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Weather service drops Fargo crest prediction again
By DAVE KOLPACK
Associated Press
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- A Red River flood that a week ago was predicted to challenge the record is now unlikely to reach the 100,000-plus sandbags and the miles of clay levees built for defense, Fargo officials said Monday.
The National Weather Service lowered Wednesday's expected crest forecast in Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., to 35.5 feet, which would be the ninth-highest flood but virtually a non-event in Fargo, as most structures are protected to 38 feet.
"It can be frustrating," Fargo city engineer April Walker, a flood control specialist, said Monday when asked about a flood fight that will be for naught. "But at the same time it's way better to be prepared than have the crest rise and not be prepared for that."
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Walker spoke outside Fargo City Hall, which oddly enough is one of the few buildings that needs emergency protection when the Red River reaches 30 feet, which is considered major flood stage.
"We're good. We've got everything we need out there and in place," Walker said. "We're watching and waiting for the crest to occur."
Workers have spent the last week building emergency floodwalls to protect Fargo to 40 feet after an earlier weather service prediction. Fargo officials say about $2 million so far this year has been spent on flood protection, about half for the placement of large portable sandbags.
Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said during Monday's city commission meeting that he wasn't in the mood to hear second-guessing about the cost of this year's flood fight and said people should be happy that the river should crest much lower than expected.
"If we failed, it would be in the billions of dollars," Walaker said. "People have to realize that we have to build to what the National Weather Service says we do."
Greg Gust, a weather service meteorologist, said forecasters "misjudged April's vagaries" in climate. The earlier predictions built in the possibility of a rapid snowmelt and steady precipitation. Instead, the conditions are ideal for a gradual melt cycle.
"We were very concerned as all signals were pointing to both a rapid warm-up and heavy rain for us in the latter half of April," Gust said. "For the southern Red River Basin, the long and agonizingly slow thaw season has worked out well."
The river was measured at 32.06 feet at 5 p.m. Monday.
Flood cleanup in Fargo is likely to start next week, when crews will begin picking up sandbags from neighborhoods and tearing down clay levees. Removal of the earthen dikes has typically cost about $330,000 for each mile, Walker said.
Since 2009, Fargo has faced three major floods and spent a total of $18.3 million, beginning with an $8.4 million bill for the record crest of 40.84 feet. The river reached 36.99 feet in 2010 and 38.81 feet in 2001.
Fargo has been reimbursd for 84 percent of that, said Kent Costin, the city's director of finance. The formula for repayment is 75 percent from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and 10 percent from the state, he said.
"We all do the best we can with each event," said Walker, the engineer. "The city has to be prepared and we appreciate those people who did come out and help hit the mark we needed to hit."


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Sercombe, Howard (2014) The Ernst triadic model : a good start? Brain and Cognition, 89. pp. 116-117. ISSN 0278-2626
Sercombe, Howard (2014) Risk, adaptation and the functional teenage brain. Brain and Cognition, 89. pp. 61-69. ISSN 0278-2626
McGinley, Brian (2014) Understanding Youth Work Law. SAGE Publications Ltd, London. ISBN 978-1-4462-0185-5
Mackie, Gordon and Sercombe, Howard and Ryan, Anne (2013) A service, a 'way of working', or a profession? A discourse analysis of community education/community learning and development in Scotland. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34 (3). ISSN 0159-6306
Finlay, Ian and Sheridan, Marion and Coburn, Annette and Soltysek, Raymond (2013) Rapid response research : using creative arts methods to research the lives of disengaged young people. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 18 (1-2). 127 - 142. ISSN 1359-6748
Mcginley, Brian and Mackie, Gordon (2012) Different track - same destination? exploring the potential of 'Curriculum for Excellence' to improve educational practice in Scotland. Education in the North, 19 (1). ISSN 0424-5512
MacKie, Gordon and McGinley, Brian (2012) Outcomes for youth work : coming of age or master's bidding? A Journal of Youth Work, 2012 (10). pp. 7-22. ISSN 1469-0780
MacKie, Gordon and Ryan, Anne (2012) What lies beneath? Framing the principles for post-16 education in Scotland. A Journal of Youth Work, 2012 (9). pp. 7-24.
Mcintyre, Janis (2012) Lifeline work : community-based adult learning and learners' personal progression. Studies in the Education of Adults, 44 (2). pp. 186-203. ISSN 0266-0830
Coburn, Annette and Inverarity, H and Wallace, David (2011) The Fairbridge Spirit. In: History of Youth & Community Work Conference, 2011-01-16.
Sercombe, Howard (2011) Professionalising youth work in Southern Africa : observations and recommendations. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Coburn, Annette and Wallace, David (2011) Youth Work in Communities and Schools. Policy and Practice in Education, 28 . Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906716233
Sercombe, Howard; Banks, Sarah and Nohr, Kirsten, eds. (2011) Negotiating roles and boundaries. In: Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-56031-3
Coburn, Annette (2011) Liberation or containment : paradoxes in youth work as a catalyst for powerful learning. Youth and Policy, 106. pp. 60-77. ISSN 0262-9798
Coburn, Annette and Mcginley, Brian; Gilchrist, Ruth and Hodgson, Tracey and Jeffs, Tony and Spence, Jean and Stanton, Naomi and Walker, Joyce, eds. (2011) Crossing borders: reflections on Scotland's first experimental youth centre. In: Reflecting on the Past. Essays in the History of Youth and Community Work. Russell House Publishing, Dorset. ISBN 978-1-905541-73-7
Coburn, Annette (2011) Building social and cultural capital through learning about equality in youth work. Journal of Youth Studies, 14 (4). pp. 475-491. ISSN 1367-6261
Coburn, Annette (2011) Waiting: an evaluation of Photovoice@Fairbridge Glasgow. Fairbridge, Glasgow.
Gormally, S and Hunter, K and Coburn, Annette (2011) Providing support and preventing isolation: an evaluation of the young people's service at Clydebank Women's Aid, children and young people's service - 2011. CBWA.
McGinley, Brian and Grieve, Ann (2011) Exploring educational interactions : a lesson for the development of interdisciplinary working? Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 63 (1). pp. 47-56. ISSN 1363-6820
Sercombe, Howard (2010) The teen brain research : critical perspectives. Youth and Policy, 105. pp. 71-80.
Coburn, Annette; Batsleer, J. and Davies, B., eds. (2010) Youth work as border pedagogy. In: What is Youth Work? Empowering Youth and Community Work Practice . Learning Matters, Exeter, pp. 33-46. ISBN 9781844456987
Coburn, Annette (2010) Well-being in community development: personal, professional and educational perspectives from practice. In: European Conference in Positive Psychology, 2010-06-23 - 2010-06-26.
Sercombe, Howard; Banks, Sarah, ed. (2010) Youth workers as professionals : Managing dual relationships and maintaining boundaries. In: Ethical issues in youth work. Routledge, London, pp. 77-91. ISBN 978-0-415-49970-5
Coburn, Annette (2010) After five years you get bored with badminton : young women's conversations about physical fitness activity. Scottish Youth Issues Journal, 4. pp. 7-28.
Coburn, Annette (2010) Promoting well-being and health through youth work. In: SERA Conference 2010, 2010-11-25 - 2010-11-26.
Mcginley, Brian and Grieve, Ann; Smith, Barry Percy and Thomas, Nigel, eds. (2010) Maintaining the status quo? Appraising the effectiveness of Youth Councils in Scotland. In: A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation. Routledge, London, pp. 254-261. ISBN 9780415468527
Ryan, Anne; Merrill, Barbara and Gonzalez Monteagudo, Jose, eds. (2010) Part-time study : full-time commitment. In: Educational journeys and changing lives. European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, Sevilla, pp. 88-97. ISBN 978-84-693-1554-5
Wallace, David (2010) Continuous professional development and transitions in education : a report on an investigation undertaken for West Forum Glasgow. University of Strathclyde.
Wallace, David (2010) The grit in the oyster : does an appreciation of threshold concepts in an adult literacies teaching qualification result in pearls of practice. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 18 (1). pp. 3-18.
Coburn, Annette (2009) Building capital through learning about equality in youth work. In: SERA conference, 2009-11-27 - 2009-11-29.
