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Saint Mary's Health Plans (SMHP) was established in Reno in 1993, initially as a health maintenance organization (HMO) affiliated with Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center. It now consists of HealthFirst, the HMO; Point-of-Service health plans; Saint Mary's Preferred Health Insurance Company, which provides PPO health plans; and CDS Group Health, a third-party administrator. For more, visit www.saintmaryshealthplans.com.

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It could be they're doing nothing. It could just be they've lucked out and have a naturally social, adventurious, anxiety-free child. Great for them, but not too helpful for the rest of us.
However, not all these cheerful tots are innately courageous. Many -- probably most -- of them have had to be taught the pain-free drop-off, and, very likely, have to be reminded every so often. (Why does a formerly chipper child suddenly become clingy? Sometimes there's a clear cause-and-effect, but most of the time it's just one of life's little mysteries.)
Often, the child makes the most fuss when it's the mother dropping them off. Many families choose to have daddy or a family friend drop the child off, and let the mother do the end-of-day pick-up. It's straightforward, and if it works for you, that's generally the simplest solution. However, maybe the child cries no matter who drops them off; maybe mom has no other option but to do the drop-off. Then what?
There are two schools of thought on this one (when are there not?). One has the parent staying to ease the child's transition. The other has the parent taking no more than a couple of minutes to make the transition. In one, the parent often comes into the room to play with the child. In the other, the parent stays firmly in the door.
There are pros and cons to each. You'll consider your preferences, your child's character, and your child's caregiver's input. I'm not going to get into the pros and cons of each right now. We'll skip past that and get to the point where, no matter which method has been used, the parent is about to leave.
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Suns' Babby: Losing is painful, but no rash decisions will be made
The Suns entered play Wednesday with a 12-24 record to go along with a three-game losing streak. They've lost nine of their last 10 games.
Yet, when Suns president of basketball operations Lon Babby looks at where the team is, he says things are moving along pretty much as scheduled.
"What we've tried to do and the way I would try to describe it and the way we talk about it a lot in our office is we want our soil to be fertile," he told Arizona Sports 620's Doug and Wolf Wednesday with regards to the Suns having a bevy of quality players but a lack of a true star. "And we want to have all the pieces in play so that when we get the kind of player that we all know we need, all of the culture, all of the soil has been cultivated so we can sprout and grow quickly."
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The Suns possibly being so close, yet, so far from being good is not easy for Babby to stomach. His team is rapidly digging a hole that will be difficult climb out of, and while the Suns have been in the NBA's draft lottery each of the last two years, this is by far the worst they've been in his tenure.
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So, in other words, don't expect the Suns to make a move solely because of the recent struggles.
"You can't operate out of panic or, as painful as it is for us, for Alvin, for our players, to be in the throes of this kind of situation, you can't exacerbate it by making rash decisions that are going to feel good in the short run and not be good in the long run," he said. "If I'm not doing that then I don't belong in the job."
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It was the first official weekend of summer, but Marvin Kersey got chills Saturday.
or a group of local children, a camp this week was much more than just a fun time.
Logistics students from the Effingham College and Career Academy are distributing books to schoolchildren across the U.S., but some of their most-rewarding deliveries have been right here at home.
The city of Guyton, the Guyton Historic Preservation Commission and Guyton Leisure Services hosted a Flag Day ice cream social with free homemade ice cream and sherbet Friday at the Trail Along the Rails across from Guyton City Hall.
The Exchange Club of Effingham learned about the services available at Goodwill's new community career center in Rincon.
The Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society (LDSS) is holding Camp Buddy summer camps. These educational, therapeutic and fun camps run over two weeks in Chatham and Effingham counties this summer.
Planning for the 4th annual Effingham Oktoberfest is under way, said incoming Chamber of Commerce President Dinah King, and it is going to be the biggest Oktoberfest yet.
Effingham Cadet Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) recently received donations from the Effingham County Board of Commissioners and SM Promotions of Rincon.
The Effingham County Chamber of Commerce paid tribute at its annual meeting Thursday to two leaders the community lost in 2012.
The Effingham branches of Live Oak Public Libraries kicked off the annual summer reading program June 1 with a special celebration at the Rincon Library. Activities included arts and crafts, stories, face painting, bubble play and more.
Family Promise of Effingham volunteers are sporting new t-shirts to get the word out that "falling asleep in church is such a blessing."
Local BB&T bank employees delivered help by the bagful to the United Way of Effingham County.
The Civil War Experience in Rincon attracted several hundred people last month, which organizers considered a good turnout for a first-time event.
After a yearlong closure and almost $750,000 spent on upgrades, the Evans County Public Fishing Area reopened Saturday with an influx of 37 young anglers - and about as many parents and grandparents - at the start of National Fishing and Boating Week.
Dozens of people lined up outside the new Goodwill retail store in Rincon in anticipation of its grand opening Thursday morning.
Effingham Health System will host a golf tournament to benefit local charities March 28 at Lost Plantation Golf Club.
