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High School Sports
High school football: Big plays help Bison charge past Bellefonte
The Bellefonte football team simply couldn't limit Clearfield's big-play ability.
The Bison registered 13 plays of 12 yards or more, including touchdowns of 35, 38, 50, 64 and 69, leading the hosts to a 49-14 win over the Red Raiders Friday at the Bison Sports Complex.
"We talked to the kids about that a lot during the week," Bellefonte head coach Duffy Besch said. "We needed to limit their big plays. If we limit some of those plays, there is a good chance that we can stay with them. But unfortunately, we weren't able to do that."
Clearfield quarterback Christian Lezzer ran the ball eight times for 152 yards, including a 69-yard scamper. Lezzer completed three passes — all for scores — for 123 yards.
Bison running back Tyler Stratton added 139 yards, including a 64-yard score, on nine carries. Receiver Trey Jordan hauled in two passes for 88 yards and two touchdowns.
"Their offense is very dynamic," Besch said. "I said it all week we have to control what they are able to do. We have to come out and make plays.
"This game is about blocking and tackling. We didn't make some of the tackles we needed to make. I think when we sit down and watch film, that is what we are going to see."
Bellefonte took the opening kickoff and traveled from its own 35 to the Bison 14 before stalling and lining up for a 31-yard field goal.
But Lezzer made the first big play of the night for the Bison by blocking the kick, nearly getting to the ball before Tyler Rhoades got a foot on it.
Lezzer ran 45 yards on the following play, then hit Jordan for a 38-yard score, as the Bison took little time getting to the end zone.
The Red Raiders answered with their own big play when Kahsim Buey took a middle screen and scampered untouched for a 69-yard score to knot things at 7-7. Buey was Bellefonte's biggest offensive threat, grabbing two passes for 71 yards and running 12 times for 70.
But Clearfield responded on the very next play from scrimmage as Lezzer juked his way through the line, bowled over a would-be Bellefonte tackler and ran to open space, racing 69 yards for a score just 22 seconds after Buey had tied the game.
Clearfield added another first-quarter score with 1:35 remaining when Stratton slipped through a crease in the Bellefonte line and outran the Red Raider secondary for a 64-yard score.
The Bison nearly had two 100-yard rushers by the end of the first quarter as Lezzer had 131, while Stratton collected 96.
"There were times when we seemed to have them contained but that's a good football team," Besch said. "They don't rely on one person. They are able to go after you with somebody else."
Clearfield put three more touchdowns on the board in the second quarter, taking a 42-7 lead into the break and setting the running clock in motion for the second half.
The Bison racked up 401 yards of offense by halftime and finished the contest with 516.
"Our offense moved the ball real well tonight," Clearfield head coach Tim Janocko said. "Credit our offensive line. We ran the ball well, and threw the ball well. We spread it around. It was a big night for us. We put a lot of yards up, especially in the first half."
Meanwhile, Bellefonte had 164 yards in the first half, but totaled just 33 after the first two drives.
The Raiders played the Bison to a 7-7 tie in the second half, outgaining Clearfield, 117-115.
Buey scored his second touchdown of the game on a 5-yard run with 2:58 left in the third quarter, capping Bellefonte's 8-play, 70-yard drive.
Raider quarterback Jordan Fye completed three passes on the drive, including a key 22-yarder to Doylan Deitrich. Fye hit on 14 of his 21 pass attempts for 159 yards. Brandon Shuey reeled in seven of those passes for 61 yards.
"For the past couple of weeks, we have really struggled in the second half," Besch said. "I don't think that's any big news flash.
"So what we asked them to do is win the second half. Don't look at the score, just go out and win the second half. And we were able to play solid football. We were able to score some points. That is what we needed. That's a movement forward for us."
Bellefonte dropped to 2-4 with the loss.
The Red Raiders travel to Penns Valley on Friday.
"We need to come back and play a complete game, and hopefully we are able to put that together," Besch said. "We have a game to get ready for and that's the thing we need to focus on. We have to keep them focused and ready to go and come back ready to play Penns Valley."


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Getting Back to the Basics
I was recently asked, "What is Social Media Marketing? How do I get started?"
Social Media can be a scary term for many business owners, but it doesn't need to be. At its core, the term refers to something business owners have been doing forever – building relationships to expand their client base. With all the sophisticated advice out there, these days everyone is a social media 'expert.'
The truth is, there really is no one-size-fits-all social media strategy. It's about time to stop this hype and get back to basics!
The 101
- Know Yourself. Know your strengths, weaknesses, and what differentiates you from your competitors. Create a tone that is true to your brand identity. People want to know what you're all about.
- Give the People What They Want. Consumers turn to your brand for a reason. Always keep your audience in mind. Deliver what your audience wants from your content, whether they're looking to get informed about your business, use your services, or are just seeking a quick bit of entertainment.
- Be Open to Change. Social media is ever changing. What's new tomorrow may be different from what you're comfortable with today, but it might also be more effective. Updates are constantly being introduced to each social media platform and that means you can learn something new almost every day! Attend free seminars, read books, speak to your colleagues – after all, knowledge is power.
- Show Your Fun Side. A sense of humor works better than a formal and conventional approach. What's the last thing you clicked on or remember reading online? Whatever it was, I'm sure it was funny or original… that's what works.
- Keep it SIMPLE, Friends!
Social media has come a long way in the last 10 or so years, however, it is important not to lose sight of the basics. A clear understanding of the basic concepts of social media should always be kept in mind. Social media benefits people on a universal level. Part of its tremendous appeal is the fact that a person can establish a relationship with anyone they want, in any place around the world.
Bottom line, people want to feel appreciated, educated, and inspired. So get out there and start connecting!

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Federal agencies charged with salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest released a self-evaluation of their efforts this week. The report, called a Comprehensive Evaluation, presents a one-sided view of the agencies' progress over the past five years and fails to address measures necessary to move salmon recovery forward.
"A close look at the evaluation reveals that threatened and endangered wild salmon and steelhead, especially in Idaho, are still far from recovery," said Tom Stuart, a central Idaho fisherman and a member of the IRU Board of Directors. "Despite $600 million spent annually to implement the plan, these poorly focused efforts fail to protect or restore salmon that still face extinction. And, let's not forget how silly it is to 'grade' a salmon plan that a federal judge already ruled illegal. It already has an F."
Published by the Bonneville Power Administration, Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation, the report is one of several procedural steps toward release of a new draft salmon recovery plan due in August, with a final version expected in December.
Specifically, the Comprehensive Evaluation measures how the agencies believe they are doing with implementation of the 2008/2010 salmon plan, called a biological opinion, which was ruled illegal by a federal court in 2011. It remains in place, however, until the new plan is published.
"Most wild populations are at best holding steady or at worse declining, despite being listed under the Endangered Species Act two decades ago," Stuart said.
The Obama administration's new biological opinion is due at the end of this year and must be significantly strengthened and supported by science if it is to have any hope of passing legal muster and meeting the needs of salmon. As recent adult returns reflect, Columbia-Snake salmon and steelhead need significantly more help if they are to begin approaching recovery levels. The status quo is failing salmon, fishing jobs and the Northwest.
Notably, the benefits of directing water over dam spillways to help young salmon migrate to the ocean, a practice called "spill," is largely ignored in the federal self-assessment. Since 2006 when spill was ordered by a federal judge, salmon have benefited. Spill helps a dammed river work more like a river, and a significant body of science supports the practice.
An April report, called the Comparative Survival Study, confirms that spill is boosting returns for endangered salmon and steelhead. Further, it concludes that more spill would be even better, potentially bringing some species to recovery levels. The report urges a multi-year test over a range of water, dam and ocean conditions to gauge the benefits of expanded spill.
"Unfortunately, the tangible benefits of increased spill over the past seven years are largely ignored or discounted in the agencies' self-assessment," Stuart said. "As long as the lower Snake River dams remain in place, spill is one of the only things we can do to improve salmon survival, as they pass through the hydrosystem and back."
Stuart said that expanding on the successes of the spill program in the upcoming salmon plan is the best chance for boosting salmon survival, and provides the Obama administration an important opportunity to meet the requirements of salmon science and the law.


