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Successful Social Media Marketing (SMM) is important. It will continue to be more and more critical for business to successfully reach and engage customers. It's not a strategy though, it's a tactic. Continue Reading…
Why Social Media Marketing Is Not Enough
October 25, 2011 in Blog, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Technology with 1 Comment
Why 'Facebook For The Enterprise' Vendors Are Wrong
November 13, 2010 in Social Business, Social Business Software, Social Media Platforms, Social Technology with 1 Comment
Comprehending the difference between "social media" and what is becoming known as "social business" or "Enterprise 2.0" can be challenging. Even successful consulting firms and marketing agencies are confused. I'm excited to see this article in Forbes magazine from our friend Christopher Lochhead, chief strategy advisor and board member at Jive Software. It will help provide some clarity. [ Disclaimer: My company, C7 Group is a management consulting firm helping business with social business strategy and integration.] This article was also re-posted at C7Group.
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Social Media Business Tip: Know Keyboard Shortcuts
March 2, 2010 in Social Media Platforms, Social Software, Social Technology with 4 Comments
Something I learned about being proficient on a computer, as simple as it sounds, is not being "mouse-dependent."
Here's a secret (sort of). The software you use to manage social properties is your browser. Irregardless of hardware platform, social media, blogging and online research are easier and faster if you:
- Use your keyboard in addition to your mouse
- Know and use the right-mouse button
- Understand and take advantage of your browser
- Group your online activities by bookmark folder and browser window
I'll discuss #s 2 – 4 in a future post. Let's make you a bit faster with keyboard shortcuts for now Continue Reading…
Social Strategy: Know your target audience
February 24, 2010 in Internet Marketing, Social Business Design, Social Media Marketing, Social Technology with 0 Comments
Thanks to Forrester Research for developing this tool to determine the mix of your perspective audience in social media. It's based on Forrester's Social Technographics® consumer classification model.
Social Media Path subscribes to this model as a tool for understanding your target audience. Our business is based on building social strategy by first examining customer behavior. The result is clear expectations and better customer relationships.
Features of this profile:
- For an explanation of these groups (Creators, Critics, etc.), see a presentation (8 slides) or read Chapter 3 of Groundswell
- Bars indicate the percentage of the selected demographic that are in each Social Technographics group.
- The white marks indicate the same percentages for the whole population of the country selected.
- The index indicates how the demographic compares to the population — a score of 100 means the demographic is the same as the population average.
- The message "No data available" appears when you request a profile for which Forrester survey samples are not large enough to provide a reliable answer. This occurs for age groups in Japan, Metro China, and South Korea. To see profiles in these countries, set the Age to "Not specified".
Lifestreaming, Dashboards and Efficiency
October 22, 2009 in Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Technology, Social Tools with 8 Comments
Providing the business education in social media requires consistent research. We could use your help.
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Feed video and posts from other sites to Facebook
September 18, 2009 in Facebook, Social Technology, Social Tools, youtube with 1 Comment
A number of our workshop students have requested a quick demo of how to get videos, blog posts, yelp reviews, and photos at Flikr to post to your Facebook profile and newsfeed.
This can be done effortlessly from these sites (and many more including Pandora, Last.fm and your Google Reader) with a few quick settings on your facebook profile (demonstrated in the video).
Note: there are more advanced tools that accomplish this and send your posts to more places than just Facebook. This gets it done to give your Facebook friends access to your activity elsewhere in an easy way.
Twitter – looking past spam and celebrity tweets
July 2, 2009 in Internet Marketing, Social Technology, Twitter, Uncategorized with 0 Comments
I'm often asked questions like, "What is Twitter?" and, "How is Twitter useful?" It can be easier to demonstrate than it is to talk about and explain – at least it is for me. The real technological capability above and beyond the "What are you doing?" phenomenon is just beginning to be tapped. And, the opportunity for invention and creative application reaches beyond the mainstream noise. Dig a little deeper and you'll find interesting examples of how twitter is much more than just another way for the MLM crowd to spam you!
Often I reference a story about a college student that "twitterized" his laundry machines to announce availability. This could have saved me a lot of trips to the basement of my dorm freshman year. The twitter feed is http://twitter.com/laundryroom.
Here's Justin Wicket's video on how he's set up his lights to go on and off by sending a tweet via text:
Control Lights with Twitter from Justin Wickett on Vimeo.
And this from Gizmodo: "Ryan Rose added an ethernet port and a limit switch to his washer to detect on/off cycles and transmit the data in a more forceful way than some lame "ding" sound. When Ryan's drawers are done, his washer sends the signal to a couple of LED signs in his living room that flash "WASH," as well as sending Tweets to his questionably-named Twitter account, Pimpy3Wash."
Another great example is the Botanicalls House Plant Twitter Kit. It's still very Do-it-yourself with regard to assembly, but you can use twitter to monitor your plant and whether or not it's getting the water it needs. It's discussed on thinkgeek.com as well.
Have some other examples of unique uses of twitter or other social technology tools? Please comment or send us a tweet ~ @socialmediapath.
Linkedin Class Research: Reid Hoffman Interview
June 3, 2009 in linkedin, Social Technology, Social Tools with 0 Comments
Searching the web for ideas and cool stuff I can share in our upcoming online classes, I came across this video interview on CNN. It's a brief discussion with Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman about how the networking site was created to build upon existing relationships.
Social Media Skills 101 Class
June 2, 2009 in Facebook, Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Social Technology, Twitter, youtube with 0 Comments
Registration is available for: Social Media Skills 101
Location: 3665 Bleckley St., Suite 101, Mather, CA 95655.
Description: Based on student demand and a need for better clarity around social media tools, Social Media Path has partnered with Peppers.TV to offer live, classroom Do-it-yourself education.
You get:
• A cursory overview of the how and why of Social Media
• Social online guidelines for business
• What web sites to use the most and how to use them
• How-to get fans and followers
• How-to build online \"expert\" proof that leads to subscribers and sales
• Time-saving browser tips
• How-to make your writing Google friendly
We'll cover:
• Blogging
• Linkedin
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Twitter
Our class is fun, engaging, insightful and jargon-free. Best of all, you'll leave with a renewed sense of how to build interactive online marketing into your business day without feeling overwhelmed. Social Media Skills 101 will alleviate any fear or apprehension of embracing social technology.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-06-25
End Time: 16:00
Basic Social Media Tool Flow
April 25, 2009 in Social Media Marketing, Social Technology, Social Tools, Wordpress with 19 Comments
Bringing Social Media Path to life has come with some interesting challenges – like my plugin breaking on the "classes" page in Internet Explorer. Despite the challenges in ramping up to site launch, much of my thinking has been focused around what and how to teach in our upcoming webinars. The bit-more-than-basic-how-to class "Social Media Fast Start" is an opportunity to enable beginners on a path of knowing their customers better. As the desire of business to market through connecting and sharing online grows, likewise does the confusion and feeling of being overwhelmed.
