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Sweeney, D., Paliga, J., Reid, R., Shay, P., Goldstein, J., Bartlett, S., Whitaker, L., Taylor, J. The Impact of a Parent Liaison at a Major Craniofacial Center. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. Accepted for publication May, 2013.
Shay, P., Goldstein, J., Wink, J., Paliga, J., LaRossa, D., Low, D., Taylor, J., Jackson, O.: International Adoptees With Cleft: Lessons Learned From A Growing Population. 12th International Congress on Cleft Lip/Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies, Orlando, FL May 2013.
Shay, P., Goldstein, J., Paliga, J., Wink, J., Jackson, O., Low, D., Bartlett, S., Taylor, J. A Comparative Cost Analysis of Cleft Lip Adhesion and Naso-alveolar Molding Prior to Formal Cleft Lip Repair 12th International Congress on Cleft Lip/Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies, Orlando, FL May 2013.
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Health Services and Policy Research Summer Fellowship offered through joint collaboration by the Penn Masters of Science in Health Policy Research, the Leonard Davis Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Schools Program, and the Penn Division of Internal Medicine.
P. Fang, D. N. Holena , D. Weibe , P. Kim , C. Sims , B. Sarani , W. Schwab , J. L. Pascual, Organ donation rates remain stagnant despite a steadily rising incidence and lethality of penetrating brain injury. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2012.
Reinke, C.E., Hadler, R.A., Karakousis, G.C., Fraker, D.L., Kelz, R.R Does the presence of thyroid cancer increase the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing thyroidectomy? 2011 Surgery 150 (6), pp. 1275-1285.
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School is back in session and for many children in the tri-states they don't have enough strong role models who encourage them to succeed.
That's why Quincy Public School officials hope to provide students with positive influences through their mentoring program.
The mentor program matches adult volunteers to work one-on-one with QPS students for a half hour each week at school.
Orientation and training kicked off Thursday at the board office for 185 new and veteran mentors.
Officials say the mentors provide guidance in school work and personal growth.
Volunteers say their hope is to watch how their students grow throughout the program.
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Ladies, ever just need a break from it all? We all do, and the best news is you do not have to travel miles away to get one.
I scouted out several local spas to help me relax and let go of my day-to-day stress. I turned off the cell phone, closed up the email and immersed myself in the relaxation that is .
Tucked in Grayslake's heritage district, Mona Lisa takes up shop directly across the street from Tastee Freez. The atmosphere is quaint and cozy, offering a boutique feel with a modern twist thanks to exposed brick running the length of the salon.
Owner Lisa Cowgill opened the business nearly eight years ago, hoping to offer a blend of intimate and friendly service and exceptional spa experiences. "I worked at those big salons where there is not much of a connection," she said. "I didn't want to do that."
The intimate feeling is what you'll get at Mona Lisa. Lisa and her daughter Marla are the only two full-time employees. Both are trained in all aspects of the industry from hair, pedicures, and manicures to waxing and facials. One part-time receptionist joins the duo, along with plans to bring in massage therapists in the very near future.
Lisa said she knew from an early age exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up. She began cutting hair and doing nails when she was just 13 years old. She and her family moved to the area in 1986 where she worked as a successful real estate agent for 16 years. But Lisa said she knew that wasn't her true calling.
"I just felt it," she said. "I knew this is what I wanted to do. I wanted this spa."
It is working out quite nicely. In its eight years, Lisa moved the business only once to the building next door, then moved back a few years later. "This is just the perfect little space," she said. "We really like it over here best. We use all of our space wisely and find it fits us best here."
With my mission to relax and enjoy a little bit of paradise I was also anxious to try something unique. I opted for the raw earth pedicure and the soothing citrus manicure.
Running after my kids and spending most of my summer barefoot or in flip-flops, my feet were in desperate need of attention.
My pedicure began with a warm foot soak as I sat in a high-back massage chair that immediately set me in comfort mode. Marla set me right at ease with her relaxing yet professional demeanor. After touching up my nails she went to work on the bottoms of my feet, massaging them with a lavender sea salt scrub that felt absolutely heavenly. Just the right amount of roughness helped strip away the dead skin cells that build up over time.
"You should get a pedicure every four to six weeks all year long." Lisa said. "Many people think you can skip it in the winter, but that's such an important time, because you always have your feet covered. You have to remove your dead skin all year long so you have beautiful feet for the summer."
Marla then followed my scrub with a foot file that she says is the best in the market. "This file doesn't shave off your skin, it files it off. You never want to use the blades that actually take your skin off because that is new skin and it is very bad for your feet."
Next came the raw earth part of the pedicure. Marla spread clay all over my feet, let it soak in, applied another layer, and then wrapped my feet in steaming towels. This felt incredible. If there was any tension still lingering, as soon as the hot towels came out, it disappeared like the steam.
Marla said the clay was designed to soften my skin while helping with any rough cuticles and calluses. I had my doubts, but hours later I could still feel the effects. My feet had never been softer or looked and felt more polished than this.
Marla painted my nails and used her artistic hand at adding a small flower to one toenail. She freehanded the details that would take almost anyone else a magnifying glass to catch.
Now on to my manicure: My hands had seen better days. Dishes and cleaning sure take their toll, and while I would love to say I wear gloves for the dirty work, I don't.
Lisa first settled my hands into an effervescent soak aimed to help soften my skin. She worked tirelessly filing, clipping and buffing my nails into perfectly even tips as we chatted about our families. Lisa is an easy person to talk to, and very interested in connecting with her clients. Her love for the business and those walking through her door are part of what makes Mona Lisa a success.
The next step of my soothing citrus manicure was the skin-renewal scrub. This was made up of a combination of sugars to help remove any dead skin cells. The scrub massage was very relaxing. Lisa wrapped my hands in steaming towels to allow the moisture to really soak in. Aaaaahhhhhh!
She massaged several lotions into my hands and nails, even adding a rejuvenating anti-aging serum to my hands. A perfect polish job was finished up with an added UV top coat to seal the polish to the nails and prevent chipping. A quick cure under the UV light and I was set to go.
My hands feel soft and silky. My polish is shiny and bright. Even after washing my hands several times I can still smell the lotions, scrubs and soaks Lisa used.
Yet another thing that stands out from other spas is that they guarantee all their work – even manicures. Lisa says she wants everyone who walks through her door to be completely happy with their experience and the end result. Lisa works hard to do that, opening six days a week and scheduling many clients on short notice. But she says its hard work that pays off.
"This is exactly where I am supposed to be and I love it," she said.
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Albany Municipal Court Judge Willie Weaver will have to undergo anger management as part of an agreement in his criminal case.
Weaver was arrested in May after his wife said he hit her with a beer bottle. She later recanted, but the aggravated assault and domestic violence charges against Weaver remained.
Under a pre-trial diversion agreement, if Weaver undergoes anger management and marital counseling, the charges against him will be dismissed.
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Well, hello there.
I can go two ways with the Denver Broncos, positive or negative:
Positive - Our 2011 Draft Class looks very good, Von Miller is getting better every week while Moore, Franklin and Thomas start. Eric Decker is becoming a solid player and the Broncos have a deep WR corps. The defense is capable of slowing the run down at times, and the team never quits.
Negative - Kyle Orton is not clutch. We cannot play the "Ground and Pound" game that John Fox wants to. The middle of our Offensive Line gets pushed off the ball regularly. We give up a lot of big plays, make too many mental mistakes and our defense cannot create turnovers. Injuries have killed the Denver depth and the coaching staff lacks imagination. Even being negative, the Broncos are two plays away from being 3-1 instead of 1-3.
As I've said before, the San Diego Chargers tend to play down to the level of their opponent. Last week, despite the score, Denver game the Green Bay Packers a good game. Without mistakes by Orton and Daniel Fells fumbling away a TD, the Broncos would've scored 37 points.
Shoot me any Broncos questions you have in the comments below and I'll do my best to answer them.


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The World > Asia > Taiwan > Tainan
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Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.
Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?
China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.
Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.
Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.
I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.
The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.
China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.
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The Powerball jackpot is at a record high of $550 million for Wednesday night's drawing.
When thinking of what to spend your winnings on, of course things like cars and boats and mansions come to mind.
But what about the smaller things in life, like jelly beans?
