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Having started as one small shop in Lancashire, The Co-operative is now the fifth largest food retailer, the third largest retail pharmacy chain, the number one provider of funeral services and the largest independent travel business in the UK. The Co-operative Group also has strong market positions in banking and insurance. Owned and run by its members, The Co-operative group employs 120,000 people, has 5.5 million members and around 4,800 retail outlets.
In 2008, The Co-operative continued the expansion of its food operation by buying circa 900 Somerfield stores, taking its total number of food stores to over 3,000.
To cope with the increase in workload, The Co-operative Retail Location Analysis (RLA) team needed a solution which would speed up the planning process, aid decision making and make the department more efficient.
The RLA team were asked for a solution to identify which of the Somerfield stores would potentially fail the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) rules for acquisition, which would in turn enable the group to prepare to dispose of the stores in a tactical manner. Having worked together for over six years, The Co-operative turned to their trusted partner Experian to enable this solution.
It was vital that the intended solution was compatible with the RLA team's existing systems, including the location planning software Experian Micromarketer Generation 3 (MMg3), and the team's series of databases.
The solution also had to be capable of handling large datasets, and produce high quality analysis on a large scale. It was hoped that the solution could cut analysis time, and allow the team to prioritise stores more efficiently.
The Co-operative RLA team asked Experian to provide them with Alteryx; a front end data-flow system which enables geographic business intelligence and uses the engine behind the Experian MMg3 being used already.
By implementing Alteryx alongside the existing Experian MMg3 software, The Co-operative RLA team were able to:
- Access Co-operative data and convert these to spatial objects
- Append census and lifestyle customer information to user-defined boundaries
- Apply geographical processes to the data
- Perform spatial analysis without waiting for maps to load
- Output results to most known file types as required
Adhering to very tight timescales to enable The Co-operative RLA team to quickly improve their processes and decide which stores need to be closed, Experian installed Alteryx and the relevant background datasets onto the Co-operative computers.
An in-depth training course was provided by Experian to ensure all users fully understood the full benefits and intricacies of the system. The RLA team were given direct access to their Account Manager, who provided around the clock after-sales support as and when requested.
From this, the RLA team spent two weeks building a module which replicated the OFT rules for acquisitions.
The successful implementation of Alteryx into Experian MMg3, has enabled increased processing speed for The Co-operative, whilst maintaining the overall quality, accuracy and reliability of current RLA methods. This has equipped the RLA team to cope with a higher workload.
Using Alteryx and Experian MMg3, the Co-operative put almost 1,000 Somerfield stores through the OFT rules for acquisition and two hours analysis time per site was saved as a result. The Co-operative RLA team have since used the module to analyse many new potential sites, that would not have been previously possible without Alteryx.
"Experian provide us with a professional software and data package which meets our analysis needs. Customer Service from the Experian Team is second to none and we feel like a valued customer. We are very happy to be associated with Experian."
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Children of 9/11 die fighting its war
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May 27, 2013
When the terrorists struck on 9/11, Barrett Austin was in Mrs. Spearman's second-grade class here. Weeks later, he'd wear a Ninja costume with a red headband for Halloween.
Tristan Wade was a middle-school practical joker with an endearing crooked smile who told everyone he wanted to be in the Army like his dad, a military policeman stationed near Tacoma, Wash.
Zack Shannon was playing Army in a cul-de-sac where his family lived in Florida. He'd break his ankle later that fifth-grade year on a neighbor's trampoline across the street.
[…] All three children — Barrett, 8, Tristan, 11, and Zack, 9 — would reach manhood as fighting churned on. Barrett's desire to challenge himself, Tristan's drive for excitement and Zack's love of all things military would draw each on separate paths toward war.
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Want to hear your voice on the radio? Would you like to brag to your friends that you were on NPR? National Audubon Society Chief Scientist (and Audubon California alum) will be on NPR Science Friday today at 12:30 PM PT and we are inviting YOU to call in and talk about what you've seen […]
Entries from December 23rd, 2011
Christmas Bird Count on NPR
December 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Christmas Bird Count
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Safe travels
December 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon California
Safe travels to everyone doing their own "migration" this season and happy holidays! (Illustration by Alex Solis) Share on Facebook
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Being bird-brained isn't such an insult afterall
December 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · urban conservation
An article by James Gorman in today's New York Times reports that pigeons can learn math: Pigeons have now shown that they can learn abstract rules about numbers, an ability which until now had been demonstrated only in primates. In the 1990s scientists trained rhesus monkeys to look at groups of items on a screen […]
Santa lends a hand
December 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon California, Starr Ranch Sanctuary
Santa Claus lends a hand to our conservation field crews at the Starr Ranch Sanctuary: Share on Facebook
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T'was the CBC before Christmas
December 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon Chapters, Birding, Christmas Bird Count
Funny little poem from Greg Cook, from the El Dorado Audubon Society in Long Beach. Share on Facebook
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Helping a Bald Eagle in distress
December 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Bird conservation, Birding, Wildlife photos and video
On Saturday, Dec. 18, photographer Jose Echevarria was driving along Highway 161 in Northern California, when he came across what appeared to be a wounded animal in the road. Here's how the rest transpired in both his words and photographs: Share on Facebook
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Report from the Tejon Ranch Audubon Christmas Bird Count
December 19th, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon California, Bird conservation, Birding, Christmas Bird Count, Conservation research, Important Bird Areas
Several staffers took part in the Tejon Ranch Audubon Christmas Bird Count on Friday, Dec. 16. In the video below, Andrea Jones and Mia Moawad Forcier give a quick report. It should be noted that before Audubon California helped broker a major conservation agreement for the Ranch, little or no scientific surveys were done on […]
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Quiet victory for California seabirds
December 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Audubon California, Bird conservation, Bird Habitat, seabirds, State Policy
