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With his unexpected guests and hilarious skits, Jimmy Fallon consistently raises the bar of the late night game. Last night, the comedian outdid himself when he surprised viewers with an appearance by Sarah Palin.
The politician hasn't been in the spotlight much lately, but is still remembered for famously claiming she could see Russia from her house. In Jimmy's world, it only makes sense that Palin would appear on 'The Tonight Show' in a skit in which she pretends to be besties with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Jimmy donned his best bald cap and Russian accent for the bit, which culminated in himself and Sarah covering Pharrell's hit 'Happy.' The former vice presidential candidate even threw down a flute solo. As expected, the audience was in stitches.
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About five years ago, Mark and Sharon Rallings decided to overhaul the landscaping in their 30-year-old yard at 2124 Robert H Kirk Road.
They added a front porch large enough to accommodate rocking chairs and a bench, re-established their flower beds, reshaped their sidewalk and revamped their patio where a gold fish pond once existed.
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wning a house on a corner lot sometimes creates a landscaping challenge for a homeowner. Lewie and Robin Pitts of 1329 Somerset Drive stepped up to that challenge, creating a beautiful view from all three easily-visible sides of their yard.
Janesta Williams of Green Gardeners Garden Club and Cecile Flanders of the Lancaster Garden Club enjoyed the view so much they selected the Pitts as the winners of the September Yard of the Month.
An inviting front porch and yard filled with an assortment of blooms and foliage at the home of Tony and Nancy Snipes caught the attention of Sara Phillips, Leaf & Petal Garden Club member. She selected their home, at 1970 Robert H. Kirk Road, as the August Yard of the Month.
"From the white crepe myrtles that frame the driveway to the front plantings highlighting the front porch, this yard is well kept and full of color," Phillips said.
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Bertha Harris of Catawba will turn 100 years old on Saturday, June 29. On her birthday, devoted family members and loving friends and neighbors from her church community will gather for a day of celebration in her honor from 10 a.m. to noon at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1989 Reservation Road, Rock Hill. The public is invited to attend the gathering.
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"Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." (Mark 16:15)
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Returning from a mid-May trip to Virginia, I was very happy to be bringing back a bouquet of lilacs cut from my sister's yard.
Growing up, we both loved an old lilac that stood at our home's back door and would often take flowering branches, stems wrapped in damp paper towels, to our teachers. The scent of lilacs still transports me back to those schoolgirl days.
My sister recently sent me interesting newspaper articles about old trees on two Virginia college campuses. In both cases the trees were in rapidly declining health and deemed safety hazards. There were emotional outpourings of sadness by students, alumni and townspeople as each was scheduled for removal. But then, something wonderful happened.
At Virginia Tech an ancient sycamore had stood prominently on Henderson Lawn, the southern entrance to campus, since before the university was established in 1872.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Description: In 2008, Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued the town of Greece on behalf of local residents Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, who claim that continued Christian prayer at the opening of town meetings is unconstitutional. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the town argue that the practice of deliberative bodies to invoke divine guidance and blessings upon their work has always been constitutional.
US Supreme Court strongly affirms that Americans are free to prayAlliance Defending Freedom represents town of Greece, NY in pivotal prayer case
Monday, May 05, 2014
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"The Supreme Court has again affirmed that Americans are free to pray," said ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman. "In America, we tolerate a diversity of opinions and beliefs; we don't silence people or try to separate what they say from what they believe. Opening public meetings with prayer is a cherished freedom that the authors of the Constitution themselves practiced. Speech censors should have no power to silence volunteers who pray for their communities just as the Founders did."
"As a practice that has long endured, legislative prayer has become part of our heritage and tradition, part of our expressive idiom, similar to the Pledge of Allegiance, inaugural prayer, or the recitation of 'God save the United States and this honorable Court' at the opening of this Court's sessions…," the court's opinion states. "That a prayer is given in the name of Jesus, Allah, or Jehovah, or that it makes passing references to religious doctrines, does not remove it from that tradition."
Although the case centers on a New York town's prayer practice, the court's decision has ramifications upon other similar cases still in progress in lower courts. ADF attorneys will seek to resolve those cases in light of the decision, and they plan a nationwide campaign to inform governmental bodies at all levels that they are free to include prayer in their public meetings.
"You shouldn't be forced to forfeit your freedom to appease someone who doesn't like what you say or believe," said ADF Senior Counsel Brett Harvey. "Opponents of prayer want to use government to attack our freedom, but the Constitution established our government to protect our freedom."
"The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that the practice of prayer before legislative bodies is firmly embedded in the history and traditions of this nation," Hungar added. "In so doing, they have simply reinforced what has been true about America since its founding: Americans should be free to speak and act consistently with their own beliefs."
- "The tradition reflected in Marsh [the primary existing Supreme Court precedent regarding prayer before public bodies] permits chaplains to ask their own God for blessings of peace, justice, and freedom that find appreciation among people of all faiths. That a prayer is given in the name of Jesus, Allah, or Jehovah, or that it makes passing references to religious doctrines, does not remove it from that tradition."
- Plaintiffs are asking that federal courts "act as supervisors and censors of religious speech, a rule that would involve government in religious matters to a far greater degree than is the case under the town's current practice…."
- "Marsh nowhere suggested that the constitutionality of legislative prayer turns on the neutrality of its content."
- "Our tradition assumes that adult citizens, firm in their own beliefs, can tolerate and perhaps appreciate a ceremonial prayer delivered by a person of a different faith."
- "Respondents argue, in effect, that legislative prayer may be addressed only to a generic God."
- "Marsh, indeed, requires an inquiry into the prayer opportunity as a whole, rather than into the contents of a single prayer."
- "That nearly all of the congregations in town turned out to be Christian does not reflect an aversion or bias on the part of town leaders against minority faiths."
- Pronunciation guide: Hungar (HUN'-gahr)
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.
Additional resources: Town of Greece v. GallowayScroll down to view additional resources pertaining to this case and its surrounding issue
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Previous news releases:
- 2014-05-05: US Supreme Court affirms that Americans are free to pray
- 2013-11-05: Town of Greece to Supreme Court: Americans should be free to pray
- 2013-08-05: Broad support for prayer reflected in numerous briefs at Supreme Court
- 2013-05-20: Prayer will be heard on high
- 2013-01-08: New support uplifts NY town's prayer policy
- 2012-12-10: US Supreme Court asked to weigh in on strange ruling against NY town's prayer policy
- 2012-05-17: ADF to appeal strange ruling against NY town's prayer policy
- 2011-09-09: Will 2nd Circuit uphold right of NY town to allow prayer before public meetings?
