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Spotlight Course in Art History at Nyack College
Offered Spring 2012 (Manhattan Campus)
ARH320—Art as Visual Theology: Vincent van Gogh (3 credits)
This seminar course examines the art of Vincent van Gogh as a medium of visual theology. Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in the history of art. His paintings are widely celebrated as an example of post-impressionist use of expressionist color. However, many interpretive narratives of Vincent's life and work, sometimes burdened by sensationalized myths, fail to recognize the formative and enduring place that Christianity and the history of Christianity in the visual arts held in Vincent's conception of art as form of creative faith. The artist's own letters articulate his strategic development of a visual expression of a sacred presence in modern life. In examining the evidence of this visual theology in specific examples of Vincent's art, this course examines the significance of his thematic and formal choices. We will trace the origins of Vincent's religious beliefs in his own family history as well as his reading of books such as The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. We will consider the artistic models of Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Eugène Delacroix, and Jean-François Millet as well as Vincent's engagement with his contemporaries Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. ARH320—Art as Visual Theology: Vincent van Gogh takes advantage of the rich holdings of art by Vincent van Gogh at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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If you decide to follow along and create this wholecloth quilt, you will learn loads about free motion quilting, stitching on a line, and fitting and filling space as you move through the quilt. By working on it, you will gain valuable skills that will translate into simpler quilts.
Let's have a short discussion about marking devices here:
There are literally hundreds of marking tools on the market these days, and no, I definitely haven't tried them all. The best rule of thumb is to try a few different pens and pencils before finding one or two that work best for you.
The biggest key with all marking devices is to save the instructions for removing the marks! It's impossible to remember if a particular pencil should be erased, washed out with water, ironed off, etc without the original packaging.
Personally I use a Fine Line Water Soluble Pen for marking all light fabrics, and like the Fons & Porter Ceramic Pencil for marking dark fabrics.
I like these particular marking pens because they produce a fine, thin mark which is very easy to follow when quilting on the line. A thicker, chunkier markers can be annoying to follow in the quilting process because the mark is so wide, unless you stay right in the middle of it, you may distort your quilting design.
Getting back to lightbox marking, this really is the easiest tool to work with because it allows you to mark the exact design with no extra fuss or steps added to the process. Just turn on the light and you're ready to go!
Of course, lightboxes tend to be both expensive and big, so here's an alternative method for marking:
Alternative Method: Glass Door - The fact is, not everyone has a lightbox, nor do most quilters have the space or desire for one. An easy alternative is to use a large glass window or door.Tape your pattern to the door, then tape your fabric on top, making sure all the marks and lines match up. Sunlight should shine through the door, through the pattern, and make it possible for you to mark the design on your fabric.
Marking a Quilt: Method 2 - Light Fabric
A super easy way to get around this whole marking issue is to simply use a very light fabric. Yellow or white fabric will be light enough that you can easily see the pattern under the fabric and be able to mark with no extra equipment or materials.Traditionally wholecloth quilts are white, and probably for this reason! It's far easier to mark light fabric because the pattern can be easily seen through it.
Marking a Quilt: Method 4 – Tracing Paper
If this is your very first wholecloth quilt, it's strongly adviseable to use high quality 100% cotton in a solid color.
Prints are obviously not suitable for a wholecloth because the printed pattern will conflict with the pattern you're creating with quilting. However, if you have a very, VERY simple print you want to use, give it a try so long as it's high quality 100% cotton.
Personally I love to use spray batik fabrics, the kind that read as almost a solid color, but with swirls of lighter and darker color within the fabric. Batiks generally have a tighter weave than most printed cotton fabric, which forms a solid base for both marking and quilting right on the lines.
If you've stitched several wholecloth quilts and are looking to experiment, you can play with silk, satin, and other non-quilting fabrics, but understand that these fabrics will not work as easily as cotton. Often the silky fabrics will easily shift and stretch, causing motifs to easily distort.
The outside square of this pattern isn't the finished size. It's more a guideline for the pattern fitting on the page and being taped together, so if you like, you can make this quilt anywhere from 16" - 18" square.
I cut all my fabric 20 inches square for both the top and the backing, which will give more than enough space to hang onto the edges while quilting, which will ensure good stitch quality throughout the quilt.
Should I prewash, starch, and iron the backing the same way as the quilt top?
Yes! You'll want to treat the quilt backing fabric and quilt top the exact same way. Prewash to eliminate any shrinkage, starch and iron to remove any stretch or give to the fabrics.
What kind of batting do you use for a wholecloth?
This is a great question that is super important to the outcome of your wholecloth quilt. You need a batting that will NOT SHRINK after being quilted and washed. Yes, you will likely have to soak your wholecloth in order to remove the markings on the surface, so there's really not a way to get around this issue.
Most cotton and cotton/poly blended battings will shrink slightly and this can distort the designs you're stitching over the surface.
For best results, I recommend polyester batting. Many professional quilters recommend wool batting, but I honestly haven't tried these enough to recommend them.
I will personally be using Quilter's Dream Polyester Batting in the Deluxe thickness for my Heart and Feather Wholecloth. This is the thickest batting from Quilter's Dream and will provide a wonderful loft to the puffy areas of this quilt without the extra step of trapunto.
What if I find a cotton batting with no shrink?
If you can find a cotton batting with absolutely no shrink, you can use it, BUT ONLY IF YOUR FABRIC IS A DARK COLOR.
This must be stressed: if you are creating a light (white, yellow, etc) wholecloth with fabric that was light enough to see through for marking, this fabric will also be light enough that EVERYTHING will show through it.
This means lint, stray threads and strings, and all those little black dots from cotton batting.
You might not notice the black bits when you look at a cotton batting, but this is an organic substance that originally came from plants and traces of those plants will always remain. Every time I use a cotton batting I find little bits of bark and leaf, so matter how high quality or expensive the batting was.
This is extremely undesirable for a lighter quilt. Once you finish it, soak it, and get ready to hang it on the wall, you will start seeing "things" inside the quilt that look almost like bugs.
So especially if you're going with a light colored wholecloth, choose a polyester batting and mark sure to lint roll all the layers before basting.
Are we not going to trapunto this quilt?
No. In order to keep this project as simple as possible, we're not going to cover trapunto this time.
Trapunto is a traditional element in wholecloth quilts, but it is not a requirement.
I thought about offering optional steps for trapunto, but really it just seemed very complicated and potentially confusing. Look how much information I forgot to include in the Wednesday post!
We will definitely return to this project again in the summer or fall and will cover the extra step to trapunto then.
1. Write your blog post. Publish it on your blog.
2. Copy the link of the specific blog post. This is not just the link to your blog itself (www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com), but the link to the specific post: http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2012/01/quilt-along-2-quilting-in-rows.html
3. Click the blue link up button above and paste your link into the box.
Keep in mind that you're posting your progress from LAST week on THIS week's post. This way you have time to watch the lesson, play with the ideas, then post your progress to the next quilt along. I hope that makes sense!
