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Geashill National School
Anti Bullying Policy
1. Legislative Requirements
In accordance with the requirements of the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 and the code of behaviour guidelines issued by the NEWB, the Board of Management of Geashill National School has adopted the following anti-bullying policy within the framework of the schools overall code of behaviour. This policy fully complies with the requirements of the Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools which were published in September 2013.
2. Anti Bullying within the School Context
The Board of Management recognises the very serious nature of bullying and the negative impact that it can have on the lives of pupils and is therefore fully committed to the following key principles of best practice in preventing and tackling bullying behaviour:
A positive school culture and climate which
- is welcoming of difference and diversity and is based on inclusiveness;
encourages pupils to disclose and discuss incidents of bullying behaviour in a non-threatening environment; and
promotes respectful relationships across the school community;
Effective leadership
A school-wide approach
A shared understanding of what bullying is and its impact
Implementation of education and prevention strategies (including awareness raising measures) that-
- build empathy, respect and resilience in pupils; and
explicitly address the issues of cyber-bullying and identity-based bullying including in particular, homophobic and transphobic bullying.
Effective supervision and monitoring of pupils
Supports for staff
Consistent recording, investigation and follow up of bullying behaviour (including use of established intervention strategies) and
On-going evaluation of the effectiveness of the anti-bullying policy.
Definition of Bullying
In accordance with the Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools bullying is defined as follows:
Bullying is unwanted negative behaviour, verbal, psychological or physical conducted, by an individual or group against another person (or persons) and which is repeated over time.
The following types of bullying behaviour are included in the definition of bullying:
- deliberate exclusion, malicious gossip and other forms of relational bullying,
- cyber-bullying and
- identity-based bullying such as homophobic bullying, racist bullying, bullying based on a persons membership of the Traveller community and bullying of those with disabilities or special educational needs.
Isolated or once-off incidents of intentional negative behaviour, including a once-off offensive or hurtful text message or other private messaging, do not fall within the definition of bullying and should be dealt with, as appropriate, in accordance with the schools code of behaviour.
However, in the context of this policy, placing a once-off offensive or hurtful public message, image or statement on a social network site or other public forum where that message, image or statement can be viewed and/or repeated by other people will be regarded as bullying behaviour.
Negative behaviour that does not meet this definition of bullying will be dealt with in accordance with the schools code of behaviour.
Additional information on different types of bullying is set out in Section 2 of the Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools.
4. Relevant Teachers
The relevant teacher(s) for investigating and dealing with bullying in our school are as follows:
All teachers including Learning Support and Resource Teachers.
5. Prevention Strategies
The education and prevention strategies (including strategies specifically aimed at cyber- bullying and identity-based bullying including in particular, homophobic and transphobic bullying) that will be used by the school are as follows:
Awareness Raising
The school aims to prevent bullying by raising awareness through the SPHE curriculum which is taught at each class level. Programmes such as Walk Tall, RSE and Webwise will instil empathy, respect and resilience in pupils.the teaching of all subjects teachers aim to foster an attitude of respect for all, to promote diversity, to address prejudice and stereotypes and to highlight the unacceptability of bullying behaviour.
Building Self-Esteem
The school will endeavour to enhance the self esteem of all pupils through specific lessons across all class levels. Opportunities for team building exercises will be encouraged at an age appropriate level. Many opportunities to reinforce positive behaviour arise daily which also enhances self-esteem.
Whole School Approach
Each staff member will be made aware of the schools Anti-Bullying Policy. It will be discussed and reviewed at least once every year at staff meetings.
Professional development in the area of anti- bullying will be encouraged.
Parents will receive a copy of this policy on their childs enrolment. Parents will be encouraged to inform the school of any concerns that may arise.
This policy will be published on the schools website.
Anti Bullying will be on the agenda for at least one Board of Management meeting each term.
This policy will be discussed and reviewed annually by the Board of Management.
Web Etiquette/Safe Surfing
The school has an Acceptable Use Policy which deals web etiquette and safe surfing.
Parents receive a copy of this policy on their childs enrolment.
Teachers will regularly discuss and review this policy at staff meetings.
The school has a web filter operating which controls the online content available.
Children will be taught appropriate online behaviour.
Specific lessons will focus on skills needed for surfing the web such as: effective and safe searching, downloading images and determining what online content can be trusted, communicating online or by text message at an age-appropriate level. Issues such as the sharing of personal information online, the treating of others with respect, cyber bullying, responding to digital media and dealing with spam will be covered at an age-appropriate level.
Children with Special Needs
Teachers will endeavour to create an atmosphere of inclusion for all pupils with disabilities or with SEN.
Approaches to decreasing the likelihood of bullying for pupils with SEN will focus on developing social skills, paying attention to key moments such as transitioning from primary to post-primary and cultivating a good school culture which has respect for all.School has a very fine tradition in this area as is demonstrated by our Special Class for Deaf Children.
6. School Procedures for Investigation, Follow-Up and Recording of Bullying Behaviour.
The schools procedures for investigation, follow-up and recording of bullying behaviour and the established intervention strategies used by the school for dealing with cases of bullying behaviour are as follows:
A consistent and clear approach to dealing with bullying when it occurs is essential to effective practice.a parent or pupil brings a bullying concern to any teacher in the school, individual teachers must take appropriate measures. primary aim for all teachers when investigating and dealing with bullying is to resolve any issues and to restore, as far as is practicable, the relationships of the parties involved. teacher will exercise his/her professional judgement to determine whether bullying has occurred and how best the situation might be resolved. receipt of a bullying concern the teacher will record details using the agreed template as found in Appendix 3, Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post Primary School.will take a calm, unemotional problem solving approach.will generally be investigated outside the classroom situation to ensure the privacy of all involved.will be conducted with sensitivity and with due regard to the rights of all pupils concerned. teacher will seek answers to questions of what, where, when, who and why.a group is involved, each member will be interviewed individually at first. Thereafter, all those involved should be met as a group. At this meeting each member should be asked for his/her account of what happened to ensure that everyone involved is aware of each others statements.member of a group will be supported through the possible pressures that they may face from the other members of the group after interview by the teacher.appropriate, the teacher may ask those involved to write down their account.cases where it has been determined by the relevant teacher that bullying behaviour has occurred, the parents of the parties involved should be contacted at an early stage to inform them of the matter and explain the actions being taken (by reference to the school policy). a teacher has determined that a pupil has been engaged in bullying behaviour, it should be made clear to him/her how he/she is in breach of the schools anti-bullying policy and efforts should be made to try to get him/her to see the situation from the perspective of the pupil being bullied.must also be made clear to all involved (each set of pupils and parents) that in any situation where disciplinary sanctions are required, this is a private matter between the pupil being disciplined, his or her parents and the school.meetings with the relevant parties involved will be arranged separately with a view to possibly bringing them together at a later date if the pupil who has been bullied is ready and agreeable. cases where the relevant teacher considers that the bullying behaviour has not been adequately and appropriately addressed within twenty school days the recording template will be submitted to the principal or deputy principal. a teacher makes the judgement that the bullying is of very serious nature, he/she will report it immediately to the Principal or Deputy Principal.
In determining whether a bullying case has been adequately and appropriately addressed the relevant teacher must, as part of his/her professional judgement, take the following factors into account;
Whether the bullying behaviour has ceased;
Whether any issues between the parties have been resolved as far as is practicable;
Whether the relationships between the parties have been restored as far as is practicable
Any feedback received from the parties involved, their parents or the school Principal or Deputy Principal.
Where a parent is not satisfied that the school has dealt with a bullying case in accordance with these procedures, the parents must be referred, as appropriate, to the schools complaints procedures;
In the event that a parent has exhausted the schools complaints procedures and is still not satisfied, the school must advise the parents of their right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman for Children.
