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Training for New Grad Nurses and the Impact of the Affordable Care Act

The Impact of the Affordable Care Act

The effect of hospitals responding the Affordable Care Act has impacted hospital reimbursement, professional practice standard and hospital employment.  Since 2010 hospitals have seen payment reduction upwards of $117 billion and more than $58 billion in Medicare sequestration cuts.  Hospitals are scaling back!! Blah!

  • 4800 jobs nationwide were lost in December 2030
  • 3600 jobs nationwide were lost in January 2014
  • 1200 jobs nationwide were lost in February 2014

For the new grad or reentry nurse this means he or she will now be responsible for his or her own education. The reimbursement from the hospital for educational hours is no longer affordable and new hires must come to the table with the expertise and willingness to be responsible for their own professional growth.

Yet, hospitals seem to be undaunted by these reforms and are forging ahead with Magnet Hospitals, Baby Friendly and Maternal Friendly Hospitals with evidence based practices, shared governances, multi-disciplinary approaches, clinical practice counsels and patient family centered care.

Why Choose Maternal-Child Health as your Profession

 Women’s and Child’s Health became a significant focus with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) One in four adult women in California were uninsured which accounted for 2.7 million uninsured women. The following reforms have impacted the woman and her dependents.

  • Dependent coverage extended to age 26
  • No preexisting condition exclusion
  • Insurance plans can no longer charger higher premiums to women
  • Individual insurance plans typically excluded maternity care and presently employer-based plans include maternity care.
  • All new plans must cover recommended preventive services

Recommended services for Private Plans include

  • Well women visits
  • Gestational diabetes, HIV and STI screening and counseling
  • HPV testing
  • FDA-approved contraceptives
  • Breastfeeding support, supplies and counseling
  • Interpersonal and domestic screening and counseling.

With the current focus on Maternal Child well-being, I have chosen this field for the new grad and reentry nurse to pursue a career in the hospital setting. The Maternal Child unit is the most sought after position. This all-encompassing program is taught by experienced nurses in their field of practice. Course were written by  the Director of the program, Jane Carsrud RN, NRP instructor certified,and AHA instructor certified for ACLS, PALS and BLS, Birth and Beyond instructor certified in lactation education.

Nursed Educational Opportunities has an all-encompassing Maternal Child Care program for the nurse to become empowered through education.

The program opens with intrauterine fetal assessment to establish fetal well-being and progresses through delivery to extra uterine life.  Resuscitation and stabilizing the newborn then becomes essential.  Baby Care and Assessment of a newborn follows with postpartum care of the mother. Breastfeeding is strongly encouraged for the well-being of the infant.  Obstetrical emergencies can and do happen in the labor room as well as the postpartum room. Rapid response is imperative.

  • Basic Fetal Heart Monitoring begins with your understanding intrauterine concepts of antepartum care with antenatal testing.
  • Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring is an excellent course to give you a more in-depth understand to guide the gravid patient through an uneventful birth of her child.
  • Advance Fetal Heart Monitoring is available for the nurse with labor and delivery experience.
  • Labor and Delivery course will give you an understanding of the labor and delivery process and maternal choices.
  • Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) is vital for all nurses that come in contact with newborns.
  • 3-in-1 Postpartum Maternal and Newborn Care
  • Lactation is a field of the maternal child cluster that will be essential for Baby Friendly

Hospitals. By the year 2025, all hospitals in California must be Baby Friendly to comply with the governor’s mandate.

  • Care of the newborn with the Baby Friendly mandate includes information regarding

Mandated genetic screen, immunization and care of the infant with life-threatening hyperbilirubinema

  • Newborn assessment is essential to alert the nurse of respiratory and cardiovascular disorders that occur with the newborn.
  • Postpartum care prepares the nurse to identify life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage,screening for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and screening for postpartum depression.
  • Obstetrical Emergencies happen and that may be detrimental in the morbidity and mortality can be reduced with expertise in rapid intervention.

Taking the entire course would be beneficial or choosing the courses applicable to your unit specific place in maternal child health.

For the post-partum nurse,

  • Basic Fetal Heart monitoring to include antenatal testing,
  • NRP is essential,
  • Baby Care and Neonatal Assessment is essential,
  • Postpartum Care is a given
  • Obstetrical Emergencies that occur in the postpartum unit is vital
  • Birth and Beyond is essential to assist the postpartum patient in breastfeeding.

For the labor and delivery nurse,

  • Basic Fetal Heart Monitoring followed with Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring is essential.
  • Labor and Delivery is vital
  • Obstetrical Emergencies is recommended.
  • Birth and Beyond is essential for immediate skin-to-skin attachment and initial breastfeeding is emphasized

For the NICU nurse,

  • NRP is essential,
  • Baby Care and Neonatal Assessment is vital.
  • Birth and Beyond is essential to preterm and sick infants.

It will be my honor to assist you to attain your dream job – the one you worked so hard to acquire and the one that will give you the greatest satisfaction and your patient the family-centered experience that she will remember.

Jane Carsrud RN, Director of Nurses Educational Opportunities.

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Eric Mangini already has forbidden his Jets players from talking about the playoffs.

Apparently, “the ‘P’ word” isn’t the only thing the head coach has made off-limits to his team.

He wants his players so focused on what they have to do they aren’t even allowed to look at the standings.

Rookie quarterback Kellen Clemens found that out during a meeting Thursday, when Mangini called on him and asked the records of several teams.

Not coincidentally, the teams Mangini mentioned, Kansas City, Jacksonville and Denver, are all tied with the Jets at 7-5.

But when Clemens started to answer, Mangini cut him off.

“Really, the right answer is, ‘It doesn’t matter,’ because it doesn’t matter,” Mangini said. “What matters is what we do, how we approach it.” It’s all part of the single-minded approach Mangini has tried to instill during his first year in charge.

So, what was Clemens’ reaction?

“He made his point and it wasn’t too subtle,” Clemens said. “I was incorrect. It was just to show us again that we should only be thinking about ourselves.” As for whether everyone else knew the right answer: “Kellen is the only one that got called on,” Mangini said.

Erik Coleman, however, said he wouldn’t have fallen for the trick question.

“As soon as he started to answer, I put my head down,” Coleman said. “I knew what was coming. Rookie mistake, I guess.”

The Jets will hold their Toys for Tots drive tomorrow. Fans are encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy to the game. … TE Chris Baker had four catches last week against the Packers after making one reception each week since hauling in four against the Dolphins six weeks prior. He said he hopes the production continues. “I’m more focused on my blocking, since that’s what everyone says my weakness has been,” Baker said. “But when I catch passes, I know it takes pressure off of Laveranues [Coles] and [Jericho] Cotchery.” … The Jets may as well tear down the bubble that’s typically used for practice during rough weather. The team practiced outside again yesterday, despite the frigid temperatures. … LB Matt Chatham (questionable with a foot injury) saw limited action in practice again yesterday.

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Protesters help family Occupy foreclosed home

Protesters from Occupy Wall Street yesterday marched through Brooklyn to highlight the large number of foreclosed houses — and then helped a family move into one that was vacant.

The 300 demonstrators in East New York carried signs saying, “Foreclose on banks, not people” and “Affordable housing for the 99 percent.”

They stopped at a vacant home on Vermont Street where Alfredo Carrasquillo, 27, moved in with his two kids and their mother.

“We’ve been in and out of shelters for a long time,” Carrasquillo told The Post.

“This feels great. It’ll feel even better when we can claim it as our own,” he said.

OWS demonstrators stood guard outside the home last night in case cops came to evict Carrasquillo.

“We’re here just to be helpful,” said Max Berger.

“We’ll stay until we win the house for the family, and as soon as we’re not needed we’ll leave,” Berger, 26, added.

Carrasquillo, who works as an organizer with VOCAL-NY, one of the community groups involved in the march, spent last night in the home.

“Hopefully, in the next few days we’ll have heat and water,” he said.

Cops arrested one protester after a resident asked him to leave his property while OWS tried to help a man fighting an eviction notice.


