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For specific, centralised information highlighting the accessible facilities provided at accommodation establishments throughout New Zealand visit the AA Travel Accessible Accommodation page. The site lists hotels, motels and private bed and breakfast establishments offering basic to superior facilities.
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Companies that offer cars with hand controls include Budget and Freedom Mobility. Booking ahead is recommended. More information on accessible transport is available on weka.net.nz.
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Disability parking permits issued in other countries do not automatically work in New Zealand. To obtain a New Zealand mobility parking permit, please bring your home mobility card or a medical certificate as proof of disability.
You can apply for a permit before travelling here through a charitable organisation called CCS or contact CCS from within New Zealand via their national toll free line 0800 227 225.


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Qantas is the latest airline to be targeted by email scammers. It is warning customers that fake Qantas "seat selection" emails are circulating.
The airline advised via its Twitter and Facebook accounts that the emails did not come from Qantas and should be deleted immediately.
The emails claim to be a "seat selection fee receipt", informing the recipient they have been charged an exorbitant fee, into the hundreds of dollars, for choosing a seat on a flight.
The emails feature the Qantas logo and link to the Qantas website. But they contain an attachment likely to contain a virus or other harmful software, such as spyware.
The attachment, called "Qantas Airways confirmation", features an unusual ".pdf.zip" file extension, marking it as suspicious.
A Qantas spokeswoman said other telltale signs that the email was fake included that it had no addressee, saying only "Dear" with no name included. Nor did it include a booking reference number or any itinerary details.
"We are aware some customers have received a fake email claiming to be a seat selection fee receipt. These emails are not from Qantas. We advise you not to open any attachment in those emails as they may contain a virus," the airline said on Facebook.
Qantas advised passengers with travel plans to visit qantas.com.au and go to "manage your booking" to check their flight details.
The latest scam comes after Jetstar was recently also hit by fake emails sent out under the subject line "Jetstar flight itinerary".
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Pope Benedict XVI today continued a series of talks on prayer at his weekly general audience at the Vatican. Today he delved into our occasional feeling of being abandoned by God, highlighting Christ's prayer from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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A new book names Professor Cary Bricker of McGeorge School of Law one of only 26 "best law teachers" in the United States. The book, "What the Best Law Teachers Do" (Harvard University Press, 2013), is the culmination of a four-year study that sought to identify extraordinary law teachers. The study details the attributes and practices of professors who have a significant, positive, and long-term effect on their students.
"What the Best Law Teachers Do" is authored by Professor Gerry Hess of Gonzaga University School of Law, Professor Sophie Sparrow of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and Michael Hunter Schwartz, dean and professor of law at the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law. "The book describes how 26 amazingly dedicated and dazzlingly effective law teachers do their work," said Schwartz.
The book offers a positive perspective on legal education. "Like nearly every profession and all forms of higher education, legal education has plenty of room for improvement," explained Sparrow. "But legal education also includes these 26 teachers and plenty of others like them who are inspiring role models to their students, who consciously and carefully prepare their students to practice law, who devote themselves to helping their students grow as people and as future lawyers, and who mentor their students, helping them find jobs and make career choices, even long after the students have graduated."
Each chapter in "What the Best Law Teachers Do" focuses on a theme common to all of these outstanding law teachers: what personal qualities they share, how they relate to their students, what they expect of their students, how they prepare for class, how they teach, and how they provide feedback to their students and assess their students' learning.
"The teachers who are profiled in the book work at law schools that represent the full spectrum of "U.S. News and World Report" law school rankings, yet the core of who they are and what they do is quite similar," Hess said.
According to Hess, "All of the teachers we studied are regarded as being among the most rigorous professors at their law schools who have high expectations of every student, yet they also are known for their kindness to their students. They foster self-confidence in their students and inspire in them a belief that they are capable of great things. They get to know their students as people and manifest caring and respect for their students. These teachers model hard work, creativity, and humility."
As tuition at law schools continues to rise — despite a decline in the number of applications — and post-graduate jobs become increasingly competitive, receiving a high-quality education is paramount, according to Schwartz. "Law teachers represent the critical element in that equation."
The authors wanted to gain a deep understanding as to what makes extraordinary law teachers so effective. They therefore visited each of their 26 subjects at their law schools so they could observe classroom behavior and conduct lengthy interviews with the subjects and their deans, colleagues, students, and alumni. Most often, according to Sparrow, the authors left these visits feeling moved, inspired, and excited to make changes in their own teaching based on what they observed and heard.
Professor Bricker will present "Experiential Teaching in Podium and Skills Based Courses: Making Students Comfortable When Taking Them Out of Their Comfort Zones," on Friday, June 27, 2014, as part of the What the Best Law Teachers Do: Educators in Action conference at Northwestern Law in Chicago, Illinois.


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Friday, April 06, 2012
Thank You, My Friends
This is just a short note of thanks to those who expressed sympathy concerning Dorothy's passing.
There were so many of you who cared. Your expressions of sympathy, and your prayers, were (are) much appreciated.
From a spiritual viewpoint, I have no doubt concerning Dorothy's final disposition. I like to think of her sharing the wonder of Easter morning in the company of He who promised her eternal life.
Be that as it may - and it is - addenda you may find useful or interesting:
First, Dorothy's funeral mass will be held at St. Mary's church in Franklin on Monday morning at 10:00 AM. The funeral director informs us that Dorothy had planned the readings and picked out the music herself. I'm glad to hear that.
Obituary, from Charles F. Oteri & Son.
Next, here's a very nice farewell from my and Dorothy's friend, Jackie.
And now, a video I found on-line. Most of you only know what Dorothy looked like from my horrible photography. This video shows her in her 'natural habitat', some three years ago, feeding the cats she so dearly loved. I am very grateful to the person who shot this. I never expected to find actual footage of her walking around, so this was a very blessed surprise.
Blog Tails - Ricky Ferreira
The cat shelter so helpful in caring for Dorothy's cats was Purr-Fect Cat Shelter. I'll be making a donation in her memory.
Finally, a reporter from Dorothy's local paper spoke to me on Thursday, concerning a story they wished to run on either Saturday or Monday. I don't have details concerning that yet - when exactly it will appear, for instance - but you could check The Milford Daily News website. By the time you read this, it may be up.
Again, thanks for the love.
Soon, with more better stuff.
16 comments:
- IT (aka Ivan Toblog) said...
We're the ones who should thank you for introducing Dorothy to us.
So, Thanks
- 4:47 PM, April 06, 2012
- stephen Hayes said...
I'm looking forward to learning more about Dorothy through your archived posts. A sad time for sure, but I still feel the need to wish you a Happy Easter.
- 5:02 PM, April 06, 2012
- (not necessarily your) Uncle Skip, said...
Dorothy, and you, are in our thoughts
- 6:06 PM, April 06, 2012
- Unknown said...
Sincerest of condolences. Definitely the worst part of life.
- 8:46 PM, April 06, 2012
- Buck said...
Thanks for the updates, Jim... especially the video. Dorothy had a big, big heart. What a lady.
- 9:22 PM, April 06, 2012
- The Omnipotent Q said...
My deepest sympathies to you and your family, Suldog, on Dorothy's passing.
- 10:48 PM, April 06, 2012
- The Broad said...
What a lovely film of Dorothy. It really gives us a sense of what she was like. I agree with you that her death around Easter feels very symbolic and in some way comforting. Thank you so much for sharing her with us.
- 4:52 AM, April 07, 2012
- Ruby said...
I'm so sorry for your loss Suldog.
- 9:19 AM, April 07, 2012
- Michelle H. said...
That video must have been a wonderful surprise. I know you'll cherish it always.
- 9:32 AM, April 07, 2012
- messymimi said...
The world is poorer for her passing. Prayers always.
- 10:20 AM, April 07, 2012
- sell my house said...
Dorothy is one of my favorite movie.
- 8:42 AM, April 08, 2012
- Maggie May said...
She did a great job and dedicated her life to the cats. I think everyone needs something to be passionate about.
Thanks Suldog for the links.
Maggie X
Nuts in May
- 7:08 PM, April 08, 2012
- Daryl said...
