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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Al-Qaeda -linked militants in the southern Philippines on Saturday released an emaciated-looking Australian man near a coastal town where they kidnapped him for ransom 15 months ago.
Warren Richard Rodwell was brought to police by residents of Pagadian city who saw him walking before dawn near the fishing port, where his abductors dropped him off, said local police chief Julius Munez.
Rodwell "looked OK, just tired. But he looked like he lost a lot of weight," Munez said.
In Australia, Foreign Minister Bob Carr welcomed the news, saying Rodwell will be soon moved to a safe location. Carr said the release was a joint effort by authorities in both countries, and that the focus now was on Rodwell's speedy recovery.
Rodwell, a former Australian soldier who was married to a Filipino woman and had settled down in the southern Philippines, was kidnapped in December 2011 from his seashore house and taken by speedboat to nearby mountainous islands where Abu Sayyaf militants are hiding.
He had since appeared in several proof-of-life videos posted by the militants as negotiations for his release dragged on. His jungle captivity appeared to have taken a toll on his health as he appeared weaker in each video.
He was one of several foreigners abducted by the Abu Sayyaf in the restive region. Two Europeans are still being held alongside a Japanese man.
Military officials said that Rodwell was held in recent months in the militants' jungle hideouts on Basilan Island but had also been moved to nearby islands. Zamboanga del Sur, where he was released, is a short boat ride from Basilan.
The Abu Sayyaf is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. U.S.-backed Philippine military operations have crippled the group of about 350 militants, who split into several groups. But they remain a serious security threat in the impoverished region where minority Muslims have been fighting for self-rule for decades.
A Philippine security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said a ransom was paid for Rodwell's release, as was usually the case with other hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf over the last two decades.
"The Rodwell family has shown enormous courage throughout this ordeal," Carr said in a statement in Canberra, Australia. "All Australians would wish them well as Mr. Rodwell recovers from 15 months in captivity."
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Saracens' last Premiership game at Vicarage Road ended on a victorious note as they easily beat Sale Sharks 32-12 on Sunday.
Saracens' last Premiership game at Vicarage Road ended on a victorious note as they easily beat lowly Sale Sharks 32-12 on Sunday.
It was far from a demolition full of vintage free-flowing rugby but the hosts had far too much firepower for the demoralised Sharks and the victory owed much to one current and one former England fly-half.
Danny Cipriani, another ex England pivot, did put the struggling visitors ahead early on with two penalties inside the opening 10 minutes but it didn't take long for Sarries to establish their customary rhythm and pattern of play.
And, with Owen Farrell faultless with the boot in the first half, Sale were punished for every single display of ill-discipline.
The 21-year-old England international, starting in his preferred position of fly-half, kicked five penalties in the space of less than quarter of an hour to give the home side a commanding 15-6 lead at the break.
Sale were warned about the regularity with which they were conceding penalties prior to the interval but it was their defensive frailties that they had to worry about more after the interval.
After Cipriani had kicked two penalties to Farrell's one early in the second half, the home side summoned Charlie Hodgson from the bench and it took him less than a minute to make a major impact on the match.
The Premiership's all-time leading points scorer showed why he is one of the finest distributors in European rugby, giving the inside pass for David Strettle to coast over under the posts.
And the same two players combined again with 10 minutes remaining to put the game beyond doubt as Strettle turned provider with a kick ahead for Hodgson to race onto and touch down.
The scorers:
For Saracens:
Tries: Strettle, Hodgson
Cons: Farrell 2
Pens: Farrell 6
For Sale:
Pens: Cipriani 4
Saracens: 15 Chris Wyles, 14 James Short, 13 Joel Tomkins, 12 Brad Barritt, 11 David Strettle, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Richard Wigglesworth, 8 Ernst Joubert, 7 Will Fraser, 6 Kelly Brown, 5 George Kruis, 4 Steve Borthwick (c), 3 Matt Stevens, 2 Schalk Brits, 1 Mako Vunipola.
Replacements: 16 Jamie George, 17 Rhys Gill, 18 Petrus du Plessis, 19 Mouritz Botha, 20 Nick Fenton-Wells, 21 Neil de Kock, 22 Charlie Hodgson, 23 Duncan Taylor.
Sale: 15 Rob Miller, 14 Tom Brady, 13 Johnny Leota, 12 Sam Tuitupou, 11 Mark Cueto, 10 Danny Cipriani, 9 Dwayne Peel, 8 Andy Powell, 7 Richie Vernon, 6 James Gaskell, 5 Kearnan Myall, 4 Richie Gray, 3 Tony Buckley, 2 Marc Jones, 1 Ross Harrison.
Replacements: 16 Aston Croall, 17 Alasdair Dickinson, 18 Eifion Lewis-Roberts, 19 Tom Holmes, 20 Daniel Braid, 21 Will Cliff, 22 Charlie Amesbury, 23 Cameron Shepherd.
Venue: Vicarage Road
Referee: Tim Wigglesworth
Assistant referees: Paul Burton, Andrew Watson
Timekeeper: Roy Marfleet
Assessor: Brian Campsall

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To conclude their five-day stay in Pennsylvania, the Buffalo Bills meet the same team that they've seen on the practice field for two days in the past week. The Bills will take part in their third preseason game, their last exhibition contest on the road in 2014 and finalize their series with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
As their practices with the Steelers wrapped up on Thursday, quarterback EJ Manuel had one of his best sessions as a professional athlete. Once again, Manuel will be one of the focal points along with four other things to watch in the upcoming preseason game:
1) Can EJ's unit get a touchdown?
- In the team's first preseason contest versus the New York Giants, the starting offense got their feet wet with a pair of uninspiring drives. EJ Manuel completed only two passes and it riled up nerves for some fans of the team. In their second preseason game against Carolina, Manuel looked much more comfortable in the pocket and finished the day with nine successful completions, two of which that went for significant gains (28 and 32 yards). The common theme between both outings, though, resides in the fact that the first-team offense of the Bills failed to convert any of their drives into one that ended in a touchdown. In the preseason, nothing is really a necessity for the first-team offense to accomplish, but it will still allow them to feel comfortable with finishing off a drive before they get to their first regular season contest in September. It's a marker that both Manuel and head coach Doug Marrone would like to cross off.
2) Richardson nailing down RG job?
- All along the offensive line there are still more questions than answers. Will left tackle Cordy Glenn return to the lineup before the start of the season? Will left guard Chris Williams improve from his average play through training camp and the first two preseason games? Is Cyrus Kouandjio or Seantrel Henderson going to push for the starting right tackle job? Lastly, who will be the starting right guard? The answers to all of these questions, for the time being, are unknown. However, the Bills could be getting closer to finalizing the last of that list due to the current injury to Williams. In past practices, rookie Cyril Richardson would fill in at left guard while Kraig Urbik would get all the starting snaps at right guard. That trend has changed, however, and the difference could be notable. Williams has sat out each of the past two practices and the Bills decided on Richardson getting all the first-team reps at right guard. The team has been trying to find someone to replace Urbik in the starting lineup since the end of last season, and perhaps the latest decision in practice time could mean the rookie is close to earning the role. With a successful game against the Steelers, he could go a long way in securing that starting position.
3) Hogan vs. Woods: Round Two
- Over the past two weeks the first-team offense has sported the trio of receivers that included rookie Sammy Watkins, Mike Williams and, surprisingly, camp standout Chris Hogan as the slot receiver. Left out of that starting mix is second-year wideout Robert Woods, who many expected to play a substantial role for the team in 2014. Unlike against the Giants, Woods did get some time with the first unit in both the practices leading up to and the actual game versus the Panthers… but as an outside receiver. The Bills have yet to relent in their flirtation with Hogan as the slot receiver for EJ Manuel's offense, and if it continues into the third preseason game and beyond, perhaps the former 'Hard Knocks' star will have a bigger role on the team than anyone would have predicted.
