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Central Asia: Citizens Learning to Take the Initiative
There's actually a bright side to government dysfunction in Central Asia: when the state lacks funds to take care of basic necessities, citizens are learning to band together to tackle civic problems.
The concept of citizen-led public works is perhaps strongest these days in Kyrgyzstan, but the idea is also popular in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and, to a lesser extent, in Uzbekistan. Foreign assistance and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play key roles in encouraging mutual-assistance initiatives. But the most important element is a spirit of civic volunteerism that has existed in Central Asia for centuries.
Roughly a decade ago, after 10 years of economic upheaval following the Soviet collapse, foreign donors, working through local NGOs, such as Mehr-Shavkat, a non-profit based in the southern Kyrgyzstani village of Aravan, started funneling money to local citizen groups that strive to informally fulfill what are usually considered government responsibilities.
For the past 12 years, Mehr-Shavkat, has overseen a growing confederation that now totals 136 village mutual-assistance groups in the Aravan District. "They [citizen groups] help local governments fix bad roads and street lights. They also provide micro-credits to poverty-stricken families, organize cultural events to build stronger ties among ethnic groups, [and] run advocacy campaigns to promote gender equality," Maharam Tilavoldieva, director of Mehr-Shavkat (Uzbek for "mercy"), told EurasiaNet.org.
A pivotal moment for Mehr-Shavkat came seven years ago, when a flood destroyed a wooden bridge in Aravan. Villagers turned to the local government, but officials rebuffed petitions to repair the structure, citing a lack of funds. So residents designed a novel solution: they formed a civic group, and with Mehr-Shavkat's help, along with abundant volunteer labor, they built themselves a new metal bridge.
Most mutual assistance groups are organized into small clusters of 10-15 members who elect a leader, a deputy leader and a treasurer. Depending on the group's size and the monthly dues (most members contribute about $10 per month), groups offer short-term loans of between $100 and $1,000. Members take turns obtaining loans and, together, they agree on projects that will help the community. When groups do not have enough cash for a project, they apply to organizations such as Mehr-Shavkat for grants.
"Farmers, teachers, bazaar traders, senior citizens and unemployed people have formed mutual-assistance groups in recent years because of such benefits," said Nigora Khadjimatova, a coordinator with Mehr-Shavkat. "But the majority of self-help groups' members are women with low-income backgrounds."
According to the United Nations, by 2010 there were 1,800 such voluntary groups operating in Kyrgyzstan, up from only a handful in 2000. The groups are also popular in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
In Uzbekistan, authorities tend to view such self-help groups as a sign of suspicious foreign influence, and thus keep a close eye on their activities. Prior to 2005, when Tashkent took action to smother the non-governmental sector following the government's use of force during the Andijan massacre, mutual-assistance groups played a significant civic role in the Ferghana Valley. For example, in Andijan, several prominent local entrepreneurs operated a group offering interest-free credit, employing members in bakeries, and providing free childcare. Their sentencing in May 2005 to long jail terms for purported membership in a banned Islamic group precipitated the Andijan tragedy.
Adding to Uzbek authorities' suspicions, some mutual-assistance groups are closely linked to local mosques, sometimes because members are believers and sometimes because mosques double as village meeting halls. In some cases, Muslim clerics encourage believers to form mutual assistance groups.
Today, the dozen or so groups still functioning in Uzbekistan's Ferghana Valley keep a low profile, offering micro-loans to farmers and operating some small garment-producing workshops. All avoid publicizing their work, fearing unwanted attention from authorities.
International aid agencies believe that mutual-assistance groups play an important role in combating rural poverty. But some local officials resent the fact that groups are performing tasks that belong to the state, even if the government lacks the means to carry out those functions. "They don't follow established standards and seek to introduce quick fixes to problems," said a local official in Kyrgyzstan's Aravan District, pointing out that the Mehr-Shavkat-financed bridge in Aravan collapsed during a flood two years after it was built. "They need to work more closely with local government authorities when planning things."
Citizens bristle at such criticism. The government wasn't in position to rebuild the bridge on its own, and local residents say they'd rather have some sort of bridge for two years, than not at all.
There is some criticism about the operations of mutual assistance groups that comes from within, including complaints about peer pressure to donate. There are also reports of group leaders embezzling funds. Moreover, donors have inadvertently created perverse incentives: some individuals will quietly admit to bouncing between groups, depending on which has the most cash in a given funding cycle.
Most observers believe the groups are important, but insist their influence should not be overstated. One World Bank expert on mutual-assistance groups said they "have developed in some communities, but they are still nascent in many parts of Central Asia. It will take a long time before they will emerge as potent force."
For many development-oriented non-profits, the mutual-assistance groups are seen as a promising model to be replicated elsewhere. In a region where governance is weak and corruption is rampant, says Tilavoldieva of Mehr-Shavkat, self-help groups have emerged as providers of some essential social and public services. "Before, people thought that their government must do things for them. But now, people are increasingly becoming aware that they have to take control over their own problems. This idea is new in our region," Tilavoldieva said.
: Alisher Khamidov is a researcher specializing in Central Asian affairs.


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For graduate school, when it comes to aid, you are considered independant. In fact when filling out your fafsa you no longer have to include your parents income, regardless of your "status". The only issue that would arise (that I can see) is if your parent lives in a different state than you are trying to claim residency in.
Is this true? What if you have no income? (And therefore your parents obv pay for you). MY law school debt is all my own, my dad isn't helping.I was going to call him today to get his info to fill it out... do I not need to?
File your taxes. And tell your mom not to claim you on hers. It's really not hard. If she claims you despite this she will have to deal with the IRS. Then fill out fafsa with only your own info (you don't have to put your parents info). And if your law school asks for your parents info, then they ask it of everyone regardless of whether you are dependent or independent so you give it to them.

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"Jesus Christ is the one whom the Father anointed with the Holy Spirit and established as priest, prophet, and king. The whole People of God participates in these three offices of Christ and bears…Continue
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If men want to be faithful Catholics, seeking to follow Jesus Christ in the path of self sacrifice, service and the pursuit of sanctity, then they are welcome in the Knights of Columbus.Have we let…Continue
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As you go about your business today please take a moment to pray…For Doug Kollasch and his family as he nears the end of his earthly existenceFor Dr Paul Matthews and his family, 4th degree Knight…Continue
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I'm hearing great accounts of the prospect roster uncovering a lot of potential especially in rural areas. This tactic really works. Let's put it to use across the state. Please encourage councils to…Continue
I am married to Anita since 1983. We have 3 Children and 4 Grandchildren.
I joined the Knights in 1985 at Iowa Falls Council 5835 and took my 2nd and 3rd shortly thereafter at Eagle Grove. While there I served as the council "advocate". I credit my membership to Richard Dole and Russ Hensing who recruited and mentored me.
In 1987 I transferred to Council No 2074 in Denison and served as Grand Knight from 1989 - 1992. I was Awarded the Sioux City Diocese Grand Knight of the Year.
I served as District Deputy from 1991-1995 and earned the distinction of Top 10 District Deputy one year.
I become a 4th degree Knight at the 1992 Mason City convention and am currently a member of Garrigan Assembly in Sioux City where I am also a member of the color corps and have served in various honor guards.
I transferred to Council No 2839 Holy Rosary of Danbury IA in 1995 and served as Treasurer for a number of years and as Grand Knight from 2010-2012 & again 2016-2018
I served as State Church Director from 1994-2002.
