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YUMA, AZ - There's been a lot of confusion regarding the city's new policy on what to do with stray animals.
City of Yuma officials tell KSWT News 13 they simply want the public to call them so they can send a city of Yuma employed animal control officer to go and pick up the stray animal.
The City of Yuma says it wants to be able to verify the number of stray animals taken to the Humane Society of Yuma so it can then compare and track the dollar amount the humane society is billing the city for housing stray dogs and cats.
However, when we asked both the City of Yuma and the Humane Society of Yuma to provide KSWT News 13 with numbers, including how much money is being billed to the city of Yuma and how many stray animals are being housed for the city neither side could give us factual numbers.
Shawn Smith, the Executive Director at the Humane Society tells KSWT News 13 "A stray animal, when typically brought in there was no charge. We'd just bill that entity, the City of Yuma City of Somerton or Yuma County." When asked do you see this problem growing? Smith replied "It could continue to grow if we don't come together if we don't work collectively, The Humane Society and all the government entities it could be a huge financial burden for the tax payers."
Again, the City of Yuma tells us they feel they were being over charged. That is why they are now requiring residents to call city animal control so that they can attempt to verify the numbers.
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Brian | April 4, 2012 1:47 PM
Just for the record, my grown daughter, an aspiring writer, agrees with the "devalued" premise and singled out the romance industry as one that gets no love. When I tried to explain why I thought that was the case, I got a "You are so f---ing wrong," the first time she's ever cursed at me like that. So don't ask why I thought that was the case. I'm zipping my lips.
Brian | April 4, 2012 10:46 AM
Why is this short piece split up into three pages? It would have all easily fit on one page.
Also, this is the first time I've heard "Gone with the Wind" described as a YA novel.
And what does it mean that "literature and movies by women are devalued at a time when the most profitable franchises in bookstores and at the multiplex are by women?" Doesn't that statement contradict itself? Devalued by whom? Certainly not by the readers and moviegoers, the ones who count the most.

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Longtime ACC General Counsel Susan Hackett Is Leaving to Form Own Consultancy
Posted Jun 13, 2011 4:19 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
As a new CEO takes the helm at the Association of Corporate Counsel this month, replacing retiring president Frederick J. Krebs, the trade group for in-house lawyers is also announcing the planned departure of another longtime executive.
Senior vice president and general counsel Susan Hackett is leaving ACC after 22 years, in order to establish her own consulting business, announces ACC in a press release today.
Veta T. Richardson will serve as the group's new president and CEO. Her background is detailed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post.
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The Aliens (Satan's kingdom of cloned children) were physically created by the Fallen Angels in their wayward image. Fallen Angels that were once Angels were not created by GOD with the make-up to procreate to birth children of their own like mankind can. They can only reproduce imaged children through a wayward science known as... cloning.
The Aliens do carefully coordinate their agenda with the growth of blindness towards GOD to afford them greater avenues to gain acceptance of them, their agenda, and their undertakings.
Many wayward human beings have allowed themselves to become blinded into believing that Aliens are simply individuals or being from another planet that visit planetary societies to learn of, learn from, or even to guide and help those planetary societies.
Abduction of wayward human beings is part of a cunningly lain disinformation program that has been initiated by the Aliens to cause the planet's general population and governing powers:
The Aliens abduct wayward human beings:
It is a deeply traumatic personal experience for most wayward human beings that do become abducted.
The Aliens know if they abduct enough wayward human beings and they become traumatized enough to seek professional help, so will enough information (mainly the false) become initiated and established by those professionals to eventually give the Aliens some, more or much recognition, credibility, or even acceptability from their Abductees and the planetary society.
The secret organizations within the government and privately funded organizations are able to hide their undertakings through the mimicking of the Alien abduction scenario and putting the responsibility and blame upon the Aliens by causing abducted individuals to be either:
The more the secret groups can keep the view and blame of and for their part in the abductions centered totally on the Aliens:
The whole abduction scenario has become almost like some elite business because of the few exclusive numbers of involved members. They have been able to keep their undertakings secret simply because they are few in number.
The Aliens do initiate events and endeavors to select governing powers of influence upon wayward societies. They do introduce various aspect of their scientific and technological abilities used within their undertaken abduction and experimentation upon wayward human beings. The Aliens do use these introductions knowing that the scientific and technological abilities used within their undertaken abduction and experimentation upon wayward human beings will also serve to entice and tempt those governing powers of influence that they become introduced to.
These secret organizations do often assist the Aliens:
Much of their willingness to assist the Aliens is often perpetrated under their blindness or through becoming misled in one fashion or another by the Aliens:
In many cases it is hard to tell or even know who is actually doing what with the Aliens, governments, and private organizations involvement in the abduction of the communal members.


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A lot of money had already been allocated to fund the construction of the Route 29 Western Bypass - but now that Albemarle supervisors pulled their support from the project Wednesday night, what happens to the money?
The answer is complicated. The state could take money meant for the bypass and put it into other projects around Virginia. That means it could impact other transportation projects in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
Depending on the state's decision, that could pull money from projects listed in the Places 29 Master Plan - like extending Berkmar Drive or widening Route 29.
Charlottesville City Councilor Kristin Szakos says the city's construction projects should be safe. Those include the Belmont Bridge renovations and the building of the Best Buy ramp.
However, there are two projects that would involve cooperation between the city and Albemarle County that could take hits due to county involvement - including the extension to Hillsdale Drive and a new overpass at Hydraulic Road.
Szakos says the city and county will bring these issues up for discussion at the next Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting.
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THE COLOURS are still up. Buildings are still dressed in pretty clothes. Utility poles continue to have wrappings of Black-Green-Gold. Independence weekend is gone, the Olympics are over, but we seem reluctant to surrender the party spirit and get back to earth. London one-two-three, that's where we were glad to be, but all too soon it is back to the old ways. We can't do without disharmony. So, even with the decorations still in place, we're revving up the engine for the resumption of business as usual.