The Georgia Conservancy recognized the work to purchase Thompson's Island on Ebenezer Creek near Springfield and the Cumberland Island's alternative spring break volunteer program at its annual oyster roast March 1.
The Georgia Department of Transportation is seeking input on the proposed reconstruction of Highway 119 from Magnolia Place to Highway 21 in Effingham County.
The Coastal Georgia Council, Boy Scouts of America recognized outstanding community leaders and volunteers at the annual Silver Beaver Banquet on Feb. 22.
The Kiss-a-Pig campaign is personal to Mimi Hayes.
March is Red Cross Month, and the American Red Cross would like to recognize the nation's everyday heroes who reach out to help their neighbors when they are in need.
Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Kalyn M. Morris graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas.
People considered at high risk for type 2 diabetes are urged to get tested during the annual American Diabetes ALERT Day on March 25.
For the fifth year in a row, Effingham County will have a participant in the Kiss-a-Pig campaign, the largest fundraiser of the year for the American Diabetes Association.
The Effingham Chamber of Commerce is setting the table for the annual Taste of Effingham, set for Thursday from 5-7 p.m. Chamber Director Rick Lott said that as of Feb.16, there were 14 booths signed up to provide food and beverage to the audience at the Effingham County Recreation and Parks gymnasium on Highway 119 in Springfield.
Air Force Airman 1st Class Fallyn R. Wright graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas.
Nearly 280 years ago, the people who would be Effingham County's first European residents gathered in Germany to begin a trek that took them to The Netherlands, England and eventually to the new settlement of Savannah. Last week, a group from Halle, Germany, made the trip to see where those original Salzburgers established their new homes.
Barbara Prosser, chief executive officer of the Effingham College and Career Academy, spoke at the Feb. 5 meeting of the Exchange Club of Effingham County.
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Long-awaited Legislative Fix Unlikely
SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS – Agnieszka Przeszlowska, the newly hired director of the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership, surveys a strange little confluence in Ironton Park near Ouray. She's standing just below what would normally be Crystal Lake reservoir (the lake was recently drained for dam reclamation work). Two creeks flow together near her feet and continue their co-mingled journey into the Uncompahgre Gorge.
One, which usually feeds into the reservoir, boasts crystal-clear water filtered through the wetlands complex of Ironton Park. The other, channeled to the spot via a culvert under U.S. Highway 550, is a rusty brew of dissolved heavy metals including silver, copper, lead and zinc.
This is Red Mountain Creek. It picks up a good bit of its heavy metal load from the richly mineralized mountains of its headwaters. The rest can be traced to acid mine drainage and leaching from the waste rock piles and old abandoned mines that are prolific in the area.
"You can just see the difference in water quality, based on the color," Przeszlowska said. "The Ph here drops as low at times as 2 or 3 (7 is neutral). When you get closer to the draining mine adits, it gets even more acidic."
The Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership, a grassroots coalition of citizens, nonprofits, local and regional governments, and federal and state agencies dedicated to understanding the Uncompahgre Watershed, would like to do something about this caustic problem child. Red Mountain Creek is, after all, a tributary of the Uncompahgre River, and one of the main reasons why the southernmost portion of the river is deemed "impaired" – or, as some would say, dead, because it cannot support aquatic life.
The coalition has recently identified its top priority as improving water quality so as to remove impaired segments of the Uncompahgre River from the State of Colorado's list of impaired streams.
Thus, Przeszlowska is watching with interest current efforts headed up by U.S. Senator Mark Udall (D-Colo.) to find a way to allow so-called Good Samaritans (ranging from individuals to citizen groups like UWP to governmental and nongovernmental agencies) to take on projects to improve water quality in areas where there are abandoned mines, without fear of incurring liability under the Clean Water Act.
Reclamation experts have found plenty of ways to shore up leaky old mines and reduce acid mine drainage flowing into impaired watersheds. These range from simple fixes, like reducing the amount of water entering into the mine by building plugs or diverting the water around old workings, to treating drainage with settling ponds, wetlands, limestone drains, or some other form of passive or active treatment.
But certain provisions in the federal Clean Water Act create major stumbling blocks to such efforts. The Clean Water Act likes big, perfect fixes – like permanent water treatment pants that cost millions to build and millions more annually to operate, and which convert toxic water into potable stuff that fish can cruise around in.
So-called Good Samaritans have had to walk away from more modest mine cleanup projects for fear that if they don't bring the discharge water all the way up to CWA standards, they may be sued by a third-party citizen or even another environmental group.
Pat Willits, the executive director of the Ridgway-based Trust for Land Restoration, which helps communities deal with a myriad of issues related to abandoned mining, explains the liability problem like this: "Good Samaritans are spooked by the 'citizen suit' provision of the Clean Water Act, which says that if someone suspects a violation of the Clean Water Act, a citizen may begin a legal action and if successful, the defending party will have to pay all of the legal expenses of the citizen's group. If they are unsuccessful, the defendant does not have recourse to countersue."
