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Lobo Volleyball - On the Road - Final match of the 2011 season
Who: Lobos at Long Beach State
When/Where: 8 p.m., Saturday - Long Beach, Calif.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Univeristy of New Mexico Volleyball team ends its season at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, in Long Beach, Calif., as the Lobos face No. 23 ranked Long Beach State.
About New Mexico (14-14, 6-8 MW) ... The Lobos' just wrapped up conference play in the Mountain West. UNM finished fifth in the conference during the regular season and was defeated by Wyoming, 3-1, in the opening round of the MW championship tournament on Nov. 18. The Lobos have an overall record of 14-14 heading into their final match of the season at Long Beach State.
The Lobos are a young team that has experienced growing pains throughout the season. This season hasn't gone the way the Lobos expected, but they can still finish with a winning record with a victory over No. 23 Long Beach State.
Last season, the Lobos made it to the NCAA Tournament for the second season in a row. The Lobos hadn't made it to two consecutive postseasons since they did it in the 1993, `94 seasons, which happened to be the end of a five-year postseason run that spanned from 1990-94, and was subsequently the last time the Lobos were in the NCAA Tournament. With the appearance in 2009, the Lobos broke a drought of 14 years between trips to the national post-season. With last year's postseason berth, UNM now has nine trips to the NCAA Tournament (1981, `88, `90, `91, `92, `93, `94, `09, 2010)
About No. 23 Long Beach State (20-6, 14-2 Big West) ... The 49ers (20-6, 14-2) are currently riding a 12-match winning streak after defeating UC Irvine, 3-1, in their final con- ference match of the season. The 49ers have won the Big West regular season champion- ship and look primed to make their 25th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament after such a great regular season. The 49ers are led by sophomore middle blocker Haleigh Hampton. The 6-foot-6 Hunnington Beach native leads Long Beach State in both kills (296) and blocks (156).
Against Long Beach State (0-7) ... The Lobos are 0-7 all-time against Long Beach State. This will be the first time the Lobos have faced Long Beach State since Sept. 6, 2001. UNM lost that match 3-0 at Long Beach.
- Ashley Rhoades currently leads the MW in both kills and points per set. The senior is averaging 3.89 kills and 4.52 points per set this season. The native New Mexican leads UNM with 408 kills on the season. It is the first time Rhoades has recorded over 400 kills in any season during her career.
- Senior libero Allison Buck recently became UNM's all-time career digs leader. Buck moved ahead of former Lobo Gayle Tripp to claim the top spot. Buck currently has 1,615 digs with one match remaining in her career.
- Kelly Williamson was named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-District First Team on Nov. 10. She currently holds a 4.0 GPA and is studying Conservation Biology.
- Rhoades, Williamson and Buck were all named to the All-Mountain West Volleyball team. Buck also received the designated libero honor.
- Buck is just five digs shy of recording the fifth-best season in Mountain West history. She currently sits at 546 digs with one match remaining this season. If she gets five digs she will pass Camille Cunningham of UNLV, who recorded 550 digs in 2008.
UNM lands three on all-conference team ... The Lobos landed three players on the 2011 All-Mountain West Volleyball Team. Allison Buck, Ashley Rhoades and Kelly Williamson were named to the 17-person team that was selected by the league's eight head coaches. It is the fourth year in a row that New Mexico has placed multiple players on the All-MW Team.
Lobos ink two ... Ashley Kelsey of James Campbell High School in Oahu, Hawai'i, and Skye Gullatt of Smoky Hill High School in Denver, Colo., will be the newest additions to the Lobo family starting in 2012.
Rhoades Closing in on Milestones ... Senior Ashley Rhoades recently moved up to No. 4 all-time on UNM's career total blocks list. The senior has 327 blocks, moving her past Linda Archuleta (1980-82, `84). Rhoades is currently No. 4 all time in block assists at UNM with 264. Rhoades also moved into the No. 10 spot all time in block solos with 63. She also surpassed the 900-kill plateau for her career. The Rio Rancho, N.M., native currently has 902 kills for her career after having recorded 408 kills so far this season. It is the first time in Rhoades' career she has recorded over 300 and 400 kills in a season. Rhoades also topped the 1,000 points plateau for her career this season.
Williamson Building on New Career Mark ... Kelly Williamson has set a new personal high for kills in a single-season with 383. She crushed her previous high of 296 kills, which she set last season.
Buck Breaks Single-Season Record ... Allison Buck recently broke the Lobos' all-time single-season record in digs. Currently, Buck sits at 546 digs for the season, which breaks her own previous single-season high of 455 digs. Sharon Browning was the all-time single- season record holder with 499 digs. Browning's record had stood since 1992 until Buck broke it this season. Before obtaining the record, Buck had already recorded the second- best season all time with 455 digs.
Agre Quietly Having Superb Sophomore Season ... Sophomore setter Mariah Agre has consistently been atop the MW in assists this season. She currently ranks No. 3 in assists with a 10.35 assists per set average. She recently went over 1,000 assists on the season and currently sits at 1,087. Agre currently has the 10th best all-time single season mark for assists in UNM history. She passed Sarah Kwasigroch, who recorded 1,068 assists in 2006.
Lobos in the Mountain West ... The Lobos rank second in overall digs (16.42) and second in opponent hitting percentage (.175) in the Mountain West.
Killin' It ... Ashley Rhoades is currently first in the MW rankings for kills per set and points per set. She is averaging 3.89 KPS and 4.52 PPS overall. She set a career single-match high for kills with 31 against Boise State on Oct. 1.
Digging for Gold ... Allison Buck set a new career-high in digs with 36 in UNM's win over Delaware Sept. 17 at the Pitt Blue and Gold Classic. She also had 36 digs in UNM's loss to Wyoming on Nov. 10. The senior is currently second the MW in digs per set with 5.15.
Double-Double Animal Style ... Senior Kelly Williamson and sophomore Mariah Agre lead the Lobos this year in double doubles recorded. Agre is tops on the team with 15, while Williamson has six. The Lobos are 7-10 on the season when a player records a double double.


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ERWIN — The Unicoi County Commission's Finance Committee has managed to shave several cents off the 12-cent property tax increase the county was facing for the 2013-14 fiscal year.
The committee met Tuesday to review its work thus far and discuss the funding requests of Unicoi County's non-profit organizations. When the meeting began, the county was facing a shortfall of $363,873. This figure would leave the county with no fund balance in the new fiscal year, and the county's taxpayers with a 12-cent increase of the current property tax rate of $2.6838 per $100 on real property.
Before discussion of the non-profits got under way, more than $68,000 in anticipated revenues from the Unicoi County Sheriff's Department was budgeted. This amendment was made due to the sheriff's department anticipating the full $89,000 from the town of Unicoi in 2013-14 for two officers to patrol the town. This is in accordance with a contract between the town of Unicoi and the sheriff's department.
This adjustment brought the county's projected shortfall down to $295,653.
Requested funding for the county's nonprofit organizations was left largely the same as the 2012-13 fiscal year, though several may see increased funding in 2013-14. The South Side Volunteer Fire Department will receive $1,500 in additional funding in the upcoming fiscal year, the Limestone Cove Volunteer Fire Department will receive $750 in extra funding, and the Unicoi Volunteer Fire Department will receive an additional $500. The Unicoi Merchant's Association will also receive $1,500 from the county in 2013-14.
