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As more evidence emerged this week that Santa Clara County's board president, George Shirakawa Jr., misused public funds, the county's top administrator said Tuesday that internal controls broke down because clerks and auditors felt too intimidated to challenge their bosses when evidence of questionable spending arose.
"There is clearly a differential of power -- the feeling that people don't want to challenge the board members," County Executive Jeff Smith said. "There's been reluctance to point out things that don't make sense, and they haven't felt comfortable bouncing that up the chain of command."
Elected county supervisors each have a credit card for use on business trips and for small-dollar office supplies. But an internal audit released Monday found that Shirakawa has repeatedly used his "procurement card" for personal matters in violation of county policies. Even before the audit, Shirakawa had reimbursed the county for thousands of dollars in inappropriate charges -- albeit months later -- including charges at a Nevada golf club and casino as well as car rentals and hotels, all of which county auditors described as "strictly prohibited" uses. The audit found that on 174 occasions, Shirakawa billed taxpayers for $10,354 worth of restaurant meals but reported losing the required itemized receipts.
Shirakawa's response has been a mix of defiance and apology.
Trembling with emotion, Shirakawa said at Tuesday's board meeting that he is under personal assault. "If you don't like me because I'm fat, or if you don't like me because I'm mixed race, or if you don't like me because of the work I've done, or if you don't like me because I support same-sex marriage, or if you don't like me because I believe all men and women should be created equally under the Constitution ... because I'm a Raider fan," Shirakawa said. " If you don't like me that's OK, but don't use untruths to, to, attack. Really, I just think it's totally unfair."
Shirakawa is disputing some of the charges he is being asked to repay.
"I certainly take responsibility for anything that I'm responsible for, whether it's in the job of this duty or anywhere else in my life," Shirakawa said Tuesday.
He lashed out at newspaper reports of his travails, calling them "unfair" and bemoaning the "thousands and thousands of dollars" of county time used to examine his spending.
Shirakawa does not disagree with a majority of the county's report on his questionable spending, and he has protested one charge in particular that has been questioned: a first class upgrade on a 2011 flight to Washington, D.C., that the District Attorney's office asked the county about weeks ago. While Shirakawa has repeatedly refused requests by this newspaper to explain specific charges, his office posted on Shirakawa's county website Tuesday to say he paid for the upgrade and showed a copy of his receipt that included a partial credit card number and a handwritten notation saying, "non-county credit card."
The March 2011 flight upgrade -- raising the cost from $584.40 to $2,605.40 -- was booked the same month Shirakawa filed for personal bankruptcy, claiming he was unable to pay for his housing and cars.
Other supervisors are also having their credit cards examined by auditors, but early reviews reveal little evidence of questionable charges, officials said. Shirakawa's spending and paperwork trails are being examined by the District Attorney's office as part of an investigation into possible criminal misuse of funds. Some of the documents under review reflect small-dollar but high-outrage use of public funds, such as the dates Shirakawa charged his constituents for two lunches on a single day.
On Feb. 12, 2010, for example, Shirakawa paid with his county credit card for his first meal at 12:11 p.m. at Burrito Azteca -- a $19.62 "briefing meeting" with his chief of staff, Eddie Garcia, that included carne asada and bacon and eggs. Roughly an hour and a half later, he paid for a $36.19 fried ravioli lunch at Tomato Thyme with Cy Mann, then a Santa Clara Valley Water District board member.
Such irregularities have long gone unnoticed. But in the report released Monday, county auditors stepped up their oversight. All told, Shirakawa has been asked to return more than half of his 240 credit card charges totaling $36,837.
Nonelected county officials with "P-cards" appear to have been more closely watched. County Assessor Larry Stone said one of his employees repaid 12 cents. And the county's procurement director Jenti Vandertuig said in the past five years, one cardholder who defied warnings had the card revoked; another employee using the card fraudulently was fired. Written warnings have been issued to 13 others.
"We've had a rigorous review of everyone in the county," except board members, Smith said. He is now seeking to have all supervisors' cards reviewed by his office instead of the finance department, "so there's less of a power differential." Supervisor Ken Yeager is calling for quarterly reviews, and Supervisor Mike Wasserman said Tuesday he wants any future policy changes to include "immediate consequences and penalties for noncompliance," including de-activating credit cards.
Such action seems long overdue, San Jose resident Eric Steffensen said after attending Tuesday's board meeting. The retired financial planning executive said Shirakawa's spending "should never have been allowed to happen in the first place." And he brushed aside the supervisor's willingness to reimburse some of the questionable expenditures.
"Justice is not done by getting the money back," Steffensen said. "Justice is done by getting rid of him."
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ALAMEDA -- Terrelle Pryor is resisting the urge to offer a heaping helping of "I told you so'' to the skeptics who doubted his skill as a passer.
"You've got to respect the progression and respect the people critiquing you, because at the end of the day that's what it's all about -- getting better,'' Pryor said Wednesday as the Raiders got in their first full day of preparation to face the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs.
For all the attention focused on Pryor's ability to extend plays with his feet, the fact is his passing statistics have him in the realm of the NFL's top quarterbacks.
Pryor's 97.6 passer rating ranks behind Peyton Manning, Tony Romo, Philip Rivers, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan. His completion percentage of 68.3 trails only Manning (75.8), Rivers (73.7), Romo (71.8), Brees (69.7) and Ryan (69.3).
And it's not all because Pryor is breaking outside and finding receivers on scramble drills. According to ESPN stats and Information, Pryor's 72.7 completion percentage in the pocket is fourth in the NFL, ahead of both Brees and Rodgers.
Some of Pryor's success has to do with Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson furnishing him with the routes he throws best. But there is little doubt Pryor has come a long way in a short time as a passer.
During the Napa portion of training camp, Pryor was running behind the departed Matt Flynn because he wasn't throwing the ball nearly as well as he is now.
"His mechanics have really improved,'' Raiders coach Dennis Allen said. "He's got a good presence in the pocket, yet can get out and make plays. He's always been a great athlete, but he's getting better as a quarterback.''
ESPN analyst and former Colts G.M. Bill Polian said in a recent interview said he was "shockingly surprised'' at Pryor's passing skill because he'd never run into anybody that thought Pryor could be a top-flight quarterback, due to poor mechanics, vision, accuracy and touch.
And now?
"He's improved more than any player I've seen,'' Polian said Monday on ESPN.
Pryor credited Olson and quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo in helping refine his passing skills with the Raiders. However, with the current collective bargaining agreement, he is allowed only a certain amount of practice time with his actual coaches in the offseason.
Pryor began working with former USC pitching coach and major league pitcher Tom House, a guru on throwing mechanics. House has worked with throwers as accomplished as Tom Brady and as raw as Tim Tebow.
Pryor said he was told Tebow was throwing much better after working with House, only to revert to his previous form once he got back to practice. Pryor promised himself it wouldn't happen to him.
"That was the only thing I'm worried about, that when I get rushed, I don't go back to the same thing,'' Pryor said. "I'm very proud of that. I'm very locked in.''
When Pryor throws an errant pass in practice, he said he can now quickly identify why it went astray.
Center Stefen Wisniewski (knee) did not practice, nor did tackle Menelik Watson (calf).
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on Twitter at twitter.com/Jerrymcd.

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As many of you know, Comedy Central aired its David Hasselhoff roast tonight. And when Lisa Lampanelli wasn't making jokes about Roger Ebert's cancer (see the video here), Seth MacFarlane was making jokes about Anderson Cooper's sexuality! The video, inside.
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By Eric Kurhi
It wasn't easy to rouse the press and coax them out early on Easter Sunday 1993, but Lockheed Missiles and Space spokesman Jim Graham swore it would be for something far more mind-blowing than an egg hunt.
