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Industry and Municipal Composting
Sites involved with large-scale municipal/industry aspects of composting.
Agricultural Composting
Literature citations that document the science-based practices that have developed for production and use.
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Literature citations that document the science-based practices that have developed for production and use.
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Discussion Groups
Here are a few of the numerous discussion groups out there that give a great medium for information exchange dealing with composting issues.
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Research Units
Research Units and other interested groups
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The USDA has a publication on Agricultural Uses of Municipal, Animal, and Industrial Byproducts.
Sites dealing with vermicomoposting (composting using worms).
A passage taken from the Leopold Center roundtable piece. A comment by former Pres. of Practical Farmers of Iowa, Tom Frantzen, who said: "If you'd ask me what I think is the healthiest soil on our farm, I would tell you that I think I could find it and I would not need my eyes nor any of my senses other than my ears. You might laugh at this, but my daughter and I have been out in a chunk of pasture that's been seeded down for seven years under intensive management. If conditions are right, I can hear the earthworms."
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Backyard Composting
These are great sites that have a vast amount of information on common backyard composting.
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Composting related sites that are based out of Canada.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida State's Billy Strode tossed six shutout innings to lead fourth-ranked Florida State to a 4-0 win over Stetson, Tuesday at Dick Howser Stadium.
Strode (1-1) allowed just two hits and struck out five. He wiggled his way out of what proved to be a key jam in the first inning, setting the tone for rest of the game.
Stetson's Kevin Fagan led off the first inning with a walk and moved to second when Tyler Bocock was hit by a pitch. Patrick Mazeika followed with a long single high off the fence in right field to load the bases. But Strode fanned Josh Powers for the first out, and Garrett Russini tapped a 1-2 pitch just out in front of home plate for an easy inning-ending double play.
"We had an opportunity to get on the board in the first and we can't get a ball more than three feet from home plate," said Stetson head coach Pete Dunn. "That's a chance to get a signature inning on their home turf. Instead, we load the bases and put the bat on our shoulder and hit into a double play."
FSU (31-9) scored all the runs it needed in the bottom of the first after Josh Delph led off with a double and scored two batters later on D.J. Stewart's sacrifice fly as the Seminoles gained a 1-0 lead.
The Seminoles took a 2-0 lead in the fourth on Jose Brizuela's sacrifice fly.
Stetson's bullpen kept the Hatters in the game, limiting Florida State to two hits over the next three inning but the Hatters (17-25) offense couldn't solve Strode. At one point the left-hander set down 19 of 21 Stetson batters before leaving the game after allowing a lead-off walk to Russini in the seventh.
Still trailing 2-0, Stetson again loaded the bases with one out in the eighth. But Mazeika popped up to right field and Powers struck out looking to end the threat.
"The really disappointing part of the game is we just put the bat on our shoulders and let the umpire ring us up," said Dunn. "We've got to compete right there. We had an opportunity to possibly win a game on their home turf and we let the umpire call us out."
FSU added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth on a throwing error by Fagan and a double by Justin Gonzalez.
Bocock, Mazeika and Robert Bruce had the only hits for Stetson. Gonzalez was 3-for-4 to pace the Seminoles.
Jordan (2-6) suffered the loss despite allowing just two runs on five hits in four innings. Josh Thorne enjoyed one of his best outings this season, hurling 2.2 shutout innings.
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There were 60 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, there were 1,458 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Dwelling shot: A woman was asleep about 11:55 p.m. Tuesday when she was awakened by the sound of gunshots outside her home in the 3300 block of Marsh Street. Several rounds struck her residence, police said. There was no description of the shooter.
Robbery: A woman was in her garage about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday in the 2800 block of Etcheverry Drive when a man entered the garage and forcibly removed a necklace from her neck, police said. The man then fled on foot toward Holman Road. He was described as a black man in his 20s standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds with a black hooded sweatshirt and black jeans.
Weapons arrest: Police responded to a report of a man armed with a gun about 4:50 p.m. Tuesday in the 9000 block of Thornton Road. Officers located the man near Thornton Road and Mac Duff Avenue and found him in possession of a loaded, stolen handgun, police said. Torri Butler, 18, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of stolen property.
Robbery arrest: Police arrested Vaquan Jefferson, 18, Todd Williams, 18, and a 17-year-old on suspicion of robbery in the 1000 block of Rosemarie Lane after they stole a man's bicycle about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday near Pacific Avenue and Bianchi Road.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 18 noninjury accidents and three injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. CHP officers also recovered six stolen vehicles.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 124 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, including four vehicle accidents, 97 medical calls and three structure fires.
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A chart that accompanied the Facebook earnings story incorrectly reported the company's profit in two quarters. Facebook had a net loss of $157 million in the second quarter of 2012 and a net loss of $59 million in the third quarter.
MENLO PARK -- Facebook's latest earnings report showed faster sales growth and substantial progress in building its mobile ad business, but skittish investors drove its stock price down in late trading Wednesday.
The social networking giant reported revenue and earnings that slightly surpassed Wall Street's expectations, as mobile advertising more than doubled and overall sales grew at a faster rate than it has in two previous quarters, after showing signs of slowing over the summer.
"Today there's no argument. Facebook is a mobile company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a conference call with analysts, after reporting that for the first time, the number of daily users who surfed the social network on smartphones and tablets exceeded those using desktop computers in the last quarter of 2012.
But Facebook's stock fell sharply, at one point dropping 10 percent below its closing price of $31.24, as it seesawed up and down in the hours after the company issued its report. Analysts said some investors may have decided to take profit from the stock's recent gains in value, while others may have been hoping for even better results.
"Expectations were pretty high," said Colin Sebastian of the Robert W. Baird investment firm, who noted that several analysts recently raised their estimates for the company. He also said some investors were probably spooked because Facebook executives said they plan to spend heavily on hiring more staff and developing new products in 2013, rather than focus on maximizing profit.
"That's going to give investors a little bit of pause," Sebastian said. But aside from those factors, he added, "it was a very good quarter."
Facebook reported net income of $64 million on sales of $1.58 billion for the quarter that ended in December. Revenue rose 40 percent from a year ago, while profit fell 78 percent as the company incurred charges related to employee stock options.
Earnings per share amounted to 3 cents, or 17 cents after excluding those one-time charges. That beat Wall Street's expectations for earnings of 15 cents a share, excluding one-time charges, on revenue of $1.53 billion.
Buoyed by new advertising products and a surge in holiday ad spending, Facebook's revenue growth outpaced the 32 percent rate it reported in two previous quarters. Its mobile ad business grew even faster, as mobile revenue rose to $305 million or nearly a fourth of the company's total ad business.
That's significant progress, according to analyst Josh Olson of the Edward Jones investment firm, who noted that Facebook warned investors last spring that it was making virtually no money from the growing number of users who access the service on smartphones and tablets.
"They said they were going to focus on mobile and they have executed there," Olson said. "They've built the mobile business from zero to 23 percent of the ad revenue mix in about nine months."
Underscoring the importance of mobile ads, Facebook said 680 million of its 1.06 billion monthly active members are using Facebook on mobile gadgets.
Zuckerberg announced the company's earnings just days after two of its biggest online rivals, Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO), issued strong financial reports of their own. While Google is still the industry leader in mobile advertising, experts say Facebook is starting to gain traction in key areas.
By inserting commercial messages into the news feed that appears on smartphone and tablet screens, Facebook garnered 18.4 percent of the money that businesses spent on mobile display advertising in 2012, according to research firm eMarketer, while Google had about 17 percent.
