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The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Community Outreach Programs
For over a decade the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Community Outreach Programs have been vital in building sustainable relationships with the local communities bordering Kenya's National Parks and wildlife protected areas.
These successful programs strive to improve living conditions and educational standards, encouraging communities and the next generation to protect their wildlife and environment.
The following initiatives are essential components in the Trust's approach to long-term wildlife protection, each requiring sustainable financial support in order to continue achieving great results.
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Many schools in Kenya are lacking even the most basic of equipment. Teachers struggle to educate overcrowded classes, where children are forced to either sit on the floor or squeeze onto a battered desk.
Without a comfortable learning environment, children are unable to concentrate and absorb what they are being taught. Study desks are an overlooked yet much needed necessity which the Trust supplies to many schools bordering the Tsavo Conservation Area.
These sustainable desks are purpose-built using a metal frame and wooden top, reducing the consumption of dwindling natural resources whilst lasting a lifetime.
Sporting activities are a valuable tool for teaching, engaging and uniting children, yet many schools are unable to purchase even the most basic of sporting equipment.
The Trust has been supplying schools bordering the Tsavo Conservation Area with sports equipment for many years, including volleyballs and nets, javelins, shot-puts, discs, skipping ropes, badminton sets, footballs and much more, allowing the children to engage with their classmates and compete in tournaments with other schools.
A donation of US$ 800 would purchase a variety of sporting equipment for a school, giving around 150 students the opportunity to learn and enjoy different sports.
With seven fully-mobile Cinema Units the Trust is able to show communities a variety of educational wildlife films, teaching them about their environment and the importance of their priceless natural heritage. These films, which cover a variety of conservation issues and wildlife themes, play an essential part in sensitising local people to the wildlife that surrounds them.
Our Anti-Poaching Units run this highly successful program, equipped with an inverter, projector unit and screen, allowing them to show films in even the most remote locations. Each Unit aims to organise up to 4 wildlife shows a month, reaching more than 1,500 adults and children every month with a message of wildlife and conservation.
A donation of US $100 would fund a Wildlife Show, which begins with an introduction from one of our Unit's Team Leaders, lasts for a morning or an afternoon and ends with an interactive question and answer session.
A huge number of Kenyan children have never seen an elephant before, or even the most common of wildlife species due to the associated costs of visiting National Parks in Kenya. For this reason the Trust arranges free field trips into Tsavo East and West National Parks, encouraging children to form Wildlife Clubs and embrace their wildlife and environment.
With a dedicated 29-seat Field Bus, funded generously by the Dulverton Trust, one of our Anti-Poaching Team Leaders accompanies 25 children and 3 teachers on a full day's conservation trip, introducing them to, and teaching them about, their natural heritage and the importance of protecting it.
A donation of US $350 could fund a full day's field trip into Tsavo National Park including a packed lunch. For under US $15 per child, this trip is a hugely beneficial and enjoyable educational excursion.
For nearly 15 years the Trust has been providing indigenous tree saplings to the local schools and communities bordering the Tsavo Conservation area.
This rehabilitation program encourages children and adults to plant, nurture and protect their trees, giving them a sense of ownership and pride, whilst educating them about the importance of trees and forests, and the vital role they play within the environment.
All tree saplings are grown in the Trust's Nurseries in the Kibwezi Forest and Tsavo East, before being distributed by our Anti-Poaching Units.
A gift of just US $100 will allow children to plant 50 indigenous tree saplings at their school or in their community.
The Trust's 'Adopt A School' Program is an all-inclusive education initiative combining desk donations, sports equipment, wildlife shows, field trips and tree nursery programs, all dedicated to an individual school.
This initiative has been established in the knowledge that it is only through educating and empowering today's children that any long term future can be secured for Kenya's wildlife and the environment.
Anyone can adopt a school for US $4,800 and provide children with every element of our educational program, delivered by our trained Anti-Poaching Units in an engaging and sustainable way, achieving great results.
Your donation of US$ 4800 will provide a selected school with the following:
In return for your kind donation, you will be given feedback from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust about the school that you have adopted. This feedback will be in the form of photos and updates.
You also have the opportunity to visit your adopted school in Tsavo, Kenya, should you plan a trip to personally see where your contribution has gone, and meet the children whose lives your generous donation has helped to change.
Nairobi Nursery Education Visits
In addition to hosting local and international visitors at the Nairobi Nursery during the elephant orphans' 11am to 12noon daily mudbath hour, the Trust also hosts local school children, who travel from all corners of the country in huge numbers just to see the little elephants enjoying their noon milk feed, and weather permitting, a cooling mudbath.
This program has become so popular that the Trust has had to restrict numbers to 200 children per day. 2011 saw more than 56,000 Kenyan school children visit the Nursery orphans and meet the elephant Keepers, who educate the children about the orphans and the threats to Kenya's wild elephant populations.
The Trust's fun and informative radio programs provide an avenue to communicate to the rural masses a message of conservation and respect for wildlife in an effort to educate people about the importance of their environment.
Broadcast on a number of different stations in numerous tribal languages, the radio programs reach hundreds of thousands of listeners in some of the most remote locations in Kenya.
We have found that listeners are far more receptive to our message when they are being made in their tribal language and by a member of their own tribe. When reaching out to the Kikuyu tribe, the largest of the 52 tribes in Kenya, we used Kameme FM, giving us the ability to reach 800,000 people.
Each live broadcast lasts 15 minutes and allows listeners to call in at the end of the program to express their views and ask questions.
A donation of US $250 could fund 15 minutes of airtime on one of the local radio stations, reaching on average 500,000 people.
Kenya is ranked 143 out of 187 countries in the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) human development index and close to half of Kenya's population of nearly 45 million lives below the poverty line. Poor education, poor health and unemployment all combine to create a cycle of poverty. Education is the key to breaking this cycle. Since 1997 the DSWT has worked to improve the living and educational conditions of people living alongside Kenya's National Parks, and since 1999 has introduced specific Community Outreach Programs, implemented through its anti-poaching teams.
These programs involve talking with communities, showing wildlife films and helping people to understand the needs of wildlife and the value they bring to the environment, ecosystem and economy of Kenya. For the past five years the DSWT has sought to further this work through the active involvement of children in wildlife and habitat conservation, through field trips, video shows, and tree planting projects. In the knowledge that it is only through educating and empowering today's children that any long term future can be secured for Kenya's wildlife and the environment.
Children have a right to be informed about their country's diverse wildlife and how valuable it is to the land and to the country itself. In Kenya's School Curriculum, wildlife and environmental topics play only a very minimal role. For those communities bordering a National Park, it is vital that they be better educated as to the nature of wildlife and the value of natural resources, so that all parts can exist in harmony.
Assistance to the impoverished communities that border the boundaries of Protected Areas, and who are responsible for most of the snaring that takes place along these boundaries and within the Parks, is an essential component for the DSWT's approach to long-term wildlife protection. Most of these communities are extremely poor, and have always snared wild animals on a subsistence level, viewing them merely as an endless resource there for the taking. However, a rapidly growing human population has over the years taken a devastating toll on wildlife numbers, threatening some species very existence, and this cannot be sustained.