Procedures for Recording Bullying Behaviour
Teachers will record allegations of bullying using recording template at Appendix 3 (as detailed above). must be retained by the teacher in question and a copy provided to the Principal and Deputy Principal as applicable. gathered from these reports must be regularly (at least once in every school year) collated and analysed with a view to monitoring levels of bullying behaviour and identifying any particular issues that require attention or any significant trends in behaviour. record of this analysis must be retained and be made available to the Board of Management. least once in every school term, the Principal will provide a report to the Board of Management setting out:
The overall number of bullying cases reported to the Principal or Deputy Principal since the previous report to the board and;
Confirmation that all these cases are being dealt with in accordance with the schools anti-bullying policy which was formulated following the Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary schools.
It is also important to note that bullying behaviour can be part of a continuum of behaviour rather than a stand-alone issue and in some cases behaviour may escalate beyond that which can be described as bullying to serious physical or sexual assault or harassment. To ensure that any such cases are dealt with appropriately, the schools anti-bullying policy will link in with the overall code of behaviour and provide for referral to be made to relevant external agencies and authorities where appropriate. In cases where the school has serious concerns in relation to managing the behaviour of a pupil, the advice of the National Education Psychological Service (NEPS) will be sought.
In relation to bullying in schools, Children First National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children 2011 (Children First) and the Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools provide that in situations where the incident is serious and where the behaviour is regarded as potentially abusive, the school must consult the HSE Children and Family Social Services with a view to drawing up an appropriate response, such as a management plan.
7. School Supports
The schools programme of support for working with pupils affected by bullying is as follows:
A programme of support for pupils who have been bullied is in place. pupils may need counselling and/or opportunities to participate in activities designed to raise their self-esteem, to develop their friendship and social skills and thereby build resilience whenever this is needed.programme of support for those pupils involved in bullying behaviour is also part of the schools intervention. involved in bullying behaviour need assistance on an on-going basis. those with low self-esteem, opportunities will be developed to increase feelings of self-worth. It is, therefore, important that the learning strategies applied within the school allow for the enhancement of the pupils self-worth. who engage in bullying behaviour may need counselling to help them learn other ways of meeting their needs without violating the rights of others.who observe incidents of bullying behaviour will be encouraged to discuss them with teachers.school will provide a wide range of (opportunities) to develop self-esteem, promote positive interaction and strategies for dealing with conflict resolution through the following programmes- Stay Safe, (annually in all classes Term 3) R.S.E., S.P.H.E., Walk Tall, Circle Time, Drama/role play.will monitor any child affected by bullying by the following means: i.e. observation in and out of class, informal chats with pupil and on-going liaising with parents.affected by bullying will be encouraged to keep a personal diary to express any fears or concerns.
8. Supervision and Monitoring of Pupils
The Board of Management confirms that appropriate supervision and monitoring policies and practices are in place to both prevent and deal with bullying behaviour and to facilitate early intervention where possible.
9. Prevention of Harassment
The Board of Management confirms that the school will, in accordance with its obligations under equality legislation, take all such steps that are reasonably practicable to prevent the sexual harassment of pupils or staff or the harassment of pupils or staff on any of the nine grounds specified i.e. gender including transgender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.
10. Ratification
This policy was adopted by the Board of Management on ________________
11. Publication
This policy has been made available to school personnel, published on the school website and provided to the Parents Association. A copy of this policy will be made available to the Department and the patron if requested.
12. Implementation and Review
This policy and its implementation will be reviewed by the Board of Management once in every school year. Written notification that the review has been completed will be made available to school personnel, published on the school website and provided to the Parents Association. A record of the review and its outcome will be made available, if requested, to the patron and the Department.
Signed: ____________________________________ Signed: ___________________________
(Chairperson of Board of Management) (Principal)
Date: ______________ Date: __________________
Date of next review: _______________
The following appendices are from the Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post Primary Schools.
Appendix 2 Practical tips for building a positive school culture and climate
The following are some practical tips for immediate actions that can be taken to help build a positive school culture and climate and to help prevent and tackle bullying behaviour.
Model respectful behaviour to all members of the school community at all times.
Explicitly teach pupils what respectful language and respectful behaviour looks like, acts like, sounds like and feels like in class and around the school.
Display key respect messages in classrooms, in assembly areas and around the school. Involve pupils in the development of these messages.
Catch them being good - notice and acknowledge desired respectful behaviour by providing positive attention.
Consistently tackle the use of discriminatory and derogatory language in the school this includes homophobic and racist language and language that is belittling of pupils with a disability or SEN.
Give constructive feedback to pupils when respectful behaviour and respectful language are absent.
Have a system of encouragement and rewards to promote desired behaviour and compliance with the school rules and routines.
Explicitly teach pupils about the appropriate use of social media.
Positively encourage pupils to comply with the school rules on mobile phone and internet use. Follow up and follow through with pupils who ignore the rules.
Actively involve parents and/or the Parents Association in awareness raising campaigns around social media.
Actively promote the right of every member of the school community to be safe and secure in school.
Highlight and explicitly teach school rules in pupil friendly language in the classroom and in common areas.
All staff can actively watch out for signs of bullying behaviour.
Ensure there is adequate playground/school yard/outdoor supervision.
School staff can get pupils to help them to identify bullying hot spots and hot times for bullying in the school.
o Hot spots tend to be in the playground/school yard/outdoor areas, changing rooms, corridors and other areas of unstructured supervision.
o Hot times again tend to be times where there is less structured supervision such as when pupils are in the playground/school yard or moving classrooms.
Support the establishment and work of student councils.
Appendix 3 Template for recording bullying behaviour
1. Name of pupil being bullied and class group
Name _________________________________________Class__________________
2. Name(s) and class(es) of pupil(s) engaged in bullying behaviour
3. Source of bullying concern/report (tick relevant box(es))*
4. Location of incidents (tick relevant box(es))*
Pupil concerned Other Pupil Parent Teacher Other Playground Classroom Corridor Toilets School Bus Other5. Name of person(s) who reported the bullying concern
6. Type of Bullying Behaviour (tick relevant box(es)) *
Physical Aggression Cyber-bullying Damage to Property Intimidation Isolation/Exclusion Malicious Gossip Name Calling Other (specify)
7. Where behaviour is regarded as identity-based bullying, indicate the relevant category:
Homophobic Disability/SEN related Racist Membership of Traveller community Other (specify)
8. Brief Description of bullying behaviour and its impact
9. Details of actions taken
Signed ______________________________ (Relevant Teacher) Date ___________________________
Date submitted to Principal/Deputy Principal ___________________
* Note: The categories listed in the tables 3, 4 & 6 are suggested and schools may add to or amend these to suit
Appendix 4 Checklist for annual review of the anti-bullying policy and its implementation
The Board of Management (the Board) must undertake an annual review of the schools anti-bullying policy and its implementation. The following checklist must be used for this purpose. The checklist is an aid to conducting this review and is not intended as an exhaustive list. In order to complete the checklist, an examination and review involving both quantitative and qualitative analysis, as appropriate across the various elements of the implementation of the schools anti-bullying policy will be required.
Yes /No
Has the Board formally adopted an anti-bullying policy that fully complies with the requirements of the Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools?
Has the Board published the policy on the school website and provided a copy to the parents association?
Has the Board ensured that the policy has been made available to school staff (including new staff)?
Is the Board satisfied that school staff are sufficiently familiar with the policy and procedures to enable them to effectively and consistently apply the policy and procedures in their day to day work?
Has the Board ensured that the policy has been adequately communicated to all pupils?
Has the policy documented the prevention and education strategies that the school applies?
Have all of the prevention and education strategies been implemented?
Has the effectiveness of the prevention and education strategies that have been implemented been examined?
