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In Oneida, we have been compromised in many ways over the recent years. Mismanagement of public property, public employees and authority in many facets.
As you drive around our city, you will observe an abundance of police. Most of the vehicles from this department are parked in their respective parking area at the OPD station, at Dunkin' Donuts, or hidden behind the car wash on Route 5. I have personally observed a police vehicle at the home of an employee during scheduled working hours, up to a half dozen times per day, up to 30 minutes each time. On Wednesday nights at Vets Field, I have observed two OPD officers in uniform watching baseball games throughout the season. Is this proper management of Oneida's tax revenue?
Recently Mayor A. Max Smith and Council have destroyed a public asset, Higinbothom basketball court, supposedly because of children of a certain social class playing ball. Granted, some of these people get out of hand with vulgarity, but isn't this what our police are for? So, instead our mayor destroyed a public asset worth thousands of dollars. What will the police do when the children migrate to Allen Park and Cooley Park? Is this proper management of public employees?
Congrats to new Fire Chief Kevin Salerno, who oversees NYS codes for the safety of ALL citizens in Oneida, not only tenants. Unfortunately, Salerno spot zones for violations, which is illegal. According to the NYS attorney general, ALL residences are to be held accountable for any violations cited under NYS Law. A municipality can make laws more restrictive, not less restrictive. Charging investors $30 every other year for inspections is legal, as long as Oneida is doing the same to every residence in the city. This continued practice opens Oneida to a potentially costly lawsuit. Are these laws constitutional?
Mayor Smith and the Council are trying to pass a nuisance law replacing the authority of police and empowering the landlord to be law enforcement. Laws have been put in place for many years, but this is the first to be carried out by investors.
Maybe the mayor realizes the police are on break at home or at ball games and he needs to deputize citizens to do police work. Or maybe Mayor Smith, who lives in the rental district, has a personal vendetta to remove his renting neighbors by destroying their pursuit of happiness in a public park and empowering citizens to run them out of town.
Our taxes are sky-high, increasing again possibly by 26 percent this year alone, while the city provides less in the way of services. How will the assessor make up for this deficit? Our budget is soaring mainly due to our hurting economy, compounded by the ridiculous laws construed by elected officials and poor choices in appointed personnel who ignorantly squander our tax dollars without shame.
— Frank Reginelli, Oneida


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NEW YORK — Stocks fell slightly today as worries flared anew about the European debt crisis.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 14 points at 13,261 at noon. The Standard & Poor's 500 was off two points at 1,416. And the Nasdaq composite index was down almost six points at 3,071.
In a report issued today, the German central bank questioned the wisdom of having the European Central Bank buy bonds to help the struggling European economies. It stressed that such purchases could carry "substantial risks."
Earlier this month, stocks rallied after ECB President Mario Draghi said the bank might buy government bonds of struggling European countries to help lower their borrowing costs.
In the U.S., Lowe's, the world's No. 2 home improvement store, missed earnings expectations today. Revenue at stores open at least a year dipped 0.4 percent, and the company cut its outlook for the year. The stock fell 6 percent.
The most valuable company in the world, Apple, became the most valuable company of all time, with a market value of $621 billion, surpassing Microsoft's record from 1999. Apple stock rose $15.40, or 2.4 percent, to $663.51.
Stocks have been inching up for six weeks. On Friday, both the Dow and the S&P closed just below four-year highs.
Other stocks moving sharply early today included health insurer Aetna, which announced it would buy Coventry Health Care for $5.7 billion as the insurance industry realigns itself to better navigate the health care overhaul.
Aetna rose $1.47, or 4 percent, to $39.51. Coventry climbed $6.61, or 19 percent, to $41.55.
The deal follows the $4.46 billion buyout last month of another insurer by WellPoint Inc., and last year's acquisition worth nearly $4 billion by Cigna of HealthSpring as it grabbed for a share of Medicare revenue.
Best Buy slid 7 percent after rejecting an offer from its founder and largest shareholder to take the electronics retailer private. The company named Hubert Joly, the former head of global hospitality company Carlson and a turnaround expert, as CEO today.
Facebook gained 36 cents, nearly 2 percent, to $19.41, following a slide last week after some insiders were able to sell stock for the first time since the company's public trading debut in May. The stock is down about half from its offering price of $38.
In the S&P 500, seven of the 10 main industry groups fell, led by telecommunications and consumer discretionary stocks. Those were down more than 0.5 percent each.
In Europe, stocks were also falling. Greek stocks fell 2 percent. Spain's main index was off 1 percent.
After the ECB's Draghi raised the possibility of bond-buying, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has resisted easing pressure on struggling countries, made comments that seemed to seem soften her resistance. She said last week that officials would do everything possible to save the euro.
But now investors are not sure the ECB will come to the rescue.
Investors are on edge this week because of a series of meetings among European leaders to discuss the debt crisis. The first of them came early today when the Greek foreign minister met with his German counterpart in Berlin to discuss Greek spending cuts necessary for the country to continue receiving bailout money.
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SYDNEY (MarketWatch) — The Reserve Bank of Australia kept its benchmark interest rate on hold at 3% Tuesday, as widely expected, with the central bank pausing after cutting rates substantially last year.
In commentary released alongside the rate decision, RBA Gov. Glenn Stevens said that global growth is forecast to be a little below average for a time, "but the downside risks appear to have abated, for the moment."
Stevens said that most indicators available for the meeting suggest that Australian economic growth was close to trend in 2012.
"Present indications are that moderate growth in private consumption spending is occurring, though a return to the very strong growth of some years ago is unlikely," Stevens said.
The central bank expects inflation to be consistent with target levels over the next one to two years, he said.
"Taking into account the flow of recent information, and noting that there had been a substantial easing of policy as a result of previous decisions, the board judged that it was prudent to leave the cash rate unchanged," Stevens said.
Easing days are over?
At its last meeting in December, the Australian central bank made its fourth interest-rate cut in less than a year. And for all of 2012, the RBA took 125 basis points off the cash rate, as it tried to smooth out the lumpy performance of an economy increasingly skewed toward the mining industry.
While the low-employment but terms-of-trade-boosting mining sector went from strength to strength until mid-2012, areas of the economy exposed to consumer spending and/or vulnerable to a high Australian dollar struggled.
When a faltering global economy took the wind out of the mining sector's sails in the second half of last year, the central bank responded by lowering rates further to encourage activity in domestic sectors.
But the RBA's rate-cutting stint may now be coming to an end, with some signs that economic growth may be picking up again, especially in China.
Prior to Tuesday's rate decision, 24 of the 28 economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected the central bank to keep its key cash rate at 3%.
Data out early Tuesday reinforced the view of an improving global economy, showing that Australia's trade deficit narrowed dramatically in December, beating economists' expectations. Read: Australia's December trade deficit narrows sharply
"The key has been the improvement in global economic conditions, and in particular, the recovery in Chinese activity. The fortunes of Australia's external trade accounts rest squarely on the mining boom, and the rebound in activity across emerging economies certainly bodes well for Australian coffers," said CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian.
"Given the low interest-rate environment, rising share markets and improvement in activity levels, the Reserve Bank is likely to remain in wait-and-see mode over the next couple of months," Sebastian said.
Gov. Stevens said Tuesday that the RBA's rate-setting board will continue to assess the outlook and adjust policy "as needed to foster sustainable growth in demand and inflation outcomes consistent with the target over time."
Sebastian at CommSec said that the central bank has signaled that it won't hesitate to cut its cash rate further, citing Stevens' comment Tuesday that the inflation outlook "would afford scope to ease policy further, should that be necessary to support demand," as a reason for holding that view.
The Australian dollar AUDUSD, +0.6258% traded at $1.0399 after the rate decision, down from $1.0436, while the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index XJO, -0.05% recovered modestly from a 0.5% decline to trade down 0.4%.
The S&P/ASX has gained 5.1% since the start of the year.


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I have a question concerning the Part II of the Ex. 62.
The question that i´m concerned with is the number 5 that I copy here:
(His) daughter is getting (parat) a good dinner for the farmer.
The correct answer, according to the key, is (i'm omiting all the long syllabes indicators.) :
Filia agricolae bonam cenam parat.
However, this translation doesn't make a clair difference about the person for whom the dinner is. It looks more like:
the farmer´s daughter is getting a good dinner.
But is impossible to know if the dinner is for the farmer or for any other person...
I'd like to know if I'm wrong with my interpretation and I'll be grateful for your help.