- 9:20 AM, April 09, 2012
- Hilary said...
Just think of how wonderful things would be if everyone had a heart as huge as Dorothy's. Hugs to you, Jim.
- 4:22 PM, April 09, 2012
- Mariann Simms said...
I am so sorry to hear this, Jim. Please know Dorothy, and her friends and family, are in my prayers.
- 7:32 PM, April 09, 2012
- lacrosse pinnies said...
It's really surprised me.Cat shelter is great job.
- 6:24 AM, May 19, 2012


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DETROIT – When Wings general manager Ken Holland heard that his All-Star defenseman wanted to meet last Thursday he had a feeling it was to deliver a decision he wasn't ready to hear.
Holland was correct.
On that Thursday, Nicklas Lidstrom told Holland that he was going to retire after 20 seasons in the NHL, all of which were spent in Detroit.
A week later at Joe Louis Arena, Lidstrom made it official.
"I think it was a combination of mentally and I started working out, exercising and just the combination of not being that motivated and not being able to do things that I wanted to do and I knew I had to do," Lidstrom said. "I felt the relief once I made the decision.
"The last couple years, as you get older, were difficult too," Lidstrom added. "This was even more difficult. With my age, just being a little bit older and not having that motivation I've had in the past and not having the drive and fire that I've had in the past not being there for me, made it a harder decision – especially saying goodbye to something I've done for 20 years. It's become a lifestyle. You're used to getting up in the morning, working out, coming down here, skating, traveling with the team and just the competitiveness of playing games. I'm going to miss all that too, but if I don't have that fire I can't be to the level I want to be at."
But Holland wasn't will to go down without a fight.
"I was a little concerned the decision was a lot quicker than it was last year which set off some alarms for me," Holland said. "We visited for a few minutes and then he told me he had made a decision to retire. I talked to him about the timing of a press conference, but I told him to take the weekend and get back with me on Tuesday because I told him I was hoping he would change his mind. I texted him Tuesday morning, telling him he was on my mind all weekend and I thought he had one more really good year left in him and we had a lot of pieces in place with him in the lineup and with some moves we could continue to be a contender. About an hour later he texted back and said he was very comfortable in his decision."
Then he enlisted the help of Chris Chelios, who went paddle boarding with Lidstrom on Tuesday.
"He called me at the GM meetings and told me that the paddle boarding didn't change his mind either," Holland said. "For me I just wanted to make sure when Nick was on the podium he was comfortable with his decision. He's very comfortable in his decision.
"He gave us 20 incredible years and you have to feel good for Nick that he gets to walk away from the game on his own terms," Holland added.
The seven-time Norris Trophy winner missed 11 games in the later part of the regular season with a hair fracture in his ankle and could never get back to full health when the playoffs rolled around.
Lidstrom, who wound up missing a career-high 12 games this regular season, needed injections before games to dull the pain and it didn't allow him to play on the penalty kill.
"It did slow me down and that was still hurting when I was playing, especially when you have to do a lot of stops and starts in your own zone," Lidstrom said. "When you can't do that, it's hard to be effective. But I think that it feels so much better now, if I had the determination and the will to do this again, I believe I could still be back up there. But when I don't have that and if I still try to go out there and play, I don't think I could play as well as I'd have to."
The Macomb Daily learned during the regular season that Lidstrom had just finished building a lavish home in Sweden and that his son had told coach Mike Babcock's son that he was not going to be signing up for travel hockey in the fall.
Lidstrom spent his final six seasons as the Wings' captain after taking over for Steve Yzerman, who was the longest-serving captain in NHL history.
"We've had 20 special years," Holland said.
Lidstrom, who won his seven Norris Trophies in 10 seasons starting in 2001, is a member of the exclusive "Triple-Gold" club, winning both an Olympic gold medal (2006) and an IIHF World Championship (1991) with Sweden in addition to the four Stanley Cups he won with the Red Wings.
"Seven Norris Trophies, that's not by accident, he's just that good," Babcock said. "We're going miss having him. He's been so good and that's how he wanted to play. It was very fitting he said, 'I didn't want to cheat myself. I wasn't motivated enough to do the work.' What a message to every athlete.
"For Nick it was always about the team," Babcock added. "You never had any trouble with Nick as the coach because he was always prepared and motivated. Nick brings it every single day, sets an example for all of us in professionalism and perfection and work ethic and being a good human being and doing it without ego."
Lidstrom, a 12-time NHL All-Star, became the first European player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2002.
He led the team to back-to-back Stanley Cup finals appearances in 2008 and 2009 and became the first European player to captain a Cup champion in 2008.
Lidstrom, who was selected in the third round (53rd overall) by the Wings in 1989 and made $6.2 million each of the last two seasons, is one of five Wings who played on all four of Detroit's Stanley Cup championship teams since 1997.
In 1,564 regular-season games, Lidstrom finished with 264 goals and 878 assists. In 263 playoff games, which is a team record, he totaled 54 goals and 129 assists.
Only Wings legend Gordie Howe (1,687 games) has appeared in more Wings' games than Lidstrom.
Lidstrom, who was selected for 12 NHL All-Star Games and was named to the league's first All-Star team 10 times between 1998 and 2011, missed only 46 out of a possible 1,873 games since launching his NHL career in 1991.
Lidstrom's career plus/minus of plus-450 ranks eighth in league history. He posted a minus rating only once (minus-2 in 2010-11).


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Distributed generation (DG), also known as on-site generation, distributed resources (DR), distributed energy resources (DER) or dispersed power (DP) is the use of small-scale power generation technologies located close to the load being served. The DG marketplace includes energy companies, equipment suppliers, regulators, energy users and financial and supporting companies. For some facilities, DG can lower costs, improve reliability, reduce emissions, or expand energy options. DG may also add redundancy that increases grid security. Facilities can also recover and utilize heat from their DG systems, a practice known as combined heat and power.
DG Technologies
The portfolio of DG technologies includes reciprocating engines, microturbines, combustion turbines, small steam turbines, fuel cells, photovoltaics, and wind turbines. Each technology has varying characteristics and emission levels.
DG Applications
DG is currently being used by some customers to provide some or all of their electricity needs. There are many different potential applications for DG technologies. For example, some customers use DG to reduce demand charges imposed by their electric utility, while others use it to provide premium power or reduce environmental emissions. DG can also be used by electric utilities to enhance their distribution systems.
Most traditional DG is interconnection to the grid. The electric power system was designed to produce electricity at large power plants in remote locations, send it over high-voltage transmission lines, and deliver it on lower-voltage utility distribution systems to passive customers. Increasingly, electricity is produced by smaller, cleaner distributed generation units at or near customer sites and connected to the utility distribution system. The traditional one-way power flow – from power plants to customers – is turning into a two-way street.
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RDC has been involved in numerous projects over the last 30 years examining distributed generation. RDC conducted the USDOE's first market study on micro-power applications of distributed generation in 1999. More recently, RDC was selected by national laboratory in a competitive solicitation to support DOE's work on opportunity fuels for distributed generation.
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While still in the womb, some babies have problems with how their organs and body parts form, how they work, or how their bodies turn food into energy. These health problems are called birth defects.
There are more than 4,000 different kinds of birth defects, ranging from minor ones that need no treatment to serious ones that cause disabilities or require medical or surgical treatment. According to the March of Dimes, 1 out of every 33 babies born each year in the United States has a birth defect.
If a baby is born with a part of the body that is missing or malformed, it is called a structural birth defect. Heart defects are the most common type of structural defect. Others include spina bifida, cleft palate, clubfoot, and congenital dislocated hip.
When there is a problem with a baby's body chemistry, it is called a metabolic birth defect. Metabolic defects prevent the body from properly breaking down food to create energy. Examples of metabolic defects include Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal disease that affects the central nervous system, and phenylketonuria (PKU), which affects the way the body processes protein.
For people who want to become parents, it's important to know that some birth defects can be prevented. During a woman's pregnancy, taking folic acid and getting enough iodine in the diet can help prevent some types of birth defects. But it's also important to realize that most babies born with birth defects are born to two healthy parents with no obvious health problems or risk factors.