Usain's birthday (Tuesday) went unnoticed. We didn't buy him a birthday present. After all, what do you give a 26-year-old hero who has everything? Yohan is being talked about not so much for his speed as his attempts at growing claws (aka fingernails). Asafa might as well not be here for all the attention we've paid to him as he arrived back home, looking ill and disheartened. Ah so we stay. Nobody wants to acknowledge a fallen hero. So what if he brought us glory in the past? If he's not on the winner's stand, we don't want to know. Shame!
Then, there are the growing strains of discord over what the country is supposed to have got out of its investment in the Olympics... apart from the medal tally. Expectations seem to be that after a mere two weeks, we should be reaping benefits. Since we haven't so far, then it is time for argument. It wouldn't be a surprise if very soon the "Beastly Boys of Gordon House" initiated another of the notorious brawls, under the guise of the nation's business. Don't be fooled by the lusty choruses of: "This is the land of my birth" and "Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica land we love". It doesn't take much to gain re-entry to the Kingdom of Bangarang.
It is time to look at the returns from the substantial expenditure which public and private sector alike invested in promotional activities. We're ready to capitalise on the London Olympics. It is a perfectly legitimate objective and as such must be dealt with. The private sector must do its own accounting. For the government, it is even more imperative that the results be made known as clearly and as soon as possible, before mayhem and mischief take over. We don't need to remind the government that it cannot afford to gamble with the people's resources, especially in these times. On the other hand, we the people need to be realistic too.
IN THE FIELD OF TOURISM we are already anticipating a dramatic increase in bookings for the coming winter season - or do we have to wait for benefits to come later? The question is, if the crowds do come, are we fully prepared to fill their expectations? After all the hype and the enormous publicity we received in London, don't be surprised if visitors arrive geared up for non-stop fun to experience again more of the upbeat, carefree atmosphere which set London on fire. If we're serious, hotels had better invest more in professional entertainment. The old amateur-night presentations will not do any longer. Our food cannot be seen only in glossy magazines and TV shows and not in the everyday menus. We'd better get cracking. We have raised the bar and now we have to deliver.
In the public space, all our resort towns need a serious makeover (start with Ocho Rios). The dreariness cannot continue. Time to mobilise and encourage the real people, the ones who proved the naysayers wrong, to buy into the message "Tourism Matters" to sell the idea that we really are an exciting people and "fi wi Jamaica" is a great place to visit. Our visitors are going to demand respect, not exploitation. We've done it before and we can do it again.
The theme of any discussion now has got to show that we're not joking as we set out on the next leg of the race into the future which, in case you haven't noticed, is already here. Chat-chat won't get us anywhere, nor will timid leadership. The world is watching. If we want to fail, then we're on our own.
SQUATTERS DILEMMA: The removal of a group of squatters/homeless, from premises in an inner-city area of Kingston, has provoked controversy and brought to the forefront, once again, the age-old dilemma of who must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give shelter to the homeless. The needs are even more pressing when children are involved.
The challenge of how to deal effectively with squatting has never been resolved, despite years of talk. For a start, the right of property ownership is a thorny subject, but it will have to be faced. Often, owners who try to establish the rights to what is legally theirs are met with hostility. The tendency is to side almost exclusively with the occupiers who are seen as victims of past historic injustice and not people of a new time who should be guided to live with dignity and assisted to work to provide themselves and their families with shelter. Problem is, we're not seeing it that way, but instead seem content with encouraging the Victim-syndrome.
It is always a heart-breaking experience when an exercise like the recent one at Duke Street is carried out, but the challenge of this and similar situations will not be settled by divisive tactics. Nothing is accomplished.
ANOTHER STUBBORN ISSUE is the status of unused land belonging to the state. There are thousands of acres, which in the popular view, should be shared among the landless. Problem is, much of this land is far from "the front page", the heart of the urban areas, where everybody wants to work and live. Nobody wants to "Go back-a Bush", hence the crowded cities and towns.
People want to live where they choose, which means a need for public housing; this is not readily available but people still move in, and over-crowding continues. There is no easy answer. For the recently evicted people in Duke Street, assistance is being given to find shelter elsewhere, but that still will not be the end of the story. It is not a matter of turning those who have - not against those who have. Issues like employment for adults, education for the children are all part of the problem.
OH NO! NOT AGAIN! So, here we go, "backwarding to the future" with the same-old, same-old arguments about why our students are not proficient in the English Language. Spare me the sanctimonious reasons why Jamaican speech is the villain. This fixation and self-delusion about "English as she is spoken" would be all right, if English was not undergoing a global assault like everything else. American English is doing what it wants. They spell it BEHAVIOR, while the English-English hold on to BEHAVIOUR. Who's right? And what of social networking nu-speak? Are the examiners ready yet for C-U-L 8 R? (See you later).
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It looks as if "Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo" is doing incredibly well in Japan at the moment. With over 2.5 million tickets sold as the movie is earning more than double of what "Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance" earned.
The fourth film titled "Evangelion: Final" will be the final film of the "Rebuild of Evangelion" movie series.
Release Dates (Japan)
"Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone" – September 1, 2007
"Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance" – June 27, 2009
"Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo" –November 17, 2012
"Evangelion: Final" – TBA
"Evangelion 2.0″ was released two years after the first film and "Evangelion 3.0″ hit theaters three years after 2.0. Even though the exact release date is difficult to predict, I feel that we will be seeing "Evangelion: Final" sometime in 2014/2015. While the Rebuild of Evangelion movies have been phenomenal so far, it is safe to say that the expectations will be very high for the final film.
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With The Ultimate Monster Guide, Doctor Who historian Justin Richards has created the most comprehensive guide to the Doctor's enemies ever published. With fully-illustrated entries that cover everything from Adipose and Autons to Zarbi and Zygons, this guide tells you everything you need to know about the many dastardly creatures the Doctor has fought since he first appeared on television.
Featuring a wealth of material from the current and classic series, the Guide also includes behind-the-scenes secrets of how the monsters were created, as well as design drawings and images. Find out how the Cybermen were redesigned over the years, and how Davros was resurrected to lead his Daleks once again. Discover the computer magic that made the Beast possible, and the make-up wizardry that created the Weeping Angels. Learn how many incarnations of the Master the Doctor has encountered, and which other misguided Time Lords he has defeated...
