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Since President Barack Obama was re-elected last month, Republican strategists have publicly fretted about whether the GOP has lost Latinos, Asian-Americans, women and other key voting blocs of America's future.
Add another bloc to the list: young Silicon Valley professionals whose technological skills as campaign volunteers can provide a vital edge in elections.
Silicon Valley helped turn Obama's "Yes We Can" into "Yes We Code" this year. And as the campaigns' veils of secrecy have slowly lifted since the election, it has become clear Republican contender Mitt Romney's campaign was technologically outclassed, culminating in the spectacular Election Day meltdown of its get-out-the-vote program.
One huge problem for the Republicans: Not only is Silicon Valley overwhelmingly Democratic, but the values, beliefs and culture of the valley often seem incompatible with some of the current stances of the GOP.
"We all work on evidence-based reasoning, and that's much more of a Democratic mindset than a Republican mindset," said Johnvey Hwang, 34, a San Francisco software engineer who volunteered with the Obama campaign. "It's hard to side with a party that's still trying to reach out to their base of creationists."
Or denying the contribution of humans to climate change, or opposing embryonic stem cell research. The list goes on.
Veteran California GOP consultant Kevin Spillane, however, said the idea of a "Republican war on science" is just "hype."
"The problem is in some ways more fundamental. ... It has to do with a worldview," he said. "Technologists are often single, socially moderate-to-liberal, much more secular than the population as a whole, and those demographics are a problem for the Republican Party right now."
Catherine Bracy, who co-managed the "Tech4Obama" campaign field office in San Francisco -- a first-of-its-kind experiment that came up with a wide range of apps to make the campaign run smoother inside and out -- said it'll remain a problem for the GOP unless the party rethinks some of its core values.
"It's not so much 'liberal and conservative' as it is 'forward-looking and backward-looking.' Technologists by definition are building the future. ... It's just the way they see the world," she said. "They're not ideological by nature; it's 'How you get to the answer? What's the best way to the solution?' The problem with the Republican Party is not that they don't have technology; it's that they have bad ideas."
Romney attracted deep-pocketed Bay Area contributors and hired talented tech-heads -- and the GOP presidential nominee in 2016 surely will, too. But as Lennon and McCartney put it, money can't buy you Love.
Marc Love, that is.
"It used to be, here in California, that the only way we can affect national campaigns is to donate money, travel to battleground states or make phone calls," said Love, 32. "I've always wanted to find some way to contribute my technical skills to a campaign."
Love, a San Jose-to-San Francisco transplant, volunteered full time at the Tech4Obama office for about seven weeks in the spring as team leader for "Trip Planner," a Craigslist-like tool on Obama's website connecting volunteers with rides and rooms when they traveled to other states. Even after starting full time in June with San Francisco software developer Carbon Five, he kept coming when he could.
"We all have our day jobs, and we came evenings after work and weekends. It was in our interests to help Obama get elected ... and it was in our interests to do it as efficiently as possible," while hired contractors might take longer and inflate their bills, Love said.
For Democrats, finding volunteers like Love in Silicon Valley is easy. Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 3-to-1 in Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties, and they picked Obama over Romney by about the same ratio. And among workers at Silicon Valley's largest companies who gave money to either candidate, a whopping 85 percent of the total contributions went to Obama.
The region's money people think differently: Employees of the region's largest private-equity firms who contributed to one of the two candidates gave about 74 percent of their money to Romney -- and cash is any campaign's lifeblood.
"The beauty of technology is that you can buy it," said GOP campaign consultant Matt David. "In Silicon Valley, first they're innovators, but second they're entrepreneurs."
Still, David, who worked on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush in 2004, John McCain in 2008 and Jon Huntsman in 2012, acknowledged the GOP has fallen behind technologically.
"We haven't even deployed a lot of the technologies that Obama used in the 2008 campaign," he said.
That became evident on Election Day as Orca -- Romney's poll-monitoring program, meant to guide final get-out-the-vote efforts in battleground states -- failed, leaving volunteers across the nation blind as time ran out. Since then it has become clear that Obama's "nanotargeting" -- providing field volunteers with special scripts tailored specifically to each voter whose door they knocked on or phone they called, based on reams of electronic information gathered about each individual -- was far more sophisticated than Romney's ground game.
Hwang also worked on "Trip Planner" and later spent the race's final month in Florida, helping process data for that state's crucial get-out-the-vote effort.
"This was a great fit for me," Hwang said, praising the latitude he and his fellow volunteers had. "I'm a very startup kind of a person, so being able to jump in and build something without having to deal with a regular organization ... was very appealing."