FOX 28 went to the Wakarusa Dime store to find out just how many jumbo jelly beans you can get with $550 million.
To say the least, it's a lot.
One-hundred, twenty-eight million pounds, which is almost 68,000 tons.
Mac Mcnally with the Wakarusa Dime Store says, "Actually that would get them all of them and they're more than welcome to come down with their check and we'll cash it for them!"
So how many individual jumbo jellybeans is 128 million pounds?
It's 5,128,205,128 beans!
That's enough to fill 62 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
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Metahaven at Cobra MuseumExhibitions / Other
18 January 2014 - 16 March, 11am - 5pm (Tues. - Sun.)
The Cobra Museum will host Metahaven Selected Projects 2010-2014, an exhibition by Amsterdam- based design collective Metahaven, in honour of their winning the Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen 2013.
About Cobra and Metahaven
The Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen strives to keep the legacy of the international Cobra Movement alive by offering a space for artistic experimentation and expression.
In line with the Cobra mantras of freedom and experimentation, passion, vitality and social engagement, the Metahaven retrospective will showcase the collective's commitment to contemporary network culture and their belief in a more transparent and horizontal organisation.
Metahaven Selected Projects 2010-2014 presents a selection of Metahaven's graphic work representing their commitment to social engagement and the cross-pollination of ideas via artistic practice.
Founded in 2007 by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, this show is the collective's first solo exhibition.
Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen
Awarded every two years to an artist living in the Netherlands, the Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen seeks to recognise those who create innovative work and demonstrate commitment to artistic practice.
The prize consists of 10.000 euros, an exhibition and an accompanying publication.
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It's time to test your knowledge of what's happened this week with our favorite celebrities. Have you paid attention to everything that's gone down? Take the quiz!
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Where did Beyonce Knowles land on the Forbes list of most powerful celebrities?
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Drew Barrymore left a photo shoot with which photographer?
Patrick Demarchelier
Gilles Bensimon
Steven Meisel
Annie Leibovitz
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Where was Elisabetta Canalis spotted wearing a thong bikini?
Lake Como
St. Tropez
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Who did Ed Westwick say is one of his celebrity crushes?
Jennifer Aniston
Scarlett Johansson
Jessica Biel
Demi Moore
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What did Kristen Stewart show a picture of on The Late Show?
Her pet wolf
Herself and Robert Pattinson
Her family
The Eclipse set
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Where did Gwen Stefani watch Gavin Rossdale perform?
New York
San Diego
Los Angeles
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How much did Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia earn to reach the highest grossing video game movie milestone?
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$300 million
$400 million
$425 million
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Who was Tom Cruise harnessed to a zipwire next to?
George Lopez
Cameron Diaz
Ellen DeGeneres
Jimmy Kimmel
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Where was Ryan Phillippe spotted with his new flame, Alexis Knapp?
W Hotel
The Ivy
Sunset Towers
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What professional sport does Kim Kardashian's new man play?
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Ida M. Tarbell: Investigative Journalist Par Excellence
—written by Arthur L. Lowrie, Allegheny College class of 1955
Investigative journalism is the contemporary journalist's path to fame and fortune and the competition is fierce. Success in uncovering misdeeds by the rich and powerful can mean instant fame, TV talk shows, and perhaps a movie. With such rewards, the temptation is great to exaggerate the sin, omit relevant facts, and follow only those leads that may confirm the evil deed. Such lapses will go unnoticed by most readers and ignored by those who celebrate scandal and enjoy higher profits.
Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), the sole woman who matriculated in 1876 and graduated in Allegheny College's class of 1880 [see additional note below], was America's first great woman journalist. She set an example that today's practitioners would do well to emulate. A relentless pursuit of all the facts and fairness in presenting them marked her writing throughout her career. She also refused to exploit her professional accomplishments for monetary gain or celebrity status.
In her first major work Miss Tarbell studied Madame Roland to confirm her view that women brought moderation and compassion to politics. After completing her research she reluctantly concluded that Madame Roland had behaved during the French Revolution much as men had. This conclusion no doubt contributed to her later, and unpopular, rejection of some positions of the suffragettes, particularly their insistence that men had corrupted the world and women could straighten it out.
In her most famous work, The History of the Standard Oil Company (which oil historian Daniel Yergin called the "most important business book ever written"), Miss Tarbell revealed, after years of painstaking research, the illegal means used by John D. Rockefeller to monopolize the early oil industry. Yet Miss Tarbell interspersed in her condemnation of Standard Oil's illegal practices, praise for Rockefeller's enormous accomplishments in organizing and stabilizing a volatile industry. She rejected being labeled a "muckraker" (despite its popularity), because "I was convinced that in the long run the public they were trying to stir would weary of vituperation, that if you were to secure permanent results the mind must be convinced."
Ida Tarbell had many opportunities to capitalize on her reputation as one of America's most respected journalists. Instead, she rejected the pleas of the suffragettes to endorse their causes because they contradicted her own convictions about the role of women. In 1914, Henry Ford and others tried unsuccessfully to have her join the celebrity-laden "Peace Ship" to bring an end to World War I. She considered it totally unrealistic and said so. In late 1916, she turned down President Wilson's offer to make her the first woman on the Tariff Commission because he believed she had written more common sense about the tariff than any man. Finally, she put off writing her autobiography until she was eighty years old, and even then it was a work of such modesty and self-effacement that it added little to her popularity.
The lasting results of Ida Tarbell's brand of investigative journalism, which include the 1911 Supreme Court decision to break up the Standard Oil trust, suggest that her career, characterized by thoroughness, fairness, and intellectual integrity, should be studied by any journalist more interested in recording and influencing events that achieving celebrity status.
NOTE: According to Allegheny's records, three women, who did not matriculate in 1876, also graduated in 1880.
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My friend Connie send me OODLES of Alex O'Loughlin pics and since no one else saw fit to request a BeefCake……Connie wins.
It appears YouTube was unhappy with my choice of songs and has blocked the video worldwide…so 4 hours of work down the tubes. SWIDT?
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ESPN analyst: Cardinals provided 'worst QB tandem performance'
Anyone want to argue?
The passers combined to complete just 11-of-27 passes for 70 yards -- though the team gained just 41 net yards through the passing game due to three sacks. The Cardinals ended up losing to the Atlanta Falcons despite the defense coming up with six turnovers.
It was Arizona's sixth-straight defeat, and with the season seemingly spinning out of control the topic of conversation has been Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt's decision to pull Skelton from the game in the first quarter.
Skelton, who had completed just 2-of-7 passes, was inaccurate, and missing a wide-open Larry Fitzgerald on what should have been a touchdown pass was likely the final straw.
"You just don't make that decision after seven passes," Jaworski said. "That decision was made on the complete body of work of John Skelton. How he's done this season, last season, training camp, mini camps, his complete body of work.
"So there had to be something that really bothered Ken Whisenhunt about John Skelton's game."
listen Listen: Ron Jaworski, ESPN NFL Analyst
Ron Jaworski calls into the show today to discuss all things NFL. With all the drama surrounding the quarterback position for the Cardinals, find out who Jaworski believes should start for Arizona. Is Ken Whisenhunt's job on the line because of the Cardinals six game losing streak? Jaworski also discusses the intrigue surrounding Colin Kaepernick and how the Steelers will play without Ben Roethilsberger?
"It was the body language of a lot of the receivers," Jaworski said. "There were guys open, the ball just wasn't getting there on time. There were bad decisions made. Lindley came in, he was seeing ghosts, he was throwing right into coverage.
"It was not a good performance either."
That's not to say Jaworski thinks there is no hope for Lindley. The analyst believes he has potential to be a very good player in the NFL.
"Clearly against Atlanta you could see he's got athletic ability, he can throw the football, he's got a quick release, there's a lot of juice on the football, he can rotate it," he said. "He's not there yet, it takes time to develop."
The team's continued struggles at the quarterback position are a concern, as there are six games left in the regular season and the Cardinals, technically, are still in the playoff race. Whisenhunt named Lindley the starter late Wednesday, and earlier in the day Jaworski said the rookie should get the nod.
"I think right now we've got to find out what Ryan Lindley can do," he said. "I'm not sure what Kevin [Kolb's] situation is right now health-wise, but Skelton didn't get the job done."
