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Question of the Week, Week 3 - Fire Assessment
August 9, 2013
City Council candidate question of the week Each week through the primary, The Breeze will ask the candidates for Cape Coral City Council an issue-related questio....
Just to give an example the chief of police and the one poor excuse before him were in the DROP Program.
They retire, but stay on to collect pension check and current pay check. Who in that department is being held down or possibly paid to be the second stringer? Where is the DROP participant going to go Miami to be the chief (in this case) or Mayberry? Probably neither. More golf, a trip to Scotland, whatever. What is needed in government local, county, state and federal is a new program. I propose MEOFG Move Em Out For Good!
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I could care less where it come from which is the state. This program is a total waste and keeps deadwood government workers in place. While oppressing younger workers from moving up and implementing new ideas and shaking the rest of the tree for deadwood!
Governor Scott broached this subject when he was elected but was rebuked by the state senate and house so it was not followed up. What it tells me it is more than a live issue to be removed.
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Hey senseless are you aware where the drop program comes from?
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Boyd is part of the problem era. He supported the 175000000 water treatment plant based on we would have 250000 people now but we only have 180000. He over staffed fire and police based on 250,000 people. He supported the 100,000,000 police dept. supported the palace fire stations where on 25% of the building houses fire equipment and he supported the UEP general contractor while the contractor was over billing the service. He makes Harry reid look like a tea party leader
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MCS...Finish the story about foreclosure and Leetz. He stated he was in foreclosure because he was not going to pay for a mortgage which was more than the house was worth. What happened to signing a promisory note promising to pay? Was this his first foreclosure??? No sainthood there for this guy.
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James 71 they already did what you stated. The city staff is more than covered with a raise and a 5% bonus on top of the raise to cover all the new taxes.
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Sorry, Sense, they vote no so they can say, Look at me I voted no for any money no matter what cause I kept my campaign promise. Had nothing to do with you.
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Leetz voted no because "they didn't offer us the proper assessment for the fire tax model". Ok, and your proper assessment choice would have been.....just no.
Sullivan said no...because we have to have a better diversification model to create new jobs and bring in new business. Check every election year same old, same old But...Sullivan presents no new plan, just votes no.
No clue what to do, say goodbye.
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I have a better diversification idea. Since the increased taxes go to the city unions why not tax assess the properties OWNED by city union members. That way they can call for wage increases and tax themselves for the increase
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So Jim Burch opposed tax diversification in 2009 but now supports because the millage will be slightly reduced. Huh? As I recall,in 2009, the diversification was to be revenue neutral, unlike this go round. Talking out of both sides of his mouth
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Most of the answers really provide little information, but one candidate says it all. Jim Burch says he worked hard to give us the biggest tax cut in history between 2009 and 2010. General budget in FY 2009 was $146,375,706. In his only budget he passed, it was $148,027,813, nearly 2 million higher. After he was ousted, the council worked to undo a lot of the spending he put in place, but he had nothing to do with it. Only Burch could vote to raise millage over 60% and boast of a tax cut. Vote for Headd, who is honest and seems to have the best interests of the city at heart.
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Aw, the truth hurts...you notice he may tell us to "shut up" but he doesn't give any facts to show that we are wrong. Just saying.
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common nonsense at it again. Yelling at people he doesn't like, telling them to "shut up". What a wonderful whatever. Sounds like anger management courses should be on his agenda, real quick.
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This proves the Marni, Vince, Richard Leon and Kevin are the only ones with either the vision or the cojones to see the need for moving forward. Instead of people championing mediocrity they should be demanding the reduction in millage rates to offset the fees. People need to understand also that with the needs associated with capital projects (paving, etc..) the offset will not be an even one. What puzzles me most is the ignorance of the mayor when he says we need new sources of revenue without affecting taxpayers. Just where in the world does he think these new revenues are coming from, the tooth fairy? We the taxpayers are the only ones here benefiting from the services so it will be us who will pay. Sullivan has lost his senses it seems.
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4 years with Sullivan and he still says bringing businesses to the Cape is the solution to higher taxes...well John, point to the busnesses that you have brought to the Cape that has resolved the infrastructure neglect that YOU presided over for the last 4 years. Like I said on an earlier post, 4 years ago the voters of the Cape went to the polls to elect a Mayor and a leader, inatead we got John Joseph Sullivan. Enough is enough, vote the BUM out.
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"It's A Western, Give Me A Break:" Quentin Tarantino Isn't Appreciating The Post-Sandy Hook Criticism
From The Grio
Since the December 14th Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting political figures and activists have called for immediate action on gun control. They believe that stricter laws on gun control could have stopped this tragedy and can prevent others in the future.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson does not agree.
"I don't think it's about more gun control," Jackson said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life."
He feels that parents and role models who instill a positive foundation in children can have more of an effect than legislation.
Jackson co-stars in the upcoming film Django Unchained alongside Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as a slave-turned-bounty hunter and Kerry Washington who plays Foxx's wife in the film.
Django Unchained has received strong praise from film critics. And the film has already received five Golden Globe nominations, but the violence in the film has stirred up considerable controversy.
In the wake of the tragic shooting deaths of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, the timing for such a brutal film makes many uneasy.
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- 1. Explain to your counselor the precautions that must be followed for the safe use and operation of a potter's tools, equipment, and other materials.
- 2. Explain the properties and ingredients of a good clay body for the following:
- a. Making sculpture
- b. Throwing on the wheel
- 3. Make two drawings of pottery forms, each on an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper. One must be a historical pottery type. The other must be of your own design.
- 4. Explain the meaning of the following pottery terms: bat, wedging, throwing, leather hard, bone dry, greenware, bisque, terra-cotta, grog, slip, score, earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, pyrometric cone, and glaze.
- 5. Do the following. Each piece is to be painted, glazed, or otherwise decorated by you:
- a. Make a slab pot, a coil pot, and a pinch pot.
- b. Make a human or animal figurine or decorative sculpture.
- c. Throw a functional form on a potter's wheel.
- d. Help to fire a kiln.
- 6. Tell how three different kinds of potter's wheels work.
- 7. Visit the kiln yard at a local college or other crafts school. Learn how the different kinds of kilns work, including the low-fire electric, high-fire gas or propane, wood or salt/soda, and raku.
- 8. Explain the scope of the ceramic industry in the United States. Tell some things made other than craft pottery.
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While some people debate the aesthetic value of Windows Phone 8, with some noting it's "boring" compared to Android, most people do take notice of its unique design in the mobile world. We've seen nominations and awards in the past so it should be of no surprise to see The Design Museum in London giving a nod to Microsoft's mobile solution.
Windows Phone 8 is now one of 90 nominated technologies ranging from Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. What makes the nomination of Windows Phone interesting is it is the only contender representing a mobile operating system in the contest, which should tell you something about iOS and Android and what judges of design think about them.
The contest winners are set to be announced in April and while Microsoft has some stiff competition, we'll just go ahead and preempt with "it's just an honor to be considered".
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One nanometer is about five atoms wide. That's roughly 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Weird stuff happens at this scale. Or, as the great physicist Richard Feynman presciently noted in 1959, "atoms on a small scale behave like nothing on a large scale."
Take gold. It's the softest of all metals, prized since ancient times for both its beauty and malleability. It can be easily bent into rings or pounded into foil. But that can be changed at the nanoscale.
A recent experiment — reported in Nature Communications and led by University of Vermont engineer Frederic Sansoz and Scott Mao at the University of Pittsburgh — demonstrated that gold nanowires could be made to have Herculean strength: ten times stronger than steel.
