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A couple of days ago I received a comment from blogger Geniaus that was for an "Ancestor Approved Award". Recipients of the award are required to:
Write 10 surprising, humbling, or enlightening aspects of their research;
Pass the Award on to 10 other researchers whose family history blogs are doing their ancestors proud.The Moonee Valley Family and Local History Blog was created a couple of years ago after completing the SLV Web 2.0 Training. The blog is part of the new social media that works alongside more traditional resources that are associated with local and family history. Many of our enquiries are from our Ask a Librarian portal, people visiting the library and often requests from overseas. The following are some of the events, activities and queries that the Moonee Valley Library Service has presented over the last twelve months.
- The Sam Merrifield Library hosted the touring exhibition 'Independent Type Books and Writing in Victoria' in February/March. Our focus on was on local author Hugh Anderson and publisher of the Red Rooster Publishing established in Ascot Vale in the 1970's.
- The Travelling Treasures from the State Library of Victoria was shown at the Sam Merrifield Library alongside our own treasures the Thomson family records of Moonee Ponds. These records were a great surprise from a family member who donated them to the library a couple of years. They document the family's social and working life in the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Some of the items include seven invitations to the official functions celebrating the opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, dated 1901, a booklet celebrating the Centenary of Melbourne, 1835-1934, one League & Association football fixture 1936, a bookmark celebrating Empire Day 24th May, 1953, two pamphlets to be used in thanksgiving services for the blessing of peace after the Great War of 1914-18 and photographs of the Thomson family.
- The exhibition 'Forgotten Faces: Chinese & the Law from the Public Records Office of Victoria was shown at the Sam Merrifield Library from July to August, 2010.
- For a number of years the Moonee Valley Library Service has been presenting a session on digital storytelling. Once again this was a happy accident when the presenter Hisham Attia approached the library about this project. The event has proved very popular and has become a regular feature in Family History Week. Last year Hisham presented the workshop at our Flemington Library branch. He uses digital techniques to tell personal and family stories and introduces these concepts to encourage you to tell your own story using digital technologies.
- Burke & Wills 150th anniversary expedition. For this anniversary the library assisted with a children's art competition.
- The ever popular Ann Dixon who is a collector and expert on vintage costume visited the Ascot Vale library branch to celebrate the Spring Racing Carnival. The presentation and talk was about clothing fashion worn during the Melbourne Cup, from the 19th the 21st century. The emphasis was on hats with examples from her extensive collection.
- The Moonee Valley Council has developed a new website with some new features.
- A couple of months ago Cory Greenwood re-designed the blog with a new presentation for easier access to information.
- Enquires about family history over the last twelve months have included requests from Manchester, England about their ancestors who moved to Moonee Ponds in 1917, histories of local homes, schools and hotels.
- The library service co-presented with the Essendon Historical Society a Writers Panel; "Criminal Intent" books on crime, whether fiction or non-fiction in the historic Moonee Ponds Courthouse.
The following are my 10 blog nominations, hope they fit into the criteria.
Heritage Victoria
Family Matters
Tiger's Mouth
Empire Called and I Answered
Museum Victoria Discovery Centre
Family Research English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy
Carol Baxter


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And the Winner Is….February 28th, 2012
Well what a wonderful and busy past week it has been! As soon as we announced our top three finalists for our Best of 2011 contests, our blog suddenly became THE place to comment. Hundreds upon hundreds of votes later and we're thrilled to announce our winners:
Congratulations Jaimie and Christopher!
We would be remiss if we didn't thank all of the amazing couples (and wedding photographers!) that took the time to participate- sharing both their stories and photos with us. We are lucky to have you as a part of our Historic Mankin Mansion family!
See You Soon,
Paula & Martin Ramirez
Paula and Martin Ramirez are the proprietors of Historic Mankin Mansion, a wedding resort and bed and breakfast just minutes from Downtown Richmond. They enjoy new restaurant finds, Virginia wines and discovering fun events and activities throughout the area for their guests.
Photo credit: Nancy Topham

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What accommodations exist for Guests with disabilities at Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park?
Guests with Disabilities – Frequently Asked Questions
Walt Disney World Resort water parks provide numerous accommodations for Guests with mobility disabilities, Guests with visual disabilities and Guests with hearing disabilities.
Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park offers wheelchairs free of charge at Guest Relations. Valid ID is required to borrow a wheelchair, and you must return the wheelchair before you exit the water park. Wheelchair quantities are limited and subject to availability.
Some examples of other accommodations that we offer include:
- Accommodations for service animals
- Assistive Listening systems
- Reflective Captioning
- Sign Language interpretation
- Text Typewriter telephones
- Handheld Captioning
- Video Captioning
- Audio Description devices
- Braille guidebooks
- Digital audio tours
Learn more about accommodations for Guests with disabilities at Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park.


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FREEZE Twelve Ring Table, 2015
In Freeze, Cocksedge exploits freezing temperatures to create a seamless bond between metals that otherwise do not adhere in nature. The breakthrough in the series - a table of copper and aluminum - was made by first burying four copper legs in snow, leaving them to contract by 100th of a millimeter; second, excavating the legs and inserting them into holes cut into an aluminum slab where they were allowed to un-freeze back to ambient temperature thereby firmly locking into place in a strong, invisible join.
Further calibrating temperatures and tolerances of various shapes, forms, and metals, Cocksedge went on to create an entire body of exquisitely precise, balanced, and seemingly impossible works; each incorporating a stunning range of metals that appear to float together, magically.
Paul Cocksedge on his Freeze series: 'What fascinates me here is that everything constantly expands and contracts, but imperceptibly. Everything from earth and water, to our own bodies and skins, even the universe itself. The pieces that make up Freeze are certainly large, heavy and solid, but that makes it all the more extraordinary that they are simply held up by an invisible join, 'frozen together' by forces we can't even perceive'.
Commissioned by Friedman Benda Gallery
Photography: Mark Cocksedge


