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Parent calls on East Penn board member to resign
EMMAUS, Pa. - A parent of children in the East Penn School District called on school board member Julian Stolz to resign Monday night.
Lou Schuler based his request on a short comment Stolz posted on Twitter on March 8.
Schuler said another person, whom he identified as Todd Kincannon, posted this on Twitter that day: "There is nothing more brain rotting than public schools. God, I pity the proletariat for having to send their inferior (children) to them."
He said Stolz replied on Twitter by writing: "As a school board director, I wish I could disagree. As a sentient being, I cannot."
Said Schuler: "I don't question Mr. Stolz's freedom to insult more than 8,000 students who attend East Penn schools, including my three children. If he considers them to be inferior, I assume to children in private schools, he's certainly entitled to that opinion.
"My question is why does a person who holds in contempt our children and their parents and all the taxpayers of our district, take up one of just nine positions on our school board? How can this person, who considers the 8,152 students of our district to be the inferior offspring of the proletariat, serve the cause of public education?"
He said Stolz uses his position on the school board as the source of his authority to support repellant views.
Said Schuler: "A director who ridicules the people he serves and who despises the very idea of public education can't possibly perform his duties in a way that helps our children and our taxpayers achieve the quality of education we all aspire to."
Responding, Stolz said there are many problems with public education in this country but "the East Penn School District is an exception to the rule. I think that we do a great job. I look forward to continuing to take part on this board and continue to uphold the excellent nature of our educational system in the district."
Stolz said children in other districts are trapped in very poor schools, with teachers that may not have the same interest in education that they do in East Penn.
The Tweet to which Stolz responded contained an off-color and derogatory phrase for children. Stolz said he does not agree with that language.
Schuler asked to respond to Stolz but board president Charles Ballard said: "No rebuttals."
Stolz told Schuler: "If you'd like to talk to me afterwards, stick around."
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Projects Selected for New Facility to Boost African Carbon Market03/
Standard Bank and UNEP collaborate on the Africa Carbon Asset Development (ACAD) FacilityJohannesburg, March 3, 2010 - Project developers, bankers and others setting up carbon projects as part of the fight against climate change have a new place to go for help. ACAD, the first facility dedicated to boosting the African carbon market, has launched by awarding several new grants. The Facility is a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Standard Bank and the German Government's International Climate Initiative, administered by its Federal Environment Ministry. ACAD supports African carbon projects through a combination of technical assistance, grants and preferential access to corporate finance and transactional guidance.One of the key challenges Africa faces is in removing investment barriers to low-carbon sustainable development. 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ACAD is supporting the costs of engineering and carbon auditing studies required to earn carbon credits. Another ACAD beneficiary is the Athi River Mining (ARM) Company Ltd., which operates a cement plant in Kenya and is attempting to reduce coal consumption in a cement plant by using locally available biomass resources. "As we are continuously working to improve our environmental footprint, Athi River Mining appreciates the technical and financial support provided by the new ACAD Facility to get this project off the ground. We will look to the lessons of this project for further energy and cost savings across the company," says Mr. Pradeep Paunrana, Managing Director of ARM. Cas Coovadia, CEO of the Banking Association of South Africa, points to the timeliness of the initiative. "Climate change will affect African business profoundly over time. The continent, and its people, will feel the brunt of climate change and will need to address its impact in conditions that are already difficult. The role of business in addressing this challenge in a sustainable manner is critical. I am delighted that the partners are launching the ACAD initiative, which will build capacity and understanding amongst African financial institutions and in turn the business community. This will enable these sectors to bring their unique skills to the table in tackling the climate change problem." If you would like to approach UNEP or Standard Bank for assistance through ACAD please contact:firstname.lastname@example.com Glenn HodesUNEP - Risoe firstname.lastname@example.com+27 795 599 663Geoff Sinclair / Karin IretonStandard email@example.com / email@example.com+44 7769 648 695 / +27 83 515 0777-ends-Notes to EditorsMore about ACADACAD is a public-private partnership between UNEP, Standard Bank, and the German Government. The partnership serves to facilitate carbon market development in Africa by:? Building the capacity of local banks as well as increasing access to finance and skills on the part of local entrepreneurs. For example, ACAD is organizing a number of training activities to build expertise within