- Arizona Cardinals' GM Steve Keim: Jonathan Cooper will be great for the team
- Arizona Cardinals GM Steve Keim: 'I'm never done' building the roster
- Walt Powell claimed by New York Jets
- How the West Was Won - Week 1
- ESPN: Arizona Cardinals' offense will offset losses on defense, lead team to a winning record
- Paul's Call with Paul Calvisi! - Tuesday September 2It's Paul's Call with Paul Calvisi!
- Steve Keim - Arizona Cardinals GM - Tuesday September 2Steve Keim discusses whether or not the Cardinals roster is set.
- Darren Urban - azcardinals.com - Friday August 29Darren Urban breaks down the latest surrounding the Cardinals' impending roster moves
- Bickley Blast - Friday August 29The Arizona Cardinals and San Diego Chargers played one of the most pointless games in NFL history l
- Bickley Blast - Thursday August 28Which Valley football team will win more games this season, the Cardinals or the Sun Devils?


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"Genuine, caring, honest and self-made. Faith, at times the only light in long dark nights, and the desire for helping others have created this strong and unique man called Aaron." -Sophie Gagnon
Aaron Wesley Hannah went missing and for some presumed dead. 8 Years later he returned home a changed man greeted by family and friends, but they sensed something different about him. His smile was still intact but his demeanor was hardened.
To this day Aaron has hidden the truth about what happened in those 8 years. What has been said, has intrigued the countless people that have heard his stories. Armed only with an experience of a lifetime, an eclectic understanding of life and a heart to help others Aaron is determined to help people live a more conscious life.
What others say about Aaron Wesley Hannah…
"Aaron is a very brilliant young man. He has great character and carries himself very well. He has no problem jumping in feet first to work on projects and fix problems. I'm honored to call this young man a friend of mine."
- Joe Hickman
"Aaron is talented and very creative with the invaluable (and rare) ability to see things through to completion. He is an idea man, and can manage from drawing board to finished project."
- Terry Dismore
"Aaron is a go to guy! He is always willing to help and assist in any way that he can. He's professional, creative, and upbeat and offers a wealth of knowledge and expertise. I would highly recommend him."
- Alicia Garner
Read more of what others say about Aaron Wesley Hannah here.
Aaron is a trainer and consultant of more than 13 years. He is a nationally certified EMT and is recognized by the Ohio House of Representatives for his character and courage. He currently holds an instructor status with the American Heart Association and Emergency Care and Safety Institute.
Aaron holds a religious degree in Biblical Studies, more than 17 certifications through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and has extensive training and advanced studies in emergency management, wilderness survival, personal protection, leadership, psychology, and marketing.
He currently resides in Columbus, OH where he is the Training Consultant for the Columbus based SOS Technologies, a national emergency management company. In his spare time Aaron enjoys time spent with his family and volunteering for several local charities.


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A series of community forums helped us craft a platform for the next mayor
Over the past three months, the Guardian has been hosting a series of forums on progressive issues for the mayor's race. We've brought together a broad base of people from different communities and issue-based organizations all over town in an effort to draft a platform that would include a comprehensive progressive agenda for the next mayor. All told, more than 100 people participated.
It was, as far as we know, the first time anyone tried to do this — to come up with a mayoral platform not with a few people in a room but with a series of open forums designed for community participation.
The platform we've drafted isn't perfect, and there are no doubt things that are left out. But our goal was to create a document that the voters could use to determine which candidates really deserve the progressive vote.
That's a critical question, since nearly all of the top contenders are using the word "progressive" on a regular basis. They're fighting for votes from the neighborhoods, the activists, the independent-minded people who share a vision for San Francisco that isn't driven by big-business interests.
But those of us on what is broadly defined as the city's left are looking for more than lip service and catchy phrases. We want to hear specifics; we want to know that the next mayor is serious about changing the direction of city policy.
The groups who endorsed this effort and helped plan the forums that led to this platform were the Harvey Milk LGBT Club, SEIU Local 1021, the San Francisco Tenants Union, the Human Services Network, the Community Congress 2010, the Council of Community Housing Organizations, San Francisco Rising, Jobs with Justice, and the Center for Political Education.
The panelists who led the discussions were: Shaw-san Liu, Calvin Welch, Fernando Marti, Gabriel Haaland, Brenda Barros, Debbi Lerman, Jenny Friedenbach, Sarah Shortt, Ted Gullicksen, Nick Pagoulatos, Sue Hestor, Sherilyn Adams, Angela Chan, David Campos, Mario Yedidia, Pecolio Mangio, Antonio Diaz, Alicia Garza, Aaron Peskin, Saul Bloom, and Tim Redmond.
We held five events looking at five broad policy areas — economy and jobs; land use, housing and tenants; budget and social services; immigration, education and youth; and environment, energy and climate change. Panelists and audience participants offered great ideas and the debates were lively.
The results are below — an outline of what the progressives in San Francisco want to see from their next mayor.
Background: In the first decade of this century, San Francisco lost some 51,000 jobs, overwhelmingly in the private sector. When Gavin Newsom was sworn in as mayor in January 2004, unemployment was at 6.4 percent; when he left, in January 2011, it was at 9.5 percent — a 63 percent increase.
Clearly, part of the problem was the collapse of the national economy. But the failed Newsom Model only made things worse. His approach was based on the mistaken notion that if the city provided direct subsidies to private developers, new workers would flock to San Francisco. In fact, the fastest-growing sector of the local economy is the public sector, especially education and health care. Five of the 10 largest employers in San Francisco are public agencies.
Local economic development policy, which has been characterized by the destruction of the blue-collar sector in light industry and maritime uses (ironically, overwhelmingly privately owned) to free up land for new industries in business services and high tech sectors that have never actually appeared — or have been devastated by quickly repeating boom and bust cycle.
Instead of concentrating on our existing workforce and its incredible human capital, recent San Francisco mayors have sought to attract a new workforce.
We of course, cannot do that, because if all savings were mandated to go to consumers, there would then be no funds available to maintain the system, and to do capital improvements in order to expand the system and incorporate renewables and efficiency.
I'm fine with a mandate that keeps all of the savings out of the City general fund, and that instead all revenues would have to be kept within the utility itself, but mandating that all savings go to ratepayers would undermine the whole system by underfunding infrastructure.
Obviously PG&E makes a profit (well, maybe not, they went bankrupt, but let's ignore that for now).
That profit is what's left after the costs you cited have been deducted from the revenues.
So, if PG&E make, say, a thousand a year net profit on each household, then each household gets a thousand off their bills. It should be "revenue neutral" for the City - not a cash cow for their favorite pork project and subway to nowhere.
The formula might be more complex than that, but those computations are already made in determining the utility rates and what's a fair profit for PG&E. We're already doing the sums - the only difference is that we the people get the money, and not Chris Daly.
Do it that way and you have my vote. As long as you can also borrow the capital to buy the utility at a fair market price, funded by revenue bonds that won't touch the general fund.
But not a penny to the politicians. They can't be trusted.
Now that you have clearly established that you are completely out of touch with reality by hilariously claiming that PG&E might not be making a profit, I think we're done.
And the San Bruno explosion shows that PG&E infrastructure is under capitalized showing that we need to ensure the ability to fully capitalize a municipal system.
Now, go ahead and get in the last word, last word boy...
My guess is that we are both right. Before he was on the SFPUC Sklar was apparently pro municipal power. But once Newsom appointed him to the SFPUC that definitely changed.
I hope all the voters out there read both pension measures and once you get over your outrage vote no on both C and D. There are nothing progressive about either.
Prop D:
-Prop D has a sliding scale for contributions while Prop C asks the same of a 50k worker and a 100k worker.
-Prop D exempts < $50k workers (Prop C copied this.)
-Prop D doesn't touch anyone's health care while Prop C seeks to reduce employee and retiree health care by flipping control of the Health Services Board. City retirees loathe Prop C.
So yes, if you believe no reforms are needed you vote for neither. If you are voting for the more progressive one, you vote for Prop D. City employees who earn less than 100k and are convinced one of the two will pass, will be voting for Prop D.
No one will "read" Prop C - it's 285 pages....
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Belle's Hell
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on July 16th 2012
All right, I've been in Finland for well over a week and so far I've avoided the N-word. The time has come, we have to face up to this.
