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Turning the Water on May 25
In ongoing efforts to balance Parks' wonderful recreational experiences with sustainable water resource management, our decorative fountains, and sprayparks will operate in 2013 from Saturday, May 25, the first day of Memorial Day weekend, to Labor Day weekend. If the weather is good, Parks may extend the season for decorative fountains and sprayparks to September 15.
Specific daily openings for the wading pools will begin on June 22 and they will operate on sunny days when the temperature is forecast to be 70 degrees or higher. The wading pool hotline, updated each summer day by 9:30 a.m., is 206-684-7796.
Seattle Parks and Recreation offers several types of water features: decorative fountains, interactive fountains, and sprayparks.
There are interactive fountains at Ballard Commons Park, Lake Union Park and Miller Community Center.
There are decorative fountains at Cal Anderson Park, Freeway Park (Legion, Canyon, Pigott and 6th and Seneca fountains), Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park, Westlake Park, Tilikum Place, and Waterfront Park.
Parks now offers sprayparks at Jefferson Park's Beacon Mountain, Georgetown Playfield, John C. Little, Sr. Park, Lower Judkins Park, Northacres Park, Pratt Park, and Highland Park (opening later this spring).
Irrigation Reduction Study
In the summer of 2012, Parks conducted a focused irrigation reduction study to assess the impacts of a significant voluntary reduction in terms of financial savings, landscape health, water reduction and public response. Low priority irrigation areas such as informal lawns and well-established shrubs were targeted for reduction in about 150 parks, boulevards and triangles. High priority areas such as athletic fields, play areas, wading pools and beaches, special gardens, and areas with new plantings received
normal watering. Parks was able to save approximately 59,000 CCF (or hundred cubic feet, equaling 44 million gallons) and approximately $290,000 compared to recent four-year average use. This is just over a 20% reduction in average use, particularly remarkable given the 59-day dry spell Seattle experienced in summer 2012. What Parks learned is that it is cost effective in normal times to use the strategy usually reserved for drought conditions.
Based on continued need for balancing financial sustainability, park visitor experience, and environmental stewardship, Parks plans to continue similar irrigation conservation strategies in 2013. Parks staff will adjust sites to minimize the risk of any long term landscape health issues.
Peak-season water rates have increased 153% since 2007. While conservation can help the bottom line, park landscapes will continue to need water to maintain the trust the public has placed in Parks, and to support Parks' great recreation opportunities and other environmental stewardship initiatives such as the Green Seattle Partnership's citywide natural area restoration programs. Staff will continue to manage water use in the various types of landscapes with landscape health as the first priority, and will continue to uphold a strong conservation ethic by careful irrigation scheduling, appropriate plant selection, expedient irrigation repairs, and continuing to automate Parks' irrigation systems.
The public can help in these efforts by reporting leaky irrigation lines to Parks' maintenance request line, 206-684-7250, or emailing email@example.com.


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A mother who was raped by her estranged husband as she cuddled her four-year-old daughter in bed has spoken out against the culture of 'victim-blaming' in sexual abuse cases.
The 40 year old, who says she would have waived her right to anonymity if it weren't for the fear of identifying her children, believes rape is rape – no matter who the perpetrator.
The victim has waited a number of months since the sentencing of the father of her three children – who raped her in what was their marital home in Hemel Hempstead back in 2011 – to talk openly about the traumatic ordeal.
The mother had also refrained from reporting the vile attack straight away because she thought she would not be believed, and because her priority at the time was finding a safe home for herself and the children.
Her attacker – whom she was separated from at the time – was jailed for six years and labelled a 'bully who sought to dominate his ex-wife' by the judge who sentenced him in February of this year.
However, the victim says she feels no shame and wants to help others who may find themselves in the same terrifying position.
Speaking of the fateful night, she said: "In everyday language, we say things like, 'I thought they were going to kill me' – we band those kinds of words around.
"But when you genuinely fear that someone is going to kill you, all you can think is, 'this is it'.
"All I could focus on was that it needed to happen quietly so that my daughter would not wake up or see this.
"I have never felt such deep, intense, overwhelming fear, and it has left me deeply scarred."
She said she experienced two 'switch moments' during the long-term period of abuse – the first to leave her husband, and the second which led her to seek justice against him following the sickening attack more than three years ago.
Speaking to other victims of domestic or sexual abuse, she said: "That decision has to come from within. You need to believe that you can do it.
"There is support available through lots of agencies for women and the support I received was incredibly empowering.
"For me the criminal process became the way forward as a platform to have my say and have justice for the terrible things he did that night."
While the woman cites the Womens Aid, Refuge, Rape Crisis and Everyday Victim Blaming charities as helping her through her tribulation, she believes there is still a problem in the way rape and sexual abuse victims are viewed by the masses.
She said: "In cases of sexual violence and rape, the victim – woman or child – can never, ever be accountable or responsible.
"Rape is rape. Rapists are generally men and they are the men that we work with, go to the gym with, go to the pub with.
"They are not monsters lurking in alleyways, and the judge was very clear in his sentencing remarks in my case about that."
An investigation into the reporting of rape crimes across the country, published earlier this year, found that Herts police was among the highest forces in terms of rape allegations later classed as 'no crime' – when additional verifiable information determines no crime has been committed – with a rate of 21 per cent as opposed to an average of 12 per cent across England and Wales.
At the time, the figures were commented on by Dru Sharpling, chair of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's rape monitoring group, who said they could reflect a 'culture of disbelief' in the forces.
While the Herts force was one of the first in the country to set up a unit specifically dedicated to investigating rape and sexual assault, a police spokesman said it needed to better encourage and reassure victims of rape to come forward.
While this victm said the liaison officer she was assigned was very supportive, she still believes that people like herself who have been raped are generally not seen in the same way as those who have been affected by other crimes.
She said: "People don't believe. If I said my house had been burgled, no-one would doubt me. They would believe me and be sympathetic, but that's not the same idea people have when you say you were raped.
"Some people still excuse the behaviour or refuse to look at the facts and believe it.
"Just because he seems like a nice guy to you, it does not mean he is not capable of rape. That is an incredibly important message."
The mother has now moved to a new home and is rebuilding her life with her children, though she revealed they are still dealing with the lasting emotional effects of their ordeal.
If you are a victim of domestic or sexual abuse and wish to seek help, visit womensaid.org.uk, refuge.org.uk, rapecrisis.org.uk or everydayvictimblaming.com, or hertssunflower.org where further support and contact details are signposted.

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One of the questions undoubtedly asked of the GM candidates by Mets ownership during the interview process are their thoughts on the manager. No way a candidate doesn't go into an interview with Jeff Wilpon without some idea as to who he wants as manager.
Some names would not come as a surprise; others might cause some wonder.
None of these candidates are without ideas and contacts. The way these things work at times is the GM candidate might tell a potential manager, "hey, I'm being considered by the Mets. If I get it I'd like to talk to you about being manager. Hang tight."
If the relationship between the potential GM and potential manager is close – perhaps they have even worked together before – much of the leg work is already done. This should speed up the process when the Mets finally make their GM hire.
I still like Sandy Alderson because he has the largest body of successful work and would bring the most to the table right away. The Mets are still hoping they'd like to get this done by the end of the World Series.
Although it would have been great to have this taken care of sooner, but getting the right man is the most important thing.