"I couldn't say what it was, but I told them they had to trust me," recalled Graham, who worked for the Sunnyvale division of the aerospace company for five years. "I said, 'I got something that's gonna go worldwide.' "
He managed to lure an Associated Press photographer and a reporter from the Aviation Week trade magazine to a morning date on a Coast Guard cutter off the Southern California shore.
Around 9 a.m. and under blue skies, the Sea Shadow was unveiled. The matte-black catamaran cruised out from behind a picturesque island looking sinister and otherworldly, sort of like Darth Vader's personal yacht, and skimmed along the water atop twin submerged torpedo-shaped hulls.
The Aviation Week reporter immediately recognized the familial resemblance to a stealth fighter aircraft unveiled five years before. He rushed up to the cutter's bridge to peer at the radar screen, to see if the Shadow registered.
"There were plenty of other boats," Graham said. "But not the Sea Shadow. It just wasn't there."
The Sea Shadow IX-529 -- a Cold War experimental craft built by Lockheed engineers under deep cover within a barge in Redwood City -- had accomplished its goal as a sail-by-night stealth craft, and the unveiling signaled the beginning of missions in broad daylight and in view of curious eyes.
Alas, in November, the 164-foot-long, 68-foot-wide, 560-ton Sea Shadow performed its final disappearing act when huge, tractor-mounted shears snipped it into piles of scrap steel at a Treasure Island boatyard.
"This stuff becomes a commodity," said Bobby Winston of Alameda-based Bay Ship and Yacht, which bought the boat and its companion barge for $2.5 million at government auction on condition that IX-529 be demolished. "It gets dumped onto barges and taken to China, and comes back as computer cases, or razor blades, or something like that."
Preservation efforts
Unceremoniously ripped to shreds -- possibly even falling into communist hands -- is a fate that few wanted to see befall a vessel that was a pioneer of technologies now used in modern watercraft around the globe.
There were efforts to save it, and the Navy offered it for free to any museum that could take it along with the Hughes Mining Barge, an enormous submersible craft with its own claim to fame for playing a key role in a secret U.S. mission to raise a sunken Soviet sub in the 1970s. The barge served as the Shadow's shelter from prying satellite eyes while the boat was built, and as a concealer when it was transported out to sea for night missions during the $195 million program's undercover years that began in 1985. "There was talk of turning it into a museum, but nobody wanted it," said Jeff Nilsson, executive director of the Virginia-based Historical Naval Ships Association. "You have to understand there are a lot of incurred costs. Getting it there, getting it ready, it's a lot of money and in this day and age, museums haven't got money to burn."
Nilsson added that the ship's status as an experimental vessel, absent battle history or even the capability to inflict damage, made it a somewhat less viable attraction.
"It's an oddity, a novelty, a test craft," he said. "It's a catamaran on steroids. It's interesting, but is it going to be a draw? If not, it's not going to work."
Without any viable offers, the Navy went to option B.
"Once we no longer need a vessel, it costs money to keep so we quickly dispose of it," said Chris Johnson, spokesman for the division of the Navy that oversees the dispersal of unwanted stock.
And there are only two paths to take.
"If it's not for a museum, it's for scrap," Johnson said. He said the U.S. Navy is not in the business of selling its old vessels to civilians to keep as watercraft: "You can't do that with a military ship."
Glory days
After its Easter rollout, the Sea Shadow enjoyed some days in the sun, said Graham, who left the Sunnyvale division of Lockheed years ago and is now at a Scotts Valley startup. In high-profile imitation, millions saw a very similar boat used as a villain's sneaky vessel in a 1997 James Bond flick.
But the real deal immediately made newspaper front pages and brought out the television choppers, and a fanciful illustration soon glossily graced the cover of Popular Mechanics. The Weekly World News heralded the arrival of a doomsday craft it dubbed the "Batboat."
"NAVY LAUNCHES DEADLY NEW STEALTH WARSHIP!" screamed the scarehead, "Top secret 'Batboat' carries enough nuclear missiles to blow every major city on Earth to kingdom come!"
Graham said at the time, he tacked the article to his office door and still chuckles over it when he digs through his big Sea Shadow portfolio.
"There was nothing in it!" Graham said. "It was empty in the back. There was absolutely nothing special inside, it looked like a normal boat."
But Graham fondly recalls the Shadow's capabilities. He once sat atop the boat in rough seas outside the Golden Gate, only ripples showing up in his coffee as "Coast Guard cutters were bounding all over the place."
He remembers the undercover Redwood City years, when residents were sure there must be something very special in that guarded barge, something fit for the attention of the Weekly World News.
"One person told me, 'I think there's a UFO in there,' " Graham said. "Flying saucers. Aliens. There was always so much speculation."
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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Memorable moments in Mark Jaffee's career
Here are some of the best moments of Mark Jaffee's sportswriting career, as selected by the Jaffman himself:
Funniest moment
In the late 1980s, Quinnipac College pitcher Steve "Turk" Wendell, a future major leaguer with Mets, Cubs and Rockies, said during a rain delay in Springfield, Mass.: "Hey, Jaff, where's your tie?"
I responded, "Hey, Steve, you worry about your pitching arm and I'll worry about my wardrobe."
The entire dugout erupted in laughter, including the jokester Wendell.
Best pregame moment
While at Central Connecticut for the state championship basketball game the year Holy Cross, Torrington and later Wilby played a few years back, ex-Wilby standout Ryan Gomes, who was early in his NBA career, came by the midcourt press table.
""How's it going, Jaff?" He extended his hand. That impressed me and I appreciated it.
When Gomes was a senior and played in a high school All-Star game, his high school teammate and point guard arrived late. When he finally arrived, he gave Gomes two alley-oop passes in a row and Gomes dunked both times, forcing the other team to call a timeout. Gomes' teammate was excited, but Gomes was mad on the bench. "We could have been doing that the whole first half if you showed up on time," barked Gomes.
Greatest fantastic finish
In the 1988 state football final, Ansonia QB Kevin Sharkey threw to Dave Donofrio on the final play to beat New London. Donofrio never remembered the play. He had sustained a violent hit earlier in the game by Jamal Johnson, the same player who slipped from his safety spot to help out a cornerback on the last play. Sharkey never saw the play after getting hit as he released the ball.
Best play
About 10 years ago, Watertown's Dan Spadola attempted an on-side kick against Wilby on the old Municipal Stadium field that was full of mud, dove for ball and came up with it under the pile. It is hands-down my favorite moment covering high school sports.
Danny is my favorite football player of all time. He was a long snapper on varsity as a freshman, but became starting tailback as a junior and senior and ran for over 1,000 yards in those seasons. He was a gamer.
Most intimidating interview
Former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti in a Cromwell hotel after he spoke to the national high school coaches convention. Larry McHugh arranged for me to have a one-on-one with Giamatti afterward.
Giamatti blew smoke in my face from his cigarette. He was yelling at me while I jotted down several notes from his speech. "My publisher is going to kill me," he said.
A woman approached me and asked what paper this was going to be in, and I said, "I hope tomorrow's Register." Bart said, "I will be reading it tomorrow."
I got real nervous as he walked away.
The day after Bart died, I had an exclusive for the New Haven Register with Fay Vincent, who was as gracious as he could be. Vincent and Bart were like brothers.
I also had a story on John Brandt, the Yale baseball captain when Giamatti was Yale's president.
Best high school athletes
Tebucky Jones, Scott Burrell a close second and Rico Brogna and Brian Leetch. Leetch won a state baseball title as a sophomore pitcher at Cheshire before going on to Avon Old Farms.
Best individual feat
I was at courtside to watch girls basketball phenom Tracy Lis of Killingly break boys phenom Walter Luckett's all-time state scoring record. Tracy was the best pure shooter in the female game I ever saw.
Most courageous moment
When Melissa Jeane Bullock of Guilford played a basketball game in 1990, a year after sustaining a seizure on the court and being diagnosed with a brain tumor, she scored eight points. After surgery and radiation and chemotherapy, Melissa returned for her senior year and graduated high school. She would never play basketball again, nor go to the University of Rhode Island and become a veterinarian as she had hoped. Melissa died at age 38 on Sept. 6, 2010.