Is the Board satisfied that all teachers are recording and dealing with incidents in accordance with the policy?
Has the Board received and minuted the periodic summary reports of the Principal?
Has the Board discussed how well the school is handling all reports of bullying including those addressed at an early stage and not therefore included in the Principals periodic report to the Board?
Has the Board received any complaints from parents regarding the schools handling of bullying incidents?
Have any parents withdrawn their child from the school citing dissatisfaction with the schools handling of a bullying situation?
Have any Ombudsman for Children investigations into the schools handling of a bullying case been initiated or completed?
Has the data available from cases reported to the Principal (by the bullying recording template) been analysed to identify any issues, trends or patterns in bullying behaviour?
Has the Board identified any aspects of the schools policy and/or its implementation that require further improvement?
Has the Board put in place an action plan to address any areas for improvement?
Notification regarding the Board of Managements annual review of the anti-bullying policy
To: _____________________________________
The Board of Management of ____________________ wishes to inform you that:
o The Board of Managements annual review of the schools anti-bullying policy and its implementation was completed at the Board meeting of _______________ [date].
o This review was conducted in accordance with the checklist set out in Appendix 4 of the Departments Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools.
Signed _____________________________________ Date ________________
Chairperson, Board of Management
Signed _____________________________________ Date ________________


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- Keith Langlois put an interesting spin of the Detroit Pistons' early-season turmoil. He says John Kuester's plea for leadership, Tayshaun Prince's response and Villanueva's fiery comments on Twitter are better than the apathetic alternative the coach and team need to avoid. [TBP]
- Matt Watson says it should hardly surprise us that Stuckey acted the way he did against the Hawks after seeing teammates Rasheed Wallace, Rip Hamilton and Allen Iverson all clash with coaches. You can add Ben Wallace to that list too. The cherry on the top of Watson's post was the inclusion of the old "I learned it from you" drug awareness video from 1987. Nicely done. [DBB]
- After the embarrassing loss to the Celtics, Patrick Hayes wonders how much longer the Pistons will be able to employ John Kuester if these types of performances becomes a regularity. It's not that Kuester is necessarily doing an awful job, but Hayes feels Dumars, like many general managers, will continue to side with the players in these situations. [PistonPowered]
- Jamie Samuelsen agrees that the coach always gets blamed in Detroit, but he thinks it's time for Dumars to send a strong message to Tayshaun Prince, Rip Hamilton and the other players by publicly backing Kuester. [DFP]
- Despite the Stuckey benching, Dan Feldman says the Pistons played with more energy last night, meaning we can step away a little further away from the ledge. Feldman also has an interesting graphic on how the Pistons share the ball when Stuckey is in and out of the game. [PistonPowered]
- Somehow Chris Forsberg has found an opportunity to turn Kevin Garnett's hotly-discussed "cancer" statements into a positive column about the future Hall of Famer. [ESPN]
- Yeah, a lot is being made of Garnett's comments, but there's a second wave of indignation toward Villanueva, who many feel shouldn't have gone public with the issue. [NBA.com]
- The word "cancer" is thrown around fairly regularly in sports, specifically when talking about a player who has a personality that disrupts locker room chemistry. In light of the Villanueva/Garnett situation, J.A. Adande thinks it's time for fans and journalists to retire the word from our lexicon. [ESPN]
Detroit Pistons Links: More on Pistons' chemistry issues and Villanueva/Garnett fallout
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To: James, President of the Jerusalem Council
Re: Initial Impressions
Shalom Marketing Ltd. was recently contacted by a member of your council, asking us to tell you about our services. He said to make it clear that he was footing the bill for this initial evaluation, with the hopes that our sound advice will encourage the council to hire us to guide your marketing efforts for the next strategic stage in your movement's life.
We have heard reports of your movement for some time now—who hasn't?—and our initial impressions are very positive! You seem to have dynamic leadership, organizational flexibility, and a natural touch with the people. Add some sophisticated marketing—well, who knows how successful you can become! Naturally, this brief memo will, by its nature, point out areas in need of attention, but make no mistake: We have great optimism about what we call your "effectiveness potential."
Let's begin with one of your leading PR men, Peter, who is clearly a gifted communicator. We believe he would find that our seminar "Winning Techniques for Effective Communication" would help him be more effective still! Unfortunately, he has the regular habit of berating his audience, just at the moment when he has them eating out of his hand.
For example, after that day when everyone thought you all were having one giant party in the middle of the day (by the way, that was a stroke of marketing genius, to show everyone that you all know how to have a good time), Peter gave what frankly was a long-winded speech (we'd recommend no more than five minutes in the future), rehearsing a great deal of history (we'd recommend sticking with the present; nobody cares about the past anymore), and then ended on a couple of awkward notes.
First, he made a point of emphasizing the death of your movement's founder, reminding one and all of recent bloody events. This, of course, casts a rather negative spell on the moment, as people were reminded of something unpleasant. Instead he should be spending a lot more time on your founder's so-called resurrection. We do not, as a matter of policy, judge the veracity of any group's religious claims, but we certainly recognize the resurrection's marketing appeal. It appears to be core to your business, so we would certainly encourage you to exploit its potential.
The other uncomfortable note was when Peter added insult to injury, blaming the crowd for killing your founder: "This Jesus … you crucified." And then he implies that the crowd is full of "lawless men." And if they didn't get the point, he drove home this indelicate point at the end of the sermon: "Let all the house of Israel [now equated with lawlessness] therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
We understand that Peter would have likely still been grieving over the death of the founder, but insulting your audience is not the way to win friends to the movement. :-)
Granted, a reported 3,000 people were added to your movement that day, which only speaks of Peter's incredible PR gifts. For if he could convince so many to sign up after this presentation, how many more could he have gotten had he been using the tools of "Winning Techniques for Effective Communication"?
Unfortunately, Peter did the same thing after that extraordinary incident with the lame man. More history, more death, and more insults, ending with, "But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the Author of life … ."


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First -- further details on the economy and its near future:
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the dangers the weak employment figures posed for long-term, healthy improvement to our restaurant industry. That still remains a primary concern of mine, and of a lot of people smarter and more focused on the economy than me. As if that weren't enough of a downward pressure on our industry, and all others dependent on consumers, the Washington Post recently carried a column by Harold Meyerson (link is http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/corporate-americas-chokehold-on-wages/2011/07/19/gIQAL2ieOI_story.html) which, among other things, notes a study by Michael Cembalest, Chief Investment Officer of J.P. Morgan Chase. Cembalest concludes something that's been widely speculated on, and discussed, regarding the failure of wages to keep up with overall GDP and living costs; in his words, "US labor compensation is now at a 50-year low relative to both company sales and US GDP."
The column goes on to discuss whether, and how much, this is related to the decline in the bargaining power of unions, among many other topics, but I want to focus on a question raised by Cembalest's conclusion: if labor compensation is at a 50-year low related to US GDP, it's at the lowest point EVER in the life of the restaurant industry, which didn't really exist in anything like its present form 50 years ago. If we combine the large bloc of unemployed, including the growing number that economists believe may be structurally unemployed for years due to a lack of retraining and re-employment options, with those whose relative purchasing power has declined -- particularly in the past decade -- we reach the conclusion that pricing flexibility will be more difficult for any consumer-facing business, and that low absolute costs and perceived value offerings will be essential to the success of most restaurants for the foreseeable future. Let's add to that the apparent truth that Federal support for State programs will be scarcer in the coming years, as a byproduct of the budget deal now taking shape, and that States are therefore likely to require further cutbacks in services, leading to fewer employed State and Municipal workers. (Witness California, Wisconsin, and several others already facing this issue in different ways.) Are you ready?
