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Police Officer Fired Over Questionable Confrontation, Would Have Gone Unnoticed Without YouTube Video
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But, as we've seen over and over again, filming police is one of the few ways to prove abuse of police power. Back in the summer of 2007, a police officer named Salvatore Rivieri in Baltimore decided to use his position to harass some skateboarding kids in Baltimore's Inner Harbor area. As part of his harassment, he took one kid's skateboard after throwing him to the ground and screaming at him. The whole thing was videotaped by another kid... and it was uploaded to YouTube a few months later:
At the very end, you hear the officer starting to ask if he's being filmed -- and notes "if I find myself on...." Given his earlier harangue, it sure sounds like he's about to warn the other kids about putting the video online, though we don't know exactly what was said. Either way, the video went online (eventually, months after the incident) and it got quite a lot of attention.
As a result of the massive publicity storm from the video going up online, Rivieri was suspended (with pay) a few days after the video went up in early 2008. More than two years later, a disciplinary panel cleared Rivieri of the most serious charges ("using excessive and unnecessary force" and "uttering discourtesies") but guilty of failing to file a report about the incident or provide the kid with a "contact receipt." The board recommended a short suspension. Instead, the police commissioner fired Rivieri, arguing that "his ability to interact effectively with the citizens of Baltimore has been seriously compromised."
Last week, a Maryland state appeals court upheld the firing (pdf and embedded below -- thanks to Eric Goldman for alerting us to the story), agreeing that the commissioner had the right to fire Rivieri.
What's most interesting in all of this, however, is that none of this would have happened if the incident hadn't been filmed and subsequently posted online. In fact, absolutely nothing did happen for many months until the video was posted online. Rather than causing problems, this video seems to have done exactly what many defenders of filming police have said all along: helped to display and call attention to abuse of power by the police, in a way that not only punishes those who did the abuse, but also which will alert other law enforcement officials to obey the limits of their profession. Judge Posner may regret that police can be filmed, but it certainly seems like a good way to keep police from engaging in the kind of harassment that they have been able to get away with for years.


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How I spent my Thanksgiving holiday by John Trippe. Grade 4. Miss Jewel's class. 4th Floor. Dept. C
First said goodbye to my cat Poo
Went to visit our sailing mentor Russell and gave him a pumpkin pie.
Drove for a few hours to the foothills near Yosmite and began working turkey time.
Just wednesday night and Irving's down.
Lindsey and Abbey
Thanksgiving morning. These were needed.
Shot Tim all weekend.
Somehow we got better with the more we drank and were shooting cans out of peoples' hands and off heads.
For all that preperation for one meal, we probably only sat there for like 15 minutes before we were up smoking and shooting the gun again and pouring vodka drinks.
dance party
What day is it now?
The poor lungs and livers.
Moaning Cavern holds the largest vertical chamber in a public cavern that you can see in California. In fact, it's so big, it could hold the entire Statue of Liberty.
I've done this before and didn't want to do it again. The tight spaces are too much to bear. Irving took the camera from here. I waited outside with the big tropical bird they had in a massive cage.
Jesse and Tim Rappelled down the thing. At one point your hanging like 400 feet off the ground.
Jesse doing the dew.
Fuck that.
Tim also did the dew.
That staircase was designed by the guy who designed the Golden Gate Bridge... speaking of which.
The Sportsman bar/ gun shop... yep, grab a beer and pick out a rifle, handgun or knife.
And some of us ended up with Poison Oak which is a real treat. Fucking sucks. I haven't selpt too much in the last few nights.
Mmmmmmm, my side looks tasty.
But tim got it the worst. Ouch... Tim, you think it was from the bow and arrow made from a poison oak branch or something?
And home again with Poo safe and sound in bed.
Best Thanksgiving ever... Well, minus the Poison Oak. Thanks to Jessica's parents Cynthia and Jack for letting us use their place for the extended weekend. We made it dirty and then cleaned it up real good!
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Beyond Disney World: Five Family Getaways
Multigenerational travel is one of the biggest trends in the travel industry, according to a recent survey by the Preferred Hotel Group, a consortium of 650 independent hotels and resorts. MarketWatch's Rex Crum looks at five top family getaways. (Photo: Getty Images)
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I ... the ... summer's here which means it's vacation time in more more people are thinking about larger family vacations in which you might see the grandparents parents and the kids along ... I'm Rex Crum for MarketWatch and we surveyed some travel industry officials ... to go what to wear some of the popular places for family vacations the States ... when you have kids a popular vacation spot to be this good land to sea world the were looking at things other than that ... among the top ones of this to me are two pillars the Alaska cruise the weather's just right to go up there through the inside passage ... hitting on things like chenille unfair Benson some of them even go inland and you can get off the boat and go up to its liking for its ... role care Beaven Holland America are some of the popular cruise lines ... with us here starting about six hundred to seven hundred dollars per person ... now almost as far away from Alaska's you can get is Africa the popular African safari love people dream about going to Africa see things like ... elephants and lions Avandia have attacked ... the ticket for knitting can stand the flight which lasted about nineteen hours from New York ... it can be a very popular and fun to fully memorable way for families to give the kitchen together the safaris are cheap and airfare can also add as much a thousand dollars or even more typically has a cost of going over there ... but it would definitely let some of the recency salt line while fell on the east coast of the U S in particular a popular place to go is the outer banks of North Carolina these are some of the ... areas along the Atlantic coast of North Carolina ... others that comfort you are called Docs as recommended where it says has about five hundred year round residents ... but in one of the popular ways to go about it is like this is to win a large ... beach front home which can run about three thousand dollars a week but it turns out the pre economical if you have a large family there any can spread the cost ... going into the southern hemisphere at this time might be a suggestion because it's fall and winter there now but this little cooler ... and Argentina as a popular destination ... city plan series is often called the Paris of South America ... although a fourteen day trek for content and writing about fifty five hundred dollars per person and salsa but it's had a twelve hour flight from the U S get down ... what is there is the Paris of South America will Paris's the Paris of welfare it's probably the most popular destination for NetApp the case in the world ... sixty percent people who are considering ... a multi generational family vacation what is going to Europe and pears tops the list of all vacation spots ... I'd I keep costs and mine cost about twenty five hundred dollars per person ... you know when you factor in airfare ...


