Dolores Mary (Kellerman) Heydinger, age 70, passed away on July 7, 2012, in the University of Toledo Medical Center from complications after a routine procedure. She was surrounded by her husband and sons.

Dolores was born in Sandusky on August 31, 1941, and was a lifelong resident of the area. She attended Holy Angels grammar school and graduated from St. Mary High school in 1959 where she played the school operettas during her career.

She graduated from Mary Manse College in Toledo with her teaching degree in 1964. She then taught first grade and kindergarten in the Sandusky City Schools for 22 years, from 1964 until her retirement in 2002, with time out for raising her own family. She also worked for Kiddie Korral during her child rearing years. Children always came first in her life, as she was born to teach.

In her later years, despite her many health challenges, she remained an avid traveler, always keeping a bag packed for spur of the moment trips. She claimed 48 states and most of the Provinces, and had visited Europe and Alaska several times and Africa once.

She was active for many years in various church and school ministries, serving on the St. Peter and Paul School Board, until health issues forced her to gradually withdraw. She also enjoyed the outdoors, family gatherings, and the special apple of her eye, her only granddaughter, Taliesin.

Dolores is survived by her husband of 46 years, Michael; sons Scott of Lexington Ky., Marcus of Sandusky, and Charles (Vicki) of Savannah Ga.; granddaughter Tali; brother, Marcus (Carol) Kellerman of Santa Fe N.M.; aunt, Annie Parker of Put-in-Bay; numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Marcus and Mary (Parker) Kellerman; infant son, Joseph Marcus; brother-in-law, Lauren Joseph Heydinger; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Visitation will be held 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at the David F. Koch Funeral Home, 520 Columbus Ave., Sandusky, where a Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Prayers will be recited at the funeral home at 9:40 a.m. Friday, July 13, followed by a Mass of Christian burial at 10 a.m. at St. Peter and Paul Church, 510 Columbus Ave., Sandusky, Rev. Franklin Peter Kehres officiating. Burial will take place immediately following at Calvary Cemetery, with a luncheon to follow in the parish Gathering Space.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Scholarship Fund of the Huron High School Alumni Association, Box 112, Huron, OH 44839, or St. Peter and Paul Church, 510 Columbus Ave., Sandusky, OH 44870, or to ones favorite charity.

Your memories and words of comfort may be expressed to Doloress family at davidfkoch.com.

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The Irish Times - Wednesday, July 11, 2012

RAHUL BEDI in New Delhi

THE FEMALE warden of a hostel of a girls school in Indias eastern Bengal state, who allegedly forced a 10-year old girl to drink her own urine as punishment for bed-wetting, was granted bail yesterday by a district judge.

In a case that has outraged the country, Punita Mistris parents claimed that Uma Poddar, warden of Patha Bhavan school in Shantiniketan, 212km from the state capital Kolkata, had squeezed urine into their daughters mouth from the sheet she had wet while sleeping.

In their complaint to the local police at the weekend, Punitas parents said Ms Poddar had admitted to making their daughter drink her own urine as treatment to stop the bad habit of bed-wetting.

Ms Poddar has declined to make any public comment while the girl is undergoing medical and psychiatric treatment as she was taken ill after ingesting the urine.

The incident took place on Saturday night when Punita wet her bed because she was unwell. Her parents only found out about it when the mother called the warden to inquire after their daughters health and thereafter rushed to the school.

However, in a bizarre twist, the girls parents were arrested by the police on a complaint filed by Ms Poddar for entering the hostel without permission and taking their daughter away.

However they have been granted unconditional bail by a local court which severely reprimanded the police for arresting them.

The Patha Bhavan school attended by middle-class children from surrounding towns in Bengal is run by Viswa Bharati University which was established by Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

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Contact: Ron Najman ron.najman@downstate.edu 718-270-2696 SUNY Downstate Medical Center

SUNY Downstate Medical Center has received an award to enhance patient care in the field of neurology. Steven R. Levine, MD, professor of neurology and emergency medicine and vice chair of neurology, is scientific principal investigator on a $500,000 award from the federally funded Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop mobile phone applications for stroke patients and their caregivers.

Investigators from SUNY Downstate's College of Medicine and School of Public Health are participating in this study, which is being developed in conjunction with the National Stroke Association and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. The grant team will survey stroke survivors and their caregivers to investigate the interest in and preference for smartphone apps that facilitate improved identification and management of risk factors and healthcare needs.

