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District 88 celebrates the beginning of the 2017-18 school year
Pictured is District 88 Superintendent Dr. Scott Helton.
Welcome to the 2017-18 school year! The first week already has our buildings filled with energy and excitement as we begin a new year.
I started the first day of school on Aug. 16 by riding a bus with students and Addison Trail Principal Michael Bolden. In the afternoon, I rode a bus home from Willowbrook, along with Principal Dr. Daniel Krause. Those are great opportunities for us to speak with students about their summer and what they're looking forward to as we head back to school. I also spent some time with our Transition Program students to celebrate the start of 2017-18. That program helps individuals with special needs who are 19 to 21 years old learn life skills, obtain job training in a community setting and transition to adult life.
Below are other highlights from the first day of the 2017-18 school year.
Addison Trail
- 95.8-percent attendance rate on the first day of school, and the drum line welcomed students as they entered the building.
- Staff members displayed the 2017-18 Blazer Pride T-shirt, with the message of "One School, One Community, One Family."
- The Buildings and Grounds staff had the rooms cleaned and the floors waxed before the start of school.
- The fall athletic season has begun. The school's first football game will take place on Aug. 25 at Glenbard South (varsity will begin at 7:30 p.m.). All other fall sports are practicing for their season.
- 97.4-percent attendance rate on the first day of school, and the drum line welcomed students by playing in the hallways.
- Staff members displayed the 2017-18 Warrior Pride T-shirt, with the message of "One School, One Family, All Warriors."
- The Buildings and Grounds staff had the rooms cleaned and the floors waxed before the start of school.
- The fall athletic season has begun. The school's first football game will take place on Aug. 25 (varsity will begin at 7:30 p.m. at home versus Grayslake North). All other fall sports are practicing for their season.
District 88 Transition Program
- The Transition Program welcomes 56 students this year.
- The Transition Program plans to open its Perks & Possibilities Café after Labor Day, which will offer a variety of new menu items. Students in the Transition Program help set up the café, and several of them stay for job training. The café is entering its eighth year and will be open from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday in the Addison Public Library. The café is successful because of generous donations from the community.
- This year, Transition Program students will experience community-based learning opportunities such as joining recreational leagues and going to museums, theatre performances and other venues to develop life skills. They also will have guest speakers to learn about services available in the community and to increase independent living skills.
- Students in the Transition Program receive job training at more than 33 vocational sites. The program is always looking for new job-training sites. If you're interested, contact District 88 Vocational Coordinator Christine DiRienzo at email@example.com or 630-530-3248.
To prepare for the first day of school, District 88 administrators and department chairs participated in workshops on Aug. 1, 2 and 3. On Aug. 10, we welcomed our new staff members, along with community leaders and service organizations from Addison, Lombard and Villa Park. And on Aug. 14, all staff members attended an Institute Day.
This past school year, Addison Trail and Willowbrook were once again recognized by The Washington Post as two of "America's Most Challenging High Schools" and as "Best Public High Schools in Illinois" by the 2017 Niche Rankings. Those tremendous accomplishments were achieved because of the strong partnerships among all members of our learning community, and we look forward to more accomplishments in 2017-18.
It is our goal for the 2017-18 school year to ensure all of our students develop high-level skills and knowledge that will support college and career readiness and prepare them for successful post-secondary experiences. Our focus and initiatives this year will include continuing the great work that takes place in District 88 through:
- Continuing to close the achievement gap
- Expanding measurement and assessment practices to monitor and promote student growth
- Continuing to look at best practices with regard to technology to ensure the district remains on the cutting edge and provides students with 21st-century skills – we must always provide our pupils with an education that is focused on what they will need in the future, not just today
- Maintaining a comprehensive curriculum and school environment to build futures for all students, while remaining fiscally responsible
- Partnering with post-secondary institutions to expand dual-credit and certification opportunities for all students
- Partnering with parents/guardians and community members to maintain support systems that reinforce high student performance
- Continuing our open, honest and transparent communication with all stakeholders
District 88 offers a meaningful and comprehensive educational program that provides a strong foundation for success beyond high school, and the 2017-18 school year will provide yet another opportunity to expand on our achievements. I would like to thank you for your support of our programs and staff members and for your partnership in "Building Futures" for the students of District 88.
With District 88 Pride,
Scott J. Helton, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools, DuPage High School District 88


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You can check out the Lemon Verbena Lady at her blog http://lemonverbenalady.blogspot.com.
Spring has progressed in the Pittsburgh area. In fact, there have been summer days here already. It is always a delight to see what has started to grow in the spring herb garden. After we had the two-foot snow in early February, I hoped that the herbs would be OK when the snow was gone. Here are three herbs I've found growing in my early spring herb garden:
1. Parsley
I was pleasantly surprised to find three curly parsleys that had started growing.
Curly parsley makes an appearance in my spring herb garden.
I love to grow curly parsley because you can even use it as a little temporary hedge around the garden. Italian or flat-leaved parsley is always the one recommended to be used for cooking. Usually Italian or flat-leaved parsley is a biennial that last two years, but the leaves are only good that first year. I usually make sure that I have new parsley plants each year, but we have already started to use the curly parsley in our salads this spring. I remember my mom making me eat the curly parsley garnish on my plate when we went out to eat. Parsley is full of vitamins, even the curly kind.
Parsley Dill Soup
This is my favorite parsley dill soup recipe from Buffalo Spring Herb Farm in Virginia. Sadly, that wonderful herb farm is no longer open to the public. This recipe can easily be doubled. Serves 4.
• 1 large onion, chopped or thinly sliced
• 2 large carrots, scrubbed, thinly sliced
• 4 to 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 large potato, scrubbed, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1/2 teaspoon dill seed
• 4 cups vegetable or chicken stock, heated
• 1 cup fresh Italian or curly parsley (frozen also works fine)
• Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
1. Combine onion, carrot, butter and potato in covered saucepan and let stew for about 10 minutes. Add dill seed.
2. Add stock and simmer for another 30 minutes. Let cool slightly; add parsley and puree in blender.
3. Reheat and add salt and pepper to taste. Serve with parsley and/or fresh dill garnish
2. Lovage
Another mainstay in the herb garden in the spring is lovage.
One of the best times to use lovage is in the spring.
Lovage is about 4 feet high and 6 feet when it is in bloom later on in the summer. Lovage's flavor is a little stronger than celery, so a little goes a long way. My favorite lovage tip is that you can use a stalk in your Bloody Mary as a straw.
Garlic Orange Chicken
One of The Herbal Husband's favorite spring/summer dishes is from The Herb Companion magazine of August/September 1991 called Garlic Orange Chicken.
• Six boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
• 6 garlic cloves, peeled and halved (I mince them very finely rather than keeping them in larger pieces.)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons oil
• 1 1/2 cups onion, chopped
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
• 1/4 cup chives, chopped
• 3 tablespoons lovage, chopped
• 12 ounces vermicelli (We usually use rice.)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water
• 6 sprigs basil and 6 chive flowers (or another herb) for garnish
1. Trim any fat from the chicken. Open two small pockets in each breast half, either by slicing into it with a knife or by separating the muscles of the breast. Insert a piece of garlic in each pocket. Again I mince the garlic finely and add it along with the onions instead of inserting it into the chicken breast. Pat the chicken dry.
2. In a heavy skillet, brown the chicken on both sides in the oil, then remove it. Add onion (and minced garlic if you are using this method) to skillet, reduce heat and cook until softened and lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Add the pepper, salt and mustard and cook for 1 minute, stirring the browned onion bits into mixture. Add orange juice, broth, and herbs. Bring mixture to a boil, add chicken, then cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
3. Cook vermicelli while chicken is simmering. Remove chicken from pan and keep warm. Bring the sauce to a boil. Add cornstarch-water mixture and stir constantly until thickened. Spoon some of the sauce over the chicken and the remainder over the hot vermicelli or rice.
4. Garnish with the basil sprigs and chive flowers.
Hope you enjoy this recipe. It is a very flavorful way to prepare chicken. Do you have a favorite way of using lovage? I would love to hear about it. Please let me know.