As always, any questions you have, please post them in the comments below or on your blog and I'll answer 5 tomorrow on Question Thursday.
I'd better shut up now and go quilt my next wholecloth!


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Create a foreign key constraint
On the create table page we created three tables, person, phone and address. These three entities have the following cardinal relationship to one another.
Logical table relationship
The relationship between two tables can be expressed in meaningful terms. In our design it is possible for a person to have many addresses. For example, we can have a home address, a work address, and of course our summer home in the Hamptons :-}. A person can also have more than one phone number. As you can see our database design would seem to fit a "real world" utilization of these three tables. The design also provides the user flexibility in defining how many addresses and phone numbers they wish to store. Logical diagrams are essential and oftentimes omitted from a database design. They are essential because they clearly and graphically communicate our table relationships.
Physical table relationship
The physical diagram depicts the primary key and foreign key relationship between our entities. Our primary table is "person". The foreign key column is the column "person_num" in both the address and the phone tables respectively.
At present all we have are three separate tables we have created. These tables currently only have a semantic relationship to one another. We now need to create foreign key constraints in order to establish a bone-fide relationship between our three tables.
Creating a foreign key constraint
The sole purpose of a foreign key constraint is to define a relationship between two tables.
Creating the person - address foreign key constraint
ALTER TABLE address ADD CONSTRAINT FK_address_person_num FOREIGN KEY (person_num) REFERENCES person(num) ;
Creating the person - phone foreign key constraint
ALTER TABLE phone ADD CONSTRAINT FK_phone_person_num FOREIGN KEY (person_num) REFERENCES person(num) ;
By adding these constraints the DBMS now understand the table relationships.
Understanding Cardinal Relationships
Knowing how foreign key constraints work allow us to understand how tables relate to one another. Some people really struggle with this area. There is no need to struggle armed with a little bit of pertinent knowledge.
As long as we can determine the primary key of each of our tables, and what the foreign key relationship is we can understand the following.
- What is the relationship between two tables (one to many, one to one)
- If the relationship is one to many we can make an assessment as to how much data can be stored on the "many" side.
- We can begin to understand and appreciate the difficulties and many challenges faced in designing relational databases.
Determining One to Many table relationships
Honing in first on the phone tables relationship to the person table we can gather the following information.
Primary Key (PK) person table: num
Primary Key (PK) phone table: person_num , type_code
Foreign Key relationship between person and phone: person.num = phone.person_num
Now lets take a look at a picture that shows us some actual data between our two tables. This visualization will really will help us understand the relationships between two tables.
Upon examination of the picture above we can clearly see through representation of the data the one to many relationship. We can also see that in the phone table that foreign key column represents only part of the primary key of that table. Since the goal of a primary key is to guarantee uniqueness of the row we can also determine the number of phone numbers that can be stored for a given person into this table. This will be predicated on the use of the type_code column. If you recall, the type_code column is 3 charactors which allows us a great deal of flexibility. For example, we could store more than one work phone for a person (WK1, WK2, etc...). We can also make a general statement regarding one to many table relationships that will hold true for any two tables we decide to create and relate to one another.
Primary Key (PK) - Foreign Key (FK) LAW #1: If the foreign key column is part of the primary key (or part of an index) then the relationship between the tables will be one to many (1:M).
You can use similar logic to determine the relationship between the person table and the address table.
Determining One to One table relationships
Our examples do not show one to one relationships. But we can also make a general statement regarding one to one table relationships that will hold true for any two tables we decide to create and relate to one another.
Primary Key (PK) - Foreign Key (FK) LAW #2: If the foreign key column represents the entire primary key (or the entire index) then the relationship between the tables will be one to one (1:1).
What would we need to do to create a one to one relationship between the person table and the address table?
If you answered change the primary key of the address table to be only the column person_num that is correct.
But what would be a key drawback of doing this?
If you answered we would only be able to store one address per person you would be correct as well.


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The Broncs scored on their first play from scrimmage, they took a 10-6 lead at the end of the first quarter but those were the only points they would get as Gillette took a 19-10 lead at halftime.
They shut the Broncs out in the second half and won 39-10.
Broncs Head coach Don Julian says they ran into a very good team Saturday.
The first big weather event of the school year began last Thursday and affected weekend sports all over the state, including in Johnson County.
The Bison's home football game with Riverton, scheduled for Friday night, was postponed until Saturday, originally for a 1 o'clock kickoff.
Last week's storm put a temporary damper on the first home games for the Sheridan College soccer teams. The soccer teams will play a makeup double-header against Western Nebraska today at Sheridan High School, with the men playing at noon and the women scheduled for 2 pm. A special event recognizing Dr. Steve Maier, who was instrumental in making the Generals Soccer program a reality, will be held Wednesday at Maier Field at Sheridan College.
The Camels took the win against the Broncs with a final score of 39-10.
Buffalo High School's football game that was scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed to 3:00pm.
BRONCS FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Broncs and Gillette Camels are schedule to face off this afternoon in Gillette.
We will broadcast the game live on 14-10 KWYO the First Federal pregame show will start at 12:30 kickoff is set for 1:00.
RAMS FOOTBALL - The Big Horn Rams play at Glenrock this afternoon. Kickoff is set for 2:00 Ron Richter will have the play by play live on 87.7 FM ESPN radio.
EAGLES FOOTBALL - The Tongue River Eagles will play at Burns today that game is scheduled to kickoff at noon.
The border war volleyball games that were to be hosted at Sheridan High School tomorrow have been canceled.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors dropped the charges against a former Texas State University student accused of threatening to bomb the campus this past fall.
Hays County assistant district attorney Fred Weber told the Austin American-Statesman (http://bit.ly/166eOPE ) Friday there wasn't sufficient evidence to proceed with the case against 19-year-old Brittany Henderson.
Two days after local authorities took her into custody in the Oct. 18 hoax, the FBI said it had arrested her ex-boyfriend. But Henderson still spent more than a month in jail before her December release on a reduced bond.
A federal criminal complaint says Dereon Kelley accessed Henderson's email to send bomb threats to Texas State on Oct. 18 and Texas A&M on Oct. 19. He faces up to 10 years in prison on a federal felony charge.
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Southwest Airlines Teams Up with The Trinity Trust and City of Dallas to Form the Trinity River Conservation Corps with Three-Year Grant
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Southwest Airlines, in partnership with The Trinity Trust Foundation and the City of Dallas, announced a three-year, $150,000 grant for the creation of the Trinity River Conservation Corps to clean and conserve Dallas' Trinity River Corridor. This announcement was made today in the Trinity River Corridor along the Santa Fe Trestle Trail's Cedar Creek Overlook.
At the inaugural event were hundreds of Southwest Airlines volunteers who cleaned and cleared the Cedar Creek Overlook, giving their time from the heart. The group helped restore this riparian area by planting 400 love (or LUV) grass plants and 100 native blooming and non-blooming species provided by the Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility.