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The speech Obama should have given about Iraq

President Obama gave a brief, forgettable speech at the White House Friday about Iraq, where marauding jihadists are threatening to capture Baghdad. Here’s the speech he should have given instead.

“My fellow Americans, I come to you today from the Oval Office with a heavy heart and sober humility. Events around the world, including but not limited to the shocking terrorist surge in Iraq, lead me to make a painful admission.

“I confess to making serious mistakes on foreign policy. My decisions, centered in the Mideast but also extending to Europe, Russia, Latin America and Asia, were based on flawed assumptions about how others would react to my being president and to a lighter American footprint.

“As we see now, my repeated apologies for America’s past and promises we would be more respectful have not had the desired result. I believed we could usher in an age of peace and cooperation that did not require the United States to be the world’s policeman.

“And so I pulled our military from Iraq and moved toward an early exit from Afghanistan. I recalibrated our relationship with Israel and the Palestinians to force Israel to make concessions that, I hoped, would lead to a resolution of their ancient feud.

“My ‘reset’ with Russia reflected my view that we had needlessly antagonized that great nation, and that a new flexibility would induce the Russians to become our ally at the United Nations.

“For similar reasons, my administration has accommodated China on a host of controversial issues and even taken its side or remained neutral as it threatened our allies.

“I bent over backward to assure the Iranians they need no longer fear America. By giving perfunctory support to the popular uprising there in 2009, I made it clear we would not contest the government’s suppression of its people. I offered to let the ruling mullahs continue their nuclear program, as long as they did not move to weaponize it immediately.

“I turned the other cheek to insults from the late Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and other Marxist dictators in our own back yard. My hope was that they, too, would moderate their hostility.

“To show my commitment to this path, I slashed our military, and it will soon be smaller than it was before World War II.

“There is no way to sugarcoat the results, so let me be clear: I was wrong. My policies have not yielded the benefits I promised.

“On the contrary, they have proven to be major contributors to the chaos, violence and repression we see in the headlines.

“My trust in the good will of our adversaries has been misplaced. Our hand of friendship and respect has been slapped away with ridicule and aggression.

“As such, the world is a more dangerous place now than before I took office. Additionally, our allies are nervous and interpret my presidency as meaning we will not help them in a crisis.

“That was not my intent, but good intentions are not enough. Voters elected me twice because they believed my vision would bring a more peaceful and prosperous world.

“To them, I offer my deepest apologies. Your president failed you.

“Let me add that my Republican opponents, John McCain and Mitt Romney, were right to doubt the wisdom of my approach. As for President Bush, I now have far greater respect for his efforts to combat the scourge of Islamic terrorism.

“I have personally conveyed my apologies to these three dedicated patriots and invited them to the White House to seek their advice.

“I also offer my apologies to our allies who feel abandoned. I especially extend my hand to the people of Israel, whose survival ultimately depends on American friendship. I am sorry I caused you to doubt that bond.

“Finally, I want to assure friend and foe alike that today marks the start of a new American approach to the world. My eyes have been opened to the error of my ways, and I pledge a forceful stand based on the realization that America truly is exceptional.

“I pledge to work night and day to right the ship of state. The changes will be obvious in coming days and weeks.

“To our adversaries, I offer this simple warning: Beware, the sleeping giant is awake again. America is back.”

Cuomo rival’s tax to grind

Westchester County Exec and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino found a way to stick a finger in Gov. Cuomo’s eye. It seems that Cuomo’s companion, Food Network host Sandra Lee, didn’t get permits for interior renovations on her New Castle home, which she shares with Cuomo. And she wouldn’t let a tax assessor inside to see the work, her right under the law.

Still, assessor Phil Platz told The Post he knows what work she did because he recently read about it in a 2010 story in USA Today, and raised the assessed value by 29 percent. That could mean a tax hike of about $8,200, bringing Lee’s property taxes to a whopping $36,500 on the house she bought for $1.2 million in 2009.

Astorino, effectively the county tax collector, seized on the dispute to roar that “New Yorkers deserve to know whether their governor is a tax cheat.”

That’s a fair point in a vacuum, but let’s not forget the facts at hand. The candidate for lower taxes and smaller government is demanding that a private citizen pay an additional $8,200 in taxes for interior renovations no one outside the house can see. Those renovations are known to the government only because an inspector had time to find a description of them in a 4-year-old newspaper story.

That sounds like the essence of big, intrusive government, and $36,500 in property taxes must sound wildly excessive to most New Yorkers.

All things considered, is this really where Astorino wants to plant his campaign flag?

City Hall’s flavor of the month

Never let it be said that City Hall is doing nothing to counter the 13 percent increase in shootings. First Lady Chirlane McCray is featured in public-service announcements that tout Gun Violence Awareness Month. Talk about action!

With the police handcuffed thanks to her husband’s policies, McCray teamed up with Brooklyn Democrat Jumaane Williams, one of the council members who demonized the NYPD. They urge New Yorkers “to help reduce the incidence of gun violence by participating in events, activities and working groups” through the month.

That’s just swell.

And if it doesn’t work, perhaps July will be Letting Cops Do Their Jobs Month.

Punishing hard work

Reader Matthew Hardy agrees the move to dumb down standards for specialized high schools will punish successful Asian students.

“I live in Flushing,” he writes, “and the Flushing library is jammed with Asian kids studying on weekends. Trying to find an empty seat is like trying to find a parking spot in Manhattan. These kids achieve because they work.”

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In the traditional flâneur, we have come to expect a certain objectivity. We think of him as the man of the crowd in the sense that he blends in completely, but manages to observe in a way that is pure-intentioned and all-consuming. This is not a man with an agenda; this is not a man with personal goals to accomplish or a personal perspective to express. In Nadja, Breton oscillates between philosophical, almost academic observations, and much more flowery prose. He is both adept at describing the city with flâneurial objectivity, and fettered by his personal agenda. He exemplifies a literary flâneur’s dilemma perfectly – Nadja questions whether it is possible to record one’s own flâneury.

One of the clearest examples of Breton’s flâneurial dilemma is in the contrast of his analytical voices. He begins his narrative with a warning – that the reader is not to “expect [him] to provide an exact account of what [he] has been permitted to experience” (Breton, Nadja, p.23). He continues with further explanation of the ways in which he plans to discuss his experiences (23). This method makes it abundantly clear that he is not claiming to discuss anything with a completely objective voice, but rather, he informs us that he will be editing his experience for the purposes of the narrative. However, Breton soon claims the opposite. Later in Nadja, he states that “the right to bear witness seems to [him] to be all that is granted” (Breton, Nadja, p.78). This makes Breton appear to be a true flâneur – or at least, it makes his attempt evident, and contradicts his self-analysis in other passages.

The very perspective of the narrative fuels this controversy. Breton writes Nadja in first person. The agency given to a first person protagonist immediately challenges the purity of the flâneur, as the very act of describing what he sees corrupts his pure experiencing of the city around him. The perspective from which one writes the flâneur becomes crucial – a first person perspective gives the flâneur too much introspective potential, where a third person narrative implies that the flâneur – the ultimate observer – is himself observed. Thus Breton’s choice in perspective further exemplifies the struggle in writing the flâneur.

It is important to remember that there are two distinct tones to this novel. Struggle aside, I found Breton’s prose beautiful, and moving, and far more interesting than his analytical and contradictory debates with himself. Whether Breton is a flâneur or not becomes almost irrelevant in the wake of his descriptions of “those tragedies which claim to girdle only a single day, scarcely less dynamic—that is, subject to that wild gallop which can only lead to another wild gallop—that is, more frenzied than a snowflake in a blizzard—that is, resolved, for fear of being fettered, never to be embraced at all; neither dynamic nor static…” (Breton, Nadja, 159). With prose this lively, this dynamic, this heartfelt, this multifaceted, it is impossible to care whether or not Breton is being objective; whether he is imposing his own perspective onto his observations.

