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Is Entrepreneurship a generational
thing or an ageless pursuit?
There is always a lot of talk each year about the "new
generations of students" and their changing needs. Teachers are asked to change
the way we test, teach and manage each new student group in the classroom or
online so they can become a success. We have a vast array of books comparing
the Boomers to the X'ers; the X'ers to the Y generation and so on up to today's
New Silent Generation or Generation Z. These generations have many names
depending on who is naming them. The Population
Reference Bureau lists 7 distinct generations beginning in 1871 through
2001. My guess is you have not seen this list as it is not the popular one in
use by publishers these days but it is worth a look.
The more popular list is:
- New Silent Generation or Generation Z
1980-2000 - Millennial or Generation Y
1965-1979 - Generation X
1946-1964 – Baby Boomers
1925-1945 - Silent Generation
1900-1924 - G.I. Generation
It is true that new advances in online resources, social
media, networking, access to information and global connectedness on the
Internet have changed the way we teach and the way students learn across
generations. I am not sure, however, that these distinctions always apply when
we are talking about Entrepreneurs
from either today or yesterday.
Where the notion of these "effectors"
comes from …
In 1755, when his pamphlet was published in France posthumously,
Richard Cantillon
(1680s – May
1734) gave us the name "entrepreneur" and a
new class of commerce was born. In his pamphlet
Essai sur la Nature du Commerce
en Général (Essay on
the Nature of Trade in General) he uses the word "entrepreneur" to define
someone who undertakes to bring goods, capital and effort together in a market
town to create a system to make goods available to everyone and grow the wealth
of the community. The entrepreneur takes these actions at his own risk, and not
for an employer, which is the crucial element in his or her actions. In
Cantillon's view the entrepreneur is someone who acts independently of a job
and the security of a paycheck.
J. B. Say continued
the use of the word (and popularized it) to define someone who was a key part
of the political economy and an actor who creates wealth for all in that
community through their actions of taking on economic risks. The entrepreneur
is someone who can transcend class and social position to attain wealth. In the
1920's Joseph
Schumpeter went further and described this entrepreneur as someone who
changes the world by destroying old systems (creative destruction) bringing
new ideas, products and services to the people through technical invention, market innovation and
replacement of old slow ways with new and more efficient ones.
Today, economists
clearly see entrepreneurs as the creators of the foundations of wealth and
social mobility in our economy. Entrepreneurs are also the creators of most of the new jobs, so
badly needed in our communities.
To me, each of
these generations, 1750's through today, sound like the same risk taking
person. And the entrepreneurs I meet in my work as an educator, whatever age, all share a
common set of values and world view with their past cohort; they are a driven,
action oriented and risk taking bunch.
How we change
the way we teach will make all the difference …
So the question
is not how we as colleges teach some new generation but how do we teach new
members of an old and venerable group of thinkers and doers so they will be
motivated to grow our economy and change the world for the better. In the past
we probably did not see them in our classes, or at least we did not recognize
them fully and really adapt our teaching to their needs. Our new charge is to
recognize and serve them. A mandate that will define our collective futures as
colleges and as communities and fundamentally change the way we all do education.
The call for us
to move from being only traditional centers of college degree success to one in
which we serve the broader learning needs of the community is a daunting and
inspiring one. In our classes at the community colleges we have a rich mix of
generations and personal learning styles and interests who are with us today for many
reasons. Some are looking to move up in their jobs, some are just getting their
basic education and some are completely changing what they are doing for a
What the entrepreneurs among them share is an impatience with our all
too often agricultural model of 8 to 15 week courses and fall, spring, summer
class schedules taught in weekly lessons. They demand a more just in time approach and access to answers
to their questions when they have them, not when it suits a particular class
competency design.
whether in the 1700's or today, want information they can use when they need it
and in bite sized pieces which can be applied immediately to solve problems. In
her research on successful entrepreneurs Saras D. Sarasvathy gives
us a good look at the needs of entrepreneurs. She calls their perspective on
the world Effectuation.
Effectuation is defined as the act of implementing (providing a practical means
for accomplishing something); carrying into effect.
This should sound familiar, it is the same
definition we have been applying to these folks for over 250 years. They effect
… make things happen … create new ways and means and change the world we live
in. They are in a hurry and are focused on their dream and not our
dreams of the perfect student. The
HP Life web site is a perfect example of how these effectors want information delivered. The lessons are online, free,
practical, focused on specific problems and engaging as lessons. They appeal to
these quick minded and action oriented people and offer us a way to support the
students we have, and the communities we live in, with learning materials
designed for the those who wish to undertake the creation of a market and
change their world.
As others have shown in their posts before me, including
these HP Life modules into our classes and programs is an excellent way to help
entrepreneurs accomplish their learning goals on their own schedules. It is
also a great example of how Open Educational Resources (OER) can be found and
used effectively in our classes versus the traditional approach of expensive
text books. Rio Salado College is currently using these modules in 6 of our
online classes and is planning their inclusion into 6 more online classes in
the future. We use them as competency based learning tools as well as authentic assessments of learning; two cornerstones of curriculum.
As we rethink how we will run our classes in this
electronic and social media soaked age we need to remember that at the heart of
all these generational classifications is a person who may just transcend the
generational stereotypes. As educators
we need to think like them, destruct the old ways of teaching, and create a new
way of learning that suites the entrepreneurial way. This may mean changing the
way we award credits, schedule classes, choose materials and evaluate
performance. It also means that we need to look closely at how we engage with
our communities and make learners, both credit and non-credit, a leading part
of our agenda. In an increasingly Open Educational Resource (OER) world we can
serve as guides to quality learning and help students find resources and ways
of thinking about their businesses that leads to success. As Schumpeter pointed
out in the 1920's, the secret to a vibrant economy and higher standards of
living for all is a robust and creative class of entrepreneurs. We, as entrepreneurial
educators, can help them achieve their dreams.
Otis J. White is the
Faculty Chair of Business & Public Administration at Rio Salado College.
For more than 20 years he has performed research, taught thousands of students
and developed academic curriculum for entrepreneurship, small business growth
and economic development for both the Maricopa County Community Colleges and
Arizona State University. As an entrepreneur, White created two successful
companies before serving in academia and continues to mentor new entrepreneurs
in their efforts to join the path to economic freedom and personal success. He serves as an HP Life Ambassador for NACCE and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information about HP Life.
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Newark Archdiocese wins court case over its headstone business
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NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) A judge has ruled the Archdiocese of Newark did not violate state law when it began marketing headstones and private mausoleums directly to consumers at its Catholic burial grounds.
The decision, released Tuesday (April 29) in Superior Court in New Brunswick, N.J., deals a blow to the state's headstone dealers, who argued in a lawsuit that Catholic cemeteries should fall under a law explicitly barring nonsectarian cemeteries from selling headstones and private family mausoleums.
The archdiocese became the first cemetery operator in New Jersey, religious or otherwise, to enter the lucrative headstone business in April of last year. Two independent dealers and their trade association, the Monument Builders of New Jersey, filed the lawsuit three months later, saying the new venture would swiftly undercut them and drive them out of business.
