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States are lining up to drop out of No Child Left Behind, the education initiative that was promoted as a historic achievement of the Bush administration.
Since President Barack Obama announced last month that he would sign an executive order allowing states to request waivers from mandatory participation in the program, at least 27 have signaled that they will ask to opt out, and most others are reviewing their options.
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Obama said states could seek waivers as long as they adopt higher standards than those mandated under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as No Child Left Behind is formally titled. The Education Department said most states had already done that, presumably making them eligible for waivers.Story: Obama lets states opt out of federal school rules
Education Secretary Arne Duncan — who himself had to follow No Child Left Behind when he was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2008 — isn't just offering the waivers. He's actively encouraging education officials to apply for them, he said, because "No Child Left Behind is fundamentally broken."
"It's far too punitive, far too prescriptive," Duncan said. The 2002 law "led to a narrowing of the curriculum. None of those things are good for children, for education or, ultimately, for our country."
In a letter to state education officials, Duncan cited "innovations and reforms" at the state and local level that "were not anticipated when the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was enacted nearly a decade ago."Story: Education secretary's letter to state education officials
That's why, he said in an interview with NBC News, "I'm actually giving away the power. ... We are giving the power to states and districts."Video: Arne Duncan: Give schools flexibility to hit high bar (on this page)
Critics — including many educators — have long said No Child Left Behind locked states into inflexible standards focused solely on reading and math, neglecting subjects like social studies, the arts, health and physical education.
"There's only two things that have been tested as it was, and we know that we want to produce students coming out of high school with a well-rounded education," said Lonny Lemon, school superintendent in Quincy, Ill.
Teach kids to be 'critical thinkers'
Reno Holler, a social studies teacher at Summit High School in Bend, Ore., said No Child Left Behind had created "a culture of 'we need to teach to the test,' rather than teaching to our children and teaching them to be critical thinkers."
Indicating the unpopularity of the testing standards, few critics of Obama's action have emerged, and their objections rest more on his decision to bypass Congress by issuing an executive order.
"The federal role in K-12 education is not working nearly as well as is needed. It must be seriously rethought and restructured," Russ Whitehurst, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit policy institute, wrote Thursday. But, he added, "Congress is about this work" — not the executive branch.
Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy, a nonprofit institution promoting higher public education standards, blamed "political problems," noting that Congress has ended its last three sessions without revamping the law to address educators' widespread concerns.Video: Fixing the country's education system (on this page)
"On the House side, the Tea Party members don't believe there should be a federal role in education," Jenkins said. "But when the Democrats controlled both houses earlier in the Obama administration, the education problem slipped right off their radar screen."
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, agreed that there was "frustration with Congress, and with the Republicans in Congress particularly."
States seeking waivers
Following are states whose education officials have said they intend to seek waivers of testing provisions under No Child Left Behind:
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Kentucky
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Nevada
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Vermont
• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Wisconson
Source: News reports
She said No Child Left Behind was a matter of "good intention and bad implementation," and that as a result, "we understand the need for doing the waivers."Video: Fixing 'No Child Left Behind' (on this page)
What officials want to fix is the rigidity of the current law, which set standards so restrictive that entire schools are deemed to be failing if only a relative few students don't meet test standards.
Under current rules, a school's success is based on a statewide test that assesses 40 categories. If just one subcategory — such as students with disabilities or those who are economically disadvantaged — doesn't make its federal Adequate Yearly Progress benchmark, then the entire school fails.Video: Closing 'achievement gaps' in the US (on this page)
That's what happened to two Roanoke County, Va., middle schools in 2008, when one subcategory of math didn't meet the standard. Both schools were categorized as failing overall.Story: Classroom 'crisis': Many teachers have little or no experience
Jack Padgett, a member of the Richmond County (Ga.) School Board, said the rule also led to some of his county's schools being branded as failures even though "we'd made 93.7 percent of all the criteria."
"It's kind of hard to tell a kid or school or teacher you're failing when you're making good improvement," Padgett said.
Education Department outline of NCLB changes (.pdf)
By doing away with the federal Adequate Yearly Progress standard, "You would not have one disaggregated group dragging an entire school down, which is what happened in No Child Left Behind," said Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., who has unsuccessfully sought to pass legislation to do away with the test standards.
"Instead, the school would be evaluated in its totality," he said.
Public backs reform of law
Such complaints resonate loudly with the public.
In a Gallup poll in January, 53 percent of respondents said No Child Left Behind needed "major revisions," and 21 percent said it should be eliminated completely.
Those results were distributed fairly evenly across respondents who identified themselves as Democrats, Republicans and independents. (The poll of 1,032 adults reported a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.)
But the standards still have some defenders, among them Margaret Spellings, who administered No Child Left Behind as President George W. Bush's education secretary from 2005 to 2009.
She said waiving the requirements could lead state and local officials to try to "game the system" if they're allowed to measure their progress themselves.
"They talk a good game, but when it comes time to deliver for students, they rarely perform," Spellings said. "That's why we're in this mess in the first place."
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This is back to the Chicago 12/5/1970 clue from the credits. If you use the European date style and google May 12, 1970, Chicago, you find out that Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs hit his 500th home run on that date in a game at Wrigley Field, off of Pat Jarvis of the Atlanta Braves. Could this point to anyone? I didn't find anything interesting for December 5th.
More fun with google -- S.666 is a senate bill aimed at giving the FDA more power to regulate tobacco products. One interesting thing about it was that the bill was introduced by Senator DeWine -- possibly a connection to the grapes clue? And the Pisco sours mentioned here and there in different episodes could also point to wine, as Pisco is a brandy made from grapes, which also make wine.Of course I have no idea what to do with that information. I've been googling Chilean wine and Pisco looking for anything that might shed light on the LIAr part of the clue, but not finding anything. It's possible, though, that the "grapes" and "s666" clues are meant to point out more than one player who might be linked to wine (who's been shown drinking it?), and the LIAr is meant to narrow that group down to just one, so the two halves of the clue don't necessarily have to be related.Anyway, maybe a lot to hang on an obscure Senate bill! I'd be a little more confident of my interpretation if the clue had been written as "S.666-LIAr" rather than "s666-LIAr", but what can you do?
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He may have a baby face, but he's a force to be reckoned with.
Michael Góngora, 43, has risen the ranks of Miami Beach politics, first helping with a campaign and now in the race for the seat of mayor in November. Not just an ordinary race, his win could make history with Miami Beach voting in its first openly gay mayor in the battlegrounds of hate and bigotry in the days of Anita Bryant.