Most uplifting stories
When Woodland's Leandro Santos, wearing a prosthetic leg, played high school football in 2006 and 2007. Leandro lost his leg at age 4. His story, along with his parents' willingness to tell their family story of perseverance, won me a New England Associated Press award in 2007.
In 1992, Maloney soccer coach Bruce Golden had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent a bone-marrow transplant. After his recovery, I wrote a profile on him and his family during this ordeal. That won me a New England AP award as well.
Best team feat
I was at courtside at the Springfield Civic Center to watch the University of New Haven women's basketball team win the 1987 Division II national title over Cal-Poly Pomona. That put women"s basketball on the Connecticut radar three years before Geno Auriemma and UConn got to the Division I Tournament.
Best quote
"We have our coach back," said Holy Cross guard Gordon Shepard after Ed Generali walked into the gymnasium for practice only a few weeks after his wife, Maggie, had died. Generali guided the Crusaders to the 1999 state final. The players rallied around their coach.
Best fan letter
Ron Diorio, the former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher from Waterbury wrote about my Hall of Fame induction: "I"ve been around the block in my time, and there are people who are talented and people who are nice and you can root for. You, my friend, are both."
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amo1ne wrote: 5 pages, haha. Yo is this the infamous Reggie from CP fame?
Reggie wrote: amo1ne made a very good point, but djdee sullied it with posts like this:
"If you backpackers would back your pack and stop living in white suburbs with whitey then maybe you could backpack your back a little more pack to back, you white suburbians whiteys you."
All in all, very good thread. Kudos.
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How clever....Fine. You aren't all suburban "whiteys". To those of you who those posts were directed at, you're apparently just ignorant fucks who are ignorant of the culture and think hip hop is something that should be confined to the indie rock section.
Excuse me while I piss on your steps.
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Hey man, if you want to be a materialistic bitch, you go ahead and be that, just dont tell other people they're not as "Hip hop" as you because they dont rock the same clothes you wear.
christ this is like some cliques in high school. "if you dont rock [insert clothing line or shoes here] you arent part of our group!!!" fuck all that.
Guess people who dont know how to think for themselves need to pigeonhole themselves into some group, be it punks, hiphop losers, rednecks... you name it. They're all the same to me.
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You're missing the point, smartass....its only as materialistic as you let it be.
hip hop has always been about style and fashion.
duck_shoe wrote: ...unless I missed the post, all you've said is what dressing hip-hop ISN'T. You've said it's not about specific clothing labels or anything like that...so tell me, what is it all about? You can't define something by saying what it isn't, you need to give some information about what it IS.
So what IS hip-hop fashion? I ask because where I'm from it seems to be all about FUBU and the like...


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Confucius Institutes are non-profit institutions dedicated to the teaching of the Chinese language and the understanding of Chinese culture among world Chinese language learners and Chinese culture lovers, thus to help build friendly relationships with other countries. Named after Confucius (551-479 BC), a great thinker, educator and philosopher in Chinese history, whose philosophical ideas such as "Harmony is the most valuable of all things" have permeated Chinese society and influenced the Chinese way of thinking for thousands of years, Confucius Institutes demonstrate the longevity and depth of the Chinese language and culture, and embody the trend of integrating the Chinese language and culture into a global society in the 21st century.
The services Confucius Institutes offer include teaching the Chinese language, training Chinese language instructors and providing Chinese language teaching resources, conducting HSK examinations (Chinese Proficiency Test) and tests for the Certificate of Chinese Language Teachers, and organizing language and cultural exchange activities between China and other countries.
As of October 2009, as many as 523 Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms have been established in 87 countries and regions across the world, among which 282 are Confucius Institutes in 84 countries and 241 are Confucius Classrooms in 25 countries. In the US alone, there are around 80 Confucius Institutes in operation.
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Particle-characterization data is central to the development, manufacture, and quality control of pharmaceutical products. The characteristics of a pharmaceutical's composite particles can affect the product in many ways, including by influencing drug efficacy and stability, as well as how the product behaves during processing. When considering the importance of particle characterization, the International Conference on Harmonization's (ICH) Q6A guideline on specifications (1) is a useful starting point because it identifies potentially important particle variables, including polymorphic form, enantiomeric purity, and particle size and distribution. The guideline also provides a decision tree to help determine when related testing is required.
This article takes a brief look at what factors have driven innovations in particle-characterization techniques and how technology may advance in this area in the coming years.Innovations in particle characterization
Two of the earliest particle-sizing techniques were manual microscopy and sieving. These methods are still used today, but both have drawbacks. For instance, microscopy is slow and manually intensive, while sieving is unsuitable for fine or cohesive materials. As such, industry has sought more advanced particle-sizing techniques.
One such approach that is gaining popularity is laser diffraction. "Although laser diffraction methods have been used for the last 30 years, continuous development has resulted in much more accurate and reproducible measurements between manufacturers," explains Graham Rideal, founder of and a senior scientist at Whitehouse Scientific, which specializes in particle-sizing methods.
Paul Kippax, product group manager at Malvern Instruments, a producer of analytical equipment, agrees that laser diffraction is an important technology, particularly because its measurement range (0.1 to 3000 μ) covers the vast majority of particle-sizing applications used by industry. In addition, laser diffraction is capable of high-speed size distribution sampling (typically less than 20 s, according to Kippax), is nondestructive, and is suitable for automation. "Today's laboratory laser diffraction analyzers have been automated to the point of push-button operation, with sample loading being the only remaining routine manual task," says Kippax.
Imaging and microscopy are not being left behind, however. Some recent advances have been made with these analytical techniques. "The continuous and concomitant development of imaging technology and high-speed computers has transformed the humble microscope from a predominantly qualitative instrument into one of the most potent quantitative tools available today," explains Rideal. "This development has extended the definition of a particle from that of a simple equivalent spherical diameter into a comprehensive shape analysis where length, width, and perimeter can be measured at tremendous speeds."


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Autism in the News – Thursday, 10.28.10
Tampa mom lived to help her autistic son, family recalls (Tampa, Fla.)
She lived for her son. Most decisions Larsen Hunt made — from her career plans to living arrangements — revolved around what she thought was best for 5-year-old Aidric. Her life goal was to heal his autism, said her mother, Susan Hunt, 54, of Tampa. Read more.
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In 1994, just 41 students were identified as autistic in Rhode Island. Today, 1,740 schoolchildren have been identified along the autism spectrum. Read more.
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Every Tuesday, Jennifer Wilkerson helps "Scrappin in the City" open up shop. "She vacuums. She dusts. She mops," says Yvette Morris, Co-Owner of "Scrappin In The City." Read more.
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Beginning on Monday, Linda Schrenko goes on trial in a federal courtroom in Atlanta, on charges she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Georgia schoolchildren and used it to pay for her failed gubernatorial campaign...and even a facelift.
The case stems from $613,000 in federal money Schrenko spent on software that prosecutors say was never delivered.
And while a jury will decide if the evidence is there to convict her, Schrenko spent an even greater amount of taxpayer money right here in Augusta.
Spending that money ended up benefiting her own campaign.
Every child in Richmond County public school, from kindergarten to 3rd grade, is using Voyager Learning System to learn to read.
Dr. Audrey Wood oversees curriculum for Richmond County Schools. She says Voyager made a very specific promise about how well it would work.
"The company promised we'd have 100% reading at grade level at the end of 3rd grade," she says.
But when News 12 investigated the reading scores for Richmond County children, we found that not only is it not 100 percent in many schools, in some, it's not even close.
Take Barton Chapel Elementary, for example.
The school has been using Voyager since 2004.
Barton students' reading scores on the state tests show 30 percent of 3rd graders do not meet performance standards in reading.