Google still commands more than 53 percent of the $4 billion mobile ad market, however, because it dominates another category of mobile ads -- delivering commercial messages when people submit Internet search queries on mobile devices. Facebook is developing its own search engine, but Google currently has about 93 percent of the mobile search ad business.
Some experts say the popularity of mobile gadgets will help Facebook because it's able to command far higher fees for its news feed ads than it charges for older-style advertising that it shows on the right-hand side of Facebook pages on desktop computers.
Brand-name advertisers are shifting to the news feed format, according to Lucy Jacobs of the San Francisco digital ad firm Spruce Media. She said the rate at which viewers click on those news feed ads has been increasing, which shows that users are responding to those messages.
During the conference call, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg touted the early success of news feed ads as well as new Facebook programs that let advertisers reach targeted audiences and then track how often they lead to both online and offline purchases.
Facebook will focus on improving its ad programs in 2013, said Zuckerberg, who warned investors not to expect significant revenue growth this year from other sources, such as online retailing. Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman also reported that revenue from online games was unchanged from a year ago.
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Saturday, 10/26/1991
Club West, Santa Fe, NM
Set 1: Cavern, LandladyThe Landlady, Reba, Poor Heart, Tube, Fee, DividedDivided Sky, Llama, YEMYou Enjoy Myself > Setting Sail
Set 2: Dinner and a Movie, Runaway Jim, Foam, Horn, Sparkle, Tweezer, CoilThe Squirming Coil, IDKI Didn't Know, Paul and Silas, JJLCJesus Just Left Chicago, TweepriseTweezer Reprise
· The Ocean vocal jam in You Enjoy Myself
Average Song Gap: 4.96
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Trey shaved his head and beard the day before this show and was apparently the butt of several jokes from friends and fans. The vocal jam in You Enjoy Myself was based on The Ocean (Led Zeppelin) and eventually developed into Fish singing Setting Sail while the rest of the band scatted and laughed.
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6 A Picture of Nectar
5 Junta
3 Lawn Boy
2 Rift
2 The White Tape
1 Stash
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Headlines for Monday:
- Blogging backlog: Okay, fine, I'm a social butterfly (81 words)
- Backlog: Viz workshop last Friday (678 words)
- Friday: Art appreciation day at the ROM (143 words)
- Networking evils: The you're-just-a-student brushoff (784 words)
- Some kind of sport - maybe tennis? (74 words)
- Travelling (79 words)
- Gwaaah, panic, terror (221 words)
|Ask about flight
|Check out Free the Children
|Do laundry
|Clear my floor
|Empty my bags and stow them
|Clear my desk
|Bring out my scarves and winter shoes
|@1000-1100 Telecon with Vauhini Vara, see E-Mail from Libra M. White
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|Catch up with people
|Sort out details for dinner with Tim Sanders
|Set up Toastmasters website
|Send Toastmasters agenda
|Find out when my classes are
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Experimental Methods in Human Factors Research M.H. Chignell Monday, 5pm - 8pm BA 2155
1. Blogging backlog: Okay, fine, I'm a social butterfly: 13:44
There. I've admitted it. Happy? ;)
Normal introverts don't find themselves trying to find more hours in the day so that they can go to four different things on a Friday night, or more weekends in a month so that they can meet up with different people.
I feel more than a little guilty about not having enough time to blog about all of this cool stuff, because writing and reflection are also very important to me.
Life is terrific. =)
2. Backlog: Viz workshop last Friday: 14:39
I went to David W. Gray's workshop last Friday to learn more about visualizations because of my research interest in tracking, visualizing, and supporting technology adoption in large companies. I expected a Tufte-esque critique of the ways data are presented in graphical form, with practical advice on presenting complex information easily. Instead, the workshop turned out to be one on visual thinking and brainstorming. Not quite what I expected, but still good.
My key take-aways from that were:
- When communicating with people, think of attention, retention, and transfer. I particularly like how he emphasized that this spells "art."
- Always carry a pocket-sized digital camera. Always. You never know when you're going to see something you can use for your presentation. Hmm, my current camera is just a little too large for this, although if I always carry a zipcase with my essentials (wallet, cellphone, Moleskine, camera, business cards) then I can take it no matter which bag I bring.
- Tom Wujec demoed a *totally* awesome sketching / electronic-index-card tool that makes me wish I had a tablet PC. I might not even mind going on Microsoft Windows for it. It totally rocks.
A number of other participants thought that one of the most powerful points was the idea of writing thoughts on Post-it notes or other easily-rearrangeable media, one thought per note. I was familiar with the idea because of my interest in tools for thinking (mind-mapping, brainstorming, etc.), productivity, and communications, and that kind of thinking comes naturally to me now. I do my speeches, thoughts, and even my school papers on, well, paper form before I get them into the computer, although sometimes I'll start with a blog rant.
Hmmm. I think what I really wanted from the workshop were more examples of how to support communication by presenting complex information beautifully, like the way his company presents business processes. There were a few examples very quickly glossed over as part of his corporate bio, and I really wish there were more. Another powerful addition could be an exercise where we'd take data and figure out how to present it, perhaps working in groups and presenting it to the class. That would have been tons of fun, and it would have made the most of Dave's presentation consulting experience with Xplane.
Oh, and it would've been nice to see more of Dave's sketches. =) He's a fun visual artist, and the sketches would've really punched things up. Granted, it's a lot of work to do that with the Lessig method of one gazillion little slides, but an occasional gapingvoid-style thing would be terrific.
I gave him some feedback on the workshop and on his presentation style. He's trying to get the hang of the Lessig method—fast-paced, lots of slides. This takes a fair bit of work to pull off, but it's great when you can speak ahead of the slides instead of reading off them - there's such a difference between using slides as cues and as punchlines! I haven't given a mind-blowing Lessig-style presentation myself, although I remember my operating systems students' feedback that my lectures felt a lot like ads (in a good way!) when I was teaching them about OS history. I remember listening to a Lessig presentation and noting how his speech was slightly ahead of the slides, and I also remember being impressed with Michael Geist's presentation. They are teh c00l.
Dave seems more interested in doing instructional design and packaging this as a workshop that other people can give, so he didn't want to bring too much of himself into it - which is a pity, really, as he's an interesting character and infusing more of the workshop with his personality would liven it up. =) I think he'll do well in instructional design. He's particularly interested in video. Might be cool.
The main value of the event came from the conversations that it sparked, I think. I met a lot of people there whom I'd like to keep in touch with, including Dave Gray.
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3. Friday: Art appreciation day at the ROM: 14:49
The Royal Ontario Museum offers free admission from 4:30 PM onwards every Friday. Simon suggested heading over there for a bit of cultural appreciation, and we had fun walking around before my 8:30 dinner with the folks I met at the Oriented networking event.
I always find Japanese woodblock prints fascinating, and we spent some time in that gallery. I'm also drawn to calligraphy, classical sculptures, and realistic paintings (particularly those with literary or mythological references, like classical paintings). I like room reproductions, too - glimpses of what people's lives were like in the past or how they are elsewhere. I like pieces with stories.
We'll go back one of these Fridays. It would be nice to contemplate a single thing and learn its story. Too bad there are no Wikipedia kiosks in the museum. Do you think there'll be wireless?
4. Networking evils: The you're-just-a-student brushoff: 16:32
I know, Simon said I shouldn't waste more time thinking about this, but I had an interesting learning experience today. =)
A friend invited me to a free recruitment / networking breakfast session for a consulting networking group which shall not be named. I RSVP'd with enthusiasm, name, and affiliation. I promptly got the "We're looking for people who want to sign up right now" brush-off, which is another variant of the "You're just a student, so what can you do for me" brush-off that totally turned me off networking before.