Breton’s prose challenges whether the flâneur is even a good way of experiencing a city, as Nadja seems to exemplify every challenge a writer will come up against when writing the flâneur, whose mutative and ever-changing nature defies description and can therefore impede actual observation and experience. The moments where Breton lets himself articulate without quantifying or justifying seem the most poignant and the most important – they are both the moments when he best exemplifies the flâneur’s ability to take in the world around him, and the moments where he transcends flâneurial interest and begins simply to be a person with a gift for expressing his life.

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In a widely-expected move, Toshiba’s troubled nuclear construction business Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of last month. Now the company is up for sale, after it cost Toshiba some $6.3 billion in asset write-downs, triggering a net overall loss estimated at $9.1 billion for 2016.

The Japanese conglomerate is undoubtedly eager to curb these losses, but it is facing a serious problem: there is not an abundance of bidders.

What some energy industry observes have called a nuclear renaissance for the U.S. has failed to materialize in full. The reasons for this are numerous and diverse, ranging from a slowdown in power demand instead of an expected increase, to cheap natural gas, rendering nuclear’s competitiveness virtually non-existent.

Westinghouse is actually a great case in point: its troubles may not have started with the setbacks in ran into with its two new projects in the U.S., but they certainly became major contributors to its failure. The nuclear plants that the company was building in South Carolina and Georgia both face cost overruns to the tune of $3 billion each. It’s unclear whether they will ever be completed, by Westinghouse or anyone else.

The prospects for the company’s plans to build several more plants featuring its new AP1000 reactor technology in the U.S. look grim—all the more so as there is new competition emerging from small modular reactors. Theoretically, these could kick Westinghouse out of business for good as they are cheaper to build and install. Related: Wall St. Gears Up For The World’s Biggest Oil Trade

With Europe increasingly turning green instead of nuclear, there is a definite shortage of buyers, at least buyers that Toshiba and Washington would like to do business with. Alas, it seems that the most likely suitors would come from a country that bothers both the U.S. and Japan – China.

China has grand nuclear plans: 21 new reactors under construction, on top of 36 already operating. There are also several more planned to be built. It has the money and the fuel, but China is behind Western companies in terms of technology. It has made clear its interest in Westinghouse a log time ago, including covertly, through espionage.

This makes Westinghouse a perfect fit for Chinese nuclear plant developers, but a deal might never materialize, for several reasons. First, no Chinese company has yet approached Toshiba as a bidder. Second, the Trump administration is unlikely to turn a blind eye on such an acquisition, what with the trade deficit and China’s progress toward becoming the biggest superpower in the world. Third, Japan would be even unhappier with such a deal, so it might try to block it, should it even be suggested. Related: Oil Prices Pull Higher On Outage In Libya’s Biggest Oil Field

Now, logic suggests that a Chinese bidder will appear – the question is when. On the other hand, the U.S. has a pretty simple mechanism to block an undesirable sale on the grounds of national security. This mechanism is called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which can recommend a blocking of a deal that President Trump will only be too happy to sign.

Against this background and Trump’s clearly demonstrated determination to take a tough stance on all things Chinese, companies from Asia’s largest economy might not even bother with approaching Westinghouse.

The problem, for Toshiba mostly, but also for the U.S., is that Westinghouse must be sold. So, members of the Republican administration are looking for buyers, sifting through possible suitors with extreme care lest any of them turn out to be linked to China. There is also another option: partial nationalization like the one that happened to big banks after the 2008 crisis.

Whatever option Washington chooses, bilateral relations with Beijing are unlikely to move into a more positive territory.

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  • Paxus Calta on April 18 2017 said:
    The notion that SMR are somehow going to compete with conventional reactors is fanciful at best. There are no approved designs for SMRs (a process which often takes ten years). There are no functioning prototypes of SMRs anywhere in the world (naval reactors do not count, they are fantastically expensive, not modular and not anything a utility would even consider). And at least one of the major players in the SMR market, Transatomics, has had to walk back most of it's big promises about using waste as fuel and tremendously more efficient use of fuel, in light of revised calculations.

    It is also worth pointing out that these tremendously failed reactors in SC and Georgia are modular. This was one of Westinghouse big promises around them. They would have components fabricated in the factory rather than on site and then snapped together like giant legos. Turns our reactors are not like legos and this strategy contributed to the tremendous cost overruns for these plants.

    There is no savior for these failed plants, unless Westinghouse and the regional utilities are able to do what so many reactor projects in the past have done, which is to put the open ended loses and delays on to the rate payers and tax payers, while they stumble towards completion. If Westinghouse is really lucky, the same corrupt politicians which granted CWIP will allow them to rob the public again.

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Revisiting Swaziland

I wrote earlier about my return to Swaziland during the Bushfire Music Festival in May. My first trip back was fantastic, and I was excited to get to return with my parents. I looked forward to hearing their stories and perspective on how things have or haven’t changed. Moreover, if there’s one thing that’s fun about revisiting places with your parents as an adult – it’s hearing the less edited versions of stories.

Several years ago, on a long road trip with my father, I remember rehearing lots of tales that I hadn’t heard since I was a kid. So while most of the anecdotes were familiar, all the sudden they had a few more honest and scandalous details. (Of course that’s what you were doing/smoking in Amsterdam in 1967.)

Anyway, we loaded up Ingrid and hit the road. Our first few nights, we stayed at Riley’s Rock Lodge in the Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary. (Same game park from May, just better digs.)

The lodge is an old stone house that has been refurbished as a little hotel. It has a great view of the Swazi mountains, beautiful gardens, birds, bees, bush babies, and extra friendly staff.

During the day we returned to some of our old stomping grounds. We found our house that went down the mountain. We even visited with current residents and their kids. Of course it looks a little smaller than I remember, but not too different.

Now this was really a blast from the past! The hot springs pool is no more or less rundown than it did when I was 6.

At night we sat around a big bonfire and ate dinner with the other guests. You are sure to meet a variety interesting international visitors when traveling in Africa, particularly in Swaziland, since it’s definitely off the beaten path.

I didn’t get any particularly juicy details from my parents’ expat life, but nevertheless it was enjoyable and interesting to hear stories of working in southern Africa at the end of apartheid and during the release and subsequent election of Mandela in neighboring South Africa.

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  1. Irene

    I noticed your very elegant knee, calf and pointed toe around the campfire!!!!!
    xox I LOVE your watercolors!

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Blake’s King

Hey everybody,

 Feliz día de reyes! Happy three kings day!

As a kid, mother would make a cake on January 6, carefully hiding a small plastic figure (baby Jesus) in the dough so it would be a surprise to whoever got the piece with the hidden figure. Said lucky person would then get an extra present.

That was our tradition. Spain’s is a little different.

Here I bought a pre-made, crowned roscon in which a small plastic king and a faba bean is hidden.

Guess who got the faba bean? Yours truly.

Guess who got the king?

It was nice to see Lugo in festive mode, especially after hearing about the snow back at home and after my sister an our friend went back to the states. Cake helps cope with post-family-time blues. We’ll be posting about our Christmas travel adventures with them later.

In the meantime, stay warm!

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Contestants Wanted for 9th Annual Stamford Charity Chili Cookoff!

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Stamford Chili Cookoff

We’re so excited for this year’s contest . . . and you should be, too!

The 9th Annual Stamford Charity Chili Cookoff is just a couple of months away and slots for competitors are slowly bubbling away. If you’re interested in cooking up some chili and going up against other chili experts, email the organizer Joe Gonzalez.

If you just want the deets and to eat everyone’s chili, that’s still cool. It all happens on November 6 from 11-3 at Stamford Museum and Nature Center. Entry (TBD) gets you tastes of some killer chilis of all different varieties. As you taste, make sure to take some good mental notes, because you will be voting for your faves. After sampling some great food, take a nice walk around SM&NC and check out their Touch a Truck event, too.

Proceeds from the day will go to assist The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County and help to keep great programming at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center.

Here’s more from Joe:

“While most of our competitors are amateurs, we welcome professional / restaurant chefs as well! Contestants must provide enough chili to serve a taste to roughly 450 members of the public (11-13 gallons based on last year’s turnout) and a way to keep it warm. We provide spoons, napkins, tasting cups, and a 5ft banquet table for each contestant to decorate as they wish. Top three vote getters win a trophy and a cash prize ($50, $75 and $100). We are also working on some special prizes this year as well – stay tuned!

