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AleSmith Wee Heavy - AleSmith Brewing Company
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Reviews by rinhaak:
4.23/5 rDev +1.4%
22 oz. bottle poured into a brandy snifter.
Pouring a pretty deep black with a fine foamy head, the beer has aromas of black licorice, sweet plums, dark rum, and ice cream. Very warm and boozy in the mouth, it drinks more like a digestive. There are flavors of dark plum, dark roasted (but never burnt) malts, and dark rum.
A lovely beer to end the day with, AleSmith Wee Heavy is also great beer for the colder months.
Highly recommended.
10-12-2012 06:42:08 | More by rinhaak
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4.1/5 rDev -1.7%
Appearance The head came up big then went down quickly, which is typical of the style. The body is a thick, pond-like dark brown.
Smell This ale is rich in malts and whisky notes. The malts are huge and very complex, consisting mostly of sugared toast and some dark, roasty, stout-like smells. There is a light peaty smoke here along with some dark, juicy fruits. The prune and tobacco are overpowering.
Taste Man, does this sweeten up at the taste. The chewing tobacco dominates, and is mixed with some juicy prunes and raisins. This is just raunchy. It is so sweet and full of tobacco its amazing. Theres a light hint of the big alcohol but mostly this is like sucking on a leaf of chewing tobacco.
Mouthfeel This is almost full-bodied with some straightforward, rather harsh sweetness throughout.
Drinkability I really enjoyed this take on the style, although BJCP might disagree.
11-16-2005 03:24:10 | More by RoyalT
4/5 rDev -4.1%
04-06-2014 00:01:57 | More by DanGeo
3.95/5 rDev -5.3%
A: Dark ruby-colored with a small off-white head that leaves lacings that stays around to the end which is quite impressive for a beer of this size.
S: Sweet malts, lots of caramel, fruity notes and a gentle touch of alcohol.
T: Delicious malts all around. Very complex malt profile. Some bready notes, but most of all lots of caramel. With a complementary fruitiness, that has a very gentle tart character (perhaps caused by cellaring), I get a sensation similar to hard fruit candy. The finish as mildly bitter with more notes of malts, a gentle roasted note and some alcohol. The alcohol is nicely hidden and well integrated.
M: Medium body with a slick texture.
D: A well crafted beer. Very impressive malty profile and surprisingly easy to drink.
09-02-2009 22:38:50 | More by ricke
New York
4/5 rDev -4.1%
02-11-2013 21:16:40 | More by pengs68
4.33/5 rDev +3.8%
A - Dark brown with some reddish hues and a tan head.
S - Dark fruits like prunes and raisins and dried apricots. There is also some coffee in the nose as well.
T - Mellow roast flavors with a hint of sweetness. The dark fruits in the nose also comes through. In addition, there is a slightly woody flavor. The finish is toffee with subtle dark chocolate.
M - For the abv, it is rather light bodied. The carbonation is low, which makes this easy to drink.
O - This is a great brew. The flavor is really great and the drinkability is nice, especially for the abv. I could drink this everyday without a problem.
08-22-2011 05:15:08 | More by 3HovsepiansBrews
3.53/5 rDev -15.3%
750 ml bottle. Pours dark brown with a big creamy light tan head that retains well and laces the glass some.
The aroma is sweet smokey peat malts.
The flavor is sweet caramel and toffee malts with a little dark fruit and some smokey peat in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with light carbonation.
Overall, nice scotch ale - a little too sweet.
10-07-2013 04:53:36 | More by Beaver13
New Hampshire
4.25/5 rDev +1.9%
06-29-2013 23:35:38 | More by JakerLou
New Jersey
4.25/5 rDev +1.9%
05-18-2013 04:23:40 | More by megamass
4.15/5 rDev -0.5%
Presentation: 750 ml capped dark green champagne magnum, blurb about the beer on the back as well as how to cellar and serve. No freshness date though there is a vintage date of 2001 on the front.
Appearance: Charred chestnut colour with a well received clarity due to the sediment staying compact on the bottom of the bottle. Not a huge head but the lace really knows how to stick to the glass.
Smell: Mild flowing alcohol cradles some caramel and faint ripe fruity aromas. Spiciness from the alcohol warps around a ripe cherry and fig fruitiness.
Taste: Creamy and smooth with a slick back to it, faint undertones of roasted grain and a slight smokiness make themselves known first. Rich malty palate of caramel and mild ripe fruit runs across the taste buds. Alcohol is a well perceived presence but not in any over the top way, just with a mellow warmth and trace fusel alcoholic flavours. Bit of bready malt upfront is mostly lost in the end, the end seems more of a mix of the alcoholic strength and the ripeness it has transformed the byproducts into. Trace roasted grain and a ghost like smokiness appears in the finish.
Notes: This could be a perfect pairing with a cigar or as a night cap or even pair it up with a rich chocolaty & caramel dessert. Strong armed with alcohol and tiny complex flavours bursting throughout. This one has to get better with more age, the alcohol still seems a bit too brash but again not over the top.
04-19-2002 20:45:52 | More by Jason
3.68/5 rDev -11.8%
750ml bottle was $12.99 at the Dilly Deli in Cincinnati. Pours a clear, dark mahogany body topped with a skimpy beige head that quickly falls into spotty patch lacing. Aroma has a surprising chocolate essence, followed by toffee, dark fruits, and fresh white grapes. A mild note of smoky Scotch whiskey completes the bouquet. Mouthfeel is thick and full, with subdued carbonation. A bit fusel with alcohol as it warms. Taste is more chocolate than any other malty taste. Some scorched coffee notes mix with the bitter chocolate as a wave of dark fruits enters the picture. Becomes vinous and fusel as it warms to room temperature. Lots of rum soaked dark fruits toward the finish. The roasty chocolate and coffee seem out of place here. A bit of a struggle to finish as the big alcohol is anything but subtle. A slight disappointment, given the exceptional character of other Alesmith offerings I've been fortunate to sample.
06-19-2006 22:53:39 | More by merlin48
New York
4.4/5 rDev +5.5%
Woo hoo, another Ale Smith selection available in on the east coast/Massachusetts! Heavy glass bottle, silver foil and resplendent . Pours rich mahogany, dark dark amber, under a long lasting creamy mocha head, leaves plenty of well developed lacing. Emits a lovely sweet malt nose. Speaking of sweet malt, this beer oozes over the top, luscious and enjoyable malts. Whole wheat toast, maple, milk chocolate, smoke, peat, layer after layer of malty yummyness. Makes you want to slather it on some pancakes and all is good. Go get some, enjoy it today or lay it down for a year or two.
04-15-2008 01:33:46 | More by Billolick
4.33/5 rDev +3.8%
Appearance: cloudy, orange/brown in color, 1/2 inch head, high carbonation
Smell: toasted malt, caramel, earth, alcohol--a very malty smell
Taste: caramel, earth, bread, alcohol, and chocolate
Mouthfeel: moderately sweet borderline very sweet with some bittering alcohol tones, medium/heavy body
Drinkability: My first beer from them and wow is this a winner. This is a nice and super complex malt bomb. This is a great beer regardless of style. I like this a lot.
