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Hello. I'm Bill Watkins and, since my appointment in 2006, it's been an honor to serve as Columbia's City Manager. This is my fifth "State of the City" address to Columbia citizens.
As required by our City Charter, the City Manager has a yearly duty to submit to the Council a statement of recommendations which he or she believes will benefit the City and to let you, the citizens, know his or her opinion of the state of affairs in the community. This traditionally occurs immediately before the City Council's annual retreat.
This year's annual retreat will be held at the Country Club Hotel in Lake Ozark, Missouri. It will start at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 3 and end around noon on Saturday, June 5. The retreat is an open, public meeting. The news media and other observers are welcome to attend.
In one word, my opinion of the state of city government is "stable." We are in the third year of a financial plan we set up in 2008, when local revenues started declining.
Because we took immediate action, and as we continue to curb our spending, we remain responsibly focused on delivering core services to citizens. We're where we expected to be.
Adding new City programs and staff, even though needed, probably is not possible without cutting other services. For the next few years, budgeting is likely to remain a zero-sum game.
Still, wherever possible, we've taken advantage of new partnerships, outside funding sources and internal reorganization to make our dollars go farther. Therefore, I believe that the City of Columbia is well-positioned to keep our community thriving.
I don't know if you've met Larry Potterfield, the Chief Executive Officer of Midway Arms based here in Columbia. Last year his organization won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for small business. This is a huge honor, not just for Larry and his employees, but also for Columbia.
If you win a national quality award, it means that you are totally committed to excellence in every sense of the word. And, for Larry, it means challenging the rest of Columbia to create a community of excellence.
The City Council heard this call and last February set the goals of applying for and receiving both the Missouri Quality Award and the Baldrige national award. By October, City staff must recommend a time schedule to achieve these goals.
So, the City of Columbia joins a growing list of other local organizations and businesses preparing for this challenge. I like what this says about our community. If we're committed to excellence, we're raising expectations. I believe that this signals a rising tide and hope for the future.
Attaining excellence is something the City of Columbia can do, even if resources are limited. The logical place to start is with our core services and obligations to citizens, including:
These are the most significant topics I will discuss with Council members during retreat. I have scheduled quality time for these subjects, because they deserve our attention now.
Let's start with our public safety agencies. We know that Police, Fire and Joint Communications have different roles grounded in centuries past.
Wherever there were laws, there was a need for enforcement. Whenever people lived in close proximity, there was a need to keep fires from turning neighborhoods to ashes. Whenever danger threatened, a "town crier" warned people to take shelter or lend a hand.
Fast-forward a few centuries, and see how these roles have expanded and interlaced. All of our public safety agencies do much more to educate people, prevent problems and fill new needs. We have up-to-date technology that makes all of this easy…or do we?
Public Safety Joint Communications…our modern day town crier system…must meet a Federal Communications Commission mandate to move all our radio systems to "narrowband" channels by January 2013. The FCC has advised local governments that this is a more efficient use of the radio spectrum and that we must move aggressively to convert from our current system.
Without action, we risk losing our wideband FCC authorization and our ability to communicate effectively. We need to remove this threat to excellence.
Fortunately, we have computers busily and efficiently digesting data and turning it into knowledge for all of our safety and justice agencies. These computers help us make decisions and do our jobs better…or do they?
Our public safety records systems, and there are several of them, were designed to store data, not shape them into management tools. They are "friendly" only to users who already have specific information that allows them to retrieve data. NOT excellent.
What all of our City and partner public safety agencies need are ways to collect, store and use information to help prevent problems and improve accountability. Our collective records management systems should be easy to use and save time for those entering data. The information should be accurate and geographically-based. This is expensive, but it's a critical step toward excellence.
In the best of worlds, we would address this in an overall public safety strategic plan. We're not there yet, but both the Police Department and Public Safety Joint Communications departments are developing plans together with our many Boone County partners.
A modern records management system is an urgent task for the Columbia Police Department, which is seeking accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies (or CALEA). Several Missouri cities already have this designation.
The CALEA program has become the primary method for an agency to voluntarily demonstrate a commitment to excellence in law enforcement. CALEA accreditation for the Police Department is a goal that Chief Burton and I put on the front burner when he became Police Chief. We have "a ways to go."
As we plan, it would be helpful if all our safety agencies first identified the shared values that reflect their history, tradition and their reasons for serving citizens. I think we would find many common values that reveal the bedrock for our core safety competencies.
How does each safety agency "live" those values, and what special role does each safety agency fill? What strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats affect each department's ability to do this important work now…in five years…and 20 years from now? How do careful planning and collaboration increase value for citizens?
I will tell you that getting to excellence requires investment…in work space, training, technology, equipment and people. None of this is cheap, but doing it on-the-cheap is money down the drain. It is not a good way to manage risk or maintain trust.
During retreat, I will talk with Council members about these issues and get their guidance for short- and longer-term budget actions.
Just for the Fire Department, we're looking at millions of dollars, over the next ten years, to keep our equipment in good shape and build a new fire station for our expanding community.
We estimate that we can build a station for about $2 million, and that's the cheap part. Operating a station costs about $1 million annually, which we just cannot afford in today's economy.
We need to add back the four firefighter positions not filled in this year's budget and start hiring and training to staff a future Fire Station 10. And we must acknowledge and plan for the Fire Department's growing role in advanced life support services.
Most of our fire calls involve emergency responses to hazards and accidents, not responses to fires. Nationally, the fire service is seeing a shift from fire calls to other kinds of emergencies.