Second -- a kind-of, sort-of defense of the CFO (this is risky territory, and will likely turn into a longer discussion about the relative roles of company officers):
In my years as a lender, I noted that the CFO often received a substantial amount of credit when a company was performing well, and a significant amount of blame when performance was off. During the 90s, and again early in this century, there was a bit of a "cult of the CFO" in the financial markets.
Let's grant that, in any sufficiently large company, the CFO's role is likely focused on two or three things which can have a dramatic influence on the bottom line: (1) making the best use of the capital markets, insuring that the company has the fewest demands possible on its cash flow; (2) evaluating, and perhaps leading the charge, on merger and other investment opportunities to build value; and (3) constantly focusing on costs to keep the most flexible operating structure.
As company size shrinks, a few things happen to this list: (1) smaller companies are generally price-takers in the capital markets -- a good CFO may save a few dollars in interest or lease cost (and fees) by careful shopping, but smaller companies generally lack the clout to create unique debt or equity securities which give them a particular advantage; (2) could still be the same in a few cases, but any transaction will more likely be overseen, and led, by an outside private equity investor or other capital partner; and (3) becomes, if anything, more important, although once again the relative size of the company and its suppliers means that the company may have limited leeway on costs.
This isn't to say the CFO of a small or midsized business isn't important -- he or she is vital -- merely that they sometimes get credit or blame for the wrong things. CFOs are seldom (don't say never) the primary party at fault when sales decline precipitously, for instance, although they're often blamed for the resulting lack of cash and debt defaults.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on this, and will plan to develop it further -- and look at other roles -- during the coming weeks.


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An inaugural visit to Korea for the A380
During the A380's first flight to Korea in November 2006 for technical route proving, test pilot Armand Jacob is interviewed aboard the aircraft at 40,000 feet. Crowds await the arrival of Airbus' next-generation jetliner at Seoul's Incheon International Airport, which is the largest hub of A380 customer Korean Airlines.
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Beaverton's plans for the future development of South Cooper Mountain are shuffling forward with three possible scenarios that will come before city leaders, committees and residents during the next several months.
The South Cooper Mountain Planning Area is bordered by Beaverton's city limits on the west, with Farmington Road to the north and Scholls Ferry Road on the south. It includes three subareas, only one of which is within the city.
The South Cooper Mountain Annexation Area, 544 acres, was annexed into Beaverton earlier in 2013 and is the focus of the highest density development in all three scenarios. The Urban Reserve Area, or Area 6B, is 1,232 acres north of the annexation area and stretches across several creeks and wetlands. North Cooper Mountain tops off the north edge of the planning area with 510 acres that include existing development. All total, the planning area spans about 2,300 acres.
The city received a $469,397 grant from Metro earlier this year to help with South Cooper Mountain planning. Metro has specified that the city must plan not only the annexation area but also the adjoining Urban Reserve Area and North Cooper Mountain.
Work took off in March, led by Angelo Planning Group and Beaverton staff, according to city documents. Since then, initial ideas have wended their way through an open house, workshops and advisory committee meetings, and the city's guesses as to housing numbers have changed.
In September, staff drafted three different options for future growth in the South Cooper Mountain Planning Area. Each option hones in on details like housing density, road construction, trail networks, public utility access and natural area preservation.
The plans are meant to look ahead two decades within the urban growth boundary, and up to 50 years for the Urban Reserve Area.
In terms of development, all three scenarios assume a mix of mostly single family homes with townhomes, some apartments or condos, and a few community focal points like schools, parks or retail centers. The options also all include preservation areas, with most of the protected natural zones along creeks.
Here's where the three possible scenarios differ:
The three scenarios will be presented to the Beaverton City Council and Planning Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 8. After the City Council and Planning Commission review the options, they will be polished up and presented to the public at an open house.
One of the three options, or more likely some combination of two or more, will be selected as the foundation for a more detailed long-term development plan, according to the city. A proposed South Cooper Mountain Concept and Community Plan should come to the council for a vote in fall 2014.
The final plan will need to deal with Metro requirements and other local and regional regulations addressing details like housing density, road construction and natural area protection. The city also hopes to locate a new high school and possibly elementary school in South Cooper Mountain.
Cost estimates for infrastructure like city roads, water and sewer service have not yet been laid out for the three scenarios, though developers will be responsible for funding the construction of local streets and property improvements. Planners say more study will be needed to determine the pricetag for the city.
City councilors and planning commissioners are set to review plan updates again in December, and public open houses are tentatively scheduled for January and June of 2014. Public hearings will likely take place in summer or early fall of 2014, according to a work plan.
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City Councilman Mark Kersey
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San Diego, CA 92101
Telephone: (619) 236-6655
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FREEPORT - Native Long Islander and renowned composer Hale Smith's influence is alive and well years after his death.
Smith, of Freeport, broke racial barriers as one of the first African-American composers to write both classical and jazz music. Known for his eclectic sound, Smith, who first composed at the age of 7, won critical acclaim for several pieces, including the film score for "Mr. Ricco."
He served as an arranger for and consultant to Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones and Jessye Norman, and taught music composition at C.W. Post from 1958 to 1970. In his lectures, he urged young black adults to resist social pigeonholes, confident that one's music would speak louder than race.
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EDINBURG - Town residents flocked to the Edinburg Common School gymnasium Wednesday to discuss the issue of where to send middle school and high school students starting in July.
Those who spoke made it clear they want to keep the 70-year tradition of sending those students to Northville Central School.
Concerned parents, grandparents and students voiced support for Northville, pointing to the proximity, small-school character and education.
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Northville student and Edinburg Common School alumnus Holly Olmstead, left, addresses the crowd Wednesday at the Edinburg Common School public comment session. Edinburg Common School Superintendent Randy Teetz is shown at right.
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Jacob Sitterly, a Northville student and Edinburg resident, said the students from Edinburg Common School don't feel any different than the Northville residents at that school.
"I think it's important to take the students' opinions," he said. "We don't look at ourselves as Edinburg students. We don't even look at ourselves as a Northville-Edinburg student. We think of ourselves as Northville students."
Maggie Duesler had two children go through the Northville after attending Edinburg and told the school board they were ready for college.
Duesler and several other residents credited this to the ability of Northville teachers being able to have more one-on-one interactions with their students.
"I think taking these kids out of Northville and putting them in Mayfield or Broadalbin, some kids are going to fall through the cracks," Duesler said.
The new deal will be for five years, and Broadalbin-Perth's offer includes a tuition rate per student that is less than half of what Northville is offering - $3,250 compared to $6,850, respectively, in the first year.
However, Broadalbin-Perth's rate is set to increase at 5 percent annually compared to Northville's 2.1-plus percent.
In the final year of the tentative deal, there would be a smaller difference, but Broadalbin-Perth's offer would still be more than $2,500 lower than Northville's offer.
Several residents questioned the board about allowing the residents to vote on the issue.
"The easiest way out for the board is to put it out to vote," Brad Brownell said. "If you put it out to vote, you're not going to be the bad guy ...
"There's a number of organizations you're going to shatter. You're gonna drop a bomb ... 'Well, we're just gonna take 51 students and move them here.' That just made Northville's struggles harder. If Northville fails, then Edinburg fails."
Northville Superintendent Debra Lynker, Board President Jim Beirlein and Vice President Shelden Ginter also were in attendance. Ginter said they wanted to see if there was anything Northville was doing wrong and if there was something they could do better.
Beirlein spoke highly of the Edinburg students and how well prepared they are when they arrive at Northville, and said their absence would hurt both mentally and financially.
"We will not be able to generate any savings with those losses of revenue," Beirlein said.
He also pointed to Broadalbin's Advanced Placement classes that, he said, were taken out two years ago but are being brought back.
"When our money got tight, we didn't drop our AP courses," he said. "We expanded them, and we plan on continuing to do that."
