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Family's planning bid rejected over higher roof on extension
Last updated at 20:32, Thursday, 22 March 2012
A Harrington family has been refused retrospective planning permission to improve an extension, despite the work almost being complete.
Christine Dryden, 50, of West Gyhll Place, carried out the work for her brother Robert Dixon, 59, who was involved in a car crash 39 years ago which left him brain damaged.
Allerdale council's development panel last week voted unanimously to refuse retrospective permission, despite a recommendation of approval from planning officers.
Mrs Dryden, who was unable to attend the meeting, said: "I was gutted when I found out the decision. I bought the house because of the extension next door. It was a little cottage but when I moved in it had a garage door on it.
"We have done this to give Robert some independence and me some respite."
When Mrs Dryden decided to convert the building in 2006, she said she was told by Allerdale council that she did not need planning permission.
The work, costing £26,000, was delayed because of financial issues but when these were sorted she thought there would still be no need for planning permission.
The peak of the roof has remained at the same height but its slope was altered so that it is 31 inches higher at one end.
Following a complaint about the development by a neighbour, Mrs Dryden was told that she would need to apply for planning permission and that any further work would be at her own risk.
The neighbour, Mrs Kirkwood, said she had originally been told that the roof would only be raised by six inches and said the height of the roof now blocked out light to her kitchen and had increased utility bills because lights were on all the time.
But Mrs Dryden said that the previous view out of her neighbour's kitchen window was on to a tin roof and that they had cut down trees in their garden to try to compensate for the loss of light.
Planning manager Kevin Kerrigan said that while the original conversion work did not need planning permission, the increase in roof height did require consent.
He said that although the outbuilding had a clear impact on the neighbouring property this had to be set against the fact that the outbuilding was already there.
Permission was rejected by the panel on the grounds that it was an unneighbourly development and caused adverse impact to the residential amenity.
An enforcement notice will be served, but Mrs Dryden said she planned to appeal.
First published at 19:24, Thursday, 22 March 2012
Published by http://www.timesandstar.co.uk
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Years of service to the community by the Rev. Ken Baldwin and his wife, Nancy, will be recognized today at Damaschke Field.
A group spearheaded by Mayor Dick Miller and Oneonta Outlaws general manager Steve Pindar have organized Baldwin Night. Admission is free.
The game is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
Miller said that when he learned the couple, who moved to Oneonta 25 years ago, will be moving in early July to be near their children in the Rochester area, many in the community would want to recognize them for their loyalty and contributions over the years.
There will be a ceremony before the game at home plate, and Ken will throw out the first pitch. There will be a reception tent so people will have the opportunity to stop by and say hello.
"I was quite overwhelmed when the mayor let me know. We are appreciative of it," Ken Baldwin said about the honor. "We leave Oneonta with some regrets," but the couple were looking forward to spending time with their children, who live nearby their new Fairport home.
"It offers new opportunities and new challenges," he said.
He retired in 1988, at age 65, as the reverend at what was then Treadwell Methodist Church, but that never slowed him down, as he was served in many of the area churches when they needed a minister.
He was also involved in a number of organizations. The two most significant are Rotary, where he served as local president and been active at the district and regional level, and Foothills Performing Arts Center.
He has enjoyed watching baseball over the years at Damaschke Field and playing golf at the Ouleout Creek Golf Course. Nancy Baldwin has been involved with such organizations as the Family Services Association and the Hanford Mills Museum. The couple attend the First United Methodist Church.

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Food plays a starring role in the holidays -- whether given as presents, assembled in gift baskets or served on the homefront.
So for those seeking tasty, unique or one-of-a-kind edibles, we've compiled the ultimate guide to options from the East Bay, including a Union City granny's potato chip cookies and a Niles baking queen's to-die-for pies.
- Andy's Orchards, Morgan Hill. Sells, packages and ships Northern California-grown dried fruits, nuts, jams. Even sugar plums -- eight ounces in wooden gift box is $15. Other gift boxes range from $9 to $50. For info and store hours, call (408) 782-7600, or view website.
- Apricot King Orchards, Hollister: Family ranch that still grows the Blenheim apricot and sells it in a variety of forms, including the chocolate-candied "Apricot Puddles" at $12.50 for a 10-ounce box. Mail order online at www.apricotking.com or view the site for lists of area famer's markets that sell the fruit, plus walnuts, almonds, jams and syrups.
- Artisan Marshmallows, Livermore: Marshmallows never had it so good -- made over two days, cut by hand, dipped in chocolate and decorated. Custom-made, packed in fancy boxes. Three-week lead time for orders. For details, view www.artisanmarshmallows.com.
- Bart's Blazin' Q BBQ Sauce, Livermore: Husband-and-wife caterers Dave and Deny Bart bottle and sell their award-winning barbecue sauce at 3989 First Street. Call (925) 292-5018 for shop hours (or see if they'll open the store for you if they are nearby.) Bart braggin' rights: sauce ranked 47 out of top 100 nationwide. Sauce also sold at First Street Wine Co., 221 First St., Livermore and 5385 East Ave., Livermore.
- Cafe Attila, San Ramon: Popular bistro/cake studio sells its signature scone mixes, granolas, coffees and cookies (including gingerbread!) through mail-order or at its shop at 2211-B San Ramon Valley Boulevard. Call (925) 837-2886 or e-mail email@example.com. Minimum quantities may apply.
- Chrissy's Confection Perfection, Livermore: High-quality, gluten-free toffee, baked by hand and hailed as "worth calories!" Available in 4 oz. or 1 pound gift packages. For info, (925) 784-9189 or email email@example.com Also sold at Steven Kent Winery, Livermore.
- Danville Chocolates, 175 East Prospect Ave., Danville. Locally owned and operated since 2009. Known for handcrafted, holiday-inspired chocolate bark and other sweets. Open seven days a week. (925) 314.0001.
- Double 'R' Bees, San Leandro: 24-year-old company selling honey, candles, almonds, walnuts -- all great gifts! Sales primarily at Northern California farmer's markets, or by phone (209) 499-1030.
- Fra' Mani, handcrafted Italian meats, Berkeley. Founded in 2006 by chef Paul Bertolli. Old-school producer of dry salami, pancetta, sausage. So old-school, there is no online store. Purchase at: Draeger's Market, Blackhawk Plaza, Danville; Estudillo Produce And Deli, 1305 Macarthur Blvd. San Leandro, (510) 352-1010; . Or call Fra' Muni at (510) 526-7000.
- Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood. Mail-order, all-organic gift packages start at $23 for fruit preserve sets to $90 gift basket with several jars of Frog Hollow conserves, olive oil and cookies. On-site bakery sells such items as cherry gallettes (serves 8 to 10, $40), cream scones (six for $40; dozen for $70) and assorted-cookie for $25. Baked goods are ordered online and ship frozen. Or check Danville's farmer's market for Frog Hollow booth. The 133-acre organic farm is not open to the public. See website for more details.
- Grandma Rhea's Gourmet Potato Chip Cookies, Newark. After 30 years in the food biz, this Union City grandma bakes and sells her delicious line of "potato chip cookies" -- including a Christmas version of peppermint and white chocolate for $15 a dozen. Visit her website at www.grandmarheas.com for ordering information.
- Gourmet Gift Horse, Dublin: Nineteen-year-old company specializes in creating and hand-delivering gift baskets using local artisan foods. For details, email email@example.com or see website at www.gghorse.com.
- Gourmet Works , Pleasanton: Downtown's specialty candy shop with a white-chocolate, peppermint bark that is, to some, a holiday staple. Gift-boxed or by the piece. Open seven days a week at 420 Main Street. (925) 461-1110.
- iLL Fortune Cookies, Union City: If you're seeking cookies with traditional, "happy-future" notes inside, these ain't them. iLL fortunes -- perfect for pranksters. Available online here.
- June Taylor, exquisite fruit butters (like the $14 White Doyenne Pear & Vanilla), jams, conserves and syrups ($10 for 7.5 oz-bottle of such treats as "Strawberry Rhubarb Rose Geranium") are sold worldwide in high-end stores. We are lucky and only have to travel to the Berkeley headquarters to purchase, or online at this link or at Saturday farmer's markets in San Francisco. (Even Martha Stewart loves June's goods.) Call for more info: (510) 548-2236.
- Let's Get Pickled, Danville: Local produce "gourmet pickled" into pickled green beans, marinated pearl onions, garlic-stuffed eggplant and more. Sold online here, at San Ramon and Walnut Creek farmer's markets, Danville International Market, or call (855)538-7438. Gift baskets available, and jams sold, too, like carrot or fig, $7 to $8 a jar. More info: Let's Get Pickled's Facebook page.
- Lucky Dog Hot Sauce: Sold in Castro Valley at Al's Market, 3550 Somerset Ave. or online here for $5 a bottle in three varieties: hot, hotter, and yup, hotter still. A hot-sauce hobby turned business four months ago for local Lucky Dog founder Scott Zalkind, who is bottling his new products in Sonoma. Heataddicts.com loved it -- here's the video.
- Niles Pie Co., Niles/Fremont: Local baker takes on-line orders for baked goods ($12.50 chocolate babka!), then has items ready for customer pick-up at locations in Fremont and Niles. For info: www.nilespie.com or Facebook page. Pie menu changes weekly; recently offered: old-fashioned spiced pumpkin pie for $7.75 and Niles persimmon pie with candied ginger and gingersnap crumb topping for $18.25. Gift certificates and monthly pie club, too.
- Oaktown Jerk, Oakland: Culinary-created beef jerky in flavors like chili-lime cilantro and pineapple basil. Sells at some farmer's markets and online for sales in California. For details: www.oaktownjerk.com.
- Olivina Olive Oils, Livermore -- Made from olives grown, picked by hand and milled on . About $20 to $25 a bottle; or smaller-sized six-sampler pack is $20. Sold at Pleasanton and Livermore farmer's markets, at retailers and online. Details here.
- Robert Lambert Fruitcakes, San Rafael. Former California chef used his Wisconsin grandma's recipes to create variety of fruitcakes that sell for $50 to $60 each. (Pricey perhaps, but fans say worth it.) Purchase online here or at Draeger's Market in Danville.
- Swank Farms, Hollister: Family farm sells its raved-about fresh Heirloom salsa, plus homemade fudge and more at farmer's markets in Livermore, Pleasanton and San Leandro. For more info: see Facebook page or Swank website here.
- Steve's Bees: Bay area beekeeper sells honey and honey bee products at area farmer's markets and local grocers. Details here, or call (925) 254-8063.
- "Tastes of the Tri-Valley" -- Tri-Valley's First Kosher Cookbook. Authors: Jewish Women of Tri-Valley. $18. A beautiful cookbook with a compilation of Kosher, home-tested, delicious recipes assembled by women of Chabad of the Tri-Valley, Pleasanton. To purchase, use order website or call (925) 846-0700. Shipping an additional $4.95.
- Victorine Valley Farms, Inc. between Danville and Livermore -- Makes and sells $16 balsamic vinegars (including a cranberry-pear white version), $6 olive-oil soaps, $12 to $22 per bottle extra-virgin and flavored olives oils. Sells online, at Livermore and Danville farmer's markets or at tasting room at 21 South Livermore Ave. Details here.
Have we missed a favorite of yours? Let us know in the comments section.


