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Gov. Pat McCrory�s comments on a conservative radio show, painting a picture of North Carolina�s well-regarded public universities as purveyors of useless degrees, show how little he understands about the role our universities play in our state�s economy and, yes, in graduating students who are employable and prepared for successful careers.
Gov. Pat McCrory�s comments on a conservative radio show, painting a picture of North Carolina�s well-regarded public universities as purveyors of useless degrees, show how little he understands about the role our universities play in our state�s economy and, yes, in graduating students who are employable and prepared for successful careers.
In promoting the idea that universities can and should do a better job helping students find work after graduation, he bashed liberal arts education and a university system that has contributed many times more to North Carolina�s economy than what the state taxpayers have invested in it.
The general point the governor may have been trying to make � that students graduating from our universities should have demonstrable skills so they can compete for available jobs � has merit. But McCrory�s contention that liberal arts degrees don�t get students jobs was off the mark.
The problem with that thinking is that we cannot afford to pigeonhole our best and brightest students by insisting that they stick to a course of study, possibly one they have no desire to pursue, that leads to a particular job or type of job. Ten or 20 years from now, those skills � or jobs � may be obsolete. We need to graduate students with the imagination, critical thinking skills and flexibility needed to develop and/or occupy jobs that have not yet been created.
That is precisely what a university education is designed to do. Students are exposed to ideas and subjects that may never have occurred to them. They exit with a broader perspective on the world, and on themselves.
A student�s interests and passions go a long way in determining career path, but some students may take a completely different track once they leave school. Liberal arts majors work in many careers, as do business administration majors, nursing majors, education majors and even engineering majors.
Where universities often fall short is that there is little emphasis on helping students find and nurture those interests while at the same time strategically selecting courses that can show a prospective employer a more visible �skill� than the ability to think and communicate.
Across the board, college graduates have a far lower unemployment rate than non-graduates. It is true that many recent graduates have had trouble finding jobs of any kind, not only in their field, in large part because the recession threw a lot of experienced workers into the job market to compete for fewer available jobs. As for McCrory�s insistence that we need engineers and technicians, many of those folks are also unemployed.
The governor�s comments may have been a nod to the prevailing thinking in the state legislature that our universities are filled with waste and unnecessary classes. On the contrary, budget cuts have strained the classroom and if allowed to continue will erode the quality of our state universities, from the flagship institution in Chapel Hill to the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
A task force is already meeting to offer suggestions for improving the performance of our universities, increasing the number of graduates and continuing a program already in existence that funds schools based on their graduation rate and other tangible criteria rather than simply on enrollment.
Some suggestions might include a greater emphasis on student counseling, both at the academic advising and career placement levels. Most students do not receive the latter guidance until late in their senior year. By then it is too late to sneak in a few courses that might help them procure entry-level jobs with strong advancement potential. The general education courses all undergraduates must take also could be revised to include business-related courses involving such skills as accounting, database analysis, or computer programming.
But our governor, who himself holds degrees from a liberal arts college in education and political science but made his living working for Duke Energy, should not downplay the value of a liberal arts degree or the importance of preserving our state universities� broad academic pedigree.
It is never a worthless pursuit to get an education, even one that doesn�t land you a job �in your field.� Many employers will state that they look for candidates who have the types of �soft� skills a liberal arts degree instills, such as communication, teamwork and the ability to analyze. Such employees are best positioned to shift gears and learn new skills as needed.
An English major who takes a job as a machinist is just as employed, yet he�s also got the four-year degree that is required for advancement or to change careers. The degree may not benefit him immediately, but the education will pay off in many ways � at work, at home and in the community � over the course of a lifetime.


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Friday, November 13, 2009
Happy BlogHop!
Allrighty then. . . welcome to Scrap Happens. . . my little blog about everything scrappy in my life! I have a few fun card and layout ideas and even videos here. Stop by any time! I love visitors!
So if you are making Valentines for the troops, they are due by January 8th. Plenty of time to get those love notes made! There are so many of our deployed heroes have loved ones at home. I can't wait to send in my next box of cards. . . they are just so full of love! It gives me lots of warm fuzzies to think that their loved ones will recieve these little notes and have a special keepsake from so far away. I don't think that I will ever need any more reason to make cards for the troops than the ones you can find here. Go read. take tissue!!!
One of my favorite things is mixing and matching and finding products that compliment each other well. Here are a few that are perfect for making Valentines! Making Memories has a great selection of papers and embelishments called "Love Notes." (A neat thing about this collection is, it is from last year, so you can find them on CLEARANCE at scrapbook.com!) I also used the "Storybook" Cricut cartridge to cut out some coordinating letters and embelishments. They go together like pb&j. :)
You can also find these coordinating notebook looking pages, which are perfect for liners for the insides of your cards! See?
Does it get any better? Yes! There are also coordinating envelopes and guess what size they are. . . A2. Weeeee!
In no time at all, you can create a whole pile of cards with matching liners and envelopes and adorable sentiments and embelishments. . . it is like Valentine bliss.
Here are a few. . .
Now then, I have to add that I was first introduced to these products because they all came to me as part of a monthly card kit that I got last February from Express the Moment. I use these monthly card kits to make cards for the troops very frequently. I find it fast and easy because all of the supplies are already matched up for you and if you want even more, you can add on extras from the ETM store!
Here is my contest. . . leave me a reply to this post and on Monday evening (the 16th) I will use a randomizer program of some kind to pick a winner - the winner will recieve a Expressions Card Kit that I will purchase for you from ETM. I will also throw in a few goodies and embelishments and other treats. To qualify you must post leaving me a name or contact info of some kind. . . I will post the name of the winner here on Monday night!
I love making cards in general - but especially when they go to the people who will really treasure them - the troops and their loved ones - friends and family at home who are so grateful for all of their hard work.
Now then, there are tons of awesome blogs to move on to. So hop on over to the next blog. . . .
Sewcrazy by Aimee!
and thanks so much for stopping by!
67 comments:
- Rhonda Miller said...
Thanks for sharing all that info. I like to find coordinating supplies as well. Your cards are great. I especially like the papers you used. TFS.
- November 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM
- Nancy said...
Thanks for sharing. Beautiful cards, Love the colours.
It is the main job of making a card, finding coordinating supplies, I think:) The rest is just the fun about paper crafting;)
Hugs, Nancy;O)
- November 14, 2009 at 1:35 AM
- Rose Petal said...
Hi there. I love all the co-ordianting things and beautiful cards too. Such a gorgeous colour too.
