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Watching someone's memory begin to fail or witnessing a family member struggling with dementia can be troubling. Making the decision to find them a place to live that offers assistance can also be stressful.
Many have outdated ideas about the care people with dementia or Alzheimer's receive, often picturing locked wards where people sit around lost in their thoughts all day.
Even the name most communities use today -- memory care -- fits the newer more compassionate and comforting reality for those in need of assistance.
But it isn't just a vase of flowers and a fancy title that makes the facilities different; it is what goes on every day.
Beyond bingo
Juliet Holt Klinger is national director of dementia care for Brookdale Senior Living, which has multiple locations across Illinois and the nation.
She says it is not uncommon for family members to be concerned about whether their loved ones will be challenged once they move into a memory care facility.
"We focus less on recreation and more on daily activities," Holt Klinger says adding they say it goes beyond bingo, ballparks and birthday parties.
"We are creating daily moments of success," she says.
From doing dishes and other daily life skills to areas of spirituality, dance, music and art they provide residents with opportunities to be successful doing what they love, Holt Klinger says.
At Brookdales' Clare Bridge residences, where they specialize in memory care, residents are provided with workbenches and gardening areas. They encourage residents to do the same things they loved doing before arriving at the residences.
Holt Klinger says they even have a nursery where dolls provide residents with the opportunity to nurture by holding the dolls or dressing them.
Their days are gently structured providing the familiarity that is important to those with Alzheimer's in need of routine, Holt Klinger says.
Shawn Massey, memory care director for Senior Star at Weber Place in Romeoville, says their philosophy is really focused on interaction.
Residents are discouraged from having television and phones in their rooms because they want them out of their rooms socializing and in groups throughout the day, Massey says.
When a new resident comes to Senior Star, Massey says they do an assessment that provides the resident and their family with a functional age to focus on what cognition remains.
If a resident tests at the level of a 7 year old, Massey says they are able to better design activities around their functioning age and abilities.
Many families are intrigued by the assessment and how it can be used.
"By the time they come to us they know there is significant loss [of memory] and are amazed we can pin it down as a specific," Massey says adding it is also a helpful education tool for families.
What's available?
Holt Klinger says when asking family about their loved one's favorite activities they often hear terms like 'she doesn't do this anymore' or 'he can't do that anymore' and they return after awhile to see their family member participating again.
"I often see what I call a bloom," Holt Klinger says adding that many get to the point where they aren't participating in activities at home and are sitting in a recliner all day, but at Clare Bridge they are active participants with assistance.
"Some people say home is always the best place. I'm not convinced," she says adding that it is more important that they are living the best and most enriched lives they can.
At Senior Star memory care residents go out once a week to go on scenic drives, go for ice cream or lunch. Massey says getting out and getting fresh air really reduces behavior issues and agitation often associated with dementia.
When residents become agitated or have difficulty sleeping Massey says they go to the sensory room where there is a ceiling lit with stars and soothing sounds can be produced such as crickets chirping or a waterfall. There is a lavender scented blanket that can be warmed, a lambskin blanket and a big recliner.
Residents only spend eight to 10 minutes in the room and items can be brought to them -- like fiber optic tubes to bubble effect fish -- whatever helps to calm them and make them more comfortable.
Massey says agitation is common within about 70 percent of residents.
They also offer aqua therapy once a week in a warm shallow water pool that helps reduce behavior issues, helps residents sleep better and be more calm.
As Massey walks through the options and activities available to memory care residents there is no shortage of interesting options. Those who are higher functioning can participate in software computer programs that test trivia, math and problem solving. Music is played at all meals and families can help create playlists to be shared with the resident via iPod.
At each Clare Bridge facility a person is dedicated to planning activities.
One concept involves clustering. This entails residents being placed in small groups based on their skill level to participate in activities several times a day.
Another concept includes residents at all levels participating together, Holt Klinger says. For example, she says, if they are making brownies those at a higher level may read the recipe and measure the ingredients while others may help by buttering the pan.
"It's not about the bells and whistles it's about relationships between the care partners and the person with dementia," Holt Klinger says.
She feels the best caregivers are those that know their residents really well and can individualize their activities based on their interests.
Stories of success
Finding a resident's interest and helping them engage is one of the rewards of working in memory care.
"There's a lot of joy in seeing someone with dementia engage or re-engage," Holt Klinger says.
In a one of Brookdale's Florida communities, an employee with training in art was reading through the history of a resident with agitation issues. When she discovered the resident used to paint they began painting together and have seen a great reduction in the resident's agitation.
"There are all kinds of those success stories," Holt Klinger says. "It's exciting work. The relationships we form with residents make it an honor."
For Patricia McCure and her family, moving her mom Dorothy Sippel, 89, was not an easy decision. The family wanted to stay committed to her wish to live out her life in the home she lived in since infancy. But when the cognitive decline was compounded by physical issues Sippel needed 24-hour care.
"Mom cannot tell me anything from her perspective, which was a huge concern. I depend extremely on them for mom's memory," McCure says of the employees at Senior Star.
McCure says residents go from room to room for activities much like they might in their own home. Activities are family-style from games to coloring. Families can bring a pet to visit or "adopt" the golden retriever that roams where invited.
"Her day is still very much like it would be at home," she says. It's not the same but yet it's still enough of the kinds of things she would be doing at home -- getting coffee, sitting on the patio, watching TV, McCure says.
"She is much more alert than she has been in months," McCure says adding that at home her mother was sleeping a lot.
Massey says they see successes all the time including an Alzheimer's resident in her 60s who was no longer able to communicate. After moving into a Senior Star facility she began formulating words and simple sentences.
"We watched her language skills progress," Massey says. "There are real tangible results."
Judy Beecham of Crest Hill moved her mom, Lorraine Miller, 92, to Senior Star's assisted living from an independent living facility in Michigan.
In addition to a dementia diagnosis Miller has a heart condition and diabetes. After hospitalization earlier this year doctors recommended a memory care facility.
Beecham and her husband worried her mom would not be happy.
"She never missed it,," Beecham says recounting their surprise. "She never asked about it [her independent living facility] and her dementia isn't that bad." Beecham says she has adjusted well to the memory care residence.
"She receives so much care there it puts us at ease," she says.
Watching someone's memory begin to fail or witnessing a family member struggling with dementia can be troubling. Making the decision to find them a place to live that offers assistance can also be stressful.


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Based on the short story by Daphne du Maurier
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Daphne du Maurier's short story, also the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, is boldly adapted by Conor McPherson—a gripping, unsettling, and moving look at human relationships in the face of societal collapse. In an isolated house, strangers Nat and Diane take shelter from relentless masses of attacking birds. They find relative sanctuary but not comfort or peace; there's no electricity, little food, and a nearby neighbor may still be alive and watching them. Another refugee, the young and attractive Julia, arrives with some news of the outside world, but her presence also brings discord. Their survival becomes even more doubtful when paranoia takes hold of the makeshift fortress—an internal threat to match that of the birds outside.