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Miami's LeBron James (6) high-fives Chris Bosh after the Heat defeated the Charlotte Bobcats in Game 2 of an NBA playoff series. At left is Dwyane Wade. The free agency period begins for all three Tuesday. / Lynne Sladky/AP
It all starts with the Miami Heat. Depending on how things unfold, the dreams of so many rival franchises might end there too.
Thats the deceiving part about the Tuesday tip-off to free agency, this foolhardy notion that every scenario seriously is in play and that LeBron James might be headed your favorite teams way.
The NBAs best player is considering his options, but his decision to opt out of his contract had as much to do with pragmatic planning to stay put as it did with the idea that he would be heading elsewhere. With the subsequent revelations that the other two members of the Heats Big Three Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh also would be opting out of their contracts, the odds that the team, which had its three-peat pursuit halted by the San Antonio Spurs, would be back in full force got exponentially better.
The Wade component is more pivotal than the rest, as the 32-year-old willingly gave up the chance to earn a combined $41.8 million during the next two seasons at a time when his abilities never have been more questioned around the league.
Its the sort of sacrifice that is wholly necessary if team President Pat Riley is going to work his magic again, like he did back in summer 2010, not to mention one that its hard imagining Wade making if he were convinced James was heading for the exits.
In these final days, when team officials outside of Miami arent yet allowed to make their formal pitches to the Heats soon-to-be free agents, you can sense Rileys gravitas pulling them all in like a gravitational force. His ability to trade up in the draft to land James favorite prospect, former Connecticut point guard Shabazz Napier, was a perfectly-timed reminder that hes as good at the personnel puzzle as anyone.
A more subtle version of the same message was sent when veteran forward Udonis Haslem left $4.6 million on the table by opting out and gave Riley an almost-blank canvas with which to work.
With the salary cap expected to be $63.2 million and the luxury tax threshold estimated around $77 million, the Heat will enter free agency with $1.4 million on their books (point guard Norris Cole). That kind of flexibility is what the Heat rivals were afraid of going up against.
Still, the question from midnight Tuesday forth is whether any of the non-Miami pitches from the Houston Rockets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and all the rest will be enticing enough to lure James away. Even with the Heats early success in restructuring their roster, the prospect of James leaving remains real.
James will not be present in the initial meetings with teams that are recruiting him, a person with knowledge of his situation told USA Today. Instead, his agent, Rich Paul, of Klutch Sports, will handle the conversations before James decides how to proceed. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the process.
The depth of James desire to play with Carmelo Anthony also remains a key factor, as they are known to be interested in finding a way to partner and several teams (among them the Heat, Rockets and the Lakers) have been including this component in their strategic approach. Anthony informed the New York Knicks he would opt out of his contract and become an unrestricted free agent as well.