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Much has been written about the transformation of Theseus, a relatively minor figure in early Greek myth, into a hero to match the ambitions and power of late-archaic and classical Athens. Despite agreement on many points, gaps in the record leave plenty of room for speculation and controversy. Recent work has paid special attention to ideology, especially under the radical democracy and the empire, as the process of adaptation continued in venues such as public art, funeral orations, and tragedy. After covering much of this ground in the first two chapters of her book (originally a 1992 Oxford thesis), Sophie Mills proceeds to chapter-length studies of the four extant tragedies in which Theseus appears (Eur. Supp. and Her., Soph. OC, and Eur. Hipp., in that order); a final chapter surveys Theseus in fragmentary tragedy. The work achieves a high professional standard, with appropriate documentation and sensible, balanced judgments throughout. M. well combines the scattered and difficult evidence for myth, literature, and art with other reflections of history, politics, and ideology over a long period. The reliable and accessible discussions of the first two chapters will be of particular use to scholars.
The first chapter, "Images of Theseus before Tragedy", traces the oldest elements of the legend and shows how Athenians began to sanitize and enhance it in the late archaic period, because "a national hero such as Theseus is useful as an embodiment of the best qualities of the nation in its own eyes" (25). Chapter 2 surveys the developed "Athenian Image of Athens" under the empire. M. argues that a basically consistent picture emerges from nearly all the sources. While she acknowledges a general debt to Nicole Loraux on funeral orations, she faults her for not exploring further the relationship of funeral orations to other genres (48 n. 14). M.'s view of this relationship is that "the funeral speeches contain an extreme and highly formalized version of an ideology which, in a less extreme form, pervades mainstream Athenian thought about Athens and Athenian identity" (52). This is because it is hard to believe that the ideal image of Athens "could have been so prevalent and consistent in literature without having had some influence in real life." It might as well be said at once that M. finds the same ideal image in all the tragic representations of Theseus, with the partial exception of Euripides' Hippolytus plays. A final section of this chapter contrasts Thucydides' unsentimental depiction of the realities of human nature and power with the "mainstream" ideology studied so far and concludes (85): "Thucydides' cynicism and desire to expose the falsehood of popular ideology should therefore not be used as an indication of what the average Athenian generally felt about the empire."1
The chapter on Euripides' Suppliants discusses the play's possible relationship to the Battle of Delium in 424 and the ideal characteristics of Theseus as wise king and proto-democrat. M. essentially vindicates the judgment of an ancient writer that the play is an encomium of Athens. She fairly represents the work of older scholars who argued that irony undermines the patriotic rhetoric on the play's surface (e.g. Fitton, Gamble), but she concedes little or nothing to their position. She counters first that irony would impede pathos, second that it is especially hard to view Aethra through "the distorting lens of irony," and above all that the ironists' picture of Athens is simply too negative to credit to a poet writing for the Athenian tragic festival in the late 420s (89-90). She does allow that the play, as a tragedy, possesses "inherent pessimism and ambivalence" (122), qualities especially evident in its latter half, when the focus shifts decidedly away from Theseus and the Athenian ideal. It hardly needs to be said that this method of isolating Theseus and Athens from pessimism and ambivalence will not satisfy everyone. Moreover, recent critics have devoted more attention to the play's contexts of religion and gender, and while the readings they have produced are not ironic in the older manner, they would call for some modification of the "straight" reading M. offers. Helene Foley, for example, is interested in the partial failure of the Thesean-Athenian ideal to control female disorder and lamentation.2
After what has been said so far, there are perhaps few surprises in M.'s interpretations of Euripides' Heracles and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, though they are interesting and well-argued. In separating Theseus sharply from such pessimism and ambivalence as there may be in Suppliants, M. had noted that "The Athenian ideal is obviously un-tragic" (122). In a similar vein, she observes that neither Heracles nor Theseus is very easy to incorporate in tragedy. In the case of Heracles, Euripides must re-shape the tradition to obtain a suitable protagonist. As for Theseus, because he "is a more completely humanized figure than Heracles, it is easier to fit him into a genre which deals with the civil and domestic questions of life in the polis" (138). Again, on OC, "Theseus is a noble king, but he does not, and cannot, have the tragic experience and knowledge that Oedipus has" (173). But if the Athenian ideal gets in the way of making Theseus a typical victim of tragic suffering, the tragedians willingly adapt legends so that the national hero confers benefits on the likes of Heracles and Oedipus, just as the Athenian state liked to imagine itself as conferring benefit on other Greek states, and this "is a position vastly preferable to that of accepting help from others" (135; cf. Sect. 2.4, esp. 63-5).
The Theseus of Euripides' Hippolytus stands in a different tradition. He "is entirely dissociated from the fifth-century Athenian imperial sentiments which have been so important in defining him up until now" ("until now" in M.'s discussion, that is: note that Hipp. is taken out of chronological order); and "This Theseus is simply a different character from the Theseus of the plays we have seen so far" (187). The latter may be an appropriate approach to literary interpretation, but if so, one wonders about the strategies adopted by M. over the next 35 pages. "This chapter attempts to show how Euripides manipulates traditional material and plot structures to provide Theseus with every excuse for what he does in the Hippolytus Stephanephoros" (192-3). If Theseus looks bad (and by and large M. concedes that he does), he could have looked worse, and on some scores did look worse in the lost play. In her search for "mitigating circumstances," M. looks for reasons why a negative portrayal of Theseus might have been more acceptable before and in 428 than later, as the Peloponnesian War dragged on. She occasionally hints that the "actively blameworthy" Theseus of the lost play (205) was a failed experiment that Euripides was moved to correct in the second, though she readily concedes that rehabilitating Theseus was not a "primary aim" of the surviving play and cites with approval Jasper Griffin's rather different explanation of Euripides' unusual second treatment of the same legend. I doubt whether a defense of Theseus gets at anything very important about Euripides' play, but anyway it ought to have been briefer. M.'s argument includes some misplaced emphasis and special pleading (e.g. 215-16 on the contest).
The chapter on Hippolytus incorporates a reconstruction of the lost play, insofar as this is necessary to determine Theseus' role. M.'s final chapter does the same for other lost plays: Aeschylus' Eleusinioi, Sophocles' Aegeus and Theseus, Euripides' Aegeus, Theseus, and Alope, and Euripides' or Critias' Peirithous. M. mostly confines herself to safe conclusions, and there are few modifications of the picture she has painted so far. Where she engages in speculation (always clearly marked as such), the constant dangers are circularity and, as in her treatment of Hippolytus, defensiveness.
I have not dwelt on the particular virtues Athenians liked to ascribe to themselves and Theseus. I would now like to mention one that is well discussed by M. but could perhaps be developed further. The virtue is epieikeia, which scholars render variously as fairness, decency, humanity, reasonableness, mildness, magnanimity, or clemency. The most relevant ancient sources are Thucydides (esp. 3.40.2 and 48.1, cited 77 n. 122), the fragment of Gorgias' funeral oration (82 B 6 DK, cited 78 and 110), and Soph. OC 1125-7 (fully discussed 178-9). These and other passages strongly suggest that the term is indeed an important one for Athenian self-definition, and M. deserves credit for emphasizing this.3 The word epieikeia is spread liberally throughout her text (the index gives 23 page references) and becomes shorthand for a whole cluster of concepts. At 77-8, an important discussion, epieikeia is grouped with oiktos "pity" and peitho "persuasion". In other places it commingles with virtues like humility, intelligence, moderation, tolerance, and understanding of a morally complex situation. Since M. relies rather heavily on the word, she might have said more: (1) A. W. H. Adkins drew the Greek vocabulary of epieikeia into his theory of the historical development of Greek values. For him it is a "quiet" virtue and accordingly most highly prized in the 4th century and later. (2) In some authors (not until the 4th century?), epieikeia is appropriated to the upper class and becomes quasi-technical in the context of party politics. (3) Aristotle uses the adjective epieikes in three distinct ways in the Poetics: (a) of tragic protagonists, in what appears to be close to the usual sense, (b) of spectators with good taste (opp. phauloi), and (c) of the kind of protagonist who should not suffer a reversal from good fortune to bad. This last is a well-known puzzle, because it conflicts with (a) and because the required sense (roughly "excelling in virtue and justice", for reasons given by Lucas on 1452b34-6) is unparalleled. The relevance of these points may be limited for chronological or other reasons (e.g. Adkins may be wrong), but I still see potentially interesting points of contact with M.'s ideas -- on Theseus' unsuitability as a tragic protagonist, for example. They also raise the issue of competing ideologies. (M.'s Athens is mostly undifferentiated.)
