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Teacher quality is an important school-level factor in student achievement (Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2005) and the focus of ongoing effort by policy makers and practitioners to ensure that all students have effective teachers throughout their school years. New teacher induction is an essential component in teacher development and retention (Ingersoll & Strong, 2011). Teacher induction, defined as inservice support for beginning teachers, is separate from preservice preparation and ideally serves as a bridge linking preservice and inservice education. Common objectives of teacher induction include teacher development, socialization into the profession, assessment of teaching effectiveness, and support in refining practice (Feiman-Nemser, 2001; Ganser, 2002). Although programs vary between schools and context, they typically include a variety of activities such as orientation, classroom support, workshops, collaboration with colleagues, and mentoring (Ingersoll & Strong, 2011).
Tenets of This We Believe addressed:
- Educators value young adolescents and are prepared to teach them.
- Students and teachers are engaged in active, purposeful learning.
- Leaders are committed to and knowledgeable about this age group, educational research, and best practices.
- Ongoing professional development reflects best educational practices.
- Organizational structures foster purposeful learning and meaningful relationships.
Teachers often struggle when inducted to the profession without a sufficient transitional period that allows them to practice their teaching skills prior to undertaking the responsibilities the job requires (Ganser, 2002). As a result, first year teachers are, on average, less effective than their more experienced colleagues (Rockoff, 2008). In analysis of data from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the Teacher Follow-up Survey, Ingersoll and Merrill (2010) concluded that the majority of teachers are either beginners or nearing retirement. They asserted that the number of retirements will peak by 2012, which will further increase the need for beginning teachers. More than a quarter of teachers are in their first five years of teaching. Thus, the teacher force is on the verge of being expanded, replaced, and re-made (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2010). Therefore, it is beneficial to examine the existing challenges and successful practices to understand fully our work ahead to improve teacher effectiveness and retention. This research summary reviews the literature on teacher retention and mobility, effective induction practices, and specific implications for beginning teachers being inducted in the middle level grades.
Teacher Retention and Mobility
Teaching involves many complex tasks. New teachers, no matter which route of preparation taken, are not fully prepared for their first day of teaching and have a lot to learn. In recent years due to high attrition as well as retirement, the demand for teachers has increased (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2010). Teacher turnover is substantially higher in high poverty schools than it is in suburban schools with low poverty (Boyd, Lankford, Loeb, Ronfeldt, & Wyckoff, 2011; Ingersoll, 2001). Turnover in low performing schools is further compounded by the challenge of filling the vacancies with highly qualified teachers (Boyd et al., 2011). Research studies have documented that teacher shortages are heavily impacted by numerous teachers leaving the profession within the first five years, also referred to as the revolving door (Ingersoll & May, 2011; Ingersoll & Perda, 2010). As teachers continually leave these schools and the education profession altogether, many new teachers are needed, and as such, induction and mentoring offer an avenue to prepare and retain effective teachers.
Researchers note a movement in recent years to improve new teacher induction programs (Wayne, Youngs, & Fleishman, 2005). Nationally, almost two-thirds of teachers reported participating in an induction program during their first year, and 71% had a mentor (Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, & Orphanos, 2009). Successful programs help teachers understand their roles and guide them to be effective practitioners, which effects teachers' decisions to stay in their schools and the profession altogether (Johnson & Birkeland, 2003). In contrast, teachers leave schools where they are not supported, feel ill equipped to meet students' needs, and ultimately, feel ineffective. These conditions are more widespread in low performing schools with high percentages of minority populations (Loeb, Darling-Hammond & Luczak, 2005) and where induction programs are less common (Darling-Hammond et al., 2009). However, high performing schools with high poverty and minority populations also retain effective teachers, which indicates that teacher turnover is more closely related to the environment and support that teachers receive than socioeconomic and ethnic status of the students (Johnson, Kraft, & Papay, 2012). To support beginning teachers and shape effective patterns in their teaching (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004), comprehensive induction programs including individualized mentoring and professional collaboration within a supportive culture are necessary.
Comprehensive New Teacher Induction
According to the Alliance for Excellent Education (2004), only about one percent of teachers actually receive what they deem as comprehensive induction. Comprehensive induction programs are defined as opportunities to collaborate in small learning communities, observe experienced colleagues' classrooms, be observed by expert mentors, analyze their own practice, and network with other novice teachers (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004). Teachers learn about exemplary teaching by seeing what it looks like, talking about it, and experimenting in their own classrooms. Quality induction must sanction time for teachers to be observed and reflect on their own teaching, as well as on their students' learning (Darling-Hammond et al., 2009).
Teachers are socialized in various ways including the observation of their previous teachers known as the apprenticeship of observation (Lortie, 1975), their preparation programs, and especially their first on-the-job experiences. Teachers often underestimate the demands that will be placed on them in their first year of teaching. As a result, they struggle when the support system is not strong enough to help them implement the ideas and knowledge that they learn in their preparation years (Villani, 2002). The following sections summarize research on effective components of comprehensive induction programs including mentoring, professional collaboration, and the aspects of school environments that impact beginning teachers.
First year teachers are typically focused on developing their practice and do so by gathering information to improve technical skills (Gabriel, 2010). In this crucial developmental stage, research has shown that teachers who were provided a mentor from the same content area, and received support in their first year of teaching, including planning and collaboration with other teachers, were less likely to leave the profession after their first year (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004). The guidance of a mentor can support new teachers to make decisions as part of an experienced team, rather than in isolation. Effective mentors use inquiry-based questioning and support meaningful teaching and learning through an analysis of individual needs and goals based on teacher standards (Feiman-Nemser, 2001). Furthermore, Fletcher, Strong, and Villar (2008) established a mentoring-achievement link, noting that more hours of mentoring yielded higher student achievement gains compared with others teachers who spent less time with a mentor. In sum, instructional mentoring is effective when it is consistent and based on an explicit vision of good teaching as well as an understanding of teacher learning (Feiman-Nemser, 2001).
Professional Collaboration
In addition to mentoring, professional collaboration is a key component of a successful induction program. Learning to teach is a process, not solely a function of a teacher preparation program or induction experiences, and teachers need opportunities to continuously learn and improve their practice. Hord and Sommers (2008) argued the best form of professional development includes providing opportunities for reflection on practice to develop teachers' understanding of content, pedagogy, and learners. In addition to increasing teacher learning and student achievement, professional collaboration further increases teacher job satisfaction (Berry, Daughtrey, & Wieder, 2010). Quality teachers with experience and content knowledge exist in many schools and are often the most untapped resources.
At a time when many schools and teachers feel pressure from national, state, and district mandates to improve test scores, many successful schools are turning to teachers and tapping into their rich knowledge base via professional learning communities (PLCs). PLCs, or teacher study and support groups, operating within the school day can help new teachers collaboratively look at instructional practices and curriculum (DuFour, 2007). These types of structures on the school campus can be helpful for new teachers to receive continual support in developing their curriculum and repertoire of best teaching practices. Such programs can be structured in ways that provide teachers with consistent and meaningful collaboration with colleagues, afford them opportunities for learning, and allow them to be learners alongside their students (Meier, 2002; Metropolitan Life Insurance, 2010).
School Environment
For teachers to do their jobs well, they need supportive school environments where they are valued, trusted, and empowered to collaborate for the purpose of improving instruction (Ingersoll & May, 2011). Research on organizational cultures indicates that schools based on individuality rather than collaboration leave many teachers to sink or swim (Johnson & Birkeland, 2003). On the other hand, when teachers believe administrators are focused on student and teacher success, they feel more positive about school environment and choose to stay. Further, Angelle (2006) found that when new teachers view their instructional leader's monitoring as supportive, it positively effects their teaching practices and their decision to stay. When instructional leaders support teachers and promote a culture of continual learning by the school community, teachers enjoy their work and are more successful.
Multiple levels of support are necessary and effective in retaining new teachers by building their self-image as competent professionals. Establishing networks of support for teachers, both novice and veteran, can serve as highly effective professional development. Incorporating mentoring, coaching, and critical dialogue in the teacher's day can increase students' understanding and achievement, as well as teacher job satisfaction (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004).
Induction in Middle Level Schools
Comprehensive induction programs have strong implications for middle level schools—grade 5 to grade 9—where teachers often lack the specific preparation and experience for their role as a teacher of young adolescents (Jackson & Davis, 2000). Adolescents are dealing with many changes in their bodies, as well as social and emotional issues that can impede their learning if not dealt with appropriately (Van Hoose, Strahan, & L'Esperance, 2001). Teachers who do not have sufficient preparation to adequately organize their classroom and instruction to meet young adolescents' unique needs are at a disadvantage as they begin their careers.
