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Basketballs bounce in his dreams: Evansville's Bryce Weiler sees a different game
The last home game of his four years at Evansville will arrive on the final Tuesday in February, the Aces against conference rival Drake. It will be different for Bryce Weiler than the other seniors, but he is accustomed to that by now. Once the action starts, as ever, he will not leave his seat on the bench. It hardly seems fair, but he feels privileged to be there.
His life will begin to change irrevocably that evening. The hot breath of impending graduation will be blowing against the back of his collar. "I'm not really scared about going out into the job field," Bryce insists. He doesn't call it entering the "real world," the way a lot of us did when we were students, because his reality always has been real enough.
The first big chunk of the remarkable universe Bryce has created for himself at Evansville will break away when the Drake game ends: gone forever, or never the same. Most of the rest will exist for another couple months, until he finishes classes and final exams and walks through the graduation ceremony. But his time with the Aces will be up.
A product of Olney, Ill., he has been a part of the impressive resurgence coach Marty Simmons is achieving with the Aces, from a miserable 9-21 record the year before Bryce arrived to a near-complete reversal, 21-15, during his junior year. How great a part, though, when he hasn't played a minute or scored a point, when he sat the bench the entire time? "He inspires me every day," Simmons says.
This isn't exactly the ambition Bryce held for himself. "Being able to see and play sports is something I've always wanted to do," he says. So yeah, there's a reason he's not been getting into games. He's not on the team. And there's a reason he is not on the team.
At birth he was four months premature, with no eyesight. He sits on the bench for Evansville home games, adjacent to a team manager who provides him with a play-by-play call of the action on the court. This is one of the many small kindnesses his fellow students have volunteered during Bryce's college years, designed to make his experience richer or more profound or less isolated or, in some cases, merely to make it possible.
"There aren't too many days when being blind is very much fun because of how I have to concentrate, avoid people who walk down the wrong side of the sidewalk," he says. "The people who helped me as a freshman: If it wasn't for them, who's to say I'd have even made it to my sophomore year?"
Part II: It's Just Lunch
Bryce Weiler lives alone in his dorm room on the Evansville campus, but even at that, it can feel crowded inside. All the technology that helps him thrive as a blind college student consumes the available desk space. "It'd be hard to have a roommate," he says.
There is a machine that prints documents into Braille that's nearly as big as a Buick. There is a talking calculator. There is a small digital player that allows him to listen to audiobooks. There is a computer, of course, equipped with a program called JAWS: Job Access With Speech. It reads material on the screen to him, so that when he does his daily Google searches for anything connected to Rick Pitino or Brad Stevens or college basketball, he can add that to his imposing memory bank.
He finished his high school diploma in 2010 at Indiana School for the Blind, but he'd gone to school with sighted kids in elementary, middle and even his first year of high school. When Bryce arrived at Evansville, he says, "I was actually really used to being around individuals who could see."
Bryce understood at Evansville he would need them, some of them, to help him carry out the everyday business of living on campus. Lunch and dinner, for instance. He would ask classmates if any were willing to schedule meals with him, because however challenging it may be for the sighted to navigate the social complexities of a school cafeteria, he needs to find a vacant seat and get his food tray to that table.
"Who wants to eat by themselves?" Bryce asks. "I look forward to lunch and dinner every day."
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In the second semester of his freshman year, he met Marian Clements in Comm 130 when he asked aloud in class if anyone would be willing to eat regularly with him. Clements introduced him to Diane McFeaters, and McFeaters and Bryce ate dinner regularly that spring and breakfast on weekends, and it continued into their sophomore years. She would meet him outside the cafeteria, help him go through the line and choose his food, then carry it to a table before doubling back and getting her own meal.
"I think his main concern was just to have someone responsible, someone he could depend on and trust," says McFeaters, now a senior psych major. "I wouldn't just stand him up on a Saturday morning. If I said I would be there, I would be there."
Punctuality nearly is a sacrament for Bryce. Wondering when someone might arrive, or call, can be more than annoying. In the wrong circumstance, it can be disorienting.
Madeline Smith, a sophomore who serves as a manager on the basketball team, allows that she's run afoul of this at times on their Monday-Wednesday-Friday lunch schedule. "I'll get to lunch maybe a minute late, and he'll say, 'I was going to give you until 6 minutes past, then I was going to call you,' " she says. "I think it's understandable. He has to stand there, wait for people to come to him. He doesn't know where they are."
Bryce has lined up any number of regular meal companions over the course of his four years. The roster changes out of necessity. Those who ate with him as a freshman or sophomore followed the normal college course of moving into off-campus housing, which meant they'd no longer be on the meal plan.
Last year he met Shelby Henderson, a sophomore who dined with him regularly, because one of his friends mentioned she was wearing a Kentucky T-shirt and maybe would be into basketball enough to enjoying talking about the game with him over lunch. Because all of his lunch companions wind up talking ball, or being dragged into the sport.
Beth Litke, who still has brunch with Bryce on weekends, is a Texan who grew up more interested in football and baseball. "He knows if he brings up something about basketball," she says, "I'm not going to be able to input into the conversation at all." But she'll accompany him to the Evansville practice gym, where Bryce's key-card grants him the sort of access normally reserved for varsity players, to help him practice free throws. She'll stand beneath the goal and clap so he can locate the target by sound. Then he shoots it in. He lately has progressed to working on 3-point shots.
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"I've never met anyone as outgoing and ready to live as Bryce is. He doesn't want his disability to stop him," Litke says. "He'll joke with us all the time about being blind. He'll say, 'You're sighted and you can't even do that.' I say, 'Bryce, I don't joke about being blind.'
"When we first met, I was always conscious about what I said. Like, 'Oh, did you watch that?' And I'd try to catch myself. Bryce is so focused on who he is, it doesn't even faze him. I've learned so much about him, that his disability does not define him."
McFeaters asked Bryce once if he has dreams. Think about it. All of us dream what are essentially motion pictures. How does one who has never seen conjure those?
"He said, 'I hear sounds. Basketballs being dribbled.' This is his life," McFeaters says. "This is what he wants to pursue."
Part III: The Voice
Bryce Weiler came to love the game of basketball in a way that baseball fans a generation or two earlier would certainly understand. He heard Don Fischer talk about the Indiana Hoosiers on the radio. He heard Brian Barnhart call the Illinois Fighting Illini. Like so many young people, he fell in love with the sport. His affection, though, became a bit more like an obsession.
As he perceives it, Bryce cannot afford the luxury of waiting for what he wants to come to him. He attacks life. Yes, that is the word: attacks. He enjoys singing the national anthem before games; he now has sung for the Aces, and at Butler, and for the Evansville Otters minor-league baseball team. On Dec. 4 the Aces will play at Murray State, and he'll travel there to sing the anthem beforehand.
He has built a network of coaches through that persistence, the idea being to learn more about the sport he loves through conversations with the people who are most deeply involved. It started with an acquaintance with Butler coach Brad Stevens, whom he met while attending high school. They talk regularly. Before the 2010 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game against Syracuse, after shootaround, Stevens asked Bryce if he thought the Bulldogs would win. Bryce said no. Stevens asked, "What's the one thing we can do to make you be wrong?" Bryce recalled hearing a CBS announcer mention the Orange's previous victim, Gonzaga, might have gotten fixated on the Syracuse jerseys instead of playing the opponent. Stevens told that to his team in the pregame talk. After winning that game, and the one that followed, the Bulldogs were into the Final Four. Stevens gave Bryce a piece of the net.