So, my mantra through course development continues to be, "How can I make online marketing and community development easier to do and to manage?"
I developed this model, which I'll be discussing in detail in class. I'm interested in any comments. I realize there can be an unlimited number of complex interactions between tools, platforms and technologies. That's what makes it the web right? I left widgets and applications off the model in consideration of my prospective class audience. I'm sure there are more tools that are not occurring to me. Care to add something?


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Following a string of recent culturally insensitive fashion incidents, including Paul Frank's pow wow and Victoria's Secret geisha outfit, Dolce & Gabbana sent a pair of earrings down the Spring 2013 runway that are causing ire.
The accessories feature a dark-skinned black woman with a blue scarf, a gold necklace and a basket of fruit on her head. The Blackamoor-inspired earrings conjure up colonialist images of black femininity. As The Frisky points out:
"On the one hand, the earrings depict a very stereotypical, some might say colonialist, idea of a black woman: very dark skin, a head scarf wrapped on her head, the basket of fruit…And it's not just the earrings that raised eyebrows; style blog Refinery 29 reports Dolce and Gabbana's spring 2013 collection included "burlap dresses" and "fruit cornucopias" which suggested an ode to "a long-lost colonial era."
Furthermore, the idea of other races walking around with a black woman's head hanging from their ear, herein a Caucasian model dressed by European fashion house, Dolce & Gabbana, rubs people the wrong way. The image also appears on two of the garments in the collection.
There's much debate over whether the earrings are a product of exoticism or plain ole racism. Either way, colonialist images of black women carry with them a history of degradation and humiliation that shouldn't be capitalized on and sold as earrings.

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BS, University of Southern California
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Modern English church history, history of evangelicalism, C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, history of Christian spirituality
Grayson Carter is associate professor of church history, primarily serving Fuller Seminary Arizona, and has taught at Fuller since 2002. Prior to that he served as Chaplain and Tutor for Theology at Brasenose College, Oxford, and taught in the Department of Religion at Methodist University in North Carolina. Currently he is researching and writing a volume on English church history between the French Revolution and the Great Reform Bill.
Carter is the author of Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Church of England, c. 1800–1850 (Oxford University Press, 2001/Wipf and Stock, 2016), and, most recently, has edited Light amid Darkness: Memoirs of Daphne Randall (Wipf and Stock, 2016). From 2007 to 2015, he was the general editor of of Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, the only peer-reviewed journal on C. S. Lewis published in the world. He has published numerous chapters in edited volumes, and over a hundred articles in academic journals and works of reference, including the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, and The Anglican Catholic. Carter has served as visiting professor at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC; and twice at Nashotah House (Episcopal) Seminary, Wisconsin.
An ordained Anglican deacon and priest, Carter has held various church (parish) appointments in the Church of England, the Episcopal Church, the ACNA, and the larger Anglican Communion. He is a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the Church of England Record Society.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 533046
Old Publican projects fail with missing Makefile.common
Last modified: 2010-11-23 23:20:25 EST
Description of problem:
A user with current publican projects using the F11 0.44 will receive a file not found error when running make X in their projects once updated to F12
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /path/to/publican044/project
2. make help
Actual results:
Makefile:20: /usr/share/publican/make/Makefile.common: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/share/publican/make/Makefile.common'. Stop.
Expected results:
Well my reason for submitting this is to suggest that a Makefile.common file be created that outputs directions for updating publican files for all commands that *could* be run via make. Just to point users to the publican old2new commands.
Additional info:
Thanks Nathanael -- it's an excellent suggestion and an elegant fix. If only we had thought of it while version 1.0 was in development!
As things stand, we hope that the current version is reasonably stable, so by the time that this fix makes it into a release, it will almost certainly be redundant because anyone who was going to be bitten by this would already have been bitten.
Sorry that you took the fall, and hopefully, there weren't too many other people in the same boat as you. Unless we hear of more cases, however, I'm closing this as WONTFIX, for now at least.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.
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Wife of jailed Marine hopes conviction will be overturned
The wife of a Royal Marine jailed for life for murdering a wounded Taliban fighter has spoken of her hope that he will have his conviction overturned.
Last year Sergeant Al Blackman, who was previously known as Marine A, became the first British serviceman to be convicted of murder since the World War II.
His wife Claire has lodged an appeal which will be heard at the high court tomorrow.
The BBC's Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale reports.
Marine 'A' - Criminal or Casualty of War? will be broadcast on Wednesday night at 10.35pm on BBC One
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Let's begin with a simple question: What do women want? I said it was simple, not easy and it's Sigmund Freud's question, not mine. In fact, when we're talking about God, it may not be the right question.
What Does the Human Heart Want?
Or rather, it's only half of the right question. Freud didn't have a happy relationship with women or with God. And I can only imagine what he'd say about a celibate male religious asking what women want.
According to Freud, I shouldn't even be here, since religion was supposed to wither away. It's too bad he can't join us. It would be a pretty entertaining session.
But even if it's incomplete, the question is still very important. Because whether men like to admit it or not, they're formed by women and take much of their meaning from women. And most men find a sense of permanence, and a future, only in the families and relationships they create with a woman.
Let me suggest that a question like, What do women want?, or, What do men want?, can't be answered without first finding the right answer to a much larger question: What does the human heart want? What does it need?
Whom does it long for? God created men and women to complement each other, to complete each other in Him, to share in His community of love. We love God best by loving and serving each other sacrificially. That takes many different forms. But it's the family, the love between a husband and wife, a mother and father, which is the glue of everything else in society. Children learn the language of love the vocabulary which enables them to understand God by watching their mother and father. They need both. Mother-love and father-love are not the same thing.
This is why faith in God weakens when the divorce rate climbs. When motherhood is derided and men abandon their role as fathers, God seems to disappear. The reason is simple. The family is a kind of sign or sacrament in human experience of who God is. Obviously I don't mean that divorced persons can't be holy, or that children from broken families can't find God. But I do believe that it becomes more difficult in the absence of that "living community of love" which the family can provide. Children with absent fathers will struggle harder in their search for God. And since most children remain with their mothers after divorce, recovering fatherhood is a fundamental step toward restoring the presence of God in our culture.
Fatherless America
First, each of these three tendencies is inhuman. Each turns the human person into an object. We're determined by our genes, so we have to breed better pacifists. We're determined by what we earn and buy, so we have to earn and buy more. We're determined by the limitations of our gender, so we have to rewire our biology to serve our politics. These are just bad ideas. Nowhere in any of these tendencies is there any room for fathers, mothers or families as we traditionally understand them. And not surprisingly, who else is absent? God.
