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For some, living near a tourist paradise means we view tourist activities the way Superman views Kryptonite.
That's why so many Bay Area residents have never walked the Golden Gate Bridge, avoid cable cars like the flu, have only seen the inside of Alcatraz in movies -- and have a hearty laugh at the schmucks riding those silly duck boat thingies. Those amphibious vehicles are constantly winding their way through the streets of San Francisco and generally annoying us natives, who believe we're too good for duck tours because we drink fine wine and eat expensive cheese.
We're lucky to have those duckies.
I admit to not being thrilled while embarking on a Ride the Ducks San Francisco tour, anchored (not literally) in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf. My wife and three kids -- none of whom possess a fraction of my Bay Area guy pretentiousness were already half-exhausted from pretour excitement.
And, really, why not? They were getting on a vehicle that transforms from bus to boat and back without having to stop to tuck in the wheels. We all had "quackers" -- duck call gizmos that make fantastically annoying sounds at bikers and joggers. What's not to love?
This particular vehicle is a new addition to the fleet -- painted orange to celebrate either Halloween or the San Francisco Giants (I'll go with the latter -- though, as an A's fan, I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about the color).
Our guide, Jeff Brandt, who went to high school in Pleasanton, was the nearest thing to a Jungle Cruise boat driver this side of Orange County (he was actually much less groan-inducing than the safari guys at Disneyland). A 31-year-old former professional fisherman, who found a new career just up the docks, Brandt does a 90-minute tour filled with wonderfully bad jokes and San Francisco lore that will be new even to natives. My three kids -- ages 12, 11 and 5 -- had more fun on this than any other local outing I can remember.
After stopping briefly at the cable car turnout above Aquatic Park to trumpet the Rice-A-Roni theme at tourists, Brandt took us through North Beach, where we learned why Washington Square Park is actually a triangle -- with a statue of Ben Franklin. Why Ben Franklin?
"I don't know," Brandt admitted. "I was hoping you guys would know."
My mood improved after a round of music making -- performing "La Bamba" on our quackers, with lyrics changed to "La Sagna." We saw a building where Francis Ford Coppola has made film magic, as well as the original Transamerica building (now home to the local Scientology chapter), which is near the "new" Transamerica building. ("Some people say if it wasn't for that building, the city of San Francisco would be pointless," Brandt said.)
Then it was on to Chinatown, through Union Square -- with an explanation of its name -- and past the Metreon, where "Godzilla" was playing ("he completely destroyed San Francisco and look around us -- they already rebuilt it").
From there, the Duck headed southeast, toward AT&T Park and the boat ramp just beyond the Port of San Francisco sign. We descended into the bay with no little excitement. ("Now that we're out on the water, I can perform marriages," Brandt declared. "Forty bucks.") He took us past some impressively large container ships and explained how the nearby dry docks worked. We had fantastic views of the Bay Bridge and, of course, AT&T Park. Once we got to McCovey Cove, he even let some of the kids drive. (My 5-year-old loved it so much, she tried sneaking a second turn.)
After the cruise section of our adventure, we headed back to our own dry dock via the Embarcadero, where we snuck up on unsuspecting joggers while quacking along to the theme from "Rocky." It really was one of the most fun 90-minute blocks of time I've ever spent in San Francisco.
As Brandt said, just before we disembarked: "The best part of San Francisco is that you don't know what's around the next corner."
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.
Ride the Ducks San Francisco: 2770 Taylor St., at the corner of Jefferson Street, across from the Fisherman's Wharf sign. Open daily. 877-887-8225, www.ridetheducks.com, $35 (adults), $32 (seniors), $25 (kids), $5 (3 and younger).
Parents need to know: Don't let that big sun overhead fool you. Even during summer, it can get cold quickly in San Francisco. Wear layers. And though getting wet is unlikely, the vehicle still goes in and out of water, so there's a chance of a small splash. Caution: There are no seat belts on the vehicle, so be prepared to keep a keen eye on smaller children.
Nearby eats: It's called Fisherman's Wharf for a reason. There are a number of restaurants within easy walking distance of the Ride the Ducks home base, including Applebee's and the kid-friendly, relatively inexpensive Rainforest Cafe, which is where we went, less than a block east. The menu is varied but uncomplicated and the food is good.
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Ashland High School Key Club members have been performing community service for the school and Ashland since 1987. The club, which is part of an international organization, has 47 members and uncountable supporters because it organizes fun, rewarding events to build leadership skills.
On Jan. 25, students moved to the pop-alternative sounds of Goodnight Argent at a school dance organized by club members Liv Knox and Bailey Robinson that raised $500 for Project Educate Jamaica, which funds deprived schools.
During Valentine's Week, the Key Club will make valentine cards and deliver them to residents of the Linda Vista Nursing and Rehab Center in Ashland.
The club meets at lunchtime on Mondays in faculty adviser Devon Ward-Thomme's classroom and is sponsored by the Ashland Kiwanis club. In the fall, members work with the Kiwanis to support the Ashland Monster Dash, a fundraiser for the Ashland Schools.
"The Monster Dash is always fun because we dress in costume and direct the runners and make sure they stay hydrated," says Natalie Acheatel, a senior who has been the club president for two years.
Other club projects include Relay for Life, Special Olympics, Ashland Food Drive, and purchasing clothes and toys for needy children in Ashland.
"Bell-ringing is one of my favorite times of year," Acheatel said. "We stand outside Bi-Mart and sing Christmas carols, asking for donations for the Salvation Army."
She says shopping for needy kids is one of the most fulfilling activities. "We get a card with a kid's name on it, saying what he or she wants for Christmas," Acheatel said. "And then we're given a certain budget to fulfill their wish."
Internationally, the club supports not only Project Educate Jamaica but also the United Nations Children's Fund, which works to eliminate maternal neonatal tetanus in developing countries, according to Jeanne Walcher of the Ashland Kiwanis.
"Key Club makes it easy and fun to participate in rewarding activities that support our local community," Acheatel said. "And the Ashland Kiwanis Club is so great to work with."
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Nov. 21, 2011
Boston, Mass. - The Stony Brook swimming and diving teams wrapped up the 2011 portion of their schedule on Sunday at the Terrier Invitational. The men's team placed seventh overall, while the women's squad took ninth.
Junior Julie Policht (Toronto, Ontario) set a program record in the 200 butterfly, placing third with a time of 2:03.52. Policht, who broke her own record in the event, finished .58 seconds faster than her previous record time set in 2010. Policht also finished in seventh place out of 24 competitors in the 100 butterfly, touching in 57.42.
Freshman Elizabeth Beckett (Swindon, England) took sixth in the 200 breaststroke with a mark of 2:24.22, less than a second off the program-record pace set by Anastasia Kiryushkina (2:23.23) in 2010.
In the women's 100 backstroke, junior Christie Bodden (Panama City, Panama) was Stony Brook's top finisher in 58.82, good for eighth place.
The women's 400 freestyle relay quartet of junior Andjelija Sreckovic (Jagodina, Serbia), senior Darcy Heuser (Centerville, Ohio), sophomore Keara Leong (Forest Hills, N.Y.) and sophomore Allison Zelnick (Troy, Ohio) also fared well, taking fifth out of 22 teams in 3:32.57.