Jackson and Davis (2000) maintained that middle level schools should be filled with expert teachers who are prepared to teach and advocate for young adolescents during their emotional, social, and academic development. However, some states do not have middle grades licensure, and too few programs specialize in the preparation of middle grades teachers (National Middle School Association, 2006). The lack of specialized licensure and preparation leaves the majority of educators who teach young adolescents ill prepared when they begin their careers to meet young adolescents' unique developmental needs (McEwin, Dickinson, & Anfara, 2005).
Beginning teachers' lack of understanding of how to teach young adolescents amplifies frustrations and learning difficulties in the classroom. To circumvent the lack of preparation, many high performing middle schools have resorted to providing inservice workshops for their teachers (Flowers & Mertens, 2003). Successful schools help teachers understand why young adolescents act the way they do and provide strategies to enable them to address their needs. Given that many new teachers, either certified in secondary or elementary, as well as alternatively certified teachers in hard-to-staff areas, lack pedagogical knowledge and strategies to teach early adolescents (National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Education, 2002), it is necessary to provide support for novice teachers that address their specific needs.
In Turning Points 2000, Jackson and Davis (2000) recommended that professional development should focus on "curriculum, instruction, adolescent development, classroom management, assessment, service learning, interdisciplinary teaming, and parent involvement" (p.114) to facilitate high levels of learning for students. Young adolescents are unique and learn best by varied curriculum and instructional strategies that take into account their social, emotional, and developmental needs. New teachers are at a disadvantage if they are unfamiliar with best practices to meet the needs of adolescents.
Teacher retention is a problem in America's public schools, especially in low income and high minority population areas (Boyd et al., 2011; Stronge, 2007). Additionally, teachers in the middle level may be ill prepared to meet the needs of young adolescents (Jackson & Davis, 2000; McEwin et al., 2005). The lack of preparation and support affect teachers' beliefs in their ability to do the job they are hired for—in other words, their teacher efficacy (Wolfolk-Hoy, 2000). The obstacles that teachers deal with in many low performing schools include limited resources, support, experience, and lack of specialized preparation or knowledge (Public Education Network, 2005). These factors affect teachers' desire to remain in teaching and to reach to their potential as professional educators (Boyd et al., 2011; Loeb et al., 2005; Johnson & Birkeland, 2003). Quality teachers are instrumental to the success of our public education; therefore, induction and mentoring programs that meet the needs of beginning teachers are essential components for schools to improve teacher retention and effectiveness (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004).
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Fletcher, S. H., Strong, M., & Villar, A. (2008). An investigation of the effects of variations in mentor-based induction on the performance of students in California. Teachers College Record, 110, 2271–2289.
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Gabriel, R. (2010). The case for differentiated professional support: Toward a phase theory of professional development. Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 4(1), 84–93.
Ganser, T. (2002). The new teacher mentors: Four trends that are changing the look of mentoring programs for new teachers. American School Board Journal, 189(12), 25–27.
Hord, S. M., & Sommers, W. A. (2008). Leading professional learning communities: Voices from research and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Ingersoll, R. M. (2001). Teacher turnover and teacher shortages: An organizational analysis. American Educational Research Journal, 38(3), 499–534.
Ingersoll, R., & May, H. (2011). Recruitment, retention, and the minority teacher shortage. Philadelphia, PA: Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania and Center for Educational Research in the Interest of Underserved Students, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ingersoll, R., & Merrill, L. (2010). Who's teaching our children? Educational Leadership. 67(8), 14–20.
Ingersoll, R., & Perda, D. (2010). How high is teacher turnover and is it a problem? Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania.
Ingersoll, R., & Strong, M. (2011). The impact of induction and mentoring programs for beginning teachers: A critical review of the research. Review of Education Research. Summer 2011.
Jackson, A.W., & Davis, G. A. (2000). Turning points 2000: Educating adolescents in the 21st century. New York, NY & Westerville, OH: Teachers College Press & National Middle School Association.
Johnson, S. M., & Birkeland, S. (2003). Pursuing a "sense of success": New teachers explain their career decisions. American Educational Research Journal, 40(3), 581–617
Johnson, S. M., Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J. P. (2012). How context matters in high-need schools: The effects of teachers' working conditions on their professional satisfaction and their students' achievement. Teachers College Record, 114(10).
Loeb, S., Darling-Hammond, L., & Luczak, J. (2005). How teaching conditions predict teacher turnover in California schools. Peabody Journal of Education, 80(3), 44–70.
McEwin, C. K., Dickinson, T. S., & Anfara, V. A., Jr. (2005). The professional preparation of middle level teachers and principals. In V. A. Anfara, Jr., G. Andrews, & S. B. Mertens (Eds.), Encyclopedia of middle grades education (pp. 59–67). Greenwich, CT & Westerville, OH: Information Age & National Middle School Association.
Meier, D. (2002). The power of their ideas: Lessons from a small school in Harlem. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
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Rivkin, S. G., Hanushek, E. A., & Kain, J. F. (2005). Teachers, schools, and academic achievement. Econometrica, 73(2), 417–458.
Rockoff, J. E. (2008). Does mentoring reduce turnover and improve skills of new employees? Evidence from teachers in New York City. Working Paper 13868, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Smith, M., & Ingersoll, R. M. (2004). What are the effects of induction and mentoring on beginning teacher turnover? American Education Research Association, 42(3), 681–715.
Stronge, J. H. (2007). Qualities of effective teachers (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Van Hoose, J., Strahan, D., & L'Esperance, M. (2001). Promoting harmony: Young adolescent development and school practices. Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association.
Villani, S. (2002). Mentoring programs for new teachers: Models of induction and support. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Wayne, A. J., Youngs, P., & Fleishman, S. (2005). Research matters: Improving teacher induction. Educational Leadership, 63(8), 76–78.
Wolfolk-Hoy, A. (2000, April). Changes in teacher efficacy during the early years of teaching. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Annotated References
Feiman-Nemser, S. (2001). Helping novices learn to teach: The role of an exemplary support teacher. Journal of Teacher Education, 52(1), 17–30.
In this article, Feiman-Nemser provided a model of mentoring termed "educative" mentoring, which is described as a supportive practice for new teachers, based on an explicit vision of good teaching and an understanding of teacher learning. Educative mentoring is an inquiry-based model of questioning and support that is deliberately focused on meaningful teaching and learning based on teachers' goals. Feiman-Nemser found that the guidance of a veteran can allow new teachers to make decisions as part of an experienced team, rather than in isolation.
Johnson, S. M., & Birkeland, S. (2003). Pursuing a "sense of success": New teachers explain their career decisions. American Educational Research Journal, 40(3), 581–617.
In their longitudinal study that included interviews with 50 beginning teachers, Johnson and Birkeland investigated factors in teachers' decisions to stay in their schools, move to new schools, or leave teaching altogether. While career intentions, financial circumstances, and preparation played a role in their decisions, the biggest indicator of whether or not teachers stayed in their schools was the experience in the school. Johnson and Birkeland found that when teachers felt successful with their students and their schools had a positive and collaborative culture, they were more likely to stay in their schools.
Smith, T. M., & Ingersoll, R. M. (2004). What are the effects of induction and mentoring on beginning teacher turnover? American Education Research Association, 42(3), 681–715.
Smith and Ingersoll examined data from the nationally representative 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the effectiveness of a range of induction activities for new teachers. The results indicated that a range of activities impacted teachers' decisions to remain teaching. Induction experiences such as engaging with a mentor from the same content area and planning and collaborating with other teachers increased teachers' likelihood of staying in their school and profession after the first year.
Villani, S. (2002). Mentoring programs for new teachers: Models of induction and support. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
In this book, Villani offered an overview of research on teacher retention and best practices for new teachers. She explored relevant issues including new teacher induction, program design, and funding of programs including grants and district and state resources. The bulk of the book, however, detailed a variety of models developed that reflect the needs of specific districts, universities, and individual schools to support new teachers. Villani supported the use of program developers in designing a mentoring and induction program. The detailed samples provide examples of effective programs to meet diverse needs.
Recommended Resources
Fletcher, S., Watkins, A., Gless, J., & Villarreal-Carmen, T. (2011). Partnerships for new teacher learning: A guide for universities and school districts. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Johnson, S. M. (2004). Finders and keepers: Helping new teachers survive and thrive in our schools. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Johnson, S. M., Kardos, S. M., Kauffman, D., Liu, E. & Donaldson, M. L. (2004). The support gap: New teachers' early experiences in high-income and low-income schools. Educational Policy Analysis Archives, 12(61). Retrieved from http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/216
Portner, H. (2002). Being mentored: A guide for protégés. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Villani, S. (2002). Mentoring programs for new teachers: Models of induction and support. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Wong, H. K. (2005). New teacher induction: The foundation for comprehensive, coherent, and sustained professional development. In H. Portner (Ed.), Teacher mentoring and induction: The state of the art and beyond (pp. 41–59). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Kathryn L. Martin is a curriculum coach in the Hawaii Department of Education and an advisor in the Middle Level M.Ed. (MLMED) program at the University of Hawaii Manoa. She is a former middle school language arts teacher and continues to support teachers on the leeward coast of Hawaii in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The focus of Dr. Martin's research agenda is the induction and retention of effective teachers in high poverty and ethnically diverse schools.
Martin, K. (2012). Research summary: New teacher induction. Retrieved [date] from http://www.amle.org/TabId/198/ArtMID/696/
This research summary was approved by the AMLE Board of Trustees, May 2012.