If you are interested in competing, please contact Joe Gonzalez at stamfordchilicookoff@yahoo. com no later than October 1. Limited contestant spots available!”

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Pinhole Movie Reviews

The Apartment by William
March 24, 2014, 12:00 am
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Hapless corporate drone Jack Lemmon tries to make his own luck by offering his apartment to various higher-ups for their amorous encounters. Laughing already?

It’s not a comedy.

This Best Picture-winning film mostly struck me as dated. I say that because it is sort of billed as a comedy, but I found basically nothing comedic about it at all, save for some mild slapstick. Jack Lemmon does a fine job, as one might expect, but I didn’t really connect with any of the characters emotionally or find them particularly likable. So, Watchable.

Street Fighter by Thomas
March 15, 2014, 4:15 pm
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With a script by the writer of Die Hard — plus considerable star power, including the legendary Raul Julia — this movie had promise.  Which is why Street Fighter: The Movie – What Went Wrong” is such a fascinating piece; it details the disastrous production process that gave us this train wreck of a movie. (Does anyone remember the movie adaptation of Mortal Kombat? It is Criterion compared to this.)  I loved reading the article and watching this horrible film — it’s a lot like listening to Jack Hitt’s opening story from the “Fiasco!” episode of This American Life. Unwatchable.

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French Kiss by William
March 8, 2014, 9:06 am
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Meg Ryan’s gotta go to France to win back her fiancé, and she’s gonna need help from the thieving Frenchman Kevin Kline. The movie succeeds based entirely on the charisma of its two stars, who are funny and playful and work well together. Thomas’s review of this movie is something of an enigma, first calling it a “gem” before declaring it merely “watchable.” So again with the caveat that you should be looking to watch a romantic comedy before diving in, I’ll say this one is definitely Worth Watching.

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You’ve Got Mail by William
March 8, 2014, 5:39 am
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Meg Ryan is the adorable owner of an independent children’s bookstore who also finds herself corresponding with an electronic penpal in an exciting new service called “America Online.” Tom Hanks is a business tycoon planning to open a new mega-bookstore just down the block, who also has an online penpal. What they don’t realize is that their business rival and anonymous online crush are actually the same person!

Less hilarity than you might expect, ensues. The writing is just not as sharp or funny as in other romantic comedies, and the quirky friends are just too deliberately quirky and not enough genuinely funny. There are more opportunities Ryan-Hanks banter than in Sleepless in Seattle, which is not bad, and seeing all that old technology is kinda fun, but overall it’s just Watchable.

Superior alternatives: While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle, French Kiss.’ve_Got_Mail

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Enough Said by William
March 7, 2014, 1:09 pm
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a masseuse who starts dating James Gandolfini, only to discover that her newest massage client is James Gandofini’s ex-wife. Like Eternal Sunshine without the science fiction, it depicts what happens as a new relationship goes from exciting to mundane. Heartfelt and realistic, I’ve gotta say Worth Watching.

Also, if you’re wondering how I personally feel about it, I will tell you that it is easier for me to see James Gandolfini as not Tony Soprano than Julia Louis-Dreyfus as not Elaine.

The film poster features a photo of Galdofini and Louis-Dreyfus sitting on a stoop and smiling, surrounded by copy about the film

Enough Said by jaemskeray
March 7, 2014, 7:38 am
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James Gandolfini and Julia Louis Dryfus star in this quaint film about 2 middle aged divorced people who fall in love.  The twist to this movie is that Julia starts up a friendship with James’s ex wife at the same time as dating the aforementioned James without knowing that this is indeed the case.  She eventually finds out but decides to keep up the ruse only to have it inevitably blow up in her face.  But, come on, how could you stay mad at her?  Sadly, this was James Gandolfini’s last film, and it was a good one.    Worth Checking Out

Mr and Mrs Smith (2005) by William
March 3, 2014, 12:47 am
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are stuck in a boring marriage rut. They are also both secretly professional hit-people. Until one day…

A couple of funny scenes in this action-comedy, but mostly boring and unengaging. The action scenes fail to inspire, and the central relationship fails to convince. There also remains a HUGE unresolved plot thread at the end of the film. Barely watchable. Watch the far-superior True Lies instead.

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Denying requests when investigations are open

It’s very common — possibly ubiquitous — that a government agency will deny an open records request when there is an ongoing, open law enforcement investigation that revolves around the person or situation with respect to whom the records were requested.

That’s usually frustrating because why should a public document become a sealed document just because the government has launched an investigation?

At any rate, a Republican state legislator in Kentucky used this feature of the Kentucky law to establish that a political opponent was under investigation. The GOP legislator filed a request for records, and the request was then denied by the state’s attorney general on the grounds that the Dem state legislator whose records were requested was involved somehow in an ongoing investigation.

It appears that the GOP legislator didn’t want the records as much as he wanted a public verification of the fact that there was an investigation.

Interesting uses of FOIA, #139:

AG says office investigating Ky. senator.

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Jose M Jimenez-Gomez, PhD.

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I am a Postdoctoral fellow in Julin Maloof's lab in the Section of Plant Biology at the University of California Davis.

In 2005, I completed my PhD. in JM Martinez-Zapater's lab at the CNB (National Center for Biotechnology) in Madrid, Spain, where I performed a quantitative genetic analysis of flowering time in tomato [1].

My main interests are based on the application of modern genetic and bioinformatic techniques to the study of plant evolution. To do this I survey different species and natural populations of plants presenting variation in interesting characteristics, and analyze the responsible molecular mechanism. Here is an small description of some of my work:

QTL analysis of the shade avoidance response in Arabidopsis

It is well known that plants from different light environments exhibit different degrees of responsiveness to similar light stimulus. For example, plants accommodated to sunny environments detect foliar shade from neighboring vegetation and respond increasing their petioles/stems and reducing the time to reproduction, a phenomenon called the "shade avoidance response". On the other hand, plants adapted to live under dense canopies are less sensitive to the shade and present a reduced shade avoidance response. To identify the molecular mechanisms underlying this differences we are performing QTL analysis using a previously developed, well characterized Recombinant Inbred Line set descent from two different natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana: Bayreuth, originary from the German low altitude fallow lands, and Shahdara, from the high mountains of Tadjikistan [2].
We grew replicated individual RILs in environments simulating shade and sun conditions and characterized them on a number of traits associated with the shade avoidance response syndrome. For the QTL analysis we calculated a shade avoidance response index fitting fixed effect models to the phenotipic data, and used an available genetic map for the population that includes more than 500 Single Feature Polymorphism (SFP) markers [3].

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LOD score graph for several of the traits measured

We are now focusing in a chromosomal region containing about 200 genes to fine map and identify the gene responsible for the differential response to shade between the two natural populations. To do this we employ traditional genetic approaches as well as genomic and network analysis. We are developing a protocol to construct gene networks that will help us consider candidate genes based on coexpression with other genes across microarray experiments [4], colocalization with expression QTLs [5], functional categorization [6] and presence of polymorphisms between the parental lines [7].

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Fragment of a gene network

Single Nuncleotide Polymorphism discovery between wild Tomato species

We use bioinformatics to detect Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms among the numerous tomato EST sequences available in the databases. We aim to estimate divergence rates over large regions of the genome of selected species, and obtain a new set of molecular markers useful in natural variation studies. We use this data to perform functional and evolutionary pre-genomic analyses on this dataset, which should give us an idea of which gene families evolve more rapidly/slowly and have been important during tomato domestication.

Molecular evolution of PHYTOCHROME B

PHYTOCHROME B (PHYB) is the main plant photoreceptor involved in the shade avoidance response. This gene has been reported to be under selective pressure, suggesting that plants with different shade avoidance responses may have different functional alleles of PHYB. Under these presumptions we are sequencing and cloning PHYB genes from a number of species with diverse shade avoidance behaviors. We will soon test if the variation in light responses between these plants are due to particular amino-acid changes in this photoreceptor.