- 2010-08-06: Court rules NY town can open public meetings with prayer
- 2009-08-12: ADF attorney available to media after hearing over NY town's right to open meetings with prayer
- 2008-03-26: ADF defends NY town's right to open meetings with prayer
- Brett Harvey: Debate rages on for lawyers who argued prayer case at Supreme Court (National Law Journal, 2014-05-12)
- Jordan Lorence: Town of Greece decision brings needed common sense to Establishment Clause...and to New York City (National Review, 2014-05-09)
- Alan Sears & Joseph Infranco: Founders' view of prayer should prevail at Supreme Court (Washington Post, 2013-11-05)
- Brett Harvey: Prayer at government meetings (Orange County Register, 2013-10-18)
- Brett Harvey: The foresight of Justice Kennedy (Townhall.com, 2013-03-16)
- Brett Harvey & Joel Oster: Who said that?: A simple question that may change the way courts view legislative prayer (Engage, Federalist Society, 2013-02)
Historical resources:
- Resource page for Marsh v. Chambers, prayer case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1983
"It can hardly be thought that, in the same week Members of the First Congress voted to appoint and to pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment for submission to the states, they intended the Establishment Clause of the Amendment to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.... Clearly the men who wrote the First Amendment Religion Clauses did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that Amendment, for the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress.... This unique history leads us to accept the interpretation of the First Amendment draftsmen who saw no real threat to the Establishment Clause arising from a practice of prayer similar to that now challenged...." - Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783, 789-92 (1983)
The case involved the prayer of Nebraska Legislature Chaplain Rev. Dr. Robert E. Palmer. Palmer filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Town of Greece v. Galloway asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and rule in favor of the town:
"When this Court decided Marsh v. Chambers, there was no doubt that the prayers being challenged were often 'explicitly Christian.' 463 U.S. at 793 n.14. The record before the Court was replete with Christian prayers, and dissenting justices regarded that as reason enough to strike down Nebraska's practice. But the Court refused. In full knowledge of his prayers' religious content, the Court credited Rev. Palmer's deposition statement that they were 'nonsectarian'—a term understood in context to mean that the prayers did not advance a particular sect within the Judeo-Christian tradition (such as Rev. Palmer's own Presbyterianism)."
- James Madison's proclamations recommending a day of prayer: July 9, 1812 and July 23, 1813
- The first prayer for the Continental Congress, Sept. 7, 1774
- Image: Painting of the first prayer for the Continental Congress
Legislative prayer cases and legal matters nationwide (map):
Legal documents, related news, and other related resources available in the right panel when this page is viewed at ADFmedia.org.


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These countries are: Burma, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam. The governments in these countries have "either engaged in or tolerated systematic, on-going, egregious abuse of the right to freedom of religion or belief."
Based on the stories I've seen since I've been writing about Christian persecution, I would guess that the most consistently persecuted group in these countries is Christians.
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Washington D.C., May 4, 2013 / 04:11 pm (CNA).- A recent report on international religious liberty cautioned that severe threats to freedom of religion exist in diverse communities through the world and should be discouraged through actions by the U.S. government.
"The Annual Report ultimately is about people and how their governments treat them," said Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, chair of the commission that released the report.
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Issued each year, the commission's report marks "countries of particular concern" (CPCs), which are defined as "countries whose governments have engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of the universal right to freedom of religion or belief." The State Department has the opportunity to officially label CPCs and decide whether to impose sanctions or other penalties on each country.
The 2013 document recommended 15 countries to be designated as CPCs: Burma, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. (Read the rest here.)


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I have always appreciated the amazing fall color scenes available at Silver Jack Reservoir east of Ridgway, Colorado. I strive to obtain photographs that no other photographer has. This represents such an image. I wanted a view of the totality of the Big Blue Wilderness - both the Middle Fork Cimarron valley (right) and the East Fork Cimarron valley (left). The East Fork Cimarron terminates with the massive 14,309 ft. Uncompahgre Peak (a 14er), accentuated by amazing cliffs and fall colors along the valley. The Middle Fork Cimarron terminates with an impressive view of both 13,642 ft. Redcliff and 13,656 ft. Coxcomb Peak. Along the right valley is the impressive combination of 12,742 ft. Dunsinane Mountain and 13,144 ft. Precipice Peak. This may be one of the grandest panorama scenes I've witnessed in my life.
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Today: Pandora Media suffers on Wall Street after announcing a monthly decline in listenership, and Apple drops after Samsung injunction denied.
The Lead: Pandora declines after announcing slight drop in listeners, end of reports
Pandora Media's stock has been on a record-breaking run for months, receiving fuel from monthly reports on how many users are listening to the Oakland company's streaming-radio offering amid fresh competition from Apple's iTunes Radio. The gains hit a pothole Thursday, though, as Pandora's monthly report showed a decline in the number of listeners and the company announced it would stop sharing the information so frequently, while rival Spotify bolstered its service with an acquisition.
Pandora dropped 5.6 percent to $37.23 Thursday, the largest percentage drop in the SV150 index, after hitting intraday and closing record highs Wednesday, when share prices topped $40 for the first time. Pandora's Thursday closing price would have been a record just a month ago, as the company has experienced a rocket ride, rising as much as 52 percent in 2014 and more than 240 percent in the past calendar year.
Some enthusiasm for Pandora has stemmed from the company's ability to continue growing its user base while facing increasing competition from the likes of Spotify, iTunes Radio and Beats Music, services that could pull listeners from Pandora, which generates revenue from advertisement sales that are helped by having a large, engaged audience. Since March 2012, the company has released information on its listenership every month, but included in Thursday's release was a note saying those releases would stop this summer, with Pandora suggesting that third-party services perform the same service admirably.
"Pandora believes advertisers can now access the necessary tools to make accurate side-by-side comparisons" without Pandora releasing its monthly report, the company's announcement read; Pandora will continue to detail the numbers in its quarterly financial releases.
Few see coincidence in the announcement arriving with numbers that showed a sequential decline in Pandora's audience, however. While Pandora trumpeted 9 percent year-over-year growth in the number of listener hours, the amount of time Pandora's audience spends listening to the streaming-radio service seems to have leveled off and possibly declined as 2014 begins.
Pandora reported 1.58 billion listener hours in December, then posted the exact same number in January. In February, that total declined to 1.51 billion, a drop that could be explained by fewer days in the month, but even adjusting for the shorter time period, it seems Pandora is struggling to establish a continuing growth trend that will be critical as it fights for advertising dollars and investor interest.
Numbers from the past three months "suggest Pandora is approaching saturation," Albert Fried analyst Richard Tullo told The Wall Street Journal for a Thursday report titled "Is Pandora peaking," reflecting the fears that may have led to a sell-off in Pandora stock — the stock's volume of trades Thursday was twice its average.
Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews, speaking at a conference Thursday, attributed the recent stall to "the law of large numbers," and said he expects listener hours to rebound in March.
