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It's July 3, 2014, six days short of my 89th birthday. I am not going to see tomorrow. My name is Thresa Pilipovich. I was born to John and Maria LaVella.
I am the last of the 14 children living. I lived on Limerick Hill in Herminie, PA until I married George in 1948. We moved to Rancho Cordova, CA in 1962.
I was a devoted mother and freely shared my family's joys and sorrows. I was in awe of my grandsons Joseph, Jamin and Nicholas, who brought so much joy to my life. I loved babies! I had five. I could not walk through a grocery store or mall without oohing and aahing over every infant I saw.
I took pride in myself, my home, my friendships and most of all George, my husband of 68 years, to whom I am lovingly grateful. I cared for him as I watched him work long hours to provide for his family. Isn't life interesting that he should be the one caring for me these past 8 year as I struggled with dementia! At age 87 he underwent open heart surgery with words to his doctor expressing his need to stay in this world and care for me as long as he could. And he did so with love, devotion, humor, and determination.
Fortunately, back in the day, my daughters brought many people to our home. I enjoyed every moment with those boys and girls - their laughter and drama. I had one rule -- no boys past the hallway bathroom!
I am proud of all I accom-plished in my life. I came from humble beginnings in a Iarge, Italian family. I worked hard from a young age. When I was 14, my mother took sick, and I had to drop out of school to care for my father and 5 brothers. I was a glass blower and a nurse's aid. I ran away from home and worked at a military base in Arizona during WW II.
I found the courage to begin driving at 45 and obtain my high school diploma at age 60, and was asked to deliver a commencement speech. I even took some college courses. I was an activist against Rancho Seco and a campaigner for Bill Clinton. In twenty-two years in the Folsom Cordova School District, I achieved the title of Cafeteria Manager and was fortunate to meet and enjoy so many kids in Rancho Cordova. Collecting my retirement check was really gratifying. Over the years I was an avid reader and loved to learn new words. I also enjoyed tap dancing, bowling, water aerobics, music, and needlework.
I am content with my life, finding most of what I needed right within my own home. George and I fished, traveled, we argued some and made up. We worked side by side to build our first home and later created gardens that we enjoyed. A perfectly ripe home grown tomato was a delight to me. Some of my favorite memories are when George, the girls, their husbands, boyfriends and grandsons filled the house with food, laughter, and craziness.
As I lie here surrounded by George and my girls Georgette, Michele, Patrice and Jeanine, I am comforted to know that the family we created will live beyond my last breath. I am grateful that our family has extended to include so many fine men, Chris, Mike, Greg, Allan, James and Aaron. What a beautiful life this has been. Now I'm off to join those who are waiting for me. Daughter Lisa, grandson Joe, my mother. I have missed them all. I hear a polka -- It's the Lou LaVella quartet --Arrivederci!
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Talk about grabbing headlines. When actress Regina King wanted to encourage more people to get tested for HIV, she decided to do something that most Hollywood actresses would run away from as if trying to escape a monster in a horror flick: She underwent a public HIV screening. In 2007 King -- a star of such seminal films as Poetic Justice, Jerry Maguire, Enemy of the State and Ray -- joined other Black celebrities, such as Sheryl Lee Ralph, Rockmond Dunbar and Henry Simmons, to get checked for HIV as part of the Black AIDS Institute's Test 1 Million campaign. The campaign's goal is to have one million Black Americans screened for HIV by 2010 to increase awareness about the need to be proactive.
For this private star, that brave act of public exposure aptly demonstrated how strongly she feels about this issue. King, who can be seen weekly on TNT as a star of the critically acclaimed cop show Southland, told blackaids.org that she is anxious to find any way possible to reach more young people with the message, Get tested now.
What made you become involved in the fight against AIDS?
The obvious reasons -- the way it's affected our community more than anyone else's. We just have to educate. The more people that are involved -- the more people are talking about it, putting the right information out there -- the more I think our numbers will start to decrease.
How has the disease personally touched your life?
One of my close friends has been living with HIV for 17 years. A lot of my education regarding it early on came from him living and learning through it. It's definitely showed me it's not a death sentence. Initially that's how most people regarded HIV: as an immediate death sentence. I think that alone makes a lot of people apprehensive about testing.
When you signed on to support the Test 1 Million campaign, you were adamant that you wanted to have your results revealed publicly. Why did you think it was important to take such a proactive and unusual stance?
I hope that people seeing that I was strong enough or bold enough to have my results broadcasted, so to speak, would encourage or inspire people to take the test silently. It doesn't have to be something everyone has to know about, but you should know your own HIV status. I thought my celebrity could encourage someone else to be responsible about their life -- and, if they are sexually active, other people's lives.
Are there still things that surprise you about how HIV and AIDS are affecting the African American community?
The numbers are always surprising, that they continue to rise. I'm surprised how many people are not interested in knowing their status. And so many people are not making sure they know their partner's status. Too many of us can lay down and have sex with a person and know we're okay, we've been tested and test ourselves regularly, but we don't make sure we find out that information about the person we're with. We're still having a lot of casual sex. That's amazing to me. It doesn't make any sense to go through all that you're supposed to do to keep yourself safe and not demand that of someone else.…If you love yourself and love the other person enough, make it something you guys do as a date: "Let's go get our test."
Do you have the opportunity to talk to young Black girls about this issue?
I try to speak at high schools, try to make them have girls-only assemblies so I can get female time. There are things that I think are important for young girls that they aren't aware of. A lot of girls can have sex but believe masturbation is taboo. But they think premarital sex isn't. I can't get my mind around that.
Nick Chiles is a prize-winning journalist and author who lives in Georgia. Read more about him at chilmill.com.

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There are few things better than getting with other moms and sharing a day together, especially when yummy food is involved and lots of great discussion about how to strengthen our families and ourselves as mothers. I absolutely love it! And that's exactly what happened this past Saturday right in my very own home.
My dear husband was such a trooper as he loaded up our children (all except Hallee who claimed she had too much homework and stayed to help me out a little as well, a little fact I was grateful for) and headed out the door at 7:15 a.m. Saturday morning. Truth be told he didn't need to leave quite that early for me, but Nate had a basketball game at 8:00 in Ogden, so they trudged out to the car quite sleepy-eyed but happy as I said, "Please don't come back until at least 5:15. Love you!" Ha! I wondered how Dan would keep them all happy and busy for that many hours, but I needn't have worried. They had a fabulous day--at the ball game, then running a few errands for me (picking up the sandwiches and cookies I had ordered and dropping them off quickly), then selling our car and getting a new one--yes, as crazy as that sounds we sold our car that day and he spent hours at the dealership while our kids ate popcorn, drank pop and watched television (nice!:), and went to Costco (anyone can spend hours there, right?). Anyway, they had a fun but busy day and when the kids all filed in at 5:15, they couldn't wait to tell me about their adventures--all at the same time!
