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New: Child Watching at the Y (First Person)
At the YMCA in downtown Berkeley, it is possible to have the monthly membership fee waived if you volunteer four hours per week per month.
I became a member of the Berkeley Y in February of 2003, but I didn't decide to volunteer there until October of 2010. I was asked to volunteer in Child Watch, where parents leave their kids for a couple of hours while they go work out elsewhere in the building.
I started volunteering two hours per week on November 7, 2010. It was the first very rainy day of the season and the place was packed. The first three children I took care of were a five month old boy, an eighteen month old girl and a year old girl. Shortly after Thanksgiving I started working there on Thursday mornings for two more hours. I had the help of a lot of the paid staff, most of whom I considered my mentors. They had been at Child Watch from anywhere between ten and twenty years. They had started when their children were small. I enjoyed working with the Sunday staff who were from places such as Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka and Algeria. Thursdays were a different story. My first Thursday, December 3, 2010, started off poorly and things went downhill from there. There were three women who were paid staff, with whom it was hard to maintain a pleasant work environment. They started on the first day, when I was accused of taking a child away from one of them, which wasn't the case. They all reacted in an angry manner toward me in front of the children and the other staff.
Over the next year or so, I continued to have problems with these three women due to their criticisms of the way I took care of the kids. When I addressed the problems with my Thursday shift leader and the director of child supervision programs, they were not critical of my behavior or the other staff, explaining away the conflicts by advising, "There are a lot of different personalities. That's what makes working at Child Watch beautiful." To my mind this came under the category of a New Age Berkeley style response.
As I continued to work there, I found out that there was a lot of favoritism practiced by the supervisors, by favoring the paid staff over the volunteers. For example one staff member, whose hobby was photography, took photos of one child, with the permission of a mother, although as I was to learn shortly, it was against Y policy for any staff or volunteers to photograph children who came to Child Watch. In the spring of 2012, for my midterm project, as a student of photography at Berkeley City College, I wanted to make a photography project with various Child Watch children as the subject, of course with their parents' permission. When I asked the director of the child supervision programs if this was okay, I was told it wasn't. It didn't seem right to me that another staff member was allowed to take pictures and post the photographs on the Internet, but I wasn't. It was just as imbalanced as allowing some paid staff to take care of children outside of the Y, although another Child Watch rule is that no one is to care for children who come to the Child Watch outside of the Y, due to liability related issues, yet I knew this went on, because staff members talked about caring for children outside of the Y in my presence.
The one woman whom I had the most trouble with exhibited many disturbing behaviors. In late 2010/early 2011, she bragged to the parents and staff about getting into arguments with strangers in public. On September 24, 2011, she stopped talking to me or looking at me all of a sudden when we attended a compulsory all-staff meeting. (I don't know why she stopped talking or looking at me, as she was communicating with other staff.) When I brought this up, the shift leader told me to wait her silence out. Three months later, when things still hadn't changed, we agreed to transfer my hours to Friday mornings starting in January of 2012, at a time she would not be working. However our hours did coincide one Sunday in February of 2012, while she was subbing for another staff member. Her ex-husband came into Child Watch and she started a verbal altercation with him in front of their five year old child, the staff and the other children. I had a fifteen-month-old girl in my arms. The shift leader did nothing to stop them so I told them to "take it outside." They continued their argument. When the shift leader, who is Chinese, told her she was needed at the Child Watch front desk, she replied, "You go do that in China," a phrase which I had heard her say before, and perhaps was her idea of a joke. A couple of the staff members laughed. This was the woman who had abused her husband in front of everybody, a clear sign of insubordination.
In June of 2011, the supervisors and shift leaders called peer review meetings. The three women I had problems with, while working at Child Watch on Thursday mornings, got into it with each other verbally. The woman, who six months before had told me I was taking a child away from her, was yelled at by the other two women about how she would take babies away from them and other people. The Thursday shift leader and director of child supervision programs sat there letting them argue with each other. The woman apologized at the meeting to these two women, but that exchange didn't change her behavior. But at least I learned all of their behaviors were not only directed at me.
The supervisors told me I was one of the more reliable people volunteering hours at Child Watch and I even often subbed for other volunteers, in addition to my regular four hours. During the summer of 2011, I subbed for one young woman on Wednesdays from 10-2 while she out of the country for two months, so that I was working eight hours per week. We had agreed that she was to cover my shifts in the fall. However that didn't happen. The volunteer coordinator told me that it was unrealistic for me to expect her to sub for me.
After that I was very careful about who I would sub for.
There were other problems that continued to occur. Many staff workers enjoyed talking on the job. Sometimes they would sit in rocking chairs, holding infants in their arms, while talking, and these conversations would even take precedence over their responsibilities to watch over the children. I know this because I often had to supervise five or six toddlers by myself, which meant that I had to make sure they didn't take each others' food at the snack table, plus make sure that they were safely playing with toys or on the mini play structure. In general I was the one changing the most diapers, but more so when they got into these conversations. When I brought this up at the Sunday peer review meeting in June of 2011, the director of child supervision programs dismissed their behavior saying, "That's their culture." These people were from other countries.
The director of child supervision programs and the shift leaders had suggested having mini potlucks for all the staff during Child Watch hours. When another staff member and I mentioned that we shouldn't do anything that would distract us from taking care of the children, or have food in an area where children might be able to get into it, as we were not to offer food to children other than what their parents provided, one of the staff members yelled at us, denying that she was talking with others at any time. Again, the Sunday shift leader and the supervisor did not acknowledge this disagreement. (Note the Y's Volunteer Coordinator or other administrative personnel above the Child Watch staff never attended these meetings and were rarely seen in the Child Watch space.) Eventually, enough people complained about the potluck scheduling that they decided to have gatherings after Child Watch hours. However, the talking amongst the paid staff while working continued. Actually the volunteers seemed more consistently focused on the children, and this was not the only place Y personnel stood around chatting on the job. In the shallow pool there is so much socializing among untrained lifeguards that the rules of the pool are not enforced, such as making sure everyone takes a shower before entering the pool, and the patrons often have to inform new patrons of the pool etiquette. In the lap pool, swimmers don't obey the designated speed signs for lanes, and even when the lanes are crowded, lifeguards do not intervene to help resolve the discomfort of swimmers going at different speeds.
Since I had been complimented for being so reliable, and working so well with the parents and children, I hoped that I would be rewarded by becoming a paid staff member. I filled out the application in the Spring of 2012, only to be told that they weren't hiring paid staff and wouldn't be doing any hiring for a while. Even though they didn't say how long this would be, I decided to bide my time as I really enjoyed being with the children. I enjoyed them smiling at me, hearing them say my name for the first time, watching them paint and draw, and reading books to them. I really liked watching the children grow from infants to toddlers and into two-year-olds. Two year old boys playing with each other is very cute. I also became friendly with some of the parents.
Another difficulty resulted because of an ongoing problem of some staff not showing up for their shift hours and not arranging to have people cover for them. This problem started in February of 2012 and continued throughout the summer. As a result, in the room for older children, two through seven years, I was frequently left by myself, where I had to supervise the art table, the snack table and the loft, an area like a little apartment where children four and older are allowed to go, but where those younger than four have to have an adult with them. Sometimes there were fifteen to twenty children present in this older children's area, and always at least ten or so. Even more complicated, if a child needed a diaper changed, I would have to find someone from the front desk to supervise the other children. Meanwhile, even with these attendance numbers, some paid staff remained in the baby area, talking to each other, even when there were only two babies in that area.