FBR Capital Markets analyst Barton Crockett agreed with McAndrews' assessment, and Susquehanna analyst Brian Nowak defended the company in a Thursday note, saying that Pandora's focus on attacking local radio markets with its ad sales teams will pay off.
"Investor focus should turn to Pandora's ad dollar opportunity and upside potential from the local sales force becoming more efficient and a larger ad load (more ads served per listener hour) in 2014," Nowak wrote.
Pandora's competition is not sitting on its hands, however, with Apple announcing a move into car stereos earlier this week that shut out Pandora, and Spotify acquiring popular music-recommendation service The Echo Nest on Thursday to help it better compete with Pandora.
SV150 market report: Apple declines after Samsung injunction denied
Silicon Valley tech stocks declined overall Thursday despite slight gains on Wall Street, as the Bay Area's biggest tech company, Apple, declined after once again being denied a ban on sales of certain products from rival Samsung.
San Jose-based Judge Lucy Koh denied Apple's request for an injunction against Samsung products that were found by a jury to have infringed on Apple products in a blockbuster Silicon Valley trial that resulted in a total judgment of nearly $1 billion for the Cupertino tech giant. While Apple won the big-money verdict, they have now been shot down twice by Koh in an attempt to ban the devices specified in the case, after an appeals court asked the judge to re-examine the request with less-strict standards. While a ban on the older devices at issue in the case would not have caused serious damage to Apple's South Korean rival, it would have set a precedent that may have resulted in bans against Samsung's newer devices, which will be at issue in a second court battle between the two tech titans set to begin later this month after their CEOs failed to resolve the dispute in mediation. Apple stock declined 0.3 percent to $530.75 Thursday.
Twitter and Facebook headed in opposite directions after Janney Capital analyst Tony Wible wrote that television viewers are interacting more with social media, giving both companies fuel for their drive to monetize real-time conversations. Twitter gained 0.8 percent to $54.83 before releasing its annual report after the bell, which gave insight into previous acquisitions; Facebook fell 1 percent to $70.84 after reaching record prices Wednesday, as the Menlo Park social network changed up its news feed yet again and faced a fight on its WhatsApp acquisition. Wall Street is preparing to ship big bucks to Silicon Valley, with Mountain View website Coupons.com expected to price its initial public offering Thursday evening after establish a potential range of $12 to $14, and FireEye preparing a secondary offering that could bring in more than $1 billion less than six months after the Milpitas security software company's eye-popping $300 million IPO. For updates on those two offerings, check www.siliconvalley.com.
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Down: Pandora, Gilead, Zynga, Workday, NetApp, Nvidia, SanDisk, Facebook, Salesforce, VMware, Splunk, Symantec, Netflix
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Down 5.37, or 0.34 percent, to 1,578.72
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 5.85, or 0.13 percent, to 4,352.13
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 61.71, or 0.38 percent, to 16,421.89
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This measures the share price vs. the 130 Day Moving Average (130d MA) expressed as a percentage difference. A negative number indicates a share price trading below the 130d MA
The 130d MA is a long term moving average calculated by dividing the sum of the security's average closing price over the last 130 trading days by 130. It is effectively the 6 month or 26 week moving average.
Operating income growth shows the percentage increase in operating income over the last year. This is calculated on a TTM basis, i.e. comparing TTM versus the prior TTM period.
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Roberto Luongo is heading back to Florida.
The veteran goalie, who played with the Panthers from 2000-06, has been traded by the Vancouver Canucks back to the Sunshine State in a shocking deal Tuesday. The Canucks will receive young goalie Jacob Markstrom and centre Shawn Matthias as part of the return.
So ends the Luongo soap opera in Vancouver, where the shoddy treatment he received from Canucks management finally has come to an end.
Eighteen months ago, Canucks general manager Mike Gillis had Luongo and Cory Schneider between the pipes. Now he has Markstrom and Eddie Lack.
Certainly the Canucks do not look good in this entire process.
Two summers ago, Gillis wanted to move Luongo. But because the asking price of the Canucks GM was too high, the market dried up, leaving Gillis dealing Cory Schneider to New Jersey for a first-round pick last summer.
That left Luongo to stay with a team that pretty much had previously declared in public months earlier that he wasn't in their plans anymore.
If that wasn't enough of a blow to Luongo, the No. 2 goalie for the gold medal-winning Canadian Olympic team in Sochi, he was passed over in favour of Lack by coach John Tortorella to start the Heritage Classic at BC Place against the Ottawa Senators Sunday.
It was a humiliating way to treat Luongo. Just ask the Vancouver fans, who heckled Lack and chanted "Looo" all afternoon.
"Louie's pissed," Tortorella revealed after his team's 4-2 loss. "He's not happy. He's proud. I get that."
Luongo didn't deserve to be in another goalie controversy. As he said last week: "I don't want to go through this whole thing again."
Now he won't have to any more.
— Strombone (@strombone1) March 4, 2014
March 4, 2014
Luongo's contract runs through 2022, albeit at a digestable cap hit of $5.333 miliion per season.
There were a number of other deals pulled of Tuesday.
The Anaheim Ducks, who entered the day with the most points of any NHL team, were front and centre, sending Dustin Penner to the Capitals and Niclas Fasth to the Oilers while acquiring veteran blueliner Stephane Robidas from the Dallas Stars.
The deals reportedly opened up $1.6 million US of cap space for the Ducks, which could mean that the likes of Thomas Vanek or Matt Moulson could be on their radar.
In Edmonton, the Oilers picked up Fasth for a 2014 fifth-round draft pick and a 2015 third-round draft pick. Shortly afterward, they shipped goalie Ilya Bryzgalov to the Wild, meaning Fasth and Ben Scrivens will handle the team's duties between the pipes.
Scrivens was inked to a two-year deal Monday after being picked up in a deal with the Los Angeles Kings back in January.
Fasth, 31, came over from his native Sweden in 2013 and posted a 15-6-2 record for the Ducks, a stint that included a .921 save percentage, 2.18 goals-against average and four shutouts. But he has played just five games this season, dropped to third on the depth chart behind starter Jonas Hiller and backup Frederik Andersen.
Bryzgalov, who signed with the Oilers in November, goes to Minnesota for a fourth-round pick. He had a 3.01 average in Edmonton.