These additions bring the county's projected shortfall to $299,903. The Finance Committee has not yet met with the Unicoi County Schools System or the county's Highway Department. Committee Chairman Loren Thomas said Tuesday's adjustments would bring the projected property tax increase to around 9.9 cents, as each cent on the property tax rate equates to approximately $30,000.
The county's budget must be approved by the Unicoi County Commission before becoming effective.

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One embodiment of the present invention provides the administrator of an access restricted electronic system with a flexible management scheme. In this scheme, users request access to the electronic system. Users who submit verified access information, such as a login identification and password, are immediately granted access as authorized users. Users who have not submitted access information, are presented to the administrator through an interface that enables the administrator to grant ad hoc access.
1. A system comprising:
a database of authorized users; and
a server configured to host said system, the server configured to:
receive a request for a requester to access an electronic meeting hosted by the server;
based on determining that the request provides information sufficient for the server to automatically associate the requester with an authorized user in the database of authorized users, grant access to the requester;
based on determining that the request does not provide information sufficient for the server to automatically associate the requester with an authorized user in the database of authorized users, provide a graphical user interface in real time during the electronic meeting comprising a request interface, wherein said request interface provides user identification information from the request and receives input to grant or deny access to said requester.
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a login identification and a password.
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an option menu integrated into the graphical user interface.
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8. A method comprising:
receiving, by at least one computing device comprised in an access-restricted system, a request for a requester to access an electronic meeting hosted by the access-restricted electronic system;
based on determining that the request provides access information sufficient for the at least one computing device to automatically verify the access information, granting, by the at least one computing device, access to the requester;
based on determining that the request does not provide access information sufficient for the at least one computing device to automatically verify the access information, providing, by the at least one computing device, a graphical user interface in real time during the electronic meeting comprising a request interface, wherein said request interface provides user identification information from the request and receives input to grant or deny access to said requester.
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presenting, in the request interface an option to grant one or more of a plurality of rights to the requester.
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Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the management of access-restricted information space, and specifically to providing administrators and moderators the flexibility of granting ad hoc access rights.
In an increasingly electronic and interconnected world, more information is being contained in various electronic formats, and widely-separated individuals are more often using electronic meeting spaces to collaborate virtually. As more types of information are stored and exchanged electronically, monitoring and controlling access to that information becomes increasingly important. Administration of a database, or any other form of electronic information or meeting space, includes the ability to control who is and who is not allowed access to that information. However, as the information space becomes more restrictive, or the collaboration becomes more selective, much of the flexibility that makes electronic collaboration and electronic information advantageous can be lost.
To gain access to a typical secure information space, a requester might submit information that allows the system to verify that requester's identity. This may be in the form of a user identification (user ID), an alphanumeric password (for example, a Personal Identification Number (PIN)), or the like, that is uniquely linked with the requester. This information is typically issued by a moderator or administrator prior to the request for access. Regardless of what method of requester identification is used, however, this identification information is typically acquired or set up prior to the requester's first request to access the system. The delay, which may only take a few seconds, allows an administrator or an administrative computer program to enter the identifying information into the system and issue to the requester either the appropriate access or login information or confirmation of that information. In some systems, the administrator or administration program may also choose to independently verify the identification of the requester prior to issuing the login information. In such systems, it may take a much longer time to obtain the access information.
For example, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) maintains an Internet-based database of published articles. To gain access, a requester first applies to the IEEE administrator for permission to do so. Upon approval, the administrator issues a login name and a password to the requester. Once this information is received, the requester may use the login name and password to gain access to the database. However, without this information, a requester will not be allowed access, even if the requester is a valid member with access rights to the database.
Similar systems are used for the management of collaboration in an electronic meeting space. Electronic presentation and online broadcast technology now allow people to "attend" a virtual presentation, meeting, or other collaboration over a network of computers. Recent advancements in networking and online broadcasting technology have led to a rapid increase in the use of such virtual electronic meetings within large corporations, particularly over intranets. The advantages of virtual presentation broadcasts are even greater over the Internet, which reaches an even wider audience.
Many software products and services have been developed to facilitate such on-line meetings or collaborations. Products and services, such as WEBEX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.'s WEBEXSM, and the like, facilitate the electronic collaboration of individuals in an electronic meeting space over the Internet or other proprietary distributed network. Typically, on-line meeting or collaboration products allow meeting preparers to send access or login information to everyone they desire to have attend the meeting. Participants, themselves, may also request such access or login information from the meeting preparers. After approval, the requesting participants will receive the access information from the preparer, the requester or participant may use to access the electronic meeting space. However, a person who desires to participate in the electronic meeting but does not have login or access information, or an approved participant who has lost his or her access information, may be unable to access the electronic meeting.
One embodiment of the present invention provides the administrator of an access-restricted electronic system with a flexible management scheme. In this scheme, users request access to the electronic system. Users who submit verified access information, such as a login and password that identifies an individual or entity as one who is allowed access, are immediately granted access as authorized users. Users who have not submitted access information, are presented to the administrator through an interface that enables the administrator to grant ad hoc access.
A further embodiment of the present invention may comprise a server hosting an electronic information space. A database in communication with the host server can store user information used to verify access information submitted by users requesting access. If a user requests access without access information, a request interface can be presented to the administrator of the system enabling him/her to grant temporary or limited access to users without specific access information.
The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that the detailed description of the invention that follows may be better understood. Additional features and advantages of the invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims of the invention. It should be appreciated that the conception and specific embodiment disclosed may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. It should also be realized that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the invention as set forth in the appended claims. The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the invention, both as to its organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages will be better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying figures. It is to be expressly understood, however, that each of the figures is provided for the purpose of illustration and description only and is not intended as a definition of the limits of the present invention.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention, reference is now made to the following descriptions taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which:
Embodiments of the present invention allow moderators and administrators more flexibility regarding who may access a restricted information space, such as a database or electronic meeting space. Using an embodiment of the present invention, the administrator of a secure journal archive database, for example, would be able to immediately grant one time or limited access to a visiting user. Using another embodiment, the moderator of an electronic collaboration may grant ad hoc access to an invited member who has forgotten his password.
The example application of
A second form of access allowed by access interface 140 is through an ad hoc request. A user, such as user 134, may not have pre-registered or, such as user 133, may have pre-registered but may no longer be in possession of his or her access information. Even without access information, users 133 and 134 may still gain access to secure network 120. In the embodiment depicted in
When implemented via computer-executable instructions, various elements of embodiments of the present invention are in essence the software code defining the operations of such various elements. The executable instructions or software code may be obtained from a computer readable medium (e.g., a hard drive media, optical media, EPROM, EEPROM, tape media, cartridge media, flash memory, ROM, memory stick, and/or the like) or communicated via a data signal from a communication medium (e.g., the Internet). In fact, computer readable media can include any medium that can store or transfer information.
Computer system 600 also preferably includes random access memory (RAM) 603, which may be SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM, or the like. Computer system 600 preferably includes read-only memory (ROM) 604 which may be PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, or the like. RAM 603 and ROM 604 hold user and system data and programs, as is well known in the art.