In the wake of the ruling against the dealers, Monument Builders President John Burns Jr. reiterated that prediction of financial ruin and said his group would appeal.
"This is going to destroy our business," Burns said. "It's going to spread from the Newark Archdiocese to the Trenton Diocese to the Metuchen Diocese and throughout the whole state. Then the nonsectarian cemeteries are going to pick up on it and say, 'Hey, if the Catholic cemeteries can do it, we can do it, too.'"
Jim Goodness, a spokesman for Archbishop John J. Myers, said the archdiocese was thankful for the decision.
In a related matter, Goodness said the archdiocese has paid delinquent state taxes it owed as a result of its headstone business.
Under the archdiocese's novel program, Catholic cemeteries own the private mausoleums and headstones in perpetuity. Consumers buy space inside the mausoleums, typically small structures that serve as the final resting place for between two and eight people.
The legal dispute did not involve large communal mausoleums.
Likewise, consumers don't buy headstones from the archdiocese. They buy "inscription rights," or the right to inscribe words and symbols on a headstone.


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Garry Rayno's State House Dome: Lawmakers tackle expanding Medicaid eligibility under ObamacareBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
November 03. 2013 12:19AM
Expanding Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act will be at center stage this week as lawmakers begin work on a bill or bills that would best provide health insurance to low-income adults.
The House and Senate will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday to set the ground rules for the next two weeks of hearings and meetings before a vote Nov. 21.
Whether there is one bill or more will depend on how negotiations go among political leaders, health and insurance industry representatives and various activist groups.
The House and Senate leadership and Gov. Maggie Hassan's office have already had countless meetings as they've tried to reach an accord to allow expansion to go forward next year and state health care providers to receive about $2.4 billion in federal money to pay for 58,000 newly eligible residents over the next seven years.
Whether the low-income adults receive health insurance and providers get the money depends on at least two Republicans in the Senate.
That has not changed since the 13 Republicans held firm and rejected Medicaid expansion during the budget-writing process earlier this year.
Former Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, led the charge against expansion and won approval for a study commission instead.
The commission issued its report last month.
The report essentially said the state should start the program Jan. 1 and use private insurance to cover as many of the newly eligible residents as possible, including expanding a program that pays the premiums of adults with health insurance through their employers.
After the report was approved, current Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, called it a good framework for beginning further discussions, and he announced five goals Republicans wanted achieved to expand Medicaid, including using private insurers to assume the risk of covering the newly eligible population.
Republicans want to see something similar to what the Center for Medicaid Services approved for Arkansas, which will use Medicaid money to pay private insurance premiums for people whose incomes are up to 139 percent of the federal poverty level.
That state's newly eligible population will use the Arkansas health insurance exchange to decide which policy is best for them.
The problem with having a similar program here is that New Hampshire has only one company on the exchange: the state's largest health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Federal rules require that Medicaid recipients have a choice of insurers.
Lawmakers are working with the three private managed care companies the state hired to administer the existing Medicaid program, trying to persuade at least one to offer policies on the state's exchange beginning Jan. 1, 2015.
If that happens or if Harvard Pilgrim decides to weigh in, then New Hampshire can use something like the Arkansas model.
The problem is that the private insurance has to cost the same or less than the current Medicaid program, a scenario that would be difficult to achieve.
Morse has often said, "We want a uniquely New Hampshire solution."
A uniquely New Hampshire solution may be hard to achieve, but the pressure is on with just days remaining before the first day of the special session.
If some combination of factors is agreeable to Hassan, House Democratic Leadership and Senate Republican leadership, then one bill would be introduced next week, and passage would be a foregone conclusion. If not, the next few weeks will be very interesting.
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CASINO GAMBLING: Another big issue not involving health care this summer and fall has been expanded gaming and how the state should regulate it in the future.
The Gaming Regulatory Oversight Authority has listened to experts near and far, and from advocates on both sides of the issue and recently began putting together a regulatory scheme in case lawmakers ever vote to legalize casino gambling.
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of the study committee works has been the unveiling of "charitable gambling" which one authority member, Sen. James Rausch, R-Derry, called totally unregulated, although that drew a light rebuke from Paul Kelley, executive director of the Racing and Charitable Gambling Commission. Kelley has pushed lawmakers to tighten up the multi-million dollar industry, but has not been successful.
Perhaps because small charities around the state are eager to have the money generated by the 10 charitable gaming halls around the state, the state's attitude toward gambling is considerably different from the majority of House members. The House has never approved casino gambling, although the Senate has on a number of occasions.
A Granite State Poll released last week shows three in five people favor casino gambling in the state.
According to the poll done by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, 59 percent favor a casino, while 33 percent oppose it and 8 percent are neutral.
The results have been essentially the same for the last year, according to the center.
With the exception of people who regularly attend church, majorities of all demographic and political groups favor a casino in New Hampshire, the center said.
Young people are more likely to support legalization while older residents, North Country dwellers, and Tea Party supporters, along with frequent churchgoers are more likely to oppose legalization.
The threat of casinos in nearby Massachusetts does little to change minds about expanded gaming in the Granite State.
According to the center, 60 percent favor legalizing casino gambling in the state, 33 percent oppose and 8 percent are neutral when asked about Massachusetts casinos.
The survey center contacted 603 randomly selected New Hampshire adults by landline and cell phone between Oct. 1 and 7, 2013. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.0 percent.
The sponsors of Senate Bill 152, which allowed one "highly regulated, high-end casino" along the state's southern border, said they will introduce a similar bill for the 2014 session and try again.
They worry the Massachusetts casinos will reduce state revenue and shift the costs of problem gamblers to state social service programs.
SB 152 passed the Senate, but died in the House despite the backing of Hassan.
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SCRUBBER QUESTION: The Electric Utility Restructuring Oversight Committee has been trying to decide what to do to lower electric rates for residential and small business customers who continue to buy their power from Public Service of New Hampshire. Large users and many small users are now buying their power from alternative providers.
Two issues are key: whether Public Service should be forced to sell its fossil fuel generating plants, and how to reduce the rate shock from the new $422 million emissions scrubber at the Merrimack Station plant in Bow.
Public Service has resisted calls to sell its fossil fuel plants saying they are needed both for generating capacity on high-use days, and to reduce the New England region's over reliance on natural gas generated power.
The state's largest electric utility also argues state law mandated the scrubber be built in order to meet new mercury emissions standards.
The Public Utilities Commission is in the process of determining how much of the $422 million scrubber costs ratepayers will have to pay, but Public Service asked the state Supreme Court to rule the law mandates customers pay the entire cost of the scrubber. That appeal brought the PUC proceedings to a halt.
Last week the oversight committee received a letter from a former attorney with the state's Air Resources Division, Arthur Cunningham, claiming some of the $422 million for the scrubber was spent on extending the life of the plant and upgrading its generating equipment, something the PUC has to approve before the cost is added to customers' bills.
The committee has asked Cunningham to appear in December to talk about the issue and also wants Public Service to send a representative as well.
The ramifications of who pays for the scrubber will have huge impacts on either Public Service power customers or the utility's stockholders.
But now the crucial decision is whether the Supreme Court takes the case or tells Public Service they have to wait until the PUC makes its determination.
