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Who are the volunteers of WHBW?
Who would choose to give up their Saturday morning to answer crisis calls or help diaper a fussy infant? They are mothers, grandmothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, professionals, teachers, artists, students and survivors. They are community women and men helping community. They are the roots of the domestic violence movement. They are the roots of Women Helping Battered Women.
WHBW depends on volunteers to keep all of our services and programs running smoothly and consistently. If you have time and energy to give, can make a commitment, and want to get involved in social change, please contact us via the information listed above — or download our volunteer application packet and follow the instructions on the form. Our volunteer opportunities vary and range from working directly with victims and children to working "behind the scenes."
Volunteer Application
Intern Application September 2015
If you have particular skills in other areas that you think would benefit WHBW, please contact us. Bilingual individuals, people with disabilities, deaf individuals, people of color, LGBTQ individuals and survivors of domestic abuse are especially encouraged to volunteer. Thank you for deciding to be part of our community and to help to end domestic violence!
We host New Advocate Training three times a year in January, May, and September. This training is 20 hours of comprehensive workshops facilitated by our staff and community partners. Full participation of our training is required to earn Victim and Crisis Worker Privilege in the state of Vermont. This privilege protects an advocate from being subpoenaed to testify for or against a person they are trying to help. It is recommended for anyone considering a volunteer position at WHBW to attend Volunteer Orientation Night, part of our New Advocate training. All prospective direct-service volunteers must attend the full 20 hours of training prior to working with our service users. If the volunteer would like to answer our Hotline, an addition 16 hours of training is also needed. We make a large effort to accommodate any and everyone interested in volunteering, however we need to maintain reasonable expectations of our staff's ability to supervise. Volunteers will be asked to fill out appropriate background checks for their program of interest.
Here is a sample of what the training agenda will look like: New Advocate Training Agenda
Volunteer Positions and Opportunities
We at WHBW believe strongly in self-care and the healing process.
For Direct Service volunteers, we recommend that survivors have 1 to 2 years since active abuse to ensure emotional readiness. For those who have recently experienced domestic abuse, we appreciate your experience for special events as a general volunteer.
General Volunteer/Events Volunteer
As a general or events volunteer you will become involved in any or all of the exciting events WHBW puts on throughout the year. Duties may include set up, tabling events, registration, Board and Staff support, clean up, etc. Below is a list of annual events put on by our organization, and possible volunteer opportunities for each. More events and fundraisers may arise. General and event volunteers are encouraged to attend our orientation night prior to volunteering.
Phone-a-thon – Volunteers will be calling past sponsors soliciting monetary donations or assisting with follow up correspondence with potential donors. Not much of a talker? Help out the admin volunteers with behind the scenes processing paperwork. (March)
Zumbathon – Help with setup, registration, assisting participants, or participate yourself. The 2014 Zumbathon was our biggest fundraiser ever! (March 28, 2015)
Domestic Violence Awareness Month – Assist with numerous events during this month long community effort. (October)
School Supply Drive – Donations to our Children and Youth Program are distributed to families in need. (August/September)
Holiday Program – Sponsor a child by fulfilling their wish list. We will provide you with the age and gender of the child and the option to buy up to four gifts, not to exceed $100. If you represent a business or organization, please consider sponsoring a whole family. Volunteers can also help with organizing gifts donated by community partners! (December)
Run for Empowerment – Annual fundraiser organized by the WHBW board. Register or direct runners, tend a water station, or participate yourself! (June 20, 2015)
United Way Days of Caring – Group cleaning, repairs, and upgrades at all of WHBW's locations. (Spring/Fall)
Administration Volunteer
Volunteer opportunities include, but are not limited to greeter, data entry, organizing and arranging mailings, and other office duties. Hours are between 9am and 5pm at 294 North Winooski Ave in Burlington.
Donations and Cell Phone Assistant
Help us manage and sort our donations while interacting with visitors and office staff. Transport items to other sites. Help us recycle old phones via the Shelter Network and convert them into 911 phones for Service Users. Hours are between 9 and 5 at 294 North Winooski Ave in Burlington. Volunteers are asked to attend our general orientation night.
Legal Advocacy Program
Legal volunteers will provide emotional support to Service Users during court, Legal Clinic, and may assist with Relief from Abuse Orders and other basic forms. These volunteer positions' screening and selection process will be detailed. This is a Direct Service position and will receive 20 hours of Victim and Crisis Worker Privilege certification training and many opportunities to gain additional skills. Legal interest is encouraged. We appreciate a minimum of a one year commitment of service for this volunteer position.
Other ways to support the legal program include child care during court hearings, Legal Clinic, and other times as needed. The Legal Advocacy Program is also in need of administrative tasks such as filing and note taking.
Shelter and Hotline Program
Hotline Volunteer
Provide emotional support, options advocacy and information to survivors and families in crisis while keeping with WHBW's mission. Hotline volunteers will receive 20 hours of Victim and Crisis Worker Privilege certification training and 16 hours of hotline training. Hotline volunteers typically work once or twice a month in four hour shifts; both day and evening shifts are available seven days a week. We appreciate a one year commitment of service for this volunteer position.
Shelter Assistant
Volunteers help maintain a clean and safe shelter for women and children who are fleeing from abuse. Shelter duties include organizing donations, cleaning shelter, childcare, and interaction with shelter residents. Shelter volunteers will receive 20 hours of Victim and Crisis Worker Privilege certification training and many opportunities to gain additional skills. Shelter volunteers typically volunteer twice a month in four hour shifts; both day and evening shifts are available seven days a week. We appreciate a minimum of a one year commitment of service for this volunteer position.
Children and Youth Program Volunteers
Volunteers will work directly with children who are affected by domestic violence. Duties include facilitating playgroups, organizing and participating in the holiday program for children, providing one on one mentor to children in need, and small event help such as beach parties and ball games. Children and youth volunteers will receive 20 hours of Victim and Crisis Privilege Worker certification training. We appreciate a one year commitment of service for this volunteer position.
Education and Outreach
Volunteers will help bring our mission and message to local schools and organizations. As an education and outreach volunteer, you will educate the community about domestic violence and develop the resources to help individual and families in need. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in community advocacy.
Teen Volunteer
Looking for credit hours for your high school requirement? Help us collect old cell phones! Earn one credit hour for every three cell phones you collect. Earn unlimited hours! This opportunity is through the "Shelter Alliance" recycle program. Teens are also able to volunteer with Events and Education and Outreach. Teens can host a performance, food drive, or awareness event at their school.
Committee Members
Lend your profession expertise to our organization. Committee members aid in human resources, finance, and governance expertise. Committee work includes research, development, and long term planning. Committee members typically have prior experience with the work or have volunteered long term in any of WHBW's other programs.