Computer system 600 also preferably includes input/output (I/O) adapter 605, communications adapter 611, user interface adapter 608, and display adapter 609. I/O adapter 605, user interface adapter 608, and/or communications adapter 611 may, in certain embodiments, enable an administrator or moderator to interact with computer system 600 via the interface of
I/O adapter 605 preferably connects to storage device(s) 606, such as one or more of hard drive, compact disc (CD) drive, floppy disk drive, tape drive, etc. to computer system 600. The storage devices may be utilized when RAM 603 is insufficient for the memory requirements associated with storing data for user information. Communications adapter 611 is preferably adapted to couple computer system 600 to network 612. User interface adapter 608 couples user input devices, such as keyboard 613, pointing device 607, and microphone 614 and/or output devices, such as speaker(s) 615 to computer system 600. Display adapter 609 is driven by CPU 601 to control the display on display device 610 to, for example, display the request interface of
It shall be appreciated that the present invention is not limited to the architecture of system 600. For example, any suitable processor-based device may be utilized, including without limitation personal computers, laptop computers, computer workstations, and multi-processor servers. Moreover, embodiments of the present invention may be implemented on application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) or very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits. In fact, persons of ordinary skill in the art may utilize any number of suitable structures capable of executing logical operations according to the embodiments of the present invention.
Although the present invention and its advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the invention as defined by the appended claims. Moreover, the scope of the present application is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments of the process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, means, methods and steps described in the specification. As one will readily appreciate from the disclosure, processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps, presently existing or later to be developed that perform substantially the same function or achieve substantially the same result as the corresponding embodiments described herein may be utilized. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to include within their scope such processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps.
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In this edition …
Dr. Walter Soboleff remembered
SEARHC hosts diabetes conference in Juneau
SEARHC hosts annual meeting of '1 is 2 Many' regional suicide task force
Chilkat River Walk/Run/Ride raises money for cancer travel fund
Car seat technician training in Juneau
Bike helmets distributed
Home telehealth monitoring program wins national award
Dr. Walter Soboleff remembered:
Several members of the SEARHC Board of Directors and executive staff attended Dr. Walter Soboleff's ANB Memorial Ceremony and Celebration of Life. Like many individuals and organizations, we were also touched by Dr. Soboleff's achievements over his life. "Gumboot Determination: A History of SEARHC" remembers Dr. Soboleff as the ANB Grand President during the forming of the health committee. SEARHC is a grandchild of the ANB and ANS through the health committee. Dr. Soboleff offered his presence at the meetings, advice and support for his wife, Genevieve, who was a member of SEARHC and a health aide in Tenakee. We will always remember Dr. Soboleff for his focus on health promotion and his many notes of encouragement to staff. We were honored to attend the service and support the Soboleff family as well as our people across the region.
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SEARHC hosts diabetes conference in Juneau:
The SEARHC Diabetes Program hosted two free diabetes prevention and control training events on Tuesday, May 24, and Thursday, May 26, in Juneau. The first day featured policy training led by Joanie Fogel, who manages the Center of Disease Control and Prevention's Healthy Communities Program for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. The second event was a day-long conference called "Working Together to Prevent and Control Diabetes in Southeast Alaska." Keynote presentations were made by Dr. Julien Naylor with the SEARHC Diabetes Program; Meera Narayanan of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC); Dr. Terry Raymer of ANTHC; and Gary Ferguson, N.D. of ANTHC. In addition to the two public events, the SEARHC Diabetes Team met on Wednesday, May 25, for training.
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SEARHC hosts annual meeting of '1 is 2 Many' regional suicide task force:
The SEARHC Behavioral Health/Suicide Prevention Program is hosting the annual meeting of the "1 is 2 Many" regional suicide prevention task force for Southeast Alaska this week in Juneau. The task force met on Thursday and Friday, May 26-27, at the Vocational Resource and Training Center. Four members of the task force — Bill Martin, Wilbur Brown, Rhonda Herington and Megan Gregory — also appeared on KTOO-FM radio's "A Juneau Afternoon" interview show with Jeff Brown on Friday. Finally, the "Every Mile Is Worth It" five-kilometer (3.1-mile) fun run/walk (with a maze and optional one-mile run/walk) took place Saturday morning on the Treadwell Trails in Douglas.
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Chilkat River Walk/Run/Ride raises money for cancer travel fund:
The fifth annual Chilkat River Walk/Run/Ride from Klukwan to Haines takes place on Saturday, June 4, to raise funds for the Haines Hospice Cancer Travel Fund and raise awareness about breast cancer and breast health. This year participants can walk, run or bicycle the course. The 23-mile walk/run/ride from Klukwan to Haines starts at 8 a.m. at the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Klukwan Health Center and ends at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds. New this year is a second start time at 10 a.m. at 10-Mile for people who want to support the cause, but want to start later and not complete the entire course. This walk/run/ride event is open to all ages and genders. There is a $10 suggested donation that goes to the Haines Hospice Cancer Travel Fund, which provides a one-time travel stipend for Haines residents diagnosed with cancer. Participants also can obtain pledge sheets for people who want to gather sponsors. Since the first year of the Chilkat River Walk (2007), approximately 420 walkers have raised about $5,700 for the travel fund and other cancer causes. To learn more about the Chilkat River Walk, call Kathryn Friedle at 766-6366 or Pam Sloper at 766-6367.
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Car seat technician training in Juneau:
SEARHC has partnered with several groups to host a child passenger safety technician continuing education course on Friday and Saturday, June 3-4, at the SEARHC Ethel Lund Medical Center conference rooms in Juneau. The training is for nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians (CPSTs) who need continuing education units and hands-on car seat installation check-off opportunities to maintain their certifications. Friday's classes are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., while Saturday's are 8-10 a.m. A free public car seat check-up event takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Juneau Police Department, 6255 Alaway Ave. This check-up event allows parents to have their child car seats checked, while allowing the students to have check-off opportunities to maintain their credentials. To learn more, contact Lorena Gray at 364-4465 or
, or e-mail Shawn O'Donnell at
. SEARHC also provides free child car seat safety checks in Juneau, just call Lorena for details.
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Bike helmets distributed:
The SEARHC Injury Prevention program and its partners have distributed more than 200 bike helmets this spring. The program has 80 more bike helmets to distribute within our region. If you have a community event and would like the SEARHC Injury Prevention program to help you increase the use of bike helmets, call Lesa Way at 966-8804.
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Home telehealth monitoring program wins national award:
The National Rural Health Association has named the Alaska Federal Health Care Partnership Home Telehealth Monitoring Program the nation's most outstanding rural health program for 2011. The partnership's Home Telehealth Monitoring Program places small, easy-to-use monitors in patients' homes to remotely measure vital signs such as blood pressure, weight, pulse, blood oxygen, and glucose levels, and helps patients learn better self-care. These monitors, which are known as "turtles," have been used by SEARHC elder patients in Kake, Angoon, Klawock, Craig, Hydaburg and Juneau. The monitors also can be used by patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes or hypertension. The award recognizes the partnership's efforts to improve the quality of health care for federal health care beneficiaries throughout Alaska. The partnership is a voluntary group of all the state's federal health care agencies. The partnership leverages the strengths of these members to improve health care for more than 130,000 Alaska Natives using tribal health care systems in Alaska, and more than 146,000 Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and U.S. Coast Guard active duty personnel, dependents and military retirees throughout the state.