The longer this battle goes on, the more expensive electric rates will be for Public Service's power customers. The company collects a rate of return on its $422 million investment of about 9 percent a year or $38 million which goes automatically into rates.
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PALLIATIVE CARE REPORT: People and health care providers need better information about the treatment of pain and discomfort due to illness or trauma, according to a report from a commission that studied palliative care and quality of life this summer and fall.
The commission hopes to pass legislation in 2014 to expand education for patients and care providers.
"The best method for changing current medical practices is to educate the patient to ask their medical provider for the service," said commission member Mary Scott, APRN.
The commission will propose legislation requiring health care facilities to have a plan and procedure for all patients that includes palliative and hospice care.
A statewide registry is needed for advance directives such as do not resuscitate orders that can be accessed in a medical emergency, the commission found.
The commission also decided the state needs to update its medical proxy laws, which allow someone to act on a person's behalf when they are no longer able to speak or make their wishes known.
Two members of the commission, Reps. Suzanne Smith, D-Hebron, and Frank Kowtowski, R-Hooksett, will sponsor legislation for a privately funded education center for palliative care.
The center will accept donations, seek grants for funding and make New Hampshire a leader in the promotion and understanding of all the possibilities — both therapeutic and palliative — available for all patients and their families, according to the report.


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Download the authoritative guide: Enterprise Data Storage 2018: Optimizing Your Storage Infrastructure
Back when I was a novice service tech and barely knew anything about system administration, one of the few topics that we were always expected to know cold was RAID— Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
It was the answer to all of our storage woes. With RAID we could scale our file systems larger, get better throughput and even add redundancy, allowing us to survive the loss of a disk, which, especially in those days, happened pretty regularly.
With the rise of NAS and SANstorage appliances, the skill set of getting down to the physical storage level and tweaking it to meet the needs of the system in question are rapidly disappearing. This is not a good thing. Just because we are offloading storage to external devices does not change the fact that we need to fundamentally understand our storage and configure it to meet the specific needs of our systems.
A misconception that seems to have entered the field over the last five to ten years is the belief that RAID somehow represents a system backup. It does not. RAID is a form of fault tolerance.
Backup and fault tolerance are very different conceptually. Backup is designed to allow you to recover after a disaster has occurred. Fault tolerance is designed to lessen the chance of disaster. Think of fault tolerance as building a fence at the top of a cliff and backup as building a hospital at the bottom of it. You never really want to be in a situation without a both a fence and a hospital, but they are definitely different things.
Once we are implementing RAID for our drives, whether locally attached or on a remote appliance on a storage network, we have four key RAID solutions from which to choose today for business: RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 5 (striping with parity), RAID 6 (striping with double parity) and RAID 10 (mirroring with striping).
There are others, like RAID 0, that only should be used in rare circumstances when you really understand your drive subsystem needs. RAID 50 and 51 are used as well but far less commonly and are not nearly as effectively. Ten years ago RAID 1 and RAID 5 were common, but today we have more options.
Looking at RAID Levels
Let's step through the options and discuss some basic numbers. In our examples we'll use "n" to represent the number of drives in our array and we will use "s" to represent the size of any individual drive. Using these we can express the usable storage space of an array, making comparisons easy in terms of storage capacity.
In this RAID type, drives are mirrored. You have two drives and they do everything together at the same time, hence "mirroring." Mirroring is extremely stable as the process is so simple, but it requires you to purchase twice as many drives as you would need if you were not using RAID at all, as your second drive is dedicated to redundancy.
The benefit is that you have the assurance that every bit that you write to disk is being written twice for your protection. So with RAID 1 our capacity is calculated to be (n*s/2). RAID 1 suffers from providing minimal performance gains over non-RAID drives. Write speeds are equivalent to a non-RAID system while read speeds are almost twice as fast in most situations, as during read operations the drives can access in parallel to increase throughput. RAID 1 is limited to two drive sets.
Striping with Single Parity, in this RAID type data is written in a complex stripe across all drives in the array with a distributed parity block that exists across all of the drives. By doing this RAID 5 is able to use an arbitrarily sized array of three or more disks and only loses the storage capacity equivalent to a single disk to parity. But the parity is distributed and does not exist solely on any one physical disk.
RAID 5 is often used because of its cost effectiveness, due to its lack of storage capacity loss in large arrays. Unlike mirroring, striping with parity requires that a calculation be performed for each write stripe across the disks and this creates some overhead. Therefore the throughput is not always an obvious calculation and is dependent heavily upon the computational power of the system doing the parity calculation.
Calculating RAID 5 capacity is quite easy: it is simply ((n-1)*s). A RAID 5 array can survive the loss of any single disk in the array.


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White House officials say Europe's agreed plan for solving its debt problem should stay on track, regardless of the political turmoil in Greece. President Barack Obama has been meeting with European leaders to look for ways to solve the financial crisis at the G20 summit in the French resort city of Cannes.
Obama's meetings on the situation began almost immediately after he arrived in France.
The president talked with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel about ways to prevent the Greek debt crisis from spreading to the entire continent.
Despite reports Thursday of turmoil in Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's government, White House officials called for Europe's debt relief plan to continue.
Papandreou surprised financial markets this week when he called for a public vote on a deal the European Union had reached days earlier. Under the plan, Greece's debt would be cut nearly in half, if the government adopts drastic spending cuts.
Officials in the Greek prime minister's office denied that he was about to resign as a result of the controversy.
Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Obama, told reporters in Cannes the political upheaval in Athens should not prevent the EU plan from going forward.
"What needs to be done, as it relates to Greece, what needs to be done, as it relates to stabilizing the eurozone, was outlined last week, and those steps are going to need to be taken, going forward, irrespective of where we are at any given moment in a country's politics," said Rhodes.
White House officials have said repeatedly that Obama's main priority in Cannes is to help Europe move toward a solution. The president reinforced that point after meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy.
"The most important aspect of our task over the next two days is to resolve the financial crisis here in Europe," said President Obama. "President Sarkozy has shown extraordinary leadership on this issue. I agree with him that the EU has made some important steps towards a comprehensive solution."
But Obama said more information is needed about how the initiative would proceed.
"Here at the G20, we are going to have to flesh out more of the details about how the plan will be fully and decisively implemented," he said.


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Friday, August 14, 2009
George Byron Reed IV is a great-great-great-great grandson of Samuel and Mary Clark Reed. Byron grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, graduating from Greenville High School in 1959, Furman University in 1963, Marine Command and Staff College in 1974, Army War College in 1980, Penn State in 2001. He retired from the army in 1990, from Northrop Grumman in 2002, and from the Methodist church in 2007. He and his wife Sue currently live in Alabama where he is an aerospace consultant on missile systems.
His lineage: Samuel Reed and Mary Clark; John Reed and Julia Odom; John Wiley Reed and Louvisa Clementine Hair; George Byron Reed and Rowella Hydrick; George Byron Reed II and Lena Bailey Humphries; George Byron Reed III and Sara Kiser; George Byron Reed IV.
Byron shares with us some memories of his family. Thank you, Byron!