On the men's side, senior Sean Conway (Oakdale, N.Y.) turned in an impressive performance in the 200 freestyle, with a fifth-place standing in 1:41.85. Conway added a second top-10 finish in the 100 freestyle with an eighth-place performance in 47.12.
The men's 800 freestyle relay team of sophomore Sean Hardick (East Northport, N.Y.), senior Ed McIntyre (Laurel, N.Y.), freshman Matthew Essig (Arlington, Va.) and Conway battled to a ninth-place finish in the event with a time of 7:05.99.
The women's squad scored 179.5 points on the weekend, while the men recorded 148. Columbia University placed first in the women's competition with 911.5 points, while fellow Ivy League member Yale took first among the men's team with a score of 800.5.
Stony Brook will now head to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico for intersession training, before returning to the pool against Lafayette on Jan. 18.


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VAIL - On a deep powder day or holiday weekend like this one, expect to see a jam-packed town and mountain, evidenced by hundreds of cars parked along the South Frontage Road in Vail.
The town of Vail has traditionally been allowed to use South Frontage Road for overflow parking when its garages are full, based on an agreement the town has with the Colorado Department of Transportation. In the winter, the number of days allowed has been 15 and in the summer that number is three days.
But those numbers became obsolete with the town's lease agreement with the Department of Transportation, said CDOT spokeswoman Ashley Mohr.
"However, (the Federal Highway Administration), CDOT and Vail regularly review the number of days and the improvements made," she said. "Vail has complied with constructing the necessary improvements in a timely manner."
While the topic of who should own the Frontage Roads has come up again and again in recent years, Mohr said there have been no recent discussions with the town of Vail regarding ownership.
"Instead, we have now entered into a lease agreement for the parking on the Frontage Roads. As part of the lease agreement, Vail is required to make safety improvements, such as widening or sidewalk and curb and gutter improvements," she said.
The town of Vail has invested a lot of money into improvements, Vail Assistant Town Manager Pam Brandmeyer said. Both the town and the Department of Transportation recognize that they're both working toward a common goal. Brandmeyer said the Department of Transportation has been flexible with the town in response to the town's responsible management of the situation.
And because the town has constructed and implemented the necessary safety improvements, the Department of Transportation is satisfied with the current lease agreement, Mohr said.
The town of Vail is committed to limiting the use of South Frontage Road parking to 15 days each in the summer and winter, while the agreement with the Department of Transportation has secured the town's long-term ability to use the road for overflow parking.
The agreement also "acknowledges a phased schedule of required safety improvements to be completed by the town over the next two years. The current lease runs through May 1, 2013, and includes a payment of $20,000 to CDOT funded by Vail Resorts."
In 2012, Vail completed a second phase of a South Frontage Road shoulder widening project from the East Vail underpass through the East Vail interchange, adding a six-foot-wide paved shoulder to each side of the road from Ford Park to Bald Mountain Road. Shoulder widening and drainage improvements were also made on South Frontage Road west of the Vail municipal building to the West Lionshead Circle intersection - one of the main parking areas during overflow parking days.
The town of Vail guesses that last weekend's Frontage Road parking days had to do with the Winter Mountain Games, and a snow storm the week before brought hungry powder-seekers out in masses, creating a huge Frontage Road parking day on Feb. 2 with more than 1,000 cars, Brandmeyer said. The number of times the parking garages have filled this winter stood at five as of Friday, with three more days expected this weekend.
Presidents Day weekend is a common time to see cars aligning South Frontage Road, and the town of Vail is prepared for that. Some recent snow should help entice skiers and snowboarders who may have been on the fence about coming to town, Brandmeyer said.
When cars align the road, it's proof that business is booming, but it also raises the question about how long this parking arrangement is sustainable. While some choose to use the daily free parking offered on North Frontage Road in West Vail and put up with some of the inconveniences and dangers of doing so because it's free, others are forced to park on South Frontage Road when garages fill, and there's no place else to park. Those who have parked on South Frontage Road have complained about the safety of standing on the side of a busy road while trying to gear up for the mountain.
"It's an eyesore and seems rather dangerous to me, having all those people crossing the Frontage Road in ski boots with all their gear," Jessie Ann commented on the Vail Daily's Facebook page. "Hopefully everyone is driving safe and paying attention."
Some think creating more employee parking could solve the so-called eyesore, and others thinks the problem is part of a larger problem.
"How about not seeing how many humans we can cram on the mountain at one time," commented Matt Jones.


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Well, it has been awhile, but softball season is here again! It has been an interesting couple of weeks getting into the swing of games and tournaments. The Islanders have competed in many games versus ranked teams (U of H, Texas, Baylor, and ULL). Our preseason allowed us to sort some things out defensively and offensively. We are young, but we do not want to use that as a crutch at the end of the year. It is nice to have the teams with numbers in front of their names in our past. We now know where we need to be to become playoff ready, and we have time to get there!
We have actually already started Conference play! Yesterday, we opened up against UTSA here at home. Had a rough first game, kind of beat ourselves up, but I know we will work to improve on the pieces of our game that were lacking. Thankfully, we picked it up and were able to take game two from the Roadrunners in a hard fought battle. Next Friday and Saturday we will take on Northwestern State on the road! I am sure they will come out hungry, so we must have our game faces on from game one, inning one, pitch one!
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Mason Cummings resigned from his job as principal six days before his arrest. (WRDW-TV / Dec. 14, 2011)
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
SALUDA COUNTY, S.C. -- Sheriff's deputies worry that there may be more victims in the case involving a former Ridge Spring-Monetta High School principal.
Chief Deputy William Freeman of the Saluda County Sheriff's Office says "there's a very good possibility" of more victims.
Mason Cummings, 38, was arrested earlier this month after resigning from his job as school principal.
According to the victim, Cummings was her eighth grade teacher at Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary/Middle school at the time of the incident.
Investigators say the victim came forward in September. She told them she was 13 years old when she started being more than just friends with Cummings. She claims their relationship became sexual when she turned 15 years old. She says some of their sexual encounters took place at school.
"We could not prove to any sexual relationship before the age of 16; after the age of 16 we can prove inappropriate relationship," Freeman said.
For that reason, Cummings was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The age of consent is 16 in South Carolina. A new law is in place that criminalizes relationships between teachers and students but it did not go into effect until last year.
The victim claims the relationship began more than 12 years ago and continued for eight.
Karen James was a student of Cummings when the alleged relationship began.
"It's just a shocking matter," she said. "He was good to me, he was a good teacher."
She said she never heard of any sort of inappropriate relationship between her teacher and a classmate.
Cummings has bonded out of jail.
News 12 found Cummings at home with his children on Thursday. His wife was not there. He said he could not comment on the case.
News 12 also spoke with the victim's family who said they could not talk about the incident.
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Last Wednesday was the first day of spring. It was also the coldest day of the week, which is fitting for Minnesota, a state that can't seem to ever figure out whether it wants to be hot or cold.
Those of us who are native to Minnesota are definitely used to the weather being unpredictable and cold, but we still like to complain about it. That's probably because there isn't much else to talk about when the wind is so cold on your cheeks it burns.
It is also kind of fun for us to complain about, because we are bonded together in our suffering through the weather. We all experience it, and we can all agree it's uncomfortable. There are very few things these days that we can all agree on, and the weather seems to be one of those things.
We have been fortunate, down here in St. James, to have missed a lot of the bad storms that made their way through the area this winter. Even while avoiding those storms, we were able to get some precipitation, which should help the farmers in the area.
