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20 little-loved library books
20 little-loved library books
More than half the books and other items available for check out from the old Central Library had not been used in the last 12 months the facility was open, U-T Watchdog found. Page through for a sampling, beginning with those used more recently.
"Nick the Greek"
Last Used: May 21, 2008.
Description: The protagonist is on a journey. Readers learn in the opener that for Nick, "departing from Greece that autumn on the freighter Ajax, bound for America with a full cargo of olives, olive oil, and wine, was taking passage to the other end of the world."
Author: Harry Mark Petrakis.
"The Ordinary is Extraordinary"
Last Used: March 7, 2008.
Description: This child psychology book subtitled "How Children Under Three Learn" includes chapters on getting dressed, going to the supermarket, and preparing and eating dinner. Published in 1988.
Author: Amy Laura Dombro.
"The House of Make-Believe"
Last Used: Oct. 31, 2005.
Description: Published in 1990, this child psychology book suggests that the key to being a creative adult lies in a playful, imaginative childhood.
Author: Dorothy G. Singer.
"The Captain from Connecticut"
Last Used: June 21, 2005.
Description: Published in 1997, this fictional book follows Captain Josiah Peabody during the War of 1812. The book jacket promises "the heady wine of battle." A handful of online reviewers are critical of the author's ability to construct believable female characters.
Author: C.S. Forester.
"The Tiger's Whisker and Other Tales from Asia and the Pacific"
Last Used: May 13, 2005.
Description: In the title story, from Korea, a woman searches for a potion to help her husband. This children's book was published in 1959.
Author: Harold Courlander.
"A Professional's Guide to Older Adults' Life Review"
Last Used: May 3, 2005.
Description: Published in 1988, the book jacket says that life review can help the elderly "to support their life satisfaction amid the cumulative losses that come with aging and to face their deaths with equanimity."
Author: James J. Magee.
"The Man Who Invented Sin"
Last Used: March 28, 2005.
Description: A collection of 15 stories published in 1948.
Author: Seán O'Faoláin
"Jenny Treibel"
Last Used: Nov. 18, 2003.
Description: A novel translated from the original German and published in 1976. "Here (the author) Fontane -- who was a contemporary of Marx and Bismarck -- portrays the city that was becoming the cosmopolitan center of a unified German empire, a Berlin abounding equally in vitality and vulgarity," the book jacket says.
Author: Theodor Fontane.
"Eric Carle's Storybook"
Last Used: Sept. 15, 1998.
Description: A children's collection of tales by the brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Published in 1976.
Author: Eric Carle.
"Living Animals of the Bible"
Last Used: June 6, 1997.
Description: This children's book features illustrations of animals, along with their Hebrew, English and scientific names and the reference to where each animal appears in the Bible.
Author: Walter Ferguson.
"The Movie at the End of the World"
Last Used: Dec. 26, 1995.
Description: With this poetry collection author Thomas McGrath attempted to fix errors made by a friend, who had used "unrevised and foul copy" in an earlier book. One title was in error. "Figures From a Double World should have been Figures of the Double World, the emphasis on the dialectic, on process, on states of the world rather than states of mind."
"A Private Signal: Poems New and Selected"
Last Used: Nov. 13, 1995.
Description: A book of poetry published in 1977.
Author: Barbara Howes.
"Poems, 1930-1960"
Last Used: Nov. 7, 1995.
Description: Published in 1960, this book is by the same woman who wrote "Eras and modes in English poetry" and "Classic essays in English." A copy advertised as a former library book on Amazon sells for $5.95 plus $3.99 shipping.
Author: Josephine Miles.
"Snow Quiet"
Last Used: Oct. 25, 1995.
Description: A book of poetry published in 1976 and featuring such works as "Japanese Flower Show" and "The Beard of Elijah."
Author: Jessie Kachmar.
"A Bed By the Sea"
Last Used: July 31, 1995.
Description: A spare volume at 94 pages, this was the author's fifth book of poems, published in 1970.
Author: Arthur Gregor.
"The Story of Blindness"
Last Used: April 11, 1995.
Description: Published in 1956, this book documents experiments with raised type in the 16th century and educational and philanthropic efforts to assist blind people, concluding with a chapter on "the conquest of blindness." Excerpts online at Google Books.
Author: Gabriel Farrell.
"Gold Country"
Last Used: March 10, 1995.
Description: A book of poems published in 1973. From "Miracles": "Someone. is always on the way. to end the world. restoring Paradise."
Author: Shirley Kaufman.
"Half Angel"
Last Used: March 10, 1990.
Description: Published in 1959. A recent reviewer on Amazon calls it a "tender story about a lonely little boy who rescues a lost Siamese cat and helps her when she most needs him."
Author: Barbara Jefferis.
"The Murder of the Dainty-Footed Model"
Last Used: Oct. 15, 1985.
Description: Published in 1968. It opens: "The first person questioned by the police, when Homicide came to sift it all out later, was Otto Krausmeyer, the shoemaker."
Author: Frank E. Hewens.


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The Yurbuds Armband makes a great companion to Yurbuds Earphones. The armband is made from an ultra-soft neoprene material that stretches to give a secure fit while remaining comfortable. The armband fits a majority of smart phones and music players, plus it protects them from sweat and moisture. A YurSafety ID is included, which is a custom engraved key with secondary contact information and medical notes in case of an emergency. Compatible with the iPhone 3, 3S, 4, 4S, iPod Touch and many Android smartphones.


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Tatiana Glebova
Personal Information
California School of Professional Psychology
Couple & Family Therapy
Sacramento Campus
Site Director
Associate Professor
Alliant International University Sacramento
2030 West El Camino Ave., Suite 200
Sacramento CA 95833
Courses, Research Interests, Publications
MFT Assessment
MFT Research Methods
Advanced Statistics 1
Practicum in MFT
Ethics, the Law, and MFT: Professional Issues
Introduction to Psychopathology
Contextual Therapy
Family therapy process and outcome research; observational research; contextual therapy; families with adolescents; adolescent risky behaviors including substance abuse; cultural issues.
Bantchevska, D., Bartle-Haring, S., Dashora, P., Glebova, T., & Slesnick, N. (2008). Problem Behaviors of Homeless Youth: A Social Capital Perspective. Journal of Human Ecology, 23(4), 285-293.
Brief Review and Analysis of US Therapeutic Programs for Adolescents with Substance Abuse Problems, published thesis for a conference "Current Problems of Clinical and Applied Psychology", Vladivostok, Russia (2007)
Bartle-Haring, S., Glebova, T., & Meyer, K. (2007). Premature termination in marriage and family therapy within a Bowenian perspective," The American Journal of Family Therapy, 35 (1), 53-68.
Slesnick, N., Bartle-Haring, S., Glebova, T., & Glade, A. (2006). Homeless adolescent parents: HIV risk, family structure and individual problem behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39(5), 774-777.
Slesnick, N., Bartle-Haring, S., Glebova, T., & Glade, A. (2006). Primary alcohol versus primary drug use among adolescents: An examination of differences. Addictive Behaviors, 31, 2080-2093.
AAMFT - 60 years, Family Psychology and Family Therapy, 1(2003), 117-122.