3. Lemon Balm
The last herb in this early spring garden is lemon balm. Lemon balm is a wonderful lemon flavored herb that can become a nuisance in the herb garden. I leave it where it fills in a gap in the garden. When it is coming up through other significant herbs, it comes out. You need to use it fresh rather than dried. The lemon balm in the left front of this picture with yarrow and sage will be coming out since there is a larger lemon balm near. You can never have too much lemon balm unless you have not follow my golden rule to keep it cut back so that it never flowers. I love to use it with fruit, cold drinks and desserts.
'Berggarten' and 'Golden' sages, 'Moonshine' yarrow and lemon balm are looking pretty good in my spring herb garden.
Balmy Lemon Cookies
The sages are 'Berggarten' and 'Golden', the yarrow is 'Moonshine'. Here is a wonderful cookie recipe courtesy Tea & Cakes Under the Trellis by Jim Long (Long Creek Herbs, 1996).
• 1 cup butter-flavored Crisco
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon salt (optional)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 6 tablespoons lemon balm leaves, finely chopped
1. Cream together the shortening and sugar. Add eggs, extracts, salt, baking powder and flour. Mix, then add lemon balm leaves. Mix well and drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
2. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.
Hope you are seeing familiar herbs in your herb garden. Spring is one of my favorite seasons in the herb garden. If you have questions about your herb garden, I would be happy to answer them. Talk to you later.

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Fourth-quarter earnings hit $64m (£40.5m), compared with $302m a year earlier, on revenues of $1.59bn.
There was good news as well on the mobile front as the company announced that mobile revenues had doubled and that mobile users now exceeded desktop ones.
Overall ad revenue in the fourth quarter grew 41% to $1.33bn and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said mobile revenue accounted for 23% of advertising revenue, compared with 14% in the third quarter.
Facebook reported 680 mobile monthly active users in Q4, of which 157 million were exclusively mobile.
Zuckerberg said: "In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company."
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This week's Nature reports on a new analysis by a team at University of Arizona in Tucson, suggesting that humans interbred with more related species in Africa as recently as 35,000 years ago.
According to contributor Matt Kaplan:
Hammer and his colleagues argue that roughly 2% of the genetic material found in these modern African populations was inserted into the human genome some 35,000 years ago. They say these sequences must have come from a now-extinct member of the Homo genus that broke away from the modern human lineage around 700,000 years ago.
Hammer says this disproves the conventional view that we are descended from a single population that arose in Africa and replaced all other Homo species without interbreeding. "We need to modify the standard model of human origins," he says.
Geneticist Sarah Tishkoff, who studies population genetics and human evolution at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is more cautious. "This raises the possibility that there may have been ancient admixture with archaic populations," she says.
But it's even more complicated. If humans are the product of multiple origins (polygenism), then this raises some disturbing questions. For example, polygenism has been an excuse in the past to justify racism and tribal warfare between societies.
As Razib Khan writes, the ethnography of the research area is rather rich in documenting the dehumanization of Pygmies at the hands of their Bantu neighbors. "If you have tracked the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo you are also probably aware that the Pygmies in particular are targeted in the most grotesque fashion because they are perceived to be less than human. But don't these results suggest that Pygmies are less than human?"
He goes on:
The "Out of Africa" model, which is classical monogenesis on steroids, does not perturb our intuitions about ideal types and kinds. Rather, it reinforces a Platonic model of what it means to be human, as humans are all kith and kin, descendants in totality and universally from a small group of Africans who flourished ~100,000 years ago. This idea is so pervasive that it even pops up in the series finales of science fiction shows. I now believe that those of us without religious presuppositions should abandon more vigorously this model of humanity. In a deep sense we already do, in that many of us accept without much controversy that we're simply the product of material processes.
Short of adopting a metaphysical definition, he adds, scientists need to reconceptualize what it means to be human in a broader sense. Especially if further research shows yet more genetic differences between groups.
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In Australia 26% of labours are induced. The most common reason for induction is a 'prolonged pregnancy'. That's an awful lot of babies outstaying their welcome and requiring eviction. I am not going to get stuck into the concept of a 'due date' and how accurate or not they are, otherwise this will be a very long post. I also think the EDD (estimated date of delivery) is here to stay – it is deeply embedded in our culture and health care system. You can read about the history of timelines in birth here. This post will focus on induction for 'prolonged' pregnancy and the complexities of risk.
A quick word about risk
I don't particularly like the concept of 'risk' in birth. There are all kinds of problems associated with providing care based on risk rather than on individual women. However, risk along with 'due dates' is here to stay, and women usually want to know about risks. Risk is a very personal concept and different women will consider different risks to be significant to them. Everything we do in life involves risk. So when considering whether to do X or Y there is no 'risk free' option. All women can do is choose the option with the risks they are most willing to take. However, in order to make a decision women need adequate information about the risks involved in each option. If a health care provider fails to provide adequate information they could be faced with legal action. Induction for prolonged pregnancy is not right or wrong if the choice is made by a woman who has an understanding of all the options and associated risks. As a midwife I am 'with woman' regardless of her choices. It is my job to share information and support decisions – not to judge.
What is a prolonged pregnancy?
Before we go any further lets get some definitions clear:
- Term (as in a 'normal' and healthy gestation period): is from 37 weeks to 42 weeks.
- Post dates: the pregnancy has continued beyond the decided due date ie. is over 40 weeks.
- Post term: the pregnancy has continued beyond term ie. 42+ weeks.
The World Health Organization's definition of a 'prolonged pregnancy' is one that has continued beyond 42 weeks ie. is post term. I am pretty sure that this was not the definition used when collecting the above induction rate statistics because most hospitals have a policy of induction at 41 weeks which is before a prolonged pregnancy has occurred. Very few women experience a prolonged pregnancy. In Australia less than 1% of pregnancies continue beyond 42 weeks and become post-term.
The idea of a prolonged pregnancy also assumes that we all gestate our babies for the same length of time. It seems that genetic differences may influence what is a 'normal' gestation time for a particular woman. Morken, Melve and Skjaerven (2011) found "a familial factor related to recurrence of prolonged pregnancy across generations and both mother and father seem to contribute." Therefore, if the women in your family gestate for 42 weeks so might you. The length of gestation may also be influenced by factors such as diet (McAlpine et al. 2016)
There is still little known about what exactly initiates labour. However, science suggests that the baby secretes surfactant protein and platelet-activating factor into the amniotic fluid as the lungs become mature (Mendelson 2009; Science Daily). This results in an inflammatory response in the mother's uterus that initiates labour.
The risks associated with waiting
In theory after term (ie. 42 weeks) the placenta starts to shut down. There is no evidence to support this notion. There is also a good physiological explanation of the development and ageing of the placenta here, which concludes that: "There is, in fact, no logical reason for believing that the placenta, which is a fetal organ, should age while the other fetal organs do not…" I have seen signs of placental shut down (ie. calcification) in placentas at 37 weeks and I have seen big juicy healthy placentas at 43 weeks. There is also the idea that the baby will grow huge and the skull will calcify making moulding (when the bones in the baby's skull adjust), and therefore birth difficult. Again there is no evidence to support this theory and babies are pretty good at finding their way out of their mothers expandable pelvis. It is interesting that these two common assumptions about post-term pregnancy contradict each other. If the placenta stops functioning, how does the baby continue to grow so well?
The real concern with waiting beyond 41 weeks is the increased chance of the baby dying (perinatal death). And women need these statistics in order to make an informed decision. A Cochrane review summarises the quantitative research examining induction vs waiting: "There were fewer baby deaths when a labour induction policy was implemented after 41 completed weeks or later." However, it goes on to say: "…such deaths were rare with either policy…the absolute risk is extremely small. Women should be appropriately counselled on both the relative and absolute risks." Hands up all the women who had a discussion with their care provider about the relative and absolute risks of waiting vs induction… hmmm thought so.
Essentially according to the available research, if you are induced at 41 weeks your baby is less likely to die during, or soon after birth. However, the chance of your baby dying is small either way – less than 1%… or 30 out of every 10,000 for those waiting vs 3:10,000 for those induced. This research article reports the relative and absolute risk of stillbirth at various gestations with waiting vs induction. The authors state that 1476 women would need to have an induction to prevent 1 stillbirth at 41 weeks gestation. The substantial increase in risk occurs at 42 week onwards with a stillbirth rate of 1 in 1000 (Decker 2016).