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Onyxian Drake
I have yet to see one of these babies flying around my own server, so I've borrowed a picture from Wowhead. The Onyxian drake is a very rare drop off the updated version of Onyxia that went live with patch 3.2.2, and it puts me in mind of what Onyxia might have looked like if you'd caught her in Dragon High School.
Back when the fifth anniversary patch went live, the mount was ninja'd so frequently that we couldn't go a day without having a complaint about it land in our inbox. That resulted in a remarkably forthright Breakfast Topic -- Would you ninja the Onyxia mount? -- and it turns out that, yes, lots of players will steal a drop if it's cool, rare and they don't think they'll ever get a shot at it again.
That said, it's been a while since I last heard any complaints about this -- I can only assume because Onyxia is pugged less frequently these days compared to Icecrown Citadel and Halion -- and it does make you wonder whether the would-be ninjas would have the same opinion today. Today's must-have, cool drop is tomorrow's outdated content.
Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher
As much as I like the frostwyrms and their art is really neat, they reuse the same tired drake animations that have been in the game since day one, so it's hard to get as excited about them as the proto-drakes. There's a grisly story attached to the ICC frostwyrms, as this is the letter you'll receive upon completing the requisite achievement:
As the Lich King's influence wanes, some of his more powerful minions have wrested free from his grasp.
This frost wyrm drake my men captured is a prime example. She has a will of her own and then some.
One of my men lost an arm breaking her in, but now she takes to riders fairly well -- provided they themselves are skilled and strong willed.
Please accept this magnificent beast as a gift from the Knights of the Ebon Blade. It was an honor to fight along your side in the greatest of batles.
With honor,
Darion Mograine
Not quite as pleasant as the letter we got from Brann Bronzebeard. I've always hoped that the unfortunate guy in question was someone among the Ebon Blade or Forsaken who could have an already-dead arm reattached without too much fuss. The alternative is somewhat freaksome, but the Ebon Blade isn't the sort of faction likely to dwell on the particulars.
Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher
From a distance, you can't tell the difference between this and the 10-man version, but up close you'll see it's much lighter-colored -- almost as if someone had decided to wash the dragon's bones before assembling the skeleton for reanimation. At least, that's the only plausible explanation I can offer, which makes me wonder which poor soul among the Scourge was that obsessive-compulsive.
Lore-wise, there's something slightly tone-deaf about riding around Azeroth on a giant dead dragon salvaged from the bowels of Icecrown, which is something that occurred to me on the beta while running around Tirisfal and the former Plaguelands. We just spent an entire expansion ridding the world of the undead threat, and now we're riding their pet necromantic horrors because ... uh ... they're cool. Talk to a few Forsaken NPCs while perched atop this living embodiment of their unnatural hell, and you'll think: Is there any form of transportation in the game more ironic and insulting than this? We're probably safe on that count until Blizzard programs a reputation vendor offering flying wood-choppers outside the port to Darnassus.
The heroic Lich King encounter is a thoroughly murderous fight from start to end, and I honestly don't know that it's going to be all that much easier in Cataclysm. However, Invincible's going the way of Mimiron's Head in the next expansion -- expect to see it as a rare drop rather than the 100 percent drop it is now, which should keep the poor horse about as infrequent a sight as it is now.
I adore Invincible's design. I'll grant that the floppy hooves animation while it's idling in midair or flying around are a little on the comical side, but if I recall correctly, the horse was put down by Arthas after its legs were broken, so that's not a real surprise. As with Mimiron's Head and the Ashes of Al'ar, be prepared to roll against everyone in the raid if you're ever around to see it drop.
Wrathful Gladiator's Frostwyrm
No player actually has this mount yet, as it'll be rewarded for reaching the Gladiator rank in 3v3 or 5v5 arena at the end of season eight. If you're on track for this, your 310 percent mount needs should be met, but obviously it's not the sort of thing you should bank on at this point.
Violet Proto-Drake
Damn right this thing's a 310 percent mount; no one would put more than a year's worth of blood, sweat and tears into it if it weren't. It's actually for that reason that I've always felt the Red Proto-Drake (the reward for Glory of the Hero) should have been a 310 percent mount as well, because the meta requires so much work even today. But the purple version's an acceptable substitute.
Any player can get a violet proto-drake if they put the time and effort into the game's eight major holidays over the course of a year. It's not fast and it's often not pretty (e.g., School of Hard Knocks, Sinister Calling), but as one of our commenters here once observed, there are only two ways to get the really good stuff in WoW: fast and difficult, or slow and relatively easy.
OverAchiever's covered each of Azeroth's holidays, so if you ever find yourself hurting for information on a specific achievement or meta, here are the 2009/2010 guides:
- Lunar Festival
- Fool For Love
- Noblegarden
- Children's Week
- Midsummer Fire Festival
- Brewfest
- Hallow's End
- Winter Veil
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In January 2008, at a John McCain rally in Columbia, S.C., I asked a number of local politicos to look back to the brutal 2000 Republican primary in their state, the one between McCain and George W. Bush. They had all supported Bush back then, and I asked whether, given the inconclusive wars, runaway federal spending and economic catastrophe of the next eight years, they felt they made the right choice.
The answer was yes. They explained that they had strongly supported Ronald Reagan, and then they supported George H.W. Bush because they had supported Reagan, and then supported George W. Bush because they had supported George H.W. Bush. It was just a natural progression.
Now, after decisive presidential defeats in 2008 and 2012, there is another Bush to consider as party insiders buzz about the possibility of a Jeb Bush candidacy. But the question, in South Carolina and elsewhere, is whether the enormous legacy advantage that George W. Bush enjoyed will still be there.
�There was a sense of loyalty that started with Reagan and moved to H.W. and then to W,� said Barry Wynn, a former South Carolina GOP chairman and a continuing influential figure in the state. �Whether that translates to Jeb or not I just don�t know.�
Wynn, a supporter of Bush I and II, said he believes Jeb�s fortunes will depend on whether there is a �fresh face that is so compelling that it overcomes the legacy effect.� Wynn mentioned Florida Sen. Marco Rubio but said the newcomer could be one of several others as well.
The bottom line is that a Jeb Bush candidacy could turn the Republican presidential race into a forward vs. backward contest, not because Bush�s policies would be backward (they might be just the opposite), but because his family tree, both personal and political, reaches far into the GOP past and would force Republicans to decide whether it�s time to move on or whether it�s possible to go to the well one more time.
�It�s too far removed,� said state Sen. John Courson, who recalls the Reagan years as the most exciting of his political life. �It was eons ago. (Jeb�s) father was Reagan�s vice president, his brother was president, but that is starting to wane, too. ... In my personal opinion, with all due respect to Gov. Bush, I would like to look forward to a Rubio or an Ayotte, or someone of that nature.�
Of course, in the wake of a devastating defeat, people often say they want a fresh new face the next time around. And then, somehow, an old face wins the race. The Republican Party has certainly earned its reputation for nominating the guy who finished second the last time.
�That didn�t work out well with John McCain and it didn�t work out well with Mitt Romney,� said Katon Dawson, another former South Carolina GOP chief. �Just because it�s your turn doesn�t mean you�re the best nominee.� For his part, Dawson said he would �never write off Jeb Bush� but also sees clear opportunities for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and other Republican newcomers.
The assumption among many GOP insiders is that Bush would enjoy a huge head start with big-money donors and Republican establishment types. And even though the family name is badly tainted for many Americans, Bush supporters could make a pretty compelling argument on his behalf: In the three decades since 1984, the only Republicans to be elected president have been named Bush.
That might win over hesitant GOP voters whose above-all-else priority will be victory. �The attitude after his brother left office was �No more Bushes, no more Bushes,�� said Clemson University political scientist David Woodard. �Well, I think they�re open to Bushes now. They�re waiting for a savior. They�re looking for anybody who can win.�
Of course, for any of this to happen, Jeb Bush has to actually run for president. That�s not a given; insiders describe his current state of mind as �thinking about thinking about it.� (By the way, they scoff at publicity given to Bush�s attendance of a reunion of some of his old staff in Washington recently; it was long-planned and had nothing to do with anything presidential.) Still, any Republican contemplating a run has to consider the Bush factor.
With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the Democrats had a backward vs. forward fight in 2008. After an epic struggle, they chose forward. Another Bush run for president could set off a similarly desperate fight inside the Republican Party.
Byron York is chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner.


