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PARKERSBURG - When the Wood County Board of Education meets next week to look at funding repairs to athletic facilities, particularly Parkersburg High's Stadium Field, President Tim Yeater said there needs to be a meeting of the minds.
School and PHS Stadium Committee officials met with the board Tuesday seeking approval to proceed with fundraising and a plan to reopen the bleachers of Stadium Field. The 90-year-old stadium needs about a million dollars in repairs to open in time for football season.
"The 800-pound gorilla in the room, is what kind of money are we willing to put up," board member Jim Fox asked Tuesday.
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Parkersburg High Principal Pam Goots and Athletics Director Lori Lowers talk prior to the start of Tuesday's Wood County Board of Education meeting to discuss plans to renovate the bleachers at Stadium Field. The bleachers are in need of repairs — to the tune of about a million dollars — and officials want to get things fixed in time for football season
During the meeting board members broached the idea of providing funds for the projects. That idea was expanded to explore needs to athletic facilities at the county's three high schools. And then again to review the school system's facilities plan.
Yeater said Wednesday officials need a measured approach to things.
"There needs to be some common ground as to how much the board can allocate and what sort of expectations there will be for the facilities," he said.
Sue Woodward, assistant superintendent of Wood County Schools, said during the past three years the school system has spent approximately $35,000 at both Williamstown and Parkersburg South high schools for athletic facility improvements.
"Both of them had approximately the same amount," she said,
Last summer Erickson requested $80,000 to resurface the track at Erickson Field. The board declined to appropriate the money. Woodward said the school system assisted with locker room improvements, sprinklers and heating and gas lines.
Williamstown High School also requested funding for replacement of its bleachers, at an estimated cost of $125,000. Some of that work was done by boosters and volunteers. Woodward said the funds don't calculate the in-kind labor and equipment costs provided by the school system.
"We wouldn't have written a check for $125,000," she said. "We didn't have it."
Stadium Field's bleachers require several hundred thousand dollars in improvements to bring at least part of the bleachers into useable condition. Parkersburg High Principal Pam Goots said the goal is to have sections fixed by football season. She said the need for revenue generated by football offsets the cost of athletics at the high school. She noted Stadium Field served as host to 90 non-PHS events last year.
Officials said if the stadium remains closed in the fall, the athletics department stands to lose about $200,000. Goots said the intent of the stadium committee is to get approval to begin fundraising and seek a bid package.
Charlotte Potter, treasurer for the stadium committee, said they have about $69,000 in the bank. Officials noted the committee has raised $2.5 million for the facilities since 1996. That includes sponsors signs and a 50 cent tax on tickets used for upkeep and repairs.
"We have to assume some of the responsibility of maintaining these facilities," Yeater said. "We can't keep pushing it onto the boosters' backs. We have to assume at least part of the responsibility."
After Tuesday's meeting Potter said she was hoping the board would designate $900,000 for the project and the stadium committee could come up with $200,000. That would allow a long-term option to be done on the home side of the bleachers and be completed by late summer. Potter said it would also give the committee time to raise money to refurbish the visitors side for the 2014 season.
In the meantime, Goots noted the underside of the visitors' section, used by the baseball team, can still be used, despite the bleachers being closed. Engineering officials said precautions would need to be taken with regard to chunks of concrete falling.
While the stadium is a pressing issue for Parkersburg High and an area of concern for Big Red athletics so too is Williamstown Elementary. The elementary - a new elementary - is the top priority in the county's comprehensive education facilities plan. Woodward said the building is more than 100 years old and houses classrooms in the basement.
Emergency repairs have been done on the roof and transmitting enough electricity through the facility to run modern equipment is a hurdle. And the building is not handicapped accessible.
"Handicapped students who reside in Williamstown have to attend (elementary) school elsewhere," Woodward said.
Costs to build a new elementary school would run about $10 million.
The elementary school continues to function, unlike Stadium Field, which is closed.
"It is adequate," Woodward said. "But barely adequate."
"The bottom line is students," Yeater said. "We want to look at what we do to best provide services for education. Athletics is secondary."


