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DETROIT -- Not only are the Tigers getting their all-around sparkplug back on Wednesday, they hope to get the guy behind him, too.Curtis Granderson's sore legs checked out OK on Wednesday afternoon, and he'll make his first appearance in a Tigers uniform this season on Wednesday night against the Texas Rangers, so Detroit will get an appreciation for how much it missed him. If Placido Polanco's back feels fine, he could be back in the lineup behind him. Statistically, the gain is obvious. Granderson joined the elite company of Willie Mays, Jimmy Rollins and Wildfire Schulte last year by hitting 20 home runs, 20 doubles and 20 triples while stealing 20 bases. Combined with a batting average topping .300, his total bases rivaled totals put up by American League MVP Alex Rodriguez, AL batting champ Magglio Ordonez and All-Star slugger David Ortiz. Physically, the Tigers will have him back. He's expected to head back from Class A West Michigan to Detroit on Wednesday. Whether he's in the lineup is another story. Granderson went 1-for-3 with a walk in his final rehab game for Whitecaps, leaving him at 7-for-20 over five games between West Michigan and Triple-A Toledo. However, he left the game early, reportedly with continued soreness in his legs, and Tigers medical officials checked him out on Wednesday afternoon. The soreness in Granderson's legs was believed to be an adjustment to playing again regularly after missing about three weeks since a fastball in on the hands broke a bone in Granderson's right middle finger on March 22. In many ways, his rehab stint had been as much or more a matter of getting up to game conditioning and speed as it was about making sure he was fine hitting and throwing with the finger. If Polanco's back is fine, he's expected to take on more of his old form after struggling for much of the season's first few weeks. He hasn't played since Friday, when he felt numbness in his left leg that continued into Saturday. Doctors diagnosed Polanco with inflammation in a nerve in his back, and he has spent the last few days under rest and medication to calm it down. Once the inflammation is out, he shouldn't have to deal with it for the remainder of the season. "When he tells me he's ready to play, I'm going to play him," manager Jim Leyland said. In other words, it'll be up to Polanco to tell Leyland when he needs a day off. Add in Gary Sheffield, who has a slight chance of returning to action on Wednesday after taking cortisone shots in both of his shoulders on Tuesday, and the Tigers have had the top third of their batting order out of action. Sometime soon, that should change. Pitching matchup
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Wednesday is expected to be the first day of the Tigers' infield switch. Carlos Guillen will move from first base to third, with Miguel Cabrera heading from third to first. ... Edgar Renteria is 22-for-54 (.407) over his last 14 games with four doubles, three home runs and 13 RBIs. ... Rangers shortstop Michael Young is 9-for-17 lifetime against ex-teammate Rogers with three doubles, a home run and four RBIs. Tickets
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Thursday: Tigers (Jeremy Bonderman, 1-2, 4.37) vs. Rangers (Jason Jennings, 0-3, 7.08), 1:05 p.m. ET
Friday: Tigers (Nate Robertson, 0-2, 7.48) vs. Angels (Ervin Santana, 3-0, 2.67), 7:05 p.m. ET
Saturday: Tigers (Armando Galarraga, 2-0, 1.50) vs. Angels (Dustin Moseley, 1-2, 7.78), 3:55 p.m. ET
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, December 23, 2013, 4:58 PM
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on Dec 23, 2013 at 5:03 pm
Hurrah! Great teamwork here. Congratulations to the alert caller and to the on-the-ball policemen who separately intercepted both robbers. Many thanks!!
on Dec 23, 2013 at 5:17 pm
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on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:10 pm
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on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:17 pm
Good job to the neighbor who called the police and to the police for responding promptly and effectively. I hope that other neighbors will not hesitate to call the police in other suspicious situations.
on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:20 pm
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on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Hurraad!! Congrats...to the police and watchful citizens! Jack n the Box is notorious for being a magnet for crime-creators....in every town, period. In Mountain View...it's a sore spot, there's been shootings, and multiple arrests.
on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:50 pm
Funny, I checked the PA and MV police logs and there does not appear to be any pattern of criminal activity at either jack in the box. Care to provide some proof for your claim, Jess?
on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Hmmm is a registered user.
I like that Jack in the Box, because when I see people in need in its vicinity, I can easily buy them meals.
I wonder if it's been in Palo Alto longer than Sara has?
on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:58 pm
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on Dec 23, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Lived here and been going to JB for some 30 years. Only criminals I've seen hanging out are underage hungover frat boys getting a JJ fix.
on Dec 23, 2013 at 7:41 pm
"Lived here and been going to JB for some 30 years. Only criminals I've seen hanging out are underage hungover frat boys getting a JJ fix."
Bill, you have not lived in CT for very long. Otherwise, you would know that Jack-in-the-Box, in CT, is a center for homeless, car campers and criminals.
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on Dec 23, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Respectively vs respectfully. Important distinction, Palo Alto Online.
on Dec 23, 2013 at 9:49 pm
Terrace Antelope is a registered user.
