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Community Interfaith Coordination Links of Interest
Fairfax County Faith Communities In Action
Faith Communities In Action is an interfaith coalition of churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and both faith and community-based organizations gathering to learn and share information to better address human service need. This page includes information about upcoming meetings and the past FCIA sponsored events, including the September 11, 2002, community-wide remembrance, "A Day of Remembrance, An Interfaith Gathering United for Peace" and March 14, 2002, affordable housing conference, "Making Housing Affordable: Tools for Faith-Based Communities."
Fairfax County Ombudsman for Religious and Community Groups
In 1999, the Board of Supervisors established an Ombudsman to facilitate religious and community groups through the development process. Partnering with key staff members from the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services, the Department of Planning and Zoning and the Department of Transportation, the primary focus of the Ombudsman is to work with organizations who are seeking to either expand or relocate their facilities, providing insight and assistance through the various phases of the process.
Center for Faith-Based and Community Efforts, Department of Education
More Local Freedom Faith-Based & Community Efforts provides information on opportunities to improve student academic achievement. The site includes information on grant opportunties, policies and other resources.
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Department of Health and Human Services
Includes information on Charitable Choice, funding opportunities, resources, and points of contact related to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Includes information about funding opportunities, volunteers, and other useful resources through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Parnerships, Department of Labor
Information about grant opportunities for small faith-based and community organizations through the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
Internal Revenue Service: Information on Tax-Exempt Organizations
A database of nearly 500,000 nonprofit organizations, updated quarterly, that makes it possible to find all the groups in a certain city or state or to check whether a particular group has received tax-exempt status. The site also explains the different types of tax-exempt organizations and how to apply for tax-exempt status, and it includes answers to frequently asked questions about tax-exempt organizations, I.R.S. forms that can be downloaded, and articles on topics such as unrelated-business income tax, lobbying by tax-exempt organizations, and charitable remainder trusts.
Virginia Department of Social Services, Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
The Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) was established to expand the responsibiilties of the Virginia Department of Social Services to include the facilitation of collaborations and partnerships among public agencies and faith-based and community organizations. Related Links provides information on grant opportunities and other resources.
White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
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One great thing I love about being personally involved in the comics industry is that I know of so many extremely talented artists. Factoid: Marvel and DC Comics are the leading comic book publishers, followed by Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and IDW Publishing, founded in the 1980s and 1990s. Entrance into the inner cabal of these companies can be difficult, as even the best of the best can confirm. The comics industry has its own challenges, as does any other, but the rise of technology and the internet has made it possible for many artists to forge their own destinies.
In these next few interviews, I will be showcasing some independent comic artists, many of them local to the Louisville, KY/Kentuckiana area!
This interview introduces us all to the work of Louisville, KY cartoonist Daniel Frazier.
1. Could you introduce yourself for the readers, and tell us about your work?
My name is Daniel Frazier and I am the writer, artist and co-creator (whew!) of the comic series The Adventures of Nightclaw & Prowler. Nightclaw & Prowler is an all-ages superhero comic book based on my niece Jessica and nephew Andrew (who are also the co-creators of the series). Nightclaw & Prowler is my sole comic book series that I am currently working on though I have done shorter stories for The Powers That Be! and the Louisville Cartoonist Society.
2. What drew you to creating comics?
I loved reading comics so that probably has much to do with it. When I was in fourth grade a friend and I drew a silly stick-figure comic strip on notebook paper about ninjas and the kids at school thought they were hilarious. It was my first real experience in creating something that others took to and I continued doing it until I graduated high school. I moved on to filmmaking in college and kept with that until I started The Adventures of Nightclaw & Prowler. I found that creating movies and comics shared many same traits but comic creation won over filmmaking due to the fact that it is a much more inexpensive way of creatively expressing yourself.
3. Who or what are your artistic and comic-making influences?
As I have said before I was making movies for much of my creative career so many of my influences are filmmakers such as Sam Raimi, John Carpenter, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. I think that many comic artists should look outside of comics for inspiration and instruction because films and comics both must tell their stories visually. By studying movies I have learned valuable lessons in visual storytelling such as pacing and composition. My art style is not very complex so these lessons aided me in telling better stories visually. My greatest strength as a comic creator is my writing so my influences in the comic world are naturally writers such as Alan Moore, Gerry Conway, Brian K. Vaughan, Robert Kirkman and Stan Lee.
4. What were your prior experiences/training that led up to your making a career out of comics?
I have had no formal training in drawing comics (and it shows) but the reason I make comics is the same reason I make movies or eat or breathe. If I don't I will die. I am one of the fortunate (or unfortunate?) souls on this planet that has a creative hunger and must keep it fed lest it turn on me. While making comics or movies or writing books hasn't done much to pay the bills, it is an essential part of who I am as a person.
5. Where do you plan to take your series next?
My current plan for the series is actually on the business side of the comic industry. Up until now, I have considered my comic career more of a self-sustaining hobby. Selling the comics always paid for my ability to make more but nothing else. Thanks to a distributor called Graphicly, I am ready to take the next step by offering a collection of Nightclaw & Prowler comics digitally on many different platforms such as Kindle Fire, Nook, Google Books and iBooks for the iPad and iPhone. Graphicly has opened up the door for me to try and make more money from my series than I had been able to in the past and it is now up to me to develop a marketing strategy. It may not sound exciting to some people but I am very anxious to see what I can do on this end of the comic field.
6. What remains as the biggest hurdle to Independent comic creators in the digital age?
The digital age has actually given creators more advantages than hurdles by opening up the marketplace for relatively little cost. It used to be that a creator would spend thousands having a roomful of issues printed and then try and shop them around to comic stores or comic cons. Now, a creator can reach a much wider audience for much less expense. The biggest hurdle this throws up is that now there is an entire ocean of independent comics on the market and getting your series to stand above the others and get noticed by the readers is a challenge.