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May 23, 1963
Frank Bjornsgaard
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Frank Bjornsgaard was the editor of the Monthly Meeting Newsletter for the Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Quaker meeting, in the hometown of Guilford College student Beth Taylor.
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This letter from Frank Bjornsgaard to Beth Taylor thanked her for sharing a written account of her experience with the sit-in at the S&W Cafeteria in Greensboro, NC. Bjornsgaard also offered advice regarding how to continue her work and deal with the emotions and frustrations that came with such actions in a community that was not, in her eyes, fully supportive. This correspondence is significant as it provided an outsiders view on the situation and especially on the relationship between Taylor and those at Guilford College who she saw as unsupportive of her involvement in demonstrations for civil rights.
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Old Dominion University students and faculty can access television programs from more than 95 countries and 80 languages via the nonprofit educational organization SCOLA.
The programs are available, via the Internet or video-stream service to members of the campus community with a MIDAS account, from the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures or the Language Learning Center Web site: http://al.odu.edu/lang/scola/index.shtml.
SCOLA "Insta-Class" lessons provide transcriptions, translations, quizzes and vocabulary with accompanying video and audio clip playback for learners in 26 languages. In addition, ODU's SCOLA affiliation provides access to samples of world music broadcasts, the SCOLA Culture Photo Gallery and periodical archives of copyright-free materials for use in research and teaching applications.
"SCOLA enhances language training through the use of current events and is suitable for use by an individual or a class to extend vocabulary, grammar, reading and comprehension skills," said Betty Rose Facer, director of ODU's Language Learning Center.
SCOLA programs include:
Channel 1: Broadcasts from more than 30 European countries daily;
Channel 2: News and entertainment programs in Spanish and Portuguese from South America;
Channel 3: Chinese channel CYRTV (Chinese Yellow River Television);
Channel 4: Programs from Asian countries, featuring Hindi, Thai, Urdu and Korean;
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ostriches and emus are spooky bastards. i'm happier on this side. i'd wear this daily to remind me how lucky i am.
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This is just weird. in a good way. voted.
truly weirdo :D an ostrich pecked me once, so now I hate them :P they are little bastards. anyway, got my vote :)
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December 2010
Top 10 comic book series of 2010
With issue No. 50, writer James Robinson finally hit a stride. Despite featuring a line-up of D-list characters and plots that wander far off track, the Justice League of America launched a story in which his ragtag team faced the Crime Syndicate & a new threat called The Omega Man against the backdrop of a huge cosmic crisis. Finally Robinson's League feels important and is being treated as such. Hopefully this is the proper start of a new era where Robinson can bring the Justice League back to the top of DC's stock.
9. THE WALKING DEAD (Image)
After seven or so years, this zombie series has reached the masses in a wonderful AMC series. Inside the comic, the story has wandered and teased and prodded for most of the year without any useful payoff. Still, writer Robert Kirkman is a talent to be trusted, and I sense he'll make sure everything we endured. I'm paying it forward for 2011 in hopes Kirkman won't let me down.
8. SECRET AVENGERS (Marvel)
The line-up is a bit weird (The Valkyrie, Nova and Moon Knight on the same team?), but the series stays right in line with what makes The Avengers such a fun franchise for more than 40 years. The adventures are huge. The villains are over the top, and the plots are sticking with the heritage and long history of the Avengers.
7. CAPTAIN AMERICA (Marvel)
Now that Steve Rogers is back after his own time-travel stint, this series has taken on a new life with Bucky Barnes under the mask and earning the name on his own terms.
6. THE HULK (Marvel)
For most of the year, we wondered who the Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk were. The pay-off was a game changer. At the same time, it also took a bit of the spotlight off the Green Hulk and let his alter-ego Bruce Banner to take over. Hulk may smash, but Banner is no pushover either.
DC is throwing everything into this stew. Dick Grayson is now Batman. Bruce Wayne has returned from an adventure through time, and now, we see Wayne Industries funding a bevy of Batmen to fight crime around the world. For the casual reader, this might be a perplexing read. For the rest of us, it's opening Batman to a delight realm of possibilities.
4. NEW AVENGERS (Marvel)
Never been a big fan of this series until this year when writer Brian Michael Bendis brought the Avengers back to their roots. How engrossing is this series? Well, one issue centered on how the group will function, and it was one of the most interesting reads of the entire run.
3. AVENGERS (Marvel)
It's about time! The Avengers is getting its act together with a classic line-up (Thor, Iron Man, Captain America/ Steve Rogers and even the Hulk) and going up against threats like Kang. This is what the Avengers is all about and always has been.
DC's best miniseries of the past 10 years concluded with an epic battle of the living vs. the undead -- and the revival of 12 characters previously assumed lost. This is the kind of limited series that makes it worth going to the comics shop just for every issue.
Writer Geoff Johns is at his best in this series that celebrates and examines second chances. Need more proof of its brilliance? Johns has found a way to make Aquaman interesting again. Now that's quite a feat.
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Good afternoon everyone, I'm sure you are all as excited as I am now that the season has officially started. I'll get right to the point...I am very interested to see the splits on the steals Toney Douglas gets throughout the year. As far as I know there is no statistic that keeps track of steals on passes vs stealing the ball from the opposing player while he is dribbling. If I am wrong about this, correct me, disregard this post, and show me where to find it.
Those of us who have watched Douglas grow as a player throughout the summer league and pre season know he is capable of putting up some gaudy steal numbers. Unfortunately I am going to miss some of the game tonight because I will be playing in a game of my own at 9.
If anyone is watching tonight and happens to notice how (if) he steals the ball, please post it along with the in game time that it happens (ex: 2nd quarter, 7:12 remaining). I realize this is tedious, nerdy, and maybe even irrelevant, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me, and I think it would be a cool thing to keep track of.


