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Explore in-depth feature stories from 2012 illustrating the impact of Gavi and its partners.
14 December 2012
Seth Berkley visits DR Congo to view progress on immunisation
The twofold objective of Dr Berkley's visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo was to gain a better understanding of what drives increases in immunisation coverage in a large fragile country and to advise on the scaling-up of pneumococcal vaccines. Meetings with various partners, including government ministers, UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and DR Congo's vibrant civil society allowed vigorous discussion of how best to provide financial sustainability for immunisation.
10 December 2012
GAVI partners with Vodafone to bolster the supply chain in Africa
With innovative in-kind initiative, mobile communications leader becomes newest GAVI Matching Fund partner, triggering US$ 1.5 match from the UK
07 December 2012
"Best ever" Partners' Forum says goodbye to Tanzania
The 5th Partners' Forum formally closed after three days of discussion about Results, Innovation, Sustainability and Equity
Hans Rosling at the Partners' Forum
Professor Hans Rosling, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation, doctor and professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, presents "Immunisation and Development" at the Plenary Session Partners' Forum in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
06 December 2012
GAVI Past, Present and Future - Seth Berkley's opening plenary
With the Partners' Forum now officially up and running in Dar, Dr Seth Berkley delivered a visionary speech this morning touching on GAVI's past, present and future. Read the key excerpts.
05 December 2012
Day One of the GAVI Alliance Partners' Forum
Sessions included a Forum on CSO partnership and a discussion on routine immunisation in South East Asia. Later, ONE.org gave an award. Faith-based organisations had breakfast and MPs came together to advocate for immunisation.
GAVI CEO and partners visit Zanzibar (gallery with audio)
Image gallery with audio of GAVI CEO Dr Seth Berkley and a group of Alliance partners visiting health care clinics where immunization sessions and maternal health care services have helped raise immunisation coverage from 78% in 2007 to 92% in 2011.
03 December 2012
Historic trade centre Zanzibar recognises value of vaccines
Decades ago Zanzibar's traders were quick to recognise a solid return on investment. Centuries later, their descendants are united in their recognition of the value of vaccines: from mothers and fathers to nurses and officials.
16 November 2012
GAVI marks World Prematurity Day
Preterm birth is the world's largest killer of newborn babies, causing more than 1 million deaths each year. 75% of those deaths could be saved with proven, cost-effective measures.
15 November 2012
GAVI supports new vaccines for Myanmar's children
Delegation of Australian and New Zealand politicians attends launch and sees first-hand the challenges facing the Southeast Asian country following years of isolation.
05 November 2012
Madagascar mobilises health workers to introduce pneumococcal vaccine
Immunisation against primary cause of pneumonia kickstarts celebration of Mother and Child Health Week
01 November 2012
British Airways launches campaign to fund immunisation
British Airways launch a dynamic in-flight campaign to help raise funds for immunisation in developing countries – a collaboration with GAVI Matching Fund partner Comic Relief.
26 October 2012
Pentavalent vaccine to protect children in Timor Leste
Children in Timor Leste are set to receive protection from five major childhood diseases after the country's introduction of pentavalent vaccine as part of its national immunisation programme.
12 October 2012
Immunisation lauded as engine for economic growth
Child immunisation has the power to fundamentally change the economic progress of developing countries even beyond the basic benefit of saving lives and improving health.
11 October 2012
GAVI initiatives applauded in Japan
GAVI's success in partnering with the private sector highlighted at a global health symposium of Japanese companies in Tokyo.
Congo introduces vaccine against pneumonia
The Republic of Congo has taken a big step in improving child health by introducing the pneumococcal vaccine, which protects children against one of the leading causes of pneumonia.
10 October 2012
Dagfinn Høybråten thanks GAVI advocate Bono
GAVI Board Chair meets with Bono and European Commissioner for Development on Brussels visit
28 September 2012
GAVI and Global Poverty Project talk vaccines at Global Citizen Festival
Global Poverty Project CEO Hugh Evans and GAVI's Seth Berkley talk about the power of vaccines ahead of the The Global Citizen Festival, an historic webcast and broadcast concert in Central Park, New York.
25 September 2012
GAVI surpasses commitment to Clinton Global Initiative
GAVI has raised more than double the amount of money it promised to secure from the private sector under a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, strengthening GAVI's ability to provide pneumococcal and other lifesaving vaccines to developing countries.
24 September 2012
Seth Berkley addresses UN High Level Panel on post-2015 development agenda
GAVI CEO Seth Berkley talk's health with the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons tasked with preparing a global development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for the Millennium Development Goals.
Global Fund and Huffington Post make Big Push for global health goals
The Global Fund, in partnership with the Huffington Post, has launched 'The Big Push' digital campaign to help maintain momentum toward three global health goals: no child born with HIV, no deaths from mosquito bites, tuberculosis (TB) treatment for all.
19 September 2012
GAVI showcases innovative financing mechanisms to Convergence 2015
Director of Programme Funding Team highlights benefits of GAVI business model to 200 of France's leading development specialists.
12 September 2012
China ready to expand collaboration with GAVI
Health Minister Professor Chen Zhu marked the Chinese Government's first high-level meeting with the GAVI Alliance on Monday by signalling China's willingness to expand collaboration with the Alliance.
31 July 2012
GAVI Alliance thanks France
GAVI Alliance's CEO looks forward to working with the French Minister for Development to improve maternal and child health.
27 July 2012
Pneumococcal vaccine launched in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 18th GAVI-eligible country to roll out pneumococcal vaccines in the developing world since 2010
12 July 2012
DPR Korea introduces pentavalent vaccine
Democratic People's Republic of Korea will continue to co-finance GAVI vaccines.
05 July 2012
Seth Berkley outlines innovations in health financing
GAVI CEO emphasises importance of long-term sustainable funding for vaccines at high-level Ministerial conference.
15 June 2012
Governments and CSOs pledge to end preventable child deaths
Governments and Civil Society Organisation both sign pledges to work towards ending preventable child deaths by 2035, bringing the Child Survival Call to Action meeting to a successful conclusion.
14 June 2012
Faith-based organisations, saving lives is our issue
As 'centre of life' for many African communities, faith-based organisations are well-placed to teach benefits of life-saving health interventions like vaccines and bed nets.
Hillary Clinton, birthplace should not affect survival of a child
Addressing a gathering of global leaders on child and maternal health, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton describes the child mortality gap between rich and poor countries as "shocking".
Child Survival Call to Action, conference goal
High-level conference on child survival kicks-off with a goal of ending all preventable child deaths around the world in a generation.
13 June 2012
'Report Card' shows GAVI delivering on the promise
One year on from Pledging Conference for Immunisation, GAVI lists its key results and challenges.
12 June 2012
GAVI commends LDS Church for US$ 1.5 million gift
Donation to be doubled under GAVI Matching Fund as immunisation becomes major Church initiative.
08 June 2012
Nigeria launches pentavalent vaccine
Nigerian vaccine introductions set to save as many as 30,000 child lives every year following this year's launch of the pentavalent vaccine and next year's launch of the pneumococcal vaccine.
Tackling deadliest diseases for world's poorest children can yield huge gains – UNICEF
A new report from UNICEF focuses on the huge potential to narrow the child survival gap between the richest and the poorest by focusing on pneumonia and diarrhoea – the two primary
killers of children under the age of five.
25 May 2012
194 countries endorse landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan
New strategy is expected to accelerate the achievement of UN MDG4, a two thirds reduction in child mortality between 1990 and 2015.
23 May 2012
GAVI CEO – We will focus on countries with low coverage
Tailored approach required to ensure routine immunisation reaches 19.3 million children who miss out every year.