He now has a piece of that net, and one from the Bulldogs' 2011 appearance, and one more from Louisville's 2012 appearance. Weiler met coach Rick Pitino in part through Stevens after determining that expanding his network of coaches would allow him to "hear some new things." Bryce and Pitino talked regularly through the Cardinals' championship season. Bryce now has a 2013 NCAA championship ring on the way.
Pitino has helped him grow his network to include Billy Donovan at Florida and Herb Sendek at Arizona State. He has connected himself to Steve Donahue at Boston College, Ed Cooley at Providence, Jamie Dixon at Pitt and Scott Drew at Baylor. He has spoken to Oregon State coach Craig Robinson. He knows the President is Robinson's brother-in-law, "But I'm more excited to talk basketball." There are soccer coaches from Sporting Kansas City and FC Dallas of Major League Soccer in Bryce's network. Just last week, he had his first conversation with Pittsburgh Pirates first base coach Rick Sofield.
He has questions "stockpiled" from years of listening to radio baseball broadcasts, latching onto every word. "Sometimes you hear the announcer say the first-base coach will walk over and whisper something to the runner," Bryce says. "I asked him, 'What are you saying?' "
Simmons, who says Bryce is "an aggressive young man by nature," met him through some mutual acquaintances from back in their corner of Illinois, and it wasn't long before they were arranging for Bryce to sit on the Aces bench during home games.
Bryce doesn't enjoy listening to the radio to keep up with the games he is attending, because the radio doesn't keep up with the action. There's the customary seven-second delay. So manager Colton O'Day sits beside him and delivers his own play-by-play.
"He likes to get there early. He likes to talk to the other coaches. And he shoots free throws," O'Day says. "I would do all that with him. During the games, I would walk him through the play-by-play. Bryce is so smart; he knows the game inside and out."
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O'Day says he takes care to present a relatively impartial "broadcast", not criticizing refs if they miss one that damages Evansville. Still, Bryce knows a blown call when he hears it.
"If there's a bad call," O'Day says, "he'll be like, 'Oh, that was terrible. It should be our ball.' "
When Bryce does his own work as a color commentator by the Evansville soccer, baseball or softball teams, he is careful to maintain a more impartial perspective. Weary from years of hearing screaming analysts speak over their broadcast partners and, in his estimation, ruin their calls, Bryce finds he's almost gone too far in the other direction and has trouble conveying his enthusiasm at a big play.
Yes, that's what he perceives as his biggest problem in calling games over the radio. The fact he can't see them? He's got that covered.
He interviews coaches and players. He studies their statistics and biographies for hours in advance of a game. He listens intently to his partner, usually play-by-play voice Tom Benson, to extract every bit of detail he can about how a game is advancing.
"I take it as not only one of the biggest challenges, but also one of the biggest compliments that he would want to have me broadcast with him," says Benson, who has called Evansville sports for 17 years. "I know that he is completely reliant on me as a broadcaster to actually be able to follow the action. I know I have to be on my A-game describing the action.
"The thing I love about Bryce, he just has an absolute passion for broadcasting—and it's because that's how his world is described to him. I know he's going to do his homework, know all of the different players and coaches and schools. If you didn't know he couldn't see, you wouldn't know any better."
Part IV: Moving Out
Basketballs bounce in his dreams, but his goal is for that not to stop. When his four years of college are complete and he has his degree in Sport Management & Sport Communication, he'd like to work somewhere in college athletics. He has thought hard about where he might fit best.
"We've talked about his future, how he would be able to do some of the things he wants," Pitino says. "He's got incredible passion for what he does. For him to overcome all the obstacles that he's got to overcome and still maintain a positive attitude—I think that would be extremely positive for any company, any job."
Having discussed routinely scheduling and other basketball matters with Simmons, Bryce wondered whether a basketball operations job would be right for him. But if the coach he worked for a better job, it would mean moving and having to learn the particulars of an entirely new community. At one point he figured he might want to work as a secretary in a basketball office. Now he wonders if he might be better off in marketing or compliance.
Indeed, he would be formidable in the compliance department, given his ability to memorize and recall the material he has consumed. It's been tricky trying to broach that possibility, though, because the only online copies of the NCAA Manual are in PDF files. He needs a Word document to accommodate his reading software.
"I just want to be able to help coaches and players be their best," Bryce says. "If I can help out the coaches and athletes, show them how lucky they are to be able to see and play sports … I want to find a job that can make me happy seven days a week. I don't think I'm going to need a whole bunch of money."
The collection of coaches he has helped—yes, they've helped him, but he is willing to reciprocate—might be of assistance in this regard.
Bryce has given pregame speeches in the past to a number of athletic teams, even some about to play Evansville, though not every Aces fan has appreciated him "helping out" the other team. At a recent soccer game, he was presented a stern lecture by a woman aware of one of his talks with an opposing team.
"She was pretty serious about it," Bryce says. "People are more important to me than winning. I'm definitely happy to do it. I suppose I'd rather tell them what it's like to be blind than to imagine it, because it's not very much fun. If I can get them to play harder or to do the best for their school, then I feel like that's what I should do, even if a whole bunch more people yell at me."
It's not inconceivable that one day soon Bryce Weiler could be telling these stories in the past tense. What it was like to be blind. It's not something he brings up readily, but he is a candidate for an operation that is likely to occur next summer, after he finishes school, in which a microchip would be inserted that would serve to present him with sight. It's tempting to use the verb "restore" in that sentence, but it's not something he's ever had.
This is why he is not eager to discuss the surgery. "Everyone else thinks about it a lot. They ask me about it, and they're excited it's going to work," he says. "They don't think about it not working; they don't have to live with the consequences of it not working."
Bryce has talked about this with Stevens. They've agreed not to get too excited in advance.
"Because it might not," Bryce says. "I just think if the eye surgery doesn't work out and I can't ever see the rest of my life, my job is going to matter."


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It will be two steps forward for New Hampshire's Right to Know law and one step back if State Rep. Mary Beth Walz, D-Bow, has her way.
During the last session of the Legislature some teeth were added to RSA 91:a.
One addition introduces new civil penalties for public officials who violate the state's Right-to-Know law. Another piece of legislation makes clear that arrest records are public information in New Hampshire, subject to public disclosure laws. The bill also specifies the minimum amount of information that must be provided about each arrest. Both go into effect in January.
Walz now wants to introduce wiggle room into the Right to Know law — a law still ripe for misuse. She has filed a 2013 legislative service request for a bill that would circumvent a 2011 state Supreme Court ruling.
In Thomas Ettinger versus the Town of Madison Planning Board, the court ruled that when town or state boards and committees review written legal advice from their attorney, the attorney providing the advice is required to be in the room or on the phone communicating with the governmental body. Under current law, such consultations are exempt from RSA 91: a.
Under 2013 LSR H-0451, boards would be able to review and discuss the legal advice without the attorney present, adding a new exemption to the Right to Know law.
In arguing her case, Walz told the Union Leaders newspaper that boards in small towns which share legal counsel are too often inconvenienced.
"A lot of these attorneys represent multiple communities," said Walz. "It can be difficult for the local officials to schedule the attorneys to either appear at a meeting or take part via phone. This can become a problem when there is an issue that needs to be discussed, but there's a scheduling conflict. This would help those boards move ahead with the discussions without the attorney taking part."
House Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Penacook defended the measure saying he can understand concerns some have giving boards another opportunity to go into executive session. But, he added, "At some point, you have to trust these officials not to abuse it."
Clearly, Shurtleff hasn't been paying attention to abuses already too frequent without adding another exception to RSA 91:a. It would be useful for Shurtleff and Walz to review David Taylor versus Oyster River School Board, among many other cases. In two instances the court ruled in Taylor's favor and in one case even awarded Taylor attorney's fees — something done only in the most blatant cases of abuse.