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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Yo Invito" This episode covers phrases used when ordering food in a restaurant.G
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Biography of America, A "Tr and Wilson" Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- the Warrior and the Minister -- in the first decades of the twentieth century. Professor Miller discusses American socialism, Eugene Debs, international communism, and the roots of the Cold War with Professor Brinkley. D
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SciGirls "Pedal Power" Best friends Angela, Olivia, Margaret and Rebecca don welding masks and rev up power tools to engineer an ice cream-maker that's powered by their bikes. D
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Biz Kid$ "How to Succeed In Biz-Ness By Really Trying!" A business can be anything from babysitting to owning vending machines. You'll discover the three key steps to success: identifying a need, making a plan to fill a need, and taking action. Join us as we meet the prep school boy whose new take on the old school tie caused a sensation. D
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The Electric Company "The Unmuffins" Something funny is going on. The Pranksters are being very helpful and The Electric Company is being awfully unfriendly. Will Jessica be able to fix things so everyone is back to normal?. D
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Cyberchase "Less Than Zero" The Leaders of Cyberspace have gathered to discuss Hacker's increasing influence, when they are suddenly interrupted by Hacker. Buzz and Delete, Hacker's henchmen, hide the leaders including Dr. Marbles, in the building and its' up to the kids to rescue them. Before long, the kids discover that they can only move between the building's levels by scaling its outside walls! So the kids turn the building into a giant ruler in order to keep track of the floors. D
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Quilting Arts "Make It Work!" How do you make your quilting work? What determines if all of the elements come together in a harmonious way? This episode looks at some of the ways to have a finished project where all of the "pieces" come together! First, Helen Gregory shares a patchwork computer bag-it's the choice of fabric that makes this project work. Next, Deborah Boschert offers a lesson on combining a linear background composition with organic shapes in stitch or paint-two very different elements that "work". Finally, Ana Buzzalino provides another machine stitching lesson: how to make perfect free-motion feathers. D
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Best of the Joy of Painting "Fisherman's Paradise" In the golden glow of sunrise, join Bob Ross for a uniquely framed look at early morn on the water. D
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Hometime "Island Kitchen 2.0: Cabinets" The HOMETIME crew's update of an island kitchen with new cabinets includes visits with the designer and the manufacturer. D
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|Carefully evaluating the 2012 Pinot Noir
Where is your vineyard? I don't have one, but I work closely with growers. Where is your winery? I don't have one, but essentially rent space in a shared facility. I thought you said you were a winery, how's that? A winery is a business, and a winery is a facility. I have a winery business but rent space in someone else's winery facility. Blah, blah, blah.
Some questions can annoy, even if they shouldn't. When do you put the pepper into the wine to get this peppery flavor? I taste blueberries - when you put those in? I practice being patient and friendly in these situations. People just don't know much about something I'm totally obsessive and geeky. Doesn't make it easier though.
And there are questions that I never thought I'd get (I'd heard about the added flavor questions from friends). The one that I think about the most? When. When is it time to bottle the wine? And how do you know when it's time?
Good questions. Some things you just know. One, that something is good. Two, that it will go into bottle as a particular cuvee. Three, that there are no deadlines in winemaking, but there are reasonable conclusions we can make about what and when certain things should happen.
When is a wine ready? When it's ready. That is, when it's done with its chemical changes through two fermentation processes, when it's fallen clear (or mostly clear anyway), and that it's ready to begin consuming or begin its continuing maturation in a glass bottle, or both. In short, when the particulars are established about the quality, stability and clarity about a wine, it's at least close to time.
For me, wines go to bottle after about a year of maturing, after careful evaluation of each barrel. Over time I'd like to experiment with holding some wines in cask longer. For now, I know this - the time is close. And I'm very excited.


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Malcolm and Martin Smith recognized in Sports Illustrated
Malcolm and Martin Smith, Lipscomb basketball signees and twin forwards from Clarksville Academy, were recognized in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" in the March 14 issue. Sports Illustrated chooses athletes whose "athletic feats have vaulted them above unsung masses".
The Smith twins will be freshmen on the 2011-12 Bisons basketball team. Both were named TSSAA Mr. Basketball finalists and were McDonald's All-American nominees.


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Earlier this December the Christmas spirit hit Performance Bicycle HQ like a red hartebeest hitting a mountain biker. 17 Performance employees and 8 of their friends with the Carolina Tarwheels, our local cycling club, met at the Performance warehouse with workstands and tool boxes in hand.
Among our group were Senior VP's and interns, skilled mechanics and copy writers, warehouse logisticians and graphic artists. In front of us were 69 bikes still in their boxes. The task: build these bikes for needy kids in the Chapel Hill, NC area.
Five hours and many laughs, many slices of pizza and many, many bad jokes later, 69 shiny new bikes were waiting for new owners. The kids will be happy but the builders take home a more profound gift, the gift of helping others.
Our thanks to the Tarwheels for letting us here at Performance Bicycle HQ be a part of this holiday tradition!


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The mission of Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Newport News, Virginia is to keep, practice, and proclaim the Orthodox Christian Faith. The work and ministry of our Parish will include proclaiming the Gospel, sanctifying the faithful through God's grace in worship, the Divine Liturgy and the Sacraments, and enhancing their spiritual life. We will fulfill the great commission of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by inviting others into the Church through Baptism and/or Chrismation, educating them in the Orthodox Faith through the establishment of programs, schools and philanthropic activities, and implementing Christian ministries.
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The 10 Most Lovable Movie Monsters of All Time
This past Friday marked the theatrical release of Frankenweenie, Tim Burton's full-length animated adaptation of his 1984 live-action short of the same name (which he was fired from Disney for making). We loved the original (we're pretty sure we wore that VHS tape right out), so we've always had a soft spot for Sparky that hasn't been the least bit dampened by his, ahem, reanimation. As a side effect (there are always side effects for these kinds of things), the film's release has had us meditating on some other cute monsters from cinema, so we've put together a list of the most lovable movie monsters of all time — according to us, of course. Click through to saw "aww" at some adorably grotesque faces, and if we've missed your favorite, be sure to add to our list in the comments!
Sparky in Frankenweenie
If you had a dog as adorable as Sparky, you'd want to resurrect him too. Well, probably every kid whose dog, regardless of cuteness, gets hit by a car wants to resurrect him, but not everyone is as resourceful (or fictional) as Victor. Unlike the original Frankenstein's monster, there's no bitterness and revenge against humanity — just a series of hijinks, terrified neighbors, and a pretty adorable love story with a familiar-looking poodle. Aww.