Remember that old parable from Sunday School about the Good Samaritan? The one about the traveler who was beaten, robbed, and left half dead in a ditch alongside the road? Two local passers-by refuse to help the injured fellow. But then along comes this foreigner from Samaria – reviled by the natives of the land – who stops and tends to the victim. Let's say he puts a few bandages on the guy to staunch the bleeding. Not a perfect fix. But better than no help at all.
That Good Samaritan may have thought twice about lending a hand, had he known he was traveling through a litigious land where he could get his pants sued off by the victim's best friend, mother-in-law or any random "third party" on the street for failing to restore the victim to perfect health.
That's pretty much what's keeping potential modern-day environmental Good Sams, as they're often called, from helping clean up the hard-rock mine waste of a century ago – particularly those nasty places where acid mine drainage is oozing out of old abandoned adits and polluting streams and river basins across the West.
"If we can't make it perfect, we can't do it at all," lamented Elizabeth Russell, a mine restoration project manager for Trout Unlimited, a group that works for conservation, protection and the restoration of North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. "If we make an improvement to the water quality coming out of a draining mine by building a passive treatment system and we clean up the water but don't get it clean enough to meet stream standards, we open ourselves up to Clean Water Act violations.
"Our heart is in right place, but it's too much of a risk" Russell said. "We aren't concerned with the state or EPA coming after us. It's the citizens' provision that is risky; anyone could sue us under the Clean Water Act for discharging without a permit."
The matter has never been tested in court. But even the specter of legal threat has been enough to deter Good Samaritans from touching the problem of acid mine drainage with a ten-foot pole.
Two decades' worth of efforts to shield would-be Good Samaritans legislatively by creating a new provision in the Clean Water Act (including, most recently, U.S. Senator Mark Udall's Good Samaritan Cleanup of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2009), have floundered in Congress, due to fears from environmentalists about opening up the Clean Water Act, even for such benign and altruistic purposes as protecting Good Samaritans.
"The fear is, if you open it up just a little bit to amend it, does someone try to drive a truck through it and strip out the integrity?" Udall legislative aide Jimmy Hague explained. "They don't like the trade off."
Fed up with past efforts, Udall is now taking a new approach. He believes that updating, or even simply clarifying, Environmental Protection Agency policy may accomplish pretty much the same thing as legislation in terms of affording legal protection to Good Samaritans.
The agency already has some existing guidance that encourages potential Good Samaritans to enter into voluntary agreements with EPA or federal land management agencies that helps to facilitate certain kinds of Good Samaritan cleanups.
As they stand, these protections are considered good enough protection for Good Samaritans to undertake reclamation projects that do not include direct attempts to improve water quality beyond, for example, rerouting a stream so it does not flow through a mining waste dump, or preventing water from flowing into old mine workings.
Trout Unlimited has conducted some cleanups utilizing these provisions. Other examples can be found in neighboring San Juan County, where the Animas River Stakeholders Group has spearheaded cleanup projects in the Mineral Creek drainage with considerable success in terms of water quality outcomes.
But current EPA protections don't explicitly extend to water quality improvement projects at point-source discharges such as the draining mine adits that pollute Red Mountain Creek.
Udall and fellow U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) teamed up over the past year to send two letters to the EPA, asked the agency to dig deeper into its policies, to see if there are more opportunities under current law to further incentivize the cleanup of abandoned hardrock mines – and their acidic drainage – by Good Samaritans.
"These parties need specific guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency so that they are fully informed about cleanup opportunities and they need certainty that they will not be subject to enforcement under the Clean Water Act for taking appropriate actions to address contamination at abandoned hardrock mines," the trio of senators asserted in their most recent letter to the EPA, which was penned in February 2012.
The EPA is expected to issue a ruling on the matter sometime soon. Very soon.
"The word is 'any day, any day, any day,' we will be getting this determination," said Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett, who has led an effort among her fellow county commissioners across the region, state, and nation to rally behind the Good Samaritan cause.
In March, due to Padgett's efforts, the National Association of Counties adopted a resolution supporting legislation and/or policy that would immediately limit liability for Good Samaritans.
Many of her fellow commissioners across the West were only too well aware of the problem; acid mine drainage flows from more than 160,000 abandoned hardrock mines in the U.S.
But it was a steep learning curve for others, some of whom at first thought Padgett was asking them to legislate people being nice to each other.
"I'm not kidding," she said. "They really thought that."
Most folks who are familiar with the issue agree that it will ultimately take an act of Congress – ideally a very narrowly crafted one – to fix the Clean Water Act liability problems. But everyone agrees that an administrative solution through the EPA is better than nothing. And, Padgett and others argue, it's not just about cleaning up the messes made by old mines. It's also about helping new mines to establish themselves and flourish.
"This is about the economy," said Padgett. "It will help new mines get permits. If the water quality is improved in our watersheds, then they should be able to have a better time getting discharge permits for modern-day mines. We just don't even know what modern, post Clean Water Act mining looks like in our area."
The Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership, meanwhile, is looking at three potential cleanup sites in the Red Mountain area. None of these projects involve directly treating acid mine drainage.
If Senator Udall's efforts with the EPA succeed, or even better, if Good Samaritan legislation eventually passes, the group is eager to take on active, larger-scale remediation directly affecting water quality in the area.