Group Volunteering
Businesses, organizations, community members, and teams are encouraged to volunteer with special projects or through the United Way Days of Caring. Projects include setting up a play structure, hosting an awareness event, or adopting a room in our shelter. Opportunities will be at any of our locations and hours vary based on the individual project.


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|Welcome to the Kaufman Children's Center
The Kaufman Children's Center for Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor, and Social Connections, Inc. provides individual speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, sensory integration therapy, social skills instruction, and applied verbal behavior therapy for children from birth to 17 years old. We offer a warm, family-friendly environment, complete with private observation rooms where parents can follow along with their children's progress.
All members of our staff represent the highest standards of excellence in their field and are part of the KCC team because of their extensive expertise in pediatric therapy, outstanding clinical skills, and their warmth and insights into children.
Located in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a northwest suburb of Detroit, the KCC is an award-winning facility, recognized by the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA) with their prestigious Clinical Service Award. In addition, Nancy Kaufman was awarded the MSHA Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and the Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award in 2010.
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No Hell Like Orlando
Brian DiMenna
Oh man, the Magic.
Orlando is already kind of a depressing town. The theme park capital of the world, its streets are filled mostly with jean shorts and Olive Gardens. The whole area is kind of a study in things that sound fun but really aren't.
But watching Orlando this year is like watching sadness personified. The Magic used to have Dwight Howard, like literally just last year, and now they most certainly don't.
"But don't they have Big Baby?" Why yes. "Well, isn't he just as good?" Totally … just shorter … and fatter … and, you know, not nearly as good.
But the history that brought them here makes the whole sordid situation even sadder.
Finding yourself in the position of having the top overall pick in the draft is random enough. Consider that since New York's own good fortune in 1985, they haven't been there since.
But the top of the draft is not always created equal. Sometimes it's Patrick Ewing, other times Andrea Bargnani and every so often it's Kwame Brown and a kick in the junk. Behind Door No. 1 might be an all expenses paid trip to the tropical paradise of David Robinson, or it could be death by Shawn Bradley. You just never know.
The Orlando Magic have won the NBA Draft Lottery three times since 1992. In each of those three instances, truly franchise-altering players awaited them.
In 1992, they selected Shaquille O'Neal, an impossible mixture of size and athleticism. Sometimes I think Shaq's later years have clouded out the memory of his prime, but at his best he was utterly terrifying. Shaq was so dominant he starred in Kazaam and everyone was like, "Ok, that's fine."
A year after Shaq, the Magic hit the jackpot again. This time, Chris Webber awaited, but concerned that Webber and O'Neal would clog up the paint — a fear that in hindsight looks pretty silly — they swapped Webber for point guard Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, undeterred by the fact his name had an "f" where one clearly didn't belong.
Now, there's no need to hash out all the ways this went wrong, with Hardaway's health deteriorating beginning around age 25, before O'Neal bolted to LA to begin a dynasty with the Lakers.
A decade later they found themselves sitting at the top of the draft with another freakish blend of size and power awaiting them in the form of a teenager named Dwight Howard. His shoulders were included. It was a second chance. Surely, this could not be ruined again?
And yet, here we are. Orlando finds itself picking up the pieces after losing a dominant center for the second time in fifteen years. It's just an impossibly depressing feat.
A franchise is lucky to get one of those players in a lifetime, but to waste TWO of them over a twenty-year stretch is almost incomprehensible. It's like Green Bay losing Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers to the Cowboys in consecutive decades without anything to show for it.
So think of that while you're watching the Magic tonight, as JJ Redick tries to lead them hopefully to the Sweet Sixteen, I guess, and feel free to flash a wry smile that says, "Wow, it really doesn't get worse than this."
I guess at least they've got Disney World. The churros are heaven.


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been using space but u noticed some people use mouse2 to jump and say its a lot better when u master it. my concern is that does it break your aim when u need control two actions same time with mouse? Well i dont jump and shoot too much anyway.
been using space but u noticed some people use mouse2 to jump and say its a lot better when u master it. my concern is that does it break your aim when u need control two actions same time with mouse? Well i dont jump and shoot too much anyway.
Well, if space works for you then there is no need to change it. Personally I prefer mouse2 for jumping. Before that I used numpad 0 (I move around with arrow keys, not wasd) and it was a pain to strafe like that.
The idea behind jumping with the mouse is that the mouse2 button takes less effort to press than spacebar. Personally I prefer having the movement keys on one hand, shooting keys on the other hand. Which means I use the spacebar for jump, and the mouse2 for zoom.
Spacebar is better, mouse2 is easier.
Now if you're already used to spacebar and it doesn't hinder you, there's no point in forcing a change. Learn strafe jumping and don't bother with tiny details such as which key setup is the bestest
Except you mostly don't have to coordinate these two.
I'm a mouse 2 jumper as well. It greatly helped both my strafing and rocket jumping. Now I use Space to zoom, which I've found pretty natural.
This is a very good topic. My advice to any new Quake Live player is always... set mouse 2 to jump. You may not like it at first, but give it a week or two then you'll love it. What about zoom? Junk it for awhile until you learn how to strafe. I might program the zoom button on certain maps if I decide to play as Base D.
The number one trait that sets Quake Live so far apart from any other game out there is the "character's forward momentum gained by a proper strafe jumping technique." (This is what makes Quake Live the grand daddy of all e-sports) Finding your strafe jump is almost like a golfer mastering a golf swing. Strafe Jumping gives you a feeling of speed very similar to the experiance of parachuting or even riding a fast motorcycle.
Take the time to learn how to play with jump as Mouse 2. View some YouTube videos on strafe jumping. Install the defrag mod on Quake Live. Go into an empty server and practice the hard jumps in maps like Campgrounds, Campers Crossings, Troubled Waters.
Other facts about Mouse 2:
*) The majority of Team Based QL players use M2 for jump.
*) Flag runners in CTF sometimes use the jump button more than the shoot button.
*) You will naturally strafe jump alot faster with M2 as jump.
*) Rocket Jumping will be very easy with M2 as jump.
*) It is technically easier to hold left or right strafe jump buttons while pressing foreward at the same time pressing M2 on every jump. (vs the Space Bar)
Tip to check your improvments: In settings turn on your speedometer to measure your speed. There are 4 different speedometers to pick from.
We all know Quake Live is the best FPS out there, but we need help to fill the CTF servers. There is a great new CTF map called "Infinity" as well as alot of other great CTF maps. Please take the time to invite a good friend of yours to our community.
Try out a full subscription to the game, it is not alot of money and you get alot of very cool features. In addition you are supporting a game developer team that keeps improving this game every way they can.