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George Washington was the indispensable Founding Father. He was unanimously chosen four straight times to lead: as commander in chief of the Continental Army; as president of the Constitutional Convention; and for two consecutive terms as president of the United States. Even in his retirement, the Senate unanimously confirmed him as head of the new Army. All of this was accomplished as he set precedents and dealt with opposition from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others. Now the brilliant biographer Ron Chernow, author of the National Book Award-winning The House of Morgan, demonstrates in his magnificently written, richly detailed and always compelling Washington: A Life just how and why his subject attained such an exalted status. Chernow draws on the 60 volumes of Washington's letters and diaries as well as letters written to him, state papers from the period and the latest Washington scholarship. We now know more about him than his family, friends and other contemporaries did.
From an early age, Washington was ambitious. Although he was not born into a family of the upper gentry and did not attend college, he was not exactly a self-made man. Conscientious and self-educated in many ways, it was the untimely deaths of his father and half-brother and his marriage to Martha Custis that thrust him into the top tier of Virginia's plantation society. Chernow's narrative traces his evolution from a brave soldier on the frontier with a consuming desire for fame, money and status to a tough-minded businessman and a hard-driving slave owner, and then into a soldier and statesman with a mastery of political skills.
Chernow's nuanced portrait shows that Washington generally was a realist and problem solver as well as a shrewd and subtle reader of other people. He certainly made errors of judgment, particularly during the war, and without extraordinary help from France, American history might have turned out differently. But Washington had a commitment to a greater vision than many others of what the United States could become.
No other part of Washington's life concerned him so much as being an owner of many slaves. Chernow devotes much space to his long ambivalence between abolitionism and his economic well-being based on slavery. Despite the Washingtons' strong personal positive feelings about individual slaves, any doubts Washington had about slavery were expressed only in private letters, never publicly. He was reluctant to break up slaves' families, yet he did not feel the same way when it came to selling slaves. Of course, by freeing his slaves in his will, Washington took a step all other slave-owning Founders failed to take.
This magisterial volume covers the father of our country in all aspects, from his difficult relationship with his mother to his inability to live frugally, his obsession with Mount Vernon, his exemplary leadership in war and peace, and much more. Chernow's latest accomplishment is historical biography at its best.
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In this cradle-to-grave biography of the Founding Father, notable biographer Chernow (Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller) thoroughly recounts how Washington rose to prominence in the French and Indian War, parlayed that early heroism into international fame as general of the Continental army during the American Revolution, and, as America's first President, unified a young nation and shaped its government--and he offers deeper explorations of, for example, Washington's cold relationship with his mother, his heavy reliance on younger devotees such as Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette, and his contradictory actions regarding slavery. Chernow's Washington is a reluctant celebrity who perpetually tries to retire from national service but refuses to turn his back on an embryonic republican country struggling with its newfound freedom. The narrative relies heavily on Washington's papers, but Chernow also liberally cites other primary sources and previous biographies. While objective for the most part, he occasionally offers well-grounded opinions on Washington's character and political and military actions. VERDICT This broadly and deeply researched work is a major addition to Washington scholarship--every era should have its new study of him--and it should appeal to informed lay readers and undergraduates interested in stepping beyond the typical textbook treatment.--Douglas King, Univ. of South Carolina Lib., Columbia[Page 90]. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.
In his introduction, veteran biographer Chernow is clear about his goals. Using the recent "explosion of research," he wants to render George Washington "real" and "credible," to replace "frosty respect" with "visceral appreciation." In many respects, Chernow succeeds. He gives us a Washington who starts with limited education and means and, through a remarkable combination of timely deaths, an incredible capacity for hard work, a shrewd marriage, astonishing physical hardiness and courage, a propensity for land speculation, and a gift for finding influential patrons, transforms himself into a soldier, well-to-do planter, local official, and eventually the only real choice to command the Continental army, preside over the Constitutional Convention, and serve as the first president. Chernow makes familiar scenes fresh (like the crossing of the Delaware) and expertly brings the provisional revolutionary and early Republican eras to life. Along the way, however, he mistakes "visceral" for ardent; while he never hides Washington's less than saintly moments or shirks the vexed question of slavery, he often seems to ignore the data he's collected. Examples of shady dealing are quickly followed by tales of Washington's unimpeachable ethics or impeccable political savvy. At times it feels as if Chernow, for all his careful research and talent for synthesis, is in the grip of a full-scale crush. The result is a good book that would have been great if better edited, and if Chernow had trusted that Washington's many merits, even when accompanied by his faults, would speak for themselves. (Oct.)[Page ]. Copyright 2010 PWxyz LLC


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Happy Spring from all of us at HOPE Gardens! We all want to personally invite you to our Spring Sprout-Out on Saturday, April 12 from 4-7 pm. The Spring Sprout-Out will be much like our regular Saturday potlucks, but bigger and better! We're hoping to celebrate the coming of spring (finally!) with you and other members of the community and the HOPE Gardens family. This will be a free event with great food, fun garden activities, and an atmosphere of celebration and community. Please join us and bring your family and friends, and bring along your favorite spring dish to share if you are able! Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com or call us at (919) 200-0344 with questions or if you need a ride to the event. We HOPE to see you there!
Our meetings are held on Mondays at 7 PM in our lovely new home, the 1789 Incubator! If you haven't been there before, the space is located on 173 E. Franklin Street, next to Ye Old. We'll have yummy snacks, talk about how much we love each other, and then get down to business.
Additionally, our workdays are on Saturdays at 10:00am. You know the drill, meet in front of the Y at 9:45 if you want a ride. Additionally, if anyone has a car (or has a friend who has a car, etc) and would be willing to help give rides, please email us back and let us know.
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For a start I don't really view 82 as the huge schism that you seem to, so there's that - I'm just not that taken by the supposed balls Meyer had. If you watch TOS there's plenty of military talk amongst the 'we travel in peace' lines so why anyone thinks meyer reinvented the wheel I still don't know. He just made the emphasis less subtle. Plus I think Harve Bennett kick started the ball in that direction or at least was as responsible.
Pissing off some fans isn't even that hard to do - especially Trek ones, I think we all know that, so it's over-rated.
