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When done properly, a PowerPoint presentation can effectively deliver your message and help your audience understand the information you are presenting. This entry-level class will introduce PowerPoint and show you how to create an effective presentation. You will format text on slides, add graphics and photos to a presentation and modify them, and add tables and charts to present data in a structured form. You will walk away with a presentation that is ready to deliver. You should be familiar with the Windows environment prior to enrollment. Cost includes workbook; please register by November22 to reserve your workbook.12/05/2013 -12/13/2013, $99, Course # CIS-901-VE09, Syn #78187. Location: Edwards Campus. For registration information, click the Back button at the top of this entry.
Post Decree Custody Issues: Divorced with Kids? This workshop addresses issuesthat arise after a divorce decree is entered. Topics include: enforcement of existing orders; modification of parenting plans; emergency situations; relocations and step-parent adoptions.
Syn# 74069
Cost $10
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Designed for healthcare professionals, but available to the public, this CPR class is open to individuals interested in developing the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, administer CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking safely and effectively. This class meets the requirements for the American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification. An individual pocket mask and text are included in the class fee. Students who successfully complete this class will receive a certification card valid for two years.12/07/2013 -12/07/2013, $66, Course # HWE-901-VE04, Syn #75374. Location: Edwards Campus. For registration information, click the Back button at the top of this entry.
Intro to iPhone
12/7 (Saturday)
Instructor: Jordan Callier
Cost: $39
Apple's iPhones are small, powerful, and very useful. iPhones have so much to offer, but many users are unaware of all of their capabilities. In this class, you will learn to optimize your iPhone using the installed iOS applications and settings. Then you will learn to customize your iPhone to increase functionality through third-party apps. Please bring your own iPhone and charger to class. If you haven't upgraded your Operating System yet, don't get caught off guard by any surprises. We will cover everything you need to know to upgrade your phone to iOS7.
Classroom session is required to be able to take the attached field session: Introduction to Avalanches Field Session, OUT-901 VE02, syn #75957, December11,9a -4p, Vail Pass. You must be18 minimum at the start of the Field Session class to participate.12/09/2013 -12/09/2013, $40, Course # OUT-901-VE01, Syn #75379. Location: Edwards Campus. For registration information, click the Back button at the top of this entry.
TIPS (Training for Intervention Procedures) is the most widely recognized certification training for alcohol servers, whether restaurant employees or event volunteers. This class covers responsible service, sale and consumption of alcohol. It is designed to prevent intoxication, underage drinking and drunk driving. Price includes workbook and exam, and those who pass will be TIPS certified for three years. Please register in advance to ensure arrival of workbook. To discuss group registrations, call970-569-2933.12/10/2013 -12/10/2013, $45, Course # BUS-901-VE10, Syn #78096. Location: Edwards Campus. For registration information, click the Back button at the top of this entry.
Introduction to Avalanches Field Session on Vail Pass. Fast progression covers the latest techniques. This is an on-the-snow avalanche class. You will learn cutting-edge rescue, beacon use, group dynamics and stability analysis. Small class size allows for extensive hands-on training. Course follows guidelines of the American Avalanche Association. Prerequisite is Introduction to Avalanches classroom session. Details of field day are reviewed during classroom session. Class meets at Vail Pass parking lot – details provided. Maximum8 students. You must be18 minimum at the start of the class to participate.12/11/2013 -12/11/2013, $75+15, Course # OUT-901-VE02, Syn #75957. Location: in the field. For registration information, click the Back button at the top of this entry.
Come tap into your creative side and make beautiful handmade holiday cards. Session will begin with a demonstration of how to make a handmade card using rubber stamps and embellishments. No experience necessary and all materials supplied. Leave with lower blood pressure and some wonderfully unique cards to give to family and friends! Class meets Thursday, 12/12, from 1p-3p at the Pitkin County Senior Center.
You will make, bake, share and wrap dozens and dozens of holiday cookies and treats – and go home to a clean kitchen. We will show you how to package for gifting and offer tips on storing. Bring your favorite cookie tins or storage containers. 12/14/2013 -12/15/2013, $90, Course # CUA-901-VE10, Syn #78136. Location: Battle Mountain High School Kitchen. For registration information, click the Back button at the top of this entry.
In this three-hour workshop, we will explore and learn about these three popular applications on the Mac. These are three built-in applications on the Mac, which are both fun and easy to use. You will learn how to surf the web, how to use the Safari program effectively, how to save your favorite web sites with bookmarks, how to organize your bookmarks, how to search effectively for information on-line, and how set up parental on-line restraints for your children. Using Mac Mail, you will learn how to write, send, receive, reply, forward, organize and delete emails. You will learn how to send attachments, how to save attachments that others send you, and how know if your attachments are properly sized. Using the Mac Address book, you will learn how this program integrates with Mac Mail, and how to add people and groups to your address book.
Syn# 78203
Cost $35
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As 2012 prepares to call it quits and retreats into the historic mists where expiring years go to join their calendrical ancestors near and far, the least we can do is thank the old boy. For, by any measure, these were a memorable 12 months, filled, in turn, by frustration and satisfaction. They encompassed a somnolent economy at home as well as a fragile European Union that threatened to fracture at any moment and take the euro with it, but managed through deft and delay to muddle through.
Besides the Old World teetering on the edge of, or already mired in, recession, worsened by a widespread veneration of austerity, the year drawing to a close was witness to a staccato recovery by a conspicuously less vigorous China; a lackluster performance of gold after decades of glistening gains; and, of all things, a neat cyclical-bull market in equities fueled by the dexterity of Uncle Ben and his counterparts around the globe in debasing their currencies and by investors' insatiable lust for yield in a zero-interest-rate world.
By no means does this exhaust the claims that the departing year can legitimately make for being extraordinary, but, at the very least, they bring into sharp relief the remarkable crosscurrents that raged from January right through its final waning hours, which were charged with anxiety spawned by the discomfiting presence of the fiscal cliff. It was, too, lest we forget, an election year, featuring the incredible implosion of Mitt Romney and triumph of Barack Obama, despite the handicap of a character tic that prompted him to give away the store every time he sat down to negotiate virtually anything with the perennially belligerent swamis of the GOP.
Retaining the presidency seems to have fortified Mr. Obama's spine, at least temporarily. In any event, the well-publicized, seemingly boundless enmity between the two parties hasn't been ameliorated one whit, as illustrated in their reluctance in the scant time remaining to thrash out some sort of makeshift agreement that would defer the fiscal strictures ordained by the law enacted as part of a 2011 deal to raise the debt ceiling. The howls you hear are from our beloved congressmen squealing about having their vacations from the cushiest job imaginable cut short and being forced to return to Washington in a Hail Mary effort to keep the nation from tumbling over that scary cliff.
THE PROSPECTS FOR THESE last-minute "heroics" look decidedly iffy. And further beclouding the picture is Mr. Boehner's inability to deliver the Republican vote in the House. But we can't really blame those GOP lawmakers, since they were no doubt confused by the speaker's unveiling an all-but-indecipherable Plan B, having forgotten apparently to devise a Plan A.
What we find truly absurd is how, as the clock ticked on, the markets complacently put their faith in the notion that the "smart money" (whoever they might be) was darn-near unanimous in endorsing the shibboleth that a deal had been cut by the legislators to circumvent the ever-more-menacing fiscal cliff. All by themselves, even casual spectators of the investment scene would almost instinctively know that when the consensus is so overwhelming, it's rarely right.