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amino-acid changes in a fragment of the PHYB gene in 8 species, red and black bars indicate non-conserved/conserved amino-acid changes respectively

Proteomics of light perception

When plants are exposed to light a number of changes occur that are controlled by complex signaling processes. Light perception includes interaction with flowering time pathways, the circadian clock and hormone pathways between others. Genetics and genomic analysis have so far allowed us to identify and understand part of how this signals occur at the gene expression level, but very little is known about the changes produced in the plant at protein level. The new advances in Proteomics make possible to identify small protein changes with high precision. In collaboration with the Proteomics Facility at the UC Davis Genome Center we are preparing a set of experiments that will allow us to determine the accuracy and power of the newest techniques in protein quantification and to better understand how the proteome is regulated by light.

  1. Jiménez-Gómez JM, Alonso-Blanco C, Borja A, Anastasio G, Angosto T, Lozano R, and Martínez-Zapater JM. Quantitative genetic analysis of flowering time in tomato. Genome. 2007 Mar;50(3):303-15. DOI:10.1139/g07-009 | PubMed ID:17502904 | HubMed [Jimenez-Gomez07]
  2. Loudet O, Chaillou S, Camilleri C, Bouchez D, and Daniel-Vedele F. Bay-0 x Shahdara recombinant inbred line population: a powerful tool for the genetic dissection of complex traits in Arabidopsis. Theor Appl Genet. 2002 May;104(6-7):1173-1184. DOI:10.1007/s00122-001-0825-9 | PubMed ID:12582628 | HubMed [Loudet02]
  3. West MA, van Leeuwen H, Kozik A, Kliebenstein DJ, Doerge RW, St Clair DA, and Michelmore RW. High-density haplotyping with microarray-based expression and single feature polymorphism markers in Arabidopsis. Genome Res. 2006 Jun;16(6):787-95. DOI:10.1101/gr.5011206 | PubMed ID:16702412 | HubMed [West06]
  4. Platform for Riken Metabolomics [Riken]
  5. West MA, Kim K, Kliebenstein DJ, van Leeuwen H, Michelmore RW, Doerge RW, and St Clair DA. Global eQTL mapping reveals the complex genetic architecture of transcript-level variation in Arabidopsis. Genetics. 2007 Mar;175(3):1441-50. DOI:10.1534/genetics.106.064972 | PubMed ID:17179097 | HubMed [West07]
  6. Ashburner M, Ball CA, Blake JA, Botstein D, Butler H, Cherry JM, Davis AP, Dolinski K, Dwight SS, Eppig JT, Harris MA, Hill DP, Issel-Tarver L, Kasarskis A, Lewis S, Matese JC, Richardson JE, Ringwald M, Rubin GM, and Sherlock G. Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. The Gene Ontology Consortium. Nat Genet. 2000 May;25(1):25-9. DOI:10.1038/75556 | PubMed ID:10802651 | HubMed [GO_Classification]
  7. Clark RM, Schweikert G, Toomajian C, Ossowski S, Zeller G, Shinn P, Warthmann N, Hu TT, Fu G, Hinds DA, Chen H, Frazer KA, Huson DH, Schölkopf B, Nordborg M, Rätsch G, Ecker JR, and Weigel D. Common sequence polymorphisms shaping genetic diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science. 2007 Jul 20;317(5836):338-42. DOI:10.1126/science.1138632 | PubMed ID:17641193 | HubMed [Clark07]
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June 15, 2017

The provincial government has signed another quick deal giving thousands of civil servants a 7.5-per-cent raise over four years, prompting accusations the Liberals are buying labour peace for next June’s election.

May 27, 2017

The two-step election process to elect the 2017 OPS bargaining teams began on Saturday, May 27.

February 15, 2017

Thousands of OPSEU members took part in four recent telephone town halls for workers in the Ontario Public Service (OPS). Two were held on February 9 for members of the Correctional Bargaining Unit. It will be bargaining for a new standalone collective agreement, to be effective January 1, 2018.

November 1, 2016

On Saturday, October 29, OPSEU delegates to the 2016 Ontario Public Service divisional meetings elected the members of their Ministry Employee-Employer Relations Committees (MERCs) for the 2016‑18 term.

The following 163 members were elected by delegates from their ministries:

October 30, 2016

Some 600 OPSEU members from 27 ministries were in Toronto this weekend to elect leadership teams and chart the way forward for the union in the Ontario Public Service (OPS).

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Demo for an Input Service

To help you create your own BLE services, we've created a series of service templates. The *input service template* demonstrates the use of a simple input (boolean values) from a read-only characteristic.

The template covers:

1. Setting up advertising and connection states.

2. Assigning UUIDs to the service and its characteristic.

3. Creating an input characteristic: read-only, boolean, with notifications. This characteristic is updated according to the button's state.

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Newsworthy Resources Concerning Education Data

When it comes to following the topic of education data, varied stakeholders can hold special interest in specific sub-topics. I have organized a few recent, noteworthy resources by each common-interest category. These include: data collection & sources (for anyone collecting data or designing related instruments such as assessments), data reporting (for anyone communicating data), data privacy and Common Core Statements Standards (for anyone collecting, reporting, or using data), and data use (for educators using data).

Data Collection & Sources

Data Reporting

  • I was very impressed by Edward Tufte’s course in communicating education data, although it relates to data in any field rather than education data; he has many courses running now through April.

  • Like Tufte, Stephen Few is also an expert when it comes to communicating many types of data; his 2014 workshops begin this month.

  • Great data reporting is about understanding more than just good data visualization. Hack Design is a free course for which you can sign up to receive weekly, emailed lessons covering a wealth of other important design concepts. Thanks go to Zach Rankin for introducing me to this wonderful resource.

Data Privacy

Common Core State Standards

Data Use

  • WestEd’s Data for Decisions lists links to related research (including my own study, added 1&1/2 months ago), and there are also links to tools such as training materials.

  • Dr. Jeff Wayman is one of our generation’s leading experts in district’s use of data. His Twitter site can keep you updated on news and resources related to data use, as they are released.

Combined with the resources at, the sources listed above can help in varied endeavors related to making the most of education data. While many people have a special interest in just one of these topics, and there is no problem with specializing, stakeholders should still remain updated on all key topics that are important (and interconnected) to effective data-related practices.

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How Tablets Could Influence Online Marketing

Rumors of this year’s new electronic devices are bubbling as the first week of a new year wakes up from a light doze. Google phones (Nexus One just announced), a possible Apple tablet (Apple Mobility event Jan 27th), and more eReaders (Barnes & Noble nook just won Best New Gadget award at the Crunchies). With every new device comes a new channel of communication and marketers have to adapt to that. Will there be new marketing opportunities? Will it spark a new media trend? Will it support interactive technology like Flash? Will we be ready for it?

When considering the potential of the rumored tablet devices, sites like Hulu, Fox, TED, and other video broadcasters could gain a lot of ground. If these tablets have Wi-Fi, it will be a nice viewing alternative to small mobile screens and heavy laptops. It could also mean a drastic increase in traffic to video sites, which will attract more ad traffic (though I’ll miss my 0-30 sec commercial breaks). This will create a new way of thinking about video and advertising. Commercials you can interact with (that is, if it plays Flash!). Mix that with the technology to pin point the user’s location and demographic, and the local bakery could have its own digital TV commercial.

This sounds great, but if we’re talking about a device created by Apple, we have to question if they’ll go down the internet path (Hulu) or stick to their iTunes media model (pay for and download movies, music, TV, etc.)? Some fresh rumors are Google is working on their own tablet, so competing with an internet maven will be risky.

I’ll be interested to see where this goes. I think my forecast is that Apple will continue to be the well managed ‘friendly at a price’ device and Google will be the internet ‘here are a million free books, songs, and videos but you have to view these ads’ device.

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Download Page for ne_3.0.1-2+b2_sparc64.deb on Sparc64 machines

If you are running Debian, it is strongly suggested to use a package manager like aptitude or synaptic to download and install packages, instead of doing so manually via this website.