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A month ago, Jerry Dipoto could not envision the Angels making a major push to add or shed players before the July 31 nonwaiver trade deadline, the general manager saying, "We are not a buyer, we are not a seller." Two and a half weeks ago, Dipoto said he doubted the Angels would make any "high-profile moves."
With an 11-game American League West deficit entering Tuesday night's game against the Minnesota Twins and the trade deadline now eight days away, little has changed for the Angels.
They are not close enough to contention to warrant a trade for an impact player, and even if they were, they don't have an abundance of high-end prospects to swing such a deal. Nor do they have the kind of veterans who are attractive enough to contenders to net a significant package of prospects in return.
"We're informed, we're aware of teams we may or may not have a potential fit with," Dipoto said Tuesday. "But we're not looking to make wholesale changes."
Pitcher Jason Vargas, who is 6-4 with a 3.65 earned-run average, would have had some value, but the left-hander had a blood clot removed from his armpit on June 26 and was only cleared to resume throwing off a mound Tuesday. There is virtually no chance he'll be traded.
Veteran reliever Scott Downs, who is 2-1 with a 1.27 ERA in 40 games and has gone 28 appearances without allowing a run, might be attractive to teams looking for a left-handed relief specialist, but the most he'd probably net in a trade is a mid-level prospect.
The players who have the most value—outfielder Mike Trout, closer Ernesto Frieri, rotation ace Jered Weaver, left-hander C.J. Wilson, first baseman Mark Trumbo—the Angels have little or no interest in trading.
With a $148-million payroll and massive investments in players such as Albert Pujols (10 years, $240 million) and Josh Hamilton (five years, $125 million), the Angels are not about to embark on a five-year rebuilding program.
They're in win-now mode, just like they've been for the past decade under owner Arte Moreno, and their only hope this season is for a club that has struggled offensively and defensively and has little rotation depth beyond Weaver and Wilson to get hot for two months.
"We're having an up-and-down season," Dipoto said. "Somehow, we have to figure out how to regain consistency on the field and in our approach."
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'This Is 40': Familiarity breeds indifference
In any relationship, intimacy leads to familiarity.
And while contempt does not always follow, too much information can shatter many an illusion. This is one of the themes in "This Is 40," a random series of loosely connected vignettes about marriage, parenting, aging and, for some reason, Megan Fox and 1970s rocker Graham Parker.
Another theme is about making the same mistakes your parents did, but with more sophisticated technology. There are Viagra and toilet jokes, hemorrhoid sight gags, attempts at oral sex, and medical marijuana misadventures. Children swear like Linda Blair in "The Exorcist," and parents carry on like horny teenagers.
"This Is 40" is the equivalent of a vanity license plate. It was written, directed and presumably experienced in some form by Judd Apatow, whose wife, Leslie Mann, and their real life daughters co-star with Paul Rudd.
All creative people draw from personal experience, but "This Is 40" is thick with the sense of Apatow firing up his MacBook whenever his family did something he found funny. The raunchy sweetness that Apatow brought to "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" has here gone from trademark to template. The result not only feels like he's repeating himself, but like he's channeling James L. Brooks' "Spanglish" rather than Larry David's Seinfeldian "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
In "This Is 40," the puckish and affable Rudd and Mann reprise their supporting characters from "Knocked Up." Married for years, they are dealing with the chaos of family life, including a lack of privacy and the lies one tells to keep the peace.
Rudd plays Words With Friends on the toilet, while his independent record label goes down the drain because it promotes serious artists like Parker rather than the dance music his wife and daughters like. And he is secretly funneling funds to his father, played by Albert Brooks, who has children younger than his own kids. Meanwhile, someone is stealing from the clothing store owned by Mann, where bad-girl Fox works.
All their issues, and the profane rants of Melissa McCarthy as the volatile mother of a daughter's classmate, are portrayed in earsplitting volume and with uncomfortable intimacy. But audiences go to films to escape domestic rancor.
And Parker might add that once musicians starting writing songs about being on the road, it's time for a fresh perspective.
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- Cast: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow, Jason Segel, Megan Fox, Charlene Yi, Graham Parker
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Lineup breakdown: Red Sox-Tigers, Game 4
A look at Wednesday's lineups for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Tigers and Red Sox at Comerica Park:
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A look at Wednesday's lineups for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Tigers and Red Sox at Comerica Park:
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The Red Sox are hitting just .133 against the Tigers during the series and have been held without a hit the first time through the order during each of the first three games. They've struck out 43 times compared to 10 walks and 12 hits in 90 at-bats, yet the Red Sox nonetheless boast a 2-1 advantage in the series.
Current Red Sox hitters are batting .304 off Tigers starter Doug Fister, with 15 strikeouts and 11 walks in 102 career at-bats.
Mike Napoli has just three hits in the postseason, but his third was a big one, clearing the left-field wall on Tuesday night and leading the Red Sox to a 1-0 victory in Game 3. Napoli, hitting .143 with 10 strikeouts in 21 at-bats this postseason, returns to the lineup, batting fifth.
Making his second start of the series in left field is the switch-hitting Daniel Nava, who is 5-for-12 with three doubles off Fister. The move will allow Jonny Gomes to be available off the bench.
1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Shane Victorino, RF
3. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
4. David Ortiz, DH
5. Napoli, 1B
6. Nava, LF
7. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, C
8. Stephen Drew, SS
9. Will Middlebrooks, 3B
Tigers manager Jim Leyland called his lineup changes for Game 4 "huge."
Then, he followed up, "Really, I don't know if it's huge or not."
The changes are drastic. Torii Hunter is leading off for the first time since 2000, when he was a 24-year-old in his second Major League season. Miguel Cabrera will be hitting second for just the third time in his career and first time since 2004, when he was a 21-year-old in his second Major League season.
Each hitter behind them also moved up a spot, as Austin Jackson, who is hitting .091 with 18 strikeouts this postseason, was moved down to No. 8. Leyland said he went with Jackson over Don Kelly in center field because of Jackson's success against Red Sox starter Jake Peavy (9-for-28, two triples, one home run).
"You can say I'm nuts, you can say I'm dumb, you can say whatever you want," Leyland said. "It does give [the media] something to write about: 'Other than Jackson struck out 18 times, Leyland needs to do something.' So here it is, have a good time with it. We'll see how it plays out. And I will be willing to answer the questions after the game."