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Personally I use Mouse1 for jump and shoot with space. I started doing this mostly because I felt it was problematic to do the movement and jumping properly with just the one hand. But also because I wanted to free up muscles on my mouse hand when shooting tracking weapons like LG.
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Reasons for Procedure
- BMI greater than 40
- BMI 35-39.9 and a life-threatening condition or severe physical limitations that affect employment, movement, and family life
- Weight reduction
- Improvement in obesity-related conditions
- Improved movement and stamina
- Enhanced mood, self-esteem, and quality of life
Possible Complications
- Bleeding
- Infection
- Blood clots
- Vomiting
- Slipping or wearing away of the band
- Erosion of the band into the stomach, which may require open surgical repair
- Erosion of gastric wall
- Port complications
- Injury to other organs
- Irritation of the throat due to acid reflux
- Complications of general anesthesia
- Death
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
- Thorough physical exam and review of your medical history
- Mental health evaluation and counseling
- Ongoing consultations with a registered dietitian
- Program to help you lose weight through diet and exercise
- Talk to your doctor about your medications, herbs, and dietary supplements. You may be asked to stop taking some medications up to 1 week before the procedure.
- Do not start any new medications, herbs, or supplements without talking to your doctor.
- Arrange for a ride to and from the hospital. Also, arrange for help at home.
- If advised by your doctor, take antibiotics.
- The night before, eat a light meal. Do not eat or drink anything after midnight unless told otherwise by your doctor. You may be given laxatives and/or an enema to clear your intestines.
- Shower or bathe the morning of your surgery.
Description of the Procedure
Immediately After Procedure
How Long Will It Take?
How Much Will It Hurt?
Average Hospital Stay
Post-procedure Care
- Pain medication will be given as needed.
- On the day after the surgery, x-rays will be taken to make sure the band is in place. If everything looks fine, you will be given fluids, then progress to pureed food.
You may be asked to do the following:
- Use an incentive spirometer to take deep breaths every hour. This is to prevent breathing problems.
- Wear elastic surgical stockings or boots. This is to promote blood flow in your legs.
- Get up and walk to circulate blood and promote healing.
- Washing their hands
- Wearing gloves or masks
- Keeping your incisions covered
- Washing your hands often and reminding visitors and healthcare providers to do the same
- Reminding your healthcare providers to wear gloves or masks
- Not allowing others to touch your incision
- It will take 2-4 weeks to fully recover. You may be out of work for several days after surgery.
- Meet regularly with your healthcare team for monitoring and support.
- Your doctor may recommend that you meet with a therapist to discuss emotional changes after surgery.
- Eat very small amounts and eat very slowly. You will begin with 4-6 small meals per day. A meal is two ounces of food.
- For the first 4-6 weeks, all food must be pureed. After you move to solid foods, food must be well-chewed. When making food choices, ensure that you are getting enough protein.
- Eating too much or too quickly can cause vomiting or intense pain under your breastbone. Most people quickly learn how much food they can eat.
- This procedure does not cause nausea and diarrhea if sweet or fatty foods are eaten. In fact, some people gain back weight because they continue to eat high-calorie foods. To promote ongoing weight loss, you will need to eat healthy foods.
- Follow your doctor's instructions.
Call Your Doctor
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or discharge from the incision sites
- Pain that you cannot control with the medications you have been given
- Blood in the stool
- Constipation that lasts more than two days
- Pain, burning, urgency, or frequency of urination, or persistent bleeding in the urine
- Persistent nausea and/or vomiting
- Pain and/or swelling in your feet, calves, or legs
- Persistent cough
- New or worsening symptoms
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
American Gastroenterological Association http://www.gastro.org
Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.familydoctor.org
Canadian Association of Gastroenterology http://www.cag-acg.org
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
Bariatric surgery. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated November 3, 2014. Accessed December 1, 2014.
Gastric band operation. The British United Provident Association website. Available at: http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/g/gastric-band. Accessed December 1, 2014.
LapBand surgery information. Center for the Treatment of Obesity, University of California San Diego Medical Center website. Available at: http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/surgery/bariatric/weight-loss-surgery/gastric-band/Pages/default.aspx. Accessed December 1, 2014.
Maciejewski ML, Livingston EH, et al. Survival among high-risk patients after bariatric surgery. JAMA. 2011;305(23):2419-2426.
6/24/2011 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed: Pontiroli AE, Morabito A. Long-term prevention of mortality in morbid obesity through bariatric surgery. a systematic review and meta-analysis of trials performed with gastric banding and gastric bypass. Ann Surg. 2011;253(3):484-487.
1/2/2014 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed: Jensen M, Ryan D, et al. 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the management of overweight and obesity in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and The Obesity Society. Circulation. Nov 12 2013.
Revision Information
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- Review Date: 12/2014 -
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Want to know what we're doing right this very second? Of course you do! The College Park webcam will help you keep tabs on everything we're up to.
The Opening Day celebration was a smashing success, if we do say so ourselves. You can relive all the good times by checking out our video from the event.
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Wieters was starting to heat up and has an OPS close to .750 coming into July.
On the month he is now hitting .235 with a .685 OPS. HE had me excited and some us were beginning to think he would finish with an .800+ OPS, but now it seems he's going down hill rather quickly.


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OMG! Woof!!!
They are all hot, but the third one down I could snuggle up to all night long!
Several thoughts here (not trying to dog on u but srsly) –
1) this feed reads like someone put it together who didn't know pits were sexy b/c amateurish quality
2) not something new if ur gay you knew this already
3) identity crisis for queerty are you soft-core porn fetish aggregator? lol, good to know.
Absolutely one of the sexiest parts of a man. I can't stand the shaved look on a guy: He's a man, not a 16-year-old girl.
I've seen the fifth one down numerous times- LOVE IT.
"In all honestly, until we learned about maschalagnia, we'd never associated armpits with anything even remotely sexy."
Surprise! A lot of us do.
Queerty recently did an article about feet, so I guess this body part was next. Next will be ear lobes!
Are there really card-carrying members of the gay male community who DON'T like armpits, hairy or not? They are different from feet in that their appearance and smell are what are called secondary sexual characteristics – it is hard to see how you can like men an yet not like certain sexual characteristics of men. (Not that you have to like every guys', but you sure have to like at least SOME guys'.)
Most are sexy, but there's something about the 5th pic that looks gross.
@viveutvivas: You could ask the same about women though? Considering(I might be wrong), the whole wanting your man to be shaved thing really started with women. They're supposed to like men too aren't they?
@Niall, you're right. I can understand not liking tons of hair on your man, but not liking any is strange to me.
Very flat chested masculine Lesbians!!!!!