G8 report praises GAVI and catalytic use of innovative financing
Accountability report singles out GAVI for its 'unified focus', IFFIm as a 'catalytic success story' and and the AMC as a 'game-changer'.
Seth Berkley highlights 19 million children missing out on vaccines
GAVI CEO's speech to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases focuses on need for equity in vaccine coverage.
22 May 2012
Fauci: forging closer ties with GAVI
Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases talks about the relationship between the National Institute of Health and GAVI.
Senegal Health Minister highlights key role of immunisation
Vaccines play key role in Senegal's dramatic reduction in child mortality.
21 May 2012
Immunisation eyes future with innovation
Dr.Chris Elias, President of the BMGF's Global Development Program, discusses the role of innovation in delivering vaccines to the hard-to-reach.
Chinese vaccine production to revolutionise the market
Dr Margaret Chan highlights China's potential for increased vaccine production at lower prices following WHO approval of national vaccine regulator.
16 May 2012
World Health Assembly to welcome as many as 3,000 participants
Ministers, experts, and other delegates to discuss Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), GAVI progress, non-communicable diseases, Millennium Development Goals, and other issues.
10 May 2012
Diary of a vaccine monitor
As a programme officer with the GAVI Alliance, Nilgun Aydogan is responsible not only for helping south Asian countries apply for funding to introduce life-saving vaccines but also for monitoring the effectiveness of their immunisation programmes.
04 May 2012
Praise from Washington for Ghana vaccine rollout
Ghanaian Immunization Panel on Thursday night addressed Ghana's successful rollout of two vaccines simultaneously last week.
02 May 2012
The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth
New global report: 15 million babies born too soon, over 1 million die each year.
30 April 2012
LDS Church rallies support for historic vaccine rollouts in Ghana
Volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rallied support for the introduction of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines at the same time.
24 April 2012
USAID's Shah calls for zero preventable deaths
Launching the "Every Child Deserves a Fifth Birthday" social media campaign in Washington, the head of the United States Agency for International Development gives a sneak peek of his vision for a world with zero child deaths from preventable diseases.
Global partners launch new plan to control and eliminate measles and rubella
Partners leading efforts to control measles announce a new global strategy aimed at reducing measles deaths and congenital rubella syndrome to zero (Joint American Red Cross/CDC/UN Foundation/UNICEF/ WHO press release).
23 April 2012
Haiti celebrates post-earthquake vaccine success story
Just two years after a catastrophic earthquake shattered its public health system, Haiti has marked the launch of World Immunization Week by launching a nationwide vaccination campaign.
20 April 2012
Ghana's vaccine heroes make public health history
From health workers to paediatricians, 100s of Ghanians have played a frontline role in making their country the first in Africa to simultaneously introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines. Six of Ghana's vaccine heroes describe what it takes to rewrite public health history.
USAID launches Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday campaign
Wanted: photos from your fifth birthday, or a photo of you or your kids at age five. Social media campaign will culminate in Child Survival: Call to Action meeting in June.
17 April 2012
IVAC identifies solutions to Nigeria childhood mortality crisis
A study released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has identified the most feasible and impactful solutions for Nigeria's immunisation programme that could offer the best hope yet for scaling up vaccine access to the nation's most rural areas and taking aim at the country's precipitous number of child deaths.
16 April 2012
European Parliament Magazine highlights immunisation
20-page supplement on vaccines, immunisation and GAVI.
13 April 2012
Atletico Madrid partners with "la Caixa" to support GAVI programmes
Funds raised from fans, partners under GAVI Matching Fund will be doubled.
04 April 2012
International parliamentarians commit to immunisation
A panel of democratically-elected representatives from around the world has committed to advocating for vaccines and immunisation, recognising that the technology is cost-effective in reducing maternal and child mortality.
30 March 2012
Comic Relief increases its grant to GAVI
Total of £5 million thanks to Sport Relief and Gates Foundation.
Why Ghana applied to introduce two vaccines
Health official and EPI reveal why Ghana took the unprecedented decision to introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines simultaneously.
28 March 2012
Myanmar measles campaign, dress rehearsal for measles 2nd dose and pentavalent rollouts
Nationwide catch-up campaign prepares ground for introduction of new life-saving vaccines in 2012.
21 March 2012
Australia's crucial role in saving lives
GAVI CEO Dr Seth Berkley delivers an in-depth speech outlining
the crucial role Australian funding will play in saving lives in the
developing world.
Obama, Cameron cite GAVI as a cost-effective investment
President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron reaffirmed their mutual commitment to improving the lives of the world's poorest people through the U.S.-UK Partnership for Global Development.
Ghana to introduce rotavirus, pneumococcal vaccines together
The Ghana Health Service is gearing up for an extraordinary joint introduction of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines.
19 March 2012
Comic Relief goes the distance for immunisation
Comic Relief, the hugely popular UK charity, is gearing up for a marathon of events over the next week as part of its Sport Relief fundraising campaign, with a portion of the proceeds going toward child immunisation through the GAVI Alliance.
15 March 2012
Mozambique Deputy Health Minister acknowledges GAVI support
High-level meeting rounds-off Dr. Seth Berkley's successful visit to Maputo.
12 March 2012
"Miracle of Vaccines" will help deliver on Africa development
Seth Berkley speech underlines broader consequences of vaccination for economic development.
02 March 2012
HPV vaccine inventor Ian Frazer sees his idea become reality
Not many scientists live to see vaccine development from basic science all the way through to clinical trials and country introductions, says Professor Ian Frazer, inventor of a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the infection that causes cervical cancer.
21 February 2012
Q and A on Nigeria's introduction of MenAfriVac
Interview with Muhammad Sani Adamu, Head of Accelerated Disease Control in Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency, who played a key role in rolling out the new vaccine against meningitis A, MenAfriVac, to Nigeria's northern states.
20 February 2012
Vaccines: the moral imperative to act
Interview with GAVI Alliance Board Chairman Dagfinn Høybråten on Voice of America.
09 February 2012
Seth Berkley recognises India's growing role in vaccine science
GAVI CEO visits Genome Valley, Indian pharmaceutical industry's equivalent of Silicon Valley, to receive special award.
03 February 2012
GAVI's role in preventing cancer
Information about how vaccines against hepatitis B and human papillomavirus (HPV) help to protect against liver and cervical cancers.
01 February 2012
Matching Fund partner ARK works to defeat rotavirus
ARK launches first comprehensive anti-diarrhoea programme in Zambia.
26 January 2012
Global Health and Diplomacy calls GAVI's support for HPV a major step forward
New publication launched at Davos
highlights GAVI's support as a major step foward for equity in women's
25 January 2012
Bill Gates announces first Vaccine Innovation Award
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced the first Gates Vaccine Innovation Award recipient in his fourth annual letter, published on Wednesday.
24 January 2012
Bill Gates acknowledges EU support for GAVI
Speech to European Parliament Development Committee calls on EU to main development support.
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The entertainment editor at the Daily News will help encourage arts appreciation on a whole new level beginning in March.
FORT WALTON BEACH� The entertainment editor at the Daily News will help encourage arts appreciation on a whole new level beginning in March.
Brenda Shoffner was appointed Friday by Sen. Don Gaetz to serve on the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, which was established to support and promote artistic and cultural programs in the state.
�This came as a complete surprise,� Shoffner said. �I�m really grateful to Senator Gaetz for giving me this opportunity to take my service to the arts community to the next level.�
Gaetz said he was allowed to select four people to join the 15-person council as the president of the Senate and knew immediately he would ask Shoffner to be one of them.
