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Browns Park Sand Volleyball Facility is programmed by the Evergreen Region Volleyball Association (ERVA) in partnership with Spokane Valley Parks and Recreation. The facility includes 16 beautiful beach volleyball courts, fully equipped with pro-quality nets and premium white sand.
Since the initial dedication of the courts in June of 2015, the park has been buzzing with activity. From the hundreds of individuals participating in ERVA sanctioned events and the spectators they attract, to the waves of local community members enjoying its amenities, Browns Park has become an absolute hub for recreation in Spokane.
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With exactly two years to go until the athletics action gets underway at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has published the qualification system for the Games in Japan's capital.
The system was approved at the IAAF Council meeting in Buenos Aires last week and includes details of the entry numbers for each discipline and the qualification timeline.
For the 10,000 metres, marathon, race walks, combined events and relays, the qualification period runs from January 1, 2019 to June 29, 2020.
For all other events, the qualification period runs from July 1, 2019 to June 29, 2020.
Athletes can qualify in one of two ways - either by virtue of their IAAF world ranking position at the end of the qualification period, or by achieving the entry standard within the qualification period.
Entry standards will be approved and published later this year, but will be set for the sole purpose of qualifying athletes with exceptional performances who are unable to qualify through the IAAF world rankings pathway.
Tokyo 2020 will open on July 24 with the athletics programme starting on July 31.
Earlier this month, the International Olympic Committee Executive Board approved the competition schedule for the Games, outlining the start and finish times of each session.
The more detailed competition schedule, identifying the individual times of specific events, will be announced by the spring of 2019.
The Tokyo Organising Committee also recently announced an outline of ticket prices for the Games.
There are a wide range of prices aimed at allowing as many people as possible to enjoy Olympic events, including millions of tickets at "affordable" prices.
Fans will be able to apply for tickets from the spring of 2019.

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Bahrain government aims to seek bids from leading construction firms for its ambitious metro railway project during the fourth quarter of 2019, said a report.
The mega project is estimated to cost between $1 billion and $2 billion, reported Al Ayam newspaper citing a transport ministry official.
The project is likely to be built with private participation, it added. The rail project is part of Bahrain's Public Transport Masterplan 2030, which is to be implemented in phases.
The Phase One will have 30 km of elevated track, 20 stations which is likely to include an airport station. It is expected to have a carrying capacity of 43,000 passengers per hour, it stated.
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Physical Therapy
Physical therapy has many benefits for treating osteoarthritis symptoms. Guided exercise with a dedicated professional makes all the difference when dealing with and treating knee pain and stiffness. Continuing to stay active is crucial during treatment because it can help increase flexibility, strengthen the muscles needed to support the proper movement of the joint, maintain range of motion, and even naturally decrease joint inflammation over time. This is all in addition to the health benefits of being active and losing weight. Reduced weight on the joints has a significant impact on knee health.
Check out our Physical Therapy FAQs page to learn more about the importance of physical therapy in our knee pain treatment plan.
Although activity can be great for treating symptoms, it is important to be cautious when starting any new exercise routine. Improper exercise can place harmful stress on the joints or promote improper joint function. Because of this, we recommend all of our patients partner with a qualified physical therapist to be sure their exercise routine is healthful, safe, and beneficial.
Our attention to physical therapy is key to the success of your non-surgical treatment program at Reflex
We work closely with select physical therapists to ensure you have a wide breadth of providers and programs that meet your treatment goals. We have partnerships with:
Each of these clinics has their own specialty which enables us to send you to a physical therapist that best fits your individual needs. Our physicians are sent regular updates from your physical therapist so that we can continually monitor your progress to ensure we are working with you for your best possible outcome.
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Julia Breckenreid is, by her own admission, an artistic magpie: "I grab bits and pieces of inspiration wherever I see it." The Toronto illustrator and part-time illustration instructor works out of a bright, sunny studio in the city's east end. She regularly posts playful photos of works-in-progress on Instagram. Her finished illustrations — which she mostly does the old-school way, using acrylic paint, watercolour and ink, with minor digital additions — is bright, bold and unapologetically eye-catching.
Julia's clients are primarily editorial, ranging from niche (Chronicle Books, Johns Hopkins and, depending on who you ask, The New York Times) to A-list (Penguin books, Oprah magazine and, depending on who you ask, The New York Times). "Generally, I love to play with the text that I'm given," she says, "and try to convey something beneath or beyond what the author has composed."
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Founder and Managing Director (CEO)
Dr Klemens Joos studied business administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, and, already in 1998, obtained his doctorate on "Representing the Interests of German Companies vis-à-vis the Institutions of the European Union" at the university's Faculty of Business Administration. After working as Personal Assistant to a Member of the European Parliament, he founded EUTOP International GmbH in 1990.
Since then, EUTOP has concentrated on the structural and sustainable support of the work of the interest representations of private companies, associations and organisations at the institutions of the European Union and selected member states. EUTOP International GmbH in Munich has subsidiaries in Brussels, Frankfurt, Berlin, Dusseldorf and Vienna, further offices in Paris, Madrid, Rome, Budapest, Prague and Copenhagen, as well as, sales representations in London, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and New York. EUTOP is a provider of Process-oriented Structural Governmental Relations (PSGR®). Dr Klemens Joos heads the EUTOP Group as Managing Partner. His doctorate was followed by further publications on lobbying, which are available in German, English and Japanese. Furthermore, since 2013, Dr Klemens Joos has been Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Business Administration at the LMU Munich for the field of "Convincing Political Stakeholders. In July 2019 Dr Klemens Joos was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.
Dr Joos steers the activities of the entire group from the head office in Munich. In addition, developing the locations in Paris, Rome and Londoni s part of his direct remit.
Managing Director
Chief Administration Officer
Christian Schaufler studied Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and subsequently completed his legal apprenticeship in Tübingen and Reutlingen. After completing the second legal state examination in 2004 he worked as a lawyer for the RWT Group in Reutlingen. In 2007 he joined the office of the chairperson of the CDU parliamentary group in the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, taking over the management of the office in 2008. Following this, from February 2010 until May 2011 he managed the office of the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg. In September 2011 he took on the position of Chief Administration Officer at EUTOP International GmbH in Munich. In this capacity Christian Schaufler has also been Managing Director of First Management & IT Services GmbH since 2018 and since 2019 of EUTOP International GmbH.
Managing Director EUTOP Düsseldorf GmbH
Dr Rainer Wend studied Law at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Westphalian Wilhelm University in Münster. In 1984 he was awarded a doctorate from the University of Bielefeld, where he had been working since 1980 as a research assistant. Dr Wend started his political career upon joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1970. He was the mayor of the city of Bielefeld from 1994 until 2003, and in 1998 he was elected to the Bundestag as a representative of the SPD. Here Dr Rainer Wend was chairman of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Employment from 2002 until 2005, and, from 2002 until 2009, he was a member of the SPD executive committee. In 2009 Dr Wend joined the Deutsche Post DHL Group, a leading international company in the field of logistics and postal communications, with around 550,000 employees. Up until the end of 2019, Dr Wend held global responsibility within the group as Executive Vice President and also headed the centrally managed area of Policy and Regulation Management. In addition to this, Dr Wend is a member of a number of supervisory boards and advisory bodies and, since June 2019, he has been Managing Director of the University Society of Bielefeld. He has been Managing Director of EUTOP Düsseldorf GmbH since January 2020.
Managing Director of EUTOP Vienna GmbH
Konrad Kreuzer studied law and business administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. After passing the 2nd state examination in law in 1977, he worked at the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. From 1986, he was Head of the Public Law department and later Director of the Law and Property department at Bayernwerk AG. He was appointed Director of EuroBayernwerk in 1993, where he was responsible for international business development. From 1997, he was CEO of E.ON Hungaria in Budapest, and from 2002 and 2008 he additionally held the same position at the Slovakian companies Zapadoslovenska energetika and E.ON Slovensko respectively. He left these posts at the end of 2013. Konrad Kreuzer has been Managing Director of EUTOP Vienna GmbH since 2015, and is also in charge of EUTOP Budapest and EUTOP Prague.