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Democrats quickly take aim at Miller
11th congressional district race heats up a day after primary; recount still possible
Published: Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 12:06 a.m.
Democrats aren't waiting until the official results are in to take shots at Hendersonville businessman Jeff Miller, the apparent winner in the Republic 11th congressional district race. Meanwhile, second-place finisher Dan Eichenbaum is considering all his options, which include requesting a recount.
Miller won 40.17 percent of the votes in the congressional race. Eichenbaum, a Cherokee County eye doctor, was Miller's closest challenger, taking 34 percent of the vote. By winning more than 40 percent, Miller escaped the threat of a June runoff against Eichenbaum.
On Wednesday, Eichenbaum's campaign huddled and discussed its options.
"As of this writing our campaign has not requested a recount," Campaign Manager Brian Umbarger said in a released statement. "That decision will be made in the coming days. We have until Thursday, May 13 to request a recount, and the outstanding provisional ballots may not be tallied until May 11. These votes may well indicate a runoff as there is clearly not a consensus among Republican voters as of yet, something which we look forward to establishing on June 22 as the candidate best prepared to lead our party to victory in November."
Board of Elections offices in the district must certify their election results by May 11.
Meanwhile, the North Carolina Democratic Party wasted no time after the results were posted late Tuesday night. The party issued a news release Wednesday, saying Miller was a "flip-flopping candidate" who is a tool of the Republican Party.
"Jeff Miller may be a nice enough guy, but simple fact is that he was (the) hand-picked candidate of Republican insiders in Washington because they know he'd toe the line and do their bidding in Congress," said N.C. Democratic Party Executive Director Andrew Whalen.
"The people of Western North Carolina expect their congressman to fight for them," Whalen said.
One conference call
Miller denies the charges. He said he will not follow the wishes of party insiders and has never met with anyone from the National Republican Congressional Committee, having only sat in once on a short conference call.
"I have never had a political meeting in Washington," Miller said. "The only thing I've done is HonorAir in Washington."
He had considered getting into the campaign in October, but never formally announced his candidacy because he said he was busy with HonorAir and his high school-age son was in the middle of soccer season. Miller decided shortly after the new year to enter the race and said he made a firm commitment once he made the decision.
Miller said he and his campaign staff are tired after the long primary race. He had 500 donors and volunteers. "Right now we are going to rest," Miller said. "We are going to take a couple weeks off."
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OAKLAND -- The Warriors signed journeyman center Hilton Armstrong on Wednesday to help bolster their ailing bench.
The 6-foot-11 Armstrong, 29, was signed as a call-up from their NBA Development League affiliate in Santa Cruz, where he was averaging 15.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.0 blocks in 30.3 minutes over six games.
Forward Draymond Green, originally listed as questionable after spraining his left ankle against Charlotte on Monday, has been upgraded to probable.
Hilton was originally the 12th pick of the 2006 draft by the New Orleans Hornets, where he played for five seasons. The one-time University of Connecticut standout has also spent time with Houston, Sacramento, Washington and Atlanta. He was invited to the Indiana Pacers' training camp this year, but did not make the team. He has also played professionally in Greece, France and China.
Armstrong has played in 277 NBA games, averaging 3.2 points and 2.6 rebounds in 11.8 minutes.
Armstrong arrived Wednesday in time for the Warriors' morming shootaround and will be in uniform for Wednesday night's game against the Dallas Mavericks. He may serve as Andrew Bogut's primary backup, considering veteran Jermaine O'Neal is being bothered by a wrist injury and is listed as questionable.
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DENVER - Conservationists say a judge's ruling has given the U.S. Bureau of Land Management a chance to cancel oil and gas leases on parts of the Roan Plateau that are especially environmentally sensitive. The oil and gas industry, meanwhile, contends the judge's ruling doesn't require a vast overhaul. It's the latest back and forth between the two sides as the BLM re-examines its plans for energy development on the biologically rich plateau, which also holds the potential for more energy development that could boost jobs and tax revenues for western Colorado communities.U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger ruled last year that the BLM didn't fully consider impacts on air quality, potential ozone impacts, and a proposal that would've left much of the plateau's top undisturbed when it approved a drilling plan. However she let existing oil and gas leases on the soaring plateau remain, saying it's possible the BLM could stick with its previous drilling plan even after it takes a second look.The agency is planning to write a new supplemental environmental impact statement on drilling, but first, it gave the public until Saturday to offer comments. "Now, BLM has a second chance to give this crown jewel of Colorado's landscape the protection it deserves," conservation groups said Friday in a letter to the BLM. David Ludlam, executive director of the West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association, countered that Krieger's ruling only requires the agency to better explain its decision-making and potentially do more air quality analysis. "In point of fact, more delay and new reams of analysis will not change certain basic realities: Western Colorado needs jobs and energy production from the Roan," he wrote in his own letter Friday.
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Employers down on minimum wage hike
Higher labor costs or fewer workers
March 26, 2013
MARIETTA — The federal minimum wage is making news again. In this year's State of the Union address, President Obama called for an increase in the minimum wage from the current $7.25 to $9 per hour....
There's over 11,000,000 "Illegal Aliens" living in the United States. Most work for below the current minimum wage. The ones who don't work receives benefits as any citizen.
Congress and the Obama administration are proposing another "Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA) 2013. This is simular to (IRCA) of 1986 which gave estimated 3,000,000 "Illegal Aliens" "Amnesty".
This is 14,000,000 people who broke our existing "Immigration Laws" because "Our Federal Government" has failed to enforced these laws.
If another IRCA or Amnesty legislation is past, how many "Illegal" will be invade our country in the near future. Write your Reps. instead of P-burg News and Sentinal.
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This is the same old argument employers love to use and frankly, it isn't true. For example, say you are in the business of building swimming pools. You want to pay your employees as little as you can so you get more profit. Say all the other business people feel the same way and only want to pay minimum wage so they get a bigger profit. I can understand their desire to make more profit but if most of the customer base only makes minimum wage or barely more than that-who are they going to sell their pools, cars, houses, clothing, meals, etc., to? When wages don't keep up with the minimum things people must have to survive, something has to give and I am pretty sure rent money,utilities, gas money and food money is going to be at the top of the minimum wage workers spending plans. Given how expensive those minimal need items are-there's not going to be very many folks shopping for pools, cars, new houses,dining out, new clothes,travel or anything else now is there?
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From the cradle to the grave. The safety net is stretched mighty thin. Prices going up, wages going down, welfare going up, taxes going up, stress going up, amount in package going down, price stays the same or goes up. Can't wait to start drawing my SS, should have went on disability long, long ago. Got to check the mailbox Publisher Clearing House envelope might be there.
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You are right about the inflation. But I also worked for minimum wage at superior car wash for 2 years. Went to school full time and didn't have parents to live with. It is hard but not impossible. Raising the rate only makes people more comfortable with just getting by and it also makes it easier to stay on the assistance from the government. Which we pay for. There should also be limits set for how long someone stays on the welfare system. Just being my opinion, which sounds like it isn't that popular. LOL
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Gunsrock, I have to agree with Suttle that inflation drives prices up. The min. wage was $5.25 for a decade, but the price of goods and services kept rising. In the late 60's min. wage was worth about $10.50 hr in todays dollars, compared to the current $7.25 - it has slowly decreased. I'm not asking to give people a free ride, just a fighting chance. I do like the idea of the 6 month evaluation, I worked my way out when I was young. A "pretty good scam" is not the description I would pick lol.
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Vonklempt, You said,"Full time at $7.25 hr is $13,920 a year before taxes. Federal poverty guidelines state $11,490 is the poverty level for a single person." This sector doesn't pay taxes and they get a credit for earned income. They get food stamps and maybe a medical card. Pretty good scam if you can get it.
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An increase in Federal minimum wage is sorely needed. The current minimum wage has not kept up with inflation since the last time it was adjusted. Workers' buying power needs to be protected. I am sure that when slavery was finally eradicated that employers were bemoaning how prices would increase and how the economy would be harmed. The chamber of commerce needs to come up with a new argument. We have had many minimum wage adjustments in the past without causing a melt down of our economy.
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Vonklempt, Look at it this way. Minimum wage goes up. So does the poverty line. So does the prices on the shelf. Local convinience gets bought out by GoMart and Wally world is the only place to grocery shop. The poverty line goes up becuse of minimum wage. Do you think the Dems are going to let everyone attach the poverty going up along with their minimum wage. You guys are crazy. How about this keep the base at 7.25 and work off of a mandatory increase after evaluation of 6 months. Maybe the smart or hardest workers get the hint to better themselves and the others work hard for a raise. But don't let the government set the standard anymore. You can see where that takes us know.
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If you have stopped at one of the produce stands last year you would have thought that a certain farming family was already paying $20 an hour as other stands were 30 -40% less. Bad choice of who to ask for input from.
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You got it Vonklempt. Businesses keep raising their prices regardless, it's always something. The cost of living has skyrocketed over the last 20 years...minimum wage has NOT. You can't have it both ways, either you want people to be able to make a living without government aide, or you don't...period. Of course businesses don't want to pay their employees any more, or give them any bennies for that matter. MORE IN THEIR POCKETS. They forget they would not be successful without their employees. Without the workers, all they have is an idea.
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I can see how consumers are going to suffer from this. I went to a local pharmacy one day last week to buy a 16 oz. Coke. I was in a hurry, and just grabbed a bottle and took it to the register.
I nearly fainted when I realized it was $1.69! Two liters aren't that expensive.
Someone will have to pay for the increase in minimum wage, and it will be the consumer. I think we can expect a lot of BIG problems. :(
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Nice job supporting the 1% and the corporate business lobby using the same tired argument for the last 75 years since the fair labor standards act was passed in 1938. Full time at $7.25 hr is $13,920 a year before taxes. Federal poverty guidelines state $11,490 is the poverty level for a single person. After tax they are now eligible for food stamps. So now you can cry entitlement, and how lazy these full time workers are.
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Words & photos: Ryan "Huggy" Hughes Just getting to the hill can be sketchy in mid winter. Solid winter tires should be a part of any snowboarder's gear, but what do tires have to do with your shred kit? Italian tire maker Pirelli has teamed up with Burton to design a boot using their research in traction control. The sole of the boot is made with the same materials and technology as the world-renowned tires. Even the tread is optimized for gripping your bindings and walking across icy parking lots (you know those days when skiers are yard sale-ing left and right, it's wrong to laugh but impossible not too). Most people wouldn't consider snow tires sexy, but leave it to the Italians to make it happen. When Pirelli launched their new Scorpion tire and the Burton collaboration snowboard gear, they made sure some of the hottest models in the world were there to present them. As far as the board, boots, and bindings go, it's difficult to describe the aesthetics with out repeating the word sexy again, so I will try a different path. If Darth Vader picked out a snowboard set up, this would be it. Inspired by 70s racing culture, the gear is pimped out in black and gold. The Pirelli Burton Ion boot is widely available at Burton authorized dealers. However, the Pirelli Mystery board and bindings are a very limited edition, and available exclusively at their flagship store in Milan, Italy for the 2012-2013 season. Anyone who is lucky enough to test ride this gear (myself included) will tell you it's the lightest setup in the history of the universe thus far. It made ollies effortless, and was an incredibly smooth ride, even at the end of the day when the park was rutted. This Mystery board feels solid in the park, but wasn't necessarily originally built for that. Besides being extremely light weight, the most noticeable characteristic is the Mystery's snappy surfy feel in the backcountry. Pirelli is a stylish brand, but they are not just about glamour and lifestyle. They did it right with this Burton colab and produced a high performance set up that could be enjoyed in any conditions.Read More