Other schools, like Collins, where Richmond County allowed News 12 to videotape classes, show far better scores. 13 percent of students there failed to meet state standards.
It's still not the 100% Dr. Wood says Voyager promised.
"I'd say this is good progress, and we are encouraged by the progress our students have made, and data is a good indicator on what next steps to take are," Dr. Wood says.
And about that 100% guarantee?
"Simply because somebody makes you a guarantee does not automatically mean that things are going to happen according to that guarantee, because we are dealing with young children and developing reading skills," Dr. Wood says.
But precisely because we are dealing with children, we should be concerned, says Richmond County School Board member and retired teacher Barbara Pulliam.
"I made an honest attempt to get them to look at it, not saying we must throw it out, but we must examine it to see if it's including all those things that we need to give our children to prepare them for the tests, that's all," Mrs. Pulliam says.
And that's not all Mrs. Pulliam's done. She says she's heard from more than 100 teachers who use Voyager.
"They thought it took away from their creativity, because it was scripted, and they had to say what was written and do exactly what program specified," says Mrs. Pulliam.
So she asked the board to survey teachers to see how they liked Voyager.
"I had some people tell me they never saw the survey who should have been surveyed," she says. "See what I'm saying?"
So how did we end up with Voyager in the first place?
In the fall of 2001, then-superintendent Linda Schrenko gave the more than $1 million grant to Richmond County...something then-school board chair Cathy Henson thought was suspect.
"She just arbitrarily gave them $1 million, with no board approval whatsoever," Henson told us in 2003. "Why Richmond County? We have 179 other counties who would love to have $1 million fall out of the sky into their laps."
News 12 heard from Voyager Thursday afternoon, April 27. The vice president of marketing told us the 100 percent reading guarantee was dropped due to lack of interest from districts adopting the program.
He did say this guarantee is still available to Richmond County schools, although he says few students would require it.
That $1.1 million from Schrenko was the just the start of taxpayer dollars spent on Voyager.
Using numbers from the Richmond County School Board, News 12 has done the math. From 2003 to 2006, Richmond County taxpayers have spent more than $2.5 million on Voyager learning.
On top of that, federal taxpayers spent another $5.4 million on Voyager.
When you total it all up, along with the $1.1 million from Schrenko, it comes to more than $9.1 million.
As Mrs. Pulliam suggests, we should be asking if we're getting our money's worth.
And there's also the question of timing. Linda Schrenko was running for governor at the time of her grant to Richmond County.
Within 2 months of her authorizing the $1.1 million for Voyager, Voyager executives in Texas contributed $55,000 to her gubernatorial campaign.
Here's a closer look at the timeline we're talking about:
Linda Schrenko was in her second term as superintendent when she wrote that check for Voyager. That was in October of 2001.
Then in December of 2001, Voyager executives and their spouses contributed $55,000 to Schrenko's campaign for governor.
In June and July of 2002, Schrenko spent $663,000 dollars on software and a calling system the auditor says were never delivered.
In August 2002, Schrenko lost to Sonny Perdue in the gubernatorial primary.
In January of 2003, Schrenko left the office of superintendent.
In November of 2003, News 12 investigated the $663,000 in spending by Schrenko.
In November of 2004, Schrenko, her deputy superintendent Merle Temple, and a South African businessman were indicted by a federal grand jury.
Schrenko's trial on those federal charges is slated to start Monday, May 1.


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Accept reality and tax the rich
Republicans are unable to accept reality. Exit polls demonstrated 60 percent or more want to increase taxes for the rich to solve our fiscal problems.
Reduced taxes for the rich, Republican policy, have been in effect for four years. We still have high unemployment.
Republicans have proved tax cuts to the rich don't work, yet blame President Barack Obama for the results. How can you compromise with people who are obviously insane?
Flo Samuels
All sides are refusing to bend
We have a rock star president who is too full of himself to bend. We have a hidebound Senate that thrives on inaction. And, we have a House of Representatives that also refuses to bend.
No compromise, no action, no compromise. We fall off the cliff.
Burt Stephenson
Compromise is unlikely with current politicians
I doubt a meaningful, long-term solution can be developed and implemented by the current cast of characters in Washington.
It's easy to blame George W. Bush or Barack Obama, but presidents come and go. It seems to me the root cause is with the Washington "lifers," both Democrats and Republicans, we continuously re-elect. Most of them have been in politics their entire lives, with little or no outside experience.
They equally spend, borrow, promise, mislead, avoid accountability and blame others. I'm sure most are friends attending the same lobby-sponsored parties and scratch one another's back "compromising" to create the next latest and greatest policy or spending program that will help them get re-elected.
Harry Reid, John Boehner and Obama failed us last year in not brokering a compromise solution. To set the stage for their upcoming compromise negotiations, all three are publicly throwing punches and drawing lines in the sand regarding the same sacred cows they fought over last year.
Reminds me of the saying, "If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got."
Bill Behan
Both sides will not work together
I have absolutely no confidence that the two political parties will actually work together to resolve our financial mess. The lack of cooperation and the stubbornness of political party leaders just makes me sick.
I'm totally fed up with the games. It simply has to stop.
So, here we go like Thelma and Louise driving off the cliff. What a way to kill this wonderful nation.
F. Zanger
No compromise can be reached
A comprise can't be reached by Jan. 1, 2013, because legislation is too complex to be accomplished in the time remaining this year.
Also, the Republican members of Congress have some very bad habits to overcome -- namely the knee-jerk reaction of voting against President Obama. And we all know bad habits are especially hard to break.
The Republican lawmakers have shown greater loyalty to their pledge to Grover "No new taxes" Norquist than to the oath of office they hold in Congress.
The Bible says, "Man cannot serve two masters." Needless to say, the Republicans have made their choice.
Thurdell Wickliff
Spending is our biggest problem
A compromise can be reached if both parties agree on one.
However, the president has already stated he will not change his position on tax increases for the wealthy. How does anyone attempt to compromise with a hard head like that?
Revenue -- taxes -- is not the problem, which is obvious. It's the wild uncontrolled investment -- spending -- that is the problem.
For proof, check out the rise of our national debt that has occurred within the past four years and it's still climbing.
Rudolph Jimenez
Why did we elect our president?
President Barack Obama was elected on the platform of no extension of the Bush tax cuts.
I think the press has made up the term "fiscal cliff." If there is a fiscal cliff, we should go over it.
Kay Korbel
Democrats won't accept solution
The major media and our sorry state of education have resulted in a slim majority of the voters re-electing the same president who spends $1 trillion more yearly than comes in and the same Senate that has failed to even pass a budget for the last three years.
Hopefully, there will not be a compromise toward more of the same disastrous policies. Instead, they need to be opposed, debated and stopped if we are to avoid national bankruptcy.
Ronald Reagan "inherited" a similar disastrous economy and his policies turned it around into the quickest and biggest improvements ever seen coming out of such economic peril caused by Jimmy Carter and the Democrats.
His lowering of stifling taxes and support of Americans and their freedoms created more revenues from taxation, not less.
It also lowered the cost of gasoline, and with his policies and Newt Gingrich's Republican Congress, they forced Bill Clinton to embrace welfare reform and to balance the budget.
That is our way to a solution, but President Obama, Harry Reid and the Nancy Pelosi Democrats probably won't follow it.
Pete Laurence
Doesn't matter if taxes go up
It doesn't matter if taxes are raised. The spending on entitlements and welfare for corporations in the form of green energy subsidies and other socially acceptable reasons for stealing from the public to give to the rich will expand even faster.
Nadja Adolf
House endangers will of the people
Compromise definition: 1. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; 2. exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.
There will not be comprise (1) over the fiscal crisis until those in Congress are willing to work together in achieving what is right for the American people.
The fiscal cliff crisis is being compromised (2) by those individuals whose sole purpose is to wreak havoc with the legislative system and, in particular, any programs presented by President Obama, for which he deems necessary in keeping our country viable/competitive.
