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RICHMOND, VA – RCC Consultants, Inc. (RCC Consultants) violated federal disability discrimination law when it refused to hire an individual at its mid-Atlantic regional office located in Glen Allen, Virginia because of his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. RCC Consultants, a New Jersey-based company, is an international telecommunications engineering, consulting and integration firm that has regional offices throughout the United States.
According to the EEOC's complaint, RCC Consultants failed to hire Stanton Woodcock for a managing consultant position because of his disability, ocular albinism. Ocular albinism is an inherited condition in which the eyes lack melanin pigment. Because of the lack of melanin pigment in his eyes, Woodcock has a variety of vision problems which substantially limit his ability to see. On or about October 17, 2007, Woodcock interviewed for a managing consultant position at RCC Consultant's Glen Allen, Virginia facility. Woodcock was offered the position. According to the EEOC's complaint, around late-October 2007, when RCC Consultants learned that Woodcock did not have a driver's license and does not drive because of his disability, RCC Consultants rescinded the offer of employment. Although Woodcock was fully qualified to perform the duties of the managing consultant position, RCC Consultants unlawfully failed to hire him for the position because of his disability, the complaint alleges.
Such alleged conduct violates Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits private employers from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. RCC Consultants, Inc., Civil Action No. 3:11-cv-00864), after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court. The suit seeks back pay, compensatory damages and punitive damages for Woodcock, as well as injunctive and other non-monetary relief.
"It's unfortunate that twenty years after the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, some employers still react to applicants and employees based on myths, fears or stereotypes about a certain impairment that the individual may have and how that impairment might affect the individual's ability to perform a job," said Lynette A. Barnes, Regional Attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District office. "This suit should remind employers that the EEOC will not waiver in enforcing the ADA."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.

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Saturday, July 22, 2006
Cat Mint (WCB)
Hostess Clare and feline Kiri are back! Please check out the Weekend Cat Blogging roundup of four-legged feline friends over at eatstuff .
Diane loves her new cat mint plant
But not as much as she loves napping in the sun
Butter and Floured by Alpineberry Mary on 7/22/2006
6 comments:
- sher said...
Oh, those are great pictures!! What a pretty cat. Love the one with her in the planter. :):):)
- 7/23/2006
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Beautiful pictures! She is such a nice white cat. I love the last picture of her...
- 7/23/2006
- Riana said...
She is gorgeous!!
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- Clare Eats said...
Welcome to WCB!
They are lovely photos and Diane looks like a sweetie!
- 7/24/2006
- aria said...
theres that white kitty again, shes super cute!
- 7/24/2006
- SweetSarahJ said...
Aww. She is such a beautiful cat. I love white kitties. For some reason Tiggy is not interested in her cat-nip plant.
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Dr. Martin Hill, a researcher with two decades of experience working in academic, corporate and government settings, has been appointed to lead the Carl Frost Center for Social Science Research at Hope College.
Established in 1990, the center conducts surveys and assists with other data-collection and analysis needs for community organizations as well as for researchers at the college. Hill, who is currently a senior research associate with Richard Day Research of Evanston, Ill., will begin his work with the center on Tuesday, Sept. 1, the day that fall-semester classes begin at Hope. He succeeds former director Megan Mullins, who is relocating to Muncie, Ind., where she joins her husband, a faculty member at Ball State University.
"Marty Hill is an exceptionally experienced and qualified researcher. I am confident that he will be able to build on the significant strengths of the Carl Frost Center for Social Science Research so carefully and successfully nurtured under Megan Mullins' leadership," said Dr. R. Richard Ray, who is dean for the social sciences and a professor of kinesiology at Hope. "He joins a talented staff of research associates who, with his guidance and support, will continue to provide community clients, HopeCollege students, and faculty with the research solutions they need to succeed."
Hill has been with Richard Day Research since 2007. He was previously a senior research manager with Opinion Research Corporation of Arlington Heights, Ill.; a senior quantitative analyst with McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company of Evanston; a research assistant with the Kercher Center for Social Research and the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo; and a research analyst with the Federal Bureau of Prisons of the U.S. Department of Justice in Butner, N.C.
In addition, he has held teaching appointments at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Southern Vermont College in Bennington and Western Michigan University. He has also served as a consultant on a variety of research projects.
He has received multiple awards for excellence, including the Special Act Award from the U.S. Department of Justice; selection as Criminal Justice Scholar at Western Michigan University; recognition for outstanding research contribution from Opinion Research Corporation; and certificates of appreciation from both The Evaluation Center and the Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University. He is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Hill graduated from Western Michigan University in 1986 with honors in criminal justice. He completed a master's at Western, with concentrations in criminology and in applied research and evaluation, in 1991. He completed his doctorate at the university, with an emphasis on medical sociology and also in applied research and evaluation, in 2004.
The Frost Center supports collaborative faculty-student research throughout the social sciences at Hope. Multiple community organizations have also contracted with the center for a variety of research needs. The center's external projects and clients have included a report about Kids Hope USA for the book "Street Saints"; an evaluation of Good Samaritan Ministries' faith-based mentoring programs; a survey of West Michigan residents concerning Ozone Action! Days for the West Michigan Clean Air Coalition; a Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey for the Ottawa County Health Department; a worship survey for the Reformed Church in America; and a youth-needs assessment for the Kalamazoo Community Foundation.
The Carl Frost Center for Social Science Research is located on the second floor of the college's Anderson-WerkmanFinancialCenter at 100 E. Eighth St. in downtown Holland. More information about the center may be found online at https://hope.edu/admin/frost or by calling (616) 395-7556.


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Malloy makes second trip to D.C.