From early March through early April of 2012 I spent a lot of time traveling and I had trouble getting people to sub for me. But when I was there, one staff member, who was working well into her pregnancy, was evidently often not feeling well. She would sit in a chair in the infant and toddlers' room, in a "woe is me" position, and not do her part in caring for any of the children, including her own six year old, whom she allowed to play roughly, throwing around a large plastic dragon that almost hit a baby in the head, who was resting in my arms. When I asked the older child to be careful, his mother denied that he was doing anything wrong, and continued to sit in the chair. One parent, observing this, was concerned about bringing her own child into the space. So I suggested the staff member's child and his friend go play in the older children's room instead of remaining with the infants and toddlers. The child finally left the room when a shift leader showed up and told him to go play with the older children. These problems were "addressed" in our June 3, 2012 all-staff meeting. Nothing really changed in people's behaviors, however, except that the pregnant woman stopped bringing her older child to work with her.
In June of 2012, the director of child supervision programs informed the paid staff that due to the cost overruns on the renovations of the Shallow Pool that was closed from September of 2010 until January of 2011, Grace's Pool that was closed from February of 2011 until August of 2011, (it was supposed to reopen in June of 2011), the downstairs women's locker room that was closed from August of 2011 until December of 2011, (it was supposed to reopen in November of 2011), and the downstairs men's locker room that was closed between May of 2012 until August of 2012, plus the regular maintenance of the Lap Pool, both in November of 2010 and May of 2012, (which as a long-term patron, I call the 'two-year inconvenience' because the renovations and the corrections for errors made in the renovations-- such as needing to redesign and reinstall the staircase in the shallow pool to accommodate disabled patrons' needs (so the pool was closed again the entire month of September, 2011)-- the combined changes continued to require the Y's members to be inconvenienced between the fall of 2010 and the fall of 2012), the Y had gone over their budget and therefore, the paid staff was going to have to accept cuts to their hours and their pay. I am sure this was disheartening to all the paid staff, but it was also disheartening to me because I knew that my becoming a paid staff member in the future went from a slim possibility to a none possibility. Their solution to maintaining adequate coverage was to "hire" more volunteers, as they termed it. But I continued to volunteer anyway, because I did enjoy being with those children and their parents.
In August of 2012 things took a turn for the worst. Out of the blue my Friday shift leader asked me if I would be willing to phase out of Child Watch and start working with older children in Fit Kids, a program for children ages six to thirteen. My Friday shift leader advised that I was "jeopardizing the other children" by favoring one child over the others. (This did not make sense as all staff, including this shift leader, spoke about their favorites, and they would joke with each other, "So and so your friend is here.") He said this to me in front of the child and the other children. This was especially weird to me, as I had been praised by him for many months on how well I was taking care of the children.
The major incident happened in September when I called the front desk and requested that the parents of young babies not be allowed to come into the downstairs women's locker room because the mothers blocked peoples' access to their lockers and used the disabled benches as changing tables. The lifeguards would also let them into the shallow pool ten minutes before their swim class was scheduled to begin and they would hover over the adult swim/walk patrons.
The volunteer coordinator called me the next day. She said the branch director had decided that she couldn't have someone work in Child Watch that "didn't like children" and I was not to be invited back to Child Watch. Note I had never met the branch director. Nor had I seen this person anywhere at the Y, including the Child Watch rooms. I believe she was judging something that she knew nothing about. I suspect that there is so much anxiety among the Y staff that any disagreement with the administration, no matter how incompetent, is crushed.
If she had met me she would have known that I enjoyed the children and that the parents, staff, and some of the shift leaders had often praised me for how well I took care of the children. This happened a week before I went to Jerusalem. The volunteer coordinator had a meeting with me the day before I left for Jerusalem, and she said she felt the branch director was overreacting to my situation because of some other unrelated incident with another volunteer in another department of the Y. She and I hoped that things would turn around when she talked things over with the branch director. However, this did not happen. The day after I returned from Jerusalem turned out to be my last day. The volunteer coordinator had a meeting with me and told me that the branch director would not let me return. She brought up mistakes I had made in the past, such as favoring the baby area over the older children's area (even though I had made a conscious effort to change, and there were some paid staff and volunteer who regularly favored one area over the other).
Since my membership fee was waived for volunteering at Child Watch, the volunteer coordinator asked me if I was interested in filing and cutting out Halloween decorations to maintain my hours. Before my trip she had asked if I would like to become a tutor and since I replied I was interested, she said I could start training after I returned. The tutoring option was not mentioned again. I said "no" to the option of filing and cutting out Halloween decorations, so I was told that my membership would expire at the end of September.
I decided not to return to the Y. I was not able to say goodbye to the staff, parents and children. I wasn't the only one being punished by the branch director. The staff, other volunteers, parents and children were being punished as well. The best-case scenario is that the branch director didn't think about that. The worst-case scenario is that she simply didn't care and was just pretending that she valued customer service. I'm pretty sure that some of the children felt like I abandoned them. The Y, even though it is a non-profit, operates in a very corporate manner.
I eventually was able to speak with some of the parents who said that they were sorry that I was let go, that I had taken very good care of their children, and that they noticed that there was a lot of turnaround at Child Watch, particularly with the volunteers. One mother said that when she couldn't get her child to go with her to the Y, if she told him I was going to be there, he was willing to come. Another mother said her child asked to see me, calling my name. During my almost two years of working at Child Watch as a volunteer, several people told me not to let the shift leaders, director of child supervision programs and the volunteer coordinator take advantage of me. I should have listened.
Tennessee Reed is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, New and Selected Poems, 1982-2011 (World Parade Books, 2012) and a memoir, Spell Alburquerque, Memoir of a "Difficult" Student (Counter Punch and AK Press, 2009)

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On Saturday, March 15, 2014, UCSF Diabetes Center director Matthias Hebrok, Ph.D., will be among several distinguished speakers at this year's Bay Area Diabetes Summit, a day-long event that will take place on the Moreau Catholic High School campus in Hayward, Calif. The event, which requires attendees to register, is open to the public.
Hebrok -- whose collaborative breakthrough research with his Diabetes Center colleague Mark Anderson on thymic cells, a key component to the immune system, recently received additional support from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine -- will speak at 11:15 a.m. on "Making Insulin-Producing Cells From Stem Cells -- a Long Journey is Nearing its End."
"The Diabetes Center at UCSF has one mission," Hebrok, a Hurlbut-Johnson Distinguished Professor in Diabetes Research, said. "To advance the care and treatment of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes worldwide so that we may achieve the ultimate goal of curing the disease."
Also at the event, UCSF will be screening families for the TrialNet Pathway to Prevention study. Note: the free screenings are open to family members of someone who is currently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Registered attendees are encouraged to stop by the TrialNet booth from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to learn how to get involved.
In addition to UCSF Diabetes Center, participants in the summit will include several Bay Area medical providers, community organizations, and medical institutions, such as UCSF's Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes, Kaiser Permanente, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Pediatric Diabetes Center at Stanford University, Children's Hospital Oakland Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Carb DM – Seize Diabetes, DYF, ADA and JDRF.
For more information, download flyer or email [email protected]
Event information
Bay Area Diabetes Summit
Saturday, March 15, 2014
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Moreau Catholic High School
27170 Mission Blvd, Hayward, CA 94544
Morning Session (8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
8-9 a.m.: Check-in; child drop-off; and vendor fair
9–9:15 a.m.: Welcome remarks
9:15–9:45 a.m.: Inspirational speaker, Charlie Kimball, Novo Nordisk Patient Ambassador, and first-licensed driver with T1 diabetes to win a race.
9:45–10:15 a.m. Keynote speaker, Stayce Beck, PhD, Acting Branch Chief for Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Division of Chemistry and Toxicology Devices. Topic: The Role of FDA in regulating Diabetes Devices and Advancing the Safe Innovation in the Management of Diabetes.
10:15-10:45 a.m. Break; vendor fair
10:45-11:15 a.m. Susan Guzman, PhD, Director of Clinical/Educational Services, Behavioral Diabetes Institute. Topic: Understanding and Treating the Emotional Side of Diabetes.