In one or two places, M.'s preferred gloss on epieikeia, "flexibility", may obscure important distinctions. By "flexibility" she means both the avoidance of rigidity in applying justice and susceptibility to persuasion. But in drama these may be very different things. The ambivalence of peitho has been well studied (as M. knows) by Buxton and others, and so has the resistance to it by certain character types prominent in tragedy. Theseus' moderation in Her. and OC must be distinguished, I think, from his unique susceptibility to persuasion in Eur. Supp. Similarly, it is confusing to say that Thucydides' Diodotus urges flexibility, while conceding that he disavows epieikeia (77 n. 122). Finally, I doubt whether epieikeia, for all its importance, captures what crucially separates Theseus within OC from a character like Oedipus.4
M.'s command of primary sources is good, and I noticed few mistakes or omissions. To the passages listed in 9 n. 33, add Eur. Hec. 122-9. At 149 n. 90, I think M. means not Eur. Ion 480-3 but 1480-3 (though 1479-80 are most apt). By "Kannicht and Snell 1985" (cited 262 n. 131), she means "1981", i.e. TrGF 2 (adespota), which is not in the bibliography. "Sappho, ap. Serv. Aen. 6.21" (cited 14 n. 47) should include the designation "fr. 206". On 259, M. writes "Since the publication of Snell's edition of the fragments of the minor tragedians, a dialogue between Heracles and Peirithous which should come from the same part of the play has been found." This text is included as F 4a in Kannicht's addenda to the corrected edition of 1986, p. 349-51. Likewise, the relevant portion of POxy 2452 should be identified as "Sophocles F 730g" at its first mention (13 n. 46). In her later, full discussion of this fragment, M. acknowledges the doubt as to its authorship, but the reader gets no cross-reference here, and indeed M. is very sparing with these. For example, 148 n. 86 (on Heracles) should refer to 115 n. 118 (on Suppliants) and to 72-3 (on Thucydides). Eur. Supp. 576-7 is quoted on 68-9, 101 n. 47, and 121-2 and cited again at 143 n. 67; only the second of these has a cross-reference. Three times M. observes that the portrait of Minos in Bacchylides 17 is negative even though he is the Ceans' ancestor (39 n. 170, 85 n. 156, 194); no cross-reference links them. These and similar repetitions are only missed opportunities, whether to cut or to make connections. One is different: at 75 n. 114, M. finds in Thuc. 5.105.2, where "the Athenians claim they are doing what the gods do, because they are following the law of the stronger," a shocking twist; the text has stated that "mainstream thought undoubtedly liked to believe" that the gods were just. But at 151 n. 107, the same passage is cited against the suggestion of Matthiessen (correct the spelling) "that a more optimistic view of the gods' justice was a part of Athenian democratic thought about the gods." Neither note refers to M.'s section on "Thucydides and the Ideal Athens" (79-96), where there is further discussion of these matters.
M. cites an impressive array of secondary sources, but a few additions are called for. On the murals of the Theseion and the Stoa Poikile (41 n. 175), add D. Castriota, Myth, Ethos, and Actuality (Madison 1992), 33-63 and 76-89, respectively. On Her. 1340-6 (156-7), add H. Yunis, A New Creed (Göttingen 1988), 139-71. For [Pl.] Min. 321a (225 n. 7), a reference to M. Heath, The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (Stanford 1987), 8-9 would be apt. There are relevant articles by H.A. Shapiro not cited by M., esp. "Theseus in Kimonian Athens: The Iconography of Empire," Med. Hist. Rev. 7 (1992) 29-49 (and works cited ibid. 39 n. 42).
M. notes (ix) that she was able to take only selective notice of publications that reached her after 1993; this seems early for a book that appeared late last year. It is too bad that the references to Theseus in the visual arts could not have been updated to the LIMC format favored for figures whose names come earlier in the alphabet. Vol. 7, with the entry for Theseus by J. Neils and S. Woodford, appeared in 1994. The work on Eur. Supp. and ideology cited above (n. 2) bears directly on M.'s argument, as does M. Blundell, "The ideal of Athens in Oedipus at Colonus," in Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis, 287-306. Blundell contends that Theseus in OC represents not just what Athenians wanted to believe about themselves c. 406, but a departure from the Periclean ideal towards a vision of Athens that Sophocles would have associated with his own youth in the immediate aftermath of the Persian Wars, and this in such a way as to "convey a tacit reproach to contemporary Athens" (303).
There are very few misprints in the English. In the Greek, however, I noted over 50. One does not know who is responsible for these, but it is clear that none affects M.'s understanding of a passage.
Finally, while no one expects that the last word will ever be said on a subject as rich as the changing depictions of Theseus and their relationship to the Athenian imagination, many readers of this review will have wondered immediately about the place of this book in relation to Claude Calame's Thesée et l'imaginaire athénien (Lausanne 1990) and Henry Walker's Theseus and Athens (New York: Oxford, 1995). Indeed, Toni Bierl began a review of the former in this journal by asking whether a monograph was needed after Hans Herter's RE article (1973) and Frank Brommer's book (1982). He based his affirmative reply largely on Calame's innovative method and broad range. Calame's focus on the details of cult and religious mentalité means that the question is in fact more pressing with regard to Walker and M. Their books are closely similar in structure and aim and radically different in style and outlook. Walker touches on more aspects and depictions of the Theseus myth, while M. is more selective and analytical. Where Walker probes deeply for contradiction and elaborates subtle details within works, M. is more likely to trace simple, consistent elements and ground them as far as possible in external contexts. Above all, where Walker is intrigued by the Athenian adaptations of a seemingly unpromising hero and believes that the resulting tensions are an important key to understanding Theseus throughout his long career, M., who certainly agrees that the uses of Theseus change over time, believes that synchronically, and especially at the height of the Athenian empire, he is presented in a strongly positive light and in just the guise that was most satisfying and reassuring to Athenians. These are fundamentally different orientations towards the material, and each produces valuable insights. It would have been difficult, and not necessarily desirable, to rebut Walker's arguments one by one, or even to attempt a synthesis. Anyway, that is not the book M. set out to write. On its own terms, Theseus, Tragedy and the Athenian Empire makes a strong contribution.
1. By relegating Thucydides to the margins, M. tries to meet one objection to her view of "mainstream ideology", or even to the idea that such a thing exists. Tragedy in particular invites further questioning on these issues: see now Christopher Pelling in C. Pelling, ed., Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford 1997), 224-35 (including 230-4 on Eur. Supp., a discussion that has little in common with M.'s). 2. H. Foley, "The politics of tragic lamentation," in A. H. Sommerstein et al., eds., Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari 1993), 101-43, esp. 117-29. See also, in the same volume, E. Krummen, "Athens and Attica: polis and countryside in tragedy," 191-217, esp. 203-8; and B. Goff, "Aithra at Eleusis," Helios 22 (1995) 65-77. On Supp. and ideology, see Pelling (previous note), and for more on the religious dimension, as well as a subtle inquiry into the relevance of Delium, A. M. Bowie, "Tragic filters for history: Euripides' Supplices and Sophocles' Philoctetes," in Greek Tragedy and the Historian, 39-62. 3. M. acknowledges J. de Romilly's meticulous study of epieikeia in La douceur dans la pensée grecque (Paris 1979), 53-63, but she goes well beyond de Romilly in situating the term in a specifically Athenian discourse. Only OC 1127 uses it of Theseus, but M.'s case is still strong. 4. For Oedipus, M. invokes Knox' heroic temper model, which posits intransigeance as one of the defining features of Sophoclean heroes. I argued in Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy (Göttingen 1995) that these matters are not as simple as they are usually said to be. I would have been glad to have the benefit of M.'s insights on epieikeia when I wrote.