Using the presidential campaign as a tech incubator matched the local ethos, said Matthew Douglass, of San Francisco, a Tech4Obama volunteer and vice president of Practice Fusion, a Web-based electronic health record app for doctors.
"We choose to live in the Bay Area ... because we want to help revolutionize certain industries or products or applications we see as insufficient,'' he said. "Why would we maintain the status quo in other areas of our lives such as our political beliefs?"
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
As campaigns depend more and more on social media as a cost-effective way to get out their messages, mobilize volunteers and gather data with which to micro-target voters, Democrats have the edge. Recent Pew Research Center surveys found:
79 percent of liberals use social media, compared with 70 percent of moderates and 63 percent of conservatives.
92 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds use social media, compared with 73 percent of 30-to-49-year-olds; 57 percent of 50-to 64-year-olds; and 38 percent of those 65 and older
Among users of social networks or Twitter, 38 percent said they "like" or promote materials about political or social issues posted by others; 35 percent have used social networks to urge others to vote; and 34 percent have posted their own political views.


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February 18, 2013
In deciding not to follow recommendations he raise taxes or dip into West Virginia's "rainy day" fund to fight drug abuse, Gov....
Drug Dealers= 1st. offense=10 years hard labor. 2nd offense= Firing Squad. Problem solved!!!
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The mentality that, "Boo Hoo these poor people aren't bad-they're sick. They have a disease called Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. They don't need to go to prison and jail. They need to go to a treatment center or half way house where they can get hugs, kisses and be enabeled." This mentality has not been helping anyone. Treatment centers and half way houses also need to cater to only one sex-not both. Putting men and women in early recovery too close to one another is never a good idea. This turns half way houses into fertility clinics!
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To some degree I agree with Mr.Alex. The treatment centers in our area are a joke. Getting people on food stamps, giving them antidepressants-which are drugs?-and coddling them is not helping.
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Dave Matthews's Second Act: Silkscreen Painting
Dave Matthews earned his cultish fame as an acoustic singer who packed hazy amphitheaters and gave a generation nostalgic, lithe anthems that represent fuzzy memories of good times but not always good decisions.
His latest release has no sound but plenty of verve. For three weeks, he worked with close friend and South African artist Beezy Bailey inside a Brooklyn studio to create "Itica Pritica," a collection of 24 silkscreen paintings that stretch from brash protest on South African rhinoceros horn smuggling to nonsensical depictions of a fat man perched on a broom.
"I was terrified of doing this whole thing with Beezy," he said.
Matthews also has a longtime reputation of an improvisational whiz, luring crowds into his dominion with concert soliloquies and guitar riffs that morph five-minute songs into 15-minute live jams. On a recent tour of his exhibition, Matthews said pretty much anything he wanted as he sipped alcohol-infused orange juice.
"There's no pig unless it's trying to shoot its excrement up in the air," he said on a porker painting.
Later, he employed a deep, heavy bayou accent to describe "Trophy," a depiction of a deer head he saw on a Louisiana wall: "…That's how we do it down in the South. We bust them in the head so as not to spoil the meat, or we shoot them in the heart, so we can keep the head."
Matthews talked to The Wall Street Journal before a recent party for his exhibit, which opened at the gallery Tuesday. It runs until April 13. The interview has been edited and condensed.
What's it like having been at the top of your game, having sold out amphitheaters in a few minutes, to do something like this that isn't your element, your wheelhouse?
I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally but that doesn't mean anything professionally. It's as big a part of my heart, but I sort of judge myself in two ways. I'm a musician, and I'm very fortunate in that part of my life — rightly or wrongly — that I'm afraid of scrutiny in delving into other things. It's part of my decision-making process. It's difficult. And then, I think this would have only have happened because of the courage I stole from Beezy.
How's the creative process different from writing a song to doing a silkscreen like this? How's it the same?
For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me. Even though I love drawing and I love painting, I haven't done it enough that I have experienced that path and struggled along that path, where Beezy has endlessly been along that path. For me, the process was very different — it was like being taken in a dark room and led around by someone else.
Both of you are from South Africa. It looked like a constant theme throughout. How does that play into your relationship and your work?
The violence. We've talked about the violence and the aggression of these paintings. That comes from growing up in a violent place. I thought about this last night, and growing up during apartheid, even though we were on the privileged side of the fence. It especially felt like everyone loses. We all grew up in different worlds together, but all victims of a very violent country. When I think of being a young man, we were incredibly reckless teenagers — driving 100 miles a hour toward a brick wall. Now, we all can look at each other and say what was it like where you grew up, in this bizarre place. It's one tiny squeezed nightmare inflicted place. When I write music, I never think I want to be heavy metal or South African music. But whenever I play a song for my mother, she goes, that reminds me of South Africa. My mother hears that.
