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Hall of Fame running back Leroy Kelly Sr. has a son who plays football. And Leroy Kelly Jr. will get another chance next week to win a roster spot on the team for which his dad played.
Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the Browns will give Kelly a tryout on Monday.
It'll be the second time that Kelly has had an audition with the Browns. He got his first look-see in 2008.
Kelly, 27, plays safety and returns kicks. "I'm very, very excited," he said. "Especially because it's the Cleveland Browns. It would mean a lot to me if they kept me around, and it would definitely mean a lot to my dad. . . . If they brought me into training camp, he'd probably do a back a flip at the age of 72."
Kelly has played in the Arena Football League and the German Football League. He says that he runs the 40-yard dash in 4.38 seconds. He also had a tryout last year with the Lions.
"I recently got the call from the Browns that they wanted to bring me in for a closer look," Kelly said. "I'm not sure what position they have in mind. I can play safety, I can play running back and I can return kicks. If they want me to run to the light post and back, I'll do that. Anything they want."
It's a neat story, and the Browns can afford to give the 90th spot on the roster to the son of one of their all-time greats. Though it's easy to say that, if he truly had what it takes, Kelly would have at least made it to a training cam at some point before his 27th birthday, there's a chance that, if he ever gets a chance to compete at the highest level of the sport, he'll find a way to step up to the challenge.


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When we woke up in the next morning, we were hungry and thinking what to have for breakfast. We intentionally didn't buy the breakfast in the hotel so that we could explore more on the local foods.
Weather in the morning was good. Chilled and a bit foggy. The sky was not clear but still can see the sun shining bright. We headed to a restaurant nearby to the hotel – a Taiwanese restaurant. Huh? Taiwanese? I thought you want to explore more on the local foods? Well, that's what we could find that morning and it's been tested by my brother-in-law who reached Beijing one day earlier than us. Not to let our stomach shocked, so we had our warming up breakfast session there. The restaurant name is "大成家" (Da Cheng Jia).
We entered the restaurant and was greeted by the friendly staffs. We sat next to the window facing the street. The place is clean, neat and cozy. Saw few people went in for a quick breakfast, too. They have quite wide food variety that we can choose from. I ordered Taiwan beef noodle for myself and few side dishes to share together. The beef noodle was tasty. Basically I love beef noodle! :D Oh ya, they are selling soymilk, too (do you see the big red cup next to me?).
Overall, I like all their food. If you come to Beijing and happen to pass by there, make sure to visit this restaurant. The prices are still reasonable. Probably not the best, but they are worth to try. :)
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Luckily we are leaving chilly Sydney for three weeks because baby it's cold outside! Sydney is freezing at the moment, literally frozen solid.
I need flannel and fast! I'm so happy the old flanny is back in style! I'll be wearing it with denim and layered with this cool MBMJ scarf and i think i might have to get these love hate gloves.
Also i'm hoping to land a pair of these Neville the bull terrier flats while i'm away in the states, do you follow him on Instagram? You should! @nevillejacobs
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Professor and chair of environmental studies Rich Wallace published a manuscript with frequent coauthor Susan Clark of Yale University.
The paper, "Learning Interdisciplinary Problem Solving and Leadership Skills: A Comparison of Designs" is a chapter in a new book from Sage Publications titled Environmental Leadership, edited By Deborah Gallagher. Dr. Wallace and Dr. Clark also are leading a workshop together at the University of Saskatchewan on October 18, titled "Interdisciplinary Scholarship for Complex Problems."
OneHealth is a global initiative involving researchers and universities and organizations around the world and endorsed by many health organizations, including the American Medical Association, American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.s. Department of Agriculture. OneHealth is a program to achieve "the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working together locally, nationally and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment."