The biggest delusion of the 1960s, '70s and '80s was that women and children could survive and even prosper without husbands and fathers; that divorce could be a good thing with little or no impact on the children involved. Just the opposite is true.
The evidence is clear. The breakdown of intact, two-parent families severely damages children. Worse, as single-parent and step-parent households increase, our social fabric weakens. There's no mystery to the data: Children need fathers, and we all suffer if fathers disappear. Which is why David Blankenhorn, the author of Fatherless America, can say that "fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation. It is the leading cause of declining child well-being in our society. It is also the engine driving our most urgent social problems from crime to adolescent pregnancy to child sexual abuse to domestic violence against women."
Author Robert Samuelson puts it another way: "The only solution [to our contemporary problems] is to reconstruct, somehow, families that provide the love, sense of self-worth and discipline that children require to develop into responsible, self-sufficient adults. But no one really knows how to do this … "
Of course, that's not quite true. I think the solution exists, and we can find it in our faith.
The Current Terrain
These have been a tough couple of decades for fathers in particular, and men in general. In saying that, I need to underline that no man should be excused his abusiveness, and no father should be excused the abandonment of his children. Much of the trouble men find themselves in these days is of their own making. If men act like bullies or drones, women will very reasonably act to defend themselves and their children.
But today, the critiques of men in our society go a lot deeper than just correcting bad male behavior. They attack men's identity and undermine the whole idea of fatherhood. In the process, women and children are hurt, families are damaged, and our understanding of God Himself becomes confused.
Let me outline three criticisms, or problems, which make our times especially hard for fathers.
The first problem is with Dad's genes. And it's described best in a 1996 book called Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. How's that for a title? One of the authors, Richard Wrangham, is a Harvard professor of anthropology. The other, Dale Peterson, is a science writer. Their idea is simple: Most apes are violent. Humans and chimpanzees have very similar DNA. Both species murder their own kind, battle for breeding rights, and dominate their females. Male aggression in both these species comes from ecological pressures which encouraged violent male leadership at an early evolutionary stage in order to survive. The rest is history including our own.
But one ape species is different. The bonobos, a special kind of chimpanzee, live in a remote forest in Zaire. According to Wrangham and Peterson, the bonobos evolved under friendlier ecological conditions. This reduced the need for male dominance. It also allowed females to bond into groups. Today, these female groups restrain male behavior and enforce a kind of pacifism. As a result, bonobos not only don't rape and murder each other, they also enjoy a lot of recreational sex.
Now, if you're beginning to get suspicious about the kind of "science" involved here, you're not alone. Even the authors admit they stretch a point or two. But their concluding logic is very important. Let me quote it directly: "… just as nonaggressive strains of other mammals can be bred by artificial selection, so a peaceful strain of human could be bred too. With some concerted worldwide action, we could probably get measurable results within a few generations. Society could, through its own reproductive choices, actually breed a kinder, gentler man with a temperament less like a chimpanzee's, more like a bonobo's."
As you'd expect, the authors have a pretty hostile view of the traditional family and marriage, which they see as a trap for women cooked up by patriarchal power.
Dad's second big problem is economic. Marx and Engels were wrong about a lot of things. But they were probably right that capitalism if left to its own devices naturally undermines most traditional institutions, including the family. Or as Neil Postman once put it, the real radicals are not Marxists who quote Lenin, but television executives in conservative suits who just want to sell their products … and don't much care which traditions and beliefs get dumped in the process.
Children now watch 5,000 hours of television before they enter kindergarten and 16,000 hours before they graduate from high school. The average American sees 1,000 commercials a week, and 1 million before he or she is 20. And what commercials teach is this: The best things in life are not free; in fact, they cost quite a bit of money … but we should get them anyway, because otherwise, we won't be happy. Consumer capitalism encourages appetites, which require spending, which encourages debt, which demands more work to earn more money, which gets spent on bigger appetites, and so on. That's its nature. The result, in many families, is the elevation of money as the only real measure of value. Which implies that if you don't get paid for your labor – and obviously, stay at home mothers don't get paid your work is somehow inferior. Which helps drive more and more women into the work force.
My point is this. Our economy has changed. Many men don't play the same, clear, solitary provider role for their families they once did in the past. At the same time, family members are taught by the mass media to see themselves as self-contained consumers. So the internal economic life of the family has also changed from a common purpose shared by all family members, to a collection of competing individual interests. In other words, Dad's muscle work isn't as valuable as it used to be. And even a good male "brain worker" can rarely keep up with the costs of consumerist family life.
The final problem men face is philosophical or more accurately, political. Most men would agree that many good things have come out of the women's movement since the 1960s. Real feminism resists abortion and is naturally pro-life. But a certain kind of modern feminism is not just pro-woman, but anti-male. In the words of one feminist scholar, "Socialist feminists see [the traditional] family structure as a cornerstone of women's oppression: it enforces women's dependence on men, it enforces heterosexuality and it imposes the prevailing masculine and feminine character structure on the next generation."
She goes on to stress that the difference between socialist feminists and plain old women's-rights activists is that socialist feminists support "a possible transformation of 'physical' human capacities, some of which until now have been seen as biologically limited to one sex. This transformation might include possibilities for insemination, for lactation and for gestation, so that, for example, one woman could inseminate another, so that men and non-parturitive women could lactate and so that fertilized ova could get transplanted into women's or even men's bodies."
This is pretty strange stuff, but I'm not exaggerating. I'm quoting a respected scholar at a mainline university.
What Should We Do?
There's an old saying that the greatest gift a father can give his children is to love their mother.
That's the importance of a father: the witness he gives through his love. I have many memories of my own father. But above all, I remember and cherish his love for my mother. I always believed in it, because it was always there. My father taught me that fidelity was not just possible, but a source of joy and freedom, satisfaction and friendship. I might have learned that without him, but not in the same way, and not with the same intimacy. He also taught me how to choose to love. Fathers choose to love and choose to remain with their children in a way mothers do not, because mother-love is frankly just more intense, more natural, more organic. Nothing in fatherhood is as automatic, or as biologically directed, as motherhood. Real father-love is entirely a free-will act of self-sacrifice. Lived well, it gives us a window on God's own fatherhood.
Of course, it's misleading to draw too many parallels between the fatherhood of God and human fathers. God is wholly other, and neither male nor female. But Scripture says, "I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named" (Eph 3:14,15). And Jesus Himself told us to call God "Father." It's the language God chooses to reveal Himself, and it's through a human father that the child best learns how to integrate justice and mercy; how to engage with the world; our purpose beyond the family; the nobility of strength when it's ruled by love; and the creative fruitfulness of work. A father's love completes the family and in that communion of persons, the child gets the first inkling of who God is, a Trinity of persons in a community of love like the family.