Meanwhile, back here at home, I was so happy for the opportunity of sharing some fabulous Power of Moms material with some eager and thoughtful and wonderful women who showed up to spend the day with Tiffany and me. Now a bit about Tiffany Sowby. She is amazing! I love working with her because she is not only a hoot, but just a fabulous, down-to-earth, real and tremendously great woman and mother. I always feel it such a privilege to spend the day working with her, so I was in heaven just having this opportunity. Then as each woman entered my home, I felt such a unique and special warmth and spirit from each one. I always admire someone who is willing to take an entire day out of a busy life, and spend a chunk of money, too, to come to a stranger's home in hopes of gleaning inspiration and tools on how to be a better mother. I think that says so much about that woman's heart.
Oh, how I wish I had pictures of everything!! Ugh! Not so. I did have Hallee snap a few and I took a couple at the end, but they certainly don't do justice to the amazing feelings that prevailed throughout the day, or the fun we shared together, or the touching moments of "wow." I guess you will just have to attend one of these retreats to know what I really mean. Ha!
|That is Tiffany standing up front. Not sure why so many empty chairs in this picture. Some moms must have been in the bathroom. Ha!
|Another view. That is me sitting up front in the blue pants. Sorry about the sun glaring through the windows.
|On my back porch at the end. Unfortunately, a few moms had left by this time, but here is most of us--there were close to 25 in all, I think (I was taking the picture).
Anyway, my biggest fear when I speak to women about motherhood is that I will in some way give the false impression that I think I am an expert or that I am doing it all right and have all the answers, because truly I'm not and I don't. I've probably made more mistakes than anyone else. And in fact, there have been times I've felt like quitting. Ha! Like that's an option, right? But this journey of mothering children is so very difficult and there are layers upon layers of intricate situations to navigate through, and it literally takes every ounce of everything that's within us sometimes. But that's what makes it so absolutely wonderful and worth it, too, because we all grow together. I have learned so incredibly much through my mistakes, and I've learned to be patient with myself (or at least I'm trying to learn that:) and to stop sweating the small stuff so much and sit back and enjoy this amazing journey a little more.
And my biggest hope is that those who listen will feel a connection somehow, that they will feel understood on some level and feel hope where maybe they've felt despair, and that they will be reminded that they are the right mothers for their children and they they can do this! Sometimes as moms we just need to be reminded that we are doing most everything right (because somehow we've convinced ourselves we're doing everything wrong), so we can take a deep breath, wrap our arms around these kids of ours we love so much and just keep going. Maybe we can choose one or two things to focus on that will bring us more peace or help a struggling child or target a specific problem in our home, but overall, we must remember things are going to be OK because we are doing our best.
One of the perks about helping with these retreats is that I am reminded myself of valuable parenting tools I may need to brush up on. I too become inspired by everyone there and their comments and suggestions. I feel refreshed and rejuvenated. Ok, so I was exhausted too by the end, but it was the good kind of exhausted. Ha! At the end of the day, I realized what I felt most was grateful. Grateful for the privilege of being a mother to my five children. Grateful to be parenting together with my husband, whom I love with all my heart. Grateful for what I am learning through this process of motherhood. Grateful for fresh starts and new days when I mess up. Grateful for children and a husband who seem to love my like crazy, despite my insanity and stack upon stack of flaws. Grateful, oh so grateful to be a mother.
I hope that everyone who came felt it was well worth their invested time and money, and I hope they went home feeling optimistic, rejuvenated and inspired. Every mother has her own set of challenges, strengths, commitments outside the home, and more. That's why I feel we are all in this together, and when we can join in strengthening and learning from each other, it's an awesome, powerful experience.
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Tom and Bev Heim of New Albin and Keith and Nancy Rosburg of Estherville are happy to announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their children, Britney Jean Heim and Brian Richard Rosburg. The couple plans to exchange vows June 30 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Dorchester. A reception will be held following the ceremony at the Allamakee County Fairgrounds Pavilion in Waukon.
The bride-elect is a 2008 graduate of Waukon Senior High and a 2011 graduate of Iowa State University with a bachelor of science degree in Agricultural Communication. She is currently employed at Iowa Lakes Community College as the Foundations Administrative Assistant.
The groom-elect is a 2008 graduate of Estherville Lincoln Central High School and a 2011 graduate of Iowa State University with a bachelor of science degree in agricultural studies. He is currently self-employed selling Garst seed and farming in Estherville.
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Jim Laughton, a member of the communication and arts faculty at NorthWest Arkansas Community College, Bentonville, Ark., was recently honored with the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence Award.
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Dedicated during the 2016 Grand Council, and the result of nearly two years' work by the Foundation's Museum Renovation Committee, the Chuck and Kim Watson Museum of Sigma Chi maintains a collection of artifacts contributed by members or created by the Sigma Chi staff since its founding in 1855. These include many iterations of the Sigma Chi badge, including: the jeweled-encrusted badge designed by the father of Sigma Chi in Canada, Ralph Connable, ALBION 1890; the badge worn by US President Grover Cleveland, MICHIGAN 1915, at his inauguration ceremony; and the badge taken to the moon by Significant Sig and astronaut John Young, GEORGIA TECH 1952, who flew on the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. The museum also contains a collection of other artifacts, including items created by the Founders and a collection Civil War era military uniforms and weapons used by the brothers of Sigma Chi who fought in that conflict.
The museum traces the history of the Fraternity from its founding in 1855 to the present day via a series of chronologically arranged panels and interactive multimedia displays. The exhibits cover topics including the Founding, the creation and influence of the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi song, and the role of Sigma Chis in exploring new frontiers. One of the most poignant displays is the museum's tribute to the brothers who gave "The Last Full Measure of Devotion" in service to their home countries. The Gold Star Honor Roll exhibit lists brothers from the U.S. and Canada who were killed in action during military conflicts from the U.S. Civil War through the current conflicts in the Middle East. Along with the list, each of these brothers are represented by a gold star emblazoned along the wall of the museum creating a spot where visitors can pause and reflect on the sacrifice of these nearly 1,000 brothers.
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Although the museum holds a wonderful collection Sigma Chi memorabilia, the incredibly rich history of the Fraternity can truly be found among the documentary artifacts that are stored in the archives of Sigma Chi. These include thousands of items that tell the history of the Fraternity through the activities of the seven Founders, the members and the growing list of undergraduate chapters.
In the archives are a collection of portraits of the seven Founders, many of the Grand Consuls and other prominent Sigma Chis. The photo collection includes thousands of pictures showing the changing face of the Fraternity throughout the decades, and as you may expect, the archives maintains files on the accomplishments of its members. These files include high-profile Sigs such as actors, congressmen, sports figures and astronauts, in addition to the members that excel in the professions that are the foundation of our society. There are businessmen, members of the military, scholars, butchers, bakers, president Reagan's candy maker … well, you get the picture. In the archives, there are no insignificant Sigs.