Reviews are only as good as the research they review and there are some concerns about the quality of the available research. The World Health Organization recommends induction after 41 weeks based on this review but acknowledges the evidence is "low-quality evidence. Weak recommendation". Another review of the literature in the Journal of Perinatal Medicine (Mandruzzato et al. 2010) concluded: "It is not possible to give a specific gestational age at which an otherwise uncomplicated pregnancy should be induced."
One of the main problems with quantitative research is that it rarely answers the question 'why', and rather focuses on 'what' (happens). For example, congenital abnormalities of the baby and placenta are associated with post-term pregnancy and this may account for the increased risk rather than the length of gestation (Mandruzzato et al. 2010). Quantitative research also takes a general perspective rather than addressing the risk for an individual woman in a particular situation. For example, is the prolonged pregnancy as sign of pathology or does this woman come from a family of women who have a longer gestation timeframe?
Anyhow – to pretend there are no risks associated with prolonged pregnancy (in general) is not helpful for women trying to make decisions about their options. These general risks should be part of the information a woman uses to decide what is best for her.
The risks associated with induction
It can be difficult to untangle and isolate the risks involved with induction because usually more than one risk factor is occurring at once (eg. syntocinon, CTG, epidural). I did attempt to create a mind map but it ended up looking like a spider had spun a web while under the influence. So I have stuck to a written version:
Risks associated with the actual procedure of induction
The induction process is a fairly invasive procedure which usually involves some or all of the following (you can read more about the process of induction here). There are a number of minor side effects associated with these medications/procedures (eg. nausea, discomfort etc.) There are also some major risks:
- Prostaglandins (prostin E2 or cervidil) to ripen the cervix: hyperstimulation resulting in fetal distress and c-section.
- Rupturing the membranes: fetal distress and c-section (see previous post)
- IV syntocinon / pitocin: Mother – rupture of uterus; post partum haemorrhage; water intoxication leading to convulsions, coma and/or death; reduced breastfeeding rates; increased postpartum depression/anxiety. Baby – hypoxic brain damage; neonatal jaundice; neonatal retinal haemorrhage; death. There is also research suggesting that there may be a link between the use of syntocinon/pitocin for induction and ADHD (Gregory et al. 2013; Kurth & Haussmann 2011). For mothers syntocinon/pitocin is associated with reduced breastfeeding and increased depression and anxiety at 2 months postpartum (Gu et al. 2015).
The most extreme of these risks are rare, but fetal distress and c-section are fairly common. The potential effects of uterine hyperstimulation on the baby are well known (Simpson & James 2008)- which is why continuous fetal monitoring is recommended during induction. This may also explain the association between induction and cerebral palsy (Elkamil et al. 2010)
Risks associated with factors that commonly occur during an induction
The Cochrane review (above) and 2 more recent reviews (Mishanina et al. 2014; Wood et al. 2014) found reduced rates of c-section for women who were induced. This is an interesting finding and does not fit with my observations. I don't have room in this post to provide a full critique of this research – you can find one by Sara Wickham here.
One major problem with the reviews is that the findings did not distinguish between first time mothers and women who have birthed before. And they are a different kettles of fish. A research study by Ehrenthal et al. (2010) found an increased c-section rate of 20% for women being induced with their first baby. They concluded that: "Labor induction is significantly associated with a cesarean delivery among nulliparous women at term… reducing the use of elective labor induction may lead to decreased rates of cesarean delivery for a population." Another study by Selo-Ojeme et al (2011) found induction increased the chance of a c-section x3 for first time mothers. The researchers recommend that "Nulliparous [first baby] women should be made aware of this, as well as potential risks of expectant management during counselling." It is now well established that there are significant risks associated with c-section for both mother and baby. Childbirth Connection provide an extensive and evidence based list.
Induced labour is usually more painful than a physiological labour. Syntocinon (aka pitocin) produces strong contractions often without the gentle build up and endorphin release of natural contractions. In addition unlike natural oxytocin, syntocinon does not cross the blood-brain barrier to create the spaced-out, relaxed feelings that help women to cope with pain (see previous post). Not surprisingly, first time mothers are more than 3x more likely to opt for an epidural (Selo-Ojeme et al. 2011) during an induction. A Cochrane review found that: "Women who used epidurals were more likely to have a longer delivery (second stage of labour), needed their labour contractions stimulated with oxytocin, experienced very low blood pressure, were unable to move for a period of time after the birth (motor blockage), had problems passing urine (fluid retention) and suffered fever and association between epidural analgesia and instrumental birth." The review also found an increased risk of instrumental delivery, and c-section for fetal distress with an epidural.
There are significant risks associated with ventouse and forceps birth, both for the mother and baby – RANZCOG lists them here. And the risks of c-section available via the link 'Childbirth Connection' above. The study by Selo-Ojeme et al. (2011) also found induction = increased risk of uterine hyperstimulation; 'suspicious' fetal heart rate tracings; and haemorrhage following birth. Not surprisingly 'babies born to mothers who had an induction were significantly more likely to have an Apgar score of <5 at 5mins and an arterial cord pH of <7.0' (basically not in a good way on arrival). Another recent study by Elkamil et al (2011) 'found that labour induction at term was associated with excess risk of bilateral spastic CP [cerebral palsy]..' Remember we are inducing labour to prevent harm to the baby…
Again, these general risks need to be individualised for a woman. For example, if this is her first baby, induction significantly increases her chance of a c-section. If this is a subsequent baby then her chance of c-section is not increased… but her chance of uterine rupture is.
The experience of labour
Once again the Cochrane review states: "Women's experiences and opinions about these choices have not been adequately evaluated." This is becoming a theme across Cochrane reviews. However, one thing is certain – choosing induction will totally alter your birth experience and the options open to you. Women need to know that agreeing to induction means agreeing to continuous monitoring and an IV drip, which will limit movement. Induced contractions are usually more painful than natural contractions and the inability to move and/or use warm water (shower or bath) reduces the ability to cope. The result is that an epidural may be needed. An induced birth is not a physiological birth and requires monitoring (vaginal exams) and time frames. Basically you have bought a ticket on the intervention rollercoaster. For many women this is fine and worth the risk, but I encounter too many women who are unprepared for the level of intervention required during an induction.
There have been some studies examining women's experience of induction. Heimstad et al. (2007) conducted a survey of women randomised to immediate induction at 41 weeks or waiting with regular 'fetal surveillance'. They found that women preferred induction. However, these were women who were allocated an option rather than chose one. Another survey by Childbirth Connection asked mothers about their experience of induction (not necessarily for prolonged pregnancy) – 17% of those induced felt they were under pressure to do so by health care professionals. The quotes from women make interesting reading too. A study by Hildingsson et al. (2011) found that labour induction was associated with a less positive birth experience, and women who were induced were more likely to be frightened that their baby would be damaged during birth. However, again this research was not limited to induction for prolonged pregnancy therefore the women may have had genuine pregnancy complications requiring induction.
A more recent UK study by Henderson and Redshaw (2013) found that "women who were induced were generally less satisfied with aspects of their care and significantly less likely to have a normal delivery. In the qualitative analysis the main themes that emerged concerned delay, staff short- ages, neglect, pain and anxiety in relation to getting the induction started and once it was underway; and in relation to failed induction, the main themes were plans not being followed, wasted effort and pain, and feeling let down and disappointed.". A German study (Schwarz et al. 2016) concluded that: "women's expectations and needs regarding IOL are widely unmet in current clinical practice… and that "there is a need for evidence-based information and decisional support for pregnant women who need to decide how to proceed once term is reached."
Alternatives to waiting or medical induction
Before labour begins the uterus and cervix need to make physiological changes ready to respond to contractions. It is now thought that the baby is the controller of the labour 'on' switch. So, the baby signals to the mother that he/she is ready, oxytocin is released and the uterus responds. In comparison to other mammals, humans have the most variable gestation lengths. This suggests that other factors such as environment and emotions (eg. anxiety) also influence the start of labour. This would make sense considering what we know about the function of oxytocin (see previous post). It is also something most midwives are aware of – a stressed out mother is more likely to go post term than a relaxed and chilled out mother. Having said that, post term is probably the normal gestation length for many women regardless of what is going on. Creating anxiety and stress around due dates and impending induction is probably counter productive to labour.