Nokia – are they completely buggered?
You wouldn't think so to look around here. There are Nokias everywhere. After that, the iPhone and maybe Blackberries. Though Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III is being advertised on every vertical surface, I haven't seen one in the wild – don't see many Android phones at all.
Well, why use an imitation of the iPhone when you have the thing the iPhone imitated? Nokia were making smartphones years before Apple after all. And even today their Symbian operating system is in many ways…
No, I can't do it. Much as I like the company, much as I like Finland, much as Symbian was once a really great operating system for smartphones, Nokia lost it there. It might have been said a year or so ago that they were at a crossroads. Today, it would be charitable to say they're on a roundabout. Nokia now make phones with five different operating systems.
There's Maemo/MeeGo. OK, that one we can pretty much write off as a noble experiment. There are S30 and S40, the systems for low- and mid-price phones respectively. There's Windows Phone, the one Nokia is betting on to restore it to the leading edge of phone technology. And then, we have Symbian.
Poor Symbian.
Well actually we don't, not anymore. The company clearly considers the name a liability, so Symbian^3 Anna (releases now have girls' names) was superseded earlier this year by what's known simply as Nokia Belle.
I just upgraded a friend's phone to this latest (last?) iteration of the world's first real smartphone OS. Aside from it coming with free Angry Birds, we hoped that it would be nicer to use than Anna. Despite being a Finn, my friend had never had a Symbian phone before and she thoroughly disliked it. Compared to her previous S60 one it just seemed needlessly complex.
An assessment I agree with – I've never understood why they felt that the controls had to be buried in folders within folders, divided into often confusing categories. You can spend ages on a Symbian phone trying to find how to change the ring tone, on the way passing all sorts of settings and features you never knew you needed – because you probably don't. A little adventure really, but it also speaks volumes about the strengths and weaknesses of Symbian. It is incredibly mature, and over its twenty-odd years of development – if you trace back to its origins on the PDAs made by British company Psion – has accumulated a huge range of capabilities. But also, much now-unnecessary complexity.
For what it's worth, Belle is an improvement. What Nokia have done – showing signs of desperation – is make it look and work a lot more like Android, even copying the 'tray' that slides down to display notifications and major settings. Gone are the layers of folders. But for people like my friend who upgrade to Belle it just makes the unfamiliar even more unfamiliar. And for new buyers, a resemblance to Android is hardly enough. If Symbian had been as close as this a couple of years ago, it might now have the momentum to rival Android for apps. But it appears inevitable that it will be phased out completely in the next couple of years – not just in name.
So is there any reason to choose a Symbian/Belle phone now?
Yes. The fact that it was designed from the start for the limited hardware of portable devices – indeed, the far more limited hardware of an earlier generation – means that to this day nothing can compete with a Symbian phone in terms of battery life. Plus it runs far better on low-end hardware than Android does. So if you need smartphone functionality and you don't want to pay very much, seriously consider a cheap Nokia smartphone over a cheap Android such as Samsung's dreadful Galaxy Y. In the year or two you might have it, that could add up to a couple of hundred fewer times you need to find a charger.
It's sad perhaps that they won't be keeping Symbian on just to fight that corner, but now is the time for Nokia to concentrate. They have S40 for good cheap "dumb" phones and, in Windows Phone 8, a smartphone OS that looks like it genuinely can compete with Apple and Google. Nokia I think will be all right – indeed, great again one day. It's just sad that they have to sacrifice so much independence, and so much history.
Sayonara, Symbian.
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Home Of The Angry Bird
Posted by Richard Chapman in Humour on July 14th 2012
You know, before I got here I'd forgotten Angry Birds was a Finnish invention. There's no forgetting after though – the merchandising is incredible. There are Angry Birds toys, Angry Birds sweets, Angry Birds drinks. There doesn't seem to be a feature film or a cartoon series yet but that can only be a matter of time, the thing is practically a cartoon series already. They're used to promote other products too of course. I upgraded a friend's phone to the newest version of Symbian (more of that anon) almost purely so that she could get Angry Birds on it.
I have to hand it to makers Rovio for designing so brilliantly addictive a game – at one point me, my friend, and her daughter were all playing it at once – but I can't help feeling that a lot of this is not so much merchandising as taking-advantage-of-childrenising. "l like playing Angry Birds therefore I want an Angry Birds drink" is the impulsive, associational desire of a mind that isn't fully developed.
Yes OK I bought one. But that was research.
The drink was all right; a lot more fun though were the sweets, because they come in the shapes of the various bird types and you can mime their characteristic trajectories as they fly into your mouth.
To amuse the kids, I mean.
Expect Angry Birds Sweets in a shop near you soon. And then an improved version with more flavors. And then a version with different laws of physics.
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The Phone That Should Have Been King
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on March 11th 2012
Two years ago Nokia's future was going to be Maemo, a cutting-edge operating system based on Linux with a sleek interface to replace the veteran Symbian OS. The phone that would bring it was the N900. This had the same processor as the rival iPhone 3GS, plus a much better screen and camera, neat slide-out keyboard, a kickstand and great stereo speakers for watching video, and even features the iPhone lacks to this day like real multitasking and a memory card slot.
As Nokia had been and was still the leading maker of smartphones, you might imagine a pent-up market of loyal customers gagging for a device that would show that upstart Apple. Yet when it arrived they stayed away in droves. The N900, very arguably the most advanced and capable phone yet made, was a magnificent, absolute, utter market failure.
What the hell went wrong? More than one thing, clearly. A phone with that much going for it could surely have survived one weakness, maybe even two or three, and still gone on to be a big seller.
Four though is pushing it.
The other week I showed it to an iPhone-using friend. She was interested, but asked – quite innocently – "Why is it so thick?" It's true, it's as thick as a brick. Downright chubby. Though its other dimensions are almost identical to the iPhone 3GS, it's half again as deep. Is that such a bad thing? Thickness is actually a practical advantage in a phone, there's little chance of cracking this one in your pocket. But such arguments weigh little in the scales of fashion. People have to be slim, therefore our phones have to be slim too – that seems to be about all the logic there is to it.
An even more damaging shortfall though was the strange absence of multitouch. Perhaps Nokia had too little experience with the necessary screen technology, but launching the N900 without a modern interface was like naming a ship "Abandon". A resistive screen with a stylus for tapping little icons was an interface from obsolescent Windows Mobile and historic Palm devices. Nobody wanted one now.
Nobody, except a few freaks such as myself. Resistive is far better suited to drawing than the capacitive type of screen used for multitouch. Capacitive requires a large contact area with the surface, making precise detail impossible. Plus it lacks any dimension of pressure sensitivity, while resistive screens can be highly responsive to changes in the pen press.
Combined with pressure-aware Linux drawing applications like MyPaint, this 'outdated' resistive interface allowed realistic pen-like or brush-like drawing strokes. This made the N900 the best phone ever created for art,¹ a powerful but sensitive digital sketchbook you could carry in a pocket. Many of the cartoons appearing on this blog were done with it – pencilled, inked, coloured, lettered and uploaded without ever seeing paper or PC. You can even edit images with GIMP, a program with capabilities comparable to the full desktop version of Adobe Photoshop.
But the very thing that most endeared it to me was a huge turn-off to the wider public.
Then there was the lack of apps. As Apple were first to realise, shopping is part of the experience now. A phone is nothing without stuff you can buy for it. There are some very good apps available for Maemo – but almost none to buy. Its Open Source Software roots meant that people were keen to contribute useful stuff. With a little tweaking it could even run apps built for desktop Linux. But that actually worked against a market for the Maemo platform. Professional app developers were discouraged by having to compete with free.
And this cultural clash, Open Source on one hand and commerce on the other, created other unforeseen problems. If you've got an issue with a community-developed program, to whom do you complain?
You don't. In the cooperative world of OSS you file a bug report, documenting the issue and the circumstances that produce it. Which is lovely, but customers who've paid money for a fancy phone hardly expect to have to help out as well.
Nor do they expect tech support that tells them to open a terminal window and enter Linux commands. That isn't actually as intimidating as it might sound, but "Buy this and soon you'll be learning Linux" is not the sort of slogan that say Apple would use. Or indeed anyone who wanted to sell anything.
