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College Hockey:Maine Comes Back to Win in OT
Brown Gives Black Bears Run For Money
ORONO, Maine — The 4,219 fans that made their way to the Alfond Arena for Wednesday's game between Maine and Brown got their money's worth. They saw an exciting 3-2 come-from-behind victory by the Black Bears.
Colin Shields ended the game 3:28 into overtime with a rare power-play goal in the extra frame, set up when Jason Wilson was called for hooking at 2:15. Wilson took down Maine defenseman Francis Nault in the slot in front of Maine netminder Matt Yeats. The hook caused a breakaway, forcing referee Jeff Bunyon to make the call.
Maine sustained pressure in the offensive zone during the power play. Peter Metcalf finally took a shot from the faceoff circle that beat Brown goalie Yann Danis, hit the cross bar an deflected out.
That's when it went to Shields.
"At first, I thought the puck was in," Shields said. "I wasn't going to hit it, but then I figured I better make sure."
He said that he realized the puck hadn't gone in because of the sound it made.
"It made a different sound. The cross bar makes a different noise than the back bar."
The puck bounced in the crease after hitting the cross bar. Shields was crashing the net when he found the puck and batted it in for his eleventh of the season.
"It's unfortunate that the game ended on a power play in overtime," said Brown coach Roger Grillo, "but the referee has to call what he sees, and we had a chance to kill it off, but we didn't."
Maine also had a power play at the end of regulation.
"I was a little upset with our guys," said Grillo of the late penalties. "But we still had our chances."
Brown killed the penalty off, mainly because of the fantastic play by Danis in net. He made two glove saves with less than a minute left. The first was on Shields from the slot. The second was about 15 seconds later on a Niko Dimitrakos shot from the point through traffic.
"He's a good goaltender," Grillo said, who played Danis for the first time all season in the game. "I was pleased what we he did tonight. He definitely solidified himself as a guy who will see some more playing time."
Brown played a neutral zone trap all night that stifled the Black Bears attack. They plugged up passing lanes and kept Maine from completing the long breakout passes they are accustomed to.
Brown went on top early because of a good play off of the trap in the neutral zone. Wilson lifted the puck over Maine starter Mike Morrison, just under the cross bar, 2:49 into the game.
Maine tied things at 7:08 of the first off of a faceoff. Tom Reimann won the offensive zone draw back to Dimitrakos, who skated around a defenseman and let a slapper go from between the circles. The puck beat Danis between his body and right arm.
Chris Legg put Brown back in front 2:41 of the second. He took a Jarrett Robertson feed in the middle of the zone. Nault wrapped him up, but he still was able to move in on Morrison and put a shot on that beat the goalie low, through his pads.
It took until the 9:15 mark of the third period for Maine to tie things again. Gray Shaneberger was brought the puck to right corner, where he was met by two Brown defenders. Robert Liscak joined the battle, and got the puck loose. Shaneberger grabbed the puck behind the net.
"I just came around the net and jammed it in," Shaneberger said. His wraparound went off Danis' stick and went over him for the goal. "It was great feeling."
Danis made 29 saves in the loss for Brown. Morrison made nine saves in the first 30:19 of the game. Yeats stopped 12 in the last 33:09.
Maine coach Tim Whitehead was pleased with the play of both goaltenders, who both played by design.
"Both goaltenders were outstanding," Whitehead said. "Yeats was very focused off the bench, which is excellent. It allowed us to come back strong. I'm happy with both of them.
"It was a good, gutsy effort by our guys to come back. It was an ugly win, but we needed one of those."
All of Maine's win up to this point had been by lop-sided scores.
"Overall, I was pleased with our effort," said Grillo. "We were able to do what we wanted to do against a really good club. It's a sign that, for a team that struggled last year, we're starting to turn around and play some good hockey."
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All-American in the 200 free relay in his sophomore season.
2011-12: Earned All-American honors after finishing in third in the 200 free relay at the NCAA Championships...Received Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention accolades...Earned an NCAA "B" cut in the 50 free at the Texas Invite.
2010-11: A relay alternate at the NCAA Championships in Minneapolis, Gutman helped the Wildcats' 200 free relay and 200 medley relay qualify for championship finals...At the Pac-10 Championships, Gutman recorded personal bests of 19.93 in the 50 free and 43.64 in the 100 free.
Why Arizona: As a student athlete in high school I looked at all of the top programs in the country. No other school compared to the staff, closeness of the team, and the integrity of Arizona. Aside from the best team in the world, the weather here is awesome. I enjoy wearing a sleeveless shirt, board shorts, and sandals every day.
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Men's Hockey Travels to RPI and No. 8 Union
| Game 9: Princeton at Rensselaer
|Friday, Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. Houston Field House
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|Record: RPI leads 63-31-9 (began Jan. 18, 1952)
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PRINCETON, N.J. (11/28/12) - The Princeton men's hockey team returns to league play, traveling to Rensselaer on Friday, Nov. 30 and No. 8 Union on Saturday, Dec. 1.
Princeton is 3-4-1 overall, having split last weekend's non-conference games at Sacred Heart and UMass Lowell. The Tigers are 2-1-1 in the ECAC, as they continue on a seven-game road stretch. Princeton is average 2.75 goals per game and is allowing 3.00 gpg. The Tigers have the third best power play in the nation, converting 9 of 33 (27.3%). The penalty kill has been on a tear and is 34 for 40 (85%).
Offensively the team is led by sophomore Tyler Maugeri. Maugeri has five goals and six assists for 11 points. Junior Andrew Calof is one point back with three goals and seven assists. Junior Andrew Ammon has also scored five goals and adds four assists for nine points. Senior defender Eric Meland has seven assists to his credit, while fellow blueliner Michael Sdao has two goals and three assists. Senior Mike Condon has started in seven of eight games. He has a .904 save percentage and a 2.75 goals against average. Junior Sean Bonar has made two appearances and has made eight saves on 12 shots in just over 45 minutes of action.
Rensselaer leads the series 63-31-9 since it began on Jan. 18, 1952. Princeton has won the last three meeting with a season sweep last year. Princeton won a 5-3 game at home on Dec. 2 and a 6-2 game at Houston Field House on Feb. 18. Senior Rob Kleebaum leads the Tigers in points against the Engineers, with three goals and three assists. Juniors Andrew Ammon, Jack Berger and Andrew Calof have scored five points apiece. Senior Mike Condon has faced RPI once and made 24 saves in the win. Junior Sean Bonar has played three games versus RPI and has made 74 saves on 84 shots.
