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Robert Coon had just been hired to head up human resources at Daisy Systems Corp., a maker of software for computer-assisted engineering, and was preparing for his first meeting with the CEO. The top executive, who was also new at the company, had pledged that Daisy would jump from its current number-two place in the industry to the top spot. Like the other department heads, Coon stepped into the CEO's office and handed him a list of his department's objectives for the upcoming year. The CEO scanned the objectives, which were numbered 1 through 10, with approval. But he was confused about a column with a seemingly unrelated series of numbers.
"What's this?" he asked.
"The numbers in the left column show the corporate goal that my individual goal is supporting," Coon replied. That focus, he explained, would help him and his staff to make sure that their work contributed to Daisy's objective to become the industry leader. The CEO stared blankly at the paper for a moment. He'd never seen such a thing. Half an hour later, he sent a message to all of the company vice presidents directing them to prepare a similar set of matching goals for their departments.
The concept sounds logical and deceptively simple. "Who could be against the idea of tying the functional set of goals to the corporate goals?" Coon asks. But in reality, this rarely happens. Consider a recent survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. In the poll, 73 percent of organizations said they had a clearly articulated strategic direction, but only 44 percent of those firms said their strategic direction was communicated well to the employees who must implement it. In many cases, companies are like a body whose brain is unable to tell it what to do.
Jac Fitz-enz, founder of the Saratoga Institute, who now heads a management-consulting firm in Santa Clara, California, says that too many people talk about matching corporate goals with departmental and individual-employee goals in philosophical terms. But they don't establish methodologies to manage and measure the performance necessary to rev up employees and help them to even understand what the corporate goals are. In many cases, the corporate goals are considered applicable only to senior managers, not workers on the front lines.
"Often people in staff groups get assignments that maintain the bureaucracy, and they don't see how what they do on a daily basis affects the longer-range corporate goals," says Coon, now vice president of human resources at Menlo Worldwide Logistics, a $4.9 billion supply-chain services firm in Redwood City, California. "By definition, the vision that the CEO has on top is never carried forward because people don't see that it affects their daily life."
Management consultants have a pet phrase for what results when employees do see that their individual roles dovetail with the corporate mission: human capital branding. While most companies define their brand by the products and services they offer, consultant Fitz-enz says that firms are truly defined by the productivity, quality and service of their human capital, namely their employees. Consistent performance by those employees, he says, is what truly drives brand differentiation and profits.
However, experts say that companies rarely take the crucial steps to link the "brand" they project to the public to the actions of the employees who deal with customers directly. "Many companies still think if they change their ad campaign, they've changed their brand," says Mark Wong, area partner of Harger, Powell & Wong, an advertising firm in San Mateo, California, who has taught university classes on employee branding since 1998. "The true persona of the company has to begin internally. If the employees are not on board with the message you're trying to project, that message won't resonate with customers."
Tony Rucci, executive vice president and chief administrative officer for Cardinal Health, Inc., a $51 billion health-care products and services firm in Dublin, Ohio, uses a straightforward formula for measuring and improving the value of a firm's human capital. If a company treats its employees the right way, it will treat customers better and will enjoy higher profits and a better return for shareholders.
"By definition, the vision that the CEO has on top is never carried forward because people don't see that it affects their daily life."
"It's not rocket science," Rucci says. But empirical data he collected at both Cardinal Health and his previous company, Sears, shows that employee-satisfaction and customer-satisfaction metrics are leading indicators of profit and shareholder return. It's more than just a strong correlation; company profits start with employee satisfaction.
The key is to establish what constitutes treating employees "the right way." Rucci says that executives who hear this immediately assume that employee satisfaction is determined largely by compensation. But while pay and benefits must be competitive, he finds that more important metrics derive largely from whether employees understand corporate objectives and specifically see how their work helps achieve goals. Rucci measures employee satisfaction with a series of 12 to 13 questions, which include:
Do I understand the company's strategic objectives?
Do I see a connection between my work and those strategic objectives?
Does my supervisor listen to and act on my suggestions?
A study published in Harvard Business Review in 1998 found that a 3.5 percent improvement in Sears employees' attitude on 12 questions led to a 1.3 percent increase in customer satisfaction. That in turn yielded a 0.5 percent increase in revenue growth. Projected over Sears' thousands of stores, aligning the actions of individual employees with corporate goals resulted in significant profits. Bruce N. Pfau and Ira T. Kay, management consultants and authors of The Human Capital Edge, have identified six key ingredients that contribute to the success of such employee surveys:
Link surveys to business objectives, focusing on things that line managers believe are important.
Keep senior management involved and accountable rather than make it a purely human resources initiative.
Provide personalized data to all key managers.
Streamline the process. "An elaborate survey can die of its own weight," Pfau says.
Survey regularly, integrating the process into business planning.
Effectively communicate results and actions taken. This step is often overlooked, Pfau says, making employees think their answers are irrelevant.
Clear, elevating goals
Experts agree that the best corporate messages and goals are clear and simple. "A company needs clear, elevating goals that people at all levels of the organization can understand and relate to," Rucci says. "Whether a person is a CEO or a forklift operator in Detroit, they need to understand how what they do for their eight hours at work relates to that clear, elevating vision."
Cardinal Health's simple message revolves around four main goals: growth, operational excellence, leadership development and customer focus. When employees put together their management-by-objectives goals at the beginning of the year, they are each asked to identify at least one performance objective that supports each of those four main corporate goals. More important, managers are evaluated, rated and given feedback on how they performed against those four strategic goals.
In addition, the managers are measured through a 360-degree survey, in which employees answer questions designed to rate their individual manager's performance in relation to the company's four core values as well as to a set of 10 core leadership competencies. The manager's scores on the 360-degree surveys are matched with the employee-satisfaction scores from the 13-question surveys. By combining the information from these surveys, Cardinal can show how management practices aimed at achieving the company's strategic goals lead to employee satisfaction and profits.
Experts agree that the goals must become more specific as they filter down from uppermost management to lower levels of the company. Employees at the functional levels need measurable feedback on a regular basis, even if it's a simple bar chart on what the department did that month. "The board of directors wouldn't accept the president's telling them, 'I think we're making progress, but I'll give you some details in a couple of months.' The board wants to see the numbers," Coon says. "However, it's just as important that the people at the functional levels see the numbers."
When Coon was corporate director of human resources for Conway Transportation, a $2 billion freight company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this kind of information was provided to every driver. The entire company was on a bonus plan based on profitability. The drivers were shown how their individual work–in terms of accidents, productivity, cost per shipment, time to delivery, damaged goods and absenteeism–affected the company's goals and profits. "When a driver continued to be late with deliveries, his brethren asked what the problem was because it was affecting their bonuses," Coon says. In part because of this process of driving down vision, Conway Transportation became the most profitable company of its kind in America, and the largest non-union trucking company.
"When you believe you have communicated the vision and goals sufficiently, you need to triple your efforts."
Building a methodology
Wayne Keegan, chief human resources officer for Ingram Book Group Inc. in Nashville, sees aligning corporate and functional goals as a three-step process: Develop a methodology to understand what internal customers want, build a structure to provide it and establish metrics to measure effectiveness. That's what Keegan did three years ago when he joined Ingram, the world's largest wholesale distributor of books, audiobooks and periodicals. The human resources department, like Ingram as a whole, was not structured for the faster pace of today's book industry, which has been transformed by the emergence of online booksellers, superstores and specialty retailers.