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While You Were Sleeping
Words and Photos by Austen Diamond
Just after 4 p.m. — the gondola sits still, ski patrollers start their sweeps, and the apres-ski scene swings at Earl's Lodge. Meanwhile, near the John Paul Express Chair, Tim La Marsh clocks in and fires up a Prinoth Bison, ready to spring into action.
La Marsh, known lovingly around here as "Swampy," wears Carhartts and work gloves, not Arcteryx ski bibs and mittens. On his black baseball hat, there's a logo of a snow cat — fitting.
Swampy inspects the rotary tillers and the comb in the back, then on to the hydraulic dozer blades in front. This $350,000 piece of motorized metal is given the thumbs up, so off he goes a-grooming on the slopes.
The unsung heroes of the mountain, the ski slope groomer teams prettify the main veins of the resort, making for safe and fun routes. Most of the magical snow preparation and polishing happens while you were sleeping.
Swampy and five other groomers take the first of two shifts. His shift continues until around midnight, and the second shift carries on until just before lifts open at 9 a.m.
What Swampy refers to as "lunch," is actually a late dinner for most. Those who will partake in Snowbasin Resort's goodly runs tomorrow will turn off their lights tonight as Swampy and the rest of the ski slope groomer crew are getting into the grooming groove.
"I just love producing a good product for the skiers," Swampy says. "They really appreciate the effort for good skiing, and we have a crew here that really takes pride in their work."
SKI Magazine took note of the impeccable conditions and awarded Snowbasin 6th place among North American resorts for grooming in their 2017 rankings.
Grooming Speed and a Ski Racer's Sense
Heading west on Penny Lane, the snow cat grooms hard-packed snow, and we're jostled around before heading up-mountain. Swampy turns the corner to unveil an arresting panoramic sunset — a nightly perk of the job.
There's a constant hum of 1,500 horses doing their thing in the engine. And we travel steadily at four miles per hour — what Swampy calls "grooming speed."
With a long history in ski racing, Swampy knows a thing or two about good ski conditions. A Boise native, he began coaching at the local ski hill, Bogus Basin. The state of affairs necessitated that he groomed his own training hills—before his coaching. It was outdated machinery, but he learned his way around snow cats nevertheless.
Swampy moved on to work as a ski slope groomer at nearby Sun Valley for a few years before landing a coaching gig on the US Ski Team. He worked in various positions there for 28 years, yet his knowledge and passion for quality runs was not lost.
"I got tired of my kids getting hurt, so I'd go in early and help them get the course ready," Swampy says. History repeats itself. This time it eventually led to a full-time job as a race director for the 2002 Winter Olympics; part of his job was overseeing the grooming of race hills.
No Snow Nook Left Untouched
Bruce Springsteen, myriad classic rock hits, and a medley of reggae are our soundtrack. Blue hour has long passed. Little can be seen except what's under the cat's bright spotlights as we continue up the side of the mountain.
The cat's blade pushes snow, while the tiller's comb leaves the velvety corduroy behind. Pointing down to the sea of buttons and electronic gizmos, Swampy says that a good groomer won't get the zen-like hang of the snow cat until after two years of experience.
Pulling the cat in reverse, Swampy takes a second to hop on the radio and relate to the rest of the fleet that he needs to work out a kink in the snow. "There'll be a picture of that on the wall tomorrow if I don't fix it," he says with a laugh.
"It was sort of the long-term goal to wind up doing grooming again," Swampy says. "It's a great job, and the guys here are a lot of fun."
There's a lot of teamwork on the hill, a sort of unspoken language and effortless efficiency after working together for years. There's not much of a need for chatting as each crew member makes a pass on the run, leaving no snow nook untouched.
Flanking to the far right on Elk Ridge, Swampy prepares for the soft snow to force his cat to slide downhill, but he manages to pull it through. Sometimes grooming is an adventure: five days ago—grooming this very run in the midst of a white-out — was one of Swampy's scariest work days ever.
"When we got to the top of the pass, it's like everyone had just won the Super Bowl," he says with a chuckle. "We were so excited — there was so much adrenaline and testosterone going on. There are times when it gets pretty intense out here."
But out here tonight, it's serene. Stars shine brightly through the black night's calm. The bumpy ride has smoothed out on softer snow. "Sometimes, you put the blade down," Swampy says, "and it just speaks to you."
Meet More Citizens of Mountain Time
No matter your itinerary, there are people — and dogs — enhancing your More Mountain Time™ with their skill, passion and shared love for this incredible place. These people are your friends, and not only because they groom the trails, truck you to powder stashes or help you pair a wine with your meal. They truly care. They are the Citizens of Mountain Time.
Ogden Valley
Ogden is an outdoor recreation mecca. Companies like Amer Sports and Scott Sports are part of a thriving outdoor industry while nearby trails and mountain resorts are the foundation for endless adventure. Ogden's downtown is pedestrian friendly and features an array of local shops, restaurants and bars.
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
This expansive forest encompasses Utah's Wasatch Mountains next to the state's northern metropolitan area, and the north slope of the Uintas. At nearly 2.1 million acres, this collection of forest areas is one of the most frequently visited in the nation thanks to several ski and summer resorts, countless miles of trails and seemingly endless outdoor recreation opportunities.
Nordic Valley
Nordic Valley feels wonderfully secluded and offers the best of The Greatest Snow on Earth®, all at a budget-friendly price. It's an ideal mountain for those new to skiing yet offers a surprising diversity of terrain and Utah's signature snow.
Snowbasin Resort
Snowbasin Resort is a perennial top ten for SKI magazine in categories like dining, service, lifts and weather. Here's how that translates: Snowbasin takes care of everything it can control, and Mother Nature does the rest. Snowbasin Resort is under an hour from Salt Lake City International Airport, but is also about 30 minutes from the vibrant Ogden metropolitan area.
Beyond downhill skiing and riding, the adventure continues: Snowbasin's tubing hill is lift-assisted and four-lanes wide, a perfect weekend addition to your on-mountain winter adventures. There's also a network of Nordic trails.


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Legal news for California health care attorneys. Families of autistic children are in an uproar after a state-funded therapy was cut.
California health care attorneys alerts- A class-action lawsuit was filed after state-funded autism therapy was cut.
Los Angeles, CA—Families in eastern Los Angeles County have filed a class-action lawsuit after state-funded services for autistic children were discontinued. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday, January 14, 2010 on behalf of the affected families in the Los Angles County Superior Court, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
The Eastern Los Angeles County Regional Center alerted over 100 families that their children were loosing the DIR therapy model, which stands for "developmental individual difference, relationship-based", late last summer. The therapy was cut as a result of state budget cuts, which now has parents in an uproar. The California Legislature cut over $300 million in services in experimental treatments, recreational activities, and nonmedical therapies for the developmentally disabled. The therapy is part of a popular treatment called "Floortime," where a therapist follows a child's lead while playing to help to build communication and social interaction skills. DIR was cut because "it doesn't meet the rigors of science." Even though there are no known controlled scientific studies on the DIR treatment, in 2001 the National Research Council determined that the treatment "had enough in common with other proven methods, which can be considered a valid model for treating autism." The lawsuit contends the therapy cut "threatens to condemn our clients and this group of children to a bleak future under institutionalized care."
According to Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org, "Autism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior." The disorder is reportedly being diagnosed at record rates.
Legal News Reporter: Nicole Howley-Legal news for California health care lawyers.


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The company's co-founder has been on indefinite leave since February
The mobile advertising network Kiip has replaced its co-founder and CEO, who has been on leave since February after he was accused of sexual assault.
On Monday, the company announced it has hired Jason Lapp, a longtime executive at WPP's data-analyst giant Kantar, to replace Brian Wong, who is facing second-degree felony charges after a woman accused him of raping her during South by Southwest in 2016 in Austin, Texas. The announcement comes after a grand jury on Friday indicted Wong, who stepped down last month at the request of Kiip's board and is currently "on indefinite leave," according to the company.
When reached by telephone on Wednesday night, Wong declined to comment on the allegations. However, Samuel Bassett, an attorney at the Austin-based law firm Minton, Burton, Bassett and Collins who is representing Wong, said in a statement that Wong "is innocent of this 3-year-old baseless accusation leveled against him."
The charges against Wong date back to a March 13, 2016, meeting between Wong and a woman identified in court records as Samantha Luu (a pseudonym). Luu alleges she drove from Houston to meet with Wong at a private party at Perry's Steakhouse in Austin. In an affidavit reviewed by Adweek, Luu recalled feeling "disoriented, dizzy and physically impaired" after drinking half a glass of wine.
Luu states in the court documents that she doesn't remember leaving the restaurant or going back to Wong's hotel but recalls Wong pushing her onto a bed and removing her clothing. She alleges that Wong then raped her. She said she told him repeatedly to "please stop" before yelling for help. Luu told officials that she passed out from exhaustion before waking up hours later naked in bed with Wong, and that he sexually assaulted her again. According to the affidavit, she later left the hotel and drove back to Houston, where she filed a police report with Rice University police.
Bassett alleges Wong and his accuser first met on Tinder in San Francisco and had a date that included consensual sexual activity. "She later travelled to Austin to visit Mr. Wong and to stay at his hotel. They again engaged in consensual sexual activity and spent the night together," he said. "It was after this second date that she falsely complained of this activity being nonconsensual. The evidence will show that Mr. Wong acted appropriately at all times, and we look forward to his vindication."
A Kiip spokesperson said the company is aware of the allegations. However, the company deferred comment on the specifics of the allegations to Wong and his attorneys.
"The Kiip Board asked Brian to take an indefinite leave of absence on Feb. 26, and that leave of absence remains," according to a statement from Kiip sent to Adweek. "That being said, Kiip is committed to maintaining a positive, safe and respectful work environment in which every individual is treated with respect and dignity. We expect every employee—including our CEO—to adhere to our codes of conduct."
According to court documents, police had suspended their investigation into the case because Luu was unable to participate. However, officials reopened the case last May after Luu contacted authorities again and in July provided a statement to police. An arrest warrant for Wong was filed in January.
According to the Travis County Sheriff's office, Wong was booked into Travis County Jail on March 15 with his attorney present and released the same day after posting bond, which had previously been set at $30,000.
Geoffrey Puryear, Travis County's assistant district attorney and the prosecutor named in court documents, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. However, according to the Travis County District Clerk's Office, Wong is scheduled to appear in court on March 29.
While Wong, now 27, has been a part of the company he co-founded since he was 19, Lapp comes to Kiip after 20 years in digital advertising. Prior to joining Kiip, Lapp was chief growth officer at Kantar, which WPP announced on Monday will be consolidated under a single brand on April 2.
"I've known Jason for some time and have watched his great work at Kantar very closely," Lars Leckie, managing director at Hummer Winblad and a Kiip board member, said in a statement. "We've been in touch about having Jason join the board and working together on Kiip for months. Jason is well familiar with our business and excited about the potential from his interactions with the company and our clients and partners. We're delighted to have him leading Kiip."