I'm with Sara on this one. We could do a lot better than the Jack in the Box.
on Dec 23, 2013 at 10:15 pm
While in HS in the 70s, we'd hit JB for a late night 3 tacos for $1 or several Breakfast Jacks.
on Dec 23, 2013 at 11:03 pm
JB is open inside 24/7 as of this year I believe.
on Dec 24, 2013 at 12:19 am
"Bill, you have not lived in CT for very long. Otherwise, you would know that Jack-in-the-Box, in CT, is a center for homeless, car campers and criminals."
Careful who you lump together there. Homelessness, in itself, is not a criminal act, and neither is being a car camper.
on Dec 24, 2013 at 7:29 am
Many thanks to the CT resident who spotted the thieves, their car, and license plate number, then reported it to the police. Good neighbors are the best source of crime prevention. Great follow up by the police too. Crystal meth, stun gun! We are all a little safer with these two off the streets.
on Dec 24, 2013 at 7:31 am
I said the same thing, just me, about homelessness and car camping are not against the law, but it was deleted. I wonder why?
Also people have list the focus of what this story is about -- the capture of bike thieves. They happened to be caught in the jack in the box and therefore a torrent of negative comments has been unleashed against the customers and workers in the store. You would think that the people on this thread would have more important things to do-- isn't there a sign going up somewhere that upsets someone??
on Dec 24, 2013 at 8:22 am
Crooks gotta eat too Sara.
on Dec 24, 2013 at 9:21 am
That Jack in the Box has been there since the 1980s (at least)l I remember going there when I was in college in the mid 1980's. And I'm not a bike thief or car camper....
on Dec 24, 2013 at 9:51 am
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Thanks, Ed. I fixed it. Sorry.
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on Dec 24, 2013 at 12:43 pm
"Sounds like CT is the source of crime. Can't we close CT? " I would leave that up to them (secret vote of CT residents?). CT has made a lot of good moves in the past few years, and I commend them for that. If the vote would include the Jack in the Box issue, I really think the CT residents would vote very highly in favor of CT over the Jack. Do you disagree?
on Dec 24, 2013 at 3:17 pm
stanhutchings is a registered user.
...makes me think that along with a bicycle license (which in my experience has been useless in recovering stolen bikes), perhaps a tracking device could be added to the bike. It must be unadvertised and not readily detected, so thieves know nothing about it. It must also be able to be activated remotely if the bike is stolen and have a reasonable broadcast range. Some or all police cruisers would be equipped with a tracker, but never reveal they used the tracking device to find the bike. Sounds like a real opportunity for entrepreneurs...
on Dec 24, 2013 at 3:27 pm
Hmmm is a registered user.
Since it's a "center" for criminal activity as well as homeless and car campers (both currently still legal), perhaps Sara should notify the feds in case they can make a RICO case. Merry Christmas, Sara!
on Dec 25, 2013 at 4:49 pm
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Crescent Park Dad
>> While in HS in the 70s, we'd hit JB for a late night 3 tacos for $1 or several Breakfast Jacks.
LOL ... I used to go across the Street to H. Salt Esquire Fish & Chips, a lot of my friends worked there in the 70's. Then it was a Chinese place, now it's Panda Express ... no criminals at either place that I've ever seen. Those fish & chips were the best, you just cannot find anything like them anymore ... as were the burgers at the Amber Lantern, where StarBucks is now ... they were great and you cannot even find anything remotely as good, or as big anymore.
I never noticed the area was any more or less a hangout for criminals or homeless. The bad spots used to be the bars. This was the best time in Palo Alto, right before the cocaine and crack epidemics and crime waves from EPA, San Jose and Oakland.
Congrats and thanks to those who called the police as well ... gotta love the community involvement, and the PAPD, the smartest police in the area!
Maybe JITB is the only place criminals and homeless can afford to eat?
on Dec 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm
Bru is a registered user.
> Officers also recommend that residents lock their bikes to stationary objects, not just wheel to frame.
Ouch, maybe the criminals were not the only ones taking drugs ... who just locks their bike to itself? LOL
on Dec 26, 2013 at 8:42 am
SteveU is a registered user.
Sometimes that is all you can do LEGALLY.
It is illegal to lock you bicycle to city property (eg light post, street sign).
on Dec 29, 2013 at 12:11 am
Social Butterfly is a registered user.
Two bikes?? Think they wanted fries with that also????
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It was brave talk then, and unthinkable from Lula today. The main chill factor was a series of high-profile military coups dating back four decades: Brazil (1964), Bolivia (1971), Uruguay (1972), Chile (1973), Argentina (1976) and Peru (1993), not to mention the dictatorships and counterrevolutionaries promoted by Washington across Central America and the Caribbean.
