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Getting Real: Summer Prep Programs for High Schoolers
Many teens with autism spectrum disorders are capable of managing ordinary activities like daily hygiene and homework—yet their social and executive functioning skills are not up to the level of their peers. What that means is that they are neither in need of ongoing intensive support, nor are they ready to simply step out into the "real" world on their own.
This borderline situation can be nerve-wracking for everyone involved. Your teen may be unable to simply go off to college, train for or apply for an ordinary job, or live independently. Yet at the same time, it may be unnecessary to plan for a highly supported situation such as intensive job coaching or a group home.
The bad news is that your child needs more support than the average young adult But there is good news—in two forms.
First, the law states that your child may stay in high school up until his 22nd birthday—and, further, that transition programming must be written into her IEP. That means that a wide range of program possibilities may be built into your child's high school experience, both during the school year and during the summer.
Second, more and more organizations are recognizing the "not ready for primetime" teen as a potentially important demographic. As a result, more programs are springing up across the country to provide summertime life-skill and college/life prep training for high schoolers. These programs are structured in different ways, and cater to slightly different groups. The one thing they all seem to have in common, however, is that they come with a significant price tag.
Specialized Summer Programs—What They Are, What They're Not
A good high school program with a transition plan in place is likely to be very helpful to your child with autism. Along the way, your child should be able to build such skills as time management, money management, social interaction skills and attention to hygiene. Depending upon your child's abilities and challenges, he or she may have limited experience working in the community, taking public transportation, grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning.
If your child with autism is, however, planning to take the next steps forward toward college, independent living, and/or employment, he or she may need more in the way of preparation. That's where a specialized summer program comes in. Many of these programs are offered by special needs high schools as a service for their students and others with similar needs. There are also an increasing number of programs offered during the summer for young people who may later enroll in more robust year-long or even multi-year programs.
Specialized summer programs for high schoolers are not synonymous with summer camp, though there are almost always recreational elements included in the programs. Unlike camp, the purpose of summer programming is to build academic, executive and social skills while also working on life skills ranging from self-care to banking. In some cases, summer programs also include goal-setting and work on issues like self-esteem. In general:
- A summer life/college prep program is usually intended for young people with high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome, and is often open to kids with related challenges such ADHD, Non-Verbal Learning Disorder, Learning Disabilities, and so forth. It is rare that such programs will be open to young people with severe cognitive impairments or mental illness—in part because more severe challenges are often more appropriately managed in different types of settings.
- Summer programs are usually residential, and may be held at a college campus, boarding school or similar location. The reasons for this are easy to understand: It's only outside the home setting that young people can be challenged to interact with a roommate, manage money and transportation issues without a full fridge or chauffeuring available, or cope with anxiety without the immediate availability of a parent.
- Summer programs may be available for a few weeks or a full summer. Some programs offer customized options: one week, two weeks, full summer or "gap" summer (between high school and college).
- Specialized summer programs may be funded, in part, through your school district (if your child is still in high school), through insurance (if therapy is a part of the program) or through SSI. Bottom line, however, is that parents considering such programs may well have to dig deep to come up with at least a few thousand dollars in tuition, room and board costs.
Who Should Attend a Summer Life/College Prep Program?
While summer life/college prep programs are loaded with just the type of activities and goals your child "should" have, not every high schooler is up for spending a large portion of the summer building skills. For some young people, more traditional options—camp, volunteer activities, internships, summer jobs or just plain relaxation—are more important than structured therapeutic programs. Given that there are a growing number of recreational options available to kids with special needs, it's important to be sure that a summer life/prep program is right for your child and your family. Before leaping into a program, therefore, it's important to consider these questions:
- Do I (or does my child) have specific objectives or goals for the summer? Is there a way to measure whether he is successful in meeting those goals (or whether former participants were able to meet similar goals)?
- Do we (parents, teachers, teen) have a plan for building on new-found skills once the summer is over?
- Is my child developmentally ready for an away-from-home learning experience, or do I just hope he is?
- Is my child truly motivated to get all she can from a residential summer program? Or is she either "along for the ride" or actually opposed to the idea?
- Are there other, equally effective, more community-based options available for my child at less cost?
- Am I, as a parent, willing and able to facilitate my child's newfound skills and independence once he returns home? Or will we both slip back into old habits? If the latter, then even the best program may have little long-term impact.
Assuming that you have decided to give a summer program a whirl, is your child a good candidate for the available offerings? Programs do vary, but they tend to have a number of similarities, including high instructor to student ratios, focus on social thinking, opportunities to take part in community activities, and opportunities to take on challenging situations and relationships in a supported environment.
