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Vincent Meeks
2005 - All-Big 12 Second Team selection ... tied in sixth place on the Tech career interceptions list ... had three tackles and a pass breakup in win over Oklahoma ... registered eight tackles at Oklahoma State ... also had a pass breakup ... three tackles in the win over Texas A&M ... had three tackles at Baylor to go along with a fumble recovery and an interception ... pick was third of the season and 12th of career ... had six tackles, including five solo stops, at Texas ... returned an interception 16 yards in win over Kansas State ... also had six solo tackles ... season-high 10 tackles in win at Nebraska ... grabbed first pick of the season against Kansas ... also had three tackles ... had a tackle against Indiana State.
2004 - Defensive MVP of the 2004 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl ... All-Big 12 Conference selection ... fourth-leading tackler with 61 stops ... led the team with 10 pass breakups and was one of three Red Raiders with two interceptions ... picked up defensive MVP honors after picking game-altering interception in the second quarter against California ... Tech trailed 14-10 at that point and rattled off three unanswered touchdowns to take a commanding lead ... had eight tackles in the game and broke up another pass ... returned pick 48 yards ... finished the Oklahoma State game with three tackles ... logged seven tackles and two pass breakups against the Aggies ... five solo stops ... strong defender in the secondary with two pass breakups and a tackle in win over Baylor ... assisted on a tackle at Kansas State ... had five tackles, including four assisted, against Texas ... grabbed eighth interception of career and first of the season against Nebraska ... finished with three tackles and a pass breakup ... finished the Oklahoma game with four tackles ... broke up two passes, including tipping a Kansas pass that led to Jabari Smith's game-clinching interception at Kansas ... also had four tackles ... had five tackles and two pass breakups against TCU ... led the team in tackles for the second-straight game at New Mexico ... finished with eight stops ... active in opener against SMU ... finished the game with a team-leading and career-high 12 tackles.
2003 - Big 12 Coaches Honorable Mention All-Conference ... one of three Red Raiders with multiple interceptions with four (R. Aycock with six, C. Johnson with two) ... Navy - had five tackles, all assisted, in the bowl win ... Oklahoma - had four tackles and a fourced fumble ... Texas - led the team with career-high eight tackles and grabbed his fourth interception of the season ... returned the pick 35 yards, setting up Tech touchdown, which closed the gap to 24-21 ... Baylor - registered three tackles, including two solo ... Colorado - grabbed third interception of the season and returned it a career-high 38 yards ... interception came in Tech's redzone, thwarting CU go-ahead scoring drive ... finished the game with two tackles ... Missouri - had two tackles at Mizzou ... Oklahoma State - six tackles in return against Oklahoma State ... made first appearance and start since Mississippi game ... also had first-career sack for 10 yards loss ... Mississippi - snagged fifth-career interception at Mississippi ... also had three tackles ... N.C. State - led the team with eight tackles, including a half-tackle for loss, at N.C. State ... New Mexico - posted 12 tackles, including a tackle for loss, against New Mexico ... picked off UNM quarterback Casey Kelly in the endzone to end scoring threat ... SMU - had a tackle and a pass breakup against SMU.
2002 - Started off the season as a running back and played four games at that position before being moved to defense ... got his first action as a defensive back against Iowa State and then earned a starting spot against Oklahoma State ... Clemson - picked two passes against Clemson in the bowl game and recorded six tackles ... Oklahoma - returned a kickoff 98 yards for Tech's first score ... also had four tackles in the game ... Texas - registered seven total tackles in the win over the third-ranked Longhorns ... Oklahoma State - made his first career start defensively against the Cowboys and logged four total tackles and one interception for a touchdown ... Baylor - saw significant action for the first time on the defensive side of the field in the game ... logged five total tackles in the game ... Colorado - replaced an injured Ivory McCann against the Buffs and totaled three kickoff returns for a total of 59 yards, including a long of 33 yards ... Missouri - carried the ball twice against Missouri and gained 24 yards while also returning one kickoff for 42 yards ... New Mexico - rushed 11 times for 60 yards and one touchdown ... N.C. State - logged two carries for 11 yards and two receptions for 10 yards and one touchdown against the Wolfpack ... Mississippi - carried the ball three times for seven yards.
High School - Rockwall High School in Rockwall, Texas ... No. 55 prospect in the area by the Dallas Morning News ... 58th best athlete in the country (Rivals100.com) ... 4th best athlete in the Midlands (SuperPrep) ... Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Top 100 ... Insiders.com Texas Super Team All-State ... first-team all-district and all-area ... rushed for 1,603 yards and 19 touchdowns on 266 carries ... rushed for 1,756 yards and 21 TDs on 282 carries as a junior ... recruited by West Virginia, Purdue and Texas A&M ... High School Coach: Mark Elam.
Personal - Vincent Meeks ... born January 20, 1984, in Dallas, Texas ... son of Sandra Meeks and Vincent Jefferson ... cousin, Clifford Jefferson, played football at Notre Dame ... majoring in communication studies.


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Have you ever just looked at a world map, drawing your finger across countries, wondering if you could ride your bike all that way? Well, that's how the idea for 'ride for HOPE' was born, and the dream of cycling from our hometown of Rocky Mountain House, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. We knew nothing about cycling across a province, let alone across continents - but we didn't let that slow us down.
We bought the equipment we thought we'd need, and with little preparation and virtually no training, we set off on September 1st, 2008. Over one year and 19,048 km later, we arrived in Buenos Aires. This is our adventure.
Part of the motivation of this adventure was to help those in need, and though the trip has ended, we are still doing what we can. Part of all proceeds from the sale of this book go towards a HOPE International Development Agency project, giving hope to thousands.
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In ACSM's Exercise for Older Adultsworld-renowned researchers and practitioners make a compelling case for older adults to engage in physical activity. Over the course of ten chapters, the text highlights the physiological, psychological, and social benefits of a physically active lifestyle. Students and professionals will benefit from implementation strategies including motivation to initiate and maintain exercise; options for healthy older adults; options for older adults with special needs; and assessing progress and performance. The text completes its presentation by including practical information on integrating exercise into complete healthy lifestyles with consideration to helping individuals select a physical activity program that works. A frequently asked questions chapter provides exercise professionals with resources to anticipate and respond to their clients. Features: · Chapter Introductionsand Chapter Outlinesat the beginning of each chapter provide an overview of important concepts. · Key Pointboxes illustrate terms, definitions, and ideas. · Real-Life Stories, or vignettes, describe older adults who have successfully implemented physical activity programs. · Questions for Reflectionhelp students review what they have learned and encourage students to engage in critical thinking. The American College of Sports Medicine, founded in 1954, is the world's largest sports medicine and exercise science organization with more than 45,000 national, regional, and international members and certified professionals in more than 90 countries. With professionals representing more than 70 occupations, ACSM offers a 360-degree view of sports medicine and exercise science. From academicians to students and from personal trainers to physicians, the association of public health, health/fitness, clinical exercise, and health care professionals is dedicated to helping people worldwide live longer, healthier lives through science, education, medicine, and policy. For more information, visitwww.acsm.org,www.acsm.org/facebook,and www.twitter.com/acsmnews.