You should be able to use any of the listed mirrors by adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list like this:

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Replacing with the mirror in question.

You can download the requested file from the pool-sparc64/main/n/ne/ subdirectory at any of these sites:

If none of the above sites are fast enough for you, please see our complete mirror list.

Note that Sparc64 is not officially included in the Debian archive, but the Sparc64 porter group keeps their archive in sync with the official archive as close as possible. See the Sparc64 ports page for current information.

Note that in some browsers you will need to tell your browser you want the file saved to a file. For example, in Firefox or Mozilla, you should hold the Shift key when you click on the URL.

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Hannah Jeter shot SI Swimsuit issue while pregnant

Pregnancy wasn’t about to stop Hannah Jeter from posing for this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

The model, 26, returned to shoot for the iconic mag, which she covered in 2015, early on in her pregnancy, the magazine said in a news release Monday.

SI showed off a two-photo preview of the model’s shoot on Monday, snapped by Ruven Afanador, the same day that she announced she and Derek Jeter are expecting a baby girl in an essay – titled “The Derek I Know” — professing his many virtues on his website the Players’ Tribune.

The latest edition of the Swimsuit issue hits stands this week.

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The Ocean Speaks

Maybe one reason humans love the ocean is because it speaks to our cells, not only of beauty, but of deeply subconscious things.

Today I hear it say…

All of life is rhythm.

Don’t waste your time trying to stop it.

Face each wave with reverence.

Hear me roar.

Millions will never see me and cannot imagine my vastness.

If you do; bow.

And, when you are away from the ocean, bow to the ocean within you.

Honor the magnitude of my abundance.

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Saturday, February 06, 2010

The excitement around here.

The Olympic torch came through our little village on Thursday.  It was a big party - with bands and balloons and lots of excitement.  I am posting a few of the pictures I took.

You can see the stage set up here with the 2010.

Stilt walkers and the Olympic mascot - I have no idea which mascot this one is - there are three of them.  We are all gathered waiting for the torch runner.

Here she comes!

I think most of the village was out for the event.

There were some young acrobats from the village preforming on the "silks"  They were great to watch.

And here are a couple of pictures of Jim and I holding the touch.  Ah -- we look pretty goofy but it will be something to put on the digital photo frame!!  LOL

Jim is wearing his Team Canada jersey he got from Santa this Christmas.

One of the quilters from my Friday stitch group got to carry the torch earlier in the day in Gibsons - so this is her torch.  It was a pretty exciting day.  The torch will be winding it's way along the southwest part of B.C and then next Friday will end up at the opening ceremonies in B.C Place Stadium.

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  1. My sister carried the torch here on Windsor ON and it was so exciting. I can't believe how many people are reved up about the torch run this time around. I was taslking to a friend today and she had gone to a torch party just down the street from where I was and we didn't even see each other. Lots of people. I hope Canada does well in the games and I think I might actually watch the games this year.

  2. A very festive day! I would be pretty excited to participate in this event, too. No everyone has this opportunity. Looks like many people enjoyed a very fun time. Don't recall seeing the torch up close like this so thanks for sharing the photos. :-)

  3. Great photos of You and Jim with the torch!
    The Olympics will soon be here- lots of exciting events to look forward to in the next couple of weeks.
    Thanks for sharing.

  4. Great pictures of you both. The torch comes through New West tomorrow. We spent the day downtown Van yesterday walking around to see what's going on. We took the train to Granville Island as well.

  5. It is exciting when the Olympic torch passes -- I remember when it came through downtown Toronto. I was thrilled to have seen it. I can't wait for Friday and the opening ceremonies -- plan to get lots of stitching done during the Olympics!

  6. What a day .... great photos and pretty soon it will be ' let the games begin '!

  7. Looks like a great day for you all! I loved th pics!


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Writing at the Lake

We went to a friend’s house last weekend at Laurel Mountain Lake, near Sweetwater, Tennessee. As you see: water, sky, peace. No phone, TV or internet (and I don’t have a fancy phone so really no internet). It is astonishing how many pages a person can edit in those circumstances. Pages and pages, chapters and chapters, and still time for walks and for naps after lunch. I also planned six (6) presentations for my trip this week to Hiram College, where I graduated an unnamed number of years ago and where I’ll be delivering “yes you can” talks to young writers.

We went canoeing each day with Jesse the Dog who used to have to be hauled in but now, perhaps out of fear of being left alone, he jumped right in. Peaceful happy hours on the dock, breakfast on the dock, dinners in the near dark of the porch, more editing. One could feast on this life.

Pamela Schoenewaldt, historical novels of immigration and the search for self in new worlds: WHEN WE WERE STRANGERS, SWIMMING IN THE MOON, and UNDER THE SAME BLUE SKY (all HarperCollins).

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Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, April 5-7, 2018. Two workshops: “Ancient fires for modern words” and “Blending narrative & description to empower your prose.”

When We Were Strangers, in Italian translation, presented in Pescasseroli, Italy, August 2018.

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“Absorbing and layered with rich historical details, in Under the Same Blue Sky, Schoenewaldt weaves a tender and at times, heartbreaking story about German-Americans during World War I. With remarkable compassion, the author skillfully portrays conflicted loyalties, the search for belonging, the cruelty of war, and the resilience of the human spirit.”—Ann Weisgarber, author of The Promise and The Personal History of Rachel Dupree

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A message from Becca about Beanstalk

Hello Pangea Authors,

It was ages ago that we talked about what to do with our Pangea royalties and people came up with some good and interesting suggestions on what charity to give the money to. Since then, I’ve looked at various charities of one sort or another to do with writing and found a lot of them quite difficult to engage with, and in addition, I was looking for a charity which might have given Pangea a bit of a plug on their FB or website and I never saw anything that looked easy to approach and simple to deal with.

However, by chance a woman and a ten year old boy from a school in Battersea in London wrote to me to tell me how much they loved my novel Halfling, how it made them cry, and they were asking when I was going to write ‘the next one.’ The woman was a volunteer with a charity called Beanstalk. So, I can’t hold onto our royalty money any longer, and I’d like to give it to Beanstalk as it’s exactly the kind of charity I’d be a volunteer in myself, and might well do if there is a branch of it in Bristol. It’s a charity that has become international and it does operate in multi-cultural settings, so in the context of Pangea, it seems wonderfully fortuitous that it should’ve come my way via the business of writing without me hunting it down. The way I found them accidentally through one of their volunteers might be of interest to them, and we might get a plug on their website for Pangea. If any of you have any objections, could you let me know by email, otherwise I’ll just go ahead…

  darkrebecca wrote @

the relationship with Beanstalk is still ongoing, they now have the delightful letters that Angela and Martelle sent me and I guess they will touch soon and put something together on their website about Pangea royalties that I’m going to give them, the book itself I hope, and then a bit of publicity for Halfling.

  darkrebecca wrote @

I hope all of you are well and if there are new books on the horizon for any of you, it would be great to hear about them here. You could send details to Sarah as she holds the keys so to speak. Happy writing to you all. I should perhaps say that I have two short story collections that came out simultaneously this year, ‘Mercy’ with Tartarus Press in a beautiful hardback edition with an ebook version also, and The View From Endless Street with WiDo Pubishing in paperback with an ebook version too.

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I heard once again from Beanstalk who are now ready to give Pangea an airing on their website, so I have sent them off £100. Our royalties amounted to about £96, if I remember rightly, but I thought I’d round the figure off. I also sent them a copy of Pangea and a card in which I said the following:-
Dear People of Beanstalk,
please accept this cheque of £100 for your charity from all the writers in Pangea, an anthology of stories from around the globe. We admire the fantastic work you are doing with children.
Yours Sincerely, on behalf of us all,
Rebecca Lloyd.

