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From the time John B. Rogers Jr. was a boy he had one large and audacious dream. In the 1940s Rogers's grandfather Ralph Rogers bought the Indian Motorcycle Company and went bust trying to convert the big workhorse cycles into lighter machines that could compete with the Triumph bikes that had entered the American market after the war. Ralph Rogers eventually accrued a new fortune in other industries, but decades later he would lament to his young grandson that the thing he loved best was his old motorcycle company. "It was the thing that got him," Rogers says.
Jay, as everyone calls John Rogers, grew up tinkering with cars; in high school shop he tore down two Porsche 356A engines. It was out of this love and his grandfather's nostalgic rhapsodies that he would hatch his own crazy plan—a plan from which nearly everyone tried to dissuade him: Jay Rogers would start his own automobile company. And not just his own auto company but a company that made cars that were different from the ones made by the Big Three automakers—GM, Ford and Chrysler—cars with big personalities, cars he hoped would actually polarize consumers, cars they would either love or hate.
Of course Rogers, who is 39 but looks younger, isn't the first dreamer to want to show up the Big Three. There was Preston Tucker with his Tucker Torpedo, Malcolm Bricklin with his gull-winged car, John DeLorean with his low-slung modernist car and, more recently, Elon Musk with his electric Tesla Roadster. Their auto bodies—all but Musk's—are strewn throughout automotive history. But Rogers is different. He doesn't want to build a single model like the others. He wants to build specific cars for local markets all around the world—a Boston car, a New York car, a Parisian car, a Ugandan car, a Malaysian car. Hence the name Local Motors, which was inspired by Local Motion, a surfboard company whose owner roamed from beach to beach, carving custom surfboards. Rogers hopes to have four of these factories up and running in the next five years with an output of 2,000 cars at each factory. He hopes eventually to have 100 factories.
Rogers harbors another dream—a dream that is much larger. He doesn't want just to build cars. Jay Rogers wants to reinvent the whole way American companies do business. Although he has sold only 60 cars so far at $75,000 each, he has a theory and a plan for changing business using the internet, and he is sacrificing almost everything he has to realize them. He admits he is so consumed by his vision that he has lost many friends since starting his company and there is friction with his wife because he's almost never home. "She's fairly well at her wits' end," he confesses. But, he adds, "I have nothing left. I have given my all to this. This is my life."
It may be an odd obsession for someone whose own family seemed to benefit from the old ways of doing business. But Jay Rogers has his reasons.
People have occasionally compared Rogers to Henry Ford. It is a comparison that makes him bristle. "Ford was a fad that came for a hundred years and now I believe is going," Rogers says. When Rogers, as a student at Harvard Business School, began to think seriously about starting a car company, he had what he calls a "thunderous moment." It came while he was conducting a fact-finding tour of the Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan, and his guide complained it was the worst time of the year—the changeover period when the plant shut down its entire production line to tool up for the new models, and the workers sat around idle. If the changes were smallish, it could mean a recess of a day. But if the changes were large, the shutdown could last a month. Rogers realized the Big Three could substantially change the way their cars looked only every seven years or so—once the machinery, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars, had been amortized. That's why everything moved so slowly in the auto industry. It took too much money and too much effort to change.
Rogers traced this intransigence to Henry Ford. When Ford, under the guidance of efficiency expert Frederick Taylor, routinized the manufacture of cars, mass-producing them on an assembly line, he not only took the nimbleness out of the process so customers basically got the same cars year after year, he also removed the magic of carmaking and sapped the autoworker of pride in his product. That system could last a long time—and it has—but Rogers believes it is doomed. In the 21st century, when everything is becoming more personalized, people want and need to love their cars, and the industry needs to be rethought to recapture the romance of cars. Not incidentally, Rogers also thinks it is the best way to sell cars.
Step into Local Motors' "micro-factory" in the desert outside Phoenix, and it doesn't look anything like any other automobile plant. The Dearborn factory Rogers visited covers 600 acres. By contrast, Rogers's plant is the size of a high school gymnasium. The area is pristine, with beige walls and linoleum floors, and the ceiling is supported by columns decorated with greenery in white plastic planters. Soft-rock music wafts through the air, and there is only the faintest hint of the smell of gasoline or oil. There is no factory whistle, just a brass bell that is rung every time Local Motors enjoys a triumph—be it the completion of a car or a bug being worked out on the company's website.
Ford's Dearborn truck plant alone employs 3,200 workers. LM's full crew is roughly 40, though that is largely because the bulk of the work is done by people who aren't employed by the company and because the cars' bodies aren't stamped in steel by massive machines. The chassis are prefabricated tubes, the bodies are fiberglass covered with vinyl wrap, and the entire tooling costs somewhere around $20,000. Ford, GM and Chrysler have huge office towers for their thousands of executives, but at LM everyone—and that means the marketers, the finance staff, the designers and the tech people—shares one long room, with Rogers at the center of a table in a white rubber wingback chair like everyone else's. The employees are different too. They are young, mostly in their 20s, and many of them come to work in black Local Motors T-shirts. And they are a disparate group. The web troubleshooter used to be a professional waterskier, the head of the design program is a Frenchman who once worked at a slaughterhouse, the CIO was pried away from a website he was creating for the recently divorced, and the chief salesman is an off-road racer. Another salesman just left the PGA Tour after 10 years. About the only thing they share is their passion for the company, so much so that at times it is almost like a corporate cult.
The word you hear most frequently at LM is not cult, it's team. There is no hierarchy; just about everyone reports directly to Rogers, who usually shows up to work in a polo shirt, shorts and an old pair of Asics running shoes. Decisions are almost always arrived at democratically. Every Tuesday morning the entire staff gathers for a "stand-up" to resolve any issues or conflicts, from where a car is parked to leaving the factory space in a mess. The sessions are so informal that anyone from the outside is invited to sit in. Later that afternoon Local Motors conducts a "field day" during which everyone stops work to pitch in and clean the factory. Every second Friday they convene a "sprint" to discuss solutions for website problems—a method Rogers borrowed from software developers. To top it off, nearly everyone has been given a stake in the company.
But one of the main reasons Rogers wanted to reimagine the automobile company as a more democratic and passionate institution was to reimagine the cars it made. To date, Local Motors has only one commercial vehicle in production—the aptly named Rally Fighter.
Rogers has described it as an earthbound airplane, adding, "The soul of this car is actually down and dirty." It is a fierce, testosterone-fueled beast of a machine, designed primarily for off-road, though it is street legal in all 50 states. One writer said, "It looks like it could eat a Jeep Grand Cherokee for breakfast and belch up a Hummer H3." It certainly wouldn't be out of place in a Batman movie. It is 189 inches long and just over 80 inches wide, has a 430-horsepower engine and sits high over its wheels like something in a monster-truck rally. The interior is industrial, and it gets only 16 miles a gallon—Rogers insists there are other green attributes besides mileage—but you don't buy this car for comfort or economy. You buy it for power, and you buy it for show.
The Rally Fighter is not the kind of car Detroit would be likely to design. It is far too idiosyncratic. But the same could have been said of the Tucker or the Bricklin or the DeLorean. Detroit wasn't going to make those cars either. No, there is something else about the Rally Fighter and Local Motors that may, as Rogers hopes, put them in the vanguard of American business and create the new paradigm he so desperately wants. That something else is the fact that the Rally Fighter wasn't designed by professional designers, nor was it drawn up in a studio. What makes Local Motors possibly the most unusual auto company ever is that the Rally Fighter was designed on the internet by would-be car designers from all over the world collaborating on LM's website. Put simply, it is the first entirely crowdsourced car. Rogers is betting that it won't be the last. In fact, he is betting that this is the future—products not only for consumers but by consumers. And he is laying a very big bet.
