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City Assistance to LO Public Schools
In early 2011, the City Council voted to support Lake Oswego School District (LOSD) due to the funding shortfall. After considering options that were legal, reasonable and doable, a one-time $2 million contribution for the next school year was developed. Funds come from the City's savings and from reducing costs and temporarily increasing the franchise fees.
Many residents advocated for and showed support for assistance to Lake Oswego's public schools, as healthy, high quality schools is important to the value and vibrancy of all residents. There have been two primary areas of concerns raised in how the City is providing financial assistance:
- the temporary increase of Franchise Fees, and
use of funds that had been set aside for the Lake Oswego Library capital construction. UPDATE: At the January 24, 2012 Council Meeting, the Council unanimously approved replenishing funds that had previously been set aside for Library Capital construction. This return of funds was made possible due to underspending by the City of Lake Oswego in the 2010-2011 Fiscal Year. The reserve for Library Capital construction is now back to its original amount (with interest accruing) of $914,000.
Below is information on the one-time, $2 million assistance provided to the LOSD including response to the two areas of concern.
Use of Franchise Fees:
The increase in the franchise fees (through PGE, NW Natural and Allied Waste), will go into effect this summer and last for one year. The franchise fee increase is approximately $4-5 dollars per month for the average residence.
Recently, residents received a notice from PGE. Certain information was missing from the letter: the funding was for the Lake Oswego School District and that it is in increase to an already existing fee. The temporary increase in the franchise fee was enacted through Resolution 11-26.
The City collects a total of $2.4 million per year in franchise fees. These include $1 million from PGE (rate of 3.5%), $442,000 from Northwest Natural Gas (rate of 3%), $500,000 from Comcast (5%), and $300,000 from Allied Waste (5%). In addition, the City collects $200,000 from six smaller franchise agreements including Quest and Frontier (Verizon).
By state law, there are limits set on how much cities can charge for franchise agreements from electric and gas utilities. The City of Lake Oswego charges less than the amounts allowed by state law. In Oregon, there are currently over 70 cities charging at least 5% franchise fees on their electric utility including the neighboring cities of Portland and West Linn. The same is true for natural gas with the majority of cities now at 5% including Portland, Tigard, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. In Lake Oswego, franchise fees for PGE, Northwest Natural, and Allied are all embedded in current rates. Any increases would be shown on bills as "Lake Oswego franchise fee" or "privilege tax."
Use of funds previously set aside for the Library:
Clackamas County voters supported a countywide Library Services District in the 2008 election. As federal funds to the County were going away (referred to as "timber revenue"), voters supported permanent, dedicated library funding. Also, the District assured that each municipality in Clackamas County would receive an additional one-time allocation of $1,000,000 for capital construction. The money that the District provides for Library Services and capital in Lake Oswego are given to our Library. The Library has yet not received the funding for capital construction through the District.
All Clackamas County Library District funds sent to Lake Oswego are used for Library Services. In addition, the Library continues to be supported by other funds. In FY 2010/2011 the City received $2.1 million from the District; the total Library Budget is $3 million.
The Library's total budget is made up of District funds, general fund (property tax) monies, donations, fines and other funds. As increased District funds became available there was a decrease in general fund to the Library. The City Council at first allocated a portion of the general fund going to the Library into future capital for a new Library and has since used the general fund for other property tax dependant services. While the City continues to provide general fund dollars in addition to Library District monies for direct operations of the Library, it is this move of general fund dollars that is the source of discussion.
The City Council carefully vetted revenues and funds to determine what legally could be provided to the School District. As part of the process to support the schools, the City Council allocated less than half, $414,000, of the general fund previously set aside for Library capital. The allocation was done after the Lake Oswego Redevelopment Agency, made up of City Council, moved to support exploring a new library within the urban renewal area that would be eligible for urban renewal dollars. Upon the adoption of next year's budget, the City Council discussed possible ways to return the $414,000 for future Library capital as there was interest by many of the Councilors in responding to the concerns raised in this area. The Council indicated interest in reviewing this next year. Update: Council returned the funds on January 24, 2012.
For more information:
- Franchise Fees:
Council materials providing an overview on the Franchise Fees and the Resolution for adoption a temporary increase. Please note, the final adoption was for one year as the City is providing a onetime contribution to LOSD, not three as initially noted in documents.
- Library District Funding:
Clackamas County Measure 3-310 (Establish a Countywide Library Service District in Clackamas County)
Providing Comment:
Through the process to consider how to help the Lake Oswego School District (LOSD) and to adopt next year's budget, the City of Lake Oswego took public testimony and accepted written comments. To read some comments received early in the discussion process on ways to assist the LOSD, visit Open City Hall and click on City School Partnerships.


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I just bought a new Fuji 9500 camera. It's really very, very good in almost every respect and I'm hugely impressed - apart from one significant issue.
Fuji really don't seem to have got their Linux act together at all, and this camera seems to use some sort of protocol which SUSE10 can't understand.
When I connect the camera to a USB port, the camera's own display indicates that it has established a connection (no error is reported and the screen displays just the "USB connected" symbol.) At the other end, SUSE10 does nothing. Zilch. Nada.
The KDE USB system monitor reports no devices attached. Nothing is automounted (unlike my other Fuji cameras which work fine). The camera might as well not exist as far as the PC is concerned.
Does anyone know of any fix I can try for this? I guess I can get around it easily enough with a USB card reader, but I'd rather just plug in the camera than fiddle around with memory cards.

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A 30-year-old Wichita man is in jail after barricading himself inside a Hutchinson home for more than six hours.
The man surrendered peacefully Wednesday evening after the standoff and is jailed in Reno County awaiting charges.
Authorities say the standoff began when a state parole officer saw the man in a car that had been stolen in Wichita. The suspect had violated his parole on Sedgwick County charges including aggravated assault and endangering a child.
After a brief chase, the man ran inside a Hutchinson home. Residents inside the home got out of the house and the suspect holed up in the basement.
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In her 48 years of marriage, Lynne Burtner moved 18 times.
"He was a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, so we moved around a lot," Burtner, 68, said. "Every time we moved, we got a bigger house."
They bought their last house together 13 years ago in St. Charles Township.
It had five bedrooms and five baths on two acres, Burtner said. Then they got divorced, and Burtner was burdened by a big, empty house, a huge yard and a koi pond.
"I loved that house, but the maintenance was just exorbitant," Burtner said. "I sold it last year and moved to a townhouse. I went from a 6,000-square-foot house to 2,000 square feet."
Her sons, ages 46 and 43, were not interested in most of her stuff.
"They said, 'Oh mom, we don't need anything. We don't want anything,' " Burtner said. "I said, 'Please, take what you want. I'm going to get rid of it.' "
And so Burtner joined the ranks of many who are downsizing and finding their adult children and grandchildren aren't interested in taking anything that's being offered.
"They're not into silver and crystal and china," Burtner said. "I had two sets of china, Haviland and Rosenthal. I had Waterford crystal. Kids in their 20s, 30s and 40s today – they don't want that stuff. … And all of a sudden, you are put in this position and you wonder, 'Why do I have all this stuff?' "
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The National Association of Senior Move Managers spokeswoman Mary Kay Buysse said members are professional organizers who specialize in helping senior citizens downsize and move.
"This aging population is the next frontier," Buysse said. "Members in our association have a code of ethics and training specifically for working with older adults."
She said Depression-era adults, who have spent 40 years collecting things, are especially in shock when they find out nobody wants it.
"It's a different universe out there," Buysse said. "The Depression-era generation grew up with nothing, so to accumulate these collections gave them a great deal of satisfaction and personal esteem."
Association members and others working in the professional organizing field find creative ways to reduce such collections, Buysse said.
Burtner relied on help from Simblissity, a company founded by certified professional organizers Donelle Duvall and Mary Beth Wright of St. Charles, to get much of her things sold at an estate sale.
"We seem to be getting many clients from people who are downsizing," Wright said. "Their kids are much more casual and not doing place settings with dinner parties; they are not using fine china. That is what we are finding. Even the consignment shops do not want them – Waterford and those types of things – because they are not selling."
Bobbi Alderfer, whose Geneva interior design company, Lifestyle Design, also helps with downsizing, said she also has found the same situation while working with retirees moving into smaller living quarters.
"Their kids will take a few pieces," Alderfer said. "They're not like we were – we would take anything anyone would give us for free. … It's the phenomenon of not passing it down to kids."
A frequent solution is an estate sale.
Often, the leftovers find their way to the twice-a-year rummage sale that Alderfer runs at her church, the United Methodist Church in Geneva.
"We see tremendous amounts of furniture and collectibles and dishes and glassware," Alderfer said. "It makes for a great sale. They don't know what else to do with it. It's an amazing amount of stuff every six months."
A garage sale, Alderfer said, is a lot of work. Donating it outright creates a tax write-off.
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A garage sale is exactly where Elsa Reinke is starting out with her major downsizing operation.
Reinke's Geneva house on Fulton Street has six bedrooms, five baths, two offices, a two-and-a-half car garage with living quarters above, two kitchens, an art collection, two sets of china and lots of tchotchkes.
"My five children are all grown and married and engaged and away at school," said Reinke, 56. "My husband passed away in December, and especially now that it's just me – the maintenance, the bills – I'm downsizing to simplify my life."
Her house is 7,000 square feet, and, with the help of Simblissity, the process is being done in stages, beginning with a two-day garage sale April 26 and 27, and an estate sale to follow later.
Simblissity is seeking buyers for her art collection. Reinke said the company did all the research on the value and authenticity of her pieces.
"Every time I want to keep something, I think of where I'm going and I say, 'I don't want this lifestyle anymore,' " Reinke said. "When my house has a buyer, that is when I'll find my new home. I am open to the Lord – I'm wide open. Things will fall where they may when they should."


