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FARMINGTON — Officials responded Thursday evening to a one-vehicle accident where a pedestrian was struck and badly injured along Route 11. Then shortly after, a four-vehicle accident amid the heavy traffic from the first scene tied up the major artery even longer.
Farmington Fire Chief Rich Fowler said his department and Farmington police responded to reports of a pedestrian struck by a westbound vehicle around 5:30 p.m. near Pike Industries on Route 11. Police Sgt. Michael McNeil said Brenda Fields, 38, of Rochester, was found in the road with serious but not life-threatening injuries. A Medflight helicopter to Maine Medical Center was requested for Fields but was eventually called off. She was transported to Frisbie Memorial Hospital by ambulance in stable condition.
The operator of an SUV who reportedly struck Fields, Tiffany Bisson, 29, of Alton, was entirely cooperative with police and stayed on scene to voluntarily provide a blood sample, McNeil said. He added at this time it does not appear Bisson was operating under the influence or speeding, and rather Fields was outside of her vehicle, a Jeep Wrangler, edging into the roadway when her battery died. He said Fields' vehicle was parked along the white line marking the shoulder of the highway and she appeared to actually be standing in the heavily congested roadway.
"It was more or less a visual issue. (Bisson) wasn't able to see because of light visibility," McNeil explained. "There are no street lights in that area. It was very dark, and Brenda was wearing dark clothes with no hazard lights displayed."
The investigation into the incident is still ongoing.
Approximately 30 to 40 minutes after the pedestrian accident occurred, Fowler said emergency officials then responded again to a four-vehicle accident farther down the road near Taylor Rental on Route 11. Fowler said he believed some anxious drivers attempted to turn around and head back toward Rochester as they waited for the accident scene to clear.
McNeil said the cause of the second crash is unknown at this time, but noted Rochester and Milton police departments were called in to assist with traffic issues. Middleton departments also responded to provide assistance. The road was not reopened until almost an hour-and-a-half later at about 7:15 p.m.
Fowler said he believed the four-vehicle crash, which did not result in any major injuries, was due to the large increase in traffic experienced as many commuters were headed home at the time of the first incident. He noted none of the parties involved in the crash were seriously injured, though one vehicle was destroyed and towed from the scene.
McNeil said in the first incident, both Fields' and Bisson's vehicles, were towed from the scene, and one was brought in for processing for more evidence. Fields' vehicle sustained damage when Bisson reportedly side swiped that vehicle before her car collided with the pedestrian.
McNeil said an accident reconstruction team was not called in Thursday night, to move traffic along more quickly. Police did mark up the roads, he said, and they will return today to gather more evidence.


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BEIJING — Conjoined twin baby girls with a single body and two heads have been born at a hospital in southwestern China.
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The girls were born Thursday, according to a staffer surnamed Wang at Suining City Central Hospital in Sichuan province.
Wang said Tuesday that the parents, who are farmers, did not want to have the babies at first, fearing they could not afford to keep them alive.
She said they transferred the twins to a hospital in the nearby metropolis of Chongqing to be examined by experts.
According to the local Huaxi Metropolis Daily, the twins weighed 9 pounds and measured 20 inches. They have two spines and two esophaguses but share other organs.
Doctors said it would be nearly impossible to separate them.
"It is hard to say how they will survive in the future, but we will try the best to keep them alive at the moment," Britain's Daily Telegraph quoted Dr. Pu Youhua as saying.
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Everyone agrees the debate needed a little more pizazz.
It didn't take long for the Gregory Brothers, the group behind the hysterical Auto-Tune the News web series, to spice up Wednesday night's debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Less than 24 hours after the debate in Denver, the musical comedy group turned the event into a mini-musical.
While President Obama's performance has been deemed less than stellar, the debate as a whole was long, a bit wonky and often factually dubious . I think you'll agree that this version is a bit more fun:


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I finally did swatches from my She Space haul last month. These are just SOME swatches from the Autumn 2008 collection that can still be found on her site.
Aren't they pretty? No base was used for these swatches.
Here are some recent reader questions:
Q: Are the little darlings lipglass/lustreglass sets sticky?
A: Yes they are sticky, they are exactly the same as their full-sized, permanent siblings- the only difference is that they are smaller (hence little darlings), but they are the same in terms of pigmentation, consistency, smell, taste, and texture. ALL MAC lipglosses are sticky to me, but I like it because they stay on a little longer than normal lipglosses I own; even though my hair disagrees with me when it finds itself stuck on my lips!
Q: Do the soft sparkle pencils have long staying power?
A: Unfortunately they don't, they smudge and wash away easily, but they have great pigmentation and color. I personally love Urban Decay's 24/7 Eyeglide Pencils, they do not smudge, they stay on and they are waterproof!
Q: What's the actual difference beetween lipglass, lustreglass, dazzleglass etc? to me they all look the same.......
A: The lipglasses have a sponge-tipped applicator, they have a lot of shine, and can be work alone or on top of lipstick/lipliner, the lustreglasses have a tiny brush wand and they are a lot more shiny and have a "glass look" almost metallic in some colors, the dazzleglasses are in a longer tube and have actual tiny flecks of glitter to give a more obvious shine and sparkle.
Q: What are the differences between MAC eyeshadow finishes? (Such as frost, satin, veluxe, etc.)
A: Enkore has a GREAT video on this!
From Specktra, they are described as:
SATIN - Pure color in Satin style finish, provides soft subtle non frost light refractive sheen.
FROST - irridescent shine that adds a highlight quality to any color.
LUSTRE - smoothly pearlized; intensely frosted with a deluxe ultra fine "conditioned" finish.
VELVET - Soft look finish, plush velvety look & feel.
VELUXE - superfine texture. Pigment rich & very luxe. Supple to apply, silky smooth matte finish.
VELUXE PEARL - Vibrant velvety soft with a metallic shimmer veluxe formula overlaid with high-shine pearl.
Q: What ingredients are in the Acmedica Acne Night Powder?
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Shespace Swatches the Autumn 2008 Collection & Reader Questions!
I finally did swatches from my She Space haul last month. These are just SOME swatches from the Autumn 2008 collection that can still be found on her site.
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- LINEA. said...
wow those colors are so vibrant & gorgeous! and the names make it so cute! lol im always a sucker for the names lol
- November 8, 2008 at 10:53 PM
- Askmewhats said...
I've ordered from the She Space but basically those pastel colors and they are super pigmented :) Thanks for the swatches on the Autumn collection :)
- November 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
LOVE LOVE LOVE this post! those colours look great on you. very pigmented and i think they are beautiful!
- November 9, 2008 at 4:22 AM
- purple snowflake said...
WOW.. that's some really helpful stuff.. thank you...
