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Start of school delayed in Viburnum due to fire
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School will start a week later than planned in Viburnum as a result of a fire in the preschool building over the weekend.
The first day of school at the Iron County C-4 School District will be Thursday, August 21. Open House has been rescheduled for Tuesday, August 19 with the following times: Kindergarten to third grade from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., fourth to sixth grade from 6:30 to 7 p.m., and seventh through 12th grades from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The district superintendent released the following statement on Monday: After considering various possibilities concerning our school start date, I have deciced to postpone the first day of school until August 21…I believe this is the best course of action. Please help in making this plan a success.

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Politics are the root of the Mexico situation, O'Connor said, noting U.S. potatoes also can't get into mainland China.
"We can't get fresh potatoes in. We're working on that one, but we can't do that," he said. "When governments are reluctant to negotiate market access, it takes a long time."
India also presents obstacles because of European competition and a business model geared toward small-scale shipments to "mom-and-pop" receivers, O'Connor said.
Nobody is giving up on China's consumer market, though, said Bill Brewer, executive director of Oregon Potato Commission, Portland.
"The industry was involved this summer with some trade discussions that APHIS was having in China to focus on trying to export fresh potatoes into China, which did not happen. We didn't make any headway this year, but it's still on our list of places we'd like to go," he said.
Some shippers of potatoes and onions, such as the Idaho Falls, Idaho-based Wada Farms Marketing Group, prefer to focus on domestic business.
"There's some (export potential), but the inspection requirements are so tough. That's kind of a hot potato," said Kevin Stanger, Wada Farms' vice president of sales and marketing. "They do it one minute, and the next minute they change things."
Ted Kreis, marketing director of the Northern Plains Potato Growers, East Grand Forks, Minn., said export business is limited.
"There's very little," he said. "We are so landlocked. Red potatoes don't ship over long distances. It's never been a big deal for us. We'd like to see more potatoes go into Canada. There are some going both ways."


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Laurels: November 2011
Published: November 14, 2011Lesley Farmer, Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling, was awarded a Fulbright to go to Honduras in September to present a plenary session on academic libraries and a half-day workshop on databases for the Honduras Librarians conference as well as to help Honduran librarians finalize a master's degree in library science, the first degree program in library science for the country. She had her latest book, Instructional Design for Librarians and Information Professionals, published by Neal-Schuman." She also helped finalize a proposal of the National Pedagogical University to develop a master's degree in library science. This program would be the first one of its kind in the country.
Boak Ferris, English/Comparative World Literature and Classics, authored and published a textbook, Write Well, Write Fast: 20 Techniques of Professional Writing suitable for university and graduate students, pre-professionals and entry-level white-collar workers.
Kendall Johnson, Emergency Services Administration, and Joanne Tortorici Luna, Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling/Emergency Services Administration, saw their juried article, "Working Toward Resilience: A Retrospective Report of Actions Taken in Support of a New York School Crisis Team Following 9/11," published in the 10th anniversary 9/11 commemorative issue of the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health (13, 2, 81-90).
John Jung, Psychology, presented talks at the University of Memphis on his book Southern Fried Rice to the Honors Program, on the "History of Chinese in the South During the Jim Crow Era" to a general audience and spoke to the fifth grade of the Campus School on "What Your History Books Left Out About the History of Chinese in America" on Sept. 12 sponsored by their Confucius Institute. He gave a talk, "On Being Chinese Where Everyone Else is Either Black or White," to the Sociology/Anthropology Department at the University of Mississippi in Oxford on Sept. 15; gave an interview on Mississippi Public Radio about Delta Chinese grocers; and held a conversation hour, "Beyond Black and White: The Chinese American Experience," at Delta State University, Cleveland, Ms., on Sept. 20. He spoke on "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Retirement" at the Signal Hill Community Center, Sept. 26, and at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 29, sponsored by the APA Historical Society, U.S. China People's Friendship Association, and National Association of Chinese Americans. He gave an interview on Atlanta NPR on Sept. 29 on the long-term harm of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and the significance of an official apology from the U.S. government; spoke on a Creative Nonfiction panel and at a book signing for Southern Fried Rice at the Crossroads Writers Conference and Literary Festival held in Macon, Ga., on Oct. 1-2; and presented "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Retirement: How A Psychologist Morphed into A Historian of Chinese America" to the Alumni Association and Association of Emeriti at CSULB on Oct. 21.
Maulana Karenga, Africana Studies, presented his paper "Reaffirmation and Renewal in Black Studies: Framework for an Ongoing Initiative" at the State of African American and Diaspora Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research Conference held at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture in honor of the 85th Anniversary of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora and in the Americas of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the Program of Black Studies of the College of the City University of New York, Harlem, Jan. 6. He also gave a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day lecture, "King and the Psychology of Freedom: Self-Respect, Resistance and Resilience" to the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization held in Long Beach on Jan. 13. Moreover, he lectured on "Towards a Culturally Grounded African American HIV/AIDS Strategy: Obstacles, Essentials and Possibilities" at the NIMH-sponsored UCLA Conference on Health, Hope and Healing (H3): A National Conference on HIV among Black MSM and MSMW, Los Angeles, Jan. 31; and he presented a lecture-discussion on "The Black HIV/AIDS Crisis: Towards an Ethics of Care and Active Commitment" before the Augustana Lutheran Church and Lutheran Campus Ministry in Chicago on Feb. 8.
Julie Van Camp, Philosophy, published "Yes, But Is It Vandalism? Graffiti, Conceptual Criminals, Artists and Free Speech" in Aesthetic Pathways, 1:2, 108-117, June. She also presented a commentary on David Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" at the Mountain Plains Philosophy Conference held Oct. 7 in Denver.