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Walt Chandler, 72, of Urbandale, passed away May 2, 2013 at Mercy Hospital from injuries following a car accident. Per Chandler's request, there will be no services
Chandler was born Oct. 26, 1940 and drove for Rock Island Freight, Pulley Trucking Co. and Hawkeyes Trucking. Chandler belonged to Teamsters.
He is survived by Jeff and Stacy Chandler of Des Moines; Val Chandler of Davis, Ill., Randy Chandler of Des Moines, and son Robert Flisher of Des Moines; brother Jerry Chandler of Newton, sister Barb Lemonds of Davenport; grandchildren Crystal Flisher of Des Moines, Ethan Chandler of Davis, Ill., Aylinn and Delyn Chandler of Des Moines; and great-grandson Devin Bentley of Des Moines.
He was preceded in death by his parents and daughter, Christian (Sissy) Flisher of Des Moines.


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Red Sox pitchers visit Caroline Kennedy in Tokyo
Red Sox pitchers visit Caroline Kennedy in Tokyo
Jan. 21, 2014
TOKYO (AP) — Boston Red Sox pitchers Koji Uehara and Junichi Tazawa met with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday during a tour to share the 2013 World Series trophy with baseball fans in the country.
"This is a great event," Kennedy said at a reception at the Embassy's residence. "Last fall's victory would not have happened without these two players here tonight."
Earlier in the day, the two pitchers presented Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a Red Sox jersey and talked baseball with the Japanese leader.
Kennedy, the 56-year-old daughter of late President John F. Kennedy, arrived in Japan in November to become the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Tazawa and Uehara played key roles in helping the Red Sox win the 2013 World Series.
The 38-year-old Uehara pitched a perfect ninth inning to finish off a 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6, securing Boston's third championship in 10 years. The 27-year-old Tazawa pitched in 13 of 16 postseason games.
Also attending Tuesday's reception were Japan's first major leaguer, Masanori Murakami, former New York Yankees outfielder and 2009 World Series MVP Hideki Matsui and Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, the former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an ardent Red Sox fan.
Kennedy thanked Major League Baseball for its continuing contributions to the U.S.-Japan relationship.
"You and your players — past and present — are ambassadors of goodwill to millions of fans here in Japan," Kennedy said. "Thank you for continuing the great legacy of baseball diplomacy between our two countries."


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The "other" Carolina is the No. 1 national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament, and the home of Andy Griffith.
Our beloved Carolina has yummier shrimp and grits and, for the last three years of Omaha royalty, a better college baseball team.
South Carolina vs. North Carolina in a super regional starting today at Chapel Hill's Boshamer Stadium demands a comparison, on and off the diamond.
Two Carolinas, one scorecard:
• Barbeque. German-influenced mustard based vs. the various stuff they serve in Lexington, Eastern North Carolina and elsewhere.
Edge: It's an acquired yellowy taste
• Mountains. Aching quadriceps in the vast Pisgah National Forest don't lie.
Edge: North Carolina
• Handling baseball pressure. The Tar Heels certainly came through Monday night in a 12-11, 13-inning, winner-take-all Chapel Hill Regional victory over Florida Atlantic. But these Gamecocks this season swept a series at LSU before the largest, craziest crowds in college baseball.
"We've gone and played in tough places," South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook said. "We're looking at it as another SEC-type road weekend series. We've been fortunate around here to win our fair share of road series."
Edge: Gamecocks
• Jadeveon Clowney vs. the Tar Heels' entire basketball starting five.
Edge: Clowney
• Barney Fife vs. Rhett Butler. Shall we check with Scarlett?
Edge: The "visitor from Charleston"
• Town names: North Carolina has Bat Cave, Black Mountain, Foxfire, Kill Devil Hills and Lizard Lick. South Carolina has Due West, Green Sea, Ninety Six, North, Pumpkintown and Possum Kingdom.
Edge: South of the Border says it all
• Super regional names: The Gamecocks' Joey Pankake vs. the Tar Heels' Skye Bolt.
Edge: Tie
• Pitching. North Carolina has better depth, but don't wager against Nolan Belcher, Jordan Montgomery, Jack Wynkoop and closer Tyler Webb.
Edge: The ghost of Michael Roth
• Beaches. North Carolina ranks No. 7 in the nation in miles of coastline, South Carolina No. 11 (Alaska is No. 1 but has never hosted a Super Regional).
Edge: Warmer overall quality over the Outer Banks
• NASCAR. Junior Johnson, Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt trump Cale Yarborough, David Pearson and all other states combined.
Edge: Moonshine routes
• Presidential history. Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina, James Polk and Andrew Johnson in North Carolina. S.C. claims former candidate Stephen Colbert.
Edge: Colbert '16
• Hitting. Freshman Max Schrock has added to a dangerous Gamecocks offense but North Carolina is loaded beyond clean-up hitter Colin Moran.
Edge: Carolina blue
• Wright Brothers vs. Boeing.
Edge: Jobs
• Baseball lore. North Carolina claims seven native-born Hall of Famers, including Catfish Hunter and Gaylord Perry. South Carolina has only three (Larry Doby, Jim Rice, Ben Taylor). But the Palmetto State rallies with the colorful stories of Shoeless Joe Jackson, Van Lingle Mungo, Bobo Newsome, Hurricane Hazle, Dooley Womack, Willie Mays Aikens, Mookie Wilson, Pokey Reese and Gookie Dawkins.
Edge: Mookie played for the Gamecocks
• James Taylor vs. Darius Rucker. Listen to "Carolina In My Mind" and see if there is anything distinctive in the lyrics about the state of North Carolina.
Edge: That "Hootie" guy
• Beverages. Pepsi and Cheerwine were invented in North Carolina. Diet Pepsi, too. But the tea is always sweeter this side of Bat Cave.
Edge: Less belching
• Beach music. Ocean Drive is close to North Carolina, but not quite inside.
Edge: Myrtle Beach
• College football. The states have combined for one national title, Clemson's in 1981.
Edge: Sandlappers.
• NFL. Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson went to Wofford and his team holds training camp there.
Edge: Charlotte, a Fort Mill suburb
• Spin. Holbrook and his players love the underdog role.
"We're playing the No. 1 national seed," Holbrook said. "We've got a great opportunity. We don't have anything to lose. That's what I've told the team: 'Hey, we've got everything to gain here. We have nothing to lose.' Hopefully, that'll relax our guys a little bit. It's relaxed me and let me sleep a little bit better."
Edge: Professor Holbrook
• College basketball. "No contest, baby!" as Dick Vitale would say.
Edge: Michael Jordan, Dean Smith, David Thompson, Coach K, Christian Laettner's shot against Kentucky.
• Lousy NBA teams run by owners who were much better as players. Hint: An underdog against Duke.
Edge: N.C., and the woeful Charlotte Jordans.
• Smackdowns. Professional wrestling showman Vince McMahon was born in N.C. and went to East Carolina. Then there's legendary Post and Courier wrestling columnist Mike Mooneyham.
Edge: Nothing fake about Mooneyham
• Gamecocks vs. Tar Heels in a fresh Border Battle. Best two-out-of-three. It won't be boring.
Edge: (South) Carolina in three games
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By: Roxie Graham-Marski Posted at: 09/27/2012 09:44 AM PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Gov. Dennis Daugaard says South Dakota will not set up its own health insurance exchange, but instead will let the federal government run the exchange required by the federal health care overhaul.
President Obama's health care law requires all states to have exchanges, which are online marketplaces for patients and small businesses to shop for insurance policies. Daugaard says South Dakota will join other states that have decided not to run their own exchanges.
Daugaard has previously said the state wouldn't implement any part of the federal plan until after the November election in the hope that a new president or Congress would overturn it.
The governor says annual operating costs for a state-operated exchange would be too expensive, costing between $6.3 million and $7.7 million.