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My name is Mr. Bam Bam Rubble and I am an American Paint Horse. It is hard to see paint in me, but if you look closely I have one spot of white on my belly.
I came to the ranch as a much loved retired Dressage horse. My previous owner recognized that she was pushing me a little too hard and my body wasn't designed to do the very strenuous discipline known as dressage, or what you folks around here sometimes call horse ballet.
Torn between the thought of selling her beloved horse or continuing me in the discipline, she contacted Reigning Grace Ranch to see if I could work with children in their therapeutic environment. She wanted the best for me and believed I would flourish in an environment where I would continue to be loved by many and work with children. She had no idea how right she was!
I am probably one of the most popular horses at the ranch because of my willing heart and disposition. I am about 13 years old and as sweet as they come. I love to be involved at the ranch whether it is being groomed, trail riding, being painted, obstacle work or groundwork. I found what makes my heart beat!
In our busy season, I work with over 30 children a month. I am responsible for teaching our children many character-building qualities such as trust, love, leadership, acceptance, communication, follow-thru, work ethic, teamwork, confidence, goal setting, learning the importance of taking care of something and good old fashion hard work.


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The bears are driving gold down into zones at which [Asian] physical demand will become prodigious. – John Brimelow, John Brimelow's Gold Jottings Report
The economy is starting to collapse. All the non-Government-reported economic metrics are showing that the bottom is falling out of the demand side of GDP at all levels of the economic system – OEM, wholesale, middleman, retail.
The cable biz news networks have sent their emissaries out to the landmark Times Square/Herald Square stores in NYC to try and manufacture a story about "Black Friday." Aside from the footage of the pre-dawn door openings at Macy's – and at a few semi-ghetto area Walmarts around the country where fights broke out – there is no story. I just saw a clip of some blonde bimbo from Fox Biz at the Times Square Toys R US store – it was very quiet in the background aside from some curiosity seekers.
So why not cover up the truth by hiding the "canary in the coal mine" and blasting the price of gold? That's exactly what happened on Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. EST:
As you can see from the graph to the left, the trading in gold during the Asian and early London hours was largely subdued. At 8:00 a.m. the Comex paper gold contract went into its now-familiar cliff-dive formation. Bare in mind that this is probably one of the most quite, low-volume trading periods of the entire week, as Asia and the Middle East are in bed and London's paper gold market is starting to doze off the weekend. No one single other commodity or market index exhibited any unusual trading patterns or volume when gold was smashed. Even silver, after an initial "sympathy" sell-off, has held up remarkably well. This was an intentional raid on the gold market.
Between 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., 19,595 contracts were traded, largely dumped into the market. This is many multiples higher than the typical pre-Comex floor open volume. Make no mistake, any seller looking to move, 1.96 million ounces of paper gold – approximately 58 tonnes – would wait for the periods of time when the there's is a lot more volume in order to mask the amount of paper he needs to sell AND to maximize the sale proceeds.
The sell operation put into motion did not have the slightest intent to maximize proceeds – it was sheer shock and awe. Interestingly, GOFO/lease rates in London are exhibiting the signs of increasing "stress" on the demand for physical gold deliveries. The GOFO rates posted this morning were negative out to three months and the rates for 1 week and 1 month had moved from -.30/-.20 to -.35/-.25, respectively. This means that any entity looking to borrow gold collateralized by a cash was willing to pay a higher rate to do so today than last week.
Interestingly the mining stocks seem to be looking "through" the extreme price suppression of the price of gold and have recently been diverging from the latest take-down:
Only time will tell if this positive divergence between the mining stocks and the price of gold is a harbinger of a big move higher in the price of gold. A lot of contrarian style analysts are starting to call for a big move up in the price of gold: Gold/Gold Stocks and Get Ready For a Year-End Gold Rally, for instance.
I believe that as it becomes more apparent to a wider audience that the U.S. economy is collapsing, big investors will be forced to dump their hideously overpriced stocks and find a hiding place, away from the fraud-infested paper assets. That hiding place will be physical gold.