I have also made myself a follower and I will be back to see more of your gorgeous work. Take care and Happy Crafting.
Love Sandra xx
- November 14, 2009 at 2:42 AM
- Scrappycath said...
Wow, what a terririfc informative first stop on the hop! Thanks for all the great info and pretty cards!
- November 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM
- debb said...
Cute cards- I love all things clearance so great idea!
- November 14, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Wow I love your cards. Your bog is amazing so full of great inspiration
- November 14, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Hey! You're the first stop on the hop, and what a great post! I love the note pages as liners idea.
- November 14, 2009 at 6:15 AM
- Operation Write Home said...
Great card - the notebook liner is the COOLEST! I have so much notebook paper, and I think I know what to use it for....wheee! Thanks for playing on the hop!!
- November 14, 2009 at 6:20 AM
- Deloris said...
Neat cards! Thanks for sharing them!
- November 14, 2009 at 6:25 AM
- JPScraps said...
First off..Thank you for making such beautiful cards to send to the troops:) Your post is full of great ideas so ,thanks again.
- November 14, 2009 at 6:27 AM
- Diane S said...
very pretty cards!
- November 14, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- Dawn said...
Happy hop day! Thanks for playing along.
(there is not link to the next stop tho)
- November 14, 2009 at 6:59 AM
- Cassie said...
Very cute cards! You're a great start to the hop ;D
- November 14, 2009 at 7:02 AM
- Kay said...
Great idea to use a card kit - and I LOVE the envelopes. How special is that?
- November 14, 2009 at 7:28 AM
- Dana said...
very sweet card!
- November 14, 2009 at 7:33 AM
- Rhonda said...
Great card!!! TFS!!!
- November 14, 2009 at 7:41 AM
- RiverDog Prints said...
I love all the tips! And those colors are just lovely :)
- November 14, 2009 at 7:45 AM
- Anita said...
Thanks for the tips! Awesome cards!
- November 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM
- Merry's Musings said...
Perfect link to reference for OWH, What a great blog post. Will be back to utilize those tips. Thanks. Great Cards!
- November 14, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- jeanna said...
Your cards are very lovely!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- peggysue said...
Thanks for all the tips, what lovely creations!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:12 AM
- Kas said...
Using notebook paper as a liner is a great idea!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Karen (aka Sassyscrapper) said...
Wow ... love your blog and all the great ideas and suggestions. I'll be "following" and look forward to more inspirations in my card making! Happy Thanksgiving!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- Seongsook Duncan said...
Thanks for sharing your ideas. It looks very nice. I was not sure about getting those card kits but I will go and check.
- November 14, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Patty K said...
great cards! those kits look awesome!
- November 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Cute, cute, cute cards--won't a hero love getting to write home on one of them!
- November 14, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Tammy said...
All your cards are gorgeous! I love the colors you used and the papers!
- November 14, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Carmen O. said...
Great cards!
- November 14, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- Karen Howard said...
What a wonderful idea... getting card kits!!! Thank you for sharing. I'm farther down the bloghop, hope you get a change to stop by!
- November 14, 2009 at 12:03 PM
- GretaB said...
Thanks for sharing your process of making cards. What a great idea for the card liners! I'll have to remember that one.
- November 14, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Cyn said...
Wondeful blog!
- November 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- dawna said...
Beautiful card!! I especially love the way the 'notebook looking page' looks inside the card.
- November 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- MarcyK924 said...
LOVE your ideas and your card! Thanks for being on this amazing journey, so on to hopping.
- November 14, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Bekah's World said...
Such cute cards! Thanks for participating, and providing great inspiration.
- November 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Catherine said...
The cards are so sweet! TFS and God Bless!
- November 14, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- dabhug said...
Great blog! I love those coordinating kits! Thank you for participating in the bloghop!
- November 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- The Wired Angel said...
Great cards Nancy.. thanks for sharing your talent and creativity. Hugs, Peggy
- November 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- shelly said...
Super cute card!
- November 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- cdm317 said...
Beautiful cards. You are very creative.
- November 14, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- Karelj said...
What wonderful cards! I've been making them all day, and haven't dropped an eyelet yet....knock on wood! Thanks for a wonderful beginning!
- November 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM
- Sharon said...
These are great!! I love how they all mix and match. Thanks for sharing.
- November 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM
- Dixie said...
Thanks for sharing your talent!
- November 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- bumblebee creations said...
Wow love your cards--and loved your tutorial on the flower card!! Amazing--I will have to let you know when I get mine done!! Great job--and thanks for sharing such a wonderful new technique!
- November 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- Carolyn Bounds said...
Beautiful Valentine cards!!! Like you, I love to play and coordinte with my stampin' goodies:o) I also love finding bargains!!! Thanks for telling me about the papers at Scrapbook.com! Think I am just gonna have to check 'em out;o)
- November 14, 2009 at 4:59 PM
- Mary said...
Beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing!!!
- November 14, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Carla Gade said...
Awesome cards! What a wonderful crafty and supportive thing we can do for our troops! God bless them, and you!
carlagade [at] gmail [dot] com
- November 14, 2009 at 6:08 PM
- MiamiKel said...
Superb! Love your blog - the title is hilarious! You are super creative - thanks for hopping along, too!
- November 14, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- grandmalee said...
Love the kits...I'm really a fan of easy! heehee I also love your blog title. Can't wait to see the rest of the hop!
grandma_lee_t AT yahoo DOT com
- November 14, 2009 at 6:50 PM
- Brenda said...
What great ideas!! I love what you've done! OWH really is a great way to send cards that will be treasured.
- November 14, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- Linda L said...
Thanks for the tips. I love what you did with all the papers.
- November 14, 2009 at 7:12 PM
- Cr8ive ME said...
love your Valentine's cards.
- November 14, 2009 at 7:21 PM
- Tinker and JingeBear's Mom said...
Just adorable! Love the tips and all the designs. I will be back to visit your blog!
- November 14, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- Loni said...
great job on the mix & match design work. Thanks for supporting our heroes!
Hugs, loni holt at gmail.com
- November 14, 2009 at 8:27 PM
- SugarBeanz said...
Thanks for sharing!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:08 PM
- Maggie said...
Your cards are very nice. I like the idea of co-ordinating products for multiple cards. Thank you for supporting OWH
- November 14, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- Cindy said...
Great cards...the kits sound wonderful!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:39 PM
- Stacie said...
Thanks for sharing your great card ideas!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:49 PM
- helen said...
what a generous heart you have and thank you for sharing your passion for card making...it is evident in your design skills and choice of products that include coordinated papers.