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Controlled chaos dominated lunchtime at the Tri-County YMCA preschool Friday afternoon. Students bounced in and out of chairs, laughing, munching on cheese cubes and canned fruit. But one little girl in a blue shirt and pink tennis shoes sat patiently at the table, ready to eat. Kennidy Mikles kicked her legs under the seat and made goofy faces at the preschooler across from her: typical for a four-year-old.
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"Daddy!" Kennidy yelled as she abandoned her chair and ran towards the door. This was the first time she had seen her father, Jacob Mikles of Osage Beach, in person in more than a year.
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The preschool created a sign reading "Thank you and welcome home," and covered it with Kennidy's hand prints.
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Nohr wrote:Cedar Rapids Club first meeting 1/26/10
-Main Goal should be developing a relationship with the city so we can eventually get them to do what we want
-Action to get there. Maintain courses or improvements
- Promote disc golf in general
These are great goals, I would keep them at that and hold off on further growth, like courses, until you establish a stronghold on or meet these goals
Name Discussion
NOT wildcat
NOT 5 season
Cedar Valley ......
Figure out a name for the club
The Cedar Valley is synonymous with the Cedar Falls / Waterloo Area, I would stay away from that name ..... Maybe just the Cedar Rapids Disc Golf Club or Cedar River Disc Golf Club, Cedar Rapids (or River Disc Golf Union, Cedar Rapids (or River) Frisbee Association (or Club), Cedar Rapids (or River) Disc Golfers Association, Cedar Rapids (or River) Flying Disc Club, Cedar Rapids (or River) Flyerz (or Flyers), Eastern Iowa Disc Golf Club ........ or The City of Five Smells Disc Golf Club
Structure of the club pretty much need the 5 positions (pres/vice p/treasurer/secretary/_____)
For your 5th position I would go with either a Course Director or a Publicity Director, depending on what your number one goal is. With a Course Director this person would guide & spearhead the course improvements and maintenance tasks, the rest of the board would have the tasks of spreading the word and making the Club more visible. If you go the Publicity Director route, this person would be the one who spearheads the marketing of the club and promoting involvement, the rest of the board would take on the task of directing course work. I would go the Publicity Director route as marketing the club and spreading the word will be the most important thing in the beginning. From what I've read your clubs main goal is to gain a better reputation with the parks departments and to take better care of your courses. Seeing how this is going to be a board wide task I don't see a great need for a Course Director at this point as you all will have your hands in it.
- Zeller park can maybe be turned into a disc golf park (miller/kvn)
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- South Side park would be sweet if there was a course there
It actually Van Vechten Park ..... and yes it would be a great park for a course ...... but I would hold off on future expansion until current club goals are met.
Club needs
- CAN'T MAKE THE CLUB into a league
Why not have the Club run the league .... it's a great way to promote membership and generate interest, as well as offering another revenue source.
People interested in a board role
Doug Peyton
Adam K
Dustin Nohr
Adam Stiers
Congrats to all on engaging in this endeavor .... it will be a fun and hopefully fulfilling journey
Budhyzer 17696 wrote:Dustin can you put the membership info into a spreadsheet to view at the next meeting?
It would be great to pool or match up similar interested club members into club activities or segments.
Budhyzer 17696 wrote:I really like the Cedar Valley name and didn't realize it was synonymous with just Cedarloo. After all, CR and surrounding areas are in the Cedar Valley too, including Wildcat Bluff.
Budhyzer 17696 wrote:I think the Eastern Iowa Disc Golf Club name is starting to grow on me.
It is recognizable to the outside world and does not restrict the area.
I really like the Cedar Valley name and didn't realize it was synonymous with just Cedarloo. After all, CR and surrounding areas are in the Cedar Valley too, including Wildcat Bluff. I'm not sure about using the Cedar Rapids name solely as other communities would feel left out such as Marion/Hiawatha/Mt Vernon/Vinton, etc..
CR is our main focus as far as relationship growth but should it be in the name of the club?
greco19536 wrote:what about "corridor disc golf club" or "corridor chain rattlers" aka ccr or "hyzer back dgc" or "river citys flyers dgc" or "the other iowa dgc"
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There are few things more quintessentially summer than an icy wedge of watermelon, with its green striated rind, crimson flesh and inky seeds just ready for spitting.
Until you grow up, that is, and your palate expands to appreciate the yin-yang, savory tang of mixing the sweetness of a perfectly ripe Galia, Tuscan, crenshaw or other melon with something salty, spicy or just plain mind-blowing. That's the appeal behind that Italian classic, prosciutto-wrapped melon, and the feta-watermelon salad that was so trendy a few years back.
But they're not the only game in town, at least not after chefs and food writers such as Angelo Sosa and Mindy Fox get their hands on the magnificent concept. The results include a nouvelle appetizer, a monochromatic melon-pepper salad and platters of other intriguing combinations.
Sosa, the two-time "Top Chef" competitor and author of the new "Flavor Exposed" (Kyle Books, $29.95, 208 pages), says the key is blending flavor trios. So when he works with melon, for example, he adds spicy and salty components to the sweetness of the fruit. Watermelon is cut in precise cubes, sprinkled with kosher salt and placed in the refrigerator to chill and cure for 30 minutes, before Sosa adds fresh thyme, a drizzle of good quality olive oil and a few grinds of cracked black pepper.
The result, he says is an appetizer or palate cleanser that looks "pristine, almost like tuna sashimi," but with flavors blending into a harmonious sweet, salty and herbaceous whole. The cured watermelon crudo works equally well as an appetizer or a light finish to a sultry summer meal. Or, he says, "I would even add a little rum or vodka to make it a perfect cocktail."
Fox, the food editor of La Cucina Italiana magazine, likes to play with those sweet and salty flavor combinations, too, but the visual appeal is just as important, she says. Fox brings an artistic sensibility to the table, especially when it comes to the dishes in her new cookbook, "Salads: Beyond the Bowl" (Kyle Books, $19.95, 176 pages).
"The classic melon and prosciutto and the one that everyone started doing a few years ago -- watermelon and feta," she says, "we're still playing to that same idea, the sweet melon and the salty. That's the base of all these salads."
Fox adds spicy chiles to her version of the watermelon-feta classic and loves another version which combines honeydew, Galia or any pale green melon with cubanelle peppers, herb leaves and a mild cheese with a definite salt presence.
"It's the monochromatic color palette," she says. "I was so excited about the beauty of the different greens. Green melon is such a gorgeous color, and cubanelle peppers or banana peppers can be slightly darker or lighter. It's such a beautiful palette, and I'm not venturing too far from that prosciutto and cantaloupe sense."
You'll find that salty presence in dishes -- such as the Vietnamese shrimp salad, from Sunset's new "Sunset Edible Garden Cookbook" (Oxmoor House, $24.95, 288 pages) -- that use fish sauce as a flavoring ingredient, too. It provides the yin, the yang and the surprise.
And that, both Fox and Sosa say, is key. A simple wedge of melon is lovely, but adding chiles, salt and savory components takes it to new heights.
"It's exciting on your palate," Fox says, "and light and cool and crisp."
Perfect for summer.
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- Mar 16:
- Contra Costa County call center deal ignores taxpayer risk, rewards political backer
Contra Costa Times editorial
- Mar 15:
- Contra Costa County supervisors choose Concord over Richmond for call center
- Mar 14:
- Contra Costa calls emergency meeting to select call center site
- Mar 13:
- Contra Costa call center jobs are back on the table
- Mar 12:
- Contra Costa County loses state call center in labor dispute
- Mar 11:
- Richmond sweetens deal with $1 million loan in hopes of securing health care call center
- California should directly run health care exchange call center: Contra Costa Times editorial
- Mar 9:
- Inside Politics: Battle royale over call center jobs comes to light
- Mar 7:
- Richmond partners with business owner in attempt to win site for Affordable Care Act call center
- Feb 27:
- Contra Costa dumps plan for call center, 214 new jobs
- Feb 23:
- Inside Politics: Contra Costa County says labor is putting new call center jobs at risk
- County supervisors plan decision on whether to put Affordable Care Act call center in Richmond or Concord
RICHMOND -- Frustrated with apparent stalemate at the county, city leaders on Tuesday vowed to initiate direct talks with the state to secure a new health exchange call center, one of three centers statewide to help residents navigate the Affordable Care Act.
Stalled negotiations between Contra Costa County and labor groups led county supervisors on Tuesday to table a measure to select either Concord or Richmond as the site of the new center, which would provide more than 200 jobs.
"The county may have given up," Richmond Councilman Jael Myrick said. "That doesn't mean that Richmond must give up entirely."
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, just hours after the Board of Supervisors tabled the item, to direct staff to initiate talks with the state to secure the funds for the site.
City Manager Bill Lindsay said the city is prepared to partner with the property owner of the proposed site, Richard Poe, to reach a contract with the state independent of the county.
Myrick was most outspoken in his enthusiasm for the new strategy.
"I know for a fact that staff at the state was more impressed with the Richmond site" than the Concord site, Myrick said. "(We can) take the county out as the middle man."
The county's plan faltered Tuesday when it was unable to reach a deal with its labor unions, which wanted more lucrative health insurance benefits and more liberal work rules in exchange for their signoff on the deal.
Last month, the state selected the county as a site for one of three call centers aimed at supporting eligibility and enrollment efforts of state-level Affordable Care Act programs as part of the 2010 federal health care law.
According to a staff report released last week, the cost to occupy the proposed site at 1450 Marina Way South in Richmond would be $3.4 million, and the cost at the Concord site, 2500 Bates Ave., would be $4.25 million.
Late Tuesday, Service Employees International Union Local 1021 asked the county to restart negotiations and potentially revive the deal, County Administrator David Twa confirmed.
SEIU Local 1021, which would represent 180 of the center's 214 new employees, wanted a percentage split on health insurance premiums between the county and the employee.
Supervisors capped county contributions at 2011 levels for most of its nearly 9,000 employees, and they said reverting to the old formula would drive up costs.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 512 is also at odds with Contra Costa on the call center.
It wanted the county to pay six of the 14 employees under its union umbrella a 12.75 percent differential in "order to make the job attractive to experienced county employees who would be reassigned to the center," said Local 512 representative Richard Cabral.
Richmond leaders signaled they were eager to step into the breach.
"I've spoken with (County Supervisor John) Gioia, and he is supportive of the cities stepping in," Myrick said. "We don't have the same situation with labor costs."
Gioia said Wednesday the unions' expectations would have exceeded the costs allocated by the state.
"I support Richmond's efforts to secure the call center," Gioia said. "The best thing at this point would be for the state to run the call center in Richmond."
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin said she was "optimistic" that Richmond would still get the sought-after site.
"Perhaps not going through the county is the better scenario at this point," she said.
Councilman Nat Bates agreed, saying despite its advantages in costs, location and facilities over the Concord site, Richmond was destined to get short shrift if the decision were made by the county.
"We have five Board (of Supervisors) members, and only one is committed to West County," Bates said. "That's what's going on."
Poe said he was ready to work with city staff and approach the state to seek the contract immediately.
"Richmond is the best site by far, and the state knows that," Poe said. "We're ready to go."
Staff writer Lisa Vorderbrueggen contributed to this story. Contact Robert Rogers at 510-262-2726 or firstname.lastname@example.com and follow Twitter.com/roberthrogers.