Even as we scribble these lines, the president is huddling with the so-called leaders of both parties to have one more shot at patching together a detour around that daunting cliff. Anything is possible, of course, but it would take the mother of all miracles to achieve a political truce that's an absolute prerequisite for that to happen, and Washington is not famous for conceiving even minor miracles.
The received opinion on the Street is that should all these last-ditch efforts come to naught, both the economy and the markets are destined to keel over. Obviously, it doesn't take all that much insight to come to that conclusion, and up to a point, it echoes our feeling. We suspect, though, that the impact will be greater on the markets than on the overall economy. And we draw some comfort from the fact that two economists, Michael Darda of MKM Partners and Paul Kasriel of Econtrarian, whose calls over the years have mostly been on the money and whose judgment we respect, don't think the world necessarily is coming to an end should we go over the cliff.
In his latest dispatch, Michael notes that an abrupt drop in consumer confidence in December as measured by the Conference Board, to 65.1 from the previous month's 71.5, got a lot of media coverage that connected it with the looming fiscal cliff. What didn't get more than a speck of attention was that the entire decline in Jane and John Q's confidence was in the volatile "expectations" category. By contrast, the "present situation index" advanced to a new cyclical high last month, and "jobs hard to get" hit a new low since recovery began.
None of this, commented Michael, is to say "there are no signs of risk aversion." Among them was that velocity of money remains depressed and "investors are literally paying the federal government to borrow from them" (which he takes as "making a mockery" of fears that the U.S. is headed for a fiscal crisis). He points out that the one comparable recession during the past 100 years, in 1945, involved a fiscal 10 times the size of the fiscal cliff and was also associated with a slowdown in monetary growth at a time when the velocity of money was falling. The Fed, Michael says, is making what he dubs "an open-ended effort to avoid such a scenario," and he believes it has a good chance to succeed.
Paul Kasriel retired last April as the designated prognosticator and economy-watcher for Northern Trust and is no stranger to this sacred space. What we particularly like about Paul are his willingness to stand apart from the crowd in sizing up the economic outlook and his leavening sense of humor, a missing element from most practitioners of the dismal science. Both qualities were very much in evidence in a recent paper he put out taking issue with the idea embraced by what he calls "the economist quacks" that we're headed for hell in a handbarrow (aka recession) if taxes go back to where they were during the Clinton era.
"I keep hearing," he explains, "that if tax rates and revenues rise, a huge amount of spending power will be sucked out of the economy." He asserts that's rubbish. "The Treasury is going to collect higher taxes from me and either transfer them to you or buy something from you. In other words, an increase in tax revenues will not 'suck' spending power out of the economy, but rather redistribute that spending power." He readily grants that "you may not like the outcomes of this redistribution," but suggests you not confuse it with a net decline in spending as a whole.
Paul also takes issue with the idea that Uncle Sam's spending is out of control. Does anyone bother to take a gander at the data? he wonders. No question that outlays soared when the economy fell out of bed at the start of the recession, and money was wildly pumped into the financial system and the like to contain the damage.
But when the concern that the recession would morph into depression subsided, so did the level of government spending. Since early 2010, growth in such expenditures, including entitlements, defense, interest, waste, and fraud have been, Paul reckons, "quite tame," indicating to him that the $1 trillion reduction in spending authorized by Congress back in 2011 "is biting."
We can't say we buy every bit of either Paul's or Michael's analyses and arguments. But we cotton to their contrarian take on the economy and the presumed fiscal crisis as worth sharing with you.
OUR FRIENDS AT BESPOKE Investment Group have come up with their variation of the "Dogs of the Dow" approach to playing the market. It consists of buying the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the start of every year. Last year, investors using this strategy found themselves barking up the wrong tree: The Dogs were up more than 7%, but the other 20 had an average gain of more than double that amount.
Nonetheless, over the years the Dogs have acquitted themselves quite well. So Bespoke has thoughtfully provided the likely pack for 2013 and their yields as of last week:
AT&T T -0.63% AT&T Inc. U.S.: NYSE $36.36 -0.23 -0.63% July 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20.21M AFTER HOURS $36.35 -0.01 -0.03% July 30, 2014 7:52 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 236,474 P/E Ratio 10.66 Market Cap $189.92 Billion Dividend Yield 5.06% Rev. per Employee $536,510 07/31/14 T-Mobile US Swings to Profit, ... 07/30/14 Senate Report Criticizes Wirel... 07/30/14 Sprint Tries a Facebook-Only P... More quote details and news » (ticker: T), 5.27%; Verizon Communications VZ -0.40% Verizon Communications Inc. U.S.: NYSE $51.76 -0.21 -0.40% July 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12.56M AFTER HOURS $51.56 -0.20 -0.39% July 30, 2014 5:52 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 210,245 P/E Ratio 10.97 Market Cap $215.42 Billion Dividend Yield 4.10% Rev. per Employee $699,350 07/31/14 T-Mobile US Swings to Profit, ... 07/30/14 Telefónica In Talks to Buy Mex... 07/30/14 FCC Questions Verizon Plan to ... More quote details and news » (VZ), 4.70%; Intel INTC +0.47% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq $34.35 +0.16 +0.47% July 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32.34M AFTER HOURS $34.35 0.00 % July 30, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 449,317 P/E Ratio 16.59 Market Cap $169.27 Billion Dividend Yield 2.62% Rev. per Employee $501,041 07/30/14 J.P. Morgan Tech Analyst Jumps... 07/29/14 Companies 'Get Moving' as VCs ... 07/24/14 CTO Seeks Integrated Hadoop Sy... More quote details and news » (INTC), 4.28%; Merck MRK -0.85% Merck & Co. Inc. U.S.: NYSE $58.08 -0.50 -0.85% July 30, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7.96M AFTER HOURS $58.15 +0.07 +0.12% July 30, 2014 5:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 86,827 P/E Ratio 30.62 Market Cap $171.19 Billion Dividend Yield 3.03% Rev. per Employee $573,316 07/30/14 Drug Firms Buy $67.5 Million V... 07/29/14 U.S. Stocks Close Lower 07/29/14 Pfizer Still Looking to Buy More quote details and news » (MRK), 4.08%; DuPont DD -1.22% E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. U.S.: NYSE $65.39 -0.81 -1.22% July 30, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.68M AFTER HOURS $65.39 0.00 % July 30, 2014 6:34 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14,565 P/E Ratio 20.42 Market Cap $60.59 Billion Dividend Yield 2.88% Rev. per Employee $552,391 07/22/14 U.S. Stocks Rise on Data, Earn... 07/22/14 Soybean Shift Pressures DuPont 07/22/14 Dow Earnings: Is It the Big Ma... More quote details and news » (DD), 3.78%; Hewlett-Packard HPQ +0.47% Hewlett-Packard Co. U.S.: NYSE $36.11 +0.17 +0.47% July 30, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9.65M AFTER HOURS $36.11 0.00 % July 30, 2014 4:25 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 69,686 P/E Ratio 12.54 Market Cap $67.26 Billion Dividend Yield 1.77% Rev. per Employee $352,400 07/28/14 Relational to Focus on Current... 07/24/14 CTO Seeks Integrated Hadoop Sy... 07/24/14 H-P, Hortonworks Extend Partne... More quote details and news » (HPQ), 3.66%; General Electric GE +0.75% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE $25.64 +0.19 +0.75% July 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25.71M AFTER HOURS $25.63 -0.01 -0.04% July 30, 2014 7:31 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 133,013 P/E Ratio 17.88 Market Cap $255.21 Billion Dividend Yield 3.43% Rev. per Employee $472,222 07/31/14 Siemens Posts Rise in Profit 07/30/14 Synchrony IPO Gets a Tepid Rec... 07/30/14 GE Set to Spin Off Synchrony A... More quote details and news » (GE), 3.61%; Johnson & Johnson JNJ +0.33% Johnson & Johnson U.S.: NYSE $102.30 +0.34 +0.33% July 30, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5.91M AFTER HOURS $102.29 -0.01 -0.01% July 30, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 86,261 P/E Ratio 18.92 Market Cap $287.79 Billion Dividend Yield 2.74% Rev. per Employee $573,856 07/30/14 Johnson & Johnson Pulls Hyster... 07/30/14 Carlyle Group Swings to Profit... 07/24/14 Glaxo Files Its Entry in Race ... More quote details and news » (JNJ), 3.45%; and McDonald's MCD +0.14% McDonald's Corp. U.S.: NYSE $95.95 +0.13 +0.14% July 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5.45M AFTER HOURS $95.22 -0.73 -0.76% July 30, 2014 7:04 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 611,060 P/E Ratio 17.38 Market Cap $94.71 Billion Dividend Yield 3.38% Rev. per Employee $64,315 07/30/14 Russia Defiant in Face of Expa... 07/29/14 McDonald's Ruling Sets Ominous... 07/29/14 Book Review: 'Word of Mouth' b... More quote details and news » (MCD), 3.43%.