4) First-team defensive dominance
- Through two preseason games, the players that make up the top unit on defense have bought in to Jim Schwartz's system and have shown impressive results. Over the first two preseason games, the Bills top defense has allowed only 103 yards on 24 plays, one long touchdown and they also forced and recovered a fumble. The majority of those yards came on only the drive against the Panthers that resulted in a Kelvin Benjamin touchdown reception, which showed that the other four series the first-team defense played in came away with elite results. To take their yardage totals a step forward, the first-team run defense — which was a problem area in 2013 — has only allowed 18 yards on 10 carries to designed run plays. They'll face a good test with a better offensive line than waht they faced last weekend, and two successful running backs that bring a physical nature to the game (Le'Veon Bell and LaGarrette Blount).
5) Defensive tackle depth showdown
- After the first-team defense gets their fill of plays, that's when the real competition starts in the middle of the defensive line. With the emergence of Landon Cohen as a playmaking defensive tackle, there could be a bit of a fight for a roster spot going on. Should the Bills only elect to keep five defensive tackles, that leaves Corbin Bryant, Stefan Charles, Alan Branch and Cohen as four players looking for three spots on the 53-man roster. The team could ultimately decide to keep six at the position, but that will be totally dependent on the play of those four linemen and if they are all worthy of being kept on the roster. Either way, keep a close eye in the second half on that heavy-set quartet.
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Help Elected Officials Learn about Your Library! You can invite them into your library to see first-hand all the great work you do, or schedule a meeting with them at their local office. YALSA's Legislation Committee has created some tips and resources to help libraries participate in District Days. Join & participate in the District Days group on ALA Connect.
- 1 What are District Days?
- 2 Why are they Important?
- 3 When are They?
- 4 Getting an Elected Official to Your Library
- 5 Visiting Your Official's Local Office
- 6 Resources
What are District Days?
- While our elected representatives are working hard in Washington DC, YALSA members and their libraries are changing lives and enhancing communities back home. Policy makers will not know all the good we do unless we tell our story. District days -- the time when our representatives are back in the home district -- present a great opportunity to get to know elected officials and to help them understand our important work.
- District Days are the perfect chance for you to show off all the great things you do for teens through your library by inviting elected officials to come and visit the library. Invite them to come for a visit any time between Aug. 5 and Sept. 6, 2013.
- If a library visit isn't feasible, arrange for a meeting to go visit the official in his or her local office.
Why are they Important?
- Keeping advocacy efforts at the forefront right now is important in this tough economy.
- Legislators are more inclined to support funding for something when they have personal knowledge about the impact the program has on their constituents. District Days offer libraries and library supporters the chance to tell their stories that illustrate the great work libraries do.
- District days offer the chance to strengthen relations with elected officials and/or their staff who may not be very familiar with the work of libraries. Depending on your needs, District Days can help to:
- increase appreciation of the library's work
- garner respect for your staff's knowledge of the community, its needs, and assets
- explore what resources each of you might bring to a project
- raise a concern
- educate the official about a particular area of interest that you have in common
- ensure the official's understanding of a policy issue
- gain a specific commitment
When are They?
- In 2013 all of Congress is out of session August 5th through September 6th. This is an ideal time for librarians to do some advocacy at their libraries by opening your doors and inviting elected officials in to see what great things you're doing. Members of Congress need to see firsthand how libraries are having a positive impact on the lives of teens, so they understand how critical it is that libraries receive support and funding from Congress.
Getting an Elected Official to Your Library
Extending the Invitation
- Invite your members of Congress through their local office. To find out where that is and how to contact them, visit http://capwiz.com/ala/home/. Enter your zipcode in the box toward the lower right of the screen, and your Congressional representatives will appear on the next screen along with contact information for their local and Washington DC offices.
- Give 4 - 6 weeks advance notice.
- Keep it simple: invite them to something you're already doing, such as a summer reading celebration or back to school open house.
- Make sure your invitation includes important details as well as information that will encourage them to visit. Don't forget that there will be elections in November. If your Congressperson is running for reelection, then he or she will be grateful to you for giving them an opportunity to meet with voters and get their photo taken interacting with library patrons. Look for other great ideas for how to participate in Legislative Day on the YALSAblog.
- Give elected officials an incentive to come:
- Let the elected official know if there will be a chance for him or her to meet with voters and have his/her photo taken at your library.
- If you plan on inviting the press or local TV station, be sure to state that in your invitation to the elected official.
- Decide if you want the elected official to just come and observe, or participate in some way, such as judge a bookmark contest.
- If the elected official has been supportive of libraries in the past, you may want to honor him or her at the event with a plaque or some other form of recognition.
- Be sure to take photos of the elected official and send them to his or her office after the event.
- Decide whether or not you would like the elected official to say a few words at your event, and if so, state that in the invitation.
- Find out if they have a library card, and if not, give them one at the event.
- Don't be discouraged if Congressional staff decline the invitation. Members of Congress are busy people, so it is not personal. Just remember to invite them to the next event you have, and in the mean time be sure to keep them informed about the library by adding them to your newsletter mailing list, sending them a library card, and keeping their staff up to date on library news and accomplishments by sending them articles and photos. If the elected official has children or teens, you may want to pass along lists of recommended reading, bookmarks, etc. as well.
- If your elected official can't come to your event, then go to him or her. They will be spending time in their local office during Aug. and early Sept. Contact his or her office and schedule a visit. Consider bringing a teen or other library supporter with you to talk first-hand about what the library means to them.
Planning the Library Event
- You don't need to create a special event just for the elected officials. It just needs to be an opportunity for the elected officials to learn a little bit about what a modern library does.
- Many public libraries will be hosting culminating events for their summer reading programs, so YALSA encourages you to incorporate an advocacy effort into what you're already doing. You can invite Congresspersons to be guests or speakers at these events, or if your library is having some sort of contest, the Congresspersons could be judges.
- School libraries are encouraged to participate in District Days as well. Invite your Congressperson to an open house of your library, or ask him or her to roll up their sleeves and pitch in to help you get the library open and ready for the new school year!
- Market the event aggressively to ensure a good turn out. A crowded library will help emphasize the important role libraries play in the community.
- Designate a member of the staff or a volunteer to take photos on the day of the event
- Create a take-away folder or packet for the elected official. It can include recent newspaper articles about library activities, photos, a fact sheet about the library, a list of upcoming events, your business card and more. You may also want to include advocacy resources, such as YALSA's Teens Need Libraries brochure. You can download and copy the brochure, or ask for hard copies by contacting YALSA's office.
- Find other free handouts at www.ala.org/yalsa/handouts.
- State Fact Sheets (state by state guides with information about how LSTA and Improving Literacy Through School Libraries funds have been used in each state)
Visiting Your Official's Local Office
- To find out where your legislator's local office is and how to contact them, visit http://capwiz.com/ala/home/. Enter your zipcode in the box toward the lower right of the screen, and your Congressional representatives will appear on the next screen along with contact information for their local and Washington DC offices.
- [The YALSA Legislative Advocacy Guide http://www.ala.org/yalsa/sites/ala.org.yalsa/files/content/professionaltools/LegAdvocacyGuide.pdf] has a whole section with information about how to request a meeting, what to say, etc. It is possible to meet with the elected official, but a meeting with his or her staff is also effective.
- District days offer the chance to strengthen relations with elected officials and/or their staff who may not be very familiar with the work of libraries.
Free Handouts
- Why Teens Need Libraries brochure This downloadable brochure can be given to elected officials and other stakeholders to demonstrate the importance of libraries in the lives of teens.
Free Training
- Get Legislators in Your Library (free webinar from ALA's Washington Office)
Further Reading
- Advocating for Teen Services in Libraries (YALSA's main advocacy page)
- "Local Legislative District Days: You Never Know What Relationships may Develop" blog post
- Using District Days and Other Events to Advocate for Teens & Libraries (presentation given at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference)
- Librarians Change Lives T-shirts (great to wear to advocacy events!)
- State Fact Sheets (state by state guides with information about how LSTA and Improving Literacy Through School Libraries funds have been used in each state)
- District Days 101: What Are District Days?, April 9, 2010.
