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Devon's Story
This time of year gives us a chance to connect with one another, and with ourselves.
One of the things I've learned on the journey that brought me here this evening is that knowing ourselves – and being ourselves – is critically important to health and wellness. To full enjoyment of life.
When I was 13, I was a long way from any of these things. I was struggling with a sense I can only describe as "wrongness" – I never felt quite right, never felt that I belonged. And as a result, I was desperately unhappy.
There was very little support for mental illness in the small town where I lived, but the true culprit of my silence was stigma. The idea of seeking help can be terrifying in the face of stigma, especially for teenagers who want to be accepted. I existed in a liminal space between desperately seeking validation while simultaneously being unable to face myself. I would call it a state of masochistic denial.
With no help, things got progressively worse throughout high school. I'd been in a gifted program, but as my health deteriorated, so did my grades. I felt increasingly hopeless and desperate. I was unable to imagine a future I belonged in. I genuinely believed I would never make it past the age of 17 and attempted suicide twice before I graduated high school.
My teachers encouraged me to apply to university and I got into York. I went because it felt expected of me. I had very little concept of my future. I cracked under the pressure and within a few short months I began having debilitating panic attacks. I could barely leave my dorm room without hyperventilating, and I couldn't help but look back at the buildings as I walked away, wondering how I could get up to the roof and jump.
This went on for years. I was in and out of school, trying on different identities – game developer, graphic designer, and eventually, illustrator. I spent a long time ignoring my symptoms. When it was good I couldn't imagine why I had been so depressed, and when it was bad I couldn't see an end to my suffering. It wasn't until I had a session with a psychiatrist 3 years ago that I was diagnosed as being bi-polar, and realized that I'd been struggling with this condition all my life.
It was around this time when a series of major events came to a head. I ended a long term relationship with an abusive partner, and suffered severe trauma. I was kicked out of my apartment and I was completely broke. I would have been left homeless without the help of a good friend. Luckily my application to the Ontario College of Art and Design had been accepted, and the prospect of following through gave me a sense of purpose. All these things, the good and the bad, wore down on me, one source stress after another. I coped with my trauma by drinking heavily, and threw myself into partying and drug use to distract myself from reality. After a long and steady decline I began using crystal meth.
Many of you would probably say that you could notice an addict. That a person using a drug like meth would be obvious. I held down a full time job for 3 months, using crystal meth every day. I would go home on lunch breaks to use. I considered myself such a responsible addict – I'd make sure that I got at least 3 hours of sleep every two nights and would force myself to keep eating so that even after a week long binge I was presentable and could keep going to school.
I was trapped. I only felt normal when I was using, when I wasn't I was suicidal. I knew I couldn't sustain this life, but even so I felt willing to sacrifice everything to keep using. I needed meth like I needed to breath. I fought with myself, believing each time that I would be able to control myself. I knew I needed to break out of the cycle, but I didn't know how. So I told my counselor at OCAD what was really going on. That was a huge step. I can still remember the feeling of my throat closing at the thought of admitting what felt like a moral failing. I also remember the unbelievable wave of relief.
That counselor introduced me to LOFT.
I'd already been to plenty of programs – like AA and at places like the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, but they had both left me feeling more alienated than ever. Although I was initially wary, I quickly realized that LOFT was different. I joined the Campus Recovery Group, where I met other students who were struggling. The LOFT group took a therapeutic approach that I hadn't experienced elsewhere. The environment let people take on as much responsibility as they were comfortable with, allowing them to formulate goals on their own terms. The groups focuses on coping skills – an approach that was so much more effective than anything I'd tried before.
It was through that experience –plus a truly excellent and compassionate LOFT worker – that I began taking concrete steps to improve my life. I needed to stop pretending. To be up front with myself – and with others. I learned that the only way to get well – and to grow as a human being – was to ask for help.
LOFT gave me the tools I needed to make myself well. LOFT changed my life.
In one of my darkest moments post the point of quitting crystal, I relapsed, only 2 short months since my quit date. I was so filled with self loathing over my lack of control that I had a mental break, I recall standing on the corner of Spadina and Dundas, I was incoherent and shaking and unable to stop myself from repeated punching myself in the head. When I got home I hacked at my arm with a knife until the emotional intensity that drove me dispersed, and I no longer felt anything at all.
I knew that I needed to go to the hospital, so I called my LOFT worker. She met with me almost immediately. Not only did she take me to the hospital, she waited with me in the emerge for hours so I didn't feel so alone. Because my hospitalization required that I miss about a week of work I was fired from my job, and my worker was there for me in those moments as well, she advocated for me to receive an emergency grant from my school to help me cover the costs of living.
No judgement over my relapse. I was never forced to recover "the right way." My worker genuinely cared about meeting me where I needed her most.
It is now one year later. I look forward and see a future before me. Sometimes I can scarcely believe the contrast from then to now, in retrospect what seemed like a whirlwind of chaos becomes a carefully plotted journey. The cause and effect becomes obvious.
I face the future with a quiet confidence. I want to tell stories via both text and illustration to help young people realize they are not alone.
In fact, I've already started – LOFT invited me to become a peer mentor, and I'm working with young people, helping them believe in themselves and their future.
It was hard for me to ask for help for myself. But I'm fearless when it comes to asking for help for LOFT and the innovative, vitally important, and life-saving work they do.
By being here tonight, you are connecting with each other. And – through my story – with other young people like me. You are helping to make this work possible.
Thank you LOFT – and thank all of you! – for making it possible for me to stand in front of you today. The future is bright.
