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Integration of multiple governance, risk and compliance (GRC) disciplines on a single platform is a laudable goal, and the effort to achieve it by both vendors and their customer organizations is increasing. Notably, within the enterprise GRC (eGRC) space, integration occurs most often among the internal audit, financial controls and enterprise risk assurance functions. Conversely, the compliance function has been less inclined to integrate, due in part to the specific subject-matter expertise required for each of the compliance functions, which makes the broader risk and control sets documented by other groups less relevant to compliance teams.
Still, the Institute of Internal Auditors' (The IIA) position paper, "The Three Lines of Defense In Effective Risk Management and Control" (January 2013), offers valuable insight into why it makes sense to bring these functions together, at least on an aggregated level, even if subsets of information are contained in other source systems. According to the paper, convergence will enable the three lines (operational/business-line managers, risk and compliance functions, and internal audit) to coordinate activities, map assurance functions and perform independent validation.
But significant barriers to the comprehensive and successful integration of GRC technology across numerous groups remain. For example, many organizations continue to depend on multiple GRC technologies to fulfill different and specific departmental needs, and most organizations use different platforms for IT GRC and eGRC. Other obstacles include the lack of a unified GRC framework or a common language, the complexity of existing technologies, the lack of effective change management, and a lack of demonstrable return on investment (ROI).
Achieving convergence in the face of these obstacles requires technology capable of unifying an organization's policies, processes and infrastructure. In this slideshow, Protiviti has identified the key elements of a technology platform capable of doing so.
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6th Street Bridge Design Winner Announced
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilmember Jose Huizar and other city officials today announced the winner of an international competition to redesign the 6th Street Bridge that must be replaced due to structural decay.
Architecture firm HNTB beat finalists AECOM and Parsons Brinckerhoff; all three of the firms' designs were presented to the public in September. The design competition began in April of this year.
"The new 6th Street Bridge will be a world-class, iconic piece of Los Angeles infrastructure because of this international design competition and the community's involvement every step of the way," said Villaraigosa in a written statement. "Los Angeles is where the world creates and innovates, and the selection of HNTB as the winning team reaffirms our ability to cultivate and attract the best and brightest in architecture, design, and engineering right here in Los Angeles."
The HNTB design features huge swooping angled, cable supported arches. The bridge offers entry access at the base of each arch, access to the river and gathering spaces on both sides of the river.
"The HNTB Sixth Street Viaduct conceptual design – a ribbon of arches – melds current structural technology with an aesthetic vision that embraces the entire 3,500 foot length," said City Engineer Gary Lee Moore. "It will be an infrastructure element that I anticipate will become an icon for Los Angeles."
Councilman José Huizar said the best of the best design was delivered for the new Sixth Street Viaduct.
"This bridge by HNTB honors the history of the original while boldly looking towards the future with major river, pedestrian, multi-modal and community gathering features. Our new bridge will not only bring people from Point A to Point B, but to Point C – the bridge itself. It will be a shining-star destination spot worthy of the City of Angels," said Huizar in a written statement.
HNTB was selected from a panel composed of members from Bureau of Engineering and Caltrans. The winning design was approved unanimously by the Design Aesthetic Advisory Committee (DAAC) that includes engineering, architecture, and urban planning professionals, in addition to residents, business representatives, and river advocates, according to the city.
The redesign and construction will cost $401 million and will by funded primarily by the Federal Highway Bridge Program; State Prop 1B funds and local matching funds through Measure R and Prop C, according to the city.
The project is expected to begin in 2015 following approval from the Board of Public Works and the City Council. Almost 5,000 jobs are expected to be created. Construction is scheduled to be completed by late 2018, with it's grand opening in 2019.
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October 22nd, 2012 2:25 pm
With so many good designs available the ugliest was selected. The "Swooping" arches at a odd angle makes this an exercise in bad taste. A single series of "swooping" arches in the center or duel arches on either side of the roadway at a right angle could make this ugly duckling into something spectacular we can all be prod of.
Tony Taylor on
October 26th, 2012 3:59 pm
No matter how they try to spin it this is an awfully expensive and even uglier bridge!!!!!
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Congress Buys the Insulin Pump Hacking Hype
At the BlackHat 2011 conference in Las Vegas several weeks ago researcher Jerome Radcliffe hacked an insulin pump, causing it to change dosages or even shut down. Now 2 congressmen have asked the GAO (Government Accountability Office) to review the Federal Communications Commission's approach to wireless medical devices to ensure that they are "safe, reliable, and secure."
There's no question that Radcliffe, a diabetic himself, found a vulnerability of sorts. The wireless protocol which programs the device he hacked had no authentication or encryption and he was able to reverse engineer it. But there are reasonable questions about the severity of the hack.
Performing the attack requires that the hacker have the serial number of the pump and, of course, physical proximity to the victim. How would someone get the serial number of another person's pump? They could try to trick the victim, as in a phishing attack, to provide it, but that would leave traces, as would attempting to hack medical records. And there are so many ways to kill people.
For the average person with diabetes, this has to be way, way down the list of things to worry about. Doubtless medical device manufacturers are working now on authentication and encryption features to prevent such attacks, but in the meantime automated pumps are far more advantageous to diabetics than they are dangerous. And who is supposed to be performing these attacks, murdering diabetics? Insurance companies? Al Qaeda? KAOS?
Radcliffe's hack is interesting and helpful for pressuring device manufacturers to improve their security, but not especially scary.


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Tapper's first CNN scoop, sans disclosure
CNN's new Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper has posted his first scoop for the network: "Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Tom Nides is leaving the Obama administration, Nides told CNN this afternoon."
Tapper's article does not mention that Nides is married to CNN vice president and deputy Washington bureau chief Virginia Moseley, who like Tapper recently joined the network from ABC News.
We've just reached out to Tapper, Moseley, and several representatives at CNN, and will add their remarks here if and when we hear back.
UPDATE (6:45 p.m.): CNN spokesperson Megan Grant emails POLITICO:
Jake Tapper did not discuss this story with Virginia Moseley. Jake reached out to Tom Nides directly who confirmed that he was leaving the State Department. When Virginia joined CNN last month, we decided that she would not be involved in any CNN coverage of her husband and that was the case with this story.
This doesn't really shed light on disclosure practices at CNN, which is the crux of the issue. We've asked CNN if they want to comment on that.
Note: Washington Post had a story about Nides' possible departure earlier this afternoon; CNN's was the first to get it directly from the source.


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Detroit recently filed for chapter 9 bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
But it was a long time coming, and it had everything to do with the once glorious U.S. auto industry.
"Detroit, otherwise known as Motor City or Motown, was the center of the auto industry, making it a booming and prosperous city in the middle of last century," wrote Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Michelle Meyer. "The tide began to turn in the late 1970s/early 1980s when US automakers began to lose market share to Japanese ones. The Big Three — GM, Chrysler and Ford — were slower to adapt to technological changes and respond to demand for smaller and fuel-efficient vehicles."
As the auto industry struggled, unemployment rose, people fled the city, and the economy shrunk while municipal spending remained high.
Meyer's report included a 45-year chart of U.S. motor vehicle sales as a share of GDP to illustrate how the industry lagged the U.S. economy.