Social Media & Online Tools
- Join & participate in the District Days group on ALA Connect.
- "The Latest Miracle Product: District Days!" YouTube video (5:45)
- Congressional apps (information about free apps for your mobile device to help you easily contact Congress and stay up to date on news and voting)
- Find contact info for your legislators (use the search by zip code tool)


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P.S. 333, the Goldie Maple School, is a Core Knowledge Official School in New York City. It started the year with an enrollment of 578 children. This morning, fewer than 30 showed up for the first scheduled day of class since hurricane Sandy punished the city eight days ago.
The school sits less than two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean in the Arverne section on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, a neighborhood that lay defenseless against the storm. Hundreds of homes in the Rockaways were damaged or destroyed when a 12-foot storm surge submerged the slender spit of land in seawater and sand. P.S. 333 was too badly damaged to occupy when New York City schools reopened this week–one of 79 schools in 44 buildings deemed unsafe. The school's temporary home, at least this week, is I.S. 126 in Long Island City, a school named after the late teacher's union leader Albert Shanker, who taught and organized his colleagues there.
A school bus picked up the students for what turned out to be an hour and a half ride to the other side of the borough. Only a handful made the trip. P.S. 333's principal, Angela Logan, was not surprised. She can't even estimate how many of her school's families have left the neighborhood, for now or for good. "When you look around, you don't see people outside. There's no reason to come outside. The stores are all gone. There was a lot of looting and there's a curfew in place," she says.
I found Logan and her staff this morning in the third floor library of their temporary home. They were not teaching. They were working the phones, trying to find their students. "My teachers are calling right now to find out where are they and if they're planning on coming to the relocation site." But even this temporary home is only temporarily theirs. "They gave us this site this week," she said. "Next week we're going to be at an elementary school and a middle school."
It is unclear when their own building will be ready for use again. The storm surge flooded the school's basement destroying its boiler. Water damaged the first floor. Power may be weeks away from being restored. "The only thing I was told is that the boiler is definitely shot. They're thinking about putting a temporary generator and temporary boiler outside so it can power the building. But they don't know when they can do that," Logan says.
P.S. 333 occupies a special place in the universe of Core Knowledge schools and the hearts of our staff. It was one of the ten New York City pilot schools that road tested the Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) program. I've regularly brought visitors who are interested in the curriculum to observe K-2 classes there. Thanks in part to the stellar results posted by teachers at Goldie Maple, CKLA is now being made available to schools statewide. Indeed, the pilot was so successful that P.S. 333 continued to use the program even after the demonstration ended. Their materials are still in the school in undamaged classrooms in the upper floors, but Logan and her staff are not able or even allowed to retrieve them. "The Department of Ed said we'll just purchase you new materials. I guess for them that's just easier," she fumed. "They have no idea we're a Core Knowledge school. I don't need Dr. Seuss books. I need the Romans and Greek books."
Even that concern seems small right now. With the loss of instructional time, the lack of continuity, and the disruption wrought by Sandy, Logan fears it will be a lost school year for many of her children, most of whom can ill afford it. "How do you hold them accountable to sit there and learn when [the children are thinking] 'I don't have a house. When I go back home it's freezing cold?' Those kids are going to suffer," she says. Even after the all-clear is given and the school safe to occupy, there's no way to know how many students will return. Some, perhaps most of the low-income families served by Logan's school, will simply melt into the neighborhoods to which they've moved. The scale of the dislocation is immense: P.S. 333 is one of 11 schools in the Rockaways put out of commission by Sandy, and the smallest of them. "No one's talking about that right now. What's the reality for the kids that were on that Peninsula?" She doesn't know.
Logan is openly frustrated with city officials trying to give the impression that things are getting back to normal in New York City's schools. "You want to make it look good, but you're not thinking about these kids," she says. That said, New York City is relocating more schools than Oklahoma City or Portland, Oregon has in total.
As Logan is speaking, a mother and small child wander toward us from the far end of the unfamiliar hallway that Al Shanker once roamed. They look lost and bewildered. "Look at the babies who've come," she says. "Some parents this morning were worried because their kids didn't have their school uniforms. They were washed away. I'm like, 'As long as you're OK and your family's OK.' I just feel bad." Logan mumbles under her breath. "To think that's something you'd think about right now." She's incredulous. Close to tears. "I just don't know what to say."
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Matt and Tori Rhodes announce the marriage of their daughter Tia Celise Rhodes to Michael James Montgomery, the son of Scott and Dana Montgomery on Sept. 18 in the Logan Temple.
A reception was held in their honor at the Rhodes residence in Garland. An open house will be held Sept. 26 at the Fausett residence, 805 Valley View Drive in Castle Dale, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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April 15 2010 05:20AM
I guess you can call Wednesday the official end of the season for the Calgary Flames, as the players did their traditional locker cleanup and exit interviews with the coaching staff and management. Monday it was Darryl Sutter and Ken King giving their thoughts on a disappointing season. While that session didn't seem to satisfy anyone, I felt we heard a little more from players on Wednesday afternoon.
First off, it's kind of a boring day. Us media horde hang out in the hallway outside the Flames locker room, doing more waiting than anything else. We'll see players enter, head behind closed doors, and then come back out and do their final chat with the media. It's a lot of standing around, which makes a good choice of shoes imperative — my 3-year-old Air Force 1's were not the right choice.
To start the day, the media scrums are rather large; it peters out to two or three guys by the end of the day. I hung out the entire time, and here are the tidbits and interesting things I took from it.
Locker Room Issues? I Know Not What You Speak...
I wrote Monday that I thought D. Sutter and King glossed over the issues that existed in the locker room. It was interesting that day, because Sutter brought them up himself before being asked, then both of them said it wasn't as big a deal as we thought... 23 different personalities in the same room are bound to lead to some minor confrontation. At that point, I felt there was more to it. I still do, but I did find it interesting how players reacted to those same questions today.
To a man, every player said they were kind of taken aback by what people were talking about. The new players (Leafs, Rangers) all said it was a great dynamic to be a part of. Guys who had been here all season all said any issues were blown out of proportion, and it wasn't any different than any other team they'd been a part of it. Each and every player asked was pretty adamant about it and almost every player was asked about it. Could some of it be lip service? Maybe. We all know what happens in the room stays in the room. But some of the surprised reactions sounded genuine, so maybe some things were overblown. Who knows?
It was funny: Jarome Iginla was asked about issues perhaps leading up to the two big trades in late January/early February. Immediately he came to a rather impassioned defence of both Dion Phaneuf and Olli Jokinen. I found this very interesting, because again, it seemed pretty genuine to me.
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The other theme of Wednesday? "What happens next." Again, it seemed as if the consensus among tenured Flames and new members alike, was this team is not in need of a major face-lift. Players admitted minor tweaks are always needed on any team, but this is not a group that needs to be gutted and rebuilt. They're close and will be back next year.
Iginla and Robyn Regehr pointed to Vancouver from a couple seasons ago, going from missing the playoffs to two straight Northwest Division titles. I'm not sure I see this team the same way, to be honest, but the belief from the team is there, at least what they're saying in public.
The most intriguing thing to me was the long media Q&A with Iginla. When talking about what needs to happen next with this team, or what should happen, he pointed to scoring numerous times. In questions where he wasn't even asked about it, the captain kept coming back to scoring and how the Flames needed it. He made mention of how teams are winning with offensively deep rosters right now. I think it's clear what Iginla believes needs to happen.
Leave Britney Alone
Phone calls have been coming in for the last month or so when it comes to the topic of Jarome Iginla's future in Calgary. "Leave Iggy alone" has been the impassioned plea of some on the phone lines, and that was intensified Wednesday night after Iginla's media chat.
Reporters were very keen on asking Iginla his thoughts on being possibly traded, or how he'd feel if that were to happen. Give credit to the captain — he stood in there and answered every single one, regardless of how many times it was asked with slightly different wording. One question was very well phrased, and probably drew the best response. The situation was compared to Ray Bourque in Boston, and how he needed a trade to finally win the Stanley Cup he deserved. Iginla answered the questions the only way he really could have.