I was elected to the office of State Warden and served 2002-2004 followed by State Secretary 2004-2006 and State Deputy 2006-2008 achieving Circle of Honor for the 2007-2008 fraternal year.
I served as the State New Council Development Director under SD Pat O'Keefe and assisted with getting 5 councils started, most notably 2 additional college councils - Drake and UNI.
In 2010 I was asked to pioneer the Iowa Knight Life www.iowaknightlife.org our "Voice of the Iowa Knights" podcast and radio program. I was involved weekly to produce, edit and narrate the audio for the years 2014-2016; the show has now moved away from weekly to occasional podcasting.
I served as the State Membership Director 2012-2014 and helped PSD Joe Ramirez to Circle of Honor one year. In 2013 I pioneered partnering with the General Agents on monthly half page ads in the 4 diocesan newspapers.
I served as State Deputy Jan-Jun 2015 completing the term vacated by Dan Werner. Notably we achieved 85%+ of our membership goal but most importantly began a statewide ultrasound initiative.
I served as State Membership Director again for SD Jon Aldrich.from 2015-2017 both years achieving 85+% of goal.
Beginning September 1, 2017 I am serving as District Master of the Fourth Degree for the Iowa District of the Fr. Juan D. Padilla province.
In February 2016 I was asked to answer the question Why Am I a Knight? Click on the link to read my answer.
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Orlando Gil of the Harlan council 3900 invited me to answer this question. here is my response:
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Many of you are familiar with the book "Knights to Christ". It has been available on e-book for a couple of years. The Colorado council is offering FREE download of the book onto your Android/iPhone smart phone from Amazon. Go to the following link and follow through. It will never (of course) ask for any credit card info – it's FREE
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working hard I am now the Grand Knight and working to try and pep things up and try some new things
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I'm pretty sure it was your profile page, Mike, that inspired me to try to increase the quality and quantity of information on my own profile page. In so many ways, you and Anita are an inspiration to us Knights. Please be assured of my prayers, as I know that we are all sinners but, if we are true to our Catholic call, we are trying to grow in the Lord, attempting to sin less and become more holy, in the same Spirit as our holy predecessors, the Saints. That being said, I would appreciate your prayers. Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, pray for us all, especially those of us who have been called into the Order of the Knights of Columbus.
I hope you'll take a look at the Council 4208 website; all you need to do is go to DecorahKnights.tk or http://iowakofc.org/profile/decorahknights and just scroll up and down to see all the information about the Decorah Knights of Columbus; it's that simple. If it hasn't already been done, I hope you'll take the time to set up a website (aka profile) for your Council on the IowaKofC.org website. Website training is at http://iowakofc.org/page/website-training Feel free to use DecorahKnights.tk as a model. And please don't forget to give us feedback on our website in the comment box at the very bottom of DecorahKnights.tk, by sending us a message via the IowaKofC.org message system (click on the "Inbox" link near the top right of your profile), or by sending email to email@example.com
I've also updated my personal profile, so I hope you'll check that out, too.
Peace and thanks.
Hi Mike. No we don't have our Church drive planned yet, but I believe we'll have another first-degree this month. I appreciate you support!!! http://stbenedictcouncil.catholicweb.com/
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Marie Hilliard is the director of bioethics and public policy for the National Catholic Bioethics Center. She holds a licentiate in canon law, as well as advanced degrees in religious studies and nursing education administration. She and her colleagues at the center write, speak and consult widely on bioethics. She recently spoke to Our Sunday Visitor about the ethical-moral issues surrounding surrogate motherhood.
Our Sunday Visitor: Please discuss the ethical-moral issues of surrogate motherhood first, and then the peripheral issues such as the psychological and legal.
Marie Hilliard: If you look at the ethical, moral and legal issues, they are not separate. What the Church teaches is based on what we call natural, moral law: that we can know the good by what we can know by reason. We do not have a distinction between how the good should be expressed in the public arena and what is the good in terms of the moral arena. My mother had a great saying about her version of what Paul, in Romans 2:15, has told us about how certain things are written on the hearts of women and men and can be known by reason: "Sanctity is sanity."
OSV: What does Church teaching say about surrogate motherhood?
Hilliard: The Church has such great scholarship on this and other issues. For example, natural moral law, as it pertains to assisted reproductive technologies, is extremely well addressed in the document Donum Vitae ("The Gift of Life") from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1987). In 2008, the same congregation issued further instruction on such matters in Dignitas Personae. Such documents are an invaluable resource to couples struggling with infertility.
The Church teaches that the child should be conceived as an act of love in the fruitfulness of a marriage. Further, the child has a right to be conceived through that natural act of love that demonstrates the ultimate source of love — the Creator who establishes the laws of nature pertaining to how human life is to be engendered and life is to be lived.
Parents don't produce: They engender new life through an act of love, which is a sacred act; and they are called, as responsible parents, to love and raise that child. For this reason, we really can't separate the psychological from the legal, the moral, the physical and the spiritual. The child has every right to be engendered through that natural act of love, and the child actually becomes the fruitfulness of the love of the parents. That triune relationship between the mom, the dad and the Creator is fractured with a surrogate pregnancy.
OSV: It seems that most surrogate pregnancies these days are achieved through in vitro fertilization rather than artificial insemination. What additional problems arise with in vitro fertilization?
Hilliard: After the conception of the child in a petri dish or test tube, a technician actually determines who is going to live or die. In vitro fertilization involves a selection by the technician of which embryos will be implanted in the surrogate carrier, based on grading criteria. The embryos not implanted are then frozen or killed.
Then there is sometimes what is termed "selective reduction," when more than the desired number of embryos survive implantation and the "extras" are aborted.
Here we move into psychological issues also. Imagine a child finding out that one of her brothers or sisters was sold or not allowed to live, or was frozen in time. Imagine knowing that you survived when the parents raising you had determined that two or three babies were too many, and one of your siblings was killed at the will of the parents.
That sacred bond between mother, father and Creator is fractured when a child is sold or destroyed or given away. And it commodifies life; it commodifies the woman and makes her an object, just as it objectifies the child.
OSV: Have you dealt with people who are considering surrogacy as an option for parenthood?
Hilliard: We've had people who called and were concerned about family members who were considering or had engaged in surrogacy, but, of course, all our consultations are confidential.
We do receive many calls from good people who have no idea about what is really involved in in vitro fertilization. This, of course, also is what is involved with a gestational surrogate who has no biological link to the child. What often has been erroneously presented to couples struggling with fertility issues is that the embryo, which is their child, is a "pre-embryo" and not yet a human being. Thus, these couples do not understand that the embryos that have been engendered are not only human beings, but are their children.
The whole language of the medical community denies the humanity of the human embryo: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines pregnancy not to have occurred until after implantation. But there is no such thing as a "pre-embryo." From the moment of fertilization, the moment the full component of DNA is present in the fertilized ovum — embryo — there is a human being. Every credible biology textbook says this, but for political reasons and to be able to make the unacceptable acceptable, new language is applied to create a false reality.
OSV: What is it about today's culture that tries to make the "unacceptable acceptable"?