Tourism is Kenya's largest foreign income generator and a loss of wildlife will lead to a loss in tourists and so less money for the country and its people as it is the country's wildlife that attracts 70% of tourists to Kenya
The community initiative has proved extremely popular, and has had a huge impact on the schools we have been able to touch. Furthermore, by supporting the schools, one reaches the adults who understand that should they continue the practice of poaching wild animals, the support their children have enjoyed could be compromised.
We would like to thank all the organisations and individuals around the world who donate so generously, enabling us to continue with these important Community Outreach Programs.
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From all to nothing
It's getting dark. I had forgot how long it took for that to happen here in the North, just like I had forgot how swiftly time moves in your company. It's a weird feeling, as if time was passing both quickly and slowly, at the same time. On the other hand, maybe I can blame the wine. I'm not really used to drinking any more, and the first bottle is already emptied, with a second one started. I can't say I feel drunk, but after some bemused consideration I decide it's more likely I'm drunk than that time itself has hiccups.
My train of thought is derailed by you saying something.
"I asked if I can take one of your cigarettes."
"Oh, sure," I say with a nod to the pack lying beside me on the balcony floor. "Help yourself."
You stretch your leg out and reel the pack in with your toes. I notice you have the tip of your tongue in the corner of your mouth, and smile.
"Thanks." You put a cigarette between your lips and light it, tip your head backwards and blow the smoke out and up. "What were you thinking then, so far away?"
"Just wondering whether I was drunk."
"Of course you're drunk, otherwise there's something wrong with the wine. You might as well make the most of it, now that you're allowed to get drunk. When was the last time?"
"Too long. Years. Can you pass me the cigarettes?"
"Why? You couldn't be bothered to pass them to me."
So you're in a bantering mood? Well, that's quite welcome. I think I need to let go of the sombre facade, and bickering with you, especially when you're in that mood, is a rare pleasure. I get a sudden feeling of deja vu, and remember us sitting like this, drinking, smoking and joking, many years ago. A summer night on a balcony, the night we found out we were friends. And even if the friendship has remained strong all these years, it has become something more. To me, at least. I smile.
"Yeah, but that's because it's my cigarettes, and as you're getting them for free you could make a bit of an effort in return."
"Hey, I'm doing you a favour here. You said yourself you needed some exercise."
"Should I need exercise?" I ask. "When did I say something that stupid?"
"A little while ago, when we were talking about sex, you said that you ought to have sex more often since you needed the exercise."
Ah, right. I did say that. Not remarkable; we often talk about sex. But when I made that comment, I didn't think about having sex in general, but with you, specifically. And as always, you ignored that, just like I know you'll ignore this: "What, here on the balcony?" I take a sip of wine and make a sweeping gesture with the glass.
You snort and roll your eyes. "And who would you have sex with here, do you think?"
"Well," I say and look at your breasts, "I guess I'll have to find someone nearby who looks like a woman. I mean, surely the sex ought to be enough exercise? I shouldn't have to run around and find someone to exercise with."
My reply is automatic. Maybe, I think, you're getting tired of it. You know you attract me. I told you, years ago. And after the initial surprise you've always ignored it. I don't know any more if I want to take you to bed. You once said, I remember, that I didn't want to do, but to have done. Head of the nail.
You snort again. "I shouldn't think so," you say as you toss me the cigarettes.
"Aw, come on! You said you wanted to do me a favour and exercise me." I extract a cigarette and light it. I recall a promise you gave me, without thinking, years ago, a promise I sometimes I sometimes bring up and wave about. "Anyway, you promised I'd get to see you naked sometime, and that ought to be enough to speed up my heart quite a lot."
You give me a look over the rim of your glasses and raise your eyebrows, with your mouth in that sceptical pout of yours, and I do my best impression of a schoolboy caught doing mischief. I stand up to fetch the wine bottle. "But a man can dream, can't he?" I say in my whiniest voice as I fill your glass.
You don't answer, just look straight ahead, out over the lake. I drop the butt of my cigarette in the first, empty wine bottle, and sit down again, careful not to disturb your thoughts with talk.
When you finally speak, you sound more thoughtful than teasing. "But would you?" you ask.
"Would I what?"
You turn to look at me. "If you were allowed to do what you wanted with me, what would you do?"
"Um..." I have trouble reading you now, can't see how serious or silly I should be. Chaotic, confused thoughts prevent me from answering for a long time, but you wait patiently.
"From all to nothing, I reckon," I say. "I honestly don't know, but somewhere in that range."
You have a serious, thoughtful expression, so I light another cigarette and try to consider it calmly. "I mean, it's not just about what I'm allowed to do, is it?"
I give you a pleading look, willing you to read my thoughts, understand what I mean. "Like, if you came with a bowl of candy and said I could eat as much as I like, that's okay, 'cause I don't need to worry about what the candy thinks."
I gesture vaguely with my hands, trying to shape my thoughts. "But even if you gave me permission... if, for some reason, you let me do whatever I wanted, I wouldn't want to do more than you wanted me to do. You know what I mean? Even if I was allowed, it'd be rape if you didn't want me to."
You look at me and nod. I can relax again.
"But", you say with a smile, "it isn't just black and white. There might be things I definitely wouldn't want you to do, and things I would prefer you didn't, and things where I wouldn't care much whether you did or didn't..."
You let that sink in for a while before continuing, with an evil grin, "... and perhaps even things I would really like you to do."
This is safer territory, we're back to the banter. I really like serious conversations with you, but that was too ambiguos. I smile. "Yeah, well, sure. I can see what you mean. I just wonder if I should go and get enginge oil and an inflatable sheep, or if you wanted to do the things that didn't matter before moving on to what you want."
"Okay", you say and draw the word out to show how sceptical you are. "That's strike one you missed, there. Want to try again?"
I empty the wine glass and raise it in greeting. "Just guessing here, and keeping within the bounds of what's reasonably mainstream, I'd guess that a hard fuck up the ass would be at the bottom -" I pause and smile, "no pun intended - of the list, with you stripping off and showing me your body somewhere around the things that wouldn't matter either way, because you've said you wouldn't mind me seeing you naked if I hadn't made such a fuss over it, and..."
I shake my head, speaking slowly. "I... I have no idea what you might want me to do to you. More wine and a hug, perhaps?"
In reply, you empty your glass and stand up, arms stretched out towards me. Dutifully, I fill the glasses, put the bottle down and enter your embrace.
We hold each other in silence. I keep wondering whether there was anything behind your question, but don't know how to decide. Finally, you hug me hard and let go slightly, pull back a bit. I follow suit. I look you in the eyes, and for some reason I get the impression that the hug was some kind of test, but I don't know whether I passed or flunked.