In attendance from Southwest Airlines were Gary Kelly, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer; Ginger Hardage, Senior Vice President of Culture and Communication for Southwest Airlines and Trinity Commons Board Member; Linda Rutherford, Vice President Communication and Strategic Outreach and other representatives.
Ginger Hardage, Senior Vice President Culture and Communication for Southwest Airlines, said, "Our commitment to the environment and giving back, along with our passion for volunteering, is why we're proud to form the Trinity River Conservation Corps and bring the community together for the beautification of the Trinity River Corridor and Great Trinity Forest. We know that places like this are the core of our communities, and our Employees take pride in giving their time to keep the heart of Dallas beating strong."
Southwest Airlines is the Founding Sponsor and Official Airline of the Trinity River Conservation Corps, which is a program to coordinate and manage multiple annual volunteer events for the conservation and upkeep of the Trinity River Corridor and Great Trinity Forest. This grant will fund the coordination and implementation of the Trinity River Conservation Corps' efforts. Southwest will work closely with The Trinity Trust and City of Dallas to plan and execute volunteer programs that will include Southwest Airlines as the lead sponsor for their employees or local companies and organizations, such as Groundwork Dallas.
Dr. Gail Thomas, president and CEO of The Trinity Trust, said "Southwest Airlines is an exemplary company showing its love for Dallas and the Trinity River. We salute Southwest Airlines for its leadership in giving back in a tangible way with hours of volunteer time in the Trinity River Corridor. Many people will have the opportunity to see the river and trails and to experience the beauty we have in Dallas. We are honored to partner with them for the love of the city."
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm said, "This generous gift demonstrates Southwest Airlines' commitment to the environment and to the City of Dallas. The creation of the new Trinity Conservation Corps continues Southwest's outstanding legacy of service by benefiting the Trinity River corridor through beautification."
In its 42nd year of service, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) continues to differentiate itself from other carriers with exemplary Customer Service delivered by nearly 46,000 Employees to more than 100 million Customers annually. Southwest is the nation's largest carrier in terms of originating domestic passengers boarded, and including wholly-owned subsidiary, AirTran Airways, operates the largest fleet of Boeing aircraft in the world to serve 97 destinations in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and six near-international countries. Southwest is one of the most honored airlines in the world, known for its triple bottom line approach that takes into account the carrier's performance and productivity, the importance of the People who work there and the communities it serves, and its commitment to efficiency and the Planet. The 2011 Southwest Airlines One Report™ can be found at southwest.com/citizenship.
The Trinity Trust Foundation helps the city of Dallas by raising private funds for this $2.2 billion urban park project. Donations from the private sector will add amenities such as the signature Calatrava bridges, lakes, a central island, a white water course, amphitheaters, and ball fields. The foundation also reaches out into the community to educate citizens about the project with presentations, symposia, and events. More information can be found by calling 214.740.1616, by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com, or by visiting www.thetrinitytrust.org.
The Trinity River Corridor Project is the largest and most complex public works and urban development project undertaken by the City of Dallas. This project is first and foremost a flood protection solution and one of the largest of its type in the nation. The project consists of five major components: flood protection, transportation, recreation, environmental stewardship, and business development. Projects opening this summer include Moore Park Gateway (8th Street) and Great Trinity Forest Southern Gateway and Horse Trails (IH-20). Projects under construction are the Baker Pump Station scheduled to open in 2014, Sylvan Avenue Bridge scheduled to open spring 2014 and construction exploration has begun on The Horseshoe Project, IH-35 and Margaret McDermott Bridge (IH-30) scheduled to be complete in 2017. The construction will begin for the Continental Avenue Pedestrian Bridge and West Dallas Gateway Park and The Texas Horse Park later this year. Martin Luther King Jr./Cedar Crest Bridge and Joppa Gateway are under design. Over 12 miles of new forest and floodway trails are open for hiking or bicycle riding. Explore the Trinity by visiting www.trinityrivercorridor.org
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Chicago Sandwich Shop Emails Employees On Dec. 23rd To Say Merry Christmas And You're All Fired
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Let me let you in on a little secret: I don't really like Christmas. Through some combination of those horrible lights, that torture referred to as Christmas music, my disliking of receiving gifts and the proximity to the far superior holiday known as Thanksgiving, December 25th just never gets my trousers off, so to speak. It's led to some of my friends joking that I'm a modern-day Scrooge, which my bank account confirms I am, in fact, not. Besides, it turns out the Chicago area has a much better approximation for Scrooge than I in whoever owns Snarf's Sandwiches on the near North Side.
See, Snarf's thought it would be fun to wait until a couple of days before Christmas to let their employees at their sandwich shop know that, suprise, you're fired. Oh, and because assbaggery prefers its interactions impersonal, they informed their staff of this via a warm and fuzzy email.
1. Due to increased competition and losses, ownership has decided to consider remodeling and reconcepting the store at 600 West Chicago Ave.Bullet point number seven is by far my favorite. Nothing makes a Christmas firing more satisfying than telling the folks fired they should totally come check out the new sandwich shop staffed with all the folks that took their jobs once it reopens. Now, it's interesting that the firing comes just a few days after the staff joined other fast food workers in striking for higher wages, but Snarf's spokeswoman Jill Preston says that's just a happy coincidence.
2. The store is closing, effective tomorrow, December 23, 2013 for an unknown period of time for this remodeling and reconcepting.
3. All staff is terminated, effective Monday, December 23, 2013.
4. All staff may apply for unemployment, if eligible.
5. Return any keys and Company property to Will Ravert at 600 West Chicago Avenue on Monday, December 23, 2014 during normal business hours.
6. Payroll will be processed as usual this week and paid on Friday, December 27, 2013.
7. Keep an eye out for the grand opening of the new store.
8. Ownership appreciates your service and wish you well in your new endeavors.
Doug Besant Director of Operations
"During the Christmas holiday we're pretty slow," she says. "The restaurant's usually three quarters closed. This does happen to coincide, but this is something we've had planned for awhile."So Snarf's has been planning this for some time, huh? In that case, I guess it was just sadism and a hatred for the working stiff that led to management emailing everyone with one day's notice of their termination? At Christmas? Classy. And breaking up with your employees via email? Well that's just the dingle berry on top of the poop sundae for your workers.
"Three days before Christmas and not even a call," [Employee] Rojas says. "It's not fair that management and the corporation is treating [employees] this way."It looks like Scrooge is alive and well and running a small sandwich shop in Chicago. And somewhere, Tiny Tim just kicked the bucket out of sheer dispair. Happy holidays.