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Mississauga is a city full of culture and unique activities that cannot be found anywhere else in Canada. From its tiny pockets of unusual shopping experiences to its massive city-wide festivals, there are plenty of things to do in Mississauga.
One of the many Mississauga things to do is to spend a day at the Rhododendron Gardens. The Brueckner Rhododendron Garden at 660 Lakeshore Road West, a garden dedicated to the beauty of the Rhododendron plant, is a quintessential part of the uniqueness of the city. The gardens were renamed in honor of Rhododendron horticulture specialist Dr. James Brueckner in 2008 and are open daily.
Although Square One Shopping Centre is one of the largest shopping malls in Canada, this Mississauga guide recommends going off of the beaten path and checking out the smaller shops along Lakeshore Road and Dundas Street, where there are better places for funky finds and Mississauga deals. Lakeshore Road is home to Port Credit Village and Clarkson Village shopping areas, both of which have small boutiques, craft stores, antique shops, and restaurants. Antiques enthusiasts can browse the goods at Nadia's Antiques and The Barn, and foodies can search for gourmet cheeses at Goat Inc., Fine Cheese Shop. The Chinese Centre is located on Dundas Street and has many shops that sell imported goods, Asian groceries, and specialty clothing.
No guide to Mississauga is complete without mentioning Culture Days. This yearly festival is held every September and takes place all over the city. People are encouraged to get out and explore the arts and culture of Mississauga. Hands-on events at galleries are open to the public, and meetings with local artisans, craftspeople, historians, and curators take place. One of Culture Days' events is The Doors Open, where every office building in downtown Mississauga opens its door to non-employees so that citizens and visitors can see the inside of each different architectural structure.