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#1 Anti-American Website (He still lives with Mom)06-06-2008, 05:41 PM
Muslim Extremist's Web Site Stirs Mixed Emotions in Charlotte, N.C.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. In a quiet, upscale neighborhood in Charlotte, N.C., rows of custom-style homes and neatly landscaped lawns represent the American dream.
But one local resident has shattered that image, calling for the death of American troops in Iraq and supporting Al Qaeda through his Web site, which he reportedly runs from his parents' home.
Samir Khan is the man behind Revolution.Muslimpad.com a radical Islamic site that praises Usama bin Laden and asks for Allah to curse more American soldiers.
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I'm sure that DU has a link to that website. This guy has lots in common with them except he probably isn't smoking pot in his parents basement.
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Of course this takes place in NC. :D
on edit: And this is one of the few areas I wish they'd limit freedom of speech.
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How can you live in such a good place, with such a good quality of life, and support people like that on the other side of the world?
What I find laughable and ironic is that he wouldn't be able to hold conflicting views with Sharia Law, he'd be dead, that goes for neo-nazis and neo-communists, deluded idiots.
Neighbors described Khan who immigrated to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia when he was 7 years old as friendly and reserved. They said he launched his Web site while taking classes at Central Piedmont Community College and selling Cutco knives.
Abdullah Mahmud, an acquaintance of Khans who attends the same mosque, the Islamic Center of Greater Charlotte, defended Khan's viewpoints, saying his anger stems from the United States' foreign policy and occupation of Iraq.
Mahmoud said the blood-drenched videos Khan shows of U.S. soldiers injured in combat serve the purpose of making the reality of the Iraqi scene visible to people.
Those videos are not much different than videos involving American soldiers targeting Iraqi civilians, he said. You have to look at both sides here.
One of Khans neighbors, Ron Williams, also defended Khans right to free speech.
Our actions (in Iraq) were interpreted broadly in the Muslim world as an attack on Islam, Williams said, I defend his right to speak out.
- Take the knives away from Khan.
- Deport him back to Saudi Arabia, along with his family.
- Shut down the Islamic Center of Greater Charlotte, detain the staff and begin investigating everyone who goes there for terrorist ties, test them for explosive residue and go through the finances of the mosque with a fine-toothed comb. Start with Abdullah Mahmud.
- Free one Gitmo inmate pending his terrorism trial and have him stay with Ron Williams and his family for a while.
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Texas Comptroller Susan Combs on local and state government transparency. Photo: Texas Transparency
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... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the resin of Stockton California or Central Falls Rhode Island ... you can probably turn off your viewer right now because what we're about to talk about probably can help you ... because you're bankrupt but for everyone else Texas Comptroller Susan Combs is here ... to talk about not taxpayers can make sure that their money is being well spent ... by their local politicians ... this isn't ... so easy question how ... well I mean it's not easy question how the simple is it ... for taxpayers to find out what their school board is doing with their money or their city for their state it extraordinarily hard and that was and a surprise this ... work for you to find out who's taxi New ... alot that day is that you already own for e voting in Samoa with a pension funds are in with the open Records Act of Texas ... people don't want to respond I was surprised how hard it was ok what what prompted the Texas it's your money campaign ... um I got to thinking about the number sixteen trillion down which is the Number wheel it that baffled about with the federal government up on ok if the feds are doing this week the state local local L ... a to let people be empowered to me know ... how to handle their fiscal future and we got to look at forty town hall summits one simple question ... when you go to the voting that the volume or did you have a clue ... how much you are neo ... con man or woman hundreds of people say we have no idea the thought that this quarter ... it's the summer the ultimate non consumer protection ... and so we launched this as a foreign reports on taxes if your mind out on can we hope to empower people to take back the government not use the code of ... wasteful spending did you find in a couple of weeks ... um ... well still doesn't comment on the whole for tots I call it a ... little ... little kids I'm told so for a four year old to have the forty thousand dollars ... per student ... at preschool and often versus an average of about eighty five bucks a k a square foot ... versus two hundred day you see ... the skills they need to ninety c court houses built along wrongly high skills ... and all that money is not ... visible to the Tax voting get you get scolded thick or the city the county a blank check and they say trust us well not apparently in Texas anymore Texas Comptroller Susan Combs thank you so much ... for being with us ... that's it for opinion Journal today I'm Mary Kissel with a Wall Street Journal editorial board ... you can follow us on Twitter on line and wherever newspapers are still sold ...