The Museum and Archives are guided by the Sigma Chi Foundation's museum consulting committee consisting of:
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Although the archives of Sigma Chi exist primarily to support the Fraternity's mission by providing a historical context for its activities, the archives department also welcomes researchers who wish to explore its collection. For more information, please contact the Fraternity at (847) 869-3655, ext. 220, or send your request to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Reviews of Microsoft's newest tablet, the Surface Pro, were published last night. They weren't too good for the most part.Does that mean every single review was horrible?
Does that mean those who gave the Surface Pro a generally negative review had nothing nice to say about the tablet?
No review of anything will ever be entirely negative or positive. You can always pick out bits from reviews and skew those quotes however you want. What's important to look at is the conclusion each reviewer makes. Does he or she say you should buy the product? Does he or she say the product is a good value? Does he or she say the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?
If the answer is "no" to any of those questions, consider it a bad review.
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The Surface Pro has some impressive hardware specs for such a unique form factor. It can go toe-to-toe with any other thin and light laptop. You won't have to worry about performance. In fact, it outperformed my 13-inch MacBook Air in many respects.
The Surface Pro boots up/shuts down a lot faster than my Air, and it wakes up from sleep mode before I can get to "two Mississippi." In that respect, it felt more like using a traditional tablet than a regular laptop. Very nice.
While the Surface Pro might not be the future, exactly as it is, it's absolutely full of ideas and functions that are just off the horizon, or just in from it. A pro-level stylus, touch-based everything, extreme portability, creative new ways to type. This is how you'd build a machine from the ground up if you wanted to make sure there was no chance of it falling behind the curve.
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Both Hope College cross country teams have received All-Academic accolades from the United States Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association of America.
The 2010 teams have been presented the association's All-Academic Team award. To receive award they needed to have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Meet and maintained a minimum 3.10 team cumulative grade point average (GPA). The Flying Dutch achieved a 3.52 GPA while the Flying Dutchmen had a 3.25 GPA.
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A team of researchers led by UC Davis MIND Institute Director Leonard Abbeduto will investigate the effectiveness of testing procedures to examine the spoken language development of people with fragile X syndrome and people with Down syndrome, through a new five-year, $3 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.
The grant will be used to determine whether these procedures can be utilized to gauge the efficacy of new drugs under development for treating the cognitive and behavioral challenges that face individuals with intellectual disabilities, including fragile X syndrome and Down syndrome.
"Language improvement is an important target for many of these promising new drugs," Abbeduto said. "However, we don't yet have tools sensitive and accurate enough to measure change in language in clinical trials. This study may lead us to understand the efficacy of these drugs."
Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and ranges in severity from learning disabilities to more severe cognitive impairment. It is the most common single-gene cause of intellectual disability and of autism spectrum disorder. Down syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is the leading genetic cause of intellectual disability. Down syndrome is accompanied by distinctive facial characteristics and also can be accompanied by other medical conditions, including congenital heart defects.
The research conducted in Abbeduto's lab has focused, in part, on identifying the specific profiles of language development that characterize fragile X syndrome and Down syndrome, including the aspects of language that are similar or differ between these two disorders.
For the current study, Abbeduto will collaborate with researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Arizona, Tucson. The study will evaluate the reliability and sensitivity of a language-evaluation procedure that Abbeduto has pioneered for two decades called expressive-language sampling.
Expressive-language sampling involves collecting actual samples of spoken language from individuals in different highly scripted and structural contexts and at different times and comparing them with one another to evaluate growth and change in language usage. In the funded project, results of expressive-language sampling will be compared to results obtained from standardized tests of language development to examine the relationship between the skills measured with each respective measure.
Advances in molecular genetics have identified more than 1,000 genetic causes of intellectual disability. This research has led to disease-specific treatments with several pharmaceuticals under development to address the symptoms of different syndromes that result in intellectual disability. However, the advances are hampered by a lack of validated outcome measures against which response-to-treatment can be evaluated for individuals with these developmental disabilities. Expressive-language sampling techniques, while widely used for clinical and behavioral research purposes, have not yet been validated for use as outcome measures for studies of drug treatment efficacy. The newly funded study will address this issue by examining the short-term consistency and long-term sensitivity and the validity of expressive-language sampling procedures.
To conduct the study, the researchers will enroll a total of 300 participants, 150 with fragile X syndrome and 150 with Down syndrome. Each site will recruit and test a total of 60 participants over the course of the five-year project. Three age groups will be recruited for testing: 6 to 11; 12 to 17; and 18 to 23 years.
Each of the study participants will be tested using both standardized tests and with the expressive-language sampling procedures. The language-sampling procedure consists of obtaining samples of spoken language in two different contexts. One is narrating a story depicted in a wordless picture book; the second is performance during a scripted 10-minute conversation with an examiner. The participants will be tested at three different times: an initial testing session, one held two weeks later and a follow-up test after two years.
The study's hypothesis is that, for individuals with intellectual disabilities, standardized tests do not offer the nuanced information necessary to gauge whether language is improving over time, because standardized tests are de-contextualized rather than naturalistic and because they have a "floor effect:" Individuals with intellectual disabilities often receive very low scores on standardized tests, limiting the utility of such tests to provide specific information on how the individual uses language in every day life.
Expressive-language sampling, on the other hand, can provide detailed information on the vocabulary an individual uses and the complexity of the sentences they are able to produce and even the intelligibility of their speech. This kind of information is necessary to judge the effectiveness of drug-treatment protocols as well as to guide planning for behavioral interventions.
"The preliminary data suggests that our procedures can measure even subtle but important changes in language, and pharmaceutical companies see the potential utility of these procedures," Abbeduto said.


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Mrs. Marilyn Smith, 59, of Clarksville, FL, passed away Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at her home in Clarksville.
Marilyn was born on December 29, 1954, in Calhoun County and had lived here most of her life. She was a homemaker and a member of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include her husband, David Smith, of Clarksville; mother and father, Margaret and Broward Davis of Clarksville; one son, Phillip Hatcher, of Blountstown; two daughters, Melody Bontrager and her husband, Dan, of Calhoun County, and Jennifer Davis of Panama City; two brothers, Eddie Davis and his wife, Vicki, of Blountstown, and Tony Davis and his wife, Lisa, of Clarksville; one sister, Annette Allen, and her husband, Wally, of Crawfordville, FL; 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held Sunday, February 9, at 2:00 pm (CST) at Peavy Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Francis Carlisle officiating. Interment will follow in Pippin Cemetery in Clarksville. The family will receive friends Saturday, February 8, from 5:00 until 7:00 pm (CST) at Peavy Funeral Home.
The family requests, in lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Emerald Coast Hospice, 4374 Lafayette Street, Marianna, FL 32446.
All arrangements are under the direction of Marlon Peavy at Peavy Funeral Home in Blountstown (ph. 674-2266).
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Houston, Texas, Feb 8, 2013 / 02:03 am ().- The head of the Vatican's doctrine office called on Anglican communities that have entered the U.S. Catholic Church to have courage in bringing their patrimony into the larger Catholic community.