Knerr, M., Bartle-Haring, S., McDowell, T., Adkins, K, Delaney, R. O., Gangamma, R., Glebova, T., Grafsky, E., Meyer, K. (in press). The Impact of Initial Factors on Therapeutic Alliance in Individual and Couples Therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Glebova, T., Bartle-Haring, S., Gangamma, R., Knerr, M., Ostrom-Delaney, Meyer, K., Silverthorn, B., McDowell, T., Adkins, K., & Grafsky, E.. Therapeutic alliance and progress in couple therapy: Multiple perspectives, (Journal of Family Therapy, accepted with revisions)
"Racial and Professional Identity Development of Student Family Therapists in Training" Gabrielle Guedet & Tatiana Glebova Presentation at the Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at Boston College Conference (October, 2009)
"Therapeutic Alliance in Couple Therapy: Whose view makes a difference?" (Symposium) Suzanne Bartle-Haring, Tatiana Glebova, Brandon Silverthorn, Michael Knerr, Rashmi Gangamma, Tiffany McDowell, Kate Adkins, Erika Grafsky, Kevin Meyer, Robin Ostrom-Delaney. Presentation at NCFR Conference (November, 2007).
"Social Capital through Activity: A Psychological Perspective" (Symposium) Denitza Bantchevska, Suzanne Bartle-Haring, Tatiana Glebova et al. Presentation at International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) Conference (Toronto, Canada, June 2007).
"Working with Runaway Youth and Their Families: An Ecologically Based Family Therapy Approach" (Workshop) Natasha Slesnick & Tatiana Glebova. Presentation at Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness (JMATE) Conference (April, 2007)
"Adolescent Fathers Across Contexts of Risk" (Symposium) "Homeless Adolescent Parents" Aaron Glade, Natasha Slesnick Suzanne Bartle-Haring, Tatiana Glebova. Presentation at NCFR Conference (2006)
"Research on Family Therapy: From the Basics to "Cutting edge" (Session) "Expectations about Family Therapy and Therapeutic Process" Tatiana Glebova & Suzanne Bartle-Haring Presentation at NCFR Conference (2005)
Integrative approach to program of psychosocial rehabilitation for children with cancer and blood diseases and their families, published thesis of a workshop for professionals in the field of psychosocial rehabilitation for children, Children of Russia, Moscow, Russia (2004)
Studying associations between mother's differentiation of self and relationships in "mother-adolescent daughter dyad", published thesis for a presentation at "Psychological Problems of Modern Russian Families" Conference, Moscow, Russia (2003)
"Latent Classes of Couple Therapy Expectancies and Alliance" Tatiana Glebova, Suzanne Bartle-Haring, Tara J. Lehan, Lisa M. Sloan. Poster Presentation at AAMFT Conference (October, 2009).
Racism Experiences of Student Family Therapists in Training Gabrielle Guedet, Nicole D. Cable, Tatiana N. Glebova. Poster Presentation at AAMFT Conference (October, 2009).
"Collaborative Research on MFT in Community Settings" Theresa Q. Thickens & Tatiana Glebova. Poster Presentation at AAMFT Conference (October, 2009).
"Alliance and Retention in Family Therapy with Runaway Youth" Natasha Slesnick & Tatiana Glebova. Poster Presentation at AAMFT Conference (October, 2007).
"Discrepancies in Therapeutic Alliances in Couple Therapy" Tatiana Glebova, Rashmi Gangamma, Suzanne Bartle-Haring, & Robin Ostrom-Delaney. Poster Presentation at AAMFT Conference (October, 2007).
"Expectations about family therapy and therapeutic process" Tatiana Glebova & Suzanne Bartle-Haring Poster Presentation at AAMFT Conference (2005).
"Therapist and client perspectives on alliance and progress" Tatiana Glebova & Suzanne Bartle-Haring Poster Presentation at AAMFT Conference (2004)
Academic History and Background
M.A. (Equivalent), Child and Family Counseling
B.Ed., Teacher of Physics and Astronomy
Ph.D., Marriage and Family Therapy, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2002
Ohio License #M.0600030
Certificate, Practical Psychology in Education
School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary - Dilworth International Graduate Fellowship Award
* CAPS Graduate Student Paper Winner - "Integration of Understanding of Psychopathology in the Russian Context"
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - In Recognition of 175 hours of hospital volunteer service in support of patient care at the National Institutes of Health
National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), Associate member
International Family Therapy Association.
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), Clinical member
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IMERIT Sacramento Campus Committee, Chair, Alliant International University
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Getting Started with iPhoneography
Registration is Closed
Course starts: January 7th 2013
Duration: 2 weeks
Fee: $47 (or bring a friend and both pay $40)
Introductory price
(to get the friends discount, after registering please email me and let me know the email address your friend used for his or her signup so I can refund you $7 each)
2 weeks to begin to build creative momentum and awaken your slumbering creativity. Find out how to harness your creativity with your iPhone.
Get going with iPhone photography and make room for your need to express yourself creatively. Explore the exciting, contemporary field of mobile art and photography and learn how to use your iPhone, iPod or iPad for photography and art. Add a creative layer to your life. Discover simple ways of weaving mobile creativity into your daily life using the tool that's already in your pocket.
Bloom where you're planted
Find hidden pockets of creative time and space, and examine ways to harness your creativity with the tool that's already in your pocket. Get the know-how, support, techniques and encouragement to spark your creativity, your way.
This course is for you if:
- you're a creative professional, but you find that you aren't giving yourself the space to express yourself creatively, for your own sake, outside of your creative job
- you have a half abandoned dream of expressing yourself creatively
- you're a complete beginner with no previous experience whatsoever
- you find it difficult make room for creativity in your life
- you're not sure if you're creative
- you have some experience with iPhoneography and want to participate in a gentle creative "meditation" to keep your creative juices flowing at the darkest time of the year
- you're creative and you want to see how you like iPhoneography
- you're a technofile, interested in Mac and iOS, but you've never taken the time to see how you can use these devices to express yourself creatively
- you love taking photos with your DSLR camera, and you're curious to see how you can add iPhoneography to your photographic repertoire
- you want to get started learning how to make use of the camera on your iPhone, iPod or iPad
Awaken your inner artist.
To make it really easy to succeed, this course is delivered in small, to-the-point, practical and bite-sized chunks that you can put into action when and where it suits you. Build creative momentum at your own pace.
This isn't about following a formula it's about making your own discoveries. This is a time for you to spark your unique expression. Experiment to see what works for you.
Receive feedback and assistance from me throughout the course. Connect and share your creative process with fellow students in a safe, supportive and encouraging course environment.
Course Description
- A gentle pace that's easy to fit into a busy schedule.
- Easy photo assignments Monday-Friday (aim to shoot 3 photos per day).
- Photo assignments are based around themes that take a minimum of effort, you can stay at home or be busy at work, and still work on your projects.
- 2 weekend workshops where we use apps to easily alter the images we've shot during the week, in exciting, creative ways.
- Receive personal feedback.
- Work at your own pace.
- Connect in our online course space to share your creative process. This is a trial and error process, where we'll experiment and share the vulnerable part of the creative process, supporting and learning from each other. You'll also receive feedback from me.
- After the course you'll receive a beautiful PDF with the entire course content for you to keep and refer to again and again.
- At the end of the course we'll celebrate with a little exhibition of our favourite work on Marmalade Moon. See what students created in the Creative iPhoneography Autumn 2012 session.
Registration is Closed
Course starts: January 7th 2013
Duration: 2 weeks
Fee: $47 (or bring a friend and both pay $40)
Introductory price
(to get the friends discount, after registering please email me and let me know the email address your friend used for his or her signup so I can refund you $7 each)
You'll Need
iPhone (or iPod/iPad with camera)
An Open Mind
A Small Budget
Total costs for the purchase of apps will not total more than $10. When possible, free alternatives will also be mentioned so you can influence the total cost.
Please note that places are limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is the Getting Started with iPhoneography course run?
During the week, the class focuses on easy photo assignments delivered right to your email inbox. Aim to shoot 3 photos Monday-Friday and even if you can't make it every day, you'll still start building momentum.
On Friday's you'll get an email about our weekend workshops.