Rensselaer is seeking its first league win with an 0-4 mark in the ECAC. The Engineers already played a home-and-home with Union, falling 4-2 and 7-3 and lost at Dartmouth and Harvard by matching 4-0 scores. The team is 3-5-2 overall and most recently swept Mercyhurst in a pair of games. It's been two weeks since those games, as the team did not play during the Thanksgiving weekend. RPI averages 2.40 gpg and allows an average of 3.20. The power play is 8 for 44 (18.2%) and the penalty kill is 36 for 44 (81.8).
Sophomores Jacob Laliberte and Matt Neal lead the team in scoring. Laliberte has five goals and six helpers for 11 points, while Neal has three goals and seven assists for 10 points. Senior defender Nick Bailen adds nine points. Sophomore Ryan Haggerty and junior Brock Higgs contribute six points apiece. The Engineers utilize a two-goalie system. Senior Bryce Merriam has played in six games this season and has a .889 save percentage and a 3.47 GAA. Sophomore Scott Diebold has made four appearances and has an .867 save percentage and a 3.35 GAA.
Union holds a one-game edge over Princeton in the all-time series, 23-22-5. The teams first met on Dec. 15, 1982. The Dutchmen are riding a six-game unbeaten streak over the Tigers. The teams played to a 3-3 tie at Baker last December before a 3-0 Union win at Messa Rink. Princeton's last win in the series was on March 15, 2009 in the ECAC Quarterfinal series - a series Princeton won two games to one. Senior Eric Meland and junior Andrew Calof have each scored one goal and assisted on two as the leading scorers against Union. Mike Condon has played in three games and is 0-3 with 82 saves on 94 shots. In all three games, Condon has been pulled and Union has scored an empty-net goal. Bonar earned a tie in his lone game versus Union, making 14 saves on 17 shots.
Union enters the weekend with an 8-2-1 overall record, that ranks them No. 8 in the national poll. The Dutchmen are in 3-1 in the league, with two wins over RPI, one against Harvard and a one-goal loss to Dartmouth. Union has the third-best scoring offense in the nation, averaging 4.09 goals per game and the fifth-best scoring defense with 1.91 gpg. Union's power play unit is second in the nation going 15 for 52 (28.8%), while the penalty kill is 37 for 41 (90.2%), sixth in the nation.
Senior Kyle Bodie is tops on the team in scoring with three goals and a team-high 12 assists for 15 points. Classmate Wayne Simpson has scored a team-best seven goals, three game winners, and adds six assists for 13 points. Sophomore Shayne Gostisbehere and junior Josh Jooris have both collected 10 points apiece. Troy Grosenick has played in eight games in goal and has a .922 save percentage and a 2.20 GAA. Sophomore Colin Stevens has appeared in five games and has a 1.08 GAA and a .951 save percentage.


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Dr. Berner has had a long career in nursing. She received her bachelor's degree from St. Anselm College, her master's degree in nursing as an adult nurse practitioner from Oregon Health and Science University, a post-master's certificate as a family nurse practitioner from the George Washington University and a doctorate in Adult Education, Policy and Program Planning from Boston University.
She came to the University of Alaska Anchorage in 1998 and became coordinator of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program, a position she held for ten years. She then accepted a position as Project Director to develop the Doctor of Nursing Practice at the School of Nursing. She was Interim Director for the School of Nursing until September of 2011 when she accepted the position as Director of the School of Nursing.
Dr. Berner has maintained her professional career as a practicing nurse practitioner and has had many leadership roles. She is the past president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, served two terms as president of the Alaska Nurse Practitioner Association, chaired the Professional Practices Committee for the Alaska Nurses Association and the Legislative Committee for the Alaska Nurse Practitioner Association. In addition, she served on the Alaska State Board of Nursing and chaired the Board for two years. She currently serves as the founding president of the Alaska Professional Nurses Organization and is chairperson of the board of directors of Alaska Youth Advocates.
Her scholarship interests include original national research on clinical competence in distance delivered nurse practitioner programs. She currently serves on an AACN National Task Force on APRN Clinical Training. She has spearheaded statewide research that is now providing the first data on nurse practitioner practice trends in Alaska. That data has helped to identify and quantify the role and impact of nurse practitioners on primary care in Alaska.
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Spy agencies are getting personal data from Angry Birds and a host of other smartphone apps, leaked documents reveal.
19:30, UK, Tuesday 28 January 2014
British and US spy agencies have gathered data from smartphone apps which leak personal data on to global networks, according to reports.
Documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden suggest that mapping, gaming, and social networking apps - including the hit game Angry Birds - are providing the National Security Agency (NSA) and Government Communications HQ (GCHQ) with location information and details including political affiliation or sexual orientation.
Reports in The New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica suggested the joint spying programme "effectively means that anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system".
In a statement, the NSA said the communications of those who were not "valid foreign intelligence targets" were not of interest.
It said: "Any implication that NSA's foreign intelligence collection is focused on the smartphone or social media communications of everyday Americans is not true.
"We collect only those communications that we are authorised by law to collect for valid foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes - regardless of the technical means used by the targets."
GCHQ said it did not comment on intelligence matters, but insisted all of its activities were "authorised, necessary and proportionate".
A 2012 British intelligence report laid out how to extract Angry Birds users' information from phones using the Android operating system, according to The New York Times.
Another document listed a host of other mobile apps including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and Flixster.
Angry Birds is one of the most popular games on smartphones, with more than 1.7 billion downloads worldwide.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has previously admitted to being a fan of the game.
Snowden, who is living in asylum in Russia, faces espionage charges in the US after disclosing the NSA's massive telephone and internet surveillance programmes last year.
His revelations and criticism from privacy rights activists prompted US President Barack Obama to announce reforms into intelligence gathering on January 17.
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The 26th annual "Premio Lo Nuestro" nominees have been selected and to complete the award's show the first performers were announced yesterday with salsa music being on the top performing list.
Salsa music is paving its way back as some of the best salsa music singers unite their talents to perform together as eight singers of "Salsa Giants" ("Los Grandes de la Salsa") - Cheo Feliciano, Ismael Miranda, José Alberto 'El Canario', Nora, Oscar de León, Sergio George, Tito Nieves, and Willy Chirino under the direction of producer Sergio George himself perform one of their hits from the album "Salsa Giants" which is nominated in the Tropical Group or Duo category. Salsa sensation Marc Anthony who has five nominations and recipient of this year's "Premio Lo Nuestro" Exellence Award will take stage with his band. Another is 'el sonero de la juventud' (sonero of the youth), Victor Manuelle with three nominations will perform a number exclusively created for "Premio Lo Nuestro".
Others performing are Mexican rock singer Alejandra Guzman with a rendition of "Mi Peor Error"; representing Norteño music is Gerardo Ortiz, who is nominated in three Regional Mexican categories; urban sensation J. Balvin, Mexican artist Pepe Aguilar; and bachata singer Romeo Santos. Romeo with four nominations for the night will perform his number one single, "Propuesta Indecente".