I've seen you say publicly that at 45 you never thought you'd be doing this. But you're 46, still doing this, touring, writing music. What's next for you? More tours? More music?
What I want to do is paint with Beezy again, because that's what I'm doing right now. And I think about moments in my life that are monuments. Maybe there will be a weekend you had at some point in your life that was as big as maybe a whole year you had. When I think of monuments in my life, this will be one of them. It will be as big as a year. So I know that I'm going to go on tour and play with these men I love. I know I'm going to be writing and in a studio. But I also know in my heart, Beezy and I are going to paint again. It's like no other experience. I've never collaborated so openly with anyone.
What song of yours do you secretly love that even your avid fans might be surprised at?
I definitely like the oddballs. I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called "Little Thing," which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me. At some moment, that may have been my thought process. That's the one that jumps in my mind, "Some Devil," "Don't Drink the Water" are the others that I love.


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White House Puts Fresh Focus on Federal Job Training Efforts
President Barack Obama is again taking aim at the "skills gap" separating many unemployed workers from the companies that could hire them.
Mr. Obama, in his State of the Union address on Jan. 28, said he had asked Vice President Joe Biden "to lead an across-the-board reform of America's training programs to make sure they have one mission: Train Americans with the skills employers need, and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now."
Mr. Biden's report is being released Tuesday, the same day the White House says Mr. Obama will sign into law the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, bipartisan legislation that passed the Senate and the House this summer by wide margins.
"The mission here is very simple, and it goes back to the central economic vision that has guided us since our first day in office: building a strong and thriving middle class," Mr. Biden wrote in the 76-page White House report, "Ready to Work: Job-Driven Training and American Opportunity."
Training and retraining programs could help young or out-of-work Americans learn new skills desired by employers. But efforts to close the so-called "skills gap" have faced funding and other challenges. Some economists even doubt the practical payoff. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker last month described training programs for adult workers as having "only modest effects on employment and job retention."
One issue has been the balkanized landscape of federal efforts. The Government Accountability Office in 2011 found 47 employment and training programs run by nine agencies with much overlap.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, among other things, eliminates 15 federal programs and requires other programs to measure and track outcomes for workers. Mr. Obama said earlier this month he would sign it.
The White House report notes that more than 21 million people make use of federal training programs annually, including veterans, the unemployed, people with disabilities and young workers.
Among other things, it presents a "job-driven checklist" to guide federal programs; calls for better coordination among federal, state and local efforts; seeks better use of data to help job seekers make informed decisions; and promotes an expansion of apprenticeships.
It says the Labor Department will launch a $25 million "online skills academy" to "help students prepare for in-demand careers," and says the Department of Agriculture will offer $200 million for pilot projects aimed at helping food-stamp recipients find work.
"Every worker deserves to know that if you lose your job, your country will help you train for an even better one," Mr. Obama said in his weekly address on Saturday.


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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
July 01, 2009
President Obama Approves the Billion-Dollar "Cash for Clunkers" Act
President Barack Obama signed into law on June 24 a measure that directs $1 billion toward rebates for U.S. residents who trade in their cars or trucks for new, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Although unofficially called the "Cash for Clunkers" Act, that title is somewhat misleading, as the trade-in vehicle must be less than 25 years old and drivable, and it must be registered and insured for the full year before the trade-in date. Instead, the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act focuses on fuel economy, requiring most trade-in vehicles to have a combined fuel economy of 18 miles per gallon (mpg) or less. On the other hand, the trade-in vehicle must be destroyed by the dealer, so people won't be trading in their new Hummers just to cash in on the rebate. The law is essentially focused on those driving inefficient, aging vehicles with little or no market value, encouraging them to buy or lease new, more fuel-efficient vehicles. The new vehicles must also have a manufacturer's suggested retail price of not more than $45,000, so people buying high-end cars can't cash in on the rebate. Rebates will be awarded directly to dealers, who will pass on the savings to their customers.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) calls the new program the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS). It requires any newly purchased or leased cars to have a combined fuel economy of at least 22 mpg, while sport utility vehicles and small and medium-sized pickup trucks and vans (collectively called "category 1 trucks") must have a combined fuel economy of at least 18 mpg. But to earn the rebate, new cars must have a combined fuel economy at least 4 mpg higher than the traded-in vehicle. That will earn a $3,500 rebate, but to earn the full $4,500 rebate, the new cars must have a combined fuel economy at least 10 mpg higher than the traded-in vehicle. Category 1 trucks earn the $3,500 rebate for a fuel economy improvement of at least 2 mpg and a $4,500 rebate for a fuel economy improvement of 5 mpg or more.