"He feels that he's at a point and he really wanted to go for it. He felt he would be more effective running for mayor than he would be for running for city commission again, which I agree with and I completely support," said his step sister, Maya Sherrill.
A lifelong Floridian, Góngora was born in Coral Gables to a Cuban father and a mother from Birmingham, Ala. The two married young, so Góngora's paternal grandmother cared for him while his parents worked. She taught him Spanish and his grandfather would tell him stories of living in Cuba as a businessman and a city commissioner.
"I grew up very close to my cousins and my uncle and my aunt. When I was a little boy my grandparents actually owned a duplex, and my uncle and my aunt and my two older cousins lived in the duplex so I grew up spending a lot of time with them," he remembers.
His parents divorced when he was young, and during high school Góngora moved with his mother to St. Petersburg where he graduated from Lakewood High School. There, he also spent more time with his step sister, Maya Sherrill, who is only three weeks younger than him (leading to claims that they're twins). The two had grown up spending weekends together, and when she joined him at Lakewood High, they became even closer.
"I had been in a very small town and he was just so wonderful, showing me around and everything," Sherrill said.
It was also during their high school years that Sherrill noticed they had similar tastes, like a love of Madonna and Marilyn Monroe. She suspected that he was gay, and was right.
"He came out to me at the end of high school right when he graduated and so he had been out with me for a while."
After high school, Góngora moved back to Coral Gables to live with his father and attend the University of Miami. There, he lead what he called a "double life," hiding his sexuality from his family but meeting men while he was out on the town. After all, he grew up going to a Christian school, his father was a conservative Cuban man, and his mother was from the South and the daughter of an Assemblies of God preacher. It wasn't until he was 21 that he was outed to his parents -- by accident.
Sherrill and Góngora went to St. Petersburg for Mother's Day weekend, which included a night out. Góngora gave his number to a man, who ended up calling his mother's house and leaving a message while the three of them were out to brunch.
"When we came home we were listening to the messages and I had a message from a male with I guess a somewhat effeminate sounding voice," Góngora laughed. "My mother was like, 'Who is that? It doesn't sound like a very nice person.'"
According to Góngora, sensing the tension in the room, Sherrill blurted out, "Come on, we all know he's gay."
"I remember that. I just didn't remember me being quite so obnoxious about it," his sister said about the incident. "I didn't mean to blow him out of the water, but I guess I just didn't want it to to be uncomfortable for him, you know? I wanted it to be OK."
"I've demonstrated that it's OK that I'm gay, that doesn't mean that I'm going to just focus solely on LGBT issues. I'm bright, I read my agenda, and I've shown that gay people have the same concerns that straight people have."
The siblings' mother ended the conversation and refused to discuss it. While Góngora drove back home to Coral Gables, she called his father to tell him the news. To Góngora's surprise, his father easily accepted the news. Today, both parents completely embrace their son and his sexuality.
As a practicing attorney, Góngora was president of the Miami Beach Latin Chamber of Commerce during the 2001 election cycle. A Cuban county commissioner suggested that Góngora run for the Miami Beach Commission. Although he didn't throw his hat in the ring, he studied the election and ended up supporting the man he would have run against. Becoming a part of city politics, he was appointed to the city's Community Development Advisory Committee.
"I never realized I had a passion for public service until that time," he said. "I don't know if it's because I'm single and don't have children and this is a way for me to give back, but I find it very rewarding and very fulfilling."
After his appointment to the Community Development Advisory Committee, Góngora became deeply involved in the city; he soon became a part of the Design Review Board, Zoning Board of Adjustment, and then a special magistrate for the county. In 2006, he decided to try his hand at politics and joined the race for Miami Beach commissioner. He won 35 percent of the vote, but per city law, the winner must have at least 50 percent or the top two move on to a run off. It was between him and Deede Weithorn, and the two were invited to local journalist Jim DeFede's morning radio show to discuss the election and city issues. At that time, Góngora was openly gay, but didn't discuss it while serving on boards or during the campaign.
"At the time we were bitter enemies," Góngora said of Weithorn. "We're on this radio show and she was -- I can tell -- looking for a way to kind of out me because I had been pretty closeted in my campaign by not mentioning it."
Weithorn claimed Góngora had issues with women, which Góngora refuted. Finally, "she just kind of blurted it out. She was like, 'You have an issue with women because you're gay.'"
A number of Góngora's gay friends and gay activists were upset by what transpired on the show, but it ended up sending the LGBT community to the polls. He won the election, as did Weithorn a few years later, and today he considers her "a good friend of mine."
Winning the election, Góngora became Miami Beach's first openly gay politician and the press ate it up, writing profiles and always adding in stories that he is openly gay."I felt that the press was primarily focused on me being gay more so than my qualifications, my accomplishments and my ideas," he said. "But I embraced it and I've since come to realize how important it was to have somebody openly gay be elected, although there have been a number of gay and lesbian candidates over the years for Miami Beach public office."
"I've demonstrated that it's OK that I'm gay, that doesn't mean that I'm going to just focus solely on LGBT issues. I'm bright, I read my agenda, and I've shown that gay people have the same concerns that straight people have."
Now, he is serving his second term as city commissioner with one of his proudest moments being the sponsor of the city's tax equity ordinance for domestic partners (http://southfloridagaynews.com/articles/miami-beach-shooting-for-perfect-score-in-hrcs-municipal-equity-index/123581)
"I am not sure how he manages what are essentially two full time jobs, but he does," Rosa de la Camara, Góngora's boss at Becker & Poliakoff, wrote in an email. "He somehow manages to combine both parts of his life very efficiently."
Now, after two terms as commissioner, Góngora is in the run for taking the top seat as mayor of the city.
"Prior to his announcing it, I certainly encouraged him to run for mayor. I think anybody who knew him wanted him to run for mayor," said Jackie LaLonde, a friend and his appointee to the Charter Review Board. "The other candidates, in my mind, some of them have institutional knowledge but they lack compassion and caring about their citizenry. Instead they care about one institutional block, which might be the business folks. So for me, Michael cares about everybody and that's important."
LaLonde met Góngora while he was running for a second term when the South of Fifth K9 Association was working to get a dog park in its neighborhood. Facing opposition, Góngora took on the task and was "instrumental" in getting a dog park in South Pointe Park. She then encountered Góngora again as a condo board attorney dealing with two cases in her neighborhood.
"I'm not proud of this, but I was a classic South Beach apathetic voter who didn't really get engaged in any sort of civic issues whatsoever," LaLonde said of her days before getting involved in the city. "He just kind of showed me that if you do get engaged that you can change your life and certainly change and better the life of many different constituents.