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SYCAMORE – A new Casey's General Store on Sycamore's north side has a city-issued liquor license and is expected to open Oct. 17.
Sycamore officials approved a Class F liquor license for the store at 105 Plank Road. It will offer an expanded coffee bar, beer and made-to-order submarine sandwich operation.
The store's liquor license allows it to sell beer and wine for consumption off the store's premises. Casey's General Stores Inc., headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, expects to have beer available for sale Oct. 17, said Brian Johnson, vice president of finance for the company.
Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy said the new store should offer residents in the nearby neighborhoods a needed gas station option.
"We realize that's the only place to buy gas and food items north of the city – until people get to Genoa or Burlington – so we think they will do very well," he said.
Mundy, who as mayor is also the city's liquor commissioner, said the store's liquor license is not unlike those issued at similar stores in the city. The stores are usually 1,000 square feet and no more than 25 percent of the retail space can be dedicated to the sale of alcohol.
Mundy said he and city attorney Kevin Buick conducted the hearing Sept. 17 to approve the license.
About 200 people applied to work at the new store – only 30 were hired, but they are all from Sycamore, Mundy said.
Johnson said he believes the store will do well in Sycamore, especially the pizza and doughnut sales.
Casey's has 1,749 stores in 14 states, Johnson said. Illinois has the second-highest number of stores with 409 locations. The new stores, such as the one in Sycamore, are larger and more expensive to build, he said.
"We don't put them there unless they are going to be a strong performer," he said.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Russell Dennis, a professor emeritus of education who has taught the capstone course "Bucknell of Yesteryear & Today" and is a member of Bucknell's Class of '64, talks about the University's storied past. || Watch the capstone course
Q: What are some of the turning points in Bucknell's history that had a significant impact on the University?
A: There are quite a few of them. One would have been the effort in the late 1850s to move the University at Lewisburg from Lewisburg to Upland, near Philadelphia. It was spearheaded by John P. Crozer, who was then a member of the Board of Trustees. He made a rather generous offer to the University at Lewisburg of $50,000 if they would move it.
At that time, there was a two-party governing system for the University. They had a Board of Trustees, basically absentee people, and then a Board of Curators, who were basically local people. There was a lot of tension between the two. The curators, seeing the economic and cultural advantages of having a university in Lewisburg, resisted the move.
They gave a prize, if you will, the Baptist Theological Department of the University at Lewisburg, to Crozer, which moved to Delaware County and became the Crozer Theological Seminary. Today, it's part of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, N.Y. Had Crozer had his way and won, we wouldn't have the University here. Crozer left the board in the 1860s, and Crozer's son-in-law also left the Board of Trustees. That was William Bucknell.
Q: That wasn't the end of William Bucknell, though, right?
A: In the 1860s, the University got into an awful lot of financial trouble, especially after the end of the Civil War. Amid the trouble, President Justin Loomis, the University's second president, resigned in 1879, and David Hill became president of the University.
Hill, who had been both a student at the University at Lewisburg and a faculty member, was instrumental in getting William Bucknell to come back to the Board of Trustees. He went down to Philadelphia to entice him with an offer, and Bucknell returned to the Board of Trustees and pumped money into the institution at a time when it was in financial trouble. In thanks, the institution was renamed Bucknell University. So, that, too, was another turning point.
Q: You talk about what would have happened if ...
A: Around the time of the Civil War, when they had the Morrill Land Grant Act, there was some sentiment at the University to apply for some of the money. The federal government was giving the western lands to states, and the states would sell the lands. They had to use the money to support an institution of higher education within the state that would teach agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Although the Board of Curators desired a share of this grant, Bucknell didn't receive any money. The upshot of that was that Penn State, which at that time was called the Farmers' High School, got all the money. Bucknell would have become quite a different institution had it received that money.
There, of course, are other things. What would have happened had John D. Rockefeller in the early part of the 20th century accepted the board's offer to join the Board of Trustees? His secretary wrote back to say he didn't have the time to devote to it. Or, what would have happened if Andrew Carnegie had given the $50,000 they had asked for to establish a chair of electro-technics at Bucknell University? Engineering probably would have developed much quicker and earlier than it did at the time.
Q: Do you have another William Bucknell story?
A: William Bucknell was married three times. His first wife was Crozer's daughter. She died; they had no children. Then he married a second time and he had children with the second family. And then she died and he married a third time. That was Emma Bucknell. They had children, but ended up being estranged.
William Bucknell was going to change his will. The way the will stood was that Emma and the children would get just about everything. He was going to change the will so the children of the second wife would get stuff and also that the University would get stuff. But he evidently had a strange thing about doing things. He wanted to wait until his birthday in order to actually change the will. He had all this stuff arranged and drawn up, but didn't sign the will. And he died before his birthday.
So, what happened was that the bulk of the money went to Emma and her children. That's when the physical and chemical laboratory had been built in 1890, and, basically, the University had been depending on William Bucknell for money to equip it and complete the building. Fortunately, the children of the second family stepped up and gave the money anyway.
Emma, of course, went on to be on the Titanic (and survived its sinking).
Q: Is Bucknell in the 21st century significantly different than in prior centuries?
A: One of the things that is most different is the geographical diversity. We've always had people from outside of Pennsylvania, but you didn't have a lot. We were always a good school, but a regional institution. That's one of the big differences.
Now, we're a secular institution. That started around the mid-20th century when there was a conscious severing of the relationship with the Baptists. My class (of 1964) was the last class to have to take ROTC. And mine was the first class that didn't have mandatory chapel. It used to be that you had to go chapel so many times or you wouldn't graduate.
Another thing is the parity between men and women. For a long period of time, there was a conscious policy at the University to have two-to-one - two men for each woman. The two-to-one policy was reaffirmed by the board after the Second World War. One of the big changes was when that policy was dropped and it was decided to admit other than on the basis of male and female spaces.
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CRYSTAL LAKE – Nearly 50 children in District 47 will attend new schools next year under a boundary change approved Monday.
School board members unanimously approved the shift, designed to ease a space crunch at Canterbury Elementary School.
There will be 38 students in what Superintendent Donn Mendoza called the "Presidential Section" off Randall and Miller roads in Lake in the Hills who will attend Indian Prairie School next year.
In an apartment complex off Virginia Road and Route 14, 11 students will attend Coventry Elementary.
A recent study by district administration found that there is
overcrowding at Canterbury, prompting the district to redraw the boundaries. The district as a whole has reported declining enrollment.
"The trend at Canterbury and Coventry is not consistent with what's happening at the district level," the superintendent said. "It's been very public that we've got declining enrollment [at other district schools]."
But, what Mendoza referred to as "usable space" takes into account more than just enrollment figures. Some classrooms are reserved for computer labs, music and art rooms, while others are owned by the Special Education District of McHenry County. Furthermore, district guidelines cap class sizes at 25 children in kindergarten through second grade, and 28 students in grades three through five.
Facing its own space concerns, Coventry School earlier this year had several classrooms freed up when the district made an unrelated decision to move special-needs students to Glacier Ridge.
"We would have done that outside of any boundary change," Mendoza said.
Families with fifth-grade students will have the option to be "grandfathered in" and stay at their current school, but transportation would not be provided. The same applies for siblings of those fifth-graders, but only for one year.
Nine of the 49 children affected by the change are enrolled in the district's dual-language program, and can choose to stay at their current schools with district-provided transportation.
The decision came on the heels of a public hearing Thursday night in which no members of the public or parents attended.


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Bradford reinstated into FA Cup by the FA
The FA Cup, the cup of dreams, is live on ESPN this season. Click for details on how to subscribe
Bradford City have had their expulsion from the FA Cup overturned after a successful appeal to the Football Association.
Bradford were kicked out of the competition last week for fielding an ineligible player in their second-round match against Brentford.
Curtis Good, on loan from Newcastle, played in the 1-1 draw without receiving written permission from the FA by the 12pm deadline on the Friday of the tie.
But after initially expelling Bradford, the FA has now decided to allow the club - who recorded a memorable League Cup upset against Premier League side Arsenal on Tuesday - back into the competition. Bradford have instead been issued with a fine.
An official statement from Bradford read: "We can confirm that on appeal the club has now been reinstated back into the FA Cup competition and has been fined for its actions.
"We deeply regret our breach of the rules and are currently reviewing our procedures to ensure no repeat of this situation."
Phil Parkinson's side now face a replay against Brentford at Griffin Park next Tuesday for a chance to meet Southend in the third round in January.