In a decision that probably won't get much press, the California Fish and Game Commission at its meeting in San Diego yesterday rejected a petition by a small group of fishermen to increase the catch limits for market squid. The Commission followed that decision with another asking conservation stakeholders to develop a draft of a […]
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10 things we've learned from the Audubon Christmas Bird Count
December 16th, 2011 · Comments Off · Bird conservation, Birding, Christmas Bird Count, National Audubon Society
Birds are not Climate Skeptics, having spoken with their wings. The Bald Eagle is back; the Endangered Species Act Works Many of America's most familiar and beloved birds are in serious decline. Eurasian Collared-Doves invaded America Peregrine Falcons are no longer in trouble Sage-grouse are in deep trouble WatchList More and more hummingbirds are staying in […]
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Christmas Bird Counting on Tejon Ranch
December 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon California, Birding, Christmas Bird Count, National Audubon Society, Tejon Ranch
Staffers from Audubon California are participating in today's Christmas Bird Count on Tejon Ranch. Before Audubon and four other environmental organizations struck a landmark conservation agreement with the Tejon Ranch Company in 2008, the natural treasures of this pristine wilderness were off limits to researchers. Since that agreement, however, Audubon has been able to add […]
Innovative Audubon conservation project in Baja will benefit seabirds up and down West Coast
December 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon California, Bird conservation, Bird Habitat, National Audubon Society, seabirds
Over the last 38 years, techniques developed by Dr. Stephen Kress, Director ofAudubon's Seabird Restoration Program and Project Puffin, have restored breeding Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds toMaine's coastal islands. Beginning this spring, the innovative approach, which uses decoys, mirrors, and recordings to attract birds to suitable nesting sites, will be implemented on theBaja Californiapeninsula. […]
A great day on Aramburu Island
December 14th, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon California, Bird conservation, Bird Habitat, Important Bird Areas, Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary, S.F. Bay
Anyone who has been following this blog for a while knows that we are very excited about the work we're doing on Aramburu Island in San Francisco Bay. We recently finished a dramatic reshaping of the shoreline to better accommodate migratory shorebirds, and we're already seeing great results. Today, we had a team survey the […]
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Keiller Kyle talks about Tricolored Blackbirds
December 14th, 2011 · Comments Off · Audubon California, Bird conservation, Bird Habitat, Tricolored Blackbird
Keiller Kyle, Audubon California's Tricolored Blackbird Coordinator stopped by our Emeryville office to talk about our work to save this fantastic California bird. He had a lot to say, but these few facts stood out: In 1937, there were more than 3 million Tricolored Blackbirds in California. In 2010, there were 259,000. In 1900, the […]
Laverne the California Least Tern
December 14th, 2011 · Comments Off · Bird conservation, Bird Habitat, Birding, urban conservation
So, some of our Audubon staffers were down in San Diego recently to do some conservation planning for Mission Bay. While at the airport, they stumbled upon this sign at the bookstore. After asking a few questions, they learned that an entire story had built around an endangered California Least Tern (which they've named Laverne) […]
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Starr Ranch Barn Owls are back!
December 14th, 2011 · Comments Off · Bird videos, Birding, Starr Ranch Sanctuary, Video, Wildlife photos and video
Those of you who enjoyed watching the Audubon Starr Ranch Barn Owls via live webcam last year will be glad to know that the owls are back. So far, they've laid five eggs, which means that we'll have owlets before too long. You can watch it all live here. Enjoy. Share on Facebook


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Cheers: To better security cameras coming to C-Tran buses. Clark County's transit agency is planning a $1.35 million fleetwide upgrade this year that will replace 1990s technology with higher quality cameras and a video system that is much easier to view. With the current system, it can take as long as two to three hours to retrieve a recording, view it, and reload the recorder onto the bus. The new system provides for wireless downloading.Of course, most C-Tran trips are routine. But the cameras are useful for resolving customer complaints, such as a bus missing a stop, or validating the truth of a claim for injury or property damage. Occasionally the bus cameras record an accident or crime, such as the recent horrific crash on Highway 99 that killed a motorist and critically injured a pedestrian. And there is a short greatest-hits reel that includes two goats that tried to board a bus. Critical or mundane, the new cameras will provide a clearer view of C-Tran's world.
Jeers: To New Year's Eve fireworks. Most local governments long ago banned the sale and discharge of personal fireworks around New Year's. Battle Ground is the sole local exception; the Battle Ground Chamber of Commerce sells the fireworks for five days leading up to a six-hour legal window for discharging them. The chamber nets between $3,000 and $4,000 for its programs from the sales.
But the cost to the public is much greater. The cacophony could be heard in various neighborhoods around the county where fireworks were not legal, or beyond the posted hours. And in Battle Ground, the improper disposal of used fireworks was to blame for a fire that caused an estimated $265,000 to a home and $10,000 to each of two neighboring residences. The celebration just isn't worth it.
Cheers: To less-lethal weapons in police arsenals. Some police calls require officers to use physical restraint. Once in a great while, deadly force must be used. In between these extremes lies the need for less-lethal weapons. The arsenal has grown in recent years to include Taser devices, guns that fire sponge batons, and "grenades" full of rubber balls that can be used for crowd control. All of these weapons are dangerous. In some cases, death is possible. So it's regrettable when police have to use this type of force. But it's encouraging to know that they have these tools available to defuse a dangerous situation.
Jeers: To a ban on allowing American citizens to adopt Russian children. Russia's president, Vladmir Putin, signed such a bill last month, putting these happy homes out of reach. The Associated Press reported the bill is widely viewed as retaliation against an American law that calls for sanctions against Russians deemed to be human rights violators. So once again children are caught by the political infighting of adults. The adoption ban has local ramifications, too; at least one local adoption agency says it had a half-dozen clients who were in the early stages of adopting Russian orphans. They will have to look elsewhere to find a child in need of a good home.
Cheers: To Karl Johnson, an alternative-education teacher at Summit View Middle School in Battle Ground. Johnson's quest is to turn the former Girl Scout Camp Julianna into Camp Hope, a place of transformative outdoor education for children who do better in alternative rather than traditional classrooms. He convinced Clark County, which owns the 107-acre site near the East Fork of the Lewis River, to lease it for $1 per year, and is raising money to get Camp Hope up and running. But financial support from the schools and the government is scarce, and the needs are great. The opportunity is even greater.


