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Oct. 11, 2007
Media contact: Ann Snyder, 503-945-5922
Program contact: Marc Overbeck, 503-947-1109
Oregonians to be honored as Everyday Heroes for helping victims of elder abuse
(Editors: This year's honorees are from the cities of Beaverton, Colton, Glide, Gresham, Grants Pass, Medford, Oregon City, Portland, Reedsport, Roseburg, Sutherlin, The Dalles, Tillamook, Winston, and from Lincoln County. Details of what they did to earn the award are at the end of this release. For honoree contact information, call Marilyn Hinds, Chair of the Oregon Everyday Heroes campaign, at 541-929-7136.)
Eleven Oregonians -- employees of two local social service agencies and a financial institution -- will be honored Oct. 18 as "Everyday Heroes" for their selflessness in coming to the aid of victims of elder financial and physical abuse and neglect.
The event will coincide with a proclamation by Gov. Ted Kulongoski declaring Oct. 18, 2006, "Everyday Heroes Working to End Elder Abuse Day." The proclamation states, "All residents of the State of Oregon deserve to live with dignity, respect and security."
The winners will be honored at the Third Annual Oregon Everyday Heroes Recognition Luncheon at noon Oct. 18 at the Keizer Renaissance Inn (formerly the Wittenberg Inn) at 5188 Wittenberg Lane North in Keizer. The individuals being honored are:
The employees of local social service agencies are:
The financial institution is:
Financial and physical abuse of the elderly is one of the fastest-growing crimes in America. Reports of elder abuse, neglect and exploitation increased 19.6 percent from 2000 to 2004 with nearly half of those reports being substantiated. While some studies estimate that between 3 percent and 5 percent of the elderly population have been abused, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging estimates there may be as many as 5 million victims every year.
The Governor's Commission on Senior Services created the Oregon Everyday Heroes campaign in an effort to raise awareness of elder abuse, increase reporting, reduce tolerance of elder abuse, and find ways of connecting individuals and families with community resources.
"We appreciate the efforts of every individual who makes a difference in the life of a senior citizen, but we also want to recognize the efforts of a few who have allowed us to share their stories," said John Helm of Scappoose, chairman of the Governor's Commission on Senior Services, a co-sponsor of the Oregon Everyday Heroes campaign.
The honorees and the services they performed follow.
MBank in Gresham, Tom Perrick, President, and H. Rex Brittle, CEO
MBank has developed a comprehensive training program to teach all staff how to recognize signs of elder financial exploitation, particularly front line tellers who are in regular contact with bank customers. Each year, all bankers receive training in "red flag" warning signs of suspected elder financial abuse. Twice a year, tellers and new account representatives receive additional training on how to identify suspected elder financial exploitation, including how to recognize suspicious account transactions. MBank also has developed outreach programs, and sends its staff to residential retirement centers for mobile branching, and conducts annual training seminars for the senior residents at those sites. The sessions include information on current scams that target the elderly, and discussion is held on what kinds of e-mails and phone calls these seniors are receiving.
Meals on Wheels, Tillamook County
Claire and Donald McVay have been Meals on Wheels volunteers in Tillamook County for five years, providing not only meals to the elderly, but also compassion and an access to dignity. In the case of an isolated and frail older man who was reluctant to have any contact with anyone, the McVays brought him hot meals three times a week and frozen meals the other days. While he declined all other assistance from neighbors, friends, Senior Services or the community, he became connected to the McVays. One day the McVays found him locked out of his home, lying on the floor of his porch. They called 911 and the gentleman was taken to the hospital, and later placed in a care facility where he lived until he passed away some months later.
Dina Eyer of Beaverton
Dina is a Bank of America teller who intervened in a case of financial exploitation and fraud. She stepped in to protect an elderly customer's assets from family members who were depleting the victim's bank accounts to buy drugs, food and alcohol. Dina contacted the ElderSafe Program in Washington County to find out what could be done to help, and subsequently reported the situation to authorities.
Michael Wolff of Portland
Michael, manager of a New Seasons Market, came across a 92-year-old man who became disoriented while shopping and, while he could remember his address, couldn't remember how to get home. Michael drove the man home and then contacted the Adult Protective Services' after-hours program to follow up. As a result of Michael's efforts, protective services workers made sure the man was well and that his home was stocked with basic supplies such as food.
Gary Hedeen of Colton
Gary is a retired middle school teacher who reached out to an 83-year-old neighbor who had quit driving because of poor vision. Gary started out making sure she had fuel for her wood stove, but eventually began getting groceries for her and taking her to pick up her prescriptions and to medical appointments. He called several times each day and went to her home to make sure she was eating and taking her medications. Recently, with Gary's assistance, the woman has moved to a facility where she can receive 24-hour assistance.
Linda Fridell Paul of Oregon City
For 17 years Linda has been an advocate for the rights of the elderly. She has helped many older adults obtain restraining orders against abusers, and has linked them to needed services and guided them through the court system. She is a sought-after trainer and has provided training locally on elder abuse to other victim advocates as well as the general public.
Susan Peachey of The Dalles
When a customer came in and reported that her daughter had physically abused her and had bruises on her arms and elsewhere, Susan helped the customer close their joint bank accounts and open new accounts in just her name. She helped the customer contact credit card companies to close all accounts on which the daughter was a co-signer and to obtain new cards. She also helped the client find an accountant and an attorney to protect and manage her assets. Susan then persuaded the customer to contact Adult Protective Services, see her doctor, report the incident to the police and obtain a restraining order. The daughter eventually was indicted by a grand jury for Criminal Mistreatment 1 and has been arraigned.