- November 15, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- Clare said...
what a great idea and beautiful cards.
- November 15, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Mrs. E said...
Great cards and I still crack up when I see your blog title. So very fun!
- November 15, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Caryl P said...
I love when everything is coordinated, beautiful work on these! Who doesn't love matching envelopes too!
- November 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- SuzAnn said...
Matching A2 envelopes too! SAWWEEEEEET!
- November 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- Andrea said...
Super cute cards and envies! Nice job!
- November 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM
- Michelle's Inky Fingers said...
Great cards! Glad to be on the hop with you! Have a good evening!
- November 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- Jessica said...
Lovely cards, TFS
- November 16, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- paula said...
Great cards!! Thanks for the info on the card kits - off to check that out!! Thanks for participating in the bloghop and supporting our troops!
- November 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- Heather said...
Your cards are beautiful! I love the colors and papers. They are sure to make lots of people happy. Thank you for your sweet comment on my blog for the hop. I am so honored and blessed to have been a part of this with so many wonderful ladies. You have a prize you won from the hop so be sure to stop by and claim it :) Have a wonderful day.
Heather Dennis
- November 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM


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This week, players can experience a strategy game like no other on Xbox Live Arcade when Sierra Online and SouthEnd Interactive launch "Commanders: Attack of the Genos." Additionally, an arcade classic returns with "Discs of Tron" from Disney Interactive Studios and Backbone Entertainment, an updated faithful recreation of the famed cabinet game with HD graphics and enhanced sound. Both "Commanders: Attack of the Genos" and "Discs of Tron" launch this Wednesday, February 13 at 9:00 a.m. GMT (1:00 a.m. PST).
"Commanders: Attack of the Genos" is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game featuring an art deco look and tongue-in-cheek storyline. The game requires players to devise a masterful tactical battle strategy to both cripple the enemy and defend their territory from genos, a genetically modified super race. Fight alongside a powerful Commander, which serves as a hero unit, in the 15-mission campaign with an arsenal of weapons including missile launchers, bombers and infantry in this turn-based strategy game.
Featuring a 1930's art deco look and feel, "Commanders: Attack of the Genos" offers two unique endings, two difficulty levels and 15 diverse playable units to keep gamers coming back for more. "Commanders: Attack of the Genos" allows players to either challenge or team up with three friends in battle locally or over Xbox Live. The game will be available worldwide (with the exception of Japan and Korea) for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E10+ by the ESRB.
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The Romney campaign is dealing with the potential political problem raised by his Mormon faith the same way he's dealing with all other potential political problems this year — head-on. A friend and close associate from his church has described how hard Romney worked to help those in their parish.
Now an elderly couple is recounting what Mitt Romney did to help bring joy and comfort to their young son decades ago when the boy was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Next, a woman describes how Mitt Romney helped her family after it moved to Massachusetts. He did so in big ways and small. For example, he helped take care of her son at times after the family's daughter was born with severe health problems and the family had to attend to them.
Not a dry eye in my living room.
I have recounted several stories of this nature on Power Line, but had not read about the two offered tonight. Apparently, there is a nearly endless supply.
As I asked the other day, does Obama have any such stories? Has he ever helped people in need, other than by pushing for controversial political action items?
Maybe the Democrats will give us some examples next week, but don't hold your breath.
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BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said, "Professor Hargreaves has sensibly rejected Google's flawed case for a significant weakening of UK copyright. He has recognised that innovation and economic growth are best stimulated by licensing the IP we create in the UK, and that strong creative industries that succeed on a global stage are fundamental to recovery from recession."I have a few problems with this. First and foremost, the fretting over US-style fair use still seems bizarre to me. It's not like it's unheard of. It exists in the US and it's not like fair use has really represented any hurdle for the recording and film industries in this country. They act as if it would be horrible, but present no evidence at all.
But, the bigger point is, I have significant problems with Taylor claiming that fair use is about a "significant weakening of UK copyright." Fair use is not about weakening copyright, it's about strengthening copyright, in making it more flexible to be able to bend, rather than break, when content is used in certain socially useful ways (what copyright law is supposed to encourage). In the same way that you want a building that will sway somewhat in an earthquake, rather than try to remain rigid, fair use is supposed to provide that kind of flexibility. That's about strengthening the overall point of copyright.
In fact, I'd argue that Taylor's anti-fair use position does significantly more harm to copyright in the long run, in that it makes it less flexible, and makes it illegal to do things that people know at a fundamental level should be legal. Thus, the lack of fair use actually leads people to respect copyright even less, and to recognize that it's a failed and outdated system.
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If it's dark, "you will see puffs of blue mucus come out," says Dimitri Deheyn. And the blue is glowing.
How the ocean-dwelling Chaetopterus parchment worms create the long-lasting glow — and the soft-but-tough tubes themselves — are still substantial mysteries, Deheyn says.
Parchment worms spend their adult lives inside the U-shaped tubes they create, with just the rounded base buried. They live in sea bottoms around the world, from deep ocean canyons to marine shallows. When Deheyn first shows worms to visitors at his laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., sometimes "they are ready to faint because they are not expecting such a weird-looking creature," he says. (Watch Nature's Glowing Slime to see worms in Deheyn's lab.)


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Intervention by Cecilia Malmström during the Relocation Forum
Relocation Forum/Brussels
25 September 2013
We are here today to discuss a very important topic – the relocation of beneficiaries of international protection and also of asylum seekers from one Member State to another.
I know that there are lots of different views about relocation. These views range from the European Parliament calling for compulsory relocation and an EU-wide distribution key where responsibility is shared more evenly within the Union.
Other views as you know come from Member States that are against relocation as a concept as they view it as a pull-factor and think that it is a disincentive to other Member States from improving the quality of their asylum systems.
Most countries think it can be an important tool of solidarity but not a compulsory one.
Against this background and in the light of the discussion, I took the decision during a lunch with Home Affairs ministers during a lunch in October 2012, that there could be no Commission proposal in the foreseeable future for a permanent legal mechanism for relocation – either voluntary or compulsory. Instead, today, we are holding our first Relocation Forum.
I am conscious that it is very easy to talk about solidarity, but then fail to act on one's words. Relocation is a very tangible form of solidarity – it provides immediate relief to an asylum system under pressure. Relocation efforts to date have had a real effect. That is why the Commission is organising this relocation forum and why financial assistance is provided for relocation in the Asylum and Migration Fund.