03-15-2010 13:09:57 | More by tigg924
4/5 rDev -4.1%
Thanks to Dixonian for sharing this bottle.
The beer pours a brownish color with a tan head. The aroma is heavy on the peat smoke, with some toffee and caramel malt thrown in. The flavor is a bit more complex. I get some nice toffee and dark fruit notes, along with a hint of peat smoke and some light alcohol notes. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. A very nice Scotch ale, glad I got to try this one.
06-16-2012 15:38:00 | More by Mora2000
4.75/5 rDev +13.9%
01-20-2014 14:48:14 | More by Mugenlude
4.1/5 rDev -1.7%
750ml green bottle with foil-topped cap.
Color is a ruby-chestnut with hints of deeper red...almost purple at the edges when held to the light. Sticky, long-lasting, 1"-thick head that is off-white in color. Appreciable lacing of the glass. Aromas run rampant with smoky malt mixed with dark fruity esters. More of the same for the flavor. Beefy flavor comprised of the raisins, plums, molasses. Warming ABV shows up mid-taste and lasts almost to the end. Caramel sweetness with a twinge of char end this one. Quite tasty. Chewy-big mouthfeel. Thick. Drinkable, to say the least. The only downside is the price ($12.99 per bottle). Other than that, another quality AleSmith beer.
06-04-2006 20:42:23 | More by OldFrothingSlosh
4.25/5 rDev +1.9%
11-19-2013 19:49:27 | More by SudsSurfer
4/5 rDev -4.1%
06-28-2013 04:27:25 | More by Altenor
4.05/5 rDev -2.9%
Pours dark mahogany with a thick tan head. Nutty, smoky aroma with smoe caramel. The taste is phenomenal. Toasty malts and buttescotch with a hint of bittersweet chocolate. Finish is creamy and sweet. One of the first Scotch Ales Iv'e had and easily one of the best. Just an awesome beer.
12-04-2008 19:20:07 | More by magictrokini
Yukon (Canada)
4/5 rDev -4.1%
01-01-2013 02:12:54 | More by jaminjohnson
4.5/5 rDev +7.9%
01-05-2013 03:25:58 | More by bpfrush
3.75/5 rDev -10.1%
02-13-2014 04:12:57 | More by PretzelsNBeer
4.4/5 rDev +5.5%
Poured from a 750 ml bottle into a Surly Darkness chalice. Bottled on 04/04/13.
Appearance: Pours a very dark brownish black with a moderate amount of bubbles. About two fingers of light tan head that slowly fade into a thin creamy layer. Leaves a decent amount of lacing around the glass.
Smell: A toasty malt driven aroma with big hints of caramel and dark fruits. Toasted malts with big hints of sweet caramel, toffee, biscuit, yeast, nuts, smoke, and some peat. Some roasty hints of chocolate as well. Sweet scent of brown sugar. Big dark fruit presence with hints of raisin, fig, prune, dark cherry, dates, and lots of juicy grapes. Subtle earthy hops in the background. A very good malty aroma.
Taste: Like the aroma, a big malty taste of sweet caramel, toasty bread, and lots of juicy dark fruits. Toasted malts with a taste of sweet caramel, toffee, biscuit, smoke, peat, nuts, and yeast along with a slight roasted chocolate note. Sweet taste of brown sugar. Lots of dark fruit taste with notes of grapes, raisin, fig, prune, dates, and dark cherry. Subtle undertones of earthy hops in the background. Slight booze taste. A very good malt driven taste.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with a moderate amount of carbonation. Creamy and very juicy. Smooth with minimal alcohol heat felt.
Overall: A very good take on a Scotch Ale. Good toasty malt and smoke flavors. Great presence of dark fruits that almost make it seem like a Dubbel.
11-02-2013 06:56:40 | More by MattyG85
4/5 rDev -4.1%
12-01-2013 00:04:28 | More by Cynic-ale
4.5/5 rDev +7.9%
06-27-2012 22:54:00 | More by KyleMA
AleSmith Wee Heavy from AleSmith Brewing Company
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Oxford, a small village located beside the Chenango River midway between Binghamton and Utica, in the heart of Chenango County, is a community of beautiful old homes, churches and well-kept parks. Oxford, NY is rich in history and diversity, and has much to offer the visitor including walking tours of historic homes and convenient shopping for everything from antiques to hand crafted items. Oxford is filled with a variety of art and craft galleries, a museum- rich with local history and artifacts, a folk music center (featuring some of the best -big name- performers anywhere), and loads to do for the outdoor enthusiasts!
Outdoor activities like golf at our own Blue Stone Golf Course, as well as hunting and fishing are all available nearby. The surrounding countryside is a haven for everything from White-Tailed deer to Pheasant, Turkey and Geese, and our streams, lakes and rivers provide some of the best sport fishing in NY state.
This site was designed to aid established residents, newcomers or visitors to our beautiful town, in finding out all there is to see and do in Oxford, NY, as well as detailing our rich and varied past. But aside from its charm and beauty, it's a community rich with warm and friendly people.
Although Oxford is a small town, there are still properties big enough to have a productive farm and be completely self sufficient. Peace and quiet, all alone with nature. Another of Oxford's greatest assets is its residents. Oxford has a community filled with nice, concerned, enthusiastic, and involved people. You don't have to join in, but the spirit is contagious! The pharmacist at Bartles knows his customers by their first names (and can tell you historic town tidbits too); the postal carriers deliver mail with addresses that aren't...quite perfect (because they know what it's supposed to be); Canal Street Hardware will offer advice to help you with most any project (and then help to carry your heavy items to your car); most stores still have a penny dish on the counters (in case you don't have exact change); neighbors still help neighbors; drivers will stop to let you cross the road; and other pedestrians will wave and say, "hi", even if they don't know your name. People in Oxford volunteer their time coaching summer sports to kids, helping out at the school, the Oxford Library, and the Youth or Senior Center. It sounds very idealistic, like a vision from the past, in today's mechanized, and often rushed society.
Many caring people are in organizations or clubs that preserve the town's heritage (like the Oxford Historical Society, the Oxford Memorial Library, Promote Oxford Now); some preserve the beauty (like the Oxford Garden Club, The Village Tree Board, and again, Promote Oxford Now); some help people in need (like the 5 churches, the food pantry, the American Legion, the Oxford Volunteer Fire Dept., the EMT's, the Lion's Club, the Masons, and the Rotary); some enrich lives (all of the above, plus the Oxford Academy schools, Band Boosters, PTA, the Youth Center, the Senior Center, the Grange, book clubs, and more). Groups such as the Fire Dept. Auxiliary, Oxford Academy Student Council, Lions Club, Rotary Club, and others, get together "Community Gift Baskets" at Christmas time. There are fund-raising dinners and bake sales, Scouts visit the NYS Veterans Home to sing carols, or at other times school concert bands play music to the Veterans. There's even an Oxford Community Band, made up of student-to-senior-age volunteers, who play summer concerts in the parks. There are many civic and community groups that raise funds for student scholarships of all sizes.