"Despite the saying, 'There's an app for that,' progress has been limited in providing successful mobile technology to help patients manage cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and other illnesses," said Dr. Levine. "Nevertheless, there is enormous potential for patients and their caregivers to improve health outcomes through this technology, including among the elderly, minorities, and those of limited financial means, who are often most in need of better care. We are looking to develop a model program that will address stroke risk and disease management that will be applicable to other conditions as well."

The two-year award is part of PCORI's Pilot Projects Program. The funding for SUNY Downstate has been approved pending completion of a business review and a formal award agreement with PCORI, which is an independent, nonprofit organization whose establishment was authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions.

Investigators include Dee Burton, PhD, associate professor and chair of community health sciences, School of Public Health; Abhishek Pandey, MD, clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine and sleep researcher with the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center (BHDC); Clotilde Balucani, MD, research fellow in the Department of Neurology; Ruth Browne, ScD, MPH, CEO of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health (AAIUH) and co-director, BHDC; and Marilyn Fraser-White, MD, associate director of research and training, AAIUH, and director of community engagement, BHDC.

As previously announced, Dr. Levine is also principal investigator on Downstate's NIH-funded clinical trial network involving the four SUNY medical center campuses. Among the aims of the Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT) is the recruitment of a diverse patient population for neurology clinical trials and to train underrepresented minority investigators. This grant is also part of SUNY REACH, a collaborative effort involving the four SUNY academic medical centers and the SUNY College of Optometry.

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SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient's bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and Health Related Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, a School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and an Advanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology Incubator.

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Newswise SUNY Downstate Medical Center has received an award to develop mobile phone applications for stroke patients and their caregivers. Steven R. Levine, MD, professor of neurology and emergency medicine and vice chair of neurology at SUNY Downstate, is scientific principal investigator on the $500,000 award, which is from the federally funded Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

Investigators from Downstates College of Medicine and School of Public Health are participating in this study, which is being developed in conjunction with the National Stroke Association and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. The grant team will survey stroke survivors and their caregivers to investigate the interest in and preference for smartphone apps that facilitate improved identification and management of risk factors and healthcare needs.

Despite the saying, Theres an app for that, progress has been limited in providing successful mobile technology to help patients manage cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and other illnesses, said Dr. Levine. Nevertheless, there is enormous potential for patients and their caregivers to improve health outcomes through this technology, including among the elderly, minorities, and those of limited financial means, who are often most in need of better care. We are looking to develop a model program that will address stroke risk and disease management that will be applicable to other conditions as well.

The two-year award is part of PCORIs Pilot Projects Program. The funding for SUNY Downstate has been approved pending completion of a business review and a formal award agreement with PCORI, which is an independent, nonprofit organization whose establishment was authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions.

Investigators include Dee Burton, PhD, associate professor and chair of community health sciences, School of Public Health; Abhishek Pandey, MD, clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine and sleep researcher with the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center (BHDC); Clotilde Balucani, MD, research fellow in the Department of Neurology; Ruth Browne, ScD, MPH, CEO of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health (AAIUH) and co-director, BHDC; and Marilyn Fraser-White, MD, associate director of research and training, AAIUH, and director of community engagement, BHDC.

Dr. Levine is also principal investigator on Downstates NIH-funded clinical trial network involving the four SUNY medical center campuses. Among the aims of the Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT) is the recruitment of a diverse patient population for neurology clinical trials and to train underrepresented minority investigators. This grant is also part of SUNY REACH, a collaborative effort involving the four SUNY academic medical centers and the SUNY College of Optometry.

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SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patients bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and Health Related Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, a School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and an Advanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology Incubator.

SUNY Downstate ranks eighth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.

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VATICAN CITY Dozens of women who attended a high school run by the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order have urged the Vatican to close the program, saying the psychological abuse they endured trying to live like teenage nuns led to multiple cases of anorexia, stress-induced migraines, depression and even suicidal thoughts.

The women sent a letter this weekend to the pope's envoy running the Legion to denounce the manipulation, deception and disrespect they say they suffered at the hands of counselors barely older than themselves trauma which for some required years of psychological therapy that cost them tens of thousands of dollars.