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Tulane's record-holder in the javelin and the shot put (indoor and outdoor). A 10-time all-conference selection and an NCAA National Qualifer in 2002. Has one outdoor season of eligibility remaining. A standout student as well, was named to the Academic All-District team this spring.
OUTDOOR: Broke her own school record in the shot put at the C-USA Championships (5/14), finishing third with a throw of 49-09.25. Also had her season-best javelin throw of 141-11 at the C-USA Championships (5/14). Qualifed for Regionals in both events, finishing 15th in the javelin and 21st in the shot put. INDOOR: Completed her indoor elgibility by finishing fourth in the shot put at the C-USA Championships with a season-best throw of 48-02.
Collegiate Bests
Shot Put: 48-07.25, 14.81m (1/26/02) - school record
Long Jump: 17-04.25, 5.29m (2/22/02)
High Jump: 5-03.00, 1.60m (2/5/05)
Triple Jump: 35-09.50, 10.91m (3/15/03)
Javelin: 165-07, 50.48m (5/10/02) - school record
Shot Put: 48-09.25, 15.17m (5/14/05) - school record
High Jump: 5-4.25, 1.63m (4/10/04)
Heptathlon: 4,649 points (5/10/02)
Conference USA Scoring
2002 Indoor (Bloomington, Ind.)
Shot Put: 3rd (6 points)
2002 Outdoor (Louisville, Ky.)
Javelin: 1st (10 points)
Heptathlon: 4th (5 points)
Shot Put: 5th (5 points)
2003 Indoor (Houston, Texas)
Shot Put: 3rd (6 points)
2004 Indoor (Houston, Texas)
Shot Put: 6th (3 points)
2004 Outdoor (Louisville, Ky.)
Javelin: 2nd (8 points)
Shot Put: 3rd (6 points)
2005 Indoor (Houston, Texas)
Shot Put: 4th (5 points)
2005 Outdoor (Houston, Texas)
Shot Put: 3rd (6 points)
Javelin: 4th (5 points)
OUTDOOR: An NCAA Regional Qualifer in the shot put, finishing in 13th place (5/28). Earned second-place in the javelin and third in the shot put at the C-USA Championships (5/14). Established the Tulane school record in the shot put with a heave of 48-04.50 at the LSU Relays (3/27). Had a season-best javelin effort of 137-09 at the C-USA Championships. Her top high jump of 5-04.25 ranks fifth in Tulane history. INDOOR: Earned sixth place in the shot put with a season-best throw of 45-05.75 at the Conference USA Championships.
OUTDOOR: Competed in just one meet before having surgery and missing the remainder of the season. INDOOR: Battled a shoulder injury throughout the season, but still finished third at the C-USA Championships (3/1) in the shot put with an effort of 46 feet, five and a half inches.
OUTDOOR: The Green Wave's top performer in 2001-02. Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the javelin, finishing 15th. Named the Louisiana Freshman of the Year in track and field, while collecting All-Louisiana honors in three events: javelin, shot put and heptathlon. Collected 20 points at the Conference USA Championships while establishing a new school record in the javelin with a throw of 165-07 to take first place (5/10). Her best effort in the shot put, 45-06.50, earned fifth place at the C-USA Championship (5/11), while her school record heptathlon total of 4,649 points nabbed fourth place. INDOOR: Set a school record in the shot put (48-07.25) and finished third in that event at the C-USA Championship (2/23). Also competed in the long jump and high jump, posting bests of 17-04.25 at the C-USA meet (2/22) and 5-01.75 at the Razorback Invitational (2/2), respectively.
Competed for the last four years at the Finland Championships (indoor and outdoor) in the shot put and heptathlon. Placed first in the shot put at the Finland Championships (22 year olds) in 2001 with a throw of 14.31 meters. Also competed at the Students World Championships in Shanghai in 1998.
Full name is Helmi Tuulikki Leppanen. Born January 20, 1981 in Kerava, Finland. The daughter of Anita and Olli Leppanen. An honor student who earned her degree in May of 2005 with a double major in finance and marketing and a minor in Spanish. A four-time selection to the Conference USA Academic Honor Roll and a two-time recipient of the Conference USA Academic Medal for 2003-04 and 2004-05.


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Flames Split Home Opener Against Wright State
Oct. 5, 2013
CHICAGO – The UIC men's and women's swimming and diving program began their season on Saturday afternoon by hosting a dual meet against Horizon League-foe Wright State. The women's team triumphed by a final of 184-111, while the men were nipped by the Raiders, 176-124.
"Although we came up short on the men's side, we are still very happy with how both teams reacted in racing after just five weeks of training," said head coach Paul Moniak. "We now feel that this starts off another segment of the season and we are ready for the dual meet season."
The quartet of Melanie Waszak, Monica Pinkus, Veronica Gibson and Whitney Johnson came up big for the Flames as they each garnered two individual first-place honors.
"We talk about them all the time and they continue to get our team off to a great start at the beginning of the season," said Moniak.
Waszak dominated in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:56.73, winning by more than two seconds. She then claimed victory in the 100 butterfly, touching the wall at 58.48.
Pinkus out-performed the 100 breaststroke field and notched a first-place time of 1:05.40. Later in the meet, she powered her way to a win in the 50 free (24.29).
Gibson was the meet's first individual medalist in the 1,000 free with a top time of 10:45.27. The sophomore also won the 500 free in a winning time of 5:14.44, which was part of a 1-2 UIC finish as Nikki Martinez took second.
Johnson swept both diving events with scores of 302.18 (three-meter) and 264.68 (one-meter).
Junior Anne Jacobsen notched an individual victory as well in the 100 backstroke with a result of 1:00.33.
The women also took home first in both relay races as Jacobsen, Pinkus, Waszak and Kelsey Millin kicked off the meet with a win in the 400 medley relay (3:56.90), while Pinkus, Waszak, Millin and Katherine Hare grabbed first in the 200 free relay (1:37.82).