In a fey touch, Bespoke points out that the lowest-yielding Dow stock at the end of last year was Bank of America BAC +1.56% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE $15.58 +0.24 +1.56% July 30, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 81.50M AFTER HOURS $15.57 -0.01 -0.06% July 30, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.74M P/E Ratio 23.97 Market Cap $161.31 Billion Dividend Yield 0.26% Rev. per Employee $391,153 07/30/14 Yuan Rising as China Economy S... 07/30/14 Judge Orders Bank of America t... 07/30/14 Wall Street Revives Reward Jun... More quote details and news » (BAC), with a gain of upward of 106%.
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Whats up yall,
I was thinking about just concentrate on bulking for 6 weeks. Eating clean and get enough quality calories and then after that 6 weeks go on a lower calorie diet for 6 weeks to burn off any fat I may have accumulated. This sounds efficient in theory but attempting it is sneaky.
So for me bulking I would have to eat 2800 cals a day, and then say after the 6 weeks is over If I was to drop my cals down to 2000 cals would that put my muscles in risk because of the 800 calorie deficit? I really wouldnt mind doing this but im in fear of my muscles. Thanks
Has anyone tried this? Comments welcome
I ran into this on google but I lost the site where I found it, anyway heres the post its exactly what I feared but the original guy whos been doing a 8 week bulk straight into a 4 week cut says its good?
someone posted this
i thought lyle and others have said that it's best to spend 1-2 weeks eating at maintenance calories when transitioning from bulking to cutting or vice versa. i would think that jumping straight from eating over maintenance for a few weeks right into cutting would be a recipe for muscle loss and jumping from cutting to bulking to be a recipe for fat gain. your metablism and body's responses would adjust over the few weeks to higher calories then when you drastically cut them to a caloric deficit wouldn't this create problems? i know there are some diets (i.e. UD 2.0) that cycle carbs/calories during the week, but the body doesn't fully adapt to any calorie level in only a few days. in the example you listed i would think your body would adapt to being above maintenance after a few weeks.
and now hte original poster comes in saying this
why would it be a recipe for muscle loss? if anything the fast transition is better b/c
1. eating above maintenance will cause leptin levels to be high when diet begins, accelerating fat loss and sparing muscle mess
2. testosterone levels will be high... sparing muscle mass
3. you will have higher levels of nutrients present in your system when you begin dieting... the beginning of a diet is potentially the most catabolic time, so beginning it right after you've been in the most anabolic state possible will help spare muscle mass.
we DON'T want adaptation... that is the whole point... we are trying to avoid it
is this true? please help me :|
Dropping 800 calories isn't that big a deal. I don't even think what you posted is relevant in your case because the drop in calories isn't significant enough. That being said, I highly doubt you can bulk on 2800 cals and cut on 2000 cals...the difference should be more (perhaps much more) substantial than that.
Hmmmm, so you dont think this is possible?
It would be nice if some more people would responde to give their opinions and comments
Exactly what vido said. Eating 400 cals over maintance for 6 weeks would probably at best yield a pound of two. The same goes for the dieting half.
It will work to a certain extent but there are far far faster and more efficient ways of both bulking and cutting.
How so? But What if I do a 8 week bulk and then go straight onto a 4 week cut eating extrememly clean food. Do you think the sudden rise/fall in calories will pu my new muscle gains in jepardy?
give it a shot. come back after 12 weeks and let us know how it went.
yea that's right, be jealous
Has anyone else here ever done something like this?
Whenever I transition from a bulk to a cut (or vice versa), I never just drop or add a lot of calories all at once. I decrease calories at a rate of about -200 calories per week. At this rate, it may take me 3-4 weeks to fully transition from bulking to cutting. But its worth it, as I don't lose any muscle (may even gain some), and my metabolism doesn't get all jacked up.
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2. It's so insanely vapid that I cannot actually watch a full episode, which says a lot considering I can stomach an entire marathon of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians."
3. Every single girl in the cast seems to be bisexual.
Why does point three make me feel old? Well, I think I just missed the boat on the bisexuality trend. Hear me out. I believe sexuality is a spectrum and where we fall on that spectrum when we're born and how our sexuality evolves as a result of societal influence depends on the person. I also don't think it's relevant whether a person is gay, straight or bi, whether they were born that way or "chose" that "lifestyle," as I don't think what goes on in a person's bedroom or romantic life is anyone's business.
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Lockett Denies He Existed Before Sept. 1, 2008
From APB reports. KNOXVILLE - Knox County Law Director Bill Lockett today asserted that he didn't exist prior to taking office on September 1, 2008. He also said that any acts of defalcation, peculation, pilferage, filching, fraud, larceny or other malfeasance that occurred at the Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley law firm from 2005-2008 must have been perpetrated by "some guy who looked like me who wore my clothes."
Broadcasting from a bunker deep beneath the county's law offices, a voice purported to be Lockett's said that deeds occurring before September 1, 2008, could not be attributable to him because, "on that date, Bill Lockett was reincarnated as 'The Law Director.'"
"I have been reborn as The Law Director," said the voice. "Whether my reincarnation stems from the Buddhist and Hindu samsara, the Greek metempsychosis, the Sufi dawriyyah, Nietzsche's eternal recurrence or the parallel universe theory, I don't know, but I'm a new being. The Law Director can't be held responsible now for whatever this Lockett person did then."
