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ORINDA--The candidate field for City Council elections in Lamorinda took until Wednesday evening to finalize this year, thanks to Orinda Mayor Sue Severson's decision not to seek re-election.
Severson, who took out the necessary paperwork to run for re-election, did not file her candidacy papers by last week's 5 p.m. Friday filing deadline, giving prospective candidates for that race an extension until Wednesday.
In the end, six people threw their names in the race for three open Orinda council seats. Incumbents Dean Orr and Amy Worth are both running, joined by Carlos Baltodano, a building safety consultant; Linda Delehunt, an education administrator; Eve Phillips, a technology entrepreneur; and Robert Thompson, an investment adviser.
Severson has a long history of civic involvement in Orinda. Before her stints on the City Council, which began in 2006, Severson was elected to the Orinda Union School District's board of trustees in 1993 and again in 1997. After two terms at the helm, she did not run again -- an act she said is guided by a personal philosophy that two terms is enough to make an impact and then make way for new blood.
"I feel like two terms is a good amount of time," Severson said. "In your first term you figure out what is going on and then in your second you can put your strengths and energies into the board. Stepping down allows others to bring in their new perspectives and fresh energies."
That's the primary reason that she's not running again, she said -- and to spend more time with her 18 grandchildren and volunteering for other causes important to her, like the Orinda Community Foundation -- a nonprofit she helped launch in 2010 to fill the funding gap to community activities left over after deep budget cuts during the recession.
Severson said her decision to step away from the council is unrelated to recent criticism by the community activist group Orinda Watch, which boasts over 1,400 members, and whose chief issue has been opposition to what they see as a push by regional associations to build high-density, low-income housing in Orinda.
"I think Orinda has a lot of committed people, a lot of passionate people," Severson said. "That's good, but hopefully they're part of a positive solution. Some are just there to grandstand."
Her latest mayoral term started off with an apology for violating council policy by discussing a proposed preschool project with a developer, and with the city's planning commission chair in an informal meeting, before the commission addressed it publicly.
Fellow council member Vice Mayor Steve Glazer said he knew Severson was considering whether or not to run, and that he'll miss her presence on the dais.
"We'll lose the benefit of her experience and her insight on the council," he said. "In terms of the election, it'll be a spirited campaign -- not just to replace her, but to get on the council in general."
In Moraga, three candidates are vying for two seats. Incumbent city council members Mayor Ken Chew and Dave Trotter are running for re-election against challenger Teresa Onoda.
Onoda is a local artist and a second term planning commissioner who has lived in Moraga since 1989, according to her campaign filings.
"I'm working hard to protect Moraga's semirural atmosphere," Onoda said. "I don't think everyone is trying to do that, and I really am. My votes in the planning commission reflect that, too."
If elected, Onoda would be the only woman on Moraga's Town Council.
Chew was first elected to the council in 2006, and re-elected in 2010. He is a civil engineer and served as a planning commissioner in 2003, before he joined the council. Among the issues listed as important to him on his candidate website are preservation of Moraga's ridgelines and open spaces and building a "solid general fund reserve."
Like Chew, Trotter joined the council in 2006 and was re-elected the following term. Trotter is a lawyer with Bowles & Verna in Walnut Creek, focusing on land use planning and real estate and environmental law. He served as mayor in 2013 and, according to his campaign statement is dedicated to protecting Moraga's ridgelines -- as evidenced by his solo dissenting vote against the Rancho Laguna II ridgeline development in 2011.
With no challengers to city council incumbents Don Tatzin and Brandt Andersson, and no local tax measures on the ballot, Lafayette's City Council will have to decide Aug. 20 whether or not to hold an election in November.
By law, a local election becomes optional when there are no challengers or tax measures on the ticket. The cost savings for the city if the council decides not to hold an election can range from $15,000 to $80,000, depending on which districts are also hosting items on the ballot, City Clerk Joanne Robbins said.
"I assume this reflects a general satisfaction of the job we're doing," incumbent Vice Mayor Brandt Andersson said Tuesday, "and I'm looking forward to the next four years."
For his part, Tatzin said he sees things a bit differently.
"It takes two things for people to run," Tatzin said. "A desire to run because they can do a better job and having the time to commit," he said, before adding that he wasn't sure which of the two reasons was responsible for the small Lafayette field this year.
But the two incumbents agreed on one thing -- that not campaigning for the next few months would free them up to focus on other city issues.
In their last election in 2010, each incumbent came in solidly ahead of challengers Traci Reilly and Dino Riggio, with Tatzin garnering 33 percent of the vote and Andersson winning 30 percent.