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�She�s the first person I thought of,� he said. �There are a lot of people who are advocates for one particular (arts) organization � the advantage that Brenda Shoffner brings to the arts council is that she is an advocate for the arts in the broadest sense.�
The Niceville resident said he�s always enjoyed reading Shoffner�s columns in Showcase, a weekly arts and entertainment magazine in the Daily News. Shoffner has overseen the publication since the early 1990s, and Gaetz said he knew skills she honed on the job would be invaluable in the new role.
�The purpose of the arts council is to make decisions about which organization gets arts funding, and as a journalist Brenda is able to look at all of the facts and all of the contingencies � and make a more unbiased recommendation for funding,� he said.
Shoffner, who has held a variety of positions at the newspaper, said she�s always had a passion for the arts and looks forward to helping advance it statewide.
�It enriches everyone�s life from the performer to the observers,� she said. �It provides depth to our experience.�
Throughout her childhood she dabbled in a variety of artistic ventures, she said.
In sixth grade she co-wrote and acted in a play, and in seventh grade she did a little more acting before giving that up to focus more on playwriting and poetry.
While those are her personal strong suits, Shoffner said she welcomes opportunities to explore and experience all art forms.
�I like everything � I like painting. I like plays. I like music,� she said, and added with a laugh, �I�m an easy audience; I always say that about myself.�
Shoffner will hold her position on the council for two years and will attend her first meeting on March 21 in Tallahassee.
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Slave Auction, New Orleans, 1839
James Buckingham, The Slave States of America (London, 1842), vol. 1, facing title page (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Caption, Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans. James Buckingham visited New Orleans for about a month in early 1839. During this period he went to one of the city's grander hotels, the St. Louis hotel, sometimes called the French Exchange. Within this hotel was the Rotunda, a very large and ornate room in which auctions are held for every description of goods. During his visit several auctioneers were competing with each other and selling various goods, among them slaves. These consisted, he wrote, of an unhappy negro family, who were all exposed to the hammer at the same time. Their good qualities were enumerated in English and in French, and their persons were carefully examined by intending purchasers, among whom they were ultimately disposed of, chiefly to Creole buyers . . . The middle of the Rotunda was filled with casks, boxes, bales, and crates; the negroes exposed for sale were put to stand on these, to be the better seen by persons attending the sale (pp. 334-335).
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It's as if Todd Rundgren is emperor of his own little nation. In fact, glance at the Bearsville Theater listing for Rundgren's two shows in Woodstock — the first sold out but the second set for 8 p.m. Monday — and it even says the virtuostic artist is "musical royalty."
It's as if Todd Rundgren is emperor of his own little nation.
In fact, glance at the Bearsville Theater listing for Rundgren's two shows in Woodstock — the first sold out but the second set for 8 p.m. Monday — and it even says the virtuostic artist is "musical royalty."
So when Rundgren announced an album called "State" and a tour that marks an "Official State Visit," you're bound to connect the dots. Rundgren, who has morphed from Beatlemaniac to pop songster to prog rocker to digital wunderkind to whatever else there is, continues to want to change the world.
The album, released April 9, finds Rundgren heavily involved in the dance and spacial pop worlds. He took cues from Skrillex and Daft Punk, even Bon Iver, working by laptop to create a sonic sound of drum loops and synthesizer bleeds.
Some of the songs ("Smoke," "Party Liquor") would not sound out of place in a club — at least circa 1994. There is, at least to people well versed in the dance and dub worlds, an obvious problem with "State": It doesn't actually sound like Skrillex, Daft Punk and Bon Iver. Maybe in very small pieces, but overall it sounds a bit dated.
Maybe it's on purpose, and maybe that's part of Rundgren's cachet — remember, he's emperor of his own little nation. It's not as if anyone is threatening the borders. Rundgren can go on and make his music until he decides he's finished, since he has devoted fans, a quaint home way off in Hawaii, regular touring gigs (he's back with Ringo Starr this fall) and a strong legacy that paints him as what he branded himself back in 1973: a wizard, a true star.
That album ("A Wizard/A True Star"), which even today remains ahead of its time, was one of many Rundgren recorded, wrote and produced in Woodstock's Bearsville Studios, across the parking lot from where he'll perform Sunday and Monday.
"State" wasn't done in Woodstock. It was done on a laptop in Hawaii, devised and executed right in the mind of the emperor Rundgren. And it sounds dated, but then again, all music today sounds dated. A chunk of the dance and spacial pop worlds samples Rundgren for their tunes ("Deadbeat Summer" by Neon Indian is the quickest example to grab). So Rundgren wanted to tap into other people's heads and bring out a sound that mixes them all together. It's the "State" of Rundgren's State.
There are still a few tickets left Monday. Sunday is sold out. We're all following Emperor Rundgren. Everybody's going to heaven.


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CSB and SJU Enactus club finishes first runner-up at National Exposition
April 22, 2014
Members of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Enactus team placed first runner-up in its league at the Enactus United States National Exposition April 1-3 in Cincinnati.
The team, which matched its best performance at the national competition, received $1,000 for its finish. There are over 500 Enactus teams active in the United States, and 175 teams competed in Cincinnati.
The CSB and SJU team first competed on April 1 in its league of nine teams, and earned a top-six finish to advance to the quarterfinals.
On April 2, CSB/SJU students competed with the hopes of advancing to the semifinal round. To advance, teams needed to place first in its league, but CSB and SJU was first runner-up to Belmont University of Tennessee for a second consecutive year.
"Our team losing to Belmont is anything but a loss," said Gretchen Hughes, CSB senior and Enactus competition coordinator. "Belmont University won the Enactus World Cup in 2012, beating out 1,600 other universities in 36 other countries. Our position puts our team in the top 10 percent of Enactus teams in the United States."
The Enactus team from Texas State University-San Marcos won the 2014 competition, its second national title since 2011. Belmont wound up finishing fourth.
The CSB and SJU Enactus club is an organization that encourages students to develop ideas that could change the world.
The team sent several project leaders, coordinators, executive board members, a faculty adviser and its presentation team to Cincinnati.
"Giving students an opportunity to showcase their hard work on a national stage is an amazing experience. It also gives our team motivation to impact as many people as possible through our projects," said Andrew Mueller, SJU senior and Enactus president.
The CSB and SJU team presented on the work it has completed over the course of the year, from student ventures to work with the local community. One of its projects, Square One, introduced the use of biomass presses to replace harmful coal emissions as well as checking in on past chicken coop and piggery endeavors in Uganda and Kenya.
Enactus is an international non-profit organization that brings together student, academic and business leaders who are committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need.
Guided by academic advisers and business experts, the student leaders of Enactus create and implement community empowerment projects around the globe. The experience not only transforms lives, it helps students develop the kind of talent and perspective that are essential to leadership.
The Enactus National Exposition drew sponsors like Hershey's, Ferrero, Walmart and Unilever. The Expo also offers a career fair for student networking with major corporations in attendance including BIC, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and The Home Depot.


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A recording of Joni singing Both Sides Now is used for the Tribute to Canadian Prairies that began with a quote from the novel Who Has Seen The Wind? by the Canadian writer W. O. Mitchell and narrated by actor Donald Sutherland, also of Canada.
Thomas Saulgrain (L'École nationale de cirque) performes an interpretive aerial ballet on fly wire.
Jean Grand-Maitre, head choreographer for the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony, has been quoted as saying that Joni had a flare-up of Morgellons syndrome that kept her from taking part in Olympic festivities.
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Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Surgical Orthopedic Unit, 1 West to work Full Time Day Shift. New Grads welcome to apply!
This 24 bed Surgical Unit is primarily orthopedic patients but will also have other general surgical patients as well.