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How beloved L.A. food personality Evan Kleiman has built a modern culinary career, from restauranteur to media maven to pie queen.
In the subterranean studios of KCRW, buried beneath a cafeteria on the Santa Monica College campus, Evan Kleiman ('80) is performing an appropriately food-oriented sound check.
"Say pie."
"Pie. Pie."
The host of the public radio show Good Food looks like a teenager, wearing a black linen tank top, her hands tucked in her pockets, kinky hair piled atop her head on this rare 90-degree day. She's been at this for 15 years, but she still sounds positively tickled about everything she discusses - especially when she says the word "pie."
"Deep-fried P. B. and J. Pie, pie, pie," she continues into the microphone. But Good Food isn't just about decadent dining. Stirred in with talk of deep-fried county fair confections, strip-mall quesadillas and alpaca burgers are serious explorations of the rights of prison inmates demanding vegetarian meals, how climate change will affect wine-growing regions and what NASA feeds astronauts on a mission to Mars.
On this particular morning, her interviewee is Los Angeles Magazine dine editor Lesley Bargar Suter, in the studio to talk about the magazine's annual "Best of L.A." issue. Kleiman's questions demonstrate that she's read the issue cover-to-cover, as she digs deeper into the city's best bread baskets and juice cleanses. The interview flows like a lively dinner conversation.
Kleiman comes to her host's chair with rich experience in both food and media. "She's worked like a fiend as a chef and as an interviewer," says famed food writer and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, a frequent guest. "She talks to interesting people all the time and, unlike too many interviewers, she actually listens to the answers and engages. Some of the best food conversations I've had have been on air with Evan."
Growing up in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, Kleiman had a different career path in mind. Like so many native Angelenos, her first aspirations were toward film production. As an undergraduate at UCLA, Kleiman created her own major that was born from an obsession with long trips to Italy in her teens: Italian Literature and Special Fields, with an emphasis on Film. She then entered the Arts Management Program at UCLA Anderson, intending to become a Hollywood producer.
"It was a really amazing program. All of the graduates went on to run most of the major arts institutions in the country," she says. Kleiman's internship was in the marketing department of MCA Universal, and upon graduation she was quickly hired by an independent producer. But almost immediately, she realized something was missing. She had stopped cooking.
Kleiman had always cooked - at first, alongside her mother, then working her way through a mountain of cookbooks. On those trips to Italy, she'd find herself gathering recipes in the cucinas of Italian women. To put herself through school, she spent nights catering glitzy charity events. When she took the job in film, it all ended.
As she pined for the kitchen, a new restaurant called Mangia opened in L.A., dedicated to authentic Italian cuisine. Kleiman's interest was piqued. She offered to work there for two weeks for free, she says. "When I walked in, it was like the rays of sun were shining upon me, and the choir sang, and I felt like I was in an environment where I could truly be very productive."
She made the switch, and after working a few years in other kitchens, Kleiman opened Angeli Caffé in 1984 on Melrose Avenue, just as the nascent punk scene throbbed to life. Offbeat galleries and funky boutiques drew crowds to the surrounding blocks. The restaurant itself was modern, designed by a young Thom Mayne (who would go on to win a Pritzker Prize for architecture and teach at UCLA) as an abstract take on an Italian church. Paired with Kleiman's simple, farmers' market-driven menu, Angeli Caffé looked poised to change the conversation about Italian food in L.A. - which until then had been mostly red sauce on red-checked tablecloths.
Just down the street, celebrated chef Susan Feniger had opened City Café with Mary Sue Milliken a few years earlier. When Angeli arrived on the scene, Feniger says the community took note of Kleiman's personal approach to Italian. "She brought this great rustic spin to it," says Feniger. "Not fancy, not expensive, but very fresh ingredients. It was one of those places where you could see the influence of the markets, and all of her experiences in Italy made it very authentic."
The influx of local ingredients wasn't the only way L.A.'s restaurant scene was changing in the '80s. Kleiman became one of a handful of female chefs who began appearing at celebrity fundraisers and charitable events. "There weren't a lot of women chefs, that's for sure," says Feniger. "Having another woman cook at those events was such a great thing. There was such a mutual respect." Thus Angeli became a pioneer in another way: It was one of the rare, female-owned restaurants that helped nurture a tradition of strong women chefs in L.A.
At first, Kleiman was a reluctant radio host, taking voice lessons to become more comfortable on-air. But over time, she's realized that Good Food is her calling. "I'm a total culinary omnivore and I've been that way my whole life," she says. "Really, this is what I'm meant to do." Kleiman's show has covered topics ranging from the ethics of foie gras to the history of the toothpick, even cannibalism.
At one point in the 1990s, Kleiman had expanded into a four-restaurant empire. Her tables were filled with diners, hungry for handmade linguine and salads made with fresh mozzarella. She authored best-selling cookbooks that educated a generation of home chefs in her beloved style. But by the early 2000s, she started to see changes: namely, restaurants were gravitating toward the cult of the cocktail (she only served beer and wine). Kleiman was bleeding cash.
By 2008, she knew she would have to close, but ironically, the recession prevented it. "More than the average restaurant, a very large number of people had worked for me over 10 years, and a core group for over 25 years," she laments. "I could not deliver them into that economy."
Finally, after weathering the worst of the recession for the sake of her employees, Kleiman closed Angeli Caffé in January of 2012. "This was a huge emotional thing for me. It took a lot of therapy to get me to do it," she laughs. But she has no regrets. "A restaurant is such a life of minutiae and lists and details which are mostly pretty boring. When you take that away, I just have more time to think and to ruminate about everything."
She toys with the creation of a product line or a new restaurant venture, but those ideas remain fantasies for now. "In the meantime," she says, "I have pie." She's serious.
In the summer of 2009, Kleiman started baking a pie every day, which she'd photograph, Tweet and post on the Good Food blog. Soon, readers began sending in their own pie projects, tagging their adventures with the hashtag #pieaday. What began as a whim became a wildly popular baking contest, attended each year by the city's culinary glitterati. "People wonder why the pie contest has become so huge for me and I think part of it is that it's become the perfect example of how something virtual can be something real," she says.
Kleiman's cross-platform approach has even spread into apps. Seeing the popularity of Pie-A-Day, El Segundo-based Clear Media tapped her as the latest guest chef in their Appetites app family. In 2011, they launched Appetites' Easy As Pie, a video series that brings Kleiman's melodic voice and easy demeanor to your iPad as she walks you through the steps to making a pie, from crust to meringue.
For Clear Media, Kleiman's well-established and highly engaged audience was a great advantage in promoting the app, and the instant popularity of Easy as Pie demonstrated what many people in L.A. already know: Evan Kleiman's food persona has no limits. "Evan is engaging, she loves food and you can really identify with her intelligence and curiosity," says Jennifer Ferro, general manager of KCRW and producer of Good Food.
Ferro saw Kleiman's potential as a radio personality immediately in 1997, when the original Good Food hosts, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken, began bringing her in as a regular guest. "I was struck by the amount of preparation she did," says Ferro, "She would read an entire book on a day's notice." When the show expanded to an hour, Ferro encouraged Kleiman to join the show as a host. "The way to make it in public radio is to be real. And smart," she says. "That's why Evan is popular." The weekly show now counts 500,000 listeners per month. During the pledge drives, says Ferro, Good Food consistently raises more money than other shows on the schedule.