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Canaan Christian Academy captured its first-ever league and tourney title
ENDICOTT, NY — Canaan Christian Academy's girls varsity soccer squad put the finishing touches on an unforgettable season this weekend.
The Lady Eagles traveled to Endicott (NY) on Saturday morning to battle Central Baptist for the NY/Penn League tournament championship.
These two evenly-matched teams met twice during the 2012 campaign and each game went right down to the wire. Canaan posted a 2-1 win in Binghamton and then held on for a scoreless tie in Varden.
As expected, the Lady Eagles and Cougars went to-to-toe for the full 80 minutes. Central took a 1-0 lead into intermission, but CCA dominated after the break. Thanks to a pair of second half goals, Coach John Ashley's girls captured the crown via an electrifying 2-1 victory.
"We knew we'd have our hands full with Central," he told TWI Sports.
"It was a defensive battle right from the start. I honestly don't have the words to express how proud I am of these girls. They had a great attitude all season and certainly exceeded my wildest expectations."
With this title tilt triumph, Canaan finished up with an overall record of 16-2-1. The Lady Eagles went 11-0-1 during the campaign, capturing both the NY/Penn's regular season and tournament titles.
On the Pitch
Central went 8-1-1 during the season, trailing only Canaan in the Eastern Conference standings.
The two teams appeared as though they were headed for a scoreless first half, but the Cougars finally broke through with just two minutes left before intermission.
A sophomore striker, Sadowitz scored eight goals during the regular season. So, although she was closely marked by CCA's swarming defense, Michelle wriggled free. She snared a loose ball in front of the net and slipped it past a diving Sami Beals.
This goal gave Central a 1-0 lead at the break.
"The girls were definitely fatigued from their all-out effort in the first half," Coach Ashley said. "But, they weren't discouraged. They were determined to get the equalizer as quickly as possible."
That determination culminated in a highlight reel-worthy goal from Ashlea Swingle.
A senior captain, Swingle is the reigning NY/Penn regular season and tournament Most Valuable Player. Ashlea stole a pass near the midfield stripe, dribbled deep into Central's end and unleashed a rocket.
Cougar keeper Karis Krewson never had a chance and with only 3:21 gone in the second half, the score stood tied at 1-1.
"Ashlea and Grace VanDeLinde have given the last six years to our soccer program," Coach Ashley said. "They're our two senior captains and they've been playing since the seventh grade. I get very emotional when I think about this being their last game."
Onward to Victory
The tally remained even as time ticked inexorably down toward all zeroes and a possible overtime session.
However, with just over five minutes to go, Canaan created a golden scoring opportunity.
Allyson Wittenbrader gained possession in front of the enemy net and surrounded by Central defenders. Somehow, she managed to poke the ball through to Brenna McLaughlin, who one-timed it to Tori Grimm.
One of the NY/Penn's most feared scorers, Grimm only recently returned from a serious knee injury. She showed no signs of any rust at this crucial moment, though. Tori snared McLaughlin's pass and blasted it home.
Following a brief celebration, all that remained was for Canaan to ride out the last 5:18. The Cougars made several all-out assaults on Beals, but to no avail. The gun finally sounded and pandemonium ensued.
"Our seniors showed amazing leadership all year," an elated Coach Ashley said. "And, all of our girls couldn't wait to play in their first-ever NY/Penn championship game. It was an awesome experience."
After the game, CCA received even more accolades. The local lasses were named winners of the Sportsmanship Trophy, an award voted on by opposing coaches and players.
In addition, a quartet of Lady Eagles were honored with berths on the NY/Penn All Star Team: Grace VanDeLinde, Corinne VanDeLinde, Allyson Wittenbrader and Ashlea Swingle. As noted earlier, Swingle was also named Tournament MVP.
These four girls will travel to Johnson City (NY) on November 4th to play in an exhibition match against the Empire State Christian Athletic League all-stars.
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Huey Long
To a number of discriminating souls in his day, Huey Pierce Long was an unspeakable vulgarity. In fact, people of social and political gentility frequently could not even bring themselves to utter his name, referring to him, as if briefly lifting something vile between two fingertips, as merely, "That man…." A Louisiana judge during Long's governorship sputtered once in desperation that the man had "a malformed or diseased mind," and when Long was in the Senate, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, delivered the memorable epithet that the gentleman from Louisiana suffered from "halitosis of the intellect."
A dumpy figure, as plain and pudgy as a potato, he had an Emmett Kelly face under a kinky scribbling of damp rusty hair, with a nose like a radish bulb and an oddly straight mouth like a hinged slot of a ventriloquist's dummy. His garb, even after he reached the United States Senate, ran toward white suits with pink neckties and orange handkerchiefs, fawn-colored silk with lavender shirts, and brown shoes trimmed in white: a dish of fruit ambrosia. He had served an appropriate political apprenticeship as an itinerant drummer of lard substitutes, Never Fail kerosene home oil cans, products of the Faultless Starch Company of Kansas City, and Black Draught laxative from the Chattanooga Medicine Company, with an interlude for study at Oklahoma Baptist University and another to get a law degree. He seemed, indeed, as common and elemental as a scrawled line of bus-station-washroom graffiti.
The recently published biography of Huey Long by T. Harry Williams of Louisiana State University's history department—the first comprehensive documentation and description of the man—is a momentous book on several counts. Not incidentally, it is an important exercise in a fairly new medium of research, the collection of oral history—significant, as Williams indicates, not only because political negotiations and machinations through the facilities of the electronic age are largely trackless, but because speech recollection is closer to the heat of what happened than are paper transactions. Huey Long was formidably researched, and lumbers a bit under the load: 295 witnesses, plus journals and documents. Such a heroic task of ingestion allows for little literary buoyancy—but what has emerged is an epic that transcends the somewhat ponderous style of its scribe: a tale which suggests that the great politician, the tribal leader, could be a protagonist for an American tragic literature.
Tragedy has always been implicit in the politics of this nation. There is really only one thing to be in this country, and that's President of it: virtually no classroom or schoolyard or Scout troop in the land turns up an exceptional youth who is not a potential President to his family and his tutors and finally to himself, and it is probably the lingering sadness of numberless men in executive suites that they are not.
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On that occasion, Jenkins was playing at full back for the Lions, preparing to kick them to a series victory over the Spingboks.
These days, Jenkins is responsible for coaching the Lions' kickers and with Leigh Halfpenny, Owen Farrell, Jonny Sexton and Stuart Hogg currently kicking at an 84 per cent success rate, things are clearly going well. Halfpenny kicked five out of six in the first Test in Brisbane, while the Wallabies' five misses came back to haunt them.
"They are going to come at us with everything," was Jenkins' assessment of the threat posed by the men in green and gold.
"It's obviously the last chance for them to keep the series going. It's going to be a huge game with huge intensity and massive pressure."
The goal kicking of Halfpenny proved vital for the Lions in their first Test win as both James O'Connor and Kurtley Beale struggled for the hosts.
"It's generally goal-kicking that wins or loses Test matches. We've seen already with the way things went last Saturday, the importance of your kickers," added Jenkins.
"Kicking is a huge part of the game, we all acknowledge that, and Leigh has been a tremendous kicker now for the past two years. He's put a huge amount of work in and he's pretty special in what he does.
"Personally, he's a joy to work with and I'm really enjoying working with Owen (Farrell), Jonny (Sexton) and Hoggy's (Stuart Hogg) doing good work now as well. Billy's (Twelvetrees) arrived and become involved.
"The list gets bigger, which is good, and it's certainly a great experience for myself to be working with new people all the time.
"I stand and watch what they are doing, and if I think something needs to be said, then I go in and say it, whether it's punting, restarts or any kind of kicking. But I'm not one for speaking for the sake of it and people who know me will know that."
With Halfpenny in such fine form with the boot and the likes of Sexton and Farrell in reserve, the Lions boast a wealth of kicking options.
And Jenkins says Halfpenny's work rate reminds him of former Lion Jonny Wilkinson, in terms of pure dedication.
"These boys have worked incredibly hard since we got together six and a half weeks ago," said the former Wales fly half.
"The standards of these boys is massive. Someone like Jonny Wilkinson, for example, his work ethic is ridiculous. That is why he's achieved what he has. Leigh is not too far away from that level. He works incredibly hard at his game.
"He probably doesn't stay out there as long as Jonny, but he works incredibly hard. He'll focus on perfecting every spot and won't move on until he is happy.
"Leigh works equally hard on other aspects of his game, his aerial stuff, his carrying and lines of running, and even drop-goals, he's always trying out long-range drop-goals."
Australia meanwhile, will be without Pat McCabe for the remaining two Tests after he was ruled out for the rest of the year with a neck injury.
McCabe, 25, was taken off during the 23-21 defeat to the Lions last Saturday. Wing Digby Ioane will also miss the final two Tests with a shoulder problem while Jamie Roberts and Alex Corbisiero are both struggling for the Lions.