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BOSTON — Johnny Boychuk was bag skated this morning at TD Garden and he took the warm-up with the Bruins before their 3-0 win over New Jersey tonight.
So the veteran defenseman has taken the necessary steps to be deemed "day-to-day" by head coach Claude Julien. The bench boss said that Boychuk, who has been out for almost a month with a fractured arm, could be back in the lineup as soon as Wednesday against the New York Rangers — the team Boychuk suffered the injury against after a slash by Brandon Dubinsky.
•As for center David Krejci, there was no update on the results of his afternoon test as of the postgame media briefing. But Julien said the center would keep practicing with the team and the decision to return to action would be about 50-50 between Krejci and the medical staff.


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Pitcher Joel Belk of Azusa Pacific has been named Pac West Conference Pitcher of hte Week.
The sophomore right-hander out of Los Osos High School starred in a series that saw 60 runs scored in the first three games.
He earned a complete game win against Dixie State that gave APU a series split, allowing just seven hits and two unearned runs.
The Red Storm had produced 48 hits, including seven home runs, and 33 runs in the three previous games. The complete game was Belk's second of the season. He is third in the conference with a 1.62 ERA.


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Baltimore's park system has slipped from 15th to 21st in an expanded ranking of open space in the nation's 50 largest cities with relatively low funding cited as a continuing problem.
The nonprofit Trust for Public Land gave Baltimore's 4,905 acres of parks the same overall grade Wednesday as it had last year -- three out of a possible five "park benches," or stars, in its ParkScore rating system.
But the city lost ground in the rankings because the trust added 10 new cities to its review of municipal parks, several of which topped Baltimore, including Minneapolis, which came in #1, Omaha, Neb. (#11) and Colorado Springs, CO (#14).
As in last year's rating, the city scored well for accessibility, with 85 percent of its residents within a 10-minute walk of a park. But Baltimore's historic park system, which dates back to 1827, fared poorly because most of its parks are small - just 0.8 acre, on average - and the city spends just $61.18 per resident to maintain its green spaces, down slightly from $63 per resident last year.
"Baltimore does a wonderful job of providing access to local parks, but many of those parks are small slivers that can't support a wide range of recreational activities," said Peter Harnik, director of the Center for City Park Excellence, a research arm of The Trust for Public Land.
"To keep pace with the top-ranked ParkScore cities, Baltimore needs to invest more in its park system and strive to create larger multi-use parks that can become a destination for locals and tourists alike," he added.
UPDATE: Kia McLeod, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Recreation and Parks, didn't dispute the trust's ratings, but said the city's parks offer "something for everyone."
"Visitors can take a peaceful walk in the woods on the back roads of Druid Hill Park, sit quietly and watch birds by the lake at Patterson Park or play a relaxing round of golf in Clifton, Carroll and Forest parks," she said in an email. "Our smaller community parks provide areas to meet and greet neighbors."
The city's goal is to improve its parks to be among the 10 highest ranking in the nation, she said, adding that with the help of its friends groups, nonprofits, local businesses and other park advocates, "we believe that we are heading in the right direction."


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Update: Now with comments from Masahiro Sakurai and Namco Bandai's Masaya Kobayashi.
Nintendo did not internally develop Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii. Instead, it was a collaboration between a number of third party studios, including Game Arts, Monolith Soft, and Paon. Project Sora's Masahiro Sakurai, who directed the original N64 game when he was at HAL Laboratories, remained director of this hodgepodge development team.
Well, it appears Nintendo is outsourcing development once again for the next Smash Bros game.
In a Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed that Namco Bandai will be developing the game, in addition to Project Sora. Sakurai will return as director, alongside Yoshito Higuchi, director of Tales of Vesperia.
It's only been a few months since the release of Project Sora's last game, Kid Icarus Uprising, so it might be quite some time before we hear more. "The project has just gotten started," Sakurai said in a prepared statement on Nintendo's website. "Bear in mind that not only are we developing two titles simultaneously, but we announced the project before we even started actual development, so I'm afraid we will likely have to keep you waiting for quite a while. Please be patient."
Namco Bandai's Masaya Kobayashi also offered a comment, promising the new Smash Bros will be developed with "Namco Bandai's best staff," with members from the Tekken and Soulcalibur teams participating. "All the top creators from Namco Bandai are gathered here to create a never-before-seen dream team for this project. We will fully utilize our experience and knowledge in action/fighting game development, technical capability, and organizational strength, and we hereby promise you that we will develop the best and most powerful Super Smash Bros. title ever!"