Unfortunately, the change proposed by Walz would provide another opportunity for public officials to hide from the reach of the Right to Know law.
Under the best of circumstances, LSR H-0451 would be unknowingly abused by boards which could easily stray from the legal topics at hand without an attorney in the room. At worse, local panels could plead ignorance of an intentional violation to avoid civil penalties which become available in 2013 for those who knowing abuse the Right to Know law.
While the current requirements of Right to Know may be inconvenient for some small towns, it is of greater importance that government business be conducted in public whenever possible. The track record of abuses — intentional or otherwise — is too lengthy for another exception, as spelled out by LSR H-0451.
While we are on the subject of misdirected legislation, we have to wonder about a proposed bill that would require local and state governments to meet the same rules as private developers.
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Blaise Pascal
French theologian, mathematician, and philosopher
Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand on June 19, 1623, and his family settled in Paris in 1629. Under the tutelage of his father, Pascal soon proved himself a mathematical prodigy, mastering Euclid's Elements by the age of 12. At the age of 16 he formulated one of the basic theorems of projective geometry, known as Pascal's theorem and described in his Essai pour les coniques (Essay on Conics, 1639).
In 1642 he invented the first mechanical adding machine. Pascal proved by experimentation in 1648 that the level of the mercury column in a barometer is determined by an increase or decrease in the surrounding atmospheric pressure rather than by a vacuum, as previously believed. This discovery verified the hypothesis of the Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli concerning the effect of atmospheric pressure on the equilibrium of liquids. Six years later, in conjunction with the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, Pascal formulated the mathematical theory of probability, which has become important in such fields as actuarial, mathematical, and social statistics and as a fundamental element in the calculations of modern theoretical physics. Pascal's other important scientific contributions include the derivation of Pascal's law or principle, which states that fluids transmit pressures equally in all directions, and his investigations in the geometry of infinitesimals.
In 1647, a few years after publishing Essai pour les coniques he suddenly abandoned the study of mathematics. Because of his chronically poor health, he had been advised to seek diversions from study and attempted for a time to live in Paris in a deliberately frivolous manner. His interest in probability theory has been attributed to his interest in calculating the odds involved in the various gambling games he played during this period.
At the end of 1654, after several months of intense depression, Pascal had a religious experience that altered his life. He entered the Jansenist monastery at Port-Royal, although he did not take orders, and led a rigorously ascetic life until his death eight years later. He never published in his own name again. The Jansenists encouraged him in his mathematical studies, which he resumed. To assist them in their struggles against the Jesuits, he wrote, under a pseudonym, a defense of the famous Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, the famous Lettres provinciales (Provincial Letters), in which he attacked the Jesuits for their attempts to reconcile 16th-century naturalism with orthodox Roman Catholicism. His most positive religious statement appeared posthumously (he died August 19, 1662); it was published in fragmentary form in 1670 as Apologie de la religion Chrétienne (Apology of the Christian Religion). In these fragments, which later were incorporated into his major work, he posed the alternatives of potential salvation and eternal damnation, with the implication that only by conversion to Jansenism could salvation be achieved. Pascal asserted that whether or not salvation was achieved, humanity's ultimate destiny is an afterlife belonging to a supernatural realm that can only be known intuitively.
Pascal's most famous work is the Pensées (published 1670), a set of deeply personal meditations in somewhat fragmented form on human suffering and faith in God. In the Pensées he attempted to explain and justify the difficulties of human life by the doctrine of original sin, and he contended that revelation can be comprehended only by faith, which in turn is justified by revelation. "Pascal's wager" expresses the conviction that belief in God is reasonable on the ground that there are no rational grounds either for belief or disbelief, so belief is not less reasonable than disbelief; but this being so it is wiser to gamble on the truth of religion since this policy involves success if religion is true and no significant loss if it is false. He had admirers both Roman Catholic and Protestant, including John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who praised an essay he wrote on the psychology of conversion. Pascal died at the age of 39 from a combination of tuberculosis and stomach cancer.
Works by Blaise Pascal
On November 23, 1654, Pascal had an intense religious vision; later that night, he wrote himself a note detailing the experience. Until his death, he kept this note sewn into whichever coat he wore, and only by chance did a servant discover it. In it, Pascal claims to have had a personal encounter with Christ rather than the abstracted God of philosophy. As a result, he felt his faith reinvigorated, and he began his first major work on religion, the Provincial Letters.
The Pensées is simply the compelling "Thoughts" of mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker Blaise Pascal. Originally intending to publish a book defending Christianity, Pascal died before he could complete it. The thoughts and ideas for his book were collected and complied, posthumously, and then published as the Pensées. Pascal's thoughts are as powerful as they are comprehensive. He discusses with great wonder and beauty the human condition, the incarnation, God, the meaning of life, revelation, and the paradoxes of Christianity. He passionately argues for the Christian faith, using both argumentation and his famous "Wager." His ideas and arguments are sometimes developed and intricate, at other times, abrupt and mysterious. Consequently, the Pensées is a startling and powerful book--with each successive read, one discovers new profound insights. Anyone curious about the Christian faith, or simply looking for an impassioned defense of it, should look no further than Pascal's Pensées.
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NEW YORK - Although doctors sometimes prescribe anti-seizure drugs to treat chronic pain in the vulva, just a handful of low-quality studies have examined the drugs' effects, according to a new review.
Based on these studies, "it's very difficult to make definitive statements on efficacy," said Dr. Raphael Leo, the study's author from the State University of New York at Buffalo. "Certainly, more investigation is warranted."
Still, "I think that there is promise" for the use of anti-seizure medications, he added.
Chronic pain in a woman's genitals, also called vulvodynia, affects as many as one in 12 women.
The underlying cause of the pain is not always known, so doctors often try a variety of treatment approaches to see what will work.
Those include topical creams to reduce pain, physical therapy, antidepressants and - in extreme cases - surgery to remove the painful tissue.
Anti-seizure medications, such as gabapentin (marketed as Neurontin), are also used to treat vulvodynia. One survey found up to two-thirds of doctors prescribe gabapentin for the condition.
"Unfortunately, there hasn't been much systematic investigation of an appropriate means of treatment," Leo told Reuters Health.
To see whether research supports the use of anti-seizure drugs, he collected the results of all studies testing these medications on women with the pain disorder.
He found nine reports, none of which met the criteria for a high-quality clinical trial.
In a "gold standard" medical trial, women would be randomly assigned to take the medicine or a drug-free placebo, with neither women nor the researchers knowing which pill each person was taking. This is called a double-blind, randomized controlled trial.
Instead, the studies Leo found used less rigorous research designs, including "open label" formats, where patients and doctors know which drug each participant is taking. He also found descriptions of people taking anti-seizure medications and reviews of patients' medical charts.
The medications studied included gabapentin, pregabalin, lamotrigine and carbamazepine, Leo wrote in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
All of the studies showed that some women reported improvements in their symptoms after taking an anti-seizure drug.
For instance, one study that reviewed the medical charts of 147 women taking gabapentin found that symptoms completely went away in 67 per cent of patients. Most of the other patients showed no response.
"Definitely the open label studies have been encouraging," said Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, director of the perinatal psychiatry programme at the University of North Carolina Center for Women's Mood Disorders.
"This may be a very useful treatment for some women, but until there are the gold standard, double-blind studies, there is a need for further scientific investigation," said Meltzer-Brody, whose study on lamotrigine was included in Leo's review.
Without high-quality clinical trials, doctors can't say for certain whether the drug is any better than a placebo, nor whether women would have had an improvement in symptoms on their own, without medication.
"Any sort of conclusions one draws from such non-experimental studies are quite limited," said Leo.
He said more research is needed on treatments for vulvodynia.