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Implementation and Test Cases Task Force
- Model Task Force
- Access and Query Task Force
- Connection Task Force
- Implementation and Test Cases Task Force
- 1 Scope
- 2 Activity
- 3 Proposed Objectives of Task Force
- 4 W3C Implementation Stakeholder Questionnaire
- 5 W3C Implementation Stakeholder Questionnaire 2nd Iteration
- 6 Relevant Pages
- 7 Test Cases
To identify and connect with implementation stakeholders and coordinate test case development and implementation activities. Our overall task force objectives (responsibilities and deliverables) will be clarified in discussions during and after the meeting.
These will be based on feedback collected from the survey at Survey
(listed in order addressed by the group; newest at top)
Complete draft proposal for the F2F1
Proposed Objectives of Task Force
Proposal: Test Case Development
- Formalize Test Case Methodology
- Continuous work on Use Cases to drive Test Case scenarios
- Review Model specification to drive low-level Test Cases
- Identify Test Cases
Proposal: Reference Implementations
- Define implementation interoperability requirements
- Coordinate work on reference implementations of toolkits that support the prov-wg formal specifications
- software/applications that utilize the toolkits that support the prov-wg formal specifications
- Comment by GK 20110610: I would distinguish between reference implementations (which I would expect to be toolkits that implement the WG specifications) and applications that use the specifications in a wider context. It would be good to identify instances of both.
- Coordinate development of documentation on reference implementations
- How to use it
- How to query it
Proposal: Identifying and Contacting Stakeholders
Test cases will rely on input and requirements analysis gathered from stakeholders. For each test case a stakeholder or group of stakeholders will be identified, contacted and requirements will be gathered.
Comment by GK: 20110610: I think we also need test cases that clarify and exemplify what is stated in the WG specification. IMO, there are two main purposes for test cases: (1) to provide WG members with a concrete context in which to evaluate and select specification proposals, and (2) to provide somewhat formalized and preferably executable statements and examples of what the specification says in informal (i.e. English) language.
The following questionnaire was devised as a primary approach for identifying requirements of stakeholders producing/consuming provenance data and models:
W3C Implementation Stakeholder Questionnaire
W3C Implementation Stakeholder Questionnaire
The submittable questionnaire form is available here
Contact Name: _________________________________________
Contact Email: __________________________________________
Contact Phone: _________________________________________
Contact Organizational Role: _______________________________
Organization: ___________________________________________
Organization Field: _______________________________________
[ ] My organization is interested in generating provenance according to the W3C formal specification
My organization is interested in using provenance encoded in the following formats: [ ] Plain HTML [ ] Plain XML [ ] RDF [ ] OWL/RDF [ ] RDFa [ ] HTML5 Microdata [ ] RDBMS [ ] Other (please list: __________________ )
My organization is interested in using a provenance toolkit in the following programming languages: [ ] Java [ ] C# [ ] C/C++ [ ] Python [ ] Javascript [ ] PHP [ ] Ruby [ ] Other (please list: ______________ )
[ ] My organization is interested in implementing a software toolkit to support one or more W3C formal specifications for provenance
My organization is interested in developing a provenance toolkit in the following programming languages: [ ] Java [ ] C# [ ] C/C++ [ ] Python [ ] Javascript [ ] PHP [ ] Ruby [ ] Other (please list: ______________ )
[ ] I am producing a document for publication on the Web; I want to know how to sign this dataset using W3C formal specification
[ ] I want to learn about the source of an assertion
[ ] I want to see how a piece of data was transformed and what was the input for the transformation
[ ] I want to rank information according to a list of trusted sources
[ ] I want to know what is the latest stable version of a web resource or document
Why are you or your organization interested in provenance?
How do you use provenance in your organization?
What tools/technologies do you use to make use of provenance information?
Do you already produce provenance within your organization? If so, do you use any provenance models/ontologies?
Groups the questionnaire has been advertised to
- inference-web mailinglist
- linked open data mailinglist
- semantic web mailinglist
- w3c semantic web health care and life sciences interest group
Report on Questionnaire Responses
The Implementation Stakeholder Questionnaire response report available here
First comments extracted from the responses
W3C Implementation Stakeholder Questionnaire 2nd Iteration
W3C Implementation Stakeholder Questionnaire 2nd Iteration
Relevant Pages
- Use Cases by the incubator group
- Examples of test cases from W3C process - http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/
Test Cases
- Examples of test cases from W3C process - http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/
- test cases need to be implementation-specific
- split use cases into generating and storing use cases?
- validator
- using test cases to capture/record design decisions (OWL WG did this)


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Department of Revenue News Release
October 24, 2013Doniphan License Office contract awarded
JEFFERSON CITY - The Office of Administration, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Revenue, has awarded the management contract for the Doniphan License Office to John Young of Doniphan. All license office contracts in Missouri are awarded through a competitive bid process.
Young has been the agent of the Doniphan License Office since April 2009.
The Doniphan License Office will remain at its current location at 98 Courthouse Square.
In fiscal year 2013, more than 31,000 transactions were conducted at the Doniphan office, generating approximately $102,400 in agent processing fees. Young's contract includes an annual commitment to return 0.5 percent (approximately $512.16) of future processing fees to the state.
All local license offices are overseen by the Missouri Department of Revenue, but each is operated by an independent agent.
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I will be honest with you..I was worried about today, I expected a really tough tough day through the Vosges Mountains…and I wasn't disappointed.
Today has been the hardest day of my life, from a physical point of view, yet apart from the birth of my 2 children, probably the most rewarding and amazing day ever.
We set off at 9.45am this morning, down the huge hill we had come up the night before and headed towards the looming dark shapes on the horizon – the Vosges Mountains. The road up to them was very misleading, a gently slope upwards that was exhausting, even though it didn't look that steep. After 8 miles we had a stop as we were both feeling the pace a bit. As we rested by the side of the road a couple of motorbikes passed at a fair rate..we heard their engines fade but then reappear about 100ft above us, then they faded again, and then re-appeared even higher up…that meant one thing..The switchbacks were about to start. And here started 12 miles of the hardest physical excursion I have ever endured in my life. Switchback after switchback…unrelenting steep hills..we passed 600m above sea level, then 700m..I have to remind you that we had a 'continental breakfast' which consisted of 2 croissants and some homemade jam – and that was it! So we were both struggling..My pace was ridiculously slow and every 3rd or 4th swiitchback I had to stop and lie down for air! My legs we on fire and it felt my heart rate was 300! There was nothing in Hampshire that could get you ready for this kind of thing.
Eventually we made it to 950m above sea level. At which point Steve confidently announced – we are at the top. We took photos and looked forward to a downhill ride..however, that downhill ride was very short lived. A mile down the road we made a left and was soon at 1100m. At this point we had to walk for a bit, the effort was just too much. We rode on and on stopping almost every mile for a breather. We got to 1300m and rode into a ski resort, complete with cable cars and a cheese restaurant. I practically collapsed in the carpark while Steve went in to get some water. A minute later he came out swearing about the ignorant German @£$!$ that wouldnt serve him. So I went in, and got some water and chocolate. That absolutely saved us, and after 30 mins rest we felt ready to crack on. Good job too as the sunshine we had enjoyed had rapidly turned to fog and we could see the weather front moving quickly our way, the temperature had dropped significantly and we knew we couldn't hang about.
Luckily from then on, the rest of the trip was down hill…very down hill. I was free-wheeling at 36mph most of the way! The miles racked up in no time at all.. We went through many pretty villages on a valley road with the mountains either side of us and after a couple of hours of nice easy riding we ended up in St Die – very happy to find our hotel after a HUGE day where we had conquered the Vosges mountains…
If you are reading this and haven't sponsored us yet, pls do so, we are riding the entire Western Front in aid of the British Legion. You can donate securely online at http://www.justgiving.com/cyclingtheline


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Wedding Bar Hire with Rose' wine
Rosé s back in fashion, and is the fastest-growing area of the wine industry at the moment.
Rose is usually made from grape varieties and the grape skins are left in contact with the juice for around 12 hours to produce the pale pink hues. To be enjoyed while young, do look out for an increasing number of rose's with screw caps.
Ca'DeMedici Lambrusco Rosato, Italy. Semi-sparkling Wine
When served chilled this makes an excellent refreshing drink with its low alcohol content.
El Prado Tempranillo Rosé Spain
This is a pleasingly juicy, berry fruit flavoured rose with attractive balance, a refreshing acidity and good length on the finish. Made from 100% Tempranillo grapes, this dry rose is a great tipple on its own or try it with a selection of tapas or paella.
Finca Flichman Malbec/Shiraz RoséArgentina
With an attractive pink colour, this wine has a very aromatic profile of strawberries and white fruits. On palate its full-flavoured and fruity, with a gentle, crisp freshness and a long, harmonious finish. Enjoy this lovely pink on its own or with lightly flavoured foods.
Gallo Family Vineyards White Grenach California
This is a pink that's easy-drinking, soft and supple. Made from Grenache grapes, it has juicy berry fruit flavours and makes for an excellent glass on its own or try with freshly cut fruits and a dollop of cream.
Frozé Rosé, Western Cape, South Africa
A delicious, medium-dry rosé made from Pinotage grapes in South Africa's Cape Peninsula. With vibrant raspberry and redcurrent fruit-flavours, this pink is eminently quuffable and can be served on its own well-chilled, or try it over ice for an extra refreshing tipple.
For further information on Wedding Wine Bar Hire, feel free to contact a member of the team.