The president's plans, which includes helping the middle class prosper and taxing earnings more than $250,000 to help bring down the deficit, was approved by the electorate. Those on the right continue to deny the truth. We cannot allow our vote to be compromised or endangered for the conservatives' political gain.
We must object to the House conservatives' compromising/endangering the will of the people. Voters, stay involved and let your voices continue to be heard.
Sharon Soulis


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Copernicus has been redesigned from the ground up to bring you the easiest screen capture and movie capture available.
It features the ability to capture movies directly to ram, offering higher framerates than possible with other programs. Once you are done recording your movie, you can export to any video format that QuickTime supports, including MPEG-4.
By default, screenshots are automatically directed to the thumbnail viewer, where you can sort through the screenshots you've taken, and make modifications such as removing the mouse cursor, or adding a watermark. Screenshots can be saved to many formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and more.
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It need an option to select a codec and encode the recorded vid on the fly, because is currently only records uncompressed video, but even lower end Macs should be able to directly encode Motion JPEG. With uncompressed video even the RAM of higher end Macs is filled with ease. Other than that it's a really nice app.
Hint for everybody with problems: Record directly to hard disk and use a lower FPS setting. 10 FPS is smooth enough for most stuff.
The menus are a little tricky but I have had a lot of success recording video. The quality is great too.
I ran it and had to force restart my mac 4 times before it would reboot.
I lost 2 hours of work, and received no video.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get this to actually record a video. I tried 3-4 times, selecting to record to both hard drive and RAM, and in general encountered nothing but freezes and crashes. YMMV
But you can easily set it to record to the hard-drive.
The fact that it records to RAM limits it usefulness. It tends to crash with bigger capture areas and recording times longer than 30 seconds.
I really like the look & feel of this tool, but it's not stable enough atm.
btw Display Eater is freeware, too
Yeah, it doesn't run that well unless I make the capture area pretty small, but it's still really cool that it's free.
wow, the video feature is just great cos the sw is free!


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U.S. Bank Gridley branch is excited to announce that its associates presented a $2004.50 check to Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital last Thursday. U.S. Bank and community volunteers threw a BBQ fundraiser during U.S. Bank's annual United Way Campaign to raise the funds. The bank's employees decided they wanted the money raised to support the community of Gridley and give it to the hospital for the new Emergency Department as part of the Hospital Foundation's "Champions" project.
U.S. Bank and its employees are dedicated to improving the communities they serve, for which the company earned the 2011 Spirit of America Award, the highest honor bestowed on a company by United Way. United Way of Northern California is committed to keeping local funds in the community where they are raised.
"Partnering with United Way was a meaningful way for our employees to help our community," said Karen Cassady, assistant manager of the U.S. Bank Gridley branch. "The new Biggs-Gridley Hospital Emergency Department is a vital project and we are proud to help both the United Way and the hospital."
United Way of Northern California was started in 1953 by a group of volunteers who wanted to make a difference in their community and serves the nine counties of Butte, Glenn, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity and Plumas. Donations fund local non-profit agencies that provide programs and services to address our community's most pressing needs in the areas of education, income and health.
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Everything you need to help you understand how to apply, register and get involved on campus can be found on our website.
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Our students are engaged in a wide range of academic pursuits that include degree programs in 160 undergraduate and graduate fields delivered by 11 different colleges.
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A-State offers unlimited possibilities for students to customize their experience while on campus.
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Research engages intellectual curiosity, satisfies the thirst for discovery, and provides an outlet for creativity.
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Marking its first hundred years, Arkansas State University continues to expand in exciting ways.
Dr. Jim Stillwell
- P.E.D., Indiana University
- M.S.E., Western Illinois University
- B.S.E., Western Illinois University
Teaching Specialties
- Curriculum design and implementation
- Elementary physical education
Research Interests
- Children fitness
- Curriculum design
- Higher education administration
Bryant, L. G. & Stillwell, Jim L. (May, 2009). The physical education teacher/coach in American culture . 11th International Conference on Education. Athens, Greece.
Stillwell, Jim L. (April, 2009). Leadership: According to Attila the Hun, AAHPERD National Convention, Tampa, FL.
Stillwell, Jim L. (March, 2008). Using exercises with young children, Southern Early Childhood Association 59th Annual Conference, Covington, KY.
Stillwell, Jim L. (June, 2008). Creative rhythmic activities for children, Southwest District AHPERD Convention, Kona, HI.
Stillwell, Jim L. (June, 2008). Using exercises with children, Southwest District AHPERD Convention, Kona, HI.
Bryant, L. G. & Stillwell, Jim L. (November, 2008). Whistles & polyester shorts: Media images of physical education teachers . State Convention of ArkAHPERD, Little Rock.
Stillwell, Jim L. & LaVetter, D. (February, 2007). Club sports vs high school sports: Competing for youth participation, Southern District Convention of AHPERD, Chattanooga, TN.
Stillwell, Jim L. & Maness, D. (January 2007). Leading the department in the 21st century, National Association for Kinesiology and Physical Education in Higher Education National Conference, Tampa, FL.
Selected Publications:
Lawler-Prince, D. & Stillwell, Jim L. (2008). Childhood Obesity: Helping Preschool Children Become Healthy and Fit. Little Rock, AR: SECA.
Stillwell, Jim L. & Willgoose, C. (6th ed., 2006). The Physical Education Curriculum. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Definition of metamorphose in English:
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1(Of an insect or amphibian) undergo metamorphosis, especially into the adult form: feed the larvae to your fish before they metamorphose into adults
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- Embryonic coelomic structures have specific fates as the bilaterally symmetrical larvae metamorphose into radially symmetric adults.
- These larvae will also metamorphose into adults sooner than their long-armed brethren and thus are vulnerable to planktonic predators for a shorter period of time.
- A larva metamorphoses into a small polyp termed the scyphistoma.
1.1Change or cause to change completely in form or nature: a father seeing his daughter metamorphosing from girl into woman
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- His appeal discloses the 'work' of making early television and also very publicly admits to the nature of program metamorphoses from program department conception to a weekly show.
- It metamorphoses, mutates, transforms with each effort to capture it, so that anything that is 'captured' would be anything but the beginning.
- Metaphor adds its own changes to those botanical metamorphoses the poem celebrates descriptively.
1.2 [with object] Geology Subject (rock) to metamorphism: (as adjective metamorphosed) a metamorphosed sandstone
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Poland, 2011, 61 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Art/Filmmaking, Documentary
Program: Focus on Nation Cinema: ArgentinaLanguage: Polish, Spanish English Subtitles
DIRECTOR: Wojciech Staron
Producer: Malgorzata StaronEditor: Zbyszek Osinski, Wojciech StaronScreenwriter: Wojciech StaronCinematographer: Wojciech StaronPrincipal Cast: Marcia Majcher, Janek Staron
In this beautifully observed hybrid of documentary and feature film, Polish filmmaker and cinematographer Wojciech Staron turns the camera on his eight-year-old son, Janek, as the family spends a year in Argentina. Largely wordless, this feast for the senses uses the language of gesture, action, movement, faces, and nature to create a window on childhoods affected by the pressures of the adult world. Staron works so unobtrusively that his subjects lose their self-consciousness and the story tells itself.
Janek's mother begins teaching Polish classes, which draw Marcia, an 11-year-old of Polish descent who has become the anchor of her fractured family. So while Janek and Marcia practice handstands, teach each other to swim, and wend their way through the demands of school and the protocols of the Roman Catholic Church, their everyday experiences also include finding ways to earn money. They make bricks; they work in an orchard; Marcia finds employment as a maid. But her workday doesn't end there. She must also care for her ailing mother and her absentee, down-on-his-luck father. She shares it all with her new friend, Janek, whose eyes are opened to a new reality.