Democrat Dannel Malloy made his second trip to Washington, D.C., as Connecticut's governor-elect this week, meeting with President Barack Obama, members of his cabinet and Connecticut's congressional delegation.
"I'm trying to build relationships," Malloy said by phone Thursday night.
Malloy, the former mayor of Stamford, will be sworn in Jan. 5 after winning a close race against Republican Tom Foley.
He replaces retiring Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who drew fire earlier this year when she skipped the National Governor's Association meeting in Washington.
Critics argued Connecticut's chief executive should have gone to ensure the state receives its fair share of funds and attention from federal lawmakers.
Malloy's schedule included a sit down with Connecticut's Congressional delegation, lunch with 22 fellow newly elected, mostly Republican governors, and meetings with the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development.
Malloy said he made it clear his administration wants to work with its federal counterparts and will actively seek financial assistance and apply for pilot programs.
The governors also met the president, who addressed the group after they finished lunch at the Blair House, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
Malloy and other Democratic victories in Connecticut have been credited in part to Obama's visit to Bridgeport the weekend before Election Day.
Obama defended his health care reform legislation, which Malloy supports but some Republican governors want repealed.
"There are going to be times where we do believe that having basic national standards are going to be important," Obama said. "That there are certain things that we as a country, we as a people, aspire to, and that we need to maintain some consistency across the states."
But the president also said he welcomed states' input on how to curb spending at a time of budget shortfalls.
"We're going to be interested in hearing from all of you about programs you think are working, but also programs that you think are not working," he said. "Contrary to the mythology, believe it or not, it turns out that I would love to eliminate programs that don't work."
Malloy faces a $3.4 billion deficit and the need to streamline Connecticut's government in his first, two-year budget.
Rell and the Democratic-majority legislature in recent years have promised major restructuring but failed to deliver.
"We're working on that actively on a number of fronts," Malloy said, promising to meet with state unions, agency heads and the private sector.
"This budget will reflect my desire to combine some existing departments and will also, presumably do additional consolidations and reorganizations in the second year as well," he said. "I think it will be a multi-step process. We're taking ideas from all quarters. I've been looking at state government for the last year and have some presumptions which I'm testing with respect to the viability of certain consolidations."
Malloy's first trip to Washington Nov. 15 generated some unwanted publicity when media outlets such as the National Journal reported his critical comments of the Obama administration's message-machine in the wake of Democratic losses nationwide.
"This highly disciplined campaign for the presidency seemed to fall apart in a very short period of time when it came to discipline necessary to get the story out on what they actually had accomplished," Malloy told the New Democratic Leadership Council.
Malloy Thursday night said he and Obama have "a strong working relationship."
"(I) certainly believe in the things that he's trying to do," Malloy said.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Staff Writer Brian Lockhart can be reached at email@example.com.


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In X-Men Destiny, players control the fate of one of three brand-new mutant characters forced to choose between saving humanity or ensuring its destruction. The branching storyline, penned by acclaimed Marvel writer Mike Carey, features a deep element of choice, allowing players to customize the path, powers and development of their character and to decide their role in the mutant cause alongside, or against, some of Marvel's greatest X-Men franchise characters, such as Magneto, Cyclops, Wolverine and Gambit. In this third-person action/RPG, X-Gene enhancements deliver a deeper level of customization to players' powers, with a chance for players to experience the abilities of their favorite X-Men mutants. Gamers will evolve their mutant skills in unique ways and engage in fast and furious combat, spectacular combo-driven attacks and rewarding finishing moves against a variety of opponents bent on defending their beliefs.
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Bulldogs Look To Pack Lee Amphitheater For Postseason Push
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With its first postseason appearance in more than 30 years hanging in the balance this weekend, the Yale University women's basketball team announced today that admission into the final two games of the season will be free to all fans in attendance.
The Bulldogs will face Columbia on Friday and Cornell on Saturday, with Senior Night festivities taking place prior to the game against Cornell. Both games will tip off at 7 p.m. inside John J. Lee Amphitheater.
Yale will honor senior captain Yoyo Greenfield and senior forward Mady Gobrecht for their contributions to the program prior to Saturday's game against the Big Red.
Yale (13-13, 9-3 Ivy League) remains in the hunt for the Ivy League title in a race with first-place Princeton and third-place Harvard. Princeton, 10-1 in the Ivy League, would need to lose two of its final three games and Yale would need to win both games this weekend to force a playoff for the Ivy League title.
The Bulldogs can clinch second place in the Ivy League, and the Ivy's automatic bid into the WNIT Tournament, with two wins this weekend.
Yale has not participated in a postseason tournament since the 1978-79 season.
Fans are encouraged to arrive early both nights in order to take in the pregame ceremonies prior to each game.
The Bulldogs will also hold a short ceremony prior to Friday's game that will include a presentation to the Smilow Cancer Hospital surrounding Yale's Pink Zone festivities last month.
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Following HTC's $300 million partnership with Beats Audio, rumors abound that the phone maker is preparing a new streaming music service to compete with the likes of Spotify. Sources tell Gigaom.com that Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, and a co-owner of Beats Audio, has been working closely with HTC to develop the service. After Beats Audio's less-than-harmonious split from former partner Monster, the company is said to be looking to expand aggressively in the mobile world, and HTC, by acquiring a substantial interest in the headphone maker, is looking more and more like the chosen partner.
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HTC has long been a peculiar and potentially disruptive force in the mobile world. An early adopter of Android, the phone maker has been customizing and enhancing user experience with its Sense UI ever since the days of Windows Mobile. Its television commercials aptly play to the emotional experience inherent to the modern mobile phone — objects we use intimately and carry with us day in and day out — and it has keenly crafted an image of itself as a lifestyle company, clearly taking a page from the Book of Jobs.