Besides stuff like Beagles and Cardassian beverages are just insignificant mentions overall. Are we meant to pretend Cardassians never existed until 'The Wounded' or something?
And actually in TV format I've always said that I would prefer another series to take another leap away from the 24th C and into a late 25th etc type setting. On the other hand actually you're the one who normally keeps advocating a 23rd Century show.............on a little freighter somewhere on the rough edges of space.............something along those lines.
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OUTLOOK: In one of the oddest final fours in the state, three of the remaining teams are district runner-ups, including Steinbrenner. The Warriors have outscored opponents 16-2 in the region tournament, including a 3-1 region final win against Pine Ridge behind a hat trick from Jason Collister. Enrique Barboto and Austin Labban lead the midfield, while Blake Wilson has provided a number of opportunities for the attack. Center back Noah Keene leads the defense in front of keeper Christian Knight. Senior Derek Gebhard had five goals in the region tournament. The Warriors will need to keep up the offense against undefeated Ocala Forest, which already topped the defending 4A state champs, Fleming Island, in the region semifinals. The Wildcats have a strong defense and have toughed out three straight 1-0 wins. The defense, led by 6-foot-3 Jackie Kay and keeper Lex Craggs, has allowed four goals all season.
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There have been several very good threads on the overall team we might be putting on the field, but I haven't seen threads specifically about our new Rookie Class and what you all are expecting from them...So, I'll start off with:
I'm expecting Wolfe to be a starter at DT. He has a non-stop motor and camped out in the opponents' backfield in College. I understand the players are bigger, faster & stronger at the NFL level but this guy is very hungry. He is a 3 tech penetrator who should pressure the QB and get in the backfield to disrupt running plays.
For the 1st time in a long while, the Broncos are fairly deep at the CB position and I expect to see Omar Bolden really pushing for a starting job as either a nickel or dime CB. The only secure starter right now is Champ with, Tracey Porter, Bolden, Chris Harris, Thompson and FA Drayton Florence competing for starting positions. If Bolden made starting CB opposite of Champ, that would certainly exceed my expectations...I also look for him to contribute on ST
Also on the DL there is Malik Jackson who can play the 3 or 5 tech...I look for him to be a rotational player . Del Rio wants to use multiple formations/fronts on the DL this year and there is probably a spot for Jackson somewhere in there given his versatility.
At LB is Danny Trevathan whose highlights show a high motor guy and a tackling machine...He led the SEC in tackles for 2 consecutive seasons. DJ Williams is facing a possible 6 game suspension and Trevathan may be competing with Woodyard for the WILL position and he may be on ST.
OLman Phillip Blake should push both Center JD Walton and Guard Zane Beadles for a starting position. He's a big boy who's been practicing mainly at the Center position.
RB Ronnie Hillman will see some playing time...He's quick and is a pretty good receiver coming out of the backfield. Right now, McGahee is the starting RB, but I expect to see plenty of Hillman later in the season to spell Willis.
2nd Rnd Pick Brock Osweiller will probably not play at all this year unless something happens to Manning and he moves up the depth chart. He was drafted as the QB of the future and there is no pressure on him to step in right away. I expect him to learn all he can from Manning from the film room to the practice field to game day. His job is to learn how to be an NFL QB and he has no better example than Manning.


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The 2013 Atlanta Falcon's season was perhaps the most disappointing season in team history, a flaming bag of poop dropped on our doorstep by spiteful elves. One of the key failures was the abysmal play of the offensive line.
Fans are despondent. Mock drafters are hard at work with plans for Alex Mack, Jake Matthews and Cyril Richardson.
What is the proper course of action? How are championship offensive lines built and what would it take to build one here in Atlanta? Will changing coaches be enough? Was coaching the problem or have the Falcon's leadership neglected to properly invest in the offensive line? Was this simply an abberation caused by injuries?
In order to attempt to answer these questions I decided to look at how championship offensive line players have been acquired. All players enter the league either through the draft or through college free agency. To measure how championship offensive lines have been built I created a simple metric, Offensive Line Pedigree.
I looked a the offensive lines of each Super Bowl participant (winner and loser) over the last 20 years. These are presumably the best teams in the league as they made the Super Bowl. For the primary starter at each position I awarded points using the following methodology:
1 point for first round picks
2 points for second round picks
3 points for third round picks
4 points for fourth round picks
5 points for fifth round picks
6 points for sixth round picks
7 points for seventh round picks
8 points for college free agents or in the case of some of the early teams for players pick in rounds later than round 7
I then added the five together to produce a rather simple Offensive Line Pedigree score. The lower the score the more accomplished the Pedigree. A line with five first round picks would score a 5, the lowest score possible. A line of five college free agents would score a 40, the highest possible score.
I should make clear this is not a measure of talent. Plenty of first rounders fail and plenty of later round and free agent diamonds are uncovered. This is a measure of investment. Draft picks are a finite resource, the equivalent of cash, that can be spent to acquire players. First round picks are more valuable than seventh round picks. This index measures the amount of resources spent on offensive line players. It also does not take into account veteran free agency.
The question I am really trying to answer is were the Falcon's line failures a result in neglect on the part of the decision makers on the team? If not what is the root cause of the failure?
The results:
Over the last 20 years the Super Bowl participants have an average Offensive Line Pedigree score of 21.4. The median and mean scores are both 20.
The most pedigreed line in the study belongs to the 2005 Steelers, with a score of 8. They featured three first round picks, a second round pick and a third round pick. They were the only team with a score in single digits.
Seven teams had a Pedigree score of 15 or lower, the equivalent of a line featuring five third round picks.
The 2009 Colts rolled with the least pedigreed line with a score of 34. This line featured sixth and fourth round picks at tackle with undrafted free agents at all the interior positions.
The 1998 Falcons, with first rounder Bob Whitfield, 5th rounder Gene Williams, 6th rounder Calvin Collins, 7th rounder Eprhaim Salaam and free agent Robbie Tobeck scored 33. They are the second least pedigreed line in the study.