We look deep in each other's eyes and it feels like I'm falling, as if I stand aside and watch. It is like a movie, and just like when you watch a movie and know what will happen, I know that you will tilt your head slightly to the side and I'll bend down. Without any of us taking the first step we will kiss. I know it will happen.
I look into your eyes, sink into them, mesmerized. Without being able to do anything I wait for the movie to roll on, to bring on what must happen. You know it too, know how the script goes, it shows in your eyes.
Now. Now your eyes close slightly. Now your head begins to tilt. Now I feel your body press against mine. Now. Now I'm afraid. I'm lost - I want to kiss you, and I'm terrified of what it would mean. I don't want to risk what we have. I don't want to risk losing you. But I'm held by the story. I have to follow the script.
Somewhere in the distance I sense how your body touches mine, how your hands meet on my back, how mine meet on yours. I feel your bra through your t-shirt, the hooks holding it together underneath my fingers. Now I smile inwards and pinch the hooks.
Your eyes open in surprise, and I see you were just as spellbound as I. You release me and take a small step back. After a moment of confusion you smile mischievously.
"Okay, so we're gonna keep working down on the list, you think?"
I don't understand. You pull the left shoulderstrap out from under the sleeve and over your arm. Oh. Now I remember what the next item was. You repeat the procedure with the right strap, and pull the bra out from underneath you t-shirt.
"Here, hold this for a moment," you say and hand me the black garment. Silently I accept it. Through the t-shirt I can see your breasts sagging slightly, without support. I stand there, trying to recover from my confusion, while you sit down, pull your socks of and hand them to me.
"There," you smile, "now I've taken half my clothes off. Do you want me to get rid of the last three garments?"
I sit down and put your clothes in my lap. Light a cigarette, take a mouthful of wine and swallow. Take a puff and hold out my hand with the cigarette beteen my first and second fingers. The smoke whirls with my shakes. You look at it an laugh.
"You're so cute when you're afraid."
"Mm." I take another puff. "Are you serious?"
"As much as you. Last chance. What do you say?"
To get some time to think I toss you the cigarettes. I consider it, a long time. Whatever I say -yes or no - I am quite sure I'll regret it. But in the end it's a simple choice.
"Thank you, please. I've waited for it a long time."
"Okay." You stand up and come to my chair, pick up your clothes and drop the pack of cigarettes in my lap. "You coming?" you say with an ambiguos smile.
You walk inside, to the lounge, and I pick up the wine bottle and hurry after. Wordlessly you point at the couch and I sit down. The coffee table stand as a reminder between us - look, but don't touch. You put your clothes down on it in front of me, take a few steps back and look at me with a questioning expression.
"Right, what do you think? Should I just get my kit off or try some kind of strip act?"
Before I can figure out a witty answer I hear music from the open balcony door. Somebody in a car outside is playin Barry Manilow on the stereo, loudly, and I get a vision of a strip act to the tones of 'Mandy'. You must have heard it too, and had the same idea, as you begin to laugh at the same time as I.
"Okay," you say with a smile, "scratch that."
Quickly, you pull off your soft, loose trousers and throw them on the table. I realize I'm afraid, but can't tell of what. Nervously, I take a mouthful of wine, straight from the bottle, and see to my surprise that you pull off your knickers next. Ah. Right. The t-shirt you're wearing is long, going down well past your hips. I can't see anything I haven't seen before, but look demonstratively, and appreciatively, at your legs.
Suddenly, the reason for my fear dawns on me. This is probably the only chance I'll ever have to look at you, without the feelings of shame that comes with peeping. And I'm drunk. What if I can't remember! I try to force you into my memory. The line of your thighs, your calves, how the t-shirt falls over your breasts and hips... I look up, into your face.
You smile. I realize a second reason for fear. Once again, I feel like I'm swept away by events, that I don't have any control, can't do anything but follow. It's your show. You are in charge, you command what's to be. It shows in your eyes you enjoy it. That's soothing, when I realize it - I trust you more than some unclear fate.
You put your knickers with the other garments. "Ready?"
I swallow, despite being try in the mouth. "If you are," I croak. I notice I'm growing, that I'm getting an erection in anticipation. I try to ignore it.
Slowly, you pull the t-shirt up. Now, I see your pubic hair. Your navel. Your breasts. Now you pull it over your head, toss it on the table and stand naked in front of me.
I stare, try to see everything at once. My eyes flicker between your groin, your breasts, your face.
You are beautiful.
You stand naked in front of me. Neither ashamed nor challenging. Proud. Assured. Hold my eyes with yours. Beautiful.
Slowly, you lift your arms, put your hands behind your neck. Your breasts follow upwards. I stare at the soft roundedness, the dark nipples, and ache of desire to caress, to taste. You stand up on tiptoe and begin turning around, slowly. You keep your eyes on me.
When I see you in profile, I notice your nipples have begun to harden but don't reflect on it. I'm not thinking any more, I'm entirely focused on seeing, memorizing. A throbbing in my trousers tries to remind me that's not all there is, but I only notice in passing, without paying it any attention. I look, stare.
You stop there, in profile, a smile playing on your lips as you look at me. You flex your feet, move up and down. You look like you are thinking about something.
You keep turning until you face away from me. You stay there and sink down on your heels again and stand still. I follow the line of your legs up to the buttocks, get caught with my eyes in the shadow below them before I look up over your buttocks and your back.
You take a deep breath, let the arms fall down and keep turning. You put your hands on your hips and look at me.
"Well?" You take a couple of steps forward, bend over the table and take the wine bottle from my unresisting hand. I had forgot I held it. Your breasts swing naked before me as you straighten up again, put the bottle to your lips and drink.
"Happy?" you say and pick up your underpants.
I blink and shake my head, to wake up from my trance.
"Um..." I think while you dress again. "I'd love to go over you with a microscope, study you for days... But you gave me more than I had ever expected." I look deeply into your eyes. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." You leave your bra and socks on the table and pick up the bottle again. "Can I have another cigarette, then?"
"Oh, sure." Still confused I follow you out on the balcony again.
You pick up the cigarettes, take one out and toss me the pack. "Was it anything to see, do you think?" you say after lighting it.
I've gathered my thoughts now. "Yes, I think so. The bits I hadn't seen before looked as I'd imagined them, I guess, but it's always better to know than to believe." I light a cigarette for myself. "You're beautiful."
"Piffle" you say and pour more wine.
I don't reply to that. I think about what I've seen. No, you don't match the ideals in magazines and on television. We both know that. But you are beautiful. Because of your pride, because of the inner beuty shining through. Because you are generous to an old friend and let him see what he's dreamt of.
Later, much later, I lie awake on the couch waiting for the room to stop spinning around. My thoughts are spinning too, around you, your body, and your soul. They spin around two very different things - what is, and what could have been.
If I listen closely, I can hear your slow breaths from the bedroom, and in the end that's what lulls me into sleep
Copyright Örjan Westin 2001, 2005

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Included among the goals of the campaign, unveiled last February, were plans for restrictions on outdoor smoking, a ban on trans fats, the promotion of mobility and exercise in neighborhoods, improved school nutrition and the creation of more urban gardens.