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Since Ben learned piano from an early age, and he's just smart in general, picking up new instruments isn't very hard for him. Hauling a piano, even a keyboard, around the world is hardly practical. Something small like a ukulele or a guitar is perfect, though. Ben says that learning on something so small will help make a guitar feel spacious, since the fingering is always challenging with his big hands.
Elias is proud of himself for learning the one string to push down to make a C chord.
There are several sizes of ukulele, at least three. We have the smallest. This one and one a size up have the same fingering but the baritone ukulele is played like a guitar (with four strings.)
The kids love singing along with Ben or trying to play too. Since it is a really cheap instrument, it's a little easier to let them try a few chords. Zoe even likes the music.
Can you tell how big she's getting at two months compared to Talia's doll?
Here it is almost a symbol of affluence and pride to have a fat baby. Cambodians often come up to Zoe and pat her leg or cheek approvingly because she's a chubby baby. Sometimes this cultural desire can have less appealing affects. Some babies here who are formula fed are over-fed on purpose to appease the family's desire for a fat baby.(Being able to afford formula instead of breastfeeding is also a sign of wealth, sadly.) I have seen sumo-wrestler-looking babies that were grotesquely overweight and unable to walk until a later age carried everywhere by a mother. I think a chubby baby looks healthier than a skinny one, but I've never seen it taken to extremes like that before.
I'm thankful for a healthy baby and music in our home!

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Mike joined other speakers at the Norbain charity dinner for MacMillan Cancer Support
News and information from the Advent IM team.
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Last week, Mike joined the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Tony Porter, Simon Adcock from Atec and Simon Banks from CSL Dualcom, last week to address the audience at a charity event hosted by Norbain, to raise funds for MacMillan Cancer Support.
Simon Banks discussed the current skills gap and the impact of a generation long skills gap as well as the new security apprenticeship
Simon Adcock raised awareness of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner's Buyer's Guide – an invaluable tool for end users. He also raised valid points about the inherent security of security camera systems and why we cannot take it for granted and need to be aware.
Mike Gillespie explained that out of date platforms and operating systems that are un-patchable are huge risk to everyone's. Given recent events you might be forgiven for thinking Mike had a crystal ball.
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Good progress despite financial constraints - Slowey
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Although finance was restricted in 2010, South West Donegal had a large number of projects which were completed throughout the year with significant monies being spent on the upgrading of the N56 and other projects, Cllr. Terence Slowey said this week.
In his end of year report, Cllr Slowey outlined all the progress that has been made on roads, bridges, sewerage schemes and water supplies during the year.
The County Council received an additional allocation from the National Roads Authority of €659,000 which saw the upgrading of the road from the top of the Nick to the Five Points at Stragar/Meenavalley. In addition €95,000 was spent upgrading the surface of the N56 at Brackey and Edergole, together with a very good restoration job carried out on the Brackey Bridge. The widening, upgrading and strengthening of the Ardara Town Bridge over the Owentocker is underway at present and the final cost will be between €300,000 and €500,000. A very welcome upgrading of the Ardara/Ardaghey road continued during 2010 with €300,000 being spent initially and a further €300,000 made available late in the year. Excellent work was done by the Roads Staff of the Council so as to ensure this work was completed before the end of 2010. This road is again listed at Priority No. 2 in the Donegal Electoral Area for 2011 and we hope that the necessary funding will be made available.
The National Roads Authority are presently planning a major national pilot project to upgrade the N56 from Kilraine to Dungloe. This involves upgrading the road from Kilraine to Glenties and onwards to Maas, Lettermacaward, Cloughwally to the town of Dungloe. The project as proposed would incorporate a cycle lane alongside the new road and the projected overall cost of this project is €80 Million. Senior Engineers with the Donegal Section of the National Roads Authority have informed the Elected Representatives that work could begin in 2011 on the upgrading of section of this road to include the Meenacarren bends provided the necessary lands can be obtained. This is a major project for South West Donegal and would be of great benefit to the people of Ardara, Glenties, Lettermacaward and Dungloe not to mention the access for tourism, industry and employment.
The Castledoherty Bridge has been widened and work is ongoing to complete this project which cost €75,000.
The Ardara Sewerage Scheme which is now completed and commissioned is working well and the final cost was €10.5 Million. The Scheme is future-proofed to provide treatment for any future development in the town. Our focus is now on getting the Glenties and Dungloe projects to tender as they are bundled together and will be done as part of a single contract.
The Glenties/Ardara water supply received funding of €90,000 this year for upgrading of the treatment plant at Meenahalla.The work to connect the Killybegs and Ardara water supplies at Common Bridge was completed this year and this will allow high level areas of Edergole to have a water supply without the necessity of a special Pumping Station. In time, this new connection will also help the water supply in Glengesh and is already providing a water supply to Cashel, Common and Aighe. The Council have installed specialist equipment at the Ardara Reservoir and many others to give them details of water levels. This gives important information to the engineering staff of the Council in the management of water supplies across Donegal.
Damage to the Mullantiboyle Bridge will make it necessary to put a new bridge in place in 2011 and the necessary funding has been put into the Roads Budget to have this work carried out. This work will have to be coordinated with the Fisheries Board. Funding of €20,000 is provided for the widening of the Drimalough Bridge and €78,000 was spent resurfacing three sections of the Glen Road, Glenties with further work to be undertaken in 2011.The cost of resurfacing two sections of the Granny/Maghera/Leaconnell Road was €70,000 while work on the Meenabull Road cost €36,000. Work on the Upper Kilraine Road cost €31,500 while the Loughderryduff and Mullaveagh Roads cost €31,500 and €45,500 respectively Three sections of the Loughros Point road were resurfaced costing approximately €60,000, together with the Drumirrin upgrading costing €30,000. In excess of €26,000 was spent on the main Narin/Ardara road between Kilclooney and Sandfield with work on the Wood Road at Ardara costing €47,000 and three sections of the Glengesh Road improved at a cost of approximately €60,000.