Only five teams, including the 2009 Colts and 1998 Falcons, scored 30 or higher.
The positional breakdown is about what one would expect. On average left tackles are drafted the highest, with an average score of 2.9. 18 of the 40 left tackles were first round picks and an additional 7 were second round picks.
Right tackles scored second highest, with an average score of 3.5. 10 of the 40 right tackles were first round picks and 3 were second round picks. 16 came from the middle rounds (9 in the 3rd and 7 in the 4th). This appears to be the sweet spot for championship quality right-tackles, however more than 25% were drafted in the 5th round or lower.
Left guards scored third highest, with an average Pedigree score of 4.3. Suprisingly 13 of the 40 were first round picks, though only 2 were 2nd round picks and only 4 were 3rd round picks. 7 were undrafted free agents. Left guards are found all over the draft. Several left guards were originally drafted as left tackles and were moved to left guard after failing at the more rigorous position.
Right guards and centers brought up the rear, scoring 5.3 and 5.5 respectively. For both positions undrafted free agents are a more common means of acquistion than any individual round of the draft. Only two of the right guards were first round picks and one of those, Jermane Mayberry of the 2004 Eagles was drafted as a left tackle and then shifted to right guard. Likewise only two of the centers were first round draft picks and only five of them were 2nd round picks.
21 of the 40 super bowl centers, a majority, were either college free agents or drafted in round 6 or 7. Likewise 19 of the the 40 right guards were 7th round picks or college free agents.
Oddly the 6th round is the least popular round overall, providing 0 right guards, 1 left tackle, 1 right tackle, 3 centers and 5 left guards. The 10 total lineman produced by the sixth round is less than the number of undrafted free agents at either center (14) or right guard (15)
Spending a 1st or 2nd round pick on a center is not a requirment to build a championship level line.
The average line looks a bit like this:
LT- 1st Round pick
LG- 3rd Round pick
C- Undrafted free agent
RG- 7th Round pick
RT- 3rd Round pick
How do the Falcons' lines stack up on this scale?
First here is the 2008-2010 line that won 33 games together:
Baker - 1st
Blalock- 2nd
McClure- 7th
Dahl- college free agent
Clabo- college free agent
The Pedigree score for the 2010 line was 26, close to the 2007 Giants, 2008 Steelers and 2000 Ravens, World Champions all. This is in the bottom quarter of the distribution.
The 2012 Falcons line, with Konz replacing Dahl scores a 20, right in the middle of the distribution.
The pre-season projected lineup for the 2013 Falcons scores like this
Baker - 1st
Blalock- 2nd
Konz- 2nd
Reynolds- 5th
Johnson- 3rd (or Holmes also 3rd)
The Pedigree score for 2013 Falcons line is 13. This is a better score than 39 of the 40 teams in the study. Only the 2005 Steelers score lower.
A few thoughts:
First, the Falcons have clearly not skimped when it comes to investing in offensive lineman. Had they started Johnson at right guard and Holmes at right tackle (a logical distribution of resources) they could have trotted out a lineup featuring a first rounder, two second rounders and two third rounders, with 4th round pick Joe Hawley and 5th round pick Garrett Reynolds in reserve.
Second the pick of Peter Konz was a severe misallocation of resources. His development aside only 7 of the 40 (17.5%) centers to start in the last 20 Super Bowls have been first or second round picks. Player's with the physical tools to play center are readily available in later rounds and even as college free agents. This mistake is made even more galling given that the team had taken Joe Hawley with a fourth round pick just TWO YEARS earlier.
The Falcons draft is needs based. Without a first round pick in 2012 they evidently thought center was our top need and spent our top pick on it, in anticipation of the retirement of McClure. They later spent a 5th round pick on a replacement for John Abraham (Massaquoi). Why not spend the 2nd round pick on a defensive end (a rarer commodity) and then get the center in the 5th round?
Here are the Falcon's centers prior to Konz going back to 1969, some of whom have been pretty good:
Jeff Van Note 11th round
Wayne Radloff free agent from USFL
Jamie Dukes free agent
Roman Fortin 8th round pick
Robbie Tobeck free agent
Todd McClure 7th round pick
Konz is the highest draft pick the Falcons have ever spent on a center.
The Falcons are either scouting lineman poorly or they are doing a terrible job developing them. By firing Pat Hill leadership has bet on the latter supposition. If they are correct the Falcons could end up with a very talented line because they have invested more heavily than the typical championship team.
Does Experience Matter
One thought I had while looking at this is that perhaps the problems with the offensive line in 2013 had less to do with talent and more to do with experience. The release of Tyson Clabo left the Falcons with three inexperienced lineman. Center Peter Konz had 6 career starts coming into 2013. Right guard Garrett Reynolds had 13 career starts and Mike Johnson had a single start. I wondered how this compared to Super Bowl teams. After all the Falcons had clearly stated Super Bowl aspirations. This was not a rebuilding team. Do Super Bowl teams usually have young lines, experienced lines or a mix? Was it wise to enter a season with Super Bowl expectations with such an inexperienced line?
I busted out my spreadsheets and ran the Super Bowl teams through them.
The average Super Bowl team has a line with 25.6 years of experience, or 5.1 per player. Note that a rookie counts as 0 in this calculus.
The most experienced lines among the last 40 Super Bowl participants belong to the 2006 Bears and 1995 49ers, both with 41 years of experience.
The least experienced lines belonged to the 2003 and 2004 Patriots (12 and 13 years experience). They were followed by the 1996 Packers, 2001 Patriots and 2008 Steelers (14 years experience).
The 2013 Falcons opened training camp 17 years of experience on the line, though that slightly overstates the experience as Garrett Reynolds gets credit for four years despite only 13 total starts prior to 2013 and Mike Johnson with three years despite only one career start. The Falcons line was definitely inexperienced and had the team made the Super Bowl it would have been among the most inexperienced lines to ever make it. This was further exasperated by the injury to Sam Baker, the second most experienced lineman on the team.
Of equal importance is the decision to combine a line with limited experience with a center with no professional experience at the position.