And yet… It was so damn promising. If they had moved quicker to smooth off the edges of Maemo, if something like the N9 had arrived a year earlier – while people were still actually waiting for it – it might have been a hit instead of a peculiar footnote². Instead, Nokia paid brutally for not getting their collective arse in gear.
But, it was a remarkable achievement and a fascinating experiment. Even when it's no longer my primary phone I'll keep the N900 around, especially for travel, as an incredibly miniaturised PC. They can be picked up new on Ebay for under $200 now, I recommend them highly.
- Though Samsung were later to make the impossible dream come true by putting an actual Wacom digitizer on a phone.
- A footnote to the footnote: There are rumours that Nokia have quietly continued their Linux-based development – just not for smartphones. Dubbed Meltemi, a descendent of Maemo is rumoured to be the future replacement for the S40 "dumbphone" system that has done so well for them for so long, and could be used to bring smartphone-like features to low-cost devices. That might prove competitive against the rising tide of (frequently awful) cut-price Androids. A sad end for the noble Maemo maybe, but it could save Nokia's bacon – and of course make them less dependent on Microsoft. Who's to say that a Linux smartphone will not rise again?
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What Phone Is Right For You? – Index
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on February 22nd 2012
Articles I've written to help you choose a phone.
1 – The Scene
Why are there so many competing kinds of phone now?
2 – But First…
Remember you don't have to get a high-end smartphone.
3 – Enter The Gladiators
A quick overview of the types available.
4 – The Business End
Phones for work: Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry.
5 – Apple Changes Everything
It's the biggest thing to happen to mobile phones – and perhaps even computing – for years. What makes the iPhone so special?
6 – Paradigm Shift Hits The Fan
An aside on the present and future of mobile computing, and what the rise of the smartphone really means.
7 – I, Android
Only Google it seems were able to learn from what Apple did and react fast enough. Have they actually beaten them at their own game?
MeeGo – Born On Death Row?
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on June 27th 2011
A few days ago I suggested that Nokia's lovely N9 might be the last as well as the first phone to use the MeeGo operating system. Now it would seem that speculation is confirmed. Well, it is if you want to go by a single short article in a Finnish daily paper, but that's the sort of scrap of information people are grabbing at – particularly people in the MeeGo development community, who of course are desperately invested in this.
It isn't true. Not on a literal level at least, because there are in fact two MeeGo phones. And though the N950 will be available to developers only and not the general public, why would they be releasing a phone to help people develop apps if they don't plan to have anything to run them on? I think CEO Stephen Elop means only to counter the opposite rumours – that the good reception the N9 received was going to make Nokia switch back to MeeGo as its main strategy. That was only ever a fantasy.
I strongly suspect however that Nokia plan to keep MeeGo going as a little back-burner project – much as it was until quite recently. Remember, MeeGo is not a new thing but just the latest in a line of semi-experimental products based on Linux: the 770, N800, N810 and N900. These were never big sellers either, but Nokia is a company that has done well in the past by fielding a range of niche products.
Is there any point in buying one though when, no matter how good the hardware is, it lacks the ingredient that makes or breaks a phone in the world today; If MeeGo isn't going to be a commercial product, who's going to make apps for it?
Well they don't necessarily have to. Don't forget that all software for Symbian phones – which are going to be with us for some years yet – is actually built for Nokia's Qt framework, also used on MeeGo. Maybe Symbian apps haven't exactly set the world on fire, but good recent phones like the N8 have revived them somewhat. Then of course, under the MeeGo skin the OS is basically Debian Linux. The Open Source community will be able to provide many heavy-duty applications, just as are currently available for Nokia's earlier Linux devices.
And, it has Java. OK, big whoop. Java on phones has always been a should-have-been. Except… Android apps are basically Java, aren't they? Running on a version of Linux too. With that similar basic structure, it should be fairly easy to port Android apps to MeeGo.
Easy, or even trivial – if an application that rejoices under the name of Alien Dalvik fulfils its promise. This is not an emulator; it allows Android apps to run natively under MeeGo. Now that would be something; the vast supply of Androids apps, on mobile Linux, on Nokia hardware. The user would have to assemble it themselves I guess, but they'd get a combination that could easily rival the official Windows product. The only question, I suppose, is whether it will be allowed to happen.
Nokia's Last Hurrah
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on June 22nd 2011
There's no argument, the N9 is a beautiful device. It's almost hypnotically attractive, better perhaps than even the iPhone at the magical trick of making you feel that this is how phones were always meant to look. Sculpted from curved glass and a single block of matte polycarbonate, graced with a simple, powerful new operating system, this is the most radically restrained design that Nokia has ever produced. Aesthetically, that is; from a feature viewpoint it's downright exuberant. All in all, a tour de force of phone engineering.
Only one question really: What exactly is it for?
This is not the first of Nokia's new Windows phones, rather it is the first with MeeGo. First, and quite possibly last. For MeeGo is the operating system that Nokia were developing to take on the iPhone. Until they lost their nerve, decided it couldn't possibly be done in time to save the company, and let themselves be bought into Windows Phone 7 instead.
And yet here's a MeeGo phone, somehow ready before any Windows one. What exactly happened there?
It had to be this way. If the Windows device had come out first, MeeGo might have been allowed to drift on without ever becoming finished product, and MeeGo was the one chance Nokia's designers had to prove to the world – and to their boss – that they could have taken on Apple and won.
Launching an already doomed product might seem a bizarre expense for an already beleaguered company, but not bringing MeeGo to fruition also had a price – one that might have been paid in resignations. The N9 may best be understood as a magnificent gift; from Nokia's management, to Nokia's talent.
What Phone Is Right For You? 5 – Apple Changes Everything
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on April 16th 2011
Let's get now to the ones people actually care about: The fun, fashionable phones – and the rivalry between Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.
When Apple first launched the iPhone, nobody guessed just how big apps were going to become. Smartphones had applications before this of course. It was possible to download software both for Windows Mobile and for Symbian. But these hadn't exactly set the world on fire. In part, this was because the phones came with all the software necessary for normal use, and more beside. Most additional programs tended to be either created by businesses for their own use, or were ephemera like games. The bigger reason though was that these OSes ran on a wide range of phones, all with different hardware. Not just different processors, but different control button layouts, different keyboards, different abilities. Some phones might have cameras, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, others none of those. Anything but the most basic software was only really going to work on one specific phone, making the market unattractively fragmented for developers.
A big part of Apple's success therefore was simply that there was only one iPhone, with a good set of hardware features for programmers to work with. Even more important though was the innovative touch interface. This seemed almost a gimmick at first glance. At second, it seemed brilliant – now all the area taken up on an ordinary phone for buttons and controls could be given over to a screen big enough for comfortable video or Web viewing. But even that was overlooking the real genius of the idea. One whole side of the iPhone was completely configurable – as display, as controls, or as any combination thereof. The whole user interface could be adapted to the intended task. This was what made the iPhone not just a clever phone, but a whole new order of device. A shape-changer. And this meant that as well as being a potentially profitable thing to develop software for, it was also – crucially – an interesting one.
So it's a great phone for software developers. Is it the phone for you?
I Can't Tell You Much
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on March 29th 2011
These are my first faltering steps, but I am blogging now on a hanheld device. It's tricky, it has to be said.The tiny screen I can handle, but the microscopic keyboard with weird layout will take some getting used to.
That though could be said of anything from the latest iPhone to the cheapest Symbian or Android device. This one, in my opinion, is the greatest smartphone ever made – indeed, that perhaps ever will be made. Seriously.
But that's all I can tell you right now. Partly of course to keep you guessing that bit longer.
And partly because I need to relearn how to type.
Microsoft and Nokia: A No-Win Situation? (Part 2)
Posted by Richard Chapman in Technology on February 22nd 2011
Yesterday I speculated that the smartphone market could devolve into a straight fight between Apple and Nokia-Microsoft. This would depend of course on people actually liking what the latter two companies have to offer. If they manage to combine the best of what they can do, the results should be impressive. But will they? Until the first phones come out, which will be October at the very soonest, we can only wait with bated breath. Windows Phone on Nokia has a lot to live up to.
Or perhaps, to live down. At a stroke, this deal effectively eliminated not only the world's most popular smartphone OS, but also a promising alternative.