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Mayor balks at gerrymandering — Page 2 | Foundation to break ground — Pc Amherst News-Tini€ w l p\i si) \> . \tir..M ;i. loo. \MII1 KS 1 n t-» o o o 1*5 x x r- 00 M M c cr o o ~C X CD<IM c m m Mr w« 31 H t- 3> O ***. -o s> *> H M < **»*«, rri 3> *§ r- w CO o o m H < O X ] City's facing year-end budget defied by JASON HAWK News-Times reporter Mounting expenses and failing revenues have dug a large hole in the city budget over the past several years, leaving city administrators to question future fiscal plans. "Our tax base is eroding," said treasurer Kathleen Litkovitz. "A lot of businesses that were paying taxes from their net profits just aren't turning those profits over anymore.'' Only 22 pattern of funds raised by the city come from residents who both live and work in Amherst and don't support the city's general fund. Instead, they are funneled into the street improvement fund, which over the past few years has generated a $4 million surplus. Business revenues, not residential taxes, help to put resources in the city's general fund. And money from that fund is slowiy draining away. 'Tor the past few years, we've been on a downhill slalom," said Litkovitz. Part of the problem, she said, is that many businesses are slowly closing their doors. Bankruptcies and the closing of Ames, the old Drug Mart, Bob's Big Boy, and other establishments have left valu able property unoccupied and cash flow to the city's general fund has slowed significantly. Additionally, last year the Nordson Corp. laid off nearly ISO workers, and another 22 this year. "We need to bring in more business to our city," said Litkovitz, who advocates proactively seeking new capital. "New decisions will have to be made. We're going to have to And new sources of in come,'' she said. "Instead of relying on one big business like Nordson, we need to be able to rely on 40 new businesses downtown." According to Litkovitz, there has even been discussion on creating a tax abatement to lure new businesses to the area, but the implementation of that action depends on the mayor and his staff. Another way to relieve the pressure on the treasury is to cut back on government operating expenditures, she said. "The bottom line is how much money comes in versus how you spend it," she said. "I'm a democrat, but a very conservative one. We see the money coming in and then we're very concerned about the way it's spent "We all need paper clips, copy paper, and pens, but the difference CONTINUED on page 5 CC opposes a renewal of Toucan's liquor deal by JASON HAWK You go, girls With the help of the Marion L. Steele High some new moves at the annual cheerleading School cheerleaders, girls in grades K-8 learn - clinic sponsored by tJieolcjexgitte. *» • ■ -f? News-Times reporter Patrons of Toucan Charlie, 1929 Cooper Foster Park Road E, formerly known as Brickhouse Cafe, may have to find a new party spot — if they want to drink alcohol. On Monday, Aug. 5, council- members voted unanimously to recommend that the state liquor commission refuse to renew the establishment's permit to serve alcohol. The resolution was brought to the table after council received a letter from police chief Lonnie Dillon. After reviewing complaints about city liquor holders. Toucan Charlie was the only establishment dm warranted immediate action, he wrote. "Only one establishment's clientele require members of the Amherst Police Department, as well as surrounding law enforcement agencies, to respond dit*Bropaxt innately in order to provide a safe atmosphere for the area," he wrote. "Members of this department and other areas have had to respond to, or remain in the area of Tou- can's...to an overabundance of fight and assault complaints. On several !!• TOUCAN'Si TOUCANS H gj "1 LADII A O «* GENTLE 21 S O Visitors to Toucan Charlie on Cooper Foster Park Road might have to go somewhere else soon to wet their whistles - if the establishment's liquor license isn't renewed. occasions, officers have become victims or had to use force in order to make an arrest," Dillon stated in his letter. Attached to the letter was an eight-page report detailing 83 counts of criminal activity at the location. Of the violations cited, there were nine fights, end 10 charges of The remaining charges included such things as felonious assault, criminal damaging/endangering, theft and fraud, drag possession, vandalism, disturbing the peace, auto theft, underage consumption. and criminal mischief. The frequency of these disturbances and the amount of time and staffpower needed to suppress them prohibit police forces horn protecting the rest of the city, Dillon said. Included in the recemmendation was a formal list of objections outlining to the state council's five primary reasons for its dcoision: 1) Officers have been injured while arresting, booking, and transporting suspects; 2) A high percentage of alcohol-related offenses were committed in the establishment's park- CONTINUED on page 10 4-H members give library gardens a burst of ideas by JASON HAWK News-Times reporter Warm weather and the county fair season have spurred the Amherst Critters A Such 4-H Club into action, setting loose local kids to pursue new knowledge through their individual and group projects. One of the most noticeable 4-H undertakings is the addition of the children's learning garden to the Amherst Public Library. The large garden is divided into three smaller ones, each with unique themes. The Sensory Garden contains plants that teach children about different tastes, smells, and touch sensations. The Monet Garden features flowers that appear in the paintings of French impressionist artist Claude Monet's paintings. The middle garden will feature a new theme annually. This year, it is the Century Garden, celebrating the 100th anniversary of 4-H. Future gardens may include a Pizza Garden, Salsa Garden, and Vegetable Garden. The three gardens contain geraniums, thyme, lilies, snapdragons, roses, lamb's ears, petunias, and begonias. Work on to learning garden began in February, sad children waked on tat planting and growing stages aping sad i wok-long shifts car- Visitors to the Amherst Public Library on Park St. can see the work ot the Amherst Critters & Such 4-H Club. In the children's learning garden at the rear of the building, kids planted roses, petunias, begonias, and other plants. rewarded tor their efforts by receiving Junior Master Gardener Golden- ray status. The nicest part about the whole garden is the wonderful comments we get about it," said club advisor Cheri Heffeman. "People are always saying how beautiful it is." Heffeman's daughter Danielle is also working hard on her own project The nine-year-old" is a Lorain County Fair Miniature Horse Priit- ff***gtt CaaVaK9Qafll£-t Since January, Danielle has leased a miniature bey named PICK'S Little Morgan from Amherst resident Pat Klin*-shira. Twice a week, she cleans Little Morgan's stall, grooms kin, works oa show- PKK's Ubuv Morgan and Dt> nielle will fo tlwough thek the Lorain County Fair, .negotiating she said. Even though it's her first year, Danielle still hopes to win an award. "I want to get the sportsmanship award," she said, 'Tor all of the times he's knocked me over and stepped on me. 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Nine top graduate students have been named Deans Graduate Medalists for the Class of 2012 at Fresno State, chosen as the outstanding student in each of the university's eight schools and colleges and the Division of Student Affairs.
Each dean selects an undergraduate medalist and a graduate medalist based on academic excellence, community involvement and other achievements.
One medalist will be announced as the University Graduate Medal winner at the 101st University Commencement at 9:30 a.m. May 19 at the Save Mart Center.
2012 Deans' Graduate Medalists:
Marcelo Moretti, Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology
Marcelo Moretti completed an M.S. in Plant Science with a 4.0 GPA. He completed his bachelor's degree in Agronomy Engineering at University of Sao Paulo, his hometown in Brazil, in 2008. His master's thesis project determined the first-ever globally known case of hairy fleabane, a problematic weed species in California agriculture. The research earned national and international recognition as the first documentation and confirmation of a weed species resistant to two different herbicides. Moretti received several awards and scholarships stemming from his performance at Fresno State. He is preparing his work for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, while attending the University of California, Davis, where he is pursuing a doctorate in Horticulture and Agronomy.