Nearly perfect
To do this, the scientists created tiny layers called "twin boundaries" in the crystalline structure of the gold. Each of these layers was especially tiny even by the yardstick of nanotechnology: about 0.7 nanometers thick, only a few atoms across.
The microscopic wires were all pure gold, but "just by changing the structure of the material at the atomic scale we increased the strength fifty times," Sansoz says. "It's higher than titanium alloys and comparable to Kevlar fibers. It becomes a super-strength material."
In fact, the gold wires that they tested in both the lab and in computer simulations on the Bluemoon supercomputer at UVM's Vermont Advanced Computing Center come very close to a state of matter that physicists call "theoretical strength." This is the strongest possible arrangement of atoms of that element.
"We demonstrated that we attained nearly the maximum strength that Mother Nature could achieve," Sansoz says.
To strengthen the gold, they relied on one of the basic principles of nanotechnology: that when you make things extremely small they are going to become more perfect.
"Perfect in the sense that their arrangement of atoms in the real world will become more like an idealized model," says UVM's Sansoz. "With smaller crystals — in for example, gold or copper — it's easier to have fewer defects in them."
And eliminating the defects at the interface separating two crystals, or grains, has been shown by nanotechnology experts to be a powerful strategy for making materials stronger, more easily molded, and less electrically resistant — or a host of other qualities sought by designers and manufacturers.
Not so perfect
But while Sansoz's work with gold pushes it toward a kind of perfection of strength, another experiment he and colleagues recently completed demonstrates that one perception of perfection at the nanoscale may not actually be so perfect after all.
Since 2004, when a seminal paper came out in Science, materials scientists have been excited about "coherent twin boundaries" or CTBs. Based on theory and experiment, these CTB's are often described as "perfect," appearing like a dead-flat, one-atom-thick plane in computer models and electron microscope images.
Over the last decade, a body of literature has shown these coherent twin boundaries — found at the nanoscale within the crystalline structure of common metals like gold, silver and copper — are highly effective at making materials much stronger while maintaining their ability to undergo permanent change in shape without breaking and still allowing easy transmission of electrons — an important fact for computer manufacturing and other electronics applications.
But new research by Sansoz and colleagues from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere shows that coherent twin boundaries found in copper "are inherently defective."
With a high-resolution electron microscope, using a more powerful technique than has ever been used to examine these boundaries, they found tiny kink-like steps and curvatures in what had previously been observed as perfect.
Even more surprising, these kinks and other defects appear to be the cause of the coherent twin boundary's strength and other desirable qualities.
Kinks and curves
"Everything we have learned on these materials in the past 10 years will have to be revisited with this new information," Sansoz says.
The experiment, reported in the May 19 edition of Nature Materials and led by Morris Wang at the Lawrence Livermore Lab, applied a newly developed mapping technique to study the crystal orientation of CTBs in so-called nanotwinned copper and "boom — it revealed these defects," says Sansoz.
This real-world discovery conformed to earlier intriguing theoretical findings that Sansoz had been making with "atomistic simulations" on a computer. The lab results sent Sansoz back to his computer models where he introduced the newly discovered "kink" defects into his calculations. At UVM's Vermont Advanced Computing Center, he theoretically confirmed that the kink defects observed by the Livermore team lead to "rather rich deformation processes at the atomic scale," he says, "that did not exist with preconceived-to-be perfect twin boundaries."
With the computer model, "we found a series of completely new mechanisms," he says, for explaining why coherent twin boundaries simultaneously add strength and yet also allow stretching (what scientists call "tensile ductility") — properties that are usually mutually exclusive in conventional materials.
"We had no idea such defects existed," says Sansoz. "So much for the perfect twin boundary. We now call them defective twin boundaries."
Better understanding
For several decades, scientists have looked for ways to shrink the size of individual crystalline grains within metals and other materials. Like a series of dykes or walls within the larger structure, the boundaries between grains can slow internal slip and help resist failure. Generally, the more of these boundaries — the stronger the material.
Originally, scientists believed that coherent twin boundaries in materials were much more reliable and stable than conventional grain boundaries, which are incoherently full of defects. But the new research shows they could both contain similar types of defects despite very different boundary energies.
"Understanding these defective structures is the first step to take full use of these CTBs for strengthening and maintaining the ductility and electrical conductivity of many materials," Morris Wang says. "To understand the behavior and mechanisms of these defects will help our engineering design of these materials for high-strength applications."
For Sansoz, this discovery underlines a deep principle, "There are all manner of defects in nature," he says. "With nanotech, you are trying to control the way they are formed and dispersed in matter, and to understand their impact on properties. The point of this new Nature Materials paper is that some defects make a material stronger."


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in-tan-gi-ble [in-tan-juh-buhl]
1. not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.
2. not definite or clear to the mind: intangible arguments.
3. (of an asset) existing only in connection with something else, as the goodwill of a business.
4. something intangible, esp. an intangible asset: Intangibles are hard to value.
The other week I was out with Robby Virus, who plays in the band Project Pimento. We were at the Rite Spot and he asked me what I found satisfying about bartending.
Since he is a musician, I tried to think about what would be similar between being a musician and tending bar.
The more I talked, and thought, about the job, the more I realized that it seemed like there were similarities.
There's an "oevre" you have to master. Songs for musicians and drink recipes for bartenders.
There's a craft you learn. Playing your instrument for musicians and making drinks for bartenders.
In both jobs, you are in the public eye, performing in some fashion. Appearance, style, and looking like you know what you are doing, (even if you don't,) are important for both jobs.
In both jobs, you do your best to prepare. Then you just put yourself out there, without knowing what the evening will have in store. An empty bar or a zoo. A crowd that appreciates your craft or hecklers.
But what is it that makes bartending satisfying? The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was the interactions with your customers. It's about the spark, the feelings, the interaction with the room. A night that is going well has an energy all its own. I coughed, and kind of half embarrassed that I would think something so "new agey", said to Rob, "I think it is all about the Intangibles. The relationships you have the people you are serving and the feelings you get from doing it. It has to be similar for musicians, doesn't it?"
Before Rob could answer, our waiter, who I hadn't even known was listening to our conversation, said, "No, you're right. I've done both jobs. I've been a musician and a bartender. That is what makes both jobs worth doing."


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Community organizers want you. Whether it's helping out in a classroom, tutoring after school, or mentoring a teenage church group, they're hoping to galvanize more on-the-ground service to bring up early reading skills and graduation rates.
United Way Worldwide (UWW) announced Thursday an effort to recruit 1 million volunteers over the next three years to improve education.
People believe communities can't be strong without strong schools – and vice versa – according to a new UWW report based on dozens of community conversations, focus groups, and polling data in urban and rural settings.
"An overwhelming majority ... say that they want to get involved in trying to help young people succeed. They just feel disconnected – they don't know how to act on it," says Brian Gallagher, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide, a nonprofit group with more than 1,200 chapters across the United States.
Next step: scale up from partnerships around the country already proven to make a difference.
In Grand Rapids, Mich., for example, the local United Way chapter is coordinating an effort to help 900 of the most disadvantaged first- through third-graders master reading. More than 60 companies are giving employees paid time off to mentor. About 1,200 community volunteers are working one-on-one with kids in school for 30 minutes a week. And churches are hosting after-school literacy programs. In just 9 months, students in some of these programs have gained 18 months worth of academic growth.
Talk about the need for volunteers is nothing new, but this moment could be different, says Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency overseeing service initiatives.