Coburn, Annette (2009) Alternative sites of learning: educational youth work as a paradigm and process. In: 16th International Conference on Learning, 2009-07-01 - 2009-07-04.
Ryan, Anne (2009) Non-traditional students, issues of inclusion and access. In: Scottish Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2009, 2009-11-26 - 2009-11-28. (Unpublished)
Wallace, David (2009) Evaluation of Glasgow East Youth Bank. Glasgow East Youth Bank, Glasgow.
Wallace, David and Coburn, Annette (2009) Tackling sexual health inequalities: an evaluation of the love stings programme at Fairbridge in Glasgow. Fairbridge, Glasgow.
Coburn, Annette (2008) Defining and enhancing well-being through community planning in South Lanarkshire. South Lanarkshire Community Safety Partnership.
Coburn, Annette (2008) Defining well-being: how the feel good factor can help transform lives. In: Children, Young People and Families Network Conference, 2008-01-01 - 2008-01-01.
Coburn, Annette; (2008) Policy, politics and practice: work with young people. In: Reclaiming Social Purpose in Community Education. University of Edinburgh, pp. 22-24.
Coburn, Annette (2008) Speak up Inverclyde: including young people in planning, development and delivery of services. Inverclyde Council, Glasgow.
McGinley, Brian and Watson, I. (2008) Can I have this dance? A perspective on the expectations and demands of current youth work practice in Scotland. Scottish Youth Issues Journal, 11. pp. 23-38. ISSN 1469-0780
Mcintyre, Janis (2008) Community based adult learning:researching progression in the context of learners' lives. In: SERA annual conference, 2008-11-27 - 2008-11-29. (Unpublished)
Mcintyre, Janis (2008) Community-based adult learning: learners' perceptions of participation and progression. Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory, 18 (2). pp. 11-14. ISSN 1359-1983
Wallace, David (2008) Community education, a mirror and a shield. The Edinburgh Papers. pp. 4-8.
Wallace, David (2008) The grit in the oyster : TQAL for pearls of practice. In: Australian Council for Adult Literacy, 2008-10-01 - 2008-10-03.
Ackland, Aileen and Wallace, David; (2007) Literacies teaching and work-based learning. In: Literacies Teaching and Work Based Learning. UNSPECIFIED, ITA.
Coburn, Annette and Mcginley, Brian and McNally, C (2007) Peer education: individual learning or service delivery? Youth and Policy, 94. pp. 19-34.
Coburn, Annette and Wallace, David (2007) Healthy Valleys : reversing decline in eight rural communities. Healthy Valleys Project, Glasgow.
Wallace, David and Ryan, Anne (2005) Evaluation of the Calley Youth Centre. North Ayrshire Council.
Wallace, David (2004) Evaluation of youth services and youth participation in Lanark. South Lanarkshire.
Wallace, David and Mackie, Gordon (2004) The needs of young LGBT people in Scotland. LGBT Scotland.
Wallace, David and Ryan, Anne (2004) Evaluation of youth diversion in South Lanarkshire. South Lanarkshire.
Milburn, Ted and Wallace, David; Bryce, Tom and Humes, Walter M., eds. (2003) Community education, community learning and development. In: Scottish Education. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 865-874. ISBN 074861625X
Wallace, David (2003) Evaluation of South Lanarkshire community safety partnership. South Lanarkshire.
Wallace, David (2003) Research report on access to community education for black and minority ethnic students. RDF Award.
Wallace, David and Coburn, Annette (2003) Evaluation of East End youth participation strategy. East End Initiative.
Milburn, Ted and Wallace, David; (2002) Community education and community devepolment : the Scottish experience. In: Yhteiso kehittamisen kentala. University of Joensuu, Finland, pp. 31-46. ISBN 952-458-151-5
Wallace, David (2002) Territoriality - a literature review. Greater Glasgow Health Board.
Wallace, David and Coburn, Annette (2002) Space - the fnal frontier : an exploration of territoriality. Scottish Youth Issues Journal, 2002 (5). pp. 73-92.

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Homage to Franz Léhar.
Performance of selected arias from the opera The Merry Widow.
Gala Dinner and Entertainment.
The Ball will be located in the authentic Venice, in a 14th century Palace, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, with its precious gothic facade & its elegant quadriform gothic windows overlooking the canal of the Misericordia. The palace will be illuminated entirely with candlelights to create a memorable atmosphere.
Produced in Vienna for the first time in 1905, 'The Merry Widow' was acclaimed as a success; Franz Léhar composed an immortal masterpiece in a new music genre, the operetta, which soon would become a great success all over the world. A simple story of love and inheritance, this operetta becomes an extraordinary international success, partly due to the employ of the characteristic elements of the comedy and of the grand ball (it is also named 'dancing operetta').
Set in Paris, the operetta evolves around the attempt of Baron Zeta, Ambassador of Pontevedro, to find a suitable husband from Pontevedro for the rich Hanna Glavari, young widow of the court banker, and convince her to marry an old flame of hers, Count Danilo, in the hope of keeping her dowry in the country home.
21.00: Elegant cocktail with Gondolieri Folk
21.45: Seated Gala Dinner wines included
23.00: . Performance of the most beautiful arias from the opera The Merry Widow by Franz Léhar.
Midnight: Live music and dances
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The Assumption Parish Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is provided through Quad Area Community Action Agency. This program provides minor home repairs to residents of Assumption Parish. It is used to reduce energy consumption, fuel costs, and improve the level of comfort. WAP also provides information and referrals.
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Tudor England witnessed many famous events such as the Spanish Armada, the Reformation and famous individuals such as Henry VII, Henry VIII and Sir Francis Drake. But what had happened to the position women had in English Tudor society? The position of women had remained unchanged for centuries and the time of the Tudors saw little, if any, improvement despite the fact that 1485 to 1603 saw 2 queens. Neither Mary Tudor nor Elizabeth did much to advance the cause of women. Why was this?
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For centuries girls had been told and, if educated, that they were inferior. So by the time, they became women, they would have acted as if they were inferior to men. The Church taught this and used the Bible to justify this belief. If men of God said that women were inferior it had to be true…..So two sections of society grew up to believe the same thing. Both men and women believed that women were inferior to men and that this was ordered by God. No change came with the Reformation. The protestant leader John Knox wrote:
"Women in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man." |
Young girls were taught that they had to obey their parents instantly. As a father dominated a household, this basically meant that the girls grew up to instinctively obey men. Even uncles, older brothers and male family friends could expect instant obedience from girls. Girls received no formal education (though very few boys did) but they were taught that their sole function in life was to marry, have children and look after their homes and husbands. Girls were taught that God had commanded them to be obedient to men – be it father or husband.
Girls from a poor home received no education as we would recognise it. They learned skills for life from their mothers. Girls from the homes of the rich received some form of education but it was in things like managing a household, needlework and meal preparation. It was generally believed that teaching girls to read and write was a waste of time. Two of Henry VIII's wives were barely literate – Jane Seymour and Catherine Howard.
Young ladies from a rich family would have no choice over who their husbands would be. Marriages were frequently arranged so that the families involved would benefit – whether the young lady loved her future husband was effectively irrelevant. In fact, it would not have been unusual for a couple to meet for the first time at their wedding as happened to Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves.
There was no legal age for marriage and many girls aged 14 would have got married at that age. In the homes of the poor, there was almost a rush to marry off daughters as it was believed that once they reached a certain age – about 14 – they would have been seen as being too old for marrying off and therefore a liability at home – one extra mouth to feed and no extra income coming into the house.
Once married, the main function of a wife was to produce a son to continue the family line. This was true for royalty right down to the common peasant. In would not have been unusual for wives to be pregnant every twelve months. In Tudor England, pregnancy and especially childbirth was dangerous for the wife. Death in childbirth was not unusual. One 'tradition' at this time was for a wife to prepare a new baby's nursery but to also make arrangements for the baby should she, the mother, die in childbirth.
The actual act of childbirth was assisted by a 'midwife'. In fact, this was usually an elderly female relative or female neighbour with no medical knowledge. Complications were frequent and death not unusual in childbirth, but no proper doctors existed in Tudor times to change this. Even if a delivery of a baby was successful, the mother could still fall prey to illness due to the lack of hygiene during childbirth. The most famous Tudor casualty of this was Jane Seymour who died after successfully giving birth to Edward VI. Puerperal fever and post-birth infections were both killers.