In his campaign, he's kicked it old school going door-to-door to talk to residents about his run and what issues are on their mind. When she can, his sister comes along.
"It's just really good they see what his heart is and he's seriously committed... sometimes we would go to a door and we would be there for 40 minutes," Sherrill said. "It's a lot of work when you do these elections. It turns everything upside down but you all just pull together and have to make it happen."
Should he win the election, he'll make history in the city as its first openly gay mayor. He's already worked with a plethora of LGBT groups: Aqua Foundation, Gay Pride Committee, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in the Winter Party, Trevor Project, SAVE Dade, Equality Florida, and Unity Coalition. However, none of his top three issues he wants to tackle are aimed at the LGBT community specifically (see our sidebar of the race), as his goals go beyond just the city. As mayor, he would like to be a voice for the city to work on statewide and national issues, such as gay marriage, employment discrimination, and immigration reform.
"Miami Beach is already the most progressive community in the state and we are a leader when it comes to all types of diversity issues," he said. "Unfortunately I can't as the mayor implement changes within the city because those are state and federal issues but I can be a voice for our community and I'll travel to Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. and wherever I need to to help effectuate these important changes."
For LaLonde, who is a lesbian, having Góngora as mayor would not only do the city good in all arenas, but it would be an important landmark in the LGBT movement. Personally, she has seen how far South Florida has come.
"As a lesbian, I would absolutely like to see a nail put in the coffin of Anita Bryant. I lived through that, I had friends who were teachers during that time. It was a horrifying, terrifying witch hunt whose permutations lasted for 40-something years. Is it time to put a nail in that coffin? You betcha, and from my perspective, it's the most important person we could elect from that vantage point."
Who's running?
Steve Berke
Occupation: Tennis player at Yale University, stand up comedian
Platform: Lower taxes, renovate Miami Beach Convention Center, end Urban Beach Weekend, scale back the sweetheart city employee pension deals, keep clubs open until 5 a.m., decriminalize marijuana, end government corruption, make Miami Beach first city in Florida to legalize gay marriage.
Site: SteveBerkeForMayor.com
Michael Góngora
Occupation: Attorney
Platform: Complete the city's sustainability plan and the stormwater master plan, see through the Miami Beach Convention Center development, create mass transit to the mainland.
Site: GóngoraForMayor.com
David P. Hundley
Occupation: Realtor and builder
Platform: "As my candidacy moves forward the change I will want to make is the change that resonates from my conversations with other residents."
Site: Facebook.com/pages/David-Hundley-the-Next-Mayor-of-Miami-Beach/571199942922977
Philip Levine
Occupation: CEO of Royal Media Partners
Platform: Clean up corruption, fix street flooding, reform city finances, put priority on customer service.
Site: LevineForMayor.com
Jerry Libbin
Occupation: President and CEO of Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, Miami Beach commissioner, former financial planner,
Platform: Restore accountability and trust in government, enhance neighborhoods, reduce traffic congestion, strengthen local economy, support arts and culture, invest in public education, continue city sustainability.
Sites: JerryLibbin.com and Facebook.com/JerryLibbin4Mayor


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For, although I understood that most Black people were relegated to the bottom of the economic ladder, I took me awhile to realize that racism is a function --using Blacks as the primary pawns-- to maintain economic dominance over the masses, by the few.
(Kanye West was right when he said "Bush doesn't care.�)
One year has passed. And we are still struggling and grappling to rebuild and heal our broken community.
All of us remember the heartbreaking events we were inundated with as those horrific images of death and suffering from Louisiana engulfed us. I will never forget Katrina and the awful truth that it illustrated about the injustices of class and race in America. A year ago, while preparing to celebrate a birthday those horrible pictures of destruction and death came. And I found myself grieving and searching for answers to why.
On August 29, Hurricane Katrina descended on southern Louisiana bringing with it an almost unparalleled level of destruction after the levees were breached, flooding 80 percent of the city. A category three storm with sustained winds around 125 mph when it made landfall, Katrina killed at least 1,577 people in Louisiana alone, making it the deadliest since Hurricane Okeechobee hit in 1928. And hundreds of people still remain unaccounted for. Many of the dead were African Americans.   Â
Katrina cost the American taxpayers an estimated $81.2 billion dollars in damages. That's more than any natural disaster in American history. But the only thing worse than the devastation of this storm is the ugly realities it has revealed. For many years I thought racism was the worst problem in America. But then I realized I was wrong, at least to and extent. For, although I understood that most Black people were relegated to the bottom of the economic ladder, I took me awhile to realize that racism is a function --using Blacks as the primary pawns-- to maintain economic dominance over the masses, by the few.
Much has been made of Kanye West's statement saying that Bush doesn't care about Black people. West was right. Because, Bush doesn't care about anyone who isn't rich and most Blacks aren't. Remember Bush's infamous statement at an engagement for the rich and connected where he declared "This is an impressive crowd, the have and have-mores, some people call you elites but I call you my base?� Well, that comment underscores that only people with money are a priority in this "president's� eyes.
So, is it any wonder that while people were starving, drowning and dying in Louisiana that this "president� remained on vacation and bypassed Louisiana to attend a guitar photo-op? Many defenders of the "president� argue that Katrina was a natural disaster. But the disaster of Katrina was, in fact, largely manmade. The "president� claimed that no one could have predicted the devastation that Katrina caused. But we know that was another lie. For several engineers and scientists warned of this very thing. And this administration cut funding that would have fortified those levees in New Orleans.
In the last year, Bush and his republican bandits in the Congress have spent four to five billion dollars a month to fight an immorally war in Iraq. And Bush ardently defends lecherous tax breaks --even immediately after Katrina-- for the filthy-rich. To make matters worse this administration facilitated no-bid contracts to war profiteers like Halliburton, who have overcharged the troops for food. Yeah, just supporting the troops right Dick! Then if that wasn't bad enough they got the Davis-Bacon Act "suspended.â€? The Davis Bacon Act of 1931 is a "federal law which established the requirement for paying prevailing wages on public works projects.â€?Â
Make no mistake about it, this was done to bottom out wages and further exploit the people in New Orleans, just when they need help in rebuilding their lives. However, last month the Bushites rushed through funding sending more bombs to kill babies in the Middle East. And yet they couldn't marshal the resources to save the lives of Americans as they died slowly and alone? Where were all the military boats, planes helicopters that should have been sent to save the lives of those in their hour of distress? Well, evidently if you are poor and or Black you are nothing more that a savage in the eyes of these folks and therefore unworthy of saving. Remember the racist media coverage we witnessed. If you were Black and took food you were a "looter� but if you were white manna fell from heaven.