Because Kleiman likes her work to have a real-world presence, the show has expanded beyond the radio waves into a Good Food Happy Hour, a roving cocktail party hosted by Kleiman, which pops up at notable L.A. restaurants. The most recent event was co-hosted by Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly food critic and author of the book Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. "Old and young, all different ethnicities, they come out in droves. They just want to be around her," he says of Kleiman. "She's not so much a reporter or host, as a curator. She is the food goddess of Southern California."
And she's also using those real-world connections to change L.A.'s food culture for the better. In 2009, L.A. public works commissioner Paula Daniels launched a task force to form a food policy council for the city that would improve citizens' access to healthy food. Daniels immediately tapped Kleiman to help recruit local chefs to participate. "She is a deep thinker who cares about fairness and quality in every aspect of the food system," says Daniels. Kleiman is now an active member of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, a 32-person committee focused on issues from hunger and obesity to school gardens and farm worker rights. It is the latest of many activities for the self-described "culinary multitasker" as she morphs into the role of thought-leader. "There are so many different ways of looking at humanity and looking at the world, and I choose food," she says, "which kind of encompasses everything." While economic trends and dining preferences will always vary, Kleiman has carved out a niche where her work can evolve and remain relevant. If the daily uptick in her Twitter following is any indication, Kleiman's audience will never stop being hungry for her particular brand of culinary inspiration.


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TIFFANY SARGENT AND Bob LaFiandra make salsa in the basement of St. Stephen's Church in Middlebury during last week's United Way of Addison County Day of Caring. Sargent and LaFiandra and several other volunteers made the spicy condiment for a monthly dinner for immigrant farm workers in the county.
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MIDDLEBURY — After a brief introduction by Ripton author Bill McKibben last Wednesday, Ross Gelbspan looked out at the crowd packed into Middlebury College's new Hillcrest Environmental Center and told them they should probably leave now. He was about to talk about the American stalemate on climate change and it would only go downhill from here.
"Middlebury has changed much more, given these incredibly beautiful new digs, than the political battle over global warming in the last two decades," he said.
Gelbspan should know. The veteran reporter and editor, formerly with The Washington Post and Boston Globe, has been working to uncover the connections between climate change deniers and the oil and coal industries for more than a decade. His book, "The Heat is On," was published in 1996, bringing unprecedented national attention to the issue of global warming.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Back when Vergennes Union High School senior Katie Jordan was 9 years old, she made a decision that eventually will put her in front of a national radio audience later this fall.
On Sept. 29, Jordan, a 17-year-old Charlotte resident who is the daughter of VUHS choral teacher Karen Jordan, will take the stage at Randolph's Chandler Hall for "From the Top," a National Public Radio program that allows the nation's top young classical musicians to showcase their talents. Vermont Public Radio broadcasts the show on Sundays at 6 p.m., and will air the Randolph edition at a date to be announced.
Jordan will bring her French horn with her to Chandler Hall to play the five-minute first movement of Richard Strauss's First Horn Concerto, but the horn was not her first instrument. By the time she was a fourth-grader in South Burlington, Jordan was already a veteran piano player who had been giving public recitals for two years.
September 17, 2007
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
NEW HAVEN — Engines were roaring and smoke was billowing at the tractor pull held at the Addison County Field Days fairground in New Haven on Sept. 7 and 8. The 150 competitors and many more spectators where there to have a good time, but there was a serious purpose behind it all.
The second annual Addison County Benefit Truck and Tractor Pull raised at least $7,000 for a Middlebury teen with cancer and a widow with local ties who recently suffered a serious motorcycle accident.
The event, like the first annual event last year, was organized by friends and family of Donald and Kenneth Van De Weert, two local brothers who both died within the past five years.
"We decided to do something to remember them by and give back to the community a little bit," said Tim Van De Weert of Ferrisburgh, a brother of Don and Ken. "If we can help people out, it just makes us feel good."
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LYNCHBURG, VA. – Midfielder Sachem Wilson scored two goals, as the Liberty Flames rode a fast start to 4-0 victory over the IUPUI Jaguars in their home opener, Friday evening at Osborne Stadium.
Liberty jumped out to a 3-0 first half lead behind two goals from Wilson and a goal by forward Kyle Breitmeyer. Jacob Seabold tacked on another in the second half for the Flames.
The Flames registered have not allowed a goal in opening their season at 2-0. IUPUI drops to 0-1-2 on the year.
Liberty jumped on the Osborne Stadium less than four minutes into the contest. An errant clearing attempt fell in front of Wilson, who pounced on the loose ball and rocketed a shot from the top of the 18-yard box into the upper left corner of the net at the 3:12 mark. The midfielder's first goal of the season gave the Flames a 1-0 advantage.
Continuing its offensive pressure, Liberty added to its lead during the 29th minute. After a shot by Wilson at the right post was blocked in front by a IUPUI defender, the ball bounded out to the top of the box. Flames midfielder Blessing Tahuona picked up the loose ball and pushed a pass into the center of the box, putting Breitmeyer, one-on-one with the Jaguar goalkeeper Eduard Cortes. Breitmeyer beat the goalkeeper with a shot to right side for his first goal of the year and a 2-0 Liberty edge.
Less than four minutes later, the Flames upped their cushion to 3-0, with Wilson finding the net again. The sophomore midfielder pounced on a loose clearing attempt by the Jaguars. With the goalkeeper out of the net, Wilson lifted a shot over his head into the open goal for his second marker of the evening and of the season.
At the end of the half, IUPUI gained a scoring opportunity on a corner kick. Off the kick, Kirklin Ring put a shot on net, which Liberty goalkeeper Scott Sutarik corralled for the save, sending the Flames into intermission with a 3-0 edge.
In the second half, the Jaguars had their best opportunity to break on the scoreboard during the 62nd minute. From the right side of the 18-yard box, Gregory Efiom ripped a shot, which Sutarik punch over the goal for a save.
Liberty added its final tally of the night during the 83rd minute. Wilson sent a crossing pass from the left side of the field into the box at the near post. Midfielder Jacob Seabold took it in stride and blasted a shot into the upper left corner of the net for his first collegiate goal and what proved to be the final of 4-0.
Liberty outshot IUPUI, 16-10. The Jaguars held a 6-4 edge in corner kicks.
Sutarik recorded five saves on the night in posting his second straight shutout and 13th of his Liberty career. Cortes made four saves for IUPUI in the contest.
With two goals and an assist, Wilson's five points are the most in a game for the sophomore, eclipsing his four points last season in a 2-0 Liberty win at Radford on Oct. 30.
Before the game, former Liberty men's soccer coach and athletic hall of fame member Bill Bell was honored. Bell coached both current Liberty head coach Jeff Alder and IUPUI head coach Isang Jacob in 1988.
Liberty next takes to the road for three consecutive games, starting next Wednesday when the Flames travel to Spartanburg, S.C., for a match with the Wofford Terriers. Match time is scheduled for 4 p.m.