On the men's side, junior Mike Reed and sophomore Kei Ishimaru shined for UIC with two event wins apiece. Reed won the 50 free in convincing fashion with a time of 20.87 and then out-touched WSU's Carnell in the 100 free to take first with a mark of 46.98.
Ishimaru doubled in the 100 and 200 fly as he owned both events. In the 100 fly, the Sycamore, Ill., native, triumphed by nearly a full second as he touched the wall at 51.40. He's time of 1:54.86 in the 200 fly was just enough to best WSU's Ross.
The men also won both diving events as freshman Tyler Pastore earned first-place honors off the one-meter board, totaling 254.03 points. Sophomore Mark Cieslielski dominated from the one-meter height with a result of 259.13, besting the second-place finisher by more than 25 points.
The men capped off the day by winning the 200 free relay by just three-one hundredths of a second over Wright State. The quartet of Reed, Brian Sivak, Nick Kowaleski and Peter Errichiello combined for a first-place time of 1:25.07.
"We will spend this next week sharpening our racing, splits and turns," said Moniak. "We've spent a lot of time training long course and now that we are on a short course the details are much more important."
Both squads continue action next weekend at new-league member Oakland on Saturday, Oct. 11 with a scheduled start time of noon CT.


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Requirements for monitoring the effects of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and other substances are starting to show up in discharge permits. Although many waste-water departments haven't implemented such regulations, some, such as California's Orange County Sanitation District, are taking pre-emptive measures.
"We don't have monitoring requirements in our NPDES [National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System] ocean discharge permit, but we've been doing it since 2000," says Jeffrey Armstrong, a senior scientist with the district's Environmental Laboratory and Ocean Monitoring Division. "The most responsible course we can take is to have the answer to that question before it's asked."
The district works with research groups at the University of California Riverside and California State University Long Beach to perform vitellogenin assays. The district supplies fish, sediment, receiving water, effluent samples, and ecological expertise, and the labs conduct the effects-based tests. In addition to examining reproductive effects and feminization of fish, the studies look at growth, stress response, predatory responses, immune system dysfunctions, and overall health.
"First we look at the effects, then narrow it down as to which compounds are eliciting the effects," said Armstrong. "We haven't detected complete feminization in our samples, but we see a higher level of vitellogenin, which is evidence of exposure to estrogenic compounds."
Then the question becomes, does evidence of exposure imply evidence of effect? "If there's no effect is there really a concern?" says Armstrong. "We're trying to get a handle on that before we spend a lot of resources correcting a problem that might not exist."
Other considerations muddy the waters further.
Some effects may not surface for two or three generations after exposure, so they won't be seen in the test organism. The pesticide DDT, for example, is an endocrine disruptor and, though banned in 1972, still persists in sediments. Regulators also have to factor in the possible effects of naturally occurring estrogens. If old contaminants or naturally occurring compounds are responsible for the effects, regulating current discharge won't correct the problem.
And studying effects on fish is just one piece of the puzzle.
"What about the effects on invertebrates?" says Armstrong. "And in the case of a freshwater drinking source, the human health component enters into it. In that case, chemical analysis may be more important than effects-based tests."
EPA is still investigating test methods and has yet to establish a prescribed method. The Safe Drinking Water Act defines maximum contaminant levels by their toxic effects, but traditional toxicity testing doesn't work for EDCs.
"It's designed to assess acute effects of short-term exposure—does it kill you or not?" says Armstrong. Testing for EDCs, on the other hand, requires studying life cycles and long-term functions. "We're looking at sublethal, sometimes cellular and sub-celluar, effects," he says. "It completely changes the paradigm for how we look at toxicology."
The quest for appropriate tests is a global effort. The American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AwwaRF) is working with the Global Water Research Coalition on screening methods.
"We're testing five of the biological assays and comparing them to chemical analyses," says Robert Renner, executive director of AwwaRF. "This is a first step. There are no epidemiological studies to show endocrine activity in human beings. The EPA may do mammalian assays next."
Testing is just the first hurdle for treatment plant operators. Eventually, regulations for removing EDCs and other micro constituents can be expected. AwwaRF has published the results of its research on the effectiveness of various treatment processes in "Removal of EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in Drinking and Reuse Treatment Processes." The report covers conventional and advanced water treatment processes and presents bench-, pilot-, and full-scale results. Also included are recommendations for utilities.
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Full SubmissionARAB ENVIRONMENT.4
Arab economies have underperformed over the past four decades. Arab countries have adopted aggressive economic growth models, but in doing so have gravely undermined progress on social and environmental issues. The ensuing forms of poverty, unemployment, food and water security threats, and environmental degradation continue to plague Arab economies. These shortfalls are not necessarily borne out of natural limitations. Rather, they are the outcomes of policy choices.
The shortcomings in the performance of Arab economies have also significantly contributed to deteriorating social conditions. The persistent poverty and unemployment have led to social marginalization, which is further compounded by income disparities. The aggregate impacts of these shortfalls have caused social and political instability. Demands for change across Arab countries reveal that the mounting economic, social, and environmental strains and the resultant implications on livelihood security have become unsustainable.
This report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) advocates a development model rooted in a green economy. A fundamental tenet of a green economy is giving equal weight to economic development, social equity, and environmental sustainability. This report argues that meeting these three goals provides a sound foundation for addressing the shortcomings of Arab economies, from curbing poverty and unemployment, to attaining food, water, and energy security, to achieving more equitable forms of income distribution. Moreover, a green economy places great emphasis on the efficient use and deployment of natural assets to diversify the economy, which in turn provides immunity against the volatilities and recessionary pressures of the global economy.
The systemic strains caused by Arab development models can be appreciated by examining indicators across a range of dimensions. Poverty continues to afflict 65 million people in Arab countries. Economic insecurity is further aggravated by disturbingly high unemployment rates of 14.8% for the general population, reaching 27.3% among the youth. Collectively, these economies have scored less than a 0.5% rise in real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita from 1980 to 2004. These figures cast doubt on the ability of Arab economies, as currently structured, to create 51 million new jobs projected to be required by 2020, just to accommodate new entrants into the work labor force, while keeping current unemployment rates the same.
Arab development strategies continue to be dominated by investments in extractive commodity products earmarked for export markets. These industries require high initial investments but generate low levels of Employment. Despite generating high GDP growth, this model leaves Arab economies more vulnerable to global market volatilities, while failing to significantly create jobs. The lack of income diversification is a primary cause of the structural weakness of Arab economies.