Hilliard: In terms of the overall nature of human sexuality, the ultimate gift of human sexuality is a new human being, and that's why we have marriage laws, to protect the new and vulnerable human life. Much of this problem is caused by is a breakdown of the family that is spilling over into people choosing not to get married or entering into same-sex relationships and thinking they have a right to a child. But a child is a gift, not a right. And the child has a right to be engendered through an act of love and raised in a home in which there is a mom and a dad. When children are engendered through technology, this is a violation of the sacred gift of creation from God.
This does not mean that children cannot do well when raised by a single parent, or grandparents, or relatives, when both parents are not able to do so. And certainly, adoptive parents, who, see parenting not as a right, but as a gift, receive that gift by opening their homes and their hearts to a child through adoption.
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DeKALB – By the end of 2014, DeKalb Police Chief Gene Lowery hopes to have several new programs in place, as well as four more police officers, a K-9 unit and a mass-arrest vehicle.
Lowery outlined his goals in his "20/20: Vision for the Future" report, which details 20 different initiatives the DeKalb Police Department will undertake in the next 20 months.
The department has seen an increase in calls for service. Lowery is expecting the department to have handled more than 42,000 calls by the end of 2012, a 6 percent increase from last year. By comparison to other Illinois towns with large public universities in it, DeKalb has the highest call-to-officer ratio, Lowery said.
"The bottom line: In order to attempt to change from a reactive policing stance to a proactive stance, we need to relieve the call volume per officer," Lowery said.
This isn't the first time Lowery has called for hiring more police officers. In October, he asked the DeKalb City Council to allow him to hire more officers after the department handled 9.8 percent more incidents between Aug. 30 and Sept. 30 than the previous year.
Lowery was named chief in May, after former Chief Bill Feithen retired in February. Since then, a number of city officials and residents have praised Lowery for the work he has done.
Mayor Kris Povlsen supports hiring more officers. He said he thinks with the money the city has saved in recent years, it can afford the hires.
But Povlsen and two aldermen are winding down their stints on the City Council.
The makeup of the City Council will change after the April 9 consolidated elections.
Lowery said he is cognizant of the city's political arena – it is the City Council that determines his budget – but he said he can't make his choices based on politics.
"I have to make recommendations based on the best interests of the community and the best interests of the police department," Lowery said.
Lowery wants to reinstate the department's K-9 program.
The report lists the program as having $65,000 in startup costs, but Lowery said he will seek grant and community support.
"It's clear there is a pressing need for it," Lowery said, noting its usefulness in responding to drug crimes.
Lowery said the mass-arrest vehicle is needed in situations in which numerous arrests could occur, such as demonstrations or large gatherings.
The cost of the van is estimated at $53,000.
"It's a vehicle of that sort that will allow us to detain and process an individual while keeping our officers on the street," Lowery said.
But there are other programs Lowery wants to implement that do not have an overt price tag.
On Thursday, Lowery named officer Chad McNett the department's first community relations/training officer. McNett will be the go-to officer for programs such as the Citizen Police Academy, Neighborhood Watch and the department's "Not in our Community – Not on our Campus" awareness program.
"They're not fluff programs," Lowery said. "They're programs that can have an impact and bring this community together."
Lowery highlighted the "Community/Campus" program in particular. The department will work with student governments at Northern Illinois University, Kishwaukee College and DeKalb High School so they can make a stand against crime. The new programs could bring a new community attitude.
"It's a community process, a community saying, 'Hey, we're not going to let this happen anymore,' " said Lowery.


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Do you have a favorite record label? These days, it can be hard to tell. Truthfully, I barely know what artists record for which label in the digital age. I love the new William Tyler guitar record, the new Baths album and Sonny and the Sunsets, but ask me to name the label ... and I'm blank. That information never comes up on my computer when I play a song on iTunes — or my phone — or on SoundCloud or Spotify. Back in the analog days, I'd put on a record and seeing those labels spinning at 33 1/3 rpm would forever seal an association between artists and their labels for me: The Beatles on Capitol, Pink Floyd on Harvest, Aretha Franklin on Atlantic.
It's unfortunate, too, because it used to be one of the great ways to discover music. Record labels telegraphed the sort of music you'd hear. They had a philosophy, an aesthetic and a standard (and still do, of course). As someone who bought a lot of records, I could walk into a store, see an unknown band (such as Triumvirat) on the Harvest label, buy it and know that it was probably going to be a good prog-rock group, most likely from Europe. (It turned out I loved that first Triumvirat record, by the way.)
All that said, despite the realities of the digital age, music geeks will be music geeks and there are plenty of you loyal to plenty of labels. If you've got a favorite, how did you find it and how do you keep up with its releases?
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Chef, restaurateur and author Daniel Boulud talks with WSJ's Sara Murray about his newest book, "Daniel: My French Cuisine," and cooking in the age of iPads and healthy eating.
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NORTON, Mass. – Top-seeded and host Wheaton College strung together 10 unanswered goals as it went on to defeat No. 4 MIT, 15-5, in a NEWMAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament semifinal game on Saturday afternoon. Freshman Hannah Levy (Yardley, Pa.) paced the Engineers with three goals and three draw controls as they finished the season with an overall record of 12-6.
Sophomore Isabella DiDio (Jenkintown, Pa.) posted one goal, two groundballs, and two caused turnovers as classmate Kira Schott (New Canaan, Conn.) tacked on one goal for the Cardinal and Gray. Sophomores Nadia Wallace (Rochester, N.Y.) and Christine Jiang (Canton, Mich.) both recorded four groundballs while Wallace added two caused turnovers. In net, junior Candice Kaplan (Arlington, Va.) came away with eight saves.
Wheaton scored twice during the opening 2:17 of the game, but MIT replied with three goals in a span of 1:44 to take the lead. Levy registered back-to-back markers as a blast by Schott gave the Engineers a 3-2 edge at the 24:04 mark. The Lyons quickly produced the equalizer, sparking a 9-0 run to end the half with an 11-3 advantage.
The hosts continued their scoring spree in the second stanza as they increased their cushion with 21:02 on the clock. After being held off the scoreboard for almost 35 minutes, MIT broke through on a solo effort by Levy. Following a series of possessions, Wheaton found the back of the net midway through the half, upping its margin to 13-4. The back-and-forth play continued, resulting in goals by the Lyons at the 10:15 and 2:45 marks. The Engineers capped the scoring with 16 seconds to go as DiDio converted one of their two free-position shots of the game.


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Homeless Bishop Seabury parish finds a place
Ledyard — Nearly two years after the sound of bagpipes ushered parishioners out of their home of more than a century, the Bishop Seabury Church is finally settling in to a new space - for now.
After eviction from 256 North Road in Groton following a court case with the Episcopal Diocese in August 2012, the congregation searched far and wide for a place to call its own - storefronts, office fronts, former school buildings, an old synagogue - all while paying $250 per Sunday service in a room at the Groton Inn and Suites. Eighteen months passed; expenses piled up; and then, an opportunity.
After a February trial-run service in the gym of Gales Ferry Landing - the site of the former Gales Ferry School that the town of Ledyard now uses as a business incubator - the church signed a one-year lease with the town. Less than a month later, they moved in.
A permanent home is still ideal, said Ronald Gauss, the archdeacon of the church who led the parish away from diocesan supervision in 2007. But this is "the next best thing."
"We're still looking," he said. "We're always looking."
Over time, the church has lost more than half of its parishioners. At its peak, Gauss said, 780 people attended Bishop Seabury. Now, up to 200 people attend Sunday services.