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The Hannibalians who make the Mark Twain Chorale Christmas concert an annual event had an extra treat on Saturday, Dec. 15, when they attended "A Miracle of Christmas."
The Hannibalians who make the Mark Twain Chorale Christmas concert an annual event had an extra treat on Saturday, Dec. 15, when they attended "A Miracle of Christmas."
Not only did the chorale have a symphony from Poland accompanying a portion of its concert, the second act was a children's Christmas opera presented by The Messiah Project. This was "Amahl and the Night Visitors."
Serving as emcee, Pastor David Scott of Arch United Methodist Church first introduced the Forum Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra from Krakow, Poland. The orchestra had been playing Christmas carols, such as "O Come All Ye Faithful," while the audience was being seated in Parker Theatre at the Roland Fine Arts Center at Hannibal-LaGrange University.
Pastor Scott announced the concert would later be broadcast at 5 p.m. Christmas Eve on KHMO Radio.
Scott was pleased to report that his wife, Lori Scott, was director of the chorale. The piano accompanist was Bonnie Campbell, with Leslie McCoy also serving as pianist.
Instrumentalists with the chorale were John Ferguson, Louisa Foreman, Linda St. Juliana and Frank North.
The concert-opening number, "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," was presented a cappella by the chorale.
Later the chorale combined two popular Christmas songs, "White Christmas" and "Happy Holidays," then did a rollicking rendition of "Deck the Halls" incorporating "Fa La La" into other familiar tunes.
At the conclusion of the chorale's eight songs, the director introduced the orchestra from Poland, then she directed the combined chorale and orchestra for the highlight of the evening. This was three selections from Handel's "Messiah."
Pastor Scott had instructed the audience that no applause is proper until all the parts of "The Messiah" have been sung, and for the final Hallelujah chorus the audience is to stand.
This was a moving moment, and was followed by a lengthy applause from the audience.
Following intermission The Messiah Project of Springfield, Mo., presented a one-act children's opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors."
As he announced the opera, Pastor Scott explained that in the story "we see the miracle of Christmas through the eyes of a child."
The setting is a Jewish home Amahl, a crippled boy, shares with his impoverished mother. He sings about seeing a star shining like crystal. His mother does not believe him.
When four kings arrive at their home late that night - on their journey to find the newborn king - Amahl is very excited but cannot convince his mother there are kings at the door. This was an amusing part of the opera.
Amahl asks one "are you really a king?" When told yes, he asks if the king has royal blood, then asks to see it.
A group of local people arrive with food - as requested by Amahl's mother - to feed the kings, and this part of the play includes a performance by some young dancers.
The kings explained they were taking gifts to the newborn king. When Amahl learns this, he gives them his crutch for the baby, although he cannot walk without it. Then a miracle occurs.
All the dialogue is presented in song. As Amahl, Silas Brown exhibited an amazing voice for a 9-year-old.
After the performance, Silas' mother explained that he is home-schooled and takes voice lessons. And Silas plans to continue with his music.
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Alpha radiation treats prostate cancers
A trial of a new cancer drug, which accurately targets tumours, has been so successful it has been stopped early.
Doctors at London's Royal Marsden Hospital gave prostate cancer patients a powerful alpha radiation drug and found that they lived longer, and experienced less pain and side effects.
The medics then stopped the trial of 922 people, saying it was unethical not to offer all of them the treatment.
Lead researcher Dr Chris Parker said it was "a significant step forward".
Cancer Research UK said it was a very important and promising discovery.
Radiation has been used to treat tumours for more than a century. It damages the genetic code inside cancerous cells.
Alpha particles are the big, bulky, bruisers of the radiation world. It is a barrage of helium nuclei, which are far bigger than beta radiation, a stream of electrons, or gamma waves.
Dr Parker told the BBC: "It's more damaging. It takes one, two, three hits to kill a cancer cell compared with thousands of hits for beta particles."
Alpha particles also do less damage to surrounding tissue. He added: "They have such a tiny range, a few millionths of a metre. So we can be sure that the damage is being done where it should be."
Prostate cancer
- Each year in the UK about 36,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer; about 10,000 die from it
- In most cases, it is a slow-growing cancer and may never cause any symptoms or problems.
- Some men will have a fast growing cancer that needs treatment
- Worldwide, an estimated 913,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008, and more than two-thirds of cases are diagnosed in developed countries
In 90% of patients with advanced prostate cancer, the tumour will have spread to the bone. At this stage there are no treatments which affect survival.
The study looked at patients with these secondary cancers, as the source of radiation - radium-223 chloride - acts like calcium and sticks to bone.
Half were given the radium-223 chloride drug alongside traditional chemotherapy, while the other patients received chemotherapy and a dummy pill.
The death rate was 30% lower in the group taking radium-223. Those patients survived for 14 months on average compared to 11 months in the dummy group.
The trial was abandoned as "it would have been unethical not to offer the active treatment to those taking placebo", said Dr Parker.
He added: "I think it will be a significant step forward for cancer patients".
Researchers also said the treatment was safe. Curiously there were fewer side-effects in the group taking the treatment than those taking the dummy medicine.
The findings are being presented at the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress but they have not yet been peer-reviewed by other academics.
Prof Gillies McKenna, Cancer Research UK's radiotherapy expert and director of the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, said: "This appears to be an important study using a highly targeted form of radiation to treat prostate cancer that has spread to the bones.
"This research looks very promising and could be an important addition to approaches available to treat secondary tumours - and should be investigated further."


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The timing was perfect: 3M sent samples of its Scotch Blue painter's tape and I had a whole basement worth of trim that needed painting, so why not try out a bunch of different tapes to see how they compare?
The results were not what I expected. While all the tapes performed well in a control test on a freshly painted piece of drywall, when I applied them to my basement walls and painted the trim next to them, none was perfect, and almost all pulled paint off the wall.
Here's how they rated, from best to worst. All prices are for 24-millimetre by 55metre rolls.
Painter's Mate Green
Claims: For all paints and most lacquers. Will not pull paint off properly prepared surfaces that have cured a minimum of 30 days.
Performance: Easy to work with around awkward corners. Not as sticky as some other brands yet adheres well. Easy removal, but can bleed a bit.
Price: $3.19 at Home Depot
Claims: For use on painted walls, glass, wood trim and metal; 21-day interior or seven-day exterior use. Keeps paint out and lines sharp.
Performance: Thick yet pliable and easy to apply.
Leaves very straight lines with no bleeding and removes easily, but it did pull off paint in a couple of spots. Only tape to show no bleeding in the control test. Its crisp lines were superior to Painter's Mate, but it's more than double the price and did pull off paint.
Price: $7.99 at Home Hardware
IPG Bloc-it
Claims: For use with latex paint; no bleeding and sharper lines.
Performance: This was the easiest to apply on straight walls with no corners. While tacky, it was manageable and very easy to apply in long strips. Relatively easy removal with mostly clean lines, but there was minor bleeding and a bit of paint was pulled off.
The strips also tore a bit during removal.
Price: $6.28 at Lowe's
Claims: Seven-day removal; adheres well to any type of surface; for use with any paint or lacquer.
Performance: Thin tape that ripples easily when applying. Edge line doesn't adhere well unless you press firmly. Removal was easy with clean lines and almost no bleeding, but it did pull off a bit of the new paint.
Price: $3.21 at Rona
Cantech EdgePro
Claims: Seven-day indoor removal. Ideal for faux finishes and straight lines.
Low adhesion.
Performance: Low adhesion is right. This one hardly stuck to the wall at all with pieces curling away after being applied. Only brand with application and removal instruction, but it was prone to tearing during removal, leaving tiny strips of tape near the edge line that had to be painstakingly removed.
Price: $5.49 at Rona
Scotch Blue
Claims: For pros and doit-yourselfers. Clean removal with no surface damage and super-sharp paint lines.
Performance: Easy to handle and apply, but curls when pulling a long strip off the roll, making it easier to stick to itself. Left clean lines but also pulled off several patches of wall paint, both fresh and several months old. Also tears during removal. Big disappointment.
Price: $4.99 at Canadian Tire