Of all the positions on the offensive line the center position requires the most experience as the center makes all the line protection calls. It is the most mentally demanding position on the line. A breakdown at center can cause failures all along the line, failures that are not directly attributable to athletic talent. The average Super Bowl center had 5.8 years of experience, most of any of the line positions. Last years Super Bowl teams featured Jonathon Goodwin, with 10 years experience, and Matt Birk with 14 years experience.
Two Super Bowl teams in the last 20 years have started rookies at center, the 2010 Steelers and the 2003 Patriots. A few other teams (2008 Cardinals, 2004 Patriots, 1999 Titans and 1996 Patriots) have started players with a single year of experience though most had extenuating circumstances. The 2008 Cardinals were not planning on competing for a Super Bowl that season and sort of fell into it. The 1999 Titans started rookie Kevin Long along side 17 year veteran Bruce Matthews who likely made the line calls.
The Falcons seem to be a rarity, a team that went all in for a Super Bowl and bet the house on a rookie or first year center. Had the rest of the line been intact and experienced this might have worked out but combining this with inexperienced starters at right guard and right tackle was a recipe for disaster.
In retrospect the Falcons probably made a mistake by making so many changes along the line at one time. They should have replaced only one of Clabo and McClure. Given the essential importance to the center on the line they probably should have brought McClure back for one final season, kept Konz at right guard, at least to start the season, and let Johnson, Holmes and Reynolds compete for the right tackle position. The injuries incurred by Baker and Johnson still would have caused issues but the issues would have been softened by the experience McClure provided.
The Falcons have invested significant resources into the offensive line over the last six years, more than most championship teams. The failure of the offensive line in 2013 is an indictment of either the coaching or scouting department. The failure was made worse by the choice to change multiple positions on the line and to go with an inexperienced player at center.


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Lani Uyeno and Leanne Chun Riseley will be presenting at the Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment: the 2013 PASSHE Virtual Conference on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 7PM EST. Our session is on Using Teamwork in an Online Class: Five Successful Strategies. The presentation will highlight an online introductory computer science course's use of teamwork with video highlights from other online STEM courses.
Context & Problem: Employers are looking for college graduates who demonstrate teamwork and collaboration skills, but how do we help students develop these skills in online courses? One approach is to include teamwork as a requirement in an online course. But how does the instructor handle problems with students who do not want to be on a team or refuse to communicate or participate with their teams? What about the opposite problem: students who take over the team? How do you work with someone who does not want to take on the role of leader? What if the team produces poor work or does not plan properly?
Approach to Successful Teamwork: Audience will be asked to pair-share their experiences of using teams in online classes, including what has worked well and problems they have faced. Out of this discussion, we will share five strategies for successful teamwork in online classes.


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We need a "General Video Game Discussion" forum to separate the Off-Topic forum from the random video game questions.
I love video games but I'd love to get to know my community as well, thus I suggest we have no video game discussions in the Off-Topic forum.
What do you guys think?
You guys are doing some great work, keep it up.
EDIT: Sorry if I come across as complaining, I'm not, I love what you've guys have done. But in order for this to work as a real forum I think it should be more forum-like. Sequential posts and quotes instead of replies. I end up not reading half of the posts because the format isn't ideal for a forum. It works great for comments on a story but not for what we have here. We don't need fancy banners or anything like that but I think a traditional forum layout is essential. I feel this needs to be addressed quickly if we are to keep people coming back to the forums. This exact reason is why I never really got involved with The Verge forums, they're not really forums.
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Three years running, the Broncos can not beat the Oakland Raiders at home. And this time, Oakland did not have a QB, but the Broncos always find a way to build the confidence of the Raiders early and today was no exception.
Coach McDaniels decided to use trick plays today, which boggles the mind. The best way to give a team confidence is to make them think that you can not beat them straight up so you need trick plays.
McD may be a good coach but his play calling in six of the games has resembled high school thinking.
ONLY one good thing came out of this game, David Bruton showed that he is an NFL player. Along with Darcel McBath and Josh Barrett, the safety positions are in good hands
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The last wild river
The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed river in the West, but Montana's rapid growth is affecting it, as property owners afraid of floods lay huge amounts of riprap along its banks.
Homesteaders sue over ancestral land
Over 50 years after the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos National Laboratory were built on land owned by Hispanic farmers, descendents of those farmers have sued the Dept. of Energy, saying they were illegally evicted.
The Wayward West
Judge upholds drilling ban on Rocky Mtn. Front; Rep. Tom Udall is for breaching Snake River dams; GAO says Baca Ranch, N.M., is overpriced; Louisiana-Pacific fined for toxic dumping; Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca supports Mexican wolves in Gila Wilderness.
Parks rev up to ban snowmobiles
The Park Service says that snowmobiles will likely be banned from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks by 2002-2003.
Forest chief steers agency down a rocky road
Tension is high in the Forest Service over Chief Mike Dombeck's plan to decommission unnecessary and unauthorized roads in the national forests.
Agency torpedoes canyon planning
The Park Service has ended consensus efforts among private boaters, environmentalists and commercial rafting companies over access to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, saying the talks had become polarized and contentious.
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Colorado Wild, an environmental group, is appealing the Forest Service's decision to let Arapahoe Basin Ski Area divert water from the North Fork of the Snake River for use in snowmaking.
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Ideas for Interferometry project? - Help Needed
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1. Hi!
Sorry, was unsure whether this was the right place to post, new here. In any case, I need a bit of help with a project a friend and I are working on.
First of all, it's a pretty large project, supposed to take us approx 100 hours. We're in the last year of Swedish high school, only had physics as a subject for 1,5 years, so don't expect too much in terms of prior knowledge.
Anyway, what I needed help with, was were to go with this project. We have a PASCO Precision interferometer and a "Basic Microwave Optics System". We're borrowing them from a place that isn't related to our school, and the person who is putting them at our disposal gave us a long list of fairly short experiments, at most a few hours. The thing is our schoolteacher is very clear on the fact that we should have a coherent idea of what we're examining and not just do a bunch of experiments, and most importantly, relate this to some field such as modern research or industry. Anyone here have any idea as to what we could do with this equipment? MichelsonMorleys experiment came up in a discussion, but for that we were told you need to be able to turn the interferometer without friction, which we can't. Any suggestions are welcome. Also we have a basic physics and a chemical spectrophotometer in case you have any ideas that could include them.