African financial institutions to identify and appraise carbon investment projects. Around 40 participants from across Africa took part in the first seminar organized by ACAD in Cape Town, South Africa. A second seminar for bankers in East Africa will be held in Nairobi on March 2 in tandem with the Africa Carbon Forum. Additional training activities across Africa are planned throughout 2010, including a second African Bankers' Carbon Finance Investment Forum planned for late October, in Johannesburg. ? Leverage private capital with grant funds made available from the German Government's International Climate Initiative administered by the Federal Ministry for the Environment. ACAD hopes to mobilize greater investment in the emergent African carbon market by supporting roughly a dozen projects in 2010 which will be scrutinized for their ability to be replicated elsewhere on the Continent. Examples of project development costs that may be covered under the ACAD Facility include completion and validation of project documents for the CDM legal or environmental due diligence studies, and the development of financing plans and guarantee applications. As climate investments continue to scale up and global climate financing instruments continue to evolve, novel partnerships such as ACAD are invaluable learning platforms. In the case of Africa, which has pressing needs for developing new power and infrastructure capacity, platforms such as ACAD can be concrete testing grounds to more efficiently tap Africa's potential to finance such projects through market-based instruments. www.unep.fr/energy/activities/acadAbout Standard BankStandard Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for over 145 years, and now spans 17 countries across the African continent. Its international expansion has taken it to 16 countries outside Africa including Brazil, Russia and China. Its headquarters are in Johannesburg and it is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.Standard Bank's Corporate and Investment Banking division is a leading global emerging markets corporate and investment bank and offers its clients banking, trading, investment, risk management and advisory services in developing economies throughout the world. It has specific sector expertise in industries relevant to its global footprint, with strong sector value propositions in: mining & metals; oil, gas & renewables; telecommunications & media; power & infrastructure and Financial Institutions.Standard Bank Plc in London is the bank's principal international subsidiary. It is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, and is a member of the London Stock Exchange, the London Bullion Market Association, the London Metal Exchange, the London Platinum and Palladium Market and the New York Mercantile Exchange (COMEX Division). Through its branch in Tokyo, it is also a member of the Tokyo Commodities Exchange (TOCOM). It has major trading affiliates in Brazil (Banco Standard de Investimentos S.A.), Argentina (Standard Bank Argentina S.A.), and Hong Kong (Standard Bank Asia Ltd.)Key facts and figures ? Standard Bank Group assets of approximately US$172 billion (as at June 2009)? 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28 years of Lowland and Border piping competitions
At this year's competition, held on Saturday April 2nd in Edinburgh, the winner of the open class for Lowland/Border pipes was Paul Roberts. This year was the 28th competition. The very first Lowland and Border Pipers' competition was held at the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh in 1984. The winner then was Paul Roberts.
A recording of his remarkable performance this year is available here. Thanks to the Archive of the School of Scottish Studies, we are delighted to be able to also present here his winning entry from 1984.
Full results of this year's competition, and recordings of the winning entries will be available here very soon; it is also hoped that we will make more archive recordings available as and when they are edited and permission obtained from the performers.
Lowland and Border Open Class 2011; 1st place: Paul Roberts 'Lancashire Pipes'
Lowland and Border Solo Class 1984; 1st place: Paul Roberts 'Tweedside'/ 'Holy Ha'penny'
[The LBPS is grateful to Peter Cooke, who made the original recordings, and to the School of Scottish Studies Archives, Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, for permission to broadcast the archive recording]More information about, and the original source music for, 'Lancashire Pipes' - the piece performed by Paul this year - is available HERE


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Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles and two other administrators travelled to Washington D.C. on Tuesday to discuss the district's efforts and met briefly with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Miles, his assistant Justin Coppedge and assistant superintendent Milan Sevak to discuss the proposed pay for performance plan and the district's early childhood education initiative, according to an email Coppedge sent administrators and trustees. It's unclear how long they met with education department officials, but Coppedge said that Duncan stayed for about 15 to 20 minutes, according to the email obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
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John Swallow hosted a dinner at the De' Ja' Vu restaurant in Huntington for republican delegates, county central committee members and elected county officials.