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The Faculty of Arts and Education offers courses across the humanities, social sciences, communication, media, the creative industries and teacher education and life-long professional education. The Faculty has a strong international reputation for the quality of its research and scholarship, and our research continually informs the teaching and learning environment.
The unique and very broad mix of disciplines offered by the Faculty will make your studies at Deakin intellectually stimulating and relevant to the future work force. From the humanities, social sciences and creative arts, our courses aim to develop graduates who are multi-skilled, flexible, entrepreneurial, and self motivated. We provide students with opportunities to gain relevant professional practice through work placements and internships (including international opportunities). The courses reflect the changes that are occurring in professional life and the workplace as a result of globalisation, technological change and the convergence of media. Our graduates who are active global citizens, understanding the social, political, cultural and economic forces that are transforming the world.
Our programs in Education are comprehensive, ranging from early childhood and school education through to community education, vocational and workplace learning and university teaching. We place equal emphasis on the development of professional knowledge, professional practice and professional engagement. Faculty staff and the Faculty's programs are recognised as having a long-standing commitment to social justice and being responsive to emerging public ideas and issues, adapting and revising study programs to include current educational and social issues and concerns.
Through your Arts and Education degrees you will gain marketable, transferable skills in research analysis, lateral thinking, writing, communication and team work. You will also develop knowledge specific to the areas/disciplines of your choice.
The Faculty utilises information and communication technologies such as online learning and web-based delivery to provide innovative and relevant programs for all students-undergraduate as well as postgraduate.
Our courses provide a foundation for life long, independent learning, and prepare you for the global workforce of the 21st Century.
I am sure you will enjoy your studies and come to realise for yourself, that degrees in Arts and Education really do make a difference.
Professor Gael McDonald
Welcome to Deakin's Faculty of Business and Law.
In this Handbook you will find information about the structure of our courses and the units we offer in the areas of business and law. Please use this Handbook as a guide when planning your studies.
Our students are located on three Campuses - Melbourne Burwood Campus, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus and the Warrnambool Campus. Our students have the option of studying full time or part time, on campus or off campus, in Australia or overseas, through Deakin Studies Online.
The Faculty has five Schools - the Deakin Business School and the Schools of Accounting, Economics and Finance; Information Systems; Law; and Management and Marketing. The Faculty offers an extensive range of both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Our Faculty is committed to providing business and legal education that is responsive, innovative and relevant to the needs of our students and their future employers. We also undertake research that supports our courses and contributes to the furthering of knowledge in the relevant discipline areas. We also maintain close relationships with professional associations, other universities and teaching institutions, business, employers and government- in Australia and internationally. My colleagues and I look forward to meeting you at Deakin in 2011.
Professor Maxine Duke, Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor
The Faculty of Health is recognised internationally for its contribution to the health field in teaching, training, research and service. Deakin Health is one of the fastest growing health faculties in Australia, with student and research income growth averaging 11.0% pa for 2006-2010. This has enabled us to assist governments, communities and organisations in advancing health and social policies and programs. Our strategic intent is to achieve the Deakin mission and core commitments through improving health and well-being, and by strengthening the health and human services sectors in Australia and internationally.
Deakin Health teaches around 8,000 students per year through 40 externally accredited undergraduate and postgraduate courses leading to the graduation of approximately 1500 health professionals per year. It is structured into five schools which are responsible for teaching 19 health disciplines and sub-disciplines at campuses and health services in Geelong, Burwood, Ballarat, Warrnambool and other locations in Melbourne and Western Victoria. The Faculty has more than 1,000 academic and general staff, including 65 professors and 70 research fellows. Deakin Health comprises the Schools of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Health and Social Development, Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, and Psychology. The Faculty has been designated an official World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention and Related Research and Training. It also hosts the National Centre for Farmer Health, the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes, the Centre for Health Action on Social Exclusion, the Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, and the Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health. On 1 May 2008 the Prime Minister formally opened the School of Medicine, Victoria's third medical school with a special focus on regional and rural health needs. At the end of 2011 our first cohort of medical doctors will qualify.
The Faculty has a number of key research strengths which are organised around five 'Strategic Research Centres': Molecular and Medical, Physical Activity and Nutrition, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Population Health, and Quality and Patient Safety. Many of our staff our international leaders in their field and have won prestigious awards and prizes. We also have a very active research training programs at honours, masters and doctoral degree levels.
Through our schools and research groups we work collaboratively with a wide number of external organisations. These include federal and state governments, schools, hospitals, health centres, non government organisations such as Diabetes Australia, community groups, international bodies such as World Health Organisation, commercial companies, and other universities at home and overseas. We also have a number of highly productive partnerships across the sector, which commonly include joint appointments at professorial level.
All these activities reflect a broad range of interests and expertise. They demonstrate Deakin Health's strong and vibrant commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of all people in Australia and our surrounding region. We warmly welcome you to join us in advancing this important work.
Professor Chris Gray
All science faculties believe in the value of research and teaching, yet there are differences in emphasis and approach to core activities. So what makes us different?