In most cases, doctors don't know what caused a baby's birth defect. When the cause is known, it might be environmental (such as a baby's exposure to chemicals or viruses while in the womb), a problem with the fetus' genes, or a combination of these things.
If a mother has certain infections (such as toxoplasmosis) during pregnancy, her baby can have a birth defect. Other conditions that cause defects include rubella and chickenpox (varicella). Fortunately, many people get vaccinated against these diseases so these infections are rare.
Also, alcohol abuse by the mother may cause fetal alcohol syndrome, and certain medicines taken by the mother can cause birth defects. (Doctors try to avoid harmful medicines during pregnancy, so a pregnant woman should tell any doctor she consults that she's expecting.)
Every cell in the body has chromosomes containing genes that determine a person's unique characteristics. During conception, a child inherits one of each pair of chromosomes (and one of each pair of the genes they contain) from each parent. An error during this process can cause a baby to be born with too few or too many chromosomes, or with a damaged chromosome.
One well-known birth defect caused by a chromosome problem is Down syndrome. A baby develops Down syndrome after getting one extra chromosome. Other genetic defects happen when both parents pass along a faulty gene for the same disease; this is called recessive inheritance and includes conditions such as Tay-Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis.
A disease or defect also can happen when only one parent passes along the gene for that disease. This is called dominant inheritance. This includes birth defects such as achondroplasia (a form of dwarfism) and Marfan syndrome (a disorder characterized by abnormally long fingers, arms, and legs).
Finally, some boys inherit disorders from genes passed onto them only by their mothers. These defects, which include conditions like hemophilia and color blindness, are called X-linked because the genes are carried on the X chromosome. Males have only one X chromosome, which is received from the mother, whereas females have two X chromosomes — one from each parent. A faulty gene on the X chromosome will be more likely to cause a problem in boys because they don't have a normal copy of the gene. Females who have an altered gene on one X chromosome and a normal gene on the other sometimes have mild features of the given defect.
Cleft lip and/or palate happens when the tissues of the mouth or lip don't form properly during fetal development, leaving an opening, division, or split in that area. This is called "clefting." A cleft lip is a long opening between the upper lip and the nose. A cleft palate is an opening between the roof of the mouth and the nasal cavity. In the United States, oral clefting happens in 1 in 700 to 1,000 births, making it one of the most common major birth defects. Clefting can be surgically repaired after birth.
Cerebral palsy usually isn't found until weeks to months after birth. Kids with cerebral palsy have difficulty controlling the motions their muscles make — which muscles and how severely they are impaired varies from person to person. There's no cure for cerebral palsy, but therapies and other treatments can help kids improve their quality of life. The condition affects about 3 to 4 babies in every 1,000 born.
Clubfoot is a term used to describe a group of structural defects of the foot and ankle in which the bones, joints, muscles, and blood vessels are formed incorrectly. These defects range from mild to severe and may affect one or both feet. Feet affected by this defect most often point down, turn in, and have a limited range of motion. This is a relatively common birth defect, affecting about 1 to 3 in every 1,000 babies born each year in the United States. Boys are affected almost twice as often as girls. In most cases the cause is unknown, but some cases of clubfoot are a result of a genetic disorder or problems inside a mother's uterus that can affect or restrict the development of her baby's foot (for example, having too little amniotic fluid). This condition can be treated by applying a cast to the foot immediately after birth. This treatment works most of the time; if it doesn't, surgery and further casting are usually done.
Developmental dysplasia of the hip is when the round upper end of the thighbone doesn't sit inside the socket of the pelvis properly. This can happen in one or both hips and occurs in 1 in 1,000 births. While the exact cause is unknown, it tends to happen more in girls and runs in families. It's usually discovered at birth and treated soon after by placing the baby in a soft sling for 6 to 9 months. If it's not recognized and treated early, surgery may be necessary.
Congenital hypothyroidism, which occurs in about 1 in 3,000 to 4,000 births, happens when the baby's thyroid gland (located in the front of the neck) is absent or underdeveloped at birth or if a metabolic defect blocks production of thyroid hormone. This causes a lack of thyroid hormone, which is important for supporting normal growth and brain development. If this condition isn't recognized and treated with thyroid hormone medicines within the first few weeks of life, a baby will develop a developmental delay and permanent intellectual disability (mental retardation). Because of this, every state in the United States and most other countries routinely screen all newborns for hypothyroidism with a blood test taken shortly after birth.
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) causes slowed growth, intellectual disability, abnormalities in facial features, and problems with the central nervous system. Every year between 2,000 and 12,000 babies in the United States are born with defects caused by alcohol. FAS cannot be cured or treated, but can be prevented by avoiding alcohol intake during pregnancy.
Neural tube defects (NTD) happen in the first month of pregnancy when the structure that develops into the brain and spinal cord is forming. Normally, this structure folds into a tube by the 29th day after conception. When the tube doesn't close completely, the baby has a neural tube defect. The two most common forms of this defect are:
NTDs happen in roughly 1 out of every 3,000 live births. Many babies with these defects are stillborn or die soon after birth. Making sure a mother gets enough folic acid before and during pregnancy helps reduce the chances of a baby having an NTD.
Heart defects happen when a part of the heart fails to develop properly when a baby is in the womb. These include:
Although the specific cause of most heart defects isn't known, doctors do know that many defects happen during the first trimester of pregnancy. The heart develops during the first 8-9 weeks of fetal growth, so these problems usually develop early on. Sometimes surgeons consult with parents about these conditions while a fetus is still in the womb. At birth, babies are routinely screened to check for normal blood oxygen levels right at birth and at 24 hours after birth, which has helped with early identification of congenital heart disease.
Exposure to certain medications (such as chemotherapy drugs, thalidomide, and the antiseizure drug phenytoin) during the first trimester of pregnancy may play a role in causing heart defects. Other causes include maternal alcohol abuse, rubella (German measles) infection, and diabetes during pregnancy.
Gastrointestinal defects are structural defects that can happen at any point along the gastrointestinal tract, which is made up of the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, rectum, and anus. The incomplete or abnormal development of any of these organs can cause blockages that can lead to swallowing difficulties, vomiting, and problems with bowel movements.
Some of these defects are:
Genetics play some role in all these defects, but it is unclear exactly how and to what degree. Early detection and treatment of these defects is important, as they can lead to serious health problems and even death if left untreated. Surgery is usually necessary to repair them.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) affects cells in the lining of the skin and many of the passageways in the lungs, digestive system, and reproductive system. It causes these body parts to produce a thick, sticky mucus. Children with CF have frequent lung infections, problems digesting food, and poor weight gain. Treatment includes therapy to maintain lung function, get adequate nutrition, and prevent infections. About 30,000 people in the United States, most of them Caucasians, have CF.
Down syndrome is a relatively common birth defect, affecting about 1 in 800 to 1,000 births. The chances of having a baby with Down syndrome increase dramatically with the age of the mother. Children with Down syndrome are born with an extra (third) copy of chromosome number 21 in their cells. They can have mild to severe symptoms and may have intellectual disability (mental retardation), distinctive physical features, heart defects, and other health problems.
Fragile X syndrome causes mental impairment that ranges from learning disabilities to intellectual disabilities (mental retardation), autistic behaviors, and problems with attention and hyperactivity. Physical characteristics of children with Fragile X include a long face, large ears, flat feet, and extremely flexible joints, especially fingers. Boys are affected more often than girls. There is no cure for Fragile X, although researchers are exploring ways to prevent it and deal with the complications.
Muscular dystrophy is a general term that's used to describe more than 40 different types of muscle diseases, all of which involve progressive weakness and degeneration (a breakdown) of the muscles that control movement. Heart muscles and some other involuntary muscles are also affected in some forms of muscular dystrophy, and a few forms also involve other organs. Almost all forms of the disorder are genetic and cannot be cured. Treatment includes physical and respiratory therapy, the use of assistive technology, and medications.
Phenylketonuria (PKU) affects the way the body processes protein and can cause intellectual disability (mental retardation). A baby born with PKU appears normal, but if the disease isn't treated, the child will suffer from developmental delays that are apparent by the first birthday. If the child is promptly treated with a special diet, intellectual disability can be prevented. It affects about 1 in 10,000 to 25,000 babies born in the United States.