Many community and corporate groups are partnering with UWW to mobilize volunteers for education, and both President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan regularly use the bully pulpit to do the same. "What we have now is an alignment across some fairly powerful players in the field that are motivated to push education reform over the finish line," Mr. Corvington says. "Everyone agrees that national service and volunteerism fuel education reform."
At a Town Hall meeting in Washington that United Way Worldwide convened and webcast Thursday morning, Secretary Duncan said the goal of 1 million more volunteers can be transformative: "If we can systematically step up to the plate ... our young people from the toughest of backgrounds can do extraordinarily well," he said.
But there are barriers to overcome, including some mistrust between parents and school staff, according to the UWW report. Particularly in low-income and minority communities, some feel that the education system is stacked against them.
"Schools want a good relationship with parents, but especially of late, in the political climate around education, they're feeling under siege," says Steven Sheldon, a research scientist at the Center on School, Family, & Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "The accountability pressures on them are around finding immediate achievement test results, and things like a welcoming climate [and] parent trust ... are not on the accountability radar," though ultimately they are essential for a successful school, he says.
When volunteer organizations coordinate effectively with schools, however, they have enormous potential, Mr. Sheldon says.
One effort his center is evaluating is a mentoring program for 6- to 18-year-olds being piloted by the Boys and Girls Club of America.
The "Be Great: Graduate" program coordinates with schools so that mentors can keep an eye on warning signs for dropping out, such as attendance or behavior issues. It requires a long-term commitment from volunteers, because the longer the relationship builds, the more young people develop trust.
"When they connect with caring, concerned adults, it's just like a light goes on," and the mentors become the ones kids bring their report card to, says Jan Still-Lindeman, spokeswoman of the Atlanta-based organization.
Indeed, paying attention to the whole child emerged as a theme in the United Way's listening tour and poll. Community members raised concerns about bullying in schools and safety in neighborhoods. They rated "declining moral values" and lack of respect for teachers as a key challenge in education.
In the UWW's January poll of communities with low graduation rates, 29 percent of respondents said they worried about their child dropping out of school, and 91 percent agreed that "we as a community have to take greater responsibility for what's happening with our schools."
More than half the thousand people polled said they had volunteered in the past 12 months. The top activities they're willing to do: Work with a church to provide youth activities (25 percent), neighborhood watch (22 percent), mentor children after school (21 percent) and help with homework or tutoring (15 percent).
The United Way has set up a website to help match up people find local opportunities to become a volunteer reader, tutor, or mentor: liveunited.org/volunteer.


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Advocates of cycling, walking lobby for federal funds
Central Coast advocates for bicycle riding are in Washington this week to lobby for federal money for biking and walking.
Members of the San Luis Obispo Bicycle Coalition are joining 900 people in similar organizations from around the country as part of the National Bike Summit. Executive Director Dan Rivoire and Leslie Bloom, marketing and outreach director, are representing the Central Coast and the coalition.
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I have a Canon 5D Mark iii and shoot RAW.
I'm currently using a Sandisk Ultra 32 GB SDHC Class 10 30MB/s (on Amazon here, for reference).
Sometimes, photos get corrupted and I'm not sure where this is coming from.. Is it the camera, the card, the copy process, Windows or my computer?
I'm thinking it's either the card or the copy process, but I'm not sure. Sometimes re-copying works, sometimes it doesn't.. I'm at a loss.. is this happening to anyone else?
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I'm bored, so I figured I'd do a little running diary of the Vikings/Bears game. FYI - The only reason I'm watching this giant, frozen crap-fest is that it's important to the Packers.
7:35 - Man, I hate these two teams...we'll see how long this lasts as there is a South Park Christmas marathon on Comedy Central. Jay Cutler has always reminded me of Cartman.
7:40 - Would a tie help the Packers? I really don't want either team to win.
7:41 - Vikings fans wear some stupid outfits. Eric the Red would not be pleased.
7:42 - Jaws: "Brett Favre, the ultimate warrior." Ummm...no, there was only one Ultimate Warrior..actually maybe there was two.
7:46 - Percy Harvin TD. The. Bears. Still Suck.
7:50 - How long before Gruden says, "These teams don't like each other."?
7:51 - Text from Viking fan buddy: So. Much. Fun. Favre.
8:00 - So Favre's a "wily, old veteran" and "like a 23 year-old"? I'm so confused right now. Make it stop.
8:01 - Favre's healthy. He threw an INT. And I win an online sports betting wager.
8:04 - I wish Toby Gerhart would have blown Julius Peppers up on that interception. Make yourself useful, Tobias.
8:10 - It's like the Vikings are playing the Vikings, they aren't even mentioning the Bears.
8:14 - Bomb to Johnny Knox. Ugh. Double-Ugh.
8:17 - Toby Gerhart is a poor man's John Kuhn....like Bob Cratchit poor.
End of First Quarter
8:22 - Chris Harris just blew up Bob Cratchit. Tiny Tim might have felt that hit.
8:27 - Jay Cutler looks miserable. Then again, doesn't he always have that look on his face? I guess he can't be that miserable, he got away with a blatant intentional grounding.
8:31 - Is there any player in the history of football that Jon Gruden didn't love?....other than Keyshawn Johnson. Now there are coworkers, I wonder how awkward those staff meetings are.
8:32 - Favre got LIT. UP. Joe Webb, strap up. Side note: Bryant McKinnie is terrible.
8:39 - There is nothing to like about the Chicago Bears. I'm trying to think of something...anything...nope, nothing.
8:40 - Favre's return "Doubtful" We know that doesn't mean anything.
8:42 - Thanks a lot, Vikings. You could have at least pretended to show up. 17-7. Game over.
8:47 - The Vikings should start running the option, it might not work, but it'd be fun to watch.
8:48 - Gruden: "He doesn't know anything." I'm beginning to think you have a lot in common, Jon.
8:51 - This game is terrible...let's see what else is on...hmmmm...Bad Santa? (Link contains fairly un-Christmaslike language. Sorry, Grandma) "You want me to make you some sandwiches, Santa?"
8:55 - The Vikings have fallen really, really, really, extremely, drastically far in a short amount of time.
8:56 - Two minute warning. Two minutes until I go find something more worthwhile to do like....well, like anything else.
8:58 - How the hell do the Bears not know that offsetting penalties negate the play?!? Morons....and Jay Cutler pulls out his magic. I love watching him throw interceptions. They really are a thing of beauty. Seriously, that was a perfect throw to Asher Allen.
9:07 - It's a Christmas Miracle. HALFTIME.
9:16 - I don't think I would buy a Dodge Caravan from Dexter Morgan...on the other hand it might be the safe thing to do to stay off his radar....and I'm off to shovel. Night everyone.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Vikings/Bears First Half Running Diary
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Half time, Vikings locker room. Zygi Wilf, "God damit!!!! play like daddy needs a new stadium!!!ReplyDelete
Second half on mute, they had the inter-web on that night, needed some last minute gifts. Umm? The cheese and sausage gift box looks nice. What? Packer gift wrap...jackpot!
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While the iPhone 4 is going to get most of the attention this week, I wanted to circle back to the Sprint HTC Evo 4G, arguably the most advanced phone you can currently buy, with its 4.3-inch display, front-facing camera for video calls, hot-spot features, and support for 4G networks. I've been using it for the past several weeks, and found a lot I really like but a lot that just doesn't work quite as well as I'd want it to.
PCMag has a full review of the Sprint Evo, so I'm mostly going to focus on my impressions. The first thing you notice about the Evo is the size of the device, and particularly, the screen. The 4.3-inch 480 by 800 display is great. It's bright and clear, and the additional resolution compared with most phones makes text easy to read. The downside is that the phone is a bit larger, though it's about the same thickness as an iPhone. I found it fit just fine in my pocket, so in general, I thought the size was an improvement.