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Cornell Stephens age 83 of Center, Kentucky passed away Saturday, January 19, 2013 at T.J. Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow. He was born in Tompkinsville, Kentucky the son of the late Tim C. and Verda O. Williams Stephens. He was a member of the Center Church of Christ. He was a retired educator of 37 years having been principal of North Metcalfe Elementary School for 28 years (1959-1987). He is an Army veteran of the Korean War having served in Germany.
He is survived by his loving wife, Susan Gittings Stephens; three daughters Diana (Ronnie) Smith of Center, Connie (David) Travis of Owensboro; Susan Kay Stephens of Center; one son, Bennie C. Stephens of Center. Two grandchildren, Angela (Jamie) Powell of Irmo, South Carolina and Justin D. Smith of Center. Two great grandchildren, Kylie and Kellen Powell of Irmo, South Carolina. Two sister in laws; Dorothy Richardson and Blanche Stephens both of Tompkinsville. One brother in law Rex (June) Gittings of Tompkinsville. Four nephews, Tim Stephens of Texas, Clifford Stephens of Tompkinsville, Melvin and Tommy Lindsey both of Smiths Grove. Two great nieces, Chelsea and Courtney Stephens of Tompkinsville. Besides his parents he was preceded in death by a sister, Gladys R. Lindsey and a brother, Kenneth M. Stephens.
Funeral services will be held 1:00 PM Wednesday at Butler Funeral Home in Edmonton with burial in the Monroe County Memorial Lawn. Visitation will be from 3:00 PM until 8:00 PM Tuesday and after 9:00 AM Wednesday at the funeral home.


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Leaked files reveal secret indictment of Julian Assange
A press release from Wikileaks aid that the U.S could possibly have had a secret indictment against Julian Assange and those associated with Wikileaks for more than the last 12 months.
The release cites leaked confidential emails from the Stratfor U.S private intelligence firm, which say that, since early 2011, former Deputy Chief of the Department of State's counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service Fred Burton had already issued a sealed indictment for Assange.
The emails also reveal the way in which Burton planed to halt Assange's work.
Emails from Fred Burton reveal that the US Government employs the same counterterrorism strategy against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as against Al Qaeda: "Take down the money. Go after his infrastructure. The tools we are using to nail and de-construct Wiki are the same tools used to dismantle and track aQ [Al Qaeda]...."would pursue [c]onspiracy and [p]olitical [t]errorism charges and declassify the death of a source someone which [he] could link to Wiki"
Assange's response was in line of a man who is being targeted.
"For over a year now, the US Attorney General Eric Holder has been conducting a "secret" Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks. This neo-McCarthyist witch hunt against WikiLeaks may be Mr Holder's defining legacy. Any student of American history knows that secret justice is no justice at all. Justice must be seen to be done. Legitimate authority arises out of the informed consent of the governed, not Eric Holder's press secretary."


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The Best of SistersBy: Dilly Court (author)Paperback
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DescriptionThe Thames carried him away from her, but would it bring him home...? Twelve-year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but the cold, comfortless banks of the Thames. Living above her uncle's chandlery she has grown accustomed to a life of penury and servitude, her only comfort the love and protection of her older brother, Bart. But one day Bart accidentally kills a man and is forced to flee to New Zealand. Alone, barefoot, beaten down and at the mercy of her cruel uncle, Eliza realises that her very survival is at stake...
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In the past dozen years Americans have made a major shift in the way they pay for college. Instead of relying on the savings and current income of students, parents and institutions, they have shifted a large share of the burden onto the future earnings of students, creating an ever-growing student loan debt.
That figure, now more than $1 trillion and climbing, poses a serious threat not just to those who owe it, but the overall U.S. economy.
And to stop this unsustainable trend a careful process of review and reform must be instituted, into which political gamesmanship should not intrude.
Unfortunately, though, some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, persist in casting Republicans who offer reasonable - and affordable - proposals on this issue as miserly villains. This is a bipartisan problem that requires a bipartisan solution.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, 71 percent of college students now graduate with debt, now averaging $29,400.
And the student loan system is an administrative nightmare fraught with confusion and waste. Loans are routinely bundled and sold off in ways that obscure ownership, making renegotiation of them difficult.
A study by Goldman Sachs shows that student loan debt has quadrupled in real terms since 2002. A little more than half of the increase is due to higher enrollment and the larger percentage of students receiving education loans.
But at least a quarter of the increase - $250 billion of the debt - is due to higher tuition, room and board fees charged by colleges. Public institutions have led the way in pushing up the cost of college, in large part because state support has not kept up with rising costs.
Thus, in an awful twist, student loans that were supposed to make college more affordable have actually made college more costly.
President Obama has expanded eligibility for a program known as "Pay as You Earn," which tailors monthly student loan repayments to a borrower's discretionary income. It also includes a schedule for eventual forgiveness that is accelerated for teachers and others in public service.
But those changes would help only about 5 million of the 37 million people with outstanding student loans.
The president also has endorsed a student loan reform bill proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
However, that bill contains a poison-pill tax increase opposed by Republicans.
And as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wis., recently wrote in an op-ed on the CNBC website, Washington must do more than simply expand student loan forgiveness "while doing little to address the confusing bureaucracy that causes so many borrowers to fall through the cracks."
They warned: "This approach is fundamentally wrong and will only reward over-borrowing while leaving taxpayers holding the bag. Instead, young workers need a streamlined and dynamic repayment system that automatically adjusts to their ability to pay over time. This would protect them from the financial ruin of default but in a way that is fiscally sustainable, fair and that encourages prudent borrowing."
Clearly, both parties must find a practical middle ground for changes that balance incentives for student loan repayment by those who can afford it and effectively targeted forgiveness for those who can't.
Just as clearly, playing politics with this issue won't resolve it.
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The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) conducted a hearing on July 26, 2011 to examine the use of criminal background checks in hiring. It was an open hearing and representatives of the American Camp Association (ACA) attended. The Commission heard testimony both in support of and in opposition to employers using criminal background checks in their hiring and screening processes. Below are the relevant links and ACA's response.
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- EEOC Hearing on 7/26/11: EEOC to Examine Arrest and Conviction Records as a Hiring Barrier [1]
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In an evenly matched opening set, the Kane Lady Wolves battled the Hubbers to scores of 25-22 for a split in the Kane Varsity Volleyball Tournament.