1. Hunter, RF
2. Cabrera, 3B
3. Prince Fielder, 1B
4. Victor Martinez, DH
5. Jhonny Peralta, LF
6. Alex Avila, C
7. Omar Infante, 2B
8. Jackson, CF
9. Jose Iglesias, SS
Jason Mastrodonato is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Next Generation Encryption Meets Tomorrow's Security Challenges
Cisco's early adoption and implementation of Next Generation Encryption (NGE) is paving the way for the next decade of cryptographic security. NGE provides a complete algorithm suite, comprised of authenticated encryption, digital signatures, key establishment and cryptographic hashing. These components provide high levels of security and scalability, aimed at setting the standard for the next 10 years of encryption.
The next generation of encryption technologies meets the evolving needs of agencies and enterprises by utilizing modern, but well reviewed and tested cryptographic algorithms and protocols. As an example, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is used in place of the more traditional Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithms. By upgrading these algorithms, NGE cryptography prevents hackers from having a single low-point in the system to exploit and efficiently scales to high data rates, while providing all of the security of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher
As computing power exponentially increases over time, according to Moore's Law, attackers have access to more powerful tools to crack encryption keys. However, NGE is capable of staying ahead of this curve by improving security and robustness of Cisco's already market leading trusted solutions to meet emerging global standards into the future.
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Richard Bartlett "Ricky" Schroder, Jr. (born April 13, 1970) is an American Golden Globe Award-winning actor.
He debuted in the 1979 hit film The Champ, going on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons. He has continued acting as an adult, notably on the western Lonesome Dove and the television crime drama NYPD Blue.
Schroder was born in Staten Island, New York, the son of Diane, a telephone company employee, and Richard Bartlett Schroder, Sr., a telephone company district manager. He has a sister, Dawn. Schroder debuted in the 1979 remake of the movie The Champ, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best New Male Star of the Year in a Motion Picture at the age of nine for his role as T.J. Flynn in the movie.


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While much of America's cultural compass is currently guided by Twitter feeds, entertainment news, and estranged families, the Coltrane family's values and mores have changed little in the past two centuries. They remain steadfast in their responsibility to their family, community, and land.
Now, like millions of Americans across the country, they are presented with unforeseen economic challenges. But, the Coltranes believe their long tradition of working together, adapting to unexpected challenges, and passing down their knowledge to the next generation will pull them through.
"This land has been in our family for over 200 years," says Branson Coltrane with a thick Southern drawl, sitting on the tailgate of his truck in Pleasant Garden, N.C. His weathered face softens as his piercing blue eyes look intently over the cornfields, tin barns, John Deere tractors, and the hundreds of mooing cows dotting the fields.
"That is what gives us this love for farming," Branson says. "It's the struggles our family has faced to keep this land. Every dollar I've ever made has gone back into this farm. If we want to survive, we have to keep expanding."
Since he and his dad, Roy, started the dairy with just a few cows in 1956, the farm has grown to 800 acres and 1,200 head of cattle. Unfortunately, the Coltranes are not immune to the recent economic turmoil, and when the price of milk crashed in 2009, they were forced to borrow money to cover their operating expenses, something they had worked their entire lives to avoid. While Branson's face shows the strain of his new liability, he believes the values his father ingrained in him will pull the family through. He knows this isn't the first time the Coltranes have faced hard times.
Working together
"In the Great Depression days, life was about surviving," says Roy Coltrane, wearing faded overalls and a green flannel shirt. He sits at the kitchen table in the quaint house he built for his wife, Margaret, on a winding country road in Pleasant Garden more than 70 years ago. Margaret sits next to Roy, her fingers laced with his.
Roy's father, brokenhearted after his wife died during childbirth, passed away himself four years later, leaving Roy to lead the family at 21. The Great Depression was unkind to farmers like Roy, but he fought to take custody of his four siblings and to keep the farm. To make it work, the entire family pulled together. Roy's sister Irene dropped out of eighth grade to raise her younger siblings and take care of the household responsibilities.
"Irene was more like a mother to me than a sister," says Ethel Coltrane Whitaker, the youngest of Roy's siblings, from the porch of the home she and her siblings grew up in. The one-story white house is immaculate. Old photographs and antiques fill the inside of the house while beds of colorful pansies and rosebushes bloom outside. A black-and-white picture of the family posing in front of the house with a horse and buggy sits in the living room, reminding them all of a very different time.
Ethel looks down at the enormous Bible spread across her lap. "My mama and daddy bought this Bible over a hundred years ago," she says. "All the births and deaths of our family members are recorded here." Her delicate finger points to the year Irene died.
All of Roy's siblings, his son, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren now live on the family farm. Despite the demanding nature of their work, there is still a simple rhythm to their lives. They have an unwavering commitment to one another. Every afternoon Branson and his wife eat lunch with Roy and Margaret. The breaking of steaming biscuits and fresh garden vegetables is more than a meal – it's a way for the family to constantly reconnect.
"I think one of the things that's kept us together is that we make time for each other," says Branson. "When I got married over 45 years ago, my father-in-law told me I [had] better be at his house every Sunday for lunch. Nearly a half century later we are still having Sunday lunch together. That's real important."
Looking at the neatly planted cornfields that stretch for miles against the autumn sky, it's hard to imagine the responsibility that goes with maintaining the land. To keep the farm going, everyone contributes. Branson and his daughter-in-law, Amy, are up by 4 a.m. every day. They begin their days at the calving barn, a giant tin structure the size of a football field. They work in a seamless rhythm nearly 365 days a year. Branson, who says he loves the stillness of early morning, drives an old all-terrain vehicle (ATV) as he shuttles between the plastic stalls where the calves are corralled, while Amy pulls out huge baby bottles for the lowing herd.
Adapting to change
Adapting and working together have allowed the family to triumph over the adversity they've faced through the years. The Coltranes, like millions of Americans, have learned that succeeding means constantly adapting to unexpected challenges. Roy's initial challenge was keeping the family together. For Branson it's been keeping a family-owned dairy profitable in the face of corporate competition. Today's economic volatility, along with rapid changes in dairy technology, have required Branson's son, David, to pick up where his father left off.
"You can't even compare where the dairy business is now to where it was when we started in the '50s," Branson says, as he washes the calves' bottles in an industrial washing machine he recently purchased. "To survive now, you have to know the latest technologies and constantly be ready to update."
His challenges are far different from those his father, Roy, faced. When Roy started farming, it was with a team of oxen and a plow. He still recalls his first tractor, which he got in 1947. "That tractor just did not have enough horsepower," says Roy, with a mischievous smile as he pulls at the gray stubble on his face. "I stuck with my team of oxen and didn't use the tractor."
Branson now has tractors with 200 horsepower. "They do so much more work," he says. But with the added work also comes significant expense. Each tractor can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and is a necessary investment to keep the farm competitive. Those added expenses are just one of the ways Branson has adapted.