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Downtown Forest City shines with annual Christmas lights
Nov. 29, 2013 @ 08:04 AM
Thousands of people braved cold temperatures Thursday night to witness the annual Christmas lighting ceremony in downtown Forest City.
At 7 p.m. 9-year-old Alysa Cape of Forest City helped Forest City Mayor Dennis Tarlton flip a switch that ignited close to a million holiday lights throughout downtown.
Additionally, music by the Singsation Quartet of Charlotte and the Black Coffee Jazz Band could be heard throughout Main Street.
The annual ceremony was recently illustrated in the December issue of Our State magazine. Forest City Town Planner Danielle Withrow said she received calls from South Carolina regarding people planning to attend the event.


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So, you think you could make a difference by serving on one of Johnson City's boards or committees?
Maybe you have an interest in planning and zoning. Perhaps your expertise and ambition would be a boost to the city's public library. Or maybe you want to apply your decision-making abilities as a City Commission member.
Go for it.
"You'll hear a lot of folks saying, 'hey, what are they doing over there?' " said Community Relations Director Becky Hilbert. "They need to know our doors are open."
The Johnson City Regional Planning Commission, Public Art Committee, Housing Authority — these are governmental bodies that for various reasons call out for participants. The openings will be posted on the city's website, and the applications are a piece of cake to fill out.
Perhaps the best way to get both a nuts and bolts understanding of how city government works is through Johnson City's JC 101.
If you know some but want to get on the "inside," this is the place. It's not an exercise in baby-sitting at all. Commissioner Clayton Stout ran for and won a seat on the City Commission after graduating from this class.
"JC 101 can help people learn about what the responsibilities are of local government department heads and staff," Hilbert said. "Also, citizens will get a chance to make different comments, ask questions and make suggestions. All the information is public, that way people can really get in and see where their tax dollars are going. Some of the things in the budget and city charter can be very confusing, so we'll help them understand how the specifics work."
The program is designed to enhance and develop citizen awareness and understanding of the government's role in the community. Enrollees get the skinny on everything from the workings of the city's finance and budgeting procedures to waste water technology, with the objective being to provide Johnson City residents with the information and background necessary to address community issues and work together for the enhancement of our community.
The program consists of 24 hours of government information to include presentations, tours and a question-and-answer period during each class. Classes meet at various locations throughout the city from 6-9 p.m. with graduation certificates being presented at a City Commission meeting, including a chance to step up to the microphone and tell others about the experience.
Applicants must be 21 years of age, have no criminal history other than minor traffic violations; commit to attendance of most classes; and sign all required waivers and agreement forms. Participants agree to submit to a background check to verify all information given in their application.
There is nothing formal about it. Just be polite to the K-9s.
And speaking of the law — it is a big part of public services provided to citizens by the city.
In order to enhance and develop citizen awareness and understanding of the police role in the community, the Johnson City Police Department has developed a Citizen's Police Academy.
The program consists of 45 hours of police training including much "hands-on" instruction. Areas covered are traffic stops, investigation procedures, SWAT, K-9, vice and narcotics investigations, firearms, self-defense instruction, a required ride-a-long, hiring and selection process, support services, 911 functions and records division.
The objective of this course is not to make the "graduates" police officers, but better-informed citizens with a greater general knowledge of the department's many functions and to foster enhanced community relations from these graduates and the people they touch in every day life.
Want to serve on a board or committee? Here's a list of the many opportunities Johnson City provides:
n Board of Building Codes: Hears and decides appeals and variances to the Johnson City Building Code, also decides questions of code interpretation, oversees examinations of contractors to perform work in the community and recommends code changes
n Board of Dwelling and Standards Review: Determines whether dwellings are fit for human habitation and requires specific remedial measures necessary for dwellings designated as unfit.
n Board of Zoning Appeals: Hears and decides appeals to provisions of the Zoning Code, considers applications for special exceptions and decides questions of interpretation of the code.
n Civil Service Commission: Addresses public safety employees' civil service grievances and certifies entry-level and promotional rosters.
n Freedom Hall Advisory Board: Advises in matters concerning Freedom Hall Civic Center.
n Historic Zoning Commission: Considers conservation zoning to ensure the preservation of structures of historic value.
n Housing and Community Development Citizens Advisory Board: Advises and makes recommendations concerning housing, community and economic development issues.
n Industrial Development Board of Johnson City: Created as a means of financing business/industrial facilities that would create employment and economic growth.
n Johnson City Development Authority: Promotes reinvestment, raises capital, generates revenue, and acts to promote the general health, safety and welfare of the Johnson City community.
n Johnson City Housing Authority: Establishes policy and procedures governing the operation of the Housing Authority.
n Johnson City Public Library Board: Operates the public library.
n Johnson City Regional Planning Commission: With the assistance of the planning staff, administers the city's subdivision code, advises the City Commission on matters of long-range development policy, zoning and annexation and prepares the city's general plan for physical development.
n Johnson City Seniors' Advisory Council: Makes recommendations on matters of the center.
n Johnson City Seniors' Center Foundation: Generates philanthropic support for the Johnson City Seniors' Center.
n Public Art Committee: Develops and implements public art programs throughout the community.
n Tree and Landscaping Board: Recommends policies for the promotion and management of the urban forest.
Openings are posted at www.johnsoncitytn.org. Go to "Departments," "Administration" then "Community Relations." Some positions have specific background and experience requirements. For more information, call Community Relations at 434-6021 or email email@example.com.
Applications for JC 101 and the Citizen's Police Academy can be found on the city's website. They can be faxed to 434-6085, or mailed to Community Relations Department, City of Johnson City, P.O. Box 2150, Johnson City, TN 37605-2150. Participants will be notified by mail, email, and/or phone call. For questions regarding the program, call Lorena Bennett at 434-6022.
The "Week at a Glance," or WAG as it is commonly known, also can be found on the city website. This includes meeting dates and times, as well as other functions and events and an alert of office and street closings.


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PRESTONSBURG — The matter of a Floyd County doctor accused of being in possession of child pornography is now in the hands of a grand jury, following a preliminary hearing in Floyd District Court on Monday.
Dr. Bret A. Dunning, 50, of Dana, was arrested last week and charged with one count of possession of a matter portraying a sex performance by a minor. According to accounts from the police investigation, which were recounted during Monday's hearing, Dunning was allegedly found to be in possession of several child-exploitation photographs on his computer. The pictures portrayed sexual acts by children between the ages of 4 and 7.
The images were discovered last week, when Kentucky State Police detectives executed a search warrant at Dunning's residence following an online investigation conducted by Post 9 detectives.
On Monday, the charge against Dunning was remanded to a grand jury. All the conditions of his bond remain the same, save for the addition that he not possess a firearm during the course of the trial.
Dunning both owns and operates Dunning Medical Clinic, which shares a parking lot with a local preschool. The conditions of Dunning's release prevent him from being within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center or any place where there are underage children. Dunning's wife, Maleshea Dunning, also a D.O., has a family practice at Pikeville Medical Center.
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Satan HATES everything that God loves!
He tries to counterfeit everything he does!
He goes about as a lion, seeking whom to devour!
He comes after us! But God alone has the power!
Satan will twist God's truth, into a corruptible lie!
He has one mission!
And that is to see you die!