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The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School Global Equity Fund is managed by 19 students in the school's part-time MBA and Master of Finance programs. The global fund was established in 2009 and holds investments primarily in companies outside the United States.
The limited-enrollment fund gives students the chance to research companies and manage and invest money from the school's endowment fund. The fund managers' goal is to outperform the MSCI All Country ex US Index, though it's equally important that each member learns the processes by which investment decisions are made in a professional asset-management setting.
In a course that meets once per week for an entire year at the Smith School's Washington, D.C. campus in the Ronald Reagan building, students gain unparalleled financial knowledge and skills, including asset management exposure, quantitative portfolio management experience, and financial modeling skills. They develop skills using and applying tools from Smith's extensive suite of financial databases and information systems.
Participating students are assigned roles in operating the fund, either as portfolio managers or equity analysts specializing in a specific geographic area or industry such as technology or telecommunications. Participants are chosen through an application process and selected on several criteria including analytical abilities and communication and leadership skills.


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Sonic finally mustered up the courage to make a proposal to Amy, and friggin' ol' reliable Robotnik comes in to ruin the event.
Come on, Eggman. Even after that heartfelt, slightly cheesy speech, you're still gonna cause havoc? Well, yeah. Cause he's the villain after all.
For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com.


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Berkeley is Burned Up About the Big Tree Brouhaha
The East Bay hills don't need to wait for the next fire storm. There's one raging right now over a plan to clear thousands of trees—estimates range from 22,000 to 85,00, depending on who you ask—from Berkeley's Strawberry and Claremont Canyons and parts of the Oakland hills. Some of us who live near the affected area have been aware of this project for a long time and wondered whether it was wise, but others have just recently heard about it and they're outraged.
It's shaping up to be an unusual political battle for an area where good vs. evil is usually a clearly defined contest. Gay marriage? Sure. Solar power? Sure. Bicycles lanes? Sure. (Well at least if you're under 60 and vigorously fit.)
But this struggle, in the first place, pits two groups of tree huggers against one another, and both sides seem to manifest a quasi-religious fervor reminiscent of the Great Crusades. Those on one side (the native plant fans—short for fanatics) long to purify the hills above Berkeley and restore them to their pristine pre-colonization state. The other side just likes a nice walk in the woods from time to time, and isn't particular about the pedigree of the flora.
And if that weren't enough, there's a third flank populated by people who don't care much about trees one way or the other, but are very worried about fire. And of course all three populations overlap.
What makes this an interesting conflict is that in various ways they're all "right".
Though a lot of people seem to be coming late to the party, Planet readers have been aware of the proposal for a long time. We ran a piece in 2008, UC Lets Tree-Sitters Nest to Divert From Clear-Cutting, written by Robert Bruce. He reported on UC's developing plans to seek FEMA's support in order to remove trees above campus in Strawberry Canyon perceived as a fire hazard.
Bruce identified himself in the piece as someone who lost his Oakland home in the 1991 fire, and he published the Phoenix Journal newspaper for fire survivors. He said he was part of a volunteer group known as the Hills Conservation Network that was trying to stop UC's clear-cutting and get them to use what he characterized as more rational methods of fire prevention.
In the five years since, the HCN group has devoted a web site, at least one law suit and many hours to tracking UC's proposal and what it has grown into. You can follow their side of the story in exhaustive detail here.
Meanwhile, on June 10, 2010, the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) filed a notice of intent to prepare a federal Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed action. This EIS was triggered by four grant applications submitted to FEMA by the East Bay Regional Park District, the University of California at Berkeley, and the city of Oakland, asking for funding for various tree clearance projects aimed, applicants said, at preventing huge fires in the hills like the big one which took out a lot of homes in the Oakland-Berkeley area in 1991.
That notice kicked off a public scoping period that ended on October 1, 2010. The application for FEMA funding has been making his way through the EIS process since then, with modest publicity. Comments during the scoping period resulted in a draft EIS. The last iteration was a series of public hearings on this draft, which is now entitled Hazardous Fire Risk ReductionEnvironmental Impact Statement. If you want to see the big picture, click on the link and prepare for a really big read.
Then, just a couple of weeks ago, my friend Randy Shaw, who among many other things edits Beyond Chron, a San Francisco-based alternative online newspaper, though he lives in the Berkeley hills, got wind of the project and was shocked by what he learned. He ran a story about it on May 16 in his publication, FEMA Plans Clear-Cutting of 85,000 Berkeley and Oakland Trees, which said that "there are countless destructive attacks on the environment that Bay Area activists cannot impact. But this is occurring in our own backyard, and activists must make sure that this cannot happen here." (Randy is also the author of The Activist's Handbook.)
The Planet and Beyond Chron sometimes reprint each other's stories, but we passed on this one, because I was aware of the back story and knew it was not a simple problem. What Randy didn't mention, and perhaps didn't know, is that most of the targeted trees are eucalyptuses, and that many well-credentialed environmentalists favor removing these and other non-native plants in order to allow the pre-European-settlement ecology to establish itself in open areas around the bay.
That's an important part of the story. It's not just about competing methods of fire prevention.
But fire prevention is important, however you decide to do it.
I watched the big 1991 fire from my bedroom window as it moved down to the eucalyptus stand behind the Claremont Hotel until the fire department told us to flee. It was plenty scary, an experience I would not enjoy repeating.
My neighbors Lance Knobel and Tracey Taylor, who might also have seen the Big Fire from their house if they lived here in 1991, promptly published a thorough and informative story on their Berkeleyside.com site, complete with pictures, which reported the official version of the controversy from UC and other sources, along with reporting the point of view of the HCN people. Meanwhile, the Beyond Chron story had been picked up by the widely read California Progress Report online news aggregator, and many other outlets, including television stations, copied the story.
A lot of people were upset by what they heard about the plans, many of them Berkeley people that I know and respect. Some of their letters are in this issue.
An added thread some of them raised is that many suspect UC Berkeley of having designs on Strawberry Canyon that have nothing to do with native plants or fires. There are many UC expansion construction projects which have been proposed for that area—including labs for LBNL and their big corporate customer BP—and it would certainly be convenient to get those pesky trees cleared out first.
So I consulted my experts. Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan, seasoned naturalists and fine writers who have contributed many excellent pieces to the Planet, are in Hawaii at the moment and reluctant to engage in the controversy from that distance, but they did tell me that the targeted trees are not currently hosting colonies of monarchs, which can be found in many eucalyptus groves in Northern California and are a major motivation for campaigns to protect the eucs. They move around, but as of now, they're not in our eucs.
Then I asked an academic ecologist I happen to know, a Berkeley-raised biologist who is a professor of environmental studies. When she was at Willard Junior High long ago, she'd been an active part of the campaign which saved Claremont Canyon from becoming a housing development and added it to the East Bay Regional Park system. She's climbed Claremont Hill through the eucalyptus groves hundreds of times. (Okay, full disclosure, she's also my daughter.)
Her principal observation was that sequencing the human genome was a biology project that was a lot easier than mapping the way an ecosystem like the one in the East Bay Hills works. The FEMA EIS claims that the pre-existing native ecosystem will somehow restore itself if the non-natives are removed, but the science to guarantee that result is by no means assured. Many environmental impact studies under both federal and state law have promised restoration projects that have failed or never even happened. She wasn't willing to hazard a guess without doing a lot more research about how well FEMA's predictions were likely to succeed.
The worst case is that the cure would be worse than the disease. People like Randy Shaw who admit to enjoying a nice walk in the woods, any woods, even non-native woods, are appalled by the idea that what they'll see on their hikes in the hills if the plan goes through is stumps and mud slides for at least a generation.
On the other hand, the native plant aesthetic appeals to many thoughtful people. For example, a piece in the Sierra Club Yodeler attacked a 2011 compromise settlement specifying a more moderate approach to habitat modification which the East Bay Regional Parks reached with HCN in their lawsuit against the project.
Author Norman La Force said then:
"The best approach to protecting the urban East Bay from devastating fires like that of 1991 is to restore native habitat. This is also the most cost-effective approach for long-term maintenance.The FEMA EIS process is one result of the HCN lawsuit, like it or don't. Without the suit the tree removal project probably would have gone forward without an "open and public decision-making process". HCN now threatens that if the final EIS is not up to their standards they'll sue again.
"The Sierra Club urges the Park District to hire specialists in removing exotics and in restoring native habitat, and to create an open and public decision-making process for managing each area under the wildfire plan. The Club is committed to protecting our urban communities from another massive and deadly conflagration while restoring native habitat that is fast disappearing from our Bay Area."
So now it's down to the wire.
The last date to submit written comments pro or con on the information contained in the draft EIS is June 17. By all means, if you have an opinion, send it along. Written comments must be submitted or postmarked by midnight on June 17, 2013 and can be sent three ways:
- via email at email@example.com,
- via fax at FAX: (510) 627-7147, or
- via snail mail to P.O. Box 72379, Oakland, CA 94612-8579.
What I suspect is that a much more gradual approach to replacing the eucs with natives should be employed, one which among other things closely monitors the potential devastation which sudden oak death might wreak on native oaks, California bays and other susceptible parts of the original hills ecosystem. Fears about using the Monsanto herbicide Roundup to prevent re-sprouting would be allayed if non-chemical mechanical means of dealing with unwanted sprouts could be employed.
Of course, doing things slowly and carefully would be more expensive. In the end, decisions like this often come down to money, sadly.
If you're still as confused as I am, here's just a little reading list, in no particular order. But be forewarned, I've read it all and I still can't make up my mind.