The way women dressed was also strictly controlled. Women who were not married could wear their hair loose. Married women had to hide their hair away under a veil and a hood. Queens might wear their hair loose on state occasions but this was only tolerated because they had to wear a crown. Anne Boleyn's hair was so long that she could sit on it – but despite her forceful nature, even she did what was expected of her and wore her hair in a hood after her marriage to Henry VIII.
As in previous times, a woman's dress covered nearly everything. Sleeves came down to the wrists and even in summer dresses reached the floor. Corsets were common but a plunging neckline would be considered acceptable. For queens, ceremonial dress could be even of a challenge as their dresses could be beautiful to those looking at them but they were both bulky and weighed a great deal as they were usually encrusted with jewels. Worn on a hot evening at a state occasion, such dresses must have been uncomfortable to wear.
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who conformed to standards of dress expected for women
The law gave a husband full rights over his wife. She effectively became his property. A wife who committed adultery could expect to be severely punished as Catherine Howard found out. A peer could have his adulterous wife burned at the stake if the king/queen agreed. A wife who killed her husband did not commit murder – she committed the far worse crime of petty treason. This also lead to her being burned at the stake. Wife beating was common and the logic of Tudor England was that the wife would have provoked her husband into beating her and if she had behaved properly, he would not have beaten her. Therefore she herself was responsible for her beating! In theory, a wife could walk away from a marriage – but to what? Who would keep her? Who would employ her? Therefore, women had to stay in a marriage even if it was a brutal one as there was very little else she could do.


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Friends Season 2 Episode 6 : The One with the Baby on the Bus
When Ross has an allergic reaction to Monica's kiwi-lime pie, Chandler and Joey are asked to baby-sit Ross's son, Ben. While using Ben to help them try to pick up girls, they accidentally leave him on a bus. Although they later locate him, they are not sure the baby is really Ben. Phoebe loses her Central Perk singing gig to a professional singer (Chrissie Hynde), and she becomes a street singer in front of the café.
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Operation Against Islamist Militants Causes Massive Displacements in Pakistan
As Pakistani forces target Islamist militants in the northwestern part of the country, the government faces a huge challenge to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people displaced because of the military operation. The number of these internally displaced people is now about half a million, and many of them complain about inadequate facilities at government camps as well as uncertainty about their future. VOA's Kokab Farshori has details.


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WWW — The following is a transcript released by Vice President Dick Cheney's office of his interview by Fox News' Brit Hume conducted Wednesday. It was Cheney's first public comment since accidentally shooting and wounding a friend during a hunting trip on Sunday.
Question: Mr. Vice President, how is Mr. Whittington?
Cheney: Well, the good news is he's doing very well today. I talked to him yesterday after they discovered the heart problem, but it appears now to have been pretty well resolved and the reporting today is very good.
Question: How did you feel when you heard about that?
Cheney: Well, it's a great relief. But I won't be, obviously, totally at ease until he's home. He's going to be in the hospital, apparently, for a few more days, and the problem, obviously, is that there's always the possibility of complications in somebody who is 78, 79 years old. But he's a great man, he's in great shape, good friend, and our thoughts and prayers go out to he and his family.
Question: How long have you known him?
Cheney: I first met him in Vail, Colorado, when I worked for Gerry Ford about 30 years ago, and it was the first time I'd ever hunted with him.
Question: Would you describe him as a close friend, friendly acquaintance, what —
Cheney: No, an acquaintance.
Question: Tell me what happened?
Cheney: Well, basically, we were hunting quail late in the day —
Question: Describe the setting.
Cheney: It's in south Texas, wide-open spaces, a lot of brush cover, fairly shallow. But it's wild quail. It's some of the best quail hunting anyplace in the country. I've gone there, to the Armstrong ranch, for years. The Armstrongs have been friends for over 30 years. And a group of us had hunted all day on Saturday —
Question: How many?
Cheney: Oh, probably 10 people. We weren't all together, but about 10 guests at the ranch. There were three of us who had gotten out of the vehicle and walked up on a covey of quail that had been pointed by the dogs. Covey is flushed, we've shot, and each of us got a bird. Harry couldn't find his, it had gone down in some deep cover, and so he went off to look for it. The other hunter and I then turned and walked about a hundred yards in another direction —
Question: Away from him?
Cheney: Away from him — where another covey had been spotted by an outrider. I was on the far right —
Question: There was just two of you then?
Cheney: Just two of us at that point. The guide or outrider between us, and of course, there's this entourage behind us, all the cars and so forth that follow me around when I'm out there — but bird flushed and went to my right, off to the west. I turned and shot at the bird, and at that second, saw Harry standing there. Didn't know he was there —
Question: You had pulled the trigger and you saw him?
Cheney: Well, I saw him fall, basically. It had happened so fast.
Question: What was he wearing?
Cheney: He was dressed in orange, he was dressed properly, but he was also — there was a little bit of a gully there, so he was down a little ways before land level, although I could see the upper part of his body when — I didn't see it at the time I shot, until after I'd fired. And the sun was directly behind him — that affected the vision, too, I'm sure.
But the image of him falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind. I fired, and there's Harry falling. And it was, I'd have to say, one of the worst days of my life, at that moment.
Question: Then what?
Cheney: Well, we went over to him, obviously, right away —
Question: How far away from you was he?
Cheney: I'm guessing about 30 yards, which was a good thing. If he'd been closer, obviously, the damage from the shot would have been greater.
Question: Now, is it clear that — he had caught part of the shot, is that right?
Cheney: — part of the shot. He was struck in the right side of his face, his neck and his upper torso on the right side of his body.
Question: And you — and I take it, you missed the bird.
Cheney: I have no idea. I mean, you focused on the bird, but as soon as I fired and saw Harry there, everything else went out of my mind. I don't know whether the bird went down, or didn't.
Question: So did you run over to him or —
Cheney: Ran over to him and —
Question: And what did you see? He's lying there —
Cheney: He was laying there on his back, obviously bleeding. You could see where the shot had struck him. And one of the fortunate things was that I've always got a medical team, in effect, covering me wherever I go. I had a physician's assistant with me that day. Within a minute or two he was on the scene administering first-aid. And —
Question: And Mr. Whittington was conscious, unconscious, what?
Cheney: He was conscious —
Question: What did you say?
Cheney: Well, I said, "Harry, I had no idea you were there." And —
Question: What did he say?
Cheney: He didn't respond. He was — he was breathing, conscious at that point, but he didn't — he was, I'm sure, stunned, obviously, still trying to figure out what had happened to him. The doc was fantastic —
Question: What did you think when you saw the injuries? How serious did they appear to you to be?
Cheney: I had no idea how serious it was going to be. I mean, it could have been extraordinarily serious. You just don't know at that moment. You know he's been struck, that there's a lot of shot that had hit him. But you don't know — you think about his eyes. Fortunately, he was wearing hunting glasses, and that protected his eyes. You — you just don't know. And the key thing, as I say, initially, was that the physician's assistant was right there. We also had an ambulance at the ranch, because one always follows me around wherever I go. And they were able to get the ambulance there, and within about 30 minutes we had him on his way to the hospital.
Question: And what did you do then? Did you get up and did you go with him, or did you go to the hospital?
Cheney: No, I had — I told my physician's assistant to go with him, but the ambulance is crowded and they didn't need another body in there. And so we loaded up and went back to ranch headquarters, basically. By then, it's about 7:00 p.m. at night. And Harry —
Question: Did you have a sense then of how he was doing?
Cheney: Well, we're getting reports, but they were confusing. Early reports are always wrong. The initial reports that came back from the ambulance were that he was doing well, his eyes were open. They got him into the emergency room at Kingsville —
Question: His eyes were open when you found him, then, right?
Cheney: Yes. One eye was open. But they got him in the emergency room in the small hospital at Kingsville, checked him out further there, then lifted him by helicopter from there into Corpus Christi, which has a big city hospital and all of the equipment.
Question: So by now what time is it?
Cheney: I don't have an exact time line, although he got there sometime that evening, 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m.