Despite the voice's claims to the contrary, however, County officials on Thursday confirmed that an Internal Revenue Service agent is seeking records for Law Director Bill Lockett.
"The IRS asked me to check our files," said Frances Fogerson, senior director of County Human Resources. "But we'll have minimal records for him if he's been reincarnated, because our system's not equipped to handle metaphysical concepts."
Fogerson identified the agent as Sarah Lee, a special agent with the metaphysical crime investigation unit of the IRS in Knoxville.
Lee, reached for comment while eating dessert, said she could neither confirm nor deny the report because it dealt with "particle physics of the Schrödinger's cat variety - the very act of confirming that I am surveiling Law Director Lockett would affect the outcome of the surveillance."
To deflect attention away from the investigation, the disembodied voice of Law Director Lockett also floated the idea that a doppelgänger might have assumed his form from 2005-2008 and committed the crimes he is being investigated for.
"It's possible a malevolent spirit took my likeness and committed these heinous acts," explained the voice. "It's happened before - you just ask Kolchak."
When asked how a doppelgänger could have mimicked him from 2005-2008 if he didn't exist then, The Law Director replied testily, "You just leave the practice of quantum physics and the occult to the pros, sonny."
In other developments, in addition to the IRS, the BPR, TBI, PTA, ISO, CNN, NBA, CFL, and IOU have all expressed interest in The Law Director's case. The IOU was said to be especially interested in Lockett's admission of not remitting clients' payments to his former law firm.
Sounding a little desperate, the incorporeal voice of The Law Director said, "Look, even supposing they can pin anything on me, The Law Director, that Bill Lockett, The Not-Law Director, did in 2005, did you know the molecules in our bodies are constantly renewed? Author Bill Bryson has suggested that all the molecules in our bodies replace themselves every nine years. So even if I am the Bill Lockett that existed in 2005, I'm 4/9ths different now, so I could only be charged with 56 percent of any crimes discovered from back then."
Asked their opinion of the law director's situation and the explanations he offered for it, Knox Countians presented an array of attitudes.
"County voters defend electing the separate fiefdom offices as the only way to prevent a centralization of power in one big, bad 'Big-Brother' type government," said Siddhartha Suttree, a center-city dweller. "Dealing with a lot of separate, incompetent, wasteful 'bad little brother'-type governments is so much more comforting."
University of Tennessee student Croft Druthers sympathized with The Law Director's plight.
"Um, yeah, it's like in the new Star Trek movie where dude and other dude go back in time and other dude meets his younger dude self and everything's radically altered, you know? I totally get it, yeah," said Druthers.
"If his law firm found out about the defalcations and started make threats around the same time he became law director, then I find his explanations completely plausible," said downtown attorney Vlad Morbius. "That kind of intimidation can trigger a complete metamorphosis, because you're a whole different person when you're scared."
"Is he the bulldog-type feller that protected our right to vote in rascals of our own accord?" said West Knox Countian Ima Barcalounger. "Well, then, he's on the side of the Right and the Good and the True and the Pure. Besides, he's a Republican."
Commissioner Greg "Lumpy" Lambert, agreeing to speak from an undisclosed North Knox watering hole, echoed The Law Director's protestations of innocence.
"How can he be guilty of something that happened before he came into being?" shouted Lumpy, leaning out of the recesses of a darkened alcove to be heard above the din of gun play. "This is all part of a vast political conspiracy to take down Lockett for defending the right of people to vote for the incompetents of their own choosing to rule over the fee office fiefdoms. This conspiracy's tentacles extend further than your wildest imaginings - like part of some worldwide spider web. Do you think a bear just happened to crash into a house in West Knoxville right at this time? Or that the Vols just happened to lose QB prospect Jake Heaps to BYU at this time? Or that President Obama just happens to be on a trip to the Middle East right now? Think again. It's all intertwined, all part of the conspiracy."
Asked to explain how all these disparate events tied together, Lambert refused to elaborate.
"I've already said too much," said Lambert as he sidled back into the shadows. "I'm a marked man now. But I'll go down with barrels blazing, now that I can legally pack heat in here. Yee-haw!"
Meanwhile, the Knox County Commission called a special meeting for Wednesday to discuss Lockett's state of being.
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"Is he Bill Lockett or is he The Law Director?" said Commission Chairman Thomas "Tank" Strickland. "Can two separate entities occupy the same space at the same time without causing reality as we know it to end? What is the nature of good and evil, and can both be contained in equal measure in a single person? How many law directors can dance on the head of a pin? How many does it take to screw in a light bulb? These are the kinds of questions we'll be debating - 'cause what else are we gonna do?"
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It wasn't the vague threat of being murdered by the Mafia or the FBI security measures surrounding him that led Michael Seigel to retire from the Organized Crime Strike Force in Philadelphia. It was the hours.
In 1989, Seigel was a 30-year-old federal prosecutor, working 16-hour days, seven days a week on his highest profile case yet, against the Sicilian Mafia, including Francesco Gambino. During the first three months of his daughter's life, he took a total of five days off work.
"I loved what I was doing, but that wasn't the kind of husband or father I wanted to be," he said. "I looked at my wife and I said, 'Win or lose, this is going to be my last big case because I need a better balance in life.'"
The trial ended in September of that year and by July 1990, Seigel was ready to start his new career as a law professor at the University of Florida. But he arrived to a very quiet campus and town. The contrast with his previous life was jarring.
He remembers looking at his office telephone and wondering if it would ever ring.
He soon found his place in the world of academia, applying his expertise and experience from his prosecution days to courses in criminal law, ethics, evidence and white-collar crime. The latter is the topic of his fourth book, "White Collar Crime: Law, Procedure, Theory and Practice," an 800-page casebook scheduled for a fall release. Over the years, between teaching classes and a five-year stint as first assistant United States attorney in the Middle District of Florida, he has built a solid reputation as a criminal and white-collar law expert.
These days, his phone rings often; Seigel frequently is quoted in the news media because of his criminal law expertise. With much of the nation's attention turned toward Florida for the Casey Anthony trial in Orlando, Seigel has recently been quoted in places such as The New York Times, NPR's "All Things Considered" and ABC News.
But Seigel is perhaps more excited to talk about his newest endeavor at the law school: serving as the first director of the new Criminal Justice Center and certificate program. Seigel said the center is among only a few like it in the country and will benefit both the college and its students by bringing faculty together and giving graduating students a leg-up on competition in the real world.
The certificate program – basically a way to specialize in one area – will help students "signal to the marketplace that they've really dedicated themselves to this particular area of study," Seigel said.
The program does not require any additional credits beyond what already is required, but it lays out a course plan to allow students to make the most of the criminal law courses offered at the law school.
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Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It
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the world is McDonalds? Its true. In fact, one out of every three toys
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Not only has fast food reached into the toy industry, its moving into our schools. One out of every five public schools in the United States now serves brand name fast food. But do kids know what theyre eating? Where do fast food hamburgers come from? And what makes those fries taste so good?
When Eric Schlossers best-selling book, Fast Food Nation, was published for adults in 2001, many called for his groundbreaking insight to be shared with young people. Now Schlosser, along with co-writer Charles Wilson, has investigated the subject further, uncovering new facts children need to know.
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The whole experience of eating at a fast-food restaurant has become so familiar, so routine, that we take it for granted. It has become just another habit, like brushing your teeth before bed. We do it without even thinking about itand thats the problem.