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A move by Delta Air Lines to install seats with power outlets and bigger lavatories and overhead bins will also squeeze more economy seats in some of its narrow-body aircraft.
Atlanta-based Delta announced Wednesday that it plans to invest $770 million through 2016 to overhaul the interior on 225 narrow-body planes, typically used for short-haul flights in North America.
Delta's investment on its Boeing 757-200, 737-800 and its Airbus A319 and A320 planes is the latest example of an airline industry that has rebounded from the recession with higher profit margins and steady demand growth. Delta has a fleet of more than 700 planes.
Depending on the aircraft model, Delta is increasing the number of economy seats by six to 16 seats per plane, according to seat configuration data shown on the airline review site SeatGuru.com.
Like several other airlines, Delta is also installing "slim-line seats" in its economy sections. Such seats typically have thinner seatback cushions, which are lighter and usually take up less cabin space than traditional seats.
Delta officials say the slim-line seats have received positive reviews from passengers for comfort.
The airline plans to install in-seat video screens, satellite TV and power outlets for most passengers, along with new lavatories and overhead bins with up to 60% more space for carry-on bags.
"We're continuing to make smart long-term investments in our products and services to meet the expectations of our customers," said Glen Hauenstein, Delta's executive vice president and chief revenue officer.
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Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is rarely very far from the headlines, and the super Swede once again finds himself embroiled in controversy after he was accused of stamping on the head of Lyon defender Dejan Lovren in last night's 1-0 Ligue 1 victory at the Parc des Princes.
Moments after setting up team-mate Blaise Matuidi to score the only goal of the game - which helped PSG overtake Sunday's opponents at the top of the table - Ibrahimovic clashed with Lovren as the Croatian fell to the ground under a challenge from the 31-year-old.
With the forward airborne, and hanging precariously over the Lyon star, Ibrahimovic attempted an awkward hop over the player below him, resulting in a reckless scrape of his boot down the side of Lovren's face, causing an open cut.
"Everyone told me that he did it on purpose," blasted the defender after the match. "In any case I have a very bad headache. I think it is serious but it is for the commission to do its work."
French referee Antony Gautier perceived the incident as accidental, and didn't even issue a yellow card to Ibrahimovic for his actions, but there have already been calls for a retrospective punishment to be handed out to the enigmatic striker.
Lovren recovered and played the full 90 minutes, however, that is of little relevance to Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas: "He did [it] voluntarily, I'm sure. I do not like to see this kind of act."
Relations between Ibrahimovic and PSG have shown signs of deterioration in recent weeks, and this latest incident is unlikely to improve matters.
Rumours were rife of a breakdown in the build up to the weekend match, after Ibrahimovic missed a collective training session with Carlo Ancelotti at Camp des Loges, which was also attended by club president Nasser Al-Khelafi, who wanted to observe the team's preparations ahead of the top-of-the-table clash.
However, a club spokesman told French paper L'Equipe that a fall-out had been completely exaggerated, adding that Ibrahimovic was merely following an adapted, personal regime and doing his own work in the gym.
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Ready to Learn
Here at KBYU Eleven, we have spent over 10 years serving our community by providing Ready To Learn workshops free of charge to at-risk groups, educators, parents, and caregivers. Although we are disappointed that we are no longer able to provide this great resource in person, we are very excited to expand our reach by offering these resources free on our Kids and Family website. We have had a wonderful team of people, who recognized the program's value in our community, working for the past year to be able to provide this resource.The KBYU Eleven Ready To Learn® Participation Notebook is research based. Each of our twelve workshops include a booklist, activities, Learning Triangles, what parents can do to help children at specific ages, and why the topic is important to a child's development.Our hope is that these videos and print resources will be used to enhance community programs, aid those working with children, support educators of child development, and educate parents about their child's development and how they can help their children learn.
1 Benefits of the Media and The Learning Triangle®
2 Rhymers are Readers: The Importance of Nursery Rhymes
3 Music Is a Must!
4 Storytelling: You Can Do It!
5 The Brain: How Children Develop
6 The FUNdamental Powers of Play
7 What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?
8 Who Is My Child? Understanding Temperament
8 Temperament Workbook
9 Math Is Everywhere!
10 Learning Through the Early Years: The Benefits of Repetition and Variation
11 Shared Reading: Tools to Bring Literacy to Life
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Haunted Organs
Posted 22 January 2004 - 07:52 PM
As a matter of background, about 10 months ago a friend of mine underwent a heart transplant, almost a textbook example of what to look for as far as coronary problems, hes in his mid-40s, swivel chair profession<accountant>not much exercise, didnt pay much attention to what he ate and a heavy smoker as well as a family history of heart problems. Prior to the transplant, he was grudgingly willing to consider losing a few pounds and paying a little closer attention to cholesterol levels.
To be expected the recovery from that procedure was slow and painful, both for himself and the family, but even in his sick bed, there were some really profound changes in him, he was actually planning a diet as far as what foods to cut out-DUDE! This from a guy who lived on Italian and red meat-Now after such a close brush, changes are not uncommon and I was kind of expecting the orders of grilled chicken to change to a deep fried steak sandwich and onion rings within the next few months. So far it hasnt. What really surprised the poop out of me is as opposed to exercise he was, he started walking on the beach, 2 miles every day and joined a gym, but the change in his regimen was his own idea, the Dr just advised as to what kind of workout would work better.
My question is this, is it a possibility that the heart itself was responsible for this strange change in behavior, or the original owner of the heart. Slightly off the subject, my boss wife works for the Organ Bank and told me that shed heard all sorts of reports about strange shadows and voices, currently were trying to line up getting me in there with a camera
Posted 22 January 2004 - 08:50 PM
Posted 23 January 2004 - 04:17 AM
There are other options also, like a brush with death can make a person totally change their way of thinking. NDE (near death experiences) are also a culprit in this kind of case. Actually, only he really knows what is going on inside his own heart and head and if he isn't sharing there may never be answers.
Anywho, it's not so much important how he changed, just that he did and now is on a road to better health!!!
Posted 23 January 2004 - 08:45 AM
While I guess anything is possible and history has certainly proven that in some cases, I find the likelyhood of haunted organs a bit far fetched. This theory implies that the organ is capable of a way of thinking and can carry those thoughts over through the transition from one body to another.
Your friend has indeed suffered a great transition and been forced to make life or death decisions . This in no way is odd under the circumstances. When faced with sudden mortality , one can find that what used to be a toughie becomes a no brainer.
I wish this person well and hope that common sense will prevail in their life long enough for them to find health and happiness.
Just my take,
Posted 23 January 2004 - 09:46 AM
For the record, I am trying to maintain a more clinical mindset on this one, from what I've seen and read on close brushes with death, there are some major changes in behavior
and that's what I would have accredited it to, but prior to the transplant he'd had a number of heart problems and was still only willing to commit to minor changes. Maybe the procedure made it more of a stark reality to him and as such
he was willing to/was scared into making changes. Still, we're looking into the doner's surviving family to try to find out more about his interests and health-related behaviors.
Still it'd be kind of curious to see if the doner was a die-hard health buff
Posted 23 January 2004 - 12:41 PM
OTOH, maybe your friend came to grips with his own mortality after under going such a serious procedure. Perhaps he feels a debt to the donor. Sort of an "I'll make sure the donation wasn't in vain" sort of mentality.
I also have a swivel-chair profession (programmer). My doctor suggests a 20 minute break every 2 hours. During this time I climb stairs or something. I also force myself to drink two glasses of water during these breaks (staring at a computer, you just don't get thirsty).
Whatever the motivation, I wish your friend the best of luck.
-- the Aloha Spirit
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
Posted 23 January 2004 - 12:59 PM
Definitly an interesting point .
Posted 23 January 2004 - 03:35 PM
I appreciate everyone's thoughts and well wishes.
Hi, Rock, okay, I'm a bit lost as I've heard of and even handled items that seemed to have some sort of presence associated*the use of haunted in the thread title is very misleading*with it, but I'm going to wait to see if we can talk to the doner's family
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Posted 25 January 2004 - 01:19 PM
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Posted 26 January 2004 - 01:34 PM
while i certainly think - as does KRC - that if sewing machines (like mine) can have spiritual energy attached, organs certainly do.
however, i'm going to play my scientifically-minded skeptic's card down on this one and say that the change in your friend's health habits is probably a direct result with a close call to his own mortality.
... but, this is not to say that there isn't something else attached to the heart organ itself. the shadows and other phenomena may be related in some unexplainable way. THAT is always possible!!
well, best of luck and health to your friend!
Posted 26 January 2004 - 01:37 PM
Posted 26 January 2004 - 02:42 PM
(with a lot of creative license) could have been rationalized away
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Hydration Station
Something as simple as putting fruit in water is causing a stir at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn. The university's hydration station is encouraging students to skip the soda and stay hydrated with fruit flavored water.
St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., is winning praise with a concept so simple it has some people wondering why it's not more popular: fruit in water. A hydration station at the university's residential dining center, Garvey Commons, is delighting students, administrators and foodservice employees alike with its simplicity, taste and freshness.
"It's great for several reasons," says Steven Ludwig, St. Cloud's vice president for administrative affairs. "One, it just looks attractive and inviting in the cafeteria. It also encourages students to make different decisions about carbonated soft drinks. In fact, we've seen a pretty dramatic increase in the amount of water they're drinking. It's better that they're drinking water with some fruit flavor in it rather than all the carbonated beverages with corn syrup or other things."
The fact that fruit-flavored water is not only a healthy option but also is low waste, Ludwig adds, makes it a nice fit with the foodservice operator's own environmentally friendly policies and procedures—St. Cloud's dining services are managed by Sodexo. "It means less of an impact on the environment when [customers] drink water because we don't have any waste with this. I understand it's getting some buzz around Sodexo."
Indeed, the contractor has wasted no time in transplanting the idea to some of its other university accounts, such as Northwestern, Marquette, Mankato State, Illinois Westland University and the University of Wisconsin River Falls, and may well go further, although there are no specific plans in place.
Sodexo's staff of 225 has been handling the foodservice contract at St. Cloud for three years. About 3,200 of the university's 18,000 students live in the campus's residence halls, with 3,000 of them purchasing a meal plan. Total foodservice revenue at the university is approximately $3.5 million, Ludwig says.
Neat idea: The hydration station is the brainchild of Stephen Miller, Sodexo's general manager at St. Cloud, who discovered the concept while on vacation in Texas this past summer. "I was checking into a hotel and I saw that they had a water station so that people who had just come in out of the heat could have some cold water. I thought it was a neat idea, and that we should have it available for our students." He added fruit for flavor and placed it inside the cafeteria "a week or so before school opened up, when our athletes came back."
The prep time in advance of the fall term was needed, he explains. "We had to bring it in and figure out how to make sure the drains were working right. We had to make sure we knew how the system could be refilled on a timely basis."
The hydration station is made up of six clear containers with stainless steel tops and a drain underneath. The containers are located at one of the cafeteria's beverage stations.
The area is viewed as "just another option," says Miller. "Students are always looking for options," he explains. "I don't think we've had a hole in our beverage offerings. It's just something we thought would be exciting to add to our foodservice."
The university "didn't really market it to the students," adds Miller. "We didn't do signs around the campus or anything like that. We actually rolled it out at a lower level, not knowing it would get this much publicity." A member of Sodexo's regional marketing team helped Miller market the station. "He had some information on why people should drink water, why it's good for you," he says. That information is posted on signs in the cafeteria. "The containers are very attractive and eye appealing. They are clear so that you can see the fruit floating in the water. It's stainless steel and chrome-like, so it's kind of shiny as well."
Lemons, limes, grapefruits, mint, cucumber, oranges, apples and strawberries are proven popular flavors. Watermelons and cantaloupe were tried and rejected because the fruit breaks down too quickly.
"The students let us know what flavors of water they like," he notes. "We keep changing the lineup according to the fruit we can get in. Obviously in the north, you can't always get a wide variety of fruits locally, although we try."
While lemon and lime were expected to be popular flavors, Miller says he and his colleagues "didn't realize that cucumber and some of the others actually tasted so good. A couple of students asked for the mint and so we've brought that in. They know that if there's a flavor they like, all they have to do is mention it to the employee who is filling the containers and the employee will get it and put it in right then and there."
In all, the cafeteria goes through about 150 gallons of filtered water each day, or an estimated 200 glasses every hour. Employee Liz Bester spends about a half an hour in the morning cutting up fruit and prepping the containers. Additional water is added throughout the day. No sweetener is used. Other beverages available to students include soda, milk, coffee, juices and slushies. There is no bottled water.
The 800-plus-seat cafeteria is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. Students can also find food and drink across the street from the cafeteria in St. Cloud's student union. Students can pay for items there using cash or the school's proprietary 'Husky Bucks.'
Where else: Ludwig says that he and his colleagues have thus far not considered the possibility of adding a second hydration station elsewhere on St. Cloud's campus, but he adds that if they were to add another station the university's James W. Miller Learning Resources Center could be a good option. Sodexo runs a satellite operation at the location that serves prepared sandwiches, coffee and soft drinks. Ludwig says one reason dining services hasn't added more hydration stations is because the stations work better in an all-you-can-eat cafeteria. In a satellite location such as the resource center, he notes, "we would have to figure out how to charge for the water, and also what sort of disposable cups we could use so people could take it to go. In the cafeteria they use glassware that is washed and reused."
The Atwood Memorial Center, the university's student union, features Pizza Hut Express, Subway, Burger King, WOW Café and Wingery, Ultimate Baja, Freshëns Smoothie Company, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Caribou Coffee, Cutting Board and Jump Asian Express food outlets, as well as a salad bar and the sit-down Valhalla Buffet with traditional home-cooked items. Ludwig says this might also be a good place for a station because glassware is already used there.
The expansion of the hydration stations to other campuses will proceed slowly on a case-by-case basis. "We don't have a one-size-fits-all approach for any program," says Monica Zimmer, Sodexo's director of public relations. "We look at what works for our customers in a particular area. If it's something we think customers at an account would like, then we would encourage [staffers there] to deliver what the customer likes. But it's not something we're rolling out nationally."
"It's something fun we've been able to do with the students," Miller says. "We'll see where it takes us."