The state of water resources is nearing a crisis in most Arab countries, driven mostly by policies that encourage over-consumption and tolerate over-exploitation of the scarce water resources available, leaving future generations to pay the price of current policies. In Arab countries today, more than 45 million people accounting for 10% of the population lack access to clean water and safe sanitation.
Food security poses another major threat to Arab countries, driven primarily by negligence and underdevelopment of the agricultural sector, resulting in poor agricultural productivity, low irrigation efficiency rates, and weak extension services to farmers. The net import bill for the main food commodities was $30 billion in 2008, including $18.3 billion for cereals. The escalating food import bills cause large trade deficits, strain the public budgets of Arab countries, and make them vulnerable to export bans by other countries.
Arab economies continue to unsustainably deplete renewable natural resources, motivated by short-term profits, causing environmental impoverishment of scarce land and water resources while discounting the value of these resources to future generations. The average annual cost of environmental degradation in Arab countries has been estimated to be $95 billion, equivalent to 5% of their combined GDP in 2010.
Nearly 60 million people in Arab countries lack access to affordable energy services, limiting their opportunities for improved living standards. Energy security is becoming a serious concern for oil-importing countries because of high oil prices. A number of Arab economies are among the least energy efficient in the world, measured by their annual CO2 emissions per capita and per unit of GDP. With the demand for electricity escalating in these countries, the policy of building more power plants and providing energy subsidies will no longer be economically sustainable.
Transportation policies in Arab countries have focused primarily on highway and road construction rather than on mass public transit. The lack of effective intervention policies in the transportation sector has resulted in serious traffic congestion in urban centers, poor air quality in many cities, and land degradation.
Cities in the Arab region suffer from chaotic land-use patterns and excessive urban sprawl, leaving infrastructure systems incapable of adequately supporting their populations. Rural-to-urban migration and high housing costs in many Arab cities have contributed to the spread of slum areas, characterized by inadequate - if not entirely absent - basic services.
Energy and water use in the existing building stock across the region, and in particular in commercial and public buildings, is alarmingly inefficient. The internationalized approach to architecture and construction in the region is insufficiently attuned to the local climatic conditions, resulting in wasteful use of energy.
The waste management sector in Arab countries is characterized by underdevelopment, underinvestment, and high-risk waste dumping practices. The sector is plagued by insufficient regulations and weak waste disposal standards. In many Arab countries, over 50% of all waste generated remains uncollected. Open-air burning is often used at dumpsites, allowing decomposing waste products to pollute the air, soil, and ground and surface water.
Making the transition to a green economy will require a fundamental review and redesign of public policies to stimulate shifts in production, consumption, purchasing, and investment patterns. The chapters of this report present proposed enabling policies and conditions that will be needed to transition to a green economy across eight priority sectors. The report calls upon Arab governments to prioritize agricultural rural development as a strategic policy objective to alleviate rural poverty and reverse years of neglect. Such a policy shift would enable farmers, aided by well-designed extension services, to improve seeds, irrigation efficiency, soil conservation, agricultural yields, and sustainable practices. Revitalizing the agricultural sector will increase its share in the productive labor force, improve living standards, and limit rural to urban migration. A shift to a 40% share in the labor force by agricultural workers in the Arab region would generate more than 10 million jobs in the sector. In addition, shifting to sustainable agricultural practices is expected to result in savings to Arab countries of between 5-6% of GDP, amounting to about $100 billion annually, as a result of increased water productivity, improved public health, and better-protected environmental resources. Policy shifts in the water sector must begin with the introduction of institutional and legal reforms that affect water use, regulation, and governance. Arab states need to concentrate on policies that control and regulate water access, promote irrigation and water use efficiency, prevent water pollution, and establish protected areas vital to water resources. Volume of wastewater treated should increase from below 60% today to a 90- 100%. The portion of treated wastewater which is reused should increase from 20% today to 100%. Innovative technologies for water desalination should be developed locally, incorporating the use of solar energy.
For the energy sector, the report proposes sustained investments in energy efficiency and in renewable energy sources through a mix of regulatory standards and economic incentives. A reduction in the average annual per capita consumption of electricity in Arab countries to the world average through energy efficiency measures would generate electricity consumption savings that are estimated in monetary terms to reach $73 billion annually. A 25% reduction in energy subsidies would free up over $100 billion over a three-year period, an amount that can be shifted to finance the conversion to green energy sources.
Arab countries should develop low-carbon industrial development strategies motivated by the opportunity to become energy-efficient economies. This would enhance local industrial competitiveness, income diversification, and job creation. The viable reduction in energy requirements per ton of product is estimated to be in the order of 30%. For example, energy efficiency enhancements in cement manufacturing can reduce energy consumption per ton of cement by 20% to 40%, leading to a cost advantage to the producer through lower energy costs.
One of the most important measures to reduce emissions is deploying the most efficient production technologies in new plants and retrofitting energy efficiency equipment in existing plants where it is economically viable. A 30% reduction in energy requirements due to more efficient industrial processes is estimated to result in annual savings of 150,000 billion kWh or $12.3 billion.
For the transportation sector, the report argues for policies in favor of mass public transit systems and vehicle fuel efficiency standards. These policy interventions have been demonstrated to have a relatively low cost while yielding high economic, social, and environmental dividends within a short period of time. The benefits would include the provision of dependable, affordable, and safe transportation services that are energy efficient, while minimizing pollution, congestion, and unmanaged urban sprawl. A projected target of 50% greening of the transport sector, resulting from higher energy efficiency and increased use of public transport and hybrid vehicles, should generate savings of $23 billion annually. To create healthy and economically competitive urban communities that offer a high quality of living for their inhabitants, the report advocates for the adoption of zoning regulations and mixed-use development. Moreover, traditional design approaches in Arab architecture, which are in many cases more responsive to environmental considerations, should be adapted and applied where relevant and appropriate, thus contributing to environmental, social, and cultural sustainability. For buildings, a holistic design approach that incorporates environmental principles in building form, materials, orientation, equipment installations, and other aspects is proposed to yield the highest energy efficiency gains. Building efficiency codes and standards are seen as the most effective institutional levers for influencing construction practices. Integrating energy efficient considerations in the design of buildings is expected to result in a reduction of about 29% of projected CO2 emissions by 2020, which would cut consumption by 217 billion kWh and generate savings of $17.5 billion annually. In addition, spending $100 billion in greening 20% of the existing building stock in Arab countries over the next 10 years, by investing an average of $10,000 per building for retrofitting, is expected to create four million jobs.