Jennifer Baires covers Orinda, Lafayette and Moraga. Contact her at 925-943-8378. Follower her at twitter.com/jenniferbaires.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team will tip off the 2012-13 season with a tough non-conference slate, including five opponents from BCS conferences. The Islanders will start the season against the likes of Belmont and Indiana before traveling to Boulder, Colo., for a two-day tournament at the University of Colorado.
"Our schedule is loaded with games against some of the toughest teams in the country," head coach Royce Chadwick said. "We have BCS league teams scheduled throughout the non-conference. The challenge will be there for our team to rise to the occasion, both on the road and at home. Southland doubleheaders with the men will be exciting with great action beginning with our tipoff."
The Islanders open the season with two games at the American Bank Center, including an exhibition against Texas Lutheran on Nov. 4. Following that the team will face Belmont (Nov. 11) in Corpus Christi before opening play on the road on Nov. 13 in Edinburg, Texas, against UTPA and at former Southland foe UTSA on Nov. 16.
Next up on the slate is a home contest vs. Indiana on Nov. 19 followed by a road trip to Boulder, Colo., for the two-day 26th Annual Omni Hotels Classic. The Islanders are scheduled to play the Buffaloes on Friday, Nov. 23, and either Auburn or San Diego State on Saturday, Nov. 24.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi will return home to host UTPA for the second game against the Broncs on Nov. 28, followed by a trip up the road at Texas on Nov. 30. The Longhorns advanced to the NCAA Tournament a year ago, and this season's game will mark four years since the two teams faced each other in Austin in 2008.
Three games are scheduled for December with the Islanders welcoming former Southland rival Texas State to the Dugan Wellness Center on Dec. 15 and Cornell to the American Bank Center on Dec. 18. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi will wrap 2012 with a final non-conference game in Ft. Worth against TCU (Dec. 29) before the start of the Southland Conference schedule.
The Islanders will open league play and the New Year on the road in Huntsville against Sam Houston State on Jan. 5. On Monday, Jan. 7, the Islanders will host Stephen F. Austin at the ABC before returning to the road for their first Thursday-Saturday road trip. First up is a contest at Lake Charles, La., on Jan. 10, to take on two-time defending Southland Conference Tournament Champion McNeese State, followed by Lamar on Jan. 12.
Oral Roberts comes to the Coastal Bend for its first time in 14 years on Jan .17. It will mark just the third time the Islanders and Golden Eagles have faced each other. The two teams played 13 years ago in Tulsa, Okla. and the Golden Eagles traveled to Corpus Christi on Dec. 11, 1999, during the Islanders' inaugural year of the program. The Islanders will then host defending Southland Conference regular-season champions Central Arkansas on Jan. 19.
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Texas A&M - Corpus Christi will close the regular season on the road against Northwestern State (March 7) and Stephen F. Austin (March 9). Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Southland Conference Tournament will take place in Katy, Texas, from March 12-16 at the Leonard E. Merrell Center.
The Islanders return 10 letterwinners from last season and welcome five newcomers under Chadwick.
"We need all our fans to rally for our home games to give us every edge possible," Chadwick added.
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The Ramsey Park zoo renovations came a step closer to being finished Tuesday.The Redwood Falls City Council approved sending out bids for the final phase of the project, estimated to cost $258,000.Most of the funding will come from a $232,200 Parks and Trails Legacy program grant from the state.The remainder of the cost — about $25,800 — will be split between the city and the Friends of the Park.The main part of the project, set to begin by June, will be extending the paved section of road and walkway all the way down to the city's maintenence shed in the zoo.Depending on funding, the city also hopes to add erosion-control measures to the hills near the zoo.In other zoo-related news, the city accepted the donation of 243 bushels of grain from the late David Geis, intended for the buffalo in the Ramsey Park zoo.The grain, valued at $1,604, is currently being stored in the Meadowland Grain Bank.In other city news, the council:• Approved two bids for primary underground wire and distributions switches, fuses, and fiberglass box pads to be used by PUC to connect the new East Substation to the existing electrical system.The distribution switch bid went to Stuart Irby Co. for $99,350.For the wire bid, after metals pricing and delivery schedules were analyzed, the city went with Border States Electric in the amount of $16,130.• Approved trading the city's 1982 tandem truck for a 2005 Sterling tri-axle truck, going with a bid from RDO Equipment Co. of Marshall.• Approved the appointment of Matt Beavers to the Police Commission, replacing the vacancy left by George Kates.• Approved a local on-sale liquor and Sunday liquor license for El Cancun, LLC. The license now must be approved at the state level.• Gave final approval to an ordinance granting a 15-year franchise to Mediacom Minnesota LLC to operate a cable television system in the city of Redwood Falls.