Which is all the more disappointing now that the Taiwanese company has hit a rough patch. Earnings were down more than 50 percent compared to just one year ago. Profits fell 26 percent in the last three months of 2011 alone — a startling and precipitous decline. Apple scored a major patent infringement judgment in December that will bar certain HTC phones from being sold in the US, and its 4G LTE phones have been riddled with issues such as poor battery life, prompting the CFO to assure consumers that in 2012, "using these LTE phones won't mean having a compromise."
Reviews for the first HTC phones featuring new Beats tech have been less than stellar, and so far the audio technology only works with HTC's own music player — not the Android Market's abundant third-party music apps. The announcement of a streaming service, however, could tie HTC's entire line of phones and upcoming tablets together under the umbrella of a music player that travels with you wherever you go. Beats by Dre headphones have become a raving success, thanks in large part to their stylish design, and Beats branding, along with a killer music service, could potentially help HTC revive its fortunes.
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Not to say that Beats Audio isn't getting something out of a potential deal as well (apart from the large infusion of cash): Iovine, a singular persona in the music business, is in the unique position to draw record companies into a deal with another streaming service to rival Spotify. HTC, with its established mobile presence and lifestyle ambitions, is the perfect partner. As Iovine alluded last year in an interview with the The Los Angeles Times, "Music on the cellphone should sound and feel great and we don't want you to just download bad-sounding MP3s and play them on bad-sounding $3 earbuds. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a phone or a tablet and listen to music out of $3 earbuds? It just doesn't add up."
The fact remains that a new streaming service will live and die by the licensing deals it can manage with major record labels. Spotify's success owes in large part to the massive trove of new and old music available through that service — if anyone can compete on this level, it's Jimmy Iovine. With literally the entire catalogue of Interscope Geffen A&M music at his disposal, and a name brand (and wildly popular) audio product to lead the marketing campaign, HTC may have hitched itself to a winning horse. Like Monster before it, HTC may simply be the conduit for another Beats revolution. Although pricing for the rumored service is still unknown, we expect HTC will make an announcement during the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of February.
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SAUGUS, Mass.—UMass Boston men's hockey head coach Peter Belisle and senior Rob Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) were honored at the New England Hockey Writers Award Banquet Thursday evening at the Prince Restaurant.
Belisle was recognized as the New England Coach of the Year at the DII/III level, while Florentino and Daniel were the first players in school history to be named DII/III New England All Stars by the Writers Association.
"It was awesome to have my family, my staff, our administration and my colleagues there, it made it a really special event," Belisle said.
"I actually joked about having my dad [Bill Belisle] there. He's been a pretty successful coach at his level and I've probably gone to 25 banquets for him in that fashion, and to go to a banquet where I was being honored as a Coach of the Year and having him there and my bosses and my wife and my staff, made it all that more special.
I couldn't thank my players enough for all that they've done, especially the two guys that were honored that evening… I talked about this being a staff award, you don't do this alone and these guys are in the trenches with me every day and I can't thank them enough. I need to get them to break this award into three pieces and give it to them.
And last but not least, you're only as good as your administration. To have Vice Chancellor for Athletics & Recreation, Special Projects & Programs Charlie Titus and Associate Director of Athletics Cheryl Aaron there, who are such huge supporters of myself and this program, makes it all that more special.
New England Hockey is a pretty special organization and to be honored by them and to be in that room is pretty surreal."
The Beacons finished the 2012-13 campaign 19-6-2 and earned the second seed in the ECAC East Tournament, both of which were their best finishes in over two decades.
UMass Boston returns all about five seniors for the 2013-14 season, including bringing back Daniel, ECAC East Rookie of the Year Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.) and ECAC East All Rookie Team members Kit Sitterley (Mooresville, N.C.) and Frankie DeAugustine (Pittsburgh, Pa.).


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Barry Ashbee
Ashbee had played 14 games with Boston in 1965-66 but was soon returned to Hershey where he was in the middle of a seven-year tour of duty there. The Flyers acquired him from the Bears and he became not only one of the more reliable defensemen in the league but among the most popular athletes in the city. He was as tough as any "Broad Street Bully" of that generation, and in February 1973 he was suspended for eight games for striking referee Bryan Lewis because he was upset with a penalty call.
Ashbee played on the 1973-74 team that won the Stanley Cup, but his absence from the clinching game was because of an horrific career-ending eye injury he suffered April 28, 1974. In a semi-final game against the Rangers, just days after being named to the NHL's second all-star team, he was hit flush in the eye by a Dale Rolfe shot. The following year, his number 4 was retired by the club, and he became one of the team's assistant coaches.
In April 1977, doctors gave Ashbee the devastating news that he had leukemia, and he passed away one month later. A Memorial scholarship fund was established in his honor. To this day, the Barry Ashbee trophy is awarded annually to the best defenseman on the Flyers, and Ashbee is also a member of the Flyers Hall of Fame.


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Pine County is expected to be the lead agency to assist in the flood recovery buying program for those people hit hard by the record July flooding in the northern part of the county.
Last Tuesday afternoon, the meeting room in Sandstone was packed with interested citizens and flood victims on what the county could do to help facilitate access to the programs.
Representatives from the DNR, East Central Regional Development Commission, Emergency Management, Assessor's Office, and Land and Zoning were all in attendance at the meeting.
The county board gave direction to Administrator David Minke to meet with these parties to best determine how Pine County could help these victims.
In early October, around 80 people attended a meeting in Rutledge on the flood buyout program. There are three programs, two of which are federal and one state, that could help some flood victims.