To paraphrase: "If they asked, I'd certainly think about it, and if it was best for the team, I'd leave with no ill will."
Iginla couldn't really have said anything else. So, no, there was never anything said of him actually being asked, nor did he ever come close to saying he'd think of asking out. In fact, he made sure he relayed over and over how much he'd like to stay. He couldn't have said, "No, I'd never waive it," nor could he say "Yes, I'd waive it in a second, get me the F out." He handled it the only way he could, I felt.
I don't know what happens next with #12. I know what I believe: he needs to stay, but the team needs to find the right people to play with him. That being said, I totally see the other side of the argument. It's one of those debates with great points on either side. Does he actually want to stay here? I think he does, but I also believe he wants to be part of a good situation; whether or not he feels there is one as the off season continues is another story.
To finish this part, Head Coach Brent Sutter said that any reported dispute between him and the captain was just that — reported. He said there were no issues whatsoever.
Calgary sits with six regular roster Unrestricted Free Agents come July 1st, five of them being forwards. To me, three of them are really interesting, and those three all had interesting things to say Wednesday. The others? Brian McGrattan, who saw his last game action in January. Vesa Toskala, who didn't talk to the media. And Jamal Mayers, who I didn't see on Wednesday afternoon.
As for the three that intrigue me, Eric Nystrom leads the way. The 26-year-old has only known one franchise in his NHL career, and it sounded like returning would be something he'd like to do. Nystrom was asked about perhaps signing with his hometown New York Islanders, to which he was a little caught off guard. Entering his first UFA period, I think there's a good chance Nystrom is back, which I'd be more than all right with, if the price is right.
Chris Higgins said returning to Calgary would certainly be a consideration, saying he had nothing but positive things to say about the organization and the city. Craig Conroy seemed to still be in the same boat he was the last couple games of the regular season. He'd like to come back, and Calgary would be his first choice, but he's not sure if that's in the cards.
Good News
Flames defenceman Mark Giordano confirmed he'd be heading to Germany for the World Championships playing for Team Canada. Good for him, and he's damn well deserving with the season he just had. For my money, Giordano was the most consistent Flames skater this year.
Forward Rene Bourque hasn't been asked to join the team as of yet, but said he'd go in a heartbeat if the question ever came. Bourque has never represented Canada in international competition, and it's something he would be thrilled to do. I think there's a pretty good chance you'll see Bourque in Germany come May as well.
Both Nystrom and David Moss will head overseas as well, suiting up for Team USA at the Worlds. It's actually a pretty cool story, as they played together at The University of Michigan before entering the pro ranks at the American Hockey League level at around the same time.
This and That
I guess this could go under the bad news heading — for some anyway. Ales Kotalik was completely taken aback by the notion that he would head to Europe and play there next season. It's been something asked about by some in the past. But Kotalik's tune was all looking to next season and arriving in shape to help the Flames.
Higgins confirmed his lower body injury was in fact an ankle issue. Nystrom revealed he played with a groin injury for most of the season, which was a huge reason for his 43 game goal-less drought. He suffered it late in October and wasn't good again until after the Olympic break. Curtis Glencross gave an update on his injury, saying he would have been good to go, or close to it, had the Flames been playing postseason hockey.
So there you go... the last time we'll see this exact group of Flames assembled. And now on to what should prove to be an interesting off season. Hopefully for us here at FN, it'll be busy too.
April 15 2010, 10:03AM
I think Jarome's right: elite teams have elite forward ranks. The irony is, will the Flames org be able to construct such a team without trading Jarome?
@Kent Wilson
Sorry to say it Kent. I think it's time for Iggy to move on. I really don't think he can get you much in a trade also. You guys are in a tough spot heading into next year. With Sutter as GM I don't think I'd expect any offensive minded players heading yor way. Blow the team up. Kipper is your best trade bait I'd start with him, Iggy next.</ If Sutter never traded all the draft picks away you guys would be ok. Star tender, Power forward and Elite d-man. P>
April 15 2010, 03:02PM
Yeah, the club is in a tough situation. We'll be addressing the Iginla question thoroughly around these parts over the next few days.
April 15 2010, 06:34PM
I don't get why nobody asked why Loubardias wasn't waiving his NTC.
If Darryl trades Jarome, whats the over/under on his head being paraded down 17th on a pike?
Patty, the locker room stuff, going to explore it?
April 15 2010, 09:31PM
Sorry Oiler fan........the Flames are STILL a better team and organization than the Oilers no matte how you slice it.
As far as trading Iggy goes.........bad move. It won't happen anyway.....there will only be small moves now.
April 16 2010, 10:07AM
Burke implied it was Iggy or Reggie re:Dion.
It had to be lip service, there is a lot of noise floating around about the room. Who knows.
Darryls comments are Darryls comments, the players can act like they don't know all they want, but Sutter threw them under the bus, let the cat out of the bag.


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1949-2008 PRICE-Shawna Carol Baker, was released from her earthly bonds on Christmas Eve, 2008. Shawna was born April 26, 1949 in Dragerton, Utah to John Carroll and Eva Seeronen Askern.
She married her teenage sweetheart, Lyle Baker, on March 8, 1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii; together they raised three children.
Lyle remained a devoted and loving husband throughout their 40 years of marriage, and stood by Shawna's side throughout her life, her illnesses, and her death.
She will be remembered for her joy of camping in Huntington Canyon, Dutch oven cooking, taking rides with Ginger her beloved boxer, playing with her goats, shopping for bargains (we are still finding her 10 cent Woolworth specials throughout the house), and the compassion she showed elderly people when she worked as a home health care aide. Most of all she will be remembered for her generous heart and lifelong devotion to her family.
She is survived by her husband; mother, Eva Sampi; children, Jody (Matt) Wenner, Sandi (Mark) Fisher, Billy Baker and her four grandchildren, Lakota, Corbin, Jimmie Dallon, and Caine; surviving family member Kyle Fisher.
She is preceded in death by her father John Carroll Askern, step-father, Theodore Sampi; and her uncle Nelo Seeronen.
Shawna's family would like to thank the staff at Castle Country Care Center, and all the friends and extended family members that supported her throughout her final years. Special thanks to her two best friends, Jeanie Bentley and Pat Harward, for their continued support. Her children would like to express their gratitude to their parents for showing them the meaning of true love through sickness and health, and the tender way their daddy tucked in their mother every night.
All who knew and loved Shawna can find comfort in the faith that she is in a better place, where tranquility reigns and pain is no more.
Funeral service was held Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, 3 p.m., Mitchell Funeral Home, Price, Utah. Interment, Price City Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home.
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The state's continued economic downturn means Shoreline Community College employees will learn over the next 10 days whether their positions will be cut in the next round of state-mandated budget reductions.
"It just gets worse and worse and worse," Shoreline President Lee Lambert said Nov. 30, 2010, at a brown-bag meeting on campus. The announcement was triggered by the Nov. 19 state revenue forecast and Gov. Chris Gregoire's statement that another 4.6 percent, about $1 million to the college, must be cut in the current budget year that ends June 30, 2011.
Lambert said cuts will hit all areas of college employees; classified, faculty and administrators. Lambert said the college has started the processes required by labor contracts to notify employees.
"We'll notify the classified union immediately," Lambert said, adding that faculty representatives have also been notified. Administrators, who are not unionized, will be told individually, he said.
Lambert didn't say on Tuesday which positions or how many would be identified for layoff or reduction-in-force, but that details would be available soon. "I hope to present a plan with at least the numbers of positions affected on Dec. 10," Lambert said. An all-campus meeting is scheduled for 12:30-2 p.m. that day in the PUB main dining room.
The process for layoff or RIF is outlined by contract and differs for each group. For example, seniority "bumping" rights come into play for classified employees. The classified contract is negotiated at the state level and offers the college less flexibility, he said. Position reductions for faculty members, who are represented locally, could be affected by retirements and other factors.