The report argues that there is an urgent need for a fundamental shift in the approach to municipal solid waste from waste dumping, burning, and/or land filling to a resource management approach that seeks to capture value from waste materials through reduction, reuse, recycling, and recovery. It is estimated that greening the waste management sector would save Arab countries $5.7 billion annually. Green waste management contributes to job creation because it is labor-intensive and stimulates the demand for products, systems, and services in other industries. Moreover, it offers unique investment opportunities in recycling, composting, and energy production. Organic food waste, which accounts for 40-80% of municipal waste in Arab countries, can be used as a raw material to produce compost for agricultural use and biogas to replace fossil fuels. Agricultural waste can also be used as a potential raw material for biofuels production. In Arab countries today, mainstream economic planning is still anchored in short-term GDP growth and quick fixes, while disregarding the underlying causes of poverty, inequity, unemployment, and environmental degradation. It is clear that to date, the policy response to these shortfalls and associated disparities in income and power has been extremely inadequate.
This report advocates a response anchored in a transition to a green economy. It argues forcefully that the region does not have to choose between economic development, social equality or healthy ecosystems. By design, the green economy seeks to achieve economic, social, and environmental policy goals. The transformative changes called for in this report will require shifts in economic policies and systems.
Making the transition to green development is not a one-time event that can be achieved by a single high level decision. Rather, it must be viewed as a long and arduous process guided both by top-down policy prescription as well as bottom-up public participation. This approach gives transition the political and social legitimacy needed to ensure wide-scale mobilization of efforts to make it a reality.
2011 Annual Conference of the Arab Forum for Environment & Development
Recommendations ? Draft 28/10/2011
The Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) held its fourth annual conference in Beirut on 27-28 October 2011, dedicated to discussing the transition to a green economy in the Arab world. The conference, held under the patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Lebanon General Michel Sleiman, has brought together 500 delegates from 46 countries, representing corporations, nongovernmental organizations, academia, research institutions, and media organizations. Ministers and representatives of governments and international institutions have participated as observers. At the conference, delegates deliberated the findings and recommendations of the AFED report, Green Economy in a Changing Arab World, which advocates development patterns that achieve balanced progress across the economic, social, and environmental dimensions, while sustaining natural capital. The report communicates a set of enabling policies for making a transition to a green economy across eight key economic sectors in a manner that achieves economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability.
The conference endorsed the following conclusions and recommendations:
1) The conference agrees with the AFED report that forward-looking Arab economic development models need to meet people?s aspirations in economic security, social equity, resource efficiency, and environmental protection. The findings of the report indicate that deterioration in economic, social, and environmental conditions has generated systemic strain on livelihoods, health, and human wellbeing, and may even lead to more social and political turmoil. The conference also agrees that the strategy of pursuing fast growth in gross domestic product (GDP) while neglecting or undermining sociopolitical and environmental conditions, needs to be fundamentally reconsidered.
2) To achieve the transformation to a green economy, public and private investments should be directed at maximizing resource efficiency and productivity of energy and water, reducing waste and pollution, securing new growth engines through research and development of green technology, and the sustainable management of local, natural, and cultural assets that boost the local economy and the capacity to create jobs and support the poor. 3) The conference calls upon Arab governments to:
a) Allocate a higher priority to agricultural rural development as a strategic policy objective to achieve food security, alleviate rural poverty, and reverse years of neglect. Agricultural strategies should be focused on maintaining the sustainability of surface and ground water, improving irrigation efficiency, raising the productivity of rain-fed crops, facilitating trade in agricultural commodities and virtual water, supporting eco-agricultural methods protective of soils, land, and water, and increasing agricultural investments for development, rehabilitation, and research.
b) Introduce a policy shift towards water demand management that would regulate water access, improve water use efficiency, and prevent water pollution. Governments are urged to introduce fair water tariffs that rationalize water use, achieve cost recovery in a gradual manner, and promote equity through targeted subsidies. Wastewater treatment rates should be increased from the current figure below 50% to over 90% and water reuse from the current 20% to almost 100%. Local development of innovative desalination methods that utilize primarily solar energy should be actively promoted.
c) Adopt national and regional strategies for energy efficiency, demand-side management, cleaner energy, and renewable energy. To manage energy demand growth cost-effectively, governments should mandate and enforce energy efficiency standards and labels in residential and commercial buildings, industrial facilities, modes of transportation, and for electrical appliances and lighting. Governments should also reconsider broad electricity, petrol, and natural gas subsidies to take into account economic incentives that spur investments in energy efficiency, clean energy, and renewable energy technologies. Targeted subsidies should be used to assist low-income households.
d) Introduce municipal zoning regulations that promote mixed-use development, high-density land use patterns, open green spaces, and accessible public transportation networks.
e) Develop a national industrial policy that provides appropriate and favorable institutional and regulatory framework for low-carbon industries and research and development (R&D) capabilities.
f) Make sustained investments in mass public transportation in Arab cities and in regional rail lines to transport freight and people within busy corridors, locally, nationally, and regionally. Government agencies should ensure that transportation and urban planning are well integrated. Governments should adopt national fuel efficiency standards for vehicles and reduce in a gradual manner vehicle fuel subsidies, while introducing incentives for the replacement of ageing, polluting vehicles with new higher fuel efficiency vehicles, and applying a taxation system proportionate to emissions and fuel consumption.
g) Adopt a resource management approach to municipal solid waste that seeks to capture value from waste materials through reduction, reuse, recycling, and recovery. Governments should promote investments in converting organic food waste into compost and biogas, as well as waste-to-energy strategies.
h) Develop a package of policy instruments, including regulations, incentives, and capacity building to implement sustainable tourism practices in travel, hospitality, and recreational services. Government should give particular attention to ecotourism as well as community-based cultural tourism to help in nature conservation and to support local economies.
i) Promote, through a mix of economic incentives and publicly sponsored research programs, opportunities for the private sector to assist in developing locally-based competitive green technology as an economic engine for growth.
j) Commit to re-education of the workforce to develop the knowledge base for implementing green initiatives and to build innovative capacity within the local supply chains to meet the demand for green materials, technologies, and services.
k) Strengthen the institutional capacity of national government agencies, municipal councils, and local governments to mandate and enforce efficiency codes, standards, labels, and regulations, and to develop effective economic public incentives that enable green transformation in all sectors.
l) Launch sustained public awareness campaigns to cultivate understanding of the green economy and motivate behavioral changes in consuming, purchasing, and investment patterns. Civil society, including non-governmental organizations, academia, and private sector groups should be included in green economy planning and transformation.