But the feature that gets the most attention is one I couldn't test: its support for what Sprint is calling 4G, in this case the WiMax network Sprint is licensing from Clearwire. That network is up and running in a number of cities, but New York (where I work) is not one of them. All reports, however, indicate this uses a lot of battery life.
Still, the phone works fine on 3G now, with the promise of adding 4G, for data only, when the network is available (and Sprint promises it will be in many more places by the end of the year).
The Evo also has a smaller 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, which should theoretically allow for video calling. I say "theoretically" because I wasn't able to find anyone to video call. Sprint is now pushing Qik, but none of my colleagues have a phone that supports it. I also downloaded Fring from the Android Market, which does allow connections to other services, such as Skype, but it never worked for me. For now, it's a chicken-and-egg problem.
Even without 4G, the phone felt quite fast at most operations. It runs Android, and is powered by a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Web browsing and most applications, including multitasking, seemed pretty snappy on the device. The faster processor should speed up pages with things like Javascript, and indeed, many Web pages loaded notably faster on it than on the Motorola Droid running on the Verizon network, even though the actual network speeds should be about the same.
One feature that worked quite well is the Sprint Hotspot feature, which lets you take an Internet connection from the phone (either 3G or 4G) and connect up to eight devices via Wi-Fi. I tried this frequently and was able to get a reasonable connection that I could share with my laptop and my iPad. (I couldn't get enough consistent bandwidth to stream video on a moving train, but otherwise it worked quite well.) It certainly is more convenient than carrying a separate Overdrive unit.
But there is a downside: This, too, uses a lot of battery life. Using it for an hour seems to eat up between a quarter and a half of the battery of the phone. And that's the biggest issue with the phone: The battery life is short, particularly when you're running the HotSpot feature or multiple applications that access the Internet at the same time. In normal use, mostly for Web browsing and the occasional phone calls, it did last the day for me; but in heavy use, it wouldn't last the day.
As a result, you have to be very careful which radios you have on and which applications you run. While I understand that a faster processor, multiple radios, a bigger screen, and multitasking all take more battery, it's something that you just don't want to have to think about.
Another very useful feature is the 8-megapixel camera. I remain skeptical that phone cameras will ever be as good as your typical point-and-shoot (because the lenses are smaller), and indeed the images I took weren't as high-quality as those you'd get from a mid-range digital camera. But in general, I was pleasantly surprised. They looked pretty good.
The EVO's camera has a number of very nice features, including geo-tagging, face detection, and a digital zoom. It can also capture MPEG-4 video at 720p, though I found the results a bit jerky. At VGA resolution (640 by 480), it was notably smoother, though of course with fewer details. Still, it was quite impressive for a phone. Let's be clear: This won't replace a higher-end camera, but for day-to-day use, it's just fine.
I did have one problem: the phone I had simply would not let me share photos taken on the device via either normal mail or Gmail. Sprint says it's something wrong with my particular unit: I've seen this work on other Evo phones. Still, it's a problem.
The Evo runs the Android operating system, topped with HTC's Sense user interface. This lets you just pinch on the screen to see seven "home screens" at once, typically including a main screen and ones for mail, calendar, music and friends, and a "Footprints" location application.
As with all Android phones, you have a very good selection of other applications you can download from the Android Market. While it does not have as many applications as Apple's App Store, there are thousands of choices, including favorites like Foursquare, Shazam, and Yelp. HTC adds a number of its own tools, including Friend Stream, which collects posts from and lets you post to Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter. This worked quite well for me.
For mail, HTC puts your most current message on a separate screen as a default, but the basic mail client is the standard one used on other Android phones. This works pretty well with POP, IMAP, and Exchange Active Sync mailboxes, and has features such as a conversation view, but I still find it annoying because it doesn't support putting mail messages into folders.
I used Google's free turn-by-turn navigation system with the phone and it worked well.
Overall, I like a lot of the features on the Evo, and it's certainly quite good for Web browsing, running Android apps, and even as a mobile hotspot (if you accept the additional charges and battery-life hit). But a very small glitches and the fact that several of the features really aren't ready for use yet, including video calling and 4G in most places, makes me think this isn't quite ready for mainstream use yet.


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Strangers Help Disabled Man See His Hero
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Two strangers became heroes to an Independence family at the Blake Shelton concert at Oak Park Mall on last Saturday.
Patrick Connelly's wheelchair kept him from being able to actually see his favorite country singer perform at the concert, until those two strangers stepped in to help.
"Patrick started crying because he couldn't see Blake Shelton, he couldn't see anything but the legs of the people in front of him," said Cheryl Connelly, mother.
Connelly and her daughter tried to hold Patrick, who suffers from a number of physical and mental disabilities, up for a better view, but the 100-degree heat quickly got to them.
All of a sudden, two strangers offered to hold him up. The men held Patrick for over 20 minutes, even though they were sweaty and visibly tired.
"Today in this world you don't see that much heartfelt kindness from strangers," said Connelly.
They even took him to the front of the stage for the rest of the concert where Patrick got to shake Blake's hand.
"I can't thank them enough and what that meant for my family, and especially for Patrick, for what it meant for him to be able to see that," Connelly said. "It brought tears to my daughter and myself."
After the concert, Patrick was able to go backstage and meet his hero.
"He loved it, he was so amazing, he was so happy, he actually got to see him up close and he was really, really happy and excited he got the opportunity to do that. It meant a lot to our family," Connelly said.
Even though Connelly said she thanked the men at the concert, she still wanted to tell her story to FOX 4 to make sure the men know how much this experience meant to her and her son.


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James Phillips (1 September 1860, Pleasant Creek, now Stawell, Victoria – 21 April 1930 at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) was a Victorian First-class cricketer and Test match umpire.
He did not play his first first-class match until 1885/86, and altogether played 124 matches for Canterbury, Middlesex and Victoria between 1885/86 and 1898/99 as a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler. He scored 1827 runs at an average of 12.59 with a highest score of 110 not out, and took 355 wickets at an average of 20.00 with best figures of 8 for 69. Seven times he took 10 or more wickets in a match. He also took 50 catches. As a player and umpire he travelled between Australia and England, following the cricket seasons. Middlesex valued his contribution so highly that he was given a benefit match, Australia v. Middlesex, in 1899. He was also able to help Australian players, such as Albert Trott find jobs and play cricket in England. For a while he coached in Christchurch, New Zealand and played first-class cricket for Canterbury.
Phillips umpired a total of 29 Test matches. His first match was between Australia and England in Melbourne on 21 March 1885 to 25 March 1885, comfortably won by England by an innings and 98 runs. His colleague was George Hodges, standing in his only Test match.


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HOB Salons
Hob Salon is an award-winning group with 18 branches, hob salons is the current British Hairdresser of the Year and British Colour Technician of the Year. This account will be an attribute to any portfolio and will almost certainly lead on onto follow up business.
The previous website of HOB Salons is located at: http://www.hobsalons.com
Our primary target is women aged 18 – 55 years old who are proud of they way they look. They read Grazia, Hello and Cosmopolitan. They shop in Zara, Top Shop and M&S. They buy their groceries in M&S and Waitrose. They are brand loyal not discount loyal. They seek a hairdressing relationship not just a haircut.