All this is to say that life and college prep programs, whether offered during or after high school, are most appropriate for young people with autism and related disorders who are motivated and capable of handling the challenges offered. It's unlikely that such a program will be appropriate for a young person with severe cognitive or behavioral challenges. It's also unlikely that such a program will serve to motivate a young adult with ASD who really doesn't want to take responsibility for his or her own life.
Bottom line: If your high schooler with autism is motivated to take part in a program that will help him to build his independence, and you feel he is ready for a challenge, one of the many available programs may be right for you. If, however, your child is resistant, or not quite ready for an away-from home experience, there are plenty of other summer options.
How to Find a Life/College Prep Summer Program for Your Child with Autism
There are several large, multi-site programs that offer summer opportunities for teens on the spectrum. But while these are well-advertised, they are by no means the only options out there, and they are often prohibitively expensive. Before selecting one of the best-known programs, consider taking these steps:
- Talk with your child's high school guidance counselor. Chances are, your child is not the only one looking into summer options, and guidance counselors often know quite a bit about what's available.
- Talk with your local special needs parenting group, autism support group or autism center. Like guidance counselors, members of these groups tend to keep their ear to the ground. Not only are they likely to have suggestions, but they're also better equipped to provide inside information on the style and quality of available options.
- Call special needs schools that cater to youngsters like yours. If your child is diagnosed with high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome—or if she has language based or learning disabilities—there are residential and day schools designed specifically for her needs. Very often, those schools offer summer programs, sometimes on site and sometimes on other area campuses.
- Check out reputable websites, such as The George Washington University HEATH Resource Center [3]. But keep in mind that many online listings are simply directories and that these programs have not been scrutinized for quality of services. You'll also find directories of private schools in your region which may include summer offerings.
Once you've zeroed in on a few options, learn as much as you possibly can about the program, the students they serve, the staff, the location, the goals and the outcomes. (Think long and hard about any program that is more than a few years old and cannot discuss outcomes reliably.) If you can, visit the program yourself, interview past participants, and talk with parents. Even if the program is generally a good one, it may or may not be the right match for your individual child.
The Cost of Independence
If you happen to have an extra $2,500 to $10,000 in your pocket, you're all set to pay for your child's summer experience. If, on the other hand, you don't have that kind of money set aside for a transition program, you may be stuck. There are only a few options for finding the money you need. These include:
- Asking the program providers for suggestions. They may have scholarships available, or know of funding sources you've never heard of.
- Talking with your school district. If your child is going through the transition process in high school, it may make sense to write a short-term summer program into his IEP. When that happens, the program is paid for by the district.
- Applying Social Security funds to the program. If your child receives Social Security money because he is an adult with a disability, that money may in some cases be used for a "transition to real life" program.
- Exploring scholarship/campership options. Depending upon where you live, you many have access to community or foundation grants through organizations such as your local chapter of the Autism Society [4], or even through philanthropic groups.


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Marinela (Ina) Lika was one of four young Albanians who set up MJAFT.:
"It started as a discussion, like every discussion among any other group of young people: about how bad things are in Albania; about how irresponsible the politicians are; about how democracy is not functioning and how much of a pity it is that people are apathetic; and so on. But unlike other discussions of this type it was not a simple catharsis that was left where it started, but it was part of a plan – our plan to influence change, at whatever level. It was our small contribution, to make Albania the country in which we could invest our future."
Ina describes how MJAFT took on a life of its own outliving the initial plans for a four month campaign. .
"Administratively the campaign was a project of two organizations 'Albanian National Debate Association' and 'Balkans YouthLink', but at the end of the campaign, thousands were attending the events and our 'MJAFT' had grown bigger than the 'small gig' we had envisioned initially, and definitely bigger than ANDA and BYL combined. MJAFT had grown into a life of its own, but there was no institution, organization, entity or any such thing in the books called MJAFT."
Like her fellow founders, Marinela was shaped by the turbulent events in the Albania she grew up in. When the pyramid schemes collapsed, wiping away many Albanian's fortunes, violent protests erupted:
"It was complete madness! I was in Shkodra, staying at my aunt's. One night, I was sleeping when the door opened and I saw three men (relatives that I couldn't distinguish) coming in and placing tens of Kalashnikovs under my bed. My aunt started to yell at them, but they explained that everyone was doing it and we would be in danger if we did not do the same. A few days later, my mother came to take me home (even today I can't explain her courage to do that alone). We were near Tirana when a group of men, armed with several guns stopped our minibus. She was hiding me on her knees under her coat. The men were drunk. The driver started talking with them, trying to convince them to let us continue along the road. One of them, very angry, started shooting at the bus. Nobody was hurt. He was happy to make us fear death and then to let us continue. For six months this madness continued…"
Then, in 1999, more than 400,000 refugees from Kosovo descended on Albania.