Question: So this is several hours after the incident?
Cheney: Well, I would say he was in Kingsville in the emergency room probably within, oh, less than an hour after they left the ranch.
Question: Now, you're a seasoned hunter —
Cheney: I am, well, for the last 12, 15 years.
Question: Right, and so you know all the procedures and how to maintain the proper line and distance between you and other hunters, and all that. So how, in your judgment, did this happen? Who — what caused this? What was the responsibility here?
Cheney: Well, ultimately, I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry. And you can talk about all of the other conditions that existed at the time, but that's the bottom line. And there's no — it was not Harry's fault. You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend. And I say that is something I'll never forget.
Question: Now, what about this — it was said you were hunting out of vehicles. Was that because you have to have the vehicles, or was that because that's your — the way you chose to hunt that day?
Cheney: No, the way — this is a big ranch, about 50,000 acres. You cover a lot of territory on a quail hunt. Birds are oftentimes — you're looking for coveys. And these are wild quail, they're not pen-raised. And you hunt them — basically, you have people out on horseback, what we call outriders, who are looking for the quail. And when they spot them, they've got radios, you'll go over, and say, get down and flush the quail. So you need —
Question: So you could be a distance of miles from where you spot quail until the next place you may find them?
Cheney: Well, usually you'll be, you know, maybe a few hundred yards. Might be farther than that; could be a quarter of a mile.
Question: Does that kind of hunting only go forward on foot, or is it mostly —
Cheney: No, you always — in that part of the country, you always are on vehicles, until you get up to where the covey is. Then you get off — there will be dogs down, put down; the dogs will point to covey. And then you walk up on the covey. And as the covey flushes, that's when you shoot.
Question: Was anybody drinking in this party?
Cheney: No. You don't hunt with people who drink. That's not a good idea. We had —
Question: So he wasn't, and you weren't?
Cheney: Correct. We'd taken a break at lunch — go down under an old — ancient oak tree there on the place, and have a barbecue. I had a beer at lunch. After lunch we take a break, go back to ranch headquarters. Then we took about an hourlong tour of the ranch, with a ranch hand driving the vehicle, looking at game. We didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3:00 p.m.
The five of us who were in that party were together all afternoon. Nobody was drinking, nobody was under the influence.
Question: Now, what thought did you give, then, to how — you must have known that this was — whether it was a matter of state, or not, was news. What thought did you give that evening to how this news should be transmitted?
Cheney: Well, my first reaction, Brit, was not to think: I need to call the press. My first reaction is: My friend, Harry, has been shot and we've got to take care of him. That evening there were other considerations. We wanted to make sure his family was taken care of. His wife was on the ranch. She wasn't with us when it happened, but we got her hooked up with the ambulance on the way to the hospital with Harry. He has grown children; we wanted to make sure they were notified, so they didn't hear on television that their father had been shot. And that was important, too.
But we also didn't know what the outcome here was going to be. We didn't know for sure what kind of shape Harry was in. We had preliminary reports, but they wanted to do a CAT scan, for example, to see how — whether or not there was any internal damage, whether or not any vital organ had been penetrated by any of the shot. We did not know until Sunday morning that we could be confident that everything was probably going to be OK.
Question: When did the family — when had the family been informed? About what time?
Cheney: Well, his wife — his wife knew as he was leaving the ranch —
Question: Right, what about his children?
Cheney: I didn't make the calls to his children, so I don't know exactly when those contacts were made. One of his daughters had made it to the hospital by the next day when I visited. But one of the things I'd learned over the years was first reports are often wrong and you need to really wait and nail it down. And there was enough variation in the reports we were getting from the hospital, and so forth — a couple of people who had been guests at the ranch went up to the hospital that evening; one of them was a doctor, so he obviously had some professional capabilities in terms of being able to relay messages. But we really didn't know until Sunday morning that Harry was probably going to be OK, that it looked like there hadn't been any serious damage to any vital organ. And that's when we began the process of notifying the press.
Question: Well, what — you must have recognized, though, with all your experience in Washington, that this was going to be a big story.
Cheney: Well, true, it was unprecedented. I've been in the business for a long time and never seen a situation quite like this. We've had experiences where the president has been shot; we've never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.
Question: Not since Aaron Burr.
Cheney: Not since Aaron Burr —
Question: Different circumstances.
Cheney: Different circumstances.
Question: Well, did it occur to you that sooner was — I mean, the one thing that we've all kind of learned over the last several decades is that if something like this happens, as a rule sooner is better.
Cheney: Well, if it's accurate. If it's accurate. And this is a complicated story.
Question: But there were some things you knew. I mean, you knew the man had been shot, you knew he was injured, you knew he was in the hospital, and you knew you'd shot him.
Cheney: Correct.
Question: And you knew certainly by sometime that evening that the relevant members of his family had been called. I realize you didn't know the outcome, and you could argue that you don't know the outcome today, really, finally.
Cheney: As we saw, if we'd put out a report Saturday night on what we heard then — one report came in that said, superficial injuries. If we'd gone with a statement at that point, we'd have been wrong. And it was also important, I thought, to get the story out as accurately as possible, and this is a complicated story that, frankly, most reporters would never have dealt with before, so —
Question: Had you discussed this with colleagues in the White House, with the president, and so on?
Cheney: I did not. The White House was notified, but I did not discuss it directly, myself. I talked to Andy Card, I guess it was Sunday morning.
Question: Not until Sunday morning? Was that the first conversation you'd had with anybody in the — at the White House?
Cheney: Yes.
Question: And did you discuss this with Karl Rove at any time, as has been reported?
Cheney: No, Karl talks to — I don't recall talking to Karl. Karl did talk with Katharine Armstrong, who is a good mutual friend to both of us. Karl hunts at the Armstrong, as well —
Question: Say that again?
Cheney: I said Karl has hunted at the Armstrong, as well, and we're both good friends of the Armstrongs and of Katharine Armstrong. And Katharine suggested, and I agreed, that she would go make the announcement, that is that she'd put the story out. And I thought that made good sense for several reasons. First of all, she was an eyewitness. She'd seen the whole thing. Secondly, she'd grown up on the ranch, she'd hunted there all of her life. Third, she was the immediate past head of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the game control commission in the State of Texas, an acknowledged expert in all of this.
And she wanted to go to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, which is the local newspaper, covers that area, to reporters she knew. And I thought that made good sense because you can get as accurate a story as possible from somebody who knew and understood hunting. And then it would immediately go up to the wires and be posted on the Web site, which is the way it went out. And I thought that was the right call.
Question: What do you think now?
Cheney: Well, I still do. I still think that the accuracy was enormously important. I had no press person with me, I didn't have any press people with me. I was there on a private weekend with friends on a private ranch. In terms of who I would contact to have somebody who would understand what we're even talking about, the first person that we talked with at one point, when Katharine first called the desk to get hold of a reporter, didn't know the difference between a bullet and a shotgun — a rifle bullet and a shotgun. And there are a lot of basic important parts of the story that required some degree of understanding. And so we were confident that Katharine was the right one, especially because she was an eyewitness and she could speak authoritatively on it. She probably knew better than I did what had happened, since I'd only seen one piece of it.
Question: By the next morning, had you spoken again to Mr. Whittington?
Cheney: The next morning I talked to his wife. And then I went to the hospital in Corpus Christi and visited with him.
Question: When was that?
Cheney: Oh, it was shortly after noon on Sunday.
Question: Now, by that time had the word gone out to the newspaper?
Cheney: I believe it had. I can't remember what time Katharine actually talked to the reporter. She had trouble that morning actually finding a reporter. But they finally got connected with the reporter, and that's when the story then went out.
Question: Now, it strikes me that you must have known that this was going to be a national story —
Cheney: Oh, sure.
Question: — and it does raise the question of whether you couldn't have headed off this beltway firestorm if you had put out the word to the national media, as well as to the local newspaper so that it could post it on its Web site. I mean, in retrospect, wouldn't that have been the wise course —
Cheney: Well, who is going to do that? Are they going to take my word for what happened? There is obviously —
Question: Well, obviously, you could have put the statement out in the name of whoever you wanted. You could put it out in the name of Mrs. Armstrong, if you wanted to. Obviously, that's — she's the one who made the statement.