Katrina showed the world the hypocrisy of a nation that preaches to others about sharing democracy, while it has utterly failed to do so for many of its own citizens. Katrina peeled the scab off of that illusion, showing the cancerous underbelly of desperation many face in this country every damn day. Katrina reminded us how insignificant we are to these "powersâ€? who dictate so many things in our lives. It highlights the perversion of a "presidentâ€? who decries quotas while appointing Mike "your doing a heckuv a jobâ€? Brown to oversee FEMA.Â
But there is another lesson from Katrina that we should never forget. Katrina proved once again that: we are survivors. And that the only people we can truly depend on is us.
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Is there any reason why signings like this can't be for the future and for now? People are wanking themselves silly over Davies now and Holgate earlier in the season.
The agent of hot in demand Nigerian forward Henry Onyekuru has confirmed that his client will most likely move to England in the summer, where Southampton, Everton and West Ham are heavily linked with a move for the forward.Onyekuru has reportedly turned down a move to fellow Belgian side Anderlecht and Club Brugge, and with German side Borussia Monchengladbach pulling out of a potential deal for the summer, teams in England are now the front runners for his signature. No he wont be joining a team in Belgium at least for now despite the strong interest from Club Brugge and Anderlecht. He is going to England, in few days time you will get to know the club he is heading to, his intermediary told Owngoalnigeria.com. For now we are in talks with two teams and everything is progressing nicely. Hopefully we will conclude with one of them before the start of pre season. Dont worry we will let the world know when a deal is done.
With regard to Traore, I'd take him as a squad player, purely because of pace and potential to improve. He's still clearly playing a different game to most of his team mates, and hardly ever gets his head up, plays a good pass or demonstrates awareness.But actually considering he's a Barca academy player who went to a sinking Villa team and looked lost. I thought he looked much improved this season for Boro, by comparison. He's still largely ineffective and wasteful, but he's still only 21 and while he is a fair bit of a kick and run merchant, he has decent control and touch and lots of strength for a speed merchant.There's a hell of a lot of potential, if someone can workout how to make him effective to even a decent standard in some of basics.
Might aswell just keep Deulofeu than bring him in (id keep him anyway)
Saw someone mention this yesterday but it was just a random twitter lid so thought nothing of it.We were linked ages ago and it was widely accepted he was in the U.K. to talk to a number of clubs so thought we may have been in the hat.
I'm sure if we do sign Onyekuru that none of our fans will have a problem spelling his name
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Singer Demi Lovato has inked a multi-book deal and will be opening up about her struggles with addiction in a new memoir.
At just 21 years old, the Heart Attack hitmaker has already battled drug addiction, depression and gone to rehab for her troubles, and now she's ready to share the details in her own words.
Lovato signed the new deal with publishing company Feiwel and Friends, and her first publication is entitled Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year, which features a collection of her inspirational posts from Twitter.com.
In a video posted on the microblogging site, she announced, "One of the things that has helped me in my recovery is taking every day, one day at a time. I'm a firm believer of starting out the day right with an inspirational quote and sort of a morning meditation, so I've put together 365 of my favorite quotes. It's something that I'm excited about and I hope it inspires you to stay strong."
Staying Strong hits stores in November, and Lovato's next book will be a memoir to delve deeper in her past struggles.
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PSU's leadership team has been working to find ways to reduce our projected $15 million shortfall in 2014-15, and I wanted to update you on our progress before classes end this fall term. In my November 25 letter, I detailed two developments that help us reduce the shortfall: A two-year pay freeze for unrepresented unclassified administrators who earn an annual salary of $100,000 or more, and an increase in tuition revenue this fall of $1.5 million that surpassed earlier projections.
After further deliberations and input from across the campus, PSU's Executive Committee has determined further important steps toward a balanced budget:
- Unrepresented unclassified staff members who earn an annual salary of less than $100,000 will receive 2 percent pay increases in 2014 and 2015 for the first $50,000 of their salaries. That means staff members who earn $50,000 will receive a raise of $1,000 next year, and a staff member who earns any amount between $50,000 and $100,000 also will receive a $1,000 raise. Department chairs and equivalent positions are excluded. These modest raises, which take effect January 1, help employees keep up with inflation. Because salaries and benefits account for 81 percent of our annual operating budget, it is not possible to bring our revenues and expenses into balance without some impact on compensation.
- PSU can no longer afford to subsidize our football program from the university's annual general operating fund. The program will be required to become self-supporting, and Athletics is developing plans to do so starting next year. The program will continue to compete in the Big Sky Conference in NCAA Division I, and we look forward to Viking football next season at Jeld-Wen Field.
- Reducing projected capital expenditures, retaining online fees and readjusting inflation costs further reduce the projected shortfall.
These and previously announced savings and revenue increases total about $7.5 million, or about half of the amount we need to balance our 2014-15 budget. However, we will continue to ask units to identify larger potential adjustments in order to make strategic rather than across-the-board decisions.
I want to thank those who have submitted comments and suggestions, and we welcome more input on the Finance and Administration website (http://www.pdx.edu/fadm) as we explore additional steps to close the gap. If you have questions, please see the Frequently Asked Questions posting on this website. I will continue to provide regular updates and appreciate your engagement in this process.
We have many accomplishments across the university to celebrate in 2013, and we are determined to make equitable and strategic decisions to move PSU forward in 2014.
Wim Wiewel, President
December 5, 2013
Related Links
- November 25 Budget Update
- November 6 Budget Update
- University Budget Office


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We are a not for profit group of curious individuals who get together to think creatively about other people's problems. Our overall mission is to make curiosity contagious and meaningful. And we need a logo that represents this vision.
The Curiosity Shop
Most of the time we are constrained creatively by a client's brief, a product's objective or the people we are surrounded by and it is hard to learn new things when we see the same people or use the same processes everyday.
The Curiosity Shop business with 3 elements: It provides space and rooms for those who want to explore curiosity, a reference library to investigate good ideas and a collection of minds who meet regularly to share ideas, learn from each other and banter.
We would like to create something tangible that is known for its promotion of curiosity and find ways of applauding thinkers.
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Who Are We Targeting
Other curious people who want to know how to be curious, want to read interesting things, and banter with others who are also curious.
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Most people are task driven, impatient and happy with the status quo. Change is scary and asking questions may just encourage change. Being curious is not always welcomed but failure often occurs because of indifference.
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Make curiosity contagious and meaningful.
• We have a monthly meeting learning new things and talking about issues.
• We have a blog to share that will encourage others to be curious.
• We will have a website where others can come to learn how to be curious.