"Smethport has a nice middle blocker and we had to really work around her," said Kane head varsity volleyball coach Judy Kessler. "We passed fairly well most of the set but got into a little trouble in the last third of the second set and just let the game get away from us."
The first Kane disc golf scramble was held Saturday, Oct. 11 at Evergreen Park on the Milton Craven Disc Golf Course. The field of 17 teams navigated the course on a picturesque fall day. The team of Andy Bundy and Matt Sirianni won the event with a score of 50 while second place team of Chris Cummings and Chris Udovich was second with a score of 51.
The Kane Wolves lost a hard-fought 7-6 game with Curwensville on Friday night in a battle of 5-1 teams. The Wolves had won their previous game on a last minute field goal against Brockway and appeared as though they might have some last minute magic again. It didn't happen, however, as the Tide got a turnover with just over three minutes left in the game and got a couple crucial first downs to run out the clock and preserve the victory on their home field.
The Kane Wolves make the long trip to Curwensville tonight as they take on the Curwensville Golden Tide in a battle of 5-1 teams. The Wolves have played in two consecutive nail-biters, losing to Ridgway in week five 21-20 before rebounding last week and defeating Brockway 9-7 on a Dillon Mattis field goal with eight seconds left in the game. Like the Wolves, the Tide started out their season 4-0 but stumbled in the opening week of AML South competition by losing 20-13 to Elk County Catholic.
The Kane Lady Wolves had their biggest game offensively of the season but it wasn't enough as the Brockway Lady Rovers left Kane with a 6-4 win on Thursday afternoon in the Kane girls' last home game of the season.
The Kane Lady Wolves' volleyball team hosted the Elk County Catholic Lady Crusaders on Thursday evening in the Wolves' Den. The Lady Crusaders won the contest in straight sets, 25-11, 25-21 and 25-13, to improve to 11-0 with the win. The young Lady Wolves dropped to 3-8 with the loss, but played well during the match.
The Kane boys and girls golf teams put the finishing touches on their season recently. The District 9 girls' tournament was held Monday in Brookville, with sophomore Erin Paulson representing the Lady Wolves. Paulson shot a good round of 111 to finish in seventh place. Keystone's Amber Hess shot a phenomenal round of 77 to finish as district champion with Brookville's Elaina Powell taking second place, carding a 91.
Senior Jake Fritz scored twice in less than a minute midway through the second half Tuesday to give St. Marys a 3-1 rain-drenched win at Kane in boys soccer.
Colin Rohrback also scored for St. Marys and Zachary Fox added two assists.
Senior Chris Cummings scored for Kane on an assist from Bryce Schreckengost.
The match was played in a steady, bone-chilling rain that intensified in the second half. But the heavier rain only seemed to pump up both teams.
By the time you read this fall will have begun. Today I noticed the leaves were starting to change, with many already on the ground. This colorful season is a bonus for any nature photographer with scenic being at the top of the list. I like to combine any wildlife I might encounter with a colorful background, which can be done rather easily at this time of the year. It all breaks down to being at the right place at the right time, and of course, having subjects to shoot! I always view fall as a slow time in nature photography, but I know I shouldn't do that.
The Kane Wolves took on Brockway, winners of three straight District 9 Class A crowns, and lost 6-2 to the Rovers on a cold, rainy Monday afternoon in Kane.
The Wolves, who lost to the Rovers 9-0 in Brockway early in the season, only trailed 2-1 late in the first half as they played the returning champs in a steady rain.


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Im a fairly new drummer (1-year) and im struggeling with annoying technical stuff. I bought the Roland TD-11.
- When using the Mix In, what comes through to my headphones is noisy and disturbed music. It seem like a faulty connection somewhere, but it worked the first month or so. I bought new cables but nothing. Anyone experienced something similar? I have reset to factory setting as well.
- Anyone can recommend a good place to get some new kits in? Im sort of lost, and I just deeply desire a great sound so i can keep on practicing. The pre-sets seem completely off with the toms really loud, the kick none-existing and the snare tricky to hit right.
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Well you can read my thread about my studio set up with a Roland TD-4K2 below--I don't even use the internal sounds because the drums sound so sick when using midi to trigger addictive drums. So there is something to be said for getting AD, or Superior Drummer, etc, and expanding with midi. Also gives you layering options with the audio output of your Roland Module.
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In the process of working on this change we actually discovered that the Luck of the Draw buff has not been working in Cataclysm at all, save for a few specific dungeons. This means that the difficulty in almost all normal and Heroic dungeons for those using the Dungeon Finder tool was higher than expected. Still, with that issue corrected in 4.0.6, we feel the bump up to 15% for three or more random players found through the Dungeon Finder is a necessary change.
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The 2013-14 school year marked the first full year of classes at Love Chapel Elementary School's temporary site adjacent to Unicoi County High School. (Brad Hicks/Johnson City Press)
The staff and more than 230 students at Love Chapel Elementary School in Erwin have become quite adept at adapting to change over the past couple of years.
The start of the 2013-14 school year brought with it yet another major change — it would mark the first year of classes at Love Chapel's temporary site. With the school year now winding down, school system officials and educators reflected on the year, which they agree brought some challenges. However, they also agree those at Love Chapel have continued to make the best of a difficult and unusual situation.
In March 2013, the Unicoi County Board of Education voted to have the school system lease 12 modular units for a period of three years. These modular classrooms were quickly installed at a site adjacent to Unicoi County High School to serve as the school's temporary location beginning with this school year.
Classes have not been held at the school's original location since August 2012, when a large sinkhole was discovered on school grounds, and classes will not be held there again. One month before it voted to lease the modular classrooms, the school board voted to permanently close the school's original location. This measure followed the receipt of an engineering report that indicated several areas across the property showed signs of sinkhole activity or were in the process of developing sinkhole activity.
Ben Evely has been the man in charge at Love Chapel for the past four years. The principal said although the school's staff members know continuing classes at the original location was no longer feasible, it wasn't easy to see the facility closed, as he and others held emotional ties to the approximately 60-year-old school.