Sickle cell disease is a disorder of the red blood cells in which an abnormal sickle-like shape of the cells causes ongoing or chronic anemia (low blood count), periods of pain, and other health problems. In the United States, sickle cell anemia affects mostly people of African descent and Latinos. Treatment may include taking antibiotics to prevent infection, blood transfusions, and bone marrow transplantation.
Tay-Sachs disease affects the central nervous system, causing blindness, dementia, paralysis, seizures, and deafness. It's usually fatal within the first few years of life. Babies with this disease appear normal when they are born; the symptoms develop during the first few months of life. It happens most often in Jews of central or eastern European descent or in people of French-Canadian/Cajun ancestry. Although there is no treatment for this disease, there's a test to help parents determine if they are carriers of the gene.
Infections during pregnancy can cause a variety of birth defects. These include:
Women who are pregnant should talk to their health care providers about ways to avoid these infections and what to do if they're exposed to them.
Many birth defects are diagnosed even before a baby is born through prenatal tests. Prenatal tests also can help determine if a mother has an infection or other condition that is dangerous for the fetus. Knowing about a baby's health problems ahead of time can help parents and doctors plan for the future.
Defects that may be detected through prenatal screening include:
It's important to remember that screening identifies only the possibility that a baby has a defect. It's possible to give birth to a healthy baby after a screening test shows that a defect may be present. You aren't required to have any prenatal screening; talk to your doctor about any tests he or she thinks you should have.
Other birth defects that can't be detected before birth can be identified during routine newborn screenings. With parents' permission, babies are tested after birth to screen for certain birth defects that need to be treated soon after birth. Exactly what a baby is tested for varies from state to state, although all states screen for phenylketonuria (PKU), congenital hypothyroidism, sickle cell disease, and about 30 other conditions identified using a technology called tandem mass spectroscopy. Parents should ask health care providers or the hospital nursery which tests their state performs routinely.
Other disorders that states may test newborns for include:
Parents who have concerns about another specific birth defect might be able to have their baby tested for it. They should talk to their health care provider about it before the baby is born.
Many birth defects can't be prevented, but a woman can do some things before and during pregnancy to help lower the chances of having a baby with a birth defect.
Before pregnancy, women should:
If there's a family history of birth defects or a woman is part of a high-risk group (due to age, ethnic background, or medical history), she should consider meeting with a genetic counselor to determine her baby's risk.
During pregnancy, it's important to take prenatal vitamins and eat a healthy diet in addition to taking the following precautions:
By following these pregnancy precautions, women can help reduce their babies' risk of birth defects.
Reviewed by: Rupal Christine Gupta, MD
Date reviewed: September 2014
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Haskell for Kids: Week 2!
It's time for the second weekly roundup from my Haskell programming class for kids! (Here's a link to last week's.)
Pictures From Last Week
Remember, last week's assignment was to write a program to draw an involved picture about something of your choosing. Here are some of the results:
- Marcello: http://pilotkid.edublogs.org/2011/08/18/hakell-rocks/
- Sophia: http://sally2135x6.edublogs.org/2011/08/18/gloss-programmingupside-down-elephant-drawing/
- Grant: http://brugdush.edublogs.org/2011/08/24/haskell-dart-board/
- Ms. Sue: http://mssuesun.edublogs.org/2011/08/17/haskell-is-cool/
- My own picture! https://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/haskell-for-kids-my-project/
This Week: Organization
The theme for this week is organization. One problem that's easy to run into quickly in computer programming is that you write computer programs that are so involved and complicated that you get stuck: the program might even work, but it's so hard to understand that you dread having to change it! We spent some time talking about ways to organize your computer programs to make them easier to read.
Parts of a Program
Just to review, a computer program that you wrote on the first day of class might look like this:
import Graphics.Gloss picture = color red (pictures [ circle 80, translate 50 100 (rectangleSolid 100 50) ])
We looked a little closer at how programs are built during our second class last week. Here are the parts.
Import Statement
The first line is the import statement: remember that's where we tell the computer that we will be using the Gloss library. If it weren't for that line, then the computer would have no idea what words like color, red, pictures, circle, and so on actually mean! You only have to import a library once, no matter how many times you use the things that it defines.
After the import statement, your program defines some new words, called variables. The one variable we defined in the program earlier was picture. For the moment, we always define a variable called picture, because that's how the computer knows what to draw. What we didn't mention in my last post, though, is that you can define other variables besides picture! And when you do, you can use them in the same way you could use circle or other built-in picture types.
For example, look at this program:
import Graphics.Gloss picture = snowman snowman = pictures [ translate 0 ( 50) top, translate 0 ( 0) middle, translate 0 (-75) bottom ] top = circleSolid 50 middle = circleSolid 70 bottom = circleSolid 90
This program defines five variables: picture, snowman, top, middle, and bottom. Again, the computer is only going to draw the thing labeled picture, but the other variables are useful for keeping things organized. There are two important rules here, which are part of the programming language, Haskell:
- Each new definition has to start in the left-hand column. It should not be indented.
- If you start a new line in the same definition, you have to indent it. It doesn't matter how far, but you need to indent at least a little.
It came up that I'm defining picture first, and then snowman, and so on… some people thought it would make more sense to do it in the other order. That's fine! The order of your definitions makes no difference at all, so feel free to start with picture and work your way down to the parts (sometimes called "top down", or to start with the parts and work your way up to the overall picture (sometimes called "bottom up"), in whatever way makes sense to you. You could even put them in alphabetical order. The computer doesn't care. (I don't actually recommend alphabetical order… but you could!)
The parts after the equal sign (=) in your definitions are called expressions. This is where you say what the variables actually mean. Most of what we looked at last week had to do with the different kinds of expressions you can put there: circles, rectangles, and so on, and even some more complicated expressions involving color or translate and so on.
In our second class last week we said a little bit more about what an expression is. Look at this example:
picture = translate 10 20 (circleSolid 50)
The expression on the right side of the definition of picture has four parts to it, all written next to each other. When you see something like that, the first part is called a function, and then rest of them are called parameters. So here we have:
- translate – That's the function
- 10 – That's the first parameter
- 20 – That's the second parameter
- (circleSolid 50) – That whole thing is the third parameter
Pay attention to the parentheses! Parentheses mean "treat this whole part here as just one thing".
Every function expects a certain number of parameters. For example, translate always expects three: the first is how far to move horizontally, the second is how far to move vertically. The third is the picture that you're moving. If you tried to give it only 2 parameters, or 5 parameters, it won't work! (If you want to, try it and see what happens.)
What about the part inside the parentheses? It's just another expression! Can you identify which part of it is the function, and which are parameters?
There's one other piece: you might notice that pictures is a bit different. The piece that comes after pictures has square brackets around it, and you can have as many things in there as you like, with commas between them. That's just another kind of expression, called a list. So far, pictures is the only thing we've seen that uses lists, but we'll see another one soon!
Here's the whiteboard after we discussed the parts of a program and expressions:
The conversation bubble was a different discussion: we talked about how you can make interesting shapes by drawing in white over the top of another shape.
Some Advice
Most of that was from the second class last week. This week, we spent some time talking about good advice for writing computer programs. We came up with the following:
Be Fanatical about Organization
If you don't stay organized, it's just not possible to write interesting computer programs. Your programs should be designed out of pieces, and you should pick those pieces to be meaningful. Here's an example of what not to write:
import Graphics.Gloss
pictures = [ translate 71 123 (rectangleSolid 30 200), rotate 45 (translate 10 1 (color green (circle 50))), translate 100 100 (scale 2 2 (rectangleWire 10 10)),
… and on, and on, and on …
That's okay to do when you're trying things out or playing around. But eventually, you want to break up your program into manageable pieces! A long list of 40 different drawing operations isn't very fun to read, and it definitely isn't fun to try to make changes to later on.