I have to admit, my ego is a *little* bit pricked. <teasing grin> I could understand where they're coming from, though. I wrote them a polite note about how I understood that they need to protect their potential members from schmoozing salespeople, etc. I said that although I'm currently a graduate student at the University of Toronto, I thought I'd familiarize myself with professional organizations in Toronto because I meet a lot of people and I'd like to be able to recommend good resources to them. It would've been nice to be able to say more than the blurb on the website and to give people a good idea of the kind of people they might meet at the group's networking meetings or how the organizers run things, but oh well... I guess they don't want me to voluntarily learn how to "sell" the idea to other people just in case I run across someone who might be interested. ;) I suppose I can always point people to the website. <shrug>
This kind of rejection isn't a new thing for me, though. At business-oriented networking events, I often get the once-over and then ignored by people who are only interested in what they can get out of networking instead of what they can give. On the other hand, people who are open to me find me remarkable. I filter through *lots* of information about things I'm passionate about, such as networking, public speaking, technology. I attend all sorts of events and I write about what I've learned. My enthusiasm and joy remind people of why life is fun and exciting. I know a lot of people who've taken an interest in my success. Not only that, they're often interested in other people who've taken an interest in my success, too. =) The people who see me only as a student don't open up enough for me to show them all these other things, and the people who open up have a hard time believing that I'm a student or that I've only been in Canada for a year!
I think that a better way for this group to have handled the situation was not to assume that I'd be there to market my services inappropriately, but to probe and find out what value I think I'd bring to and get out of it. But then again, that would probably have been more time and attention than they'd think of spending on a student's request. (After all, what can a student offer a group of management consultants, anyway?)
It's a pity, because I'm interested in finding out more about the organization, what kind of people they attract, what value they provide, and what opportunities they're looking for. I'd still like to go. It's worth a try, and hey, I'm already learning a lot from this experience. I just hope that the feel of their meetings is better than my first impression of them, though.
Laurie Dillon-Schalk told me never to give up and that selling only starts when someone says, "No." If they can't see my value or at least ask constructively about it, then maybe the people they attract won't be able to see my value either, and I'd be better off spending that time blogging. But if I can show them that I'm not there for the free food or to hit people up for a job, but that I actually want to create value, then nifty. =)
So, what do you think? Should I try to talk my way into this for the practice, or look for a gentler and more generous networkers to start with? I told Ian Garmaise that I wanted to meet more Connectors. I want to focus on meeting people who live with that sense of gratitude for others who have helped them along and that desire to reach out and help others grow, because those are the people who can really nourish and inspire me. I'm going places, and I want to take a lot of other people along with me. I would love to meet people who can help show me the way.
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5. Some kind of sport - maybe tennis?: 20:32
Hmm. Maybe I should try learning some kind of sport. Dr. Oposa is very fond of tennis. Maybe I should give that a try? The Athletic Centre has courses. I might sign up for either the Mon/Wed noon courses or the Saturday morning courses, which will be a bit of a hassle for my schedule but which will work out well for me in the long run.
Currently more practical than golf.
6. Travelling: 21:03
Another thing to remember when I feel homesick - these words by Nigerian novelist Ben Okri:
Travelling challenges you to change your provincial perspective. Travel begins by altering your sense of the assumptions that you make about the world.
From Jim Paredes' blog. Thanks to Jojo Paderes for posting the link to PLUG-Misc.
I feel very much ethnic and I don't want to lose that, but I am also discovering my global identity. =) Life is good.
7. Gwaaah, panic, terror: 23:07
I don't have butterflies in my stomach. I've got representatives from every species of the order Lepidoptera and they've taken up residence not only in my stomach but all throughout me, including the nerves of my fingers.
I'm not doing something that scares me, I'm doing something that terrifies the heck out of me. And I *know* that it's not supposed to, but I'm really, really nervous anyway.
Just remember, Sacha, it's not going to be the end of the world. Okay. Contingency plans.
If he doesn't show up, I go ahead and have dinner with a bunch of interesting people. Not a problem.
If people cancel, I can apologize profusely to the restaurant, and we can have a cozier conversation.
If the restaurant turns out to be too noisy, we talk louder or we do creative things with the seating arrangement. Mariko's was doable, so this should be okay.
If conversation is awkward, I can... umm... just remember that people are responsible for enjoying themselves. I'll do my best to keep things flowing, though.
If more people show up than expected, I can drag more tables in.
And even if I flub it, some people will still be my friends. After all, they've survived my cooking.
Right. Not the end of the world. Things are going to be okay.
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is surrounded by journalists at the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe southern Germany, Tuesday July 10, 2012. Germany's highest court is to hear arguments Tuesday against the country signing up to the Europe's emergency bailout fund and a new treaty limiting debt. Opponents of the treaties argue that joining the bailout fund and debt pact for the 17 countries that use the euro would impose limits on the German Parliament's constitutional power to say how taxpayer money is spent. Parliament ratified the treaties June 29 but President Joachim Gauck has held off signing them into law while the court hears the objections. The Federal Constitutional Court is being asked to issue a temporary order blocking Gauck from signing while it fully considers the case, which court officials have said could take several weeks. (AP Photo/dapd/Ronald Wittek)
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) -- Germany's finance minister warns the eurozone crisis is not over despite the improvement in borrowing rates for many financially struggling countries, such as Spain and Italy.
Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday that Europe's crisis response and the European Central Bank's pledge to do whatever it takes to defend the 17-nation currency has "won back some confidence, but that is fragile."
The minister insisted the bloc's governments must act now and not lose the momentum to create a stronger, more integrated currency zone.
Schaeuble reiterated that the euro is not the cause of the crisis, but the answer to challenges posed by a globalized world.
Speaking at a gathering of business leaders in the northern city of Hamburg, Schaeuble insisted: "Without the euro, we all would be much worse off."


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FREMONT -- John Webb, a longtime athletic director, co-head football coach and "institution" at John F. Kennedy High School in Fremont died Saturday in an early morning crash involving three cars on northbound Interstate 680, authorities said.
The California Highway Patrol said Webb, 76, was hit by a Toyota Corrola around 1 a.m. after exiting a Corvette and trying to direct traffic on the freeway after the Corvette had run into the back of a stalled van between Vargas and Sheridan roads. Webb was a passenger in the Corvette, the CHP said.
Nobody else was injured in the crash, the CHP said.
"The irony of this whole thing is that he was doing what he always did," said Pete Michaletos, who coached football at Kennedy for 46 years, the final 25 of them with Webb as a de facto co-head coach. "He was helping someone out. That's just the way he was."
Webb was returning with a friend after attending San Jose State's 58-52 triple overtime loss to Navy on Friday night. Webb was an alumni of the school, where he starred as a running back in the same backfield with future Super Bowl-winning coach Dick Vermeil in the 1950s. He also is a member of the school's boxing Hall of Fame and once was offered a job to be a part of the staff when legendary 49ers coach Bill Walsh became San Francisco's coach in 1978, friends and school officials said.
He retired as the school's athletic director after the 2010-11 school year, but Michaletos said he had been considering a return to the sidelines. In addition to coaching, he also taught math, English and wood shop, and he was the school's adviser of student activities as well as the athletic director. Late in his tenure, he took over the adviser to the school's Chinese Club when the school couldn't find a replacement to his predecessor.
He kept teaching after his retirement as the athletic director, Principal Edward Velez said.
"He could've retired from teaching years ago," Velez said. "But the kids needed him, and needed the kids. He was an institution, and we were lucky to have him for as long as we were able to have him."