This was the result of some market research into the profile of hob's clientele. It is true that this is the profile of a lot of their clients and so they don't want to neglect them by being too edgy but at the same time their clients are also fashion-savvy and desire aspirational brands and the work the creative team produce is very much like that. The website needs to strike this balance of being aspirational / luxurious / classy and cool but without being too cool.
Secondary target is 25 - 45 aged ABC1's - fashion conscious men and women
This Brand is extremely image and design conscious and a successful designer will need to focus on the images provided and make them the centre of the pages submitted. Flash is not needed but not ruled out should you feel it necessary. In that regard, while we know it is not possible to showcase directly by the designer, any animations ideas, or illustrations on the design will be appreciated.
HOB Salons wants the website to be image-led, simple graphics, contemporary, not too busy looking, and straight to the point. The client likes a monochrome style, as this typically reflects the above points.
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It is wished that designers produce a front page as well as a generic sub page, from designers who enter the competition. It is HIGHLY recommended for designers to review the below listed materials, such as the sitemap and website listing document with client comments.
Necessary images can be accessed from: http://www.hobsalons.com/images/2009-collection/
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High-Adventure/Sports Program Adviser
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Program Adviser
A Varsity Scout Team High-Adventure/Sports Program Adviser is a Team Committee member and an adult counterpart to a youth High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager in the Varsity Scout team. The program adviser serves as a sounding board and adviser as the youth plans and is primary leader for his program.
Position description
This program adviser mets with the youth program manager. The Varsity Scout acts a primary leader by supervising one or more advancement and award activities; the adviser provides direction and encouragement for these activities. The program manager learns leadership skills by carrying out these activities, and satisfies a requirement for the Denali Award. The other Varsity Scouts on the team may also fulfill a requirement for the Denali Award by active participation in the planned event. The adviser does not need to attend the activity, but approves the activity of the primary leader and determines what is required by the other Varsity Scouts to satisfy "participation."
Worthwhile activities help the Varsity Scouts toward Boy Scout advancement, Varsity Scout Letter and Denali trail advancement. and Scouting awards and merit badges. Activities for the religious award may be also coordinated with the Chaplain Aide.
Appointed by the Team Committee Chairman (can be recommended by the Team Coach). The program adviser can be a parent of a youth member of the chartered organization; in smaller units, the team coach may serve as a program adviser. The chairman along with the team coach meets with the program adviser to review duties.
- Serves on the team committee.
- Guides and mentors the youth advancement program manager.
- Meets with the youth program manager(s) to advise and encourage worthwhile high-adventure or sports activities that will help the team advance and the program manager satisfy the Denali requirement.
- Abides by the safety guidelines of Guide to Safe Scouting and "Safety in the Outdoors" pp. 61-70 in the Varsity Scout Guidebook.
- Makes contact with people and organizations, which will help Varsity Scouts learn proper outdoor techniques and sports ethics.
- Organizes transportation and other logistical needs for all high-adventure/sports activities.
- Acts as a resource to camping, high-adventure/sports activities that the team members will enjoy participating in.
- Reaches out to Varsity Scouts who do not regularly participate.
- Participates in boards of review on a regular basis.
- Completes all training that is available for the adult Varsity Scout leader.
- Sets an example for youth members by maintaining the principles of the Boys Scouts of America.
The high-adventure/sports field of emphasis especially encourages the team to earn the Varsity Scout Letter, and fulfill the leadership and participation requirement for the Denali Award.
Please make yourself available to meet the youth program manager, especially for the first time meeting. It is critical to get together with a program manager very soon after he receives this new assignment. Familiarize yourself with the Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet; make sure that the Varsity Scout completes one for "event" activities (involving team meetings), and submits it to his Squad Leader.
Working with the youth advancement program manager
The program manager's tenure may be as short as three months, so help him make a plan and get started right away. The program manager will select an activity in one of the four areas (and remember, activities are not limited to events that have Varsity Scout Activity Pins):
- Long-term High-adventure. One multi-night event is required once a year. When not planning for this event, the program manager will select from the other areas below. Just a few examples include backpacking, canoe camping, snow camping, caving participating in Operation On-target, wilderness or winter survival, cross-country skiing or whitewater canoeing.
- Short-term High-adventure. This can be any activity that may involve an overnight campout, but the campout is not required to. Examples include cycling, fishing or waterskiing.
- Sports. A sports season or activity by the team members includes training or practice. A sport may be among the entire team or competition between squads (such as bowling), an interteam Varsity Challenge (such as "Frisbee golf" with another youth group), or league play (such as a community or church soccer, softball or basketball team).
- Ultimate Adventure. An ultimate adventure with the team can be any event including Discovering America, mechanics, or orienteering.
Big Event
A "Big Event" is a group of common-themed activities from one or all of the other program fields of emphasis, culminating in a high-adventure, sports activity or ultimate adventure. The "Program Features at a Glance" give examples how other programs can mesh together.
Varsity Challenges
Activities can be interteam with other Varsity Scout teams, other Boy Scout troops, or Venturing crews, or with young women. A Varsity Challenge can be sports or a fun competition such as a "Goofy Olympics."
Activities should be exciting and fun for the program manager. Read the Advancement Program Manager's duties and the Varsity Scout Guidebook pp. 61-70. Help the program manager choose from "Ideas for High-Adventure/Sports Activities" and the "Program Features at a Glance." Other activities may be approved by the adult program adviser that encourage advancement and allow the Scout to exercise leadership by organizing multi-step projects, making assignments, and working with Scouts and other adults.
Program helps
Event and ultimate adventure planning
- Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet (25K PDF) BSA 2003.
- Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet (33K PDF) Modified, Team 336 Omaha, NE (6/06).
- Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet (8K PDF) Modified, Utah National Parks Council, Provo District (2001).
- Varsity Scout Sample Trip Plan (29K PDF) BSA 2003.
- Ultimate Adventure Planning Checklist (33K PDF) BSA 2003.
See also
|Varsity Scout portal
- Positions of Responsibility
- Venture Patrol
- Varsity Scouting
- Varsity Scout Program
- Varsity Scout Advancement
- Boy Scouting
- Boy Scout Uniform
- Merit Badges (Worksheets)
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Team Advancement Leaders:
|Reports to:
|Chartered Organization Representative
|Lead by:
|Team Committee Chairman
|Committee Secretary • Committee Treasurer • Advancement Chair • Equipment Coordinator • Activities Chair • Membership Chair • Training Chair • Public Relations Chair • Friends of Scouting Chair • Scouting for Food Chair • Fundraising Chair • ScoutParent Unit Coordinator • Chaplain
|Program Advisers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events
|Team Coach • Assistant Team Coach(es)
Team Positions of Responsibility and Adult Advisers
|Team Leadership:
| Captain • Cocaptain • Team Secretary • Squad Leader • Quartermaster • Chaplain Aide •
Librarian • Instructor • Den Chief • Order of the Arrow Team Representative
|Program Managers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events
|Other team leadership:
|Historian • Bugler
|Team Coach • Assistant Team Coach(es) • Committee Secretary • Committee Treasurer
|Program Advisers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events


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Announced on September 10, 2013, the Apple iPhone 5s has few external design changes other than an introduction of new case colors including gold and white, and space gray and black. New features with this phone include a fingerprint sensor embedded in the home button (which is now missing the familiar rounded square icon) which lets the user restrict who can access the phone without a passcode, an upgrade to a faster 64 bit dual-core 1.3 GHz A7 processor, a slight upgrade to a 1/3.2-inch sensor in the 8 megapixel camera, and dual-LED 'true tone' flash.
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Liberty News
Honor society comes to aid of community center
The Jubilee Family Development Center in downtown Lynchburg is still seeing the benefits of a large donation made this year by the Liberty University chapter of the international business honor society Sigma Beta Delta (SBD).