For properties that are condemned and in a flood plain, there is a FEMA public assistance program. The Homeland Security and Emergency Management have a hazard mitigation grant program for home owners that had 50 percent or more damage and are in a flood plain. The DNR flood damage reduction program is for people who may be in or out of the flood plain, and had substantial damages to their homes but were not eligible for the first two programs.
The general provisions of the program would be to pay the pre-flood value to the property owner, in addition to demolition and disposal costs. Property ownership would then transfer to the local unit of government with generally no future development on the property. The state program can take up to six months while the federal programs can take up to three years.
All of these programs are voluntary and property owners could withdraw at any time.
Minke said the county could hire a project manager to oversee the program, and be reimbursed later for the costs. This person would be charged with working with local entities on the program.
If all eligible property owners participate, the effect on the Pine County tax base would be small, said Troy Stewart, Deputy Assessor. But, for the communities affected by the flooding, the impact would be large.
In Rutledge, if all homeowners took part, that community would lose about 20 percent of its tax base. The City of Sturgeon Lake would lose 15 percent. The City of Willow River, along with Sturgeon Lake and Kettle River Townships would lose around 2-3 percent of their tax base.
Minke said it would be possible to approach the legislative delegation to help communities that take a big hit to their tax base.
"As public servants, we should try to help these people as much as we can," said Commissioner Stephen Hallan, of Pine City. "To me, it is a no brainer. We should do what we can."
"We are willing to do whatever it takes," said Board Chair Steve Chaffee, of Hinckley.
Commissioner Doug Carlson of Sandstone said three years would be unacceptable for help for local flood victims.
Pat Lynch, a DNR flood plain hydrologist, said the agencies should be able to determine fairly quickly which agencies could help flood victims.
"None of these will make anyone whole," Lynch said. "No one is getting rich."
Some flood victims talked about living in tents, campers, and about those who just walked away from their homes. Some are making decisions on whether to continue their mortgage payments or not. Others said some homes should have never been built where they were. One said they could not refinance their property and the appraisal on their home would fall short of the loan amount on their property.
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As you know the husband and I are two of the outdoorsy types. We are currently unpacking our life out of boxes once again so there is not much to report from the home front other than a big mess. To spare you from that enjoy some of the shots I've taken on some of our last walks in Suffolk and Essex around Colchester.
The weather has been so good in December and January that we spend every weekend outside.
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
For most people I know, holidays are a time to relax. And in the English language, 'relaxing' is becoming ever more synonymous with drinking. But for us wine writers, things are different. Outside holiday time, our diaries are stuffed with back to back tastings. I certainly don't ask for pity, just incredulity at the number of wine tastings we might be invited to in one day – between one and six from September to June with just two or three weeks off for Christmas.
So, I must admit, I positively relish the holidays as a time when any exposure to alcohol – and I do realise it's a potential toxin - is voluntary. For me, relaxation is not having to take the milk thistle extract that I have persuaded myself protects my liver from occupational hazard.
As a result, by the end of our first week this year in our holiday house in the Languedoc my husband was complaining rather peevishly about the short rations he felt the cellarmistress of the household was administering compared with his generous output from the kitchen. I suppose his disappointment at a relatively empty wine glass must have been all the more bittersweet because our house happens to be surrounded by vineyards.
It did seem a bit mean to deprive my husband, recuperating from surgery, of one of life's great pleasures so from then on, I opened more of our own bottles, and when a wine producer contacted me asking me to taste their wines, I suggested they send them to our Languedoc address. As a result, over the next three weeks our postwoman and the local couriers became thoroughly bemused by the quantity of bottles, from all over the world, they were asked to deliver to this particular address in a wine village.
One aristocratic Italian wine producer (admittedly a rather large subset of all Italian wine producers) sent no fewer than 39 bottles of different vintages of his beloved San Leonardo, a particularly refined Bordeaux blend from the shores of Lake Garda, apologising profusely that there was one vintage of which he had no double in case of a spoilt cork. And all 39 bottles were carefully packed in cartons into a single giant box whose weight must surely have set some new record.
Another set of wines arrived from Austrian wine producer Pfaffl, including two screwcapped, super-fruity marvels, a red and white made within the city limits of Vienna, so very far in every way from the culture and sensibilities of our Languedoc village. The Austrian wines were very well made but if anything a little too heady for casual sipping in what has been a pretty torrid summer in the Languedoc.
We keep a small cellar there and this year I dipped with delight into the stocks of refreshing German Riesling that I ship in regularly from the Mosel. This is the sort of wine that can and should be aged and the 2004 vintage of my usual choice Dr Loosen, Wehlen Sonnenuhr Kabinett (still available commercially in Napa, I see) is just the job at eight years old. Though while for me its low alcoholic strength, just 8%, was an advantage, my husband may disagree.
The sturdier Turkish reds that remained from a consignment of doubles I had to taste this time last year were more to his taste, more than 13%, if definitely esoteric in a Languedoc context, and I was most impressed by how well Kavaklidere's 2008 examples of the indigenous Boğazkere and even the supposedly less serious Öküzgözü grapes had lasted. As it happened, I needed to taste younger vintages of the same wines this year and, preceded by notice of a DHL tracking number sent from Ankara, they dutifully turned up on our doorstep.
Much more difficult was the consignment of a dozen new California and Oregon releases from a producer called Evening Land without, according to a telephone call from Fedex at Roissy airport, the requisite details of exactly what the alcoholic strength of each wine was. Could I help? If not, the bottles would have to be sent back across the Atlantic. Since the name of the sender bore no relation to Evening Land, it took considerable detective work to unravel this puzzle but in the end, just a day or two before we had to leave, these particular bottles were delivered by our long-suffering local courier. I had to scramble to taste them in time and hope that our daughter and her 10 friends enjoyed the leftovers.
