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Caroline Steinman Nunan

Caroline Steinman Nunan

0 Comments | Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era; Combined Saturday edition, Jul 27, 2010

Caroline Steinman Nunan “Carrie,” 85, of Lancaster passed away Sunday, July 25, 2010 at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of the late James Hale and Louise Tinsley Steinman. She was a graduate of the Shippen School for Girls in Lancaster, the Greenwood School in Maryland and the Katherine Gibbs School in New York.

Carrie was a director of Steinman Enterprises, which includes Lancaster Newspapers Inc., owner of the Intelligencer Journal/ Lancaster New Era, Sunday News, Lancaster Farming and Lancaster County Weeklies.

Other Steinman Enterprises with which she was involved are the Intelligencer Printing Co., Delmarva Broadcasting Co., with radio stations in Delaware and Maryland, and Steinman Park Restaurant Inc. She was a partner in Steinman Development Co., owner of coal and gas lands in Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Carrie was also the chairwoman of the James Hale Steinman Foundation, a private foundation created in December 1951 for the purpose of providing grants to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, primarily those serving the citizens of Lancaster County.

At the time of her death, Carrie was a trustee emeritus of Franklin and Marshall College, a board member of the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival and a director of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County.

Carrie is widely credited with helping to shape a thriving cultural climate here through her tireless volunteerism, generous charitable giving and remarkable fundraising capabilities.

She was a founder and past president of the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, the free festival of visual and performing arts that has grown in popularity since its inception in 1963. She was also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music and received the nonprofit cultural landmark’s “Director’s Award” in 1993.

Carrie supported arts programs for young people as well. She contributed to the Fulton Opera House’s Youtheatre program, which provides programs for at-risk, disabled and disadvantaged teens. In 2005 she helped bring the Classical Music for Urban Kids program to the Crispus Attucks auditorium during the Summer Arts Festival. In April of this year, Carrie received the “Outstanding Leadership and Service in Arts for Youth Award” from Gov. Ed Rendell.

Carrie’s legendary philanthropic efforts extended far beyond the arts, into historic preservation, public health, education and the environment.

She was a life member of the Lancaster County Conservancy and was given the conservancy’s Partnership Award, its most prestigious honor, in 1999. That same year, Franklin and Marshall College named its campus, which is a designated arboretum, the Caroline Steinman Nunan Arboretum at Franklin and Marshall College.

Carrie’s numerous board memberships included the American Red Cross, which she served for 15 years as a Gray Lady volunteer at Lancaster General Hospital
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- You can

- You can replace the word ?slideshow? with ?slide show?, ?photomontage?, ?photo montage?, or ?video album?. It?s really a personal decision. And it is highly possible that as I am writing this article a new word or phrase is being created at this very moment to replace any of the above five words. Such as? moving pictures, pictures in motion, memories in motion (that one kind of makes you dizzy) albums that move, photo movements (there?s a phrase that will really move you!) ? You try. I give you five minutes to come up with some of your own phrases. Go ahead be creative!

So what?s my point here, or do I really have one? I guess the point is this. When you are doing a web search for ? are you ready, here we go again – slideshows, slide shows, photomontages, photo montages, or video albums ? type in each of these different keywords separately each time you do a web search and you will have more choices because each keyword will bring up a new search and ultimately a new company that you haven?t seen before.
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3 plead not guilty in Massachusetts school bullying case

Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Apr 7, 2010 by Stephen Singer Associated Press

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — Three Massachusetts teenagers pleaded not guilty through their lawyers Tuesday in the bullying of a 15-year- old girl who committed suicide after what prosecutors call months of threats and harassment.

The teens were not required to appear at the hearing in Hampshire Superior Court.

Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey, both 17 and from South Hadley, and 18-year-old Austin Renaud, of Springfield, will remain free on personal recognizance on the condition that they stay away from the family of Phoebe Prince, the girl who died.

Mulveyhill and Renaud are charged with statutory rape. Mulveyhill and Narey are also charged with violation of civil rights resulting in bodily injury, criminal harassment and disturbance of a school assembly.