Here is a rundown of Tuesday's deals:
Panthers get: G Roberto Luongo
Canucks get: F Shawn Matthias, G Jacob Markstrom
Oilers get: G Viktor Fasth
Ducks get: 5th Round Pick (2014), 3rd Round Pick (2015)
Oilers get: 4th Round Pick (2014)
Wild gets: G Ilya Bryzgalov
Ducks get: D Stephane Robidas
Stars get: Conditional 4th Round Pick (2014)
Coyotes get: F Martin Erat, F John Mitchell
Caps get: D Rostislav Klesla, F Chris Brown, 4th Round Pick (2015)
Caps get: F Dustin Penner
Ducks get: 4th Round Pick (2014)
Canadiens get: D Mike Weaver
Panthers get: 5th Round Pick (2015)
Flyers get: D Andrew MacDonald
Islanders get: 3rd Round Pick (2014), 2nd Round Pick (2015), F Matt Mangene
Seantors get: D Patrick Mullen
Canucks get: F Jeff Costello
Blackhawks get D David Rundblad, D Mathieu Brisebois
Coyotes get: 2nd Round Pick (2014)


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The Nokia Lumia 810 will be equipped with a 4.3 inch clear black AMOLED display with WVGA resolution, and a pixel density of 217ppi. Under the hood will be the dual-core 1.5GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of native storage. An 8MP camera on back features Carl Zeiss lens and dual flash. It also captures video in 1080p at 30fps. A new 1.2MP Skype HD certified front-facing camera allows for high quality video chat. The 1650mAh battery is said to yield 14 hours of talk time on the Nokia Lumia 820 and it might offer a bit longer with the Nokia Lumia 810 since the LTE connectivity is replaced with the less battery intensive HSPA+ 4G service. Windows Phone 8 is installed out of the box and wireless charging is being offered as an option to buyers.


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Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter died Sunday at the age of 76.
Carter, who spent 19 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of murder, had been stricken by prostate cancer and died in his Toronto home early Sunday morning.
The New Jersey native was arrested for a triple homicide in 1966 before being wrongfully convicted for the crime twice in 1967 and 1976. The second conviction was overturned in 1985 after Carter served nearly two decades in prison.
Following his release, Carter moved to Toronto and eventually became the executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted.
Although never a world champion, Carter went 27-12-1 with 19 knockouts during his career in the ring.


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Workshop 1. Creating a Literate Community
A print-rich environment is essential to building emerging literacy skills. Just as important are literacy routines and classroom management. In this session, teachers will look at the big picture of building a learning community where reading and writing are the cornerstones of all learning and communication.
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Workshop 2. Supporting the English Language Learner
This session explores how teachers can distinguish among and build upon the range of literacy skills English language learners bring to the classroom. Guest moderator Dr. Mileidis Gort explains how teachers can often address the needs of English language learners using the same instructional strategies and literacy routines used with general education students. Go to this unit.
Workshop 3. Word Study and Fluency
This session examines the foundations of early literacy through a review of research-based principles for explicit and effective teaching of word study and fluency. Teachers will critique a word study lesson plan and compare approaches to teaching phonics. Go to this unit.
Workshop 4. Comprehension and Response
A solid foundation in reading comprehension is the key to success in all subjects throughout school as well as to the development of a lifelong love of reading. Teachers will review key comprehension skills and match them with explicit teaching strategies, learning how to help students build their own set of strategies to use on increasingly more difficult texts. Go to this unit.
Workshop 5. Teaching Writing as a Process
Teaching writing is an important component in a comprehensive literacy program. In this session, teachers will discuss the stages of the writing process — planning, drafting, revising, and editing — and brainstorm ways to inspire their students' narrative writing. Go to this unit.
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In this session, the effects of common classroom grouping practices on children's achievement in reading are discussed and scrutinized. Teachers will examine grouping practices in classroom video clips and discuss applications in their own practice. Go to this unit.
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This session explores the types of assessment that lead to sound instructional decisions, showing the importance of taking multiple measures of student progress and embedding those assessments within daily instructional routines. Teachers will practice these ideas by creating an instructional plan based on the evaluation of a student's literacy portfolio. Go to this unit.
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In this session, teachers will examine their beliefs on how parents contribute to students' literacy and their own roles in engaging parents as partners in student motivation and learning. They will discuss their own interactions with parents and explore ways they might build on existing practices. Go to this unit.
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Data Increase Chance of Rate Cut
By Kunal Kumar Kundu
India released the December wholesale price index, its main inflation barometer, Monday. For a change, this piece of economic data offers some hope after a dismal industrial production data released last Friday.
The official gauge of inflation eased to an annual rate of 7.18%, lower than 7.24% recorded in November. This is the lowest reading since December 2009.
There is a possibility of the final number being revised upward. But it's worth noting that there was a downward revision of the October inflation data, from 7.45% to 7.32%, the first downward revision since August 2011.
That offers hope that inflation has peaked and will continue to ease, albeit slowly. This belief stems from a couple of factors. First, despite some recent upward revisions, the three-month moving average shows that annual inflation remained below 8% for 11 consecutive months. Second, there's the high base effect. India has never experienced such a period of sustained high inflation: The average annual inflation rate for the past three years has touched 8.86%. December's reading was the lowest during this period.
A closer look at the data shows that food inflation continues to be the major driver of overall inflation in India. Within this category, soaring food grain prices (caused in part by aggressive food grain procurement by the government) and higher prices of protein (driven by changing consumption patterns) ensure that inflation remains at an elevated level.
As a result, core inflation (headline inflation stripped off volatile food and energy prices) for December clocked in at only 4.24%, the lowest since March 2010.
This will encourage the Reserve Bank of India to consider lowering interest rates though the central bank will remain wary of high retail prices. The Consumer Price Index for December, released by the Central Statistical Organization Monday, shows that retail prices rose at an annual rate of 10.56%, compared with 9.90% in November.
On balance, I believe the RBI will be inclined to make its first monetary easing since March later this month at its regular monetary policy meeting Jan. 29.) Its case will be helped by the poor industrial production data.
Readers would do well to remember that India's industrial production for November shrank by 0.12% after rising by 8.34% in October, as the effects of the autumn festivals wore off.
How fast will the RBI ease? I predict it will cut the repo rate by a total of 0.50 percentage point in the first quarter of this year (either by opting for 0.50 percentage point cut in January or two cuts of 0.25 percentage points each during the January and March meetings.)
After that, however, the central bank will likely pause since inflation could pick up as the effects come through of higher diesel and kerosene prices. Also, the government is mulling the reintroduction of import duty on crude oil in next month's budget as it aims to increase revenue collection and ward off the threat of a sovereign debt ratings downgrade.
In June 2011, the government abolished the 5% import duty on crude oil and cut the excise duty levied on diesel by 2.6 rupees a litre to help cushion the retail price of fuel against a sharp rise in international oil prices. That was a costly move and while restoring the duty might help the government's financial health, the central bank will be watching to gauge its impact on inflation.
The author is senior economist and general manager for India at Roubini Global Economics. These are his personal views.
Follow India Real Time on Twitter @indiarealtime.


