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5 Apps for the Literature Major
Just because you paid a ton for tuition doesn't mean you have to spend a fortune on books. There are apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices that feature free or low-cost literature classics.
Just because you paid a ton for tuition doesn't mean you have to spend a fortune on books. There are apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices that feature free or low-cost literature classics.
When it comes to the sexes on social media, there are a few places where the battle lines seem settled. It probably won't surprise you to learn, for example, that men are from Google+ and women are from Pinterest. But when it comes to the two dominant social networks -- Facebook and Twitter -- you may be shocked to discover that women are now in the majority on both services. Not only that, but they're posting far more frequently on Facebook than their slowpoke male counterparts can manage.
CERN's scientists have found a new boson within five standard deviations of accuracy. The new particle is the heaviest boson ever found and it's "consistent" with the Higgs boson. At a press conference in Melbourne Wednesday morning, CERN's experts said the evidence for the particle's existence was observed in the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have begun leveraging their evangelizing networks through smartphone apps to help draw support for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. By employing specialized apps like LDS Tools to gather phone numbers and addresses of Mormon church members, political supporters can cross-check the contact info with voter registration data to contact other Romney backers.
Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. CERN Discovers New Particle Consistent With Higgs Boson At a press conference in Melbourne today CERN's scientists have revealed the results of a long search for the mysterious Higgs boson, a subatomic particle said to give shape and size to the universe.
The European Parliament has rejected ACTA in a 478 to 39 vote, making the controversial trade agreement effectively dead and gone -- at least in its current state. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has been called "more dangerous than SOPA," at one point had support from many governments around the world, including the U.S., the UK and Japan.
Google celebrated Independence Day in the U.S. with the company's 13th July 4-themed Doodle. For Google of late, the design is fairly restrained -- there's no animation, games or puzzles, just the logo in red, white and blue with the words "this land was made for you and me" punctuated by an acoustic guitar for an "L." Google has been offering a Fourth of July Doodle since 1999, making it the second-longest running Doodle next to Thanksgiving, according to Search Engine Watch.
No chest strap needed. That's the main selling point of this new heart rate monitor called Alpha, which you wear like a watch. Alpha creator Liz Dickinson explains how the device works in a video posted on her Kickstarter page, calling it the "holy grail" of EKG monitors. Dickinson says up until now there have been only two ways to monitor your heart rate while running and neither are ideal.
There are reasons to celebrate every day, big and small. We think of major holidays as celebrations, but there are also personal moments such as birthdays, engagements and promotions. Here in the United States, we celebrate the anniversary of our country's independence on July 4th. Traditionally, we take the day off to spend time with family and friends. There's no one way to celebrate, but common staples include fireworks, parades, and grill-cooked fare such as hot dogs and hamburgers.
And now for something completely different: Pandas playing on a slide. What better way to celebrate Chengdu Panda Awareness Week than with this video showing said pandas frolicking on a wooden playset? They slide, they hug...as US magazine might say, "Pandas, they're just like us!" Bonus: A crow that enjoys sledding.
Eric Sykes, a British comedian known for his seminal work on the 1950s radio program The Goon Show alongside Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan and various sitcoms and movies popular in the U.K., has died at age 89. Sykes "died peacefully this morning after a short illness," Norma Farnes, his manager, told the BBC. "His family were with him." Though obscure to most Americans, Sykes was beloved in Britain for his work in the sitcoms Dress Rehearsal and Sykes and A in the 1950s and 1960s.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has posted an epic music video for the official song of the London 2012 Olympics. English rock band Muse wrote the song, titled "Survival," specifically for the games. The track is a perfect anthem for the Olympics, but it's the YouTube video that really gets us excited. The video opens with a reverse highlight reel of the Summer Olympics, beginning in 2008 and going back to the start of the modern games.
Remember '90s tech? We do too. Do we miss it? Not a bit. It even makes Dawson Leery, of Dawson's Creek, cry. Simon Owens, assistant managing editor of the U.S. News and World Report, has claimed that he was the origin of this meme, as shown below via two Facebook posts. Thank you, Simon.
Eager to get your hands on a Jelly Bean-powered phone or tablet? If not, this may persuade you. This video shows Jelly Bean performing more than 40 successful searches based on voice commands. The maker of the video, who is identified as "JLeshere," throws all kinds of tricky questions and commands at his Galaxy Nexus, including "listen to Real Estate [the band]," "Is it going to rain tomorrow?" and "When is Mother's Day in 2014," all of which the device performs flawlessly.
With Windows 8 on the way, this is clearly a turnaround year for Microsoft. But will that mean a new look and attitude as well? We'll know for sure this fall, but in the meantime, a Los Angeles-based design student is giving the software giant some unsolicited advice. Andrew Kim, who is enrolled at the Art Center College of Design, laid out a fairly comprehensive rebranding plan for Microsoft, which is detailed below.
After spending 24 hours on the road and playing 8 shows in 8 different cities, the Flaming Lips are Guinness World Record holders. The band broke the previous record of 7 live performances in 24 hours, held by Jay-Z, with a sold out show at the House of Blues in New Orleans, LA. The tour began evening of Wednesday, June 27 in Memphis, TN and stretched overnight, with performances in the middle of the night and early in the morning in towns across Mississippi.
One thing we have come to love about national holidays is the tradition of Google Doodles, themed illustrations that appear on the company's homepage on special occasions. Since 2000, Google has been marking the 4th of July with patriotic Doodles that incorporate the most iconic symbols of all things Independence Day. SEE ALSO: 10 Patriotic 4th of July Tech Accessories Take a look through the great designs in the gallery above.
Earlier today, CERN's scientists confirmed the existence of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. So what exactly does that mean? The "God particle" is predicted by the Standard Model in modern physics. It is understood to give other particles mass -- including the quarks that make up the protons that make humans and other forms of life. As Mashable's Pete Pachal explained last December, the existence of the Higgs boson essentially completes and affirms the Standard Model of particle physics.
It wouldn't be the Fourth of July without hot dogs -- or more specifically, hot dog eating contests. Every year at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, competitive eaters race to see who can down the most hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. Tens of thousands of fans gather to watch the event live and ESPN broadcasts it on its network. This year, reigning champion Joey Chestnut won his sixth straight Mustard Belt, downing 68 hot dogs and buns.
If you have a Samsung Galaxy-S and live in Sweden, chances are you like to talk on your mobile device using Bluetooth while on-the-go -- that's according to a recent study that shows Swedes use Bluetooth and wireless headsets more than people from any other country (47%). And owners of Samsung Galaxy-S phones use the most minutes per month of all Android devices (431).
If like us, you consider fireworks to be an absolutely essential part of any Fourth of July celebrations, then we have a treat for you. We have gathered up seven top fireworks-themed GIFs that will see the explosive action continued on your computer screen long after Independence Day is over. SEE ALSO: 10 Patriotic 4th of July Tech Accessories Take a look through our animated gallery for some awesome pyrotechnics.
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Placed Quick Pitch: A service that lets marketers and app developers analyze location data. Genius Idea: Contextualizing data about a user's location for free to provide a better understanding about how our digital lives overlap with our physical ones.
One of the world's leading physicists, prof. Stephen Hawking, hoped for different results from CERN yesterday, which announced the discovery of the Higgs boson with a high degree of certainty. In fact, the announcement cost him $100 dollars, as he made a bet that the results would be different.
Samsung's new top-of-the-line LCD is now available in South Korea, bringing a 75-inch diagonal and an impossibly thin bezel into the hands of a lucky buyer with a thick wallet. The ES9000 has a 7.9mm bezel, Samsung's Diamond Black Panel which should bring big improvements in clearness, contrast and brightness, and an array of smart TV features. The TV is also equipped with a webcam, which is used for video conferencing, face recognition and Samsung's recently introduced gesture control system.
Call it a case of premature detonation. San Diego's Fourth of July fireworks show was supposed to last 15 minutes. Instead, all the projectiles went off in 30 seconds about five minutes before the show was supposed to start. Confused attendees waiting for the show to start were told that they'd already seen it and to head home. Authorities blamed a "technical difficulty" for the fizzle. Luckily, the moment is immortalized in video.
Is Apple planning a Google Glass competitor? If a recently granted patent is any guide, Apple is at least exploring the possibility of creating an "enhanced viewing experience" for the user. Apple filed for the patent in 2006, but on Tuesday the U.S.