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Ravens' Pitta done for season with hip injury
Owings Mills, MD – Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta will miss the entire 2013 season after suffering a dislocated hip during training camp practice on Saturday.
The fourth-year pro suffered the injury after colliding with safety James Ihedigbo.
Pitta underwent surgery Saturday night to put his hip back into place, and the team is awaiting medical results to determine any other damage, but it is believed he also fractured his hip.
Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh said that the Injured Reserve-Designated to Return option is not likely for Pitta because the injury will take a year to recover from.
Pitta signed a second-round tender back in May worth $2.023 million. The Brigham Young product had one of his best seasons last year, hauling in career-highs with 61 catches for 669 yards and seven touchdowns for the Super Bowl champs.


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For 19 days in March and April, Walter Hoye was locked in a cell with 29 other prisoners at the Santa Rita jail near Oakland, Calif. There were times when he wished he could have stayed longer.
When the metal door first clanged shut behind him on March 20, Hoye, 52, decided the space was really more of a cage than a cell. A metal grid penning in prisoners. Fifteen bunks lining two walls. Two toilets and a urinal for all 30 men, and a shower that inmates had gradually transformed into a pornographic shrine.
As Hoye made his way to an empty bunk, a few prisoners, mostly black and Latino, dogged his path. "You smuggle in any drugs, man?" one of them asked.
"No," Hoye said quietly.
Then the veteran inmates left him alone, he told me, except for "one of the brothers who was kind enough to help me make up my bed."
A few minutes later, another man walked over to Hoye's bunk and jabbed his finger at a newspaper he was holding. "This you?" he said, eyeing Hoye skeptically.
Hoye peered at the Oakland Tribune headline: "Anti-abortion pastor chooses jail."
"Yeah, that's me," he said.
In the next moment, the inmate was striding up and down the length of the cell, announcing, "Hey, he don't have to be here! He turned down probation! He doing straight time for what he believed in!"
It was true: On Feb. 19, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stuart Hing sentenced Walter Hoye, a Missionary Baptist minister, to 30 days in jail after Hoye refused a plea deal that included three years' probation, a small fine, and an order that he stay at least 100 yards away from Family Planning Specialists, an Oakland abortion clinic.
Passionate about the sky-high abortion rate among African-Americans, Hoye began offering men and women assistance at the clinic in 2006. About one in three Oakland residents is black, compared with a statewide African-American population of 6 percent. And though blacks make up only 12 percent of the U.S. population, they account for one-third of all abortions performed in the United States. More than three in 10 black women abort their unborn children.
According to the 2006 census, deaths now exceed live births among African-Americans. "We're no longer replacing ourselves," Hoye said. "So we're not using terms like holocaust and genocide just to elicit a response. It's the truth."
In response, once a week Hoye stood quietly outside Family Planning Specialists with a sign that said, "Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help." When people approached the clinic, Hoye would ask their permission to speak with them about abortion alternatives; he also offered them pamphlets describing available help.
In 2007, pro-abortion clinic "escorts" began to show up in groups, surrounding Hoye and impeding his movement. They blocked his sign with sheets of blank cardboard and shouted down his low-key offers of help. When that didn't scare Hoye off, clinic managers lobbied the Oakland city council and in December 2007, the council instituted a "bubble-zone" ordinance applicable within a 100-foot radius of any Oakland abortion clinic. The law made it a crime to "approach within eight feet of any person seeking to enter" a "reproductive health care facility" in order to offer literature, display a sign, or engage in "oral protest, education, or counseling."
"This law is horribly unconstitutional," Hoye said. "It allows abortion clinics to decide which U.S. citizens are allowed to retain their constitutional right to free speech."
Represented by Life Legal Defense Fund (LLDF), Hoye challenged the ordinance in court. The case is still pending, but in May 2008, Oakland public attorneys acting in cooperation with clinic managers charged Hoye with "unlawful approaches" to women, and "force, threat of force, or physical obstruction."
What prosecutors did not know was that LLDF attorneys possessed four hours of uncut videotape documenting Hoye's activities outside the clinic on the dates in question. At trial in January 2009, the tapes impeached the testimony of clinic director Jackie Barbic, who claimed that Hoye repeatedly broke the 8-foot rule and that she and a patient had to put up their hands to fend him off. Instead, the tapes showed Hoye standing still as Barbic approached him; then they showed Hoye walking away. No incident shown on the tape matched Barbic's testimony, and even clinic escorts testified that Hoye was always cordial and never obstructed anyone's path or used threats or force.
Inexplicably, the jury still found Hoye guilty. At sentencing, the prosecutor recommended the probation and the clinic stay-away order-or two years in jail. When Hoye refused the stay-away order, Judge Hing appeared "surprised," Hoye said. "The judge was essentially asking me to stop trying to help men and women outside an abortion clinic, and I just would not voluntarily give up my First Amendment rights."
In February, Hing levied a sentence of 30 days and Hoye reported to the Santa Rita jail a month later. After the newspaper-reading inmate touted the Tribune article to the other prisoners-many of them inner-city drug dealers whose highest aspiration was to stay out of prison, they clamored to know why a man would choose jail over freedom. From that moment on, Hoye found himself in constant demand.
"I would be holding court with about 30 guys, explaining why I did what I did," he said. "I explained what an abortion actually does, that it takes an innocent human life. We held prayer vigils, we had Bible studies. I must have counseled and mentored guys all day and all night. It got to the point where we started talking seriously about Christ."
Most of the men in the cage at first mouthed pro-choice slogans, Hoye said. "But when I forced them to complete the sentence, 'I believe that a woman has a right to choose to kill an innocent life,' they couldn't do it."
One morning at about 2:30 a.m., a good-looking young man named Terrell approached Hoye's bunk and asked what actually goes on during an abortion. Using his fingers to simulate a woman's legs spreading, Hoye showed Terrell how the abortionist inserts a vacuum aspirator and sucks out the developing child.
Terrell, 18, told Hoye he had gotten his girlfriend pregnant and that she had aborted. "She made the decision," he said. "It was her choice."
"Yes, I know that, but what did you do?" Hoye replied. "Did you offer to marry her?"
Terrell shook his head. "No, I didn't."
"Did you offer to help her raise the child?"
"No, I didn't."
"Did you tell her that you love her and that you were going to go the distance with her as a man should, even if she decided to give the child up for adoption?"
"No, no, I didn't," Terrell said, his eyes filling with tears. "I never knew. No one ever told me what an abortion is. No one ever made it plain."
When Terrell understood that he had, "perhaps because of his own lack of participation, been complicit in the murder of his own child, it really broke him," Hoye said.
Before Terrell went back to his own bunk that night, Hoye prayed with him. "I told him God could forgive him, that what he'd done wasn't an unforgivable sin."
But the conversation didn't end then. Terrell continued to visit with Hoye. "He began to understand that men have a responsibility to women, and vowed that, for him, an abortion would never happen again. He came to me a young man in jail for dealing drugs, trying to make some money and live the large life. I began to see him grow up."
Released from jail on April 7, Hoye rejoined his wife, Lori, in their Oakland home. Today, he is not sorry for his choice. "I've been a jail chaplain in jail before, and even had the privilege of being a guest preacher at San Quentin. Being an inmate is completely different. I was actually one of them and it gave me a different kind of credibility. I'm sure my adversary meant my incarceration for evil, but God used it for good."
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INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (AP) Cessna Aircraft has begun assembly of a new, light business jet at its plant in Independence.
The Wichita Eagle reports the first Citation M2 jet is expected to roll of the line in April, with the first delivery of the $4.4 million aircraft slated for third quarter of this year.
Cessna describes the M2 as a natural step up for owners of the smaller Citation Mustang, which is already assembled at the Independence plant. The Citation M2 is larger with seating for six passengers and two crew members and faster, with a longer range of 1,300 nautical miles.
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Australia back James O'Connor has been stood down from the Wallabies squad ahead of Rugby Championship games against South Africa and Argentina.
It follows an alleged incident at Perth Airport last weekend when 23-year-old O'Connor was reportedly prevented from boarding a flight to Bali in the early hours of the morning.
Reports described O'Connor as being "intoxicated". He was understood to have been escorted from the terminal building by police.
And Australia coach Ewen McKenzie has now responded by replacing O'Connor in his 28-man squad with New South Wales Waratahs wing Peter Betham.
"James O'Connor has been stood down for failing to demonstrate and uphold the behavioural and cultural standards expected within the team," read a post on the Qantas Wallabies official Twitter account.
"We won't be forced into making any decisions around his return until I'm satisfied that he can once again contribute positively to what we are trying to achieve as a group," McKenzie said on www.espn.co.uk
"The reality is that representing your country is the ultimate honour, but also a week-to-week proposition.
"To be selected, players must consistently do the right things on and off the field. We will continue to assess James on that basis before any team decisions are made about a return.
"My views and expectations around team culture and behaviours, along with those of his team-mates, are extremely clear, and it's important for the Wallabies and rugby in general to be spoken about positively for the right reasons.
"James and I had a long conversation around those expectations before the tournament (Rugby Championship) commenced.
"As a result, and separate to the outcomes of the current investigation, James will not be joining us in Sydney tomorrow. We must put the team first without any distractions hindering them during a really tough two-game tour."
O'Connor must now be rated a major doubt for Australia's autumn tour, which starts against England at Twickenham on November 2.


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Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai. Photographed in Singapore 2007. On the day of the festival, devotees will shave their heads undertake a pilgrimage along a set route while engaging in various acts of devotion, notably carrying various types of kavadi (burdens). At its simplest this may entail carrying a pot of milk, but mortification of the flesh by piercing the skin, tongue or cheeks.Read More


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We had a great time last year at Palm Springs Modernism Week, but I was even more compelled to come back this year when I found out there would be a tour of Royal Hawaiian Estates, a 1960s condominium community that merged mid-century modern architecture with a Polynesian theme. It's mentioned in Sven Kirsten's book Tiki Modern, but I really took notice of it after seeing Bosko's painting at The Book of Tiki 10th anniversary art show.
Borrowing its name from the famous Honolulu hotel, Royal Hawaiian Estates was initially intended as a Jewish retirement community. It was designed by the architectural firm of Richard Harrison and Donald Wexler (the latter made a special guest appearance the day of the tour). The five-acre complex is made up of 12 buildings, divided into 40 units, surrounding two pools where Moai bask in the desert sunshine.
After checking in at the front, we were given a map with self-guided tour information that highlighted unique architectural elements like the "tiki apex," the orange flourish at the end of the center beam, and the parallel lines that flank it. These were once all over the property, but as they deteriorated in the 1990s they were removed rather than replaced.
In 2010, the Royal Hawaiian Estates HOA used grants from the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation to commission a new tiki apex prototype from o2 Architecture, who designed one with low-maintenance sheet metal instead of wood. Several of these have already been put in place, and our tour fees raised enough funds to restore the remaining 30 that are missing.
Another signature are the "Flying 7s," these triangular buttresses supporting the patio roofs. They're said to have been inspired by the lateral supports on an outrigger canoe.
Several homeowners graciously opened their doors to us so we could also appreciate the interior designs, with their vaulted ceilings, clerestory windows, exposed beams and open layouts.
Some units have been remodeled over the years, but others like this one here still had many original 1960 features, like terrazo floors and this shoji screen divider between the kitchen and living room.
It was also interesting to see how each owner put their own personal stamp on their home, whether it was through collections of vintage barware, Heywood-Wakefield furniture or tiki mugs. (Not surprising as liking tiki often goes along with having an interest in things mid-century.)
One of the units was literally a time capsule. Even though new owners had recently purchased it, they had kept nearly all the original furnishings, including the lush shag carpet, vinyl couches and vintage artwork.
We were really blown away by all the different outrageously patterned wallpapers, which were still in surprisingly good condition. My favorite was the green bamboo in the guest bedroom — it's a difficult thing to pull off, but I think they did.
Admiration for Royal Hawaiian Estates was apparent in many of the owners we talked to, particularly this other couple who had on their wall an enlarged version of the original marketing brochure from 1961 (as seen in Tiki Modern.)
I took many more photos than I could include here, so head over to Flickr if you'd like to see more. To really get in the mid-century mood, listen to the playlists on the Royal Hawaiian Estates web site, inspired by the music that used to be played at the pool area 24 hours a day.
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The son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy allegedly threw hot coffee and used a homosexual slur in a jailhouse scuffle that involved a man he called a child molester, according to a criminal complaint released Tuesday.
One week after Jared Remy was officially arraigned on murder charges in the death of his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, the details of his April 3 attack on another inmate were released.
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The criminal complaint alleges Remy threw coffee in the face of Jemery Hodges, repeatedly struck him several times with a plastic chair and beat him with closed fists, police allege.
"I was watching TV and minding my own business when Remy threw hot coffee in my face. Remy started to attack me with a chair and punched me several times," Hodges told investigators. "I never had any words with Remy, and I don't know who he is."
Hodges said said Remy called him a homosexual slur when he was punched.
"I did what I had to do. I got a child molester. I hit him (with) a chair and threw hot coffee on him," Remy said when questioned.
Remy will face nine charges when he's arraigned on the new charges April 24. The charges include eight felony counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
"There is a constellation of circumstances that may be at the bottom of this incident, and I expect to investigate the matter fully and prepare an adequate defense," defense attorney Edward Ryan said.
The documents also show Remy was attacked on March 31 in the Cambridge jail but chose not to press charges at the time, explaining, "I'd rather take a punch in the face every day...earning respect than living in protective custody."