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Not sure if I'm staying up until midnight or not tonight as I've had a stomach bug the last couple of days which has wiped me out somewhat. I was going to round up the knitting projects for 2012 this evening, but a couple haven't yet been handed over, so they'll get done before Twelfth Night...
I make the same perpetual resolutions re: procrastination, stash reduction, weight loss, physical activity and productivity all the time - it doesn't need a new year for that. And it still feels a little too much like the old year until around Candlemas when the light begins to return in earnest - a new diary doesn't really make a New Year round here; BST is more likely to help with that.
But I have decided to Have more fun in 2013. And have formulated a couple of modest and, I hope, entirely do-able proposals to try and achieve that.
- Watch more films. I have seen a pathetically small number of feature films or series over the last couple of years - my LoveFilm subscription is ridiculously under-used, and I have loads of DVDs I've bought or been given which haven't been watched yet. I do enjoy watching films, too. So I'm aiming for one full-length feature or the equivalent number of series episodes a week. This will involve being more organised about food, too, on my "cinema evening", which is always good.
- Go to more stuff. I've been to a couple of plays and a few exhibitions this year, but not as many as I would have with some sort of museum/theatre buddy - anyone based in London who might be up for a late evening at the National Gallery/NPG, a trip to the South Bank or similar? Let me know (liz at lizmarley dot co dot uk). Likewise anyone in Cambridge who'd like to go to more at the ADC or the Corpus Playroom, both of which have some great stuff going on.
- Knit with more people. Particularly in the winter, but for the whole of this year which has been more stressful than usual at work, I've a tendency to become somewhat hermit-like, and that's also meant I've missed important things happening in friends' lives. I've been along to all the Cambridge meetings I can get to (there's one fewer of those a month), but I've chickened out at the last minute from too many London-based meetings I know I'd enjoy once I got there. To assist with this, I've also signed up for SkipNorth (yay!!) for the first time in 5 years.
And slightly more difficult, but I need to do it:
- Reclaim the garden (again). This may not seem like "have more fun", but I know that the garden oppresses me when it's horrible and gives me joy when it's lovely or even just going in the right direction, so I just need to buckle down to it and spend some time in there every weekend, even if it's only a few minutes.
So - what would you like to do more of in 2013? Let me know....


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New Zealanders are under-insured by $650 billion, a two-year research project has found.
And over the past five years, one in seven households has experienced a serious illness resulting in an inability to work for three months or more.
But a shareholder advocate says the $650 billion figure seems excessive because most people do not need all types of insurance.
The project, commissioned by the Financial Services Council, which represents investment and life insurance companies, is the first of its kind in the country. Data compiled by ACNielsen was analysed by Massey University researchers.
A senior lecturer at the university's business school and the country's only insurance academic, Dr Michael Naylor, said the research found insurance cover was sporadic.
"People who were married with children who need insurance weren't covered, but then older people who don't really need it were."
Dr Naylor said insurance coverage was not as low as the industry expected - most people with children at least had life insurance. He believed this was because it usually came as a condition of getting a mortgage.
The research found that each year the primary income earner in 14,980 households will fall seriously ill and be unable to work for six months or more - 288 households a week fall into the gap.
Only 20 per cent of households would cope for more than 12 months with paying their household expenses and maintaining their lifestyle if a serious illness meant the primary income earner being unable to work, the research said.
However, 55 per cent of households would be unable to pay all their expenses and maintain their lifestyle within a month after sick leave and annual leave ran out.
Massey University's report said common reasons for not being insured were believing the Government would help, lack of trust in insurance companies and the difficulty people had facing up to the idea of death or permanent disability.
Also, the prospective policyholder was being asked to pay money for an intangible and uncertain future benefit, when that money could be used in ways that could have clear immediate benefits.
Bruce Sheppard, an accountant and shareholder advocate, said the only form of insurance that was essential was income protection.
People needed life insurance only if they had debt or dependants, fire and theft was "quite nice to have" while health insurance was mostly completely unnecessary.
"The rich should be self-insuring, the poor can't afford it and that leaves the middle who should get income continuance until they can afford assets so they can self-insure.
"So to me that $650 billion figure sounds grossly overstated."
Peter Neilson, chief executive of the Financial Services Council, said the research painted a picture of serious financial risk for people should an income earner die or have their income disrupted through illnesses such as cancer, heart attacks and strokes.
The research commissioned from ACNielsen involved 2000 respondents in an online survey.Massey University then quantified the extent of underinsurance and the national cost of underinsurance to the Government.
$195.6b life
$58.7b trauma
$351.8b permanent disability
$2.97b income protection (per month)
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Ask the Experts
I'm often wondering on the golf course how I can balance the speed of my round with playing a round of golf that's respectful of etiquette, my playing partners and my own enjoyment.
My inconsistency costs me at least 6 strokes per round. I would like to have a 3/4 swing but trying to shorten my swing throws off my tempo. How can I shorten my swing?
3 Aug 2011 - 2:38pm - 0 Comments
I am a 5 handicap golfer with a big problem. My shortgame is totally underdevelopped compared to my long game. In fact, Its quite terrible for someone of my caliber despite the 5-6 hours per week that i devote to practice the short game. 80% of my ractice time actually.
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My question involves the motion most typical used to start the downswing for good players. I have read/heard that some players start the downswing with the right knee moving toward the ball, others start with a shift of weight to the left foot, Others start with a hip rotation.
3 Aug 2011 - 2:36pm - 0 Comments
I switched to the stack and tilt swing. Works great for me. Can I use it with the driver? Can't seem to find a good ball position. My iron shots are great. Thank you.
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I've started hitting my wedges fat. Short shots, full shots -fat! I've tried a check list of diagnostics: tried flattening my swing, steepening by swing,weight foreward, head still, quiet lower body, active lower bory, shoulder turn, less active hands- still fat.
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I have spent thousands of dollars on golf lessons, and yet no one has been able to shorten my backswing. Once I get past parrallel I lost all the good angles. Please help.
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I have spent thousands of dollars on golf lessons, and yet no one has been able to shorten my backswing. Once I get past parrallel I lost all the good angles. Please help.
3 Aug 2011 - 2:28pm - 0 Comments
I have a problem with raising up at impact. Are there any drills to use to help with this problem?
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I'm a 14 year old golfer. I play everyday that I can, so I am pretty accustomed to my tendencies. With almost every club (even my three wood), I take a rather large divot.
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All of my clubs are custom fit. I love my 54 degree wedge but constantly chunk my 58 degree 20 yards or scull it 150 yards. I don't know how to hit it. Please help. Where do I place the ball in my stance and how do I stop mishitting this club?
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My question is on transition from the top. Periodically I tend to rotate my back shoulder out and as a result end up with my hands away from my body and a SHANK. Do you have any ideas for a swing thought or a first move to better manage that transition from the top?