There are a number of 'alternative' or 'natural' induction methods available (BellyBelly covers most of them here). However, an induction is an induction. Trying to force the body/baby to do something it is not ready to do is an intervention whether it is with medicine, herbs, therapies, techniques… or anything else. Interventions of any kind can have unwanted effects and consequences. At least a medical induction takes place with close monitoring of mother and baby with access to medical support if a complication arises. I worry that alternative inductions do not have this level of monitoring or back up.
However, 'interventions' (massage, acupuncture, etc.) that are aimed at relaxing the mother and fostering trust, patience and acceptance may assist the body/baby to initiate labour if the physiological changes have already taken place.
In Summary
A significant minority of babies will not be born by 41 weeks gestation. Whilst the definition of a prolonged pregnancy is 42 weeks+, induction is usually suggested during the 41st week. Women need to be given adequate information about the risks and benefits involved with either waiting or inducing in order to make the choice that is right for them. There is no risk free option. The risk of perinatal death is extremely small for both options. I know women who have lost a baby in the 41st week of pregnancy, and women who have lost a baby as a result of the induction process. For first time mothers the induction process poses particular risks for themselves and their babies. Each individual woman must decide which set of risks she is most willing to take – and be supported in her choice.
You can read more about induction in my book Why Induction Matters
Further resources
Maternity Choices information sheet for parents.
Sara Wickham – post-term pregnancy and induction of labour resources
Sara Wickham – ten things I wish every women knew about induction of labour
Sara Wickham – How to cancel a labour induction?
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Lorrie McCullers has been scrapbooking since 1999 and has loved every minute of it. She is a tutor, specializing in high school English and test prep. You can learn more about her by visiting her at her blog.
Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) has secured an earmark of $5 million in Defense Department funds to be used to create digital scrapbooks for military units.
Remember My Service, a program currently being rolled out by the U.S. Army and the Salt Lake-based company Storyrock, compiles photographs and records to tell the stories of individual National Guard units.
Bennett and supporters of the program say that the digital scrapbooks are a morale-booster. Some even go so far as to say that the DVDs will even encourage troops to re-enlist.
The program is not without critics, however. Though the $5 million being used to pay for the program is a very small percentage of the overall Defense Department budget, many have pointed out that it is money that could be used for troop training or supplies.
Storyrock, the company chosen to provide the service, was started in Utah in 1998 as a digital yearbook company. The company has since added digital scrapbooking, as well as the military scrapbooks. Storyrock company officials have been reluctant to call the "Remember My Service" products "scrapbooks", preferring instead to call them "historical records".


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Texas on the Potomac regularly shares with you the work of some of Hearst Newspapers' best columnists. Today, we are pleased to share with you this commentary by San Antonio Express-News columnist Jonathan Gurwitz.
President Barack Obama at least didn't call Republicans terrorists at Monday's press conference. But the divider in chief, who only two years ago urged Americans to usher in a new era of civility, who said then "only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation," employed plenty of ugly rhetoric.
Having conceded to the president some of his beloved tax increases in the fiscal cliff negotiations, and having received from the president pledges to cut spending and "shrink our deficits in a balanced way," Republicans reasonably want to see a proposal from the White House that fulfills those pledges before raising the debt ceiling.
For that act of treachery, Obama blasted them for negotiating "with a gun at the head of the American people," wanting to "gut Medicare or Medicaid" and threatening to "wreck the entire economy."
So much for civil and honest discourse.
Unfortunately, Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media have employed far more explicit metaphors about terrorism and hostage-taking in discussing an issue about which there is simply no partisan disagreement — the unsustainability of the national debt and the need to reform the entitlement programs that are the biggest drivers of deficit spending.
What's worse, the terrorism-hostage analogy rests on a bizarre inversion of reality where those earnestly trying to defuse a fiscal time bomb are labeled terrorists by the masterminds who helped create it. The analogy succeeds, nevertheless, because of an economic version of the Stockholm syndrome, with a significant number of the hostages — the American people — defending their captors' outrageous demands for money.
Here it's worth recalling the words of one of those alleged gun-toting economy-wreckers in a previous debt-ceiling dispute. "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure," he said. "It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies.
"Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally," he concluded. "I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."
That was Sen. Barack Obama back in 2006, when he voted against raising the debt limit from $8.2 trillion to just less than $9 trillion. Now, with the debt limit at $16.4 trillion, President Obama wants unlimited power to raise the ceiling as he pleases, and anyone who opposes him he accuses of holding a gun to the head of the American people.
Defenders — and the president himself — say he didn't really mean all that stuff about leadership failure. He was just playing a political game, safe in the knowledge that the debt ceiling would be raised.
Assuming this defense is accurate, what does it say about the sincerity of a politician who promised hope and change, and why is there any reason to believe that he's not playing a political game now?
In fact, the president and Democrats are engaging in a cynical game of deception and fear, trying to frighten the American public — and seniors especially — into believing that unless Obama gets his way on the debt ceiling, the government will default on its obligations and Social Security recipients won't receive their monthly checks. They know that can only happen if President Obama chooses to honor commitments for new spending over existing obligations and debt, including to Social Security recipients.
It's time to end the fear-mongering. It's time to end the name-calling. It's past time to get to work on a compromise that preserves the social safety net for future generations while defusing the debt time bomb.


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Andy Rooney, CBS News' longtime resident curmudgeon whose whimsical and acerbic essays on "60 Minutes" turned the rumpled writer into an unlikely — and reluctant — TV celebrity, died Friday night, only weeks after retiring from the show. He was 92.
CBS announced the death of Rooney, who launched his long career during World War II as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes military newspaper and continued to be a fixture on "60 Minutes" for 33 years.
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He died at a New York City hospital of complications following minor surgery, according to CBS.
For millions of Americans, Rooney was a welcome visitor into their homes on Sunday evenings, an old familiar face appearing for a few minutes at the tail end of one of the most highly rated programs in television history.
Viewers of the award-winning TV newsmagazine who saw him as a friend, neighbor or relative knew what to expect from the man who offered his opinions on a broad array of topics.
Wry. Curmudgeonly. Whimsical. An articulate Everyman. Unruffled yet quizzical. A crank. A complainer. The man of a thousand questions.
Those are just some of the words journalists have used to describe the man TV Guide called "America's favorite grump."
Seated behind his desk in his small, cluttered office at CBS in New York, Rooney spoke into the camera as though the viewer at home had just dropped in for a brief visit to see what was on his mind that week.
There was always something.
Designer jeans: "The facts of the advertising greatly exceed the fact of the average American posterior."
Bank names: "Trust is a word banks like in their names. There are certain names they'd never use, 'Bankorama,' for instance."
Baseball: "My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along."
But Rooney didn't just spend his few minutes on seemingly trivial matters. In 2003, for example, he turned his attention to the French for failing to support the war in Iraq.
"You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world affairs years ago," he said. "The French lost World War II to the Germans in about 20 minutes."
With Rooney, as his "60 Minutes" colleague Mike Wallace once said, "What you see is what you get."
"I have never, never come across a man I admire more, respect more," Wallace said during a discussion of journalism in World War II at the Smithsonian Institution in 2004.
"He's loyal, he's honorable. He's got the guts to say what is on his mind. And, thank God, we've had the opportunity to let millions of Americans see him every Sunday night for the last couple of decades," said Wallace.
An award-winning writer and producer of CBS News TV specials narrated by Harry Reasoner in the 1960s — "A Birdseye View of America" and "An Essay on Bridges," among them — Rooney began appearing on camera himself as the writer-producer of a series of specials in the '70s.
"Mr. Rooney Goes to Dinner," in which he explored the $11-billion restaurant business by visiting restaurants across America, was one. (If a restaurant menu has a tassel on it, Rooney told viewers, "add $2 to the bill." And forget restaurants advertising home cooking. "If I want home cooking," he said, "I'll stay home.")
The "rumpled pragmatist with a dry wit and a salty acerbic style" — as former Times television critic Cecil Smith described Rooney — first appeared on "60 Minutes" in 1978 as the summer replacement for "Point Counterpoint," the brief, end-of-the-show segment featuring liberal Shana Alexander and conservative James J. Kilpatrick.
That fall, Rooney began alternating weeks with the two verbally sparring journalists, winning an Emmy for his essay titled "Who Owns What in America," in which he visited Mrs. Smith's Pies in Pottstown, Pa. and found that Mrs. Smith did not exist.
When the 1979-80 TV season started, Alexander and Kilpatrick were gone and "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" was well on its way to becoming a "60 Minutes" institution.