Between book-end insurgencies in Cuba (1959) and Chiapas (1994), the Left?s attempts to take up arms were generally dismal. Likewise, for most of the 1980s-90s, ?IMF Riots? – mass protests of the urban poor and workers, catalysed by International Monetary Fund austerity dictates – periodically wracked the continent. But, in Latin America and all Third World countries, they were rarely converted into concrete gains by the organised Left, at least until the recent Argentine meltdown generated a grassroots ?autonomist? current on the Left.
Instead, human rights movements and community-based struggles achieved the end of military rule in much of Latin America during the 1980s. Without a more explicit economic programme and working-class leadership, the outcome was ?low-intensity democracy? in which choices associated with macroeconomic policy and state management were reduced to a single formula, the neoliberal ?Washington Consensus.?
Under these circumstances, US capital drew an average of $60 billion a year in profits from Latin America, even in the midst of periodic currency crashes that wiped out living standards in the three largest economies: Mexico (1994-95), Brazil (1999) and Argentina (2000-02).
Yet unlike other regions, the Latin American Left was not defeated by these reversals. On March 24, General James T. Hill, head of the US Southern Command, warned the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee of ?an emerging threat best described as radical populism, in which the democratic process is undermined to decrease rather than protect individual rights. Some leaders in the region are tapping into deep seated frustrations of the failure of democratic reforms to deliver expected goods and services.?
The ?leaders? are in fact the rising social and community movements, trade unions, students and intellectuals, women?s groups and environmentalists, along with some of the region?s genuinely Left political parties. Their stories were told and debated in early May at the University of Wisconsin?s Havens Center, which joined Amsterdam?s Transnational Institute to host a review of ten countries? experience with ?The New Latin American Left.?
Some highlights follow, and will continue in my next ZNet Commentary.
In Mexico, hope for a centre-left Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) government in 2006 may have been dashed last month when at a party congress, long-time leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas resigned from his official positions in an apparent gambit to displace popular Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the next presidential candidate.
In turn, former PRD leader and Mexico mayor Rosario Robles is mired in scandal because of videotaped bribery and gambling incidents that also implicate Lopez Obrador?s key aides. These have caused an unprecedented Mexican-Cuban rift, as Fidel Castro deports Lopez Obrador?s corrupt associates, amidst Havana?s vocal critique of the Mexican elite?s Machiavellian tendencies.
Even if Lopez Obrador recovers, there are more profound problems than personality squabbles amongst politicians, such as the fate of nearly 400 young women maqiladore workers in the border city of Ciudad Juarez who have been murdered with only negligible official investigation.
More generally, according to Armando Batra of the Instituto de Estudios del Pueblo Maya, the social movements have not reacted well to the replacement of neoliberal, authoritarian populism with current president Vicente Fox?s neoliberal low-intensity democracy. ?Today?s problem is partly one of nostalgia; in 1994 [when the Zapatistas captured the national and global Left?s imagination], the government was genuinely illegitimate. Democracy has delivered a neoliberal president, and his plans are not working. What with the corruption, three out of four Mexicans do not trust political parties. There has been too much populism, accompanied by favours, clientelism and authoritarian temptations.?
Batra partly faults the Zapatistas? recent quiet period: ?Less connection to peasants, workers, students. The initial strategy was to ?reform the state?, but the reform effort was too weak and hence was rejected by president Ernesto Zedillo. The Zapatistas turned to municipal/regional self-government, in the good government juntas.?
And Batra?s line on the potential PRD president? ?Why do so many people think Mexico City is governed well? There are many critiques of Lopez Obrador. Mine is that he leaves *no* space for participatory democracy.? Yet Batra does offer this concession: the main recent success of the Left was the defeat of a new Value Added Tax on food and medicines, which was only possible because of 100 PRD politicians in the national assembly.
Moving to Argentina, we find the 1990s? model student of the IMF, one which subsequently suffered the worst economic crisis of any in memory. The seminal moment for the New Left, according to Axel Castellano of the Movement of the Unemployed, may have been the first blockade of roads in 2000 by the picatero movement. Within a year, activists were winning support from a middle-class suffering acute economic pain. Popular assemblies emerged, with the distinctive cacerolazo (pot-banging) protest.
Presidents were tossed out one after another in late 2001. Finally, the institutional crisis was resolved with the 2003 presidential election. President Nestor Kirchner?s government began implementing public works projects, along with reforms of the armed forces. Reports Castellano, ?He incorporated both anti-military struggles of the 1970s and the anti-corruption sentiment. He redirected foreign policy away from the US towards a regional trade and political bloc.?
But, says Castellano, that does not satisfy autonomist activists. ?We represent the emergence of masses, not parties and vanguard organisations. For us, autonomy is action, carried out every day, it is horizontalism. Our only leader is the mass assembly, but we do have some spokespersons and reference points. Hence, we go beyond a grassrootsism which focuses only on the local. The state?s response: cooptation on the one hand, repression on the other. We react with our own counterpower: affection, solidarity, comradeship, networking with rural and international autonomists.?