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The purpose of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) Prevention Research Branch (PRB) is to support a developmentally grounded program of research on the prevention of the initiation of drug use, progression to abuse and dependence, and transmission of drug-related HIV infection. This research involves the use of rigorous scientific methods to test theoretically derived hypotheses to advance our understanding of the science of prevention within diverse populations and settings. The program's focus involves studies targeting the prevention of many substances (often collectively) including but not limited to nicotine, inhalants, marijuana, cocaine/crack, methamphetamine, club drugs, non-medical use of prescription and over the counter drugs, or any of these drugs in combination with alcohol. Studies that support this purpose include investigations of cognitive, behavioral, and social processes as they relate to 1) the development of novel prevention approaches, 2) the efficacy and effectiveness of newly developed and/or modified (or adapted) prevention programs, 3) the processes associated with the selection, adoption, adaptation, implementation, sustainability, and cost effectiveness of science-based interventions, and 4) methodologies appropriate for studying complex aspects of prevention science. Programs of research are intended to provide pathways toward the discovery of population-level approaches for the prevention of drug abuse and dependence, drug-related problems (e.g., mental health, interpersonal violence, criminal involvement, and productivity loss), and drug-related disorders (i.e., comorbid drug and psychiatric disorders, or infections including HIV, hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C (HCV)), and co-occurring, disorders and illnesses.
Significant progress has been made in understanding effective approaches to prevention of drug abuse over the past few decades, in part because of careful attention given to understanding basic, developmental processes involved in the transition to drug use, abuse and dependence. Drug abuse and dependence are disorders that interfere with the normal, healthy functioning of persons across the lifespan, and are preventable causes of medical and psychiatric problems and disorders, injuries, lost income and productivity, and family dysfunction. While the initiation of licit and illicit drug use, a necessary precursor to abuse and dependence, grows dramatically during the adolescent years, this behavior is preceded by proximal and distal biological, psychological, social, and environmental precursors originating as early as the prenatal period. Furthermore, the misuse and illicit use of drugs extends well beyond adolescence and, for some, begins in adulthood, even in late adulthood.
The life course developmental perspective suggests that individual and environmental factors interact to increase or reduce vulnerability to drug use, abuse and dependence. Vulnerability can occur at many points along the life course but peaks at critical life transitions. Thus, prevention researchers should recognize the significance of timing interventions to coincide with important biological transitions, such as puberty; normative transitions, such as moving from elementary to middle school; social transitions, such as dating; and traumatic transitions, such as the death of a parent. In addition, because vulnerability to drug abuse involves dynamic intrapersonal (e.g., temperament), interpersonal (e.g., family and peer interactions) and environmental (e.g., school environment and neighborhood) influences, prevention intervention research must target interactions between individuals and social systems across the life span. To address this complexity, intervention research needs to test strategies designed to alter specified modifiable mediators to determine which are most related to and effective in reducing drug use initiation and escalation, with what audiences, and under what conditions. There is recognition that developmental patterns may vary by gender, gender identity, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other population-based or cultural factors, and that these need to be better understood so that they can be addressed in interventions as appropriate. Drug use, abuse, and dependence often co-occur with delinquency and criminal behavior, interpersonal violence, mental health problems, HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and reproductive health problems. Therefore, understanding the prevention of co-occurring problems and their contribution to elevated levels of risk is important to NIDA's mission.
Successful drug abuse and drug-related HIV prevention programs have utilized a number of theoretical perspectives for predicting differential drug use trajectories and elucidating developmentally grounded mediators, or risk and protective factors, amenable to change. Notable among these theories are Problem Behavior Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, and the Social Development Model. Resulting research has focused on prevention approaches involving positive modification of various precursors of substance use, such as sensation-seeking, emotion regulation, aggressive behavior, academic problems and failure, poor social skills, misperceptions of social norms, poor parent-child attachment, and inappropriate parental expectations and responses. Because theoretical grounding of prevention programs is an essential feature for their success, further progress in prevention research relies on a stronger understanding of successful theories and their application and potentially the development of new theoretical approaches or meta-theories.
Prevention context impacts upon the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of prevention approaches. Successful programs have intervened in multiple contexts, such as schools, health care settings, community service organizations, workplaces, and within the family context. Drug abuse and related HIV prevention research is most successful when there is an existing or created delivery system for prevention interventions to be delivered (e.g., the intervention delivery contexts provide ready access to the target population). That is, the more central the delivery context is to the target audience's existing life routines, the more likely the intervention and associated research will be able to recruit and retain members of the target population and have sustainability of the intervention over time.
Audiences or targets for prevention interventions are generally classified into one of three categories depending on level of risk: universal, selective, or indicated. Universal prevention interventions are targeted to the general public or to a whole population group, such as all children in a school. Selective prevention interventions are targeted to individuals or subgroups of the population with defined risk factors for the development of substance abuse, such as children of drug abusers, children of parents in the criminal justice system, sexual minority youth, and youth in the child welfare system. Indicated prevention interventions are targeted to individuals or subgroups that are identified as having non-clinical but detectable signs or symptoms foreshadowing drug abuse, dependence, and addiction. A tiered approach to prevention interventions incorporates two or more of these levels of intervention with increasing intervention intensity for individuals at greater risk or with greater problem severity.
To advance the field, novel interventions must build on basic science findings from diverse fields. Opportunities exist to expand upon our growing knowledge by incorporating neuroscience, genetics, and physiology to better understand prevention pathways in order to improve effect sizes for successful approaches, increase the breadth of impact, develop personalized prevention approaches, and build efficiency or optimization into the processes of increasing protection or decreasing risk. Furthermore, because of recent advances in a number of disciplines, important opportunities exist to build upon findings from drug abuse etiology and epidemiology research and the fields of human development, neuroscience, criminology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and communications. An interdisciplinary approach to prevention, with research teams comprised of scientists bringing complementary expertise and critical and innovative research paradigms, will strengthen prevention efforts. In addition, studies addressing the unique opportunities to examine the interaction between biological, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and environmental variables in the context of the design and implementation of prevention research, need to be developed and tested.
Three underdeveloped areas of drug abuse/drug-related HIV prevention research are discussed briefly here: developmental transitions, differential effectiveness and fidelity of implementation, and emerging technologies. Characteristics and differences that contribute to drug abuse risk during late adolescence and emerging adulthood have not been well studied. This is a particularly important area of research because late adolescence is a significant transition point in human development, and the initiation of use of so-called hard drugs often takes place during this period. Other normative transitions during this life course stage, such as learning to drive, entering college, the military, or the first job; and courtship, marriage and the transition to parenthood as well as non-normative life events such as victimization have not been seriously considered as targets for drug abuse prevention interventions. Moreover, very few prevention interventions for later stages of adulthood have been developed despite the fact that individuals who have used licit and illicit drugs, and prescription drugs for non-medical use, for long periods of time without developing dependency can move toward abuse and dependence as the result of biological (e.g., lower tolerance with aging), medical (e.g., onset or ongoing chronic diseases, endocrine system changes, chronic pain; treatment of major medical conditions), normative (e.g., retirement), social (e.g., making new friends in retirement) or traumatic (e.g., loss of a spouse) transitions. Thus, greater attention to a wide variety of transitions and the risk and protective factors related to them is needed for the development and testing of innovative interventions that target high-risk periods across the life course.
Some effective prevention interventions show differential effectiveness by gender, ethnicity, and other factors. Research is needed to understand underlying biological, psychological and social processes and mechanisms that account for these differences so that interventions can be adapted as needed for specific sub-groups while maintaining the integrity of the intervention core components. Methodologies that help identify core elements, subpopulation effects, and other factors related to effective implementation are in need of further development. The importance of fidelity of implementation is well established, yet there are situations where strict adherence is not possible. Developing a better understanding of what constitutes the core content or effective ingredients of an intervention and how modification can be made while maintaining or boosting effect sizes may be a superior approach to developing a wholly new intervention. Moreover, research to elucidate under what conditions adaptation is indicated would advance our capability to understand how to optimize prevention services.
Emerging technologies, such as, social networking tools, and wireless communication (e.g., texting and cell phone applications), may have application to both intervention design and prevention methodology. While the full impact of such changes on prevention programming and research is unknown, possible improvements to intervention processes and data collection methodology should be explored. Technology-assisted interventions have the potential to be both more personalized, through the use of individualized programs, and more confidential, as they involve less face-to-face contact than more traditional methods. Technologies that are promising for their role in prevention research include hand held devices to collect data and new HIV testing technologies, particularly those that identify early infection. Less is known about whether the integration of media or other high-tech intervention components into existing interventions boosts intervention effectiveness. Emerging biological modalities for HIV prevention (e.g., pre-exposure prophylaxis) may have differential utilization and adherence where significant substance use is present and integrated biobehavioral interventions are needed to optimally implement these approaches.
Specific Areas of Research Interest
This FOA for R03 applications seeks to support small-scale research efforts across the spectrum of drug abuse and drug-related HIV prevention research. NIDA's drug abuse prevention research program is comprehensive in nature and fully reflects the prevention research mission, objectives, and study areas advanced by the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health. The following sections address drug abuse prevention research areas of specific interest to NIDA. Under each research section, examples of topics requiring further study are given. However, many areas for future research are not addressed, and there is an ongoing emergence of new areas. Thus, investigators should not view the examples provided as limiting the areas of research of interest to NIDA.
1. Basic Prevention Research
NIDA recognizes the need to maximize the use of existing underutilized approaches and basic science findings for the development of innovative preventive interventions targeting the initiation and escalation of drug abuse and the prevention of drug-related HIV infection. The goal of basic prevention research is to identify and test new prevention paradigms informed by basic science. Basic science discoveries utilized in basic prevention research include findings from biological (e.g. neurobiology, stress reactivity, pubertal maturation, or physical development), psychological (e.g. emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and developmental) and social (e.g., social work, criminology, sociology, urban planning, and communications) sciences that address individual and group vulnerabilities to drug use initiation and escalation from experimentation, to occasional use, to abuse. Investigators' efforts over the past two decades have focused on the translation of basic research to produce prevention programs with proven efficacy and effectiveness in addition to science-based prevention principles. However, much existing basic science on biological, neurobiological, psychological, and social processes and mechanisms has not been fully utilized for purposes of developing and testing innovative, potentially efficacious, drug abuse prevention interventions. Moreover, recent scientific advances have provided opportunities to integrate knowledge from diverse fields such as biochemistry, biology, biomedicine, health care policy, computational science, computer science, education, economics, engineering, geography, genetics, sociology, urban planning, informatics/information science, mathematics, neurobiology, neuroscience, and physiology.
One opportunity for basic prevention research is the translation of intervention findings into further basic science study. Because preventive intervention trials include at least one non-intervention control group, they have unique contributions to make in advancing our understanding of the mechanisms through which risk and protective factors operate, including how biological, psychological, social and environmental factors interact to influence risk or how such mechanisms operate within and across different phases of development or for groups at risk for different reasons (e.g., LGBT), or at different levels of risk (i.e., accumulated risk, chronic vs. acute). Ultimately, this research will have implications for further development of new intervention paradigms or refinement/improvement of existing programs and strategies, as well as for the natural history of problem behaviors and the effect of intervention on those behaviors.
Most basic prevention science investigations are expected to be human laboratory studies or small-scale field randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies of well-defined hypotheses derived from prior research. When appropriate, researchers can propose basic research applications as stand-alone R03 applications associated with a prevention research study in its early stages.
Possible exploratory/developmental research foci include, but are not limited to:
Small-scale studies that use findings on learning styles, cognitive strategies, and neurocognitive functioning to improve or develop targeted prevention strategies.
Small-scale studies examining the interaction between emotional and cognitive responses to prevention messages to construct messages more likely to elicit appropriate responses (e.g., triggering refusal behaviors when confronted with potential drug use situations).
Secondary analyses of prevention trial data to examine understudied mediators and moderators of program effects on hypothesized primary outcome variables and on conceptually related outcomes such as sexual risk taking behaviors.
Research to discern what theoretical approaches have the greatest promise for informing intervention strategies/modalities leading to durable behavior change.
Small-scale studies using basic science research and emerging technologies to explicate under-explored mechanisms of neurobiological risk and to facilitate understanding of the biological and neurobiological effects of social, emotional, and behavioral preventive interventions.
2. Prevention Intervention Research
Research on prevention intervention programs and strategies should focus on the manipulation of presumed causal, malleable factors derived from basic prevention and other studies on the origins, pathways and mechanisms of vulnerability to drug abuse, addiction, and drug-related HIV. Even relatively modest prevention intervention research trials can address complex and varied questions on drug etiology, theory testing, mechanisms of intervention effects, process measures, fidelity measures, and implementation cost in addition to assessing short term and long term trial outcomes.
Three types of prevention intervention research that will be discussed further here include efficacy, effectiveness, and systems research.
Efficacy trials are designed to establish the impact of the intervention approach on targeted outcomes under ideal and well-monitored implementation conditions. In preparation for efficacy research, pilot studies are typically conducted to gather evidence for feasibility and acceptability, and potential efficacy in advance of proposing an efficacy trial. Mechanisms other than the R01 (e.g., R34, R21, and R03) are often more appropriate for pilot studies and other developmental work, such as the testing of methods and materials and manualization of the intervention. Efficacy trials may be small-scale trials or more moderate in size depending on the level of current evidence for the work and other considerations regarding the design of the trial.
Efficacy trials utilize small randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or, if well justified, other highly rigorous research designs. Quasi-experimental designs are discouraged, except in cases where the research question cannot be tested using a more rigorous approach. It is essential to articulate a theoretical framework or basis for the intervention effects anticipated. The theoretical or empirical basis of the intervention defines the role of mediating factors, that is, how various programmatic components have been designed to alter these elements in order to impact upon measurable intervention outcomes. An important aspect of efficacy studies is determining the relevance and acceptability of the program for translation to real world settings.
Effectiveness trials replicate efficacious strategies and interventions in less controlled, real-world settings with larger more diverse samples, and generally employ a RCT or equivalent research design (e.g., multiple baseline, cross over, etc.). In addition to determining effectiveness, these studies usually incorporate prevention services research questions related to factors such as participant recruitment and retention, dosage, cost, fidelity of implementation, and implementer training (see below for further discussion). That is, they examine issues that affect the transportability of programs to real world settings, facilitators and barriers to implementation, and generalizability to diverse populations and geographic settings.
Systems research takes prevention programs or strategies with demonstrated efficacy and effectiveness to scale. Systems trials are implemented through existing (e.g., schools, primary care settings, workplaces) or newly created delivery systems with large samples. Random assignment to intervention and control conditions remains the ideal study design. A major emphasis of systems trials is identifying and understanding how factors that affect the sustainability of programming operate. Thus, addressing prevention services research questions is a core goal of this type of study. All three intervention study types, efficacy, effectiveness, and systems, generally incorporate a longitudinal design to allow for the examination of the role of moderators, mediators and a variety of proximal and distal outcomes over time.
An important emphasis of NIDA's prevention research program is on prevention services research questions. Prevention services research involves identifying and determining how features internal and external to interventions contribute to efficacy and effectiveness. Examples of internal features are: content, implementation strategies, fidelity, dosage, delivery setting, and implementer training. Examples of external features are: exposure to other programs, media, enforcement of regulations and laws related to substance use and community norms around substance abuse. One important area of prevention services research is replication of efficacious interventions with other population groups and in alternate contexts in an effort to develop a clear understanding of those features that are essential to program integrity (i.e., core elements) and those that can be adapted to meet the needs of specific groups and settings. Prior research suggests that features such as program duration, reinforcement of prevention messages over time, consistency of messages across settings, use of developmentally appropriate content and materials, use of interactive teaching techniques, use of intermittent reinforcement, client-facilitator fit, grouping of clients, and interactions between these features need further investigation to improve the quality of programming and increase the potential for translation into real-world settings. Questions around these and other features that concentrate on the availability, organization, management, financing and sustainability of prevention interventions fall into the broad category of prevention services research. This also includes understanding community-level decision-making regarding the selection, adoption, adaptation, implementation and sustainability of prevention programs, policies and practices.
Prevention services research is integral to intervention research and forms the link between research and practice. For that reason researchers are encouraged to include services research questions that address or inform real-world implementation issues in efficacy and effectiveness trials as appropriate. In addition, researchers are encouraged to integrate prevention practitioners into the research process, from inception through to completion to ensure that successful interventions meet identified needs and to foster ownership and sustainability.
Examples of prevention topics appropriate for exploratory/developmental R03 research projects include:
Small-scale studies developing and testing strategies to strengthen existing group and environmental anti-drug norms and characteristics that have been show to be protective against drug abuse and addiction.
Small-scale studies developing and pilot testing preventive interventions designed to strategically target understudied periods in the life course, such as intervening in early childhood to alter precursors, intervening in late adolescence with youth who discontinue their education, or intervening in adulthood with individuals experiencing high stress, such as military personnel, returning veterans and their families, displaced, bereaved, or victimized persons, or sexual minorities.
Small-scale studies on the efficacy of drug abuse prevention programs and strategies that are untested but widely used such as: case management, mentoring, job training, and challenge activities.
Small-scale studies pilot testing the efficacy of drug use and/or HIV/STI screening tests for their potential effects in reducing or preventing drug abuse and dependence and/or HIV/STI infection.
Small-scale studies of the effects of environmental manipulations, such as school policies, state or local laws, and local law enforcement strategies, or the built environment on drug use and drug-related activities such as gang involvement.
Small-scale studies developing and pilot testing the efficacy of brief HIV and drug abuse prevention interventions for specific contexts such as primary care settings, federally qualified community health centers, and college or workplace health programs.
Small-scale studies testing theoretically grounded interventions with demonstrated efficacy for preventing drug use for their effects on sexual risk behaviors.
Small-scale studies for the development and pilot testing of new prevention interventions or adaptation and testing of evidence-based interventions for at-risk groups of children and youth who have been underrepresented in research efforts (e.g., military youth and families, children of parents in the criminal justice system and their families, children in foster care and their foster and biological families, adopted children and their families, lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth).
Small-scale studies of structural or environmental interventions designed to prevent drug use and abuse in communities.
Small-scale studies of tiered approaches that include screening and implementation of universal interventions and selective or indicated interventions for those who continue to experience difficulties to increase intervention impact in a setting or with a population.
Small-scale studies to identify core elements of intervention models (e.g., features/elements that need to be retained, or those that can be adapted or eliminated to streamline programming) while maintaining or boosting efficacy.
Small-scale studies of culturally congruent intervention approaches to reduce drug abuse and drug-related HIV among Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other understudied minority populations that are adversely affected by the consequences of drug use.
Small-scale studies that examine the efficacy of novel strategies for addressing the rise in prescription drug misuse and abuse that reflect the unique roles of medical and dental providers, social networks, and policy makers in prevention.
Secondary analysis of prevention intervention data to better understand the impact of drug abuse prevention intervention on drug use, drug disorders, and sexual risk taking behaviors among specific subgroups of individuals such as high risk youth, females, ethnic minorities, and LGBT youth in order to elucidate the need for intervention modifications and specialized intervention approaches.
Secondary analysis of prevention intervention trial data to assess factors accounting for variation in response to drug and HIV prevention interventions such as psychiatric disorders, family function, environmental exposures, stress responsivity, and cognitive or neurocognitive functioning.
Small-scale studies on adaptation of effective drug abuse and HIV prevention approaches to understand the added value of efforts to customize prevention for specific populations such as underserved racial and ethnic minority populations.
Small-scale studies examining program effectiveness in reducing HIV sexual and drug use risks as well as risks for acquiring related infections (i.e., other sexually transmitted infections, viral hepatitis), where research takes into account emerging knowledge about HIV risks such as population-based biological vulnerability, and network patterns.
Small-scale studies examining how differences in school environments, including drug abuse rules, and their enforcement, and policies, influence mediators of drug abuse (e.g., attitudes, norms and intentions) and eventually substance abuse behaviors with particular attention to the pattern and duration of the environmental change processes.
Small-scale studies of the initiation, development, and continuity of community coalitions to prevent drug abuse, and impact on selection and implementation of effective drug abuse prevention strategies.
Small-scale studies examining access and adaptability of research-based strategies for training high-risk parents (e.g., those who abuse drugs, or in situations where abusive child-rearing practices have been documented) through existing service delivery systems.
Determination of the cost and cost-effectiveness of brief drug abuse and HIV prevention programs that have been integrated into primary care, mental health and community settings, including federally qualified community health centers.
Small-scale studies that examine community-level decision-making regarding the selection, adoption, adaptation, implementation and sustainability of prevention programs, policies and practices.
Small-scale studies of the impact of prevention policies on the prevention of drug use and abuse in communities.
Small-scale studies that examine dissemination of evidence-based prevention interventions in communities.
3. Methodological Research
Methodological research is needed in the field of drug abuse prevention on promising data collection, data management, analysis, and reporting techniques. Special attention should be given to the hierarchical and longitudinal nature of most prevention trial data, the adaptation of measures for intervention cohorts over the course of time and development, the measurement and analysis of complex theoretical process models including moderating and mediating variables, the development of adaptive designs, the problems of missing data and attrition when following intervention and control subjects over time, and the development of analytic strategies to determine important features of prevention interventions (i.e., core components). NIDA supports the adaptation and assessment of proven scientific procedures from other disciplines to determine their applicability to drug abuse prevention research such as those from systems science. Specific areas of research include:
Development, testing, and application of complex statistical models to examine differential impacts of preventive interventions across individuals, across time, and across contexts.
Designs to improve causal inference from non-experimental and quasi-experimental research and natural prevention experiments.
Research to improve the analysis of longitudinal data—in particular, the analysis of correlated data, the modeling of different sources of error, and techniques for dealing with missing data at various levels of aggregation that may occur in prevention trials, as well as refining methods for evaluating effects in small, high risk subpopulations.
Methodological research to improve the analysis of complex prevention trial data, including the statistical modeling of non-response and other survey errors.
Analytic methods that appropriately model social structures, social processes, and spatial relationships such as social networks, social influence, diffusion, and contextual effects within randomized prevention trial datasets.
Methods for the detection and analysis of non-linear or discontinuous changes in response to preventive interventions.
Methodological research examining complex interactions between qualitative (e.g., process data) and quantitative outcome data.
Applications of systems science to improve the ability of complex trials to model real world clinical operations and decision making.
Research that evaluates ethical issues in the implementation of prevention interventions in particular populations, settings, or policy contexts, including evaluation of specific intervention modalities, study designs, and data collection methods.