Similar sentiments were expressed on a Facebook page dedicated to the school's football program, which was filled with messages from former students.
"Coach Webb was one of the best men I knew during my time at Kennedy," Becky Railsback wrote. " ... Not only did this man help in shaping my passion for helping people, he helped everyone around him do the same."
Webb arrived at Kennedy in 1986, Michaletos said, just as the Titans were in the middle of a 32-game winless streak. He was the offensive and defensive coordinator for Michaletos initially, and two years later, the team won a league championship.
"He demanded excellence, but he demanded it so that the kids he taught and coached would demand it of themselves when they went out into the world," Michaletos said. "He was a special guy. This is a very sad day."
A candlelight vigil will be held in front of the school at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.


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AUSTIN (October 14, 2012)—Republican Ted Cruz has gone from underdog insurgent to prohibitive favorite in Texas' U.S. Senate race and now the tea party favorite is reconciling with a state GOP establishment he long bashed as too moderate.
Cruz became a national symbol of grassroots might in July, when he upset Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who was backed by the Texas GOP mainstream in the Republican senatorial primary.
Lately though, Cruz has appeared at fundraisers with Dewhurst and other state GOP heavy hitters.
Grassroots and limited government groups say they don't begrudge Cruz mending fences within the party and Cruz insists he's still a political insurgent.
Cruz is expected to easily beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.


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Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part year in review.
By Scott N. Miller
EAGLE COUNTY - Now that the world hasn't ended (silly Mayans), the Vail Daily's annual year in review remains on the to-do list. So let's dive on into the year that was, as long as we all understand that we might miss an item or few along the way.
All-year aggravation
Most news stories come and go, but there were a few things that, like dandruff or sensitive teeth, just wouldn't go away. Here they are:
Vail's 50th: We'll start with best long-running story in the valley. The people who created Vail had no idea that their idea for a new ski area near Vail Pass would turn into all this. Still, they thought big, worked hard and paved the way for what became one of the premier resorts in the world.
It's taken years of work, along with some hefty spending, to pull off a party worthy of Pete, Earl and everyone else who came that first winter and shortly thereafter.
That's worth a party, and the celebrations so far have been a fitting tribute.
The drought: When Vail's Back Bowls didn't open until well into January, we all thought, "We're just going through a (literal) dry spell. The snow will come soon enough."
We were wrong. A cruddy snow season turned into a year of low streamflows, dry ground and forests that quickly turned tinder-dry. We got through the year with lawns still mostly green and fish still mostly alive, but we need the snow to return this season, for all the reasons above and more.
Politics: It's over now - and, like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, doesn't it feel good now that it's stopped? - but people all over the state were subjected to endless TV and radio ads pretty much demonizing anything having to do with things political. The good news is that local and regional politicians pretty much stayed on a positive path. Still, yuck.
Traer Creek: The town of Avon and the developers of the Village at Avon spent almost all year locked in a legal wrestling match that chewed up countless hours and bunches of taxpayer and private dollars to reach a settlement in a long-running legal battle. The battle also gave us a virtual river of righteous indignation from neighbors of the project, who really, really, really didn't like what the settlement produced.
After announcing the framework of a settlement in October of 2011, the parties finally got most of their work done by the end of November. If the brains of those involved could talk, they'd all still be saying "ouch."
The slowest bounce: The Vail Valley's real estate market continued its slow crawl back from the depths it hit in 2009. Most months this year have shown improvements in both transactions and dollar volume from 2011. And, as of the end of October, the most recent month for which data is available, the dollar volume for 2012 was nearly equal that for the entire year of 2011.
Prices are still low, and there are still a lot of bank sales and foreclosures in the valley, but it looks like a slow, steady climb has begun.
Now, on to a roughly chronological look at the year that was.
• Vail's founders brought in a group of snow dancers from the Southern Ute tribe before opening the ski area in December of 1962. They came, and the snow stayed that winter.
Vail Resorts tried the same thing in January. The dancers got some results, but not enough to stave off what was to come.
• A light snow year created havoc in Red Cliff when the town's water lines froze tight. The town depends on insulation from snow to keep its water lines running
• With little snow on the mountains, there was still less on the valley floor at Gypsum. With bare ground abounding, the Gypsum Creek golf course opened for limited play.
• Four members of a deeply split Avon Town Council decided it was time to change town managers. Larry Brooks, who had held the town's top administrative job for nearly a decade and had worked for the town for nearly 30 years, announced his resignation. Brooks received a generous severance package - he was paid nearly his entire 2011 salary to serve as a part-time consultant.
• Dave and Renie Gorsuch were inducted into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame. The Gorsuches, who started their sporting goods and clothing business near Crested Butte in the early 1960s but quickly relocated to Vail, are still hard at work. The couple still put in 10-hour days and seven-day weeks on buying trips.
• Taft Conlin, 13, was killed in an avalanche on Vail Mountain. Nearly 1,000 people attended his memorial service.
• More than two years after shooting four people - and killing Dr. Gary Kitching, of Carbondale - at the Sandbar in Vail, Richard "Rossi" Moreau went on trial in a courtroom in Georgetown. While the shooting was captured on the bar's video cameras, various motions and hearings - including a psychological evaluation to determine whether Moreau was mentally competent to stand trial - delayed the trial. A change of venue to Georgetown further delayed the trial.
Moreau was convicted of first degree murder and seven other crimes related to the shooting and sentenced to life in prison plus 80 years.
At a sentencing hearing in early March, Moreau showed no remorse for the shooting.
"This is somebody that has shown no remorse for the crime, for the death of a human being and near-death of two others," District Attorney Mark Hurlbert said.
• The first Teva Winter Mountain Games came to Vail for a weekend of telemark big-air skiing, snowshoe racing, ice and rock climbing and similar events.
• Since 2008, the town of Minturn has had more than $11 million in the bank it couldn't use. That changed in February.
The town and the developers of the proposed Battle Mountain Resort completed an agreement - and unanimously approved a set of resolutions - for the two entities to release about $11.6 million in escrow funds that were first put on deposit in 2008, when The Ginn Company first sought approval for a private ski, golf and residential resort on Battle Mountain.
The final agreement gives the town access to more than $4.3 million for various projects and improvements. Battle Mountain gets the bulk of the money to help the company fight a pair of lawsuits that have challenged the town's 2008 annexation of the property and another suit over ownership of the land. Battle Mountain will also use the escrow funds to help gain Environmental Protection Agency approval to expand Bolts Lake, an essential source of water storage for the project.
• After failing to pass a tax increase in 2011, the Eagle County School Board had to try to close a nearly $5 million hole in its budget. Cuts ultimately included teachers, transportation and programs, including some high school language programs.
• There's snow, and there's business. While most of North America was suffering from a snow drought, Vail Resorts still had good news for investors during its quarterly earnings call in March. For the second quarter of its fiscal year - December, January and February - the company announced an increase in shareholder dividends. The company also announced that pass sales had increased even while skier visits had declined. The company was charging more for both lodging and dining, and international visits grew even while skier numbers fell.
Not bad for what company president Rob Katz called a "worst case" snow season.
• The SnowBall Music Festival came to Avon's Nottingham Park for the second year. While people seemed to have a good time, and town businesses reported brisk sales of just about everything, the festival still rankled many residents.
There were more than 140 arrests - mostly related to drugs and alcohol - and neighbors continued to complain about the noise from the performances.
• With snowpack on the hillsides continuing to languish, golf courses in Eagle and Gypsum both opened for the season.