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Since (over) eating and drinking is inevitable, skip any snug pants or skirts to ensure you feel at ease all day and night. A shift or drop-waist dress can be sweet when paired with thick tights, while a super stretchy pair of cords or jeans can grow with you. A skirt with an elastic waist can offer just the right amount of definition, but with little to no restriction.
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Dennis Phillips will commute more than two hours when he begins a new form of treatment at Providence St. Mary Medical Center for metastatic prostate cancer this month.
Phillips, 70, lives in Umatilla, Ore., retired from a 38-year career with Marlette Homes in Hermiston.
The long trips to Walla Walla will be a bit of a haul, but worth every mile if the "Provenge" treatment system can tack time onto a life shortened by advanced prostate cancer, Phillips said. "As long as I can keep feeling good like I do now."
Prostate cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer in men over age 75, and is rarely found in men younger than 40, according to the National Institute of Health.
The low-grade version of prostate cancer is most often heard about, touted as being a cancer men might die with, rather than from. Treatment of the slow-growing disease consists of doing little to nothing except monitoring through blood screening in many cases.
High-grade prostate cancer, however, can lie in wait, initially producing few symptoms to warn its victim. That's the type that has been a challenge for the health-care industry, said Deb Howard, clinical nursing supervisor for the cancer center. "The typical patient ... is minimally symptomatic and may have been through surgery," which has failed to halt the cancer, she explained.
St. Mary is the only cancer center in Southeast Washington offering the Provenge option, and providers there consider it to be one of the major breakthroughs in prostate treatment in recent years. It was approved by the U.S. Drug and Food Administration for use in 2010.
It works differently than anything else has so far in treatment history of the disease, according to news reports of the medication. The company that manufactures Provenge mixes the chemicals specifically for each patient, designing the dose to attach to the patient's own white blood cells -- collected for the occasion -- that are in charge of fighting cancer and other intruders.
A body's white blood cells could perhaps do the work on their own if cancer cells weren't so good at camouflaging themselves "with a whole host of tricks," said Dr. James Cunningham, an oncologist and medical director of the cancer center. "They want to survive and they are very devious."
Provenge "teaches" the white cells to communicate with the tumor, he said. "So the antigen cells are sent to school. Like taking students and helping them learn about one particular danger."
The chemotherapy-and-white cell cocktail is then sent back from the lab and re-infused into the patient's blood supply. There is no discomfort associated with the procedure, Howard said, although an allergic reaction is possible. The option has no age cutoff.
Provenge, the pharmaceutical industry's first effort at "immunizing the immune system," unmasks the invaders, so to speak, signaling the body to get to work, Cunningham said. "This was an achievement."
As of now there's no promise anywhere for curing metastatic prostate cancer. Oncologists must be wary of using such terminology and consider the cancer to be a chronic disease, Cunningham pointed out. "But more, this is a case of postponing much more toxic chemotherapy for suppressing the immune system."
Which is rarely 100 percent successful, he added.
Today Provenge is offering patients "modest improvement" for increasing life span, Cunningham said. "Some may eventually be cured by Provenge, some will not have improvement at all. We occasionally see exceptional responses."
From 2007 to 2011, 926 men in the Blue Mountain Oncology Program region -- Sunnyside to LaGrande -- were diagnosed with prostate cancer, 125 of those cases identified as at stage three to four of the disease, said Kay Hicks, who heads the cancer-tracking program. Those patients were more likely to see the disease spread past the prostate gland, she said.
Any improvement in quality of life is significant for men in that situation, Cunningham said. In the progression of the disease, symptoms go from negligible to painful, impairing the victim's ability to work, sleep and think clearly. Pain management therapies are inadequate.
"It's like a curtain coming down," the medical director said. "We can't postpone that forever for most men, but even buying four months ..."
With his grandchild playing in the background, Dennis Phillips agreed. Surgery failed to stop his cancer, and "radiation didn't seem to matter, either," he said. "The doctor said he can't cure it, but it can make me live a little longer. Even a little longer is worth it."
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Compared to large capacity central units, room air conditioners have several advantages. The initial cost of a room air conditioning unit is significantly lower than the cost of central air. Because room air conditioners are designed for cooling small spaces, operating costs are reduced. And, room air conditioners can provide personalized temperature and humidity controls that central systems cannot.
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The Moth
The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Island, Georgia, where he and a small circle of friends would gather to spin spellbinding tales on his friend Wanda's porch. After moving to New York, George missed the sense of connection he had felt sharing stories with his friends back home, and he decided to invite a few friends over to his New York apartment to tell and hear stories. Thus the first "Moth" evening took place in his living room. Word of these captivating story nights quickly spread, and The Moth moved to bigger venues in New York. Today, The Moth conducts eight ongoing programs and has brought more than 3,000 live stories to over 100,000 audience members.
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A 46-year-old woman who completed a diversion program designed to keep drunk drivers out of prison was arrested Thursday on an allegation of being a drunk pedestrian.
Brandi Smith of the Gardnerville Ranchos was taken into custody with a preliminary alcohol content of .283, more than three times the legal limit for driving.
According to reports, a woman was reported stumbling in the roadway shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday in the area of Topaz Lane and Arrowhead Drive.
Officers said she made her way up a driveway in the 900 block of Arrowhead and sat down in the walkway.
The arresting officer said he recognized Brandi Smith from previous contacts.
Paramedics called to the scene advised Smith needed to be evaluated at Carson Valley Medical Center due to suspected levels of alcohol in her system before she was transported to Douglas County Jail.
In September 2013, Smith was congratulated for completing the DUI diversion three years after her third conviction.
She was arrested May 10, 2010, for walking topless into a Gardnerville grocery store, stealing a bottle of wine, and driving off in a Corvette convertible during a late spring snow squall.
She had two prior DUI convictions.
Under Nevada law, someone who's been convicted three times in seven years of driving under the influence is subject to mandatory prison.
If a defendant qualifies, an intense diversion program is available, which includes serving a jail term, house arrest, abstinence from alcohol and controlled substances as well as regular reporting and testing.
District Judge Michael Gibbons warned Smith in September that the diversion was a one-time only option. He advised her if she was convicted of a subsequent DUI, it would count as a felony with a 2-17-year sentence.


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Melo: It wasn't about the money | Noah excited about new-look Bulls | Report: Johnson steps away from NBPA search | A longer All-Star break?
No. 1: Melo: It wasn't about the money — Carmelo Anthony re-signed with the New York Knicks for five years and $124 million, a year and $28 million more than he could gotten from any other team. But, in speaking with ESPN on Friday, Anthony said that his decision wasn't about the money and that he doesn't think the Knicks are "that far away" from contending for a championship:
Carmelo Anthony said it was not the money, but instead his confidence in team president Phil Jackson and his belief that the New York Knicks "aren't that far away from contending for an NBA title," that made him opt to remain in New York instead of signing with the Chicago Bulls.
"I want to win. I don't care about the money," Anthony told ESPN.com. "I believe Phil will do what he has to do to take care of that.
"I don't think we're that far away," he added. "People use 'rebuilding' too loosely."