The Board of Trustees for the school will vote on the decision Jan. 14.
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The depressing world of dimly lit dive bars and the slurred, steady decline of their inhabitants has been a staple of American fiction for a long time. In fact, many of America's best writers -- from Poe to Hemingway to Chandler to Bukowski -- have been alcoholics, whether they wrote about it or not.
Those writers usually depended on intimate first-person narration, and made you feel like you were on the next bar stool, sharing a drink. But Portland author Patrick deWitt uses an audacious second person narrative that makes "you" the designated driver in "Ablutions: Notes for a Novel." And I have to be honest with you -- you're pretty wasted and maybe shouldn't be driving.
Luckily, you're also the kind of drunk who doesn't seem too drunk. You are the bartender after all. When not pouring yourself shots from the good bottles (in this case, Jameson), you write notes for a novel, using the sad but oddly endearing clientele of your Hollywood bar for inspiration: the former child actor, the wannabe cop, the quiet drifter couple, the amateur medium, the fortysomething cocaine dealer who sometimes brings his kids to the bar.
Using this approach should grow tiresome, but "Ablutions" is like an intense art-house movie, where the lead actor is in every scene but makes the whole thing sparkle with his star power. One particular chapter goes into detail about how and why the character hides bottles of aspirin from his suspicious wife. ("She is certain that at some point each night you are floating aspirin atop a bellyful of whiskey and doing your body irreparable damage that will shorten your time together.") It's four pages of insightful brilliance.
Such revelatory confiding manages to make our second-person sad sack a sympathetic guy, even when his wife leaves him and he starts having sex with women in the storage room of the bar. His shady behavior, along with the creepiest regulars and the corrupt people who run the place, make for some dark reading. There are still genuine moments of friendship demonstrated among these people, but even those degenerate into weird sex and hard drugs.
Around the midway point of "Ablutions," the character decides he's had enough and rents a car to drive to the Grand Canyon. A sort of self-imposed exile/rehab. By the time he reaches a place called Whiskey Row in Arizona, he's already back off the wagon and -- after an encounter with a 57-year old "lizard woman" and her "dog-faced and dog-haired" son -- finds himself on a dirt road as rodeo fans trample and weave their way around him. With this failed attempt at recovery, he returns to the bar in Hollywood and starts filching money from the cash register, preparing for another getaway.
"Ablutions" -- the word means a ritual type of washing -- is bleak and relentless but deWitt also imbues his scenes with woozy humor and a romantic appreciation for broken hearts trying to sober up.
Details: ABLUTIONS
Patrick deWitt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Reading: DeWitt reads from "Ablutions" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Powell's Books on Hawthorne, 3723 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.


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The Baby Boomers have come a long way from Flower Power. Retirement savings, Social Security and Medicare are weighing heavily on their minds this election season, even if they are still in the workforce.
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A Social Security reality check for deficit hawks
President Barack Obama's fiscal commission is expected to recommend changes to Social Security to help reduce the deficit when it issues its report in early December. But protests in France over pension reforms there could serve as a reality check to U. S. deficit hawks who want to raise the U.S. retirement age and make other benefit changes to the popular retirement plan.
Bush: sometimes to save a free market requires doing the opposite
WASHINGTON – Just as you must break a few eggs to make an omelet, President George W. Bush admitted on Monday that saving the free market system required taking non-free market action.


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Public hearing at sea on long-term ferry plan Jan. 15
The ferries division of the state Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing on its draft long-range plan options aboard the San Juan Inter-Island ferry from 11:35 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 15.
The choices made in the plan could have a profound impact on the future of San Juan County. One of the key questions facing planners is the future level of state financial support for the ferry system.
The division's proposal includes two alternative visions: Option A, which assumes the state will be forthcoming with additional revenue and "will continue in its current role as owner, operator and principal funder of ferry services ..."
Option B assumes that the state cannot provide new revenue and the draft "proposes an alternative where the State takes responsibility for the core marine highway system and a locally funded entity or entities would take responsibility for a new marine transit system."
WSDOT will be accepting public input on the draft long-range plan through Jan. 21. The final plan is scheduled to be released on Jan. 30.
The full draft of the long-range plan is available on the WSDOT Web site at www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/planning/eshb2358.
San Juan County's transportation planner, Shannon Wilbur, has prepared a brief summary of Plans A & B which points out similarities and differences in the plans and highlights specific items which will affect San Juan County. That summary is available in PDF file format at www.sanjuanco.com/docs/news/FerryPlanReview_public.pdf
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Wanted: visibility, accessibility for planning
Acknowledging that the citys planning department suffered from either a significant problem or a major public relations problem, Mayor Darlene Kordonowy said she will look for a new director who can restore public confidence.
We need someone who can be active and visible, accountable and accessible for both good and bad, the mayor said in an interview Thursday.
Stephanie Warren, who has been the citys planning director since 1991, resigned this week effective April 25.
That became official Wednesday when the Bainbridge Island City Council approved a contract under which Warren will work part-time as a special assistant to the mayor through December 2004, at which point she will become eligible for full retirement.
Warren has performed a difficult job with great integrity, Councilman Norm Wooldridge said. I thought that we owed her the opportunity to get her retirement.
Under the contract, Warren will work an average of 70 hours per month out of her home for $42 per hour, an hourly rate roughly equivalent to her $80,000-plus salary.
While approval of Warrens contract a condition of her resignation was unanimous, council members Debbie Vancil and Deborah Vann voted against creating the position, saying the council should have more input into Warrens assignment.
Kordonowy plans to hire an interim director she has several off-island candidates in mind then launch a nationwide search for a permanent director.
While Kordonowy said this week that Warren initiated the resignation, the mayor was known to have been irked by lack of notification from the director on some high-profile matters, such as proposed shoreline regulations and the imposition of a moratorium on subdivisions.
The key to correcting what the mayor concedes is a widespread public distrust of the department is consistent performance over a sustained period of time.
We need to be clear about what we want to do, then do it over and over again, one piece of legislation, one community meeting and one piece of the Comprehensive Plan at a time, Kordonowy said.
Architect and former Planning Commission chair Sean Parker said the prime requisite will be the willingness and ability to tackle the political requirements of the job dealing with both council and public.
I suspect if one were to ask Stephanie, she would say her least favorite part of the job was its political nature, Parker said. But this may be the most important political position in a growing community. You need to be able to lead and guide the council in forward-thinking ways, but have the strength to stand up to withering criticism.
Parker said the island would have no trouble attracting qualified candidates.
Can you imagine how attractive it would be for someone in Cleveland, say, to take on a geographically isolated, educated, affluent, somewhat liberal community? he asked. You would have the opportunity to do outstanding work in that environment.
Environmentalist Vince Mattson, who has frequently found himself at odds with and sometimes in court against the planning department, sees a need for greater consistency in the planning process.
We need a new director with strong managerial skills who will look at what the vision of the community is and follow it when making day-to-day decisions, he said.
Mattson said that employees need specific, written procedures to follow when reviewing permits. He also said that greater clarity is needed to reduce the number of interpretations, which, he claims, are too often made in favor of development.
Im pleased there is going to be a change, which I dont mind admitting, he said.
Developer Rod McKenzie saw the situation almost in mirror image.
There needs to be flexibility in interpretation instead of always coming down on the extreme negative side, he said.
McKenzie said a critical element will be the willingness and ability to defend the department, particularly to the council.
The key will be the extent to which the City Council is prepared to let the planning director do the job, rather than trying to do the job themselves, he said. We need someone with the strength and flexibility to deal with the council and the public.
Councilman Bill Knobloch said organization and leadership issues are the principal problems.
Instead of preparing an application, getting a punch list of things you need to do, doing them and then getting a permit, its ping pong, where the staff tells you that somethings wrong, then you fix it, then they tell you something else is wrong, and so on, he said. That draws everybody into frustration.