Overall, you can't complain about winter too much, especially now that it's over. But, I think I'm ready for Spring to be over soon too. I'm looking forward to summer and all of the fun outdoor activities that summer brings – like bonfires, sports, parades, fireworks and sleeping outside. Dreaming about summer should help me through these last few cold weeks of the winter/spring.
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(also ethmoid bone)
A square bone at the root of the nose, forming part of the cranium, and having many perforations through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nose: [as modifier]: ossification in the ethmoid region
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- The rich vascular supply of the nose originates from the ethmoid branches of the internal carotid arteries and the facial and internal maxillary divisions of the external carotid arteries.
- On each side of the groove the dura is rough, because of its attachment to the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone and because it is pierced by numerous olfactory nerve bundles.
- At least 1 percent of persons in the population have symptomatic nasal polyps and up to 42 percent may have asymptomatic polyps on careful examination of the middle meatus, middle turbinate and ethmoids.
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- The two frontal sinuses are just above the eyebrows, the two maxillary sinuses by the cheekbones and the two ethmoidal sinuses are between the nasal cavity and the eye sockets, and drain into the middle of the nose.
- Branches of the nasal nerve have been described passing to the frontal, ethmoidal, and sphenoidal sinuses.
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DOE announced on April 30th that the third Solar Decathlon competition will be held from October 12th through the 20th in Washington, D.C. The event requires university teams to build and operate energy-efficient solar-powered homes on the National Mall, forming a temporary "solar village." In January 2006, DOE selected 20 teams to participate in the competition, and all 20 are still in the running. The increasingly international competition includes teams from the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Spain, and, for the first time, Germany. Sixteen teams represent universities in 13 states: California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
As the name implies, the Solar Decathlon judges the homes in ten areas, including architecture, engineering, livability, comfort, power generation for space heating and cooling, water heating, and powering lights and appliances. Each home must produce enough net energy to power an electric car. The homes will include the latest high-tech energy solutions without sacrificing comfort, convenience, and aesthetics. The teams will partially build their entries on or near their campuses and then ship the entries to Washington, D.C., for final assembly, a necessity that creates extra challenges for the teams from the West, Puerto Rico, and Europe.
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A deputy was fired Monday after a jail inmate he was supervising escaped, Terrebonne Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.
The two-year veteran unshackled an inmate while he was receiving medical treatment Friday, which is against the office's policy, Larpenter said.
He would not release the deputy's name, saying it was an internal matter.
Jakahari Williams, 18, was admitted to Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in the morning after experiencing symptoms of a seizure, authorities said. Williams' handcuffs were removed about 4 p.m. by the deputy so that he could go to the bathroom, and that's when he escaped.
"The guard was too preoccupied with the TV or his phone," Larpenter said, adding that Williams opened the door to the bathroom without the guard even noticing.
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The Movie in the Park Saturday, July 20, is "Cars 2." The movie starts at 9 p.m. in Huckleberry Park.
There will be several cars on display from Tom Boland Ford, including a Monster Truck and a Shelby GT 500 Mustang.
The Movies in the Park series is hosted by the Hannibal Parks & Recreation Department.
There is no admission charge. Those planning to attend are encouraged to bring blankets or lawn chairs. The Ramp Park concession stand will be open.
The last Movie in the Park will be Aug. 17.
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As Colin Kaepernick's end-zone pass to Michael Crabtree sailed incomplete, effectively sealing a gut-wrenching Super Bowl defeat, 49ers fan Jimmy Sandford could only put his hands over his head and stare blankly down at the Superdome field.
"Absolutely heartbreaking," said Sandford, who traveled from Tracy for the game. "Tough to take. I thought we were going to win it. We were so close."
Instead, a late 49ers' drive came up short, and the result was a 34-31 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. It was a bitter end to a thrilling, seesaw game that included a bizarre 34-minute delay to the country's biggest sporting event because of a power outage that plunged the dome into darkness.
"We had three shots to get five yards," added Los Altos' Soleio Cuervo of the game's deciding moment. He shook his head, still sitting in the upper deck as confetti fluttered down on the champion Ravens. "Five yards short."
From The Big Easy all the way to the Bay Area, 49ers fans everywhere were trying to process a painful loss where so much happened. They saw their team dig a 22-point hole, roar back and nearly stage the biggest comeback victory in Super Bowl history.
But inside the Superdome, the dominant color was Ravens purple. Baltimore fans vastly outnumbers the red-clad 49ers fans in the crowd of 71,024, and they made themselves heard by deliriously cheering as the Ravens jumped out to a 21-6 halftime lead. Meanwhile, 49ers fans mostly stayed in their seats, watching in disbelief.
The deficit had grown to 28-6 when, less than two minutes into the second half, the power failure plunged the cavernous Superdome into darkness.
The general opinion among fans: Blame Beyonce. The pop singer's halftime performance had included a dazzling light shot. As fans did "the wave," Clayton resident Kevin Schmidt promised there was still plenty of time for a comeback.
"It's not over," Schmidt said. "No, no, no." Debbie Mercado, his sister-in-law, joked conspiratorially that maybe some 49ers fan -- wink, wink -- had something to do with the lights because her team needed to change the momentum.
"We might have had something to do with it," quipped Mercado, of Walnut Creek. "Jim (Harbaugh) needs more time to talk to the guys."
In fact, the 49ers came storming back.
"After the lights went out, the 49ers were lights out," Cuervo said.
He added that he figured the sibling rivalry between coaches Jim and John Harbaugh had something to do with the delay. "When the brothers were kids and playing Nintendo, I bet when one of them was losing, he just pulled the plug."
Here's a running blog of fan reaction in San Francisco and San Jose as the game unfolded and after the loss:
San Francisco: 10:27 p.m.
The San Francisco Police Department reports that about 25 people were arrested Sunday for public intoxication, but says that number is preliminary only. Final numbers will be released on Monday, the report says.
Mission District: 8:47 p.m.
The Mission District at Valencia and 16th streets, went quiet after the loss, except for the hum of news helicopters.
A fan with an air horn livened up the crowd, and chants of "Let's go 49ers," broke out briefly.
Still, the remained like any other night in the Mission.
Police took at least one man into custody, saying he was yelling profanities at people; he was held on suspicion of being drunk in public.
A crowd watching from a balcony across the street mocked police and they loaded the man into an empty sheriff's van.
North Beach: 8:29 p.m.
Candace Intinatelli, a 41-year-old hair stylist, came from Boston to watch the game and visit her sister. "The defense was not right on. That's why they friggin' lost."
North Beach: 8:17 p.m.
Jose Rivas, 26 and a biotech manager, said the loss "hurt his soul."
"We had a great season. But we were outcoached, outperformed and outclassed tonight. This super-great city lost a little today."
Mission District: 8:12 p.m.
"We're still a championship team," said George Duran, 30 of San Francisco, who was still in The Phoenix, but buttoned his jacket to cover his 49er jersey.
He and a group of friends ordered a round of shots.
"Next year, we got this."
San Jose, 8:05 p.m.
"I'm hurting. I'm really hurting right now,'' said San Jose resident Michael Silva at the Britannia Arms pub. Still, he predicted that the Niners would be back to the Super Bowl next year to begin a new 49er dynasty. "What they need is two cornerbacks and a kicker," he said.