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Attorney pleads guilty to child enticement charge
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut attorney has pleaded guilty to a child exploitation charge.
Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Peter Kruzynski, of Shelton, pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
Prosecutors say Kruzynski used his cellphone and text messaging to entice a boy under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity.
Authorities say he also used his phone to take photographs of the victim engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Kruzynski was arrested in September 2016 and has been in custody since October 2016 when his bond was revoked for failing to comply with his release conditions.
He faces up to 10 years in prison at sentencing on March 28.
Kruzynski he was suspended from the practice of law following his arrest.


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10 Things You Forget About The Newborn Stage
We're well into week three of life with a newborn and the dust is starting to settle a bit. We can't set our clocks by anything but getting out of the house to do things is much more plausible this week than previous. We're been here before, so some of this newborn stuff sees us a bit more confident - we aren't as afraid to handle the baby, aren't as fussy about where or when she feeds or gets changed etc. On the other hand, it has been almost 5 years since we had a newborn in the house so lots of stuff feels properly new again too; like our bodies and minds have had to realign fully to this stage again. Dave and I were talking the other night about some of the things we had forgotten about with the newborn stage so I thought I'd jot them down here in case you could relate or for anyone heading back to babysville in the near future
+ I forgot about the skills you master in being able to do things with just one free hand. Admittedly the sling is a life-saver for periods when you need both hands free to get on with the day, but on Saturday morning I wrapped TWO birthday presents with just one hand while I held Ada to feed with the other. I must have looked hilarious but I felt like I had superhero powers.
+ I forgot about the sweetness of the night feed. This one may just be personal to me, but (tiredness aside) there was always something so tender and beautiful about feeding in the middle of the night when everything is still and quiet and it's just you and the baby. She's all drunk on milk and I'm bleary eyed and it's all a bit magical. I also love sleeping all night long too.
+ The amount of guess-work involved. For the last few nights Ada has cried for 3 hours solid. She can not be consoled by being fed, rocked, carried, changed, walked etc. We literally spend from 8pm-11pm looking at each other every 15 minutes and shrugging our shoulders (and wanting to scream into a pillow). Sure, they cry to tell us something is up but sometimes what is up is a giant mystery and you just have to endure.
+ Another thing I've forgotten is how it's nearly impossible to be discreet when you're breastfeeding in public. There is a lot of you pulling your various tops up and down and the baby pulling away from the boob and your milk squirting out everywhere when they do.
+ How much newborns sound like baby goats. So. Much. Grunting.
+ That the days fly by so quickly when you are in the cycle of feeding and sleeping.
+ How when you pack all of the things for a trip out, you end up needing absolutely nothing but when you go a bit rogue for a quick trip out - BOOM - that's when you need all the gear and end up wrapping your baby in a random scarf from the boot of the car because they were sick all over their only change of clothes.
+ Hormones. They are whack. The other day we were driving and Graham Norton played 'Reach' by S Club 7 on his Radio 2 show. Levi recognised it and told me the P3's had done it in assembly at School so him and I blasted it out and I caught a glimpse of him in the rearview mirror, signing away (with actions obvs) and had a full on well-up. To S Club 7. I'll just leave it there.
+ I forgot how much Kellymom would again be my new best internet friend. There are endless amounts of googling to do when you have a newborn and most of it - for me - always starts with 'kellymom' and then I add in whatever thing that I'm over paranoid about at that moment 'baby/gag/reflux signs/mucous/engorgement/seedy poo etc etc etc'. Isn't it delightful?!
+ That standards will slip and that's OK. Want to wear the same thing you wore 2 days in a row even though it smells of spit up because it's comfortable? Do it. Want to use baby wipes to clean just about anything in your house or on your body? Do it. Want to have frozen oven food 3 nights in a row because you just cannot muster the energy or inspiration to make a decent meal? Do it. The newborn stage is the stage of all the allowances and none of the judgements.
Can you relate? Are you in the throes as well? What are your memories of the newborn stage?


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Hi, I'm Leslie and This Is How I Kick Asana!
Name: Leslie Miller
Occupation: Licensed Massage Therapist
Favorite yoga pose: Half Moon
Yoga is… blissfully challenging.
What do you love most about yoga? The rush I feel after practice, like I'm a new person ready to take on the world, and knowing that there are infinite ways to modify my practice depending on what my body needs on a particular day.
What fuels you? Knowing that I have amazing friends and family who fill my life with positivity and love…and FUN!
My NON-guilty pleasure is… getting on all fours and wrestling with my silly dogs (and cat who thinks he's a dog).
What makes you Mighty? My willingness to continue attempting the things that I have yet to conquer. (In life and in my yoga practice!)
What's your yoga story? How did you start practicing? I was searching for something active that would keep me interested, and that I would actually enjoy and stick to doing. I had tried running (not my cup of tea), and had joined several gyms over the years only to dread going. I had never tried yoga before and when Mighty first opened I checked out a class with a friend and I kept on coming! I didn't feel the intimidation or the judgement that a lot of gyms had made me feel, and yoga felt like something I could see myself committing to, and doing for the rest of my life to better my body and my mind.
When I wake up in the morning, I always do these two things… Get licked in the face by a dog (or two), and drink coffee.
What's the best advice you've ever received? My Grandfather always loved the saying "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Throughout my childhood I heard this from him often, and I think it's a pretty great way to look at life when challenging times arise. I'm always trying to remind myself to pause, take a breath, and make the best out of what's in front of me.