Lambert acknowledged that the announcement and process are coming quickly, but that economic realities leave little choice. "This is happening right now. We just don't have time for our normal involvement processes," he said.
Vice President for Administrative Services Daryl Campbell outlined those economic realities.
"Step back just a couple of months to September," Campbell said. "We were told to plan for a 6.3 percent cut, which we did with what I'd call relatively minimal impact. Then, this month, we're told they need another 4.6 percent, this year."
Campbell added that in September, the outlook for next year was a grim 10 percent. A recent memo from the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges now puts next year's reduction in the 18 percent range.
"Given that we started this year with a 7 percent reduction from the previous budget, that could mean a 35 percent cut in our state allocation since 2009," Campbell said. "It's not just happening to us, it is happening to the entire system. And, there's no guarantee that it won't continue to change."
Lambert said there are many unknown factors that could change the scale and details of the reductions, but not the necessity for them.
For example, if a mandate known as "maintenance of effort" that is tied to federal stimulus money continues, that could delay the reductions. Also, the Legislature can change the underlying assumptions on which the cuts are planned.
"If any of those or other things do occur, we can pull back," Lambert said. "But, if they don't and we don't start now, it just means deeper cuts later."
While he says it is still uncertain just what will happen with state's budget, Charlie Earl, Executive Director for the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, says whatever it is won't be good and that the system should take a "unified approach."
Earl outlined his thoughts in an e-mail (see below) to presidents and chancellors on Nov. 24, 2010.
Shoreline President Lee Lambert said he agrees with Earl, adding that the approach must also look at new ways to accomplish the critical mission of community and technical colleges.
"It is pretty clear that there won't be enough money to continue doing everything the system does to the same level in the same way," Lamber said. "We need to take a fresh look.
In his letter, Earl said:
The November 18 state revenue forecast took an unexpectedly large turn for the worse in projected revenues for the next couple of years. It's still uncertain how the Governor and OFM will approach the associated budget reductions. This message reflects what we know as of today.
The Governor said in her message to state employees that this forecast will mean an additional general fund cut of 4.6 percent this year. She indicated an across-the-board cut is simply not workable on top of the 6.3 percent September reduction. She wants the Legislature to act quickly—either through a special session or very early in the regular session.
The uncertainty across state government of how this will be handled is compounded for higher education by the Governor's and Legislature's treatment of the federal maintenance of effort (MOE) requirement for receiving Recovery Act (ARRA) funds. While the OFM director continues to indicate that cuts to higher education are limited by the federal MOE, given the state's weak fiscal circumstances, it's possible that budget writers will look for a way around the federal requirement. However, the final cut numbers will not be known until the Legislature passes a supplemental budget.
Last week's forecast brought the total 2011-13 biennium general fund deficit to $5.7 billion. Our rough calculation is this means an additional 18 percent cut to our system next year if we take a proportional share. (To put that in perspective, the $127 million cuts we've taken over the last two years—excluding the September 6.3 percent cut—is 16 percent of our annual budget prior to cuts. An additional 18 percent cut would be slightly more than all the cuts we've taken over the past two years). There also remains the possibility that higher education will take a larger proportion of next biennium's reduction due to the competition for general fund resources.
The state's capital budget outlook is also grim. OFM has indicated the capital budget has been virtually eliminated due to decreases in state bond capacity. They are looking for ways to increase bond capacity, but it appears there will be very little funding for capital projects supported by general obligation bonds.
In short, the implications of last week's forecast are severe. Total state funding cuts to our system may amount to 35 percent since FY 2009. While we know you'll be forced, yet again, to reduce personnel costs, adjust enrollment levels, and differentiate major program mix to optimize students' needs with significantly reduced state resources, those traditional means of managing resources may no longer be enough. Tuition and financial aid increases may mitigate some of "the bite," but these have limitations as well.
The financial crisis is triggering serious discussions among influential legislators about the shape and make-up of the community and technical college system. We anticipate proposals for reducing costs and increasing efficiencies across all of state government, including our 34 colleges. As a system, we must be prepared with clear, unified ideas for improving cost effectiveness. We need to shape our system's future, providing certainty and cost efficiencies and actually making appropriate changes now. More than ever, it's important we do this together.
The SBCTC meeting on December 1-2 and the WACTC meeting on December 15 are key forums for advancing a unified approach. Our staff will timely inform you about proposals affecting higher education, rumored or otherwise. I ask the same of you.
You and your staff members have performed so admirably in serving students and serving them well these last two years. While I realize it's simply not possible to provide the same level of service as budgets continue to decline, I want you and your colleagues to know that the continued commitment to your students and your communities remains clear and is appreciated. Please express this appreciation to your tremendously creative and dedicated faculty and staff.
Thank you.
Charles N. Earl
Executive Director
Shoreline Community College will host a public meeting Dec. 8, 2010 as officials prepare to submit an application for a Master Development Plan to the city Shoreline.
The meeting will be from 7-9 p.m., in Room 9208 of the PUB. Consultants from Schacht Aslani Architects, of Seattle, will make a presentation. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and submit feedback.
The meeting is being held as part of the city's early planning process for master development plans. It is required for the Type C, quasi-judicial decision the college is seeking under the Shoreline Municipal Code.
Once approved by the city, the Master Development Plan would define future development plans for the college's property for the next 15 years. Information at the Dec. 8 meeting will describe potential building projects over period of the plan, give an overview of city and state approval processes and discuss how comments from the meeting would be used in the college's decision-making process.
As part of the city requirements, the college mailed meeting notifications to all residents living within 500 feet of the college.
The Dec. 8 meeting will be similar to one hosted in January, 2010. At that meeting, consultants showed concepts for a master development plan and took comments.
SCC President Lee Lambert said at the time that while it is unlikely the state will have much money for capital projects such as buildings, the college must have an approved master development plan in place to be eligible should funding become available.
Lambert has said that a master development plan doesn't necessarily mean expanding the capacity of campus, but rather improvement to facilities, many of which are coming up on their 50th birthdays. Those improvements can help students achieve goals and, in turn, help the community and the state. Lambert cited the rebuilt and improved library, which opened seven years ago. "The 'library' is now the Library Media Technology Center and is a hub of learning on campus," he said.
The most recent capital project, an addition to the Professional Automotive Training Center that opened in June, 2010, didn't rely solely on state funding, he said. "The state gave us $2 million, Toyota gave $1 million and the local auto dealers combined for nearly another $1 million," he said
The Dec. 8 event is intended to gain feedback before the college submits an application to the city, said Daryl Campbell, SCC Vice President for Administrative Services. "We want to hear from our neighbors and other constituencies that care so deeply about this college," Campbell said.
Campbell added that the on-campus community will also have more opportunities to share thoughts. "We need campus input, too," Campbell said. "The Dec. 8 meeting is just one part of very inclusive process."
Time to Talk
Upcoming budget-related meetings include:
Brown Bag: Tuesday, Nov. 30, 12:30-2 p.m., Room 1102.All-Campus Meeting: Friday, Dec. 10, 12:30-2 p.m., PUB Main
The numbers keep getting bigger and bigger; that much is
Time to Talk
Upcoming budget-related meetings include:
Less certain for Shoreline Community College officials meeting
Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 to discuss the implications of the ever-increasing state
budget shortfall is what reduction number will they be asked to deal with and just
when will they have to deal with it.
"Thursday's (Nov. 18) announcement changes our previous
plans," Shoreline President Lee Lambert said, of Gov. Chris Gregoire's message
that another $385 million must be cut from the state budget for the current
year ending June 30, 2011. The increase adds another 4.6 percent to what had
already been pegged as a 6.3 percent shortfall.
"We'd already planned to cut about $1.3 million for the 6.3
percent target and did it without affecting jobs. This would mean another
million dollars for us that we'd potentially need find right now," Lambert
Lambert and his senior executive team discussed the scale of
the reduction and potential implications, but no decisions were made on Monday.
"There are just too many uncertainties right now," Lambert said.