Looking out from within the love of a family, we can see the poverty of so much of today's culture. If men are simply predators and inseminators looking to spread their seed, and if women really need men only as a way of getting children, well … then marriage is just a contract of mutual utility, with the sexes using each other as a means to an end. But people are better than that. Our motives and yearnings are higher than that.
So we come to a final question: What do we do to restore fathers to their place in the family and in the culture, and through that, to renew our language of God? This is where a speaker usually offers a program. We certainly need a tax code that really favors families. We also need social welfare policies that deliver help where it's needed, without encouraging families to breakup in the process. But those are political issues, and they're always debatable. The real work is on the personal level, and it's both simpler and tougher.
We live in a curious time. We lionize books like Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation. We revere the values which the generation of the 1940s embodied especially the fathers and brothers and sons who fought in World War II. But how much of it, I wonder, is just our nostalgia for a life we have no intention of choosing because it would demand the hard work of conversion? You see, that's the heart of the matter. The revolution starts in the individual soul. When men and women decide to live scriptural lives, sacramental lives, then and only then, will the world begin to change.
It sounds pious and impractical, but it was impractical for the first Christians to oppose the Roman Empire. It was impractical to abolish slavery. Societies change when families change. Families change when individuals change. Turn off the television. Buy less. It sounds easy but try it. Spend time with your kids. Keep Sunday holy. Pray together. Choose to be faithful. Spouses, choose to subordinate yourselves to each other. Husbands and fathers: Be the leaders you were meant to be. Claim it, and it will be yours. Goodness is magnetic.
Preparing these remarks, I noticed that I'd be speaking with you on the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. This is one of my favorite feast days, because Joseph was a man's man a man accustomed to labor, sweat and the burden of supporting a family. Scripture says, "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain" (Ps 127:1). It's always struck me that God the Father put His only Son into the care of a carpenter, a builder. And Joseph, in his faith and obedience, allowed God to use his own human talents to build the Living Tabernacle. Joseph protected and taught, formed and provided for, the Redeemer of the world.
Joseph was a living witness of the meaning of manliness; the nobility of human labor; and the dignity of married love. Surely, Jesus must have admired and loved him with all his heart. So if we hope to restore the identity of fathers in our families and in our culture, if we hope to rebuild the integrity of family life in our communities we should look first to Joseph.
We have no better model.
This article was adapted with permission from Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput's address to the pastoral workers of the Diocese of Cheyenne on May 1, 1999, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker in the Year of the Father.


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Community Bank of the Chesapeake Announces Support For Rappahannock YMCA
Aug 05, 2014, 09:20 ET
WALDORF, Md., Aug. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Bank of the Chesapeake recently announced its support for the Rappahannock Area YMCA in their efforts to build healthy children, adults, families and communities. The Bank has donated $15,000 to the help the organization continue to advance its mission.
"The YMCA creates an environment where people of all ages can come together and improve their minds, bodies and spirits. Their presence enriches and strengthens the community each day. Community Bank is proud to show our support for the work that they do," said Michael Middleton, Executive Chairman of the Board for Community Bank of the Chesapeake.
The Rappahannock YMCA oversees the operation of four locations throughout the Rappahannock watershed region, with plans to open a fifth location in North Stafford in 2015. The Y offers fitness and wellness programs for children and adults of all ages and abilities and hosts many community events throughout the year. The Bank's donation will help underwrite several of these events at the King George YMCA, Rosner Family YMCA, Caroline Family YMCA and the Louis B. Massad Family YMCA.
"These events will be able to generate the necessary revenues to fund the YMCA's Financial Assistance program," said Bernard Reiley, Chief Executive Officer of the Rappahannock Area YMCA. "This program allows for individuals and families to become members of the YMCA who otherwise could not afford membership. Because of Community Bank of the Chesapeake's generous gift to the YMCA, more people will be served who otherwise would not have had an option to pursue their health and wellness goals."
Headquartered in Waldorf, Maryland, Community Bank of the Chesapeake is a full-service commercial bank, with assets over $1 billion. Through its 12 banking centers and three dedicated commercial lending centers, Community Bank of the Chesapeake offers a broad range of financial products and services to individuals and businesses. Community Bank of the Chesapeake is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Community Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: TCFC). More information about Community Bank of the Chesapeake can be found at www.cbtc.com.
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The child,
screaming out of the mother's womb,
stares unseeingly at the people in white;
this hospital her first home,
nestling in a sleepy English town,
hugged by cozy hills of green.
The mother with foreign eyes
cradles the child,
smiling weakly through
her sweat sodden mist of exhaustion.
Had her own mother in that childhood land
destroyed by guns and bombs
cradled her thus?
The English father looking on,
eyes burning with love and pride,
easing the precious burden
into his arms...
What of the future
for this baby so small?
A fusion of two cultures,
two nations,
two lands,
divided by man-made lines.
Do guns and bombs await her, too,
or only half of her?
Must she take sides
between mother and father
when others of their kind
suddenly call each other enemy?
Which half to give to which?
Impossible —
belonging to both and neither!
Mocking the ludicrous absurdity
of national divisions
people fight and die for.
This time, this place, these parents,
the child's choice — why?
A small champion
for a new way,
a new life,
a new world of humanity?
A sign of hope
that in the future
we can finally be free
from our present, crazy,
violent insanity?
Copyright © 2008 Helena Harper
(from 'Family and More - Enemies or Friends?')
What do you hope for?


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Regarding the statistics in the tables list, I think it's most important to remember to use the numbers for comparisons; i.e. once you've decided the game and limits at which you wish to play, the next step is to use the numbers to help decide which particular table is likely to be the most satisfactory / most profitable (not always the same thing).
Technically, of course, the three stats fairly simple to decipher:
Average pot size - total $ in all pots for the last "n" games / "n"
Players per flop - average for the last "n" games of number of players seeing the flop / number of players at the table
Hands per hour - total number of hands completed in a previous 60 minutes period
Note that some additional information is needed to help you optimize your play:
First, the "n" in the calculations would be helpful, although this is not generally available (although some poker sites publish this information on well-hidden web pages). The reason this can be important is that the "flavor" of a table can change rapidly online, and a fishpond can become a sharkpool before the averages change enough to warn you what you're getting into. However, we work with what we have.
The second factor that can really skew the averages is number of players AT the table. A 10-table with 3 players will naturally have a much higher H/hr rate than a full table, and will most likely have a higher PPF number as well (as most players will loosen their starting hand requirements with fewer competitors).