There were one or two plums in our little wine cellar and the first time we invited friends round our table under the chestnut tree (pictured, at breakfast time), I pulled out two of them: Dom Pérignon 2003 and the 2008 top bottling Garrus from the celebrated Provençal rosé specialist Château d'Esclans. This luxurious champagne from an unusually hot year was ageing a little faster than I expected, while the four year-old rosé, which I half–suspected would be over the hill, was still drinking beautifully – and was much livelier than its stablemate bottling called, a mite confusingly, Les Clans.
Towards the end of our month in the Languedoc we invited a young British wine merchant and his three friends staying nearby for another lunch. He'd promised to bring something special to drink and what was it? Dom Pérignon 2003 and Château d'Esclans, Garrus 2008.
Most of what we drank of course had been grown locally, for the wines of the Languedoc-Roussillon nowadays are some of the world's most interesting, individual and well priced. Fortunately for me, wine producers there are not aggressive self-promoters and relatively few of them have found their way to my front door. But the British online retailer Naked Wines made sure that I received a consignment from their pet Coteaux du Languedoc winemaker Virgile Joly (whose latest offerings for them seemed much more commercially anodyne than his earlier bottlings). A handful of producers delivered their latest wines and, thanks to an assignation at Narbonne railway station with an old Cumbrian friend Richard Neville who now champions his Languedoc neighbour's wines, I also tasted the current Les Terrasses de Gabrielle range of mainly St-Chinians.
There is a world of difference between tasting and drinking. Tasting is what I associate with work and brainpower, with having every sense keenly honed while trying to draw on memories of other, related wines tasted before. Drinking is – well, as I said in the beginning – a much more relaxed activity. I do very occasionally get tired of tasting, but that never spoils my enjoyment of drinking.
See tasting notes on what I tasted this summer in our tasting notes database.
Some summer high points
Dr Loosen, Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2010* Mosel
£16.15 Philglas & Swiggot
Ch d'Esclans, Garrus 2009* Provence
£59.18 The Sampler
Laroche, Punto Alto Casablanca Pinot Noir 2009 Chile
£9.07 Formula Wine, East Sussex
Treloar, Three Peaks 2009 Roussillon
£11.99 Leon Stolarski, Cambridge Wine Merchants
Hegarty Chamans, Cuvée No 2 2009 Minervois
£11.99 Adnams
Dom de Cébène, Ex Arena 2010* Languedoc
£14.99 Leon Stolarski, Cambridge Wine Merchants
Les Clos Perdus, Prioundo 2010 Corbières
£15.95 Green & Blue
Pfaffl, Altenberg St Laurent 2009 Austria
£28.99 Corks of Cotham
San Leonardo 2004 IGT
£25.99 a half Handford Wines
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FREDERICK, MD - The York College softball squad notched their second Capital Athletic Conference sweep of the week as the Spartans took a pair of games from Hood College on Friday afternoon in Frederick, MD. The Spartans won game one 6-2 and completed the sweep with a 3-2 win in the nightcap.
The Spartans improve to 7-11 overall and 4-2 in the CAC while the Blazers are now 5-16 overall and 0-6 in the league.
In the opener, the Spartans opened the scoring on a Rachel Klein RBI single in the second. York pushed the lead to 2-0 in the third courtesy of a Hood fielding error.
Both teams scored in the fifth. Jena Ruby plated York's run with an RBI single while Hood's tally came courtesy of a Brittany Therres wild pitch.
The Spartans got some insurance in the seventh with a three-run uprising. Hannah Hugel had an RBI double while Ruby had a two-run double in the frame.
The Blazers closed out the scoring with a run but Cory Urkuski got out of the frame and earned the save for York.
Therres earned the win as she tossed five innings, allowing a run on three hits with three strikeouts and one walk. Urkuski tossed two innings, allowing a run on four hits with one walk.
Jennifer Rutherford took the loss as she allowed six runs, three earned, on 10 hits with one strikeout. She falls to 3-6 with the loss.
Ruby led the Spartans as she was 3-for-4 with three RBI. Hugel added two hits, two runs scored and an RBI while Sara Thacker added two hits and two runs scored for the Green and White.
Brianna Dyckman collected three of the Blazers' game-one hits as she went 3-for-3 with a run scored in the loss. Kelly Gafner was 1-for-4 with an RBI.
In game two, the Spartans got all the runs they needed in the third inning. Thacker started the frame with a triple to left. She came home on a Brittany Schlorff RBI single to right. Erin O'Leary singled to move Schlorff to second with one out. Ruby moved Schlorff and O'Leary into scoring position with a bunt and Therres made that strategy pay off with a big two-run double as York took the 3-0 lead.
The Blazers rallied for a two-run fifth but it could have been much bigger for the hosts. Hood left the bases loaded as Therres got a pop up to short to preserve the one-run Spartan advantage.
Neither team threatened the rest of the way as the Green and White earned their fourth conference win of the year.
Therres earned the win as she allowed two runs on nine hits with two strikeouts. Therres improves to 6-5 overall with the victory.
Alison Schuetz took the loss as she allowed three runs on eight hits in seven innings of action. She walked two and struck out one as she falls to 0-2.
Therres was great at the dish for the Spartans as she went 3-for-3 with two RBI including her sixth double of the year. Schlorff went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored while O'Leary was 2-for-4 with a run scored.
Gafner led Hood with three hits and a run scored while Casey Dunn and Jackie Wenzel each had two knocks for the Blazers.