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Battlefield 3 is a creature of contradiction. On the one hand, it's everything games should be about - a trip to worlds few of us will ever glimpse, an operatic war-scape wrought to screaming pitch by what is undoubtedly a next-gen engine in waiting. There are cut-scenes enough to fill out a box blurb, but much of the drama derives from sheer kinesis: office blocks collapsing into flakes of brick and plaster, the aural white-out of a grenade going off, and the drunken flop of punctured bodies.
Frostbite 2's difficulties on Xbox 360 hinder, but ultimately don't hobble DICE's panoramic aspirations. Yes, the textures won't match what you'd see on a nitrogen-cooled super-computer, but those textures make up environments of an unrivalled scale, bustling with visual noise. Between the smoke clouds, the flare of machinegun fire, the forlorn tumble of loose objects and the tiered wedding cake of explosions that is a tank biting dust, you'll never feel inclined to dwell on a smudgy boulder. Battlefield has always done spectacle well, thanks to its genesis as a PVP war simulator, but Battlefield 3 wants to deliver maximum fidelity up close to boot, and if the strain shows at intervals, that's because DICE has set the bar so high.
It's the ultimate Battlefield, content-wise at least, boasting ten times the multiplayer unlocks, new competitive modes and a new suite of co-op missions. As you're doubtless expecting, much of what it introduces is the property of a certain competitor, but the aim, ultimately, is to out-manoeuvre rather than "beat" Modern Warfare in classic Conquest fashion - seducing Activision's customers with thunderous trappings and deathmatch's instant appeal, then teaching them the value of breadth and teamwork.
In some respects it's a game from the future, a statement of how the big budget mainstream FPS should be five years from now - more leisurely, evenly spread rather than clustered into flashpoints, giving you time to take stock between shoot-outs. But it's also a game where, at the climax of a hectic, yet wholly cosmetic car chase through New York's Times Square, you save the universe by tapping three or four buttons when you're told to.
You're bossed around a lot in Battlefield 3. Supremely confident in multiplayer, DICE's insecurity as a single player studio sees it adopting Modern Warfare's tight train of prompts and bullying hand-holders wholesale - not necessarily the wrong way of doing things, but a formula that's been showing its age since 2008, and not played to perfection here. The result is another strangely disempowering "blockbuster shooter", an "interactive experience" which seems to actually resent its own interactivity. In Battlefield 3, the player is less the driving force as an embarrassing elderly relative, needing constant mollycoddling lest he dribble over somebody's niece or put ketchup in his tea.
Stray into an alley you're not supposed to, and the game will drown your screen in static, bellowing at you to fall back in line. It's a step down even from the infamous invisible wall, a threshold around each area beyond which players are shouted and blinded into submission. Sprint ahead of a comrade as you would in any other linear campaign, and you're likely to be confronted by a door only the AI, in its infinite wisdom, can open, or a wall too high for you to climb alone. (This becomes especially annoying when the AI glitches - at one point I was trapped against a wall for five minutes because a squadmate elected to take cover there.) Even when the layouts balloon later in the story, as your character Sergeant Blackburn and his squad of crisis-averters gallop down Iran's Caspian Valley, the game compensates by paradropping the entire Russian army into the fray, leaving you little opportunity to stretch your legs.


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Clark and Boessenkool: A match made in Harperland
How to best describe Ken Boessenkool, Christy Clark's new chief of staff? "Former Suncor lobbyist", former "Enbridge lobbyist" and former Stephen Harper staffer and strategist. All describe the BC premier's new leading team member.
Boessenkool was a former lobbyist and advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and he will replace Clark's first chief of staff, Mike McDonald. McDonald was demoted down to "principal secretary."
The Boessenkool-Clark alliance is a match made in Harperland. It is like a royal medieval wedding joining a British king with a French bride. It can lubricate relations between BC and Alberta, B.C.'s Liberal premier and Canada's Conservative prime minister, as well as keep BC's pathway open for smooth relationships with Suncor, Enbridge and even Taser International, all of whom Boessenkool has represented as a lobbyist, according to the CBC.
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Impeccable timing
I wonder why Clark waited until now to welcome such an exciting new addition to her staff? Must be a coincidence that someone with such a rich history in conservative politics and the industry lobby happened to be looking for a new job...right at the start of these province-wide hearings.
Interesting quote from the premier in the Globe article:
"People, when they're in the private sector, leave those things behind when they come to government"