In Gypsum, course manager Susie Helmerich said the course recorded about 1,500 rounds in two weeks, with many of those golfers coming from Vail and Beaver Creek. In fact, the folks in Gypsum had to borrow rental equipment from the Vail Golf Club to meet the demand.
• After months of discussion, the Vail Town Council authorized a $5 million sale of a portion of its municipal site to a partnership of Vail Valley Medical Center, the Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. Plans called for the medical partners to build a new building on the western portion of the property, while the town would build a new town hall, using money from the property sale and its cash reserves. The sale wouldn't close until the medical building had been issued a building permit.
• Voters in Red Cliff, Eagle County's oldest town, elected a new mayor and three new town board members and returned an incumbent to office who had been appointed earlier in the year.
Scott Burgess won the mayor's job. Newcomers Jake Spears, Jaclyn Parks, Kelli Holtz and Chris Keran also earned seats on the town board. Anuschka Bales, appointed earlier in the year, returned to the board.
• The U.S. Postal Service had earlier in 2012 announced it might have to close some rural post offices, including those in Red Cliff, Bond and Burns. In April, the U.S. Senate passed the "21st Century Postal Service Act of 2012," that included language requiring the postal service to keep its rural post offices open for at least another year.
• Eric Callaghan, who had broken into numerous automated teller machines in Eagle and Summit counties, pleaded guilty to seven felonies related to a nearly two-year crime spree.
• John Kedrowski, who started out at Eagle Valley High School, successfully climbed Mount Everest.
• A massive truck crash on Mother's Day killed the driver and badly damaged the Interstate 70 overpass in Avon. The first firefighters from the Eagle River Fire Protection District were on the scene in less than two minutes, but the flames still raged.
Avon residents Lara Wahl and Bradley Zellefrow were driving under the I-70 bridges when the crash occurred. The truck's two trailers flipped over the bridges and landed on the road below, on the couple's car. They escaped with just minor injuries.
• The second time was the charm for the proposed Eagle River Station commercial and residential project in Eagle. Voters in 2010 had rejected the proposal, but after a second trip through the town's approval process, and a second special election, the project was approved by 55 percent of voters.
• Just weeks after the truck crash, the Chambertin Townhomes in Avon caught fire. Again, firefighters were on the scene in mere moments. But given the winds gusting to 40 mph or more that day, crews could only keep the blaze from spreading to neighboring buildings and the sagebrush hillside across the street.
No one was injured in the fire, but residents at the townhomes lost everything in the fire, from eyeglasses to cars. A fund-raiser in early June raised more than $18,000 for the fire victims.
• Rapidly-dwindling snowpack meant spring streamflows peaked early, and well below their seasonal averages, to boot. As the valley dried out, local fire officials were worried, and many agreed that it would be remarkable if the valley avoided a major wildfire.
Those fears proved unfounded, with just a few small fires reported. But, anticipating that any small fire could quickly become a big one, local fire chiefs pledged to hit every fire with just about everything they had.
Proof of the formula came during a small wildfire on Castle Peak near Eagle. That fire, which burned fewer than 10 acres, was hit by crews from multiple agencies, along with air drops from both helicopters and tanker planes.
Given what happened in Colorado Springs and near Fort Collins, that strategy was probably well-founded.
• The owners of the Club at Cordillera filed for bankruptcy in June, the day a $12.7 million loan was due to a local bank.
The club - which does not include the Lodge and Spa at Cordillera - was also embroiled in a legal dispute with its members.


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Days after the release of the "Red Dawn" remake, which swapped the 1982 original's Soviet threat for a modern-day Asian invasion, hateful, fearful and mocking messages have begun popping up on Twitter.
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The grassroots Asian American mediawatch organization Racebending posted a selection of these tweets, and a quick search shows that they've continued to stream in at a steady rate, with posters stating that the movie made them "suspicious" of Asians, or "really made me hate [them]…#sorrynotsorry" — or worse, expressing the desire to commit violence in retribution for the movie's entirely fictional attack:
"Just saw Red Dawn with the boys…makes me wanna lock-n-load and whoop some Asian Ass"
"Bout to go take over bamboo garden the china in and dragon palace #RED #DAWN"
"I wish Red Dawn would happen in real life so I could shoot those chinks coming in by parachute"
In keeping with the blurry ethnicity of the movie's Asian enemy (which was switched from Chinese to North Korean in postproduction), many of the tweets are wide-bore in their reaction, targeting generic "Asians," or expansively slamming a buffet of nationalities. Speakeasy has more.


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Guitarist and vocalist Ed Dunsavage and vocalist Leslie Kendall will present classic jazz from 2 to 4 p.m. Father's Day, Sunday, June 16, at the Avalon Bar & Grill, 105 W. Valley View Road, Talent.
"We'll play a tasty selection of standards from the Great American Songbook — music by Cole Porter, George Gershwin and many other favorites," Dunsavage says.
The duo's set list includes hits such as "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Our Love Is Here to Stay" and "Body and Soul."
Dunsavage also plays every other Sunday afternoon at The Playwright and at 7:30 p.m. Fridays at Alchemy Restaurant & Bar in the Winchester Inn in Ashland
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I feel pretty confident on what I've found so far with the Murphy and Asperys, so I've created a public Ancestry.com tree and have attached most of my sources. Let me know if you're interested and I'll email you the link. This includes the surnames: Murphy, Quinn, Aspery, and Perchase. The Murphys moved out of Ireland in the early 1800's and were always on the go throughout Wales, England, and then finally ended up in Pennsylvania. Their movements seemed to be guided by the rise and fall of various ironworks around the UK.
Richards & Williams
Margaret Ann Richards (Murphy Patterson) had a sister named Bessie and parents John Richards and Ann Williams. Family lore is that Ann died when the girls were young and John moved them with their step-mother to Pennsylvania from Yorkshire, England in 1882. I've found a potential 1881 census record of a Margaret, Bessie and parents John and Ann in Yorkshire. But, it also includes other siblings Polly, Joseph, and Elizabeth. As far as I know, Margaret never mentioned having any other siblings, other than Bessie. I'm still trying to figure all this out.
Duncan & Rostron
This line includes surnames: Duncan, Glass, Ford, Rostron, Barwell, Kane, and Sullivan. I'm looking for a descendant of either James Duncan (1769-1861) or Hugh Duncan (1799-1870) to compare DNA with. Also looking for an obituary for Jennie Salina (Ford) Duncan who died in 1936 in Effingham, Illinois.
Definitely need to find a descendant of Samuel Willis (abt 1823-?) or Sarah Jane Hilliard (abt 1818-?) to compare DNA with because I have NO IDEA if these are the correct grandparents of Loretta Alice (Zillifro) Hutchinson. She claimed that her "real" mother was a native american that died during childbirth – which, I know, is very unlikely, but I think it's still possible that her real mother did die during childbirth and her father, Egbert Zillifro, remarried very quickly after. I'd really like to connect with someone from the supposed step-mother's line to get to the bottom of it.
I spent so much time on this line, almost an entire year exclusively, that I barely look at it anymore. It includes the surnames: Hutchison, Moorhead, Campbell, Patton, Jamison, Shryock, Anderson, and Blackstone. They are Irish and Scottish immigrants from the late 1700's and ended up in the area of Indiana, PA and Butler, PA. This is the line that connects to Fergus Moorhead, our Revolutionary War ancestor and would qualify the women in my family to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. Unfortunately, the application rules are so stringent that I completely lost interest.
The Updegraffs are well documented back to the late 1500's. It's my oldest line and they have interesting connections to the creation of the Mennonite church, William Penn, and early Philadelphia. But, I have little to no information on any of the women that married into the Updegraff family (it's a very lopsided tree!). I'm particularly interested in the Millers of Hagerstown, MD and Somerset, PA.