On the sidewalk outside, fans were arguing about whether an incomplete pass in the fourth quarter should have ended in a holding call against Michael Crabtree.
"That definitely was holding," said Cindy Clark. "It's sad when that happens, but they (49ers) played a good game."
John Mercurio, 51, San Jose, agreed.
"That ball was perfectly thrown,'' he said. "He would have caught it."
North Beach: 8:04 p.m.
Matt Marceau, 30, who owns an e-commerce company, reacting to the 49ers loss, said: "It's unfortunate is what it is. They made too many mistakes. Kaepernick did not use all his talents."
North Beach: 7:57 pm.
"It was a good game," said Ryan Manning, 27, a San Francisco resident who works in high tech.
He was standing outside the now-emptying bars in North Beach with his girlfriend's arms wrapped around him.
"I may or may not have cried," said Manning, whose eyes were wet.
"I'm here for emotional support," said his girlfriend, Ketelyn Schlick, 26. He's pretty die-hard."
Mission District: 7:53 p.m.
After the loss, Illy Silva of Oakland buried her face in her hands and pounded the bar floor at Phoenix bar with her fist.
"I feel like I got shot in the head," she said. "I've never been shot in the head, but I guarantee you, this hurts."
North Beach: 7:50 p.m.
"We're proud of them, and we're disappointed," said San Francisco resident Susan Boyles
North Beach: 7:47 p.m.
Eerily quiet on a local street as confetti falls for the Ravens.
North Beach: 7:44 p.m.
With four seconds left, one lone guy is yelling, "One play, one play and stop the clock."
Mission District: 7:30 p.m.
Scooter Cecere, 22, grew up in Florida in a house that was a shrine to Joe Montana.
"They love him more than me," he said of his parents.
North Beach: 7:28 p.m.
A very different, older audience is watching the game at Caffe Trieste on Vallejo.
"This is the art crowd," said Mark Alvarez, an off-duty San Francisco police officer.
North Beach: 7:20 p.m.
Tupelo owner Teague Kernan, 39, praised the police, saying they were out in force tonight.
"The crowd has been great -- no idiots."
Mission District: 7:16 p.m.:
Steve Breaux, 34, a San Francisco native, thinks he dislocated his shoulder jumping into other fans inside The Phoenix bar.
"I'll go to the hospital later," he said.
A doorman at the bar, he is superstitious and did not wash his Patrick Willis jersey after the last playoff win. He also woke up late for work today.
"When I woke up late I knew something was going to go wrong," he said.
North Beach: 7:16 p.m.
At Tupelo, producer Ariel del Mundo, 40, held on to his fedora and jumped up and down when the team narrowed the gap to 31-29.
"I'm from here. I live in L.A. now, for 20 years. But I had to be here for this. We're back! We were 25 behind and now we're 2 behind!"
North Beach: 7:14 p.m.
With about 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter, dentist Veronica Vasquez, 35, keeps muttering as she watches the game -- and a score of 31 to 23 with the Ravens ahead -- "There's still time, there's still time."
North Beach: 7 p.m.
The mood of fans in the area had improved hugely.
San Francisco native and lifelong 49ers fan Nick Majica, 25, at a bar called Grant & Green filled with mostly men, said he was then "100 percent sure" his team would win.
A security guard at Alcatraz, he said, "Our defense is great and Kaepernick is on fire."
North Beach: 6:30 p.m.
Joe Pinckney, 29, shook his head when asked about the score after halftime.
"If I stuck with them through a 2-14 season, I can stick with them through this," said the San Diego resident, who made good on his childhood promise to watch a 49er Super Bowl in San Francisco.
After the 49ers second touchdown, Gerald Santamaria, 36, grabbed the woman sitting next to him in the bar, dipped her back and kissed her. He said he just met her but they were bonding over their love for the 49ers.
"Long awaited, is how Arish Mission, 38, of San Francisco put it. "I predict the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history."
San Jose: 6:57 p.m.
At 61, Ernesto Ruby somehow was one of loudest, most exuberant yell kings at Britannia Arms as the Niners started to come back in the third quarter. He ran up and down the jam packed patio, urging fans to get up and high five each other.
"I've been a fan since I was 8," Ruby said.
He was in Boy's City when the organization took him to Kezar Stadium in San Francisco to see the 49ers battle the old Los Angeles Rams.
"I got to see John Brodie," Ruby said above the delirious Niner fans. "Do you remember John Brodie? That's when I became a football and Niner fan."
Ruby, a retired U.S. postman from San Jose, had three tables filled with his children and grandchildren.
"Too many to count right now," he said. "They're running all the place in here."
Yes, just like Dad.
San Jose: 6:08 p.m.
"It's annoying but I guess I would be less annoyed if we were winning, Cathy Trujeque, 56, said as she waiting with others for a temporary power outage at the Super Dome to be fixed. "Maybe this will slowdown the Ravens momentum."
North Beach: 5:59 p.m.
At Perry's restaurant and bar in Cow Hollow, Mark McClain was bracing to lose the $100 bet he made in favor of the 49ers as the team heading the second half of the Super Bowl.
But if the team rallies, the 30-year-old special education teacher, in the city with a group of about 30 friends, stands to make $2,000.
Every time the team fumbled, fans would head out onto the sidewalk with their heads hung.
"Losing a Super Bowl, we're not exactly used to it," McClain said, referring to the team's 5-0 Super Bowl record. "We're not giving up."
North Beach, San Francisco: 6:26 p.m.
Others gathered in the city to watch their team as they faced the Baltimore Ravens Sunday afternoon were just happy to be in the middle of the excitement.
Megan Tedesco, a 33-year-old administrative assistant who lives in Sonoma, said the mood "was out of control happy" at Amante Bar and Restaurant in North Beach when the game began.
But by the third quarter, when the Niners were trailing badly, the mood was subdued.
"Right now, it doesn't look so happy. But it's not the end."
She was in North Beach in 1990 when the 49ers beat Denver 55-10.
"It was the happiest night of my life," she said.
North Beach: 6:38 p.m.
In the North Beach area of San Francisco, police officer Steve Bucbucy said he noticed a marked difference in the current cooperative attitude of the bar owners compared with the situation during the Giants' World Series victory last year.
"The crowds are a lot smaller than we expected, probably because of the score, which makes our job easier. " he said. "They learned a lot of lessons. They're keeping the rowdy drunks out."
North Beach, San Francisco: 5:46 p.m.
David Lee, 22, drove 2.5 hours to San Francisco from Fresno State, where he is a student, to watch the game.
"I came here because of the energy," he said. "I don't want to see it from anywhere else."
Watching from a bar called Maruengo on Union in Cow Hollow has been drinking Coor Lite and shots of JÃ1/3germeister, Lee said the first half was a "glow buster."
Downtown San Jose: 4:30 p.m.
In downtown San Jose, at Blush Japanese restaurant and bar, decades of friendship gathered at an outdoor table with a standing heater and large TV screen overhead.
"I was 12-years-old when I became a Niner fan," said Cathy Trujeque, 56, a semi-retired auto worker from the old NUMMI plant in Fremont.
She pointed at one of her girlhood friends, Mystia Hernandez, who was sitting at the table and proudly took credit for being the first on the 49er bandwagon and bringing the others along.
Two other friends, Juanita Baca and Joni Policy, joined in.
However, Policy is a Raider fan, but has the good sense to leave her black and silver jersey at home.