Cllr Slowey concluded: "I am indebited to the staff of Donegal County Council for their help throughout 2010 and look forward to working with them in 2011 and beyond."
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Legislative Update
The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for precollegiate education and highlights of proposals that rank high on the states' education agendas. Final legislative action on state budgets will be reported in the months ahead.
Michael N. Castle (D)
FY 1990 proposed state budget:
$1.71 billion
FY 1990 proposed K-12 budget:
$373.8 million
FY 1989 K-12 budget:
$355.1 million
Percent change K-12 budget:
+5 percent
Governor's proposals include adding five days to school year over five years; tripling spending for "at risk" children, from about $500,000 to $1.5 million; raising state contribution to teacher salaries and requiring districts to do likewise; raising compulsory-attendance age from 16 to 18.
B. Evan Bayh (D)
FY 1990-91 proposed state budget:
$13.01 billion
FY 1990-91 proposed K-12 budget:
$4.69 billion
FY 1988-89 K-12 budget:
$4.11 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+14 percent
Budget proposal prepared by bipartisan state budget committee. Would provide 8 percent increase in general tuition over two years; $4.2 million for technology-preparation program approved in 1987 and backed by new Governor.
Governor proposes doubling funding for the "at risk," from $20 million to $40 million; challenge grants to districts to encourage innovation.
Governor also seeking creation of professional-standards board for teaching profession; half of members would be teachers.
Legislation introduced to revise several provisions of "A+ Program," including elimination of performance awards for high-achieving schools; allowing districts to use two days of school year for parent-teacher meetings; altering criteria on statewide tests to qualify more students for remediation.
John R. McKernan Jr. (R)
FY 1990-91 proposed state budget:
$3.2 billion
FY 1990-91 proposed K-12 budget:
$1.94 billion
FY 1988-89 K-12 budget:
$1.55 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+25 percent
Governor proposes adding one day to school year in each of next five years; study of how to make more efficient use of school day; $5.5-million increase in aid for "at risk" programs at both elementary and high-school levels; increasing student financial aid and providing grants to all who are eligible.
Rudy Perpich (D)
FY 1990-91 proposed state budget:
$13.3 billion
FY 1990-91 proposed K-12 budget:
$3.28 billion
FY 1988-89 K-12 budget:
$3.02 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+9 percent
Governor proposes raising per-pupil spending by 1.6 percent in first year of biennium, not at all in second; 5 percent increase in property taxes; freezing special-education aid at current level. Plan has been criticized by key lawmakers, teachers' unions.
Governor also recommends: increasing state funding for Head Start, from $1 million to $16 million; allowing at-risk students to attend private, nonsectarian schools with state funding; new statewide testing program; joint state-local effort to purchase one computer for every four students; $13.7-million increase in aid to urban districts, including $5 million for desegregation; $11.2 million in grants to support local restructuring efforts.
Thomas H. Kean (R)
FY 1990 proposed state budget:
$12.1 billion
FY 1990 proposed K-12 budget:
$3.6 billion
FY 1989 K-12 budget:
$3.4 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+6 percent
Governor says "austerity" budget proposal would increase state school aid by 6 percent, compared with 2 percent overall increase. Also proposes $320-million property-tax-relief plan that may free up local funds for education. Lawmakers say proposal's chances for approval are slim.
Governor also recommends: statewide parental-choice program; expansion of urban-education programs; setting state standards for proficiency in core subjects; abolishing physical-education requirement for graduation.
Richard F. Celeste (D)
FY 1990-91 proposed state budget:
$23.5 billion
FY 1990-91 proposed K-12 budget:
$8.16 billion
FY 1988-89 K-12 budget:
$6.55 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+25 percent
Governor proposes raising income, corporate-franchise taxes by $1.2 billion, placing money in new education "trust fund" under control of independent board of trustees. One-third of revenues would be allocated to districts, remaining two-thirds would finance reforms in precollegiate and higher education selected by trustees. Plan must be approved by legislature and then by voters.
Governor also seeking action on following topics: accountability, including statewide testing and reporting of results, state authority to take over deficient districts; teacher professionalism, possibly including career-ladder system.
Other gubernatorial proposals include: waiving regulations to encourage local restructuring efforts; "parents as teachers" programs focusing on preschoolers, teenage pregnancy; programs for early-childhood and remedial education.
Also favors: abolition of corporal punishment; closer regulation of proprietary schools; limiting working hours of 16- and 17-year-olds; measures to help ease transition from school to work.
Ned McWherter (D)
FY 1990 proposed state budget:
$7.7 billion
FY 1990 proposed K-12 budget:
$1.37 billion
FY 1989 K-12 budget:
$1.31 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+5 percent
Governor proposes reducing dropout rate by reducing class sizes, creating "one-room schools" in low-income communities.
William P. Clements (R)
FY 1990-91 proposed state budget:
$43.7 billion
FY 1990-91 proposed K-12 budget:
$13.8 billion
FY 1988-1989 K-12 budget:
$13.1 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+5 percent
Governor proposes $39-million "Educational Excellence Program for Texas." Plan would: provide financial rewards to districts that increase student achievement, reduce dropout rates, fight drug and alcohol abuse; waive state regulations to encourage local reform experiments; broaden compulsory-attendance law; provide counseling and other support services to parents of at-risk children.
Governor also recommends mandatory anti-drug lessons beginning with 9-year-olds; backs plan by state comptroller to issue state bonds to finance school-construction projects.