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University of Vermont
Department of Physics: Condensed Matter Theory Group
Electronic Conduction at the Edge
- 05-02-2013
- By Adrian G Del Maestro
An international team of researchers including Prof. Adrian Del Maestro at the University of Vermont may have uncovered a way to improve the efficiency of proposed future electronics built from the edges of a new class of exotic materials. In conventional electronic circuitry, electrons move through crystalline wires but their flow is impeded by scattering off defects producing a finite resistance. Topotronics employ quantum mechanical degrees of freedom which allow for highly conducting dissipation free channels at the surface of materials which would otherwise be insulating in their bulk. In a paper appearing in the journal Physical Review B, Prof. Del Maestro and his collaborators have shown that the spin polarization of electrons at the surface of a topological insulator made from mercury and tellurium makes them susceptible to a different type of scattering due to the magnetic interaction between electrons and the fixed mercury nuclei. By building topotronics with isotopes that do not contain any nuclear spins, conducting wires could made with vanishingly small electrical resistance leading to applications including better batteries and more efficient computers.


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Brown's Agents Arrest Nine Suspects in Medi-Cal Fraud Scam
LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the arrests of nine people in a San Bernardino County Medi-Cal fraud case in which employees of a skilled nursing facility and their associates falsified documentation and "callously stole" more than $150,000 from patients and their families for their own personal use.
"This scam ripped off both senior citizens and our desperately needed public health funds," said Brown. "These thieves callously stole thousands of state dollars meant to be spent on seniors in this skilled nursing facility."
The investigation was launched in January by the Attorney General's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse after an initial investigation by the state's Department of Health Care Services.
Brown's office charged employees and associates at Community Extended Care Hospital of Montclair with committing Medi-Cal fraud in order to steal assets from the trust accounts of elderly patients, which were held by the facility.
From 2006 to 2009, several employees of the extended care hospital conspired with a former San Bernardino County employee who fraudulently submitted documentation to the Medi-Cal program so that Medi-Cal would pay the entire monthly bill for more than 50 patients in the facility.
Then the conspirators told patients and their families they were required to pay a share of the cost of their care directly to the facility. The payments made by the patients and their families were then placed in patient trust accounts, and the suspects took that money for their own personal gain.
The scam involved hospital employees writing checks, ranging from $250 to $6,900, from the patient accounts to individuals in the gang, including a UPS driver, their own relatives, and a next door neighbor, who would then cash the checks, take a percentage of the stolen funds and return most of the cash to the hospital employees. The checks were approved by officials at the hospital.
Nine suspects were arrested this morning and are now in custody at San Bernardino County Jail. Bail was set for $1 million on each defendant. One suspect, Maribel Velazquez, is still at large.
The ten individuals charged in the crime are:
Johannes Simanjuntak, 59, of Pomona, a former administrator at the hospital
Peggy Lee Hoskins, 58, of Upland, a former personnel manager at the hospital
Laurie Diane Powell, 46, of Riverside, former San Bernardino County employee
Sean Matthew Ashton, 22, of Riverside, Powell's son
Andy Perry Tricas, 46, of Duarte, boyfriend of suspect (now deceased)
Arnon Graham, 50, of Rancho Cucamonga, UPS driver
Claudia Zaragoza, 34, of Bloomington, Social Services designee
Orelious Antonio Peevy, 41, of Chino, Social Services designee
Maribel Velazquez, 36, of Chaparral, New Mexico, administrative worker at the hospital (not in custody)
David Carmona, 74, of LaVerne, neighbor of deceased employee
"Our anti-fraud partnership with the Attorney General's Office has once again helped protect our most vulnerable citizens and ensure that valuable Medi-Cal funds are used for their intended purpose,' said Karen Johnson, Department of Health Care Services Chief Deputy Director. 'We will continue our coordinated efforts as we work to prosecute offenders to the fullest extent allowed by law.'
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John Bapst High School Postcard, Bangor, ca. 1930Item 35482 info
John Bapst Memorial High School
In 1928, the Catholic Diocese of Maine named John Bapst High School in Bangor as a testament to the learned and devout missionary. The school, located in Bangor's Broadway Historic District, now offers a non-sectarian, independent, college-preparatory program for grades 9-12.


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Everyone's welcome to attend Minnesota native's free talk and book signing.
Tastefully Simple founder and CEO Jill Blashack Strahan will speak at the U of M, Crookston Tuesday, Feb. 26 as part of an entrepreneurship speakers' series sponsored by the Center for Rural Entrepreneurial Studies. Her presentation, entitled "Small Beginnings—Big Dreams" will begin at noon in Kiehle Auditorium. The event is free and all are invited.
Afterward, Blashack Strahan will sign her book, "Simply Shine: Stories that Stirred the Fire." The books will be available for purchase.
Blashack Strahan was born and raised in Villard, Minn., and grew up on her family's farm, where she was influenced by her father's entrepreneurial spirit. She managed and owned Jill's Grill in Villard and eventually started a retail gift basket shop. Then her future took a turn. Prior to selling her business in 1994, Jill participated in a Holiday Crafters Tour to promote her baskets. She provided samples of the easy-to-prepare foods and experienced remarkable sales. Jill realized the power of taste-testing and Tastefully Simple idea was born.
Tastefully Simple is a $100 million company with more than 300 employees and some 21,000 independent consultants. Blashack Strahan is recognized as an exceptional CEO, having won numerous awards for her achievements and unique philosophies of positivity and abundance.


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The two teams will meet in a rematch Saturday afternoon.
Lipscomb's Mackenzie Bishop, a freshman, was successful in her collegiate debut, beating Corinna Reischl 6-4, 7-6 Friday in Martin, Tenn.
"She played really tough in her first college match and pulled out a close match win," said Lady Bisons coach Kristin Lusk.
Danielle Hansen pushed her match to three sets, winning 7-6 and then losing 6-4 and 7-6 to Alice Laing.
"Danielle had a long three-set match and unfortunately came up short in the end," said Lusk. "She played really well and I hope she gets the chance to play Laing again in the future.
"Danielle showed a lot of maturity in her play, and she showed a lot of improvement in her game from her freshman year."
Despite the loss, Lusk saw reasons to be optimistic about her team.
"We played a lot of good tennis," said Lusk. "It was exciting to see the improvements we've made as a team in just one year."
Martie Wahl/Belisa DeBrito (UTM) def. Kara Jackson/Elizabeth Keevil (LU) 6-1, 7-5
Alice Laing (UTM) def. Danielle Hansen (LU) 6-7, 6-4, 7-6
Mackenzie Bishop (LU) def. Corinna Reischl (UTM) 6-4, 7-6
Anna Winkelmann (UTM) def. Carlina Jow (LU) 6-0, 6-1
Anna Marie Herbold (UTM) def. Julianne McMeen (LU) 6-4, 6-1


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Transcendent-diptych Painting
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Painted in (year): 2016
Category: original abstract paintings
TAGS: • Oil • Large (over 39 inch) • Impressionism • Abstract
Transcendent-Diptych is an original, large one-of-a-kind abstract painting signed by artist Ioan Popei. This piece of art was created in 2016 and the painter used oil on canvas. It measures 47" x 28" inch (120 x 70 cm) and is available for sale online for 1500 USD.
Born to the town of Agapia, Romania, in the year 1954, Ioan Popei takes painting to a soothing new level, striving to provide paintings with gentle colors and calming ones that show off his gentle ways and reflect the placid spirit that moves the paintbrush to create the strokes on his mediums. Ioan Popei is primarily an oil painter with his beautiful works showing up on mediums such as cardboard and canvas alike, offering unique mediums that get across his interesting points.
ORIGINAL ARTIST DESCRIPTION (not edited):
"One of my girlfriends works"