Until then, "we don't understand whether one should consider one particular form of therapy over another and who would respond best to what type of treatment."


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Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles
The objective for this experiment comes from Dr. Hartings Lab Notebook. It is to synthesize two different sets of gold nanoparticles. In each synthesis, Au +3 is being reduced. In the first one it is by BSAm and in the second part of the experiment it is by citrate.
The protocol used for this section came from Dr. Hartings Lab Notebook.
The protocol used for this section came from Dr. Hartings Lab Notebook.
This is the spectrum from the UV-Vis. The sample was the 50X diluted Citrate-AuNP.
For Citrate-AuNP the UV-Vis was used to analysze the solution. With the results found, it could be analyzed using this reference. It had a maximum absorbancy of .031at 520 λ. The absorbance at the wavelength 450 was 0.02. The particle size in our solution was 12 nm. This was found by dividing the two absorbencies mentioned above and locating the number on the chart from the link. With knowing the particle size, the molar absorbtivity was found. It was 1.09E+8. Using the formula Concentration= Absorbance at 450/ Molar Absorbtivity at 450. The concentration of gold nanoparticles and citrate in the diluted solution was 1.83E -10M. The stock concentration of Citrate-AuNPwas 9.17E -8M.
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This is an advanced four day fusing class with an emphasis on the technical and artistic possibilities of glass. International instructor, Patty Gray will reveal secrets for using frit/powders, stringers/noodles, murrini, frit wafers, colorful mica, metals, paints, enamels, and pattern bars. Don't miss this action-packed class. The class fee (non-refundable) includes glass, supplies and homemade lunch each day. There will also be an option (for an additional fee) to have a blown vase created with the roll up process, done at Ryan Staub's studio! Class registration is limited. This is one of our most popular classes and it always fills up quickly.
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Remember the so-called voluntary export restraints?
They're back, but with new players. And once again, U.S. and other automakers and suppliers should ponder what unintended consequences will arise.
The United States negotiated a -- ahem -- voluntary agreement with Japan as a way to hold down exports from Japan in the late 1970s and during most of the 1980s. The agreement may have held down Japanese market-share gains temporarily, but it was hardly a successful barrier to Japanese cars here.
The consequences -- mostly unintended -- were a rise in exports of higher-priced Japanese vehicles to the United States and a proliferation of Japanese automakers' assembly plants in North America.
Now Brazil has imposed what amount to voluntary export restraints on shipments of vehicles from Mexico to Brazil.
The two countries have a decade-old free trade agreement, but a surge in vehicles heading to Brazil from Mexico prompted Brasilia to raise its protectionist walls. Mexico has agreed to quotas on Brazil-bound vehicle exports for the next three years.
The U.S.-Japan voluntary export restraints originally were supposed to be a short-term measure, too. Who knows how long the Brazil-Mexico pact will last.
Why does it matter?
A number of global automakers have expanded or plan to expand production in Mexico, largely to use the nation as an export base to South America, particularly Brazil. The list includes Nissan, Mazda, General Motors and Volkswagen.
Take away the potential of unlimited exports to Brazil, and maybe those plants would be better located in the United States. On the face of it, then, this might be good news for U.S. suppliers and employment.
But if there's one thing we learned from the U.S.-Japan pact restraining trade, it's that the ultimate consequences are not always what the politicians wanted or what we journalists expected.


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NEW YORK RANGERS at VANCOUVER CANUCKS
Rogers Arena – Vancouver, British Columbia
October 18, 2011 – 10:00 p.m.
The Rangers will face-off against the Vancouver Canucks tomorrow, Oct. 18, at Rogers Arena (10:00 p.m.), to begin a six-game stretch against Canadian opponents including four on the road to begin the set. The Blueshirts enter the contest having been defeated by the New York Islanders, 4-2, on Saturday at Nassau Colieseum, and are now 0-1-2 (2 pts) to begin the season. New York ranked third among Eastern Conference teams vs. the Western Conference last season, posting an 11-7-0 record including a 4-3-0 mark against Northwest Division opponents. The Canucks enter the contest with a 2-2-1 (5 pts) record, having defeated the Oilers, 4-3, on Saturday at Edmonton. Following tomorrow's contest, the Rangers will face-off against the Calgary Flames on Thursday, Oct. 20, at Scotiabank Saddledome (9:30 p.m.), in the second game of their four-game Canadian road trip.
-TV: MSG Network
9:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Bill Pidto and Ron Duguay
10:00 p.m. – Rangers at Canucks
Broadcasters: Sam Rosen (Play-By-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst), John Giannone (In-Game Reporter)
-Radio: 1050 ESPN Radio and newyorkrangers.com
9:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show
10:00 p.m. – Rangers at Canucks
Broadcasters: Joe Tolleson (Play-By-Play), Dave Maloney (Analyst)
RANGERS vs. CANUCKS:
-All-Time: 72-30-8-0 overall (39-13-5-0 at home; 33-17-3-0 on the road)
-2011-12: Tonight marks the first and only meeting this season.
-Last Season: New York was 1-0-0 overall, having won their only meeting, 1-0, on Jan. 13 at Madison Square Garden. Henrik Lundqvist made 31 saves for the shutout, and Wojtek Wolski tallied the lone goal, his first as a Ranger, on the power play at 7:18 of the second period. Brandon Dubinsky and Marian Gaborik each recorded an assist.
-New York ranks 19th with a 0-1-2 (2 pts) record on the road; Vancouver ranks 22nd with a 0-0-1 (1 pt) mark at home
-The Rangers have not faced a Northwest Division opponent this season; the Canucks are 0-1-1 vs. the Atlantic Division
-Henrik Lundqvist has posted a 1-3-0 record with a 3.24 GAA and one shutout in four career regular season contests vs. Vancouver; Martin Biron is 3-3-1-0 with a 2.85 GAA in eight career regular season games vs. the Canucks
-Marian Gaborik leads the Rangers with 18 goals, 14 assists and 32 points in 38 career regular season contests vs. Vancouver; Brad Richards has tallied 16 points (eight goals, eight assists) in 16 games vs. the Canucks, and Wojtek Wolski has recorded 13 assists and 18 points in 27 games against Vancouver
-New York lists no former Canucks on their roster
-Vancouver lists four former Rangers on their roster: Chris Higgins (2009-10); Manny Malhotra (1998-99 – 2001-02); Mikael Samuelsson (2001-02 – 2002-03); Dale Weise (2010-11)
-Power Play: The Rangers did not tally a goal in four power play opportunities (7:06) on Saturday at Long Island, and are now 0-12 through three games. The Rangers are 0-1 (0:08) in five-on-three situations (last – 10/8 at ANA), and 0-1 (0:40) when four-on-three (last – 10/8 at ANA). Shorthanded goals allowed (0).
–Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts surrendered two goals to the Islanders in eight shorthanded situations (11:33) on Saturday at Long Island. New York ranks 16th overall (16-19, 84.2%) and 15th on the road (16-19, 84.2%). The Rangers are 2-2 (0:44) in three-on-five situations (last – 10/15 at NYI), and 0-1 (1:17) when three-on-four (last – 10/7 at LAK). Shorthanded goals for (0).
-Four-on-Four: New York did not tally/yield a goal in one four-on-four situation (0:54) on Saturday at Long Island, and are now even in seven four-on-four situations (11:54). Four-on-four goals for (0). Four-on-four goals allowed (0).