He wants to enslave you into deep addictions!
And bring into your life, unneeded afflictions!
He has one purpose, ambition and goal…
Is to seek eternal damnation of your very soul!
Jesus has come! His TRUTH can set you free!
He has come that you may have life abundantly!
Won't you accept him? You can overcome!
Through the shed blood, and power of God's son!
All glory to Jesus! All praise to
HIM on high!
He is your protector!
He is El-Shaddai!
Won't you allow God's love
to bring you salvation?
He offers it to right now!
A heavenly invitation!
God's love is stronger than Satan!
HE reigns supreme!
He can help you to overcome,
the lies the devil brings!
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Beverly Hacker gestures toward the open space that is the third floor administrative "offices" inside KDHX's (88.1 FM) new headquarters. To her right is a small conference room, and straight ahead are several desks aligned about ten feet apart from one another.
"When this was originally designed it was going to all be offices," explains Hacker, the station's executive director, who arrived to work this day in a leather motorcycle jacket and jeans. "When they did the demolition I brought my whole staff down here and said, 'All right guys, here's the deal: You can either all have private offices and cut this up, or we can do modular, or cubicles, or just open office space.' And to their credit, they all said, 'Don't put those walls up.' I can't even imagine any place I've ever worked where people say, 'No thanks, I don't need my own office'!"
But, then, such is the nature of St. Louis' "community" radio station, where music and media aficionados have always put their passion ahead of their egos. And now, after 26 years of operating out of what could be generously described as a "rustic" storefront building in south St. Louis, there's this: the stunning new Larry J. Weir Center for Independent Media in St. Louis' Grand Center. The difference between the old location and the new is perhaps most apparent in the building's two on-air rooms. The soundproof doors into these state-of-the-art studios are bank-vault thick and cost $2,000 apiece, and the sleek and gleaming audio gear within conjures thoughts of space travel.
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"All of the broadcast equipment as a whole was pretty expensive," confesses Hacker, "but really, almost all of the money went into the renovation."
The ground floor of the Larry J. Weir Center, which takes its name from station's late operations manager, is unrecognizable from its former life as the sweat-soaked punk and metal club the Creepy Crawl. Gone is the drop ceiling that shed particles onto the people below. Gone, too, is the grit and grime and graffiti. In its place is an impressive venue space that seats 140 people at its tables, with a bamboo stage and audio enhancements like bass traps and sound diffusers.
"When you do an old building, you never know what you're going to run into," says Hacker. "We didn't even know what we had until we pulled out that nasty tile ceiling."
What they had was twenty feet of space from top to bottom, opening up the area dramatically. Another surprise was the fact that the ceiling is suspended, an architectural necessity that leaves the venue free from obtrusive support beams.
At 13,000 square feet, the Larry J. Weir building as a whole is triple the size of the station's old home on Magnolia Avenue, a former bakery where the station's seventeen staff members worked nearly atop each other. Still, KDHX couldn't get everything on its wish list for the new building, such as the solar panels that an engineer determined would be too much weight for the roof to support.
"I'm really disappointed about those," laments Hacker, "but we did as much green building as we could afford."
For a listener-supported station that's accustomed to operating on a shoestring, it's difficult to overstate just how bold it was for KDHX to embark on fundraising for the Larry J. Weir Center. At $3.5 million, the renovated building is far and away KDHX's costliest endeavor.
"The fundraising efforts were ambitious, because the organization has never done a capital campaign before," confirms board president Andrew Scavotto. "KDHX usually just does two pledge drives each year. The campaign was designed to finance the building and the increased costs that come with it." The station isn't finished yet. Its board and volunteer DJs have raised $2 million to date — just over half of the total amount necessary. "The organization really made a commitment to going out and seeking new and different sources of support, including higher dollar amounts," says Scavotto.
"We actually got a mortgage on part of it, so we are still fundraising," Hacker says. "It originally was going to be less than that, and then we changed some things — that includes the equipment and the building and everything, so yeah, that's what it ended up being."
This past summer KDHX launched a Kickstarter campaign for the ground-floor concert venue that raked in $58,000. It was the largest successful nongaming Kickstarter to occur within St. Louis. Prior to this renovation KDHX didn't have any kind of major donor program set in place; instead, it essentially relied on $88 listener donations to trickle in one at a time. Hacker describes the early stages of the move as a "learning curve."
"We had a lot of folks that really took a chance, because we have zero track record. As you can imagine, not everyone can walk into a place that is sort of trashed out and say, 'Of course, this is going to be a beautiful building.' So a lot of people took it on faith that we were gonna be able to pull this off."
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Urban Students Represent Tech Program at LTC Best Practices Fair
Urban Middle School seventh graders Caleb B., Bryan G. and Eric N., along with North High students Tye S. and Jeanna D., joined Urban teachers Deb Pilz and Cassie Wolfert for Lakeshore Technical College's Best Practices Fair. The students represented Urban Middle School's Generation Knights after school club at one of the booth style presentations.
Generation Knights is an after school service club that infuses technology into the classroom and throughout the building. A Generation Knight student partners with a staff member to create technology projects such as power points, web pages, movies, slide shows and games to be used with students. The club's motto, "Ask Me About Technology Power Within," represents the club's belief that all people can be empowered by learning, using, and sharing technology.
The seventh graders are current Generation Knight Club members. The North students are Generation Knights alumni. During the best practices fair, the students had the opportunity to talk with teachers, Library Media Specialists, Technology Specialists and administrators from the CESA 7 area explaining their practices and sharing project samples.
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This thesis is an econometric investigation of the dynamic properties of the US fixed income markets in a no-arbitrage framework.
Traditional no-arbitrage models of the yield curve use a latent factor approach and extract those factors from the observed prices. Despite voluminous literature on this subject, we still have a limited understanding of the models' structural features which are important in practice. The first essay evaluates the ability of several affine latent factor models to explain the term structure of Eurodollar futures and options.
The second essay makes a step from introspective latent factor approach towards economically interpretable models. The essay suggests a methodology that replaces traditional latent factors, such as level, slope and curvature, with macro variables, such as inflation, real activity, budget deficit, and liquidity. Simultaneously, the methodology generates genuine exogenous shocks.
The third essay links the yield curve dynamics with monetary policy regimes. The essay develops a model of term structure that borrows identification assumptions from macroeconomic literature and allows for regime switching dynamics of the monetary policy rule. The effect of monetary policy regimes on the yield curve and risk premia is studied.


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Because that sprawling, unretouched adaptation of The Beach, with its obvious lead, does not exist outside of wishful thinking, none of this is intended to disparage the work of the King of the World. He's the draw, and the studio simply shaped this movie for maximum appeal. Besides, after illustrating his seemingly boundless confidence in movies as disparate as What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and Romeo + Juliet (not to mention blithely skipping the Oscars when passed over for Titanic), Leonardo DiCaprio has little need to prove he has the goods. Nonetheless, he hits The Beach under the full steam of career revisionism, keenly focused upon striding his path from cute boy to tough man.