Staron won the Silver Bear for Best Cinematography at the Berlinale in 2011 and has directed numerous documentaries, including Siberian Lesson, in which he followed his girlfriend to the Lake Baikal region, where she taught Polish. In 2011, Argentinian Lesson swept the Grand Prix at film festivals in Poland, Russia, Italy, Austria and China.
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Spokeswoman Jacobe Heers says the 20-kilogram (44 pound) gilded sculpture was found Tuesday morning outside a university. It was hanging from the neck of a horse sculpture with a red ribbon.
The century-old cookie was reported stolen last month from the office of a bakery company in Hannover.
A local newspaper later received a letter demanding cookies be delivered to children at a hospital. The paper also received a picture of someone dressed like Sesame Street's Cookie Monster holding what appeared to be the stolen cookie.
The Bahlsen company promised a reward of 52,000 packets of cookies for a charitable cause if their emblem turned up.
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The Truckee girls basketball team dropped a close nonleague game to visiting North Valleys on Wednesday, 48-42.
The Wolverines gave the Division I school all it could handle, leading 37-36 midway through the fourth quarter, but they could not manage to fend off the Panthers down the stretch.
North Valleys senior Taylor Dockter banked in an off-balanced 3-pointer late in the game to help put Truckee away, while 5-11 senior Haley Bowen poured in 25 points for the Panthers to lead all scorers.
"She's probably the most underrated player in Reno," Truckee coach Geoff Stephens said of Bowen. "She gets lost behind the kids from the big four (Reed, Reno, Spanish Springs and Bishop Manogue). She shoots the 3, drives and posts well."
Truckee senior Sydnie led the Wolverines with 17 points, and senior Jackie Bolton scored nine points.
"Everyone played hard," Stephens said, adding that English, Bolton, Cassandra Sawyer and Lauren Peak all hit the boards "really hard."
English pulled down five offensive rebounds, while Diana Rosas, Karina Nunez and Ashley Harris played solid defense in the zone and had four steals between them, Stephens said. Senior point guard Katey Hamill dished out six assist and had four steals to go along with her one 3-pointer.
"We can beat them," Stephens said of North Valleys. "But we still turned the ball over too much."
UP NEXT: The Truckee boys and girls basketball teams both hosted Incline to kick off Mount Rose League play Thursday night, but the games ended too late for publication. The Wolverines play at North Tahoe on Friday, girls at 6 p.m. and boys at 7:30. Truckee then hosts Whittell on Tuesday.


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SAN JOSE -- Veteran assistant coach Greg Robinson will become the new San Jose State defensive coordinator, according to a source.
Coachingsearch.com first reported the hire on Monday morning. Robinson, a former defensive coordinator for Texas and the Denver Broncos, replaces Kenwick Thompson, who left after one season to become an assistant at Vanderbilt.
The school hasn't yet announced Robinson's hiring and it could take some time before it becomes official.
Robinson, 62, began last season as a quality control coach at Texas before being elevated by former coach Mack Brown to the defensive coordinator job two games in. He previously served as Brown's defensive coordinator in 2005.
Robinson spent 10 years as a defensive coordinator in the NFL, including six seasons with the Broncos in which they won back-to-back Super Bowls. He also was a defensive coordinator for the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs.
He left his first stint at Texas to become Syracuse's head coach, but went just 10-37 in four seasons. He spent the next two years as a defensive coordinator at Michigan and was out of coaching for two years before joining Texas last season.
Robinson's ties to San Jose State coach Ron Caragher stem from their days at UCLA. Robinson spent eight years there as an assistant. He was the defensive line coach for the first seven years, but served as the offensive coordinator in 1989 during Caragher's senior season as a backup quarterback. That's the only time in his coaching career that Robinson has coached on the offensive side.
Robinson is a California native from Bakersfield. He played collegiately at the University of Pacific, where he was teammates and later a fellow graduate assistant coach with Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll. He and Carroll also coached together at North Carolina State and Robinson served as Carroll's defensive coordinator for his one season as head coach of the Jets in 1994.
Robinson was not retained at Texas by new coach Charlie Strong, but said toward the end of last season that he planned to continue coaching for a while.
"I've got a lot left in my tank," Robinson told the Austin American Statesmen on Dec. 28 before the Longhorns played Oregon in the Alamo Bowl. "I really was considering darkening my hair, but my wife won't allow it. I can coach. I've still got a lot of energy left, and I can outrun a lot of younger coaches, too.
"I got at least 10 more years left in me."
Carter seems like a natural fit after having spent three years on Caragher's staff at the University of San Diego, where he coached the tight ends for one year, the offensive line for two and was the running game coordinator in 2011.
Carter was an offensive quality control coach for the Seahawks the past two years, a role that primarily consists of film study and playbook work. He replaces Hank Fraley, who left after one season with SJSU to join the Minnesota Vikings coaching staff.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – The ASD Video Glossary
Social reciprocity, joint attention, sensory defensiveness, hand flapping, and echolalia.
These are just a few of the terms which may sound foreign to a parent who suspects his child may have autism. And even when you look up a word, it is hard to visualize the concept. What exactly does hand flapping look like? What does echolalia sound like?
Autism Speaks, together with First Signs and Florida State University, developed a web-based video glossary to help parents and professionals learn more about the early warning signs of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The glossary contains over a hundred video clips and is available free of charge, to help parents of children suspected of or recently diagnosed with autism better understand some of the words and terms they might hear used in association with ASD. Whether you are a parent, family member, friend, physician, clinician, childcare provider, or educator, it can help you see the subtle differences between typical and delayed development in young children and spot the early red flags for ASD. Video clips are used to show examples of terms such as echolalia and hand flapping. In many cases, side-by-side video clips show behaviors that are typical in contrast with those that are red flags for ASD. All of the children featured in the ASD Video Glossary as having red flags for ASD are, in fact, diagnosed with ASD.
If you suspect autism or are in the process of obtaining a diagnosis, I highly recommend you utilize the video glossary, which can be found here: http://www.autismspeaks.org/video/glossary.php.
Please note: the ASD Video Glossary is not a diagnostic tool.
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It was, in a way, anticlimactic. When the bird arrived, tired from its long journey from King's Landing, the Old Palace's maester carried the message to the Seneschal, who in turn brought it before Prince Marence, who was at that time in conference with certain lords and ladies and knights, discussing the way forward for a war-weary Dorne. The message was read, and King Baelor's terms—practically in perfect agreement with Prince Marence's counter-offer—were, it seems, much as Prince Marence hoped. What were two more towerhouses in the Prince's Pass and the Boneway, after all, when compared to the Targaryen banner being struck down from over Wyl and Salt Shore?
Perhaps if Prince Rhodry had been there, there would at least have been some argument. But the wicked prince was away, and none could say where with any certainty. Marence's way was made easy, and though some of the stony Dornishmen made a little noise about the onerous difficulty being placed on them, it was just noise in the end. Prince Marence wrote back mere hours afterward, sending the message on three separate ravens. For peace, he would gladly give three towers in each of the passes, and a promise to place royal garrisons there to help dissuade banditry and raiding, and grant safe passage to an emissary of the Iron Throne. And in return? Wyl and Salt Shore restored, and his brother Cadan and sister Ariane freed, along with the forty-seven other hostages. Yes, a small price to pay indeed.
After the ravens flew, commands were sent elsewhere, apparently to pave the way for the departure of the king's embattled garrisons at Salt Shore and Wyl, and to see about the beginnings of preparations to place Martell garrisons in the passes as promised.
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I don't know; upwards of a 1000 if I had to guess. I never check it. Most of the emails I get are not pertinent. For example "if anyone has a spare file cabinet, the renal department is looking for one." Sometimes they are MIS related telling people the computer system will be down. I dont give a crap if its down. I can't use it and there is nothing I can do about it.
If anyone asks me if I recieved an email from them, I tell them they need to tell me in person if you have something to say to me. The only people that would need to email me I talk to multiple times a day, so there really is no need.