The Plain Dealer catches up with local stories published in 2011 in a year-end series of "Whatever happened to . . . ?" articles running through Jan. 3. The weekly edition of the feature, which appears on Mondays and updates stories from the previous year and beyond, will resume Jan. 9.
Today, we answer this question:
Whatever happened to the "Healthy Cleveland" campaign for a healthier and fitter city?
The campaign is continuing and has chalked up some successes over the past year -- as well as a couple of efforts that haven't turned out as planned.
Included among the goals of the campaign, unveiled last February, were plans for restrictions on outdoor smoking, a ban on trans fats, the promotion of mobility and exercise in neighborhoods, improved school nutrition and the creation of more urban gardens.
"Healthy Cleveland" was initiated under the leadership of Mayor Frank Jackson, at the suggestion of Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove. Jackson made Councilman Joe Cimperman his point man on the council.
In their first victory, they got the CEOs of the city's four major health institutions (the Clinic, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, MetroHealth and Sisters of Charity) to join in city efforts as well. Doctors and staff from the hospitals testified at committee meetings and contributed time and resources to citywide nutrition/exercise education.
In April, the City Council adopted the smoking ban, which means that starting in 2013, Clevelanders (already prohibited from smoking inside restaurants and bars) will also be restricted from doing so at parks, public recreation areas and in spots adjacent to city-owned buildings used by the public.
At that same meeting, the council approved a law prohibiting restaurants and food shops from selling foods that contain "industrially produced trans fats."
But Columbus got in the way. In June, GOP senators, at the behest of the restaurant lobby, wedged into the state budget a ban on the ability of local governments to regulate fast-food ingredients. "We passed the trans fat ban and the state pre-empted," says Cimperman. "The city is still working on a strategy," he added, but he wouldn't divulge details.
Cimperman cites other Healthy Cleveland victories: "The mayor got 'green streets' legislation passed, so we'll have more bike lanes after the next road-paving season."
Other successes: The city held a conference to deal with youth violence, which was an issue added to the Healthy Cleveland campaign in midyear; another conference will be held early next year to address the topic of health disparities among the poor; and Dave's Supermarkets announced in November its participation in the Cleveland Clinic's Go! Fit healthy-foods labeling program.
Cimperman said the city is also working with Eric Gordon, CEO of the Cleveland schools, to improve cafeteria offerings, and the city is looking at zoning changes that would allow larger urban farms within city limits.
Still to be addressed: the contents of vending machines in city buildings. The city had wanted to ban sugary beverages and unhealthy snacks from vending machines in city buildings, but the council faced a strong push-back from local beverage companies and their lobbyists.
"We're still looking at all options to improve the health of employees, and we're looking at what's in the machines," Cimperman said.
As for the results so far?
"There are six people who made this happen -- the mayor, [Council President] Marty Sweeney, and the CEOs of the four hospital systems," said Cimperman.


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2004 Jordan Institute
9, No. 2
Family-Centered Practice with Parents with Cognitive Limitations
In family-centered child welfare practice the family is the primary unit of attention. Respecting, strengthening, and supporting the familywhile guaranteeing child safetyare the hallmarks of this method.
Using this approach with any parent requires resourcefulness and conscious effort. To identify and build on a parents strengths, child welfare workers must first believe that the parent has strengths to build on. This can be difficult when, as so often happens, there are significant cultural and socioeconomic differences between the worker and the parent. When the parent in question has cognitive limitations, workers may find the family-centered approach doubly challenging.
This suggests that child welfare workers values and attitudes towards parents with learning difficulties are just as important as their knowledge and skills (Booth & Booth, 1993).
People with cognitive limitations can be good parents. Research has found that the ability of a parent to provide adequate child care is not predictable on the basis of intelligence alone (Booth & Booth, 1993; Field & Sanchez, 1999). When they succeed as parents, people with intellectual disabilities often do so on the strength of their emotional interactions with their children andespeciallyon the strength of their social supports.
This is not to say that every adult with developmental delays is or can be a good parent. Like everyone else, the ability of people with learning difficulties to parent successfully depends on a wide range of factors, including environmental stresses (unemployment, housing issues, other crises), the models of parenting to which they have been exposed, and the strength of their support network.
Studies have shown that people with intellectual limitations often exhibit similar parenting deficits, such as failure to adjust parenting styles to changes in their childs development, a lack of verbal interaction with the child (especially failure to praise), and insufficient cognitive stimulation. Critics of these studies point to their methodological flaws, most notably their failure to control for the effects of poverty (Booth & Booth, 1993).
Children can do well in these families. Many children raised by parents with cognitive limitations go on to lead healthy, normal lives, despite the fact that the environments in which they are raised are filled with difficulties (Booth & Booth, 1998a). Protective factors that make it possible for these children to succeed include personal traits (sociable, responsive to others, outgoing), family characteristics (warm, stable, and secure), and external factors such as supportive relationships outside the home and participation and involvement in the wider community (Booth & Booth, 1998b).
At the same time, research has found that children of parents with cognitive limitations are at risk for a number of negative outcomes, including developmental delay, poor school performance, and removal from their families. Though they may be due more to poverty than parental disabilities, these risks are recognized by our service delivery system. For example, having a parent with cognitive limitations is one of the risk factors that can make a young child eligible for early intervention services in North Carolina.
Parents with cognitive limitations who need improvement can often learn to be better parents. Even when people with cognitive limitations have clear deficits in their parenting skills, research suggests appropriate training can help them improve (Thompson, 1984; Feldman et al., 1989; Whitman et al., 1989). Specially designed training courses have been shown effective in teaching parents to nurture their children, to express their affection appropriately, and to learn essential parenting skills such as menu planning, grocery shopping, and techniques for managing problem child behaviors (Field & Sanchez, 1999).
Reflecting on this research, the bottom line is that people with cognitive limitations are like other peoplesome will be good parents, some will not. The only way to assess and support them is on an individual, person-by-person basis.
For example, a child welfare worker could react with dismay at the sight of a mother and her children eating off a newspaper table on the floor. Alternatively, he could see it as a demonstration of the mothers ability to establish a mealtime routine and to solve the problem of having no furniture. If he can see and build on small successes in a difficult situation, the social worker has the opportunity to build the parents self-esteem, dignity, and competence (Espe-Sherwindt & Kerlin, 1990).
In seeking to support parents with cognitive limitations, child welfare workers should actively seek out and/or try to develop benefactors for them. A benefactor is someone without learning difficulties who helps with the practical difficulties of coping with everyday problems (Edgerton, 1967). The one feature that has consistently been shown to distinguish families where the children remained at home from families where the children were removed is the presence of another adult able to give extended daily support (Booth & Booth, 1993).