More performers will be announced as in the following weeks for Premio Lo Nuestro which is scheduled for Thursday, February 20 at the American Airline Arena in Miami, Fla. and televised live on Univision Network.
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Here's a text book example from the Arizona Daily Star. In fact, the example is so good that I will translate the first half of the Star editorial in its entirety.
We have editorialized in the past about the need for a nonpartisan City Council system to replace Tucson's deeply partisan government, but so far voters have disagreed.
The Star sees a problem; they have opined against the problem, but to no avail.
The most recent vote was in 1993. Since then, proposals for a nonpartisan council system have failed to make it to the ballot, including an initiative drive in 1998 and lobbying campaigns to get the council to put a measure to the voters in 2001 and 2003.
They are actually losing ground and it's clear that a local solution isn't possible.
We hope such efforts will continue, because we think reform is necessary.
It's still a problem. Of course, we've had 15 years to fix it…We believe a council that is not mired in political party obligations and is not straitjacketed into partisan ideological positions would be acting more often for the general good. Furthermore, as we've noted before, most of the time the city government deals with issues that are neither Republican nor Democrat.
In fact, it's still a serious problem.Someone from Tucson has the power to fix the problem. He's not from Mars, or Phoenix, he's a Tucson native who agrees with the Star on this critical issue.Under a nonpartisan council system, he told the Star's Rob O'Dell, "You get more people who are interested in getting things done than they are in party politics. It would be harder for interest groups around parties to control the process."Wow, this Tucson native is exactly right about the issues. Finally, someone local who is now saying the same thing that we have been saying for years.But Paton, a Republican, is planning to introduce legislation in the Legislature to to impose a nonpartisan City Council system on Tucson, according to a story Monday by O'Dell. Please note: In January, this body will be dominated by Maricopa County and by highly partisan Republicans.
Que the scary music. Paton may be a Tucson native who agrees with the Star, but we learn that Paton is…a Republican and he's part of a body that dominated by…Maricopa County Republicans. After all, non-partisanship is a good thing unless it's pushed by Republicans…not that we are partisan or anything.
Well, don't tread on us, Phoenix.
That's right. Just because it's a good idea and we support it and the local officials have proven incapable of implementing it, and it's being pushed by one of our own elected representatives…don't tread on us. We've had 15 years to fix this but by golly, you people from north of the Gila were made part of the United States via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo while we were admitted via the (sniff) Gadsden Purchase.
You think I'm kidding, but the editorial writer chose that phrase "Don't tread on us" intentionally. The "Don't Tread On Me" flag is actually the Gadsden family flag. Phoenix was acquired by war, Tucson was purchased from Mexico. Growing up in Tucson I was taught that distinction from pre-school. I don't know how many book reports I've turned in with the "Don't Tread on Me" flag on the cover, but it was a lot. Just ask Mr. Petri at Townsend Junior High.
If Tucson's City Council system is to be reformed, the changes must flow up to the ballot from local citizens and must be accepted or rejected by Tucson voters. Our local governance choices are none of the Legislature's business, nor Paton's.
We hold these truths to be self evident that Tucson must govern itself.
It appears, based on O'Dell's research, that if Paton were to compose such a bill carefully, the Legislature could, in fact, legally impose a new governmental system upon Tucson.
Dang, Paton is smarter than he looks. (That's nice of the reporter to check up on the attorneys at Legislative Counsel. I look forward to reading his memo.)
There you have it. The only thing the Star values over bipartisan ship is parochialism. The Star offers no legitimate reason not to support the bill. They obviously can't disagree with the issue. They can't even complain about Paton as the sponsor. But the Tribe of Pima has counted the Tribe of Maricopa its enemy for many moons. Arguments that are usually the last bastion of fools have become official policy of the Star.
The only thing more troubling than the people of Tucson being the last city to tolerate partisan elections is their toleration of such a weak third-tier newspaper.
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Tucson's election process is under fire
Legislative bill to seek end of partisan races for council
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.15.2008
State Sen.-elect Jonathan Paton believes Tucson's City Council has become so dysfunctional that lawmakers from Phoenix need to step in and mandate changes.
What is needed, the Tucson Republican contends, is nonpartisan elections — an idea Tucson voters have rejected several times, most recently in 1993. Efforts to put the issue back on the ballot since then have fallen short.
Paton's bill, to be introduced next month, would also abolish Tucson's unique system where its council members are nominated by ward but are elected citywide.
That system has been in place since 1929 and has survived several public votes and failed initiative drives.
Paton, elected to the state Senate in November, will be part of a growing GOP majority in the Legislature when it convenes in January. Democratic leaders and City Council members say he is using that political clout to let Phoenix make a decision best left to Tucsonans.
Paton said his push to reshape the predominantly- Democratic city government stems from what he describes as "a general dysfunction" on the council, caused by decisions based on politics rather than the public good.
He points to the lack of progress on the Rio Nuevo Downtown redevelopment as a prime example, calling it "the straw that broke the camel's back."
"Ideology is more important than getting things done," Paton said. "The city is the level where you just have to get stuff done. You need people focused on getting those things done. Partisan elections really run counter to that."
But most Democrats called Paton's push a thinly veiled attempt to alter the political balance of power in the city, where Democrats have a solid advantage in voter registration.
"They want nonpartisan elections for partisan reasons," said Democratic Councilman Steve Leal.
Tucson is the only city in Arizona that still has partisan elections, after an initiative passed in South Tucson in November that eliminated them there. Nogales, another longtime holdout, went to nonpartisan elections a few years ago. More than 75 percent of cities nationwide have nonpartisan elections.
Paton contends Tucson's odd-year elections, combined with its party primaries, push candidates on both sides of the aisle toward the party's base and special interests. The goal of nonpartisan elections is to get more pragmatic and independent-minded people, he said.
"You get more people who are interested in getting things done than they are in party politics," Paton said. "It would be harder for interest groups around parties to control the process."
Mixed reaction
Most Democrats slammed Paton's proposal.
"How do you claim partisan elections are OK for his office but not right for local elections?" asked Vince Rabago, chair of the Pima County Democratic Party. "I don't see the logic there."
Rabago also pointed out that Republicans controlled the council for part of the time Rio Nuevo has been languishing.
But Rabago is concerned about the prospects of the Legislature mandating nonpartisan elections, now that Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano is moving to Washington and after the Republicans increased their majorities in the November election.
Judi White, chair of the Pima County Republican Party, was more open to Paton's idea. But she said she had mixed feelings, too.