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I have been concentrating on my downswing to think about slapping the ball with my right hand at impact. But I have been losing distance and hooking the ball. Should I be thinking more about hitting the ball with more of my left hand at impact on my woods and irons.
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What is a good tip to help create lag in the downswing? I have been casting the club for so long that it is very hard to stop. A tip that does not require hitting balls at the range would be ideal since I live in Canada.
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On the back swing, I do not turn my left arm over my right as I see some do. Dosen't that create more parts to move on the downwing?
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For some reason when I swing my 3 wood the swing speed is about 10 mph faster than when I swing my driver. I feel like I am making the same swings, but something is causing the decrease in clubhead speed. Any explaination as to why this might be happening?
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For many years I've been affected by a bowed left wrist at the top of my backswing, getting worse during the transition. Can you please explain to me which could have been the origin and what would be the cure for that problem?
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My questions concerns clubhead lag during the downswing. Remember Calvin Peete and how his left arm could not be fully extended? Yet he was considered to be one of the more accurate hitters on tour. My left arm is similar to Calvin's. Left arm extension being limited to 120 degrees.
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Hello, I'm a single figure player who has been trying desperately to get over the dreaded 'yips' for ~5 years now. I've been playing golf for roughly 15 years, I'm now 26yrs old and have previously played state level golf at a very young age.
3 Aug 2011 - 1:57pm - 0 Comments
I can not (do not) turn my hands over at impact. The result is always a HUGE banana slice. Any drills that will teach me how and when to turn the hands?
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My name is Herb Robinson, I ran for the United States House of Representatives in 2012 as a Democrat from the Massachusetts 4th Congressional District. I did not win the primary, but I am leaving the web site up for a while in case people want to refer to some of my ideas. I am not a professional politician, I am an Engineer with more than 30 years experience doing creative problem solving in private industry.
I have worked as a dishwasher, a mason's helper and a farm laborer. I was a member of Local 132 of the American Federation of Musicians while I was a student at Cornell.
My priorities are
- fix our economy and put America back to work.
- change our energy infrastructure so volatile oil prices don't break the economy just when it starts to recover.
- do that safely.
I also believe that universal health care and education are important, because Americans are the most important resource America has.
An example of how an experienced creative engineer says no to big government without saying goodbye to humanity is a plan I call Bottom Line Regulation. Bottom Line Regulation is a plan to avoid and fix financial crises. It has the following advantages:
- Bottom Line Regulation is simple. There are no complicated accounting rules that big company lawyers can get around. It's a simple, "I don't care what you did. You break it, you pay for it" approach to hold the people who run the economy accountable when they break it.
- Bottom Line Regulation is forward looking. It's not a reaction to the last crisis, like Sarbanes-Oxley -- It's designed to fix the current crisis and prevent future ones.
- Bottom Line Regulation automatically provides stimulus money when Wall Street breaks the economy. Stimulus spending is the only proven technology for fixing a bad economy. It has been used by Eisenhower (the Interstate Highway System) and by Roosevelt (the New Deal). It worked both times. Nothing else has ever ben proven to work.
- Bottom Line Regulation provides an incentive to keep the economy running well by offering a tax cut when the unemployment rate is kept low.
Another creative plan for the economy is improving Capital Gains to encourage capital investment in American companies and American factories. And especially to encourage investment to deploy renewable energy technology.
Both of these plans are compromises, by the way, because they strategically increase and decrease taxes -- in a way designed to boost the economy!
Our country is facing a long-term economic downslide that will not be resolved without an all hands on deck effort to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. This makes it a unique period in history and it is important that our elected representatives be capable of understanding technology: We need at least some representation with the ability to understand when technology is dangerous and stop it -- You just can't legislate the laws of physics and you can't negotiate the rules of mathematics!
For example, if we attempt to use dangerous technology, it's only a matter of time until we have a catastrophe in the United States. The Chernobyl nuclear accident has killed between 9000 and 900,000 people over 20 years (it's hard to figure out exactly how many -- the experts disagree wildly) and will continue to kill at a similar rate for the next 400 to 500 years. The Fukushima Daiichi accident is in the same class and has the potential for as many long-term casualties.
Who do you want making the decisions that will affect the safety and health of your children, grandchildren and the thousands of generations that come after them: Some photogenic showboat or an Engineer who actually understands the difference between hairspray and nuclear fallout?


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While checking up on the goings-on in Dallas related to Mavericks Victory Parade on June 16, I came across a pretty disturbing report on the 1993 parade following a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl victory. It turned from celebration to riot and 18 people were hurt with more than a dozen others arrested. You can view the video report here: 1993 Cowboy Parade a Disaster.
The reasons: poor planning, not enough first responders, and no way to monitor and manage crowds.
Compare it to yesterday's parade where the biggest problem was getting people out of the downtown area following the parade. Everything else went without a hitch.
More than 250,o00 fans attended the parade. Ahead of the parade, WFAA.com reported:
"The department will monitor everything out of the Fusion Center and two command centers. They'll keep a close eye on what's happening with the parade crowds. DPD will use downtown surveillance cameras and a live view from its helicopter.
"It gives us awareness if the crowds are getting too big and if there's a fight that we need to apply additional resources,"explained Lt. Todd Thomasson, who runs the Fusion Center."
In fact, during the ASIS 2010 Dallas Police Department tour, the police representatives told us that any downtown parade route is planned around the camera locations, so that first responders have complete visibility into what's going on and if any issues are cropping up.
In addition to fixed cameras, DPD used their mobile command center, which we also had a chance to visit during the ASIS tour. The mobile command center, as the entire surveillance system, now at 150+ cameras, was designed and deployed by our long-term integrator partner Bearcom. The system uses Sony IP cameras (mostly pan-tilt-zoom) and OnSSI video management system.
Read the full story and view the video on the parade preparations at WFAA.com: Surveillance cams, undercover cops to monitor parade crowd
For more information on the Dallas deployment, see:
- Dallas Police Department Tour at ASIS 2010
- ASIS 2010 Dallas PD Tour Goes Mainstream
- Dallas Police Department ASIS 2010 Tour – News Clip
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I just started a local lawn service company named "JUST CUTS" The slogan is; "you grow it...we mow it" I would like the company name and slogan in the logo design. I would also like multiple greens used in the logo. The logo will be used on cards, shirts, forms, etc, so it needs to stand out. The logo should have a lawn mower over grass and the grass clippings shooting out of mower should spell out JUST CUTS.
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"The Mortician's Daughter
The Mortician's Daughter
It's complicated when you're a girl. It's even more so when you're the only girl in an Italian family with three brothers. (Italian men baptize their sons in a Reserve Barolo wine, their daughters in tap water). My father was a second-generation funeral director, and we (well, I) maintained a tacit understanding that all of his children would be the third generation. As the oldest, I would be the first to join the business.