We need to prepare with training, equipment and qualified personnel. We must plan for excellence.
Let's spend a few minutes with utilities, perhaps the most direct service that regularly touches each home, business and property. Utilities are more than an over- and underground spaghetti of pipes, cables and conduits.
They deliver lifeblood services, like energy and water. Or they take away noxious or possibly harmful things, like wastewater and stormwater.
The core values here are easy to state: safe, reliable, environmentally responsible and affordable service at a price that covers the cost of service and debt. They values, however, are not easy to do.
We have voter approval to maintain bond requirements for electric, water and wastewater services, and I am committed to working with Council members to keep all utility rate increases as low as possible. I am equally set on reaching higher levels of customer service, performance and accountability.
All our utilities become more complex every year, with new regulations, growth and unanticipated challenges. Our operations no longer are the small-town type they were just a few years ago.
Our sewer rates have received a lot of scrutiny and criticism, some of it deserved. In my opinion, the guidance in our local sewer rate ordinance is out-of-date and off-the-mark. It's open to individual judgment and inconsistent application. NOT excellent, but we're working on a community solution.
Our stormwater utility needs even more attention. Stormwater essentially is water that drains quickly, over hard surfaces and un-paved areas, to streams. If unchecked, it can carry pollutants and sediment, causing property and environmental damage.
If you've seen water rushing or pooling in streets during a heavy rain, you've seen stormwater. If you notice that freshly-planted flowers abandoned your yard for the gulley, you've seen the effects of stormwater.
Again, we have an existing ordinance and rate structure, but not the horses to do the job. The stormwater utility now generates about $1 million each year…far from what's needed to properly engineer and staff this function, and not enough to meet federal and state environmental standards.
We are working to rebalance our regulations, especially in already developed areas. I will discuss our consultant's options and recommendations with Council members.
The recent announcements by IBM and Linen King to bring jobs to Columbia is good news for us. Between them, the two companies bring wide job diversity and will use buildings and facilities already in place. This is a good investment matched to current resources.
I am very proud of the united community that helped tip the balance to Columbia, including our Economic Development Director, Mike Brooks. But he's not done, and I don't want him to rest. People with good jobs is part of our quest for excellence.
There is too much energy and opportunity in this city to let any of it go untapped. I like to think that we are a city of solutions for employers and entrepreneurs, both home-grown and otherwise.
Some of our solutions are industrial sites in various stages of readiness for new tenants. Council members want to add a second Missouri-certified site to our inventory, and we are working to get our site at Waco Road and Route B to meet certification standards.
A certified site is at least ten acres with, at a minimum, water, sewer and electric service. It has proper zoning and site control and is marketed for business recruitment or expansion, not for retail. The State of Missouri holds standard data on all certified sites so that it's easily available when opportunities come up.
Forbes.com recently named Columbia as the eighth best place for business and careers. I find this one of the most exciting ratings we've received in a long time. It recognizes that our city has long-term solutions for innovators and entrepreneurs.
My take is, we're just getting started. It's all about good jobs.
We have an opportunity to relocate our regional economic development organization, or REDI, Inc., to downtown space at our new parking garage. It's been our plan, all along, to have street-level space for retail and other business tenants at that location.
REDI's current lease is expiring, and moving improves its access to City Hall services and to the University of Missouri campus. It opens the possibility of working with the University and the Small Business Development Center to create a place where students, graduates and other residents can cook up entrepreneurial partnerships.
The incubator set up by the University of South Carolina in their Columbia could be a model. The University has a new research district in a recently re-developed part of the city. It's designed to incorporate its surrounding "vibrant" community.
Can our incubator host student entrepreneurs who create jobs? Can it foster their interest in staying here to raise families and establish roots? I don't know, but I'd sure like to try. It's an important part of our future.
Will better bus and air service be important to this growing population of employers and workers? It already is. One of IBM's requirements is bus service to its facility and the ability to transport customers and employees easily by air.
In the last fiscal year, Columbia Transit carried more than two million bus riders, even with a fare increase. That's a 250 percent increase over FY 2005. Numbers were up for fixed routes, campus shuttles and ParaTransit services.
This is encouraging, but it's not yet excellent service. Our largest soft spot is the orange bus line. Its current route is hard to cover in a 40-minute "headway."
The orange line is routinely late, and that frustrates riders. When the orange line is late, it delays people who are waiting to transfer at Wabash Station. To make up time, bus drivers are speeding.
As the orange line goes, so goes the transit system. NOT excellent.
At retreat I will discuss with Council some wholesale changes intended to make things run on time, reach areas we have not served before and make sure that buses go to workplaces and other key areas. We can do it piecemeal, but we have an opportunity to make a significant difference at what I believe is a reasonable cost.
We'll also talk about improving service and capacity at Columbia Regional Airport. Delta Air Lines has been a good partner with us since it came here in 2008, and I think the feeling is mutual.
Flights out of Columbia have been 70 percent full, on average, since Northwest started service. The airline switched all flights at Columbia to 50-seat regional jets. And Delta announced that, effective this September, it will serve Columbia Regional without a federal subsidy.
Getting off the Essential Air Service subsidy is something that very few communities are able to achieve and still maintain air service.
A lot of thanks are due to airport staff, to the Airport Advisory Board and to a supportive passenger community, but our work is far from done. Our master plan describes more than $64 million in improvements over the next 20 years. And there are competing priorities.