We provide a stimulating and friendly environment for study, in which students have ample opportunities to interact with staff and engage in vigorous discussion of ideas and concepts relevant to their courses.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at Deakin University has distinctive objectives, expressed through four core values aligned to teaching and learning, research and research training, community engagement and staff empowerment.
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In 2001, Deakin University was listed as having the highest rate of growth in research income of all the Australian universities. Whilst there is some exciting long term scientific research underpinning this achievement, the faculty's expertise in forming partnerships has played a key role in enabling the faculty to be a major research driver in the University.
In this context, the faculty is a great place to start an academic career. Early career academics are mentored in teaching, research, entrepreneurial activity and interactions with Government. The faculty's programs are delivered through four Schools - Architecture and Building, Life and Environmental Sciences, and Engineering and Information Technology.
Courses are offered at the following Campuses: Melbourne Burwood Campus, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, Geelong Waterfront Campus and Warrnambool Campus. This blend of regional and city Campuses enables Deakin to offer a unique range of opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate study and for staff sabbaticals.
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What a weekend in sports!
The WHL championship was determined last night between the Edmonton Oil Kings and the Portland Winterhawks. Jumping out to a quick 1-0 lead less than two minutes into the game, the Oil Kings never looked back on their way to the 4-1 win and the WHL championship. The Oil Kings will play in the Memorial Cup which begins May 18 in Shawinigan.
On the ice in the NHL, the conference finals began with a Western Conference showdown as the Phoenix Coyotes hosted the Los Angeles Kings. This was the Coyotes first ever appearance in the conference finals. It turned out to be a losing effort as the Kings dominated play earning the 4-2 victory.
Coming off two straight losses to the New York Yankees, the Seattle Mariners had to pin their hopes on Kevin Millwood in the final game of the series yesterday. Bending but not breaking, Millwood battled his way through seven strong innings while the Mariner offense chased Yankees starter, Andy Pettitte, after 6 1/3. Mariners win 6-2 and head to Boston for a two-game series starting today.
Tragedy struck the Idaho Vandal football team this weekend. Walk-on wide receiver, Ken McRoyal, was shot and killed early Sunday morning in California. McRoyal was visiting his daughter and other family members there through May before planning to return to Idaho in June for workouts. McRoyal had been attending a party when he was killed. Police are investigating.
Plenty of prep action over the weekend in baseball, softball, soccer and track. One of the most dominating performances of the weekend was Kennewick's 17-4 baseball victory over Mt Spokane in 3A regional action. Kennewick's win earned the #1 seed to state which will be held in Yakima this week.


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Whistler's vibrant arts and culture scene flourishes year round with a multitude of cultural offerings from engaging fine art gallery exhibitions, lively music and dance performances and First Nations culture to international film and culinary events. With its rugged outdoors and breathtaking scenery, Whistler is the place to find inspiration and let the creative spirit roam free.
The Whistler Insider Explores Whistler's Arts and Culture
From music to theatre, film, food and photography, there is more to Whistler than an outdoor playground. No matter which season it is, there is an event celebrating the arts - choose from music festivals, art exhibitions, film and photography competitions and performances from visiting international artists.
Whistler's community is committed to improving the arts and culture scene. The following institutions work tirelessly to promote the arts and provide opportunities for locals and visitors to experience Whistler's unique culture:
For more than 25 years, the Whistler Arts Council (WAC) has served as the resort's arts & culture "umbrella organization". WAC's mandate is to coordinate, stimulate and promote the growth of performing, literary and visual arts in the Whistler area through ongoing music, dance, theatre, festivals and other events for locals and visitors.
The Whistler Film Festival Society (WFFS) is a charitable cultural organization dedicated to furthering the art of film by providing programs that focus on the discovery, development and promotion of new talent culminating with the must attend, 5-day Whistler Film Festival for artists, the industry and audiences in Whistler over the first weekend of December. The WFFS produces one of Canada's leading film festivals and plays a leadership role in offering project development programs and opportunities for filmmakers.
The Whistler Gallery Association was formed in 2012 by the eleven commercial art galleries with locations in the Whistler area. Most of the galleries are in Whistler Village, with two located in the Function Junction district, 8 minutes south of Whistler Village and one in Whistler Creekside, 5 minutes south of the Village. The Association represents the interests of Whistler's commercial fine art dealers, and provides a venue for co-operative marketing campaigns such as the Whistler Gallery Walk.
The Whistler Public Art Program Committee meets monthly to discuss art projects and sets the program for obtaining and implementing public art. The Committee consists of ten volunteers who are appointed by Council and includes: artists, gallery owners, Whistler Arts Council members, business community members, urban designers and developers, a member of Council; and Whistler residents who are passionate about art. Members have knowledge of contemporary art, are committed to excellence, and represent the community. They are also responsible for managing all public art projects to ensure that they are safe and durable.
As well as a number of art galleries that house collections of world-class fine art, Whistler has a thriving public art program supported by the municipality and the private sector, and includes legacy works that were commissioned by the organizing committee of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). Artworks are located throughout the Village, Village North, Upper Village and Whistler Creek as well as in the Village and on the Valley Trail.