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WEST UPS PRESSURE ON RUSSIA: The U.S. has leveled its most-explicit allegations yet of Russia's involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and subsequent efforts to conceal evidence, and European leaders are threatening broad new sanctions against Moscow. This marks a turning point in the standoff between the West and the Kremlin, as Secretary of State John Kerry warned Russian President Vladimir Putin "for the last time" to obey Western demands to disarm pro-Russian separatists and stabilize Ukraine.
Officials in Europe, meanwhile, have departed from their initially muted reaction, and reports that bodies were being handled haphazardly and that separatist guards on the scene were drunk have ignited fury in the European countries where victims came from, including the Netherlands. The Obama administration for the first time publicly charged Mr. Putin's government with supplying the rebels the long-range rockets used in last Thursday's strike and also likely providing the separatists with training. U.S. officials said intelligence also showed the missile batteries used in the attack were returned to Russian soil shortly after the jetliner crashed, suggesting an attempted cover-up. Jay Solomon and Anton Troianovski report. Ukraine is ready to hand over the investigation of the disaster to Dutch authorities, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Monday.
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Is there a chance of reversing the slide in the labor participation rate, which fell to 62.8% last month? White House economists and others think that's possible with the right policy prescriptions and a more robust economy. But a dramatic increase in the share of Americans in the workforce appears unlikely. Read Neil King Jr.'s full post in Washington Wire.
GAZA BATTLE DEADLIEST IN CONFLICT: Israeli ground forces waded into Gaza's most densely populated city for the first time in nearly two weeks of fighting, destroying tunnels and drawing heavy fire from Hamas militants in the deadliest day of fighting for both sides since the conflict began. Israel said 13 Israeli soldiers were killed, the highest toll for Israeli soldiers in a single day since a brief war with Hezbollah in 2006, and Gaza officials said 96 Palestinians were killed Sunday. Nicholas Casey and Tamer El-Ghobashy report. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Cairo "soon" to try to work out a cease-fire in Gaza.
GOP RIVALS BATTLE IN GEORGIA: A Georgia primary runoff Tuesday will decide which of two pro-business Republicans wins the party's Senate nomination, in a race that will play a role in determining whether Democrats hold on to their control of the chamber. Whoever wins will need to unite the party and raise cash for a fall campaign against well-funded centrist Democrat Michelle Nunn. Both Rep. Jack Kingston and businessman David Perdue have similar views on major issues and appeal to mainstream Republicans, rather than tea-party activists. Cameron McWhirter reports.
'PERSONHOOD' HAUNTS COLORADO CANDIDATE: Rep. Cory Gardner, the Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Colorado, is trying to move away from the thorny issue of "personhood"—but neither Democrats nor Republicans will let him. After entering the race in February, he disavowed his past support for the idea that a fertilized egg has the same rights as a person. But social conservatives are still advocating a personhood ballot question in November, helping Democrats keep the issue alive. Democrats are trying to use such issues to expand the advantage they have among women voters. Beth Reinhard reports.
ALSO IN THE NEWS: The influx of thousands of Central Americans into the U.S. is energizing anti-illegal immigration activists … Corporate inversions has become midterm fodder as Democrats attempt to put heat on Republicans … House Republicans are taking aim at the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law … A murder trial in Detroit is focusing on the use of deadly force in self-defense.
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The U.S. government is suffering from a short attention span when it comes to foreign policy. With the rise of conflicts in Israel and Ukraine, the ISIS takeover in Iraq has faded to a distant memory. Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Seib explains why the U.S. needs to stay focused on Iraq's problems.
–A FULL SCHEDULE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: President Barack Obama signs an executive order at 10:15 a.m. EDT aimed at protecting LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, and afterward will travel to the Walker Jones Education Campus in Washington, D.C., for an 11:45 a.m. town hall event on his My Brother's Keeper initiative for Latino and African-American youth.
Mr. Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Ryan M. Pitts, a former active duty Army Staff Sergeant, in an East Room ceremony shortly after 3 p.m.
–KERRY IN CAIRO: Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Egypt to meet with Egyptian and other senior officials on the situation in Gaza. The goal: quickly restoring the November 2012 cease-fire.
Regardless of the precise outcome of the fight between Israel and Hamas, writes Ariel Ilan Roth in Foreign Affairs, it's already clear that Israel will win a tactical victory, but the strategic victory will belong to Hamas: "Hamas' strategic objective is to shatter Israel's sense of normalcy," which it is doing.
As Israeli-Palestinian violence rages, Ben Birnbaum and Amir Tibon of The New Republic tell the detailed, inside story of Secretary of State John Kerry's failed effort to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Dahlia Scheindlin, writing in 972 Magazine, gives the arguments of an Israeli opposed to the fight with Hamas, including this one: "…escalation breeds escalation. The south of Israel has not been at peace for a decade, but in this war, the whole country is under attack.
Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick reviews in the Financial Times a new history of the successful policies that brought an end to the Cold War, James Graham Wilson"s "Triumph of Improvisation," and notes that the reverberations continue: "President Vladimir Putin rejects Gorbachev's failures and seeks to restore Russia's influence – and even territory."
In the WSJ's Think Tank, Brian Katulis chides Europeans for failing to step up aggressively to respond to Russia's actions in Ukraine, and that "the lack of a unified coalition has been the weak link in responding to Russian provocations."
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I just saw a story on KCCI's website http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/former-amusement-park-to-get-new-life/-/9357080/23283258/-/ettsa9/-/index.html?absolute=true about how DM Parks and Rec is looking for ideas for recreational usage for the old Riverview area. Would this be a good area for a disc golf course? I'm only familiar with that small, open island area and know that isn't very good but if the property is all that wooded area back there it might be prime disc golf land.
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Published: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:26 a.m.
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A 33-year-old Houma woman broke into her ex-boyfriend's shed Friday and tried to set his house on fire, police said.
Kelly Ann Smith, 117 Vikki Lane, was caught on video entering the Hialeah Avenue shed and walking toward the home in the 200 block, Houma Police Lt. Dana Coleman said.
The video allegedly shows Smith approaching an open window and running away as smoke rises behind her. The couple had recently broken up, Coleman said.
Smith's ex-boyfriend was working offshore, but his 20-year-old daughter noticed an open window and Smith's car in the driveway, Coleman said.
Responding officers discovered the curtain and nearby floor had been charred.
Smith is charged with simple burglary and simple arson. She was booked into the Terrebonne Parish jail.
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1 [with object] Point or direct (a weapon or camera) at a target: aim the camcorder at some suitable object [no object]: aim for the middle of the target
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- She turned to simply stand motionless, her wrist cannons locked on her target and Jack came around the corner to aim his weapon as well, then stopped suddenly.
- Additionally, aiming is much more interactive, thanks to an over-the-shoulder camera angle which is activated every time you aim your weapon.
- The high-tech helmet had a targeting lens mounted on it, so aiming a weapon of any sort was easier.
turn something on someone
1.1Direct (a missile or blow) at someone or something: she had aimed the bottle at Gary's head
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- The officer then aimed three blows towards his face and another one to his leg as he handcuffed him and bundled him into a car.
- She raises the malicious wood and straw object above her head, aiming another blow.
- He aimed a brutal blow towards the man's face, hoping to break his nose.
take aim at, fix on, zero in on, draw a bead on
1.2 (aim something at) Direct information, a product, or an action towards (a particular group): the TV campaign is aimed at the 16-24 age group
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- And the bank seems to be aiming its account at those who won't need their money too often, with its interest penalty for any month you make a withdrawal.