Our online class space is a private Flickr group where you can share your photos each week, collaborate and take part in discussions.
At the end of the course you have the opportunity to participate in an online student art show.
But I'm a beginner – can I still take part?
Definately! No previous photography or iPhone experience is necessary to take part in Getting Started with iPhoneography.
I don't have a PayPal account. How do I pay?
You can pay with a credit or debit card without having a PayPal account. When you get to the screen that asks you to sign in with your PayPal account, simply click the option that says "Don't have a PayPal account."
Will you be running this course again?
I haven't decided yet. If I do, it won't be until the end of 2013 or the beginning of 2014.
Will I need to be in class at certain times?
No, there are no set times when you have to be in class. The assignments will be emailed to you on set days, but you can work through them at your own pace and visit our Flickr group at any time. This is a self-paced course, so you can fit it in whenever it's best for you.
Can I bring more than one friend for the bring-a-friend discount?
Yes! You can bring as many as you like!
I'm an introvert, do I have to share my photos?
It's completely optional to share your photos and/or receive feedback. If you like you can work through the course entirely on your own. During the course I'll be available if you want to send me questions or ask for help via email instead of through our course space. It's important that you find a way that works for you.
I will say though, that sharing as a group is a wonderful way to gain new insights into your images and learn from your fellow course mates. We'll all be focussed on learning more about how to use our mobile devices to create photography and art – so the group will be a safe and supportive place to share this vulnerable part of the creative process.
Can I give the course as a gift? Do you offer gift certificates?
We do indeed! Here's how to get one:
- Purchase the course you want to give as a gift.
- Write to me and let me know the name and email of your recipient.
- I'll email you a gift certificate that you can either print out to give as a present, or pop in an email to give to someone virtually.
Registration is Closed
Course starts: January 7th 2013
Duration: 2 weeks
Fee: $47 (or bring a friend and both pay $40)
Introductory price
(to get the friends discount, after registering please email me and let me know the email address your friend used for his or her signup so I can refund you $7 each)


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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado -The good news is that the local snowpack is 143 percent of last year's.
The bad news is that last year was drier than comedian Steven Wright's sense of humor.
The Colorado River Basin - that's us - jumped from 85 percent of last year's snowpack on March 1, to 143 percent on April 1 and 74 percent of the historic normal, the Natural Resources Conservation Service said Wednesday in its monthly report.
The statewide snowpack is 74 percent of average.
"It's great that we're better than last year, but last year was the worst year on record," said Diane Johnson with the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District. "We all know we've gotten some snow in March, it has stayed cold and we're not melting like crazy like we were last year. But we're still well below average."
SNOTEL is how you tell
Reservoir storage remains well below average statewide and all major basins in Colorado are expected to see below average streamflow runoff this spring and summer.
Most of the annual streamflows in the western United States start as snow during the winter and early spring. As the snowpack accumulates, hydrologists estimate the runoff that will occur when it melts.
It's all about the snow/water equivalent. That's the amount of water contained in the snow we get. Powder is great to ski, but heavy and wet snow contains more water.
Snow water equivalent is measured at several SNOTEL sites, including one on Vail Mountain.
On Wednesday, the Vail Mountain SNOTEL site read 12.5 inches of snow water equivalent. Normal is 20 inches, so we're at 62.5 percent of normal.
On this date last year Vail Mountain's SNOTEL reading was 2.6 inches.
In the drought year 2002 on this date, the Vail Mountain site was at 14.2 inches of snow water equivalent.
Vail Mountain SNOTEL peaks around April 25 most years, Johnson said. In a normal year the spring runoff ends in late June.
Reservoirs and rivers low
Reservoir storage in the Colorado River Basin - that's still us - remains at dangerously low levels - 66 percent of average and 55 percent of last year's totals. Streamflows are expected to lag well below average, the NRCS said.
One reason is because we've in this drought for more than a year, Johnson said.
"The land doesn't have much moisture in it, so when you have a snowpack this low and it starts to melt, a lot of it gets absorbed into the soil," Johnson said.
Last year, the July rains saved us, Johnson said.
It could be worse
The snowpack has local weather watchers wary, but it could be worse.
The snowpack in southwest Colorado is fading like the Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup hopes.
The Gunnison, Upper Rio Grande and the combined San Miguel, Animas, Dolores, and San Juan basins had declines of 3, 11 and 12 percent.
In these basins it is likely that they have already reached their peak snowpack for this year and are beginning to melt.
A warm and dry spring could also mean trouble for this summer's water storage. In the Colorado River Basin, reservoir storage is 66 percent of average and 55 percent of last year's record levels.
Mother Nature might not be much help, according to long-range forecasters with Accuweather.
Another warm spring is expected across the Rockies, with worsening drought conditions in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and portions of Texas.
"The core of warmth for the spring is going to center itself in the dry areas, the western Plains, east-central Rockies, maybe extending down into the Southwest mid- to late-season," said Paul Pastelok, a long range forecaster with Accuweather. "Unfortunately for the western Plains and eastern Rockies, I think the drought is going to persist, and it is going to be strong going into the springtime."
"It doesn't look good right now," Pastelok said.
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Due to seasonal layoffs on area farms and school holiday furloughs, San Joaquin County's unemployment rate in rose to 14.5 percent in December, up from a revised 14.1 percent in November, state officials reported Friday.
That was a great improvement from the estimated 16.1 percent jobless rate in December 2011.
Based on a survey of area households, the state Employment Development Department counted 9,000 more people as employed in December than the year before.
This county's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate compares to an unadjusted rate of 9.7 percent for California and 7.6 percent for the nation last month.
Read Saturday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Reed Fujii.
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Skeleton Argument of the Claimant (long): Electronic Edition, by Adrian DaviesTable of Contents
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The physical evidence of the camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau
134.How unreliable this evidence is appears from what Van Pelt himself has written in his book Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present, Robert Jan van Pelt and Deborah Dwork, Yale University Press, London 1996, p. 364:--
"When Auschwitz was transformed into a museum after the war, the decision was taken to concentrate the history of the whole complex into one of its component parts. The infamous crematoria where the mass murders had taken place lay in ruins in Birkenau, two miles away. The committee felt that a crematorium was required at the end of the memorial journey, and Crematorium I was reconstructed to speak for the history of the incinerators at Birkenau.
"This program of usurpation was rather detailed. A chimney, the ultimate symbol of Birkenau, was re-created; four hatched openings in the roof, as if for pouring Zyklon B into the gas chamber below, were installed, and two of the three furnaces were rebuilt using original parts. There are no signs to explain these restitutions, tehy were not marked at the time, and the guides remain silent about it when they take visitors through this building that is presumed by the tourist to be the place where it happened."


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Little chunks or smears of shit that stay stuck to the toilet bowl even after you flush.
Damn, those burritos you ate last night left some pot stickers this morning!
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a potsticker is when your balls fuse with your thighs via sweat. DAMN those sweaty balls!
theres no greater feeling in the world then peeling off a potsticker from your thigh.
by K_wtf October 08, 2006
A dumpling-like, meat-filled dish that may be either fried or steamed listed in most Asian restaurants named for its ability to cling to the side of your plate. Also, a presumed appetizer for relatively obese people at Chinese restaurants.
You gonna have pot stickers again you fat fuck?
by Plasty September 15, 2006
When a girl's skirt sticks to her bum, a widespread panic on 95+ degree summer days (the "pot" being her bottom).
"I don't want to get out of the car!"
"Because I have swass and a serious pot sticker going on."
"Because I have swass and a serious pot sticker going on."
by Dizz Markie June 21, 2007
Before, and even after flushing the toilet, a pot sticker is the shit that remains stuck to the inner toilet bowl after taking a messy, power shit.