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Adults: Group Care
Sheryl Zimmerman
This entry presents information about group settings that provide residential long-term care for older adults, focusing on nursing homes and residential care/assisted living communities. It provides an overview of both settings, and describes their scope of services, funding, and clientele. The section Issues in Residential Long-Term Care addresses issues of special relevance to social workers: dementia and other psychosocial care needs; quality of life and quality of care; access to and disparities in care; end-of-life care; family involvement; and abuse and neglect. It ends with a section on the role of the social worker in residential long-term care.
Ageism in the Workplace
Patricia Brownell
Older workers make important contributions to the workplace, its productivity, and its culture. Work remains important for older adults for financial security, to give meaning to later life, to maintain social networks, and to promote lifelong learning. However, ageist beliefs about the capacity of older adults to remain productive and contributing workers in the workforce can create barriers for older workers. Understanding how older workers experience ageist behavior in the workplace can help employers, policy makers, and social workers learn more about how to address this social problem. Organizations can become more age friendly through enabling workplace programs, supportive management, and proactive human resource managers. Social workers serving older adults in employee assistance programs and in private practice can help them to challenge ageism in the workplace. Finally, legislation such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects the rights of older workers; however, more legislation is needed to address bullying and harassment of older adults in the workplace.
Ageism and Retirement
Lynn McDonald
Retirement is a modest social institution that appeared in most industrialized nations near the start of the 20th century. The aim of retirement was to solve the societal dilemma of an increasingly aged labor force by moving older workers systematically out of their jobs so as to not cause them financial harm (Atchley, 1980, p. 264). Although retirement has been considered benign since its inception, the history of retirement indicates that it is one of the main progenitors of ageism in society today (Atchley, 1982, 1993; Haber & Gratton, 1994; McDonald, 2013; Walker, 1990). Retirement and its accompanying stereotypes have been used as a tool for the management of the size and composition of the labor force contingent on the dictums of current markets in any given historical era. Ever-changing ideologies about older adults that extend from negative to positive ageism have been utilized by business, government, the public, and the media to support whatever justification is required in a particular era, with little thought to the harm perpetrated on older adults. Unfortunately, society has subscribed to these justifications en masse, including older adults themselves. In this article the ageism embedded in retirement is examined to make what is implicit explicit to social work practitioners and policymakers in the field of aging.
Aging: Overview
Nancy R. Hooyman and Amanda Barusch
The rapidly growing older population is more heterogeneous than any other age group. Although many face vulnerabilities and inequities as they age, most are resilient. This entry explores the "greying of America," examines the definition and measurement of aging, reviews the diversity among older adults in the United States, discusses productive, successful, and active aging, and suggests leadership roles for social workers in enhancing the well-being of elders and their families.
Aging: Practice Interventions
Lenard W. Kaye
Social workers address older adult issues at all levels of service planning, policy-making, and delivery and across a wide range of community and institutional settings. While various models of practice intervention with older adults exist, more recently the focus is on the integration of micro and macro strategies with an emphasis on strength-based perspectives to geriatric social work practice. The older adult population will expand dramatically and become increasingly culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse in the future and social work services will need to be sensitive to the variety of issues faced by a more heterogeneous and sophisticated older adult population.
Aging: Public Policy
Jeanette C. Takamura
Public policy advances in the field of aging in the United States have lagged compared to the growth of the older adult population. Policy adjustments have been driven by ideological perspectives and have been largely incremental. In recent years, conservative policy makers have sought through various legislative vehicles to eliminate or curb entitlement programs, proposing private sector solutions and touting the importance of an "ownership society" in which individual citizens assume personal responsibility for their economic and health security. The election of a Democratic majority in the U.S. House and the slim margin of votes held by Democrats in the U.S. Senate may mean a shift in aging policy directions that strengthens Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, if the newly elected members are able to maintain their seats over time. The results of the 2008 presidential election will also determine how the social, economic, and other policy concerns will be addressed as the baby boomers join the ranks of older Americans.
Aging: Racial and Ethnic Groups
Daniel S. Gardner and Caroline Rosenthal Gelman
Minority and immigrant elders constitute a greater proportion of the population than ever before and are the fastest growing segment of the older population. Within these racial and ethnic groups there is considerable variation with regard to age, gender, country of origin, language, religion, education, income, duration of U.S. residency, immigration status, living arrangements, social capital, and access to resources. The authors summarize research on older adults regarding racial and ethnic disparities, barriers to health and social service utilization, and dynamics of family caregiving. Implications are offered for social-work practice, policy, and research.
Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
Carole B. Cox
Dementia is not a disease, but a group of symptoms so severe that they inhibit normal functioning. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia in older persons impacting not only the person with the illness but the entire family. Obtaining an accurate diagnosis is essential in order to assure appropriate and timely care and to exclude reversible causes of dementia. Social workers can play key roles throughout the course of the illness as educators, therapists, supporter and advocates for improved policies and services.
Counseling Older Adult Victims of Ageism in the Workplace
Margo A. Jackson
Despite the significant life and work experiences that a growing number of older adults have to contribute to the workforce, pervasive ageism operates in overt and covert ways to discriminate against older workers in hiring and workplace practices. This article provides a current overview of definitions, prevalence, types, and effects of ageism in the U.S. workplace. For social workers counseling older adult victims of workplace ageism, this article discusses theories, foundational knowledge, and ongoing self-awareness and training needed for bias awareness. Counseling strategies and resources are highlighted, including coping and resilience strategies to counteract ageist stereotypes and discrimination, facilitate job-seeking support, and advocate for older workers by promoting awareness and serving as a resource for employers to reduce workplace ageism.
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
Martha A. Sheridan and Barbara J. White
Effective social work practice with deaf and hard-of-hearing people requires a unique, and diverse, collection of knowledge, values, skills, and ethical considerations. Salient issues among this population are language, communication, and educational choices, interpreting, assistive devices, cochlear implants, genetics, culture, and access to community resources. Competencies at micro, mezzo, and macro levels with a deaf or hard-of-hearing population include knowledge of the psychosocial and developmental aspects of hearing loss, fluency in the national sign language, and an understanding of deaf cultural values and norms. In the United States, the use of American Sign Language (ASL) is the single most distinguishing factor that identifies deaf people as a linguistic minority group. This entry presents an overview of the practice competencies and intervention approaches that should be considered in working with deaf and hard-of-hearing people, their families, communities, and organizations. It introduces the knowledge base, diversity in community and cultural orientations, social constructions, and international perspectives, current research and best practices, interdisciplinary connections, trends, challenges, and implications for effective social work practice with this population. An integrative strengths-based transactional paradigm is suggested.
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An application by three men to stop the two referendums from going ahead tomorrow has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.
The High Court had earlier refused the application.
The men, who represented themselves in court, claimed that Article 46.4 of the Constitution prevented two proposals to amend it from being put to the people on the same day.
Harry Rea told High Court President Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns that when Eamon De Valera was president he had said the people should not be offered two separate items on the same day.
They asked the court to restrain the holding of the referendums.
Mr Justice Kearns said the three men had misconstrued Article 46 and what it actually meant was that a bill to amend the Constitution should not contain any other law making provision.
He dismissed their application.