Marni Tegner of Lincoln County
Marni Tegner, owner of Hair Smiles, noticed that an elderly and frail customer of 17 years did not show for her normal weekly hair appointment. Concerned, Marni called her home, but didn't get an answer. Concerned that something was wrong, she went to the home and saw the customer in a chair and unable to answer the door. Marni called 911. When the EMTs arrived they found that her husband, who helped her dress, fixed her meals and drove to her appointments, had passed away, leaving his wife alone and unable to help herself. Thanks to Marni's diligence, the woman received needed assistance and a conservator is going to be appointed to help look after her affairs.
Marleen Burke and Robert Wheeler of Portland
Marleen and Robert are neighbors who live next door to an 82-year-old widower with a history of falling down. While on a trip away from the area Marleen became concerned about the man and contacted the Adult Protective Services' after-hours program to request that someone check on him. With the help of Portland police, APS staff discovered the man on the floor of his home and transported him to a nearby Emergency Department, where he was treated and released temporarily to a care center before being able to return home.
Sue Campbell of Medford
Sue is a Medford Police Department detective who has been a peace officer for the past 22 years. Sue has gone above and beyond the regular call of her professional duty by regularly using her own time to help elder abuse victims in her community. She has helped abuse victims recover by taking them on outings, walking their dogs, baking them special desserts, celebrating holidays with them, and occasionally finding them other living situations, to make sure they do not become victims again. Sue also has been a strong advocate at the District Attorney's office for prosecution of abuse cases when they arise.
Marilyn Burke of Sutherlin Senior Center, Jeannie Wright of Glide Community Center, Donna Clifford Winston Community Center, and Therese Stauffer Reedsport Senior Center
Marilyn, Jeannie, Donna and Therese are the eyes and ears of the Douglas County Senior Abuse Program, regularly referring many seniors to the Fraud and Abuse Team in Douglas County. Going beyond their regular duties as managers of meal sites and the Meals-On-Wheels programs in their communities, they have helped obtain information necessary to protect many seniors in Douglas County from abuse and financial exploitation.
Kathy Saunders of Grants Pass
Kathy, coordinator of the AARP Tax Aide Program in Grants Pass, and her staff of volunteers have actively reported incidents of elders at risk of financial abuse or neglect. Due to their efforts they found that an elderly woman had been personally paying her granddaughter for care while she was already being paid by the state as her caregiver. The case was turned over to Adult Protective Services for further action. In another case, Kathy and her team stopped a plan to exploit the resources of an elderly relative.
Jack Bishop of Portland
Jack has been a volunteer advocate for more than eight years with Elders in Action, assisting more than 40 individual victims of crime navigate the justice system. One of the people helped by Jack was a very independent and capable older woman who, in good faith, signed a $50,000 contract with a remodeling contractor to do some work on her home. Throughout the course of the work the contractor kept finding additional work needing to be done at, of course, added cost. The woman trustingly paid for the work. At the point she had invested $115,000, the contractor walked off the job. Much of the completed work was of poor quality and wouldn't pass inspection; part of the project was incomplete. Jack, along with Elders in Action staff, intervened and helped the woman contact the Contractor's Board, go through an inspection and ultimately recover some of the money she had lost. Last year alone, Jack and other personal advocate volunteers for Elders in Action recovered more than $276,000 for elderly victims of fraud, ID theft and wrongful billing.
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I made this for a "freezer meal" swap with some friends. I brought three pans of enchiladas, and came home with different dishes to add to my own share of the enchiladas in the freezer. (Our lovely hostess made chicken cordon bleu, twice baked potatoes, molten lava cakes, and a southwestern chicken/corn chowder, and there was also baked ziti and a chicken pot pie from the others). Kickass.
I found the recipe for this on Food.com and modified it as shown in blue.
- 1 lb chicken breast , diced
- 1 medium onion , chopped
- 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1/2 tablespoon ground coriander
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 8 8-inch flour tortillas , softened
- 1 1/2 cups grated monterey jack cheese or 1 1/2 cups Mexican blend cheese , divided
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 (15 ounce) can chicken broth
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chilies
- In frypan, cook onion in oil over medium-high heat until transparent, then add in the garlic, cumin and coriander. Add the chicken and cooked until, well... cooked.
- Divide cooked chicken evenly between 8 tortillas; add 1 1/2 tablespoons cheese to each tortilla.
- Roll enchiladas and place seam-side down in a baking dish that has been lightly sprayed with no-stick cooking spray.
- Melt butter in a medium saucepan; stir in flour to make a roux; stir and cook until bubbly; gradually whisk in chicken broth then bring to boiling, stirring frequently.
- Remove from heat; stir in sour cream and green chiles; pour sauce evenly over enchiladas.
- Top with remaining 3/4 cup cheese (baking dish may be double-wrapped and frozen at this point) and bake at 400° for 20 minutes until cheese is melted and sauce near edges of baking dish is bubbly.

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The attention to the video is not new. Soon after the prank was pulled in early 2008 in an office at Fitzgerald Auto Mall, Bowser and his coworkers put it up for America's Funniest Home Videos. It won the $10,000 prize for being the funniest video on the show which it appeared.
On the phone from Burbank two hours before filming The Tonight Show earlier today, Bowser said the fear he felt after unknowingly reaching up to clutch the spider on his chest was all worth it.
"Never in a million years would I have thought it went this far. It was something we just did to kind of entertain ourselves at the dealership," he said. Bowser does not know why the video has stayed relevant for so long. The fact that he would soon be talking to Leno about it is "unimaginable," he said.
According to Bowser, he and the video will be featured on the show's "Prank You Very Much" segment.
"(Producers) were going through videos on Youtube just to get ideas. Ours just happened to come up," he said.
It became well known among his coworkers that Bowser feared spiders after one appeared in a meeting room one day. Sometime after that, on the drive back from a meeting in Maryland, two coworkers came up with the idea for the prank and bought a tarantula from a pet store.