11:15-11:45 a.m. Matthias Hebrok, PhD, Professor and Director, Diabetes Center UCSF. Hurlbut-Johnson Distinguished Professor in Diabetes Research. Topic: Making Insulin-Producing Cells From Stem Cells -- a Long Journey is Nearing its End.
11:45 a.m.– 12:15 p.m. Bruce Buckingham, MD, Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. Topic: Working to Close the Loop: On Our Way to Getting a Good Night's Sleep.
12:15–12:30 p.m. Pick up kids from kids groups
12:30–1:30 Lunch; vendor fair
Afternoon Session (1:30-3 p.m.)
Track 1: Parents of Teens
Moderators: Korey Hood, PhD, Associate Professor, clinical psychologist, Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes, University of California San Francisco, and Avni Shah, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes. Topic: Overview of Diabetes Management and Barriers in Teens with T1DM.
Practical Tips and New Clinical Approaches to Help Management of Diabetes.
- Pam Kershner, MD, Endocrinologist, Kaiser Walnut Creek, Peds & Teen Young Adult Clinic. Topic: What is important to know about transitioning to adult care.
- Panel Discussion: Korey Hood, Avni Shah, Pam Kershner, Katie Craft, Certified Child Life Specialist, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
Track 2: Parents of Newly Diagnosed children (up to a year post- diagnosis)
Moderator: Mary Wright, NP CDE Kaiser Santa Clara. Topic: Diabetes 101: sick day basics, pumps and technology.
- Lisa Shenson, T1D Parent and Advocate. Topic: Your Child's Rights in School
- Hilary Freeman, RN, adult with T1, Early Alert Canines. Topic: Diabetic Alert Dogs - A Diabetic's Best Friend.
- Tariq Ahmad, MD, Pediatric Endocrinologist, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland. Topic: Understanding Physical Activity and T1D: from playgrounds to playing fields.
Track 3: Celiac & T1D
Moderator: Tandy Aye, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. Topic: Screening and Diagnosing Celiac in Patients with T1D.
- Nasim Khavari, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University and Patrika Tsai, MD, MPH, Assistant
Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Benioff Children's Hospital at UCSF. Topic: Understanding Celiac and T1D
Track 4: Hackers, Techies, and Geeks
Moderator: Kelly Close, adult with T1D, Founder and President, Close Concerns. Topic: Overview of New Technologies
- Howard Look, Tidepool, President and CEO and Type 1 Dad.
- Rita Sharma, Glooko, VP of Marketing and Product Development.
- Joe Madden, Vmersion Health (publishers of Gluco-Share) President and Co-Founder, and Type 1 Dad.
Track 5: En Español
Moderator: Diana Naranjo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist, Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes, UCSF. Topic: El impacto emocional de la diabetes: El estrés, la angustia, y la búsqueda de apoyo.
- Betty Flores, RN, PNP, CCRP and Rosi Jones, MPH, RD, CDE, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland: El Futuro de Diabetes Tipo 1. Noticias de JDRF
- Diane Limon, T1D Parent and Advocate: Your Child's Rights in School.
About the Diabetes Center at University of California, San Francisco
At the Diabetes Center at UCSF, leading experts in diabetes research, patient care, and patient education work as one cohesive team to improve the quality of life of those living with the disease and to ultimately discover a cure. For more information, visit diabetes.ucsf.edu or send email to [email protected].


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Country Radio Hall of Famer Rusty Walker Dead at 59
A man every bit as important to country radio as country music's biggest stars has died. Rusty Walker -- a Country Radio Hall of Famer and industry veteran admired by everyone he helped -- passed away in a Tupelo, Miss. hospital on Monday morning after suffering a heart attack over the weekend.
Walker was just inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in February. Since founding Rusty Walker Programming Consultants in 1983, he's helped over 500 radio stations shape their sound. With a small tweak here or a slight shift there, his team of consultants turned pedestrian stations into sharp, award-winning country powerhouses. If they were already powerhouses, Walker took them and made them unstoppable community forces.
Including his career as a deejay and programmer, the veteran worked with over 750 radio stations across the country. There is little doubt that the majority of country radio listeners and Taste of Country readers knew nothing of this man, but he certainly knew all about you.
For seven consecutive years, Walker was Billboard's Consultant of the Year. His station roster included WQYK in Tampa, Fla., KFKF in Kansas City, WQDR in Raleigh, N.C. and many, many more major market radio stations (the writer worked with Walker for five years at WQDR).
Radio and music industry professionals are united in grieving the loss of such an important figure. Even Reba McEntire tweeted well-wishes to Walker before learning of his death.
On a personal level, Walker was a charismatic and endearing presence who brought life and a few good stories from his hometown of Iuka, Miss. with him wherever he went. He made time for everyone -- from the new guy in the building to the most seasoned programmer. He loved to brag on his daughters and was quick to share their wedding photos. Sadly, Walker lost his 17-year-old daughter Kinsley in March.
Country Aircheck was first to report his death. Walker is survived by his wife Teresa, daughters Beth and Nikki and an extensive and loving family. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made public.


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In Reply to: Confirmed bachelor posted by Smokey Stover on March 14, 2010 at 19:10:
: : : : : : I have searched the site for the phrase "confirmed bachelor" and it only came up once, but in reference to the phrase "cloverboy." I would like to find out the history of the phrase "confirmed bachelor," particularly to discover when it first held the connotation of homosexuality.
: : : : : I didn't know that the phrase ever held to connotation of homosexuality. Obviously a man without female companionship in his life can expect gossip, but I don't think it has always accompanied the status of "confirmed bachelor," nor do I think it does now.
: : : : : We don't have a parallel phrase "confirmed spinster," or at least I haven't heard it. Still women living alone except for a female comapanion can expect comments. Rosa Bonheur, possibly the most famous painter of horses in the 19th century and undoubtedly the most famous woman painter of her time, got all kinds of gossip because she lived with a woman. Geez Louise, who care?
: : : : I disagree slightly with SS. It certainly was one of those 'coded' phrases that everyone understood that used to appear in obituaries (especially). In the days when homosexuality was a crime, and even after that when attitudes were considerably less tolerant than they are (thankfully) now, it was not 'done' to state that a man was gay.
: : : : Another classic phrase that was widely used was 'he didn't suffer fools gladly' - which was code for 'he was bloody rude'.
: : : [DFG is in line with the most up-to-date presumptions, but that is not necessarily correct - "confirmed bachelor" (from, let's say, the mid-19th to the mid-20th century) could not have been obit-code for "gay" (or for "homosexual," either) because obit-writers were under no obligation to tell their readers, even by code, about their subject's sexual life, whether it was regular or irregular. The same phrase, "confirmed bachelor," would have appeared in the obits of men who had lived celibate lives; and if it had been "code for 'gay'," the writers would have had to explain that, in this case, they didn't mean it. Which would have made for interesting, but needlessly complicated, reading along with the morning tea and toast. - Baceseras.]
: : I think you have a higher opinion of journalists and the newspaper-buying public than I do.
: : Of course obit-writers have never been under an obligation to tell readers about the subject's sexual life, but it's what people want to read.
: : Titillation or information? Well, which sells most copies, The Sun or the Financial Times?
: : (For those not familiar with Right-pondian newspapers, The Sun is a very down-market, mass-appeal paper, with photographs of topless girls and which almost specializes in the sex lives of the rich and famous.
: : The Financial Times isn't.)
: It may surprise you, David, but The Sun is at least somewhat known in North America for having originated that journalistic phenomenon, the Page Three girl. Even a local newspaper in my area has a Page Three girl. But because the Colonies were founded mostly by Puritans, the local Page Three girl is always a very demure young lady, well-clothed and not even faintly titillating.