Sentara Leigh Hospital is a Magnet Status, 250 bed facility that has been newly renovated.
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Market: Virginia and North Carolina Based Large Healthcare Provider that has been in business for 125 years. More than 100 sites of care, including 12 acute care hospitals and we never had a layoff!
Career growth: Grow your career with Sentara; charge, preceptor, leadership and educator opportunities available. If you are a new graduate you will be able to participate in our Nurse Residency Program.
Location: Sentara Leigh Hospital is centrally located between Downtown Norfolk and the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, just about 20 minutes away from each area. Minor sports teams, shopping, restaurants, museums, a myriad festivals, concerts and events that are all year round!
Sentara offers a great benefit package, 403 B with matching funds, tuition reimbursement, employee bonus program and even a Pension Plan! Relocation assistance available!
Come explore Sentara and work, live and play in a great area!
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No typical leadoff hitter, Calhoun excelling in role
ANAHEIM -- Angels hitting coach Don Baylor had never seen Kole Calhoun play in person before.
He hadn't seen the extra bounce in Calhoun's step that makes his 5-foot-10 frame seem a few inches taller, or the enthusiastic character that booms 'Sup!' whenever greeting someone.
ANAHEIM -- Angels hitting coach Don Baylor had never seen Kole Calhoun play in person before.
He hadn't seen the extra bounce in Calhoun's step that makes his 5-foot-10 frame seem a few inches taller, or the enthusiastic character that booms 'Sup!' whenever greeting someone.
But when Baylor arrived at Spring Training this season, he knew who the 26-year-old outfielder was and he knew what he was going to be -- the Angels' new leadoff hitter.
In February, when Baylor came to the Halos after three years as Arizona's hitting coach, manager Mike Scioscia asked him who the leadoff guy would be. Baylor's answer was a player who had six career starts in the No. 1 slot, with almost three times as many homers as stolen bases.
"He was really committed that he felt that Kole Calhoun should be in the leadoff role," Scioscia said.
Calhoun has taken that spot -- one he had never assumed for a full season at any level -- and run with it, jolting the Angels' offense to produce 638 runs (top three in the Majors) and baseball's best record.
He leads the American League's leadoff men with a .477 slugging percentage and is third on the team in slugging, behind only Mike Trout and Albert Pujols.
So why is this stocky, 200-pound sparkplug at the top of the lineup?
"He's a guy that can give you a 1-0 lead," Baylor said.
The undersized leadoff hitter is an easy guy to forget when he's followed by Trout, Pujols and Josh Hamilton. But Calhoun has made sure opposing teams pay attention to him.
The Arizona State product is hitting .278 this season with 13 home runs and 47 RBIs, numbers that point to him more as a middle-of-the-lineup run-producer than a first-inning firecracker.
"Everyone's like 'Aw, they just want a guy with speed,' but he does a good job," catcher Hank Conger said. "The big thing that stands out is his power and production numbers as a leadoff hitter. It's not all about what's prototypical."
For the Angels, it's simply about getting an early lead -- leads they have turned into wins. When Calhoun scores a run in the first inning, the club is 16-5, and they are 36-10 when he scores a run at any point.
"I called him over and said, 'You're the guy that stirs the drink for us. You get it started,'" Baylor said. "Even if it's just a base hit, it gets Trout up there early with somebody on, gets Albert up there early with somebody on. He knows what his job is."
Calhoun has helped Trout and Pujols to a combined 180 RBIs and 309 plate appearances with runners in scoring position.
"He does his job," Trout said. "He doesn't steal a lot of bases, but he gets on base however he can."
"It's pretty cool being the first guy up, and we've got all these great hitters in the lineup and I get to start off the show," Calhoun said. "When you start the game off on the right foot, you never know what's going to happen."
While Calhoun has injected some pop into the top of the lineup, the leadoff spot has infused some patience into Calhoun.
"It's something that's transformed my game," Calhoun said. "I've got to see some more pitches, and I've got to get some good at-bats and be the sparkplug of the offense."
When leading off an inning, Calhoun has walked more than he has in his career and has scored 69 runs, despite missing 31 games with an injured right ankle.
"He sets the tone for us," Trout said. "As a leadoff guy, I've been through it, he's been through it. He's kind of like the guinea pig and going out there and seeing what the pitcher has. What he's brought to this team, we wouldn't be here without him, for sure."
Good thing Baylor singled him out as the leadoff hitter.
"I was leaning that way, anyways," Scioscia said.
Now, it's the Angels leaning on Calhoun.
Matthew DeFranks is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @MDeFranks.


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If your boss tells you she's off to a meeting in Jacksonville, no one blinks an eye. A cousin heading to Key West? Maybe a bit of envy and best wishes for a pleasant suntan. But when someone says they're off to Two Egg, Florida, there's bound to be a either a giggle or a look of pure confusion.
The bustling metropolis of Two Egg is located a few miles northeast of Marianna in Jackson County. Although it's little more than a wide spot on a curve of State Road 69, it was a prominent crossroads in the region as early as the 18th century. Europeans and native Creeks established trails in the area heading to Neal's Landing and Thomas Perryman's trading post on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River. The route between Perryman's in the east and the natural bridge over the Chipola River in the west crossed right through what we now know as Two Egg. Although the road has been slightly reshaped and much improved over the past 200 years, it still follows roughly the same path.
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According to one legend, a local man named Will Williams decided during this difficult time that since he couldn't afford to give each of his 16 children an allowance, he would instead give them each a chicken. Whenever one of the chickens would lay eggs, the child who owned it could trade them at the store for whatever they pleased. A traveling salesman witnessed one of the children trading two eggs for some candy, according to the story, and decided to nickname the town accordingly. At least a dozen versions of the tale exist, but the majority seem to agree on the common thread of bartering with eggs. However the name came about, by 1940 it was in use on official state road department maps.
A combination of New Deal relief programs and the arrival of World War II breathed new economic life into the families living around Two Egg. Perhaps just as importantly, as more people began traveling to Florida in the postwar era, curiosity about the strangely named town led an increasing number of visitors to pass through for a quick stop at the general store. John Henry Pittman's store was the main place to shop for a number of years, although it eventually closed, leaving the Lawrence Grocery as the sole business in town. As late as the early 2000s, the grocery remained open, selling candy, cigarettes, cold drinks out of a machine, and Two Egg souvenirs.
The Lawrence Grocery eventually closed, and the Pittman store was condemned and destroyed in 2010. The town, if it could be called that, serves more as a bedroom community for Marianna nowadays, but signs on State Road 69 still proudly mark the location of Two Egg. When the signs aren't being stolen, that is. Locals say the signs for Two Egg are stolen more than any other place name markers in the state. Even bolting the signs to their posts hasn't stopped the problem; the thieves simply cut the signpost off at the bottom when they cannot remove the sign itself. In a way it's a sort of backhanded compliment to the uniqueness of this small Florida curiosity. We at Florida Memory, however, would encourage visitors to leave the signs alone and just take a picture or two.
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Sunday, July 30, 2006
And the wait begins again
I'm back north in my parents' apartment, but somehow my own fears seem irrelevant today.
Something awful happened today, and no matter how you look at it, it's horrendous. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about - the terrible tragedy in Lebanon.
Whether I accept the IDF's position of the 6 hour discrepancy between the air force bombing of the building and its final explosion and collapse, or whether I accept the quick world judgment and condemnation of Israel, it matters not. It doesn't matter to those who died, I'm sure.
It's a war and people die in wars and that's exactly what is so dreadful in a war. And yet, there still seem to be people who can't, won't, understand that.
Categories: personal, Israel, Lebanon
7 comments:
- Jacqueline Smith said...