"Be courageous pioneers of communion, placing the diversity of your gifts at the service of the universal Church," Archbishop Gerhard Müller said on Feb. 2. "The distinctiveness of your traditions and manner of prayer and worship are no obstacle to true unity in the Church."
The archbishop, who is the Prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke at St. Mary's Seminary in Houston, Texas, during a symposium on the mission of the U.S. ordinariate.
Erected Jan. 1, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter is a special diocese-like structure that allows entire Anglican communities to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church while retaining certain elements of the liturgy and other customs.
The Holy Father had authorized the creation of ordinariates for Anglican communities seeking to enter the Catholic Church in his 2009 apostolic constitution, "Anglicanorum Coetibus."
There are currently two other ordinariates for former Anglicans: the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which covers England and Wales and the Australia-based Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross.
In his talk, Archbishop Müller said that the ordinariates serve Christ's "vision of unity."
"It can certainly be said that, in creating this new structure, the Holy Father was responding to a movement of the Holy Spirit," he said. "It is the Spirit that draws the disciples of the Lord together, fashioning them into the ecclesial Body of Christ."
Archbishop Müller explained that the communion of the Catholic Church "flows from the communion of the Blessed Trinity," and its unity is not based on uniformity.
"Uniformity tends toward the elimination of those who do not conform or comply," he said. "Conversely, another way the world tries to achieve oneness is by simply overlooking or ignoring the differences that do exist, even to the point of allowing contradictory claims to truth."
But because the Church finds its unity in God, he noted, diversity in liturgical expressions, in some governance structures and in parish culture "does not threaten ecclesial communion."
"The overarching structure which holds together these expressions is the faith of the Church, ever ancient and ever new, and expressed eloquently in the Catechism of the Catholic Church," the archbishop continued.
Therefore, he said, the ordinariates' preservation of "distinctive Anglican liturgical and spiritual patrimony" is "a hallmark of their parochial life" and "a contribution to the vitality of the Catholic Church."
Archbishop Müller told the ordinariate leadership that they have the "delicate but all-important task" of preserving their communities' integrity while integrating them into "the larger Catholic community."
He stressed the need to foster a "culture of communion" with the bishops, the local dioceses and parishes, the Catholic faithful and "those still separated from the Church," an important task that requires "wisdom, humility, and a firmness of intention to avoid divisiveness."
The archbishop said that ordinariate communities will face "scrutiny" both from interested members of the Anglican Communion and from Catholics who "will want to know that you are here to stay, strengthening our ecclesial cohesion rather than setting yourselves apart as another divisive grouping within the Church."
He noted that members of the ordinariate have displayed "great courage" in entering full communion with the Catholic Church, and he continued them to continue exercising such courage.
At the same time, he warned against taking a "defensive or contentious" position towards Catholic Church authority, saying that "unity is easily undermined by a culture of suspicion."
"The openness of the wider Catholic community to the rich Anglican patrimony which you bring will be encouraged when they experience in your communities the joyful and peaceful embrace of our common faith," the archbishop said.
"In a world marked by division and discord, a culture of communion can be an especially eloquent witness to the truth of our faith and in fidelity to our Lord's prayer 'that they might be one.'"
Archbishop Müller also noted that the Holy Father has been heavily involved in the ordinariate, assuring its members that they "are very much in his thoughts and prayers."
Other featured speakers at the symposium were Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who had served as the Vatican delegate for establishing the ordinariate, and Monsignor Steve Lopes, an official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Msgr. Jeffrey N. Steenson, who leads the ordinariate, also spoke, and Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston welcomed the attendees.
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CME Group Inc.'s overtures toward Deutsche Boerse AG are likely to raise the same concern among customers about higher fees that helped scuttle last year's deal with NYSE Euronext.
The world's second-largest exchange operator by market value approached Frankfurt-based Deutsche Boerse about beginning discussions for a merger at the end of 2012, before Intercontinental Exchange Inc. announced plans to buy NYSE Euronext on Dec. 20, according to four people familiar with the situation. Deutsche Boerse, which had its deal with NYSE blocked by European antitrust regulators, is hesitant about entering talks, the people said. The German company said in a statement it's not in merger talks.
While a deal may yield "significant cost savings" through shared systems for trading and clearing, firms that do business on the Chicago and Frankfurt exchanges may balk at a merger that could increase their costs, Niamh Alexander, an analyst at KBW Inc., said in a report. Diego Perfumo, an analyst at Equity Research Desk LLC, an advisory firm with hedge fund clients, said any combination would face political hurdles.
"CME would be taking over half of the European derivatives market and some member banks may like it and some wouldn't," Perfumo, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, said by phone. "CME is a very strong competitor and they'd see CME concentrating more and more power, first in the U.S. and then globally."
Anita Liskey, a spokeswoman for CME, declined to comment about the company's plans. Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of CME, declined to comment on merger "speculation" in a CNBC television interview today.
Eurex Market
Acquiring Deutsche Boerse would give CME the Eurex futures exchange, the largest by number of contracts traded in Europe. Eurex's main competitor is NYSE Euronext's London-based Liffe market. Deutsche Boerse shares slipped 2.7 percent yesterday after climbing 5.6 percent on Feb. 25.
ICE, as Intercontinental Exchange is known, said in December it plans to keep Liffe and NYSE Euronext's U.S. securities markets including the New York Stock Exchange while exploring an initial public offering of the European stock venues once the merger is completed. The New York-based company runs share exchanges in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon.
A deal between CME and Deutsche Boerse would reduce costs by combining technology and trading and clearing systems, Perfumo said. CME could structure it similarly to ICE's, selling the cash equities exchanges and keeping businesses that overlap, he said. Getting management and regulators to agree to breaking up Deutsche Boerse wouldn't be easy, he said.
Rate Futures
Both companies trade futures on interest rates, commodities and equity indexes, KBW's Alexander said. Still, appeasing futures brokers and other members worried that their trading and clearing fees could rise might be a challenge.
"We don't believe that the member customers would sit as comfortably with a merged CME/DB1 given the power that this combined entity could have over significant global interest rate futures," Alexander wrote, using the ticker symbols for the companies. Merging the futures clearinghouses, which could reduce the collateral customers provide to secure trades, isn't a "foregone conclusion" since they operate in different jurisdictions with different bankruptcy laws, she said.
As Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext negotiated with regulators in 2011, customers represented by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe raised seven areas for antitrust scrutiny with the European Commission.
The group, representing banks and brokers including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., Deutsche Bank AG and UBS AG, argued in submissions to regulators that competition in exchange-traded derivatives and clearing would be stifled by the merger. James White, a spokesman for AFME in London, said the organization had no immediate comment.
Minority Stakes
CME's revenue from clearing and transaction fees declined 9 percent to $545 million in the fourth quarter compared with the same period in 2011, the company said in a statement on Feb. 5. It earned 83.1 cents per contract, up 2.5 percent from the earlier period, it said.