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Funny that Rodger's doesn't even drive his own car - he has a 1971 Mercedes. I guess he was too busy working to find the time to build one.
You should look into a company called EV West in San Marcos, CA which has a similar business model and builds a dune buggy looks very much like this one, also with extraordinary performance, except it's 100% electric! They are the same people who drove an incredibly fast electric BMW M3 up Pikes Peak.
Very eye opening Neal! Thank you. -Jenna
To insult Henry Ford and suggest that you are the next coming of the automotive messiah is much more than a bit dilusional. Local Motors is a neat little company for sure, and John Rogers sounds like a talented guy. Still, in 5 years he has designed and built about 25 custom cars (Brizzio does more Hot Rods) BUT to do this he has burned 12 million dollars in the process! To imagine that he will, in the next 5 years, build not 25 cars, but 8,000 cars AND in four all-new facilities, and to find someone to actually print that without laughing out loud, explains why this article is in Playboy Magazine and not the Wall Street Journal. I think Local Motors will probably make money (that's what Harvard MBA's do) but the next Henry Ford? Please. My guess is that with Hubris like this from doing almost nothing, he is destined to be more like the next Paris Hilton rather than Henry Ford.
A car that is build for The Army res. a Urban assault Vehicle (UAV) No particular job for that car I guess -Michael


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When Elizabeth (Liz) McAllister looks back over the last year, she feels a real sense of gratitude despite having gone through two surgeries for breast cancer.
"I had always been healthy and active and was diligent about breast self-exams," said McAllister of Fox Lake. "Then I was shocked when I discovered a lump earlier this year. It was cancerous."
She said she went to Northwestern University in Chicago in March, where she had several lymph nodes removed to see if the cancer had spread throughout her system.
"Those tests were negative," McAllister said. "That was great news."
Still, she had to undergo had two surgeries for the cancer. She had her initial surgery at Northwestern in Chicago and then did her radiation at the Northwestern Grayslake Cancer Center.
She did not need chemotherapy, but did need radiation treatments. Those began in July.
"That was a long eight months," she admitted.
She had just opened a new personal training business in November, and was diagnosed with cancer in February. At first, she kept it all to herself.
"I told very few people," McAllister said. "None of my clients knew. I think I took off maybe three days with the initial surgery. Nobody knew because I didn't want anyone to think I was weak."
Someone who helped get her through was her husband Bill.
"That was an important lesson - how important it is to have support," she said. "If you have a support system, and you do a lot of research, you can get through this. This is not a life sentence."
She said the disease taught her to appreciate all of the people around her and to be compassionate with others because you never know what they may be going through.
"Having cancer has given me another whole perspective," McAllister said. "It makes me appreciate every day, and my family, in a whole new way. I especially appreciate my husband. He is the kindest, strongest man I have ever met. And my sons, Michael, 25, and Daniel, 22, were terrific."
She completed her radiation treatments at the Northwestern Grayslake Cancer Center. "That was a wonderful experience and I was glad it was so close to home," she said. She went five days a week, for seven weeks.
Her advice for others facing cancer?
"I am telling everyone I know to be aware of your own body," McAllister said. "Catching it early will give people so many more options. Don't be afraid to get something checked out. Waiting only adds to your worry and treatment time."
She said she is now more grateful than ever to have her friends, family and work. As a personal trainer at 390 Fitness in Antioch, she now wants to work with survivors to help train them. For more information, visit www.390fitness.com.
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One of the last steel components for the new Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry almost is in place.
On Friday, the Diocese of Pittsburgh will hold a "topping out" ceremony at the site along Route 228 as a ceremonial steel beam is hoisted onto the structure.
Then it's back to work.
Michael J. Arnold, chief facilities officer for the Diocese, said the project is now entering its seventh month of construction.
"For the most part, we're tracking on schedule," he said.
Expected to open in time for the 2014-15 school year, the is located on 71 acres near Cranberry's border with Seven Fields. Once finished it will be able to accommodate up to 1,000 students.
Two years ago, the diocese announced it would close the school's current building in Pittsburgh's Troy Hill neighborhood, where it has been located for more than 70 years, and move its programs to Cranberry in response to population growth and shifts in the North Hills.
The high school building project is the largest the Diocese of Pittsburgh has undertaken in recent history.
Arnold said once the steel structure is in place, workers would add a roof to the building as well as continue to pour the concrete floors. Fireproofing and drywall also will be added to the building.
"A lot of changes will start to happen," he said. "Up to this point, it has been a tremendous amount of excavation and earthwork."
That includes constructing a new road leading from Route 228 to the high school.
For now, a temporary access road is being used as an entry for construction workers only, but Arnold said stone pavers will be added to the road to stabilize it over the winter. Following that, the road will be paved.
The school also will construct a 2,000 foot-long connector road, dubbed Hillmont Drive, at the intersection of Mars and Franklin Road. The existing intersection of Franklin and Old Mars Crider Roads then will be converted to a right in/ right out design, according to Cranberry officials.
Cut through a swath of wooded land, Hillmont Drive also is expected to help keep school traffic off a residential portion of Mars Crider Road.
"There's still a lot of work to be done with storm sewers and drainage, but that's moving along as well," Arnold said.
Arnold said construction on the high school is expected to be complete by January 2014. The school's furniture, security systems, and other specialty items will be added to the building between January and August—before the start of the fall semester, Arnold said.
"The nice thing about that is we'll be able to take a few months to iron out any issues we may have," he said.
A library, auditorium, gymnasium and a two-story classroom all will be part of the new North Catholic High School, according to Arnold. Other amenities include SMART Boards (interactive whiteboards) and wireless capabilities for the classrooms.
"We are trying to have it as state-of-the-art as we can within our budget," Arnold said.
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If you're feeling anxious about how U.S. kids lag the world in science and math, or just in a funk about politics or the mess in Europe, take in this story of a high school freshman from Crownsville, Md. who came up with a prize-winning breakthrough that could change how cancer and other fatal diseases are diagnosed and treated.
His name is Jack Andraka, and he loves science and engineering with every inch of his 15-year-old soul. Just spend a minute or so watching this video. Seriously, do it now before you read more. Nothing from the Oscars or Grammys comes close to the unabashed excitement and joy of Andraka charging up to the stage to accept his $75,000 grand prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in May. This is the Olympics of youth science, with more than 1,500 entries from 70 countries competing, each of which already won their national competitions.
I first saw Andraka present his discovery at a TED worldwide talent search in New York two weeks ago. In only three minutes he had the audience dumbfounded with the results of his work: a paper test strip that uses minute changes in conductivity to detect targeted viruses or antigens faster, cheaper and more accurately than today's standard diagnostics. It seems too good to be true, but the panel of judges at the Intel science fair are not rubes. For a teenager he is disarmingly forthright and direct in talking about complex chemistry, but he's also good at making it understandable to the lay person.
Andraka's diagnostic breakthrough is a humble piece of filter paper, except that it is dipped in a solution of carbon nanotubes, which are hollow cylinders with walls the thickness of a single atom, coated with a specific antibody designed to bind with the virus or protein you're looking for. Andraka's key insight is that there are noticeable changes in the electrical conductivity of the nanotubes when the distances between them changes. When the antibodies on the surface of the nanotubes come in contact with a target protein, the proteins bind to the tubes and spread them apart a tiny bit. That shift in the spaces between tubes can be detected by an electrical meter. Andraka used a $50 meter from the Home Depot to do the trick but, he says, doctors can just as easily insert his test-strips into the kinds of devices used by millions of diabetics around the world.
(Update: Readers have pointed out that Andraka is not the first to create a sensor of carbon nanotubes coated with antibodies. Here is a paper from 2008 by researchers at the University of Delaware who created an exceptionally sensitive sensor for cancer breast cells, and a July 2009 paper from researchers in South Korea working with prostate cancer cells.)