In the video, Bowser is sitting at a desk and talking on the phone when a coworker sets the tarantula on his shoulder. Several seconds go by before Bowser notices it and quickly pushes it off.
Bowser said he still gets pranked every now and then, but nothing has come close to the spider video.
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I have been receiving emails concerning the Dick Act of 1903 which are simply wrong. David Hardy does a good job of pointing out the errors. There are serious constitutional problems with the proposed assault weapon laws, but the Dick Act isn't one of them.
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"That goal is so large, that I think it's probably unbounded. When problems get unbounded, the best you can ever hope to achieve is to solve a large enough subset of the problem that the solution is still interesting. If you can't achieve that, people ignore the solution because it fundamentally doesn't help them. There is always an 'interesting' part of the problem space that they have to solve a different way, and that undercuts the use of the partial 'solution.'"And as for Tosca? Things didn't end well for her, did they? Might TOSCA's fate, too, be sealed?
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The Virgin Valley boys soccer team has had some tough losses on the season, but Tuesday's defeat against defending state champion Tech was one that will sting for awhile.
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2) I made lots of cute things over the weekend, but I can't post the photos until the competition is over. Voting for the winner of Session 3 begins Monday, June 21st. I'll remind you. No worries!
3) I made myself not quit the competition. Some of the themes really had me stumped. You'll be surprised to know that the "PAPER" thing was the most difficult round for me (go figure, right?) followed by the "SCIENTIFIC" theme. I was about to take myself out of the competition that week because I was so stressed trying to come up with something. Then I thought about my friend Meghan's kids and about how they are always using their imaginations, and that is how I came up with the idea. But it was tough!
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Hi, I would like to know the difference between two of the system`s restoration options, one says that will restore the system and drivers that are "essential" minimizing the restoration image, and there´s another one that indicates that it will set the system with the manufacture settings (as I understand it).
My question is, if I select the latter, will I have to buy another license for windows? or it will restore the system with only the drivers and the operating system.
I would really like to get rid of the software that comes with the notebook, that I really don´t need and it takes a lot of disk space that I would like to use for other things.
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If you want to not have the "bloatware" that comes with the factory installation, then select the minimal restoration option.
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The contest is limited to 2 hours again this year, plus the presentation of awards. Again, looking forward to seeing your vids and saying hi at the con.
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Feb 09, 2011 12:16:25
package main.basics; public class UnwrappingReflection { private UnwrappingReflection() { } /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { try { System.out.println(Class.forName("main.basics.UnwrappingReflection").getCanonicalName()); try { MyClass newInst = (MyClass) Class.forName("main.basics.MyClass").newInstance(); newInst.print(); } catch (InstantiationException e) { System.out.println("You are not a genius. Try not instantiating an abstract class or an interface."); } catch (IllegalAccessException e) { System.out.println("Think i know why this happened. Probably a private constructor."); } } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { System.out.println("You are not a genius."); } } public void print() { System.out.println("You are a genius."); } } class MyClass { private MyClass() { } public void print() { System.out.println("This is MyClass."); } }
Hi. As you can see i am trying to understand how reflection works.
Can someone help with me out with the process "reflection" or any "Java application startup" goes through?
Have been reading the docs at
to understand the jvm process. The docs out there explain reflection and not the jvm process of "class loading" which i think plays a crucial role before reflection kicks in.
Any help to find appropriate docs or explanation of how a jvm starts up an application would be appreciated.
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I'm not sure exactly what you want to know - are you not clear about what the concept of reflection is, or are you just asking what it is useful for?
Normally, when you write a
program, and you use classes that are for example in libraries (including the standard Java API), the compiler has to know about those classes - you have to have the class files for all those classes somewhere (in a directory or JAR file) and they have to be on the classpath or somewhere else so that the compiler can find them.
Suppose that you are writing a system that can be extended via plug-ins. There are many real systems which have this ability - for example, IDEs such as Eclipse and NetBeans have a plug-in architecture.
Your system needs to be able to load plug-ins and call methods in the classes of a plug-in. But note that those plug-ins are not available when you are writing your system, so you can't write your code so that you can directly call methods in plug-ins. In fact, it's most likely that the plug-ins won't even exist yet when you are writing your system, and you don't even know the class names of the classes in the plug-ins.
What you could then do is define an interface for plug-ins, for example something like this:
public interface PlugIn { void start(); void stop(); // ... whatever other methods you need }
And then require that people who write plug-ins implement that interface.
In your system, you would use reflection to load a plug-in dynamically. You could get the name of the class that implements the PlugIn interface from a configuration file. You can then load that class with
and use reflection to call the methods.
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Is it safe to say that the purpose of reflection is to allow you to create dynamic applications using a plug-in architecture?
Also is reflection then used only for creating instances at runtime and then invoking methods? Can it be used to modify the behavior of a method at runtime.
What i mean to ask is can i use reflection to change the order of method calls
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Yes, though this would tie whatever you are writing very much into the implementation of whatever you are reflecting over. Not a very safe thing to do. For example, if you call a private method via reflection that relies on state initialized in the method that accesses it you'll get unexpected behaviour.
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The local school fund portion of my property taxes grew from $746 in 2001 to $1,362 in 2011, a $616 or 82 percent increase. In 2006 - the peak of the last growth spurt - the tax was up $238. In 2003, my school fund tax did go down - by $11.
As a former teacher, I support education. I'm also a taxpayer who questions how our money is being used. These taxes may not be a burden on me, but what about the burden they place on others?
If we're questioning taxes collected and wasted in Washington, D.C., shouldn't we be asking questions about local taxes?
Growth is driving the need for this new tax money, just as growth is driving or facilitating - as proponents like to assert - money needed for a 139-mile water pipeline. It's almost certain we will grow, but the pace is unknown.
For the school district to assert that if growth doesn't materialize, the bonds won't be issued seems to lack merit. As noted, my school fund property taxes have gone down only once.