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Kerry: Minority Co.'s Frozen Out
"The Bush Administration is leaving America's minority entrepreneurs behind,� said Kerry. "We need to shed light on the fact that this Administration breaks its promises to the minority and disadvantaged small businesses that are fighting to get their fair share of federal contracts.�
(Senator Kerry says minority-owned companies aren't getting fair share of Federal business).
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) addressed a panel hosted by Rep. Caroline Cheeks Kilpatrick on minority advertising issues at the Congressional Black Caucus's 36th Annual Legislative Conference today. Kerry stressed the importance of fairness in minority advertising contracts and questioned the Bush Administration's commitment to minority firms.
"The Bush Administration is leaving America's minority entrepreneurs behind," said Kerry. "We need to shed light on the fact that this Administration breaks its promises to the minority and disadvantaged small businesses that are fighting to get their fair share of federal contracts." Kerry's remarks focused on the Administration's failure to adhere to a 2000 Executive Order which directed all federal agencies to "take an aggressive role in ensuring substantial minority-owned entities' participation---in federal advertising-related procurements." A recent GAO report showed that seven federal agencies spent $1.62 billion on media contracts between 2003 and the first half of 2005, and Kerry is concerned this federal support is still not reaching minority firms. In May, Kerry requested an investigation into what portion of this $1.62 billion was awarded to minority businesses.
Senator Kerry also addressed the issue of media ownership diversity; an issue the Senator tackled during the Commerce Committee's consideration of telecommunications reform. "Without putting the proper safeguards in place, consolidating media markets would make it more difficult for minority entrepreneurs to own and operate media outlets. To foster the creation of a diverse, dynamic media, we need to fiercely promote opportunities for minorities, women, and small business ownership in the communications industry," Kerry said.
During the Committee's mark-up, Kerry offered an amendment with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) to require the FCC to address the issues of minority and small business media ownership before taking up wider media ownership issues such as the consolidation of media markets. It was adopted by the Committee unanimously.
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BOSTON, Mass. - On a day in which volleyball honored their four senior members the Beacons perhaps gave their teammates the biggest gift of all as they claimed their fifth straight and third outright Little East Conference Regular Season crown following a 3-0 win over Plymouth State University Tuesday evening in the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium.
With the regular season title, the Beacons tie Western Connecticut State University for the most consecutive regular season championships in conference history. The Beacons will now serve as the number one seed in next week's Little East Conference tournament and earned a first-round bye. The 2013 LEC tournament is scheduled to begin on Tuesday with the two quarterfinal rounds.
The winners of those two matches along with the second seed will travel to Boston with the semi-finals scheduled for Saturday, November 9. The championship match will be played at UMass Boston on Sunday, November 10. Start time for those matches will be announced following the conclusion of the regular season this weekend.
Tuesday's win also represented their sixth straight 3-0 conference win for the Beacons since their 3-2 victory over Keene State College in the first conference match of 2013.
On the night UMB hit a combined .258 scoring 37 kills on 93 attempts to claim the top-seed in this year's tournament. UMB had to grind out a 25-22 win in the first game before cruising to a 25-18 win in the second and a 25-15 decision in the third. The victory also improved the Beacons overall record to 17-14, 7-0 in the LEC. Plymouth State dropped to 14-15, 4-2 in the conference as they remain in the hunt for the number three seed in this year's tournament with only one conference match left in 2013.
For the Beacons junior Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) recorded a match-high nine kills on 16 attempts to finish with an impressive .500 hitting percentage. Bri Sousa (Swansea, Mass.) and Julia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) each recorded seven kills with Sousa also recording a .417 hitting percentage while Murphy finished the night with a .312 hitting percentage. Senior Amber Clemons (Simi Valley, Calif.) scored a pair of kills in her final regular season home match at UMass Boston.
Senior setter Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) tallied 30 assists to once again fuel the Beacons strong offense. Classmates Corrine Porter (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Christine DuPuis (Minden, Nev.) each scored three aces as UMB dominated the end line with 10 aces respectively.
Defensively, Elizabeth Glavan (Edina, Minn.) tallied a match-high 20 digs and finished second on the team with 13 service receptions. At the net Murphy notched one solo block and a match-high three block assists. Sousa was right behind her with one solo stop and two block assists.
For the Panthers, Kirsten Perrotta and Kaitlyn Tedeschi each scored six kills to lead their team. Perrotta also managed 20 assists and had eight digs. Kaitlyn Coon recorded a team-high two aces, while libero Cassie Pelton tallied 14 digs. Mikki Taffe recorded two of the Panthers six block assists.
As a team the Panthers came out swinging in the first game as they finished with a .257 hitting percentage scoring 15 kills on 35 attempts. Unfortunately the Beacons managed to close out the opener hitting .320 to earn the slim victory. In the second and third games, UMB hit .219 and .250 while the Panthers were held to .111 and .071 respectively.
Volleyball returns to action on Friday when they travel to Roger Williams University for a 6 p.m. non-conference match.
Volleyball celebrates their fifth straight Little East Conference Regular Season
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The conviction of a former Baltimore County man in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia is seen as a turning point in the long-delayed prosecution of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Majid Shoukat Khan, who on Wednesday admitted to conspiring with Osama bin Laden and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in plots in Indonesia, Pakistan and the United States, is the first of the 14 so-called high-value detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be convicted. The suspects have been implicated in some of the deadliest attacks of the past decade.
Under a plea agreement, the Owings Mills High School graduate will serve no more than 19 years for his role in the 2003 suicide car bombing at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 11, as well as other plots, in exchange for cooperating with the government in the prosecutions of his former comrades.
Experts say his testimony could give the government new insights into the workings of al-Qaida. It also could allow prosecutors to sidestep the problem of using evidence obtained through coercion, which has been a deterrent to bringing these cases to trial.
The "clean" evidence Khan could provide "takes away what has haunted these cases from the beginning, which is how much of this evidence was going to come from torture by U.S. hands," said attorney Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. "It's a huge logjam that would break through."
Michael Greenberger, law professor and director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland, said Khan's experience with al-Qaida in the weeks and months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, makes him uniquely valuable to the government.
"The intelligence value gathered from somebody who was on the inside and familiar with the kinds of plots that were being planned in 2001 and 2002 — that's critically important information," Greenberger said.
Khan, 32, pleaded guilty to war crimes that included murder, spying and conspiracy in the hotel bombing and in plots to kill Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in Karachi and to blow up gas stations in the United States.
Appearing Wednesday before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Khan admitted to working with Mohammad and conspiring with bin Laden, though he said he never met the al-Qaida leader.
News reporters watched the arraignment from Fort Meade via secure video feed.
In the unusual plea agreement, Khan's sentencing is to be delayed for four years, during which he apparently will testify against Mohammad and other detainees awaiting trial at the U.S. base in Cuba.
If he gives prosecutors his "full and truthful cooperation," he will be sentenced to no more than 15 more years in prison. He still could be detained as an enemy combatant after his sentence is complete, but would be allowed to petition for his release.
Khan told the military judge, Col. James L. Pohl, that he understood the terms.
"This agreement does not guarantee that I will be able to get free, even after I do my time," he said. "I'm taking a leap of faith here, sir. That's all I can do."
Khan was relaxed and respectful in his responses to Pohl. He appeared in a suit and shorn of the thick beard in which he had been photographed.
At the outset of the proceeding, he affirmed that he understood English and said he would ask his attorneys to clarify anything he didn't understand. He said he was satisfied with his defense team but wished to add a Pakistani government attorney "down the road" for his sentencing.
After the proceeding, his lead military attorney said Khan had approached the government about a deal because he "wanted a second chance at life."
"I can tell you he's remorseful," Lt. Col. Jon S. Jackson said. "He wishes he had never been involved with al-Qaida.
Now, Jackson said, Khan wants to "join Team America and do the right things to ensure that he has a chance to have a productive, meaningful life."
The chief prosecutor said it was commendable that Khan had accepted responsibility and expressed remorse. But he also said it was "instructive" to review the offenses of which he has been convicted.
"Our hearts go out to the surviving victims of and to the family members of those who did not survive the Marriott hotel bombing," Brig. Gen. Mark S. Martins said. "Be confident that the United States is committed to accountability under law for those who have plotted to attack peace-loving people."
Attending the hearing at Guantanamo was Patricia Pond, a California businesswoman who suffered severed tendons, burns and lacerations in the hotel blast. She told reporters Wednesday that she contracted HIV from a dirty needle while being treated in Jakarta for her injuries.
She said the sentence "seems fair to me."
"The person who actually drove the truck is long gone," Pond said. "Majid Khan was not one of the ones who actually planned that specific terrorist event."
Eugene Fidell, a retired Coast Guard attorney who teaches military justice at Yale University, said the government has performed a "justice cost-benefit analysis" in agreeing to the plea in exchange for help with higher-profile detainees. "You have to assume they've taken a hard look at the trade-offs."
A native of Pakistan, Khan was a teenager when he moved with his family to Catonsville in 1996. After graduating from Owings Mills High School in 1999, he worked at his family's gas station and in a succession of office jobs.
He was employed as a database administrator in an office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on Sept. 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon.
Prosecutors say he watched the smoke rising from his office window and soon became radicalized.
Khan acknowledged traveling in January 2002 from Baltimore to Pakistan, where he was introduced to Mohammad as someone whose familiarity with the United States might make him useful to al-Qaida.
He admitted telling Mohammad that his family owned gas stations and discussing a plot to blow up underground fuel tanks. Mohammad then directed him to attend training on explosive device detonators.
Khan returned to Baltimore in March 2002, bought a laptop computer for al-Qaida and contacted a military recruiter to obtain materials that he intended to give to Mohammad.
He acknowledged taking $50,000 in al-Qaida funding from Pakistan to Thailand — money that would help finance the hotel bombing.
He told Pohl he did not know the details of the plot, which was carried out after he was captured in March 2003, but said he understood that it would include killing people.
"I did not know where the money was going," he said. "But I voluntarily did that."
He acknowledged recording a martyr video, donning an explosive vest and waiting in a mosque for Musharraf to arrive. Musharraf did not show up.
At a hearing in 2007, Khan had vehemently denied the allegations.
"I am not al-Qaida. I am not an enemy combatant, and there were not any terrorist acts," he said then. "How can a homeowner in Baltimore, Md., be an enemy terrorist?"
He also said he had been tortured while in CIA custody. Under terms of the plea agreement, he would forfeit his right to sue the government.
Nonetheless, his defense team indicated plans to raise his treatment at his sentencing hearing.
"He was tortured, and he was tortured very badly," said J. Wells Dixon, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who has helped to represent Khan. Just as his client has accepted responsibility for his actions, Dixon said, so should the United States.
Fidell said it was "interesting and potentially important" that the "stone wall" among terror suspects "is being eroded."
"You're seeing one detainee testify against another," he said. "So, I'm sure the government is relieved to be in that position."
But he added that the slow pace of the prosecutions at Guantanamo Bay makes if feel as if "one has entered the fifth dimension, where time proceeds according to a different clock."
"Mr. Kahn might be in limbo in terms of his sentence for four years, which in turn tells me that the government's thinking that it may not be done with trial of everybody they hope he will testify against for four years," Fidell said. "There is a different kind of slow-motion administration of justice that's happening already in all of these cases."


