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Tom Hopp, 32, joined Institution for Savings eight years ago, and says the Newburyport bank has always gone out of its way to support him. It gave Hopp a $500 gift card when he bought a house, another $500 when he got married, and $500 when he had a daughter. It also threw the couple a baby shower, and gave Hopp several weeks of paid leave when his wife had medical complications. And now, the bank is paying for him to obtain his MBA at Suffolk University.
"As long as I have a job here, I'm happy,'' said Hopp, vice president for information technology.
Institution for Savings in Newburyport and its Vicinity is the number one small employer in this year's Top Places survey. Employees praised the 118-employee, 191-year-old bank for its strong ethics efforts to take care of workers.
"We try our best to give them the best benefits,'' said bank chief executive Michael J. Jones, "and be there when they need in good times or bad.''
Jones said the bank tries to support the special interests of employees. For instance, if an employee likes to go hiking or play golf, the bank might give the worker extra days off to enjoy those activities, or make sure that runners have time to exercise during long lunch breaks. Jones says he's confident that workers will repay the bank by working extra hard.
Michael J. Jones, CEO of Institution for Savings.
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"It really all comes back to us in the end,'' Jones said. "People really appreciate it.''
Institution for Savings has also tried to pay better salaries than its competitors, and pays 100 percent of workers' health care premiums. It offers both a traditional pension and a 401(k) plan with a 100 percent match for employee contributions, up to 10 percent of their income. And it tries to recognize important life events, such as weddings or new babies with cash and gift cards.
The bank is also an unusually stable place to work. Jones tries to promote from within, and can't think of the last time a manager was fired or quit to take another job. One in four employees have been with the bank for at least a decade.
Jones said he loves to see employees feel confident enough about their jobs to buy a home or car: "It just screams stability.''
Founded in 1820, Institution for Savings is one of the larger community banks in the northeastern corner of the state, with $1.2 billion in assets. But the bank has been careful not to expand too quickly - it has just six offices - and remains solidly in the black, which allows it to share the wealth with workers. This year, it's on track to earn $15.7 million.
Institution for Savings is mutually owned, as opposed to being owned by shareholders, so there's no outside pressure to agressively boost profits. Jones said the bank also donated more than $650,000 to more than 40 organizations last year.
But it's the treatment of employees that makes the bank stand out. For instance, it surprised mortgage officer Ellin McSweeney with a ticket to England to greet her son, an Air Force sergeant returning from Iraq.
This year, McSweeney, 54, was diagnosed with cancer. The bank arranged rides for her to a medical center for treatment, and provided a laptop so she could check in with clients from home when she couldn't come into work, she said. It's also sent her groceries, hired a cleaning service for her home, and dispatched a beautician to give her a manicure and pedicure.
"They've been absolutely phenomenal,'' said McSweeney. "I work for the best company in the world.''
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- At the heart of this spectacular destination is Cambridge University, which is split into 31 architecturally stunning colleges. The most famous is Kings College, with its distinctive gothic chapel and illustrious list of former students. Take a tour to hear all the stories about famous former students.
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KREMMLING – Gary and Jennifer Bumgarner have been selected Citizens of the Year by the West Grand Community Educational Foundation.
The Bumgarners have a long history of involvement in the Kremmling community. They share a common thread with past Citizens of the Year – a passion for making their world a little bit better place in which to live.
Gary was born and raised in Kremmling, and ranching was always what he wanted to do, he said. He represents the fourth generation on the family ranch; his mother Helen was born in Middle Park and lived in the Blue River Valley near present-day Spring Creek.
Gary's father Welton was from Russell, Kansas. Welton had dairy cows and delivered milk, cheese and butter to town. They also raised sheep until Gary started the cattle business.
Jennifer grew up in Fort Morgan, Colo., before moving to Loveland in junior high. She graduated from Loveland High School and attended the University of Northern Colorado where she earned a degree in vocational home economics.
She accepted her first teaching job at West Grand School District in Kremmling, where she met Gary. Jennifer says she always knew she was going to be a teacher but just didn't know what subject she would be teaching. She earned a Masters Degree in Technology Education and is currently the technology teacher for students in Kindergarten through eighth grade in the West Grand School District.
The Bumgarners raised three children, Wade, Christina and Kimberly, who all graduated from the West Grand School District, and they have five grandchildren, with another one on the way.
Gary and Jennifer say they serve the community because of everything the community has given to their family. They enjoy the "true spirit of caring" that exists in the Kremmling community, they said. "We might hear complaints," Jennifer said, "but when the chips are down, we pull together as a community. This is also a safe place for our kids and grandkids."
They hope to instill in their family the spirit of giving back.
"We will serve where the Lord shows us a need, to try and continue to make this a great place to live for many generations," they said.
Gary has served on various boards through the years, including those of the Farm Bureau, Kremmling Memorial Hospital District, the West Grand School Board, Kremmling Rotary, and he is now serving as one of the Grand County Commissioners.
Jennifer seems to center her service on students, teaching, sewing and counseling.
"I've just always thought if the good Lord points out a need to you, then He must want you to do something about it," Jennifer said.
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I agree - some popular blogs have better content in their comments than they have in the original blog post. Lifehacker was a great example of this. They had some of the best commenters around (now not so much).-jaden (May 03, 2012, 11:25 AM)
EDIT: Found it. It was on Gizmodo: You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp'-Deozaan (May 03, 2012, 11:36 AM)
I'm kinda ambivalent on this one. On the one (1) hand, blog comments can engender some pretty lively conversations, trolls aside . On the other hand, would blog comments detract from the forum topics ?Right now, I can search the forum topics, albeit in mine own clumsy fashion, and be reasonably certain I've covered whatever 'twas I sought. If comments are enabled, now I have to search the blog articles, as well, and try to merge those results with the forum results. Keeping the timeline accurate could be somewhat difficult - read nightmare - to accomplish .I guess I'd say, "No," to blog comments unless some methodology exists to merge them into forum conversations.(Granted, I'm thinking of a DC blog, not blogs in general, but from what I've seen - in my own blog, as well as others - some degree of fragmentation and focus attenuation tends to occur, with comment references to other blog posts that are not directly quoted. This dilution seems to happen to a lesser degree in forae. (Well-l-l, depending upon how much I've had to drink .))-barney (May 04, 2012, 05:30 PM)
Forum topics tend to be more loosely created.-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 05:45 PM)
Forum topics tend to be more loosely created.-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 05:45 PM)??????????????????I'd guess we haven't been reading the same blogs . Or forae for that matter .BTW, comments are comments, whether or no forae are involved. But, in my experience, forum posts tend to stick more to the point than blog comments. And attenuation is common to a great number of blog posts' comments. That, after all, is one (1) of the reasons the blog comment/no comment question arises.-barney (May 04, 2012, 10:32 PM)
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My daughter is 2 years and 7 months. From the age of 6 weeks she went to my mother-in-law in the day time, and 3 weeks back we started her at kindergarten 3 times a week from 8 to 1 pm, because it is still winter. it is really a great school, i know the people personally, but the problem is everytime when she hears that she has to go to school she starts crying, she become so sad and tells me that she don't want to go to school she want to go to grandma instead. This morning when I woke her up after I dressed her she told me that she wants to go to grandma, so I just said what about school, just think how sad your friend are going to be when you don't go to school, but then she starts crying, she just don't want to go to school. On our way to school I talk about my preschool years, nad told her how great it was to learn song and perform on the stage, playing ons the junglegyms, and asoos as we arrived at school, she started to cry again. The Head of school asked her why everytime she comes to school she cries, she just answers she don't want to. I don't know what to do, when I see her cry my heart breaks in 2, She really enjoys the school, all the friend and playing ons the junglegym also the singing, but I just don't understand why she criies when she goes to school and also when I go and pick her up. Please i really need advice on how to deal with this.