Cheney: Exactly. That's what we did. We went with Mrs. Armstrong. We had — she's the one who put out the statement. And she was the most credible one to do it because she was a witness. It wasn't me in terms of saying, here's what happened, it was —
Question: Right, understood. Now, the suspicion grows in some quarters that you — that this was an attempt to minimize it, by having it first appear in a little paper and appear like a little hunting incident down in a remote corner of Texas.
Cheney: There wasn't any way this was going to be minimized, Brit; but it was important that it be accurate. I do think what I've experienced over the years here in Washington is as the media outlets have proliferated, speed has become sort of a driving force, lots of time at the expense of accuracy. And I wanted to make sure we got it as accurate as possible, and I think Katharine was an excellent choice. I don't know who you could get better as the basic source for the story than the witness who saw the whole thing.
Question: When did you first speak to — if you spoke to Andy Card at, what, midday, you said, on Sunday?
Cheney: Sometime Sunday morning.
Question: And what about — when did you first — when, if ever, have you discussed it with the president?
Cheney: I talked to him about it yesterday, or Monday — first on Monday, and then on Tuesday, too.
Question: There is reporting to the effect that some in the White House feel you kind of — well, look at what Scott McClellan went through the last couple days. There's some sense — and perhaps not unfairly so — that you kind of hung him out to dry. How do you feel about that?
Cheney: Well, Scott does a great job and it's a tough job. It's especially a tough job under these conditions and circumstances. I had a bit of the feeling that the press corps was upset because, to some extent, it was about them — they didn't like the idea that we called the Corpus Christi Caller-Times instead of The New York Times. But it strikes me that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times is just as valid a news outlet as The New York Times is, especially for covering a major story in South Texas.
Question: Well, perhaps so, but isn't there an institution here present at the White House that has long-established itself as the vehicle through which White House news gets out, and that's the pool?
Cheney: I had no press person with me, no coverage with me, no White House reporters with me. I'm comfortable with the way we did it, obviously. You can disagree with that, and some of the White House press corps clearly do. But, no, I've got nothing but good things to say about Scott McClellan and Dan Bartlett. They've got a tough job to do and they do it well. They urged us to get the story out. The decision about how it got out, basically, was my responsibility.
Question: That was your call.
Cheney: That was my call.
Question: All the way.
Cheney: All the way. It was recommended to me — Katharine Armstrong wanted to do it, as she said, and I concurred in that; I thought it made good sense.
Question: Now, you're talking to me today — this is, what, Wednesday?
Cheney: Wednesday.
Question: What about just coming out yourself Monday/Tuesday — how come?
Cheney: Well, part of it obviously has to do with the status of Harry Whittington. And it's a difficult subject to talk about, frankly, Brit. But most especially I've been very concerned about him and focused on him and feel more comfortable coming out today because of the fact that his circumstances have improved, he's gotten by what was a potential crisis yesterday, with respect to the developments concerning his heart. I think this decision we made, that this was the right way to do it.
Question: Describe if you can your conversations with him, what you've said to him and the attitude he's shown toward you in the aftermath of this.
Cheney: He's been fantastic. He's a gentleman in every respect. He oftentimes expressed more concern about me than about himself. He's been in good spirits, unfailingly cheerful —
Question: What did he say about that? You said, "expressed concern" about you — what did he say?
Cheney: Well, when I first saw him in the hospital, for example, he said, look, he said, I don't want this to create problems for you. He literally was more concerned about me and the impact on me than he was on the fact that he'd been shot. He's a — I guess I'd describe him as a true Texas gentleman, a very successful attorney, successful businessman in Austin; a gentleman in every respect of the word. And he's been superb.
Question: For you, personally, how would you — you said this was one of the worst days of your life. How so?
Cheney: What happened to my friend as a result of my actions, it's part of this sudden, you know, in less than a second, less time than it takes to tell, going from what is a very happy, pleasant day with great friends in a beautiful part of the country, doing something I love — to, my gosh, I've shot my friend. I've never experienced anything quite like that before.
Question: Will it affect your attitude toward this pastime you so love in the future?
Cheney: I can't say that. You know, we canceled the Sunday hunt. I said, look I'm not — we were scheduled to go out again on Sunday and I said I'm not going to go on Sunday, I want to focus on Harry. I'll have to think about it.
Question: Some organizations have said they hoped you would find a less violent pastime.
Cheney: Well, it's brought me great pleasure over the years. I love the people that I've hunted with and do hunt with; love the outdoors, it's part of my heritage, growing up in Wyoming. It's part of who I am. But as I say, the season is ending, I'm going to let some time pass over it and think about the future.
Question: On another subject, court filings have indicated that Scooter Libby has suggested that his superiors — unidentified — authorized the release of some classified information. What do you know about that?
Cheney: It's nothing I can talk about, Brit. This is an issue that's been under investigation for a couple of years. I've cooperated fully, including being interviewed, as well, by a special prosecutor. All of it is now going to trial. Scooter is entitled to the presumption of innocence. He's a great guy. I've worked with him for a long time, have enormous regard for him. I may well be called as a witness at some point in the case and it's, therefore, inappropriate for me to comment on any facet of the case.
Question: Let me ask you another question. Is it your view that a vice president has the authority to declassify information?
Cheney: There is an executive order to that effect.
Question: There is.
Cheney: Yes.
Question: Have you done it?
Cheney: Well, I've certainly advocated declassification and participated in declassification decisions. The executive order —
Question: You ever done it unilaterally?
Cheney: I don't want to get into that. There is an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president.
Question: There have been two leaks, one that pertained to possible facilities in Europe; and another that pertained to this NSA matter. There are officials who have had various characterizations of the degree of damage done by those. How would you characterize the damage done by those two reports?
Cheney: There clearly has been damage done.
Question: Which has been the more harmful, in your view?
Cheney: I don't want to get into just sort of ranking them, then you get into why is one more damaging than the other. One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.


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Yummy! Salisbury steaks, with onion and mushroom gravy–and just in time for autumn!
Now you can get stuffed as you gobble down what will soon be your favorite main dish. (Too much?)
My new favorite meat is ground turkey. It's so versatile and so savory and delicious. It's moist, too.
And for you out there trying to save a few calories, it's slightly less caloric than ground beef.
Tip: Skip the cream cheese to save calories. I use it since it has gums, which help thicken the sauce. You could also add heavy cream instead.
To make these fun oval shapes, I use an oval-shaped ramekin. I spray the ramekin, press in the meat and then tap the ramekin against my hand, face-down to release. I then place the patties on a square of waxed paper or parchment until ready to cook.
I also use a hamburger press/weight to help brown the patties while they cook. I think they're even prettier when the edges are colorful. You could use a clean brick wrapped in foil s a weight, too! Of course, weighing down isn't as important; it's just a nice touch..
Tip: Prefer beef? Simply swap out turkey for ground beef and chicken broth for organic beef broth.
This recipe is literally so wonderful, my husband ate five of the patties in 24 hours. I got one, thankfully! I know I am going to have to make this dish again.
As we move towards Thanksgiving, these Salisbury steaks are also a fun way to make a turkey dinner without the carving and the fuss. At only 260 calories and 2.7 net carbsper generous serving, you can also pack these for lunches, freeze them and make plenty ahead for later. Have a crock pot? Make these patties ahead and simmer in the gravy on low heat until saucy and delicious.
Tip: You can skip microwaving the cream cheese with the broth, but it gets the gravy to temperature faster.
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Turkey-tacular Salisbury Steaks
1 pound ground turkey
1 egg
1/3 cup flax seed meal
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp oil
1.5 cups onion, minced
1 cup organic chicken broth
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
2 Tbsp cream cheese
Heat a large frying pan with oil pan over medium heat.
In a mixing bowl, combine ground turkey, egg, flax seed meal, pepper and salt. Form into 6 oval patties (I used a greased oval ramekin). Cook for 5 minutes per side, or until browned. Remove to a plate and cover to keep warm. In a glass measuring cup, combine broth with cream cheese. Microwave for 2 minutes. Stir to combine. Add to mushrooms and onion in the pan. Let boil and then reduce heat to a simmer for 5-15 minutes or until thickened.* Serve over steaks.