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By John Grisham
418 pages. Doubleday. $28.95.
By Stephen King
368 pages. Scribner. $27.99.
Last November, Doubleday published John Grisham's "Ford County," a collection of short stories from a man whose specialty is full-length legal drama. These stories were revelatory. They showed how much verve, suspense, instruction and moral ambiguity Mr. Grisham could pack into bare-bones plotlines. He could accomplish in 40-page virtual synopses what he normally does in 400-page novels.
And last November, Scribner published Stephen King's "Under the Dome," one of his 1,000-plus-page megawhoppers. It was a jampacked book with the heft of a doorstop, but it was also one of Mr. King's most nimble, unencumbered feats of storytelling.
A year later the tables are turned. Mr. Grisham has stretched out into his usual full-length format with "The Confession," about a wrongly convicted man on death row in Texas. And Mr. King has gone short-winded with "Full Dark, No Stars," a set of four spooky moral tales. Two of our most dependably prolific and popular authors have both switched gears.
How does each fare in long form versus short form? It's easier to tell in Mr. Grisham's case because of the mechanical way "The Confession" has been constructed. The whole book expands on a small cast and a simple, three-man premise.
First of all he has invented Donté Drumm, a black football player who was convicted of the 1998 rape and murder of Nicole Yarber, a white cheerleader who was Donté's classmate at an East Texas high school. Second, he has invented Travis Boyette, a sleazy sex offender and ex-con who turns up in Topeka, Kan. The two important details about Travis are that he has an inoperable brain tumor and that he claims to be Nicole's real killer.Continue reading the main story
Now add the third principal: the Rev. Keith Schroeder, a Lutheran clergyman in Topeka. Keith finds himself in a terrible dilemma when Travis shows up, asks if he can make a confidential confession and then says: "I did it, Pastor. I don't know why. I never know why."
Since Travis confesses days before the scheduled execution of Donté (who has also confessed to the crime, but under the coercion of corrupt law officers), "The Confession" is set up as a race against time. It's also set up as an extended lesson/lecture on the divisiveness of racial issues and the cruel miscarriages of justice that are possible under Texas law.
Mr. Grisham amplifies all this by adding Robbie Flak, the lawyer who represents Donté and has no time to listen to Keith; Gov. Gill Newton, who hopes to make political hay out of the case; Dana Schroeder, Keith's patient and sympathetic wife; Reeva Pike, Nicole's mother, who wants to exploit the execution; and Sean Fordyce, the sleazy television personality who practically salivates all over Reeva and her sob story. Mr. Grisham identifies Sean as "an Irish ass from Long Island," and from that you may draw your own conclusions.
There's a lot of padding in "The Confession." The story's outcome is invested with surprisingly little suspense. And the climactic moments play out long before the book is over. So this is a solid yet sluggish novel that is not one of Mr. Grisham's barnburners. It emphasizes teachable moments over nail-biting ones, which is not something Mr. King will ever be accused of doing.
Mr. King's "Full Dark, No Stars" has a lot of straight-up horror. The sheer size of its rodent population is enough to stamp it with the horror label. But it will serve as a page turner even for the reader who is aghast at some of the whisker-twitching particulars, especially in "1922," the opening story. It is narrated by Wilf James, a Nebraska farmer who would seem a very sympathetic figure had he not cut his wife's throat, thrown her body down a well and implicated his teenage son in the murder.
Who but Mr. King could make this a captivating situation? It is his outspoken belief that the best fiction is "both propulsive and assaultive," and here is a case in point. By the time Wilf describes his crime, he has established a confiding, credible voice and a strain of deep regret. (Like the three other stories here, "1922" has a protagonist who makes some kind of Faustian trade.) So it's possible, though not easy, to think of this tale's gruesomeness not as a physical mess but as an expression of his tortured mental state.
The other stories are more contemporary, less rat-infested and easier to enjoy. "Big Driver" is a particular grabber, partly because its main character is, like Mr. King, a well-known author. His chortling is almost audible as he imagines Tess, a writer beloved for her Willow Grove Knitting Society mystery novels, which are big favorites with grannies. At the start of the story Tess is driving to a book signing in western Massachusetts. She has been asked to fill in after Janet Evanovich has canceled. Mr. King says that he dreamed up this premise while driving this same route for the same reason, though of course he fills in for nobody. But he made a pit stop, saw a woman whose car was broken down and had another of his itty-bitty flashes of big inspiration.
In "Big Driver," Tess gets waylaid, then badly hurt. And she has never been more unhappily aware of her celebrity status than she is when wondering what to do next. Does she even dare report what happened to her? Will she be forever changed by the assault? Tess's quest to restore her dignity and safety while also seeking justice turns into an especially enveloping display of Mr. King's imaginative powers.
"Fair Extension" is this book's darkest joke, about a sick man who can acquire health and happiness only by imposing misery on an oft-envied friend. And "A Good Marriage" — ironically titled of course — hints merrily at the danger signs in the long union between a bland, coin-collecting accountant and his unsuspecting wife. What's most interesting about this story is not the terrible secret that the wife will uncover. It's that Mr. King, who seems able to write compact tales or gargantuan ones with equal ease, can invest a bland, coin-collecting accountant with any kind of frisson at all. Whatever the length at which he writes, Mr. King leaves readers with a simple, one-word message: Gotcha!
By John Grisham
418 pages. Doubleday. $28.95.
By Stephen King
368 pages. Scribner. $27.99.