The Rangers completed their first of 14 back-to-back sets this season with a 2-1 shootout loss against the Anaheim Ducks on Oct. 8 at Ericsson Globe Arena. New York has posted a record of 0-0-1 (0-0-0 at home, 0-0-1 on the road) in the first game of the set, and are 0-0-1 (0-0-0 at home, 0-0-1 on the road) in the second game. Since 2009-10, New York is 21-8-3 in the back-end of back-to-back sets, including a 9-3-1 mark at MSG and 12-5-2 on the road over the span. The Rangers' next back-to-back set is Nov. 5-6 vs. Montreal and Winnipeg, both games to be played at Madison Square Garden.
The Rangers lead the league with a 57.3% faceoff winning percentage, winning 94-of-164 faceoff attempts this season. Brad Richards leads all NHL players with an 80.0% faceoff winning percentage (24-30).
Ryan Callahan notched the Rangers' first goal of the season at 15:22 of the first period on Oct. 7 against the Kings, while making his debut as the team's captain. He also led all skaters with a career-high, 11 shots and led all team forwards with 20:30 of ice time. Callahan's 11 shots established a Rangers record for most shots in a season opener, and were the most by an NHL player in a season-opening game since Pavel Bure on Oct. 3, 1997 vs. Anaheim (11 shots). The last Ranger to register at least 11 shots in a game was Brendan Shanahan on Apr. 4, 2008 vs. the Islanders (12 shots).
The Rangers had three players make their Rangers debut in the team's season opener on Oct. 7 against the Kings – Tim Erixon (NHL debut), Brad Richards (one assist) and Mike Rupp. In addition, defenseman Jeff Woywitka made his Rangers debut on Saturday at Long Island.
Forwards Brandon Prust and Mike Rupp both reached NHL milestones on Saturday at Long Island. Prust skated in his 200th career NHL game, while Rupp made his 500th career NHL appearance. Prust has registered 47 points (20 goals, 27 assists) and 461 penalty minutes with the Rangers, Calgary Flames and Phoenix Coyotes. The five-year NHL veteran has tallied 15% of his career points while shorthanded (five goals, two assists). Rupp has recorded 89 points (49 goals, 40 assists) and 661 penalty minutes in nine seasons with the Rangers, New Jersey Devils, Phoenix Coyotes, Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins.
-The Rangers have posted a record of 281-271-93 all-time in the month of October, including a 176-117-48 mark at home and a 105-154-45 record on the road. New York (0-1-2) is scheduled to play 10 games during the season's opening month in 2011-12, with three games being contested at MSG and seven scheduled on the road.
-Legendary Rangers' defenseman Brian Leetch holds the franchise record for most points in the month of October, having registered 43 goals and 130 assists for 173 career points in the season's opening month.
-The Blueshirts' all-time leader for most career wins in the month of October is Mike Richter, who registered 40 career wins during the season's opening month. Henrik Lundqvist has recorded 33 career wins during the month of October.
-New York has posted two, seven-game winning streaks in the month of October, winning seven consecutive games during the season's opening month in 2009-10 (Oct. 3 vs. Ottawa to Oct. 17 at Toronto) and 1988-89 (Oct. 16 vs. Vancouver to Oct. 30 vs. Pittsburgh).
The Rangers are currently 16 wins shy of 2,500 wins, having won 2,484 games all-time in franchise history.
Brad Richards currently leads the team in scoring with three points, and enters the contest with a three-game scoring streak (one goal, two assists over the span). He has registered a point in each of his first three games as a Ranger to begin the season. In addition, Richards has also won 24-of-30 faceoff attempts for an NHL-leading 80.0% faceoff winning percentage.
-Brian Boyle: 8 games from 200th NHL career
-Steve Eminger: 9 points from 100th NHL career
-Brad Richards: 2 assists from 500th NHL career
-Wojtek Wolski: 6 games from 400th NHL career; 9 goals from 100th NHL career
-Tim Erixon: 1st career NHL game (10/7 at LAK)
-Brandon Prust: 200th career NHL game (10/15 at NYI)
-Mike Rupp: 500th career NHL game (10/15 at NYI)
-Marc Staal (concussion, IR on 10/5) – 3
-Wojtek Wolski (groin, 10/7) – 2
-Michael Sauer (shoulder, 10/8) – 1
Total Man-Games Lost: 6
-Oct. 15 – Recalled forward Kris Newbury from Connecticut (AHL)
-Oct. 15 – Assigned forward Mats Zuccarello to Connecticut (AHL)
-Oct. 16 – Recalled defenseman Brendan Bell from Connecticut (AHL)


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- Critters 1 - They Bite (1986)
- Critters 2 - The Main Course (1988)
- Critters 3 - You Are What They Eat (1991)
- Critters 4 - In Space...They Love To Hear You Scream (1991)
|Critters 1 - They Bite (1986)
|Review: While the `B' movie horror flick typically bore and enrage me, this proved to be one of those rare exceptions. I must have watched this movie six times, and every time, I was freaked out by the little critters who couldn't appease their undying need for sustenance. This was quite a cool film to watch, especially when the creatures are finally killed off (which you will have experience for yourself). This is my idea of good mindless fun, which is exactly what I expected from this film.
|Critters 2 - The Main Course (1988)
|Review: Two years has passed... Brad Brown (Scott Grimes) is trying to move on by visiting his grand-mother (Herta Ware) for the easter holiday. The Bounty Hunters (Don Opper and Terrence Mann) are traveling back to Earth. Because the Critters were not completed destroyed. The Alien Eggs were not destroyed. Since Easter is coming, a small town somewhere in Kansas will discover that the Easter Holiday isn't everything.
|Critters 3 - You Are What They Eat (1991)
|Review: "Critters 3," like many other horror films of the time, is awesome. Everything is there for all to enjoy. The ability to get scared is so much fun; the fear of having critters in your house is so much fun; the suspense of this happening is so much fun; all in all, watching this movie is so much fun! Let me tell you that! As always, I like to mention what to watch and what not to watch on Halloween night. "Critters 3" is one movie that needs to be at the top of your horror movie must-see list. A full 10 out of 10 stars! Enjoy it, have fun, and best of all, have fun being scared!
|Critters 4 - In Space...They Love To Hear You Scream (1991)
|Review: The fourth entry in the critters smash-hit series, this one taking place on a ALIEN-esque space ship. This film also sports some good effects (Courtesy of the Chiodo Brothers) and competent direction. If you are a sci-fi fan with about a hour-and-a-half to spend, give this film a try. 3 stars out of 5.
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Kid or not, these super heroes (and some villains) are 100% committed to their personas.
Being 3 feet tall won't stop Thor from raising to the skies to invoke the strength of lightning. Magneto will go inside when his mother calls him for dinner, but not until he rips the swings off their chains. Even Wolverine's tree-branch claws don't get in the way of his feisty battles and brute attitude.
Don't let their cuteness mislead you. They've got just as much passion as if they were fully grown, adult super heroes. Click through the gallery for a few other selects, and be sure to expand to get the full effect.
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The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and local police have issued a missing person report for 17-year-old Richard Daniels , who was reported missing in on Saturday, Aug. 5.
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Todd Anderson lived a life most people would want, right up until the moment he didn't.
The Director of Instruction at Sea Island, Anderson went to work every morning at one of the grandest resorts on the east coast, coaching the likes to Brandt Snedeker with an ocean breeze at his back. His peers had already awarded him with their highest honor, naming him the 2010 PGA National Teacher of the Year, and his lesson book was as full or as empty as he wanted. For a natural-born teacher and lover of the game, things couldn't get much better.
Then reality happened, a phone call every parent dreads and news no compassionate human being ever wants to hear.