In what were believed to be Anthony's first public comments since agreeing to a five-year deal worth $124 million earlier this month, he told ESPN.com that the decision was so agonizing in the final days that he could not watch TV or go on the Internet.
"It was overwhelming," Anthony said. "It was stressful in the final days, one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make."
No. 2: Noah excited about new-look Bulls — The Chicago Bulls added Pau Gasol, Nikola Mirotic and Doug McDermott this summer, and hope to have a healthy Derrick Rose back. But Joakim Noah is still their most important player when you take both ends of the floor into account. Noah spoke with reporters on Friday and is ready to get to work with the Bulls' revamped roster, as K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune writes:
"I'm happy for LeBron James," Noah said, a sly smile forming. "He gets to go home. People are happy over there. But I really hope that we can kick his ass as many times as possible."
This NBA offseason indeed has seen James move from the Heat to his home-state Cavaliers. It has featured Noah prominently recruiting Carmelo Anthony and Pau Gasol in free agency and rehabbing a left knee that needed minor arthroscopic knee surgery at season's end.
Noah said the knee feels "great." His outlook for next season is the same.
"I'm really, really excited about the Bulls," Noah said. "(General manager Gar Forman) and (executive vice-president John Paxson) and everybody did a really good job. It just makes you want to work hard and be as ready as possible for the season."
No. 3: Report: Johnson steps away from NBPA search — Our Steve Aschburner reported Friday that the NBPA could have a new executive director next week in Las Vegas. But Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson won't be a part of the final decision, as Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski reports:
Advisory search committee chairman Kevin Johnson lost a power struggle with the National Basketball Players Association executive committee and will be absent on Monday when a new executive director is elected in Las Vegas, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
Two of the three candidates include Dallas Mavericks CEO Terdema Ussery and Washington D.C. attorney Michele Johnson, sources told Yahoo Sports.
Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento and a former Phoenix Suns guard, had wanted to play a larger controlling role in the Monday meetings to present three finalists for the job, and executive committee members balked at the idea, citing U.S. Department of Labor regulations and NBPA bylaws, sources said.
Johnson sent an abrupt email to player agents on Friday evening, telling them his committee was "no longer involved in the search process," and "while we'd hoped to help bring this to completion, it's clear that won't be possible."
No. 4: A longer All-Star break? — Some NBA players have approaced commissioner Adam Silver about a longer All-Star break, which isn't much of a break for All-Stars. And it appears that Silver was listening. Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that a one-week break is part of the schedule planning, which should be done in the next couple of weeks:
The NBA is poised to turn the All-Star break into All-Star week this coming season, the Sun Sentinel has learned, providing teams with a full week off at midseason.
The move, which would give players seven days off between games in mid-February, would result in an increase of one or two back-to-back sets per team for the coming season, a party familiar with the process said.
"That's the model they're using right now while they're filling in the schedule," an NBA source familiar with the process told the Sun Sentinel Friday. "Could they go back and use some of those dates if needed? That's possible. But the week off looks like what's going to happen."
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: The Knicks made a LOL offer for Kevin Love … Still recovering from foot surgery, Carlos Delfino won't be representing Argentina at the FIBA World Cup … Shelvin Mack is returning to the Hawks on a three-year deal … And after clearing waivers, Omri Casspi will sign a minimum deal with the Kings.
ICYMI of The Night: Charles Barkley talked about LeBron James' return to Cleveland:
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Oct. 27, 2004
The Yale swim team continued preparation for the upcoming 2004-2005 season at the annual Bulldog Cup inter squad meet that was held Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 23 in New Haven. The competition of 26 individual events, 13 for the men and 13 for the women, offered a full schedule of championship events including the 1000 Freestyle. Points were awarded according to how the swimmers performed relative to the current Yale School Records in their respective events. Extra points were awarded for any meet records that were broken.
Head Coach Frank Keefe was very happy with the quality of the swims, calling the competition the best "first meet team qualifier" he had seen in all his years at Yale. This year's meet was held one week earlier than past years and saw 28 meet records broken, 14 each by the men and the women.
Only three weeks into practice, the team had been averaging 7000 meters on single practice days and 11,500 meters on double practice days. Each swimmer competed in four events and the competition offered a unique opportunity for the swimmers to not only compete against their teammates, but to match their performances, based on points scored, between the two teams, as well as allowing each swimmer to match him or her performance up against the vast history and tradition of Yale Swimming. The closely contested competition came down to the last events.
Cristina Hession edged out fellow sophomore Moira McCloskey by just one point for the overall title. Caroline Dowd finished third overall some three points behind McCloskey and two points ahead of the top male scorer, sophomore Andrew Foss. Freshman William Rubenstein and sophomore Geof Zann finished 2nd and 3rd respectively in the men's competition, rounding out the top scorers from both squads.
Dowd was the only triple winner (100 and 200 Breaststrokes and the 200 IM), while Hession and McCloskey for the women, and Foss, Rubenstein and Zann for the men, were all double winners. One other double winner in the men's competition was Colin Stalnecker, who won the 100 and 200 Breaststrokes, both on meet record efforts.
The results of the top three scorers, as well as the top scorers from each class, are listed below along with the Top 10 Combined Scores Overall.
The men will continue their preseason efforts with a scrimmage meet at home on Nov. 12 against Southern Connecticut. They will see their first official action one week later at the George Mason Invitational, Nov. 19-21.
Overall Top 10 1. Cristina Hession 336 2. Moira McCloskey 335 3. Caroline Dowd 332 4. Andrew Foss 330 5. William Rubenstein 319 6. Geof Zann 315 7. Quinn Fitzgerald 313 8. Nicole Swaney 312 9. Meg Gill & Matt Thunell 310
Men's Competition Top 3 1. Andrew Foss 2. William Rubenstein 3. Geof Zann Top Scoring Freshman William Rubenstein Top Scoring Sophomore Andrew Foss Top Scoring Junior Kieran Locke Top Scoring Senior Quinn Fitzgerald


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Washington, DC (February 21, 2013) – The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' NACDL Press and Thomson Reuters Westlaw today announce the release of the second book of their joint publishing venture, Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Law, Policy and Practice by Margaret Colgate Love, Jenny Roberts, and Cecelia Klingele. This volume is a comprehensive resource for practicing civil and criminal lawyers, judges and policymakers on the legal restrictions and penalties that result from a criminal conviction over and above the court-imposed sentence.
One in four Americans now have some sort of criminal record, and the collateral consequences of conviction have become more severe and harder to mitigate. Criminal practitioners and courts consider them as part of the criminal case in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky. Most civil practice areas – including employment, housing, and public contracts law – now involve conviction-related restrictions and disqualifications as well. This resource helps civil and criminal attorneys advise clients facing prosecution, clients who have an existing criminal record, and clients whose business interests are affected. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to policy makers, advocates, and corrections professionals.
Of this important new text, NACDL Executive Director Norman L. Reimer said "Simply put, this book is a treasure trove for the modern defense lawyer. But if there is to be any measure of fairness in our justice system, this book should be placed prominently on the desk of every prosecutor and every judge, as well as civil practitioners who are seeking to restore the rights of formerly convicted persons. For the millions who have suffered a criminal conviction, this book may provide a pathway to the full restoration of their rights."