- November 9, 2008 at 8:01 AM
- Gee said...
I need to get back mineral makeup. I've been neglecting it and using my HE stuff. Back to basics!
Those colors look so pretty...and UBER pigmented. I wish I could pull off colors like that, lol :P
- November 9, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- Roxy said...
thanks for the swatches! =] i find that lustreglasses have tiny glitter in them but lip glasses don't really?
- November 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM
- Ilianexy said...
Hey Vanessa!!! I haven't post any comment for a long time but I visit you daily! OMG! Those colors are to die for! I am doing fine with my blog for spanish speakers, they really like it! Thank you for giving me the inspiration to do it for my people since they unfortunately don't many spanish makeup blogs around like this to rely on! Take care!!! Don't ever change!!!!
- November 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM
- Candayyx3 said...
those colors are sooo gorgeous! I ordered some too but i got the pastel colors which btw i REALLY love lol. Thanks for sharing the swatches i might have to do another haul!
- November 9, 2008 at 7:18 PM
- Nancy said...
I'm good, and you? I guess I won't be getting those than.
OuhHh I'm liking the SHESPACE colors =D
- November 9, 2008 at 9:45 PM
- Sara said...
Ooo these are sooo pretty! I'm going to have to try some of these out! The "no more bore" looks delicious, would you say it's similiar to MAC's "Copperclast"? I have been searching for that pigment FOREVER! I bought a sample of it and fell in love. I'm now out of it and it's driving me crazy! I wear it on a daily basis. If you know of any dupes or where I can buy this, please let me know. I would prefer a full sized jar, but whatever works.
Once again, thanks for the great reviews!
Have you ever tried Mally's Cosmetics? I was going to give her nude lipgloss/liner a try but never did. There's another line I was going to ask if you've tried, but I can't remember right now and I'm at work! :] shhhh.
Have you used Buff'd minerals before?
gotta goooo, til next time!
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A trial has been set for a Shalimar man who allegedly shot and stabbed another man while attempting to rob a home Nov. 20, according to the Okaloosa County Clerk of the Court.
FORT WALTON BEACH � A trial has been set for a Shalimar man who allegedly shot and stabbed another man while attempting to rob a home Nov. 20, according to the Okaloosa County Clerk of the Court.
Michael David Tuele, 27, will go to court March 4. He remains in the Okaloosa County Jail.
He is accused of entering the home at 204 Alden Drive in Ocean City through the back door with a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other, according to his arrest report. Tuele allegedly demanded drugs and money from the resident, Kathryn Nova Serna, and threatened her and her two young daughters with the gun, the report said.
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Christopher Lynn Carroll, 32, was in the home at the time and tried to disarm Tuele, according to the arrest report. He was shot and stabbed in the fight.
Carroll was discharged from Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola on Nov. 30, according to hospital officials.
The investigation is ongoing, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office, but Serna has been arrested for methamphetamine trafficking and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Deputies searched the home the night of the incident after getting signed permission from Serna.
In the master bedroom, deputies found about 22 grams of methamphetamine, smoking pipes and digital scales that tested for methamphetamine. Various prescription medications also were found, according to her arrest report.
Serna told deputies she knew the drugs were in her room and that she used methamphetamine, according to the report. She told deputies she had found them earlier Nov. 20 and hid them in her room.
Serna was arrested Dec. 4 and taken to the Okaloosa County Jail. Her bond was set at $100,000 and she was released Dec. 14.
Sheriff�s spokeswoman Michele Nicholson said the state Department of Children and Families was contacted about Serna�s two children.
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After a long winter, the playground could use a little TLC – some sweeping, bagging leaves, etc. This is a great activity for families and children.
"It's a great opportunity for people to come together and do something positive," said Martin Colberg, president of the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association. "Our playgrounds are important to the families of Woodhaven. It's only right that we come together to make them clean for our kids to play in."
The Parks Department will be supplying tools. They will also hand out special T-shirts to all who RSVP, which you can do by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com. When you RSVP, let us know how many will be coming, including how many adults and how many children.
You can also RSVP by phone by calling the WRBA at (718) 296-3735.
Woodhaven resident Tracey Gallagher says she has been looking forward to a cleanup event in Forest Park that she could attend with her son Jaron.
"I want him to have the same sense of community that I had growing up," she says. "Basically, Woodhaven raised my family."
Response has been good thus far, with a healthy number of little ones joining the effort, news that Gallagher welcomes. "Jaron is looking forward to the cleanup, he enjoys meeting people," she said.
Mary Whelan, the playground's namesake, was a longtime community activist, a vice president of Community Board 9, the founder and first president of the Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation and – fittingly for this project – president of the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association.
She lived close to the playground and often brought her children and grandchildren there. Mary Whelan passed away in 1987 and the playground was named in her honor in 1990. And now, a future generation of civic involvement will be born on May 3 as young ones will join their friends and family in this worthy project.
We hope you'll come out and join us.
On another note, many thanks to all who came out Monday for the Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society's presentation of "A View of Woodhaven – Part I" at Neir's Tavern & Steakhouse. It was a standing room only event and seemed to be well received by all.
For those who missed it – and for those who were there but would like to see it again – there will be an encore presentation next Wednesday, April 30, at 1 p.m. at Emanuel United Church of Christ at 91st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard.
The presentation is a mix of images from Woodhaven's past and present. There are a few surprises thrown in to the presentation and a few images of buildings that were once an important part of our community, but were torn down years before we were born, making these long-lost buildings brand new to our own eyes.
The presentation was recently retitled to include "Part I" as we needed to split the original presentation for time considerations. Due to the popular response to Part I we are happy to report that we have already begun working with Neir's Tavern & Steakhouse on planning a date for Part II.
We look to our past to better understand the world we currently live in. And the better we understand our current surroundings better positions us to make the right decisions for our future. Looking at past and present pictures of Woodhaven helps us better understand our present.
Similarly, remembering past civic leaders like Mary Whelan and bringing our young ones out to teach them the sense of community that she demonstrated in her life is the right decision for our future.


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Next in spectrum wars: Airplanes
Airplanes no longer save us from ourselves.
In-flight Internet access, once considered a passenger luxury, has turned into a customer requirement. And technology companies are brawling in Washington over who gets to lay claim.
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As marketplace opportunities increase, a bandwidth battle once limited to the ground has shifted to the air.
"It's kind of the sky's the limit on a lot of the options you can provide," said Travis Christ, chief marketing and sales officer for Row 44, a California-based firm that offers passengers access to live baseball games, CNBC and a host of other networks.
The Federal Communications Commission agreed last month to streamline regulations for satellite-based systems, a next frontier in broadband development. But ground-based companies with plans for further advancements want a slice of the shrinking spectrum pie.