"Taking partisans out of the process changes the whole process," White said. "Do people still know what party you're from? It evens the playing field a little bit for independents."
Does it lower turnout?
Leal and Rabago both pointed to research from former Tucson Mayor Tom Volgy showing having nonpartisan elections lowers turnout.
But local pollster Pete Zimmerman said he believed nonpartisan elections would increase turnout by boosting the number of votes cast by independents, the city's second- biggest voter block.
"I don't think there is a Republican or Democratic way to run the city," or fix a pothole, said Schorr, who led an unsuccessful Southern Arizona Leadership Council effort to put the nonpartisan election issue on the 2001 ballot.
Schorr noted that the Phoenix City Council, which has long had nonpartisan elections, gave rise to the political careers of both 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and current Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard, albeit 40 years apart.
"Phoenix's rise is due in part to the fact they had nonpartisan elections," he said.
What about local control?
Paton's bill would target Tucson, the only city in Arizona left without nonpartisan elections. Paton said he believes Tucson is also the only place affected by the second provision, requiring representatives be elected only by their wards or district.
Several people questioned how the state can trump the voter-adopted City Charter.
City Attorney Mike Rankin said it depends on how Paton's bill is written to determine if it overrides the charter.
Courts generally see elections as local issues, but it depends on the bill's language if the state law will pre-empt the City Charter, Rankin said.
Katie Bolger, an aide for Councilman Rodney Glassman, said it's "hypocritical" for Paton and other Republicans to push for change from Phoenix.
"The Republicans are supposed to be for local control," she said.
Rejections by the voters
Tucsonans have rejected nonpartisan elections at the polls many times, most recently in 1993. Efforts since, including an initiative drive in 1998 and lobbying campaigns in 2001 and 2003, failed to make it to the ballot. Initiative drives to change the city's ward system have failed as well, most recently in 2007.
Council members, including Glassman, Karin Uhlich and Nina Trasoff, said they would want the change to be approved by Tucson voters.
"It is something city residents should decide rather than Phoenix dictating how we operate," Uhlich said, adding that it's an issue the council could refer to the committee looking at charter amendments.
But Schorr pointed out that it was the council that refused to put the issue to the ballot in 2001 and 2003, adding it's tough for initiatives to "push the ball over the goal line."
Paton contends that partisan elections serve the cause of special interests because council members must appeal to these groups during the primary campaigns, especially in Tucson's off-year elections.
"It's an environment that encourages your own ideological agenda ahead of the projects getting done," Paton said.
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Leal and the rest of them look so pathetic. They'll do or say anything to keep their power. I think Paton is actually going to succeed in changing things.
Looks like Paton, Antenori and Melvin are going to have to stick their necks out to keep the TIF funding for Rio Nuevo. You can bet there will be many strings attached. The idea of rational, business owners, without a stake in the project is a critical part of the plan.
From today's AZ Star, discussion on Rio Nuevo:
"I don't want to kill Rio Nuevo," Antenori said. "As much I'd like to do it for spite to the City Council, the reality is the business impact is far more important. We have to save it."
"The city government in Tucson is dysfunctional in almost every dimension," said Sen. John Huppenthal, R-Chandler. "And the idea that we would trust them, even in some reconfigured state, with $500 million to advance the economic growth of Arizona, I would find astonishing."
Waring told fellow Republicans that Rio Nuevo Director Greg Shelko didn't further his cause at last month's hearing.
"It was a really underwhelming performance; I can't emphasize that enough," Waring told a group that included Senate President Bob Burns and Appropriations Chairman Russell Pearce, who will be putting the budget together. "It was really, really ugly. … It was about as bad a performance as you're going to see down here. They really didn't articulate what it is that's happening."
Even local lawmakers were critical. Sen. Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, said, "Quite, frankly, as a Tucsonan, I was embarrassed."
But Paton also said the hearing was a wake-up call for city officials, who are now focusing on the plans for the Convention Center, hotel and arena as signs of progress.
"I had been telling them they had problems with the Legislature," Paton said. "I don't think they really took that seriously. I think they started talking it pretty seriously after that hearing."
Rio Nuevo's future could rest in the ability of Tucson Republicans – Antenori, Paton and Sen. Al Melvin in particular – to convince their colleagues the project is worthy.
Melvin, vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has the ear of Pearce. Melvin indicated Tuesday he wants to keep the funding in place with Paton's legislative changes.
"All these things, if we can incorporate them, hopefully we'll get it on the right track," Melvin said.
In what he himself calls a "twist of fate," Antenori, a long-time critic of the project, has taken the lead defending Rio Nuevo to House leadership. He wants to retain all funding.
A Regional New Year's Resolution, By Bill Dodge, Regional Excellence: HERE
Regional cooperation has had some incredible successes, but it continues to fail to address the tough challenges in most regions. And the challenges are getting tougher, from decaying infrastructure to declining air and water quality, increasing natural and terrorist threats, accelerating climate change, volatile energy costs, and profligate growth. Without success in addressing the toughest challenges — the true test for governing regions — "bottom-up" regional cooperation will die, and along with it the ability of individual citizens and their local governments to shape their own futures.
Unless regional cooperation provides an effective tool to address tough challenges, and quickly, it will be displaced by "top down" state and national government actions in response to public frustration. And there is no guarantee that higher levels of government will do better. (We are starting to see this here in Tucson with proposals for NON PARTISAN ELECTIONS)
I draw this conclusion, reluctantly. Have I, and the many colleagues I respect, been wasting our working years practicing regional cooperation? Were our efforts to educate individuals, establish regional mechanisms, share public services, and design compacts to address timely challenges all for naught?
A resounding no! Our efforts have resulted in building some amazing regional cooperation mechanisms — from regional councils of governments to regional chambers of commerce, academic institutes, citizens leagues, and sewer and transit authorities. It has resulted in addressing pressing regional challenges in every region across the country — especially transportation challenges. Maybe, most importantly it has resulted in educating individuals on the importance of regional cooperation and engaging them in cooperative efforts.
But, alas, regional cooperation increasingly appears to be bumping up against an impenetrable governance ceiling. Whereas regional mechanisms have nurtured more sophisticated visioning, problem-solving, service-delivery, and even performance auditing capacities, most lack the powers, resources, and especially public support to address the increasingly tougher regional challenges. And the gap between the capacity of these mechanisms and the emerging challenges appears to be growing.
The "Achilles Heel" of the best of regional cooperation efforts has been the lack of "clout" commensurate with the challenges being addressed. My fear is that asking weak regional cooperation mechanisms to take on more, and more demanding challenges, will not only result in fewer successes but mortally weaken the very places that drive our and the global economy. Citizens need to break out of their "local" mindsets, consider the regional "unthinkable", and advocate for the regional "unheard-of", if regional cooperation is to have the powers and tools to make regions work. With the support of, not the displacement by, state and national governments. And now! …….