"This was the year that changed my life. The drama happening in Kosovo was so biting that it immediately provoked you to take action. I volunteered through UNICEF in several camps, in Tirana and Kukes. It is in those camps that my activist nature was born. Most of the people that are now a very important part of my life, as colleagues or close friends; I knew them in those difficult circumstances …"
Marinela studied social sciences at the University of Tirana. As MJAFT took shape in 2003 she became the leading administrator. Needing a central location, the small team rented an apartment in Tirana's downtown Bllok neighbourhood – leased at very low cost from a Tirana BBC editor. Here they registered members and recruited volunteers committed to support the three MJAFT principles; to tackle apathy, rehabilitate protest and help improve the image of Albania.. Volunteers were given concrete tasks in direct action roles, ranging from spraying graffiti to putting up posters, collecting petition signatures, delivering protest notices, organizing campaigns, conducting research and public speaking duties. In 2007 Ina and her fellow members decided to step down:
"We knew that we couldn't stay at Mjaft forever – we had to be the first ones to change that type of culture in Albania. Mjaft was at its highest momentum, financially sound, with no major foreseeable political events in the short future – a good situation for the new leadership to take over and continue with new accomplishments."
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This might ultimately be for the betterment of the league, but man, it's gonna make 2007 considerably less fun around here.
The NFL has officially suspended Titans cornerback Pac Man Jones for entire season. Not just that, either: Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry is suspended for the first eight games of year.
Commish Roger Goodell gave them the proverbial press release bitchslap:
"Your conduct has brought embarrassment and ridicule upon yourself, your club, and the NFL, and has damaged the reputation of players throughout the league. You have put in jeopardy an otherwise promising NFL career, and have risked both your own safety and the safety of others through your off-field actions. In each of these respects, you have engaged in conduct detrimental to the NFL and failed to live up to the standards expected of NFL players. Taken as a whole, this conduct warrants significant sanction."
So, Pac Man is out a year's worth of rain, and Henry will miss a game for each arrest (or close to it). We ask them both, even though they're going to miss a significant period of time, to not change, you beautiful bastards. Don't ever change.


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On April 12, 2017, the Joongmin Foundation for Social Theory and the Institute for Social Development and Policy Research(ISDPR) jointly hosted the Seminar of "Who Are the Cosmopolitan Actors: Migration and Risk Governance" at Seoul National University.
In this seminar commemorating Ulrich Beck, Prof. Han Sang-jin (president of the Joongmin Foundation for Social Theory) made a keynote speech titled "Risk Governance and Cosmopolitan Citizens in East Asia".
In the session of "Migration and Risk Governance", Prof. Laurence Roulleau-Berger of the University of Lyon, France (Director of LIA Research at CNRS-ENS Lyon) presented the paper titled "Migrants, Inegalitarian Cosmopolitism and Mobilization in Europe" and Prof. Young-Hee Shim(executive director of JFST) published the paper titled "Migrant Issues and Cosmopolitan Actors in Korea".


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Extra-curricular: 'School' didn't keep Waldo home
Waldo Jaquith
Where's Waldo? As noted in a recent Hook story, Charlottesville's most famous ex-home-schooled child is now a 25-year-old man studying at Virginia Tech.
But in the many years that preceded Jaquith's move to Blacksburg, he sued the City, nearly won a seat on Council, hiked the Appalachian Trail, won two VH1 awards and– revealed now for the first time publicly– was once described by UVA's president as one of the university's "best students"– despite never having been enrolled!
How were such accomplishments possible? Jaquith credits his family's in-home teaching.
"I could read at the age of two, and my sister at the age of seven months," says Jaquith, noting that his memory of his younger sister's home-schooling stands out more strongly than his own.
"She spoke and read French, could identify dozens of nations and their capitals based on their outline, could name dozens of breeds of dogs, correctly estimate the number of dots on a card between 1 to 100, and name all the U.S. presidents in order." All this before she even started elementary school! [Maybe she should enter The Hook's rainfall contest, see p. XX.]
After a stint marked by admittedly lackluster grades at Western Albemarle High School, Jaquith enrolled in the Living Education Center when it was just beginning as what he calls "a home schooling collective."
"I did a sort of self-/home-schooling combined with alterna-schooling," says Jaquith, who credits his interest in politics and community activism to the challenges raised by those experiences.