*Do the kids hate mushrooms and onions? Pour the gravy into a blender to remove any physical traces of the veggies, and you can still enjoy the flavor and the thickness.
Makes 6 patties with gravy.
Nutritional Information per patty with sauce. Calories: 260, Carbohydrates: 9.9 g, Fiber: 7.2 g, Net Carbohydrates: 2.7 g, Protein: 12.2 g, Fat: 20.2 g


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So I wanted to install Etherpad lite on a Linux machine. If I try to run it, I will get the Error:
"Please install node.js ( http://nodejs.org )"
the command which node
gives me the correct path to node js. So I went into the .sh File of Etherpad Lite and found this:
#Is node installed?
hash node > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "Please install node.js ( http://nodejs.org )" >&2
exit 1
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- Home
- Departments
- Human Resources
- Online Application Guide
Online Application Guide
Online Application Steps
You will need an email account to receive notifications concerning your job application with the City of Grapevine.
- Create an Application Before Applying for a Job
- Apply for Specific Job Opening
- Complete Job Interest Card
- Check Application Status
Create an Application Before Applying for a Job
- Log in to Government Jobs
- Create an account.
- If you have already created a user account, log in using your previously created username and password. You will not be able to create another applicant account using the same e-mail address.
- Enter your new account information. You must remember this information in order to check the status of your application or apply for other jobs.
- Proceed by following the screen directions.
- Save your work on each screen and when you are done.
Apply for Specific Job Opening
- Find jobs on the Job Opportunities page.
- Review detailed information such as job description, benefits, supplemental questions, salary, etc.
- Logging in to Government Jobs
- If you already have a City of Grapevine or Government Jobs account, log in using the applicant username and password that you created previously. Skip to Step 6 or 7. You will not be able to create another account using the same e-mail address.
- Or, if you have never registered with Government Jobs, you will need to create an account.
- Enter your new account information. You must remember this information in order to check the status of your application or apply for other jobs.
- Create an application. Input a title for your application for your future reference. Or, if you already have an application in our online system, you do not need to recreate a new application. You can apply for new jobs with a previously created application. You will be given a chance to update your information and tailor it as needed to the job you are currently applying for.
- Fill in the "Personal Profile" information if you are creating a new application. If this is a previously created application, review and update.
- Add education, work experience, certificates, and other information. Save after each section. To add additional entries in any of these sections, click on "Add".
- If you wish to enter a resume, you may cut and paste from a previously completed resume into this section. Or you may start from scratch. Resumes are not required for every position, but in certain cases will reflect positively on your application.
- Answer the agency-wide supplemental questions, or review your answers if you are using a previously created application. Save and proceed when done.
- Answer the job-specific supplemental questions, if any. Save and proceed when done.
- Review your application carefully. Incomplete information may disqualify your application. When you are satisfied that your application is complete, scroll to the bottom and confirm your application.
- Sign on the digital signature screen.You will be asked to sign a paper form if consent forms are requested.
Check Application Status
- Go to www.governmentjobs.com and view "Application Status".


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80's sax solos
This is a compilation of sax solos in 80s pop music. In the 70s saxophone solos were perfectly acceptable in pop music, but in the 80s it got a little twisted, showing up in some surprising and ridiculous places. Before long it was a staple of pop music. Obviously this didn't last much past the 80s.
I have attempted to grade mainly based on the inclusion of the solo rather than the quality of the playing and what I think of each song as a whole (I still really like pretty much of these songs, even the ones with low grades).


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A boozy, washed-up rocker (Robert Carlyle) must finally come to terms with his inner demons when he is threatened with deportation in the wake of a DUI arrest combined with an old drug charge.
LACHLAN MacALDONICH (Robert Carlyle) is former Britpop rocker who has settled into a comfortably numb existence in farm country just outside Los Angeles. By day, he works on an organic farm and travels regularly to the city's farmers' markets to sell produce. By night, he retreats to his crummy apartment to record "Flame-Outs," his podcast that recounts the tragic deaths of great musicians. The only spark in his humdrum existence is BEAU (Alexia Rasmussen), a lovely struggling actress and amateur chef who frequents the Silver Lake farmers' market. One night, Lachlan gets pulled over for a DUI, a charge that dredges up his past drug offense and threatens him with deportation. Lachlan's only hope of staying in the U.S. is proving that his removal would cause "extreme hardship" to a U.S. citizen spouse or relative. Lachlan contacts his estranged ex-wife and daughter, raising past demons that he must finally confront.


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MORRISVILLE, Pa. -- The bridge spanning the Delaware River connects New Jersey's capital with this town where the nation's most interesting governor occasionally eats lunch at Cafe Antonio. It also connects New Jersey's government with reality.
The bridge is a tutorial on a subject this government has flunked -- economics, which is mostly about incentives. At the Pennsylvania end of the bridge, cigarette shops cluster: New Jersey's per-pack tax is double Pennsylvania's. In late afternoon, Gov. Chris Christie says, the bridge is congested with New Jersey government employees heading home to Pennsylvania, where the income tax rate is 3 percent, compared to New Jersey's top rate of 9 percent.
There are 700,000 more Democrats than Republicans in New Jersey, but in November Christie flattened the Democratic incumbent, Jon Corzine. Christie is built like a burly baseball catcher, and since his inauguration just 13 weeks ago, he has earned the name of the local minor league team -- the Trenton Thunder.
He inherited a $2.2 billion deficit, and next year's projected deficit of $10.7 billion is, relative to the state's $29.3 billion budget, the nation's worst. Democrats, with the verbal tic -- "Tax the rich!" -- that passes for progressive thinking, demanded that he reinstate the "millionaire's tax," which hit "millionaires" earning $400,000 until it expired Dec. 31. Instead, Christie noted that between 2004 and 2008 there was a net outflow of $70 billion in wealth as "the rich," including small businesses, fled. And he said previous administrations had "raised taxes 115 times in the last eight years alone."
So he closed the $2.2 billion gap by accepting 375 of 378 suggested spending freezes and cuts. In two weeks. By executive actions. In eight weeks he cut $13 billion -- $232 million a day, $9 million an hour. Now comes the hard part.
Government employees' health benefits are, he says, "41 percent more expensive" than those of the average Fortune 500 company. Without changes in current law, "spending will have increased 322 percent in 20 years -- over 16 percent a year." There is, he says, a connection between the state being No. 1 in total tax burden and being No. 1 in the proportion of college students who, after graduating, leave the state.
Partly to pay for teachers' benefits -- most contribute nothing to pay for their health insurance -- property taxes have increased 70 percent in 10 years, to an average annual cost to homeowners of $7,281. Christie proposes a 2.5 percent cap on annual increases.
Challenging teachers unions to live up to their cloying "it's really about the kids" rhetoric, he has told them to choose between a pay freeze and job cuts. Validating his criticism by their response to it, some Bergen County teachers encouraged students to cut classes and go to the football field to protest his policies, and a Bridgewater high school teacher showed students a union-made video critical of him. Christie notes that the $550,000 salary of the executive director of the teachers union is larger than the total cuts proposed for 190 of the state's 605 school districts.
He has received some support from the Democratic president of the state Senate, Stephen Sweeney, a leader of a local ironworkers union. This suggests waning solidarity between unionized private-sector workers who are weary of paying ever-higher taxes to enrich unionized public employees.
New Jersey's governors are the nation's strongest -- American Caesars, really -- who can veto line items and even rewrite legislative language. Christie is using his power to remind New Jersey that wealth goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well-treated. Prosperous states are practicing, at the expense of slow learners like New Jersey, "entrepreneurial federalism" -- competing to have the most enticing business climate.
Christies predecessor addressed a huge unionized rally of public employees, vowing to "fight for a fair contract." Who was he going to fight? The negotiator across the table would be ... himself.
Saying "subtlety is not going to win this fight," Christie notes that New Jersey's police officers, the nation's highest paid, can retire after 25 years at 65 percent of their highest salary. In the state that has the nation's fourth-highest percentage (66) of public employees who are unionized, he has joined the struggle that will dominate the nation's domestic policymaking in this decade -- the struggle to break the ruinous collaboration between elected officials and unionized state and local workers whose affections the officials purchase with taxpayers' money.