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I've been slow to write lately, partly because I've been preoccupied with, you know, um, stuff. What a crappy excuse. I actually really enjoy the writing process, and even more, the story telling process. This probably comes from a combination of my adopted grandmother's (and the Critter's namesake) librarian roots, and a little bit of my father, the Surgeon's old South roots, I suppose. For a few years now, I've used this 'blog as my private little space to tell a story or two, and keep the writing urge going. Along with the annual book-writing fest, of course. So I'm feeling the lack of actually sitting down and doing a little writing. But the other part of my slowness lately has been our national absorption in the upcoming election, and the daily rollercoaster of the financial soap opera that's currently playing out. I'm as glued to each of the latest developments as the next person, and I've both been a little reluctant to use this space for political stumping (because there's already enough of that out there on the web) and had a difficult time shaping my thoughts about what's going on into something that adds meaningful value to the dialogue. I want to write about it. I feel passionate about it. But after the clear failures of the current administration on a number of fronts, many of which run contrary to the clear, simple principles that the GOP is supposed to stand for (or so I thought), I have to pause and think on why I believe what I do, and challenge my long held assumptions and support to make sure I'm giving my vote to the right guy this time around. But still, I am a Republican. This is hardly a surprise to most folks. A co-worker of mine was shocked to discover this recently. I pointed out that I'm a Georgia-born, banjo playing Army veteran who drives a 1967 Ford pickup truck with a rifle rack and an NRA sticker. How the hell do you think I vote? But I'm a socially liberal conservative. I really don't care what you do in your bedroom or in your spare time, mostly, as long as you're not in some fashion increasing my tax burden through your actions. And I struggle as much as your average Obama Mama with the choke hold that the Religious Right has on my party. And even more with the abuses that the current administration has subjected our Constitution to, all in the name of security. This election has been interesting, of course, for the number of historical firsts, and for the personalities that have emerged and taken shape on the national front. I finally have a better understanding of what so many Democrats must have felt like when Reagan ran for office. Damn , but Senator Obama can deliver a speech. I do still believe that fundamentally, the GOP can and would do a better job of addressing the same issues with less bureaucracy and waste... if we could just stick to the principles that made the party what it used to be. But we haven't produced a speaker that can make me pause like this guy can in quite some time. And when I compare that heart-stirring, hope-raising ability to Senator McCain's offer of grim determination... sigh... Yeah. I miss Reagan. But finally today, I found a good summary that puts into better words than I had why I'm still hopeful for a McCain presidency in a NY Times editorial by David Brook.Read More
Nonetheless, when people try to tell me that the McCain on the campaign trail is the real McCain and the one who came before was fake, I just say, baloney. I saw him. A half-century of evidence is there. If McCain is elected, he will retain his instinct for the hard challenge. With that Greatest Generation style of his, he will run the least partisan administration in recent times. He is not a sophisticated conceptual thinker, but he is a good judge of character. He is not an organized administrator, but he has become a practiced legislative craftsman. He is, above all -- and this is completely impossible to convey in the midst of a campaign -- a serious man prone to serious things. Amid the stupidity of this season, it seemed worth stepping back to recall the fundamentalsHe may not be the stirring messiah that will right the wrongs of my party that I might like, but he's still got my vote. At least so far.


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Whether you are Jewish and observant, preparing to fast (from Monday at sunset through Tuesday at sunset) for Tisha B'av, or whether you like to follow Meatless Mondays in order to cut down on meat consumption, or whether you would simply like a light, easy-to-make dinner that everyone will love, think pizza.
Is there anyone who doesn't like pizza?
When I was a kid the only pizza we could get was Pizza Margherite, with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese.
Still my favorite.
We've come far far from the classic. You can buy — or make — pizza with any topping you like these days.
But for a meatless meal that is substantial and filling, yet light enough for a summer dinner, try this recipe for White Pizza with Spinach. It's from my book, Hip Kosher. Substitute any vegetable you like.
White Pizza with Spinach
1 pound pizza dough
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 large clove garlic, finely chopped
1 bunch fresh spinach, washed and dried
1 15-ounce package ricotta cheese
8 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese (about 2 cups)
1-1/2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. (Preheat a pizza stone if you have one.) Lightly oil a large cookie sheet. Stretch the pizza dough into a 12-15 inch circle and place it on the cookie sheet or pizza stone. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a saute pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook briefly. Add the spinach and cook for 3-5 minutes or until wilted and all of the liquid has evaporated from the pan. If necessary press the spinach in a sieve to extract the liquid. Chop the spinach coarsely. Spread the ricotta cheese evenly over the pizza dough. Top with the spinach. Spread the mozzarella cheese on top. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and oregano. Drizzle with the remaining tablespoon olive oil. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until the crust is crispy and the cheese has melted and is golden brown. Makes 8 pieces (4 servings)


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Summer has greeted us this year in a much kinder fashion than last year. We have had some afternoon showers, temperatures where you can actually enjoy the weather outside. Last year was such a stark difference than this year. Last year it was super hot, lots of record breaking days and a record drought. I didn't enjoy being outside very often, but this year it has been different and I am thankful for it.
June 12 - Bang! Animal knows how to play dead.
June 13 - Another beautiful pincushion flower from my garden. I love these flowers. So cool.
June 14 - This pair of Inca doves have been frequenting my backyard for the past few months. I'm normally not a big fan of doves, but these ones I find rather beautiful and fun to watch. They seem like such a loving pair.
June 15 - I told the boys that we were getting ready to go play in the water. Well, Colton jumped the gun while I was getting ready and when I came in the bathroom he said, "I play in the water!" My whole bathroom was covered!!! I just had to laugh and grab the camera.
June 16 - Saw this skipper at the local garden center while shopping for plants.
June 17 - Happy Father's Day! My boys enjoying some family time at the pool. One of the only pics I got of all the boys that day.
June 18 - Such a beautiful sunset. I looked outside and saw that glow...the glow that I knew a great sunset was happening. I ran upstairs to shoot a few photos of it.
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Your summer has been the exact opposite of ours here. It has been hot, hot, hot. And we have only gotten .05 inches of rain this month. We are in a serious drought. It's been too hot to get outside much and do anything, and our lawn has already gone dormant and turned brown. I'm glad there are still places in the country where it is possible to enjoy the summer this year.ReplyDelete
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Video: Signing Shakespeare at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Signing for theater is specialized art form. Interpreter Holly Thomas-Mowery, who coordinates the Idaho Shakespeare Festival's Signing Shakespeare program, demonstrates how signing styles vary regionally and changes from character to character — like dialects. That will come in handy for Thomas-Mowery who will interpret the upcoming production of "Steel Magnolias," a comedy set in the South.
You can link to my story in the July 18 edition of Scene about the Singing Shakespeare program.