Bolivia is another country with strong autonomist – and increasingly indigenous-led – movements, which came to the world?s attention with the April 2000 water war in the city of Cochabamba. The struggle was not merely about kicking out a nasty multinational corporation (Bechtel) which privatised even rainwater collected by poor people. It was also about advancing popular demands against the municipal water company, in the words of Cochabamba union/community leader Oscar Olivera: ?transparency, efficiency, participation of the people, and social justice in service provision.?
Desperation, especially of indigenous people, may generate far more revolutionary processes. One marker was the forced resignation of the neoliberal president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozado, last October, after mass indigenous-led street protests. But the bourgeoisie gradually recovered confidence, and the Left within the parliament — the Movement to Socialism (MAS) led by Evo Morales — has been caught up pursuing reforms that, in Olivera?s words, are ?slow and small-scale, based on a municipal strategy similar to Brazil?s Workers Party. But this means that the MAS put off idea of a constituent assembly, which we need to bring coherence to the movement.?
As a result, warned Olivera, ?The highlands people are arming themselves. Some Cochabamba people are also forming groups for armed civil resistance. The country will tear apart. We will be facing a civil war, and we will be needing your solidarity.?
The Central American country which suffered most terribly through prolonged civil war was El Salvador. Lorena MartÃnez came to Wisconsin from the Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador; she is also regional coordinator for the excellent network known as Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of the Americas.
That war continues, but through other means, says MartÃnez. ?Leading up to March 21, we had hope that ordinary Salvadorans could take power through the vote but we suffered the dirtiest electoral campaign ever. The right had 1.3 million votes, the FMLN got 800,000. The US hinted that if the FMLN won, there would be no more remittances from US-based Salvadorans. It was said so often, so much, that people began to believe it.?
But MartÃnez also looked inward for blame: ?One of the weaknesses of FMLN was to just focus on elections. They made no alliances with other sectors. This was the closed-mindedness of the party leadership, who refused to accept a candidate from the social movements.?
Says MartÃnez, ?The former strength of the FMLN was in young people, women, peasants – these forces are now with the social movements.? They are joined by the urban workers who are fighting privatisation, including last week?s vigorous protests in the capital of San Salvador, which left dozens wounded. ?The downside is that ARENA will rule for five years, and that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) will be signed.?
Central America?s 1980s generation of Left parties has not fared well. In Nicaragua, the analysis offered by José Luis Rocha from Universidad Centroamericana de Managua was uncompromosing: ?First, let?s get rid of this myth, that the FSLN is a leftist organisation.? Rocha accuses the FSLN of using the state as a pinata, ?auctioning off its ethical capital,? in the process adopted dogmatism and ?verticalism.?
Daniel Ortega in particular emits party-line decrees, is intolerant of dissent, and believes in the leadership?s infallibility. His pact with the corrupt liberal Aleman was ?the fatal shot? to Sandinismo, writes Rocha. At that point, ?The FSLN focused most attention on small battles for power, not the fight against neoliberalism.?
A paper by former Sandinista foreign minister Alejandro Bendaña was just as brutal: ?The FSLN failed to reconstitute Nicaraguan society in the 1980s in revolutionary fashion, and it is failing again to help contain neoliberalism?s own social and ideological transformation of that same society and state. In fact, the Sandinista Revolution might just prove to have been the social instrument that allowed liberalism to attain hegemony in Nicaragua.?
Very different contradictions confront the Colombian Left. César RodrÃguez of the University of the Andes and National University of Colombia remarked on three outcomes of the 40-year long civil war. First, the atomisation of political parties, their polarisation, and lack of party discipline contributed to the rise of both leftwing and rightwing parties, with the national government held by the hard right, while the capital city Bogata has a leftist mayor. Second, the relative weakness of Colombian social movements reqires urgent attention. Third, says RodrÃguez, the fact that the FARC guerrillas push a leftist agenda ?makes it hard for democratic left. The sound of machine guns drowns out the sound of opposition.?
One opening, according to RodrÃguez, was the onset of strutural adjustment in 1999, after a long period during which narco trafficing fuelled Colombia?s economy. Now, he continues, ?With the huge increase in poverty and inequality, social policy discourses are finally feasible. That gives the Left the upper hand.?
Evidence is found in the person of senator Carlos Gaviria DÃaz, president of the Frente Social y PolÃtico. A former Constitutional Court Justice and university professor, he is a spitting image of Karl Marx, and stands for what he calls ?anti-dogmatic, anti-authoritarian, profoundly democratic politics. We are against armed struggle, against the authoritarian bewitching of the people.
People are sick and tired of violence. President Uribe?s proposal for militarisation includes dismantling the 1991 constitution and destruction of the rule of law, public order, public safety, and legislation protecting pensions and labour. Not only cannot defeat the FARC, the conservative state is separating itself from the few responsibilities it had.?
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Tonight the family of Caleb Holman received the Eagle Scout award he earned before he was killed in a tragic accident.
A large crowd was present at the ceremony to honor Holman.
He may have died at 17, but his influence, hard work and will to finish outweighed his years.