Gauss insists that these departures were not due to a difference of opinion, but rather a desire to have a permanent building. Others left simply because they "didn't want to do battle," he said.
The church's legal battle dates back to seven years ago, when the parish opposed the Episcopal Church's ordination in 2003 of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire and the election in 2006 of a woman as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. The parish chose to affiliate instead with the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, putting it under the oversight of a Nigerian bishop.
Bishop Seabury and five other churches in the state filed a federal lawsuit against the Right Rev. Andrew Smith, the presiding bishop at the time, seeking millions in damages for violation of their civil and property rights.
Three years later, a state Superior Court judge ruled that the Connecticut diocese owns the 6.5-acre church site and everything on it.
Gauss and his parishioners were ordered to give up the property, where they remained pending an appeal to the state Supreme Court. A year later, the state Supreme Court ruled against Bishop Seabury. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case in June 2012.
Gauss said he knew the possibility of eviction existed as far back as 2005. They began looking for fallback options as far back as that year.
"We've got a lot of military, and they always plan contingencies," he said. "Just in case."
This isn't the first time the town-owned space in Gales Ferry has been home to a religious group. When the former school first emptied, more than a decade ago, the town leased the auditorium and a couple of classrooms to a church, then the building's only tenants.
The site became Gales Ferry Landing as Mayor John Rodolico took office at the end of 2011. For a while, aerobics programs were the "bread and butter" of the space, said Mark Bancroft, the town's director of administrative services.
Now, the church has joined a building with a range of tenants - among them a massage therapy center, an arts studio, a marketing firm and regular aerobics classes.
For the town, Bancroft said, having the parishioners there regularly brings members of the public in to the building, many of whom patronize the growing businesses.
"It was a match made in heaven," he said.
The church leases four rooms in all. Gauss' office - "my mess," he calls it - is partitioned off in one room, which also contains a sacristy, meeting space, and office space for two assistants. There's a nursery, a Sunday school room, a small chapel with pews gifted from former church buildings, and an altar Gauss purchased himself on sale. In here, a single stained-glass pane - also a gift - sits propped up on the wall-length windowsill.
In the gym, a Jazzercise banner hangs at the back of the stage from which Gauss leads Sunday services. The town's Parks and Recreation department also holds classes here during the week, along with a dog training class.
On Sunday, for the most part, they have the place to themselves.
Gauss said his parish has learned to be flexible. But the search for a home isn't over yet.
"We're still in the wilderness," he said.
The parishioners' convictions are worth their homelessness, he said: They haven't had to change their understanding of scripture.
"Everyone that has stayed thinks that, too," he said. "Otherwise they wouldn't have stayed."
John Lawrence, a senior warden at the church, and his wife, Eleanora, have been parishioners for five years. Lawrence said the church has adapted "extremely well" to the building.
"It works out good for us," he said. "We have what we need."
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text: Life on the Edge January 12, 2011 07:17 AM Tweet Advances in equipment technology and hybrid seed genetics have helped make Adam Hatley's urban desert operation more efficient, he says. © Photo by Tom Dodge TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Tom Dodge Top Producer Guest Editor Email In the middle of the verdant Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation, the rush of water from recent rains pours over an irrigation diversion dam and drowns out the distant hum of metro Phoenix, Ariz. The dam is part of Adam Hatley's diversified crop operation, Associated Farms, which includes 3,800 acres that he leases from the Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Hatley is one of three farmers who lease agricultural land that is part of the 52,000-acre reservation. His flood-irrigated desert operation includes intensive cotton, alfalfa and corn production and is surrounded by the challenges of an urban setting. It's all made possible by affordable tribal water rights. "Agriculture historically has always been the Pima and Maricopa tribes' culture," explains Hatley, braking at a busy intersection between his fields. "Today, this is farming in an urban setting. There's traffic all of the time, houses near every field and some vandalism. But what makes farming on the reservation so attractive to us is the affordable water." Water Costs. Many producers across Arizona use Central Arizona Project water from the Colorado River, the cost of which can range from $45 to $65 per acre-foot. That's somewhat higher than the tribal water rights that are negotiated into the five-year leases Hatley signs with the Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. In the Southwest, where irrigation water is a commodity, an acre-foot of water equals 325,851 gal. It takes Hatley 6 to 7 acre-feet of water to raise about 2¾ bales (1,350 lb.) per acre of upland cotton on his sandy, slightly sloping land. Hatley skirts puddles of water as he maneuvers along an irrigation canal—the Valley of the Sun has just experienced torrential winter rains, in excess of 3" in a couple of days, which is more than all of the rainfall here in 2009. As Hatley and other desert farmers working these red sandy silts and loams will attest, they'd rather not see even ½" of rain at a time, particularly during the growing season. "Our agricultural practices really are timed and geared for irrigation," he says. Urban Farming. Hatley's father, Aubrey, who at 75 is an active partner in the operation, took on the challenges of urban desert farming in 1976 after moving to Arizona from Texas. "We were farming in the middle of nowhere in Texas," Aubrey recalls. After moving to the booming Phoenix area, he took up farming on the tribal land surrounded by the bustling communities of Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa and Fountain Hills. "It was quite a difference. If you make dust out in the middle of nowhere in Texas, no one really cares. You don't dare do that here," Aubrey says. Also, he points out, there is no aerial spraying allowed in the metropolitan confines of the reservation. "So, you make the necessary adjustments." Adam joined his father's operation in 1986. Over time, they quit growing produce and concentrated their efforts on raising 2,300 acres of upland cotton, 800 acres of alfalfa and about 300 acres of corn. While Associated Farms uses the alfalfa and corn to provide hay and silage to some of the area's large dairies, cotton is king on this operation, requiring carefully timed irrigation and equipment. "I can't control the markets," says the younger Hatley, a member of Calcot, a cooperative cotton marketing organization in the Southwest. "So, I need to use the technologies available to keep my margins as profitable as possible." Recent equipment upgrades and hybrid seed genetic technologies have offered a quantum leap in farming efficiencies. Hatley points out that Roundup Ready cotton varieties, for instance, allow spraying and cultivating in the same pass. "I went from cultivating for morningglory seven times a season to once each season," Hatley says. "In addition, I no longer apply pre-emergence chemicals." In more than 20 years of cotton farming, Hatley has seen the successful onset of insect growth regulators (IGR), as well as the eradication of the boll weevil several years ago. He didn't spray for insects at all in 2009, relying instead on IGR. He used to spray about every eight days for pink bollworm, but with new traits in cotton, he doesn't spray for bollworm at all now. Advances in equipment technology have helped hone his operation as well. Hatley points to GPS auto-steer systems used on his four-row cotton pickers and for listing his flood-irrigated fields. "Listing manually used to be a very specialized, time-consuming skill that only one of our employees was able to accomplish. Now, any of our operators can list thanks to the auto-steer system. It helps make more employees available for other immediate tasks at hand," says Hatley, who maintains 16 to 18 fulltime employees. When it comes to farming the desert, Hatley plants his boot on a dike and says, "Timing is everything. Farming here is management intensive. When it's 105° or 110°, it's vital to come back with water before the crop gets stressed." Lifelong Learning Enhancing his management structure is one valuable strategy Adam Hatley has brought home with him from TEPAP, The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers administered by Texas A&M University. "All of our discussions at TEPAP concerning human resources and organizational structure helped me to see where I could restructure our employee management system in our operation," Hatley says. "We were able to reassign some employees into positions ideally suited for them. We also implemented a middle-management system that ultimately helps me manage my time better." Hatley continues his work with the TEPAP program and believes it is an enormously valuable asset to his personal skill set, with its intensive sessions in areas such as best management practices and the art of negotiation. "At TEPAP, we spend a lot of time in and out of the classroom discussing legal practices and paperwork and macroeconomics—how each element can influence changes in our commodity prices, so that we can go back down the line and track how those changes developed," Hatley says. "Whether you're a high school graduate or a college-level graduate, TEPAP helps you hone your business acumen. You benefit from not only the instructors but from a network of producers from across the country." Ancient Ground As Adam Hatley walks across a dormant alfalfa field outside of Phoenix, Ariz., he points out four distinctive mountains that are sacred to the local tribes: Camelback, Red Mountain, the snow-capped Four Peaks and the Superstitions. Years of farming tribal land has taught Hatley to farm around sensitive archeological sites in his fields. His employees constantly stumble across ancient Native American artifacts. The land that Hatley farms was once farmed by an ancient agricultural tribe known as the Hohokam. The Hohokam constructed more than 300 miles of a precision canal irrigation system and farmed central and southern Arizona for several centuries until, archeologists say, the tribe mysteriously vanished around 1450. No one knows for sure why the Hohokam disappeared, but many point to a catastrophic drought as the most likely reason. However, the tribe's system of irrigation canals survived. Hatley says when later settlers took over the land, they discovered an irrigation system so precise to the rise and fall of the topography that the irrigation systems in place today still follow where the Hohokam built. For more about the Hohokam culture or the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation, visit www.srpmic-nsn.gov. Top Producer, January 2011 Back to news


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UnitedHealth Group's (NYSE:UNH) fourth-quarter revenue climbed 11% on growing membership and increased profits in its health-services business, but earnings dipped as the health insurer reported less excess reserves set aside to cover member costs.