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Remember, the best backup in the world is useless if you don't have a logical way to restore that data. \nBe sure you really understand the backup procedures that are part of many programs, particularly e-mail, password managers and iTunes.\nTest your backup\/recovery every now and then to be sure it actually works the way you want it to. That includes backups to the cloud. \n\nDon't make the mistake of installing recovery software on a drive that may become inaccessible.\n\nIf you've purchased software, you've got to keep more than the original install disks; make note of the security key that many publishers annoyingly put on the package, not the disks. If you've downloaded the software, be sure you keep a copy of the key on an external drive. And although it's annoying, fill out those registrations forms you get on install and send them in. \n\nIf you're replacing a hard drive that still works (maybe it's simply too small), keep it in a USB enclosure so you can pull data off it in a pinch. Read the help files firstI really do live in my e-mail. I contact so many people from so many companies and organizations that putting all of those contacts into a database or text files is simply too laborious. And the mails contain much more than just contact information. I simply would be hamstrung without them. Rather than use Web mail, I keep my e-mail on a local drive using Thunderbird Mozilla as my mail client. Not only does that keep everything handy whether I'm online or not, but I can do a really good job indexing it with Thunderbird's built-in capabilities plus a handy desktop search application called Copernic. What's not to like? Thunderbird's backup scheme (you knew I was going there, didn't you?) is kind of wonky and not built in. You've got to root around your hard drive and find a profile folder and copy that to another drive. It should be transparent, say the friendly geeks on the Thunderbird boards. But it appears, and I admit that I still don't quite understand why everything doesn't moves smoothly when the profile is copied.So when I reinstalled the program, I had none of my e-mails. I didn't panic \u2014 not at first anyway. I went on the Web, rechecked the instructions and again copied the folder from my backup on an external drive to my new "C" drive. Nope. Still didn't work, though when I looked harder at the backup I found most of the folders, but none of the several thousand e-mails that were simply in the inbox.To begin with, here are two things to help you avoid this problem. If you're not using Web-based email, (and maybe a lesson here is that it does have advantages) be really, really sure you understand the backup and recovery procedures. The way I solved the problem \u2014 at about two in the morning \u2014 was this: Because I was so concerned about losing stuff, I kept my old hard drive and spent $35 for a USB enclosure that allowed me to use it as an external drive. I then searched it using keywords I knew were in the e-mails and found the inbox, hidden deeply in a nest of obscure directories. Yikes, what a pain. But that leads me to suggestion number two: if you're old hard drive isn't dead, keep it because you may need to pull stuff off it. What not to throw awayAnother lesson: I have a very large Seagate external drive I use for backup and a place to store big photo and music directories I don't need on my laptop. It came with a nice little program that automates backups and restores. But I carelessly installed the software on my local drive, and when I replaced it, I couldn't do the automated restore, but rather had to drag and drop everything. Pretty dumb. So that's lesson number three: Store backup software on an external drive. As I mentioned, I had a problem when I tried to reinstall Adobe's Photoshop Elements. After I loaded the software it asked me for the registration key. It wasn't on the CD; frustratingly, it resides on that long ago recycled box. Fortunately, I had registered it, so when I went to the Adobe Web site I was able to retrieve the order number and give that to someone in sales who then gave me the key. All of that took some time that I wouldn't have wasted if I had simply jotted down the key when I bought the software.Finally, iTunes. Here's the Apple support page I should have looked at, but didn't, and wasted lots of time finding my playlists and ringtones. I'm up and running with almost nothing lost \u2014 except a bunch of time I'll never get back and a few hours of sleep. Hopefully, you'll avoid the pitfalls that I didn't, and keep your backup from going astray. San Francisco journalist Bill Snyder writes frequently about business and technology. He welcomes your comments and suggestions. Reach him at email@example.com Bill Snyder on Twitter @BSnyderSF. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline


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Summertime and the livin' is easy
Within the next week or so, if not already, public schools will have dismissed for the summer. Though it's been nearly 50 years since I was a public school student I remember well the excitement of summer vacation.
For the Huisman kids, summer vacation was delayed by Vacation Bible School. Like anything good for us, we weren't too excited by another two weeks in a classroom. We survived, however, and I must admit that the lessons learned in VBS have come back to direct and encourage me later in life. Post VBS, one of my favorite summer pastimes was playing baseball. What was then called the Iowa Highway Commission maintained a large grassy area behind the home of my friends, Bruce and Gene. Almost daily (if it wasn't raining) we got neighborhood kids together and played baseball on the Highway Commission property.
We seldom could assemble enough players to create two teams so we usually played "work-up." On occasion we got upset with one another so when the owner of the baseball stomped off the field mad, the game ended.
Bicycles played an important part of my summer vacation. A bicycle in a small town is a 10-year-old boy's best friend. In an era and community where children were safe in any part of town, my friends and I rode our bikes everywhere. My bike was dressed out with streamers extending from the handle bar grips, a headlamp and a speedometer. My route to downtown included one decent hill and one time I clocked myself going more than 35 miles per hour. I had no concern for what would happen if I hit a rock on the street or if a car pulled out in front of me. For a 10-year-old more than 35 mph on your bicycle is a thrill.
My bicycle accessories included a spring-type clothes pin and a stack of baseball cards as well as balloons. Properly installed these items gave my bike the sound of a motorcycle, which made 35 mph even more thrilling.
Thrills on bicycles included jumping ramps. More than once a ramp jump went bad and extreme pain resulted. Thank heavens I was able to father children later in life. Being what my mother described as a "husky" lad, ramp jumps were especially hard on my bike's frame. I was a regular customer at the local blacksmith shop where Mr. Ayers repaired the frame for his standard rate of "two bits."
On more than one occasion the neighborhood kids got together and set up a carnival in our backyards. We charged a penny or two for a ride on our improvised carnival rides.
I became skilled at the twirling washtub ride. I wrapped a rope around a washtub several times. Once a paying customer was aboard, I pulled the rope as hard as I could giving the rider a thrilling but very brief "tilt-a-whirl" experience. A favorite summer activity was searching for pop bottles which could be redeemed for a few pennies. I can't remember if we received two-cents or three-cents a bottle but I know it took several to create enough cash to buy a bottle of pop at a local gas station. Soda pop was not regularly served in most homes in those days so a mid-afternoon pop at Molly's Phillips 66 was a real treat.
Most of us had BB guns and regularly went hunting for sparrows. I admit that shooting sparrows was a cruel and unnecessary activity and I would not do it today. However, in the late 1950s pre-adolescent boys didn't know any better. The good news is that none of us were marksmen and very few sparrows died. Very few.
One of my favorite but short lived summer time activities was going to the drug store and reading the Police Gazette magazines. Though quite tame by today's standards, they were the raciest publications we could get our hands on. I said this activity was short lived. One of the clerks kicked us out of the drug store one day telling us those magazines weren't for boys. That, of course, made me want to read them all the more. Porgy and Bess had it right: Summertime and the livin' is easy.