The events of the summer show that there is still a lot of pressure on certain states, especially due to the terrible crisis in Syria. The future is very uncertain and could bring new pressures regardless of the political developments.
We are now also faced with the possibility that there could be significant increases in applications for asylum to countries within easy reach of Syria like Bulgaria, Malta, Cyprus, Italy and Greece. The situation in Egypt remains unstable and could have implications for migratory flows. We have a problematic situation in the Horn of Africa. And so on.
I think it is worth considering the historical perspective. In the 1990s the Western Balkan wars provoked an asylum crisis. Several Member States were affected by this crisis and would have at the time welcomed relief from the pressure on their asylum systems, if only relocation had been available as a tool.
So, relocation is a tool that can be adapted to different circumstances over the years, and it is worth remembering that it may be somebody else's crisis today, but tomorrow it could be yours.
Today's relocation forum is therefore a good opportunity for us to discuss relocation, not only from Malta, but also from other Member States in case asylum applications increase in such a way that their systems are overwhelmed.
I should say that participation in relocation efforts now or in the past in no way binds your hands concerning your future relocation intentions.
We do however need to start reflecting more on what we really mean with solidarity and a true Common European Asylum System. We know that it for many reasons might not be suitable to create a distribution key within the Union, but is it really a fair and common system to have 5 Member States taking 70 % of all the asylum seekers?
The instrument of relocation could give a very good opportunity for those Members States who have few asylum seekers to take more responsibility in our common system. It is also an opportunity to gradually build up a fully functioning reception system.
Some of the Member States today are truly in need of help and others can therefore make an important contribution by alleviating others. Lesser pressured Member States can show solidarity.
It is perhaps only fair at this point if I state the obvious in reminding Member States that, no matter how tough the situation gets, push-backs are illegal and contrary to the principle of non-refoulement. Access to the asylum procedure must be guaranteed. There is a responsibility to give decent conditions and to integrate people.
The Relocation forum is a totally flexible approach. The Commission and Member States should define together how to use it. From my perspective, the forum is an opportunity to discuss current pressures and lessons learned on relocation. I see us discussing relocation in two contexts.
First, as a measure to be applied concerning current pressures in Member States like Malta for instance;
Second, concerning future crises, such as a potential increase in the number of Syrian asylum applicants to Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece or other Member States.
I hope that the relocation forum will be useful in a number of ways. For those Member States interested in pledging places for AMF funding or for using national funds, it is a useful indicator as to what the needs are across the EU.
For those considering asking for assistance, it is a useful opportunity to do so.
For those not planning on relocating, it is useful to find out what others are doing.
For those Member States that have pledged in the past but found difficulties in practice, it is an opportunity to share information on the practicalities of relocation.
And for the Commission it is an opportunity to coordinate relocation activities across the EU. It is also an opportunity to talk about the concept of relocation as such and its inter-linkages with other forms of solidarity.
As far as the Syrian crisis is concerned, we follow it very closely; relocation needs to be a central part of our toolbox in the framework of contingency planning. Relocation can assist Member States that have a specific geographical reason for needing assistance, such as Cyprus, Greece and Bulgaria.
I want to look now to the lessons learnt from the EUREMA projects. We understand that Member States don't necessarily want EU project-managed relocation with rigid administrative requirements – that is why we will no longer have a EUREMA project, but instead we will have money available under the Asylum and Migration Fund for relocation activities that will be much easier to implement.
I was most interested by the replies I received from some Member States concerning the letter I wrote in May to Ministers confirming that we would hold a relocation forum. In some cases I was told that relocation risked being a pull factor and therefore was undesirable. I have to say that so far we have no evidence at all that relocation is a pull factor. If any real evidence of this comes to light, please share it with us.
We have no desire to create pull factors and no desire for people to undertake unnecessarily hazardous journeys across the Sahara and the Mediterranean. But we should not refuse to show solidarity to another Member State because we decide that relocation creates a pull factor when we have no evidence to substantiate that claim.
Again, several of your Ministers wrote to me to say that you don't object to relocation per se, but that you would like all relocation to remain ad hoc. We are doing our best to accommodate your preferences, but I am sure that you can understand that for the purposes of running a budget we need to set aside a sum of money for relocation activities and we will do that on the basis of your pledges for relocation. That means that you are encouraged to think in advance about what relocation activities you are able to foresee for the following year.
However, where there is a crisis that needs addressing rapidly, we will also reserve some of the budget so that it can be used retrospectively. In other words, if you relocate more people than you initially anticipated in any given year, we will do what we can to compensate you from the AMF even if the decision is retrospective. But the more that is planned, the more likely we are to be able to finance you.
There is still an opportunity to relocate via EUREMA II as well until the end of this year, before the AMF comes into force. We encourage Member States that have not fulfilled their full pledges through EUREMA II to do so. If a Member State wishes to relocate before the end of this year, it is possible for them to do so via EUREMA II even if they were not previously part of the project. We will be happy to provide you with explanations as to how this can be done.
I would like to thank the Member States that were generous enough to pledge places under the EUREMA projects in the knowledge that it would be tough to relocate. The statistics may be disappointing, but I am aware of the significant efforts by Member States to change their internal processes to make it more likely that relocation will be successful in the future.
I would like to thank Denmark and the Associated Countries for your participation – you do not have access to EU funds for relocation and therefore your actions are especially welcome as a demonstration of genuine solidarity.
Relocation is not a quick fix; it will not solve all the problems. It is one of many tools to alleviate and assist a Member State under pressure and in severe difficulties. Other types of assistance include funding, technical and human resources, training, contingency planning, EASO etc.
Relocation is also not an alternative to get your house in order. It is however a true expression of solidarity and I do hope that many Member States can take part.
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Tickets to the 112th Monon Bell Classic are now available on a first come, first served basis. The Wabash College Bookstore is handling all sales of tickets this year.
All tickets are priced at $10 for the game, which kicks off at 1 p.m. from Greencastle's Blackstock Stadium. Tickets for the annual battle between Wabash and DePauw we be sold in the Bookstore during normal hours, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and on home football Saturdays.
Tickets are also available online using the Bookstore's Yahoo Store account. Click here to access the Wabash College Bookstore online. There will be a $1 postage and handling charge for all online VISA and Mastercard orders. Orders will be mailed via First Class U.S. Postal Service to arrive before the game on November 12.
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Mackenzie Stuart: A 21st century financial adviser
Pilot now offers guidance too: Shepaug Valley High grad opens office in Washington
A typical day for MacKenzie Stuart includes a flight out of Oxford Airport in the morning, followed by a consultation on financial investments in the afternoon.