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The company did beat Wall Street's view, as UnitedHealth saw a profit of $1.24 billion, or $1.20 per share, compared to EPS estimates of $1.19. UnitedHealth reported a $1.26 billion profit and earnings of $1.17 a share one year ago.
Revenue climbed to $28.77 billion for the quarter. Analysts had predicted $28.24 billion in revenue.
UnitedHealth also reaffirmed its 2013 guidance from November.
"In 2012 we continued to gain market share and broadened our revenue and earnings growth sources for the future by continuing to focus on ever-stronger execution on the fundamentals of serving our customers," Stephen J. Hemsley, president and chief executive of UnitedHealth, said in a statement.
UnitedHealth's revenue benefited from its recent purchase of a majority stake in Brazilian insurer and hospital operator Amil Participacoes. The company owns 65% of Amil and said it expects to buy an additional 25% in the first half of this year, with the deal valued at about $4.3 billion in cash.
Membership grew 18% year-over-year as a result of the deal. UnitedHealth said it ended the year with 40.9 million medical members, including Amil members.
Shares of UnitedHealth were up slightly on the news, rising 9 cents, or 0.17%, just before Thursday's opening bell.


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OMG #11 is the funniest one when sdmre posts him up. Very funny.
TMC wrote:Seems like we're not alone in the hating...
No one said you were... it's just something that's not wanted by a lot of people here. It doesn't further the team in any way and it's getting old after hearing the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
By the way, those pictures are funny, but none of them really make sense. I'm sure Grant Hill jumped before Mike, not higher than him, Damon is obviously dishing the ball away, not posting Mike, and PJ Brown wasn't Mike's man to guard (he played 5 last season... the fact that Mike's even in there shows he's playing help defense). Sure, they're funny to look at, but (for the most part) they're totally untrue captions.
In a related topic, one of those pictures shows the entire team hugging Derek Fisher after he won the ballgame with a buzzer-beating jumper. Any haters doubting the clutch-ness can now cease their complaining. One game-winner a season is way above average.
haha. the blogsite has never liked MDJ. besides, i think their reasons are more for humor. dunleavy does always manage to get himself into the funniest pictures though.
can't wait for the season to start either...then we can stop all this speculhating and well..maybe do some real hating! peace to all warrior bros!
can't wait for the season to start either...then we can stop all this speculhating and well..maybe do some real hating! peace to all warrior bros!
... Yes, actually, it seems like migya linked to that site as a means to make Mike look ridiculous (as alwasy). Unfortunately, it's not a credible sourse to make a case against Dunleavy. Cracking a couple jokes on the guy in good will didn't seem to be the main point of this; fueling more people to comment against him seemed to be the idea, TMC.
checkout Part 2 of the BLOG's Dun series!
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migya wrote:MY POINT WAS TO CREATE HUMOUR!!!!!!!!
TMC and Helloman picked up on that as always and didn't get there heads all hot and steamy!
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Anthony Davis shines as Hornets top Bobcats
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Anthony Davis had 22 points, nine rebounds and blocked a shot, and the New Orleans Hornets defeated the Charlotte Bobcats 97-82 in a preseason game Tuesday night.
Robin Lopez added 18 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks for New Orleans, while Ryan Anderson was 5 of 6 from 3-point range, finishing with 15 points.
Rookie Austin Rivers scored 13 points and Al-Farouq Aminu 12, while Greivis Vasquez had 11 assists.
Ben Gordon had 15 points for Charlotte, while Byron Mullens hit four 3s and finished with 14, but left with a hyperextended left knee in the fourth quarter. Team officials said they expected his injury to be re-evaluated Wednesday. Kemba Walker and rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist each scored 10 points.
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A grading and land disturbance permit application was filed June 21 with Camden County Planning and Zoning to allow excavation of a 30-acre parcel of land to develop a possible satellite parking lot for the Lazy Gators complex in the Horseshoe Bend area.
A grading and land disturbance permit application was filed June 21 with Camden County Planning and Zoning to allow excavation of a 30-acre parcel of land to develop a possible satellite parking lot for the Lazy Gators complex in the Horseshoe Bend area. An application for the zoning and preliminary plat development plan for the property has not yet been received from developer Gary Prewitt, according to P&Z Administrator Don Hathaway.
The county had pre-reviewed the parking lot plans with an engineer for Gators, so all the county needed was the application for the excavation to move forward.
But as with any project in the county, grading and land disturbance permit issuance is not dependent upon zoning approval.
The proposed parking lot, located about one-half from the Gators site, has never been properly zoned.
When P&Z was implemented in 2004, a few properties in this area were apparently never zoned due to an oversight or perhaps because the properties were thought to be within the boundaries of the Village of Four Seasons, according to Hathaway.
The P&Z administrator said he is working with the village to determine what their boundary is and to assign zoning to whatever properties are in the county and not zoned. They will likely be assigned zoning based on their existing use.
The property in this case is definitely outside the village boundaries, according to Hathaway, and will likely be zoned agricultural or single family residential based on existing use.
An upgrade in zoning to low impact commercial is required for the parking lot along with a development plan for landscaping and screening at the perimeter as a buffer to adjacent residential properties.
While the excavation work can be done with a grading and land disturbance permit, it does not allow the property to be paved and used as a parking lot without county approval of the zoning and development plan, Hathaway said.