Upon entering the stall at his local all you can eat buffet, Russ was horrified by the pot stickers in not only one, but all three stalls within the bathroom.
by Left Over Pot Sticker April 16, 2009
An adorable little Asian baby, male or female.
We want to adopt a little pot sticker from China.
by Word Kreator February 19, 2013
gay asian dude who won't stop hitting on you at the bar, he refuses to see that you're not interested.
oh god this guys is such a pot sticker he won't leave me alone
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Does anyone know what the deal is with the reports of PMS not working on Java 7?
If there is such incompatibility in PMS, I would like to squash it. But to be able to do that, one needs to know the problem.
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Solar financing startup Mosaic, widely known as the "Kickstarter for solar," has a financing platform that allows individuals to invest in small to medium-size rooftop solar energy projects.
On Monday, Mosaic announced that state securities regulators have given the Oakland-based company the green light to offer $100 million worth of new solar investments to California residents. Previously, Mosaic had to register each project with state officials; they've now been given approval to unleash crowdsourcing for multiple projects.
"With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts," Mosaic President and co-founder Billy Parish said in an interview. "With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett."
While Kickstarter relies on donations to fund creative projects like independent films, Mosaic connects investors to solar projects in need of financing. As the solar project produces electricity, it generates revenue and investors are paid back with interest.
Mosaic's latest project, solar panels on the Ronald McDonald House in San Diego, estimates a 4.5 percent annual return and sold out in six hours. The minimum amount to invest in a Mosaic-funded project is $25, but the average investor puts down $1,000.
"We have over 1,000 investors, ranging in age from 18 to 95 years old," Parish said. "We have investors in 44 states, but half are in California."
The average investor is 40 years old. The rate of return is not guaranteed, and there are risks, including that solar panels don't always produce the amount of electricity that manufacturers claim. Also, output can be affected by the weather. Mosaic's website acknowledges that investors could lose some or all of their investment.
Still, the appetite for the concept is strong. Climate change activist Bill McKibben and Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo have both promoted Mosaic and are among the investors.
"You get to browse projects and pick the ones you want a piece of," Patrick Crane, chief development officer at Sungevity and a Mosaic board adviser, said in a new video explaining the Mosiac concept. "You invest, you get a return, and over time this portfolio builds."
Mosaic is focused on making loans to developers that have solar projects in the pipeline and need loans of $100,000 or more to get the projects finished. Mosaic itself is not yet developing its own projects from start to finish but may in the future.
"We've gotten dozens of requests from institutions that want to go solar with our model," Parish said.
The company says its business model marks the beginning "of a new, transparent and democratic way of financing clean energy through crowdfunding that could disrupt the two largest industries in the world: energy and finance."
Mosaic is a private, venture-backed startup that was founded in 2011. The Department of Energy awarded Mosaic a $2 million grant through its SunShot initiative.
Among the projects by Mosaic are solar installations on the roofs of the People's Grocery in West Oakland and the Asian Resource Center in the city's Chinatown.
"Mosaic is opening the door to allow more people to participate in the benefits of the solar economy," said Adam Browning of the San Francisco-based Vote Solar Initiative. "And they are focusing on small commercial systems -- an undercapitalized niche with a huge potential."
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IMMOKALEE | UPDATE: The 2-year-old girl who went missing in Collier County has been found and is safe, authorities said.
Denise Hernandez was found alive in a field about 1 1/2 miles from her home. She was taken to a hospital to be examined, according to authorities.
The child had last been seen by family members at her residence in Immokalee, southeast of Fort Myers, late Sunday evening when she was put to bed. She was discovered missing around 11:30 p.m., and an Amber Alert was issued.
EARLIER: A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for a child missing from Collier County, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced early Monday.
Denise Hernandez, 2, is described as a Hispanic female, 3 feet tall, 40 pounds, black hair, brown eyes, last seen in the area of the 400 block of Wells Street in Immokalee, wearing a white pajama gown with multi-colored stripes.
Hernandez was last seen in the area of the 400 block of Wells Street in Immokalee, after she was put to bed.
The window to the child's room was found open when she was discovered missing about 11:30 p.m. Sunday. According to her family, the window was closed when she was put to bed earlier.
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News 12 has received numerous calls in recent weeks about people standing in the road and asking for your money. On Wednesday they were at Belvedere-Clearwater and Edgefield Roads, just outside the North Augusta city limits. News 12 went out to investigate to find out if it's a legitimate organization.
Those of you that have seen them say they're out here on a regular basis but many of you are wondering just who they're with. So News 12 asked.
"We'll send you an introduction package about this ministry that way you'll have it in writing," the solicitor said.
Sound vague enough? We thought so, too, but it didn't stop him from working.
"If you'd like to give that'd be great because it's a blessing for you and for God's house," the solicitor said.
So we tried again.
"I'd appreciate it if you didn't shove that camera in my people's face while they're working," the solicitor said, walking away.
The sign on their bucket reads 'New Life Church.' The man we spoke to says they once had a church in North Augusta but it was shut down. Denise Adams, who works nearby, says she gets the same runaround.
"They're not saying who they are, it makes me cautious of who I give my spare change to," Adams said.
Lt. Bill Manecke with the Richmond County Sheriff's Office says any legitimate charity or church has to be registered with the state.
"Have to have tax IRS, the exemption number," Manecke said.
So we logged on to South Carolina's Secretary of State database to find out. We typed in the words "new life" and several organizations came up, none located in Aiken County. And because these guys are soliciting in the county's jurisdiction, Sheriff's Lt. Michael Frank says there's nothing criminal about what they're doing unless it's impeding traffic and they haven't received any complaints.
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8.3-2 Driving Under the Influence, Under 21 Years Old -- § 14-227g
Revised to April 23, 2010
The defendant is charged [in count __] with operating a motor vehicle with an elevated blood alcohol level. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
no person under twenty-one years of age shall operate a motor vehicle while the ratio of alcohol in the blood of such person is two-hundredths of one per cent or more of alcohol, by weight.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the following elements:
Element 1 - Under 21 years of
The first element is that the defendant, at the time of the incident, was under 21 years of age.
Element 2 - Operated a motor
The second element is that the defendant was operating a motor vehicle1 at the time and place alleged. A person "operates" a motor vehicle within the meaning of the statute when, while in the vehicle, such person intentionally does any act or makes use of any mechanical or electrical agency that alone, or in sequence, will set in motion the motive power of the vehicle. A person acts "intentionally" with respect to conduct when (his/her) conscious objective is to engage in such conduct. <See Intent: General, Instruction 2.3-1.>2
Element 3 - Elevated BAC
The third element is that at the time the defendant operated the motor vehicle, (he/she) had an elevated blood alcohol content. "Elevated blood alcohol content" is defined as "a ratio of alcohol in the blood of such person that is two-hundredths of one percent or more of alcohol, by weight." The chemical analysis of the defendant's (blood / breath / urine) that was presented as evidence may be used as evidence of the defendant's blood alcohol content at the time of the alleged offense. This means that you may find, but are not required to, that the defendant's blood alcohol content at the time of the alleged offense was the same as at the time the test was administered.3
[<If applicable:> Evidence of the defendant's refusal to submit to a blood, breath, or urine test has been introduced. If you find that the defendant did refuse to submit to such a test, you may make any reasonable inference that follows from that fact.]4
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant was under 21 years of age, 2) (he/she) was operating a motor vehicle at the time and place alleged, and 2) (he/she) had an elevated blood alcohol content.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of driving with an
elevated blood alcohol level, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the
other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not
1 "Motor vehicle" includes a snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle, as those terms are defined in § 14-379. General Statutes § 14-227a (a).