On Friday morning, September 7, 2012, just three days after Todd's star student, Snedeker, was selected by Captain Davis Love III for the U.S. Ryder Cup Team, first-semester freshman and scholarship golfer Tucker Anderson, 19, lost control of his Chevrolet Tahoe on his way back to his dorm room at the University of West Florida. The vehicle struck a tree. It was bad. Fifteen years ago, Tucker wouldn't have survived. A decade ago, his injuries would have been so severe that he would have never walked or spoken or enjoyed of the normal functions of life again.
For Todd and Stacey Anderson, the words "traumatic head and neck injuries" hit like body blows. But at least Tucker was alive. And in life, there is always hope.
None of the Andersons had ever heard of the "miracle hour" before Tucker's accident. It's a term used by emergency medical personnel, one you won't find in any med-school text books, but one every doctor, nurse and EMT understands. When traumatic head and neck injuries occur, there is a one-hour window in which emergency surgery can stem the downward cascade, save a patient's life and give him a fighting chance at recovery.
Thankfully, Pensacola's emergency medical heroes got Tucker into surgery within that miracle hour. A blood clot was removed from his brain and his spine was stabilized. He suffered from several fractured vertebrae and a broken right eye socket. While he remained in a medically induced responsive coma for weeks afterward and was transported to the Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta, the first hour was the most precious, and the one in which Tucker's life was saved.
Meanwhile, word spread through the tight-knit Sea Island community. Support poured forth. From making the right phone calls to providing private air transportation to helping out financially, the Andersons were showered with blessings from close friends, total strangers and everyone in between. As devastating as the news was, the help and love they received was equally overwhelming.
Tucker not only survived, he thrived. He is back home on Sea Island, working on the range with his father and striving everyday to get back to as normal a life as possible.
Now, the Andersons are hoping to raise money and awareness for others who suffer from traumatic injuries. They have formed the TA4Life Foundation, a non-profit devoted to helping families of victims of traumatic head and neck injuries.
On May 4, the foundation is putting on something they call the Miracle Hour, an initiative involving PGA of America professionals nationwide.
Todd, Stacey and Tucker ask that golfers around the country take a one-hour lesson that day from a local PGA professional, and that the fees from that lesson be donated to the TA4Life Foundation.
Butch Harmon, Sean Foley, Mike Bender and many others have already committed. Others are signing on every day.
Then on May 6, Sea Island Resort is hosting a pro-am for the foundation that will include Snedeker, Love, Lucas Glover, Jonathan Byrd, Matt Kuchar, and several other tour pros. They hope to field a full slate of professionals and amateurs to raise money and awareness for this worthy cause.
Tucker Anderson is a living miracle. Through the help of PGA of America professionals, he hopes to help others recover as he has.
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Chuck Jorgensen, Chief Scientist for the Neuro Engineering Lab at NASA Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, CA, currently studies biolelectrical interfacing and the detection of human emotion and visualization. His research in subvocal speech was a 2006 finalist for the Saatchi & Saatchi international prize for world-changing ideas.
NASA Tech Briefs: What are some of the applications for bioelectrical interfacing?
Chuck Jorgensen: If you put someone in a constrained suit, like a space suit or a firefighter or hazmat suit, the pressurization that's occurring from the breathing apparatus, as well as the limitations on finger movement in a pressurized suit, make doing tasks like typing or small joystick control very difficult to do, or actually dealing with, say, an external robotics device that you might want to control with this system.
We began to ask several questions: Could we intercept the neurological signals prior to actually initiating a full movement and utilize those signals in ways that would send command to devices? The first work that we did was to take a look at the electromyographical signals, the surface measurement of muscle innervation that's occurring down an arm like when you clench your fist. The electrical signals cause the muscles to contract; there's basically an electrical signal activity that can be picked up with external sensors, and the magnitude of those and the timing of those and how they behave can be intercepted, recorded, and turned into patterns that can be sent to a machine.
What we looked at first was: Could we intercept those neural commands without requiring something like a pilot's joystick for an airplane? The general idea would be you reach into the air, you grab an imaginary joystick, and you would fly a plane simply by clenching your fist and moving your wrist in different directions, as though you were magically touching real hardware. We demonstrated it to Administrator Bolden a number of years ago by landing a full Class-4 simulator at San Francisco's airport by actually reaching in the air and flying the plane.
The next question that arose then was: If we could handle those fairly coarse muscle commands for something like grabbing a joystick, could we move it further? So the question then became: Can we intercept these electromyographic signals and type without a keyboard? We demonstrated that we could use a numeric keyboard by picking up the commands of individual fingers -- picking the information up actually off the outside of the arm, the electromyographic signals on the arm, before they got to the hand. That was important because in certain kinds of tasks you might want to have gloves on, or the hand might impact a surface built for an astronaut or something, say, in a combat situation where the hand would take impact. So we wanted to pick up the signals before they got to the hand.
That finally led to subvocal speech. If we can get signals that tiny on the arm, what about the tiny signals that are sent to the tongue and the larynx and the voice box? The implication being that we might able to understand what somebody is going to say even if they didn't say it out loud.
We started developing a technology that let us have a person only move the mouth or simulate the articulation of words without making any audible sound at all, and pick that speech up. We demonstrated it in a pressurized firesuit. We demonstrated it in pressurized underwater diving equipment. These are both environments that would be analogous to a space suit where you have a lot of aspirator hits, or you have a background noise.
One of the big interests in subvocal speech was not only the ability to communicate silently, but also to communicate in the presence of extreme noise. An example of that would be someone at an airport near a large jet engine, where normally you wouldn't be able to talk on a cell phone or communicator. You'd pick it up either auditorily as with a traditional microphone, but if that was overwhelmed with a sudden noise, you'd be able to pick it up through the actuation of the subvocal signals.


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In recent days unusual "storm cells", which are characterized by heavy downpours and electrical activity, have developed in different areas of Norway, far beyond the Arctic Circle, at latitudes very unusual for convective activity. The storms would have developed as a result of the contribution of air masses rather warm, sub-tropical origins of old continental towards the territories of Scandinavia and Lapland. The warmer air coming from south, after crossing the Scandinavian peninsula, immediately interacted with the air masses much more moist and fresh from the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea, pushed towards the Norwegian coast from Icelandic depression, its south-eastern edge. The confluence between the different air masses flocked over the Arctic Circle, has produced thermal contrasts really significant for the high latitude, which have accentuated the outbreak of convection (updrafts) that originated on the temporal Norway Northern Hemisphere. This past Tuesday, June 25th a thunderstorm, characterized by rain, thunder and lightning, hit well as the beautiful city of Tromso, the most important and well-known town in northern Norway.
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Inspiring Redesigned Interiors Of A Gramercy Park Townhouse
The Isaly Residence is a stunning home designed for the Isaly family in a 1848 Gramercy Park townhouse in New York City. Turning a large triplex into two separate dwellings proved to be a challenge and the renovation involved replacing the old steel frame, as well as the electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems. By adding a 620 square feet penthouse on top, the building was split into two apartments of equal value. The open floor upper part was to become a beautiful showcase home inhabited by the Isalys. Fractal Construction collaborated with light designer Ingo Maurer and sculptor Emilio Garcia to create an up-to-date residence described by the constructors as follows: "The walls and ceilings of the living and kitchen area are punctuated with the sensuous sculptures and exploding light fixtures of Garcia and Maurer.
The bricks-and-mortar rear wall of the two main floors has vanished, replaced by a glass curtain fitted with tiny diodes, invisible by day but glinting at night like a private constellation. The outdoor terrace leading from the living room has a glass floor and overlooks the private gardens below. With every available patch of roof converted into usable space, the house boasts two more terraces as well as a roof deck." Sheltering an open space where the living room, kitchen and dining space merge, the social spaces of the upper apartment fascinate with exquisite details, while the TV room, office space, three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms compose a collection of relaxing private rooms. Finished with a sparkling powered glass wall, glass terrace and a large skylight in the backside, the Isaly Residence emerged from the hand of the constructors as an inspiring residential redesign.