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The conjoined twins who were separated at Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas have left the hospital for an inpatient rehabilitation center.
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Owen and Emmett Ezell left the Dallas hospital eight months after their surgery and a day after turning 9-months-old.
"This is a big day we have been waiting on a long time, we have been ready to bring these boys home for months now so this is a good thing," said the boys' father Dave Ezell.
It was an emotional departure for the hospital staff, the team of doctors and nurses who have cared for them in the neonatal intensive care unit since their birth and separation surgery in August.
"I just can't thank them enough we are so happy and grateful," said Jenni Ezell. "They are like family to us. It is hard to say goodbye until later."
While at rehab, the boys' parents will learn to manage those tubes until the boys can eat on their own.
"When we first learned they were conjoined we never imagined, that we would be here but it has come and it is time now time to keep loving them and watching them develop and grow," said Dave Ezell. "We are in charge of their care, we get to take care of the babies. So it is like the beginning of this whole new world for us, where it is going to be physically exhausting, it's going to be amazing."
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I think that religion didn't cause anything good but only start wars, create gilt , hold science back , repressing women's rights, repress sexual subjects , promotes violence racism sectrianism backwardness discrimination ignorance , violates human rights , opression of homosexuals , bigotry , hatred , extremism , terrorism . But sometimes it helps people cope with their problems. I want to hear your opinions and arguments. Plus excuse my English since it's a second language.
PS : I meant abolish not by forcing but using logic and reason.
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If by abolish you mean outlawed, that didn't work in Communist countries very well. It's a bit like trying to abolish poor judgment.
I agree with you Ruth. But abolishing it by using logic and reason.
That's different.
Trying to use logic and reason with someone whose mind has been bound by ancient stories that may or may not have happened, and who believes there is some force planning for us, guiding us, answering prayers is delusional thinking. Is one ever successful in logically and reasonably discussing anything with someone who believes in delusions? I haven't found it so.
Outside the sciences and mathematics, have logic and reason ever defeated emotion?
Emotion can trump science. I'm recalling the guy who about a century ago assembled a dino with the wrong skull and insisted he'd used the correct skull. Ego can be found in lots of places.
Descartes claimed "I think therefore I am."
He didn't feel; he only half was.
Tom - for clarification. You said "Outside the sciences and mathematics, have logic and reason ever defeated emotion?" Are you suggesting it would be a good thing for logic and reason to defeat emotion ?
OH! My goodness! I hope not! We need logic, reason, emotion, working to inform us and give us more information. Any one without the other two loses power.
Jim, you're answering a question with a question.
Tom - I do not have an answer for your question. I was just curious where you were going with the question.
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(Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co said it will invest more than $700 million to boost its insulin manufacturing capacity in Puerto Rico, France, China and the United States.
The company's traditional stronghold has been its diabetes treatments, but the sales of its drugs have been suffering due to increasing competition from companies including Denmark's Novo Nordisk.
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This month we celebrate Charlie Peacock's 20th anniversary as a solo artist. "Lie Down in the Grass" (EXIT/A&M) served as his potent calling card those many years ago, leading CCM Magazine to respond accordingly: "In this powerful solo debut … Charlie Peacock forays into musical territory until now unexplored by Christian musicians." (June, 1984)
This adventurous approach would come to define Peacock's career as both a recording artist and a producer. And make no mistake, his daring conviction enhanced his lyrics as well as his music. As one fan in Boise, Idaho, recently told CCM, "It was Charlie's 1991 album "Love Life" (Sparrow) that changed my perspective on what Christian music should be about. I realized that Christian music should be relevant and honest concerning any topic, not just our relationship to our Savior."
As a producer Peacock's diverse resumé includes Switchfoot, Nichole Nordeman, 77s, Avalon, The Choir, Al Green, Twila Paris and Sarah Masen, among others. It's no surprise he was first to be named the Gospel Music Association's "Producer of the Year" three times. To kick off our 20th anniversary tribute to Peacock, CCM Magazine has invited Douglas Kaine McKelvey to write a special salutatorial. McKelvey has been a fan since the beginning and eventually went on to become Peacock's primary songwriting partner.
I don't know what the name Charlie Peacock means to 18-year-olds today. But I know what it meant 20 years ago.
That was back when most of us hardcore Christian music aficionados knew only how to play defense. The bulk of our energy was expended in simply defending the music we listened to. As for penetrating and transforming the larger culture or creating artistry with any viability and relevance outside our own little backwaters, forget it. Those things weren't even on the radar yet.
Then came the summer of 1984 and with it a new EXIT Records artist from Yuba City, Calif., named Charlie Peacock. He hadn't been a Christian long enough to absorb the clichés or adopt the classic defensive posture. He was naïve enough to operate on the assumption that if you made enticing, invigorating, lyrical, imagistic, great art, people would connect.
Charlie's jazz-influenced, new wave EXIT debut, "Lie Down in the Grass," was hip without desperately wanting to be. It was original. It was weighted toward the prow, leaning into the cultural conversation. Lyrically, it seemed to represent a faith that was worn very humanly, both in the secular marketplace and in the Christian subculture. People inside and outside the church found something that resonated with them.
The rest of us took a long look at this odd bird, scratched our heads and managed a profound, "Oh." The old defensiveness suddenly looked a lot less defensible when viewed against this new paradigm of honest, cultural engagement. The next couple years saw Charlie sign a music publishing deal with CBS, record for labels A&M and Island, land a cut on the hit TV show "Fame" and write, tour and hobnob with '80s headliners such as the FIXX, Bourgeois Tagg, General Public, Let's Active and Missing Persons. His early career was marked by the creation of art that was emotional, compelling and varied and by a conscious attempt to dismantle the barrier between artist and audience.