They are among six teens charged in what prosecutors said was the “unrelenting” bullying of Prince, who hanged herself Jan. 14. Prince, who had emigrated from Ireland last summer, was a freshman at South Hadley High School.

Authorities said she was harassed and bullied after having a brief relationship with a popular boy. They have not identified the boy, but friends said it was Mulveyhill, who was a star football player at South Hadley High School.

Prosecutors said the bullying went on for three months and included insults and threats made in school and through cell phone text messages. Prince killed herself after a day of near-constant bullying, including being hit with a beverage container as she walked home from school.

Renaud’s lawyer, Terrence Dunphy, would not comment on the relationship between Prince and Renaud or the statutory rape charge against him. He said lawyers have not received any information yet from prosecutors on what evidence they have.

A pretrial hearing for Mulveyhill, Narey and Renaud was scheduled for Sept. 15.

The three others — Ashley Longe, Flannery Mullins and Sharon Chanon Velazquez, all age 16 — are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court in Hadley. They are charged with violation of civil rights with bodily injury.

The three also face simultaneous charges of juvenile delinquency.

Several news outlets have been reporting since charges were announced last week that a total of nine youths had been accused in the case
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Knowing the differences

Knowing the differences between profit motivated large and small companies, risks and benefits, and the culture of doing business in government organizations not driven by profit can help determine the best personal angles for “playing the game.”

Contrary to popular myths, there are always threats to employment stability, whether one pursues a career in private industry or a government institution. There truly are no “safe” career paths left for American workers to follow. Every type of employment carries its own set of risks and benefits, so anyone who manages their career effectively will learn to recognize the signs and shifts in the tides of their current direction, and develop contingencies for moving into other types of work when necessary. When mapping out your own career experiences, you will benefit greatly from analyzing the differences and similarities between the companies you have worked with, and recording the information for later reference. Using this insightful information, you can recall what you liked and disliked about working for the small, medium, and large companies, or government organizations, and combine your personal experiences with information gathered from other people.

Your assessment of these experiences will help you to decided more readily what kind and size of company best suits your personal needs and preferences.
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Notes on Language and Meaning

American Poetry Review, The, Mar/Apr 2009 by McGrath, Campbell

To drape the damp beach towel of language

upon the aluminum lawn chair of meaning

is neither more nor less admirable

than laying it across the chaise lounge of non-meaning,

to say nothing of abandoning it in a sodden heap,

soaked with pool water and grape Fanta.

Once the egg of meaning has been smashed

the mystery lies revealed: to smear

the walls with yolk is extraneous, and impolite.

Too often the wit of disjuncture

resembles a puzzle made of lettuce.

Driving to work I cross six bridges and a causeway

en route to the mainland: still, when the drawbridge opens,

I am surprised again at the sight of water.

You cannot teach a person to be a whale,

but you can bring them to see the beauty of whales;

you can present whales to their attention,

whales in their actual selves, and so the lesson is learned
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The Company pockets ?1200 for doing nothing!

2. Many people attempt the work even though they know they are not skilled enough:

Human nature is to have a go even though they know they will find it difficult to do and just give up. They send it back asking for a refund but are not entitled to one because they have used materials.

3. Some people will produce the items:

There are some people that will do a reasonable job on the first attempt but need to improve their work. This will be checked and rejected, but more materials will be supplied free of charge for them to continue.
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If you have a lot of

If you have a lot of natural curl, begin scrunching your hair with your fingers (misting frequently if you are using water).

5. If you are using a blow dryer, push your fingers into the hair to lift at the roots.

6. To add more volume, dry your hair upside down while continuing to scrunch with your fingers.

7. If you have less natural curl, use a small barreled curling iron.

8. Once you have it the way you like it, spray with a non-stiffening hairspray.

The Messy Up Do Hair

A popular hair style that is quick is the trendy messy up do.
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AVT Gets Award of Excellence for Manufacturing

0 Comments | Manufacturing Close – Up, Jul 15, 2010

AVT, Inc. (formerly Automated Vending Technologies), announced that it will be honored with the Award of Excellence for Manufacturing by the Corona, California Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon on July 22.