The presence of a benefactor can be essential to the success of one of the most important family-centered strategies practiced in North Carolinachild and family team meetings.
and Family Team Meetings
Joan Pennell, of NC State Universitys Family-Centered Meetings Project, has these suggestions for involving parents with cognitive limitations in child and family team meetings:
Janice Doyle, a family assessment worker from Alamance County DSS, has held child and family team meetings with parents with cognitive limitations. She urges caution when inviting people to meetings. Because parents with developmental disabilities typically have so many issues and can be involved with so many systems, she says, child welfare workers may be tempted to invite lots of people. Sometimes, she says, that can be a mistake.
Like other people, these parents can feel threatened when surrounded by professionals and strangers in child and family team meetings. Doyle says that one mother she worked with felt so overwhelmed that she shut down. She stared at the ceiling without responding, Doyle says. People didnt know what to think. But when I talk to her one-on-one and let her be the expert I find shes a totally different person.
We hope the points below, taken from the articles in this issue, will prove useful to you in your efforts to provide family-centered services to parents with cognitive limitations.
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Khatami, 62, served eight years as president before leaving office in 2005, and he remains close to Iran's powerful Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameini. Khatami, whose trip is designed to foster a "dialogue between civilizations," spoke to TIME for more than an hour this week in a heavily guarded Washington hotel suite. As the most prominent of his nation's reformers, he repeatedly distanced himself from many of the hardline views of Iran's current leadership, but strongly criticized the U.S. for what he suggested is "arrogance" in Iraq. He also cited human-rights violations at both Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, and warned of the "costs" of a U.S. or Israeli military strike on his country. But he endorsed a "two-state solution" to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and called the Holocaust a "historical fact." Excerpts:
TIME: This is your first visit to Washington. What do you think of the country that has been called the Great Satan?
Khatami: I never say "Great Satan." But I get really upset when Iran is called part of the "Axis of Evil." Even [Ayatollah] Khomeini [who coined the phrase] was referring only to U.S. policies not to the American people or America itself, which is a great and big country.
TIME: Do you accept a two-state solution between Palestine and Israel? And does the government of Iran accept that?
Khatami: My opposition to Israel is moral. The peaceful solution to the problem of Palestine is to recognize Palestinian rights. This is the only way there could be sustained peace in the region.
TIME: And a Palestinian state to exist alongside Israel? Khatami: Yes.
TIME: Your successor [as president of Iran] has said that the Holocaust did not happen. How do you explain that?
Khatami: I personally believe that he really didn't deny the existence of Holocaust. I believe the Holocaust is the crime of Nazism. But it is possible that the Holocaust, which is an absolute fact, a historical fact, would be misused. The Holocaust should not be, in any way, an excuse for the suppression of Palestinian rights.
TIME: Bruce Laingen was the top American diplomat held hostage in Iran in 1979-80. And he has publicly raised a question in connection with your visit: What does the government of Iran owe the American hostages? And he's not talking about money. Morally?
Khatami: I regret the hostage crisis, hostage-taking. And I sympathize with the hostages and their families for their loss and their hurt. But this was [also] a revolutionary reaction to half a century of the U.S. taking Iran hostage. Maybe the other side [the U.S.] would be more indebted [to Iran].
TIME: Is there a civil war in Iraq?
Khatami: We are really concerned about this, but [there is no civil war], not yet.
TIME: Should Iraq be divided into Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish zones?
Khatami: Definitely a bad idea. Iraq should remain unified. The solution is a democratic state. Numerically, the country is majority Shi'ite, but the government is not yet sectarian. The president is a Kurd. The head of the government is a Shi'ite. The Sunnis have great, effective participation. So the breakup of Iraq is very dangerous. A democratic state can prevent from this from taking place.
TIME: President Bush's father did not occupy Iraq. What about the occupation of Iraq now?
Khatami: I don't know what President Bush, the father, would have done. But I know that eliminating Saddam [Hussein] has been to our benefit, to the benefit of Iran. I also predicted that getting into Iraq would be very easy [for America], but getting out of it would be extremely difficult. And today, Saddam is gone but Iraq has become the center stage of extremism and radicalism.
TIME: If you had any advice for the current President Bush, what would it be?
Khatami: The President should dispense peace and justice and reconciliation across the world. I believe that not only have U.S. policies not stopped terrorism, they have actually exacerbated and increased the problem.
TIME: Why?
Khatami: We could have resolved the Iraq issue without invasion and occupation without the cost in terms of human life, American lives, Iraqi lives and money. This could have been resolved. If the U.S. had not had such a sense of conceit and pride, or maybe even arrogance.
TIME: And the withdrawal of U.S. troops?
Khatami: The occupation should end as soon as possible [but] I believe we cannot just leave this newly born democratic government to the hands of terrorists, insurgents and people who are seeking violence. The best way is to strengthen and to support the government, its security services, its police forces, and the best way to do that is also to get help from neighboring countries. The U.S. should know that it could get the help of Arab and Islamic countries to secure its interests,rather than without them.
TIME: The U.S. has accused Iran of trying to build a nuclear weapon, and Iran has denied this. Is there a way out?
Khatami: Concern about proliferation is definitely justified. But in this region there are three states that possess nuclear weapons, with hundreds of warheads. The biggest [arsenal] is Israel. And then Pakistan and India. If there are serious concerns about nuclear weapons, we should start by eliminating those that already exist. And the U.S. does not display any sensitivity whatsoever to these issues, to these nuclear weapons. None of the three have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but Iran has. Iran has the right to have access to nuclear energy. And we are ready to give every guarantee that we would use this for peaceful purposes. Our leader has issued a decree prohibiting the production and the stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.
TIME: Do you believe that a military attack on Iran, either by Israel or the U.S., is a possibility that Iran should take seriously and guard against?
Khatami: Any aggression against Iran would have costs, serious costs for the U.S., more than for Iran. Public opinion in the world, and a great majority of the American public, would not support a military engagement.
TIME: Anything else?
Khatami: In Iran, whenever the issue is Iran's territorial integrity, no political faction, no political group would have any doubt as to defending Iran's actions. This unity and national consensus would be really costly for the invader and aggressor.
TIME: President Bush has promised that the U.S. will try to impose sanctions on Iran through the Security Council in the near future, if this matter is not resolved. What would be the result?
Khatami: Experience has shown that threats, pressure and coercion has never created a solution, has never made sanctions effective. Sanctions, and even more than that, possible military action and the use of force, would create more crisis in Iran, for the region, and for the world.
TIME: Do you believe Hizballah won the war in Lebanon?
Khatami: I would say Israel lost the war. Israel has fought Arabs many times. It could even defeat, in six days, three or four Arab armies. But, you know, confronting Hizballah, it couldn't achieve any of those objectives. Unfortunately, U.S. rushed into defending Israel, wholeheartedly.
TIME: How do you explain charges from the U.S. and other critics that there were human rights violations, terrorism and a buildup of Iran's nuclear program when you were president?
Khatami: I don't claim that there have never been human rights violations in Iran, but I [also] believe human rights are being violated everywhere, with different names. I believe the violation of rights of prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib is not compatible everybody should condemn the violation of human rights, everywhere. Double standards will not help.