For his part, Rooney preferred being known simply as a "writer." And he was not enamored with the celebrity that came with appearing on television each week.
"A writer should be sitting over in the corner watching the dance and not be out there dancing," he told the Saturday Evening Post in 1984. "I'm not too keen about my recent well-known-ness; I don't handle it very well. If somebody comes up to me on the street and says, 'Hey, I like your stuff,' well, I can't hate that. But it never stops there. Pretty soon he wants to be my best friend. I tend to be rude to people like that."
As for autograph seekers, Rooney refused to scrawl his name when a fan stopped him. At one point, whenever asked for an autograph, he would take the proffered piece of paper and write, "No."
Rooney was the personification of the crusty newsroom veteran. He wore a suit and tie on camera, but you had the feeling that as soon as the camera lights were turned off he shed the coat, loosened the tie and rolled up his shirt sleeves.
With his bulldog face, bushy eyebrows and somewhat whiny delivery, the stocky Rooney was irresistible fodder for parody.
Comedian Joe Piscopo did a winning whining Rooney rendition on "Saturday Night Live" in the 1980s, employing a Rooney-esque refrain, "Did you ever wonder?" (For the record, Rooney told Newsday in 1989 that he examined all of his old "60 Minutes" copy and never used that line.)
Rooney's weekly TV showcase led to a three-times-a-week nationally syndicated newspaper column that appeared in several hundred newspapers.
He also wrote 16 books, many of them best-selling collections of his work, including "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney," "Pieces of My Mind" and "Sincerely, Andy Rooney."
Rooney was just as outspoken off-camera as on, which occasionally got him into hot water.
In 1990, CBS News suspended him without pay for three months in the wake of his remarks about blacks and gays attributed to him in the Advocate, a magazine that covers the gay community.
The Feb. 27, 1990, edition of the Advocate quoted Rooney as saying, "Blacks have watered down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children." It also contained a letter Rooney wrote that called the homosexual sex act "repugnant" and homosexuality "not normal."
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times after his suspension, Rooney categorically denied making the statement attributed to him about blacks during his phone interview with the Advocate. But he did confirm that he wrote the letter to the magazine commenting on gays in response to criticisms of his views on homosexuality.
"I am guilty of what I said about gays, and I deeply regret having offended them," he said. "But on the other charge, I am absolutely innocent. I am just infuriated by the notion that I am being called a racist. Anyone who knows me knows that is not true."
In the end, CBS, faced with an overwhelmingly negative public response to his suspension, reinstated Rooney after only three weeks.
There were other Rooney-generated controversies over the ensuing years, including his remarks on a television sports show in 2002 that women sideline reporters "have no business down there [on the field] trying to make some comment about a football game."
Off-camera controversies or not, Rooney was on "60 Minutes" so long that some critics believed he had overstayed his welcome.
In 1996, Associated Press critic Frazier Moore wrote an open letter to Rooney in which he said that "'60 Minutes' would be better off without you."
Calling Rooney a "chronic fuddy-duddy" whose chief contribution is "ending the show on a sour note," Moore wrote that Rooney's weekly segments are "the product of a brazenly closed mind that does a disservice to the rest of the show."
Despite the criticism, Rooney remained with the program.
When asked about retiring in January, when he turned 91, Rooney, seated in his office at CBS News, told a USA Today reporter: "Retire? From what? Life?"
But retire from "60 Minutes" he finally did.
On Oct. 2, the 92-year-old Rooney made his last regular appearance on the show in which he was interviewed by correspondent Morley Safer, who called him "America's favorite grouch-in-chief."
Rooney's farewell essay was his 1,097th piece for the program.
"This is a moment I've dreaded," he told viewers. "I wish I could do this forever. I can't, though. But I'm not retiring. Writers don't retire. And I'll always be a writer."
The son of a traveling salesman father, Rooney was born Jan. 14, 1919, in Albany, N.Y. He attended the Albany Academy prep school and was a student at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., when he was drafted into the Army in 1941.
He was assigned to the 17th Field Artillery Regiment, part of the 13th Field Artillery Brigade. After shipping out to England, he applied for a reporter's job with the London edition of the Stars and Stripes.
Rooney, who chronicled his four years with the Stars and Stripes in his 1995 book "My War," wrote more than 200 stories for the newspaper.
In the process, Sgt. Rooney flew with the 8th Air Force on the first American bombing raid over Germany and covered the invasion of France after landing on a Normandy beach four days after D-day in June 1944.
Rooney was earning his living freelancing magazine stories when a chance meeting with Arthur Godfrey in an elevator at CBS in New York City in 1949 changed his fortune. Over the next six years, he wrote for Godfrey's daily radio show and his two television programs. Rooney also wrote for CBS News public affairs programs such as "The Twentieth Century."
After teaming up with Reasoner in 1962 as a writer and producer, Rooney won his first Writers Guild of America Award for the Reasoner-narrated "The Great Love Affair," a look at America's obsession with automobiles.
Rooney won his first Emmy Award for his script for "Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed," one of the specials narrated by Bill Cosby in the 1968 CBS News series "Of Black America."
In 2003, he was awarded an Emmy for lifetime achievement.
Rooney's wife of 62 years, Marguerite, whom he called Marge, was a longtime Connecticut high school math teacher. She died in 2004.
He is survived by their four children, Ellen; Brian, a former ABC News correspondent; Emily, who hosts a Boston public-affairs program on PBS; and Martha; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.


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Use signs of aging to your own advantage (Column)
For Easter, I shot a teddy bear out of a cannon in my backyard. All eight of my grandchildren were present. They loved it.
It was messy. There's not a lot of mass to a stuffed animal. When the gun went off, Teddy only traveled 100 feet, but he went there in 200 directions.
While happy grandkids ran to line their Easter baskets with Teddy's drifting guts, I overheard Daughter No. 3 talking to Daughter No. 1.
"Yeah, he's getting weirder. We have to watch him closer."
It was a comment about my advancing age; the first of what will be many observations regarding my declining lucidity. In a couple of months I'll be six decades old. Not a geezer yet, but definitely an increasingly troublesome coot.
The thing is I know I'm getting weirder. Age-related strangeness is creeping in. I confuse my two grandsons with each other, I forget the names of my granddaughters and I can't remember which bit of advice I've already given them.
"Papa, you already told us we're not supposed to mail poo to the president" is the most recent reminder that I may well be repeating myself to the point of annoyance.
People will tell you that age is just all in your mind. These people are liars and/or idiots. Old age isn't just in your mind. It's also on your face, in your joints and in the mouths of your ungrateful, smart-ass children.
I understand the physical part. I have undergone more than a dozen reparative surgeries in my life for stuff that I (or someone else) did to me.
I wake up and am painfully reminded of all of them -- car crash, cliff fall, parachute, self surgery(s), explosion No. 6, fight, ricochet bullet, etc. -- while I gimp toward the bathroom.
Painful as that stuff is, I can handle it. I earned it. I'm even OK with what I find in the bathroom. I've grown accustomed to the gorilla's armpit I see in the mirror.
It's the loss of stature among my children that troubles me most. Where I used to be handled with care and respect, I'm now just being handled.
If I'm sent to the store to pick up things for a family dinner, not only do I take along a written list now, but I'll get a phone call while I'm at the store to make sure I haven't accidentally thrown the list away.
If I get asked to watch the grandkids, there's a growing suspicion that it will be the grandkids that end up watching me.
Daughter: "Was Papa good while I was gone?"
Any grandkid: "He said that hole in the fence was already there."
There's also the assumption that I can't be trusted with reality, like my memory might be slipping.
If I offer a bit of sage advice based on the wisdom of my years, every small head in the room will immediately swivel in the direction of grandma for verification.
Grammy: "What do you guys think?"
Chorus: "There's no such thing as a ghost pig!"
Finally, I used to be the one in charge but now I'm the one getting lectured and grounded.
Daughter: "How many times do I have to tell you about letting them play on the roof?"
Me: "I don't know. A billion?"
Wait a minute. Maybe this isn't as bad as it sounds. It's entirely possible that there's something to be gained in this inevitable slide into coothood.
Managed correctly, I could get to the point where I no longer have to even pretend to be responsible. I'll just be old. If that isn't a great way to get even with my kids and wife, I don't know what is.