7. How has the rise of web-based comics impacted the industry?
I don't know if web-comics have had much of an impact on the financial end of the comic book business but what it has done is opened many readers' eyes and minds to comics outside the mainstream conventions of superheroes or 22-page stories. When you think about it, webcomics have gone back to the way American newspaper strips were when they were at their peak. They were diverse forms of graphic art and were as highly regarded as the news inside. There is such an open field of webcomics that if you asked 100 comic readers to name their favorite you would likely get 100 different answers.
8. Has your comic ever been compared with existing movie/books/comic/fictions by your audience? If yes, could you tell us a bit about it?
That really hasn't happened yet but I would welcome it.
9. When it comes to your own strips, which of them have gotten the most comments from your readers? What is special about the strip or comic?
The best compliments I get are from parents who appreciate something on the market geared for all-ages. For far too long the comic industry has been over-saturated with comics for readers between the ages of 16 to 35 years old. When I meet a parent at a convention and I tell them about my series they are most often surprised and delighted to find something they can read with their kids. Now that's not to say Nightclaw & Prowler is a kiddie comic book like Casper or Little Lulu. My series is a throwback to the comics I read as a child where superheroes had thrilling adventures and battled villains and monsters without containing graphic violence or over-sexualized characters. When I heard from one of the parents that my comic was her daughter's favorite thing for her to read at bedtime, that made my year.
10. Is there a particular genre you haven't tried before that you think you'd like to get into?
I would love to do a horror book that has been twisting in my brain for a year now. However, my skill level as an artist just wouldn't do the visuals I have in my head justice so until I can afford to hire an artist it will just have to remain in the files.
11. Could you list down your top 3 favorite webcomics? Tell us briefly why do you recommend them?
I have to start off by mentioning Catacombs from Old World Comics for two reasons: it's a funny throwback to Universal monster movies which I love and that Old World Comics is the company banner that Nightclaw & Prowler calls home and I don't want owner Todd Goodman sending me a nasty e-mail. Seriously, it's a funny strip. I also really enjoy Our Super Mom by Scott Comics. It is another all-ages comic with lots of action, lots of humor and really down-to-earth characters that I enjoy. But my all-time favorite webcomic has to be The Adventures of Wonderella, a decisively adult humorous take on superheroes and culture in general. This strip never fails to make me laugh. I enjoyed it so much that I purchased the printed collection of it!
12. Besides comics, do you have other creative works (written novel/blog/tutorials/etc) published online?
As I said before I also make movies. To date, I have only one feature-length film to my name and that is a horror/action/comedy called Avenging Disco Vampires. After not being able to land a distributor for a long while, I decided to put the entire film online for free on Vimeo. You can find it and all the extra features for the movie at www.vimeo.com/groups/adv. I also wrote a column entitled "Thought Balloons" about comics for the website Comic Hero News. You can visit the site at www.comicheronews.com and find my past entries there. Currently, my wife and I are writing a children's novel together and we hope to release it to the world by the end of 2012.
13. What is the worst mistake a webcomic author would make? Any inspiring advice to budding artists out there?
The worst mistake is thinking you cannot do it. If you have that creative spark in you, you have an outlet now. No matter how much or how little funds you have, you have many options on getting your work to the public. There is no legitimate excuse to not doing it. Be it comics, writing, music, movies or whatever your means of expressing yourself is you have many ways of showcasing it. Will you get rich? Will the world admire your work? Maybe or maybe not. My best piece of advice is to not get wrapped up in other people's definition of "success." Do work that is fulfilling to you and I guarantee you will be happy with it.
14. Is there anything else you want to share with our readers?
I want to thank all the people who have enjoyed The Adventures of Nightclaw & Prowler and I would encourage all the comic readers out there to search out independent comic books. There is a treasure trove of great art and original stories waiting to be read.

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Packers offensive linemen just say no to interviews
Green Bay - If you want to know how the Green Bay Packers' starting offensive line is doing this week, you'll have to ask someone other than the starting offensive line.
They're not talking.
Four of the five linemen have not been talking at all this week and the fifth, C Jeff Saturday, limited his comments to a reporter Thursday to a sentence or two as he walked out of the locker room. On Friday, he chatted with reporters but didn't do any interviews.
Clearly there was an organized effort not to speak with the media.
When asked if he could answer a question or two, guard Josh Sitton politely said, "I've got to get into the hot tub", and then walked out of the locker room.
Next up was LT Marshall Newhouse, who was asked for a minute of his time, and replied, "I'm going into the cold tub", and then walked away.
When RT T.J. Lang was asked whether he was talking, he said, "Nope."
Finally, when LG Evan Dietrich-Smith was asked if he had time for one question as he walked across the locker room, he kept on walking without replying.
Even when Bryan Bulaga, probably the most quotable member of the group, made his first appearance in the locker room Wednesday since being put on injured reserve with a hip injury, he politely declined an interview request. He was seated with the others at a table where the linemen usually play backgammon during the media open-locker room session.
After Sitton returned to the locker room Friday, he was asked if the line was boycotting the media. He said, "We're just focusing on this week."
It's not unusual for position groups under heavy criticism to respond with media boycotts. It has been a rarity in recent times in Green Bay, but over the years a group of players has been known to go silent over perceived media slights.
The NFL has barred players from joining together to boycott the media for the entire season, but generally doesn't get involved when it's something that happens for a week or two. Most media members are used to a select number of players refusing interviews or not showing up in the locker room.
Some of the linemen were critical of their play after the 38-10 loss to the Giants in Met Life Stadium, admitting they were outplayed.
Whether the line is upset about the subsequent coverage or trying to let their play do the talking is anybody's guess.
They're not saying.
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Yoshida "happy" to see Sony games go episodic
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida gave a shout out to TellTale in discussing the PlayStation 4's support for new business models.
Speaking to Polygon, Yoshida commented on Sony's avowal to support non-traditional models like free-to-play and episodic release with its new console during the PlayStation 4 reveal.
"Episodic has been talked about for a long time and most people are skeptical until [they] play The Walking Dead. Now we are big fans of episodic gaming. We're believers now," he said.
"Hats off to [the] Telltale guys, they proved it works."