The Spartans return to action on Monday when they step out of conference to face Messiah College in Grantham, PA. Game one of the double header is slated for a 3:00 pm start.
Brittany Therres photo courtesy of Theresa Dark, York College Athletic Communications Student Photographer


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St Matthew Passion Premieres
Olle Persson and Sven-David Sandström outside
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Following the successful world premiere in Berliner Philharmonie on 16 February, Sandström's St. Matthewpassion will receive its Swedish premieres in Stockholm on 16 April and Uppsala on 17 April. The line-up will be the same as in Berlin, except for the orchestra. Stefan Parkman will conduct the Philharmonischer Chor Berlin, the Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala and Gävle Symphony Orchestra...
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St Matthew Passion in Berlin 2014
Stefan Parkman
The premiere date for Sandström's monumental St. Matthew Passion has now been set to the 16 February 2014. Stefan Parkman will lead the Philharmonischer Chor Berlin and the Staatskapelle Halle in the world premiere in the Berliner Philharmonie...
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World premiere of
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Sven-David Sandström's Requiem received its world premiere in a crowded Berwaldhallen in Stockholm on 22 March. Gustaf Sjökvist conducted the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir and four vocal soloists in a stunning performance which received a standing ovation and rave reviews...
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Sven-David Sandström has gladly accepted an invitation to return to Indiana University in Bloomington as professor of composition. Sandström held the post as professor of composition between 1999 and 2008, and now returns for a three-year period, starting this September...


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Cisco Participates in Partners for a New Beginning CGI Commitment
During the 6th annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in New York, the private sector, non-governmental organizations and other global leaders gathered to identify and create solutions to address the world's most pressing problems. One such solution or "CGI commitment" includes the Partners for a New Beginning–a non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to broadening and deepening engagement between the United States and international Muslim communities by building public-private partnerships that advance economic opportunity, science and technology, education, and exchange.
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers (far right) joins former US President Bill Clinton, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and PNB leaders on stage at CGI 2010.
Cisco is pleased to join private and public sector leaders in the Partners for a New Beginning (PNB) commitment. PNB is committed to supporting increased access in four key areas: economic opportunity, science and technology, education and exchange in the focus countries of Egypt, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, and West Bank/Gaza. Watch Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announce the Partners for a New Beginning CGI commitment.
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If you're like me, you sometimes say to yourself, "I'm bored. I wonder where I can pet a pig, feed a horse, eat plantains, buy fresh dates, ask a rabbi a question, listen to street musicians, get my fortune read, apply flip-flop heel balm, walk among a crowd of thousands and drink lemonade?" Luckily, I can do all of that — and get a jump on the weekend — in Palm Springs, where VillageFest takes place from 6-10 p.m. every Thursday from October through May (7-10 p.m. June-September) on Palm Canyon Drive between Baristo and Amado roads. The tab: A queen bed at Caliente Tropics is about $130, depending on the season, and dinner for two can be had from VillageFest street vendors for less than $20.
The bed
Forget the corporate hotels, and stay less than two miles from VillageFest at the Caliente Tropics Hotel (411 E. Palm Canyon Drive; [760] 327-1391, http://www.calientetropics.com). The 90-room, Polynesian-themed resort features nonsmoking rooms and suites with free Wi-Fi, mini-refrigerators, coffee makers, in-room safes and an on-site gym, but no one goes to Palm Springs to sit inside a hotel room. Get outdoors as quickly as possible so you can enjoy the 12-person spa, barbecues, a grass area where children and dogs can play, cabanas, shuffleboard, a 100,000-gallon pool and a view of the San Jacinto Mountains so perfect that you think you can reach out and touch them.
The meal
Plenty of restaurants have Thursday night specials. For example, LG's Prime Steakhouse (255 S. Palm Canyon Drive; [760] 416-1779, http://www.lgsprimesteakhouse.com; no item more than $66.95) offers half-price appetizers and drink selections. Village Pub (266 S. Palm Canyon Drive; [760] 323-3265, http://www.new.palmspringsvillagepub.com; no item more than $27) has $5 tapas; and the Crazy Coconut Bar & Grill (166 N. Palm Canyon Drive; [760] 327-8175, no item more than $12.95) serves two hamburgers, two orders of fries and two drinks for $20. That said, around 7 p.m., the wait at many eateries can be about an hour, so snack on funnel cake and kettle corn while you walk Palm Canyon Drive. Or enjoy gyros, paella, Mediterranean food and island-style cuisine and visit the traditional restaurants some other time. Whichever you choose, you won't leave Palm Springs on an empty stomach.
The find
Palm Springs Art Museum (101 Museum Drive; [760] 322-4800, http://www.psmuseum.org) offers free admission 4-8 p.m. during VillageFest, which, depending on how you look at it, is a good or bad thing. The good is that the museum isn't the sort of place you can walk through in 20 minutes. The bad is that you'll want to spend all four hours browsing the 150,000-square-foot property, meaning you can miss much of VillageFest. Spend four hours viewing world-class art for free or walk a populated street eating food — this is what we call a win-win situation. If free art isn't enough, there's a free parking structure across the street from the museum, so, really, you have no excuse not to go.
The lesson learned
My version of heaven has 90-degree weather at night, but if you disagree, now is the time to visit Palm Springs as evening temperatures are in the mid-70s. VillageFest attendees wear flip-flops and shorts while walking dogs — all, seemingly, without a drop of sweat.
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Redskins Fire Mike Shanahan, Begin Search for New Head Coach
- Mike Shanahan was fired Monday after four seasons as Redskins head coach. (Photo by Terri Russell)
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2001 Press Releases > September 2001 > Herman, Hutcherson join education faculty at Wayland
Herman, Hutcherson join education faculty at Wayland
Dr. Patricia Herman and Dr. Linda Hutcherson have joined the faculty in the Don Williams School of Education at Wayland Baptist University.