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Resource Workforce Center opens in Henrico
Community leaders and elected officials from across the region gathered in eastern Henrico Sept. 24 to celebrate the opening of a new resource center for job-seekers that is the first of its kind in Central Virginia.
The Resource Workforce Center, located just off Nine Mile Road at 121 Cedar Fork Road, is the first such center inthe area to serve both adults and older youth.
Members of the federally funded Resource Workforce Investment Board, which works to increase private sector employment opportunities, joined in cutting the ribbon to mark the official opening and followed up with tours and information sessions led by center staff and community partners such as the Community College Workforce Alliance, Job Corps, Virginia Employment Commission, and Senior Connections.
"It's such a beautiful day," exulted James Holland of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, chairman of the resource consortium of local elected officials, as he prepared to cut the ribbon at the entrance to the center. "We're having class outside!"
In addition to serving as a one-stop job-shopping resource for the unemployed, disadvantaged adults and older youth, said Holland, the center will also assist the underemployed. "You may have a job," he noted. "But do you have a career?"
The center will help entrepreneurs as well, through a program known as resource business solutions that asks the leadership from various companies, "What do you need to expand?" Among the companies that have expressed interest in such assistance are a growing food supply company and a railroad company losing workers to retirement.
But "first and foremost," said Holland, "[the center] will offer those who come a friendly face."
Deborah Wickham, chairman of the Resource Workforce Investment Board, noted that a great deal of research has gone into locating centers where they can best serve the more than one million citizens in the area's member jurisdictions, which include the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, Powhatan as well as the City of Richmond. One of three area workforce centers (the others are in Chesterfield County and South Richmond, with a fourth opening soon near downtown Richmond), the 20,000 square-foot center replaces one less than half its size on Williamsburg Road.
"Eastern Richmond and Henrico contain some of the highest concentrations of poverty in our region," Holland pointed out, "and so we are opening this center where it is most needed."
Representatives of various organizations began their tours in the reception area, which features kiosks for easy registration and space for one or more police officers on site. Among features of the dedicated space for youth are computer labs and stations for resume writing, as well as facilities housing the Resource Youth Network's out-of-school program, the GOALS Institute.
The converted building, formerly a Verizon call center, also boasts a large conference room, a resource room that can be used to access the internet for job searches, and access to printers and faxes for submitting job applications and resumes. Center staff offer job seeker services such as resume reviews, skills assessment, career counseling, mock interviews, and for individuals who qualify, intensive training that may include free tuition to local educational institutions.
"It's all about connecting people with partnerships and working together," said Holland. "It will come to fruition."
Frank Thornton of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors, whose Fairfield District includes the new center, described similar visions for the site as he prepared for the ribbon-cutting. "This will be a venue of collegiality," Thornton said. "Of service to our people."
"You've heard of no wine before its time?" he asked. "Our time has arrived."
Snipping the ribbon, Holland added emphasis with a flourish and triumphantly held the scissors aloft.
"It's open!" announced Holland. "Go forth and prosper!"
For details about the Resource Workforce Center, visit http://www.ResourceVA.com
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden raises admission $1
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's admission has increased by $1 across all categories. Admission is now $12 for adults; $11 for seniors ages 55 and older; and $8 for children ages 3–12. Admission remains free for children ages 3 and younger and for members.
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Western Henrico Rotary helps fund Midwives For Haiti Jeep
Thanks in part to a $10,000 gift from the Western Henrico Rotary Club, another bright pink Jeep modified to travel extremely rough terrain has been delivered to Midwives For Haiti so that more pregnant women in the quake-ravaged country will have access to prenatal care and a greater chance of surviving childbirth.
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'Top Chef' finalist to open Willow Lawn restaurant
A finalist in the Bravo television show Top Chef is bringing one of his four restaurant chains to Henrico County.
Bryan Voltaggio, who was the runner-up of the sixth season of Top Chef, (finishing second to his brother, Michael) and his business partner, Hilda Staples, will open their third Family Meal restaurant, at Henrico's Willow Lawn shopping center. The restaurant is expected to open early next year. > Read more.
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The United States Army Field Band will present a free public performance at Deep Run Park in Henrico on Sunday, Aug 3 at 3 p.m.
Members of the band are soldiers who also serve as "musical ambassadors of the Army" and perform for schools and communities nationwide.
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Get up and dance – square dance, that is – with the Tuckahoe Square Dance Club tonight! More musical events this weekend include family-friendly karaoke at Aunt Sarah's Pancake House, the United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus Concert and the Henrico Teen Theatre Company's production of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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By Crystal Wylie
Register News Writer
The Madison County School Board looked at ways Thursday to streamline approval for out-of-state field trips and sports competitions while also ensuring that trip expenses are not a burden to parents or creating problems for students' academic progress.
For the past several meetings, board chair Mona Isaacs mentioned moving out-of-state trip approval from the action agenda (individual items that must be approved or adopted with a motion) to the consent agenda, which is a list of items distributed to the board members prior to the meeting and approved as a group.
Consent-agenda items may still be discussed individually prior to approval, Isaacs said. The consent agenda generally consists of items such as: "Authorize record of superintendent's personnel actions" or "approve leaves of absence."
Isaacs proposed the policy change as an "efficiency measure" to not only save time during a meeting but to spare the inconvenience to teachers, coaches and sponsors who must attend board meetings to present information about a trip, she said.
"I think we all noticed at the beginning of this meeting, we spend 18 minutes and 45 seconds on nine field trips — and that's a record. We got through them fast today," Isaacs said at Thursday meeting.
Board member Becky Coyle later estimated that nine trip approvals would have normally taken around 45 minutes to complete.
Isaacs brought the issue up again with three versions of the proposal recommended by a Kentucky School Board Association policy adviser. Several ideas were added to the proposed policy throughout the meeting, and the members eventually agreed on a first reading of the draft. The second reading of the draft will occur during the Dec. 13 meeting.
Of the three proposals, one reflected ideas put forth by board member John Lackey, who has "had troubles with extracurricular fields trips on a number of occasions because … they take away from the focus on academics," he said.
Lackey's proposal would allow the board to approve out-of-state trips for co-curricular activities (band competitions, presidential inauguration) on the consent agenda. However, all extracurricular trips (cheerleading, basketball) and international trips of any type would always be included on the action agenda.
After some debate, the newly drafted proposal does not make a distinction between co- and extracurricular activities for placement on either the consent or action agendas, and international trips will remain on the action agenda. But, there are added provisions for all out-of-state trip approval.
For example, trip sponsors must submit an application at least two months in advance. If the trip does not pass the consent agenda during the first board meeting, the sponsor can be present at the following meeting to answer questions.
Lackey said he has a problem with extracurricular trips that require students to miss school.
"With extracurricular activities, rather than co-curricular activities, it does become a statement by the board that we are favoring people being out of school for fun kinds of things," Lackey said.
Per request, the new policy will require trip sponsors to write "a simple narrative on how students will make up the missed work," said Superintendent Tommy Floyd.
Board member Chris Hager said a report on student athletes' grades would be helpful. "From what information I get, our student athletes are some of the best scores we have," he said.
Member Beth Brock agreed. "They have grade checks on a weekly basis," she said. "My daughter plays soccer. If they don't maintain a GPA, they don't play. So it's a motivational tool as well."
Of the nine out-of-state trips on the agenda Thursday, five were extracurricular.
The B. Michael Caudill dance/cheer teams will not miss school for the Smokey Mountain Christmas Championship in Sevierville, Tenn., Nov. 30-Dec. 2, and the Madison Central High School boys' basketball team will not miss school for an all-expenses-paid tournament in Charleston, W.Va., Dec. 28 and 29.
The first round of regional qualifiers in Sevierville will not require missing school for the Madison Central High School cheerleading team. The same goes for a second regional trip to Cincinnati, if the teams do not qualify in the first one.
However, the "largest high school national competition in the country" in Orlando, Fla., will keep the cheerleaders out of school for two days, said cheerleading coach Karen Feldhaus.
The junior varsity team will defend its title as third-time national champions. The small varsity team will return to a competition where it placed fourth out of 70 teams in its division, the coach said.
"Orlando is our competitive goal all year … This is where they, as young women, are recognized for their efforts as athletes on the competition mat," Feldhaus said.
When the coach requested permission for the same competition during the Jan. 26 board meeting, Lackey voted against the Orlando trip. The motion passed 3-1 just weeks before the cheerleaders were scheduled to go.
Lackey had received calls, he said, which revealed "it's a real problem for some of the parents to be able to have their kids on the cheerleading squad. I think the board needs to address the fact that kids who come from less affluent backgrounds can't afford to be cheerleaders," he said in January.
During his re-election bid, Lackey campaigned door-to-door, he said. "People expressed dismay about having to send a kid to Orlando or Sevierville or Washington, D.C., … and they hate to say 'no.' It's a real prejudice to their family budgets to have to fund these things."
He said one constituent had three cheerleaders participating and it cost him nearly $7,000 that year.
"They can go out and sell cookie dough and poinsettias to defray some of the costs, but you'd have to do it (fundraise) all the time," Lackey said. "I want a robust athletic program. I would love to have had a daughter who was a cheerleader … but there is a point where the board has to monitor these things."
However, both the Caudill and Central teams came prepared last week to answer the finance question. Both teams had already raised sufficient funds to send all students at no extra cost to parents, the sponsors said.
"I agree with Mr. Lackey, we need to protect our children," Hager said. "They may not be able to afford these trips, but I see the opposite happening — a lot of the organizers are making sure their children have the funding to go … a lot of these kids would never get that opportunity if not for these trips."
As a single parent, Isaacs agreed that "trying to send a child on a $500 trip is a huge expense."
But, travel is a part of education, she said. It would be difficult for her to vote against a trip because she is "very firmly in favor of giving children opportunities to travel."
After an inquiry from Brock, the panel determined no out-of-state trips had ever been declined in the past.
"(Trip approval) goes through the leadership of our schools, the principals, who I trust, and the superintendent, who I trust — I personally wouldn't see me denying (a trip) unless there was a cause for safety restrictions or anything of that nature," Brock said.
Isaacs said her research revealed school boards delegate out-of-state trip approval to their superintendents.
However, Isaacs was "very hesitant to relinquish any responsibility of the board approving out-of-state trips," she said. "I think it's important that we know where kids are going and what they're doing."
Floyd said the board will never find a trip on the consent agenda that does not have liability specifications, chaperone ratio count, transportation details or fundraising efforts for students who can't afford to go.
"Any extracurricular trip that is approved by the principal and superintendent is paid for by fundraising or by the individual," Isaacs stated. "Any school missed is an approved absence that does not affect our district's ADA (average daily attendance) funding."
In other business:
During the board comment section, Hager congratulated Mary Renfro, who unseated him in District 4 by 465 votes after the Nov. 6 election.
Hager was appointed to the board in April to replace Doug Whitlock, who stepped down last year.
Renfro was present at Thursday's meeting and was asked to join the board for a special training session scheduled for Nov. 18.
"It takes a while to really get your head wrapped around what it is we are trying to do. It's a real learning experience," Isaacs said of her time on the board.