"When you look back on it, you have to realize at the time it was really a tragedy," he said. "It was emotionally difficult for a lot of our teachers. You had teachers that had been working in that building for 28, 29, 30 years. Some of them, including myself, went to school at Love Chapel, so looking back on it, it was a little more difficult, I guess, than we realized at the time."
Love Chapel is the only school Cindy Peavyhouse and Renee Lingerfelt have known in their teaching careers. Both said they get "chills" when thinking about the sinkhole that eventually led to its closure, as other teachers, students, parents and they themselves had passed over the spot where it opened up numerous times. As Evely said, they realize closing the school was the only option, but moving on from the only school at which they had ever taught was difficult.
"I guess it's like when you've lived in a house for 21 years and then you move to a new house. It never feels like home," said Lingerfelt, who has taught at Love Chapel for 21 years.
The move to the temporary site this year represented Love Chapel's second move in the past two school years. Within days of the sinkhole's discovery, its staff and students were relocated to available space at Unicoi County Intermediate School and Unicoi County Middle School for the duration of the 2012-13 school year. As expected, this presented its share of challenges. Limited space was one obstacle. For functions involving all students and staff, gymnasiums of other schools had to be borrowed. PTO events for different classes often had to be scheduled on different evenings. Love Chapel students shared the hallways with students in higher grade levels.
Still, Evely said Love Chapel's staff rallied to make this work, but were far from alone in this effort. They were aided by staff members at the intermediate and middle schools, Evely said.
"First of all, the people we worked with last year at the intermediate school and the middle school were great," Evely said. "They were gracious hosts, if you will. They were spectacular to work with."
"We had a wonderful setup," Peavyhouse said of teaching at the middle school last year. "We had our own space, but still, we were separated from our peers, and we broke down and set up three classrooms in a year. So the joke was, we were professional movers by the beginning of this year."
ove Chapel third-graders, who will move on to the intermediate school next year, spent only two of their four years at the school in its original location. And these students are already familiar with the intermediate school after spending last year there.
"It was really weird walking around the hallways with a ton of fourth- and fifth-graders coming out," said third-grader Thomas Savage. "They were really talkative and really tall."
The third-graders' first and only year at the temporary site is now coming to a close, as the last days of school is May 23. Savage said he and his classmates quickly acclimated themselves to their new surroundings when the year began.
"It was hard getting used to the new school, but yet again, we got used to it pretty quickly," he said.
As these students prepare to become intermediate school students themselves, they reflected on what they miss most from Love Chapel's original location. These include larger classrooms, having a gymnasium, a larger cafeteria, a bigger swing set and a stage.
But the temporary site has its share of pros, several third-graders said. They said they were surrounded by more friends this year, as the school was no longer divided between two locations. Love Chapel students once again had their own playground — something they didn't last year.
Student Riley Tapp said the larger classrooms and cafeteria compared to the intermediate school was nice. John Woodfin said he was glad Love Chapel students again had their own playground. The ability to go from one classroom to another, something these students were unable to do last year, was also mentioned as a good thing.
"I like getting to switch classes," Vanessa Batrez said.
The move from the middle school and intermediate schools to the temporary site this year brought its own challenges. Evely said one of the first challenges was to get Love Chapel's staff back on the same page, as it had been split up the prior year.
"We were really kind of in two departments last year, one at the Intermediate School and one at the Middle School, so we really had to reunify as a group, so to speak, which wasn't hard to do, obviously, but it's one of those things we had to focus on," Evely said.
The temporary location also brought about other challenges. Early this year, traffic flow in and out of the school was a concern. This quickly ironed itself out, and Evely said school staff can now dismiss Love Chapel's students in about 15 minutes. One challenge that continued to present itself throughout the year was dealing with the weather, as there are no hallways between modular classroom units.
But Evely said Love Chapel teachers and students have tackled these and other difficulties head-on this year.
"The thing that you learn working with students, especially young kids, I think, is they're resilient," he said. "They really answer the call to whatever you ask them to do. If it's cold, we don't think twice about just throwing a jacket on and walking to wherever we're supposed to go, or if it's raining, we've got umbrellas at about every door."
Both Lingerfelt and Peavyhouse said it was a relatively smooth transition to the temporary Love Chapel site. They also agree it is for great for teachers and students to again have a space to call their own.
"This is much better than last year," Lingerfelt said. "I was in the middle of a pod teaching kindergarten. It was workable, but it's much better having my own classroom."
n spite of recent turbulence, Love Chapel students have continued to excel, scoring highly on state report cards and standardized testing. Evely said this speaks volumes of the staff's dedication and commitment, as well as the students' willingness and ability to adjust to new situations. These, along with the support of parents and the community, has made a far-from-ideal situation work, Evely said.
"To be back to being Love Chapel is important to me and to our staff and to our students, as well," he said.
Love Chapel's classes could be held at the temporary site for at least two more years, a scenario Peavyhouse described as "doable." Still, she said she does not wish to end her teaching career in a modular classroom. Peavyhouse and other teachers want to see Love Chapel return to its own permanent location.
"We want the ideal," Peavyhouse said. "We want Love Chapel School."
While she said the planning necessary for the smooth operation of the temporary site has been "phenomenal," Lingerfelt agreed Love Chapel must return to a building of its own in the future.
"I want to be in a new building before I go," Lingerfelt said. "I would love to be in a new building. I want our (county) commissioners to know that."
Director of Schools Denise Brown said there is no update with regard to the acquisition of property for a new school, but the Board of Education will be looking at the matter "closely" within the next few months. She also said the school system's lease of the modular classroom units can be extended if needed.
And, like Evely and Love Chapel's teachers, Brown said Love Chapel's 2013-14 has gone exceptionally well, especially considering the circumstances.
"I can't say enough great things about the positive attitude of of the students, staff and parents during the relocation of Love Chapel Elementary," Brown said. "The modular buildings are very nice and have worked as well as modular buildings can. Mr. Evely, the teachers and staff have done a tremendous job and have offered the same quality instruction as the students received before. The adjustments for gym space, hallways, weather, etc., are the things you miss most about not having a building."