Last time we talked to you about the Kindle Fire 2, we had heard that the tablet might launch on July 31. While that still might be when it's announced, a more recent rumor suggests that the KF2 will get here a little farther out, shipping on August 7. This date comes from Amazon's manufacturing partners in Southeast Asia, and supposedly only concerns the seven-inch Kindle Fire 2.
Days after their teardown of Google's Nexus 7 tablet, the folks at iFixit have disassembled another Google gadget: The ball-shaped media streamer, Nexus Q. The teardown revealed a very neatly packed device, easy to disassemble but with lots of components. Unsurprisingly, a lot of them were circular, but none of them appear clumsily placed. Google's engineers seem to have done really solid work on the inner design of the Nexus Q.
Travelers would be wise to keep a tight grip on their mobile devices next time they're in an airport. A new study revealed that more than 8,000 mobile devices were left behind at just seven of the country's largest airports in the last year. Overall, 3,444 smartphones and tablets, 3,576 laptops and 996 USB drives were forgotten by travelers at airports in Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, Charlotte, Miami, Orlando and Minneapolis.
Motorola has officially introduced the Atrix HD, an Ice Cream Sandwich-based model geared toward business users. The company unveiled the model, which boasts a 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 HD Colorboost display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, LTE, 8 GB of storage and an 8-megapixel camera, as well as Kevlar-clad back side, on its website on Wednesday.


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Farm to fork has come to define the Sacramento region. What began as an idea for how to market Sacramento has quickly become a part of its identity. In order for the campaign to work, it had to make sense.
Indeed, many of the building blocks were already in place. Restaurants had emphasized their increasingly deep connections with area farmers, so much so that some farmers were becoming well known to the public. The Slow Food movement already had an active Sacramento chapter. More and more people embraced the idea of knowing where their food came from.
By the time the farm-to-fork idea went public, it was easy to understand the slogan and easy to see the potential. With the Farm-to-Fork Festival set to launch Sept. 28 on the Capitol Mall, many may wonder how we got to this point. Based on interviews with key participants, what follows is a chronology of how farm to fork grew out of a simple idea to tell the story of what this region was already doing so well.
January 2011: Chef Patrick Mulvaney suggests to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson that the citys next initiative could be, The year of food, and the tagline The Emerald Valley feeds the world.
May 2011: In commemoration of The Kitchens 20th anniversary as a restaurant, T-shirts are printed with a fork sticking out of the soil and the declaration of Sacramento as Americas Farm-to-Fork Capital. The moniker is the idea of Josh Nelson, co-founder of The Selland Group, which operates The Kitchen and other gourmet restaurants in Sacramento. Hes meanwhile worked on drafting a city resolution to declare the city as Americas Farm-to-Fork Capital with help from an intern at The Kitchen, Noah Painter, district director for Councilman Darrell Fong, and others.
November 2011: A group of local chefs including Mulvaney, Brad Cecchi and Adam Pechal meet with the Downtown Sacramento Partnership to talk about moving the date of Dine Downtown Restaurant Week, which features downtown restaurant specials each January. Riding the elevator down from the meeting and thinking about the success of Sacramento Beer Week, Nelson shares his idea for a local food festival that celebrates the citys farm-to-fork heritage.
April 3, 2012: Nelson attends a dinner in Clarksburg benefiting the Center for Land-Based Learning, an organization in Winters dedicated to developing the next generation of farmers. The event is attended by Alice Waters, the figurehead of the Slow Food movement. After a few months of slow-going to officially declare Sacramento as Americas Farm-to-Fork Capital, hearing Waters champion the Sacramento areas farmers and culinary leaders reassures Nelson that hes on the right track.
July 2012: At a meeting with officials at the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau, Nelson shares an idea to brand Sacramento as Americas Farm-to-Fork Capital. The initial response from the visitors bureau is positive, but concerns are expressed about logistics and cost.
September 2012: Staffers in the mayors office meet at Ella Dining Room & Bar with Nelson, Painter, Mulvaney and visitors bureau officials to solidify plans for the Americas Farm-to-Fork Capital campaign. Fong, who has helped coordinate the meeting, has sponsored the proclamation. Mulvaney stresses that the effort should be regional in scope, since most of the farms are in a six-county area surrounding the city.
Visitors bureau officials (Mike Testa, senior vice president; Steve Hammond, president and chief executive officer; and Sonya Bradley, chief marketing officer) begin research quickly and confirm, as Testa said, Yes, we can do this.
Oct. 31, 2012: The mayor proclaims Sacramento as Americas Farm-to-Fork Capital in a press conference, flanked by more than 30 local chefs, and announces a food festival and other related events will be held in fall 2013.
This is one of the cool things in Sacramento, said Johnson in his remarks. Everyone is always talking about whats wrong with Sacramento, but this is the best of Sacramento. We are learning to play to our strengths.
Testa was thinking, How will we do the proteins? and then asked, What if we do a cattle drive through downtown Sacramento? The idea quickly becomes one of the main events for the festival.
Early November 2012: Amber Stott, executive director and founder of the California Food Literacy Center, meets with Testa. She begins working to recruit nonprofits to be involved with the Farm-to-Fork Festival and include an educational component explaining the role of nonprofits in the food system.
Meanwhile, the visitors bureau calls a meeting of all the chefs. About 60 invitations go out, and 15 chefs show up. Testa tells them, We are not food experts. We are marketing experts and special-events experts. You need to set up special events at your restaurants, and we will market for you. The officials throw out ideas, such as shutting down a parking garage and doing a dinner there, or on Tower Bridge.
Mulvaney and Nelson get back to Testa and tell him, We love the Tower Bridge idea. Mulvaney offers to help create a menu that tells the story of the region and seasonality of the farms, seeing the bridge as link between city and the rural landscape of Yolo County.
Early Dec. 2012: The visitors bureau meetings are now monthly and attended by 40 chefs.
March 28, 2013: Johnson proclaims 2013 as Sacramentos Year of Food in his State of the City speech at Memorial Auditorium. The mayor also announces monthly farm-to-fork events leading up to the fall festival and increased food education in local schools.
Mulvaney tells The Bee about plans for a gala dinner on the Tower Bridge that will include an all-star cast of local chefs feeding hundreds of guests who will sit at a long community table spanning the bridges length.
April 2013: Mulvaney begins brainstorming with others about ideas for the menu. He uses the popular monthly Monday family-style dinners at his restaurant as a template. His enthusiasm eventually leads him to exclaim, Wow, this would be cool to do twice a year because we have a fall harvest and a spring harvest.
July 2, 2013: At $175 each and with sponsored tables of eight selling for $3,000 and $5,000 all 600 tickets for the Farm-to-Fork Tower Bridge Dinner sell out within six hours. Proceeds for the dinner are geared to benefit public events during Septembers Farm-to-Fork Week. A waiting list for tickets is created at www.farmtoforkcapital.com.
July 28, 2013: Mulvaney and Shawn Harrison, founder of Soil Born Farms Urban Agriculture and Education Project, co-author an editorial in The Bee. They address what some see as prohibitive pricing for the Tower Bridge dinner and ask for widespread support for the farm-to-fork movement. Clearly, many residents recognize that this dinner isnt an end in itself, said the editorial. Instead, it is acknowledged as one way of recognizing a vast array of efforts focused on elevating our status as a food capital.
Sept. 11: With the festival just days away, chefs, visitors bureau officials and others gather at Hook and Ladder for a final monthly meeting. About 110 people show up. Testa says the idea is to position Sacramento as the Silicon Valley of food. Its not worth doing if its not all the way, Testa said.
Sept. 16: Mulvaney hosts members of the media at a dry run for the dinner, including a presentation of prototypes of the four main dishes that will be served.
Call The Bees Blair Anthony Robertson, (916) 321-1099. Follow him on Twitter @Blarob

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Intel Buys Embedded Specialist Wind River
Chipmaker Intel has paid around $900 million for Wind River's know-how in things embedded and mobile.
Intel is taking over 100% of the Wind River stock, which at $11.50 per share comes to $884 million. The California software company will bring its knowledge of embedded and mobile systems under Intel's aegis. Taking over as its new chief is Renee James, vice president and general manager of Intel's Software and Services Group, according to Intel's press release.
Embedded systems and mobile devices are by Intel's account one of their largest growth factors. The market sector includes mobile Internet devices (MIDs), smart phones, and infotainment devices for the auto industry. These devices have been a hotspot for Intel over the last few years, notably through its past ownership of Moblin and its participation with BMW in the Genivi project. Wind River was also working with some customers on adapting Android, such as for Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform.