Along with the gloomy revenue projection on Nov. 18,
Gregoire issued a call to three state unions to come back to the bargaining
table. The state Office of Financial management issued an opinion that the
contracts "are not feasible for the state" under the strain of the financial
Gregoire also asked the leaders of both parties in the House
and Senate to submit their thoughts and plans to her by Monday, Nov. 29.
However, to make cuts deeper than already ordered, Gregoire needs the
Legislature to pass a supplemental budget for the current year. Before the Nov.
2 election, Republicans pushed for a special legislative session to deal with
the then-smaller deficit.
On Nov. 5, Gregoire said she would consider a special
session, but has since said she'd only call it if lawmakers could get the work
done in 48 hours or so. Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Clyde Hill, and chairman of the
House Finance Committee said in an interview on
TVW that it could be tough to do that. "The problem is, you can't do
something complicated quick," Hunter said.
Many lawmakers will be in Olympia during the first full week
of December for previously scheduled committee meetings. There is some
speculation that Gregoire might call a special session during that time period.
And then, there's "maintenance of effort."
As a condition of taking federal bailout money in 2008,
Washington had to agree to keep funding of things like education at a certain
level. That level for 2010-11 has been thought to be no more than about a 4.4
percent reduction, less than the 6.3 percent already ordered by Gregoire.
"When the governor ordered the 6.3 percent cut, the state
board acknowledged the maintenance of effort threshold was there, but advised
all colleges to plan for the larger 6.3 percent cut," Lambert said. "So far,
there's been no definitive statement on maintenance of effort, so we keep
planning for the worst and hoping for the best, or at least better."
Lambert said that Shoreline and the rest of the community
and technical colleges need answers soon. "The longer we wait, the deeper the
cuts would need to be to have the same effect," he said. "It's not that I want
to do something now, but that's better than having to do more later."
Time to TalkPresident Lee Lambert set several meetings open to the campus community just prior to Thursday's state budget news. They are:Brown Bag: Tuesday, Nov. 30, 12:30-2 p.m., Room 1102. All-Campus Meeting: Friday, Dec. 10, 12:30-2 p.m., PUB Main Dining A deepening state budget crisis could mean another $1 million cut for Shoreline Community College, sending officials back to the budget drawing board.
"The news we heard today could significantly change the plans we made earlier this fall," said Shoreline President Lee Lambert. "In September, we made plans to meet the state's mandate for a 6.3 percent cut this year and we did it without layoffs. This new target could change things."
Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, announced that revenue projections for the state continue to fall. Numbers from the state Office of Financial Management indicate revenue for the year ending June 30, 2011 will $385 million lower than anticipated. The new projection pushes the deficit for the next biennium from $4.5 billion to $5.7 billion.
Gregoire said that new numbers translate to about another 4.6 percent cut for this year on top of the 6.3 percent she ordered in September. However, because the 6.3 percent reduction order was at the limit of the Governor's authority, Gregoire needs the Legislature's help to do any more. She has asked lawmakers to bring budget-reduction ideas to her by Nov. 29.
"Quite frankly we can't cut any deeper without ending significant programs," Gregoire wrote in her message. "Extremely difficult choices must be made and given this sharp revenue decline, they must be made now."
The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges has not yet given colleges specific targets, but Shoreline Vice President of Administrative Services Daryl Campbell said an early estimate based on previous reductions would be about $1 million.
"At 6.3 percent, our share was $1.363 million," Campbell said on Thursday. "Another 4.6 percent would be just a little more than $1 million."
Campbell said the 6.3 percent plan was a combination of cuts to goods and services amounting to around $1 million and then using one-time funding sources to get the rest of the way.
Where the next million dollars will come from will be discussed by President Lambert and his senior executive team on Monday.
Campbell said the Budget & Strategic Planning Committee had just Wednesday finished a recommended blueprint for a budgeting process and timeline. "I think it's still a good proposal, but these new cuts change everything," Campbell said. "We'll just have to talk about what we do next."
On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, the day before Veterans Day, students, faculty, staff and community members met at the flag pole in front of the Administration Building to honor veterans. The short ceremony was coordinated by members of the SCC Veterans Engaging for Tomorrow at Shoreline (the college's veterans club), the Campus Veteran Education Team and the Office of Special Services.
VETS Club member, Chad Springer welcomed the group, Tom Prigmore, Financial Services, performed the national anthem and veteran students, Jerome Wald and Jordany Urbano raised the flags.
Veteran and VETS Club president, Emily Olenik was honored with a reading by Wald. Olenik, who was born in Seattle and raised in Virginia, began her military service in 2002 with five years of active duty in the army as a combat medic. Working at the Walter Reed Eisenhower Executive Nursing Suite, Olenik cared for VIPs and worked in the ICU, where in 2005, she worked with a Lieutenant who was about her age who had had to have his limbs amputated. The life-changing experience spurred her on to take nothing for granted and to help others whenever possible. In 2006, Olenik was deployed to Iraq where she earned an Army Commendation Medal. During guard duty, she had identified a person carrying fake ID and detained him without incident. The individual was involved in a terrorist ring, and thanks to Olenik, the U.S. Army was able to uncover a ring of terrorist groups and deport 12 Iraqis. Since returning from active duty in 2007, she has continued to be a voice for female veterans. Olenik plans to earn a bachelor's degree in nursing and hopes to work for the VA or at a military hospital in the ICU.
Veteran student Shane Freund honored U.S. Army veteran, Gerald Shogren, who was drafted in 1953 shortly after the Korean armistice by President Dwight Eisenhower. Shogren, who said that he has always felt fortunate about the timing of his draft notice, served in Germany where he and his troop stayed in barracks that were formerly occupied by Hitler's troops. His work involved ensuring that phone service was available for Army personnel in case of a breakdown in regular service. Shogren, who eventually moved to Shoreline, became an active community member and he attended the college for a short time in 1999. Shogren was not able to attend.
A moment of silence allowed time for personal thanks and reflections of those who have served and continue to serve our country.
A staff sergeant recruiter from Northgate who had heard about the college event attended. Springer said he wasn't here to recruit but wanted to "check out the vet center at the college."
Olenik and Shogren were honored at the first City of Shoreline Veteran event on Veterans Day.
Representatives from the Veterans Center at the college collaborated with officials from the City of Shoreline to coordinate Veterans Day events. Kim Thompson, Director of the Office of Special Services, Angela Atkinson, Veteran Coordinator and Chad Springer, who holds the Veterans Navigator AmeriCorps position at the college, worked with Ray Coffey of the Shoreline City Hall and community members to plan individual events that honored a young veteran and an older veteran.
"We wanted to draw a bridge between elderly veterans and young vets," Springer said, who helps students navigate the transition to college from military and process of receiving benefits.
Coffey said that the college and city worked in unison to raise awareness and collective visibility of veterans to the community. "It is the aim of a group of Shoreline veterans that these words will become commonplace as they help plan the first Veteran's Day Celebration in Shoreline at City Hall." The city event included a 21-gun salute.
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Daniel DeMay left high school during his junior year. The reason? He was bored. Michael Schwartz thought his master's degree in film and video from a prestigious school would support a 30-year career. It didn't. What do the two have in common? They both decided that going back to school was critical, and they found a way to do it through the Shoreline Community College Foundation.
DeMay and Schwartz joined community members, faculty, staff and elected and local educational officials at the college's 13th Annual Student Success Community Breakfast on Thursday, November 4, 2010. They were there to share their stories and thank those who had supported Shoreline students.
SCC alum, Kisara Nishimoto, who currently holds the title of Miss Seafair, was emcee. Now, a student in the Foster School of
"I'm always going to be a Dolphin," Kisara Nishimoto said. The current Miss Seafair thanked the Foundation Board, the Board of Trustees and President Lambert for their support of Shoreline students.
Business at the University of Washington, Nishimoto was back at SCC to support student scholarships.
"I'm always going to be a Dolphin," she said, referring to the college mascot.
Foundation President, Scott Saunders welcomed the more than 200 guests and President Lee Lambert highlighted a number of the things that make Shoreline an outstanding college.