2 Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor is a general intent crime. State v. Borrelli, 94 Conn. App. 849, 859 (2006) (defendant's involuntary intoxication insufficient to negate general intent requirement). In addition, there is no requirement that the defendant knew or should have known that he/she had ingested an intoxicant. Id., 860.
3 See General Statutes § 14-227a (b) (formerly (c)), made applicable to § 14-227g (a) by § 14-227g (c); State v. Gallichio, 71 Conn. App. 179, 183-89 (2002); State v. Nokes, 44 Conn. App. 40, 44-45 (1996); State v. Korhn, 41 Conn. App. 874, 880-81, cert. denied, 239 Conn. 910 (1996). The statute provides an exception to this rule: "if the results of the additional test indicate that the ratio of alcohol in the blood of such defendant is twelve-hundredths of one per cent or less of alcohol, by weight, and is higher than the results of the first test, evidence shall be presented that demonstrates that the test results and the analysis thereof accurately indicate the blood alcohol content at the time of the alleged offense."
4 General Statutes § 14-227a (f), made applicable to § 14-227g (a) by § 14-227g (c), requires that a jury be instructed as to any inference that may or may not be drawn in the event there is evidence that the defendant refused to submit to a blood, breath, or urine test and there has been compliance with § 14-227b (b). See State v. McCarthy, 63 Conn. App. 433, 437-39, cert. denied, 258 Conn. 904 (2001) (instruction substantially complied with the statutory language of General Statutes § 14-227a (f), despite its failure to state that it "may or may not" draw a negative inference); State v. Corbeil, 41 Conn. App. 7, 19, cert. granted on other grounds and appeal dismissed, 237 Conn. 919 (1996) ("refusing" to take a breath test may be accomplished by a failure to cooperate, as well as by an expressed refusal); State v. Barlow, 30 Conn. App. 36, 42-44 (1993) (whether the defendant refused to take the test is an issue of fact for the jury).
The requirement of operation on a public highway was removed from § 14-227g by Public Acts 2009, No. 09-187, § 4, effective October 1, 2009.
Subsequent offenders
General Statutes § 14-227a (g), applicable pursuant to § 14-227g (c), provides for an enhanced sentence if the defendant has previously been convicted of one or more violations of § 14-227g within ten years of the current violation. Pursuant to Practice Book § 36-14, the prior conviction must be charged in a Part B information so that the jury is unaware of the prior conviction during the trial on the current charge. If a guilty verdict is returned, the jury must then be instructed on the second part of the information. See Subsequent Offenders, Instruction 2.12-2.


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May 6, 1970 Top stories of the Pleasanton Times
Headline: "Student Dress Codes Should Be Returned To The Home, Where They Belong"
Let's face it, parents. The question of "what should a student wear to class" is one that has to be answered before that child leaves home in the morning. This business of turning teachers into fashion monitors has got to cease.
The students are unhappy with the present state of affairs. The teachers are in a tizzy. The administration is trapped in the most unhappy middle. Only the parents are being spared the present uproar. But not for long.
We may not face the great lineup of miniskirted suffragettes on a given morning. We don't have to block the campus gates to girls in long pants, or boys in Bermudas. But that's child's play to what is sure to follow.
The relationship between teacher and student is an uncertain thing under the best of circumstances. No dress code has ever offered anything approaching a firm dictum. Regulations governing the dress of the young lady must, and in all social fairness, be adjusted seasonally, and undergo a complete overhaul at least annually.
The judgment as to what is "morally acceptable" is dependent on a whole range of variables, from the teachers personal beliefs to the height of his or her own eye from the floor. The ultra-mini may be only fashionably offensive to the female instructor; to the male teacher the same miniskirted girl, seated front row center, can be a disturbance of the first order.
Then there is the matter of long pants. The school says boys must wear them ... short skirts (but not too short) for girls are OK, even on a cold winter's day. It's a rough go -- damned if you do and blasted if you don't. Parental standards and dress codes, swinging mothers and uptight fathers, fashion mags, new mods and then there's the teacher in room 222.
Who can a girl believe?
Stir well and cook the whole thing to a boiling point. But if the lid starts to lift just write it off as "nothing more than a bunch of kids letting off a little steam." Maybe that's what they said at Tracy High School before the riots, before the "hippies" and "sporties" squared off in a war to end all codes.
Could it happen here? Could sensible young boys and girls from all-American middle-class homes really get that worked up over the length of the boys' hair or the height of a girl's skirt? We don't know. But we'd also rather not find out.
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At the Movies: The Vine, Livermore. John Wayne, Glen Campbell and Kim Darby in "True Grit." Co-feature is "The Sterile Cuckoo" with Liza Minnelli.
Last week's question: The May 4 massacre was in 1970. Four students were killed protesting the Cambodian Campaign at what university? Answer: Kent State, Ohio.
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This week's Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge has us making marbled rye bread. Made famous by an episode of Seinfeld back in the 90's (that's the episode that also included the infamous Beef-A-Reeno incident, if you recall,) marbled rye incorporates two different dough formulas to produce one marbled loaf.I loved working with the dough and the final taste of the bread. My only disappointment was in the lack of darker color in the second formula. Mr. Reinhart suggests using coffee or cocoa powder to color the dough, but I'm quite certain he used the recommended caramel coloring, which I didn't have. I noticed that King Arthur sells a powdered caramel coloring and I plan on ordering some of that for the next time I make this bread.
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6 oz slender sliced beef, coarsely chopped
6 oz thinly sliced corned beef, coarsely chopped
8 oz shredded Swiss cheese
8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
1 1/2 cups mayonnaise (I used reduced fat)
15 oz drained sauerkraut
Mix all of the above and place into a greased 9 X 13 baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for about a half hour, or until all is melted and bubbly.
This dip is a great party dip because it's actually almost as good at room temperature as it is heated.
Recognition, once again, must go to Nicole at Pinch My Salt for organizing this challenge. Thanks Nicole!


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Fans of the 39 Clues books will love The Key, the third entry in Michael Grant's middle-grade Magnificent 12 series. Full of adventure and wackiness, the Magnificent 12 books are also perfect for readers of funny, action-filled series like Dan Gutman's Genius Files.
With 21 phobias, Mack MacAvoy is more of a wimpy kid than a hero, but he is on a quest to defeat the wicked—and crazy, and mean, and dangerous—Pale Queen before her three-thousand-year banishment ends.
In The Key, Mack must find more of the Magnificent 12, the twelve twelve-year-olds fated to stop the queen from destroying the world, and assemble a key—a cheat sheet, really—to a magical language. Along the way, he'll transform the Loch Ness monster into a gigantic duck, and transport the Eiffel Tower across the River Seine.
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Time is short for Mack MacAvoy and the Magnifica! Mack hates doing homework (that's what golems are for), but it seems that the only way to defeat the Pale Queen and her evil daughter, Risky, is to learn the magical language of Vargran. If only ancient, magical languages came with cheat sheets . . .
. . . Oh! But they do! (Or at least, this one does. We can't speak for any other ancient, magical languages.)
Mack, Jarrah, Xiao, Dietmar, and Stefan travel to Europe to find the Key, an engraved stone that unlocks the power of Vargran. But can they locate the invisible castle of William "Blisterthöng" MacGuffin, who guards the Key?