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- 3666 Moggill Rd, Moggill, QLD 4070
Horse Riding Activities for Kids - the Brisbane Region
Best match results for horse riding activities for kids in the Brisbane Region + 30km.
Lessons available for riders of all ages & abilities on our school horses or your horse. Fully lit, indoor 60m x 20m arena as well as indoor and outdoor roundyards. Outdoor cross country course. Trail rides, birthday parties and day camps also available.
Established in 1991, Wattle Creek has developed it's horse riding programs for over 25 years. Wattle Creek provides horse riding lessons for Children & Adults on well trained horses with educated Coaches at Brisbane's most centrally located Equestrian Centre. Beginner to Experienced. Our Lessons The Regular Lessons for Adults and Children run throughout the year and vary in nature to suit individual rider's age and experience level. We specialise in one on one lessons, we have a Confidence ... Read more Booster course for people who love but sometimes fear horses, and the Hoofbeats Program is specifically designed for children aged 5-11 and the EA Term Program for riders aged 12 plus. Our Horses All our horses are people friendly. They will make sure that you have a safe ride, if you're an experienced rider they lift their level, if you are a beginner they keep you safe. At Wattle Creek Riding School we dedicate our lives to our relationships with our horses. Our Coaches We have more ...
Christmas Festival
Dates: from 30 Nov -1 to 30 Nov -1
Our Christmas Festival is on the 5th December - keep this date free and register now to win! Program of Events 8.00 - 9.30 Gymkahana Events ( Sporty games on horses) 9.45 - 10.15 Mother & Daughter Pas de Deux 10.15 - 10.30 Young Rider Interview 10.30 - 11.15 A Christmas Pantomime with Horses! 11.30 - 12.15 A Show Jumping Display 12.15 - 12.30 Adult Rider Interview 12.30 - 1.15 Dressage Display 1.30 - 2.00 Grand Parade - All riders in the Arena Cafe 2U - Coffee, cold drinks & snacks available from 7.30 to 2.00pm Free Pony Rides Hug a Horse So get registering if you want to be in the draw to win!!!
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I absolutely love my lessons at Wattle Creek, I ride every week and would not miss my lesson for anything. The coaches are fantastic and take the time to really teach you all the important parts to riding. All the staff are friendly and helpful, the horses are just beautiful and such a pleasure to ride and learn on. I can't wait till my daughter is old enough to come and learn to ride with me at Wattle Creek. Thanks Wendy and Team. You really do an amazing job day in and day out!
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Dont let the facade fool you - this is not a good place. Not only do you get very little out of the lessons, especially those with the head coach, but the owner is hugely rude and disrespectful. This is a place that wants your money and they're very good at crafting lies in order to get it. The riding skills are very basic - they will teach you to go, stop, and balance but they will not teach you to move a horse from the leg or carry your posture correctly. In fact they will teach you a plethora of bad habits that will have to be untaught by another, or "picked up" later by them and corrected. If you want to waste your money then go here. If you want to learn good riding skills with good coaches then take your business somewhere else.
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Established in 1985 and situated in the foot hills of the D'Aguilar Range, Trevena Glen Farm is only 45mins NW of Brisbane's CBD. The family run farm provides a unique experience for everyone that is "hand on", enjoyable & educational. The farm currently has ducks, hens, guinea pigs, goats, donkey, pigs, cows and mini horses as well as a good old tractor wagon ride! In addition to the school & daycare visits we offer exciting birthday parties (for children aged 10 years and under), horse riding ... Read more lessons, a monthly 'Family Farm Open Day', daily feeding times (4-5pm) and farmstay accommodation caravaning/camping. On the first Saturday of each month, Trevena Glen offers a 'Family Farm Open Day. The cost is $10pp (family discounts available) and runs from 9 to 12pm. Come and join us for wagon rides, jumping castle, horse riding experiences and of course, meeting the animals! BBQ, coffee van and general drinks are available for purchase. For more information about Trevena ...
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"The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back." – Amber Senti Horses to me are not just a hobby they are my life and every day they prove to me they are worth it. I am a qualified EFA riding instructor and have 23 years riding experience, 11 years teaching experience and ride competitively at state level dressage. Over the years I have been exposed to horses of every breed, temperament and education ... Read more level and have not been able to find a horse I don't like and can't work with. I break in horses, reeducate and train horses and have been responsible for the training of horses to become schoolmasters at a riding school. As an instructor I feel that the most important aspects of riding a student can learn is confidence, independence and trust in the horse and their own ability so they can allow the horse to work in balance and self-carriage and willingly without interfering with their ...
We help horses with people problems. I train horses to respect there owners in a natural horsemanship way that they respond to . I am also a equine chiropractor .
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Thank you for visiting the Georgia Partnership for Ensuring Adolescent Comprehensive Heatlhcare Transition (GA PEACH-T) webpage for information on transitioning youth from pediatric to adult care. GA PEACH-T is a collaborative initiative of the Georgia Department of Public Health, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Regents University, Georgia Academy of Family Physicians, Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Parent to Parent of Georgia and other partners throughout the state.
To ensure successful transition from pediatric to adult health care for Georgia's youth with special health care needs.
All youth with special health care needs in Georgia successfully transition to adult health care, work and/or education and receive coordinated services within a medical home.
Overall Goals for the GA PEACH-T Initiative
- to improve the system of transition services for youth with special health care need and their families; and
- to provide opportunities to improve access for children and youth with special health care needs who receive coordinated, on-going, comprehensive care within a medical home.
In July 2012, the Georgia Department of Public Health was awarded the State Implementation Grants for System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. This three year project focuses on improving the system of transition services for youth with special health care needs in Georgia for independence to adult health care, work, and education through collaboration with families, partner agencies and providers and improving access to coordinated on-going comprehensive care within a medical home.
The Georgia Department of Public Health is partnering with youth and families, healthcare systems and providers, community agencies, universities, medical societies and other state agencies to build capacity across Georgia to:
- Develop guidance and tools that can be used by youth, families, education professionals, medical and service providers;
- Enhance capacity and leadership of youth and families to serve as advocates and mentor others;
- Incorporate/enhance health care transition activities into existing transition program planning across agencies;
- Establish health care transition standards.
According to the 2009-10 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs; only 41% of our Nation's youth successfully transition to adult care and in Georgia the rate is 37%. Health care professionals, youth and families each have essential roles to play in improving a youth or young adult's transition from pediatric to adult health care. Positive transitions begin when youth and families are prepared for change and when pediatricians and adult primary care professionals have access to tools and concrete methods to address barriers and improve care for youth and young adults. Health care transitions can be facilitated in a medical home. A medical home is a community-based primary care setting which provides and coordinates high quality, planned, family-centered health promotion, acute illness care, and chronic condition management - across the lifespan.
Projects and Activities
- Provide leadership training opportunities for youth with special needs to be mentors to other youth in transition across Georgia.
- Facilitate the replication of the Adolescent to Adult Sickle Cell Disease Transition Program, located at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta program model in area hospitals to provide transition planning and support services for pediatric chronic disease populations.
- Develop and make available guidance materials for families, public health workers, physicians and healthcare professionals on transitioning youth with special needs to adult health care.
- Provide trainings for youth, families, educators, and health care providers on topics such as preparing for higher education or vocational training, independent living, supported employment, recreation and leisure, and how to integrate health goals onto Individualized Education Programs.
- Coordinate youth and family participation in the transition planning and training process and disseminate information on transition, with focus on medical home, to individuals requiring services.