Is our tax money being spent efficiently and well? I often don't agree with Michelle Malkin's positions, but her recent column on education chasing technology and the costs associated hit home for me. "Education's Shiny Toy Syndrome is the result of a toxic alliance between big government and big business," she wrote.
Has Washington County fallen victim to this ailment? More information is needed before residents vote to hand over more taxes.
Interestingly, the school district desires a new high school to level student populations for athletic classification. In the past, schools have been split between 3A and 4A, a situation other Utah areas have handled comfortably. Washington County wants a new high school so Hurricane High School can catch up in student population and track the regional classification with others.
I understand the importance of sports for schools. What I don't understand is why our education tax money should have to support it to this extent. Is sports really a sufficient justification for building another high school with our tax money to allow equity between areas?
The district's information supporting the bonding is curious. On the one hand, they've argued they have too many students in schools and there's overload. On the other hand, they've argued that they don't have enough students to compete athletically.
Will more schools make us competitive educationally? That's the question. The 600-point Utah Comprehensive Accountability System shows a local high of 567 and a low of 273 - both charter schools. Most public schools are in the 400-point range.
High birth rates in Utah put extra demands on our schools. I support the right to have large families, but it seems that comes with some responsibility on the part of those choosing to have many children to step up and pay for them, not expect others to subsidize.
Two children is the recommended number to not put undue burden on population growth. I know this is heresy in Utah!
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A tough first inning was too much to overcome for the Salem baseball team Friday in Winder. The host Bulldoggs used three walks and a hit batsmen to score all four of their runs in the opening inning in a 4-2 victory in Region 8-AAAA play.
With the loss, Salem fell to 3-5 in league play, while Winder won its 12th consecutive game and stayed unbeaten at 10-0 in the region.
"We had all week off so we had a real good week of practice, then had a good game tonight," Salem coach Chad Kitchens said afterwards. "We played pretty well (and) we held them down pretty well after that first inning, they didn't get anything."
After starter Garrett Needham struggled in the first, he added a scoreless second inning, then the Seminoles bullpen-Adam Hood, Ryan Read and Eric Bechet-shut down the hosts with four scoreless innings.
Salem got a run in the first on an RBI-single by Jake Rich and cut the deficit to 4-2 when Chase Duncan scored on a passed ball in the fifth. With the tying run at the plate in the seventh, Josh Webster was robbed of a hit to end the game.
Despite the Friday loss, Salem still has hopes for a state playoff spot. The Seminoles will travel to county rival Rockdale Monday, then host the Bulldogs Wednesday.
"(The playoffs are) what we've worked for all season, we worked really hard in the off-season, we have the opportunity," Kitchens said. "Rockdale probably feels just as confident as we do. We have to go out there and earn it."
Heritage snapped a three-game losing streak with an 8-1 win over Madison County. Ryan Gasque was dominant, tossing three-hit ball and striking out 10 in six innings for the Patriots (10-7, 5-3 Region 8-AAAA), who were coming off consecutive losses to defending league champion, Loganville in which they allowed 24 runs.
"Any time that we can bounce back after a three game skid, on the road, with a win…you got to respond, and we did," said Heritage coach Jason Borcherding. "(Gasque) just did a great job, pounded the zone. He's been reliable for us, hope it continues."
The Patriots, who were held to just seven runs during the losing skid, got a three-run home run from catcher Matt Reeves and three hits from Ryan Sutton.
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The 2014 Women of Vision Luncheon will be 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. May 6 in the Legends Club at Lambeau Field. Jessie Garcia, a sportscaster with WTMJ in Milwaukee and one of the first women in the country to host an NFL coachs show, is the keynote speaker, and the event will include a fashion show and silent auction. Go to ywcagreenbay.org or facebook.com/ywcagreenbay for more.
When I landed an interview at the Wausau Daily Herald newspaper weeks before college graduation, my mom took me shopping.
Those navy blue dress pants, new sweater and matching shoes maybe my first-ever matching shoes seemed really grown up.
We didnt have a lot of money. But we had enough that I could go into that interview worried more about whether I was saying the right things and less about whether I looked professional enough.
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About 2,000 women a year rely on the YWCAs Womens Closet to help them with that little confidence boost that takes at least one worry off the table when youre trying to get on your feet.
Two rooms filled with donated blazers, dresses, scarves, shoes and more are available to women who cant afford the professional look to help them land a job. That Catch-22 looking professional enough to get the job that gives you the paycheck to look professional enough is alleviated with a shopping trip at the Y.
And the number of women relying on that assistance has grown, leading the YWCA to see a need for and create a more comprehensive support network for job seekers. Through partnerships with local businesses, women receive free job assistance, including mentoring, technical training and work on confidence building and literacy. Humana staff, for example, work with clients on resume development and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College provides job training. The clients have access to a computer lab, and can enroll in a GED program. And its all free to low-income residents trying to find employment and better their situation.
The YWCAs 16th Women of Vision luncheon is a significant fundraiser for the efforts of this Womens Economic Empowerment Center that finds its home on the second floor of the YWCA on Madison Street. The luncheon also supports the Ys TechGYRLS program, which through hands-on activities and instruction encourages girls to pursue careers in the STEM areas: science, technology, engineering and math.
Its the YWCAs oldest fundraiser, and it has grown out of its space at the Oneida Country Club into its new home this year at Lambeau Field. (The vast majority of attendees are women. But because it funds programs that support the future of girls and women in the workplace, it certainly seems like the kind of event that fathers and sons and brothers should support wholeheartedly.)