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Mozilla Labs Shuts Down
Mozilla's product think tank sinks silently into history.
Internet Giants Launch Collaboration to Improve Open Source
TODO group will focus on open source tools in large-scale environments.
Fedora Announces New Partition Manager App
New tool will look like GParted but support a wider range of storage technologies.
Mozilla Releases a New Firefox
New public key pinning feature will help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
Tool Predicts Which Websites Will be Compromised
Carnegie Mellon researchers say 3 million pages could fall down the phishing hole in the next year.
SSH Key Management Guidelines
The US government rolls new best-practice rules for protecting SSH.
Knoppix 7.4 Released
Klaus Knopper announces the latest version of his iconic Live Linux system.
PHP Attack Puts WordPress and Drupal at Risk
All websites that use these popular CMS tools could be vulnerable to denial of service attacks if users don't install the updates.
Heartbleed Bleeds On
According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
Drone Brain Goes Open Source
DARPA and NICTA release the code for the ultra-secure microkernel system used in aerial drones.


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Yoga Instruction
Published on Friday, August 3, 2012 - 4:20pm
September is National Yoga Month.
At the Francis Gregory Library we are celebrating by hosting an information and instructional program on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 10:30 a.m.
Mr. Juneous Pettijohn, a registered Yoga instructor, will teach the class about the benefits of yoga and then lead the class in a series of yoga poses for beginners.
Please bring a mat, towel, water bottle, and wear comfy clothes. We are going to have a lot of fun. We hope you can join us.
The library also has a wonderful collection of books on yoga. Here are a few that are in our collection.


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The Office of the Controller is dedicated to providing timely, accurate and fiscally responsible business and accounting services to students, faculty and staff.
Reporting Divisions:
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Joyce King ext.23361
Director, Financial Services
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The hubris of the American education establishment is on full display at the new Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles, price tag: $578 million.
It's not just the pensions that are gold-plated in today's schools. Read this description of the new school from an article by the Associated Press:
At RFK, the features include fine art murals and a marble memorial depicting the complex's namesake, a manicured public park, a state-of-the-art swimming pool and preservation of pieces of the original hotel [at the site where the school was built].
Partly by circumstance and partly by design, the Los Angeles Unified School District has emerged as the mogul of Taj Mahals.
The RFK complex follows on the heels of two other LA schools among the nation's costliest — the $377 million Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, which opened in 2008, and the $232 million Visual and Performing Arts High School that debuted in 2009.
Los Angeles is not alone, however, in building big. Some of the most expensive schools are found in low-performing districts — New York City has a $235 million campus; New Brunswick, N.J., opened a $185 million high school in January.
Nationwide, dozens of schools have surpassed $100 million with amenities including atriums, orchestra-pit auditoriums, food courts, even bamboo nooks. The extravagance has led some to wonder where the line should be drawn and whether more money should be spent on teachers.
The Roybal school, mentioned above, "grew to encompass a dance studio with cushioned maple floors, a modern kitchen with a restaurant-quality pizza oven, a 10-acre park and teacher planning rooms between classrooms." But the real kicker for the Los Angeles school district comes in the paragraph I snipped above, which I now present:
The pricey schools have come during a sensitive period for the nation's second-largest school system: Nearly 3,000 teachers have been laid off over the past two years, the academic year and programs have been slashed. The district also faces a $640 million shortfall and some schools persistently rank among the nation's lowest performing.
Meanwhile, schools' complaints about their funding shortfalls led Congress this month to pass a $10 billion "EduJobs" bailout. Twelve percent of the money, or $1.2 billion, went to none other than the state of California, Frederick Hess notes at National Review Online.
Spending has been rising on more than construction, Hess reports:
[The] National Center for Education Statistics, for instance, reports that, nationally, current K–12 per-pupil expenditures increased from 2003–04 to 2006–2007 (the most recent school year for which the NCES reports spending) by 17 percent — from $8,310 to $9,683. Indeed NCES data make clear that the last two years have been the first time in more than a half-century that per-pupil spending has declined from the year before. And even in the past two years, job losses in K–12 education have been much more modest than in the private sector. It's befuddling that [Education Secretary Arne] Duncan is making excuses for officials bemoaning their twice-a-century belt tightening, rather than encouraging them to take a hard look at benefits, staffing, operations, and management.
Duncan, who singled out for praise the $1.2 billion that EduJobs is funneling to California, also might want to consider the recent Pepperdine study of 52 California school districts. This study reported that spending rose 21.9 percent from 2003–04 to 2008–09, outpacing both state income growth and inflation. On a per-pupil basis, spending actually jumped 25.8 percent over that period, while classroom spending as a share of total outlays declined from 59 percent to 57.8 percent. Where did the money go? Pay rose by 28 percent for certificated supervisors and administrators and by 44 percent for classified supervisors and administrators.
I've written before that inflation-adjusted, per-pupil spending has been climbing in Georgia as well, with little to show for it in the way of performance improvements. The sad thing is that too few teachers seem to have realized that their bosses are their biggest enemies.
Majestic new campuses, bloated administrative payrolls — when school systems have cut out this sort of waste, we'll talk about whether more money would truly serve our students well.
August 23rd, 2010
12:10 pm
If you want to get rid of waste in public education, why not first call for eliminating spending on high school athletics? How many millions of dollars there?
August 23rd, 2010
12:12 pm
Schools without teachers…
August 23rd, 2010
12:17 pm
Unbelieveable. And we wonder why our economy and education system is a mess? Teachers do need to look at things more closely.
August 23rd, 2010
12:22 pm
Back in the day, a high school could be built on a city block. Now they require over 40 acres, some much more. And we see an improved outcome. Consider not only the construction cost, but the cost of maintenance. Oh well, it's government spend OPM.
August 23rd, 2010
12:23 pm
I meant to say "no improved outcome."
August 23rd, 2010
12:23 pm
Not much different that when your city council, board of education, or county commissioners eat out at a fancy resteraunt and the tab comes to $1500, they just lay out $300 for the tip.
August 23rd, 2010
12:31 pm
And those who call for the peaceful dismantling of government are called wackos?
Governments only cause Depressions. They are never subjected to the misery. Their wasteful spending goes on and on. Funny how easy it is for some to spend other people's money.
The answer of course is to end all government involvement in education and let parents be responsible for their childrens' education along with the assistance of anyone who is interested in assisting financially or otherwise through a voluntary manner.
Accountability only happens when you control the purse strings.
August 23rd, 2010
12:33 pm
You are so right. All of that money could go towards more bombs and tanks, or maybe a bank or another AIG bailout…and there is even worthier sources besides a new state of the art school in the nation's 2nd largest school system. And of course we know that the system was thriving over the past 30 years without this bloating. Are you kidding? At our elementary school here we regularly doled out for paper, pencils and at fundraisers raised money for TA's and upgraded libraries. Sure there is waste in education. But up to now we always talked about how education (the administrators, the teachers, the facilities) was neglected and underfunded and underperforming. Even the last President who would have cut off his arm before he actually thought to advance anyone in a family earning less than 200k had education as priority (No kid left behind). Worry more about how to inspire and educate what we have and maybe minds will grow to get out of this morass we are in today.
August 23rd, 2010
12:38 pm
Does not surprise me . Seems almost all people in California have no clue. Home of Nancy Pelosi
August 23rd, 2010
12:39 pm
Well, the children will have fine buildings in which to teach themselves; and tax payers are once again asked to fund and subsidize bad policy. And some sneer at the Tea Party. Keep sneering. I also appreciate what you said about teachers not realizing who their real enemy is. While they are on a witch hunt for Roy Barnes because he tried to improve our educational system, the real enemy will continue to erode the system.
August 23rd, 2010
12:51 pm
Don't worry folks. The U.S taxpayer will "bailout" California before you know it.
August 23rd, 2010
1:06 pm
None of this has anything at all to do with educating kids, unless we're paying to teach them to grift off taxpayers. Either way, it will be a cold day in [wherever] before I ever vote for another tax increase for ANYTHING.
August 23rd, 2010
1:06 pm
You do realize that the pots of money for building schools and operating them are *entirely* separate, and that by law L.A. Unified cannot use school construction money for any other purpose?
If you want to have a debate about funding priorities in education, fair enough, But please, do your homework and give your readers the full context along with your opinions. Don't do a Fox News on them.