4) The conference calls upon regional organizations and governments to activate the Arab Environment Facility and establish regional green economy initiatives, covering: Research and Development, Renewable Energy Solutions, Sustainable Communities, Cleaner Production, Sustainable Agriculture, Regional Transport Networks.
5) The conference recommends that AFED provide technical assistance to various sectors in Arab countries to transition to a green economy upon request. This may be in the form of seminars, training, policy design, and implementation of pilot projects on the ground.
6) The conference calls upon private industrial enterprises to deploy the most efficient production technologies in new plants and retrofitting energy efficiency equipment in existing plants where it is economically viable, in order to maximize the resource productivity of energy, water, and materials and minimize pollution. Industrial companies are also urged to invest in distributed solar and wind power generation on-site when appropriate.
7) The conference calls upon private developers and regionally based professionals in architecture, construction, building materials, and engineering to increasingly accord energy and water efficiency a high priority and make use of green solutions in buildings. Additionally, they are urged to apply traditional design approaches in Arab architecture that are known to be more responsive to local environmental elements and to indigenous cultural and aesthetic values.
8) The conference calls upon real estate developers, commercial building owners, and large resort enterprises to accord energy and water efficiency a high priority in the design and operation of buildings and hotels and to take advantage of the economic viability of solar water heating.
9) The conference calls upon non-governmental organizations, academia, and the private sector to cooperate fully in the implementation of these recommendations.
The conference wishes to thank the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) for its constructive initiative of promoting an Arab green economy, and requests it to present the recommendations to all Arab governments and other stakeholders, and to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20. The conference invites the AFED Board of Trustees to consider means of following up the implementation of the annual conferences? recommendations, and to present the outcome at AFED?s fifth annual conference. The conference expresses its gratitude to the Lebanese government for hosting the event. It offers its appreciation to all sponsors for lending their support for the convening of this conference.


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New Amendment To Rule 26 Concerning Expert Disclosures
If you're involved in drug and device (or any) product liability litigation, you're dealing with expert witnesses. And if you're dealing with experts, you'll want to think about the proposed amendments to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 that (if all goes smoothly) could go into effect on December 1, 2010.
They deal essentially with two things: (1) what expert witness productions and privileges, and (2) what to do about independent witnesses qualified to offer expert opinions.
Both are very interesting.
As to expert witnesses, we've blogged before (all right, not us, but a guest post) about some of the gamesmanship that goes on with respect to the production of material that an expert "considered" - including drafts of expert opinions - under the current draft of Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2)(B), which mandates broad disclosure and contains a comment that most courts have interpreted as overriding work-product and even attorney-client privileges with respect to anything that's shown to an expert, even if the expert does not rely.
That language, and how courts interpreted it, led to a log of unintended consequences. There's the litany of questions at expert depositions about every meeting the expert has had with counsel, what notes were taken, and what drafts exist. There's the engagement of two parallel sets of experts, with one set designated as "consulting" (that is, non-discoverable), so that attorneys can interact with at least one set of experts in peace - and then, when everything's done, the "testifying" expert adopts the product of all that as his/her pristine report. There's so much gamesmanship that, in a lot of cases, the parties agree to stipulate out of this language. Why is all this done? Because every now and then, some lawyer screws up and the other side gets really valuable. See, e.g., Synthes Spine Co., L.P. v. Walden, 232 F.R.D. 460 (E.D. Pa. 2005), for a cautionary tale.
Anyway, after 12/1/10, a lot of this (although probably not all) should be a thing of the past. The rules committee has amended Rule 26(a)(2)(B) to limit expert disclosures to "facts or data" (not the broader term "information") that the witness considered. The new draft specifically recognizes work product privilege for drafts and attorney communications with experts with a couple of exceptions in an entirely new section, Rule 26(b)(4)(B-C). Here's the new language in toto:(B) Trial-Preparation Protection for Draft Reports or Disclosures. Rules 26(b)(3)(A) and (B) protect drafts of any report or disclosure required under Rule 26(a)(2), regardless of the form in which the draft is recorded.
(C) Trial-Preparation Protection for Communications Between a Party's Attorney and Expert Witnesses. Rules 26(b)(3)(A) and (B) protect communications between the party's attorney and any witness required to provide a report under Rule 26(a)(2)(B), regardless of the form of the communications, except to the extent that the communications:(i) relate to compensation for the expert's study or testimony;(ii) identify facts or data that the party's attorney provided and that the expert considered in forming the opinions to be expressed; or(iii) identify assumptions that the party's attorney provided and that the expert relied upon in forming the opinions to be expressed.
Thus the only exceptions to the scope of the privilege are compensation (including compensation over the entire course of related litigation), what the attorney gave the witness to consider (so we'll still be able to establish if the attorney did the expert's research for him/her), and what assumptions the attorney told the expert to make (so we'll still be able to establish if the attorney did the expert's thinking for him/her).All the other stuff - draft reports, notes, oral conversations, etc. - are now explicitly protected from discovery by the work product doctrine and the usual requirements of that doctrine. That means that attorneys on both sides can talk to their experts unimpeded, let them take notes, let them prepare drafts, edit those drafts, etc., free from fear of inadvertent disclosure, gotcha games and all the rest the current version of Rule 26 has engendered. In short, it will no longer be necessary to treat experts as if they were radioactive.
It also marks the final recognition by the Rules Committee of the role that expert witnesses play in modern litigation - that they're a part and parcel of a party's case and not part of some sort of independent search for the truth. For those seeking utopia, there's still the option of a court appointed expert under Rule 706, but experts are now essentially no different than co-counsel, legal assistants, and the like as far as work product is concerned.
A few other things to think about with this new rule. First, it's not retroactive, and the earliest it could go into effect would be December 1, 2010. Increasingly, as we get closer to this deadline, we'll have to keep it in mind when considering discovery scheduling. We're on our own until then. Second, there doesn't seem to be any intent to affect substantive Daubert decision-making. The stuff necessary to establish that an expert has abdicated his research or reasoning to the attorney is still discoverable. Third, since some parts of expert notes might be discoverable under the exceptions in new Rule 26(b)(4)(C), it's probably a good idea to have the expert designate specifically when any notes are of conversations with retaining counsel. It's still a good idea to take that sort of rudimentary precaution to make assertion of privileged status easier.