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BY MARK NEWMAN Courier staff writer
The Ottumwa Daily Courier
---- — OTTUMWA — The Ottumwa Fire Department spent two hours trying to put out the fire at a Mexican restaurant, but in the end spent many more hours saving the buildings around it.
The fire department was called out about midnight, said Mike Craff, an assistant fire chief. He said there were flames showing at El Rancho Grande when they arrived.
Deputy Chief Cory Benge, the fire investigator, said flames could be seen coming from the basement and from the top floor of the two-story building.
"They did offensive attack inside for approximately two hours," said Craff, "but it had too big a head start."
The brightly colored restaurant, located in a restored, brick-faced industrial building, had many "voids" and spaces where oxygen waited or where flames could hide. The department would get it knocked down on one side, Craff said, only for it to spring up even worse at another corner of the building.
But they worked hard, said a neighbor Tuesday morning. Brandon Holstrom, response coordinator for the local Red Cross office, said his agency was involved in this blaze in two ways: by giving drinking water to help firefighters working the incident all night and because their Red Cross building is next door to El Rancho Grande.
During the fight, Benge said, the OFD received a call — a house fire on Pennsylvania Avenue. They sent trucks and personnel, including Benge. A clothes drier started a fire in a home. They put it out quickly. The deputy chief stationed a couple of firefighters there to make sure it was out, and he went back to El Rancho. But the department had some help.
"We were fortunate that Wapello County Rural Fire Department responded," said Ottumwa Fire Chief Tony Miller. "They did a great job."
Holstrom from the Red Cross also said firefighters did a great job, battling all night to keep flames away from the rest of the commercial block. Miller said the crews had been working on that even as they tried to knock down the fire inside the restaurant.
"After the flames went through the [restaurant] roof, we went defensive," he said.
Other neighbors around the intersection of Jefferson and Main streets include a small grocery store, two radio stations, a pizza place, a restaurant and a community building undergoing renovation. Though the firefighters had the power off to some of the street's residents, all of those structures seemed undamaged Tuesday morning.
El Rancho Grande, however, is a total loss. Tuesday morning, firefighters continued to spray water in through what used to be the roof. The basement had water in it. Benge estimated the water at 6-7 feet deep. He and the chief estimated nearly a million gallons of water were pumped onto the large restaurant building. The fastest-working truck, the snorkel, pumped a thousand gallons per minute for at least seven hours.
"Structural collapse is our main concern right now," said Benge. "There's obvious signs of deterioration due to the fire."
One experienced firefighter said a fair safety margin for fire equipment is to stay one and a half walls away from a dangerous structure. That gives a 20-foot wall a total of 30 feet to tip over, smash to the ground and for debris to spread out. The next building from El Rancho is about 10 feet away.
Benge and the State Fire Marshal's Office will be investigating the incident. There was no speculation as to cause early Tuesday.


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Jim Kelly said Friday night he was all for the decision to stick with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback this season.
Said Kelly: "I totally agree with sticking with Fitzpatrick. As a matter of fact I've been with him for the last two-three weeks and have been so impressed with the knowledge he has of the offense, how he goes about it. I've been with him because my nephew Chad's been working out with him also and just watching how he communicates with the receivers and how they listen to every single word that comes out of his mouth. Whether it's Lee Evans or whoever it may be, if there's something he didn't like he'll tell them and vice versa. ... Just watching how they work together is something I like and brought back memories to when we went on strike (in 1987). I remember going to UB and having our practices. ... The receivers and quarterbacks need that timing."
Kelly, meanwhile, laughed at concerns that Buffalo could be a target for Los Angeles investors who want to bring a team to that city. "That's good; that's funny right there," Kelly said. "Whether it's Jacksonville, whoever the team is, Buffalo, there's probably five or six, I think, other teams L.A.'s gonna try to lure to go there. Buffalo won't be one of them."
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The Edmond Sun
It's a familiar sight each year in October for motorists driving along Boulevard — the Southern Hills Christian Church Pumpkin Parish.
Whatever the size pumpkin you want for your Jack-O-Lantern — small, medium, large or extra large — they are available. And the proceeds from the sales benefit a number of worthy local causes.
Ninety percent of the sales are divided equally among Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity, the Central Christian Camp and Conference Center and Southern Hills' children and youth, said Amzi Gregory, Pumpkin Parish coordinator and treasurer during its 16-year history.
Thursday evening, volunteers unloaded pumpkins from the second truck — 44,000 pounds of them, Gregory said. They come from a Navajo reservation located near Farmington, N.M. They are on sale during daytime hours officially through Oct. 31, but unofficially for a bit after that, Gregory said.
From 2-4 p.m. Oct. 31, Southern Hills sponsors its annual Trunk or Treat event.
This year's event, which comes after the unexpected death of Pastor Gary Byrkit in August, is a bit different for church members. Byrkit's passions included the Pumpkin Parish.
Richard and Janis Hamby, of Greensboro, N.C., owners of Pumpkin Patch Fundraisers, said they sincerely appreciate Byrkit's great dedication throughout the years.
"Gary even became accustomed to being the 'Pumpkin Church,' after the first few years of sales at Southern Hills Christian Church," they said in a unified statement.
Gregory estimated that 85 percent of sales are due to repeat customers. That includes multiple generations of the same family. The Pumpkin Parish is something the Southern Hills family enjoys sharing with the rest of the community each year, Gregory said.
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Check out the website for things to do in St Andrews (NB, Canada) and area, at FundyCulture.ca -- loads of great things to see and do -- fascinating museums [one is all about chocolate!], attractions like a big public garden and Sir William Van Horne's summer home on Ministers Island. The whole area is breathtakingly beautiful, and there's something for every taste. Great food, a wide variety of places to stay, including the historic Fairmont Algonquin hotel, inns, B&Bs... loads to do on the water... St Andrews is in Passamaquoddy Bay, which is off the Bay of Fundy, with the highest tides in the world!! You can kayak, take a sail, catamaran or Zodiac trip to see marine wildlife, and very often, some of the whales that summer in the area around the Fundy Isles. There are some good hikes and walking trails, centuries-old homes and public buildings, and of course, shopping galore -- lots of artisans and artists. The hard thing is deciding what NOT to do, because there is so much choice!