Andre Yang, College of Arts and Humanities
Andre Yang completed an M.F.A. in English (Creative Writing) with a 3.93 GPA. The eldest child of Hmong refugee immigrants, he grew up struggling with English. He was the first in his family to attend a university, earning a bachelor's degree at Fresno State in Liberal Studies. He discovered his talent for, and love of, writing in his senior year. In the M.F.A. program, Yang excelled in poetry and co-founded the Hmong American Writers Circle to develop a Hmong literary culture. He is a published poet in journals such as Beltway Poetry Quarterly and Lantern Review. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Philip Levine Scholarship. He served as editorial assistant to Fresno State's Normal School literary magazine. His goal is to teach at the university level.
Huong Thi Thu Mai, Craig School of Business
Huong Mai completed an M.B.A. with a 4.0 GPA. Mai chose business because it has been her passion since she was a girl in Vietnam. She grew up witnessing a country rebuild its economy in the aftermath of war. Mai was a successful pianist and music teacher but retained a passion for a business career. After moving to the United States, she entered the M.B.A. program and built a foundation upon which to pursue her dream amidst numerous challenges, including a language barrier. During her graduate studies, Mai took additional accounting classes to qualify for California's CPA exam. She will begin her accounting career in Fresno with Deloitte & Touche. Eventually, she would like to obtain a doctorate and pursue a career in higher education.
Loretta French, Kremen School of Education and Human Development
Loretta French, of Clovis, completed an M.A. in Special Education with a 4.0 GPA. Her master's thesis explored the key components of response to intervention programs while investigating whether a difference exists in reading achievement for students receiving RTIRTI interventions. During her master's program, French has been employed full time by the Clovis Unified School District as a teacher of preschool children with disabilities and as a K-6 resource specialist. While working on her credential, she was named Outstanding Credential Student in both 2005-06 and 2010-11. French was admitted to the Golden Key International Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi. She also served as a volunteer with the Tzu Chi Foundation. In her immediate future is work as a resource specialist, but French hopes eventually to earn a doctorate.
Sven Fagerstrom, Lyles College of Engineering
Sven Fagerstrom, of Fresno, earned an M.S. in Engineering with a 3.8 GPA. He served as the project manager of the highly successful Lyles College Unmanned Aerial Systems Project, was a laboratory instructor and graduate teaching assistant. Fagerstrom presented results of his graduate research at the International Symposium on Modeling and Simulation in Calgary, Canada. He is a member of several honor societies in engineering. He works as a project engineer at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Committed to community service, Fagerstrom helps socially disadvantaged people find jobs, gain an education, overcome communication barriers, maintain family stability and participate in the community. He intends to pursue a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His long-term interest is to return to academia as a faculty member and researcher.
Katherine Williamson, College of Health and Human Services
Katherine Williamson, of Kingsburg, completed an M.S. in Kinesiology with a 4.0 GPA. She was one of two recipients of the President's Graduate Scholars Award. Williamson was a graduate assistant and teaching assistant in the kinesiology activity program. She was the Sport Psychology Club president and was instrumental in organizing and planning a 5K run/walk that benefited Special Olympics. During the past two summers, Williamson traveled to Swaziland for a building and reconstruction project and to help children. She serves in her church and has been involved in inner-city and international mission trips. Last summer, she was a behavioral coach and clinical director for a national health and wellness company in New York. Her plans include pursuing a doctoral degree in psychology.
Jodi Holeman, College of Science and Mathematics
Jodi Holeman, of Madera, completed an M.S. in Biology with a 3.93 GPA. Since 2005, she has made 14 presentations at national and regional conferences. She contributed to a peer-reviewed journal article, "Identification of Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes in a hybrid zone of West Nile transmission in Fresno County, Calif.," and two non-peer-reviewed articles. Holeman's mosquito abatement research resulted in agencies applying smaller amounts of pesticides over more limited areas. Holeman is a professional biologist and GIS specialist for the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District in Selma. She believes in giving back to the community and regularly returns to her high school to speak to biology classes. She plans to continue her career in mosquito control and prevention of mosquito-borne diseases.
Cashen Boccio, College of Social Sciences
Cashen Boccio, of Moraga, earned an M.S. in Criminology with a 4.0 GPA. Despite not having a background in Criminology (her undergraduate degree is in biological sciences), she completed her coursework in just one year. She assisted professors in projects researching property crime and the medical aspects of bullying. Boccio also completed a thesis that assessed the development in impulsivity and criminal behavior. She presented her research at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in March. Boccio also was a graduate assistant in the Department of Criminology and is a member of American Society of Criminology. She plans to pursue a doctorate in behavioral neuroscience.
Dakota Draconi, Division of Student Affairs
Dakota Draconi, of Napa, completed a Master's in Social Work with a 3.96 GPA. Her graduation comes after a great personal loss: at the onset of her final year in the program, her 21-year-old son suddenly passed away. She temporarily lost hope in the future, but after taking a semester off to grieve, she returned to finish her graduate program. Draconi served on the leadership team of the Fresno State National Coalition Building Institute and played major roles in bringing back to life United Student Pride, the Fresno State lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender student group, and the LGLGBT+ Allies. She volunteers with the Marjaree Mason Center and participates in Take Back the Night, an event designed to raise awareness about violence. Draconi plans a career in social work, inspired by her son's death and using that experience to better serve clients.


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The streets of Cairo were largely clear on Thursday and the normally cacophonous megacity was unusually tranquil thanks to a national holiday celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday. But the day's calm was temporary, coming in advance of what promises to be a chaotic and volatile weekend–in a country that has recently known little other than chaotic volatility.
Friday Jan. 25 marks the two-year anniversary of the start of the landmark 18-day popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak from power. The ensuing two years have been marked–as much as anything–by divisiveness and polarization. Those two traits seem certain to be on full display. Massive protests are planned in both Tahrir Square and across town outside the Presidential palace where longtime Muslim Brotherhood official Mohammed Morsi now holds power as the nation's first elected civilian President.
(MORE: 'No Glimmers of Hope': Two Years After Egypt's Revolution, an Economic Crisis Looms)
The protests promise to be both a rekindling of the revolutionary "Republic of Tahrir" and a display of defiant opposition to Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. The day also seems certain to be steeped in both anger and nostalgia for the brief revolutionary window when both secularists and Islamists united in opposition to Mubarak's rule.
That unity started to break down almost as soon as Mubarak left the stage. After more than a year in which the military controlled the country–to almost everyone's dissatisfaction–now it is the Islamists in power and the largely secular forces in increasingly angry opposition. The last few months in particular have witnessed a dramatic deterioration of that already problematic relationship. Morsi's late-November power play to force through a highly divisive constitution have burned all bridges between the camps–leaving little more than a public shouting match in place of national consensus.