Finally, on the "techie" side, one would use the Average Pot Size (APS) figure together with the blind or limit size for that particular table to help decide how much bankroll will be "at risk". It's fairly typical, I think, to sit down at a limit table with 50x the big bet, and most sites seem to limit the buy-in for a NL table to 100x the big blind, so much of the decision here will be based on the table limits. However, once you know the total amount of money at the table, the APS number will give you a fair idea of how much is being committed to pots, and therefore a good feel for the post-flop aggressiveness of the players at the table.
Now, with all the math out of the way, I said earlier that "most satisfactory" and "most profitable" were not always the same thing. There will be times (many) when I sit down only to improve the bankroll balance. In these cases, I'll look for a game with a large number of players (8-9), a fairly high PPF number (depending on the site and the limits, this can be anywhere from 45% on up) and an APS of about 15x big blind (NL). This tells me, in general, that there are several players calling preflop, but who do not have the hands to support aggressive post-flop action. In these cases, playing premium hands, and with a little help on the flop, I can usually catch all the fish I can eat.
On the other hand, there are times when I really want to play against premium opponents, just for the enjoyment of the poker. While one usually has to go into the higher limits for this kind of action, some quality games can be found in the lower limits if you know how to look. Lower PPF is a great indicator that a table is tight early, and a lower APS on this kind of table lets you know that the players are also tight late, leaving the way clear for some delightful one-on-one action for late play.
As far as actually using the H/hr number, this is really only useful to me in the way that knowing the alcohol content of my drink is: the higher the number, the more I can feed the "action junkie" monkey. Again, this mainly depends on my mood for the evening.
So how do the table statistics make your poker game better? Like any other information in our sport of "using limited data to best effect" they are tools to assist in selecting the best game to achieve your objectives for the session. If by "better" you mean "more profitable", use them in one way; but if you mean "higher quality poker by playing higher quality opponents while minimizing your risk", then use them another.
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These darling crocheted butterflies turned refrigerator magnets can be made in less than an hour (for the experienced crocheter) and add a thoughtful touch to any gift-giving occasion. This is yet another winning crochet pattern — simple, quick, cute and totally gift-worthy — that comes to us from our friend and contributor Rachelle Washington! You can catch her first crochet pattern for cute little handmade dish scrubbies right here in her post Crocheted Dish Scrubbie Pattern. We hope she has many more patterns to share in the future!
Crocheted Butterfly Magnet Set You Can Make In An Hour
By Rachelle Washington
I found this pattern when I first started crafting and selling as a vendor. It was in the mid 80's and I found it in a little crochet magazine — I have no idea which one. The small butterfly is straight from the pattern. The larger one, I just changed a couple of stitches to make it work. These magnets can also be made out of yarn for a larger size.
Materials You'll Need:
• Color A size 10 doily thread
• Color B size 10 doily thread
• Size 5 crochet hook – or whatever size you are comfortable holding
• Wire cutters
• Needle nose pliers
• Floral wire
• Pipe cleaner – I use black but you can match to your thread or whatever suits your fancy
• Magnets for each butterfly either rounds or strips.
• Good quality craft glue
Stitches You'll Use:
Slip stitch, chain, single crochet, half double crochet, double crochet, treble crochet
rnd 1: Chain 8 join with a slip stitch.
rnd 2: Chain 3 (counts as first stitch) work 23 double crochet stitches in loop.
rnd 3: Chain 3 work 2 double crochet chain 7 3 double crochet in first stitch. Skip two stitches and work 3 double chain 7 3 double crochet in top of chain three in row below. Repeat around join with a slip stitch. You'll have 8 shells. Fasten off and weave end in.
rnd 4: With color B, attach yarn in chain 7 loop, chain 3 work 6 double crochet (chain 3 counting as your first stitch for a total of 8 double crochet). Chain 3 7 double crochet.
rnd 5: Single crochet in between the two stitches below. 7 double crochet chain 3 7 double crochet in the chain 7 below. Repeat around. Fasten off and weave ends in. Fold in half and tug the wings a bit to settle them in place.
Butterfly antennae is made with the floral wire. Cut a piece about 2 inches long. Shape into a 'U' shape, and with needle nose pliers, curl floral wire to the outside. Place a small amount of glue on back of magnet and let it dry for a minute or so. Drag the antennae through the glue and leave it resting on the magnet until needed.
With pipe cleaner, tuck one end on back side of butterfly, bend sharply to the front of the butterfly, carefully place the antennae at the top of the butterfly and fold the pipe cleaner in between the center of the 'U' fold down and press sharply together. Place the magnet glue side to back of butterfly. Small butterfly is finished.
To make the large butter fly simply use treble crochet stitch and, on the last row, instead of a single crochet, use a half double crochet.
These butterflies are quick and easy to make and fun to give as gifts that you can make up super quick. I love making them up in all kinds of colors and tucking them into gifts at Christmas time — like a little extra stocking stuffer — something sweet and fun.
And once again, for our visual learners, here are some photos!
Enjoy! And let us know if you tried this! Aren't they adorable?!?
Meet Rachelle
Contributing Author
Rachelle is homesteader and homemaker who is firmly founded in her Christian faith and married to her best friend. (The photo to the left is the two of them on their wedding day!) She loves gardening, crocheting, Christmas, and cooking. After years of gardening experience, she still learns new things every year and is eager to share her experiences with you. She goes organic as much as possible, but admits there are times when it is just not possible. She is interested in eating as healthy as possible and does about 95% of her cooking from scratch. She loves a good DIY and MYO (make your own) project and works hard to do most things for herself. Self-sufficiency at its finest!
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|Reviews for A Poem of Immigrants
| Needa S chapter 1 . 8/26/2007
I think a lot of people could learn a lot by reading this piece. Many need to stop and think...Amercia had its arms out for them too. Anyhow, I love your poem it sounded as though it come from the heart. Beautifully done! Excellent work! God Bless you and God Bless our country "America" as well! Write on.
| Luna Turner chapter 1 . 8/18/2007
You did a great job on this poem. It represents the hardships and obstacles that immigrants go through to get here, though, as you said, it's worth it for them, in the end.
God Bless.


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The Lakers know the Utah Jazz better than perhaps any other team … but not as well as Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Ross Siler, who joined us on the phone to preview Saturday evening's rematch between the two Western squads.
A former Lakers beat writer for the L.A. Daily News, Siler offered his perspective on this year's group of Lakers, detailed the Carlos Boozer situation and went through the 101-77 Lakers victory on Wednesday that came as L.A. held the Jazz to just six fourth quarter points.