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Bob Harris wrote: We are 0 for 2 with shows at AS220, but I am confident this one will turn our luck around.
I used to think Providence was cursed for us. But we had a blast with Storm and PDP a while back.
Last show of the year with PFA? Sounds pretty good to me.
Alan Hague wrote: I was really pleased to get positive feedback on the new songs we debuted, too. Can't wait to see Prolyphic's filmage of the set.
Also, sorry to the dude who broke his nose in the pit. We'll give you some PFA-brand ibuprofen for that; it's on us.
erich wrote: I didn't really check out Stalemate too intently, but I was a little put off that they were aggressively passing out flyers and CDs in the front of the crowd during other act's sets. just seems like poor form.


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Uterine prolapse occurs when the uterus slips out of place and into the vaginal canal. The severity of uterine prolapse is defined as:
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The uterus is normally supported by pelvic connective tissue. It is held in position by special ligaments.
Weakening of the tissue causes the uterus to descend into the vaginal canal.
Uterine prolapse is more common in Caucasians. Other factors that may increase your chance of uterine prolapse include:
Symptoms may include:
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Uterine prolapse that has no symptoms may be diagnosed during routine examinations. Your doctor may refer you to a gynecologist, who will do a pelvic exam.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. First or second degree prolapse without symptoms may not require treatment. Treatment options include:
Kegel exercises
involve tensing the muscles around the vagina and anus, holding for several seconds, then releasing. The repetition of this exercise will help to tone pelvic muscles.
Your doctor may recommend estrogen therapy. This may help prevent further weakness of the pelvic floor.
Your doctor may insert a pessary into the upper portion of the vagina. A pessary is a rubbery, doughnut-shaped device. It helps to prop up the uterus and bladder. Pessary placement is more often used in older women.
Surgery may be needed for severe uterine prolapse. These procedures are usually not done until you have finished having children. Options include:
To help reduce your chance of uterine prolapse:
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Office on Women's Health
Canadian Women's Health Network
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Colpocleisis (LeFort procedure). International Center for Laparoscopic Urogynecology website. Available at:
http://www.miklosandmoore.com/prolapse/vault/colpocleisis-lefort.php. Accessed April 22, 2013.
Pelvic organ prolapse. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated January 22, 2013. Accessed April 22, 2013.
Pelvic organ prolapse. International Urogynecological Association website. Available at:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.iuga.org/resource/resmgr/Brochures/eng_pop.pdf. Accessed April 22, 2013.
Uterine and vaginal prolapse. The Merck Manual Professional Edition. Available at:
Updated December 2013. Accessed March 18, 2014.
Vaginal pessary. American Academy of Family Physicians Family Doctor website. Available at:
http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/drugs-procedures-devices/procedures-devices/vaginal-pessary.html. Updated August 2010. Accessed April 22, 2013.
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October 20, 2012
Creeping deep into the dark woods at 3 a.m. was old hat for Mark Hudak, 45, of Clinton, Ohio. An avid bow hunter, Hudak often began hunting long before daylight....
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I only stream .avi & .mp4 videos from my PC to PS3 so I told my PMS to skip transcoding these file types - PS3 should be able to play them natively. Here is the syntax of what is in the skip transcode box: "avi,mp4" - this should force PMS NOT to transcode these files and just push them over to my PS3, correct?
Well I am still getting major lag while watching videos. The audio will cut out and fall behind the video. The video will stutter and fall behind the audio. Or some combination of these issues and then the PS3 just gives up and quits the video, bringing me back into the browsing folder. I feel this has been happening much more frequently with .avi's - it seems PMS is not skipping transcoding .avi's even though I have commanded it to.
Please help me!
Here is my physical setup:
Intel Core i7 4770 3.4ghz
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
16gb DDR3 1600 RAM
(let me know if any other hardware is relevant)
Cisco DPC3825 router/modem combo (IEEE 802.11n)
PS3 Slim 500gb - software version 4.50
PC <---wired ethernet---> router <---wireless---> PS3


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10. Elysium
Allegory as subtle as a jack hammer didn't ruin a film that I admired for at least trying to be science fiction. The characters are conflicted and desperate, and seem to be living moment to moment. In an age were sci-fi films (really, all of genre) are dominated by super geniuses that always make the right moves, it was refreshing.
9. Evil Dead
Sit back, clench your butthole, and enjoy the ride...