TellTale's The Walking Dead was a critical and commercial smash, and nabbed a plethora of awards.
"I'd be happy to see some of our games adopt that model in the future," Yoshida said when asked whether Sony might pursue the format itself.
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Don't worry folks, Obama has your back. It's a new thing called trickle-down economics. Oh, you didn't know? The repeal of the Bush tax cuts on incomes over $400K preserves TWO THIRDS of the huge cut the wealthy got with Reagan in 1980. The wealthy have been accumulating that money for only 32 years. Thank God Obama figured out that we need to give it another 18 years, then for sure it will start to trickle down.
How To Avoid Raising Taxes on the Middle Class or Cutting Programs the Middle and Poor Depend On
Brace yourself. In coming weeks you'll hear there's no serious alternative to cutting Social Security and Medicare, raising taxes on middle class, and decimating what's left of the federal government's discretionary spending on everything from education and job training to highways and basic research.
"We" must make these sacrifices, it will be said, in order to deal with our mushrooming budget deficit and cumulative debt.
But most of the people who are making this argument are very wealthy or are sponsored by the very wealthy: Wall Street moguls like Pete Peterson and his "Fix the Debt" brigade, the Business Roundtable, well-appointed think tanks and policy centers along the Potomac, members of the Simpson-Bowles commission.
These regressive sentiments are packaged in a mythology that Americans have been living beyond our means: We've been unwilling to pay for what we want government to do for us, and we are now reaching the day of reckoning.
The truth is most Americans have not been living beyond their means. The problem is their means haven't been keeping up with the growth of the economy — which is why most of us need better education, infrastructure, and healthcare, and stronger safety nets.
The real median wage is only slightly higher now than it was 30 years ago, even though the economy is twice as large.
The only people whose means have soared are at the very top, because they've received almost all the gains from growth. Over the last three decades, the top 1 percent's share of the nation's income has doubled; the top one-tenth of 1 percent's share, tripled. The richest one-tenth of 1 percent is now earning as much as the bottom 120 million Americans put together.
Wealth has become even more concentrated than income (income is a stream of money, wealth is the pool into which it flows).
The richest 1 percent now own more than 35 percent of all of the nation's household wealth, and 38 percent of the nation's financial assets – including stocks and pension funds.
Think about this: The richest 400 Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together. The 6 Walmart heirs have more wealth than bottom 33 million American families combined.
So why are we even contemplating cutting programs the middle class and poor depend on, and raising their taxes?
We should tax the vast accumulations of wealth now in the hands of a relative few.
To the extent they have any wealth at all, most Americans have it in their homes – whose prices have stopped falling in most of the country but are still down almost 30 percent from their 2006 peak.
Yet homes are subject to the only major tax on wealth — property taxes.
Yale Professor Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott have proposed a 2 percent surtax on the wealth of the richest one-half of 1 percent of Americans owning more than $7.2 million of assets.
They figure it would generate $70 billion a year, or $750 billion over the decade. That's more than the fiscal cliff deal raises from high-income Americans.
Together, the two sets of taxes on the wealthy — tax increases contained in the fiscal cliff agreement, and a wealth tax such as Ackerman and Alstott have proposed — would just about equal the spending cuts the White House has already agreed to,totaling $1.5 trillion (or $1.7 trillion including interest savings).
That seems about right.
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Anyone But You
Jennifer Crusie
August 1996, Series Romance
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When Nina Askew rescued Fred from the animal shelter, he wasn't exactly the
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Fred gave Nina what she was looking for -
unconditional love.
When Nina meets Alex Moore, he's returning Fred to her apartment from his
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order to return to her apartment. Naturally Alex finds this interesting, as
he does the adorable-looking Nina. In return,
Nina sees a gorgeous young hunk, and wrongly assumes there aren't brains
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While each feels drawn to the other, neither is able to act on their
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She's convinced she's too old for him and he's sure she thinks he's not
responsible enough. Even with advice from his
brother Max, her friend Charity, and a nosey neighbor who's 75, but doesn't
a day over 60, and has her own younger
man, these two can't seem to get together until, one day, they finally do.
The love scene that results is a combination of
great sensuality and wonderful wit. Wouldn't you love a man who, after
you've explained you want to keep your bra on
because "everything's lower than it used to be," simply responds, "I
don't care if it's on the floor."?
The secondary characters are well-drawn; Max, in particular, is a strong
foil for Alex both in comedy and pathos. I wish
Max could get his own romance, but now that Crusie has moved onto hardbacks,
it seems unlikely. Charity rounds out
the book as well, particularly when she goads Nina - even though her own
love life has been such a disaster she's writing
a book about it.
There are some small things that bothered me somewhat. As someone with pets, I found it somewhat disconcerting that
Fred was allowed in the room while Nina and Alex were making love. Yes, the
author turned it into a joke, but I always
make sure my husband and I are alone when things turn amorous in our house -
I just don't want my cats watching us.
Too, it seemed a bit silly that Alex would assume Nina wanted a return to
her old life as a trophy wife. It seemed fairly
obvious that Nina did everything she could to get as far away from that life
as possible, including turning her husband
down in Alex's presence when he asked her to come back to him.
On the other hand, reading about characters who truly liked
one another was such a treat, especially in
that the author was able to maintain such a high level of sexual tension.
Less talented authors often sacrifice sexual
tension for friendship; Crusie never does. And, Nina's insecurities about
her body and her age were handled with a deft
touch. The older-woman/younger-man scenario was never an issue for this
reader and the theme of unconditional love
and how Nina and Alex worked it out was rendered so well that I wish Crusie
were still writing these shorter books so I
could read them more often.
Her books are very difficult to come by, but if you ever come across this
one or have it in your tbr pile, snatch it up and give it a
try! And if you haven't re-read it since its release, you may want to give
it a second go-round; it's one of those books that can
be read more than once.