[Actually, DFG, until recently the compact between a newspaper and its readers included the understanding that people did NOT want to read about the sex-life (or any other private concerns) of a private person on the occasion of his making perhaps his only appearance in public print, his obituary. Among many other reasons, people didn't want to think that their own privacy would be equally a dead-letter in the same circumstances. The expectation of privacy still is not completely dissolved, although weakened by many assaults; and during the years I referred to above it was as good as inviolate.
[Furthermore, there really were "confirmed bachelors" - the phrase had a natural true referent. (If it had been co mmonly taken as "code for gay," all of these men could have brought suit under the libel law! Didn't English newspaper publishers use to dread libel suits? They would have gone a long way to guarantee the "innocency" of the phrase.) I expect that if a writer had wanted to _hint_ at homosexuality, he would have found the means to do it; examination of the more scurrilous papers of the period will make an interesting study. - B.]


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A 2-year-old boy from western Colorado was killed by his babysitter's ex-boyfriend at a vacation home in a Pacific coast resort town, Mexican officials said Wednesday.
A family spokesman said Axel Charrette and his 7-year-old brother were being watched by a local woman whose boyfriend entered the home in Sayulita, attacked Axel and threw him in a pool to drown.
The prosecutor's office in the state of Nayarit said that the ex-boyfriend had been arrested and charged with rape and murder in the Feb. 28 attack. Prosecutors said the babysitter has been charged with homicide for failing to stop the attack and with lying about it to medical personnel.
Family spokesman Brian Scranton said the Charrettes had been renting the home for about two months and had hired Nancy Saralee Solorio Perez and her mother to watch the home and children. The parents were out of the house when Solorio's ex-boyfriend, Eleodoro Carlos Rodriguez Sanchez, entered, attacked Axel and drowned him, the prosecutor's office said. Axel's older brother was locked in the house and did not witness the crime, Scranton said.
The prosecutor's office said Solorio reported being too terrified to alert police during the crime.
Scranton said the Charrettes had returned to Ridgway, Colorado, on Monday and were overwhelmed by the support from residents of the town, who had set up an assistance fund, created a website for neighbors to sign up to bring meals to the grieving family and opened their homes to relatives coming to support the family. The town is naming a bike trail after the slain boy, Scranton said.
"There's something amazing about it," he said. "Whatever they need, it's been given to them without question."


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November 28, 2013
By Ken Brooks
LAWT Contributing Writer
Narbonne's football team is tasked with going 2-0 this season versus No. 4 seed Carson which gets a chance at redemption against the Gauchos on its second visit this season. Although the score in Carson's Marine League game loss was not close, the playoffs is a different season.
Top seeded Narbonne struggled unimpressively in its second round game against Birmingham. They did not look like a team that is destined to repeat as City champions. In fact both it and Carson, unlike the first round, were pushed to the limit and had to earn their respective second round home victories.
Despite having the home field advantage, can Narbonne afford to give away anything near the 140 penalty yards that it surrendered versus Birmingham? Perhaps so if Carson again cannot score better than the mere eight points it posted in the last meeting. It's going down at the same place, same time. But the Colts better have a different game plan the second time around.


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Festivals & Events:
Lluis Masriera and James Breski Trunk Show
Lustre Gallery will host a jewelry extravaganza featuring several gorgeous jewelry lines. Lluis Masriera, was a premier designer of Art Nouveau and Art Deco Jewelry in Barcelona at the turn of the 20th century. These jewels are meticulously handcrafted using the actual die molds that Lluis carved, and are true to his original fired enameling process and use of colors and precious stones. A museum collection well worth the time to view. James Breski sources beautiful gemstones throughout the world and places them in lovely one-of-a-kind diamond settings. Perfect for the bride to be, or a pop of color to catch your eye.


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Review: The Devil On Fifth Avenue
This book, The Devil On Fifth Avenue, by Sandy King, is the ultimate test of your faith.
Are you one of those people that are tired of the excuse, "well the devil made me do it"? Are you one of those people who would like to see what happens when good is tested by the devil and his advocates? Well this is the perfect book for you. But beware once you read this book your faith may never be the same again…
Trouble rocks the five boroughs of New York in this action-packed battle of good versus evil. Satan himself is the main character testing native New Yorkers; using individuals to give up themselves to the devil.
Will Satan and evil triumph over good? You'll have to find out yourself in this exciting sequel to the author's previous book, Apocalypse!
First Satan starts with Jacob one of the main characters sent from hell with orders to buy new souls to do his dirty work and have more fuel for his domain The Hell Fire.
Later Jacob's mom takes him for an exorcism to get rid of the evil that possessed his mind, body and spirit. What happens? Will his soul be cleansed of the demonic possessions that Satan pre-programmed into him? Find out for yourself if you dare to continue to read the pages that follow.
Next Satan tries a golden prize; a Father of a church. At first the father is strong; not allowing Satan to blow his steam. The Father is a gentle soul who has given his life to serving God; a peaceful, loving man, who embraces all of humanity. But can he stand the test of know-it-all Satan?
Especially when he brings up his own sinful past. His life of passion and pain before he devoted himself to God. Will Satan make him lose his religion? Find out for yourself.
Lust, deceit, lies, and sinful desire are the main things that Satan uses to test the sons of man in this non-stop action novel. Later in the novel, Satan, desperate on his mission to turn all of mankind against God, tries to convince a lonely man who uses women only for his sexual gain to give him his soul in exchange for riches.
This man, Alexander, does not realize that Satan is the devil himself but thinks he is a magician. Alexander dares to try to match wits with Satan.
As you turn the pages to this novel you become totally intrigued as you try to predict what will happen to each character. With each unpredictable circumstance, you begin to question: is there any more goodness left in the world? Why are people so tempted by Satan?
Does God come to the rescue of any of these poor souls?
The book is soon available on Barnes and nobles.com
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News Archives - 2011
He hopes you will be the match
Ethan Gutzmann-Williams hopes that Augsburg students, faculty, and staff will find their way into Christensen Center this Friday and will stop by one particular table to see how they can lend a hand. Or more specifically, donate their bone marrow.
Gutzmann-Williams [pictured] has helped the Be the Match Foundation coordinate a bone marrow donor drive on campus on Friday, April 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. He became interested in the organization after meeting Kristine Reed, a Be the Match representative who is herself a recipient of a bone marrow donation.
At this week's Community Time, Reed and Gutzmann-Williams talked about the importance of the registry and the need for people of color to join. "Seventy percent of patients in the U.S. who need a transplant don't have a match in their family," Reed explained. "A donor gives them a second chance at life."
Reed went on to explain that ethnicity is an important factor in donor matching when the recipient and donor are unrelated. Therefore, people like Imani, a fifth-grader from Minneapolis who was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in 2010, need donors of color to be tested.
Imani and her father also were at Augsburg to talk about the donor registry. Her father thanked Augsburg and Gutzmann-Williams for their attention to Imani's situation and to the needs of others waiting for donors. "For us, this is a blessing," he said.
Gutzmann-Williams said that after he learned about the need for donors of color, he thought Augsburg and Be the Match were a good match. "Diversity is important at Augsburg, and because we have more people of color I wanted to help people like Imani and encourage students to participate."
"This is not just for Imani," Reed said, "but for 9,000 other patients constantly searching the registry for the match they need."
To join the registry, potential donors will need to complete a registration form and have a cheek swab to test their DNA.
To make your experience as easy as possible, please:
1. Review the requirements to confirm that you are eligible to join.
2. Bring your driver's license to the drive.
3. Bring the names, phone numbers, mailing addresses and e-mail addresses of two family members or friends who do not live with you nor live with each other. The NMDP will contact these people only if you are identified as a potential match for a patient and we cannot reach you. In other words, we will not solicit to the two people you list on your registration form.
To join the Be The Match Registry, all you need is to:
Be between the ages of 18 and 60 and be willing to help any patient in need.