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I know, I know, the sky is blue, the Earth is round, the sun rises in the east and big-time college football is corrupt. But what's unique about this story is that it was the coaches themsleves who were giving the players money. Usually when a big-time football or basketball program is caught doing this sort of thing, it's boosters and agents giving the players money and benfits while the coaches are careful enough to put buffers bewteen themselves and this type of activity in order to maintain plausible deniability. However, Auburn seemed to have taken a more hands-on approach.
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AUSTIN -- Lawmakers huddle with heads together in the session's final days, hammering out deals to pass key legislation before the gavel falls for good. With twelve days remaining in the regular session of the 83rd Texas Legislature, they have plenty to talk about.
As a conference committee of five state representatives and five state senators works behind the scenes to rectify differences between the House and Senate on state budget bill SB 1, funding for education, transportation infrastructure and water continue to dominate the discussion.
"All of those three things are still in the arena," state Rep. Larry Gonzales (R-Round Rock) told KVUE Tuesday. "How one plays against the other, how one is leveraged against the other, what that priority is; how much money? Where does the money come from? Those are the questions that we still have a lot of work to do in a very short amount of time."
Meeting with media Tuesday afternoon, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Pitts (R-Waxahachie) announced a budget deal was close at hand. The tentative agreement outlined by Pitts would set aside $2 billion from the rainy day fund to bankroll the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT), a financing vehicle for water projects that voters would be asked to authorize through a statewide constitutional election in November.
In order to put a constitutional election on the ballot, the House would have to pass SJR 1 with a two-thirds vote, requiring one hundred House members voting in favor. Democrats have expressed interest in the measure, provided that Republicans agree to put additional funding into public education. Pitts said Tuesday the current proposal would increase funding by $3.2 billion, yet many Democrats hope to fully restore the $5.4 billion cut from public education last session.
"That tells me that there's a billion and change left on the table, and frankly I think at this juncture that's not an acceptable amount," state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) told KVUE Wednesday, the day on which budget leaders had hoped to announce a deal was done. "I don't really think there is this 'compromise,' but I do believe there is a desire to find one."
Emphasizing that Democrats support funding the state's water needs, Martinez Fischer argues the goal of restoring education funds is equally important.
As the budget talks continue, Martinez Fischer says the "magic number" when it comes to compromise will be up to the budget conferees to determine. Meanwhile SJR 1 would have to be reported from the House Appropriations Committee by Saturday and placed on a calendar by Sunday. The final day for the House to consider SJRs on second reading is next Tuesday.
"When a hundred people are satisfied that we have reached common ground and found a common solution, then I think you're going to see white smoke emanate from the chimney at the Capitol," said Martinez Fischer. "There are members of both parties that are putting themselves in a room, locking the door, rolling up their sleeves and really trying to reach a compromise. That is reassuring to me."
"Stay tuned, because I don't think anybody knows," said state Sen. John Whitmire (D-Houston), a member of the SB 1 conference committee. "It's just very fluid, and that's not totally unusual for this time of year, but we've got some pretty big numbers that they're not agreeing on."
Pointing out the Senate passed SJR 1 with a unanimous vote, Whitmire suggests the majority of the hangup is on the House side. Meanwhile, Whitmire predicts lawmakers hoping to return to their districts after the May 27 adjournment sine die could be called back for a special session.
"I did bet a Coca-Cola that we'd probably be here in June, and that's just my judgment," said Whitmire, suggesting that redistricting, guns and tax cuts could be issues addressed in a special session.
At the same time, he cautions talk of a special session could have a significant impact on how the rest of the regular session plays out.
"What happens is when you think you're going to have a special anyway, you lose some of the urgency of getting a budget," Whitmire said. "There's some of that circulating."


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During his second year at UIS, student Dan Garcia faced a terrible crisis: his father lost his job as chef manager at a cafeteria outside Chicago. "My greatest challenge at college has always been financial," he says. "We were able to pay for college by balancing loans, grants, and scholarships, but when my father lost his job, my parents lost their ability to qualify for educational loans."
Dan's father came to the U.S. from Mexico in 1980. It took several years to gain his citizenship. Neither his father or mother has a college degree. Throughout his life, Dan's parents have sacrificed to offer him the best educational opportunities available. A college degree for Dan has always been their goal.
"When my father lost his job, what was already a tense situation—paying for college—became even more difficult," Dan says. "I thought hard about taking a semester off to work so I could save up money and help out my parents."
That would have been a shame, even though Dan definitely planned to come back. Dan is a leader on campus, especially through his work with the Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center. He often gives campus tours to prospective students during which he readily shares how much UIS has meant to his personal and academic development.
Quite simply, he's one of those students who elevates the college experience for everyone he meets. Having him go would have been a terrible loss.
