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Can Danville pull off another successful VP debate? 'Yes, we can'
DANVILLE — When it hosted a vice presidential debate in 2000, this city of about 15,500 was the smallest to do so. When Danville hosts the 2012 vice presidential debate Thursday night, the city of about 16,200 still will be the smallest to host the nationally televised event.
The Boyle County seat has grown a bit during the past dozen years, if not so much in population — it gained 741 residents from 2000 to 2010, census figures say — then at least in confidence.
"I certainly believe there is less apprehension to the question, 'Can we pull this off?'" said Danville stockbroker Mike Perros. "Now the attitude is pretty confident: 'Yes, we can.'"
Few cities get the chance to host one debate, much less two, said Boyle County Judge-Executive Harold McKinney. That fact alone sets Danville apart from other communities.
"That is a pretty neat angle for a journalist trying to put an identity on Danville," McKinney said. "I think that's an angle that will bode well for this community. ... All of a sudden people have a different concept of Kentucky. There's a whole lot of people who have a concept of Kentucky, and it isn't with shoes."
Perhaps the most noticeable change since the national media descended on Danville in 2000 is the legalization of alcohol sales.
In November 2002, voters approved alcohol sales by the drink in restaurants that have at least 100 seats and derive at least 70 percent of their income from food. Alcohol sales began in March 2003.
Then, in March 2010, voters approved the expansion of alcohol sales to include beer pubs and liquor stores. That has brought more restaurants to town, and a couple of microbreweries now slake the thirst for craft beers.
Although alcohol flows more freely and legally, convictions for driving under the influence have not increased that much, according to figures compiled by Kentucky State Police. There were 130 convictions in Boyle County in 2000 and 153 in 2011.
In some ways, Danville is a microcosm of the nation at large. It has been affected by job losses and a slow recovery. And health care is a bigger portion of the local economy, as it is in the national economy.
Unemployment in Boyle County was slightly more than 4 percent in 2000. In August, the last month for which state figures are available, the unemployment rate stood at 10 percent.
Some of the biggest factories, including ATR Wire & Cable and Philips Lighting, have closed. Panasonic Appliances Co. moved many jobs to Mexico, but it still has about 120 employees at a research and development center, said Jody Lassiter, executive director of the Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership.
"We have experienced the same adjustments to manufacturing that the rest of the American economy has," Lassiter said.
Still, Danville has lured more than 360 manufacturing jobs since 2009, according to the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.
There are new employers, such as Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems, a British company that has two plants in Danville. Others, such as Red Wing Shoe Co. and Intelligrated Inc., a conveyor manufacturer, had announced work-force reductions, then they reversed themselves and kept some jobs.
There is more regional cooperation in the search for new jobs, with a more intense focus on small employers, officials said.
"We used to scrap and fight over 1,500 jobs. Now we scrap and fight over 15 or 20 jobs," said Greg Caudill, president of Farmers National Bank.
Meanwhile, the city's growing health care industry has been boosted by an aging population, renewal of old facilities and technological advances.
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center spent $36 million on an addition that included a bigger intensive care unit; a new obstetrical and women's care wing; and a new gift store, chapel and cafeteria. The hospital had 162 beds in 2006 and now has more than 220.
Last month, the medical center was recognized for outstanding performance in its treatment of heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and its surgical care by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America. (Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington also was recognized in those areas.)
Elsewhere, there is an ambulatory surgery center in a Main Street building and a neuroscience facility in the former Slone's grocery store. Commonwealth Cancer Center has its headquarters in a business park, and Heritage Hospice Inc. is growing, too.
But being a regional medical center affects Danville in other ways, police Chief Tony Gray said.
"We have a huge pill problem here, probably bigger than a lot of people realize," Gray said of those who abuse or sell prescription pain pills. "That is a hard issue to address because a lot of it is abused by people who have prescriptions. We have to get help from the attorney general's office and the Kentucky State Police. The pipeline to Florida is still open."
Nevertheless, Danville consistently ranks high among American small towns when judged for its median household income, home prices, crime rates, unemployment rates, average commutes and lifestyle amenities, such as community events and performance venues.
In September, Danville made Livability.com's list of Top 10 Small Towns in the country. The Web site said Danville "features charming neighborhoods, and residents take great pride in their city. Life here seems to move at a slower pace, but that doesn't mean there's a lack of things to do."
The city also was a finalist this past summer in a Rand McNally contest to find the most beautiful small towns in America. Money magazine picked Danville as the No. 4 retirement destination in the country. Livability.com also picked Danville as No. 9 on a list of the Top 10 best communities in historic preservation.
"We don't hesitate one minute to blow our own horn," McKinney said.
Despite the accolades, there's room for improvement, said local car dealer Stuart Powell. Danville has changed for the better in most cases, "but there are still some voids that I personally feel need to be filled.
"That is, we need to encourage more industry here and to nurture the industries we have, and to develop our downtown area as a retail marketing area as well as a semi-destination of entertainment and restaurants."
Wilma Brown, former director of the Community Arts Center — a museum and arts venue that came to Danville after the 2000 debate — said some residents wonder out loud whether Danville is losing its charm. Brown was also a leader in the effort to bring alcohol to the city.
"Occasionally we get letters to the editor saying, 'I want to go back to the 1950s, when the town was quiet and quaint and sweet,'" Brown said. "But I always want to say, 'We had polio and discrimination, and women couldn't have a decent job.' So you can't go back to anything like that. I understand what they're saying, but you can't go back to another time. ... I'm all for progress."


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"The Green Hornet" is a beloved superhero franchise that has carried on triumphantly through the years on radio, television, and the silver screen. For its latest cinematic adaptation, the material confronts its greatest challenge: Seth Rogen.
The giggly, goofy actor takes an implausible leap into big screen heroics; however, his "Green Hornet" is far from a stone-faced urban savior with a thirst for justice. Here, Rogen plays the masked avenger as a boob, though a financially powerful, easily impressed boob. His instincts to turn the role into comedy serve him well, making his "Green Hornet" a screwy addition to the parade of stern superhero releases.