Instead, try to do something like the snowman example earlier: the pieces of the snowman are broken down into smaller pieces, so you can think about one thing at a time. Of course, not just any pieces will do! You don't want one piece to have the grass and one leg and sun, and then then next piece to have another leg and a tree! Try to find pieces of your picture that make sense on their own. Computer programmers even have a fancy word for that: we call those pieces coherent or we say that they have a lot of cohesion.
Earlier, we mentioned the ideas of "top down" and "bottom up" approaches to programming: you can either start by defining picture, and then define its pieces… or you can start by defining the pieces, and then build bigger things out of them. For now, whichever direction you find easier is okay, but just pay attention to which one you're doing, and maybe taking the opposite approach once in a while will make certain things easier.
Be a Good Communicator
The second piece of advice we talked about is to be a good communicator. You're not just writing a computer program for the computer to run it: you're also writing something for other people to read. You might show your programs to other people in the class, or to teachers, or plenty of other people.
A really good way to communicate well is to pick good names for things. If you're drawing a flower, your program will be a lot easier to understand when your variables are called leaf, stem, and petal; not picture1, picture2, and picture3!
Another tool you can use that's helpful for communicating well is called comments. The computer will ignore any part of your program that's between a {- and a matching -}. (That's an open curly brace following immediately by a dash… and then a dash followed by a closing curly brace.) For shorter comments, the computer will ignore anything from — (two dashes in a row) to the end of the line. So you can write something like this:
{- Picture of my dog, by Chris Smith This is a picture of my dog, Ruby. She is part border collie. -} picture = pictures [ circleSolid 50, -- That's her body rectangleSolid 20 100 -- That's her tail ]
(No, that doesn't really look much like a dog… gimme a break, it was just a quick example!)
By picking good names and adding comments to explain what you're doing, you can make your programs a lot easier to read and understand, both for yourself and other people. That's what we mean by being a good communicator.
Hide Unimportant Ideas
There's only so much that one person can remember at a time! Because of that, another important idea in computer programming is to hide the stuff that isn't important, so that you can focus on what is.
We talked about a new language feature that helps here, and that is let and where. Here's ax example of using where in a program.
import Graphics.Gloss picture = snowman snowman = pictures [ translate 0 ( 50) top, translate 0 ( 0) middle, translate 0 (-75) bottom ] where top = circleSolid 50 middle = circleSolid 70 bottom = circleSolid 90
That is almost the same snowman program as before: but with one difference. The variables top, middle, and bottom are defined after the word where, and still inside the definition of snowman. (It might not be obvious here, but the word where is still indented by a few spaces, so it's still part of the definition of snowman.
What this does is make top and middle and bottom only mean something inside of the definition of snowman. So you can use them when you're defining snowman, but if you tried to use them in a different part of your program, it wouldn't work. The error message you'd get would say "not in scope".
The idea of scope is important in computer programming. The scope of a variable is how much of the program it can be used in. When you write more involved programs, you don't want every single variable that you define to be visible everywhere! As this snowman program gets bigger, maybe we might want the same name, like top, to mean something completely different when we're drawing a different part of the scene. That's okay, because this top is only "in scope" during the definition of snowman.
We talked about an analogy for this: if you're in England, it makes perfect sense to say "I saw the queen today!" But, if you're in the United States, it doesn't make sense any more, because we don't have a queen. The phrase "the queen" means something different depending on where you are! So if I talked like the Haskell programming language, and you said to me "I saw the queen today!", I might say in response, "Not in scope: the queen".
By the way, here's the way to write that same snowman program but using let instead of where.
import Graphics.Gloss picture = snowman snowman = let top = circleSolid 50 middle = circleSolid 70 bottom = circleSolid 90 in pictures [ translate 0 ( 50) top, translate 0 ( 0) middle, translate 0 (-75) bottom ]
This means exactly the same thing: you just get the choice between defining the pieces first (that's let) or defining the pieces afterward (that's where).
Pay Attention To Details
Finally, the last piece of advice we had for computer programming was to pay close attention to details. There are lots of situations where a normal person might be able to figure out what you want, but your computer program still won't work if you don't get all the details right!
We looked at some of these details more closely:
- Indentation: You are not allowed to indent the first line of a definition. You must indent every line after that. These are rules in the Haskell programming language; if you don't follow them, your programs won't work. Also, if you use let and where, then you have to indent all the definitions there by the same amount.
- Parentheses: A lot of people have trouble with this when they get started with programming. (For that matter, most of us still make mistakes with parentheses even when we've been programming for years!) You have to match up your opening and closing parentheses, or your program just won't work.We talked about a few things that help. Some programming tools, including the web site we're using right now, will help you match up parentheses by pointing them out. Using the web site, try putting your cursor right after a parenthesis: the matching one will have a gray box drawn around it! This can help a lot… but it's only there if the tool you're using happens to do it.We also talked about counting parentheses. There's a trick most programmers figure out for checking their parentheses: start out with the number 0 in your head, and then read through part of your program, and add one every time you see an open parenthesis, and subtract one every time you see a close parenthesis. If everything matches, you'll end up back at zero at the end! If not, you may need to figure out where you're missing a parenthesis.
- Spelling: If you misspell a word, it won't work! So paying attention to spelling is important.
- Capitalization: Whether words are capitalized or not matters! So, for example, red works fine as a color, but Red doesn't work! We talked about the convention of capitalizing new words inside a variable name, even through the variable name starts in lower case, like in circleSolid. That has a name: "camel case"… because it's sort of like upper-case or lower-case, except it has a hump in the middle.
- Spaces: Most of the time, you can put spaces in your program however you like: but they often do need to be there! You can't run together numbers or variable names and expect it to work. A lot of programmers like to use spaces to line things up in nice columns, too.
Here's our whiteboard at the end of this part:
Paying attention to details like this is very important, and will help a lot as you get more experience with writing programs.
Things Other People Said
We finished up today by reading some quotations by famous people about computer programming, talking about, and did some laughing, too.
Any fool can write programs that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
– Martin Fowler
This is talking about the importance of being a good communicator, which was one of the points above.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
– Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan was one of two people who invented C, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. He's talking here about the important of organization, and of hiding unnecessary details, so that you can build programs without being overwhelmed by how complicated everything gets! In fact, he says that's the most important thing about computer programming.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
– Rich Kulawiec
Remember a "bug" is a mistake in your program. A "feature" is something it does, and is supposed to do. I threw this quotation in for Sophia, because on the first day of class, she found a bug in my web site where you could stretch a solid circle and it would accidentally leave a hole in the middle, and she used it to make a mouth as part of her first program. But then the next day, I fixed the bug and broke her program! That's definitely a bug that turned into a feature.
If you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?"
– Steve McConnell
This is a great concept! We talked about using comments to explain what's happening in your programs: but what's even better than having a comment is organizing your program so that it's obvious what you're doing, and you don't need the comment any more. This certainly doesn't mean never write comments: it just means see if you can keep things simple so there's not as much to explain.
Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that the parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful, too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code, I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way. It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names.
– Paul Graham
This is Paul Graham being funny, but also making a very good point. This touches on the first and last points of advice earlier.
There are two ways of writing computer programs: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no mistakes. The other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious mistakes.
– C.A.R. Hoare (sort of)
The last one is actually slightly misquoted. I didn't correct it because the original version means nearly the same thing but uses more technical language.
Your Assignment
Your assignment is to clean up your computer program! Imagine that you're going to share with other people not just the picture it draws, but the computer program itself. Get it as clean and nice looking as you can: try to break things down in logical ways, pick really good names, fix all the details, and communicate well to people reading your code.
See you next week!
12 CommentsLeave a Comment
Jason Knight / Aug 23 2011 4:39 pm
You touched on it, but one thing to stress here is that being organized makes programming *easier*!
In your snowman example, you could 'factor' (which roughly means: take out and put into its own variable) out the snowman, and easily draw 5 or 10 snowmen without having to repeat the same draw commands again and again.