You also need to meet health requirements. These conditions would prevent you from joining the Registry:
Most heart diseases or cancer
HIV or risk for HIV
Chronic lung diseases
Diabetes requiring insulin or diabetes-related health issues (such as kidney, heart, or eye disease)
Autoimmune/neurological disorders such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis
HIV, or at risk for HIV
Hepatitis, or at risk for hepatitis
Diseases affecting blood clotting or bleeding
Being an organ or marrow transplant recipient
Significant obesity
Current sleep apnea
Recent back surgery, or severe or ongoing back problems


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Home has been kind to Angels
ANAHEIM -- The Angels have been turning games at the Big A into W's.
At 28-14 following Friday night's comeback win, the Angels' home record is the best in the Majors. Oakland's and Cleveland's 15 home losses are tied for second fewest in the Majors.
The Angels have won eight straight at home (for the first time since 2005) and 14 of their last 15 and 19 of their last 22 at Angel Stadium. They have only won 19 of 22 only one other time in franchise history, in 1967.
But the Angels' batting average at home and on the road is identical (.262) and they have launched 13 more home runs, in just two more games, on the road. The Angels' home ERA (3.69) is lower than the road (4.04), but opposing batters are hitting 15 points higher in Anaheim.
Still, the Angels have not lost a home series since the Yankees took two of three in early May, a stretch of seven consecutive series wins.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 n.11 Cape Town Jan. 2012
Models for increasing the health workforce
S Y Essack
BPharm, MPharm, PhD, is Dean and Head, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Chair, South African Committee of Health Sciences Deans
A stable human resource base in the health sector is critical to achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals. There is a severe quantitative and qualitative shortfall of healthcare professionals in South Africa, and the existing and future health workforce production is inadequate for our healthcare needs. The production model must include all healthcare disciplines because the quadruple burden of disease necessitates multi-professional healthcare teams working synergistically to improve health outcomes and life expectancy.
The global context
A stable human resource base in the health sector is critical to achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals. Suboptimal education and training is cited as a root cause of the African health workforce crisis'.1 Sub-Saharan Africa's health personnel/population ratios are the lowest in the world, and maldistribution between rural and urban areas is marked. Investing in training is thus crucial to address the health workforce crisis.
The World Health Report 20062 emphasises the importance of developing a capable, motivated and supported health workforce to achieve national and global health goals. Strong educational institutions providing professionally regulated and quality-assured/ accredited training programmes are essential to achieve the required quantity and quality of health workers. Strong and innovative stewardship of the anticipated growth of private education and services providers is needed, particularly in developing countries.
The Global Health Workforce Alliance3 recognises the importance of increasing education and training to meet country-specific health care needs, acknowledging the health workforce as the cornerstone and driver of the health system. It suggests engaging with the private sector in setting up new higher education institutions and campuses.
The South African context
South Africa adopted an outcomes approach for its Programme of Action 2010 - 2014 to advance economic growth and development, to be realised by delivery and performance agreements with the 34 cabinet ministers overseen by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency.4 The government prioritised health and education, and these ministries have formulated strategic plans towards their outcomes.
The higher education perspective
The Ministerial Statement on Higher Education Funding: 2009/10 to 2011/12 cites planning, funding and quality assurance as crucial in facilitating the delivery of high-level professional skills, research and innovation that contribute to national economic growth and development.5 The health workforce is explicitly mentioned as an imperative professional skill in the education-related outcome of 'a skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth path' in terms of output 4, which also seeks to 'increase access to high level occupationally directed programmes in needed areas' with a target graduate output in the animal and human health sciences of >15 000 per annum by 2014.6
The Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training recognises that the higher education system cannot accommodate the projected participation rate of 23% by 2030, suggests the establishment of two new universities, and acknowledges that the role of the private higher education sector must be better understood and supported by government. The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) will develop a nuanced strategy to work with established private providers, especially in priority areas, to strengthen and expand provision and to ensure that education and training by private providers occurs in compliance with quality and accreditation requirements. Possible partnerships between public and private institutions should thus be explored within a defined regulatory framework.7
The South African Committee of Health Sciences Deans reported to the DHET that student intake exceeds university capacities in most programmes, which are over-subscribed 2- to 10-fold in different universities by applicants meeting the minimum admissions criteria. Challenges precluding an increased intake include inadequate infrastructure (i.e. teaching and learning spaces, skills laboratories and residences, clinical training platforms), shortage of clinical supervisors such that staff/student ratios recommended by the professional councils cannot be effected, increased operational costs (especially transport costs linked to distant clinical training), and a dwindling academic health workforce. Although the Infrastructure and Efficiency Grant and Clinical Training Grant earmarked for increasing the quantity of health professional graduates and quality of clinical education and training have facilitated an increased intake and output, they do not meet the delivery agreement of the skills-related outcome.
The health perspective
The outputs and measures associated with 'a long and healthy life for all South Africans', viz. 'increasing life expectancy, decreasing maternal and child mortality rates, combating HIV and AIDS, decreasing the burden of disease from tuberculosis and strengthening health system effectiveness', require a skilled, competent health workforce accessible to all South Africans,8 as does implementing the 10-point Strategic Plan of the Department of Health, particularly in terms of the National Health Insurance, providing South Africans with affordable universal health coverage from 2012.9 The shortage of about 80 000 healthcare workers would be addressed by training additional healthcare workers and looking externally for more specialists.10 The latter option may be constrained by the registration and practice of foreign healthcare professionals by the professional councils and the WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel.11
The World Bank quotes the ratio of medical doctors and nurses in South Africa as 25.1/100 000 population (11th highest of 48 countries) and 140/100 000 population (9th highest), respectively.1 Although better than the sub-Saharan Africa average of 15.5 doctors/ 100 000 population and 73.4 nurses/100 000 population, these figures are lower than those in comparable developing countries (India, Korea, Singapore and Vietnam), which have 106.3 doctors/100 000 population and 220.4 nurses/100 000 population, respectively.1
The 2030 draft human resources strategy for the health sector predicts increases as follows from 2011 to 2025: medical practitioners 28/100 000 to 36/100 000; professional nurses 98/100 000 to 130/100 000; all nurse cadres 293/100 000 to 354/100 000; pharmacists 8/100 000 to 10/100 000; and total allied health workers 79/100 000 to 98/100 000.12
Health worker density per 100 000 population is lower in South Africa than in its benchmarked countries, including Brazil, Russia, India and China.13
All comparator countries have both public and private providers of higher education in the health sciences.
A multi-pronged approach to increasing the health workforce
Earmarked grants
Existing funding mechanisms can be leveraged as follows:
The Infrastructure and Efficiency Grant should address infrastructural needs.
The Clinical Training Grant should continue to advance quality clinical training, specifically human resources and operational aspects.
The imminent allocation of the Health Professional Training and Development Grant to universities provides an opportunity to re-negotiate joint health education and services agreements with their teaching platforms and staff establishments.
Expansion and refinement of inter-governmental partnerships
The South Africa-Cuba partnership to train medical doctors should be expanded to other priority healthcare professions. These graduates should be able to integrate into the South African health workforce with minimal induction or orientation. Choice of country should therefore include an English-speaking environment and a developing country that has a primary healthcare system. Foreign programmes should be accredited by the relevant professional and quality council(s), and South African-specific curriculum content should be integrated into the programmes and delivered by staff exchange programmes.
Private providers
Public-private partnerships between South African public universities and private higher education providers
Private higher education providers registered by the DHET could enter into public-private partnerships in which the public university allows the private higher education provider to offer its accredited programmes. A memorandum of agreement would be endorsed by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, as there is a policy gap in this area. The public university would enrol the students, facilitate programme delivery and award the qualification, as in many African countries. This would require accreditation of additional teaching sites, and it would take less time to admit the first students. For such a step to take place, the public university must have met its DHET-approved enrolment targets and private students would be accommodated on the public health clinical training platform once all public university students have been catered for.