Nearly all of the calves on his farm are the result of artificial insemination. "You see the cow over there?" Branson asks, pointing to a large, spotted heifer. "She has dozens of calves. We have a full-time vet that just works with us on reproduction." Branson now gets a better stock of calves by combining the eggs from his best cow with sperm from his best bull and implanting the resulting embryos into surrogate cows. "The dairy business will teach you a lot about things you never thought you needed to know," he says with a chuckle.
For dairy farmers like the Coltranes, land has an entirely different meaning. As dairy farms continue to get bigger, the only way family farmers seem to be able to survive is to continue buying land. But in the past few decades the available land for farming has been eaten up by housing developments, making it difficult to expand.
With the added expenses, increased need to understand veterinary science, and the scarcity of land, Branson knows it's critical that his grandchildren get a good education.
"To survive now, you have to know the latest technologies and constantly be ready to update," Branson says. "My oldest grandchild, Cole, is 16 years old and is already taking agriculture classes in high school and looking for colleges with good farming programs. If my grandchildren are interested in taking up the responsibility of the farm, we are going to do everything we can to make sure they are properly prepared."
As the next generation of Coltranes is groomed to take over the farm, the collective family history of success dating back to the founding of the nation has been inculcated in them by Cecil, Roy's youngest brother. He's a bachelor and an aspiring genealogist who used to ride his horse to the nearest Hardee's fast-food restaurant. He's also one of the family historians.
"You see those woods over there?" asks Cecil, with a distinct country twang. Sitting in his green ATV at the back of a cornfield surrounded by forest, he points to an old wagon trail that runs into the woods. "My great-grandmother died right through there in Polecat Creek."
He pauses, and puts his hands back on the steering wheel. "She was hauling a load of cane to make into molasses. The oxen got spooked and the wagon flipped over." She left five children behind.
His stories are a reminder that the challenges the Coltranes – and many like them – face now pale compared with what their forebears had to overcome. His resolve is a reminder that families can work together, adapt, and pass along a productive lifestyle.


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Faith in Vermont: Save the Librarians!
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Ilsley Public Library now has a self-checkout terminal: a computer station where you scan your own library card and the barcodes of the books you're checking out, without ever having to interact with another person.
It's what I longed for when we first moved here. When we lived in California, every library had multiple self-checkout terminals. In the children's room of our local library, the librarians weren't even able to check out books for you; they were on hand as reference guides and story-time leaders. To check out books, you had to use the computer. And going to the library with my girls, who generally check out 20 books at a time, self-checkout was just fine; desirable, even: the girls kept busy and out of trouble by helping hand me the books and scan the barcodes.
Flash forward to our first visit to Ilsley: as we approached the circulation desk with our tote bag full of books, I searched -- in confusion that became panic that became irritation -- for the self-checkout terminal, before resigning myself to handing our books to an actual librarian.
Now, at last, Ilsley has one self-checkout terminal, on the adult floor. And when I first saw it, I felt sad. Over the course of this year, I've come to treasure our interactions with the wonderful staff at both Ilsley and Sarah Partridge Libraries. Most of the librarians no longer ask for my card when we check out; they know my daughters and me, and pull up our records by name. They've ordered new books for the library based on recommendations from my oldest daughter, they've helped that same daughter get her first library card, they've called me at home to let me know that they were holding a book we'd accidentally left behind.
A self-checkout terminal may be convenient, but it can't do any of those things.
My ambivalent reaction to the self-checkout terminal may indicate that I'm getting old and starting to fear change. But I think it's more a sign that I've entered a dangerous stage in my Vermont residence: the point at which I've lived here long enough to feel nostalgic for things that I haven't lived here long enough to fully understand. If I don't watch it, my affection for Vermont might become patronizing.
Most of us, when we visit or move to someplace new, carry with us at least a little bit of a stereotype about that place. This is particularly easy to do with Vermont, whose name easily conjures up images of green hills, snowy slopes, red barns, dairy cows, stunning foliage -- the whole "Moonlight in Vermont" fantasy. I certainly moved here with those expectations. And Vermont does a stunningly good job of living up to its own hype, since it genuinely does contain gorgeous scenery, small towns, and working farms.
But live anywhere long enough, and what was once charming and unique becomes the norm. When we first moved to Vermont, it seemed like we lived in such a small town. I couldn't get enough of the barns and the cows. It was like nowhere I'd ever lived: no big box stores, no multiplexes, no four-lane highways.
Now, my small town doesn't seem so small anymore. Sometimes I go out and don't run into anybody I know. There are more houses than farms. We even have some chain stores: a Rite Aid, a TJ Maxx, and (gasp!) a McDonald's. I've had a chance to explore Vermont a bit, and there are plenty of towns much smaller than mine. In fact, with its 8,000-something population, Middlebury is the 12th largest town in the state.
And NOW, our library has a self-checkout terminal.
So I'm feeling nostalgic for something that hasn't existed here in a long time, something that might not even be desirable to most of the community: I wish for more farms, fewer chain stores, only live librarians. It's the attitude of a Westerner who travels to Africa and is disappointed to see Masai tribesmen chatting on their cell phones; a nostalgia based on stereotype.
Because who am I to deny Middlebury its economic development, to deny the library its technology? Who am I, having lived here barely two years, to judge what this community wants or needs? The issues underlying what's happening in this town, this county, this state, they're incredibly complex. I think the challenge to having lived in a place -- and loved a place -- just long enough to feel nostalgic, is to keep my mouth shut for at least another decade. Maybe by then I'll have earned the right to wish for bygone days. Or maybe I'll just be really thankful for that self-checkout terminal.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, three young daughters (with another on the way), one adorable puppy — and writing for her blog,The Pickle Patch.


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I guess this is really a sling. Spirits and sugar. Pretty nice, as these sorts of things go.
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Democrats see minefield in Occupy protests
NEW YORK - The Republican Party and the tea party seemed to be a natural political pairing. But what may have seemed like another politically beneficial alliance Democrats and Occupy Wall Street hasn't happened.
Although both Democrats and the Occupy protesters have similar views on economic inequality and corporate responsibility, each holds the other at arm's length. There's little benefit to Democrats in opening their arms wide to a scruffy group that has erupted in violence, defied police and shown evidence of drug use while camping in public parks across the country much as the prospect of such a pairing delights Republicans.
Many protesters, in turn, are contemptuous of Democrats, arguing that both political parties are equally beholden to corporate interests and responsible for enacting policies that have hurt the middle class.
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Both sides may be missing an opportunity. Polling shows the public supports the message of the Occupy Wall Street movement even if people have reservations about the encampments themselves. And political observers say Democrats may be missing a chance to reinvigorate their base.
"It's injecting energy and life into progressive ideas and values, and it's showing some weak-kneed Democrats they should be more aggressive on those issues," Steve Rosenthal, a Democratic strategist and longtime labor leader, said. "I don't think it will translate into boots on the ground or a clear organization for the 2012 election, but it will definitely help shape the debate."