Fortunately, with help from the privately funded Ringeisen Scholarship, Dan was able to meet his tuition payments and never had to leave school. His father is now employed again, this time as a sous chef, and Dan's financial concerns are back to the status quo—which is to say, still tense but manageable. As he goes into the coming year, he's eager for classes ("I've discovered I really love learning") and making plans for the future.
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Ever since President Obama ran and won on the slogans of "hope" and "change," I have been pondering the new hopefulness in America, and its already evident erosion in the popular polls. Hope is, apparently, much like the desert sands, looming high as dunes, only to shift and is appear in the changing winds each season.
The expectations of each generation are largely defined by the circumstances of childhood according to the socio and psycho theorists, and so the concept of hope differs over generational time.
My generation was largely hopeless and thereby freer than any before or since. The atomic bomb and the resulting over reaction to the threat it posed convinced us that the world would, some fine day, disappear in a blinding white flash, followed by mass traffic jams of survivors and the decline of civilization to some new stone age. With that as a background vision of limited future, we became self-indulgent, risk taking narcissists dedicated to the "now" of everything in a newly existential world.
Our parents (the so-called greatest generation) by contrast, had suffered the economic crisis of the thirties and their hope was for a return of jobs and wages to allow the American dream to flower once again.
They remembered the Gilded Age and what had been lost in the Great Depression, and after winning a war they hoped to return home to peace and comfort. Security was their theme, including a dedication to military affairs that both comforted the fearful and boosted the economy by war production.
The result has been a series of minor wars overseas to keep the military industrial complex fat and Americans generally frightened of the Communist Menace internationally, and its adherents within the labor and civil rights movements.
The current crop of graduating youth, pierced, tattooed and miseducated to a degree unimaginable in prior eras, face a future in which jobs are a shrinking segment of the economic base and industrial job skills are being made obsolete by robotic manufacturing, here and abroad. They must compete in a world labor market that is inflated with two-dollar-a-day, third-world workers both overseas and at home as hordes of economic refugees breaching our borders. With a skill set that spans the gamut from motorcycle racing and hacky sac, to skate board acrobatics, their idea of hope seems to be long on achieving stardom and remarkably short on longterm planning.
With hope fading, change is in the wind and the next generation had better learn to sail.
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Remember back last summer, when Harvey Pitt vowed to run a kinder, gentler Securities and Exchange Commission than his predecessor, Arthur Levitt?
With Enron and all that has come after, last summer might as well be a lifetime ago. The audit firms are finding little sympathy at the SEC or even on Capitol Hill these days. On July 24, a Senate-House conference committee agreed upon the most sweeping changes to securities law, corporate governance, and the regulation of auditors since the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Not even the legendary lobbyists for the big auditors could water down Sen. Paul Sarbanes's (D-Md.) bill in conference committee. Meanwhile, Pitt, who has had to recuse himself from more than a few SEC investigations in the past year because of his former ties to business, has been fighting to hold on to his post. Since the calls for his resignation started, he has been sounding less kind and gentle by the day.
Pitt's problems mark the end of an era. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which passed both the House and the Senate by huge majorities and was signed into law on July 30, is intended to fundamentally change the relations between public corporations and their auditors. It will place new restrictions on the services that auditors can provide for their clients, and it will establish an independent board to oversee the industry for the first time in its history.
Congress isn't the only purveyor of new regulations affecting auditors. The New York Stock Exchange will prohibit auditors of listed companies from serving on the boards of clients for five years. Meanwhile, Nasdaq-listed companies will be prohibited from hiring former auditors at all levels for three years. "No one could have imagined all the changes that have happened and are still happening in the industry," says Ed Nussbaum, CEO of Grant Thornton LLP, which, with $342 million in revenues last year, will be the sixth-largest audit firm in the country after Arthur Andersen officially ceases operations on August 31. "It's mind-boggling."
The ultimate responsibility for financial statements may lie with corporate managers, but by any measure, the audit firms have failed miserably in their role as financial watchdogs. And with their profession about to undergo a major overhaul, they have been a very quiet voice in the reform debate. "There's a void of leadership in the audit industry," says Michael H. Sutton, a former chief accountant at the SEC who testified in the Sarbanes hearings. "The firms are all in defensive mode."
For corporate executives, that defensive mode already means tougher, more-expensive audits and less wiggle room when it comes to the interpretation of accounting rules. "If anything, [the auditors] have become overly conservative," says David Banks, head of corporate communications at First Data Corp. The Sarbanes Act is no immediate cure for a deeply shaken market, but it may go a long way toward fostering a more independent and adversarial role for auditors of public companies. "It's a very different environment from nine months ago," says Nussbaum. "Instead of focusing on whittling down our fees, senior executives and audit committees are challenging us to make sure we're doing an adequate job."


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Juliette Fay was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1963, the first of three daughters. The family moved to Massachusetts when she was 3. With just one very cranky black-and-white TV in the house for much of her childhood, Fay developed a great love of books, one particular favorite being The Boxcar Children. She was deeply impressed by the siblings' bravery and self-reliance—and the shocking lack of squabbling and hair-pulling.