Stateside regions tend to quickly dismiss most options for strengthening regional cooperation. They mask their objections in our tradition of independent local governments; that government closest to the people is the best. Less frequently voiced is that weak regional cooperation reinforces the tyranny of individual local governments, especially those that are affluent, think they can take care of their own needs, and are unwilling to cast their lot with the regional hoi polloi. Some of these objections have merit in that many of the overseas actions are "top-down", limiting local government and citizen involvement in designing regional cooperation models or participating in their activities. But, thus far, few regions stateside have been inspired to pursue "bottom-up" models that provide real powers and resources to regional cooperation, in spite of national government transportation and other funding incentives, unless mandated by the random acts of state governments, such as in California, Minnesota, and Oregon.
Remember back to the 2006 legislative session to extend the Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) funding for Rio Nuevo? The debate was whether or not to extend the TIF funding.
The idea behind TIF financing is to focus money from existing retail sales in a geographic area and use those funds to bolster tax collections in a new area. Tucson has spent $78 million so far and it's questionable how much new economic activity has actually occurred. The City politicians point to 'laying the groundwork for future development'. That story is starting to wear thin.
The state legislature is coming into some tough times and balancing budgets is becoming a very big issue. If you take a look at the the current make up of the AZ Senate, no one in the current Republican Caucus voted for the extension and only four or 5 Republicans actually voted for it.
Let me paint the picture for you;
1. Rio Nuevo was a grand idea thought up by City Manager Keene as a way to make Tucson more Berkley like.
2. A fat legislature lead by Southern Arizona golden boy, Tim Bee and a governor that wanted to reward Tucson for supporting her in to office, authorized the TIF funding to jump start downtown Tucson.
3. City mangers changed, elected officials changed, downtown business associations changed, Rio Nuevo offices were opened and closed. Downtown Alliance came and went Downtown Partnership came and went, Glenn Lyons was hired and a new Downtown Partnership was created.
4. Lots of money was spent on lots of consultants and plans that never came to fruition.
5. Enter the current City Manager, Mike Hein. He worked to get the TIF extension in 2006. The extension was a tough one to get and a few caveats were implemented regarding restrictions on eminent domain and using the funds to build police or fire facilities.
6. All total $78m has been spent and people question how much has actually been done. The officials in charge point to 'infrastructure' projects that 'lay the groundwork' for future Rio Nuevo growth.
7. 2009 will usher in a new slate of legislators that are under the gun to balance a huge budget deficit. The State will be looking high and low to capture all the dollars it can. Couple that with the fact that all but one of the state legislators taking office in this session were not involved in the 2006 extension negotiations and Rio Nuevo is looking at a tough, up hill battle.
From this weekend AZ Star: – HERE
A devastating blowLosing a half-billion dollars in Downtown redevelopment money would be a "devastating blow" for Tucson, said Si Schorr, a local lawyer and active Democrat. "One doesn't have to hold an MBA from Harvard to figure out that," he said.George Larsen, co-owner of Larsen Baker Commercial Realty, said losing the money would be a setback for Downtown, adding that the Legislature should be able to mandate changes like accounting reform, but should not be able to suspend or cancel Rio Nuevo.But Cotlow Co. President Dean Cotlow, a commercial real estate broker, said the city doesn't deserve any more money for Rio Nuevo, given how badly it has misspent the first $100 million. It would be understandable for the Legislature to take the money, given how it has been spent so far, he said.Losing the money would be a blow to the community, Cotlow said, but it would force the city to own up to its mistakes and learn an important lesson.Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup said he's concerned about the Legislature taking the money, but that he doesn't think it will happen because the city will make a convincing argument to the Legislature for keeping it."I think we've got a story to tell that a lot of good things are starting to happen," Walkup said. "We owe them that story."
Words of cautionSome Republicans are discussing a suspension of Rio Nuevo's ability to draw on state taxes until the state's budget crisis passes, said local businessman Bruce Ash, a party leader who has had a long-standing interest in Rio Nuevo.Ash said the city is "playing with fire" with its recent sale of $80 million in Rio Nuevo bonds, since the Legislature may suspend Rio Nuevo state sales-tax deliveries to Tucson. That would leave the city paying for the bonds out of its own general fund, meaning substantial cuts to other city services to pay off the bonds.Antenori also questioned the city floating Rio Nuevo bonds. "They've got to realize they could be on the hook for that," he said.Hein downplayed the potential the Legislature would take the money pledged to the bonds. He said all of Rio Nuevo's cash flow for the next several years is pledged to the $80 million in bonds sold in mid-December.If the Legislature were to repeal or suspend Rio Nuevo, Hein said it is likely to trigger complex legal action involving the city, the state and bondholders.It would also set precedent statewide that any specially dedicated funding source, such as water or sewer bonds, could be pulled by the Legislature, making it impossible for any Arizona jurisdiction to float those bonds because of that risk, Hein said.Assistant House Minority Leader Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, said she knows of no specific plans for Rio Nuevo this legislative session, but added that "you can bet on" someone trying to get rid of Rio Nuevo at some point.Sinema said the Tucson City Council asked the Democratic leadership to try to protect Rio Nuevo funding, something it will try to honor."What kind of power we have to do that is another story," she said.
A little history on the original set up of Rio Nuevo and the 2006 legislative extension from Blog for Arizona:
Voter Authorization
Rio Nuevo is a multi-use redevelopment district which diverts a portion of the tax revenues collected in the district, in this case Sales Taxes, and places them in a fund for redevelopement projects. A TIF district like Rio Nuevo must be authorized by a public vote. In 1999, voters approved Prop 400 which authorized the Rio Nuevo TIF for a period of 10 years.
Or did it?
Many in support of reauthorizing Rio Nuevo (disclosure: I personally support it), felt that it would be unwise to ask Tucson's voters to reauthorize the Rio Nuevo TIF. The most honest accounting of that concern I have yet heard was from LD 28 state legislature candidate Steve Farley, who opined that if Rio Nuevo went back to the voters, it wouldn't win. The dithering, incompetence, lack of visible progress, and repeated redrawing of the plan with new and better boondoggles, has left many Tucsonans with an impression, not entirely unjustified, that Rio Nuevo is a failed experiment.
So how could those who support it avoid sending it back to voters? Just have the legislature reauthorize it. There's just one pesky little detail: the law. ARS 48-4237, which authorizes multi-use TIF districts has a requirement: Section D states "The board shall state on the ballot the purpose of the tax, the maximum rate of the tax and the maximum number of years for which the tax will be authorized." Well, that's a pickle; Rio Nuevo expired after 10 years.