The zoning and development plan application has missed the cut-off date to get on the Camden County P&Z agenda for July 17, pushing the case off until at least August if an application is filed at all.
These applications solely cover the proposed satellite parking lot and do not involve the Lazy Gators complex itself.
Camden County and Prewitt have been in litigation for several years over the zoning of the Lazy Gators property. The county has, so far, been unsuccessful in shutting the venue down. Prewitt operates under a catering license.
In a recent press release from Camden County, Hathaway acknowledged that the county commission and their legal representatives had been involved in negotiations with Prewitt over these issues.
According to Hathaway, the discussions were started at the request of Prewitt and his legal staff to review possible options for layout and rezoning of the Lazy Gators property on Sweet Williams Rd.
Hathaway said the proceedings were instigated under closed door policies and at the request of Prewitt's legal counsel. The county agreed to nondisclosure of the proceedings until after his formal submittal of an application for rezoning or permits to construct the related projects.
The meetings were held on on March 28, April 16 and April 30, 2013.
Hathaway said Prewitt submitted sketch plans at the first meeting for proposed site options for the Lazy Gators complex.
The issues of required parking for the development which is currently deficient, sanitary sewer facilities upgrades, and public transportation and street improvements, were all discussed as possible infrastructure improvements that would require verification of adequacy for any expansion of the development to proceed. Required platting, and permitting for the development in accordance with provisions of the Unified Land Use Code were also outlined.
Rezoning approval from the Planning Commission from the current single family residential zoning to a low or medium impact commercial zoning with Conditional Use Permit was discussed as a requirement for any outdoor entertainment activity. The last submittal for review on possible rezoning and site plan approval appeared to propose use of the property similar to the current level of use with added restrooms and reference to a marina.
Hathaway said it was when the two sides got together a second time that the discussions shifted from the issues of rezoning of the Lazy Gators Complex to the potential satellite parking lot located near the Gators complex.


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Leighton Meester and co-star Luke Bracey wrap their arms around each other during a friendly stroll through Paris' Pere Lachaise cemetery on Wednesday (June 23).
The twosome, Katie Cassidy, Selena Gomez and Cory Monteith have been busy in town shooting their new movie, Monte Carlo.
Leighton was last romantically linked to her Gossip Girl co-star Sebastian Stan. They partied together right before she left for Europe.
FYI: Luke is an Australian actor who starred in the Aussie soap opera Home and Away.
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Investigating with Google Maps
Ever needed to see what a building looked like before visiting the address?
Google is the go-to place for random information. From finding the owner's manual for the lawn mower that's refusing to start to looking up old significant others, most all of us have typed keywords into this or another search engine and been rewarded with more information than we can use. But Google is more than just a search engine. It can also be an investigative tool, and a threat to privacy advocates.
The Town of Riverhead, NY used images from Google Earth to locate about 250 homes with swimming pools installed without the appropriate building permits. When the town government contacted the property owners, most came in and paid the fees, which averaged $150 each. $37,500 isn't a bad return, given that the resource was free.
Google Earth and Google Maps offer overhead images of most of the world, although some are more detailed than others, and there's no way to tell how old the images are without some detective work. I can tell the image of my house is over a year old, as I had some shrubs on my property line removed last year, and the photo still shows them there. I know it's less than three years old, as the first time I looked at the image it showed a pickup truck that belonged to the previous owner of the house parked in the driveway. If I was to reconcile the features with other changes in the neighborhood I'm aware of, I could probably get the date of the photo down to a few weeks.
The level of definition and resolution varies from place to place. Generally, more populated areas have better photos, and those areas of special interest to the government can be spectacular. A few years back, I lived less than five miles from the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, MD. The imagery on Google Maps of the apartment building I lived in is good enough to identify the makes of some of the cars in the parking lot.
Rural and state fire protection agencies are using Google Maps to examine property that might be threatened by a wildfire, and determine if the brush around the property has been cleared enough to meet fire codes. This kind of inspection would be difficult at best with conventional fire inspection methods.
Another, more controversial feature of Google Maps is Google Street View. For the past several years, Google has sent crews all over the world, driving vehicles with special multi-view cameras mounted on top. These cars drive down the streets of the community, recording everything visible from the street at every angle. When the data is synchronized with Google Maps and uploaded to the web, it allows you to see the street-level view of any spot in the world where the camera cars have gone.
Ever needed to check what kind of premises was assigned to an address? Is 287 So. Webster St. in Pothole, FL a house or a mail drop? If Street View has surveyed it, you can take a virtual drive and see for yourself. Bring up the Google Map for the location and drag the little yellow "Pegman" icon onto the place you're interested in. If the icon won't "stick," there's no street view for that location. In my medium-size town, they've covered the main roads, but few of the residential neighborhoods.
Google is gradually adding aerial imagery that will permit "fly-through" views of locations. Instead of being limited to straight down and street-level views, you'll be able to see areas from any perspective by rotating the map in all three axes.
Not everyone is thrilled with having all this information available, of course. "Plain view" doctrine entitles anyone, including the police, to observe anything they can see from a place where they are lawfully entitled to be, but that doesn't keep people from being upset about it. Individuals have petitioned Google to remove images of their homes from Street View, and Google has generally complied, absent any great reason not to. People who appear in Street View images can have their faces blurred out, but it's probably a matter of time before someone is spotted in someplace they weren't supposed to be.
Is this kind of imagery too "Big Brother" for your tastes? It's one thing to have this great resource available, and another if you find your house pictured in Street View, and possibly identified as "where that cop that busted me lives" somewhere else on the web. These issues will resolve in their own time. For now, make use of it.
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Porter's Full Throttle Takes The Lead In Newport
25 June 2010
Newport, R.I. - A great, yet fantastically challenging day of racing took place in Newport for the 2010 Layline Oakcliff Northeast Regatta, hosted by Sail Newport. Three races were held revealing John Porter with tactican Jonathan McKee on Full Throttle in first place, Jason Carroll's Argo is second with John Baxter on tactics, and in third is Jim Swartz and long-time tactician Gavin Brady on Q.
Porter's Full Throttle poured on the speed right out of the gate. Michael Dominguez on Bronco had a great start putting him out front early to round the windward mark in first. Porter trailed in second followed by John Taylor on Ninkasi. Downwind Dominguez held his own to round through the gate with the breeze dropping off significantly and fast. With a change of course to 000, Porter over took Dominguez for the lead for the shortened race to win.
In race two, Q took the lead early with an aggressive pin end start. The really hot contest was between Robert Hughes with tactician Charlie Ogletree on Heartbreaker and Kip Meadows on roXanne with Andy Horton calling the shots. Meadows held on with a strong second position up until the last sprint to the finish. Hughes triumphed staying more center to the course while Meadows struggled with boat speed out on the right. Better pressure put Swartz across in first, Hughes was second and Porter finished third.
The last and final race of the day belonged to Jeff Ecklund on STAR. From almost start to finish, Ecklund had a firm grip on the lead, or at least within sight and was determined to hold on for victory. With Bill Hardesty on tactics, STAR rounded second behind Italy's Carlo Perrone on Atlantica 19 at the first mark. Ecklund eventually overtook Perrone for the win. Perrone settled for second, Hughes took third.