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My grandfather, George Byron Reed II, was a preacher at the Cameron Baptist Church and at the Baptist church in North, S.C., but died in the Influenza Epidemic of 1918. He had been delivering food to sick church members. My grandmother, Lena Humphries Reed, and the two children (George Byron Reed III & Lena "T") were sick with the flu at the same time. When my Grandfather died, the family was living in the parsonage at Cameron, so my grandmother had to move into a rented room with the kids who were 5 and 7 years old.
When my grandmother left the parsonage, she knew that she would not be able to afford more than a room somewhere. She did not want to sell family keepsakes and have them end up in the hands of others around Cameron, so she built a fire in the backyard of the parsonage and burned everything that she did not give away or did not think would fit in a room with two children. So there are not many historical documents, etc., that were passed from her.
Grandmother got a job as a school teacher, then worked in a mattress factory. She never remarried and sent both kids through college in the Depression. She died in Columbia, S.C. in 1985 at age 97. She and my grandfather are buried at Bull Swamp Baptist Church near North, SC.
"T" was my father's sister Lena Humphries Reed. She went by the name of "T" to all who knew her. She got that from my Dad when he was young and unable to pronounce her name...he called her "T"...as did her mother, husband and nieces and nephews.
"T" was a very modern girl to be from Cameron, S.C. of the 1920's. She went with her girlfriends to the Chicago World's Fair. She had serious asthma and went to a doctor's resort in the N.C. mountains and underwent two weeks of treatment using arsenic on her feet. The treatment was very dangerous and was outlawed many years ago, but she was completely cured and was not bothered by asthma ever again. She married Deward Gossett. They had no children, and he died in 1973. "T" retired as a school librarian. She then married W. M. Andrews who was retired in Columbia, S.C. He died in 1988. Lena died in 2003.
My father, George Byron Reed III, was born in Cameron S.C. on July 14, 1913. Cameron was at that time, a small "country town" with a railroad track down the middle.
GB, as he was known, fished in Four Hole Swamp and went with his mother each summer when she tutored math at Furman University in Greenville. He attended Furman, participated in the Glee Club, and graduated in 1934. He married Sarah Elizabeth Kiser in 1940, and they built a house at 5 Claremore Ave. in Greenville. During World War II, GB was an Army Civil Servant working at the Greenville Airport.
After college he had initial jobs at Sears, Thom McAnn shoes, and a mill in Greenville. Then about 1948, GB began working for Crane Company. Twenty years later, with a group of investors, he bought the local branch as it had evolved (Mechanical Supplies, Inc) in Greenville. That company was sold to Hajoca Inc. in 1978.
GB and Sarah had three children: George Byron, Sylvia Jean, and Robert Kiser. George Byron Reed III died August 5, 1979, and is buried beside Sarah in Manning, South Carolina.
George Byron II, III, and IV, Lena H. Reed, and GBR IV's daughter, Samantha, all went to Furman University in Greenville, SC.
My wife of 43 years is Karon Sue Spendiff Reed. She graduated from Huntingdon College, and we met at her school in Montgomery, AL. We have three daughters: Samantha Hathorn, Kira Wild, and Anna Brown. Anna has one child, Kira has two, and Samantha has one and also three step-children.
Sue and I are very involved in church missions and went to Peru for a short-term mission trip. This is the eighth trip that I have made to the Quechua Panao region of the Andes and Sue's sixth. Sue and I are also involved in the Emmaus Community, and I am involved in Kairos prison ministry in Costa Rica and the US.
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- todd turnerOctober 4, 2009 at 6:36 PM
hi - thanks so much for posting this information. Just happened on your site this evening on a random google search. I am grandson of Jacob Hydrick Reed, younger brother of George Byron II. Has been fascinating reading. Have just been on the phone with my mother sharing your story. She remembers meeting "T" in Columbia and was thrilled to learn additional detail of GB I and Rowella. GB 1 had passed before my mother was born and Rowella died when my mother was ony 4 - so she had no real memories.ReplyDelete
Todd, it's great to hear from you! I just spoke with my father (Joe Reed here in Columbia) and asked him if he knew of a daughter of Hydrick's who married a Turner. Oh yes, of course, he did! He even knows you, or at least about you. And I see you joined the Facebook group. Thank you! I'll leave you a note there.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello and thanks for sharing. I am a cousin of Todd (above) and granddaughter of Jacob "Hydrick" Reed, eldest daughter of George Hydrick Reed (Sept 10, 1927 - Sept 18, 1974). My father, Aunt Patsy and Aunt Jo were so very close and made certain "we cousins" were the same. That love is still strong today, although we don't see each other frequently, the love pours over for one another. It would be great to have a Reed gathering in the near future. So proud and blessed to be a Reed!Delete
It's great to hear from you, Mitzi! Thank you for the information on your father with which I was able to correct my tree.Delete
Please contact me at samuelreed AT gmail DOT com to discuss a gathering. I've met some of your closer cousins lately (descendants of George Byron Reed) who would be interested, too.


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19. Effectively managed the $450 million bond approved by the voters to construct 1.6 million sq. ft. of new facilities (24 new buildings), including the new Northeast Lakeview College, which now enrolls over 6,000 students, and greatly enhanced facilities at all of our colleges. All projects were constructed on-time, under budget, and with high quality, and the taxpayers benefited by our investment and construction management generating $40 million more than the $450 million bond itself;
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21. Established the Fire and Police Academy in Von Ormy that is providing additional resources not only for our students but for various municipalities, the Park Service and FBI;
22. Developed one of the state's first public/private partnerships in order to collaborate with the Tobin Hill neighborhood to construct the first student housing on the San Antonio College campus, the Tobin Lofts, with a new Student Welcome Center, named for philanthropists Tino and Millie Duran, and improved retail spaces for local businesses;
23. Relocated the Challenger Center from Brooks City Base to San Antonio College and completed a $7 million Capital Campaign to build out the combined refurbished Scobee Planetarium and new Challenger Center, which is considered the best among all Challenger Centers in the world;
24. Developed Alamo Colleges into a more financially and operationally efficient organization through consolidations of services including IT, Financial Aid, Institutional Advancement, Continuing Education, Distance Learning, and numerous smaller operations from Auto Maintenance to Mail Services;
25. Received numerous state and national awards, including the Bellwether Award for Innovations in Planning, Governance, and Finance; further improving operational effectiveness and efficiency, reducing over $200 million in costs since 2008. As a result of these savings and our deliberate initiatives to revise our pay schedules, our employees are the third highest paid among community colleges in Texas, we've redirected salaries to substantially increase the number of student advisors, increased student work study positions, increased minimum wage to the region's living wage standard, have invested heavily in technology, and expanded facilities and programs in New Braunfels and Kerrville;
26. Developed an effective Key Performance Indicator model that has established an accountability culture and increases student success through:
27. Implemented The Four Disciplines of Execution (4DX) and Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) models. As a result, employees have led the development of new strategies and innovations that have improved student success, streamlined systems, cut costs, and improved operational services to students;
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31. Reorganized, consolidated and expanded the Alamo Colleges Foundation and reconstituted its staff and Board of Directors, increasing total assets from $5 million to $20 million in scholarship funds, ensuring students have the financial resources to succeed in college;
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33. Facilitated our transformation from an organization of five separate colleges with duplication of programs, conflicting procedures for registration, transferring courses, academic and curricular design and organizational structure with substantial inefficiencies, costly to the taxpayer and students, to five collaborating colleges that are much more responsive to student and community needs;
34. Implemented "The Alamo Way", the Board of Trustees' Educational Philosophy policy that has provided clear strategic focus on student success, student and employee leadership development, and institutional performance excellence. Two of the Alamo Colleges, Northwest Vista and Palo Alto College, have earned the coveted Texas Award for Performance Excellence. They are two of only nine organizations in Texas to earn this recognition, and were cited for best practices demonstrating strong dedication to quality and high performance, evidenced by well-deployed, effective, systematic approaches to organizational management, with good performance levels and trends evaluated against industry standards. The Alamo Colleges' District Support Operations (DSO) and St. Philip's College were recognized at the Achievement Level.