It begins with one night in Bangkok, "where the hungry come to feed." As Richard, our narrator and anti-tourist, Leo gives us a lean portrait of ungrounded bravado, muttering dark travelogue observations like a reedy variation of Harrison Ford from Blade Runner. After landing and downing a shot of snake blood in an exotic market, he checks into a roach-infested flophouse echoing with the sounds of sex. Swiftly descending upon him is "Daffy Duck" (Robert Carlyle, with impenetrable Scottish burr, buzzed scalp and lunatic grin), who shares both his spliff and an enchanting tale of a forbidden island off the coast where an intrepid explorer may find the most beautiful beach ever seen, a veritable Eden.
The next day, a hand-drawn map to this paradise awaits Richard, but so does the corpse of Daffy, who, in his suicide, obviously went to a lot of trouble to spatter every square inch of his squalid room with blood. Undaunted, nay delighted, Richard clears himself with the law, palms the map and invites the previous night's amorous young French couple to join him on his capricious adventure. Etienne (Guillaume Canet) makes the arrangements for the 500-mile journey, and his covetable girlfriend, Françoise (Virginie Ledoyen, known for Benoit Jacquot's 1995 A Single Girl, among other European features), provides inspiration, momentum and a bit of mischief.
After swift travels and a final lifeline exchange of urban legend and dope on the mainland with some loutish, unwashed Americans, Richard spews some clumsy come-ons about the infinite reaches of the universe to Françoise. She coyly acknowledges his interest but carries on snapping photos of the cosmos. The next morning, she and he and Etienne hit the surf, with minimal gear, to swim the mile or so toward their mysterious destination, where it's pretty likely they're not going to encounter Gilligan and the Skipper. Try, instead, gun-toting ganja farmers and a perverse little colony of hip young castaways, adding up, in due course, to trouble in Club Paradise.
Despite being widely praised as the definitive Gen X manifesto (as if Douglas Coupland and Quentin Tarantino never existed), Garland's novel reads like a retelling of Lord of the Flies (or John Dollar, or The Mosquito Coast) as filtered crudely through John Irving's Setting Free the Bears. It's a big, pulpy mass of observations from an adventure-starved, semi-deluded, media-soaked young man with a backpack, abroad in a foreign land. The theme (social breakdown in isolation) is strong, but the plot meanders and the motivations are decidedly hazy, so its popularity probably stems from its seamless blending of naive wonder and soul-mining horror. Also, Garland has an undeniable gift for detail, rendering tangible everything from papayas to potchentong.
For the movie, Garland and Boyle's regular scribe, John Hodge, have taken a machete to the book, carving from it a tight and driven screenplay that perfectly hits its marks (maleficent monkey at 30 minutes, Yankee interlopers at 60) but often moves too fast for its own credibility, despite an altogether more satisfying climax. The essence of Richard's cultural conflict and his resulting societal polarization are mostly intact, thanks to Boyle's potent ability to contrast the funky and the fulgent. (Remember the young junkies of Trainspotting bemoaning their inability to appreciate the Caledonian mountains in their own backyard?) In the third act, though, as the knave slips further and further from reality and slides deeper into his violent delusions (think Apocalypse Now as a video game), what works on the page starts to seem silly on the screen.
It's Leo's movie, and when he's not stretching himself too thin, it flows pretty well. The amusing frustrations and pithy self-deprecation put the actor's gifts to good use. When Richard loses his humility and becomes a Dick, however, look out. I doubt too many people plunking down their ticket money will be expecting a half-pint Hemingway or a reductive Rambo. He's simply too young for such macho posturing (anybody with a moderate case of halitosis could take him down), and the stakes are so stilted that it comes off as a giggle. Where his youth works, however, is in his weaknesses: playing for Françoise, careless infidelity, bloodlust, starving for a mentor to the point of making one of Daffy.
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Norman Gause, Kingstree - Norman Melton Gause, 72, husband of Karen Coleman Gause, died Friday, May 9, 2014, at his residence. Funeral services were held Monday, May 12, 2014, at Williamsburg Funeral Home Chapel. Burial, directed by Williamsburg Funeral Home, followed at Kingstree Pentecostal Holiness Church Cemetery.
Mr. Gause was born June 19, 1941, in Kingstree, the son of the late Hobson R. and Leola McKenzie Gause. He was a graduate of Kingstree High School and was the owner of Pee Dee Pool and Spa in Florence.
He attended Peace Free Will Baptist Church. Three brothers, Clarence Gause, Marion Gause and Douglas Gause, preceded him in death. Survivors, in addition to his wife, are: three children, Cynthia M. Gause, Norman M. Gause, Jr. and Gary C. Gause, all of Florence; three sisters, Roberta G. Gannon (Rocky) of Darlington; Myrtle G. Powell Smith (Bobby) of Kingstree; and Vivian G. Cooper of Lugoff; two brothers, Raleigh Gause (Mattie) and Beaufort Gause (Nancy) of Kingstree; three grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
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Austin Branda, an aspiring Broadway drummer, was caught on camera rescuing a stranded woman.
NYU worker Josh Garcia was reunited with the Bronx teen he saved after she fell on the tracks.
Officer Rosa Rodriguez had been hospitalized since April, when she responded to a fire in Coney Island.
Joshua Garcia said the "power of the Lord" led him to save Stephanie Xue from Union Square subway track.
Plumber David Justino, who was laid off after saving Sian Green, found a new job with a Gowanus company.
Jose Bernazard was arraigned on Thursday, June 27, 2013 in his hospital room in Jamaica, Queens.
Jon Candelaria, 25, who saved a taxi driver from drowning, will be honored by the Knicks Friday.
Brian Dillon said he acted on 'instinct' when he pointed Jeffrey Johnson out to cops.
A New York City dad was honored Wednesday for a daring subway rescue.
The mom of a girl who fell from a third story apartment got to thank her daughter's rescuer.
Steve St. Bernard caught a girl falling from a third-floor AC unit at a Coney Island apartment complex.
The actor apparently stopped a woman from stepping in front of a cab on Sixth Avenue Tuesday.
Branndin Phillips-Laramore, 16, shouted for a friend to get out of the way a split second before he was struck by a hit-run driver on 125th Street last Thursday.
A man walking along Eighth Avenue helped out police by tackling a burglar in the West Village on Sunday.
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Jackett is keen to keep hold of the Republic of Ireland international striker but readily admits League One may not be the place for him as suitors from higher divisions continue to be linked with his services, while Doyle's wages would also stretch Wolves' third-tier budget.
But the 29-year-old has shown plenty of commitment to Wanderers' cause since being brought back into Jackett's plans, and it currently remains to be seen where he will be plying his trade when the window closes on Monday September 2.
"Kevin is a Wolves player although there is constant speculation in the newspapers," Jackett told the club's official website. "Is he unhappy here? Is he close to a move? That's not necessarily the case.
"It's quite a unique and unusual situation that the club has dropped two levels in two years and these might not be our problems but they are our equations to work out.
"The club has its way and we have got to make sure we keep planning on ourselves and concentrate on our own club and our own team.
"Kevin's commitment since I have been here has been excellent and it was evident (in Saturday's 2-1 victory at Bristol City)."
Asked if Doyle has too much quality for League One, Wanderers' head coach added: "I hope that proves the case over the course of the year and I hope we can keep him as well. But we'll have to see.
"He has shown a lot of commitment and a lot of quality in the short time I have been here."
Meanwhile, Wolves right-back Matt Doherty insists he is claiming Saturday's late winner at Ashton Gate despite it being unclear as to whether Robins defender Aden Flint got the final touch on his mis-hit volley.