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Building a first-class amphitheater at Riverfront Park is a big undertaking that will require the support of the regional community. If you would like to help build this landmark, please make a tax-deductible donation to the Gerry Frank | Salem Rotary Amphitheater.
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November 04, 2013
VSB Disciplinary Board to Hear Kristen Dawn Dean Reinstatement Petition on January 24, 2014
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Deadline for comment: January 8, 2014
Pursuant to Part 6, Section IV, Paragraph 13-25 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Kristen Dawn Dean petitioned the Court on February 11, 2013, for reinstatement of her license to practice law. The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board will hear the petition on January 24, 2014, at 9 a.m. in the State Corporation Commission, Courtroom A, Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia. After hearing evidence and oral argument, The Disciplinary Board will make factual findings and recommend to the Supreme Court whether the petition should be granted or denied.
The Disciplinary Board seeks information about Ms. Dean's fitness to practice law. Written comments or requests to testify at the hearing may be submitted to Barbara S. Lanier, Clerk of the Disciplinary System, 707 East Main Street, Suite 1500, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or to email@example.com no later than Wednesday, January 8, 2014. Comments will become part of the public record.
The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked Ms. Dean's license by Order of Revocation entered on August 30, 2006. The Order of Revocation found that Ms. Dean had not complied with an Order of Suspension with Terms entered by the Disciplinary Board on December 16, 2005. Specifically, the Order of Revocation found that Ms. Dean had failed to pay restitution of $4,882.75 by June 1, 2006, as required by the Order of Suspension with Terms.
At the time of the revocation of Ms. Dean's law license, Ms. Dean's prior disciplinary record consisted of a five-year suspension of her law license imposed by the December 16, 2005, Order of Suspension with Terms. The Order of Suspension with Terms reflected an Agreed Disposition between the Virginia State Bar and Ms. Dean. Ms. Dean's five-year suspension resulted from her mishandling of settlement proceeds from a personal injury case.
In her petition for reinstatement, Ms. Dean stated that she was licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia in April 1999. She described the conduct that ultimately led to the revocation of her license to practice law as an isolated incident involving one client and stated that she paid the restitution in full to the parties listed in the Order of Revocation in 2006.
Ms. Dean stated that, since the revocation of her license to practice law, she has remained involved in the legal profession by working as a legal assistant. She also stated that she has attended legal seminars and participated in writing legal briefs under the supervision of licensed attorneys. Ms. Dean further stated that she has completed more than 100 hours of continuing legal education, including 10 hours in legal ethics, within five years of the date of her petition for reinstatement; that she took the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination in March 2012 and received a scaled score of 85 or higher; that she has reimbursed the Virginia State Bar for all costs, together with any interest, previously assessed against her; and that she is a person of honest demeanor and good moral character who possesses the requisite fitness to practice law.
Copies of the Order of Revocation and Petition for Reinstatement are available by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com or (804) 775-0539.
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Robots, Digital, RPA, Data Analytics, Cloud Services, Block Chain… Sound like the education system in Ontario? How about the basics then: consolidated back office, lean, shared services…? No? If there appears to be no advancement in the area of education administration in Ontario, then the question is: did anyone ever try? In order to find out, we need to turn the clock back 20 years and examine where governments have tried to transform and what seems to be blocking the path forward…
Twenty Years Ago: Half-baked
In 1998 the current Ontario Premier and former Minister of Education, Kathleen Wynne was a compatriot of former mayor / activist John Sewell. Their collective leadership of Citizens for Local Democracy was protesting province-wide school board amalgamation (specifically the city of Toronto). They lost the fight to then Premier Mike Harris who ushered in the amalgamation of school boards with the secondary notion that shared services could potentially be the next logical step in cost reduction. However, Studies have since proven that the mega merger(s) not only drove-up municipal costs but that the afterthought of shared services could have been implemented on its own, without amalgamation, and achieve even greater fiscal benefits. Instead, the icing that was better than the cake and the final touch was left on the beaters for a later bake.
Ten Years Later: Hit and Run
More than a decade passes before the concept of shared services or sector consolidation, in any form, is ever raised again. This time, however the Ministry imposes a directive to reform transportation, aimed at regional collaborative buying of school buses and the optimization of school bus routes. The painful implementation of the consortia is left up to the school boards in each of the regions to self-organize. The predictable backlash from local titans of transport was as relentless as it was predictable but the Ministry's sticks to its bold move that looks promising.
Fifteen Years Later: It's Lit!
Enter the Drummond Commission Report of 2013 that imposed itself on a reluctant Ontario Ministry of Education by recommending the reduction of duplication and the increased efficiency of services (common consulting code for shared services).
In that same year the Deloitte report, The Case for Shared Services in Ontario's School Board Sector , put fuel on the pyre of Public Sector complacency by actually laying out the business case for sharing school board back-office functions. The report even claimed that implementation of a shared services model could avoid the disruption of further amalgamation (and, by extension, the inevitable constitutional battle between those set on preserving and those set on eliminating the separate schools system, otherwise known as Catholicity).
Three Years Ago: Bottoms-up but no top-down
The response to the Drummond Report? Nothing very substantive until 2015 when the Ministry publicly encouraged the 72 school boards across Ontario to submit proposals on how they might study or even "collaborate" with their neighboring boards to implement regional shared service models.
Although this is a measurable move towards the 21st century, it has been proven time and time again that in Public Sector Strategy a bottoms-up is nothing without its top-down.
So while the province leaves it up to individual boards to tinker around the edges and implement micro solutions – the clock ticks, money is being left on the table and the heroic administrative investment of school board administrator time is being squandered. Boards continue to pull regional solutions together but there is already sufficient evidence to support the need for a bigger "space-closing move" that must be propelled from the top.
Back on the Bus
Its now time to look back at the Ministry's own example of Regional School Bus Transportation Consortia . This shared services model has been demonstrating success over the last 10 years despite some collateral damage among the smaller local transportation providers as communities go to war with the Ministry.
And while the school bus example is successful, it is not perfect. Until apocalypse there will remain those efficiency "gaps" that are unique only to Ontario: Catholic and Public School riders are almost never allowed on the same bus at the same time, "hazards" for students within walking distance of their school can sometimes include the temptation of another closer Public school or Catholic school – depending on the stripe of rider. And let's not forget the gaps created by the avoidance of another mortal sin: having Francophone riders and English riders on the same bus. If that is not enough inefficiency for you: our elected school board trustees (another long-overdue reform) have been known to publicly advocate/interfere on the placement of bus stops; downgrading the benefits of consortium investment in technical experts and advanced software whose sole purpose is to optimize routes based on a number of factors, including rider safety.
A recipe for mega transformation
Overall the transportation model was successful but what is more important to note is that the implementation was only achieved through a Ministry directive to reform transportation and "bonus funding" for boards who complied with the best practice model. The offer that could not be refused and those carrots for consortia were focused on adherence to best practices in school bus procurement and optimized routing as well as the adoption of better safety standards. The vision for this model did not come from years of boards or regions trying to invent it on their own from the bottom-up – it came from the top.
In that regard, Dr. Michael Fullan , arguably the most notable Canadian thinker on education reform, has said many times that whole system transformation requires not only change management and collaboration at all levels but "leadership at all levels". Those of us mere mortals with even a quantum of experience with the glacial pace of Education Sector transformation would certainly agree on leadership at all levels but the nuance that must be emphasized is order of operations. Top-level leadership must come first so that they can firmly install the goal posts in the firmament toward which, we may then all aspire.
Despite the intention and effort to consolidate and transform 20 years ago that was "laudable" in the recent words of the Frasier Institute, the most important part was left undone. However, the province deserves some credit for picking up the smoldering torch of transformation in order to light the student transportation fuse and provide a spark to schoolboards experimenting regionally. Those efforts and the studies that were commissioned have given us the recommendations, provided evidence that shared services will deliver benefits, generated a bottoms-up appetite across the sector, delivered the painful lessons learned but is no substitute for top-down. What we need now is leadership with a vision… and a skin like a rhinoceros.


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- Ohio Gov. John Kasich fuelled speculation about a possible 2020 "unity" ticket on Monday.
- The ticket would be comprised of himself, a Republican, and Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.
- Both Kasich and Hickenlooper have denied the possibility of such a ticket in the past.
The rumoured 2020 "unity" ticket for president stirred the pot on Monday, fuelling some renewed speculation about a pair of term-limited governors' plans for the presidential election.
Since last summer, Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper have been rumoured to be considering the cross-party ticket, which would feature Kasich at the top and Hickenlooper as his running mate. The two have frequently appeared side by side to focus on influencing the national healthcare debate.
At the time, both Kasich and Hickenlooper denied that such a ticket was in the offing. But on Monday, Kasich garnered some attention when he tweeted about a trip Hickenlooper is taking to Iowa – a state long known to be a place where potential presidential candidates test the waters.
"I see my friend @HickForCO is headed to Iowa," he tweeted. "They say no one goes there by accident…"
I see my friend @HickForCO is headed to Iowa. They say no one goes there by accident… pic.twitter.com/1jVOIJBx58
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) April 2, 2018
Hickenlooper sought to quell any speculation with his response.
Hey friend. That's rich! We were invited by the IA Republican Gov to talk apprenticeship renaissance & STEM @futurereadyiowa . What are you up to in New Hampshire??? pic.twitter.com/ndzCeAg0k6
— John Hickenlooper (@Hickenlooper) April 2, 2018
Meanwhile, John Weaver, Kasich's chief strategist for his 2016 campaign, tweeted about "what a coincidence" it was that Kasich was travelling to New Hampshire, another early primary state, while Hickenlooper visits Iowa.
Reached by Business Insider, Weaver said "there are no more rules in this business" when asked if Kasich was teasing the unity ticket.
In August, when the rumours first started, Weaver told Business Insider to expect to see plenty of appearances from the governors.
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22nd December
I'm not sure I'm getting the point of The News. I'm sure it's meant to be sad and gritty, but all I can think about is clothes and how good people look when they die young.
The Stephen Lawrence enquiry has revealed some great 90s clothes collected as evidence. With a 90s revival nearing the end, I am still in love with the clothes I would have been wearing back then had I been cool.
What an outfit! Jazzy jacket, sparkly cardi, pink polo shirt and high waisted acid-wash jeans. When I look round today and see all these draw-string grey tracky bottoms, v neck t shirts and silly bobble hats, I despair. Think about it people- do you really want to die dressed head-to-toe in Primark?
24th December
A relationship is a relay team, and each couple passes on their own make of baton. Ours is misery and irritation. All last night and this morning, Esther has had the full blown grumps.
"What's the point? Christmas day is just like any other- we'll get up, eat till we're sick, walk the dogs, watch TV and go to sleep"
The thing is, when I think about it, that's true. Coz Esther doesn't work, this isn't a holiday or a treat for her. It's just another day.I cling onto hope when Weasel and Kung Fu, Esther's parents, ring up and invite us for coffee.
Surely she won't dare ruin their day too?
Of course she will- that's her sacred role in the sisterhood.
We go for Eggnog Lattes in Starbucks with them and Lisa. Weasel has promised to buy a winter hat for Esther. She gets out the brochure for her to choose from.
Weasel- "Choose your top 4 from here"
"I don't want one" she petulates (this should be a word- I've written it, so now it is)
A look of weary resignation flits across Weasels face. Lisa rolls her eyes.
"Give it here then" Esther chides, snatching the leaflet from Kung Fu's hand, and without seeming to look, scrawls numbers next to pictures.
"You didn't even look at that!" says Lisa in horror
"Yes I did; white's the best colour, so I chose the whitest then numbered down from there".
We are clearly dealing with a genius here, for whom simple tasks like this are odious and best treated with contempt. She is Big Bang Theory's Sheldon in foreshortened female form.
Well you know what, now it's time for my go with the bastard baton. It always changes from red to green in my hand though- from misanthropy to jealousy when passed from a middle to an only child. a week ago we paid £15 for the runtiest tree we could find. It leans over drunkenly like my erection.
Now, on Christmas Eve, the trees that were for sale at the bottom of our road have been abandoned. Lisa and Dom can take their pick, and choose one 3 times the size of ours, for free! In what universe are the poor allowed to triumph over the rich with such smugness? What's the point of having ostentatious spending, if other people are going to get the same stuff for free??
I know I should be thinking "It warms the cockles of my heart to see the Tiny Tim's of the world smiling"
But instead it's "I want a tree that big! Maybe I should have two trees, then I'll win!" Winning in my mind is a vague concept, something to do with the unhindered accumulation of stuff. I guess it comes from the entitlement of being the golden child backed into a corner by a real world full of grasping hands.
Suffice to say, when we both got home we had snapped the baton in half and carved each others faces with it.
Esther- "I'm not going to wrap your presents…"
Me- "Why not?"
Esther- "Coz I hate wrapping presents. I can't be bothered"
Me- "Well, we can put them in plastic bags at least…?"
Esther- "I can do what I like. You can do what you like"
She stomps upstairs for a snooze.
"Don't go to sleep" I call after her plaintively
"Why not?"
"Erm, because we can go and watch Christmas TV…?"
"I'm bored of TV"
"We can…tidy up?"
This isn't going to work. She grunts and disappears. Why can't I think of anything to do anymore? My excitement is draining away. What's the point of anything?
I trudge upstairs to bed.