"We're doing all right. We got through Christmas and that was a big hurdle," said Michael Holman, Caleb Holman's dad.
It would be easy for tragedy to define the story of Caleb Holman.
But he wouldn't have wanted that, so neither did his dad.
"He was a good man. I made a good man out of him," said Michael Holman.
Caleb Holman died July 4 in an accident in a backyard swimming pool.
Michael Holman, who works as White Bluff's police chief, was the first to respond.
"The family's doing well. We're all pulling together," said Holman. "There's other days that go by that are not so good."
The 17-year-old spent years as a Boy Scout and planned to build benches at Veterans' Memorial Park to become an Eagle Scout.
When he died, dozens of people stepped up to finish the project in the teen's memory.
"He wouldn't have wanted it to go unfinished. He would have wanted it to be finished," said Holman. "It was important to him to finish the project, to get it done, to get his Eagle, and we did it."
Tonight, Caleb Holman became an Eagle Scout in traditional fashion.
The Boy Scouts will bestow the honor, not out of consolation, but solely because a committee voted he earned it.
For his family, the honor helps, but doesn't fill the void of a young life lost in a single, terrible moment.
"It's a finish to a trail he started when he was 6," said Michael Holman. "I think it will be a good thing."
Caleb Holman was also an organ donor. After his death, several people received his organs.
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Kanda Faye '15 is the coordinator of WISC, or the Wellesley Initiative for Sustainable Computing, a Library & Technology Services program that overhauls and repurposes computing equipment that has been retired at the College.August 28, 2014
Wellesley Women Named to Leadership Roles at Stanford
Persis Drell '77 'P16 (pictured) has been named dean of engineering at Stanford University, the first woman to hold the position. In another first for women, Sandra Horbach '82 has been appointed chair of the board for Stanford Business School.August 27, 2014
Wellesley Welcomes Three New MasterCard Foundation Scholars
This week, Wellesley welcomes three new MasterCard Foundation Scholars as members of the class of 2018. Meba Gebre '18, Lisa Luka '18, and Sarah Nzau '18 are the second cohort of extraordinary students to attend Wellesley through the scholarship program.August 26, 2014
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John Tyler Community College's vision statement is, "A success story for every student." For John Tyler students to live our vision, they must persist and finish their personal academic story.
A success story is written when a student gains the knowledge and confidence necessary for pursuing his/her own academic and career goals. Like our students, we have goals, so we made sure our Quality Enhancement Plan reflects not only the vision of the College, but also links to several of our stated goals:
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Tyler Connections: Making the First Year Countwas developed through planning over a multi-year period. The process began in 2010, with a broad collection of topics; a College-wide survey; and an analysis of course grades, multi-year retention and engagement data.
This QEP focuses on engagement, student learning, and the College's critical role of supporting first-year students. Tyler Connections melds with the mission of John Tyler, providing quality educational opportunities that inspire student success. The plan seeks to increase student learning, maximize educational opportunities for our diverse student body, integrate learning with student development, and build upon the College's ongoing planning and assessment processes. Tyler Connections consists of a comprehensive communications strategy, including student orientation, an informative welcome packet, and a web site designed to help students navigate their first year at Tyler. The College will also begin a professional development program specifically aimed at improving classroom experiences through active learning in first-year courses. First-year students in SDV 100 will be required to meet with their faculty academic advisor. Faculty will also receive additional advising training to ensure a deep understanding of the first-year student's advising needs.
Tyler Connections is an improvement plan with a sound budget, a realistic timeline, and a relevant organizational chart. The five-year plan includes a gradual rollout of professional development in the area of active learning, beginning with gatekeeper courses and including both full-time and adjunct faculty over several years. A first year coordinator position will be created. Faculty, staff, and students will be trained to be orientation facilitators. Most of the components for Tyler Connections will be in place by the second year, including the implementation of orientation sessions, the new faculty advisor letter template, and the launch of the first-year web site.
The budget for this QEP includes all aspects of its implementation, including assessment, staffing, professional development, marketing and the orientation program. This five-year budget is realistic.
Tyler Connections will use a variety of tools to assess the effectiveness of the program. Data will be collected at the institutional, plan component, and student level. This data will be used to focus our efforts on continuous improvement.
Institutional-level assessments will be incorporated in to the College's strategic plan. The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) and the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) will provide a longitudinal view of the QEP's impact on student learning. Additionally, the College will use retention and graduation rates to measure progress toward the plan's goals.
Tyler Connections: Making the First Year Count is part of the comprehensive planning, assessment, and improvement process at John Tyler Community College. John Tyler students come from diverse backgrounds and many need added support for success. The comprehensive communication plan for first-year students will help give students the tools they need to succeed. In addition, the increased engagement strategies in gatekeeper courses will help first-year—and all—students gain the confidence and knowledge they need to achieve their educational goals. By making the first year count, John Tyler Community College can help all our students find and realize their own success story.
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DELAWARE - "Pedestrian fatalities state-wide are on the increase," Geoff Sundstrom, director of Public Relations for DelDot.