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Title: Angel City
Author: Jon Steele
Star rating: 4/5
So what's it about?
One of the last Angels on earth, Jay, finds himself hunted by the law. Katherine and her son Max are thrust into an adventure that forces her to remember and to understand, and then there is Astruc - disfigured and obsessed with the souls of mortal men. Who are these people and how to their lives touch...and what does the strange prophecy of a sacraficial child have to do with any of them?
Angel city is a fast paced and action filled novel. The author invites the reader into the story via a historically set battle – one tainted by hopelessness but bolstered by faith. We are then thrown headfirst into a much more familiar battle in the middle of present day Paris – only things are not quite what they seem and neither the enemy nor the reluctant hero are quite what the reader is expecting. From here on the plot twists and turns leading the reader into an intricately woven web of lies, truths, fears and fantasy.
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When a work of fiction brings you to question your faith, humanity and purpose it must be good.
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The architect behind some of our most stunning buildings, including St Mary's Dominican Convent on the Falls Road – now part of St Dominic's – has been celebrated this week with the launch of his complete works of poetry.
The poetry of Pádraic Gregory, who served as a Falls Road councillor for many years after the Second World War, has been brought back to life by his grandson, Patrick Gregory in a stunning collection of his ballads dealing with everything from politics to young love.
Pádraic (born Patrick Bernard) Gregory was a poet, a song lyricist, an ecclesiastic architect, and an art critic.
Born in Belfast in 1886, little is known about his upbringing. His parents emigrated with the young Patrick to Colorado. However, Patrick returned to Ireland to be reared by aunts and relatives.
Having served his apprenticeship as an architect, he was an ardent supporter of the Celtic Revival in the arts and was a founder member of the Ulster Literary Theatre along with such luminaries as Bulmer Hobson, the Morrow Brothers and David Parkhill.
Hugh McCartan vividly recalled the era of rebirth of northern interest in the arts: "Strange portents were abroad in the city of shipyards, factories, foundries and stubborn negations. A wind of idealism was blowing over the arid wastes of political controversy, and tiny flowers, full of hope and promise, began to unfold in the most unexpected places. Not for nothing had Ethna Carbery and Alice Milligan toiled to remind the North of the deep, enduring realities that underlay all the slogans and catch-cries. Just as, on a spring morning, one hears a lone songster in a copse, and then realises that one after another has joined him, so it was in Belfast in those golden days. Every week one heard the name of a new poet, a new playwright, a new painter, a new story-teller.
"Joseph Campbell had published his first volumes of verse. Richard Rowley, Cathal O'Byrne, Pádraic Gregory, John Stevenson and Florence Wilson were writing ballads and lyrics shaped in the national mould. WB Reynolds, a brilliant journalist-musician, was editing a quarterly called Uladh which supported the newly-founded Ulster Literary Theatre and the cultural movement generally. John McBirney's long supremacy was being challenged by younger artists like Frank McKelvey, the Morrow brothers, Charley Lamb, William Connor, and John Campbell, whose emigration to America deprived Ireland of a superb black-and white artist.
"The Ulster Theatre had produced Davy Parkhill's 'The Reformer' and 'The Enthusiast', Rutherford Mayne's 'The Turn of the Road' and 'The Drone', and Harry Morrow's 'Suzanne and the Sovereigns' and 'Thompson in Tirnanogue'. Carl Hardebeck, a Belfast man by adoption, Herbert Hughes and Hamilton Harty were finding inspiration in the folk-music that had survived the withering centuries. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven."
Gregory was an important part of this revival. While practicing as an architect, Gregory was, in effect, a full-time writer and folklorist assiduously collecting and preserving fragments of local yore from all round counties Antrim and Down.
It was these stories which were to dominate his work in a distinctly northern dialect. Indeed, arguably, he could be seen as the first serious writer of the twentieth century to attempt to write in a colloquial version of northern speech. The ballads were by turns humorous, moralistic and tragic; his work showed a distinct fascination for legends of fairyfolk and tales of ghosts and hauntings.
Immensely popular, his poems featured in the local press and were collected in his groundbreaking The Ulster Folk (1912). A further eight volumes followed, as well as acting as editor of The Poems of Seán MacEntee (1916 leader and eventual Tánaiste under Seán Lemass). However, Gregory did not just see himself as folk poet. An ardent nationalist his ballads also celebrated Irish victories and lamented Irish defeats. His historical poems range from the Great O'Neill, Patrick Sarsfield, the Williamite Wars, the United Irishmen and the Famine. Of more contemporary resonance, he also wrote passionate poems applauding the Easter Rising and such figures as Michael Collins in the War of Independence.
However, the poetry was also able to include the plight of ordinary Irishmen caught up in the war.
In the interwar period, his poems and songs were also taken up by other artists with two songs 'Pádraic the Fiddilier' and 'The Ardkeen Boat Song' being recorded by the legendary John Count McCormack. Indeed, he published two volumes of music, Anglo-Irish Folk Songs, Vols 1 and 2. Gregory's words were set to music mainly by John Larchet and are still performed today.
Gregory was also leaving his mark upon the north in a more permanent way, becoming one of the main ecclesiastic architects of the period: St Colmcille's on the Upper Newtownards Road and the chapels at St Mary's Dominican convent on the Falls Road are only two examples of his work.
After the Second World War, he was to serve as a Nationalist councillor for the Falls Ward on Belfast City Council.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate for his ecclesiastic work by University College Dublin. He died in 1962.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Stepping out of conference for the final time this season, Santa Clara won handily over CSU Bakersfield, defeating the Roadrunners by 30 points, 66-36, on Wednesday night in the Leavey Center. Santa Clara is 15-6 and 3-3 in the WCC. CSU Bakersfield is 7-14 overall. Santa Clara plays at San Diego on Sat., Jan. 26 in a 1 pm TWC/Comcast regionally televised game.