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AiG received the following letter from Dr Al Gotch of Mount Union College in Ohio, USA. It is a response to an article we posted last month (see below) and in it he provides an alternate view of the recent Intelligent Design (ID) ruling in the state of Ohio.
First, I want to commend you for your open and honest presentation of the creationist position on your website. I've viewed many websites concerning the creation/evolution issue and I think 'Answers in Genesis' is one of the best that presents a biblical based interpretation of the scientific evidence while remaining open and honest about difficulties associated with that interpretation. Because of this I have recommended and will continue to recommend your website to others.
I am currently the chairman of the Chemistry Department at Mount Union College in Alliance, OH and have actively been involved in the debate in Columbus over the new science standards in the state of Ohio. I have offered public testimony three times before the Ohio Board of Education encouraging the 'teach the controversy' approach. I was at the December 10, 2002 meeting where the board unanimously passed the new science standards. I just read the article posted by Michael Matthews, '"Intelligent Design" Whimpers out in Ohio'. I understand Mr. Matthews' disappointment in the final outcome. For example, there still remains language in many places throughout the standards that treats macroevolution as fact. However, I disagree with the largely negative tone in the article. The facts given are indeed correct, but the tone of the article fails to appreciate the realities of the political process and the tidal wave of opposition that was faced to achieve the modest gains in the debate over origins. First, on the writing committee, out of 41 persons only 1(!!!) was openly speaking in favor of something other than evolution as fact. At best there may have been 5 or 6 people on the writing committee that were sympathetic toward the ID position. Second, on the Ohio Board of Education there was only slightly better support for the ID position, but again only 2 or 3 vocal proponents out of 19 members. With such odds how did the final standards allow for the teach the controversy approach? Citizen input! Nearly 20,000 people in the state of Ohio responded to the board or governor's office with a 3 to 1 ratio (75%) in favor of teaching the controversy. This was unprecedented public response on any issue ever faced by the Ohio Board of Education and it had an impact!
It may be disappointing that the language in the standards does not more strongly address the issue of origins; however, the outcome could have been much worse. Up to October the door was locked shut to teaching anything other than evolution as fact concerning human origins in the science classrooms across the state of Ohio. The changes that occurred in October have unlocked the door and left it open a crack. If you do not have a key to the door, e.g. political power at the State Board of Education or throughout the entrenched scientific community, this is a HUGE step forward. The clarifying, parenthetical addition to the science standards, i.e. not mandating the teaching or testing of ID, was already a given. The positive note is the option to teach other theories of origins remains open. It is not illegal to teach ID and those who want to do so should not lose their jobs over it. This is not the case in many other states throughout the US.
I agree there are some glaring weaknesses in the new science standards in Ohio; specifically concerning origins, but overall the standards are excellent. There still is concern over the explicit protection of teachers that go outside of the evolution box in their classrooms. However, this is just the first part of a three part process. Now that the standards have been written what still remains is the writing of curriculum guidelines to implement the new standards as well as writing the science standards proficiency test. In this regard there is more reason for cautious optimism. There is movement within the board to insure more balance on the writing committees during these next two stages of the standards writing process. Maybe as this process moves forward greater explicit protection can be obtained for those teaching the controversy in Ohio's science classrooms. Maybe some balanced textbooks like 'Of Pandas and People' will be on the approved adoption list for local school districts. Overall, I think what has taken place is historical and may prove to be a watershed event in the origins debate within public education.
Dr Al Gotch
Chemistry Department
Mount Union College
Alliance, OH USA