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Hailed from the small Ohio city of Lorain, skateboarder Chad Muska is the perfect juxtaposition of Mid-Western work values, So-Cal radness and New York City speed addict. It is little wonder why he has not one nor two signature footwear, but three from Supra. In addition to the aforementioned Supra Holiday 2010 Skytop, 4 brand new Skytop II are in this year's holiday mix as well. There is the Supra signature TUF Duct Tape construct in all-white color scheme, a perfect resemblance to a pair of Desert Boots in the composition of Khaki Suede, the ever-mysterious Mixed Materials upper, and finally, the luxurious Black Suede with Cordura accents. In all, suitable for the half pipe or a quick kiss under the mistletoes. Available in the coming weeks at Supra dealers worldwide and its FACTORY 413 flagship boutique in Los Angeles.
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The South Penn Road Runners Club will conduct the event, which features track races of varying lengths based upon the age groups. The event also includes an open mile.
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The PA Blaze Softball organization will conduct tryouts on Saturday, March 23, at Moul Field in Hanover.
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The Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer and the Harrisburg City Islanders announced Wednesday that the clubs have expanded their partnership, allowing Union players to stay, practice and play games in the United Soccer League with the City Islanders for an extended period of time, possibly the entire USL campaign.
"Having meaningful competitions at levels below MLS is absolutely critical to the development of aspiring players in North America," said Philadelphia Union chief executive officer and operating partner Nick Sakiewicz.
Similar to Major League Baseball's farm system, the Union can send first-team players to Harrisburg for development, to gain extra playing time or to regain fitness following an injury. The player would still be a member of the Union's roster and the club would hold all rights to the player, as well as be responsible for the player's salary.
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I thought no one would ever know
To stop a life before it could grow.
A baby now would never do
There's so much life to live.
I'm young right now, I need to be free
I can't have a baby stopping me.
Life's too short and I haven't got
The time or the love to give.
Again there's life inside of me
This time I'd want this child to be,
But I'm all alone and so afraid.
I fear I have no choice to make.
Out of sight, out of mind
I know that I will heal with time
If I just forget I will be alright
And I won't cry anymore
With child again, oh, no, not me
Lord, why are You punishing me
I haven't the strength to take a stand
And have a baby without a man
How wrong was I to think that I could be God
And choose whether this one lived or died
The pain I suffered never went away
Till I begged the Lord to heal.
The grace of God, so full and free
In Jesus Christ, He pardoned me
A murderer I was but am no more
He cleared me of all my sin.
Blessed beyond my hopes and dreams.
Six beautiful children He has given me
Three in heaven I will someday see
Until then I will patiently await
My heart Christ came to bind it up
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I feel that now I can really live.
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HP's Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs
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The company would like to develop 3-D video that doesn't require users to wear special glasses, so it's looking for new ways to design camera systems and new algorithms to handle the images. Digital printing, obviously, is a big area for HP, so it's seeking ideas to help computers figure out the meaning of text, photos, and video, then print customized newspapers. Another topic area involves the behavior of inks made of nanometer-sized bits of metal and polymers, which could find applications in pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as printing.
The idea, Friedrich explains, is neither to come up with a slightly improved version of an existing product nor to do completely blue-sky research with no obvious practical value. Rather, the office is trying to identify some long-term goals and figure out what it takes to reach them.
Along the way, HP researchers and grant recipients have coauthored about 200 journal papers. At least 21 invention disclosures, the first step toward securing a patent, have been filed. HP has all grant winners sign an agreement detailing how they'll share any intellectual property that comes out of the research. "At some point I do expect some of these to have influence and impact on our products," Friedrich says. "But we're really engaged in things that go beyond the product road map."
Of course, some of these projects might hit dead ends. "The goal is for us to push the envelope enough that we uncover the boundaries of what's possible," he says. "Some people might consider that a failure. I consider it the edge of knowledge."
One grant recipient, Alan Willner, an electrical engineer at the University of Southern California, has had his grant renewed twice. He's working on better ways to handle signal processing in optical interconnects on computer chips.
These interconnects use multiple wavelengths of light to shunt data between chips at higher speeds than is possible with wires. By using one beam of light to transmit many signals simultaneously, they'll be able to handle the massive amounts of data involved in cloud computing, while drastically reducing energy consumption at the same time. HP aims to double the performance of such interconnects in 2012 and increase it 20-fold by 2017.
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GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- This morning chef George Snyder from McCormick & Schmick's joined us to talk about their special Game Day Menu for football and baseball games. George said some of the menu items start at just $2.25, and the menu will be featured for the entire football season.
McCormick & Schmick's has two locations: 3203 Galleria in Edina and 800 Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. For reservations, and more information, visit www.mccormickandschmicks.com.
Here are the recipes chef George showed us today:
Crispy Fried Buttermilk Oysters
Makes 1 serving
¾ cup oil
3 oysters, shucked
¼ cup Pan-Fried Oyster (PFO) Flour, recipe follows
¼ cup buttermilk
1 ounce spinach
1 ounce arugula
1 ounce butter
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 Tablespoon Lemon-Tabasco Aioli, recipe follows
7-8 drops Tabasco
Heat oil to very hot in sauté pan. Simultaneously dust oysters in PFO flour.
Dip dusted oysters in buttermilk to coat well, dust again in PFO flour and lightly shake off excess. Place oysters in hot oil and cook until light brown and crispy. Drain oysters.
In a separate pan, sauté spinach and arugula in butter, season with salt and pepper.
Squeeze a lightning bolt of aioli diagonally across the plate; neatly place 7-8 drops of Tabasco on the plate. Mound the spinach/arugula in the center of the plate making sure to squeeze out most of the liquid. Carefully stack the oysters in a mound directly on the greens.
Pan-Fried Oyster Flour
Makes 5 ¼ Cups
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup corn starch
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons ground black pepper
Combine all ingredients.
Lemon-Tabasco Aioli
Makes 1 1/3 Cups
1 cup mayonnaise
2 lemons, zested
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
1/4 tablespoon Tabasco
Measure the mayonnaise into a small stainless-steel bowl; add the zest from lemons and the lemon juice into the mayonnaise.