TIME: When you were president of Iran, you used to complain, publicly, that you couldn't implement some of your reforms domestically and you couldn't take certain actions in foreign policy. Who stopped you? Was it hardliners who are now in control of Iran?
Khatami: I think democracy is a process. And this is especially [true] when there is external pressure, and dangers, the threat to the internal integrity of the nation. Definitely, there are people who have been theoretically against me, but when a major power explicitly says that it intends to overthrow a government...
TIME: Are you talking about the U.S.?
Khatami: Let me not [use] names. Those who officially put in their budgets money to overthrow the Iranian government it's natural that the constraints on freedom and openness will increase as a result of a security environment [like that].


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"At the Holiday Inn Resort we are always looking to enhance our guests' vacation experience." Says Phililp Colvin, VP of Marketing at the Holiday Inn Resort.
Panama City Beach, Florida (PRWEB) January 16, 2013
The Holiday Inn Resort Panama City Beach is excited to announce that they will be enhancing the pool deck in 2013! Construction has already begun on both the small kid-friendly pool and the main pool, and is expected to be completed before March 1st.
The small pool will now be heated and enhanced with an underwater music system, providing crystal clear audio. Additionally, there will be jets of water creating arches that will be lighted, creating a beautiful ambiance after dark. This pool will be 54 inches deep at its deepest and offer benches allowing guests to sit and relax in the water.
The main pool is being reconfigured to have two shallow ends of approximately 3 feet deep and a safe depth of 4'9" in the middle with poolside benches at both ends. This layout will make the main pool more kid-friendly and more enjoyable for all of the resort's guests.
"At the Holiday Inn Resort we are always looking to enhance our guests' vacation experience. We strive for excellence in every aspect of our resort so that families who visit us have the most fun and most memorable vacation ever, that is why we're always working hard and enhancing our resort to better suit our guests needs." Says Phililp Colvin, VP of Marketing at the Holiday Inn Resort.
Both pools will have a salt water system that is gentle on the skin and more environmentally friendly. The resort team is excited about the changes to the pool deck and looks forward to seeing all the families enjoy the new features the pools will offer in 2013!


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Monday, June 15, 2015
Since returning to my home I have been unable to just pick up where I left off... so much has changed. Reuniting with my two dogs was very special but, as experienced before, grief made most things meaningless. It takes conscious effort to become enthusiastic even about that which used to thrill and sustain me - photography. This is quite frightening.
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I finally managed to get away for a serious photography trip a month ago to a significant place made even more so by an event which followed.
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Jeremiah P. Marsicek
Google Scholar
Journal Articles in Preparation:
Marsicek, J.
, Shuman, B., and Marcott, S. Abrupt summer temperature changes across mid-latitude eastern North America at ca. 5 ka.
In revision following review.
Submitted Journal Articles:
Maezumi, S.Y., Brewer, S.,
Marsicek, J.
, Mayle, F., Power, M., Whitney, B., and Behling, H. Detecting Abrupt Change and Ecosystem Resilience from Neotropical Pollen Data.
Journal of Ecology
Accepted Journal Articles:
Marsicek, J.
, Shuman, B., Bartlein, P., Shafer, S., and Brewer, S.
Reconciling divergent trends and millennial variations in Holocene temperatures.
Marlon, J.R., Pederson, N., Nolan, C., Goring, S., Shuman, B., Booth, R., Bartlein, P.J., Berke, M.A., Clifford, M., Cook, E., Dieffenbacher-Krall, Hessl, A., Hubeny, J.B., Jackson, S.T.,
Marsicek, J.
, McLachlan, J., Mock, C.J., Moore, D.J.P., Nichols, J., Robertson, A., Schaefer, K., Trouet, V., Umbanhowar, C., Williams, J.W., and Yu, Z. 2017.
Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years.
Climate of the Past
, DOI: 10.5194/cp-13-1355-2017.
Shuman, B., and
Marsicek, J.
(2016). The Structure of Holocene Climate Change in Mid-Latitude North America.
Quaternary Science Reviews
38-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.009.
Mandl, M., Shuman, B.,
Marsicek, J.
, and Grigg, L.D. 2016. Estimating the regional climate signal in a late-Pleistocene and early-Holocene lake-sediment δ18O record from Vermont, USA.
Quaternary Research
86 (1), 67-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2016.02.009.
Kim. S., Shuman, B.,
Marsicek, J.
, Minckley, T. (2016). Biogeochemical change during climate-driven afforestation: a paleoecological perspective from the Rocky Mountains.
19 (4), 615-624. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9955-9.
Wang, Y., Gill, J.,
Marsicek, J.
, Dierking, A., Shuman, B., and Williams, J.W. (2015). Pronounced variations in
Fagus grandifolia
abundances in the Great Lakes region during the Holocene.
The Holocene
Voelker, S.L., Stambaugh, M.C., Guyette, R.P., Feng, X., Grimley, D.A., Leavitt, S.W., Panyushkina, I., Grimm, E.C.,
Marsicek, J.P.
, Shuman, B., and Curry, B.C. (2015). Deglacial hydroclimate of midcontinental North America.
Quaternary Research
83 (2), 336-344. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2015.01.001.
Newby, P., Shuman, B., Donnelly, J., Karnauskas, K., and
Marsicek, J.
(2014). Centennial-to-Millennial Hydrologic Trends and Variability along the North Atlantic Coast, U.S.A., during the Holocene.
Geophysical Research Letters
Marsicek, J.
, Shuman, B., Brewer, S., Foster, D.R., and Oswald, W.W. (2013). Moisture and temperature changes associated with the mid-Holocene
decline in the northeastern United Sates.
Quaternary Science Reviews
80, 129-142. DOI: 10.1016/j.quasscirev.2013.09.001.
Marsicek, J.
(2017). Modern Analogs in Paleoclimatology.
Invited Talk
, Pollen-Climate Methods Inter-Comparison Project Workshop, June 14, Caux, Switzerland.
Marsicek, J.,
Shuman, B., Brewer, S., Foster, D., and Oswald, W.W. (2017). Forest response to climate change in the Northeastern U.S.
Invited Talk,
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Annual Geiger Memorial Lecture, April 24, Oshkosh, WI.
Marsicek, J.
, Shuman, B., and Brewer, S. (2016). The spatial and temporal evolution of Holocene temperatures in North America and Europe. American Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting, June 28-July 2, Santa Fe, NM. [
Winner of First Place for Graduate Student Poster Awards
Marsicek, J.
(2014). Multi-century variability of Holocene climates in North America and Europe.
Invited Talk,
University of Maine Climate Change Institute Distinguished Lecture Series, Nov. 13, Orono, ME.
Marsicek, J.
, Brewer, S., and Shuman, B. (2014). The spatial and temporal evolution of Holocene climates in North America and Europe.
Invited Talk,
NSF Funded Holocene Climate Change Working Group Meeting, October 13-16, Mt. Hood, OR.