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Part of our Fundamentals course series that contains an overview of movement disorders and a clinical approach to the evaluation and management of common disorders. Not available for CME credit.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Show Us Your Life: Desserts
It's time for another post from Kelly's Korner, "Show Us Your Life". Today's post documents Dessert recipes. I admit to be cheating a bit on this post, this recipe is actually one of Kelly's own from her Recipe Blog, however, I have been wanting to try this dessert for awhile now and I can't stop thinking about it. Yum!
2 cups crushed pretzels
3/4 cup melted butter
3 tablespoons sugar, plus 3/4 cup sugar
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
1 (8-ounce) container whipped topping
2 (3-ounce) packages strawberry gelatin dessert mix
2 cups boiling water
2 (10-ounce) packages frozen strawberries
Whipped topping or whipped cream, to garnish
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
For the crust, mix the pretzels, butter, and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Press this mixture into a 9 by 13-inch pan and bake for 7 minutes. Set aside and allow to cool.
In a mixing bowl, beat together the cream cheese and 3/4 cup of sugar. Fold in the whipped topping, and spread over the cooled crust. Refrigerate until well chilled.
In a small bowl, dissolve the gelatin in the boiling water, and allow to cool slightly. Add the strawberries and pour over the cream cheese mixture. Refrigerate until serving time.
To serve, cut slices and serve with a dollop of whipped topping.
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You may be curious about using solar energy, but it may have been difficult for you to learn about it. Having the right knowledge is extremely important before making any big decisions with regards to solar energy. You can become informed about solar energy by reading this article.
The number of solar panels you buy, as well as their efficiency, has everything to do with the amount of energy your panels produce. Assess your needs carefully and do the math before deciding how many panels you want to purchase. Buying larger, more efficient panels may be a wiser choice than buying a lot of smaller panels.
Crystalline Panels
There are two types of photo-voltaic panels. Poly-crystalline panels are cheaper, and mono-crystalline panels are more efficient. It is better to buy the most efficient products you can afford when going with solar energy.
In order to maximize the potential from your solar panels, try and find a system that doesn't directly rely on the schedule of the sun. Many modern solar panels will allow you to store some energy so that you can use it at any time. This is useful for nighttime power.
Do not think that using solar energy must mean a full roof renovation. At least you can start by replacing your outdoor lights with solar-powered counterparts. These charge from the sun all day and shine at night.
If you're leasing your solar energy device, make darn sure that you can transfer your lease if need be. This becomes important during the sale of your home. You might end up paying for a unit that you get no use from. Having that transfer option can help you out of the contract and let the new homeowners enjoy its benefits.
Consider a backup power option, just in case you have a problem with your solar panels. Generators are a good idea, though you might also stay connected to a main grid so that you can access power when necessary. If you go the generator route, make sure to perform tests on it often and think about getting more than one.
There may be rebates or grants that can help you pay for your solar panel installation. If you cannot find any grants or rebates you qualify for, be prepared to spend a lot on your solar energy system. Look into state and federal rebates or grants that give people rewards for using renewable energy. They can significantly reduce the costs. It may be possible to get tax deductions for your costs.
There are governments throughout the world that apply tax credits when you make the solar energy switch. You may receive upwards of thirty percent off the price of your system. Search online to find information. You can also call your state tax office to inquire about the availability of these types of programs.
Maintaining your solar power system, such as checking the inverter regularly, is an essential part of getting the most from it. You should see a green light which means all is in order. Call a professional if it's blinking or off. Many owners aren't skilled enough to diagnose the problem. If your solar energy system has a good warranty, your service visits should be included.
If you consider the tips and advice you've read in this article, you will have a much easier time formulating a plan for solar energy in your home or business. We hope that this article has addressed all your questions and enabled you to get off on the right foot. Renewable energy that does not cause any pollution, it just makes sense to make the switch.


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The South Tyrol Option Agreement (German: Option in Südtirol; Italian: Opzioni in Alto Adige) was an agreement in effect between 1939 and 1943, when the native German speaking people in South Tyrol and three communes in the province of Belluno were given the option of either emigrating to neighboring Nazi Germany (of which Austria was a part after the 1938 Anschluss) or remaining in Fascist Italy and being forcibly integrated into the mainstream Italian culture, losing their language and cultural heritage. Over 80% opted to move to Germany.
The region of South Tyrol had been a place of contending claims and conflict between German nationalism and Italian nationalism. One of the leading founders of Italian nationalism, Giuseppe Mazzini, along with Ettore Tolomei, counterfactually claimed that the German-speaking South Tyrolian population were in fact mostly a Germanicized population of Roman origin who needed to be "liberated and returned to their rightful culture".[1]
The southern part of Tyrol, renamed "Province of Bolzano", had been a part of Italy since the end of World War I. After the rise of fascism in 1922, a policy of Italianization in the area was implemented ruthlessly. All places, down to the tiniest hamlet, were given Italian names, and even family names were translated. The process intensified in the 1930s, when the government of Benito Mussolini encouraged thousands of southern Italians to relocate to the region, in a deliberate attempt at reducing the indigenous German-speaking population to minority status.
Between 1928 and 1939 various resistance groups formed in the province to fight the fascist Italian regime and its policy of suppressing the German language. Children were taught the prohibited German language in clandestine catacombe schools and Catholic media and associations resisted the forced integration under the protection of the Vatican. The underground resistance movement, the Völkischer Kampfring Südtirols, was formed by a Nazi party member, Peter Hofer (de).[2]
Option for Germany
On 21 October 1939, Adolf Hitler and Mussolini reached agreement on the assimilation of the ethnic German minorities in the province. The members of these two language communities had to choose until 31 December 1939 between remaining in Italy and losing all minority rights, or emigrating to Nazi Germany, the so-called "Option für Deutschland" (option for Germany).
85%-90% of the population opted for emigration; they were called Optanten and banded together in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Optanten für Deutschland (Association of Optants for Germany). Those who chose to stay, called Dableiber, mainly banded together around local Catholic priests. The Dableiber were condemned as traitors while the Optanten were defamed as Nazis. The Option destroyed many families and the development of the economy of the province was set back for many years.
The first families left their homeland in 1939, and by 1943 a total of around 75,000 South Tyroleans had emigrated, of which 50,000 returned after the war.[citation needed]
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Optanten für Deutschland (ADO) (German for "Association of optants for Germany") was an association for German-speakers who had chosen to emigrate to Germany rather than stay in South Tyrol. The association was founded on 30 January 1940. Peter Hofer took leadership of the Association.[2]
German occupation
In September 1943, the Wehrmacht occupied the province and on 10 September 1943 the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills was established. The ADO was dissolved and joined with the Deutsche Volksgruppe. Peter Hofer was chosen as the Volksgruppenführer.[citation needed] Some members of the ADO joined with the South Tyrolean Volunteer Corps and were involved in the annihilation of the Jewish population in Meran.[citation needed]
They also attempted to arrest fleeing Italian soldiers and attacked those who had chosen to remain even though it had been expressly forbidden by the Third Reich authority.[citation needed] The relocation of people and the complete Italianization of the area were never fully accomplished.
Most of the people who had emigrated returned to the area in 1945. Despite Austrian efforts, South Tyrol remained part of Italy after World War II, and many chose to take up Italian citizenship after the Gruber–De Gasperi Agreement of September 1946. It was named after the foreign minister of Austria (Karl Gruber) and the prime minister of Italy (Alcide De Gasperi) and agreed on Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol to remain part of Italy ensuring its autonomy. Those who returned had to register both themselves and their children, and they had to prove, by means of a birth certificate, that they had the right to Italian citizenship.
After 1945, no ADO leaders were tried for the crimes (Peter Hofer was killed during an Allied bombing raid). Only recently have historians started to examine this period in the history of South Tyrol.
According to the 2001 census, more than two-thirds (69.4%) of the population of the province speak German, 26.3% Italian and 4.3% Ladin as their mother language.[3]
See also
- ^ Jens Woelk, Francesco Palermo, Joseph Marko (2008). Tolerance Through Law: Self Governance and Group Rights In South Tyrol. Leiden, Netherlands: Koninlijke Brill NV, p. 5.
- ^ a b Hannes Obermair (2020). "Grossdeutschland ruft!" Südtiroler NS-Optionspropaganda und völkische Sozialisation (in German). Tyrol Castle: South Tyrolean Museum of History. pp. 14–21. ISBN 978-88-95523-35-4.
- ^ Oscar Benvenuto (ed.): "South Tyrol in Figures 2008", Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, Bozen/Bolzano 2007, p. 19, Table 11
- C. F. Latour (1965). "Germany, Italy and South Tyrol, 1938–45", The Historical Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 95–111.
- Klaus Eisterer, Rolf Steininger (ed.): "Die Option. Südtirol zwischen Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus", Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, Vol. 5 (1989), Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck.
- Stefan Lechner (2012). "Die Erste Option: die Vergabe der italienischen Staatsbürgerschaft an die Südtiroler in Folge der Annexion 1920." In: Hannes Obermair, Stephanie Risse, Carlo Romeo (eds.): Regionale Zivilgesellschaft in Bewegung. Festschrift für Hans Heiss (= Cittadini innanzi tutto). Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2012. ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4, pp. 219–236.
- Reinhold Messner (ed.): Die Option. 1939 stimmten 86% der Südtiroler für das Aufgeben ihrer Heimat. Warum?, Serie Piper, Munich, 1995. ISBN 3-492-12133-0
- Hannes Obermair (2020). "Großdeutschland ruft!" Südtiroler NS-Optionspropaganda und völkische Sozialisation – "La Grande Germania chiamaǃ" La propaganda nazionalsocialista sulle Opzioni in Alto Adige e la socializzazione 'völkisch' (in German and Italian). Tyrol Castle: South Tyrolean Museum of History. ISBN 978-88-95523-35-4.
- Rolf Steininger (1997). "23. Juni 1939 – Gehen oder bleiben? Die Option in Südtirol", Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert, Vol. 2, Böhlau, Vienna, pp. 217–257.
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to South Tyrol Option Agreement.
- (in German) 23. Juni 1939: Die Vereinbarung über die Umsiedlung, Meeting of Himmler and the Italian ambassador in Berlin
- (in German) Chronik zur Geschichte Südtirols 1905–1998 Chronology, leaflets since August 1939
- (in German) Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Südtirol Population 1940–2000 (PDF)
- (in German) Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker: Option – Anlaß zur Brüderlichkeit, Solidarität mit den Opfern heutiger ethnischer Säuberungen. 60th anniversary in 1999