First, using the HR Effectiveness Assessment instrument developed by the Saratoga Institute, Keegan surveyed 400 Ingram executives, from front-line supervisors to the CEO. He asked them to rate the importance of human resources products and behaviors and about their satisfaction with workforce management. Another survey of all Ingram employees helped pinpoint where the department was failing to meet objectives. Focus groups, using questions developed from the surveys, provided greater clarity about what the business units and employees needed from human resources to help them meet their own goals.
For one thing, the business units complained that human resources was not responsive. That was a key concern given the new faster pace of the book industry. Keegan immediately restructured the department to provide a single point of contact for each unit and established centers of excellence in such areas as staffing, compensation, and learning and development. Human resources staffers sat in on meetings of the units they supported to better understand their business models and needs.
None of these individual steps were cutting edge, Keegan admits, but that's not the point. The human resources department specifically eschews "new progressive approaches" that can't be tied in directly to supporting business plans and initiatives. Recently, for example, the Operations Group requested that its managers and employees receive more training in process improvement. In the past, human resources would have responded to the request with standard classroom instruction on the subject. Because of its new focus on aligning all actions with specific corporate goals, human resources instead looked more closely at the group's real needs and tied the "learning initiative" on process improvement to specific projects that meshed with a business unit's goals. As a result, one distribution center increased productivity by 31 percent, saving the company $1 million a year.
"You want to create an environment where people don't simply salute when given directions that seem to contradict business objectives," but instead challenge them, Fitz-enz says. "You want people to say, 'Everything I've heard about the vision is directed at cost containment; is there some reason we are changing to a new emphasis?' "
Ingram's methodological approach provides numerous benefits, Fitz-enz says. The structure keeps employees on track and stops corporate goals from being overlooked in the sweep of day-to-day business. In addition, a strong methodology prevents employees from misinterpreting the goals of the business units above them that they are trying to serve.
"If HR wants to sit at the big table, we have to think like the other business units in terms of profits.
With the new structure, data from surveys and performance metrics, the human resources department can be more proactive. Keegan has pushed for such things as a new reward system tied to meeting corporate objectives and a streamlined corporate structure that could react better to the quicker pace of the book industry. The company's officer ranks were cut by 25 percent and middle management by 17 percent, resulting in a net annualized payroll savings of $5.1 million. "If HR wants to sit at the big table, we have to think like the other business units in terms of profits," Keegan says. "The language of the executive suite is numbers."
Staying the course
Instilling the corporate vision takes a lot of work and even some proselytizing. Cardinal Health conducted a series of small "town hall meetings" with all of its 55,000 employees throughout the world to address the competitive environment in health care, the company's specific goals, and its financial and profit model. "Everything about how we communicate with people is designed to show how we create shareholder value, customer value and employee value," Rucci says. At these meetings, employees were allowed to talk about what they thought were the core values of the company. This ensured that the employees truly believe in the corporate values, rather than think the company was artificially trying to promote a corporate culture that really didn't exist.
Menlo Logistics maintains a Web site where employees and customers are invited to send in stories about how the workers uphold the company's core values. Often these stories are related to employees' innovative solutions to customer problems. The Web site is fun to read, and everyone throughout the organization can see how workers are contributing to the company's goals.
"When you believe you have communicated the vision and goals sufficiently, you need to triple your efforts," Coon says. "You need to triple what your intuition tells you is enough, and only then do you get close to sending out the message."
And sometimes, managers simply have to get tough. Cardinal Health's Rucci says that every company will generally have three groups of employees: those who enthusiastically support the corporate goals, those who comply and those who actively resist. "I spent the first 28 years of my 32-year management career trying to convert the bottom third," he says. "I wasted 28 years because rarely, if ever, do those people become committed. In retrospect, I should have spent 99 percent of my time with the people who get it, because they are the ones who drive change and innovation." He'd hold the bottom group more accountable sooner. "I'd tell them, 'Here's where we're going; you have six months to achieve this set of objectives. Either get on the bus or get off.' "
That sends the message that the company is serious, and ultimately inspires workers, Rucci says. "You need to have a simple message and have people committed to the goals that support that message."
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About 600 people are expected to show up for the Walk for Food Allergy at Southside Park. It's a two-mile walk that will also include vendor booths and entertainment.
John Lehr is with the group Food Allergy Research and Education or FARE which is putting on the event.
He says the walk is dedicated to the memory of Natalie Giorgi. She's the Carmichael-area junior high school student who died in July of an allergic reaction after eating a rice krispie treat that contained peanuts.
"It has crisscrossed the country, that story. It has really hit our community very hard as every case like this does. And it has helped raise awareness of the serious nature of this disease."
Donations collected from Sunday's walk will be used by FARE to pay for food allergy education, advocacy and research.

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Not long ago, we received a letter from a reader who was concerned about all the attention CNEWA gives to ecumenism — that is, the efforts to increase understanding and promote unity with other churches and communities. Aside from being a part of CNEWA's original mandate from the Holy Father, working toward the unity of Christians is woven intricately into the fabric of Catholic teaching. We asked Father Elias D. Mallon, CNEWA's external affairs officer, to address that in this week's "Take Five."
Many dioceses throughout the world have an ecumenical officer who is responsible for local relations with other Christians. This includes local dialogues, prayer services and common community activities. In recent years, the ecumenical officer is also responsible for relations with non-Christians.
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Back in March when Msgr. Kozar visited India, he received such a warm, and often entertaining, welcome from every parish, school or institution he visited. His visit to the parish of St. Thomas in Kanamala was no different:
About an hour later we arrived at the flourishing mountainside parish of St. Thomas, in Kanamala. What an amazing reception: A marching band of beautiful special needs youngsters and young adults, several hundred children, their parents and the elders of the parish, all lined up in a receiving line. There were many huge Indian umbrellas held by the women and hoisted high while twirling them to welcome the three of us. Thomas Varghese, M.L. Thomas and I were swept away by this welcome.
They led us to the beat of the marching band to the church, where we entered to say a prayer, and then on to the humble parish hall, which was packed. The welcoming continued in the form of remarks from Father Matthew, who spoke on behalf of the bishop and expressed profound thanks to CNEWA for the many facets of assistance given to this parish. Then the pastor gave a very emotional welcome to us and also highlighted the many expressions of solidarity from CNEWA from the parish's beginning. Then came some young people who did some amazing dancing: a combination of intricate classical Indian dances and a little bit of Bollywood. They put their heart and soul into the performance.
For more, read "In the Footsteps of St. Thomas: Riches Among the Poor."
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While violence and urest escalate in their homeland, many Syrians are seeking refuge in neighboring countries. Recently the Catholic News Service reported on the plight of women and children fleeing the violence in Syria:
"Families are trying desperately to stay together," but not always succeeding, [Caroline] Brennan added. Sometimes, men "stay home trying to protect their land, or they're fighting — or worse, they've been kidnapped. The women are left to lead the family. They think: What is happening to the people they love in this world?"
But she also told of a Syrian husband and father named Faizad.
"He came across the border, but his wife and (most of their) children weren't allowed to make it. But then he has a son he has to care for. He (the son) cries at night, he misses his mom," Brennan said. Workers can tell from the boy's drawings that he has seen "people with guns killing innocent people," she added.
"This is a humanitarian crisis at its heart," she said.
There are "huge social needs of the people, especially children and mothers," said Vivian Manneh, a 20-year CRS veteran currently serving as a regional program manager for the Middle East. "Kids are starting to think, 'What is going to happen to us? Where are we going to be?' There are lots of psychosocial needs, lots of basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter."