Marsicek, J.
, Brewer, S., Foster, D.R., Oswald, W.W., and Shuman, B. (2013). The structure of temperature changes across mid-latitude North America over the Holocene.
American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting
, December 11, San Francisco, CA.
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Mr. Sanders invited me to come down and join three of his agriculture classes as they kicked off the FutureSmart program. Students in these classes work in their school garden tending and growing vegetables which are then sold at a local farmer's market. The students also have the opportunity to work at the market to earn money selling their vegetables. FutureSmart was a great way to introduce students to real life financial literacy topics and to give them a few ideas for handling the money they've earned from selling vegetables.
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Teacher: Anthony Sanders
School: Valley View Jr. High School, Valley View Public Schools
City: Jonesboro, AR
Course: FutureSmart


text: Abhyasa Ashram is a meditation center which practices universal meditation as taught by the ancient lineage of yogis of the cave monasteries of the Himalayas, especially as transmitted through Swami Rama. The tradition has no name, and is not affiliated with any of the institutions or religions of the plains of India or other countries surrounding the Himalayas, although individual meditators may personally align themselves with a wide variety of religions or institutions. We may refer to the tradition as "the tradition of the Himalayan masters" or "the Himalayan tradition", but that is for the sake of convenience, and is not a style or brand name as is popular these days. Our methods of meditation and contemplation involve systematic awareness of all levels of our being, including actions/senses, body, breath, mind, finally resting in the awareness of the Self (atman) which is one with the universal Self (brahman). See our websites at swamij.com and abhyasaashram.org


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I really liked how it looked on my skin. It definitely allowed my own skin to show through, while hiding redness. I hate when foundations cover my skin completely, making me look perfect, but as if I am wearing a mask. So I was really pleased that this offered coverage with room to breathe.
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Seemebadhnekai is also called as chayote and cho cho. Today I present yet another dish from the malnad and south canara region.
Sasve means mustard. Since the flavor of these seeds are dominant in the dish it probably borrows the name.
1 medium sized chayote, chopped
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp oil
1/4 cup curds
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves.
Salt to taste
For sasve paste
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 green chilli
4 tbsp grated coconut
How to go about…
Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard crackles, add the chopped chayote. Cook the chayote with the lid closed. Chayote cooks really fast especially if its tender.
Grind coconut, green chilli and mustard with little water to make a smooth paste.
Add the paste to the cooked chayote.
Next, add the curds. Mix it well.
Garnish it with coriander leaves. Enjoy your sasve with rice or as a salad.


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How are your holiday preparations coming along? I've been busy with little bits of this and that. In the end, though, it seems to add up to a lot and I often wonder where does the time go? Have you been busy sewing gifts? I have to start soon! All of the ideas have been swirling around my head but I haven't actually done a lot of sewing. I mean, I have done some sewing but not enough for my liking. I did sew that little wallet up there with some scraps that I had around. I'd never drawn up a pattern or sewn anything with a frame before so that was an experience.
Mostly, I've been busy with some background stuff and with the kids' school activities. It is that time of year that everything seems crammed into a week or two, doesn't it? This was taken at the Holiday Table with my little one, his best buddy, Aidan and his mom, Joanne. It's a fun holiday thing that we do at school. The parents get to come in and have lunch with their kiddos and friends. My big guy had 5 boys at his table and it was madness.
Last week, Little A's teacher had a craft day so Joanne, my hubby and I volunteered to help. My station was the beaded ornament station. Well, I had as much fun and even made a couple of snowflake ornaments while I was supposed to be teaching the kids how to make them.
Then there was the grand gingerbread making adventure of 2009. Ok, Joanne and I are quilters, not professional gingerbread house makers. It all started off well buy after a while we needed to support the roof because it was sliding off. In the end it was all fine. The kids, of course, wanted to eat all of the gumdrops and icing.
Joanne's boys made these adorable ornaments. Hint: Last minute gift for the grandparents! Easy to make and cute!
Onto other quilt business news. These lovely scans came across my desk recently. The ladies from Henry Glass sent me scans of Michelle Blackhurst's new line, Fleur d'Paris. So pretty! Look forward to the release in the spring.


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Holcomb family had a prominent part in building the town of Panton, Vermont. Panton a rural town in Addison County, is adjacent to Lake Champlain and Vergennes (Vermont's smallest city). Among the original proprietors of the town, in 1702, were David Holcomb, Timothy Holcomb, and Timothy Holcomb, Jr. I have not yet been able to show how I relate to these individuals, although I am almost certain I do not descend from them directly. I am, however, certain that there is a collateral relationship.
Other early Panton settlers include my 6th great-grandfather, Phineas Holcomb (1726-1781) and my 5th great-grandfather (Phineas' son), Joseph Holcomb (abt. 1762-1833). Phineas, Joseph, and three of Phineas' other sons (Joshua, Elisha and Samuel) were kidnapped by Indians in 1778. They were taken to Quebec via a "vessel that was anchored Lake Champlain." (The Hocum Family by Mabel Hocum Adams p. 65-66). Joshua, Samuel, and Phineas died in 1781 from hardships they suffered during their capture. Joseph and Elisha were released from capture in 1882.
soldier in the Civil War. His daughter, my 2nd great-grandmother, Rose Holcomb (image on right), birthed my great-grandfather, George Dewey (Holcomb) Baker, while still residing in Panton. She later married Carl Baker and moved to Lamoille County, Vermont where she lived out her years.
I would love to know if there are Holcomb descendants still residing in Panton. If so, I would love the opportunity to connect with them.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Those Places Thursday: Panton, Vermont
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I was first introduced with the reuse of wine corks by my daughter when she made a bulletin board similar to this one...
She worked at an Italian restaurant so she saved me a bag of corks too....
Now to decide which project to use them on!!
This one definitely...Love the colors!!
Bottle Brush trees would look cute too.
Like this one too ;)
WoW!!! LOL
Have a great weekend!!
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May the JOY of JESUS be with you today as we celebrate His birth...He came to this earth for YOU and for ME. HE is the most precious GIFT anyone could receive. He is a gift for EVERYONE.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
I hope your time with your families is delightful!


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May 1936. "Kitchen of Ozarks cabin purchased for Lake of the Ozarks project. Missouri." Photo by Carl Mydans, Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Bagnell Dam, which created the Lake of the Ozarks, was finished in 1931, and the lake filled up in less than 2 years (per Wikipedia). So apparently this cabin wasn't bought because it would be in the flooded area - maybe it was housing for one of the construction crew, and he just kept living there later?
(The dam for the big lake to the west, Truman Lake, didn't start construction until 1964.)
When I saw the ad for "Christmas Club" in the newspaper I immediately tripped down memory lane. When I was a little girl I remember going to the Bridgeville National Bank to start a new Christmas club. First you would pick the amount to save and then made payments to this free account so you would have money to buy Christmas gifts for friends and family. This club was open to adults and minors and many a Christmas was funded by this club. Hope I made sense - more like a savings account that you could only receive during the month of December.