• We offer our services to NFPs to help solve their problems and provide fresh ideas.
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Think: This has got me thinking.
Feel: Excited that there is a place they can go to get the confidence to think differently.
Do: Ask questions.
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Oh no! The mischievous Eventful has stolen and hidden all of the Easter eggs that the Event Committee members have made! She has taken to the rooms of Wolfhome, hiding the eggs in various locations. Some of these eggs won't be easy to find, we need some serious help in finding them!
Unfortunately, we don't know how many Eventful has stolen. But we know there are more than seven eggs total. If you can find as many as you can in two days, and send me screenshots of where they are, I can make sure they are returned to their rightful owners.
Your job is to find the misplaced eggs in various public rooms on Wolfhome! And to send Takatia screenshots of all the eggs you can find. This hunt will take place on April 15th and April 16th, and there will be various Easter Eggs hidden around in chat rooms on Wolfhome, some rooms may even have more than one!
-The individual who finds the most eggs will be given a reward of 5 deltas for their hard work.
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Cameron's Conservatives suffer in U.K. local votes
May 03, 2013, 10:22 AM EDT
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LONDON (AP) — David Cameron's Conservatives took a drubbing in local elections amid a surge of support for an anti-European Union and anti-immigration party, heaping pressure on the prime minister to appeal to the dissident right-wing of his own party.
Echoing results across Europe, British voters appeared to punish the ruling government, fed up with economic doldrums and austerity measures. Britain's nationalist party appeared to be the recipient of a sizeable protest vote against the political elite and the EU, analysts said.
According to incomplete returns from 34 contests across England, the right-wing United Kingdom Independence Party, or UKIP, won 76 county council seats, while the mainstream opposition Labour Party gained 150.
The Liberal Democrats — junior partners in Britain's coalition government — were down 64 county council seats, while Cameron's ruling Conservatives lost 182 seats.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage — whose party Cameron once referred to as a bunch of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" — said the results will send a "shock wave" through the British political establishment.
"This is a real sea-change in British politics," Farage told the BBC.
Cameron's popularity has taken a beating as the government sticks to a strict policy of austerity to cut Britain's debts, slashing public sector jobs and welfare payments.
As results streamed in highlighting UKIP's strong showing in the election, Cameron said respect must be shown for those who chose to support the party.
"We are going to work really hard to win them back," he added.
The prime minister now finds himself in the difficult position of trying to shore up right-wing backing ahead of the next general election in 2015, while trying to maintain his own affinity for more left-wing causes.
The results are a mixture of typical midterm protest and "rage against the machine," said Tony Travers, director of the government department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
"It is a traditional midterm protest vote and it's found its lightning conductor through UKIP," Travers said. "However, there is a more generalized protest that isn't just against this government in its midterm, but is also a protest against mainstream elite politics."
He suggested UKIP's appeal — and the local election results — bear echoes of the Tea Party movement in the U.S., complete with cries of "we need to get our country back."
"This is a vote against 'they're all the same.'"
While Friday's results will jeopardize the Conservative Party's success in the 2015 general election, Travers was skeptical the local elections would steer Cameron further to the right.
"Cameron is quite awkwardly trapped," Travers said. "The number of options available to him to shift towards UKIP are limited if he's to keep faith with his own commitment to modernizing the Conservative Party," Travers said.
Still, the results in the short term could lend momentum to voices within Cameron's party urging the prime minister to introduce legislation needed to enshrine his pledge for a referendum on European Union membership by 2017.
That promise of a referendum was seen by many as a political play to shore up support for the Conservatives amid growing signs of discontent within the party and voters flocking for the exits.
The heart of UKIP's success lies not only in harnessing anti-immigration sentiment and appealing to socially conservative views on gay marriage, but exploiting Britons frustrations with a stagnating economy.
John Curtice, a politics professor at the University of Strathclyde, said the challenges facing Cameron's Conservatives in clawing back voters were underscored by the response to the prime minister's pledge to change Britain's relationship with the EU.
"It went absolutely nowhere," Curtice said. "What they have to do now above all is restore the public's faith in the competence of the government — in particular its economics. That will help to bring these folks back."
But while many called the local elections indicative of a protest vote, UKIP leader Farage dismissed any suggestion the UKIP surge would be a short-lived phenomenon.
"The next big vote is a European election this time next year in which we will be positioned as the only party saying we should divorce ourselves from a political union and have a simple free trade alternative," he told the BBC
Voting took place in 34 council contests across England, plus the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.
Cassandra Vinograd can be reached at http://twitter.com/CassVinograd
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Destination: Lake Tahoe
Tahoe's Squaw Valley offers more than just a place to rip down snow-covered hills. It's becoming a triathlon playground.
Lake Tahoe was the first U.S. location where organized skiing took place, and also the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. As a world-class ski destination, the area draws visitors from all over the world. But here's a secret: when the chairlifts close down, the area transitions into a playground for endurance enthusiasts of all kinds. Since 2013, Squaw Valley has played host to IRONMAN Lake Tahoe, which has quickly become renowned as one of the world's toughest IRONMAN races and making the resort a premier choice for active individuals and families. In 2014, IRONMAN 70.3 Lake Tahoe was added, making the weekend a festival of races for all abilities.
Looking for the ultimate training challenge to ensure you'll be at your best on the slopes next winter? IRONMAN Lake Tahoe is just the answer. And even if you're not ready for a the full 140.6-mile challenge, Squaw Valley can help you train for whatever distance event you've got coming up, no matter what time of year.
As the Official Training Destination of IRONMAN for the Western United States, the village of Squaw Valley offers a gorgeous place to get fit. In the same vein as classic IRONMAN destinations Lake Placid and Mont-Tremblant, Squaw Valley has become a world-class summer triathlon hotspot in addition to all its winter offerings. And, like Lake Placid and Mont-Tremblant, local skiers are embracing triathlon training as a way to keep themselves fit after the snow melts.
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Bedford's Chazz Palminteri tells the New York Times, in this profile, how a Bronx boy ended up moving to a 9,500-square-foot mansion in Westchester County.
The successful 65-year-old actor, restaurateur and author of "A Bronx Tale" described how he came to live in a huge castle built of stone and marble, gables and sky-high ceilings, columns and archways and yards of Schumacher fabric on six acres in Bedford.
"When I was young and we lived in a fifth-floor walk-up in the Bronx, we would often get in the car and drive north," said Palminteri, who played the guy you definitely didn't want to get in a car with in movies like "Analyze This," "A Bronx Tale," "Diabolique" and "Bullets Over Broadway" (a role that earned him an Oscar nomination). "And one time we got off at Bedford. I remember this distinctly. We saw all these houses there, these big houses."