Hi Melly,
I am sitting in my cozy Jamaican and home and your blog has taken me to where you are. I feel for you. I actually have a horrible feeling in my stomach. I can't think of what to say but I wanted you to know that I'm following these posts.
- 31 July, 2006 00:50
Congratulations on not having lost your sense of compassion!
Newspapers report that the reaction of ordinary Israelis on the tragedy in Qana is mostly indifferent.
It's uplifting to see evidence to the contrary.
All the best to you and your family!
- 31 July, 2006 06:01
- Melly said...
Jacqueline, thank you so very much.
Anon, I'm not sure who reports what, but let me tell you the reaction is very different from you may have been told. Quite the opposite of indifference.
Of course, most Israelis are grappling with the issue of how to fight a guerilla that uses civilians as human shields and fires rockets on Israel from houses of civilians, so you may have heard reports pertaining to that.
- 31 July, 2006 07:58
So true. War can never be sanitized. No matter how many computer chips we put into bombs, horrendous things will happen (as if the deaths of soldiers aren't bad enough).
My thoughts are with you, and everyone under threat.
- 31 July, 2006 09:09
- Carter said...
My heart goes out to the Lebanese caught up in a war they don't support.
On the other hand, I am very, very troubled by the extreme silence and lack of indignation over the Israeli women and children who have been and are being indiscriminately killed by Hezbollah missiles and rockets.
Why can't we human learn that the only outcomes of war are death and grief and inflamed hatred? I grieve for all who die and pray for an end the killing.
- 31 July, 2006 10:18
- Melly said...
Thanks Jason, you're so right.
Carter, Israelis (and Jews in general) are accutely aware of what you've mentioned. I'm not sure why that happens. Why the 100 rockets that Kiriyat Shmona got yesterday (before Qana) was hardly mentioned, why the over 1000 homes damaged in Nahariya isn't mentioned and so on. Why the direct hit on Nahariya hospital, home for the elderly in K.Tivon, a school, kindergarten etc. - why these weren't mentioned.
In any event, as you noticed, it's a touchy subject.
Of course, this has nothing to do with how much I'm appalled and distressed by what happened in Qana today. One wrong does not absolve another.
Thanks Carter. It seems many of us here think alike.
- 31 July, 2006 17:05
I did't hear much compassion here in your post. I heard a kids die, "shit happens" tone... the same tone Israel takes to civilian deaths.
- 31 July, 2006 19:39


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Sennott's breathless reporting from Cairo's Tahrir Square for GlobalPost, NPR, and PBS Frontline was not unique in its giddy enthusiasm for the "people power" revolutions sweeping Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and much of the Middle East. Indeed, his participatory excitement is a common narrative core running through most of the broadcast, print, and online news coverage of the still-developing turmoil in that ancient cauldron of political intrigue.
The decades-old autocracies of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia have already been toppled, and as we go to press, the tyrannical regime of Libya's terror-sponsoring dictator Moammar Ghadafi is on the ropes. And the fires of revolt are igniting or fully blazing in Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, and Morocco.
There is a spirit within each of us that rejoices at seeing any of our human family successfully shaking off despotic chains. Americans, who have been blessed with a heritage of liberty beyond the dreams of most the Earth's people, can especially identify with the sentiments of poet James Russell Lowell's famous lines:
When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast
Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west.
The broad appeal of the current Mideast upheavals is enhanced by the appearance that they: 1) represent genuinely grassroots, spontaneous movements; and 2) represent the triumph of unarmed, mostly nonviolent masses against entrenched, absolute power. Compared to the bloodbaths that frequently accompany revolutions, the transitions in Egypt and Tunisia have been remarkably benign — thus far. Of course, they could quickly degenerate into fratricidal civil war, or Khomeini-style totalitarian oppression. And the same potential holds for virtually all of the current hot spots in northern Africa and the Middle East.
The Jacobins, remember, did not unleash their infamous Reign of Terror at the start of the French Revolution, in 1789; they had to restrain their full bloodlust until 1793, when they had sufficiently consolidated their power. Consolidation is an essential stage of every revolution. Tragically, all too often this period of "peaceful" transition is a planned prelude to slaughter and tyranny, as demonstrated by Mao Tse-tung's Communist Army in China, Fidel Castro's July 26th Movement in Cuba, Pol Pot's communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the Hutu Interahamwe in Rwanda, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards in Iran, and dozens of other examples that could be cited.
The astute observation of the British historian and statesman John Emerich Dalberg, more commonly known as Lord Acton, is apropos here. In his famous series of discourses entitled "Lectures on the French Revolution," delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lord Acton noted:
The appalling thing in the French Revolution is not the tumult, but the design. Through all the fire and smoke we perceive the evidence of calculating organization. The managers remain studiously concealed and masked; but there is no doubt about their presence from the first.
The enormously wealthy Duke of Orleans (a cousin to King Louis XVI), the Count Mirabeau, and the infamously depraved Marquis de Sade are but a few of the rich and privileged conspirators who financed and organized the secret societies and criminal combinations that instigated the riots, demonstrations, and terrors of the French Revolution. Most of the major riots and revolutions of the modern age have, likewise, been guided by "managers" who "remain studiously concealed."
Planned Chaos
Are there hidden managers of the current turbulence in the Middle East? Is there a design behind the tumult that the managed news media fail to see, or are consciously obscuring? According to the reportage from the mainstream media, the activities convulsing the "Arab Street" capitals are primarily the result of popular discontent and networking by the alienated youth of the Facebook and Twitter generation. The Muslim Brotherhood is a prime mover in these events, according to some reporters and analysts, but according to others their role has been greatly exaggerated. Previously unknown organizations and individuals have assumed the spotlight as supposed leaders of the uprisings. However, the reporting and analysis from the establishment sources invariably fail to mention the most critical facts concerning these individuals and organizations.
The accompanying articles by Charles Scaliger and Christian Gomez focus, respectively, on two of the most important organized forces at work in the upheavals: the globalists, as represented most notably by the Council on Foreign Relations, and the communists or Marxist-Left. These forces are rarely mentioned in the major media reports, and if noted at all tend to be presented as opposite and rival forces. But these forces have, in fact, cooperated many times over the past several decades, to effect some of the most profound and tragic geopolitical revolutions in history, including the betrayal of China to Mao's communists, and similar betrayals in Poland, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Africa, Nicaragua, Iran, etc. This treachery has been detailed in numerous articles in the pages of this magazine and, notably, in James Perloff's indispensable study, The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline (1988).
In sum, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), has been pursuing a grand global strategy of "convergence," in which enormous transfusions of taxpayer funds from the middle classes of America and Europe and vast amounts of our technology are transferred to the communist countries — under the guise of helping them "go capitalist." This process, which has been accelerating for the past 30 years, has largely hollowed out America's economy, reducing us almost to beggar status, while China has vaulted from beggar to global economic-political-military super-power. The same process has also taken us ever further down the socialist road, as the federal government has usurped more and more powers and taken over an ever-increasing share of the national economy. Economic convergence with China and Russia is already occurring on many levels, thanks to policies crafted, largely, by the hundreds of CFR members who have been strategically promoted to many of the top posts in our leading political, financial, philanthropic, academic, and media institutions.