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Sunday, June 30, 2019
[CLOSURE ALERT] O'Charley's Out of Business in Tucker
22 comments:
I'm surprised you didn't mention that this location was formerly Mother Tucker's Steakhouse. And that Service Merchandise was formerly Ellman's.
- July 1, 2019 at 7:25 AM
Although I'm always disappointed when local eateries close, if I didn't patronize them I can't complain too much. That was the case for me with O'Charley's. I liked it but for some reason hadn't been by in many years.
- July 1, 2019 at 10:26 AM
I quit going to the Tucker O'Charley's a few years ago because the service had gotten so bad. The servers had really bad attitudes and it was almost painful to deal with them.
- July 1, 2019 at 10:27 AM
We stopped going to O'Charleys a few years ago because of poor service.
- July 1, 2019 at 11:35 AM
- RichKnobSales said...
Our server Shirley was always spot on with our group every month. Not sure the author of this blog is old enough to remember Mother Tucker's LOL!!!
I'd like to see something like a Cheesecake Factory, or a Maggiano's go in there. Service at Red Lobster has been so erratic for the last 15 years that we pretty much stopped going there. Service is of course the key - as long as a place has at least acceptable food, if the service is spot on, the customers come back. - July 1, 2019 at 11:48 AM
RichSnob - Why don't you patronize the local restaurants rather than all those chains. At least with local places they buy their food and other products locally rather than being trucked in from some out of state warehouse. Cheesecake Factory is the worst. And Maggiano's, please no unless you are big fan of Ragu
- July 1, 2019 at 12:11 PM
- Wmac said...
Never had an issue, we always enjoyed our dinners..sorry to see it go, always seem busy enough...
- July 1, 2019 at 3:37 PM
- Yo said...
I certainly hate this closure. I often celebrated birthdays there😢
- July 1, 2019 at 7:12 PM
- Unknown said...
I would love to see a more family friendly establishment...cheesecake factory. Maggianos are great choices .. even a Ryan's.
- July 1, 2019 at 7:32 PM
These chain restaurants are dying out - and the main two reasons are bad / microwaved food and bottom of the food chain (pun intended) employees.
- July 2, 2019 at 9:30 AM
- NEZ3000 said...
That's my area. But would like to see new/up to date restaurants or different eatery like a Texas Roadhouse or Del taco or Hardee's some different in the area.
- July 2, 2019 at 1:19 PM
- Zeebee said...
Food is over rated. A walking facility with an indoor playground would make millions.
- July 2, 2019 at 7:08 PM
- Zeebee said...
Eating is over rated. A walking facility with an indoor playground would make millions.
- July 2, 2019 at 7:09 PM
" would like to see new/up to date restaurants or different eatery like a Texas Roadhouse or Del taco or Hardee's some different in the area. "
SMH - July 3, 2019 at 9:19 AM
Or the Cork and Cleaver, Victoria Station, Quinn's Mill or Steak and Ale. Chili's in Tucker was the first Chili's opened in the United States outside Texas. The franchisees then in their 70s did not want to spend millions to make that Chili's look like the new ones. Can't say I blame them. Steak and Ale closed because their parent company had to file for bankruptcy not because it did not do a good business.
- July 3, 2019 at 6:10 PM
What with the Hickory House on Northlake Parkway for sale at a price of $2,100,000.00 and the old Olive Garden location which is Majo s League Sports Bar and Grill also on the Parkway being up for sale for $2,350,000.00 , no telling which restaurants, if any, will consider moving to our Northlake area. Cracker Barrel would be a good choice as it is a family establishment for all ages rather than a bar and grill with loud music and dancing. Just saying....
- July 5, 2019 at 6:03 PM
How about a True Food Kitchen (or at least Flower Child) at Northlake?
- July 5, 2019 at 7:49 PM
That whole north lake tucker area just doesn't have the excitement of perimeter or Buckhead or sandy springs to attract such modernized up market-ish dining establishments. When I think of that area I think of Folks, some kind of Kacys country buffet, blue ribbon, Which is all truckstop fare. I think of dead abd deteriorating shopping malls and shopping centers. I went to the new one there The size of the property is massive however the design is terrible and the retail mix is very uninspiring. I think if they tear down the mall and build premium outlets that may be a good win-win for The area. Or better yet tear down the mall and the dead and dilapidated shopping centers and create movie studios. There are billions of investment dollars out there and companies willing to invest in new and rejuvenated communities. I think the city planners are not thinking outside the box in terms of what the areas should look like 10 years from now.
- July 8, 2019 at 4:27 AM
- Unknown said...
I am so sad just left Lafitness and was shock to see it abandon..My daughter will be sad because that was a quick spot to go for a quick sit down meal..I never experienced bad service S0 I guess we have to travel now...I would love to see a cheesecake Factory...
- August 17, 2019 at 12:13 PM
- Unknown said...
Jobs are needed in Tucker SE Deklab to attract quality restaurants
- August 25, 2019 at 6:26 PM
Until the Tucker/Northlake area is upgraded and brought appropriately outfitted for the 21st century, no decent name brand food establishment will survive.
Just look at the mall - - October 4, 2019 at 12:13 PM
- Unknown said...
O'Charleys had a decent lunch crowd. With all the apartments coming in, Emory Healthcare going into the old Sears with 1,600 employees and the new subdivision on LaVista - this will be a prime location again. Thank goodness we still have Folks and Old Hickory House.
- December 1, 2019 at 5:30 PM


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Emerging database technologies hit DBMS mainstream, add to choices
Emerging database technologies such as column-based database software, NoSQL databases and Database as a Service (DaaS) platforms are starting to make a splash in the IT market.
A handful of unconventional database technologies are starting to have a noticeable impact on the IT industry while challenging the traditional ways that relational database management system (RDBMS) software is developed and used, according to analysts and IT professionals.
NoSQL databases, column-based database software and Database as a Service (DaaS) technologies may not be entirely new, but they have been getting an increasing amount of attention recently from software vendors and potential buyers alike. And the main reason for the growing interest in the emerging database technologies can be summed up in one word: speed.
Many IT departments are finding themselves having to balance the complexity of managing fast-growing information stores with the need to deliver reliable business-critical transactions and business intelligence (BI) query results more and more quickly. In the burgeoning era of "big data," experts say, columnar database engines, NoSQL software and cloud-based DaaS technologies hold the promise of relief in the form of faster performance, greater flexibility and, potentially, lower total cost of ownership.
Analysts caution that the much-hyped technologies are still very much in their early adopter phases and that they aren't right for everyone. But interest in them is expected to continue growing as information management requirements become even more complex and time-sensitive – and as the performance and scalability ceilings associated with traditional relational database software drive users to seek alternative options.
"The limitations of relational databases have been a great driver to think differently," said Noel Yuhanna, a database technology analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc.
Column-oriented databases, which typically are used in BI and analytics applications, store data vertically in table columns instead of in rows, as conventional relational databases do. Analysts say the columnar approach minimizes the time it takes to read information stored in the database, potentially resulting in faster query times.
Emerging database technologies in action: columnar DB opens new doors
The use of a column-based database is opening up possible new business opportunities for Provisio Inc., according to Sean Harrison, the Nashville, Tenn.-based company's chief security officer and senior information architect.
Provisio is the creator of iTrials, a service that enables doctors and pharmaceutical makers to search the medical records of about 70 million people in an effort to find candidates for clinical trials. Harrison said it's a highly data-intensive process that generally involves searching for a set of people with a specific illness, then comparing the records in an effort to find individuals or geographic areas that meet certain criteria.
The limitations of relational databases have been a great driver to think differently.Noel Yuhanna, analyst, Forrester Research Inc.
Not long ago, the iTrials service hit the limits of its traditional database infrastructure. Harrison said that queries were taking longer than usual to run and that performance bottlenecks were popping up all over the place. Instead of throwing more row-based relational databases at the problem, Provisio opted to purchase a columnar database and some new servers. "We were looking for solutions that would let us get to the data faster," Harrison said.
It took a great deal of effort to get ready for the new hardware and software combination, he noted. For example, internal applications had to be customized in preparation for the change, and the company's data center had to be updated to accommodate the new hardware. But overall, Harrison said, the project has turned out to be a rousing success.