This dinner was in appreciation for the hard work of party faithful in getting out the vote in Emery County during the last election. Swallow did not win that election, but he is prepared to win the next.
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Drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians can take the high road to safetyNovember 15, 2012 10:00 AM
Cyclists captured Pittsburgh's attention this summer after two bicyclists were killed and one was gravely injured in hit-and-runs and another was brutally attacked. Another cyclist was injured on Tuesday after being sideswiped by a driver who fled the scene. In comments on news websites, letters to the editor, tweets and Facebook posts, Pittsburghers offered their opinions on cyclists, drivers and the rules of the road.
Some of those comments make it sound as though the world contains only two kinds of people: bicyclists and drivers.
Some criticized cyclists for zipping through stop signs or red lights and otherwise failing to follow the law. Cyclists and their advocates lamented distracted drivers and speeding cars making the roads unsafe for cyclists, motorists and pedestrians alike.
Scott Bricker, executive director of Bike Pittsburgh, said some drivers view cyclists as just another obstacle -- "the equivalent of a moving pothole."
"We're not being seen as human beings just trying to get where we're going," he said.
• Clearance -- Drivers must pass bikes to the left and give a minimum of four feet of clearance "at a careful and prudent speed." If they cannot do so safely, they must wait to pass.
• "Right hooks" prohibited -- Drivers cannot make sudden right turns into the path of cyclists.
• Ride on the right -- Bicyclists must ride in the right lane "or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway," unless surface conditions are unsafe.
• Crossing the line -- Drivers may cross the center line when passing a cyclist if there is no oncoming traffic.
And more often than not, cyclists are also drivers.
Last year, Bike Pittsburgh sent a survey to its 1,700 members. Of the 600 who responded, 90 percent said they own and drive vehicles, meaning that they have driver's licenses, pay fees to register their vehicles and chip in for the gas tax, all of which help fund road and bridge improvements.
"The whole idea that it's us versus them is completely unfounded," Mr. Bricker said. "Most people who ride bikes also drive cars. We're multi-modal people."
In a September letter to the editor printed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one woman asked "if there are any rules for bikes riding on bridges."
She said in the letter that because no car was on her left, she was able to allow the cyclist to travel on her right unharmed.
"If there had been a car on our left," she concluded, "an accident might have happened."
Bridges are just like any other roadway, and a statewide law that took effect in April requires motorists who pass cyclists to give them at least 4 feet of buffer space. If they cannot do so safely, they must wait to pass.
The law also prohibits what bicyclists call the "right hook" -- a vehicle making a sudden right turn directly in the path of a cyclist.
Stephen Patchan, Pittsburgh's bike-pedestrian coordinator, called the 4-foot passing buffer "a very important law," noting that its intent is for motorists to slow down, evaluate their options and pass cyclists at a safe distance.
"Safety on our roadways is generally increased when people move slower," he said.
Mr. Bricker, who said he's been accused of being a militant cyclist, said he only wants drivers to share the road with bicyclists.
"We're not going to have a car-free city," he said. "And I'm not pushing for that."
He said cyclists have as much right to the road as drivers do, and he just wants "an environment where everyone riding a bike feels safe."
Mr. Bricker said a law that bans text messaging while driving, which took effect in March, was a good step in preventing distracted driving, but he said he'd like to see a ban on handheld cell phones as well.
"Put your phone away while you're driving," he said. "It's not that important."
Bike Pittsburgh recently submitted a proposal to Pittsburgh police for a program that would give officers more training on traffic laws and how to better enforce those laws.
Peter Flucke, president and founder of We Bike, Etc., is a former law enforcement officer who created one of the first police bicycle patrols in Minnesota. He now lives in Green Bay, Wis., and travels around the country to train local police forces on bicycle and pedestrian safety. Mr. Bricker hopes that Mr. Flucke soon will be able to share his expertise with Pittsburgh police.
Mr. Flucke teaches a two-day course that begins with taking officers on a bike ride.
"Who wants to work with a cop who learned how to shoot a gun by watching a video?" he said.
Getting officers on a bike gives them some perspective and shows them that "just because you're on a bike in traffic doesn't mean you're an idiot," Mr. Flucke said.