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The theatre is of an impressive size and occupies four blocks. The cavea is divided into two parts by the central diazoma and vertically by 8 staircases into 9 kerkides. Above was the gallery of the summa cavea. In the centre of the ima cavea (the lower seats) is a large marble exedra with seats having lion paw terminals and high backs for persons of high status. The stage building is divided into a logheion (the stage itself) and a scaena. The scaenae fons was divided into three superimposed orders, sitting upon a podium decorated with a figurative cycle dedicated to Apollo and Artemis. This building was erected in the third century AD during the reign of Septimus Severus, enveloping and cancelling an earlier theatre, perhaps of Flavian date. The theatre was used into late Roman times; an inscription dating to 352 AD cites the restoration of the scaenae fons.
There was restoration work going on, obviously copies of the sculpture on the scaenae fons (originals: see my museum gallery) had been installed, with some other work, scaffolding material was lying about.
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ESM424 - Mathematics: Curriculum Study
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Campus: 1 x 1 hour Class per week, 1 x 2 hour Seminar per week.
Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin
This unit simultaneously focuses on mathematical content and teaching and learning approaches that increase Year 7 - 10 students' opportunities to learn mathematics. Informed by findings from middle years research, and guided by the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (2005), and National Curriculum Documents, autonomous student thinking is a focus of attention. A diversity of tasks (from the areas of Number, Space, Measurement, Chance and Data, Structure - numeric and algebraic structure) is examined. Tasks are then designed and implemented, and reflections upon the learning that occurred model the thinking of reflective teachers. Many complexities associated with classroom teaching (e.g., catering for individual differences, implementing effective group work, and capitalising on technology to support student learning) are identified and discussed. Study of assessment techniques focuses on monitoring student progress to promote further learning, assessing students' mathematical performance, and providing opportunities for students to demonstrate they can work mathematically.
Task 1 50% - Use research, independent thinking, and online discussion spaces to collaboratively design, develop and implement a learning activity, and collaboratively and individually reflect on its usefulness.
Task 2 50% - Formulate an inquiry associated with the learning of mathematics through professional experience placement participation, and interrogate research literature to explore this question.
All tasks will be criterion referenced.
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- Mar 6:
- Herhold: Santa Clara County supervisors should appoint Shirakawa's replacement
- Mar 5:
- Mercury News editorial: Election to replace Shirakawa best choice
- Santa Clara County's District 2 will elect a new supervisor
- Mar 4:
- Shirakawa's vacant seat: Santa Clara County supervisors weigh how, when to replace him
- Mercury News editorial: Shirakawa opening probably will require special election
- Mar 2:
- George Shirakawa Jr.'s former constituents dismayed by charges
- Mar 1:
- Herhold: Shirakawa case a triumph for the prosecution, disgrace for politician
- Mercury News editorial: George Shirakawa's crimes eluded lax county oversight
- Letter: Shirakawa blames gambling addiction, depression for crimes
- DA: Supervisor George Shirakawa deceived public for years, had a secret slush fund
Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr.'s resignation Friday on criminal charges prompted board President Ken Yeager to call for a special meeting Tuesday to decide how to fill Shirakawa's seat.
According to the county charter, the board must either decide to appoint someone to the vacancy or schedule an election within 45 days of Shirakawa's resignation. If the board doesn't decide by then, it would be up to the governor to appoint a replacement.
Yeager said he favors an election to "regain the trust of the voters" in District 2.
"They are the ones who need to decide who the legitimate successor should be, rather then the current supervisors," he said.
Yeager also said the decision should be made as soon as possible "to give the candidates enough time to campaign."
If the board calls for an election, it must occur within 120 days from Friday, when the seat was vacated. Interim Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey said the cost for a special election would be $1 million.
Two people considered to be the most likely candidates are Teresa Alvarado, communications manager at the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the daughter of former county Supervisor Blanca Alvarado, who once represented Shirakawa's district, and former San Jose Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez, who heads Working Partnerships, a labor-linked think-tank.


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BERKELEY -- Roughly 40 people gathered at UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall Plaza late Wednesday afternoon to vent their frustration with the Supreme Court's decision to strike down limits on federal campaign contributions.
"It's so outrageous what they did," fumed longtime Berkeley resident Marty Schiffenbauer. "It's so blatant that the country has become a plutocracy where rich people will be able to pass rules and tax breaks."
Susan Messina was nearby: "We're losing our rights as individual voters," she said. "We're losing our voice. We're losing our power."
The 5-4 ruling on McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission struck down limits on the two-year ceilings on donations to candidates, parties and some political action committees combined. The ruling follows the 2010 Citizens United decision that struck down independent campaign spending limits by corporations and unions.
"When it comes to campaign finance reform, our highest court has reached its lowest point," Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, said in a statement released Wednesday. "This is a bad day for democracy, fairness and equality."
One demonstrator Wednesday who identified herself only as a Vallejo teacher, held a sign saying, "As a public school teacher I'm glad I can now give $3.6 million per election cycle to a single party and its candidates."
Nancy Schimmel, Berkeley musician and storyteller, held a sign that read: "The court from Brandeis to branded," referring to former liberal Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. She said the only answer to money taking over elections is public financing of campaigns.
People stood in clumps bemoaning the court decision and also the fact that there were not hundreds at the demonstration, until one woman came by to say that MoveOn, the organization that had sponsored this and some 150 protests across the country, had asked people a few hours earlier to go to a larger demonstration in San Francisco rather than the one at Sproul.
"You even get 40 people to a demonstration in Berkeley that's been called off," quipped Mark Coplan, the Berkeley schools communication director, who was at the demonstration with his wife and dog.


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Asiana Crash Shows Disasters Are More Survivable
The crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco shows again what has become a significant trend in aviation: crashes are far more survivable these days.
Early reports showed the vast majority of passengers survived. Many were injured, but most of the passengers walked away from the major accident.
Stronger seats that stay bolted down against extreme forces coupled with flame retardant materials help passengers survive the initial impact in many crash landings and gives them time to evacuate before fire engulfs cabins. In several accidents, such as an Air France A340 that ran off the end of a runway in Toronto and burned in 2009 and a Lion Air Boeing 737 that crashed into water short of a runway in Bali earlier this year, hundreds of people escaped from perilous conditions because they had time and mobility to evacuate. That appears to be the case again Saturday at San Francisco International Airport.
Crashes of large modern jetliners have become extremely rare, and when accidents do happen, it often happens either during takeoff and climb or approach and landing. In many of those accidents, aircraft remain largely intact and fire becomes the most dangerous threat to survivability. Some airlines such as British Airways even offer passenger evacuation classes because crashes have become more survivable.
Changes in airport firefighting techniques and equipment also have improved survivability of crashes. Trucks have greater capacity to douse a wide-body fuselage with fire-snuffing foam and firefighters have nozzles capable of piercing into cabins, giving passengers more time to escape. In photos from San Francisco on Saturday, two large fire-truck booms can be seen poking into the Asiana 777 cabin.


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Mrs. Annis Smith, 81, resident of Trenton, Mo., died Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, at her residence, while under hospice care.
Mrs. Smith is survived by two daughters, Debra and Frank Cassity, Chillicothe, Mo., and Venita and Alan Klover, Sedalia, Mo.; two sisters, Louis Jobe, Trenton, Mo., and Kathy Kidd, Laredo, Mo.; four grandchildren, Alex Klover, Kevin Klover, Jason and Laura Cassity and Jordon and Bernadette Cassity; five great-grandchildren, Keith and Faith Cassity, Elena, Julian and Gabriella Cassity.
Arrangements are pending at the Resthaven Mortuary in Trenton.
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FILE - In this May 23, 2011 file courtroom sketch, David Coleman Headley is shown in federal court in Chicago. Headley, who was convicted of charges related to a central role he played in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Tom Gianni, File)


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PHOENIX -- Pitcher Michael Ynoa finally is in camp with the A's after missing the first 10 days while battling the chicken pox.
The 21-year-old right-hander was in the clubhouse Thursday morning, which was the first time manager Bob Melvin got a chance to see him.
"When I saw him, he was ducking into the training room," Melvin said. "I didn't realize he was quite that size. He looks like he could reach out and put the ball in the catcher's glove."
Ynoa is one of the brighter prospects in the A's minor league pitching corps. He was 1-4 with a 6.46 ERA in his first full season in the minors last year, numbers related mostly to control issues. What the A's see is someone who throws hard and has the potential to be dominant if he can learn to throw strikes.
Melvin and Ynoa both said the pitcher should be able to throw in a game in about two weeks, which won't put him too far behind. And when he does throw, he'll display a new pitch, one that he was inspired to add after watching Roy Halladay throw it.
"I'm trying to learn the cutter," he said.
There was none where the A's work out at Papago Park, but there was enough at the Diamondbacks' digs at Talking Stick in northeast Scottsdale that the Arizona Diamondbacks asked if they could work out in the afternoon at Papago.
Just when the A's workout was breaking up, the Diamondbacks were starting to arrive. The first two were pitchers Trevor Cahill and Brandon McCarthy, who said "we got here early enough to grab the best two parking spots."
The two men were the opening day starters for the A's in 2011 (Cahill) and 2012 (McCarthy).
"That's experience for you," Melvin said of the early arrivals.
Each morning the club goes through about 10 minutes as part of warming up to the day's activities. Melvin not only approves, he takes part.
"This is the first year we've done anything like that," Melvin said. "I think it's really good, and the players seem to enjoy it."
It started this off season when strength and conditioning coach Michael Henriques had some of the players who were early to camp try some yoga. The results were such that other players joined in and now everyone's doing it.