Case in point: Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of wireless chip devices.
"This could be a great example of spectrum that could be shared to enable a more efficient use," said Dean Brenner, Qualcomm's senior vice president for government affairs. The company has asked the FCC to approve a communications service Brenner says would take the current air-to-ground options "to the next level with the same degree of high-speed connectivity we are all used to on the ground."
Qualcomm has petitioned the FCC to use the 14.0-14.5-GHz band of frequencies, which is currently allocated to fixed satellite services going from Earth to space. The company wants to launch a commercial, two-way mobile service that would use as many as 250 ground stations to transmit and receive communications from aircraft.
The Satellite Industry Association, Boeing and Wi-Fi competitors like Row 44 and Panasonic have pushed against the proposal for more than a year. They say it would interfere with current frequencies and threaten rivals' in-flight offerings.
"If there's any disruption to people's existing business and investments, that's a harmful outcome we just want to be really careful about," Row 44's Christ told POLITICO.
Qualcomm insists this secondary service would not cause a problem and has met with the FCC in early January to press its case. But competing companies fear such a move would set a jarring precedent.
"If the proposal were to move forward, it could potentially result in locking in this type of network architecture," said Carlos Nalda, a telecommunications lawyer who represents Panasonic.
Airlines, eager for any additional income, love Qualcomm's proposal. "More and more customers are carrying Wi-Fi-enabled devices, all of which require a high-speed air-ground network to maintain full in-flight connectivity," United Airlines wrote in a comment to the FCC.
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The count down begins!
As you know from previous posts, we love advent calendars at our house. The kids each have their own candy countdown and I've been known to make a new one every now and then. Here's the one we are currently using, it is activity based.
To make it, I took a sturdy box that a birthday gift came in and cut off the two ends and one of the long sides. Then I attached the remaining ends together to form a triangle. This became the base of the count down.
From there I covered the base with paper using mod-podge. Next I added 24 sheets of paper, each with an envelope of some sort. Here's a few so you get the idea. In some cases I just used an envelope I had on hand, for others I made the envelopes or pockets myself.
Besides just using pattern paper and cardstock for the backgrounds, I also used transparencies. I like crafting with transparencies as there is a lot you can do with it. For this page I painted my foam stamps and stamped the word "Merry". Then I used StazOn ink and stamped snowflakes as well. I like how the page underneath peeks through.
So, how does it work? Each envelope has an activity that we will do as a family each day. It may be something as simple as making gourmet hot cocoa or going ice skating. We also have stories to share, crafts to make, treats to deliver, etc... as we get closer to Christmas the focus will shift to activities geared around Christ.
The basics of the count down are really very simple. Each envelope has a number on it, that number is the number of days remaining until Christmas. Also listed is the actual date we will need to open each envelope. This was important for me so I could align the activities with what was already scheduled for our family. For instant, we wouldn't go ice skating on Sunday so I needed to make sure that was scheduled for a Friday or Saturday.
It's fun to plan ahead and the girls are so excited to start counting down. This certainly helps the time pass quicker and in so many ways keeps me sane because I have plan and schedule to keep them busy.
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There is, rather suddenly, a resurgence of interest in the legal field that goes by the name "obscenity." Not that it ever lacked for interest. The conjunction of sex and politics is irresistible. But now there is more than interest; there is consternation—on the part of those who fear for our morality, on the part of those who fear the First Amendment will founder on the convictions of Harry Reems and Larry Flynt.
I suggest we abandon the word obscenity. I do not mean that the law should ignore all the many and varied things that legislatures and courts have tried deal with under this rubric. My suggestion rather is that we drop the word and turn our attention to the social interests actually involved. Then, perhaps, some sensible law-making and law enforcement will follow.
The law is verbal art. It depends for its effectiveness on compact, muscular words; overgrown, flabby words are useless in the law, worse than useless—confusing, damaging. "Obscene" as a description of the morally outrageous or the intellectually monstrous continues to be useful (and generally has little to do with sex). "Obscene" for legal purposes should be discarded altogether. It carries an impossible burden of passionate conviction from both sides of the question. And it diverts attention from real issues. The present litigation over what is called obscenity involves serious public concerns which the word obscures and distorts.
Draw back a bit. Exactly eleven years ago a battle against literary censorship came to a close. What had been censored, for three hundred years, was called, in law, obscenity. Obscenity in its traditional sense—impermissible writing about sex, impermissible either because of what it described or because of the words that were used—was at an end. Writers would be able to write as they pleased on the subject of sex, and use whatever language they thought best. They would no longer have to keep a mind's eye on the censor; they could pay full attention to their art and ideas. The field of legal struggle would move to other forms of expression—films, the stage, television, photography.
So much has changed in the last eleven years that one who had not lived through earlier times would find the freedom that writers now enjoy unremarkable. Yet in the few decades just then ended, such works as Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, and Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County had been the subjects of successful criminal prosecution. Recently, in contrast, there has been no suppression of books at all. Obscenity prosecutions are now directed at motion pictures and stage performances and magazines (the last not for their words but for their pictures).
The contest concluded in 1966 was essentially between accepted sexual morality (which sought to govern what was expressed as well as what was done) and the guaranties of the First Amendment. The books declared obscene had been attacked and suppressed for a double reason: because, in the view of the ruling group, they induced immoral behavior, and because their open publication was immoral in itself. The very first brief in the very first case of the series that changed the law—the trial of Lady Chatterley—put the question this way: "Should the courts chain creative minds to the dead center of convention at a given moment in time?" Conventional sexual morality was what was meant and understood.
Whether or not you agree with the view of those who sought to preserve morality by limiting speech and writing, obscenity as a legal concept was a fair description of what they objected to. It had been attacked as indefinable, but it was no harder to define, no vaguer, perhaps less vague, than other concepts the law engages every day—"the reasonable person," for example, or "good faith," not to mention "fair trial." Its scope had varied over the years, but that is true of all legal concepts. The important point for present purposes is that however uncertain its boundaries, the legal term "obscenity" served a specific social goal.
The real difficulty—which had not been suggested as a difficulty until the twentieth century was well under way—was that the pursuit of the goal might run afoul of the First Amendment. Among the things settled in the series of cases that culminated in the Fanny Hill decision was that the attempt to enforce these moral standards through anti-obscenity laws must yield to the Amendment.
The First Amendment protects speech and press. Not all speech and press; there are some exceptions—information helpful to an enemy in wartime, for example, or fraudulent statements to induce the purchase of stocks and bonds. (And even speech and press protected by the First Amendment remain subject to some regulation. You may not, without municipal permission, choose to hold a meeting in the middle of a busy street and proclaim your thoughts while traffic waits.) But obscenity is no longer an exception to freedom of speech and press in the traditional meaning of those terms. And it ought not be an exception for speech and press more broadly defined—communication in general.