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I wish I had the choice. I travel for work between the us and europe at least 4 times a year. Taking a boat is not really a comparable solution...
This is already true, without the X-ray imagers. In fact, a scan from the imager only gives you radiation equivalent to a few minutes in an airplane -- the flight itself does a much better job.
Regardless of the health issues, why should I be electronically strip-searched when the next terrorist is going to shove explosives up his ass and remove/detonate them during flight?
What invasion of privacy is going to happen after that event?
What invasion of privacy is going to happen after that event?
I'm not sure but I suspect that K-Y Jelly will be involved.
I'm not sure but I suspect that K-Y Jelly will be involved.
If you're lucky... I think you'll get the K-Y Jelly in first class only...
Great, I only fly coach.
Does this mean that the "inspector" is just going to spit?
Washington, DC - Newly installed director of the FBI, Warren B. Upass, has announced a registry for all K-Y jelly and related "intimate lubricants".
"Clearly," Upass said in a recent press release, "the terrorists who threaten our fine, upstanding heterosexual way of life will be shoving bombs up their anuses. We need to be one step ahead of the terrorists. From now on every purchaser of intimate lubricants will have to provide their name, phone number and nearest cheap motel to the FBI. In the meantime,
What do you think?
Electronic orifice scanning.
There's already been studies looking at changes in gene expression following millimeter-wave irradiation of skin: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18302488 [nih.gov]
Overall, given the reviews of the literature it's still unclear whether there's a potential for long-term health damage.
However, even if there was, I doubt anyone will care. The security theater must be kept up, even if it means that people would be harmed by repeated exposure.
"Sir, we will protect you from yourself, even if it kills you".
Can someone tell me about the scanners for containers in ports? My neighbor is a trucker, and he asked me about that. Apparently, as the driver, he has to go through the scanner himself pretty frequently (it's the port of Oakland in California if that makes a difference).
There's an article here [thedigitalship.com] from a few years ago that says they're either gamma or high-energy x-ray scanners. I'm no medic, but I'd be inclined to think that powerful ionising radiation sources like that are the kind of thing you'd do well to avoid.
Oddly, though, despite the fact that the article subtitle poses the question "do they cause any harm to personnel?", I don't actually see any reference to an answer in the text.
Thanks for correcting me. I'm writing my thesis, so my brain is deep-fried.
Who cares? Radiation exposure is cumulative. And high altitude flying is basically unavoidable; these stupid little machines aren't.
Saying that it doesn't matter because you're exposed to more of it in your daily life is like saying that picking up a possibly-loaded revolver, putting it up to your head, spinning the cylinder, and pulling the trigger on Cinco de Mayo is not dangerous because people are shooting guns up in the air anyway and one of those bullets might hit you. What matters is not the milli
Saying that it doesn't matter because you're exposed to more of it in your daily life is like saying that picking up a possibly-loaded revolver, putting it up to your head, spinning the cylinder, and pulling the trigger on Cinco de Mayo is not dangerous because people are shooting guns up in the air anyway and one of those bullets might hit you.
If you look at the levels of radiation involved, it is more like walking across the street an extra time today, even though that does add a small degree of extra risk to your day. We're talking about less than
I don't think these devices will stop terrorists, but they are more likely to catch a terrorist than you are to die from radiation from them.
Indeed; if these exposures are safe - even for frequent flyers, then why have we been repeatedly warned over the last thirty+ years about cumulative exposure to xrays in dentist and doctors offices?
I don't honestly care whether there's a real medical issue here. I don't care if it takes Fox News-style "gotcha" tactics to make the hysterical cries of "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" echo up and down the corridors of the powerful.
Anything that kills this program needs to be seized upon, hyped, spun into something it's probably truthfully not - the lies and paranoia that have been eating away at us like a cancer need to be repurposed toward actually helping us.
the lies and paranoia that have been eating away at us like a cancer need to be repurposed toward actually helping us.
Or, you know, we could just stop lying. (:
Security theatre evangelists first. Then me.
The truth is that there is little to nothing society can do against lone individuals or extremely small groups bent on damaging it. Better technology and increasing reliance upon technology necessarily create more opportunities for disruption. Dependency chains for the features in our lives are growing longer, and it's increasingly easy to find weak links.
As a society we can't bear to face the truth of this, so we use lies to pretend the problem doesn't exist. You can't change people at the level necessa
Would you make your 5-year-old child smoke a cigarette?
Maybe. Are all of his friends doing it?
The passengers are checked to ridiculous measures, but if you work at an airport your protocols are entirely different
That's an understatement. I have a friend who used to work at the local airport. I've been on behind the scenes tours with him and the security folks (ranging from TSA, to law enforcement to rent-a-cops) never even batted an eyelash when he took me past the checkpoint. They didn't ask me to go through the metal/explosives detectors or to wear a guest badge of some sort. We just walked right past them and my friend says "He's with me." Granted, this is a small town airport with not a lot of activity (three flights per day) but the ease with which it was possible to get into the secured areas seemed to make a mockery of all the FUD we've been fed about airport security. It occurs to me that if somebody wanted to do bad things he could just buy off the right person(s) at the airport to gain access.
Dude, you realize that all I have to do is go to one of the private or corporate hangers and dress correctly and I can get on the tarmac without anyone even questioning me?
I was dressed wrong, had my tool box and a huge cardboard box of equipment that I walked from Hangar A to the other side past commercial aircraft and nobody even stopped to ask me what I was doing.
airport security, even at O-hare is a utter joke. It's not just theater, it's cardboard cutouts.
Here is an example of airport workers arrested for smuggling drugs, guns and even grenades on airplanes. And this was in 1999.
http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-09-10/news/17698252_1_undercover-agents-baggage-handler-smuggling [sfgate.com]
Security of any system is based upon the strength of the weakest link.
Because if I wanted theater, I'd have bought a different ticket.
I'd just like to point out that only three or four posts up another slashdotter was slamming Fox for soon publishing a panicky 'think of the children' piece.
The thing about Fox is you can never guess what particular crazed, easily ridiculed direction they're going to lunge in next. They just make the jokes come so easily...
"Academia" has three syllables. Use "Elites" instead.
but i read somewhere that the simple act of flying is equivalent to getting an x-ray because you're so high in the atmosphere
i also read that living in denver for a year is equivalent to getting an xray (as compared to living in say miami: at sea level, rather than a mile up)
not that i'm justifying these scanners, but if you're worried about extra unnecessary irradiation, then don't fly (or live in the mountains)
its too much of a hassle anyways, even without the scanners, flying sucks
Surely if you're already getting a hefty dose of radiation every time you fly, the last thing you want to do is give someone another hefty dose of radiation.
I seem to recall the party line is that the radiation from one of the scanners is about two minutes of flight time. Of course the government would never lie to use or misstate facts, would it?
We need to kill this thing but I don't think we can do so on safety grounds. Better to appeal to genital insecurity and think of the children panic, in my mind.
Cosmic rays at 30,000 feet, plus other ionizing radiation is significantly higher than at ground level. 4 hours on a plane is something like a month's worth of ground-level exposure. Yet people still fly. I don't think this will have any impact on air travel.
Quit exaggerating. The background radiation level doubles every 6,000 feet, so an entire 24-hour day at 30,000 feet is like a month on the ground. A four hour flight is roughly the equivalent of 5 days on the ground.
Also, remember that radiation exposure is considered cumulative. There is no safe level of radiation exposure. The more you are exposed to, the greater your risk of death, period. Thus, it is utterly irrelevant whether the backscatter machine only adds... say a tenth as much radiation as th
Even though you're sitting in a Faraday cage? Citation please! I'll take one of my wife's x-ray badges next time I go through the airport, they will be analyzed to see if you've been exposed to an unhealthy amount of x-ray radiation.
If you don't mind to die, then what's to stop you from hiding a few sticks of C4 (with ceramic shrapnel, of course) inside your body by, you know, having a surgeon sew it in? Stick a simple fuse triggered by a Hall sensor into it, and carry an inconspicuous looking magnet with you onboard to trip the fuse.
I said it before and I'll say it again -- any determined engineer will find a way to completely bypass these "security" measures without even straining his/her brain too much.
The stated dose — about
Well, a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation says it could be a lot. Suppose you model a person as a cylinder 2 meters high by 1/2 meter across. The volume is 0.4 meters^3, the surface area is 3 meters^2. If the skin is 0.1 mm thick, then the volume of the skin is only 0.0003 meters^3, a factor of > 1000 smaller. So a dose of 0.02 microsieverts for the whole body would be 25 microsieverts for the skin.
If you read the original article, a chest X ray is about 100 microsieverts, but of course that is absorbed in the body, not the skin. Radiation therapy causes skin "burns", but I couldn't find in a quick search the level of radiation absorbed by the skin to make that happen. However, if this is a problem as indicated, then flying one round trip per week (100 flights/year) would mean an exposure of order 2500 microsieverts, or 25 chest X rays, a level I don't think Doctors would be comfortable with.
Don't get rid of them yet, I haven't had time to try any of my ideas out.
* Using metallic paint to draw a glock 9mm on my skin as if it were in a shoulder holster.
* Drawing a massive, 1 - 2 foot long, penis down my thigh in metallic paint.
* (my favorite) Shaving my head bald, drawing a full Terminator style robot endoskeleton on my back, in metallic paint, including the skull on the back of my head and letting my hair grow back enough to cover it before going to the airport.
It is not for me to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence. -- The Earl of Birkenhead