A copy of the letter was provided to The Associated Press by the letter's 77 signatories, a dozen of whom agreed to be interviewed about their personal problems for the sake of warning parents against sending their children to the program, which exists in the United States, Mexico and Spain.

"I have many defining and traumatic memories that I believe epitomize the systematic breakdown of the person" in the school, Mary told The Associated Press in an email exchange. She developed anorexia after joining in 1998, weighed less than 85 pounds when she left and dropped to 68 pounds before beginning to recover at home. "The feelings of worthlessness, shame and isolation that are associated with those memories are still vivid and shocking."

Mary, who asked that her last name not be used, blamed her eating disorder on acute loneliness girls were prevented from making close friends or confiding in their families and the tremendous pressure she felt as a 16-year-old to perfectly obey the strictest rules dictating how she should walk, sit, pray and eat.

It's the latest blow to the troubled, cult-like Legion, which was discredited in 2009 when it revealed that its founder was a pedophile and drug addict who fathered three children. The Legion suffered subsequent credibility problems following its recent admission that its most famous priest had fathered a child and the current Legion superior covered it up for years.

The Legion saga is all the more grave because its late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, had been held up as a living saint by his followers and a model of holiness by Pope John Paul II because of his ability to recruit men and money to the priesthood, even though the Vatican knew for decades that he had sexually abused his seminarians.

Pope Benedict XVI took over the Mexico-based order in 2010 and appointed envoy Cardinal Velasio De Paolis to oversee a whole-scale reform of the Legion and its lay branch Regnum Christi. But the reform hasn't progressed smoothly, with defections from disillusioned members and criticism that some superiors remain locked in their old ways.

The all-girl Immaculate Conception Academy, located in Wakefield, Rhode Island opened two decades ago to serve as a feeder program for the Legion's female consecrated branch, where more than 700 women around the world live like nuns making promises of poverty, chastity and obedience, teaching in Legion-run schools and running youth programs.

Because of dwindling enrollment 14 seniors graduated last month the school recently merged with a Legion-run school in Michigan; in Mexico two programs merged into one that produced 10 graduates this year.

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UniSquare.me team from left: James Higgie, Andrew Loh, David Mah, Nigel Ang, Michael Qiu

A new program supporting staff, students and alumni to translate ideas into commercial reality has been launched at The University of Melbourne.

The Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) nurtures the passion for entrepreneurship, accelerating the journey from idea to market.

The Melbourne School of Engineering (MSE) joins only a handful of leading institutions globally providing an entrepreneurial program to its staff, students and alumni.

MAP aims to:

Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering Professor Iven Mareels said that MAP would help translate ideas into practice and increase opportunities for staff, students and alumni to develop successful entrepreneurial careers.

Engineering is all about investing in new ways of doings things and the MAP program offers a practical way for ideas to develop into potentially commercial ventures, he said.

MAP winners From thirty-two aspiring teams, four have been selected to receive Entrepreneurial Fellowships, mentoring and coaching support for their start-up ventures. The four Start-up Teams consist of 12 participants, who come from a variety of backgrounds including engineering students and alumni and external participants. A steering committee will provide governance of MAP through 2012 to develop the program and to evaluate performance at its conclusion in November.

VenueMob: an Internet venue booking system. Team members of VenueMob are: Ying Wang (current Melbourne University student); Devrim Van Dijk (current Master of Engineering student); James Giang (Business Analyst, Telstra); David Wei (Business Development Manager, Project Leader and Head of Training, Groupon Australia and NZ). VenueMob is an Internet booking system that will streamline venue bookings. This tool will enable venue owners to market and fully utilise their function spaces and function organisers to compare venues and make the right venue booking quickly and easily.

Remote Area Power System: an innovative power system for rural and remote areas. Braden Kidd completed an Electrical Engineering degree with Honours in 2008, and is a current student in the Master of Energy Systems program. The aim of his Start-up is to design a Remote Area Power System that will enable clients in rural and remote areas to get the most effective use from their available energy supply, whether it be off-grid alternative energy sources, single wire earth return or a combination of both.