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Now-May 31, Art of Katie Thomas Exhibit at 6 On The Square.
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April 29, May 27, June 24, 7:30 PM, the Village Board of Trustees meeting. (Last Tues. of month.)
April 29, May 27, June 24, 7 PM, Drumming Circle at 6 On The Square. (Last Tues. of month.)
May 3 & 17; June 7 & 21, 7:30 PM, Karaoke at Legion Post 376. Open to public. (1st & 3rd Saturday/mo.)
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May 10, then June 14, 5-7 PM, Second Saturday Spaghetti Dinner at St. Paul's Church.
May 12, then June 9; 7:00 PM, AL Auxiliary Unit 376 meets (2nd Monday/mo.) in Legion Post 376. (No meetings in July or August.)
May 13 & 27, June 10 & 24, etc. 7 PM, Lions Club Meeting at Fred's Inn Restaurant. (2nd/4th Tues)
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May 15, June 19, July 19, 7:30 PM, Open Mic at 6 On The Square. (3rd Thrs.)
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May 21, June 18, July 16, 7 PM, Library Board Meets at Library. (3rd Wed.)
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May 28, 7 PM, Annual Meeting of Riverview Cemetery Association at Library.
May 31, 7:30 PM, Brian Ashley Jones at 6 On The Square.
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CATEGORIES MoviesHorror-meister Rob Zombie returns to theaters this weekend with an eerie new project titled "The Lords of Salem." The film stars Zombie's real-life wife, Sherri Moon (star of his "Devil's Rejects" and "Halloween" remake), as a radio DJ working in modern-day Salem, Massachusetts. One night, she is delivered a mysterious record to play on air from a group known only as "The Lords." The band's creepy sounds subsequently seem to posses Moon and the women of Salem, filling their heads with nightmarish visions of Satan and a coven of witches seeking revenge from beyond the grave.
Despite staying in the horror realm, "Lords of Salem" is a very different kind of Rob Zombie film. Light on gore and with an emphasis on cerebral, visual scares, "Salem" shows off new cinematic skills from the shock rocker.
Zombie spoke with Moviefone about the need to create something new for horror, struggling with "pointless" studio remakes and taking on an even bigger departure for his next film: a sports biopic of the notorious '70s line-up of the Philadelphia Flyers.
Moviefone: "Lords of Salem" is a definite evolution of your filmmaking style; it's much more methodical than your fans are used to. Rob Zombie: That was my intention. I really wanted to do something very different from what I had done before, pacing wise, style wise and basically every-wise.
Modern, young audiences that go see mainstream horror movies are not used to a slow, psychological take. How do you try to tell a methodical horror story with that audience hurdle? You just can't worry about it, because I really feel that the death of anything is when you start catering to the audience. That's not an insult to the audience, it's just you go in there, you have a vision, and you try to carry it out, hope if it works well, and that people will discover it .
They may not discover it the day it comes out, they may discover it years later. But trying to crank out cookie-cutter product because the studios have decided that's what audiences want -- the audience doesn't want that! But sometimes you force feed them crap because there is nothing else. They may go "Oh I want to go to the movies tonight" they look at the list of movies and go "I don't want to see any of these movies!"
I want to go see something and go "Wow I've never seen that before," and I think most audiences do, too. They get beaten down. Maybe you like "American Idol," but you don't need twenty other shows exactly like it. F---ing over-kill, but that's what they figure. Try to turn art into Coca-Cola.
You have an interesting perspective because you've worked on remakes and original ideas. What differences did you see working with a major studio on an original idea as opposed to developing a remake? The remake is more difficult because, on some level, remakes seem pointless. But the reality of the business is those are the movies they will give you money to make. So it's sort of like "I can do this or I can do nothing." I love movies and I want to make movies so you go, "All right let me do this." With the "Halloween" movies I made, I wanted to go in a different direction because it's so pointless to go, "I'm going to copy what John Carpenter did." That's the struggle: You want to change it enough that it's worth making, but not so much that there is no resemblance.
When the project first came up, the studio strangely enough didn't care if Michael Meyers or Dr. Loomis was in the movie; they just wanted it be "Halloween." And I thought what appealed to me was Meyers was like a modern-day Frankenstein. These characters, like Meyers, Freddy Krueger, are our generation's Wolfman and Frankenstein -- the iconic monsters -- so why not treat it that way? This is just another retelling of a classic story.
Inevitably, whenever a filmmaker directs their spouse, critics will judge that performance with more scrutiny. Does that impact how you direct your wife? I try not to think about that stuff. I know that she will get more attention than she normally would. People who have no sort of public persona whatsoever, they might not even mention the director's name. With me, they mention my name and then start pontificating on what I was thinking, what I was doing and who I am -- and they read a lot into it, and unfortunately they do that a lot with her as well. Which is a good and a bad thing; in one way it gets you more attention, but in another way people can't distance themselves enough when they are watching the movie. It's ridiculous at times.
What is your approach to getting these crazed performances out of your cast? I try to tell them as much as possible, but sometimes it does seem stupid what I'm telling them, truthfully. "OK, bring in the fake goat. You're going to ride that goat. This is going to happen: there's going to be all these nude women with animal heads walking down a hallway." I think, more than usual, the cast and crew were in a state of constant confusion.
Do you personally get scared by the concept of Satanic horror? No, not at all. But I know others do, that's why I like messing with it.
Then how do you ensure a movie like this is scary? I don't find movies scary, so I have to figure out what I think other people would find scary. That's really the trick. I figure out what would push other people's buttons. A lot of the stuff in the film was really bothering Ken Foree because he is very religious. He was really wigged out by a lot of the stuff in the script.
I wanted to switch gears and talk about the next movie you are working on: the biopic of the Broad Street Bullies. What's the biggest challenge you've seen working on a true sports story? You have to find a way to stay true to the facts as much as you can but still make it a compelling movie. It doesn't have to be a perfectly exact retelling of the truth; it might be accurate but it might not make for a good film. I'm trying to make it as detailed and accurate as possible but also make it work as a drama... We're at the point where the script is finished and we are trying to figure out how and when and where we are going to do it because I have a new record coming out, so I start touring in June. My year is pretty booked up with tour dates. So I'm hoping late in the year to start that one.
Do you consider yourself a horror director, and will this movie be an "experiment"? I consider myself a director and I love movies. My first bunch of movies for the first ten years were all from a certain genre, and now I'm going to move off of that and do other things. Maybe I'll come back to it sometimes, maybe I won't. I don't know, but I didn't wake up one day and say "I'm going to do this forever." I like movies of all kinds and I want to make movies of all kinds.
If you could score the work of any director, living or dead, what would be your dream music job? I love silent movies, and I think it would be pretty cool to go back and score silent films. "Hunchback of Notre Dame" or "Metropolis." The really epic ones could be kind of cool. I think with "Metropolis" you could do some pretty interesting things.