Topics covered in the text include: (i) various types of collateral consequences, (ii) civil and criminal practice issues, (iii) constitutional and statutory challenges, (iv) access to and use of criminal records, (v) regulation of employment and licensing, and (vi) restoration of rights after conviction. State-by-state summaries and comparison charts regarding consequences, pardon and restoration are included for quick reference.
In addition to and complementing the text, NACDL's publicly available Restoration of Rights Project launched last October offers a collection of individual downloadable documents that profile the law and practice in each U.S. jurisdiction relating to relief from the numerous civil rights and other consequences of criminal conviction. This section of NACDL's online Resource Center houses Margaret Colgate Love's comprehensive work on this topic in a user-friendly format and is available here.
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About the Authors
Margaret Colgate Love practices law in Washington D.C., specializing in executive clemency and restoration of rights, sentencing and corrections. She has been a member of NACDL since leaving the U.S. Justice Department in 1997, where she served in the Office of Legal Counsel, as Associate Deputy Attorney General, and as U.S. Pardon Attorney. She directs the ABA National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction, serves as NLADA liaison to the ABA Criminal Justice Standards Committee, and is a member of NACDL's Task Force on Restoration of Rights and Status after Conviction. She chaired the drafting task force for the ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Collateral Sanctions and Discretionary Disqualification of Convicted Persons, participated in drafting the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act, and currently serves as an Advisor to the Model Penal Code: Sentencing revision. She has written extensively on the presidential pardon power, on sentencing and corrections policy, and on collateral consequences, including the volume on state relief mechanisms that was the genesis of this project.
Jenny Roberts is Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University where she co-directs the Criminal Justice Clinic and teaches Advanced Criminal Procedure: Plea Bargaining. Her research focuses on the regulation of actors in the criminal justice system through constitutional law, statute, rules of professional responsibility, professional standards, and culture. She is Vice President of the Clinical Legal Education Association, the nation's largest association of law teachers, and a member of the board of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. She serves as the Reporter for NACDL's Task Force on Restoration of Rights and Status after Conviction. Professor Roberts previously taught at Syracuse University, where she directed the Criminal Defense Clinic, and in NYU's Lawyering program. Prior to teaching, she was a Senior Research Fellow at NYU Law School's Center for Research in Crime & Justice, a public defender in Manhattan, and a law clerk in the Southern District of New York.
Cecelia Klingele is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches courses in criminal law, criminal justice administration, constitutional criminal procedure, and sentencing and corrections. Her research focuses on sentencing and correctional policy. She is Associate Reporter for the Model Penal Code: Sentencing revision, and has served as chair of the Academic Committee of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, and as a member of the ABA's Committee on Corrections. Prior to teaching, she clerked in the Western District of Wisconsin, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and on the United States Supreme Court.
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We got a sneak peak at the graphics performance of Tegra 2 and this well kept secret is a secret no more. According to official tech documents Tegra 2 has a Peak Triangle Rate of astonishing 71 million triangles per second while the Power VR SGX 535 graphics core used in the A4 is capable of delivering 28 million triangles per second. Samsung's Galaxy S i9000 and Google's Nexus S both have the same Power VR SGX 535 GPU capable of 28 million triangles.
At this peak rate Tegra 2 looks 2.5 times faster in churning polygons out and the chip its available today. Tegra 2 phones and tablets should be out before the end of Q1 2010. Let's not mention Google Android's name in vain here, as the developers are reportedly a bit late with their new tablet OS aka Honeycomb.
In case you saw in game images from Infinity Blade or id Software's Rage HD games for iOS you will probably agree that they look astonishing, but bear in mind that you can do 2.5 times better graphics on Tegra 2 based phones and tablets due its superior graphics performance.
You can check just released video of Optiums 2X Tegra 2 phone from LG vs Galaxy S and confirm the speed up claim, here.The only concern is if Nvidia can sell enough Tegra 2 based phones and tablets to make it matter in the big scheme of things. We all know that Nvidia has a history of convincing developers to go its way in graphics and it could certainly apply these long friendships to mobile games. However it's still a matter of selling sufficient numbers of Tegra 2 based products to create a viable market for the developers.


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From David Dahl's weblog: "Good news! With a lot of hard work – I want to tip my hat to Ryan Sleevi at Google – the W3C Web Crypto API First Public Working Draft has been published.
If you have an interest in cryptography or DOM APIs and especially an interest in crypto-in-the-DOM, please read the draft and forward any commentary to the comments mailing list: email@example.com"
This should be helpful in implementing the Cryptocat vision. Features include a secure random number generator, key generation and management primitives, and cipher primitives. The use cases section suggests multi-factor auth, protected document exchange, and secure (from the) cloud storage: "When storing data with remote service providers, users may wish to protect the confidentiality of their documents and data prior to uploading them. The Web Cryptography API allows an application to have a user select a private or secret key, to either derive encryption keys from the selected key or to directly encrypt documents using this key, and then to upload the transformed/encrypted data to the service provider using existing APIs."
Update: 09/19 00:01 GMT by U L : daviddahl commented: "I have built a working extension that provides 'window.mozCrypto', which does SHA2 hash, RSA keygen, public key crypto and RSA signature/verification, see: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domcrypt/ and source: https://github.com/daviddahl/domcrypt I plan on updating the extension once the Draft is more settled (after a first round of commentary & iteration)"
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I have always been a fan of trivia. Especially when that trivia relates to entertainment. So, here are few tidbits about some very famous movie roles that were intended for another actor and may not have become what we know and love today.
Everybody easily identifies the movie First Blood (the first Rambo movie) as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle. However, Stallone was one of the last in a long line of actors to pass on the role. The likes of Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, and Paul Newman all turned down the role and Al Pacino finally took an interest in the role. Pacino asked to have the script rewritten to make Rambo more of a crazy guy and then passed after it he thought the new script was too dark. The role was then passed on by John Travolta, Michael Douglas, and Nick Nolte. Finally the role was offered to Stallone who rewrote the script to make Rambo more sympathetic and the movie what we know today.
After the book The Silence of the Lambs was released Gene Hackman took great interest in adapting the movie. He planned to direct the movie, write the screenplay, and take on the role of Hannibal Lecter and had Meg Ryan in the role of Clarice Starling. With such great interest in the film Orion Pictures bought the movie rights. Hackman then dropped out and Orion hired Jonathan Demme to direct. He immediately hired Sir Anthony Hopkins for the role without telling anybody which made the studio considerable angry. As a compromise the studio agreed to the change if Meg Ryan was replaced by Jodie Foster. Demme agreed and Foster won an Academy Award.
These are just a couple of great films that could have been completely different. Feel free to share any others you might know.
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I uploaded a an updated list thinking it would overwrite my old one. No i have over 400 guests and my only option is to delete them one by one. Make a button to delete the entire list or be able to select more than guest and delete in bulk.
This was just released this week!! YAY!!! We hope it is a very helpful tool in our Guest List Manager for all members.
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Nina Budaeva commented
Yes, PLEASE add this feature ASAP!!!
This is absolutely ridiculous and I want my money back for this ridiculous website.
Shannon commented
Is it the future yet? This feature is desperately needed.
Is there a batch delete button available?