Following the critical success of his self-titled Island project, Charlie independently released the three-volume "West Coast Diaries" collections. It was a bold move. The "Diaries" were stripped down, barely produced, sometimes even incomplete recordings. But the unique relationship Charlie had cultivated with his fans allowed for that kind of intimacy. In fact, his fans had come to expect it. The inviting openness and confessional candor Charlie displayed onstage had become a magnet for young believers disenchanted by white-washed expressions of Christianity.
In 1990, spurred by a growing desire to serve the body of Christ in a deeper and more intentional way, Charlie moved his family to Nashville and signed a deal with Sparrow Records. Brown Bannister (Amy Grant) produced "The Secret of Time," a project that put the final polish on a few "West Coast Diaries" favorites, and that gave Charlie an expanded platform in churches and in the Christian music community.
It was during that time, too, that Charlie and his wife, Andi, purchased and began renovating a 100-year-old church building. Their dream was to provide a center for hospitality, biblical study and a shared journey with other believers intent on living life artfully. In those quarters the Art House was born, an entity still vibrant today, hosting authors, teachers, studies, concerts and even the occasional luminary like Mel Gibson or U2's Bono.
Charlie continued to record his own visionary projects over the next several years ("Love Life", "Coram Deo I & II", "Everything That's On My Mind", "Strangelanguage" and "Kingdom Come"), but his preferred role shifted increasingly to that of producer and mentor for younger writers, producers, bands and artists. Charlie's desire to prepare the next generation for the work of being "salt and light" in the culture eventually culminated in the formation of his own record label, re:think (best known for the discovery and development of modern rock sensation Switchfoot and folk artist Sarah Masen).
His songwriter and producer credits during that era grew too numerous to list, but they include more than 200 cuts, dozens of hits such as "In the Light" and "Every Heartbeat," 14 BMI Awards, nine Dove Awards, one GRAMMY award and numerous nominations. Along the way Charlie waded into more diverse waters as well, authoring the thought-provoking book "At the Crossroads," working on a masters in theological studies at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., recording an experimental jazz project titled "Love Press Ex-Curio," accepting a post as principal artist faculty of the Wheaton Conservatory of Music International Improvisational Institute and traveling extensively as a lecturer on subjects related to Christianity and artful living.
His new projects are "Full Circle," a retrospective recording that reinvents his best-loved songs with the help of friends such as Sixpence None the Richer, Jon and Tim Foreman (Switchfoot), tobyMac and Sara Groves and "New Way to Be Human," a Waterbrook Press book that explores what it means to be a student/follower of Jesus. Both are potent distillations of Charlie's two-decades-old commitment to simultaneously nurture the body of Christ and engage the culture.
And while the resumé is impressive, the real story of Peacock's legacy is in the relationships. I'm convinced that Charlie's underlying secret is in the way he's able to turn fans into friends and ideological opponents into curious questioners. The same intelligent honesty, experimental creativity and personal integrity that launched his career in 1984 continue to expand his reach and impact today.
It's not every Christian artist, after all, who finds himself or herself contributing commentary and opinion to NPR's "All Things Considered," "Talk of the Nation," USA Today, CCM Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. One man gets around, indeed.
The Truth About Charlie
Amy Grant: "I first had the chance to work with Charlie when he wrote the song "Every Heartbeat" for the "Heart in Motion" album. Brown Bannister was specifically looking for a fun, upbeat shuffle and, no surprise, Charlie delivered. "Every Heartbeat" is a song I still enjoy singing. Charlie and Andi have provided a homebase for a large community of Christian artists here in Nashville. If there is to be a gathering of any kind, whether it's for the screening of "The Passion of the Christ" with director, Mel Gibson, or a "think session" with Bono over the AIDS in Africa crisis, Charlie is available and willing to facilitate gatherings for prayer, for entertainment, for learning. His heart for service and his amazing life partner, Andi – along with her gifts for caring and communication – have been welcomed 'glue' for our community of artists in this town."
tobyMac: "I've always had a huge amount of respect for Charlie and his desire to expand God's Kingdom. As an artist and songwriter, he has been a groundbreaker in seeing and celebrating the gospel in all of life, including romance. Not only have I recorded his songs, but at our wedding my wife and I chose his song "One Thing" as a backdrop to our first dance. Thanks, Charlie."
Bart Millard, MercyMe: "The first time I heard Charlie was when I saw an "unplugged" performance with Vince Ebo and Jimmy Abegg. It absolutely changed my life! His music was, and still is, so unique and passionate. Not only did his music make an impact on my life, but the times I have heard him speak during his performances played a huge role in me surrendering to the ministry."
Nichole Nordeman: "There will always be great singers. There will always be great writers. There will always be great players. There will always be great producers. But great visionaries are scarce and seldom ... a gift not to be squandered. Thank you, Charlie, for leading us over each new hill."
Jon Foreman, Switchfoot: "Charlie's place will always be a second home for me. I've learned so much about making music at Charlie's side. However, one of the most important things he taught me has nothing to do with sounds or lyrics. He told me that 'relationships will always matter more than the music. Twenty years from now your platinum albums or radio hits will mean very little. Always live with the families and friendships in mind.' So true. I've admired Charlie for as long as I've known him. Whether in the studio or in the kitchen, he was the type of guy that you wanted to emulate. I hope to be a Charlie in the San Diego scene."
Phil Keaggy: "I have always appreciated the creative mind and heart of Charlie Peacock. Especially since 1989, the year I moved to Nashville, Charlie has been a constant light in this beautiful thing called music. I am also glad to hear the best in him come alive in these new days of artistic freedom."
Jody McBrayer, Avalon: "We started our adventure into the industry with Charlie Peacock at the creative helm. Little did we all know that on that journey he would grow to become so much more in our lives. Insecure and uneducated as to how this world works, Charlie took us under his wing and helped us understand what true artistry as a Christian musician is all about. His desire to use his gifting to further the cause of Christ as well as his deep commitment to pursue spiritual and artistic integrity in his work is, to say the least, inspiring. He has been to Avalon the purest example of conviction, integrity and, most of all, patience. Avalon would like to congratulate and thank Charlie for all he has done to creatively communicate the gospel of Christ over the past 20 years."
Matt Slocum, co-founder of Sixpence None the Richer: "Charlie has been a true inspiration and example to me in so many areas. I would do well to emulate his excellence and integrity as a writer, performer, producer, arranger, thinker and, most importantly, friend."
Sara Groves: "I like a lot of things about Charlie Peacock, but my favorite thing is his joy. It pours out into his music, production, writing and friendships. He is preoccupied with the Kingdom, how it works and how it is meant to come to us and because of this, his books, his music and his life are full of fruit and clues about Kingdom living. Charlie and Andi have inspired Troy and me in our hearts and home."