The Chamber said: “The coveted AE for Manufacturing will be given to AVT, Inc. (Automated Vending Technologies), an innovative vending operations and manufacturer of technology based vending solutions and equipment that is in the process of revolutionizing convenient food access, and serves approximately 300 commercial and government vending accounts and numerous educational facilities in Southern California.

“Their patent pending vending management software enables them to receive real-time information related to product levels, transaction amounts, machine maintenance issues and when to ship products so there is never a lapse in service,” the Chamber said.

“We are pleased to receive this honor from our hometown business leaders and look forward to serving Southern California while continuing to grow our manufacturing operations through superior engineering design and development efforts and integration of our cashless payment systems, advertising opportunities, remote tracking, and inventory management into our new line of automated retailer dispensing systems that are powered by AVT designed patent pending state-of-the-art software technology,” said AVT founder Shannon Illingworth.

AVT, Inc. is a vending solutions provider based in Corona, California that has developed several significant vending machine technologies that yield a more efficient and technically-advanced system
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And this could be the fastest and easiest way to land a new job.

How can you find a local job? Local job searches are available in the internet. All you have to do is to know the employers that exist from your local area. Extend your research by knowing what current job openings are available. If you have found the company and the job vacancy position, you can make a thorough research if the company is credible and reputable.

The biggest benefit you get for a local job search is the possibility for you to network your skills and expertise. You can simply use all the people you know in your local area to make them search for you to find the perfect job. Your network may include your friends, your former co workers, your relatives, the people you met in social gatherings, and the people you may even met casually in the streets.

The real purpose of having a network for your local job search is to educate and inform the people you know about your job search, the type of work you are qualified, and where you would want to be assigned in case you are hired.
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CPSC Announces Pool and Spa Kids Safety Education Effort

0 Comments | U.S. Newswire, Jul 23, 2010

Hundreds of pool and spa incidents since Memorial Day Weekend

HOUSTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Halfway through the summer swimming season, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has seen news reports of more than 210 child drowning and non- fatal submersion incidents in pools and spas around the country since Memorial Day Weekend. In an effort to reduce these preventable incidents, CPSC and partners Safe Kids USA and the National Drowning Prevention Alliance (NDPA) joined forces today to introduce a new kids safety education program. The centerpieces of the program are a multi-part educational video and an online activity, which are part of CPSC’s national Pool Safely campaign.

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“Just one incident is one too many,” said Inez M. Tenenbaum, Chairman of the CPSC. “These statistics are a wake up call and a reminder that these tragic incidents are preventable. Our kids safety program is designed to teach parents and children simple water safety steps so that everyone will Pool Safely this summer. “

The educational video highlights individual experiences and uses seven simple Pool Safely steps to encourage safe and responsible behavior in and around pools and spas. It is introduced by actress Ming-Na, the voice of Mulan in Disney animated films and star of the NBC drama “ER.” The video series is available to view at www.youtube.com/poolsafely and on the websites of Safe Kids (www.safekids.org) and the NDPA (www.ndpa.org).

The new Pool Safely interactive online activity is designed for parents and young children. It highlights unsafe behaviors around the pool in a variety of real-world settings such as backyard, hotel and community pools. Game players are encouraged to identify the trouble spots and behaviors. The online activity is aimed at children seven and under and will be available for play on the Pool Safely website and on the websites of the NDPA and Safe Kids.

“Safe Kids is proud to work with the CPSC on the creation of a kids safety education program,” said Mitch Stoller, president and CEO, Safe Kids Worldwide. “Children and families can learn valuable water safety messages – that may ultimately help save a life – through a new online activity and educational videos made possible by the Pool Safely campaign.”

“The NDPA is proud to be a Pool Safely Campaign Safety Partner,” said Kristin Goffman, Founding Board Member and Executive Director of NDPA. “Our members are dedicated drowning prevention and water safety advocates who will be able to use the educational video and Pool Safely campaign materials to help families learn how to prevent the needless tragedy of child drownings
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