Lol, just like the foot article, armpits don't do much for me either! I mean sure, there's always a sexiness to anything manly like his hairy armpits, but I would not want to lick it or smell it lol…
Hands down: High Blue Wave (pic#1), I mean:pits up!
Just like always the black men are the hottest YUM YUM.
oye! to each his own!
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Brian Wilson has suitors, Mets still open to giving a guaranteed deal
Last week, the Mets confirmed that they had watched free-agent closer Brian Wilson throw a private bullpen session this in California.
Wilson, 30, underwent Tommy John surgery last April and was recently non-tendered by the Giants.
6:20 am: Wilson is very interested in signing with the Mets. He has spent time in New York this winter, but is still in talks with a handful of teams, including the Giants and Tigers, some of whom are willing to offer a guaranteed deal, according to league sources (Cerrone, MetsBlog.com).
6:00 am: The Mets still haven't closed the door on a major league deal for Wilson, according to a source (Carig, Newsday).
Jan. 15: The Mets were not impressed with Wilson, who they deemed not worthy of a major league contract at this point in his rehab from Tommy John surgery. "Physically, he's not ready," a source from Best Auto Lenders. "He's got a ways to go." (Puma, New York Post).
Jan: 14: Wilson also met with Sandy Alderson early last week, at which point people close to Wilson said he was very intrigued by signing with the Mets. Wilson wants a guaranteed deal, the Mets prefer to give him a minor-league contract. (Cerrone, MetsBlog.com)
Jan. 13: Alderson isn't sure yet if he will extend an offer to Wilson (Puma, New York Post).
Jan. 13: Wilson says he will be ready for Opening Day, "although a major league source said the reliever is not yet able to demonstrate in workouts that he is back to pre-surgery form." No deal is imminent (Rubin, ESPN New York).
Statistics, reaction and information for Brian Wilson...
Michael Baron, Contributor
Jan. 13, 11:08 am: At worst, Wilson could serve as a strong insurance policy to Francisco, who is coming off a season filled with both ineffectiveness and injury. The Mets could offer Wilson an opportunity to rebuild his value; Wilson is coming off Tommy John Surgery and basically missed the entire 2012 season, but he should be ready in the early part of the 2013 season. He is a colorful personality and was outstanding in his years with the Giants, and I think he will be productive when he comes back. If he had gone to arbitration with the Giants, he would have likely earned between $8-9 million (which is why the Giants non-tendered him).
Statistics: Wilson made just two appearances for the Giants in 2012, allowing two runs in two innings. He has converted 171 of 196 save opportunities in his career and has pitched to a 3.21 ERA in seven big league seasons.
Contract: Wilson, 30, just completed a two-year, $15 million contract extension he signed before the 2010 season. The Giants non-tendered Wilson earlier this winter.


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42 U.S. Code § 300a - Formula grants to States for family planning services
(a) Authority of Secretary; prerequisites
The Secretary is authorized to make grants, from allotments made under subsection (b) of this section, to State health authorities to assist in planning, establishing, maintaining, coordinating, and evaluating family planning services. No grant may be made to a State health authority under this section unless such authority has submitted, and had approved by the Secretary, a State plan for a coordinated and comprehensive program of family planning services.
(b) Factors determining amount of State allotments
The sums appropriated to carry out the provisions of this section shall be allotted to the States by the Secretary on the basis of the population and the financial need of the respective States.
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"It's intriguing to watch teams formulate contingency plans in the event they can't get their first choice. The Red Sox did a ton of work on Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Beltran and also explored a deal with Washington for Josh Willingham before they were able to land Carl Crawford." writes Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe.
During the winter meetings, Peter Gammons of MLB Network said the Mets could be interested in moving Beltran and roughly $10 million of his salary in order to free up money to acquire pitching, and there were multiple reports indicating the Mets and Red Sox were talking about a trade for Carlos Beltran, but in the end, nothing materialized.
At this point, the Mets really have nothing to lose by holding onto Beltran into 2011. His value is very low right now, but if he can prove he's healthy and can stay on the field, I think he'll be a major contributor for the Mets. They could look to deal him if he's producing and the team is out of contention towards the trade deadline, and at least get something for him instead of letting his contract expire.
Per the contract he signed with the Mets prior to the 2005 season, the Mets cannot offer Beltran arbitration when the deal expires, meaning the Mets cannot net any draft picks from his new team in the June 2012 draft, whether he is ranked as a Type A or Type B free agent next winter.
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Main topics and messages of the XXIII International RESER Conference "Finding growth through service activities in barren times" in Aix-en-Provence Uverejnené dňa:: 05/03/2014, Posledná aktualizácia: 10/03/2014
RESER, the European Association for Research on Services is the international European Organisation bringing together researchers and practitioners from the field of the services industries. Since 1991, RESER has annually organised a conference which brings together researchers from many countries mainly in Europe. In 2013 the RESER conference in Aix-en-Provence hosted RESER-members from more than 30 countries. The conferences are organised around a specific topic reflecting the current state of the economy and the research. In 2013 the topic was »Finding growth through service activities in barren times«.
In Europe, in many countries and in most sectors, economic growth has disappeared or at least slowed down considerably. As in all major crises, there is a disruption in the functioning of the economy and of businesses. Issues of sovereign debt and the development of European monetary union should not make us forget the technological and entrepreneurial aspects of this rupture. In this context, research on services can bring new ideas to the debate on economic development. Such research relies on the observation of companies which try to create value through services, regardless of their business sector. The emerging business landscape is characterised by important and complementary mutations. While hybrid manufacturing services offerings and the phenomenon of "servitization" are increasingly seen in many industries, an engineering-based approach to services can also be observed, with a strong practice of modelling and simulation, both at the level of services' production and of the interactions with customers.
The contributions at the conference have covered a wide range of expertise with researchers presenting their results coming from management, economics, sociology and geography not to forget the presentation of multidisciplinary studies. According to the researchers and topics the approaches were manifold coming from literature reviews as well as conceptual and empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods.
Main topics of the conference:
1. Service jobs, human resource management and productivity
A major transformation is taking place in economic growth, and it primarily concerns productivity. Developed countries are struggling to effectively mobilise their workforce as shown by the rapidly increasing levels of unemployment in the OECD countries. With fewer resources due to lower margins or markets, companies are no longer investing as much in new equipment and must rely on other means to increase their efficiency. Growth relies more than ever on increasing productivity. In services, the general slowdown in productivity gains is attributed to many causes, but it is assumed that productivity gains created by information and communication technologies are no longer as important as during the last two decades.