We need new pavement and other improvements to meet Federal Aviation Administration standards and keep our runways safe. That means scheduling financing and construction in a way that lets us keep flying without serious disruptions.
These costs, if we meet federal regulations, can be 95 percent reimbursed with federal funds. But we still have to come up with a five percent match.
Our 30-year old terminal must be modernized and must meet significant federal air security standards. Terminals generally are not eligible for grants.
Passenger counts are key factors in keeping our current service and attracting new air carriers. And I would like to see flights to at least one more significant hub city.
As new employers and more workers come to the region, I think Columbia Regional will attract more business. It could be another center of excellence, if we do things right.
Last December we started talking with Council members about their interest in asking voters to renew our capital sales tax for parks. Over the last ten years, revenue from this 1/8-cent sales tax has created one of the city's most admired and valued public assets…green space for play, for exploration and for pure enjoyment.
Voters first approved this tax in 2000 and renewed it five years later, when it was set to expire. We are at that five-year mark again and, in my opinion, the tax adds significant value to our quality of life.
As Council asked, we independently surveyed citizens to see if their thoughts about parks had changed. We'll discuss our findings and future options at retreat.
This ballot issue typically defines the amount of revenue to be raised, the time period, plans for acquiring land and the balance between creating new facilities and maintaining those we already have. Specific projects must be identified.
If Council members agree, the sales tax renewal question would go to voters this November, but there still is a lot of work to shape the ballot proposal.
All of these retreat topics are connected by common threads:
The discussions we have with Council members at retreat will guide the budget I propose to them at the end of July. I expect that the FY 2011 budget will still be very tight and that we will continue to stretch every dollar, even if it means considering some service cuts.
But I remain hopeful that, as our local economy picks up steam, new resources may be available for core services and other citizen obligations. I am committed to reaching for excellence. Columbia citizens deserve no less.
All Council retreat materials are online, and I encourage you to review them at www.GoColumbiaMo.com under the heading "Featured Information." Thanks for your attention today. I look forward to working with all of you in the coming months.


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Holidays with the family can be quite the adventure, can't it? Here is a small collection of some funny Thanksgiving and Christmas stories.
Cold and Lonely on Christmas Eve
We were young and alone on Christmas Eve. I'd accepted a new job during the summer, so Mary and I had loaded our meager belongings into a truck and drove it a thousand miles. For both of us, it was the first Christmas away from family and friends.
The holidays were hard as we came from large families. Making matters worse, Mary was heavily pregnant. My Dad said that married men have to learn to walk on water, and when the wife is pregnant, we have to walk about three feet above it. She was on an emotional roller coaster that dipped up and down minute by minute.
That Christmas Eve, I tried to cheer her up by getting her out of the tiny apartment we'd rented, aptly named "the cave" for it's tiny windows and dark interior. We went to an inexpensive family restaurant, about all we could afford on our tight budget. Even though the staff wanted to go home to their families, they treated us nicely, maybe because Mary was so obviously pregnant.
We finished the meal and returned to the dark, empty apartment. I retreated to the bedroom to wrap some small gifts while Mary busied herself in the living room. When I came out, she beamed, pointing at a lamp she'd decorated with ornaments because we couldn't afford a Christmas tree. A minute later, I held her in my arms as she sobbed.
The Ice Storm
My in-laws drove halfway across the country to visit us on Thanksgiving, much to the joy of Mary and the kids. Who can spoil children better than some doting grandparents? My father-in-law enjoyed eating out at restaurants, a real luxury when you come from a tiny farm town, so I could claim to be spoiled too.
We planned a big Thanksgiving dinner with a turkey and all the goodies. Mary made a pumpkin cheesecake, and then had to make another one when my father-in-law and I ate most of the first one the night before the holiday. It hurt, but it was very good!
The next morning was cold and wet. The temperature dropped steadily through the day. Ice accumulated on the trees outside, making them look like crystal. I was nervous about a power outage. Sure enough, just after sunset a transformer blew and the lights flickered out.
We lit every candle we owned to light the kitchen and dining room. Fortunately, we had a gas stove, so cooking was still possible, and an hour later we sat down to dinner.
If you don't help with cooking, you have to do the dishes. It's our house rule, and I'd avoided doing any of the cooking, gambling that my friend Mr. Dishwasher would be up to the job. I lost, but I didn't complain. I washed and dried dishes, scrubbed pots, and cleaned flatware for about 45 minutes. Finally, I poured a cup of coffee and cut another piece of that marvelous cheesecake just as the lights came back on.
The Quasimodo Tree
Mary and the kids went to pick out a Christmas tree while I was at work. They visited a local tree farm and selected one from the bargain rack. The guys there wrapped it in netting, probably chuckling all the while, because when I got home and looked at it, the tree appeared to have a huge bulge on one side. Trees don't get pregnant, do they? This one looked like it was ready to pop out a sequoia.
At first glance, it looked like a perfect Christmas tree. I'm sure it looked that way while leaning against the rack, but further examination showed that the trunk was bent and wildly off-center. The branches were carefully trimmed to give it that "perfect" look. I found that it was almost impossible to balance in the tree stand. Mary held it up so it wouldn't fall on me while I laid on the floor muttering and fussing with it. Eventually it stayed upright.
The kids decorated it with tinsel, strings of lamps, and ornaments, putting the latter out of reach of Mittens the Wonder Cat. When they finished, we had dinner. Minutes later, the tree crashed to the floor! Mittens streaked through the dining room, looking like a furry torpedo. She'd had a paw in the crash, I knew.