There were reasons for this. Symbian, with its pedigree stretching back to the very first handheld computers, was unwieldy when compared to the radical interface-orientation of its new rivals. To take one example, an operation as trivial as creating a screen icon for a newly installed app required digging down through menus within menus to find one called, of all things, "Standby Mode". That just wasn't good enough anymore.
To deliver a slick modern experience, Symbian needed to be drastically rebuilt. Nokia dithered about this, working on both an improved form (Symbian^3) and its slated successor (MeeGo) in parallel. And so ended up with one system that was serviceable but unimpressive and another that was impressive but unserviceable. Meanwhile, Apple and Google were eating their market share alive.
But there was another company that knew its smartphone OS needed to be replaced, and it pulled the trick off with surprising alacrity. This of course was Microsoft.
The case for simply adopting the software giant's solution seems compelling now, but few predicted it. Even when former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop became Nokia's CEO last September, rumours that he planned to move his old office furniture in with him seemed merely mischievous. Abandoning their own OS development would be a move Nokia could never take back, and so lead to almost irrevocable dependence on a company that had up till then been a bitter rival.
It was only with the recent leak of Elop's harsh memo that the hints became impossible to ignore. In it he used the metaphor of a "burning platform" – as in, you don't jump into the cold ocean until you realise your oil rig is on fire – to illustrate just how drastically Nokia needed to change. But the language was hardly even coded; platform in computing terms means the combination of hardware and operating system a program runs on. In fact Nokia had only recently rebranded Symbian as the "Symbian Platform". The writing was on the wall for an OS that, with its roots in the Psion Organiser of the 80s, is almost a cultural artefact.
But it may be missed by more than just a few sentimental geeks. A mobile OS from the start, Symbian was designed with security and frugal energy demands as priorities, and decades of development have given it considerable depth. Too much perhaps, if you're trying to find a particular facility within its maze of menus, but there is little you might want a phone to do that isn't there. And this includes many features that are not yet in Windows Phone 7. Well-loved old ones, like tethering, swapping data cards, full multitasking, compatibility with a vast range of media formats. New ones well in advance of its rivals, like USB On-The-Go which allows you to connect a phone directly to flash drives and hard disks.
Features that may never return if, like the iPhone, it is developed primarily as a system for delivering services and digitally managed content. Unless much happens between now and the first Nokia with Windows, former Symbian users may consider it limited and disappointing. Don't be surprised if they dub it the No-Win.


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The Little Sandy area of the Wind River Range is seldom explored by climbers, and will probably remain that way due to the arduous nature of the approach. However, your reward is a pristine alpine playground of untrammeled meadows, gorgeous granite, and solitude. Bring an adventurous mindset.
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Marvin Nay Marshall, 54, Akron, died at 9:58 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, at Hickory Creek in Rochester.
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Volume 7, Issue 7
July 13, 20, 27- Way Cool Science 4-H Camp-Jonesport
July 17-19- Gears Pulleys and Wheels 4-H Camp- Pleasant Point
July 24-26- Gears Pulleys and Wheels 4-H Camp- Whitneyville (full)
July 21 & 22, 2012- Dairy Events at the Windsor Fairgrounds
July 27-Aug 5- Bangor State Fair
August 28- Blue Hill Exhibit Check In 3-7 pm
August 30-Sept 3- Blue Hill Fair
Sept 3- Labor Day Holiday- Office Closed
4-H Super Sitter Course Held in Machias
On June 30th, nine youth met with volunteer Kathy Stanwood from 9am to 3pm to learn the basics of babysitting. In this Super Sitter course, topics such as child development, healthy snacks, child and sitter safety, first aid, and diapering were covered. Participants left with a decorated bag in which to carry activities and necessities to their prospective jobs, and an increased sense of confidence for their future endeavors. Way to go, Super Sitters! Thank-you so very much Kathy and the EMTs who made this course possible!
Washington County Bulletin Board
Despite the gloomy weather predictions for Jamboree, a great time was had by all at this year's event. It would not have been possible without the help of many wonderful 4-H and presenter volunteers – thank you to all!
With workshops ranging from blacksmithing to fly-tying to recycled birdhouses to groovy games, and fun extra activities and free time with animals besides, there was something for everyone. Our new livestock day on Sunday was a welcome addition, as were the club exhibits with four entries. Brett "the Worm Wiz" Thompson thoroughly entertained us with his vermiculture talk, the hot dog and hamburger lunch provided by the Leaders' Association was thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated, the small animal obstacle course and circle dancing were great closing activities and a hit as usual, and the overnighters had extra special treats with a campfire and smores – yum! Planning is already underway for next year's event.
Maine 4-H Days
Submitted by Nicole Willey, 4-H Program Aide
Under State news you will see an article on the recent Maine 4-H Days that was held June 21, 22, 23 & 24, 2012. There were six youth present from Washington County, as well as their families. Here is what Randi from Horse Power had to say…
"Maine 4-H days was so much fun! I learned a lot of new things and made some new friends. My favorite things were the Mainely Physics, Field Skills for the Forest, and spinning wool into yarn. Grammie and I had fun camping, even when it rained so hard our camper was surrounded by water."
After witnessing first hand the amazing breadth of workshops (there is truly something for everyone!), and the animal tracts for learning more about your project animals, I would strongly encourage each 4-Her, their family and their club to consider going to this great event next year.
Fair Season
The theme this year for both the Blue Hill Fair and the Perry Harvest Fair club exhibits is: "WHY 4-H?" Now is a great time to start working together to create a display as to "why 4-H" is a part of your lives, how it works for you, who gets to benefit (members, community…) and just what 4-H means in your lives. Get creative! Have fun! (and earn some recognition for the hard work you've done!). For more information and for details on individual exhibits 4-Hers can submit, please check out this site: http://bluehillfair.com/premium_info.html .
Here are the club exhibit rules:
4-H Club-Group Exhibit
Any 4-H club in Hancock and surrounding counties is eligible to enter a club exhibit.
Exhibits must be Neat and Clear and Create Interest in the Topics Presented and must not exceed 4' x 4'.
Theme - Does the exhibit clearly express one idea and a Connection to 4-H? Example: Logo, Clovers & Motto.
Originality - Was it creative and imaginative?
Exhibit Title - Is it creative and catchy? Is it prominently placed?
Lettering - Is it neat? Is it the appropriate size? Has the use of color and placement been considered?
General Appearance – Exhibit can not exceed 4'x4.'Can items /exhibit be recognized at a distance of 6 feet?
Exhibits will be Judged on the Danish System $30 Blue Ribbon, $20 Red Ribbon, $10 White Ribbon
Remember to get exhibit cards here at the Cooperative Extension office prior to the deadline for submission to either fair. Club and individual exhibits can be shown in more than one fair – so submit to the Blue Hill Fair and then aside from optional touch-ups or changes, you already have an exhibit for the Perry Harvest Fair!
Downeast Region 4-H School/Group Reports
Trenton Elementary School
It's great to see how much 4-H means to our youth, and the 1st grade class at Trenton Elementary went all out with their three-dimensional "Why 4-H?" club exhibit prepared for Jamboree. When they received their evaluation after Jamboree and learned that their exhibit would go on to the Blue Hill Fair, they were so excited, with one 1st grader exclaiming, "We're going to be famous!" What was the one thing that the first graders decided was most important about 4-H to them? Cooperation. I agree. Be sure to stop by the Blue Hill Fair Exhibit Hall to see their exhibit in person – there is even an interactive part of their display that allows you to share what 4-H means to you, too!
Lisa's Corner
It's that time again – time to get ready for the Blue Hill Fair! The Blue Hill Fair, August 31st through September 3rd, offers something for everyone and is an excellent event for our 4-Hers to share their projects that they work on so hard throughout the year.
Any 4-Her in Hancock or Washington County can find a way to shine – whether it be by entering their art, gardening, woodworking, craft, sewing, scrapbooking or baking projects in the exhibit hall, creating a club display with the theme "Why 4-H" to display and share their 4-H spirit, putting together a demonstration or an activity to share at the 4-H activity tent, or showing their livestock project – horse, sheep, dairy, goat – at the 4-H shows.
If you want to know more how you can get involved in any of the above or to get a Blue Hill Fair book and Exhibit Hall cards, contact Tara at the Extension Office at 255-3345 or by e-mail email@example.com .