"All the lads are trying to say it was an own goal but there is no way they can take it off me," Doherty said.


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San Angelo's Catfish Corner Restaurant re-opened Monday after a fire destroyed the building last year.
Catfish Corner was rebuilt on the same site as the original building that was destroyed by a fire.
Monday afternoon, the lunch crowd filled the restaurant with many people ready to enjoy a delicious catfish meal, or try some of the new menu items including: a grilled chicken salad and a grilled chicken plate.
The new building includes a private dining area and can accommodate about 150 people.


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Legislature tackles Tomblin's proposals
CHARLESTON -- His proposed changes to West Virginia public schools are getting plenty of attention, but Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin also has more than two dozen other measures pending at the Legislature.
Halfway through the session, the governor is counting on lawmakers to begin advancing the rest of his 29-item agenda.
With the education proposal up for a vote Monday in the Senate, just two of the governor's bills have passed at least one chamber. The House last month approved his steep increases of fines for pipeline safety violations, following the fiery December rupture of a Sissonville natural gas line. Delegates on Friday sent the first of Tomblin's bills to his desk, a supplemental budget measure maintaining funding for child day care aid while paying court-appointed lawyers.
Around a dozen more of Tomblin's measures have cleared at least one committee, but the rest are idling.
Besides the schools bill, the agenda item with the highest profile is drawn from the recent Justice Reinvestment Initiative study of West Virginia's inmate crowding crisis. Among other provisions, it would increase supervision and drug treatment options for inmates upon release and reduce the number of parolees who are returned to prison for minor violations. The Senate Finance Committee expects to take it up Monday. Senate Judiciary advanced it earlier this month, though it still faces critics of its provision releasing non-violent offenders into supervised programs six months before their sentences end.
Tomblin has gotten traction with his call for jobs impact statements to accompany legislation. Lawmakers in both chambers and across party lines have expressed support for weighing the economic benefits or costs of pending bills. The Senate Economic Development Committee endorsed a version of that bill last week, while tweaking who besides the governor could request a statement.
The Senate health committee recently advanced the governor's bid to cut Medicaid transport costs by sending up a brokerage for arranging rides to medical offices. But those lawmakers also added a major exemption, allowing ambulance companies, senior centers and public transit to opt out of the brokerage.
The House's economic development committee has approved an agenda item that seeks to recapture $8 million annually for the general revenue budget. This bill would reclaim proceeds from taxes on corporate net income, insurance policies and extracted natural resources that now fund such special purposes as improving railroad service.
But Republicans remain wary of a companion measure that seeks to increase West Virginia's already hefty emergency reserves. It would allow the state to save up to the equivalent of 15 percent of general revenue spending in its main "Rainy Day" fund. The limit is now 13 percent.
Once the new target is reached, the bill would deposit future surplus revenues into a new fund for road, water and sewer projects. It would also devote the investment earnings from some of the state's reserves to rising Medicaid costs.
But differing views of government taxes and spending derailed a similar measure last year.
"There is some question within our caucus as to whether we need to increase the amount that's set aside in the Rainy Day fund," said House Minority Leader Tim Armstead. "We believe that those funds might be better used being put back in the economy through tax deductions and that will in turn promote job creation in West Virginia."
Armstead, a Kanawha County Republican, said the 46 GOP delegates will more closely assess that and other bills from Tomblin's agenda as they begin to move.
The governor's proposed crackdown of drugged driving, meanwhile, has bogged down in House Judiciary. Lawmakers there are debating whether drivers should lose their licenses for refusing to allow a drug test following their arrest. The bill allows police officers to test for drugs as well as alcohol after an arrest for driving under the influence, while recognizing that a breath test can detect alcohol but not drugs. But the measure's language has committee members questioning whether it would violate constitutional rights.
Other bills that await even an initial committee's review include Tomblin's bid to apply state taxes to more online sales. His proposal limiting tax credits for alternative fuel vehicles to those that run on natural gas has also idled, but it is slated for a Tuesday review by the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The governor has also had eight bills introduced that would add a total of $250 million to the current budget while rerouting existing spending. Those include the child care and public defender measure passed Friday.
Lawrence Messina covers the statehouse for The Associated Press. Follow him at http://twitter.com/lmessina
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Frequent Questions
AchieveGuilford is a community based commitment to the educational success of all children in Guilford County. Sponsored by the Guilford Education Alliance, Guilford County Schools (GCS), Businesses for Excellence in Education and Action Greensboro, AchieveGilford aligns community resources to ensure students are successful at each critical point in their education and prepared for the challenges of postsecondary education and future careers. With a mission of Every Child Ready: Cradle to Career, AchieveGuilford is guided by a steering committee of community volunteers and works through project teams in specific focus areas.
Every economic and community development study conducted in Greensboro and High Point has targeted public education as an important issue. There is a direct correlation between a strong school system held in high confidence by the community and the ability to attract individuals, families and businesses to Guilford County. Over the years, community efforts from nonprofits and groups like the Business for Excellence in Education, High Point Workforce Project, Action Greensboro, and the Guilford Education Alliance, have worked alongside GCS to create many new and innovative programs. AchieveGuilford was created, then, through a task force embracing all elements of the community and the schools with a goal of forging a common agenda for success.
AchieveGuilford was formed to create a community commitment to educational success. Education drives economic growth and financial gain within a community and thus, the success of GCS children directly relates to a better prepared workforce,stronger local economy and more active and engaged citizenry. While there are many programs of excellence within GCS, further opportunities exist to provide additional support in order to ensure overall student success at critical development stages. By establishing community-based programs, AchieveGuilford will focus on the 18 hours a day a student is not in school so success is realized in and out of the classroom.
The goals of AchieveGuilford are fully aligned with the goals set forth in the GCS strategic plan to provide greater support for public education through community-based programs. Frequent, transparent communication among AchieveGuilford, its steering committee, GCS and the community, ensures a strong support system for student success. Through regular updates via a variety of communication channels, a broader understanding of task force goals and objectives will take place.
A steering committee comprised completely of volunteers from the business, nonprofit and public sectors, which includes the GCS Superintendent and executive staff members, will help implement Achieve Guilford programs. Seven project teams focus on specific areas - such as strengthening early childhood education, literacy or new career paths tied to the future economy - to identify effective programs through existing nonprofit organizations and by developing new programs for implementation. A list of some of the individuals and organizations involved can be found at the organization page.
Critical success factors have been identified by the steering committee that are the basic points where a student must be successful if he or she is to progress, graduate, and enter some form of postsecondary preparation. Project teams have been created to focus on these success factors and to develop other supports for GCS. These include:
- School Readiness: The focus on early childhood development (pre-natal, birth and up to age four) sets the pace for social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth. A child who does not come to kindergarten with the basic vocabulary, counting skills, letter recognition, and other factors begins his/her educational career with a deficit. By working with daycares, faith based organizations and parents, the community-at-large can help prepare a child for learning.
- Reading on Grade Level by the End of the Third Grade: The beginning of the fourth grade is a touchstone for future success. Texts and written materials, as well as the associated vocabulary that accompanies reading, is required for a student to progress. A student not reading at grade level at this point requires extensive, increased intervention to catch up. Through tutoring and experiential literacy/reading games, nonprofits, churches, synagogues and other youth focused organizations can help ensure a child is reading at grade level by the end of third grade.