For more, read Syrian Refugees Flood Neighboring Countries.
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Patriarch Twal: Pope's trip to Lebanon is for entire region (Vatican Radio)
Clerics call on Christians to stay in Syria (Hurriyet Daily News)
Patriarch releases statement on Daraya attacks (ByzCath.org)
Russians to raise security at places of worship (Voice of Russia)
A Maronite revival in Israel (Jerusalem Post)
In Kerala, feasting and splurging during Onam (New York Times)
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The Mother of Mercy Clinic, run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, specializes in prenatal and postnatal care. The clinic offers impoverished mothers and babies health care during a crucial period for mother and child:
In an examining room at the Mother of Mercy Clinic in Zerqa, Jordan, Dr. Ibrahim Ghabeish puzzles over a patient's condition. Somehow Salah, a 3-day-old infant, has contracted dysentery. The infection is relatively common among adults in Zerqa; usually it is contracted by consuming food that has been contaminated by dirty water. But how could an infant, whose only nourishment is his mother's milk, get infected? After questioning the child's 25-year-old mother, Maha, Dr. Ghabeish put together a likely scenario.
"The child' mother was cutting up carrots washed in contaminated water," he explained. "When Salah started to cry, she brought him to be nursed without washing her hands. She must have transferred the disease when she prepared to nurse him."
Established in 1982, Mother of Mercy Clinic offers a wide range of general heath care services to thousands of patients — over 26,000 in 2008 — regardless of creed or origin. The clinic, however, specializes in prenatal and postnatal care, giving priority to needy mothers and their infants.
To learn more about the clinic, read our article in the May 2009 issue of ONE, Mothering Mercies. To learn how you can help support the work of the Mother of Mercy Clinic, visit our website.
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Terrorist attack at Christian funeral in Damascus (Fides)
Syrian women, children caught in situation they never imagined (Catholic Register)
Relics of Orthodox saints stolen from St. Petersburg cathedral (The Moscow Times)
Coptic Christian defends accepting role as advisor to Egypt's president (Ahram)
Kerala Catholic bishops calls for celebrating Onam without liquor (The Asian Age)
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Upon leaving their homes and families, there was a common sentiment among Palestinian immigrants that they would one day return. Considering the tumultuous circumstances at home that never seemed to abate, it's understandable that few ever did.
Interestingly, Chile was not as foreign as they might have imagined. To be sure, there were pronounced differences in language, food and religion. However, there were more than a few similarities.
The equatorial climate was ideal for growing many of the same fruits and vegetables common to the Middle East. Although the most famous story to make its way back to Palestine during the late 1800s was the myth of three men named Jorge who made a fortune as merchants, many other Palestinian immigrants in Chile settled in as farmers.
Before Palestinians crossed the Andes Mountains into Chile, 800 years of Arab influence in Spain had already made its way to Chile with the arrival of Andalucían immigrants. Literally dozens of Arab words were tweaked to fit the Spanish language, such as ojalá, which translates as "God willing." Even the traditional Chilean folk dance, called the Cueca, is of Andalucían-Arab origin.
When it came to the church, however, that is where similarities to home ended. Chile's constitution officially recognized only the Roman Catholic Church and until a new constitution was written in 1925 separating church and state, any religion other than Roman Catholic had to practice its faith behind closed doors, or at least out of plain sight.
In the capitol of Santiago, Patronato was the commercial hub and neighborhood of the country's largest Palestinian community. Naturally, Patronato was pegged as the site for the first Orthodox cathedral.
Saint George's Cathedral was inaugurated in 1917, six years before the 1925 constitution was passed into law, and so the church had to be concealed. To solve this problem the cathedral was built off the street, tucked in by buildings on both sides, a condition in which Chile's longest-standing and most famous Orthodox Church can still be found today.
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Back in 2000, Brother Vincent Pelletier, F.S.C., CNEWA's former regional director for Ethiopia and Eritrea, visited Eritrea following the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. He recorded his observations, which revealed the effects of war on a people:
We visited a camp for the displaced in the village of Delle, about 18 miles west of Barentu. With some 45,000 residents, it is one of the largest camps in Eritrea. More people are expected to enter the camp as those who fled to Sudan during active fighting continue to return. As we walked through the camp we noticed that many inhabitants had set up shop in their tents and were selling everything from soap powder to beer. Under a canvas, a makeshift school had been organized for the children. I was relieved to see that the children in the camp looked healthy. By contrast, some of the children from surrounding villages appeared malnourished. Some of these people have been in the camp for two years.
There was a bit of commotion outside the camp as a good number of Sudanese trucks drove by. We were told that the Eritrean government currently imports a large amount of grain from Sudan.
For more, read Eritrea in War's Aftermath.
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Greek Catholic archbishop flees Syria for Lebanon (Radio Free Europe)
Lebanon trip could be a papal high-wire act (National Catholic Reporter)
Egyptian president appoints women, Christians to advisory board (Associated Press via Washington Post)
Group claims responsibility for desecrating Russian Orthodox crosses (The Moscow Times)
Ukrainian Catholic leader reaches out to Russian Orthodox (Catholic News Service)
On Sunday 26 August, Father Boris Gudziak, a long-time friend of CNEWA and former professor of mine, was ordained a bishop for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Bishop Boris was born in 1960 in Syracuse, New York. After completing his Ph.D. in Slavic and Byzantine History at Harvard University, he went to Ukraine and in 1992 founded the Institute of Church History. He played a key role in reestablishing the Lviv Theological Academy, which in 2002 became the Ukrainian Catholic University, the only Catholic university in the former Soviet Union. From 2002 to 2012, he was the university's rector.
Bishop Boris's consecration took place at St. George's Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine, and his Principal Consecrator was His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The new bishop is appointed as the Apostolic Exarch for the Ukrainian Greek Catholics of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Two weeks from now, Bishop Boris, along with all other bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, will participate in the Church's Synod in Winnipeg, Canada.
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Pax, Zahara and Shiloh join their mom for a movie matinee in Manhattan
Kermit, Fozzie and Miss Piggy, please meet Angelina Jolie and son Pax, 8, and daughters Zahara, 6, and Shiloh, 5, who were out on a movie date in Manhattan on Saturday afternoon.
Their flick of choice? The family holiday hit The Muppets.
One witness at the Clearview Cinemas on East 62nd Street told PEOPLE that the concession-stand snacks of choice were five orders of popcorn, five cups of Sprite and one box of Twizzlers. (Another adult woman accompanied the group to the show.)
An observer inside the mulitiplex added that the quintet sat right in the middle of the auditorium and that Jolie, 36, was "really down to earth. When they came out [afterwards] she was talking to the kids about the movie and asking them what they thought of different characters. She seemed really cool."
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I am working on a new (used) C70 It doesnt display the Fiery templates in the network scan tab, just a default template. The Fiery templates show in the scan tab on the Fiery button on the UI. They show in Webtools scan tab. If I create a new group/users with mailbox priv. then try and make a new scan template the mailboxes arent created. Everything else is functioning, printing wise.
I thought maybe the mailboxes were corrupt like used to happen on the 242 Fierys. I reinstalled the system software and let auto update run all the patches and windows update as well.
The EX shows Version 1.0_SP3
on the back it is PRO-80-29
Machine software is at 60.12.53
I suspect this machine was used in a .EDU environment before I got it and they probably used a different scanning work flow and messed up the Fiery defaults?