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By Ginny Heth
Ask anyone.....
I say it all the time.....
I don't like change!! I'm not one to rearrange the furniture. When I put a fresh coat of paint on the walls, it's generally the same color as what I'm painting over (unless the last one was really a poor choice!). I mow the lawn in the exact same circles every time all summer -- regardless if it would look better if I went a different direction. I keep the rows in my garden going the same direction that they've always gone. In fact, I jump out of bed every morning and do the exact same thing that I've done every morning for years and years.....unless something like the ambulance pager or an early appointment get in my way.
You get the idea.
That said, I also know that sometimes change can be good.
For the past several years the Westhope Community Club has put on a free pork feed for the public in conjunction with the City Wide Rummage Sales. It was well received (when is a free meal not well received?) but when those of us who attend the Community Club meetings and thus make the decisions for the group started crunching numbers last fall, we discovered that the feed was probably a bit more than our small Club could handle. We were strapped for money to do the other things that we want to do (like bringing Santa to all the kids each year shortly before Christmas).
Something had to change!
Someone came up with the idea for a Chili Cook-off instead of the free feed. We'd see if we could get interest from community members to have a little friendly competition while providing food for lots of people and see how it would go.
Having no experience with this type of event, we asked lots of questions and made lots of guesses as to what we should be doing. In the end, everything went very well......around 100 people got a tasty supper, judged the entries and made a determination of who made the best chili.
Now, I can't say whether the votes were cast for favorite people for best chili, but I didn't hear any complaints while they were eating -- well, maybe a little as they came back for glass after glass of ice-cold water to cool the mouths! The cornbread and crackers also helped a little with that, I suppose. It was fun to have both white and red chili to try and it was also fun to realize how different tasting those same ingredients can be in red chilis! No two were even similar in taste!
Besides the monitary reasons for the change in menu we found that this made for MUCH less work for the Community Club members. Each contestant cleaned up his/her own table, taking the roasters or crock-pots home to wash them. When all that was done, there wasn't a whole lot of clean-up left for us. It was nice not to have to spend a couple hours cleaning up after everyone else had gone home!
When all was said and done, it was a fun-filled afternoon, everyone left with a full belly and plenty of ideas for next year's competition......maybe a few more decorations......surely some music throughout the Community Room.......maybe some more choices of beverages....
Whatever else, don't look for another 'change' from the Community Club on Community Day next year. This one was a good one and we are going to stick with it!
No more change for me for a while!
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Jason Aldean Rocks Sold-Out NYC Concert
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Forget anything you've ever heard about New Yorkers being stuffy or country music not being welcomed in the North. Jason Aldean smacked all of those stereotypes down when his 2013 Night Train Tour played New York's historic Madison Square Garden on Saturday. The show, his first time at the legendary venue, sold out in seven minutes, proving that country music truly is country wide.
But the hilarious Jason pointed out, "I was feeling pretty good about myself having my first show there sold out, and then I walk into the arena and I look up and there's a banner that says 'Elton John 62.' And I said, 'What does that mean?' Well, apparently he's sold out 62 shows there."
It doesn't sound like this will be his last time to visit the Big Apple either. After such an overwhelming reception, he says, "It speaks volumes for the city itself, but also for how many country music fans are there. And it kind of opened my eyes to the fact that maybe that's something we need to take a harder look at and go back there a little more. Especially now that they have a country radio station there."