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The Boxcar ChildrenPaperback - 1977
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I've been going back and reading some of my favorite books from my childhood, and this series is definitely in my top five for this age group. They're a really easy read, and captivating for all ages, even adults!
This book is a great kickoff to the "Boxcar Children" series. If you have seen the movie read the book!
This tells the story of four good-natured, independent kids finding their way after escaping cruel guardians. It is an easy read but almost too simple; I am used to reading clever & quirky authors but this is very straightforward. I would recommend this to any child just starting out in J level books.
This is a wonderful book. I love it ! Be sure to read the before-the-first one about their life before their parents died.
great read for youth. novel I still remember. I see the library has other "Boxcar Children" mystery novels/DVDs written using the same children for new adventures.
The four children said they didn't like their uncle to the bakers wife who found them in the bakery.
They over-heard the baker and bakers wife saying that they wanted to keep the three older children and sell the youngest one to a children house.
When they heard that they said that they must run away. So during the night they snuck out of the bakery and ran away.
Early in the morning the four children heard something. It was the baker and the bakers wife! They had woken up in the morning to find the four children gone! So they had come looking for them.
Again they over-heard them talking, and this time the wife said" they can't walk all the way to Silver city". Then the baker said" we will only search in Green wood now". The wife also said" only Green wood and then we are going back.
The children knew they had to go as far as Silver city or the baker and his wife will find them.
Soon they came upon a old boxcar and they decided to live in it. They loved it there.
This is the best book I have ever read in my life! Well at least so far.
You should totally read it!
I loved this book when I was a child and now I'm reading it to my son and he loves it too!
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The Small Business Bridge Grant Program reimburses small businesses for some of the costs of hiring and training someone new – costs that are often a barrier to hiring new employees. The grant provides incentives of $3,000 to $4,000 per new hire, with an additional $500 incentive if the business hires someone receiving Unemployment Insurance. A company is only eligible to receive the money after it fills the position. Starting Sept. 3, the Bridge Program also provides an additional $2,000 incentive if the business hires a veteran.
"Having extra employees and extra time to train them allowed us to take on projects we might have passed on," said Scott Anderson of Triassic Industries in Moab. "There is a benefit to starting with an untrained person who's motivated to have a full-time job. Having support for the transition while you're growing helps a lot."
In order to qualify for the grant, businesses must employ between two and 100 people, and the position must pay at least 80 percent of the county's average wage.
For more information, or to apply for a grant, visit jobs.utah.gov/employer/bridge.


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Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation will be releasing this split single on banana yellow vinyl. I think it's very important that you know this fact; and you will doubtless be pleased to know that the noise gracing this aesthetic marvel is suitably, quirkily cheering.
Both bands are of the indie pop style, and both have a good line in contrasting male/female vocal lines. They're also both rather good at sticking in your head, so it's not surprising to learn that they share band members and operate an inter-band idea exchange. The Scarlet Tuesday are the sweeter of the two, with clear-cut vocals and a quite fantastic penny-whistle-esque melody which would be twee if it weren't so clearly right. We* also particularly like the jangling effects which sound like a glockenspiel crossed with a harp, the twinning of such kick-ass drums with such delightful melodies and the fact that something so charming can induce so wild an urge to dance.
Balor Knights jump around a lot more, and favour the full-on-indie approach, interspersing the jangling guitar bursts with somewhat incongruous interludes, indicative of too many ideas and too few songs in the world. These interludes include: surreally choir-like vocals in the chorus; trumpets; random vocal warblings as the guitars veer into distortion; and a veritable cascade of vocal harmonies before the whole thing ends with that surreal choirgirl effect again, implying that the record has suddenly achieved enlightenment and gone to sit on God's right hand for all eternity.
Which might get a bit crowded, not to mention being nothing like as much fun as this pick'n'mix pop platter pair. Still, I guess it worked for Jesus.
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Christianity has an odd sort of experienced atheism built into it, both in the Christ's moment of god-forsakenness on the cross as well as the day that God was dead. In fact, to fend of your suspicion that there may be no God is not only dishonest with yourself- it also disconnects you from the pivotal moment of the Christian narrative. This Sunday, every pastor in the world will preach about Resurrection, and every person in every church (every pastor included) will ask the same questions: is any of this true? And what would it matter if it were not?
Holy Saturday is the day between Good Friday and Easter. In the Christian tradition, Holy Saturday commemorates the day that God was dead. This parable asks us to consider what would or wouldn't change if Holy Saturday (or Nietzsche's parable of the Mad Man in The Gay Science) were truly the case. Scholars have noted that the earliest copies of the first Gospel account, Mark, originally ended without a resurrection account. This parable asks what it would be like if original Mark was right. Would a certain way of living be worth it if there was no transcendental reward?
This is a parable written by Peter Rollins in his book The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales. It is a short and challenging book that I highly recommend purchasing.
LATE THAT EVENING A GROUP OF UNKNOWN DISCIPLES PACKED THEIR FEW BELONGINGS AND LEFT FOR A DISTANT SHORE, for they could not bear to stay another moment in the place where their Messiah had just been crucified. Weighed down with sorrow, they left that place, never to return. Instead they traveled a great distance in search of a land that they could call home. After months of difficult travel, they finally happened upon an isolated area that was ideal for setting up a new community. Here they found fertile ground, clean water, and a nearby forest from which to harvest material needed to build shelter. So they settled there, founding a community far from Jerusalem, a community where they vowed to keep the memory of Christ alive and live in simplicity, love, and forgiveness, just as he had taught them.
The members of this community lived in great solitude for over a hundred years, spending their days reflecting on the life of Jesus and attempting to remain faithful to his ways. And they did all this despite
overwhelming sorrow in their heart.
But their isolation was eventually broken when, early one morning, a small band of missionaries reached the settlement. These missionaries were amazed at the community they found. What was most startling to them was that these people had no knowledge of the resurrection and the ascension of Christ, for they had left Jerusalem before his return from the dead on the third day. Without hesitation, the missionaries gathered together all the community members and recounted what had occurred after the imprisonment and bloody crucifixion of their Lord.
That evening there was a great festival in the camp as people celebrated the news of the missionaries. Yet, as the night progressed, one of the missionaries noticed that the leader of the community was absent. This bothered the young man, so he set out to look for this respected elder. Eventually he found the community's leader crouched low in a small hut on the fringe of the village, praying and weeping. "Why are you in such sorrow?" asked the missionary in amazement. "Today is a time for great celebration."
"It may indeed be a day for great celebration, but this is also a day of sorrow," replied the elder, who remained crouched on the floor. "Since the founding of this community we have followed the ways taught to us by Christ. We pursued his ways faithfully even though it cost us dearly, and we remained resolute despite the belief that death had defeated and would one day defeat us also."
The elder slowly got to his feet and looked the missionary compassionately in the eyes.
"Each day we have forsaken our very lives for him because we judged him wholly worthy of the sacrifice, wholly worthy of our being. But now, following your news, I am concerned that my children and my children's children may follow him, not because of his radical life and supreme sacrifice, but selfishly, because his sacrifice will ensure their personal salvation and eternal life."
With this the elder turned and left the hut, making his way to the celebrations that could be heard dimly in the distance, leaving the missionary.