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Redefining the Multiple: 13 Japanese ArtistsRecent work in the medium of contemporary print-making, or multiples, by thirteen Japanese artists will be on view in the Martin Art Gallery, June 13 – August 2.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 04:08 PM
Historically, Japanese print-making embodies a revered and impressive tradition that evokes mental images of iconic prints by 19th-century masters, Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige. Their use of diagonal composition, and exacting craftsmanship inspired and profoundly influenced European painters and print-makers of that era and became forever embedded in Western art production, study, and appreciation.
Ironically, Western art in the past 40 – 50 years has significantly informed the work of contemporary Japanese printmakers. Under that influence and others, this artistic baker's dozen has moved well beyond the time-honored imagery of Hokusai and Hiroshige in unexpected, innovative and compelling ways; skillfully employing non-traditional materials, including a cicada shell, digitally altered photography, and fabric. Emerging printing techniques allow them additional ways to create powerful fusions of two- and three- dimensions—prints that are sculptural. However, even while exploring the very edges of innovation, the artists remain firmly grounded in the Japanese tradition of thoughtful and impeccable craftsmanship and presentation.
The Martin Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the efforts of the curators of Redefining the Multiple--Professor Hideki Kimura, Kyoto City University of the Arts and Sam Yates, Director of the Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to bring together this thoroughly redefined approach to printmaking.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon – 8:00 p.m.; closed July 4. More information: 484.664.3467.


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I think Classical Liberalism has much of the sort. To use Hayek's terminology, it navigates between the waters of Constructivism and Conservatism. Classical Liberalism tends to distrust on the involvement of government in education, but at the same time it promotes the individual intellectual emancipation. Classical liberals endorse a competitive economic system, but are not fond of anti-trust policies. Almost in every relevant matter we could find these crossroads. It seems Classical Liberalism walks on "the edge of the razor". We are tempted to state that Classical Liberalism lasts the time we are pondering whether to take a Constructivist or a Conservative approach.
I think the"Constructivist explanation" and the "Conservative explanation" are both shortcuts to cope with the complexity of the social order disregarding change. On the other hand, the Classical Liberalism Friedrich Hayek tried to restate was a cultural evolutionist one. An Evolutionist Classical Liberalism is made of principles which adjust their relative positions in response to the changes in the environment. Sometimes this adjustment is made by a theorist, but most of the times it is the social reality itself, acting as a sort of feedback system, that provokes the shift in the balance of principles. The main point to keep in mind is that this process of weighing principles is blind. So, no one could assess "the course of the History" (a common point of view to Conservatism and Constructivism, by the way).
In resume, Classical Liberalism will keep its own identity as long as it remains loyal to its evolutionist trait.