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Definition of dualism in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The division of something conceptually into two opposed or contrasted aspects, or the state of being so divided: a dualism between man and nature
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- This is so because, in the Pauline view, reality is not viewed in terms of sharply contrasting ontological or epistemological dualisms.
- Haraway has told us the power of 'cyborg imagery' lies in its ability to 'suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves'.
- Yet theories that endorse the implosion and blurring of the traditionally drawn boundaries between conventionally accepted dualisms are not necessarily postmodern.
1.1 Philosophy A theory or system of thought that regards a domain of reality in terms of two independent principles, especially mind and matter ( Cartesian dualism). Compare with idealism, materialism, monism.
Example sentences
- It would be an interesting historical task to determine which kinds of dualism advocated by the philosophers of the past fall into which category, but there is no room for this task here.
- This Cudworth therefore interpreted Descartes' dualism with some latitude to explain all movement, life and action in terms of the activity of spirits operating on inert matter.
- Hence dualism itself does not preclude animal minds.
1.2The religious doctrine that the universe contains opposed powers of good and evil, especially seen as balanced equals.
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- He discussed the philosophy of mathematics, political philosophy where topics such as censorship are discussed, and religious philosophy where topics such as atheism, dualism and pantheism are considered.
- This runs contrary to the Zoroastrian doctrine of dualism, which propounds the idea of two conflicting powers - good and evil.
1.3(In Christian theology) the doctrine that Christ had two coexisting natures, human and divine.
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2The quality or condition of being dual; duality.
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- As much as I myself disagree with both the tone and substance of some of Hauerwas' critiques of our society, I do not see how one can characterize him as dualistically rejecting or withdrawing from that society.
- And those things begin when we think dualistically.
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Rhododendron Lake Park taking shape
Published: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 6:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 6:06 p.m.
Laurel Park residents have been volunteering their time to build Rhododendron Lake Park, and recently finished a walking trail on the property.
The passive nature park will take roughly four years to complete.
"I think some of our residents would like to see it happen faster, but given the budget constraints that we have placed on us, it is going to be a slow process," Parks and Greenway Committee Chairman George Banta said. "But I think in the end people will be very pleased with it."
Since three of the nearly 10 acres of park are under a conservation easement, the Parks and Greenways Committee has been busy building trails to direct walkers away from the easement area.
"It was behoove us to direct the traffic to that area so they don't walk over or trample the vegetation because we've got environmental studies going on in that conservation easement area, where they're actually counting the number of plants that are in there and kind of determining what the plant population will be over the course of five years," Banta said.
Town Manager Alison Melnikova she has enjoyed seeing residents taking advantage of the park.
"It's been nice to see people out actually walking and using the park. We've got some signage that'll be going up within the next month, so that'll help as well," she said.
The town has applied for a Clean Water Management trust fund grant that would allow Laurel Park to do work on the park and further work on the stream.
The Parks and Greenways Committee has planned another volunteer work day for 9 a.m. until noon on July 22 and invites anyone who would like to come out and volunteer.
"It is a great place to take a nice casual walk in the early morning and in the late afternoon," Banta said. "It's getting to be really nice."
For more information on volunteer days contact Melnikova at 693-4840.
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Art & Antique Show at Spartanburg Art Museum
Published: Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.
Spartanburg Art Museum will host its fifth annual Art & Antique Show, a 4-day-long affair showcasing dealers from six states.
The Chapman Cultural Center is the site for this event that focuses on antiques and accessories predominately from the 18th- and 19th-century American, English and Continental regions. In addition, there will be guest speakers on Southern architecture and the floral arts.
Vendors will sell antique furniture, silver, jewelry, porcelain, paintings, fine art, oriental rugs, linens and garden accessories.
The show will open to the public at 10 a.m. Feb. 22. Any one-day pass is $10; a weekend pass, which includes Friday, Saturday and Sunday, is $20. Tickets to hear guest speakers are $5 each.
On Friday and Saturday, lunch can be purchased under the tent in the plaza for $8. All weekend long, parking will be free and unlimited.
For more information or to buy tickets online, visit www.spartanburg artmuseum.org or call 542-7616.
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|Attend pictorial at 3:15 in graduation assembly area at Ateneo High School; come in semi-formal clothes : E-Mail from Pablo Manalastas (social)
1. Kodak Philippines: send pictures through the Net
In response to Michael Cheney's search for a service that'll let him upload photos and have them printed out by someone in the Philippines, Doc Mana mentioned Kodak Express and said:
They have a FAQ, which guides you through the membership process. I have not personally tried this service, but Kodak Philippines has a very good reputation for quality printing, so you will not be disappointed.
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2. Tanaga: Siopao
My first tanaga. Please help me fix my Tagalog; I might've gotten some of the nuances wrong. The poem below is fairly sick. I hope this never happens to any cat!
pusang aking inangkin
hinagkan nang malambing,
siniopao at kinain?!
iba sana hinain!
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2005.03.18 : http://curry.ateneo.net/files/acm05grad/ : [p3180003.jpg] L-R standing: Reinabelle Reyes, John Paul Vergara, Miguel Arguelles, Joseph Noel, Lerriza Lorraine Uy, Clifford Lim, Pablo Manalastas, Allan Espinosa, Sandra Jean Chua, Charles Yeung, Mary Louise Lim, Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo, Jerome Punzalan. L-R squatting: Erik Troy Uy and Michael Gonzales. Not in this picture are: Mark Punzalan, Eric Vidal, Proceso Fernandez, and a few other contestants.
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Gov. Jerry Brown and the governors of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia gained international attention Monday for signing a pact in San Francisco aimed at reducing the pollution that causes global warming.
But a day later environmentalists lashed out at Brown for his full-throated support during the event of fracking, the controversial practice in which oil and gas companies inject water, sand and chemicals into the ground to fracture underground rock formations and release huge amounts of fossil fuels. Those are the very substances that scientists say are causing more global warming.
"To see the governor support fracking at a climate change event is terribly ironic," said attorney Kassie Siegel with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. "Gov. Brown is a climate leader, but supporting fracking can undermine all that he has done."
As Brown waxed poetic about the dangers of climate change Monday, about 50 people carried signs outside the event protesting his fracking policy. As part of an increasingly energetic campaign, environmentalists -- who are also worried about air and water pollution from fracking -- have begun picketing and protesting the governor whenever he appears at environmental events to point out what they see as hypocrisy.
"I feel my blood pressure rising," said Kathryn Phillips, director of Sierra Club California. "Jerry Brown is a very interesting guy. He's very smart. And I think in this case, he's wrong."
At Monday's event, in response to questions from this newspaper, Brown offered his most extensive remarks yet defending his administration's fracking policy.
Brown said he saw no contradiction in calling climate change "the world's greatest existential challenge" Monday while refusing to impose a moratorium on fracking -- as New York has done, and as many of the environmental groups who supported his campaign for governor in 2010 now want for California.
"As you know, I signed legislation that will create the most comprehensive environmental analysis of fracking to date," Brown said. "It will take a year, year and a half, maybe a little longer. And I hope that all the people, critics and supporters alike, will participate and offer their best thoughts."
Brown was referring to SB4, a bill by state Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, that requires companies that conduct fracking operations in California to notify all nearby property owners, obtain a permit from the state, conduct groundwater testing and disclose the chemicals that they are using. The law takes effect in 2015.
Brown also said that fracking has helped the environment in some ways, by increasing the supply of natural gas, which burns cleaner than coal.
"In terms of the larger fracking question -- natural gas -- because of that, and the lowered price, the carbon footprint of America has been reduced because of the substitution of natural gas for coal," Brown said. "So this is a complicated equation."
Brown noted that SB4 requires the state to conduct an independent, peer-reviewed scientific study of fracking's impact on air, groundwater, wildlife and climate by Jan. 1, 2015. That document will help policymakers, he said.
The governor also referred to the Monterey Shale, a huge underground formation running from Bakersfield to San Benito County and Modesto that the U.S. Department of Energy has estimated could hold 15 billion barrels of oil.
"Nobody is talking about doing anything there for an extended period of time -- and certainly not before the environmental document," Brown said. "I think we ought to give science a chance."
Asked whether fracking should be banned, as Monday's protesters were demanding, Brown said: "What would be the reason for that?"
Earlier this year, a study released by the University of Southern California concluded that developing the Monterey Shale could create up to 2.8 million jobs and provide California from $4.5 billion to $24.6 billion in new tax revenue.
Chris Field, a Stanford biology professor and internationally renowned climate expert, said that Brown is correct that increasing natural gas production can reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions by displacing coal. But he noted that when oil and gas companies have leaks in their piping and drilling systems, the release of just 3 percent of the methane they are trying to capture can negate the climate benefits, because methane traps heat at 21 times the rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Still, he added, drilling for oil in California, assuming it's strictly regulated, is cleaner than burning coal or getting it from Canadian tar sands.
"Dealing responsibly with the challenge of climate change," he said, "involves careful balancing of providing the energy resources that we need in the near term while recognizing that in the long term we need to move away from fossil energy sources."
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Friday, 08/05/1988
The Roma, Telluride, CO
Set 1: La Grange, YEMYou Enjoy Myself > Cities -> DEGDave's Energy Guide -> Cities, 'A' TrainTake the 'A' Train, Funky Bitch, Dinner and a Movie, Fire
Set 2: GolgiGolgi Apparatus > BagAC/DC Bag, Satin Doll, Sanity[1], BBFCFMBig Black Furry Creature from Mars, SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light, AlumniAlumni Blues > LTJPLetter to Jimmy Page > AlumniAlumni Blues, LizardsThe Lizards
Set 3: Mustang Sally, Corinna, Walk Away, JJLCJesus Just Left Chicago, Contact, MakisupaMakisupa Policeman, Whipping Post
Encore: Harpua
[1] Fish on trombone.
· Dave's Energy Guide tease in Cities
· London Bridge Is Falling Down tease in Take the 'A' Train
· Theme from The Flintstones tease in Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
· Theme from Jeopardy! and Sailor's Hornpipe teases
Noteworthy Jams: You Enjoy Myself, Cities, Dave's Energy Guide, Cities
Average Song Gap: 4.07
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: On the recordings of this show in circulation, both Dinner and a Movie and Slave are cut. Cities included Dave's Energy Guide teases before actually segueing into the song. 'A' Train included a London Bridge Is Falling Down tease from Trey. Funky Bitch was dedicated to The Blue Sevilles, a band playing across the street. Satin Doll was preceded by a Sailor's Hornpipe tease from Trey and a Jeopardy! theme tease from Page. The band brought light board operator Tim Rogers on stage for his birthday and presented him with a "Baked in Telluride" T-shirt. Sanity featured Fish on trombone. BBFCFM included a Flintstones theme tease.
Song Distribution:
5 Junta
5 The White Tape
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 Stash
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This show was part of the "1988 Tour."


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"If we consider museums as global embassies of culture, the International Council of Museums provides a high density of ambassadors and sources that never run out of inspiration due to their different kinds of collections."
- Johannes Kyrle, Secretary General of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria
"Huge range of knowledge and expertise brought together in one place for a few days."
- Michael Houlihan, Chief Executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand
"I think that the real asset of ICOM is debate; it is the possibility to exchange different opinions and to put them together in one place."
- Carlos Roberto F. Brandão, Professor of Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
"People are very engaged; they want to find out what's going on and they want to be part of this decision-making process."
- In-Kyung Chang, Director of Iron Museum, Republic of Korea
Conferences, Meetings, Events
Every three years, ICOM's General Conference gathers the international museum community around a theme chosen by the museum professionals.
More than 1,500 experts and museum professionals meet for a whole week to exchange and discuss museum concerns.
The General Conference is based on scientific discussions with ICOM's International Committees; on administrative sessions during which the General Assembly and the Advisory Committee set up the guidelines of the organisation; and finally, on forums based on the international museum-related events.
In 2013, ICOM's 23rd General Conference took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 10 to 17 August. The upcoming edition will be held in Milan, Italy, from 3 to 9 July, 2016.
How to make the most of your ICOM General Conference experience?
Plan your participation in advance
Explore what Milan and Italy have to offer
Examine the conference programme to spot events of greatest interest for you
Meet as many people as possible, out of the meeting rooms