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Alex D Federman, MD Email Alex Federman
- Position
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine
- Specialties
- Primary Care
- Internal Medicine
- Language
- English
- Hospital Affiliation
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Phone
- IMA - Internal Medicine Associates 212-659-8551212-659-8551
Dr. Federman earned his medical degree from the State University of New York, Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn, completed his residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, and received clinical research training through the Harvard Medical School Faculty Development and Fellowship Program in General Internal Medicine. He also earned a Masters in public health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Federman is a board-certified internist who practices general internal medicine. His clinical interests include preventive medicine and hypertension management. His research focuses on financial and insurance-related barriers to healthcare for older adults. In addition to research and clinical activities, Dr. Federman teaches medical residents and students at Mount Sinai.
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American Board of Internal Medicine
MD, S.U.N.Y., Downstate Medical Center
MPH, Harvard Medical School
Residency, Internal Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
Fellowship, Health Policy
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Paul B. Beeson Scholar in Aging Related Research
the National Institute on Aging and the American Federation for Aging Research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award
Outstanding Senior Resident
Montefiore Medical Center
Dr. Federman's research interests include use of healthcare by low-income and elderly populations, cost and access to care, patient-provider communication about healthcare costs, supplemental health insurance, delays in care, and pharmacoepidemiology. His recent research has examined the influence of supplemental insurance and assistance programs on the use of medications and healthcare services among low-income elderly patients with chronic disease
Federman AD, Cook EF, Phillips RS, Puopolo AL, Haas JS, Brennan TA, Burstin HR. Influence of physician behavior and process of care on unwillingness to return in the primary care setting. J Gen Intern Med 2001; 16: 668-674.
Federman AD, Adams AS, Ross-Degnan D, Soumerai SB, Ayanian JZ. Supplemental insurance and use of effective cardiovascular drugs among elderly Medicare beneficiaries with coronary heart disease. JAMA 2001; 286: 1732-1739.
Federman AD, Siu AL. The challenge of studying the effects of managed care as managed care evolves. Health Serv Res 2004; 39(1): 7-12.
Federman AD. Don't ask, don't tell: the status of doctor-patient communication about healthcare costs. Arch Intern Med 2004; 164: 1723-1724.
Federman AD, Vladeck BC, Siu AL. Avoidance of healthcare services due to cost by low-income seniors: the impact of enrollment in the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program. Health Aff 2005; 24: 263-270.
Federman AD, Alexander GC, Shrank WH. A practical physician guide to the Medicare drug benefit. Mayo Clin Proc 2006; 81: 1217-1221.
Federman A. Can We Just Drop the Copay?. Virtual Mentor 2006; 8: 130-134.
Federman AD, Halm EA, Siu AL. Use of generic cardiovascular medications by elderly Medicare beneficiaries receiving generalist or cardiologist care. Medical Care;.
Federman AD, Halm EA, Zhu C , Hochman T , Siu AL. Association of income and prescription drug coverage with generic medication use among older adults with hypertension. Am J Manag Care;.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
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Insurance and health plan networks that the various Mount Sinai Health System hospitals and facilities participate in can be found on the Mount Sinai Health System website.


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Nov. 5, 2006
NORTON, Mass. - The women's swimming and diving team's season got off to a great start on Saturday, as it was victorious in the Batterman Relays, which were hosted by Wheaton College. The Cardinal and Gray won six of the 11 events in the competition on its way to a final score of 132. Tufts (108), Wheaton (100) and WPI (66) rounded out the rest of the field.
Leading the way for Tech were Nicole O'Keeffe, who was involved in four wins, and Kate Thornton, Ellie Souganidis and Jen Chao, who each tabbed three victories.
The team of Stephanie Sidelko, Ashley Pinchinat, Jackee Nowicke and Sasha Brophy posted a winning time of 4:58.09 in the 500 yard freestyle crescendo relay, while Rachel Price, Thornton and O'Keeffe finished almost 50 seconds better than the second-place time in the 1500 yard freestyle relay.
Priya Parayanthal was also part of a win, in the 200 yard butterfly relay.
"We performed exceptionally well today," said head coach Dawn Gerken. "We are in the heart of heavy training and the team stepped up and raced aggressively," she added.
The women's squad now has some time off before it returns to action on Wednesday, Nov. 15, when it travels to Wellesley College at 7:00 p.m.


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We have yet to see what kind of behavior the Dallas Cowboys consider to be unacceptable when it comes to Pro Bowl defensive end Greg Hardy.
In only his second game with Dallas after serving a four-game suspension related to a domestic-violence case, Hardy had a sideline meltdown late in the fourth quarter Sunday after the Cowboys gave up a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to the New York Giants.
Hardy was caught on camera breaking into the special-teams huddle and striking the clipboard of special-teams coach Rich Bisaccia before being shoved by Bisaccia and physically removed from the scene by teammates.