A nanotube sensor with a targeted antibody is extremely sensitive. In a single-blinded test of 100 patient samples, Andraka's sensor spotted the presence of mesothelin, a protein commonly used as a biomarker for pancreatic cancer, at a limit of 0.156 nano grams per milliliter, well below the 10 ng/mL considered an overexpression of mesothelin consistent with pancreatic cancer. It's also 100 times more selective than existing diagnostic tests, which means no false positives or false negatives. It ignored healthy patient samples as well as those with mere pancreatitis. Compared with the 60-year-old diagnostic technique called enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (or ELISA), used in pregnancy test strips and viral checks for HIV, West Nile and hepatitis B, Andraka's sensor is 168 times faster, 26,667 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive. It can spot the presence of the cancer-linked protein well before the cancer itself becomes invasive. This could save the lives of thousands of pancreatic cancer victims each year. The sensor costs $3 (ELISA can cost up to $800) and ten tests can be performed per strip, with each test taking five minutes. It can be used also to monitor resistance to antibiotics and follow the progression of treatment of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation.
Andraka is in the process of patenting his invention and will soon be submitting his work for publication through the American Association for Cancer Research. He's also speaking before Congress on June 25 about the need for more funding on pancreatic cancer, which has a horrific 5.5% survival rate. He says he's been contacted by four companies, including Quest Diagnostics, about potentially licensing or commercializing the idea. "I got a really fierce patent lawyer right after I won ISEF," says Andraka, laughing, from his home in Maryland.
Andraka, born in 1997, is a science prodigy who has been engaged in inquiry with the material world since he was three. When he was in grade school, his father, a civil engineer, bought him and his older brother a plastic model river with running water. The boys would throw all kinds of foam boats and objects down the river and see which ones would drown and how different objects would impede the flow. His parents, he says, never really answered any of the questions they had. Go figure it out for yourself, they would say. "I got really into the scientific method of developing a hypothesis and testing it and getting a result and going back to do it again."
The family has a wood shop in their garage with "every kind of saw you can imagine," says Andraka, and when he became fascinated with bioluminescent bacteria he built a box to test how they would fluoresce in the presence of different stimuli. He entered his first international science competition in the sixth grade and won a silver medal and then won gold medals in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades. One early project was a safety retrofit for low-head dams, which are notorious for causing drowning accidents. Other projects included a method for detecting toxins in water using glowing bacteria and studying the effect of nano particles on other bulk particles.
Andraka is well-rounded kid. He takes a full boat of courses, a few AP classes and pre-calculus, English and Spanish II. When he's not studying, he's also competing in math olympics and is on the junior national whitewater rafting team and kayaks the Cheat and Youghiogheny rivers in West Virginia.
His advice for kids (and their parents) trying to figure out what to do with their creativity and imagination: "Make sure to be passionate about whatever it is you get into, because otherwise you won't put the right amount of work into it." Andraka was rejected by almost 200 researchers in his search for a lab to do his nanotube strip work until one scientist at Johns Hopkins gave him the space to work. "No one will be excited about your work if you're not excited about it."
For now Andraka is going to continue promoting his breakthrough test, which he says will "completely replace the ELISA test" within a few years. He'd like to explore how to put multiple antibodies on a single test strip to check for a variety of agents in the bloodstream. And what about the rest of high school? Andraka says "hopefully" he will finish North County High School in Glenburnie, Md., but if he does form a company to commercialize the nanotube test strip, he will put high school on hold.
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in short: Whats different is the use of SWNT-Paper to detect pancreatic cancer marker. (and not for Environmental Toxin)
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His innovation is to use this technique for pancreatic cancer detection, and to do a study that shows the remarkable sensitivity and specificity of this technique.
The leap of thought that is required to use previous published studies in one field and translate them into a completely different field is something i believe only a very young researcher is capable of.
Anyone that has ever tried to conduct a medical study of any kind can appreciate the achievement here
The leap of thought required here is rather simple – if you read the above referenced paper you'd see everything was almost the same.
Not only so, if you dig further, this study is far from innovative. The above referenced paper is but one of such papers, another 2008 paper used the same way to detect breast cancer: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836232; this 2009 article detects prostate cancer: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481922, and even a nanotube for dummy site described using nanotude and antibody to detect virus/bacteria.
Frankly the kid had done some copycat work and lucked out to win the top prize. It's shocking that he did not give any reference to so much work done in this field for years (or maybe media chose not to pick up any).
This news article also has a shamelessly sensational title – the finding did not change cancer treatment – it vastly improved pancreatic cancer detection. One could imagine the biggest benefit being that early detection might lead to prevention, but there's no discussion on whether that is true at all.
I'm rather disappointed at the sensationalist title and failure of the media or even the kid himself to give proper credit to the real inventors.
This sadly cannot be served as a proof of anything about this nation's education. If anything, this goes to expose Intel's "top science competition" to some extent.
Oh, don't be such a downer. The heart of the article isn't about a kid who was trying to win $75K in a science prize money, stomping on others and not giving credit where credit is due, for the sole purpose of recognition and claim to fame in the world of medical science.
It's about a kid who is passionate about things in the world and finding the means to go about achieving things greater than people would expect from kids at his age – and that's refreshing and encouraging, and hopefully inspiring to other kids his age.
Sure, he may have not followed the proper research protocol, done the due cross-checks, or given credit to references he may or may have not been aware of. But instead of being critical/cynical about a 15 year old kid who wanted to help people like his uncle who died from pancreatic cancer, we should be concerning ourselves about what we're doing today to foster kids like this who can bring forth real change in the world for the next generation.
Bravo! I agree with pretty much everything said here. The idea has been around and there are several similar papers. As far as I can tell, Mr. Andraka has not succeeded in publishing his work in any journal, which is rather telling.
Either Mr. Andraka is blissfully unaware of the scientific literature, or he simply does not believe in proper attribution. I checked his 2013 science fair project posted at http://www.aacps.org/science/Andraka-abstract.pdf. He says he made a quantum cascade laser with standard photolithography. Quantum cascade lasers are among the most difficult things to make since they require hundreds of layers of ultra pure materials made with atomic precision. How Andraka made one with standard photolithography is beyond my comprehension. The other component of his work is a photodetector which is virtually identical to the one reported in the journal Physica E, Vol. 44, page 1478 (2012). Again, no attribution to the original inventors.
Finally, I am in complete agreement with the last statement. Sensationalist articles written by non-scientists render no service to science. Incidentally, I too have no confidence in the judging at Intel's Science Fair. It leaves a lot to be desired.
Opportunity is what makes America unique. I came here from Europe as a penniless teenager and was given undreamed-of opportunities that would never have been available to me over there. As a result I also contributed far more to American society. Since I retired I have endowed a fellowship that now gives many other kids the same great opportunities that I enjoyed.
Wish we could "Like" on Forbes. This comment deserves on! :)
Margie Remmers
As a researcher I applaud his ingenuity and perseverance.
And Andraka's not the first teen to tackle cancer, either. Within the past year, Shree Bose won the Google Science fair with a potential cancer treatment (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=her-summer-pastime-cancer-research) and Angela Zhang won the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology with a nanotechnology-based potential cancer treatment (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/angela-zhang-high-school-_n_1207177.html).
It's inspiring to see so many teenagers not only interested in tackling these kinds of problems, but having access to the knowledge, information, prior research and facilities to actually conduct this level of research. In reference to Mark Fidelman's concern, I guess we can hope that with publicity like this, more labs will be open to providing the needed space to teenagers. Not every teenager's research is going to cure cancer, but it sure seems that a lot of them are trying!
This is beautiful – this is simply innovative an forward thinking. Best wishes to him as he enters the world of self centered scientists who for many years have been trying to do exactly what he has done.