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Stephen Peone St. Ignatius, Mont. CHAR-KOOSTA PUBLISHED BY CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES, FLATHEAD AGENCY, MONT. Vol. 1 No. 12 Oct. 1957 The Last Chief When we hear the passing of one of our older fullblood Indians, especially one with the name of Charlo, we think of the vanishing American, and become deeply concerned. I am dedicating this issue of the Char-Koosta to our beloved and picturesque friend Chief Paul (Palcatnah) Charlo. Paul was an honorary Chief of the Flathead Indians. Martin Charlo was the last recognized Chief, after the introduction of the Reorganization Act, under which the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes now function. The death of Paul Charlo removes the last lineal Chieftain whose anceslory dates back to the time of Lewis and Clark. History will take note of his passing and will honor the memory of him and his ancestors for never having shed the blood of a white man, even during the trying and troublesome days of th2 frontier. It is true that Paul died with a feeling in his heart that he should have had a place in the administration of this reservation, but when the Reorganization Act was passed and ratified on the Flathead Reservation in 1935 and the Tribes adopted a constitution, by-laws and ch arter ten councilmen were elected, from eight districts, the governing body of the Tribes. Chiefs Martin Charlo and Paul Koostahtah were named, in the Constitution, as Chiefs and there were no reservations made for anyone to be named as their successors. They tried hard to preserve the Treaty rights of Allard Drove Stage from Ravalli to Poison By Joseph Allard I became a part of the staging across this Reservation in the year of 1888. I did not do so very much outside of rounding up horses, help grease the coaches, wash the harnesses, and so on, until 1890. That year I drove an extra rig, called a special, which carried five people, three in the back seat and two in front. It had a top, and curtains for the sides m case of rain. I never drove near the big coaches to keep out of dust. The fare for this ride was $4, while the big stages charged onlv $3. Very often because of high winds, the boats on the lake would be delayed with the U. S. Mail and passengers. Very often there were persons who would want to catch the East bound train at 4 p. m. I made this run several times. Once I made this run in three hours and thirty minutes. I got a $20 tip for that drive. 1855. When these two chiefs died the honor and prestige died with them However, the Flathead (Full Blood) Indians took a different view of the situation and thought that a Chief should be elected by the people. Although, nothing was done to bring this about, Paul Charlo was recognized by the people and the Tribal Council as an honorary Chief. "Palcatnah" as Paul Charlo was known was a very honest and sincere man. He tried to work with the Indian people like his forefathers did. Like his father he was a leader among his people, but we must realize that for anyone to accept the responsibility of an Indian Chief, today, one must work with fullbloods and mixed bloods as well. In this respect Palcatnah's work was difficult. However, he accomplished his purpose in a proud and pride-ful way. Paul was the son of Martin Charlo, a grandson of Chief Charlo and a great grandson of Chief Victor. Chief Charlo's family was the last Indian family to leave the Bitterroot Valley. In 1891 Charlo made his trek to the Flathead Reservation, the land that was set aside for his people by the Treaty of 1855. Chief Charlo did not want to leave the beautiful Bitterroot Valley. He told Governor Issac Stevens, governor of what was then know as the Washington Territory, that there was not enough room for the Salish, the Pend d'Orielle's and the Kootenai's to live together on the Flathead and that the Fl a the ads were content to live ;n the Bitterroot Valley where they cou'd preserve a large hunting ground and would be assured of an ample supply of winter meat. After the signing of the Treaty of 1355 Charlo faced adds and conditions that were to great for him to overcome. Many of his people left their native country for the Flathead Reservation, but years went by before Chief Charlo left his home in the B'tterrot a.i^ f Towed his people to the Flathead, where he died about 1905. At the time of his death Chief Charlo was a heartbroken man, but not a bitter one. The death of Paul Charlo marks the end of a generation of respected men. Men who fought for the rights of the Indian people. After being promised that this country was theirs as long as the grass grows and the water flows' they lived to see these promises broken and the creeping encroachment of the whites upon their land. Much of their natural resources was lost; Their reservation was opened to homesteading by the whites and irrigation service invaded their land and assumed control of the waters that belonged to the Indian people. In 1953, Paul Charlo, the last chief, defended his people before an Indian Affiars Com- mittee in Washington, D. C. against the termination bill and tried to retain for them what was left of their original holdings. When the leaves began to fall and the tamarack trees take on their yellow coat the Fullblood Indians say that the porcupine is singing his love song and like the Indian, he is lonesome, too. These innate beliefs are a way of life that is fading into oblivion. The passing of our last Chief and the coinciding renewal of termination pressures marks a turning point in the life of the Flathead people, and we wonder how long our way of life will last. Church services were held for 'Palcatnah' in the Old Jocko Catholic Church at Arlee, Montana, where three generations of Charlo Chiefs have received their last rites. Paul Charlo's final resting place was at the foot of a mountain in a cemetery of the beautiful Jocko Valley, his land and the land of his people. by Walter Mc Donald
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MOUNT VERNON— Brewton-Parker College invites the community to the following upcoming Chapel Services located on the Mount Vernon Campus. All services are held in Saliba Chapel on Tuesdays at 11 a.m., and are free and open to the public.
Brewton-Parker College is the only accredited four-year Christian college south of Macon and north of Jacksonville, FL. The mission of Brewton-Parker College, a Georgia Baptist college, is to develop the whole student through the application of Biblically-centered truth to a liberal arts curriculum in a community of shared Christian values.


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On an early year trip to Guatemala to promote literacy, Mary Anne Johnston was given a student-created book from a classroom, complete with hand-drawn pictures and children's handwriting. The authors all signed their names on a dotted line on the last page.
The remarkable thing about the book is that the children who made it all live and go to school in a dump. They don't have many resources, so Johnston was honored they wanted to give her something.
So when Johnston, the literacy chair for the Rotary Club of Summit County, got back from the 11-day trip to the country with the Guatemala Literacy Project - a partnership between North American and Guatemala Rotary clubs and the nonprofit Cooperative for Education - she mentioned in a Summit Daily News article chronicling her experience she would love to have local students create books for the Guatemala children. And she got a few responses.
Amy Hardwick, a Spanish teacher at Frisco Elementary, had her students in kindergarten, first, second and third grades create books at the end of this past school year.
"The book project for the Guatemala Literacy Project has been a fantastic cultural extension for my Spanish classes," Hardwick said. "Many of my younger students especially wonder why they need to learn another language. I think it helps them to have a connection to other countries where Spanish is spoken."
Also, the project tied in with the school's International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.
"We were able to able to engage the students in a service project which allowed them to see that there are many students who are not as fortunate as we are at Frisco Elementary in terms of the resources available to us," Hardwick said.
Hardwick estimates there was about 100 books created by the children. Each grade had a different topic for their books - kindergarten wrote about their families and where they live; first about learning colors and numbers in Spanish; second used sequencing and ordinal numbers to write about a typical day; and third grade wrote fictional stories about a mouse that spoke two languages.
Johnston has a few more classrooms signed up for the project this fall, and will be bringing books with her to Guatemala when she returns next February. With the amount being made, she expects to be able to give every student their own book - instead of just one per classroom.
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From Waterloo to Toronto, Canada Awaits RIM's BB10 Debut
By Caroline Van Hasselt and David George-Cosh
Canada is waiting.
In an BlackBerry 10 launch party in Toronto and in public and private events near Research In Motion Ltd.'s hometown of Waterloo, Ontario, the smartphone maker was set to pull the curtain up on its latest OS, and two new devices set to run off it.
In downtown Kitchener, just down the road from Waterloo, at the Communitech Hub, in the town's landmark Tannery building, organizers were hosting an event for local executives and officials. With sales and market share dwindling, RIM has seen its stock price pummeled. (Though more recently ahead of Wednesday's BB10 launch, the stock has bounced back strongly.)
The local crowd in Canada is cheering for RIM.
"It was tough to see such a vibrant company hit such a rough patch, so this is a big deal for all of us," said Ben Bittrolf, the chief financial officer of start-up Cyborg Trading Systems, at the Communitech event.