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External parasites take residence on your feline's body. These are identified by physical examination and by tests run on your their skin. If left untreated, parasites can make life unhappy for your cat. Luckily, there is much you can do to prevent and treat them.
o Ear Mites – Cats are very vulnerable to ear mites. Since they can easily lead to secondary ear infections, it is imperative to check their ears on a regular basis. They typically obtain ear mites from contact with other cats. If you have more than one cat and one of them becomes infected contact your veterinarian about treatment or prevention for the others as well. Signs of ear mites include shaking of the head and excessive ear scratching. Ears may show bumpy spots or have material resembling dried blood in them. Other signs of ear mites encompass dark, rank smelling ear wax. Your veterinarian can recommend eardrops for treatment and demonstrate how to keep your cat's ears clean.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first NHL Draft, NHL.com assembled a 13-member panel to select the best first-round picks of all time, based on selection number. NHL.com will feature one of the top first-round picks each day, beginning with the best No. 30 pick on June 1 and culminating with the all-time No. 1 pick on June 30, the day of the 2013 NHL Draft.
Today: The best No. 17 pick: Zach Parise, New Jersey Devils, 2003
As the first round of the 2003 NHL Draft passed the midpoint, the New Jersey Devils saw an opportunity. They had their sights set on high-scoring University of North Dakota forward Zach Parise, but holding the No. 22 pick, there was little hope of Parise slipping that far.
One phone call to the Edmonton Oilers, and the offer of a third-round pick as a sweetener, was the cost to move up five spots and snag Parise at No. 17.
Ten years later, Parise was voted the best No. 17 first-round pick by NHL.com's Dream Draft panel.
Parise spent one more season at North Dakota after the Devils drafted him, totaling 55 points in 37 games. He played for the United States at the 2004 IIHF World Junior Championship, where his 11 points in six games helped the U.S. team win gold for the first time and Parise was named the tournament's best forward.
He spent the 2004-05 season with the Devils' American Hockey League affiliate, the Albany Devils, then made his NHL debut a memorable one. His power-play goal with 35 seconds remaining in the first period against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Oct. 5, 2005 stood as the game-winner in a 5-1 Devils victory.
Parise finished his rookie season with 14 goals and 18 assists in 81 games, but that was just the appetizer for what was to come; he raised his totals in goals, assists, points and power-play goals each of the next three seasons.
It started quickly in the 2006-07 season, when Parise scored the first of two goals 26 seconds into the first period of the first game. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it was the fastest goal to start a season in Devils history. He finished the season with a team-best 31 goals and was named MVP of the NHL YoungStars Game, which was part of All-Star Weekend.
The next season Parise topped the team with 32 goals and 65 points, but his real breakout season came in 2009-10. He finished third in the League with 45 goals and fifth with 94 points -- the second-highest point total by any player in Devils history (Patrik Elias, 96, 2000-01). He played in the 2009 All-Star Game, and with 24 penalty minutes in 82 games, was a finalist for the Lady Byng Trophy.
He cemented his spot among the best American players in the game in 2009-10, totaling 38 goals and 82 points in 81 games and playing a leading role on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team with four goals and four assists in six games. He scored both goals in the Americans' 2-0 win against Switzerland in the quarterfinals, and his goal with 24 seconds left in the third period of the gold-medal game against Canada forced overtime. The United States lost and took home the silver medal, but Parise was named to the Olympic All-Star team.
His ascent came to a screeching halt 10 games into the 2010-11 season when Parise sustained a torn meniscus in his right knee, and surgery effectively ended his season.
Fully recovered for 2011-12, Parise was named Devils captain and had his typical outstanding season, finishing second on the team with 31 goals and third with 69 points. He was just as good in the postseason, tying for the team lead with eight goals as the Devils advanced to the Stanley Cup Final.
An unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2012, he returned to his native Minnesota, signing a 13-year, $98 million contract with the Minnesota Wild. He led the team with 18 goals and 38 points in 48 games, and the Wild returned to the postseason after a four-year absence.
Parise was the choice of eight of 13 members of NHL.com's Dream Draft panel.
"Parise is everything you would want in an elite-level player," NHL.com staff writer Mike G. Morreale said. "He despises losing, is a great teammate, ferocious on the puck, a special-teams demon, and a proven winner at every level. He was an MVP for the Devils two straight years, an NHL All-Star, and is a regular for Team USA on the international stage. He now plays for the Minnesota Wild, and was a key cog in helping the team earn its first playoff berth in five seasons in 2012-13."
Voting: Zach Parise, New Jersey (2003) 8; Brent Sutter, New York Islanders (1980) 4; Kevin Hatcher, Washington (1984) 1
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Two attorneys have been disbarred by the Appellate Division, Second Department, in separate matters. One lawyer resigned in the face of a pending grievance committee probe while the other was faulted for his "flagrant noncooperation with the grievance committee."
In the case of Colvin C. Goddard of Far Rockaway, the committee served an April 2011 petition with four charges of professional misconduct—three having to do with failure to cooperate with the committee's probe and a fourth alleging conversion of guardianship funds entrusted to him as a fiduciary. He was suspended in September 2011. Goddard failed to appear at a hearing before a special referee. His attorney did, but neither called witnesses nor presented evidence.
In the second case, the panel noted that of Thomas J. Bailey of Hicksville is now the subject of a probe of allegations including neglect of legal matters, failure to keep clients reasonably apprised and misappropriation of client funds.
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The third-ranked UCLA men's soccer team (8-3-4, 3-1-3) will head up to the Bay Area this weekend to face Stanford (7-4-2, 1-3-1) on Friday, November 1 at 6 p.m. before taking on No. 1 California (10-1-2, 4-0-1) on Sunday, November 3 at 1 p.m. in a top-five showdown.
Live Coverage — Both matches this weekend will be televised live on the Pac-12 Networks. Christian Miles and Cobi Jones will have the call for the Stanford match while Miles and Kelly Gray will call the California match. Additionally, live stats will be provided for both matches on uclabruins.com.
In The Rankings — The Bruins came in at No. 3 in this week's Soccer America and NSCAA polls, No. 2 in the Top Drawer Soccer poll and No. 6 in the College Soccer News poll. UCLA is also ranked No. 4 in the NCAA RPI. Stanford is unranked in all polls while California is ranked No. 1 by Soccer America, the NSCAA and College Soccer News and No. 3 by Top Drawer Soccer. The Golden Bears are also ranked No. 1 in the NCAA RPI.