When the ego gets in the way – people die.
We need more articles like this.
With so much negativity in the media, this is absolutely refreshing and inspiring for the rest of us to push on towards what we do in life.
Bravo to this kid.


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Clarence G. Katz, 92, died Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, at Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City.
Clarence G. Katz, 92, died Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, at Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City.
He was born Oct. 8, 1920, at Offerle, to Harold John and Mary Elizabeth Nall Katz.
He married Mary S. Mader in 1942.
He was a farmer, cattleman and a partner in Garden City Roofing before retiring. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.
He was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, was a past commander of the Garden City VFW and also the Elks Lodge.
Survivors include his longtime companion, Juanita Crotty of Garden City; two sons, Stan Katz of Garden City and John Katz of Shell Knob, Mo.; two daughters, Jolene Katz of Mulvane and Traci Brown of Derby; a sister, Martha Raitt of Rose Hill; a brother, Harold Katz of Offerle; five grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Mary; a son, Clarence (Jerry) Katz; a brother, Robert Katz; and two sisters, Josephine Stegman and Dorothy Stegman.
Vigil service is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mary Catholic Church. Funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
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Mancos resident Logan Ott has been a fixture in the Durango running community for many years, most notably as a former collegiate runner for Fort Lewis College and four-year recipient of the Marc Witkes Memorial Cross Country Scholarship.
In 2011, Ott was named the FLC scholar-athlete of the year and received the Dr. Troy Bledsoe award, which is presented to a senior student/athlete who best exemplifies the balance of excellence in athletics and academics.
"Although not particularly fast at the collegiate level, I have received recognition for having a good balance of brains and brawn," Ott said.
Ott's family lived in Cape Town, South Africa, between 1999 and 2003. His father was a diamond geologist and coached cross country at the local primary school. Logan has fond memories of predawn training runs with his father during those years.
"Dad was my first running role model," Ott said. "Seeing him run all the time convinced me to try it."
Ott's first real competitive running experiences were in 2003, when, as a freshman, he ran for Mancos High School.
"I was so inspired by other Mancos kids, like Clayton Smith and Ian Mullikin, who actually made it to run in college," Ott said.
Another important role model was Brianne Lippoldt-Nelson, who was the distance coach for the MHS track team during Ott's senior year.
"Brianne's presence was a big inspiration for our team," Ott said. "She encouraged me to join FLC cross country and told me about the Marc Witkes Scholarship."
Lippoldt-Nelson is an All-American FLC cross country alumna and currently competes for the Boulder Running Club Adidas Team.
Over the years, Ott has won numerous local races, the Steamworks Half Marathon and the Community Cares 5K to name a couple. Most recently, he won the newly resurrected Durango Double marathon.
"The Durango Double was my first marathon," Ott said. "I wanted to try something new."
Already setting his sights on another marathon, he said, "I'm thinking about running P.F. Chang's Rock 'N' Roll Arizona Marathon in January in Phoenix. The competition, low elevation and flat terrain will be great for fast times."
Running is like an adventure for Ott. He still gets excited about encountering animals along the route, watching the seasonal changes and running on windy obstacle-filled trails.
"Although most of my runs are in the forest, I do track workouts and road races because it helps me increase my speed and accomplish new personal records," Ott said.
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A measure that limits the states preschool program mainly to 4-year-olds from families who live at or below poverty passed a House committee Tuesday, despite a mothers plea that the tighter restriction would exclude children in need.
Rep. Justin Burr, the bills primary sponsor, said lowering income eligibility to 100 percent of the federal poverty level would better align the number of children eligible with state spending on the program.
The recorded vote approving the bill was 14-4. It next goes up to a vote of the full House.
Republicans have been considering lower income limits for the program for a few years. In his budget, Gov. Pat McCrory also reduced the income ceiling though not as low as Burrs bill. McCrory, who places the ceiling at 130 percent of the poverty level, also adds $52.4 million and 5,000 slots to the program over the next two years.
Almost 25,000 children are now in the Pre-K program, though many more qualify.
The current income limit is about 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Disabled children and those from military families are also eligible, bringing the total number of eligible children to more than 61,000, said Burr, an Albemarle Republican.
The number of eligible children would drop to 31,000 under the new limit, but the bill would not eliminate any Pre-K seats, he said. This year, a family of three at 100 percent of the federal poverty level would earn about $19,500.
The preschool program, started in 2001 as More at Four, is intended to prepare children for school who are at risk of failing.
Parents attended the meeting to ask legislators to vote against the bill.
You will leave many children who need help behind, said Jennifer Ferrell of Apex, mother of 3 1/2 year-old twins. She suggested the legislature pay for Pre-K enrollment with the nearly $4 million its set aside for the voter ID bill.
In an interview after the meeting, Jamie Jensen of Holly Springs said her 3-year-old daughter would not be able to follow her older sister into N.C. Pre-K because the family income of $37,000 a year would be too high under the new guidelines.
Theyre putting the future of our children at risk, she said. Why are we doing this to the kids?
Funding and eligibility requirements for the program triggered a protracted fight between the Republican legislature, former Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue and the courts. The GOP budget in 2011 cut 20 percent of the Pre-K budget, though Perdue used money from other programs to pay for more children to go. Wake County Superior Judge Howard Manning ruled that the legislature could not erect barriers to Pre-K for children at risk of failing in school. Legislators appealed, and the Appeals Court upheld Mannings decision.
A national report on preschool this week found that North Carolinas program had the largest decline in enrollment, by percentage, than any other state in 2011-12. Enrollment dropped 19 percent as state spending declined 20 percent.
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By Richard Hain
One of the things that has always puzzled me is the number of palliative care services that have the word 'pain' in the title. Why do we concentrate so much on that one, admittedly unpleasant, symptom? Why 'Pain and Palliative Care Services' rather than, for example, 'Vomiting and Palliative Care Service' , 'Dyspnoea and Palliative Care Service', or even 'Sadness, Anger, Existential Anguish and Palliative Care Service'?
That's the problem with trying to describe palliative care. The whole point of palliative care is that it is holistic – a word that has acquired a certain flakiness, but which in reality simply refers to looking at the wholeness of a person, rather than focusing on only one domain (such as physical symptoms), or even one specific symptom (such as pain). But the purpose of a definition, by definition, is to set limits around a concept. There is a sense in which defining something as holistic is a contradiction in terms. Yet that is what we have to do in palliative care, if we are to communicate some sense of the task of caring for children and adults with life-limiting conditions; a sense that encompasses both the idea that it is holistic and that it is specialist (there are some things you need to learn to do to do it well).
The clue to the nature of palliative care is in the name: 'care'. It is a care whose aim is not cure. In the United Kingdom, we have recently seen the results of misunderstanding what palliative care is all about. As in most countries that are resource-rich (or, at least, would have considered themselves as such before the global recession), the United Kingdom sometimes struggles to avoid the temptation to over-intervene. Even where it is overwhelmingly unlikely that an intervention will help – such as when death is inevitable – we in resource-rich countries can't help ourselves. Sometimes we have to do something even if we know it is more likely to damage a patient – considered holistically – than it is to help them. That is not because anyone is trying to be cruel, but simply because if you are a doctor faced with a very sick patient, it is hard not to intervene, even when the latter option would truly be the right thing to do.
So, if you want to improve the lives of people who are close to death, one really good way to do it is to offer doctors more support in doing less, and in doing it well. The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was designed to do exactly that. Its sole purpose has been to protect dying patients from the pain and indignity of useless interventions around the end of their life. Sadly, holding back on those interventions that will harm people can sometimes look, at least to the untutored eye, very like deliberately killing them. Even some philosophers find it tricky to admit that killing someone is not at all the same thing as refusing to try to prevent their inevitable death. So perhaps it is not surprising to find that, in trying to see who were the baddies here, the Daily Mail crashed clumsily down on the wrong side, screaming that babies were being euthanised using the Liverpool Care Pathway. But it isn't true.