As a precocious, erudite 4 year old, I learned to read by sounding out words from the obituaries in the local newspaper. Sitting on my father's lap during breakfast, I would beg him to read them aloud as I studied the pictures. Most times I felt cheated because the information was so brief. I often asked, "Daddy, How could Claire Jones, age 94, only have one paragraph to describe her entire life?" I was often frustrated as well; they never disclosed the cause of death. So we changed venues and began reading the New York Times, where the obituaries were lengthy and full. They did not disclose the cause of death either, but offered clues. "Sam Wiley, age 83, died peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving wife and children. Donations in Sam's name should be made to Hospice." Cancer. "Abigail Hargraves, age 64, was found dead in her home. Donations may be made to the Diabetes Association." No guessing there. I began to fill in the blanks, recalling Einstein, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
By age 7, I advanced from obituaries to corpses. My mom, the hairdresser for the funeral home, saved babysitting money by taking us along when she had to "do a head". My brothers were not quite interested; I was fascinated. I always stood on the kneeler so I could get the best vantage point. So this is Jeremy Brown, age 54, who died suddenly at home. Heart Attack or Aneurism.
When my middle schools science curriculum required a science fail project, I embalmed cow hearts. Year after year I submitted my embalmed cow's heart to the fair. Sure, parents rolled their eyes and everyone complained about the smell, but I stood tall and proud. After all, I am the mortician's daughter.
My father was magical to me. I remember a Christmas party where he left me alone and scared, but when I sat on Santa's lap, it was my father's mischievous, blue eyes that winked at me. He had such happy eyes. I also thought my father was famous; after all every Italian family chose my father to bury their loved ones. As an adult traveling in Rome, I chose to have an engraved gift for my father blessed by the pope. When I gave the sales girl at the Vatican gift shop his name, her hands immediately flew over her mouth as tears came to her eyes. "Ah, yes, he buried my sister. Please send him my gratitude. I will never forget him."
One of my most memorable moments occurred at age 12, when I received permission to observe the embalming process. No more cows' hearts for me! I graduated to the big time. I sat on a folding chair in the doorframe of the morgue (OSHA regulations prevented me from actually entering). I imagined this was my father's final exam; if I passed this, I would be the first to work side by side with my father.
The body that lay on the slab was a well -known Mafia figure that was gunned down in Providence. Surprisingly, his body had been sent to the state morgue for an autopsy. His death seemed apparent to me; his body was riddled with bullet holes. An autopsied body was a real treasure for me; the familiar Y incision was clearly visible, and the thick, yellow, fat -flaps from either side of his belly hung over the sides of the slab. As the embalmer moved on in the process, he would simply throw the organs into the body cavity. At one point, he opened the man's head from the incision in the back. It was like a rubbery Halloween mask. He took out the brain and asked if I wanted to hold it. As far as I was concerned, this was the ultimate test. I responded with an emphatic "yes" very quickly. I turned the brain over and over in my hands, amazed at the texture, size, and the significance. It reminded me of my mother's famous tripe dish; spongy, slippery, and wet.
That evening at the dinner table, I expected my father to congratulate me and admit it was a test. He didn't say anything. We shared the obituaries in silence until I couldn't wait any longer. "Dad, did you hear what I did today?" He responded: "yes, good job," in a very staccato voice. "Doesn't it mean I am ready to be a mortician now?" I felt like my own organs were being thrown into a body cavity when I heard his response: "No." My excitement was cut short. "No, No!? What do you mean no?" He put the paper down, took off his reading glasses and calmly stated: Because you are a girl," as if I should have been aware all along that my gender was a detriment. His logic escaped and devastated me. I would never be allowed to follow in my father's footsteps. Freud's penis envy reared its ugly head. I was so angry! I was mislead by a Potemkin dream.
I was driven to make my mark. Still aiming to please my dad, I pursued an alternate dream. I knew my father respected knowledge and education above all. I went on to study English and Psychology (with memories of the mobster's brain held gently in my hands so many years ago). When I began to pursue my doctorate, I got my father's attention. Finally, he was proud. On the phone with my father in Florida, we discussed the dissertation and my impending defense. He couldn't wait until he could refer to me as "My daughter the doctor".
My dissertation defense was scheduled for a Monday. On the Wednesday prior, I received a phone call from my mom. My father had choked on a piece of calf's liver while dining with a group of his friends at a favorite Floridian restaurant. He suffered a heart attack due to a loss of oxygen and was on life support. Despite his living will, we begged my mom to keep him on life support until we could join mom. February school vacation combined a driving New England snow make all flights impossible. It was three days before my brothers and me arrived in Florida. My dad died while on life support and had already been embalmed at a local funeral home.
For the second time in my life, I found myself in the morgue; this time I was old enough to enter, and the man on the slab was my father. He was so cold. We dressed him. I slowly and carefully put his socks and scapula on him. I combed his hair and kissed his cheek. We flew home accompanied by my father in his casket, his funeral scheduled for the following Monday at 10am. My doctoral defense was scheduled for 1pm. I attended the funeral mass, said prayers at the cemetery and delivered his eulogy. Immediately following the funeral, the limousine drove me to a doctoral defense I don't remember. When finished, my committee members asked me to leave the room. When I returned, they each took a turn shaking my hand, saying "Congratulations Doctor", and then offered their condolences. I returned to the collation.
Robert N, age 73 died suddenly in Boca Raton, Florida. Donations may be made to the Parkinson's disease Foundation.
A hundred others, victims of the Station Night Club fire, obscured my father's obituary. As I stared at his mischievous eyes looking back at me from the page, I felt sadness and a selfish disappointment that my father's obituary did not stand alone, allowing me to concentrate on filling in the blanks.


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2 Nights accommodation in a standard room, breakfast, return airport transfers, sunset cruise on the Zambezi River and a guided tour of the Victoria Falls.
Flights to and from Livingstone, items of a personal nature such as passport, visa, traveler's insurance, meals and drinks not included in the package, 10% service fee on meals and drinks not included in the package price, any variable government taxes, 20US$ per person park entry fee to the Victoria Falls, 10 US$ per person river usage fee, additional activities.
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As one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Victoria Falls constitutes one of the most spectacular natural wonders a person can ever visit. The Local people call it "Mosi-oa-Tunya" -- the smoke that thunders.
There is a magic about them manifested in the towering column of spray when the river is high, the thunder of the falling water, the terrifying abyss and tranquil lagoons upstream in which hippo and deadly crocodiles lurk.
The Victoria Falls is 1 708 meters wide, making it the largest curtain of water in the world. It drops between 90m and 107m into the Zambezi Gorge and an average of 550,000 cubic metres of water plummet over the edge every minute.