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Today I am wearing Posh Polish by Eyeko on my nails. This is definitely one of my favourite nail polishes, maybe because it reminds me of OPI Metro Chic!
It's a creamy taupey grey shade ( I think to work on my descriptive language skills!) Here is a look at it on my nails instead.
Consistency wise this is smooth and creamy. It's a doddle to apply. Two coats are definitely necessary for an opaque finish. It also last well. I find that with most of my Eyeko polishes (definitely not all) they last for a few days without chipping.
I don't even use a top coat with posh polish, it has a gorgeous shine to it naturally.
Well worth the €4 price tag!
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Linda Ellis The Dash Poem ANOTHER VICTIM RESPONDS ANONYMOUSLY
The Linda Ellis Business Model For People With No Conscience
This article is intended for authors like Linda Ellis -- meaning those authors who are mediocre enough to get a few things published but who cannot grow enough of an audience on their own to actually make an honest living. For those of you that do not know Linda Ellis, she is the author registered copyright holder of a poem called "The Dash Poem". Somehow this poem gained some amount of mainstream media attention over the past 15 or so years and Linda has been trying to capitalize on that interest ever since.
Monetization Strategy # 1: Sell as much "The Dash Poem" crap as possible
On her web site, you can purchase:
1. The poem in an 18 x 36 gold frame
2. The Dash Pictorial Gift Book
3. Live Your Dash bracelets (an idea stolen from Lance Armstrong)
4. The Dash Poem – unframed
5. Live your Dash Ceramic Mugs
The store on her current web site has placeholders for two additional products. We recommend that she print her insipid poem on rolls of toilet paper. One SKU for scented and one SKU for unscented.
According to www.compete.com, Linda Ellis averages 7,593 unique visitors per month to her site. This computes to 91,116 unique visitors per year. According to Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg & Associates (Online marketing experts for authors and speakers) (www.bryaneisenberg.com) the average author/speaker web site converts 3% of unique visitors into buyers.
This means that that Linda Ellis averages approximately 2733 sales per year. If you assume her average order size to be $30 and if you assume that her profit margin is also 20% (high for retail, I know). This means that the net profit on internet sales of crap is $16,398 per year. Given how long she has been selling crap, I think this is a very generous estimate. But, I will give her the benefit of the doubt (something she is not so good at).
Monetization Strategy # 2: Write books that are completely derivative from the poem she copyrighted that express no original ideas
On Amazon, she has three books for sale:
1. "Live Your Dash: Make Every Moment Matter". Hardcover – 288 pages -- $10.76
2. "The Dash: Making A Difference with Your Life" (with Mac Anderson). Hardcover – 96 pages -- $19.90
3. "The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End" (with Mac Andersen). Hardcover – 96 pages -- $10.87
Somehow she has managed to leverage a 239 word poem she copyrighted into 480 pages of completely derivative material – that comes out to almost exactly 2 pages of crap for every word in her poem. Now I know why she isn't selling toilet paper as a separate product. She is selling it in the form of hardcover books.
So, let's do some math. Let's assume that every single one of her web site visitors also looks her up on Amazon. I have been told for hardcover books of this nature, the author can expect to profit $2.50 per book. For her sake, we will assume that she converts the standard average of 3% of visitors into buying a single book. This translates into selling 2733 books per year and a net profit of $6,832 not counting what she might have to share with the co-author of her two books. But again, we are being generous.
Oh crap, she isn't making that much money
Her profits from monetization strategies #1 and #2 total $23,230 per year, every year. It is a nice annuity, but probably not enough for her to live on and certainly not enough to satisfy her ego (which might explain why she has used the same Glamour Shot on her website for five years. That picture looks nothing like her by the way). So, instead of working on her craft and learning how to market her work, she found another strategy that is MUCH more lucrative.
Monetization Strategy #3: Be a complete troll and threaten people who accidently use some or all of the 239 words she had copyrighted. Many of these people are grieving having recently lost loved ones. This is a Web 2.0 variant of reading the obituaries and robbing people's homes while you know they are attending a funeral.
She has installed a well oiled, money-making machine. She says she is doing this to protect her copyright. That is complete bullshit. Since she has been intimidating people for over ten years, her copyright is more than adequately protected. However, as you can see from the numbers above, SHE NEEDS MONEY. Remember, when people say it is "not about the money", it is ALWAYS about the money.
The biggest asset she has is that her poem over the years has gone somewhat "viral" on the internet and received a decent amount of exposure. Many artists have leveraged this success in other ways and made crap tons of money. Please see Louis CK and Radiohead and the Grateful Dead who let their fans choose the price they pay for material – even if they decide to pay $0. But Linda, appears to be extremely paranoid, has decided to leverage the "success" of her copyright by scouring the internet and sending emails to anyone she believes has infringed her copyright.
[Note to self – if that poem ever does make it into the public domain in my lifetime, I am purchasing a toilet paper manufacturing plant and CRANKING up the presses. In fact, I am going to put my request in my Will so my yet-to-be-born kids can follow up on my wishes]
If you search for "The Dash Poem" on the internet, Google returns approximately 66,000 results. Searching "dash poem" results in another 21,900 results and "Linda Ellis" returns 185,000 results. That is a target group (literally) of 273,000 people/groups. To make this model work she outsources her hate. She has what she calls a "contracted employee" chase people down and scare them into settling. Based on what people have told me, the average settlement amount ranges from $250 to $5000. So, let's say the average is the midpoint of $2625. Unfortunately, because so many people are innocently posting parts or all of her poem on their web sites, blogs, and Facebook pages, victims are easy to come by. All she needs to do is settle 1 case per week (only a mere 52 people or groups per year) and she adds $136,500 to her bank account. She probably pays her hit man a 20% commission leaving her with a net profit of $109,200 which is approximately FIVE times the amount she makes from her non "ass-holian" ways of making money.
So, she has likely turned a poem she copyrighted plus some internet success into an annual income over $100,000 by doing nothing but shaking down her fans who do not want to go to court. This is how she is spending her dash. Is it legal? Yes. Is it how you want to spend your dash? Please let us know.
Personally, I think she is spending your dash.
For more information on Linda Ellis and The Dash Poem visit www.http://lindaellis.net/ and http://xarlot.blogspot.com/2007/09/dash-poem-by-linda-ellis.html


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Lakes Of Canada + Louize + Clay & Friends
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Show time: 10.00 PM Louize
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.Founded in 2011 in Montreal, Lakes of Canada is a four piece progressive rock group with gospel and soul vocal harmonies featuring: Jake Smith on lead vocals, guitar, keys, and
percussion, Sarah Morasse on vocals, keys, percussion, and organ, Conor O'Neil on drums, vocals, and keys, and Caleb Smith on bass, keys, vocals, guitar, and percussion.
Lakes of Canada has held the #2 most pretentious band in the CULT Montreal reader's poll for 4 years running (we're coming for you Arcade Fire). They have performed across Canada
and been featured at Festivals including: POP Montreal, Canadian Music Week, Festival Folk sur la Canal, M for Montreal, NXNE, and will be performing at Osheaga's opening party this August. In 2012 they won Best Band of the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival.
Their last album "Transgressions", released in 2015 won best Traditional/Roots album at the 2016 GAMIQ Awards.
With a rich cultural and musical blend, Clay and Friends is a musical collective that draws inspiration from hip-hop, funk, jazz, soul and reggae. Champions of musical improvisation and freestyle, Mike Clay and his crew wield words in a prose that perfectly reflects Montreal in both French and English. The group is inspired by urban life and feeds off simplicity and instinct, leading to organic jams on stage that include beatbox and sampling. Clay & Friends has literally stirred over 500 crowds throughout Canada and Europe. Their first album Conformopolis was released March 2017, on the label Ste-4.