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Title: Developing Online Tutorials for Patron and Staff Instruction (An Infopeople Online Course)
Dates: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 – Monday, February 27, 2012
To register for this course: Click the link to Online Registration at: http://infopeople.org/training/developing-online-tutorials
Fee: $75 for those in the California library community and Infopeople Partners, $150 for all others.
From library tours to task-oriented skill building and staff training, this course will provide options for developing effective online tutorials. Unleash your creative juices to maximize use of resources and services by producing engaging online tutorials for your patrons and staff!
Have you ever found yourself explaining or demonstrating the same process over and over to users or staff? Ever wished you could refer users to online sources for standard information and skill-building, freeing your time to address more in-depth questions? Do you know of a particular service or resource that challenges your users or staff? Could your online videos and screencasts reach a larger user community?
This course will provide a structure for developing short online tutorials targeted to specific library users, staff, applications, services, and resources. Through an exploration of available free and industry-leading tools, we will examine the process for creating online tutorials, promoting their availability, incorporating them into training programs, and reusing content and assets in your tutorial development efforts. We will examine the use of screencasting to produce video-based modules that can be accessed both within the library and from remote locations via the web.


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Monday, 01 February, 2010
Resolving Single-Molecule Assembled Patterns with Superresolution Blink-Microscopy
T. Cordes, M. Strackharn, S. W. Stahl, W. Summerer, C. Steinhauer, C. Forthmann, E. M. Puchner, J. Vogelsang, H. E. Gaub and P. Tinnefeld -
Nano Lett., 10 (2), pp 645651 ( 2010)
In this paper we experimentally combine a recently developed AFM-based molecule-by-molecule assembly (single-molecule cut-and-paste, SMCP) with subdiffraction resolution fluorescence imaging. Using Blink-Microscopy, which exploits the fluctuating emission of single molecules for the reconstruction of superresolution images, we resolved SMCP assembled structures with features below the diffraction limit. Artificial line patterns then served as calibration structures to characterize parameters, such as the labeling density, that can influence resolution of Blink-Microscopy besides the localization precision of a single molecule. Finally, we experimentally utilized the adjustability of blink parameters to demonstrate the general connection of photophysical parameters with spatial resolution and acquisition time in superresolution microscopy.


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Welcome to project elabfactory
Project for developing e-Laboratory factories: tooling to facilitate the consumption of e-laboratory components into an e-laboratory, which is a (web) application for a community of scientists in a particular domain based on generic components (the e-laboratory components).
E-lab Components
Mailing lists
This project provides the following mailing lists.
- elabfactory-users: a list intended for general discussion on the project.
- elabfactory-commits: a list that receives source code commit messages.
- elabfactory-devel: a list intended for discussion among developers (subscription is restricted to registered developers).
- elabfactory-discuss
Source access
Anonymous readonly subversion access works as follows:
svn co https://trac.nbic.nl/svn/elabfactory elabfactory
Write access is only available to registered developers.
You can become a developer by registering yourself if you haven't already done so, and requesting write access on the elabfactory-users mailing list.
Starting Points
- TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
- TitleIndex -- A complete list of local wiki pages.
- Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
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Roger Ailes Accepts Prize By Pushing Fox Falsehoods
Blog ››› ››› JUSTIN BERRIER
Fox News president Roger Ailes used the platform provided for him while accepting a prize from a right-wing foundation to repeat discredited claims that the Affordable Care Act will create 16,000 armed IRS agents and that President Obama was absent on the night of the Benghazi attacks.
Ailes was honored during the 2013 Bradley Prizes, awards given by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which gives tens of millions of dollars annually to a "Who's Who" of right-wing movement organizations. The prize, which recognizes "individuals of extraordinary talent and dedication," includes a stipend of $250,000, which Ailes said he was donating to a charity for senior citizens.
According to remarks posted on the Fox News website, Ailes said that "The federal government is about to hire 16,000 more IRS agents to enforce healthcare." He also said, "I have come to the conclusion that even I don't care what the president of the United States was doing that night. However, I would like to know what the commander in chief was doing that night."
Both of Ailes' attacks have been pushed by Fox News -- and both are based on falsehoods.
On the April 16, 2010, edition of Fox & Friends, then-Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich attacked reports that approval for health care reform was growing by claiming the law would hire "16,000 IRS agents as health police":
GINGRICH: But my general experience is that, you know, you don't have people walk up to you in an airplane and start attacking you very often, or you're in really deep trouble. I think what [Sen.] Harry [Reid] ought to do is get in a car and drive around Nevada, where people are overwhelmingly opposed to hiring 16,000 IRS agents as health police.
The figure, which was based on a report by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, was described as "wildly inaccurate" by FactCheck.org which described the claim as coming "from a partisan analysis based on guesswork and false assumptions, and compounded by outright misrepresentation":
The GOP analysts assume that the $10 billion would not be spread evenly over the decade, but would reach $1.5 billion annually in later years. That's reasonable, given that major provisions of the new law don't take effect until 2014. But even accepting that, the peak figure could just as easily be $750 million a year, if the CBO's lower guess proves to be correct. So the number of new IRS workers implied by the GOP's own logic could be closer to 5,000 than to 16,500, after adjusting for overhead costs and inflation.
Ailes' second attack -- that Obama was missing on September 11, 2012, during the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya -- also appeared regularly on Fox News, where Fox figures repeatedly demanded to know where Obama was during the attacks. In addition to reports by Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that White House staff was "engaged with the National Military Command Center pretty constantly" throughout the attack and testimony by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that Obama gave orders to deploy forces immediately after learning about the attack, the White House Flickr page shows Obama meeting with aides in the Oval Office on the night of the attack:
Ailes also said during his remarks: "Traditional American culture influenced me greatly as I created the Fox News Channel for Rupert Murdoch. We knew that a fair and balanced news channel could succeed, as long as no views were rejected and conservative views were allowed to be heard."