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Hallie and Mitch | San Diego Natural History Museum wedding
Gabrielle Fox
Hallie and Mitch met working together at the San Diego Natural History Museum, so it was very appropriate that they got married there... just feet away from where they 1st laid eyes on one another! This couple had so much excitement in their eyes and it turned out to be such a wonderful day with many touching moments. Lots of wet eyes during the rooftop ceremony as well as when Hallie's dad sang to her "I loved her first". Daisy and I had a blast shooting this wedding... thanks for having us!
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According to the Notification No. 157 / 2011 dated 21 December 2011 of the Union Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, it is necessary for Myanmar nationals working overseas to pay income tax up to the period of December 2011. The Government exempted Myanmar citizens living/working abroad from paying their income tax out of their total income with effect from 1st January 2012.
- Calculation for taxation is made based on the original rate of 10% of the total income for the period before 31 August 2011. (minimum: AUD60 per month)
- Pursuant to the Notification No. 157/2011 dated 21 December 2011 of the Union Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, calculation for taxation for the period starting from September 2011 to December 2011 is made based on 2% of income. (AUD12 per month)
- Ring Embassy and get full information regarding the amount before making a payment.
- Application Form Download Forms
- Duly-filled CV form (CV form is needed only for those who have to pay tax for the first time but those who paid tax to the Embassy before do not need to submit this CV form) Download Forms
- Original and a copy of Passport (Photo page , visa page, pages with departure & arrival seals of the Immigration counter)
- A copy of tax payment receipt of the latest payment for income tax.
- A copy of degree certificate from University (the applicant must be a full-time student and it is necessary to submit as a proof of being a full-time student.)
- If the applicant has finished his/her university studies, he/she will be regarded as an employed person/ employee and thus it is required to pay tax for the period mentioned-above. (only if applicable)
- All payment should be made by Money Order. ( Money Order mentioned the name of "Myanmar Embassy" as payee and the payer's name has to be mentioned on the back side of the Money Order)
- A prepaid Return Self-Addressed Envelope/ Satchel with a tracking label must be attached. (NOTE: The applicant's address MUST be mentioned CLEARLY, unless the Embassy will not take any responsibility if the return letter is lost during postal service process.)
- ALL TAX PAYERS are strongly urged to retain the tax payment receipt issued by this Embassy or any other Myanmar Embassy for future reference.


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The Right, Rights: Translating the Miranda Warning
The Right, Rights: Translating the Miranda Warning
Frozen texts are often troubling for interpreters. Coupled with the complexity of the legal system, frozen texts such as the Miranda Warning can be an intimidating task to tackle in ASL. This DVD provides a guided look at the construction of a culturally rich, conceptually accurate rendering of the Miranda Warning. By exploring the history of the warning, the disparities in culture, and the linguistic considerations, this disc will provide a framework whereby sign language interpreters of all levels can gain confidence in developing an effective interpretation appropriate for use in the criminal justice system.
65 Minutes Running Time
3 Renditions of the Miranda Warning
Presented in ASL with English Voice Over and Subtitles.
Brandon Morgan
Brandon (NIC Master, SC:L, NAD IV, BEI Master) approaches new settings with a sense of humor, and his contagious enthusiasm influences his energetic instructional style. In a fast-paced and interactive learning environment, Brandon's goal is to provide practical strategies that fellow interpreters can immediately put into practice. He considers it a privilege to help his colleagues gain confidence and enrich their existing skill sets by integrating their past successes with new information. He sums this up in his mission statement: "To make those around me wildly successful."
Authored by: Brandon J. Morgan
Directed and Produced by: Wink
Copyright: Winkshop, 2012


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Castor Oil: Benefits , Beneficial Uses And Cosmetics
Benefits and beneficial uses of castor oil and cosmetics? This high-quality vegetable oil is extracted from the seeds of the castor plant - of which the largest producer is India - and has excellent properties that allow it to be used in different areas - such as for the use of drugs, perfumes and soaps, to example - including those related to health and beauty. We see, in detail, its benefits and beneficial uses and cosmetics and learn how to use it in everyday life, as a natural remedy of grandmother.
This oil is thick and viscous always considered a natural laxative: for some time in this part, but - because of contraindications due to the presence of ricin, a toxic - is less and less used in this circumstance; even if, at times, its intake is recommended only in small doses. The composition of castor oil comprises fatty acids and triglycerides, which make it suitable as a natural remedy in many cases. Those suffering from constipation can use it because of its - already mentioned - laxative properties: a spoon on an empty stomach, for not more than three days, mixed with a fruit juice or something that helps to cover the taste unpleasant. In addition, some studies have shown the benefits of castor oil in the case of arthritis, such as septic among other: massages on the inflamed or, better yet, wraps to be positioned on the painful for 45 minutes - together with a bag hot water - seem to have positive effects. The latter method can be also valid for combat itching and irritation, immersing cotton in the oil and keeping it on the affected part - with the aid of the film for food - for the entire duration of the night. Castor oil is also a natural antifungal against bacteria and viruses, and thus suitable for those who have problems such as keratosis, acne or ringworm. In any case, when you accuse some of the symptoms and disorders mentioned above, it is always good to consult your doctor to identify the cause and cure most appropriate.
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Beneficial uses and cosmetics
In the field of cosmetics, this important vegetable oil can be used in many different ways. Castor oil has properties of softening, regenerating and reinforcing material, for which it is possible to use on the skin to make it smooth and soft and brittle and on the hair dried, via compresses night followed by shampooing morning: is able, in fact, to balance the amount of fat in the hair - preventing them from falling, cracking and the formation of split ends - and soften the hardened skin for various reasons. In addition to this, can be used in the case of warts and wounds to speed healing: in the first case, the warts massaged in a circular way, twice a day, and for about 15 minutes; in the second case, put a gauze impregnated with oil on the affected part for the whole day. Castor oil is also helpful for cleaning the pores and points against blacks and dark circles. Finally, this precious oil is great to enhance and smooth eyebrows, eyelashes and nails: mix it with extra virgin olive oil and apply it using a clean brush or a cotton swab.
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Earlier this week, Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Inc., a group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces personnel, launched a campaign criticizing President Barack Obama for unfairly taking credit for killing Osama bin Laden and leaking national security information for political gain. This is the second high-profile attack on the president from ex-elite military operatives. Last month, Ryan Zinke, a Montana State Senator and former commander of Navy SEAL Team Six, started a super PAC, Special Operations for America, which is dedicated to supporting Mitt Romney and hitting President Obama on leaks and on politicizing Bin Laden's death. According to Mr. Zinke, these two super PACs are just the first salvo in what will be a sustained assault on the president by high-level ex-soldiers.
"There's a number of groups out there," Mr. Zinke told Politicker this morning. "I think what it demonstrates is, there's a lot of anger, there's a lot of concern among the former military community." Continue reading "Former Navy SEAL Team Six Commander Says Special Ops Assault on Obama Is Just Beginning"


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Federal Advertising Law: An Overview
Publication Date: February 1998
Publisher(s): Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Topic: Business (Advertising and public relations)
This report provides a brief overview of federal law with respect to five selected advertising issues: alcohol advertising, tobacco advertising, the Federal Trade Commission Act, advertising by mail, and advertising by telephone. There are numerous federal statutes regulating advertising that do not fit within any of these categories; as random examples, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires disclosures in advertisements for prescription drugs; the Truth in Lending Act governs the advertising of consumer credit; and a federal criminal statute makes it illegal falsely to convey in an advertisement that a business is connected with a federal agency.