Split-site education and training
Health sciences students could undertake their preclinical education and training in public universities but be placed with the private sector nationally or internationally for clinical training. The provisos for inter-governmental partnerships would apply for foreign clinical placements.
Independent private health sciences higher education institutions
Health workforce production could be further augmented by private higher education providers registered by the DHET, offering programmes accredited by the Council for Higher Education (CHE) and relevant professional council.
Quality assurance and stewardship of private providers
Quality assurance processes related to registration as a private higher education provider and accreditation of programmes would ensure stewardship by the national ministries of Health and Higher Education and Training, as outlined:
Registration as a private health sciences education provider by the DHET includes confirmation of eligibility to register in terms of the Higher Education Act of 1997, establishment of a juristic person in terms of the Companies Act of 1973, proof of financial viability and proposal/s to offer programmes registered on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
Application for programme accreditation must comply with the CHE and South African Qualifications Authority - programmes must be full qualifications and registered on the NQF. This requires institutional and programme information and evidence of application for programme accreditation to the Higher Education Quality Committee of the CHE.
Programme accreditation by the relevant professional council includes programme accreditation, contracts with national and provincial departments of health for student clinical training placement, and accreditation of sites for clinical/experiential learning.
Mutual benefits
The health system would benefit by service delivery during clinical training/experiential learning, internships and community service, and a larger health workforce to address the burden of disease and NHI implementation. The health system could further benefit by a clinical training fee for students accommodated on the public clinical training platform.
The higher education system would benefit by the private sector augmenting the production of a skilled and capable workforce in the scarce-skills healthcare professions.
Public universities would benefit from student fees. Additional remuneration of public university staff for teaching and training services rendered to the private provider could enhance staff retention.
The private provider would benefit as a 'for-profit' entity.
South Africa would benefit from further/foreign investment and job creation.
Whatever the model, health workforce planning must be inclusive of all healthcare disciplines, because the disease burden, specifically the quadruple burden of disease, necessitates multi-professional healthcare teams working synergistically to improve health outcomes and life expectancy.
1. Liese B, Dussault G. The State of the Health Workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence of Crisis and Analysis of Contributing Factors. Africa Region Human Development Working Paper Series. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2004. [ Links ]
2. World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2006 - Working Together for Health. WHO, 2006. http://www.who.int/whr/2006/whr06_en.pdf (accessed 27 February 2012). [ Links ]
3. World Health Organization. Global Health Workforce Alliance. Scaling Up Saving Lives. WHO, 2008. http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/documents/Global_Health%20FINAL%20REPORT.pdf (accessed 27 February 2012). [ Links ]
4. Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation. No date. http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/pebble.asp?relid=1905 (accessed 27 February 2012). [ Links ]
5. Ministry of Higher Education and Training. Ministerial Statement on Higher Education Funding: 2009/10 to 2011/12. c. 2009. http://www.cepd.org.za/files/pictures/Ministerial%20statement%20of%20Higher%20Education%20Funding%202009-10%20to%202011-12.pdf (accessed 10 November 2009). [ Links ]
6. The Presidency. Measurable Performance and Accountable Delivery Outputs and Measures Outcome 5: A Skilled and Capable Workforce to Support an Inclusive Growth Path. c. 2010. http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/dpme/docs/outcome5.pdf(accessed 10 May 2010). [ Links ]
7. Department of Higher Education and Training. Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training. c. 2012. http://www.saqa.org.za/docs/papers/greenpaper.pdf (accessed 1 January 2012). [ Links ]
8. The Presidency. Measurable Performance and Accountable Delivery Outputs and Measures Outcome 2: A Long and Healthy Life for All South Africans. c. 2010. http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/dpme/docs/outcome2.pdf (accessed 10 May 2010). [ Links ]
9. Department of Health. Strategic Plan 2010/11-2012/13. c. 2010. http://www.doh.gov.za/docs/stratdocs/2010/foreword.pdf (accessed 25 February 2010). [ Links ]
10. National Health Insurance from 2012. c. 2010. http://www.southafrica.info/news/business/807708. htm (accessed 22 September 2010). [ Links ]
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12. Department of Health. Planning for Key Health Professional Categories Towards a Health Workforce Strategy - Improving Human Resources in the South African Health System 2011-2025. Pretoria: DoH, 2011. [ Links ]
13. World Health Organization. World Health Statistics 2011. 2011. http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat/EN_WHS2011_Full.pdf (accessed 27 February 2012). [ Links ]
Corresponding author:
S Y Essack


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The Paxton Historical Commission in the White Building is now open to the public on a monthly basis. Residents and non-residents are invited to view town artifacts in the White Building on the second Saturday of the month, 9-10:30 a.m. A banner will be posted at the roadway those Saturdays as a reminder.
Residents are invited to come in to discuss the donation of any Paxton historical items with a commissioner, and photos for the commission's annual calendar contest may be dropped off.


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Lufthansa and Copa Airlines successfully conclude codeshare agreement
East Meadow / Panama City, 25 November 2015
Lufthansa German Airlines and Copa Airlines have successfully concluded a codeshare agreement for Copa flights to Latin American destinations. In a first step, Copa flights in the current winter schedule from Miami, Florida, to Panama City, Panama, are being operated under an additional Lufthansa flight number with immediate effect, enabling Lufthansa Group passengers to travel seamlessly from Frankfurt, Germany, via Miami to Panama City. Additional codeshare flights on Copa from Panama City to the cities of David, Panama, Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador, and San Jose, Costa Rica will commence with Lufthansa's inaugural flight from Frankfurt to Panama on March 2, 2016.
The codeshare flights which are already available for booking will provide Lufthansa passengers access to 74 destinations in Latin America offered by Copa via the "Hub of the Americas" in Panama City. On the flipside, the new Lufthansa non-stop service from Panama City to Frankfurt will provide Copa Airlines passengers with the benefit of having direct access to the Lufthansa Group's global network of 261 destinations in 101 countries. As both, Copa Airlines and Lufthansa are members of Star Alliance, passengers from both frequent flyer programs, ConnectMiles and Miles & More are already earning and redeeming miles on each other's flights. Additional destinations in Latin America are planned to be included in the codeshare partnership in the coming months.
Beginning March 2, 2016, Lufthansa will start its Frankfurt to Panama service with an Airbus A340-300. Five times a week flight LH 484 will take off from Lufthansa's Frankfurt hub in the morning at 10.15 a.m. and arrive in Panama in the afternoon at 4.40 p.m. (local time) after a flight time of 11 hours and 20 minutes (on average). The return flight LH 485 will depart from Panama City in the early evening as a night flight and land at Frankfurt Airport the following morning. On board, passengers can expect to find Lufthansa's usual high level of comfort. A total of 298 seats will be available in Business, Premium Economy and Economy Class, featuring the latest cabin design in all classes.
"Copa Airlines is pleased to welcome Lufthansa to the Hub of the Americas in Panama City, Latin America's largest and most efficient Air Hub for Intra-Latin America travel. This strong alliance partnership will permit passengers from all over Latin America, Europe and other parts of the world to connect quickly and efficiently while earning valuable miles and enjoying all of the comforts and benefits offered by both carriers," said Pablo de la 2 / 2 Guardia, Sr. Director of Commercial Agreements and Government Relations for Copa Airlines.
Felipe Bonifatti, General Director in Panama for Lufthansa, said: "The new codeshare agreement provides passengers traveling from Latin America with even better access to the Lufthansa Group's dense network. Passengers traveling via Panama to Frankfurt on the new Lufthansa flight will experience the quality service and premium products that Lufthansa has always been known to offer, including our brand new Premium Economy Class that offers extra space for comfort and relaxation, as well as an elevated experience."


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South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity
Search Expedition Collections
Harvard's Database enables searches across several catalogs.