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Hey guys my first post here. Was looking for some advice from a vet. A little backround. 6 years lifting, 20 y/o, 225 6'3. I am looking at a pro card in the next 1-2 years, have won Nationals at a teen level and am soon moving on into 21+. Just finished my bulk sitting at 14% BF.
I have run a few bikes in the past, but i want a little advice.
I tend to run shorter cycles with my diabetes, so ignore that.
I am a type 1 diabetic, so that influences many decisions I make.
Test P Wk 1-8(10) EoD 100 mg
Stanzolol ( Winns) - 1-4 ( 2 weeks extra depending on Blood Glucose (BG) levels) 50 mg ED
Adex .5 eod
Have nov and milk thistle as well.
Winstrol does have an affect on insulin sensitivity, so depending on how controlled I am I may follow up with 2 extra weeks.
1)My first time running winnies. Will it affect my BG levels significantly?? How can I avoid/manipulate dosage times (I use an insulin pump, very easy to manipulate).
2) Will this significantly help shred/harden me up?
3) Anything I should be fixing on the cycle?


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Console Monster writes: "Come November, both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One will be on sale, over seven years since their predecessors hit the shop shelves.
Despite the four month wait, gamers are already taking sides over the next-generation of consoles in a similar fashion to The Twilight Saga..."
I agree with you on all five of those reasons. The exclusives look amazing. And the entertainment system is actually looking like like something i would use in my free time, super bowl parties, and just watching T.V.
No one can argue that xbox one has more features than ps4. Ps4 has better specs that's for sure. Though differences in graphics for both system will be almost non-existent but the xbox one seriously is capable of doing so much more with kinect.
Why not get the all in one for 100 bucks more?
I already got a ps3. why should i get the ps4 with just a better spec? :-/
LOL good let all the uninformed doggies get the xbox one more features please name them inb4 someone says its a dev kit if so what games have you made before not counting the ones on mincraft.
Five reasons not to ...
PS+ > Gold
$100 in pocket > Always on kinect
Region Free > Region Locked
Remote Play Vita > Smart Glass


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After succumbing to a 90-run defeat against South Africa in the third ODI, India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said that his side missed the services of Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra.
"The three fast bowlers that we played, their strength was not change of pace. If we had somebody like Ashish Nehra or Zaheer, things would have been different," Dhoni said after the match.
"The kind of start they got, 340 would have been a decent total to restrict them to. We have done well over the season, there have been injuries, we have missed key players, if you look at everything, we have done really well.
"Our bowling has improved in bits and pieces we have done well. Youngsters are doing well. May be in one year we will also put up the best fielding side in the world," he added.
His South African counterpart Jacques Kallis said that they are a much better side then what the result of the three match series suggests.
"We know we are a lot better than we have played in the series. If we play to our strength, we are a very good one-day side," Kallis said.
"AB played a really special knock, taking the total from 300 to 360. We will all take a lot with us from here, we will be a lot better cricketers," he added.
Man-of-the-Match A B de Villiers, who slammed a sizzling 102 off 59 balls to help South Africa post 365 for two, said he was happy the series ended on a positive note.
"It's always nice coming to India, we have been pretty up and down in the series, but ending up on a high note is pleasing," he said.
"Loots (Bosman) and Hashim (Amla) set a good foundation, and gave me the freedom to express myself in the end. I always love playing in Ahmedabad. Definitely becoming my favourite ground," added De Villiers.


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Do you work with young people or adults under 25 years and support them with Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) in your school, college, community centre or university?
It is likely you deliver workshops around safe sex, responsible drinking and mental health, but do you deliver anything around the potential risks associated with problem gambling or social gaming?
The UK gambling industry has changed significantly over the last decade. Measures introduced by the 2005 Gambling Act and advances in new technology, have impacted on the access and advertising of gambling services in the UK. With Betting Shops now in visible shop-front locations on every High Street, casinos now open 24/7 in most cities, advances in internet (remote) gambling and a massive rise in gambling advertising and sponsorship, the awareness of and opportunity to gamble is far more assessable than it has ever been. The latest data from the Gambling Commission suggests there are over 450,000 people addicted to gambling in the UK right now, with over 130,000 being under the age of 25 years.
Introducing YGAM
The Young Gamblers Education Trust (known as YGAM) is a newly registered UK Charity with social purpose to 'inform, educate and safeguard young people against problem gambling or social gaming.' Working with the PSHE Association and Ofqual approved awarding body ASDAN, we have developed the UK's first accredited, gambling-related harm, licensed training course and resources. Our course and resources have been written for professionals and volunteers who support young people and adults up to the age of 25 years.
To become a licensed YGAM practitioner and gain complimentary access to our accredited resources you are invited to attend our one-day structured training course. Once you have completed this course and become licensed, you will have sign-in rights to our dedicated website so you can download all our resources and education material, allowing you to deliver gambling-related harm workshops to young people and adults in your care.
Our one-day training course will cover the following modules:
- Why do people and in particular, young people gamble?
- Background on youth gambling (under 25yrs) in the UK.
- Introduction and familiarisation with the accredited YGAM gambling-related harm curriculum.
- Create a lesson plan or scheme of work that you can take away and use immediately.
- Practical tips on delivering the YGAM programme as part of PSHE in the curriculum.
- How to measure and demonstrate the effectiveness of your local YGAM programme.
Created by teachers, youth workers, young people, gambling industory leaders and former gambling addicts; the YGAM programme ultimately has been designed to build digital resilience among young people and raise awareness of the potential mental health and financial impacts of problem gambling & social gaming. Facilitation will be provided by the YGAM Director of Education, Adrian Sladdin a former teacher who has worked in education his entire career and YGAM Chief Executive Lee Willows, a former gambling addict who has also worked in education and youth development for over 25 years.
What teachers & youth workers thought to our recent training.? (click for video)
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YGAM licenced practitioner – what does this entail?
During the workshop you will be provided with your personal sign-in details for the dedicated YGAM website. Additionally, as part of the training you will be given a full tour of this website, shown where all the downloadable material is stored and be supported to create a lesson plan or scheme of work that you can use immediately with your students or young people. All of the material is offered free of charge for colleagues who attend our workshop.
At the end of the workshop, YGAM will complete the paperwork and send to Ofqual approved awarding body ASDAN to secure your license. The license itself will be provided by ASDAN, in the form of a high quality, original ASDAN certificate of attendance. YGAM is proud to be an ASDAN Customised Accreditation Centre. Centre number 35981.
With your permission we would add your name and school or educational establishment to the YGAM website as we are keen to build a team of licenced practitioners across the UK. Licences are not transferable between colleagues and the license covers the individual practitioner and not the educational establishment.
There is no annual renewal fee and once you are licensed your only committment to is inform YGAM if you move to another school or educational establishment.
Where is the training held?
The workshops are held in Central London, however we are willing to hold regional workshops if there is sufficient demand. If you can help us to organise a regional workshop, YGAM will offer one complementary delegate place for every ten paying delegates. If you would like to help and organise a regional workshop, please contact Lee Willows via email on firstname.lastname@example.com
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
Yes it is, once paid your ticket can be given to any college within our establishment. Please note that YGAM licences are not transferrable.
How do I contact the organiser with further questions?
Please email Lee Willows: firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone the YGAM office on 0203 837 4963. All questions will be responded to within 48 hours, often within 3 hours.
Finally a personal note from our Founder & Chief Executive:
Thank you so much for looking at our event page :)
I am Lee Willows, the Chief Executive of YGAM and a former gambling addict. I know first-hand the devastating consequences that a gambling addiction can cause to yourself and those around you. The lengths I would go to feed my addiction were staggering, brought many people around me to their knees and things got so bad I almost attempted suicide on a two of occasions.
If it were not for my parents, partner, the NHS National Problem Gambling Clinic and addiction treatment chairty GamCare I would now not be here. It is from this very dark place and having the experience of a lived-addiction that I become interested in behavioural addictions. In the UK most people can relate to substance addictions (such as drugs or alcohol), but most people find it hard to understand or even relate to behavioural addictions. According to the UK Gambling Commission there are approximately 450,000 people addicted to gambling right now; even more staggering 130,000 of those are young people under the age of 25 years. It is against this backdrop and following several months of research and piloting our gambling-related harm prevention resources, YGAM is born. My motivation to establishing YGAM with colleagues is to help and prevent others getting in to mess I did. At YGAM we work with the education sector, voluntary (third) sector, gambling industory and public health to achieve our charitable aims.
I really hope you will support our chairty by attending one of these workshops and very much look forward to meeting you.