Those looking to purchase or lease a new large pickup or van must be trading in a large pickup or van or an even larger work truck. The new large pickup or van must have a combined fuel economy of at least 15 mpg. The vehicles will earn the $3,500 rebate for a fuel economy improvement of at least 1 mpg and earn the $4,500 rebate for a fuel economy improvement of 2 mpg or more. Any heavy work truck traded in for a large pickup or van can earn a $3,500 rebate, regardless of the fuel economy, but the work truck must be a vehicle from model year 2001 or earlier. That same restriction applies to work trucks traded for new work trucks, but such trade-ins can only earn the $3,500 rebate if the new work truck is of a similar size or smaller than the old work truck. The act only allows $75 million for rebates on work truck trade-ins, but that still allows for trade-ins of more than 21,400 work trucks.
Depending on the average size of the rebates, the act provides enough funding for rebates on roughly a quarter million trade-ins. The rebates will be in effect through the end of October, or until dealers provide $1 billion in rebates, whichever comes first. The act requires the DOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue final regulations by July 24, putting the act into effect on that date. To support that extremely tight timeline, the NHTSA plans to publish a summary of the act in the Federal Register in the near future. Technically, the rebate takes effect on July 1, but the NHTSA recommends that dealers wait until the final rule is issued to be sure that they don't provide ineligible rebates. The NHTSA plans to include a list of participating dealers on the CARS Web site, and also plans to list eligible vehicles, but until it does so, you can check the official fuel economy of vehicles on the fueleconomy.gov Web site. See the DOT press release and see the act, the NHTSA summary, and other information on the new CARS Web site.


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Wild Saturday at the French Open
PARIS—The first Saturday of the French Open had lots of sun, lots of drama and some possibly worrisome news from defending champion Rafael Nadal. Our roundup from Paris:
Rafa's Aching Back
Rafael Nadal won another match in straight sets on Saturday, but he did it with some tape on his back, which he injured at the Australian Open this year. He said he has felt some pain this tournament and had to slow down his serve. "I'll play as best as I can," Nadal said in Spanish. "I'll put up a good fight to try and win. You know, my back is not that important. It's not that important." Nadal has won a record eight French Open titles.
A Murray Muddle
Andy Murray led Philipp Kohlschreiber two sets to one and 3-0 and 4-2 in the fourth set, but couldn't close out the set or the match before play was interrupted for darkness. The players will continue the match on Sunday with Murray serving at 7-7 in the fifth set. Murray needed to call a trainer late in the match to massage his right thigh.
One American Man Standing
John Isner is the first American man to reach the second week of a Grand Slam since Andy Roddick at the 2012 U.S. Open, and he's now alone. The other two American men remaining in the draw—Jack Sock and Donald Young—both lost on Saturday. Sock wasted numerous chances against Serbia's Dusan Lajovic, who reached the third round in Paris by winning consecutive tour-level matches for the first time in his career (he's ranked No. 83). Lajovic won in straight sets. Young showed a lot of heart—and many flashy shots—in losing in five sets to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 6-2, 6-4, 2-6, 6-7(4), 6-4. He said coming back from a two-set deficit was a big step. "Last year or a couple years ago, I would've thrown it in," he said. "I decided to fight, and I felt I was better than that."
Sloane's Streak
Sloane Stephens reached the fourth round of a major tournament for the sixth straight time on Saturday. It's the longest active streak in women's tennis. That said, the streak says more about the unpredictability of women's tennis recently than Stephens's admirable consistency. Roger Federer reached 36 consecutive quarterfinals before losing in the second round of Wimbledon last year. Stephens will play fourth seed Simona Halep on Monday.
'A' For No Effort
Gael Monfils has perfected the art of tanking. Monfils defeated Fabio Fognini 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2 on Saturday, despite looking like he could barely move in the fourth set (he won six points in the set). Monfils said that after his serve was broken and he couldn't break back, he threw the set away. "Why should I make any effort?" he said. "I didn't show him anything. I was like walking like very slowly." Monfils was well-rested for the fifth set and won comfortably. Fognini made 81 unforced errors for the match.