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A deadly end to a violent affair
Records: Victim had previously tried to choke woman who killed him
SCHENECTADY — Jacqueline Smalls and her sometimes live-in boyfriend Adrian King had a turbulent relationship that became deadly over the weekend when police say she stabbed him to death inside an apartment on the city's north side.
Authorities say shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday, Smalls, 49, who owns the apartment at 1512 Van Vranken Ave., stabbed King, 51, once in the chest with a knife. They said it was the culmination of a domestic dispute. The victim was taken to nearby Ellis Hospital, where he died.
It was the latest dispute between Smalls and King. Court records show King was previously accused of attacking the woman and faced misdemeanor charges for allegedly trying to choke her.
Smalls, charged with first-degree manslaughter, was arraigned Monday by City Court Judge Guido Loyola.
The Schenectady woman, who was represented by the public defender's office, was sent to the county jail without bail. She is due back in court on Friday.
Public Defender Mark Caruso on Monday declined to say if Smalls was acting in self-defense, saying his office is still reviewing the case.
Court records show police went to the dwelling several times in recent months.
King was charged in January and then again in April with one count of misdemeanor criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation for allegedly grabbing Smalls by the neck and attempting to choke her, according to criminal complaints.
As a result of the latter altercation, King was also charged with a felony for allegedly violating a refrain-from order, which is a court order ordering a person to refrain from acts or threats of physical violence.
More recently, King was accused in July of breaking the screen of Smalls' cellphone when he allegedly snatched it from her hand as she tried to dial 911. He was charged with criminal contempt and criminal mischief, all misdemeanors and Smalls was granted an order of protection against King.


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The US Attorney's Office in Sacramento led the civil investigation of JP Morgan Chase. The bank has agreed to pay $13 billion for selling defective mortgage securities to investors.
$300 million of the settlement will go to California. The bulk of that will go to the state's public employees and teachers' retirement systems which lost money after investing in Chase's mortgage-backed securities.
US Attorney Benjamin Wagner said homeowners in California may also receive a portion of the federal settlement.
"We saw in a very graphic way in the Central Valley, the affects of the financial crisis. And not all of it can be laid on the doorstep of JP Morgan or Wall Street banks and so forth," he said. "But, certainly, there was a very negative impact in this region that damaged a lot of people in a very profound way."
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OAKLAND -- Michael Morse's ninth-inning blast off A's closer Grant Balfour in Tuesday's 7-1 win was hit so high and far that it carried over the ROOT Sports camera angles and wasn't caught well on tape.
But the ball hit high up the massive wall behind the center-field fence at O.co Coliseum and ESPN's Home Run Tracker estimated the distance at 446 feet, the second-longest blast of the early season in Major League Baseball behind a 460-foot bomb by the Braves' Justin Upton on Monday.
Morse also lined an opposite-field shot for a three-run homer in the third inning Tuesday. On the heels of a Major League-high nine home runs this spring, the big outfielder has left little doubt about his potential impact.
"He's got some pop in that bat," said first baseman Justin Smoak. "It's definitely been a lot of fun to watch."
"He can take over a game with one swing of the bat," said third baseman Kyle Seager. "He's got that thing where anytime he goes up to the plate, you never know what can happen. And that's pretty special."
Morse hit his first homer while playing right field, with the second coming after he shifted over to left when the Mariners reset their outfield after Franklin Gutierrez entered the game in the eighth. He thus became just the second player in team history to homer twice in a game at different positions. David Bell hit a pair of homers on Aug. 23, 2001, against the Tigers while playing first and third base.


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hgtasks / Home
Tasks extension for mercurial
Tasks are collections of contiguous changesets. A task can be short or long lived, but its information is only available locally. This extension overrides the behaviour of push so that it will not push incomplete tasks by default. A task can be in one of 3 states:
- new - this task has no changesets only a parent node
- active - a task with some changesets but not complete
- complete - a task with some changesets and marked as complete
Use 'hg tasks' to list all new and active tasks. 'hg tasks --all' will show completed tasks along with those that are new and active.
This extension adds two new options to push:
- --all-tasks will push all tasks including incomplete tasks
- --completed-tasks will only push completed tasks
Use 'hg update [TASK]' to update to the tip node of a task and set it as current. When a task is set as current, all subsequent commits will be assigned/appended to the task.
If the auto.track.new option is set, newly created tasks will automatically be set as current. Otherwise, you will need to first create the task, and then update to it to make it current.
If the auto.stash option is set, your locally changed tracked files will be stashed when using 'hg update' to another revision.
- Tasks extension for mercurial
enabling the tasks extension
To enable this extension download the tasks.py and save it somewhere on your system. Then edit your config file so that it has something similar to:
[extensions] tasks = /my/path/to/tasks.py
optional behaviour
The tasks extension can automatically mark newly created tasks as current if you set the auto.track.new. This will allow you to start work on a task right away. To enable this functionality, add this to your config:
[tasks] auto.track.new = True
You can have the tasks extension automatically 'stash' changes to tracked files in your working copy when you are working on a task. This allows you to update to a task, do some work, and then update to another task or node and not lose your changes. This means you can switch your context easily and not worry about committing your files. To enable auto stashing of tasks, add this to your config:
[tasks] auto.stash = True
List tasks:
$ hg tasks $ hg tasks --all # will show completed tasks as well
Create a new task:
$ hg task mytask $ hg task mytask -r 3 # will create new task at revision 3 $ hg task mytask -r 3:10 # will create new task with parent at rev 3, # start at rev 4, and end at rev 10
Rename a task:
$ hg task -m mytask mynewtaskname
Mark a task as current:
$ hg update mytask
Mark a task as completed:
$ hg task mytask -c
Delete a task:
$ hg task mytask -d $ hg task mytask --delete
Delete all tasks:
$ hg tasks -A $ hg tasks --delete-all
Delete complete tasks only:
$ hg tasks -C $ hg tasks --delete-complete
Get information on a task:
$ hg task mytask -i $ hg task mytask --info
Resume a completed task (will mark a completed task as not complete):
$ hg task mytask -u $ hg task mytask --resume
Trim revisions off a task:
$ hg log (revision 6 is tagged as mytask) $ hg task mytask -t -r 3 $ hg task mytask --trim --rev 3 $ hg log (revision 2 is tagged as mytask.)
Append revisions to a task:
$ hg log (revision 2 is tagged as mytask.) $ hg task mytask -n -r 3 $ hg task mytask --append --rev 3 $ hg log (revision 3 is tagged as mytask.)
additional push options
This extension changes the behaviour of the 'push' command and adds two new options.
When performing an 'hg push' you will be warned and the operation will abort if you have incomplete tasks in your outgoing changesets. This is to stop you from pushing incomplete work. When this occurs, you can do one of two things:
1. push the incomplete work, use the --all-tasks option:
$ hg push --all-tasks
2. push only completed tasks (all revisions belonging to an incomplete task will be stripped from the outgoing changesets), use the --completed-tasks option:
$ hg push --completed-tasks
Note that push ignores tasks that are new (i.e. not complete but have no changesets attached).
Visual example of push behaviour:
additional outgoing options
The --all-tasks and --completed-tasks options are also added to the 'outgoing' command.
If you don't specify either of these new options and there are incomplete tasks changesets not in your remote repo, the output will be the same except with a warning that some changesets will not be pushed by default.
1. use --all-tasks option to make outgoing report all outgoing changesets with no warnings about changesets belonging to incomplete tasks:
$ hg outgoing --all-tasks
2. use --completed-tasks option to make outgoing only show changesets that will be pushed when using the --completed-tasks option with the push command:
$ hg outgoing --completed-tasks
using transplant with tasks
If you have the transplant extensions entabled you can use it as follows:
$ hg transplant --task mytask $ hg transplant -t mytask
using log with tasks
The log command is wrapped to accept task names as an argument and will show only changesets that belong to a particular task.