As of July 2013, 13 pedestrians died in crashes with motor vehicles. That's up from 10 at the same time last year.
The most recent, just Thursday night, when 37 year-old Deepak P. Chatani was reportedly walking his bike in a turning lane down Route 1 in Rehoboth Beach, when he was killed after a DART bus reportedly hit him from behind."Everyone talks about Route 1 being a dangerous road. If you defy the law, it's going to be even more dangerous," says George Panarello.
He owns a bike shop right off the busy highway and says he sees it happen all the time. "For every accident that I know about on route one, I've witnessed, myself, 20-30 close calls."Police in Rehoboth beach even fine cyclists for not having lights on their bikes."A lot of times if somebody brings in a receipt showing they bought a light of a helmet, the charges are dropped," says Rehoboth Beach Police Chief Keith Banks, "we're out there really trying to educate the public and people riding bicycles."
But bicycle and pedestrian crashes aren't just about user error. "The state had recognized for some time that here are improvements that need to take place," admits Sundstrom
In fact, DelDot has a $10.3 million dollar pedestrian improvement plan in the works, building continuous sidewalks along Route 1 from the Lewes area to Rehoboth Beach, as well as installing 12 crosswalks throughout the state.
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Several suspicious packages with "wires coming out" forced an evacuation of Waterford Lakes Town Center and several nearby businesses Tuesday morning, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.All four packages investigated by a bomb squad were "rendered safe," and the shopping center will reopen shortly, the Sheriff's Office said in a tweet.
One of the suspicious devices turned out to be a bag of tools near a deputy's car, Fox 35's Melissa Mahadeo reports.
At a news conference at the east Orlando shopping center on Alafaya Trail, Demings denied the packages were grenades but said they had "wires coming out."More than 20 businesses were evacuated, including Best Buy, Ulta and a day care. The 60 children attending the day care are safe, and parents were urged to pick them up at the Regal movie theater, officials said.Several roads are closed, and the Sheriff's Office asked people to stay away from the area during the investigation. Check back for more on this developing story.
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The Amazing Spider-Man Review! (From Someone Who Has Not Seen It)
(Disclaimer, besides having not seen the movie, I also have done zero research. I didn't even bother to read IMDB.com for basic information.)
About a decade or something after that mongoloid Toby Maguire upside-down made out with snaggle-tooth, we finally have a brand new version of Spider-Man. Spider-Man is of course the story of a young man who is bitten by a radioactive spider, a spider that gives him super powers. I've been bitten by like thousands of spiders and the only super power I seem to have is a shy bladder.
The new Spider-Man is played by Andrew Garfield who was in that facebook movie. The love interest in the movie is that girl whose name I always forget, but she was in that movie with that fat kid who isn't so fat anymore. Btw, in real life that girl and Garfield are a couple. That's a fact maybe, whatever.
The villain of the movie is a lizard.
I did not care for this film. Spider-Man to me will always be that mongoloid Toby Maguire. I like him. Garfield is a foreigner, therefore I do not trust him. Also the movie was too long probably and the dialogue was poorly written maybe.
I did really enjoy the effects and the massive amount of full frontal nudity.
The Avengers and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel are still my favorite super hero movies of the summer.
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After nine months of waiting, former Last Place on Earth owner Jim Carlson has learned his sentencing date.
Carlson will be sentenced in Minneapolis on August 14 at 9:00 a.m, according to his attorney Randall Tigue.
The former head shop owner was convicted last October on 51 counts relating to selling illegal synthetic drugs.
He has been behind bars since then.
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The Minnesota Department of Health said a nurse at the Boundary Waters Care Center neglected to provide proper care to a resident who later died. An investigative report was substantiated and the care center said the nurse was suspended and subsequently terminated.
Trade Commission Imposes Duties on Foreign Steel
A victory for the domestic steel industry on Friday, when the International Trade Commission imposed duties on foreign steel from six countries.
Community, Crew Celebrate USS Duluth Anchor Memorial
After 40 years of service, crew members, commanders and community members came together to honor USS Duluth at the unveiling of a memorial for its anchor Friday.
Tradition Runs Deep at Lakehead Harvest Show in Esko
You might call it a living museum. The Lakehead Harvest Show is 53 years running and every year you'll find Nick Blotti with his 1904 Minneapolis steam tractor.
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A REVERSED penalty after 20 minutes altered the dynamic of a National Two North game that Luctonians were dominating.
The Herefordshire side had controlled the early stages of the match and had earned a penalty in the home 22.
But the decision was overturned and Birmingham broke out to score and then added a second try before the break.
"After playing some very good rugby, we found ourselves 13-0 down at half-time," said Luctonians' director of rugby Alex Davidson.
"But we mauled well at the start of the second half and made several replacements, all of whom contributed."
The revitalised Luctonians side hit back and Jordan Street went over for two tries.
And when Jimmy Norris also crossed, the margin was down to just a single point and the Herefordshire side were back in the game.