August 23rd, 2010
1:09 pm
It's so rare that I agree with you that it's worthy of note. While school building should not have the appearance of a state prison they also don't need something with all of the architectural flourishes that are included here. The school board could have built something much more utilitarian and functionally sound for far, far less money and kept many more teachers on the payroll.
August 23rd, 2010
1:10 pm
Joe: Your point doesn't even matter. Waste is waste. It's not about educating kids, it's about adults playing with other people's money.
August 23rd, 2010
1:13 pm
Nice pricetag for a place where gang bangers and illegals will "tag" their hang outs with their favorite colors in spray paint. The building depreciates as soon as the students step one foot into the door. Figures that anything government oriented, in this case the public school system, makes another bone head decision. Schools where I went were plain, ugly barely efficient buildings, but somehow we got by because we had good teachers and administrators. Now you have corrupt teachers unions and on the take officials running the schools into the ground…and they turn out graduates who can barely read or write. Our country is headed straight into the toilet and the liberals are the enablers for most of that.
August 23rd, 2010
1:16 pm
"The hubris of the American education establishment…"
Thus begins Kyle's weekly assault on public education. As a faux-conservative columnist, he skillfully applies the following tactics from "The Demagogue's Handbook":
1. Tactic 143: Treat the exception as the rule.
2. Tactic 17: Maximize the negative; ignore the positive.
3. Tactic 94: Whether or not applicable, use explosive, focus-group tested words (e.g., bailout).
4. Tactic 101: Offer a non-sequitor, consistent with your ideology, as the solution.
I agree that any money spent on unnecessary construction, administrators, and benefits are wasteful. Who doesn't? But if the implication here is that there aren't private educators who blow their wads on unnecessary architecture and excessive administrative salaries and benefits, thereby leading to ridiculously high tuitions not justified by objective student outcomes, then the evidence is lacking.
Instead of talking about whether more money would serve our students well, as Kyle proposes, shouldn't we be talking about how to make sure that the money is properly spent in the first place (a conversation we should have whether taxpayer money is applied to public or private education)—upgrading dilapidated facilities, recruiting and hiring the best educators, hiring more teachers to achieve smaller class sizes?
August 23rd, 2010
1:17 pm
My submission isn't surviving the automated moderator for some reason (I've tried twice). If possible, would you take a look and push it through?
Sorry about the trouble.
August 23rd, 2010
1:17 pm
Heck , how many trailers will all that money buy here in Georgia?
August 23rd, 2010
1:18 pm
Hmmm… a school or a presidential library *George H.W. Bush Library cost about $500 million — or 7 days of bonuses for Goldman Sachs, or 4 F-35 fighters… so many choices to spend our money!
August 23rd, 2010
1:25 pm
Ahhhhhh…Government at it's finest! California, the land of fruit and nuts.
August 23rd, 2010
1:33 pm
August 23rd, 2010
1:46 pm
Developers are always first at the trough. Thank goodness we don't have to worry about such things in Georgia! Oh, um, wait…..
August 23rd, 2010
1:47 pm
I am just guessing that the construction trades unions in Southern California are louder/stronger than the teacher's unions. Sounds to me like a lot of padding went on here. No doubt graft was involved–just like the construction at Hartsfield. Hard to find honest people anymore. I got a great education–all 12 years in a 3 story red brick schoolhouse–nothing fancy. Dedicated teachers, and kids who knew if they acted out in school they would be killed when they got home.
August 23rd, 2010
1:57 pm
Now that we've all trashed APS – and rightfully so – it would be great if someone – anyone – on the editorial board would report in a meaningful way on the recent ACT and SAT scores in Georgia. The news is good – just hasn't been reported.
Other than the simple sound bite "Ga schools rank at the bottom" here is 'the rest of the story'.
Black student scores above the national average when compared to black students nationwide.
Hispanic student scores above the national average when compared to Hispanic students nationwide.
And finally, White student scores above the national average when compared to white students nationwide.
You would also be surprised when you look at the top 10% of students in private schools compared to the top 10% of students in public schools.
This type of news would take a little more digging than the bad news – but it would speak volumes about why Georgia is a great place for a business to locate…
Retired administrator for public schools – where ALL students can attend…
August 23rd, 2010
1:57 pm
Maybe so, Kyle. But again, you seem to be implying that such waste is the rule and not the exception. That federal education money isn't saving teachers jobs, properly upgrading poorly maintained school buildings, or preventing class sizes from growing larger than they otherwise would—at all. That if some money on a project is wasted, which happens in nearly every significant public or private endeavor, then it's not worth doing.
August 23rd, 2010
2:01 pm
Sounds like Kyle supports Roy Barnes' Reform plan — give the school systems 4 designs to choose from if they want state bonded construction monies — just think how many buildings could have gone up with the money spent on Milton High School (that be in North Fulton, errr, Milton County)
August 23rd, 2010
2:01 pm
Did ol' Nancy have a hand in the construction of that school? Maybe she can move her office there and save us taxpayers $18,000 a month.
August 23rd, 2010
2:21 pm
Limosine Liberals have to come from somewhere!!
It is typical liberal philosophy, to brainwash the kids into believing Global warming, income redistribution, carbon footprints, etc, but do not make them suffer, because of any of those beliefs. Live large and spare no expense, but preach about sacrifice and dedication to the environment and those in society who are suffering.
August 23rd, 2010
2:24 pm
Fun Guy – August 23rd, 2010 – 12:38 pm
"Seems almost all people in California have no clue. Home of Nancy Pelosi"
– All people in a state have no clue because of one person.
What happened to common sense ?
August 23rd, 2010
2:28 pm
2010 Robert F. Kennedy Community School (cost-578 million dollars/multiple schools)"
The name of the above mentioned school should be changed. Sirhan Sirhan Community School would be more fitting. The kennedys were a group of drunken frat boys and crooks.
August 23rd, 2010
2:29 pm
That if some money on a project is wasted, which happens in nearly every significant public or private endeavor, then it's not worth doing.
It should read, Since most Gov projects contain a great deal of money wasted needlessly, it would be better to give the money directly to those who you are trying to help and leave the Gov out of the project.
Kind of like, if the Gov had just split the 1 Trillion dollar Stimulus bill among the taxpayers in the form of a tax cut, then the economy would be booming, with people buying TV's, stereos, tires, cars, furniture, etc.
August 23rd, 2010
2:39 pm
You had to go all the way to California to find waste?
August 23rd, 2010
2:40 pm
Statement from the LA Unified School District, "The construction of these schools was funded by bond money the voters approved to build new schools to relieve SEROUS overcrowding in schools…By law, these funds could not be used to fund teacher salaries or to back fill budget shortfalls currently being experienced by the District…& ITS meets the Board goal of relieving overcrowding in all our schools."
This is their spelling & words, not mine.
August 23rd, 2010
2:44 pm
The LAUSD spent $232 M & $377 M on 2 other schools in the last 3 yrs. They've laid off 3000 teachers in the last 2 yrs. They have a $640 M budget deficit, some of the lowest performing schools in the country & a 27% drop-out rate.
August 23rd, 2010
2:57 pm
August 23rd, 2010
2:44 pm
The LAUSD spent $232 M & $377 M on 2 other schools in the last 3 yrs. They've laid off 3000 teachers in the last 2 yrs. They have a $640 M budget deficit, some of the lowest performing schools in the country & a 27% drop-out rate.
Excellent point, Linda.
I wonder how LA compares with Detroit, New Orleans or Chicago, more bastions of liberal management philosophy? What is Atlanta's drop-out rate?
August 23rd, 2010
3:01 pm
Your comments are nothing more than the standard Liberal clap-trap. You, and those with whom you agree, are a scourge on the United States.
Your "Handbook" entires at 1:16pm are nothing more than the Socialist Guide to Destruction of the United States. Democrats and Liberals have been demoninzing the Right as anti-education, anti-Social Security and anti-minorities for the last 50+ years and yet when the Libs have the Congress and the WH all they accomplish is the fiancial destruction of the economy and a crushing blow to the hopes and dreams of those born since 1990. Liberals have destryed education, Social Security and virtually everything they touch – including the American family.
There are "lies" and there are "damn lies" and Liberals such as CJ are accomplished at both when pandering to an uneducated, underpriviledged group of voters whom the Liberals themselves have created by their social policies.
We can only "hope" the American public has awakened to the charade that has become the Democrat party and Liberalism.
I have asked before and I will try again, "Can anyone find any redeeming value in a Liberal"? So far there has been nothing.
August 23rd, 2010
3:07 pm
One more thing – WASTE IS THE RULE rather than the exception anytime government is involved.