Trujeque and Hernandez used to have season tickets but gave them up after 22 years.
"We got older, and it got expensive," Trujeque said. "The younger crowd is taking over. It was time but, yeah, I felt kinda sad."
Wearing her Niners jacket, Hernandez read a text message from her son at the game in New Orleans.
"He sent me pictures of his tickets -- 840 bucks!" Hernandez said.
Trujeque thought about attending the Super Bowl -- for only a moment as reality set in.
"Money, honey," she said. "Money."
Downtown San Jose: 4 p.m.
At Britannia Arms pub in downtown San Jose, every table was occupied during the game, but most of John Mercurio's clan was going to stand for the whole game anyway.
"They always stand up, even at home," said Mercurio, 51.
His son, Jeff Mercurio, and his lifelong friends have been Niner fans for as long as they've known each. Most are now in their 40s.
"Niners, all the way up, " said Michael Silva, a technical support engineer. "We got it from our fathers, our uncles."
After several hamburgers and beer bongs, the group was still cheering hard to halftime. They sensed a comeback.
"We're a second half team," Jeff Mercurio said. "We'll figure it out, yeah."
Win or lose, members of the group -- all clad in 49er jerseys, said they were thrilled the franchise had come back after an 18-year drought.
"We made it to the Super Bowl, " said Daniel Chavez. "That's big already."
Silva agreed. "It's the beginning of a new dynasty, regardless."


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Jazz artist Daryle Ryce earns spotlight
Published: Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 5:05 p.m.
Spartanburg native and international jazz musician Daryle Ryce will join The Spartanburg Repertory Company on stage for the group's 25th Anniversary Gala Event on Jan. 26.
Ryce will be joined on stage by international soprano Rebecca Turner, as well as a host of other past and present performers from the Repertory Company. The evening will include a concert, silent auction, and wine and cheese reception.
Tickets are $25 or $40 for couples and can be purchased by calling the Chapman Cultural Center box office at 864-542-2787 or visiting www.chapman culturalcenter.org.
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Educational seminarsUAOCSS offers seminars to students who are thinking about moving out of the residence halls and into Marquette's off-campus neighborhood. They are designed to inform students about issues they may face as renters and help them be smarter consumers.
Apartment Hunting 101
This seminar is offered in the fall at all sophomore residence halls. It teaches students what to look for in off-campus housing and how to go about finding a place to live, as well as gives them the opportunity to ask questions.
Representatives from the University Apartments office will be presenting the Apartment Hunting 101 seminar during Family Weekend. The seminar will take place on Saturday, October 3rd in AMU 227, and will be offered at 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 1:00 p.m.


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Daniel Pink, known for his insightful take on what truly inspires and encourages us all, joined opensource.com for a webcast June 22 on the subject of his latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
We're thrilled to be hosting critically-acclaimed and inspiring author Daniel Pink as the next guest in our Open Your World webcast series this Wednesday, June 22 at 2 p.m. (EDT). Register now. Note: This event was originally scheduled for June 9 and has been moved.
Nicolas Pujol and Toni Schneider are experts on navigating free and open business models. Pujol, author of The Mindshare Market, helped MySQL grow from a $10m startup to a $1B acquisition, making it the second largest open source company at the time.
If you were compiling a list of the world's most innovative companies, which businesses would top your list? No one would be surprised if you picked Google, Apple, or Amazon, but what about Wal-Mart? (Huh?) Or PG&E (a utility, for crying out loud)? Surely there must be some mistake! Or... Read more
David Upton believes in Radically Simple IT. The basic premise, which he's laid out in a number of Harvard Business Review cases, is that IT managers should strive to put systems in place that can be continuously improved over time. By implementing an IT architecture that's as simple and modular as... Read more
Today the ribbon was cut on 2,000 square feet on NC State University's Centennial Campus where ten students have set up their projects in the new Garage, an incubator for student engineers. Spaces with names like Brainstorm Room, Idea Meeting Space, Hobby Shop, and Designer's Workshop are home to... Read more
First, a confession. Despite the hip corporate persona of Red Hat, when I first joined the company everyone had typical cubicle farm workspaces. Sure, there were hints that the company aspired to Google-like coolness: a foosball table, a game room, lots of free junk food. But in our daily office-... Read more
I've had a number of career changes. I went from poetry to technology to metal sculpture to the Internet to biodiesel. And I must admit that although I have brushed against open source a number of times, I have had a hard time getting my head around it.
In the discussions around some of my previous articles, I've noticed a trend: we seem to be focusing on cultural changes that need to be made for the open source way to be effective in contexts beyond technology.


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Movies shown at the multiplex are getting longer, or maybe they just feel that way. Films like "The Hobbit" or "The Dark Knight Rises" clock in at just under three hours, and watching them can at times feel like an extended car ride without any pit stops. For those of us who start to squirm at the 30-minute mark, this weekend's Vail Film Festival offers a short film program, showing in multiple blocks throughout the three-day event.
Out of more than 400 short films submitted this year, only 18 were chosen to screen at the festival. Amanda Durst, one of the short film programmers for the Vail Film Festival, said now that the festival is in its 10th year, it receives higher quality entries, making it tough to decide which ones will make the cut. Durst said a compelling storyline often wins out over other factors.-
"If you're watching a film and all you can think about is how beautiful the cinematography is or how interesting the camera angles are, then there's something wrong with the storytelling," Durst said.
Durst has been programming shorts for the festival since its third year. Back then film festivals were one of the few opportunities short filmmakers had for screening their films to the public. Now with Youtube and other video-streaming websites, it's easier to get your film seen, but harder to find the right audience.
"The benefit (of a film festival) is that someone has selected them," Durst said. "Youtube is a crapshoot. How do you know what to watch? (Youtube) is a way for filmmakers to get their film out there for people to see, but it's only going to be for (those) who know to go there and (watch) it. (With a festival) people with good taste have put them together."
10-minute movies two years in the making
Making a 15-minute movie might sound easier than shooting a two-hour feature, but many of those behind this year's lineup of short films devoted years to working on their projects. Marieka Walsh spent two years making her short "The Hunter," using the painstakingly slow process of sand animation to create the story of a lone hunter who searches for a missing boy in the woods. Although sand is a difficult medium to work with, Walsh enjoyed the challenge of taking tiny grains and shifting them slowly to create a captivating story.
Even after all that work, most viewers are unaware what they're seeing on the screen is sand, not a drawing or computer animation.
"I don't mind at all that people don't recognize it as sand," Walsh said. "If the narrative stands on its own and connects with people, then I'm happy. When people discover that it's made out of sand, it's a nice surprise."-
Passion - not profit - projects
In addition to technical challenges, many short filmmakers often find it harder to tell a good story in a limited amount of time. Kevin Lim wrote and directed "Lichen," an experimental short film from Australia exploring the idea of how objects relate to memory and relationships.
"(In a short film) you need to establish your characters, present to them a challenge, then have them triumph over adversity and undergo some defining change in the span of around seven to 15 minutes," Lim said. "It's a tall order and it's why I think many short films follow the the "visual joke" structure of just telling a funny gag with a twist ending."
Many filmmakers make a short piece with the goal of getting noticed by producers who can help them make and fund feature-length projects. But for others, the real goal is to make a quality short film that viewers respond to. Actor and writer Michael Grant Terry and director Bennett Barbakow "Bryon's Theme," an existential look at a young man's journey to quiet the chaos in his life and find his dog, with the intention of pushing their own artistic boundaries.