That's one part of the amendment to Rule 26. The other has to do with designation of experts who are not retained by parties. In our neck of the woods that usually means treating physicians and other health care providers. There's a new section, Rule 26(a) (2) (C) that provides that non-retained experts don't have to provide reports to be entitled to give opinions. The attorney designating such a witness simply has to describe the anticipated testimony:
(C) Witnesses Who Do Not Provide a Written Report. Unless otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, if the witness is not required to provide a written report, this disclosure must state:(i) the subject matter on which the witness expected to present evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 702. 703. or 705 and(ii) a summary of the facts and opinions to which the witness is expected to testify.This rule is intended to make it easier to get opinion, as well as fact, testimony from persons such as treating physicians (but also employees of corporate parties) who aren't being paid for their testimony and thus can't be expected to jump through the hoops erected for retained experts. It's expected to put a halt to the "you can ask facts but not opinions" fights that currently crop up at depositions of this sort of witness.
The new Rule 26(a)(2)(C) draws no distinctions between the sides. Thus, defendants are as free to designate and describe the opinion testimony of plaintiffs' treating physicians as plaintiffs are. The amendment commentary states:A witness who is not required to provide a report under Rule 26(a)(2)(B) may both testify as a fact witness and also provide expert testimony under Evidence Rule 702, 703, or 705. Frequent examples include physicians or other health care professionals and employees of a party who do not regularly provide expert testimony. Parties must identify such witnesses under Rule 26(a)(2)(A) and provide the disclosure required under Rule 26(a)(2)(C). The (a)(2)(C) disclosure obligation does not include facts unrelated to the expert opinions the witness will present.Rules Appendix at C-29.
That's got us thinking. Well, if we can freely designate treaters as expert witnesses, then it follows that we can talk to them, doesn't it? With the federal rules now explicitly recognizing both sides' equal rights to call treaters as experts for the first time, this amendment should lend additional force to what's already the majority rule: that state-law procedurally restrictions on defendants talking to treaters - other than privileges (which are usually waived by a plaintiff's filing suit) - are inapplicable in federal court. We've discussed that rule before here. And, as we've also discussed before, HIPAA expressly exempts the "lawful process" of "judicial proceedings" from its scope
We offer no predictions on the ultimate result, but we've now got another arrow in our quiver in our search for equal rights to informal interviews of treating physicians.
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On March 2, I was honored and humbled to attend CTU's annual Harambee! fundraiser, supporting the Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program, which trains Black Catholics for leadership in the Church. Honored because it was a celebration of life (Harambee means "all pull together" in Swahili), and humbled because the people celebrating had conquered excruciating circumstances beyond my comprehension.
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A classic Tex-Mex dish combines the building blocks of a meal - protein, vegetables and starch - in hearty recipes with a peppery punch. Chicken, black beans, green peppers, tortillas and cheddar show how it's done in this stacked version of a traditional Tex-Mex casserole. —Rebecca Pepsin, Longmont, Colorado
- 2/3 cup chopped green pepper
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 cup shredded cooked chicken
- 1 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1/3 cup thinly sliced green onions
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- 1/2 cup picante sauce
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- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
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- In a large skillet, saute pepper in oil for 3 minutes. Add garlic and cook 2 minutes longer or until pepper is crisp-tender. Stir in the chicken, beans and onions; heat through. Transfer to a bowl and keep warm.
- In the same skillet, combine enchilada and picante sauces. Coat both sides of one tortilla with sauce mixture; place in a greased 9-in. pie plate. Top with a third of the chicken mixture and 1/4 cup cheese. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining tortilla, sauce and cheese.
- Cover and bake at 350° for 18-22 minutes or until heated through. Remove to a serving plate and cut into wedges. Serve with sour cream and lettuce if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
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THE PARTY Classically chic womenswear designer Rebecca Taylor and Neiman Marcus teamed up to present an exclusive look at the Taylor's spring/summer 2013 collection, hosted by The Atlantan Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Davis Smith. THE SCENE Guests entered to win a piece of the designer's luxe line, and the woman of the hour, Aussie Rebecca Taylor herself, even stopped by to partake in the glamorous festivities (along with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, of course). Photography by G. Paras Griffin


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A mysterious event from the past erupting into the present. A war so big it threatens the entire Earth. This time, the Transformers alone won't be able to save us. Enjoy stills from Michael Bay's Paramount Pictures release Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon in 3D—starring Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky—with this free theme for Windows.
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Ann Marie McDonnell is a printmaker, sculptor, and installation artist who works in a variety of media. Of late she has been working in silver and copper for jewelry and small sculptures, and her cicada-inspired jewelry was included in the Staten Island Museum exhibition, They're Baaack! Return of the 17-year Cicada. McDonnell has maintained an art studio at Snug Harbor for over twenty years. She is director of education at the Alice Austen House. amcdonnell.com
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An annual program of lectures, exhibitions and public events
SCAD presents the sixth edition of deFINE ART, the university's annual fine and contemporary art showcase. Taking place Feb. 17-19 at SCAD locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, deFINE ART features renowned artist Xu Bing as the honoree and keynote speaker.
More than 10 exhibitions will present thought-provoking work celebrating fine art in all its forms.
The roster of guests at deFINE ART includes acclaimed and emerging artists working in a variety of media.
"Art does something to us. It's a verb. It's active. It doesn't just sit there."Jerry Saltz | Art critic and columnist
The art of influence
Relive deFINE ART from years past through the inspiring words of our previous guests and honorees. From Marina Abramović's evolution as a performance artist to Tim Rollins' work with underprivileged students, these are the moments that epitomize deFINE ART.
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Cheesy Ham 'N' Potato Soup RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 2 cups cubed potatoes
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 1-1/2 cups cubed fully cooked ham
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 3 cups milk
- 1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) finely shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup frozen broccoli florets, thawed and chopped
- In a saucepan, bring potatoes and water to a boil. Cover and cook for 10-15 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving 1 cup cooking liquid; set potatoes and liquid aside.
- In a large saucepan, saute ham and onion in butter until onion is tender. Stir in the flour and pepper until smooth; gradually add milk and reserved cooking liquid. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat to low. Add the cheese, broccoli and reserved potatoes; cook and stir until cheese is melted and soup is heated through. Yield: 7 servings.
Reviews for Cheesy Ham 'N' Potato Soup
"This is a keeper! I had no broccoli so I added chopped celery & carrots to my onion mixture for a bit of nutrition and color. Great on a cold night."
"This soup was delicious, I added bouillon cubes as the potatoes boiled. I was on the fence about the broccoli but I chopped it finely and tossed it in. It made the soup look pretty."
"My sister-in-law whipped this together during a recent visit to her house on a bitter cold day. I was impressed how she was able to make a soup from scratch in such a short period of time. The soup was hearty, delicious, and cozy. She had copied the recipe down from the magazine so I quickly looked it up on the Taste of Home website when I returned home because I know I'll be making it for my family."