Remarkably preserved in its natural state, Victoria Falls inspires visitors as much today as it did David Livingstone in the 1860's. The falls and the surrounding area have been declared National Parks and a World Heritage Site, thus preserving the area from excessive commercialisation.
Victoria Falls is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, and travellers can access the falls through either Livingstone, Zambia or Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The falls are also close to the border of Botswana. The Zambezi River, which originates in northern Zambia, serves as the fall's water source.
Visiting the Victoria Falls is the perfect ADD ON to a tour of South Africa or Botswana.
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Honoring sacrifice, supporting military families
Anna Karcher knows something about sacrifice.
That may not be immediately obvious on meeting the spirited TCU freshman, whose easy smile exudes a confidence beyond her youth.
But when she traverses TCU's manicured lawns each morning on her way to class, she carries a special gratitude that is lost on many people her age.
Only four years ago, Anna's dad, then a lieutenant colonel in the Army, was part of a military caravan patrolling Sadr City — one of Baghdad's more treacherous neighborhoods — as the U.S. was beginning to wind down its operations in Iraq.
The war, as America had come to know it, had largely faded from the headlines. But the dangers of the still-volatile combat zone were never far from the thoughts of people like Anna, her mom and her sisters Audrey and Abbey, who had all spent years steeling themselves for the worst news imaginable, never expecting that it would come.
Lt. Col. Karcher's mine-resistance ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, had taken a direct hit from an explosively formed projectile, a kind of devastating improvised explosive device that had been savaging troops in the region for years. And it penetrated his armored vehicle as if the MRAP were made of paper.
Anna doesn't remember much about the call that informed her family of what had happened, but she knew the news was not good.
Miracles never cease. Karcher survived the attack, though only barely.
The days and weeks to come were "touch and go," said Anna, who knows that her father nearly died several times during the months he spent in critical care, first at an Army base in Germany, then at Walter Reed Army Medical Center just outside Washington, D.C.
At his worst, the robust man, who once stood 6-foot-4, was hovering above 105 pounds.
He lost his legs in the assault; eventually both were amputated above the knee.
During his long and slow recovery at Walter Reed, a small nonprofit committed to serving military families found the Karchers and offered assistance.
No Greater Sacrifice, founded in 2008, has a simple mission: Honor our nation's fallen and severely wounded service members by serving their children.
Specifically, the organization provides military children with financial assistance to pursue higher education that will improve their lives.
Not knowing what challenges lay ahead for the Karcher family, No Greater Sacrifice offered all three daughters scholarship assistance for college.
The organization is small, but mighty. It covers all expenses (room, tuition, board, books) at a public university or the equivalent costs for a private school.
Currently, No Greater Sacrifice has committed funds to 40 current and future students, but it estimates that as many as 50,000 children of fallen and wounded need such assistance.
And even the generous support covers only half the cost of private institutions like TCU.
But sometimes, family stories have their own power.
Only hours after meeting with No Greater Sacrifice officials, TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini told the organization that the university would happily make up the other half of Anna's tuition.
Anna's younger sister will attend Baylor University in the fall, and No Greater Sacrifice is hopeful they will find similar generosity in Waco.
Meanwhile, Lt Col. Karcher has continued to defy all odds. Able to walk with two prosthetics and a cane, he returned to active duty, served as the head of the Army's Wounded Warrior Program and was promoted — he's now a full colonel stationed at Fort Hood, just outside Killeen.
After all her father has overcome, Anna wonders aloud: "Who am I to be upset about something? He never is."
For Anna and her sisters and the 37 other scholarship recipients, No Greater Sacrifice is opening up opportunities that the children of America's heroes might not otherwise realize.
Yet the Karchers are acutely aware that many families are not as fortunate as they have been; many soldiers never recover or never return home.
But because groups like No Greater Sacrifice make investing in our military children a priority, their sacrifices will not go unnoticed.
You may donate at www.nogreatersacrfice.org.


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See all of the report data, coverage and analysis of the July 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports.
News and Analysis
Cut in Corn Yield 'Solidifies Trade Thinking'
USDA analysts chopped the projected corn yield to 146 bu./acre, down 20 bu. from earlier projections.
AgWeb Radio: Midday Commentary 7-11-12
Jim Bower of Bower Trading -- the market has changed a lot since the first of June. Today's USDA report is setting the stage. Soybeans will be the market leader either up or down depending on the weather next 45 days.
Special Report: Lower Yields Spell Trouble for End Users
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says end users will be taking the brunt of the market impact from USDA's lower yield estimates.
AgWeb Radio: Opening Commentary 7-11-12
Andy Shissler of Roach Ag Marketing says corn the main issue today. The USDA report loweed corn yield to 146 bu/A. Use was also reduced. Corn will probably trade above $8.
Blog Commentary
Soybean, Corn, and Cattle Daily Numbers & Trade Ideas: WASDE Report 7/11/12
The Allendale Wake-Up Call: Tension Builds as USDA Report Approaches
The Ted Spread: Grains Cool Off in Front of USDA
Current Marketing Thoughts: How Aggressively Will the USDA Cut Yields?
WASDE: USDA Lowers Corn Yield Estimate by 20 Bushels
WASDE: Wheat Supplies Raised, Production Forecast Lowered
WASDE: Total Meat Production Forecast Reduced
WASDE: Lower World Cotton Production
WASDE: Rice Acreage Lowest Since 1987/88
Crop Production
June Crop Production: Crop Area Planted, Harvested
Winter Wheat Production Down 1% from June
July Crop Production: Wheat Harvested, Yield, Production
July Crop Production: Winter Wheat Yield Data
July Crop Production: June Rainfall Short by 50%
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Stevie Wonder said he will not perform in Florida until the state discards a "stand your ground" law that played a prominent role in the defense of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman who was acquitted in a racially charged murder trial.
The black Rock and Roll Hall of Fame enshrinee made his comments at a concert on Sunday in Quebec City, Canada, according to a video posted on YouTube.
"For the gift that God has given me, and for whatever I mean, I decided today that until the 'stand your ground' law is abolished in Florida, I will never perform there again," Wonder said to applause.
He did not mention the Zimmerman trial by name in the video-clip posted online.
A jury acquitted Zimmerman, 29, on Saturday of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. The verdict touched off demonstrations in major U.S. cities.
Prosecutors said Zimmerman, who is white and Hispanic, wrongly suspected Martin of being a criminal because he was black. Defense lawyers argued Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
The Florida law, which was approved in 2005 and has been copied in some form by about 30 other states, allows people fearing for their lives to use deadly force without having to retreat from confrontation, even if it is possible.
"For wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world," Wonder added.
Wonder, 63, has no future concert dates listed on his website. He is expected to perform at the Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park in September.
Representatives for the "Superstition" singer did not immediately return messages seeking comment.


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