The Middle East has long been a key target of the communist leaders of Moscow and Beijing, who have coveted its oil and strategic sea lanes, among other things. Despite claims that communism is dead and that the Cold War is over, Russia and China have stepped up their efforts to penetrate, dominate, and annex the Middle East. There are undoubtedly now more KGB agents plying the Middle East than during the height of the Cold War, though of course the KGB has changed its name to SVR and FSB, and most of these agents operate as "capitalist" businessmen. A prime example is Yevgeny Primakov, the KGB's former Mideast terrorism chief and top Arabist, who now serves Putin as head of the Russian Chamber of Commerce. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Primakov, and their minions swarm over the Middle East and operate through every conceivable venue: OPEC, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Organization of Islamic Conference, the Dialogue of Civilizations, the Russia-Arab Business Council, the Nonprofit Partnership Africa Alliance, the Africa-Russia Partnership & Success, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, etc.
China, flush with even more cash than Russia, is following a similar path. Yet there is very little in the American media about the enormous presence and influence of this growing Beijing-Moscow axis throughout the region.
And despite all the fashionable talk in CFR circles about convergence and our new "partnerships" with Putin and Hu Jintao, their politburos in Moscow and Beijing have far different views about the kinds of regimes that are to be preferred in the Middle East than do most Americans. They are the backers of Iran and Syria, the two most dangerous terror states in the region. They support the new Hezbollah government in Lebanon, which fronts for Syria and Iran.
While Americans have every reason to oppose the continued transfer of their wealth, in the form of foreign aid, to regimes such as Mubarak's and Ben Ali's, we also can hardly favor even worse regimes modeled on the likes of those in power in Beirut, Damascus, and Tehran. Yet that is a very distinct likelihood, as a result of the recent turnovers and the continued turmoil. Russia, China, Iran Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas have all hailed the toppling of Egypt's Mubarak, and there is good reason to believe this is not merely opportunistic rhetoric; they undoubtedly intend to turn it into concrete benefit for their interests.
CFR Handprints Everywhere
Contrary to the conventional cover stories presenting the uprisings in Cairo, Tunis, and elsewhere as spontaneous bottom-up affairs, there is a great deal of evidence indicating that they were instead coordinated top-down events planned long before the first street demonstrations began. And like the slime trail in the garden that leads to the slug, the trail here leads back to the Council on Foreign Relations. Utilizing its unparalleled network of high-level members in the U.S. government, the United Nations, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Brookings Institution, and many NGOs, corporations, and philanthropic organizations, the CFR has employed a pincer attack pressuring the target governments with economic and diplomatic efforts from above, while funding Astroturf protests from below designed to look like real grass-roots affairs.
As Charles Scaliger notes elsewhere in this issue, the savior whom the media has anointed as the next President of Egypt, Mohamed ElBaradei, was publicly picked over a year ago in the CFR's journal Foreign Affairs as the "hero" who would save Egypt. ElBaradei, a UN factotum for nearly three decades at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is also a trustee of a high-level CFR-dominated think tank known as the International Crisis Group (ICG), along with billionaire left-wing activist George Soros (CFR) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR), the Carter administration architect who (among many "accomplishments") supervised the joint U.S.-Soviet overthrow of the Shah of Iran and his replacement by the virulently anti-American terrorism-sponsoring regime of Ayatollah Khomeini, as documented in The New American article "Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened" (May 12, 2009 issue).
One of the forces credited in much of the media reports for launching the Egyptian demonstrations that shook Mubarak from power is the April 6 Youth Movement started by Ahmed Maher. One of the more interesting facts to surface in all of the commotion was that, far from being a lone cyber warrior "speaking truth to power," Maher is actually a product of one of the CFR's global Astroturf groups, the Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM), an outfit funded by the U.S. State Department (our tax dollars at work) and a passel of CFR corporate sponsors. Over the past several years, AYM has been helping train thousands of young activists from around the world to bring about Obama-style change and topple governments. Ahmed Maher was a participant in AYM's major New York City conference in 2008.
AYM was co-founded by Jared Cohen, a Rhodes Scholar who is an adjunct fellow at the CFR and director of Google Ideas, a major new entity at Google. Before going to Google, Cohen was on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff under both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. (Secretary Rice is a CFR member; Secretary Clinton is not, though her husband is a member, as are many of her underlings at State.) Cohen and his two co-founders, Jason Liebman and Roman Tsunder, comprise the three-man board of directors at AYM. In addition to funding from the State Department, additional financial backing for AYM has come from Google, Pepsi, CBS News, MSNBC, MTV, Facebook, National Geographic, Twitter, and Meetup.
Another interesting name to surface at the epicenter of the current "digital democracy" revolution is Peter Ackerman, a CFR director known as the "Teflon Junk Bond King"; while his partner, Michael Milken, had to pay over $1 billion in fines and settlements and spend 22 months in jail, Ackerman walked away free — with a reported $500 million.
Ackerman is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and has authored two books that have become manuals for the "democracy" uprisings around the world: A Force More Powerful and Strategic Nonviolent Conflict. He teamed up with PBS to produce the TV documentary Bringing Down a Dictator and the series A Force More Powerful, which, reportedly, were being heavily promoted by the U.S. government in the Middle East during the year leading up to the regional commotions. Serving as Ackerman's chair of academic advisors at ICNC is Dr. Stephen Zunes, a leftist professor and author who also serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the Marxist "think tank" notorious for its pro-communist stances and its ties to the Soviet KGB and the Cuban DGI.
Ackerman is also a member of the U.S. Advisory Council of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a U.S. government-funded operation that has worked closely with USAID (the State Department's foreign aid arm) to promote the "people power" revolutions now rocking the Middle East. Besides Ackerman, the CFR members at USIP include J. Robinson West (USIP chairman of the Board of Directors), George E. Moose, Chester A. Crocker, Stephen D. Krasner, Richard H. Solomon, Michael H. Posner, Ann E. Rondeau, Frank Carlucci, Max Kampelman, and Marvin Kalb — to name but a few.
With funding from USAID and foundations such as Rockefeller, Ford, and Car-negie, USIP has, since at least 2006, been organizing political opposition groups under its Muslim World Initiative and a series of conferences on "Political Oppositions in the Arab World," which USIP conducted in Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco.
Janus-faced "Diplomacy"
The Obama administration was chastised by both the Left and the Right for indecisiveness and ineptitude for its public announcements of support for Mubarak and then the manner of its vacillation and flipflop to the side of the protesters. But what has been criticized as "amateur diplomacy" was more likely planned deception. While the foreign policy establishment at the CFR had already determined to dump Mubarak months (or years) before, Team Obama was likely tasked with reassuring the soon-to-be-deposed dictator that the United States was backing him up. Imagine a scene from one of the many gangland movies you've seen in which the Godfather embraces a "brother" with faux affection; the real purpose is to distract the victim while a knife is driven into his back.
Mubarak may not have seen it coming; after all, he had been the darling of the American establishment for decades. On March 5, 2002, he was the speaker and guest of honor at a CFR star-studded gala in New York. The event was opened by Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. "The Council has hosted leaders from our nation and around the world but not likely one more important to quelling the fires of violence and indeed to breaking this most unvirtuous circle of violence and to rebuilding dreams of peace than our guest today," he told his distinguished guests. He continued: "My honor is to welcome President Mubarak on behalf of the Council members and guests and to say how honored we are to have you with us, Mr. President.... Matters in the Middle East can take a turn now for the better or worse. We all look to you, Mr. President, to help all of us toward that better future."
Many other leaders — some genuine, honorable allies (Shah Pahlavi, Anastasio Somoza, Ian Smith, Chiang Kai-shek, Moise Tshombe) and some tyrants (Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Robert Mugabe) — have been given similar red carpet treatment, only to have it jerked out from under them when it suits the "new world order" convergence policies of the globalist elites who run the Council on Foreign Relations.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale lightweight crew team will open its season with a race against Navy this Saturday, Mar. 31, on Lake Carnegie, in Princeton, N.J. The teams will race for the Johnson Cup. This mark the 10th year of the Johnson cup, with Yale leading the series five to four.