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The small city state of Singapore, with a population of just over 5 million, is quickly becoming the educational hub of Asia. Prior to the turn of the 21st century, Singapore offered postsecondary degrees almost solely through its two large flagship universities: National University of Singapore (NUS), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Then, in January 2000, Singapore Management University opened its doors, followed by Singapore Institute of Management (2005), Singapore Institute of Technology (2009), Singapore University of Technology and Design (2011), and, coming soon, Yale/NUS (2013).
Although Yale already has a joint program with Peking University in China, the Yale/NUS liberal arts college will establish Yale's permanent presence in the heart of Southeast Asia. The campus will begin its first class of 150 students in August of 2013 (actually in July—as the first class will be provided a month long orientation in New Haven, CT). The plan is for class size to increase, over the next several years, to 250 students per class, raising total enrollment to 1000.
Yale-NUS college will now be added to the already extensive list of alliances between US, along with European and Australian, universities and the various colleges and technical schools in Singapore: Chapman University in Film & TV production, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Asia Campus, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Johns Hopkins Division of Biomedical Sciences (NUS), Singapore Stanford Partnership (NTU), Singapore MIT Alliance (NTU), Cornell School of Hospitality Management (NTU), UN Las Vegas, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore…and this is but a sample of Singapore's educational pulse.
While a number of the universities listed above are involved in exchange of faculty, specific course design and curriculum development, the Yale NUS joint venture will be a brand new university, anchored in Singapore, with BS and BA degrees across, initially, 14 majors, awarded by NUS, yet with the full resources of the Yale Alumni available to all graduates. The government of Singapore, through NUS, is financing the entire program, which includes building a separate campus with three residential colleges. Each college will have its own dining, student facilities, quads, and rector, who will live among the students (all modeled upon Yale's residential college system). Classrooms will be integrated into the residential colleges as well.
The cost for an international student to attend is 15,000 Singapore dollars per semester (about $12,000 US) and all students accepted will receive 50% scholarship for room and board which reduces room and board to $1,400 US per semester. Double the sum for the school year, and the total cost is well under US $30,000, which is competitive with the costs of many UC campuses (though flying half way around the world might add a bit to the calculation).
Naturally, not all parties on the Yale side are happy about the coming premiere of Yale NUS. The joint venture with NUS was initiated by two members of the Yale Corporation (which is the governing body of Yale chaired by the President of Yale, a board of trustees, the governor of Connecticut, and alumni fellows who serve staggered 6-year terms) who were advisors on the Government of Singapore's investment portfolio. The chief faculty critic, Seyla Benhabib, a political science professor, put the position of Yale's faculty in very blunt terms: "Leaving aside this venture's naïve missionary sentiment, one must ask: Do we need to go to Singapore to advance … a revival of the liberal arts?" ("What's at Stake at Yale-NUS", Yale Daily News, 4 April 2012) After which a resolution was passed by the faculty calling into question issues of civil and political rights within the state of Singapore (and the fact that the faculty will be involved with curriculum development and staffing—without having any voice in the decision.) This provoked President Levine of Yale to comment that the tone of Ms. Benhabib's resolution "carried a sense of moral superiority that I found unbecoming."
The launch of the Yale-NUS College is coming with its own brand of fireworks—adding just a splash of hot chili sauce to Yale's Singapore Sling.


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The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
Chapter XVIII
Affairs went thus for a week. Orde was much at the Bishop residence, where he was cordially received by the general, where he gained an occasional half-hour with Carroll, and where he was almost ignored by Mrs. Bishop in her complete self-absorption. Indeed, it is to be doubted whether he attained any real individuality to that lady, who looked on all the world outside her family as useful or useless to the church.
In the course of the happy moments he had alone with Carroll, he arrived at a more intimate plane of conversation with her. He came to an understanding of her unquestioning acceptance of Mrs. Bishop's attitude. Carroll truly believed that none but herself could perform for her mother the various petty offices that lady demanded from her next of kin, and that her practical slavery was due by every consideration of filial affection. To Orde's occasional tentative suggestion that the service was of a sort better suited to a paid companion or even a housemaid, she answered quite seriously that it made mother nervous to have others about her, and that it was better to do these things than to throw her into a "spell." Orde chafed at first over seeing his precious opportunities thus filched from him; later he fretted because he perceived that Carroll was forced, however willingly, to labours beyond her strength, to irksome confinement, and to that intimate and wearing close association with the abnormal which in the long run is bound to deaden the spirit. He lost sight of his own grievance in the matter. With perhaps somewhat of exaggeration he came mightily to desire for her more of the open air, both of body and spirit. Often when tramping back to his hotel he communed savagely with himself, turning the problem over and over in his mind until, like a snowball, it had gathered to itself colossal proportions.
And in his hotel room he brooded over the state of affairs until his thoughts took a very gloomy tinge indeed. To begin with, in spite of his mother's assurance, he had no faith in his own cause. His acquaintance with Carroll was but an affair of months, and their actual meetings comprised incredibly few days. Orde was naturally humble-minded. It did not seem conceivable to him that he could win her without a long courtship. And superadded was the almost intolerable weight of Carroll's ideas as to her domestic duties. Although Orde held Mrs. Bishop's exactions in very slight esteem, and was most sceptical in regard to the disasters that would follow their thwarting, nevertheless he had to confess to himself that all Carroll's training, life, the very purity and sweetness of her disposition lent the situation an iron reality for her. He became much discouraged.
Nevertheless, at the very moment when he had made up his mind that it would be utterly useless even to indulge in hope for some years to come, he spoke. It came about suddenly, and entirely without premeditation.
The two had escaped for a breath of air late in the evening. Following the conventions, they merely strolled to the end of the block and back, always within sight of the house. Fifth Avenue was gay with illumination and the prancing of horses returning uptown or down to the Washington Square district. In contrast the side street, with its austere rows of brownstone houses, each with its area and flight of steps, its spaced gas lamps, its deserted roadway, seemed very still and quiet. Carroll was in a tired and pensive mood. She held her head back, breathing deeply.
"It's only a little strip, but it's the stars," said she, looking up to the sky between the houses. "They're so quiet and calm and big."
She seemed to Orde for the first time like a little girl. The maturer complexities which we put on with years, with experience, and with the knowledge of life had for the moment fallen from her, leaving merely the simple soul of childhood gazing in its eternal wonder at the stars. A wave of tenderness lifted Orde from his feet. He leaned over, his breath coming quickly.
"Carroll!" he said.
She looked up at him, and shrank back.
"No, no! You mustn't," she cried. She did not pretend to misunderstand. The preliminaries seemed in some mysterious fashion to have been said long ago.
"It's life or death with me," he said.
"I must not," she cried, fluttering like a bird. "I promised myself long ago that I must always, always take care of mother."
"Please, please, dear," pleaded Orde. He had nothing more to say than this, just the simple incoherent symbols of pleading; but in such crises it is rather the soul than the tongue that speaks. His hand met hers and closed about it. It did not respond to his grasp, nor did it draw away, but lay limp and warm and helpless in his own.
She shook her head slowly.
"Don't you care for me, dear?" asked Orde very gently.
"I have no right to tell you that," answered she. "I have tried, oh, so hard, to keep you from saying this, for I knew I had no right to hear you."
Orde's heart leaped with a wild exultation.
"You do care for me!" he cried.
They had mounted the steps and stood just within the vestibule. Orde drew her toward him, but she repulsed him gently.
"No," she shook her head. "Please be very good to me. I'm very weak."
"Carroll!" cried Orde. "Tell me that you love me! Tell me that you'll marry me!"
"It would kill mother if I should leave her," she said sadly.
"But you must marry me," pleaded Orde. "We are made for each other. God meant us for each other."
"It would have to be after a great many years," she said doubtfully.
She pulled the bell, which jangled faintly in the depths of the house.
"Good-night," she said. "Come to me to-morrow. No, you must not come in." She cut short Orde's insistence and the eloquence that had just found its life by slipping inside the half-open door and closing it after her.
Orde stood for a moment uncertain; then turned away and walked up the street, his eyes so blinded by the greater glory that he all but ran down an inoffensive passer-by.
At the hotel he wrote a long letter to his mother. The first part was full of the exultation of his discovery. He told of his good fortune quite as something just born, utterly forgetting his mother's predictions before he came East. Then as the first effervescence died, a more gloomy view of the situation came uppermost. To his heated imagination the deadlock seemed complete. Carroll's devotion to what she considered her duty appeared unbreakable. In the reaction Orde doubted whether he would have it otherwise. And then his fighting blood surged back to his heart. All the eloquence, the arguments, the pleadings he should have commanded earlier in the evening hurried belated to their posts. After the manner of the young and imaginative when in the white fire of emotion, he began dramatising scenes between Carroll and himself. He saw them plainly. He heard the sound of his own voice as he rehearsed the arguments which should break her resolution. A woman's duty to her own soul; her obligation toward the man she could make or mar by her love; her self-respect; the necessity of a break some time; the advantage of having the crisis over with now rather than later; a belief in the ultimate good even to Mrs. Bishop of throwing that lady more on her own resources; and so forth and so on down a list of arguments obvious enough or trivial enough, but all inspired by the soul of fervour, all ennobled by the spirit of truth that lies back of the major premise that a woman should cleave to a man, forsaking all others. Orde sat back in his chair, his eyes vacant, his pen all but falling from his hand. He did not finish the letter to his mother. After a while he went upstairs to his own room.
The fever of the argument coursed through his veins all that long night. Over and over again he rehearsed it in wearisome repetition until it had assumed a certain and almost invariable form. And when he had reached the end of his pleading he began it over again, until the daylight found him weary and fevered. He arose and dressed himself. He could eat no breakfast. By a tremendous effort of the will he restrained himself from going over to Ninth Street until the middle of the morning.
He entered the drawing-room to find her seated at the piano. His heart bounded, and for an instant he stood still, summoning his forces to the struggle for which he had so painfully gathered his ammunition. She did not look up as he approached until he stood almost at her shoulder. Then she turned to him and held out both her hands.
"It is no use, Jack," she said. "I care for you too much. I will marry you whenever you say."