A Look at the Pac-12 Race — As the regular season begins to wind down, the race for the Pac-12 crown is up for grabs as the top three teams are all separated by just two points. Washington currently holds the top spot in the Pac-12 with 14 points while California is just one point behind with 13. UCLA is in third with 12 points. The Huskies and Bruins each have three conference matches remaining, none of which will come against the other. The Golden Bears have five matches remaining, including a trip to Seattle on Nov. 10. UCLA has won four of the last five Pac-12 titles and a conference-leading eight overall.
Scouting the Cardinal — Stanford will enter its matchup with UCLA with a 7-4-2 record on the year. The Cardinal are 1-3-1 in conference play thus far, good for fifth place. Overall, junior forward Zach Batteer leads Stanford with seven goals and two assists on the year to give him a team-high 16 points. Freshman forward Jordan Morris is right behind him, scoring four goals and notching a team-leading six assists in 13 matches. 2012 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Aaron Kovar leads the Cardinal in the midfield, recording four assists and one goal on the season. In goal, Stanford will turn to senior Drew Hutchins, who has a 1.25 GAA and 42 saves thus far.
The Series with Stanford — The Bruins have a record of 42-6-7 all-time against the Cardinal and have won the last six meetings in the series. Last year, UCLA won both matches vs. Stanford, winning, 3-1, up in Palo Alto before defeating the Cardinal, 2-1, in overtime in Los Angeles. Fernando Monge and current seniors Max Estrada and Reed Williams scored the three goals for the Bruins in their victory up in Stanford while senior Victor Chavez and Monge provided the goals in the rematch at Drake Stadium. Monge scored a golden goal in the 103rd minute in that match in Los Angeles to give UCLA the overtime win. This season, UCLA defeated the Cardinal, 1-0, at Drake Stadium as junior Aaron Simmons scored the game-winner in the 89th minute. The Bruins and Cardinal have a history in the postseason as well, meeting back in the 2002 NCAA Championship match. UCLA went on to win that match, 1-0, behind Aaron Lopez's goal with just over a minute to play. It was the first time in NCAA history that two schools from the same conference battled for the NCAA men's soccer title.
Scouting the Golden Bears — California enters this week with a record of 10-1-2 on the year, 4-0-1 in the conference. The Golden Bears are led by senior defender Steve Birnbaum, who is tied for the conference lead with eight goals and 17 points. Junior Stefano Bonomo leads California up front, scoring five goals and registering two assists in 13 matches thus far. Senior Alec Sundly will pace the Golden Bears in the midfield, as he is tied with Leo Stolz for the Pac-12 lead in game-winning goals (3). Redshirt junior Justin Taillole will look to get the start in goal for California on Sunday. He has posted a GAA of 0.67 in 13 matches while making 37 saves.
The Series with California — UCLA leads the series with California, 39-12-6. The Bruins took the first matchup last year in Berkeley by a score of, 3-1, getting goals from senior Victor Chavez, senior Victor Munoz and Ryan Hollingshead. Then in the rematch at Drake Stadium in November, the two sides played to a 1-1 draw with senior Reed Williams scoring UCLA's lone goal. Earlier this year, the two sides played a thirlling match at Drake Stadium with the Golden Bears edging the Bruins, 3-2, in overtime. Chavez and sophomore Jordan Vale scored for UCLA while Stefano Bonomo scored the game-winner for California in overtime. UCLA has won three of the last five meetings with the Golden Bears and seven of the last 11. Additionally, either California or UCLA has won the last 11 Pac-12 conference championships.
Last Time Out — UCLA played a rematch of its two games from the previous weekend, taking on Oregon State and Washington at home. The Bruins walked out of the weekend with a tie against the Beavers and a win over the Huskies to help them keep pace in the Pac-12. On Friday, junior Aaron Simmons headed home a Victor Munoz corner kick to put the Bruins on top 1-0 in the seventh minute, but Oregon State scored the equalizer with a minute to go to earn a 1-1 draw. The Bruins rebounded on Sunday though, scoring a big 2-1 win over Washington to break the Huskies' 15 match unbeaten streak. Senior Victor Chavez got UCLA on the board first in the 19th minute with a great goal off an assist from sophomore Jordan Vale before freshman Gage Zerboni scored the game-winner in the 70th minute with a header to the far post. Senior Patrick Matchett also played a huge role early on in preventing a Washington goal, clearing two balls off the line with headers to keep the match scoreless in the third minute.
Road Warriors — UCLA has posted a terrific record on the road in the last few seasons, going 17-1-6 in its last 24 road or neutral site matches. The Bruins went unbeaten on the road last season, going 8-0-2, and have started off the season with a 2-1-3 record in road and neutral site contests. Prior to the loss at UC Irvine on Sept. 19, the Bruins had not lost a road or neutral site match since 2011. UCLA is also unbeaten its last 16 Pac-12 road matches dating back to 2010.
Victor Chavez Named Pac-12 Player of the Week — After scoring a goal and notching an assist in three matches this week, senior forward Victor Chavez was selected as the Pac-12 men's soccer Player of the Week. On Monday at Washington, Chavez set up senior Max Estrada's goal in the 51st minute with a through ball into the box as the Bruins earned a 2-2 draw with the Huskies. Then on Sunday in a rematch against Washington, Chavez scored UCLA's first goal in the 19th minute to help the Bruins take down the Huskies, 2-1. Chavez is tied for the team lead in goals with six and is second to junior Leo Stolz in points with 16. His 16 points are also tied for third in the Pac-12.