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So I'm a little late to the game when it comes to the Computer Arts Collection, which is an annual series of six in-depth guides (a new edition is released every two months) full of inspiration from each of the following disciplines: graphic design, typography, illustration, branding, photography and advertising. But nevertheless, I am so glad I found this awesome set of ultra thick magazines that are so jam-packed full of content that they're more in line with softcover books.
I was in Barnes and Noble last month and spotted the retro-futuristic cover for the Illustration Issue (number 3 in the series) and had to know more. This isn't just your run-of-the-mill creative magazine. Each issue features industry leaders who share their processes and insights. And even better, there's a talent directory in the back of each issue listing contact info for the best of the best!
Beyond that, at 200+ pages, I was blown away at just how well the content is designed. Multiple weights of paper, many saturated with colorful patterns and tons of unique graphic lockups make this a must-have if you're in most creative fields. I could have easily scanned another 50+ pages because the content is THAT good…and I'm not even an illustrator. I'm now backtracking since I discovered these so late, trying to pick up the first two issues I missed (graphic design and typography).
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You may remember last June we released a Dad Rap just in time for Father's Day. But we all know Dads aren't the only ones who like to get down – Moms can spit rhymes too! We've laid out the lyrics for you:
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All right, settle down…settle down… 'Cuz I said so, that's why!
I'm the M-O-M, here to bust a rhyme out,
So listen up, yo, or I'll put you in a time out!
I rule the roost, I'm commander in chief,
My to-do list's longer than War & Peace.
I do it all, I'm a coach, I'm a nurse.
I got a whole damn drugstore in my mad Mom purse!
Cookin' mac and cheese, like I'm the Top Chef,
Feedin' hungry kids like I was UNICEF!
Rollin' atcha soccer games, enthusiastic,
Rockin' mom jeans, lookin' hella fantastic!
Running mad errands, yo, all over the map.
I've changed some diapers, but take no crap!
So sit up straight! Clean your plate! No swearing!
Don't roll your eyes! Is that what you're wearing?
You think you're all bad? Well, you best be good.
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Singer John Denver's former Aspen home for sale
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ASPEN, Colo. – An Aspen-area house and guesthouse once owned by singer John Denver are for sale for nearly $10.8 million.
The Aspen Times reported Friday that the property includes a six-bedroom main house and a five-bedroom guesthouse in a gated neighborhood.
The real estate listing says the two buildings have a total of nearly 9,100 square feet and sit on more than 7.5 acres.
The newspaper said broker Carol Dopkin, who is handling the listing, didn't return a call.
Denver lived in the house until his death in October 1997 in a plane crash. He was 53.


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Is Windows Vista the last major client Microsoft operating system? Some experts think so. Most feel that future operating systems will be completely driven by the web, most likely a browser. Being able to buy an installable, packaged Windows DVD or CD is going to become a thing of the past. But how likely is that to happen? Steve Ballmer says there's not a chance, at least not yet.
At the Windows Vista release pep rally in New York City today, Ballmer told a group of reporters that there's "plenty more where that came from" at Microsoft. "We've got a very long list of stuff our engineers want to do, a long list of stuff all of the companies here want us to do," the Microsoft CEO said. Although that list may be long, Ballmer also noted that the Windows team will need to adapt to changing demands. "All these things will evolve, and the operating system will need to evolve with them."
While Ballmer wouldn't confirm whether a Vista service pack was already in the works, he was plenty eager to talk about tomorrow's release and the early adoption of Vista. In the next 90 days, Ballmer predicted that consumers will upgrade to Vista five times faster than they did with Windows 95 and twice as fast as they did with Windows XP. He also admitted that most of those installs won't be from consumers who purchased their copy from a retail outlet. "The bulk of the units will wind up going out with new computers."
Tomorrow is the big day, so I ask: how many of you will be buying a copy of the new operating system in the next 24 hours? How about the next three months? Where are you going to buy your copy, or are you getting it with a new PC?


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Samsung has formally unveiled the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which connects to Galaxy smartphone via Bluetooth, following a number of leaks running up to the event.
At around the size of a regular watch, it has a 1.63-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, 1.9-megapixel 'Memographer' camera on the side of the device for capturing snaps with a tap and Bluetooth on board. As you might expect of a smartwatch, it provides much of the functionality of an Android device without needing to actually touch your phone.
Core to the experience is the voice control, which will allow you to carry out all the usual functions like switching music on, making or receiving calls and sending messages, as well as operating apps.
The Galaxy Gear has also been pre-loaded with Samsung specific apps and is targeting health and fitness fans with the inclusion of support for others like RunKeeper and MyFitnessPal. In total there should be around 70 apps at launch.
As well as this, Samsung has also partnered with other like Glympse and Path for launch to integrate some of the platform's functionality into the device. This means that users can share photos, leave feedback for friends and family and post their location using Path in just a few seconds, and without touching their phone.
Other third-party apps designed to run on the Gear include Highlight, a location-based app that allows you to connect to other users close by. Several new features, like 'Handshake Memory' have been added specifically for the launch of the Gear.
The Galaxy Gear will be available worldwide from September 25 in six colors: Jet Black, Mocha Gray, Wild Orange, Oatmeal Beige, Rose Gold, and Lime Green priced at $299. However, at launch it will only work with the Note 3 and Note 10.1, to be followed later in the year by the Galaxy S4 after it receives a software update to Android 4.3.
While it's one of the first smartphone brands to bring a smartwatch to market, it's by no means the only one out there with rivals coming in the form of the Sony Smartwatch 2 (SW2), the Pebble, and numerous others. Apple, too, is rumored to be getting in on the smartwatch action with the iWatch, but hasn't yet announced, or confirmed, any information regarding it.
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Home Alone
"To Los Frailes Beach???"
While downshifting a gear to a cruising pace, every three-wheeled rickshaw driver asked me the same question. While taking a tour of the coast in a spectacular dual toned rickshaw piqued my interest, what was more appealing was watching them go by. The plethora and odd arrangement of decals was mind boggling; dripping flames, cartoon characters, sports logos, marijuana leaves, Jesus heads, and batman-shaped windows, tinted in black plastic to hide the backseat passengers. A slight squint in the eyes and shake of the head was understood as a no thanks. It never hurts to ask I suppose.
No, today I couldn't be distracted by water and beaches. I had my fun the day before, peering into the strange obsessive sex lives and ritualistic ways of blue footed boobies. These birds were more obsessed with mating than a class of high school boys. Where there was a female, a male was standing obnoxiously in front of her, flaunting his beautiful blue feet by raising one foot and then the other. The female didn't seem to pay any attention; however she was beyond shallow, eventually choosing the male whose feet were the richest in azure hue. There were many duos between males involving lifting their sharp pointed bills toward the sky and blowing out a high pitched whistle, while outstretching their wings, frantically attempting to display their dominance.
I never saw a female pick a winner, but I did see many soon-to-be mothers incubating their eggs. This was interesting as well, as instead of laying her eggs in a nest, she would defecate in such extreme quantities, that essentially a nest was created of guano. This protected her eggs from bugs and made her nest visible from above.
Off in the ocean waters, you could see blue footed boobies dive bombing straight into the ocean, funneling through the water and devouring off-guard fish. As intense as they were, their lives were short lived. Dive bombing into the ocean blue slowly destroyed their eyesight, leading to an eventual heart-stopping suicide involving a cliff wall or tree.
Today was an unusual day. In the wee hours of the morning, Brad rolled out of bed without me, and ventured off to catch the early bus to Guayaquil in search of a brake master cylinder. For the second time since our trip started, Brad and I were separating for more than the length of an average 9 to 5 work day. This used to be the norm five days a week, now one day apart seemed like infinity. I was left to fend for myself on the beaches of Puerto Lopez.
Nervously, I set out to the market with a simple task for the day, a photographic challenge if you will. The challenge was given to me by a friend; take photos of cooks preparing their food. Easy enough, if you remove from the equation the part where I am shy and horrendous at the Spanish language.
Like many markets, it was a few blocks from the restaurantes turisticos, tour agencies and typical souvenir shops selling woven baskets, sarongs, and keychains. This one was a fabulous open air market, with a few messy but organized comedores. Under a tarped area, dozens of plastic tables and chairs were sprawled out, no clear distinction between one joint to the next except for what kind of salsa sat as the centerpiece. No chalkboards or menus identified the meal of the day; you just had to sit down and wait for the news. It didn't really matter anyway, they were all nearly identical. Women were surrounded by pots and pans, pushing out food in courses: a brothy soup, then a typical plate of meat, rice, lentils, and plantain chips or patacones, and lastly a cup of juice.
Around the corner, under corrugated metal roofs, If you are wondering why metal roofs, more on this right here. Chamomile flowers were in bundles and women sat on buckets shelling peas, surrounded in a pyramid of colors.
One young shop worker, blinged out in t-shirt imprinted with a faux diamond necklace, flexed his biceps at me as I bought a bundle of spinach reminiscent of a pile of wilted weeds. While flashing a grin, he reported, "Spinach is very good for you. I eat it every day because it makes me VERY strong". Yes, he looked just like the Latin American version of Popeye.
One of the things I love most about Latin Americans is their incredible creativity. If you can't afford a fence, make a wall of tumbleweeds and branches to keep the sheep in. If you don't have a car, chop a rusted out 40-year old bike in half and replace the front with a huge cart and two wheels. No need for handlebars, just grab the front of your cart and start the thigh burning motion of moving the mass forward. These utilitarian bikes (and motorcycles if you had the cash) were second in popularity to the rickshaws. They were loved and used for every perceivable task: delivering propane tanks, glass bottles, moving garbage, carrying people, and selling food. Each one was customized a bit in layout, but the food stands were generally half tabletop and half grill, sometimes with a fancy striped patio umbrella; for ambiance I would imagine.
As evening approached, I left the market with a bag full of food: chorizo, coconut balls, mashed balls of cooked plantain, fry bread filled with cheese, and a few pinches more of confidence than when I started the day. Task accomplished.
The following day, with my honey back at my side, we cruised on out of Ecuador and into Peru. As we wound through the mountains, I spotted a pig dressed as superman. He surely would have tripped on his plaid, baby blue cape if he was skipping along to a mud puddle. However he sat propped up on the table with his eyes closed next to a black charred wok, filled with delightfully juicy chunks of pork.
"I'll have some pig please".
The woman lifted the cape of the pig and sliced off a chunk of its back, scooped a few chunks of pork from the wok, and layered the plate with corn, pork, and onion. It was heaven, I promise.
As we continued down the road, I fed Brad like a baby, placing chunks of meat into his open mouth as he drove. As we continued on, my mind drifted to how at home you'd never find the food so exposed. Our meat is cut behind swinging closed doors, packaged in rectangular foam plates, wrapped in saran wrap and marked with an expiration date. On more than one occasion in Latin-America I've watched a family take the life of one of its livestock. To them, it was an occasion and a moment to celebrate their fortune, no foam rectangles or saran wrap in sight.
As we crossed into Peru, things got hectic fast. Nacho was like the white sheep being funneled down the killing chute, engulfed in a mass of pedestrians, rickshaws, carts, and stands.
The following day we were heat exhausted and starving, driving through the vast desert and nothingness of Northern Peru.
We spotted a comedor in the distance. As we sat down on the wooden bench, a single slab of jerky-like meat wavered in the air, hanging from a bare rusted wire strung up between two beams. Carne seca: it's what's for lunch.