The Jubilee Center is a local nonprofit organization that helps at-risk youth develop academic and social skills, and also provides family services to encourage personal, social and spiritual growth. The center was struggling financially until Liberty business professor Scott Hicks had an idea.
Hicks, a Liberty alumnus and SBD treasurer, first heard about Jubilee last spring when a neighbor invited him and his wife to a fundraiser for the center.
"We didn't even know who they were at the time. We just heard they had a lot of financial trouble and they were a great organization in the city and that they had a huge impact," Hicks said.
SBD, which includes about 170 residential and online student members, agreed to donate $8,000 ($4,000 from society dues and $4,000 from an anonymous donor) if the center could raise another $8,000 to match it, which it did.
"I just felt that God laid it on my heart," Hicks said. "What better way to get our resident and online students involved in something that impacts the community?"
He said the donation is in line with the society's mission and purpose.
"One of the things they [SBD] is concerned with which totally aligns with our Christian worldview is that they want to build business leaders who, when they leave school, will be able to go out and impact their communities in a positive way."
Tance Laughon, special events coordinator at the Jubilee Center, said because the center's services are free during the school year, donations from individuals and businesses are important. She said SBD's donation helped cover the costs of utilities and the center's summer camps.
"It was a real blessing … . For someone to give you a totally unrestricted donation and to allow you to put it where it can be best used, it's a rarity to get something like that from an organization," Laughon said. "It came at a wonderful time. I can't think of a time in my last seven years when we've needed it more."
|Scott Hicks
SBD members volunteered at the center this fall and some did their Christian Service there (a requirement for all Liberty students). Laughon said there are more Liberty students volunteering at Jubilee than ever before.
Jaclyn Hoffman, a senior business management major and SBD member, recently volunteered to help clean the Jubilee center after an open house event.
"It is important that students at Liberty University get involved in the community because we have so much to give," she said. "Christians are called to be servants, and when we serve from the joy we have from Christ, I personally believe that is a huge statement of faith and a refreshing blessing to those in the community."
Sigma Beta Delta honors students who have attained superior scholastic achievement in business programs in regionally accredited colleges and universities. The Greek characters "sigma, beta and delta" represent "wisdom, honor and the pursuit of meaningful aspirations." Membership is open to all junior, senior and graduate student business and accounting majors who are in the upper 20 percent of their class.
The Liberty chapter of SBD was founded in 1997. Professor Bob Rencher is president and professor Bob Mateer is vice president. There are 342 chapters of SBD, with more than 57,000 members.


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Attorney General Geraghty's Response Letter to Chairman Troy Eid Regarding the ILOC Report
December 6, 2013 (Anchorage, Alaska)
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Troy Eid
Chairman, Indian Law and Order Commission
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Re: 2013 Report from the Indian Law and Order Commission
Dear Chairman Eid:
I write to express my gratitude to the Commission and its staff for their effort and commitment in preparing "A Roadmap for Making Native America Safer." Fundamentally the Commission issued an urgent, yet fair, challenge which resonates with me: the State of Alaska can, and should, be doing more to work collaboratively with local tribes to improve public safety.
As the Commission recognizes in Chapter 4 of the report, there is promise for improved public safety in "the entering into of MOUs or other similar agreements between local law enforcement agencies and tribal public safety agencies to permit or deputize the tribal officers to enforce State criminal law."
In fact, the State has taken a significant step in that direction with an effort that has been developing for several months. The Department of Law has drafted a template agreement that would enable tribes to address violations of certain State laws through tribal courts. Under the agreement, when a person commits certain domestic violence, alcohol, or misdemeanor offenses, a tribal police officer (or other peace officer) could offer the person the option of having the offense addressed in tribal court through tribal civil remedies, in lieu of State criminal prosecution. The goal is to foster meaningful restorative justice by empowering the tribal community to enforce locally and culturally relevant sanctions for tribal members and nonmembers alike. This initiative was announced by the Governor at the Alaska Federation of Natives Conference last month. We have sent the template to the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC), a nonprofit entity representing forty-two tribes. The response thus far has been positive and we have a meeting with TCC this month to start negotiations.
As another example, many small communities and villages in the State are incorporated as second-class cities. We have drafted a template MOU for those "cities" that have adopted an alcohol ban. The MOU outlines the right of these communities to establish a local council to address alcohol possession offenses. The local council, which could be staffed by tribal elders or other leaders in the community, can issue restorative justice remedies in lieu of citation for alcohol possession?and I will concede this is an offense which is rarely prosecuted in smaller rural communities under State law. However, we hope local communities will take advantage of this opportunity to empower themselves to stop a violation when they see it occurring, starting with destroying or pouring out the contraband.
We are also taking strides with our juvenile population. The Division of Juvenile Justice has entered into a pilot program with the Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island to collaborate on the development and implementation of a diversion program. DJJ reviews all cases for juveniles who have been charged with minor offenses on the Island and appropriate referrals are diverted to the local program. The community has committed to "provide a local, community-based diversion program for the purpose of providing restorative justice diversion activities for juveniles charged with minor juvenile offenses." Although this program, too, is in its early stages we hope it can serve as a model for other Native communities around the State.
Finally, I also want to update you about developments with VPSOs. An effort has been underway for some time to draft regulations allowing officers who otherwise meet minimum standards and training to carry a firearm in the performance of the officer's duties. The public comment period on those regulations is now open and will continue through January 17, 2014.
I would like to address some larger issues raised by the report.
I. The Report ignores important demographics about Alaska's Native population.
The statistics cited about Native victimization, suicide and other public health measures are, with few exceptions, state-wide. They should be of grave concern to any responsible public official and?they certainly are to me. However, the state-wide numbers cited in the report?and the resulting recommendations?do not reflect that the majority of the Alaska Native population lives in Alaska's larger communities. For example, 60% of Alaska Natives, over 80,000 people, live in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Wrangell, Kodiak, Bethel, Dillingham, Nome, Kotzebue, Barrow, and the Kenai Peninsula. Approximately 26% of Alaska Natives reside in the Municipality of Anchorage alone; 38%, over 50,000 people, live in the Municipality of Anchorage, the Fairbanks North Star Borough and the City and Borough of Juneau.
These are communities with all the attributes of "self-government,"
and all the services that you decry are lacking in our rural communities.
People who live in these hub communities have access to law enforcement,
shelters, court facilities, treatment facilities, protective orders,
and so on.
The report highlights the admittedly dire state-wide statistics about Alaska Natives, which would include both our urban and rural populations, but I question the evidentiary basis for the rhetorical question the report raises, "Why do these grave crime and safety issues persist in Alaska's tribal communities?" I believe the more accurate question is why do these grave crime and safety issues persist in the Alaska Native population? Indeed, public safety is a state-wide concern, not limited to rural villages.
However, I did not see any recommendations dealing with Alaska's justice system in terms of serving the 60% of the Native population that resides in those urban and semi-urban communities. I was frankly disappointed that the report did not look beyond the creation of Indian country to help solve those problems. I would have been very interested in learning about recommendations for dealing with these crime and safety issues which are not limited to tribal communities?because that is not where the majority of the Alaska Native population lives.
With all due respect, I submit the cause-and-effect is much more nuanced than implied by the statistics cited in the Commission's report. As a result, the Commission did not look beyond solutions that would dismantle the core agreement in ANCSA, and build up the conventional reservation model, which Alaska's Natives thoroughly considered?and rejected?when ANCSA was negotiated.