$ hg log mytask
using export with tasks
The export command is wrapped to accept a task name as an argument and will then create a patch from the start->end nodes of the given task.
$ hg export mytask
using patchbomb with tasks
The email command is wrapped to accept a task name as an argument and will then email patches representing each changeset assigned to the given task.
$ hg email --task mytask
using mq with tasks
The qimport command is wrapped to accept a task name as an argument and will then import all patches in the given task.
$ hg qimport -t mytask $ hg qimport --task mytask
implementation notes
Task information is stored in two files:
.hg/tasks/tasks # all task info .hg/tasks/tasks.current # the current task
The file format for the tasks and tasks.complete filesa are as follows:
The state can be one of the following: 0 - new, 1 - active, 2 - complete. The first entry shows a task with 2 or more changesets assigned to it, the second entry is a newly created task with no changesets - only a parent:
task1,2ed12f44801b412ed18e758f709aae4034a9ad4f,9ab60daf8b432d2db7639dc3d81f5319900570cd,d6c91858f9d502d626c28960660489cf4142829e,1 task2,2ed12f44801b412ed18e758f709aae4034a9ad4f,,,0
The above two tasks were created on the same revision (they share the same parent 2ed12f...) but only task1 has any work done against it.
Task stash information is stored in two files, one holds the diff of the working copy compared to the revision stored in hg, the other is a backup of the dirstate (so that stash will rememember if you did something like 'hg add'):
.hg/tasks/<task>.dirstate # copy of .hg/dirstate .hg/tasks/<task>.stash # a git diff of working copy compared to current rev + sha list for all modified files
An example stash file:
# stash of task task1 # created 04/03/09 20:34:28 #- # addedfile 06f86bc4aae30018fd47fe3dc1dabeea587e7dd4 #- diff --git a/addedfile b/addedfile new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/addedfile @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +some text
The stash file is divided into 3 parts. 1) two lines which show the task name and date of stash creation. 2) one or more lines separated by "#-" markers; each one of these lines contains a filename and a sha of the contents. 3) the actual git patch.
request for help/improvements
Code optimizations/recommendations/patches are welcome. I know that this extension does not make the best use of either the Python language or the Mercurial API.


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Critics: We were 'kind' to Mitt
Former Obama health advisers who argue in a recent report that Mitt Romney's Medicare overhaul would cost seniors tens of thousands of dollars stressed Monday that they're being "kind" to the Republican ticket.
The Romney campaign would probably disagree.
Story Continued Below
On Sunday, President Barack Obama's campaign used a new report from the Center for American Progress to argue that Romney's Medicare plan would force seniors to pay more out of pocket to provide tax cuts to the wealthy while padding insurance company profits. The Romney campaign fired back, arguing that the report's authors included a former Obama campaign adviser and a former Democratic Senate aide who worked on the Affordable Care Act.
In a conference call Monday afternoon, report author David Cutler — the former Obama campaign adviser — argued that he relied on conservative estimates to conclude, among other findings, that the average senior retiring a decade from now would have to pay $59,500 more for lifetime care under the Romney plan.
"We tried to be very, very conservative in a way that is very kind to the Romney/Ryan proposal," said Cutler, a Harvard economist.
"We used conservative assumptions throughout our analysis," added Neera Tanden, CAP president and a former Obama health adviser.
The report, which draws on data from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, found even steeper out-of-pocket costs for future Medicare seniors. Those reaching retirement age in 2030 would have to pay about $125,000 more on care in their retirement, while the costs would increase to about $331,000 in 2050, according to the report.
Romney's Medicare plan — which would repeal the Affordable Care Act, including the law's $716 billion in Medicare reductions — would also mean $11,000 in increased costs for the average 65-year-old already on Medicare, the report states. The left-leaning think tank points to the repeal of ACA provisions like free preventive services, the reopening of the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" and increased cost-sharing resulting from undoing the law's payment cuts.
As the Obama campaign played up the report on the campaign trail Sunday, the Romney campaign discredited the report because of Cutler's past connection with Obama.
"The president's decision to use discredited studies and outright falsehoods to attack Mitt Romney is an admission that he can't talk about his record of crushing the middle class and failing to turn the economy around," Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said yesterday.
On Monday, Tanden needled the Romney campaign for not addressing the report's findings.
"If the Romney campaign has concerns about this, they should take on the analysis itself, which they have so far yet to do," she said.


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The testimony of the Lord's works that men may see Him
In John 9 we come to the testimony of His works, but as down here as a man in lowliness. It is not the Son of God quickening whom He will as the Father, but by the operation of His grace down here, the eye opened to see in the lowly man the Son of God. In John 8 it is that which He is towards men; in John 9 it is that which He does in man, that man may see Him. Thus we shall find Him presented in His human character, and (the word being received) acknowledged to be the Son of God; and in this way the remnant separated, the sheep restored to the good Shepherd. He is the light of the world while He is in it; but where, through grace received in His humiliation, He communicated the power to see the light, and to see all things by it.
Observe here, that when it is the word
(the manifestation in testimony of what Christ is), man is
manifested as he is in himself, a child — in his nature — of the
devil, who is a murderer and a liar from the beginning, the
inveterate enemy of Him who can say, "I am."* But when the Lord
works, He produces something in man that he had not previously. He
bestows sight on him, attaching him thus to the One who had enabled
him to see. The Lord is not here understood or manifested in
apparently as exalted a manner, because He comes down to the wants
and circumstances of man, in order that He may be more closely
known; but, in result, He brings the soul to the knowledge of His
glorious Person. Only, instead of being the word and the testimony
— the Word of God — to show as light what man is, He is the Son,
one with the Father,** giving eternal life to His sheep, and
preserving them in this grace for ever. For, as to the blessing
that flows from thence, and the full doctrine of His true position
with regard to the sheep in blessing, John 10 goes with John
9. Chapter 10 is the continuation of the discourse begun at the end
of chapter 9.
The man born blind: the power of the Siprit and word making Christ known
John 9 opens with the case of a man that gives rise to a question from the disciples, in relation to the government of God in Israel. Was it his parents' sin that brought this visitation on their child, according to the principles God had given them in Exodus? Or was it his own sin, known to God though not manifested to men, that had procured him this judgment? The Lord replies, that the man's condition did not depend on the government of God with respect to the sin either of himself or of his parents. His case was but the misery which gave room for the mighty operation of God in grace. It is the contrast that we have continually seen; but here it is in order to set forth the works of God.
God acts. It is not only that which He is, nor even simply an object of faith. The presence of Jesus on earth made it day. It was therefore the time of work to do the works of Him that sent Him. But He who works here, works by means that teach us the union which exists between an object of faith and the power of God who works. He makes clay with His spittle and the earth, and puts it on the eyes of the man who was born blind. As a figure, it pointed to the humanity of Christ in earthly humiliation and lowliness, presented to the eyes of men, but with divine efficacy of life in Him. Did they see any more? If possible, their eyes were the more completely closed. Still the object was there; it touched their eyes, and they could not see it. The blind man then washes in the pool that was called "Sent," and is enabled to see clearly. The power of the Spirit and of the word, making Christ known as the One sent by the Father, gives him sight. It is the history of divine teaching in the heart of man. Christ, as man, touches us. We are absolutely blind, we see nothing. The Spirit of God acts, Christ being there before our eyes; and we see plainly.