Raised with constant dismissal from his father, newspaper magnate James Reid (Tom Wilkinson), Britt (Seth Rogen) has grown up to be a lazy, spoiled brat, incapable of getting his life in order. When James is killed by a bee sting, Britt is devastated, inheriting a newspaper he doesn't know how to run.
Finding comfort in a particularly skilled associate named Kato (Jay Chou), Britt is swiftly emboldened when a simple act of accidental valor is pulled off by the duo. Branding himself the Green Hornet, Britt takes to the superhero game armed with Kato's inventions and protected by Kato's martial art skills, with special assistance from Lenore (Cameron Diaz), a secretary with a background in criminal investigation.
Out on the streets, the pair look to bust up baddies, quickly disturbing oversensitive kingpin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz, playing campy notes with ease), who's not eager to hand Los Angeles over to the amateur crime fighters.
"Green Hornet" is an odd production all around, with directorial duties handed to French filmmaker Michel Gondry, known more for his abstract absurdity ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") than his way with big-budget anarchy. The choice is unconventional, yet Gondry's oomph is primarily why the feature remains in a curiously palatable state, showcasing the filmmaker taking a few left turns with this established property, shifting Britt Reid's fight for justice into a spirited slapstick comedy, tap dancing somewhere between satire and crooked homage.
A visual ace, Gondry at least beautifies the "Green Hornet" universe with phenomenal gadgets and costumes, keeping the film fluid with comic book touches such as "Kato-Vision" (the not-so-sidekick's ability to assess danger instantaneously) and Chudnofsky's double-barreled handgun, while enjoying his time racing around with Black Beauty, the gang's heavily tricked-out car — their bulletproof tank that plays records, sprays bullets, and shoots missiles.
Gondry loves the toys, energetically detailing the little hero machines Kato constructs, with one device, a gun that shoots green knockout gas, providing a humorous running gag for the film as Kato looks to keep Britt out of trouble by arming him with a foolproof weapon of incapacitation.
When "Green Hornet" stays in the comfort zone of its origin tale, watching the opposites team up without much of a crime-bustin' game plan, the picture provides an ample verve that balances the comedy and the violence admirably, tinkering with Gondryesque special effects and PG-13 roughhousing (much of it involving testicle trauma) to satisfying results. Locked in a bubble of cheeky adventuring, the picture feels confident and remains incredibly entertaining.
Squeezing 110 minutes out of the material (scripted by Rogen and Evan Goldberg), proves to be a real challenge for everyone involved, with a threadbare story involving corrupt politicians and Britt's developing journalistic integrity suddenly assuming great importance in the final act.
A sluggish film to begin with (Gondry's incapable of manufacturing a steady pace), "Green Hornet" doesn't do itself any favors by taking matters seriously, with the increased concentration destroying a few critical gags, including Chudnofsky's urge to be feared as a villain, renaming himself "Bloodnofsky."
My goodness, that joke just dies onscreen, largely because of its placement in the middle of the script's sober stage. For a film that primarily chases laughs, it seems ridiculous to waste a good chunk of time attempting to tie an uninspired story together.
"Green Hornet" is most assured with Britt and Kato, exploring the tentative bond that grows into brotherhood. They delight in their triumphs, compete for Lenore's affections, and when they argue, the Reid compound is trashed beyond recognition.
Granted, Rogen isn't stepping too far away from his established stoner persona, playing Britt as an arrogant, bewildered guy with a bright idea he's completely incapable of pulling off alone, despite his compulsion to assume credit. Chou's the real find, making Kato an attentive superman, stylishly saving the day with his moves and machines. Chou's English is rough but he has charisma to spare, with Gondry delighting in his fractured attempts to keep up with Rogen's rapid-fire wit.
"The Green Hornet" is scattershot but amusing, stuffed with enough idiosyncrasy and visual creativity to keep it trucking along when the story gums up the works. Purists may end up in tears over this comedy, but those seeking a lighthearted romp (handed a gratuitous 3D conversion) with some wicked smashmouth theatrics might welcome this superhero change of pace.


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An action plan is based on zones that are defined by your symptoms, your peak flow, or both. There are three zones: green, yellow, and red. Your action plan tells you what to do when you are in each zone.
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Keep your regular follow-up appointments. During
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Jeff Beck, Brian Wilson review: perfect harmony
Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck have lived their lives in parallel musical universes, but in the wide, wonderful world of rock 'n' roll, parallel lines do meet.
At the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Tuesday, in an unforgettable tableau, the exquisite British blues-rock guitarist drew out Wilson's sunny melodies in silvery, wavering guitar lines as the combined forces of his band and the Beach Boys founder's backing group stitched together the complex harmonies and orchestrations from Wilson's lost masterpiece, "Smile."
Beck brought out surprising beauty in Wilson's compositions and the supple Beach Boys melodies set off Beck's signature guitar sound, in a satisfying merger of these two vastly disparate musical giants, the unquestioned highlight of the 2 1/2-hour joint concert.
Brian Wilson, of course, is the songwriter and musical mind behind the timeless Beach Boys records, a reclusive, troubled genius who struggled for many years with his life and music until he put together this band about 15 years ago. Beck came to fame as lead guitarist with British Invasion band the Yardbirds and pioneered the English blues-rock sound with a group that featured a then-unknown Rod Stewart on vocals. These were not worlds that were ever expected to meet.
Wilson and his rapturous pop sound opened the evening with a wide-ranging, brilliant display of Beach Boys classics - drawing both from the band's ample radio hits and fan-favorite album tracks - with a handful of Beach Boys alumni, including founding member Al Jardine; guitarist David Marks, who played with the band's first three albums and in last year's Beach Boys reunion tour; and '70s-era member Blondie Chaplin, who reprised his lead vocal from "Sail On Sailor."
There were more Beach Boys onstage at the Paramount than in the version of the group that vocalist Mike Love drags around to county fairs.