We put the tree back up. An hour later, it crashed onto the floor again. This time Mary saw Mittens trying to extricate herself from the tree. She was tangled in lights and tinsel with an ornament stuck on her tail. She took off again, hiding in the bathroom to sulk until the evil, cat-eating tree was gone.
Just to be safe, though, we tied the tree to the wall with rope, leading a friend to ask, "Are you afraid it might try to get away?"
Do you have any funny family Christmas/Thanksgiving stories that you would like to share?

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Jeffrey L. Day and E.B. Min post on the Stones Table, which melds organic form with CNC precision. Together, the pieces form a rectangular table.
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Jeffrey L. Day and E.B. Min pose on the Stones Table, which melds organic form with CNC precision. Together, the pieces form a rectangular table.
A rendering of the Wide Open House.
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The Wide Open House is a stock plan development for Hometta.com, a website Min | Day helped found to sell affordable modern homes.
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The Bemis Center's reception desk--laminated hardboard with exposed edges over a plywood and steel frame--doubles as a bar surface for gallery events.
Behind the reception desk, CNC-milled MDF wall panels were cut from a pinwheel aperiodic tiling pattern.
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Rising Star / Jeffrey L. Day, AIA, and E.B. Min, AIA, Min | Day
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Most of Min | Day's experiments with CNC digital fabrication are done in collaboration with FACT (Fabrication and Construction Team), an affiliated design lab Jeffrey L. Day, AIA, teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. FACT takes on pro bono and very-low-fee work for nonprofit clients like the Bemis Center in Omaha, Neb., and Art Farm in Marquette, Neb., both artist residency programs. In these long-term projects, each successive class gets hands-on experience building small art installations. Day, firm partner E.B. Min, AIA, and their three employees design the projects while FACT develops them, conducts research, and oversees fabrication and construction.
Although FACT is never used for work on private commissions, its testing supports the firm's interest in creating unusual effects. "It's a way to make creative possibilities affordable," Day says. At the Bemis Center, for example, students developed a complex paneled wall system that cost $5 per square foot because they wrote their own code and had it fabricated at a medium-security state prison. "The material itself was inexpensive, but it would have been a monumental task for craftspeople," Day says. "We're not that interested in precious materials, but in what you do with materials."
Most architects who open second offices do so a few years into their practice, once they've built a base from which to branch out. Fewer follow the path taken by E.B. Min, AIA, and Jeffrey L. Day, AIA, who in 2003 launched Min | Day in two cities—San Francisco and Omaha, Neb. The circumstances leading to that decision were mundane—Day followed his fiancee to Omaha while Min stayed in the Bay Area, where they had been working together on and off for a few years—yet their practice has become anything but.
The business partners, who met as graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley, are developing a unique voice in the creative junction between these two places, which are as different in sensibility as they are in topography. San Francisco shouts good design in daily life and clients usually know what they want. But the quieter Midwest city is a surprisingly agile testing ground for new visual ideas, in part because it has a less well-defined regional style.
"Clients in the Bay Area have more focused opinions about what they like or don't like, but they may be less willing to open up to new ideas" than clients in the conventionally bland Midwest, Day says. "Here in Omaha it's more like, 'I don't want what I see around me.' It gives us room to experiment a bit."
Those experiments often explore the fluid relationships between architecture, landscape, and technology. With art-related undergraduate degrees—Min studied art history and studio art at Brown University; Day focused on visual and environmental studies at Harvard College—the pair collaborates across disciplines, combining traditional building methods with digitally fabricated designs. Their enthusiasm for using sophisticated technology to tease out the specificity of the site shows up in projects like the Lake Okoboji house in Iowa. For the master bedroom facing the lake, they used animation software to create a rippling headboard, made from thin stacked sheets of birch plywood, that mimics the water's surface. They also cast the light-filtering screens of an Omaha condominium in a laser-cut pattern suggesting prairie grass.
That Min | Day's buildings reference their natural surroundings is no accident, either. Day teaches landscape architecture classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture, where he is an associate professor. Min's stint at San Francisco–based Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture (then Delaney & Cochran) taught her that color and texture are as important as form. Both are fascinated by the interplay of painted finishes and the colors reflected in nature. "There's a portion of landscape design that is very graphic in nature," Min says.
Those qualities are evident in the Omaha condo, where vivid blue walls defining the vertical circulation are paired with high windows that admit snapshots of sky and shifting light. Another is the bright orange boys' bath in the lake house. "Some people say they can't handle that much color in a room, but when you're in these spaces it's very different from what you see in photos," Min says. "And if there aren't a lot of other views—just a bath with a little window—monolithic color makes it a more interesting environment. We work pretty hard on getting the right whites, too."
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I am reaching out to those on this site who share the feeling that life is beautiful. It isn't easy and for some, our cross is heavy and we help Jesus carry His cross. At times, we feel we are Simon , as we should be and are called to do so...my friend shared she wants to abort her baby because it doesn't fit into her ten year plan, she doesn't want to "derail" the father. She claims the baby would have a terrible life. I spoke to her about it, options, what is 9 months, the aftermath, but she doesn't want to listen. She has desensitized the choice but for me, I feel everyone has a purpose, they just have to be open to it. Life is a gift and her baby could be a gift to a family. I am reaching out to those who will help storm Heaven for this life.