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Did you think of her? When you heard about Giving Tuesday, did you think of our Sweet Tuesday Fiona Whitt? Of course you did! That's why you're here, and now that you're here, we'd love to help you give.
Here is what Giving TUESDAY is all about:
#GivingTuesday is a campaign to create a national day of giving at the start of the holiday season. It celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support non-profit organizations.
Lovely. It truly is better to give than to receive.
And what better place to give on Giving Tuesday, than Miles for Tuesday. Go check out all the body moving goodness that is taking place to support the Wellness Center for the center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at The Children's Hospital Colorado. Make a donation, start a team, plan an event. All of the above. How are you going to log miles for Tuesday?
This giving Tuesday, I have a special request. It's not directly related to Childhood cancer, but is is directly related to my heart. This is my friend Jen and her little beauties. Jen was a huge support while Tuesday was in treatment and she and her kiddos are steadfast supporters of Childhood cancer families and organizations. She is a single mama. Now a homeless single mama, after Hurricane Sandy destroyed their home and most of their belongings.
Were you thankful for a roof over your head this Thanksgiving?
Yes? Then pay it forward this Giving Tuesday. Perfect.
Here is your chance to directly help a family impacted by Sandy.
*All donations to whatchagonnado between now and Dec. 31st will go to the Smith family. Donations to families fighting childhood cancer will resume on Jan. 1, 2013.
Alexandra the Great
I love the smirk. Girl, I feel the same way. Alexandra is preparing for a bone marrow transplant after relapsing with high risk A.L.L leukemia. She just fininshed up 2 and a half years of chemo, so this is a major bummer. Alexandra lives with her mom and brother in Colorado, but for the next few months she will be living in The BMT unit at Children's Hospital. This is as rough as it gets. No leaving. No outside. No visiters but immediate family. It will be hard work for this sweet little girl and hard work for her single mama, trying to juggle two kids in two different places. You can't even imagine, right? No.
We are going to cover their rent. As much of it as possible for as long as possible. We need you to give. As much as you can. Because, you can. Because even if it hurts a little, you can. Because even if it stretches you a little to give, you still get to tuck your child in to her own bed at night. If you've never donated before, please give. If you have, please give. It doesn't take much, it just takes many. Go click on the big red donate button.
All money goes directly to the families we support. Please help us help them.
To follow Alexandra's journey go to: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/princessjonte
Brave the Shave
Each year, 160,000 children are diagnosed with cancer worldwide. Cancer is the number one disease killer of children in the U.S. and Canada. Research saves lives.
The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
March 11th, Tuesday Whitt's brother, dad, uncle, Nano, cousin, and many friends are going bald to bring awareness and an end to childhood cancer. Please support Team Tuesday as they Brave the Shave! You can join the fun at Fado Irish Pub in Denver, starting at noon. Fair warning, it just might change your life.
We applaud St. Baldrick's for their commitment and dedication to finding a cure.
Donate in memory of your loved ones lost to cancer, or of course, in memory of our sweet Tuesday. Give now. Give big.
We are needing more brave shavees. To join Team Tuesday, go here.
When your child is diagnosed with cancer, you have little to no time to look in to your options. In almost every instance, your child jumps immediately in to the treatment plan laid out by COG, or Children's Oncology Group, that has become the latest standard of care for your kid's particular cancer. You hope and pray that this is the right choice for your kid, fully aware that you are not the expert. Sometimes, this is not the best path. Sometimes you as the parent, know that there are other, perhaps better alternative paths for your little patient. This is the path that Jenna's parents are taking with her.
Jenna was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma in April of 2008. She followed COG protocol frontline treatment; she still had active disease. She went for treatment at Sloan-Kettering in NYC, a leading center for Neuroblastoma; she still had active disease. They started alternative treatments with a Naturopathic doctor, and although she still has active disease, she has enjoyed many months of routine family life, running in the sun, playing piano, camping, and starting Kindergarten at home.
This past December, Jenna presented with a new "bump" on her head. It has been confirmed to be new growth neuroblastoma in the bone marrow of her skull, and so it's time to turn up the fight. Miraculously, Jenna continues to feel good and full of spunk. Currently, the family is increasing Jenna's alternative care with appointments in Phoenix, Albuquerque, and Durango. IV Vitamin C treatments have begun in Durango, along with many adjustments to her homeopathic and naturopathic medicines. One hundred percent of the cost of these appointments and treatments are paid by the family. One Hundred Percent.
We are honored to be able to help Jenna continue with her wonderful quality of life, while fighting back against this most evil disease. Every dollar counts. Every donation. Give what you can, and then give a little more.
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Guest: Thanking my son's other mother on Mother's Day
On Mother's Day, I will celebrate the other mother who made this day possible for my family, writes guest columnist Christina Darden Hjort.
Special to The Times
SUNDAY is my first Mother's Day — officially.
But honestly, every day has been Mother's Day since November 12.
That's the day our son came into the world.
My husband and I had been in San Francisco visiting friends when the call came.
Despite waiting four years for a domestic adoption, we were hardly prepared for the news on the other line:
"Get to Boise, now! Your son is being born today!"
Years of hoping, waiting, praying, wondering if this moment would ever happen, were forgotten in the second I held Samuel in my arms.
And since that day, my gratitude and wonder at this incredible gift have only grown.
Each morning, my joy is rekindled when Samuel greets me with his big dimpled smile. And when he falls asleep in my arms at night, his face pressed tightly to my chest, my heart swells with thankfulness.
So, yes, this Mother's Day will be a sweet celebration.
But it's been a long time in coming, and not without some scars.
Miscarriages, failed pregnancies and false starts left my husband and I weary. But so, too, did the tumultuous and often disappointing journey through adoption, as I chronicled in a Seattle Times guest column last year, "Happy Mother's Day, Jenna."
Still, my hope is that it has left me a bit more sensitive toward others for whom this particular day is salt in an already open wound. Although I'll be delighted to finally call myself "Mommy," I am acutely aware that somewhere in Idaho is a young woman I fear will be hurting Sunday — reminded once again of all the "might have beens" and aching for the beautiful boy I hold in my arms and now call my own.
Separated from her father by prison, and her mother by drugs, it seems Britt didn't get a very fair shot in life. So when she found herself pregnant at 18, she was faced with a difficult decision. In the end, she made what I consider to be the bravest and most selfless of choices: She chose for her son — our son — a different life than the one she'd known, one with parents to bathe him with kisses, comfort him up when he falls, surround him with love and encouragement, and just simply be there, forever.
These days, most adoptions are varying degrees of an open relationship between the biological mom and the adoptive parents. But while Britt chose us to adopt her child, she elected not to meet us, talk to us by phone or even hold her child after he was born. It was her way of coping.
And who am I to judge? She did the best she could to deal with the situation, having little support and no mother of her own to comfort or hold her.
I think about her often. I wonder how she is, and if she thinks much about Samuel.
I hope she's at peace with her decision, and feels content in knowing he is not just cared for, but treasured. Not just growing, but thriving. Not just loved, but absolutely adored.
I am so very grateful.
Life without this happy, sweet child seems impossible to imagine. But I also know he came to us at a high cost. Because our greatest gain was her greatest loss.
I will never forget that, and it's what I will tell Samuel when he is old enough to understand.
How the selfless act of this young woman I didn't know, made us all the family we always longed to be.
There is truth in the saying that mothers are made, not born.
But every time I look at this precious boy Sunday, I will also be celebrating the other mother who made Mother's Day possible for my family.
Thank you Britt.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
Thank you for the beautiful child now sleeping soundly beside me.
And thank you for making Sunday, and every day, Mother's Day.
Christina Darden Hjort is an award-winning TV and radio producer, now living in Seattle.