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Mergelene (Pichette) Jackson, 86, a lifelong resident of Omak, died Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.
She was born to Nelli and Henry Pichette on July 19, 1927, in Omak, Wash.
She was a member of the Colville Tribe. She attended St. Mary's Mission. Mergelene married Merle Jackson in September of 1947. Their daughter, Charlotte, was born December 16, 1949, and Rhonda was born March 19, 1969.
Mergelene and Merle were very active members in Moose Lodge #1492 in Omak. She and Merle loved fishing, dancing and her beautiful roses. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in September 1997.
Mergelene was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Merle, in 1999; sisters, Pearl Olive, Lear, Mary and Irene; and her brothers, Tom, Doc, Bill and Bud.
She is survived by her daughters, Charlotte (Bob) Moyer and Rhonda Rodriquez. She also is survived by two grandsons, Dean Houtz and Tony Rodriquez; one granddaughter, Megan Davission; and great-grandchildren, Avery and Emily Houtz.
Graveside servies will be open to all at Omak Cemetery on Elmway on at 11 a.m. Nov. 7, 2013. Reception luncheon will be at the Elks Lodge, 110 S. Ash St., Omak at noon.
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Brill's Companion to Aphrodite
Amy Claire Smith, Sadie Pickup
Brill, 2010 - History - 452 pages
"Brill's Companion to Aphrodite" brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped in four parts according to aspects of the goddess: 'Aphrodite s Identity; Aphrodite's Companions and Relations; The Spread of Aphrodite s Cults and The Reception of the Goddess. Each part draws on literary and visual sources, incorporates Greek, Roman, and later material, and ranges across places and periods from prehistoric Cyprus and the Near East to the antiquities market in 19th century France. This book therefore crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, as well as the multiple aspects and characteristics of the goddess
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February 18, 2014 > Save Our Hills
Save Our Hills is organizing a gathering at Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens in Union City on Saturday, February 22. Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens, part of the East Bay Regional Park system, is a hidden gem at the end of Whipple/May Road. The park consists of a historic cottage built in 1900, a garden with multiple trails, and lots to explore and see.Local historian, Timothy Swenson from the Museum of Local History, will give a talk on the history of Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens, and the surrounding land from pre-historic times to the modern day. Save our Hills and the Museum of Local History are working together to have Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens listed on the California, and possibly the National, historic registry.Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens is an example of historic preservation done right. Although not part of Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens, the agricultural fields just outside the park are contributing factors in creating the historic setting for Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens. This land is the last large area used for agriculture in Union City. The Masonic Homes of California is looking again to develop the flat lands along Mission Blvd. These lands are protected by ballot measure II, voter approved in 1996. Elizabeth Ames of Save Our Hills will talk about the Masonic Home plans, how it affects you, and what you can do to help preserve the scenic views of our hills.Come to Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens, listen about the past, the future, and explore the many paths in the garden. Parking for Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens is at the end of May/Whipple Road. Both parking and entrance to the park is free.Save Our Hills is a group of local citizens to prevent incompatible developments that threaten the agricultural, recreational and open space resources within the City of Union City. The Save Our Hills website is http://www.saveunioncityhills.com/Save Our Hills GatheringSaturday, Feb 221 p.m. Ð 3 p.m.Dry Creek Cottage and GardensWhipple/May Roads, Union Cityhttp://www.saveunioncityhills.com


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Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation's most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years, died Tuesday. He was 98.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Katherine.
A self-styled journeyman actor, the versatile Wallach appeared in scores of roles, often with his wife, Anne Jackson. No matter the part, he always seemed at ease and in control, whether playing a Mexican bandit in the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven, a bumbling clerk in Eugène Ionesco's allegorical play Rhinoceros, a henpecked French general in Jean Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors, Clark Gable's sidekick in The Misfits or a Mafia don in The Godfather: Part III.
Despite his many years of film work, some of it critically acclaimed, Wallach was never nominated for an Academy Award. But in November 2010, less than a month before his 95th birthday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him an honorary Oscar, saluting him as "the quintessential chameleon, effortlessly inhabiting a wide range of characters, while putting his inimitable stamp on every role."
His first love was the stage. Wallach and Jackson became one of the best-known acting couples in the American theater. But films, even less than stellar ones, helped pay the bills.
"For actors, movies are a means to an end," Wallach said in an interview with the New York Times in 1973. "I go and get on a horse in Spain for 10 weeks, and I have enough cushion to come back and do a play."
Wallach, who as a boy was one of the few Jewish children in his mostly Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, made both his stage and screen breakthroughs playing Italians. In 1951, six years after his Broadway debut in a play called Skydrift, he was cast opposite Maureen Stapleton in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, playing Alvaro Mangiacavallo, a truck driver who woos and wins Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian widow living on the Gulf Coast. Both Stapleton and Wallach won Tony Awards for their work in the play.
The first movie in which Wallach acted was also written by Williams: Baby Doll (1956), the playwright's screen adaptation of his 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Wallach played Silva Vacarro, a Sicilian émigré and the owner of a cotton gin that he believes has been torched. Karl Malden and Carroll Baker also starred.
Wallach never stayed away from the theater for long. After The Rose Tattoo he appeared in another Williams play, Camino Real (1953), wandering a fantasy world as a young man named Kilroy. He also played opposite Julie Harris in Anouilh's Mademoiselle Colombe (1954), about a young woman who chooses a life in the theater over life with her dour husband, and in 1958 he appeared with Joan Plowright in The Chairs, Ionesco's farcical portrait of an elderly couple's garrulous farewell to life.
In another Ionesco allegory, a 1961 production of Rhinoceros, Wallach gave a low-key performance as a nondescript clerk in a city where people are being transformed into rhinoceroses. The cast also included Jackson and Zero Mostel.
By the time Rhinoceros came along, Jackson and Wallach had been married for 13 years. They met in 1946 in an Equity Library Theatre production of Williams' This Property Is Condemned and were married two years later. A list of survivors was incomplete.
Eli Wallach was born on Dec. 7, 1915, the son of Abraham Wallach and the former Bertha Schorr. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and attended the University of Texas at Austin ("because the tuition was $30 a year," he once said), where he also learned to ride horses — a skill he would put to good use in Westerns. After graduation he returned to New York and earned a master's degree in education at City College, with the intention of becoming a teacher like his brother and two sisters.
Instead, he studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse until World War II put him in the Army. He served five years in the Medical Corps, rising to captain. After the war he became a founding member of the Actors Studio and studied method acting with Lee Strasberg. Ahead lay his Broadway debut in Skydrift, which had a one-week run in 1945, and his fateful meeting with an actress named Anne Jackson.
The Wallachs went on to become stalwarts of the American stage, evoking memories of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, thanks to their work in comedies like The Typists and The Tiger, a 1963 double bill by Murray Schisgal, and a revival of Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors (1973).
In a joint interview in the Hartford Courant in 2000, Wallach and Jackson said they had sought out opportunities to work together.
"But we're not the couple we play onstage," Jackson said. "For us, it's fun to separate the two."
The couple appeared in a revival of The Diary of Anne Frank in 1978, in a production that also featured their daughters Roberta as Anne Frank and Katherine as her onstage sister. In 1984, they presided over a chaotic Moscow household in a Russian comedy, Viktor Rozov's Nest of the Wood Grouse, directed by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater. Four years later, they returned to the Public as a flamboyant acting couple in a revival of Hy Kraft's Cafe Crown, a portrait of the Yiddish theater scene in its heyday.
In 1993, they presented a theatrical reminiscence, In Persons. The next year, they played a biblical husband and wife in a revival of Clifford Odets' Flowering Peach by the National Actors Theater, and in 2000 they were a pair of retired comedians in Anne Meara's off-Broadway play Down the Garden Paths.
In between appearances with Jackson, Wallach played, among other roles, an aging gay barber in Charles Dyer's Staircase (1968), a political dissident consigned to an asylum in Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1979), an aged but mentally spry furniture dealer in a 1992 revival of Arthur Miller's play The Price and a Jewish widower in Jeff Baron's Visiting Mr. Green (1997).
Wallach's many television credits included a 1974 production of Odets' Paradise Lost on public television; Skokie, a 1981 CBS movie about a march planned by neo-Nazis in a Chicago suburb, in which he played a lawyer representing Holocaust survivors; a 1982 NBC dramatization of Norman Mailer's Executioner's Song, in which he appeared with Tommy Lee Jones; and frequent roles on Studio One, Playhouse 90, General Electric Theater.
And then there were films, dozens of them. In addition to his parts in Baby Doll and The Magnificent Seven, he played the mechanic pal of Clark Gable's aging cowboy in The Misfits (1961), the story of a wild-horse roundup in Nevada, written by Miller and directed by John Huston, with a cast that also included Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift.
Wallach was also a lawless jungle tyrant subdued by the title character (Peter O'Toole) in Lord Jim (1965); a rapacious Mexican pitted against Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in Sergio Leone's so-called spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); a psychiatrist assigned to evaluate the sanity of a call girl (Barbra Streisand) on trial for killing a client in Nuts (1987); and Don Altobello, a Mafia boss who succumbs to a poisoned dessert, in The Godfather: Part III (1990).
He continued his film work well into his 90s. He was a disillusioned screenwriter in The Holiday (2006). In Tickling Leo (2009), he played the guilt-ridden patriarch of a Jewish family still haunted by the Holocaust. In Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer (2010), Wallach played a mysterious old man living on fog-shrouded Martha's Vineyard. And in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), which marked the return of Michael Douglas as the greed-stoked investor Gordon Gekko, Wallach hovered at the edge of the action like Poe's sinister raven.
More often than not, his film roles required him to play mustachioed characters who were lawless, evil or just plain nasty, which puzzled and challenged him.
"Actually I lead a dual life," he once said. "In the theater, I'm the little man, or the irritated man, the misunderstood man," whereas in films "I do seem to keep getting cast as the bad guys."
His villain roles, he said, tended to be "more complex" than some of his stage roles.
Even so, the theater remained his home base, and he said that he could never imagine leaving it.
"What else am I going to do?" he asked in an interview with the New York Times in 1997. "I love to act."