Steve Taylor: "In 1984 I entered the back door of the Country Club, a rock club in Southern California. Charlie was playing keyboards with the Sacramento band Vector, and they were sound checking. I'd never met them before, and there's no reason for me to remember that moment except one: They were good. Very good. So many of the bands we'd share the stage with during that era confused sincerity with musicality, but these guys were sincere and musical. When I got to the dressing room, my band was already discussing in hushed tones how good the other band was. After a year on the road, I believe this was the first time that had happened. The net effect? I hit the stage that night feeling a tiny bit intimidated. If we played a good show (and my recollection is that we did), it was because Charlie and Vector raised the bar. Twenty years later, Charlie's still raising that bar. And I'm still a tiny bit intimidated."
Mike Roe, 77s: "I became a huge fan when I got to work with him up close and see what he was really up to. There was certainly a lot of imagination and skill. I especially liked what he 'left out' as much as what he 'put in.' He was always willing to take a risk rather than just play it safe and do the obvious. I really learned a lot from Charlie."
Jen Waters, features writer, The Washington Times: "My oldest memory of Charlie Peacock is reading articles about him in CCM Magazine in my teen years. I probably still have some of the interviews buried in my closet somewhere. I also remember my youth group dancing to "In the Light," even before dc talk covered it. I have always been impressed with Charlie's clear thinking and the ways he has challenged the Christian music community to be stronger, more daring artists. And I love the fact that he lives in a renovated church!"
Darwin Hobbs: "Charlie is the reason I am a label artist. While a session singer in
Nashville, Tenn., he encouraged me to pursue my God-given destiny to record solo records."
Margaret Becker: "Long before he was in this industry, I appreciated his music, and he's been a leader wherever he is placed. I appreciate, above all things, his sensitivity to that role."
Jamie Drummond, executive director of DATA: "On behalf of the DATA staff, we want to applaud Charlie Peacock not only for his fantastic career in the music industry but also for his commitment to social justice. Charlie talks about the "wind of the Spirit" moving across America to capture the hearts and minds of evangelicals to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. We appreciate Charlie for being at the forefront of this movement to galvanize awareness and promote advocacy for those suffering from AIDS. His work has been instrumental for us, the church and Africa. Thank you, Charlie, for your music and your life. God bless you."
Brent Bourgeois, solo artist/co-founder of Bourgeois Tagg: "Charlie and I go back to the days when neither of us had much conception of what it was like to be living a healthy or spiritual life. Nonetheless, even in those days, we were both making challenging, creative music. When Charlie got sober and then saved, he sent shockwaves through our community that have consequences to this day, not the least of which was in me. I give Charlie the credit for being the light which led me to Christ, which in my mind is a far more important thing than any or all of the innumerable musical contributions that he is properly credited for."
Jimmy Abegg, guitarist/painter/art czar, Rocketown Records: "I spent seven or eight years in many different musical configurations, playing guitar and learning from Charlie – someone whose take on the things of faith and creativity inspire me to this day. I'm grateful God introduced Charlie and me."
Scott Denté, Out of the Grey: "One day in 1989 a friend handed me a pre-release cassette of "The Secret of Time," and the course of my life was changed. Over the last 14 years Charlie and I have written, recorded, traveled and shared many meals together. I learned more in a couple of years making records with Charlie than in five years of music college. But more than that, through his friendship and deep, deep heart he has shown me Jesus."
To read more tributes to Charlie, visit CCMmagazine.com.
© 2004 CCM Magazine. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Click here to subscribe.


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Ring of Fire
Earlier in the year, I caused a bit of a furore on these pages with a couple of articles about both the Seattle Sounders and the Portland Timbers. The fans of those two teams tore each other to shreds on the comments section and it took me quite by surprise. I drew positives from that experience though, after all, where would football be without rivalry!?
Fast forwards to December 2009 and I found myself researching another MLS club with fans worth investigating - Chicago Fire. To find out more, I dialled up Tom Dunmore. Tom is the editor of the award winning and rather fantastic Pitch Invasion blog as well as being the Vice-Chair of Section 8 Chicago (more of them in a minute). So, pull up a chair as Tom and I discuss footy, fans and beer 'American style'. You never know, you may soon find yourself on a flight to the "Windy City":
And how do the club themselves view the actions of your group? Inconsistently. At times, they love what Section 8 does to support the team across the country (and we're pretty useful marketing-wise, given our kind of passion isn't much seen elsewhere in Chicago's professional sports stadiums), and certainly the players appreciate the support at every game. At other times, club management give us serious headaches (and to be fair, sometimes we give them headaches): we've had a few protests over the years that have silenced the stadium, such as those against the firing by the Fire's ownership of club president Peter Wilt and against racist security guards in the stadium. We have our traditions as supporters and those in the front office foolish enough to fuck with them soon regret it, to be honest. Right now, after a lot of hard work on both sides of the fence, we have a good working relationship with the club (the front office has had a lot of turnover, and most of them are now very friendly and supportive of Section 8) and we recently sat down with Fire owner Andrew Hauptman for an open and productive meeting. We still have some issues to resolve as the treatment by security of fans around the stadium is still very poor and the pyrotechnics certainly cause problems for everyone, but we're starting to take more substantial steps by working on a fan charter and getting more support in growing the supporters sections further. Right now, I believe relations with the club are better than they have been since Peter Wilt was fired. But of course, we never know what's around the corner.
The players must love it though? Everyone of them I've ever spoken to has said they do, and I'm sure it beats having to play in front of the crappy crowds in a few otherMLS cities I could name.
Didn't Chicago Fire win the league and cup double in their first complete season as a competitive club!? Only in America eh....Yep, though to be fair, it was only the third season of Major League Soccer as a competition itself (the league began in 1996). In 1998 we joined as an expansion team, and the focus of the league on "parity" via the salary cap means it's relatively easy for an expansion team to have a shot to win it all. And we did, thanks to these guys and many others. Sadly, I was still living in England at the time and had barely heard of the Chicago Fire. We still remain the only team to achieve this feat in our expansion first season (sorry, Seattle).
What is Toyota Park like and is it comparable to any grounds here in England? It was one of the first "soccer-specific-stadiums" in MLS, a name that belies its actual multi-purpose use: like Wembley, it's also used for concerts and other sporting events. Unlike Wembley, it sports a permanent stage area at one end, though fortunately seating in front means it is a four-sided ground. Roofing only (just about) covers two sides, though we play in the summer, so the rainy games are rare (but hell for those of us in the uncovered Harlem End when they do happen). In terms of capacity, facilities, luxury suites and the like it's probably similar to a decent Championship side's modern stadium.
Is it one of those out of town stadiums? Yes. It's just outside Chicago's city limits, in the gritty Village of Bridgeview. It's not easy to get to via public transit, though beer buses that we run from city bars sure make the 30 minute drive pass by easily enough. It would be great to have a stadium in the city centre, but it wasn't viable at the time, and we really needed a stadium to call home anywhere near Chicago after playing in three different stadiums in the club's first half-dozen or so years of existence.
How much would a match ticket set us back? In Section 8, $10-15. So what it would have cost you to watch an English league match about twenty years ago. My season ticket is just $200.