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Occupy Wall Street hasn't been easy for risk-averse elected officials to endorse.
The movement has lacked leadership and a clear focus, and illegal behavior has turned off some politicians. Mayors, citing concerns over sanitation and public safety, have begun to crack down on the encampments, and police in riot gear have cleared protesters from several cities, including New York, Portland, Ore., and Oakland, Calif.
Republicans have largely dismissed the Occupy Wall Street as a band of anti-capitalist ruffians, while trying to goad Democrats into embracing the movement or answering for its excesses.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has called the movement dangerous class warfare, while Michele Bachmann called the protesters "ignorant" and "disrespectful."
So far, Democrats have tried to have it both ways embracing the movement's economic concerns while steering clear of its rougher edges.
"I think people feel separated from their government," President Barack Obama told ABC News. "They feel that their institutions are not looking out for them." The president has said his jobs plan, which would boost taxes on high earners, is a way to address some of the protesters' concerns.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has gone a step further, posting a petition, "100,000 Strong Standing With Occupy Wall Street," that blames Republican policies for the nation's economic discontent.
But many Occupy Wall Street activists say they are disillusioned with Obama and have no interest in helping him or other Democratic candidates.
"The Occupy movement is rooted in the idea that the political system is broken to such a degree that we can no longer work through the Republican or Democratic parties," Tim Franzen, a spokesman for Occupy Atlanta, said.
"This is not about politics. This is about people," said Marsha Spencer, an Occupy volunteer in New York. "We've lost our government. It's not by the people, for the people anymore. We need to get it back, and we don't need a political party to do that."
Such talk has frustrated some Democratic leaders, who say engaging electoral politics would make the Occupy Wall Street movement more effective.
"I want them to get up and start registering voters, start playing towards the 2012 election," former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said at a seminar at Harvard University last week. "Not just the presidential, but congressional and Senate elections and state legislative elections. That's where they can make real change."
At least one candidate seems to be channeling the energy of the Occupy Wall Street movement: Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor challenging Republican Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
Warren's campaign has drawn national attention after she described how the rich should pay more in taxes since they had benefited the most from government policies. Warren later claimed to have laid the "intellectual foundation" for the Occupy movement but stressed that protesters need to obey the law.
While Warren's campaign has drawn intense grass-roots enthusiasm an estimated 1,000 people jammed a volunteer meeting in Boston on Sunday Republicans are eager to turn her ties to the Occupy movement against her.
Crossroads GPS, a Republican super PAC with ties to former George W. Bush political director Karl Rove, released a television ad in Massachusetts linking Warren to rowdy Occupy protests. The group also called on Warren to "condemn the Occupy Wall Street movement for the escalating criminality, violence and extreme radicalization."
For their part, Republicans recognized an electoral ally in the tea party movement soon after its inception in early 2009, when activists began protesting government spending and the federal bank bailouts.
While many tea party members claimed to be nonpartisan, they were mostly white, older and Republican-leaning and shared the GOP's goal of limiting government and cutting spending. Obama was the poster child for the opposite view. Tea party activists helped drive many of the angry congressional town hall meetings protesting Obama's health care overhaul, and the sweeping Republican victories in the 2010 midterm elections were fueled in large party by tea party enthusiasm.
While the Occupy movement has not had similar tangible goals, activists say it has already had an impact on the political dialogue.
Labor leaders say the movement's message of economic inequality was a factor in Ohio, where voters overwhelmingly repealed a law curtailing public employees' right to collective bargaining. And some are crediting the movement with successfully pressuring Bank of America to drop its plan to charge customers a $5 monthly fee to use their bank cards.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., introduced legislation last week to prevent banks from circumventing state-level caps on interest rates. In an interview with The Associated Press, Whitehouse credited the Occupy movement for renewing public focus on banking practices.
"I'm hoping we can take advantage of some of that interest and energy in this," Whitehouse said.
Karin Hofmann, an Occupy activist in New York, said she was sure Obama's decision to delay approval of the controversial Keystone oil pipeline was a reaction to the Occupy movement.
"We've changed the whole conversation. It's been a paradigm shift," she said.


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CHICAGO — ALA Editions announces an exciting new workshop, 12 Months of Children's Programming: Grades K through 6 with Lisa M. Shaia and Joanne M. Moore. This workshop will last 90 minutes and take place at 2:30 p.m. Eastern/1:30 p.m. Central on Wednesday, April 30, 2014.
Library programs and services for children need to incorporate programs for elementary-age children that integrate the school, the library and the community. Shaia and Moore will show librarians how to do just this using their fully integrated, holistic approach, which builds children's programming with schools and the full calendar year in mind.
In this workshop, Shaia and Moore will offer a month-by-month approach to children's programming that includes strategies for working with teachers and using the summer months to enhance literacy and learning while school is out. They will also discuss how to finance these programs through fundraising events.
After participating in this event, participants will be able to:
- plan monthly programs to appeal to both early elementary and upper elementary age groups;
- learn ways to collaborate with their local school system and the school schedule to make it easier for children to attend programs;
- plan fundraising programs for the library.
About the Instructors
Lisa M. Shaia is currently the children's librarian at the Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield, Conn. She is the author of "After-School Clubs That Encourage Reading" (ALA 2013). Other writing credentials include articles in the Collaborative Summer Library Program, Children and Libraries and Connecticut Parent Magazine. Shaia also developed and teaches classes for ALSC. She has a BA in English from Western Connecticut State University and an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University. You can follow her blog at thriveafterthree.wordpress.com.
Joanne M. Moore is currently the Center Elementary School media specialist and the school library program coordinator for the Litchfield, Connecticut public schools. Her writing credentials include School Library Monthly and Library Sparks. She has a BA in Library Science and an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University.
Shaia and Moore have been collaborating since 2005. They tape a weekly "Books for Bedtime" television show for the city's local cable network, and in 2010, they cowrote an article published in Library Sparks.
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The San Siro was no place for visitors in 1990/91. This was where FC Internazionale Milano won six games out of six on the way to lifting the UEFA Cup. SK Rapid Wien, Aston Villa FC, FK Partizan, Atalanta BC, Sporting Clube de Portugal and AS Roma: all left empty-handed.
Yet Villa gave a good account of themselves on England's return to the competition – winning their second-round first leg 2-0 before losing by three at the Giuseppe Meazza – while Roma were no pushovers in the final. The Giallorossi had survived a tough draw unbeaten, victories over SL Benfica, Valencia CF, FC Girondins de Bordeaux and RSC Anderlecht carrying them through to a semi-final against the tournament's dark horses, Brøndby IF.
In fact, Brøndby, the first Danish side to reach the last four, would have made the final but for Rudi Völler's late clincher in a 2-1 triumph at the Olimpico after a goalless draw in Copenhagen. That was as good as it got for Völler and Co, however. It was another German international, Lothar Matthäus, who took the goalscoring plaudits as Inter beat Roma 2-0 in Milan. And while Ruggiero Rizzitelli reduced the deficit in the return, it was not enough to deny Giovanni Trapattoni's side.