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Gary fitness center seeing more revenue
By Michael Gonzalez Post-Tribune correspondent April 14, 2013 10:04PM
Updated: May 16, 2013 6:12AM
GARY — The Parks and Recreation Board Wednesday celebrated good news coming from the Hudson-Campbell Fitness Center and other facilities and called for more workers for the beach and pool.
Under new manager Nate George, the fitness center already has seen significant increases in revenue, said Parks Superintendent Lori Peterson Latham.
In February, year-over-year revenue at the fitness center increased from $9,008 to $11,344, and the revenue from March 2013 was $14,616, significantly more than the $9,131 in revenue generated in March 2012.
Increased revenue is critical for the fitness center, which relies on a non-reverting fund, or generating its own income for its operations.
Business also is up the Marquette Park Pavilion, Latham told the board. While board members and administrators said they want to increase weekday rentals, each Saturday through October is booked.
The Gleason Park golf course also has more members than this time last year, Latham said. More membership passes have been sold, and that means more revenue than January through March 2012, she said.
Latham also said the department is looking to hire another 24 pool and beach lifeguards. They have only nine hired so far.
"We are in desperate need of lifeguards," Latham said.
Officials also are trying to drum up support from local businesses for the city's summer jobs for youth, Latham said. The city has entered the Youth Summer Jobs Challenge, a competition sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
"We entered as a city to try to generate as much summer youth jobs as possible," Latham said.


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On a white board, section off three boxes. Label the first "Exposition," and write out the basic situation of your plot (who, what, where, when, why). The next block should be labeled "Conflict." Write out the conflicts, big and small in your story. The last block is "Resolution," which is how you want your story to end.
Since my stories are mostly character driven, I get the basics for the plot down, and then get a big sticky note for each character and write one out for them. Who are they? What are they like? What baggage to they bring to the story? What are their conflicts, and how to do they overcome them. Their character arcs should correspond to the overall conflict of the plot, so this really helps with pacing.
Then I make a section for each chapter of the book. I write each scene on a sticky note, and make a note of who is in each scene and what they add to it. Sometimes in doing this I realize that I have characters in the scenes that don't need to be there. Sometimes, I realize I need someone else's voice in the scene. What I like about the sticky notes is that I can rearrange them if I need to.
Having all of this written out and brainstormed has really helped my writing go smoother. Of course, while I'm writing my characters may go off in a completely different direction, but then all I have to do is change my sticky notes.
Kaitlin Bevis spent her childhood curled up with a book, and a pen. If the ending didn't agree with her, she rewrote it. She has always wanted to be a writer, and she spent high school and college learning everything she could so that one day she could achieve that goal. Kaitlin graduated college with my BFA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and is pursuing her masters at the University of Georgia.
Her young adult fiction novel Persephone, and her short story Siren Song are available to buy in ebook stores everywhere. She also writes for Athens Parent Magazine, and truuconfessions.com. She has also published several short stories.
You can find her on her website and on Twitter @KaitlinBevis
About The Iron Queen
Death is a luxury she can't afford
Life is hell for Persephone. Zeus will stop at nothing to gain access to the living realm and the Underworld, and as the only living god with a right to both, Persephone's in trouble. Captured and tortured beyond the limits of her resolve, Persephone must find the power to stand against Zeus. But will she be strong enough?
Meanwhile, Hades contemplates desperate measures to rescue his queen. Persephone never thought of herself as dangerous, but there's a reason gods never marry for love. A being with the power to destroy all of creation shouldn't place more value in one individual than the rest of the planet. But Hades...Hades would break the world for her.
To save the world and stop both Hades and Zeus, Persephone must make a difficult choice. One that may cost her everything.


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About F@H WUdget
The widget is divided into 5 sections and a configuration button.
- Folding@Home User Statistics.
- Folding@Home Team Statistics.
- Teammates closest to you.
- Current Work Unit Information.
- Additional Work Unit Information.
Configuration button is on the bottom right in the gray area marked with a › . This allows you to view only the fields you deem necessary for viewing. The client shrinks or grows depending on which check boxes are checked or not.
Remote Statistics:
- The widget does not require a folding client on your machine to retrieve Folding@Home statistics.
- Update timer for remote statisics with 90 minute intervals.
- 5 minute retry timer if website is busy.
- Auto synchronize client core username and team with widget (requires Folding at home client installed)
- Many more features.
What's New in this Version
- User defined directories on back. You can use directory shortcuts ~/Library/Folding@home.
Apple is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the applications or any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.


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Buying a New Computer 101
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