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Give yourself a round of applause, attachment parenting mamas! The hard work you are doing is paying off. We have another study that says just how important bonding with your baby is -- oh, yeah, this one is pretty cool.
This study published in the Psychological Science studied subjects for two decades -- 20 years, folks -- to see how their attachment styles as infants affected their relationships later in life. Turns out, the stronger bond a person had with her mother as an infant, the better she was able to resolve conflicts in her relationships as a young adult.
That's big guns. That's huge. But I'm not surprised.
Yes, there's a lot of definitions flying around of what attachment parenting is, the proper rules of attachment parenting, and so on. I really like what Michele, fellow blogger here at The Stir, wrote: "Many parents practice Attachment Parenting long before they find out that it's been given a name, if they ever do."
She's right. Think of it this way: the bonding you are doing with that baby, the breastfeeding, the babywearing -- that is all attachment parenting. Talking to her about random things throughout the day, responding to her cries quickly, keeping her close to you -- that's all under the attachment parenting umbrella, too.
I call it gettin' in the groove with your kiddo. Here is this little person who you will have a lifelong relationship with -- lifelong is, well, a long time. Relationships of any kind take work, they take time spent together, they take constant nurturing. I like to think that, at the heart of it, attachment parenting is about respect. With attachment parenting, you are treating your child with respect. By doing this, you establish the foundation of the strong relationship, you establish your bond with each other. That's what we want, right? A strong bond? You betcha.
Of course, attachment parenting goes beyond the first year of your kiddo's life -- it's how you interact with your child as she grows. Again, it's respecting her, paying attention to her cues, and providing her with choices rather than rules so she becomes independent and confident in her ability to travel through this world.
So, the results of this study make total sense to me. With attachment parenting, we're teaching our kids how to have good, trusting, stable relationships. Doesn't surprise me that then those babies with strong bonds grow up and handle relationship conflicts, the bumps in the road, in a healthier way than those that didn't have that example.
Nope, this study doesn't surprise me. It energizes me. It give me that little pat on the back that what I'm doing with my kiddo -- which isn't always the easiest or most popular (I'm talking to you, Tiger Mom) -- is all worth it. Let's all feel good about it.
How do you feel about attachment parenting?
Image via LisaW123/Flickr


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Royals Beat Twins 5-2; Doumit Leaves Game Early
The Twins lost 5-2 at Kansas City Wednesday night to lose the series 2 games to 1. Sam Deduno didn't have his best start allowing 12 hits and 4 earned runs in 5 2/3 innings to take the loss and drop to 7-5. Brian Dozier went 3-5 with a run scored and 1 RBI. Both Jamey Carroll and Justin Morneau had 2 hits.
Alex Gordon had 2 htis, a homerun and 2 RBIs for the Royals. The Twins are 49-62 and will begin a 4-game series in Chicago against the White Sox Friday. The Twins play a day/night doubleheader Friday at 1:10, pregame on WJON at 12:40. This makes up for a previous rain-out. Kyle Gibson starts the afternoon game while Liam Hendriks is expected to be called up to pitch the night game.
Twins catcher/outfielder Ryan Doumit left the game at Kansas City Wednesday night in the 4th inning due to nausea. The nausea is a sign of concussion like symptoms and Doumit is expected to be placed on the 7-day concussion disabled list. Outfielder Josh Willingham is expected to be activated off the 15-day disabled list Friday.


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The NCAA would have you dismiss all Dumb Jock stereotypes, but the ribbon board tonight announced a far more important notice: next year's Final Four will take place in "Alanta."
Where is Alanta, you might ask? It's a small town in Lithuania due north of the capital Vilnius. It's not unprecedented, really—sure, the NCAA Tournament's always been held inside the United States, but clearly the suits were impressed with the basketball fanaticism displayed when Lithuania hosted the Eurobasket championships last year. We don't know yet where the games will be held, as Alanta only has about 500 residents. They have a year to sort that out. Most excited about the shift in venue? The seven (by my count) Lithuanian-born players currently in Division I. (Bad timing for Gilvydas Biruta, the best of them, who's transferring from Rutgers and thus won't be eligible to play—like Rutgers was going to make the Final Four anyway, ever.)