Bunches more that are archived or in personal folders.
Like Arrojo and the other dude, I keep my work Inbox clean. I have < 10 items in there at the moment.
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12. I store what I need in other folders, delete the garbage and keep in my inbox only those that require action.
Same here, except my "require action" is up to about 70 or so this week - there's been a lot of meetings and I haven't been able to get caught up.
When I get to 100, I'm panicking. Less than 10, I start wondering if I have any vacation days left.
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Have a look at the CJZ website for: Hamel and Cote 2007, Habitat use patterns in relation to escape terrain: are alpine ungulate females trading off better foraging sites for safety? CJZ 85: 933-943. Sounds familiar...
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reminiscent but not familiar... exactly opposite of the results I found...
too bad they didn't report herd characteristics, it would be interesting to know if population and demography trends/traits are also different...
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You'll thank me.
Thanks. That is good stuff. Now if only I can will myself to actually do it.
Originally posted by Arrojo:
12. I store what I need in other folders, delete the garbage and keep in my inbox only those that require action.
1. Much of my email is customer correspondence, including price quotes, etc. that I'll often refer to later. I keep both received and sent messages in folders by customer, and have other folders for company updates, things from my manager, etc.
Don't you other folks have some kind of folder/label system to get that stuff out of the inbox?
If not, the link Dervin posted really does have some useful info. I like the 4 D's method, and that's pretty much what I do.
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You'll thank me.
I'll read it later...
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Don't you other folks have some kind of folder/label system to get that stuff out of the inbox?
Sure, but I'm disorganized. !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/frown.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/frown.gif|border=0!
It is recommendation letter season, so I felt the pinch yesterday when trying to find emails from students and the schools they were applying to.
I have action, archive, and hold folders and my emails are immediately filed to one of those folders as soon as I read it. It's the only way I can keep track of what I actually need to do, because I get most of projects through email.
I used to just have an inbox, but I got overwhelmed, and now I get twitchy if there is anything in my inbox at all...I've really become a little organizationally obsessive !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|border=0!.
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Lemnos Labs, one of the first seed investors in Silicon Valley to tackle the challenging hardware sector, is already eyeing a second, larger fund, soon after closing its first, VentureWire reports. Thanks to faster and cheaper prototyping methods, hardware concepts can be developed for pennies on the dollar compared to what they cost five years ago. As industries open up to new hardware technologies in the search for efficiency gains, startups and early-stage investors see an opening.
Fresh off its first exit, Kii Capital is aiming for a larger fund, this time with no participation from its corporate mothership Kii Corp., VentureWire reports. To signal the team's independence as well as its expanded focus to include mobile apps that have no immediate strategic relationship to mobile app services company Kii Corp., the group has renamed itself Strive Capital.
Also in today's VentureWire: Radius Health, a developer of therapies to combat osteoporosis that last year withdrew its bid to go public, has raised a $47 million fourth funding round, the company said…Ocera Therapeutics plans to secure $20 million and a Nasdaq listing by merging with publicly held Tranzyme in a deal that will enable it to continue advancing a treatment for certain rare liver diseases…and NexGen Storage, a maker of data storage systems that leverage flash memory for faster performance, has been acquired by Fusion-io for $119 million.
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2.34 m
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Yup, that is the new Nordhavn 78.' Just when you thought you knew what an expedition yacht should look like, Nordhavn has tacked again.
Say it ain't so, Jim! It is true alright, and here is what the co-founder of Pacific Asia Enterprises (aka PAE, Nordhavn) and VP, Jim Leishman, has to say—
"This design will appeal to a whole faction of clientele who tend not to prefer the traditional expedition-type look of a Nordhavn," says PAE's vice president, Jim Leishman. "The N78 will evoke a contemporary European feel without losing the dynamic of being a Nordhavn."
The Nordhavn 78 has three en suite staterooms and, because it has a 21' beam and the engines are V-Drives, those cabins are all huge. Note the VIP forward has a separate entrance which should make it very private, indeed.
Nordhavn says--
"Key to the design is the emphasis Chief Designer Jeff Leishman has placed on outdoor living, starting with the flybridge. The N78's flybridge will feature a Jacuzzi, wetbar, barbecue and a large open deck area perfect for entertaining. Meanwhile, the foredeck – a typical lounging hotspot on most European boats – has been designated the ideal outdoor "chilling space." The cockpit of the N78 has been opened up, too, further enhancing entertaining possibilities.
"Another draw of the new 78 is that it better segregates the crew from the owners and their guests. Like the entire Nordhavn product range (with the exception of the N120), the N78 was intended to be operated without a captain. However, Leishman has designed engine room access in the transom so that employed crew can enter the area without impacting company on board.
We like the formal dining table opposite the sofa and chairs in the saloon – and so will the Europeans. Note that there is a small cabin abaft the pilothouse for the captain. We suspect this was put here for night running or afternoon naps. There is another cabin below in the stern for crew, as well.
"The new N78 will come equipped with twin engines, have ocean-crossing capabilities with a range of 3,000+ miles and superior fuel efficiency. The interior will feature an updated, modern design aesthetic that includes sumptuous owners' accommodations and two superb guest rooms all with ensuite heads; crew quarters and off-watch quarters.
"Although the lines of the N78 will have a European flair, Nordhavn feels the yacht will appeal to international and American markets alike. "The beauty of this design is that it's a Nordhavn, so you've got comfort and confidence while underway, but the benefits will be realized when you're not passage making," notes Nordhavn Europe's Philip Roach. "The added elements will really allow you to enjoy your time on board once you've arrived."
The flying bridge and boat deck of the Nordhavn 78. Does anyone ever really use a Jacuzzi?
BoatTEST.com Says—
This yacht is quite a departure for Nordhavn. We thought we'd never see this builder design in a Jacuzzi and put a bunny pad on the bow of a long range cruiser, but we guess change is constant. Azimut introduced a long range cruiser about 18 months ago that took its maiden voyage around the Med last fall, and we suspect that was an impetus for this Nordhavn departure.
The owners of Nordhavn, Jim Leishman and Dan Streech, are smart and they are reaching out to a broader market than just the trawler/expedition group. Further, PAE has designs on making more European sales and evidently the styling of its current models are not ringing many chimes there. One would hope that this design will be stylish enough for Europeans, and so we understand the addition of the Jacuzzi and bunny pad. The boat has twin engines which will make it a lot easier to back into Med moorings.
The fact that the boat will only go 9 knots or so shouldn't be much of a disadvantage in the Med, as few boat owners there go any distance, anyway. Why pay all of that extra money for big engines to go five miles and anchor off a beach? Med charter boats do better with four staterooms, but other than that detail, we think the guys at Nordhavn might be on to something.
This 78' (24 m) vessel has a 21' (6.46 m) beam draws 7'8" (2.35 m) and displaces 252,000 lbs. (114.3 MT). She carries 5,700 gal (21m575 L) of fuel which is considerable for this size of boat. Nordhavn says the boat will have over a 3,000 nm range, which means this boat can go trans-oceanic.
She is powered by twin Cummins QSMIIDM-425 425-hp diesels driving through ZF550 V-drives with a 2.96:1 reduction.
This vessel is chock full of new ideas and is one of the most innovative boats in this size range that we have seem come along in quite some time. We think the boat will be popular all over the world, and we look forward to seeing it in 2011 when it is launched.
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November 16, 2013
The MacMurray College men's basketball team opened the 2013-14 season with a hard-fought 72-71 victory over Rust College (Miss.) Saturday night in the first game of the Webster University Cavallo Classic Tournament in St. Louis, Mo.
Senior forward Brady Slagle (Winchester, Ill./West Central) paced the Highlanders with a game-high 24 points and sixteen rebounds. Slagle also led the squad in assists (4) and added three steals and two blocks. His second block came in the final seconds on Kwamere Gredic's shot that would've given the Bearcats a lead.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- A's pitcher Jeff Samardzija is a man without a team for the next couple of days, and he's making the most of a unique situation.