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A 20-year-old college student from Winnetka unknowingly paid much more than her short cab ride should have cost.
Susan Siegel was shocked when she saw a $787.33 transaction on her credit card statement, and even more shocked when she found out it was the bill for her daughter Becky's nearly two mile cab ride.
"He was apparently very friendly and chatty, and was talking about pedestrians crossing where they shouldn't," said Siegel in an interview with FOX 32's Tisha Lewis.
Siegel said she doesn't know if that was a distraction tactic or not. What she does know is something went wrong.
"At the end of the trip he gave her a price and she thinks it was under ten dollars, and so she asked can I use a credit card, and he said my swiper isn't working, here give it to me and I'll do it on my Square," said Siegel.
After noticing the overcharge, Siegel contacted her credit card company but since her daughter signed, they denied a refund.
She was even able to contact the driver and he too supported the nearly $800 tab - that was until Mika Stambaugh at the Chicago's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection got involved.
"The problem here is that Square is not an approved device. We want to urge people to use the front and back mounted credit card device payment systems in our cabs and that's it," said Stambaugh.
In fact, Stambaugh told FOX 32's Tisha Lewis, your credit card should never leave your hand inside a cab and if it does, call 3-1-1.
"Our department has suspended his public chauffeur license pending this investigation… The cab driver is out of the country, he did cooperate but he's not in the country so we still have a few unresolved issues pertaining to this case," said Stambaugh.
Siegel said Square has agreed to issue a refund. She's also heard from the cab driver since the dispute.
"He called me two or three times, and he was in a panic. What I know now is that he is really sorry he got caught," said Siegel.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending states lower the allowable blood alcohol level for drivers from 0.08 to 0.05.
Nearly 10,000 people die every year from alcohol related driving crashes in the US and NTSB officials hope this new recommendation will help reduce that number.
All states have a blood alcohol content limit of 0.08 percent for drivers.
The new suggestion would drop that limit to 0.05, which makes it easier for drivers to be arrested for driving under the influence.
Dougherty County Police say they would make more DUI arrests if the limit is lowered.
Captain Tom Jackson says drivers should use better judgment regardless of the limit.
"Regardless of what the legal limit is for drinking and driving, you know when you've had too much to drink and that's when you don't need to drive. Unfortunately people don't heed those warnings and they take those chances. It's one thing to spend a night in jail, but it's also another to cost someone their family member," said Capt. Jackson.
NTSB suggests that if the Blood Alcohol Content standard is lowered, 500 to 800 lives could be saved every year.
The agency has no authority to change laws, but its backing of the lower limit could add pressure on states to lower the limit.
The NTSB also said penalties for first-time and repeat DUI offenders should be increased.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Executive Vice President of Gonzaga University, Earl "Marty" Martin, said he is excited Dr. Frank Straub is Spokane's new top cop.
Mayor David Condon is expected to announce Straub as Spokane's new police chief Wednesday afternoon. Straub, the current Public Safety Director for the city of Indianapolis, was selected over Daniel Mahoney, the current Commanding Officer of the Ingleside Police Station within the San Francisco Police Department.
Martin sat on two panels during the police chief candidate interviews late last month, including the Government Executive and Elected Leaders panel. On Wednesday, he told KHQ that he was excited Straub was selected.
"I was particularly impressed by Frank Straub," Martin said. "I thought he brought great energy to the work, a very strong intellect, a deep understanding of policing at both the tactical and strategic level and I think that later is incredibly important this day and age. That someone in the position of chief of police could see the full span of the operation to understand not just what it's doing but where it needs to go, to have the leadership to take it there. I saw that in Frank Straub."
Martin said he was also impressed that Straub "expressed great empathy" for the challenges that officers face on the job. Straub is not a commissioned officer himself, but Martin does not believe that will affect Straub's effectiveness as Chief.
"He's been around law enforcement in many different capacities throughout his entire career," Martin continued. "I'm convinced he understands policing thoroughly. He might not have walked a beat himself but that doesn't preclude him from understanding what it means for an officer to have his span of control that he must exercise. I have great confidence that he has all the qualities he needs in our next chief of police.
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Laurel was granted $1.35 million dollars from FEMA to restore the river bank along Riverfront Park; step two in what is going to be a three step process to fix the town's water woes once and for all.
City officials are still trying to work out what a final solution to keeping the water flowing will be, but local leaders said this federal funding is a step in the right direction.
"There has been a ton of work put into this, both on the city's side and on the senators' side. And we're very appreciative of the work that they did on helping us get through the sequestration process and get the actual funding to the city," said Laurel's chief administration officer Heidi Jensen.
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City College of San Francisco had its accreditation revoked by the Accrediting Commission of Junior and Community Colleges in July, and now the ACCJC is getting a taste of its own medicine — its own existence has been threatened over its treatment of City College.
In an Aug. 13 letter to ACCJC President Barbara Beno, the Department of Education found it out of compliance with the Education Secretary's regulations governing accrediting agencies, as well as the ACCJC's own internal rules.
"Therefore, we have determined that in order to avoid initiation of an action to limit, suspend or terminate ACCJC's recognition, ACCJC must take immediate steps to correct the areas of non-compliance in this letter," the letter reads.
The DOE found the ACCJC noncompliant in four areas: A conflict of interest because Beno's husband served on the visiting team that evaluated City College, no clear policies on who should serve on those teams (with the letter noting the teams were stacked with administrators rather than educators), no defined distinction between "deficiencies" and "recommendations" or indication of their severity levels, and failure to give CCSF two years to correct those deficiencies, as ACCJC policies call for.
Ironically, the ACCJC has plenty of time to correct its own shortcomings. "The process in this case is that ACCJC will have an opportunity to provide information about the steps it has taken to come into compliance with the cited criteria in its response to the draft staff analysis of the agency's petition for renewal of its recognition, which is currently under review," DOE spokesperson Jane Glickman told the Guardian, noting that there will be a hearing in mid-December, with possible actions ranging from limiting the agency's authority to giving it another year to come into compliance.
But she said the DOE can't directly help City College: "The Department does not have the authority to require an agency to change any accreditation decision it has made. The agency (ACCJC) needs to amend its policies and procedures and provide documentation that it follows its amended policies and procedures to demonstrate that it is in compliance with the cited criteria."
The California Federation of Teachers, which filed the appeal with the DOE, wants the ACCJC to reconsider its sanction of City College in light of these validated concerns over its process.
"We are gratified that the U.S. Dept. of Education agreed with us that the process was deeply flawed, and we call on the ACCJC to rescind its unprecedented decision to deny accreditation to CCSF," CFT President Joshua Pechthalt, wrote in a press release.
But ACCJC Vice President of Policy and Research Krista Johns told us that DOE's concerns were narrow and shouldn't affect its actions against City College:"The overall result of the US Department [of Education]'s analysis and study of the documents presented by the CFT about the ACCJC really affirmed that we are in compliance to a very large degree with all of the many regulations that touch on accreditors."