Mince the garlic, add the salt to the garlic and with the side of a wide knife blade, mash the garlic and salt into a paste. Add the paste to the citrus mayonnaise.
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A Givebox is like a nice cupboard where people can put out stuff they don't need anymore that others can take. The intention behind these Giveboxes are that they encourage neighborhood communicating, exchanging ,etc.The first one was made in Berlin in 2011 by ANdreas Richter, and the concept has now spread in many cities.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California wants us to know that she is "not a sixth-grader."
Anyone who saw the recent exchange before the Senate Judiciary Committee between Feinstein and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas over guns and the Constitution might speculate that the reason she said this is because she couldn't pass the entrance exam.
As for Cruz, a friend of mine for a decade, it turns out that the most important of the "Senate rules" is unwritten: Thou shalt not embarrass a fellow senator - even one in the opposing party - by making him or her look unprepared, uneducated or uninformed. ...


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Am back in states at parents house. Desperate to get sewing room set up. I miss sewing.
This design is one of the things that got me designing professionally. Ironically, if I knew then what I knew now, I would have gone about it in a completely different way. I think it has all worked out just fine.This is the final sweater pattern for the Imagination Collection. You can find full pattern information and buy it here, or on Ravelry.
This pattern is different from the other animal patterns in that it is seamless. The intarsia is also more challenging than the stripes and stranded knitting in Busy Bee and Ribbit. I know intarsia is not everyone's favorite technique, but I'm hoping a small, fun, pattern like this will inspire some experimentation with it.
This pattern started because when my daughter was not quite a year, she had a little board book about baby animals that ended with tiger cubs needing a tiger snack. We started roaring at the end of it (my parents may have started that) because it was so funny to hear her roar back. Then, for her first birthday she got a small stuffed tiger, the closest thing to a lovey she's ever had. It's posing with her in some of these pictures.
Then we started taking her to the zoo. The South Bend zoo is pretty small, but it does have two tigers, and they are the first thing you see when you come in. This all added up to something of a tiger frenzy in our house.
A visit to the yarn store revealed yarn in the perfect semi-solid shadings of orange – Queensland Collection Rustic Wool (link to an online yarn store with swatches). It is superwash, soft, wears well-ours has been through the washing machine many times-and is very forgiving to knit with. The yarn store did not have a black, or even the chocolate color I see on the website above, so I used stash yarn. This ended up being a source of the delay, as I almost reknit the sample. I had a couple of independent dyers considering doing custom colors, and even received a few sample skeins, when at the end of the day there just wasn't time for me. I decided that the downside of having two different brands in one sweater was not as heavy as the downside of never publishing a pattern I'd put a lot of hours into.
That was actually the second delay. The first delay was when I switched from using Excel for charts to Illustrator. I had a hard time designing in Excel, and with charts as large as these I didn't think I could get professional results. The Illustrator charts, I flatter myself, are beautiful. In between other deadlines, however, it was easy to put off the fairly tedious task of transcribing all the charts.
I knit this sweater knowing that kids can be fickle, and that it might never get worn, but I figured that one of my kids would like it, some day. As it turns out, it was her favorite sweater as long as she could cram herself into it. She always like having her hood securely on, which inspired the close fitting hood shaped with short rows. It never needed to be tugged back up. The minute it was done she put it on and started roaring.
This pattern is available for $6.00 in my pattern store, from Ravelry, or in hardcopy form from MagCloud.


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Westwood/Roxhill Park transit-center concerns: Metro's response to WWRHAHDecember 5, 2013 at 12:11 pm | In Safety, West Seattle news, Westwood | 24 Comments
Four weeks ago, the Westwood-Roxhill-Arbor Heights Community Council sent Metro Transit general manager Kevin Desmond a letter detailing community concerns specific to the expansion of the Roxhill Park/Westwood Village area as a transit hub, some of which were discussed again at this week's WWRHAH meeting, as reported here last night. (added) Here's the November WWRHAH letter:
Today, Desmond has answered that letter; we were CC'd on its reply, which we are publishing here in its entirety:
Thank you for your email of November 7, 2013 about the Transit Center located at the
Westwood Village Shopping Center near Roxhill Park. I appreciate you bringing the concerns of the Westwood/Roxhill/Arbor Heights Community Council to my attention. Safety and security is a high priority for all of us involved in keeping transit riders and community members safe. I apologize for not getting back to you before your December 2nd meeting. We were working to make sure we had all the components to respond to your email as completely as possible.
In the fall of 2012, Metro implemented a series of route restructures in West Seattle that provided additional service to Westwood Village on the RapidRide C Line and Route 21, both of which end service on Southwest Barton Street adjacent to Roxhill Park. In addition, routes 22, 60, 125, and 560 were routed to the east side of Westwood Village along 25th Avenue Southwest. These changes have resulted in the creation of a new transit hub at Westwood Village that connects people to the many services offered there – shopping, dining, fitness, medical services, recreation, and other opportunities. Connections between transit services at Westwood Village also expand the number of places that people can travel and offer new mobility to many residents of West Seattle and beyond. As you have observed, these transit enhancements have generated new activity in and around the bus zone.
After receiving your email, we took some immediate actions to assess the situation in your community, including inspecting the stops involved and increasing Metro Transit Police patrols. Below you'll find a summary of the steps we've taken:
* Provision of security: A special Metro Transit Police detail provides enhanced patrols in the West Seattle/Southwest King County area, including at Westwood Village. These patrols address transit crime and disorder issues, and any behavior that is not consistent with the Metro Code of Conduct. We have stepped up patrols at Westwood Village bus stops for a limited period of time in response to your concerns. We are also continuing to work closely with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to support policing activities in the area. Metro Transit Police will contact the local SPD precinct to review security issues in the area and evaluate potential additional policing activities that could be undertaken at Westwood Village.