Knobloch said the citys codes need to be clarified.
The present codes are too gray, leaving room for personal decisions that people suspect are arbitrary, he said.
City ordinances provide that the mayor appoints the director, subject to council confirmation. Knobloch said the council will have an advisory role throughout the process.
Councilwoman Lois Curtis, who also served on the Planning Commission, said the kind of criticism Warren has endured goes with the territory.
Its always going to be a directorship that attracts a lot of controversy, she said. Twelve years is an amazingly long time for someone to last in that job.
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First type of players are IM and GM.
Second type of players are intermediate players.
Often I was second type. So I thought to play 10 min rather than 3 min and 5 min game. Sometimes I play moves without thinking and then I will decide and plan according to the situation. But not all the time I won that game. So I shifted my focus towards 10 min game. And so I got enough time to think and I played more games. What I have noticed is I could plan and win the games by thinking and then playing.. So I got improved my rating from 1350 to 1450.. Thanks to Mr.Kavanam sir . So I will post one game ..
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Sounds like Obamacare really sucks.
We should go back to the old system. It was cheap, working a lot better, and included everyone, right?
Sounds like Obamacare really sucks.
We should go back to the old system. It was cheap, working a lot better, and included everyone, right?
Lakers Suck.
I want us to have European heath care. Most jobs are required to have it, and everyone is covered if they don't have it.
We need to build liveable wages, and incomes. Jobs that require health care provide workers who need less government assistance.
If you are going to work for someone, and are working the most hours they will give you health care should be provided.
"les grandes défaites forgent les grands hommes" - Rudy Gobert
Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden) has already said that they will take steps to reduce employee overhead to avoid Obamacare penalties. Now White Castle, Papa John's and Applebee's are taking similar steps.
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
McDonald's has a very similar plan and is trying gain exempt status from Obamacare.
Another option that I am hearing about is an employer will hire you on as an independent contractor. As such, you do not work for the company, they are just paying you to do a specific job as a contractor. This absolves them of all benefits and it is up to the contractor to take care of themselves including health care and all taxes.
Businesses will find a way around such an onerous tax as Obamacare and in many cases to the detriment of the very people that Obama thought he was helping. Businesses are in business to make money, not to provide employees with health insurance.
Edit: I realize that I should have been more sympathetic to those that work for large companies and may be affected by the healthcare plan and that you make a good point, Scat, in those instances.
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I live in the Philippines and am retired, so how does this new law effect me? Can I sign up and come to the states if I get a serious health issue, or am I exempt from the program?
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
i'm throwing money in a bottomless pit
and irresponsible drinkers smoekrs and obese fat ****s go to hosptial and i pay for their care.
and every godd dammed year the increase the amount i got to pay.
in univrsity i had this dorm made who drank his liver to **** he got hospitalized 7 times, and I have to pay for that crap.
while someone who decide to live healthy and lost a lot of weight. now has skin hanging and insurance wont pay for a skin tuck.
so you smoke drink eat a lot of **** if you get cancer diabetes liver condition hospital pays.
but you deice to live healthy and need a skin tuck they say screw you.
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Ed note: This is the second installment of Pro Stock motorcycle racer Steve Johnson's update on the NHRA season. Johnson is from Irondale.
I've just gotten back from Gainesville and what a trip!
I always talk about the specs on the bike and how we go about 200 mph, and 0 to 60 in under a second, but I feel like I've been running about that fast without it. Things have just been non-stop. I've been running around trying to get the bike ready, keep the business running, trying to keep myself in shape so I can ride that beast of a bike across the finish line without falling off (it's one of the rules, you have to be on the bike when it crosses the finish line).
For those of you who watched the coverage on ESPN2 (or who have the hook-up and get to watch it on the big screens on ESPNHD), you probably just saw me in the staging lanes, riding the bike down the track and working (and goofing around with my team) in the pits. Well it was a lot more than that these past few weeks.
I started off the trip down in Daytona for bike week. We visited WyoTech at their Daytona campus and had the chance to rap with the students down there and see all the people visiting for bike week. Let me tell you, that was a trip. I got to see some awesome bikes and meet some really cool people.
One of the raddest things was getting to hang out with Jason Britton. You all probably know him from SuperBikes on SpeedTV and doing some ill stunts with his team of stunt riders. We chilled, talked bikes and I got to see them do some of the craziest stunts I have ever seen on a bike since WyoTech was hosting the show. He also got the chance to see my dragbike. We did a piece on air joking about how hard it would be to do wheelies on my bike. I don't think either of us will be switching jobs anytime soon.
They were also having a Dyno competition called the Horsepower Shootout at the campus. Guys brought the bikes to the dyno and the real HP numbers spoke for themselves. One bike made 650 horsepower. We got dozens of questions from how we prep our bike before a race and what kind of dyno numbers do we see as well as the students asking about how to get a job on a racing team and what's it like being on the road racing all the time.
My favorite thing was probably seeing and rapping about dirt bikes though. I've really gotten into dirt-bike riding and motocross in the off season. I just can't describe the thrill it gives me and how it's probably the one kind of exercise I really like. It just gets my heart pounding as I'm slamming handlebars mid-air and racing to win. You know I'm a thrill seeker and love bikes, so it was just killer.
After Daytona Bike Week and visiting WyoTech, we went to test in Valdosta, Ga. This was really the first time I had to get on our brand new bike and see what it had after the guys had been working on it all off season. The team had been working day and night in the shop to get this bike into shape. It's not every season we have a brand new bike, but this year, let me tell you-- we've got one and it's rocking! Testing is so expensive. It all adds up... you've got all the costs of running the bike and then team costs like hotel nights, but it is something you have to do to be prepared to win. We gained so much valuable information about how the bike ran and how to tune it.
I've really got to give it to the guys. It's a total team effort to get that bike down the track. If I don't feel safe getting on it, I know I won't be in the best frame of mind riding it and we wont have a good race. It's all about safety in the end, but we also want to win. Bottom line though, I felt awesome about how we tested. We were running in the 6.9's and I was pumped going into Gainesville.
We rolled into Gainesville on Wednesday. It's something going into the first race of the year. There's an energy like no other. You just feel excited and nervous and you see all your competitors (who are your friends too), but we also still had a lot of work to do.
On Thursday while the guys were working on the changes needed after testing, Liz my account executive for WyoTech set up a school event for me in Brooksville, Fla., at Nature Coast Technical High School. I have been there before and had a great time talking to all the new students. We go to schools all over the country and I talk to the students about careers and staying motivated, but these guys and girls were already on the program!
It's awesome seeing students who really want to move forward in life and I feel really lucky to get the chance to talk to them and tell them about all the opportunities that are out there--especially the ones they may not know about. There are so many kicking chances to take yourself to the next level, and so many careers in technical fields that people just don't know about.
After my school visit, I was headed back up to Gainesville. The team and I pulled a long night getting everything ready on the bike for racing on Friday.
I'm not gonna lie, it's not easy running a race team. I want to say it's like being a rock star and I've got a personal assistant and Carmen Electra chilling by my side, but not yet. Instead, I had three guys and my account executive helping me put sponsor stickers on the bike at the last minute and making sure everything was perfect. That being said, it may not have been like backstage at a rock concert, but I've got a pretty awesome team and we manage to have a rocking time even when we're working late.
After pulling a late night, we were up early because I had an interview with the local ABC morning news at 6 a.m. on Friday. It was so early, there was fog in the pit! We had Dan from WCJB TV 20 with us and I talked about the bike and racing and then we went a few rounds on the reaction timer. He had some pretty good times!
After the interview, I went over and spoke to over a thousand students at the U.S. Army and NHRA's Youth and Educational Services Program. That is an awesome program. There are about 17 of them all over the country that are in the race market and me and some of the other drivers get a chance to rap with the students about racing and jobs and answer their questions.