On the second day of the training, he has officers walk through crosswalks so they know how dangerous it can be to cross a street.
"If you're not stopping for a cop in uniform legally and safely crossing a crosswalk, I'm sure you're not stopping for my kid," Mr. Flucke said.
He said few officers would say they got into law enforcement "to make the world a better place for pedestrians and cyclists," but most officers would say that traffic control is part of their responsibility, and the key is ensuring officers understand that "traffic" includes pedestrians and cyclists.
Mr. Flucke said that people depend on officers to manage the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians, but officers often aren't given the appropriate training to deal with crashes and other safety issues involving bicyclists and pedestrians.
"They already know how to be cops," Mr. Flucke said. "They know how to enforce laws.
"They all got into law enforcement to help people. We haven't given them the tools they need to help pedestrians and cyclists."
He said more laws aren't necessary -- officers just need to enforce the laws that, when broken, lead to the majority of crashes, such as speeding, running stop signs, drunken and distracted driving, and not stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks.
"Pedestrians and bicyclists become invisible if you're not looking for them," Mr. Flucke said.
Bill Nesper, vice president of programs for the League of American Bicyclists, said encouraging targeted enforcement of bad drivers is important and giving officers the appropriate training is the best way to ensure that happens.
Of course, drivers aren't the only ones at fault -- when cyclists and pedestrians break laws or behave unpredictably, that, too, can lead to accidents.
Mr. Flucke said one of the biggest mistakes cyclists make is riding contrary to the flow of traffic, contributing to one-third of cycling crashes. Riding a bike at night without lights and reflectors is another no-no, but police rarely cite cyclists for riding without lights.
"If you can't see them, you can't yield to them," Mr. Flucke said.
Bike Pittsburgh recognizes the danger of riding without lights and, in the past year, the organization has given out nearly 400 bike lights.
Mr. Flucke also isn't a proponent of what's called the "Idaho stop" -- when cyclists treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs. It's been legal for cyclists to do that in Idaho since the 1980s, but it's illegal elsewhere, including Pennsylvania.
Mr. Patchan also isn't a fan of the Idaho stop law.
"No matter what you're doing -- driving, biking, walking -- if you do something unanticipated, then you're decreasing your safety and you're decreasing other people's safety," he said.
"Somehow, the message has gotten out there that bicyclists don't need to follow the rules of the road," Mr. Flucke said. But by Pennsylvania statute, bicycles are vehicles, so cyclists are supposed to follow the same rules as drivers.
But the Idaho stop law works in Idaho. That state's Ada County -- where Boise sits -- has a silver bicycle-friendliness designation from the League of American Bicyclists. Pittsburgh is one step below at a bronze designation. There are three levels above silver -- gold, platinum and diamond.
Matt Edmond, a senior transportation planner with the Ada County Highway District and the county's bike coordinator, said the law is sensible and a good concession for cyclists, who depend on their own power to get where they're going.
"I think unless a cyclist is doing something really flagrant, a lot of our law enforcement is reluctant to write out a $100 traffic citation for it," he said.
Because cyclists move more slowly than vehicles and because they have better visibility, they can see traffic at an intersection before a motorist can and so they can roll through stop signs safely. With traffic lights, Mr. Edmond said, the law allows cyclists to clear red lights ahead of vehicles.
Mr. Edmond did, however, echo Mr. Flucke's encouragement for cyclists to act like drivers.
"The more you act like a vehicle, the safer you are," he said.
Mr. Flucke, Mr. Bricker and Mr. Nesper all said infrastructure plays a big role in ensuring the safety of everyone on the roads. A lot of Pittsburgh's suburbs -- especially sprawling communities such as Cranberry, Robinson, North Huntingdon and Bethel Park -- aren't developed for bikes or pedestrians.
"If you don't own a car there, good luck to you," Mr. Bricker said.
Most of those communities have few or no sidewalks. Mr. Flucke said crashes are significantly reduced in areas that have sidewalks.
Pittsburgh has made "significant strides" in the past five to 10 years in improving infrastructure to accommodate cyclists, Mr. Patchan said.
The city has installed bike lanes and shared-lane markings all over the city, but Mr. Patchan said the more "substantial" the on-street infrastructure, the more bicyclists will use it.