Herman, a full professor, is returning to the faculty after a three-year hiatus in which she served as West Texas area director for Prison Fellowship Ministries. Prior to that position, she taught at Wayland as an assistant and associate professor. She has also taught adjunctly for Wayland at the Hawaii campus.
Herman holds bachelor's and master's degrees in education from the University of Toledo in Ohio and her doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
She began her education career in 1965 as a teacher in the Toledo Public Schools and worked there until 1981, when she began her doctoral work. During her career, Herman has had publications in several education periodicals, with emphasis on literacy and reading. She has also helped edit five books, written several technical reports, had papers presented at various conferences and led workshops on vocabulary, reading and literacy.
Hutcherson, an associate professor, comes to Wayland from the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo, specifically in the Curriculum and Instruction Department of the Instructional Services Division. Hutcherson also has nine years experience as a secondary classroom teacher in speech, theatre, English, debate and journalism, and 20 years experience as a secondary guidance counselor, testing coordinator and curriculum consultant in the Canyon school district.
She received a bachelor's degree in speech/theatre/music education from Oklahoma Baptist University, a master's degree in behavioral studies from Southeast Oklahoma State University, a master's degree in administration from West Texas A&M University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Texas Tech University. She is certified in secondary speech and music, technology, counseling, mid-management and superintendency.
During her career in education, Hutcherson has served as director for the PACT Players (Positive Actions Concerning Teenagers), a nationally recognized drug prevention entertainment troupe, and directed Project READY for Canyon I.S.D., which developed curriculum for diverse youth. She also was director for Texas UIL Literary Events and served as speech and drama coach, leading to eight state literary championships.
While at the Education Services Center, Hutcherson was a web page trainer and webmaster for her division and was an inservice trainer in technology, team-building and esteem-building activities. She was regional director for Texas Beginning Educator Support System, as well as regional TAAS test administration coordinator and other research and training activities.
According to Dr. Jim Todd, both women bring great experience and expertise that will complement the education faculty.
"Dr. Herman is a well-published researcher in language arts and is a former faculty member who is returning to us. She'll be heading up our ExCET review programs and teaching professional development courses," Todd said. "Dr. Hutcherson comes to us from Region 16 and has just completed her doctorate at Texas Tech. She brings a unique mix to Wayland of field experiences and leadership in working with nontraditional teachers and will assume a leadership role in instructional technology."


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Rebuilding Alvin: Ben Pietro
A series on the people reassembling the iconic sub
Since the beginning of 2011, Alvin, the U.S. science community's only human-occupied submersible dedicated to deep-sea research, has been undergoing a thorough overhaul and upgrade that will enhance its capabilities. The improvements include a new personnel sphere, updated command-and-control systems, enhanced lighting and high-definition imaging systems, new syntactic foam to provide buoyancy, and more and larger viewports, or windows.
The centerpiece is a larger personnel sphere with improved interior design to enhance the comfort of pilots and researchers who will occupy it. The titanium sphere is also designed to withstand pressure at depths of 6.5 kilometers (4 miles), with the eventual goal of allowing Alvin to dive beyond its current 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) diving capacity.
Now in the final stages of the first phase of the upgrade, the iconic sub is being painstakingly reassembled, piece by piece, by a one-of-a-kind team of engineers, technicians, and pilots at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). They also carefully inspect and test each component to ensure its reliability and the safety of those who will use to sub to explore the depths.
Here, engineering assistant Ben Pietro describes what it takes to give Alvin's sail its gleaming, colorful coat:
That piece is what they call the sail. It extends the height of the dry area around the hatch while the sub is on the surface, to protect the hatch from waves. It's also a good high spot for mounting navigation equipment.
The sail is made of carbon fiber, which is very strong and light so it doesn't add a lot to the vehicle's weight. In previous overhauls, they've used a red. They wanted to go with international orange this year to make it as visible as possible on the surface of the ocean.
We're inside the paint booth up in Clark South. We try to keep all the dust down as much as possible. There's air that comes in through the intake and pushes out through the vents at the back. We bring the garden hose in and spray down the floor and the lower part of the wall to keep the dust down. With a showcase piece like the Alvin sail, we wanted to eliminate all possibilities of anything coming in and disrupting the paint. If there's dust flying around, some of it would stick on the wet paint and the sail wouldn't shine like it shines right now.
The paint is called AwlGrip. It's a two-part epoxy paint. It's nasty—it's not stuff that you want to be inhaling a lot. You wear a full-face respiratory mask, your gloves, your paint suit.
We did three coats on this. The first one you put on is kind of spotty. The second coat, you fill everything in and make sure it's uniform. Then the third coat is the one that you gotta make sure it goes on perfect. You want to put it on sort of robotic-like, and paint every area with the same amount of paint. If you put too much paint on something, it'll open up and it'll become a big, round 'fish eye.'
We actually had to paint this twice because the first time we did it, it didn't come out perfect. So we had to sand it all back down again and then re-do it.
I work for UOP [the Upper Ocean Processes group]. I do mostly mechanical work—build, fabricate, design moorings. I've just always been able to work with my hands, and my father taught me at an early age that 'we've got to fix cars, so get out there and help me do it.' It never left me. I always enjoyed it.
I've been doing a lot of painting since I started here, but I'm learning as I go—I don't have a degree in painting or anything like that. [WHOI mechanic] Victor Miller helped me a great deal with this. He taught me how to control the paint through different series of thinning it and testing the material, so you don't get drips. He taught me more in a week when I worked with him doing this than I have in four years that I've worked here.