Every day about one out of fourteen Americans eats at a McDonalds. Every month about nine out of ten American...
Chew On This doesn't simply regurgitate the "original" (Fast Food Nation) in a simpler form; instead the information has been substantially rewritten to be of interest to a younger audience, with additional information added, such as how the fast-food industry affects the lives of young people beyond simply eating the stuff.
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A look at the Blue Raider defense midway through spring drills
Unit trying to replace six starters from 2007April 4, 2008 · MT Media Relations
Defensive coordinator Manny Diaz has his unit focused on stopping the run and regaining their toughness.
After losing two all-conference players in Erik Walden and Tavares Jones from the defensive line, which players have stepped up in their absence this spring? We can't do it with just one guy because we are counting on a bunch of guys. Wes Hofacker is a dependable guy that we moved from tackle to end and he has done a good job so far. We are hoping that Chris McCoy seizes the moment. He has a chance to be decent at that position. The biggest thing at that position is there is no one that has done it yet. In the past, we at least knew some people had playing experience. Before 2006, Tavares Jones and Erik Walden hadn't done it yet either. We have been there before, but we are desperate for someone to step up.
You have two starters returning to the linebacker position, how confident are you with that position's progress? To me, it's really open right now. We have four guys in [Danny] Carmichael, [Andrew] Harrington, [Ivon] Hickmon and [Lonnie] Clemons that are ahead of the pack. Clemons has been out for most of the spring and has only been able to practice one full pad day. We haven't been able to see what he can do. Hickmon and Harrington are guys that we weren't able to see much last year because of injuries. The bottom line is that we have to play better at linebacker than we did a year ago. I can't tell you how good we are going to be at that spot, but I know they are trying to improve every day.
After coaching the safeties for two seasons, how does it feel to transition back as the linebacker's coach, a position you held at N.C. State? It's my favorite place to coach on defense because I like that position. A defensive back will always think of himself as an athlete first, whereas a linebacker will describe himself as tough. I like being around those guys and what they value. It's been fun for me and I feel like I'm back at home. We have to get these guys ready to play. We have to coach better than we did last year and we've got to play a lot better than we played last year.
How do you feel the cornerbacks are improving after losing key starters in Roy Polite and Bradley Robinson from last season? They are working hard and doing well, but we only get to test ourselves against our offense, which has a limited number of wide receivers. We probably should dominate this spring. That's not taking anything away from the players we have on offense, but with their limited experience against our experience at cornerback, we should have an advantage. We're not at a dominating level because there is too much give and take. I don't think Troy or any opponent we play this year will worry about any player we line up on our defense. Alex Suber and Rod Issac must understand that we are counting on them to be some of our better players this year.
Alex Suber began his career as a running back and switched to the corner position last season. How has Suber contributed to the Blue Raiders defensively? I think he has transitioned really well because he has started to believe he is finally a defensive back now. He was one of our better players last year. He is very quick, very smart and he understands the little things that make you better. He has a lot going for him. Now, he is first in line after Bradley Robinson has graduated. We are counting on him to step up even more now that he is at the top.
Rod Issac and Jeremy Kellem received some early playing time as freshmen. How will their game experience help in the progress of the defensive backfield this season? They have to understand that they must take it to another level after doing well their freshman year. They were good for freshmen, but now they have to be good college football players. Our expectations of them have grown and both kids are capable of handling it. They are both talented football players with a passion and knowledge of the game. They have to understand now that they are leaders in our secondary because they have the most experience over anyone else. This year begins their first year as seniors at Middle Tennessee. I hope they realize that they are playing as three-year seniors because that's the situation we are in.
There are no returning starters for the safety position, but you have several players returning with game experience. How confident are you in the safeties' progress? We need Jeremy Kellem and Anthony Glover to step up in a big way. Our guys respect them, but they need to understand the defense better so they can take the leadership role. We may be led by a sophomore this year. Those kids need to understand what is expected of them and they need to take that responsibility.
What is the main focus for improvement for the defense this off-season? It's obvious that we must stop the run because of what happened at the end of the season should have happened. The way we fell from 2006 to 2007 in run defense is not excusable. As the season progressed last year, we lost our toughness and we need to get that back. We may win or lose, but when you come off the field, you want them to at least know they were in a tough, physical game. I don't think everybody we played felt that by the end of the season. I think that is the first identity we are trying to get back. In the middle of the season, we were a very sharp blade, but we were very dull by the end of the year. The same knife doesn't work the same way when it's not sharpened and we are trying to sharpen our blade back up again.
Which player has been the biggest surprise this spring? Dwight Smith is walking around with a lot of maturity. Dwight took that role on during spring practice. He doesn't look like a young man that has been here eight months because he has an urgency about him that would resemble an older type of player. He has a great attitude and work ethic.
Which position needs the most work before the season begins? I wish there was one position that didn't need work. We don't have one position squared away that would allow us to focus on the other positions. Defensive end is the biggest glaring weakness, but once you name that one position all the others fall right behind. We have a lot to prove. I hope our guys come out with a chip on their shoulder because of that. There are not a lot of known quantities about our defense right now.
Which position do you feel is the strongest defensively? If all the players voted for the first guy we'd pick if we were only able to bring 11 players, you would have 11 different answers. That could be a good thing because we may not be a one or two man show. I don't know if we have one player that stands above the rest. It's our responsibility as coaches to get 11 ready to go, and at this point there is not one particular position that is above the rest.
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GORDON - A Mass of Christian burial for Barbara S. Blaise Barber Gordon, 77, of the Mace Chasm Road, Keeseville, was celebrated at 11:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at St. John's Church, Keeseville. Barbara died Tuesday, Jan. 8, at her home with her loving family by her side after a courageous battle with cancer. Monsignor Leeward J. Poissant, celebrated. Organist was Carol Bachand. Cellist was Ryan Mazzone. Eucharistic Ministers were Doris Sullivan, Doris Martino, and Jan DeGroat. Alter server was John Lucero Jr. Ushers were John and Kathy Bresett. The pall was placed by Sandra Mero, Margaret McNierney, Melissa Kilbourn, Tricia Fields, and JoAnne Case. The Bible was placed by Monsignor Poissant. The crucifix was placed by Pat Gordon. Readers were Cheryl Barber, Doris Sullivan, and Maureen Pray. The Eucharistic gifts were presented by Melissa Kilbourn, and Meagan McNierney. Words of remembrance were offered by Beth Mazzone, and Rodney Barber. A special poem was read by Melissa Kilbourn. Pallbearers were Gordon Pray, Ry Barber, David Kirkum, Andy Cassavaugh, Steve Barber, and Shane LaHart. A gathering followed at the Keeseville Knights of Columbus. Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery, Friday, April 26, following a 9 a.m. Mass at the Immaculate Conception Church. Arrangements were in the care of the Hamilton Funeral Home, 124 Clinton St., Keeseville. To light an online candle and offer condolences in the memory of Barbara Gordon, please visit www.hamiltonfuneralhome.com
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January 12, 2013
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Knocking out Knee Pain
Don't let your knee pain hold you back this summer, Silver Cross offers a free program to help you find relief on June 15
Joliet, IL (June 3, 2011)—The knee is the largest joint in the body, so it is no surprise that knee problems develop from everyday wear and tear, overuse, or injury. The upper and lower bones of the knee are separated by two discs (menisci). The upper leg bone (femur) and the lower leg bones (tibia and fibula) are connected by ligaments, tendons, and muscles. The surface of the bones inside the knee joint is covered by articular cartilage, which absorbs shock and provides a smooth, gliding surface for joint movement.