* Additional lighting at Southwest Barton Street and area bus stops: The RapidRide bus stop is well lit with pedestrian-level light fixtures, but the sidewalk to the west towards Southwest 29th Street has no lighting. Existing street lighting in the area is on the north side of Southwest Barton Street. Metro staff evaluated this area and determined that it would be difficult and costly to provide additional lighting along the sidewalk adjacent to the park as there are no existing power sources that could be utilized. Metro then contacted the Seattle Parks Department to see if they have any plans to upgrade the lighting in Roxhill Park. Capital projects at the park were recently completed, and at this point in time the Parks Department has no funding for additional projects in the area. The Parks Department indicated that it will consider this need as a major maintenance request list, and may conduct a lighting study that would guide future investments in this area.
* Cleaning and maintenance of the Roxhill Park RapidRide bus stops: Metro is committed to the ongoing cleaning and maintenance of the RapidRide bus stop located just past Roxhill Park in front of the greenbelt. Metro Facilities Maintenance crews clean this stop three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The crews empty the litter receptacle, pick up trash in the vicinity of the stop and shelter, remove graffiti, repair vandalized elements, and pressure wash shelter pads as needed. We reviewed our cleaning schedule, which exceeds many Rapid Ride stops and is consistent with sheltered locations of similar ridership and customer patterns. As an improvement, we will be changing the existing litter receptacle at this location to a solar compacting receptacle in order to control and confine the amount of litter that may accumulate.
* Provide better connections to White Center: While the fall 2012 route restructure did shift service away from White Center to Westwood Village, White Center continues to be served by six all-day routes. Routes 60, 120, and 560 provide all-day connections between Westwood Village and White Center. Despite the changes, we have been able to maintain good transit connections for many people, including enhanced service between White Center and Westwood Village.
* The "wall of buses" on Southwest Barton Street: Due to frequent service provided by the RapidRide C Line and Route 21, buses do overlap at the terminal along Southwest Barton Street, with as many as three or four buses in this area at a time throughout much of the day. There are even more buses in this area during morning and afternoon peak periods when service operates more frequently. Metro staff is also concerned about the number of buses in this area during peak periods. This past September, we revised the schedules for some C Line trips to reduce the number of buses that end there in the morning, but have not yet been able to do that in the afternoon. We continue to look at other options including alternative sites to park the buses. However, any options that would extend the routes in search of an alternative layover location would increase our costs and are therefore not feasible at this point in time.
* Lack of parking in Westwood Village parking lot: The Westwood Village hub was not intended as a park-and-ride destination and park-and-rides are not generally provided in Seattle. That said, Metro Transit Route Facilities planners will be observing the parking situation at Westwood Village to identify parking needs for people trying to access transit service at this location. As a result of these observations, we may attempt to contact the mall and see if anything can be done to reserve a number of parking spots for transit users.
Thank you again for your email. I hope we can continue to work together to address these concerns. Metro Service Planning staff would be happy to meet with you on site to review these matters in more detail. If you have further questions or comments, please contact Marty Minkoff, Supervisor of Service Planning, at 206-477-5799 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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All for the low, low price of $700 car tabs.
Comment by DTK — 12:29 pm December 5, 2013 #
Of course, none of anyone's taxes go towards maintaining the roads upon which you drive (probably alone) in your car.
Comment by BWD — 1:03 pm December 5, 2013 #
As Metro is (unsurprisingly, considering broader circumstances with Olympia's foolishness) tapped for cash right now, we're working in WWRHAH now on some alternatives detailed in the article linked above. If anyone would like to come by a WWRHAH meeting to work on this with us, we meet 1st Tuesday of every month upstairs in the SW Branch of the library on 35th. Meetings are short and brisk: 615-745pm.
Our site is: http://www.wwrhah.org
We're also on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WWRHAH/
We're conducting a survey right now with our 200+ Facebook members to see what to prioritize in 2014–we can use more feedback!
This will help inform us for 2014 now that we've gotten a grip on what improvements to work on for Roxhill Park, the Roxbury Street safety study is done and public hearings are coming in January, and we helped found the West Seattle Transportation Coalition in 2013. I don't know if we can top all that in 2014, but we're going to try with your help.
Comment by Joe Szilagyi — 1:18 pm December 5, 2013 #
I know I'm late to the game but what concerns me about the "wall of buses" topic is safety and legality. I often see buses park on Barton, close to the 29th Ave SW intersection. They are parking too close to a fire hydrant and parking too close/partially blocking an unmarked crosswalk. These would get the average citizen a ticket. Perhaps most significantly, people can take a left legally from northbound 29th on to westbound Barton but it's hard to see oncoming traffic from the right since there are buses parked all along the grade. These buses being stored here temporarily should be required to move far enough east to be compliant with the law and driver/pedestrian safety.
Comment by enough — 1:32 pm December 5, 2013 #
Another issue of concern to older people is that the RR C outbound, that is ending at Westwood, drops folks off quite a ways west of the main bus stop, where the RR C going inbound picks up people. Not only is is quite a walk to the crosswalk to cross Barton, it also is a very wet grassy area. You have to ask for the kneeler, and even then, you end up on the wet grass. It would seem that if this area is part of the Transit Center that the parking strip should be paved and the curb raised.
Comment by iggy — 2:28 pm December 5, 2013 #
Forgot to add, it takes much gall for Metro to cite "lack of parking in Westwood Mall" as an issue. Westwood Mall is a private company, not a public parking lot for Metro or any other non-Mall use. I don't think Westwood Mall should apologize or feel guilty about this.
Comment by iggy — 2:36 pm December 5, 2013 #
For me, that crosswalk is very, very hard to identify at night.