The Broncos were led by Marc Trasolini who scored 14 points and tallied 10 rebounds to collect his fifth double-double of the year. Raymond Cowels III scored 11 points, including three threes and four rebounds. Yannick Atanga grabbed five rebounds. Evan Roquemore had nine points, three rebounds and five assists. Kevin Foster scored eight points with two threes, three rebounds and five assists. Julian Clarke added seven points.
The Roadrunners were led by Brandon Barnes, who scored 11 points. Stephon Carter had a team-high five rebounds.
Santa Clara shot 47.9 percent from the field (23 of 48), including 47.4 percent from beyond the arc (9 of 19). They hit 11 of 14 free throws (78.6 percent). The Broncos collected 38 rebounds, 16 assists, six steals, four blocks and had 19 turnovers.
CS Bakersfield shot 31.7 percent from the field (13 of 41), including 14.3 percent from beyond the arc (2 of 14). They hit 8 of 15 free throws (53.3 percent). The Roadrunners collected 18 rebounds, four assists, 11 steals, four blocks and had 17 turnovers.
Robert Garrett backed down a Bakersfield defender for two points in the paint to begin the game at 18:45. Evan Roquemore knocked down two from the charity stripe and the Broncos held a 4-0 lead at 17:04. After a defensive stop, Roquemore found Julian Clarke who knocked down a mid-range jumper forcing a Bakersfield timeout.
Young got Bakersfield on the board with a jumper to cut the Santa Clara lead to 6-2. On their next possession, the Broncos wowed the crowd with an alley-oop from Roquemore to Trasolini.
Following the media timeout, the teams traded defensive stops before Yannick Atanga added two points to extend Santa Clara's lead to 10-2. Following a Bakersfield turnover, Cowels III added a second-chance jumper. Following another turnover, Brandon Clark knocked down a triple from the top of the arc to extend Santa Clara's lead to 15-2 at 11:49.
Adam Young added one free throw for Bakersfield to cut the score to 15-3. After Trasolini hit a jumper, Brandon Barnes struck from downtown for the Roadrunners. Young hit a mid-range jumper to cut the Santa Clara lead to 17-8. Following a Bakersfield turnover, Trasolini added two more inside. At 7:47 in the first half, the Broncos had built a 19-8 lead.
After the media timeout, Trasolini knocked down two from the free throw line. With Bakersfield committing its eighth turnover of the half, Trasolini made good and added a two-handed dunk, his fourth dunk of the game, to extend Santa Clara's lead to 23-8. On the following possession, Foster drove the lane and hit a floater to push the Broncos' lead to 17. After another defensive stop, Roquemore sunk two from the free-throw line. Stephon Carter sunk free throws on two consecutive possessions to cut the Santa clara lead to 27-12. After Niyi Harrison and Barnes traded a free throw each, Raymond Cowels III knocked down a three-pointer to give Santa Clara a 31-13 lead at halftime.
The 13 points are the fewest first half points scored by a SCU opponent since Humboldt St. scored 13 on Dec. 11, 1999. The fewest points an opponent has scored in the first half during the Keating era is 14. Sac State scored 14 in the first half, losing 51-32 on Dec. 6, 2008. A week later Notre Dame de Namur scored 14 in the first half, losing the game 67-47 on Dec. 13, 2008.
In the first half, Santa Clara shot 50.0 percent from the field (11 of 22), including 33.3 percent from beyond the arc (2 of 6). They hit 7 of 8 free throws (87.5 percent). The Broncos collected 18 rebounds, eight assists, steals, two blocks and had 10 turnovers.
Bakersfield shot 17.6 percent from the field (3 of 17), including 14.3 percent from beyond the arc (1 of 7). They hit six of eight free throws (75.0 percent). The Roadrunners collected nine rebounds, one assist, six steals, one block and had 11 turnovers.
The Broncos were led by Trasolini's 10 points. Three Broncos had three rebounds each and Roquemore collected four assists. Adam Young led CSUB with five points. Brandon Barnes collected three rebounds.
To begin the second half, Barnes converted a layup to cut the lead to 31-15. Garrett converted one from the free throw line before Britton Williams hit a jumper.
Up 34-17, the Broncos grabbed two offensive rebounds that allowed Roquemore to nail an open three-pointer. After a Trasolini block, Foster hit a three of his own to extend Santa Clara's lead to 40-17 at 15:25. Foster's three moved him to No. 16 all-time in NCAA history, tying him with Robert Vaden who started at Indiana and finished at UAB in 2009.
Following the media timeout, the teams traded defensive stops before Roquemore hit a fade-away jumper to give the Broncos' a 25-point cushion, 42-17. Erik Kinney added a layup for the Roadrunners and the Broncos led 42-19 at 11:36.
Barnes scored his eighth point of the night for the Roadrunners on a layup at 11:02. The Broncos responded with a second-chance jumper by B. Clark. After forcing a poor shot on defense, Denzel Johnson used a nice cut to score on a layup. Trasolini hit a jumper at 9:05 to increase Santa Clara's lead to 48-23 with roughly nine remaining. After Barnes hit a free throw, J. Clarke hit a three in transition to give Santa Clara a 27-point lead entering the media timeout.
Two Bronco turnovers allowed Bakersfield to cut the lead to 22 before Cowels III knocked own his second triple of the contest. Trevor White responded with a triple that Foster answered. Foster's three, his second of the night, moved him to No. 16 all-time, moving him past Robert Vaden who started at Indiana and finished at UAB in 2009.and scored 379 career threes.