Palminteri told the Times: "We were kids from the Bronx, you know? And I thought, 'Who are these people in these mansions? What do they do for a living?' And I said, 'I'm going to live here one day. One day, I'm going to live here.'"
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Eight years ago, on the day you were born, I hardly saw you at all. I don't even remember much of that day; you came into this world and there was a problem (it wasn't serious) (but we didn't know that at the time) (and when you are one minute old, every problem is serious) and just as soon as they laid you on my chest, they took you away.
I spent your first day waiting, wondering, worrying. I ran my fingers across the smears of blood and fluids left across my chest in your absence and dreamed of what it was going to be like to smell you, to hold you, to listen to you breath. You spent your first day asleep under a plastic pie lid, and I like to imagine you were waiting for me, dreaming, too.
I didn't know your lung had collapsed. I didn't know you weren't responding to sounds. I didn't know you have conjoined toes on one foot. I didn't know anything at all about your first day, except the pieces of information strangers would drop on the floor around me while I waited to be able to bridge the distance from the places you and I were separately confined.
Your father was by your side though all of this, of course - by kid three the romance of childrearing is dead, and the paternal instincts are at their peak. You were the daughter he'd waited 34 years and 11 months to the day for, and no amount of NICU walls were about to keep him from you.
When I was finally able to come see you, once I had feeling in my legs again and all the bleeding had stopped and the pain was a distant memory, they let me come see you. You laid pink and wriggly in your plastic bed, covered with things that go beep, and though you were only 1-1/2" of sterilized plastic away from me, it felt as though I were trying to reach across the ocean to touch you. I felt your tiny, new, curly fingers through the veil of plastic sheeting, and for as comforting as it was to feel the shape of you, it was almost more difficult this way. Mothers are not meant to feel distances from their children, especially not on the first day of their lives out of the joint.
This year, eight years after the day you were born, I hardly saw you, either, and when I did it was again through sheets of plastic. This year, though, you didn't look like the daily dessert special under a heat lamp - you were across a canyon from me, again with your father, and I got to spend your birthday with you through voodoo they call Facetime.
You came home to me two weeks later a new person, a girl, an eight year old. I got to meet the new you new - you seemed taller, you spoke clearer, that freaking loose front tooth dangling from your gums like old an old grape, taunting me to pick it. The desperation you've carried on your shoulders since we moved away from Arizona - from your father and the friend you made who I am sure will be with you for the rest of your life - seemed to have lifted off you. You have this shit. You came home a little bit older, but not too old. You came home eight, and that's just enough.
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This healthcare centre is designed to bring out the potential or radiance that is inherent within each person.
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In its standard range of hydraulic tensioners, SKF offers no less than 6 different types of tensioners with characteristics which are both different and complementary.
The product range includes multipurpose, powerful, thin, compact and other types of tensioners, covering a wide range of bolt dimensions from M8 to M160 (5/16 to 6 in.), and able to apply tightening preloads ranging from 50 kN to 8500 kN.
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RB88热博官网 www.cfwlf.com The initial degree offered at Soka University of America is a BA in Liberal Arts, with concentrations in Environmental Studies, Humanities, International Studies, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. A new concentration in Life Sciences will open in Fall 2020. Within each concentration, students can pursue what they are passionate about without being confined to the borders of their discipline. See Catalog.
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We practice an interdisciplinary approach to learning, one that is more reflective of global thinking; academic disciplines no longer stand alone.


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Makes it easy to access, transform and manage data stored in Hadoop or data lakes with a web-based interface that reduces training requirements.
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Welcome to the tropically inspired Holiday Inn Miami Beach - Oceanfront, where our 1950's Miami Modern exterior blends seamlessly with vibrant contemporary South Beach style to wrap you in modern comfort. Eleven miles east of Miami International Airport, our Miami Beach hotel is located where I-195 meets A1A at the Atlantic Ocean.
Our hotel in Miami Beach offers you an unparalleled location, with the Atlantic Ocean's sandy beaches as our backyard. Follow the South Beach Boardwalk to the Art Deco world of South Beach for shopping, dining or to vibrant nightclubs. Take a moonlit stroll on the beach by night , play in the surf by day or simply relax by our large pool overlooking the beach and our lush, tropical garden with its hammock oasis; it's a great way to spend a sunny afternoon. Families will find it easy to get to Miami's museums and attractions, as many are within 15 miles of our hotel.
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by Ed Boyd and Ed Myers
Deb Crawford
Ms. Deb received the Chairman's Award for her contribution to the GKK as Business Manager, running the day-to day administrative operations. This often comprises trying to keep Mr. Ed Boyd out of trouble.
She creates membership cards and sends them and patches to all new members, and files and maintains the extensive records system.
She is a wife, a mother and dedicated karate student.
Ms. Deb has been practicing karate for several years and was promoted to Sho-dan in 2010. She is an assistant instructor teaching children's classes in the Springfield, IL dojo.
In addition she works full time for the great state of Illinois and has a pretty good reverse punch.
Gustavo Munoz
Gustavo started practicing karate at the age of twelve and in 1985 he started to train in Goju Ryu. In 2000 he started to teach.
He joined the GKK on November 9, 2009 and is the National Director for Argentina. As a new member of the GKK he needed to learn Kihon Kata, Uke No and Yaku Soku Kumite all from the DVDs. As the director he required his students to also learn these.
He started a course of self-defense for women. He instructed a lot of effective techniques with the object that the women can confront difficult situations. At the end of the course, he gave them didactic material and a cd with the training and self-defense given during the course.
Gustavo organized several Gasshukus for his students. Several of these were for GKK members only while others were multi-style events.
In 2010 Gustavo was promoted to San Dan. He now has fifteen members and two new Sho Dans. He has been a good addition to the GKK family and is representing us well.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee established Team USA Endurance in 2013 as a fundraising platform that invites fans to participate in a premier sports experience while generating revenue for Team USA athletes. Team members pledge to fundraise for Team USA and receive an automatic race entry, as well as unique race benefits that make for an unparalleled sporting experience. Participants become members for life, both of Team USA Endurance and the Team Behind the Team, which fuels U.S. Olympians and Paralympians for greatness.
All funds raised by Team USA Endurance go to support U.S. Olympians and Paralympians as they prepare for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and help pave the way for the next generation of elite American athletes. Limited spaces are still available for the 2015 team, but they won't last long. To learn more about becoming a member of Team USA Endurance, click HERE or email email@example.com.