The Liverpool Care Pathway hasn't really found its way into children's care, despite the Daily Mail's assertions. That's because it was designed for adults, mainly with cancer, rather than for children and the much larger range of conditions that can cause their death. There's nothing wrong with the concept. As in adults, the art and science of palliative care in children is to preserve wellbeing as far as possible, using all the tools at our disposal. To do that often means introducing some interventions – some medication, perhaps, or the opportunity to talk about fears, or the chance to decide where you or your child should die. But improving wellbeing can equally mean withholding interventions that would be likely to cause an overall damage to it. Good paediatric palliative care must mean knowing what procedures to leave out, as well as knowing which ones to introduce. Whatever some moral philosophers say, there is a big difference between actively hastening someone's death, and not trying fruitlessly to prevent death when to do so would mean making life worse. And whatever the Daily Mail may confidently claim, putting a patient on the Liverpool Care Pathway is not the same as euthanasia. Care pathways are pointers to the best way to avoid careless and harmful over-intervention. Properly used, palliation and pathways do exactly what they say on the tin; they care.
Dr Richard Hain is Consultant and Lead Clinician at the Wales Managed Clinical Network in Paediatric Palliative Care Children's Hospital, and Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Bangor University. He is co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children, Second Edition (OUP, 2012), with Ann Goldman and Stephen Liben.
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11 Responses to "Palliative care: knowing when not to act"
I have written about elder-care in Canadian hospitals and I have a lot of reservations about actually calling it "care." I feel the same way about the Liverpool Care Pathway. My mother's story provides a different perspective from the one posited in this article. It is published on my website and the link is:
As the mirror article says the LCP does not state with holding food and water it is just allowing patients to die naturally without active intervention such as artifically feeding them. I think medicine has sometimes gone too far as we don't know wen to stop, death is inevitable and im sure all of us just want a peaceful, pain free death been looked after by kind caring drs and nurses
Why do doctors and nurses delude themselves that patients want their intrusions at the end of their lives at all? They are just 'there' – if you cant DO anything medical to extend lives, why on earth just admit it, instead of 'caring' with morphine and midazolam overdoses ? How on earth can the LCP be so idiotic to prescribe morphine (and nothing else..no other drugs recommended at all) for 'breathlessness'…ever considered opening a window or using a fan? Its a Brompton's Latte….kick it back into the hospices – we couldnt get rid of the district nurse with our mother…we simply didnt want her there , and neither did our mum…it was like she'd seen 'Song of Bernadette' as a kid, and wanted some sort of praise for her 'caring'…total invasion of our last times together!
Mind you, the man who wrote the liverpool care pathway is obsessed with pain…odd he knows b.all about anything but morphine, with your umbrella organisation being sponsored by Napp pharmaceuticals…surprised his bereavement leaflets dont feature product placement!
I feel it should be up to the patient whether they want to keep going with medical treatment; that's the problem with the v.8 of this pathway – it was written in 2003, 2 years before the Mental Capacity Act came into force. If a patient wants to keep on giving it a go, I think you should too….there's a huge difference between the sort of problems patients with terminal cancer have , and those experienced by other types of terminal patients…and the LCP doesnt really give any useful advise on those …there's a wealth of difference between the types of 'agitation and distress' you experience with a painful cancer, and those you experience in the last days of renal problems…yet the drugs the LCP recommends are almost identical. Not everyone wants to be unconcious for days…they want to speak to their families at the end.
I was 'terminally ill at the age of 6 – I"m so pleased there wasnt a liverpool care pathway around at the time, as I'd probably be dead now (misdiagnosis). And don't give me the 'it doesnt hasten death' routine – we all know what morphine does, and what they do in hospices,etc etc..
For children who are terminally ill however, I would say that I had no concept of death, dying – no fear at all – only the adults were upset, so its a shame the bereavement section of the LCP is so badly written…even down to the colour of the leaflets (blue…such a cold colour)…its so impersonal…yuk, is my response frankly. Sort of 'automated-nursing' ….
DM is correct, insofar as 'babies' being euthenased with it…depends whether you extend the definition of 'baby' to anencephalic 'birth products' – whatever -
Agree with above comment…I've found palliative care staff really fake…and that is at two different MacMillan units…
I can't say I want any 'kind caring doctors or nurses' around when I die….if they've exhausted treatments, then just go away and leave us in privacy please….if there's nothing more you can do, what is the point? There is a certain amount of 'observer bias' in nursing..I think professionals want some form of relationship that simply doesnt exist. If we're at home, we don't really want the intrusion or inconvenience. My sister was given morphine and lied to, by being told it was not addictive…what right have these hospice staff got to deliberately lie like that to a patient? It ruined the last 12 months of her life, as she got junkie withdrawal symptoms every time the nurse was late turning up (which was very very often), and we couldnt go on cruise because of problems with taking meds to some countries…she wasn't in much pain when she was put on it either. All in all, palliative care is overrated…we managed to die before it was invented, and the notion that 'a nurse can make a difference to a bereaved person's grief level' was not accurate in our case…
"Even some philosophers find it tricky to admit that killing someone is not at all the same thing as refusing to try to prevent their inevitable death"
So what? Some philosophers thought it was OK to kill people to save health service costs….e.g. Karl Binding & Alfred Hoche…
Amazing how they give up on treatment of the elderly so soon, even where the patient doesn't want to give up on treatment, isn't it? Particularly if a particular surgeon has a long waiting list. We all saw how non terminally ill Mrs. Lee (Rusty Lee's mother) wasn't. I don't like the way this pans out at all….but I expect all the doctors who hate time intensive old patients will absolutely love this pathway…why dont they just throw them in a skip at the back of the hospital and have done with it? Instead of pretending they 'care'?


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I'm in a with a man who is recently and has two teenage daughters.
Okay, that just sounded like the start of some "Dear Abby" column.
Here's the thing—we met a few years ago through . Actually, he was my boss. And at the time he was married. We became good friends. I guess you bond with someone when you show up to work one day and have a complete breakdown in their office because the night before you were basically kidnapped by your ex boyfriend and had to jump out of a moving car.
But, that's another story for another time.
Anyway, we became close friends during that season but when the job ended so did our friendship.
He would email me after reading a and tell me he enjoyed it and I would email him when I saw he sold a show somewhere.
Otherwise, nothing. Until...
One day he called to tell me he and his wife were getting a divorce. It was a very mutual parting of ways and being that I was a seasoned divorcee I was there to lend an ear.
Fast forward... we're now a couple. And I'm happy to say this man would never kidnap me and force me to jump out of a moving car to save my life.
And although knows that her mommy and this man are boyfriend and girlfriend (her words, not mine) his kids do not.
Not really.
They know we're friends and hang out but he has not told them we're in a relationship. And neither of us have slept at each other's house when we have our kids.
Well, a washing machine exploding was about to change all that.
Last week, just on the eve of the eve of Thanksgiving, while doing a load of laundry my washing machine (which is on the second story of our home) broke.
I heard my little girl from downstairs call, "Mommy! The walls are leaking!"
I went downstairs to find water dripping from the walls, the vents the ceiling lights, and just about anywhere else it could seep through.
As I grabbed every towel I could find and even used the brand new now broken vacuum cleaner to try and suck up the water it was no use. The flood was on a mission to destroy.
I was told that they would have to tear open the ceilings, pull up the carpets, place enormous fans throughout the house and search for the dreaded "mold."
"It'll take three to five days. Maybe more depending on what we find. You'll need to find a place to stay."
Happy Thanksgiving?