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'The Cardinal Way' proves its merit in 2013
It's about the tradition of winning and the expectation to continue doing so, according to manager Mike Matheny.
It's about creating a culture in which high character and fundamental play are emphasized at every level. It's also about stability, about sustaining a model organization by drafting well and running a strong player development system.
It's about the tradition of winning and the expectation to continue doing so, according to manager Mike Matheny.
It's about creating a culture in which high character and fundamental play are emphasized at every level. It's also about stability, about sustaining a model organization by drafting well and running a strong player development system.
It's been described as an organizational philosophy, a franchise tradition and an evolving blueprint for how to play the game. It's become something of a catch-all term, really, for the way they go about their business in St. Louis.
It is "The Cardinal Way," and it was proven successful once again in 2013.
The phrase was often mentioned as the Cardinals marched through the postseason and into another World Series, though the definition remained somewhat nebulous. It was used to explain St. Louis' success in scouting, developing and promoting Major League-ready players from the Minors, and it was applied to the day-to-day, often pitch-to-pitch focus and respect with which the Cardinals approached each game.
"Cliffs Notes version is, this is a way of thinking that we have in St. Louis and in our clubhouse and throughout our organization -- an expectation of winning, an expectation of professionalism that comes with that winning, and doing things the right way," starter Adam Wainwright said before the World Series. "And that's been taught and bred over the years from guys like Red Schoendienst, like Stan Musial, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith. All of these great Hall of Famers that you've grown to love, they're still in our clubhouse hanging out, with the great Stan passing this offseason.
"We are very blessed in St. Louis to have those guys in the red jackets around, and we still feel their presence there. We still feel their lessons."
After winning the World Series in 2011, the Cardinals saw manager Tony La Russa retire and Albert Pujols leave for a massive contract in Anaheim. They barely missed a step in '12, making the playoffs as a Wild Card and then advancing to the National League Championship Series.
They lost Kyle Lohse to free agency the following offseason, then they lost starter Chris Carpenter, closer Jason Motte and shortstop Rafael Furcal to injuries early on in 2013.
Once again, no big deal. Not for St. Louis, anyway.
The Cardinals relied on the astonishing depth of their farm system this year more than ever, finishing atop the highly competitive NL Central with a 97-65 record. Twenty rookies contributed in some way to the club's NL championship season. And outfielder Oscar Taveras, one of the top prospects in baseball, is still biding his time in the Minors.
Of the 25 players on the Cardinals' World Series roster, 20 reached the Majors through their own farm system. Of those 20, 17 were drafted. Wainwright and David Freese were acquired as Minor Leaguers, and Carlos Martinez was an international signee.
Those young players didn't just come up to play bit parts, either. Consider rookie Michael Wacha, who made two starts in the World Series, and setup man Martinez and flame-throwing closer Trevor Rosenthal. When Allen Craig went down, Matt Adams was ready to be the starting first baseman. Matt Carpenter transformed from a backup corner infielder in 2012 to the team's everyday second baseman and leadoff hitter in '13.
Even Matheny was unproven and untested as a manager before taking the job in '12, but he has shown why the club considered him an ideal candidate to practice and teach "The Cardinal Way."
That vision starts at the top, as it was a product of chairman and CEO Bill DeWitt Jr.'s thinking. It's executed through general manager John Mozeliak and his front-office staff, passed on by coaches and instructors at the Minor League level, then eventually by veterans on the Major League club. And it's carried out on the field by Matheny and his coaches and players.
"We hold ourselves to such a high level of expectation of how we play -- not just wins and losses, but how you go about your business. And I think it's been something that's just been passed down," Matheny said in October. "It was something, when I came here as a player, that was very clear, and it was obvious and something that I feel is a responsibility to continue. And we have a group of guys that buy into it, and I think they've done a nice job of carrying that torch."
The result has been two World Series appearances in the last three seasons and four in the last 10 years. They've reached the postseason in 11 of the last 18 years, and they've won two World Series since 2006. They fell one game short of reaching the Fall Classic in '12 and two wins short of a championship this past October.
It may be difficult to nail down one specific definition for "The Cardinal Way," but it's impossible to deny its effectiveness, especially in 2013.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry.


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Entrepreneurs have always been a different breed. They see things differently—from risk and markets to work (which is constant) and conventional wisdom (which is best ignored).
But the question is: can the ability to be an entrepreneur or an economic disrupter be taught?
Ronald Perelman is betting that it can. The billionaire CEO and chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes announced on CNBC Thursday that he's giving $100 million to the Columbia Business School to create a new facility aimed at creating the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders.


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EBay Users Encouraged To Change Passwords Because of Security Code Hacking
If you are a user of the on-line auction site eBay, consider this your warning to change your eBay password. Users of eBay are being encouraged to change their password after a cyber attack jeopardized a database containing passwords.
Even though the database was originally hacked in late February or early March, there is no evidence that any financial or credit card information has been stolen. However, eBay is saying that the investigation is still on-going, with the help of law enforcement agencies, but will not make comments regarding the amount of accounts affected by this cyber attack .
A small amount of employee log-ins were reported stolen. Those employee credentials would give the cyber-attackers access to the company's corporate network.
EBay also owns PayPal, but there has been no indication that PayPal user information and accounts have been affected.
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MLK Day: A Day of Service
Honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Robyn H. Jimenez | 1/20/2014, 11:44 a.m.
The Dallas Examiner
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." – Martin Luther King Jr.
As the nation celebrates another Martin Luther King Jr. Day, leaders and organizations across the country encourage everyone in the United States to participate in the MLK Day of Service to honor King and his legacy.
King was known as a hands-on leader. He marched and asked the community to march with him. He sat-in and asked the community to sit-in with him. He voted and asked the community to vote with him.
After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat to a White man on the bus, he became the spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In an effort to fight segregation in places where Blacks spent their money, King organized sit-ins with young participants who he prepared to endure the backlash.
When it came to equal rights and employment, he organized his soldiers and led marches on main streets from city to city. He spoke fearlessly at rallies and met with political leaders to demand justice.
He went door-to-door with volunteers, talking to citizens about how to register to vote and the importance of voting.
King also fought for better socioeconomic rights among those financially challenged and struggling through appalling living conditions. To attract attention to the needs of the people, he moved into a slum tenement.
King structured the Poor People's Campaign to focus on jobs and equality. The campaign, announced during the March on Washington, demanded $12 billion to ensure that all who could work would have jobs; those who couldn't would still have some form of income; and an end to housing discrimination for all.
Even though he was yelled at, threatened, spit on, arrested several times and even stabbed, he was determined to give the cause all that he could.
"On some positions cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right," King concluded in his speech, A Proper Sense of Priorities.
King knew that there were those who sought out to stop him by any means possible. Yet, he taught peace and tolerance and insisted that all who participated in the fight for civil rights do so in a non-violent manner.
"I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear," he confessed.
Using only his mouth, hands, feet and heart as weapons, King led the nation in a Civil Rights Movement that changed the country.
Not everyone has the means to help in the same way, but everyone can do something. For some, time is a luxury, but they can donate funds. For others, funds may be low, but they can donate their time. There are those that may not have either to offer, but can be generous with kind smiles and encouraging words.