The city has about 35 miles of on-street bike lanes and sharrows -- markings that indicate lanes should be shared by both vehicles and bicycles -- and 20 miles of separated pathways, Mr. Patchan said.
Sharrows will increase the number of cyclists on the road, but painted bike lanes -- or better yet, physically separated bike lanes -- will draw even more people to use bikes to get to work and to go shopping.
Mr. Nesper agreed.
"In the best cities in the country, you're seeing these separated facilities," he said.
The other Pittsburgh initiative is "to make sure that everyone who uses this public right of way ... knows their responsibilities to maintain the highest level of safety for everyone," Mr. Patchan said.
The city partners with Bike Pittsburgh to inform people who want to bike about best practices and tips such as what to wear when biking in winter and what to look out for when cycling.
Biking in an urban area re-quires cyclists to be alert, Mr. Patchan said, because "it can be like an obstacle course" -- cars, pedestrians, grates, uneven pavement, debris.
MOVEPGH, the city's transportation plan, identifies areas where bike lanes and bike trails can be installed. The long-term plan for the property along the Allegheny River calls for a trail that would run parallel to the rail lines from the Strip District to Highland Park.
Mr. Patchan said future education campaigns will focus on reminding drivers that cyclists are allowed on the streets and why cyclists do the things they do.
For example, Mr. Patchan said, when a cyclist is taking up a whole lane, he isn't doing it "out of spite" -- there could be dirt, gravel, a sewer grate or parked cars within the "door zone" that force the cyclist to the middle of the lane to ride safely.
Almost all cyclists are motorists, so cyclists understand why motorists are doing what they're doing, but not all motorists routinely ride bikes, so cyclists' behavior can be confounding.
Mr. Patchan said he hopes the education campaign can "mitigate any conflict between people."
For people who may be impatient with cyclists, Mr. Patchan reminds them that cycling in the city is still a relatively new thing, and as more people ride bikes and bicycling becomes a mainstream transportation choice, cyclists will see less tension, frustration and anger from some motorists.
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Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence
Linghao Wang
Xiamen University - Law School
Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown University Law Center
June 9, 2012
Amaya, Amalia and Ho, Hock Lai, eds. Virtue, Law, and Justice, Oxford: Hart Publishing, Forthcoming
Virtue jurisprudence is an approach to legal theory that develops the implications of virtue ethics and virtue politics for the law. Recent work on virtue jurisprudence has emphasized a NeoAristotelian approach. This essay develops a virtue jurisprudence in the Confucian tradition. The title of this essay, "Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence," reflects the central aim of our work, to build a contemporary theory of law that is both virtue-centered and that provides a contemporary reconstruction of the central ideas of the early Confucian intellectual tradition.
This essay provides a sketch of our contemporary version of Confucian virtue jurisprudence, including a view of (1) the ends of law, (2) legislation and the judiciary, (3) the nature of law. We shall argue that the highest value of Confucian ethical, political theory is the virtue of citizens and the harmony of society and individuals. From the perspective of the use of evaluative language, the Confucian doctrine of Correcting Names gives us an explanation of the mechanism of internalization of legal rules in terms of the relationship among social norms, law and thick evaluative concepts. This might throw light on our normative understanding of legislation and the judiciary,and it also provides a functional account of the nature of law.