"We are attracting faculty such as Jeff Kashiwa, an Emmy-nominated, world-renowned musician. Our automotive program continues to be recognized nationally, most recently winning a Bellwether Award," Lambert stated. (The Bellwether Award recognizes outstanding and innovative programs and practices that are successfully leading community colleges into the future.) Lambert also gave credit to the Veteran's Program, which recently received a federal grant. Just 14 out of 400 applicant institutions received the grant. Lambert also cited the college's transfer program, talking about two graduates who were recognized nationally last year as scholars by Phi Theta Kappa. "And we are right in your back yard," Lambert said to the donors who sat at tables lined with white linen. Schwartz, who now holds a 3.87 GPA in the Digital Interactive Media program, shared his journey to Shoreline. He had worked years ago as a horse wrangler and a tailor, later finding his way to school and earning a master's degree in film and video. Schwartz worked as a sound engineer for several years, but eventually decided to leave the Los Angeles area in search of "the perfect place to live," landing in the Seattle area right when the dotcom industry was collapsing –something he had counted on for work. He couldn't work in the field he had worked in as his skills were outdated, and he ended up delivering pizza for four years. The road was rough and Schwartz found himself living off his credit cards and even filing for bankruptcy. It was at that point that Schwartz found help through WorkSource – ending up at Shoreline Community College, where he got help through the Worker Retraining program.
Schwartz is back in the game now – learning the "new" tricks of the trade, updating the skills that once earned him a good living. "I'm gonna be competitive," he said with assurance. "I'm excited to move forward with my life. I really, really appreciate the help," he said, referring to donors to the SCC Foundation. "Strangers helping strangers," Schwartz said more than once, "it's amazing to me – and I am so very grateful."Standing at the podium, DeMay thanked the crowd for making it possible for him to attend Shoreline and to have so many opportunities, referring to his work on the student newspaper, the Ebbtide, as a staff writer, distribution manager, copy writer, and now, editor. He left high school with a 1.8 GPA and entered an automotive program at a trade school that contracted with his high school. He worked as an auto mechanic and as a carpenter for some time, progressing to the respected journeyman position and eventually working as a contractor. He also performed with a band in his hometown of Port Townsend, later leaving his work to perform full-time, and then going back to hanging drywall."I knew I was smart and I knew I wanted more. I knew I didn't want to be a carpenter for the rest of my life," DeMay said. At 26, he visited a college campus with a friend who had enrolled and it struck a chord. He knew it was time to go to school. He selected Shoreline because it had a good reputation and because it got him away from the comforts of where he had grown up. "I wanted more of a challenge all the way around." DeMay said that coming to Shoreline was one of the best decisions he has made. "Without their (SCC Foundation) help, I don't know what I would have done," Demay said. The scholarship took care of his tuition and books, and even helped out with other expenses. "I didn't have to rely so much on loans." When he graduates in the spring, DeMay plans to transfer to a university to major in journalism and possibly go for a double major in political science. He is currently considering Boston University, the University of Washington, NYU, and University of California, Berkeley as well as a number of other schools across the country. He plans to put his skills to use as an investigative reporter someday.It's stories like DeMay's and Schwartz's that bring community members to campus to join faculty, staff and administrators in celebrating their successes each year and to support scholarships for students. A former member of the SCC Foundation Board and the Board of Trustees, Dick Stucky was honored with the SCC Foundation's Distinguished Service Award for his dedication to SCC students. "This honor is special to me," he said, "but the honor really goes to you," he said to the audience before telling a poignant story about education. In 1965, Stucky had just completed his first year of teaching. He wasn't convinced that he should stay in the classroom or return to farming. A young student told him at the end of the year that she hadn't liked school before she had him for a teacher. He knew immediately that he no longer had to think about which direction to go.Stucky, who focused his career in technology and math education, was in charge of the development and management of the Computer Education Program and the secondary mathematics program for the Shoreline School District in the 1980s, managing the programs until his retirement in 1995. Nishimoto lived up to her responsibilities as Miss Seafair during her return visit to her alma mater. She was honored with the title based on her academic achievement, community involvement, public speaking and creative expression. It was obvious that she is comfortable speaking before a crowd. She urged students to seek scholarships.
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.1, 2.2.1, 2.3
Component/s: Questions
Testing Instructions:
1. Try to import a Moodle XML file. (Create one by exporting from another Moodle). Make sure it still works.
2. Try to import a GIFT file. Make sure it works. You can find one in question/format/gift/simpletest/fixtures/questions.gift.txt
3. Try to get hold of a blackboard_six format file, and if you can, try importing it.
(See the comments be Chris Follin who can probably send you a test file, even thought it cannot be attached here.) Alternatively use the 2 attached files from Jean-Michel Vedrine on March 4th. He explains the expected results in a comment below.1. Try to import a Moodle XML file. (Create one by exporting from another Moodle). Make sure it still works. 2. Try to import a GIFT file. Make sure it works. You can find one in question/format/gift/simpletest/fixtures/questions.gift.txt 3. Try to get hold of a blackboard_six format file, and if you can, try importing it. (See the comments be Chris Follin who can probably send you a test file, even thought it cannot be attached here.) Alternatively use the 2 attached files from Jean-Michel Vedrine on March 4th. He explains the expected results in a comment below.
Affected Branches:MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE, MOODLE_23_STABLE
Fixed Branches:MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE
Pull from Repository:
Pull Master Branch:
Pull Master Diff URL:
Hello Tim,
In some import formats there is a missing function :
public function mime_type()
As a consequence the import is broken
For instance the blackboard_six format is missing
public function mime_type()
And the learnwise format is missing
public function mime_type()
I will do a quick review and will report in comments the others that I found.
Unfortunately I don't have a test file for each format and all these formats don't have tests included so I only speak from looking at the code and for people posts in the forum (this is how I discovered the problem.
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Sorry I was wrong blackboard_six expect a zip file but can also accept a dat file
blackboard expect an xml file
qti_two seems to expect a zip file but does it still works ?
webct ?? no idea ?? maybe just a text file maybe a text file with a strange extension ? In fact I know nothing about webct
So here is the final summary
1) blackboard_six format is not fixable with the current API because it can import not one but 2 types of files (zip and dat)
2) learnwise format is easy to fix just adding
public function mime_type()
3) qti_two is only an export format (no import) so it doesn't need a mime_type function
The only real problem is the blackbord_six. Possible workarounds :
1) create 2 differents formats one for zip files and one for dat files with possible inheritance of code between them ?
2) change API so that mime_type can return an array of accepted types ?
3) any better solution you can think of ?
This is a bigger bug than people seem to think. I can't get ANY imports to work other than GIFT imports, and even then I have to rename the file to .txt to get past this error. Currently, I can't get any Examview exports to work in Moodle 2.1 I've tried Blackboard 6 & 7. they are zip files. WebCT (also a zip file).
This is a serious issue. I too can not import questions because the requested file type is not correct. The error message I receive is "The type of the file you selected (application/zip) does not match the type expected by this import format (text/plain)" when trying to import from an xml file, and I have tried several other types with no success.
I seem at least 2 ways to solve the problem for the blackboard_six
1) make 2 differents formats plugins for Blackboard V6, one accepting zip files and the other dat files
2) modify the code allowing the mime_type function to return either a string as currently (for BC) or an array. blackboard_six would return array('application/zip', 'text/plain')for instance
the only change needed is to modify question/import_form.php validate_uploaded_file function replacing the code
if ($file->get_mimetype() != $qformat->mime_type())
by a code that first checks if $qformat->mime_type() is an array or nor and acts accodingly.
The advantage of the second solution is that it requires no change to the formats.
I cannot believe this hasn't become a red flag in M2? The ability to import massive question banks is one of the greatest features. I know that the work around in 1.9 was to upload the file, then browse from file manager. It would error when attemting to import into the question bank, but w/ the new file structure of 2.1 that work around is not available.
We encountered this specific to BB6 zip files. This is a little bit more than a minor issue and there doesn't seem to be a workaround, so I'm bumping priority one level.