35. Facilitated development of a culture of disciplined data assessment and project focus that has contributed to a record 7,147 degrees and certificates in FY14, a 75% increase since 2006. Our data-informed approach has improved academic and student support services through research-based decision-making;
36. Improved student satisfaction scores on The Community College Survey of Student Engagement such that 85.7% of Alamo Colleges students rated their entire educational experience as good or excellent;
37. Has utilized the annual PACE survey to measure employee satisfaction achieving the highest ratings in the history of the college and surpassing our national peers;
38. Initiated the Office of Community Partnerships that has established regular planning and collaboration events with K-12 partners across the Alamo Colleges service area. The board chairs and superintendents of all 50 plus Independent School Districts and many charter schools from across the Alamo Colleges' 8 county service area meet quarterly to explore collaborative strategies to increase student college readiness and transfer to the Alamo Colleges and our sister colleges and universities;
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For alderman: Manchester Wards 7-12
October 30. 2013 6:53PM
In Manchester's aldermanic races in Wards 7-8, the New Hampshire Union Leader endorses the following candidates:
Ward 9: Victoria Sullivan. Seldom does a newcomer to city politics enter an aldermanic race with as much experience and commitment as Victoria Sullivan has. She is president of the Highland Goffe's Falls PTA and founder of the school's Drama Club, a baseball, basketball and soccer coach, a selectman, and a community volunteer. She is the sort of person who volunteers at her local school but also supports charter schools and school choice. She has been an advocate for better policing and smarter spending. She strongly supports the spending cap and believes the city can improve the schools and public safety without spending more. She would be a powerful and refreshing voice on the board.
Ward 10: Phil Greazzo. Alderman Greazzo consistently shows his value by asking hard questions at board meetings — often good, important questions that no one else is asking. He is a proven and forceful advocate for making the city more responsive to the people and the taxpayers, and he deserves to be re-elected.
Ward 12: Keith Hirschmann. Candidate Hirschmann, a well-known Manchester Republican, has been a small-business owner in the city who would bring that important perspective to the board. He wants to do the mundane but critical ward work such as providing better sidewalks as well as the bigger-picture work of making the city more welcoming for businesses.


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Amsterdam is the capital city of the Netherlands is one of the most popular cities in Europe with good reason. It's stylish, unequivocally picturesque, offers a fascinating history to be appreciated, and features incredible nightlife with an alternative flair. Amsterdam is intensely urbanized with a population of around 800,000. As a cosmopolitan city, with an ever-changing population there are many holiday apartments available in Amsterdam. Accommodation is usually found along the main canal routes, but cheaper accommodation can be found in the surrounding suburbs, which are well served by the bus and metro system.The city itself actually sits at 2 meters below sea level. There are 165 canals with a combined length of 100 kms.
Fun Facts about Amsterdam
- There are more bikes in Amsterdam than there are people, and two times more bikes than cars.
- All buildings sit on top of stilts, thanks to the city's swampy soil. The Royal Palace alone sits on top of over 13,000 wooden poles.
- Amsterdam's international airport, Schiphol, actually sits 4 meters below sea level.
- Amsterdam has more canals than Venice
- Over 200 coffee shops in Amsterdam allow you to buy up to 5 grams of cannabis (marijuana or hash). You can't smoke tobacco in said shops, but you can smoke the cannabis.
Where to Stay in AmsterdamAmsterdam is broken up into seven districts and each one has a very distinct character, try to find the district that suits you and then secure your perfect apartment in this area of Amsterdam. Dam Square is a great base for short-term visitors as it is right in the centre of all the action so a lot can be seen in a short time (although, if near the Red Light District, be prepared for minimal sleep). That said, all modern Amsterdam apartments are very soundproof and like hotels, should be able to make sure your few hours of sleep are not disturbed by revelers . Jordaan is a current favourite of many - still close to the action, but in a much more relaxed residential setting complete with cool shops and where bikes rule the quiet streets. Although a few minutes away by tram, Leidseplein has plenty of its own interesting sights and services, and is a hub for transportation in the city. Rembrandtplein, named for the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, is one of the busiest squares in the city and is a hotspot for nightlife.
Things to do in Amsterdam
Your credit card can easily get an intensive workout in Amsterdam with an array of big box department stores, exclusive boutiques, and intriguing antique stores to choose from. For unique finds head to The Nine Streets (De Negen Straatjes) for great boutiques and vintage stores. Designer labels can be found in the museum district and Dam Square is home to the biggest department store of De Bijenkorf. Amsterdam has the most museums out of any city in the world. Two must sees are the Anne Frank House, a touching insight into the city's WWII history, and the Van Gogh Museum, a delight for art lovers with the largest collection of the most famous Dutch painter's works. Outside the museums, get lost in the maze of the Amsterdam's core with a boat ride on the canals and past the 2,500 house boats. Did you know about the city's great beaches? Strand West is open all year, and a quick train right to the nearby town of Zandvoort offers up one of the country's most favourite sandy spot. Camera-happy tourists can fill up many memory cards by hitting Amsterdam's famous sights. The Royal Palace, Public Library, and Reguliersgracht (Seven Bridges) are photogenic delights. There are also about 30 parks in Amsterdam, giving visitors plenty of opportunity to escape from the bustle of the city and relax. Vondelpark, the largest in the city, offers great people-watching and the chance to catch some free concerts in the summer. Head to Amstelpark which offers a range of activities and attractions, including the Rieker windmill which dates back to 1636.
Dining in AmsterdamFor culinary adventurers, Amsterdam is the place to sample raw herring. Herring carts, called haringhandels, can be found throughout the city and serve up the small fish with or without a bun. Dutch pancakes are more similar to crepes but are a must-try for new city visitors; head to The Pancake Bakery for legendary pannekoeken and choose from an unusual array of toppings. Not to be outdone by famous beer-making neighbours (Belgium and Germany), the Netherlands serves up their own brewed delicacies that should be sampled. 't Arendsnest gives a great and intensive introduction to Dutch brew.
Nightlife in AmsterdamAmsterdam's nightlife is one of its most attractive qualities. The best bar and club scenes are to be found in Rembrandtplein and Leidseplein which offer a variety of venues. LGBT clubs are found all around the city, but must are near Reguilerssdwarstraat and Warmoestraat. The red light district is something to be seen and experienced.