Stuart is a licensed commercial pilot who flew corporate aircraft for Franchise 500 companies for several years. However in 2010, she started a second career as a financial adviser, working as a representative with Tiger Investment Services.
Based in Boston, Stuart opened a satellite office in Washington, Conn., in November.
It was a homecoming for the Shepaug Valley High School graduate who grew up in Washington.
"I was working at Harvard's School of Public Health and was in a career transition when I learned Ted Tiger was hiring," Stuart said. Tiger Investment is a comprehensive financial services firm.
Stuart is a University of New Hampshire graduate with a degree in economics and tourism. She also studied finance at Kaplan Intermediate College.
Russ Gandolfo is an investment client and a co-pilot for Stuart. She was his flight instructor when he obtained his private pilot's license.
"MacKenzie and her associate did a risk analysis of my portfolio and showed me how risky some of my investments were," said Gandolfo. "At 60, I don't want to be in high-risk investments.
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Stuart's present focus is educating women and helping them develop a financial acumen that will bring success. "Our intention as a firm is to expand our clientele to include small business owners with a strong female presence and female pilots in the Northeast area," she explained.
"As I've talked to women, I find many have no idea about finances," she said.
"I've heard stories about women experiencing financial loss through divorce, when they suddenly had the responsibility of taking on management of their own portion of liquidated assets from the marriage and had no idea what to do."
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While teaching my grade 8 students, I wanted to discuss the idea of distractions, so I read them an excerpt from Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson that discusses how interruption is the enemy of productivity:
Interruptions break your workday into a series of work moments. Forty-Five minutes and then you have a call. Fifteen minutes and then you have lunch. An hour later, you have an afternoon meeting. Before you know it, it's five o'clock, and you've only had a couple uninterrupted hours to get your work done. You can't get meaningful things done when your constantly going start, stop, start, stop…
And go all the way with it. A successful alone-time period means letting go of communication addiction. During alone time, give up instant messages, phone calls, e-mail, and meetings… Your day is under seige by interruptions. It's on you to fight back.
My class proceeded to have a very interesting conversation about all of the distractions they have in the day. Many of them could relate to the 'communication addiction' that the excerpt referred to. We all admitted that sometimes we are the annoyed (the person who would like to tell others to 'screw off') and the annoying (the person who should be told to 'screw off').
It didn't take long for some of my students to identifying other kinds of distractions that they were not responsible for. Ethan, a grade 8 student of mine, blogged his thoughts for me. Here's Ethan's take on how undemocratic school bells are:
School bells, the most ridiculous invention on earth. Some people want to spend a certain amount of time on certain subjects, for example; if I prefer math more than social, shouldn't I have the right to stay as long as I like at math, and as long as I learn something and don't screw off? No, instead, a inanimate, ringing tin can have the right to tell me what to do, where to go, and make decisions for me. A piece of metal has more authority than a living human being! Truthfully, this thought makes me feel small, and without any say. I think students should have the right to learn what they want, when they want, wherever they want and however they want to do it! If I could take health and science classes all day I would. Why? Because I am facinated about how things work, especially the human body. As for social, i don't especially want to know what happened all those years ago. I'm also not saying that social is pointless either, many people find the past very interesting, just not me. School's purpose in my eyes is to prepare you for the future, so why not be able to tune your studies to what you would like to become?
Ethan's point is well taken. He's begging for the opportunity to be given more rights and responsibilities than the archaic school bell schedule can ever give him. He's searching for a more democratic version of schooling. It's time we took students like Ethan seriously.


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We can interpret an equational theory, like the theory of groups, in a category like $\mathbf{Top}.$ In this case, we get $\mathbf{TopGrp},$ the category of topological groups.
My question is, can we alternatively get categories like $\mathbf{TopGrp}$ as some kind of a pullback?
Consider the scheme $J$ consisting of two objects $X$ and $Y,$ each of which has an arrow going to a third object $Z$. Now consider the $J$-shaped diagram $D$ in the category $\mathbf{Cat}$ such that $$D(X) = \mathbf{Top}, \; D(Y) = \mathbf{Grp}, \; D(Z) = \mathbf{Set}$$
where the non-identity arrows of $J$ are mapped to the forgetful functors.
This is probably a silly question, but is the pullback (in some suitable sense) of the above diagram $\mathbf{TopGrp}$?
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NHL Game Night: 1-21-10 Maple Leafs at Lightning
The Lightning snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
Antero Niittymaki allowed 2 goals on 22 shots for the win.
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TB 11:46, Stamkos 26 (Lecavalier, Foster)
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TB 4:50, St. Louis 13 (Stamkos, Lecavalier)(PP)
If the power play stays hot, that's one thing that will give the Lightning a big edge down the stretch of this season. It saved the game tonight, and that was as close to a must-win as it could be.
Vincent Lecavalier has climbed up to a point a game pace for the season. Steven Stamkos goes over a point a game pace. Martin St. Louis remains well over a point a game pace for the season. And, the ironic thing is that Rick Tocchet might be right: Steve Downie might be playing better hockey than all of them.
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The re-housing of the Museum's hawkmoths collection, one of my curatorial responsibilities, has been the subject of the last couple of posts. I talked about the transferring of specimens from outdated or transitory drawers into new, more permanent drawers, and of the amalgamation of the old Museum's collections with newly acquired material, with particular reference to the collection of hawkmoths (Sphingidae).
I have also introduced some of the species from the Museum's extended sphingid collection, consisting of around 289,000 specimens and, in this post, I would like to briefly tell of the history of the Museum's collection of hawkmoths. However, before I start delving into the past, I'd like to finish with the introduction of some of the species of hawkmoths I began in the previous post… so here are some other fascinating sphingids.
Some hawkmoths have a short and stout body, transparent wings, a distinct pattern and behaviour that make them look like bees or wasps.
This is Cephonodes hylas, a daily flying moth, widely distributed in Asia where it is often found in urban parks and gardens attracted by Gardenia, one of the caterpillar's food plants. When the adult moth emerges from the pupa, the wings are entirely covered with greyish scales. These come off in a little cloud after the first flight.
Another hymenoptera look alike is Hemaris fuciformis.
This little and pretty hawkmoth, with its plump body covered by yellowish and reddish hairs, and its transparent wings, looks very much like a bumble bee, and it flies rapidly like one too! This specie is widespread all over Europe eastward across northern Turkey, northern Afghanistan, southern Siberia, northern Amurskaya to Primorskiy Kray and Sakhalin Island. It has also been recorded from Tajikistan and northwest India.