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St. Martin Attraction – That Yoda Guyby Paul Motter | 06.08.12
Explore a surprising exhibit where Hollywood meets the Caribbean in St. Martin.
Nick Maley, "That Yoda Guy"Front Street in Saint Martin is visited by thousands, possibly millions of cruise visitors each year. The street has shopping for rum, electronics, jewelry, linens and all kinds of kitschy souvenirs from the Caribbean.
But the last time I was there I ran into a shop I never expected, a small museum created by Nick Maley, a former Hollywood-based special effects master who worked on dozens of successful science fiction movies. He calls himself "The Yoda Guy," because he not only envisioned the look of Yoda, the Jedi Master from Star Wars, but he also made the working models used in the movies.
Nick specialized in working puppets and other practical pieces you see in Hollywood movies, but I don't mean puppets as in the sense of the Muppets. I mean the kind of physical items that appear to be real flesh on camera, and that come to life because of the intricate methods he creates to manipulate them.
Are you interested in visiting the exhibit? Discuss it in the Caribbean forum.
While the shop appears to be tiny from the outside, on the inside it's a museum containing fascinating exhibits of his own actual special effects and other artifacts he collected during his years of work in Hollywood. I highly recommend it – especially for the people who love science fiction movies, the kind of people who go to "Comic-Con." But even casual tourists will enjoy the experience as long as they like Hollywood history.
I took a tour on my last visit to St. Martin, and I could have easily stayed much longer than the hour I spent. Who would expect to find Darth Vader, Pinhead from HELLRAISER and Ridley Scott's ALIEN in St Martin? Even better, Nick is the proprietor of the shop, and he is there to talk about his work and other Hollywood special effects creators all day long, as long as you are nice enough to repay him by paying the admission for the museum and perhaps buying one of his hand-made souvenirs, not of the Caribbean, but of Hollywood movie-making by a real special effects master.
That Yoda Guy Movie Exhibit is located at 19a Front Street, one of the first shops you encounter if you walk from the pier or get off a shuttle bus at the end of Front Street.
The exhibits spans six decades of movie making, with items from The Terminator, Men in Black and even The Maltese Falcon from 1941. What impressed me personally was the incredible collection of life casts, the actual faces of Hollywood stars taken from molds of their actual faces. Believe me, you have never really seen Jack Nicholson until you see that expansive smile in its real proportion. Proportion is exactly what gives these life masks their true magic, the fact that you see the people as if they are standing right in front of you, not on a movie screen where real proportion gets lost. Jack Nicholson's smile, Angelina Jolie's eyes and Jack Kennedy's dimples look completely different in real perspective, and these people come alive to you as human beings for the very first time.
There is also Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Sean Connery, Humphrey Bogart & Marlon Brando. There are historical personalities too; real life casts of Abraham Lincoln, (cast 3 months before his assassination 1865), Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, (cast in 1778 and 1783 respectively by french sculptor Jean Antoine Houden), and death masks of both Ludwig Von Beethoven (1808) and Oliver Cromwell, (1658).
About Nick Maley
The museum is the brainchild of "Hollywood creature" effects wizard Nick Maley and his wife Gloria. Nick is known as "that Yoda Guy" for his contribution to the creation of Yoda for the STAR WARS saga. If you don't know who Nick is, just google his name. He worked in over 50 movies, including Superman, Highlander, Krull and Lifeforce. He has worked with Hollywood legends like Sean Connery, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Harrison Ford, (you see them all in the exhibit). Nick has even been featured in CINEMAX and HBO specials, won a place in The Guinness Book of World Records and was nominated for an Emmy.
"Through the Yoda Guy Movie Exhibit I'm trying to tell the INSIDE story about making famous movies," Nick explains, "things that the general public knows little about. When I was a kid they told me to give up art and drama as they thought I would work in a factory. I worked harder to prove they were wrong and 53 movies later I hope to inspire kids to work and persevere long enough to make their dreams come true. I believe that the people who fail are the ones who give up. And that many personalities, like me, had to go through poor and difficult years to achieve success."
While Nick is still known in Hollywood as "The Yoda Guy,", he chose to retire in St. Martin and opened the museum simply because he had so many wonderful items that people still want to see. Nick explains, "Many people ask me why Gloria and I chose to do this in St. Maarten, that I would be so much more successful in Orlando or London or other prime locations. But the sun always shines here and the sailing is great. I discovered that personal relationships are the most valuable things in life and simple living allows more time for me to share my life with real people."
It also gives him much more time to talk to the fans of this movie genre who come by. Nick will be there when you arrive, sitting at his drawing table and working on a new idea.
Find Out More about the Yoda Guy
Nick is well known internationally for his memoirs about the making of many movies. His first website http://Cinesecrets.com was named Best of the Web by the BBC and attracted as many as half a million hits a week. He wrote about colleagues who contributed to bringing Yoda to life on http://thoseYodaGuys.com. Now he adds http://YodaGuyMovieExhibit.com to his domains.
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When Creed was a baby, I took a picture of him in the same chair with the same stuffed toy once a month so you could see how much he was growing. I decided to do the same thing with Oliver, but instead of a toy, I will be taking his picture with this big letter O. So here are his one month pictures.If he looks disgruntled, it's because he is. He scratched his face while I was getting everything ready. Poor guy!
I can't believe he's already over a month old! It's going by so fast. These pictures are only a week old, but he already looks a lot older to me. His cheeks are filling out and his eyes have turned blue. It looks like that dark hair is going to fall out and he's going to be blonde afterall, but we'll just have to wait and see.


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BOSTON, Mass. – In the final game of 2012 men's hockey saw some of their newest members take center stage as five different freshmen each found the back of the net to lead the Beacons to a 5-2 win over ECAC East rival the University of Southern Maine Saturday afternoon in the Clark Athletic Center Ice Arena.
At the other side of the freshman goalie Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.) anchored the Beacons defense to lead UMB to their best overall start to a season since the 1987-88 campaign when they 8-2-0. With Saturday's victory UMass improved to 7-2-1, 3-2-1 in the conference, while the Huskies dropped to 4-4-0, 3-4-0 in the ECAC East.
The Beacons got their first goal from Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.) midway through the first period. The 6'5" forward crushed his sixth goal of the season into the back of the Huskies cage to give the Beacons the early lead. Picking up the assist on the goal was classmates Frankie DeAugustine (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Kit Sitterley (Mooresville, N.C.).