"For us ("Byron's Theme") was a creatively fulfilling project and we were all able to grow," Barbakow said. "I've learned a lot on this (film) that I can hopefully apply to my professional jobs.
"Making shorts is an almost Zen-like process," Barbakow continued. "You make it to learn and you know it's never going to make you a dollar."
Kids and cats
Terry and Barbakow joked their next project will be about what it's like to attend film festivals and hang out with others who also like to make short films.
"There would definitely be some really bad dancing at the after-parties," Terry said. "Someone always hits up the sponsored tequila bar too hard. It'd be like a summer camp movie, where everyone ends up making out in the end."
As a culture we've become accustomed to going to the movies to watch feature-length films. But now we also waste time on the Internet watching funny videos of cats playing keyboards or kids after they've visited the dentist. The shorts program at the Vail Film Festival combines both these loves. We'll get to watch movies on the big screen that entertain us in no time at all, and meet the people who made the films who will help explain exactly what the heck it is we just saw. There are a lot of times when not being very tall can be a disadvantage. But when it comes to movies, sometimes shorter really is better.


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September 7, 2005
A last minute agreement keeps South Carolina's students on the bus. Until just hours ago, the state-run school buses only had enough fuel to drive through Friday. News 12 is on your side with the state's back-up plan.
Late Wednesday, South Carolina Superintendent Inez Tennenbaum signed a deal with an alternative fuel vendor to keep the state's buses running. Diesel fuel coming through the region's pipeline couldn't meet South Carolina schools' needs for several weeks. Now the state's buses will get gas delivered on a barge. Still, districts are cutting back.
Just in the knick of time, Destiny Jones' ride home from LBC Middle School won't be interrupted.
"We work and to pick her up back and forth, we would have to sacrifice," said Alfonzo Toole, grandparent.
South Carolina's 5,000 school buses burn 66,000gallons of gas a day. But since Hurricane Katrina, the district has only received 42,000 gallons a day.
So how serious is this shortage? Well, News 12 was all set up to talk with the man who fuels busses in Aiken and Edgefield Counties when he called us back and told us his supervisor wouldn't let him talk because this is a crisis.
Now the problem is money. The state will pay wholesale cost for the new gas minus the state tax and shipping. It will cost more than usual.
And when gas from the pipeline is flowing at normal speed, the average cost is still 30 cents more a gallon than the state budgeted for. South Carolina schools are already $3.6 million in the hole from gas costs. And that number is expected to rise.
It's a big figure. One that Destiny's grandpa knows means budget cuts to other school activities in the future.
"It makes you feel sad because she's going to miss out on some opportunities that she should be entitled to," Toole said.
Aiken County buys gas from the state for field trips and sporting events. District leaders have asked schools to postpone field trips when they can until the shortage clears up. But they are not canceling anything that is already paid for.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Several hundred mourners from around the world, including a former secretary of state, a former bishop of California and the Libyan ambassador to the United States, gathered in the elegant rotunda of San Francisco City Hall Tuesday to honor the life and work of former U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens.
The memorial, called "A Celebration of Life," included remembrances and appreciations by more than a dozen family members, former colleagues and government dignitaries, a video montage narrated by Stevens himself, as well as songs by the University of California Men's Glee Club Alumni.
"He's always been with me, he was my most important mentor," said a younger sister, Anne Stevens Sullivan. "The world needs a lot more big brothers like Chris Stevens."
"Christopher Stevens stood out as extraordinary in an already extraordinary group of people," said former Secretary of State George P. Shultz. "Democracy is not a spectator sport, and Christopher Stevens was a full participant in his beloved democracy."
Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan port city of Benghazi in the evening hours of Sept. 11, the 11-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Stevens and his staff had gone to the consulate to launch a Cultural Exchange Center when militants attacked the offices with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. He was the first American ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979, when Ambassador Adolph Dubs was kidnapped by Islamic radicals in Kabul, Afghanistan, and later died during a firefight.
The memorial began with a U.S. Marine Corps Honor Guard "posting colors" ceremony and a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner." The Rev. William Swing said Stevens had perished in the "crucible flame of theocracy and democracy" that had swept across so much of the Middle East in the form of the Arab Spring that started in 2011. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee spoke about how Stevens embodied an international spirit of peace and inclusion.
Anne Stevens Sullivan spoke about "how clever, how witty he was, how he made us smile." She said her older brother was "mischievous" and told how he once set her bassinet on fire, led her off a hiking trail, and nicknamed her "chubs." "So why do I miss him so much?" she asked, to gentle laughter.
A Bay Area native, Stevens was born to Mary and Jan Stevens in Grass Valley in 1960. He later moved to Piedmont, where he graduated from high school. Stevens showed an interest in the wider world from an early age, starting in high school when he traveled to Spain as part of an American Field Service exchange program. He went on to study languages and classics at UC Berkeley, graduating with a degree in history in 1982. He spent two years in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer. Stevens then attended law school at UC Hastings and worked as an attorney for two years.
But his appetite for foreign lands and different cultures had been whetted, and in 1992 Stevens joined the U.S. Foreign Service. His fluency in Arabic and French made him ideally suited for a career in North Africa and the Middle East, and over the next 20 years Stevens rose quickly through the ranks of the diplomatic corps.
A succession of increasingly important jobs took him to Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem and, twice, to Tripoli. With the tumult of the Arab Spring, Stevens was tapped early on to become a liaison to the many fractious rebel groups vying for power in Libya for the duration of the revolution. With the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the eventual toppling of his regime, Stevens was named ambassador to Libya.
Among his many accomplishments, Stevens will no doubt be remembered for his heroic efforts during the nine long and bloody months of Libya's revolution, a period when he was often the lone American representative on the ground.
By all accounts Stevens was passionate about the Middle East and Libya in particular. Virtually all the speakers said Stevens was always enthusiastic about his work overseas.
His friend Steven MacDonald said Chris embodied a "people-first diplomacy" that made the world a better place.
"There is no limit to what he did for Libyan people. He built the bridge between Libya and the United States, a strong bridge built of love," said Ali Suleiman Aujali, Libya's ambassador to the United States. "We lost a friend, a supporter and we lost a hero, and he's part of the Libyan history, the Libyan revolution. We'll never forget his name. I am sorry because you sent us one of your best diplomats but we were not able to protect him."
Anne Stevens Sullivan said her brother had an insatiable curiosity, always talking to strangers and joking with vendors, and that he devoted as much time as possible to his family. He inspired his younger sister Hilary Stevens Koziol to join the Peace Corps.
Tom Stevens said his older brother was humble to a fault. "He had so many professional achievements that he never talked about, and you have to ask yourself what would the world be like if more people had the qualities he did -- humble, calm, steady, relentlessly positive?"
"The world never saw a kinder, more resolute soul than Chris," MacDonald said. "We feel so sad for the loss of Chris, but so lucky to have known him."
Guest conductor David Commanday leads "Salute to a Hero" in honor of his late stepbrother, U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18, Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Center Drive, Walnut Creek. Single tickets start at $35; season subscriptions start at $130. For details, call 925-943-7469 or go to www.californiasymphony.org.