Well if I wasn't tired enough after all that, it was finally time to race! I had been waiting for months for this moment.
The GatorNationals is a top race on the tour and we won it in 2005. Last year we DNQed. I did not want to do a repeat of last year. We ran a 7.024 in the first round and a 7.068 in the second
On Saturday, we had our first round and went 7.051. We came back to our pit and gave a pit tour to all the WyoTech enrollees and their guests. We do this at most of the races we go to. All the guests get to tour our entire race rig and see the computers we use to tune up the bike and retrieve the race data, see our engine parts and clutch and tool storage, and get to see my driver's lounge where I have all my meetings and the team hangs out and is our home away from home on the road.
After that, we took the entire group over to Snap-On to see their "No Compromise Tour," where they have this totally awesome trailer with all the latest technology and tools. They also hosted all of us for lunch and I got up on the mic to say hi to all their guests and signed autographs and took photos for a bit. After that, it was back to racing. We ran a 7.097 that round.
We ended up qualifying eighth going into Sunday, which was awesome. I, of course, would have loved to have been No. 1, but being in the top half of the field for the first race is good.
You may think our day is over after racing, but there is always more work to be done and people to see. I went over to Full Throttle and saw their new Full Throttle TV setup and talked with their TV production crew and the host, Jessi Combs, for a bit. That is cool stuff. Jessi is a WyoTech grad and she has done some awesome stuff, including hosting shows all over TV. Keep your eyes out for a new Steve Johnson video!
On Sunday, I went over for driver intros, which is always awesome because I get to see all my driver buddies. I had a chance to say hi to Larry before he ran and see the first round of Top Fuel before I had to run back to my trailer to get in my leathers.
We won the first round and lost in the quarterfinals. You can see the break down on NHRA.com if you really need the 411. My buddy Larry Dixon did win so I ate with him and lots of the team that night. We are tied for seventh place right now. So it's back to the shop in Irondale to tear down the engines and get ready for Houston next week.
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Spotlight on Spiral! With the rest of the Uncanny X-Force in Madripoor, Spiral has devoted herself to finding new mutant Ginny. But is the cult Ginny belongs to more than meets the eye? Even six arms might not be enough to juggle all this trouble!
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Kaitlyn Flynn had a good vibe before her final at-bat yesterday.
"I was in a zone and relaxed," said the College of Staten Island senior. "I was on today (with my swing) and I just felt confident I was going to come through."
She proved to be correct and because she was, the Dolphins' season is still alive.
Flynn's game-winning, RBI single to center gave CSI a 4-3 CUNY loser's bracket victory over visiting Hunter on Friday in Willowbrook.
The top-seeded Dolphins (15-19 overall), who were upset by No. 4 Brooklyn College (5-4) in the winner's bracket semis, will get another crack at the Bridges in the loser's bracket final Saturday at noon at CSI.
Saturday's CSI-Brooklyn winner will then need to beat Baruch twice, beginning at 2 p.m. The 'if' game is scheduled for 4 p.m.
Baruch advanced to the championship round with a 2-0 triumph over Brooklyn last night.
CSI trailed Hunter, coached by former Moore Catholic mentor Ralph Moroni, 3-1 entering the bottom of the fifth.
But Christine DeCarlo (walk) and Amanda D'Amato (single) reached with one out before Kristi Dillon doubled to right center to make it 3-2. Brittany Smith struck out swinging, but the pitch got away from catcher Arielle Zieff.
When Zieff threw to first to nab Smith, D'Amato raced home with the tying run.
In the home seventh, Dillon reached on a one-out, infield single, then moved to second on wild pitch. Smith (three hits) followed with a single to right, putting runners on second and third for Flynn.
Flynn, a Tottenville HS product, smacked an Angel Iacovetti offering to centerfield to plate Dillon and end the game.
"The pitch was around the middle of the plate and I got a good piece of it," said Flynn (4 for 4, two RBI). "It feels really good to come through with a hit and give us another chance to come back tomorrow."
Danielle Ponsiglione notched the victory, allowing one earned run on nine hits, no walks and a strikeout. The senior, who is throwing despite a torn rotator cuff, is expected to face Brooklyn Saturday.
In Friday's first game against the Bridges, CSI trailed 5-1 going into the bottom of the sixth when they rallied for three runs thanks in part to Samantha Tallarine's bases-loaded walk and a two-run error.
The Dolphins trailed 5-4 entering the home seventh, put runners on first and second with none out, but couldn't equalize.
Ponsiglione had two hits and Flynn was walked intentionally three times for CSI against Brooklyn.


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Paging Through: Mysteries
My parents are snowbirds (when the snow flies, so do they) so they often read this column after it has run. They've recently returned to their Brookfield nest, and my mom wasted no time influencing this month's recommendations. After finishing Susan Elia MacNeal's "His Majesty's Hope" (Bantam, $15), the third in an engrossing WWII series, my mom said, "You need to recommend this and the author needs to write faster."
Maggie Hope, the series hero, has dreamed of becoming a spy ever since she was a "typist to Prime Minister Winston Churchill" and then a "maths tutor to the Princess Elizabeth" at Windsor. As the Nazis tighten their grip across Europe, Maggie gets her chance. Thanks to her secret training (including lessons from a "Glaswegian safecracker"), her keen intelligence with codes, and her "big stones" (as the Brits say), Maggie is recruited to an elite group of spies to infiltrate the offices of the Nazi hierarchy. »Read Full Article
Irina's Kitchen closes in Glendale
Roman and Irina Kit have closed Irina's Kitchen, 325 W. Silver Spring Drive in Glendale, after 10 years in business.
The restaurant closed May 1, Irina Kit said when reached by phone at the restaurant. Business had been slow, she said, adding that it was hard to compete with nearby chain restaurants for customers' attention. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
BB's restaurant, focusing on breakfast and burgers, opens downtown
BB's restaurant and bar -- Build a Burger, Build a Breakfast -- has opened its doors at 633 W. Wisconsin Ave. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Media buzzing over use of drones to gather news, video
Aerial coverage of news is routinely provided locally by WISN-TV (Channel 12) and WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
Last Friday, WISN dispatched "Chopper 12" to Glendale after a bomb threat at the offices of Columbia-St. Mary's. »Read Full Article(1)
Hunter Hayes; Lindsey Stirling; Atmosphere; Sarah McLachlan; Natalie Merchant; Chris Robinson Brotherhood; Nikki Lane; Ben and Ellen Harper
Lindsey Stirling »Read Full Article(1)
Philomusica, guitarist Izquierdo close out Conservatory season
Full house, spicy program and standing ovation — not a bad way to end a concert season.
The Philomusica String Quartet and guitarist Rene Izquierdo played to a packed Bader Recital Hall at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music on Monday evening. »Read Full Article
On Tap Today: Hellogoodbye and Vacationer at the Rave
As we enter the summer concert season, there'll be a lot--too much--to choose from. It's a buyer's market, and what concertgoers want is value.
With that in mind, the Rave is a good place to be Tuesday night, with not one but two bands--Hellogoodbye and Vacationer--co-headlining an evening of contagious, clever, unconventional pop rock. »Read Full Blog Post
Taj Mahal, Yipes!, Wailers to hit Johnson Controls stage
Revered blues artist Taj Mahal, horn-swinging funk musician Trombone Shorty and buzz-generating up-and-comers Delta Rae and Lake Street Dive are among the highlights playing the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage at Summerfest in Milwaukee this year.