II. The Commission's report fails to address the difficulties in imposing tribal self- government in communities with significant non-Native populations.
As I noted at the outset, I agree with the Commission's finding that the State should build on the premise that "tribal self-government is the best means of improving outcomes for American Indians living in tribal communities." But Alaska villages are not exclusively tribal communities. The report does not explain how non-Native residents in these communities will participate in that tribal self-governance given that they have no right to vote on tribal laws or participate in electing tribal leaders. It is worth emphasizing that this is a significant number of people.
The Commission views Alaska's villages through the lens of the
Lower 48 reservation system, where citizens understand that entering
a reservation will subject them to tribal law, and non-tribal member
residency on the reservation is often controlled by the tribe. In contrast,
since ANCSA's passage, Alaskans have been free to reside in any
Alaska community and expect to be governed by a uniform system of criminal
laws. These people, while not members of the tribe that may predominate
in a particular community, have bought land and built lives in these
Respectfully, the Commission's Report does not adequately address the difficulties that could arise with respect to the non-tribal member population living on these non-tribal lands. Understandably, I believe most Alaskans would not choose to live in a community in which they had no right to participate in electing their leaders or voting on the laws that will apply to them.
III. The State is committed to reducing domestic violence and sexual assault in all our communities, rural and urban.
The Commission's Report harshly criticized the State for supporting an exception in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act that was recently passed by Congress. The exception sought by the State clarified that the Act, while expanding the jurisdiction of tribal courts in the Lower 48 to issue protective orders, did not expand or retract tribal court jurisdiction in Alaska.
When I met with you and Professor Goldberg last year in my office, I frankly don't recall if then Commissioner of Public Safety Joe Masters talked about State Trooper enforcement of tribal court protective orders. In point of fact, the Alaska State Troopers do enforce tribal court protective orders. They are required to be registered in State court, but Commissioner Masters assured me on more than one occasion that, if confronted with an emergency or tense situation, the troopers enforce the orders without the formality of State court registration.
Frankly, domestic violence and sexual assault are a scourge in this State, and no one is more sensitive to that than Governor Parnell. Since taking office he has made the fight against this epidemic a priority of his administration. The fact is we will not solve this problem solely through arrest and prosecution?though that is obviously an important component. Instead, we must also raise awareness and educate our kids.
Among other efforts, the Governor started a Choose Respect initiative, which substantially increased the funding for VPSOs. In 2007 there were less than fifty funded and filled positions; in August of this year they exceeded 100 funded and filled positions. The Governor has made a commitment to provide a VPSO for every community that wants one.
He also started an annual march in communities throughout the State
to raise awareness and start turning the tide. In 2010 eighteen communities
participated; in March 2013, over 160 communities participated in marches
that took place throughout the State. And we are not talking about State
employees; we are talking about men, women, and children who live in
these communities and take the time to be involved. I traveled to Barrow
in 2012 to march with that community and the turnout was impressive,
including many students and community leaders.
The Governor and First Lady have marched in Huslia, Fairbanks and Palmer; only bad weather prevented them from landing in Old Harbor this year.
There was an article in the paper today announcing the second annual state-wide summit sponsored by the Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault in Juneau. CDVSA is a state-funded umbrella support organization. Teams from nineteen communities in Alaska will be participating in the three-day long event. Participants include victim service providers, law enforcement officials, health care providers, VPSOs, and tribal leaders from Allakaket, Bethel, Dillingham, Emmonak, Nome, Nulato, Old Harbor, Prince of Wales, Sitka, Unalaska and Yakutat, along with other communities.
The Commission's Report concluded that Alaska's support of the VAWRA exception was "unconscionable." While I do not question the Commission's good faith, with all due respect, I believe that characterization is inappropriate. We have admittedly a long way to go to solve this problem but I think the Commission does a disservice to the State when it paints with such a broad brush.
In summary, the State believes the Commission was wide of the mark in recommending a return to Indian country as a means for solving the admittedly serious public safety issues facing our Native peoples.
These are Alaska's problems that must be, and will be, solved by Alaskans. Creating Indian country in Alaska is not the only way to reap the benefits of working effectively and collaboratively with tribes on local issues. Again, I believe the Commission was on point in challenging the State to do more. We disagree with the means you suggest to accomplish that goal, but rest assured this administration remains committed to that goal and we will continue to work on solutions that are practical, effective and respectful of tribal interests.
Michael C. Geraghty
Attorney General
cc: Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator Mark Begich
Congressman Don Young
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Cowling Arboretum awarded funds to assist with restoration programs
This winter Carleton College Cowling Arboretum staff will take the first steps in a new forest and grassland restoration project, funded through the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. A $64,593 grant, administered through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, will help restore 38 acres, about 4% of the Carleton Arboretum. "While 4% seems like a small portion, Arboretum users will notice some big changes, so we wanted to make sure our users were aware of what this project entails," reports Nancy Braker, Arboretum Director.
The overall goal of the Cowling Arboretum is to restore examples of native plant communities: the forest, oak savanna and prairie that were originally found in the Northfield area. The current project includes 27 acres of future forest and oak savanna in the Lower Arboretum and ten acres of future prairie in the Upper Arboretum.
Project areas in the Lower Arboretum include pine plantations that are declining in health, and previously cut pine areas now choked with brush. The pine plantations to be removed are primarily jack pine, a short-lived species that was planted more than 70 years ago. Some of the pine stands were not thinned in the past and are now crowded and stunted. "Many of these trees are now dead, and are constantly falling over the trail, creating a management hazard for our staff and blocking the way for our runners, walkers and skiers," Braker explains.
Not all the Arboretum pines will go; other plantations will be retained and thinned in the future to create a more healthy and productive environment. The pines were planted for timber production, and the original intention of the College was to remove them at maturity. The College currently expects to retain some of the pine plantations at the north end of the Arboretum for future lumber use by the Carleton sawmill and for visitor enjoyment.
The Upper Arboretum section of the project includes a former agricultural field now overgrown with brush and short lived trees such as boxelder.
Overall, the project will include the removal of non-native trees and shrubs as well as native woody species that are inappropriate to the specific location or are impeding restoration efforts. The woody material (cut trees and brush) that is removed will be used for lumber, chipped for landscape mulch or used for energy production.
Arboretum staff are currently preparing for a contractor to remove the trees this winter. Trees to be left uncut will be marked with spots of blue paint. Once the trees and brush are removed, additional work will take place to prepare the sites for future replanting.
Funding for this project is provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR). The Trust Fund is a permanent fund constitutionally established by the citizens of Minnesota to assist in the protection, conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the state's air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources.
For more information, contact Carleton College Cowling Arboretum Director Nancy Braker at (507) 222-4543 or by email at email@example.com.
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Photo Flash: The Flea's RESTORATION COMEDY Opening Night Party
Director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar is creating a modern-day Restoration experience with this production. The play will begin with a baroque musicale in the lobby while guests sip on unique holiday cocktails created by Macao Trading Company. The show's choreography is set to music by the Scissor Sisters. Intermission will feature a burlesque act with hors d'oeuvres from Macao. To end the evening guests will be able to join in a post show dance party and enjoy more libations to aid in the merrymaking.
Restoration Comedy is a radical combination of two plays - Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift and John Vanbrugh's The Relapse. Cibber's Love's Last Shift was 1696's biggest hit. Vanbrugh so despised the play that he wrote a sequel to undo everything he found inauthentic, creating The Relapse – which became the rival sensation of the season. The combination of these plays– itself an homage to the Restoration fad of sublimating existing sources – brings us smack into the middle of a thoroughly modern marriage debate: is it a legal union, or a stitching of souls?