Hostility of the Jews deciding their own fate and judging their own condition
The people are astonished and know not what to think. The Pharisees oppose. Again the Sabbath is in question. They find (it is always the story) good reasons for condemning Him who bestowed sight, in their pretended zeal for God's glory. There was positive proof that the man was born blind, that he now saw, that Jesus had done it. The parents testify to the only thing that was important on their part. As to who it was that had given him sight, others knew more than they; but their fears bring out in evidence, that it was a settled thing to cast out, not only Jesus, but all who should confess Him. Thus the Jewish leaders brought the thing to a decisive point. They not only rejected Christ, but they cast out from the privileges of Israel, as to their ordinary worship, those who confessed Him. Their hostility distinguished the manifested remnant and put them apart; and that, by using confession of Christ as a touchstone. This was deciding their own fate, and judging their own condition.
The once-blind man cast out by the Jews, but found by the rejected Son of God
Observe, that proofs here went for nothing; the Jews, the parents, the Pharisees, had them before their eyes. Faith came through being personally the subject of this mighty operation of God, who opened the eyes of men to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Not that the man understood it all. He perceives that he has to do with some one sent of God. To him Jesus is a prophet. But thus the power which He had manifested in giving sight to this man enables him to trust the Lord's word as divine. Having gone so far, the rest is easy: the poor man is led much farther, and finds himself on ground that sets him free from all his former prejudices, and that gives a value to the Person of Jesus which overcomes all other considerations. The Lord develops this in the next chapter.
In truth, the Jews had made up their mind. They would have nothing to do with Jesus. They were all agreed to cast out those who believed in Him. Consequently, the poor man having begun to reason with them on the proof that existed in his own person of the Saviour's mission, they cast him out. Thus cast out, the Lord — rejected before him — finds and reveals Himself to him by His personal name of glory. "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" The man refers it to the word of Jesus, which to him was divine truth, and He proclaims Himself to him as being Himself the Son of God, and the man worships Him.
Thus the effect of His power was to blind those who saw, who were full of their own wisdom, whose light was darkness; and to give sight to those who were born blind.
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And here we go!
I made a recent thru-hike attempt of the Superior Hiking Trail which was cut short do to a battle with nature. Starting from the northern most section I began my adventure and had a great time out there in the woods. Filled with it's flowing rivers, amazing overlooks and crashing waterfalls, the SHT just amazes me.
Sorry for the delay in posting this report. I have had quite the difficulty in thinking of a way to put in the tree falling video without taking away all the fun I had out there. But, I think I've come up with a good way to show everyone and keep it fun.
We kick off with a blast from the past and I start to show you the beginning of my journey on the SHT. Thanks for watching and Part 2 coming soon!


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Brian Hiebert, Volleyball BC
September 24, 2013, Langley, BC (ISN) – Canada's National Volleyball team got off to a strong start at the 2013 NORCECA Men's Continental Championship on Monday night (September 23rd). In Canada's first game of the tournament they defeated Guatemala in dominating fashion, 3-0 (25-10, 25-10, 25-10).
It was a block party for Canada in game one as they had 22 blocks to Guatemala's zero. Some early big blocks got the Canadian crowd into the game as the atmosphere at the Langley Events Centre was in fine form to kick start the tournament. Rudy Verhoeff was a beast at the net for Canada with a game high 8 blocks, as the Trinity Western alumni looked right at home in his first game back at the LEC since claiming gold in the 2011 CIS National Championships.
Canada put together a balanced attack making it difficult for Guatemala to stay with them offensively. Gavin Schmitt led the way with 7 kills followed closely by Gord Perrin, Fred Winters and Dallas Soonias who all had 6 kills apiece. Guatemala's Leonardo Blanco had a match high 10 kills for his team in a losing cause.
It was the start Canada wanted and they got contribution from everyone who stepped on the floor tonight. Canada will enjoy a rest day tomorrow as Guatemala takes on Mexico at 4pm. Canada's back in action on Wednesday night against Mexico at 8pm and with a win Canada has a chance to secure a semi-final match.
Additional reserved seating has just been released for all days of the tournament.
Tickets are available at: http://www.ticketmaster.ca/Norceca-Mens-Volleyball-Continental-Championships-tickets/artist/1865380
For a complete schedule and details on the tournament visit http://www.langleyeventscentre.com/continentalvolleyball
The United States defeated Saint Lucia at the NORCECA Men's Continental Championship Opener in straight sets (25-12, 25-10, 25- 7). Troy Murphy finished with 13 points to be the top scorer for USA, while David Lee scored 10 and Micah Christenson concluded with 7. Saint Lucia's Jospeh Clercent and Julian Bissette scored 6 apiece.
Cuban Senior National Team had no problems to begin the Rodolfo Sanchez's era. The Cubans defeated the Bahamas 3-0 (25-16, 25-12, 25-7) with Rolando Cepeda as their best weapon with 10 points, including 3 aces. Inovel Romero and Jorber Quintana scored 9 apiece. Prince'Tanique Wilson was the best scorer for the Bahamas with 8 points.


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Welcome to Opera Index
We offer you: The Opportunity to learn and share experiences with others in the fascinating world of opera while supporting young singers.
Our Mission Statement
Opera Index is a non-profit volunteer organization whose mission is to provide advocacy for opera and support for its artists. The elements of this mission are twofold
- Provide support for opera singers at the onset of their careers including such endeavors as financial gifts and Opera Index sponsored performances.
- Foster a community of opera lovers through activities created to promote shared relationships and to enhance socialization in the opera environment.
Why Join?
- Share in the excitement of seeing the future opera singers who will be singing worldwide at the onset of their careers.
- Share the joy of opera with other opera lovers.
- Experience the glamour of our winter galas with known celebrities and our major winners.
- Learn more about opera at our panel discussions, master classes, and interviews.
- Meet people with similar interests.
Build a Lasting Legacy for Operatic Talent
Since 1984 Opera Index has given awards valued at more than $1 million to 365 young singers. A planned gift to Opera Index will help ensure that tomorrow's opera talents will continue to thrive for years to come.
Please consider discussing with your financial consultants a planned gift to Opera Index. For more information, please contact the Opera Index office at 212 706-9550 or email@example.com.
Opportunities we offer our young singers:
Vocal Competition
Opera Index is one of the major vocal competitions in America. Since 1984 we have given awards valued at over $1 million to 381 singers. In 2016 we gave $55,500 in awards to sixteen young singers.
The auditions for the vocal competition are held in October. We award three categories of singers: Those who are on the cusp of a major career receive awards from $3,000 to $10,000. Those who are in the early phase of a promising career receive $2,000 and those who demonstrate a potential for a major career receive encouragement amounts of $1,000 each.
The major award winners sing at the January Winter Gala (a major fundraising event) and the Emerging Artist Award winners and Encouragement Award winners receive awards at the Membership Party and/or Spring Lunch.
In early May we have our Spring Lunch where we hear additional Emerging Artist Award winners and Encouragement Winners and, sometimes, a major winner who was unable to attend the gala. We honor individuals who have made substantial contributions to Opera Index or have been associated with Opera Index activities and events.
Opera Index, an outgrowth of The New York Opera Club, was founded in the late 1950's by William Wells for the purpose of offering social interaction in the world of opera for his friends. The vehicle chosen to do this was a series of interviews with opera singers. In 1980 it was decided to expand the organization so as to provide awards to singers through a vocal competition. This required the creation of a non-profit organization.