The current administration is so busy lining the pockets of their supporters there will likely be nothing remaining regardless of a rise in tax rates.
Republicans appear as pikers when compared to this band of theives in Congress and the White House.
August 23rd, 2010
3:10 pm
NSCO: "Democrats and Liberals have been demonizing the Right as anti-education, anti-Social Security and anti-minorities for the last 50+ years…"
It's not demonizing if it's true; it's just reporting.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed the fact-free, substance-free rant. Thanks for the laugh.
August 23rd, 2010
3:12 pm
One very obvious solution to school funding…get out of the state/county approach in educational administration. The "other" state employee's admin is located in Atlanta. The schools have what..150+ separate school bd of eds, personal depts etc. Centralize control. Here in Chatham co, the admin represents nearly half the total budget… that's crazy; but then, everyone wants that LOCAL CONTROL, even though it has resulted in such diverse performance outcomes… mostly of which are bad.
August 23rd, 2010
3:22 pm
No More @ 2:57, Dropping out of school is not always as bad as social promotion. We sat alphabetically in high school. For yrs. I sat next to a girl in many classes & observed the 30s, 40s & 50s she earned on most of her papers. She followed me in the graduation line.
The next time I saw her, she told me that she had graduated from a college in South Georgia & was a teacher.
Wonder what school district(s) she taught in. Wonder what our school district taught her.
August 23rd, 2010
3:34 pm
"get out of the state/county approach in educational administration. . .Centralize control."
Oh my gosh, the ultimate in wrong-headed liberal proposals. Just for fun here, compare Cherokee County schools to APS and tell me why anyone in Cherokee or any other outlying county would EVER be in favor of central control? PLEASE do NOT vote. We don't need more nuts in the voting booths.
If Chatham County has a problem managing their school budget then (1) the Chatham County voters need to fix it, or (2) if there is corruption the criminality needs to be investigated and prosecuted. I believe in accountability at the ballot box; Atlanta and Chatham get what they are willing to accept; Cherokee voters had a problem Board member about 10 years ago who got the District decertified and swiftly took care of the issue. The voters in Atlanta collectively [not individually] don't care about educating their kids to the same extent the Cherokee voters do. Simple to understand. If we centralize control the Beverly Halls of the world will destroy us, too.
August 23rd, 2010
3:39 pm
" The sad thing is that too few teachers seem to have realized that their bosses are their biggest enemies."
Well, I certainly resr my case that no one knows the first thing about what is going on in the schools. You obviously haven't been hanging around the teachers' lounge at that 26 minute lunch.
August 23rd, 2010
3:53 pm
These commercial construction contracts were all entered into in the heady, revenue rich days of the middle of the decade.
Governments across the country all spent like drunken sailors during this period.
And we wonder why we're broke now that we've had a revenue correction? ! !
August 23rd, 2010
3:57 pm
Case in point:
The GA DOT!
August 23rd, 2010
4:11 pm
Don't call grease and kickbacks waste.
August 23rd, 2010
4:43 pm
Kyle: "Some of the most expensive schools are found
in low-performing districts — New York City has a $235 million
campus; New Brunswick, N.J., opened a $185 million
high school in January."
– I grew up in New Bruswick (back in the late 70's). It's one of the more affluent
areas of Jersey, probably because it's a college town. As far as being a "low-
performing district" – the NJ DOE in 1975 implemented the District Factor Group
(DFG) system to make statewide assessments of school districts, similar to the
CRCT system in Georgia.
According to Wiki, the NJ system does not "have a primary or significant
influence in the school funding formula beyond legal requirements associated with
parity aid provided to Abbott districts" (the result of a judgement for the Education
Law Center in 1985, Abbott v. Burke, involving an assertion that primary
and secondary education in poor communities was substandard.).
The cost of a new school, therefore, would be an issue of community standards,
e.g. property values, instead of academic standards – not suggesting that represents
what the priorities should be. Students and their education should ALWAYS take
precedence over construction projects.
August 23rd, 2010
4:54 pm
Administrators in general love big, expensive construction projects and this case is no exception. Many of those projects are financed via bonds paid for either at the city or state level and so require little immediate cash upfront, just another chip away at the credit rating for the sponsoring government. Administrators also get to emblazon their names on these monuments to their own egos and use them to sound like they're actually getting things done when in reality, as Kyle points out, they're laying off teachers (and usually it's the young, competent, enthusiastic teachers who get the axe, not the lazy, incompetent, union-controlled deadwood).
The immediate solution is simple: get rid of 50% of administrators (whose numbers have been exploding over the past few decades compared to actual teachers- I guarantee you there won't be any dropoff in quality/performance in schools by firing administrators) and make the ones who are left dependent on one-year renewable contracts. The contracts should be renewed only after public feedback and hearings every year to review their performance. Outrages like this school wouldn't even be caught unless people in the media decide to inform their audiences of the cost, so it's up to parents and taxpayers in general need to exercise far more oversight of school budgets and speak out before these egoistic monstrosities ever get off the ground.
August 23rd, 2010
5:04 pm
So our school district also in California tells us that California is broke so we have to pay 300.00 for our children to ride the school bus. However they can spend 578 freakin million dollars to build a damn school in LA. They should have put that damn money back into the school system!!!!!!!!


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"The people who haven't claimed these checks are often the people who could use it the most," Mayor Jerry Abramson said. "Thousands of people could be letting this one-time windfall pass them by, but it's an easy process to get the money that's been set aside for them."
The IRS estimates 11,000 Louisville residents may qualify for stimulus checks. Those citizens must file a tax return by Oct. 15 in order to receive their payments. Amounts range from $300 per individual to $600 per married couple, plus a $300 payment for each qualifying child.
Retirees, citizens with disabilities or taxpayers who don't earn enough to file tax returns may be eligible to receive a stimulus payment if they had at least $3,000 of qualifying income. Qualifying income includes Social Security benefits, certain Railroad Retirement benefits, certain veterans' benefits and earned income, such as income from wages, salaries, tips and self-employment.
The Louisville Asset Building Coalition is working with the IRS to reach out to citizens who may be eligible for a stimulus check. LABC will hold several sessions to help people fill out the necessary forms. The first sessions will be held Monday, Oct. 6 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and at 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Metro United Way, located at 334 E. Broadway. Applicants should bring identification, income documentation for 2007 (such as a Social Security or VA statement) and their Social Security card (plus the cards of any dependents). More sessions will be announced soon.
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Some of Mary Minyard's students have so little opportunity to interact with nature that walking into the woods can be an overwhelming experience.
"We're trying to break down the barriers that prevent children from being comfortable in the outdoors, by encouraging them to explore nature," said Minyard, who is principal of Young Elementary School in Louisville. "This promotes the International Baccalaureate philosophy, by encouraging them to become better stewards of green space, and more globally responsive citizens." Young is a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate program.
Young is one of four urban elementary schools taking part in Louisville ECHO (engaging children outdoors), an environmental education program that Louisville Metro Parks offers to fourth- and fifth-grade students. The program seeks to give schoolchildren a closer relationship to nature while influencing their health and academic achievement. Lessons are closely tied to the students' school curriculum. The other elementary schools taking part are King, Portland and Cane Run.
The program is managed by staff at Jefferson Memorial Forest, which the 304 students in the program get to visit after spending some time learning about nature in a park near their school. The program concludes with a trip to the Red River Gorge Geological Area in the Daniel Boone National Forest.
City officials and representatives from Jefferson County Public Schools gathered in Chickasaw Park on Wednesday to celebrate a $5,000 contribution from Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky to the Louisville Metro Parks Foundation for Louisville ECHO. Students from Young Elementary worked alongside staff from Metro Parks, the Olmsted Parks Conservancy and Toyota to plant trees and pick up litter in the park.
"Louisville Engaging Children Outdoors really got our attention because it encompasses three key target areas for Toyota – environment, education, and children," said Kim Menke, Manager, Community Relations, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky.
Toyota supports projects that compliment the company's own focus on environmental stewardship, sustainability and green products, said Menke.
"As a local government, we do everything we can to enhance the variety of educational opportunities available through our Jefferson County Public Schools," said Mary Gwen Wheeler, who is Mayor Jerry Abramson's senior advisor on education. "Giving children meaningful interactions with nature is a great way to extend their classroom lessons into their community and build their interest in protecting our environment."