So, I called my boyfriend and asked if Hannah, , and I could stay with him. He said yes and although he had his kids with him he would explain what was going on.
It's funny, we have talked for months about how and when the time would be right to sort've blend our lives. Let our kids get to know each other. Find time to do things with them.
Well, as they say, "the best laid plans of mice and men"...
The time, whether we were ready or not, had come. And for the past five days (and it looks like it's going to be a lot longer) we have had one big house of chaos and fun.
His girls, my girl, our dog, and two grown ups who are doing their best not to call each other "babe" or "honey" or grab each others ass.
And... it's been great. Meals, movies, and getting to know each other. All while wearing our pajamas and taking turns with the remote control.
The only part I feel bad about is that because my daughter and I are sleeping in his bedroom my guy has had to sleep on the couch every night. But, even with all of us together (and I have a feeling NOW his kids definitely know his dad is dating me) there are some things we can definitely ease into. Like sharing a bed.
Might take an earthquake to get to that step. After all, it took a washing machine to do for us what we were too scared to do for ourselves.
Sometimes there are gifts wrapped inside a disaster. This was one of those times.
And while I spent Thanksgiving day in the man of my dreams' kitchen as he and our daughter's watched the Macy's Day Parade I couldn't help but think... how absolutely thankful and blessed I truly am.


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Guy P. Harrison sent me this: 22 Messages From Creationists To People Who Believe In Evolution Here are my answers. Of course. No. Almost completely. No. Rotation of the earth. They don't. What about them? Deriving meaning is up to the individual. No: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis That's pithy and dumb. Who embraces it? Wrong. Sure, but tangentially. …
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This weekend… Russell and long time crew member / first time co-host Josh Burkhart take calls, and talk about slavery a lot, on The Atheist Experience. Russell and Lynnea spend time talking with Guy P. Harrison about his new book, 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True, on The Non-Prophets.


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Not to further flog an expired equine, but we're always curious about models' personal style as they are exposed to the best and freshest fashions in the world. They are intimately familiar with the newest looks long before anyone else, so they're good barometers for gauging which way the trends will blow.
Theories aside, models also just make some admirable and interesting clothing choices, like the awesome purple playsuit Georgia Frost wore backstage at Peter Som (second row, second image from left). We also dug the grunge pairing of dainty dress and tough boots Caroline Trentini sported upon her arrival at Michael Kors (second row, third image from right) and the oversized blazer Agyness Deyn wore over her tie-dye dress to Narciso Rodriguez show (first row, first image from right).


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Robert J. Pratt
Robert J. Pratt of Newfane, NY, fianc of Rabecca S. Jetter of Newfane, entered into rest on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 in Eastern Niagara Hospital, Newfane, NY. Robert was born in Ontario, Canada on February 23, 1958, the son of the late Alfred and Cecily Johns Pratt. He owned and operated a contracting company in Newfane.
Father of Maranda (Colin Golicour) Pratt of Ontario, Canada. Brother of Hillary Pratt of Ridgeway, Ontario. Step-father of Rebecca Knickerbocker, Keith Beam, Richard Boswell and Lacey Boswell. Also survived by three grandchildren and ten step-grandchildren.
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March 9-12, 2015 • Austin, Texas
SXSWedu's Advisory Board members play a critical role in helping shape SXSWedu by reviewing proposed sessions submitted via PanelPicker and providing their informed recommendations.
Given the growth of SXSWedu, our Advisory Board is similarly expanding and will include representatives from each of our principal audiences: education professionals in K-12 and higher education, business representatives and entrepreneurs focused on education goods and services, and policy makers and legislators.
SXSWedu 2014 Advisory Board Members
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Adam Gismondi
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Adam Jones
Indianapolis Metropolitan High School
Indianapolis, IN
Allen Weiner
Gartner, Inc
Scottsdale, AZ
Allison Dunn
NYC Department of Education
New York, NY
Amanda Alampi
Sunshine Sachs
New York, NY
Amanda Winkelsas
PLS 3rd Learning
Buffalo, NY
Amy Looper
OneSeventeen Media
Houston, TX
Amy White
Association of Texas Professional Educators
Austin, TX
Andrea Yz
Austin, TX
Angela Lin
Manhattan Beach, CA
Anita Givens
Texas Education Agency
Austin, TX
Ann Witherspoon
Midlothian ISD
Midlothian, TX
Anne Fertitta
AMD Foundation
Austin, TX
Anneke Swanson
AHB Community School
Austin, TX
Anthony Kim
Education Elements
San Francisco, CA
Audrey Watters
Hack Education
Hermosa Beach, CA
Beth Carls
OneSeventeen Media
Austin, TX
Betsy Corcoran
Burlingame, CA
Bill Corrigan
Accessible Web Consulting
Austin, TX
Cable Green
Creative Commons
Olympia, WA
Caleb Hood
North East ISD
San Antonio, TX
Carey Roberts
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA
Caroline Hammond
Texas Cultural Trust
Austin, TX
Caroline Vander Ark Davis
Getting Smart
Seattle, WA
Carri Schneider
Getting Smart
Cincinnati, OH
Cathy Carolan
Danforth Junior High
Wimberley, TX
Charles Severance
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Charles Wood
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
Chris Fancher
Decker Middle School
Round Rock, TX
Chris Thorn
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Stanford, CA
Christine Ortiz
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Orlando, FL
Cindy Burrow
Strategic Education Solutions, LLC
Austin, TX
Corrine Weisgerber
St. Edward's University
Austin, TX
Dan Kulmala
Fort Hays State University
Hays, KS
Dan LaSota
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK
Dave Banks
Mission Hills, KS
David Anderson
HillCo Partners
Austin, TX
David Brewer
Cornell University
Ithica, NY
David Conover
Pflugerville ISD
Pflugerville, TX
DeWayne Mangan
Concordia University Texas
Austin, TX
Diane Sekul
Cuero ISD
Victoria, TX
Donna Bahorich
Texas State Board of Education
Houston, TX
Drew Davidson
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburg, PA
Ed Valdez
Atlas Learning
Austin, TX
Emily Dalton Smith
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA
Eric Nentrup
Goodwill Education Initiatives
Indianapolis, IN
Erik Christensen
South Florida State College
Avon Park, FL
Felice Nudelman
Antioch University
Yellow Springs, OH
Frank Catalano
Intrinsic Strategy
Seattle, WA
Gasper Sekelj
Clarkson University School of Business
Potsdam, NY
Geoff Fletcher
Vashon, WA
George Rislov
Compass Learning
Austin, TX
Honoria Starbuck
Art Institute of Austin
Austin, TX
Hossein Bidgoli
California State University-Bakersfield
Bakersfield, CA
Hugh Norwood
Trinity Education Group
Clarksville, MD
Isa Adney
Community College Success
Lake Mary, FL
Jac de Haan
Seattle, WA
Jaime Casap
Phoenix, AZ
James Basham
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
Janet Bray
Bray Strategies
Arlington, VA
Jane Pook
NYC Department of Education
New York, NY
Jay Goyal
Actively Learn
Seattle, WA
Jeff Grabill
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Jeff Wayman
Wayman Services, LLC
Austin, TX
Jennifer Groff
Learning Games Network
Cambridge, MA
Jennifer Rees
Civitas Learning, Inc
Austin, TX
Jim Knight
TSL Education Ltd
London, UK
Joel Thierstein
Kentucky State
Frankfort, KY
John Boyer
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
John Cammack
Cammack Associates, LLC
Towson, MD
John Fitzpatrick
Educate Texas / CFT
Austin, TX
John Maeda
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
Johnny Veselka
Texas Association of School Administrators
Austin, TX
Julie Newton
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Austin, TX
Katherine Burdick
Mobile Learning Services
Tucson, AZ
Kathy Hurley
Pearson Foundation
Arlington, VA
Katrina Stevens
Tuscany Group
Baltimore, MD
Kent Charugundla
New York, NY
Kevin Hogan
Tech & Learning Media Group
New York, NY
Kierstan Schwab
Texas PBS
Austin, TX
Kim Sivick
Philadelphia, PA
Kris Justice
The New Teacher Project
Atlanta, GA
Kwee Lan Teo Yam
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Austin, TX
Lane DeNicola
Oxford College of Emory University
Oxford, GA
Larissa Conte
San Francisco, CA
Linda Medina
Austin ISD
Austin, TX
Lindsey Own
The Evergreen School
Shoreline, WA
Liz Gossens
Hager Sharp
Washington, DC