It was a great experience and a privilege to do this for Alvin. I was honored to be asked to do it, and I'm really proud of the piece.
Alvin is owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by WHOI. The current upgrade has been funded largely by the National Science Foundation, with support from private donations to WHOI.


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2013-14 Served as one of the Beacons top-3 throwers … Recorded a season best toss of 29-06.00 feet in the shot put on April 27 at the Little East Conference Championship meet … Had her best throw in the discus on April 27 at the conference championship with a toss of 98-01.00 feet … Earned her second longest throw of 95-03 feet on April 5 at the Ramapo College (N.J.) Roadrunner Invitational … Had her fest day in the hammer throw on March 29 at the Tufts Snowflake Classic when she recorded a throw of 87-10 feet.
2012-13 Competed in the outdoor season for the women's team as a thrower … Recorded her top throw in the shot put on April 27 at the Little East Conference/New England Alliance Championship meet with a toss of 28-07.00 feet … Also recorded her best throw of the year in the discus (94-00 ft.) and the hammer (97-00 ft.) at the conference championship meet … Broke the 90 feet mark in the discus twice and the 80 feet mark in the hammer a total of three times … Her second longest throw in the shot put landed at 27-01.25 feet on March 30 at the Tufts University Snowflake Classic.
PERSONAL/HIGH SCHOOL Graduated from Billerica Memorial High School in 2011, where she was a member of the basketball and track and field teams ... Received numerous Lowell Sun All-Star of the Week honors ... Named MVC All-Star and team captain twice ... Received the Coaches' Award ... State Championship thrower in track and field ... High Honor student all four years in high school ... Received the Presidential Academic Award ... Born on March 19, 1993 ... Daughter of Claire Moore-Rosa and George Moore ... Has one sister, Tiffany and three brothers, George, Jeff, and Jared ... Member of the UMass Boston women's basketball team ... Currently majoring in Sociology.
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Brussels, 22 September 2011
EU Economic governance "Six Pack" - State of Play
In September 2010 the Commission presented six legislative proposals on economic governance (the so-called Six-Pack). The legislative package contained the most comprehensive reinforcement of economic governance in the EU and the euro area since the launch of the Economic and Monetary Union. Broader and enhanced surveillance of fiscal policies, but also macroeconomic policies and structural reforms was proposed. New enforcement mechanisms are foreseen for non-compliant euro area Member States. Earlier this week agreement was reached by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on these proposals. This memo reflects the state of play and contains the main elements of the political agreement found by the three institutions this week. The European Parliament and the Council are expected to give their final agreement to the package on 28 September 2011 and 4 October 2011 respectively, allowing entry into force by end-2011-beginning of 2012 – and ensuring that the next European Semester of economic policy coordination gets underway with a more solid legal base (see MEMO/11/364).
The package has two main objectives:
Member States must regard their fiscal policies as a matter of common concern and avoid excessive deficits. These rules are enshrined in the Treaties and detailed in the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). The preventive arm of the SGP (based on Article 121 of the Treaty) aims to provide guidance ex ante to ensure that fiscal policy making is consistent with fiscal sustainability To this effect, each year Member States set out in their budgetary plans the measures needed to achieve their medium-term budgetary objectives (MTO) in their Stability or Convergence Programmes (SCP).
The new governance system introduces changes in 3 key areas:
Stronger preventive arm
Excessive Deficit Procedure
The Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) implements the obligations in the Treaty for Member States to keep deficits below 3% of GDP and government debt below or sufficiently declining towards 60% of GDP. The high debt-to-GDP ratios reached in many Member States already before the crisis, and the related sovereign debt problems in some, show that the existing EDP was not effective in curbing debt developments. The Commission has proposed giving teeth to the corrective part of the SGP through a numerical benchmark for debt reduction and stepping up financial sanctions for euro area Member States. The two key changes concerning the EDP are:
National budgetary frameworks
The reform of the SGP is complemented by a new directive on national budgetary frameworks. It is increasingly clear that the structures and processes in place in the Member States which determine how fiscal policy is undertaken are key to the fiscal decisions taken. Setting minimum requirements for their quality and for consistency with the common fiscal framework of the EU, the Directive will trigger a substantial improvement of the budgetary decisions of those Member States where institutional weaknesses have interfered with their ability to ensure effective economic governance. The main key features are:
Member States bring their fiscal frameworks in line with the requirements set by the directive by 2013. However, euro area Member States have committed to achieve this objective already in 2012.
Over the past decade, Member States have made divergent economic choices, leading to competitiveness gaps and to major macroeconomic imbalances within the EU. A new surveillance and enforcement mechanism will be set up to identify and correct such issues much earlier. It will rely on the following main elements:
Next steps: Final agreement on the legislation by Council and Parliament will allow the procedure to be applied in time for the next European Semester (beginning in January 2012). The Commission aims at finalising the scoreboard design in the coming weeks following the scoreboard adoption process outlined in the new legislation. In case of emergency, a special clause in the legislation can be activated to intervene in countries where imbalances are more serious.
Throughout the six-pack, the European Parliament is given a key role in ensuring transparency, promoting accountability and monitoring enforcement at key decision-making stages through an innovative process of economic dialogue. The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of Parliament will be able to invite the President of the Council, the President of the eurogroup, the President of the European Council and the Commission to present, report and explain their decisions in the SGP and in the Regulations on macro-economic imbalances. It will pay particular attention to occasions where the Council rejects Commission recommendations. It can also give the opportunity to an individual Member State which has fallen foul of the rules to be heard by the Committee.
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