"Suppress," however, means throttle altogether. Even the liberal justices of the present Supreme Court, the dissenters from the Burger view, have allowed that expression can be in certain ways restricted. That is, the citizen who has something be wishes to communicate may not be silenced completely—he can be as obscene about it as he likes—but the flow of his expression can be channeled. These liberal justices have said that the First Amendment is not infringed by anti-obscenity laws that seek to safeguard children or to prevent the infliction unwanted displays on a captive audience.
Another limitation on expression occurs when expression is mixed with action. Consider the poor soul arrested for indecent sure. No doubt he has something to communicate, if it is only "look at me," but what he does is a1so act, and there is no possibility the Supreme Court would preclude the prosecution of the flasher on the theory that he is only invoking First Amendment rights.
The most libertarian of our justices, Hugo Black and William Douglas, carved out and set aside "action brigaded with expression." Even while they were advancing their thesis that the First Amendment must be given an "absolute" construction—that speech and the press must be subject to no restraint whatever—they said that when behavior was involved, a different question was presented. The situation must be analyzed to determine which element, action or expression, can be said to dominate. The control of conduct has never been restricted by the First Amendment. Indeed, the control of conduct is the primary business of government. The prosecution of Harry Reems, actor in Deep Throat, poses an interesting problem. The film was made in Florida, where the actors performed their acts; Reems was prosecuted in Tennessee, a place where the film was shown. Behavior more than expression? In Florida maybe, it seems to me; in Tennessee, no.
It is in these three fields that legitimate problems remain—the protection of children, the unwilling audience, and action mixed with expression. In each instance, however, we would do better to use legal concepts other than obscenity.
When we are dealing with behavior rather than expression, the only question is what kind of behavior we ought to regulate—whether, for instance, any kind of private sex between (or among) consenting adults should be prohibited. The answer does not involve the First Amendment. Laws controlling conduct rather than communication, as we have seen, do not infringe freedom of speech or press.
The most prominent current topic on which this distinction may help arises from municipal efforts to deal with the ugly sore of commercial sex—Boston's delimitation of its "Combat Zone," Detroit's recently upheld dispersal ordinance, New York's attempt to restore the center of Manhattan to something like what it used to be. Prostitution, with its corollary crimes, is present. So are pornographic book stores. So are hard-core films. We tend to treat them as though they all present a single legal problem. They do not. Prostitution is behavior, not expression. Whether it should be licensed, or simply decriminalized, or continue to be prosecuted, is a troubling question, but it has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Prostitution is clearly on the conduct side of the conduct-expression divide.
But films and books and magazines are on the other side, and here the other concepts enter, and another distinction. We must distinguish between the willing audience and the captive audience. You can say or write a show what you please, but only to those who are willing to listen, or read, or view. Tropic of Cancer printed in volume form is one thing; Tropic of Cancer blared out by bullhorn in a public square is quite another. The right to express oneself is not the right to intrude expression on those who do not want it.
Privacy has been recognized as a constitutional right. It is actually a cluster of rights, one of which is the right to be let alone. Exhibition inside theaters is in this sense private; no one is compelled to enter. The same for books and magazines; no one is forced to read them. But once the stuff spills onto the streets—on theater marquees or posters, in storefront windows or newsstand displays—the privacy of those outside is assaulted. The liberty of those who like pornography is not inconsistent with the liberty of those who don't. Neither should be constrained by law&mdashthe one denied the means to gratify his voyeurism, the other forced to share it. If the people wish to forbid public exhibition of certain kinds—exhibition which dismays some of those who are trying to enjoy their clear right to use the streets and sidewalks free of assault—there is no First Amendment reason it ought to stand in the way. It need not be labeled obscenity. What is thrust upon the passerby can be regulated because the citizens feel it is disagreeable or offensive or unhealthy—that is, if there are enough such citizens so that under our democratic processes they constitute a majority.
Privacy is the modern idea that inheres in this situation. An ancient legal idea reinforces it. It is the traditional and useful and sensible idea of nuisance. In New York, 42nd Street constitutes a public nuisance. No need to cogitate and strain over whether the displays are obscene. Let the movies be shown in the theaters, but restrict, if the voters wish, what appears on their marquees. Let the magazines be sold—let the pimps to masturbators think of themselves as publishers—but keep their product off the front of newsstands.1
Finally, child abuse. Although there is disagreement about how their cultural environment affects the emotional development of children, there is consensus that the environment is a powerful factor. (If the reader of this piece has a liberal bent, it may help his thinking on the subject to concentrate not on sex but on violence.) A legislative effort to shield the child from certain representations of sex (or violence) does not, in the view of the justices most concerned with freedom, infringe the First Amendment. Nor does the legislature have to prove that ill effects inevitably flow from what it prohibits. Since the First Amendment is not involved, the only constitutional inhibition is the due process clause, and there the test is not whether the legislature is absolutely right, or even sure of the efficacy of its statute. The test is whether there is a rational basis for its concern, and whether what it tries to do about it is not altogether foolish. The established constitutional formula for testing legislation against the due process clause is that it not be "arbitrary and unreasonable."
It is not arbitrary or unreasonable for the legislature to conclude that inducing children to engage in sexual activity can harm them. Nor is it arbitrary or unreasonable to prohibit the photographing of children who have been induced to do so, or to interdict the publication and sale of magazines in which the photographs appear. The publisher and the seller are principals in the abuse. Without them, it would not occur.
There is also abuse of children in another situation—where the child is audience rather than subject. Here television is the prime subject of concern; children are overexposed to what comes through the tube. It will not do to say the family should exercise control. Pious introductions warning of "mature theme" and advice to exercise "parental guidance" are stupid, unless they are cleverly meant to be self-defeating, and in either event they are revolting. If the children are not watching, the caveat has no purpose; if the children are watching, the caveat is a lure. This is obscenity in its larger, nonlegal sense.
Our habits have come to the point where the family in the home is the captive audience par excellence. Neither the child's own judgment nor, as a practical matter, the authority of parents can make effective choices. A legislative attempt to control the content of television programs that had a reasonable basis in the aim to safeguard children would not violate the Constitution.
Our most liberal justices have pointed out that the world of the child is not the world of the adult, and efforts to limit expression have a special place where children are concerned. (Broadcasters who resist control are making a claim to be free in the sense the right wing often uses—freedom to exploit monopolies.) Here again the standard is not obscenity.