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Fundraiser success!
BATS recently concluded its very successful season of The Fox on the Fairway. This is a modern American farce, but written very much in the mould of classic farces with lots of scheming, misunderstandings, accidents, thwarted love, coincidences, and of course long lost children. It was very well received by audiences, as well as being great fun for cast and crew.
A special aspect of this season was that the opening night was run as a fundraiser for The Buderim Foundation. The Buderim Foundation is a local not-for-profit philanthropic community foundation, which raises money in order to build an investment fund. The fund is carefully managed so that earnings can then be given as grants to community organisations such as the Coast Guard, Life Flight, Scouts and Legacy. BATS has benefited from this, most recently receiving a grant for equipment to help repair and maintain costumes.
For the opening night of The Fox on the Fairway, all ticket sale proceeds were dedicated to The Buderim Foundation. In support of this, the Buderim War Memorial Hall (owned by the Buderim War Memorial Community Association) also waived their normal hall hire fee. BATS is excited to announce that we were able to raise $2,487.21 for The Buderim Foundation from this fundraiser event.
In the photo for the cheque handing over is (from left) Gary Dillon, Chair of the Philanthropy Committee of the Buderim Foundation, Dr Russell Stitz, Chair of the Buderim Foundation, and BATS President Alice Rea. A great wrap to a very successful season!


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The global sports equipment market is witnessing considerable growth over the last few years. Increasing the participation in sports activities, growing consumer awareness about health and fitness, and the emergence of e-commerce are some of the key drivers impelling growth of the sports equipment market. However, increasing availability of counterfeit products and rising prices of sports equipment are restraining the growth of this market to some extent. The global sports equipment market consists of equipment for ball sports, adventure sports, fitness, golf, winter sports, and others sports, including archery, billiards, bowling, wheel sports, pogo sticks, and indoor games. Among the various sports equipment segments, ball sports hold the largest market share. Increasing media coverage of various global sports events such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and FIFA World Cups encourage the youth to take part in various sports. The sports equipment industry is swiftly embracing new technologies and adapting its products in order to keep pace with rapidly changing global trends.
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LaFollette Beer Board
8-202. Beer Board Created. There is hereby created a board, which shall be known and designated as the Beer Board of the City of LaFollette, Tennessee. Such board shall be composed of the mayor and councilmen:
Mayor- Mike Stanfield
Vice Mayor/Chairman- Joe Bolinger
Board Members:
Bill Archer
Ann Thompson
Lonnie "Hot Rod" Wilson
City of LaFollette, Tennessee, Or a board composed of five (5) members appointed by the mayor and councilmen. One of whom shall be the vice mayor as elected by the chairman of the board herein created. (1975 Code, § 2-202, as amended by Ordinance #449, Feb. 1980)