At age 12 Fay began to write a journal, a practice that would continue for many years. Though it began, as most preteen journals do, with a basic recitation of daily drama, Fay soon experienced the joy of narrating her life to her own specifications. Those journals have made their way safely to obliteration, but she remembers them fondly as the vehicle that drove her love of writing.
Fay received a bachelor's degree in human development and theology from Boston College in 1984. Upon graduation she began a yearlong stint in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle, Washington, where she served as an emergency shelter worker, and was very quickly treated to the bleak realities of...
Fay received a bachelor's degree in human development and theology from Boston College in 1984. Upon graduation she began a yearlong stint in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle, Washington, where she served as an emergency shelter worker, and was very quickly treated to the bleak realities of homelessness. Fay spent two more years in Seattle and cofounded a child-care center for children of homeless families. Returning to the Boston area, she continued her career in human services, which included teaching at a school for autistic children, working at a state child abuse prevention agency, and running a parenting education program. She also waitressed quite a lot to supplement her often laughable income. In 1992 she received a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Along the way she met and married her husband Tom, also a former Jesuit Volunteer, now an attorney in Boston. They have four elementary- to high-school-age children. Fay took time off from work in state and municipal government after her third child was born, and always assumed a return to that career path lay somewhere in her future. However in 2005, with the youngest then 2, fate intervened when she read a really bad book. It made her wonder if she couldn't do a little better—if she could just commit to paper the stories that seemed to run in her head like movie marathons on a daily basis. She began tapping away at her computer each day while the younger kids napped, between the fights over who pinched who first and late at night after the older kids had wrestled their homework to the ground.
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For some people deciding to do treatment is not always an easy decision. There are a lot of factors to be considered. Perhaps the main concern with HCV treatment is the adverse effects that can be caused by the pharmaceutical drugs used in its treatment.
Making this decision can also raise other questions and issues. Some people might have strong views about the pharmaceutical industry or about putting chemicals in their bodies that do not occur naturally. But for the time being it may help to try to put any prejudices aside and to concentrate on the pros and cons of treatment itself:
The major advantage which treatment offers you is that it's the only 'proven' way of clearing the virus. People have undoubtedly cleared the virus in other ways, but only in very small numbers. So far there has been no other way that has been shown to work more consistently than interferon and ribavirin.
Treatment has also been shown to improve the health of the liver by reducing inflammation. It may also be able to reverse fibrosis or even cirrhosis. Although less often, this can also happen even in people who do not clear the virus.
Aside from health, there may be other benefits from clearing the virus. One of these could be financial. You should find that any insurance connected with your health becomes significantly cheaper. This could make an important difference to your mortgage.
If hepatitis C has made you incapable of working, once the virus has been cleared you may find you can go back to work. Knowing that you are no longer carrying an infectious and harmful virus may also help you to feel better about yourself.
If you are a woman, there is a small risk of passing hepatitis C to any child you give birth to. Clearing the virus would remove that risk.
If treatment is successful then you no longer risk infecting other people, through such ways as sharing a toothbrush or razor.
The major disadvantage to treatment consists of the side effects. Not everyone necessarily experiences them. There are things you can do to keep them to a minimum but it's possible that you may feel quite unwell some of the time. It can take a few months after the treatment ends before the drugs are cleared from your system. Ribavirin can take up to 6 months to clear. This could impact on your work (you might have to take time off), on your relationships, and on your social life. This might mean you have to tell people that you are doing treatment and therefore that you have hepatitis C.
Occasionally, the side effects can be so severe that they could force you to abandon treatment. You could be left with an illness after you stop treatment, such as thyroid disease or diabetes.
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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:This sort of doesn't fit, but, uh, i'm going to post it here anyway without comment:
Just, well, watch.. if you can make it through the 5 minutes.
Anonymous wrote:naqt is much worse than plagiarism could ever hope to be
rpond wrote:QuizBusters' questions are apparently provided by NAQT. The game results are posted on NAQT's site.
Kyle wrote:Edit: there is also this video from the same tournament, featuring a spectacular and very physical buzzer race at 6:29.
Joey wrote:I found that Japanese gameshow Oxford, Harvard, MIT and some other went on last year: http://vimeo.com/41135736
Password is bwc
zachary_yan wrote:A bunch of video from [school's] intra-campus tournaments, apparently running on NAQT intramural sets.
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The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) is an online bibliographic database of teaching and learning materials for over 100 Less Commonly Taught Languages.
The LMP provides full bibliographic information for each of the over 4,000 items in the database, including detailed annotations that describe the content and other features of the material. The materials include textbooks, workbooks, reference materials, readers, grammars, CD-ROMs, video and audio cassettes, and web-based materials. The LMP also has information on resources of authentic materials for certain languages, including Kazakh, Russian and Swahili.
In addition to the database, the LMP provides profiles for most of the languages in the database. The profiles have a map, a description of key dialects, grammatical features, and a brief linguistic history. The LMP also houses the LCTL database from the Center for Applied Linguistics.
This project funded by the US Department of Education is to create a web-searchable bibliographic database of sources of authentic materials for less commonly taught languages and develop a pedagogical guide for the use of these materials in teaching.
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