Louisville ECHO received seed money in 2008 from the U.S. Forest Service, through their More Kids in the Woods program. The Forest Service provided additional financial support for the current school year, and their staff leads students through the Red River Gorge each year.
Metro Councilwoman Judy Green (D-1) provided $500 from her district's funds to support the program, which also receives in-kind assistance from the Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Olmsted Parks Conservancy provides trees to plant and staff to participate in the students' learning process.
Anyone interested in joining Toyota Georgetown and the project's other supporters in expanding this program to additional schools should contact the Louisville Metro Parks Foundation at 502/456-1857.
Jefferson Memorial Forest, the nation's largest municipal urban forest at 6,218 acres, is a woodland tribute to those Kentucky veterans who have served our nation during times of war. Outdoor environmental education programs are offered at the forest, providing learning opportunities for thousands of students and teachers each year. The forest offers a full range of recreational amenities, including weekend education and adventure programs, hiking trails, camping, fishing, horseback riding trails and picnic areas. For more information or to volunteer, go to www.memorialforest.com.
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- I was surprised how good theOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 7/14/2013I was surprised how good the food was. I am not Vegan but all the menu items we tried were very good. The chef and hostess came around with little treats for patrons to try which was a nice touch. Nice surprise was the music at Brunch and the setting was airy and comfortable.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Poor Management Mars Great FoodOpenTable Diner Since 2007VIPDined on 6/30/2013Mr. Muse: please check on your staff. The food, jazz and setting are wonderful. A poorly managed staff detracts. Greeted by a hostess who set my table with glasses she carried with fingers over the lip and deep into the glasses (I am not a germ phobic, but ...) She set our table with two place settings wrapped in wet napkins:"Our dryer is broken" Serve yourself coffee was empty; tray for choice of teabags had one teabag. Limited, but tasty offerings on the buffet; but, hot items were cold and the staff neglected maintaining food on the buffet though the restaurant was not crowded. Another party asked, "When will you bring more pancakes?" Staff reply: "The customers keep eating them." What a poor way to treat both customers and great food.
- Very enjoyableOpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 6/23/2013It's very hard to find a brunch spot that our whole family can enjoy, but this was great. We have a vegan, a vegetarian and two meat eaters and we were all very satisfied with this brunch. The pancakes dissappeared very quickly from the buffet and were replaced with hot, fresh ones just as quickly. The salad was frech and full of veggies as well as beautiful, fresh raspberries. The dressing was light and fruity. The scramble was very tasty and replaced frequently as was the mushroom mac and cheese. The melon fruit cup and mini muffins and cookies were a perfect ending. I liked the relaxed and non hurried atmosphere and we will definitely go again.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- if you need a biteOpenTable Diner Since 2004VIPDined on 5/29/2013It's a gallery cafe. Res nice just to ensure table.Special Features:
- The Muse is a well kept secret.DCFanVIPDined on 5/19/2013The Muse is a well kept secret. It is a wonderful place that offers buffet style food that is all local and well prepared. It is great having a meal while inside an art museum!Special Features:
- The vegan brunch was veryrobolieDined on 5/19/2013The vegan brunch was very good. Food was delicious.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- The restaurant was closedOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 4/28/2013The restaurant was closed for the time our reservations were made for, we waited 45 minutes after our reservation time for then to open only to find out that it was vegan brunch day. They said their open table reservation site was broken and allowing ppl to reserve for times that they were not open
- Good meal at an unbeatableRepeatdinerVIPDined on 4/7/2013Good meal at an unbeatable location - the Corcoran Gallery. Perfect for brunch and a walk to Smithsonian or monumentsSpecial Features:
- There needs to be more thanNotAChefVIPDined on 3/3/2013There needs to be more than 5 stars for "ambience" in this list of questions. How more spectacular could this venue be? And with the very creative menu offered by Chef Todd Gray & guest chef Kim O'Donnel it was just a perfect "only in DC" experience. Special praise to server Rob who took such good care of us. We will definitely be back again. Delicious!Special Features:
- Art Gallery DiningOpenTable Diner Since 2008Dined on 2/15/2013Who would have expected such great food in an art gallery! What a great find - casual and terrific food. Everything was very reasonably priced and fresh made. The manager told me that they had taken over food service about 18 months ago. Brunch is served every weekend and vegan brunch every month - im not a vegan but I know plenty who are. I will return.Special Features:


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2014 Chevrolet Spark EV in Tulsa, OK
2014 Chevrolet Spark EV LT 5dr HB
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MSRP $26,685* As shown
- Vehicle Colors
- Black Granite Titanium Electric Blue Silver Ice Summit White
Vehicle Specifications
- Number of Passenger Doors - 4
- EPA Classification - Subcompact Cars
- Engine Order Code - EN0
- Engine Type - Electric
- SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM - 140
- SAE Net Torque @ RPM - 400
- Trans Order Code - MME
- Trans Description Cont. - Automatic
- Final Drive Axle Ratio - 3.17
- Drivetrain - Front Wheel Drive
- EPA MPG Equivalent - City - 128
- EPA MPG Equivalent - Hwy - 109
- EPA MPG Equivalent - Combined - 119
- Battery Range - 82
Weight Information
- Base Curb Weight - 2989
- Suspension Type - Front - MacPherson Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear - Compound Crank
- Suspension Type - Front - w/Coil Springs
- Suspension Type - Rear - w/Coil Springs
- Brake Type - Pwr
- Brake ABS System - 4-Wheel
- Disc - Front - Yes
- Drum - Rear - Yes
- Front Tire Order Code - RJV
- Rear Tire Order Code - RJV
- Front Tire Size - 185/55R15
- Rear Tire Size - 195/55R15
- Front Wheel Material - Aluminum
- Rear Wheel Material - Aluminum
- Steering Type - Electric
- Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb - 33.8
Exterior Dimensions
- Wheelbase - 93.50
- Length, Overall - 146.50
- Width, Max w/o mirrors - 64.00
- Height, Overall - 62.60
- Track Width, Front - 55.50
- Track Width, Rear - 54.80
Cargo Area Dimensions
- Cargo Volume with Rear Seat Up - 9.6
- Cargo Volume with Rear Seat Down - 23.4
Interior Dimensions
- Front Head Room - 39.40
- Front Leg Room - 42.00
- Front Shoulder Room - 50.70
- Front Hip Room - 48.00
- Second Head Room - 37.30
- Second Leg Room - 35.20
- Second Shoulder Room - 49.71
- Second Hip Room - 47.50
- Passenger Capacity - 4
- Passenger Volume - 86.0
- Vehicle Name - Chevrolet Spark EV
- Body Style - Hatchback
Vehicle Features
- Antenna, roof-mounted
- Audio system feature, 6-speaker system
- Audio system feature, USB port and auxiliary input jack, located in front center stack storage bin
- Chevrolet MyLink radio, AM/FM stereo with seek-and-scan and digital clock includes Bluetooth streaming audio for music and select phones; voice recognition for compatible phone; Pandora, TuneIn radio, Stitcher and Siri Eyes Free voice recognition smartphone compatible; all functions controlled through 7" diagonal color touch-screen (Includes (UW6) 6-speaker system. Also includes eco routing capability through OnStar.)
- OnStar, 6 months of Directions and Connections plan includes Automatic Crash Response, Stolen Vehicle Assistance, Roadside Assistance and Turn-by-Turn Navigation (Visit onstar.com for coverage map, details and system limitations. Services vary by model and conditions.)
- SiriusXM Satellite Radio is standard on nearly all 2014 GM models. Enjoy a 3-month trial to the XM All Access package, with over 150 channels including commercial-free music, all your favorite sports, exclusive talk and entertainment. With All Access, listen to everything, everywhere, in your car and on your computer, smartphone or tablet. (IMPORTANT: The SiriusXM Satellite Radio trial package is not provided on vehicles that are ordered for Fleet Daily Rental ("FDR") use. If you decide to continue your service at the end of your trial subscription, the plan you choose will automatically renew and bill at then-current rates until you call 1-866-635-2349 to cancel. See SiriusXM Customer Agreement for complete terms at siriusxm.com. Other fees and taxes will apply. All fees and programming subject to change.)