By the 3:40 mark, the Broncos held a commanding 60-32 lead. Fourth-year walk-on Kyle Perricone scored a three at 1:50 to push the Broncos lead to 30, 64-34.
Game Notes
Raymond Cowels III and Marc Trasolini played in their 120th career game tonight. They are now tied at No. 7 with Jens Gordon who played in 120 games from 1985-89.
Kevin Foster started his 108th career game tonight. He moves to No. 3 all-time in career starts in the Bronco record books. He moved to No. 16 all-time in threes made in NCAA Division I history with 380.
Marc Trasolini moved to No. 8 all-time in career rebounds, passing Ken Sears, who had 733 (1951-55). Trasolini now has 737 career rebounds.


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Coast Guardsmen to Join Navy SEAL Teams
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2008 - Coast Guardsmen soon will be training to join Navy SEAL teams, a senior Coast Guard officer said today.
Rear Adm. Thomas F. Atkin, commander of the Coast Guard's deployable operations group, said four Coast Guardsmen -- two officers and two enlisted sailors -- will be selected to begin basic underwater demolition school later this year.
If they graduate, the admiral said, they will become full-fledged members of Navy SEAL teams and deploy with those teams worldwide.
Atkins called the development the beginning of an exciting new era in the Coast Guard.
"Certainly this is historic, it's different, but it's very consistent with the long partnership we've had with the United States Navy," he said during a conference call with bloggers.
SEAL teams are among the most elite military units in the world, he noted. "We understand that, and we will strive to find the best and the brightest here in the Coast Guard to support that program," the admiral said.
The Coast Guard will get a capability it does not have right now, he said. "We will get a great skill set and experience set from what they will learn," the admiral said. "We think this program will bring a lot of experience back to the deployable operations group and the Coast Guard as a whole."
The service will accept applications through the middle of next month. At that point, the service -- in coordination with the Navy Special Warfare Command -- will select the Coast Guard candidates.
The Coast Guard has "a military mission; we have a counterterrorism mission; we have an anti-terrorism mission; and we also have a mission to conduct high-end specialized law enforcement in the Caribbean, the Eastern Pacific and around the homeland," Atkins said.
SEAL training provides the service with increased capabilities and more experience, and it also will help Coast Guard's relationship with the Navy and the U.S. Special Operations Command.
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"The Coast Guardsmen will bring their knowledge base on maritime operations, law enforcement operations, port security and homeland security to the SEAL teams," Atkins said. "These are experiences these folks don't have."
The more diverse an operational group is, the better off it is, he said.
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The story inspired Jay to draw and sculpt the characters (under our daughter, Malaya's supervision, of course). Later on I wrote it out as well as I can remember it, Jay illustrated, and we self-published the book, Saboosa's Burp.
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The Future of the European Post-Trading System
A Delphi Study on the Future of the European Post-Trading System in the Light of Globalization and the Financial Crisis
Year of publication: 2010, first edition
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Authors: Michael Chlistalla, Prof. Dr. Peter Gomber, Torsten Schaper
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The European post-trading system has changed significantly in the last years and is currently facing enormous challenges, e.g. due to the financial crisis, stricter regulation of financial markets, globalization, and the automation of securities processing. Until now, a systematic assessment of the European post-trading industry is missing in academic literature. Using the Delphi methodology, this study among 158 experts from different areas of the post-trading industry aims to develop a joint and coherent view of what the European post-trading system will look like in the future. It identifies measures for the improvement of the post-trading system and the most important issues concerning risk management and information technologies within this industry.


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History 1st Assignment Question 1 . Black Americans faced may areas of discrimination in the 1950's which affected many different parts of their lives and which were often linked together. The first kind of discrimination I want to talk about is Schools and Universities. Black Americans did not get the right education because of the Topeka board of education. They would not provide black Americans with decent school equipment so they could not fully do their education in school. This meant that other problems arose when the time come to get a job and certain other things they could not get. This had the following consequences; the black Americans could not get a job because of poor education. This also led to them not being able to vote because they had to take a literacy test to be able to vote. Another reason is that since they had a poor job they did not get a good pay which led to black people renting or buying cheap houses. Black Americans also had hardly any chance of getting a car with such a little pay. So many black Americans lived in the same area, these where called ghettoes. ...read more.
Louise's parents went to court about this factor with a lawyer called Thurgood Marshall. They won the case and the Supreme Court said that segregation is wrong and should not be allowed. This was a great victory for black people. They thought that all segregation was going to be ended. This was not the case. Even though the Supreme Court said that segregation was illegal white people still carried on as they normally would not letting black people enter white children's school. Then in 1957 at Little Rock, Arkansas, Federal troops had to force there way into a white school so that black people could attend that school. The final aspect I am gong to talk about is the Rosa Parks case. This case started when an old woman would not give up her seat to a young white male. The rule on the bus was black people sit at the back of the bus and white people sit at the front of the bus. The second part was if the white section of the bus is full a black person must give up there seat to a white person. This is what happened in the Rosa Parks case. ...read more.
This is why in 1973 a Negro was voted the mayor of Ls Angeles. In this city one in eight people are black. This means it is true about Martin Luther King changing the attitudes of white people. The next aspect I am going to talk about is employment. Employment improved a lot in the early 1980's. The people of a city had a vote to see if white people thought that Negroes should have equal job opportunities. The end result showed that white people thought that Negroes should have equal job opportunities because the final result was 97% in favour of the Negroes. Another reason is when the Civil Rights movement first started Negroes had a hard time finding jobs. This is because they did not have very good qualifications. As the schools integrated the qualifications got better and better jobs come along, but, in these jobs racism might still be a factor. These new jobs provided more money for Negroes to move out of ghettoes such as Harlem. This was better because ghettoes where a mayor problem for Negroes. This is question four of five and it taught me more about the final result of the Civil Right movement and with this I would agree with most people if they said the Civil Rights movement had come a long way since it first started. ...read more.