In 1997, backed by the ACLU, he sued the City for enacting a curfew banning people under the age of 17 on city streets after midnight during the week and after 1am on weekends. The City won.
In February 2002, when Jaquith vied for the Democratic nomination for City Council, he earned the highest raw vote count on the second ballot– higher even than the incumbent mayor before ultimately losing out.
Jaquith would go on to fight toy giant Mattel over internet filtering software and teach Egyptian hieroglyphics to some UVA seminar students.
As for the famous quote from UVA's president, John Casteen, it illustrates that a non-traditional background can open the hallowed halls of academia least a crack. The gaffe happened in November 1999, at the opening at UVA's "e-summit."
Back when dot-coms were all the rage, Casteen hosted a reception for internet execs such as Bert Ellis Jr. of iXL Enterprises and Mark Templeton of Citrix Systems Inc. Casteen introduced young Jaquith– who then owned a web-development firm– to the executives as one of "our best students."
"I can confirm that," says Max Fenton, a Jaquith friend and business associate who was present at the Carr's Hill event.
Jaquith says that after his last (third) rejection from UVA, he raised the "best students" issue with Casteen, who reportedly did not recall the remark. UVA spokesperson Carol Wood says that such a Casteenian misstep would be understandable.
"In a given year, at events at Carr's Hill, the president sees about 15,000 people," says Wood. "So that's a lot of hands to shake and faces to remember."
The Jaquith rejection earned a Hook headline in May because Jaquith had seemingly followed the rules including earning an A-average at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
"It just galls me that UVA turned down Waldo probably for some snot-nosed rich Northern Virginia kid who's done nothing except score high on SATs and gotten into the national honor society," local businessman Tom McCrystal opined at the time.
"It's a tough route to take, choosing to be home-schooled or self-schooled," says Jaquith. "When you opt out of the system even for a short period of time, it makes it harder to get into college."
As he crams for exams at the end of his first semester at Virginia Tech, Jaquith still runs the popular cvillenews.com. The online digest netted a lot of viewers December 9 with the first media coverage of the 4.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled most of Virginia. Apparently, when the rumbling stopped, the emailing began, and Jaquith– although he didn't feel the quake– filed a report from Blacksburg at 4:12pm, just 12 minutes after the rumbling ceased.


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NEW YORK - The Baltimore Orioles came up short against the Yankees in the postseason, too.
The brash, young birds produced clutch hits all September while chasing New York. They fell one short in October.
The Orioles return to the postseason for the first time in 15 years ended with a 3-1 loss to CC Sabathia in the deciding Game 5 of the AL division series Friday.
"Every guy that was in that dugout believed that we were going to win it all until that final out was made," catcher Matt Wieters said.
After playing the rivals from New York even for 22 games this year, the Orioles' big bats had little success against the Yankees burly ace.
When they thought they did, they came out on the wrong side of another October call in New York.
In a twist reminiscent of the Baltimore-Yankees 1996 AL championship series, when fan Jeffery Maier reached over the right field wall and pulled Derek Jeter's fly ball over the fence for a homer in Game 1, Nate McLouth hit a disputed fly to right in the sixth.
Unlike that game 16 years ago, McLouth's soaring two-out drive that just slipped past the foul pole was subject to video review. Right field umpire Fieldin Culbreth initially called McLouth's drive foul with a robust thrust of the arm.
Manager Buck Showalter asked for a review and four umpires went inside to check the replay. They upheld the call in a trip that lasted about 2 minutes.
A reporter for The Associated Press was shown the ball and he did not see any yellow paint from the foul pole on it.
"It was foul all the way, never hit the pole," said Steven Ellis of Queens, N.Y. He said he caught the ball with his hat.
That's the way Culbreth saw it, too.
"I saw it go to the right of the pole," he said. "There is netting there and it didn't touch the netting. It did not change direction."
McLouth then struck out.
"I knew when I was running down the line, kind of looking at it, I knew it was going to be really, really close. It started off fair and it was just hooking a little bit. I thought it was foul just in game speed," McLouth said. "A couple of people mentioned it might've ticked the pole but he was way closer than I was and I was satisfied after they went down and looked at the replay that it was foul."
The Orioles have been pursuing the Yankees all season, cutting a 10-game deficit in July to zero in early September. Baltimore and New York were tied 10 times atop the East in the final month but the Orioles lost the division on the final day of the season and finished two games back.
"As far as the local team here is concerned, we just want to tell them we will be back next year," Orioles owner Peter Angelos said of the Yankees in a rare clubhouse appearance. "They better get ready for it."