The midgate stage will also host a few interesting performances with Wisconsin ties. Appleton native Cory Chisel of Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons — an Americana act that's celebrated everything from a "Letterman" performance to a world tour with Norah Jones within the past couple years — will present his Soul Obscura side project, covering rarely heard soul gems. And Yipes! — one of the most popular Milwaukee bands in the late '70s and early '80s, featuring Pat McCurdy and Mike Hoffmann of Semi-Twang — will reunite for its first extensive headlining set since breaking up in 1981. »Read Full Article(1)


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Santa hats and jingle bells continue to mingle with athletic attire and running shoes as Birmingham-area runners take part in holiday-themed races.
This past weekend's Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis is recognized in the running community as one of the more enjoyable themed races of the year; runners are encouraged to dress in a holiday-themed costume and tie jingle bells to their shoelaces. The 5K run and walk started at Railroad Park in downtown Birmingham.
The top three male runners in the Jingle Bell 5K were Brandon Black of Birmingham who finished at 17:34, Robert Thompson of Birmingham at 18:05 and Nerdnof Wehttam of Leeds at 18:09.
The top three female finishers in the run were Elizabeth Laseter of Birmingham at 17:29, Claire Gorman of Birmingham at 19:53 and Kaylee Dressback of Hoover at 21:05. Go HERE for complete results.
At Saturday's Run for the Hills 10K (sponsored by the Vestavia Hills Sunrise Rotary Club), the top runners were Justin Ladner with a finish time of 38:41.3, John Casterline at 39:18.3 and Bryan Heaton at 40:07.4. The top racers in the 5K were Zach Ridgeway at 19:26.1, Chris Shelton at 21:48 and Stephanie Ridgeway at 22:58. Go HERE for complete results.
The top racers in the the 19th annual Meadowbrook 5K were Victoria Hansen at 3:50.6 (overall female winner), Lori Goldwebe at 20:3.8 (overall female masters winner), Samuel Mueller at 15:46.1 (overall male winner) and Barry Thompson at 20:37.1 (overall male masters winner). Go HERE for complete results.
Races coming up this next weekend in the Birmingham area will continue to get runners in the holiday spirit.
Runners in the Tuesday, December 17th Santa Run & Santa's Little Helper Fun Run who donate a new unwapped toy will receive a Santa hat and have their picture made with Santa Claus. The event starts at Gardendale's Buffalo Wild Wings and includes one-mile, three-mile or five-mile runs. The run is part of a weekly running series sponsored each Tuesday morning by CrossFit Gardendale. Visit the Run's Facebook page for registration and more information.
The inaugural BUTS Inaugural Bearly Ultra, Cub Half Ultra and Wolf Pack Relay Run will take place Saturday, December 21 at Birmingham's Red Mountain Park. The Bearly Ultra is marathon-length, the Cub Half Ultra half is a half-marathon and the relay run is a four-member run that starts an hour after other runners begin. All "bears, clubs and wolves" will receive prizes for completing the trail runs. Visit the race page for registration and more information.


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By Kathleen Modenbach, Military Road columnist
Gene Bellisario, District 9 councilman, has canceled his monthly community meeting scheduled for June 29 as well as the July meeting. According to Bellisario, the meetings were canceled because of school vacations, coupled with upcoming timelines for capital projects in the district 9 area. The Miramon apartment complex issue was deferred until at least the zoning commission hearing Aug. 3
He plans to announce the August meeting date by the end of July. Any significant issues that come up before August will be announced by e-mail, Bellisario said. For information, contact Bellisario at 985.788.8186 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
School supplies available through Good Samaritan ministry
Though local children are out of school for the summer, many low-income parents, with their budgets already strained, need help getting school supplies for the fall. As in years past, the Good Samaritan ministry at St. Luke Catholic Church is taking applications until July 9 at the church office at 910 Cross Gates Blvd., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Applicants must bring documents to prove eligibility, including a picture identification card; current food stamp printout listing the children's names, social security numbers, birth dates and income; proof of income for everyone in the household, including current SSI awards letters, work check stubs; and the appropriate school supply list distributed by the school board for each child.
Those who are eligible include low-income families, families with special or emergency needs and children in kindergarten through - eighth grades in Slidell, Pearl River and Alton schools.
The Good Samaritan Ministry will help the first 75 families with complete applications submitted by July 9. Distribution of the supplies will take place at St. Luke Catholic Church on Aug. 2, from 10 a.m. to noon. For information, call the Good Samaritan office at 985.641.6421.
Nutritional food boxes provided to low-income seniors, 60 and older
Catholic Charities Food for Families is accepting new participants into the program. The agency provides monthly nutritional food boxes to low-income seniors, 60 and older, who meet federal income guidelines and are Louisiana residents. For information, including how or where to apply, food pickup locations and necessary application documents, call 800.522.3333
Kathleen Modenbach lives in the Cross Gates subdivision. She can be reached at 985.641.7049. All submissions become the property of The Times-Picayune and will not be returned; submissions may be edited and published or otherwise reused in any medium.


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SPRINGFIELD - A little zone can go a long way.
With good leads in the second and fourth quarters, the Springfield Armor were thrown off by a change of defense, helping the Austin Toros rally to a 98-94 victory Friday before 1,959 at the MassMutual Center.
It was the third straight loss for Springfield (3-5), which saw its high-scoring ways come back to earth with the return of Terrence Williams to the New Jersey Nets.
The Armor averaged 117 points and nearly 29 assists the last three games while Williams was on assignment from the Nets. They had 14 assists Friday night.
"We're not manufacturing shots like we did the last three games and you saw our assist level drop what, 20 assists," Armor coach Dee Brown said. "That's between 12 and 15 assists we're missing which means the ball's not moving and that's why you've got seven turnovers in the fourth quarter."
Springfield led by 11 in the second quarter and by as much as seven in the fourth quarter, but offensive droughts kept the Armor from staying in front.
"It's kind of difficult when a team adjusts to zone, which you haven't seen pretty much all season," Armor guard L.D. Williams said. "It kind of got us flustered on offense and we weren't able to get the shots we normally get.
"And another thing was we didn't get stops on defense," he added. "If you don't get stops, we can't run like we usually run and it slows the game down. In tough times we got to execute the offense and trust the system works."
The Armor was playing well enough to take a nine-point lead with four minutes left in the first half. Three minutes later they trailed by five, and only Scottie Reynolds' three free throws kept the score within two, 54-52, at the break.
It was that kind of a half, with the Toros leading nearly all of the first quarter only to have the Armor score the last four points of the period to tie it at 28-28. Springfield led for the majority of the second quarter thanks to a 10-0 run capped by a JamesOn Curry driving layup with 4:01 left that gave the Armor a 49-38 lead.
But a pair of 3-pointers, an old-fashioned three-point play by Marcus Cousins, and three free throws by Cousins helped turn a nine-point deficit into a five-point lead for Austin.
"When a team goes into a zone they're trying to disrupt your good flow and we shouldn't have turnovers in a zone," Brown said. "We tried to force passes and take quick shots. They took us out of our offense and we didn't make good decisions.
"That's what frustrated me the most, it wasn't like we were up and started making mistakes as they applied more pressure," Brown added. "They kind of backed down a little bit and we fell into the trap of settling for jump shots. We're going to see a lot of that again tomorrow."
The third quarter was much of the same, Springfield regaining the lead but unable to keep the Toros down. Curry (16 points) and Reynolds (22) had big quarters, Curry scoring 10 points while Reynolds had nine points, two rebounds, two assists and two steals.
But the fourth quarter belonged to the Toros and guard Carldell Johnson. He scored nine of his 11 points in the fourth, four coming in an 8-0 run that gave the Toros (5-5) a 92-86 lead with under two minutes to play.
Reynolds scored the final eight points for the Armor, who had no inside presence in the game on either end of the floor.
Armor can't hold lead, fall to Toros at home
SPRINGFIELD - A little zone can go a long way.


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