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The staff and management team at Kidz Kabin work really hard to maintain and develop new information systems to keep a continuous flow of information between the nursery and parents:
Every child is assigned a key worker as a special point of comfort and contact during the nursery day. The key person will be available to chat informally to parents at appropriate times.
Information boards in reception display weekly menus, a monthly newsletter packed with all the latest updates as well as details of how to access the blog.
The Kidz Kabin blog is regularly updated and contains photos and descriptions of all the latest activities and outings that go on in and out of the nursery. Access it here.
Children's profiles are created using tablets and a specially designed early years app called i-connect. This information is directly and securely accessible to parents via a 'Parent Zone' app. More information can be found on http://www.connectchildcare.co.uk/parent-zone.
We involve parents in the planning of the activities at the nursery by asking for feedback on their child's progress at home. Parents are invited to come and chat to the keyworker at the end of their child's 'focussed week' (roughly every 6 weeks)
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Tacoma police are investigating a shooting tonight that sent a 28-year-old man to the hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg, according to spokesman Mark Fulghum.
Medics were called at 5:52 p.m. to help a man who had reportedly been shot in the 1800 block of East 35th Street, but couldn't find the patient when they arrived, according to Tacoma Fire.
A few minutes later, he turned up at a house nearby in the 2000 block of East 34th Street.
The man asked the residents not to call the police, but they did anyway, Fulghum said.
He was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center.
Officers are still trying to figure out what happened, but are looking for a male Hispanic suspect in his 20s, possibly three, Fulghum said.
The mother of the victim's child, who lives nearby, told officers that he had left to go to the store, Fulghum said.
A K-9 unit is tracking the area, he added.


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I'm not going to offer any comment on this article other than this: read on an empty stomach.
The barrage of anti-gay sermons delivered by North Carolina-based pastors to hit the blogosphere continues with yet another disturbing rant caught on tape.
The pastor, identified on YouTube as Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., condemns President Obama's much-publicized endorsement of same-sex marriage while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed off.
"Build a great, big, large fence -- 150 or 100 mile long -- put all the lesbians in there," Worley suggests in the clip, reportedly filmed on May 13.
He continues: "Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out...and you know what, in a few years, they'll die out...do you know why? They can't reproduce!"
He also said that if he's asked who he'll vote for, he'll reply, "I'm not going to vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover!" Many of the congregants cheer and reply, "Amen."
Read the rest (if you haven't already suffered from reverse peristalsis) here.
Views: 1543
I agree. He's not my type, either.
As to having your back, in one sense Worley reminds me of those poker machines in the corner of a dingy barroom. He stands in a place open to the public, while on stage has his back to the wall, and takes on all comers. I think I'm going with Loren and SB on this one. No thanks.
Ahh, come on guys! Where's your sense of gratitude? He's just tryin' to save you from eternal damnation. You don't want eternal damnation do you?
If eternal salvation means having to be around that bastard, yes, I do prefer damnation.
This woman's statement reveals one of the reasons "religion poisons everything"
Church member defends NC pastor: LGBT people 'worthy of death'.
1. She clearly does not know her church history, who wrote the scriptures, where, and their ulterior motive, and the intention of the composers and copiers of the document.
2. Her minister has taught her to hate, not on the basis of love, or of science, but on bigotry. Is that the kind of religious leaders needed in this age of turmoil?
3. She does not take responsibility for her own thinking, rather follows as a lamb to slaughter to parrot the principles of another.
4. Anti-homosexuality clearly does not recognize the great gifts many gay people possess and contribute to society. In some cultures homosexuality is considered a gift from their "maker".
5. Being dependent, acquiescent, subordinate and obedient to her pastor's thinking is the greatest tragedy of all. She may not have bound feet as Chinese women for over a thousand years, but she surely has a bound mind.
6. She exhibits no compassion for people different from herself.
She should feel shame and embarrassment with so little thought or knowledge about biology. If she learned this in church, and the message was supported at home, and the teachers taught it in the public school, ... Oh! Dear! the scenario is just too much to even contemplate. Her/ their intolerance is intolerable ... so what would any intelligent person say or do that can make a difference?
They don't care about biology or anything based in reality when it comes into conflict with their precious IGNORANT holy book.
Indeed, tolerance of ignorance has run its course. It costs lives and progress and has nothing to excuse its support. Ignorance restrains, deludes and ultimately KILLS. Ignorance deserves only disdain and active opposition. The 21st century can no longer afford it.
This site needs a "Like" button!!! Sadly having lived in NC for most of my life, I have to agree with Loren, I know they don't care about 'truth' if it runs contrary to what the 'pastor' said and most of the 'pastors' gave themselves the title... Carneys, the lot of them. We have deer season, rabbit season... we need a clergy season in NC, they have definitely overpopulated the area and it's become diseased and weakened the herd! (use their own justifications against them I say!)
Tammy, do you have people in your area who share you concerns?
I would have a hard time living in a place where the population believes as so many do and who vote for issues that support their delusions. If these beliefs were in their own homes and churches, it would be no one else's business, but fundamentalists vote for their values.
There is no right to keep children ignorant; Intelligent Design and Creationism do not prepare children for challenges facing their generation.
Are you of a "resistance" nature and express yourself or do you feel you have to remain silent?
Joan, at first I thought more people here shared my concerns, I honestly thought we'd become a more progressive state and then this Amendment 1 issue rose up and I felt completely sideswiped to find that people I thought I knew well, wanted this utterly abhorrent crap signed into law. I was literally depressed for days and now I'm just angry as hell.
As for resistance, I won't let them force their views on me, I have put out 'no trespassing' signs for the door knockers whom I used to invite in to argue with for entertainment, but since the economic downturn here, it is best to keep your own council for the most part, especially when you find yourselves in our position looking for work with benefits. Both of us lost our jobs in the crash, both of us lost our benefits, our savings and our retirement accounts and we're both over 40 and the fields of work in which we generally make our living are fields in which 'activism' are frowned upon, so we have to be a little more quiet than we'd like and that leaves us both feeling very isolated down here.
'How To Tell You're An Atheist'
Daniel Dennett spoke at Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne last month and I think you may be interested in it. He says the tradition is, "Don't ask, don't tell" about atheism. Dennett restated it, "Don't ask, Tell!" and gives his rationale for this position.
My usual process is not bring religion up, but if others say they will pray for someone, or ask me questions, I answer honestly, as powerfully as the situation dictates, and speak, not as an angry atheist, but as a person who does not recognize any evidence for any religion. If mysticism or superstition comes up, I make my statement. When Creationism and Intelligent Design comes up as a topic for inclusion in public school science curricula I get much more powerful in my statements. Or when control over women's decision making process or control over women's' minds and bodies, I try to make my comments so powerful, they do not want to bring the subject up in my presence again. I allow my contempt to show. I intend for my contempt to show.