I wouldn't want to consider the level of fire hazard in this kitchen.
The newspaper curtain has a nice touch. Somebody really cares. But God help the occupants of this residence if the stove backfires.
My mother has told me many stories of her childhood.
She remembers well her mother using a flour/water mix to paste newsprint on the walls. It sealed the cracks and was a very good insulator. But that didn't stop the wind from blowing up through the floor or her seeing critters between the floor board cracks.
She also tells with great detail how their house burned to the ground when she was four.
One final thought, she told me her mother would set the bed posts in small cans of kerosene to keep the bed bugs from crawling into bed with you at night.
Life was much different back in the 30's and 40's.
I would be surprised if that shack lasted more than a week or two without burning down. We have dried out single ply newspaper hanging on the walls inches from a wood fired stove and hot pipe, and as if that was not enough there is what appears to be a kerosene can just to the left of the little girl's feet. I just hope nobody was inside when it went up.
On the wall to the left of the stove and just above the washboard, the newspaper/wallpaper has Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's almost-daily column called "My Day". I believe she was much more in front of the American public on a regular basis than our most recent First Ladies - and not just in the papers. Lot of people didn't like that, but many others did. Mrs. FDR wrote that column from 1935 to 1962 six days a week. She was a force to be reckoned with.
It would appear that Mr. Fox has earned himself the unwelcome attention of the farmer. Looks like a nice, well used fox trap hanging there.
The valence above the window is amazing! And think that today someone out in the Hamptons is paying an interior decorator big bucks for a reproduction print wallpaper similar to this for a powder-room!
Is that some early motorized bike helmet hanging on the wall?
I have to wonder too if the girl would be reading the newspapers and wonder what a "Christmas Club" was.
The little girl must have a brother. As poor as they seem to be the little feller managed to snag a new one. I always get a kick seeing kids wear those in the movies and in photos. There's nothing like an ornery looking kid in goggles, I laugh out loud every time.
Despite the crushing poverty this family had to endure, the little girl's dress may be dirty but her face is clean, and her smile is both endearing and hopeful. I am amazed how someone (probably her mom) cut the newpaper over the window into the shape and resemblance of what I believe is called a "valance" over the window. How brave, resilient, and resourceful these people were. Amazing Americans!


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The majority of wellness professionals involved in the administration of health risk assessments (HRA's) follow up on the HRA results, according to the results of a workplace wellness management survey conducted by Wellness Program Management Advisor and Wellness Junction.
Almost 71 percent of survey respondents said they follow up on the HRAs while almost 16 percent do not perform follow-up services, according to the findings.
However, almost 57 percent of the wellness professionals respondenting to the survey intervene immediately and refer employees with serious health problems to physicians, emergency facilities and other care providers, the survey discovered.
Referral Process
Methods of referral to health professionals include onsite and offsite procedures, wellness managers said.
"At the time cholesterol and blood pressure are measured, a doctor's referral is given to the employee, if needed," said a provider of wellness services. "We follow up after two weeks to see if these employees actually did see their doctors."
Others make direct contact with the physician to whom an employee is referred.
"If we refer an employee to a primary care physician (PCP), we mail the PCP a postcard and ask them to send it back if the employee has been seen," explained a program coordinator. "We do the same thing with our outpatient wellness programs."
High Risk Situations
Situations involving employees found to be in a high risk status usually prompt immediate action, according to the study.
"Employees determined to be at high risk for cardiovascular events or cancer are referred to their PCPs with a copy of our findings," said a wellness program director. "Depending on how acute the risks are, we may even call the PCP in the patient's presence and refer from that moment."
"With the HIPAA guidelines, we have the participant read and sign an informed consent form that gives us permission to send copies [of the HRA findings] to their PCP and discuss their personal data with designated medical personnel," a program manager explained.
"If the participant needs referral to outpatient wellness programming, the person is furnished with the name and phone number of the appropriate contact," the manager continued. "But whatever the process, we are extremely mindful of confidentiality and privacy. There are times when we might even be overly cautious, but this is a very important and emerging area of concern."
Wellness professionals primarily rely on the following resources for HRA referrals, the study revealed:
* Onsite nurse care managers.
* Health management summaries that explain aggregate results from HRA responses.
* Onsite medical departments that consist of physicians, nurses and wellness professionals.
* Contact lists of health insurance plan member physicians.
* Telephone counseling.
* In-person health education/behavioral change counseling.
Monitoring Success
Along with intervention comes the monitoring of success rates, and survey respondents track the HRA success rates in a variety of ways.
The use of employee participation and feedback was cited by most respondents, along with:
* Clinical test results.
* Lifestyle questionnaires.
* Onsite education.
* Administration of HRAs on a yearly basis to compare and monitor improvements in employee health status.
* Annual health management summaries that detail aggregate results from HRA responses (the results also are used to evaluate various company wellness programs).
* HRA updates performed at six-month and 12-month intervals.
* Comparison of HRA results to employee use of sick time, workman's compensation claims, general health claims data and company HMO utilization.
* Baseline health screenings.
* Tracking the percent of employees identified as "at risk" for a serious health condition, along with the percentage who accept and follow through with subsequent referrals for further medical evaluation or care.
* Quarterly reports that measure increases in participation.
* Executive summary reports compiled before and after HRA administration.
* Estimation of cost savings from employees who have lowered their health risks by improving personal health, such as weight reduction, lowering blood pressure, and cholesterol and reduction of tobacco use.
* Sharing of experiences and personal success stories in wellness department newsletters.
"We can't discriminate based on outcomes, so we monitor compliance," noted a wellness program coordinator.
"For instance, if you are told to lose weight, we require that you attend eight sessions of Weight Watchers, for which the company pays," the coordinator said. "But we don't require that you actually lose the weight. Compliance is all we can legitimately require."
Source: Workplace Wellness Management Leadership Survey conducted online at http://www.WellnessJunction.com


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Joseph Eugene Hickman
January 23, 2007
Mr. Joseph Eugene Hickman, age 68 of College Grove, Tennessee, died Tuesday, January 23, 2007 in Williamson Medical Center.
Mr. Hickman was a native of Williamson County, Tennessee and son of the late Thomas and Annie Obera Crafton Hickman. He was a farmer and member of the Church of Christ.
Preceded in death by a son, David Hickman, he is survived by his wife, Auline Hickman of College Grove, daughter, Susan Lillard of the Bethesda Community, two brothers, Doug Hickman of the Bethesda Community and Harry Hickman of the Harpeth Community, sister, Linda Gray of Franklin and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted by Jim Taylor Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. from the chapel of London Funeral Home with burial in Bethlehem Cemetery at Berlin.
The family was at London Funeral Home Wednesday after 5:00 p.m. and until the funeral hour on Thursday for visitation.
London Funeral Home was is in charge of arrangements.
Marshall County Tribune, Friday, January 26, 2006


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