But the team that had the best record in one-run games (29-9) and ran off a string of 16 straight victories in extra innings advanced to the division series with a win over the West champion Texas Rangers in the wild-card playoff.
The Orioles pushed the Yankees to the brink in the division series with solid pitching. The bats went silent. J.J. Hardy's run-scoring double in the 13th inning in Thursday night's season-saving 2-1 win was their only hit with runners in scoring position in 16 at-bats in the first two games in New York. They were 3 for 22 in the three games.
Unwilling to believe the run was done, the entire team stood at the railing of their dugout and watched the Yankees celebrate for several moments after Wieters grounded back to Sabathia for the final out.
Still, Baltimore has to consider this a positive season. The Orioles went 93-69 and ended a streak of 14 consecutive losing seasons since 1997, when they lost to Cleveland in the AL championship series following a 98-win season.
"We got to remember this feeling that we were that close," outfielder Adam Jones said. "Now we got to get over that hump. The postseason is where you want to be. ... As a team, the Baltimore Orioles had a sensational year."
Missing Nick Markakis, who broke his left thumb when hit by a pitch from Sabathia on Sept. 8, the Orioles mustered just five runs in the three games at Yankee Stadium - all on solo home runs.
They walked eight times and struck out 42.
Their best chance Friday came in the eighth when Lew Ford had an RBI single off Sabathia and then the Orioles loaded the bases with one out. But McLouth struck out and Hardy hit a soft grounder to shortstop and Jeter made a strong throw to first for the out.
"That last at-bat that I had with the bases loaded was obviously the key at-bat of the game," McLouth said. "I missed my pitch 0-1. He gave me a fastball that caught a lot of the plate and I fouled it back. He just made a really good pitch 1-2 and I wasn't able to come through."
Called up from the minors in August after being acquired from Pittsburgh in late May, McLouth was the Orioles steadiest bat these five games. He went 7 for 22 (.318) with a team-high three RBIs in the series.
The guys in the middle were duds. Jones went 2 for 23. Wieters was 3 for 20. Chris Davis 4 for 20. They had no RBIs and Wieters' double was their only extra-base hit.
"We fought, fought, fought," Jones said. "It's just unfortunate a lot of guys got cold at the wrong time."
NEW YORK - The Baltimore Orioles came up short against the Yankees in the postseason, too.


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Dig it! Holes not too deep for kids
In the 1960s, when America emerged from its age of innocence, Walt Disney Pictures lost their grip on what constituted "family viewing." Television began to catch up with reality, but Disney produced a series of embarrassingly naïve movies that people just stopped going to.
Holes indicates that may be happening again. Based on, and reportedly faithful to (it was adapted by the author) Louis Sachar's novel, it manages to have a certain moral ambiguity without a moment's realism. This may result from the requirements of a PG rating, but it makes for rather bland fluff with less relevance than intended for viewers too old for Piglet's Big Movie but too young for Eyes Wide Shut.
The setting is Camp Green Lake, a facility in the Texas desert where there used to be a lake. It's a juvenile detention center run by The Warden (Sigourney Weaver) and her flunkies, Mr. Sir (Jon Voight) and Dr. Pendanski (Tim Blake Nelson), who "build character" by having the boys in their charge dig holes every day.
They're obviously up to something, but no one checks up on them, and the boys just do as they're told, as afraid of Mr. Sir and his gun as of the Texas yellow spotted lizard that causes a "slow and painful death."
We spend a lot of time in the company of the boys without learning what most of them did to get them sent there. The one we follow to the camp is the palindromically named Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf), son of failed inventor Stanley Yelnats III (Henry Winkler). Besides being cursed by that name, the men of the family are under the 150-year-old curse of a Latvian witch (Eartha Kitt) that brings them bad luck.
It's Stanley IV's bad luck to be caught with a pair of stolen sneakers that fell from the sky and hit him on the head. This gets him 18 months at Camp Green Lake, which is introduced with hard-boiled (or at least half-baked) scenes right out of Cool Hand Luke. (Someone even yells "Fresh meat!" when Stanley arrives. I wonder how they got that through.)
(Something else that slips through is more confusing. Mr. Sir's real name is revealed as Marion. One of the boys says, "I didn't know that was a man's name," and Mr. Sir replies, "It ain't." Does that mean he's transgendered?)
Some boys bully Stanley, who picks up the nickname "Caveman," and some befriend him; but the only one who makes an impact is Zero (Khleo Thomas), the runt of the litter but a fast digger.