Attend a free lecture with Dr. Henry Fuentes, orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist, on Wednesday, June 15 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. to learn exercises and treatment options to help relieve your knee pain. This program, Knocking Out Knee Pain, will be held in the Silver Cross Hospital Conference Center, 1200 Maple Rd., Joliet. Register to attend at www.silvercross.org or call 1-888-660-HEAL (4325).
"Although a knee problem is often caused by an injury to one or more of these structures, it may have another cause. Some people are more likely to develop knee problems than others. There are many factors such as participation in physical activities, aging, gardening, or having a disease such as osteoporosis or arthritis that can increase your chances of having problems with your knees" says Dr. Henry Fuentes, orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist on staff at Silver Cross Hospital.
Power in Prevention
It is important to protect your knee from continual wear and tear. Some helpful tips to help prevent or alleviate knee pain include:
- Wearing your seat belt in a motor vehicle.
- Being careful not to carry objects that are too heavy.
- Using a step stool when reaching for items that are out of reach, use of chairs or other unsteady objects can apply pressure to the knee joints.
- Wearing knee guards during sports or recreational activities, such as gardening.
- Stretching before and after physical exercise, sports, or recreational activities to warm up your muscles. Be sure to stretch your hamstrings, calves, and back.
- Using the correct techniques or positions during activities so that you do not strain your muscles. Consider taking lessons to learn the proper technique for sports. Have a trainer or person who is familiar with sports equipment check your equipment to see if it is well suited for your level of ability, body size, and body strength.
- Avoiding repeated movements that can cause injury. In daily routines or hobbies, look at activities in which you make repeated knee movements and try to alternate that routine.
- Wear shoes with good arch supports. Try to limit or avoid high-heeled shoes.
- If you feel that certain activities at your workplace are causing pain or soreness from overuse, call your human resources department for information on other ways of doing your job or to talk about using different equipment.
About Dr. Henry Fuentes
Henry Fuentes, M.D., completed his orthopedic residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and a Sports Medicine Fellowship at St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. His office is located with PMI Parkview Orthopedic Group, 1300 Copperfield Ave., Suite 4040. To schedule an appointment, call (815) 727-3030.
About Silver Cross Hospital
Silver Cross Hospital is a not-for-profit health care provider serving Will County and southwest suburban communities since 1895. Silver Cross has been recognized as a Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Award winner for the last seven consecutive years and as one of America's Most Customer Friendly Hospitals by the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers. With over 2,900 employees, physicians and volunteers, Silver Cross operates a 304-bed acute care hospital and eight satellite facilities providing outpatient services and physician offices. Construction has begun to build a state-of-the-art replacement hospital opening in 2012 in New Lenox. To learn more about Silver Cross Hospital or a referral to a physician on staff, visit www.silvercross.org or call 1-888-660-HEAL (4325).


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UPDATED: Weymouth and Portland Borough Council facing budget D-Day
Updated 9:31am Thursday 31st January 2013 in News By Joanna Davis and Catherine Bolado
COUNCILLORS will discuss five options for the future of Weymouth Pavilion.
A report to the borough council's management committee reveals the options for the theatre ranging from leasing the building to closing it entirely by the end of May and demolishing it and turning the area into a car park.
The Management Committee will meet on February 5 to discuss the 2013/14 budget and make recommendations to the full council meeting on February 21.
Councillors are expected to recommend that the Pavilion is closed at the end of May and choose one of the following options for its future:
1. That it is closed and demolished prior to the longer-term redevelopment of the Peninsula site
2.That the council closes the Pavilion and a tender process starts to lease the building with criteria supporting community use.
3.The council closes the Pavilion and starts a tender process to lease the building to secure 'best market value,'
4.The council closes the Pavilion and markets it for freehold sale.
5.A further option for the borough council to continue running the Pavilion and the budget is found from elsewhere to meet operational needs, repairs and maintenance, is not the 'preferred option.'
The council undertook consultation to 'encourage either the community or private sector to submit proposals for purchase or lease' of the Pavilion.
A number of submissions were made including from Phil Say of the Save the Pavilion group, which aims to take over the running of the Pavilion and run it as a Community Interest Company, and a submission from the White Knight Group.
In their submission the group endorses the community proposals and urges the council to 'mothball' rather than demolish the Pavilion if submissions from interested parties did not satisfy the terms of the consultation.
The White Knight Group letter said they feared that the four weeks given, may prove 'too difficult a deadline' to convince the council that plans are credible and sustainable over a ten-year period, in order to 'justify the council keeping the theatre open until it can be transferred to new ownership.'
The group added that if it was mothballed they would propose taking over the entire peninsula site, including the ferry berth, and would build the facility that Condor requires.
They would then work with local groups to create a 'long-term future' for the Pavilion.
A saving of £700,000 for 2013/14 is projected from the closure of the Pavilion.
But following the Pavilion closure the council is proposing to grant a one-off sum of £100,000 to support arts and culture within the borough.
In the options to go before the Management Committee will be the proposals to dispose of the North Quay and Guildhall and to reduce spending on CCTV by £100,000.
Council Tax is going to be recommended to increase - a Band B property could see a two per cent increase of £4.16.
There are also proposals to reduce the number of councillors from the current number of 36.
The report to be presented to the Management Committee highlights that the partnership with West Dorset District Council has brought £2.1million in on-going savings but that as 'the significant level of cuts to council funding will continue for the foreseeable future' that the borough council 'no longer has the resources to be able to provide the same number of services and in the same ways as it has done traditionally.'
The report adds that the 'tough choices' the borough council has to make 'will prove unpopular' but that failure to do so will 'threaten the council's continued existence.'
The end of the Tourist information Center?
THE Management Committee is considering closing then selling or demolishing the Pavilion, which includes the Tourist Information Centre, and ways of 'reducing the costs of tourism services.'
The current budget, which also includes the Portland TIC is £127,000.
Councillors are looking to save £100,000 by 'ending the TIC service' and 'supporting alternatives.'
Under proposed plans to make savings the Weymouth TIC could close by the end of May and the Portland TIC would close in September 2013.
A plan for alternatives would then be created for the Management Committee by April.
This could include potential partnerships with the private sector or other organisations and use of online facilities.
Some basic services for Weymouth could be operated from North Quay.
TIC campaigner Barbara Howe raised more than 5,500 signatures to try and keep the TIC in its old spot on the sea front.
She said that losing the TIC would be a 'disaster.'
She added that many on the older generation did not have access to the internet.
Mrs Howe said: "I think it's a disaster personally. I think the least they could o is install something in the library, which is central."
She added that a central location would make it easier for people to get to.
Festivals and events in the borough to be reviewed Also potentially being hit by cuts could be festivals and events in the borough with the £196,748 budget likely to be reviewed.
The council said it wants to focus on events that deliver 'clear economic benefits.'
Authority to face tough choices in cuts crisis DRASTIC money-saving measures have been recommended to keep Weymouth and Portland Borough Council going.