Apart from these three fields, the First Amendment demands that we must put up with a lot of what is disagreeable or even damaging. The point made by feminists—that porno films and magazines demean and exploit women—is a strong one. (It is even stronger than they think: the things they object to demean and exploit all people.) But the First Amendment, I believe, requires that we let the material be produced and published. So long as expression is involved and intrusion is not, and there is no question of child abuse, our arguments should be addressed not to the courts but to the producers and sellers of entertainment. That is not an entirely futile effort. The public can be affected by these arguments, and it is the public after all that makes the selling of entertainment a profitable venture. To the extent that these arguments do hot prevail, we must accept the fact that the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment are costly freedoms. Very costly. Worth the cost, I would say.
The First Amendment has lately had to contend with more than its old enemies. The effectiveness of any law—including our fundamental law, the Constitution—depends on the people's perception of it. The prime example of a law destroyed because too many saw it as fatuous was Prohibition. Freedom of the press has trouble enough as an operating concept—as distinguished from an incantation—without having to defend itself from those who like to call themselves its friends.
The voguish furor about anti-obscenity laws diminishes the public perception of the First Amendment in two ways. One is the silliness-—calculated or naivé—of so many who rush to grab and wave the First Amendment banner. Lawyers defend topless bars with phrases out of Areopagitica. Blind to the fact that all constitutional law is a matter of degree, an actor solemnly proclaims: "Today Harry Reems, tomorrow Helen Hayes." Fatheadedness rarely helps a cause.
The other source of debilitation is a sort of constitutional imperialism. Freedom of expression is not our only liberty. It is, to my mind, our most important liberty, the basis of all others. But it is part of an entire structure. It is entitled to no imperium; it must democratically live with other guaranties and rights.
The First Amendment has serious work to do. Invoked too often and too broadly, it can grow thin and feeble. The restrictions I suggest are minimal, and specific, and—with the anachronistic concept of obscenity discarded—they allow more freedom than the courts have granted up to now. And, I think, they may help to avoid a dangerous dilution of First Amendment guaranties.
People to whom I have broached the idea submitted in this essay have asked about its evolution. What goes on in the mind of a lawyer who once attacked obscenity laws so hard and now suggests legal restrictions on some of the things that are commonly called "obscene"?
A novelist, speaking from the feminist side, reads me an essay she is doing. It mentions "Charles Rembar, the attorney who escorted Lady Chatterley and Fanny Hill to their triumphant American debuts, thereby unwittingly spreading his cloak—-and ours—in the muddy path for a pack of porno hustlers."
Not unwittingly, I say, and then I quote from The End of Obscenity:
The current uses of the new freedom are not all to the good. There is an acne on our culture. Books enter the best-seller lists distinguished only by the fact that once they would have put their publishers in jail. Advertising plays upon concupiscence in ways that range from foolish to fraudulent. Theatre marquees promise surrogate thrills, and the movies themselves, even some of the good ones, include "daring" scenes—"dare" is a child's word—that have no meaning except at the box office. Television commercials peddle sex with an idiot slyness.
Among the lesser detriments of the new freedom is the deterioration of the television situation comedy, an art form that has not been altogether bad and has had, indeed, high moments. It suffers now from a blue-brown flood of double-meaning jokes, stupidities accompanied by high cackles from the studio audience. (How do they gather those people? Or is it only a Moog synthesizer?) On the other hand, among the more important benefits are the intelligent discussions, on television, of subjects that could not be publicly discussed before; it is difficult to remember, but a documentary on birth control could not have been aired some years ago. Also, just possibly, a new and wonderful trend in journalism: It may no longer be feasible to sustain a bad newspaper by loading it with leers; since sex stories are much less shocking today, the old circulation formula may be hard to work.
Do the suggestions I make jeopardize the freedom won eleven years ago? I think not. In fact, in terms of what may be suppressed, they expand it. The freedom was won for the printed word; for other forms of expression, the decisions carried implications of greater liberty than had theretofore been enjoyed, though not as complete as writers would enjoy. In arguing the cases, I said that not all media were the same, and called attention to the points that underlie the approach outlined above—the protection of children, the problem of action mixed with expression, and one's right not to be compelled to constitute an audience. (Don't pluck my sleeve as I am passing by, stop poking your finger on my chest; freedom includes freedom from your assailing my senses—these are fair demands that books don't interfere with.)
All that is new in my position is the proposal that we come to the end of obscenity in another sense and turn our attention to the things society may rightfully care about.
The proposal is made with the thought that it can make the First Amendment stronger.
These paragraphs may raise two questions in the reader's mind. I have stressed, in other writings, that the safeguards of the First Amendment are designed for minority views: there would be no need for the amendment if all we wanted to protect was what the majority deemed acceptable. Hence the references above to "a majority" and to "what the people wish" may seem, if one reads too quickly, rather odd. The answer is that these paragraphs deal with situations to which, if the prescription is followed, the First Amendment does not extend. And I am referring to the kind of thing at which anti-obscenity laws are aimed, not to political speech.
The second question is, How do you do it? How do you provide for the permission to publish and the prohibition of display—the permission to exhibit in closed theaters and the control of what is out on the street? Fifty difficult hypotheticals can be rattled off in fifty minutes. But this is true of almost any statutory regulation. Laws are hard to apply and enforce; this does not mean we should not have them. When, for instance, does merger become monopoly? When does an efficient business arrangement become restraint of trade? The fact that these are large, perplexing questions, which spawn thousands of more perplexing little questions, does not mean we ought not have our antitrust laws. To deal with all the legal questions my proposals might bring in their train would require a legal treatise. This short piece is necessarily elliptical, and I am not trying to draft the statutes. But I believe such statutes can be drawn, and enforced with fair success.
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Top Five in Tech: Apps Go Boom
Scott Austin looks at the business of apps, tussles at Dell and what Facebook did to its News Feed. Photo: Google.
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EU Probes Apple iPhone Contracts, and More
What's News: The European Union is looking into telecom operators' complaints over Apple's terms for carrying the iPhone. Barnes & Noble cuts back Simon & Schuster titles and the FDA proposes greater defibrillator oversight. Photo: Getty Images.
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My parents bought me a cauldron for my 16th birthday. Providing no explanation, I had asked for that and a chalice. At a loss, mum suggested it would look nice outside with the geraniums.
My interest in Wicca began as I entered my teens. Wicca and Witchcraft: Understanding the Danger, the booklet I wrote recently as part of the Catholic Truth Society's Explanations series, condenses – after some factual basics about the philosophy and practice of "white" witchcraft – the conversations I had with a Catholic friend and her family that eventually led to my conversion to the Catholic faith. The booklet has caused controversy on the blogosphere: it sold out on Amazon.com and cropped up on the websites of the Telegraph and Daily Mail. What began as a small document to inform Catholics about the realities of Wicca – eg that it isn't Satanism – appears to have re-ignited the persecution complex among Wiccans that I was hoping to diffuse.