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A tāniwha who was said to dwell in the deep pool under the falls of Te Reinga at Wairoa. She was looked upon as guardian spirit or even an ancestress of the locals. She was said to have become enamoured of one Tane-kino, and to have lived with him as his wife. The women of his village made unpleasant personal remarks and so she returned to her former home beneath the dark waters of Te Reinga. Before she left, however, she bore Tane-kino a son, called Tu-a-renga. Many in the area claimed descent from him.

  • Best, Elsdon. (1924). The Maori. Wellington: Harry H. Tombs, pp. 138, 194-195.


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A Great Character Home of a Great Character Actor

If you want to get a sense of what Hollywood was like in the 1920’s,  you need look no further than Whitley Heights. There you will find a virtual time capsule of silent era glamour with dozens of red tile-roofed villas perched seductively along serpentine drives that wend their way around this enchanting little hilly enclave.

Before Beverly Hills claimed the title of “Home to the Stars,” it was Whitley Heights that held the crown, being host to a Who’s Who of famous names that included Rudolph Valentino, Francis X. Bushman, Jean Harlow, Rosalind Russell, Irene Dunne, Gene Autry, and Marie Dressler, among many, many others.

Who could ever forget this old fellow?

One such “cliff dweller” of Whitley Heights was that stalwart old bastion of British respectability, Leo G. Carroll. A longtime favorite of director Alfred Hitchcock, Carroll was a memorable presence in six classic Hitchcock pictures: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), Strangers on a Train (1951) and North by Northwest (1959).  Hitchcock had been a fan of the quiet and dignified Carroll from his days in the London theater and he holds the distinction of appearing in more of Hitchcock’s American films than anyone else other than Hitchcock himself (in his famous cameos). To many fans, however, it is for his longtime work on television that Leo G. Carroll may be best remembered, first as the dour banker “Cosmo Topper” on the popular Topper series for CBS (1953-55) and then as spymaster “Alexander Waverly” on both The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964-8) and its spinoff, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. (1966-7).

Carroll had been a fixture on both the London and Broadway stage for more than twenty years before he first stepped before the cameras under contract to MGM in 1934. Upon arrival from the East, Carroll took out a lease on a charming villa home in Whitley Heights at 2008 Whitley Avenue. Designed by Lytle-Pentland and completed in 1926, the stylish Spanish villa had recently become available in the wake of the messy divorce of actress Dorothy Devore who vacated before the Carrolls moved in. The Carrolls resided in Whitley Heights until their lease expired, moving farther up the Cahuenga Pass to another hillside house at 3311 North Knoll Drive. By the 1940’s, however, they were back on Whitley Heights, taking a grand home at 1979 Grace Avenue that had once been the home of silent film star, Lew Cody and located just yards from 2008 Whitley. The Carroll’s must really have enjoyed the neighborhood and the view. And now you can too as it turns out 2008 Whitley has recently been put up for sale for $1,885,000.

(Photos via listing)

The View!

As is the case with most of the homes in Whitley Heights, 2008 Whitley has a wonderful view from many of its rooms. The house is sited on the eastern side of the hill and enjoys expansive vistas of central Hollywood and the iconic Capital Records Tower,  the Griffith Park Observatory and the spires of downtown beyond. One of the few Whitley Heights homes with a true front lawn, 2008 Whitley Avenue is accessed through an entry gate opening to a pathway that makes its way to the impressive carved wood front door. The interior of this three-story Spanish villa does not disappoint and is filled with many period details such as custom wrought iron work, tile and stained glass.

There are four bedrooms and three and one-half baths stretched out across the home’s three floors and it is still easy to imagine Carroll quietly puffing his pipe while perusing The Times (of London, of course) before the Spanish fireplace in the barrel-vaulted living room.  Stepping up from the living room and accessed through an arched entry guarded by a pair of ornate wrought iron gates is the commodious dining room with polished hardwood floors, French windows, and clearly not the original chandelier. Adjacent is a large pantry and a big remodeled kitchen with Viking appliances.

The upstairs bedrooms are accessed by way of a charming tile staircase, which is illuminated by an elaborate stained glass window depicting a heraldic crest. The bedrooms are nicely sized with one opening out onto its very own private balcony. Like the kitchen below, the bathrooms have been recently remodeled. Personally, I would be curious as to what they originally looked like. I’m envisioning colorful tile work, but at least the new work is tasteful enough. Additionally, there is a separate lower level with its own fireplace, bedroom and bath that could be customized to fit your own personal desires be they for a private retreat, media room, man cave, mother-in-law/guest suite or sinister scientific lab ala Leo G. Carroll in Tarantula.

2008 Whitley Avenue offers a unique opportunity to live in a charming and romantic Spanish styled villa with a great pedigree in Hollywood’s most historic residential neighborhood. If you’d like more details, here’s the Redfin listing, and a separate virtual tour (beware loud music).

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Coping Skills (For Individual or Family Use)

Relax, Soothe, Calm

Take a deep breath (Variations: Blow Bubbles, Blow a Balloon, Whistle, Aromatherapy candles, oils lotions or scents)

Listen to music

Read a book or Listen to audio books (Be careful of books that may cause triggers; choose a book that will evoke positive emotions (inspiration, laughter, excitement) or will be relaxing

Curl up in blankets (Variations: Wear comfortable or favorite clothing, Wear cheerful colors, Build a “fort”)

Play a game

Take a warm bath or a bubble bath (Suggestion: Add a few drops of essential to a teaspoon of honey or antibacterial soap to add fragrance to the bath)

For a girl: Style hair, paint nails, play dress up

Cook/Bake (If you are having a tough day, make the cooking as simple as possible.)

Go out to eat (Go to a coffee shop with a play area, For a teen going to a coffee shop can also be used to spend quality time together)

String Beads

Watch a comedy or go to a movie

Play a game  (Charades, Bingo, Pictionary, etc)

Read a funny book

Visit friends or family members

Spend time with a pet

Plan something fun

Play (Get down on the child’s level and take time to play—let the child direct the play and do not judge or criticize, take time to enjoy their imagination)

Make a paper airplane

Go to a thrift store (Try on unusual or funny outfits, Donate old things or things that cause triggers, Explore, Make up stories about an object’s history or how it was used)

Go swimming

Treat yourself

Blow Bubbles

Spiritual Comfort

Meet with a pastor or spiritual counselor (Variations: Participate in church activities, Volunteer, Ask the assistance of a pastor or spiritual counselor to develop a coping plan)

Read spiritual texts

Spend time outdoors

Listen to music

Smudge the room with sage, incense or essential oil diffuser

Visit a church or sacred site

Journal (For kids this could be an actual journal or drawing/arts)

Exercise (Variations: Dance, Yoga, Sports, Bike Riding, Roller blade)

Change of environment (Go outside/take a walk, visit a friend or family member, visit a museum, go on a day trip)

Play games that engage the mind (models, puzzles, mazes, sudoku, word finds etc)

Go on a “treasure hunt” or a “scavenger hunt”

Scrap booking (Variations: Sticker book, Collage, Editing a photo on the computer)

Write (Learning how to write in poetic forms is helpful. Child may enjoy using chalk, finger paints, or a Magna Doodle. Writing letters can also be therapeutic—you can send a letter to a friend or loved one OR write a letter to express thoughts or feelings without actually giving it to the person)

Be Positive

Buy some fortune cookies

Talk to someone positive or plan an event with someone positive

Listen to music

Watch a movie

Look at photos (Be careful the photos are of good memories, try to avoid triggers)

Read affirmations

Write down or talk about positive things about yourself—or things to be thankful for

Create something (Garden, Arts/Crafts, Models, Photography, Writing, etc)

Take a class/Learn something new (Variations: Go to the library, Listen to live music or poetry, Go to a museum, Try something different OR Do something you have always wanted to do). Look for opportunities to share what you have learned or help others.