Getting Around Amsterdam
There is one major international airport, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol that is located about 20 minutes southwest of the city but with easy access via public transport. Another easy way in and out of the city is via train, with the main station near the city centre. The best way to get around is via bicycle, rentals are inexpensive and the city is built for it with generous paths throughout. Alternatively, the public transportation system is impressive with a network of buses, trams, ferries and more to get you around the city. Cards are available for purchase to allow for unlimited use in specific time frames.


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GMHC's Upcoming Move Creates Rifts With New York's HIV/AIDS Community
May 12, 2010
An update to the story below was posted on May 17.
As thousands of New Yorkers gear up for the annual AIDS Walk in Manhattan on May 16, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) -- the main recipient of donations from the event -- has come under heavy criticism.
On April 21, New York Magazine's Tim Murphy reported that the venerable HIV/AIDS service organization will be moving out of its building on West 24th Street and will settle into a new building near Penn Station on West 33rd Street:
Organizations move all the time. So what's the big deal?
Some complain that the move breaks the long-term relationship that GMHC has with the gay-friendly neighborhood of Chelsea. But what appears to really have many in the local HIV/AIDS community riled up is the perception that GMHC's exodus will also mean an end to many of the much-needed services that GMHC offers -- services that have underlined the core of GMHC's mission since its founding in 1981.
In an open letter, GMHC's own Consumer Advisory Board (CAB) blasts the HIV/AIDS organization for changing its mission statement without community input. The GMHC CAB claims that the strict lease terms at the new location will eradicate GMHC's clinic services and its nutrition, harm reduction and HIV testing programs. Here is an excerpt:
Joseph Sellman -- a 24-year GMHC client and activist -- told TheBody.com that while GMHC has been reluctant to go into detail about possible cuts, people inside the organization have confirmed what is in the open letter from the GMHC CAB. "I have been there for a long time and have many contacts, and this has been their consensus," he said. "Marjorie Hill [GMHC's Chief Executive Officer] and the board keep telling us to trust them and that they have our best interest in mind. I no longer believe them."
Sellman says a protest rally will be held on May 19 from noon to 2 p.m. in front of the doors to GMHC's current building on West 24th Street. "The notion of getting rid of services has really pinched a nerve in the community," he said. "There has even been talk of people boycotting the AIDS Walk to make a statement." Sellman adds, "Without these services, how can they keep taking money that are given to fund services?"
TheBody.com reached out to Hill to talk about these accusations. Krishna Stone, GMHC's Assistant Director of Community Relations, declined our request, but sent us the following statement:
It's not known when GMHC will divulge any real details about its future, but Sellman suspects that it will happen after this weekend, given that AIDS Walk 2010, the funds from which largely benefit GMHC, takes place on Sunday, May 16. "They are not going to say anything now, because they know that people would go ballistic at AIDS Walk."
TheBody.com will continue to monitor this story and provide any updates.
[Editor's note: TheBody.com's team committed itself to taking part in, and fundraising for, AIDS Walk 2010 long before this story developed; it participated in last year's AIDS Walk as well. TheBody.com's participation in the walk is continuing as planned.]
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'Swan Lake' expressive, seriously gorgeous
The Milwaukee Ballet's two-act take on "Swan Lake" is a seriously gorgeous evening of dance.
Thursday's opening performance was built of deeply expressive dancing from the company's leading artists and beautifully disciplined corps work, set amid richly detailed sets and character-defining costumes.
Artistic director Michael Pink cut, pasted and trimmed Tchaikovsky's four-act "Swan Lake" score to a manageable two-act length. The patchwork score, composed of bits and pieces of the ballet in and out of traditional order, somehow flowed beautifully in this telling of the story.
The telling of the story is the key in Pink's interpretation of this classic. He uses a tremendous amount of ever-so traditional ballet vocabulary, big corps scenes and plenty of wonderfully intimate scenes to pull the audience into what proves to be a highly articulate, yet wordless, telling of a fairy tale.
Thursday's performance featured Luz San Miguel as Odette (the white swan), who brought a mixture of fragility and power to the role. Recovering instantly from a fall early in Act One, she created an empathetic character that made the audience care what happened to her.
Annia Hidalgo's Odile (the black swan) was physically precise and sculpted, which supported the focused, driven motives she revealed in her character.
David Hovhannisyan brought power, discipline and weightless leaps to the role of Prince Siegfried, along with a tenderness and warmth that gave depth and meaning to his "handsome prince" character.
Alexandre Ferreira danced the role of Benno with energy, strength and character, while Timothy O'Donnell brought a brooding darkness to the role of Rothbart.
Sofia Tsutsakova and Garrett Glassman gave well-defined performances as the Queen and Tutor.
And oh, the corps work from those beautiful, graceful swans: Kara Bruzina, Susan Gartell, Valerie Harmon, Courtney Kramer, Rachel Malehorn, Janel Meindersee, Mayara Pineiro, Nicole Teague, Andrea Chickness, Hinano Eto, Rachel Hanlon, Marta Kelly, Lauren Pschirrer, Makiko Sutani, Kaylee Vernetti and Erica Wong.
The 36-member ensemble added outstanding dancing to the production, including couple work by Pineiro and Ryan Martin, Kramer and Marc Petrocci, and Gartell and Justin Genna.
The only thing missing from Pink's telling of the story was the brief quartet of "Little Swans." Although it advances the story not a whit, it's a slice of "Swan Lake" one hates to lose.
Jose Varona's stage-filling sets and flowing costumes, done in the expected white/black along with a creamy, pastel first-act palette and a rich, jewel-toned second-act palette, were fairy-tale lovely.
"Swan Lake" was accompanied by the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. The production continues through Sunday at the Marcus Center's Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call (414) 902-2103.
Editor's note: Schmidt did not review the musical element of this production because a relative was playing in the orchestra.
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Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure (US - BD RA)
Gabe takes a break from monsters and zombies to check out the new Tink flick...
Before the fairies of Pixie Hallow can bring autumn to our world, they must restore an object called the Moonstone to its rightful place. Only after such action is taken the pixie dust will turn blue instead from yellow before the first frost. Apparently this is really important. According to tradition it is the 'tinker' fairies' turn to restore the Pixie tree, and Tinker Bell is elected as the representative. Unfortunately, while preparing a new sceptre to display the moonstone Tink accidentally breaks the sacred object. To avoid the end of autumn (so soon after almost destroying spring), the plucky fairy embarks on a quest to find a magical mirror said to grant wishes. Nothing can possibly go wrong.
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure is mostly a case of more of the same, but the more is mostly merrier, assuming you're a little girl (or boy, I'm not judging). Truthfully, as a grown man, I'm relatively impressed with the character development, and the fact that the writers don't feel the need to re-state all the character traits. It's almost as if they're trying to create a well rounded mythology or something. The story aims at a young audience, and doesn't make much of an effort to speak to older audiences, but it's nice to see the writers broadening their scope and putting a little more adventure in the mix. I'm sure little brothers the world over are thankful for the action. The roundabout trip the plot takes just to get to another heavy handed moral is a little disappointing, but you take what you can get. This particular moral seems to be something about not being such an angry bit…er brat all the time.