But it's still an open question whether the DOE's findings will affect the decision to revoke City College's accreditation and turn control over the institution to a state-appointed special trustee.
"We're still analyzing the letter. There's a lot in there," Paul Feist, spokesperson for the State Community College Chancellor's Office, told us. "I don't know if it could say there is any reprieve [for City College]. Regardless, there are a number of problems with City College that need fixing."
But even a cursory analysis of the letter reveals something that raises suspicions about the integrity of the entire process: the DOE letter raises concerns about why the ACCJC chose to go beyond its own policies to sock it to City College.
I'm glad CCSF has gotten some vindication. It is clear that while there might be problems at CCSF, the quality of education is stellar and the ACCJC clearly messed up. Unfortunately, the Special Trustee and the Interim Chancellor have no stake in CCSF's survival, they are not from San Francisco and in fact seem hostile to the values that we hold in our dear city, They'd like to see CCSF downsized and serve fewer, more elite students. We need to run the carpetbaggers out of town and get someone in charge who believes in CCSF's mission. Unfortunately, disaster capitalism is already at work, and no one, it seems, even the DOE can do anything to stop it. The people of SF need to rise up and say, "Keep your hands off of our school!"
applies in any way, shape or form to what is probably the lowest-grade college in the Bay Area.
And CCSF isn't "vindicated" by this at all. The fact that there might be some flaw with the panel doesn't mean that everything they judged is somehow magically 100% incorrect.
Guest-- You are lying. CCSF rates in the top 10% of California community colleges, in every metric (transfer rates, completion rates, GPA, etc). CCSF equals or surpasses the other Bay Area community colleges in these metrics. CCSF education is indeed stellar.
The ACCJC report didn't attack the quality of education at CCSF. The report attacked its finances (too much money spent on classes, and not enough on painting buildings and buying the latest whizbang computer systems) and administration (as in, not enough administrators to get in the way of the teachers doing their jobs).
The ACCJC attacks CCSF's finances -- in a recession when millions of dollars in funding have been cut -- and wants CCSF to spend more on infrastructure, building maintenance, and computers.
The ACCJC is making contradictory demands that are impossible to meet. The only possible reason is that the ACCJC simply wants to close CCSF. Why else would all of the ACCJC's proceedings on this be secret, to the extent of shredding documents?!
colleges overall. And that makes it good and worth keeping?
CCSF's finances are shot but that is mostly to do with the unionized workforce and the expense of employee public sector workers with unsustainable pay and benefits. A smaller, privatized college would be far more viable.
The LAST thing this planet needs is more private colleges to make worker slaves out of its young people.
City College is a treasure in this city and from what I see appears to need only some modest, achievable reform.
With the wealth gap growing at an astonishing rate in this country and in this city particularly, City College offers a much-needed and affordable place for people to start climbing the ladder and pursuing their dreams.
It needs to pay it's own way
NOT to have City College.
It is a boost to the local populace and city in so many ways, including economic stimulus, and offers the possibility of a prosperous future to those in the community that need it most.
It more than pays its own way in real value.
As long as corporate welfare queens like Exxon and the big banks ($83 billion/yr!) continue to create the great need for such colleges we can more than "afford" city college--it will in fact remain a dire necessity.
City College is needed to offset the economic horrors going on in this city and country.
It is this corrupt corporate culture that we can no longer afford.
San Francisco/CA gets little money from the federal government any more for things like education because of the behavior of these corrupt corporate entities and their anti-American behavior (like tax cheat Apple). We could pay for City College out of the dropped pocket change Apple alone steals from the American people each year ($9 billion)
taxpayers have just ponied up even more taxes to throw at this black hole of uselessness.
But it sounds like you just want to rant, so carry on. But CCSF is still closing.
is the surest sign you have lost the argument.
My own successful company pays a large amount in local, state, and federal taxes--and I know that City College is a good deal for me and my community.
I hope this valuable asset can be saved. They have set up a site.
This is the same shit and lies that Rodriguez Fitzgerald produced when he worked for the City College paper, The Guardsman to do fill in pieces. This man could not do a straight story if his name depended on it. One day his name is Joe Rodrigomez and the next day it is Joe Fitzgereald Rodriguez. When I ran for mayor of San Francisco, Rodrigroes Fitzgereald stonewalled two interviews that were supposed to be done on me, because he thought censorship and half truths was the road America was going down. And, since then his trash in the Guardian have been pure fill. Fitzgereald would not know a good story if one shot it to him with a cannon.
The story on City College is simply this: The institution had grown fat with over 1100 instructors, 50 committees and fat paychecks for all that were in the loop, with classes by dudes like Fred Glass who teaches unionism as a religion-I took his labor class and it only had three sign ups but still went forward-that it started to build more campuses while classrooms went empty. Remember Chancellor Phil Day, and the 30 felonies he was hit with for slush funds and contractor kickbacks. Well, he also censored fill story people like Rodriguez/Fitzgereald, who should actually work for a paper in Cuba or Russia, where this typle of journalism is normal. Day, after his good work here is now a director somewhere in Hawaii. Simply, City College was bankrupt, so they brought in a CEO that fired the board, the president and all the others with an "F" grade. And, It is too bad he did not fire Ridro/Fitzgeraldo, also. This is the real City College story.
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There are some things that kids just shouldn't have to put up with. Being transported to some weird dimension full of goblins, dwarves, swamplings, stupid wizards and sleeping giants is definitely one of them.
When Simon discovers the tuneless bard, the repulsive Rapunzel and a pair of demons with a serious attitude problem, it could just prove to be one cliché too far.
With a Nobel prize for attempted humour and puzzles so fiendish you'll certainly need help from the wise owl, Simon the Sorcerer is guaranteed to provide a distraction from the drudgery of modern life.
You can choose between subtitled and full talkie version of the game.
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.
Minimum system requirements (Mac): OS X 10.6.8 or later Processor: Intel Mac 1.8 Ghz, Memory: 1 GB, Hard Drive: 380MB free space Recommended two-button mouse, or Apple mouse with Secondary Button / Secondary Click enabled.
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AWFUL! This game NEEDS subtitles for three reasons:
1) The original disk version HAD SUBTITLES.
2) There is no volume control for the music. No matter how loud I turn up the volume on the speakers, I cannot understand the speech over the music.
3) The deaf and hard of hearing (like myself!) who enjoyed this and many other games would really appreciate it if the description ofread more an adventure game - dialogue driven, mind you - to include whether or not it actually comes complete - as in whether or not it actually comes with the subtitles it originally had.
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Posted on 2008-12-16 08:46:10 byCTLance:
First off, be warned that it's an oldschool point-n-click adventure.
You are going to search for items, you're going to miss some, and you're going to get stuck until that fateful day when you either stumble upon one item or item combination, give up and look at a FAQ, or ask a fellow gog'er.
Point-n-click adventures can be a pain and very frustrating when you're stuck, but noread more other genre can be as rewarding and fulfilling when you finally "get it".