- Across the spectrum of gifts and toys, most retailers have retreated to a pink-and-blue world, aiming products at the sexes as if they really did come from different planets.
- Today they have taken another bold step aiming the product at those who like to remain on the forefront of the computer world.
target at, direct towards, market at, design for, tailor to, orient towards, pitch to/towards
2 [no object] Have the intention of achieving: the programme will aim at deepening understanding [with infinitive]: we aim to give you the best possible service
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- Because actually your intention includes whatever you aim at achieving.
- The same might be said of slow-moving animation that aims at portentous but achieves boring.
- Rather than choosing between an ensemble of key performance criteria, manufacturers should aim at achieving them all.
work towards, be after, set one's sights on, try for, strive for, pursue, seek, aspire to, endeavour to achieve, have in view, have designs on, wish for, want
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1A purpose or intention; a desired outcome: our primary aim is to achieve financial discipline
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- My hopes and desires and aims were to win this tournament.
- That's part of being separate people, with different aims and desires.
- Understand the aims and purposes of the Shari'ah as well as the resulting outcomes.
2 [in singular] The directing of a weapon or missile at a target: his aim was perfect
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- They showed us how to load the weapon and aim at the target.
- The Pentagon plans to use them to improve the aim of missiles and provide better navigation for warplanes and ground troops.
- Currently, the aim was targeted at the closed hangar bay door.
aim high
- Be ambitious: must women who aim high be more hard-working than the men?More example sentences
- 'You must aim high - Irish firms must try to be the very best in our globalised world,' said Mr. Cronin.
- One who aims high for the future must not be concerned with present loss or gain.
- Given the stunning success of the launch rally, the message round the country must be aim high and you can mobilise significant numbers.
take aim
- Point a weapon or camera at a target: Kearny took aim with his pistol take aim, fire!More example sentences
- It was eerie to stroll along the lakeshore from apartment to classroom and back past dozens of small thin reclining military figures taking aim at imaginary targets with outstretched rifles.
- Under the blazing sun, young men are flat on their belly, their hands resting lightly on service rifles as they prepare to take aim for the target practice.
- He took aim at the target and fired, a perfect bulls eye, and with not even a single sound emitted.
Middle English: from Old French amer, variant of esmer (from Latin aestimare 'assess, estimate'), reinforced by aemer, aesmer (from late Latin adaestimare, intensified form of aestimare).
Aim has the basic notion of evaluation before a direction is taken. It comes via French from the Latin verb aestimare meaning 'assess, estimate'.
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It's been a very busy day in comic book movie news. In case you missed it, check out these stories on who is in talks to play The Rhino in Amazing Spider-Man 2, and how Dr. Strange and Ant-Man play into Marvel's future movie plans, straight from Kevin Feige himself.MARIA HILL Signs Up For S.H.I.E.L.D.? Though a ninth and final season of How I Met Your Mother looks likely for the 2013-2014 TV season, Cobie Smulders isn't ruling out appearing as Agent Maria Hill on the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series if it gets picked up by ABC. "The commitments to [How I Met Your Mother] don't affect it," Smulders told iamrogue.com, a movie news site run by the film studio Relativity Media. "And I can't really say but there are definite talks about it." Smulders also discussed her role in 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier with the site, saying that the script is still shrouded in secrecy. "I've seen parts of it, but yeah I don't know much," Smulders said. "This is Marvel! They don't let you know anything." The S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot is currently in production, directed by Avengers' Joss Whedon, and featuring Clark Gregg returning as Agent Phil Coulson, along with Ming-Na, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker and Brett Dalton. Whedon co-wrote the pilot with his brother Jed and Maurissa Tancharoen (Jed's wife), who he collaborated with on Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (which starred Smulder's HIMYM co-star Neil Patrick Harris). Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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STANFORD -- Coach Tara VanDerveer has entered the NCAA tournament with as many as four future WNBA players on her Stanford roster.
Not this season.
"We don't have as much firepower as we've had in the past five years," she said Saturday. "This is probably in a lot of ways the least talent and least, in some ways, tournament experienced team."
The coach has been surprised how her players have responded to go 31-2 and earn the top seed in the Spokane Regional. Stanford opens the tournament Sunday at Maples Pavilion against No. 16 Tulsa, which won four consecutive games in the league tournament to earn Conference USA's automatic bid.
Stanford won its 13th consecutive Pac-12 regular season title when tying with Cal. Then the Cardinal won the conference tournament crown two weeks ago in Seattle.
The team has done it without current WNBA players Jayne Appel, Nneka Ogwumike, Kayla Pederson and Jeannette Pohlen.
Ogwumike's sister, Chiney Ogwumike, is probably Stanford's only first-round WNBA pick on the current roster.
But VanDerveer warned against underestimating her group that suffered a blow because former starting guard Toni Kokenis has been unable to play since Feb. 3 with an undisclosed medical condition.
"The strength of this team is their cohesiveness and they play really hard for each other," the coach said.
"And there is not a selfish bone in anyone in that locker room. So, anything is possible."
But to reach its sixth consecutive Final Four will take a monumental effort.
"This hasn't been like a perfect season," VanDerveer said. "For us to be successful, we are asking a lot from people. I can't say that we've gotten it consistently, but we have gotten it so we know it's there."
"Ogwumike is a great player, but we've played a lot of posts that are great too," said Couisnard, a mother of a 2-year-old. "I think they have prepared me for a player like Ogwumike."
Golden Hurricane coach Matilda Mossman is a little more circumspect than her players.
"What scares me the most is how hard she works to get the ball down in the block," Mossman said of the Stanford junior. "She's relentless -- her asking for the ball and once she gets it, she's relentless in taking it to the basket."
First Couisnard will have surgery on both knees after the season ends. "She has cartilage damage in both knees and basically every time she runs, it's bone against bone," Mossman said.
Mossman said the senior's maturity has been a big influence on a team that lost its first five games this season.
"She's an eloquent speaker," the Tulsa coach said. "When she talks to our team, they understand. She's a very giving person as well and she'll do whatever it takes for her teammates for them to be successful."
Couisnard said she couldn't have succeeded as a mother and a player without community and family support.
"They say 'Tiff, you're going to be with your son soon so just give it all you've got,' " Couisnard said. "I think the support system is really what allows me to handle everything."
The former St. John's coach is facing a friend from the Big East in Villanova's Harry Perretta. It could not have been a better matchup for Barnes Arico, who has leaned on her senior players for help getting through the Big Ten season.
The coach spent a couple of weeks in Pennsylvania studying Perretta's unusual motion offense when at St. John's.
"It definitely helps that I've been able to play against him for the last 10 years," Barnes Arico said." I know him pretty well and I know his system pretty well, too."
She added that schools seeing the Villanova offense for the first time often are thrown "off guard because people aren't really prepared to defend what he does."
Villanova forward Laura Sweeney hopes Barnes Arico's familiarity goes only so far. After all Michigan's players haven't see the kind of movement before. The No. 9 Wildcats (21-10) had assists on 72.8 percent of their baskets this season.
"The girls have never played us, but you know that she's going to prepare them, you know that they spent a lot of time this week on it," Sweeney said. "Hopefully we'll surprise them a little bit. Hopefully they won't be ready for it."
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ANTIOCH -- A couple weeks before Christmas, on a family visit to a hardware store, 2-year-old Matthew Ouimet met Santa Claus for the first time. Before he and his family left the store, Matthew spotted a display of toy tools.
"He wanted them so bad," said Kristi Ouimet, Matthew's mother. "We said, 'No, sweetheart, that's something you're going to have to ask Santa for.'"