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Whether you're shopping for your first gas grill or you're looking to replace your old grill and wondering what's available, here are five gas grills from entry-level to master griller.
Nearly synonymous with grilling, Weber gas grills are what we think of oftentimes when we think about outdoor barbecues. I used to have the Weber Q Grill on the balcony of my apartment, but the optional rolling cart can be used as a caddy to transport the 60-pound grill for tailgaiting and other outdoor get-togethers. The disposable LP cylinders are available at hardware stores and are super lightweight.
The Weber Q Grill offers only 189 square inches of total cooking area, so it works best for single people, small families and quick meals.
If you're looking to step up from a charcoal grill, but you're not sure you can afford it, this 3-burner Ducane grill is your guy. For $299, you get 550 square inches of cooking area, 36,000 BTUs and electronic ignition.
The 2 built-in work surfaces (though I like to call them "counters") work well for small backyards without a lot of furniture to prop plates and utensils on.
Most of my family own a Holland Grill. I got really nervous about grilling a bunch of burgers for a family get-together last summer, and my brother-in-law said, "It's pretty hard to screw something up on the Holland." That's a pretty true endorsement, I'd say.
Because the drip pan is between the food and the flame, food can't catch on fire (which is also why Holland offers its exclusive "no flareup" guarantee). Charcoal grill lovers will appreciate the distinct flavor Hollands give their food because the dripping sizzle and smoke in the drip pan, much like drippings on charcoal.
The Holland Epic gas grill, usually priced at $849, is on sale for $806. It's definitely more of an investment, which is great for those ready to stop replacing their grill every few years. Plus, the cast-iron burner is guaranteed for the life of the grill. Who else does that?
Vermont Castings 'The Grand' Signature Series Gas Grill
For those looking to get called up to the major league of grills, this Vermont Castings gas grill has just about everything:
- 5 burners Huge cooking area (651 sq. in. of primary cooking area and 286 sq. in. of secondary cooking space)
- 15,000 BTU side burner
- 20,000 BTU infrared rotisserie burner and kit
- LED flex light for night grilling
- Stainless-steel sear plates (for restaurant-quality steaks)
- Stainless-steel smoker box
- Utensil hooks and condiment holders
Plus, this Vermont Castings grill is just plain attractive , with features like back-lit control knobs. That's just cool.
The DCS BGB48 gas grill head can be built in for outdoor kitchen applications or combined with an optional stainless-steel cart for freestanding use. This DCS gas grill head is for those wanting the top-of-the line grill: four 25,000 BTU U-shaped burners, infrared rotisserie burner, warming rack, smoker tray — you name it.
Plus, it can be purchased along with a suite of DCS outdoor appliances, like outdoor beer dispensers and outdoor patio heaters, for a streamlined look.


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NEW YORK, NY – Drew Brees has been on cloud 9 ever since winning the Super Bowl. But his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show brought some comedy to his achievement!
Drew Brees appeared on Oprah's show to talk about a number of things such as his huge victory, family life, and the growing admiration for his son Baylen. However, someone on Oprah's staff did not fully prepare her the full report on Drew Brees.
Drew Brees is known, among other things, for his birthmark on his cheek. Well, Oprah was unaware to the fact and mistook the birthmark for lipstick! Oprah leaned in and tried to rub off the "lipstick" from Brees' face. The awkward moment came and went, and thanks to his good-natured personality, Brees played it off like nothing happened.