The unexciting present-day story is frequently interrupted by flashbacks, some involving Stanley's ancestors, some Green Lake history, and some both. Perhaps most interesting, though still lacking a spark, is the Green Lake story. Patricia Arquette plays a schoolteacher who becomes an outlaw, Kissin' Kate Barlow, after an affair (well, they kiss once) with a black man (Dulé Hill).
Weaver, whose presence underscores the difficulty actresses of a certain age have in getting decent roles, doesn't appear for 40 minutes. By that time the stage is set for a capital-E Entrance, but it falls as flat as the rest of the movie. Voight and Nelson do some of their hammiest overacting, which is obviously what they were cast for.
Everything is tied up in the end, so neatly you expect to find out Latvia is Texas spelled backwards. Director Andrew Davis is used to making thrillers (The Fugitive, Under Siege) for grownups and seems at a loss to do anything under the restrictions imposed here.
There's probably a narrow age range, perhaps just before puberty, where boys will dig Holes, but it wasn't able to bring out my inner prepubescent.
P.S. It's no big deal, but if you stay through the credits there's an extra surprise at the end.


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Holidays in Marlengo/Marling
That holiday feeling is in the air in rural Marlengo, a town with urban flair just three km from Merano. Especially in springtime, hints of the Mediterranean combine with a colourful natural spectacle: The many fields around the village become like a sea of apple blossoms, a view which can be enjoyed on one of the many strolling or hiking trails. The Marlengo Waalweg trail extends 12 km along the former irrigation canal and is the longest of its kind in Merano and Environs. In addition to apples, Marlengo is known for its asparagus, schnapps, and especially for its wine.


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Sweet Machine noticed this otherwise-okay article from the New York Times. She commented, "This article is not so bad… But the 'what about your heeeeeealth' caveat is even more ridiculous than usual."
Indeed, check it out:
But others point to serious health consequences of being overweight. Andrea Marks, a specialist in adolescent medicine in Manhattan, suspects that "the vast majority of overweight girls are not so happy." Apparent self-acceptance, she added, may be a cover for defiance or resignation.
Okay, I don't really know who Andrea Marks is. Google tells me she is on the faculty at Mount Sinai, has co-authored a book called Health Teens, Body and Soul, and previously wrote a column called "Ask Dr. Marks" for CosmoGirl. More to the point, I don't know if she was quoted correctly — which can be difficult, I'll grant. So I'll hold off on lambasting her, personally, and try just to look at this as a phenomenon.
Let's say you're a fat adolescent girl – or hell, ANY adolescent girl in any sort of western capitalist milieu – and you manage, somehow, to hold onto your self-esteem and like your own body, despite all the shit that our culture hurls at adolescent girls. You even think you might like to dress, or eat, or look, or sing, or dance, or date, or not date, or talk to adults, or [insert your own activities here] in a way that pleases you.
Apparently such girls exist. I was not one. But thankfully, blessedly, they are there — evidently in numbers large enough to have their "apparent self-acceptance" be a phenomenon that gets a nod from experts.
Except… wait, no they're not! Turns out they're only pretending. Because either the paper of record, or an expert in adolescent medicine, or both, can't quite wrap their heads around the idea of a fat adolescent girl who likes herself. "That's cute, dearie," they say, patting you on the head in response to your adorable little act where you stand up for yourself, "but you can't REALLY think you're worth anything, and deep down inside you know this. That veneer of confidence is really just defiance and resignation."
OH GEE YOU THINK? Bravely defiant to smarmy condescending attitudes like the ones displayed in the article, perhaps? Stoically resigned to the fact that there's not a lot an adolescent girl can do to change the fact that most dominant discourses describe her primarily in terms of her defects? WHY YES I THINK SO TOO.
But, pray tell, how are those two attitudes — that's "defiance" and "resignation;" as opposed, one assumes, to "compliance" and "lack of interest in buying self-improvement products — incompatible with the very same adolescent girl thinking, "Hey, I really kick ass!"
(Hint: They actually are NOT incompatible! In fact, they may be correlated. Also, you don't bury survivors, and the surgeon was actually the child's MOTHER. Mind-blowing.)


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Obama Wants To Stop Bottleneck At Cushing
President Leaves Oklahoma After Speech
President Barack Obama says he wants to speed up work on a pipeline between Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast to eliminate a glut of oil at the Cushing oil hub.
The president spoke Thursday in a pipeyard near Cushing and said increased oil and gas production were part of his domestic energy policy.
Obama also said millions of acres have been opened up for drilling in 23 states, but that the challenge is in delivering material to refineries.
He described Cushing as a "bottleneck" between producers and refineries located along the Texas coast.