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The Summer Olympics in London helped transfix the eyes of the sports world on representatives of Newport-Mesa.
No spotlight was as brilliant as that created when Misty May-Treanor and her partner met fellow Newport Harbor High alumnus April Ross and her partner in the women's beach volleyball final.
Spotlights of varying scope also brought into focus the accomplishments of a few championship teams and individuals to form the top 10 Newport-Mesa sports stories for 2012, as selected by the Daily Pilot sports staff:
1) OLYMPIC BEACH VOLLEYBALL — Newport Harbor High product Misty May-Treanor and partner Kerri Walsh Jennings topped Newport Harbor graduate April Ross and her partner, Jennifer Kessy, 21-16, 21-16, in the gold medal women's beach volleyball match in London.
The match not only highlighted the former Sailors' rise to the top of their sport, but it capped a transcendent career for May-Treanor, who retired from the sport after claiming her third straight Olympic gold medal.
May-Treanor, who was NCAA Player of the Year and won an NCAA title at Long Beach State after leading Newport Harbor to a pair of CIF State championships, finished with a women's record 112 beach tournament victories during a professional career that began in 1999. Her career winnings were listed at more than $2.1 million. She was 35 in London.
May-Treanor was named USA Volleyball's Athlete of the Year in women's beach volleyball.
May-Treanor added a bronze medal in 2000 to her three Olympic gold medals and became among the few athletes to earn a place on a Wheaties box.
The final gave May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings a 28-5 all-time record against Ross-Kessy. May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings finished 21-0 in Olympic competition, having won 42 of 43 sets.
Ross, 30 in London, and Kessy knocked off the top-seeded tandem from Brazil that had beaten them nine straight times in one semifinal.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings beat the No. 2-seeded duo from China to reach the final.
Dan Glenn, who coached both players at Newport Harbor, conveyed praise upon two of the Sailors' most famous athletic alumni.
"They both won state championships at Newport, both were NCAA Player of the Year and they are both winners in everything they've ever done," Glenn said.
2) CORONA DEL MAR FOOTBALL — The Sea Kings won their final 10 games to claim their second straight CIF Southern Section Southern Division championship with a 35-10 title-game triumph over Garden Grove at Angel Stadium.
Coach Scott Meyer's squad (12-2), which posted shutouts in its first three playoff games, also featured an explosive offense triggered by senior quarterback Cayman Carter, senior tailback Kai Wilson and senior receiver Troy Reese.
Carter, the Pacific Coast League MVP, threw for 2,210 yards and 17 touchdowns and rushed for 1,073 yards and 15 touchdowns, while Wilson overcame an early season injury to rush for 1,058 yards and nine touchdowns.
Reese caught 55 passes for 803 yards and nine TDs.
Junior linebacker Alex Moore led the defense with 143 tackles and shared PCL Defensive MVP laurels. Senior Alex Molinari had 81 tackles, sophomore Barrett Barbato 75, sophomore Robbie Hoffman 73 and sophomore Hoyt Crance 66.
Senior end Tim Reinhardt had nine sacks among his 47 tackles and senior kicker Griff Amies tied a state single-season record with 22 field goals, including a school-record 52-yarder.
3) UC IRVINE MEN'S VOLLEYBALL — The Anteaters defeated top-ranked and No. 2-seeded USC, 25-22, 24-32, 26-24, in front of 9,612 at the Trojans' Galen Center to claim the UCI program's third NCAA title in the last six seasons.
Senior four-time All-American Carson Clark, a 6-foot-6 opposite, had a match-high 22 kills to pad his school career kills record to 1,861 and lead No. 2-ranked and top-seeded UCI to victory, after some dramatics on their way to the final. Clark was named Most Outstanding Player of the four-team NCAA Championship.
Junior outside hitter Kevin Tillie, a native of France who transferred after two collegiate seasons in Canada, earned first-team All-American honors. He became a dynamic attacker for the 'Eaters and led the way in a five-set win over USC in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament semifinals after the Trojans won the first two games.
Senior middle blocker Dan McDonnell, a third-team All-American, served the match-clinching ace in the NCAA final, while junior setter Chris Austin, sophomore middle blocker Scott Kevorken, sophomore outside hitter Connor Hughes and freshman libero Michael Brinkley also contributed.
Sophomore outside hitter Jeremy Dejno earned first-team All-MPSF laurels, while seniors Kevin Carroll, Austin D'Amore and Will Montgomery, as well as sophomore setter Daniel Stork, were also key cogs for the 'Eaters.
The title added to NCAA crowns in 2009 and 2007 and capped the 10-year coaching tenure of John Speraw.
4) BACK BAY GIRLS' WATER POLO — High school rivals Newport Harbor and Corona del Mar battled five times, capped by the Sailors' dramatic 8-7 victory in the 2012 CIF Southern Section Division 1 title game at Irvine High.
Newport Harbor, seeded No. 2 in the playoffs, won its last 16 contests to finish 27-4.
CdM (28-3), earned the No. 1 playoff seeding by winning the first three meetings with the Tars.
Newport Harbor senior Maddy McLaren earned Newport-Mesa Dream Team Player of the Year recognition, and was also Sunset League Co-Player of the Year and a first-team All-CIF honoree.
Senior Carly Christian and junior Elissia Schilling were also first-team All-CIF and Dream Team performers for Coach Bill Barnett's Sailors, who earned the program's fifth section championship.
Senior Presley Pender, junior Avery Peterson and sophomore goalie Cleo Harrington were all second-team All-CIF and represented the Sailors on the Dream Team.
For CdM, senior goalie Alex Musselman was first-team All-CIF, Pacific Coast League MVP and a member of the Dream Team. Her 891 career saves set an Orange County record.
Senior Diana Murphy was also a first-team All-CIF choice, who was joined on the Dream Team by second-team All-CIF honorees and CdM teammates Cassidy Papa and Ally McCormick, both juniors, as well as senior Pippa Saunders.
5) LOCALS IN LONDON — Esther Lofgren (women's rowing) and Tumua Anae (women's water polo) joined Misty May-Treanor as locals to earn Olympic gold medals in a Summer Games stocked with athletes and coaches with local ties.
Lofgren, a Newport Harbor High graduate, competed with the victorious U.S. women's eight boat. It was her first Olympics after being the final cut from the 2008 squad that won gold in Beijing.
Anae, a Corona del Mar High product, was a backup goalie for Team USA, which finished 5-0-1 in the tournament and topped Spain in the final.
Dan Klatt, the UC Irvine women's coach, was an assistant for the victorious American women's water polo squad.
April Ross teamed with partner Jennifer Kessy to claim silver medals in women's beach volleyball, while UCI women's volleyball head coach Paula Weishoff and UCI women's assistant Jamie Morrison were both assistants on the U.S. women's indoor volleyball team that won a silver medal.
Olympic coaches do not receive medals.
Kyla Ross, a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. women's gymnastics unit, trained in Costa Mesa.
Sam Mikulak, a CdM High graduate, was fifth in the vault in men's gymnastics. He also competed in four events in the team final, in which Team USA finished fifth.
Costa Mesa resident Jake Gibb and his partner, Corona del Mar resident Sean Rosenthal, lost in the men's beach volleyball quarterfinals.
The U.S. men's indoor volleyball team that included UCI products David Smith and Brian Thornton and was coached by former Orange Coast College player Alan Knipe, also lost in the quarterfinals. The team benefited from then-UCI men's coach John Speraw, who was an assistant coach.
The American men's water polo team that lost in the quarterfinals included CdM High graduate John Mann and former UCI All-Americans Ryan Bailey, Jeff Powers and Tim Hutten. Newport Harbor boys' coach Robert Lynn was an assistant coach for the team.
Sharon Day, a Costa Mesa High graduate, finished 16th in the women's heptathlon.
Tony Ciarelli, who coaches track and field and football at Newport Harbor, coached a women's discus thrower from India in London, while Newport Harbor graduate Charlie Buckingham coached an athlete in the lasers individual sailing competition.
Maryn Ciarelli, who coaches track and field, as well as strength and conditioning at Newport Harbor, was May-Treanor's strength and conditioning coach.
Newport Beach athletes have represented the United States on the medal stand in every Olympics since 1996, and seven of the last eight Summer Games since the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
6) TOSHIBA CLASSIC — Loren Roberts won by two shots to pocket the $262,500 winner's check at the 18th edition of the Champions Tour event at Newport Beach Country Club.
Roberts, 56, made the last of his 15 birdies over the 54-hole event on his final hole. He entered the final day two shots behind Mark Calcavecchia, who missed a 10-foot eagle put on the final hole and finished tied for second with Bernhard Langer and Tom Kite.
It was the 13th Champions Tour triumph for Roberts, but his first in his last 33 starts, spanning nearly two years.
Roberts, who made a slight adjustment in his putting technique before the tournament, made birdie on three of his first four holes to turn a two-shot deficit into a two-shot lead. He then upped the lead to four shots with a birdie on the par-five No. 13. Bogeys on three of the next four holes trimmed his lead to one shot, but he capped the win with a final-round of two-under par. He shot eight-under (205) for the tournament.
The event also raised another $1 million for Hoag Hospital.
7) SPERAW LEAVES UCI — John Speraw, who in 10 seasons coached the UC Irvine men's volleyball team to three NCAA titles and four Final Four appearances, accepted an offer to replace legendary coach Al Scates, who had retired, at UCLA.
Speraw, who played and coached under Scates, was 199-106 at UCI, where he established the Anteaters as the top program in the nation.
Speraw said a considerable pay raise, a program budget that nearly doubled that of UCI, and the ability to return to his alma mater were deciding factors in leaving Irvine behind.
Speraw's legacy at UCI includes Mountain Pacific Sports Federation titles in 2012, 2009 and 2006, National Coach of the Year honors in 2006 and MPSF Coach of the Year recognition in 2012 and 2006.
The Anteaters held the top national ranking during the seasons of 2012, 2009, 2007, 2006 and 2003 and have appeared in the American Volleyball Coaches Assn. top-15 poll for the last 118 consecutive weeks.
"[Speraw] has meant everything to UCI volleyball," said four-time senior All-American Carson Clark. "The program was nonexistent on the national radar before he came here."
8) OCC BASEBALL — One of the most talented teams in the 64-season history of the program was ranked No. 1 in one national poll for most of the season, won the school's first outright Orange Empire Conference title since 1987 and advanced to the four-team state championship tournament.
Two straight losses in the state tournament brought a hasty end to a 36-7-1 campaign, after which six players were selected in the major league draft.
Freshman pitcher Brandon Brennan (fourth round by the Chicago White Sox), freshman outfielder Bijan Rademacher (13th round, Chicago Cubs), sophomore catcher Stefan Sabol (17th round, New York Mets), freshman outfielder Boog Powell (20th round, Oakland A's) and sophomore shortstop Joel Licon (25th round, Minnesota Twins) all signed professional contracts, rather than honor commitments to four-year schools.
Sophomore outfielder Chris Carlson, the state and conference player of the year, was drafted in the 33rd round by the Red Sox, but chose to go to New Mexico State.
New Mexico State also corralled sophomore Keegan Yuhl, the Orange Empire Conference Pitcher of the Year.
Brennan, Powell, Rademacher and Yuhl joined Carlson as first-team all-state performers, while Licon was a second-team honoree.
The Pirates' .830 winning percentage was the program's best since 1957 and they finished one shy of the school single-season victory record set by the 2009 state champions.
Coach John Altobelli, in his 20th season, was named OEC Coach of the Year and was the conference's Male Coach of the Year in all sports.
9) MURTHA MILESTONES — Estancia High senior tailback Robert Murtha finished a three-year varsity football career with 5,489 rushing yards, 53 rushing touchdowns and 57 touchdowns overall, all Newport-Mesa records.
The three-time Orange Coast League Offensive Player of the Year had 1,594 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns in 2012 to shatter the previous career yardage record of 4,333 set by Costa Mesa High's Binh "Runaway" Tran from 1991-93.
To put Murtha's rushing total in perspective, one would need to average a little more than 98 yards per game and play 14 varsity games per season for four years to surpass it.
10) JOCK NCAA CHAMPION —Three-time All-American Charles Jock capped his senior season at UC Irvine by winning the NCAA title in the 800 meters.
By turning in a winning time of one minute, 45.59 seconds at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on June 8, Jock became the first Anteater in 34 years to claim an individual NCAA crown.
Both Steve Scott (1,500) and Mauricio Bardales (decathlon) won NCAA gold in 1978.
Jock, a three-time Big West Conference Track Athlete of the Year, was one of 10 semifinalists for The Bowerman, college track and field's top individual award.
Jock reached the finals of the U.S. Olympic Trials less than three weeks after his NCAA conquest, but finished eighth (1:49.02) and failed to advance to London.
*CdM boys' golf wins CIF Southern Section South Coast Team Divisional after posting a 22-0 regular season.
*CdM boys, Sage Hill girls earn CIF Southern Section runner-up finishes in respective volleyball divisions.
*Stewart Hagestad, a Newport Beach golfer, finishes second at the Southern California Golf Assn. match-play championship and later competes in the U.S. Amateur.
*UC Irvine pitcher Andrew Thurman throws a no-hitter one week after taking a no-hitter into the ninth inning on the way to first-team All-Big West Conference honors.
*Orange Coast College wins the state championship in women's cross country.
*Jake Knapp, a Costa Mesa golfer, cards a 61 at U.S. Open local qualifier at Newport Beach Country Club.
*Vanguard women's soccer reaches the NAIA quarterfinals after winning the program's first Golden State Athletic Conference crown.
*UCI men's basketball's potential breakout recruiting class includes a 7-5 Mamadou Ndiaye, a 7-footer from Greece and a point guard from Great Britain.
*The Daily Pilot Cup's 13th edition continues to bring hundreds of kids together in a competitive community soccer sprawl.
*UCI women's water polo reaches the NCAA Final Four.
*Several locals lead Mater Dei High boys' water polo to the CIF Southern Section Division 1 title and a 31-0 record that extends a Southern Section-record 79-game winning streak.
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- What you would like to see.
- How you think I am doing.
- Things I could change.
- Basically anything you think would make my blog better.
- I am also thinking about adding a weekly discussion post. Give me some topics you guys would like to discuss.
Friday, July 1, 2011
500 Posts!
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I like your blog because it's very you. I admire you because you keep going. So many blogs peter out. 500 is a great achievement, a milestone. I love it just the way it is. Here's to the next 500. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I think I have a total of only 16 posts so far so I have a ways to go to catch up.ReplyDelete
I love your photos!
And thanks again for solving my commenting problem as posted on my own blog.
Congratulations, Tammi!ReplyDelete
Thanks everyone!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! That's really something to be proud of. Your photos are wonderful. You must spend a lot of time on the road.... I've only been a fan for the last 15 or so: I'm going to try and catch up. Please keep writing!ReplyDelete
@MHD Thanks and yes I do spend a bunch of time on the road. My friend Theresa and I go out just about once a week and spend the better part of the day in the cemeteries. And I never go to a new town without visiting at least one cemtery.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations, I always enjoy reading your blog and wouldn't change a thing when it come to post content.ReplyDelete
I do have a few suggestions however.
Many people like using comment and posts feeds to keep updated. Placing these feeds where they're easy to find -near the top- will help encourage first time visitors to subscribe.
One thing I've noticed when I visit is the header image takes quite some time to load due to its size and the scrolling background is a bit distracting.
If you need any help with html or site design let me know -I've designed several over the years.
I would also love to hear any suggestions you might have for my blog as I only just begun writing about cemeteries recently.
@Nicole thank you for the suggestions I will consider them.ReplyDelete