What sort of crowds do you attract and how does that compare with the multitude of other sports in Chicago? The average this year was about 15,000. Not the best in the club's history, though we did sell out both playoff games. It's not a patch on theNFL's Chicago Bears, who easily sell-out Soldier Field's 60,000+ capacity for every game, or the millions who pour through the gates of Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs, baseball), US Cellular Field (Chicago WhiteSox, baseball) and the United Center (Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks ). Chicago shares with New York the unique distinction of being home to major league teams in football, basketball, ice hockey and two teams in baseball: it's sports-mad. That has made it hard for the Fire to carve out as distinctive niche, but it's slowly coming along.
Do you struggle for press coverage in the Chicago Tribune? Yes, for the reasons mentioned above: every day of the year, there is a bigger team in the city to headline the sports section. Right now, the Tribune do not even have a dedicated reporter to the Fire, though they have a couple of decent bloggers covering the team.
Unsurprisingly, the 'beer bus' caught my eye on your website. Free beer on the bus to matches!? Surely not!? You'd be hard-pressed to find a Section 8 activity that doesn't involve cheap, and fairly often free beer....
What is the beer of choice in Chicago and is it weak, fizzy and tasteless? There's plenty of weak, fizzy and tasteless beer consumed, from Budweiser to the Fire's sponsor beer, the execrable Miller Lite. However, America also has an outstanding craft brewery industry that has grown up over the past decade or two, and Chicago is no exception: several local breweries produce outstanding beer, including -- gasp -- Real Ale, and we often have a keg of the excellent Half Acre at our tailgates in the parking lot before games. Great blokes, great beer.
Talking of beer (again), can we get a decent beer and a famous Chicago 'deep-dish pizza' inside the stadium on matchdays? Yes, they serve a few decent beers inside and they have Connies pizza, which isn't bad, if far from the best Chicago pizza. But it's overpriced inside, so I'd recommend eating at our barbecue outside before the game and drinking the aforementioned Half Acre or bringing your own beer to our tailgate. Tailgating is a Chicago sports tradition, and it's hard to beat it: good beer, grilled food and hours of socialising with friends before the big game. Did I mention beer? (yes you did, we're renewing our passports as we speak - Ed).
Are there any fans of the Fire now that used to follow the Sting or the Power? Absolutely, though I wouldn't say it's a large number.
Who are your rivals? Everyone. No, seriously. We seem to have managed to piss off pretty much everyone everywhere we have gone in MLS. Dallas was a long-time rival (see the Brimstone Cup), but we no longer play them as often as we're not in the same conference, so in recent years New England and Columbus have been the most noticeable rivals. Toronto can be considered a rival if they ever make it to the playoffs to play us there, Seattle don't seem too keen on us, and I guess Kansas City dislike us, though we don't pay a lot of attention to them. I'm not making friends here, am I?
Is it true that you have an informal alliance with the fans of the Portland Timbers? Yep. The Timbers Army have long had much of the same spirit and energy for supporting the team Section 8 has had, and kudos to them for doing it just as well in the lower divisions. Their DIY culture is something to be admired, and many Section 8ers have made friends with members of the Timbers Army on more than one trip out there. Most recently and famously to Seattle's chagrin, many members of the Timbers Army travelled up to Seattle to support the Fire in our first league match against the Sounders along with many Fire fans who took a bus up from Portland after flying out there first. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the alliance when Portland joins the league in 2011, but I think we're both mature enough groups of supporters that we can be rivals for 90 minutes then make fun of each other over a beer afterwards.
Surely with the distances involved there aren't too many away fans at matches in the MLS? It's certainly a lot tougher than in England: our closest league opponent is over 500 miles east in Columbus, Ohio. But Americans aren't afraid of travelling vast distances, so we take several hundred fans to Columbus each year (and their stadium has hence been named Firehouse East by us) on buses we run. We also run buses out to Toronto and Kansas City, making up our 3-city "Away Season Ticket" package: three bus trips and game tickets for $175 this year. There are Fire fans at all other away games, whether it's just a handful or dozens more for reasonable flight distances like New York. We give the name to these adventures "Section 8 On Tour" and the goings-on have become pretty legendary over the years. As in England, the away trips are the best way to bond with fellow fans, meet new people and come up with more songs to pass the 12 hour bus trip to Toronto.
Do you have a club mascot? Yes, Sparky. Be careful around him. Seriously.
And a club anthem? Umm, not really.
We've gathered your vocal and visual support is pretty impressive but this is America, do you have any cheese inside the stadium such as music after goals, novelty off the pitch shenanigans, firing t-shirts into the crowd that sort of thing? Yes, though thankfully this has been cut down over the years as MLS has realised it needs to focus on the game itself. There is little to distract the crowd during the action (the t-shirt firing and mini-games on the field happen at half-time). It's nowhere near as spoonfed as in professional baseball or basketball, where at times it seems as if the intent is to make the crowd forget there's an actual sporting contest going on. There's nothing much that bothers me during the 90 minutes, not that I'd notice from the mayhem in Section 8 anyway.
Do sports fans in Chicago cross codes? i.e. do many follow more than one sport? Absolutely. Very, very few Fire fans would not have a passing interest in at least one other sport. Most of them will have grown up supporting local professional sports teams, from the Bears to the Bulls (remember, that Jordan fellow was pretty popular in the 1990s).
Being English, I am of course contractually obliged to ask you about David Beckham. Do you have a view on him and his impact on the MLS? My favourite Beckham-related moment was John Thorrington's goal for the Fire against his LA Galaxy in the final regular season game of 2007, which ensured we made the playoffs....and the Galaxy didn't. I enjoyed that more than anything else Beckham has brought to the league.
And finally, just how windy is Chicago? Not as windy as Brighton, England, the only place I've ever experienced (something like) a hurricane!


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- Daniel J. Macarro
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There are far better introductory listens
What disappointed you about Biblical Archaeology?
The narrator is pretty bland and sometimes downright bad as he seems to pronounce nearly every thing wrong. Also, the work was more focused on the recent history of archaeologists (or pseudo-archaeologists) rather than the actual history based on evidence
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Great book; poor narration
The contents of this book is superb. I am currently a PhD student in ancient Near Eastern archaeology, and I am listening to this as I drive simply as a recap. The problem I have with this is the narration. The individual reading consistently mispronounces archaeological terms, names of archaeologists, and sites. This is still a great book, but be aware that most of the terms or mispronounced. If you are listening to this as a textbook for a college course, please ask your professor for the correct pronunciations.
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|==NLopt 2.4.1==
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|==NLopt 2.4==
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|NLopt manual
|License and Copyright
Here, we describe what has changed between releases of the NLopt package. You can also refer to the
NEWS file in the Meep package (or the
ChangeLog file for a more detailed listing).
NLopt 2.4.1
19 November 2013
- Use cdecl calling convention instead of stdcall on Win32, to simplify shared-library usage and for consistency with Win64.