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The Sportsman's Club held their annual chili/soup fundraiser on Thursday, Dec. 6 in the basement of the Servicemen's Club.
Soup, chili, sandwiches and drinks were part of the meal. Funds raised from this event go toward many Sportsman's related causes. The largest fundraiser the Sportsman's Club holds is their annual Ice Fishing Derby on Sleepy Eye Lake on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Location: Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research
Project Number: 3020-32000-005-04
Start Date: Oct 01, 2011
End Date: Sep 30, 2014
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic insect transmitted virus endemic to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Virus infection causes abortions and high mortality in newborn ruminants. Humans can become infected through handling infected animals and animal products. Severe infections can include ocular disease, meningoencephalitis, or hemorrhagic fever with an overall case fatality rate of <1. Panels of monoclonal antibodies are needed to facilite development of safe diagnostic assays. An anti-recombinant RVFV- nucleocapsid (N) polyclonal antibody was produced by ABADRU to develop an immunohistochemical (IHC) assay. Multiple ELISA assays have been developed based on a mouse anti-RVF MP-12 vaccine strain polyclonal antibody. A robust set of capture and detect monoclonal antibodies will be necessary to continue development of these assays and to make reagents available for international standardization of diagnostic tests and potential further test kit development (commercialization). Once validated and approved by national regulatory agencies, these reagents and assays will be useful to national laboratories as initial diagnostic tests (and validated against virus isolation). These assay reagents could be safely produced and distributed to regional diagnostic laboratories, thus providing capacity for early detection of RVFV in suspected ruminant samples.


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SACRAMENTO -- Silicon Valley tech companies and other powerful business interests prevailed in a battle over online privacy rights when a lawmaker pulled a bill that would have required companies to provide consumers with data they're collecting on them.
But Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, insisted that her bill, AB1291, is not yet dead and vowed to bring it back next year.
The legislation would also have mandated tech firms, banks and other businesses to say with whom they're sharing the data.
"Californians don't need to be persuaded that they should be able to ask a business what it knows about them," Lowenthal said. "But in the Legislature, it has become clear that we still have our work cut out for us."
Facebook and other tech companies, however, failed in their attempt to stop another privacy bill, SB501, which would allow parents to remove their children's personal information from social networking sites.
The tech companies say the measure would be impossible to implement. But the bill, carried by Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, on Thursday passed the Senate 23-10 and now moves to the Assembly.
A coalition of industry leaders, including the California Chamber of Commerce; TechAmerica, which represents such companies as Google, Facebook and Microsoft; and large banks banded together to thwart AB1291. They argued in a letter to Lowenthal that it would have placed an undue burden on them to provide information to every individual who asked for it. Proponents of the bill have pointed out that the tech firms are complying with a similar law in European Union countries.
Efforts to reach representatives of the tech companies Thursday were unsuccessful.
Privacy advocates contend that the industry leaders simply don't want consumers to know what they do with their information.
"If companies are fighting so hard against this basic transparency bill and are scared to even tell us what's happening to our personal information, they must be doing a lot of things that we wouldn't like," ACLU attorney Nicole Ozer wrote Thursday in her blog, Bytes and Pieces.
Ozer praised Lowenthal for refusing to "bend to pressure to modify the bill in ways that would have undermined its impact."
Corbett's privacy bill would give parents the right to protect their children by removing addresses, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers and bank or credit card information. The bill applies to children under age 18.
In an opposition letter signed by Facebook, Google, Zynga, Tumblr and others, the companies described Corbett's bill as unnecessary. They said it would require a social networking website to validate a minor's identity and age within 96 hours or face a $10,000 fine.
"This law would be extremely burdensome for startup social networking sites that lack the resources to process such requests," the letter said.
A gay-rights group, The Trevor Project, also warned that the bill could prevent young people from accessing support services if they face family rejection. The project is a West Hollywood-based crisis center that helps lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth by providing a social networking community.
Corbett, however, said her bill does not regulate content or infringe upon free-speech rights.
She said the legislation doesn't just protect children but also allows adults to protect themselves from stalking, identify theft and other crimes by letting them request the removal of private information. Other information that can be removed under the bill includes driver's license numbers, state identification numbers, employee identification numbers and mother's maiden name.
"This information should not be available and posted on the Internet," Corbett said before Thursday's vote. "It would allow stalkers to know where an adult or child physically is living and even provide a direct opportunity for a criminal to commit identity theft."
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Although the post-season won't officially start until the weekend of July 20-21, the Boonville 13, 14 and 15-year-old All-Stars were officially announced last Friday in-between games in Junior Babe Ruth at Twillman Field in Harley park.
Boonville Babe Ruth Commissioner Mel Linhart said the 13 and 14-year-olds will bypass districts this year and will automatically move on to the state tournament. The Babe Ruth 13-year-old State Tournament will begin on Thursday, July 19 in Maryland Heights, while the 14-year-old State Tournament will start one week later in Farmington on July 26. As for the 15-year-olds, Linhart said its still up in the air as to whether they will have a district tournament or just move on to state. If the 15-year-olds have a district tournament, they will begin play on Friday, July 20 in Boonville. If they bypass districts, they will play the state tournament in Boonville as well on Friday, July 27.
Members of the Boonville 13-year-old All-Stars, which will be managed by Mark Waibel and coached by Jake Kopine and Jimmy Gholson, are Tavious Brazil, Morgan Browning, Brett Dillender, Brantley Edwards, Andrew Garrison, Lucas Gerke, Brady Gholson, Wyatt Grizzle, Braydon Johnson, Tommy Kopine, Riley Lang, Justin Masterson, Ryan Sprigg, Makiah Waibel and Brady Yates.
Heading the Boonville 14-year-old All-Stars, which will be managed by Scott Gamel and coached by David Wright and Jay Reese, are Dalton Bealmer, Arliss Caldwell, Jake Esser, Evan Franklin, Bryce Fuemmeler, Garrett Gamel, Jonathan Gerke, Isaac Lorenz, Regan Meisenheimer, Conner Pond, Jady Reese, Jacob Twenter, Eric VanderLinden, Dalton Vaughn and Alex Wright.
Players selected to the Boonville 15-year-old All-Stars, which will be managed by Zach Hulbert and coached by Kevin Oser and Kyle Day, are Quincy Banuet, Keaton Barnes, Jordan Copeland, Austin Day, Austin Henderson, Layne Hoff, Austin Hulbert, Kenan Johnson, Josh Judd, Clayton Lang, Ethan Sander, Neil Sanders, Alex Twenter, Alec Viertel and Keaton Vollrath.
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The two candidates vying to represent the 7th district are in a virtual dead heat. A poll from a Washington-based newspaper, The Hills, shows incumbent Mark Schauer and Tim Walberg have 41% of the vote. 13% of voters are undecided. Schauer leads among women, seniors and independents.
"We're gaining momentum. Tim Walberg is falling like a rock," says Rep. Mark Schauer, D-MI.
"We're feeling very good. Remember he's the incumbent, he has a record," says Tim Walberg.
Walberg and Schauer are wasting no time.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, D-MI, vouched for his colleague in Grand Ledge on Wednesday -- both men stumping for fair trade with China, both men taking jabs at Walberg.
"He is out of touch with outsourcing our jobs to China and Mexico, by privatizing social security," says Schauer.
Walberg too was busy making his rounds. He met with us at a park and ride in Chelsea and accused his opponent's big spending of killing jobs in Mid-Michigan.
"Those aren't Chinese jobs," says Walberg. "They're not South Carolina jobs or Indiana jobs. They're gone, and that's of concern to us because Mark Schauer is outsourcing jobs in this country by putting on an economy that does not produce jobs."
With less than one month to go and a large number of undecided voters, both Schauer and Walberg want to make their message clear.
"We have to fight for fair trade, so that our manufacturers have a chance here," Schauer says. "We need to make sure kids get the education they need, young people can go to college."
"People need to continue to fix on the issues of the economy -- jobs and spending -- and if they continue to do that, they'll support me," says Walberg.
Both trying to tip the race in their favor, as we inch our way to November.


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A hands-on 'Cooking with Gas' class is offered once a month, and taught by the utility district's employees.
During each class, a new recipe is demonstrated and taught to the girls; and the girls are able to experience what it feels like to create and taste scrumptious recipes they made — while building self-confidence and creativity and learning the fundamentals of cooking.
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