Opera Index was incorporated in 1982 as a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. The name referred to an index kept by William Wells which had a listing of known opera singers at that time - a most unusual name that has persisted despite the fact that the index no longer exists.
The vocal competition began in 1984 with such winners as Susanne Mentzer and Jo-Ann Pickens. A full list can be found here. Opera Index winners singing at the Metropolitan Opera this season include: Ben Bliss (2014), Stephanie Blythe (1996), Patrick Carfizzi (1999), Michael Fabiano (2007), Christine Goerke (1995), Susan Graham (1987), Ryan Speedo Green (2014), Yonghoon Lee (2005), Caitlin Lynch (2007), Lucas Meachem (2001), Angela Meade (2006), Lisette Oropesa (2006), David Pershall (2011), Ailyn Perez (1999), Nadine Sierra (2010), Christian Van Horn (2003), Maria Zifchak (1999).
The winter gala, our major fund raiser, began in 1983 with soprano Zinka Milanov. Since 1985 major persons in the world of opera have been honored at these galas. Up to 1995 the gala was held in December. Beginning in 1997 the gala has been held in January as it is this year.
Opportunities we offer our members and others:
Our biggest event is the Winter Gala held at the beautiful JW Marriott Essex House in New York City. This is a formal affair attended by many opera and theater celebrities. Attendees hear Opera Index major winners and have the opportunity to toast the Honoree.
In November, we have our Membership Party, free to all paid-up members. This is where we hear Emerging Artist Award Winners and Encouragement Award Winners. These are singers who demonstrate a special quality early in their career. In May we have our Spring Lunch at the JW Marriott Essex House where we honor "one of our own". Our winners provide us with a recital.
Past Honorees
The list of honorees include: Leonie Rysanek (1985); Samuel Ramey (1986); Roberta Peters (1987); Licia Albanese (1988); Marilyn Horne (1988); Jamila Novotna (1990); Alfredo Kraus (1991); Lucine Amara and Jerome Hines (1992); Birgit Nilsson (1993); Renato Scotto (1994); Rose Bampton and Theodor Uppman (1995); Anna Moffo (1997); Grace Bumbry (1998); Martina Arroyo (1999); George Jellinek (2000); Deborah Voigt (2001); Jon Vickers (2002); Regina Resnik (2003); Sherrill Milnes (2004); James Morris (2005); Catherine Malfitano (2006); Jessye Norman (2007); Aprile Millo (2008); Julius Rudel (2009); Patrice Munsel (2010); Shirley Verrett and George Shirley (2011); Eve Queler (2012); Eric Owens (2013); Rosalind Elias (2014), Susan Graham (2015), Dolora Zajick (2016), Tito Capobianco (2017), and Mignon Dunn (2018).


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Just as in past years, Northeastern Junior College's Criminal Justice, Fire Science, and Anthropology Departments will conduct an excavation exercise this week, allowing students an opportunity to have some excellent hands-on training in forensic recovery and crime scene investigation. This year, a fire science training component has been added to the several day exercise. The college invites interested community members to observe and participate in the schedule of activities.
On Thursday, Oct. 11, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., instructors and students will be doing a crime scene investigation and the forensic excavation of an anonymously donated deceased dog. In past years, the subject excavated has been a pig. From 3:30 to 5 p.m. students will disarticulate the subject and prepare the scene for processing. Processing will promptly follow the disarticulation. Typically this will take no more than an hour.
On Sunday, Oct. 14, beginning at 8 a.m., students from the Fire Academy at NJC will undergo some wildland fire training as well as have some training in the recovery of burned human (pig analogue) remains.
All of these activities will take place on the farmland owned by Northeastern, located three-quarters of a mile west of town on County Road 32 just off County Road 39. There is limited parking area. Spectators are encouraged to park away from the scene and walk to the location of the activities, staying clear of the marked locations where crime scene activity has been staged. For details and more location information please contact: Jeff Schiel , (970) 521-6747 or email: email@example.com
For information specifically about the wildland fire training, contact Jonathan Lichtenwalner at (970) 521-6653 or email: jonathan.lich


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2010-11 (Senior)
Team captain ... Played in 26 games ... Averaged 3.2 points and 2.2 rebounds per game ... Made 26 steals in 26 games ... Scored nine points on 2-for-4 shooting from the field and a 4-for-5 effort from the free throw line and had two steals at Navy (Nov. 20) ... Went 3-for-3 from the field for seven points against Boston University (Nov. 23) ... Recorded three assists, two steals and a block along with four points against Dayton (Dec. 30) ... Scored eight points and collected three steals at Boston College (Jan. 6) ... Went 3-for-3 from the field for seven points, three rebounds and a steal in 13 minutes against Columbia (Jan. 28) ... Scored nine points in a 3-for-4 effort from the field and grabbed four rebounds in win over Columbia (Feb. 19) ... Had seven points, four steal and four rebounds in 21 minutes vs. Yale (Feb. 26).
2009-10 (Junior)
Played in 29 games, starting 24 ... Averaged 6.6 rebounds per game and 5.0 points per game … Second on the team and eighth in the league in rebounding … Pulled down double-digit rebounds six times and had six or more boards in 19 games … Collected a team-high 45 steals which ranked sixth in the Ivy League in steals per game (1.6) … Second on the team and 10th in Ancient Eight in assists with 71 hand outs … Went 4-for-5 from the field and 3-for-3 from downtown for 13 points in win over Boston College ... Grabbed a game-high eight rebounds in win over Maine ... Was 3-for-3 from the field, pulled down a then-career-high 10 rebounds, collected three steals and played a then-career-high 31 minutes at New Hampshire ... Grabbed a game- and career-high 11 rebounds and dished out three assists in Omni Hotels Championship game against Colorado ... Had eight points, six rebounds and five steals in win versus Boston University ... Scored five points, pulled down six rebounds, recorded a block and two steals at Marist ... Led the Crimson with seven rebounds and added three steals in win over Navy ... Handed out five assists and equaled a career-high rebounds with 11 in Ivy League opener at Dartmouth ... Pulled down 11 rebounds in win over Cornell ... Recorded 10 rebounds to lead all players in win over Brown ... Grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds and scored nine points in win at Cornell ... Recorded five assists and four steals in a career-high 32 minutes in win over Columbia ... Pulled down seven rebounds and scored seven points in win at Brown ... Recorded a career-high six assists in win at Yale ... Pulled down nine rebounds in win over Penn ... Grabbed seven rebounds and scored six points against Princeton ... Scored 10 points, grabbed six rebounds, handed out four assists and recorded two steals in win over Dartmouth.
2008-09 (Sophomore):
Made nine starts in second season with the Crimson ... Played in 27 games ... Averaged 3.4 rebounds and 3.2 points per game ... Third on the team in steals with 27 ... Saw action in both games at the USF Shootout in the opening weekend of the season ... Scored a then-career-high 10 points and pulled down a then-career-high five rebounds in a 4-for-6 effort from the floor against Marist ... Dished out a career-high three assists in win at Siena ... Recorded first collegiate block against Providence ... Pulled down a then-career-high seven rebounds in first collegiate start against BU ... Had a career game against Yale, posting career-bests in points (13), field goals (5) and steals (6) ... Pulled down a career-high eight rebounds in start against Penn ... Handed out a career-high five assists in win over Brown ... Scored eight points on a 3-for-4 effort from the field against Yale.