Derek Elkins / Aug 23 2011 5:02 pm
suesun / Aug 23 2011 9:55 pm
That parentheses counting thing was totally cool! I think the kids really appreciated your advice today, because they had already had some time to fiddle around, and encounter some of the problems that you addressed. Your advice actually "meant" something to them, although I think we'll all need some more help with the "where" statements. Also, special thanks to Daniel for leaving comments on the kids' blogs. I know they'll appreciate it so much! They are also just learning how to blog as well, so any encouragement you folks can give them is greatly appreciated. Ms. Sue
Ivan / Aug 24 2011 6:12 am
It took me years to get this far in my programming!
"Be a Good Communicator" is tops for me, especially when I'm part of a team. It really hit me the first time I had to look at some code I'd written myself months previously, and couldn't understand it at all. How about, "Be Kind to Your Future Self"?
Lemming / Sep 5 2011 2:32 am
I like to avoid comments, when there are ways to express it in the core language.
E.g. instead of
picture = pictures [
circleSolid 50, — That's her body
rectangleSolid 20 100 — That's her tail
I would write
dogBody = circleSolid 50
dogTail = rectangleSolid 20 100
dog = pictures [dogBody, dogTail]


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It was near the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and on those Rocky Top Tennessee hills my University of Tennessee "Volunteers" (Vol) years began. As a teenager while listening to the radio, I kept hearing "Mike Jackson (not Michael Jackson of the Jackson 5) throws the ball to Bernard King and then to Ernie Grunfield, it's the Ernie & Bernie Show!"
Years later my high school basketball team girls sneaked over to watch the Lady Vols play under the "Most Successful Women's Coach" Pat Head-Summitt. While there, we met basketballers Reggie Johnson, Chuck Threeths, and footballer Jesse Briggs. It was such an inspiration to meet them. We went back to our high school tournament and I played like I was Reggie Johnson and scored 30 something point while teammate, Angie Sykes-Jackson acted like she was Terry Crosby stealing those balls. Our girls' team made school history by being the first to make it to the State that year under Coach Pat Flynn and Assistant Coach Sue Thomas-Martin, a former Lady Vol.
Then, in the fall of 1979 a Marietta, Georgia native basketball player was introduced to the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville, Tennessee who became the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year in 1982 and 1983; a two-time first-team All American; ranked 6th on UT's All-Time scoring list without the "3 pointer" effect and later graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Sociology in 1985.
This former Vol went on to have a dazzling 17-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career and made it into the NBA's record books several times including the "most minutes played in a single game scoring 55 points in 69 minutes" and a NBA All-Star Weekend "Three Point Shootout Winner".
On March 1, 2014, the University of Tennessee honored the legendary Dale Ellis by raising his retired Jersey #14 to the rafters knowing no one else will ever wear his jersey again. Dale's jersey will remain in good company with the other great UT legends that include; Bernard King, Ernie Grunfield, and Allan Houston.
This amazing weekend will rank high on my list of many unforgettable moments. I was not the only one that felt that way. The number of former "Vol" players, coaches, and fans that returned home to witness Dale's milestone was phenomenal.
I was so thankful to be a part of this weekend with my friends who participated in every event. It concluded when we attended Rev. Sanford Miller's New Salem Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Miller and his best friend, Elston Turner used to play many pick up games with Dale and other Vols so it was definitely a blast from the past for Rev. "Cornbread" Miller. Elston is the "UT player that got away" to the University of Mississippi and now he is the Assistant Coach for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies after spending over 30 years as a NBA player and coach.
On Friday, February 28, the UT Basketball Reunion Party at Calhoun's On the River included an exciting "meet and greet", taking photos, enjoying the great food that was served and many taking the podium to tell their favorite story about Dale while Coach Don Devoe was the Master of Ceremonies.
We gave big thanks to Dale's former teammates (Captain) Steve Ray, Rip Johnson, Kirk Naler and event planner, Jill Yarberry for organizing this "special fun-filled weekend to honor a special man".
On Saturday morning, everyone woke up to the Tennessee Basketball Lettermen's Social Breakfast in the Pratt Pavilion where the "memorable reunion moments" continued from the night before. This time several had their offsprings to proudly show off including Dale and wife, Daffney's 3-year old son.
Later, we were escorted to the Ray Mears Hospitality room where many forgot their diets because there was more tasty food. Everyone was really enjoying themselves, including UT's Former Head Football Coach, Phillip Fulmer and our hometown's favorite Hollywood actor, Cylk Cozart.
By this time everyone was feeling the anticipation of Dale about to be honored at the beginning of the UT versus Vanderbilt game coached by Cuonzo Martin.
We were treated like Kings and Queens while the young "Vols" felt special playing in front of their upper class teammates. Presently, this honorable young team is headed to the "Sweet 16" in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament. They were definitely inspired by this special day in UT history.
Entering Thompson-Boling arena all you could see was orange and white in Big Orange Country.
As a photojournalist, I had a job to do but I was so excited and emotional preparing to witness this great "One Moment In Time". Even though Dale is from Georgia and I'm from Tennessee, I still looked at him as another classmate excelling in life and making me proud. I was blessed to capture all four years of Dale's UT career before I left Tennessee for the United States Air Force.
One highlight was when he had to go against Ralph Sampson, a 7'4" from the University of Virginia in March 1982. I was scared for Dale (6'7") and his teammates because I thought Sampson was literally a strong giant man like in the Bible. With Dale's leadership and the coaching of Devoe, they were victorious and it was a great game.
Fast-forward from March 1982 to March 2014 (32 years later) and you have Coach Devoe, Player Ellis, his family, his former teammates, other coaches, athletic director, and players on the floor celebrating one of the highest honors a player can receive from their college years. Dale's other high honor was choosing UT because he said "Devoe offered me an education" and he earned it in 1985.
Dale's emotional speech was awesome and everyone was so appreciative knowing we had witnessed one of the best UT Vols who every put on that orange and white jersey. And that's why we saw on this day that no one else will be worthy of wearing #14 ever again because it officially retired on March 1, 2014.
The humble and soft-spoken Dale wanted his teammates on the floor with him when he was presented with his award. That was so touching. I told him later "That's a great feeling knowing you are responsible for bringing everyone back home". He was touched and said "I didn't get to finish thanking more people including my high school coach, Charlie Hood who was there. Also, Dale Jr. was going to lead the crowd to "LET'S GO VOLS!"
Another great moment was talking and photographing the former players and coaches and listening to their many interesting stories. Just to mention a few, Steve Ray was so excited and pleased about the distance people traveled to be there. Reggie Johnson was a senior when Dale was a freshman and I told him I bet Dale looks up to you but Reggie response was "Dale is my hero". Dale response was "Reggie, is my main man who I've learned a lot from" with excitement. Both played in the NBA together but not on the same team and were reunited when they were chosen to the "University of Tennessee All-Century Team" in 2009.
Meeting Dale's former teammate Kevin Nash was an exciting moment for me and my friends because of what he has accomplished since his college basketball days. He is an actor and professional wrestler known as "Big Sexy" through Wrestle Mania. He was so interesting and funny. Also, he can be seen in the movie "Magic Mike" (2012) with Channing Tatum. The ladies will really enjoy this movie if you have not seen it!!
I was overjoyed to see that the former players were so excited and emotional about seeing each other, sharing funny stories, reminding each other what happened way back then, sharing what they are doing now and passing their cell phones around talking to the "absentee" Vols. With me being a basketball player myself, I can truly understand the closeness you share with your teammates. You will always have that bond.
I remember teammate, Seth McDonald saying "I've not seen some of these guys in 30 to 35 years and who knows I may not get to see some of them ever again". Now that was a tear jerker because some former teammates have left them like William Mills (1991), Michael Poole (2009), Dyron Nix (2013) just to name a few. Seth had a lot of great stories when we all socialized after the UT big win over Vanderbilt at approximately 3:00 p.m. We talked until the 11:00 p.m. news came on T.V. recapturing our emotional and fun filled day with Dale Ellis.
I thank God for having the opportunity to be part of this special weekend when the University of Tennessee community celebrated that young Georgian who came into our lives over 35 years ago and gave us great memories wearing that #14 jersey.
So the next time you enter the UT arena make sure you tilt your head upward because that's where you will see DALE ELLIS name and number representing those four glorious-hard fought outstanding years from 1979 – 1983 that prepared him for his 17 year NBA career. May God continue to bless and congratulation to Dale, wife Daffney, family and his parents who are looking down smiling with great pride.