I am concerned that as a culture, perhaps as a Church, we can too easily dismiss the spiritual needs of young people. In my family, religion was something to explore and debate. Both my parents are Oxford graduates and historians, my father a Doctor of Maths and Philosophy. His atheism prevailed over my mother's Anglicanism, and neither I nor my sister were baptised.
One day I came across the Teen Witch Kit by Wiccan author Silver Ravenwolf. It comprised a thin introduction to witchcraft, a pop-up cardboard altar, charms (from a small bell to a pentacle necklace, the five-pointed emblem for Wicca). The book laid out the basic tenets of witchcraft and, crucially, the practice of "magick". Wiccan spell casting is governed by two ethics: karma (that what you send out will return threefold) and "an' it harm none, do what you will". I cast my first spell, for protection, when my mother travelled abroad for a work trip: it was the first time she'd been in an aeroplane. As a teenager, with only a limited amount of say in what I'd have for dinner, for example, the idea of unmitigated supernatural power, coupled with such a self-governed morality, was very appealing.
My interest in Wicca increased, even in the face of frequent magickal failure. In the booklet I suggest that Wicca can be an important stage in spiritual growth for a young person. Like many of my generation, I was looking for a religious home. Wicca is far removed from mainstream western religion; it has no hierarchy or clergy, no central texts or commandments. It is a framework upon which young, spiritually hungry people can construct a religious identity independent of their parents. Wicca suited me because it was, quite literally, an unorthodox religious choice. I embraced the Wiccan "holy days" and the duotheism – belief in a goddess and god – that underpinned them. I lobbied my school to include "Wicca" as an option on their registration database; I gave presentations in Religious Studies classes about the heroines of modern witchcraft.
But within a year I had exhausted the canon of literature marketed to teenage Wiccans. An innate respect for history, if not tradition, led to an uncomfortable awareness that the religion as I knew it had existed for little over 20 years, and had manifestly been created by people. I began to study Wicca's older literature: books written by Gerald Gardner, the witch who ostensibly re-introduced Britain to witchcraft and others of his circle (literally and figuratively), including the notorious Victorian occultist Aleister Crowley. I learned about ceremonial magic, branched out into the Jewish Kabbalah and familiarised myself with H P Blavatsky's works on Theosophy. I bought a book about self-initiation into the Golden Dawn tradition – a quasi-Masonic occult order – and began to follow the steps toward its first grade. But my interest in politics, environmentalism and feminism had expanded beyond the questions Wicca could address. If the earth was a deity, did earthquakes suggest she was malicious? Worse, despite some feminist trappings, the occult witchcraft I was studying was at core misogynistic. Crowley wrote some unpleasant things about women; in the works of Anton LaVey, the self-appointed Satanist and a friend of Crowley's, I encountered rants about women's intellectual inferiority.
Finally, inevitably, about three years into my study of witchcraft – like any teenager who has ever played with a Ouija board – I became convinced I had communicated with a "spirit" whom I had failed to banish. The accompanying sense of dread lasted for weeks. A Catholic schoolfriend wrote out the Hail Mary for me – I'd never heard it before – and suggested I say it when I felt spiritually threatened. I stopped practising witchcraft soon afterwards.
My subsequent conversion to Catholicism was gradual. I had been exposed for years to the best means of evangelisation in the Church: the example of a generous, loving Catholic family (the parents and siblings of my schoolfriend) who were ready to argue philosophy over the dinner table. I had always known my friend was a better Catholic than I was a Wiccan. She took my foray into witchcraft with a seriousness that I didn't, challenging me intellectually and morally. She lent me books to explain her Christianity; out of loyalty, I fought her side in the RS lessons in which she was the only vocal Christian. I went to Mass with her family on the eve of a school trip we were taking together. Finally, I sent her a faltering, confused email about where I was, spiritually. Her discretion and her patience were inspiring: it took another three years until I was received into the Catholic Church.
By then I was a fiercely Left-wing, politically active Buddhist vegan: rumours of my conversion would have startled most of my schoolmates. Recognising this, we kept the process low-key. I would accompany her family to the Easter Vigil, amazed by the beauty of the liturgy. I began attending Mass after school, in secret. My life was turbulent. I'd sit in the peace of the Church until the last person was leaving. I realised that the spiritual core of the Buddhism I was trying to practise was Catholicism. I believed in God. From the example of the Catholic family I had grown up around, I believed that Catholicism made you a better person, that it increased your capacity to love.
Soon after leaving school, in my gap year before university, my schoolfriend put me in touch with a wonderful priest. We met almost every week; I studied the Catechism and he, somehow, managed to handle the demands of an intellectually stubborn teenager about to leave to study Theology at Cambridge. After a year's catechesis I realised that nothing intellectual or spiritual separated me from a faith to which I had never imagined I would subscribe. I was baptised and received into the Church at the Easter Vigil – my schoolfriend was my sponsor and "fairy godmother".
My experience of neo-pagans had in fact been largely positive: many Wiccans are intelligent, kind, sincere people. Wicca attempts to meet the needs of a generation terrified of hypocrisy: if even our coffee is Fairtrade, a faith needs to be outstanding to convince us. I was now surrounded by outstanding Catholics; as a Catholic, I know the example I should be setting.
Wicca was an important step in a spiritual journey that led me to Catholicism, but when I was asked to write about it in a booklet, written by a Catholic for Catholics, I felt it would be irresponsible not to mention its inherent dangers – not least the lack of a real support structure. Wicca may be adaptable and relevant; but ultimately I found it intellectually and spiritually unfulfilling.
I still struggle with and face challenges in my faith; I know there are areas I need to better understand. But you can love a work of art without translating every reference. If it is beautiful enough, you can accept that there are elements you won't understand until you meet the artist. The values that brought me into Wicca – ecological, feminist, pacifist – are addressed more deeply by the Catholic Church. It is our responsibility as Catholics to let young people know that these are issues we care about, questions which are posed and answered throughout salvation history.
I passed the cauldron on to my sister: she stores magazines in it.
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Green Building Policies & Requirements
In 1998 the City of Oakland adopted the Sustainable Community Development Initiative. One of those goals was to "Develop a Sustainable City", by "maximizing socially and environmentally sustainable growth, including conserving natural resources. Since then the City Council has adopted many policies that would support this goal for both City and private development projects. In this section you can find information related to the newly adopted green building ordinance for private development projects, other sustainable ordinances that affect private development projects and ordinances that affect City initiated projects.
In addition to Oakland's local Green Building Ordinance requirements which are detailed below, certain projects will also need to comply with the California Green Building Code known as CALGreen. CALGreen was adopted in January of 2010 and became effective in January 2011. The 2013 amendments to CalGreen require increased green building performance effective January 1, 2014.
The 2013 CALGreen now covers the following project types.