Sataspes infernalis is another daily flying hawkmoth that very convincingly mimics a carpenter bee.
Its wings are devoid of scales and are darker, more opaque and somehow iridescent compared to the previous two hawkmoths. This species is distributed in India, West China, Burma and Borneo.
Eye-spots are a common feature on the wings of Lepidoptera and hawkmoths are no exception. This stunning hawkmoth is Compsulyx cochereaui, an endemic species of New Caledonia.
Eye-spots are also found on the hind-wings of the species of hawkmoths belonging to the genus Smerinthus.
This genus includes 11 species and one of them is the eyed hawkmoth (Smerinthus ocellata). In the resting position the fore-wings cover the hind-wings with the eye spots, when the moth feels threatened, the fore-wings are suddenly pushed upward revealing the hind-wings decorated with intense blue and black 'eyes' on a pinkish and brown background.
The flashing of these false eye-spots may help in startling a potential predator giving the moth a chance to quickly fly away. The eyed hawkmoth is distributed across all of Europe (including the UK), through to Russia as far east as the Ob valley and to eastern Kazakhstan and the Altai. It has also been recorded in north and western China.
Pseudandriasa mutata is a rather atypical sphingid
It doesn't look particularly streamlined nor are its wings elongated like those of a typical hawkmoth. In fact when in 1855, Francis Walker - while studying specimens and describing new species from our Museum - came across a specimen of this hawkmoth, he recognized it as a new species but named it Lymantria mutata, thinking it belonged to the family of moths called Lymantriidae (Tussock moths).
Hayesiana triopus is a lovely daily flying sphingid with translucent wings and a discontinuous pinkish-red belt and orange spots on a black abdomen.
The underside of the body, particularly of the thorax, abdomen and hind wings is reddish orange. This moth is a fast flyer but its rapid movements seem rather clumsy and, apparently, it's not particularly precise when aiming the proboscis into a flower. It is distributed in Nepal, northeastern India, southern China, and Thailand.
Callionima inuus is certainly a very elegant hawkmoth thanks to the decorations on its forewings.
The scale pattern forms motifs which resembles a cover of cobwebs blended with small, dark and light brown wavy markings; there is also a patch of silver scales in the shape of a plump and twisted "Y". The pattern is beautiful, but most of all indispensable, for perfectly disguising this moth in the environment where it lives. This species is well distributed in the entire Neotropical region, from Mexico to Argentina.
Another master of disguise is Phylloxiphia oberthueri.
When in the resting position, hanging from a plant, this hawkmoth looks very convincingly like a bunch of dry leaves. This species is distributed through West Africa.
Doesn't Hypaedalea insignis look like the vehicle of a superhero character?
An innovative hawkmoth bat-car! But again, this pattern has not evolved to impress we humans; the amazing discontinuous and wavy lines and blotches, coloured with different tints of brown and grey, are all essential for making this hawkmoth hard to spot against the vegetation. This moth is distributed in West Africa.
And now, the history bit...
The Museum's collections are based on Sir Hans Sloane's collection which was purchased by the British Museum in 1753. Amongst them were his entomological holdings, with around 5,500 specimens including Lepidoptera, and thus were the earliest Sphingidae housed in the Museum.
A drawer with specimens of Lepidoptera from the original collection of Sir Hans Sloane. The hawkmoths in this drawer (Smerinthus ocellata in the top left, Agrius convolvuli and Sphinx ligustri bottom left and right respectively) were collected more than 350 years ago and are amongst the oldest Lepidoptera specimens in our collections.
Afterwards, the earliest and most significant benefactors who presented Lepidoptera - and particularly Sphingidae - to the Museum were, Horsfield, the Honorable East India Company, and Museum appointees like Edward Doubleday.
Later 19th Century benefactors of major significance were Bates, Wallace, Stainton, Zeller, Bainbrigge-Fletcher, Hewitson, Leech and Godman and Salvin. And in the 20th Century the sphingids holdings of the Museum were to be enriched with the collections of Lord Walsingham, Swinhoe, Moore, Joicey, Levick, Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, Cockayne and Kettlewell, Inoue and others.
Some of the most significant donors of Lepidoptera (and particularly of Sphingidae) to the Museum.
The date of acquisition, the number of specimens and some of the history behind each of these valuable collections of moths and butterflies is often well documented, but it is much more difficult to know the exact number of specimens of any particular family that came with any of them. However, we know that the majority of the hawkmoths - around 45,000 specimens - came to the Museum in 1939 when Lord Rothschild bequested approximately 2.5 million specimens of Lepidoptera.
Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild was a keen naturalist who went on to amass one of the greatest collections of animals ever assembled by an individual. In 1939 around 2.5 million specimens of butterflies and moths from the Rothschild collection, were entrusted to the Museum in thousands of drawers. Two of these drawers, containing hawkmoths, are shown in the picture.
The Sphingidae collection, like the majority of the other Lepidoptera families, has since 1904 been housed in the Museum in 4 separated blocks:
The Main Collection.
This is the reference collection and contains drawers with type specimens and representative series of any particular family, often of the oldest material. In the picture, one of the main collection drawers with the hawkmoth Callionima inuus.
The Supplementary Collection.
It contains other specimens, belonging to any particular family, of identified material which arrived later and for which there was not space in the main collection. In the picture, one of the supplementary drawers with the hawkmoth Agrius convolvuli.
The Accession Collection.
It contains unsorted and often unidentified material which was later added to the family. In the picture, one of the accession drawers with different species of hawkmoths from the original Rothschild Collection.
The British & Irish Collection.
It contains specimens of the 20 species of Sphingidae occurring in the British Isles. In the picture, one of the British and Irish Collection drawers with the hawkmoth Daphnis nerii.
Only relatively recently we began to amalgamate all specimens from the main, supplementary and accession collections into one collection for each family. Each of the 5 curators in the Lepidoptera section is responsible, amongst other things, of the re-housing of one or more families of moths and butterflies.
With a collection of almost 9 million specimens and around 135 families of Lepidoptera to take into account the work to do can seem endless; it will certainly take a long time and a lot of effort before this is accomplished, but slowly and surely we are improving the care, storage and accessibility of our collections.
In August 2008, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Rothschild family, the de Rothschild family, the John Spedan Lewis foundation, Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust and members of the public, the Museum was able to acquire one of the largest private collections of Sphingidae, the Jean-Marie Cadiou collection.