Work Through Issues

Set goals (Try to be reasonable and if a goal is not met, ask for help or use coping skills—don’t be too hard on yourself)

Seek counseling or therapy

Join a support group

Join parenting groups or family activities (Through church, neighborhood groups or community ed, etc)

Ask for help

Talk to someone you trust

Gain additional information or education

Take a break when needed or using coping skills

Take care of yourself (Get enough sleep, Eat healthy, Exercise, Spend time with friends or family, Work towards goals, etc)


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Your Legal Rights Toolkit

As parents, we are deeply concerned about the rampant negligence due to the deliberate underfunding of Philadelphia’s public schools. Last year, Parents United for Public Education helped parents file over 800 complaints from more than 90 different schools – the largest filing from any school district in a single year. The complaints focused on a host of issues, including:

  • enormous class sizes – from the middle to upper 30s well into the 50s per teacher all across the city with no relief until October
  • at least 100 split grade classrooms across the city
  • no full-time guidance counselors in a majority of schools, including half of all high schools
  • only one guidance counselor allotted to schools with student populations above 600
  • roving counselor team with a per student ratio of approximately one to 3,000 students
  • one secretary per school with many schools using volunteers to handle potentially private matters
  • zero full-time librarians (only 12 exist in entire city used as prep teachers)
  • one nurse per every 1,500 students.
  • a new bullying and harassment policy – particularly important given two dozen school closings merging student populations across neighborhood lines – is rendered nearly useless since there are no assistant principals in schools with under 850 students

We believe the appalling situation last year and the continuation of resource-starved classrooms this year challenges whether the state-controlled School District of Philadelphia is providing a “thorough and efficient” education according to the state constitution.  We are working with the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia with support from the Education Law Center a to help parents know their rights and file complaints with the State Department of Education.

What are our legal rights?

(Read our full piece on your legal rights under the PA State Code)

The Pennsylvania state constitution mandates that students be provided with a “thorough and efficient system of public education.” In particular, we intend our complaints to trigger provisions within the state code around curriculum mandates.  These are requirements that the curriculum include the instruction of art, music, dance, and theater for every student in every school every year, as well as “comprehensive and integrated K-12 student services,” which specifically names guidance counseling as an integral part of every school. There are also specific provisions requiring schools to have “sufficient numbers of qualified professional employees” to enforce the curriculum requirements.

According to the Pennsylvania code, if children are being denied these services, we have the right to file a complaint, and the Secretary of Education has a responsibility to investigate any complaints of deficiency (22 Pa. Code § 4.81). For more details on the PA State Code requirements, see Our Legal Rights section.

Parents must exercise their legal rights and begin filing massive complaints with the Secretary of Education. The state has a consultation hotline, where a state department employee offers guidance to help resolve problems. The hotline must record and log all calls. That phone number is:  800-879-2301

Our goal is to document and make clear the widespread and harmful impact of the District’s failure to provide these mandates thus violating the state constitution. This is not an effective process if you have a complaint about school staff. The purpose of this effort is to focus on the mandates of the state constitution, not on our school leaders and staff. We encourage educators, teachers, students and parents to file complaints and call the hotline as frequently and as soon as possible.

Filing a complaint

You can file a complaint online at:

You can also download the following documents to mail it in by hand:

  1. General complaint form for mainstream students (those without IEPs)
  2. IEP complaint form for both gifted and special needs students

Complaints must be signed (you can take a photo and upload it electronically too) and sent to:

Carolyn Dumaresq, Ed.D., Acting Secretary of Education

Pennsylvania Department of Education
333 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17126-0333

We are asking parents and all those submitting a complaint to make one copy for yourself and to forward another one to either PILCOP or Parents United (which will send it to PILCOP). Complaints filed online at will do this automatically.

Groups and organizations such as HSAs, school councils, community groups, faith-based gatherings, student organizations, and others can file group complaints – but these should not take the place of individual complaints. The reason why is that the specific harms to students can best be done through individual complaints. However, group complaints can be an effective way to do both at the same time.

What parents can do

  1. Call and report: If your school is lacking in services, call the State hotline: 800-879-2301. The state is required to log and record all calls. This is a simple action that gets you in touch with an individual and makes your concern heard and recorded.
  2. File a complaint: If your child has a specific need that isn’t met, file a complaint. Examples: extreme overcrowding, split grades due to lack of teacher; no art, music, dance or theater programming offered; if your child needed a guidance counselor or language translation services and it was not provided on that day; if you  requested your child’s IEP and it was not provided to you within a week’s time, etc.
  3. Share with fellow parents: Share the complaint forms with your fellow parents. Explain to school staff that this is not a personal complaint about their professionalism but about the state’s responsibility to provide mandated services according to state law.
  4. Schedule Know Your Rights sessions in your school or community: Help us set up a regional or school based meeting to get parents to know their rights and file complaints.

Contact information

Sonja Kerr, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia:, 215-627-7100, x229 or 267-546-1319

Michael Churchill, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia:, 267-546-1318

Helen Gym, Parents United for Public Education,

Read more

Philadelphia Inquirer, page A1:

KYW1060/CBS3: Parents considering legal action over hobbled schools:

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  1. Pingback: Two Ways to Fight for School Funding This Week. | Forrest Elementary Home & School Association

  2. This “Know Your Rights Toolkit” is excellent. Pass this tool kit on to any and everyone who has or knows a student in the School District of Philadelphia.

  3. Pingback: Know Your Rights – File a Complaint | WeArePCAPS

  4. Thank you for the information. I have a question. My son graduated in June and was unable to start college as scheduled because a principal (contacted post June 30) failed to send his transcript as requested and failed to follow up with me. It took several weeks of calls to reach the school after the request was made as no one answered the phone and the voicemail was full. Can I file a complaint if he is no longer a student?
    I am extremely concerned about this year’s high school seniors. The college application process will be nearly impossible without guidance counselors. This is not what students who have worked hard in preparation for college deserve. I am disgusted.

  5. My daughter goes to Bridesburg Elemtrey School, and they are suffering terribly. The classroom is over crowded and understaffed. They need to find the money like they do for everything else these are small children the future of our country and if we do not educate them now by the time they reach the higher grades we are in trouble. These charter schools are nothing but corporate Greed bottom line. Taking away everything that America was built on. They do not even have Workbooks to do their work in. Not every Child can get into these Charter Schools so they should not suffer because they did not get picked from their lottery. In The city of Philadelphia we get taxed for everything and now are raising our Realstate Taxes but yet our neighborhood school must suffer. Would you like to see our neighborhood turn into a Ghetto? Where would you get the Tax money then from?

    They no longer have a school Nurse or a Theripist that they can turn to in time of need. Is that the American dream? We are taking more and more ppl into this country but yet can not take care of our own.

    It is a sad day here In Philadelphia I hope the People In Harrisburg and the People who have their money invested into these Charter Schools are happy

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The special moment of your life, the best representation of it: the best wedding ring!

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What a day!

In the moment of your life, when you have decide to become part of another person, that day you have decide to say yes in front of the rest of the world, that day cannot be less than special, with the right elements that will make everything shine as much as the sun, in a way you have never seen before. The ring, that symbol of continuity, that element of endless love, it can be as special as you want, yes, but to have the place where they can tell you what is the best ring to acquire is what you can call an ally to make the special day the best one on the top!

Engagement rings that will have you…

The best ring for your engagement or for your wedding is the one that makes you keep staring at it. The best element of a ring is the rock on top of it. In the US, artists and ring creators have selected the best materials to give to that day an unparalleled element to remember. New York, the big apple, has been seen as the best place to buy diamonds lately, as in here you will find the best professionals in the confection, design, creation and managers of such a delicate material as diamonds are. Walking around NY city avenues you will find the best options to make your loved dreams come true with a piece of art in her hand that will frame the moment of the “yes I do” for the rest of your life.

 A ring to remember…

Either for rings or earrings, having the best piece to give to that person you love is the perfect tangible way to say “I am here for you” “you are as special as this diamond ring is”. No further words will be uttered upon the presence of such a beautiful and delicate piece of art to the beauty of your newlywed couple.

The cut, the carat, the design, the uniqueness, will all be summarized in what the ring you give to your loved one represents. The experts from the purchase of a diamond ring to its own confection will provide you with a piece that anyone looking at it will cause amazement at sight. Ask the professionals and give that person you love the perfect engagement ring!200423981-001

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