Foreign Influence — Junior midfielder Leo Stolz has done a great job of putting points on the board this season, scoring at least one goal in five of his last nine matches and recording one point in seven of his nine. The Munich, Germany native scored the game-winning goal in UCLA's 1-0 win over UC Santa Barbara on Sept. 13 before adding another in the Bruins' 3-2 overtime victory over San Diego on Sept. 15. After being held without a goal at UC Irvine on Sept. 19, Stolz punched in two more in UCLA's win at Cal State Northridge before burying a penalty kick against UC Riverside on Sept. 26 and adding another last Monday night at Washington. He is currently tied for first in the Pac-12 in points (17) and fifth in goals (6), all while tying for the conference lead in game-winning goals (3). Last season, Stolz earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors after registering eight assists. Senior Victor Munoz, who hails from Madrid, Spain, has also been an integral part of the Bruins this year, leading the team with six assists, good for 32nd-best nationally and second in the Pac-12.
Joe Sofia Named Senior Class Award Finalist — Senior defender Joe Sofia has been selected as one of 10 finalists for the 2013 Men's Soccer Senior CLASS Award. Sofia, a native of Dove Canyon, Calif., has upheld a 3.965 cumulative GPA in communication studies and is on track to graduate after the Fall quarter after just three years and one quarter. He has held the highest GPA among all of UCLA's student-athletes since the spring of 2012 and has made the Director's Honor Roll in every one of his quarters at UCLA (nine times in total). Sofia has been very active in the community as well, developing an anti-bullying curriculum with some fellow student-athletes that will be distributed to local middle schools later this fall. On the field, Sofia has played in 76 matches in his four-year career, starting 74 of them. This season, he has started 14 of UCLA's 15 matches while serving as the team captain and the anchor of the back line. Additionally, Sofia leads the Bruins in minutes with 1,254.
Head Coach Jorge Salcedo — UCLA head coach Jorge Salcedo is in his 10th season at the helm of the program, posting an all-time record of 126-48-32. He has coached UCLA to eight Pac-12 Titles as an assistant coach or head coach and is a four-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year (co-coach in 2004, winner in 2008, 2011 and 2012). Salcedo has also led UCLA to two College Cup appearances and is the second-longest tenured men's soccer head coach in UCLA's NCAA history.
Coming Up — The Bruins have a bye next week and will return to the pitch on Saturday, Nov. 16 to play San Diego State at 7 p.m. in the regular season finale.


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Kunen, in paragraph VII.9 of his book talks about forcing "via syntactical models", where the we do not use set models of ZFC. Still, the functional $x \mapsto \check x$ can be defined as usual and is, in a sense, an embedding of the ground model $\mathbf V$ in any forcing model $\mathbf V ^\mathbb P$ (obtained, say by completeness theorem). Then, there is also a sense in asking if the $\mathbf V ^\mathbb P$ has more ordinals than $\mathbf V$, i.e. if $\mathbf V ^\mathbb P$ contains an ordinal larger than all $\check \alpha$ for $\alpha$ an ordinal in $\mathbf V$.
I cannot find any formulation of this question in $\mathbf V$ or $\mathbf V ^\mathbb P$. I wonder if any exists.
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Our farm is in the most beautiful countryside on the Wiltshire / Dorset border. We offer you Bed and Breakfast in our C17th listed stone farmhouse in a choice of 3 bedrooms and self catering in The Old Piggery (1 double bedroom) and The Milking Parlour (3 double bedrooms). Special offers are available for weekday stays and 3 night stays or longer.
Bed & Breakfast - The Edwards Room has a 6 foot double bed and private bathroom with whirlpool bath and separate shower. The French Room has a 5 foot double bed and the Family Room has either a 6 foot double or two twin beds, plus a double futon or Z bed. Cots and highchairs are available at no extra charge. The French and Family Rooms share a private bathroom. Self Catering - The Old Piggery is a studio apartment in a self contained building within our large garden. It has a 5 foot double bed and a single sofa bed, separate kitchen and shower room and its own garden. The Milking Parlour is a new building near the farmyard with 3 double bedrooms (2 of which can be twins), ensuite and family bathrooms, fully equipped kitchen and underfloor central heating. It has its own garden. Breakfast can be taken in the farmhouse at an extra cost. Well behaved dogs are accepted in our self catering but not in the B&B. You can enjoy a relaxing and comfortable time here. We have a herd of Red Poll Cattle on our organic farm and our own chickens lay your delicious breakfast eggs. You can see the stars in the night sky and enjoy the peace of the countryside. Stonehenge, Longleat, Salisbury, the beautiful gardens at Stourhead, Bath and the South Coast are all within easy reach, and if you're travelling west from London, we make a good stopping off point - though many of our guests wish to stay longer than just one night!
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College Hockey:The sound of victory: The tunes that get cranked up in winning locker rooms
Put yourself in my shoes for a moment.
Five or six minutes have passed since a hockey game ended, and here you are, media credential attached to a lanyard around your neck, standing in the hallway outside the dressing room of one of the teams as you wait to conduct postgame interviews with coaches and players.
You're set to speak with personnel from the winning team, but there's the generally agreed-upon 10-minute cooling-off period to endure first. We're up to seven or eight now, and all of a sudden, rumbling right through the bricks and mortar dividing you from the victors, you hear music.
It's what's known as a team's win song, and it's not often you'll find two teams blaring the same one in the same season.
Out with the old and in with the new …
They change each year, in fact, no matter what. Even if a team goes undefeated and untied, as Minnesota's women's team did in its 2012-13 campaign en route to winning the Gophers' fifth national championship, a new win song is introduced ahead of the following season.
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"We pick a new song for each year, so even though we'd gone undefeated with the old one, we decided to retire it with that season," Minnesota women's team senior forward Kelly Terry said.
"We always pick a new song for the beginning of each season, and our whole team comes together with their picks. We play them all and eventually vote it down to one before the season even starts."
One couldn't have blamed the Gophers women for carrying last season's victory anthem over into 2013-14, though.
Minnesota went 41-0 with Karmin's "Brokenhearted" last season. After defeating Boston University in the NCAA tournament final at home in Minneapolis, the Gophers celebrated by dancing over the national championship trophy on the ice to the Boston pop duo's then-recent hit playing over the Ridder Arena PA system.