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Date:February 25, 2011 - 11:30am - 10:00pm
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Boehner Promises to Tackle Immigration 'In Chunks'
House Speaker John Boehner reaffirmed that House Republicans planned to take a gradual, "step by step" approach to overhauling the country's immigration system, but he didn't put the quest at the top of his list of legislative priorities for the year.
Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," the Ohio Republican criticized the bipartisan Senate bill approved in June as both overly sweeping and lacking in sufficient border controls. House Republicans, he said, would try to tackle the problem "in chunks."
In listing his top priorities for the rest of the year, Mr. Boehner cited deficit reduction, tax law changes and an effort to overhaul the country's entitlement systems. He didn't mention the continuing push to tackle immigration.
The speaker repeatedly declined to say to say whether he would support a bill that provided a route to citizenship for the 11 million or so immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, the primary sticking point between House Republicans and the Senate bill, which passed last month.
"It is not about me," Mr. Boehner said. "This is about allowing the House to work its will." He declined to predict what sort of immigration legislation would eventually reach the House floor, and said his only intention was "to facilitate a process."
"If I come out and say, 'I'm for this and I'm for that,' all I'm doing is making my job harder," he said.
Asked if his party faced serious electoral peril in coming years if the GOP stands in the way of an immigration overhaul, Mr. Boehner shot back: "This isn't about politics and it isn't about our party. It is about doing the right thing for our country."
"Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer noted that the speaker has presided over one of the least productive House sessions in history in terms of bills passed, but Mr. Boehner defended that record as central to his aim to cut the size of government.
"We should not be judged by how many new laws we create," he said. "We ought to be judged by how many laws we repeal."
The House has voted nearly 40 times to repeal Obamacare, and Mr. Boehner promised a continued effort on that front. "You are going to see bipartisan votes coming out the House to dismantle" Obamacare, he said.
Related: WSJ reporters discuss the slump President Obama has found himself in now that he hasn't had a big policy win six months into his second term.


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1) Develop genetic crosses of selected isolates of P. graminis, P. recondita, P. triticina and P. triticina/P. persistens;.2)make collections of rust fungi in Israel;.3)characterize proteins involved in mating in rust fungi; and.4)characterize spore types and biology of selected rust fungi.
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Telia of selected isolates will be used to infect appropriate alternate host and genetic crosses will be made from resulting pycnia. Pure lines resulting from the crosses will be developed and characterized on selected host plants. Collections of rust fungi will be made from selected sites in Israel. Biological material will be produced and collected from infection of appropriate hosts. Experiments will be performed to test selected inhibitors on early steps in mating. Spore morphology and life-cycle biology will be characterized for selected rust samples.
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Campus of the FuturePage address: https://www.mnsu.edu/strategicplan/future.html
Goal 1. Create a campus culture supporting energy efficiency, resource conservation and sustainability.
Objective A. Create a campus sustainability policy and support network.
- Prepare a policy statement and implementation principles.
- Maintain a campus Environmental Committee.
- Maintain a utility metering and reporting system for benchmarking and measuring results.
- Complete a "Carbon Footprint" analysis.
- Create a campus "Green Fund" for promotion of sustainability efforts.
Objective B. Develop a three-year plan to enhance a campus culture of energy conscious behavior and sustainable lifestyle.
- Implement an awareness campaign to reduce "parasitic" electrical consumption – turn off computers, unplug chargers, turn off printers, etc.
- Through the Environmental Committee, sponsor events and forums with a sustainability focus that also include opportunities to solicit community input.
- Reduce paper use through technology – fewer mailings and posters.
Goal 2. Create a welcoming and safe physical campus that is pedestrian and multi-modal friendly.
Objective A. Improve campus boundary recognition and community welcome to campus.
- Construct entrance features at the four campus entrances.
- Expand way-finding signage and incorporate campus mapping at entrances and primary pedestrian pathways.
- Review student crossing areas along primary paths for clear road crossing markings and appropriate lighting.
Objective B. Create a campus beautification plan and tie to the Facilities Master Plan
- Complete a mall upgrade pre-design to seek campus community input and prepare a phased implementation plan with cost estimates.
- Incorporate sustainable design practices in landscaping projects
- Incorporate Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) practices into landscaping project.
Objective C. Finalize a plan to demolish the Gage Residence halls and redevelop the site.
- Investigate partnering opportunities to help defray demolition costs and improve community access.
Goal 3. Create welcoming, comfortable and safe interior spaces that promote collaboration in learning.
Objective A. Maintain a technology replacement and upgrade plan with a commitment to keep all equipped classrooms and seating areas current with state of the art technology.
Objective B. MSU should create innovative, flexible and technologically advanced classroom and collaborative gathering spaces.
- Continue to expand the existing "technology lounge" concept.
Objective C. Continue to update building systems and equipment to improve comfort and services in an efficient way.
- Create a five-year replacement plan that identifies substandard HVAC systems and prioritizes replacement based on condition.
- Create efficiency standards and encourage the students, faculty, staff and vendors to purchase energy star appliances.
Objective D. Conduct an accessibility assessment and incorporate high priority projects into the R&R plan.
Goal 4. Create a process for campus community input and planning for the March 2014 facilities master plan update.
Objective A. Complete a transportation and parking plan that can be integrated with the regional MATAPS transportation plan.
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Family Involvement May Help Overweight Kids Change Habits
Jan. 23, 2012 -- Parents and grandparents can play a unique role in reversing obesity by encouraging healthy lifestyle changes in overweight children, suggests the American Heart Association.
A new statement issued by the organization calls for more family involvement when treating childhood obesity. It describes specific ways parents and caregivers can be "agents of change" to support healthier behaviors in overweight and obese kids.
"In many cases, the adults in a family may be the most effective change agents to help obese children attain and maintain a healthier weight," Myles Faith, PhD, says in a news release. "To do so, the adults may need to modify their own behavior and try some research-based strategies."
Faith, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, chaired a group of 11 experts who wrote the paper.
The paper reviewed the main research-based strategies for successful behavior change in family-based treatment of childhood obesity, and it explains ways that a parent can be actively involved in the process.
One example given is how a parent and child can identify a specific behavior to change, such as drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages. To meet this particular goal, a parent can agree to buy fewer bottles of soda each week, and can discuss some alternatives the family can drink instead, such as water or flavored seltzers.
Next, a parent and child may commit to writing down their daily intake of sweetened drinks and water, and review this at the end of each day. If goals are met, parents can use praise, hugs, high fives, and other low- or no-cost rewards to encourage the child. For unmet goals, the parent and child can discuss the obstacles that got in the way and what to do differently in the future in an encouraging manner.
Best Ways for Parents to Help
The panel of experts also reviewed multiple studies of family-based treatment programs to determine if greater parental involvement resulted in more weight loss in overweight children. They found mixed results, and the researchers say that further research needs to be done to determine which forms of parental involvement are helpful.


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Sep 16, 2012
The Sunday matches in the Marco & Co. Catering Islanders Open have been moved to the Corpus Christi Athletic Club due to weather.
An early rain shower washed out the in progress matches at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center, forcing the tournament to move indoors at the CCAC.
Play will resume between 10:45 - 11 this morning. Admission remains free to the public, so fans are encouraged to come out and watch Sandra Burges and Chelsea Horan compete for the women's doubles title during the day.
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Teach Kids Value Of Being Healthy, Fit
Published: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 2:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 2:38 p.m.