People crossing from the south RR stop north to WW Village are almost invisible against the glare of oncoming headlights.
They need a pedestrian activated flashing road strip like Seattle U has across Madison. There. you can at least see where to look.
Has anyone from Metro actually tried to drive thru this area on a rainy night, or do they sit in a cube with a computer to calculate the necessary lumens?
Comment by old timer — 2:58 pm December 5, 2013 #
Good point old timer. A woman was killed at this cross walk (or the one just east near McDonalds) a few years ago in the conditions you described.
Comment by enough — 3:07 pm December 5, 2013 #
"Forgot to add, it takes much gall for Metro to cite "lack of parking in Westwood Mall" as an issue. Westwood Mall is a private company, not a public parking lot for Metro or any other non-Mall use. I don't think Westwood Mall should apologize or feel guilty about this."
Iggy, it would seem that this was a response to the letter sent to Metro, not something Metro suggested themselves. Your indignation at the Park and Ride suggestion should most likely go towards who suggested it to the WWRHAH community council.
Comment by M — 3:13 pm December 5, 2013 #
M & I – Yes, the "lack of parking" at Westwood was a point brought up in the WWRHAH letter. I will be linking to it here shortly – I intended to publish its text along with this for context, but had some trouble getting it into a format for that. – TR
Thanks M and WSB: Now I see the letter you added from the WWRHAH that notes:"3. The lack of parking in the Westwood Village Parking lot to support a Hub."
It doesn't necessarily mean that WWRHAH wants Westwood Village to supply parking; it could simply mean that Metro put in a hub in an area with inadequate parking nearby.
In this context, the Metro response makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
Comment by iggy — 3:53 pm December 5, 2013 #
What nice words to side step one of the real issues, the wall of buses.
Comment by Sunny.206 — 7:27 pm December 5, 2013 #
I'm confused.
Spending money to make an already troubled transit area into a bigger transit hub–all while cutting over 70 routes citywide, including routes that would, well use this hub, it they existed.
The Brain Trust Rides Again!!!! Next…
Comment by WTF — 7:29 pm December 5, 2013 #
Don't complain about the parking…the mall will start charging for it!
Comment by CeCe — 7:44 pm December 5, 2013 #
To clarify the Westwood Village Parking. When 5 routes are eliminated in West Seattle, and all of Highland Park, Puget Ridge and other neighborhoods will have to TRANSFER within West Seattle to ride the C Line, 21 or the 120 downtown, people will drive their cars to Westwood Village and park to catch the bus. If you want to shop at any store there, this will be an issue. We have a real problem with Metro on many many levels. We are working really hard to help our Community. If you want to help us, send us an email!
There are many Transit Centers without Metro-provided parking. It's a transit hub, not a park-and-ride.
@WTF — I live in this area and it finally allows me I bus throughout west Seattle without transferring downtown. There are now buses at Westwood Village. Big deal. Pedestrian crossing poorly lot? That isn't Metro's fault, but they're helping. Sounds like a net positive.
Comment by Thomas — 9:35 pm December 5, 2013 #
Joe, thanks again for the amazing work you and the council due for Westwood and Roxbury residents. It is because of people like you that the neighborhood is turning around for the better.
Comment by T — 1:19 am December 6, 2013 #
The "bog" is a homeless encampment.It is not a "green belt" it is any area and has been an area for 20 years where bad people do bad things. Now with booze basically being given to them, the homeless population in that "camp" has increased. The lack of security at QFC and Safeway and the fact that there is NO lighting in the park or around the entrances of the bog it makes it a great place to be. They have taken over the bog. Police dont go in there and when they do the scum can hear them coming from 2 blocks away. Lets not try and sugar coat what really happens in there. It needs to be taken down and converted into more playing fields for kids or something for the community. If the bum camp goes petty crime goes with it. Simple. And please, bleeding hearts that dont live in our neighborhood and dont have to deal with these problems. Save it. OUR communities children and OUR families are more importnat then any tree, bush, man-made bog or bum. I apologize for the rant but this is a problem that continues to be pushed around between PARKS,CITY, METRO without anyone wanting to make any real changes.
Comment by Kevin — 10:48 am December 6, 2013 #
I agree Kevin. Crime from A-Z in this and many other Seattle parks.
Comment by enough — 3:41 pm December 6, 2013 #
we use Roxhill park nearly every day Kevin and would miss all those plants that you claim are nothing more than a homeless encampment..
there are already playing fields there.
but.. i would dearly love to see the path at the eastern edge of the park.. along the bog.. lit.
and i would like to see bicycle or horse patrols within the park..
oh.. and a little more enforcement of the leash law so that people who walk their dogs on leashes could safely walk there more often
Comment by JoB — 6:45 pm December 6, 2013 #
Regarding the wall of busses… just west of Westwood Village, 29th Ave SW is an extremely WIDE road with nothing but a fence bordering 29th and Westwood (runs along the side of Target). This would be an ideal place to re-route the bus parking. Does anyone else agree?
Comment by Josh — 9:57 am December 7, 2013 #
I've noticed the wall ofbuses, but I am also concerned about the buses along 25th. I come into and go out of Westwood Center on that side and those buses are parked very close to the driveways into the parking lot. Watching for cars coming down 25th from Trenton is often difficult, and I have both almost been hit and almost hit another car, either on entering the parking lot or leaving. I've also seen many near misses. Line of sight is pretty much blocked.
I agree, AmyB. The buses that sit along the West side of 25th are creating a very dangerous situation. It is impossible to see both northbound and southbound traffic when exiting Westwood onto 25th. All in all, I feel like Metro has really messed things up for us.
Comment by Boomerzoomer — 8:28 am December 8, 2013 #
the wall of buses really need to go
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You need to add easy parking for people who want to go to the beach.
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You also need more zoo parking - and not just the costly kind!