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Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema took time out from his side's 0-0 draw against Olimpic Xativa to pose for a photo for a female fan.
The Frenchman was happy to be snapped by the lucky supporter, as the Segunda B side managed to earn a creditable result and force a replay at the Santiago Bernabeu.
It says much for the quality of the match that Benzema's photo moment was one of the highlights, but it really did catch people by surprise - including the Xativa players, who seemed far from happy at the 25-year-old's delaying tactics.
Indeed, the game was deep into injury-time when the incident occurred, and either side could have still won the match. With that in mind, Benzema was perhaps lucky to avoid a yellow card.
And, the club's management and supporters are unlikely to be impressed either, after he'd failed to breach the defence of the lowly third-tier team.
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MINOOKA — The Chanooka Wish Foundation received a $10,000 donation from the Grainger Foundation earlier this month.
"Thank you. I don't even know what to say," said Chanooka Wish President Carolyn Koranda. "I'm speechless."
With tears in her eyes, Koranda accepted the check at the Minooka Village Hall on Oct. 12 from Linda Jayne, administrative assistant for Grainger.
"I am so touched. The families have no idea this kind of help is coming their way," Koranda said.
The Grainger Foundation was established so the Grainger family could give back to the communities in which they reside and which help make their company successful.
"Minooka is now part of Grainger's community, and that is why we want to give back here," Jayne said.
Channoka Wish is a local non-profit organization that has been helping families in need in Channahon and Minooka since February 2007.
Chanooka Wish provides food, clothing and school supplies assistance, holiday food baskets and more.
Koranda and other members of the community who help her with Chanooka Wish started their organization after a similar organization, called Helping Hands, disbanded. Funding has been the organization's biggest hurdle since it started.
As Chanooka Wish has grown, Koranda said, and more people in the communities recognize the name, however, funding has become less of a struggle. Other community-minded organizations help out, too, like Boy and Girl Scout troops.
Chanooka Wish currently operates out of Koranda's home, but she hopes to have a set location somewhere in town in the future.
"This is the best part of the job we ever get to do," said Tommy Kersting, director of distribution operations at Grainger's Minooka distribution center.
Kersting then explained to Koranda that Grainger has an activities committee that is always interested in helping the community, as well.
"If you guys ever need help organizing, running anything as far as distribution, need people to volunteer, come talk to us," Kersting said.
The donation will be used to fill Thanksgiving and Christmas food baskets for the families Chanooka Wish helps, Karanda said.
"We normally give them a 12-pound turkey," Koranda said about the entree donated in the holiday baskets. "I want to double that. I want them to have leftovers."
The money left over after filling the baskets will be used to fill the foundation's food pantry.


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SAN DIMAS, Calif.—Contrary to current global financial trends, credit union development around the world is prospering in growth and member service. Through the united efforts of the global movement, credit unions are expanding into new countries and infiltrating difficult-to-reach markets, many of which are gaining access to fairly priced financial services for the first time.
The success of worldwide credit union development will be the topic of a first-ever International Credit Union Day® (ICU Day) webcast sponsored by WesCorp, the U.S.'s largest corporate credit union, and World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), the international development agency and trade association for the global credit union movement.
Pete Crear, WOCCU president and CEO, will be the guest in an hour-long Oct. 16 discussion with moderator Paul Berry, a former Washington, D.C., television news anchor who hosts Home & Family Finance, a weekly radio program sponsored by CUNA & Affiliates, the U.S. credit union trade association.
While credit unions in many countries are merging in order to strengthen and better serve their members, the global movement as whole continues to expand its presence throughout Latin America, Asia, Africa and other developing regions, according to Crear. WOCCU is increasing its efforts to reach consumers in both urban and rural environments and in countries with significant economic and social challenges, including Afghanistan, Kenya and Sri Lanka, he added.
"Worldwide, more than 49,000 credit unions in 96 countries serve more than 177 million members," said Crear, citing data from WOCCU's 2007 Statistical Report released in June. "Our mission is to bring financial independence and economic democracy through credit unions to people around the globe, and we're making great strides in achieving that goal."
The 60-minute webcast, hosted by WesCorp and produced with the support of Overland Studios, will allow time at the end of Crear's interview for questions from a studio audience. International webcast listeners will also be able to e-mail questions that will be answered on the air. The webcast's goal is to make the ICU Day discussion as global as the movement that the annual holiday represents, said Bob Siravo, WesCorp president and CEO.
"Overland Studios' technology will enable us to invite credit unions throughout the world to unite and celebrate the valuable contributions all of them are making to their members and the communities in which they live," Siravo added.
The webcast begins at noon Pacific Daylight Time on Oct. 16 and runs until approximately 1 p.m. It is open to the public and may be accessed by registering at www.wescorp.org or www.woccu.org. The program will be recorded and available for viewing on both WesCorp's and WOCCU's Websites. It is the first such broadcast to be mounted on ICU Day, and participants hope it will help spread the good news about the global credit union movement, said Crear.
"As a lifelong member of the credit union movement, I know we've always had a good story to tell," Crear added. "Thanks to WesCorp and Overland Studios, we now have the means to do so globally on the one day set aside to recognize our achievements."
About International Credit Union Day
ICU Day has been celebrated annually on the third Thursday of October since 1948. The event provides a time and opportunity to honor those who have made great contributions to the global financial cooperative movement, to recognize the hard work of staff and volunteer board members working on behalf of credit unions and cooperatives today, and to express appreciation to members of credit unions and cooperatives living at home and abroad. This year's theme, "It Belongs to MeTM," recognizes credit unions' identity as member-owned financial cooperatives and celebrates the concept of member ownership.
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Established in 1969, WesCorp is Western Corporate Federal Credit Union-the U.S.'s largest corporate credit union. As a financial services cooperative with approximately US$28 billion in assets and more than 1,000 member/owner credit unions located throughout the United States and Guam, WesCorp operates under authorities granted by the National Credit Union Administration. WesCorp serves its credit union membership through an array of investment, credit, payment, funds transfer and settlement solutions supported by a variety of educational conferences, publications and webcasts. Headquartered in San Dimas, Calif., WesCorp also provides member service through offices in Boise, Idaho; Honolulu, Hawaii; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Leandro, Calif.; and Seattle and Spokane, Wash. Visit www.wescorp.org for more information.
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He might be a hybrid on the field, but Jimmy Graham is a tight end in the eyes of the New Orleans Saints.
And that will cost him millions.
In a pivotal decision Wednesday, arbitrator Stephen Burbank sided with the Saints and denied Graham's request to be categorized as a wide receiver for franchise-tag purposes.
Were Graham to be regarded as a receiver he would have qualified for a contract tender of $12.132 million. Instead, as a tight end, his one-year tender is $7.053 million.
He didn't pluck the receiver argument out of thin air, either. He lined up wide or in the slot on 67% of his snaps last season. The rules for a franchise tag stipulate that a player's designation is based on the position at which he lines up most frequently.
"We will advise Graham of his options and carefully determine next steps in this matter," the NFL Players Assn. said in a statement. "We will also continue to assist Graham and his representation as necessary to help the player reach a fair long-term deal with the New Orleans Saints."
Teams have until July 15 to sign franchised players to longer-term deals. Graham is expected to become the highest-paid tight end in NFL history.