Beck, ageless in sleeveless T-shirt and jet-black-dyed hair, and his sizzling four-piece band covered broad territory in their all-instrumental set, Beck uncharacteristically loose, joking and laughing. He veered from Middle Eastern sounds to Gypsy stylings, bombastic, crunching hard rock to blues-tinged filigree. He played nasty and he played pretty. He drew a standing ovation for his tour-de-force performance of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" on guitar.
Elizabeth Ball lit the place on fire with one of her solos, and bassist Rhonda Smith (who used to play with Prince) tore up her solo piece with a thunderous cascade of funk.
Beck brought Wilson and his band out for the "Smile" segment, and the two bands returned for an encore of Beach Boys oldies and an epic closing instrumental "Danny Boy," Beck's guitar glistening in the sumptuous sound. He ripped off a stinging bottleneck solo on "Surfin' U.S.A." That's right - bottleneck solo on "Surfin' U.S.A."
Beck and Wilson have been working on an album together, but the tour previewed no new material. Instead they perfected a seamless blend of their distinct musical visions - Wilson's majestic, euphoric pop sound and Beck's intensely personal approach to his instrument. Beck has not only honed his guitar playing razor sharp, but he plays with a highly physical approach, striking the strings largely with his thumb and manipulating the sound with an ear for infinite detail with his whammy bar. He has become a virtuoso beyond peer.
He has in the past experimented with playful ideas - he once recorded an entire album of Gene Vincent's '50s rock 'n' roll numbers, faithfully reproducing the original solos by guitarist Cliff Gallup - and his masterful immersion in Wilson's music was certainly presaged by the crystalline cover of "A Day in the Life."
But whatever idea was behind the coupling of Wilson and Beck, these two musicians and their accompanists brought immense musicality and a serious sense of enterprise to the collaboration, and the result was a unique, unexpected and thoroughly satisfying evening of great music.
Joel Selvin is The San Francisco Chronicle's senior pop music correspondent. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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|For Immediate Release:
|Contact: Alan Guenther, Director
Allison Kobus
|Date: Monday, March 25, 2011
Jackson, NJ -- School leaders from around the state gathered today to hear Education acting Commissioner Chris Cerf promote Governor Christie's education reforms during a speech at the New Jersey Association of School Administrator's 2011 Representative Assembly at Jackson High School in Ocean County.
Acting Commissioner Cerf told the gathering of superintendents, principals, supervisors and directors that he is revamping the Department of Education to facilitate meaningful reforms that are focused on the academic success of children, while working to eliminate state requirements that generate paperwork without reflecting real results.
"The call to action is now," said acting Commissioner Cerf. "Help me fix the system. You are the generals on the ground. Together we can make it work," he told them.
He also highlighted the Governor's plan for increasing teacher effectiveness.
"We need to make accountability and performance the foundation of educator evaluations," acting Commissioner Cerf said. "The single most important thing we need to provide, to ensure that our kids learn, is an effective teacher at the front of the room. Research has supported this."
To see more about the Governor's education reform agenda, go here.
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Phone: 706.653.4290
The Juvenile Court has jurisdiction over cases involving children under the age of 17 who are alleged to be unruly, delinquent, deprived, in need of treatment (i.e., mentally or emotionally ill or mentally retarded), or who are alleged to have committed a traffic offense.
The judge, who is appointed by the Superior Court, judges for a term of four years, presides over these cases as well as contested divorce custody cases transferred to the Juvenile Court by the Superior Court judges.
The Juvenile Court has one part-time associate judge who holds preliminary/detention, shelter hearings, traffic hearings, serves as pro-tem, assesses and signs bonds, warrants, and other legal documents. The support staff ensures that all cases have been properly handled by conferring with attorneys, and other professionals.
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My fellow cocktail bloggers have been working on shrubs and gastriques for a while now. I don't know why I've held off until now. Lack of ambition, perhaps. But I came back from Tales with a drive to try it out, and I'll credit that impetus entirely to the Cabana Shrub.
Cabana Cachaça (link, NSFW) was a sponsor at Tales, and more specifically, Cabana sponsored both the Tales blog and the blogger meetup party at Tales. At the meetup party, Cabana served up two drinks: a traditional caipirinha and the Cabana Shrub.
No bullshit here: I could not get enough of the Cabana Shrub. My memory's a little hazy, but I think I remember that Chicago bartender Bridget Albert came up with this drink. (Edited to add: Danielle Sarna, who represents Cabana at Nike Communications, confirms my memory on this. Bridget Albert did create the Cabana Shrub.)
It's fabulous–balanced and refreshing, with each ingredient present but not overweening. I could taste the cachaça, the fruit, and the tarty vinegar, but no single element predominated. I kept going back for more, to the point where I honestly lost count of how many I drank. In a long weekend with many fine drinks, this one was among my favorites.
Here's the recipe that Tales provided:
Cabana Shrub
- 1-1/2 oz. Cabana Cachaça
- 1 oz. Raspberry Shrub Syrup*
- 1/8 oz. lime juice
- 1 oz. Fever Tree Premium Ginger Ale
- Sugar-cane stick, for garnish
Technique: Build in a short ice-filled glass. Top with ginger ale. Add garnish.
*Raspberry Shrub Syrup
- 1 cup white vinegar
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 pints fresh raspberries
- Splash of water
Technique: Bring ingredients to a boil. Stir. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain into a glass bottle.
When I tasted this drink, I had two reactions–Wow, this is good; and, Jen is going to love this.
By the time I got home, raspberry season had ended in our part of New England, but blueberries and gooseberries were going strong. So over the weekend I cooked up some shrub syrup, using champagne vinegar and a mix of gooseberries and raspberries. I tinkered a bit with the recipe, in part because I had no ginger ale/beer ready.
Modified Cabana Shrub
- 1-1/2 oz. Cabana
- 1 oz. Blueberry-Gooseberry Shrub Syrup (prepared in same proportions as Rasp. syrup above)
- 1/4 oz. lime juice
- 1/2 oz. Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
- 1 oz. soda water (mine, from my new seltzer bottle)
Technique: Build in a short ice filled glass. Garnish with nothing. (The printed recipe calls for sugar cane, but it wasn't served that way at Tales, and how easy is it to find sugar cane sticks anyway?)