Robert Kirby can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or facebook.com/stillnotpatbagley.


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Internet is buzzing
Mat Kearney's 'Bennie and Johnnie' song goes viral
May 24, 2012
By Diane Hageman
The buzz was big. National recording artist Mat Kearney was going to be playing for the '12 Pines spring concert at SJU, an event coordinated by the CSB and SJU Joint Events Council.
The buzz got even bigger when Kearney decided to write a song as a thank you after playing at what he called "the most energetic acoustic show I've ever played."
The result was "Bennie and Johnnie" which was initially released and uploaded May 10 by Kearney on SoundCloud. By mid-afternoon May 11, it had been played 10,000 times. That number has risen to more than 21,500 — and climbing. Dozens of people commented on the song including Lois Liner: "Beautiful song appreciated by two people who will soon celebrate 65 WONDERFUL years of a Johnnie-Bennie marriage."
CSB and SJU students and alums have been all a-twitter, sharing their love for the song via social media. Facebook posts total at least 600, it's been tweeted 374 times with numerous retweets and views on YouTube are pushing 3,000.
The viral reaction even impressed Minneapolis' KARE 11 reporter Boua Xiong, a Mat Kearney fan herself, to do a segment on the song which aired May 21. That story sent fans into action again with dozens of "likes" and numerous Facebook posts and Twitter was fluttering with the Bennie-Johnnie buzz.
"This college, they captured my heart," Kearney emphasized. And he's got a song that's well on its way to capturing the experience of CSB and SJU in the hearts of many fans.
Check out the Mat Kearney Concert at '12 Pines on YouTube (video by Adam Brenteson '13) :


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Coffee reveals itself as an unlikely elixirCoffee is earning a reputation as a health tonic, reducing risk for a long list of ailments and even lowering death rates.
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Earlier is better for HIV treatmentPeople infected with HIV benefit from starting a drug regimen early, an international study finds.
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Nov. 4, 2001
Santa Barbara, Calif. -
The UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team played its final home match on Sunday evening, and it was a close one.
Senior Jaime Ambriz, playing his final match at Harder Stadium, flashed up the middle in the 65th-minute, and struck a header off of a cross from freshman defender Tony Lochhead, planting it into the depth of the net, for the only goal, as UCSB defeated UC Riverside 1-0 in a Big West soccer match. The victory keeps the Gauchos in contention for the Big West Championship.
Ambriz' goal was the only score in a match that saw UCSB outshoot its opponent by an 18-3 margin. Ambriz had five shots, including several of the dangerous variety. Gaucho goalkeeper Dan Kennedy produced yet another shutout with three saves. In fact, UCSB has won three matches in a row, all by shutout.
With the win, the Gauchos are now 9-4-3 overall, and 5-1-1 in Big West play. UC Riverside drops to 0-14-1 overall, 0-7-0 in league play. UCSB travels to Cal Poly on Friday, November 9, to take on the Mustangs in a 7:00 p.m. Big West match.


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Maroon 5 announces summer, outdoor tour with Kelly Clarkson, writes songs for new album
By Mesfin Fekadu
NEW YORK — Maroon 5 says they're working on a new album, but before that the pop-rockers will launch a summer tour that finds the fivesome playing outdoors.
The Grammy-winning band announced Monday that they will headline the 2013 Honda Civic Tour, which kicks off Aug. 1 in St. Louis and will feature Kelly Clarkson.
"I think the live outdoor kind of summer vibe is always different than the indoor arena tour because there's less emphasis on production and more on live music," frontman Adam Levine said in an interview. "It's kind of the purist form of a tour 'cause there's not too many bells and whistles."
The 31-date tour wraps Oct. 5 in San Diego.
Levine says he and his bandmates are riding high off the success of last year's "Overexposed," their fourth album that has achieved platinum status. It features the popular hits "Payphone," "One More Time" and "Daylight."
"It's so amazing to have an album people connect with and embrace. It's a dream come true. It's hard to believe to have lighting strike twice and three times and four times," he said. "We're having a moment. A good moment."
He also says the group is working on the follow-up to that album: "We're just getting started. We've got some great songs in the can."
"The stuff we're working on now, it definitely has gone maybe a little darker in its sound, maybe back a little bit more to what we kind of did on (our debut) 'Songs About Jane,"' said guitarist James Valentine. "But at this point we do have all kinds of different songs and it is early."
Levine is also busy balancing his life with NBC's "The Voice," which returned last week with new coaches Shakira and Usher, alongside Blake Shelton.
"It's great. Sometimes it's difficult to manoeuvr, but it's been a lot of success," said Levine, who will have his former mentee, Tony Lucca, open on some dates of the tour. "I'd be pretty foolish not to be happy about it."


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2013 headliner: Christie vs. Booker?
It would be the kind of off-year prizefight political reporters dream about: pugnacious New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie squaring off for reelection against Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
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Interviews with Democratic and Republican insiders and strategists indicate that even if Christie seeks reelection (which while likely, isn't a given), Booker is hardly a done deal for the Democratic nomination. Those strategists suggest the mayor is more likely preparing for a possible 2014 Senate battle, if Frank Lautenberg retires. Even if Booker does run against Christie in 2013, he's no shoo-in a state rife with bitter intraparty battles pitting powerful party bosses against one another.
In addition to Booker, other potential Democratic candidates include former Gov. Richard Codey, state Democratic Party Chairman John Wisniewski and state Sen. Barbara Buono, who has been not-so-quietly setting up a run for more than two years. More nationally known names are also being tossed around, including Rep. Frank Pallone and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, who used to head the New Jersey counterpart of EPA.
Speculation is rampant about whether the popular Christie will seek reelection, but he's given no clear indication of his intentions. Christie's top political adviser, Bill Palatucci, left his private sector job last week to focus on politics, but the governor told reporters that shouldn't be read as a sign that he'll run in 2013 or make a 2016 presidential bid. Palatucci was vice president and general counsel of Community Education Centers, a for-profit company that operates prisons and halfway houses in 17 states and that has come under increased scrutiny for alleged mistreatment of inmates. During superstorm Sandy, 15 inmates escaped from one of CEC's New Jersey facilities.
"I'll talk about 2013 when we get to 2013," Palatucci told POLITICO, repeating his stock response when asked about Christie's plans.
Christie is a national political figure who himself considered a 2012 presidential bid. He played a prominent role as a Mitt Romney surrogate, traveling and fundraising for the GOP presidential nominee, and was the keynote speaker at the Republican convention in Tampa. But after superstorm Sandy hit his state the week before Election Day, the governor ruffled GOP feathers when he heaped praise on President Barack Obama for his help for the state and didn't show at a nearby campaign event. Christie — whose personal approval ratings in New Jersey exceeded 55 percent in the latest poll — characteristically brushed off the criticism.
But seeking reelection carries risks for the governor. New Jersey remains a blue state that President Barack Obama carried by a larger margin in 2012 than in 2008. In 2009, Christie was able to capitalize on a deep-seated dislike for then-incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine, coupled with a series of corruption busts in his role as U.S. attorney. But the climate would be different in 2013 after broad-based Republican losses in 2012 and even his leadership role in the hurricane's aftermath could be in the rear-view mirror.
"I think right now, if the election were today, Christie would run over anybody, because he's certainly benefiting from the perception of leadership in the aftermath of the storm," New Jersey pollster David Redlawsk said. "There is no question that people are very positive about his initial response, both his taking leadership but also his interaction with the president."


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Kale and Broccoli Crepe Recipe
My sister-in-law Lya had a sleepover with her girlfriends here last weekend. They had to wake up very early the following day to participate in The Color Run™ 5k paint race event. I promised I'd give them a large breakfast so they'd have enough energy. I served them sweet potato tarte amandine (check out the photo on Facebook), thumbprint cookies and crepes. I prepared plenty of crêpe batter the night before so I was able to use the rest for lunch and create light, savory crepes. I filled them with a cheesy mascarpone sauce, sautéed kale and broccoli.
Don't be fooled by the abundance of greens; this healthy, savory crêpe is very flavorful and filling. The, creamy sauce will keep you full until it's time for the next meal.