A budget report says the cash-strapped authority faces the largest challenge it has ever had to continue its existence, with the Pavilion, the council offices at North Quay and councillors' posts all facing the axe.
The report proposes that council tax goes up by just under two per cent, CCTV services be reduced and tourist information centres (TICs) in Weymouth and Portland are scrapped.
Dozens of jobs are likely to be shed with the closure of these services.
The report says the 'tough choices' the authority has to make over service cuts and reductions will prove unpopular.
It warns: "A recent report from the Audit Commission predicts that a significant number of councils will become financially unviable."
Councillors will vote on the recommendations in a crunch management committee meeting on February 5 as the council looks to close a funding gap of £2.2million over the next financial year.
And there will be a further £4.2million gap in funding over the next six years assuming the gap is closed every year on a permanent basis.
If this gap was funded by council tax alone – householders' rates would have to increase by more than 42 per cent, the report says.
Over the last three years the council has experienced a reduction in its government grant of nearly £2million a year.
The authority has made savings of £2.1million so far by joining forces with West Dorset District Council in the Westwey Partnership and making 70 redundancies, the report says.
An all-party Budget Working Group was set up last year to help the council enter a new age of austerity and was tasked to identify options that would deliver annual savings of £900,000.
The recommendations from management committee will go to a meeting of the full council for a final decision on February 21.
leader Mike Goodman said the borough council cannot merge any further with West Dorset District Council.
He said: "The potential saving from further merger is small. There is no more to be merged."
Coun Goodman added that people had told the council at a previous consultation that they did not want to be part of a unity authority as residents liked 'their differences' and that their councils could make different decisions.
He added that the options like disposing of North Quay needed to be looked at and that there could potentially be space in other council buildings to accommodate staff including the Chickerell offices for back office staff.
But he added that it was still important to keep 'face to face' interaction with a town centre base.
For example Coun Goodman said: "We have face to face people dealing with benefits claims but back office work has been done for many years in Dorchester."
Coun Goodman said looking at closing both Portland and Weymouth TICs was a 'difficult' question.
He said: "People get their information in different ways these days."
Coun Goodman added that footfall to the TICs had been 'dropping' over the years.
He added: "People's shopping and information gathering habits are changing. It's hard to keep up with the technology."'
COUNCILLORS & COUNCIL OFFICERS MONEY will be saved by reducing the number of borough councillors from the current total of 36, the report says.
It has also been recommended that elections should be held once every four years instead of three times in four years.
Management costs at the authority need to be further cut back, the report says, with a savings target of £500,000 to £600,000 for the top three tiers of management.
THE offices at North Quay, which were built in the early 1970s, will be sold and a proposal is in place for staff to use existing empty office accommodation such as the offices at the Depot in Chickerell Road.
This would save the authority £250,000 a year and further costs because major expenditure is required on the North Quay offices over coming years, a report on the building found.
A town centre presence will be retained in Weymouth, the budget report says.
The move is expected to take around two years and it has been recommended that planning permission is obtained for future use of the harbourside site.
IT is proposed that council tax for the average Band D property in the borough will go up by £5.35 a year in the borough.
Nationally, councils cannot increase council tax by more than two per cent, with a two per cent limit set by the secretary of State.
Portland mum Debbie Lindoe said she was 'peeved' to hear that a council tax rise of just under two per cent has been proposed.
She said: "I'm a bit peeved that they are putting up council tax, especially if the country is supposed to be in an economic downturn.
"We don't seem to get any extra for our money. I know that things have to go up but we don't seem to get anything extra in return.
"Maybe they could cut some of the management pay."
THE council-owned Grade II listed building in St Edmund Street should be sold and other community uses for it investigated, the report said.
Another venue will have to be found for the council to hold full council meetings in, the report said.
The Budget Report said: "The Guildhall is only used by the council for five evening meetings during the year.
"This does not represent a good use of the asset."
CCTV THE budget for CCTV in 2013/14 will be reduced by £100,000, it is proposed.
It is recommended that 'less useful cameras' be de-activated and more technical efficiencies made, saving £20,000.
The report suggests seven cameras in Weymouth could be removed, making a saving of £6,500 in transmission costs and £3,000 for maintenance - a total of £9,500.
It is suggested that a reduction of six cameras in both Bridport and Dorchester could achieve savings of £2,500 for maintenance and a further £3,500 for transmission each, making a total of £12,000.
Ceasing to review evidential tapes - not a council responsibility - would save £30,000 and a proposal to reduce the operation and staffing of the CCTV camera from 24 hours a day to 12 hours would save £50,000.
Andy Alcock, chairman of the licensed Weymouth and Portland licensed boatsmen and fishermen association, said the proposed CCTV savings were 'ludicrous.'
He added: "We've had 49 recorded incidents of thefts and damage to vessels between the town bridge and the slipway over an eight year period.
"There will be more crime, without a doubt. I'd like to ask 'which of the cameras around town are less useful?'"
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2:58pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Get a grip says...
3:10pm Wed 30 Jan 13
shaun blondz says...
How about reducing it to none at all ?
seeing as this current bunch are just a clueless waste of space voting just as their party leaders and council officers instruct them to.
3:17pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Get a grip says...
shaun blondz wrote:You give then too much credit as this would involve them following instructions.
A vote to reduce the number of coucillors hey
How about reducing it to none at all ?
seeing as this current bunch are just a clueless waste of space voting just as their party leaders and council officers instruct them to.
I do not think they are capable of even this.
3:47pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Wellbalanced says...
Instead of sniping at the Council, justifiable though it might be, why not put forward a sensible plan to demolish it, sell the land on which it stands, and from the proceeds build a nice new all-purpose arts-type building which may attract higher-quality events such as those in Bridport's Electric Palace. People seem to like quirky little places like that, I certainly do, as that is a small but multi-purpose centre, with easy (and cheap) parking. And no, I have no idea where such a place could be built! It really is in a wonderful position and I'm sure it could be made very attractive - look at the marina on Portland for example with its restaurants etc.
4:04pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Get a grip says...
Wellbalanced wrote:OK but the two examples you use are privately funded.
The problem with the Pavilion as I see it - I am not a Weymouth but a Dorchester resident - is its situation, its car parking, its distance from the bus stops and the fact that, apart from the New Year's Day Viennese concert, is usually half-empty (or you could say half-full). Perhaps more classy concerts instead of tribute bands? It's also very dated.
Instead of sniping at the Council, justifiable though it might be, why not put forward a sensible plan to demolish it, sell the land on which it stands, and from the proceeds build a nice new all-purpose arts-type building which may attract higher-quality events such as those in Bridport's Electric Palace. People seem to like quirky little places like that, I certainly do, as that is a small but multi-purpose centre, with easy (and cheap) parking. And no, I have no idea where such a place could be built! It really is in a wonderful position and I'm sure it could be made very attractive - look at the marina on Portland for example with its restaurants etc.
4:55pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Dorset Guy says...
4:55pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Dave Aitch says...
5:07pm Wed 30 Jan 13
taffyinexile says...
Saving money to make up for the shortfall in council spending during the Olympics. It would appear to an outsider that the current stock of Councillors and their council advisers have no 'business acumen' whatsoever and everything they touch turns to lead.