Winning Sick
How did Andrea Petkovic feel after defeating Kristina Mladenovic, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time since 2011? "I feel very bad, I have to say," she said. "I'm having a virus since yesterday, a stomach virus. I have made great friends with the bathroom the past day and night and today."
Home Court Advantage?
Frenchman Richard Gasquet played the last match of the day on Court Philippe Chatrier. It did not go well. His opponent, Fernando Verdasco, won the first two sets, the second as the sun began to set. The players were made to start the third set, much to Gasquet's dismay. The match was called for darkness with Verdasco leading 6-3, 6-2, 2-2.
Kvitova's Long Days
Petra Kvitova is the best in the world at one thing: making her matches complicated. Kvitova, the fifth seed in Paris, was beaten by Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-7(3), 6-1, 9-7 in the third round. Kvitova had played 47 three-set matches since the beginning of 2013 to the start of the French Open, more than any other player currently ranked in the top 10. Jelena Jankovic, who reached the fourth round on Saturday, was second with 36.
Left in the Dust
Lucie Safarova beat former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic to reach the fourth round. The left-handed Safarova has beaten Ivanovic five straight times.


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Interview Techniques
Interview Techniques - Scottish Jobs
Different Interview Techniques
Listed below are some common interview practices. If possible (for example if you are using a recruitment agent) we recommend you try to ascertain the style of the interviewer you are meeting before you attend the interview as this will give you a head start.
Biographical Interview - Scottish Jobs
A biographical interview is the most common type of interview and usually involves meeting a line manager and discussing ones career history and experience. Biographical interviews can be quite informal and can also involve close scrutiny of your CV.
Competency Based Interview - Scottish Jobs
Competency based interviews are employed to try to ascertain skills and competencies which you possess which are relevant to the job in question. For example if the job requires good teamwork, good communication skills, attention to detail or strong customer relations etc then you may find that the style of interview employed will be competency based. There is a list of competencies at the bottom of this page.
Behavioural Interview - Scottish Jobs
On a similar vein to competency based interviews, behavioural interviews assess competencies, but base this primarily on examples from past performance. For example, if the interviewer wants to assess your leadership qualities he/she may ask you something along the lines of "give me an example of where your leadership qualities came to the fore to resolve a problem"
Hypothetical Interview - Scottish Jobs
Hypothetical interviews involve asking hypothetical questions and assessing your response to gauge initiative, competencies and how you would cope in a particular situation. For example, the interviewer may ask you something along the lines of "what would you do if your manager called in sick on the morning he was due to deliver a presentation to an extremely important client?"
Case Study - Scottish Jobs
Sometimes potential candidates are assessed on case studies. This is something to look out for when you are preparing for an interview. If you check out the employers website and notice the use of case studies then you should examine any examples in detail, as these may come up during interview. Sometimes candidates are told about case studies in advance, but this is not always the case. Case studies can be written, involve presentations or be based purely on interview.
Assessment Centres - Scottish Jobs
Some recruiters like to employ various forms of assessment in addition to traditional interviews. Assessments can involve activities such as group interviewing, tests/assessments/psychometric testing, group activities/presentations, role-plays and more.
If you can identify in advance the type of things that the employer is looking for, then you can use this to your advantage. For example, if the employer is looking for someone with leadership qualities then it would pay to take the lead in various activities.
Sometimes assessments are conducted at specialist assessment centres, alternatively assessments are sometimes conducted at the place of work/interview.
This article is based upon extracts from a book by Paul Hichens who is the head consultant at leading CV writing company CV Consultants.co.uk.
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More than 100 arrests made in underage-drinking sting
Suspects used fake IDs, some bought on Internet
Published: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 3:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 3:10 p.m.
BOONE — More than 100 people have been arrested and charged in an operation aimed at deterring underage purchase and possession of alcoholic beverages, specifically targeting ABC-permitted outlets in the Appalachian State University and the high country area, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety announced Monday.
The operation grew out of the alcohol-related death of an Appalachian State University student in September, officials said in a news release. Special agents in the Alcohol Law Enforcement division of the Department of Public Safety conducted several covert enforcement operations.
So far, 103 people have been arrested on 155 charges, according to the release. Most of the charges were for underage possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages, aiding and abetting underage possession of alcohol and using a fraudulent ID to obtain alcohol.
ALE agents said several types of fake ID documents were provided to and used by the suspects, who obtained them through the Internet from sources in foreign countries. More than 30 fake IDs were seized.
Agents also found underage people buying alcoholic beverages by using legal IDs of other people 21 and older.