Discussions between CME and Deutsche Boerse could lead to an alliance in which shares are exchanged though not enough to alter control, Perfumo said. Such a transaction could be modeled on CME and BM&FBovespa SA's pact in which the Chicago and Sao Paulo-based exchange companies own minority stakes in each other. CME and the Brazilian equities and futures exchange operator own about 5 percent of one another's shares, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
An alliance in which "the two companies develop products together, leverage their own distribution, link their clearinghouses to the extent regulators allow and have a stock swap" would be easier to negotiate than a breakup of Deutsche Boerse, Perfumo said.
Takeover Bids
Exchange companies around the world have been the subject of takeover bids amid shrinking profits for securities trading, leading to the $8.2 billion offer for NYSE Euronext by ICE, a 12-year-old energy and commodity futures markets operator in Atlanta.
The 2011 bid for NYSE Euronext by ICE and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., rejected by the U.S. on concern the combination would dominate American stock listings, is part of a three-year, $50 billion wave of attempted exchange deals, most of which haven't been consummated.
CME and Deutsche Boerse could achieve "economies of scale, increase market share, offer a broader mix of products and try to get a bigger share of institutional trades on their platforms," Peter Kovalski, an analyst and portfolio manager at Alpine Woods Capital Investors LLC in Purchase, New York, which oversees about $6 billion, said in a phone interview.
"CME is the premier name for derivatives in the U.S.," he said. "A deal can be struck but the question is, can it be approved, because it ends up becoming a political hot potato."
Derivatives Volume
Equity derivatives trading fell last year for the first time since 2004 as volatility subsided, according to a report by the World Federation of Exchanges. Volume in futures and options on stocks and equity indexes dropped 20 percent and interest rate products declined 17 percent, the report said.
More than a decade after it went public, CME may have missed its chance to acquire a European derivatives exchange. Deutsche Boerse is the third company with operations in Europe that CME, under the leadership of Phupinder Gill, examined in the last year. It bid on the London Metal Exchange and talked to NYSE Euronext about the clearing and Liffe businesses, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the talks were private.
Jeffrey Sprecher, the chief executive officer of ICE, also submitted a takeover bid for the LME. Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., which at $20.4 billion is the largest among its peers, bought the metals market in December.
'Only Jurisdiction'
The U.K. is "pretty much the only jurisdiction where there have been big exchanges and where the politics would allow them to be bought by foreign companies," Ruben Lee, chief executive officer of Oxford Finance Group, a London-based consulting company specializing in financial and commodity markets, and author of "Running the World's Markets: The Governance of Financial Infrastructure," said by phone. "The CME was in the bidding for LME. The possibility of buying Liffe was always there, it's just that Sprecher took the opportunity."
ICE bought the International Petroleum Exchange in 2001 and acquired the New York Board of Trade in 2007. CME purchased the Chicago Board of Trade that year and New York Mercantile Exchange in 2008. It added the Kansas City Board of Trade to its slate of exchanges in December.
'Merger Game'
"Both of these exchanges have shown an ability and interest in acquisitions," Bruce Weber, dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, said in a phone interview. "CME sees the ICE acquiring NYSE Euronext and being innovative playing the merger game and they don't want to fall behind."
Antitrust concerns may not hinder a combination unless the so-called vertical model of futures exchanges, in which the market operator owns both the trading platform and clearing operation, prompt regulators to condition approval on a remedy such as spinning off a clearing business, Weber said. CME and Deutsche Boerse are the "poster children" for the vertical model, he said.
'Cultural Challenge'
The European Commission blocked Deutsche Boerse's takeover of NYSE Euronext in February 2012 because a combination would have put 90 percent of European exchange-listed derivatives trading in the hands of one company. Since then, several companies, including CME and New York-based Nasdaq OMX, have said they plan to introduce new markets to trade futures in Europe.
Another hurdle for a deal between the U.S.'s CME and Germany's Deutsche Boerse is which company would have the upper hand, Oxford Finance Group's Lee said. CME market value is $19.5 billion compared with $12.1 billion for Deutsche Boerse.
"This would be a much bigger cultural challenge for merging the two institutions than acquiring NYSE Euronext," he said. "Given that you can never have a merger of equals, one would have to be on top and it's difficult in the current context to see either one being happy not being in this position."


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A letter in the May 8 Tomahawk Leader:
Dear Editor:
In my "Introduction to Developmental Psychology" class at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point I was told that the earliest years are the most important in the learning process. At the Dec. 20, 2006, regular MAPS meeting Jon Krohn eloquently asked "Who will speak for the little ones?" as the school board made cuts to the Head Start program.
Regarding 4-year-old kindergarten, yes, it is available in Tomahawk and Marathon public schools and in some Merrill parochial schools, but no mention has been made as to when this will come to MAPS. (The state of Wisconsin helps pay for this vital schooling.)
In the 2003-04 school year, Dr. Sarnstrom (who stands by her published numbers), in her first year as superintendent of schools, allowed Kate Goodrich Elementary Principal Mark Jahnke (or was this someone else's idea?) to assign two third grade teacher 29 students each and the third teacher got 16 students (MAPS 2006-2007 Budget Book). Was this due to federal SAGE money? What were the two teachers told regarding their having 13 extra students? Is this fair? Were they threatened then or before? (An expert elementary principal once told me 22 was the ideal maximum in grades K-5.)
In the 2004-05 school year those same three classes went to 30, 29 and 19. Feel free to ask the same questions noted in the previous paragraph.
On May 23, 2006, MAPS released the results of the WKC examination taken by students in November of 2005. I was concerned about unusually low scores at Midway Elementary. After 12 months, I think I have it figured out. Keep in mind the principal knew by this past July that he would be the eighth principal released by the MAPS Board of Education in the last two years. I have also been told by informed individuals, that, while Dr. Sarnstrom is aware of the problem (since at least December of 2006), she is doing nothing about it.
And now the April 18, 2007, school board (as opposed to the April 23, 2007, school board which began its 2007-08 duties at about 5:45 p.m. on April 23, 2007) implies that we taxpayers ought to allow anyone age 21-80 who does not have a high school diploma to attend the Merrill Adult Diploma Academy Charter School at no cost to them, while approximately 360 K-5 students spend time being taught/learning in portable classrooms. (See the March 27, 2007, Wausau Daily Herald front page headline: Portable Classrooms Cost Kids Instruction Time, Teacher Says.
Why does the April 17, 2007, school board and Dr. Sally Sarnstrom seem to not care so much about anybody younger than 11? Is it because they don't think we will hold them accountable in 2012 through 2018, or is it because they plan on moving out of the district like Colin Niemeyer?
Wolfgang Cahn
P.S. I personally do not believe Mark Jahnke should become the ninth principal to leave MAPS in the last two year.
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Some made life better, or a little bitter. Others inspired us, amused us, even confused us. A toast to the ideas, good and bad, that made 2012 unforgettable on the East End.