- Residential (including low-rise, high-rise, and hotel/motel buildings of R occupancy)and Non-Residential New Construction
- Residential additions and alterations where the changes increase the building's conditioned area, volume, or size. (NOTE: This requirement applies only to the specific area of the addition or alteration. However, applicant's MUST replace any non-compliant plumbing fixture with water conserving plumbing fixtures even if this is outside the scope of work.)
- Non-Residential building additions of 1,000 square feet or greater (NOTE: This requirement applies only to the specific area of the addition or alteration.)
- Non-Residential building alterations with a permit valuation of $200,000 or above (NOTE: This requirement applies only to the specific area of the addition or alteration.)
CALGreen contains mandatory measures that must be implemented and voluntary measures known as Tiers. The City of Oakland has not adopted either Tier but would encourage the implementation of further green building measures. Staff has provided more information regarding the City's local Green Building Ordinance and the 2013 CALGreen codes in the Threshold, Green Building Rating Programs and Checklist sections below.
Several sections of Oakland's local Green Building Ordinance are not consistent with the new 2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards. Please click here for an important notice that will clarify the City's current requirements for development projects with implementation of the 2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards.
Green Building Ordinance for Private Development Projects
The City of Oakland adopted mandatory green building standards for private development projects on October 19, 2010 (13040 C.M.S.). Follow the links below to learn about Oakland's new green building ordinance, how it may apply to your development project, and how to succeed with the aid of guidelines, checklists and resources provided by the City.
The following project types are included in the green building ordinance:
- Residential New Construction
- Residential Additions and Alterations
- Non-Residential New Construction
- Non-Residential Additions and Alterations
- Removal of a Historic Resource and New Construction
- Historic Residential Additions and Alterations
- Historic Non-Residential Additions and Alterations
- Affordable Housing Construction receiving City or Redevelopment Funds
- Mixed Use Construction
- Construction Requiring a Landscape Plan
In addition to the Thresholds above, CALGreen mandatory measures are also required. Click here for a Summary of the Green Building Requirements.
Click on the links below to read the actual ordinance, staff reports and supplemental documents.
- Green Building Ordinance for Private Development Projects
- City Council staff report
- City Council supplemental staff report, received June 24, 2010
- City Council supplemental staff report, received June 30, 2010
The green building ordinance for private development projects was developed over a period of three years and went through an extensive public process including four stakeholder meetings, three community meetings and multiple public hearings. Below are links to the public hearing staff reports for more information on the process leading up to adoption of the ordinance.
Planning Commission Directors Report; September 19, 2007
Special Projects Committee of the Planning Commission; March 20, 2008
Planning Commission; October 1, 2008
Community and Economic Development Committee; October 14, 2008
Special Projects Committee of the Planning Commission; February 19, 2009
Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board; March 9, 2009
Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board; April 13, 2009
Community Meeting; April 20, 2009
Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board; May 11, 2009
Planning Commission; April 21, 2010
CED Committee; June 8, 2010
Click on the links below to review the applicable green building rating programs referenced in the ordinance. Note: There are no guidelines available for the Small Commercial Checklist.
- Build It Green
- Leadership and Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
- StopWaste.Org Bay Friendly Landscaping Guidelines
- 2013 CALGreen Bulletin with Effective Dates
- 2013 CALGreen Bulletin Regarding Replacement of Plumbing Fixtures- Commercial
- 2013 CALGreen Bulletin Regarding Replacement of Plumbing Fixtures - Residential
♦CALGreen Non-Residential Summary and CALGreen Residential Summary
Below are the application forms referenced in the Ordinance.
- Basic Application Form including the Green Building page must be completed at the planning entitlement phase. Alternatively, a project applicant could fill out the Basic Application form and this Green Building Application form.
- Unreasonable Hardship Exemption Application
Click here to view and download all the green building checklists referenced in the ordinance. This page also includes two reference guides that provide a summary of the CALGreen mandatory measures, LEED, and GreenPoint Rated. A completed and up-to-date checklist is a requirement for a complete Planning entitlement, building permit or inspection submittal.
Ordinances Affecting Private Development Projects
The City of Oakland has adopted a number of ordinances to improve the green performance of development projects in Oakland. Follow the links below for more information on how to comply with these other policies and requirements.
- Construction and Demolition Recycling Ordinance
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- Green Building Guidelines Resolution
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Ordinances Affecting City Projects
In 2005 the City of Oakland adopted the green building ordinance for civic projects. This ordinance establishes green building (e.g. sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency materials selection and indoor environmental quality) requirements for certain City projects. View the City's Civic Green Building Ordinance.
The City of Oakland adopted an ordinance in July 2009 establishing Bay Friendly sustainable landscaping requirements for certain City projects. View the Civic Bay Friendly Landscaping Ordinance.


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(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the state board shall provide for the awarding of a high school diploma to any surviving veteran of World War II, the Korean War, or the Vietnam Conflict, who:
(1) Left school prior to graduation and served in the Armed Forces of the United States;
(2) Did not receive a high school diploma;
(3) Was discharged from the armed forces under honorable conditions; and
(4) Completes the application process as provided by the joint rules of the state board and the veterans' council.
(b) The state board and the veterans' council, created in article one, chapter nine-a of this code, shall jointly propose rules for the identification of eligible veterans and for awarding high school diplomas. The rules shall provide for an application process and the credentials required to receive a high school diploma.
(c) A diploma shall be awarded by the county board in the county in which the veteran resides or in the county in which the veteran would have received his or her diploma, whichever location the veteran chooses.
(d) For purposes of this section:
(1) "World War II veteran" means any veteran who performed wartime service between September 16, 1940, and December 31, 1946;
(2) "Korean War veteran" means any veteran who performed military service between June 27, 1950, and January 31, 1955;
(3) "Vietnam Conflict veteran" means any veteran who performed military service between February 28, 1961, and May 7, 1975.


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HP may be going the server flash route
Company won't confirm it, but the G8 looks pretty flashy
HP's new G8 servers will sport lots of flash, according to a knowledgeable HP fan.
The ProLiant G8 is the successor to the popular G7 servers and will be known as the Gen8 ProLiant. Our information is that it or versions of it will use flash memory to support 50 per cent more transactions and 30 per cent more virtual machines; that sounds plenty pokey.
HP's three-letter acronym generators have been hard at work and Gen8 features include:
- APA or Adaptive Performance Acceleration, and
- DWA or Dynamic Workload Acceleration.
Both of them rely on or use Smart Caching. HP mentioned this term with its TouchPad, and it cached enough cloud-streamed music locally that you could play it uninterrupted by pauses. This suggests a possible link with back-end storage arrays.
Is this HP's anti-Lightning EMC strike device? It seems clear that HP servers with flash caches will not need add-in PCIe flash cards.