And it's about this prodigious private Collection, containig a staggering total of around 230,000 specimens, the majority of which are sphingids, that I will be telling you in my next post. Make sure to come back then.
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WOW! I'm Victim of the Text Messaging Scams!
After writing two articles on the scumbags who run text message fraud schemes, it occurred to me that I never check my AT&T phone bill - what if I'm one of the people that Jason Hope and his elaborate text messaging scams is affecting?
So I decided to check my online bills. checking my latest bill, sure-enough, I found a subscription charge of $9.99:
It's worth noting that above information is at the VERY BOTTOM OF MY 38 PAGE BILL! I was blown away. Here I am feeling sorry for the millions of people who are falling for these scams and not noticing the charges on their bill and it turns out, I'm one of the suckers!
How far back did this go? I checked every one of my online bills all the way back to January of 2010. The subscription charge by these scumbags started on my May 2010 billing cycle:
$9.99 each month for May, June, July, August, September, August, November, December, January (2011) and February. A total of $99.90 of charges that had gone unnoticed on MY BILLS! Unbelievable.
I got on the phone with AT&T and as I write this article, I've been on the phone with them for a total of 1 hour and 29 minutes. I'm currently on hold. Here is how my interactions with AT&T went:
- Michael, the first Customer Service Rep has been a victim of these scams himself. He sounded like a young guy in his 20s. He started explaining that "I agree it's a scam" but then he started to blame himself for when he was scammed saying "I must have signed up for it when I applied for some scholarships and I didn't read the fine print." I was blown away. Michael seemed to blame himself for the scam! I couldn't believe what I was hearing. He went ahead and refunded 2 months of charges for me, but he also said that they couldn't go beyond 3 months. I then asked what we need to do to stop this company from charging anybody else - ever! He said there was nothing they could do. I asked if they have a fraud department and they do. Michael transferred me to the fraud department.
- Cory in the Fraud department, whom I must have just woken up, explained to me that there was nothing he could do about text messaging fraud. His fraud department was to address issues that was about falsely created cell phone accounts, not fraudulent text messages. He then proceeded to transfer me back to customer service because he said "if customer service can't help you, nobody can!"
- This time around, I got a more sympathetic young girl, Angelique, in customer service. She loved the fact that I was trying to stop this scam from affecting all of AT&T's customers. In fact, she proceeded to refund me all 10 months worth of charges. She did inform me that there was not much she could do about stopping the scams, but after some encouragement from me that "if we don't stop it, who will?" she agreed to explain the situation to her boss and see where it would go.
- Rebecca was Anjelique's boss. She was not on board with our plans. She explained to me that they were "already investigating this," which turned out to be a bunch of BS as it was later confirmed by Rebecca's boss. There is no investigation that my complaints (or anybody else's for that matter) has triggered. After several minutes of Rebecca explaining to me that it's out of her hands, she agreed to transfer me to her boss.
- Jennifer was Rebecca's boss. She was determined to be my last stop. She put her foot down that there is nothing AT&T can do about such fraudulent charges, except to credit them back to customers who complain. Really? Really! My conversation with her was very informative and she claimed that AT&T does not make a single cent on any of the text message charges (update: I have confirmed through my own sources that claim is 100% false - the wireless companies can get up to 50% of the fees charged through text messages). That is completely bogus. The conversation is definitely worth listening to (Listen below). She also claims that AT&T has no way to stop text messages coming from known scammers (update: I have confirmed that too is bogus - in fact, the Mobile Messaging Association created just for that purpose).
The reason my call with AT&T took more than 90 minutes is because I was trying to stop "Textea", the "content provider" that had been charging me $9.99 for 10 months, from being able to continue to operate and charge other AT&T customers. That proved to be an insurmountable challenge.
I cut the full recording of my conversations with AT&T to just a few minutes with the last person in line, Jennifer. Remember, this is after they had already credited me for the charges. They no longer wanted to have anything to do with me. My exchange with Jennifer from AT&T will go down as one of the highlights of this investigation:
It's pretty incredible. I'm reminded, despite what Jennifer claims, AT&T makes hundreds of millions of dollars from the pass-through of such scam charges. So what is their incentive to stop the crooks? They have none. Just the opposite, in fact. They have incentive to let the scams continue and turn a blind eye.
I decided to investigate "Textea", the supposed "Content Provider" that has been charging me $9.99 for 10 months. AT&T could not provide me with any contact information for this content provider. Fantastic! Some Google searches revealed the web site http://www.textea.com. The site, which is in Spanish, provides a 1-877-889-1506 phone number to call. The automated system IS IN SPANISH! Are you kidding me? Pressing 2 gets me an English prompt and of course, there is no way to reach a human operator. When you choose the option to stop their subscription, the prompt switches back to Spanish. Nice! Nobody can stop these guys? Seriously? We just have to put up with this crap?
I can't help but wonder if Jason Hope and the network of companies that he has created to scam people are also behind Textea.com and I didn't even get an invite to his $500,000 party that I helped pay for. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to investigate these matters without the cooperation of the wireless phone companies.


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The Dead Space sci-fi horror games have nothing to do with the Mass Effect sci-fi shooter/adventure games, other than that they're published by the same giant corporation, EA. But now they're ever-so-slightly crossing over.
EA is letting people who have a Mass Effect 3 save file unlock special Mass Effect N7 armor in next month's Dead Space 3.
We're checking with EA about whether the unlock works across platforms, if, say, you played ME3 on PC and will play DS3 on PS3.
UPDATE: An EA rep confirms that this is platform-specific. You'd have to be playing Dead Space 3 on the same console (Xbox 360 or PS3) as you played Mass Effect 3.
Mass Effect armor is also unlockable in Final Fantasy XIII-2. Everybody's wearing it!
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The Nevada Highway Patrol arrested one of its troopers today for driving under the influence of alcohol. Antony Skordoulis, a six-year veteran of NHP based out of Las Vegas was on duty and transporting a prisoner in the Alamo area of Lincoln county when he was stopped and given a field sobriety test.
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In the search for ever-lighter materials with which to build spacecraft, we believe that Starfleet's engineers glossed over the perfect solution: inflatables. After all, spaceships are designed to keep air for life support in and the vacuum of space out. Inflatables are designed to keep air in. Makes sense, right?
ThinkGeek's Inflatable U.S.S. Enterprise is an officially-licensed Star Trek product. Simply fill it with all of your hot air (think about everything you hate about your least favorite incarnation of Trek, maybe?) and it's ready to be tossed around your backyard in a friendly game of beach spaceship volleyball or hung from the ceiling of your office.