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Keywords: Virtue Jurisprudence, Confucian Virtue Ethics, Correcting Names, Harmony
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Abstract: Sets forth the direction for managing the land and resources of the Forest, and results from extensive analysis and considerations that are addressed in the accompanying Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision. The Plan guides all natural resource management practices, levels of resource production and management, and the availability and suitability of lands for resource management. It also establishes the allowable sale quantity for timber and identifies land suitable for timber management, monitoring and evaluation requirements, and nonwilderness multiple-use allocations for roadless areas. Description: 512 pp. Tables, figures, maps, references, glossary, appendices. Captured April 14, 2008. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/6528
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Abstract: Plan discusses management of the recreation, roadless, wildlife, big game, fish, riparian, water, minerals, and timber resources. Record of decision is to approve, adopt, and implement the Forest Plan which accompanies the FEIS and to adopt its preferred alternative. In addition to multiple-use goals and desired future conditions, other objectives implemented include: maintaining roadless areas, maintaining potential big game populations through habitat, providing timber harvest at 1979-88 levels, providing livestock production at or near current levels, provide for a high level of anadromous fish production as well as riparian protection, provide old growth/mature tree habitat above required levels, increase developed recreation opportunities, manage Wild and Scenic Rivers and provide for scenic and special areas, and provide for a mix of unroaded, roaded, and closed road dispersed recreation and a moderate level of off-highway vehicle (OHV) opportunities. Description: 373 pp. Tables, figures, glossary. "The Umatilla National Forest is located in the northern portion of the Blue Mountains in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. Within the Forest Boundary there are over 1.5 million acres, of which 1.4 million are national forest lands. Of the national forest acres within the boundary, 1.2 million are within the Oregon counties of Baker, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, and Wheeler; and 0.3 million are within Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, and Walla Walla counties in Washington (see Table 1-2)." Captured June 12, 2008. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/6780
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Abstract: Describes the seven alternatives for the Forest Plan, including: (NC) continuation of management under 1977 Plan, (A) continuation of management under the 1977 Plan modified to meet management requirements, (D) an emphasis on nonmarket resource values with a moderate emphasis on commodity production, (J) a moderate emphasis on nonmarket resource values with an emphasis to maintain commodity production near historic levels, (K) a high emphasis on commodity production with a low emphasis on most nonmarket resource values, (L) a high emphasis on nonmarket resource values reflected by preservation of many areas in a natural condition and a low emphasis on commodity production, and (W--the preferred alternative) a moderate emphasis on both nonmarket resource values and commodity production, with a slightly greater emphasis on nonmarket values. Description: 1585 pp. Tables, figures, references, glossary, maps, appendices. Captured April 14, 2008. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/6527
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Abstract: Announces decision to select Alternative W, the preferred alternative of the project FEIS. It places a moderate emphasis on both nonmarket resource values and commodity production, with a slightly greater emphasis on nonmarket values. Changes from the Draft Environmental Impact Statement include: more protection for riparian areas, increased emphasis on watershed management and water quality, fewer areas for timber production, lower allowable sale quantity, appropriate management for Wild and Scenic Rivers, additional guidelines for old-growth areas, and additional acres managed as Special Interest Areas, Old-Growth Groves, and Special Wildlife Habitat. Description: 35 pp. Captured April 14, 2008. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/6529
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Canadian pair on track for more success in 2012CAYMAN ISLANDS (March 23, 2012) – Julie Rodrigue of Quebec City and Kacie McTavish of Sharon, Ont., are one of four Canadian teams which got into action today at the opening stop on NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean) beach volleyball circuit.
Rodrigue and McTavish joined forces last season and produced an impressive season capped by a gold medal performance at the Canadian championships. It's those types of performances they feel makes them a contender for a spot on the Olympic team.
''We are getting to know each other's game really well,'' said Rodrigue, in her fifth season on the national team. ''Last season was very encouraging for us. We established a very strong service game and have really improved overall in training this winter.''
Both Rodrigue and McTavish were former indoor standouts with Universite Laval and Syracuse University respectively.
''Last season's success didn't surprise us,'' said McTavish. ''We had a slow start but worked really hard.''
Jamie Broder of Victoria and Victoria Altomare of Toronto are Canada's other women's entry this weekend.
Competing for Canada on the men's side are: Martin Reader of Comox, B.C., and Josh Binstock of Toronto as well as Sam Schachter of Toronto and Maverick Hatch of Comox.
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God is in heaven—A fool's voice is known by a multitude of words—Keep your vows—Riches and wealth are the gift of God.
2 Be not
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast
5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest
6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers
8 ¶If thou seest the
9 ¶Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10 He that loveth
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
12 The
13 There is a
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
15 As he came forth of his mother's womb,
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
18 ¶Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his
19 Every man also to whom God hath given
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The first retrospective exhibition of Australia's foremost Surrealist painter will open at the National Gallery of Australia on 18 March 2005. James Gleeson: beyond the screen of sight brings together 80 major paintings and works on paper from public, corporate and private collections throughout Australia.