"Underage consumers using a fraudulent identification document to buy alcoholic beverages are putting their own life and other lives at risk," Kieran Shanahan, secretary of the Department of Public Safety, said in the release. "Purchasing, possessing and consuming alcoholic beverages not only is a violation of the law, it could cost people their lives."
Because of the number of arrests, ALE special agents and the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Commission hosted a training seminar for ABC retailers on March 7 to help retailers and their employees identify fake IDs that may be used to buy alcoholic beverages.
ALE will continue efforts in the Boone area to prevent underage people from purchasing, possessing and consuming alcoholic beverages.
ALE special agents have authority to arrest and take investigatory action for any criminal offense anywhere in the state. Their primary responsibility is the enforcement of the state alcoholic beverage control and drug laws.
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Let me say from the get go that I'm an old school guy who believes in having a solid work ethic with little tolerance for whining or excuses. That being said I cannot help but wonder if we expect too much from our kids today? As the father of a teenager and a coach of a few dozen teenage and pre-teen girls I have a unique perspective on the topic.
Now my daughter is highly self-motivated. She stays on top of her school work without her mom or I saying a word to her about it. She takes great pride in doing her best and I am proud of her for her effort and attitude about her studies. Likewise she exhibits a similar work ethic on the softball field with high expectations for achievement. As a slapper she usually hits near .500 anyway, but she expects to get on base every time and is genuinely disappointed when she does not. Does this sounds like anyone you know?
There is a fine line between strong self expectations to drive oneself to be the best and expectations for perfection that are unachievable. But the question remains where do these expectations come from? Are they really internal or might they be from external forces?
Let's face it...our world is a super competitive place in 2012; particularly in academics and athletics. Getting accepted to any top college is the toughest it has ever been, while year around athletics has raised the bar to a level I could have never imagined as a kid. As parents we want the best for our kids and we certainly don't want our daughters to fall behind in the race do we?
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PARKERSBURG -Tuesday night's decision by the Wood County Board of Education to provide $700,000 to begin repairs to the bleachers at Parkersburg High's Stadium Field only started to address the issues of the 90-year-old structure.
Wood County School Board President Tim Yeater said the five-member board's 4-0 decision to provide money for repairs addresses only half the issue.
When the stadium committee requested funding Tuesday it was to help cover $1.3 million in repairs to the home side of the stadium bleachers. The board will provide $700,000, while the stadium committee will seek a $400,000 loan, $60,000 of its money and $40,000 from capital improvements.
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The project to repair the Stadium Field at Parkersburg High School needs additional funds.
"We just agreed to one half of it," Yeater said. "There is a plan in effect for the whole thing. Are they coming back next year?"
That's unknown at this point, but stadium committee officials will begin fundraising efforts.
Charlotte Potter, treasurer for the stadium committee, said she's had preliminary discussions with bank officials and there should be no issues to secure a $400,000 loan. Potter said the committee had previously gotten a similar, 7-year loan (for the track at the stadium) and paid it off in three years.
Joe Carrico, with the stadium committee, told the board if the potential for naming rights comes up, they will come back.
Plugging taxpayer money into the project also ramps up the board's responsibility and oversight on the project. With public funding driving the project there are more hoops; bidding procedures and prevailing wages are now part of the process.
"If the scope is changed at all, we need to be part of that process," Yeater said. He said those issues shouldn't hinder the push to have renovations completed by fall.
Ryan Taylor, president of Pickering Associates, said the costs and time schedule for the project shouldn't change.
Taylor said public construction projects lose some flexibility, but doesn't present much of a hurdle in terms of the completion schedule. The renovated portions of the stadium will be up to modern code specifications and ADA compliant. It will still require cosmetic attention.
"We based the project on prevailing wage, knowing there would be funding there," he said.


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Drake greets fans during the 2013 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto on Sunday June 16, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim) by Mesfin Fekadu AP Music Writer The BET Awards should be called the Drake Awards. The rapper-singer is up for 12 honors, including five nominations for video of the year, which has 10 nominees.


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But if it doesn't get a balance, then you'll have no one to play with
But if it doesn't get a balance, then you'll have no one to play with
The game's not struggling for players at all. Contrary to your Cartman-esque view of the world, people actually really like and enjoy playing that game. Me? It's just fun to troll in, so I troll there. If niggas were still playing Gears it'd be Gears.
Updating the game will just turn me off to it completely. I don't care to learn any of that shit.
And you still got beat by me every time. What's that say about you?
I was foolish to think this game was worth it at the time.
But we all live and learn, well, most of us do anyway
I remember that time Solgrim made us a home when this place went full retard with experiments. That was cool.