Good Idea: Putting Dan's Papers in the season premiere of CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother
Bad Idea: Not filming the Hamptons-set ABC drama Revenge in the Hamptons
Good Idea: Fixing County Road 39 to reduce traffic congestion
Bad Idea: Fixing County Road 39 at the height of summer traffic
Good Idea: The Tatewich, a combination of Tate's cookies and Joe & Liza's ice cream proven to be the perfect locavore dessert.
Bad Idea: Duck Sushi, which our collective palates allow us to discuss no further
Good Idea: Officially designating the Montauk Lighthouse as a National Historic Landmark
Bad Idea: Officially changing the name of Theodore Roosevelt County Park to Montauk County Park
Good Idea: Alec Baldwin taking himself off the market and marrying Hilaria Thomas
Bad Idea: Alec Baldwin taking himself off Twitter and denying us his hilarity
Good Idea: Banning plastic bags in Southampton
Bad Idea: Banning plastic bags in Southampton
Good Idea: Jason Kidd buying a house in the Hamptons and joining the NY Knicks
Bad Idea: The NY Mets trading Cy Young Award-winner RA Dickey to Toronto. Now he'll never move to the East End.
Good Idea: Bay Street Theatre staying in Sag Harbor
Bad Idea: Staying in Diddy's East Hampton home if you're not Diddy
Good Idea: Tall Ships Memorial Day festival in Greenport
Bad Idea: Boating without your Suffolk County mandated safe-boating certificate
Good Idea: Hamptons Collegiate Baseball becoming their own independent summer league
Bad Idea: Throwing baseballs with your phone number written on them to girls in the stands during the MLB playoffs
Good Idea: Celebrating winners on Shelter Island like Olympic sailor Amanda Clark-Nissen and hoops star Kelsey McGayhey
Bad Idea: Discouraging winning at Southampton High School by eliminating distinction for valedictorian and salutatorian.
Good Idea: Buying a house in the Hamptons far away from the airport
Bad Idea: Having the FAA reroute flights over your home
Good Idea: Holding $50,000-a-plate presidential fundraisers in the Hamptons
Bad Idea: Being quoted as saying, "I just think if you're lower income—one, you're not as educated, two…they don't understand how the systems work," at a $50,000-a-plate Hamptons fundraiser
Good Idea: Liking Dan's Papers on Facebook
Bad Idea: Investing your life savings in the Facebook IPO
Good Idea: Opening the new Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill
Bad Idea: Leaving the old Parrish space in Southampton empty
Good Idea: Throwing a party for friends at your Hamptons house
Bad Idea: Throwing a party for friends in Shinnecock Bay during low tide, then having to be rescued during high tide
Good Idea: Peconic Bay Water Jitney
Bad Idea: Going overboard at the Barcelona party
Good Idea: Dan's Papers moving offices to beautiful new digs Southampton.
Bad Idea: Leaving behind so many five-star restaurants to be within walking distance of McDonald's, Burger King and 7-Eleven
What were the best, and worst, things you encountered on the East End in 2012? Share them in the comments below!


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The Hope College women's golf team has four team members chosen All-American Scholars by the Women's Golf Coaches Association.
The national honor roll recognizes 644 golfers from NCAA Division I, II and III programs who achieved a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade point average during the 2012-13 school year.
Hope's honorees are sophomore Montana Leep of Hastings (Grand Rapids South Christian HS), senior Charlotte Park of Grosse Pointe Farms (Grosse Pointe South HS), sophomore Andrea Powell of Jenison (Hudsonville HS) and freshman Chelsea Root of Haslett (Haslett HS).The school year listed for each honoree is for 2012-13.
This is Park's third WGCA All-American award and the first for Leep, Powell and Root.
Park also claimed All-Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic First Team Honors and the MIAA Women's Sportsmanship Award during the 2012-13 school year.
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Answer: Work through the 12 examples in Annex D of the NEC.
The answer is a bit misleading, though. For one thing, there are actually more than 12 examples. The D1 through D12 examples include ones such as D2(a), D2(b), and D2(c). Furthermore, most of these are for residential calculations. Don't let the residential aspect throw you, however. Those residential examples provide you with a good way to work through NEC concepts you'll use in the facility.
The two straight industrial examples are:
- D3(a). Industrial Feeders in a Common Raceway.
- D10. Feeder Ampacity Determination for Adjustable Speed Drive Control.
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UPDATED: April 15, 2014, at 8:30
This is the first in a weeklong series of articles chronicling Harvard's remembrance of the Boston Marathon Bombings that occured a year ago.
For the Harvard affiliates running in last year's Boston Marathon, it was a picture-perfect mid-April morning and a pleasant, if difficult, run through Boston's suburbs.
"It was a beautiful day, and it was a great run," Patrick Rooney '14 remembered in an interview last week. "It was just a really incredible run. And I think people forget that, for good reason, but it was a really beautiful day."
Rooney was one of dozens of affiliates who had crossed into Boston to take part in one of the area's most treasured spring traditions. Many ran, and countless others watched and cheered along the 26.2 mile course from Hopkinton to Back Bay's Copley Square.
And then, shortly before 2:50 p.m., just yards from the Boylston St. finish line, two homemade explosive devices detonated within seconds of each other, injuring hundreds on the spot and eventually killing three.
Rooney, who was just blocks away from the finish when the bombs went off, said that he didn't know what was happening at first. Neither did those across the river, rushing through their end-of-term Monday schedules, who heard the news in fragmented spurts of short breaking reports and social media postings.
"[It was] kind of an earthquake feeling, turning around and seeing the first one," Rooney said. "And then the second one happened a few seconds later.... It was a very localized thing around those two blasts. I think people that were at the finish line and people that were maybe a block away...could see everything, could hear everything."
But further up the course, those who were still running—many without cell phones or any communication devices—remained in the dark. Sara R. Siskind '14, a Crimson editorial editor, had entered the race unofficially a few miles in to help pace a friend.
"This race official or policeman, I don't remember, stopped me," Siskind said in an interview last week. "I just remember thinking, 'You don't know. I'm running the Boston Marathon. You don't just tell me to stop.'"
But the runners had to stop. With hundreds injured on Boylston street, with the finish line cluttered with debris and medical personnel, the race could not go on. The unfinished race left thousands of runners on the course with spectators and relatives wondering if their friends and loved ones were safe or not.
Eventually, all of the Harvard affiliates who ran the race made it back to a campus which had experienced dozens of unfounded bomb scares and a partial evacuation of the John F. Kennedy School of Government .
Krystle Campbell, a former Business School employee whose brother and mother have also worked at the University, suffered critical injuries in the blasts. Campbell succumbed to her injuries soon thereafter, and was among three who lost their lives in the bombings.
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Meetings and Communication
Information to find places to meet virtually, in real time.
Online chat involves committee members typing messages back and forth in real time. Most chat tools will enable you to archive a transcript of the chat. This can be very helpful for future reference and eliminates the need for a note taker during the meeting.