Lori Gracey
Texas Computer Education Association
Austin, TX
Marcela Gomez
KIPP Austin Public Schools
Austin, TX
Marie White
Independent Consultant
Seattle, WA
Marisa Kaplan
New York, NY
Mark Andrus
Texas School Safety Center
San Marcos, TX
Mark Bounds
Academy of Contemporary Music
Surrey, UK
Mark Rogers
Meridian School
Round Rock, TX
Martha Feferman
Austin Community College
Austin, TX
Martin Moran
Francis W. Parker School
Chicago, IL
Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
Sound Pollination
Santa Fe, NM
Michael Bettersworth
Texas State Technical College System
Austin, TX
Michael DiMaggio
Council of Chief State School Officers
Washington, DC
Michael Mayrath, PhD
Knōd.net - Global Learning Network
Austin, TX
Michael Mills
University of Central Arkansas
Little Rock, AR
Michael Staton
Learn Capital
San Francisco, CA
Natalie Glover
AMS Pictures
Austin, TX
Neeru Khosla
CK-12 Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
Nicole Melander
Achieving the Dream
Silver Spring, MD
Peter Nilsson
Deerfield Academy
Deerfield, MA
Raymond Rose
Rose & Smith Associates
Corpus Christi, TX
Ritu Jain
San Francisco, CA
Roxana Marachi
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
Sarah Collins
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Eugene, OR
Sharon Jackson
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Stephanie Cerda
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Stephanie Richter
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL
Stephanie Sandifer
Lagniappe Learning
Houston, TX
Steve Kupfer
Brooklyn, NY
Steve Amos
Cyberways and Waterways
Austin, TX
Steve Rappaport
Rappaport Consulting
Brooklyn, NY
Steven Freidmutter
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Susan Brown
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Austin, TX
Thurman Nassoiy
Region 4 Education Service Center
Houston, TX
Tom Burnett
Apple, Inc
Austin, TX
Tricia Berry
The University of Texas at Austin Women in Engineering Program
Austin, TX
Venita Reidy
Kaplan Test Prep
New York, NY
Victoria Calder
Texas School Safety Center
San Marcos, TX
Yancy Unger
Five Star Academy
Bedford, IN


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What You Learn From 60,000 Pregnancies in Eight CountriesBabies born to healthy, educated mothers have one major thing in common.
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Senate Briefing on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Republican and Democratic Senators announced a resolution urging the Obama administration to guarantee that any ceasefire agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also ensures…
Republican and Democratic Senators announced a resolution urging the Obama administration to guarantee that any ceasefire agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also ensures…
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) along with several Senate Democrats talked about legislation to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs. The…
Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf briefed reporters and responded to questions on a variety of international issues.
Members of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Conference Committee considered amendments to H.R. 3230, the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act…3 views
The House convened for a legislative session.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) briefed reporters and responded to questions on a variety of issues.69 views
Two astronauts appeared live via satellite from the International Space Station (ISS) to testify at a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing on microgravity research taking…28 views
Witnesses testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. policy options for Iraq's long-term security.71 views
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Acting Secretary Sloan Gibson and other Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) executives testified at a House Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing on the VA's efforts to address problems…176 views
The Senate convened for a legislative session.56 views
Christopher Masingill talked about what the Delta Regional Authority was doing to combat poverty and improve quality of life in the Mississippi Delta region. Mr. Masingill was…70 views
Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced proposed policy reforms to reduce poverty in the U.S. Following his speech, Representative Ryan and others participated in a panel discussion on…86 views
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CBID approves grant for Urban Outfitters project
The Central Business Improvement District's board of directors on Monday approved a $500,000 grant for improvements to a downtown building that is being eyed by retailer Urban Outfitters.
Developers Tim Hill and David Dewhirst pushed for the grant to support public and facade improvements at the Arnstein Building, at the corner of Market Street and Union Avenue near the southwest corner of Market Square. While board members raised questions about how to pay for the grant and how it will impact other downtown priorities, no board members voted against the grant.
According to Hill, Urban Outfitters has presented a letter of intent for the space, but the deal has not been finalized. He said the retailer wants the space to be ready for them to begin tenant improvements by October, and that they are looking at opening in March 2011.
Oh great! more WELFARE for over-leveraged downtown developers.How this helps the 95% of knoxville citizens that dont go downtown and have no plans to go downtown is beyond me.
I am sure that the city government in cahoots with the devlopers will make some obscure statement about economic benefits ,tax base,destination this that or other.
But as Joe dodd once remarked :if its such a great project ahy cant it stand on its own?
I suppose we will be propping up some other project next week,but then again didn't we hear the same bull from Chris whittle ,Jake Butcher and others.
Just think what CAS WALKER could have done with such government welfare.
Cas Walker would have steered the money to his own grocery store AND directed Federal transportation monies for highway access to his store.
Guess what? Suburban industrial parks offer tax-incentives of this sort all the time. Failure to do so means jobs and businesses go to Chattanooga instead of Knoxville.
The pure free market is a fiction.
Steve your comments lead me to believe...you live a very dull, uninspired life.
While you complain about 'economic benefits' being provided to a nationally recognized retailer, thousands of Knoxvillians are celebrating a victory for the city! Yet another move towards revitalizing our great city.
Steve I invite you to visit downtown...it's a wonderful this city!
I am constantly amazed at the both the naivete and pessimism that commenters like Steve present. Historically, there have been developers and citizens who have unwittingly advocated destroying the city by diluting the energy of it by embracing sprawl and ignoring the city's real assets and heritage. And there have been those, like Cas Walker, who pretended to be "watchdogs," but were, in fact, greedy, self-serving naysayers who sought power and control by blocking anything resembling progress that didn't benefit them personally.
I am also amazed at how those same developers and citizens were content to watch and laugh while downtown decayed so that their "projects" could succeed--but now jealously scream when there are those who recognize the mistakes and seek to see Knoxville as the city it once was, a vital urban environment.
The price of ugly is obvious--the value of reclaiming our urban heritage is priceless.
Well: The people with the vested interests did wake up and warm up their Apple laptops fortunately their feelings were hurt BOOO HOO! Cry in your Latte.ITS WELFARE PEOPLE and if you think shopping for overpriced "trendy" clothes while eating fishbait /I mean sushi/is exciting I will take boring any day.Address this 1:Its welfare for an a clique of people who generally vote benefits to their political buddies.2.If all of these projects are/were so wonderful why couldn't the developer secure private financing??? :3 Most Knoxvillians don't want to go downtown,don't intend to go downtown and most shop in their neighborhood shops.
REFUTE THESE POINTS!Please use a logical argument excluding"energy ,urban excitement" and all those other silly buzzwords that some people spout while doing P.R. blurbs. Its one person or group simply wanting to make a buck.
Suburban industrial parks provide jobs that pay quite a bit better than hotel hell or restaurant scullery .These are OLD buildings people about as historical as a Krystal location.The best thing that could have happened is someone could have renewed this area with with a Caterpillar D3 before the taxpayers got suckered for more pigs in a poke.