So basically some project idea which we can spend around 100 hours on, using mentioned equipment, and which can easily be linked to some industrial or scientific context.
The teacher who is supposed to help us hardly seems to know anything about the field.
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Can we please put a moratorium on introducing characters with cool freeze frames that occur in media punch? Liev Schreiber, whose direction is as hammy as his theater-honed acting style, must have taken a page from the Guy Ritchie handbook...is it really necessary in a gentle tale of culture clash (which i guess is what it is) to pummel the audience with swift cool POW WOW intros? Oh well, an interesting book becomes just another movie about kooky foreigners. And what's with Elijah Wood's constant incredulous grimace? I
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Sequoia Healthcare District Election
Original post made by Jack Hickey on Aug 31, 2012
There is one overriding consideration in this election: Should the District, which no longer owns or operates Sequoia Hospital, be dissolved?
What was the original intent of voters when they established the District in 1946?
Read the candidate statements. Do a little research. Add your opinions to the discussion.
Sequoia Healthcare District
Candidates for the Office of Member of the Board of Directors
JOHN J. "JACK" HICKEY Age: 78
Occupation: Senior Research Scientist, Retired
Education and Qualifications: Serving on the Sequoia Healthcare District Board of Directors since 2002 has been challenging. Sequoia Hospital, wholly owned and operated by CHW (now Dignity Health), is evolving as a state-of-the-art facility on its historic site. My 2003 referendum petitioning effort thwarted relocation efforts.
The Sequoia Hospital District was established by voters in 1946 to build a hospital. They morphed into a Healthcare District following the hospital sale in 1996. The District continues to collect $8,000,000/year in property taxes while pursuing philanthropic activities clearly unintended by voters. Such were the findings of the 2000/2001 San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury.
Dissolution of the District, long overdue, would allow direct distribution of those taxes to School Districts (45%), San Mateo County (22%), Cities (17%) and other special districts (9%). Assets (~$40,000,000) not required for winding down District affairs would be similarly distributed. Millions in District related expenses would be eliminated.
I am the only board member advocating dissolution. With two years remaining, I am running for this 4 year seat to offer you an opportunity to cast a single vote in support of dissolution. Create a mandate by voting for Jack Hickey and no others.
Website Web Link Email firstname.lastname@example.com /s/
KIM GRIFFIN Age: 54
Occupation: Registered Nurse
Education and Qualifications: Allocation of resources within our community for health care is crucial to all residents within the Sequoia Health Care District. I will continue to support the mission of the District, which currently provides vital health services and constantly evaluates the effectiveness of our programs and grants. The many successes and positive outcomes of the District's work with schools, chronic disease management and emergency services have been fundamental in improving and saving lives. Adapting these programs to meet the changes in health care is a challenge I look forward to. /s/
KATHLEEN "KATIE" KANE Age: 66
Occupation: Human Resources Consultant
Education and Qualifications: Education: BS Organizational Development USF; Stanford Surgical Technician Certification. I have worked all facets of health care for over 40 years. I understand the future that faces health care delivery in tomorrow's environment. Health care services no longer happen just in a Hospital. Our District provides health services thorough our community programs, organizations and clinics. Since I have been on the Board, we have met the financial needs of the District through our "Community Grants Program" a broad range of health-related programs promoting the health of members in our community. Through my leadership, the District funds two medical clinics. The San Mateo Medical Center's Fair Oaks Clinic and Samaritan House Free Clinic, which provides medical, dental and vision care to over 3500 uninsured. The District created and funds the "Healthy Schools Initiative" providing school nurses and other health services at every school in our District. The Program expanded PE programs to reach 5,000 students in our ten elementary schools.
Through the oversight of the $75 million the District has dedicated to the rebuilding of Sequoia Hospital will assure that our communities Hospital will continue to provide our population with excellent and compassionate care. /s/
on Aug 31, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Vote only for one not two...Vote for Jack Hickey only if you support the Grand Jury. The media has mislead the voters on this subject for years.....
This legal opinion would have come from Thomas Casey III San Mateo County Counsel at the time written.
Reported in the WAMP article titled Voters Being Denied Rights 10/8-14/2010
"In fact, the 2000-2001 Grand Jury published this statement: "The grand jury has received a legal opinion from San Mateo County Counsel to the effect that the California Taxation and Revenue Code §96.8 authorizes a hospital district such as Sequoia Healthcare District to request the county auditor make a tax reduction in any amount down to zero for the district's taxpayers on a yearly basis without reallocation of the reduced taxes to other agencies." So, the election of the Hickey slate will allow the Board by majority vote to exercise this authority which the County Council is on record as declaring that they possess. While the power to dissolve the District appears by statute to lie solely with the LAFCo, this power could jumpstart a process that will result in a more representative, culpable and sanctioned Healthcare District."
Vote for Jack Hickey ONLY
on Sep 1, 2012 at 9:17 am
Does the Sequoia Healthcare District exercise an "oversight" function on Sequoia Hospital operations? Candidate Katie Kane, in her ballot statement, suggests that it does.
Originally, after the sale of Sequoia Hospital in 1996, the District had an oversight function pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding. Web Link
Sequoia Health Services (SHS), the governing Board for Sequoia Hospital, was comprised of 5 members from the District and 5 from CHW. Until I was elected in 2002, the 5 District members were their elected Directors. I was asked by District CEO, Frank Gibson, if I wanted to serve on the SHS Board. I responded in the affirmative. Subsequently, I was denied that seat. The oversight function traceable to the voters was no longer in effect.
Then, in 2007, CHW became sole-owner of Sequoia Hospital, with no District representation on its governing Board. Web Link
on Sep 1, 2012 at 11:28 am
So, do all candidates get to get on these forums and campaign?