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quote:As if he was trying to get within 100 feet of shaq
quote:i think he was being sarcastical
quote:What's awesome is that Dudley got a technical on the play for throwing the ball & Shaq got nothing.
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Barker Media Tower
Exactly what I was looking for!
Searched for a couple of weeks looking for a wooden media stand with a glass door to protect everything. This was my first furniture purchase from world market and it definitely will not be my last! Product arrived quickly and in great condition. Other than some issues with the getting to hinges on properly, it was very easy to put together with some help from my husband. It looks great and is very sturdy (I have 3 Siberian Huskies so has to be very sturdy!). Highly recommend!
July 30, 2013
Good quality, love the glass door
I bought this as a TV stand for my master bedroom. It has shelves (2 adjustable) and a glass door so that the cable box, dvd player, etc. can be operated with the door closed and wires tucked away. As I was assembling it, I noticed that the cam locks couldn't be tightened as much as I would have liked. Once the backing went on, though, it stabilized the unit so I wasn't as concerned. Also I was surprised to find that the hardware is antique brass. I will need to buy replacement hardware to match the rest of the brushed nickel harware in my bedroom. On the upside, [...] assembly was quick and easy. However, you may want to have an extra set of hands to help attach the door.
September 5, 2010
Too small...
I'd have to disagree with the previous review. The direction were terrible - the front isn't specified from the rear. So you have a 50/50 chance of guessing correctly. I did not the first time through. Also, it's only 13" deep - exterior. The interior too shallow to even fit our little Dish Satellite receiver, let alone our amp and blu-ray.
So, nothing fits in it. It's a pain to build. I only hope it's returnable.
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Students Recycle Materials to Create Furniture for New Studio Art Building Professor Michael O'Malley and eight students created drawing benches, apple crates, stools, and a conference table from repurposed materials for the new Studio Art building. Read more here.
Brush Fire Turns Bernard Field Station into "Living Lab" for Fire Ecology Three Pomona professors received a grant from the Henry David Thoreau Foundation to examine the impact of the recent BFS fire on ecological succession in an endangered coastal sage scrub ecosystem. Professors Jonathan Wright, Wallace Meyer, and Char Miller will use the grant to involve students in research and a new biology course to be offered in spring 2015. Read more here.
Schuler Scholars from Chicago Get Hands-On Experience at Pomona's Farm Six students from the Schuler Scholars Program, which provides high-achieving, underserved students with an intensive college access experience, spent a week doing hands-on activities at the Pomona Farm. The trip was made possible by a proposal written by Julia Neaves '13 and Adam Long '13. Read the full story here.
Pomona's Class Day Goes Green Class Day, a ceremony and dinner celebrating the achievements of the graduating class, had some new sustainability features this year. Facilities and Campus Services arranged for an outside composting contract so that compostable diningware and food scraps could be diverted from the landfill. Read more about the event here.
Pomona Students Place in Top Five in National Water Conservation Competition Pomona College was among the top five schools in the Campus Conservation Nationals 2014 water conservation competition, with students living in residence halls reducing their water use by 65,904 gallons, or 5.4%, below a baseline measure. Joining Pomona in the top five were Oberlin College; UC Santa Barbara; the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and Wake Forest University. Read the full article here.
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Tibetan Cloud Ceramic Drum Stool
Great buy
I just ordered a second one! Great stylish piece. Came securely packed. I'm using them at either end of my sofa in front to set drinks on.
September 5, 2013
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I love this beautiful stool! I have placed it in our Master bedroom. It looks absolutely lovely! These stools are so versatile, indoors and out ... and we have several in a variety of color and design, including in the garden!
July 24, 2013
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and i have got to stop drinking so much coffee (article explains)
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*sigh*Birdofterror wrote:Oh my, I pity you.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with your black hole of narcissism.
In other words, you can't think of any positive argument to defend this second saga and instead you are going to post something completely irrelevant that has nothing to do with what I asked? Dear God...While I cannot, by your logic, post why Saga 2 is good, I can do one better by knocking saga 1 down a peg using your own arguments.
And when did I say that the first saga is flawless? It has some flaws too, but I find it enjoyable, unlike this second saga. Way more simple, a better pace, characters with clear motivations, etc. At this point I'm getting tired of you and your replies, and after seeing your arguments with Blood Lord and the way you completely de-evolved makes me wonder if I should discuss with you anymore.
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What if you've identified your red flags, but you don't heed them? Bohner uses a quick test to put things in perspective. "I use a scale of zero to 10, with zero being starving and 10 really stuffed. I write down how I felt when I started eating and when I finished." When she goes over seven, she knows she was eating to meet emotional needs rather than actual hunger. "There's no reason to eat until you're stuffed," she adds.
Whatever method you choose, it's best to take stock and be honest with yourself. If your goal is to exercise three times a week, how many sessions do you miss before you admit you are slipping? Going to an event without a plan is also a signal that you're not focusing on your eating.
Be Honest
Besides the red flags, it's important to understand other, more subtle tricks you use to justify an overindulgence. "We all tell ourselves stories that are the same, time after time, like 'if I overeat Friday or Saturday, I'll be extra good Monday morning,'" Bartlett says. "Other familiar half-truths are: 'I've eaten an extra thousand calories so I'll do an extra session at the gym,' or 'I'll eat what I want tonight and worry about it tomorrow.'"
Still, lapses are inevitable no matter how well prepared you are. And when you slip, you become vulnerable to a common pitfall abandoning your entire plan until after the holidays because you made one mistake. It's far better to forgive yourself and move on. "Recognize what's going on, stop it and get back on track quickly," says Bartlett. "I tell people to put things in perspective and remind them that overeating on one occasion is not what causes weight gain; it's consistently eating too much."