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November 2016
An Interview With Rick de Graaf, MD, PhD
Dr. de Graaf discusses his approaches to treatment of deep venous obstruction and postthrombotic syndrome, current imaging modalities and technology for venous disease, and the benefits attending vascular congresses.
Which factors might lead you to select a surgical or hybrid approach to treat deep venous obstruction?
First, the endovascular technique has clearly surpassed surgical therapy as the primary treatment strategy. Theoretically, one might still consider bypass surgery when all other procedures failed. However, taking into consideration the reason for failure (ie, lack of inflow), bypass surgery would be similarly unsuccessful. Consequently, this brings us to one of the major challenges in deep venous interventions: how to help patients with severe deep venous obstruction and no main outflow veins fit for stent placement.
A hybrid procedure with surgical desobstruction of the common femoral vein and its tributaries might be the only valuable option left. We strongly believe in placing an additional arteriovenous fistula to ensure stent patency in the vulnerable postoperative period. When there is insufficient potential inflow into the common femoral vein, even a hybrid procedure may not result in long-term success. We currently do not have a reliable treatment to offer these patients. Recently, Mark Garcia, MD, started groundbreaking research with a combination of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and overnight fibrinolysis. I'm really excited to see what this new technique might offer for that very difficult patient group.
In what ways does the pathophysiology of postthrombotic syndrome (PTS) affect your approach to treatment?
There's a specific time frame in the development of PTS during which endovascular treatment is either ineffective or undesirable. We believe this period lies between 3 weeks after initial deep vein thrombosis to 1 year after deep vein thrombosis. Routine thrombus-eradicating techniques rarely work sufficiently on this "old thrombus." Moreover, the natural compensatory mechanisms of the human body might be adequate enough for patients to avoid development of significant complications, and therefore, they don't require treatment at all.
I refrain from using anything other than PTA and bare-metal stenting at the moment. However, among physicians, I have increasingly observed the application of unsupported novel techniques (eg, cutting balloons or drug-eluting balloons). Macroscopic evaluation of postthrombotic material during endophlebectomy in relation to the features of a cutting balloon makes its deployment in PTS superfluous. Usage of drug-eluting balloons suggests intimal hyperplasia playing a significant part in in-stent restenosis, probably due to assumptions made in some publications and presentations. However, to the best of my knowledge, there is no proof for substantial intimal hyperplasia after stenting for PTS. Animal models of PTS are currently lacking, and the response of a healthy vein wall to stent implantation cannot be translated to the response in a postthrombotic vein. Not following the natural evolution from basic research to clinical application might be a detrimental mistake in the relatively young field of deep venous endovascular therapy.
Is there any tool that you use in your daily practice that is available to you in Europe that you are excited for the world to have access to in the future?
I'm not sure, actually. Relatively new technologies such as laser atherectomy and optical coherence tomography guidance for recanalization of peripheral arterial occlusions are also available in the United States. The only thing I would say is dedicated venous stents, although most will be available shortly after the completion of US Food and Drug Administration–approved studies. Some products from smaller companies might be beneficial, but I would like to see clinical data before I suggest that they are superior and recommend them over any other dedicated venous stents.
What specific actions should physicians take after they first diagnose a collateral vein in the abdominal wall or pubic bone? What additional steps should be taken to identify a deep venous obstruction?
We found that a collateral vein in the abdominal wall is pathognomonic for deep venous obstruction. Subsequently, we like to perform magnetic resonance venography (MRV) to identify the extent of the disease and plan our procedure. I think MRV is superior to CT venography for identifying those small but significant trabeculations in the common femoral vein that dictate either an endovascular or hybrid procedure. If MRV is unavailable, as in many centers, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is mandatory to evaluate the quality of the vein segments.
What information does IVUS supply that makes it a better option than plain angiography, specifically in the setting of central venous obstructions in hemodialysis patients? Should physicians forego angiography in favor of IVUS in any cases, or are they best used in a combination approach?
I think that central venous obstructions are not that much different from chronic iliac vein obstructions in which IVUS has established itself. Usually, angiography performed immediately after PTA shows brisk flow and adequate vein diameter. In contrast, IVUS might show significant recoil and intraluminal trabeculations depending on the pathophysiology. Therefore, IVUS should always be used while treating lesions between the cephalic arch and the right atrium, because you simply do not know what you are missing using angiography alone. The rest of the hemodialysis access can easily be evaluated with duplex ultrasonography, and therefore, the cost might be more of a consideration.
In your experience with using dedicated venous stents for symptomatic chronic venous obstruction, what do the current iterations offer, and what improvements are still needed?
Dedicated venous stents offer a lot to physicians, which in turn might be beneficial for the patient. Accurate deployment and stent geometry might help in not obstructing the contralateral common iliac vein or important tributaries at the level of the common femoral vein. Furthermore, a dedicated venous stent should have the optimal ratio between flexibility and radial force/crush resistance. With currently available techniques, I think the stent industry comes pretty close to the best achievable design. Probably the "hybrid design" with extreme crush resistance at the high-compression spots, and flexibility throughout the rest of the stent is next to come. After a PTS model is established, I will be very interested to see if we can restore a postthrombotic vein to its original characteristics by temporarily supporting the vein wall. Theoretically, this might open the door for bioresorbable stents.
What do you believe are the greatest benefits of traveling to modern vascular congresses? Which elements should be modified or replaced with those that might be more worthwhile?
The diversity. Currently, there are many different conferences that practice interesting concepts. For example, the annual European Vascular Course (EVC) in Maastricht places a strong emphasis on comprehensive learning and education. Master classes, workshops, and case discussions in small groups provide ample opportunity to interact with experts from the arterial, venous, and vascular access fields. At the VEITHsymposium, you'll find unmatched exposure to the newest vascular medicine through fast-paced presentations, a most efficient way to gain up-to-date knowledge. LINC is fulfilling another unmet need. Several live cases show the current practice of experts in the vascular field. Novice physicians can learn from the relatively routine procedures, while complicated cases demonstrate the many tips and tricks you'll find helpful to reach successful results in your practice. Finally, CIRSE gives you an overview in evidence-based vascular medicine, with a focus on guidelines and standard of practice in interventional radiology.
Naturally, there are many other high-quality vascular conferences throughout the world, but my point is that physicians can decide how best to fill any possible gaps in their knowledge. Nevertheless, going to all these conferences requires quite a bit of time, time that is usually scarce among physicians. Therefore, I applaud web-based initiatives like Incathlab that share live cases and expert discussions online, so you can have the experience from your home or directly discuss it at work with your colleagues.
Something I would give much more attention to is simulation. The current models are extremely realistic and should be an integral part of vascular training. In fact, I would recommend experiencing a full training session on a simulator before you start to learn the real deal on a patient. Sadly, however, there's still no deep venous program available.
Do you have any ongoing projects or endeavors outside of the field of vascular therapy?
Well, vascular therapy is a huge part of my life that demands a lot of my time. Apart from that, golf has been a passion of mine for a long time. Sadly, playing at a decent level requires significant time as well. Still, I do have time to combine golf with another passion of mine, which is innovation and development. Both endovascular therapy and the golf industry are moving fast in the sense that evolving techniques play a huge part. In both fields, I am interested to see my ideas mature and touch the different communities in a positive way.
If you had a sibling interested in training in the vascular field, what advice would you most emphatically offer?
First of all, do what you love, and do it with the greatest of passion and dedication. When you do that, I believe there is no chance you will not achieve your goals. Specifically in (endo)vascular medicine, there are different routes to become an interventionist. In Europe, you can go through angiology, vascular surgery, or interventional radiology, and every specialty training has something unique to offer. Probably, and hopefully, vascular medicine will be concentrated in dedicated centers in the future, where skills count more than heritage, and patients will benefit from a highly specialized multidisciplinary team.
Rick de Graaf, MD, PhD
Interventional Radiologist
Department of Radiology
Maastricht University Medical Centre
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Disclosures: Consultant to/receives presentation fees from OptiMed GmbH, Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., TVA Medical, Inc., Volcano Corporation, and Cook Medical.