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Police chase ends with car in pond
A four-minute police car chase came to an abrupt end early Saturday when the suspect's vehicle splashed into a pond on the Alvamar Country Club Golf Course, 1800 Crossgate Drive.
Four people three men and a juvenile boy were arrested, Lawrence police said.
The chase began at 12:43 a.m. when an officer recorded a 1999 Mitsubishi traveling at 89 mph in the 3000 block of Kasold Drive, where the speed limit is 40 mph, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick, police spokesman. The chase continued along Tam O'Shanter and Camelback drives, and through the Winterbrook and Brushcreek neighborhoods, he said.
All of the vehicle's occupants attempted to flee on foot but were captured and arrested, Pattrick said. They were booked into the Douglas County Jail and charges are pending.
A police report listed damage to turf on the golf course at $750.
Lansing teen arrested for indecent liberties
Charges are pending against an 18-year-old Lansing man for allegedly taking indecent liberties with a 14-year-old girl, according to Lawrence Police.
The Ottawa girl was staying with her parents while attending an event at the Lawrence Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, when the alleged incident occurred about 1 a.m. Saturday, police said.
The suspect reportedly took the girl into a room and was touching the victim in an "inappropriate manner," police said. Another man entered the room and pulled the girl away. Police were called.
The suspect was booked into Douglas County jail.
KU sets final exams
Kansas University has announced the following final examinations:
l Jeffrey Beasley, political science, "From Mobilization to Negotiation: A Comparative Political Analysis of Two Mexican Social Movements," 12:30 p.m., Friday, 113 Blake.
l Guanghui Wang, pharmacology and toxicology, "Quantification of Harmaline and Physostigmine's Tremorogenic Effects and Clozapine's Antitremor Effect in Rats," noon, Monday, 2048 Malott.
Veterans donate toys to Salvation Army
The Lawrence post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will donate almost $400 worth of toys Monday to the Salvation Army.
"We do various fund-raisers for different organizations each year," said Vern Russell, the group's community service chairman. "This year the Salvation Army was the one we picked. The drive is an annual event, and our members come through for us in good standing. It is a little bit of anything for any kind of kid."
The toys will be distributed locally.
VFW also will donate the more than $400 worth of nonperishable food items it has collected to the Salvation Army.
District judge named to abortion case panel
A retired Shawnee County District Court judge was named Monday to serve on a panel to rule on allegations against Lawrence's only abortion provider.
James Buchele was selected by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts to handle the case against Dr. Kristen Neuhaus. Others on the panel are Emily Taylor, Lawrence, and Donald Bletz, an Overland Park internal medicine physician.
They will investigate allegations by the board against Neuhaus, including one that she performed an abortion after a patient withdrew consent for the procedure. Neuhaus has denied the allegations.
No ruling is expected for several months.
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Thirty-year-old Mike Spears of Raleigh on Thursday was reclaiming the Mustang convertible he abandoned during a tortured attempt to navigate stalled city traffic during the height of Wednesday's snowfall.
The rear-wheel-drive muscle car repeatedly slid off the road, each time righted by other motorists who jumped out to push Spears back onto the trail. He was nearly out of fuel when he rolled it off the side of a four-lane city street near North Carolina's only maximum security men's prison.
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|Reference : Obscured and unobscured AGN populations in a hard-X-ray selected sample of the XMDS survey
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|[en] Aims. Our goal is to probe the populations of obscured and unobscured AGN investigating their optical-IR and X-ray properties as a function of X-ray flux, luminosity and redshift within a hard X-ray selected sample with wide multiwavelength coverage. Methods. We selected a sample of 136 X-ray sources detected at a significance of >= 3 sigma in the 2-10 keV band (F2-10 greater than or similar to 10(-1)4 erg cm(-2) s(-1)) in a similar to 1 deg(2) area in the XMM Medium Deep Survey (XMDS). The XMDS area is covered with optical photometry from the VVDS and CFHTLS surveys and infrared Spitzer data from the SWIRE survey. Based on the X-ray luminosity and X-ray to optical ratio, 132 sources are likely AGN, of which 122 have unambiguous optical - IR identification. The observed optical and IR spectral energy distributions of all identified sources are fitted with AGN/galaxy templates in order to classify them and compute photometric redshifts. X-ray spectral analysis is performed individually for sources with a sufficient number of counts and using a stacking technique for subsamples of sources at different flux levels. Hardness ratios are used to estimate X-ray absorption in individual weak sources. Results. 70% of the AGN are fitted by a type 2 AGN or a star forming galaxy template. We group them together in a single class of "optically obscured" AGN. These have "red" optical colors and in about 60% of cases show significant X-ray absorption (N-H > 10(22) cm(-2)). Sources with SEDs typical of type 1 AGN have "blue" optical colors and exhibit X-ray absorption in about 30% of cases. The stacked X-ray spectrum of obscured AGN is flatter than that of type 1 AGN and has an average spectral slope of Gamma = 1.6. The subsample of objects fitted by a star forming galaxy template has an even harder stacked spectrum, with Gamma similar to 1.2-1.3. The obscured fraction is larger at lower fluxes, lower redshifts and lower luminosities. X-ray absorption is less common than "optical" obscuration and its incidence is nearly constant with redshift and luminosity. This implies that at high luminosities X-ray absorption is not necessarily related to optical obscuration. The estimated surface densities of obscured, unobscured AGN and type 2 QSOs are respectively 138, 59 and 35 deg(-2) at F > 10-14 erg cm(-2) s(-1).
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Tree kills staffer at camp near Yosemite
Updated 11:01 pm, Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Groveland, Tuolumne County --
A 21-year-old counselor at a Sierra foothills camp popular with Bay Area families was killed Wednesday and four other adults were injured when an oak tree collapsed on a campfire circle, just a few yards from a dining hall filled with children, authorities and camp leaders said.
Annais Rittenberg was killed when the 3-foot-diameter tree crashed to the ground at 8:25 a.m. at Camp Tawonga, just outside Yosemite National Park, the camp's director wrote in an e-mail to parents.
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Rittenberg was an environmental studies major who had just completed her junior year at UC Santa Cruz, university officials said.
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Four other women who work at the camp were injured and were taken to hospitals in Sonora and Modesto, authorities said. The camp's director, Ken Kramarz, told parents that the women were "all doing well."
Several hundred children at the camp were eating breakfast at the nearby dining hall and escaped injury, authorities said.