Now is the time to start planning how you can show your stuff at the Blue Hill Fair and help to "Make the Best Better" in our county's 4-H program. Can't wait to see you at the fair!
Maine State News
1. 4-H Dairy Project Members – Hold the Dates in 2012 - Please hold the following dates for your participation in the State 4-H Dairy Programs: - Fitting Competition – July 21, 5:00 pm at the Windsor Fairgrounds - Maine State 4-H Dairy Show – July 22, 9:00 am at the Windsor Fairgrounds. The 2012 dairy packet is now on-line on the dairy page at: http://umaine.edu/4h/youth/4-h-projects/animal-science-resources/dairy/.
2. Save the Dates! 2012 Northeast Region 4-H Volunteer E-Forum- Join with other 4-H Volunteers in your community to learn cutting edge information that will help you work with your 4-H members. Session topics include Dealing with Difficult People/Conflict Resolution, Behavior Management in Positive Youth Development Settings, and Working with Multi-Aged Youth in Club Settings. More information about the location and additional details will be announced soon! Stay current by liking the Facebook page – 2012 Northeast Region 4-H Volunteer Forum.
Join the 4-H Techno Revolution! Dates for the 3 Sessions – All sessions will take place 7 – 8:30 pm - Monday, October 29 – Monday, November 5 – Monday, November 12
3. ESE 4-H Beef Program Scholarship- The Eastern States 4-H Beef Program Scholarship is available. Two $1,000 scholarships are given each year. This opportunity is open to high school seniors and current college students who have participated in the Eastern States Exposition 4-H Beef Program. Check the website at: www.thebige.com/fair/agriculture/documents/12ag4hbscholarshipapp.pdf.
4. Military Teen Adventure Camps 2012-2013- Nearly 1600 military teens (14-18 years old) will have an opportunity to participate (at little to no cost) in adventure camps scheduled April 2012 through March 2013. These high energy, high adventure, and high experience camps are planned across the United States from Alaska to Maine and from Colorado to Georgia as well as states in between.
Each camp offers a unique outdoor experience that will allow a teen to build leadership, self- confidence, and teamwork skills while participating in activities like backpacking, river rafting, canoeing, wilderness survival, rocketry, rock climbing, GPS use, mountain biking, first aid, winter camping, dog sledding, ropes courses, camp cooking, archery, and other camp activities. Camps for youth with special needs (mental, physical, and emotional) are also planned in California, Ohio, and New Hampshire. For military youth already in the Pacific Rim, two camp dates are available in Hawaii. Information may be found at the following URL: https://www.extension.purdue.edu/Adventure_camps/.
5. 4-H National Horse Communications Team Tryouts- Interested in a horse related 4-H national public speaking competition in Louisville, Kentucky November 2-4, 2012? You can try out for this team. Participants must be at least 14 years of age but did not reach their 19th birthday by December 31, 2011. For more information on this event go to http://www.4hroundup.com/contestinfo.htm. Please contact Lee Sargent at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 207-479-6014 for tryout opportunities and competition details.
6. Tanglewood and Blueberry Cove Summer Camps still have openings!- Join us for a fun-filled time at Tanglewood in Lincolnville or at Blueberry Cove in Tenants Harbor! There are many camps to choose from, including day camp, one- and two-week residential camps, and trip programs. Hiking, sailing, canoeing, swimming, theater, farming, and much, much more await you. Check it out at our website extension.umaine.edu/tanglewood/ or call 207-789-5868 or 877-944-2267 (toll-free in Maine) or email us at email@example.com. We can't wait to see you at camp!
7. Trip and Travel Camps with Tanglewood and Blueberry Cove 4-H Camps- This summer, Tanglewood and Blueberry Cove 4-H Camps are offering 11 different and exciting week-long Outdoor Discovery Trips. Maine's woods, mountains and waters are perfect settings to learn wilderness skills, teamwork, and observe wildlife while living lightly on the land. Discovery Trips are for campers aged 9-17 who want a more physically and mentally challenging experience. Rain or shine, we are on the trail, on the water, and on the go! Trips run July 1-August 17 and offer something for everyone: sailing, canoeing, camping, rock climbing, deep-sea fishing, rafting, hiking the Appalachian Trail or coastal island hopping! All equipment is provided. If you are looking for an adventure this summer, look no further! For more information please visit http://umaine.edu/tanglewood/summer/outdoor-discovery-trips-statewide/ or contact Patti Chapman at 207-789-5668.
8. New England 4-H Dog and Beef Poster Contests- There are great opportunities for youth in the 4-H Dog Care Project, and the 4-H Beef Project to participate in The Big E, even without going to Springfield. There are two different contests available: - The New England 4-H Beef Poster, Ad or Logo Contest: http://umaine.edu/4h/youth/4-h- projects/animal-science-resources/beef/the-new-england-4-h-beef-poster-ad-or-logo-contest/
- The New England 4-H Dog Program Poster Contest: http://umaine.edu/4h/youth/4-h-projects/animal- science-resources/dog/eastern-states-exposition/the-new-england-4-h-dog-program-poster-contest/
4-Hers of all ages can give their entries to a team member or chaperone headed to The Big E for submission.
9. Cumberland Fair 4-H Dog Show- The Cumberland Fair 4-H Dog Show will be held on Friday, September 28, 2012, at 3:30 P.M. at the Livestock Arena, Cumberland Fairgrounds, 197 Blanchard Road, Cumberland. The 4-H Dog show will include showmanship, obedience, and a fun obstacle course; entry forms are due by September 21, 2012. This show is open to 4-H youth in any county. For more information and entry forms for the Cumberland Fair 4-H Dog Show please contact Sara Conant at firstname.lastname@example.com or 892–5855.
10. Summer Camp – Scholarships available- Summer Camp programs at Bryant Pond still have openings. Enroll now. Scholarships are available for many pro- grams: $250 towards Conservation Camp, Natural Explorer, Fishing Camp; $200 towards 4-H Shooting Sports Camps. Call 665-2068 for current information, or visit us online at www.umaine.edu/bryantpond.
11. 2012 Maine 4-H Days – Our Best Year Yet!- This year's Maine 4-H Days was attended by almost 500 people (more than ever before!), and was judged to be an "awesome" experience by youth and adults alike. Maine 4-H Days was made possible by financial support from the Maine 4-H Foundation, and by the tireless efforts of the volunteers who worked through the days and into the nights to keep things running smoothly. This event truly gave Maine 4-H's volunteers a chance to shine.
Planning will be soon be underway for the 2013 Maine 4-H Days; if you have any feedback or suggestions, or would be interested in being a part of the planning committee, please contact Jessy Brainerd, firstname.lastname@example.com, or Sarah Sparks, firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 207-581-3877.
Cooking with the Kids
Star Spangled Dessert
For a healthy finale to your Fourth of July gathering, serve this red, white, and blue treat.
Ingredients: Strawberries Sugar (optional)
Whipped cream cheese Blueberries
Clean and hull five strawberries, then add dollops of whipped cream cheese to the top of each one. Sprinkle sugar on the cream cheese (optional), then top each strawberry with a blueberry and arrange them as shown.


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Clare Mitchell poured in 26 points to lead the Sea Gulls past the host Panthers 51-35 in a PSAL contest.
It was a close game in the beginning, with MSIT leading 13-9 after one quarter. In the second quarter, however, Mitchell got hot and clicked for 16 points, including a 3-pointer and 5 for 5 from the free throw line.
Together with six points from Stephanie Sabido and a trey from Kaitlin Nesensohn, the Sea Gulls rolled to a 40-21 lead at halftime.
"We started to press on defense in the second quarter and took advantage of a lot of deflections and turnovers," said MSI coach Pete LaMarca, whose team is now 6-3 in the PSAL. "Plus we got hot and started knocking down some shots."
The Sea Gulls continued to apply the defensive pressure after intermission. They outscored Petrides 11-2 in the third quarter to take a 28-point lead and put the game away.
Alaina Lynch scored nine points for MSIT while Amanda Nierva and Stephanie Sabido were the rebounding leaders with 10 and eight, respectively.
Amani Ash led the Panthers with 10 points and Melanie Palmieri added eight.