Important changes are also occurring at the level of management. Organisation charts inherited from the 19th century are competing with more flexible organisations where employees have more room to maneuver while being highly accountable for results. In services to households, maintaining productivity gains relies on the ability of companies to mobilise their workforces, to raise skills of their partners and providers, to develop friendly customer relationships (with a real link between staff and customers) and to create short and effective customer journeys. In knowledge-intensive services, communication, interaction and negotiation skills become increasingly important as these services develop. These trends affect both commercial and non-commercial services. In most services, standardisation of tasks requires a reorganisation of activities that can be automated and centralised. Finally, strategies for innovation in services require a particular human resource management to select the right people that will be able to communicate internally and externally and to build a compensation system rewarding creativity.
The complexity of a continuing creation of jobs in and with the help of the services was reflected in the heterogeneity of the contributions in the level of the analysis (macro, sectoral, firm level, cases studies), the research approach (conceptual, methodological, empirical), the various service industries being dealt with ( industrial services, health, social services, hotels). The main topics were: spill-over effects of service innovation on employment; the design of service jobs and skill needs; the measurement of service productivity; the service processes; the hospital sector in barren times; a sustainable value creation; the time dimension in the evaluation of service productivity, etc. The largest number of papers was centered on the productivity of industrial services, which is pointing to the crucial role of services in upgrading and transformation of manufacturing. Especially German researchers are in the forefront of research of productivity in services which highlights the interest and also a sustained funding of this kind of research from the business community. Within this research topic much less attention was paid to the trends in employment and to the question on the extent that the improved productivity by and in services creates or destroys jobs and the skill level of those jobs. The neglect of employment relatedissues in research is rather paradoxical in view of the increasing unemployment in Europe that raises the inequalities and presents a threat to the sustainability of the traditional growth patterns.
2. Moving from service innovation to innovating through a Service-Dominant Logic
Research on innovation in services has gradually moved away from the technological or industrial model of innovation and focused on the specificities of innovation in service activities. This stream of research has been the subject of several RESER research programmes and presentations or workshops at past RESER conferences. Recently, it has been enriched with a new conceptual approach, termed the "Service-Dominant Logic", which considers services less as a category of activities but more as being representative of a global perspective on value creation. This perspective is based on the concepts of exchange value and use value, in addition to its interest in the design of manufacturing and sales processes, the approach highlights the fact that the source of value creation consists in the ability to recognise and meet needs of consumers. Such vision echoes the early work on the service economy that has emerged in the 1980s and can also be linked to more recent research on sustainable development.
The contributions by the RESER-teams concerning this topic showed that modern economies are characterised by a rise of servitization, in a general context of a Service-Dominant Logic (SDL). In order to stay competitive, manufacturing firms add services to their products –servitization is understood and executed by the business sector not as a mechanical process which just consists in adding services to goods. Servitization is much more, namely the addition of intangibles i.e. skills, information, interactions and knowledge, the changing of the business-model, the organization, the management practices and the culture and the taking into account of the whole life cycle of the product. Servitization is not a homogeneous process. The main sub-sectors addressed are capital goods industries, machine tool builders and the wind power industry.
The SDL is (also) a theory of innovation in services as it addresses the question of the nature of innovation in services which sometimes produce the innovative dimension of goods. It is important to notice in this context that there is no need to address innovation in services in contrast to innovation in manufacturing (demarcation). In other words the SDL is coherent with the theoretical perspective which is called Integration or Synthesis in the neo-Schumpeterian tradition of service innovation studies.
The SDL is a theory of the management of service innovation processes as innovation is not anymore linear, stage-gate, planned, intra-firm but open, cooperative, interactive (networked) and non-necessarily formalised. It has also been highlighted in the presentations and discussion of the conference that there's an innovation gap in public services for example in the relationship between environmental scanning and innovation in hospitals. Another point resulting from the discussions of the conference was the impression that social innovation and social entrepreneurship are not yet clear concepts with rather vague definitions. It has been suggested that an increased interaction between the service literature and the social innovation literature may help. It has been encouraging to see that emergent and developing countries are also the locus of interesting service innovation dynamics. Finally in the context of service innovation it has been shown the importance of the service encounter as a major locus of innovation.
But as an important caveat it has been put forward that the troubles with the measurement of productivity and innovation are far from being solved and future evaluations should perhaps using multicriteria approaches.
3. New services, network services and new service organisations
The current economic difficulties also have technological roots. Digital transformation affects key areas of activity and represents a real revolution. All businesses are impacted but not at the same speed or to the same degree. This digital transformation of the economy gives way to the emergence of new entrepreneurs and new organisations. It includes the traditional sector of ICT, software and computer services companies, telecommunications, as well as the Internet sector and other creative industries. It also appears in the somehow surprising development of robotics in services, simulation and interaction models that have been grouped under the terms "Service Science". Service engineering integrates the structures, processes and skills to deliver innovative services to the largest number in the most reliable fashion. Relationships with suppliers are also changing and supply chains are increasingly becoming platforms from which all partners can benefit.
These new services are driven by entrepreneurs who face the traditional challenges of business creation, but must also develop interactive skills as many services are developing in networks and in more or less formal alliances. Such networks give access to additional resources and can improve profitability. A careful attention to consumers' needs can also create opportunities for new lucrative and successful businesses even in traditional sectors. Diversification can also be an effective tool as it opens new horizons and, when it is successfully implemented, allows companies to boost sales. For instance, entrepreneurs in the 'low cost' sector show that there are considerable margins for more productivity in services. These entrepreneurs offer a totally redesigned and more effective organisation, where the simplicity of the offer is a factor in reducing costs and guaranteeing lower prices for the consumer. The organisation focuses on jobs directly related to the service, resulting in the reduction of hierarchies. At the same time, Internet use is widespread. The question arises whether this customer-based advantage will erode over time with the development of the necessary bureaucracy to manage success. One may ask whether there is a cycle of services, like the "wheel of retailing": the advantages that have led to the birth of the company disappearing at the end of the cycle under the effects of gentrification and bureaucratisation of operations.
For this theme, focusing on the company in its relations with its environment, a widespread variation of papers has been presented, concerning, among other things: success factors of new organisational forms for services, such as franchise networks, cooperatives or strategic alliances, the logistics of the reorganisation of industrial relations, new approaches based on service modelling and engineering, the brand development and management of service networks etc.