Ownership of the original Love Chapel property is set to soon change. In January, the school board voted to have the now-closed school and the approximately six acres of land surrounding it declared as surplus property. No bids were placed for the property on the board's first attempt to sale it but, after it was advertised on the GovDeals.com website, the property has been sold, Brown said.
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Blue Bell Ice Cream-Definitely Not Gluten Free
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Posted 24 November 2011 - 07:00 AM
Coming on a public forum and stating that a company is lying, as you seem to be doing, is never a good idea.
Many people have difficulties with milk products. Maybe there is another ingredient in the ice cream that disagrees with you? Maybe something else you ate?
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"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
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But that doesn't prove that gluten caused it. And even if it was gluten, a single incident does not prove that the ice cream was the source. Please refrain from making unsubstantiated claims.
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Posted 24 November 2011 - 09:40 AM
A recent gluten convert should not be eating dairy anyway, or Should at least be limiting it. Either way, I think you should look into other things before you bad mouth a good company. BB never bothered me where gluten was concerned, but I checked every single flavor.
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Chelsya, Please don't feel that you were attacked, as that was not the intention behind some of the answers you received. Blue Bell has a list of gluten free products, because they do add wheat to their chocolate ice cream and offer flavors that include baked things like cookies and brownies. Those, of course, do not appear on the gluten-free list.
First of all, I was not bad mouthing the company. I simply stated that they said their ice cream was gluten free, and I ended up severely sick.. The flavor I ate was on their list of gluten free. Maybe there is something else that I have sensitivity to that I'm not aware of. I came on this forum for a little support, didn't think I would get criticized. I see people complain about companies all the time because their site stated that they were gluten free, and they got sick. Sorry if I offended anyone. I never said that blue bell was lying, I said that I did not think that was gluten free. That was the only thing I'd eaten all day that could have possibly contained gluten, and I have no problems with diary. I eat yogurt and drink milk without ever getting sick. As I said before, I've had ice cream from other brands and didn't get sick. Not sure if I'll be back on this forum again. I was looking for help and I feel attacked.
What most likely happened here is that your ice cream was cross contaminated--possibly run first after running a flavor with gluten. Even after thorough washing, some will still react to the minute amount of reside that can remain on the equipment. It's happened to me--not often but if you get, say, one of the first few cartons run after a gluten one....
Whole Foods actually carries a brand of organic ice cream called Organicville. They only make vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and chocolate chip mint. No cross contamination worries if that concerns you. I think their chocolate is the best ice cream I've ever had.
Reconsider coming back here--it's really the best resource you will find on all things Celiac
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Posted 29 November 2011 - 08:45 AM
I don't know about Blue Bell ice cream, but I've been gluten free about the same time as you - 4 months. And I'm still having some crazy reactions. A couple of weeks ago I got violently ill after eating skittles and drinking a coke zero. Both of which are totally gluten-free. (And yes, I know that's the world's worst breakfast )
It could have been cross contamination. I don't know for sure. But I've had 2 or 3 crazy incidents like that where my body just goes bonkers. I think it might be my system trying to adapt and heal. Maybe that's what happened to you.
Now, everyone can attack me for my bad breakfast habits
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Issues related to gluten: depression, low iron, hair loss, positive ana test for lupus, low vitamin D, headache, sinusitis, environmental allergies, brain fog, GI problems, weight gain....the list goes on....
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House Speaker Mike Hubbard denied any involvement on Tuesday in what his attorney contended were allegations of bid-rigging by one of his House colleagues. The Auburn Republican said he never met the owner of the company, never solicited or received any contributions from the company or its owner, and did not have any ownership in DSI Security Services.
Hubbard, who testified in a Montgomery courtroom on Tuesday, was responding to allegations made in a lawsuit filed by DTA Security against DSI Security Services, the Alabama Legislature and the chief of security for the House of Representatives, Derrick Hamilton.
Rep. Joe Hubbard, a Montgomery Democrat and local attorney, filed the lawsuit on behalf of DTA, which has had the security contract at the Alabama State House for about 20 years.
A Montgomery judge dismissed the lawsuit on Tuesday stating that the security contract was exempt from state bid laws, although Circuit Judge Eugene Reese wrote that there was an error in the request for proposals given to vendors.
Joe Hubbard said in court earlier in the day that they would agree, after testimony from the speaker and DSI officials, to amend the lawsuit and drop the portion of the lawsuit related to Mike Hubbard's alleged relationship with the company and its owner. He said that claim was based on an affidavit from a security officer at the State House who was not identified until Tuesday because of the threat of retaliation. Another attorney pointed out that officer works for DTA.
Joe Hubbard said, regardless of the language used by Mike Hubbard's attorneys, he never accused the speaker of bid rigging and never accused him of being involved in the bid process.
"Upon information and belief, Hamilton was designated by the speaker … to develop the requirements and specifications for the contract, issue the request for proposal (RFP), and award the contract," according to the lawsuit. "The awarding of the contract on or about Aug. 9, 2013, was unlawful in that it violated Alabama's competitive bid law … by rejecting the bid of DTA, which was the 'lowest responsible bidder' under the specifications of the RFP, and awarding the contract to a company in which Mike Hubbard has a direct or indirect financial or personally beneficial interest."
Joe Hubbard said he was representing his client and including what he believed to be an accurate allegation that allowed him to go through the discovery phase to determine related facts in the case including who owned the company and which public officials company officials had contributed to.
"I have no problem admitting I had bad information," Joe Hubbard said. " … I made allegations that I believed to be true."
But, he said he made every effort ahead of the hearing to work with attorneys for Mike Hubbard and DSI to clear up those issues.
"Joe Hubbard apparently runs his law practice like he operates in the Legislature, he shoots off his mouth first and determines facts later," according to a statement from the speaker's office. "None of the allegations in this frivolous lawsuit are true and it's outrageous that taxpayer dollars will be wasted on this desperate, unfounded and dishonest attempt to grab headlines."
Joe Hubbard said the issue could have been addressed sooner and the lawsuit could have been amended, but the other attorneys did not cooperate and brought Speaker Hubbard into court Tuesday to "ambush me." He said he had been told Hubbard would not testify.