OMG Please tell me there is an update to this issue?!?!?! This is beyond frustrating and I am stressed out enough!
I've uploaded my old guest list by mistake, I now have to delete them individually. So frustrating.
Glad I'm not the only one running into this issue. Hope it gets adjusted soon!
I cant deal with deleting this many guests! I have over 300!
Yes please fix this!
Please try to make this change soon! After being able to delete lists on other sites I tried (like "Say I do") I assumed this site would too and didn't worry about the list not being formatted just right. Now I might need to change sites!
Michael commented
Is their an update on this I am about to spend an hours deleting 1 by one.
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It is impossible to edit or delete everything all at once when the guest list is incorrect. You need to make that easier.


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Description of 4 Lower Waverly Road, Pawleys Island, SC 29585
Every so often art is created with brick and mortar... 4 Lower Waverly is inspired by an 1841 Natchez, Mississippi plantation and that inspiration echoes throughout the entire property. This classic southern estate rests on 5+ acres atop a high bluff overlooking a mile of the Waccamaw River. Timeless appeal greets you upon entering the private property as you admire its 300 year old live oak trees, colorful azaleas, and beautiful camellias lining the drive, carport, home and separate garage. The garage has three bays and a 2 bedroom guest house above. The custom wood work and attention to detail make this home a living masterpiece. A walnut library, large master with great views, home theater, billiard room, gourmet kitchen, harmonious porches, dock off of the river and more inspires a life of exceptional living. The swimming pool, designed but waiting on the new owner to finalize, is included in the price, and this 15 year old Pawleys Island estate can be sold furnished.
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Where the Locals Eat: 5 Great Spots for Seafood in Seattle, WA
Each time visitors looking for a "local" meal implore a Seattleite to tell them where the best seafood restaurant is, they're surprised to get hemming and hawing in response. The visitor just made the native as uncomfortable as if he or she were to call the Market "Pike's Place" (people, please: there is no 's').
No question, Seattle's got great seafood. But that place out-of-towners dream of, where they sit in a nautically-themed restaurant and order a simple grilled salmon entrée while gazing out over Puget Sound? It exists mainly in the tourist corridor, where fulfilling that fantasy is far more important than serving up the finest Dungeness crab, freshly-shucked oysters, over-sized geoduck, or shockingly sweet spot prawns.
The thing about great seafood in Seattle is...it's everywhere. No top-notch restaurant in town got there without executing crisp-skinned salmon or flaky fresh halibut. Anyone searching for great seafood in Seattle should simply go to whichever restaurant in town sounds the best to him or her. Excepting Dick's Drive-In, there will likely be great local seafood on the menu.
A better question to ask of a local would be, "Where do you go to eat seafood?" Here are a few places that I'd give as an answer—after annoying the heck out of everyone with the typical "my own kitchen" answer.
Sea Garden
There are a lot of restaurants in the International District serving up shrimp and crab, but at Sea Garden, these creatures greet customers enthusiastically as they walk in. The live tanks that line the entrance of this old-school Cantonese seafood spot are consistently filled with active, extraordinarily fresh crab, spot prawns, and geoduck—and whatever else is in season.
When ordering crab in black bean sauce, diners can either pick out the crab by pointing, or give a size (over two pounds for the best meat-to-shell ratio), and a server brings it by the table for approval. Spot prawns are an un-missable local seasonal specialty, this is the place to try the stunningly-red, sweet-as-can-be sister to regular shrimp. In the salt-and-pepper prawns, they come (and should be eaten) head and tail on. You can ask for them to be subbed into any shrimp dish on the menu.
After over three decades in business, only the décor has lost any luster at Sea Garden. On any given night you'll find large families, small groups of Chinese businessmen, and tables full of hipster friends, all up to their elbows in crab shells as they request another order of the braised cod with tofu and pork.
Taylor Shellfish at Melrose Market
Unlike the expertly-cooked Chinese dishes that the chefs turn out of Sea Garden, the counter-people at Taylor won't do a heck of a lot with shellfish after it's ordered. Put in an order for oysters or fresh-cooked crab at the counter, and expect to get just that—shucked or cracked—at a seat at one of the high bar tables. This is a simple seafood counter, but they serve their own farm's shellfish, so it's impeccably fresh. The friendly staff will talk to everyone, from oyster rookies to old-bivalve-hands, about the variety of oysters that are available, customizing a tray to fit tastes, or handing off a bowl to self-serve some of Xinh's famous oyster stew.
Visitors are wise to try the geoduck, which, if they're up on Bizarre Foods episodes, they'll know is the giant phallic clam that can take two men hours to pull from its burrow in the sand. While whole geoduck is expensive to buy whole, here eaters can sample a pile of geoduck crudo, shaved thin for the best texture, at a reasonable price.
Marination Ma Kai
The rare trifecta of Seattle restaurants: waterfront, great view, and terrific food. Most of the food at this Hawaiian-Korean outlet of a taco-truck skews carnivore, but Marination Ma Kai serve up a uniquely Seattle-style fish and chips. As tempting as the Spam sliders are, there is something iconic, and somewhat fulfilling of that tourist fantasy, to have local cod, beer-battered and panko-crusted with hand-cut fries, while smelling the saltwater. Dipping the huge chunks of tender fish into the miso tartar or kimchi tartar sauces, one wonders how nobody has thought of these umami-laden combinations for livening up the blank slate of fish and chips before. Get the full experience by arriving via the King County Water Taxi (leaves right from downtown) and crossing the bay to West Seattle by boat. And don't forget a boozy shave-ice for the boat ride home.
Anchovies & Olives
As mentioned earlier, there aren't that many really amazing places in the city where seafood is the declared specialty. Anchovies & Olives, though it lacks the tourist-baiting view, does not veer from its laser-like focus on serving incredible seafood. Ethan Stowell's restaurants have a well-earned reputation in town for incredibly bold, Italian-inspired flavors, fresh pasta, and Northwestern ingredients flowing out of open kitchens in simple but beautifully designed restaurants. Anchovies & Olives fits the bill perfectly, separating itself from the other half-dozen Stowell spots with its seafood-heavy options.
The menu opens with oysters, which tend to be served with ample garnish, great for those who like their oysters with some clothes on. From there, diners can choose small plates of raw, sliced fish called crudos (the buttery escolar is a crowd-pleaser), or small starters like Stowell's signature soft-cooked egg with anchovy. The pasta section doesn't stray from seafood either, offering options like uni-butter and manila clam linguini served with bottarga (cured tuna roe) and Fresno chili. The menu finishes out with a handful of cooked seafood entrées, where the seared Copper River sockeye salmon can be found on a bed of herb jam.
There are whiffs of righteous snobbiness that can be associated with food movements, but Mashiko, or Sushi Whore (the restaurant's website and Twitter handle), brings light-hearted irreverence and impeccable quality to the sustainable sushi movement. When Mashiko converted to a menu of exclusively sustainable seafood, it was the first existing sushi restaurant in the country to. This means there are occasional sushi classics missing (no bluefin tuna here), but any sushi-seeker who values flavor over name-brand fish varieties is in for a treat, as Chef Hajime Sato devises incredible dishes from what's in season and sustainable. Eel is replaced with catfish, monkfish liver with sablefish liver. Rather than limit the menu, enthusiastic eaters discover new fish that were previously ignored by sushi chefs taking the traditional route. And lucky for eaters everywhere, the switch didn't eliminate oysters, which are sustainably farmed, leaving Mashiko's incredible starter—sake-poached oysters—intact.