Camp Tawonga was established in 1925 and caters mainly to Jewish families, saying its mission is to promote community and help children develop a positive Jewish identity. The camp has more than 160 staff members overseeing hundreds of children on 160 acres in the Stanislaus National Forest, according to its website.
Keeping the kids busy
"The campers are doing well and are participating in camp activities away from the scene," Kramarz wrote to parents. "Our on-site staff therapists are working closely with first-responder grief experts to help care for our community in this difficult time."
The campground sits beside a lake, where young campers continued their daily activities, said Sgt. James Oliver, a spokesman for the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office.
"The plan is to keep the kids busy, but if they have questions to answer them," he said.
Messages left with officials at the camp's administrative offices in San Francisco were not immediately returned.
Cause not known
It's not known what caused the tree to collapse. Witnesses said the oak gave off a loud creak before it fell to the ground, Oliver said.
It took out a power line when it fell, but the camp's backup generators were providing power, Kramarz wrote.
Initial reports that as many as 20 people had been hurt resulted in a wave of parents hurrying to the private camp, Oliver said.
The camp issued a statement late Wednesday saying two of the injured staffers were still hospitalized and that the other two had been treated at hospitals and released.
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Whilst the Wrestlemania weekend's most important focus is on the Sunday night spectacular itself, the day beforehand always has a way to capture the attention of both fans and competitors like no other. The WWE Hall of Fame ceremony is the means to honour those that left it all in the ring for the audience, and earned the respect of their peers and the adulation of the crowd. It is a place where legends such as Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan and Bruno Sammartino have entered with great celebration, but has also seen its fair share of controversial entrants, such as Koko B. Ware, Abdullah the Butcher, and the entire "Celebrity Wing".
Whilst many are still awaiting the long-overdue induction of legends such as Owen Hart, Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, and Randy 'Macho Man' Savage, there has developed a long list of superstars currently on the roster that will be certain to be inducted into the hallowed hall upon their departure from full-time competition. These are the superstars that have paid their dues and earned respect through their in-ring prowess, inimitable storytelling, and their connection with the audience, either as a heel or face. These are the superstars who have a reserved spot in the Hall of Fame (barring any freak revelations). Some will not be as assured as others, and some will not have merited it by the standards of the fans. But, if Drew Carey can get into the Hall of Fame then anybody can. So here is my list of those currently signed to the company that will likely be a part of the celebrated ceremony in the future.
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The Los Angeles Lakers will start Chris Kaman over Shawne Williams at power forward for Thursday's game on the road against the Houston Rockets, according to Mike Bresnahan of the LA Times.
The change to the starting lineup was expected as the Lakers will be facing a big front court combination of Dwight Howard and Omer Asik. The pairing of Kaman and Pau Gasol in the preseason had shown some promise with the two displaying great chemistry and communication.
"Obviously, it's a big lineup we're playing," Kaman said. "I thought me and Pau played well [together] in the preseason."
In the five games that Williams started, he struggled to produce on the floor averaging 3.2 points, 3.0 rebounds including shooting 30 percent from 3-point range in 13 minutes per game. In the team's last game on Tuesday against the Dallas Mavericks, he had three points on 1-of-2 shooting from beyond the arc in just five minutes on the floor and did not play in the second half.
Kaman up to this point in the season has been productive off the bench averaging 9.0 points and 5.8 rebounds in 16 minutes per game, and has scored in double figures in four out of the five game the Lakers have played this year.
With Kaman and Gasol in the starting lineup on Thursday, it will allow for the two big men to continue to build on their good chemistry and uses their similar style of play to bring the Rockets' big men out of the paint by utilizing their mid-range game.
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"Fear of the dark is a normal developmental challenge and, although it is most typical for younger children (ages 3 to 6), even tweens and teens (and adults) can be afraid of what's under the bed or going into a dark room," says psychologist and author Tamar Chansky. "While some kids may outgrow the fear, many carry it throughout their life."
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Chansky says the best way to practice being in the dark is by doing something fun in the dark — such as a camping trip with flashlights. "Hide glow-in-the-dark items from the dollar store that your child can find. Let your child be a 'tour guide' and have them walk down a darkish hall and show you a tour," she says. "The 'title' of tour guide will help your child feel more confident about being in the semi-dark."
"Determine if it is fear of the dark or the child just not wanting to be alone," says play therapist Tammi Van Hollander, who says this is the reason many kids end up in their parents' bed. If this is the case, many experts suggest getting your child a companion, such as a pet fish, hamster or dog to help them feel not so alone at night. You can also consider having siblings share the same room if it promotes better sleep at night.
Help your child banish their fears by spraying Monster Spray, says Van Hollander, who says it is also important to emphasize to your child know that monsters are not real. "They feel real in their imagination. By quieting their worries they feel safe," she says.
She suggests filling a bottle with calming lavender scented water or even lavender Febreze and spray it wherever they are scared, such as the dark corner, under the bed or closet. Not only does this let the child see there is nothing under the bed or in the closet, but everyone knows monsters hate lavender spray, right?
"Many children with this fear end up convincing their parents to sleep with the room ablaze with the overhead light, the hall light and the bathroom light on," says Chansky. "This isn't good for sleeping, but it also doesn't give the child the opportunity to see how their eyes will adjust to darkness within a few minutes. Work towards using less intense light bulbs, and then to night-lights, eventually using just one."
"Flashlights are very helpful for kids as they can control the light in their room," says Van Hollander. "Let them know it is a special flashlight and monsters or whatever is scaring them will disappear because they do not like the light of the flashlight."
Angela Todd said the Cloud B Twilight Turtle helped her child overcome a fear of the dark because it casts a sky of stars on the ceiling — and it has a timer that turns off automatically. This plush toy, which also comes with a flashlight, would be a comforting way to help your child feel safe and secure at night.
There are so many great children's books that help put their mind at ease in a way that they understand. My kids love The Moon in My Room (which includes a built-in night light). Todd says some of her favorites include Franklin in the Dark, The Berenstain Bears in the Dark and Dr. Seuss's What Was I Scared of? Even watching movies, such as Monsters, Inc., that address this fear of the dark can help.
Put your child's favorite teddy bear to work. "Having teddy bears stand guard can also create a feeling of safety while mommy and daddy are sleeping," says Chansky.
"Have your child list the fears, then ask her, 'What do really think is going to happen? Do you really think that is true?'" says Chansky. "Even a young child can do this via finger puppets, [while] older children can just say the fears and facts or write them down side by side. Seeing the facts vs. the fears, the child will use his smart brain to outsmart his worry."
Use glow-in-the-dark art on your children's walls, so they have fun images to concentrate on as they drift off to sleep, says Denise Martin. One great option is the Glow-in-the-Dark Celestial Peel & Stick Wall Decals (walmart.com, $10).
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