Does anyone know where that $500,000 comes from? I mean, does it come from sales tax and property tax revenue, or has it been collected from the members of the CBID?


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From Staff Reports
Corsicana Daily Sun
Corsicana — A listing of meetings and events on interest from throughout Navarro County
Jan. 2
Eureka Crime Watch WILL NOT meet in January due to New Year's Day. Regular monthly meetings will resume in February. Have a safe and happy holiday, and remember all those who go in harm's way on our behalf.
Jan. 3
Blooming Grove Crime Watch will meet at 7 p.m. at the Blooming Grove Fire Station. The speaker will be Navarro County Sheriff Elect Elmer Tanner. Light refreshments will be served and everyone is invited to come and hear our new sheriff.
Jan. 5
Mary Peterson Child Care Center will hold a concert and reception at 7:30 p.m. at The Cook Center. The purpose of the concert is to raise funds for a new facility to be constructed for Mary Peterson Child Care Center. This awareness event is themed "Bridge to the Future — Mary Peterson Child Care Center."
Jan. 7
The City Of Blooming Grove will hold its Monthly City Council meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Blooming Grove City Hall, 200 S. Fordyce, Blooming Grove, TX 76626.
Jan. 8
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1009 will meet at 7 p.m. at the Sirloin Stockade, 2508 West 7th Ave, Corsicana. Membership is open to U.S. armed forces veterans who served on active duty (for other than training purposes) in the Republic of Vietnam between Feb. 28,1961 and May 7,1975, or in ANY duty location between Aug. 5,1964 and May 7,1975. The veteran must submit a copy of his/her DD Form 214 along with the application and dues. Members and guest are invited to come early and eat and visit prior to the meeting.
The Corsicana Emergency Corps., located at 416 South 12th Street in Corsicana, will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting at 7 p.m. The general public is invited to attend. Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. For further information, please call (903) 872-5072.
Jan. 10
The Corsicana Newcomers' Club Lunch Bunch will dine at the Corsicana Country Club at 11:30 a.m. Please call Pat Schroeder at (903) 872-9663 for more information and to be included in the reservation for this fun afternoon.
Jan. 14
Woodmen of the World Lodge 5 will have its meeting at 6 p.m. in the Lodge Hall at 200 W. Oak Lawn. All members, their families and guests are cordially invited.
Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University will begin a seminar at Grace Community Church located at 227 North Beaton Street in Corsicana. The classes will begin Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. Contact Shawn Stauffer at (903) 874-7300 for more information or to register.
Jan. 17
Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University will begin a seminar at Greater Love Outreach Fellowship Church located at 800 Northwood Blvd. in Corsicana. The classes will begin Thursday, Jan, 17, 2013 at 6 p.m. Contact Barbara Kelley at (903) 874-7273 for more information or to register.
Jan. 31
Navarro Regional Hospital's Healthy Woman program presents An Evening with Elizabeth Smart at 6 p.m. at the IOOF Event Center. Elizabeth's presentation not only tells her story of being abducted in 2002 and held prisoner for 9 months, but also discusses topics such as overcoming extreme adversity and not allowing your past to dictate your future. Tickets are available at NavarroHospital.com/HealthyWoman. For more information or table sponsorships, please call Anna Paul at (903) 654-6871.
Feb. 17
For The Love of Art Show and Sale presented by the Star Harbor Watercolor Society will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. in Star Harbor City Hall, Location 99 Sunset Blvd., Star Harbor, TX northwest of Malakoff. Directions: TX Hwy 198 turn on FM 3062, City Hall is across from the golf course. For more information, please call (903) 489-0091. Refreshments provided.


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My three year old daughter says hate is a bad word and I try really hard not to let an h-bomb fly. That said, I hate "the pound." The term, that is. It comes from the word impoundment, and dates back to days when shelters impounded tons of animals and very few of those animals left alive. Our world has changed drastically, but the term stuck, unfortunately.
We feel we've done our share to live up to the kinder, gentler humane society which is part of our name and has been since the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA was incorporated in 1952. Let me give a few examples.
In the 1970s, our shelter took in 45,000 dogs and cats annually; perfectly healthy and well adjusted dogs and cats were euthanized by the dozens each week simply because we ran out of space. Incoming animals overwhelmed our resources and far outnumbered the people looking to adopt. In each of the past several years, we've taken in fewer than 10,000 and we've found homes for 100% of our healthy, adoptable dogs and cats. By providing low-cost spay/neuter services for three-plus decades, by employing full-time veterinarians, behaviorists and adoption counselors who "get" customer service, we have completely changed the picture for homeless dogs and cats.
We're humane in other ways. We never turn away an animal in need, despite the fact that an animal may need significant medical care or behavior work. This includes stray and owner-surrendered domestic animals as well as sick, injured and orphaned native wildlife. We employee specially-trained humane investigators who respond to calls about animals being mistreated, and we work with our District Attorney's Office to see that abusers are punished. And, our Education Department reaches thousands of schoolchildren each year with our important messages; sixteen 9-12 year-olds are here this week for Animal Camp.
There's more. We shelter pets belonging to domestic abuse victims so they can leave their abusers and we help other people in crisis, like the dozens of San Bruno residents who needed temporary sheltering for their pets when the horrific gas explosion left them homeless. And, for the past two years, we've been working with inmates who live with and train shelter dogs.
Despite all this, we still get "the pound." I got my dog from the pound in San Mateo. Do you really work at the pound over there by Coyote Point? Someone from the pound gave a talk at my Rotary Club meeting.
In 75 days, this will change. Our people, programs or animals won't change, but the community's perception will and this will be good for the animals. In 75 days, the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA is moving many of its programs and people, and all its adoptable animals into a brand new state-of-the-art center 2.5 miles north of the facility at Coyote Point.
The Peninsula Humane Society & PSCA's Tom and Annette Lantos Center for Compassion at 1450 Rollins Road in Burlingame opens September 10. Inside this 54,000 square foot green facility, dogs will be housed comfortably in 20 dog "dorms," not sandwiched, side-by-side in chain link kennels which elevated stress levels and encouraged barking. Cats, too, will have room to roam in cat condos with lots of glass, no bars. Visitors will have viewing windows into a wildlife treatment room, a kitten nursery and a dog training and socialization room with a retractable roof and one-of-a-kind water wall feature; they'll catch glimpses of vital work that has been behind the scenes. Front office staff won't be plopped down on chairs behind a big counter that has all the charm of the local DMV. They'll be out with the animals and visitors.
Please visit. Visit if you are looking to adopt a new pet. Visit if you adopted a pet from our old place. Visit if you simply love animals. Visit if you're curious or if you like interesting architecture.
Scott Delucchi is the spokesperson for the Peninsula Humane Society.


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Finally, football is back. Now, with a ridiculously short time for teams to sign rookies and free-agents before training camp, let the roster insanity begin.
The NFL players and owners seem to be getting tantalizingly close to a new CBA. It gives a fan hope that we won't have to face a fall without football.
The NFL Lockout is, apparently, legal. Good thing they clarified that.
Some details are emerging about the proposed CBA from the NFL Owners meeting in Chicago.
Are teams making illegal contact with their team's players during the lockout? If so, why doesn't everybody do it?
Pro Football Talk is reporting that the National Football League could, potentially, shut down. No, that is not a typo.
The NFL is expected to appeal to the Eighth Circuit Court and ask them for a stay as well, but for now, the lockout is still lifted. The NFL will be telling the teams how to proceed on Thursday. But, for now, it looks like things could get pretty interesting.
Roger Goodell wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Hellfire and brimstone coming soon.
If the lockout is lifted, it could potentially be very good news for the Minnesota Vikings, particularly on the free agency front.
Next Media Animation has released their take on the NFL Lockout.
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