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A Walmart employee arrested one of the store's own employees Tuesday morning after the worker reportedly admitted in writing to stealing more than $1,400 in merchandise over a one-year period.
The items leading to Taylor Helsley becoming the victim of a citizen's arrest by Walmart employee, J.D. Mixon, were some beef jerkey and a bottle of PowerAde.
Mixon approached Helsley and told him to come to his office.
According to a police report, Helsley admitted stealing more than just the PowerAde and beef jerky, and Mixon got him to write a voluntary statement about what he had stolen. That's when Helsley admitted he had been stealing from the store for the last year, which is roughly the same amount of time he had been a Walmart employee.
Mixon, with confession in hand, made a citizen's arrest of Helsley, then turned him over to patrol officer Michael O'Connor, who placed him in a patrol car and took him to Pontotoc County Justice Center where he was booked.
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PS4 and Xbox One for £26.88 per month? ShopTo introduces finance options
Online retailer ShopTo has introduced a range of financing option which it hopes will entice gamers to take the next-gen plunge.
New-look Xbox 360 available now... if you can find it
Microsoft last week announced a new-look redesigned Xbox 360 that we were told was available straight away.
Xbox One pre-owned and online policies are "definitive", unlikely to change in near-term
Those hoping for a swift U-turn from Microsoft look set for disappointment.
"We have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360"
The public reaction to Xbox One's online requirements is not realistic, Microsoft's interactive entertainment business boss Don Mattrick has argued.
SONY: Watch the E3 crowd go wild as Sony confirms PS4 pre-owned and online plans
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Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff
Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide
When Forbes fashionista Hannah Elliott signed into Facebook this week, a "digital bouncer" asked if it could see her id. Facebook is in the process of verifying the accounts of "prominent public figures," reported TechCrunch Wednesday night, and Elliott, who has attracted more than 67,000 subscribers, qualifies. What's involved in verification? Giving Facebook a copy of your passport or driver's license. If you don't have one on hand, a birth certificate and social security card will do.
Facebook is following in the footsteps of Google+ and Twitter in offering to "verify" prominent folks' social media accounts, but it is the first to make a formal handover of government ID a part of that process. As Talking Points Memo notes, this should help Facebook avoid fiascos like Twitter's falsely verifying a parody Wendy Deng account as that of the real wife of Rupert Murdoch. Facebook told TechCrunch that it "permanently deletes" the forms of ID after verifying a person's identity — I certainly hope so; I can 'verify' that hanging on to people's social security numbers when you have no need for them is a terrible idea. (Facebook does ask folks to black out sensitive info on their IDs, mentioning credit card and driver's license numbers as examples. They should probably add SSN to that list.)
Given Facebook's touting of the benefits of a 'real name culture,' I'm left wondering if this will become standard for all users at some point in the future. It would go a long way in cutting down spam on the site, and would make Facebook the undisputed leader of 'real identity' on the Web. But anonymity or pseudonymity on the site — while frowned on now — would become an impossibility.
For now though, verification is for the popular kids only: "The new verification process is for anyone who has a large number of subscribers (not limited to celebrities) and is totally optional," says Facebook spokesperson Meredith Chin.
Not famous enough to get the invite from Facebook's bouncers to rock out in Club Verified? Here's what the process looks like.
Elliott got this notification at the top of her news feed when she signed in, suggesting she verify her account:
Clicking 'Verify' took her to the page below, asking her to upload ID:
Elliott then received a confirmation email.
One benefit to confirming your identity this way is getting to use a nickname. Facebook will still display a person's real name, but he or she can have the nickname be the more prominent one. Keeping the real name on display is a good security move, preventing someone from getting 'verified,' changing their name to someone else's, and then gallivanting around Facebook and the Web causing trouble. (Something that's been known to happen before.)
Wow had no idea they decided they had the clout and security within to handle and even require these kinds of creds. Who in FB IT world has the ability to take my id and sell it? 5 people? 10? Which employee will get disgruntled first and do so? On-line security is a scary problem. Celebs are extra-sensitive too..
Still, according to Scott Sweet (http://www.ipoboutique.com) Facebook is big big big.. I'm not sure if they are getting too big for their britches. Could be a wake up call soon. Maybe soon after they go public?
what a big lies the tell to the AFP inquiry !!!celebrities, never will give there true name the only live under there celebrity name !!!!!!! the act like criminals facebook the name say it all !!!!
Facebook's real name policy is an effective way of protecting prominent public figures (read: politicians and celebrities) from an online hijacking of their identity. Bogus social networking profiles is a legitimate concern and has prompted several states to make it a crime to create a false online profile. But…and this is a big but,…a strictly enforced real names policy will, as you note, make anonymity on Facebook an impossibility. This seriously impairs Facebook as a communications channel for social activism or disclosure of human rights abuses or other wrongdoing. Would the Arab Spring have occurred if such a policy had been in effect? Perhaps, but it would have deterred a lot of persons from participating. And what about parody sites? Are they soon to be a thing of the past? Of course, if Facebook is primarily a profit driven organization that doesn't believe it has a larger role in the global community such a consequence of a real name policy will not be troubling. That being said, "verification" is the only reliable way of enforcing a real names policy and I suspect verification will eventually be a requirement for all users. BTW, I didn't get an invite to the verification club…how about you?
warning warning warning…..my computer was hacked on facebook a few months ago and as soon as it happened I got a msg from facebook that I had to submit photo id to unlock the account. This was a facade and from the hacker!! My daughter went in and sent NORMAL conformation from test questions I had created and my account was reopened. My logic was I didn't need it when I opened it why should I need it several years later?? Do NOT give it out…….just open another account if it cannot be resolved with normal avenues not requiring I.D.!!
So if I got asked to verify my account, that means, per your headline, that I qualify as officially famous, yes? I'm telling my mom.
I think this is a great idea and I am sure much appreciated by prominent people. I recently tried to reconnect with an old friend from my home town who is quite famous, but I have not seen for years. However, when I tried to find him on Facebook, there were 6 accounts. I did take a chance, wrote a private message and friended him. He accepted my request but not in a personal way that I thought he might. When my husband and I connected with him years ago he flagged us down in the middle of a ski town. I doubt he would avoid a simple shout out. It would be nice if I could be sure it was really him. Then I would know for sure by his communication what level of communication he would like. Honestly, I read a recent article about him moving to my home state and the article was more intimate than the facebook communication!! Maybe this process will make the accounts more authentic.
I think everyone in this application the required
Way to go FB .. making a photocopy of ANY military ID (active, reserve, retired, dependent) is prohibited .. period. There are exceptions for medical, financial, etc and I'm sure FB isn't on "the list".
FB servers will be a hackers playground if ever cracked. Couple the uploaded electronic ID with financial data (bank acct & credit) from other sources and a new virtual being can be born, completely from a stolen identity. Is this something that any of us are willing to risk .. just for being "verified"?


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Over the past week, our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series has explored what the impact of the past year's contentious political happenings has had on Wisconsin. We've identified winners and losers of the political fight and explored what lies ahead for the Badger State.
But we have to wonder, did it all matter? So what, that the debates on collective bargaining, the role of unions, and the size of government made Wisconsin a national lightning rod? Would these conversations have happened eventually? What would Wisconsin look like if none of this had happened?
We get two very different takes on where Wisconsin was heading before 2011, and where it's going now. Jack Norman is the Research Director at the Institute for Wisconsin's Future; George Lightbourn is President of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. They spoke with Lake Effect's Mitch Teich as part of our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series.
The Center for Media and Democracy in Madison says the group ALEC has too much secretive influence on legislation. Mary Bottari is the Director of the Madison-based Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project and BanksterUSA. She has also served as a Senior Analyst in Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division. She spoke to us from Madison as part of our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series. There's a link to the group's ALEC Exposed report here.
How has Wisconsin's business climate fared in 2011? Mark Erhmann is an attorney with Quarles & Brady, LLP in Madison, and the Chairman of the Board of Forward Wisconsin, a non-profit organization created in 1984 to foster economic development in Wisconsin.
There are plenty of adjectives you could use to describe Wisconsin's political climate in 2011. Perhaps passionate or volatile.The state is known for being evenly-split politically – purple - with independents often determining elections. But partisans have been zealous, even among family and friends, according to Jeri Bonavia, executive director of WAVE - the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort."These days, bring up the wrong topic whether it's unions or whether it's carrying guns in public, and suddenly the conversation becomes heated in a way that we haven't seen in the past," Bonavia says.In today's installment of Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval, WUWM's Marge Pitrof reports on challenges to civility.
While WUWM is spending the week exploring Wisconsin's political climate in our series, Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval, the state elections chief came to town. Government Accountability Board Executive Director Kevin Kennedy spoke to reporters Wednesday at the Milwaukee Press Club. WUWM's Marti Mikkelson had an opportunity to question him about this unprecedented year of recalls and new voting rules.
In taking office, Scott Walker declared that the state is now open for business. But it's a mixed bag for business - employment is stagnant at best, and though unemployment has fallen slightly of late, the number of jobs here has declined significantly. We talk with Paul Jadin, the President and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the unit that largely replaced the state's Department of Commerce this year.
This past year saw a major reorganization for the Wisconsin Arts Board – which lost its agency level status and was absorbed within the state's Department of Tourism. George Tzugros is the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Arts Board. Tzugros spoke with Bonnie North as part of our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series.
As our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series continues to identify winners and losers of the past year, we'll meet the two legislators who aren't about to let civility die in Wisconsin's legislature. Republican Senator Dale Schultz of Richland Center and Democratic Senator Tim Cullen of Janesville formed a two-man caucus in support of bipartisanship this fall. We spoke with them in September while they were on their self-described Common Ground tour of Wisconsin.
We continue our week-long series Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval.This first year of the Walker Administration may be remembered as one of Wisconsin's most tumultuous political eras.Early on, the governor created environmental waves by putting the brakes on much-anticipated wind turbine siting rules – stifling a fledgling industry.