"How can I submit a photo of this ez yummy soup? I can't thank u enough for sharing this creamy potato soup recipe. I was able to start it an hour before dinner time & was able to prepare & cook it in plenty of time. Quick, easy & yum!"
"I just tried this recipe tonight and it was a big hit at my house! I love it because it has the 3 qualities I love the most about a meal...cheap, easy to make, and it tastes good! My son made me promise to save the left overs so that he could eat them tomorrow and also made me promise that I would make this again! The only way I altered the recipe was I didn't use broccoli since I have some picky eaters, and I added a little bit more cheese."


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KathyChung, Friday September 21, 2012 - 5:57pm
Well, hello! I know it's been a little quiet around here. As you can imagine, this is a crazy busy time here at SiWC Central as we get all the details sewn up to make SiWC the best it can be.
I am delighted to announce that we've added a new presenter to our roster for this year. Elizabeth Lyon is a freelance editor and a popular presenter who's an old friend of our conference. We're delighted to have her back for the first time in a few years.
Elizabeth will be teaching workshops and taking blue pencil appointments. Here's her bio:
Elizabeth Lyon is the author of Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write, The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit, A Writer's Guide to Nonfiction, A Writer's Guide to Fiction, National Directory of Editors & Writers, and Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore. "The Writer" magazine selected Manuscript Makeover as one of the "8 Great Writing Books of 2008," describing it as "perhaps the most comprehensive book on revising fiction." Lyon lives in Springfield, Oregon. www.elizabethlyon.com.
Welcome back to SiWC, Elizabeth!
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Elizabeth Lyon is amazing. In previous years at SiWC, I've taking her workshops and her Master's Class … well worth every moment. Can't wait to see her again.
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The Lyon In Fall...
Really glad to see that Elizabeth's going to be back at this year's conference. I've missed her presence and her smile over the past couple of occasions, so I'm looking forward to seeing her back in action again this October.
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Elizabeth is the best
So glad that she is back. Her workshops are not to be missed.


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I teamed up again with our friends FreshMade NYC (www.freshmadenyc.com) to cater and decorate this wonderful sweet Baby Safari party for a one year old girl. I chose a color palette combination of powder pink, aqua blue, light green and lavander to create the visual look and feel of the party. Among decor items were a custom designed backdrop, a lion jelly bean doll, a large paper caruselle, crates decorations, wishing tree, custom designed jars and many more.
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A full house at the regular meeting of the Board of Utilities Commissioners on Tuesday reported business as usual on the city's utilities. Tuesday night about 8:30, lights went out all over La Junta because some balloons, probably from the swimming pool, blew into the main transmission line that feeds the power substation at the City of la Junta Power Plant. The breaker worked and everything worked as it should, said City Electric worker Richard Guerrero on Wednesday morning.
?At Tuesday's meeting, Electric Superintendent Reuben DeLeon distributed some brochures about power lines. This is the season when birds and other animals often tangle with power lines. Electricity seeks the shortest route to the ground. It is not safe to be near a power line, for the insulation is only sufficient to protect from usual hazards, such as tree limbs, and anything wet can carry the current to ground. This includes a human body, a damp ladder, a wet balloon with a string, etc. Don't try to disentangle a kite from a power line. Only fly kites in open areas like a park or field.
DeLeon reported the line crew has started the tree trimming season, starting at the west and working to the east. The crew has also been doing line maintenance, adding transformers. They also replaced a pole in the same circuit, LP 52-4. The line crew and city electrician installed underground pipe with wire and the lights at the new location of Old 1024 railroad engine are up and running.
There was also a power outage on May 19 in the East Loop due to something coming in contact with the tie breaker. Power was restored after a visual examination revealed three points of contact. Some street lights along Third Street are being replaced. A new three phase transformer station was added at Otero Museum.
Maintenance continues at the City Power Plant. A weather station was installed there for monitoring weather conditions.
Director of Water and Wastewater Joe Kelley, reports the completion of about 10,000 feet of the annual sewer main cleaning program. The water crew completed the water main replacement at Highway 10 and Dalton Ave. The leaks at that location have caused trouble for both the city and the Department of Transportation, so the whole setup was replaced. The water crew is now working on connecting the service lines.
The Arkansas Valley Conduit will receive an additional $4 million in federal funds this year thanks to reallocation of unused or leftover funds within the Bureau of Reclamation.
Things are running well in the sanitation department, said City Engineer Dan Eveatt. One of the trucks on the commercial route is up for replacement in this year's city budget.
A possible ban on electronics in the landfill was reported. For now, it is legal for private homeowners to put such items in the landfill, although people are encouraged to recycle their electronics. Electronic recycling is available on Wednesdays at the old sugar factory at Swink.
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Volleyball Picks Up Its First Win Of 2014, Sweeps Sacred Heart
The Princeton men's volleyball team was in desperate need of a victory Friday night, and it wasn't about to let a showdown at Sacred Heart get away. After four straight 3-2 losses, Princeton showed impressive offensive efficiency in a 3-0 victory at its EIVA rival.
Princeton hit .371 for the match and won three tight sets in a 25-23, 25-22, 25-22 road win. The victory is the first this season for Princeton, but it also moves it back to the .500 mark in EIVA play.
Junior Cody Kessel capped his strongest weekend of the season with 13 kills, six digs and four blocks, while sophomore Devin Stearns added 12 kills and four blocks. Stearns hit .500 for the match, though five of Princeton's six starters hit at least .300 in the effort.
Freshman Junior Oboh had six blocks to go along with four kills, while junior Tony Ensbury had five digs. Senior Davis Waddell started at setter and paced the offense with 35 assists.
The Tigers will travel to Springfield, Mass., next weekend for the Hall of Fame Classic, and they will return to EIVA play Tuesday, Feb. 25, when they host Rutgers-Newark at 7 pm. That will start a crucial stretch for Princeton, which will play six of its seven EIVA home matches over a 12-day stretch.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 19, 2009) - The ETSU volleyball team will look to end a four-game skid as the Bucs head to Asheville, N.C. to take on UNC Asheville Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
The Bucs (6-14, 5-7) fell to USC Upstate 3-1 and Campbell 3-2 last week. ETSU is led by Whitney Cogburn (
ETSU is 19-20 all-time against the Bulldogs with the last match coming in 2007 when the Buccaneers defeated UNCA 3-2 at home.
UNC Asheville (18-6, 7-1 Big South) comes into the match having won seven of its last eight matches. The Bulldogs are led by Raquel Miotto who is seventh on the NCAA all-time list for career digs with 2,440.
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