As far as games in the genre go, this is actually pretty easy and manageable though. Most of the puzzles make sense, in a way. Pressing F10 will cheat and show you all items or persons you can interact with on the current screen, and there is a hint system with an owl you can ask for advice, quite userfriendly.
Gameplay consists of using your mouse pointer to steer your sorcerer-to-be around a wonderful world full of unique characters, engage in hilarious conversations, combine items you find lying around, use them one way or another, and hopefully achieve your goal of returning to your home unharmed.
You will kiss pigs, help timid barbarians, talk to tree stumps, cunningly disguise yourself, and bring all manners of misfortune upon those who stand in your way. You even get to use the ring(TM). You can instantly travel to certain landmarks using your magic map, and even loading and saving your game is done using an in-game item, the postcard. It's a very immersive experience, despite the main character breaking the fourth wall once or twice during conversations.
The amount of voice acting crammed into that tiny download is astonishing. Every conversation is fully voiced - and the writing is hilarious. Artwork and use of color make this game a timeless classic. Music's great too, of couse the tracks aren't fully orchestrated, but certainly fitting and enjoyable throughout. Many, if not most screens are animated, be it ducks swimming in a pond, squirrels running up a tree when they see you, butterflies fluttering around, flickering Fire illuminating a cave, etc. You will explore creepy caves and hideouts, a cozy village, luscious forests, and snow-covered peaks, among others.
The game itself will engross you in a colorful world that makes sense in a twisted way.
If you liked Monkey Island or Discworld you'll love this one. It's plenty of fun, hours long, easy to use but hard to master, and best of all, it's only six bucks. You would do yourself a disservice to not give this a playthrough.
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Posted on 2008-12-09 12:03:33 byacyclic:
While not as popular as some of the old LucasArts or Sierra graphical adventures, the original Simon The Sorcerer is a superb game, one with lots of humor and challenging puzzles.
Put bluntly: If you enjoy the LucasArts classics, you should also enjoy this game... I'd imagine it's why support for it was built into the ScummVM emulation application (SCUMM was an engine specificread more to LucasArts games).
Simon can be thought of the magical equivalent of Guybrush Threepwood in the Monkey Island series... he's a sorcerer wannabe that is on a mission to rescue a more powerful, ally sorcerer. I don't remember the details of the story, but it's a good one - not great, but solid. The locations are excellent, and there's a lot of them.
Much of the humor is derived from science fiction - with characters such as Golem making an appearance.
It's great to see Simon on GoG... this will be my first purchase here. I'd urge anyone who enjoys graphic adventure games to pick this one up - you will not be disappointed.
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by Farouk Dey and Matt RealNACE Journal, September 2010
University career centers have evolved and adapted since their creation during the middle of the 20th century. This article provides a theoretical framework explaining the recent paradigm shifts and their impact on career services and college recruitment.
New social, economic, and technological paradigms throughout the last decades have spurred changes in the delivery of career services. During the past several years, new technological trends, such as social networking, have changed the way college students make meaning of their experiences, construct their identity, and relate with others, including prospective employers. Similarly, recent economic conditions transformed the employment market, creating challenges and possibilities for students starting their career development journey. Although there have been benchmark surveys and reports exploring these trends, there has not been a theoretical model explaining the paradigm shifts and their impact on the career services and college recruiting field. This article builds on the foundation established by Donald Casella in 1990 and provides such a theoretical framework.1
The authors explain current and emerging trends in career services, but also provide career services professionals with an accessible and functional model chronicling the organizational evolution of career centers. The Career Center Paradigm Model can be used as a reference resource for individual institutions.
Casella's landmark article examined the historical career center structural paradigm shifts and provided an evolutionary road map for career services professionals. Prior to the publication of his research, collective awareness regarding the career centers' service delivery was loosely connected. Casella's functional model chronicled and formalized the various dimensions that impact "the way we perceive ourselves and exercise our profession," from the typical names career services professionals gave their career centers to the theoretical orientation that influenced career counseling.
Through his research, Casella consolidated the organizational evolution of career centers into three paradigms: job placement, career planning, and career networking. He proposed the emergence of a new paradigm: career networking—the transition from the Industrial Era into the Information Era. He researched trends in university career services that occurred in past decades and generated 14 dimensions across the three paradigms to explain the evolution of career centers. These dimensions included a typical career center's overall purpose; name; theoretical foundation; central rational, main activity, and services; environment; clients served; target population; external factors; staff identity; staff performance; hiring criterion; and location for activities.
In 1999, Youngblood, Nichols, and Wilson consolidated this model into eight dimensions and introduced their Adaptation of Casella's Career Centers Paradigm, which tracked the structure and delivery of career services at career centers from the 1940s through 1999. Youngblood, Nichols, and Wilson presented the dimensions across each decade but renamed the paradigms: Reactive (1940s—1970s), Proactive (1980s—1995), and Interactive (1995—2000+).2
Through the lens of Casella's Career Center Paradigm model, the authors incorporated and expanded the language from both models to describe the three paradigms and introduce new ones. The original dimensions were expanded to include career centers' primary purpose, service delivery methodology, typical name, constituents served, theoretical orientation, external factors, staff identity, staff skills, location for activities, recruitment trends, industry trends, and assessment methodology.
The authors' objective was to identify new trends that have emerged since the most recent adaption and make educated predictions for future trends likely to emerge during the next decade. The study addressed two main questions:
The study involved an analysis of the 2008 NACE Career Services Benchmark Survey. The survey was sent to 1,494 career centers in four-year colleges in the United States and received a 42 percent response rate, of which 88.5 percent were centralized career centers and 44.73 percent were in public universities. The survey addressed and identified patterns in various areas of career centers, including staffing, budgets, career fairs, job posting, programming, services offered, and current and future trends in career services.
The study also included an analysis of a supplementary survey that the authors designed and sent to career center directors in four-year colleges and universities. Of the 56 respondents, 92 percent worked in centralized career centers and 58 percent worked in public universities. Respondents reported on changes they observed during the last decade and predictions for the first half of the next decade.
Using Casella's career centers paradigm as a framework, the five most significant issues that faced university career centers during the 2000s were identified as:
The study shed light on recent changes in career center staffing. Career centers used to be staffed with essentially "job fillers," individuals who placed candidates in job openings, but working there is now a career choice for professionals with master's and/or doctorate degrees in counseling or related fields. The typical career center is staffed with a fairly young team of professionals who have mastered technology and the art of multi-tasking. Job descriptions typically require the ability to multi-task, emphasizing four essential skills: counseling/advising, technology, public speaking, and teamwork.
The study also showed new trends in service delivery, mainly driven by technology, globalization, new generational trends, and recent economic challenges. Today's career center is a "one-stop shop," with a comprehensive menu of career services, including counseling and advising, for-credit courses, outreach and programming, career fairs and networking opportunities, online and library resources, and on-campus recruitment activities. The recent integration of technology in the service delivery involved the creation of virtual career centers through interactive web sites that provide web resources and information, self-help tools such as virtual mock-interviewing and online resume builders, and in-person and online counseling and advising, and integrate social networking web sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. These shifts have led to a decrease in paper library holdings and an overall increase in career services use by students and alumni.