The Magic? Really? Orlando now? At home, too?
Making that match up against Houston look better and better tomorrow. Btw, 8-9 vs. 8-8.
Just wanted to drop by and share this little gem before tonight's game as an olive branch of friendship, good sir. I hope tonight, no matter who wins, you realize:
Also, this channel is now my favorite thing on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/KobeBryantIsAFag
Yoooooo I would buy the shit out of a DMX Christmas album
I'm just gonna leave this here but I suggest any Biggie fans to download "Blue Eyes meets Bed Stuy" its a whole album of Biggie and Frank Sinatra mash up and it is fucking phenomenal
You a beautiful human being BIG. I'm glad I helped you find the WTC in the Spider-man game.
I was just thinking about "Gimme The Loot" when I was in the shower this morning. Man, that was not an appropriate song for a bus full of middle school kids to listen to.
Edit: Forgot to ask: Legend, did you listen to or know about that album? Fuckin great right?
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refers to a person or group on the dance floor who is seriously shaking it.
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A couple of months ago, I purchased a P8Z68-V motherboard from ASUS to give my desktop PC here at home a much needed upgrade. This motherboard has built-in support for USB 3.0, SATA 6Gbps support, UEFI BIOS and a bunch of other super cool features. It also supports Intel's second-generation Core processors so I picked up a second-generation Core i7.
After installing the new motherboard in my PC, I went out to grab the most updated drivers and BIOS updates from the manufacturer, etc.. The version of the UEFI BIOS that ships with the motherboard was a few months old so I naturally wanted to update it. I went to ASUS's website, grabbed the latest BIOS ROM file, and put it on a USB thumb drive. To update the UEFI BIOS on this motherboard, you have to go in to the UEFI BIOS and fire up ASUS's "EZ-Update" for the BIOS under "Advanced Mode". "EZ-Update" will detect the ROM on the USB thumb drive and update the BIOS. Of course, this wasn't happening for me. Every time I tried to install the update, it would throw an error telling that the update file (ROM file) is "is not a EFI BIOS". After scratching my head trying to figure out why I was getting this error, I stumbled upon this forum post on AnandTech. Apparently, if you try to update the BIOS using the update file provided from ASUS named with what they name it – it won't work. You sort of have to rename the file (8 characters). Nice. It also can't be in a folder on the USB thumb drive and the USB thumb drive needs to be formatted with FAT32. My problem though was simply the naming of the file. The real kicker is ASUS provides no guidance on this as far as I can see on their support website. Still, not entirely sure why ASUS simply just doesn't provide the update files for the UEFI BIOS in the supported naming format right off-the-bat on their support website. So there you have it. If you have this motherboard and can't update the UEFI BIOS, that's why.
On a slightly different note, I am having a weird issue with this PC where unpredictably the PC will reboot by itself and be unable to find the hard drive in which Windows is installed on – leaving the PC at a weird blinking underscore state. Eventually, if I reboot and go into the UEFIO BIOS, look around, and reboot again – it'll boot into Windows just fine. This issue happens at random and the PC can go weeks without incident. I had ran some diagnostics on the hard drive and as far as I can tell, the drive is fine. I thought updating the BIOS might solve the issue but no dice.


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When the Crowder Lady 'Riders took on Seminole State at Bob Sneller Gymnasium back on Nov. 6, they were missing a key part of their team in Veronica Amos, who missed the game while nursing an injury. Crowder fell that night, 69-66, their only loss this season.
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Camila Lacerda followed Amos with 16 points while Sarah Sagely had 12, Caprese Marshall 10, Terai Sadler seven, Dorian Briggs six, Chloe Nichols five, Megan Ritter four and Seleena Neal two. Caitlin Miller and Callie Shaver also drew minutes off the bench.
Amos was also a force on defense where she ripped down nine boards and added three steals. Lacerda chipped in six assists and four steals while Sadler also had four steals.
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Through conversations that I have had with Shane and AO (through Shane). The current plan is to tie the USDGC Exemption to the overall winner of the Iowa Tour. There are two ways that this could be done.
1.) The 2009 Iowa Tour winner would get the exemption for the 2010 USDGC.
2.) The current 2009 Iowa Tour leader as of August 1st, would get the exemption for the 2009 USDGC. (The Aug. 1 date is just an arbitrary date.)
If option 1 is the way to go, then a way to determine the 2009 USDGC Exemption would need to be figured out. I would suggest tying it into the State Championship for 2009.
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Who are some young phenoms out there. This is kinda going off the other thread but lets complie a list of young ballersssss. This girl is too good.
She is not allowed to play with the boys. Thats a shame because she is not getting any better dominating the girls. Let her Play!
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I remember ESPN had an article not long ago about a younge phenom. I am going to try and find it but thats off the top of my head.
Here is the video of my man Marquise Walker who is only 6 years old but a basketball phenom
this kid is nasty but i hope his dad is not taking advantage of him like we see all to often. Let him be a kid first.
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I agree. sometimes parents can be to pushy. This guy is pasting his son on the internet for the world to see. that is alot of pressure and attention for a five year old.
I think that is the case for most young players. They have so much expectations at such young if they do not succeed they are looked at as such failures. The dad cannot control his sons height and physical stature.
THats a good point bmanney. He may never llive up to expectations because he just wasnt big enough, but at the same time the Dad might just be capitalizing while he can because his kid might be a flop.
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yea bmanney always had some good points... sometimes the pressure is too much on kids who cant even do long division
Bmanney made one semi good point, first one all year, lets not get crazy and call him an expert.
joey you really have something against bmanney
I just have something against kids who dont have smooth baby hooks.
smooth baby hooks just are not in everyones arsenal. I love the pump fake to an up and under. Also watch out for my first step to a sweet finger roll or if im in the mood, a montserous two handed dunk
lil penny, the day i see you touch net let alone throw down a two hander will be the day when **** freezes over.
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Gimple succeeds Glen Mazzara, who was relieved of his duties in a controversial move that was deemed "amicable" by both AMC and Mazzara.
AMC also announced that production on Season 4 will get under way May 6 in Atlanta. Ga. Season 4 will premiere in October and consist of 16 episodes.
In addition, co-executive producer/ special effects makeup supervisor and director Greg Nicotero and producer Tom Luse have been promoted to executive producers.
"Scott has been an essential part of this show since he came aboard at the very beginning of Season 2," said series creator Robert Kirkman in a statement. "He's contributed to guiding this show in a substantial way that has resulted in a lot of the key scenes and storylines fans have dubbed signature moments. I am thrilled to begin work on a brand new season of 'The Walking Dead' with Scott at the helm, and I truly believe we could be embarking on what will be the best season of this show yet."
Several reports have stated that Kirkman and Mazzara clashed over the direction of the show, which has become prime-time's most popular series among viewers 18-49.
Gimple will be the drama's third showrunner in four years.
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Thankfully we did not have ALL of the family over for dinner so it was nice and enjoyable without people having to be crowded or walking on egg shells. I showed a lot of self control at the dinner table which was quite rewarding. It is always exciting to see my niece and nephews (my how they grow so quickly)!
After running around on Thanksgiving night at the Black Friday madness with my mom and brother…and then again with my Granny, Aunt and Cousin…I got to have breakfast with my really good friend Sam. Exciting news for her – she got engaged! Exciting news for me – I get to shoot her wedding!🙂
I got back to Charleston on Saturday and had time to hang out with Lynette and the family. We had a blast playing Apples to Apples as a family and talking. That was a hoot to see everyone getting into the game. I must say they do not particularly play with similar humor as myself.
I just got back from picking up Baby Ash from the airport from her break. We went to the Outlets and walked around then had lunch and FROZEN YOGURT. Did I tell you that I have found a new addiction?? Yes – I have found a new love of my life. It was nice to sit and talk with her about life and her visit home. I am so thankful to have someone that I can just sit and talk to without having to have an agenda for our time spent together. I think it would be a good visit if we were just together without even speaking. That to me is a great kind of friendship because it isn't based off of all the give and take.
Ash and I did talk about how it did not feel like Thanksgiving. I always refrain talking about that with students (especially freshmen) because I do not want to kill the spirit of the holiday season. I know for me when I came to college all of the "family traditions" almost went completely obsolete. What traditions I cared to continue having are kept alive because I initiate them. I am a create of extreme habit so traditions are a positive in my life because it is something you can expect to happen every time therefore creating habit! What are some of your "family traditions" at this time of the year (i.e.: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years)? For me, I am a huge fan of Christmas so we always have put up our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. I enjoy it so much that I don't mind putting them up even before Thanksgiving because it gives me longer to look at them. I also travel some during this season so it cuts back on my time to enjoy them at my apartment. I put mine up the week before Thanksgiving and then put my Granny's up while home for Thanksgiving. Why do you think traditions "change?" What do you believe that traditions are important?
Hoping to spend some time reflecting on things and sharing fun things I find during the Holiday season. JOY to the World!!