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Robert J. Marckin is the top-selling author of You Can Beat Prostate Cancer, a survival guide that he wishes had been available when he was diagnosed. Bob has generously shared his insight into what has helped his book become a best seller.
What was your inspiration for sharing your story?
When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer 8 years ago I was extremely frightened. The more research I did, the more books I read, and the more doctors I spoke with… the more frightened I became. Books on the market at that time were all written by physicians with their own biases. I vowed to write a book from the patient's point of view, a book that puts prostate cancer in proper perspective.
What made you decide on using Lulu to self-publish your book?
A friend who had heard of Lulu and who knew that I planned to self-publish told me that Lulu was the best in the business.
You've been selling your book through Lulu for almost a year. What were your first sales like and how do they compare to your sales today?
Sales are increasing. Just last week we crossed the 23,000 mark. That's about five times as many books as I thought I'd sell in that period of time.
Do you feel like there was one breakthrough moment when your success jumped? If so, what do you think caused that jump to happen? If not, what do you think has been the key to a sustained success?
I founded and now run a 4,000 member international prostate cancer support group. I promote my book through my website (protonbob.com) and my monthly newsletters. I have also been asked to do several interviews on radio, TV and the Internet. Some of these are archived and linked on my website home page.
Some other events caused my sales to spike. Both Loma Linda University Medical Center and University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute now send my book to patients who make inquiries into proton therapy for prostate cancer. Also, Senior NBC TV News Correspondent George Lewis ran a story on the Today Show and NBC Nightly News about his prostate cancer journey. I had helped him on that journey, and my book was part of his journey. George interviewed me and showed my book on both TV pieces. Sales spiked after that.
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My daughter and son-in-law are graphic designers. The entire cover design and layout was their idea. I had a professional photographer take the picture, but everything was "choreographed" by my daughter and son-in-law.
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Washington, DC
The battle to win Jewish votes in the New York race for the US Senate heated up this week when Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was accused by Republican challenger Rick Fazio of having "close relationship" with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Fazio, who recently joined the race after former candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani withdrew following his diagnosis with prostate cancer, charged that Hillary Clinton is a good friend of Arafat and his wife Suha and has "embraced them" when she visited the Middle East.
Fazio's comments, published in a New York Jewish newspaper, came in reference to Hillary Clinton's visit to the West Bank last year, in which she hugged and kissed Suha Arafat after giving a speech accusing the Israelis of poisoning Palestinian women and children with tear gas. The incident turned into a campaign nightmare for Hillary, hurting her standing with Jewish voters.
Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson responded to Fazio's accusation by saying, "New Yorkers know Hillary is a strong supporter of a safe and secure Israel at peace with its neighbors. It's too bad that all Congressman Lazio can offer is recycled attacks."
Lazio claims he got an eyewitness view of Clinton's coziness with the Arafats when he traveled with the Clintons to the Gaza Strip in late 1998 as a congressional representative.
The four-term New York congressman also suggested Hillary Clinton lacks experience in the Israeli cause and said that should raise doubts with voters. "I think people can rightfully ask about our records and who has shown an unwavering commitment to the state of Israel," he said. "New Yorkers who are pro-Israel - and there are an awful lot of us - need to look at what people say and do - not when they're a candidate, but before they are in political spotlight: what they've been doing the last eight years."
Fazio, 42, expressed serious reservations about the establishment of a Palestinian state, which he claims Clinton supported before she became a candidate and now says should be decided at the negotiating table. "I have to say I am concerned about the creation of a state, especially in the West Bank, where you have islands of [Palestinian] sovereignty surrounded by areas that may be under the control of Israel - whether or not that creates a kind of Balkan situation that isn't sustainable."
Fazio argues that Jerusalem should not be divided, but should be recognized as the capital of the Jewish state, and should be the home of the US embassy, which is in Tel Aviv - all positions shared by the first lady -- Albawaba.com
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Pac-12 tops Directors Cup for overall Division I athletic prowess
Once again, the Pac-12 Conference lived up to its billing as the "Conference of Champions."
In the Directors Cup which awards points for results in men's and women's sports, the Pac-12 led all leagues in the top 25 with six representatives. The Big Ten (five schools in top 25) and SEC (five) tied for second, followed by the ACC (four), Big 12 (four) and Big East (one).
Stanford earned the the Directors Cup title for the 18th consecutive year. The Cardinal won national championships in women's soccer and women's water polo and placed fourth or better in four other sports.
Here's the final top 10 for the 2011-12 academic year:
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2. Florida
4. Ohio State
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6. Texas
7. Southern California
8. North Carolina
9. Texas A&M
10. Michigan
The Pac-12 also topped the nation in number of national championships with nine. The SEC placed second with eight.
The University of Colorado led local schools by placing 57th, followed by Denver (85), Air Force (90), Wyoming (138), Colorado State (160) and Northern Colorado (229).


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Over 15 recipes to take advantage of the HTML5 Local Storage standard
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The use of cookies to store information in a browser has been around for over a decade; its simplicity has led to its use in a variety of applications, such as online shopping baskets, but which has also lead to some inherent drawbacks in terms of security and use. HTML5 LocalStorage brings much needed additional functionality to your browser, allowing you to store more useful information that you can later reference in your websites.
"Instant HTML5 Local Storage How-to" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises, which will help you take advantage of the power of the LocalStorage standard, and give you a good grounding in incorporating it into current or future website projects.
This book looks at how you can incorporate the HTML5 LocalStorage standard into your websites, using the power of modern browsers to store useful information that can be referenced at any time without recourse to the server.
You will also learn how to test for browser capability, and when the browser platform being used requires that you fall back to using cookies. We will also take a look at how you can store more relevant content, such as images or content from arrays, even though the normal standard requires content to be stored in string format. You will also learn how you can make content available offline using application caching, as well as how to incorporate LocalStorage into a plugin using jQuery that you can then incorporate into your sites in the future.
We will also look at some real-life examples, where "Instant HTML5 Local Storage How-to" will take you through how you could incorporate LocalStorage into your sites; we'll take a look at code you can simply add to a site, or use as a development platform for your own future projects.


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Ingredients:Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Rice, Ground Barley, Ground Rice, Whitefish Meal, Natural Chicken Flavor, Tomato Pomace, Oat Fiber, Chicken Liver, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a natural source of Vitamin E), Cranberries, Olive Oil, Chicory Root Extract, Cranberry Extract Powder, Cranberry Fiber, Flaxseed, Potassium Chloride, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, BetaCarotene, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B-12 Supplement), Choline Chloride, Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Kelp, L-Carnitine, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Enterococcus Faecium, Lactobacillus Casei, Lactobacillus Acidophil us, Taurine, Rosemary Extract.