Southern Maine would then respond with their first goal of the afternoon to tie the score at 1-1. Angelo Vrachnas tallied his second score of the season at the 15:38 mark. With time winding in the period it looked as if both teams would go into the first intermission deadlocked at one-goal a-piece. However that all changed when Mike Miller (Wrentham, Mass.) pushed UMB back out in front with his fourth goal of the year at the 19:24 mark.
After the break, Southern Maine did manage to tie the score at 2-2 with Sam Guimond netting his second goal of the season. However the tie would last only three minutes as Sitterley put UMB up by one on his fourth goal of the season. MacIntyre earned the assist on the play, the third of his rookie campaign.
The third period would be all UMB from start to finish. Despite trailing the Huskies in shots in all three periods, UMass would get a pair of goals in the final frame to close out the victory, their fifth straight. Max Reavis (Omaha, Neb.) gave the Beacons a two-goal lead at the 9:16 mark, while a Jeremy Finger (Orlando, Fla.) empty-netter secured the win with 45 seconds left in the contest.
For Andrews, Saturday's win was perhaps his best overall performance this season, as the Florida native recording 30 stops. Southern Maine goalie Josh Hillegas totaled 19 saves to fall to 4-3-0. Andrews improved to 6-2-1 on the year.
As a squad the Beacons penalty-kill held the Huskies scoreless on their three power-play attempts. UMB, who entered Saturday's contest as the top-ranked team in the country on man-up situations, did not register a power-play goal on their four chances.
Men's Hockey will now take a month off from competition before returning to the ice on January 5 when they host the 48th Annual Codfish Bowl Tournament. The Beacons will face Wentworth Institute of Technology in the first round of the second-longest running college hockey invitational in the country.


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Design enthusiasts gathered at Minotti Los Angeles to celebrate several happy occasions: the opening night of Design Intersects Everything Made (DIEM), a one-day symposium presented by the West Hollywood Design District; Minotti Los Angeles' 10th anniversary; and the debut of its first-ever, limited-edition Denny Lounge.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders Annual Forum
Featuring Danielle Nierenberg
Worldwatch Institute Senior Fellow and co-project director of Nourishing the Planet
Agriculture and Water—Implications for Growth and Resilience
Other panelists:
Moira McDonald, program officer in Freshwater Conservation, Walton Family Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Moderator: Aimee Witteman, environment program officer, The McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
About the panel:
The nexus of agriculture and water is a key issue for farmers and policy makers throughout the world. Globally, over 70% of freshwater diverted for human uses goes to agriculture. In the U.S. the Mississippi River and "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico provide an illustrative example of the long-term negative effects of intensive agriculture production on water quality. These present challenges are further complicated by a growing population, changing diets, and an increasingly unstable climate.
But while agriculture is a central user and polluter of water, there are examples of agro-ecological practices and policies that can be essential water restoration strategies. This panel will explore the linkages between agriculture, water, and the environment, with perspectives from the regional and global levels, and highlighting innovative models of ways forward.
About the 9th annual forum:
The survival of all living things depends on water, and without proper stewardship our future is threatened. The same can be said about food. As we move further into the 21st Century, the philanthropic community needs to grapple with a crucial question: how will we act to protect and enhance healthy food and farming while meeting the challenges of our economic, social, and environmental systems?
The Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) is an international network that aims to strengthen, diversify and expand the community of grant makers that focus on sustainable agriculture and food systems.
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Mint Lamb Sausage Inspired by Jorgensen Farms {Charcutepalooza}
On a picturesque 65 acres in east central Ohio, there lies Jorgensen Farms, a biodynamic animal and vegetable operation. Proprietor Val (pictured below in blue) works the land guided by her distinguishing palette and eye for pleasing design. She builds vibrant soil through careful crop rotation and pasturing. Perhaps the most recognized crop is her mint grown especially for central Ohio based Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream's Backyard Mint flavor. You may click on pictures to enlarge them.
I attended the Ohio Lamb Chef's Day at Jorgensen Farms one cold and rainy day this May. The event included tours and tastings aimed at educating restaurant chefs. We walked through herb gardens near the farm houses and viewed sheep out to pasture on rolling hills. Two chilly day-old lambs visited in the arms of flower grower and livestock helper Roger Genter.
The meat of the event was a fascinating demonstration by Dr. Paul Kuber, associate professor of Animal Sciences at Ohio State University. He expertly butchered a lamb into cuts usable by restaurants and home cooks, sharing anatomy and culinary tidbits throughout. A six course sampling meal followed, using some of the cuts demonstrated.
At the end of the lamb cutting, a large bowl of scraps was left. Kuber shared that these could be used for sausage or other charcuterie. When the June Charcutepalooza challenge, stuffing, was announced, I knew what I had to make: mint lamb sausage, inspired by Jorgensen Farms.
Lamb mint sausage makes good use of the abundant mint and garlic scapes in our own backyard. We chose Ohio lamb and pork to keep the recipe local. The binding liquid included some of our own apple cider vinegar made last autumn.
As we have been stuffing sausage for a few years, the process runs quickly and smoothly now. Alex and Lil do most of the meat handling while I clean up behind them. From grind to bind to stuffing, a batch only takes about thirty minutes.
I served the sausage tonight with barley risotto and wilted homegrown greens. I highly recommend this hearty and healthy combination. It warmed us on a unseasonably cool evening, reminiscent of the chilly day I spent at the lovely Jorgensen Farms.
Mint Lamb Sausage
Makes 10 7 inch links
2 pounds lamb shoulder, boned 1 pound pork shoulder, boned 0.9 oz kosher salt (a hair less than 2 tablespoons) 1/3 cup finely chopped fresh mint 1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh young garlic scapes 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar 1/4 cup water hog casings
1. Grind lamb and pork with a large die. 2. Transfer to a mixing bowl. Add salt, mint, and scapes. Mix with batter paddle to combine. 3. Slowly pour in apple cider vinegar and water while mixing on low speed. Continue mixing until sausage binds or becomes very sticky, approximately 5 minutes. 4. Stuff into hog casings and make links.


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An design element I can add as an option to my view in display mode where I can specify what the information in the view contains.
For example when one of the table headers is labbeled CR, in the legend I can say that CR stands for Change Request.
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Support of groupboxes. There are workarounds using layers but yeah these are workarounds...


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U.S. Equal Employment
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Employee Was Demoted as Punishment for Reporting Sexual Harassment Complaint, Federal Agency Charged
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A Los Angeles-based insurance company that services policyholders in 12 states will pay $30,000 and furnish other relief to settle an unlawful retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, the Charlotte, N.C., facility of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company demoted William Barringer from associate sales manager to the position of sales associate in retaliation for reporting a complaint of sexual harassment that he had received from an employee he supervised. The report of the complaint was made to a vice president and agency director of Golden State. The EEOC also charged that Barringer was demoted in retaliation after he informed the alleged harasser, who was his supervisor, that he had reported the complaint.