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Google to Launch Streaming-Music Service, and More
What's News: Google is set to launch a streaming-music service. Larry Page discloses a health problem. Wal-Mart announces safety regulations for factories following the collapse in Bangladesh. The U.S. deficit shrinks. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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Tunisia ends state of emergency after 3 years
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's president on Thursday lifted the state of emergency that has been in place since the outbreak of a popular revolution three years ago, and a top military chief said soldiers stationed in some of the country's most sensitive areas will return to their barracks.
The decree from President Moncef Marzouki said the state of emergency ordered in January 2011 is lifted across the country immediately.
The state of emergency was imposed by longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and maintained after he was overthrown. It was repeatedly renewed.
Lifting the state of emergency is a positive sign for Tunisian and foreign investors, Finance Minister Hakim Ben Hammouda said on Radio Mosaique. The end of a state of emergency could also help lure tourists back to the Mediterranean country. The thriving tourist industry was devastated after the revolution and is only slowly clawing its way back.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki acknowledged the positive message. "We welcome this positive development and will continue to support Tunisia as it moves forward with its democratic transition," Psaki told reporters.
At the start, the state of emergency included a curfew and a ban on meetings of more than three people, but it was relaxed over time. However it has continued to give the military and police special powers to intervene in unrest or security threats.
Tunisia has been battling al-Qaida linked and other extremists since the revolution, but officials said the security situation has improved recently.
Col. Maj. Mokhtar Ben Nasr told The Associated Press that soldiers deployed in force across Tunisia would return to their barracks.
After the end of the dictatorship that touched off the Arab Spring uprisings across the region, Tunisians brought a moderate Islamist party into power allied with two other secular parties. But the coalition struggled in the face of continuing social unrest, high unemployment, the rise of a radical Islamist movement and the assassination of two left-wing politicians. A major trouble spot remains an extremist base near Tunisia's border with Algeria, which is working with its neighbor to stamp out crossings between the countries.
Despite that, Tunisia remains a regional bright spot, since its fractious elected assembly finally wrote and passed a progressive constitution earlier this year.