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Declaration on Parliamentary Openness
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According to a press release published by the Premium Times, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday 8th November, in Abuja declared a state of emergency on Nigeria's water supply, sanitation and hygiene sector. He said the declaration has become imperative to reduce the high-prevalence of water-borne diseases in different parts of the country, which has caused preventable deaths.
He inaugurated the National Action Plan for Revitalization of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sector at State House Conference Centre and directed government at all levels to redouble efforts and work towards meeting the nation's water supply and sanitation needs.
The president described statistics on open defecation, access to piped water services and sanitation in the country as "disturbing", warning that henceforth, Federal Government support to State Governments will be based on their commitment to implement the National WASH Action Plan in their respective States and to end open defecation by 2025,
Discussing the latest WASH statistics, he stated that "Our country now ranks No 2 in the global rating on Open Defecation as about 25% of our population are practicing open defecation". He continued by saying that "WASH services at the rural areas are unsustainable as 46% of all water schemes are non-functional, and the share of our spending on WASH sector has been declining from 0.70% of the GDP in 1990 to about 0.27% in 2015 which is far below the 0.70% at the West African regional level,".
He noted that lack of attention by local and state governments who should take primary responsibility of this has caused the high prevalence of water-borne diseases that are being reported in different parts of the country. He therefore reiterated his commitment to ensuring that WASH sector becomes more effective among the Nigerian public.
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Emera NB General Manager Rob Belliveau presented P.R.O. Kids
with a cheque for $5,000 today to support program development for the
non-profit organization, which matches children and youth with sports and
recreation activities.
"We know it's a tough time financially for non-profit groups
so we're thrilled to offer support," said Mr. Belliveau. "In addition to the
physical benefits of recreation, P.R.O Kids also offers confidence and a sense
of belonging."
P.R.O. Kids placed
over 1200 children and teens in a sports or recreation program of their choice
in 2011. Equipment and registration fees are covered for the youth referred to
P.R.O. Kids through donations. The administration costs are covered by the
supporting municipalities, the City of Saint John, Grand Bay-Westfield,
Rothesay and Quispamsis. As P.R.O. Kids places more youth in programs of their
choice, the costs to administer and develop the program have increased.
"Corporate support of program development is a first for
P.R.O. Kids in Saint John, and we're happy to have Emera New Brunswick as a
partner," says Kathy Davison, chair of the P.R.O. Kids Advisory Board. "P.R.O.
Kids will be working to place even more children and teens this year, giving
them the opportunity to develop confidence and improve their skills."
R.O. Kids will be working to place at least 1200 youth in a program of their
choice, from hockey to art classes to theatre, in 2012.
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This rectangular baker is perfect for cooking casseroles and lasagnas, as well as oven-roasting vegetables and smaller cuts of meat. Le Creuset Stoneware is an extremely durable and versatile choice for one-dish baking, serving and storing. The Heritage collection brings back vintage designs from Le Creuset's archives.
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As I went to put the carton of milk in the oven this morning, and the croissants in the fridge to warm, I thought about my mum and laughed. Yes, I've become her. I used to make fun of her all of the time for doing these things. When I was in my teens and twenties, I thought I'd be young forever. Little did I know how quickly those years would pass. Old age creeps up quickly. Everyone seems to be younger than me now. I'm not quite sixty yet, but very close.
Nothing can slow down aging, its part of life, but life doesn't have to slow down because of it. I've been writing since I was eleven or twelve. My head is full of stories. Every single day is an adventure to me. The older I get, the more important, its become to share my adventures. Some will make you laugh, others, well you'll think I'm crazy. There's one thing for sure, I'm not going to keep them locked in my brain until I die, I'm aging the write way!
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Following in the footsteps of Terence Young's 1967 thriller "Wait Until Dark", Korean writer/director Ahn Sang-hoon's "Blind" is a suspenseful thriller that dapples in brilliance but ultimately falls victim to some of the ill short-comings of the Korean thriller genre.
Perhaps it was the fantastical premise of a blind women (Min Soo-ah played stoically by Kim Ha-neul) using her remaining senses to ultimately prevail over a malicious and sadistic serial rapist/murderer that caused me to hesitate on this one. Ahn Sang-hoon does have a number of tricks up his sleave that managed to, at least periodically, suspend my disbelief on the unlikelihood of all. One of these techniques will be familiar to anyone who watched Mark Steven Johnson's 2003 comic book adaptation "Daredevil", in which the visually impaired hero utilises 'sound mapping' to survey and analysis his surroundings. A very similar technique is used in "Blind" as Min Soo's visual impairment is replaced by her remarkable ability to delineate her world through sound waves and vibrations. While her skills are nowhere near the level seen in Marvel's "Daredevil", it does serve an empathetic function within the film as the viewer is allowed access to her unique perception on the world and her pursuer.
This 'sound mapping' is accompanied by some clever cinematography and directing as a number of scenes and sequences utilise the camera's gaze to not only create tension, but redefined it though confinement and, thus, limiting the information the spectator has to go on. In one scene, the serial murderer (Yang Young-jo) is stalking Min-soo in the subway system. His sadistic and menacing presence is unknown to our heroine until a phone call by Yoo Seong-ho's character Kwon Gi-seob (a teenager who reluctantly decides to become involved in the case), informs her that she is being stalked. Through the camera on her iPhone, Kwon is able to identify him and guide Min Soo to safety. This scene is intercut with shots from the phone's camera that purposefully disorientates and focuses the viewer's vision, resulting in a suspenseful subway chase as our spatial awareness is drastically constricted and a harrowing unawareness of distance is synthesised as a result as the looming threat is taken briefly off screen.