Supporters of the 'legislative only' reauthorization approach found a solution. They proclaimed far and wide that Rio Nuevo could be extended without refering it to the voters because, though the voter pamphet distributed to voters, and all the press coverge leading up to the vote, specified a period of 10 years, that limit wasn't actually on the ballot. Thus the Rio Nuevo TIF was not technically limited to 10 years and could be extended indefinitely. Only problem is, then that ballot violated state law.
Hair-spitting gone wild. But water under the bridge. But it leaves those advocating for the 'legislative only' approach without any real, good-faith basis for their argument. Well, actually, there isone. Back to Steve Farley's honest assessment. We won't have a vote, because it won't pass. So, no vote. If you really think Rio Nuevo is nifty and you don't care much about those pesky rules we call the law, there's no problem.
Unfortunately for Downing, he did care about the law. And he cared about the right of taxpayers to decide how their money is spent.
You see, the hundreds of millions that 'would just go to Phoenix' if not devoted to Rio Nuevo is only half the story: literally, half. Every dollar of Sales Tax that get diverted to Rio Nuevo by the TIF, must be matched with revenues by the local government. So, reauthorizing Rio Nuevo wasn't just keeping Tucson dollars in Tucson, it was also a decision to spend hundreds of millions of local tax dollars to match those funds, all of it tagged only for use on Rio Nuevo projects. So a handful of state legislators, no matter how well intentioned, took it upon themselves to decide how hundreds of millions of Tucsonans' general fund tax dollars would be spent: on Rio Nuevo. And we don't get any say about it.
Foraker ran a great timeline of events for Rio Nuevo on his blog – HERE. One of the highlights of the blog post worth a read;
November 26, 2007: Marketing Exec sees a lack of 'wow' factor in Rio Neuvo(Teya Vitu – Tucson Citizen) Margaret Pulles, deputy director of the Smithsonian's Affiliations Program, looks at what is going on and declares, "You're going to have a ghost town if you don't change your frame of thinking."
After landing the city contract to brand Rio Nuevo, Margaret declares that she didn't see much to brand, i.e. where are the clothes on this emperor? (Remember Bablove Ridgewood Workgroup? Lack of clothing didn't stop them from taking a quarter mill or so to make a yellow streak.) Margaret's "Where's the beef?" remark infuriated Rio Neuvo Director Greg Shelko. He declared, "I don't think she knows what we've been doing the past two years."
I've never met Greg or Hecker, but the cloth alarm is screaming. I have met Snell. I speak with confidence that if you asked these three to team up and bake a pizza, they'd drop fifty grand on an oven study, twelve grand to fly to Greece and watch them, $40 grand to consultants to study 1) dough, 2) sauce, 3) ingredients, 4) cheese, 5) baking temps, 6) pizza size, and 7) crust thickness policies. After extensive meetings and interviews, Snell would drop 75 grand for glossy pamphlets no one will read because everyone's already left for Pizza Hut, where it takes 20 minutes and costs about twelve bucks.
January 10, 2008: Glen Lyons, the new director of the Downtown Tucson Partnership, arrives. Salary $100-$120K. Now things will really start to happen.
More discussion from Sonoran Alliance (an Arizona political blog) about Paton's Non Partisan Elections – HERE.
The problem comes into play during the general election. All primary candidate winners (mayoral and councilmen) move on to the general election but instead of the voters in each ward electing their own councilman, the rest of the city gets to vote in the ward elections. (Tucson City Charter, Chapter XVI, Section 9) This means that the voters of one ward may overwhelmingly elect a councilman who is rejected by all the other wards voting. The best example would be akin to having Arizona nominating its two US Senate candidates only to have the rest of the states gang up and vote for the candidate who would have received the lesser votes by Arizona voters.
Sec. 9. Mayor nominated and elected at large; councilmen nominated from wards, elected at large.
Beginning in the year 1930, and continuing thereafter, the mayor shall be nominated from and elected by the voters of the city at large, and the councilmen shall be nominated each from, and by the respective voters of, the ward in which he resides, and shall be elected by the voters of the city at large.
It's completely unfair to the voters of each ward.
And from Espresso Pundit a blow by blow look at our local papers biased view that serves our community so well;
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The pleasures of childhood call to us as adults. The tug of nostalgia is so great that we so often find ourselves indulging in little things that remind us of our early years, and in some cases we throw ourselves passionately into the pursuit of the things we have lost.
Kathryn Hall lost the vineyard that was her childhood playground. Despite having managed the vineyard for nearly a decade, letting it go after her father's death was the right thing to do. But her memories of growing up among the grape vines in Redwood Valley, coupled with her enduring love of wine, meant that was not the end of her career in the wine industry, it was merely the tantalizing beginning.
Hall grew up in Albany, California. Her pharmacist father had dreams of a more agrarian sort, and purchased a vineyard and weekend home in Redwood Valley, north of Ukiah in Mendocino County. Hall grew up loving the time she spent in the vineyards and redwoods, and would return often, even as she went away to college and then law school.
Hall went on to have a very successful career as a corporate lawyer, and while she was working for Safeway, she transferred to Dallas in 1991 -- a fateful move that would launch her into a career of politics and into the love of her life.
Craig Hall grew up in Michigan, and might be the textbook example of a compulsive serial entrepreneur. He quickly moved from lemonade stands and newspaper routes to owning his first apartment complex at the age of 18, and dropping out of college as a sophomore to buy more. After that, there was no stopping him. By the age of 35 he was the second largest owner of apartment complexes in the world, the veteran CEO of several companies, and on the way to becoming a billionaire.
Shortly after meeting Craig, Kathryn Hall made her first foray into politics around that time, and quickly became part of the political scene in Dallas. In 1992 she both made an unsuccessful bid to become Mayor of Dallas, and worked on the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign. Hall continued to be active in politics, maintained ties to the Clintons, and together with her new husband, she became a major donor in the 1996 re-election campaign, setting her up for an appointment as ambassador to Austria the same year.
Before leaving for her 5 year stint in Austria, the Halls purchased a parcel of land and vineyards on the Eastern hills of the Napa valley in the Rutherford appellation, and began construction of a home and a winery. When they returned from Austria in 2002, Kathryn dove headfirst into the winery, launching first the Kathryn Hall brand, and then a few years later the HALL brand.
In 2002 real estate values slumped a little in wine country, providing the opportunity for the Hall's to snap up some additional vineyard land in both Napa and Sonoma, including the site at which they are currently building their estate winery, with the help of world-famous architect Frank Gehry.