NLopt 2.4
2 November 2013
- New genetic algorithm ESCH, thanks to Carlos Henrique da Silva Santos.
- Fix swig dir for VPATH builds, thanks to Sandro Vitenti for the bug report.
- Use python-config program in the configure script to find the include directories for Python, if possible (may be overridden by PYTHON_CONFIG environment variable).
- Bugfix in copy constructor for C++ and Python interfaces.
- Bugfix in return value for setting min/max objective.
- Handle negative rescalings in COBYLA and BOBYQA.
- Plugin installation honors the configure
--prefix, if any (thanks to xantares@github).
- Various compilation fixes for compatibility with recent software.
NLopt 2.3
20 July 2012
- In Matlab/Octave interface, make returning NaN from the objective equivalent to
nlopt_force_stop; thanks to Norman Violet for the suggestion.
- Added CCSA-quadratic (
NLOPT_LD_CCSAQ), similar to MMA.
- Added interface for supplying a preconditioner (approximate Hessian); currently only supported in CCSAQ.
- When adding mconstraints, allow
tol==NULLas synonym for zero tolerances.
- Added missing
NLOPT_LD_SLSQPconstant in Matlab/Octave.
- Lower tolerance for dual optimization in MMA/CCSAQ; thanks to Christophe Leruste for the problem report.
- Fixed bug in timer, thanks to William Vaughn for the patch.
- Bug fix to convergence test in SBPLX; thanks to Douglas Bates.
NLopt 2.2.4
9 June 2011
- Fixed linking problem for C++ and Python shared libraries on MacOS X; thanks to Volker Lorrmann for the bug report.
NLopt 2.2.3
8 June 2011
- Fixed additional re-entrancy problem in Luksan algorithms missed in the previous version; thanks to Gert Wollny for the bug report.
- Fixed set/get
vector_storagein Fortran interface for Fortran compilers with all-uppercase linkage.
NLopt 2.2.2
26 May 2011
- Added
set_vector_storageAPI to modify the memory usage and the subspace dimension for low-storage quasi-Newton methods.
- Fixed missing support for
maxtimestopping criteria in Luksan and
ORIG_DIRECTalgorithms; thanks to Jurgen Werner for the bug report.
- Fixed algorithms to support the case where the lower and upper bounds are equal for some variables (which effectively eliminates those variables from optimization).
- Added missing
xtolcheck to SLSQP, which caused erroneous
ROUNDOFF_LIMITEDerror codes to be returned; thanks to Alexander Riess for the bug report.
- Fixed slight overcounting of function evaluations for
maxevalcheck in SLSQP.
- Fixed deprecated API to support
xtol_abs == NULLfor backward compatibility (thanks to Francesco Biscani for the bug report).
- Made Luksan algorithms (e.g. LBFGS and other quasi-Newton methods) re-entrant; thanks to Gert Wollny for the bug report. (Fixes Gentoo bug #368685.)
- Fixed bug in DIRECT (not ORIG_DIRECT), where a typo caused suboptimal convergence in some cases; thanks to Sinisa Hristov for the bug report.
NLopt 2.2.1
6 September 2010
- If you compile
nlopt.hwith the
#defined, it now uses the
dllexportdirective (under Windows), useful for compiling an NLopt DLL under Microsoft compilers; thanks to Benoit Scherrer for the suggestion.
- Handle case where
copysignfunction is missing, e.g. on Windows; thanks to Benoit Scherrer for the bug report.
- Remove C99-style mixed declaration and code in a couple files, so that code compiles in C89; thanks to Benoit Scherrer for the bug report.
- Removed a few compiler warnings under Microsoft compilers; thanks to Benoit Scherrer for the bug report.
- Export
nlopt_get_algorithm_namefunction on Windows; thanks to Ofek Shilon for the bug report.
- Don't use
dllimportdirective with
lccon Windows (which doesn't support it); thanks to Laurent Vanbeylen for the bug report.
- Update Nodedal
READMEfile to indicate that Nocedal's LBFGS code is now available under the GPL, and therefore may be distributed with a future NLopt version (although Luksan's LBFGS code already works well).
- Bug fix in
get_xtol_abs; thanks to David Rivest-Henault for the report.
NLopt 2.2
15 July 2010
- Added SLSQP algorithm for gradient-based local optimization with nonlinear constraints via sequential quadratic programming, based on the implementation by Dieter Kraft that was adapted for SciPy.
- Modified BOBYQA and COBYLA algorithms to support unequal initial step sizes in different directions; thanks to Tom Fiddaman for pointing out the need for this in the case where different directions have very different scales.
- Added Python module docstring; thanks to Sebastian Walter for the suggestion.
- Added
GUILE_INSTALL_DIRvariable to allow the user to change the Guile installation directory.
- Added Fortran interface for vector-valued constraints.
- Throw correct exceptions in Python for the
add_*constraintfunctions; thanks to Dmitrey Kroshko for the bug report.
- Support forced stop and exceptions in
- Remove arbitrary 1020 upper bound on function values from ORIG_DIRECT code.
- Bugfix in C++ interface (and some other language front-ends) when deallocating the
nlopt_optobject in cases like MLSL where
local_optimizeris used; thanks to Jürgen Werner for the bug report.
NLopt 2.1.2
8 July 2010
- The Python
mconstraint(vector-valued constraint) functions now pass a 2-dimensional array for the gradient argument, rather than a flattened 1d array.
- Improved handling of exceptions and forced stops for constrained optimization, making sure that no constraints are evaluated after the stop.
- Return an
NLOPT_INVALID_ARGSerror if more than n equality constraints are added in an n-dimensional problem.
- Fix bug that could cause spurious
NLOPT_INVALID_ARGSerrors when adding constraints under rare circumstances.
NLopt 2.1.1
7 July 2010
- More robust
configurecheck for Python include directories, via
numpy.get_include(). Thanks to Nathaniel Smith for the tip.
- Bug fix in Guile interface: added missing prefix to
NLopt 2.1
6 July 2010
- New vector-valued constraint feature; thanks to Dmitrey Kroshko of OpenOpt for the suggestion.
COBYLAnow accepts equality constraints.
- Guard against multiple inclusion in nlopt.hpp; thanks to Saul Thurrowgood for the suggestion.
NLopt 2.0.2
17 June 2010
- Fixed compilation failure in Microsoft Visual Studio, due to incorrect usage of
__stdcallkeyword; thanks to Dave Katz for the bug report.
NLopt 2.0.1
16 June 2010
- Bug fix in Fortran API (for
nlo_get_functions returning arrays).
- Fixed buggy compilation with MinGW.
NLopt 2.0
15 June 2010
- New C API, that works by creating an
nlopt_opt"object" and then calling functions to set the optimization parameters -- much more extensible than the old API (which is preserved for backwards compatibility). (Updated Fortran, Matlab, and GNU Octave wrappers as well.)
nlopt.hppwrapper around C API, allowing namespaces, object constructors/destructors,
std::vector<double>, and exceptions to be exploited.