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State police have made 30 arrests for drunken driving in the first three days of their Thanksgiving holiday enforcement period and responded to 284 accidents on the state's roads in the same period.
One accident on Interstate 84 in Hartford was fatal, police said. State police responded to 30 crashes that involved injuries.
State police also made 634 speeding arrests, 122 arrests for motorists failing to wear seat belts, and 1,431 other arrests for traffic violations, including unsafe lane changes, following too closely, illegally using cellphones and failure to use turn signals.
State police began extra patrols and staffing sobriety checkpoints Wednesday in an effort to nab drunken drivers and plan to continue through Sunday.


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A Northerner FirstPosted: July 24, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: andy barter, andybarter.com, angela and friends, angela griffin, art, coronation street, dual heritage, emmerdale, holby city, hustle, inter racial, mixed project, mixed race, multiple heritage, photography Leave a comment
Angela Griffin was in the studio a week ago and now joins a growing list of sitters we have been honoured to meet and photograph for the Mixed Project. Angela has worked extensively in television acting in well-loved British soaps including Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Holby City. At the age of 14, she was spotted by a talent scout who visited her school. Angela appeared on our television screens for the first time in Under the Bedclothes. In 2008 she made her film debut with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson in Last Chance Harvey. She recently had her own day-time talk show Angela and Friends on Sky1.
Angela came along to the studio with her husband and their 2 young daughters. After the portraits Rhoda talked with Angela about her identity, background and her upbringing in Leeds. Angela's view of her identity centred around being a Northerner first and formost.
In 2001, as part of the Channel 4 programme, Brown Britain, Angela got the chance to interview her mother. Angela also interviewed well-known people of mixed race such as fashion designer Bruce Oldfield and Hanif Kureshi.
I look forward to sharing more of Angela's testimony and photos as the project progresses.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 12 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
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Heritage College and its sister company, Heritage Institute, operate private career colleges in 8 markets in 7 U.S. States. Career paths available include X-Ray Medical Technician, Massage Therapy, Surgical Technologist, Pharmacy Technician, Medical Assistant, Personal Trainer, Esthetician, and Healthcare Administration.
We define our market as adults who need more satisfying careers and who live in one of our DMAs. They are largely female, 18-34.
Our objective is to build one GREAT page for each of our programs for each of our campuses.
We have built a complete set of these pages. Now we want alternative versions of each page.
For now, we would like a COMPLETELY different look-and-feel concept for each of the following pages from our Kansas City campus:
We're looking to test DIFFERENT looks for each page against the original to determine which design results in the highest conversion rate. Conversion rates are simply the rate at which visitors submit our lead forms.
Designers will need to keep the text copy exactly as it is. You may, of course move it or change any typesetting element of it. You may use the images on the page or reduce the number of images, at your discretion. You are free to remove any divs or "frames."
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Designs that can be made to load quickly are important.
We are hoping to hire several winners to build "B" versions of dozens of other pages and to work on other projects with us.
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Cooperative City-Duke Energy power line conversion program, offering home owners up to $1,500 to bury their residential power line.
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Program provides up to $20,000 to assist low-income homeowners with repairs that threaten health and safety.
Home Rehab Program - Loans available for qualified low income, owner-occupied home owners for rehabilitation projects.
Rain Garden Guide - A guide to assist the Greenville community with plant selection for their own rain gardens.
Radon Test Kits - Information about how to get a free radon test kit from SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC)
Trash and Recycling - Information about trash and recycling services for city residents.
Tree Pruning Guidelines - Use this guide to get the job done correctly! Excessive pruning, topping, crape murder are unacceptable practices and a violation of the City's Code of Ordinances.
Tree Planting Program - Though a partnership with the Greenville Tree Foundation, residents can donate to have trees planted in a park, open space, greenway or right-of-way.
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Bcycle Station Locations - Through the city bike sharing program, residents and visitors can access nine b-cycle stations and more than 45 bicycles throughout the city.
Bicycle Parking - There's a space for your bike! Learn about develop goals that support bike accessibility and view a map of bicycle parking locations, in and around the downtown area.
EV Charging Station Locations - The city has nine free EV charging stations, which can be used for four hours at a time. They are located throughout the city.
Sidewalk Construction - New sidewalk construction continues each year. Learn about the program, and look at projects underway and planned for the future.
Street Resurfacing Program - Track street resurfacing and repairs underway and planned in the city.
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LONDON — The British government on Tuesday gave the creator of Dolly the Sheep a license to clone human embryos for medical research.
Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly at Scotland's Roslin Institute in 1996, and motor neuron expert Christopher Shaw of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, plan to clone embryos to study how nerve cells go awry to cause motor neuron disease. The experiments do not involve creating cloned babies.
It is the second such license approved since Britain became the first country to legalize research cloning in 2001. The first was granted in August to a team that hopes to use cloning to create insulin-producing cells that could be transplanted into diabetics.
While the latest project would not use the stem cells to correct the disease, the study of the cells is expected to help scientists develop future treatments, according to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which regulates such research and approved the license.
Stem cells are the master cells of the body. They appear when embryos are just a few days old and go on to develop into every type of cell and tissue in the body. Scientists hope to be able to extract the stem cells from embryos when they are in their blank state and direct them to form any desired cell type to treat a variety of diseases, ranging from Parkinson's to diabetes.
Dangerous, unnecessary?
Getting the cells from an embryo that is cloned from a sick patient could allow scientists to track how diseases develop and provide genetically matched cell transplants that do not cause the immune systems to reject the transplant.
Such work, called therapeutic cloning because it does not result in a baby, is opposed by abortion foes and other biological conservatives because researchers must destroy human embryos to harvest the cells.
Cloning opponents decried the license Tuesday, saying the technique is dangerous, undesirable and unnecessary.
"What a sad and extraordinary volte face for the pioneer of animal cloning," said the London-based group Comment on Reproductive Ethics. "Wilmut has always been the loudest voice in recent years warning of the dangers of mammalian cloning. And we remember how in the years following the birth of Dolly the sheep, he assured the world he would never go near human cloning."
Wilmut has repeatedly condemned the idea of human cloning to create babies, but not so-called therapeutic cloning.
Wilmut and Shaw plan to clone cells from patients with the incurable muscle-wasting disease, derive blank-slate stem cells from the cloned embryo, make them develop into nerve cells and compare their development with nerve cells derived from healthy embryos.
The mechanism behind motor neuron disease is poorly understood because the nerves are inaccessible in the brain and central nervous system and cannot be removed from patients.
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