Navy represents an early season test for the Bulldogs, as Navy has been one of the Bulldogs' consistently dangerous opponents over the last few years. Last week, Navy opened its season with a race against Princeton, winning two of five races, but fell in the varsity race by 9.2 seconds.
This year, Yale is looking to bring home the Johnson Cup for the third straight year. Last year, the Bulldogs swept Navy, including a nine-second victory in the varsity race. Yale was also victorious in the second varsity, third varsity and first freshmen races.
The schedule of events is as follows:
3:00 PM: Third Varsity Four
3:20 PM: First Freshman Eight
3:40 PM: Second Varsity Eight
4:00 PM: First Varsity Eight
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Glass to sand is a transfiguration spell that causes any glass that comes within a certain radius of the caster to be transfigured into sand. It looks blue, almost like water, and surrounds the caster in a half-circle.[1]
Known uses
- In 1996, Albus Dumbledore conjured this type of shield to protect himself and Harry Potter from the shards of glass Lord Voldemort magically directed at them.[1]
Behind the scenes
- This spell only appears in the film adaptation of the Duel in the Ministry Atrium. However, it could be a derivative of the Shield Charm, like Repello Inimicum or Fianto Duri, as the effect is almost the same in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The only difference is that, in the last film, the spell, instead of disintegrating sand, disintegrates human wizards.
- As glass is made principally from sand to begin with, the actual purpose of this spell may be more along the lines of disintegration, or transfiguration into a simpler state, rather than specifically glass-to-sand but it is possible that because glass is made from sand the shield simply reverts something from its current state back into what it was made from.
See also
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Possible appearance)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
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- On your computer, go to Hangouts at hangouts.google.com or in Gmail.
- Select the person from the Hangouts list to open the conversation.
- At the top of the conversation, click Settings .
- Click Block Block.
- If you want to remove someone from your list, but don't want to block them, open the "Contacts" tab Point to the person's name More Hide [contact name].
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- Go to Hangouts at hangouts.google.com or in Gmail.
- Open Settings:
- On hangouts.google.com: Click Menu Settings.
- On Gmail: At the top right of your Hangouts list, click the down arrow .
- Select Blocked people.
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Since beginning my annual St Baldrick's push this year, we encountered a couple of very sad stories about kids losing their battles with childhood cancer, Tuesday and Cora. But more and more children are surviving thanks to technological advances in surgeries and chemicals, and I wanted to tribute a girl today who is surviving her extremely scary bout with cancer.
Organizations like St. Baldrick's are providing the funds necessary to find a cure, and I want to encourage you to give what you can to help kids become the happy stories rather than the sad. The exerpt below was sent to me from the St Baldrick's organization, and again reminded me why I do this. I'm gonna raise as much money as I can, and then on March 21st I will shave my head to honor ALL of these kids.
The following story was written by childhood cancer survivor, Seneca "Sunny" Atwood, who shares her own experience with adamantinoma. (Published by Stbaldricks.org)
My story started when I was six years old and my Mom found a lump on my leg. My leg hurt to touch and it was very big. We went to my doctor and he said it was a bruise and it would go away. We waited and it didn't go away so we then went to many other doctors and they also said it wasn't anything. Finally one doctor said it could be a tumor.
I had my first surgery to biopsy my tumor and the test indicated it was not cancer. We celebrated the news but my mom had been researching and found out that she wanted a second opinion. The second opinion came out positive. My mom went to the Mayo Clinic and they confirmed that it was cancer and that I needed an operation quickly as the cancer had spread throughout my leg.
My second surgery involved taking out my entire right tibia, which was full of cancer. They took the fibula from my left leg and put it in place of my right tibia. After 10 hours of complete reconstruction of both legs, I came out of surgery and the doctors said it went well. I was in the hospital for one week and stayed home from school for many weeks. I was homeschooled by my mom and grandma. I have since had 3 other surgeries to add hardware or correct my legs and my surgery on December 8, 2008 was the last of my 5 surgeries to conclude my cancer treatment. Fortunately, they have not found the cancer anywhere in my body since my original diagnosis. I would never have made it through my treatments without a strong faith in God, a loving family, some great doctors and loving friends and supporters.
When I was diagnosed, my mom wanted to do something about this horrible disease. She heard about St. Baldrick's and started the first St. Baldrick's event in New Mexico. Since then they have raised nearly $400,000. St. Baldrick's is a wonderful, fun thing that brings hope to the lives of kids who are threatened with cancer. I wanted to say God Bless all of you who help with St. Baldrick's. Thank you for being HEROS.
Until a Cure,
Sunny (Seneca) Atwood
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Focus Development Group developing Courtyards at Estero apartments
2015.01.21 By Sean Roth | Real Estate Editor | Business Observer
The Boca Raton company, Focus Estero Partners LLC., plans to develop the site into a 136-unit apartment community. The project, which is being called Courtyards at Estero, calls for 17 two-story residential buildings and a clubhouse. The project will feature a swimming pool, fitness center, dog park, internal courtyards and garages for a number of the units.
Essian Construction of Altamonte Springs is the General Contractor for the project, and Fugleberg Koch of Winter Park is the Architect. Construction on the project is scheduled to start in May for delivery of the first units in late fall or early winter. The entire development is set for completion in May 2016.
I believe this location gives us the greatest mix of renters, says Jeff Graef, President of Focus Development Group. Were close enough to the university to where we can pull graduate students and other people that work at the university. There also are all the managers of the nearby restaurants and stores.
This will be Focus Development Groups first apartment project. It has primarily developed condominium units. However, the firm has 550 rental residential units in the pipeline that it expects to come online in 2016, including another project in Estero. Follow Ken: @KenLArch Follow Us: Twitter & Facebook


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Applied Nutrition for Mixed Sports examines the topic of nutrition for what are referred to as mixed sports. This includes almost all team sports along with many individual sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts and some track and field events.
Basically any sport that has requirements for both endurance and strength/power is considered a mixed sport. Because of the often odd nature of performance requirements, optimizing nutrition for these sports often presents problems that arent seen in either the pure strength/power or pure endurance sports.
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This product started life as a seminar I did in Vancouver at Simon Fraser University in 2009 for their football and soccer teams on applied sports nutrition. But rather than just slap the DVD together with the handouts and slides, I decided to write a complete stand alone book (derived primarily from the handouts). Of course, the original DVD seminar is included along with the Powerpoint slides and the full package includes everything shown below.
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Bulldogs Seek to Improve to 4-2 at Reese
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Reese Stadium has been feeling more and more like home for the Yale women's lacrosse team, as the Bulldogs have won four of their last six games there dating back to the end of last season. A win vs. Brown in the home finale this Wednesday would give Yale a 4-2 mark at Reese this year, which would be the team's best home winning percentage since moving to Reese in 2009.
Yale (4-8, 1-4 Ivy League) is coming off a 13-9 win vs. Columbia at Reese in which senior attacker Caroline Crow (Davidsonville, Md.) scored five goals and had two assists. Her seven points were the most by a Bulldog since junior attacker Devon Rhodes (E. Northport, N.Y.) had eight in a 17-13 win vs. Harvard at Reese Apr. 3, 2010.
Crow now leads Yale in goals (24), assists (11) and points (35), at least doubling her previous career highs in each of those categories. Rhodes (17-5-22) is next on the team in scoring, with sophomore attacker Jen DeVito (Wading River, N.Y.) right behind her (12-9-21). DeVito did not score her first point of the season until Mar. 21, but since that day only Crow has scored more.