- New nlopt wrappers callable from Python and GNU Guile, generated with the help of SWIG.
- New
man nloptmanual page documenting new API.
- New
AUGLAGalgorithm(s) implementing an augmented-Lagrangian method proposed by Birgin and Martinez (2008), which supports nonlinear equality and inequality constraints "wrapped around" other local/global optimization methods.
- Added API for nonlinear equality constraints (currently only supported by
- Support inequality constraints directly in
ORIG_DIRECTalgorithms (no need to return NaN when constraint is violated).
- Inequality/equality constraints now have optional tolerances that are used as conditions in stopping criteria.
- Pseudo-randomize simplex steps in
COBYLAalgorithm, improving robustness by avoiding accidentally taking steps that don't improve conditioning (which seems to happen sometimes with active bound constraints). The algorithm remains deterministic (a deterministic seed is used), however.
- Allow
COBYLAto increase the trust-region radius if the predicted improvement was approximately right and the simplex is OK, following a suggestion in the SAS manual for PROC NLP that seems to improve convergence speed.
- Added
nlopt_force_stopfunction to force a (graceful) halt to the optimization, and corresponding
NLOPT_FORCED_STOPreturn code.
- Improved thread-safety in random-number generation: thread-local storage is used for random-number state, on compilers that support it (e.g. gcc, Intel, Microsoft), to make the generation thread-safe. In this case, the random-number seed must be set per-thread.
- Return an error in global-search algorithms if the domain is not finite.
- Use stdcall convention on Windows; thanks to Alan Young for the suggestion.
- Added missing absolute-tolerance criteria in Luksan algorithms; thanks to Greg Nicholas for the bug report.
- Fixed compilation under C++, and use C++ compiler for everything in
--with-cxxmode; thanks to Greg Nicholas for the bug report.
- In MMA, only stop at minf_max/stopval if the point is feasible.
- Fix Matlab mex file to not include unnecessary
nlopt-util.hfile, simplifying Windows compilation.
NLopt 1.2
18 November 2009
- Added Powell's BOBYQA algorithm for box-constrained optimization without derivatives, an improvement on NEWUOA.
- Added ISRES evolutionary algorithm, supporting nonlinearly constrained global optimization.
- New functions
nlopt_{set/get}_stochastic_populationto provide optional greater control over the random "population" sizes in stochastic algorithms (although it still has a sensible default).
- Bug fix: remove extraneous text accidentally included in
nlopt.fFortran include file.
- Bug fix: configure script now correctly handles Matlab installation when
MEX_INSTALL_DIRis specified manually by the user.
NLopt 1.1
12 November 2009
configurescript detects whether
--enable-sharedis required in order to compile Matlab and Octave plugins (as is the case on x86_64), and disables compilation of those plugins if
--enable-sharedis not used.
- Added
--without-matlabconfigure options to disable Octave and Matlab plugins, respectively.
- Modified COBYLA algorithm to have better support for bound constraints.
- Added new
NLOPT_ROUNDOFF_LIMITEDfailure code to indicate cases in which optimization breaks down due to roundoff errors, in which case it is possible that useful results were obtained.
- Experimental support for nonlinear equality constraints via augmented-Lagrangian method.
- Support for compiling under Windows (ideally with MinGW) as a DLL, although you have to manually add
#define NLOPT_DLLto
nlopt.hafter installing (after compiling NLopt).
- Added several checks for roundoff-related breakdown to NEWUOA code.
- When only a relative error tolerance is specified, no longer fails to halt when exact convergence to zero is obtained.
- Workaround for incompatible
qsort_rfunctions in BSD and GNU libc by always using my own version; thanks to Wendy Vandoolaeghe and Philippe Preux for the bug report and explanation.
- Workaround for gcc 3.4.x conflict with HUGE_VAL definition in Solaris (gcc bug 19933).
- Better identification of Matlab-plugin installation directory.
- Fixed identification of Octave-plugin installation directory for recent Octave versions.
NLopt 1.0.1
13 November 2008
- Allow user to override Matlab-plugin installation directory with
- Bug fix in my DIRECT code that prevented convergence (DIRECT-L unaffected).
- MLSL needs a nonzero default ftol_rel and/or xtol_rel to ensure that its local searches terminate; use roughly machine precision as defaults.
NLopt 1.0
11 November 2008
- Initial public release.


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— When Mathew Vance began looking for a job in Hampton Roads, he had plenty of experience to sell.
The 30-year-old Wyoming native had been a combat medic in the Army and later in the Texas Army National Guard. He had deployed twice to Iraq, first as a ground medic in 2003 and then in 2008, running medevac missions in a Blackhawk. He spent a few years instructing young soldiers. He had leadership experience as a platoon sergeant.
But after moving here with his Air Force wife, he applied for at least 50 jobs and struck out every time. The health care field seemed a natural given his background, but he didn't have the required schooling or certification.
"I have those skills," he said. "I just didn't have something on a transcript."
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Today, Vance is an Intermediate Care Technician in the emergency room of the Hampton VA Medical Center. The job title and duty was created specifically for this one-year pilot, which seeks to employ recently discharged Army medics, Navy corpsmen, Coast Guard hospital corpsmen and Air Force med techs who might face administrative hurdles when seeking to use their skills in the civilian world.
Dr. Janet Henderson said she jumped at the chance for Hampton to be one of the first 15 VA medical centers. Henderson, chief of medicine and director of the emergency department, said it wasn't easy to carve out a completely new job, but it was worth it. The VA allotted $2.7 million for the 15 pilot projects.
"It's an odd position because they're not nursing and they're not physicians," she said. "We're trying to allow them to use some of the advanced skills they have."
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Vance's six-month odyssey to find a job is part of a nationwide problem. Many discharged service members have legitimate skills but lack the necessary paperwork or degree to compete for a civilian job.
The problem is not limited to health care, as evidenced by other efforts.
Troops to Teachers is a Department of Defense program that recruits former service members to teach in high-need subjects such as math, science and special education. It is not a teacher certification program, but it provides stipends and bonuses for veterans to pursue certification and teach in schools where they are most needed.
Helmets to Hardhats, a national, nonprofit program, steers veterans toward jobs in the construction industry, many connected to federally approved apprenticeship training programs.
The Virginia General Assembly has also tackled the issue. In 2012, lawmakers approved a measure directing the Department of Motor Vehicles to consider military training and experience for commercial driver's license applicants.
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Vance learned his medical skills during that first rugged, 15-month deployment to Iraq. He didn't like the job at first, but grew to love it. Likewise, the emergency room staff at the Hampton VA didn't know what to expect when Vance joined their team.
"The staff loves them," said Henderson. "I think there was a little hesitation at first, in terms of how they were going function. We've slowly eased them into the role. They're doing well."