We heard about a 6 March ship date too. HP was asked about these things but was not immediately able to respond to questions about Gen8 server flash caches.
The mainstream server flash ducks are lining up. EMC has jumped. Cisco has signed up for LSI's WarpDrive. NetApp has its own server flash cache plans. Come on Dell, HDS and IBM, don't be shy... we know you're working in this area. ®
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Communicating with our kids is one of the most pleasurable and rewarding parts of parenting. Children learn by absorbing information through daily interactions and experiences not only with us, but with other adults, family members, other kids, and the world.
And between the ages of 4 and 5, many kids enter preschool or kindergarten programs, with language skills a key part of learning in the classroom.
The more interactive conversation and play kids are involved in, the more they learn. Reading books, singing, playing word games, and simply talking to kids will increase their vocabulary while providing increased opportunities to develop listening skills.
Here some ways you can help boost your child's communication skills:
As kids gain master language skills, they also develop their conversational abilities. Kids 4 to 5 years old can follow more complex directions and enthusiastically talk about things they do. They can make up stories, listen attentively to stories, and retell stories.
At this age, kids usually can understand that letters and numbers are symbols of real things and ideas, and that they can be used to tell stories and offer information. Most will know the names and gender of family members and other personal information. They often play with words and make up silly words and stories.
Their sentence structures may now include five or more words, and their vocabulary is between 1,000 and 2,000 words. Speech at this age should be completely understandable, although there may be some developmental sound errors and stuttering, particularly among boys.
If you suspect your child has a problem with hearing, language skills, or speech clarity, talk to your doctor. A hearing test may be one of the first steps to determine if your child has a hearing problem.
If a specific communication deficit or delay is suspected, the doctor may recommend a speech-language evaluation. A child who also appears to be delayed in other areas of development may be referred to a developmental pediatrician or psychologist.
Communication problems among kids in this age group include:
Some kids will outgrow these problems. For others, speech therapy or further evaluation might be needed. Your doctor will help determine whether your child would benefit from speech and language evaluation and treatment.
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Oh Afghanistan
You have taken my beloved
to walk in your warm gold sand.
Now for a year he belongs to you
while here I claim I am still his wife.
No one could ever imagine
that your mountains would hug his presence,
that your sky would be the hat he is wearing
and your clouds the streams in the dessert.
I beg you, take care of him while he is with you,
he is giving to you the best he has,
he is putting his effort to make you better
so please don't let his blood run in your sand.
His faith belongs to God, who created you,
God's strength is what makes him open his eyes
even when he has to work between shadows of
death, uncertainty and sorrow.
Please God, keep him in your hands
and don't let him fall from them.
Oh Afghanistan for now he is yours
but my beloved forever belongs to me.
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Wow, has it really been that long since I dropped anchor here? Sweet!
Waving at friends new and old :-)
Wow, has it really been that long since I dropped anchor here? Sweet!
Waving at friends new and old :-)
"Even the devil may cry when he looks around Hell and realizes that he is all alone"
Acheron Parthenopaeus
(Sherrilyn Kenyon, Devil May Cry)
I am not too far behind you, Prec...hard to believe that it has been almost 10 years..for me in July next year... so much of my life experience in the last decade has been due to my association with this group....unbelievable and amazing experiences... now that I am looking back on it all....I feel so blessed.
I have gotten to travel the country, the world, meet some fabulous people including the band, made some wonderful lifelong friends and experienced the most amazing feelings one could ever have with two different men that I met on this board...became a step mother to two beautiful girls.... the angels of my life..... all due to my association with this board...
Sure am happy that I was so board on July 4th 2004, that it lead me to call an 80'station to request One Thing ...which lead to a conversation... which lead to here... and so on... fate, destiny, kismet....call it what you want... but it has been the most fabulous decade of my life...one that I am truly, truly grateful for...with no regrets.
So here is a big dating game kiss for you all....Mwwwwaaaahhhhh.. for those who may lurk here now and then.... thinking of you.. miss you...thank you for the memories...the friendships ...the fun and laughter... maybe we should plan a Fixxture Reunion?????
You pass like the moon in silence
In the warm flooded air
Looking back to those lost opportunities
So often missed or ignored
A thousand times I start heading for the dawn
Only to turn around and face this rue once more
There 's something ahead of you
Cy Curnin
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2014 Outdoor: Competed in the 5,000m run during the season, recording a season-best time of 18:32.49 at the Morgan State Legacy Meet… Named to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2013-14 Indoor: Did not compete.
2013 Outdoor: Competed in the 800m and 1,500m run at the Big Dawg Invitational at UMBC Stadium, finishing ninth in both races... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2012-13 Indoor: Anchored the distance medley relay team to a new school record time of 12:04.24 at the ECAC Championships… Placed 13th in the 3,000m run at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… Ran the final leg of the distance medley relay as the Retrievers earned a bronze medal at the conference meet… Recorded her top career time in the 3k event, 10:21.78, at the conference meet in Boston to move up to seventh all-time in UMBC history… Also competed in the 800m run and one-mile run during the season, recording her top mile of 5:11.09 at the Patriot Games at George Mason to jump to fifth in the school record book.
Background: Ran three years on the Varsity squad at Upper Darby, earning the team MVP award as a senior in 2011... Also ran indoor and outdoor track for the Royals, captaining the team during 2011 and 2012... Owns the school record in the 3200m with a time of 11:17 at the PIAA District 1 Championships... Named the team's indoor track MVP as a senior in 2012... Owns a total of six school records; three relays and three individual events.
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A: Yes, you can add dye to your pond—even at this time of year. Most types of pond dye, including Pond Logic® Nature's Blue™, Twilight Blue™ and Black DyeMond™ Pond Dye, have no temperature restrictions associated with them, so they can be used year round to shade the pond, color the water and beautify your property.
Have some old jugs of dye in the pond shed? Pull them out! Most dye doesn't go bad over time, so if you have some that's been stored in a dry, cool (but not freezing) place over the winter, go ahead and use it!
If you're using a product that contains beneficial bacteria, however, like Pond Logic® Nature's Blue™ or Twilight Blue™ Pond Dye PLUS, hold off until water temperatures top 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The product's bacteria helps break down muck, but they make it temperature-sensitive.
Regardless of the type you choose, the dye can be added to the water every four to six weeks or as needed depending on rain and evaporation. Apply it according to the package's instructions for the size of your lake or fish pond.
Those new to the task of adding dye to a lake might want to steer clear of the liquid variety as it can be a little messy. Dye packets, like Pond Logic® Nature's Blue™ and Black DyeMond™ Pond Dye Packets, are a great alternative. These pre-measured water-soluble packets can simply be tossed into the pond without the mess.
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