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Have u ever taken a cruise....
Never have and personally i dont want to, I am sure i will end up taking one dh wants to really bad. Its just not mu cup of tea being surrounded by water for days.
i will be going on the disney cruise in the summer but that carnival cruise is making me nervous so i pray that dont happen.
My dd was married on the beach in Grand Cayman. We cruised there on the Carnival Conquest. We had the most awesome time ever!
You have to be realistic. Things happen. There isn't a single airline you can fly with that hasn't had a crash. But, people still fly.
We have been on a dozen Carnival cruises without any incidents whatsoever.
On the big cruise ships, you don't feel the motion at all. And, for those who feel the need for something just in case, there are patches you can get from your physician. They also have a physician onboard.
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I get sea sick so I will pass. My hunni says that we are going on a cruise next year....um no I don't think so cause I'm scared........


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DIXON – The Phidian Art Club will sponsor its 66th annual art show April 9 at the Loveland Community House, 513W. Second St.
The show and reception are free and open to the public. Doors will open at 6 p.m. The judge's critique and presentation of awards will begin at 7 p.m.
The Phidian Art Club was founded in 1890 to promote the arts in the form of visual art, literature, and music. The first Phidian Art Show was in 1947.
Awards are given in a variety of categories, including American and regional scenes, nature, creativity, realistic style, multicultural, best landscape ,and "Reflections of the Past." All awards are monetary prizes. The club will award more than $3,500 in prizes donated by local businesses and individuals; many are memorial awards. It is through their support that the art show continues.
There will be a two-class entry system. Class II is for emerging artists who have not previously won a first place Class II Phidian Award. Class I is open to all artists. Previous Class II first-place award winners must enter Class I. All others have the option of entering in either Class I or Class II.
Artwork must be original paintings or drawings, not produced under the direction of an instructor, no more than 5 years old, not previously entered in the show, ready for hanging by wire, no more than 48 inches wide, not exceeding 25 pounds, and suitable for family viewing.
The artist must live within 35 driving miles of Dixon and be 17 or older. No 3-dimensional work, crafts, photography, or sculpture will be accepted. The entry fee is $10 per painting with a two-piece limit.
Artwork will be accepted from 2 to 6 p.m. April 4 and 2 to 6 p.m. April 5 at the community house.
For more information, guidelines, and entry forms, call Colleen Logsdon at 815-652-4847 or Ellen Allen at 815-652-2002.


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DENISON, TX - Grayson College has been working to improve its emergency preparedness plan over the last few years, and today students and faculty put that plan to the test with campus-wide severe weather and lockdown drills.
Professor Steve Black and his Arts class knew exactly where to go when they received alerts for a severe weather drill at Grayson College Thursday morning. They took action immediately, relocating to the closest restroom, which is a designated storm shelter area.
The alert system uses emails, classroom computers, outdoor warning sirens, and text messages to get the word out about a possible emergency.
Professor Black says these drills are important--so when a real disaster strikes, students, faculty and staff know what to do.
"We're pretty much in a tornado zone here so its extremely crucial that everybody is aware that there are safe places," said Professor Black.
"When it's not a drill there's a little heightened anxiety and we understand that that's gonna be in a real situation, we're just really proud of them. Every time we do a drill we learn something," said Marketing and public information director Shelle Cassell.
Cassell says thanks to the College's new emergency preparedness plan, now every building has a designated shelter area and they're clearly marked with signs.
After just a few minutes in the shelter area--Professor Black got the "OK" to go back to class.


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Not since the first Ultrabooks have we seen a device with as much wow factor as the Dell XPS 12 Convertible Touch Ultrabook. The sleek unit's bright and crisp 12.5-inch, 1,080p display is nearly indistinguishable from its 13.3-inch counterpart in the XPS 13.
The wows happen when the XPS 12 transforms from a Windows 8 laptop into a Windows 8 tablet. Rather than spinning horizontally (and boringly) as do most convertibles, Dell's screen flips vertically in its metal frame, snapping out of the invisible magnetic stays and locking back into place with a solid, confident click. Close the lid and viola! The XPS 12 is now a 12-inch tablet running Windows 8 Pro.
Starting at $1,199, the XPS 12 includes a Gorilla Glass-covered IPS display with 160-degree viewing angle and a 400-nit LED backlight, a maximum resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 that's driven by Intel's HD 4000 series graphics processor with 512 MB of dedicated video memory. Also included is a 1,280-x-1,024 (1.3 MP) webcam and Realtek ALC3260 audio with stereo speakers that sound surprisingly good even at extremely high volume levels.
The $1,700 tested unit was on the high end of the line, and built around an Intel Core i7 3667U, dual-core 2.0 GHz third-generation Ivy Bridge processor running 64-bit Windows 8 Pro on 8-GB, 1,333-MHz DDR3 memory in a two-channel configuration from a 256-GB Samsung eSATA SSD. The XPS 12 turned in a top Geekbench score of 8775, making it the fastest Ultrabook the CRN Test Center has seen to date and placing it fourth on our top all-time list (behind two other machines from Dell and one from Samsung).
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I had a call from one of the 16 stores that the company I work for takes care of, they say that there was coke syrup coming out of the drain tube for the ice storage bin. They disconnected the coke so that they wouldn't lose all there coke syrup.
I get there and have them hook the coke syrup back up and as I watching the system I see they coke comming out the drain tubes. I called Coke Smile number and get to tech support and was talking to a senior tech about what I saw and he said that it sounds like the tube that connects to the cold plate is damaged or that the cold plate is damaged for the coke line.
He had me disconnect the coke line from the cold plate and cap it off and see if it still had a problem so that the front counter would have coke. He said that the only way to fix a cold plate is to replace the whole system. Is that correct?


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So I have 3 screens and 2 graphics cards but I don't think (k)ubuntu 11.04 is using them to their full advantage.
At the moment with 13 program windows open Xorg is using 79.7M and 15% of my CPU (AMD Phenon II X6). Also changing virtual desktops is a bit laggy and when I do get to one there are holes in some of the windows (where the previous window is showing though). Moving the window around gets rid of them usually
Also having more than about 4 pdfs open in okular almost freezes my computer, closing some sorts it out.
I don't think I am running out of ram (got 16gb...)
I have the NVIDIA 270.41.06 driver installed, and there is a more recent version on their website (there is a package for 12.04 in the repositories). Would it be a good idea to download and do a manual install of it? Or upgrading to 11.10?


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DETROIT -- Plans are moving forward for a hiking and biking trail from Belle Isle park in Detroit to Ironwood on the Wisconsin boundary in the western Upper Peninsula.
The Detroit Free Press reports Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials plan to meet with trail organizations and community planners next month about details.
And on April 26, 45-year-old Chris Hillier of Taylor plans to start a months-long journey from Belle Isle along the proposed route.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder made the proposal for the trail in November, saying he wanted Michigan to become the Trail State. The governor directed the Michigan DNR to work with private and nonprofit partners to make the full trail route a reality.
The project would require more than 200 miles of new trails.