The new technology allowed Provisio to reduce the number of tables in its database from about 230,000 to just 12, and Harrison said queries that used to take 10 minutes to run now take 30 seconds. The increase in computing speed has Provisio thinking about new ways to create revenue, he added. For example, company officials are considering the possibility of offering a service to help lawyers and alleged victims in medical-related legal cases to locate other people who might want to take part in class-action lawsuits.
Forrester's Yuhanna said Provisio is a prime example of a company that is right for column-based database technology because its processing needs are so data-intensive. "Traditional databases are not really meant for their level of scale," he said.
NoSQL among key emerging database technologies, despite lack of frills
Yuhanna and other analysts say the growing category of NoSQL databases includes DBMS products that don't make use of the popular SQL programming language or that simply differ from traditional relational databases in a significant way. Some are entirely non-relational, while some avoid selected relational functionality such as fixed table schemas and join operations.
NoSQL databases tend to be "no frills," Yuhanna said; as a result, users can often get up and running for a relatively low cost. But he cautioned that there is still much room for innovation in the NoSQL realm, particularly in areas such as ease of use and manageability.
"Right now, it's a bit difficult to implement NoSQL," Yuhanna said. "The application developer needs to do a lot of work around making sure that this data is all accessible and retrieved correctly."
NoSQL databases are primarily designed for very high-performance situations, such as online financial services or gaming uses, according to David Menninger, an analyst at Ventana Research Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif. The technology is best suited to "companies that have to process data so quickly and at such high volumes that they can't incur any additional overhead beyond just exactly what they need to be able to do," Menninger said.
How Database as a Service and data services differ
Two other database-related technologies that are making waves these days include Database as a Service tools and data services offerings. While those two categories sound like the same thing and are similar in nature, analysts say that it's easy to get confused about their differences.
Data services, also known as data virtualization or Information as a Service, involves the process of virtually housing data from multiple systems in a semantic or middleware layer that can be accessed by business applications. The idea is to reduce error-prone data replication processes and increase data integration levels without requiring the involved information to be combined in a single database.
DaaS involves taking the database itself and running it in a virtualized environment, as in the case of a cloud database. Both approaches can provide increased flexibility and help reduce an organization's computing footprint because database workloads aren't confined to any specific hardware and can be allocated more efficiently based on available resources, Yuhanna said.


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Dragonfly Friends
Dragonfly Friends is a great craft to start the new year off right, especially if you're adding new girls to your troop. You can have each girl make a dragonfly friend and then swap them randomly, and those two girls will be buddies for the next field trip or outing.
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- Using another chenille stem, fold the ends in towards the center, overlapping the ends at the center by an inch. Shape the ends to create loops, twisting the loose ends around the center to create a bow. Position the overlap ends for legs.
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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."—Steve Jobs
Johns Hopkins University, Princeton, Rutgers, Columbia, University of Cincinnati, University of Southern Mississippi … in 2010, the first New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists' (NYSCC) Technology Transfer Conference brought speakers and posters (visual presentations of research) from all those schools, signaling an important new event where academia and the beauty industry can interact. The $10,000 prize for best research (see "The Top Prize"), as presented, was NYSCC's unmistakable signal to researchers that the conference was positioned to be a significant new venue for sharing cutting-edge ideas.
The Transfer: Wound Healing to Anti-aging
In the opening presentation, Johns Hopkins' Wes Blakeslee described the basic resources of the university, highlighted some seed companies grown from the university's discoveries and technologies it still had in the lab (especially renowned in the medical arena). The university's research budget is the largest of any university in the country, and one example of the work that budget allows involves biodegradable dextran hydrogels—another illustrated the potential dermal benefits of gene therapy with growth factor DNA, specifically keratinocyte growth factor (KGF).
This is research, notably the university's Optimal Dextran Hydrogels for Therapeutic Vascular Regeneration and Wound Healing,1 that is first concerned with rapid and effective wound healing.
The science of antiaging skin products is closely related to wound healing. In wound healing, a complex interplay of biological signals and rebuilding mechanisms takes place over a period of days. The skin must be protected from infection, while dermal cells, the extracellular matrix and blood vessels are created out of the neighboring undamaged tissue. The site should return to its pre-injured state with minimum scaring.
For wound healing and tissue regeneration, one of the great challenges is restoring the circulatory system. Work performed in Johns Hopkins University's Gerecht Lab2 accomplished this by immobilizing select angiogenic growth factors in a biodegradable polymeric system with reduced crosslinking to resemble the extracellular matrix.
Explaining and Exploring
It seems like a lot of technical jargon to delve through, but the Gerecht Lab work can be reduced to some self-evident ideas. Angiogenesis is the physiological process involving the growth of new blood vessels from existing vessels. Vasculogenesis is the term used for spontaneous blood vessel formation. Angiogenesis is a normal and vital process in growth and development, as well as in wound healing. In short, when the skin gets hurt, it is necessary to replace the blood vessels as well as the dermal tissue.
The dextran hydrogel provides a scaffold for healing tissue to re-grow. It is biodegradable, so it melts away as the genuine body components take over. When polymers are formed, more cross-linking creates denser structures. By careful control of the cross-linking, the gel encourages rapid healing—of course there is a lot more to the actual technology. Then, molecules that send healing signals are embedded in the matrix during its formation.
Technical jargon aside, the basic idea is to enhance the natural healing process both in the delivery matrix and the biologically tuned actives.
Regarding the dermal benefits of gene therapy mentioned previously in this column, KGF is an inducer of epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation (epithelial cells refer to cells that, among other things, line hollow organs and glands—including those that are keratinized and, therefore, are waterproof and found in skin). Gene Facelift is a Johns Hopkins' biotech spin-off based on work by Aaron Tabor, MD, on the dermal benefits of KGF-1 pDNA. The genetic engineering is used for the development of anti-aging and antiwrinkle gene therapy drugs. The technology is designed to replace damaged skin DNA in order to heal wrinkles and reverse the aging process. In the conventional approach to skin treatment, the growth factors don't stay active long due to protease decomposition. Gene therapy promoting overexpression of the growth factors for a sustained period is a possible solution, and KGF-1 pDNA administration has the potential to reverse many of the undesirable effects of skin aging and wrinkle formation.
In simplest terms, stimulating growth is good, but it must be carefully controlled so that growth is not out of control. Gene therapy is not the place for amateur scientists to dabble. If a therapy makes skin grow, it is critical that it does not make other body tissue grow. The small peptide fragments used in many antiaging products may have unintended results—if indeed they do work.
The frontier where Tabor works is clearly at the border of cosmetics and drugs, and shows just how deep the science gets to achieve true antiaging effects. The change is dramatic even to the untrained eye.
Claims made on antiaging ingredients in the beauty industry are plentiful, but clinical substantiation on the peer reviewed level is far less common. The methodologies expounded in the NYSCC Technology Transfer Conference, showcasing the best of academic research, is a vital key to uncovering the efficacious products of the future.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Wes Blakeslee and Aaron Tabor, MD, of Johns Hopkins University, and Leonel Rojo of Rutgers University, for their generous cooperation in providing guidance and materials for this column.
- Marketing Summary C-11156.pdf, www.techtransfer.jhu.edu
- G Sun, et al, Functional neovascularization of biodegradable dextran hydrogels with multiple angiogenic growth factors, Biomaterials (2010), doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.08.091.
- L E Rojo et al, Wound-healing properties of nut oil from Pouteria lucuma, J Cosm Derm, 9 185–195, 2010
Steve Herman is president of Diffusion LLC, a consulting company specializing in regulatory issues, intellectual property, and technology development and transfer. He is a principal in PJS Partners, offering formulation, marketing and technology solutions for the personal care and fragrance industry. He is an adjunct professor in the Fairleigh Dickinson University Masters in Cosmetic Science program and is a Fellow in the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.


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Catawba is a county in North Carolina. It was formed in 1842 from the following county/ies: Lincoln. Catawba began keeping birth records in 1913, marriage records in 1843, and death records in 1913. It began keeping land records in 1837, probate records in 1843, and court records in 1843. For more information, contact the county at P.O. Box 389, Newton 28658-0389. On the attached map, Catawba is located at A3.
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