Yields: 8 servings8 crêpes from basic savory crêpe batter (click on the link for the recipe)
2 tablespoons canola oil (or more butter), as needed
1 clove garlic, finely minced
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 yellow onion, chopped
2 cups favorite tomato sauce (see tips)
½ cup mascarpone cheese, at room temperature
1 teaspoon fresh oregano, chopped
1½ teaspoons salt
1½ teaspoons coarse-grained mustard
⅓ cup sharp Cheddar cheese, freshly grated
2 teaspoons no-salt seasoning (blend of 21 spices and herbs)
4 tablespoons sweet basil leaves, chopped
5 cups fresh kale
3 cups broccoli florets
Making the tomato sauce:
In a saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon oil. Add the minced garlic and oregano and cook until golden. Add the onions. Cook for 8-10 minutes. Once they're softened and lightly golden, reserve half the amount of onions aside and add tomato sauce and oregano to the saucepan. Stir frequently. Cook for about 2-3 minutes. Add the tomato sauce, Cheddar cheese, basil and mustard. Season with no-salt seasoning, salt and black pepper. Once the cheese is fully melted, s et aside.
For the vegetables:
Wash the raw kale thoroughly in several baths. Remove and discard the older, fibrous part of the stems. Drain and remove all the excess water using a salad spinner. Roughly chop the kale leaves.
In a pan, heat 1 tablespoon oil. Add the broccoli. Sauté for 2 minutes until fully coated in oil, then season with salt (this keeps the green color bright). Add 1 cup water and cook until all the liquid has evaporated. Add 2 tablespoons of the reserved onions. Toss well and transfer to a plate. Add the rest of the onions to the pan along with the kale. Constantly toss the kale leaves until they're shiny (coated in oil). The leaves will start to wilt after 30 seconds or so. Season with salt (this will prevent the kale from changing color and help keep its bright green color). Turn off the heat. Stir well. Cover and let sit for about 2-3 minutes. Check seasoning and add black pepper.
Assembly time:
Place your crêpe pan (or any flat pan) over medium heat. Using a silicone brush, grease it with a little butter (if using). Re-heat the crêpe in the pan for a minute. Lower the heat and flip the crêpe. Spread a generous layer of the cheesy mascarpone tomato sauce. Cover half the crêpe with kale and a few broccoli florets, then fold in half.
Bon appétit!
I used homemade tomato sauce I prepared last summer.
If you don't have any flat-leaf parsley, you can use any other herbs such as curly parsley, cilantro or basil.
For the aesthetic of the photo, I didn't entirely cover the crêpes with the tomato sauce, but it's better to cover the whole dish so the crêpes are drenched in flavorful sauce.
If you're interested in making another savory version, check out my recipe for beggar's purses or bánh xèo (Vietnamese crêpe).Published By: on May 21, 2013.


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Boyer named Virginia Business Person of the Year
Shawn Boyer steers SnagAJob.com to the top
- November 23, 2009
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Shawn Boyer
Born: Aug. 8, 1971 in Richmond
High school: Lafayette High School in Williamsburg
College: Bachelor's degree in business administration, College of William & Mary, which he attended on a football scholarship
Graduate school: Law degree, Washington & Lee University; master of law in taxation degree, Georgetown University Law Center
Family: Married the former Tennille Hurley, SnagAJob.com's first salesperson, in September 2006. Their daughter, Macy, turns 2 in December.
It's not every day that your business gets a personal plug from the president.
Last year, Shawn Boyer stood in the East Room of the White House to accept the Small Business Person of the Year Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration. In presenting the award, then-President George W. Bush recounted how Boyer created the job-recruiting Web site SnagAJob.com. "I asked him to leave a business card," the president joked. "Seems like I might be looking, after awhile."
The White House ceremony occurred nine years after Boyer quit his job as a transactional lawyer in Washington and persuaded his family to invest their life savings in a startup Internet company. He wouldn't draw a salary from SnagAJob until a year later.
All of that was proof, Bush told the crowd, that Boyer is among the nation's "dreamers and doers." Boyer takes a more humble view. "Part of it was stupidity," the Richmond native says with a laugh.
Today SnagAJob is the nation's fifth-largest online job recruiter overall and the leading Web source for part-time and hourly jobs. Annual revenues at the privately held company total more than $20 million. Before 2009, its yearly growth averaged 83 percent. The recession has taken a toll, but this year's revenues are on track for a 20 percent increase. SnagAJob boasts more than 17 million registered job seekers and has garnered a growing collection of honors.
To that list, Virginia Business adds one more, naming Boyer Virginia's Business Person of the Year. The honor annually recognizes people who have transformed their companies, their industries or the state's economy.
When Boyer began SnagAJob.com, its success was far from assured. The climb was steep and slippery in an industry littered with the bones of failed dot-coms. There was a time when that appeared to be the company's fate. "I was working as hard as I could," Boyer recalls. "I had nothing more to give."
Boyer's father, Hardin, was the first to invest in the idea. He describes the company's early years as "the most pressure I've ever been under in my life. We could have gone under just as easily as make it."
They did make it. SnagAJob is thriving despite the weak economy.
So how did the company survive? SnagAJob's employees credit their boss. Boyer credits his employees. "It's a miracle," says his father.
The correct answer: all of the above.
Too simple
Boyer was born in Richmond but raised in Oklahoma. For more than a decade his father preached at a large nondenominational evangelical church in Tulsa, but Hardin heard a calling for another career. "I didn't know how to size a ring," he remembers. "Or change a watch battery." Yet the family took a leap of faith. When Shawn was 14, the Boyers moved back to Virginia to open a jewelry store — Boyer's Diamond & Gold Source — near Colonial Williamsburg.
"That was pretty gutsy," says his son. "Everything they had got poured into that business." It was in the store that Shawn first saw the appeal of self-employment. "You didn't see a lot of the pressures. But you did see the cool parts."
After Boyer graduated from high school, he went to the College of William & Mary on a football scholarship and pursued a business degree. His goal was to own a commercial real estate firm. But he wanted to do it right. Following advice from real estate professionals, Boyer studied tax law. He earned a law degree from Washington & Lee University and a master's in taxation law from Georgetown University Law Center. After graduation, Boyer stayed in D.C. and practiced transactional law at Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald LLP and Brown & Wood LLP (now Sidley Austin).
From the start, Boyer viewed law as a temporary career and kept a lookout for his next opportunity. It came in 1999 when a friend asked for help finding an internship online. The task proved to be a challenge. Where was a central listing for summer opportunities? For that matter, where was the site for part-time or hourly jobs?
Boyer remembers thinking, "Someone should provide this service." His next thought: "Why not me?"
It was the height of the dot-com boom when "why-not-me" was in vogue. "A lot of people were starting their own companies, leaving traditional jobs they were trained for and starting dot-coms," says Boyer.
He ran the idea by his father, who thought it too simple. "Somebody's got to be working on it." So for months they waited, checking for a site to surface. None did. The two men revisited the idea.
It was a terrifying gamble, recalls Hardin Boyer. "Shawn was leaving a career in law to open a business we knew nothing about." Still, the Boyer family took yet another leap. In August 1999 Boyer gave notice at the firm and went to work full time on his startup: SnagAJob.com. His father thought up the name.
Snagging a profit
"Six years later I might have been too entrenched," says Boyer. But back then he wasn't married. He had no kids, no mortgage. "My living expenses were nothing so I was able to save up and get by with no salary for a while."
Working from a cheap rental space in a doctor's office in Williamsburg, Boyer crafted the business plan. He kept it simple. Companies would pay to post job openings, employer profiles and advertisements. Volume discounts would be used to attract national chains that perpetually have openings. Job seekers could create user profiles and let the program match their interests, skills and experience to local positions.
Boyer hired a contractor to construct the Web site. By May 2000 it was up and running. To spread the word among job seekers, the Boyers blanketed high schools and colleges in four states with brochures. "It was $175,000 just for printing," says Hardin. They hadn't raised a penny yet.
So the elder Boyer went looking for investors. He started close and circled outward, pitching to friends and business associates. "Every time we ran out of money, I'd think of somebody and go give them my spiel," says Hardin. He and his wife had already refinanced the loan on the jewelry store and invested in their son's vision.
Hardin's faith was persuasive. During the next three years, father and son raised about $2.8 million. The company flourished. In May 2002, days after its second anniversary, SnagAJob saw its one millionth job application. It hadn't made a profit yet, but that day was fast approaching.