James Gleeson has explored the realms and possibilities of Surrealism for more than six decades, showing us an alternative reality experienced through dreams, hallucinations and differing mental states exists. Gleeson says 'surrealism is really about reaching into one's inner imagination.'
Gleeson's working life as a painter falls into two main periods, 1938–1957 when he evolved and developed his pictorial ideas inspired by Surrealism, and 1983 to the present day, when he embarked on the series of large imaginative landscapes which constitute his greatest and most original achievement. The only constraint on his later grand visions was for the works to exit through his studio door.
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Besides the regular activities and musical events that occur daily, once a year Berklee sets aside a time to showcase each instrumental department. Winds Day, sponsored by the Woodwind and Brass Departments, is filled with industry exhibits, equipment demonstrations, visiting artist clinics, and major concert events. This may be an excellent time for you to come and take a look at what Berklee and the Woodwind Department have to offer.
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The Santa Cruz Public Libraries' Photograph Collection contains more than 1000 local history photographs, dating from the 1860s to the 1990s. Whenever possible, there are notes for each photograph describing the event, persons, buildings, date, and place depicted. The notes also include links to related articles on our website.
Construction of an additional room to the Twin Lakes Library.
Construction of an addition to the Twin Lakes Library, June 1952.
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Demolition of the Main Library on September 13, 1966.
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On September 12, 1966, the day before the Main Library was demolished, the original cornerstone was opened and the time capsule removed.
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How Reuters Underwrote Andrew Breitbart's Budding Right-Wing Web Empire
Reason contributor Greg Beato has a fascinating analysis of conservative baby-mogul Andrew Breitbart's content deal with Reuters—every time Breitbart.com links to a Reuters story, his cash register rings. And maybe every time Drudge links to one, too.
Breitbart launched his news aggregator site as a way to monetize traffic generated by the Drudge Report. Why send all those ravenous Drudge readers to newspapers by linking to commodity-news stories when Breitbart could subscribe to newswires himself, start up a site, host the stories on them, and—as Matt Drudge's understudy—send that traffic to his own site? It's a smart idea. Another smart idea is to charge a company like Reuters for linking to their stories, which is what Breitbart started doing in October 2005, according to Beato.
Instead of charging Breitbart for the right to host their stories—an arrangement Breitbart has with the Associated Press and a variety of other wire services—Reuters started paying him to post headlines and summaries of Reuters stories with links to the Reuters web site. The downside is that Breitbart loses potential ad revenue when a reader clicks through to the Reuters stories, because they see ads served by Reuters. The upside is he gets paid.
All of which is an interesting business story, one that neither Reuters nor Breitbart would comment on. But Beato engaged in some internet forensics, and was able to draw the Drudge Report into Breitbart's little arrangement. It turns out that all the Reuters links on Breitbart's site carry the same bit of code in the URL—either RPC=22 or RPC=23. The only thing a Reuters spokesman deigned to confirm to Beato was that those codes are "a parameter that enables [Reuters] to track clicks from URLs on our newsletters, from/to partner sites, etc." So a Reuters story with a URL containing either of those codes, Beato deduces, is one that Breitbart gets paid for linking to. So do any Reuters stories linked directly from the Drudge Report contain the magic money code?
In 2006, the Drudge Report linked to Reuters.com 1888 times. At this point, it trailed only Breitbart.com as the Drudge Report's favorite destination. Meanwhile, 1852 of those links, or 98% of them, contained the RPC strings that Reuters was presumably using to keep track of how much traffic Breitbart was sending it.
Interesting! Of course, as Beato notes, there's nothing particularly nefarious about the way such an arrangement might affect Drudge's, or Breitbart's, news judgment. Reuters is a purveyor of breaking and commodity news, and their stories are usually just as useful as the AP's or any other wire's. So the fact that, when Breitbart is at the helm of the Drudge Report, he gets a nickel for linking to a Reuters story about, say, a hurricane doesn't necessarily mean there's an ethical issue at stake. Still, it's...interesting.
And it doesn't really matter anymore, because Breitbart quit his side-gig as Drudge's alter ego more than a year ago—at least if you trust what you read on Gawker. Indeed, the URL to the Reuters story currently linked as the lead item on the Drudge Report doesn't contain the RPC code that's going to put Breitbart's kids through college.