Never mind the heavy rain, organizers are expecting 250 to watch RIM's BB10 unveiling live from New York.
"There's been a buildup of excitement. We're all curious and we're all expecting something significant," Mr. Bittrolf said.
Rob Drimmie, a Kitchener-based software developer, said he's "really excited to see the final product" after having worked with RIM's test devices over the last six months. "I'm absolutely rooting for them," he said.
Meanwhile, doors haven't yet opened inside RIM's official Toronto launch at a swanky downtown hotel. It's the only formal Canadian event, as journalists, analysts and bankers await outside drinking lattes and munching on pastries. The greeting area is covered in warm blue hues, while several flat-screens display BlackBerry-related tweets in real-time.
The company plans to stream the official launch presented by CEO Thorsten Heins in New York, but several other RIM executives will be on hand in Toronto to discuss the phone's latest features. An employee-only event will be held in Cambridge, a short drive away from RIM's Waterloo headquarters.
One Toronto-based banker said he's attending to decide whether he should update his BlackBerry device, but also to see what the audience's reaction to the new BlackBerry's launch will be.
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The December EDA Board Meeting again began with discussion on the current status of the EDA delinquent loan held by Shane's Tire which dates back to 2007. City Attorney Nip Hauser, is continuing to work with the loan holder to finalize a solution to get this loan current, or paid in full, so that this matter can come to a close.
EDA Board members also met with representatives from the Eagles Club to discuss their current delinquent EDA loan. The EDA has requested information, and for improved communication, from the Fraternal Order of Eagles to keep the EDA updated on pertinent information regarding the repayment of their EDA loan.
An EDA Loan Summary that displayed all EDA loans issued over the years was shared with the board members. The 25 EDA Rehab Loans issued were listed individually by loan amounts, with interest paid, and of these 25 loans, 23 have been repaid, leaving only two loans that were not repaid in full due to bankruptcy or going out of business. That is a 92 percent success rate for EDA Rehab Loans. There have been 46 EDA Revolving Fund loans administered since 1993; they were listed individually by loan amounts, with interest paid. Five of those loans have been lost due to bankruptcy, 30 have been repaid in full, and 11 are currently active. The Revolving Loan Fund has had an 86 percent success rate.
Bob Elston from the PUC attended the meeting and explained some ideas on sharing PUC information on energy conservation and rebates of which Kurk could distribute to the local businesses on his regular visits with them. This information also could be displayed on the city website.
The board approved paying the annual membership dues to GMRPTC, and also for two conferences that Kurk will attend. Tabled to the January meeting was consideration of the annual fee for The Center for Rural Policy & Development.
Two more donations were received for the Veteran's Park Project. There will be a committee planning meeting at the end of January for phase two of Veteran's Park.
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August 19, 2013
Neither Dead Nor Sleeping
by Sewall, May Wright
May Wright Sewall (1844 – 1920) was a leading citizen of Indianapolis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A well-known colleague of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she worked tirelessly on behalf of women's suffrage, education, and the peace movement. With her devoted husband, Theodore Lovett Sewall, she founded the Classical School for Girls in Indianapolis, while also establishing the Indianapolis Women's Club, the Indianapolis Propylaeum, and the Art Association of Indianapolis (later the Indianapolis Museum of Art). She was a true pioneer of social progress.
In 1918, toward the end of her life, she asked her friend Booth Tarkington to review the manuscript for the book she was writing – an account of her continuing contact with her dead husband for the preceding twenty years.
Booth Tarkington wrote in the preface to Neither Dead Nor Sleeping, "The amazing thing was, first, that it was written by Mrs. Sewall … It was to me dumfounding to find that for more than twenty years, this academic-liberal of a thousand human activities, Mrs. Sewall, had been really living not with the living, so to put it. And as I read, it seemed to me that I had never known so strange a story."
To say that May Wright Sewall was initially scornful and dismissive of spiritualism is an understatement. But once she became convinced of the reality of other dimensions of life, ostensibly through the indefatigable efforts of the spirit of her dead husband, she became a medium herself, no longer requiring an intermediary between her and the spirit world.
The book scandalized Mrs. Sewall's supporters and tarnished her reputation, as she knew it would. Her spiritualism is usually relegated to a footnote in her biographies, if it is mentioned at all.
May Wright Sewall dedicated her book "to all honest souls who have hitherto believed the grave to be a chasm and who would be comforted to know that it is a gate that swings both ways and can be unlocked by humans on both sides of it – to such I speak."
She continued: "Mind, heart, and spirit – the power to know, the capacity to love, the tendency to aspire … These three elements being separable only from the body, their mortal vestment, are never separable from one another."
This is a strange story, indeed – one that will leave you questioning your own assumptions about the nature of reality.
— Recommended by Deborah Jones, Franklin Road Library
August 12, 2013
A Lady's Guide to Improper Behavior
by Enoch, Suzanne
I thoroughly enjoyed this regency novel. A lady's guide has the usual boy meets girl, problems ensue, they surmount them, they fall in love but this book has so much more: political intrigue, greed and post-traumatic stress disorder. Colonel Bartholomew "Tolly" James is crippled both physically and mentally, the sole survivor of a vicious Thugee ambush in India. Wanting only solitude, Tolly has alienated polite society and is avoiding his family. When his family catches up with him he is forced to attend a family dinner, and in attendance is Theresa, his sister in-law's cousin. During dinner he behaves insufferably and is incredibly rude, goading Theresa to respond in kind. Theresa prides herself on her ability to always behave properly and charmingly--she has even written a pamphlet on the topic. She tracks Tolly to his lair to apologize, they argue, he kisses her, and she forgets about all other eligible bachelors pursuing her.
— Recommended by Debbie Overshiner, Eagle Library
August 5, 2013
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body By Not Looking At It For A Year
by Gruys, Kjerstin
Kjerstin Gruys is one brave woman. She spent an entire year not looking in mirrors! This wasn't just any year, though—it was the year she got married! Motivated to work on her body image after trying on wedding dresses, Gruys challenges long-held cultural beliefs and stereotypes about female beauty. From buying clothes without the assurance of dressing room mirrors to avoiding reflective windows at seemingly every turn, Gruys relates her experiences in a thought-provoking and often conversational tone (the book was largely adapted from her blog of the same name). A in Ph.D. student in sociology , Gruys includes plenty of research to back up her anecdotal evidence of the way many women struggle to uphold an idealized version of beauty. Any woman who has ever struggled with body image issues (are there any who haven't?) will relate to Gruys' engaging narrative.
— Recommended by Carrie O'Maley, Central Library
July 29, 2013
Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens
by Scheuer, Lauren
Deep in my soul, I believe I'm a farmer, but I know I'd much rather read about someone else's adventures in agriculture than actually do the work myself. Lately I've had a fascination with chickens, and judging by the popularity of backyard flocks, I'm not alone. Lauren's Scheuer's new book tells in words, drawings, and photographs, the tale of her small chicken flock from her first notion of a flock through family skepticism, four cute baby chicks, adolescent hens, and the joy and delight she finds in her small flock. Jenny, one of her first baby chicks, undeniably turns out to be a rooster, and gets amusingly relocated during a daughter's farm field trip. Tragedy is averted when Marky the dog learns to live successfully with the flock. Lauren is also the author of a chicken blog, Scratch and Peck, for those who want to continue following the antics of Lucy, Lil' White, and the others.