After racing, teams congregated at Celeritas' Malcolm and Kathy Gefter's home for snacks, wine and Long Trail Beer. Daily awards were given out to the top teams of the day. Special thanks to Mac Designs and Seahorse Magazine for the cool prizes provided alongside of the classic, overall daily winner bottles of champaign.
Top Five Results (After 3 Races)
1.) John Porter, Full Throttle; 1-3-4 = 8
2.) Jason Carroll, Argo; 2-4-9 = 15
3.) Jim Swartz, Q; 10-1-6 = 17
4.) Carlo Perrone, Atlantica 19; 7-8-2 = 17
5.) Michael Dominguez, Bronco; 3-7-7 = 17
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Full race reports, interviews and photo galleries will be posted online each day after racing at the official website of the International Melges 32 Class Association (IM32CA). If you are unable to attend 2010 Melges 32 Northeast Regatta, stay in touch by subscribing to the IM32CA RSS Feed, or visiting the Official Melges 32 Blog. Friend the fleet on Face book, follow it on Twitter and subscribe to the Official Melges 32 You Tube Channel.
The 2010 Melges 24 National Championship is graciously supported and encouraged by the following businesses. The U.S. Melges 24 Class Association (USMCA) is especially grateful to title sponsors Layline and Oakcliff Sailing Center.
The 'Original Performance Sailing Retailer', for over 20 years, Layline is back with a new vigor to provide sailors with the absolute best in custom rigging, gear, and sailing apparel. Layline is proud to be the Title Sponsor and Official Supplier of Gear and Rigging of the 2010 Layline Oakcliff U.S. Melges 24 Nationals as well as the Platinum Sponsor of the U.S. Optimist Class, Official Supplier to their U.S. National Team and Title Sponsor of the 2010 USODA Layline Nationals. Visit layline.com to learn more.
The Oakcliff Sailing Center, located in Oyster Bay, NY offers a growth path for sailors who are serious about excelling in competition as well as in the business of sailing. Operating from an America's Cup-like campus, they maintain a cutting edge fleet of Swedish Match 40's, Shields, Melges 24's, Farr 40's, IRC racers, and three classic wooden yachts.
As a foundation dedicated to the growth of individuals who are serious about the sport, Oakcliff founded the Acorn Program. This program immerses recipients in the world of sailing, covering everything from the sponsorship/business side of sailing, to high-level match racing skills. Graduating Acorns are fully prepared to manage race boats, sail in the America's Cup or become a business entrepreneur. Visit oakcliffsailing.org to learn more.
Sail Newport's Mission is to grow the sport of sailing, bring special events to Newport, and to provide public access to sailing programs in Newport Harbor and Narragansett Bay for all ages and all economic levels. Sail Newport's one design storage, regatta and service facilities make it the home for one design fleets such as the massive J/24 Fleet 50, the Laser 413 Frostbite Fleet and the 30+ boat Newport Shields Fleet 8. Visit sailnewport.org to learn more.
The USMCA would also like to extend a very special thank you to Melges USA, Quantum Sail Group, Cre843, Boston Meridian and Mac Designs.


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Shea Edmondson-Wood, an 11-year-old on the autism spectrum, has been living life in a "bubble," not interacting much with others and having a difficult time adjusting to the sights and sounds of his new home -- Melbourne, Fla.
He and his family moved to the Sunshine State from Cincinnati after his father lost his job.
"Shea kind of walks around oblivious to everyone else and has ticks, like he talks quietly to himself as he is walking and twirls his hands in the air in a circle," said his father, Craig Edmondson-Wood, 44. "He doesn't like the heavy feel of grass, and the sounds of bugs and birds bother him. He freezes when something freaks him out.
"He likes to go the beach," he said. "But most of the time, he digs big holes in the sand."
Autism takes a financial toll.
Shea's parents noticed that he liked to watch surfers and, one day, his father saw an ad for the nonprofit group Surfers for Autism and took his son to one of their events. The group caters to children with special needs, mostly those with autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, giving them a new sense of confidence.
The transformation was almost immediate. Now, Shea dons a faux blue mohawk and thrives amid shouts of "hang 10," "grab a curl, dude" and "gnarly."
Kids with autism age out of the system.
His first time in the water for a 25-minute session, Shea climbed on his knees on the surf board, lost his balance and flipped over.
"We looked at each other and said, 'Here we go. Will he like it or not?'" said his father. "It was a defining moment. We could hear our hearts beating, but he popped up with his fists in the air, 'woo hoo!' It was so awesome. He's absolutely addicted to it."
"Now he's a rock star," said Edmondson-Wood, who has helped his son set up a Web page, Puzzled Surfer, and a Twitter account. "There's loud music playing in background on speakers and parents screaming. We go wild and the kids feed on it."
Surfers for Autism was the brainchild of Don C. Ryan, a 51-year-old former sales professional and "surfer dude" whose friends and family has been touched multiple times by autism.
"We had the idea: Let's provide a day of inclusion -- a safe, judgment-free environment of feeding pizza, playing music and taking up surfing," he said. "Let's see what happens."
Ryan, who eventually quit his day job, had no idea how big his idea would grow. Just this year, the organization served 3,000 children at events around the world from Australia to Puerto Rico and numerous venues in his native Florida.
These events provide not only an opportunity to surf, but paddle boarding, live music, fire engine painting, games and much more. About 200 children with autism and their families attend each one.
"You put these kids in front of 4- or 5,000 people with loud music and everything going on and they don't have a complete meltdown," said Ryan.
"I think it's the water, but also the environment," he said. "These kids are incredibly connected and they are drawn to the water, and they look around and see their peers, and many are like them."
Thousands of autistic children go missing each month.
Autism spectrum disorder and autism are general terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development that are characterized by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors, according to the advocacy group Autism Speaks.
About 1 in 88 American children falls on the autism spectrum, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a tenfold increase in the last four decades.
Parents are asked to trust "a bunch of six-foot-two-inch, tattooed-and-covered-in-long-hair surfers," said volunteer Dave Rossman, 38. But word of mouth and social networking sites reassure parents.
No one can explain why surfing helps children with autism.
"That's the million-dollar question," said Rossman. "Truthfully, we don't care why it works, but it does -- balancing on the board so focused in the moment. We are lifelong surfers, and when you go in the ocean it has a calming effect. But maybe it's the parents cheering them on and all the rock-star pats on the backs."
"Other groups do tandem surfing on the board and the adults pull them up," he said. "But we stay on the board with them until they ideally get into their own wave and do it completely on their own. Owning it gives them self-confidence."
Rossman said he had seen "180-degree hard turns" in the personalities of autistic children after surfing. Such was the case with Shea.
"Prior to this, he would go out in water and maybe a wave [would] crash over head if he'd go out far enough," said Edmondson-Wood. "But he would go gingerly because he couldn't see under the water. He is so tactile and has to be able to identify things. When he steps on something, that unnerves him. To him, it could be anything from a shell to a sea monster."
A smart child with an uncanny recall and, sometimes, highly verbal, he tends to be isolated socially in school.
But on the beach, surfing, Shea is animated and excited.
Some of the children start just lying on large surfboards on the sand. Others go straight to the water.
"Some are really terrified and nervous," said Edmondson-Wood. "But the kids do it at their own pace."
"At school, his classmates kind of ignore him," his father said of Shea. "But when you watch the video of the kid in the blue mohawk surfing, it doesn't sound like the same kid."
