Green Mountain.
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SAN FRANCISCO—The Judicial Council will meet July 27, 2012 to discuss budget allocations to the trial courts for 2012-13 fiscal year. The meeting will be held from 10:00 a.m.to 3:00 p.m. in the Judicial Council Conference Center, Hiram Johnson State Office Building, Third Floor, Ronald M. George State Office Complex, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco.
The judicial branch faces $544 million in cuts this coming fiscal year, with the trial courts having to absorb $285 million in cuts, primarily through the use of their reserve funds. A link to the live audiocast will be posted on the California Courts website at approximately 9:45 a.m. The agenda for the meeting is posted here.


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There are lots of Montessori sensorial materials you can make at home inexpensively. Color tablets are some of my favorite DIY Montessori materials.
DIY Color Tablets for Home Use
You'll notice that Montessori color tablets (purchased or homemade) don't vary in size or shape – only color. That isolation of difficulty makes it easier for preschoolers to understand the difference in colors. For home use, you really don't need to purchase color tablets. Here are some lovely ideas for making color tablets for a homeschool.
Teacher Weena made color tablets from laminated paint samples and folder slides.
Pink and Green Mama made color tablets from red oak sticks, paint samples, and Mod Podge. These did require help cutting the wood into rectangles. The photo is a variation of Color Box 3 for grading colors from darkest to lightest.
Life is Bella, using the NAMC Montessori 3-6 Homeschool Program, made color tablets from embroidery floss holders and paint samples.
Wise Owl Factory made color tablets using plastic embroidery bobbins and origami paper.
Living With My Little Love made color tablets with wood pieces (cut from a tree branch) and paint samples.
Chestnut Grove Academy also made color tablets for Color Boxes 1 and 2 and Color Box 3 using embroidery floss holders and paint samples.
Tinkerbean made a Color Gradient Matching activity using paint samples and clothespins.
DIY Corporate Mom used Jenga blocks and poster paints to make color tablets for grading colors.
Merrilee Liddiard shared a tutorial for DIY Wooden Gradient Blocks at Handmade Charlotte.
Montessori Print Shop has both free and inexpensive color cards that can be simply printed out, laminated, and cut apart. Here are instructions for preparing the cards.
Montessori Primary Guide and Montessori World have directions for presenting the three color boxes.
The Helpful Garden has a free printable for Color Gradation.
Leptir has detailed directions for presenting the three color boxes along with photos of the school-quality color boxes.
Here are two helpful videos about presenting color tablets:
Note: for home use, you would only need to make Color Box 2 and Color Box 3. For younger children, you could have an extra box or basket for the red, blue, and yellow pairs of tablets (Color Box 1) until your child is ready for the 11 pairs of color tablets in Color Box 2.
My post on "How to Make Your Own Montessori Materials" has resources for making lots of other Montessori materials.
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When you shop for Corpus Christi electricity rates on supply, you also will see offers for fixed-rate electricity plans. Unlike a variable-rate supply plan, fixed-rate electricity plans offer a supply rate that does not change for the duration of your contract. This means you'll pay the same amount per kilowatt hour of electricity you use. Fixed supply rates give you price protection and can make it easier to budget your electricity expenses.
There's no single electricity plan that is ideal for all 300,000-plus Corpus Christi residents. That's why Just Energy in Corpus Christi offers a variety of plans for residents and businesses. In the Sparkling City by the Sea, you have the ability to compare electricity prices to find a plan that works for your situation. Whether you're looking for competitive rates, price security or green options, Just Energy offers these features and more.
When you call about Just Energy in Corpus Christi, you'll speak to a specialized industry agent who will guide you through your shopping process. In a matter of minutes, you could have a new electricity plan with one of the largest energy providers in the U.S. and Canada. Call today to get started! We'd be happy to help you find an energy option that meets your expectations.
Just Energy isn't just another energy company that serves Corpus Christi – we also work here! If you're looking to take your career in a new direction, take a look at our career center to see if there are any available positions. You won't want to miss out!
Sources: www.cctexas.com. Updated: 11-2-15.
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