Jean-Michel, have you used the code you included in your last comment? Would it be possible for you to attach a patch or git branch? Thanks!
Might it be worthwhile implementing a method on the qformat_default class that accepts a file object and returns true/false if the plugin supports it or not, and then have the import_form.php code call that new function. The importer could override it if necessary to be more fancy. For example, see https://github.com/jonof/moodle/commit/7adec66fcec2855b16fc20fdd7ff58ce12ab726f
Cleverer plugins could peek inside the file to run a quick sanity check on the internal format. For example, BB6 .DAT files are XML internally, but since .DAT is a fairly generic and opaque file extension it could easily contain raw binary data.
Yes, that is a much better API.
Can I just ask for two changes to your patch?
1. I think handles_files would be better called can_import, or can_import_file, so, for example, the code reads if (!$qformat->can_import($file)) {
2. The PHPdoc comment for the function in the base class needs to be done properly. You need to add @param $file, and it would be worth adding a sentence or two about what is expected - that is that it should be a quick check that the file can plausibly be imported. This method will not go and parse the entire file and report all errors.
If you can fix those two up, then this can be submitted for integration. Thanks
This is definitely the good api,
But please note that this will not be enought to "repair" the blackboard 6 import format because of other changes in the way Moodle now manage images. We need to also commit other changes from
MDL-25492. But now that I am finaly able to somewhat use github (thanks to your help Tim !) I will clone Tim's commit to MDL-25492 and combine with this change to have a workable solution.
@Tim: Hopefully this is better. You may want to squash together the previous commit I posted and this one: https://github.com/jonof/moodle/commit/f759050e7363a73376f55aa833867b1b8a5749a5
Yes, that is great. Can you squash the two commits together and then make commits cherry-picked to the 2.1 and 2.2 stable branches too? Basically, we want this bug report to look like this: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31501, with the Pull-* fields completed. Thanks.
I think I have this sorted out now. I usually use Git shackled to Subversion so I rarely get the chance to play with its really nice branching and merging functionality. As such, some of my branches were a bit weird.
Pull from Repository: git://github.com/jonof/moodle.git
Pull 2.1 Branch:
Pull 2.1 Diff URL: https://github.com/jonof/moodle/compare/MOODLE_21_STABLE...MDL-28364_21
Pull 2.2 Branch:
Pull 2.2 Diff URL: https://github.com/jonof/moodle/compare/MOODLE_22_STABLE...MDL-28364_22
Pull Master Branch:
Pull Master Diff URL: https://github.com/jonof/moodle/compare/master...MDL-28364
OK, sumbitting for integration now.
We really need better testing instructions. Does anyone have a sample 'blackboard_six' format file we can test with?
I have a BB6 file from a client. I need to verify with that client that it's okay to post the file publicly. If it's not okay, perhaps I could email it directly to whomever is doing the testing.
Thanks Chris. Or, you could ask the same client if they could quickly make an innocuous file that is safe to share which we could use for testing.
Tim, the client replied that the file contains copyrighted information from a textbook publisher and thus we cannot share it publicly. They also don't have any way to create an innocuous file. However, we believe it would be okay to send the file directly to a developer for testing as long as it is used for testing only and is not shared. I will be happy to email it if someone can let me know to whom it should be sent.
Please be carefull not to complicate anymore an already complicated situation !
Files called "blackboard zip" or "blackboard xml" are not all of the same type !!! Se my post http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=148877&parent=831418 if you want to understand the problem !!
The file "domain and range test.zip" uploaded in this issue today by Don is not a good example for testing ! This is a file made by Examview and such files were never imported correctly by any version of the core import/export formats included in Moodle (be it 1.9,x, 2.0.x 2.1.x, or 2.2.x).
There are third party plugins import formats able to import this file (for instance the one I submitted under the name "examview_bbsixplus" to issue
But in this issue we are only dealing with the "blackboard_six" import format.
I will submit a proper file to test the fix after verifying that it import correctly with Moodle 1.9 blackboard_six import format. I only need a few hours to do so.
Doesn't look like I can attach files so here's a an exported Blackboard assessment containing multiple choice questions (two questions contain images). I thought you might find this useful for testing:
I think the siutation with blackboard exported assessments and import into the moodle question bank is complicated further by different 'strands' of the blackboard product. We have Blackboard 8.04(a WebCT upgraded strand). Unfortunately this quite vanilla quiz won't import into Moodle using either of the following Moodle import methods:
Blackboard V6+
WebCT format
This has meant we are using Respondus to extract from Blackboard, convert to Moodle and publish into a Moodle course.
Hope you find the file useful, if you need any more test files just let me know.
The main moodle.git repository has just been updated with latest weekly modifications. You may wish to rebase your PULL branches to simplify history and avoid any possible merge conflicts. This would also make integrator's life easier next week.
TIA and ciao
2 samples files (one .dat and one .zip) containing the same questions and verified to import correctly in Moodle 1.9
Hello, I have attached 2 files sample_bb6.dat and sample_bb6.zip. these 2 files contain the exact same questions.
I have verified that these 2 files import correctly in Moodle 1.9. (see below the expected result)
Here is the expected result when using the "Blackboard V6+" standard format in Moodle 1.9 :
You should see a warning saying that the matching question cant be imported because rendered matching question type is not installed THIS IS EXPECTED (unless of course rendered matching qtype is installed) because blackboard matching questions can't be imported as standard match Moodle questions. So this is part of the test !
After import 5 questions should have been created : 3 essays questions, 1 multiple choice question and a true false question.
All these questions will have "strange" names made of a long alphanumeric string. This is also the "expected" result !!
Hello Eloy,
I tested these files in Moodle 2.x and you will get several notices and a fatal error :
Debug info: Column 'responseformat' cannot be null
UPDATE mdl_qtype_essay_options SET questionid = ?,responseformat = ?,responsefieldlines = ?,attachments = ?,graderinfo = ?,graderinfoformat = ? WHERE id=?
[array (
0 => 44,
4 => '',
6 => 11,
Stack trace:
line 397 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_write_exception thrown
line 999 of \lib\dml\mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 1031 of \lib\dml\mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->update_record_raw()
line 69 of \question\type\essay\questiontype.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->update_record()
line 432 of \question\format.php: call to qtype_essay->save_question_options()
line 119 of \question\import.php: call to qformat_default->importprocess()
Good news is that this show this issue is solved : both .zip and .dat files are now accepted !
Bad news is that this show there are other problems in the blackboard_6 format in Moodle 2.x (this format has not been updated to take into account the fact that now all html fields have an xxxxformat field associated and also images management has not been updated)
But there is already another issue open in the tracker to fix these other problems (see
MDL-25492 assigned to me)
So I suggest that after testing you get the same results as me you close this bug as solved (because now the .zip and.dat files are accepted) and I concentrate on polishing my fix to
Note : I have verified that the fix I submitted to
MDL-25492 is working and that in combining the fixes of MDL-25492 and MDL-28364 I am able to import all the Blackboard 6 examples files I have.
Confirming what Jean-Michel reported above, I encountered errors when attempting to import the supplied sample_bb6.dat file.
Here are some additional debug messages...
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$responseformat in D:\xampp\htdocs\moodle_testing\question\type\essay\questiontype.php on line 63
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$responsefieldlines in D:\xampp\htdocs\moodle_testing\question\type\essay\questiontype.php on line 64
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$attachments in D:\xampp\htdocs\moodle_testing\question\type\essay\questiontype.php on line 65
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$graderinfo in D:\xampp\htdocs\moodle_testing\question\type\essay\questiontype.php on line 66
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$graderinfo in D:\xampp\htdocs\moodle_testing\question\type\essay\questiontype.php on line 68
I agree with Jean-Michel. Let us consider this bug test passed, because the part of the problem that we set out to address here is done, and let us use
MDL-25492 for tracking the rest of the work required.
OK. I'm passing this as it resolves the problem reported in this issue.
Your changes are now upstream and will be included in the next minor released scheduled for March 13th (next Monday!).
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