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School, bus, and library props sail through
The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer
The Wileses share smiles as they listen to results being read on Election Night. The Guilderland Public Library's director, Timothy Wiles, left, learned that the library's $3.5 million budget passed with nearly 60 percent of the vote, and Marie Wiles, superintendent of schools, heard that the $92 million Guilderland school budget passed with nearly 66 percent of the vote.
The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer
Happy faces: Judy Slack, left, the top vote-getter in the uncontested Guilderland School Board race, brought results from the Altamont Elementary School polling place to the group waiting at Guilderland Elementary for the tallies. Board member Gloria Towle-Hilt points happily to numbers that show the budget passed by a wide margin while board Vice President Allan Simpson looks on with a smile. Simpson came in third in his re-election bid.
GUILDERLAND — "Delighted" was a frequently heard word when, after the polls closed on Tuesday night, a bevy of school and library leaders responded to solid support for next year's budgets.
The $92 million school budget passed with 65.8 percent of the vote. The $1 million proposition to buy seven large school buses and a plow truck passed with 63.1 percent of the vote. And the $3.5 million library budget passed with 59.6 percent of the vote.
All of the measures passed by wide margins at each of the five elementary-school polling places.
The school board elections were uncontested. Incumbent Judy Slack came in first, newcomer Christopher McManus was second, and incumbent Allan Simpson was third in a tightly grouped field. Those unpaid posts carry three-year terms.
The library board had a five-way race for three trustee posts, also unpaid. Newcomers Carolyn Williams and Karen Carpenter Palumbo came in first and third, respectively. And Barbara Fraterrigo, the longest serving library board member, came in second. All three will serve five-year terms.
Incumbent Robert Feller came in fourth and so will finish out a vacated post. Incumbent Carroll Valachovic was ousted.
As the group waited in the Guilderland Elementary School gym for the last stick with results from the electronic voting machines, those from Westmere Elementary, to arrive, Superintendent Marie Wiles said, "I was on edge all day. A lot is riding on this. You just don't know."
It is her third year shepherding the Guilderland budget to the May vote. She arrived the same year the state set a tax-levy limit on school budgets and, under her leadership, Guilderland's budget process was revamped so that it now involves a series of public forums where attendees meet in small groups to express their views on a series of potential budget reductions.
Next year's budget cuts another 34 jobs, bringing to 180 the total number of jobs lost at Guilderland since the gap elimination adjustment reduced state aid.
As she waited, Wiles said, "I'd rather have more voters."
According to the unofficial results announced Tuesday night, 2,635 people voted on the school budget, about 140 fewer than last year. The town of Guilderland has 22,245 registered voters.
Timothy Wiles, the new director of the Guilderland Public Library, and also the superintendent's husband, was waiting for budget vote results for the first time. He had formerly worked as the director of research at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
"I've watched Marie go out to these things for years," he said. "I'm excited to be here."
The chatter ebbed and flowed as the group waited for the Westmere results to come in.
"Fred, I got 'em," an Albany County Board of Elections worker called to his colleague, Fred Thumhart, at 9:50 p.m., fifty minutes after the polls had closed.
Thumhart explained, "We didn't administer the election. The school district did that. We just supplied the equipment."
Soon after, Assistant Superintendent for Business Neil Sanders announced the results to a smattering of quiet applause.
"I'm thankful to our community on behalf of the children," said Marie Wiles after hearing the budget passed by a vote of 1,735 to 900. "This is a great outcome…I can't say how much I appreciate our community. It makes me very proud."
Guilderland was part of a statewide surge of support for school budgets with over 98 percent passing spending plans on Tuesday, according to an analysis by the New York State School Boards Association released yesterday; schools statewide proposed an average levy increase of 1.98 percent for next year.
The average budget passing rate since 1969 is 84.5 percent, NYSSBA said, with the average rate for the last five years at 95 percent.
This year, only 24 districts, or 3 percent state-wide, had budgets with levies over the state-set limit, requiring 60 percent to pass; of those districts, 65 percent passed their budgets, with one too close to call, according to NYSSBA.
The Guilderland school district calculates that the tax-levy increase is 1.94 percent over this year and tax rates are expected to increase the same amount for residents of Guilderland.
Timothy Wiles, commenting on the 1,545-to-1,047 library budget tally said, "It's a nice vote of confidence."
The library estimates that Guilderland residents will pay $1.14 per $1,000 of assessed valuation next year, two cents more than this year.
Until two years ago, the library budget had always passed with more votes than the school budget. In 2012, the library suffered a 3-to-1 defeat at the polls on a proposed upgrade and expansion project. While the school district has gone through two periods of budget defeats, the Guilderland Public Library has never had a budget voted down.
Speaking as the school board president, Barbara Fraterrigo said on Tuesday night, "I'm absolutely delighted we have the trust of the community and are able to preserve as many programs as we did."
She praised the district's administrative team and said, "They squeeze blood out of stone, so to speak."
Asked, with a nearly 66-percent passage rate if the board might in the future consider going over the state-set tax-levy limit, which requires a 60 percent vote to pass, Fraterrigo answered with an emphatic, "No."
She went on, "I think the reason we have the percentage we do is people know we're careful with a dime. People are still struggling," she said, alluding to the recession. "We need to keep the taxes as low as we can."
The state has promised a refund this year for residents of districts that stayed under the state-set levy limit.
Asked if she were concerned about the low voter turnout, Fraterrigo surmised it might be because, like last year, there was no contest with the school-board elections.
"We'll try next year to get the community more engaged," she said.
Library race
This is the first time since 2006 there has been a race for the library board and that was a rarity, too, after years of write-in candidates, some winning their seats with fewer than 25 votes.
For several years, the 11-member board discussed changing its charter to reduce the number of trustees.
The top three vote-getters will serve five-year terms, and the fourth will fill out a vacated term.
The unofficial results reported Tuesday night follow:
Carolyn Williams, making her first run for the library board, came in first with 1,449 votes or 21.3 percent. She was first in Lynnwood, Pine Bush, and Westmere, and second in Altamont and Guilderland.
Retired from a career in special education, Williams has done a wide variety of community work.
She has been a life-long lover of libraries; as a child, she said, she read every book in the library in her rural hometown. "Every book opened up my world," she said.
During her campaign, Williams said, "We have to be fiscally responsible. We have to have inclusive planning with library staff and administrators, and the people in the community. The 10-year plan can't be made in isolation. I think that's what happened with the bond issue."
Barbara Fraterrigo came in second, just 23 votes behind Williams, with a tally of 1,426 for 21 percent. She was first in Altamont and Guilderland; second in Lynnwood and Pine Bush; and fourth in Westmere.
Fraterrigo, who has done university teaching and also done work in the office of her husband, a doctor, has been a trustee since the library had an elected board. She said of accomplishments during her 26 years on the board, "We've developed a good relationship with our staff. We have valued community input and tried to put forth programs that meet the needs of the community."
About goals for her upcoming term, Fraterrigo said during the campaign, "We have to find some way to maintain the building. The referendum was meant to help with the roof and heating system. This year, we put aside $90,000 as a capital improvement line but that won't come close to all we need to do."
On Election Night, Fraterrigo said, "I'm delighted to serve again."
Karen Carpenter Palumbo, in her first run for library trustee, came in third with 1,388 votes or 20.4 percent. She was third in Altamont, Guilderland, Lynnwood, Pine Bush, and Westmere.
Palumbo described herself as "a social worker by trade"; she is currently the president and chief executive officer of Vanderheyden Inc., a child welfare organization, and had served as the state's commissioner for Drugs and Alcohol.
During her campaign, she said of the role of the library, "Now we've moved into an age of technology but people still need a meeting place and they need to know how to use technology…There's still a need for connectivity — person to person."
Looking to the future, she said, "We need to increase marketability."
Robert Feller, who has served on the board for four-and-a-half years and is currently its secretary, came in fourth with 1,300 votes or 19.1 percent. He came in second in Westmere; fourth in Pine Bush, Guilderland, and Altamont; and fifth in Lynnwood.
Feller, a lawyer, will fill out the term left vacant by Robert Ganz's leaving.
"I think we're in an important transition in the library," he said during the campaign. "We just had a bond vote go down," he said of the 2012 defeat for expansion. "We have to think about what that means in our long-term plan."
He also said, "We need to be better plugged in…I feel chastened…We need to do a better job with community outreach and keep our finger better on the pulse of the community."
Carroll Lynn Valachovic, currently the library board's treasurer, came in last with 1,233 votes or 18.1 percent. She was fourth in Lynnwood, and fifth in Altamont, Guilderland, Pine Bush, and Westmere.
A certified public accountant, Valachovic said during the campaign that she was running again because other board members asked her to, especially with the transition to a new library director.
"My role on the board has been giving the best advice I can on anything financial," she said during the campaign, "so everyone can understand the issues to make informed decisions."
Fraterrigo echoed those sentiments on Election Night after she learned Valachovic was ousted. "She was such an asset," said Fraterrigo. "She was our financial guru. She will be sorely missed."
Library Director Wiles also commented on Valachovic, "She's always been a valued member."
He concluded, "We had five great candidates for four positions. We wish all five could be on the board."
School board elections
For the second year in a row, there was no contest with the school board elections. Rose Levy did not seek re-election after serving one term.
All three candidates supported the budget and all have close ties to the district. Slack is a retired teaching assistant, Simpson is married to a teaching assistant, and McManus is married to a teacher.
Judy Slack came in first with 1,856 votes or 33.8 percent. She was first in Altamont, Guilderland, and Westmere; second in Lynnwood; and tied for second in Pine Bush.
This will be her third term on the board and she said she was proudest of hiring Marie Wiles.
Before the election, asked about her goals for the future, Slack said, "I would like to keep things without cutting more." But, she added, "Really, that's not up to us."
On employee contracts, she said, "I would be happy if we didn't have step." She said of the annual step increases, "Step is already a 2-percent raise, which is significant in this day and age." She also said, "Our negotiators treat each group with respect and listen. I wish we had more. We don't. We're stuck."
Christopher McManus, making his first run for school board, came in second with 1,839 votes or 33.4 percent. He came in first in Lynnwood; second in Altamont, Guilderland, and Westmere; and tied for second in Pine Bush.
He has worked for New York State for a decade, first on the Senate Finance Committee and now with the Division of Budget.
Before his election, McManus outlined three goals he would like to accomplish on the board. "The first thing is Guilderland is stagnant in rankings," he said. "We focus on cuts and cuts and cuts. We need to focus on how to improve the schools overall." Second, he said, "I want an open budget process in which we discuss all options." Third, he said, the board needs to discuss more in open session rather than "behind closed doors."
On Election Night, after the results were announced, McManus said, "I know I have a lot to learn from these fine folks."
Allan Simpson came in third with 1,803 votes or 32.8 percent. He was first in Pine Bush, and third in Altamont, Guilderland, Lynnwood, and Westmere.
Simpson, who works as director of accounting operations for the New York State Insurance fund, has been on the school board for four years and is currently its vice president.
Simpson said it is hard being on the board in an era of cutbacks. "You're being asked to figure out how to squeeze money out of something that's tight," he said.
On state tests, he said, "Testing is mandated by the law. We'll have to collaborate and come back with a test that is fair and meets the law's requirements. It's an evolving process, eventually evolving to value down the road."
Asked for his response to results on Election Night, Simpson said, "I'm happy everything passed."


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Dr. Richard Van Atta is currently an adjunct research staff member in the Strategy, Forces and Resources Division of the of the Institute for Defense Analyses, having been a senior research analyst at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) of the Institute for Defense Analyses, from 2006 until mid-2011. Before joining STPI, Dr. Van Atta served on the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) Studies and Analyses Center (SAC) (1983-2006) first in the Science and Technology Division and then in the Strategy, Forces and Resources Division.
At IDA his work has focused on the technological needs and interests of the United States as they affect both national and economic security for multiple organizations including the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) of the White House and within the Department of Defense, chiefly in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Currently at IDA, Dr. Van Atta is conducting research on Industry Research and Development Management. At STPI Dr. Van Atta managed and conducted research in such areas as
- Future Directions of U.S. Manufacturing—Studies for OSTP, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Policy and Technological Implications of Adhering to the Ottawa Convention Banning Anti-personnel Mines for OSTP and National Security Council (NSC)
- Assessment of Economic and Technological Issues concerning the NEXTGEN aviation technology program for OSTP
- Analyses of emerging technologies for OSTP and NIST – including nanotechnology, microelectronics, biotechnology, alternative energy
- Assessment of issues concerning the US industrial and technology base including implications of export controls on US commercial satellite industry and the status of the US rocket engine industrial base.
At IDA he managed many diverse, multidisciplinary tasks, ranging up to $3 million in scale. On several occasions Dr, Van Atta led cross-divisional research teams on such topics as Small-Unit Precision Combat for Attacking Elusive Targets in Complex Terrain, the Role of Science and Technology for Development Organizations, and assessments of the programs and development strategies of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Van Atta conducted several studies of the US microelectronics industry, including support for the Defense Science Board study that led to the founding of SEMATECH.
From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Van Atta was an official in the Department of Defense (on temporary assignment from IDA), first as Special Assistant for Dual Use Technology Policy then as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Dual Use and Commercial Programs. His responsibilities included developing and overseeing the implementation of the Dual Use Technology Strategy and managing the Defense Production Act Title III Program under Secretary of Defense Perry and USD(AT&L) Kaminski.
He also is an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Security Studies Program where is has taught a course on Emerging Technologies and Security every semester since 2005.
He taught courses in national security and policy analysis at the American University's School of International Service followed by several years of private consulting.
Dr. Van Atta has a Bachelor's Degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a PhD in political science from Indiana University.


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