Taking this into account, the group members did a lot of planning for "the day after." When someone slipped up at a party, they mapped out what to eat at their next meal, checking calorie and fat intake. Surprisingly, even when someone breezed through a party, she often needed a strategy to get through the next few days.
"It's easy to underestimate how difficult it will be to avoid overeating at a party, either as a reward or because you've been stimulated and you're biologically hungry. And psychologically you're tired, so you may not be as good at recognizing the danger signs," Bartlett maintains.
Relieve Stress
The holiday season can be stressful. You may be feeling financially pinched or extra tired from lack of sleep. And extended visits with your family are not always tension-free. To avoid getting trapped into using eating as an emotional crutch, devise strategies for basic self-preservation. "Focus on what you absolutely need so you don't get caught in a whirlwind," suggests Bartlett. This may mean having time alone, getting enough sleep, having your family help out with shopping or food preparation, or hiring extra help to clean.
Because you may feel under a lot of stress, it's easy to overeat at home too. Here, it pays to challenge some of your basic assumptions. For instance, just because you've always done it, do you have to bake six dozen sugar cookies this year? If you have them around the house, you'll eat them. Bake fewer or give some away.
Several group members found themselves in a quandary about what to serve at their parties, worrying that their guests would only enjoy rich foods and eggnog. But it's perfectly acceptable to modify recipes, using lower-fat options, or to offer a variety of choices.
"When I have a party, I can control the kinds of foods offered," says Barchowsky. "Obviously, I'm not going to invite my friends over and give them only low-fat, low-calorie foods. I'll serve cookies too." And share the wealth: Give calorie-laden leftovers to guests as they leave, instead of packing them into the refrigerator, where they'll be tough to resist.
Exercise, Exercise, Exercise
Every week, try to have as many "normal" days when you eat healthy foods and exercise as possible. While a workout can't compensate for overeating, it does help stabilize weight and gives you a psychological boost too. Of course, it's frequently the first thing to be eliminated from a busy schedule. "Write your exercise time in your weekly planner and consider it as absolute," says Bartlett, who also suggests tapping into what may be a hidden resource, namely, your family.
If you have a weight problem, family members may not know how to help. It's up to you to figure out your vulnerabilities and strengths and communicate them.
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Weight specialist Susan Bartlett suggests the following ways to keep your caloric count in check at a big event:
- Don't arrive hungry; eat something before you go.
- Pass up peanuts, pretzels, chips, and other everyday snacks. Spend your calories on the special treats you really want.
- Wear a form-fitting outfit, with a belt if possible.
- Make socializing, rather than food, the focus of the event.
- Keep your portions in check to keep calories under control.
- Plan how much alcohol you'll drink. It loosens your inhibitions and contributes to calorie consumption.
- Don't stand near the buffet table. In fact, keep your back to it, so you won't even see it!
- Make a deal with yourself that you will learn something new about someone you don't know at the party.
- Wear a special piece of jewelry a sparkly bangle or big ring as a visible reminder to yourself to eat in moderation.
- Practice saying "no, thank you." It's okay to turn down invitations or tell a pushy host you don't want seconds.
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Big Sandy – Civil Air Patrol personnel attending LoneStar Emergency Services Academy at the ALERT Academy near Tyler are approaching the midpoint of their week-long training.
Early Tuesday three CAP Ground Search and Rescue Specialty School teams gathered at the ALERT Academy parade ground for a visit from the Trinity Mother Frances Hospital and Clinic EMS EC-130 helicopter. Aircrew Preston Dean, Craig Mattingly and Mike Douglas briefed the 25 cadets on their life-saving work.
Search teams also were called out on a real-world mission at the nearby Gilmer Airport.
"Today turned out to be a realistic real-world activity," said Lt. Col. James McCloud. "We found and successfully silenced an Emergency Locator Transmitter." The distress device, commonly known as an ELT, was first reported activated Monday evening. CAP search teams were dispatched to the airstrip Tuesday afternoon.
Intermittent thunderstorms resulted in the recall of a CAP aircraft sent out to help narrow the ELT search.
LESA provides CAP members with one of the few single sites in the United States that offer comprehensive emergency services training, said Col. Brooks Cima, CAP's Texas Wing Commander and LESA director.
Cima said there are 112 CAP cadets and senior members attending and staffing courses in Aerial Photography, Communications, Ground Search and Rescue, Public Affairs, Mission Aircrew School (Pilots), Mission Staff and Wilderness First Responder. The attendees are from about a dozen states.
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Crown Audio to celebrate Sound Image with special award at InfoComm 2008.
ELKHART, IND – May 12, 2008 — In a remarkable milestone that speaks to the performance and road-proven reliability of Crown Audio's I-Tech family of live sound amplifiers, tour sound superpower, Sound Image of Escondido, California recently passed the 5,000,000 watt mark in I-Tech inventory. In recognition of this landmark achievement, David Shadoan, President of Sound Image, will be presented with a specially-crafted award on the opening day of InfoComm 2008.
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Tea Houses
Tim Griffith
The teahouses sit high up on a hillside and are buffered by foliage.
Butt-jointed corners allow the buildings' edges to recede.
The project creates and contains a rarefied atmosphere of calm and well-being.
The board-formed concrete towers provide a textured contrast to the smooth glass and steel.