They haven't even allowed sufficient time for any prospective future concern to present a business case.
Done and dusted I'm afraid.
'Everything moves elsewhere' seems to be the guideline.
Osprey Quay Bridport, Dorchester, anywhere except where the paying visitors want. Weymouth.
Holiday resort? No. Dead town.
5:14pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Dave Aitch says...
5:23pm Wed 30 Jan 13
new inn exile says...
As a teenager dancing to Swinging blue jeans and all the great groups of the sixties I keep in daily contact with the town the football team have gone backwards the Pavilion and frank offarells great Weymouth team they really were good times to live in Weymouth. the only thing on the increase is crime we never had murders in those days. and by the way the Council was crap in those days never saw a poor councillor.
5:23pm Wed 30 Jan 13
new inn exile says...
As a teenager dancing to Swinging blue jeans and all the great groups of the sixties I keep in daily contact with the town the football team have gone backwards the Pavilion and frank offarells great Weymouth team they really were good times to live in Weymouth. the only thing on the increase is crime we never had murders in those days. and by the way the Council was crap in those days never saw a poor councillor.
5:39pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Sidney Hall says...
I have no answer. This armchair is comfy though.
6:39pm Wed 30 Jan 13
PHonnor says...
Sidney Hall wrote:And that there in lies the problem. The same Councillors put themselves up for election each year with a good hunch they wont be challenged. If people feel so strongly than I would suggest you put yourself up for election, dont have to be associated to a political party as it would benefit the town seeing new blood with that all important business acumen which is so sadly lacking with the current batch.
To be fair, most councillors don't sell themselves as having business acumen. When the local elections come round, a flyer comes through the door saying they "are local and live with their family" and we think "Oh that's nice. A nice wholesome person. I'll tick that niceness box." And we get a nice person who has a bit of free time to attend some meetings. Most people with any business acumen would probably be in it for themselves because that's the nature of people with business acumen.
I have no answer. This armchair is comfy though.
7:58pm Wed 30 Jan 13
PortlandYoof says...
Instead of adding more parking spaces(Hello, council CASH COW!) - Try lowering the rates to encourage businesses to thrive in weymouth once again for goodness sake. No point in parking spaces if nobody will be there to fill them, as the town is dead!
9:25pm Wed 30 Jan 13
spangler says...
Center Parcs has been a successful brand in recent years, how about 'Car Parcs' ?
10:24pm Wed 30 Jan 13
dorset & proud says...
Not entirely sure what mothballing it will achieve, if left for too long then it will fall into an ever greater state of disrepair, which is just going to inflate the costs further.
I think in its current form the Pavilion is too big, too costly and years of under-investment have taken their toll. I also don't think it's a particularly attractive building and if it is to be demolished then something more compact and sympathetic to the old Ritz design should be considered, rather than a car park.
10:58pm Wed 30 Jan 13
cb2 says...
A prime example of this has been over the years the awful pantos (didn't see this years with a new company / director etc so please don't count it in this) with taped songs etc in a period that should be a "banker" while the excellant local panto with proper jokes and actors who aren't there just for the pay cheque are shoved at the end of the festive season.
Also have you tried to book the place - you have to pay top prices for the venue which local groups can't afford!
Is it the council trying to shut the place and pocket a nice sum of case when its sold for flats and hotels etc.
sack the council and bring in people who have a clue!
Essay over!
12:10am Thu 31 Jan 13
Isosceles says...
The 'Best of Dorset' show is going to cost stall-holders 'from £125'. Surely in these straitened times, the Council should be offering publicity to local business at a minimum cost to hopefully generate more inward investment, especially as this may be the last show of this kind at this venue if the Council have their way and knock it down without any thoughts of a sensible replacement.
A new £100m regeneration project in Dorset will see its first hotel open in spring but not in Weymouth, supposedly a holiday resort, instead this is happening in the county town.
It seems as if those on North Quay wish to accelerate this downwards trend so that they can pocket their redundancy money and other leaving benefits.
Due to poor publicity, I haven't been made aware for a while of 'what's on' at the Pavilion but reading after about some of the down-market events that have been put on, I haven't felt that I missed anything.
It does seem as if the aim is to run down the town facilities generally.
Will the last to leave the town centre, please switch off the lights (including those tatty lasers) and take the 'rox on stix' in a muddy pond with them.
5:46pm Thu 31 Jan 13
bootedsw says...
Dave Aitch wrote:Under FOI you can write to the council and they are obliged to tell you. When you find out post a link here
I would like to see how it costs £700.000 a year to run that place !
7:51pm Thu 31 Jan 13
portlandresident says...
For those who don't know, between those two people, you've pretty much managed to locate the money needed to save the Tourist Information service from closing!
Clearly not the time to get rid of the Tourist Information service then! There's probably people telephoning the TIC, saying that they've seen Weymouth on the TV during the Olympics, thought it looks nice, and want to come and stay. But, there won't be anyone there to welcome them, and tell them where to spend their hard earned cash! The irony is amazing!"
9:57am Fri 1 Feb 13
rodwell-t-rail says...
bootedsw wrote:bootedsw says...
Dave Aitch wrote: I would like to see how it costs £700.000 a year to run that place !Under FOI you can write to the council and they are obliged to tell you. When you find out post a link here
5:46pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Dave Aitch wrote:
I would like to see how it costs £700.000 a year to run that place !
Under FOI you can write to the council and they are obliged to tell you. When you find out post a link here"
If you look on the W&PBC web site at Dorset For You for the Pavilion you could actually see the budget advice that the council were giving out to people/groups for them to take into consideration when submitting their proposals for taking over the Pavilion.
3:43pm Fri 1 Feb 13
jusphil says...
10:43am Sat 2 Feb 13
sapient says...
8:23pm Sat 2 Feb 13
Chesilmaster says...
What a joke. May as well advertise to the criminals, when it will be closed so that they can have a free for all.
Clueless councillors..
9:15am Sun 3 Feb 13
bedpans says...
Chesilmaster wrote:We need MORE CCTV , not less. Get more cameras up all over the borough. Get more operators to watch it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No point having loads of cameras though, if we dont have the sufficient staff to control and monitor the cameras.
Reduce CCTV... What a joke. May as well advertise to the criminals, when it will be closed so that they can have a free for all. Clueless councillors..
10:58pm Sun 3 Feb 13
Chesilmaster says...
bedpans wrote:They are looking to slash staff and reduce the manning. Cut cameras...
Chesilmaster wrote:We need MORE CCTV , not less. Get more cameras up all over the borough. Get more operators to watch it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No point having loads of cameras though, if we dont have the sufficient staff to control and monitor the cameras.
Reduce CCTV... What a joke. May as well advertise to the criminals, when it will be closed so that they can have a free for all. Clueless councillors..
Everyone should get to the council meeting at 9:30 on Tuesday and have there say.
10:13pm Mon 4 Feb 13
knickerlessparsons says...
7:58am Tue 5 Feb 13
Phaedrus says...
2:28pm Tue 5 Feb 13
Africaboy says...
5:43pm Tue 5 Feb 13
bedpans says...
8:07am Wed 6 Feb 13
biggestoaf says...
"It's time for action not blogs and words" he posts on a forum. Were you a scriptwriter for Monty Python by any chance?
12:33pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Throckape says...