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With all the hubbub of a new year and the pressure of new year's resolutions and changing your life at the stroke of midnight, we'd like to share some friendly advice that was shared with us... DONT START A DIET ON JAN 1! Anne Lamott wrote this incredibly insightful Facebook post and we thought we'd share what she wrote:
This is the Anne Patricia Lamott Anti-Diet that I posted at this time last year. This year, I post it with an added urgency, as the new Viking Diet is upon us, the latest and hottest It diet, and since you may feel vulnerable and somewhat battered after the last few days/weeks/years of festive family get-togethers, or estrangement, you will be susceptible to its promises. And yes, young Canute, if you are enjoying the noble Viking lifestyle, raiding your neighbor's grain stores and salted venison lockers, this may in fact be the perfect new diet for you. Are you giddy with relief that Whole Foods carries so many foraged vegetables, and moose meat? Then step right up. Help bail out the ever-struggling diet industry, while you're at it. But otherwise?
We need to talk.
I know you are planning to start a diet next Thursday, January 1st, I used to start diets, too. I hated to mention this to my then-therapist. She would say cheerfully, " Oh, that's great, honey. How much weight are you hoping to gain?"
I got rid of her sorry ass. No one talks to ME that way.
Well, okay, maybe it was ten years later, after she had helped lead me back home, to myself, to radical self-care, to friendship with my own heart, to a jungly glade that had always existed deep inside me, to mostly healthy eating, but that I'd avoided all those years by achieving, dieting, binging, people-pleasing, multi-talking, and so on
Now when I decide to go on a diet, I say it to myself: "Great, honey. How much weight are you hoping to gain?"
I was able to successfully put on weight during my last book tour by eating room service meals in a gobbly trance in 13 different cities. So that was exhilarating, as I may have mentioned several hundred times that I have had the tiniest, tiniest struggle with food and body image for the last--well, life time. Hardly worth mentioning.
And then, after book tour, I accidentally forgot to starve myself in December, or to go back to the gym, which I've been meaning to do since I had a child, 24 years ago.
So I am at least five pounds up--but thankfully, I do not currently have a scale, because as I've said before, getting on a scale is like asking Dick Cheney to give you a sense of your own self-worth every morning.
I can still get my jeans on, for one reason: I wear forgiving pants. The world is too hard as it is, without letting your pants have an opinion on how you are doing. I struggle with enough esteem issues without letting my jeans get in on the act, volunteering random thoughts about my butt.
By the same token, it feels great to be healthy. Some of you need to be under a doctor's care. None of you need to join Jenny Craig. It won't work. You will lose tons of weight quickly, and gain it all back, plus five. Some of you need to get outside and walk for half an hour a day. I do love walking, so that is not a problem for me, but I have a serious sickness with sugar: if I start eating it, I can't stop. I don't have an off switch, any more than I do with alcohol. Given a choice, I will eat candy corn and Raisinets until the cows come home--and then those cows will be tense, and bitter, because I will have gotten lipstick on the straps of their feed bags.
But you crave what you eat, so if I go for 3 or 4 days with no sugar, the craving is gone. That is not dieting. If you are allergic to peanuts, don't eat peanuts.
So please join me in not starting a diet January 1st.
It's really okay, though, to have (or pray for) an awakening around your body. It's okay to stop hitting the snooze button, and to pay attention to what makes you feel great about yourself, one meal at a time. Horribly, it's yet another inside job. If you are not okay with yourself at 185, you will not be okay at 150, or even 135. The self-respect and peace of mind you long for is not out there. It's within. I hate that. I resent that more than I can say. But it's true.
Maybe some of us can try to eat a bit less, and walk a bit more, and make sure to wear pants that do not hurt our thighs or our feelings. Drinking more water is the solution to all problems.
I'll leave you with this: I've helped some of the sturdier women at my church get healthy, by suggesting they prepare each meal as if they had asked our beloved pastor to lunch or dinner. They wouldn't say, "Here Pastor--let's eat standing up in the kitchen. This tube of barbecue Pringles is all for you. i have my own" And then stand there gobbling from their own tubular container. No, they'd get out pretty dishes, and arrange wonderful foods on the plates, and set one plate before Veronica at the table, a plate filled with love, pride and connection. That's what we have longed for, our whole lives, and get to create, now, or or on the 1st. Wow! And God bless you all real good, as my pastor always says.
Anne said it all and we really don't know what else to say. We are all about being healthy…if you need to get healthy DO IT. But, don't do it because you think at the stroke of midnight your willpower and mind-set will change in a second. Take small steps to being the healthiest version of yourself. Maybe it's not physically at all, maybe it's getting emotionally healthy. Don't pressure yourself with big goals. Small steps. We're all in this together.
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SAN DIEGO — A Korean immigrant whose wife, two young daughters and mother-in-law perished when a military jet crashed into his house says he doesn't blame the pilot who safely ejected.
The Marine Corps fighter plane was returning from an offshore training mission Monday when it clipped a tree and slammed into homes about two miles from its base. Two homes were incinerated, and three others were damaged. Three generations of a Korean family died in one home.
The family's pastor, the Rev. Kevin Lee of the Korean United Methodist Church in San Diego, identified three of them as Young Mi Yoon, 36; her 2-month-old daughter, Rachel; and her mother, Suk Im Kim, 60, who was visiting from South Korea to help care for her daughter's newborn.
The body of 15-month-old Grace Yoon, Rachel's sister, was found in the home Tuesday, Fire Department spokesman Maurice Luque said. No one else remained missing.
The San Diego County medical examiner's office has not officially released the names of the victims.
No hard feelings
Young Mi Yoon's husband defended the pilot Tuesday.
"I don't have any hard feelings," Dong Yun Yoon, 37, told reporters near the rubble where his home once stood. "I know he did everything he could."
"Please pray for him not to suffer from this accident," Dong Yun Yoon said. "I know he is one of our treasured for the country."
Dong Yun Yoon, who left Korea in 1989 and became a U.S. citizen, wondered aloud how he would persevere after losing his family.
"Please tell me how to do it," he said, surrounded by his pastor, sister, brother and church members. "I don't know what to do."
Meanwhile, a high-ranking congressman called on the Marine Corps on Tuesday to release the maintenance records of all fighter jets of the type that lost power and crashed into the San Diego neighborhood.
Power failure
Rep. Duncan Hunter, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said the fiery crash Monday of the F/A-18D Hornet fighter as it approached Marine Corps Air Station Miramar was apparently caused by power failure.
"My understanding ... is that the engines failed, causing the aircraft to lose thrust," said Hunter spokesman Joe Kasper.Slideshow: Deadly jet crash
The crash was probably unrelated to the previous discovery of cracks in hinges on the wings of more than a dozen of the $57 million aircraft, the San Diego-area congressman said.
"It is important that we gain a complete understanding of what went wrong," Hunter said in a statement.
Marine Cpl. Travis Easter said officials at Miramar had no immediate response to the request for maintenance records.
The Navy announced last month that it was grounding 10 of the planes and limiting the flights of 20 others because of the cracks. It was not immediately clear whether the plane that crashed in San Diego was under any flight restrictions.
The pilot ejected safely and was taken to a naval hospital in stable condition. He was discovered hanging by his parachute from a tree in a canyon beneath the neighborhood.
Miramar officials declined to say whether he remained hospitalized, but witnesses said he appeared unhurt.
Neighbors said the family of Korean immigrants had moved into the area about three months ago.
Resident Choko McConnell, 85, a widow who lives down the street, said she often saw the grandmother pushing a child in a stroller.
"I cried all night," McConnell said. "A family perished, a young family."
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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…in all those warnings from so-called friends about the "gay lifestyle" and how it meant drugs and promiscuity and heartache, I always wondered why, and how did their kids fall into that. Not being gay, but that "lifestyle." But then my 14 year old son brought home his first boyfriend, and I realized something: he had no fear because he's known his entire life that whomever he had a crush on, whomever he dated, whomever he fell in love with, we not only would accept it, we would cherish the person who cared that much about him. Our expectations, the things we've taught our children, are of respect, kindness, and family. Do I worry? Yes, I worry he'll get his heart broken, even though I realistically know that will happen a time or two. But I don't worry about that "lifestyle" because he knows the love he has here isn't conditional; he knows he is free to be himself, love whom he loves, and we won't bat an eye. He's been raised to believe in commitment and family, but he's also been raised to know that we don't have the right or the will to define for him how that future family takes shape. We hold him to the same rules as his siblings: the curfew, the meeting of friends' and potential dates families, the not sneaking around, the general obeying of the rules of the house. And the first rule of this house is that we love first, ask questions later, and the end result is, I hope, that there will be no drugs, no promiscuity, and the only heartache will come from the pains of growing up and having crushes and first loves. It won't be because he's gay…
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5 comments:
THAT IS BEAUTIFUL! It should be required reading for everyone.
- November 22, 2013 2:10 PM
- Mr. Hendrix said...
Love that. My kids are going to know the same thing. Hate is an infection that spreads unless we give it a shot of common sense and love.
- November 22, 2013 6:25 PM
- kenju said...
I wish all parents felt that way. It would make life so much easier for kids who are gay - or kids who just can't figure out what they are.
- November 22, 2013 7:14 PM
- Angel and Kirby said...
All we can do when raising children is teach them to be themselves. To love whomever they want. Te can tell them that we prefer that they do not do drugs, smoke or what ever else is 'hip' at the time, but they have to make their own decisions and live with it. We will not judge them but try to help them if they ask!
- November 22, 2013 8:24 PM
It would make the world so much easier/better if all parents felt that way. Unfortunately they do not all feel/act that way. Which I wish I didn't know from personal experience.
- November 27, 2013 4:35 PM