Historic and contemporary photographs from the expeditions verify specimens encountered on botanical explorations and also document South Central China and Tibet's landscape, its people, and the relationships between people and plants. Images taken for the Arboretum during the early expedition capture the natural and landscape features of the region while images from the Harvard-Yenching Library provide a record of Rock's explorations of religious and ethnic traditions. The contemporary images document the flora and present a narrative about daily life. Together they disclose environmental and cultural change and reveal rich layers of meaning beyond the botanical record. These images can be found through the Harvard Library Databases or (HOLLIS Images).
Finding aid
The guide [PDF] to Joseph F. C. Rock's papers provides a comprehensive inventory to all available archival material, including links to his digitized correspondence from the 1924-1927 expedition, and to articles in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum describing his collections of bird and plant specimens.
Books, journals, and other printed material
Additional works by or about David Boufford, Susan Kelley, Richard Ree, and Joseph Rock as well as books and journals about the flora and fauna of China and Tibet can be found through library catalog (HOLLIS).
Herbarium specimens
Joseph Rock's herbarium specimens are held by the Harvard University Herbaria and can be searched via the Harvard University Herbaria Collection Index of Botanical Specimens (HUH-CMS). For items Rock collected during his expeditions type Rock into the "Collector" field. Specimens from which original descriptions are made are called "type" specimens and allow botanists to observe the actual plant that the original author of a new species used. View images of Rock's 197 type specimens. The article "Enumeration of the Ligneous Plants Collected by J. F. Rock on The Arnold Arboretum Expedition to Northwestern China and Northeastern Tibet" as well as other articles and notes can be searched in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum.
Ornithological specimens
Joseph Rock's bird specimens are held by the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), where the Department of Ornithology houses the fifth largest collection of bird specimens in the world—about 350,000 objects—and has a strong focus on Asian and tropical birds. Use "Rock" as the keyword to search the Department of Ornithology database which includes 1,541 items that he collected during the 1924-1927 expedition. You may also search Rock's letters, manuscripts, and journal articles, and read "Birds Collected by Dr. Joseph Rock in Western Kansu and Eastern Tibet" by Outram Bangs and James L. Peters, published in 1928 in The Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 58, No. 7.
Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains Region
The three contemporary expeditions inventoried two biologically diverse but very poorly documented areas of western Sichuan and eastern Xizang (Tibet), China – now generally referred to as the Hengduan Mountains Hotspot. Only within the past few years has it become possible for botanists to undertake collaborative field studies in large parts of the area, or for Westerners to conduct fieldwork at all in Xizang (Tibet). These explorations were particularly significant because they marked the first time that many Chinese scientists and students were able to visit the area to learn about the flora and vegetation of the region firsthand. Browse or search images, data, and maps on the expeditions' website.
Plants from Rock's Expeditions Growing at the Arnold Arboretum
Many of the plants Joseph Rock collected have become well known to gardeners. He collected birches, peonies, lilacs, lindens, maples, roses, and rhododendrons. He also brought back seeds of fir, spruce, and juniper as well as many other trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. Although Rock may not have been the first to introduce a plant into cultivation, the plants he collected often originated in much colder regions and proved to be hardier. View a selection of plants at the Arnold Arboretum grown from seeds from the 1924-1927 expedition.
Search Tips
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WASHINGTON -- Trying to ride a wave of public anger at Wall Street, President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed tough new restrictions designed to limit the size of the nation's largest commercial banks and reduce the risks they take in complex and exotic investments.
The president stopped short of urging a return to the days when commercial banks just lent money and were locked out of investment activities. However, his proposal Thursday, likely to play well in the heartland, is designed to rein in what are viewed as Wall Street excesses.
Flanked by his economic team, congressional leaders and the towering former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who's long been urging much of what Obama announced, the president took aim at Wall Street, today's political pinata.
"While the financial system is far stronger today than it was one year ago, it is still operating under the exact same rules that led to its near collapse," Obama said before cameras at the White House. "My resolve to reform the system is only strengthened when I see a return to old practices at some of the very firms fighting reform; and when I see record profits at some of the very firms claiming that they cannot lend more to small business, cannot keep credit card rates low and cannot refund taxpayers for the bailout. It is exactly this kind of irresponsibility that makes clear reform is necessary."
Financial markets didn't like what they heard. The Dow Jones Industrial Average cratered more than 224 points as the president concluded his speech. The Dow closed down 213.27 points to 10,389.88, its worst showing since Oct. 30.
But Wall Street critics welcomed Obama's proposal.
"The basic idea ... is a really, really good step," said Dean Baker, a co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal research center.
It came just days after the Democrats lost a Senate seat in Massachusetts, as Obama strives to assure voters that he's siding with working people rather than the wealthy elite and searches for ways to redirect voters' anger away from him to others, such as big bankers.
Americans are angry at bankers and Wall Street, as they get huge bonuses while the rest of the country struggles to hold jobs and recover from the recession.
In a recent CBS poll, a vast majority of Americans -- 70 percent -- said they were angry or bothered by the bonuses.
Worse, Americans think by 72-19 percent that taxpayer money that bailed out the big banks was used to help Wall Street fat cats rather than homeowners and working people.
In a news briefing ahead of Obama's announcement, senior White House officials said the president's proposals sought to make explicit what was implied in financial regulatory overhaul legislation that already had cleared the House of Representatives.
That legislation, shepherded by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., would grant regulators broader powers to break apart financial institutions that were deemed so large that their failure would threaten the financial system.
"It's designed to constrain future growth" in the size of these institutions, a senior staffer said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because the president hadn't yet spoken.
The administration hopes that the new proposal, which Obama called the "Volcker rule," will be added to the Senate's version of the financial regulation bill. The proposal prohibits commercial banks from conducting proprietary trading in securities and other investments. If they invest in stock markets or commodities exchanges on behalf of clients, they wouldn't be allowed to do it for their own benefit, too.
"This proprietary trading issue is a lot more complex than is being presented," warned Douglas Elliott, a former investment banker who's now a financial researcher for the Brookings Institution, a center-left research center.
Many banks invest in securities because they're easier to cash in than loans are if the bank has a quick need for cash. Preventing banks from trading in securities, Elliott said, may make the banks less stable.
The Financial Services Roundtable, the lobby for the financial sector, put out a statement immediately after the president's speech calling it bad policy.
"The proposal will restrict lending, increase risk, decrease stability in the system and limit our ability to help create jobs," said Steve Bartlett, the group's president.
The administration's proposal also would extend the 10 percent cap on how much of a market share of insured deposits any one bank can have to a wider range of investment activities. This addresses the evolution of the banking sector into activity beyond lending, White House officials said.
Banks also wouldn't be allowed to invest in or own hedge funds or private equity funds. Hedge funds pool contributions from the very wealthy and institutional investors such as pension funds. Private equity firms also are closed pools of capital, used to purchase companies or invest in exotic financial instruments.
Frank said Thursday on CNBC television that banks must get up to five years to spin off their investments so that they wouldn't be forced to sell them quickly at fire-sale prices.
Still, some analysts worry that banks will just find a way to evade the limits.
"When you put a system of regulation in place, they (Wall Street) figure out ways to get around it. It's an invitation to change corporate structures that may move stuff more off the radar screen," Vincent Reinhart, a former top economist at the Federal Reserve, said of the proposed prohibition on hedge fund activity by banks.
A wiser approach, he suggested, would be to create stronger firewalls between activities that banks conduct, and impose higher cash-reserve requirements on each part of a bank's business.
"I empathize that the firms are too complicated, markets can't discipline themselves, (firms) can't run themselves, you can't supervise them," said Reinhart, who's now a senior researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research center.
However, the administration's approach, he said, amounts to "being on the right side of the mob."
Taking on bankers will be a key part of Obama's political message going into this midterm congressional election year, when the Democrats hope that a tidal wave of voter anger won't cost them their majority control of the House and the Senate.