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Proud Selig determined to remain busy
To borrow the words of Yogi Berra, it ain't over 'til it's over.
Allan H. "Bud" Selig has been Commissioner of Major League Baseball for 22 years.
To borrow the words of Yogi Berra, it ain't over 'til it's over.
Allan H. "Bud" Selig has been Commissioner of Major League Baseball for 22 years.
The youngest generation of baseball players and fans has never known life without Selig at the helm of our pastime. All that is about to change, with Rob Manfred slated to replace Selig as Commissioner in January 2015.
As easy as it would be to do, Selig isn't content to rest on his laurels and simply keep Manfred's seat warm.
"I'm trying to remove any of the difficult situations that Rob Manfred will have, trying to clean up as much as I can," Selig explained to reporters at a Cincinnati news conference on Friday. "What I would say to you is the sport has never been more popular; it's doing great. The idea is to stay calm, get that done. We're having a marvelous year, great competitive balance -- and that's what I'm going to do the last five months. I'm pleased the way the year has gone.
"There are certain interclub disputes and other things that I really would like to handle. He'll have enough things [to do], just keeping the industry moving forward, getting ready for labor negotiations, doing a whole series of other things."
Selig, 80, isn't slowing down any time soon.
"[When I retire,] it will be a different light," Selig said, "but I am going to start teaching almost immediately, and in fact, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin was in our home ranch on Saturday, and she already started talking about what they wanted me to do as soon as I'm there.
"And I'm going to write a book, so that'll keep me busy. It's a really fair question, because all of my adult life, I've been in baseball. And so that day will be the first officially that I'm not. But I'll keep busy. That's all I can tell you. I have a lot planned."
And while Selig may be looking forward to retirement and all that comes with it -- becoming a history professor and published author, for instance -- in some sense, he knows parting will indeed be sweet sorrow.
"When all is said and done, I regarded myself a baseball person," Selig said. "I've often said you shouldn't do this job if you don't have passion for this sport. So it's the people I'll miss. I've been fortunate. I got to do something that I love -- passionate -- and met a lot of really wonderful people, on the field and off the field, and that's what I'll miss."
More than likely, the people of baseball -- players, coaches, executives and fans alike -- will miss Selig, too.
The man has done so much for the game -- from introducing the Wild Card to overseeing the economic revitalization of the sport through revenue sharing to instituting the toughest PED testing in professional sports -- that owners repeatedly asked Selig to stay on as Commissioner.
With that kind of legacy, Selig is content with the two decades he's spent presiding over our pastime.
"I don't really have any regrets," Selig said. "When I think of 1992 and things were tense and bad, bad for the next decade, I'm really proud of where we are. What am I proudest of? A lot of things, but the economic reformation of the game.
"Things have changed. When I woke up two, three days ago, and the first thing I do is look at the standings in the paper, and you see all three National League divisions on that day were tied, or today you see Milwaukee in first place, Kansas City in first place, Oakland battling. This couldn't have happened 10, 15, 18 years ago. No matter what anybody says, it couldn't happen -- and it didn't happen. So that's the thing I'm proudest of.
"[So] do I have regrets? I really don't. The only thing I wish I could've [prevented] was losing the '94 World Series, that whole labor situation. Painful. Heart-breaking. Really broke my heart. But, as a history buff, as you look back on things in the retrospective history, we've now had 21, 22 years of labor peace, and maybe it took that to finally [understand].
"We had eight work stoppages in my baseball career, from 1970 to the present. It was every two or three years. It was painful. And the sport was getting hurt. That's why gross revenues have grown from a billion or two to this year $9 billion. I really believe labor peace is really the primary reason for that."
Another of Selig's proudest moments as Commissioner was the retirement of Jackie Robinson's jersey No. 42. Selig doesn't see any other number joining No. 42 as retired by all of Major League Baseball.
"Jackie Robinson coming to the big leagues April 15, 1947, Ebbets Field, is the most powerful and important moment, in my judgment, in baseball history," Selig said. "There's no question about it. You think about what Branch Rickey did 3 1/2 years before Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces, seven years before Brown vs. Board [of Education], 18 years before the civil rights movement.
"[Robinson] succeeded, and I've heard from people who played with him, against him. I've certainly heard from his wife, [Rachel], and daughter, [Sharon, author and MLB Breaking Barriers ambassador]. It was a painful, bitter, nasty period, but fortunately, he made it. And as a result, my friend Henry Aaron came, and Willie Mays and Bob Gibson, and on and on and on.
"We're working hard to try to increase our African-American participation," Selig noted, and there was evidence of that in this year's Little League World Series, with Chicago's Jackie Robinson West team representing the U.S. in the final.
"But no, I don't see any other number. Jackie's number deserves to be alone there, in my opinion," Selig said.
Selig was in Cincinnati for the grand opening of the Reds' new Urban Youth Academy, further cementing his legacy when it comes to youth in baseball.
"It's one of the things I'm proud of," Selig said. "I'm proud of the clubs -- the Cincinnati club, in this case. Clubs didn't do this years ago. To think that a baseball team reaches out in that community, creates a wonderful safe haven for people who don't have that opportunity, they give the opportunity to people who don't have the opportunity. You just couldn't be prouder. Today was an exceptional day, a really exceptional day.
"And the sport overall is doing well, but one of the reasons it's doing well is because we are a social institution that lives up to its social responsibilities. And if this wasn't an example of that, then there isn't an example. That's how good it was. And that's how important it was."
Selig's impact on the youth of baseball, especially, cannot be understated.
Take it from me.
Meggie Zahneis, winner of the 2011 Breaking Barriers essay contest, earned the job of youth correspondent for MLB.com in the fall of '11.