This subway sequence's use of perception works well because the viewer is denied knowledge of the exact distance between Min Soo and the antagonist, and in a chase sequence that is where tension and suspense is birthed. Sadly though, even this sequence was scared by some imperfections as the continuity of events wasn't given enough attention and much of the spatial relations between the characters were negated by poor continuity and editing. Still, it's a good example of how the film constructed itself not only thematically, but visually as well.
"Blond" did contain a strong visual sense of itself, and that was probably its saving grace as weak characters and a ruffled climax put a strong damper on the film's overall impression. Min Soo is a tragic character to be sure, but her apparent inability to overcome her past demons prevent the viewer from engaging with her outside the realms of sympathy. Her tenacity and resiliency is definitely noteworthy and inspiring, as she battles ignorant police officers as well as a psychopathic murderer, but as a character leading the charge her dimensions were a little unbalanced and as a character of conviction, her final moments on screen failed to fully inspire.
Perhaps I am being too harsh in this regard, but it seems to me that my attachment to her journey of self-completeness was achieved as a result of something other than her triumph over her assailant. Her happiness and new achieved sense-of-self came about, ironically, through the peripheral rather than direct confrontation. This leads me the fact that the obstacles and support Min Soo is presented with where undeveloped and lacking depth and relevance. The antagonist in the film was at the forefront of this lack, as he was simply a malicious entity and was not given the required characterisation outside his on-screen presence and sadistic actions. The rest of the supporting cast was similarly marginalised and served as narrative hinges instead of meaningful pieces to the puzzle.
Besides its untypically Korean dénouement, "Blind" was comprised of some of the favoured elements that exist within the Korean thriller genre. Misogyny, impotent authority figures, and the existing of pure evil in the world are but a few to mention here. In addition, the film's suspense is faulted by a few meaningless deaths and a climax that was, although clever and somewhat appropriate, inconsistent and unsophisticated.
"Blind" handles suspense well and has a strong visual sense of itself that will surely entertain and captivate. However, its inability to fully construct its characters along with a number of narrative hiccups forces it to slip just below the radar of brilliance.
-C.J. Wheeler (email@example.com)
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As a seeker, you would have just woken up from the "psychological sleep" in which you thought and believed that the results obtained by men of excellence were due to the vagaries of chance or luck. You have grasped clearly that there is a level of proficiency in any endeavour at which "impossible" feats to the many become the norm.
However, despite having glimpsed the concept and meaning of excellence or mastery, you still feel that it is a gift from the "gods". Therefore, not having understood all the factors which must be brought together to alchemically manifest excellence consistently, you remain fascinated by what it is and once in a while you hit that level of performance in your chosen discipline.
What is needed most at this stage is faith in and clarity as to the desired attainment. Knowing enough to pursue excellence, you must tenaciously maintain your idealism until ways and means by which to make the achievement of excellence more assured begin to reveal themselves to you intuitively. Thus you would pass onto the second stage.
The Teacher
The teacher tries to work out techniques and processes to mathematically produce the desired outcome (i.e. excellence) at will. Being fascinated by how excellence manifests, you become versed in principles, practices and procedures by which to consistently achieve it.
You can pass this knowledge to others and they would achieve similar results. You not only conceive excellence but also believe in it. You take excellence out of the realm of the "gods" and slowly acquire all the "keys to the kingdom". You develop drills and slogans to internalize the principles.
However, the teacher still tries to be excellent in some things and sometimes. You do not yet know that excellence is an all-or-nothing affair. You hesitate to cross the point of no return to mediocrity for fear that you may need to sacrifice pastimes and habits that you yet enjoy (and not knowing for sure that there are other even more sublime pleasures if only you cross the bridge). This prevents you from marshalling all your forces into a laser focus and surrendering yourself wholly to the quest.
It often takes an archetypal event – e.g. falling in love, losing a dear one, experiencing a reversal in your fortunes – to jolt you to surrender yourself wholly and be initiated into the third stage of excellence.
The Leader
At this stage you have all the keys and principles and have internalized them as habits. You have a clear conception of excellence; you believe in it and are fully surrendered to its attainment because for you it has become a necessary reality. You live it, you breathe it and you care little about what others think of you as you devote yourself to your ideals.
The reason for this is that you have been initiated into why you must attain excellence. Your motivation has been stirred to the point where not attaining it is no longer an option for you. Yet you are guided by high ethical and moral standards, you maintain your integrity while showing respect for others. Your devotion to the principles of excellence is in all things and at all times – even when there is no immediate goal or end in sight. Your achievement of excellence is more assured in your every undertaking.
Your fascination with why you must attain excellence gives you the mysterious irrepressible drive, the unconquerable spirit that is the hallmark of the leader. Indeed, your actions (or, more accurately, dances) are of such beauty, power and truth as to compel emulation. Whether you like it or not, you'll have a followership – for good or bad.
While you are a seeker, excellence is a rosy dream that you would be happy to realize; as a teacher it is an aspiration that you try to reach; but as a leader excellence is a necessary reality of your very existence.
Each successive stage incorporates the competencies of the preceding stage. Progress through these stages is by no means automatic but depends, among other things, upon the clarity of your vision, your devotion to the quest and whether or not you receive sound instruction.
Finally, note that there is no end in this journey. After reaching the third stage of excellence at a particular level you start again at the first stage of excellence at a higher level of the craft. Thus goes on the endless spiral of excellence…