"I think that's a lot of what 2010 is going to be about," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday after Obama railed against banks in Massachusetts in a vain effort to stave off defeat for the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate there.
"People are going to have to decide whether the people they have in Washington are on the side of protecting the big banks, whether they're on the side of protecting the big oil companies, whether they're on the side of protecting insurance companies or whether they're on the people's side. I think what he laid out today is what you'll hear him talk a lot about."


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A man who walked into the Sangamon County Jail on Monday night, gun in hand, to surrender after allegedly shooting another man, already was on parole for a gun crime.
A man who walked into the Sangamon County Jail on Monday night, gun in hand, to surrender after allegedly shooting another man, already was on parole for a gun crime.
But the same man also was honored by the Illinois Department of Public Health in 1997 for rescuing and resuscitating a drowning boy.
Ricky Rogers, 32, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a drive-by shooting in 2002. According to the Illinois Department of Corrections, he was released from prison on March 3, 2006, and was to be released from parole on March 3, 2009.
Rogers walked into the Sangamon County Complex at 11:05 p.m. Monday and knocked on the glass partition in the public lobby of the jail. He picked up a telephone to talk to a jail employee who was protected by the thick glass, but started talking so fast that the control-room operator couldn't understand what he was saying.
Then, while still talking, Rogers allegedly pulled a black pistol from his pants and started waving it around.
The jail employee told Rogers to put the gun in a drawer that serves as a conduit for passing information from the public to employees behind the glass. Rogers did, and the control-room operator then closed the drawer, securing the gun.
Two deputies came into the room from the booking area and arrested Rogers, who said he had been told to turn in himself and the weapon but never said who told him to do so. The incident was recorded on surveillance video.
Rogers confessed to shooting a 19-year-old man about half an hour earlier, authorities said. The victim, whose identity has not been released, was taken by private vehicle to St. John's Hospital with what police described as serious injuries. His condition Tuesday was not available.
Rogers, who is jailed on $1 million bond, faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated domestic battery.
According to newspaper and court records, Rogers pleaded guilty to two unrelated gun charges in September 2002. In one case, three bullets were fired into a house in the from a passing car. Rogers later admitted he had been in the car, and the gun used in the shooting was found in Rogers' mother's house.
In the second incident, police raiding a house found a gun under a couch cushion where Rogers was sitting and fingerprints on that gun matched Rogers'.
Sangamon County records indicate Rogers was given 12 months' probation for a gun charge in 1996, and that he pleaded guilty to resisting a police officer in 1997.
In addition to those incidents, Rogers was lauded by the state health department in 1997 for his role in rescuing a drowning 9-year-old boy from a Springfield swimming pool.
Rogers had just been released from the hospital after having burned his arm while working on a car. He was at his fiancee's apartment complex when he saw that a boy in the complex swimming pool had been submerged more than two minutes.
Rogers jumped in, bandage and all, and pulled the boy out. He had learned CPR in a job-training program and spent about 90 seconds resuscitating the boy before he began breathing on his own.
Rhys Saunders contributed to this report. Sarah Antonacci can be reached
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Seat tolerances for standard conditions
The following tables provide recommendations for tolerances of shaft and housing seats. They are valid for standard applications but do not cover all details of a specific application. The information under Selecting fits and Tolerances for bearing seats and abutments should be additionally considered.
These recommendations are valid for bearings with Normal dimensional tolerances. They can also be used for bearings to P6 dimensional tolerances. The tighter P6 tolerance zone changes the resulting fit only slightly.
Recommended seat tolerances for metric bearings:
For the following bearing types, recommendations are listed in the product sections:
- Insert bearings → Design considerations
- Needle roller bearings → relevant sections under Needle roller bearings
- Cylindrical roller thrust bearings → Design considerations
- Needle roller thrust bearings → Design considerations
- Inch tapered roller bearings → Design considerations
All ISO tolerance classes used in the tables are valid with the envelope requirement (such as H7Ⓔ), in accordance with ISO 14405-1. For practical reasons, symbol Ⓔ is not indicated in the tables.
Bearings with a tapered bore mounted on tapered sleeves
Bearings with a tapered bore are always mounted with an interference fit for the inner ring. The fit is determined by the distance through which the inner ring is driven up on a tapered sleeve. For detailed information, refer to the information in the product sections:
For seats of bearings mounted on tapered sleeves, wider diameter tolerances are permissible. The total run-out tolerances should be the same as for bearings on cylindrical seats (→ Tolerances for bearing seats and abutments).


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The Great Space is undergoing its fall transformation as the home of the Comprehensive Studio models.
The Comprehensive Studio, ARCH 600, a graduate level design studio, has been working with structural mechanical and lighting consultants to design a Library. Now, the time has come to build the large scale model, at 1/2″ = 1′-0. Check out more pictures at the School's Flickr page.
Meanwhile, the ARCH 412 students were asked to demonstrate an understanding of structures and/or structural principles by means other than their homework and class quizzes. The students designed and fabricated arches, plaster domes, and several versions of a model shelf for the School's mezzanine wall.
More structures will be ready for viewing on Tuesday.


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The Diplomat Beach Resort Hollywood Curio Collection by Hilton, being sold at an opportune time. Curio Collection by Hilton
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A general view shows the headquarters of Anbang Insurance Group in Beijing, China, February 23, 2018. Mirae Asset scraps $5.8 billion deal to buy U.S. hotels from China's Anbang. Thomas Peter / Reuters
— Xinyi Liang-Pholsena
Flight Centre's retail footprint will be reduce by half in the new measures proposed.
— Matthew Parsons
Down 203 percent, New York City saw the steepest decline in hotel gross operating profits in March. The U.S. average was a 102 percent decline. Fred Hsu / Wikimedia
— Cameron Sperance
Girl on a Mobike bike in the line for street food shops in Wuhan China. Walks
— Dennis Schaal
The Ritz-Carlton Sarasota (pictured) was among the recipients of the Ashford Group of Companies' PPP funding. Josh Hallett / Flickr
— Cameron Sperance
The Ashton (pictured) in Ft. Worth, Texas, is among the Ashford Hospitality Trust properties receiving coronavirus relief funding. Michael Barera / Wikimedia
— Cameron Sperance
American Airlines has been installing new interiors. The carrier is a significant customer of Farelogix, an airline tech vendor. American
— Sean O'Neill
A Sun Country jet in Las Vegas. Tomas Del Coro / Flickr
— Brian Sumers
Southwest Airlines jets at an airport. Associated Press
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Air France is to receive state aid worth $7.66 billion to soften the economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic. Vincent Genevay / Unsplash
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WoW… Well, it's my vote.. 😀 I'm back! Sorry for missing Monday. It's just been a busy time lately. I'm still working on getting episode 22 out the door and into your, uh, hands…
This weekend was a little slow for me. On Friday we downed A'lar and the Loot Reaver in TK. On Sunday it was about the new boss in Kara (we ran it a couple of times) and then last night we did a full one-shot run of Z'A including getting all 4 chests in the timed run with about 5-6 minutes to spare. I then got another Kara (new boss) run together.
I finally played my rogue again for more than a few minutes (to just do enchanting or JC) and, besides just not knowing what I am doing, I am enjoying the assassination spec I have now. The combo points are just coming fast and furious. If some helpful rogue wants to leave a comment helping me out with what I am supposed to be doing, that would be awesome.
I haven't done much with Hallow's End (other than use the buckets to level my Refer-A-Friend toons) or the Scourge invasion stuff yet. I'm really wanting to concentrate on getting my little toons to 60. I have the shaman/warlock/warrior all up to 57 now. I'm thinking 58 might be time to move to Outland. At least they will get some good quest gear if I do.
Ah well, I'm gonna head out now. I've got to get back to audio editing! Catch ya later.