The Sea Gulls now get ready to host Tottenville on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in a big PSAL clash.


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Council close to hiring a new city manager
Original post made on May 4, 2011
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:40 PM
on May 4, 2011 at 7:12 pm
The new city manager definitely must have a good standing relation with Google.
on May 5, 2011 at 6:26 am
With the last city manager making the highest paid salary as a city manager in Santa Clara, why would the city council be surprised at the applicants. It's all about the public employee gravy train.
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Not only was Kevin the highest paid but he was also one of the longest serving City Managers in the County--20 years with Mountain View when the average City Manager only lasts 5 years. Which means? Drum Roll!! You got it! he started with the City with an average City Managers salary and due to basic COLA increases, which everyone gets, he makes a lot more today.
It's snide remarks like yours--not so Observer-- that don't do the debate any good!


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'Scooby-Doo' live-action reboot in the works at Warner Bros.
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Patrick Stewart's Tribeca Film 'Match' Gets U.S. Distribution
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IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Stephen Belber's "Match," starring Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard. The deal was made two months after the film premiered at Tribeca. Producers are David Permut, Matt Ratner and Rick...
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Southland housing prices are up 10.2 percent year-to-year over 2012, but as investigative producer Heidi Cuda reports that's good news for sellers but tough on the average buyer.
Stan Smith, the managing director of Teles Properties in Beverly Hills, tells Cuda that a big part of the price jump is low inventory.
He says, when a good home goes on the market, he's not only seeing multiple offers but a majority of buyers are paying cash.
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Will work with you and considers grades second and your learning experience first and foremost. REALLY intelligent and knowledgeable. Tests are take-home and pretty hard. Fix your writing ability and you will do well.
I took his film studies class Fall 2011, his Acting V class Sprinf 2012, and I am in both his Classical Theatre History and Shakespeare and Verse (performance) classes this semester, Fall 2012. Dr Maher is EXTREMELY intelligent and isn't the kind of teacher who gets joy out of seeing people fail. He is a wonderfully passionate teacher. Take him!
Dr. Maher is one of the few teacher at UTA who knows what he's doing ,and has actual "biz" experience. I learned more from him in his script analysis class than I ever have in a theatre class. The workload isn't that heavy, and he's a pretty lax grader, so long as he sees you making the effort. Take his class if you actually want to get better.
Couldn't remember my name and was rude and sarcastic when I asked for help. Big ego and likes to hear himself talk.
All test are written essays
Not easy, but you sure will learn. If you take online classes, KEEP UP--if you get behind you drown.
Great Teacher and Mentor. Subject matter can be difficult, but Dennis helps a student understand and find the love for the Theatre required to succeed.
I think Denis is so intelligent, and if you are interested in the topics, then you'll love his classes. He's great...funny, too. Just get ready to write a lot of papers!
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By Zoe Tillman, Legal Times
D.C. Businessman Pleads in Campaign Finance Probe
Jeffrey Thompson, a Washington businessman and government contractor, pleaded guilty Monday to funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to local and federal candidates, including the D.C. mayor and a presidential candidate.
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Didn't Brendan Sullivan represent Ted Stevens in his corruption trial?
Thiis is not a very stiff plea. I suspect the USAO was afraid to go to trial against W &C.
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7 U.S. Code § 1471i - Administration
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The Commodity Credit Corporation shall issue regulations to carry out this subchapter.
(b) Processing and decisions to be made as quickly as practicable
Such regulations shall establish procedures to ensure that the request for assistance by a Governor or county committee under section 1471b of this title, and individual applications of livestock producers under section 1471c of this title for assistance, are processed and decisions thereon are made as quickly as practicable.
Source(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 611, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a),Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 931.)
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Section effective 15 days after Aug. 11, 1988, see section 101(c)(1) ofPub. L. 100–387, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 1988 Amendment note under section 1427 of this title.
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The World : Asia : Philippines
Pasong Tamo - A.P. Reyes
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The far end of the island between A.P. Reyes and Pasong Tamo. This place best describes the "perennial" competition (in the Philippines, at least) between McDonalds and Jollibee.
It is said that McDonalds is No.1 in most countries around the world except in the Philippines. ["I wish I could dance like that bee" - Ronald M.]
Notice also the Mini-Stop Grocery where 7-eleven used to be. They shifted to the other building where an ukay-ukay shop once was.
outside the old and demolished Philippines Racing Club, the area where once stood a proud and histori...
One of the two U-turn slots along the stretch of A.P. Reyes Avenue and Pasong Tamo.This is the area w...
The other end of Delpan street where the boundary of Makati and Manila City lies as well as Tejeron S...
Santa Ana is a district of the City of Manila in the Philippines, located at the southeast banks of t...
The Philippines are an archipelago of more than seven thousand islands off the southeast coast of Asia. Only half of these islands have been named and roughly one thousand are inhabited. Look at how beautiful they are! People first arrived here from the mainland around 25,000 B.C. by crossing a land bridge which existed at the time.
The name comes from Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal, who explored the Philippines in 1521. He claimed them in service of Spain, naming them after Prince Philip. Spain controlled the Philippines for the next 350 years until the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
Here's a picture of Fort Santiago, where the national hero Jose Rizal was imprisoned prior to his execution. He was a poet and novelist who supported peaceful reform, rather than violent revolution, against the Spanish government.
This is one of poems in which he describes the creation of the world, as a gift to his mother:
"Say they that tell of the world, the first dawn of the sun, the first kiss that his bosom inflamed, when thousands of beings surged out of nothing, and peopled the depths, and to the heights mounted, to wherever his fecund kiss was implanted"
Violent revolution broke out anyway and the Philippines changed hands from Spanish, to American, to Japanese control over the next fifty years. Following World War Two they finally became an independent republic.
Back to the beautiful ocean! You can dream about the Cafe Del Mar resort next time you find your screen saver kicking in when you're still sitting at the desk staring blankly. There's a series of DJ mixes with this title but I don't know if it refers to the same place. I would not be surprised.
Annnnd to really get you buying your plane tickets...
the sunset over Borocay White Beach!
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Leesburg- Matt Kierce could hardly focus at work while watching and waiting for his girlfriend Paige to walk through the door.
This Valentine's Day Matt will ask Paige to be his wife. Four years ago he forgot about trying to steal bases at a softball game and allowed her to steal his heart.
"I love her to death. I couldn't ask for nobody better. She's as sweet as can be. I don't know how she puts up with me, but she does," he says.
Friday she agreed to put up with him for the rest of her life.
Paige said she was totally surprised by the proposal. She didn't even notice the sign until after he asked the question.
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Manslaughter Conviction in Laurel County
Date of News Release: 07/02/2012
(Laurel County) -- Last Tuesday June 26th 2012 the Laurel County Circuit Court Jury found Christopher Caudill guilty of Manslaughter 2nd degree, D.U.I., and recommend 10 years in prison for the death of Willie Smith of London. Smith was the operator of the other vehicle involved in the crash.
Officer Jerry Jones was assisted on the scene by accident reconstructionists TFC. Don Trosper, Trooper Lloyd Cochran, and Sgt. Chuck Johnson with the Laurel County Sheriff's department
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(London, KY) Officer Jerry Jones with the Kentucky State Police-Vehicle Enforcement investigated a fatal crash that occurred on September 16th 2010 on KY 80 near Grubb Road in Laurel Co Kentucky.
As a result of the investigation, officer Jones indicted 32 year old Christopher Caudill of London on charges of Murder and D.U.I.


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That's the news. Now here's the fun part:
To commemorate the unveiling, DirectMarkets hosted a MASSIVE launch party at Hell's Kitchen venue Espace last night. (If you're a fan of "American Psycho," you'll remember Patrick Bateman went there.)
A source tells us the party, which was attended by the buyside, vendor and brokerage community, was jam-packed. We're told it was very "old school" in the sense that no expense was spared. There was plenty of top shelf liquor and catered food to go around.
But perhaps one of the highlights was the appearance of endurance artist and magician David Blaine.
The illusionist, known for freezing himself in a block of ice in Times Square for more than two days and burying himself alive, didn't do anything too crazy at the party. We're told Blaine mostly did card tricks on stage and then spent a lot of time amongst the crowd doing tricks and taking photos. He was apparently a good sport about interacting with guests all night.