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The "Love Train" is chugging to the BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, when legendary soul trio the O'Jays will receive a lifetime achievement honor during the ninth annual celebration of black musicians, actors and athletes.
The trio, which rose to fame in the 1970s with such Gamble & Huff-produced tunes as "Back Stabbers," "For the Love of Money" and the chart-topping "Love Train," will perform at the Shrine Auditorium event. Their award will be presented by Tyrese, Trey Songz and Johnny Gill.
The ceremony will air live for East Coast viewers of the BET cable network at 8 p.m. EDT, with a three-hour tape delay for those on the West Coast.
Jamie Foxx will both host and perform. Other artists scheduled to take the stage include Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Keri Hilson, Keyshia Cole, Mary Mary, Maxwell, Ne-Yo, Queen Latifah, Soulja Boy, T-Pain, and Young Jeezy.


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As it stands now I weigh 175 and workout 4 times a week for an hour a day, then I run for 20 min every day.
2 days = biceps and chest.
1 day = trys and back.
1 day = legs and shoulders.
I do 4 sets of each exercise with 10 - 12 reps per set.
I would like to weigh about 190-195, and still stay cut.
I include fish and meat in my diet to try and build muscle but it doesn't seem to work well.
I'd really appreciate any useful input.
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State of the Race — 7 days to go: Projected EV count — Romney 261 Obama 236, 41 Toss-up
As of this morning looking at the polls and trends, here is what I have. Romney has pretty much wrapped up IN, NC, FL, and VA. The polls showing Florida and Virginia to be close are absurd with their turnout models. Colorado and New Hampshire are very close to being wrapped up as well. The trend in Ohio is very good and Governor Kasich believes that Romney will win comfortably in Ohio. The early voting numbers look absolutely catastrophic for Obama in Ohio. I would have to agree but I'm not willing to take any chances. Currently I have Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Maine Congressional District 2 as being toss-ups though the momentum in these states is all on the Romney side.
The big problem for Obama now is not the fact that Romney is so close to clinching this, but the fact that Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota are causing the Obama campaign incredible headaches. I have these as being a slight lean to Obama right now but the momentum is with Romney in these states as well. If Romney picks off just one out of Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, or Michigan, the election is over. This is why you see the Obama campaign buying ad time in these states now because Romney is at 261 EV. It is not any coincidence why the Obama campaign and operatives had a fit about the Des Moines Register endorsing Romney for president. I loved Romney's SuperPAC buying a $2 million dollar ad by playing in all the Pennsylvania markets, including Philadelphia. Romney, the RNC, and the GOP SuperPACs cash advantage has stretched Obama incredibly thin and they are playing this perfectly from a strategic standpoint.
Romney is on the cusp of winning this thing. It's all about getting out the vote and going to vote now. Short diary yes, but I wanted to throw out there what I have and see what other people are thinking out there.


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Laugh - or cry from laughing so hard - while raising money for children with autism! This year's Comedy for a Cause features hilarious comics Susie Essman (HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Judy Gold ("The Judy Show - My Life as a Sitcom).
Proceeds from the show benefit REED Academy, a private non-profit school for children between the ages of 3 to 21 with autism spectrum disorders that has been educating children in Northern NJ since 2003.
Live auction items include tickets to see Lady Gaga, South Beach vacation featuring Miami Heat tickets, Piers Morgan tour, grandstand tickets to Macy's Day parade and more.
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God and the central banker
Can central bankers play god to the markets? India's central bank chief Duvvuri Subbarao does not believe so. In doing so, the Reserve Bank of India governor, a physics student, has taken refuge in quantum mechanics.
Subbarao takes the example of Einstein, who could not reconcile to the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics all through his life.
Einstein famously said - "God does not play dice". Less known perhaps is the retort of his friend and mentor Niels Bohr who said - "Albert, stop telling God what he can or cannot do".
Subbarao draws this parallel in arguing that a central bank cannot tell markets what to do. "We have to take market signals as given," Subbarao said in New York at a recent IMF meeting.


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Hard-hit retail stocks are drawing investors into the market as some profit reports didn't turn out as bad as feared.
But the buying is subdued Thursday following a worse-than-expected weekly unemployment report. A retreat this week has interrupted a two-month rally that emerged as investors found early signs the economy could be stabilizing.
Retailers like Macy's, Kohl's and Best Buy are rising as investors search for bargains.
In midday trading, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 36 at 8,321. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 7 at 891, and the Nasdaq composite index is up 22 at 1,686.


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|2010 U.S. Women's and Junior Closed Championships Awarded to Saint Louis
|February 26, 2010
Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis
Mike Wilmering
The rating supplements and criteria used to determine the players who will be selected by rating for the 2010 U.S. Women's Championship and 2010 U.S. Junior Closed Championship have been set.
The May 2010 USCF ratings will be used to determine the seven players who will be selected by rating for the 2010 U.S. Women's Championship.
For the 2010 U.S. Junior Closed Championship, only the top players under 20 as of Jan. 1, 2010 will be eligible. The seven players selected by rating will be based on the average of their peak rating over the past year and their rating as published in the April 2010 supplement of the USCF's rating list.
The USCF has awarded the 2010 U.S. Women's Championship and the 2010 U.S. Junior Closed Championship to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. The two events will be held concurrently July 9-19.
The U.S. Women's Championship will feature a prize fund at least as large as last year's record-breaking, $64,000 purse. The tournaments will take place simultaneously, and each will feature a 10-player field. The invitees will consist of 1. the defending champion for each event, 2. The US Women's Open Champion/The US Junior Open Champion, 3-9- Top players by rating (list to be used to be announced soon) 10. 1 Wildcard for each event.
"Encouraging more women and juniors to play chess are both vital goals of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis," said Executive Director Tony Rich. "So we are very excited to host the tournaments simultaneously."
The announcement of these two major tournaments are another step toward cementing Saint Louis as the premier chess destination in the country.
Anna Zatonskih will return to defend her title after winning the 2009 U.S. Women's Championship. That victory earned her a bid to compete in the 2010 U.S. Championship, scheduled to be held at the CCSCSL May 13-25.
The three most prestigious tournaments in United States chess are being held in Saint Louis this year, giving the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis the Triple Crown of chess.
Stay tuned to www.saintlouischessclub.org for more details.


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The Kawasaki Concours 14 (or 1400GTR as its known outside the USA) is a mature, classy sports tourer. So we're pleased to see that its new colors — black or a rich, deep red — reflect that. Both are better than the previous silver at making the bike look expensive, which at $13,499, it really isn't. For 2009 it receives no other mechanical changes, but with a 155bhp engine and 155mph top speed, it didn't really need any.