The president also said that work on the Keystone XL pipeline between Canada and Cushing is being appropriately reviewed out of environmental concerns in Nebraska. An aquifer there supplies drinking water and irrigation throughout the Great Plains.
Obama traveled from Cushing to Tinker aboard a military helicopter and left the air base at 12:20 p.m.
The president highlighted energy this week in Nevada, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
His trip comes amid rising gasoline prices, and the president's political advisers say the prices pose a threat to his re-election bid because they could undermine the benefits of a payroll tax cut that was part of his jobs agenda last fall.
Ohio is a political battleground.
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While trying to bunt for a single last night against the Pirates, Billy Hamilton—Cincinnati's red-and-white blur of a center fielder—executed one of the worst bunts imaginable. It's basically a line drive right to first baseman Gaby Sanchez, but Hamilton still made it to first base safely thanks to the threat of his speed and some mid-air contorting.
All Sanchez needed to do was tag him (even given the head start, it's no lock he beats him to first) to put Billy Hamilton on the list of Worst Bunts Ever. But Hamilton said not on this day.
Hamilton pulls out some kind of flying, scissor-kicking swim move to avoid Sanchez's tag and once he regains his footing, he dives safely into first base. Sanchez was left twisting and lunging for Hamilton or the bag, but to no avail. He then scored from first on a double to left field, finely played by Josh Harrison, and it wasn't really close.
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tiju_t necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
We are a startup engineering company, an offshoot of a sheetmetal company, which has acquired an existing (rundown?) brand of products.
P&R Sheetmetal - Hendicare Mortuary Equipment
No tagline for now
Desired Color Scheme:
Blue, yellow and white as per our current logo
Desired Style:
Not too conservative, but not loud
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Our parent company's website is http://www.prsm.com.au, and it has a logo which is not too bad.
Our current product name is Hendicare Mortuary Equipment which has been recently acquired.
We'd like the new logo to
1) Have both components P&R Sheetmetal and Hendicare Mortuary Products
2) To be related to the original P&R Sheetmetal logo - although this is not quite that important.
3) Use the same blue, white and yellow combination.
We are targeting the products to universities, hospitals and mortuaries, so in my opinion it shouldn't scream out and be loud, but I don't want it to be too conservative, if you understand what I mean.
We will use the logo in web and print media, so we will need it in a variety of formats.
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text: Men love gadgets…and T3 magazine has compiled a list of their top 100 gadgets from 2004. HPI's Nitro 3 Evo BMW M3 has made it to number 43! "Naturally, you can't do doughnuts in the company Mondeo, so indulge your rubber-burning fantasies with this 45mph nitro-powered car…" T3 magazine, xmas 2004 And the HPI Savage25 RTR made it into the "essentials+ luxury kit" of the T3 xmas issue. "…this bad boy…It's built like a rhino, runs on nitro fuel - rather than namby pamby batteries…." T3 magazine, xmas 2004. For HPI cars and more gadgets check out the T3 Xmas 2004 magazine!


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YouTube user rickonami has done a wonderful thing. He's remade the intro to Star Fox on the SNES, only now it's in fancy HD, and includes some nods to the N64 game.
If you like it, you should check out some of his other, similar attempts, like those for Mother and Gradius, which I've included in the gallery above.
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April 3, 2013
Following the criminal plot by the IMF, the EU and the European Central Bank to steal billions from depositors in Cyprus, the banksters have hatched a new plan to steal trillions, level the economic playing field and force millions into grinding poverty.
In order to save the earth and pay for social programs supposedly designed to help the victims of our alleged carbon crimes, the IMF says we need to pay an extra $1.40 per gallon in taxes.
"The time has come for subsidy reform and carbon taxation," declared the IMF's deputy director, David Lipton, last week. "The IMF will draw attention to the issue and help those who want to go forward."
The IMF says impoverishing more people through burdensome taxation will reduce traffic jams and accidents by discouraging driving.
Gas in the U.S. is currently between $3.26 and $4.00 per gallon and the proposed IMF tax, if adopted, would inflict further damage on the economy.
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A hero should be a glorious, triumphant creation, right? By its very name, the sandwich should demand respect from every lesser specimen on the menu. It doesn't matter if said glory comes from an excess of meat or toppings, the hero must be an awesome sight to behold and eat.
To Bridge Bar's credit, the meatball hero attempts to recreate the awe without taking the obvious route. Instead of a couple ladles of tomato sauce and a blanket of cheese, the meatballs stand proudly alone, ready to fend for themselves. Fortunately they are tender, well seasoned, and more than up to the task. Caramelized onions form a sweet and savory cushion, while some creamy cheese spread on the roll lends funk.