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This requires access to the Daycare on Route 3, and to the Battle Train Station. Also, for the extra money you need to have beaten the 4th gym in the game.
1Deposit one or two Pokémon into the Day Care center that you want to level up. Make sure they are at a fairly low level compared to the level at which they will obey you to. The Daycare will keep your Pokémon and raise your Pokémon. The more it levels up, the more coins you need to pay.
2Travel to the Battle Train Station, and find a path that won't be obstructed if you keep walking in the circle.
3Leave your DS on and charging.
4Come back an hour or so later and then travel the Marvelous Bridge.
5Press A over the dark spots. Each feather you get sells for $1500 except for the Pretty Feather. It sells for $150.
6Sell the feathers.
7Go and pick up your Pokémon at the Daycare.
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- Get the feathers and sell them after your Pokémon have been dropped at the Day Care for some extra EXP Points.
- One feather = $1500 = 14 levels for your Pokémon at the daycare. (100 per level, 100 for pickup fee)
- Sometimes the feathers could be a wild Ducklett.
- Make sure you don't have any moves that would matter to you that much if they were deleted, or at least make sure they're able to be retaught.
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Oven temperatures vary and are influenced by the age of the oven, the quality of insulation, room temperature, atmospheric pressure and humidity. It's not unusual for an oven to deviate by 20-30% or more from the indicated temperature, and that can doom the culinary attempts of even the best home cooks. The good news is that you can recalibrate your oven for reliable temperature and better results.
Test First
A reliable stainless-steel oven thermometer can be purchased for under $10 online and in cooking stores. Set the oven to your most frequently used temperature (350 degrees if you roast more frequently or 425 degrees if you bake) and place the thermometer at the center of the oven. When the oven indicates it has reached the desired temperature, write down the thermometer reading. Keep the oven on and take three additional readings at 20-minute intervals. All oven temperatures fluctuate slightly, so these readings will allow you to calculate an average temperature to compare to the setting you chose. If the average is off by more than 10 degrees above or below the desired temperature, you should recalibrate.
Recalibration Procedure
If you still have the oven's instruction manual or can find it online, look there for calibration instructions. If not, try the following:
Ovens with Manual Dials — Set the oven, and when it indicates the desired temperature has been reached, pull the dial off of the stem. On the back of the dial you'll see a movable plate held in place by a "set screw" that determines the dial position on the stem. Loosen this screw and slide the plate to position your testing average temperature in the index position when the dial is replaced. This may take a little trial and error, but will ensure an accurate heating the next time you cook.
Digital Ovens — Digital controls vary by manufacturer, but most have a "settings" control with some form of temperature adjustment. This command allows you to adjust the temperature reading up or down by the amount that your average varied from the indicated temperature.
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The Champ is here! Eve Ewing returns to the airwaves as part of our #AirGoRunItBack series. Since she was on all the way back in 2015, she got her doctorate from Harvard, became a tenure-track professor at UChicago, launched a bajillion community-based creative projects here in the city, and gained MANY twitter followers. She goes the distance on the longest episode of AirGo we've ever done–we could've talked forever.
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Video dispatch: A vortex of violence in the Americas/
The Americas is a vast and diverse region. Stretching all the way from Chile, through Central America, and up to Canada, it is home to almost a billion people. It is also one of the most dangerous regions on Earth. From extremely high homicide rates to the presence of organized gangs that can rival the most powerful armies on Earth in terms of resources, many South American countries continue to be caught up in a vortex of violence that has left between 200,000 and 300,000 people missing and resulted in severely overcrowded prisons. In fact, did you know that 40 per cent of the world's detainees are held in the Americas? In our latest video dispatch, Patricia Danzi, who oversees all of the ICRC's operations in the Americas, describes how local and trans-national violence, and even conflicts in other parts of the world, are forcing vulnerable migrants north in search of safety.
A note from the editor: In Vortex of Violence, we examine the causes and consequences of different forms of armed violence in the Americas. To learn more about how we work and what the ICRC is doing on the ground to address these challenges, check out our video dispatch with Patricia from November 2012 by clicking here.


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The sky overhead is grey and glowering, locked with low-hanging clouds that make the earth feel squeezed. The air is cool, breezy, hovering between autumn and winter. I walk with my hands in my pockets, my wool coat held closed with the only button that will still reach over my pregnant belly. I am never sure whether I like these long solitary walks or not. I love the nip of the air, the feel of the wind on my face, the wild scent of raindrops as the light drizzle hits the pavement below me. I love the time alone with my thoughts, the feeling of escape, the openness of the world around me. Still, there is something monotonous about the churning of my legs, one step after another, the same motion repeated again and again. They don't feel tired today, my legs. After my first block, I decide to keep walking, turning away from my house and widening my path.
The wind picks up as I walk up a leaf-carpeted sidewalk; it snatches the leaves into the air and for several long seconds, I am carried along in a rush of dry leaves, swirling around my feet and legs with a sound like water. It is a magical moment, a good-to-be-alive moment, and I find myself rejoicing in the day—in the wind, in the leaves, in the strength of my own body.
When I get home and plot my meandering route into the computer, I am shocked to find that I walked two miles easily. Effortlessly, I think, remembering the way my legs kept going, the way my breathing was steady. I am overwhelmed by some emotion I cannot name. At the beginning of this year, I couldn't walk one mile without it feeling like a monumental effort, without coming home afterward and collapsing onto the couch.
This is my year of miracles, my year to make medical history. Eight months ago I started a brand-new medication for cystic fibrosis, groundbreaking in its abilities, but still only available to handful of CF patients with a relatively rare mutation—a mutation I happen to have. In these eight months, I have watched my life slowly change in ways more dramatic than any I could have imagined. I have walked further. I have felt better. I have seen my lung function go up instead of down, and gone for two-thirds of a year without ever feeling the need for a hospital admission. After a year and a half of infertility, I find myself pregnant with a miracle baby and breezing through the pregnancy without any serious health concerns.
These are the kinds of things that you never expect, with a terminal illness. You don't expect to get the chance to travel back in time, to reach a place of better health and more stability. You don't expect to spend eight months watching as, one by one, so many of your longest-held dreams come true.
A few weeks ago, I sat in a hard plastic chair, beaming, as a stream of medical professionals came in and out of my room. Each one exclaimed over my lung function test results, my burgeoning belly, my newfound stamina, my health in general. In the lulls between visits I could hear the patient next to me—young; nearly all CF patients are young—talking with his nurse as she replaced his oxygen canister. They wondered aloud if he was up to the walk down to the cafeteria, or if his mother should take him in a wheelchair.
The cafeteria is almost directly below the pulmonary clinic, perhaps five hundred steps.
That afternoon lingered with me for days, and I found a familiar question returning again and again to my heart. Why me? I wondered. Only this time I was on the other side of the fence: I was not asking Why me? Why is my situation so much harder?
Instead, I was asking Why me? Why am I so blessed?
These eight months have brought with them a wealth of complicated emotions. I feel consumed with joy each day, overwhelmed by my own fortune. Every day I walk further. Every day I feel my tiny daughter move inside me, a sensation so magical it brings tears to my eyes, remembering all of the days I thought I would never feel this.
Every day, I am grateful.
But there is frustration, too, and guilt. While I have been experiencing a year of miracles, it seems like nearly all of my friends with cystic fibrosis have been locked in a year of trials. Today, when I get home from my two-mile walk, I learn that one of my very oldest and dearest friends has spent the week in critical condition, unable to breathe on her own.
Like that afternoon in the doctor's office, it is a stark contrast.
I know that all of my friends are thrilled for me in my good fortune, and I am certainly grateful for it, incredibly so. I wouldn't trade this year for anything; not only has it changed my day-to-day standard of living, but it has flung open so many doors to the future, exploded all of the barriers that used to exist. In a community of disease where the average life expectancy has yet to hit forty, suddenly old age doesn't seem like such an impossible achievement. But still, I wish that I could share it, could watch all of the people I love experience similar miracles.
I cannot, of course—not yet, at least, not until science has come a little further and there are miracle medications for more common CF mutations. All I can do, for now, is to make sure that I never take this new life for granted.
And so, now, I pull back on my shoes and re-button that single button on my coat, and go outside again. I am not ready to be done walking yet, not ready to be done relishing the feel of the wind on my face and the strength in my body.
Wanting to hold on, for just a little longer, to that feeling of effortlessness.