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EPA Offers Tips On Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Nov 28th @ 9:51 am in News, Public Service by Scott Staley
It's getting cold in the Rocky Mountain and Plains region, and the arrival of winter means we're firing up our gas furnaces and wood-burning stoves to warm our homes. When we use our furnaces and stoves, and spend more time indoors, we are at increased risk of exposure to carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, invisible gas produced when gasoline, natural gas, propane, kerosene, and other fuels are not completely burned during use. The gas is one of the leading causes of poisoning death, with more than 400 victims in the United States each year. In addition, more than 4,000 Americans are hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning and 20,000 people get sick enough from exposure to visit an emergency room each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Any combustion appliance –gas furnaces, wood stoves, hot water heaters, gas ranges –produces carbon monoxide. A car running in an attached garage or the use of a hibachi indoors can also contribute to a build-up of carbon monoxide in a home.
Since carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless, an exposed person may not be aware they are being poisoned until it is too late. Unborn babies, infants and persons with heart disease are particularly at risk. Early symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning can be similar to flu symptoms, including headaches, nausea, dizziness and fatigue.
If you experience symptoms that you think could be from carbon monoxide poisoning, get fresh air immediately. Open doors and windows, turn off combustion appliances, and leave the house. Go to an emergency room and tell the physician you suspect carbon monoxide poisoning. If carbon monoxide poisoning has occurred, it often can be diagnosed by a blood test done soon after exposure.
Steps you can take to protect yourself and your family from carbon monoxide poisoning include:
- Make sure appliances are installed and vented properly.
- Have gas or wood-burning appliances, heating and ventilation systems (including chimneys) inspected regularly.
- Inspect homes after heavy snow fall and make sure snow is removed from around exhaust stacks, vents, and fresh-air intakes.
- Buy a carbon monoxide detector for your home or apartment and make sure the detector meets Standard UL 2034 of the Underwriters Laboratory. Keep in mind that installing a detector is not a guarantee of safety, it is just one of the precautions you should take.
Things you should NOT do:
- Use a gas range or oven for heating your home
- Leave a car running in a closed garage
- Burn charcoal indoors
- Operate unvented fuel-burning appliances (including electric generators) indoors.
For more information on carbon monoxide and other indoor air quality pollutants, visit EPA's agency web site at: www.epa.gov/iaq.


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Anya's obsession with organizing is legendary and the Labelled family was born from the need for a 'filing system' within your handbag - or suitcase. Inspired by the myriad roles of busy women, each pocket or bag is neatly embossed with its own label so that you can have everything in its place and a place for everything.
These hard-wearing, wipeable nylon pouches which come in black and one seasonal colour and will keep everything from lotions and potions to cables and chargers neatly contained and instantly grabbable. A must-have for travel and for keeping your life as streamlined as possible.View the Family


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Flavours of Art: 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc
Friday, August 22 from 6pm to 9pm
WAG's signature dinner-and-tour program may have a new name, but it still features a 3-course, exhibition-inspired, fixed menu at Storm Bistro followed by an exclusive gallery tour.
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Home Tour
Sunday September 14
The popular WAG Home Tour returns to the
Crescentwood, River Heights, and Tuxedo
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Thursday, June 19 to Sunday, July 27
The Gallery Shop presents an exhibition and sale of works from the Wahsa Gallery.
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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival
Wednesday, July 16 to Sunday, July 27
The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is coming back to the WAG!
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Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
- Closed Monday
Open on the following days:
- Victoria Day
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- August Civic Holiday
- Labour Day
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ROCK HILL — A city employee vacuuming out a police car at the Rock Hill Operations Center told authorities he found what appeared to be a bag of crack cocaine in the floorboard on Wednesday.
At about 1:50 p.m., police went to the operations center at 757 S. Anderson Road after an employee, 25, said he was cleaning vehicle No. 92 when the vacuum sucked up a bag of crack cocaine, according to a Rock Hill Police report.
He said the bag came from under the front passenger seat area, the report states. Police said they recovered 2.32 grams of crack and destroyed it.
The car was an off-line police vehicle that city officials were stripping and retrofitting back into a regular car, devoid of police sirens, lights and anything else that would distinguish it as a police officer's car, said Rock Hill Police Lt. Brad Redfearn.
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Obama's Broken Health Care Promise
The president can't ensure that Obamacare won't affect those with existing health coverage.
Employees of the drugstore chain Walgreens are just the latest to learn the hard way that presidents don't always have the power to make good on their own promises.
Walgreens recently announced its intention to switch away from offering company-provided health insurance to its employees. Instead, Walgreens employees will be given a set amount of money to choose a plan from a private marketplace. IBM and Time Warner plan to do the same for their U.S. retirees.
Walgreens, and the other large employers who have opted to change their insurance options, say they made the switch because of rising health care costs and higher expenses because of more regulation related to the Affordable Care Act. And as provisions kick in forcing insurers to be more generous in their coverage and prohibiting them from charging higher-risk customers a fair market rate, I expect costs to explode even faster.
Businesses trying to claw their way to profits in a struggling economy are looking for creative ways to save money. Kicking workers onto exchanges, where they'll have to shop around for a plan that meets their needs and pay for it out of pocket, is proving to be an appealing option. Other employers are switching workers to part time so they don't have to pay for insurance plans at all. (And if you think it's just greedy corporations who would stoop so low, recall that cash-strapped local governments are among those reducing worker hours.) Unfortunately, for the individuals in question, this means massive disruptions to their access to health care and financial situations.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Obamacare.]
Since well before the ACA's passage in 2010, Americans were expressing anxiety about how the reform would affect their ability to get medical care for themselves and their loved ones. Public opinion research shows people have long been worried they won't be able to afford the insurance plan they have and like or be able to see the doctors they know and trust. They fear – not irrationally, it turns out – that prices could shoot through the roof and that companies might cease to offer as many good alternatives under the new regulations.
These are legitimate concerns shared by millions of Americans. They're also concerns that have been routinely dismissed as trivial by the administration. Time and again, President Obama insisted individuals who already had coverage had nothing to worry about. "If you like your health care plan," he famously said, "you can keep your health care plan."
That was always a dubious assertion. Numerous economists, to say nothing of half the officeholders in the country and more than half the people, were skeptical that a new system could cover the uninsured without wreaking havoc on the already insured. Yet the Obama administration took great pains to assure voters their existing health insurance would not be affected.
[Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]
Much of the law has yet to go into effect, but those claims are already ringing hollow. Take UPS, which has decided it will no longer offer coverage to spouses of its employees who can get insurance elsewhere. For those 15,000 men and women, the option to keep their plan if they like it is simply no longer available to them.
The uncharitable characterization is that the president was intentionally misleading the American people in order to corral support for his top political priority. But the more likely, and arguably more troubling, conclusion is this one: Obamacare's supporters, who professed with such conviction that Americans with insurance wouldn't be affected by the law, actually believed that to be true.
If, in fact, the law's authors thought that under their plan everyone would be able to keep their existing policies, that is immensely revealing. That people might alter their behavior in response to changing incentives and stimuli never seems to have occurred to them. That the law might have some negative side-effects – like encouraging young people to wait until they're already sick to sign up for coverage, since they now know they can't be turned away, or discouraging small businesses from hiring new people, since the cost of providing the mandated insurance will now be so much higher – struck them as laughably absurd. Surely people would recognize their moral obligation to behave within the expectations of their rulers!
[Vote: Will Ted Cruz's Health Care Speech Help or Hurt Republicans?]
But things haven't played out as Washington expected. And as a result, a law passed with every intention of making things better for suffering Americans will ultimately make things worse for almost everyone. When medical care gets more expensive, it's the poorest who are priced out of access. And when we're forced to spend more trying to provide that care to those who can't afford it, it crowds out our ability to put those extra dollars to use on other even more valuable pursuits.
So the American people are learning the hard lesson that politicians can't always do everything they say they will. But perhaps President Obama is also learning a lesson – that putting your name on massive pieces of sweeping federal legislation is not always as good an idea as it sounds. Because even the smartest, most well-intentioned people will find that trying to manage an economy as complex as ours is a fool's errand. And dictating top-down solutions on markets composed of hundreds of millions of autonomous actors often leads to unexpected, unintended and unwelcome outcomes.
Which is all another way of saying that governing is hard. The ones who do it best are usually those with enough humility to get out of people's way.