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Serves: Makes 1 to 2 servings
- 3 chicken breast tenderloins
- 1 tsp. sugar
- 2 tbsp. white wine
- 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
- 3 tbsp. soy sauce
- 1 clove of garlic, minced (optional)
- Salt
- Pepper
Procedures:For use with the Lékué Steam Case
Put the chicken breast tenderloins onto wooden skewers, season with salt and pepper and place lengthwise in the Lékué Steam Case.
Add the white wine, close the lids and cook in the microwave for 3 minutes at 800 watts. Adjust cooking time as needed to ensure chicken is fully cooked.
While the chicken is cooking, mix the sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and garlic, if using, in a bowl.
Add to the steam case and cook again for one more minute.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Moody Over Chemistry
When I was in high school I took chemistry like everyone else did. Science was my strength, and the thought of actually manipulating things in the lab appealed to me.
Between Michaela's issues, and all these doctors scratching their collective heads about what's wrong with Gabe, we've got half a pharmacy at my house: he alone is on 2 different breathing treatments for asthma, a reflux med, an allergy med, a sinus med, and next week he goes on a long-term antibiotic for chronic sinusitis.
The Lord only knows what the allergist will find.
God help me.
Did you count it all?
15 different meds/therapies that these two children need daily.
I'm thinking that I need some Tylenol.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Michaela and I have a nighttime routine. Thankfully, she's not extremely attached to it, or nights out without me would be horrific. But when it's a normal night, we do the same things to get her ready for bed. She'll even remind me if I miss a step.
Get undressed and into PJs.
Pull down the cover of her bed.
Arrange a wet pad for midnight accidents.
She gets halfway into the bed, and won't lay down until I take off any shoes or socks she's still wearing.
Take off the VNS ankle bracelet and lay it on the bedside table.
"Mama, the pillow..."
Oh, right, I forgot a drool bib for the pillow (so she doesn't lay in a puddle).
She flops onto her right side and I cover her up.
Then I mix the meds. 3 pills get crushed, 2 liquid meds. Mix it all up in a vial with some water and flush it down her g-tube.
Re-cover her.
Pull up the railings.
Stuff pillows into the railings for padding.
Turn on her radio.
Turn on her breathing monitor. It starts to bip with the rhythmic movement of her chest.
Then comes my favorite part. I'll pray for her, usually saying much of the same things I've been saying for years, "Thank you God for a good day. Please let her sleep with no seizures tonight. Please give her a good day tomorrow." She often will say the closing "Amen," and I'll lean in to kiss her on the left, soft, puffy exposed cheek.
But my absolute favorite part is right before the lights go out, but after the kiss. The way she lays, the left side of her neck is exposed. I like to bury my face there and just drink her in. All the familiar smells of just her. It's such a soft spot that I have no doubt I could easily fall asleep there. I still can't believe I survived a month without this routine. Without this particular ritual.
"You love me Mama?"
"Yes, baby. Mama loves you."
A couple more kisses on that squishy cheek....so close to the scar where the VNS was placed...but far enough away to feel like newborn skin. A couple more deep breaths of that familiar smell, and I finally pull away.
"Goodnight, Boo."
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Of Questions, and Answers
"It occurs to me that we should treat answers like pronouns, connectors that get us to the next question." *
"On a gut level, it is why the surety with which some people navigate complex issues of life feels foreign, even fabricated to me. I am skeptical of people who "have it figured out." "
"There is an art to, "the next question." It is mystery that fuels passion. It is awe and wonder at the unknown that draws our gaze heavenward."
Monday, February 07, 2011
It Feels Good to Feel Good
Monday, January 31, 2011
It is Well.
It is Well...
...with Michaela.
She is doing EXCEPTIONAL.
I can see her again. I can see her. Her eyes are bright again. Her face lights up and her smile is genuine. She talks with clarity. Civil clarity.
Her mind is clear.
She is back.
The issues we are currently dealing with, pale in comparison to what we saw in the hospital. It took some time, but she pulled out of that zombie-like state, and now only deals with some very benign handicaps.
Mainly, one of her meds causes a slight-to-pronounced tremor, depending on the time of day. She can be very unsteady. Let's just say she can quake like the San Andreas. But it's not all the time, and it's not always that bad. Sometimes, it's really not a big deal. She works with it. I don't feel comfortable with her walking around on her own yet, and we use her wheelchair in all public places, but it could be worse. She could be completely immobile, like she was in the hospital. Also, when we first came home, she would sleep constantly. She would be alert for a brief time each morning until she got her meds, and then she was like jello. I learned the hard way to put her to bed or in her wheelchair before I dosed her--she was that lethargic, almost within minutes. Then she would sleep all day. But now, she appears to have gotten used to it more. If we're out and about, she stays awake a whole lot longer, and can even move purposefully (as opposed to like jello) after being dosed. The improvement is very obvious.
Surprisingly, she still hallucinates slightly. But thankfully, her voice has gotten markedly quieter since she came home and started talking again. I have to strain to hear her sometimes, which is a HUGE difference from the past....oh, I dunno, year or so? So the slight hallucinating every so often is really no big deal. Definitely nothing I would make an issue of. She was getting too hyper and manic at the beginning of last week, to the point where she even ripped her g-tube out. We quickly upped one of her meds, and all is calm again. I will take calmly talking to invisible people over mania any day. Like the background seizure activity she has lived with for many years, this psychotic stuff might always be just in the background at the least. If so, background is fine. All-encompassing is not. Hopefully, "all-encompassing" will be a thing of the past.
There is also a cough that interrupts her when she eats, and we just started seeing her pupils dilate unevenly (although Chris says he's seen it before). The cough is a well-known side-effect of the VNS. Unfortunately for Boo, she already deals with aspiration when she eats, which makes her cough. Add the "VNS cough" and it makes for some messy meals. I'm just keeping my eyes on it for now, to make sure the problem isn't getting worse. So far, it's only an annoyance. As far as the pupils go, uneven pupils can be a sign of some pretty nasty stuff. Hers only do it intermittently. Some people's eyes just do it without any problem, however; and we hope that hers is just a by-product of the trauma her brain has been through and not a new development. Chief warned us that if she gets headaches or vomits with it, or if one eye "does it's own thing," we should be going to the ER. Thankfully, I don't think it will be an issue.
Overall, what do I have to complain about? My girl is back from the depths of some pretty miserable stuff. I was on the verge of putting her in an institution. Then for all intents and purposes, it looked like she would exist in a stupor; just an invalid. Neither came to pass.
I know mercy when I see it.
And I'm grateful.
It is Well...
...with me.
I get to be full-time Mommy again. A full-time wife.
I get to be home.
Home...It represents so many things.
Everyone who knows how long I was gone, who knows I'm a housewife, who hears that I homeschool, and especially who hears of how many children I have, knows instinctively that I MUST have been anxious to get back to my life.
They were right.
My world revolves around this address. My husband, so diligent to work a full-time job while attending the University as a full-time engineering senior. My 5 other children, ages 4-11, constantly growing, learning, changing--needing a Mama. My little farmhouse, seemingly sagging and moaning under the lack of routine care and maintenance. My church family, temporarily taking my place in many, many ways.
It's all here, just turning and twisting on an off-kilter axis without me.
I've built my life juggling these balls, and I don't regret setting them in motion. There is something so satisfying about building your life around relationships and investing your happiness in other people. Yes, there are risks involved in that. I understand the consequences.
But I could never have it any other way.
Because see, there is Michaela. The other ball in my act. Slightly un-round, slightly unbalanced, but just as vibrant as the others. I take great care to toss her in the mix with as much strength as every other ball. Even though it takes more effort, more skill...
...more risk.
Someday, she may just fall and break my heart.
But it will have been worth every moment.
I would never have it any other way.
It is Well...
...with my soul.
When you go through things that try you, that stretch you, it seems as though people expect your very foundation to be rocked. That you will either dig deep and learn a true lesson of life; turn to God, or you will curse God and move in a different direction.
And, perhaps that happens for a lot of people.
But I can honestly say, that is not my testimony.
On either count.
I don't think there was one moment when my faith was tried. No, I KNOW there wasn't one moment. Not one.
Did things end up the way I thought they would? Nope.
That doesn't bother me.
Did I expect something exciting in Michaela's condition at the end of it all? Yes. I could see a different outcome. A "good" coming from the "bad."
But I didn't pivot anything on it. Not my faith, not my trust, not my foundation.
I decided a long time ago that I would look for the good in situations and focus on that. "Good" is subjective. It varies. It changes. If the good that presented itself yesterday, is not available today, that doesn't mean it wasn't good yesterday. It was still the thing to focus on for that day.
But when things weren't good, and I even felt somewhat in despair, I always knew that it was simply temporary. A door I needed to go through in the journey. And God still fits into all of that.
Even though those types of things cause people to negate God--when things change for the worse. For me, it does nothing more than reiterate His omniscience. From my perspective, life is like a chess game, and God is undefeated. He knows so many moves ahead of the present, that I couldn't possibly argue with Him on His choice of placement. I can often see the move as it is and see the intelligence in it, even when it turns out to not lead to another move I imagined.
And then sometimes, the move makes no sense at all.
But the fact still remains: my perspective is altogether at a disadvantage. And I don't question Him.
At all.
People often blame God for the bad, and despise Him for not correcting it. And then some people will criticize medicine, and shout it's shortcomings from the rooftops. But I see the Divine in the midst of both scenarios, and can hardly say anything demeaning about either one.
Even when I've experienced both. It simply doesn't move me.
Albert Einstein once said, "Science without religion is [crippled]. Religion without science is blind."
I choose to believe that God has put a lot of time and thought into the science we base our daily existence on. The medicine we practice. The whole of what we know today would not be ours to claim if it weren't for God's generous outpouring of knowledge, skill, and tenacity. He's allowed humankind to know what we know, and to use what we know for our good. Science, medicine, is a gift.
But it is manipulated by imperfect hands. Scientists, or doctors, are not gods. They are at the mercy of their own limitations. Limitations set by God.
So, in this light, I will not allow myself to get bent out of shape at the "grass roots level" when things don't go the way I had planned. Science has done wonderful things for Michaela. God has allowed it, and I'm grateful. But when science, and even great human minds, can do nothing for Michaela, I refuse to let that rock me.
God can always do something for her.
And if He chooses not to, so be it. That will not rock me either.
I accept the fact that the next move on the board is unclear to me, and I'm perfectly ok with whatever position He takes next. I continue to make my own moves, relying on plays He has pointed out in the past, or holes in the board that seem to open up. Some based on science, and some based on faith.
When it comes down to it, however, I know He will win the game. Yet, I'm enjoying playing with Him anyway.
Because someday, I believe that I will clearly see that He was playing with MY pieces all along.
I know I can tend to wax philosophical, and definitely allegorical, so here's the words to a song that just seems to simply sum it all up:
I'm running back to Your promises
One more time
Lord, that's all I can hold on to
I gotta say this has taken me by surprise
But nothing surprises You
Before a heartache can ever touch my life
It has to go through Your hands
And even though I keep asking why, I keep asking why
No matter what, I'm gonna love You
No matter what, I'm gonna need You
I know that You can find a way to keep me from the pain
But if not, if not, I'll trust You
No matter what, no matter what
When I'm stuck in this nothingness by myself
I'm just sitting in silence
There's no way I can make it without Your help
I won't even try it
I know You have Your reasons for everything
So I will keep believing
Whatever I might be feeling
God You are my hope
And You'll be my strength
Anything I don't have You can give it to me
But it's OK if You don't
I'm not here for those things
The touch of Your love is enough on it's own
No matter what I still love You and I'm gonna need You
-Kerrie Roberts, "No Matter What"
Yup. That about says it all.


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- 1 pound cavatappi, corkscrew pasta with lines or, macaroni with line in any short cut
- Salt
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive, divided
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- Black pepper
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups whole or 2 percent milk
- 1/2 pound sliced capocollo, hot ham, halve then slice into thin ribbons
- 1 box frozen chopped spinach, defrosted and excess liquid squeezed out
- 1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, a few large handfuls, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, ground or freshly grated, eyeball it
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper, a couple pinches
- 1 pound ball fresh mozzarella -- buy a piece wrapped, not packed in water, then cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 cup plain or Italian bread crumbs
- A generous handful of flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place a large pot of water over high heat and bring to a boil. Add the pasta, salt water and cook to al dente, with a bite.
While the water is coming up to a boil for the pasta, heat a medium, deep skillet over medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 turn of the pan, and the butter. When butter melts into the oil, add onions and garlic and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, for 2 minutes then dust the onions with flour and continue to cook for 1 minute. Slowly whisk in milk. Gently bring milk to a bubble, allow the milk to thicken a bit, then stir in the capocola, spinach and 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano. Season sauce with nutmeg and cayenne and remove from the heat. Taste and add a little salt, if you like.
Combine the cooked pasta and the cubed mozzarella with the sauce, stir to coat completely by turning over and over. Transfer dressed pasta to a baking dish.
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If I had three minutes with President Jakaya Kikwete…
Imagine that you are in an elevator. It stops to pick up the next passenger going up. It turns out to be H.E. Jayaka Mrisho Kikwete, yes, the President of Tanzania himself, accompanied by a group of high ranking officials. The President turns and asks you what you think is the most important thing that he could do for his country. You have less than three minutes to convince him. What would you tell him?
I know what I would say, loud and clear: "Your Excellency, that would have to be improving the performance of the port of Dar es Salaam."
No doubt there are plenty of issues that matter for Tanzania's prosperity: rural development, education, energy, water, food security, roads, you name it. They are all competing for urgent attention and effort; yet it is also true that each of them involves complex solutions that would take time to produce impact on the ground, and it is hard to know where to begin and to focus priority attention.
This is not the case for the Dar es Salaam port, as most experts know what to do.
So why the port of Dar es Salaam?
The port represents a wonderful opportunity for his country. The port handles about 90% of Tanzania's international trade and is the potential gateway of six landlocked countries. I would tell him that almost all citizen and firms operating in Tanzania are currently affected, directly and indirectly, by the performance of this port.


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text: On Friday 25 November 2005 00:49, Joachim Worringen wrote: > Well, the problem is that this is single-process, single-file benchmark, > which is often very different from the I/O that a parallel application > performs. Correct, but IMHO you'll need to get those sorts of baseline figures from Bonnie++ before going to parallel benchmarks in order to know whether any problems you may see from the parallel tests are the result of something unique to parallel access or something more fundamental to the storage architecture. It's kind of like debugging network protocols, start at the bottom layer and work up.. For instance when we had to move from RH7.3 to RHEL3 for our storage server (some time ago) we found that we were getting all sorts of odd NFS problems, people getting stale NFS file handles, not being able to check code out through Subversion, etc. Bonnie++ helped us track that down to the fact that RHEL3 had really really bad ext3 I/O performance [1] and all our NFS daemons were getting stuck in device waits - knocking those numbers up to 70 or more just resulted in 70 or so stuck with one or two free and an impressive load average. When we switched to using Fedora Core 3 and XFS our NFS problems evaporated and we had great I/O performance again.. [1] - this appeared to be because of RH's backporting of 2.6 features, as people on RH's bugzilla reported their problems went away when they booted with a Redhat 9 kernel instead of a RHEL3 kernel (unfortunately that wasn't an option for us then). cheers! Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/ Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20051125/5ec1f1a2/attachment.sig>


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UPDATE 9/22/10 7:45 PM ET: Sen. Durbin's view was not reported accurately by Bloomberg. He believes we should not begin deficit reduction until unemployment drops below 6%, not 9% as stated in the initial post below. More details here.
Last week, 300 economists warned Washington of the "grave danger" that a "premature focus on deficit reduction could slow growth and increase unemployment – and could push us back into recession."
Someone got the message. And he just happens to be the highest-ranking Senator on the White House's deficit commission.
Sen. Richard Durbin told Bloomberg that we shouldn't start cutting the deficit until the unemployment rate drops below 9 percent:
Congress shouldn't make cutting the federal deficit a greater priority than creating jobs until the U.S. unemployment rate falls to 9 percent or lower for at least half a year, the second-ranking Senate Democrat said in an interview.
"If we have two or three quarters of 9 percent or less" then Congress can "breathe a sigh of relief" and "move forward on what we need to do on this deficit," Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said yesterday in an interview at Bloomberg headquarters in New York.
Now, it may well be that our 300 economists would not agree with Sen. Durbin that an unemployment rate of 8.9% is a low enough threshold to start reducing government support for the economy.
But Durbin is embracing the basic point: when you're in a jobs crisis, jobs takes precedence over deficit reduction.
The question should be posed to everyone else on the White House deficit commission: do you agree with the 300 economists who have warned against putting deficit reduction ahead of jobs?
Because if the other commission members can't accept Econ 101, it would undermine the credibility of their entire package of recommendations.


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The mission of Metro United Way is to improve our community by engaging people to give, advocate and volunteer. Their vision is a community whose people achieve their fullest potential through education, financial stability and healthy lives – the building blocks of a good quality of life.
Education is the organization's primary focus, because studies show that better education leads to better income and a healthier life. As Metro United Way celebrates its progress and success over the past year, President and CEO Joe Tolan shares his insight about the organization's work to advance the common good over its nearly 100-year history.
LORI KOMMOR: Metro United Way has established a new, bold vision for the community. Tell us more about that.
JOE TOLAN: We've undergone a transformation at United Way that we believe is absolutely essential to meet the challenges we all face in this community, across the country and around the world. Metro United Way can have the greatest impact on our community by being much more strategic and deliberate in how we work; if we are going to create opportunities for a better life for all, we have to focus our energies on those areas that will lead to significant, lasting change. And we believe that if we help improve education, financial stability and health, we will have strong communities and stable, independent families – because we all succeed when a child succeeds.
Our community aspirations are for: No. 1, all children to enter kindergarten ready to learn; No. 2, all youth complete high school on time prepared for college, work and life; No. 3, parents and caregivers have the knowledge, skills and abilities to maintain family stability and help their children succeed; and No. 4, a sustained network of services that address basic and core needs.
KOMMOR: What is one significant way Metro United Way has changed its approach in supporting the community?
TOLAN: We now embrace collaboration and partnership with various entities throughout the community that align with our defined strategic goals. To succeed, we must collaborate across all sectors – big businesses, small businesses, elected officials, nonprofits, academia, the faith community, the labor movement, the media, parents and neighbors.
We're proud of our success to-date with our Early Childhood Excellence Academy, funded through the Lift a Life Foundation for the educational benefit of pre-school teachers and their students in 14 early learning centers. The Out-of-School Time Coordinating Council, a partnership between us, Metro Government and Jefferson County Public Schools, leads the way in creating new quality learning opportunities for students during out-of-school time – that time of day after school, or even summer break, when students are not in a supervised, educational setting and are at higher risk of getting into trouble and learning loss.
KOMMOR: What do you see in the future for Metro United Way?
TOLAN: There are so many ways people are working through Metro United Way to support our community, and we know that the measure of our success is in the ways we are impacting our community – in connecting people across the region, and in improving the foundation of our community. There are many opportunities to join us: You can give, you can advocate and you can volunteer.
In the areas of education, income and health, people with passion and expertise from all across our community are getting things done. That's what it means to Live United.


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Trouble on the Horizon as Cancer Screenings Decline?
BOSTON - The American Cancer Society, along with cancer experts across the country, has promoted cancer screenings as a way to cut cancer death rates, especially for breast, colon and prostate cancer. But over the last decade, the number of people seeking those screenings has dropped.
Chuck Reed with the American Cancer Society thinks part of the reason is confusion.
"People aren't sure exactly when to go in to get that first screening, and I strongly suggest to everybody to visit the American Cancer Society website and get our recommendations for screenings, because I believe we have the best ones out there."
He says another reason for the drop may be that people fear bad news, but he says early detection means a better chance of a cure.
Reed says people need to be proactive about their health.
"We can help people if they just follow the advice we give, so if they do indeed find cancer, we find it at an early stage. So, I'm more concerned about what's going to happen down the road as far as finding cancers in more advanced stages."
Reed says if you haven't had a mammogram by age 40, you need to go in; if you haven't had that colonoscopy by age 50, you need get one. For other recommendations on when to get cancer screenings, go to Cancer.org.


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Calling all ChucK'ers, SuperColliders, Max and PureData patchers, CSounders, Fluxites, Overtoners, and all other tongues of creative coders. We welcome you to attend the fifth edition of the Creative Music Coding lab at STEIM.
The CMC lab is an autonomous zone to try out sonic experiments as a group. And an opportunity to leverage the expertise of the group in realizing new artistic tools and processes through the medium of code. Many of the founding members of the group are indeed experts in their favorite languages, but we come from all technical levels of proficiency and enjoy helping one-another out.
DATE: Tuesday, 5 NOVEMBER 2013
LOCATION: STEIM Concert Space, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134 Amsterdam ( map )
Please let us know if you plan to come (mail marije [AT] steim [DOT] nl ), so we have a rough idea who to expect.
What ARE the goals for the lab?
- a place for creative music coders to show work in progress, regardless of programming language or platform
- a place to discuss and question techniques with fellow computer musicians
- an informal stage for playing with others, livecoding sessions, jamming, and other fun experiments
- an opportunity to meet like-minded artists, share talents, and start new collaborations
- an opportunity to be exposed to new languages and improve cross-language fluency
- a way to discover lesser known and emerging creative programming paradigms
- a place to to discuss interconnections between programming environments
- an environment for discussions on cultural contexts surrounding coding in the arts
We encourage members of the group to use this as a platform for exploring ways in which we might be able to create and play together. Proposals for creative group investigations of hardware, software, and coding as process are welcome.
As always, entry is free, tea and coffee will be provided.
To keep in touch with members of the CMC Lab we have a mailing list (contact tijs [AT] steim [DOT] nl to join). Also join us on facebook: facebook.com/groups/creativemusiccoding/


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General Leadership
The General Authorities consist of the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the Presidency of the Seventy, the First and Second Quorums of the Seventy, and the Presiding Bishopric. (View General Authorities for more information on the roles of these leaders.)
The General Auxiliary presidencies consist of the Primary, Relief Society, Sunday School, Young Men, and Young Women General Presidencies. (View General Auxiliaries for more information on the roles of these leaders.)
The worldwide Church is divided into geographic areas. For example, "Europe," "Asia North," "Caribbean," and "Central America" are names given to specific areas of the Church. The First Presidency has assigned the Presidency of the Seventy to preside over areas in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere, the First Presidency assigns Area Presidencies to preside over selected areas under the direction of the Quorum of the Twelve. An Area Presidency consists of a president and two counselors. An Area President is typically a General Authority selected from the First or Second Quorum of the Seventy, while the counselors can be either General Authorities or Area Seventies selected from any Quorum of the Seventy.
Members of the Presidency of the Seventy or Area Presidency travel frequently within the assigned area to teach and encourage local leaders and members of the Church. Area Seventies are also assigned to consult with and instruct stake presidents in their area, under the direction of the Area Presidency or Presidency of the Seventy.
Most areas of the Church are divided into stakes, which usually consist of five to twelve congregations called wards or branches. The term stake was used by the prophet Isaiah. He described the latter-day Church as a tent that would be secured by stakes (see Isaiah 33:20; 54:2).
A stake is led by a stake president and two counselors. The stake president is the presiding high priest in a stake. These leaders oversee the spiritual and temporal welfare of Church members.
The stake presidency calls 12 high priests to form the stake high council. Under the direction of the stake presidency, high councilors help oversee the work of the Church in the stake by fulfilling many advisory and administrative responsibilities.
Similar to the general administration of the Church, a stake has presidencies for the Relief Society, Young Men, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday School organizations. These presidencies advise their respective organizations in each of the wards of the stake.
Stakes also have a patriarch, a man who is ordained to give patriarchal blessings to members of the stake. Patriarchal blessings contain specific, inspired counsel and direction from the Lord to the recipient.
As in the ancient Church, members of the Church today are organized into congregations. Large congregations (approximately 300 or more members) are called wards. Smaller congregations are called branches. A ward is led by a bishop and two counselors, who constitute a bishopric. Branches are led by a branch president and two counselors. The responsibilities of a branch president are similar to those of a bishop, described below.
A bishop has many duties. In addition to watching over all ward members, he has special responsibility to guide the ward's young men and young women. He oversees teaching, missionary work, and spiritual growth in the ward. He is responsible to conduct worthiness interviews, counsel Church members, and administer Church discipline. He is responsible to care for the poor and needy, and he oversees finances, records, and the use and security of the meetinghouse.
In these responsibilities and others, the bishop is assisted by two counselors, an executive secretary, clerks, and the leaders of other organizations in the ward. Leadership meetings are held regularly to allow the bishop and those who help him to counsel together about the well-being of ward members.
Melchizedek Priesthood
Worthy adult men in the Church receive the Melchizedek Priesthood, which is authority from God to perform sacred ordinances and to lead in the Church. Men who hold the Melchizedek Priesthood can perform ordinances such as bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost and giving blessings to the sick by the laying on of hands. Within a ward, the men who hold the Melchizedek Priesthood belong to either the elders quorum or the high priests group.
The elders quorum is led by a president and two counselors. The elders quorum meets each Sunday to study the gospel and be instructed in their duties. The duties of elders include teaching and watching over the members of the ward (see D&C 20:42). Home teaching is one way they accomplish this duty. In home teaching two priesthood holders are responsible to visit members in their homes to teach, watch over, and provide service to them. The elders quorum may also be assigned by the bishop or stake president to carry out specific service projects.
Within a ward, the high priests group is led by a group leader and two assistants (the high priests quorum consists of all the high priests in the stake and is presided over by the stake president). The high priests group meets each Sunday to study the gospel and be instructed in their duties. High priests have the same duties as elders (including home teaching). They can also officiate, or preside, in the ward and administer spiritual things (see D&C 107:10, 12). The high priests group can also be given specific assignments by the bishop or stake president.
Relief Society
All women in the ward ages 18 and older, as well as women younger than 18 who are married or are single mothers, belong to the Relief Society organization. Relief Society helps prepare women for the blessings of eternal life as they increase faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and His Atonement; strengthen individuals, families, and homes through ordinances and covenants; and work in unity to help those in need. Relief Society accomplishes these purposes through Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service.
The bishop calls women in the ward to serve as the Relief Society presidency, which typically consists of a president and two counselors, supported by a secretary. Additional instructors and coordinators may also be called. The Relief Society meets on Sundays for gospel instruction and has additional meetings outside of Sunday as determined by the Relief Society president and the bishop.
The Relief Society organization also provides an individualized support network that gives women the opportunity to care for, strengthen, and teach one another. In this program, called visiting teaching, each woman is assigned two other women who visit her home each month to give a religious message and offer help as needed.
Young Men
Worthy young men are ordained as deacons in the Aaronic Priesthood at the age of 12. They advance to the office of a teacher at age 14 and to the office of priest at age 16. In these priesthood offices, they have the authority to provide the sacrament to the congregation and, in the case of priests, to baptize. The bishop of the ward is the president of the Aaronic Priesthood, and he calls adult men to serve as the presidency and as advisers in the Young Men organization.
The purpose of the Young Men organization is to help young men learn and fulfill their Aaronic Priesthood duties and to prepare them for future responsibilities as missionaries, husbands, fathers, and leaders in the Church. The young men meet on Sundays for priesthood instruction and during the week for social, service, or cultural activities. During these meeting times—and in their personal time—young men also participate in a program called Duty to God, which helps them strengthen their testimonies and their relationship with God, learn and fulfill their priesthood duties, and live gospel standards.
Young Women
Young women ages 12 to 17 belong to the ward's Young Women organization. The purpose of this organization is to help young women build their testimonies of Christ and prepare to receive the blessings of the temple. The Young Women organization also prepares them for their future roles as women in the Church and as contributing members of society.
The bishop calls adult women in the ward to serve as the presidency and advisers in the Young Women organization. The young women meet on Sundays for gospel instruction and during the week for social, service, or cultural activities. During these meeting times—and in their personal time—young women also participate in a program called Personal Progress by setting and achieving goals in eight value areas.
Sunday School
Sunday School classes are held for approximately one hour each Sunday. Sunday School provides age-specific gospel instruction for ward members ages 12 and older (younger members attend Primary). The ward Sunday School presidency typically consists of a president and two counselors, who are supported by a secretary and by teachers called to instruct various age-groups.
Children ages 18 months to 11 years belong to the Primary organization. Its purpose is to help children learn and understand the gospel of Jesus Christ and prepare to make and keep sacred covenants. Children attend Primary classes for two hours each Sunday while their parents participate in other Church meetings. Children also participate in regularly held activity days, which provide them with opportunities to interact with each other; have wholesome fun in physical, creative, cultural, and service activities; and participate in a program called Faith in God, which helps them live gospel principles and develop testimonies.
Each ward has a Primary presidency, which consists of a president and two counselors. These three women are assisted by a secretary, teachers for different age-groups, a music director, an accompanist, and activity day leaders.


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