- Career Planning and the Future Economy: There is no question that the economic base of Guilford County continues to change. It is critical that teachers, counselors and students understand trends in the workforce, as well as the experience and education needed for future jobs. Beginning to really think about the age-old question of "what do you want to be when you grow up?" during the middle school years helps a student embrace the educational requirements of future employment. AchieveGuilford seeks to make Every Child Ready: Cradle to Career. It is clear that a high school diploma is insufficient. A postsecondary education, which includes training, community college or a four-year university, is required to fully prepare a student for a successful career of his/her choice. The business community and professional groups can provide invaluable information to schools to better prepare students for the workforce.
- Parent Involvement/Parent Academy: GCS has created an innovative and valuable method for parents to learn how and when to support their children, and to follow their progress. Through the Parent Academy, parents can take an active role in the education of their child that includes on-line access to the texts used at every grade level. Using the district's Parent Assistant program, parents can check their child's grades, homework assignments and attendance. Offering classes and information on how parents can work with their children and teachers will improve their understanding of education as it relates to economic and future success.
- Character Development: An education, and becoming a "whole person," requires more than just classes and topical learning. Teamwork, ethical behavior, and having a moral code that helps a student develop a philosophy of life and personal goals have been found to be just as important in school success as grades alone. Service learning and volunteerism teach about the importance of community and engage students with others from all walks of life and backgrounds. A community focus on character education supplements in-school themes and provides a base for conversation throughout Guilford County.
- Leadership Development: Professional development is critical for individuals throughout their career. GCS, along with many local businesses and community organizations, offers professional development programs. Leadership opportunities and management development seminars with business professionals for school personnel - including teachers, principals and school administrators - will enhance performance. Data shows that the quality of the teacher is the most critical factor in student success, followed by the strength of the instructional leader or principal. Turning leadership opportunities into positive action, both personally and professionally, is the overarching goal of this task force and provides an outlet for employers across Guilford County to become involved.
- School Models: GCS is a national leader in the development of early and middle colleges, as well as the creation of special magnet school and education theme programs like the International Baccalaureate. New schools under development include a health professions early/middle college and a Science, Technology, Math, and Science (STEM) early college. An additional goal is the creation of a middle school modeled on the features of the KIPP schools and the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta.
There is a national network of communities engaged in similar work. Known as the Cradle to Career Network¸ the model was first developed in Cincinnati through a program knows as STRIVE. It has now spread to Houston, Portland, East Bay/Oakland, and Richmond, while about fifty other communities are in various stages of affiliating with the network. AchieveGuilford plans to be a part of this network to learn from other communities and to gain technical assistance as appropriate.
AchieveGuilford initial planning and development has not required substantial funding. Thus far, funding has been provided by local foundations. As specific programs are identified and developed, the philanthropic and business communities will be approached to provide support. The nonprofit community will be encouraged to collaborate with others and to align their existing programs rather than to develop new programming.
AchieveGuilford will require some staff support to coordinate programs and activities, but the bulk of the effort will be accomplished through volunteer commitment. Some new programs will require start-up funding. The Guilford Education Alliance, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, serves as fiscal agent and provides accounting services and oversight.
AchieveGuilford will embrace existing GCS performance goals and will seek to help students progress by tapping into community resources and expertise. That is, a strong relationship with individuals and groups in the nonprofit, business and public sectors will afford students and schools a broader knowledge base to pull from. Our goal is not to measure the success of the school system, but to measure the effectiveness of the community programs in contributing to student success. If a program is not positively contributing, then it will be modified or its sponsoring agency will be encouraged to make changes. An evaluation model and process will be developed using the resources of the local higher education community.
AchieveGuilford is different because it is, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive educational initiative in Guilford County in which the focus on educational success begins at birth and continues until a student enters a career. By bringing current and new players into the picture - from nonprofits currently providing programming to faith communities and other organizations - we hope to further motivate Guilford County so that the mission, Every Child Ready: Cradle to Career, becomes a reality.
You can support AchieveGuilford in numerous ways by donating your talent, time or treasure. At www.achieveguilford.org, you can become a part of our email distribution list, volunteer for a project, financially support one or more programs or contribute directly to GCS activities. To share an idea or talk with one of our committee members, visit the Contact Us page on the web site.


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This is the most wonderful taste of authentic cuban food I've ever had. Atmosphere is cafeteria style and in the back of a grocery store, but everyone is family oriented, polite, and they bring the food to your table. For a fresh, great authentic Cuban meal, come to La Unica; a great value as well (most meals under $10/person)
Posted by Rosemary on 08/15/2009
First impressions are so important, this little market with a restaurant in the back scared me away, I just got some black beans, which were okay. The cuban coffee was not. so when I come back, I will skip the cafe cubano and I will give this place a real try with a full meal
Posted by Anonymous on 05/10/2006
I'm Cuban and have been going to La Unica since I was a tiny one. The food is incredible, particularly the arroz con pollo, the chickpea soup, and the fried plantains (which come with pretty much everything). You get an unbelievable amount of food-- black beans, white rice or congri (beans mixed with rice) and fried plantains or yucca with your entree, usually for under 8 dollars. They also serve Materva, a yerba mate-based Cuban soda that is extremely hard to find here. It's an acquired taste, but, again, it's a delicious Cuban original. If you're going for chic, this is not the place-- it's a dingy cafeteria-style hole in the wall at the back of a small grocery store. But if you want the most authentic, unpretentious Cuban food in the city, this is without question the place to go. It's my first stop whenever I'm home in Chicago.


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You know, I'm now just realizing that I don't blog enough about Mellow Orange and what's going on with the label… Better late than never. With that said, here's some old jazzy joints off the MPC that my man Question (Analogue Studies/Mellow Orange) put out recently. Check it out.


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Tom Zhou arrived from Beijing three years ago to attend Chinese Christian High School here. The 17-year-old is graduating in June and is set to attend the University of California, Los Angeles in the fall.
There is no better time for a Latino to be representing the Department of Education, now that recently released data shows Latinos are lagging behind others when it comes to getting college degrees.
The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), the leading national organization advocating for 21st century readiness for every student, welcomes Stephan Turnipseed, President, LEGO Education North America, as a strategic council member.
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Lauren Rothman from Serious Eats has a serious issue: She can't stand weeding. Her garden—much like mine—is getting overrun with weeds. So what's a girl to do?
Get dirty, for starters. She gives several excellent tips for gardeners in her Weeding 101 primer, including go slow, get all the roots, and to make sure never to compost weeds (they'll just come back to plague you later). She has a lot of good advice, but I disagree with her on one point: I've found that the best way to get rid of weeds is not to wait for a dry day and do it all at once, but rather to do a little digging, every single day. Don't let them choke out your plants. Practice preventative measure and nip them in the bud. Literally.
Sure, it's a pain. But in my garden, I'm dealing with some serious invasive species. See that picture at the top? That's knotweed, and it is a killer. It's also, interestingly enough, edible. It tastes a bit like rhubarb, and can be used much in the same way. While this by no means makes up for its repeated efforts to strangle my spinach, it is good to know that even the lowliest weeds can serve a purpose.
The Urban Gardener: Weeding Stinks from Serious Eats