— Recommended by Ruth Hans, Warren Library
July 22, 2013
Killer Instinct
by Sharp, Zoë
If you are looking for a crime thriller series with an abundance of action, adventure, and suspense to begin then Killer Instinct is for you. Author Zoë Sharp introduces readers to Charlotte "Charlie" Fox in this first title of the series. Main character Charlie Fox teaches self-defense to women in a Northern English City. She learned her skills during her short stunt in the Army Special Forces. Since leaving the army she has taken up working security at New Adelphi Night Club in Lancaster where a serial killer is on the loose. The author takes you on a wild ride while Charlie searches for the killer. This is an excellent introduction to Charlie Fox and Zoë Sharp leaves you wanting more. She is now up to book six. After reading this one you will definitely want to try the others in the series, which the library owns in various formats.(Killer Instinct is also available in large print.)
— Recommended by Denyce Malone, Flanner House Library


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Think what you will, but I am neither uninformed nor inexperienced (okay, maybe a little inexperienced). I've had some fucked-up (and not so fucked-up) personal experiences with drugs and people in my life that were involved with drugs.
I think that hesitation in conversation due to sobriety is part who a person is. When drugs lower inhibitions that does not reveal what a person is really like. I think it is sort of a cop out to say that drugs bring out a person's true personality.
note1 wrote: I completely agree with you here. Ever notice how ridiculous the acting in movies and commercials looks when you are stoned?
Yes, I completely agree and have discussed this with fellow reefer addicts and most of them agree with that. Its like being high reveals how blatantly stupid people sound saying insipid dialouge. Its not that you don't notice it when you aren't high, its just becomes more obvious and unbearable.
On a side note I have a job interview next week and will probably have to pee in a cup if I get the job. This means no smoking at Sages show for me. It probably won't make a difference anyways, I could stop for a year and my piss would still be contaminated.


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Eliminated by Argentina's Guillermo Canas in the first phase, Roger will try to bounce back this week at the second Masters Series of the season. Having won the tournament in 2005 and 2006, Roger will try to capture the title in Florida a third consecutive time.
Not having to compete in the first round, Roger will meet the winner of the match between America's Sam Querrey and Russia's Igor Andreev. Should he go on to the next round, Spain's Nicolas Almagro (ATP 34) and France's Richard Gasquet (ATP 16) could be up after that. Tommy Haas (ATP 9) or Spain's Tommy Robredo (ATP 6) are possible opponents in the following rounds and towards the end Roger could cross paths with Nikolay Davydenko (ATP 4) or Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic (ATP 7).
Roger's early defeat and Rafael Nadal's victory in Indian Wells only had a relatively small influence on the world rankings. The Spaniard moved up to Roger by 770 points, but still lies 2960 points behind him. Andy Roddick occupies the third rank at a fair distance.
we fans have full faith that you will come back with a bang
all the very best!!!
Best of luck, and off you go Roger!
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All your fans are waiting to see you again
You're not a rockstar but you rock!!!
I have already written but had to say o all the fans who may not have heard but the round robin format is no longer thank god for that after the mix up in Las Vagas with Blake they just had to get rid of it, i know you will be very happy wi
Good luck at Miami!!! I want you to win the title and Nadal to lose in first round.
About the first round, it's easier to play in front of Querrey then with Andreev.
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The U. S. Department of Education delivered some good news last week: The nation's high school graduation rate is the highest it's been since 1976. If you plan to celebrate, keep it brief.
The bad news: A stunning number of those graduates is unprepared for college.
"On average, only 23 percent of students who take our English placement exams place into a college-level English class," said Mojdeh Mehdizadeh. "These are first-time students who come directly from high school. Math is a little higher."
Mehdizadeh is vice chancellor of education and technology for the Contra Costa Community College District, and her findings cut across Diablo Valley, Los Medanos and Contra Costa colleges. Because these are open-access schools, as district Chancellor Helen Benjamin reminds, no students can be denied for low scores. But neither can they enroll in classes for which they are unqualified. So they take remedial courses.
"So much of what we do is remediation," said Contra Costa College President Denise Noldon.
The biggest hurdle is in English language arts -- yeah, reading and writing -- which encompasses comprehension, critical thinking and composition. This hardly ranks as a surprise in the smartphone generation -- texting and Twitter have unraveled the English language -- but experts say another reason is the minimal writing required in high school.
"Some students don't know the fundamentals of constructing a sentence," Benjamin said.
Written assignments are unavoidable in college, from annotated term papers to timed essay questions. "There's a disconnect between what students have been prepared to do in high school and the expectations in college," Noldon said.
The problem is not new, and Benjamin fears it's growing worse. Pam Tyson, director of educational services for the county's office of education, agrees. She points to an overemphasis on English lit studies at the expense of expository writing.
"I think it's easier to teach literature and novels than writing," she said. "It's very time intensive, and it's a very individualized process."
Help may be on the way. California is one of 47 states to embrace a new educational approach -- the common core curriculum -- that not only sets standards in math, English language arts and literacy in social studies, science and technology, but also emphasizes writing.
"One of the revolutionary things is the way assessments are made," said Nicole Steward, a management assistant in the Pleasanton school district. "We're transitioning from fill-in-the-blank, true-false and multiple-choice to computer-adaptive questions, where students will write a reflective response to something they've read."
Pleasanton also now offers a senior expository reading and writing class to address deficiencies among those who scored poorly in the California Standards Tests as juniors.
It can't happen quickly enough for college educators, who lament the time spent on teaching freshmen what they should already have learned. Benjamin said students need to grasp the relevance of clear, coherent writing, and to explain how teachers can help them.
"We can create what we think will meet their needs," she said, "but if they're not buying into it, it's not going to happen."
And those happy graduation numbers won't mean a thing.
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SANTA CLARA -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday continued a confident march toward Election Tuesday, telling a group of Silicon Valley leaders that he's ready to invest in state programs "when Prop. 30 passes."
Brown, speaking at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's annual power lunch, argued once again for voters to pass Proposition 30, a tax hike that would raise $6 billion a year for the state budget and education.
"I am not complacent, but we have a very good chance -- that's all I'll say -- and we're going to keep on working," Brown said following the event. More campaigning is set for this weekend, mostly in Southern California.
About 1,200 venture capitalists, public officials and Silicon Valley elite packed the Santa Clara Convention Center for an hour-long panel discussion with Brown, who was joined by Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings and Virgin America CEO David Cush.
The leadership group has not taken a stance on Proposition 30, while the region's other major business group, the Bay Area Council, has endorsed it. Businesses typically oppose or stay neutral on tax hike measures, but the officials and private leaders on hand -- from pro sports teams to Microsoft to PG&E -- didn't have any boo's in store for Brown.
In fact, Hastings, who has given $1 million to Brown's $39 million campaign, got a cheer when he remarked that he had marked "yes" on Proposition 30 more than once.
"I voted three times," Hastings said. "I pre-marked my daughter's and wife's ballots."
Brown did not make any news at the event, but employed plenty of zingers in an attempt to make his case for Proposition 30, which would raise the sales tax by a quarter cent and hike income taxes on the wealthy. Polls show it is hovering just below the 50 percent approval mark.
Brown cited a new Stanford study that concluded millionaires do not flee California in response to high tax rates.
The study says "the biggest factor in millionaires moving out of California is divorce," Brown said to laughs. "Don't pay attention to the 15 percent tax rate; pay attention to your spouse."
Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at twitter.com/rosenberg17.


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The winter Dew Tour held its first big air event for snowboarding Saturday night. Athletes from all over the world threw down crazy tricks, and one snowboarder in particular Mark McMorris did more than live up to the high standards of his competition and spectators when he ended up on the top of the podium. McMorris claimed first place when he landed a triple cork during the big air competition.
"I was lucky enough to get into the competition; anyone could have won," McMorris said.
Throwing down this early in the season, it's no doubt McMorris is one kid to keep an eye out for. McMorris said he is "getting his game on for 2014."
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