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As computing devices shrink, Microsoft seems to think that a trackpoint, or "thumb mouse," might be a good idea, especially if it hides a practical surprise: a fingerprint sensor that could be used to enable Windows Hello.
As noted by Windows Central, Microsoft recently filed a patent for a low-profile pointing device with an optional optical sensor beneath it which could be used for identification purposes and for navigation. There's no guarantee that the patent will be approved, or that the trackpoint will ever ship within a Microsoft device; still, it's an interesting idea that shows how Microsoft is imagining its hardware might evolve.
Why this matters: Though biometric identification was originally sold as a way to secure phones and other mobile devices, its convenience lends itself to other scenarios. Although Windows PCs can be secured with a four-digit PIN, using facial recognition or a fingerprint sensor is arguably just as fast, and far more secure. Microsoft's own biometric technology, known as Windows Hello, is not only a key feature of Windows 10, but a tool that Microsoft hopes users will embrace over passwords at various sites around the Web.
Looking ahead to compact computing
Microsoft's patent filing is broad enough that it appears to cover anything from a more traditional trackpoint, or "nipple mouse," like those on Lenovo's ThinkPad notebooks, to something with a slightly larger surface area. It's worth noting that Microsoft has never put a physical trackpoint inside its Surface devices, which use a camera to identify the user.
Microsoft's patent envisions a touch-sensitive surface, with the possibility that it bemade of semi-transparent material. That would allow a sensor beneath the trackpoint's surface to read a fingerprint. Although it sounds like the trackpoint could tilt if necessary, Microsoft's patent also suggests that the trackpoint could optically sense the user's finger as it "swipes" left, right, up, or down.
Aesthetically, embedding a trackpoint within the clean key layout of the Surface could be a risky proposition. Remember, though, that Microsoft came close to releasing the so-called Surface Mini, a smaller version of its Surface Pro tablet line. As devices shrink, there's less room for a traditional trackpad.
Microsoft has already made some concessions to the "trackpoint" concept, building in a "soft" trackpoint as part of Windows 10 Mobile GUI. The idea is that sometimes a cursor needs to be positioned between letters, and the touchscreen interface simply isn't precise enough to do the job.
Finally, there's the security aspect. Microsoft's Lumia 950 smartphone attempted to use a camera as a biometric interface, which would recognize the unique pattern of a user's iris, but it doesn't really work that well.
The patent is all very much a mountain of circumstantial evidence, of course. But Microsoft may be envisioning a day when future Surface phones or tablets ship with an optional keyboard equipped with a pointing device that also serves as biometric authentication.


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Starting in January 2013 it will become easier for students to earn some double degrees on the University of Colorado Boulder campus so that they can complete their academic goals more quickly and with less cost.
The CU-Boulder policy for the number of credit hours needed to earn two degrees in different colleges and schools has been revised, according to Provost Russell L. Moore. The deans of all of the campus's schools and colleges worked collaboratively to simplify the rules for attaining double degrees across their respective schools and colleges and effective Jan. 14, 2013, the 145-credit hour requirement minimum will no longer be in effect for a variety of degree combinations.
"The criteria for earning multiple cross college or school undergraduate degrees will now be that the student must simultaneously fulfill all requirements for each of the degrees pursued," Moore said. "In circumstances when these requirements can be met in fewer than 145 credit hours, then this will be allowed."
For example, with careful planning and a limited number of electives, a student could earn a Bachelor of Arts in political science and Bachelor of Science in journalism in about 130 credit hours. Some degree combinations may still require 145 credits, some more, and students should work closely with their college and school academic advisers to plan a course of study.
"Many of our top students pursue multiple areas of study because they feel it delivers a richer undergraduate experience," Moore said. "As long as students meet all requirements for both undergraduate degrees, it isn't necessary for them to spend additional time and money to meet an across the board credit requirement."
In order to earn a double degree from two colleges or schools, students must meet all individual degree requirements as currently written, they must receive signoff approval from the academic adviser for each degree area, and both degrees must be confirmed at the same graduation date.
"I've directed the deans to work with associate deans and advisers in each of their colleges or schools to implement this change and for the registrar to oversee needed changes to degree audits," Moore said.
The policy applies to currently enrolled and incoming students. There will be no retroactive application of the policy change to students graduating prior to Jan. 14, 2013.