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New freshmen make "The Indiana Promise"
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Indiana University's Bloomington campus has more than 7,000 students enrolled for the fall semester in its 2010-11 freshman class. Many of them took time out from a variety of Welcome Week activities to attend the annual Freshman Induction Ceremony, a celebration of academic aspiration and success.
Like all great universities, IU conducts ceremonies such as this with fanfare and pageantry including remarks by President Michael McRobbie, Provost Sharon Hanson, and Michael Coleman, president of the Indiana University Student Association. First year students were invited to repeat the Indiana Promise and receive a keepsake IU pin.
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Under the leadership of Ann Akre, the 2018 event is dedicated to recognizing and honoring Portland's top fashion and style talent. The city's talented creatives have launched Portland into the national fashion limelight — earning a reputation for it's hip and unique voice and one of the fastest growing fashion industries in the nation. The event strives to recognize exceptional local talent, support local businesses and showcase all of these on a uniquely Portland platform.
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Celebrities when they were children
While just the thought of flicking through a family photo album leaves most of us blushing, stars seem far keener to share photos of their younger selves with hashtags like #throwbackthursday and #flashbackfriday regularly trending on Twitter.
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Prospects for the A380? A cool website, for now
There are few commercial aircraft that are easily recognizable by the general public or, at least, by those that live outside the #avgeek bubble - the Airbus A380 is one of them - the other clear winner is, of course, the iconic Boeing 747.
And people that have flown the A380 seem to like it a lot also. Well, at least this is the feedback that I have received from my own - non-scientific - sample.
Whether this popularity will translate into financial success for Airbus, though, is an entirely different matter. A point we already made on one of the earliest posts published in this blog, back in 2010.
Although the A380 is a bet on the long-term growth of air travel - a rather reasonable assumption to make - looks like airlines prefer the flexibility of smaller planes to cover this demand and the number of routes able to sustain the capacity of an A380 is possibly not that large. Only Emirates, the largest A380 operator by a wide margin, seems to have found the formula to operate profitably a large fleet of the type.
Net orders have remained stagnant for the last couple of years, with very little in the way of new clients and some prospective A380 operators, such as Transaero of Russia, Skymark of Japan or Kingfisher of India, having gone bankrupt in the meantime. What's more, the prospect of a re-engined A380neo seems rather uncertain at the moment. This situation has led Airbus to cut production to one aircraft per month in the near future.
Some in the industry have compared A380 production rates to the historical of orders and deliveries for the Boeing 747 to show how peaks and throughs are not unusual in a decades-long large aircraft programme.
In any case, this is the context in which Airbus has launched its latest A380 marketing initiative, the iflyA380 website.
Interestingly enough for an industrial concern selling hundred-million pieces of sophisticated machinery to other businesses, the target of this campaign are air travelers.
Airbus is, thus, appealing to the ultimate users of the aircraft, to become its public advocates.
The A380 website allows you to search for itineraries that can be completed with A380 aircraft (although it would also give you other choices when those are not available) and provides also information about the different airlines operating the type and the service classes they offer. It does not let you make a booking, though. For this you will need to visit the airlines' own websites.
The website itself provides a wealth of details of interest for aviation enthusiasts (and A380 fans in particular!) although I remain skeptical it will do much to change the A380's fortunes.
I find particularly noteworthy, though, as an exercise in B2C marketing. This is arecurring topic, in the last few weeks, and it has come up in my own conversations with senior Airbus staff: how aircraft manufacturers may become increasingly involved in marketing their products not only to airlines and leasing companies, but also to the final users, the passengers.


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Turn the Paige to be released April 1st
Paige Harper has traveled the world as the personal assistant to vampire Mary Stuart. Now, with a new baby and the knowledge that she carries vampire DNA, Paige and her partner, Noah, must return to America and try to bring their mortal and vampire worlds together. But the disappearance of Paige's close friend leads her on a hunt that pits her against a powerful enemy and her own mortality.


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Tanner made this book at school. It goes through every letter and has a picture of something he colored/made/painted on each page. It's really cute. I don't keep many things but I'll keep this. It's laminated and will hold up well.
Here are a few of the pictures from it. I love how cute it turned out. This must be something new they started this year because Ryleigh didn't do one in K3.
We also got end of the year report cards on Tuesday. I was so happy to see that Ryleigh had improved from S+ to all O's (Outstanding) but 1!! I was SOOOO proud of her!!!!!
Her only S was in coordination in printing. She starts writing so fast that she doesn't focus on doing a good job.
On the back of her report card there is a place for the teachers notes and here's what Mrs. Carter wrote about her:
On the back of her report card there is a place for the teachers notes and here's what Mrs. Carter wrote about her:
Ryleigh is amazing! Not only is she fashion conscious and beautiful but she is also extremely smart! She is a product of love and good parenting. I have enjoyed having her in my class! Thank you for letting me be her teacher.
We also got Tanner's report card and guess what....He also got a few O's!!!! I know, you are as surprised as I am. He got a N (Needs Help) in counting. What's funny is he can count in Spanish better then English-Stupid Dora and Diego! (I can't stand those 2 shows and have no desire for my kids to learn any language but English. We don't live in Mexico!) (Sorry for the rant.)
I was surprised at how well he did in Social Adjustment and Work Habits. It's no secret that Tanner is not a fan of school!
Sweet Tanner, I just love him! I hoped I would have Ryleigh's brother, lucky me!!
And then she wrote this in May:
I have really enjoyed Tanner this year. He is such a cutie and so full of life. I hope you guys have a terrific Summer!
Thank you so much ABC for the education you provide to my children. Especially Mrs. Parden and Mrs. Carter! We are so thankful for you 2 and the love and patience you display with every interaction with them. I know they can sometimes be difficult so I appreciate all you do!!! Mrs. Carter, FYI Tanner is nothing like Ryleigh so good luck with him next year!! :)


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