"The speaker and his allies decided to hold that information from me and my clients and then spring it on us at the hearing," Joe Hubbard said. He said the speaker taking the stand was "political grandstanding," a "political sideshow," and an effort to try the case in the court of public opinion – not in the court room.
After Mike Hubbard denied the allegations in the lawsuit on the witness stand, Joe Hubbard did not cross-examine the speaker. The speaker said he was not involved in the bid process and when asked if he had a personal relationship with DSI board Chairman Alan Clark, Hubbard said "I've never met him."
"They sandbagged me to turn this into a political sideshow," Joe Hubbard said. " … There are some that wanted to turn this into a political sideshow and score political points … I was doing a job for a client."
Joe Hubbard said the other side presented testimony on Tuesday that "discredited allegations in my complaint."
Clark and his son testified that they did not know Mike Hubbard, had not contributed to him and that the business has always been owned by their family. Clark said he never contributed to Mike Hubbard, but did contribute to the campaigns of Rep. Steve Clouse of Ozark, Rep. Paul Lee of Dothan, Rep. Jay Love of Montgomery, and Sen. Harri Anne Smith of Slocomb.
When asked on the witness stand if he had evidence that Mike Hubbard influenced Hamilton in the bid process, DTA vice president Ray Rawlings said "I don't have any evidence." Rawlings, when asked, said he contributed to Joe Hubbard when he was running for the Legislature. Rawlings said they attend the same church.
Hamilton said Mike Hubbard had no involvement in the bid process or in the selection. Hubbard said he did not know the bid process was ongoing.
Chris Weller, a Montgomery attorney representing the speaker in his official capacity, said Joe Hubbard's own witness refuted the allegations in the lawsuit and, while Joe Hubbard had an affidavit from a witness, that witness was not willing to testify and be cross-examined.
"That's not a good basis for a lawsuit," Weller said, adding especially when it affects a family-owned business and a public official. He said they attempted to have Hubbard drop the allegations about the speaker for two weeks.
The contract
If the allegations about the speaker were true, Joe Hubbard said the contract could have been voided. He said state law would not allow an employee of an agency with direct or indirect interest in a business to benefit personally whether it was the speaker or another House member.
Joe Hubbard said he wanted his client to have a fair opportunity to compete for the contract under the state's bid law.
Legislative officials selected DSI's $195,000 bid for the one-year security contract to provide guards to secure entrances to the State House and screen visitors beginning Oct. 1. The bid was the lowest of the three submitted.
Reese originally placed a temporary restraining order on the contract, but dissolved that on Tuesday.
Joe Hubbard contends the contract was improperly awarded in violation of the state bid law and that, if the Legislature chose to bid out the contract, they were compelled to follow the requirements.
Hubbard and his clients argue that the request for proposal stated "compensation for security services performed shall be $15 per hour for each of the 5 security guards."
Rawlings said they understood from the RFP that they were supposed to bid $15 an hour for each of the officers.
Meanwhile, DSI bid $10.99 an hour for unarmed guards and $11.99 an hour for armed guards. A third firm also bid less than $15.
"We're obviously the only ones that can read," Rawlings said.
Reese wrote that the proposal should have stated the maximum was $15 an hour.
When asked by Joe Hubbard where in the documents it stated $15 was the maximum rate, Hamilton said there was a "clear understanding" and that the vendors were encouraged to submit a competitive rate.
"I made it clear to each vendor that the maximum rate was $15," Hamilton said. " … There was no miscommunication. There was no misunderstanding."
But Joe Hubbard and DTA officials argued they were never informed that $15 was the maximum.
"Everybody else was under $15 because they were told to," Joe Hubbard said.
Rawlings said the billing rate should have never been in the RFP and "somebody at the State House made a mistake."
Attorney Ham Wilson, representing the Legislature and Hamilton, said all three of the potential vendors were told the contract was going to be bid out and that it was "common sense" that they would not all bid $15 an hour for each of the officers because the companies would not make any money.
"They're obviously upset they didn't get the bid," Wilson said.
Joe Hubbard feels his client was "tricked" in the bid process, which he contended was not fair. DTA Security has been awarded the contract for about 20 years and never gone through a bid process. According to attorneys, legislative officials including Clerk of the House Jeff Woodard decided to go through a bid process to save the state money. DTA once billed the state up to $20 an hour, with that being the top level for a manager, down a scale going down for the 13 officers.
Now, after cutbacks due to state budget issues, the contract is for five officers.
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By Vianna Davila : October 27, 2013 : Updated: October 27, 2013 9:13am
Photo By Photos by John Davenport / San Antonio Express-NewsTraffic backs up on Interstate 35 and the access road near the Binz-Engleman exit.
SAN ANTONIO — The Texas Department of Transportation is holding two public meetings this week about its plans to expand Interstate 35.
The study area of I-35 spans Bexar, Guadalupe and Comal counties and runs from Loop 410 south in northeast San Antonio to FM 1103 in Schertz.
Both meetings run from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and are open-house format; TxDOT officials will give no formal presentation.
The first meeting will be Monday at the Schertz Civic Center, 1400 Schertz Parkway, building 5.
The second meeting is Tuesday in Windcrest, at the New Christian Fellowship Church gym, 8700 Fourwinds Dr.


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The great social quest in American sport is to have one prominent, active, gay male athlete step forward and identify himself.
But I have a similar quest. I seek one prominent college president to say to her trustees or to the other presidents in his conference: "The NCAA is a sham and disgrace. Let's get out of it."
We know those presidents who disdain the NCAA are out there, but, alas, none dare speak the words that will break the evil spell.
Never has the NCAA been held in such scorn, regularly revealed as a hypocritical, bumbling vestige of a time when its so-called student-athletes were known quaintly as "lettermen" and the most notorious activity on campus was panty raids. Innocent America then bought into the NCAA justification of amateurism, but that giddy concept has come to be widely rejected — student-athletes are really sucker-athletes — and without public trust in amateurism, the NCAA is a rickety structure that cannot stand.


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Building on the success of its popular half-hour CG animated TV series, Nickelodeon—in partnership with Paramount Pictures—launches a full-length feature film starring the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, coming August 8, 2014!