This production will feature The Bats: Michael Axelrod, Jaspal Binning, Naomi Bland, Brantley Brice, Emily Brown, Allison Buck, Alex Coelho, Whitney Conkling, Matthew Cox, Greg Engbrecht, Eloise Eonnet, Kelechi Ezie, James Fouhey, Justin Garascia, Rosa Gilmore, Cleo Gray, Kerry Ipema, Finn Kilgore, Chase Kinney, Alex Mandell, Anthony Martinez, Jennifer McCormick, Bonnie Milligan, Zac Moon, Seth Moore, Erik Olson, Ivano Pulito, Alexander Seife, Stephen Stout, Liz Tancredi, Jennifer Tsay, and Mari Yamamoto. The design team includes Will Taylor (Choreographer), Julia Noulin-Merat (Scenic Designer), Daniel B. Chapman (Lighting Designer), Loren Shaw (Costume Designer), Jill BC DuBoff and Jeremy Bloom (Sound Designers), and Rowan Doyle (Props Designer).
Amy Freed is the author of Restoration Comedy, The Beard of Avon, Freedomland, Safe in Hell, Claustrophilia, The Psychic Life of Savages, You, Nero and, most recently, The Monster Builder. Her work has been produced at South Coast Repertory Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, Yale Rep, The Wilma Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman, Playwright's Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, Arena Stage and other theaters around the country. She is an Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University and a current Playwright-in-Residence at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Freed is currently completing work on a script about the American social experiment known as the Oneida Community. She's also working on commissions for the Arena Stage and Berkeley Rep.
The Bats are the resident Acting Company members of The Flea Theater. Each year over a thousand actors audition for a place in this unique company. The Bats perform in extended runs of challenging classic and new plays. The Bats have recently appeared in World Premieres by A.R. Gurney, Will Eno, Adam Rapp, Beau Willimon, Mac Wellman, Elizabeth Swados, Thomas Bradshaw, Itamar Moses, Sheila Callaghan, Julian Sheppard, Ken Urban, Tommy Smith, Jonathan Reynolds, Trista Baldwin, Laurel Haines, Qui Nguyen and Sean Graney.
The Flea Theater, under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include the premieres of Anne Nelson's The Guys, seven plays by A.R. Gurney (O Jerusalem, Screenplay, Mrs. Farnsworth, Post Mortem, A Light Lunch, Office Hours and Heresy), Cellophane and Two September by Mac Wellman, Ashley Montana Goes Ashore... and The Oldsmobiles by Roger Rosenblatt; JABU and Kaspar Hauser by Elizabeth Swados; Return of the Chocolate Smeared Woman by Karen Finley, Bingo with the Indians by Adam Rapp, Oh, The Humanity and other exclamations by Will Eno, Dawn and Job by Thomas Bradshaw, Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used to it) Itamar Moses, The Great Recession, Girls in Trouble by Jonathan Reynolds, Parents' Evening by Bathsheba Doran, Looking at Christmas by Steven Banks, the Drama Desk nominated She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, the Drama Desk nominated These Seven Sicknesses by Sean Graney and I Hate Fucking Mexicans by Luis Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio.
Restoration Comedy runs now through December 30, 2012. The performance schedule varies. The Flea is located at 41 White Street between Church and Broadway, three blocks south of Canal, close to the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z and 1 subway lines. Tickets are $40 - $45 and can be purchased online at www.theflea.org or by calling 212-352-3101. NOTE: This production contains profanity and partial nudity.Photo Credit: David Sernick
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The 911 calls released Thursday reveal audible cries of fear in the moments after the fiery Northern California bus crash that claimed 10 lives while en route to Humboldt State University last Thursday.
The distressed caller tried to explain what happened over screams in the background.
"We crashed into a bus...a truck. I don't know where we are," the caller said. "We were coming from LA and we're going all the way to Humboldt State University."
Ths bus erupted into flames when a FedEx big rig crossed a 60-foot median and slammed head-on into the bus.
"The bus is on fire," the caller said as others could be heard screaming and crying. "We are getting away from the bus actually."
California Highway Patrol Capt. Todd Morrison said that investigators will conduct vehicle tests using a 2014 tour bus and a 2007 FedEx tractor-trailer truck to learn more about characteristics such as braking and visibility.
"We are hoping to learn how it happened so that we can identify what to do to prevent it from happening again," Morrison said.
Investigators were also still interviewing passengers, witnesses and urging anyone with video of the crash to send it to authorities. They also attempted to recreate the crash scene with similar vehicles to try to gain insight.
"We owe it to the families of the involved families and the victims of this tragic collision that we tell the story of what happened, and that we tell it as accurately as possible," Leal said.
All 10 victims in the crash had been identified, some by authorities and others by family, including a recently engaged couple, a college admissions counselor and the the drivers of the truck and bus.
Fellow students returned to the scene of the crash Thursday to pay tribute to those killed one week ago.
Glenn County Sheriff-Coroner Larry Jones said most of the victims had been positively identified by his office, but their causes of death were being withhel pending toxicology testing.
"That can be several weeks out before we receieve all of that data from the labatory," Jones said.
Michael Myvette, 25-year-old Mattison Haywood, 26-year-old counselor Arthur Arzola, students Adrian Castro, 18, Marisa Serrato, 17, Denise Gomez, Ismael Jimenez , Jennifer Bonilla, bus driver Talalelei Taiao and FedEx driver Tim Evans were among those killed in the wreck.
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Today was just one of those days!!!
I felt like staying in bed and sleeping in. Which I did! That meant insead of Crossfit I had to go to my gym 24 hour fitness.
I ran and than went to the gym for an hour.
I looked at my log book and updated it and realized I would hit 5,000 running miles for the year no problem. I plan on running 40 mile on New Years eve morning. So looks like this week I will run very little until that day so I can hit 5,000 miles on that day.
I try and run 4,500 each year. I will have to look back but I think this is maybe the 4th time in my 8 years that i've hit the 5,000 mile mark.
That's a lot of running!!!
Have a awesome day...
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I get it. It is all just movement it is not good or bad it just dance and the way our life moves like a dance.
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text: Friday, February 11, 2011 ABPTS Speaker Emphasizes Residency/Fellowship, Specialist Certification Coordination Kim Nixon-Cave, PT, PhD, PCS, told attendees at the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties opening ceremony of the value of coordination of APTA's Specialist Certification program and its Residency/Fellowship program. At Wednesday evening's Combined Sections Meeting 2011 event, she said, "I'm in a unique position to talk about the journey, the evolution of both the Residency/Fellowship and Specialist Certification programs because of the privilege to have served on both boards at an important time in the evolution of these programs. Both of these programs evolved from basic ideas to being successful within their own right." She praised "visionary physical therapists"—citing Mary McMillan, Mildred Elson, Catherine Worthingham, and Katherine Shepard—who "envisioned physical therapists as professionals" and who "discussed the need for specialty practice in physical therapy and the need to promote lifelong learning." Nixon-Cave said they "reminded me of a quote from Dr Martin Luther King Jr: 'Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.' These individuals didn't know what the staircase would look like in the future, but they set the foundation for the steps on the staircase." Continue reading Nixon-Cave's address in the February 11 issue of CSM 2011 Daily News, which includes coverage of the Linda Crane Memorial Lecture; oncology rehabilitation; the role and future of physical therapy; using virtual reality for patient evaluation, rehabilitation, and assessment; the relationship between exercise and brain health; and more. For pre-conference coverage, go to the February 10 issue.


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