But, from the last play of the game, Birmingham broke and scored again in the corner.
"To rub it in, their kicker who had had a variable game, converted from the touchline to deprive us of a bonus point," said Davidson, who is due to consult a specialist tomorrow on the injured shoulder which has kept him out since October.
On Saturday, Luctonians will be hoping to get back to winning ways when they entertain Caldy at Mortimer Park.
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A 62-year-old man was rescued from his wrecked pick up truck Tuesday afternoon after he was stuck in his vehicle in a creek bed overnight. DPS Trooper D.L. Wilson says the accident occurred about 8:45 p.m. Monday on Interstate 35 near the Pilot Truck Stop on the south side of Waco.
A Waco man, identified as Donald Bessire, somehow lost control of his 2003 Chevy S-10 pick up truck, and went off the road and down an embankment into a creek. The truck remained upright overnight, and the victim remained safe.
The vehicle was damaged from the incident, and the doors jammed so Bessire could not get out.
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The attached manuscript studies the historical record and sets forth a competing model for dealing with these matters which pre-dated the existing model treaties and transfer pricing paradigm. This earlier paradigm was offered by the International Chamber of Commerce's but was prematurely abandoned by the League of Nations in favor of the existing paradigm. In light of the fact that the existing paradigm has failed so miserably, the earlier proposal should be re-considered.
In the inevitable re-examination process, there will be a fascinating range of political, economic, and business issues to be addressed. Tax administrations will need to ascertain how their resources could be redeployed to foster economic growth. MNEs will need to assess the impact of new treaty concepts on their global effective tax rate planning models.
The critical question is who will initiate the evolution to come. All countries are anxious to protect their respective tax bases. At the present time, it appears that the BRICS and Source Countries have planted their stake in the sand, rejecting the existing order and declaring an intention to update the rules that apply to their own tax base defense. The OECD appears to be principally driven by the need to defend its Member country tax bases, hoping, no doubt, that BRICS and Source Countries will ultimately follow its lead. Whichever organization emerges as the new-found thought leader on these questions, it is now time to give the original International Chamber of Commerce recommendation a fair consideration on its merits (which, interestingly, addresses the current concerns of BRICS and Source Countries).


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A GENEROUS gift to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton to update its high-dependency unit was delivered by Think Amy! road safety campaigner Jane Hofmeister over Christmas.
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Jane said: "2013's road deaths have been absolutely horrendous in Somerset, and in 2014 I'll be working even harder to give more talks in schools and colleges to help promote awareness of the consequences of dangerous driving.
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JACKSON, MS (WLBT)- The felony animal cruelty bill that died in the legislature on Tuesday has received a lot of attention during the 2010 legislative session. Some are now asking what happened after it passed almost unanimously in the Senate.
The Mississippi Farm Bureau has been outspoken about their opposition to supporting this legislation.
In an interview with WLBT in January he said he would support this bill if it tailored to cats and dogs.
"We've met with different groups this summer. And I think we've all come to something we can live with. And we certainly can support something for dogs and cats," Waide said.
However, in a statement released on Friday Waide said something different.
"Farm Bureau's concern is that this type legislation will be used as a vehicle to open avenues for activists to extend their reach and push other, more extreme agendas."
Meanwhile, here's what a portion of Senate Bill 2623 states:
If any person with malice shall torture, mutilate, maim, burn, starve, disfigure, or kill any domesticated dog or cat, every such offender for every offense shall be guilty of aggravated cruelty to a cat or dog.
Once this bill passed in the Senate, it was sent over to the House for review. It was set to go through the Agriculture committee, and Judiciary B. The Agriculture committee was set to look over the bill first. However, Chairman Greg Ward never brought it up before the committee by Tuesday's deadline.
Ward says he would support a felony animal cruelty law, but wants more expert testimony before he addresses it in front of the committee.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP) -- The 2014 Academy Award nominees should be very grateful that only the technical and artistic merits of their work will be judged. Whatever positive messages may be contained in most, albeit not all, of the likely frontrunners, their themes are eclipsed by noxious and extreme content.
In "American Hustle," for example, a film expected to be nominated as Best Picture, one particular swear word alone is used over 70 times. I know, I'm a profanity counter. But don't you think that
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"August: Osage County," "Her," "Nebraska," "Inside Llewyn Davis," "Out of the Furnace," "Dallas Buyers Club," "12 Years a Slave" and other anticipated nominees could be best described as dispiriting. Masterful performances often overshadow the lasting effects movies have on our spiritual equilibrium.
Even if you tend to overlook abusive language, for which each of these films seems intent on setting records, then beware of their other mayhem: adultery, perversity, drug use and enough violence to unnerve Marquis de Sade.
"Lone Survivor" is based on a true story of a mission in Afghanistan that went horrifyingly wrong for Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg) and fellow SEALs. It features a blitzkrieg of bloody war violence and pervasive language in an otherwise outstanding movie. While I understand that today's cinema attendee demands "realism" in war movies, I can't imagine anyone thinking a night out with the Lone Survivor would somehow relieve the stresses of the day. Indeed, because the film so assaults the senses, I'm not sure you could count this one as entertainment. It's more like a civic duty.