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How to Keep From Chasing Extended Prices
Article Summary: As the forex market breaks out and develops trends, many times traders will trade these trends when they are extended. Using the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and the Donchian Channels (DNC) we will determine if a trend is losing momentum and if it has corrected deep enough.
There are several emotions traders deal with each day. One powerful emotion is the fear of missing something. This typically exists when the market moves in a monster trend. At that point, traders see these trends and will throw caution to the wind by blindly entering the trade. They hope to gossip around the water cooler (also known as forums, twitter, and Facebook) about their winning trade in this monster trend. Realistically, they hope the trend can bail them out of an untimely entry.
Well, the FX market has perked up lately and strong trends have begun to develop. However, are these trends the beginning of a larger trend or the end of a tiring move? Today, we will use forex technical analysis to help us determine if the move is extended and due for a correction. The tools utilized are Relative Strength Index and Donchian channels.
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
The RSI is one of the most popular tools used by traders. It can provide signals when the price becomes overbought and oversold. However, one of the biggest misconceptions of oscillators is that if price is overbought, then it has to correct and sell off.
Therefore, one key to trading with an oscillator is to filter the signals in the direction of the trend. (To learn more about trading with the RSI in the direction of the trend, enroll for this free RSI course and receive a sample RSI strategy at the end. The course will take about 20 minutes to complete.)
We will build on this and focus on divergent signals using the RSI.
What is divergence?
Divergence is simply when we see higher highs on prices; yet lower highs on the RSI. It is an indication the trend is losing momentum and at risk of correcting.
Learn Forex: Price Divergence with RSI Oscillator
(Created using FXCM's Marketscope 2.0 charts)
Notice above how price continues higher yet RSI does not create a higher high. It means a correction might be coming and to stay away from entering new trades.
To think of it another way, imagine you are driving down the road and your car runs out of fuel. Even though there is no fuel in the tank, the car is still moving forward albeit at a much slower pace. In essence, the momentum behind the car was lost and eventually the car comes to a stop.
That is the same way with forex chart analysis. Prices move in a strong trend to the upside, and then eventually the market loses momentum. However, even though momentum is slowing, prices are still moving higher. Eventually the momentum stops and prices correct lower.
The RSI oscillator can help us determine if the market is losing momentum and at risk of correcting. Once we see this, we know to keep from entering the trend and wait for either a support zone or a new price breakout.
Using Donchian Channels for Trend Entry
We never know for sure how deep the correction will be or if a new trend develops to the downside. Therefore, we will use the Donchian Channel to indicate when the correction has been deep enough to begin considering trades again.
For example, place the Donchian Channels on a 4 hour chart with 55 input value. Although prices are in an uptrend, we will know the market has corrected enough when the lower Donchian Channel is broken.
Learn Forex: Using Donchian Channels for Adequate Correction and Following Entry
(Created using FXCM's Marketscope 2.0 charts)
Therefore, after the lower channel is reached, we can wait for prices to reach the upper channel to trigger our entry.
So the Donchian Channels offer a 2 step objective process with the benefit of keeping us from chasing trades.
- In an uptrend, wait for prices to penetrate the lower channel
- After reaching the lower channel, enter when price moves 1 pip above the upper channel
Good luck with your trading!
---Written by Jeremy Wagner, Head Trading Instructor, DailyFX Education
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Family: Furnariidae (Ovenbirds)
Authority: (Zimmer, 1934)
Red List Category
Based on a model of future deforestation in the Amazon basin, it is suspected that the population of this species will decline by 25-30% over the next three generations, and it has therefore been uplisted to Near Threatened.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Species factsheet: Dendroplex kienerii. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 26/03/2023. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2023) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 26/03/2023.


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Mr. Chatterbox
If you're like me, you're getting a little sick of the Sarasota School of Architecture. Now it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Well, let me tell you-10 years ago it was a bunch of ugly houses from the '50s in such disrepair that you couldn't give them away.
I'm not saying it's over-rated or anything, but I do feel that it is stealing the thunder of an equally important movement. I refer, of course, to the Bradenton School of Architecture, where form met function and both lost. Sarasota had clean lines, flowing plans and glass walls to bring the outdoors in. Bradenton had chaotic lines, small, contained rooms, and jalousie windows to also let the outdoors in, but in a way that was in constant conflict with your air conditioner.
Lido Shores has the finest collection of Sarasota School houses; Bayshore Gardens the finest of Bradenton School houses. Bayshore Gardens is one of the classic Florida subdivisions from the '50s, designed mainly with Midwest retirees in mind. There are perhaps 10 to 12 basic models in the Gardens; most are typical ranch designs. But five or six are different. They have definite '50s touches and thus epitomize the Bradenton School of Architecture.
Let's tour the models:
Here is the most ubiquitous of the '50s models, which I have christened the Poodle Skirt. It's a classic '50s design, with that wonderful textured brick wall giving it a whiff-a tiny whiff, granted- of the glamorous Eden Roc in Miami Beach. To me it screams out to be painted pink and gray. The Poodle Skirt is quite pleasant inside, bright and sunny. Drawbacks are the smallish rooms and the single bath, plus the renovations over the years by previous owners, which look like they were accomplished after drunken trips to Home Depot.
Above, the surprisingly tasteful Blank Façade. This certainly wins the prize as the best looking of the Bayshore Gardens homes. Any of those highfalutin architects down in Sarasota would be proud to claim this sensitive exercise in scale, proportion and texture as their own. There's something very exotic about its lack of windows facing the street, like it's from some faraway tropical place, like Brasilia or maybe Belize City.
I call this one the Rudolph Gone Wrong. It's very hard to find; only a few were ever built. People must have hated them. But its gauche assemblage of disparate elements makes it a masterpiece of Florida vernacular architecture. It's a little bit Deco, a little bit Country, and a whole lot Bradenton. I've never been inside one but they look tiny from the outside, which only adds to their charm.
Here is the Checkerboard Square, a real winner. You get an attractive façade with a '50s frieze plus a '50s picture window plus a great interior layout. It has three bedrooms and two baths and a ceiling in the living room that, if not exactly "cathedral" is at least "small wayside chapel."
Bayshore Gardens is shaping up as the next hot neighborhood, believe it or not. Now that South Gate has been picked over, it's the coming place-it's 10 minutes from downtown Sarasota, it's got Manatee's lower taxes, and the housing stock is built to last. These houses are concrete block and the ones I've examined closely are in remarkably good condition.
And the price is certainly right. Poodle Skirts in good condition are going for $125,000; Checkerboards maybe $10,000 more.
Restoring them to their '50s splendor has only just begun. But it will continue, take my word for it. And some day Bayshore Gardens will be a National Historic District, rather like South Beach, world famous as the finest concentration of the Bradenton School of Architecture anywhere.


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When I try and access the setup through autorun I get the a message that the SETUP.EXE programme cannot run due to incompatibility with 64 bit version of Windows. It suggests contacting the software vendor to ask if a 64 bit version of the program is available.
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Tagged: Mike Ryan
Getting the feel back right on time
I'm getting there. I've broken some scar tissue in the area where I had my sports hernia surgery this winter. It happened when I was sliding on a double in our second Spring Training game. I was concerned at first, but Dr. Lewis Yocum told me it was the normal process. He also told me to be ready, because another time it's going to pop, a loud one, and I'm going to feel it. But that's part of the process of breaking that scar tissue.
I've been running first to third, no problem. You learn yourself in the spring, what you can do. Veterans like Hideki Matsui, Bobby Abreu, myself, we know how to bring our bodies along. In my 18 years in the game, this is the slowest it's gone for me this spring, coming back from the surgery. Being a competitor, I want to be out there. But I'm playing a games, taking one off. Pretty soon, with the season coming, I'll be playing four, five games in a row.
Friday in Maryvale against the Brewers and Sunday at home against the Mariners I had some great at-bats, and that was encouraging. I was getting back to 3-2 counts and coming through with two-strike hits. That's when I know I'm seeing the ball well, getting my timing down, when I start working counts and get to 3-2.
It's not about hitting home runs and all that stuff in the spring, especially for veteran guys. It's more about timing. Bobby, Hideki, guys who have been around, they know what they're doing. They'll be ready. The last four or five spring games is when you want to see the ball, get some back spin, hit balls hard. It doesn't matter if they're caught as long as you hit them hard.
It's better in Spring Training to hit a line-drive out than bloop one in for a hit. If I'm hitting .300 and don't feel like myself, it doesn't accomplish anything. If I'm hitting .250 but driving the ball and feeling comfortable, seeing the ball well, I'm good with that. Numbers and records don't count in the spring. It's all about how you feel, not what you do.
In April, of course, all that changes. You want every hit you can get, any way you get it. That's when the real Angels will show up, ready to defend our AL West title.
It's different when you're a guy trying to make an impression, trying to make the ballclub. Then results count. It's like Mike Ryan. He's having a great spring, with the bat and in the field, but it doesn't surprise me.
I've known him for a long time, going back to our days in Minnesota with the Twins. Mike's been that guy his whole career who has come to Spring Training ready to go. He hits .300 in the spring with a couple home runs. He's always pumped and ready to go.
Mike can play the infield or the outfield. He's familiar with all those positions. He can flat-out hit. He's always got a plan what to do up there, and he executes it. I don't know how it'll turn out, but if he doesn't make the Opening Day roster, he'll keep working in the Minors and be ready if he gets the call. He's that kind of guy.