A pair of freshmen midfielders, Cathryn Avallone (Manhasset, N.Y.) and Christina Doherty (Bernardsville, N.J.) are tied for the team lead in ground balls with 23, with sophomore defender Adrienne Tarver (Pikesville, Md.) just one behind. Tarver is also second on the team in caused turnovers with 10, trailing only sophomore midfielder Ashley McCormick (Paoli, Pa.) (13). Doherty leads Yale in draw controls with 32, the most by a Bulldog since Jenn Warden '09 had 37 in 2008. The Yale record is 44 by Miles Whitman '04 in 2004, the first season that stat was kept regularly.
Senior goalkeeper Whitney Quackenbush (Manhasset, N.Y.) got the win vs. Columbia in her first appearance since Mar. 17. Sophomore Erin McMullan (Wading River, N.Y.) had started the previous five games. The Bulldogs have held their opponents to single digits in three of the last six games, something they did just once in the 10 games prior to that dating back to last season.
In addition to shoring up the defense recently, Yale has also dramatically improved its ability to clear the ball. The Bulldogs have been successful on 152 of 188 clears this year, a .809 percentage that is nearly 100 points better than last year's (.718).
With just 10 more goals the Bulldogs will also have their highest-scoring season since 2008 (170). With five players having scored 10 or more goals, this is Yale's deepest squad in that regard since seven players cracked double digits in 2008. McCormick (eight goals) and freshman midfielder Reilly Foote (Newton, Mass.) (seven goals) are close to joining the 10-goal club. Foote, at .538, is Yale's most accurate shooter.
With each team featuring 19 freshmen and sophomores, Wednesday's game pits two relatively young teams against each other. Brown (6-5, 1-3 Ivy League) still has a chance to grab one of the four spots in the Ivy League tournament, but the Bears will need some help to qualify. They opened league play with a 14-10 win at Columbia but have since dropped three straight Ancient Eight games, to Princeton (18-8), Dartmouth (14-8) and Harvard (16-8). The Bears have won four straight non-league games, totaling 66 goals in wins over Bryant, Quinnipiac, Sacred Heart and Stanford.
Attacker Kaela McGilloway leads Brown in scoring (21-22-43), and had five points in the Bears' 11-4 win over Yale last season. She is one of six Bears with 10 or more goals this season.
Overall, Yale leads the series with Brown 30-7.
Yale vs. Brown, Wednesday, 4 p.m.:
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If it was Josh Smith's last night as a Hawk, it was a forgettable one. Not because Smith played poorly or sulked about calls or wasn't engaged, as has sometimes been the case for the mercurial forward, but because his play on the court was an afterthought in a Hawks loss.
The Miami Heat dominated the fourth quarter with Ray Allen and Shane Battier taking turns torching the Hawks from deep. The Heat outscored the Hawks 40-17 in the quarter, coming from behind to win the game 103-90.
But once the game had been played and the scoreboard read all zeros, all anyone could talk about was whether Smith, a College Park native, would still be in Atlanta after Thursday at 3:00 p.m. EST, the NBA's trade deadline.
"It'll be a relief from all the questions I have to keep answering," Smith said of the looming trade deadline. "It's everywhere. I just stay to myself and just focus on basketball. We'll see."
Defensively, Smith played about as well on Wednesday night as he has in his Hawks career. He started the game at small forward in a lineup Coach Larry Drew put together specifically for him to guard the NBA's best player, LeBron James.
Smith turned in a solid performance, ending James' streak of seven consecutive games with 30 or more points. The three-time MVP finished with 24 points and 11 assists, but worked for everything he got and often looked to pass when Smith was guarding him.
"I thought he did a really good job. He will take the challenge against LeBron and did tonight," said Drew. "Overall, he had a really solid game."
If Smith's days in Atlanta are truly over, Wednesday night's loss to the Heat illustrated the brilliance, aggravation and everything else that the former Atlanta basketball standout's time in Atlanta has been.
Smith came up just short of a triple double. He finished with 10 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists. But it came on an abysmal shooting night where he was 0-4 from three point rage, shot 38 percent from the floor, didn't get to the free throw line once and forced up very bad, very ugly jumpers time after time from long range that made the crowd at Philips Arena audibly distressed.
There is no sound in basketball quite like the collective gasp/groan that emanates from Philips when Josh launches a three.
Fans have learned to take the good with the bad from their star. But his coaches and teammates were nothing but complimentary of him throughout the trade talk and it genuinely seems like no one within the Hawks team wants to see number 5 playing for anyone else.
"We love Josh and I think Josh loves Atlanta,"point guard Jeff Teague said during All-Star weekend.
His coach seems almost pained when the subjects is broached.
"I haven't thought about that," said Drew about the prospect of Smith being traded. "I've turned myself away from that. Right now he's still a Hawk and we'll see what happens."
But there's a reason that every year around the trade deadline Smith's name is circulating in the rumor mill. He's been…to call it inconsistent would be putting it nicely. To call it disappointing might be oversimplifying. What he hasn't been is the superstar Hawks fans were hoping for.
Smith came into the league straight out of Oak Hill Academy, by way of Powder Springs' John McEachern High, and Hawks fans had reason to be excited about the local boy done good. Taken with the No. 17 overall pick in the 2004 draft, Smith quickly become a star in Atlanta.
He won the Slam Dunk Contest during his rookie year in 2005 and averaged just under 10 points, 6.2 rebounds and almost 2 blocks per game that year. He was selected to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team.
In his first NBA season, he finished second in the NBA in total blocks, 4th in blocks per game and averaged 15.0 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 4.1 apg, 3.1 bpg and 1.0 spg after the All-Star break. His contribution helped the Hawks double their win total of 13 wins from the previous season to finish 26-56.
The hits kept on coming from the man dubbed "J Smoove." During the 2006-2007 season, Smith averaged a career high in blocks with 2.9 per game and increased his points-per-game total from 11.3 to 16.7.
In February 2010, Smith became the youngest player (at 24 years old) to block 1000 shots. That same year he was awarded the Jason Collier Memorial Trophy for his work in the community and was named to the NBA's All-Defensive Team.
When new general manager Danny Ferry shipped Joe Johnson to Brooklyn and Marvin Williams to Utah before the start of the 2012-13 season, it was J Smoove's show and it's been a bit of a roller coaster ride.
Smith has upped his game and become the unquestioned leader and best player on the team. He's averaging 18.8 points per game and 9.6 rebounds, both are the highest of his career.
He led the team out of the gate to a surprising and impressive 20-10 start, but they have fallen back to earth since and fallen hard. During the rough stretch the Hawks have been, going 9-13 and falling into the seven spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race, Smith's struggles have been the focal point.
He was suspended for "conduct detrimental to the team" on January 16 for a pivotal game against the Brooklyn Nets and the team went out and won without him. They are 3-0 when he doesn't play this season and they score more baskets, generate more assists and hold opponents to fewer points.
Not that it means anything, but Smith was -8 for the game on Wednesday. Al Hordord handled the inside scoring almost entirely by himself, putting in 27 points on a much more efficient 12-of-15 shooting night.
If it is all over, for better or for worse the 2012-13 Atlanta Hawks were Josh Smith's team. And if the rumors are true and the Hawks enter an era that does not include one of the most exciting, engaging and enigmatic players in Hawks history, fans can say that it wasn't always pretty, the team didn't always win, but if nothing else these eight years have been fun. A lot of fun. Thanks to J Smoove.


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Once Upon a Time Heads to Neverland, Welcomes Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and Ariel!
Jul 20, 2013 4:51 PM EDT
The cast and creative minds behind Once Upon a Time were on handSaturday at the show's Comic-Con panel to tease the upcoming Neverland-centric third season. The show went back into production two weeks ago, with the cast… Read more