The focus of the presentations at the conference has been mostly laid on the relationship of industrialisation and standardisation on the one hand and productivity on the other. In some respect services have come closer to manufacturing than before with the focus having turned to the service encounter. The keywords in this context have been "productivisation and engineerisation" which means for example the growing importance of a systematisation of innovation activities with respect to market perspective, service engineering technologies, logistics and multichannel (ICT) delivery and production. In this stream of debate in the conference the question of how an increase in service productivity may be helpful in overcoming the economic crisis has come-up as well. Not surprisingly, it has been concluded that more research has to be done whether it helps to overcome the crisis. Preliminary answers contained in the various presentations coming forward were the importance of networking particularly between employers, the intermediary role of KIBS and the importance of franchising – new topic. A discussion theme for the future remains: How can we prove that service research really helps in overcoming barren times?
4. Internationalisation: the new frontier for services development?
One of the main developments of the 1990's was the acknowledgement of the importance of service activities in international trade. The General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the "single market" in Europe and the deregulation of public and private services have brought to light the existence of an international trade in services and created rules for this trade. Whether the strategic dimension for the firm or the theoretical problems generated by services in the international trade analysis are concerned, a wide interest exists in the internationalisation of services that is now amplified by the new opportunities created by the development of information and communication technologies. These recent technologies greatly increase the potential of trade for service firms and favour the internationalisation process of service firms. Thanks to these technologies, even the smallest service firm in some domains can reach far-distant markets, virtually prospect them and deliver services with low investments and no travelling costs. These technologies also enable easier control procedures with distant established partners or subsidiaries and swifter exchanges of information, which are necessary to implement such strategies.
In the sessions of the RESER-conference the internationalisation of services has been addressed in its broader dimensions, challenges and consequences. In the macro perspective the contributions found a strong correlation between services development and economic growth: investing in services could be in the benefit of the convergence of economies. Also a strong correlation between the global competitive position of an economy and its position in terms of service related factors was seen. KIBS, in particular, have a significant contribution in enhancing technology transfers and inducing innovativeness to their client industries, thus increasing competitiveness and the readiness for internationalisation in the benefit of the economy. Developing economies can procure from abroad high value services that will fuel the economic dynamism and can also valorise better their own distinctive competences on foreign markets.
The trade related perspective stated one more time that the trade in services is increasing with the liberalization of the trade in services (GATS) but is still lagging behind trade in goods. Some of the papers in this stream of reasoning have concentrated on special types and groups of countries. So was for example shown for the Visegrad-countries that increased trade in services contributes to the tertiarisation of the economies and the import of KIBS in particular contributes to the internationalization of the effects of the tertiarisation. Furthermore, fast growing economies (BRICs) show a large diversity of evolutions and achievements in their trade of services following liberalisation. For instance Brazil seems to profit from specialisation in several knowledge intensive service activities, whereas a more active participation of Russia in the trade of services, and business services in particular is still to be achieved in the future. Evidence was provided that trade in goods might have a leveraging effect on the trade in services, while, at least in the case of Romania the correlation was found to be insignificant.
The cultural perspective of the internationalisation of services must not be underestimated. The culture of the recipient country may determine the choice of business models (which brings into discussion the organisational adaptability of the internationalised company). The use of foreign employees oblige organisations to address multiculturalism by establishing new forms of organisations, adapted motivational tools, forms of education and training (case studies from Sweden, Denmark have been presented). And finally, internationalised companies have to prepare their staff to working as expatriates in a foreign country (the example of Brazil has been discussed in this context).
Regarding the pronounced international character of RESER it has been seen in the discussion by members to be able to contribute in promoting the Single European Market for services not only as primarily a European Research Association, but also as a network or forum where important contributions on the topic can be brought from other regions of the world.
5. Services activities and urban and regional service restructuring
The relationships between service activities, economic revival, and urban and regional restructuring constitute a multi-level question. For innovation, the local links between industrial services and manufacturing are essential to build clusters, to encourage creativity networks and to foster innovation. Many regions have tried to establish regional innovation policies with mixed results, because the local demand in services, particularly knowledge intensive services, is not balanced with local supply. The deficit in business services impedes not only innovation in but also the internationalisation of manufacturing services, allowing them not to compete effectively.
Research studies on urban development have brought much evidence about the relationship between urban growth and localisation of service activities. Urbanisation and the shift towards services are general, but not all cities have the same capacity to face the future. Business services, particularly knowledge intensive services, appear very clearly to be the drivers of growth of major cities, but are at the same time an impediment to the development of secondary cities which are not able to attract these services.
Economic development is not only a matter of firms and jobs but also the result of creating a city where people want to live. The physicality of cities is still a very important dimension depending on the physical organisation of cities and infrastructure: proximity, face-to-face interaction with business counterparts is still necessary and commuting needs increasingly efficient transport systems. Zoning, densities, traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emission are major issues for developers but also for urban people who will decide more and more concerning their own localization on these criteria. Services are at the heart of these questions because they are an integral part of the management of the cities and a lever to attract people and firms. The aspects discussed in the presentations at the conference have covered services and green development, cultural and recreation activities, clusters and local development, urban services and the urban local development. The main streams were on the one hand spatial/ geographic approaches and regional/local/urban development issues on the other. Not surprisingly, the contributions to the discussion brought forward at the conference were partly based on consolidated research issues like the hybridity of value creation in services (tangibility), the geographic organisation/spatial patterns, clustering effects, KIS (business, consumer), innovation processes (types, models), stakeholders interaction (private, public, etc.) and not to forget urban/regional/local development policies and planning.
But the papers presented showed also considerable diversity of research objects and approaches: eco/green services, cultural/recreational services, transport/distribution and urban / social functions (care, proximity). Different kinds of knowledge are determining the character of the regional evolution. When it comes to services they are generally knowledge intensive. Among the services important for the regional aspects intermediation functions like facilitating,reputation building, gatekeeping, and others are important.
As challenges for future studies about the role of services in urban and regional service restructuring are seen:
· The issue of the scale of the analysis (e.g. on clustering processes: EU vs North America vs Asia).
· The issue of transversality (non-sectoral approach, the awareness of new dimensions of knowledge based services with fluid/diffuse/transversal concepts, e.g. green, culturalcreative; tourism-recreation; distribution).
· The Issue of informality (non-market mechanisms, untraded interdependencies, e.g, care, cultural, urban management).
· The Issue of plurality of rationalities (market but also non-market; public action; cooperative/ shared actions; hedonic or lifestyles oriented action; e.g. use conflicts management, artistic, care).
· The issue of different kinds of knowledge building/dissemination mechanisms.
· The issue of intermediation and gatekeeping processes (importance of legitimization, reputation building process).
· The issue of conflict/cooperation (importance of conflict; driven by conflict; articulation of interests, in public and private actions).
· And finally, the issue of sensibility to funding agendas (e.g. EU vs regional/local agendas).
Regarding the links to policy and the articulation with governance mechanisms and with the actors of policies important influences have been seen in the level and scale of articulation
and intervention (regional/local/national /supra-national).