Before the company reached it, the venture capital ran out. "It was like somebody turned the spigot off," says Hardin. They'd already tapped everyone they knew. "We were literally within two to four weeks of going under," he says. "Not because it wasn't a great idea but without financing the best business model can fail."
SnagAJob went into triage mode. The company cut staff, fired the cleaning crew and tried to keep faith. "I'm a firm believer that you can never let your mind go to, 'What if it doesn't work?'" says Shawn. "But every now and then it'll go there for a second … It's one thing to lose your own money, another when it's friends and family involved."
For Hardin the stress was the worst of his career. "I'd used up every dime I had personally. Borrowed everything I could borrow. But what kept me awake at night was that every investor, literally, was a friend or business associate." Then, the miracle. In April 2004 SnagAJob turned a profit.
'The real deal'
Gone are the days of fliers in high schools. Today the company markets on Facebook and My Space. It runs national commercials targeting viewers of ESPN2, Comedy Central, MTV and the Sci-Fi network. SnagAJob boasts 97 percent client retention. And it just won the No. 3 spot on the list of Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America for the second year in a row. The list is compiled by The Society of Human Resource Management.
SnagAJob's new headquarters occupy the 35,000-square-foot second story of a building in a Henrico County office park. A mural in the foyer reads: "At the top of these stairs you'll meet the biggest, proudest backers of America's hourly workers and employers. They're called Snaggers and they make no apologies for their passion and enthusiasm."
Jessica Bennett was the company's first employee — aka Snagger — after the Web site went live. Plenty has changed since then, she says, but the culture has stayed the same. "Shawn is the architect of that culture," says Dave Bosher, SnagAJob's senior vice president and chief financial officer. "The fact that we're the third best place to work in America, that isn't something we fell into. That was a goal of Shawn's."
There is something appealing about an office with a foosball table, a Wii Station and a coffee bar, evidence of what Boyer calls "busting it while having fun."
"It's like football," says Boyer, who played wide receiver at William & Mary. "If you screw around in practice all week, you're going to get crushed on Saturday, and that's no fun."
But Bennett says toys aren't the reason employees are dedicated to SnagAJob. It's the sense of family Boyer fosters, she says. "Shawn is a leader. It's not about him, it's about everyone else," Bosher says.
Bosher had just retired as CFO of a highly successful Richmond-based Internet firm, Payerpath Inc., when he joined SnagAJob as a consultant in 2006. SnagAJob was ready to expand again and was seeking funds, so Boyer took Bosher on an investment road show. He returned with two institutional investors and a new CFO. "Shawn's the real deal," says Bosher. "I work for a president that makes me feel like a partner."
This ability to inspire loyalty helped Boyer assemble a seasoned leadership team — "A team for a much larger company," says Bosher — that has guided the company's rapid expansion. Three years ago the company had 22 employees. There are more than 130 today. The company cut six members of its client services department last spring when new technology made their positions obsolete, but it has since hired 14 new Snaggers and is advertising openings in many departments.
Boyer knows each employee by name. He also knows the names of every spouse and all their kids, says Bennett. "He may not know the names of all the new babies, but he knows there are new babies."
That sort of leadership spoils you, says Bennett. She left SnagAJob once. When the company moved from Williamsburg to Richmond in 2001, she stayed behind. "I hated every minute of it," she recalls. "Six months later I called Shawn and said, 'I don't care if I clean the bathrooms. I want to come back.'"
At SnagAJob, says Bennett, "You know that what you do makes a difference."
Recessionary effects
Sixty percent of the American work force gets paid an hourly wage. That figure includes teens earning weekend money and families supplementing their income with part-time jobs. Nonetheless, for a swelling number of workers, hourly labor provides the primary paycheck.
The recession accelerated this trend. When SnagAJob was founded, the nation's jobless rate was 4 percent, the lowest annual average since 1969, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. This fall unemployment climbed to 10.2 percent, a 26-year high. The economic climate has affected SnagAJob's pool of job seekers. "It got older," notes Boyer. "It got more male." And there are more of them. Though job postings have dipped as much as 40 percent, the number of job seekers registering on the Web site increased by 5 million in the last year alone, raising the total to 15 million.
Scholars aren't surprised. "When you see unemployment as we do, the number of hourly workers will increase," notes Robert R. Trumble, director of the VCU Labor Studies Center and former dean of the VCU School of Business. "They're less expensive."
Trumble calls hourly workers the base of the U.S. economy. Boyer calls them the nation's backbone. "They're everywhere you look," he says. "The cashier at the gas station; the ticket taker at SnagAJob Pavilion [a music venue within earshot of the company headquarters]; the office cleaners; your waitress. They're all hourly, though they may not want to be."
Most employees prefer salaried positions over hourly work, says Trumble. "They'd make more money and have more benefits," including health care and paid sick leave. But when people get laid off, they need a paycheck. "To be candid," says Trumble, "hourly work is probably not good for the worker. But during bad times, it can keep the wolf from the door."
Boyer sees SnagAJob as uniquely positioned to keep families afloat by helping people find work fast. Last year, SnagAJob launched its Campaign to Hire America, which connected 400,000 job seekers with what the Web site calls "sweet new hourly gigs" — jobs suited to an individual's skills and schedule. And users are grateful. Every week, at the company meetings they read recent e-mails from the newly employed.
"I have been out of work for seven months," writes an Alexandria resident in a typical message. "I thank SnagAjob for helping me find a job and keeping me from losing my mind."
The feedback, says Bennett, puts in perspective why she works for the company. From an investors' perspective, adds Bosher, "If we have happier job seekers, we have happier customers, we have a bigger revenue stream and happier [investors]."
The next step
For SnagAJob, the short road from survival to success signifies a mix of planning, hard work and luck. "The quintessential entrepreneur story," says Bosher.
Of course, there is no "happily ever after" in business, and Boyer is busy plotting the next steps. The company's 2015 vision includes expanding into foreign countries and diversifying the client base (now dominated by national chains including Burger King, Target, and Fed Ex) to attract small and mid-sized businesses.
Will this growth necessitate going public? "That's a definite goal in the distance," says Bosher.
Boyer also is pushing to expand what he calls "the community element for job seekers." He envisions one-stop shopping, where people can find job listings, get feedback on employers and pick up advice on shaping a career. Earlier this year the company partnered with PayScale, giving job seekers access to wage and cost-of-living calculators and tools for matching skills to a desired career path.
The last goal is to see SnagAJob honored as not just one of the best places to work, but the best. "It's been a part of the long-term plan," says Bosher. "I'm happy to settle for No. 3, but that's the difference; Shawn wants to be No. 1."


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Natural phenomena can often be simultaneously beautiful and terrifying. Naturally-occurring whirlpools are particularly notable, as they can vary wildly in size and impact. Janis Astics was able to capture a seemingly-innocuous swirl of water near the banks of the Daugava River in Dviete, Latvia. Soon afterwards, however, this tiny whirlpool grew substantially in strength and fortitude.
Astics called this an "Amazing Monstrous Whirlpool" which at first seems to be a gross exaggeration for the first 20 seconds of the video. As the momentum grows, however, the whirlpool consumes ever-larger chunks of ice, twigs and debris. Eventually, even a full sheet of ice far larger than the surface area of the whirlpool itself gets subsumed into its vortex.
With impeccable timing, Astics was able to capture the growth and expansion of this whirlpool on film. Though magnificent, these phenomena are typically impossible to observe in close proximity. This video below by Janis Astics shares a special microcosm to see how a whirlpool grows in nature (the most incredible results occur after 4:00). As you watch the video below, be sure to keep your eyes on the center of the whirlpool.
Note that the tremendous amount of mass sucked in seems to disappear without a trace. Where is all of this material going? To have an idea of the fate of all of this debris and ice, we have to understand how a whirlpool works.
A whirlpool is a circular current in the water typically created when two opposing currents meet. As the currents begin to mix, a funnel of water is formed from the Coriolis Effect, similar to the way a bathtub empties when the plug is pulled out from the drain. To fully illustrate this effect, we can observe what a whirlpool looks like underwater in the video at the end of the article.
Debris gets forced downward through the vortex, usually ending up being thrown out at the bottom tip of the funnel. In the case of the whirlpool captured on film above, the massive amount of debris most likely ended up at the bottom of the river, or possibly jettisoned deep underneath the water, only to surface downstream.
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