Minnesota's women's team wasn't the only bunch in college hockey that's picked a newer track as its victory anthem, though.
St. Cloud State's men's team last season used Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" (2012) as the Huskies' 2012-13 win song all the way to a national semifinal game appearance.
Staying in Minnesota, Avril Lavigne's "What the Hell" (2011) has been heard coming from inside the Gophers men's team's dressing room at Mariucci Arena after wins this season.
When told of the men's team's choice, Terry sounded surprised.
"Actually, no, I didn't even realize they had a win song," Terry said, laughing. "That's kind of news to me, although I thought they'd pick something a little more manly than that, but whatever floats their boat."
No Division I men's team has won more this season than Boston College, and after the Eagles win their song of choice is 2013′s "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake and Lil Jon.
The 2013-14 men's teams at Alaska-Anchorage, Denver and North Dakota all blare in their dressing rooms after wins "Timber" by Pitbull and Ke$ha, a single released in October of last year, coincidentally but also almost perfectly timed for this hockey season.
North Dakota's men's team actually has two. UND's seniors had originally chosen "Good Vibrations," a 1991 release from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. However, as senior defenseman Dillon Simpson said, "Timber" was introduced as the team's primary win song after the first submission got overruled.
"Going into the year, we kind of all decided on one, and there's not really a problem with it as we still play it after games," Simpson said. "But another song came up that I thought fit a little bit better, so now we've gone with that and then followed by the old one.
"It's something you just kind of get a feel for as a team. We actually tried a couple of them before the season started to see what the guys like and what they don't like, so it's a team thing more than anything you come up with on your own where it's just one guy picking it."
… although it's not always that new …
"Good Vibrations" blasting over the UND's men's team's dressing room speakers isn't the only example of older songs getting played in such environs.
Moreover, it's not even the only older one UND's men's program has used.
In the 2010-11 season, UND made use of English R&B artist Mark Morrison's 1996 hit "Return of the Mack" while racking up 32 wins that season and eventually appearing in the Frozen Four.
Some teams, like this season's Gophers women, go back even further to the point where they pick a song that came out before anyone on the team was born.
Their choice? Whitney Houston's 1987 hit "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
"This is actually one of our better ones," Terry said.
"I think the one we had in my junior year with the undefeated season happened to be the worst win song of the four, but obviously we made it special to us and fun, but as far as Whitney goes, that's one of the better ones, I'd say.
"Last season was a little bit more of a recent song, and that was just because we kind of ran out of time in picking one, but what we usually try to go for is to try and pick a song that you aren't going to normally come across."
Just as important, though, is the potential for camaraderie-building. Apparently, this sense of bonding makes itself evident in the Gophers women's dressing room in a particularly kinetic fashion.
"The rule is they're all generally oldies that are easy to belt out and sing along to with some dance moves," Terry said. "So that's what we go with."
… but it always has special meaning
Teams' coaching staffs obviously have plenty of say in terms of many aspects of what goes on inside their hockey program. Win songs, however, are at least one thing on which coaches take a hands-off approach and leave to their charges.
"I think [our coaches] kind of just leave it up to us and leave it alone." North Dakota's Simpson said.
"As far as after games goes, they come in and quickly give their two cents on the game and head out of the dressing room for a while, so [the song is] something where they just let it be our thing for the boys."
Minnesota's women's team might have quirky criteria for its win songs relative to how North Dakota's men decide on them. However, one thing the two teams' selection processes have in common is that whichever songs get chosen will mean something special to the players suiting up and hitting the ice not only for their schools but also each other.
"Our freshmen, when they brought their suggestions forward, we [as seniors] kind of shut them down right away because they picked the newest and most popular songs of this time and we told them, 'No, no, no,'" Terry said. "It's definitely better when you have something that's totally throwback and way more special and associated with our team rather than other things that are happening.
"We don't want it to be something you're going to hear every day. We want it to be something you're going to hear only in our locker room and only after a win."
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A total of 5,559 fatal work injuries were recorded in the U.S. in 2003, a small increase from the revised total of 5,534 fatal work injuries reported for 2002. The rate at which fatal work injuries occurred in 2003 was 4.0 fatalities per 100,000 workers, unchanged from the rate reported for 2002.
Fatal work injuries resulting from highway incidents, falls, and electrocutions were all lower in 2003 than in 2002, while fatal injuries involving homicides, fires and explosions, and being struck by objects increased.
Fatal highway incidents were down in 2003 for the second consecutive year, but continued to account for the highest number of fatal work injuries. The 1,350 fatal highway incidents recorded in 2003 accounted for about one out of every four fatal work injuries.
The number of workplace homicides was higher in 2003—the first increase since 2000. Despite the higher total, the 631 workplace homicides recorded in 2003 represented a 42 percent decline from the high of 1,080 workplace homicides recorded in 1994.
The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, part of the BLS Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program, provides the most complete count of fatal work injuries available. BLS originally reported a total of 5,524 fatal work injuries for calendar year 2002. The figure in the chart for 2001 excludes the 2,886 work-related fatalities that resulted from the September 11 terrorist attacks, which were tabulated separately. For more information on fatal work injuries, see "National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2003" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 04-1830.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Fatal work injuries in 2003 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2004/sept/wk3/art04.htm (visited June 28, 2016).
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Scholastic offers a wonderful lesson plan on MLK and Black History Month Teacher Resources. Discover photographs from Life magazine, news video clips, audio, and printables. Gain access to complete lesson plans for Grades 3-5 and 6-8.
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Kim Kardashian looks amazing after losing 56 pounds on a low-carb ketogenic-style diet, but insisted she needs to lose 20 more pounds to slim down her "huge" butt and hips.
"Just need to get down to my weight a few years ago," Kim tweeted Aug. 5. "Starting diet today! No carbs, crazy workouts.
Kardashian famously lost 56 pounds just six months after giving birth (in June 2013) by following a low carb, high-fat ketogenic-style Atkins diet that limited her daily carb intake to less than 60 grams.