Now, Shea as the "puzzled surfer" has a big Twitter following.
"It's like a huge support system," said his father.
But while the events are free, Shea's parents find it expensive to travel to events all over the state, so they have started a campaign page on the crowd-funding site, GoFundMe.com.
"We have been able to do some incredible things," said Rossman, including providing free water and food, as well as hotel discounts to offset those costs. But, he said, "we'd love to be able to cut checks left and right."
"It's a common story," he said of the children who attend the organization's events. "Once they are on the beach, you can't tell a kid with autism from any other child."


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Forum for any fantasy basketball leagues being organized
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
PAWNO wrote:How's my team Beast? You're gonna love it even more when I pick your guy in 4 picks time.
Your RB's have huge boom or bust potential. Chris Johnson is notorious for getting 20 pts one game , and then 10 the next 3 games combined. McFadden is constantly hurt but when healthy is still a top 10 back. He's back in a scheme he's comfortable with so that should help. LeSean McCoy should have a great season in Chip's new offense. Might end up splitting more carries with Bryce - I suggest handcuffing.
RG3 should have a great season passing but I doubt he puts up the running #'s he did last year which is what made him the top fantasy QB (when healthy). Still I think he'll finish as a top 8 fantasy QB. Again, there is the injury factor.
That brings me to your WR's. or your WR. This is your glaring weakness. Hakeem Nicks has been in and out of the line up the last few seasons but when healthy he is a top 10 WR, and Eli's favorite target. Due to the lack of quality WR's left, you may be forced to trade a runningback for one some time during the season.
Your team has crazy potential but it would be a miracle if they all , or even the majority made it through a full season. too risky for my blood.
Up next we have last place finisher Blackfoot. What Patriot will he take now?
Anquan Boldin. I think he could get around 900 yards and at least 8 TD's with Crabtree out.. maybe even more. Servicable WR3.


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Osama Bin Laden Wives Heading Out of Pakistan
(NEW YORK) -- Osama bin Laden's three wives are once again on their way to Saudi Arabia after serving a short sentence under house arrest in Pakistan for illegally entering the country.
The wives, along with a gaggle of children, were scheduled to leave last week but their departure was delayed when it was discovered one of the travelers -- reportedly the brother of bin Laden's youngest wife -- did not have a passport.
The three women -- two Saudis and one Yemeni -- had been held in Pakistan since the al Qaeda leader was killed in early May in a nighttime raid by U.S. Navy SEALs. Their departure comes just days before the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death, a day Western security officials are watching closely for hints of retaliatory attacks.
After the SEAL raid, American officials said they were allowed to speak to the wives once, but the oldest of the three was so combative that nothing at all came from the interrogation. Months later the wives were convicted by a Pakistani court of coming into the country illegally and served a brief detention sentence.
However, in the course of the illegal entry case against bin Laden's wives, investigators revealed new details about the al Qaeda leader's life in the shadows before his demise.
According to a police report obtained by ABC News, bin Laden's youngest wife, Amal Ahmad Abdul Fatah, told investigators that for a majority of the near-decade between the 9/11 attacks and bin Laden's death, he did not live deep in rugged caves in the Afghan border region as was the popular belief but stayed in various houses in major Pakistani cities. While he was hiding, bin Laden managed to father four children -- at least two of whom were born in government hospitals in Pakistan.
A video obtained exclusively by ABC News showing the inside of Bin Laden's last home, a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, revealed that bin Laden and his wives appeared to have lived on the top two floors of the three story house, but bin Laden could separate himself as much as he wished. The house was built to sustain multiple families independent of each other.
Still, Phil Mudd, one of the men who hunted bin Laden with the CIA, said that bin Laden's last years confined in his walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with multiple wives and children most likely were not stress-free.
"I can only begin to imagine that that looked like American reality TV," said Mudd, "that he was living in some version of the Kardashians in Abbottabad."
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has scrapped a scheduled state visit to the White House amid Brazilian outrage over news that the U.S. spied on her and a Brazilian oil company.
The cancellation of the Oct. 23 visit is the first public diplomatic fallout prompted by the revelations of National Security Agency spying and represents a serious rift between the two economic powerhouses and trading partners.
Obama has sought repeatedly to allay Brazil's concerns, meeting privately with Rousseff at an economic summit in St. Petersburg, and dispatching several top members of his administration to speak to the Brazilians. Obama spoke with Rousseff by phone Monday, and White House spokesman Jay Carney said they agreed to postpone the state visit – which would have been the first of Obama's second term.
Carney said the two presidents believed the visit "should not be overshadowed by a single bilateral issue, no matter how important or challenging the issue may be."
Brazil's O Globo television network reported earlier this month that the NSA had spied on the emails, telephone calls and text messages of Rousseff, as well as Mexico's president. It also showed the U.S. had spied on Brazilian oil company Petrobras. The reports were based on documents obtained by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, from Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who's living in Russia. Other reports that the U.S. had conducted surveillance on Brazil surfaced earlier this summer.
Carney said Obama "understands and regrets the concerns that disclosures of alleged U.S. intelligence activities have generated in Brazil and made clear that is he committed" to working with Rousseff and her government "to move beyond this issue as a source of tension in our bilateral relationship."
But the Brazilian government said Tuesday the issue has yet to be resolved to its satisfaction.
"The illegal practice of intercepting communications and data of citizens, businesses and members of the Brazilian government constitute(s) a serious act which threatens national sovereignty and individual rights, and which is incompatible with democratic coexistence between friendly countries," it said in a statement.
And, it continued, in the absence of a timely investigation and a "commitment to cease interception activities, the conditions are not present for the aforementioned visit to be conducted."
Carney stopped short of saying whether Obama had expressed regret for the U.S. spying.
"As a broad matter, obviously, this country collects intelligence, as do most countries," Carney said.
U.S. surveillance in the country is "under review," Carney said, adding the administration is discussing "with the countries who have concerns about them, the nature of the work that we do."
He said Obama did not make a final attempt to persuade Rousseff not to cancel, agreeing with her that the state visit – typically a day of pomp and ceremony – should not be overshadowed by the rift.
The revelations remain a "matter of intense focus, especially in the Brazilian media," Carney said, and likely would have drowned out anything else the two leaders discussed.
Carney said the U.S. would continue to work with Brazil on a host of critical issues, including energy.
"The implications go beyond US-Brazil relations," said David Rothkopf, chief executive officer and editor at large of Foreign Policy magazine. "This is one of the first big formal diplomatic aftershocks of the NSA scandal."
Rousseff's decision came despite several public attempts by the administration to convince her otherwise.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke to Rousseff in July by telephone, lamenting the impact on U.S.-Brazil relations, in what local press described as a cordial conversation.
In August, Secretary of State John Kerry visited Brasilia and met with Rousseff and the foreign minister. And on Monday Obama himself telephoned Rousseff.
In August, Brazil's Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo came to Washington and met with Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder, proposing that the interception of data could only be done with a Brazilian court order.
He said at an August news conference that the U.S. didn't agree with the proposal "not only with Brazil but with any country in the world."
It was unclear what the impact of the rebuff will be. The cancellation won't have much short-term effect on the U.S., said Peter Hakim, president emeritus of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy group, who noted that "Obama has a million problems, and this is not one of the top five."
But Hakim called the episode a setback for long-term relations as it "reinforces Brazil's distrust of the U.S."


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