Recently, I had the honor of participating in the Great American Teach-In at Central Florida Aerospace Academy, in Lakeland.
I got to speak and teach a fitness class to Coach Tony Longa's first and second period PE classes. We did a lot of personal strength moves, such as planks, push-ups, stomach crunches, lunges and squats. It is so important to tune in to our youth and stress the importance of physical fitness.
More than one-third of American kids (and adults) are considered obese; and by the year 2030, it is expected to rise to more than 50 percent!
Obese kids are 80 percent more likely to be obese adults. These statistics are sad and overwhelming ... and very preventable!
With these alarming stats come alarming health risks ... heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, even some cancers are all linked to inactivity and obesity. This, in turn, has medical costs pushed into the billions. Now who can afford that? Again, all preventable stuff.
Let's get up and move, people.
If you can devote at least 30-60 minutes to physical activity every day and be mindful of what you eat, you'll be well on your way to a happier, healthier you.
At Central Florida Aerospace Academy, Coach Longa is doing his part to educate students on the benefits of fitness but parents, you're the example at home! Let's give America a healthier future.
[ Marlo Alleva, an instructor at Gold's Gym and group fitness coordinator at Fontaine-Gills YMCA, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. ]
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The No. 70 Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's tennis team found out its NCAA destination on Tuesday afternoon after watching the selection show on NCAA.com. The Islanders will travel to Waco for the May 13-14 regional round of the NCAA Championships at No. 5 Baylor.
In addition to Texas A&M - Corpus Christi and host Baylor, No. 22 Texas Tech and No. 43 Rice will also be competing in the regional draw. A total of 64 teams qualified for the tournament with 16 regionals comprised of four teams each playing on the first weekend on the tournament.
The 16 winners will then advance to the final championship site in Palo Alto, Calif. from May 19-30 on the campus of Stanford.
The Islanders met Baylor earlier in the season with the Bears taking the dual match in Waco.


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Few Union units were as esteemed for their collective strength as the 12th New Hampshire Infantry. It was magnet for strapping young fellows from the farms that dotted the state's White Mountains. "No wonder that a regiment, having so many giant-like men, should have been called the 'New Hampshire Mountaineers,'" mused one of its captains, Asa Bartlett, about the origin of the unit's nickname.
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NC man accused of dragging donkey behind van
Published: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 8:45 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 8:45 a.m.
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — Lincoln County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man and accused him of dragging a donkey behind a van.
The Lincoln Times-News reported (http://bit.ly/16hiuRa ) that 68-year-old Richard Hudson of Vale is charged with moving animals in a cruel manner.
Deputies say they were called to a road last Thursday where witnesses said they saw Hudson driving his van with a donkey tethered to the trailer hitch.
Deputies said Hudson was walking the donkey in the road when they arrived. The donkey had suffered scrapes and other injuries to its legs and rear.
The donkey is being treated at the county animal shelter.
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"The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation:
'The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death.
'The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law. When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined. http://... As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights.'
If we can decide that an unborn baby is not human life and can be aborted where does it stop? Selectively deciding who stays and goes sounds to much like "Culling the herd" to me. How different is it then if an 80yr old who needs life support? How about the fellow runner who gets hit by a car and is in the hospital and needs life support?
Rather than alienate people by adding my opinions on abortion, I will just point out the hypocrisy of most "pro-lifers." If you are "pro-life" then you should be against the death penalty, war (in all forms), vegetarian (while both plants and animals are "alive" you can't tell me that a cow is less alive or sentient than an unborn child), and should essentially dress as an extremely devout Jain (a South Asian religion that places an exceptional value on all life) complete with the facial mask to prevent killing microbes in the air. Additionally, they should also support socialism (maybe not the "scientific" that evolved during the 19th century with its stress upon rationalism and secularism). We live in industrial society, which has both the capability of providing for everybody as well as being predicated upon continual improvement social fluidity (this is something completely unknown until the 18th and 19th centuries), and since it has this capabiltiy to continuosly provide for all, then "pro-life" people should support all social welfare programs and government spending to help provide basic means of existence for everyone else who is alive. Abortion isn't pretty, but it certainly seems to support a sliding defintion of what "life" and morality towards others is.
of course it's murder; if you kill a pregnant woman and the baby she is carrying, you are tried for 2 murders
I absolutely believe in a womans right. THE RIGHT TO KEEP HER LEGS CLOSED!!!! You also have the right and responsibilty to take preventative measures. You dont even have the right to "murder" yourself. Did you know that if you attempt suicide and fail you are fined and probably thrown into a looney bin - so if they CAN THROW YOU INTO A FACITILY AND CLASSIFY YOU AS "CRAZY" if you try to kill yourself or even for those people who "cut" or "self mutalate" how come your not crazy for injuring or killing something in your body - Y just cause you cant see it - I dont believe in abortion at all, but sometimes i'm torn, becasue if a person could do that - would you really want them raising a child anyway - the kid is MUCH better off
is murder cruel and heartless? yes
denying someone the right to abortion simply because you don't like it or find it immoral, is that cruel and heartless? yes
seeing as we can't decide when life begins, then it is impossible to come to definitive that abortion is murder. So I will say. NO
I guess if you want be nit-picky about words. In my opinion...
Abortion = killing.
I view murder as something that Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy had done.
If you want to argue about whether or not abortion should be banned or allowed...write your political representatives. Maybe they'll grow a pair and finally make a decision, one way or the other. I personally only believe in abortion for cases of rape, incest, and such. I got to see the 'Bodies' Exhibition where they had fetuses at different stages of birth from days to months after insemination...really eye opening.
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everyone has the right to their own beliefs... but to base your beliefs on a fictitious book seems as dumb to me as this thread being on this site to begin with... im sure there are other forums where this could be discussed... i don't come to active.com to read a argument about the rights of unborn fetuses
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My $0.02 is that the answer to this question should lie with the people involved in making the decision. If you are anti-abortion, do not choose to have one, and teach your children to be responsible when it comes to sex. If you are pro-choice, think about the whys and hows, and learn from whatever you decide to do.
We need to be consist with this abortion issue. Do I agree with abortion...not really except in the case of the mother being in danger, rape or incest. But here is the consistency issue. why is it that anti abortion folks are against teaching comprehensive sex education to middle school/high school students? Abstient only does not work. the more information that they have the more responsibile they will be. It does not mean they are automatically going to go out and have sex.... I was not sexually active until college. And for those that choose to have sex, they will have the information on reproductive health and contraceptive methods so that they will not become teen mothers and fathers, hence abortion would me a non issue.
And why were none of the abortion folks not rallying for the S Chip program when it was vetoed in the last administration...that is health care for poor children...are not children life? How about entitlement programs for children....I can go on and on....
It is the love the fetus hate the child mentality....
I just saying....
Again it is consistency.
The last time I checked, having an abortion was still legal. Murder is illegal, therefore, abortion is not murder. However, whether or not it is ethical, is a question that only the person considering one can answer. I'll leave my personal views out of this.
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All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Let the first without sin cast the first stone. In my soul I know each child is unique and a life precious. Each individual mother and father has to deal with their own choice in the matter. I am not a god to make this choice for them. Only love to one another will this world be better for everyone living now and for ones that will be born. Please love the person and not the sin. I am a sinner and I find my hope in Jesus.
This one of questions that eveybody get angry over. Everyone yell and call each other wrong. No one win argument.
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