But despite the bitterness on display few expect Friday's anniversary to be marred by too much serious violence. Ziad Akl, a political scientist and activist, predicted there would inevitably be some minor clashes along the edges of Tahrir with groups of more radical protesters attempting to reach the nearby parliament building and Interior ministry. The police will likely use water cannons and tear gas but will be reluctant to deploy heavier methods. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood has openly told its people to stay away from Tahrir on Friday, reducing the kind of confrontation that left several people dead outside the presidential palace in December.
"There's going to be a festive spirit in general and I think it's going to be pretty safe." Akl said. "There will be large crowds and there's strength in numbers. The police and the Muslim Brotherhood will be very conservative."
The expectations for the following day are much more dire. On Jan. 26, a court is scheduled to rule on the case of the country's worst-ever instance of soccer violence. On Feb. 1, 2012, after a match between Cairo's Ahly Club and Port Said's Masry Club, fans of Masry allegedly stormed the field and attacked their rivals. Police on the scene largely stood aside and in the ensuing violence and stampede, 72 people–mostly Ahly fans–were killed.
(MORE: Cairo's New Normal: Protests Spawn a World of Walls and Barricades)
In the year since, the case has become an intensely personal cause for the contingent of hardcore Ahly Club fans known as the Ultras. They emerged as a powerful protest bloc after the revolution, known for their clever R-rated chants and their absolute hatred of the police and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The Ultras charge that the Port Said deaths were a set-up by the police and military to punish them for their opposition and demanded nothing less than the conviction of senior Interior Ministry officials.
On trial are 73 defendants, including nine security officials, three Masry soccer club officials and a number of fans. On Wednesday the Ultras staged a bold public show of force that seemed specifically designed to demonstrate their ability to cripple the central part of the capital. In a series of coordinated moves, groups of Ultras blocked both lanes of the October 6 bridge–a crucial overpass through the city–and staged an underground march on the tracks of the Cairo subway. The twin protests lasted less than two hours, but that was more than enough to bring central Cairo to an absolute standstill and send a clear message of more-to-come if Saturday's verdict isn't to the Ultras' satisfaction.
(PHOTOS: Egypt's Revolution in Retrospect: TIME Goes to Tahrir Square)
"It has been nearly a year since the most atrocious massacre in the history of sport occurred, a massacre planned by the military council dogs, and carried out by the thugs of the Interior [Ministry] in conjunction with a stupid and murdering audience," said a Facebook statement by the Ultras.
There's a healthy chance that Saturday's session won't produce a verdict at all. Prosecutors this week requested an 11th hour extension due to the sudden appearance of new evidence. But given the increasing radicalization of the Ultras in recent months, even a delay will probably result in some sort of hard-to-predict violence.
"There's absolutely nothing the court can do" that will satisfy the Ultras, said Akl, who has closely studied the Ultras phenomenon. "The pressure that's been building for the past year, it simply has to blow up."
Ashraf Khalil is a Cairo-based journalist and author of Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation
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If you own a home and rent it out, your property insurance will be going up over the next three years.
If you own a home and rent it out, your property insurance will be going up over the next three years.
N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has signed a settlement agreement with the insurance companies that allows for a statewide average increase of 13.2 percent for so-called dwelling fire and extended coverage policies over a three-year period.
Dwelling policies are not the same as homeowner policies. They cover homes and small apartment buildings that are not owner-occupied and are rented out. Such properties are not eligible for homeowner insurance.
As with other property insurance, however, the coastal areas will see the biggest increases.
The Insurance Department gave examples of the cost of coverage based on a frame dwelling valued at $50,000 with contents of $10,000.
For beaches in New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender and Onslow counties, the new total fire and extended coverage premium would be $733 – a 24.8 percent increase by March 2015 from $587 now.
For the mainland portions of those four counties, the premium would be $496 – up 18.3 percent from $419.
By comparison, the premium in Charlotte would actually fall, to $193 in March 2015 from $198 now. In the Triangle area, premiums would fall to $235 from $240.
The insurance companies, represented by the N.C. Rate Bureau, had in January 2011 sought an increase of 20.5 percent, varying by coverage and geographical territory.
Wayne Faulkner: 343-2329
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I realize that Halloween can have a dark side, and many Christians discourage even recognizing the day at all. But almost everything in this world can be dark, and our challenge is to be light in a dark world. So on Halloween, I recommend that those who believe Jesus is the light of the world make a concerted effort to shine even brighter. Don't turn your porch lights out and sit inside and bemoan and howl about the depravity of the little ghouls and goblins begging for candy; they are precious children, excited about dressing up and going door to door, ringing doorbells and seeing what they get.
Dress up, buy extra good candy, light up your home and make it an inviting place for kids to come for candy. For those who decorate your homes, remember many of the children are very young and impressionable, so don't scare them half to death. Instead show them how fun and loving the world can be by smiling at them and noticing their costumes, use kind and affirming words, and by all means, give them good treats.
Halloween has dark origins, but that doesn't mean we have to be afraid. Shine bright!
The Rev. Laura Root
New Hope Church of the Nazarene, Princeton
As I continue to grow as a young youth pastor, I begin to notice things differently. When I was a kid, I went trick or treating (mostly treating). I never knew what the holiday represented until I was about 18 or 19, and I feel like as long as we understand the true meaning of Halloween, we can modify how we TREAT it. Costumes in themselves are nothing more than material put together to make something. But when we define what it means, we are creating a new definition of the costume. I think it is OK for our congregation to go out and trick or treat on Halloween. I also feel like it is our congregation's responsibility to define what Halloween is and remember that we serve God and not ghouls. I think they should have fun, but remember, it is just a costume, nothing more.
Youth Pastor Brian Atwell
Bunker Hill Church of God, Buda
Paul's admonition in (1 Corinthians 8) seems to have an appropriate application to the Christian's involvement in Halloween activities. As we maintain close relationship with Jesus, we need never fear being overtaken by evil powers, just as the Corinthians didn't have to fear the power of meat sacrificed to idols. God has already defeated Satan.
Halloween cannot be called a Christian holiday. But just as Christians in centuries past found reasons for Christian celebrations at the same time as non-Christian traditions, the church can also have activities for its youth and children. Paul's admonition (Col. 3:17) applies to all our activities.
While some Christians are adamantly opposed to participate in Halloween activities, others see nothing wrong with it. Participation is a matter of conscience, since there is no Biblical injunction against visiting neighbors for friendly contact. The Christian response in both instances — opposed to or in favor of Halloween — is a matter of personal conscience. Parents who do not want their children to participate in such activity should be able to take their stand without criticism, but neither should they criticize those who see the activity as harmless if properly controlled. Likewise, the family that chooses to exercise its liberty should not find fault with those who choose not to participate. In all such choices, our relationship with Jesus should have priority and impact our choice on matters of conscience.
The Rev. Ray Lail
Bureau County Christian Center (People Church), Princeton
What is 'Walking the Walk?'
The role of religion in public life has been under much discussion recently on a local, national and international basis. From problematic issues to benevolent roles ... from churches with 1,000s of parishioners to the tiniest of congregations ... from all denominations and beyond — the church is an important part of many citizens' lives.