- Charge port door
- Door handles, body-color
- Glass, solar absorbing
- Grille, unique solid upper and lower with active aero shutters
- Headlamps, halogen with automatic exterior lamp control and Daytime Running Lamps
- License plate bracket, front
- Liftgate trim, chrome
- Mirrors, outside power-adjustable, body-color, manual-folding
- Moldings, chrome belt-line
- Rocker molding, body-color, lower
- Spoiler, rear with integrated LED center high-mounted stop/brake lamp (CHMSL)
- Tire inflation kit
- Tires, front 185/55R15 and rear 195/55R15 blackwall
- Wheels, 15" (38.1 cm) aluminum
- Wiper, rear, continuous, with washer
- Wipers, front intermittent, variable
- Air conditioning, single-zone automatic climate control
- Air filtration system, includes odor reducing system
- Armrest, driver, folding
- Assist handles, driver, front passenger and rear outboard
- Bottle holder with door storage pocket on driver and front passenger doors
- Cargo net, envelope type
- Cargo security shelf, rear
- Center stack trim, Blue Ray
- Console, rear, center with storage tray
- Cruise control, electronic with set and resume speed, steering wheel-mounted
- Cup holders, 2 front and 2 rear
- Defogger, rear-window
- Door locks, power programmable
- Door locks, power, emergency unlock, automatic
- Driver foot rest, left side
- Driver Information Center, 7" diagonal cluster with reconfigurable color display
- Floor covering, carpet
- Floor mats, carpeted front and rear with driver heel pad, EV logo and Electric Blue surging
- Glovebox
- Instrumentation, digital with speedometer, EV range projection and trip computer
- Keyless start, switch
- Lighting, dimming instrument panel cluster
- Lighting, interior overhead courtesy lamp with OnStar controls
- Lighting, rear cargo compartment lamp
- Map pocket, front passenger seatback
- Mirror, inside rearview manual day/night
- Mobile application, OnStar RemoteLink app, requires compatible smartphone
- Power outlet, auxiliary, located in front center stack storage bin
- Remote Keyless Entry
- Remote vehicle starter system, passenger compartment preconditioning
- Seat adjuster, driver 4-way manual with manual recline
- Seat adjuster, passenger 2-way manual with manual recline
- Seat, rear, 60/40-split, folding with adjustable outboard headrests
- Seats, front high-back bucket with adjustable head restraints
- Seats, heated driver and front passenger
- Shift lever, floor-mounted without console
- Shopping bag hooks, located on base of driver and front passenger head restraints
- Steering column, Tilt-Wheel
- Steering wheel controls, mounted audio and phone interface controls
- Steering wheel, 3-spoke, Silver accents
- Storage, driver IP coin tray
- Storage, front passenger IP tray
- Storage, lower center IP bin
- Theft-deterrent system, content theft alarm
- Trim, seat, Electric Blue Cloth
- Vehicle immobilizer, theft-deterrent system
- Visors, driver and front passenger vanity mirrors, covered
- Windows, power, front and rear
- Accessory rundown protection
- Alternator, none
- Axle, 3.17 final drive ratio
- Battery, 520 cold-cranking amps
- Battery, Propulsion, Lithium-ion, Rechargeable Energy Storage System includes liquid thermal management system with active control
- Brake, parking, electric
- Brakes, 4-wheel antilock, 4-wheel disc with Brake Assist
- Charge control, programmable time of day to optimize off-peak charging hours with charging indicator light on instrument panel
- Charge cord, 120-volt, orange
- Charger, liquid-cooled on-board
- Engine, none
- Front wheel drive
- Steering, power, electric
- Suspension, front, MacPherson struts
- Suspension, rear, compound crank
- Transmission, automatic electric drive unit
- Air bags, 10 total (Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Air bags, dual-stage, frontal, driver and right-front passenger, includes Passenger Sensing System (Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Air bags, head curtain, side-front and rear outboard seating positions (Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Air bags, knee, driver and front passenger (Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Air bags, thorax side-impact seat-mounted, side-front and rear outboard seating positions (Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Hill Start Assist
- LATCH system (Lower Anchors and Top tethers for CHildren), for child safety seats
- Safety belt pretensioners, driver and front passenger, dual
- Safety belts, 3-point, all positions, front height adjustable
- StabiliTrak, stability control system with Brake Assist
- Tire Pressure Monitoring System
- Traction control
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Saint Clare's Embraces Holiday Spirit by Giving Back to Its Own Families
December 23, 2011
Saint Clare's Health System embraced the spirit of giving during the holiday season by hosting an "Adopt a Family" program – a way for Saint Clare's staff members to support their fellow employees.
As part of the program, individual employees or departments within the hospital were invited to "adopt" individuals employed by the health system that had been identified as benefitting from extra assistance during the holiday season, purchasing gifts anonymously for them and their families. More than 50 Saint Clare's departments and individuals took part in the initiative, which found a special way for Saint Clare's employees to support each other, brighten their holidays, and recognize their ongoing commitment to providing compassionate care to patients in the community.
Due to the generosity of Saint Clare's staff, more people and departments wanted to adopt families than the number of families who sought assistance for the holidays. Eleven departments and individuals were offered the opportunity to purchase gifts for the Children's Crisis Intervention Services at Saint Clare's Hospital/Boonton, an inpatient behavioral health services unit providing services for children and adolescents between the ages of five and seventeen.
"We are truly touched by the overwhelming generosity that Saint Clare's employees have shown in the "Adopt a Family" Program," says Sister Susan Evelyn, Vice President, Mission Integration at Saint Clare's. "The number of gifts provided to the Boonton unit exceeded all of our expectations."
Pictured (l-r) with gifts donated as part of the "Adopt a Family" program are: Dick Russo, volunteer at Saint Clare's; Diana Shores, executive assistant at Saint Clare's; Marge Wittman, volunteer at Saint Clare's; Sister Susan Evelyn, Vice President, Mission Integration at Saint Clare's; and Jim Bailey, volunteer at Saint Clare's.
About Saint Clare's Health System
Saint Clare's Health System, which has served the health care needs of northwestern New Jersey residents since 1895, is the region's premier provider of community-based health care and behavioral health services. Saint Clare's operates hospitals in Boonton Township, Denville, Dover and Sussex Borough and other facilities located throughout Morris and Sussex counties. Saint Clare's is part of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), a national nonprofit health organization with headquarters in Englewood, Colorado. The faith-based system operates in 19 states and includes 73 hospitals; 40 long-term care, assisted- and residential-living facilities; two community health-services organizations; and home health agencies.


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(Las Cruces, NM) - Adams Radio of Las Cruces is proud to announce the return of Classic County Music to the airwaves of Las Cruces and Southern New Mexico on CLASSIC COUNTRY 570. Starting today at 6am, KSNM 570 became CLASSIC COUNTRY 570. Veronica Test, Market Manger, says," This exciting format change is filling a void our listeners have been requesting for quite some time." Ernesto Garcia, Operations Manger, says, "I really think everyone will enjoy the format returning to the airwaves on 570 AM after a break of 13 years."
CLASSIC COUNTRY 570 is the only station in Southern New Mexico & West Texas that brings you the best in American Music. CLASSIC COUNTRY 570 will feature the biggest country songs and artists from the 70's, 80's and 90's. The listener will hear core artists such as George Strait, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Reba McEntire, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and more.The on-air personalities know country music and engage listeners through contests, requests, and daily features.
CLASSIC COUNTRY 570 will still be your home for the NFL, High School Sports from the Bulldawg, Trojan, Hawk and Knight Radio Network, and NMSU Men's & Women's Sports.
CLASSIC COUNTRY 570 will continue to bring you News at the top of the hour along with national stories from FOX News and local news from award-winning newsman Jack Nixon. Newsbreak New Mexico will be heard at the bottom of the hour with statewide news.
CLASSIC COUNTRY 570 also lets our community have a voice every weekday at Noon with "Let's Talk Las Cruces." Once a daily three-hour show, the community talk show will now be heard for one hour on at Noon on the station.
Until current contract obligations are finished, CLASSSIC COUNTRY 570 will continue to run some existing weekend programming and FOX Sports in the evening and overnight hours.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
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Profiles in Cancer Research
Dr. Robin Yabroff
Health Services and Economics Branch
NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
Dr. Robin Yabroff's wire earrings sway as she talks enthusiastically about her favorite areas of research: projections of cancer trends into the future, patient-time costs, and comparing different methodologies. The draft of a survey is spread across her desk with edits and comments penciled neatly in the margins. This particular survey is designed to gather data about people who have or have had cancer and includes questions about their insurance coverage and employment status. Dr. Yabroff hopes the survey will help fill a gap in cancer patient data, particularly for those under the age of 65.