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Horrible experience in Beijing Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Horrible experience in Beijing Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Travel View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message YmYJoined: 29 Jul 2003Posts: 2Location: Macau Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject: Horrible experience in Beijing I had a horrible experience in Beijing. This was my graduated travel. One night, we finished our trip and returned to hotel. I felt very tired, so I went to the bathroom immediately. When I was showering, my roommate opened the door. Four classmates entered my room. They opened the bathroom door. I did not know how they opened the door. They wanted to enter the bathroom and took a photo of me. I tried to keep them out the door. But I could not stop them. So they opened the door and they took my photo. I was very angry but they were very happy. After that, I always showered after midnight, after everybody had slept. Sam Wong & David Tang Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Travel All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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DENVER (AP) – Legislative economists say a Colorado fund that pays out unemployment benefits should be solvent again in the coming fiscal year.
Heavy job losses during the recession pushed the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund into insolvency, and the state started borrowing federal money in 2010 to keep paying benefits. As of last week, Colorado had about $281 million in federal loans outstanding. An interest payment of around $12 million is due Sept. 30.
Today, Colorado's unemployment fund is about $151 million in the red, but legislative economists said this week they expect it to be solvent again within a year. They say unemployment claims are falling off, some Coloradans have exhausted their benefits, and higher payments by employers into the fund will boost revenue.
Colorado's jobless rate was 8.7 percent in May.
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Hi Webdevelopers,
My name is Kaloyan Banev and I am the founder of WebmaisterPro.com - social network for web professionals.
In the last 2 years website have pass all possible alpha and beta testing stages and have run as non-commercial project.
Since the begining of the year, I've switched the business model and I am looking for co-founder that can invest some time and money into this project.
Social network already have good number of loyam members and traffic, now I am looking to implement marketplace for which I need some short term investment. I have took care for the rest of expenses including web hosting.
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Any fool can look sharp in a suit. However, as politicians the world over discover every summer, dressing down successfully is far harder than dressing up. In 1971 President Richard Nixon, keen to co-opt some of the late President John F Kennedy's youthful appeal, posed for some photographs on the San Clemente shore in California. The result was that he was widely mocked for wearing suit trousers and dress shoes on the beach. In the end his awkward appearance contrasted so unfavourably with JFK's exemplary off-duty style that the stunt did nothing but accentuate the differences between the two men.
The reason for this is that relaxation is the key to the success of any holiday, and so the ideal vacation wardrobe should look and feel relaxed. Aside from underwear nothing that a man sports in the workplace deserves a space in your suitcase. Because we spend our days in an air-conditioned office we need to be reminded of what works on holiday, so we've dug out these old photographs to conjure up a mood of off-duty elegance. The images remind us that it's vital to get the fabric and fit of clothes right. Substantial natural fabrics (we're talking cotton and linen here) are the key, not only because they "breathe" but also because they wear well and can be thrown into the washing machine when dirty. It's hard to be relaxed around sun cream, sand and melting ice creams if everything you're wearing has to be dry-cleaned.
As far as fit goes we believe that slightly looser clothes work best in the heat. They allow the air to circulate, and the way that they feel is conducive to relaxation. So save your slimmest trousers and close-fitting shirts for the city, and take a leaf out of Mr Gregory Peck's book and wear clothes that can move with the breeze. Colour is the final part of this puzzle, and strong light provides a great opportunity to wear brighter colours than usual. Whether that means a lavender-coloured pair of J.Crew's Stanton shorts, or a Burberry Prorsum shirt with a bold print, is down to taste. But either way the summer is the time to turn up the brightness, although if you have very pale skin it's best to wait until you've caught a tan before going for the boldest shades of orange, red and yellow. Check the gallery, below, to see seven men whose off-duty style was exemplary.


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As the advertisement for the antidepressant Cymbalta says, "Depression hurts. Cymbalta can help."
Chronic pain hurts too. And the makers of the drug duloxetine -- commercially known as Cymbalta -- argue that Cymbalta can help with that, as well.
Chronic pain hurts, too. And the makers of the drug duloxetine--commercially known as Cymbalta--argue Cymbalta can help with that, as well.
So Eli Lilly and Co. on Thursday made the case to a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee that its antidepressant, which has been approved for diabetic nerve pain and fibromyalgia, should get the FDA's blessing as a treatment for a wide range of chronic pain conditions, including those caused by osteoarthritis.
The FDA's advisory panel on arthritis drugs responded Thursday with a very qualified yes. It recommended the FDA expand the population of patients to whom Eli Lilly may market Cymbalta to include those with NIH back pain site" href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/backpain/detail_backpain.htm" target="_blank">chronic back pain -- defined as back pain persisting for more than three months. But the panel's members advised against allowing Lilly to promote Cymbalta to those with musculoskeletal pain -- such as knee pain resulting from osteoarthritis.
The vote in favor of adding chronic back pain to the uses for which FDA approved Cymbalta was 8 to 5. The vote against adding musculoskeletal pain -- knee pain because of osteoarthritis specifically -- was 9 to 4. If the FDA accepts only the chronic back pain indication for Cymbalta, the number of patients to whom the medication could be marketed would expand immensely. Back pain is the second most common neurological condition in the United States, after headaches, and chronic back pain is the most common cause of job-related disability in the U.S.
Cymbalta is an antidepressant that elevates levels of serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain. Pharmacologists have widely observed that, in addition to lifting mood, the drug effectively blunts the sensation of hurt in patients with persistent inflammation of nerves and overactivity in the regions of the brain that process pain.
Dr. Robert Baker, Lilly's global development leader for psychiatry and pain disorders, said that Cymbalta reduces pain even when it is not accompanied by depression, and he argued that the company had met the FDA's guidelines for demonstrating it is effective for musculoskeletal pain as well. He said the company was encouraged by the panel's willingness to broaden the uses for which Cymbalta can be marketed and expressed optimism that the company will be able to make its case that the medication works for pain that arises from arthritic and other musculoskeletal conditions.
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Until recently, scientists believed that domestic dogs originated in the Middle East. But reports suggest that almost all domestic dogs began in East Asia as the offspring of three lineages. Virtually all domesticated dogs in the United States descend from dogs brought over by ancient people that crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia to North America.


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Mark Wilson Needs To Make A Significant MoveMark Wilson was on track for a good year at the start of the season, but fell off quickly. Now needs to come back from a bad round at the BMW Championship in hopes of making the U.S. Presidents Cup.
Mark Wilson 5 Strokes Back at MemorialMark Wilson would be in the hunt at the Memorial Tournament if fellow Wisconsin native Steve Stricker weren't blitzing the field. Wilson sits at 7-under 209 through 54 holes, good for a top-five position, but still five strokes off the lead.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Apr 2007 23:18 UTC
"Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz loves to splatter the media with the line that Windows, Red Hat Linux and Solaris stand as the only operating systems of significance in the server kingdom. We've spent the last few years struggling to appreciate the seriousness of that claim. Sun's declining system sales failed to inspire much optimism about the company conquering the data centers of tomorrow with a
deflating 'venerable' OS. A couple of recent items, however, have tweaked our view of Schwartz's favored claim. It could well be that Solaris - of all things - provides the 'iPod moment' Sun seeks." In the meantime, Sun upped the speed of some of its SPARC chips.
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There are tons of mailing lists but where do Solaris newbies go? Is there any community driven site like linuxquestions.org or someplace like that?
There are no Solaris newbies.
There is only a bunch of 20+ year admins whose shackles are welded to their Sun server chassis.
Newbies try to install Solaris. Find out that it either doesn't install or that most their hardware is not supported.
And even if their hardware is supported (i.e. they install on an ancient box) and Solaris does install, then they find out it's so hard to use and the GUI is so bad, and there is no support, that they go and install Ubuntu.
So to find the community go to
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad is heading to Japan and India on a trade mission.
Branstad departs Friday. He will first go to Japan for the 2013 Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference in Tokyo. Then he'll continue to India for a six-day trade trip.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority is organizing the trip, which will feature stops in several cities to meet with business and government leaders.
Iowa Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham will join Branstad on the trip.
Branstad's travel will be paid for by a foundation associated with the Iowa Economic Development Authority. His airfare is estimated at $6,400 and lodging is estimated to be approximately $3,500.
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Two late goals from substitutes Mathieu Baudry and Steve Fletcher gave Bournemouth a 2-1 victory at home to Bristol Rovers which keeps the Cherries in the final npower League One play-off berth.
Leyton Orient stayed within three points of the play-off places after a Jonathan Tehoue goal, the visitors' only effort on target during the game, gave them a 1-0 win at Carlisle.
Walsall suffered late heartbreak against Oldham as an 88th minute Jason Lowe strike gave the Latics a 1-1 draw after full-back Tom Williams' goal had looked good enough to give 20th-placed Walsall some breathing room above the drop zone.
Notts County edged closer to survival with a 1-1 draw at home to Brentford, but it could have been even better for the Magpies as Lee Hughes' 82nd-minute penalty looked to have given them a crucial win only for Jeffrey Schlupp to equalise in stoppage time.
.A last gasp Craig Mackail-Smith goal salvaged a point for fourth-placed Peterborough as they drew 2-2 at home to Yeovil.
A Paul Wotton penalty had put Yeovil ahead before a flurry of late goals as Kelvin Langmead equalised in the 87th minute only for Andrew Tutte to put the visitors back in front almost immediately before Mackail-Smith's effort.
Charlton ended any lingering play-off hopes for Rochdale after recording a 3-1 win over Keith Hill's side. Therry Racon, Dean Parrett and Nathan Eccleston all got on the scoresheet for Charlton with Marcus Holness scoring the consolation.
Tranmere recorded an impressive 4-0 win over Exeter with goals coming from Michael Kay, Enoch Showumni and a double from Lucas Akins.
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