The biggest improvements are in the character animation, and the comedy, which largely go hand in hand. There are some amusing character moments, and some funny dialogue bits (the Owl scenes is a keeper, as is the troll scene), but the bits that made me snicker were all slapstick and facial expressions. The first Tinker Bell was kind of stiff, specifically concerning facial moments, and the characters floated more than flew. This new film features more dynamic movement, and especially lively facial expressions. The animators take more cues from classic hand drawn animation, and are generally more elastic and expressive than the video-game graphics of the first film. Backgrounds and production design is also generally more dynamic, creating a sense of stylized reality worthy of genuine praise.
Lost Treasure generally appears to be running on a similar budget, and is using the same models, backgrounds, etc, but visually speaking it's a more interesting film. The pallet is largely autumn based, rather than spring based, so the colours are warmer, the shadows darker, and the contrast more varied. The original film was so bright there wasn't a lot room for contrast, and the details were a little washed out. Tink's journey away from Pixie Hallow allows for a slightly more realistic pallet for some scenes. In all the colours are intense and varied enough to actually make for decent demo model material. The characters are still smooth like plastic, and they don't quite blend into the more realistic backgrounds, but fine details and textures are plentiful, from fine grains of sand, to carved wood grain and all that shimmering pixie dust. More or less a flawless transfer marred only by the films occasional constraints, never by noise or artefacts.
Thankfully this new film doesn't feature too many songs (no offence to Loreena McKennitt fans, but I find it kind of exhausting), and the score isn't repetitive. The music is the big, vital element of this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track, but since the film is animated there is no lack of well-mixed special sound effects, they're just a little on the centric side. The surround and stereo work is present, but doesn't draw a lot of attention to itself, and there aren't many rousing directional effects. Tink's cross-country flying and the climatic rat fight both feature some expressive sound design, but the track most defers to the dialogue and music. The LFE is also mostly given over to the music, though there are a few impact noises given a strongish bass punch. The dialogue track is relatively dynamic and warm.
The special features being with another 'Magical Guide to Pixie Hallow' (04:40, HD), which is here called a 'short' rather than 'interactive', as it was on the first film's release. The animation is minimal at best (it's like a motion comic), but the design is kind of cool, and the hi-def video reveals all kinds of painterly details. This is followed by eight deleted scenes (16:00, HD), featuring director and producer introductions (who dumb things down a little bit for the kiddies). These scenes are presented as motion storyboards in various states of colour, and mostly finished music and voice acting pieces. These are followed by an amusing blooper reel (04:00, HD), a look at Walt Disney World's new Pixie Hallow attraction (8:00, HD), which is clearly an ad in disguise, a Demi Lovato music video, and Disney Blu-ray trailers.
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure is a worthy follow-up to the first mediocre Tinker Bell STV movie. This new film broadens the universe's scope, develops the major characters a bit, and is generally better looking and better animated than the first film. Parents can rest assured that it isn't going to melt their children's minds, and that the final moral of the story is a good one. Most grown-ups won't get much out of the film itself, but the Blu-ray does look really good, better than even some more budgetary endowed computer generated cartoons. The audio quality is about average, and the extras are middling, but the video quality is surely quite impressive.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Actually looks somewhat decent.
All ages admitted
Disc Details
Release Date: 27th January 1995
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French and Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish
Extras: Magical Guide to Pixie Hallow, Pixie Hallow Comes to Walt Disney World, Deleted Scenes, Bloopers, Music Video, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Klay Hall
Cast: Mae Whitman, Angelica Huston, Raven Symone, Jesse McCartney, Kristen Chenoweth
Genre: Animation, Family and Fantasy
Length: 80 minutes
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Former Hornet Ashley Cadotte enters her second year as an assistant coach with the Sacramento State women's basketball program in 2013-14. Cadotte played on the Sacramento State women's basketball team from 2004-06.
Cadotte works with the Hornet post players, serves as the team's academic coordinator, and is a primary recruiter.
Last year,
Cadotte helped mentor arguably the top-two post players in the
conference in seniors Kylie Kuhns and Megan Kritscher. Kuhns broke
the school and Big Sky career rebounding records during her senior
season while also leading the team in scoring en route to an
All-Big Sky first team selection while Kritscher shattered the Big
Sky single season blocks record and ranked fourth in the NCAA in
blocks per game for the season.
A native of Oregon City, Ore., Cadotte played at Clackamas JC before joining the Hornets for the 2004-05 season. The 6-foot forward averaged 6.5 points and led the team with 6.6 rebounds while starting 27 of 28 total games in her junior season. As a senior, Cadotte averaged 8.4 points and a team-high seven rebounds per game while starting all 26 games during the 2005-06 season.
After her collegiate career, Cadotte worked as an assistant coach at Clackamas CC (Oregon City, Ore.) for the 2010-11 season and at Chemeketa CC (Salem, Ore.) in 2011-12. She also attended Willamette University (Salem, Ore.) Law School and worked as a clerk for the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office.
She continued her playing career after graduation as well as a member of the Portland Energy, a summer pro-am team featuring WNBA, NCAA and high school players.


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Love birds for layouts and these are great as they can be drawn or inked. Also like that there are several versions of cages and birds that can be used again and again.
This template is wonderful. I knew it was the 12" by 12" but the bird cages are larger than they appear. Very nice.
I am soo pleased with my template and the detail is exactly the same in person
I like it.
I just received the stencil for the bird cages and birds. They are so very cute and a nice large size. I have only had the opportunity to use it once, but look forward to trying it with spritz and ink. I just traced it onto a scrapbook page witth a marker and it looks adorable. The price is great as well - a great value for your money.
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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forest Oil Corporation (NYSE:FST) (Forest or the Company) announced today that its fourth quarter and year end 2012 earnings release will be issued after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, February 20, 2013.
A conference call is scheduled for Thursday, February 21, 2013, at 9:00 AM MT to discuss the release. You may access the call by dialing toll free 866.356.3095 (for U.S./Canada) and 617.597.5391 (for International) and request the Forest Oil teleconference (ID # 18661304). The conference call will also be webcast live on the Internet and can be accessed by going to the "Investor Relations" section of Forest Oil's website at www.forestoil.com. A Q&A period will follow.
A replay of the conference call will be available through March 7, 2013. You may access the replay by dialing toll free 888.286.8010 (for U.S./Canada) or 617.801.6888 (for International), conference ID # 57791293. An archive of the conference call webcast will also be available at www.forestoil.com in the "Investor Relations" section of the website.
Forest Oil Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of natural gas and liquids in the United States and selected international locations. Forest's principal reserves and producing properties are located in the United States in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Forest's common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FST. For more information about Forest, please visit its website at www.forestoil.com.
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I picked up WHV's Television Favorites: The Drew Carey Show, just for this segment alone.
I've been waiting quite a while to see that. That was very well written and animated. And Alasky is always a hoot.
Through the little subtle touches in this segment (Daffy's flying spittle, his pronunciation of "discrimination", the use of "Powerhouse", and the closing "bayowhup"), you can tell that this bit was written by someone who really knows their Looney Tunes trivia. Excellent scene, I must say.