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Monsignor Lawrence M. Purcell of the Church of Nativity in Rancho Santa Fe performed the Nuptial Mass uniting Adriene Christina Giese and Timothy Mark Eastaway, in the sacrament of holy matrimony, on Saturday, June 16, 2012. This marital union was a landmark occasion for the church, which commemorates the first Nativity School graduate to be wed at the Church of Nativity since its inception in 1989. Parents of the bride, Douglas and Deborah Giese, have been parishioners of the church and Rancho Santa Fe residents for 17 years and were joined by the parents of the groom, Paul and Kate Eastaway who reside in England, in celebrating this momentous occasion.

Adriene Christina Giese and Timothy Mark Eastaway at their wedding. Photo/John Riedy Photography

The month-long festivities leading up to the socially significant wedding that took nine months to plan, began with a bridal shower luncheon at the private residence of Jamie Carr on May 19 and concluded with a wedding reception after the wedding ceremony at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club. The brides mother, Debbie Giese, who is an active member of the Rancho Santa Fe Art Guild and an acclaimed artist, created framed hand-painted miniature oil paintings with guest names for each place card at the sit-down reception dinner at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club. Maid of Honor was Parry VanLandingham and Best Man was Matthew Youn. The bridal party consisted of five bridesmaids and five groomsmen, including Adrienes brother, Michael Giese. Adrienes affiliation with The Church of Nativity began when the school expanded to include additional grades.

Adriene Giese in the 7th grade.

According to Margaret Heveron, principal of The Nativity School, Enrollment when we opened in 1996 was 86 students for grades K 6. When Adriene joined us we had added 7th and 8th grade, bringing our enrollment to just over 125 students. The most important part about the growth of Nativity lies in its closely-bonded community of families. Students such as Adriene go on to be successful in their own individual ways and it starts with Nativity Schools philosophy of education where we believe all students are 100 percent intelligent based on their multi-faceted qualities. I remember Adriene well big smile, open and friendly, kind-hearted, artistic, loyal, true to herself. With her strong commitment to family values I know she and her new husband will have a life-long marriage grounded in mutual respect and love.

Adriene and Mark met each other while attending Rice University in Houston, Texas, and will spend their honeymoon in Tahiti, followed by relocation to Texas where they will live and pursue their careers. Mark will be working at Chevron on computer signal processing for oil exploration. Adriene will be attending the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston. She has not selected a specialty yet, but has enjoyed delivering babies.

Adriene comments, The best part of the preparation for our wedding at Church of Nativity was the Catholic classes that encouraged Mark and I to grow in faith and love. It redirected our focus from concentrating on one day (for the wedding) to that of a life-long relationship. Nativity School prepared me for a vigorous college preparatory experience but, more importantly, I had amazing educators who expanded my horizons. I will never forget the first time I realized I loved classical music for which I have focused by attention on, thanks to Paul Batchelor.

Nativity School Music Director Paul Batchelor elaborated, Although I have been Nativitys music director since dedication in 1989, I retired from the school in 2005 after the first 10 years. Adriene was with us for her junior high, 1999-2001. In my day, we offered an intense music appreciation class, which began in 5th grade with the Baroque era and continued in 6th with the classical period, the romantics in 7th, and the 20th century in 8th. During that time, Adriene was introduced to music by composers such as Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Dvorak, and Scott Joplin to the present. I remember that she was a good student and questioned everything. Back then, I always told the students that they probably wouldnt appreciate all this now as much as they would in the future. Adriene has also told me that Dvorak was now one of her favorite composers, as a result of the little seed that was planted over 10 years ago.

For more information regarding the marriage of Adriene and Mark, visit http://www.markandadriene.com.

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By Ador Vincent Mayol Cebu Daily News

THE chief of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center was barred by the court from taking possession of a lot owned by the nursing alumni association.

Executive Judge Francisco Seville of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 7 issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against Dr. Gerardo Aquino, Engr. Danilo Pearanda, and DSJP Construction.

The issue stemmed from the complaint filed by the Southern Island Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association against the three men, whom they accused of padlocking the gate of its property along Osmea Boulevard, Cebu City.

The TRO is effective for 72 hours. The case will be raffled off to another judge who shall determine whether to extend the TRO.

The association said it was the owner of the 4,434 square meter property and has been paying property taxes.

Last June 12, the respondents allegedly closed the property and had it cordoned and guarded by security guards.

A closed circuit camera was also installed in the area while diggings were made.

The association complained that its members could no longer use the area for parking.

Members of the Bukas Loob ng Dios (BLD) also couldnt use the area anymore for its regular prayer meetings.

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