Dr. Yabroff is a recognized leader in the field of health services research. As an epidemiologist in the Health Services and Economics Branch of NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, she designs studies, develops surveys, and dissects data sets to understand how patients interact with the health care system, and how such interaction affects the quality of care they receive. She does this in collaboration with other researchers from different disciplines, and says that her daily interaction with colleagues is a critical aspect of the research.
"Working with the expertise of clinicians, statisticians, economists, and behavioral scientists improves the quality and potential impact of our research," she said, "and helps us to develop research resources for other scientists to use."
Looking at the Big Picture
Like millions around the world, Dr. Yabroff has been touched by cancer in a personal way. In the early 1990s, her grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. A few years later, while working as a research associate at Georgetown University Medical Center's Clinical Economics Research Unit, Dr. Yabroff had a choice: work on an infant mortality study or help craft a breast cancer study that examined how elderly women make decisions about their treatment.
Her grandmother's recent struggle with treatment decisions, Dr. Yabroff said, made it "very natural" to take on the breast cancer study.
In the late 1990s, the disease became personal again when her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer that progressed rapidly. And in 2005, Dr. Yabroff was herself diagnosed with breast cancer. These events molded her research as she was forced to sort through referrals and second opinions, treatment decisions, and questions about which expenses would be covered by her insurance plan.
Dr. Yabroff didn't have clear career goals when she graduated from Indiana University with degrees in biology and psychology in 1987. She started out working in a research lab in an effort to find her niche. Later, she developed a curiosity about emerging biotech companies and the stock market, which led to an M.B.A and ultimately the study of health economics.
While at Georgetown's Clinical Economics Research Unit, she worked as a research associate on several cancer cost-effectiveness studies. This research environment provided the perfect blend of clinical epidemiology and health economics, she said, and prompted her to pursue a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
It was during this time that her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The effect on the family was significant. Her mother had to stop working and her father took a leave of absence and subsequently retired. Dr. Yabroff, too, had to take time off from both work and graduate school, and her sister also took a leave of absence. The whole family had to adapt, she said.
Dr. Yabroff remembered accompanying her mother to the hospital for 24-hour chemotherapy treatments and helping her deal with insurance hurdles and referrals. "It was like a full-time job helping her navigate her care," she recalled.
Luckily, her mother had good health insurance coverage. "Even in the best-case scenario, cancer treatment is really tough to manage," she said. "So, what happens when patients and their families don't have some of those advantages?"
The experience led her to pursue research in end-of-life care, as well as topics such as the impact of cancer on employment and productivity (that of patients and caregivers) and disparities in health care delivery. While at Georgetown University Medical Center's Lombardi Cancer Center, she served as co-investigator on a study of caregiver burden at the end-of-life and several studies estimating the cost effectiveness of interventions to improve breast cancer outcomes.
The Burden of Time
More recently, Dr. Yabroff worked with colleagues to examine how much time cancer patients spend receiving care and the costs associated with that time. This effort emerged as one of her favorite studies, she said, because there has been little research done looking at patient time, and also because she personally spent an enormous amount of time getting treatment for her mother and then getting treatment herself.
The study, published in 2007, used linked data from NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and Medicare to examine how often different services were used, such as hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and then applied time estimates to those services (including travel time). They also used several methods for valuing patient time.
"We estimated that the patient time burden associated with cancer care was considerable," she said, citing the example of ovarian cancer patients who spent an estimated 410.6 hours during the initial phase of care after diagnosis compared with 42.4 hours for similar individuals without cancer. And the average time cost associated with ovarian cancer in the initial phase of care was $5,605, Dr. Yabroff and her colleagues found. But their estimates were probably low because they only included services Medicare pays for and did not include family and caregiver time.
In her latest collaborative study, Dr. Yabroff and her colleagues examined cancer incidence and survival data from SEER, U.S. population projections, and cost estimates based on linked SEER and Medicare data to develop cost projections for cancer care through the year 2020. That study predicted how many people would be in each phase of care (beginning, continuing, or end-of-life) and used cost estimates specific to each phase of care to project the overall costs associated with cancer.
Lessons Learned and Critical Questions
Last year, Dr. Yabroff received three NIH Merit Awards for contributions to her field. This year marks her fifth year being cancer free. The focus of her research continuously shifts, but her curiosity about how people receive medical care, including prevention, screening, and treatment for cancer, remains constant.
"When you see disparities in health outcomes," she said, "you start thinking, are there ways health care delivery could be improved? Much of it is related to how people use health care." Disparities in cancer survival, for example, can change based on how people use screening and treatment in different ways, she explained.
And after nearly 20 years of health services research, Dr. Yabroff has learned that there are many questions that influence this relationship.
"Do you have health insurance, and if so, is it employer-based? Do you have a usual source of care? Does your doctor recommend screening? If you are diagnosed with cancer, are you able to get a second opinion for treatment recommendations? I like to consider these kinds of questions," she said. "We have a complicated health care system in the United States."
How people use this complicated system, particularly as oncology evolves, is something Dr. Yabroff looks forward to documenting in the future, particularly with advances such as targeted cancer therapies. How will these therapies be recommended and used by oncologists? What groups of patients will receive these treatments? And what will be the costs associated with their use?
"I just hope that our research ultimately helps people receive the highest quality of care. Not just in terms of how patients and families interact with their clinicians, but in how they deal with employers and health insurers," Dr. Yabroff said. "Because I know what effect those interactions can have on cancer treatment, quality of life, and how well people survive this disease."
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GNS3 0.8.4 RC1 is now released. This is the last step before a final release and last chance to catch bugs.
You can download this version on sourceforge.
Please post your suggestions/comments on the forum and let us know if you find any issue.
Here is a quick list of the changes:
- GUI improvements.
- Drag & drop of multiple devices when pressing SHIFT.
- Temporary projects are created by default.
- Winpcap compatibility mode set in all-in-one, allowing it to be installed on Windows 8
- Dynamips 0.2.8-RC5-community is now default on Windows.
- Qemu 1.3 can be installed from the all-in-one (experimental). Qemu 0.11.0 is still the default.
- Qemu 0.11.0 integrated to the DMG for Mac OS X (used by default).
- Qemu 0.14.1 integrated to the DMG for Mac OS X.
- Qemu monitor (to pause/resume) and user backend options (experimental).
- Support for multiple flavors of Qemu: sparc, arm, i386, x86_64
- SuperPutty command line support.
- SuperPutty in all-in-one on Windows (optional).
- VirtualBox interface numbering starts at 0 (e.g. e0 = VirtualBox interface 1 = eth0 on Linux).
- Dash is now accepted for hostnames.
- Fixed issues with ports reported as already in use.
- Gray out VLAN box when selecting dot1q port type in Ethernet Switch.
- Default delay for console adjusted from 0.5 to 1 second.
- Default base console is now 2101 instead of 2001
- Changed Dynamips default base UDP from 10000 to 10001
- Mouse wheel scrolls the scene by default + options to deactivate the wheel or use it for zooming
- Support for 36 network cards in VirtualBox (using ICH9 chipset)
- Patching for Dynagen (see topic5659.html for details)
- Wrappers improvements all over the place.
- New baseconfig.txt
- New option to save traffic capture in project directories.
- Experimental auto IDLE PC calculation feature (requires Dynamips 0.2.8-RC5, included in Windows all-in-one and OSX DMG).
- ASA pre-configuration.
Thank you for your contribution!


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Once upon a time, husband and wife, Robert & Samara, left the Big Apple to return to their homeland in Toronto and moved into a vibrant North Toronto neighbourhood. All was swell in their new digs 'cept they missed the great gourmet diners from the Big Apple and New York's famous Dreesen's donuts.
So they launched Uncle Betty's Diner - a gourmet comfort food diner specializing in delicious gourmet hotdogs, slow-cooked pulled pork, sloppy joes and the one and only Ultimate Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Of course, the ice-cream donut sandwiches made with Dreesen's donuts (made fresh on our premises daily) and Greg's All Natural Ice Cream will surely schmear a blissful smile on both young and old. Our weekend Brunches are immensely popular...check out our menus for all the tantilizing options.
Oh, and as for Uncle Betty? Yes, she's real. She's a mom, a grandmother and an aunt. No, not a real Uncle, but affectionately known as "uncle" for her "take charge" ways, over abundant generosity AND her wonderful home-cooked meals. Just look for a mature woman wearing oversized Jackie O sunglasses, a big smile and a discerning look - that's her. Let's do her proud - EAT WELL AND SMILE!
Uncle Betty's offers catering, private parties and a private party room. Call for more details.