Bureau County is filled with communities who are proud of their churches. Clergy, lay leaders and parishioners spend many hours delivering and living the messages of their respective beliefs and churches. Bureau County churches play an important role in many lives in our own backyard, as well as in outreach endeavors.
The Bureau County Republican's feature, "Walking the Walk," publishes on a monthly basis. The three clergy who participate in this feature will answer a single question crafted by the BCR in October, November and December. At the end of their three-month stint, the BCR will ask other clergy or lay leader to commit to do the same — answer one question for three consecutive months.
Clergy and/or lay leaders who would like to participate in "Walking the Walk" can contact BCR Staff Writers Donna Barker at 815-875-4461, ext. 244, or Barb Kromphardt at 815-875-4461, ext. 242. You can also email them at email@example.com or email@example.com.
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December 29, 1994 Dear Name*,
Thank you for your letter, addressed to Secretary Robert Reich, about the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). Your letter has been referred to the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor for reply as this office has primary administration and enforcement responsibilities under FMA for all private, state and local government employees, and some Federal employees. The FMLA allows up to 12 workweeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in any 12-months—with group health insurance coverage maintained during the leave—to eligible employees for specified family and medical reasons. Employers are covered under the FMLA if they have employed at least 50 employees during 20 or more calendar workweeks in the current or the preceding calendar year. Employees are eligible under the FMLA if they have worked for a covered employer for at least 12 months that need not be consecutive, have worked at least 1,250 hours during the 12 months preceding the start of leave, and are employed at a worksite where the employer employs at least 50 employees within 75 miles. Unpaid FMLA leave must be granted to an eligible employee for any of the following reasons: (1) for birth of a son or daughter, and to care for the newborn child; (2) for placement with the employee of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care; (3) to care for the employee's spouse, son or daughter, or parent, who has a serious health condition; and (4) for a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform his/her job. Upon return from FMLA leave, the employee is entitled to be restored to the same employment position which the employee held when the leave commenced, or to an equivalent position with equivalent benefits, pay, and other terms and conditions of employment. FMLA leave may be taken "intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule" under certain circumstances. Where leave is taken to care for the newborn child or for placement with the employee of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care, an employee may take leave intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule only if the employer agrees. Where FMLA leave is taken to care for a sick family member or for an employee's own serious health condition, leave may be taken intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule when medically necessary. The employer may require 30 days advance notice when the leave is "foreseeable" and a medical certification from the treating health care provider only when the employee or the employee's family member has a serious health condition. It would appear from the limited information contained in your letter that the employer need not have approved your requests for leave to care for your newborn child from November 6 through 18 and December 1 through 5. These requests would be considered to be intermittent FMLA leave as they are leaves taken in separate blocks of time following your initial leave of absence due to the birth of the child. This conclusion is based on the information contained in your letter which stated that you returned to work on November 4 and advised your employer on that date that you wished to take two additional leaves as noted above. The employer may have been in violation for requiring medical certification for a leave of absence that appeared not to involve a serious health condition either of your own self or of an immediate family member. The employer could have required 30 days advance notice before approving, if it chose to approve, either intermittent leave request to care for the newborn child.
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The information contained in your letter is too limited to determine whether your employer has violated any provisions of FMLA. If you feel that the employer has violated FMLA, you may contact the Wage and Hour area office that handled your previous complaint. Sincerely, Daniel F. Sweeney Deputy Assistant Administrator cc: Dallas Regional Office
* Note: The actual name(s) was removed to preserve privacy in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(7).
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Members of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team joined their colleagues from the Edale Team responding to rescue a poorly climber at Bamford Edge.
A climber was seconding a route when he suffered a serious medical collapse whilst on the crag on Friday, May 2. His climbing partner lowered him to the ground.
A mountain rescue doctor and paramedics attended the casualty before he was carried on a rescue stretcher to the waiting ambulance.
He was transferred to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, at Sheffield, for treatment.
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While most commodity trading advisors were waiting for clear global trends to develop across financial markets such as interest rates, currencies and stock indexes, Red Rock Capital's Commodity Long-Short Program was successfully exploiting inefficiencies that clearly manifested themselves in physical commodity markets.
The program, managed by Red Rock Capital's Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer Tom Rollinger, is designed to capture short-term, directional movements of volatility follow-through in a diverse portfolio of 20 liquid exchange-traded U.S. commodity futures. The portfolio is diversified across the agricultural, metals, livestock, softs and energy sectors.
Positions are initiated in counter-trend and trending environments, and are held eight days on average. The strategy has produced annualized returns of 29.63% during a very difficult period for systematic trend followers.
The Commodity Long-Short Program uses a unique, quantitative pattern recognition strategy that is designed to capture long or short directional "volatility bursts" in physical commodity futures. The patterns are not visible to the "naked eye," according to Rollinger.
Rollinger was fortunate enough to receive a world-class education in trading system design and management from quantitative hedge fund pioneer Edward O. Thorp — who "Market Wizards" author Jack Schwager recently called "the best risk-adjusted trader ever."
Red Rock's flagship systematic program boasts an impressive 10+ year track record with a compound annual return of more than 9%. The program has a 13% annualized volatility and no correlation to the stock market. While it has been a steady performer, Rollinger believes the Commodity Long-Short program is timely and has had people talking recently. Red Rock also has produced a white paper that highlights the value of long/short commodity investing (see "Commodities: It's what's for diversification," page 44).
Rollinger says his program focuses on physical commodities with no financial futures because physical commodity futures are more susceptible to supply/demand shocks than are financials.
He explains: Hedgers, who utilize the commodity futures markets as a means to transfer price risk to speculators and investors, could be producers or consumers of various commodities, and depending on which one they are, could benefit from the price of that commodity either rising or falling. Producers of commodities are able to hedge their price risk by taking short positions in futures contracts on the commodity that they produce.
He says conversely, consumers can hedge their risks by taking long positions in the futures contracts on the commodities that they consume. "Due to these mechanics there is a premium that can be captured on both sides of the market if one is willing and able to [do so]," he says.
"Interestingly, and oft-misunderstood, is that this means that while the net supply of commodity futures contracts may be a zero-sum game, there is more to the story, because one group of participants (hedgers) is regularly willing to pay a premium, such as initiate and hold losing positions, to limit their risk," Rollinger says.
Since inception of the program in September 2013, it is up 19.94% through April 2014, and up 12.36% year-to-date.
"This performance is especially impressive considering it was produced during a period that saw a number of high-profile commodity funds close up shop and J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and most recently Barclays all announce their exits from the global commodities trading business," Rollinger says.
Besides its impressive absolute returns, Rollinger says that the fact the strategy is so different—having produced 0.18, 0.19 and 0.13 daily correlations to diversified CTAs, trend-following CTAs and short-term CTAs respectively —is causing it to gain the attention of allocators and family offices.
Rollinger says he initially entered the systematic trading field for the unbounded upside financial potential, but his competitiveness and discipline took over from there.