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1. K.S.A. 22-3504(1) provides that a court may correct an illegal sentence at any time. An illegal sentence is a sentence imposed by a court without jurisdiction, a sentence which does not conform to the statutory provision, either in the character or the term of the punishment authorized, or a sentence which is ambiguous with respect to the time and manner in which it is to be served.
2. By definition, an illegal sentence encompasses a sentence to which the district court assigned an incorrect criminal history to a criminal defendant.
3. A criminal defendant who stipulates to a criminal history score cannot challenge the use of the criminal history score to calculate the sentence because its use has been invited by the defendant's stipulation.
4. Generally, a criminal defendant is bound by the tactical decisions of counsel made after proper consultation with the client.
5. The invited error rationale is not applicable when the erroneous information at the heart of a stipulation is within the knowledge of the court, the prosecutor, and defense counsel, but not the defendant.
6. Under K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-4711(e), the facts required to classify out-of-state adult convictions and juvenile adjudications must be established by the State by a preponderance of the evidence.
Appeal from Reno District Court; RICHARD J. ROME, judge. Opinion filed April 28, 2006. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Michelle Davis, of Kansas Appellate Defender Office, for appellant.
Thomas R. Stanton, deputy district attorney, Keith E. Schroeder, district attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., MARQUARDT and HILL, JJ.
RULON, C.J.: Defendant Ronald Donaldson appeals the district court's denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence, contending an incorrect criminal history score was applied to his sentences. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
The defendant contends the district court improperly dismissed his motion to correct an illegal sentence, arguing the district court applied an incorrect criminal history score to calculate his sentences. The defendant was assigned a criminal history score of B due to his prior conviction for robbery, an adult person felony, and 3 convictions for omitting to provide for minor children, which were classified as adult person misdemeanors. The three prior misdemeanor convictions were then scored as an adult person felony under K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-4711(a).
The State initially contends the district court lack jurisdiction to modify the defendant's sentence. Where a question of jurisdiction has been raised, this court must consider the claim, even if raised for the first time on appeal. See Rivera v. Cimarron Dairy, 267 Kan. 865, 868, 988 P.2d 235 (1999).
The State basis its jurisdiction argument on State v. Miller, 260 Kan. 892, Syl. ¶ 2, 926 P.2d 652 (1996), wherein our Supreme Court held:
"After a lawful sentence has been imposed under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (K.S.A. 21-4701 et seq.) for a crime committed on or after July 1, 1993, committing a defendant to the custody of the Secretary of Corrections, the sentencing court lacks jurisdiction: (1) to modify the sentence except to correct 'arithmetic or clerical errors' pursuant to K.S.A. 21-4721(i); (2) to consider or reconsider departure from the presumptive sentence; or (3) to modify the sentence by reinstating a previously revoked probation."
The key to this holding is the term "lawful sentence." K.S.A. 22-3504(1) provides that a court may correct an illegal sentence at any time. An illegal sentence is a sentence imposed by a court without jurisdiction, a sentence which does not conform to the statutory provision, either in the character or the term of the punishment authorized, or a sentence which is ambiguous with respect to the time and manner in which it is to be served. State v. Barnes, 278 Kan. 121, 123-24, 92 P.3d 578 (2004) (citing State v. Duke, 263 Kan. 193, 194, 946 P.2d 1375 [1997]).
"'The sentencing guidelines are based on two controlling factors: crime severity and criminal history of the defendant.' State v. Fifer, 20 Kan. App. 2d 12, 15, 881 P.2d 589, rev. denied 256 Kan. 996 (1994). Consequently, if either the crime severity level or the criminal history score are in error, a defendant could challenge his or her sentence as being an illegal sentence under K.S.A. 22-3504. [Citation omitted.]" State v. Lakey, 22 Kan. App. 2d 585, 586, 920 P.2d 470 (1996).
By definition, an illegal sentence encompasses a sentence to which the district court assigned an incorrect criminal history to a criminal defendant. Therefore, the district court possessed jurisdiction to consider the defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence, and this court possesses jurisdiction to consider a timely appeal from the denial of that motion.
The State further contends that the defendant is barred from challenging his sentence because he stipulated to his criminal history score at sentencing. A criminal defendant who stipulates to a criminal history score cannot challenge the use of the criminal history score to calculate the sentence because its use has been invited by the defendant's stipulation. See State v. McBride, 23 Kan. App. 2d 302, 304, 930 P.2d 618 (1996).
In response, the defendant claims the right to waive a criminal history score objection is reserved to a defendant. He argues in this appeal that his counsel only acknowledged that the presentence investigation (PSI) report was correct and that the defendant's criminal history was properly scored in the context of a departure argument. He contends the district court never asked the defendant about his criminal history score. Therefore, the defendant claims he did not invite the error in his criminal history score by stipulation.
In State v. Vandervort, 276 Kan. 164, 72 P.3d 925 (2003), the Kansas Supreme Court considered a similar claim. Vandervort's PSI report erroneously listed 2 Virginia convictions as person felonies rather than nonperson felonies, resulting in a criminal history score of B rather than C. Defense counsel apparently had reviewed the PSI report prior to the sentencing hearing but had been given an amended PSI report with the changes highlighted just prior to the hearing. Defense counsel stipulated to the amended PSI report.
Relying upon the absence of any oral stipulation by Vandervort and the lack of any reasonable opportunity for Vandervort to review the amended PSI report, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that K.S.A. 21-4721(e) provided authority to consider the merits of Vandervort's claim, despite any apparent stipulation by defense counsel. 276 Kan. at 177.
Vandervort is distinguishable on its facts. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-4715(c) places an affirmative duty upon a criminal defendant to file a written objection to any error in the proposed criminal history worksheet, specifying the exact nature of the alleged error. In the present case, the defendant received the PSI report well before the sentencing hearing and, presumably, reviewed the PSI report with his counsel. While the district court did not specifically accept an oral stipulation from the defendant at sentencing, the court did specifically list each crime charged, the applicable criminal history score to be applied, and applicable sentencing range before asking the defendant whether he was aware of any legal reason that sentence should not be imposed. Defense counsel answered for the defendant in the negative.
Generally, a criminal defendant is bound by the tactical decisions of counsel made after proper consultation with the client. See State v. Arrocha, 30 Kan. App. 2d 120, 127, 39 P.3d 101, rev. denied 273 Kan. 1037 (2002) (defendant bound by counsel's waiver of speedy trial when he failed to object); State v. Thomas, 21 Kan. App. 2d 504, 507, 900 P.2d 874 (1995) (defendant bound by counsel's stipulations to defendant's ineligibility for sentencing conversion). The defendant was present during sentencing; his silence is equivalent to an endorsement of his counsel's actions during the hearing.
Nevertheless, the invited error rationale is not applicable when the erroneous information at the heart of a stipulation is within the knowledge of the court, the prosecutor, and defense counsel, but not the defendant. As the defendant notes in this appeal, the stipulation at issue is not to the factual existence of his prior convictions but to the classification of those prior convictions.
Essentially, the error raised by the defendant in his motion to correct an illegal sentence and in this appeal involves the application of law. As such, no party can properly stipulate to an incorrect application of the law. See Bright v. LSI Corp., 254 Kan. 853, 859, 869 P.2d 686 (1994). Therefore, the defendant's failure to object to his criminal history score, as required by K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-4715(c), merely prevents him from challenging the factual basis for the criminal history classification applied in this case.
The classification of prior out-of-state convictions for criminal history purposes is governed by statute. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-4711(e) provides, in pertinent part:
"An out-of-state crime will be classified as either a felony or a misdemeanor according to the convicting jurisdiction. If a crime is a felony in another state, it will be counted as a felony in Kansas. The state of Kansas shall classify the crime as person or nonperson. In designating a crime as person or nonperson comparable offenses shall be referred to. If the state of Kansas does not have a comparable offense, the out-of-state conviction shall be classified as a nonperson crime."
In the present case, the State relied upon at least two of the defendant's prior convictions for omitting to provide for minor children in classifying the three prior misdemeanor convictions as a felony. (The only other adult person misdemeanor listed in the criminal history was a 1995 conviction for assault and battery in Oklahoma.) In Oklahoma, omitting to provide for minor children, Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 852 (2002), is classified as a misdemeanor or as a felony, depending upon the circumstances. Subsection A provides:
"Unless otherwise provided for by law, any parent, guardian, or person having custody or control of a child as defined in Section 7001-1.3 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes who willfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish necessary food, clothing, shelter, monetary child support, medical attendance, payment of court-ordered day care or payment of court-ordered medical insurance costs for such child which is imposed by law, upon conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, any person obligated to make child support payments who willfully and without lawful excuse becomes delinquent in said child support payments after September 1, 1993, and such delinquent child support accrues without payment by the obligor for a period of one (1) year, or exceeds Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a felony which is punishable in the same manner as any subsequent conviction pursuant to the provisions of this section. Any subsequent conviction pursuant to this section shall be a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than four (4) years in the State Penitentiary or by the imposition of a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment. As used in this section, the duty to furnish medical attendance shall mean that the parent or person having custody or control of a child must furnish medical treatment in such manner and on such occasions as an ordinarily prudent person, solicitous for the welfare of a child, would provide; such parent or person having custody or control of a child is not criminally liable for failure to furnish medical attendance for every minor or trivial complaint with which the child may be afflicted."
As the defendant contends, the Kansas criminal nonsupport statute closely resembles the Oklahoma statute, which provides in part: "Nonsupport of a child is a parent's failure, neglect or refusal without lawful excuse to provide for the support and maintenance of the parent's child in necessitous circumstances." K.S.A. 21-3605(a)(1). Nonsupport of a child in Kansas is classified as a severity level 10, nonperson felony. K.S.A. 21-3605(a)(7).
However, depending upon the underlying circumstances of the Oklahoma convictions, the Kansas statute proscribing endangering a child might also be the most comparable offense. That statute provides, in pertinent part: "Endangering a child is intentionally and unreasonably causing or permitting a child under the age of 18 years to be placed in a situation in which the child's life, body or health may be injured or endangered." K.S.A. 21-3608(a). Endangering a child is a class A person misdemeanor in Kansas. K.S.A. 21-3608(c).
From this record, we are unable to determine if the prior Oklahoma convictions were properly classified as misdemeanors or felonies, although the Oklahoma journal entries will presumably clarify this point. Further, this court cannot determine whether, under Kansas law, the defendant's Oklahoma convictions would have been classified as criminal nonsupport of a child, a nonperson felony crime, or as endangering a child, a person misdemeanor crime. This court cannot even determine if the children the defendant was convicted of neglecting in Oklahoma were his own children, which is an element of nonsupport of a child.
As the State contends, generally, the appellant bears the burden of designating a sufficient record from which an appellate court may review the legal issues raised on appeal. Without such a record, this court presumes the action of the district court was proper. See State v. Holmes, 278 Kan. 603, 612, 102 P.3d 406 (2004).
However, in this case, the district court appointed counsel and provided a hearing on the defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence. The defendant's appointed counsel raised the defendant's objection to the classification of his three prior Oklahoma convictions for omitting to provide for minor children. While defense counsel did not provide any factual details concerning the defendant's prior convictions, counsel argued the relevant Kansas statute should be criminal nonsupport of a child under K.S.A. 21-3605.
K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-4711(e) provides: "The facts required to classify out-of-state adult convictions and juvenile adjudications must be established by the state by a preponderance of the evidence." Even though the objection to the criminal history classification was raised in a motion to correct an illegal sentence rather than at sentencing, the burden remains upon the State to justify a prior out-of-state conviction's classification in the criminal history.
The district court erred in relying upon the defendant's failure to object to his criminal history classification as a basis for dismissing the defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence. Upon remand, the district court should hold a hearing to determine if the prior Oklahoma convictions were properly classified. The State bears the burden of proof during such hearing.
Reversed and remanded with directions.


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