So Matthew returned to the hardware store Santa, cut to the front of the line and, with arms extended, announced, "I want the tools please."
The visceral appeal of a plastic hammer notwithstanding, Matthew was destined to receive a far more important gift this year: the knowledge of what a real holiday season is like.
Born with the genetic condition Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1, which leads to a buildup of oxalate crystals that damage small organs, Matthew was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure in July 2011 when he was 5 months old. He was hospitalized for two weeks, then placed on six-days-a-week dialysis at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco. That continued for 22 months while he awaited a life-sustaining liver and kidney transplant.
For the first two Thanksgivings and Christmases of his life, he spent four hours tethered to a dialysis machine. Because of the unrelenting schedule related to his care (including nightly peritoneal dialysis administered at home), Kristi and her husband Kelly scaled back on the decorations and low-keyed the holidays.
"Honestly, Christmas was just another day," Kristi said. "We'd open packages. We'd see people. Yea, merry Christmas and good will, blessings. I felt them, but (dialysis) was our life. This is what we had to do."
This year has been different. Matching organs were found late last spring. In a 13-hour surgery on June 4 and 5, Matthew received his transplant. Six months later, his parents say he is acting more like a typical 2-year-old.
"This is the first time we've gotten back into the spirit," Kristi said.
Even during his first real holiday season, Matthew's medical care is ongoing. He was hospitalized at the end of September with a blood infection. He was hospitalized again at the end of October when concerning lab results prompted doctors to biopsy his liver. There was no sign of acute rejection, but he has had three procedures to enlarge a bile duct, the most recent on Dec. 18. A follow-up procedure is scheduled for January.
He still has two feeding tubes, one into his stomach, the other into his intestine. They don't slow him down much. On Oct. 13, Matthew fell and broke his left arm. The cast came off Nov. 14. Three days later, he fell and broke his right arm. Kelly Ouimet said they have been told that Matthew's bones have been weakened by dialysis, but will eventually regain full strength.
The Ouimets spent a relatively quiet Thanksgiving at home with their extended household: Kelly, Kristi, Molly (10), Patrick (8) and Matthew; Jordan and Jessica (Kelly's daughters from his first marriage), and Jessica's baby daughter Jayden. It was a meaningful day in more ways than one. In October, the Ouimets met Maggie, whose son Brandon was the deceased donor whose organs Matthew received. Kristi texted Maggie on Thanksgiving.
"It was a hard day (for her)," Kristi said. "She said it was the first time they'd been together and he wasn't there. We put on the DVD she gave us of Brandon's memorial service. We all watched that. It was rough at times. It was awesome at times. And it was an appropriate time to have everybody together to do that."
For Christmas, the Ouimets pulled decorations out of storage. A huge tree, surrounded by a pile of wrapped presents, was set up in the living room. An inflatable Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was placed in the front yard. Liberated from the 95-mile round trips to UCSF, Matthew and his family have been able to make time for simple joys. Meeting Santa was one. Another was a photo session with the kids in front of the tree, during which Kelly broke out a bag of large marshmallows and incited a "snowball" fight.
Then there was the midmorning assembly at Cornerstone Christian School during which Molly and Patrick were named to the honor roll and both received special awards -- Patrick for his character and Molly for her love for Jesus. It was the kind of event Matthew and Kristi wouldn't have been able to attend while he was on dialysis, and it got Kristi and Kelly to thinking about how well their two older children have handled the attention Matthew has required for most of his life.
"We worried about that, and we talked about it in the beginning," Kelly said, "how we can't stop their lives because of his condition. If we have to be at the hospital or a procedure or whatever, they need to understand that. But every chance we got to include them in it, or to make their life as normal as possible, we took."
Kristi credits their extended family -- grandparents, aunts, uncles -- and the community for supporting Molly and Patrick when she and/or Kelly have been committed to Matthew.
"Never once have they said, 'Well, Matthew gets this,' or, 'You're too busy with Matthew,' or any of that," she said. "They just love him so much, and each other. They've always had this really close bond. We want to make sure they keep that."
If Wednesday dawns as expected, the Ouimets' house will thrum with the blissful chaos of excited children, extended family and drop-in friends -- just like the Christmases they used to know. With multiple family members having worked in law enforcement, they have grown accustomed to dealing with disparate schedules (Kelly, who works for the Antioch Police Department, will get home from his graveyard shift when everyone is waking up Christmas morning). They've opened presents at 3 a.m. They make a habit of leaving a couple empty chairs at the table for on-duty officers who can't make it home for Christmas dinner. Years when Kelly's children were with their mother, they had more than one Christmas.
"To us, it doesn't have to be on the day," Kristi said. "As long as we're together. But we're going to try tradition this year and actually do it on Christmas to see how that feels, and see what the big deal is all about."
Contact Gary Peterson at 925-952-5053. Follow him at Twitter.com/garyscribe.


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SANTA CLARA -- Having made his playoff debut last year, Frank Gore said Wednesday he's more comfortable entering the 49ers' playoff opener Saturday against the visiting Green Bay Packers.
"Last year was like, 'Oh, we made it,' after we had so many down years," Gore said. "We know we should be here. We want to get to the Super Bowl."
Gore ran for 1,214 yards this season, including a 112-yard outing in the season-opening win at Green Bay.
Gore said he's spent the past 1 1/2 weeks getting his body ready. He also watched the Packers keep Adrian Peterson somewhat contained in the wild-card round.
"They didn't let him get to the edges like in past games," Gore said.
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Why Choose to Deploy Agile PLM in the Cloud?
By Kerrie Jordan -Oracle on May 15, 2014
"You can just turn on your computer in the morning and get to work."
"Simple. Adaptable. Powerful. Fast."
"No trade-offs – you get SaaS convenience but with the security, control and flexibility you need."
These statements expertly summed up the recent webcasts on deploying Agile PLM for Process and Agile PLM in the cloud as hosted solutions with two of Oracle's specialized partners, Verdant Services and GoEngineer.
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September 1, 2011
Many of us were knitting in the dark this weekend as Irene churned her way up the East Coast. As you may have discovered—and I dearly hope you didn't have to—knitting by candlelight gets old pretty quickly.
Allow me to introduce the Stitch Light from Buffy Ann Designs. Meant to dangle from your neck, this tiny device produces a light bright enough for turning cables, performing open-heart surgery, or even landing a jetliner.
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During the last 11 years of sleepless Wednesday nights, I've swatched more yarns than some people try in a lifetime. I've petted sheep, tested tools, gotten to write books, and tried my best to bring people together around a common love of yarn. Without your readership and the support of advertisers, my tree would have fallen silently in the forest.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for making this adventure possible. What do you say, shall we have some cake?
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Dortmund (ca. 600,000 inhabitants) is one of the largest cities in Germany. Because of its convenient communication facilities the city is an especially attractive location for business companies. In the last few decades the city has abandoned the redundant image of coal and steel and undergone a radical structural transformation in the region.
Alongside trade and crafts the city is mainly concentrated on new technologies, above all bio-medicine, information technology, microsystems technology (MST) and logistics. At the moment more than 37,000 people are employed in 1,400 firms in these "future" branches. In logistics alone there are almost 22,000 people working in around 640 firms. Furthermore Dortmund is the largest software location in North Rhine-Westphalia and contains the largest cluster of MST companies in Germany.
The "dortmund-project" is a local initiative which bundles municipal, business and academic powers. Thousands of highly-qualified jobs have been created in the TZDO and the TechnologieParkDortmund directly adjacent to the university, polytechnics and other scientific institutes.
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