Emerging from their hidden lair in the sewers, the band of reptile brothers will confront the wondrous and hostile world of New York City, facing enemies more dangerous and pizza more delicious than anything they could have imagined!
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Anne of Carversville is devoted to dolphin love, in and out of the bedroom. "Oh, Anne!" you exclaim. "Do not start talking about dolphin sex!"
I don't have to because Isabella Rossellini's 'Green Porno' has taken up the subject for me, with a new series 'Seduce Me' focused on the sex lives of 'swinging' species of the animal kingdom: dolphins, deer, spiders and seahorses.
As always, Rossellini is at the center of the action, looking every bit the fifties-style mermaid in this segment. Her works are a far cry from 1986 'Blue Velvet', where the actress was "the sole sane person in a cast and crew of perverts and sociopaths", says Vanity Fair.
Dolphins enjoy masturbation, homosexuality, and sex involving the fin, mouth, and blowhole.
When they aren't busy playing around, dolphins help humankind. By studying the bubble nets that dolphins make to catch prey — when they're not frolicking around in their own bubble sex playground — these higher-consciousness mammals are helping researchers develop a superior sonar system called TWIPS of twin inverted pulse sonar.
The morality police would have us believe that if God's creatures play around with the sensual gusto of dolphins, they're good-for-nothings in the advancement of civilization.
In reality, dolphins teach us that the most sensual creatures are often the smartest. Isn't that what Eve did to get us thrown out of the Garden of Eden? She tasted knowledge of good and evil?
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In 2008, Scott Walton was elected as Sheriff of Rogers County. His initiatives include programs such as a Rogers County CrimeStoppers program, a School Resource Deputy program, a Career Criminal Apprehension program, a functioning Reserve Deputy program, and much more including the building and growing of the Rogers County Sheriff's Office.
As a former Public Information Officer for the Tulsa Police Department, he was the public face of the state's second largest police force.
But even though he has a larger-than-life, engaging personality, he modestly considers the most important part of his job to be the basic nuts and bolts: communicating important public safety information to the media and the community.
Almost nightly, he appeared on local television newscasts, describing crime scenes and providing information about the victims and assailants. He also is quoted in the Tulsa World on a regular basis. But before that he held almost every assignment on the force.
"I have an interest in almost every facet of law enforcement," said Walton, who is a 1976 graduate of Rogers State University (then Claremore Junior College.) "Public safety has always been a calling and passion for me."
Growing up in Claremore, Walton was infatuated with the traditions of the Oklahoma Military Academy. "I always wanted to go to school on the Hill," he says. "I thought the uniforms that the cadets wore were impressive and it was always a thrill to pass through the guard's gate when I visited my grandmother, who worked in the OMA bookstore."
Enrolling at CJC just five years after the military academy closed, Walton quickly became immersed in campus life, although he was admittedly not the best student. "Like a lot of students, I didn't appreciate the learning process as much as I do now. But it wasn't from having a lack of inspirational teachers - I remember people like Eldon Hallum, June Purdum, Jerry Smith and others. They had a great faculty."
Walton quickly befriended former Sen. Stratton Taylor, who also graduated from CJC in 1976, and they have remained close friends ever since.
He continued his education at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, where he earned a bachelor of science in business and industrial technology. After college, he held a few office jobs, but didn't enjoy "being stuck behind four walls." It was then that he began to hone his interest in law enforcement, taking criminal law classes and gaining acceptance into the Tulsa Police Academy.
After completing the academy with a Criminal Justice Degree, he began developing a law enforcement career that has as much breadth and it does depth. Like all young graduates of the academy, he began as a patrol officer, the "backbone of police work" as he describes it, covering almost every neighborhood of the city.
Perhaps the hallmark of his career has been a constant desire to learn more about public safety and seek more training. After three years on the beat, he became a K-9 officer, a role that provided the thrill of the pursuit and fed "that adrenaline rush" as a young member of the force. "Every time something big was happening, a dog was present. The K-9 officer and his animal companion are always the first to go into a building to search for the bad guy."
Three years later, he attended investigator's school and became a member of the department's detective division, conducting successful investigations into a wide variety of crimes, including homicides and drugs, and then became a member of the vice squad, going undercover to investigate illegal gambling, prostitution, and narcotics, which was a growing problem in Tulsa. "I always wanted to work dope and Mickey Perry, who was a state narcotics officer (currently Claremore chief of police), was a big inspiration to me."
Maintaining his "pattern of threes," Walton worked in the mounted horse patrol program for three years, combing the high crime areas of the city, then served as a member of the department's Street Crimes Units, which focusing on specific problems such as street drug deals, robberies, auto theft, and liquor law violations. In addition, he has been a member of several special task forces established by the department through the years.
Finally, after a three-year return to basic patrol work and a stint as a school resource officer, handling the security needs of local schools, "which involved more than responding to disturbances at schools - that role requires a lot of counseling and mentoring of students," he was named public information officer.
"I really wanted this position," he recalls. "We are so fortunate that the Tulsa Police Department enjoys a positive and productive relationship with the community."
In his present role, he also serves as the official liaison to the Tulsa Citizens Crime Commission and is the coordinator of the popular and effective Crime Stoppers program, duties that have confirmed the high value he places on working with volunteers at the department.
"We have more than 100 people who volunteer their time at the department, helping us in almost every area, and we couldn't get along without them," he said.
This spring, he announced his candidacy for Rogers County sheriff, which would be a "dream job" and culmination of his career.
Walton's basic philosophy of police work is a tough stance on crime. "Lawbreakers need to be in jail - period," he says. He also would like to establish a Crime Stoppers program in Rogers County and utilize more volunteers at the sheriff's department, leveraging its effectiveness. In addition, he wants to place a renewed focus on rural crimes such as drug labs and stolen property while zeroing in on abuse of the elderly, child abuse (including the protection of children using the Internet), and the unique problems associated with a rapidly growing population in the mostly rural area of Rogers County.
Walton lives with his wife Rosalie in Inola. They have two sons, Matt, 23, and Joe, 20. "I want to come back and serve the community I have lived in all my life," says Walton. "I want to apply the skills I have learned from a long law enforcement career in Tulsa and make Rogers County a better and safer place to live."


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