Earthbound concrete towers let the transparent boxes perch delicately above the site.
A skylit full bath connects two of the teahouses.
Operable awning windows and surrounding deciduous trees help cool the project during the summer months.
The re-used, unfinished floorboards create a rough counterpart to the new cedar ceiling.
swatt | miers architects, emeryville, calif.
The jury rhapsodized about this trio of outbuildings in California's Silicon Valley, naming it residential architect's 2010 Project of the Year. "There's just a clarity and simplicity," said one judge. "It doesn't falter." Architect Robert Swatt, FAIA, and his client envisioned the structures as Western, modern versions of Japanese teahouses, and the panel appreciated this approach. "It's a contemporary expression of a historic typology," observed another juror.
All three outbuildings sit uphill from the main residence, a Swatt-designed renovation of a 1960s modern house. Each teahouse serves its own specific purpose. One holds a meditation space and sits off by itself, while the other two—one for sleeping and the other for work-related creative thinking—are connected by a full bath. The buildings display top-notch detailing, from the pristine intersection of materials to the way the glass-and-steel boxes cantilever out from the concrete shafts anchoring them in place.
Those concrete core elements shoulder all of the buildings' vertical and seismic loads. In doing so, they allow the rest of the project to appear nearly weightless; the glass-and-steel components never touch the ground. Such a clear juxtaposition was essential, according to Swatt, who likens the floating portions to tents and the masonry portions to caves. "It's that contrast of tent and cave, of light and heavy, that's important for me," he says.
The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which finds beauty in imperfection, also informs the teahouses. Rough, natural-looking items such as the board-formed concrete cores and unfinished cedar floorboards provide a counterbalance to the smooth, flawless glass and steel.
Swatt relished the opportunity to design the teahouses. "They're just garden structures, so we could be very pure about it," he says. "It's just space and light. They're extremely simple, and are meant to be." He gives credit to Neto, whom he describes as "phenomenal," and to interior designer Connie Wong, another integral project team member. The owner's vision played a crucial role, as well. "This is the opposite of multipurpose," Swatt says. "They're special buildings for special purposes. That was [the client's] poetic idea."
The jury members remarked on the thought and care that obviously went into the project, which they called "exquisite" and "transcendent." "It's lovingly, lovingly developed and detailed," said one judge. "It's close to being perfect."
Project Creditsprincipal in charge / project architect: Robert Swatt, FAIA, Swatt | Miers Architects, www.swattmiers.com general contractor: Andre Neto, Neto Builders, Los Gatos, Calif. interior designer: Connie Wong, Swatt | Miers Architects project size: 1,364 square feet site size: 2 acres construction cost: Withheld photography: Tim Griffith, except where noted
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Huh? No fear at all?
To be perfectly honest I didn't know I was capable of such a degree of fear as I experienced the moment my feet left the platform. I think my heart stopped for until after the first bounce. I couldn't breath, I couldn't move, I was just like "SHIIIIIT" in my head because I couldn't scream.
But it was without a doubt the most intense experience I've ever had, and I plan on doing it again, I need to find one that is higher!
The jump I did was a bit over 150 feet.
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Trade #22 (780 points) to JAX for #36 + #67 (795 points)
2.4 TE Maxx Williams, Minnesota 6'4" 250 lbs.
2.24 OLB Nate Orchard, Utah 6'3" 252 lbs.
3.3 OG Laken Tomlinson, Duke 6'4" 323 lbs.
3.23 SS Jaquiski Tartt, Samford 6'1" 220 lbs.
4.22 CB Ronald Darby, Florida State 5'11" 195 lbs.
5.24 FS Kurtis Drummond, Michigan State 6'1" 205 lbs.
6.23 CB Cam Thomas, Western Kentucky 6'0" 195 lbs.
7.22 RB Malcolm Brown, Texas 6'0" 223 lbs.
if it is a 1 o'clock game eastern time, wouldn't that be like the vikings playing at 9 or 10 in the morning? If it is 1 in pittsburgh is it like 4 or 5 in the afternoon in the UK?
Playing Fantasy Football does not qualify you to be the in the front office or on the coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Steelers. They are professionals and you are not!
These are grown men who are professionals making millions of dollars to play a game. Yeah, they should be able to suck it up and be professional about it. Who here doesn't have a boss who occasionally asks them to do things that they don't want to do? Do you let it effect your performance?


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Hayden Crib
- Overview
A curved silhouette and simple, clean lines define this expertly built crib. Built to last, it offers three height options to accommodate a growing baby.
- 55" wide x 30.5" deep x 43" high
- Height from teething rail to the floor is 39"
- Expertly crafted with a kiln-dried wood frame.
- Mattress platform offers three height options to accommodate your growing baby.
- Features fixed side rails and an adjustable mattress platform.
- Easily adapts from a crib to a toddler bed (conversion kit sold separately)
- When purchasing a crib, it is strongly recommended to purchase the toddler bed conversion kit at the same time.
- Rigorously tested to meet or exceed all required and voluntary safety standards enacted by the US Product Safety Commission, the American Society of Testing Manufacturers and the Canadian Cribs and Cradles Regulations.
- Dimensions & Care
- Overall: 55" wide x 30.5" deep l x 43" high
- Teething Rail: 39" high
- Back Panel: 4" thick
- Front Panel: 51.5" wide x 39" high x 1" thick
- Crib Ends: 29.5" wide x 40" high x 2.5" deep
- Heights of mattress platform settings: 22.5", 17.5", 12.5"
- Weight: 116 pounds
- Dust often using a clean, soft, dry cloth.