- ALA Connect has a chat capability which many committees successfully use. This is the most private option for groups needing confidentiality. Chats can also be archived, so that those unable to attend can view a transcript later.
If the ALA Connect chat feature is not working or not preferred, there are other tools you can use.
- Facebook and Google+ both have chat features.
- Slack provides free chat and with the app can easily be used on smartphones
- Tinychat is another free tool you can use that also has video capabilities. To facilitate chat and communication, you can also establish a group on Facebook or a circle on Google+. Access can be set to private, and members can be contacted quickly this way. If you don't use ALA Connect, make sure you save a transcript of your chat and post it to your committee's Connect space.
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Video chat will require participants to have a webcam and in general, requires more bandwidth than voice alone so you will need to make sure all required participants have the necessary technology. A test session is suggested before using this for an official meeting. An external microphone is not usually required, but if you have multiple participants in a voice call then the sound will be clearer if participants use a headset with microphone.
- Google Voice and Video Chat requires a Google ID to participate. It also requires a software download and installation.
- A Google Hangout allows participants to collaborate on documents, view websites, or view videos while they are chatting. This interactive feature may be a very productive way to collaborate online but it also requires the most bandwidth. For up to 9 participants.
- Skype offers free voice and video chat options. Your library may already have a Skype ID; if not, you will need to download Skype and set up an account. Video chat will require greater bandwidth capabilities than voice alone. If you are having difficulty Skyping with more than one person, changing to voice only instead of video sometimes fixes the problem. There is a fee for group chat.
- FaceTime is a videotelephony software application developed by Apple Inc. for supported mobile devices running iOS and Macintosh computers.
Conference Call
These sites offer free conference call capabilities. The phone number used is not toll free so there may be toll charges from your phone company.
Don't forget to investigate conference calling using technology you already have. Have your members check their organization's phone system to see if placing conference calls is possible. Many business phone systems allow users to place conference calls. Check the manual for your phone system. If you don't have access to the manual, Google the make and model to try to find the manual online.
- Smartphones: Many smartphones, such as iPhones, have the capability to conference call by merging up to five calls at once. See iPhone: Using Conference.
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We're developing a new project, a weekly newsletter focused on photography + visual culture recommendations carefully curated from across the Web. You know, the good stuff that deserves a closer look. FlakPhoto Digest is currently in closed beta and will be available to the public later this year. You can request an invite by subscribing below.
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Website - JessicaAuer.com
Jessica Auer is a documentary-style landscape photographer from Montréal. Drawing inspiration from history and archeology, her work is largely concerned the study of cultural sites. From the beaten track to the frontier, Jessica explores places where history and mythology are woven into the landscape, and where contemporary landscape issues emerge. She received her MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in 2007 and is the recipient of several grants and awards. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States and is held in various private and public collections, including the Musée des Beaux Arts du Québec and the Canada Council Art Bank. Jessica is a co-founder and co-director of Galerie Les Territoires in Montréal and teaches photography at Concordia University. She is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa.
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Six alternative proposals for Detroit's Interstate 375 range from keeping it as is, to making the space more pedestrian friendly and opening up more green space, and potential development opportunities are up for public discussion this week.
The public is invited to review and provide feedback on the designs, which range in price tags between $40 million and $80 million, from 2-8 p.m. Thursday in Shed 5 of Detroit's Eastern Market. Short presentations are planned for 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
The cost to repair the existing freeway could be as much as $70 million; it's money the state does not have. Discussions began last year on looking at alternatives that potentially could be cheaper but also make it easier to connect the neighborhood on the east side to the downtown business district.
Will Tamminga, director of project management for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., said the DEGC and Michigan Department of Transportation staff will take input into consideration, along with technical reviews for environmental impact and traffic modeling, and narrow the choices to two.
The final decision likely will come at a public meeting by August, he said. There now are 12 lanes of traffic in the area around the 1-mile expressway from Gratiot Avenue to Atwater Street.
Two of the proposals — alternatives four and six — have the least eight lanes. The other alternatives range between 10 and 12 lanes.
The average daily traffic on I-375 ranges from 15,000 near Jefferson Avenue to 60,000 closer to I-75, state traffic data shows. MDOT said all of the proposals will be able to accommodate the traffic.
"That is going to be an interesting conversation," Tamminga said.
The alternative plans will result in varying travel times, which will be presented at Thursday's meeting.
The longest increase would be about three minutes, said Kelby Wallace, MDOT senior project manager. That is based on traffic patterns in 2040, which assumes traffic growth. Several of the proposals could add an extra three minutes of travel time during the evening rush hour between East Jefferson Avenue and 1,000 feet north of Gratiot Avenue. It now takes an average of one minute for that route, he said.
During the morning commute, the most travel time added to the commute would be two and a half minutes, he said.
Those travel time increases will have to be weighed with the potential for increased connectivity, green space and the potential economic development that could occur, Wallace said.
"That will be part of the discussions and analysis that will take place after this meeting," he said.
The travel times increase in several of the alternatives because there will be fewer lanes of traffic, the addition of stop lights and slower traffic speed limits.
The speed limit now on the freeway is 55 mph and could go to as low as 35 mph, depending on which alternative is chosen.
Regardless of the proposal chosen, the project would be MDOT's. Even if it is decided to go with an alternative to make I-375 a boulevard or local street, it would not change jurisdiction over to the city, Wallace said. But that is something that could be part of a discussion, if the city or state were interested in doing so, he said.
Keeping it a state road allows federal funds to be used, which typically cover 80 percent of a project's cost, Wallace said. The state and local contribution would be 20 percent.
Several of the proposals also free up acreage of land that the freeway or its right of ways occupy. Early discussions have explored the possibility of public-private partnerships to sell the freed-up property and put the funding toward paying for the project.
Also part of the preliminary conversations are how that land would be divvied up, and whether it would offered first to adjacent property owners or to the general public.
"There is a lot of complexity," he said.
The cost for all of the projects that bring portions of the freeway to grade level are less than repairing the freeway and leaving it as is, but that is not because they are factoring in the revenue from selling the freed-up acreage, Wallace said.
It is cheaper simply because it is less expensive to fill in the area with dirt and gravel than to build new bridges, retaining walls and other structures over top of the area.
Each of the alternative proposals except for the first one — which would improve the freeway and leave it as is — would create a connection to the riverfront from East Jefferson to Atwater Street.
Thursday's open house, hosted by the Detroit Downtown Development Authority, MDOT and Detroit RiverFront Conservancy, will provide the second of three opportunities for the public to comment on potential alternative configurations.
Detroit-based Parsons Brinckerhoff, I-375 Alternatives Study consultant, facilitated the questionnaires and analyzed I-375's economic impact, development intentions and traffic patterns.
Chris Gautz: (517) 403-4403, [email protected] Twitter: @chrisgautz


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Rumor: Bosh considering sign-and-trade to join Cleveland and LeBron James?