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Copyright © 2014.MARCH This story written and photos by Renee Sudderth for Splash Magazines. It is not to be sold or reproduce without written permission of Renee Sudderth
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The AAVSO Widow—Or Should We Say Spouse?
Thomas R. Williams
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Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, October 5, 2011; received April 4, 2012; accepted April 4, 2012
In past discussions of AAVSO observers over our first century of progress, the familial consequences of membership received little attention. However, non-astronomer friends commonly ask AAVSO observers, "But how does your wife feel about your spending so much time at the telescope and not in bed with her?" Although our Directors have not all been "observers," they too are forced to keep unusual office hours, answer telephones in the middle of the night, and so on. This paper attempts to portray the many surprising ways in which the AAVSO spouse (not all observers are male nor directors female!) responds to their partner's pre-occupation with variable stars.


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Former Metro Detroit police detective offers survival skills to keep students safe when heading back to school
Tips offered for keeping kids safe as they head back to school
DETROIT – Parents getting their children ready to return to school should include a refresher course on how to protect themselves when they're not at home.
Former Detroit Police investigator Tom Berry said there are skills parents can teach their children.
The first is develop a password for your child.
"Sit down with your children and develop a password, so if anyone comes up to that child when they're walking to or from school or the store, 'Hey I'm here,your moms been in an accident, your dads been in an accident." If that person doesn't say the password, then I'm not getting in that car, and I'm running like heck, I'm running away," said Berry.
The second is teach children to never walk alone.
"We've always said the buddy system is the best way to go and if anything does happen, scream and run.Yell as loud as you can and run as fast as you can," said parent Cary Sample.
Berry said skill number three is to make a lot of noise if something does happen.
"What you want to do if someone approaches you is you want to make as much noise as possible. you want to scream, yell, rant and rave, run to a neighbor's house, especially if your by yourself," said Berry.
The fourth skill is to teach children to fight for their lives.
"If they get you in that car, your chances of being recovered are slim and none. So, if somebody grabs you when your walking down the street, you bite, you kick them. If it's a man you kick him in the groin as hard as you can, and you scream scream, scream scream scream and you don't stop screaming until you can't scream no more," said Berry.
Parents should walk with their children on their route to school, teach them to stay away from vacant buildings and avoid being alone at bus stops.
That's not the only place Berry recommends children avoid.
"Gas stations, and party stores, is a bad thing because who hangs out there? Usually the adult man hangs out there, the people that don't want go to school, the people that are looking to get you in trouble," said Berry. "Tell your kids, you want a snack after school, have some pop at home, have some ice cream at home, some cookies, have macaroni and cheese at home. Don't go to the party stores, don't go to the gas stations that have party stores on the way home, you're only going to invite yourself to get into trouble."
Parents told Local 4 it's so important to be involved with what their children are doing and to talk to their kids about their safety.
"My rule at my house is to call when you get in from school," said Brenda Humbles. "No one in the home, and we also, they also have to make phone calls if they're leaving or when they come home from school."
Matt Jakubik said children are dealing with a lot more these deals and that parents need to talk to them early and let them know they can talk to their parents.
"Know who you're talking to, if you don't know someone make sure there are adults around you," said Jakubik.
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Via Book Covers from the Reading Room
Here's the latest, linky roundup of (good) shit that comes our way….please to enjoy:
*Wanna visit MOMA for free for a year? How to make your own MOMA artist pass.
*Or on second thought, maybe you should buy a real museum membership instead: President's Proposed 2012 Budget Cuts NEA, NEH Funding by 13%.
*ARC Gallery in Chicago has a call out for entries to its upcoming "Sequential Art: Comics and Beyond" exhibition. This is an "open walls" exhibition, meaning all entries will be accepted. You literally have nothing to lose.
*Missed the Jose Munoz lecture at SAIC last week? Art21 has a nice, concise summary of Professor Munoz' talk.
*Worthy of advance plugging: AA Bronson speaks at Gallery 400 next week as part of UIC's Voices Lecture Series. Tuesday, February 22nd at 5:00pm.
*You think quilting isn't 'real' art? You are so wrong, buddy. Check this out: Haptic Labs' Custom City Map Quilts; and Jimmy McBride's Stellar Quilts. I would love to go to bed under any of those beauties, although I'd be afraid one of my dogs would puke on it. Sigh.
*Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits at the Du Sable Museum of African American History, through March 6th.
*Who doesn't like browsing through online photo archives? The Field Museum Library has a veritable treasure trove available via its Flickr photostream…right now, they have hundreds of photographs up, including images from two scanning projects: Urban Landscapes of Illinois and 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. (Via Things).
*Earlier this month Edward Winkleman posted on the crisis in the arts funding landscape, which we discussed in our podcast for Art21 this month. As always Winkleman's take on the issue, along with the ensuing comments, are well-worth reading.
*Uh, WTF? Detroit May Erect Robo-Cop Statue. (Via). Whatever, I'll reserve judgement since I don't live there, and I really like the work that Imagination Station is doing for Detroit in general.
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- Michelle Grabner, Anthony Elms, Stuart Comer Named Curators of 2014 Whitney Biennial - November 29, 2012
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Fredrick and Kristina Snyder are the parents of a 6-pound, 12-inch baby boy Cohen Snyder, born Oct. 12, 2010, at Cape Coral Hospital. The Knighs of Columbus Chapter 11177 of Cape Coral provided $100 to the first baby born on Columbus Day. The donation tradition has been held for 22 years.
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Friday, July 06, 2007
chelsea, june 2007 - group shows
Jon Kessler, in The Line of Time, and The Plane of Now, at Wallspace -
The front room has a flat-screen tv showing Edward Hopper's famous painting, with video stuff happening where the background street-scene should be - movement, light, shininess, kinetic stuff, maybe computer stuff, looks random.
This sculpture (pictured above) is in the back room... the same Hopper painting, but with the street-scene painted out, and things moving around, back and forth. Tiny video cameras are mounted on some of the moving parts. The light and movement filmed by the tiny cameras mounted on the sculpture is blue-screened into the background of the Hopper painting... that is what is shown on the video monitor in the front room, filmed by a camera mounted across from the sculpture, focused directly on the painting (not showing any of the sculpture).
If someone walks between the sculpture and the video camera across from it, that person blocks out the painting for a moment...
it's hard to explain.
It looks like a robot, a relative or descendant of one of those Nam June Paik's.
Two (or three?) of the video cameras; the little black things, one trained on the piece of tinfoil as it is pulled up and down, the other swings back and forth in front of that concave mirror.
Man Ray, in Concrete Works, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, through July 27th.
Here is another one.
Jessica Stockholder, in Concrete Works, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
The Albert Oehlen in this show is for sale at $425,000, but for that much money you could buy TWO cars in that unbelievable Chelsea car showroom.
Green Lotus. Does Albert Oehlen get half, or is that like a re-sale? Do his paintings generally sell for that much? If I were an artist like that I would have a lot of nice cars.
Stefan Saffer, in In Context, at Pavel Zoubok, through August 10th - I had seen his work on Barry's flickr site and really liked it, so I was happy to see this. James and Barry have been following his work for a while...
Also liked seeing Tony Berlant, John Evans, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Simon Neville, and Jack Tworkov. It's a huge show, almost sixty artists included.
There is a small Al Souza which I initially mistook for a possible Arturo Herrera, then circled through the show and came upon a Herrera. The Souza is the better Herrera.
i forget, in Rare Birds, at Luise Ross, through July 27th - the premise is maybe a little corny - everything has birds in it! - but the work is good. Way too many charming pieces to name all their names.... but it was especially nice to see a second John Evans that day (the first was in the Pavel Zoubak collage show).
The snake in the piece above is a twisted piece of tinfoil; the red sun and star I think are sawdust, or sand.
Last time I was here they had the John Dilg show, he is included in this show as well.
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, in Three for Society, at 303 Gallery, through July 27th - something creepy, like a leather mask or something...both his paintings are cartoony but creepy like that. I like the way he lets these tiny controlled drips happen, and then works them into the composition... for example, in the piece above you can maybe see that little drip of blue in the shoulder, and in this piece you can see the oily ass-crack sweat.