Coming back to the main question of this 23rd RESER conference "Finding growth through service activities in barren times" the members specialising in regional research in services underlined the great importance of the interaction of the different stakeholders at the different levels of economic activity and the setting of conditions by public authorities.


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Choo, 30, hit .283 with a .373 OBP, 16 home runs and 67 RBI in 686 plate appearances over 155 games with the Indians in 2012.
He signed a one-year, $4.9 million contract with the Indians to avoid arbitration this past January. He is eligible for arbitration for the final time this winter, and can become a free agent after the 2013 season.
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I like Choo, but I don't see how a trade fits. He's a free agent at the end of next season. His agent is Scott Boras and the buzz in Cleveland is that they've stonewalled the Indians on every attempt to try and work out a contract extension. Reports suggest the Indians are open to trading Choo, who will likely earn around $8 million. The money is right, especially if the Mets end up clearing R.A. Dickey's salary. However, I just don't see Sandy Alderson making a meaningful trade (like this would be) unless the guy is young and under contract for the next few years. Plus, with what it would cost to trade for Choo, knowing he's gone one year from now, the Mets would probably be better off giving Scott Hairston a two-year deal and letting him platoon with Mike Baxter, who combined to put up roughly the same numbers as the Indians outfielder.
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Read: Ottawa Reporter Continues To Not Be Happy With John Tortorella
Earlier in the playoffs, Ottawa Sun columnist, Don Brennan wrote that a reporter covering the series said that John Tortorella displayed 'subhuman' behavior with his handling of the media.
Today, Brennan writes a blog post at the Ottawa Sun with the title "Tortorella is a jerk." He writes this in response to how Tortorella handled an on the bench interview with Pierre McGuire where McGuire asked a question about the power play and Tortorella said "I'm not telling you."
McGuire and Tortorella are friends who worked together at TSN when Tortorella was between coaching jobs.
Brennan is not the first member of the media who has had issues with Tortorella.
He writes of Tortorella, "I would love to see him lose to the New Jersey Devils in the Eastern conference final. But I'm not so anxious to see Lou Lamoriello to succeed either. And the Devils bore me, still."


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OGDENSBURG Developer Gilbert J. Jones is refusing to accept a $60,000 loan for improvements to his cinema from the Ogdensburg Growth Fund Development Corp.
I asked for $100,000, he said Friday. Im sticking with that.
On Wednesday, the Growth Fund agreed to lend Mr. Jones $60,000 for five years with no interest for two years and 2 percent annually for the three following years. He wants the money to buy digital projection equipment for his Ogdensburg Cinema I and II theaters at 119 Ford St., which he closed last summer.
But Mr. Joness refusal to a accept the loan is rooted in more than not getting what he requested.
He questions the legality of Mayor William D. Nelsons status as the Growth Funds chairman, the agencys bylaws and its independence from City Hall.
I have high regards and respect for the board members, Mr. Jones said, not counting the mayor. It is fact city employees micromanage the Growth Fund.
Mr. Jones said he would have his attorney review the Growth Funds bylaws as well as its April 1983 articles of incorporation.
Go ahead, the mayor said Friday.
Thats fine, Mr. Nelson said. We have bylaws. The Growth Fund is a separate economic development agency. It is not part of City Hall.
Mr. Jones initially asked the Growth Fund for a $100,000 loan.
Mr. Jones later said he might accept an offer of $60,000 at 0 percent interest over four years.
The Growth Fund said its offer was calculated to reflect its formula of $15,000 for every 35-hour-a-week, full-time-equivalent job created.
Mr. Jones originally figured for 12 full- and part-time jobs over a three-year period, including a manager, film booker, projectionists, concession workers and a custodial worker. He later changed the number to seven full-time employees.
Mr. Jones bought the 9,000-square-foot, double-screen, 448-seat cinema in 1980 and has since spent $85,000 on a new roof and $52,621 on an upgraded ventilation system.
He also installed a $73,000 marquee that displays paid advertising.
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Poor service, low hygiene - dirty, bad & unfreshed food.
The man behind the counter was a nice man
Lack of staff for night shift. No cribs available
The hotel staff is friendly and helpful; this is a step up front usual Israeli hotel staff many of which do not understand the concept of customer service. Israeli hotels, especially outside of Tel Aviv are still grappling with this concept. Same for retail and food stores.
Unfortunately, Israel is great at building things but very poor at maintaining them. The Crowne Plaza is typical was built but 15 years ago and is already starting to look shoddy around the edges. We noticed that mold is starting to appear, especially in the bathrooms, and the wood trim is beginning to rot away; Haifa can be quite humid during certain times of the year. Also, the hotels A/C is either on or off, no temperature settings other than 4 settings indicating warmer or colder; after that is just stays on blowing.
Friends of ours stayed at a competing Dan hotel, but the situation is the same. They characterized it as a "tired" Hyatt.
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August 12, 2013
An UNDEF project in Bangladesh empowers indigenous people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts to access information on public services offered by local government institutions and departments. more >>
August 02, 2013
An UNDEF-funded project in Cameroon works to promote a culture of democratic practices among young people, and to transform community radio into an effective tool towards this end. It gives rural, marginalized people an opportunity to to make their voice heard and to participate in discussions, decisions and actions that affect their collective well-being. more >>
July 23, 2013
UNDEF funds a project to create a more inclusive democracy in Guatemala by increasing the participation and recognition of indigenous women and traditional Maya community authorities. The project, active in in Chisec and Raxruha, northern Alta Verapaz, focuses on more effective participation of indigenous women and indigenous community representatives in Municipal Development Councils and other public planning and decision-making processes. more >>
July 17, 2013
UNDEF funds a project in Paraguay to strengthen women&rsquos grassroots organizations, train women in leadership and political processes, and enable them to interact with government. more >>
June 19, 2013
UNDEF funds a project to empower Jordanian artists and journalists to act as "Freedom Messengers" -- catalysts and networkers for free speech and media. The project, focused on people under 35 and implemented by the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists in Jordan, held a public event at Amman's Royal Cultural Center in June featuring street theatre, rap music, short films and more, performed by artists in the Freedom Messengers Network. Please go to FMN for more photos and stories in Arabic. more >>
May 15, 2013
With more than 60 per cent of the population aged under 30, Tajikistan is one of the world's youngest countries. Yet youth participation, both political and social, is low and young people's opinion undervalued. This is why UNDEF funds a project in Tajikistan to encourage young people to participate in political debates on youth policy issues. more >>
April 23, 2013
An UNDEF-funded project in Zimbabwe works to empower women and increase their participation in politics and the decision-making process. The project, implemented by the Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust, trains women in the Binga District to be popular opinion leaders, who will in turn train other women and men and spread the acquired knowledge across their communities. more >>
April 16, 2013
India's Ambassador to the UN, Manjeev Singh Puri, kicked off UNDEF's Board meeting by handing over a cheque for 1.85 million dollars from the world's largest democracy. This brings to over 31 million dollars India's total contribution since the Fund was established in 2005. more >>
March 25, 2013
An UNDEF-funded project in Iraq has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with six Governorate Councils as part of an effort to strengthen civil society participation in democratic processes and advance accountability in Government institutions. The project, active in the Governorates of Baghdad, Babil, Karkuk, Najaf, Basrah and Karbala, works to make communities more aware of their rights to participation and basic services, as well as evaluate the performance of Governorate Councils to address citizens' needs. more >>


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SEARSPORT, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Townspeople are continuing to debate whether a massive liquid propane gas tank should be built on Mack Point.