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text: Warwick Museum of Art (WMOA), 3259 Post Road, is helping West Bay Open Studios (WBOS) celebrate the 5th anniversary of their popular Studio Tours with a "taste of the tour" exhibit that runs through Oct. 2. Original works by 23 WBOS artists will be showcased in the main gallery and at four special events that are open to the public free of charge. Tonight's exhibit is WBOS Artist Demonstrations from 5-7 p.m. Warwick artist Carole Berren will demonstrate watercolors, and other artists will show how they create fused glass, photography, hand-lettering, plein air oil painting and fiber art. More information on the exhibit and events are on Facebook, www.warwickmuseum.org, or call 737-0010 during gallery hours.


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At Josh's Frogs, we provide everything that your animal needs to feel at home. In the 'accents' section, we offer a wide range of products that will help you provide your pet with the proper surroundings. From leaf litter to live vivarium moss to hides and artificial plants, all of the products that your pet needs are just a few clicks away!


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Nokia was dealt a blow by Moody's Investors Service, a substantial downgrade after the company purchased Siemen's share of the Nokia Siemens Networks (now Nokia Solutions and Networks). The company was lowered one level to B1 with a rather negative outlook stated by Moody's. Nokia executive VP and CFO, Timo Ihamuotila, today commented on the rating decision.
"We are pleased that the strong cash position we have maintained throughout our transition has enabled us to take advantage of an opportunity to acquire full ownership of NSN, whose financial performance has strengthened markedly in recent quarters. In Devices & Services, we are pleased with the Lumia volume growth we delivered in the first half of this year and are looking forward to driving further share gains for the ecosystem. With these efforts our target is to return our Devices & Services business to sustainable cash generation as soon as possible."
Nokia is in a difficult position and has been since the company chose to switch to Windows Phone and work with Microsoft on a brand new mobile platform. We've covered the continued release of financial reports that began to show signs of improvements being made, but not at a speed to please those who are sceptical about the company's future. NSN has become profitable, which Nokia will at least take full advantage of.
The statement notes that Nokia has access to additional liquidity via a revolving credit facility of 1.5 billion euros, which is entirely undrawn and available to the company through March 2016. As well the above, NSN has a 750 million euro revolving credit facility, also entirely undrawn and available through June 2015.
Nokia will look at further expanding NSN and working with Microsoft and partners to build on its current line of Lumia hardware. Let's not forget some upcoming Windows tablets too.
Source: Nokia


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For the third consecutive year, the Montclair State University community joined together to serve those in need by participating in the annual National Day of Service. More than 250 students, faculty, staff, and alumni spent Saturday, September 10 helping local community organizations, cleaning up neighboring community areas, or helping with local food drives.
This year's event had special meaning since it coincided with the tenth anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, a day when dedicated men and women answered the call and volunteered to offer their services to those in need. In the spirit of those dedicated volunteers, the Montclair State community joined hundreds of thousands of other Americans around the nation who volunteered in their own communities.
The Montclair State volunteers served in 18 different community service projects that were located in the towns of Montclair, Clifton, Little Falls, Bloomfield, Hillside, Newark, and Jersey City. The projects included: cleanup and beautification projects at Liberty Science Center, Yantacaw Brook Park, and Bonsal Wildlife Preserve in Montclair; street sweeps in the towns of Clifton, Bloomfield, and Montclair; stocking shelves at Hillside Community Food Bank; a painting project at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Clifton; and a clean-up project of the Morris Canal in Little Falls.
Participants also served on the University campus filling backpacks with school supplies to be distributed to students affected by recent floods, stuffing envelopes for a United Way Northern New Jersey fund raiser, creating care packages with personal hygiene items for local residents affected by the recent floods, writing letters to military men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and conducting a clean-up project across campus.
The day was a great success and many local community members and legislators including Montclair Mayor Jerry Fried and Little Falls Council President Louis Fontana joined in to help with the work. The volunteerism and service shown by all was a worthy tribute to the spirit of those who did the same ten years earlier. Thank you to the sponsors who helped make the day possible, and to all the participants who helped make the day a success!
See more photos from the National Day of Service.