The HALL portfolio has continued to grow, and is resolving into two tiers of wines, their Napa Valley Collection, which makes up the bulk of their 25,000 case production, and the Artisan Series of wines, made up of smaller, mostly vineyard designated wines.
This wine is sold in the Napa Valley Collection, even though most of the fruit comes from the Sacrashe vineyard that sits above the winery's Rutherford facility. The Sacrashe vineyard, like most of the Hall's vineyard properties is organically farmed, and has been ever since they've owned it. It is planted mostly to Cabernet, but also contains some Cabernet Franc and Merlot, all of which struggle in an incredibly thin layer of pulverized volcanic topsoil that very quickly gives way to solid bedrock.
Winemaker Steve Leveque (formerly of Mondavi and Chalk Hill) makes this wine as he does the rest of HALL's higher end wines in their Rutherford gravity-flow winery, including using native yeasts for fermentation and leaving the wines unfiltered.
Full disclosure: I received this wine as a press sample.
Tasting Notes:
Medium to dark garnet in color, this wine smells of black cherry fruit and black licorice. In the mouth deep black cherry fruit is enrobed in velvety, sweet tannins with notes of cassis and black licorice. Darker, faint earthy and leather notes sit underneath the powerful fruit, and linger in the finish with hints of cedar. 14.8% alcohol.
Food Pairing:
I would love to drink this wine with the juicy caramelized meat of a pot roast.
Overall Score: between 9 and 9.5
How Much?: $80
This wine is about to be released. You can purchase previous vintages online, and should be able to get your hands on the 2008 shortly.
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Revival Service Remains Private; No Announcement Yet on Plans for a Public Memorial Service for Terry Smith Jr.
There seems to be some confusion regarding whether the memorial service for Terry Smith Jr. on Sat...
Revival Christian Fellowship will be hosting a private memorial service for Terry Smith Jr.. The service is for invited family, friends, and guests of the Smith family. The memorial will be held at Revival Christian Fellowship located in Menifee, California on Saturday, July 20 at noon.
On behalf of the Smith family, we ask that those who have not received an invitation refrain from attending the service. In order to keep the memorial private, there will be no media outlets allowed onto the campus of Revival Christian Fellowship.
We ask that you please respect the wishes of the family as they mourn the loss of their child.
Revival Christian Fellowship
There has been no announcement of any change in the fact that this service is private and for invited guests only. Revival's office is closed today.
Terry Smith Sr., father of the boy, arrives in Southern California tonight. On Thursday, he repeated his pledge to help coordinate a separate memorial service that would be open to the public. Those plans are tentative. No date or site has been determined.
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Hiram 40 has done it, we are officially a double threat. We won both the "People's Choice" award, being selected by the patrons of the Pig Jig as having the BEST pork BBQ, and were also crowned "Carolina Pig Jig Grand Champions. Having been awarded the grand prize of having the best BBQ out of 28 teams competing this year by the official panel of BBQ judges.
According to Bruce Muhlheim, Pit Master for Hiram 40 "This is huge, we are extremely excited to win both the Grand Champions and People's Choice award. We always thought that we had the best BBQ, however after placing 5th last year overall with the judges and missing the "People's Choice" award by only 10 tickets last year, we knew we had to step up our game." Hiram 40 did just that, leaving nothing to chance and making the best BBQ the lodge has ever done. "While we still had lots of fun at the event, staying on the grounds over night and mingling with other lodges, we stayed laser focused on winning, we knew what we had to do, and that was make the BBQ that we are so good at making," says Muhlheim.
Tom Price, Bruce Muhlheim, and Tom Imler headed up the cooking team and were supported by Steven Speight, Josh Lippy, and Entered Apprentice Page Skelton. Also helping the day of the event were father and son duo Adam and Ron Page, and John Mahoney. "It was exciting to be a part of such an important event," says Page Skelton, Entered Apprentice at Hiram 40, "I am excited to be joining Hiram 40 and was glad that I could help contribute to this huge honor."
Next year, Hiram 40 hopes to repeat by winning both awards again. Tom Imler, current Worshipful Master of Hiram 40 says "Bring it, this puts a huge target on us, but we love a challenge, we welcome the competition!"
If you are interested in trying out fantastic award winning BBQ, then join us in September for our fall pork BBQ fundraiser. If you are interested in receiving emails on upcoming cooking events from Hiram 40, sign up for the email newsletter to the left.
Again, thank you to everyone who came out and supported this great cause, all the brothers and family members of Hiram 40 for helping with the event, and a special thanks to Masonic Lodge Raleigh 500 for putting on the event.
To see pictures from the event CLICK HERE for video from the event check out the Hiram 40 Youtube page.
Video of Hiram 40 accepting awards for People's Choice and Grand Champions
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From Gibraltar to the Gulf, since 1716 the Royal Artillery has seen action worldwide. Firepower tells the story of the men and women who served the guns and the technology on which their lives depended. The museum is located in the historic Royal Arsenal, the world's centre for munitions manufacture, secret for over 300 years and still a mysterious blank on the A-Z maps. Firepower takes you from slingshot to supergun, starting in the Field of Fire, where big screens, dramatic surround sound and moving eye-witness accounts illuminate the conflicts of the 20th Century.
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Ugh I just absolutely love the new fountain at UBC. I pass it almost everyday at school and the fact that I got to have a photoshoot in front of it was just my favourite thing ever. I definitely suggest looking it up as it's one of 5 sustainability projects UBC is running right now as part of reaching the Kyoto Protocol. I also just think it's an absolutely beautiful location.
I was super excited to have my friends ask me to cosplay god tier Roxy with them! We had a full alpha kid group and I absolutely adore them. I will upload some more group shots later.
I really like how my eyes look here. I love my pink contacts and my falsies.
Roxy - me
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Costume made by me!
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Taken at Cos & Effecto 2013
...BEAUTIFUL! 8o
Good pose and good mask. And the lightning of the pic is perfect ;D
thank you!!
yeah we really lucked out that day but it was SO HOT OUTSIDE
Well, was a good thing. This kind of pic is always better with daylight. Artificial light isn't the same.
no - it isn't! i was really happy with the weather. there's one pic of me and my alpha friends lying down and literally the entire time we were complaining about the heat - but the picture turned out fabulously imo! it's weird how weather turns out like that.


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This morning AT&T and DirecTV hosted a webcast to discuss the acquisition of DirecTV by AT&T for a purchase price of $48.5 billion. The total transaction value was $67.1 billion including DIRECTV's net debt. Yesterday AT&T (NYSE:T) and DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV) announced AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) will acquire DirecTV. This will be a stock and cash transaction based on Friday's closing price of AT&T stock. DirecTV shareholders will receive $95 per share comprised of $28.50 per share in cash and $66.50 per share in AT&T stock.