Beato sources his information about the Reuters deal to "documents generated in a 2005 legal dispute between Breitbart and two other parties," which turns out to be a federal lawsuit that two of Breitbart's former partners in an advertising venture filed against him. In 2005, Breitbart got together with Bradley Hillstrom and Brian Cartmell, the producers of Michael Moore Hates America, to form GenAds, a company that was to exclusively sell ads for Breitbart.com. When Breitbart struck the Reuters deal, he cut GenAds out of the picture on the theory that the paid links were a content deal, rather than advertising. Cartmell and Hillstrom sued, and the case was settled in 2006.
We looked through the court documents, and here's the reason the trio thought GenAds would be a good idea—Hillstrom personally knew the folks in charge of the massive ad budgets at the National Rifle Association, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc.:
And here's an account of the night that the deal to create GenAds was sealed:
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The Canadian Soccer Association announced on Friday that Benito Floro is the new head coach of Canada's men's national team. Floro takes over the reigns from Stephen Hart, who resigned after Canada's 8-1 loss to Honduras in World Cup qualifying in October 2012.
Floro has over 30 years of coaching experience, including a stint in charge of Real Madrid from 1992-94, and will bring with him a wealth of knowledge gained from around the world. His career has taken him from clubs at the highest level of Spanish football, to coaching positions abroad at clubs in Japan, Mexico, Ecuador and Morocco.
Critics of this hire will point to the fact that this will be Floro's first job coaching a national team; that he has never had to prepare a team to compete without the relative luxury of the daily contact that is afforded to coaches at the club level.
I don't believe that this argument carries much weight; an experienced coach like Floro will be able to adapt to the intricacies of international football with relative ease.
In my opinion, his strengths – decades of coaching experience, multi-lingualism (this is a big plus, given the multicultural nature of our country) and a wealth of experience as a coach educator – far outweigh this weakness.
Victor Montagliani, President of the CSA, told me this:
"It's not just about the 20 or so guys he will be coaching at any point in time on the men's team. He is one of the top coach educators in Spain. While that is not going to be his mandate, he is going to be a fantastic resource for Tony Fonseca in coach education.
"He has a presence. Certain guys, when they walk in the room, you take notice. Benito Floro has presence."
The presence that Montagliani refers to will help Floro when it comes to coaching the men's team, but I believe that his background in coach education could be where Canadian soccer will see its biggest gain.
Floro will be restricted to working with "what he has" on the men's national team, as he will not be in a position to develop players quickly enough to affect qualifying for the World Cup in 2018. He will, however, be in a position to leave a legacy behind if he can also play a role in developing the next generation of Canadian coaches. It is this area where his knowledge and experience will be a considerable asset to Tony Fonseca, the CSA's Technical Director, as Fonseca looks to improve the CSA's coach education program.
A key component of that program will be a brand new national curriculum - something that is currently being assembled, and should be fully completed by the end of the calendar year.
This is big news. Canada has never had a national curriculum – a resource for coaches across the country to use in training and developing the next generation of Canadian players. All that is about to change.
Up until now, player development in Canada has been by chance, not by design. Players had to fight their way through a broken, fractured mess of a development system, which saw too many talented youngsters slip through the cracks.
With a national curriculum in place - coupled with the implementation of high-performance youth leagues in our major provinces (to begin with) - we may finally start to see Canadian players being developed by design, rather than 'hoping for the best'.
What I like about the way Fonseca is assembling the national curriculum is this: it is being done collaboratively.
Fonseca is not force-feeding a document to the provincial associations that was developed in secrecy. Instead, he has enlisted the provincial association technical directors to help write the content. He will have final approval over that content, but much of the workload in creating the curriculum is being shared by the provincial TDs.
This allows the provincial associations to take ownership of the document, knowing that their technical staff played a big role in its creation. It also makes it far easier to implement, as the provincial associations will be much more inclined to 'buy in' to something that they played a direct role in creating.
The hiring of Benito Floro and the creation of a new national curriculum are positive moves from the CSA, but it is important to take a long-term approach when measuring the benefits of those moves. No one – including Floro – can solve all of our problems overnight.
But on Friday, Canadian soccer took a big step forward. And for that, the CSA should be applauded.
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