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Faith Keeps Walking!
You may have seen this already, or maybe it is something new to you..but my aunt emailed me this story of "Faith" today, and it really gave me the chills! I know we all face those times in life where we fall, nothing seems to be going right, we feel like no one is there, and it's so hard to get back up! But let me explain something to you that a man named Bruce once told me: No Matter How Hard It Gets, we always have the strength to get up and keep walking! By the way Faith is a Dawg, but not a four-legged Dawg like we are used to..So I share her story with you


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Heavy is the lip that wears the mustache, and I've heard it all over the past few weeks: Why do you have that hideous mustache? Is that thing real? Why would you do that to your face? I guess he never, ever plans on meeting a nice girl. Tom Selleck called and said the Magnum P.I. look went out in the early '80s. I didn't know you were a Civil War veteran. Are you going to a costume party dressed as Hulk Hogan, Billy D. Williams, Grover Cleveland, Mahatma Gandhi, Salvatore Dali, or, well, use your imagination.
Nevertheless, during mustache season, I welcome the jeers at my expense. But at least adults snicker when you are out of earshot; little kids will just point and laugh at you. In this case, however, laughter may well be the best medicine that we can muster — we are Mustaches for Kids.
Mustaches For Kids is a national, volunteer-run organization. Each year, participants, or "growers," raise money by growing mustaches. They shave their faces — except for the 'stache — a minimum of one time per week and solicit donations from friends, family, co-workers, and people in the community.
The Long Island Chapter of Mustaches For Kids, based out of Long Beach, has started its sixth growing season this year. Over the past five years, our chapter has raised more than $195,000 for the Pediatric Cancer Care Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The season began with a "shave day" on Sept. 28 at Sutton Place, where participants had their pictures taken and received pins that read, "Ask me about my mustache" to aid in the fundraising effort.
Nearly 100 'staches strong, we make a repugnant spectacle of our upper lips representing the children at Sloan-Kettering. Each year, we canvass the streets of Long Beach, commandeering the facial real estate of community-minded gentlemen. From those mugs spring the hairs of benevolence, but not without your help. Please, allow me a moment to explain.
Cancer knows no gender, no color, no religion, and does not care about your political beliefs. And sadly, it does not care about the age of its victims. At the Sloan-Kettering Pediatric Cancer Care Center, children receiving treatment for cancer never had an opportunity to experience the facets of life and childhood that most of us take for granted.


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Visiting Australia? YHA Australia hostels are clean, safe, comfortable, affordable and fun! They offer much more than a bed and are located in all major destinations around Australia. All YHA Australia hostels are accessible 24 hours.
Sydney Central YHA
Sydney Central YHA is housed in a heritage-listed building opposite Central Station. The hostel has a heated swimming pool, sauna and a beanbag movie theatre with free popcorn! Book daytrips and onward travel at the Travel desk and party at Scubar, at a range of events from crab races to silent discos! This Sydney hostel has been inducted into the Australian Tourism Awards Hall of Fame as Best Backpacker Accommodation. Book your Sydney Hostel bed today!
Sydney Harbour YHA
'Floating' over the foundations of some of Sydney's earliest homes, Sydney Harbour YHA is the only backpackers hostel in the historic Rocks precinct. The rooftop views of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge match those of the 5 star hotels that surround it. Every room in the hostel has ensuite facilities. Sydney Harbour YHA has all the basics, together with all the mod cons, including lockers with powerpoints to charge your gadgets securely. Book your Sydney Harbour Hostel stay now!
Brisbane City YHA
Brisbane City YHA is a modern, centrally-located hostel, across the road from The Barracks Shopping Centre and a short walk from the nightlife of Caxton Street and the Roma Street Station transport hub. The hostel has a rooftop pool overlooking the Brisbane River and city skyline, a games room with Nintendo Wii, YHA Travel Desk and internet with WiFi and Skype. Let the friendly staff at Drifters Café serve you up a yummy breakfast, lunch or dinner! Book your Brisbane Backpackers bed here!
Melbourne Central YHA
Stay in the heart of Melbourne, at Melbourne Central YHA, our newest Melbourne hostel. The hostel is close to Southern Cross Station, the free city centre tram and shopping meccas, Bourke Street Mall and Collins Street. It is located within a National Trust-listed building. Relax on the rooftop or chill out in Bertha Brown's Backpacker Bar and enjoy daily YHA member food and drink specials. The hostel is clean and modern. If you plan to visit Melbourne, book your Melbourne Hostel bed here!
Perth City YHA
Inducted into the WA Tourism Awards Hall of Fame for Best Backpacker Accommodation, Perth City YHA is set inside a renovated 1940s art deco building. Well-located in the city centre and close to transport, the hostel has everything a traveller could want, including a pool, gym, parking, Wifi, Travel desk and Packaz Bar, which holds Backpacker events every night. This hostel is a great starting point for your travels throughout Western Australia. Book your Backpacker bed in Perth here!
Adelaide Central YHA
A multi-award winning hostel at Light Square, Adelaide Central YHA is consistently rated highly by its guests. The hostel is close to the Hindley Street nightlife and the Rundle Shopping Mall. With Wifi and 24-hour internet, many rooms with balconies and free pancakes cooked by the hostel's super-friendly staff twice a week, what's not to like? Book your Adelaide Hostel stay here!
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You would have to be a pretty big poop head not to love Giants baseball. Today's victory against the Orioles was a good example: another solid win (6 innings, 2 runs, 8 hits , 4 walks , 10 strikeouts) from the Freak, another 5 out super-save from Wilson, and even another back-to-back barrage from Huff and Uribe. It may not have been the prettiest game - Tim's last out that grazed his shoulder comes to mind - but is was exciting and a big win that keeps us right in a wonderful race. Yep, you would have to be a BIG poop head.
But I love Giants baseball for even more reasons today. I have been married to my soul-mate for 11 years as of today. We spent this afternoon at The Black Sheep, a lovely pub at which we had our first date. As we enjoyed the "fayre and libations," my lovely bride and I shared one of our great joys together: Giants baseball. I truly felt like a fortunate man. It was a glorious occasion, independent of the score.
Bullshit. The win made it better.
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