Samardzija, who joined the A's in July 4 in a trade with the Chicago Cubs, was voted onto the National League all-star roster by the NL players. After joking that he could stand on home plate — no-man's land between the two baselines — during the national anthem on Tuesday, he said he was looking forward to a chance to find a little bit of closure for his days in the NL while also celebrating the start of his journey with his new teammates.
"The timing (of the trade) was unfortunate, but I'm really excited to get come here and experience two teams," said Samardzija, who will be introduced with the NL on Tuesday and will wear a generic National League jersey throughout the game but is not eligible to pitch for either team. At some point during the game he is expected to switch dugouts and finish the game with the AL.
"I get to work out with the National League team and get to thank those guys for bringing me here and speaking up and saying that I belong here, which is exciting. I've got a lot of respect for those guys. I've faced them for a long time, especially that Central (Division). I think I've seen Joey Votto and Jay Bruce and Matt Holliday and those guys plenty. Then during the game since I'm part of the AL now I get to go and ... meet those guys that I'll be facing in the near future, so it's exciting."
Part of Samardzija's excitement stems from leaving a team that was in last place in the NL Central and joining the first-place team in the AL West. He also noted the unusual makeup of the A's clubhouse as an early point of interest in his brief tour in Oakland thus far.
"I really kind of walked into a buzzsaw with that clubhouse, man. They're fun. They're gamers," Samardzija said. "They come to play every day and their main goal is that day. They're not worried about what happened the day before or who we're facing the next day. It's all about that current day and doing what they can do to win that game."
After a 2-7 start with the hapless Cubs, Samardzija is 1-1 in his two starts for the A's. He's posted two quality starts and walked one while striking out 10 in 15 innings. That's pretty much what the A's were looking for when they traded for him.
"Obviously with me coming into a new clubhouse, a new scenario, I just want to try to do what I can to help out. The way they've been playing, I don't have to do too much," he said. "There's a lot of talent over there, they take great at-bats, great defense, so I'm just looking to come in and make a nice transition to the team and get to know the guys as fast as possible, get to know the ins and outs of everybody so I can see how I fit in with the team."


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Mother, son recovering after head-on collision
Published: Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10:08 p.m.
Heather Stepp and her 7-month-old son, Ely, seriously injured in a head-on collision Dec. 3, attended a praise service at their church Sunday with countless friends and family.
Spaghetti supper benefit
A spaghetti supper benefit will be held from 4-8 p.m. Jan. 19 at the Upward Community Building at the corner of Upward and Howard Gap roads. Plates with spaghetti, salad, drink and dessert will be sold for $6 each. Takeout is available. All proceeds will go to the Stepp family to help with bills during Heather's and Ely's recovery. Hot Dog World, where Heather worked before the accident, hopes to hold a benefit for the family in March. For more information, call 828-458-4406 or 828-243-2864 or visit www.facebook.com/pages/Heather-and-Elys-Friends-and-Family-Page/145683518912564
Heather Stepp's mother and father say the two are living proof of the healing acts of prayer. Doctors doubted Ely would survive, but a brain hemorrhage turned out to be a popped blood vessel. They also questioned whether Heather Stepp would ever walk again.
Trooper Bryan Stroup said Paul Jeffrey Satterfield, 56, of Hendersonville was driving under the influence of drugs when he crossed the center line on Kanuga Road near London Road at about 12:15 p.m. on Dec. 3. Troopers say he crashed head-on into the SUV Heather Stepp was driving.
The force of the impact left Ely in critical condition with a brain injury, broken left leg, a cut on his liver and a skull fracture. Heather Stepp was admitted to the hospital with two broken feet in addition to a crushed left ankle and a broken right elbow.
Heather Stepp says she remembers the wreck. She remembers asking about her baby; she even remembers being placed in the MAMA helicopter that carried them from Pardee Hospital to Mission Hospital. But her first week in the hospital when Ely's prognosis was touch-and-go is a blur.
Family members said it was a "waiting game" in the early days, as Ely's doctor cut his sedation and pain medications and waited to gauge the extent of his brain damage. Ely moved and the family cheered... with caution.
"Pardee told us to go ahead and be prepared that he wasn't going to make it," said Melissa Bradburn, Heather Stepp's mother.
"They said that with his brain injury his head would swell. They just didn't know how much; that they'd have to observe it for the next 72 hours," Heather Stepp added. "And each day, his brain didn't swell. That was the life-threatening part — how much his brain would swell."
The brain hemorrhage, doctors noted, turned out to be "just a blood vessel that had popped" and cleared up completely, she said.
Scott Bradburn, Heather Stepp's father, was with Ely when a nurse came in, fearing the worst, to run an EEG test. She was surprised with the results.
"She showed me the black line and she said, 'A normal 6-month-old would have six spikes and he has four-and-a-half,'" recalled Scott Bradburn.
"They weren't expecting that at all," Melissa Bradburn said. "He's just been a miracle."
Heather Stepp knows the stories now, but for a week she was clueless to Ely's health, hanging on to the words of others who told her he was OK.
"I think it was because God knew everything would be okay and didn't want me to have to worry," she said. "There was a man that stayed with me (at the wreck) and talked to me and made sure I was okay, but I don't remember his name... All I could think about was, how is Ely, where is Ely? So I kept asking, 'How is Ely? Where is he?' The man beside me said, 'Ely is fine. They're over there working on him and he's fine.' That helped calm me down. If they would have told me he's not breathing, I would have tried to be out of that car."
At the hospital, Ely was given a tracheal intubation to help him breathe and was fitted with a feeding tube. Doctors said the assistance could be permanent, and told Heather Stepp they would have to send him home with a 24-hour nurse. But, to test his recovery, a doctor removed Ely's feeding and tracheostomy tubes before he left the hospital Dec. 27. Ely breathes and eats on his own today.
Heather Stepp, who was released from the hospital about a week after the wreck, returned to stay with her son.
Ely still wears a harness to help his broken femur heal, but is otherwise a happy baby. His voice is still a little hoarse from the tracheostomy, Heather Stepp said, but every sound he makes is music to her ears.
"I believe God won't give me anything I couldn't handle, and I couldn't handle losing him," she said.
Doctors will still have to keep an eye on Ely's development with the brain injury, but for now, he's doing well.
"He's the miracle baby," Melissa Bradburn said. "That's what people are calling him."
A long road
Heather Stepp can walk on her right foot, but her right arm and left foot will take a while to heal. It will be a long road to recovery and probably six months before she can start physical therapy. At least one more surgery will be needed on her foot.
"They're going to have to fuse my ankle so I won't be able to run or do any of those kinds of activities. I probably won't be able to stand for long periods of time," she said.
Churches all over the country, from Florida to Washington, have been praying for the Stepps.
"It's just been amazing," Melissa Bradburn said. "I know that's the reason why Ely and her both are doing so well."
The family has received cards by the bushels, stamped from all over, and more than 1,100 have followed Heather and Ely's recovery on Facebook.
"I mainly want to thank everybody for all their thoughts and prayers and all of the donations into our fund," Heather Stepp said. "Everybody has been so generous and anytime I go anywhere people just hand me money and tell me that I'm in their prayers... We wouldn't have been able to get along without them and without their generosity."
She and her husband, Bo, were out of work in December — Heather recovering with Bo by her side — but with the help of a generous community, her children still had Christmas. Churches rallied to raise money for the family and bought Heather Stepp new glasses. Members of the Valley Hill Fire Department came to visit her in the hospital. They brought Ely and his brother and sister a toy.
"It's good to see at a time when everything's so bad that people are still giving," Scott Bradburn said.
"And right at Christmas when people don't have it, they still gave," added Heather's mother.
"We still have a long road ahead of us, but we're doing better," Heather said. "God has a plan for us."
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