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Between Friends zeroes in on the delicious little nitty-gritty details of the lives of three fifty-something women friends. Office politics, motherhood, romance and the pros and cons of Botox…nothing is sacred between Maeve, Susan and Kim in this contemporary, caffeinated and humorous woman-to-woman world.
Witty and personal, sometimes poignant and candid, this slice-of-life strip celebrates the essence of women in all their stress-filled, scintillating glory.
Between Friends appears in 175 newspapers in 10 countries as far and wide as Australia, India, South Africa and Guam.
Harv is married to Susan. An all-around modern male and supportive spouse, he is a funeral director and the orderly yin to Susan's messy yang.
Tina and Carson are Susan's office buddies. Tina is the mother of two teenaged boys and Susan's confident during bouts of office politics. Carson is a carefree maverick who always seems to avoid trouble…not to mention work.
Derek was a single father before his marriage to Kim. Derek teaches high school English.
Helen: Helen is Maeve's office assistant and sounding board at the office. A 20+ veteran of marital bliss with Grant and mom to university students, Amelia and Mark, Helen is a no-nonsense straight shooter who frequently gives Maeve relationship advice…whether she wants it or not.
Maeve is a sophisticated and savvy divorcee with a fast-paced successful career as a sales executive. One of these days she hopes to meet "Mr. Right," but not quite yet…she's having too much fun skipping from one romantic escapade to another.
Kim is creative and introspective. As a feminist, freelance writer, she enjoys the perks of flexible career…like irregular paychecks. She is married to Derek, a widower and mom to her stepson, Danny. She is on the threshold of facing the empty nest as Danny will soon be off to university.
Susan is wry and self-doubting. She's married to Harv and has an adopted daughter named Emma who has just hit the teenaged years. Always two steps behind her life, Susan's goals are to spend time with her family, score some personal time and maybe get to the gym once a month.
Emma is Susan and Harv's adopted daughter. A teenager in high school, Emma is everything Susan is not…organized, efficient and in control…except when the teenaged drama hormones kick in.
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SAN JOSE — The family of a man slain in an apparent gang attack in downtown San Jose is challenging implications that he was gang affiliated, describing instead a man chasing careers in music and acting who had the bad luck of coming across the wrong people — including a 14-year-old now being tried for murder — on a fateful night in July.
Michael Maynard, 33, was killed in the early-morning hours of July 29 at Market Street and Park Avenue, next to the Tech Museum of Innovation and Plaza de César Chávez. According to police, Maynard was in a heated conversation with a group of about a half-dozen men before they chased him through the park and beat him, and in the course of the attack a 21-year-old man and his 14-year-old brother stabbed him. Maynard died soon after at the hospital.
This past week, when two gang members and the teen were charged with killing him, authorities alleged that the attack involved gang members but was not likely fueled by gang rivalry. In doing so, they alleged that Maynard had gang ties in Alameda County; Maynard once lived in Oakland. That incensed his family, who flat-out refute the implication.
"He was not, I repeat, not a gang member," said Carvel Rease, Maynard's father. "He was not in a gang. He was never in a gang."
Rease, a Modesto resident, insists that his son was keeping to himself and may have just visited friends when he was walking downtown the night of the attack, which was seen by multiple witnesses and at least partly caught by area businesses' surveillance cameras.
Rease said his son was staying with him in Modesto but attended school and had family ties to Oakland, where authorities listed his residence. He had taken up acting in Berkeley and performed in the Bay Area rap scene.
As for why his son might be ascribed gang ties, Rease contends that the suspects currently jailed for the killing fabricated a reason for their acts.
"These are murderous criminals," Rease said. "We're trying to get to the real truth."
Another relative challenged the gang ties by saying Maynard wore American flag T-shirts and carried a Bible in his backpack, which was seen lying in the street the morning of the attack.
Luis Alvarez, 20, Luis Daniel Garcia, 21, and Marvin Garcia, 14, all of San Jose, have all been charged with murder and a gang enhancement in Maynard's killing. A witness told police that the Garcia brothers yelled gang slogans during the attack, and authorities believe the two adult suspects are known gang members. Marvin Garcia, who turns 15 this month, is one of the youngest homicide defendants in the history of Santa Clara County.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.


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For peach and pecan topping:
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
- 40 (about) pecan halves (about 3 ounces)
- 2 medium peaches (about 7 ounces each), peeled, halved, pitted, each half cut into 6 wedges
For cake:
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup pecans
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- Vanilla ice cream or sweetened whipped cream
- Special equipment: 9-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides
Peach and Pecan Topping:
Melt butter in medium saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar; whisk until sugar dissolves, about 1 minute. Pour mixture into 9-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides; spread evenly over bottom of pan (layer will be thin). Arrange pecan halves, side by side with round sides down, in circle around outer edge of pan bottom. Arrange peach wedges, slightly overlapping, inside circle of pecans, covering pan bottom. Set aside while making cake batter.
Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 350°F. Combine first 6 ingredients in processor. Blend until nuts are finely ground. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until butter is pale in color, about 4 minutes. Whisk eggs and vanilla in small bowl until well blended. Add egg mixture to butter mixture, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until well blended after each addition. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with milk in 2 additions, beating just until blended after each addition. Drop batter by large spoonfuls atop pecans and peaches in pan; spread evenly and gently with offset spatula or rubber spatula.
Bake cake until golden brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Transfer cake to rack; cool in pan 25 to 30 minutes (do not cool longer or peach layer may stick to pan). Run small knife around sides of cake to loosen. Place serving platter atop cake pan. Using oven mitts, firmly hold cake pan and platter together and invert cake onto platter. Let cake rest 1 minute, then very slowly lift off pan. If necessary, rearrange any peach wedges or pecans that may have become dislodged. Let cool to room temperature.
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Involving the whole family is the best way to promote better eating habits and healthy activities for your kids.
A whole-family approach simply means that everyone — parents and kids alike — works together as a team to achieve good health and well being. As with any team, there's a leader or coach — and that's you!
If you're trying to build healthier family habits, a goal chart is a good way to keep score. A chart, posted on the refrigerator or other highly visible spot, can remind family members to pay attention to eating and exercise habits.
Choose family goals, such as exercising every day and eating fruits and vegetables. Keep track of and praise those who meets their goals. And when the whole family achieves the goals, do something fun together to celebrate.
Reviewed by: Steven Dowshen, MD
Date Reviewed: 14-10-2014