There is so much tension in that drip of blue in the shoulder.
I also liked the Mary Heilmann.
Josh Smith, in Irreversible, at Stellan Holm - good abstract painting show... they wouldn't let me take pictures, this Josh Smith one was snapped as the guy said "No Pictures", so it sucks, sorry.
This Josh Smith so clearly has the name spelled out, so I asked if it was made before or after the work included in his recent solo at Lehmann Maupinn, in which none of the (possible) text is legible. They said this piece was made after those pieces...
Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to focus on this show as much as I'd have liked, because I ran into someone and got distracted. There was a nice stripe/stain glittery piece by John Armleder.
Curated by Niandra LaDes.
Posted by Martin at 2:45 AM
Labels: abstract painting, cars, chelsea, group shows, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Luise Ross Gallery, Mitchell-Innes Nash, Wallspace
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315 King Street East
Hamilton, Ontario
On a Friday night after a long week of work (they all seem long these days!), I stopped by A's for dinner. We were going to check out an Indian restaurant nearby. It wasn't quite what we were expecting so we ended up going to Ya Man! instead.
We started out with some ginger beer at A's insistence. The waitress placed a little bowl of what seemed like pickles and took our order. I decided to indulge and ordered a starter of doubles ($2.50), a Trinidad treat, consisting of curried chickpeas sandwiched between fried flat breads. I mean, just the definition of doubles sounds awesome, non? I'm glad I shared my doubles with A so I'd leave enough room for my main dish. (Note that doubles are only available on Fridays and Saturdays. I guess we were lucky!)
Oh, back to the hot sauce/pickles. So while we were waiting for our food, I couldn't help myself but taste it trying to figure out what it was. I was quite intrigued. It was very fragrant with onion and garlic with a good kick of heat. There were pieces of green vegetables. Artichokes, I thought? Not sure artichokes are part of Carribean cuisine. I finally asked the waitress who told me, it was called kutchella, a hot sauce made with green mangoes." Green mangoes! Awesome.
Kutchella hot sauce and my doubles.
A ordered Combination #4 ($11.99), which consisted of a Dahl soup, and any two vegetables with roti or rice. The waitress suggested that A add some kutchella to the Dahl. I love Dahl's and don't be surprised if you see a dahl post soon! A picked chickpeas and eggplant for his roti. I forgot to ask him to take a picture when he got his roti, so it's half-eaten below (and it was rather dark). When I was considering my choice, I thought eggpland and chickpeas would make a great combo also!
Vegetarian Combination: Dahl soup and eggplant/chickpea roti.
I decided to give up meat for Lent this year so was limited to the vegetables and fish dishes. After going back and forth, I looked at the specials board and noticed the Bake and Fish, a YaMan signature dish (also only available on Fridays and Saturdays for $7.99). I was so happy with my choice of fried perch, served in a fried bake, with tomatoes and lettuce, and... tamarind chutney! This is what made me fall for this dish! I just loved the sweet and sour dimensions that the chutney offered. The battered perch was also perfectly fried and hot. I will definitely have to come back on Fridays and Saturdays!
Bake and Fish.
As we were leaving, I spotted little mason jars and asked if they were the green mango pickles. I got a small jar of kutchella for $4 (or rather A got it for me. Thanks A!) and have been enjoying them at home (embarrassingly, I just eat it on its own). I say Yes to Ya Man!
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UK TV host Jimmy Savile abused children, show claims
LONDON - For decades, Jimmy Savile was a fixture on British television — an eccentric, aggressively jocular host of children's shows and a tireless charity fundraiser. When he died last year at 84 — by then knighted as Sir Jimmy — he drew tributes from Prince Charles and thousands of fans.
Now several women have come forward to claim "Sir Jimmy" was also a sexual predator who abused underage girls.
The allegations have set off ripples of shock — but not of surprise. There had, colleagues said, long been rumors. The main question being asked now is: Why did no one do anything?
"Maybe it was just the fact that Jimmy knew everybody," Esther Rantzen, a former BBC journalist and founder of the ChildLine child-protection charity, told Channel 4 news. "We made him into the Jimmy Savile who was untouchable, who nobody could criticize."
Child protection advocates say the case fits a pattern seen in the response to the child-molesting Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and in the English town of Rochdale, where a gang of men groomed vulnerable young girls for sex. Authorities in both places have been criticized for failing to act on claims of abuse.
The allegations against Savile are made in a documentary, "Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile," to be shown Wednesday on Britain's ITV channel.
The program alleges that Savile abused girls in his Rolls-Royce, in a mobile home and at BBC's television headquarters. It includes interviews with a woman who says Savile sexually assaulted her while she was a student at the Duncroft special-needs school near London, and with a former BBC staff member who says she saw the entertainer indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
The BBC said it has asked its investigations unit to make direct contact with police to offer full support for any lines of inquiry into the "serious and disturbing" allegations made about Savile — some of which it said relate to alleged activity on BBC premises in the 1960s and 1970s.
"We are horrified by allegations that anything of this sort could have happened at the BBC - or have been carried out by anyone working for the BBC," it said in a statement. "They are allegations of a serious criminal nature which the police have the proper powers to investigate."
Savile's family has condemned the vilification of a man who is not alive to defend himself.
"The guy hasn't been dead for a year yet and they're bringing these stories out," said Savile's nephew Roger Foster. "It could affect his legacy, his charity work, everything. I'm very sad and disgusted."
Mark Williams-Thomas, who made the documentary, insisted it was right "to tackle this highly sensitive subject and allow these women to have a voice — a voice that for many was not heard whilst they were children."
Savile was, in the words of his obituary in the Daily Telegraph, "an eccentric adornment to British public life," known for his platinum hair, garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewelry and ever-present cigars.
The former coal miner claimed to have organized Britain's first disco and to have been the first DJ to use two turntables — a claim that has frequently been disputed.
He was the original presenter of the music countdown program "Top of the Pops," which ran on BBC television from 1964 to 2006, featuring performances by everyone from The Rolling Stones to the Sex Pistols. For almost 20 years from 1975, Savile also made dreams come true on "Jim'll Fix It," a TV show in which he responded to children's letters by arranging for their wishes to be realized.
Savile championed a host of good causes, frequently running marathons to raise money. He led work to collect millions for the creation of a national spinal injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in southern England and bequeathed money for a heart unit at Leeds infirmary named the Savile Institute.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to charity and entertainment, and received a papal knighthood from the Vatican.
Prince Charles was among those who paid tribute when he died in October 2011 and thousands paid their respects at his coffin.
Although he was part of the nation's childhood, Savile remained a distant figure — well-known rather than well-loved. His guarded private life was the subject of a much watched television documentary in 2000 by filmmaker Louis Theroux.
Savile, who never married and lived alone, told Theroux he'd never liked children. Part of his home in Leeds was a shrine to his late mother, whom he called The Duchess. After her death in 1973, he spent five days alone with her body.
In recent days, several people have come forward to say Savile's predatory behavior had been common knowledge in showbiz circles.
Music broadcaster Paul Gambaccini told ITV television that Savile had used his charity work to discourage newspaper stories about his private life.
Gambaccini recalled Savile telling one journalist, "'well you could run that story, but if you do there goes the funds that come in to Stoke Mandeville — do you want to be responsible for the drying up of the charity donations?' And they backed down."
Surrey Police have acknowledged that they questioned Savile in 2007 over an allegation related to the Duncroft school. The file was passed on to prosecutors, who declined to bring charges.
The Crown Prosecution Service is facing questions about its actions, as is the BBC, Savile's longtime employer. The BBC's "Newsnight" program worked on a piece on the abuse allegations late last year but decided not to broadcast it for what the BBC called "editorial reasons."
Chris Cloke, head of child protection awareness at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said if any good came from the Savile saga it would be "a better understanding of how cases like this have happened, a greater understanding that protecting children must be everybody's responsibility."
"There is a concern that children aren't listened to," he said, "and that is something that has been around for a very long time."
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