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The number one (#1) in Photography in 17 countries!
Started as the first camera app on the App Store (2008), ProCamera brought simple and useful camera enhancements and has evolved into a full-featured, all-in-one photo and video app. And we're not done yet. Watch for our free updates!
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- iOS 6 optimized: 1.5x faster photo saving (compared to iOS 5)
- Important note: Volume Trigger was removed in ProCamera 3.8.
What's New in ProCamera Update 3.5? …
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➜ QuickFlick Album: Only one flick away from your photos and videos;
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Matt Biondi
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Matthew Nicholas Biondi (born 8 October 1965 in Palo Alto, California) is a three-time U.S. Olympic swimmer in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympics, winning a total of 11 medals. He is a member of the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Biondi started his aquatics career as a swimmer and water polo player in his hometown of Moraga, California. As he moved into his teens, his incredible abilities as a sprint swimmer began to emerge. Though he did not start swimming year-round until he started at Campolindo High School, by his senior year Biondi was the top high school sprinter in America with a National High School record of 20.40 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle. He accepted a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley to swim and play water polo. In his freshman year, he played on Berkeley's NCAA Championship water polo team, and made the consolation finals at the 1984 NCAA Swimming Championships.
Olympic career
1984 Olympics
The summer of 1984, Biondi surprised the swimming community by qualifying for a spot on the U.S. 4×100 meter freestyle relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The team won the gold medal in a world record time. Returning to Berkeley, Biondi once again played on an NCAA Champion water polo team in the fall and in the winter of 1985 won the first of his 8 individual swimming titles at NCAAs. He would be named NCAA Swimmer of the Year in 1985, 1986, and 1987 while setting several American and NCAA records.
Biondi set the first of his twelve individual swimming world records in 1985. He was the first man to swim the 100-meter freestyle faster than 49 seconds, and by 1988 he owned the ten fastest times swum in that event. He won a total 24 U.S. Championships in the 50, 100, and 200-meter freestyle events, as well as the 100-butterfly. In two World Championships (1986 and 1991), Biondi won 11 medals including six gold. During his career, he was a James E. Sullivan Award Finalist, the UPI Sportsman of the Year, the USOC Sportsman of the Year, and twice the Swimming World magazine Male Swimmer of the World (1986 and 1988).
1988 Olympics
Biondi was involved in perhaps the most notable defeat of any competitor at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In the 100m butterfly final, caught between strokes as he approached the finishing wall, he chose to glide rather than take another stroke, and was beaten by Anthony Nesty of Suriname by 1/100th of a second.
He still managed to win 5 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics, achieving world records in 4 of those triumphs, 3 in relays and one in the 50m freestyle, clocking 22.14 seconds for the sprint 50. This was the third time he had broken or equaled the existing 50m freestyle world record.


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He never went to college?
He never went to college?
IT Specialist isn't a field that requires a degree. My aunt is a self-taught and highly regarded IT Specialist with a GED and no college experience. And being a laid off IT Specialist is hardly exotic. There is a glut of them. Many of the ones I know do it freelance now as it's become more profitable to work several part-time freelance jobs than to work full time for a single employer. I'm not claiming Jon's some kind of secret genius but I find some of the criticisms of him unwarranted. The implication that he can't genuinely want custody of his kids or that he'd be incapable of caring for them especially.
The lifestyle he's been living recently wouldn't accommodate itself to kids very well, that's all. I didn't say he didn't love them.
Charter member of the "We Always Believed in Ashley" Club and the "We Believe in Ricky" Club
Old, lonely, pathos-hungry, and extremely gullible
But Jon was hired by a friend, hasn't worked in the field for a few years, was not laid off but was fired, and would have to compete with all those laid off people who have both experience AND a degree. Do you really think he has a good shot at a job in IT, provided he even wants one?
This is not to say that I don't roll my eyes at Kate whining that she has to make a living. There is nothing to indicate that Jon is in arrears on child support; if she can't take care of the kids on $20K a freaking month, then she's just not trying. However, saying that Kate is away from home too much is kinda funny, since she IS home during the week; she and Tony practice in the basement of her house and fly to LA for the show.
One thing Jon HAS done that I think is a step in the right direction is he has hired a real lawyer and apparently stopped taking terrible advice from Mark Heller. The public parade of inappropriate girlfriends has stopped, the paparazzi are no longer notified of his doings, and the only photos I've seen of him in the press lately have been of him and his kids. Of course, it's only been a few months since the last incident, and it may all be because of his agreement with TLC. But definitely a step in the right direction.
ETA: According to RadarOnline.com (which may or may nor be accurate), Jon is living with his brother and wants to move into the guesthouse at the family home, which he entitled to do under the terms of the divorce agreement.
Since he is entitled to live in the family home during his custodial periods, I guess he would get to live there if he got custody? But according to the papers filed in court, the house itself was awarded to Kate. Hmmm.
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."-- Albert Einstein.
In my spare time, I like to interview figure skating legends.
A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed - it's an important distinction. - Rick Mercer
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."-- Albert Einstein.
And now Jon wants alimony, or so I keep reading. I read the court filing and that isn't exactly what it said. But I don't find it at all hard to believe that he is broke; TLC is supposedly holding him to his contract, which means he can't do anything without their permission.
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."-- Albert Einstein.


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Valparaiso (8-6-4, 4-2-2 Horizon)
Youngstown State (3-10-4,0-5-3 Horizon)
10/28/2011 | Youngstown, Ohio | Attendance: 151
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Valparaiso wrapped up the regular season on Friday afternoon battling Youngstown State for 110 minutes, but neither team could find the back of the net and the two sides settled for a 0-0 double-overtime draw at Stambaugh Stadium in Youngstown, Ohio.
"We didn't create the chances today like we have most of the season," head coach John Marovich said after the match. "We struggled to keep the ball. I think the result was fair because of that."
The Crusaders had their best chances in the opening half, outshooting the Penguins 7-5 before intermission. Casey Pedersen (Northville, Mich./Mercy H.S.) had Valpo's best opportunity, just before the break, but Nicole Kline made the save moving to her left.
Youngstown State (3-10-4, 0-5-3 Horizon) seemed to have the run of play throughout most of the second 45 minutes, outshooting Valpo 11-2 in the stanza, and finished the match with a 20-10 shot advantage.
Kristen Manski (Saint Charles, Ill./North H.S.) made seven saves for the Crusaders to earn her seventh shutout of the season for the Brown and Gold. Kline finished the match with four stops for the Penguins, all in the first half.
Valparaiso (8-6-4, 4-2-2) is assured of finishing the season over .500 for the seventh time in the last eight years and will host a quarterfinal match in the Horizon League Tournament on Tuesday afternoon at Eastgate Field.
"It's time for us to get refocused and get ready for Tuesday," Marovich concluded.
The Crusaders will be either the tournament's third or fourth seed and will host an opponent yet to be determined. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and children, and Horizon League students are free with valid ID.
Match Notes: Valpo will finish third in the Horizon League standings for the season, matching the 2009 squad for the team's highest finish since joining the conference in 2007 … the shutout was Valpo's ninth of the season, second most all-time, trailing just the 2008 team's 10 clean sheets … Manski's seventh shutout of the year puts her in third place alone on the individual single season charts … Manski now has 12 career shutouts … Tracy Roos (Centennial, Colo./Cherry Creek H.S.) started her 76th straight match of her career, tied for sixth all-time with Jackie Thomas (2005-2008) … Roos ranks eighth all-time on the matches played list with the 76 appearances … Valpo has now tied seven straight overtime contests … this was Valpo's second scoreless draw of the year … the Crusaders lead the all-time series with Youngstown State 8-0-3 all-time against the Penguins … the two sides have played to back-to-back draws.


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- " Finally, a Balkan hostel that gets it right. Haris and his family are wonderful hosts running a great hostel. Clean and quiet, with nice inside and outside lounge areas, plus kitchen. Good city tours. Very close to center, shops and attractions, albeit up a long, steep hill (worth taking taxi or minibus if hot or with heavy bags). If walking, there is a map on the office door by the tram stop. About eighteen beds (?) with two toilets and one shower. "
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Quality & Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing led a national effort designed to enhance the ability of nurse faculty to effectively develop quality and safety competencies among graduates of their programs. AACN hosted a series of regional QSEN Faculty Development Institutes, held in 2010 and 2011, the program gave nurse faculty key training and information to improve their curricula. This interactive coursework focused on six core competencies: