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More people are using Twitter and Facebook to contact businesses instead of dialing the 1-800 customer service number, but companies are slow to respond on social media, leaving concerns unanswered and even deleting questions, according to a study released Monday.
The findings, released by Redwood City-based LiveOps, which sells cloud-based customer service technology, and marketing research firm Harris Interactive underscore what many consumers already know -- customer service can be lackluster on social network sites. More than half of companies don't respond to questions posted on Facebook and Twitter, the study said, even though social networks are quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to connect with businesses.
"You're destroying your brand by not responding," said Natalie Petouhoff, a business consultant and lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, who conducted research for the study. "Companies are going to wonder where they went wrong and went down the drain."
The study, paid for by LiveOps, surveyed 1,255 consumers age 18 and older and researched customer service centers at retail, financial and telecommunications companies and other businesses over four months.
About 70 percent of complaints on Twitter and Facebook are ignored, according to LiveOps' findings. Most customers wait more than two days for a response on Facebook, when an appropriate waiting period is less than an hour, researchers said. More than one-third of retailers have erased a customer's question from their Facebook page, according to the research.
"They stick their head in the sand and they think if they're not looking it's not happening," Petouhoff said.
Most companies want to provide good customer service, experts say, but many don't have the technology to address customer complaints on multiple channels. For instance, some copy and paste tweets into a complaint database rather than replying on Twitter. Other companies restrict social media sites for advertising only, and even today, some are "still waiting to see if this (social media) phenomenon thing is real," said Marty Beard, president and chief executive of LiveOps.
But while they wait, businesses could be losing out. Customers are likely to spend about 30 percent more money with retailers that interact on social media Petouhoff said. And social media can do a lot of damage -- and good -- to a company's reputation, because comments spread in seconds to huge populations of customers. United Airlines took a beating in 2009 when a passenger's YouTube video about how his guitar was broken during a flight went viral. In 2011, Los Gatos-based Netflix (NFLX) suffered a strong backlash when consumers, outraged by plans for a price hike, took to social networks to protest.
"They were not prepared at all on the social side," Beard said. "They were not handling it."
Some companies have figured out how to keep customers happy on social networks. Nordstrom, for instance, was quick to address one customer's complaint on Facebook recently that a clothing model looked too skinny.
"You're better off getting in front of the fire than being on the back end of it," said Marshal Cohen, consumer behavior and retail expert with The NPD Group. "To do nothing you just allow yourself to be blasted."
Contact Heather Somerville at 925-977-8418. Follow her at Twitter.com/heathersomervil.


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Police arrest man accused of stealing from doctor's offices
Suspected credit card thief arrested in Cincinnati
Authorities have arrested a man accused of stealing credit cards from area medical facilities.
James Barton, of Cincinnati, is suspected in a string of thefts across the area, including medical facilities in Mason, Wilmington, West Chester and Oxford.
Investigators said Barton goes into buildings and takes credit cards from women's purses. Sometimes the victims are patients, and sometimes they're employees.
The stolen credit cards were used to buy iPads at Walmart in Lebanon and Target in South Lebanon.
Police said Barton used drivers to take him to the medical facilities. One of those suspected drivers, Travis Johnson, has been arrested and charged.
Barton was arrested Thursday by Cincinnati police.
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WMFO's Joyce The Voice hosted a big name in the classical scene on her show, The Voicemobile – Martin Pearlman, three-time Grammy nominee and the director of Boston Baroque. He has been conducting since the orchestra's debut in 1973 as the first baroque orchestra in the US, and they are celebrating their 40th anniversary this season. With the original idea of being an orchestra exclusively made up of period instruments, it has seen massive success and many of its founding members have gone on to direct other ensembles.
Pearlman studied in Holland when baroque instruments were just beginning to come into vogue, and when he moved back to Boston he decided to get a few friends together and play concertos, according to the interview. Baroque instruments were difficult to tune and nobody really played them with the skill of a virtuoso, but Pearlman was determined and the orchestra grew enough that after several years he could add a chorus and even an opera section.
Baroque itself is a historical period of music which has become incredibly popular in recent years, but Boston Baroque's goal was specifically to play the music of the time with instruments of the time. Though some antique instruments survive, many have been modernized and thus copies of the originals must be made – Pearlman assured The Voice that the main difference was not the quality, but rather the warmth of the sound. Considering different air quality and materials, modern instruments produce a warmer sound.
With Beethoven this week, Handel in December, Bach on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day being broadcasted nationally, and a list of other concerts lined up, Boston Baroque has a busy year ahead of it.
Boston Baroque's 40th anniversary season includes several events the public can go to in the next few days – November 8th and 9th, they are playing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, for which tickets can be bought here. Baroque also has a subscription series of five concerts and a New Directions series combining contemporary and classical music.
The Boston Baroque website is here, and you can listen to The Voicemobile archive of the show with Pearlman here.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorney General Scott Pruitt is urging Oklahomans to help observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Since 2001, the month of April has been observed to raise awareness of sexual violence and help educate the public about prevention.
Sexual assault and abuse includes any type of non-consensual sexual activity and can be verbal, visual or anything that forces unwanted sexual contact or attention. According to the National Institute for Justice, most victims know their offender and a majority of assaults go unreported each year.
Victims are urged to report any crimes to local law enforcement and to seek help. The Attorney General's Victim Services Unit has administered funding and certification for domestic and sexual violence programs throughout the state since 2005. The unit provides training for law enforcement, prosecutors and shelter workers
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I came across this on Facebook, and this one is sure to please the Grindhouse fans. In the days of Super IMAX & 3D films, only one type of filming can top it:
Super-8 Film.
None of that pansy 16mm - only Super-8 could capture the feel of a true 70s grindhouse exploitation movie. Even the synopsis is great:


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Award: George Pólya
Year of Award: 1988
Publication Information: The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 18, (1987), pp. 2-17
Summary: A discussion of improved cryptographic systems and the problems they pose for the cryptanalyst, with emphasis on the underlying mathematics.
About the Authors: (from The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 18, (1987))
Dennis Luciano is currently Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he has been since 1977, Prior to this, he had appointments at Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, PA) and LeMoyne College (Syracuse, NY). He received an M.A. and Ph.D. (in commutative algebra under the direction of David Lissner) from Syracuse University. Professor Luciano is a referee for the College Mathematics Journal, a member of the Executive Committee of the Northeastern Section of the MAA, and an evaluator for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. His current mathematical interests include number theory, graph theory, and applications of mathematics at the undergraduate level. His nonmathematical interests include running and basketball.
Gordon Prichett is Professor of Mathematics at Babson College. He received his B.A. from Williams College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1970. After teaching mathematics and mathematics education at San Diego State University, he moved to Hamilton College where he served as chairman. He has since taught at Wellesley College and Babson. He has published a variety of papers on number theory and computer applications. Dr. Prichett has spent one year as a visiting professor in the Biology Department at the University of York, England, studying population biology. He has an active interest in curriculum development and alternative approaches to instruction, and is coauthor of A Supplement to Calculus: One and Several Variables, which adapts introductory calculus to the self-paced mode of instruction.


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Let's Talk About Our Kids
By Rebecca Teti
Monday: Parenting
(Join each day's Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Changing Roles)
Terrible toddlers? Trying teens? Something in between? This weekly forum is the spot to share your questions and struggles about all things related to parenthood.
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A rather frivolous question, but could anyone tell me their favorite Catholic Mom blogs who don't homeschool, but send their kids to a brick and mortar school? Are there any? I've found so many homeschooling ones and just adore them and regularly follow them. I have some kids in school and one homeschooled, but next year with a new baby coming, all of my school aged kids will be going to the local Catholic school. And I would love to read a blog that includes the craziness of carline and school schedules, etc. while still living a devoted Catholic life. I notice that when I read the homeschooling blogs, I tend to long for a life that we are not currently called to, and I know that is not a good thing-I want to find peace in where God has us now, but do find a tremendous amount of inspiration in the blogs out there. God bless!
Mama Smiles is one that I can think of off hand. I'm pretty sure she's Catholic, and pretty sure her kids go to school (she talks about after-school activities she does with them). Her blog has really good craft ideas.
Simcha Fisher currently has several of hers in school - I Have to Sit Down is her blog. If I had to give up the whole rest of the internet, her writing is the one thing I'd keep.
Ladies, I could really use some prayers today. I'm having to deal with a difficult work situation and being 6 months pregnant is not helping me be the calm, cool, and collected person I need to be to make this situation better. Thank you.
Jenny, I'll be praying for you. Also, thanks, everyone, for the great idea of checking out Catholic Mom blogs. My kids go to a public school, but I am looking for Catholic crafts, lessons to supplement CCD. Thank you and be well!
I have a question for Rebecca - Back on Faith and Family, you mentioned a biography of Saint Francis that led to your conversion. My son is being confirmed this year and has selected Saint Francis as his saint. Would you recommend the book for a fifteen year old? What's the title? Thanks so much. Kelly Dolin
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My media server is connected to a "public network" with 100's of people connected on the lan-side of the router, which means a handful of ps3's will have access to the media. Aren't there a way to filter the ps3's so that the server only connects to my ps3 without me having to buy and setup an router for this task?
The most obvious way to do this is (of course) mac-filtering but i havn't found any post on that on this forum - so im thinking there might not be such an function implimented (yet?).
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? Im open to ideas of 3rd party program to filter mac's for the PS3 media server application only?
Solutions NOT relevant:
Ip filter (dynamically obtained ip's)
Unhooking from the network or in any way changing physical connections when using the mediasever
Thanks in advance!


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I currently host PMS on a Q6600 quad-core server. I've also tested it with a heavily overclocked E5200. Both seem to work flawlessly transcoding everything including 1080P MKV content.
However, I have some friends with older single-core PCs that definitely wouldn't be up to the task today. But from the reading of recent threads it appears a variety of improvements are planned for PMS to reduce the need for full transcoding of MKV in addition to other format supporting improvements. Am I correct in thinking that this will reduce the requirement for heavy duty CPU to play back MKV and other HD content? If so, this will scale PMS's usefulness to a lot of users that don't have the resources to purchase a new PC to host PMS to serve their PS3 HD content.


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About the Book
In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform, draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools.
Rhee's goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students—not adults—our top priority, and she outlines concrete steps that will put us on a dramatically different course. Informing her critique are her extraordinary experiences in education: her years of teaching in inner-city Baltimore; her turbulent tenure as chancellor of the Washington, DC public schools; and her current role as CEO of the education nonprofit StudentsFirst. Rhee draws on dozens of compelling examples from schools she's worked in and studied, from students who've left behind unspeakable home lives and thrived in the classroom to teachers whose groundbreaking methods have produced unprecedented leaps in student achievement.
An incisive and intensely personal call-to-arms, Michelle Rhee's Radical is required reading for anyone who seeks a guide to not only the improvement of our schools, but also a brighter future for America's children.
Our country's status as a world leader in education is at grave risk. In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a driving force behind American education reform, delivers her plan for better American schools. Informing her critique are her years of teaching in inner-city Baltimore; her turbulent tenure as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools; and her current role as an education activist. The book chronicles Rhee's awakening to the potential of every child blessed with a great teacher, her rage at adults with special interests who block badly needed change, and her recognition that it will take a grassroots movement to break through the barriers to outstanding public schools.
An incisive and intensely personal call to arms, Michelle Rhee's Radical is required reading for anyone who seeks a guide not only to the improvement of our schools but also to a brighter future for America's children.
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Critical Praise
"Michelle Rhee is famous as a hard-charging champion of education reform, but this charming and engrossing memoir is full of surprises as we learn that Rhee is also a strong Democrat and a thoughtful -- even contrite -- activist working every day to help kids learn." — Jonathan Alter
"Throughout her career, Michelle Rhee has fought for every student to receive a quality education. In Radical, Rhee describes her experiences in the trenches, her challenges and her successes, but what she has learned through it all is that we must always put our students first." — Condoleezza Rice
"Michelle Rhee is a national treasure. . . . As told in this important book, her fight against this country's calcified education bureaucracy holds lessons for us all." — Geoffrey Canada
"Radical: Fighting to Put Students First is one of the most important and compelling books I have read. Michelle Rhee's account of her continuing struggles to achieve her vision for American public education is riveting. This engaging and well-written book is a must-read." — William Julius Wilson
"Radical is much more than a diagnosis of our failing schools. It is Michelle Rhee's personal odyssey, powered by her conviction that the survival of the American Dream of tomorrow depends on how we educate our children today. Her determination comes through on every page." — Arianna Huffington
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A Rolla man drowned Saturday in Maries County after trying to retrieve a small boat that was out of his reach.
Wayne E. Feeler Sr., 66, of Rolla, was pronounced dead after the Missouri State Highway Patrol's water division stated he entered a farm pond on private property adjacent to Maries County Road 518, off Highway A.
According to the patrol, Feeler went into the water to attempt to get the boat that had drifted out of reach around 4:30 p.m.
Feeler then disappeared beneath the surface of the water and could not be immediately located. Crews with the Vichy Volunteer Fire Protection Association located Feeler, according to the patrol.
Maries County Coroner Leo Kloeppel pronounced Feeler dead at 7:15 p.m. Saturday.
An obituary for Feeler (see page 3) stated that he was a U.S. Navy veteran, who served in combat in Vietnam.
His funeral arrangements are being handled by Null and Son Funeral Home in Rolla.
A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, at the funeral home.
A funeral service for Wayne E. Feeler, Sr. will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at the Null and Son Funeral Home of Rolla. Interment will follow in the Ballance Cemetery in rural Maries County.
Feeler is one of six people who were killed on Missouri waterways Friday and Saturday.
The other four incidents are as follows:
• Eighteen-year-old Joshua Washington, of Republic, was trying to help others at Table Rock Lake when he went underwater at 10:20 a.m. Friday and didn't come back up. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
• At 4:25 p.m. Friday, 30-year-old Justin Byrd, of Englewood, Colorado, fell off a boat anchored in Anderson Hollow Cove at the Lake of the Ozarks. The water patrol says he was submerged for 5 minutes before others realized he was missing.
• At 6:15 p.m. friday, 81-year-old Gary Gilbert, of Cape Girardeau, was wading across the Castor River in southeast Missouri when he lost his balance and fell. The patrol says his body was found later in a root wad.
• Then Saturday at 6:28 p.m. 25-year-old Mary C. Talken, of Jefferson City, and 48-year-old Larry C. Hennier, of Rich Fountain, both died after two jet boats collided into each other nearly head-on in a narrow passage on the Gasconade River in Osage County. Four others were injured, according to the water patrol, with two of them reporting serious injuries.
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ANAHEIM -- The A's continued to play their game of addition by subtraction Tuesday, adding a 9-5 win over the Angels to a streak of six successive victories, but losing second baseman Scott Sizemore in the process.
Sizemore, who missed all of last season following left ACL surgery, sprained his left knee in pursuit of a short fourth inning fly ball.
He will fly Wednesday morning to the Bay Area and have an MRI on the knee to determine the extent of the injury. He sounded as optimistic as someone with a long history of injury issues could.
"It just didn't feel right after that play; it started to tighten up,'' Sizemore said. "It was better to come out right then and be safe rather than sorry. Probably scar tissue (from the 2012 surgery breaking loose) is the best-case scenario.''
Manager Bob Melvin said the A's might make some kind of roster move Wednesday, but first they'd like to know Sizemore's status. The likeliest promotion would be Jemile Weeks from Triple-A Sacramento.
The A's already had to play the game without right fielder Josh Reddick, who sprained his right wrist in Sunday's series-ending win in Houston. Reddick isn't thought likely to miss much time, and Oakland can only hope the same is true for Sizemore.
Stealing some of their own 2012 thunder, the A's squandered an early 4-0 lead and were down 5-4 entering the seventh inning. John Jaso, who wasn't around for the A's repeated comebacks last year, stepped up as if he was an old hand at all this, mashing a top-of-the-wall three-run homer to give the A's the lead back.
"It was just a crazy game,'' Jaso said. "I didn't think it was going out. I thought it might fall on the warning track. But it was one of those wall-scrapers. It was a good lift for us, and it's the kind of thing that deadens the other team.''
If the Angels weren't deadened already, two batters later Brandon Moss, who'd delivered a two-run single in the first, capped the game's scoring with a two-run homer.
"We've got a lot of confidence going right now,'' Moss said. "We're 6-2, and that's much better than 2-6, but at the same time, it's still only eight games.''
After Moss's two-run single capped a three-run first, Coco Crisp muscled up for the fourth consecutive game, leading off the second with a homer.
"Coco's got some power,'' Melvin said. "I don't expect him to lead the league in homers, but sometimes when you get off to a good start, it can turn into one of those years.''
Crisp's homer made it 4-0, but starter Jarrod Parker wasn't up to snuff. He had to pitch out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the first, he stranded two in the second, and in the third the Angels finally broke through for a couple of runs. It would have been worse, but a fine running catch in left field by Yoenis Cespedes started a double play.
"It wasn't good, it was a battle all night,'' Parker said. "I made some good pitches, but not as many as I needed to. It was one of those games.''
Chris Resop stopped the bleeding there, but two errors in the sixth, one by Chris Young in right field and the other by Jed Lowrie at shortstop handed the Angels a three-run inning and a 5-4 lead. Jaso made sure that deficit didn't last long.
"I've pinch-hit enough to know how tough an at-bat that was,'' Moss said appreciatively. "You come off the bench without swinging and you're facing a guy throwing 97. That was one tough at-bat.''
"The doctors say there's nothing happening now,'' Moss said. "We look to be back on schedule for the end of the month.''
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Rivers leaving Celtics to coach Clippers
Published: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 8:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 9:48 a.m.
BOSTON — Doc Rivers will be the next coach of the Los Angeles Clippers if the NBA approves the rare but not unprecedented trade of an active coach, a Boston Celtics official told The Associated Press on Sunday night.
The deal would bring Boston a first-round draft pick in 2015, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it is pending a trade call with the NBA office. Rivers, who had three years and $21 million left on his contract with the Celtics, must also reach an agreement on a new deal with the Clippers.
Celtics spokesman Jeff Twiss said the team had no announcement.
The tentative agreement on Sunday wraps up weeks of haggling over the deal and frees Rivers from presiding over the dismantling of the team that won the franchise's 17th NBA title in 2008.
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Rector named Times-News Golfer of the Year
Published: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 10:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 10:52 p.m.
Veritas Christian Academy eighth-grader Jonathan Rector has been dominating the golf links all over the Southeast in the junior circuit, and now that he is on a high school team, he is making Times-News history.
With an area-leading nine-hole stroke average of 37 and an area-best six medalist titles, Rector is the 2011 Times-News Boys Golfer of the Year and at 13, he's the youngest athlete ever to be awarded player-of-the-year honors by the paper.
Rector said being an eighth-grader and playing for a high school team was a unique experience for him this season.
"The guys I play with are a lot bigger and stronger than I am," he said. "But it's good for me. They push me to play better and to be as good as I can be."
And he was. The closest area competitor to Rector was junior Luke Hall of the WCAA Trailblazers, and in head-to-head battles, Rector won three of their four matches.
Rector had a low 18-hole score of 71 and a low nine-hole score of 35, and he said his ball striking is his main strength.
"I hit it about 270-275 (yards) off the tee. But one of the things I've been working on lately is my short game. I'm trying my best to get better at that," he said.
While he was playing on the high school team, he was also making trips all throughout the South in junior tournaments. Last month, after six tries, he finally captured the U.S. Kids Jekyll Island Cup in Jekyll Island, Ga.
"It's fun. I've been all over the place playing in tournaments," he said. "I'm in Georgia right now playing in an AJGA Junior All-Star event. After this, I'm heading up to Penn State in a couple of weeks to play in another tournament."
Veritas didn't have a postseason since it isn't in a high school conference. But that will change next year, and Rector is looking forward to it.
"We're hoping to get in a conference next season, and when we do, we'll be able to compete in a conference tournament and regionals and hopefully state," he said.
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@needsabathLocale: Outside
How do you keep your snickers bar from melting?
I usually justdeal with the melted bar should it happen but was curious if any one had a solution.
If i put it in my sleeping bag will it stay cool from the insulation?
@justin_bakerLocale: Santa Rosa, CA
"If i put it in my sleeping bag will it stay cool from the insulation?"
@idesterLocale: PNW
freeze it before your trip.
@regultrLocale: www.jolly-green-giant.blogspot.com
Buy a PayDay instead. Virtually the same ingredients and far less issue with melting.
@needsabathLocale: Outside
Get out of here with that! Might have similar ingriedients but it is NOT the SAME! For shame….
Freezing is a good idea that will atleast mean I can keep them cool for a day. especially if I use the sleeping bag trick.
@stephen-mLocale: Way up North
If you use an insulated cosy for dehydrated meals keep the frozen snickers in it.
Josh, you can't. That is why I only eat them for breakfast. If they get soft during the day, it will harden back up overnight ; ).
But if you must….. Keep them with a lot of other food, together not alone in a back pocket where they will heat up quickly. I rarely have a problem keeping chocolate from melting though I carry mounds, Reese and hershey special dark.
Dark chocolate melts at a higher temp. Mounds, yummy!
@rglessLocale: San Francisco Bay Area
If you're eating your candy bar for desert e.g., at lunch or dinner and you're near a water source usually the water is cold enough (at least in the CA Sierras) that you can put the bar into the water to get it cold enough to be solid. I also try to pack chocolate bars deep in my pack inside my down bag or other insulation (in a plastic bag of course)to keep them from melting. Doesn't always work in really warm weather. I don't think "tropical" high melting chocolate tastes good enough to bother with.
@sarbarLocale: In the shadow of Mt. Rainier
Carry candy bars in a cozy – it works, even unfrozen.
Also, even if it melts, it is still edible. Just find a cold stream or lake, submerge sealed bars and let chill. They firm up rather fast.
Good points about cozy and placing in streams.
@idesterLocale: PNW
If you use one of those new coolers that simpleoutdoors.com is selling you can keep a handful of them from melting! :-)
@steveLocale: Eastern Washington
Another option is to pre-melt them at home before you go. Place bars on a cookie sheet in an oven at a low (~150F) temperature for about 5 minutes. When they are slightly melted roll them in a mixture of ground psyllium husks along with some cinnamon. You have to re-package them but this method works pretty good and increases the fiber content (adds 3-6 grams per bar). Psyllium is mostly tasteless but if desired, you could also use oatmeal, unsweetened coconut, etc.
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Endocervical culture is a laboratory test that helps identify infection in the female genital tract.
Vaginal culture; Female genital tract culture; Culture - cervix
During a vaginal examination, the health care provider uses a swab to take samples of mucus and cells from the endocervix. This is the area around the opening of the uterus. The samples are sent to a lab. There, they are placed in a special dish (culture). They are then watched to see if bacteria, virus, or fungus grow. Further tests may be done to identify the specific organism and determine the best treatment.
In the two days before the procedure:
You will feel some pressure from the speculum. This is an instrument inserted into the vagina to hold the area open so that the health care provider can view the cervix and collect the samples. There may be a slight cramping when the swab touches the cervix.
The test may be done to determine the cause of vaginitis, pelvic pain, an unusual vaginal discharge, or other signs of infection.
Organisms that are usually present in the vagina are there in the expected amounts.
Abnormal results indicate the presence of an infection in the genital tract or urinary tract in women, such as:
Craft AC, Woods GL. Specimen collection and handling for diagnosis of infectious diseases. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 63.
Eckert LO, Lentz GM. Infections of the lower and upper genital tracts: vulva, vagina, cervix, toxic shock syndrome, HIV infections, endometritis, and salpingitis. In: Katz VL, Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 56th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 23.


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It takes a 60 percent supermajority for school bonds to pass in Oklahoma, and a $625,000 McLoud school bond issue narrowly passed Tuesday with 60.2 percent of the votes.
With nine of nine precincts reporting, election results Tuesday night showed 68 people voted yes in the election, while 45, or 39.8 percent, voted no.
All results are unofficial until certified by the Pottawatomie County Election Board on Friday.
Voters in the McLoud school district were asked to decide the $625,000 transportation bond to fund the purchase of new school buses.
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PITTSBURG -- It's an annual emergency operations drill that provides dozens of firefighters and other first-responders with the opportunity to practice lifesaving skills in the massive industrial environment of the Dow Chemical plant.
This year, the drill scenario that unfolded over an hour and 45 minutes on Tuesday involved the "rescue" of two workers -- actually mannequins -- overcome from the accidental release of a hydrochloric acid vapor cloud from a chemical tank used in the production of agricultural pesticides. By the time the drill was over, one was "dead" while the "survivor" was transported by helicopter to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
Coincidentally, first-responders responding to a real emergency -- an accident in front of Turner Elementary School in Antioch involving a speeding car that seriously injured two women -- delayed the start of Tuesday's exercise for an hour until 10 a.m.
"That's why preparation is essential. Your resources are going to be very scarce," in a real-life situation when another emergency occurs at the same time, said Lonnie Karste, an Antioch resident and member of Dow's Community Advisory Panel who observed the drill.
Once the drill got under way, Dow's in-house fire department arrived at the scene, spraying water on the tank to knock down the imaginary vapor cloud caused by the imaginary leak. A mannequin dangled from a safety harness that had caught on a railing near the top of the tank while the other mannequin was prone on the platform.
"We're on the site. It's going to take a few minutes for ConFire to get here," explained Randy Fischback, Dow's director of public and government affairs. But before the rescue began, the leak was sealed.
"You can't put people in harm's way," said Fischback, adding in a drill scenario a rescue tends to unfold slower than during an actual rescue to give participants time to practice their skills.
Andrew Laiho, a production unit leader at Dow, watched the operation unfold as some of his crew members who are cross-trained to work with Dow firefighters helped out.
"This is an interesting drill. We've got an obstruction scenario, which is what you could have in real life, " said Laiho, referring to some ongoing construction work in the area he supervises. "We try to develop as realistic a situation as we can," he said.
At a post-drill debriefing, participants discussed lessons learned and what could be done to make improvements. For example, authorities suggested that a decontamination area could have been set up closer to the rescue site and it would be better to have a helicopter landing area in a paved area instead of a gravel area.
Steve Laren, safety officer at Delta Diablo Sanitation District, attended as an observer.
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NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--Chandra Thomas is having a hard time sitting down. She pops off her stool like a jack-in-the-box and lands on the floor next to the two teens she mentors at ViBe Theater Experience, a nonprofit community arts group for young women in New York City.
Thomas is leading a small group of female teens--most from low-income, minority backgrounds--through the writing, staging, rehearsal and performance of an original play with an all-female cast, "Elevator Muzik: What Goes Up Must Come Down."
Thomas' eyes grow wide and she holds out her hands and questions the teens as though it were the most important question of their lives: "So what are you two really trying to say to the audience here? What do they need to know?"
Erin Johnson, 18, barefoot and dressed in a polka dot T-shirt, purses her lips before answering. "That the way teenage girls think is deeper than it seems. Like we might be worrying about a pimple, but it's not vanity. We're really asking, am I a beautiful person?"
This is a typical moment at ViBe, a five-year-old group that has produced 15 full-length plays for over 4,000 audience members and worked with over 100 urban teens between the ages of 13 and 19.
At a time when young women are often the silent subject of a cacophonous public debate--the scandal over radio host Don Imus, sex education in public schools, accusations of misogyny directed toward hip-hop culture--ViBe Theater Experience provides them the chance to speak for themselves. Founders Dana Edell and Chandra Thomas encourage participants to write their own material, shape their own stories and perform in a style called a "devised" or "collage" play that interweaves their experiences in a thematic way.
Placing Trust in Young Women
In some ways ViBe is rooted in the experimental 1970s-era feminist theater movement that drew performance material from real-life events. In other ways, it joins the current social-justice trend of using theater in an attempt to transform society and rectify oppression. Whatever its ideological wellspring, ViBe founders say their program is successful because of the trust they place in the young women they mentor, who walk away from the program with a deeper sense of self and a developed capacity to communicate the self to the world.
"Our entire foundation and mission is to provide them with the space to say what they need to say. Not what we need to say, but what they need to say. We have no directing agenda. We have no social service agenda," Edell says.
ViBe began as a summer project of Edell and Thomas in 2002 when they were graduate students at Columbia University. They were both disenchanted with the lack of involvement that students and faculty tended to have with the larger, neighboring Harlem community and saw theater as a way to bridge the gap.
From a group of just eight high school-aged girls that summer, ViBe grew into a multifaceted theater and arts education curriculum that includes a teaching staff of four and an annual budget of $91,000. ViBe uses donated office space as its administrative hub and donated rehearsal and performance space in various locations throughout New York, most often at Here Arts Center, where "Elevator Musik" will be performed May 28 and 29.
ViBe runs a "SongMakers" program that offers female teens from New York's poorest schools the opportunity to write and perform original songs. Three CDs of original music have been produced from the program. ViBe also collaborates with New York-based nonprofit Girls Write Now to produce "Girls Life Adventure," in which participants engage a contemporary cultural issue through creative writing.
'Girls in Charge'
A new series called "Girls in Charge" encourages young female participants to create and teach their own arts curriculum. The first group to take on the challenge designed a spoken word poetry workshop for their peers that culminated in the publication of a book of poems.
"Before ViBe I was hesitant, really, really shy," says Unique Covington, 17, who participated in "Girls in Charge." "I wrote in my spare time and sung in church, but that's as far as it went. As cliche as it sounds, I've blossomed. I can say anything, do anything."
Covington's solo show in April explored conspicuous consumption, a topic that came to her as she was riding the subway. She immediately wrote a parody of the Pledge of Allegiance: "I pledge allegiance to the creators of Gucci and Armani."
The show ended with the character's transformation; after reflecting on the emptiness of material goods she proudly declared, "I pledge allegiance to myself."
Covington will attend the University of Hartford in Connecticut next fall and plans to study journalism and theater. She credits ViBe with getting her in. "My college resume was full of ViBe!"
The ViBe experience provides teens public speaking and writing skills that contribute to their success at school. The city-wide public high school graduation rate is 38.9 percent; the ViBe graduation rate is 100 percent.
Edell says that ViBe was instrumental in getting two students full-ride scholarships to top-tier schools Brandeis and Colby, but she quickly adds, "Every girl upstairs (in the rehearsal space) is a success story."
Coming Out on Stage
One of those is the story of a young woman's gradual coming out through theater. In her first ViBe experience, she created and portrayed a male character who had a crush on a girl. In her next performance, she wrote and played a girl who was questioning whether she might be in love with her female roommate. And finally, in her third ViBe experience, she wrote unabashed lesbian erotica.
"She could try on what it felt like to desire a girl, rehearse it and explore the audience reaction," Edell says. "Eventually she could own her identity in real life."
As the light fades on the urban landscape just beyond the full-length windows in the donated practice space, Johnson and Desiree Rushing, both 16, face a compelling dilemma. Part of the message their original play explores is that young women must come to terms with their own imperfections, and they are grappling with how to dramatize the word "scars."
Thomas inches backwards toward her stool as the two teens struggle to come up with something. Silence weighs heavy. They shrug and fidget amid scripts strewn about and friends looking on. The effort to restrain is almost visible on Thomas' face.
"I know," says Rushing. She puts her hand over her heart and curves her back, as if taking exhaling sharply.
"Like a heart scar!" Thomas shouts. "I love it! Now let's do it from there."
The two teens face one another and everyone shouts "V-I-B-E," then claps, and the scene begins again.
Courtney E. Martin is the author of "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body." She is also an adjunct professor of gender studies at Hunter College. You can read more about Courtney's work at http://www.courtneyemartin.com.
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Spring 2013 Ensemble and Recital Series: Dominic Mekky, piano
New School Jazz student Dominic Mekky (piano) presents his senior recital.
The show will ideally straddle the line between installation and performance, and provide a very immersive environment for the audience. There will be three pre-recorded sound compositions totaling 35 minutes in length that will play straight through, without pause, from monitors that will be placed around the room, simulating surround. It is being designed not as a standalone piece, but as something reliant on live instrumentation. The other players and Dominic will essentially be improvising along with it, based on instructions written out in timed "scores".The players/instrumentation are:Levon Henry-Saxophone (doubling clarinet)Myself-PianoEric Read-Orchestral perc (bass drum, gong, chimes, crotales, vibraphone, etc.)Alex Kirkpatrick-Drum setJay Rudolph-"Other" percussion (objects such as pots, coins, a bike wheel, etc.)Cameron Kapoor-Electric guitar (running from two amplifiers)The instrumentalists (all but Dominic) will not be on stage, but stationed throughout the room, surrounding the audience. There will be abstract video to accompany the piece, designed by a friend. The audience will be seated normally, but encouraged to stand or wander if they please, because the experience will inevitably differ depending on one's position in the room. Dominic Mekky is a musician living and studying in New York City. In his time at The New School he has branched off in many different musical directions from his beginnings as a jazz-focused pianist. While continuing to play piano (and live electronics) in various NY based groups, he has also focused heavily on composition (he has scored films and is currently working on an opera with close friend and New School alumnus Francois Rousseau) and sound design (for many of his peers' projects, standalone installation art pieces, and his own personal work). For his senior "thesis" recital, he plans to merge all of these skill areas into a singular "performance-installation" piece. Upon graduation, he plans to continue living and working out of New York and eventually pursue a graduate education in classical composition.
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Flying pretty much anywhere these days is expensive. And it's almost twice as expensive when I travel with my daughter.
And the reason is simple: The route from airport security to the departure gate is littered with opportunities to spend money. There are stores that sell expensive clothes, jewelry, electronics, duty-free goods, food and tacky tee-shirts that announce to the world that the wearer has spent time in the City of Atlanta. (The "I'm a Georgia Peach" key ring complements the tee shirt nicely, by the way.)
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A few of years ago, my mother involved me in her senior years planning. A number of not-so-comfortable topics arose, one of which stood the chance of directly impacting me, my wife, and my children. Should my mom come live with me, what could be some of the unforeseen cost I may incur, and could there be tax effects? Really, is this a factor I had to be aware of?
Last week, I dropped by at a client's home to see how she was doing. I was let in the house by her son and daughter-in-law, who were visiting from Denver. Immediately upon being seated and offer something to drink, I had the feeling I had just walked into one of those uncomfortable family meetings that did not involve me.
Before I could find a reason to politely remove myself, I was asked, "Do you know anything about this?" I suddenly pictured that my mom must sitting at her home smiling sardonically and wondering why. With an overwhelming feeling of the "I told you so," I responded, "Yeah, a little bit."
Did you know that you may be eligible to declare your parent or other elderly relative as a dependent for a tax deduction, or to deduct their medical expenses from your taxes.
As you prepare your 2012 return, here are a few tips for determining your possible tax benefits. Remember, these tips are guidelines only. It is strongly recommended that you consult with a tax adviser before submitting your return.
In order to declare your elderly relative as your dependent, you both must meet certain criteria:
• You must be related to the person. If you are caring for your parent, grandparent, step-parent or parent-in-law, you may be eligible for a caregiver tax exemption.
• The person you are caring for must not have received more than $3,700 in income in 2012. This figure does not include Social Security payments.
• You must have provided more than 50 percent of the person's living expenses, including housing, food, dental care, transportation and other similar expenses in 2012. The person you are declaring as your dependent does not need to live in your home - which means they may be living in their own home, or a care facility, but you must be paying for more than 50 percent of their expenses.
If your situation meets all of the above criteria, you may be eligible to claim your relative as a dependent on your 1040 form, which can equate to a reduction of your taxable income by $3,700 for the year.
If your family is dividing the duties of caring for an individual - for example, more than one sibling is contributing to the care of a parent - you may still be eligible for the tax exemption. However, only one person can declare someone as a dependent in a single year. Each sibling must provide at least 10 percent of the parent's care, and combined the siblings must be providing for more than 50 percent of the parent's care. Many families choose to take turns each year as to who will receive the tax exemption for caring for a relative. In this case, the person who is declaring the parent as a dependent must fill out a "multiple support declaration" and submit it with their tax return. All of the other siblings must sign the form to claim that they will not take the exemption on their own tax returns. You can find the form on the IRS site.
If you are not able to declare your relative as a dependent because they earned more than $3,700 last year, but you still provide more than 50 percent of their expenses, you may still be able to receive tax benefits by deducting their medical expenses on your tax return. According to IRS Form 2120, the IRS allows caregivers to deduct costs incurred from a parent's health care, such as hospitalization, prescription drugs, dental care and long-term services. The deduction is limited to medical expenses that are in excess of 7.5 percent of the caregiver's adjusted gross income.
Are you considering having you parent(s) move in to your home? The IRS says you can claim the "fair rental value" of the home, including a reasonable allowance for the use of furniture, appliances and utilities. This is the amount you could reasonably expect to receive from a stranger for the same kind of lodging. You can find examples in the IRS Publication 501, which explains how to calculate these amounts.
In addition to these federal tax benefits, some states also offer tax incentives for caregivers. The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program provides free tax preparation and counseling information. For more information, call 888-OUR-AARP or visit www.aarp.org/taxaide.
When you are unsure about what deductions you are eligible for, it is always best to consult a qualified financial professional for planning and preparing your taxes.
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Brevard establishes scholarship in memory of professor
An endowed scholarship in memory of Professor Emeritus Carl Carlson was recently established at Brevard College. The Carl Carlson Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics was established by Marilyn Carlson in honor of her late husband. The beloved professor, who passed away in 2011, taught mathematics at Brevard College from 1991 to 1999.
The endowed scholarship will support deserving and talented students majoring in mathematics at Brevard College.
Brevard College junior Amanda Huggins Chapman of Lake Toxaway, who is a teacher licensure in mathematics major, is the first recipient of the new scholarship. Chapman plans to teach high school math once she graduates from Brevard College. She also hopes to pursue her studies so that one day she can become a college professor.
Anyone wishing to donate to the scholarship may do so. Gifts may be made to: Brevard College;
The Carl Carlson Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics, One Brevard College Dr., Brevard, NC 28712. A gift acknowledgement will be mailed to Mrs. Carlson.
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Jarrett Lucero named to dean's list at Clemson
CLEMSON — On behalf of the College of Engineering and Science of Clemson University, the faculty congratulates Jarrett Lucero of Easley, SC for being named to the Dean's List for the 2012 Fall Semester. His hard work and academic success will offer him many professional opportunities in the future. Jarrett is the grandson of Barbara and Blayne Turner of Hendersonville. Cathy and Leonard Lucero are the parents of Jarrett Lucero.
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Phelps County received nearly $837,000 in County Aid Road Trust (CART) fund distributions in 2012, which is more than $17,000 over what county officials projected in the budget for this past year.
According to a financial report showing CART fund distributions that County Treasurer Carol Green presented to county commissioners Thursday morning, CART funds deposited to the county totaled about $836,984 this past year.
The budgeted amount was $819,733, a difference of about $17,251.
The county's budget had projected $630,926 in gas tax revenue, compared to the actual amount received — $620,305.33.
The county's budget also projected a combined total of about $188,807 for the motor vehicle sales tax and motor vehicle fees, but the actual amount brought in was $216,679.
The county receives distributions from three tax funds that make up the CART deposit administrated by the state — gas, motor vehicle sales and motor vehicle fees.
Gas tax receipts to Phelps County totaled $620,305.33 in 2012, slightly down from $620,980.59 received in 2011 — a negative difference of about 0.11 percent.
Revenue from the motor vehicle sales tax received by Phelps County in 2012 was $129,062.78, a 12.13 percent increase over the total in 2011, which was $115,104.70.
Receipts from motor vehicle fees deposited to the county in 2012 was up by 3.54 percent compared to last year. In 2012, these receipts totaled $87,615.84 compared to $84,623.79 in 2011.
Last year, CART funds deposited to the county totaled about $820,709.08.
Gas tax revenue deposited to the county in December was $54,089.59, a 3.81 percent increase over the amount deposited in December 2011, which was $52,103.33.
Motor vehicle sales tax revenue received by the county in December was $9,667.77, a 10.21 precent increase over the December 2011 deposit, which was $8,772.22.
Revenue from motor vehicle fees deposited to the county in December totaled $5,974.43 compared to the December 2011 deposit of $7,520.02, a negative difference of 20.55 percent.
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is projecting no growth in the rate for the fiscal year 2013 CART revenues, so based on Phelps County's fiscal year 2013 rate of .0078, the county is expected to receive an estimated total CART deposit of $808,080.
CART funds are apportioned to counties on the basis of two factors:
• One-half of the funds are credited to the county based on the ratio that its road mileage bears to the total county road mileage in the unincorporated areas of the state, and
• One-half is credited to the county based on the ratio that its rural land valuation bears to the rural land valuation of the entire state.
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Enrollment at Southern Oregon University dropped by 341 students to a total of 6,140 this fall compared to 2012, the biggest percentage decline in the university system.
The Oregon University System released enrollment figures for Oregon's five universities today, with most showing increases in students.
Overall enrollment for all universities increased by 1,681 students this fall, pushing the total to 103,074.
Three universities — SOU, the University of Oregon and Eastern Oregon University — showed declines.
SOU showed the greatest decline at 5.3 percent, followed by EOU at 1.2 percent.
Five universities, Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University Corvallis campus, Oregon State University Cascades campus, Portland State University and Western Oregon University, showed gains.
OSU in Bend showed the greatest increase at 16.9 percent, followed by OIT at 10.3 percent.
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We all (probably) play a ton of video games and watch a ton of anime. Sometimes we get invested in the stories and the characters, and sometimes their fiction is relatable. Making a connection to these media can translate to real-life changes. Commenter bakura wants to know how they've impacted you on today's Speak Up.
Is there a video games or an anime or another form of activity that you do that changed your life ?
For me :
The Anime Nodame Cantabile make me realise how great Classic Music is!
Same as the game series The Blackwell Legacy for the Jazz
or Bioshock for the 30s-50s music.
The game Phoenix Wright had a character Gomshoe, you is laughing while moving his soulder and im going just like that.
The Drama Attention Please make me forgot my fear of plane, and I watched it (coincidence) just before flying to France.
The Anime Gurren Lagann teach me to be proud of my name and to have faith in myself. (also the hero name is Simon and mine too, and we are physicaly and mentaly similar so I kinda get a special link with him)


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Just how many new riders would jump on a train to one of Silicon Valley's most desired destinations?
About 200, it turns out -- and it would cost taxpayers up to $175 million to build the rail line to Los Gatos.
The new projections come from the Valley Transportation Authority's updated forecast for a long-envisioned light-rail extension. Still years from reality, the Los Gatos line would be one of the least-used light-rail extensions planned in the nation -- and would reduce South Bay vehicle traffic by a mere 0.01 percent.
"You could buy every one of (the riders) a Bentley and a driver," said Dave Fadness, a longtime Santa Clara County transportation commissioner. "It's crazy."
So why is Silicon Valley's transportation agency planning it? With a new bill of fiscal health, the VTA wants to connect a West Valley community that historically has been underserved by public transit to the rest of the county, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions and generating economic activity.
That explanation was part of a fresh environmental assessment released last week by the VTA for its 1.6-mile light-rail extension of the Mountain View-Winchester line, which currently ends in Campbell. The new pair of tracks would extend south, through an existing railroad corridor parallel to Highway 17, but stop short of Los Gatos' popular downtown. It would end at a new station at Netflix headquarters on Winchester Boulevard.
It would be light rail's debut in Los Gatos, the first extension of the VTA's train system since 2005 and the culmination of plans first envisioned in the early 1980s. The VTA is holding a meeting on the project Tuesday and hopes to secure the remaining funding needed to begin construction in coming years.
"The stars are lined up now," said VTA vice chairman Joe Pirzynski, a Los Gatos councilman. "I think there's no question that this could be a real winner."
Pirzynski touted the line as a new way for West Valley residents -- particularly seniors and youths -- to get around.
Still, he conceded the VTA board is not locked into the project and the rider estimates are at the "forefront" of their minds.
"There are some who say, 'If you build it they will come,' but, at the same time, that can't be a wish. It has to be validated," Pirzynski said. "I do believe that we have to be realistic in our evaluation and take a long, hard look at the benefit."
The Los Gatos line would feature fewer riders per mile than 13 of 14 light-rail extensions proposed around the nation, according to statistics compiled by San Francisco Muni. Only a line in Salt Lake City would have fewer passengers.
The San Francisco light-rail extension to Chinatown, while virtually the same distance as the Los Gatos line, is expected to attract about 17,000 people per day at a cost of $2.2 billion. The cost-per-daily-rider is about one-tenth that of the Los Gatos line.
In 2005, the VTA opened a $315 million, 5.2-mile light-rail line from San Jose to Campbell. It carries about 3,500 people a day.
At the time that line was built, there was not enough money to extend it to Los Gatos, and funding is still an obstacle. Part of the money would come from Santa Clara County sales-tax revenue earmarked for transportation projects, while officials are hoping to secure the rest with matching grants from the federal and state governments -- perhaps a long shot given the lack of appetite in Washington for big spending.
VTA spokeswoman Brandi Childress said the project is still competing for funding with other South Bay transportation needs, including the only other light-rail extension left on the table, to Eastridge Mall in East San Jose. That 2.3-mile line is estimated to cost $310 million and attract fewer than 1,000 riders a day, VTA estimated.
The VTA's estimates show that from 2015 to 2035, the Los Gatos leg would carry an additional 430 one-way riders daily, or 215 people taking roundtrips. That's 0.007 percent of the town's population.
Another few hundred people who now get off in Campbell would ride through to the new Los Gatos stop. A second stop in the middle of the extension could add an additional 100-or-so passengers, though scrapping that stop could save millions of dollars off the construction cost.
"You got to take a look at that number: How many riders per dollar, and that extension, predictably, is very low," said Fadness, who currently leads the county roads commission.
Netflix, which declined to comment for this story, told the VTA it has more than 500 employees on site.
Childress said park-and-ride lot expansions and other project elements could be dumped to help reduce the cost.
She argued that the planned expansion of Netflix's headquarters -- part of a larger commercial development near the proposed station -- would help the agency's goal to have more housing and jobs near transit.
"That's exactly the kind of development that these projects support," she said. "Each of the towns (along the route) are trying to be an attractive place for employers to move and provide jobs. The economic impact comes full circle when you have accessible transit in the area, where people can leave cars at home."
Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at Twitter.com/rosenberg17.
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What: VTA community meeting on Los Gatos light-rail extension to provide input on proposed project
When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Campbell library, 77 Harrison Ave.


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Marietta College is a co-educational private college in Marietta, Ohio, which was the first permanent settlement of the Northwest Territory. The school offers 45 majors along with a large number of minors, all of which used to be grounded in a strong liberal arts foundation. The school encompasses approximately three city blocks in downtown Marietta and enrolls about 1,300 full-time students each year. It is known for its Petroleum Engineering, Athletic Training and McDonough Leadership programs. Marietta College is one of America's 37 "Revolutionary Colleges," institutions with origins reaching back to the eighteenth century.
Originally founded as the Muskingum Academy in 1797, today's College was chartered in 1835. In 1860, Marietta became the sixteenth college awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the world's oldest honorary society. The athletic department sponsors 18 varsity sports that compete in NCAA Division III and the Ohio Athletic Conference. The college's baseball team won its sixth Division III College World Series Championship in school history in 2012. Other championship seasons were 1981, 1983, 1986, 2006 and 2011.
The College also sponsors intramural and recreation program, which are housed in the Dyson Baudo Recreation Center. The College also hosts free monthly community shows in the Anderson Hancock Planetarium. The majority of the students at the college are from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but a sizable portion of the student population is from the New England states, as well as from China.
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Published: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 6:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 6:14 a.m.
A Manatee County man awoke early today to two home invaders aiming a handgun at him and demanding to know "Where's it at?", authorities said.
The 23-year-old victim was uninjured in a robbery that netted the suspects some $80 in cash and a handful of credit and debit cards, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
The man told deputies later that he had been sleeping in a studio apartment in the 1300 block of 56th Avenue Drive East, just outside Bradenton, when he woke just after 3:30 a.m. to find two intruders. One of the men was holding what the victim described as a black, semi-automatic handgun, pointing it at him.
The men asked the simple question. The victim pointed to his wallet. And the suspects then took it and fled, according to reports.
The suspects were described only as black males, according to deputy reports.
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PARKERSBURG- Marc Harshman, poet laureate of West Virginia since May 2012, said his works are difficult to categorize.
"There are certain styles I will use to certain kinds of issues," he said. "I cover love, death, sex, religion, politics, nature; they all come in there.
"I think it is true if one reads my work it is easy to see after a while that I am someone who was born in the country," Harshman said.
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Harshman was the last speaker Tuesday in the sesquicentennial speaker series at West Virginia University at Parkersburg.
Harshman said the reading was set up to honor, in part, his appointment as poet laureate and for him to speak with area school children in writing workshops and a professional writers' critique group.
Harshman said the latest collection of his work, "Green Silver and Silent," is one of his works over the past 30 years. In addition to other collections of his work, he has written 11 children's books.
Harshman, who was born in central Indiana, came to West Virginia in 1969 as a student at Bethany College. He has spent all of his adult life in the state except for the time as a graduate student at Yale University Divinity School and University of Pittsburgh.
Harshman has taught at the collegiate level and in grade school for more than 10 years in a three-room country school. He has been a writer full time for the past 15 years.
At the beginning of his reading Harshman spoke about his predecessor at poet laureate, Irene McKinney.
"She was a wonderful gift to this state and a wonderful poet; a real friend to writers and a good friend to me," he said. "We've been missing her for some time."
Harshman told the story of how he received the offer to be the new poet laureate.
"I was doing a talk to some grade school children in Pleasants County and my cell phone went off," he said. "I barely know how to use the thing, it goes off, I looked at it and quickly closed it shut."
Harshman said he continued his lesson and decided to look at the phone later to see who called.
"I punched the numbers in and it was the governor's office asking if I wanted to be the new poet laureate," he said. "Believe me there was such stuttering and stumbling you never heard it's a wonder they let me accept the position after the start I made. It caught me unaware."
In the year that has passed he said he is still in a bit of a state of shock.
"It's been a humbling experience more than anyone can know," he said.
He said his parents valued reading and his dad would recite poetry. That set him on the road to writing.
As a child he was sick a lot and he spent those days lost in his favorite books, he said.
Harshman said he came from a rural farm area of Indiana and reading was a big part of his life growing up.
"We made it into town once a week for groceries and a trip to the library in that small farming town where I grew up," he said.
"As far back as I can remember I see my dad sitting in one chair with a big pile of books by his side and my mother in the other chair with a big pile of books by her side and myself sitting in the middle of the big braided rug with a big pile of picture books. I was a very lucky little boy."


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LETTER: DeWitt column dishonest and divisive
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.
Dear Editor: The losers of every election cycle are entitled to their fair share of sour grapes. However, even by the usual standards of post-election vitriol, Robert DeWitt's recent column seems particularly divisive and even appears at odds with itself.
Most notably, DeWitt protests that he feels his motives for voting for Mitt Romney have been unfairly pigeonholed, even as he seeks to dictate precisely why those Americans who voted for Barack Obama did so. By all appearances, this irony is lost on him.
I would not presume to speak for DeWitt's motivations for supporting the GOP. However, this idea that citizens like DeWitt vote in the interest of the greater good of the country while blacks and Latinos vote only because they want handouts from the government is a racist assertion. It's Ronald Reagan's nefarious stereotype of "welfare queens riding around in Cadillacs" all over again.
Likewise with DeWitt's lament that he feels pigeonholed by Obama supporters as homophobic, but then uses blatantly demeaning language like "gay men, lesbian women and transgender, uh, humans." ("Transgender men and women" would suffice just fine.)
Equally important, this "voting for government gifts" equation is simply at odds with the fact the vast majority of all American voters — Democratic and Republican, of all races, of all sexual orientations, married and single, rich, middle class, and poor — work hard to support themselves and love this country deeply. To suggest otherwise is intellectually dishonest and divides us on specious grounds.
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The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) released handle and attendance figures today for the recently concluded Saratoga Race Course meeting.
All-sources handle, which includes wagers on Saratoga races both on-track and from simulcast outlets nationwide, was $586,685,154, a slight decline of 0.3 percent from $588,351,964 last year. Year-over-year all-sources handle figures dipped into negative territory as a result of the final two days of the meet when wet conditions necessitated that eight scheduled turf races be moved to the main track, which led to several scratches and reduced field sizes in those races.
On-track handle on Saratoga races totaled $147,456,901, off 2.1 percent from $150,637,998 last year.
Attendance for the meet was 867,182, a 3.9 percent decrease from 901,033 in 2012.
During the meet, average betting interests per race were 8.1 (3,383 total over 420 races) compared to 8.4 (3,492 total over 417 races) in 2012. There were 200 turf races and 24 races taken off the turf and moved to the main track in 2013, compared to 197 on and 27 off in 2012.
* Note: Attendance figures for Giveaway Days include patrons who pay multiple admissions to obtain more than one giveaway item, either at the track entrance or at the multiple admissions area inside the track. There were four Giveaway Days during the 2013 Saratoga meeting, and four during the 2012 meet.
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JettStream, of Bend, is the winner of the $220,000 top investment at the Southern Oregon Angel Investment Conference today in Jacksonville.
The firm has developed a device to administer nebulized asthma medication to sleeping patients.
Sarah Cota, developer of the JettStream JettPak, created the device for her son Jett.
"He's our guinea pig," Cota said.
She explained that she took him to the emergency room 18 times prior to introducing the prototype. "Since we began using the prototype we haven't had to take Jett to the emergency room."
The two-year-old Central Oregon company has patients signed up for clinical trials at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend. Trials have been launched overseas as well.
The $200 device has been through tests and its patents are pending. It can be used for a variety of diseases, but childhood asthma is first step.
The company reported raising $200,000 already through a convertible note and plans to raise another $550,000.
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The Incline soccer teams split against visiting South Tahoe on Thursday, as the girls lost a 3-2 heartbreaker before the boys won 4-1.
The Incline girls led 1-0 at the half, but the defending state champs scored three unanswered goals in the second half and held on for the Mount Rose League win.
Haley Derr scored the Highlanders' first goal on a free kick in the 18th minute. The Vikings struck early in the second half, as Brooke King knocked in the equalizer in the 42nd minute and Ally King scored the go-ahead goal just three minutes later.
Desi Benavidez extended the Vikings' lead to 3-1 with a goal in the 63rd minute. Derr added her second goal of the game off an assist from Kerrie Tonking in the 77th minute.
Incline dropped to 3-3 in league play and 12-5 overall, while South Tahoe improved to 5-0-1 in league and 13-1-1 overall.
The Incline boys caught the Vikings undermanned by some injuries and were able to dominate early and empty the bench late.
Kyle Reeves scored the first goal, assisted by Luis Munoz, in the first minute. Hector Banuelos pushed the lead to 2-0, assisted by Reeves, in the 27th minute, and Drew Bessette scored off an assist by Salvador Vargas in the 30th minute.
Marlon Correa rounded out the Highlanders' scoring off an assist by Salvador Vargas early in the second half. South Tahoe scored one in the 48th minute.
Incline is now 4-2 in the Mount Rose League and 9-6-1 overall.
UP NEXT: Incline will host Truckee on Tuesday, Oct. 16, girls at 4 p.m. and boys at 6.


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