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It works, in that if I run (serve 5555) I can then use a telnet client to connect to localhost:5555 (which disconnects immediately). However, if afterwards I try to run the serve function again with the same port number, I get the error "<SB-BSD-SOCKETS:ADDRESS-IN-USE-ERROR>". If I change the port number, it will work once with that port, and then get the aforementioned error always after that.
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When Carley came to Boys Town, she was looking for only one thing — a place she could call home.
Both of Carley's parents had passed away, and she had bounced from one group home to another, nine in all. Without any parental guidance, Carley fell into a life of substance abuse and dangerous behavior.
"I wasn't making a lot of real good choices," she said. "And, there really wasn't anyone I could go to for any help."
That's when Boys Town rescued Carley. As a resident of a Family Home in the Village of Boys Town, Nebraska, the teen became part of a new "family" of teenage girls, receiving guidance and support, and learning valuable life skills from her Family–Teachers®, the trained married couple who lived in the home and provided daily care for all the girls.
Carley's greatest need was structure and direction. Without the support of loving parents, she had to trust Boys Town to help her grow up, find healing and move forward.
Boys Town's life-changing care helped Carley get her life back on track and start afresh. She eventually graduated from Boys Town High School and earned a nursing degree. Today, she works as a nurse in a hospital in Colorado.
"I'm so thankful there is a place like Boys Town," she said. "From the first time the people at Boys Town told me they would look out for me, I've always felt loved and appreciated. I know I wouldn't have gone to college without Boys Town."
Carley's story is just one chapter in the epic story of how Boys Town helps tens of thousands of children and families find their miracles of the heart every year.
From its humble beginnings as a small home for wayward boys founded by Father Edward Flanagan back in 1917, Boys Town has grown to become a national leader in the care and treatment of children and families. As one of the largest nonprofit, nonsectarian child-and-family-care organizations in the country, Boys Town provides compassionate, research-proven programs to address behavioral, emotional and physical problems and offers leading-edge medical care to children with hearing, speech and other communication disorders.
Every year, Boys Town youth, family, community and health-care programs touch the lives of more than 2 million people nationwide, including nearly 130,000 children and families that receive direct care.
The Village of Boys Town in Nebraska remains the national headquarters for Boys Town. It is home to one of the country's largest residential-care communities, where hundreds of boys and girls learn new skills and overcome their problems while living in 60 family-style homes with trained couples called Family–Teachers. The Village also is the administrative, training and research center for the organization.
Boys Town's reach is national in scope, with treatment and care programs at more than a dozen sites across the country. Besides the Village of Boys Town, sites are located in Santa Ana, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Antonio, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; West Palm Beach, Florida; Orlando, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; Portsmouth, Rhode Island; New York City; Washington, D.C; Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Grand Island, Nebraska.
Even more children and families receive benefits through the training and assistance Boys Town offers to hundreds of organizations, including schools, psychiatric hospitals and other youth-care organizations. (For example, more than 10,000 educators received training in Boys Town school improvement programs in 2013, impacting approximately 141,000 students across the country.)
The toll-free Boys Town National Hotline® (800-448-3000) has handled more than 8 million calls since opening in 1989, and provides assistance to children, parents and others 24/7, year round.
Boys Town National Research Hospital® in Omaha, Nebraska, is internationally recognized as a leader in the treatment of childhood deafness, speech problems, visual impairment and related communication disorders. Its research programs have developed improved diagnostic and treatment techniques for use with young children, and it is a world leader in research on Usher syndrome.
A second Hospital site at the Village of Boys Town helps meet the health, emotional and mental health needs of youngsters. Boys Town pediatric clinics also serve children throughout the Omaha area, and a Pediatrics Hotline provides valuable advice to thousands of parents and other caregivers every year.
Under the current leadership of Father Steven E. Boes, Boys Town's fifth National Executive Director, Boys Town provides effective care through its unique Integrated Continuum of Care®, a closely connected spectrum of services that are all based on the consistent delivery of the research-proven Boys Town Model®.
The Model's main elements include:
• Striving to help children get better (positive outcomes)
• Teaching children new, life-changing skills
• Helping children achieve their educational goals (youth who successfully complete our residential program have a 90% high school graduation rate)
• Helping children build healthy relationships
• Empowering children to make good decisions on their own
• Caring for children in a family-style environment
• Ensuring that children are in a safe place and a safe program
• Making sure children are nurtured and respected
• Ensuring that a child's own family is an active, essential participant in the child's care and treatment, partnering with Boys Town to plan and develop strategies that best meet the child's needs.
Children of all ages find hope and healing at Boys Town. They come to Boys Town programs from a wide range of circumstances and experiences, and from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. In most cases, working with a child also means working with the child's family, especially in situations where families can be kept together or brought back together with Boys Town's intervention.
In the Contiuum, children and families can begin services at the level that best suits their needs. As they make progress or their needs change, they can move from treatment levels of more intensive care to levels of greater independence and empowerment. This effective approach enables Boys Town to help more children and families in more ways, with the same expectations for positive results. Continuum services include:
• The Residential Treatment Center, an intensive, medically directed program for children who have serious psychiatric and behavioral health disorders. The program has two environments in which children can receive treatment, depending on their needs. A facility-secure environment is offered for more seriously troubled children who require around-the-clock supervision, intense therapy and numerous other safety and program features. A less-restrictive, staff-secure environment allows children to progress toward learning daily living skills and developing appropriate, healthy socialization.
• Intervention and Assessment Services, which provide emergency, short-term, 24-hour care in a residential setting for boys and girls ages 10 to 18. Many of these children have been abused and/or neglected, are runaways or have come through the juvenile justice system. The primary goals at this level of service are to remove youth from dangerous situations and/or provide temporary care until a more permanent placement can be arranged.
• The Family Home Program, where youth with serious behavioral or emotional problems live in a family-style home and receive teaching and care from professionally trained married couples called Family–Teachers®. Six to eight boys or girls, usually ages 10 to 18, live in each home. The couple and a full-time Assistant Family–Teacher® are responsible for providing structured supervision for youths in their daily living and care activities. This includes meeting educational, medical, psychological, emotional and behavioral needs of each youth. A major focus of this program is teaching youth social, independent-living and educational skills, and helping them build healthy relationships with others.
• Foster Family Services, where professionally trained Foster Parents in the community open their homes and their hearts to provide care and support for children of all ages, infancy through adolescents. With a focus on reunification, Foster Family Services utilize a strength-based, team approach to work with each foster child's family to achieve safety, permanency and well-being. Foster Parents receive 24/7 support from Boys Town professionals.
• In-Home Family Services, in which trained Boys Town Family Consultants work right in a family's home to prevent children from being placed outside of the home or to reunify them with their family if outside placement is necessary. One of Boys Town's fastest-growing programs, In-Home Family Services focus on the whole family, helping caregivers build on their strengths, improve their parenting skills and identify useful community resources and supports. Family Consultants also help families learn how to solve problems on their own after the intervention ends.
• Community Support Services, which provide resources and valuable information to parents, families and professionals across the United States, and direct care for children and families in certain affiliate site communities. The main goal of programs at this service level is to help people help themselves by providing tools, training, resources, and other techniques based on Boys Town's research-proven approach to the care and education of children and families. Most services focus on prevention rather than intervention. These services include the Boys Town National Hotline® (800-448-3000), the parenting.org website, Outpatient Behavioral Health clinics (which serve children at several Boys Town sites), education training for teachers and schools, and Common Sense Parenting® classes.
Boys Town also takes a major leadership role in advocating for improvements in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, which often offer fragmented and ineffective treatment. It also is continually expanding its community outreach efforts to help even more children and families by concentrating services where they are needed most.
Research is so important to Boys Town's work that an entire department — the Boys Town National Research Institute SM — is devoted to identifying child and family problems and finding the best ways to solve them. Our research shows that years after completing services, Boys Town youth — even those with the most severe problems — achieve success as adults.
Many things have changed since Boys Town opened its doors to those first children in need. Programs, services, research and numerous other elements have become essential to the work of providing quality care for children and families, especially those who struggle daily to overcome daunting challenges. One thing that has not changed, however, is the spirit of love and genuine concern for kids that drives Boys Town's mission, a spirit that Father Flanagan galvanized nearly 100 years ago to start a revolution in child care.
For children who come to Boys Town, real change begins when they accept the life-changing seeds so many of them have missed out on: social skills, faith, education, healthy relationships, a sense of purpose and self-confidence. Boys Town nurtures these seeds with care and coaxes them to grow every day through therapeutic teaching, practice and guidance.
With nearly 100 years of experience in caring for children, Boys Town knows that kids will respond in positive ways when someone takes the time to care about them. Kids want and deserve to be loved and valued. When the seeds we plant take root and blossom, a boy who got D's and F's before coming to Boys Town begins to see his name on the honor roll. An abused girl who couldn't look another person in the eye before coming to Boys Town becomes captain of the basketball team. And every spring, hundreds of young people who had once given up all hope of a happy life don graduation gowns and cross a stage to accept their high school diplomas.
None of this work is easy. Miracles of the heart take commitment and patience. And Boys Town doesn't help children and families accomplish their goals alone. For as long as Boys Town has existed, the prayers, generous donations and loyal support of people around the world have sustained its mission: Changing the way America cares for children, families and communities by providing and promoting an Integrated Continuum of Care that instills Boys Town values to strengthen body, mind and spirit.
It's no accident that Boys Town is closing in on the century mark of providing life-changing care to America's children, families and communities. With a solid foundation of donor support, research-proven results and a compassionate approach that always puts children first, Boys Town will continue to shine as a beacon of hope and healing for those in need.
To learn more about Boys Town and how you can support its efforts to save children and heal families, please visit boystown.org.
KARA NEUVERTH is director of Media Relations and Marketing & Communications at Boys Town.
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Players' union head Tony Clark said Monday that several of his members have quit cold turkey following the death of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn on June 16 from oral cancer.
While the use of smokeless tobacco was banned for players with minor league contacts in 1993, it is permitted for players with major league deals. The labor agreement covering 2012-16 says players may not carry tobacco packages and tins in their back pockets when fans are permitted in ballparks, and they may not use tobacco during pre-game and post-game interviews and at team functions.
"I think what we have been doing thus far has been a positive, and although I'm not going to offer you a bargaining proposal today on chewing tobacco, we could have that conversation," Clark said Tuesday before the All-Star game.
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