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Candidates: District 2, Sam Hinkle (i), Karen Sams; District 5, Brenda Jackson (i), Kurt Smith.
i: incumbent.
Each candidate received two questions, with his or her opponent allowed to rebut. There was one question for all four.
Sam Hinkle has been very outspoken about focusing on quality educational standards, and asked him if he thought the school system was doing all it could in that regard, and if not, why not?
Hinkle said "I don't know that we can ever do enough to encourage and improve the performance of our children. I do think within the limits of our budget and our ability, the school system has been very successful in improving student achievement."
He cited the strengthening of preschool and implementing MAP testing, and the successful of summer school, which he called, "wildly successful" in bring students that were two and three years below grade level up to grade level in the course of a single summer, as well as created challenging curriculum for gifted students. He cited increasing percentages of students college and career ready.
To the same question, Sams said she felt like the board had done an excellent job, and more approachability was needed, and another issue was the efficiency of the school system.
"Because we have increases in taxes does not necessarily mean that we're going to have a better school system," she said. "We've had consistent tax raises since 1999. It's just time, in my mind, for someone with new eyes with the eye on the efficiency of the schools to step in and take a look in trying to close that gap in the lack of efficiency. Our school system has done a wonderful job, but just because the scores are rising, doesn't mean we have an efficient system."
Doyle's question to Sams was that she had been very critical of the board concerning fiscal matters. "Can you provide one or two areas in which you think schools can save money without damaging the commitment to students?"
Sams said she thought they need to concentrate on what the students receive from the system.
"After that, we are obligated to look at the efficiency of the system, the administration, staff and student ratio, and cost per student. We need to look at every dollar we are spending. It is coming at the burden of the taxpayers, and we owe our taxpayers that obligation."
Hinkle said in response that, "I reject any suggestion that the school system is not efficient."
He cites statistics that spending per student is 58th in the state.
"That doesn't sound lavish to me," he said. "Our tax hike this year, there was a raise, was less than half of the what the other districts in the state enacted."
He said that while taxes have increased over the past 10 years, the school system has had growth of 10 percent, and opened four new schools, and had met the needs of a student body of which more than half were receiving a free or reduced cost lunch, and more than five times the state average of English language learners.
For Hinkle's second question, Doyle asked him what elements are lacking, on the board, in administration, or in the classroom, when it comes to leadership.
"I think that the greatest task that we have as a community and as a school district is to establish big goals and we have had leadership that has done that," he said, adding that it has taken time and effort.
"I've been real disappointed in this campaign; people have made fun of big goals for our children," he said. "We also need leadership in the classroom, which is exactly why we implemented MAP."
He said administration has worked hard to get everyone on board for those goals.
Sams said in response that goals have had not had as much clarity as she would have liked.
"Our board needs to be more communicative with our community," she said.
Doyle asked Sams what concerns did she have about children in the classroom.
She said she is concerns that children are receiving quality instruction in the classroom and that MAP testing concerns her because it's a new initiative.
"There's no data, nothing to back it up. All of us want our children to have the best education, but it has to be affordable for the community for it to work. More money doesn't make a better school system."
Hinkle said he agreed that all board members do need to be more approachable and complimented Neihof on being approachable. He also cited instructional support as being very important.
To District 5 candidates, Doyle told Jackson, "In the several terms you have served on the board, what decisions do you look back on and regret that you helped make?"
Jackson said she couldn't think of even one decision she regretted making.
She said the hardest decision was when she first came on the board, having to close some of the some local schools, such as Henry Clay.
Smith said it's tough to comment on someone else's actions, but he didn't understand why the school system would take on such extensive projects, such as a new childhood development center, "That I have let to get a good, clear answer on what its purpose is."
"Their sole answer has been, let's spend more money, and I think we need to look at another answer."
Doyle asked him for specific ideas about how schools could save money without damaging commitment to students.
"I think we need an unbiased eyes to the programs that are out there and see which ones are getting the results that we want," he said.
He said central office is cycling off some of the best talent in the school system, and cited the rapid turnover of principals.
"Principals should be a career position; that's a big issue," he said.
Jackson responded by saying that preschool is a key to education and studies have shown it helps students all the way through school. She said the system is looking at all of its programs. About principals, she said the turnover is due to retirement and evaluations.
Doyle's next question to Jackson was about technology. "It the school system sufficiently versed in that topic to create a technological mission for the future?
"I do believe we are," she said, adding that funding was available to put technology in place in looking on the horizon to see what is best for students.
Smith responded that he thought the system was doing well with technology, but wanted to see electronic textbooks.
Smith's second question: "In 2010, the school system opened Collins High School and restructured its middle schools. What should the school board have learned from those changes and how should that experience have formed plans for the district?"
"I am not real happy that those students got tossed into high school. I think was too early. I think that when you start putting thirteen year olds in the same building with seniors, they are in a different stage of life and growth."
He said also the kids at Shelby County High School resent the students at Collins having a new school and better facilities.
"It creates animosity between our students and between our families."
Jackson said that when Collins was built, the goal was to help younger students adjust and assimilate before it was time to go to high school.
"There may be some drawbacks, but overall, I think it was a good idea," she said.
The bonus question was since serving on the school board is a part time goal, is it possible for the board to understand and define educational needs when it comes to both standards for qualitative and fiscal responsibility?
Hinkle said it's a complicated job, but he thinks the board can and has done that.
"We want every student to be on grade level and graduate college and college ready," he said. "We can ask the questions, are we reaching that goal, and if so why not? Those are the things that the board can do and those are the things the board has done."
Sams answered that she thought it was very possible, and the superintendent was crucial to that.
"We are a community, we should all be working together to make the school board and the school system the best it could be."
Jackson said that even though it's a part time role, it's what you make it.
"The public sees us meeting twice a month, but you're doing something every day, trying to get a feel for the what the students need, and what the parents want," she said.
Smith said he just thinks the status of a board member being a part-time position is irrelevant.
"We here to help guide the superintendent and to help him or her make the decisions that's needed to make the school system better and more efficient."
Smith, for his final comment, said he likes to look at numbers, and that the state of Kentucky is third from the bottom in that nation. "To me, that's a travesty; we've got to do something to fix that," he said.
Jackson said she thinks that in serving 20 plus years on the board, it has been important to prepare students for going out into real life.
"I would like the opportunity to reinforce the things we are doing well for our students," she said, such as increasing ACT scores.
Sams said she thinks the board's purpose is to guide the superintendent, and that she thinks early childhood intervention is very important, but not to the extent it has been taken in Shelby County.
"We have raised taxes, that is not something that our school system needed to do," she said.
Hinkle said what motivates him is that he imagines a child that is bright but doesn't have a lot of advantages.
"I want to provide for that child the best opportunities possible," he said. "When his or her time in our schools is complete, they will be fully ready to be citizens in our community."
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