- Blot spills immediately, and wipe with a clean, damp cloth.
- We do not recommend the use of chemical cleansers, abrasives or furniture polish.
- Parents should ensure a safe environment for their child by checking regularly to see that every component is properly fastened and securely in place.
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Our Anderson Bed is built to last with solid wood framing, a white painted finish and rounded finials that give it a substantial, classic presence. The optional trundle creates either extra storage or an additional bed for sleepovers.
- Twin: 42.5" wide x 83" long x 52" high
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- Footboard: 26" high
- Side Rails: 76" wide x 6" high x 3" thick
- Clearance under adjustable side rails: 8" in low position, 10" in high position
- Slats: 14
- 57.5" wide x 83" long x 52" high
- Footboard: 26" high
- Side Rails: 76" wide x 6" high x 3" thick
- Clearance under adjustable side rails (2 positions): 8", 10"
- Slats: 14
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With In-Home Delivery, the item is brought into your home, unpacked and assembled (except for select cribs and changing tables, which require owner assembly), and packaging is removed. Delivery is by appointment, Monday–Saturday; our delivery service will call to arrange a day. Available in the contiguous 48 states. For your convenience, we're proud to introduce a new two-hour appointment window on in-home deliveries in major metropolitan areas only. Due to the special care involved, items shipped with our In-Home Delivery service may take longer than other items to arrive. To confirm delivery time frames in your area, please call 1.800.993.4923.
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Kids like to have a special place to display their own creations and accomplishments. Wrapped in a cheerfully patterned fabric, this sturdy board is perfect for pinning up report cards, certificates, artwork and notes.
- 16" square
- Gingham fabric is sewn onto corkboard.
- Use to pin notes, photos, artwork and more.
- D-ring mount; mounting hardware not included.
- Sold individually.
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- Weight: 1.75 pounds
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The previous stage concludes with students "doing" activities designed to help them achieve learning objectives developed at the "planning" stage. Effectively designed activities generate assessment data that is "checked" at this stage of the assessment cycle.
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Made with soft edges that are gentle on gums and easy for babies to grasp, these colorful utensils come in a protective case so they're perfect for meals on the go.
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I don't know much about baseball, but I just read there is some serious "payroll inequality" among MLB teams. For example, the Yankees have a whopping 229M payroll, while the Astros only have a 24M payroll. That's a monumental difference there. That means there are likely players on the Yankees who make more than the whole Astros team!
This means, the Astros have no chance of ever beating the Yankees in a World Series unless a miracle happens. Do you think this is fair? Or should baseball be run more like the NHL, where each team is given a salary cap, and each team has a relatively equal payroll give or take a few million? This would give each team a chance.
I can't see Houston or Miami ever making enough revenue to match that of the Yankees or Dodgers. It's almost unfair, eh?
Advantages to salary cap: each team gets a relatively equal shot at the World Series and playoffs.
Disadvantages to salary cap: We won't see high-end teams equipped with lots of superstars dominate low-tier teams. (This is something I missed with the old NHL - when stacked high-salaried teams like the Avs (Forsberg, Blake, Sakic, Tanguay, Hjeduk) and Red Wings (Lidstrom, Yzerman, Hasek, Shanahan) would dominate teams like the Panthers and Wild and were fun to watch).


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Jillian Nursery Bedding Set
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A field of wildflowers scattered across pure organic cotton gives our handmade nursery collection soft summer chic. The bumper is lined with satin-stitch and chain-stitch appliqués, and the crib sheet matches the quilt with its sweet florals and gentle hues.
- Crib sheet is pure organic cotton percale; pre-washed for added softness.
- Quilt is pure organic cotton percale with cotton batting; hand quilted.
- Sham is pure organic cotton percale.
- Quilt reverses to self; sham reverses to solid white percale.
- Sham has an envelope closure; insert sold separately.
- Bumper is organic cotton percale with polyester fill; reverses to solid white cotton percale.
- Ruffled crib skirt is pure cotton percale.
- Nursery Quilt Bedding Set includes fitted crib sheet, toddler quilt and crib skirt.
- Nursery Bumper Bedding Set includes fitted crib sheet, bumper and crib skirt.
- Images provided (left) show bumper's distinct interior and exterior patterns; always fasten securely with exterior facing outward.
- Machine wash.
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- Crib sheet is made of 100% organic cotton percale. A percale weave is noticeably denser and wears well over time.
- Pottery Barn fitted crib sheets have elastic around the top and bottom only rather than around the entire edge, a feature that makes our sheets safer for your baby.
- Remove bumper when baby can sit up unaided, or can pull to a standing position (6–10 months).
- Four-sided skirt fits around the entire crib and is tailored with split corners for easy placement around posts.
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- 28 x 52"; 16" drop
- 10 x 160"
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A Common Lisp development environment built on top of the Java-based Eclipse development platform. It uses the SLIME Swank backend for interacting with the SBCL Lisp implementation.
Foil (Foreign Object Interface for Lisp) consists of a protocol and a set of libraries that facilitate access to popular object runtimes, such as the JVM and the CLI/CLR, and their libraries, from Lis...
JACOL - Java and Common Lisp
An interoperation framework between Java and Common Lisp. It allows Lisp to be used as an extension language for Java, and it can expose Java APIs to Lisp applications. JACOL uses sockets for communic...
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Lisp code from Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach
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