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Writers on Writers: Jennifer Kahn asks Michael Lewis, "What the hell?"
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Jennifer Kahn watches Michael Lewis lead softball practice.
Though it's not very well known, Lewis has actually written a slim book that includes an origin-of-confidence story of sorts. Called Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life, the book details the inspirational, borderline-abusive practices of his high school baseball coach, Billy Fitzgerald. While Fitz was known to vent his temper by occasionally smashing a water cooler with a baseball bat, or, sour from a lackluster loss, conduct bloody base-sliding drills in a bare, rocky lot, Lewis's coach also taught him something rare and elusive: toughness in the wake of disappointment.
Much as a child who survives smallpox acquires immunity to the disease, Lewis, through the efforts of Fitz, developed a kind of inoculation against self-doubt. He recalls a time when the team, 0 and 12, and wearing uniforms that hadn't been washed since before the base-sliding drill (a Coach Fitz penance), reached a strange kind of apotheosis. Grubby and winless, Lewis writes, free from vanity and with nothing left to lose, "we ceased, at least for a moment, to fear failure."
Dixie drills in a change-up.
Lewis: "Ho! There you go! A little low, but it was a pretty strike."
Val: "Go hard with your legs. Don't let me read it."
Lewis: "Strike two! That one had some spin on it. Remember, if you don't like what I give you, shake me off. You have to take ownership. It's your job to say, 'This is my pitch.'"
This could almost be Lewis's motto: Shake it off. Own the pitch. As though confidence can be created by sheer force of will. And who knows? Maybe it can.
"I do think that if you don't feel it, you fake it," Lewis says as Val calls the last pitch. "When I coach, my strategy is to persuade the team that they're good, even before they are good." He shrugs. "And then they get good."
Lewis: "Boom! Strike three. Outta there! We're done!"
Jennifer Kahn teaches journalism at UC Berkeley and writes for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. She lives in Rockridge.
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Chinaka Hodge and Ryan Coogler Brown-Bag It At Skywalker Ranch
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Jennifer Kahn asks Michael Lewis, "What the hell?"
Michelle Tea Follows Lucy Corin To The End of Days
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Joshua Mohr and Sam Sattin Search For Meaning in Bowling
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Be cheerful, enjoy your life
If you're on social media, no doubt you would have seen plenty of memes with inspiring quotes put over the top of gorgeous imagery?
Despite Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc. being relatively new, this concept most definitely isn't...!!
In Turkey they have uncovered a mosaic that goes back to the 3rd Century BC. It was found in where they believe was the dining room of a house in the southern Hatay province.
According to archaeologist Demet Kara at the Hatay Archeology Museum the mosaic is from the ancient Greek-Roman city of Antioch and is over 2,400 years old.
The best thing about it though?
Even back then people were creating memes...
The mosaic shows a skeleton lying down holding wine and bread with an inscription saying 'be cheerful, enjoy your life'.
Not a bad tagline, don't you think?
We have to say, we totally agree! Don't waste your time, be cheerful and make the most of your life.
So whether you have always wanted to learn another language, master a new cuisine or step out of your comfort zone, don't waste another second.
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"Abraham needed more than one woman and so do I." It was the summer of 1995. They were the third church group I had ever hosted as the Denver City Director. Our Tuesday evening reflection had just wrapped up and everyone was getting ready for bed when the head elder, from a well-respected church, pulled me aside to tell me his understanding of biblical marriage.
I remember everything about the moment. The noise in the room, the shirt he was wearing and the conviction in his voice. There was nothing about his body language that said he was trying to pull my leg. For him the biblical definition of marriage meant that if he needed more than one woman it was within his moral rights to have more than one woman.
Last week Chick-fil-A revived a brewing controversy about the biblical definition of marriage when its company president came out against gay marriage. As you might imagine my mind immediately went back to that evening in the summer of 1995.
Like it or not there is no biblical definition of marriage. Anyone who tells you that there is such a definition hasn't spent time studying the bible. There are lots of stories about marriage relationships and sexual intimacy. However, turning a biblical story into a definition for marriage quickly becomes problematic.
Take Abraham: he not only treated his wife like a piece of property to be bought and sold, he also slept with his wife's servant Hagar without worrying about infidelity. Then there is Isaac, Abraham's son, who married sisters and slept with their servants. There are the stories of Israel's two greatest kings, David and Solomon, who took both wives and concubines, in Solomon's case by the 100's.
Where does this desire to have a biblical definition for marriage come from? Is it because we are afraid of any relationship that falls outside the cultural norm?
In 1995 I was repulsed by a man who felt he needed more than one woman. His idea of biblical marriage seemed counter to everything that Scripture teaches about mutuality and respect. There was a sense in which he had scripture - at least the biblical stories - on his side. It would be hard to argue that he was in sync with God's heart. Dehumanizing and degrading women is counter to a faith which describes humans as creatures made in the very image of God.
Last week when I read about a Christian leader who was trying to define marriage in terms he was comfortable with I could not help but wonder why. From my perspective his only goal was to be exclusionary. This seems counter to the God of John 3:16.
We cross into very dangerous territory when we read into Scripture things that aren't there.


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Walk for health: the mode of children's walks in the off-season
Outdoor walks are a daily ritual for a child to whom the weather should not be a hindrance. It is clear that in the pouring rain, a blizzard or a frost – 20 out of walks should be abstained both children and adults. However, often parents, because of ignorance or extreme vigilance, deprive the kids of the outdoor activities that are so necessary to him. It is possible and it is necessary to use for walks, even slyakotnye offseason, it is important only to properly dress the child and organize the process of walking.
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For Seattle artist Lue Brentwood, the purpose of his artwork is simple and pure. "Ultimately, it is my goal to show you how beautiful everyday life can be; while creating an aesthetically pleasing world for future generations to enjoy". Brentwood's optimism shines through his artwork. His work reminds viewers of life's simple pleasures and the beauty we often overlook.
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Yessir. Novelist and poet Jesse Ball reads this Friday, November 8th at KGB Bar, as part of NYU's Emerging Writers Reading Series. Jesse will take the beer-sticky stage alongside fellow scribblers Bryn Dodson, Diana K. Lee, Jonathan Hamrick and Elisa Diaz -- all solid people. Show starts at 7pm. More info thisaways.
As a coordinator of the series, I'm thrilled to hear the man's words supercharge the room with such weird energy. I've been lost in his labyrinthine website for weeks in preparation. Also, his drawings on a napkin are unbeatable.


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This is regarding the letter by Thomas Saito on Wednesday titled "Walmart and the American worker."
I have a question. What is the difference between the cheap Chinese goods sold by Walmart and the more expensive Chinese goods, some exactly the same, sold by Target, Best Buy, Costco, Macy's, etc.?
Stores other than Walmart sell both cheap and expensive Chinese goods. Check out the toys at Toys R Us. It is hard to find anything that isn't made in China, whether it is cheap or not.
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