Everything is set for Chris Bosh to join LeBron James in Cleveland. Everything, that is, except Bosh's approval.
The Toronto Raptors have told the Cleveland Cavaliers they will do a sign-and-trade with them for Bosh, according to several league sources.
The exact details of the potential trade have not been solidified, but Toronto likely would get Anderson Varejao and or J.J. Hickson, Delonte West, and perhaps Anthony Parker. A draft pick could be involved as well.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: He'd get LeBron James. He'd get a maximum contract – six-years, $127 million. And he'd also get the city of Cleveland, which is the problem.
Chris Bosh wants to partner with James and score the most lucrative contract available in free agency; however, he was hoping to achieve both with the either Chicago Bulls, New Jersey Nets, or Miami Heat -and not the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Bosh would apparently prefer a larger market than Cleveland to maximize marketing opportunities. And this is why he hasn`t green-lighted the agreed upon sign-and-trade between the Raptors and Cavaliers.
However, Bosh`s concerns are puzzling because CB4 and The King would form a dynamic duo, capable of attracting both national and international attention.
Meanwhile, Toronto should be sure Anderson Varejao is part of any deal. Forget his affinity for flopping, the Brazilian 'big' would instantly improve the Raptors` defense and allow Andrea Bargnani to play his natural position, the four-spot.
This deal is still a go. All that's left is Bosh's approval. Of course, there`s also the little matter of James officially re-signing with Cleveland.
– O.Sandor.
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Miley Cyrus takes on Nicki Minaj's Anaconda
MILEY CYRUS has thrown her support behind NICKI MINAJ by revealing a mock-up of the rapper's infamous revealing artwork for her new single Anaconda.
Last month (Jul14), the Superbass star hit headlines when she debuted the risque cover art for the track, which features the voluptuous Minaj crouching down with her back towards the camera, wearing only a pink sports bra, blue running shoes, and a barely-there thong, exposing her butt.
The photo quickly took the Internet by storm, and many fans used the image to recreate their own art, such as placing it on a white T-shirt and reimagining the Google logo, perfectly aligning her bottom to replace the two 'Os'.
On Sunday (10Aug14), Cyrus joined in the fun by superimposing her own face on Minaj's and posting the finished product on Instagram.com.
She added the caption, "#dontwantnoneunlessyougotbunzhun @nickiminaj", referring to the lyrics of Anaconda.
Minaj took note and re-posted the picture, writing, "Give me one good reason why Miley made this her twitter avi (avatar)", along with laughing emoticons.


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What looked like the end of Florida's three-game losing streak turned out to be a final act of futility on a forgettable weekend.
What looked like it would be the end of Florida's three-game losing streak turned out to be the Gators' final act of futility on a forgettable weekend.
With the score 4-4 in the bottom of the 10th inning in the series finale with visiting Florida Gulf Coast, 17th-ranked UF loaded the bases with nobody out and somehow came away empty.
The Eagles made them pay in their next at-bat as left fielder Sean Dwyer stepped to the plate in the top of the 11th with two men on and one out and rocketed a three-run home run, his first of the season, to deep right to complete a three-game sweep with the 7-4 win for FGCU, the first team to sweep the Gators at McKethan Stadium since Miami in 2009 as a crowd of 3,133 looked on Sunday.
"It was a great weekend for us," FGCU coach Dave Tollett said. "We thought we had a great ball club coming in, and anytime you come to Florida and just win one, you're happy. We just played really well this weekend."
UF coach Kevin O'Sullivan was clearly disappointed.
"First off, I want to congratulate Florida Gulf Coast," he said. "They earned what they got this weekend, and they played outstanding. They swung the bats very well. "We got the bases loaded with nobody out, and the swings got too big. We've got to stay short to the ball and just hit a fly ball, just to give us a chance to score a run. It's as simple as that." Sophomore Casey Turgeon led off the Gators' 10th with a single and went to third when FGCU reliever Harrison Cooney, who was otherwise outstanding, threw wildly to first on an attempted pickoff with Justin Shafer at the plate. Tollett elected to have Shafer and Zack Powers intentionally walked at that point to load the bases, and it could not have worked out any better. Cooney (1-1), who threw five innings of two-hit, shutout relief to earn the win, retired freshman Kevin Stypulkowski on a short fly to center, freshman Christian Dicks pinch hit for Cory Reid and hit a ground ball that forced Turgeon at home for the second out and then Vickash Ramjit flew out to center field to end the 10th. UF freshman Eric Hanhold, making his first career start, only made it through three-plus innings before giving way to sophomore Johnny Magliozzi. FGCU (5-1) freshman starter Michael Murray, meanwhile, cruised through the first four innings, allowing just three hits before the Gators (3-5) got to him in the fifth on a two-out RBI single by Martin that cut the FGCU lead to 2-1. Taylor Gushue's one-out RBI single in the sixth tied the score at 2 and chased Murray. An infield hit by Vickash Ramjit and a ground out by Cody Dent both plated a run later to give the Gators a 4-2 lead, but it was short-lived. Magliozzi gave up a two-out single to Dwyer in the seventh, and clean-up batter Brooks Beisner, a transfer from Auburn who came into the game hitting .526, blasted the next pitch into the palm trees in right for his fourth homer of the season, tying things at 4-all and setting the stage for extra innings. Shafer (0-1), the last of five UF pitchers, was saddled with the loss. Dwyer (4-for-6) paced a season-high, 16-hit attack for FGCU while Martin (3-for-6) led UF. UNF (5-2) visits UF Tuesday at 7 p.m. before Miami comes to town for a three-game weekend series. "We've got a lot to work on," O'Sullivan said. "We've got to get the ball down, we've got to execute better on the mound, we've got to get better starts — we haven't had a really good start all year long. The ball was up in the zone. "But we had our opportunities."


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Bill Abramson is the new general manager of the Sports Center at Chelsea Piers. Prior to this new appointment, Abramson was general manager of the club's Field House. He is also first vice president of Chelsea Piers Management, executive director of the Chelsea Piers Camps and supervisor of human resources.
Club Fit has been switching things up at its Briarcliff Manor and Jefferson Valley, N.Y., facilities lately. The chain has announced management changes effective May 1.
Bill Beck, who has been the general manager of Club Fit Jefferson Valley since 1993, will try a hand at being general manager of Club Fit Briarcliff. Also moving from Jefferson Valley, Diane Pullblank, director of personal training and specialty programming, will become assistant general manager in Briarcliff. James Stropoli will move from the role of assistant general manager to general manager of the Jefferson Valley Club, while Briarcliff's Fitness Director Felicia Gaglio will become the new assistant general manager at Jefferson Valley.
Meanwhile, Terry Lanza, who has been with Club Fit since 1984 and started the aerobic dance program in Briarcliff, as well as served as membership director there since 1996, will now oversee membership sales and services in both Briarcliff and Jefferson Valley locations.