Also, on-campus recruitment has evolved into an experiential education model, emphasizing internships and co-ops as the premier methods for employers to recruit students and for students to enhance learning. While the private sector had a strong presence in on-campus recruitment prior to the recent economic downturn, government hiring on campus has now increased due to retirement projections and increased government stimulus funding. Although students have to compete more for career opportunities than in recent years, they still indicate a strong interest in participating in international internships and job assignments. More employers are catching on to these new trends and structuring their internship and job opportunities to involve some global aspects, even if they don't involve international travel. As multinational employers increase their presence on campus, future improvements in the economy and technology will increase global opportunities for students and alumni, making international experiences and assignments a standard in many job descriptions.
The information gathered by the two surveys allowed the authors to make other predictions about future trends in how career centers will leverage technology and new economic conditions to engage their constituents. The economy and technology will continue to be the most significant issues impacting career centers during the next decade. As employer participation in career fairs and on-campus recruitment decreases, technology will increase the reliance on virtual career services, expanding the use of cyber career fairs, video interviewing, and employer information sessions via web seminars.
The study revealed two new paradigms in the career services and college recruitment field, building upon previous paradigms showcased in this new adaptation of Casella's Career Centers Paradigm model:
Placement Paradigm (1940s and 1950s): a reactive need-based model born of the surge of placement needs of new college graduate GI bill beneficiaries.
Planning Paradigm (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s): a departure from reactive placement practices into a more proactive "self-help" career education model in which students learn strategies and apply them to advance their career goals.
Networking Paradigm (1990s): the transformation of proactive career services into the facilitation of interactive networking opportunities between candidates and employers and teaching candidates how to leverage these opportunities.
Social Networking Paradigm (2000—2009): a shift from an interactive model of career services based on traditional networking approaches into a superactive model heightened by the integration of social networking web sites and the emergence of new technological tools.
Global Networking Paradigm (2010—2015): a new era of hyperactive career services with more virtual services, online resources, and virtual networking at a global scale. (See Figure 1.)
While Casella's and Youngblood, Nichols, and Wilson's models ended with the Career Networking Paradigm, this new adaptation extends the model into the 2000s and the 2010s. Although there have been many changes to the structure and process by which career services are delivered, this is still the Information Era and the Networking Paradigm.
However, it is important to make obvious the transition and evolution of networking over the past decade within the Career Center Paradigm model. The authors have made this distinction by naming the past decade the Social Networking paradigm. This reflects the shift from simply an Interactive/Networking to a Superactive/Networking paradigm developed with technologies such as the Internet, smart phones, and social networking sites. A superactive paradigm describes an increase in the overall interaction with technology and availability of information. As technology continues to integrate into our lives, we will become a truly global community. This hyperactive global availability inspired the name for the emerging paradigm—Global Networking.
Following are brief explanations of the trends described for the Social Networking (2000—2009) and Global Networking (2010—2015) Paradigms:
Primary Purpose. As the information available to students has increased, career services practitioners must educate more than ever. Economic and technological changes require students to compete globally for jobs. Helping them understand the global marketplace is essential—providing techniques to find and use resources will help students develop lifelong skills to be successful.
Service Delivery. While the hope is that personal one-on-one contact remains a component of career center services, the transition to web-based services is unavoidable. Students interact and communicate through technology. Career centers must continue to evolve and create outlets that meet students' needs and demands. Technology-based interaction is a challenge, but also creates incredible possibilities.
Typical Name. Career centers must provide a wide range of services and resources, such as developing employer relations, creating various and dynamic programming, and maintaining technological relevance. This "one-stop shop" expectation has led to the generalization of career center names with the most popular being simply "career services." As the impact of technology continues to grow, the use of names such as "Career Cyber Center" will eventually appear.
Constituents Served. During the last decade, career centers have seen an increase of parental involvement in students' career development, sparking a new trend of resources and services for parents. This trend will continue during the next decade.
Theoretical Orientation. Typology theories such as Holland and the MBTI have continued to be a central theoretical framework for most career counselors. However, with the increased complexity of careers worldwide and the rapid introduction and expansion of new industries due to new technological and economic conditions, emerging theories such as Planned Happenstance and Chaos Theory of Careers will become more useful models to help students with career exploration.
External Factors. Dramatic changes in technology, economic conditions, and generational trends have influenced the structure and service delivery of career centers during the last 10 years. These paradigm shifts juxtaposed with globalization and an increased sense of advocacy for sustainability will continue to impact university career services during the next decade.
Staff Identity. Many career services professionals have roles that can be described as counselors or advisers, and often fill both roles. These titles will not be shed, but will evolve into a comprehensive professional identity of educators, claiming a place around the academic table with faculty and higher education administrators.
Staff Skills. The expected skills of new professionals are no longer focused on a specific concentration. Rather, career services professionals must be flexible and possess a variety of skills. They will need these skills as they are asked to progress from a paradigm that valued multitasking into the Global Networking paradigm where information synthesis is needed. Advanced degrees and training will allow career services professionals to help students make sense of the chaotic barrage of information that they encounter while on campus.
Location for Career Center Activities. Career centers have been purging physical resources and consolidating them online for the past several years. Staff interaction with students is continuing to move into cyberspace, decreasing the need and value for career centers physical facilities.
On-Campus Recruitment. As competition for top candidates decreased due to the recent economic conditions, early recruitment and talent identification through experiential education has and will continue to be the main on-campus recruitment activity for many employers in the next decade.
Industry Trends. During the last decade, especially prior to the economic downturn, there was a strong on-campus recruitment presence from financial and engineering companies. As the economy slowed, there was a reduction in hiring in these sectors and an increase in government hiring, stimulated by retirement projections and increased funding. Recent globalization, economic, and sustainability trends will increase the on-campus presence of multinational and energy companies.
Assessment Focus. While assessments in career services have traditionally focused on attendance numbers and revenues, they now measure more complex dimensions such as learning outcomes and satisfaction, with special consideration to demographic data. Future assessments of career services will involve measurements of post-graduation tracking and students' global competencies, driven by global hiring needs.
Career centers have a unique opportunity to capitalize on the new dynamics in career services and college recruitment, and reinvent their service delivery approach. Casella's Career Centers Paradigm provided higher education administrators and HR professionals with a mechanism to track and articulate the evolution of career services and college recruitment since the 1940s. The model has been used to define trends in a particular decade and to predict future trends that may impact the delivery of career services to college students.
This examination of career centers through the framework of Casella's Career Centers Paradigm helped identify emerging and future trends in career services at four-year institutions. The paradigms and dimensions discussed in this adaptation of Casella's Career Centers Paradigm model create a framework for career services professionals and higher education administrators to understand the profession's evolution. Although this model may not accurately represent the evolution of every career center, it provides a general foundation for a constructive discussion about each career center. To truly interact with the model, career services professionals should reflect upon and discuss how they interpret the organizational evolution of career centers based on the dimension trends provided in the model.