Earlier this year AT&T's competitor Comcast Cable (NASDAQ:CMCSA) acquired 100% of Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC) in a stock for stock transaction of $45.2 billion. Competition among companies is increasing as American television watching habits change transfer from cable and satellite to video over broadband and wireless networks. DirecTV's competitor Dish Network Corp (NYSE:DISH) reached an agreement with Walt Disney Co for rights to Internet distributed video. DIRECTV's deal with Disney is up for renewal at the end of this year.
The opportunities and threats for these companies are new mobile products, Wi-Fi hotspots, video streaming, industry competition and strategic advantages. AT&T has broadband to almost 70 million homes while the merger between Comcast and Time Warner in February was to prepare and form a defense from satellite and phone companies.
DISH is prepared for an internet video streaming platform and newer services such as Hulu LLC and Aereo Inc. The merger of the cable companies was an attempt to provide a strategic advantage to negotiate terms with content providers. Charter Communications made a deal with Comcast for some of their providers when they withdrew as a competing company to acquire Time Warner. Speculation of a merger between Sprint and T-Mobile exists, and if the FCC blocks the merger DISH has responded with interest.
AT&T's advantages from the acquisition of DIRECTV are 15 Million Customer Locations Get More High Speed Broadband Competition, Stand-Alone Broadband, Nationwide Package Pricing on DIRECTV, Net Neutrality Commitment and Spectrum Auction. DIRECTV Latin America is the largest pay TV provider with a growing middle class. To ensure regulatory approval in Latin America, AT&T removed their divested its interest and provided their immediate resignations to the América Móvil Board of Directors.


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It is always nice to make something great tasting that is also economical. But sometimes, if you spend a little more on a few quality ingredients, you can improve the value and quality of what you are cooking. Here's a list of some of my favorites, and all of them have multiple uses and come in a package that will enable you to make more than one recipe, too.
Gluten-free Breadcrumbs
Whether coating a chicken breast for frying or topping a cassarole for extra crunch, Glutino's gluten-free breadcrumbs can hold their own in a hot oven and hot oil.
These crumbs don't get soggy, and with some additional herbs like garlic powder, salt, and pepper, they make an addition to your recipes that is easy and delicious.
Kirkland Organic Olive Oil
Test after culinary test has found that Costco's Kirkland brand of extra virgin olive oil is a pure original. When eating olive oil directly on a salad (in a dressing) or baking a gluten-free bread, nothing tastes and performs better than the real deal that Kirkland EVOO is.
The Original Cracklebred
Crackers for appetizers and snacks can be expensive when you need them to be gluten-free. But, the old original Cracklebred is still being made by Natural Nectar, and it is carried by WalMart. For a reasonable price, this favorite can be purchased and kept on the shelf for midnight snacking - or when company comes.
Rotel Original Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies
Ever want to give scrambled eggs some extra zing? Company stop by and you have nothing in the house but some cheese and chips? Grab a can of Original Rotel off your pantry shelf. Use a spoonful on eggs, or microwave some Rotel and cheese for a gooey dip for those corn chips. Yum!


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Multi-disciplinary Extension effort creates adaptable state-wide Farm Succession Workshop Resource
Problem Statement:
In both informal and formal needs assessment surveys, people in agriculture frequently cite the need or request for ways to bring the next generation into the farm or family business. One of the most recent indications for a need for assistance in farm succession processes came in Dec 2009 at a NW Iowa Young Producers Dairy Peer Group meeting. Of the 20 young people attending, all but 1 identified issues and interests in farm succession processes.
Programmatic Response:
In January 2010, ISU Extension staff began discussions on feasibility of adapting the Ag-Link material for afternoon or evening delivery to target audiences. Planning discussions involving ISUE Beginning Farmer Center staff, ISUE Dairy Field Specialist, and ISUE Communications staff resulted in a template for a new format for a 2-session Farm Succession Workshop. The planning group devised a curriculum that could be delivered at any point in the state. A brochure template that is easily revised to reflect site location and date details was developed to facilitate program promotion and recruitment.
A pilot session of the new format was held June 23-24, 2010 in NW Iowa to provide a site nearby to the young dairy producer target audience, as well as to other farm or business families seeking succession planning information.Five families - including current owner and spouse and the succeeding owners and their spouses- enrolled in the pilot session. Over the course of 2 consecutive evenings (4pm – 9pm), attendees were involved in small group discussions, family group meetings, and lecture presentations on topics that included clarifying wants/needs/fears/expectations, effective communication processes, Transfer Plans, Retirement Plans, Estate Plans, forming a family Statement of Intention and Vision for the Future, and creating a Critical Path or timeline to do the work needed to achieve the family goals.
Outcome Statement:
The comments below are post-meeting evaluation responses:
" I was surprised….."
"I enjoyed…."
"I found it difficult to…..
"In the future I will…."
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Solving a Recurrence Relation/Equation, is there more than 1 way to solve this?
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Coach Dacko On Cleo ...
"Cleo is a very versatile, well-rounded player. She will fill a lot of holes for us. She brings a great deal of intensity and an outstanding work ethic. Cleo is shooting the ball much better and that is a key. For us to be successful, Cleo needs to score. That is the bottom line."
2002-03 Season:
Played in 24 games, making 19 starts ... missed four games with a stress fracture ... averaged 2.0 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game ... a .328 shooter from the field and a .615 shooter from the free throw line ... scored a career-high eight points vs. Vermont ... poured in five points at Toledo, vs. Memphis and vs. St. Bonaventure ... scored four points vs. Saint Joseph's, vs. Rhode Island and vs. La Salle ... also recorded a bucket vs. Sacred Heart, at Rhode Island, vs. Northeastern, at Florida, vs. Michigan and at Xavier ... tied a career-high with seven rebounds vs. Villanova, vs. St. Bonaventure and at Dayton ... pulled down six boards vs. Saint Joseph's and La Salle ... hauled in five rebounds at Toledo, at Rhode Island, at Florida, vs. Michigan, vs. Temple and at St. Bonaventure ... pulled down four rebounds vs. Vermont ... dished out a season-high four assists vs. Vermont, vs. Michigan and at Dayton ... handed out three helpers vs. Northeastern and at St. Bonaventure ... tallied two assists at Florida, vs. Memphis, vs. Saint Joseph's, vs. Temple and vs. La Salle twice ... had a blocked shot vs. Villanova and vs. Saint Joseph's ... recorded a season-high three steals vs. St. Bonaventure, at Dayton and vs. Rhode Island ... credited with two steals vs. Vermont, at New Hampshire and at Fordham.
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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL): First FedEx, Now Oracle! Trouble Ahead for Earnings Season
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