Such retaliation violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit on March 16, 2009 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, Civil Action No. 3:09-cv-105, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
In addition to requiring Golden State to pay $30,000 to Barringer, the one-year consent decree resolving the case enjoins Golden State from engaging in any further retaliation against employees based on their opposition to unlawful employment practices or employment practices which the employee reasonably believes to be unlawful under the federal EEO statutes enforced by the EEOC. The company will also provide a positive letter of reference for Barringer, redistribute a copy of its written anti-discrimination policy to each of its employees, and make periodic reports to the EEOC.
"Employees should be confident that they can make their employers aware of violations of federal anti-discrimination laws without fear of reprisal," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney of EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "The anti-retaliation provisions of Title VII are indispensable to the attainment of a workplace free of discrimination."
In addition to Barnes, the EEOC was represented by Supervisory Trial Attorney Tracy H. Spicer and Trial Attorney Edward O'Farrell Loughlin.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Android console on the way? Amazon slurps gamehaus Double Helix
Killer Instinct Xbox maker joins Bezos and Chums
Amazon has bought a video games studio called Double Helix, fuelling rumours that it will soon release its own branded console.
The High Street Herod has already done its bit to hobble the book and record shop sectors.
Now it may have its sights on putting the boot into former console kings Nintendo, or even trying to nibble away at Sony and Microsoft's dominant market shares.
Double Helix most recently made a version of Killer Instinct for the Xbox One. The title was released as a launch game along with the console.
Double Helix was formed from a merger of Shiny Entertainment, makers of Earthworm Jim, and The Collective, which designed Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb as well as Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
An Amazon spokesman said: "Amazon has acquired Double Helix as part of our ongoing commitment to build innovative games for customers."
Amazon is expected to allow Double Helix to finish the games it is currently working on. It will take on the game designers' staff as well as its IP.
The announcement was due to be made later on in February, but leaked prematurely.
Persistent rumours suggest Amazon is set to release an Android-based games console costing about £200.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked a gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, claiming to have kidnapped up to 41 foreigners including seven Americans in a dawn raid in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali, according to regional media reports.
The raiders were also reported to have killed three people, including a Briton and a French national.
An al Qaeda affiliated group said the raid had been carried out because of Algeria's decision to allow France to use its air space for attacks against Islamists in Mali, where French forces have been in action against al Qaeda-linked militants since last week.
The attack in southern Algeria also raised fears that the French action in Mali could prompt further Islamist revenge attacks on Western targets in Africa, where al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) operates across borders in the Sahara desert, and in Europe.
AQIM said it had carried out Wednesday's raid on the In Amenas gas facility in OPEC member Algeria, Mauritania's ANI news agency reported.
The Algerian interior ministry said: "A terrorist group, heavily armed and using three vehicles, launched an attack this Wednesday at 5 a.m. against a Sonatrach base in Tigantourine, near In Amenas, about 100 km (60 miles) from the Algerian and Libyan border."
"The Algerian authorities will not respond to the demands of the terrorists and will not negotiate," Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia was quoted as saying by official news agency APS.
The gas field is operated by a joint venture including BP, Norwegian oil firm Statoil and Algerian state company Sonatrach.
BP said armed men were still occupying facilities at the gas field, which produces 9 billion cubic meters of gas a year(160,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day), more than a tenth of the country's overall gas output, and 60,000 barrels a day of condensate.
"The site was attacked and occupied by a group of unidentified armed people at about 0500 UK time. Contact with the site is extremely difficult, but we understand that armed individuals are still occupying the In Amenas operations site," it said.
A spokesman for BP said it usually had fewer than 20 people working at the site but would not be drawn on whether there were any talks with the hostage takers. He said: "Obviously we are doing everything we can to make sure our people are okay."
APS said a Briton and an Algerian security guard had been killed and seven people were injured. A French national was also killed in the attack, a local source said.
Also among those reported kidnapped by various sources were five Japanese nationals working for the Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp, a French national, an Austrian, an Irishman, and a number of Britons.
The U.S. State Department said it believed some U.S. citizens were also among the hostages, while Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said 13 employees of Statoil, a minority shareholder in the gas venture, were being held.
A member of an Islamist group styling itself the "Blood Battalion" was quoted by Mauritanian media as saying that five of the hostages were being held at the gas facility and 36 were in a housing area. APS said the Islamist raiders had freed Algerians working at the gas facility, though Regis Arnoux, head of French company CIS Catering, told JDD weekly newspaper that 150 Algerian employees of his company were being held at the site.
"The operation was in response to the blatant interference by Algeria and the opening of its air space to French aircraft to bomb northern Mali," the Islamist spokesman told Mauritania's ANI news agency.
ANI, which has regular direct contact with Islamists, said that fighters under the command of Mokhtar Belmokhtar were holding the foreigners.
Interior Minister Kablia also told APS that Belmokhtar was leading the group of about 20 individuals, whom he said were not from Mali, Libya or "any other neighboring state".
Belmokhtar, dubbed by French intelligence as "the uncatchable", for years commanded al Qaeda fighters in the Sahara before setting up his own armed Islamist group late last year after an apparent fallout with other militant leaders.
The Algerian army was in the area of the gas facility, according to French and Algerian sources.
ANI reported that the Islamists said they were surrounded by Algerian forces and warned that any attempt to free the hostages would lead to a "tragic end". One of the hostage takers told ANI that the perimeter of the site had been mined.
The attack was the first time in years that Islamist militants are known to have launched an attack on an Algerian energy facility.
The attack could have implications for security across the whole of Algeria's energy sector, which supplies about a quarter of Europe's natural gas imports and exports millions of barrels of crude oil each year.
Such an attack would require a large and heavily armed insurgent force with a degree of freedom to move around, all elements that al Qaeda has not previously had.
However, the conflict in neighboring Libya in 2011 changed the balance of force. Security experts say al Qaeda was able to obtain arms, including heavy weapons, from the looted arsenals of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The five Japanese work for the engineering firm JGC Corporation, Jiji news agency reported, quoting company officials. JGC has a deal with Sonatrach-BP-Statoil Association for work in gas production at In Amenas.
A reporter for Japan's NHK television managed to call a JGC worker in Algeria.
The worker said he got a phone call from a colleague at the gas field. "It was around 6 a.m. this morning. He said that he had been hearing gunshots for about 20 minutes. I wasn't able to get through to him since."
French troops launched their first ground operation against Islamist rebels in Mali on Wednesday in an action to dislodge from a strategic town al Qaeda-linked fighters who have resisted six days of air strikes.
Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer and John Irish in Paris, Laurent Prieur in Nouakchott, Andrew Osborn in London, Balazs Koranyi in Oslo, Antoni Slodkowski in Tokyo, Raissa Kasolowsky in Abu Dhabi and Christian Lowe in Warsaw; Editing by Giles Elgood and Will Waterman