"I've always been analytical and comfortable with numbers. I remember on road trips as a child, with my father's instruction, calculating the speed of our car in [miles-per-hour] by measuring how long it took us to reach the next mile-marker on the highway," Rollinger says.
"Our strategy is designed with mathematical expectation at its base. Thus, we expect both winning and losing trades to occur over meaningful periods. The strategy uses very strict risk-management techniques that have us quickly exit losing trades" he says. "So as long as trade outcomes are within statistical bounds of expectation for our strategy, we follow the strategy to a 'T'—thereby positioning ourselves to fully experience the strategy's true mathematical expectation/edge."
He says the strategy is designed to be very agile and it factors in and adjusts to recent spikes or jolts in price and/or volatility caused by a big news story, weather or catastrophes.


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Who can ask for a web marketing consultancy?
Virtually all! Or rather, all those who have a budget to invest in online communication (and not only – ed). To get good results we recommend the monthly schedule, and at least 12 months of counseling. Time and patience are essential for those who want to achieve lasting results.
What types of web marketing consultancy you may require?
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– Fecebook ADS (also in this case will plan to CPC, or cost per click, the most used social network in Italy)
– SEO (optimization, indexing and organic ranking of your site pages and in the natural results (no fee – ed) Google and other search engines used in Italy).
– Email Marketing (DEM and Newsletter): sending e-mails "in target" to the profile of your business, using database authorized by the editors of the sites.
Projected costs, budget and web marketing consultancy prices
There is a "standard" to follow. You can even start with a few hundred euros a month and then decide (results in hand, of course – ed) to allocate budgets of most important of thousands of euros per month. We think that if a web marketing strategy works, we should not think of the "savings." If you earn because underinvestment? It would not make sense!
To make a good web marketing consultancy, however, it takes a lot of experience
We are among the few in Italy that can boast 21 years of experience. Since 1994, when Google did not even exist, and there was Altavista, Lycos and other historical search engines in the top 5, the most used by users resources. We have "ridden" all "waves" and "bubbles" of the new economy.


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WORCESTER — The advisory committee charged with recommending ways to spend mitigation funding the city is receiving from the CSX freight yard expansion project is looking into possibly using some of that money for an acoustic surveillance system to assist police in combating gun violence.
The technology, known as "ShotSpotter," uses acoustic sensors that are deployed in targeted neighborhoods where gun violence is a problem.
In addition to detecting the sound of gunfire, the sensors are paired with software that can analyze the sounds in real time and pinpoint the location from which each round was fired, as well as determine how many shots were fired, what direction they were fired and the type of weapon used.
And if the gunfire was from a drive-by shooting, it could even detect what direction the vehicle was traveling and where it was heading.
The sensors are set up on high structures, such as light poles and rooftops. The data collected from them is fed to an incident review center in California operated by the vendor (SST Inc.) of the system.
Personnel at that center review the gunfire data and then would send the qualified alert to the Police Department's Real Time Crime Center and officers in the field, allowing them to determine the safest and fastest tactical response.
The technology also has the capability of being linked to surveillance cameras in the area, thus enabling police to position those cameras toward the location of the shots.
"From a police perspective, this system is tremendous," said Police Capt. Paul Saucier. "When we get calls about shots being fired, they are often described as coming from a general area. Our officers often have no information going to that call. With this system, police officers would have a more direct location as to where the shots were fired and other important information about the incident."
Vincent A. Pedone, vice chairman of the CSX Neighborhood Advisory Committee, said he was originally considering recommending that some of the mitigation money be used to help the city purchase a bomb sniffing dog for the Police Department.
When he discussed that possibility with police officials, Mr. Pedone said they brought to his attention the ShotSpotter system. After doing some research into it, he said he firmly believes it would be a valuable crime-fighting tool for the Police Department.
"It would absolutely be a phenomenal help to our Police Department and for that reason I think we should think about directing some (CSX) funding to help secure our neighborhoods," Mr. Pedone said. "This CSX money can do more than just beautify neighborhoods or put planters out on the streets; it can do a lot more to improve safety."
Deputy Police Chief Mark Roche said the ShotSpotter technology would enable police to respond rapidly and more effectively to gunfire incidents, even ones that aren't called in.
"The Worcester Police Department is committed to addressing violent crimes, especially gun violence," he said. "But for us to be truly successful, we need to mobilize the entire community. And to combat gun violence, we need to keep up with the technology that is available."
Jack Pontious, director of the Northeast Region for SST Inc., said the ShotSpotter technology is employed in more than 80 communities nationwide, including Boston, Springfield, Brockton, Fall River and New Bedford.
In Boston, he said the sound surveillance technology is being used in a 7-square-mile area, and city officials there are getting ready to double the size of that footprint. He said his company's largest deployment is in Washington, D.C., where it covers a 20-square-mile area.
In Nassau County, N.Y., which has had the ShotSpotter system in place for three years, police officials there recently reported that gunfire incidents in the zone where the audio surveillance is deployed has dropped by 90 percent.
"This system has proven to provide a deterrent effect over time," Mr. Pontious said. "It also gives police officers information they never had before when they go to a call involving gun shots. We have found that only 20 percent of gunfire incidents get called into police and in some areas the reporting rate is closer to 10 percent."
For Worcester, surveillance zones would be established in two, 3-square-mile zones, with a focus on those East Side neighborhoods — Grafton Hill, Union Hill and Vernon Hill — where gunfire has been a particular problem.
Mr. Pontious said the cost to operate the system in each 3-square-mile zone would be roughly $175,000 per year, or $415,000 in each zone over a three-year period.
The agreement allowing CSX to expand its freight yard between Shrewsbury and Franklin streets calls for it to provide $5 million to the city divided into two categories: $1 million as an open space donation and $4 million as a community investment donation.
Of that $4 million, $3 million is earmarked for aquatics facilities at Cristoforo Colombo Park or Holmes Field, while the remaining $1 million is to be divided equally ($333,000) between three districts, Shrewsbury Street, Grafton Hill and the Canal District.
The money available to those districts could be as high as $2 million — more than $660,000 each — because the city can bond some of the neighborhood improvement projects over time using "gate fees" assessed to each container that enters the CSX yard.
Over the next 20 years, the city expects to receive more than $1 million from those fees.
Paul P. Clancy Jr., chairman of the advisory committee, said using some of the CSX money to purchase the surveillance technology is something worthy of consideration.
But before anything is decided, Mr. Clancy said he would like additional information regarding the cost of the system and where specifically it would be deployed.
He also made it clear that if the committee is going to recommend the use of CSX mitigation money for the acoustic surveillance system, each of the three districts eligible for the funding would have to agree to share the cost equally.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado backup quarterback Jordan Webb will serve two years of probation for a May fight that left an Air Force Academy cadet unconscious.
The 22-year-old also was ordered Friday to perform 80 hours of community service and get alcohol treatment. Webb had pleaded guilty to third-degree assault last week.
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