Colette Heimowitz, vice president of Atkins Nutritionals, told me exclusively that low-carb diets aid weight loss because reducing carbs and eating more healthy fats suppress appetite.
"Low-carb, high fat diets curb hunger better than low-fat diets because fat keeps you feeling full," said Heimowitz, author of The New Atkins Made Easy.
Studies: Ketogenic Diet Spurs Weight Loss, Can Starve Cancer
The low-carb, high-fat ketogenic and Atkins diets are known for producing rapid weight loss because they force your body to burn fat (instead of glucose) for fuel, according to the book Keto Clarity. The ketogenic and Atkins diets are extremely low in carbs, very high in fat, and moderate in protein.
In addition to speeding weight loss, research indicates the Atkins and ketogenic diets can fight depression and bipolar disorder.
Dietitian Dr. Jeff Volek, a professor at the University of Connecticut, has followed a ketogenic diet for the past 20 years. He told me it fuels fast weight loss, improves mood, and prevent diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer's and cancer.
"It was nothing short of an epiphany when I changed to a ketogenic diet 20 years ago," said Dr. Volek, author of the Art and Science of Low-Carbohydrate Living. "I felt better, more satiated, and had more consistent energy."
The ketogenic diet has been around for decades, but has only recently begun to find mainstream acceptance as a way to accelerate weight loss and prevent and manage disease. A ketogenic diet has already proven more effective than drugs at controlling epileptic seizures among children who don't respond to drugs, and has been shown to reverse type 2 diabetes and prevent Alzheimer's.
Cancer scientist Dr. Dominic D'Agostino told me the ketogenic diet can prevent and manage cancer because cancer is a metabolic disease.
"Most cancer scientists have historically thought cancer was a genetic disease, but only 5-10% of cancer is hereditary," Dr. D'Agostino, who has a Ph.D. in physiology and neuroscience.
Similarly, Dr. Thomas Seyfried of Boston College, told me the ketogenic diet beats chemotherapy for almost all cancers. Seyfried says the time has come for the medical community to publicly acknowledge the viability of the ketogenic diet as an inexpensive, non-toxic way to treat cancer.
"The standard of care has been an abysmal failure for cancer," said Seyfried, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. "The ketogenic diet may one day replace the standard of care for most cancers. To those who doubt me, I say: 'Prove me wrong.'"
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FIRE, the organization founded to defend free speech on college campuses, reports: Duke Keeps Pro-Life Group Out of Women's Center During 'Week for Life'. It seems that some free speech is freer than other free speech:
Duke University's Women's Center has canceled an event about motherhood because the sponsor was engaging in pro-life expression elsewhere on campus. A Women's Center representative told Duke Students for Life (DSFL) that "we have a problem" and an ideological "conflict" with the event, which was supposedly canceled to protect Duke women from encountering the event during the group's "traumatizing" pro-life "Week for Life." The group's president has turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.
"Duke appears to have an unwritten but officially enforced stance regarding abortion that has resulted in pro-life groups being shut out of the Women's Center," said FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley. "This treatment is a deeply hypocritical violation of the Women's Center's promise that it 'welcomes discordant viewpoints from varied experiences.'"
Indeed. The women's center mission statement says:
The Women's Center strives to inculcate feminist attributes and goals in every aspect of its programs and administration. To say that our work is "feminist" is to acknowledge that gender is a central lens through which we conduct inquiry and develop practices and policies—critically considering what it means to be sexed, raced, and historically and culturally situated and proposing alternatives to traditionally male models of leadership, thought and practice. We ascribe to a broadly defined, fluctuating and inclusive feminist ideology that welcomes discordant viewpoints from varied experiences.
Fluctuating? Fluctuating??? In other words, it's one thing one week and another thing next week. Leaving aside the obvious jokes about a woman's prerogative to change her mind, they've officially crossed over into Alice-in-Wonderland territory. "Inclusive" means…well, it fluctuates. And so does "discordant viewpoint". It means what they say it means today, and it also means what they say it means tomorrow. They're just not necessarily the same thing.
Flux 'em.
UPDATE: Duke recinded this decision earlier today:
Victory for Free Speech at Duke: Pro-Life Group's Rights Restored
DURHAM, N.C., March 30, 2010—Duke University has reversed a decision by its Women's Center that prohibited the Duke Students for Life (DSFL) student group from holding a discussion on student motherhood at a Women's Center venue during the group's "Week for Life" event. The group's president turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. Only hours after FIRE exposed Duke's decision to public scrutiny yesterday, Women's Center Director Ada Gregory wrote to the group to say that "mistakes were certainly made that should not have occurred" and that she had "taken steps to ensure that such an incident will not happen again."
Bad press spooked them?
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To the citizens of the great city of Pleasanton:
That's right. I said great. I believe this city is a shining example of what a small town should be. Or what it could be. But the time to act is now. We absolutely MUST approve the closing of a portion of Main St. and the proposed expanded façade for our new Library and Community Center. With an increase in revenue from an oil boom, we need to take advantage of that money to improve and preserve our city for the future. Instead of bonds and long-term loans with rising interest rates and construction costs, we citizens have a rare opportunity to "strike while the iron is hot." We must improve the looks and infrastructure of an uninviting downtown Pleasanton while the sales tax revenue and confidence in our local economy is on the rise.
I have lived in this city for 22 years, and have seen the decline of our downtown area. Businesses struggle with increased car traffic and decreased foot traffic. Having a true "downtown" would keep us from becoming a speed bump along US Highway 281 and may even make us a destination for tourists and shoppers!
A print shop, restaurants, boutiques, hair salon, and even a friendly pharmacy would benefit from people strolling a downtown plaza and enjoying a peaceful evening or Saturday morning. A true Community Center, already approved and funded, will allow many more events to be held in Pleasanton---weddings, re- unions, meetings, and receptions; things currently being held in other towns.
All this can be yours for one vote. Please vote on May 12th FOR the beautified Library, and FOR the street closure. Our city may depend on it! If you are not registered to vote in this important election, voter registration forms are available at the Pleasanton Library during regular business hours.
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