2007-08 (Freshman):
Played in 13 games as a freshman ... Made collegiate debut against Pittsburgh and nailed a trifecta for three points ... Pulled down two rebounds, handed out an assist and collected a steal in loss to Vermont ... Scored a career-high four points on a 1-1 effort from the field and 2-for-3 shooting from the free throw line in win over Holy Cross.
Before Harvard:
Four-year varsity starter ... Captain as a senior ... MVP of Maroon and White Holiday Tournament as a junior ... Named to the Maroon and White All-Tournament team and the Matshtick All-Tournament team as a junior and a senior ... Named all-section and all-league as a sophomore and a senior ... Named to the Section I AAA Championships All-Tournament team ... NYSSWA all-state honoree as a junior and senior ...Named first team all-county by The Journal News ... Selected to play in the 2006 Metro Classic All-Star game ... Won a gold medal at the 2005 Empire State Games ... High scorer for the 2006 Empire State Games ... Captain of the 2006 Empire State Games team for the Hudson Valley Region
Member of the Scarsdale High School Scholar Athlete Honor Society ... 2007 Con Ed Sports Award Winner ... Sings with Fallen Angels, Harvard's premiere all-female contemporary a capella group.
Career Highs:
Points: 13 at Yale, 2/6/09
Field Goals Made: 5 at Yale, 2/6/09
Field Goal Attempts: 9 at Florida State, 1/21/10
Field Goal Percentage: 1.000, twice, most recent, 11/24/09
3-pt. Field Goals Made: 3, several times, most recent, 2/20/10
3-pt. Field Goals Attempted: 6 vs. Maine, 12/14/08
3-pt. Field Goal Percentage: 1.000, several times, most recent, 3/6/10
Free Throws Made: 4 twice, most recent, 11/20/10
Free Throws Attempted: 9 at Yale, 2/6/09
Free Throw Percentage: .1.000, twice, most recent, 12/6/09
Rebounds: 13 at Cornell, 2/19/10
Assists: 6 at Yale, 2/27/10
Steals: 6 at Yale, 2/6/09
Blocked Shots: 12, several times, most recent, 2/20/10
Minutes Played: 32, several times, most recent, 2/27/10
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- After four years, Aldarion returns from his third voyage to Middle-earth having explored the coasts from Lindon to the Bay of Belfalas. Aldarion presents gifts from Gil-galad to his father Meneldur.[1]


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Three transfer presses, a state-of-the-art cleaning line and a bright annealing furnace occupy the new integrated manufacturing cell at Truex Inc., Pawtucket, RI, designed to allow the firm to expand its capabilities to fabricate stainless-steel components.
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text: Quahog Day, Cape CodName: Quahog Day, Cape CodDate: June 21, 2021Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDTWebsite: http://QuahogDay.comEvent Description:The 9th Annual Quahog Day (2017) is hosted by the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce to announce the number of beach days that lie ahead. In what has become an annual tradition and a rite of passage into summer for CApea Codders, the region's official Quahog - Doug- tells us how many days of beach weather we have to look forward to for the summer. During his "prognostication Ceremony" Doug secretly whispers his prediciton into the ear of his human sidekick, Captain Johnny Quahog of the Quahog Republic. The event is hosted in a different seaside location each year - but is always held on the first day of summer! In 2017, NBC Boston meteorologist Michael Page will host the festivities. Complimentary food and beverage, and a cash bar, will be available along with other entertainment.


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High winds in the Inland Empire Wednesday caused tractor-trailers to overturn, flights to be diverted from L.A./Ontario International Airport, power outages across the region and prevented fire-fighting aircraft from attacking the flames of the Etiwanda Fire.
Not only did gusty winds as high as 80 mph help fan the flames of the wildfire burning along northern Rancho Cucamonga, they grounded water- and fire retardant-dropping aircraft that otherwise would have been able to aid ground-based firefighters as they worked to gain control of the more than 1,000-acre fire. Firefighters had not been able to create any containment lines around the wildfire late Wednesday afternoon.
"It was just too gusty," U.S. Forest Service spokesman John Miller said.
But firefighters were monitoring the weather and prepared to send up fire-fighting aircraft, should wind conditions cooperate, Miller said.
Meteorologist Stefanie Sullivan of the National Weather Service in San Diego described the weather as, "A pretty high wind event."
"There are high wind warnings in effect for the entire Inland Empire through 5 p.m. today," she said.
By 10:30 a.m. Wednesday winds in the Inland Empire were peaking between 35 to 45 miles per hour, with gusts in the mid 50s toward Ontario and Chino, she said.
Ontario had wind speeds at 69 mph earlier Wednesday morning, she said. Mountain areas were experiencing wind speeds from 40 to 60 mph and gusts in the Cajon Pass were reported between 40 and 45 mph.
Caltrans issued a warning early Wednesday for all high-profile vehicles to avoid traveling through Riverside and San Bernardino County areas due to high winds.
Incidents involving overturned tractor-trailers on both the westbound 60 Freeway at Pyrite and the southbound 15 Freeway connector to the eastbound 60 prompted hours-long closures early in the day as the winds whipped the region. By Wednesday afternoon those incidents had been cleared.
A vegetation fire in Redlands led to the evacuation of a motel there Wednesday afternoon as firefighters battled the blaze that briefly threatened the structure before it was extinguished.
High winds and several wind-related calls kept firefighters busy throughout the region.
A vehicle fire on the northbound 15 Freeway south of Cleghorn in the Cajon Pass spread to nearby brush because of the windy conditions, according to California Highway Patrol officials.
And air travel was difficult for major airlines coming into L.A./Ontario International Airport.
At least four flights were diverted from ONT to LAX due to the high winds Wednesday morning, ONT official said.
Flights with Alaska, Southwest and Skywest airlines were diverted. The fourth was unconfirmed, said ONT spokeswoman Maria Tesoro-Fermin via email. Passengers on those diverted flights were then bussed from Los Angeles to Ontario.
As the high winds continue — the red-flag warning is in effect through tonight, according to the National Weather Service — and flights will continue to be diverted on a case by case, Tesoro-Fermin said.
According to Tesoro-Fermin, decisions on whether to divert flights are made in collaboration with airport officials, the FAA control tower and the airlines.
It is unconfirmed if flights leaving L.A./Ontario International Airport have been affected, she said.
Operations at LAX have not been impacted by the diversions nor the weather, said Amanda Parsons, public information officer for LAX.
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday 18,628 customers in San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange counties were experiencing service interruptions due to wind. Riverside County is the hardest hit region with about 10,969 customers without power, according to SCE officials.
The outages were strictly due to the winds and service interruptions may continue today, said SCE spokeswoman Susan Cox.
The Etiwanda Fire has not impacted electrical service, she said.
SCE is reminding people to stay away from downed power lines and to approach traffic signals that have lost power as a four-way stop.
"We do have crews that we are working as quickly and safely as possible to get power back up," Cox said.
Staff writers Brian Day, Greg Cappis and Ryan Hagen contributed to this report.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
California Missions
Video Summary: "How can I teach my students California's state history, integrate technology, and support a bilingual class?" This question prompted fourth-grade teacher Osvaldo Rubio to develop the lesson "California Missions."
The California Framework for state history requires students to learn about the geography of California; the social, political, cultural, and economic life of its people during the mission period; and the consequences of the meeting between the Native American and Spanish cultures. In this lesson, students begin their research, display their initial findings in projects, and present what they have learned to their classmates. This lesson leads to in-depth research over the course of several weeks and the creation of art and multimedia exhibits for parents' night, during which the students will serve as docents and explain to classroom visitors what they have learned.
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