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Measurements of near-equilibrium transport are commonly used to characterize electronic materials. This lecture is a brief introduction to commonly-used techniques such as van der Pauw and Hall effect measurements.
- Introduction
- Resistivity / conductivity measurements
- Hall effect measurements
- The van der Pauw method
- Temperature-dependent measurements
- Discussion
- Summary
Sponsored by
"Electronics from the Bottom Up" is an educational initiative designed to bring a new perspective to the field of nano device engineering. It is co-sponsored by the Intel Foundation and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology.
Cite this work
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Burton Morgan 121, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN


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by Bleu Lane
The Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW) recently received a $15,000 grant from Recreational Equipment Inc (REI) for its Sustainable Trails Initiative (STI).
The grant will fund FOW's Kitchen's Lane project in Wissahickon Park in which FOW will close 800 feet of dangerous trail and replace it with 700 feet of sustainable trail.
Support for the park is not new for REI. The company has had a relationship with FOW since the 1990s and funded the very first map FOW published. Maura McCarthy, FOW executive director, said the grant supported a shared interest.
"It is REI customers who are out there using the trails," she said.
The Kitchen's Lane project involves closing dangerous sections of trails and replacing them with sustainable ones. The plan includes installing a pedestrian staircase, stabilizing surfaces and overall work on the trail's ability to shed water.
According to McCarthy, a major part of making the trails sustainable is ensuring that they will not contribute to water problems in the Wissahickon. Trail sustainability also includes ensuring that the trails can be used in multiple ways and can withstand intended use.
"We have so many people using the trail for different purposes, and it is important that they all be able to use it together," she said.
In addition to the restoration work being done, FOW will encourage proper trail use. McCarthy said that while it cannot enforce proper trail use, trail design is a major way to encourage it. The location of plants, staircases and the texture of terrain on a trail will influence who uses a trail and how it will be used.
Work on the Kitchen's Lane Project is underway and will use 450 volunteers for an estimated 1,500 hours of labor.


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Dear Idea Seeker or Ally of the Idea Seekers,
I have great news! Greedy Cloud has been chased away and Spec and Tra discovered some new spring time house and garden items that he was hiding from everyone.
Check them out in my house and garden, or go see Spec, Tra and Skeeter's houses.
Here are some of the cool things you can do with these new things in your garden – have a grill out party with your very own barbeque. Decorate for a wedding or scare people with your Dragon Topiary bush or play around your Hobbit hole. You can also see how to measure time with you own garden sundial.
Make this a special weekend for visitors to your house with special balloons, flowers and chocolates.
Or have your friends over to your house for a spa day with your new hot tub.
There is a limited supply of these new items and Dumonde said there are only enough to last until March 29th. After that these special things will all be gone! So check them out in the KidsKash Furniture Store or KidsKashGarden Décor Store:
Indoor Hot Tub
Heart-Shaped Balloons
Heart-Shaped Box of Chocolates
Red Roses
Dragon Topiary
Garden Wedding Stage
Hobbit Hole
Outdoor BBQ Grill
Tree Trunk Sundial
We are going to celebrate on Friday, March 29th with a contest for best decorated house AND garden using these new things we took back from the hidden warehouse of Greedy Cloud. My friends at KidsCom.com will be judging the winners based on who has the best house layout, the best garden layout, most creative house and garden, and the best use of these new items. The winners will get to see some other special things we found and get to pick what things we should share next. Did you hear a rumor about a new mall coming???? The winners will get a sneak peak and they will receive 200 KidsKash to use on anything in the new KidsKash Mall!
Your Friend,


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If the native alarm on your Windows Phone isn't enough, take a gander at Alarms Plus. Alarms Plus supports multiple alarms, personal messages to great you, and has a handy puzzle feature to silence the alarms.
With Alarms Plus you can set up to ten consecutive alarms that can be spaced out up to ten minutes apart. You have five alarm sounds and if you really have trouble waking up, three puzzle levels to silence the alarm.
The puzzles are a group of mathematical equations and text entry that is supposed to wake up your mind with the theory being your body will follow close behind. Along with the puzzle, a personal reminder can be recorded to... well... remind you of something. Like a morning doctor's appointment, a school test, or put out the trash before you pull out the driveway.
Along with being an alarm clock, Alarms Plus also allows you to create a to-do list. It's basically a free-form text field that you can use to create the list from. Both tasks and alarms can be pinned to your Start Screen for easy reference. Alarm Plus will run in the background and behind a lockscreen.
Alarm Plus is a nice, simple alarm app that has enough annoyance to wake you up on time. While alarms can be repeated, you can only set the occurrence to daily. A weekday and weekend option would be nice. Being able to create a to-do list is a nice bonus but it's really a basic feature. Add the ability to set an alarm to each task and it might be better.
Alarms Plus is a free ad supported app that you can find here at the Windows Phone Store.


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I have been reading about the Certificate of Irish Heritage that is available for purchase to anyone with Irish ancestry and can provide their Irish line of descent. On the certificate you can name two Irish ancestors.
Of course, for me and I assume many people the problem is which two of my Irish ancestors would I give pride of place to on the certificate.
I have 16 direct line Irish ancestors who arrived in Australia between 1822 and 1883. I have 10 on my mother's side and 6 on my fathers. I suppose I would have to choose one from each side. I have 11 Catholics, 1 Church of Ireland and 3 Presbyterians. There were 8 men and 8 women. There were 3 female children and 1 male child. There were 3 convicts. There was one doctor. Two share my maiden name of Moore.
Who would you choose?
My mother's side
1. Patrick Flynn was my first Irish ancestor to arrive in Australia. Patrick was a whiteboy from Cork and was sentenced to life. He arrived in 1822.
2 and 3. Patrick's wife Hanora and their daughter Ann came to Australia in 1826. Hanora took care of their children in Ireland. Upon arrival she successfully applied to have Patrick assigned to her.
4. Thomas Moylan who arrived in 1824 from Cork married Ann Flynn. He took up arms in Ireland and was sentenced to life. He died when their 4 sons were quite young and Ann was left to bring them up alone. She had to admit two of her sons to the Orphan School.
5. James Agnew from Castledawson, Londonderry, was sentenced to life in 1836 after being an accessory before the fact of murder. The trial papers and references tend to say he was a good man and the murdered man was a menace to the community.
6. Ellen Agnew his wife remained in Ireland for several years before coming to Australia with their 4 children in 1847.
7. Matilda Agnew was born after her father was imprisoned and so did not meet him until she came to Australia when she was 11 years old.
8 Dr William Lee Dawson from Swords, Co Dublin was the first doctor at Franklin in Tasmania. He arrived in 1854.
9 John Charles Ryan from Waterford is a bit of a mystery. His arrival date is unknown.
10 Mary O'Halloran (Halloran)'s date of arrival is unknown but it is assumed she came to Brisbane possibly with her brother and sister.
My father's side
11 and 12. John Moore and his wife Margaret Henry came to Australia from Antrim in 1883 after having lived in Greenock, Scotland.
13 Knox was the son of John and Margaret. He was about 10 when he arrived in Brisbane.
14, 15 and 16 John McInerney and his wife Mary Maley? and their daughter Mary Ellen arrived in Melbourne in 1854. John died 14 years later in a timber accident that left Mary with 9 small children to raise.
I really want a certificate but I don't know who to honour.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Certificate of Irish Heritage
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This may sound frivolous - you could invoke the Luck of the Irish- Put all the names in a hat and have a draw for the licky two.ReplyDelete
Have decided that since my maiden name is Moore, I will have to choose John Moore for my father's side. Still undecided for my mother's side.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2012 at 12:42 AM
My great- grandparents on my mother's side were John Moore and Margaret Jane Henry who came to Australia from Antrim in 1883 after having lived in Greenock, Scotland. Their children were Eliza, James, Knox, Margaret (Maggie) and Rosetta. Margaret Jane Moore (Maggie) was my grandmother.ReplyDelete
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