The workload and the drama of Hampton's ER is far cry from the battlefields of Iraq or flying missions in a Blackjack chopper. Vance said he doesn't mind the new routine. If a nurse has several patients, he can step in after the initial assessment and begin to work while the nurse moves on to the next patient.
"We kind of do the grunt work," he said. "It makes the whole ER flow smoother. We get to a lot of patients more quickly."
Vance began work at the Hampton VA in December. A few other former service members are also enrolled in the Hampton program. The intent, said Henderson, is for them to continue to work for the VA after the one-year pilot ends. They will move over to the nursing department as full-time permanent employees. Meanwhile, they can further their education via the post 9/11 G.I. Bill.
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Per California Penal Code §§ 11164-11174.3 (the California Child and Neglect Reporting Act or CANRA) and California State University Executive Order 1083, every CSU employee is now a mandated reporter for suspected child abuse or neglect. Only volunteer employees are exempt.
To comply with the Executive Order, each employee must complete the Acknowledgment of Mandated Reporter Status and Legal Duty to Report Child Abuse and Neglect form and submit it to Human Resources no later than January 31, 2013 or on your first day of hire.
An online training course is being developed by the Chancellor's Office and once it is available, each employee must complete that as well. We will provide more information about how to do that once the course is available. In lieu of that training, please review the following information outlined in the Executive Order 1083:
Section II: When Reporting is Required
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- Child Abuse - Executive Order 1083
- Child Abuse - Executive Order 1083, Attachment A - Acknowledgment of Mandated Reporter Status
- Child Abuse - Executive Order 1083, Attachment B - Certificate of Training Completion
- Child Abuse - Executive Order 1083, Attachment C - Penal Code Sections 11165.7, 11166, and 11167
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Annual Honorary Bat Girl Contest underway
The sixth annual Honorary Bat Girl Contest is underway, encouraging fans to share "Going to Bat Against Breast Cancer" stories for a chance to be honored on the field during Mother's Day celebrations around Major League Baseball.
Through March 24, anyone 18 and older who has been affected by breast cancer and demonstrates a commitment to eradicating the disease can go to honorarybatgirl.com to submit a story. The campaign, launched on Friday, will honor all those affected by using equipment and other items with the symbolic pink of breast cancer awareness on Sunday, May 11.
Fans are invited to share inspirational stories that they or loved ones have had or are experiencing that provide hope and motivation in the fight against breast cancer. In addition, fans will share the reasons they want to represent their favorite team as its Honorary Bat Girl. Entries can be submitted by survivors, advocates and/or supporters. More than 5,000 testimonials have been submitted and more than 10 million fan votes have been cast over the first five years of this program.
"Major League Baseball remains committed to recognizing the fearless fans who show courage in the face of breast cancer, and who not only take strides to fight against the disease, but help those around them who are also affected," said Tim Brosnan, MLB's executive vice president of business. "Season after season, these brave fans share their stories through our Honorary Bat Girl program, highlighting perseverance and selflessness in the face of adversity."
Through baseball's annual Mother's Day tradition, one Honorary Bat Girl per club will take part in pregame activities, be honored during an on-field ceremony, and receive pink merchandise and two tickets to the game. For clubs that are away on Mother's Day, another home game in May will be selected to recognize their Honorary Bat Girl.
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Last year's panel included Alex Gordon of the Royals, Matt Kemp of the Dodgers, Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates and CC Sabathia of the Yankees.
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"There can be good that comes out of dark times. I want this opportunity for the three generations of family who fought this before me. My son is a Royals fan to his core; what an honor it would be to share in this event, to be on the field with a team he looks up to ... I would be honored to take a stand against cancer for those who cannot be here today, those currently fighting it and for those who have to hear the dreaded words tomorrow."
Having her photo taken with Gordon, both of them holding pink bats, was the kind of bright spot that brought tears of joy for VanBuskirk. Those moments are widespread with Honorary Bat Girls. The program was introduced in 2009 to raise additional awareness and support for the annual "Going to Bat Against Breast Cancer" initiative celebrated on Mother's Day. It is supported by charitable partners Stand Up Ro Cancer and Susan G. Komen and has set out to raise awareness about the cause while raising funds to support research.
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On this day, the world of Digital Marketing is in the hype as the judging for SEO Hero Wix Contest have started. In line with this, Rey Baguio of zarangolamedia.com. You can check it here:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/seo-hero-lets-up-syria-rey-baguio.
Manila, Philippines: Technology has made the world smaller and brought people closer. We monitor elections in a country from miles away, witness Facebook's live video from space, and watch the live streaming of the Super Bowl's halftime show where they happen when they happen. But while the internet is a good platform for entertainment and be virtually part of world events, it also teaches us a sense of responsibility.
The media closely monitors the war in Syria, which started with a peaceful uprising in 2011. The United Nations reported that at least 250,000 people have been killed in the past five years, and displaced more than 4.8 million civilians. But the virtual world only started to really take note when a photo of a little boy from Aleppo, bloodied and shocked, went viral. Didn't that image haunt you or made you ask "what can I do," or "how can I help?"
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Given the range of influence of SEO professionals in promoting businesses and making them thrive, they are also the best group of individuals to rally behind a cause such as drumming up support and assistance to the people of Syria. The SEO Hero challenge provides the perfect platform for SEO natives to do their part and make a difference. The Propelrr team is channeling this raw influence to spearhead a movement to help Syria's children.
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Google's guidelines for SEO will be followed and all participants are expected to comply with the rules of the competition. Eran Hurvitz, CEO of MRKT360 INC, was tasked to ensure that everyone does. Entries must also satisfy the following requirements:
(1) Domain must be purchased on or after November 16, 2016. Note that the submission of entries was completed between November 16 and December 16, 2016.
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Karam Foundation is a non-profit organization that is on a mission to rebuild Syria and provide a better future for its citizens and children. Apart from distributing aid, the foundation also developed innovative education programs for the Syrian youth refugees and continues to fund sustainable development projects for Syrian families.
Karam means generosity in Arabic. And true to their name, the foundation, which was founded in 2007 in Chicago, has been helping communities in need, starting with a food drive on the south side of Chicago in its early years. Today, they also help communities across the western part of Asia, including Syria.
Among their programs is to encourage families to sponsor a Syrian refugee. There are around one million Syrian refugee children today who need not just aid but long-term support such as education and other future-building tools. Karam itself is sponsoring over 200 refugee children to go to school. This can be done by donating $50 a month.
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The road to healing and rebuilding of Syria is long. But by being SEO Heroes, you can make things a little better by letting civilians and refugees know that the world cares.
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SEOHERO.SUPPORT is cause-driven call initiative seeking the support of all Digital and SEO professionals globally to win the WIX SEO Contest aimed to donate 100% all the $50,000 winning pot to the war-stricken children of Syria.


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