The cinema at its most sagacious was once used effectively as an illusionary art form meant to suggest and imply. Those days, evidently, are long past.
Like most comedies of late, "Anchorman 2" also depends on the "I-can't-believe-I-just-saw-that" raucousness found at the lower end of the comic spectrum. Bathroom humor seems more like it's been dredged up from the sewer. As for the language....
You'd think the jarring term that combines a reference to God and to damnation would be excluded from a silly comedy meant to raise our spirits. But in Anchorman 2, God's name as well as our Savior's are profaned several times, often by the lead character. The harsh exclamation that, in essence, is a call for someone's damnation, means so little to most moviemakers nowadays and, I guess, to most moviegoers that it is now used as frequently in the comedy genre as it is in gangster movies and war films.
Meryl Streep, in my opinion, is the greatest film actress ever. Chameleon-like, Streep can go effortlessly from angelic to demonic, depending on the script. In "August: Osage County," she takes the darkest path, being part Mother Macbeth, part Miranda Priestly and part Cujo. She's absolutely wicked as this venomous Medusa of a matriarch. Her performance is outstanding, but the 130-minute production contains suicide, incest, statutory rape, incessant family squabbling, drug and alcohol abuse, pot smoking and marital infidelity. Watch this movie and you'll spend over two hours with a crude bunch who appear to have no moral compass.
What in all of this is entertaining moviegoers?
I have defended films over the years whose profundity, it can be argued, outweighed their profanity ("Schindler's List," "Dead Man Walking," "Tsotsi"). This year, however, a cacophony of verbal and visual abuses drowned out the relevance of many a movie. It saddens me that these pictures will be so praised.
I'm hoping the list of Oscar contenders will include films that uplift. I believe "Gravity" was the best film of the year. As Sandra Bullock battles to survive in outer space, the story signals the sanctity of life. And in "Saving Mr. Banks," another award-worthy drama, Walt Disney attempts to convince the author of "Mary Poppins" to let him bring her creation to the cinema screen. There's a wonderful moment between Tom Hanks (Disney) and Emma Thompson (P.L. Travers), as he recounts his childhood. In it the actor spellbinds while helping us understand how past relationships affect our lives.
Will films such as Gravity and Saving Mr. Banks prevail Oscar night?
Generally my critic cronies ignore a film's content when assessing a picture's artistic and technical merits. Why, I'm not sure, for the content has become as influential as the other ingredients. But what's our excuse when it comes to supporting films that avoid the light?
Ephesians 5:11: "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Isn't that instruction just as applicable to how we entertain ourselves as to how we conduct the rest of our lives?
In addition to writing for Baptist Press, Phil Boatwright reviews films for www.previewonline.org and is a regular contributor to "The World and Everything In It," a weekly radio program from WORLD News Group. Read his Best and Worst films of 2013
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Police have released the name of a man who was fatally shot in Rand and arrested a suspect in the case.
According to police, Donovan Taylor was shot and killed around 4:45 a.m. on Feb. 14.
According to a release sent to 13 News, dispatchers received a call about loud music on Emory Avenue in Rand.
Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies responded to the call and while en route were told that shots had been fired at the same location.
When police arrived, they found a green car crashed on Emory Ave. Inside the car they found the body of Donovan Taylor. They also found several shell casings from different caliber guns along Emory Ave.
Statements from witnesses led police to believe that Tremale Straughter was the shooter. Police later found Straughter's vehicle on Route 60.
Kanwaha County Sheriff's Office detectives arrested Straughter and charged him with the murder of Taylor.
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Police are questioning a person of interest in the fatal shooting that took place this morning in Rand.
W. Va. State Troopers believe they've found the vehicle wanted in connection with this morning's fatal shooting outside of the DuPont Plant.
Deputies say the initial call came into 911 of a disturbance around 4:30 a.m.
When deputies arrived on-scene they found shell casings around a vehicle, and the deceased victim with multiple gunshot wounds.
Sheriff's deputies do have a suspect in-mind, but are not yet releasing the names of those involved.
One man is dead after a shooting on the 5400 block of Midland Drive in Rand, W. Va. that happened just before 4:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 14.
According to dispatchers, the suspected shooter fled the scene in a Dodge Magnum with a black fender.
The suspect is a man. No further description has been provided at this time.
According to Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies, Midland Drive from Emory Avenue to Furman Drive are currently shut down.
Keep checking wowktv.com for updates.
This message was just delivered to the WOWK Newsroom: "Kanawha County Schools with an update for the effected schools in the Riverside, Dupont and East Bank areas serviced by the East Bank Terminal. Those schools will remain closed today due to events in the Rand area."


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The sentence sounds a little strange though. It would be much simpler to just write "She is being educated in the best of schools."
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