I've never encountered a meatball sub quite like it, and the kitchen almost pulls it off—if only they used better bread. Instead, the roll is both chewy and fragile, splitting at the seams after one bite. Though toasted, the innards remain frustratingly cottony and tough, making the sandwich a slog to get through when it should be a celebration. With so much going right, this hero deserves better.
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Capogiro Gelato, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Made with the freshest ingredients (such as milk from Amish grass-fed cows), the artisan gelatos and sorbettos handcrafted each day at Capogiro Gelato include flavors not seen anywhere else—Madagascar bourbon vanilla, melograno(pomegranate), nocciola Piemonte (hazelnut), Saigon cinnamon, Thai coconut milk (with a dash of rum), and zucca (long-neck pumpkin).
Planning: Capogiro has four cafés in Philadelphia.
Made from fresh cream, eggs, and sugar, frozen custard is a midwestern dessert that looks, tastes, and acts like its close cousin, ice cream. The stand on Grand Boulevard has been open since 1931, serving frozen custard in cones, shakes, root-beer floats, and house specialties, such as Hawaiian Delight and Crater Copernicus.
Planning: Drewes has several locations in St. Louis.
Some of the planet's best Indian ice cream can be sampled here, in the Hispanic Mission District. On offer are flavors such as chiku (sapodilla), cardamom, chai-tea, saffron, rose, and ginger, rarely found beyond the Indian subcontinent. Traditional kulfi (a frozen milk dessert) is also on the menu, plus lassi (yogurt drinks).
Planning: The opening hours change with the seasons, so check before planning a visit.
Built in the late 19th century as the home of Jamaica's first black millionaire, Devon House is a masterpiece of Caribbean Victorian architecture and home to the island's most celebrated ice-cream stand. The 27 flavors run a broad gamut from traditional cherry and pistachio to exotic island treats like mango, coconut, and soursop. There is even an offbeat, beer-based ice cream called Devon Stout. Grab a cone and recline in the sprawling gardens.
Planning: Devon House is in central Kingston. Admission includes a tour of the house and access to the gardens.
This tiny, no-frills shop seems little changed from 1938, when Italian immigrants Andres and Josefina Scannapieco first opened the doors. Members of the Scannapieco clan still make ice cream the way the family have for 70 years. The menu runs 50 flavors deep, from chocolate and vanilla to other delights, such asdurazno (peach), canela (cinnamon), lemon champagne, and caipirinha (a Brazilian cocktail made with cachaça and lime).
Planning: Helados Scannapieco is at Avenida Córdoba 4826 in the Palermo district.
With dozens of stands selling more than 300 flavors between them, Tokyo's appropriately named Ice Cream City offers some of the planet's more unusual ice creams, from soy chicken and orchid root to sea-island salt and unagi (eel). If you have more conventional tastes, Italian gelato and American ice cream sundaes are also available.
Planning: Ice Cream City is part of the food-themed section of the Namja Town amusement park in the Sunshine City shopping complex 15 minutes' walk from Ikebukuro station.
Glacé is celebrated for its cutting-edge, ice-cream-based desserts, such as bombe Alaska, checkerboard terrines, and chocolate-dipped petit fours. Rose petal, vanilla bean, strawberry pistachio, and Belgian chocolate count among its signature flavors.
Planning: Glacé has one retail outlet, at 27 Marion Street in Sydney's Leichhardt district.
There is nothing more romantic than a summer evening beside the Bosporus, especially when you are having ice cream on the outdoor terrace of the A'jia Hotel. The dessert menu includes fried vanilla ice cream, passionfruit sorbet, and traditional Turkish dondurma (ice cream) made from goats' milk.
Planning: Located on the western shore of the Bosporus, the A'jia is a 19th-century mansion transformed into a hip new waterfront hangout.
Tivoli Gardens amusement park is the venue for this century-old ice-cream outlet. The specialty is ice cream served in a large waffle cone, called the Amerikaner, which takes up to four scoops plus syrupy topping, whipped cream, and chocolate-covered meringue puff (rather than a maraschino cherry).
Planning: Tivoli Gardens is in central Copenhagen, and is open from mid-April through late September. The entertainments include concerts, rides, and 40 restaurants.
Going since 1939, Perchè No!—Why not!—sells intensely flavored ice cream produced fresh on the premises each day. The selection varies, but favorites include honey and sesame seed, green tea, and a rich coffee crunch with pieces of chocolate. They also sell a wide assortment of fruit sorbets and granitas.
Planning: Perchè No! is in Via dei Tavolini, about two minutes' walk from the Duomo.
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