That was a fantastic clip. I've been watching the Drew Carey Show for years and I've never come across it. I'll need to hunt this episode down.
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Death penalty walking . . .
Could the high-cost of state sponsored killing finally prove the undoing of capital punishment? A parade of exonerated death row prisoners has been enough to at least lead to moratoriums in some states. Others have never reinstated the death penalty or recently elected to abolish it on moral grounds.
But a new effort to end the death penalty in America is at least in part being propelled by a new rationale: fiscal responsibility. The argument is at the heart of a recent LA Times editorial, that, while deploring the morality, capriciousness, and unfairness of capital punishment, notes:
"We find it shocking and depressing that California keeps hundreds of people locked up for decades awaiting execution at an estimated additional cost of $63.3 million per year(over and above the normal cost of incarceration) when it could save more than 90% of that by scrapping the system entirely and replacing it with life imprisonment without parole."
The New Mexico House of Representatives voted February 11 to repeal the death penalty, and Maryland is considered an abolition being sponsored by its Governor Martin O'Malley.
According to The New York Times : "Mr. O'Malley, a Democrat and a Roman Catholic who has cited religious opposition to the death penalty in the past, is now arguing that capital cases cost three times as much as homicide cases where the death penalty is not sought. 'And we can't afford that,' he said, 'when there are better and cheaper ways to reduce crime.' "
Colorado, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, and Nebraska are among those states considering abolishing
executions at least partly as a way to cut state expenses. So the death penalty may finally be put down not because we've taken the moral high ground, but because some state governments have finally been forced to look at the bottom line.


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Many people fret over choosing the right wine for a particular meal, but Lettie Teague finds that following a few simple guidelines can lead to great matches.
WHILE WINE MAY BE worthy of extensive, even exhaustive study, there's one aspect that I think has received far too much scrutiny in recent years: matching wine with food. I could eat and drink quite happily for decades without hearing anyone ever again utter those four consecutive words.
It's not that I don't like putting wine and food together; I do it every day of the week. It's the ceremony that I object to—the elevation of a few common-sense principles to something approximating great art. When did wine-and-food pairing...


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Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Struck9 is a Colombian EBM project set up in 2008. After a debut album (cf. "Democracy") released in their homeland on Black.
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Three straight long putts stunned America's No. 1 power pairing Friday and helped the Europeans get off to a surprising early lead at the Solheim Cup.
Azahara Munoz and Karine Icher made consecutive birdies from 15, 25 and 20 feet on holes 8 through 10 to open a big lead over Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer en route to a 2-and-1 victory that gave Europe a 3-1 lead after the opening alternate-shot matches.
"We had an amazing stretch on 8, 9 and 10," Munoz said. "And after that, we just kept plugging along and we just did our job."
America's only point came from Morgan Pressel and rookie Jessica Korda in a 3-and-2 victory over Catriona Matthew and Jodi Ewart-Shadoff.
Before Munoz and Icher were through, Europe already had two points on the board. The all-Swedish pairing of Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Hedwall beat British Open champion Stacy Lewis and Lizette Salas 4 and 2, and Suzann Pettersen's partner, rookie Beatriz Recari, made a 20-foot eagle putt on 16 to close out a 2-and-1 win over Brittany Lang and Angela Stanford.
"It's early. It's Friday morning. We're going to be ready for this afternoon," Stanford said.
For the afternoon best-ball matches, U.S. captain Meg Mallon put Michelle Wie in the lineup, pairing her with Kerr against Matthew and 17-year-old Charley Hull, the youngest Solheim Cup player ever.
Other matches: Lang and Brittany Lincicome against Nordqvist and Giulia Sergas; Stanford and Gerina Piller against Hedwall and Caroline Masson; Lewis and Lexi Thompson against Pettersen and Carlota Ciganda.
The United States is trying to recapture the cup after losing it to the Europeans in Ireland two years ago. The Americans were considered favorites coming in, having never lost the Solheim Cup at home.
Figuring Creamer and Kerr would be a big part of any victory, Mallon put them together in the anchor position for the opening matches, showing confidence in a pairing with a 2-0-1 record together, along with a combined three major titles.
The match started getting away early, when Kerr missed short putts on Nos. 1 and 5. Then, it was Icher and Munoz opening up a lead with their putters. Munoz sandwiched a 15-footer on 8 and a 25-footer on 10 around Icher's 20-footer on No. 9 to help the Europeans to a 4-up lead heading into No. 11.
"They seemed to throw three really long (putts) at us on 8, 9 and 10 and we didn't get the momentum until our last couple holes, and then it's too late," Kerr said.
She and Creamer made things interesting, pulling within two heading to the 17th, but Icher ended it with an 8-foot par putt for the win on the par-3 green. Icher and Munoz are ranked 24th and 27th, while Creamer and Kerr came into the week at Nos. 11 and 12.
"It was great to win this match and I think I found a friend forever," Icher said.
Korda lost her breakfast on the first fairway and Pressel, who improved her Solheim Cup record to 8-2-2, helped calm her down the rest of the way.
"I had milk and cereal for breakfast, and then I decided to have a banana," Korda said. "And then I felt it coming and I was like, 'What the heck is that?'"
Despite that unsettling moment, she drilled a wedge to about 8 feet for a quick 1-up lead.
"After I got past the first hole, I was pretty OK," Korda said.
They seized control of the match by making solid par putts on the ultra-quick greens. Korda holed a 7-foot par to halve the 16th hole and seal America's only point in the morning.
Pressel was impressed with the Solheim Cup rookie, and her choice of words to describe Korda were appropriate.
"She's got some fire in her belly," Pressel said.


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IF ITS not illegal, then its OK. That is the secular, moral relativist approach to life which I am attacking in a television programme tomorrow evening. To take one example of where it leads, just look (if you can bear it) at a revolting website called lilamber.com, featuring underage girls in provocative poses.
This site, because its girls are scantily clad rather than naked, and are not shown as victims of obvious abuse, counts as soft rather than hardcore porn. It will thus not be covered by the Governments commendable, if belated, planned legislation against extreme sexual content on the internet.
But lilamber is shameful none the less and particularly to the supposedly respectable institutions, such as banks and credit card companies, that allow it to flourish by handling payments by its subscribers.
How would a senior manager at Visa react if his own darling daughter was one of the pouting pre-teens on lilamber? Or what would the boss of the internet service provider (ISP) who actually shoves lilambers sordid electrons on to the internet do if images of his precious poppet were featured there? They would react with horror. But these financial and IT services are what keep this billion-dollar industry going. Without any way of charging for access, or anyone willing to run their infrastructure, the vast majority of porn sites would go out of business.
The bankers mumble excuses about how they cant blacklist clients who have a legal business. What nonsense. Financial institutions are all too keen to be choosy about their customers when it comes to creditworthiness or money-laundering so why not apply the same smell test when child porn is involved? These outfits are merely echoing our cultures mantra: the law is the only moral authority. No one else can sit in judgment. To censor even those sickos who sit at their desks and salivate over sexualised images of children is to be condemned as censorious. After all, in our relativist universe, one mans pornography is anothers adult entertainment.