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The Plainfield Distinguished Young Woman Program (formerly Plainfield's Junior Miss) will host its 50th annual college scholarship program this summer.
To celebrate this year, many past contestants and winners are invited to participate and assist with the celebration. Past contestants are encouraged to visit the group's Facebook page at facebook.com/groups/148293221906440/.Plainfield Junior Miss/Distinguished Young Woman to post their favorite memories and to view photos from the past 49 years.
The Plainfield Distinguished Young Woman Program is sponsored by the Plainfield Optimist Club.
This year's program is Aug. 17 at Plainfield High School.
Applications are being accepting online at www.DistinguishedYW.org.
Participants must be in their junior year at either Plainfield or Cascade high schools. Only high school girls graduating in May of 2014 that live in the Plainfield and Mill Creek school districts may participate in the program. There is no entry fee.
Applicants will compete in fitness, public speaking, interview, scholastics, and on-stage talent and will be eligible for more than $3,000 in college scholarships.
The winner will advance to Indiana's state program in Kokomo, where she will be eligible for more scholarships.
All state winners will travel to Mobile, Ala., to participate in personal development activities and community service projects before competing for the opportunity to become the Distinguished Young Woman of America for 2014 and for a share of more than $125,000 in cash and scholarships.
Founded in 1958 in Mobile, America's Junior Miss, now Distinguished Young Women, is the largest and oldest national scholarship program for high school girls. During its 54 years of operation, the program has provided life-changing experiences for more than 700,000 young women. Last year Distinguished Young Women provided more than $63 million in cash and college scholarships opportunities.
Distinguished Young Women is a scholarship program that inspires high school girls to develop their full, individual potential through a fun, transformative experience that culminates in a celebratory showcase of their accomplishments.
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One of America's largest retail pharmacies CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products.
The products will be eliminated from all of its 7,600 stores nationwide by October 1st.
"We generate about $2 billion in tobacco related sales each year. But at the same time we believe this is the right decision for our company. It positions us for future growth and the opportunity to play a bigger role in our evolving healthcare system," said CVS Caremark CEO Larry Merlo.
The chain stated selling cigarettes side-by-side with medicine along with other health products and services undermines the mission of promoting good health.
The big announcement is being praised by local health professionals including Lou Kreidler, Director of the Wichita County Public Health District.
"They're setting a trend for healthcare in the nation. CVS is saying that it seemed incongruent for them to be a healthcare organization and sell a product which science has proven harmful to your health," she said.
Kreidler hopes more companies will follow suit, but Texomans have one worry.
"I think people who smoke will find the tobacco elsewhere if they can't get it at CVS," said one Wichita Falls resident.
"If people want to smoke badly enough, they will do whatever they can to get the tobacco that they need. But if it's one less place they can get it from, it makes it that much more difficult," said another.
The move is also an effort to help lower the number of tobacco-related illnesses and deaths. Each year, over 480,000 people die from tobacco-related illnesses.
18% of Americans, estimated to about 42 million people currently smoke.
A federal report showed that each year, smoking costs the nation about $289 billion in direct medical costs and lost productivity.
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SALISBURY, Md. - Raymond Paul Parsons, Sr., 77, of Salisbury, died on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Born in Salisbury, he was the son of the late Joshua Parsons and Mary Parsons Lease. "Poppy" was a US Army veteran and was a retired security guard at the Wicomico County District Court in Salisbury. He enjoyed traveling, talking with people and watching television, especially westerns. He was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather.
He is survived by his wife of 22 years, Kathaleen Grace Dennis Parsons; a son, Raymond Paul Parsons, Jr of Salisbury; a daughter, Patricia Ann Parsons of Salisbury; a step son, Kenneth W. Hastings of Laurel, DE; a step daughter, Stacy L. Corbin of Salisbury; 8 grandchildren, April, Amber, William, Rashaan, Michael, Nicole, Katie and Kemyra; a step great granddaughter, Ashley Hastings; a great grandchild, Ny-Asia; and 3 brothers, Edward Parsons of Ocean City, William Parsons of Salisbury and Charles Parsons of Princess Anne. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Phoebe Joan Kaer Parsons and his second wife, Mary Madline Hearn Parsons; brother, Kenneth Parsons and sister, Phyllis Parsons.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, March 18, 2013 at 7:00 PM at the Holloway Funeral Home in Salisbury with a visitation one hour prior to the service. Rev. Joe Barnes will officiate. Arrangements are in the care of Holloway Funeral Home, PA, 501 Snow Hill Road, Salisbury, MD 21804. Please visit Holloway Funeral Home's website to express condolences to the family.


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An HIV test came back positive for Sawyer 12 years ago. She's been friendly with the staff at Vermont CARES in Burlington ever since. The nonprofit helps her pay for the medication she needs to keep the virus in check.
"My hope is to stay HIV and not go any further into AIDS," she said.
With advances in drug technology, that is easier to do. What used to be a drug cocktail of up to 40 pills back when the HIV epidemic was getting underway in the 1980s is now down to just a single pill for many patients.
Dr. Christopher Grace and Nurse Practitioner Deborah Kutzko have seen the transformation of the disease up close. They helped launch Fletcher Allen Health Care's specialized clinic for HIV and AIDS patients 25 years ago this week.
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So they combated the growing epidemic with a new model of care, bringing specialists together in one place to treat the different facets of the disease.
"Psychological help, family help, emotional support, hospice care. So you needed a system, a clinic program, a home if you will, to provide this care," Grace said.
What started in Burlington spread to other clinics in Rutland, Brattleboro and St. Johnsbury. There are 450 patients now. And a few have been around from the start-- 25 years ago--- and are still going strong. Living with the disease has changed thanks to new treatments. And now, so is the way experts hope to stop the spread of the virus.
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"Shop local!" we're told, particularly this holiday season with a world recession squeezing local economies. We want to help, want to do the right thing, want our holiday dollars to circulate in our mountain towns. But we also want to buy Christmas and Hanukah gifts worth giving. Happily, many regional retail outlets now stock Catskill Mountain themed books, books that just might be the perfect holiday gifts this year.
We have a little gem of a park right nearby. Maybe the word park is less than clearly specific here. I have a friend who often reminds us that, here, we live in a park – mountains and valleys, state land and privately owned – the whole area inside the Blue Line boundaries is the Catskill Park, basically, from Johnson Ford, Kingston to Bridge Street, Margaretville.
I stopped a former student of mine the other day in the store where she works. I told her that I had recently held in my hand a little book of poems put together in 1932 in the Shaver Hollow School. There were poems in the booklet by children who shared her family name, children she identified as her father and her aunt.
Usually, I do my research before I write. Usually. A couple of weeks ago, I took a shortcut. Writing about the founder of the hospital in Margaretville, Dr. Gordon Maurer, I mentioned that his epitaph appeared in a book of American epitaphs. Dr. Maurer was killed exactly 70 years ago in a November 1938 hunting accident. He is buried in the old Margaretville Cemetery.
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