Denver-based DCP Midstream wants to build the 138 foot tall tank. Company officials say once completed the site will be used to import liquid propane gas into the U.S. --- creating up to 15 new jobs in the Midcoast.
Since last summer, the company has been trying to get Searsport's Planning Board to approve the project. Its been meeting fierce resistance in public hearings. Opponents worry what the tank's effect will be on the local economy in Searsport as well as the environment.
"If it's done this is going to bring industrialization to the upper bay which is the worse place to bring industrialization if you want to have a bay that's sustainable that keeps churning out lobsters at its other end," said Ron Huber of 'Penobscot Bay Watch' who is one of the project's critics.
"We feel very good about the story we've been telling.. the facts that we've gotten out there," remarked Roz Elliott, who is the spokesperson for 'DCP Midstream,' "the economic value...the jobs."
The tank project has already gotten the necessary permits from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Searsport's Planning Board is expected to rule on it sometime next month.


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After watching that great at bat by Adam Jones yesterday, and that clutch hit by Brian Roberts I got excited. I saw a team that went back to the fundamentals of how to have a great at bat by fighting off pitches until you get a hit, or a walk. Then Roberts comes up big with his hit, and I love the aggressiveness of sending Andino there. Markakis has not been hitting well, so it's worth the gamble in that situation and it took a perfect throw to get him out.
Where I'm going with all this is that we showed a glimpse of life, but then once again we come out with a rough 11th inning and another loss. I feel like this team doesn't have that sense of ungency and that instinct to just put a team away. This team seems to lack confidence in themselves. I hope we see a huge turn around, and get back to winning and proving me wrong because I want to see these Orioles succeed. It seems like they have everything in place, they just need to bring it all together and start clicking on all cylinders.
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The contemporary world is dynamic and unsettling—and unsettling precisely because it is so dynamic. The experimental and theoretical investigation of nature, the acceleration of technical innovation, and the sustained increase in material productivity that first emerged in the West have spread throughout the world. It is now difficult to find a society or culture that is untouched by these developments and that might be called simply traditional.
What are the institutions, structures, and practices that have encouraged these changes? What resources exist within contemporary societies to foster, to resist, and to adapt to change? Can a heritage or tradition be preserved in the face of unfettered dynamism? To what degree can we understand the forces and processes at work in the contemporary world, and how far can we guide our practice by what we learn of them? In light of the great Western traditions of learning, culture, and Christian belief, how can we productively and creatively address the impending future? These are the kinds of questions that are addressed by the concentration and the major in Human Sciences in the Contemporary World.
The major and the concentration in Human Sciences in the Contemporary World have five major goals:
First, they aim to understand how the transformations of the contemporary world have both enhanced life and set it unprecedented problems.
Second, they cultivate a sophisticated appreciation for the contemporary influences, movements, forces, and tendencies that are progressively transforming human activities and institutions.
Third, they offer ways of understanding the structures of contemporary societies and the processes of change that they undergo.
Fourth, they strive to counteract the divisive force of intellectual overspecialization and compartmentalization by drawing on all the social and behavioral sciences, as well as appropriate humanities and scientific disciplines, in order to understand the constitution of human meaning.
Fifth, they place these matters within the context of the openness of the great traditions of the West and Christian thought to other cultures and global civilization.
Human Sciences in the Contemporary World addresses these issues and questions by marshaling the resources, concepts, and methods of disciplines that have emerged in the past two centuries as part of an attempt to gain a scientific understanding of human being in human community. Disciplines like anthropology, sociology, social psychology, linguistics, and social studies of science have developed concepts that are essential for understanding the differences between traditional and modern cultures and societies.
By taking a reflective view of these disciplinary developments and how they come to grips—and sometimes do not come to grips—with the realities of the contemporary world, Human Sciences in the Contemporary World aims to cultivate in students a productive, philosophically- and historically-informed understanding of the world of the twenty-first century.


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Submission AMD Realizes That Bulldozer Has 800 Million Less T->
Robadob writes: It has come to light that AMD PR had originally reported that the new Bulldozer processor's transistor count was 2 billion. AMD PR are now asking reviewers to correct this count to 1.2 billion from the original amount they provided ~3 months ago.
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This general view shows Lunar New Year travellers aboard a crowded... News PhotoArts Culture and Entertainment,Beijing,Chinese Culture,Chinese New Year,Chongqing,City,Crowded,General View,Holiday - Event,Horizontal,Illustration,Illustration Technique,Indoors,Leaving,Passenger,Railroad Car,Tied Up,Time,Train - Vehicle,TravelPhotographer ED JONESCollection: AFP 2013 AFPThis general view shows Lunar New Year travellers aboard a crowded train bound for the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, a journey of 32 hours, as it departs from the West Railway Station in Beijing on January 31, 2013. The world's largest annual migration is underway in China with tens of millions across China boarding trains to journey home for Lunar New Year celebrations. Passengers will log 220 million train rides during the 40-day travel season as they criss-cross the country to celebrate with their families on February 10, but just as making the trip home can be laborious -- often lasting one or two days -- so can simply acquiring a seat on the train, and every year complaints arise about the inefficiency or unfairness of the system, although an initiative allowing travelers to purchase tickets online aims to curb long queuing times. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)


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Ahoy fellow Pastafarians!
For those of you who have read the Gospel by now, you will have come across some of the fine work put out by the Enlightenment Institute. I am the lead author of the study entitled "Piracy as a Preventor of Tropical Cyclones", and will be giving a special seminar on this work next week.
"Piracy as a Preventor of Tropical Cyclones"
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 @ 4:15pm
529 Walker Building
Penn State University (University Park Campus)
Those in the State College area are encouraged to attend this special event (of course, everyone else is welcome too...but I don't expect many special trips to State College on a Tuesday).