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Don't let the simplicity of use fool you. Both Kivio and Dia, two free software diagramming tools, are very efficient at what they do. If you need to design a complex flow chart or create a no-fuss UML diagram then you could do a lot worse than to choose either of these packages. The tools have 90% of the expected functionality with only 10% of the hassle and fuss that more complex and unnecessarily feature rich proprietary diagramming tools deliver. The learning curve is small and the end result is potentially professional.
GNOME and KDE are the predominant desktop environments for GNU/Linux. Both environments sport their own office suites; these two office suites try hard to contend with the mastery of OpenOffice; it is important to note OpenOffice does not have a diagramming tool such as Microsoft Visio. You may argue with some degree of success that Impress or Draw from OpenOffice may mimic the functionality, but Impress or Draw's emphasis is on presentation and vector based drawing respectively and not on diagramming using precreated symbols.
In this article, I will briefly mention how to install KOffice's Kivio and GNOME Office's Dia application and quickly tour the products. I personally believe that both tools perform their specified function well and are amazingly easy to learn—the basics are absorbed within five minutes. In the end, because of their fundamental equality, personal bias may pull you to choose either one of these applications.
I have chosen Ubuntu 6.10 as the OS for this demo, which is the newest version of Ubuntu at the time of writing.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the applications are part of KOffice or GNOME Office: both will run happily under either of the two desktop environments.
Before we start you might want to install the Adept package manager, which the KDE environment may be missing: to install this utility simply execute the following from the command line:
sudo apt-get install adept libqt-perl
You should now be able to launch Adept via
K menu/System/Adept Manager Manage Packages
To install Kivio (version 1.5.2) launch Adept and fill in the system admin password that you use with sudo; via the search box at the top of the Adept window, search for "kivio". You should now be seeing a view similar to figure 1. The packages Kivio and Kivio-data should be set to the status of "install requested" and then click on the green tick icon at the top of the dialogue. You now have a working version of Kivio executable from both GNOME and KDE.
What I refer to as the "GNOME office" is not really an office suite but rather a collection of tools, which includes the well-known and respected AbiWord, Dia and a few other assorted applications.
To install Dia version 0.95 via the GUI from within GNOME, launch Synaptic Package Manager via
Applications/Add Remove; you will need to fill in your admin password when prompted. Select Graphics/Dia Diagram Editor as shown in figure 2, then click on OK.
To install from KDE you are able to search for "dia" in Adept and install.
Dia basics
Once Dia has started, you will find yourselves with two separated windows as shown in figure 3.
The main left hand window is the drawing plane and the right is the diagram editor. If the left window is missing or you have removed it by mistake, simply go to the Diagram editor and select
To select different symbols click on the sheet name. In figure 3 the name is "Network", but normally you start with the "Basic" flow charting sheets: select other sheets and choose the one you consider relevant. Back in the diagram editor drag and drop the symbols across onto the drawing pane.
Underneath the symbols sit icons that allow the creation of lines of various thicknesses, colours and structures. Above the symbols lie special icons for importing images or connecting objects with different shapes; 'T' stands for text and obviously allows for the annotation of your diagram.
With this basic functionality, you will be able to create reasonable diagrams within minutes. The failure of some applications is their developer's desire to include every function imaginable which results in overly complex menu structures that have a significant and inappropriate learning curve. Dia follows the highly effective UNIX spirit of staying focused and doing its specified function well.
To save a file select
File/Save from the drawing plane itself. You may also export the current project to many different formats including
JPEG and
SVG. The ability to save to SVG is a form of future proofing as SVG is an XML format that stands a significant chance of becoming the graphics standard for web browsing. XML is just text and is, therefore, much easier to manipulate on the fly than a binary such as JPEG.
Dia activates two other dialogues by pressing F8 or F9 respectively, or by visiting the file menu option of the diagram editor. F8 activates the diagram tree which represents all the symbols within your drawing as objects; right clicking on an object in the tree allows for easy access to the property dialogue where you can change properties such as colour and line type: this efficiency makes rapid and consistent editing possible.
Pressing F9 activates a sheet and object dialogue that allows you to add and move objects (such as computers or flags for example) across different sheets. For example, you may move a computer symbol from the sheet "Cisco—Computer" to "Networks" if desired. You may also import SVG like graphics as objects, but more on this later.
The drawing plane itself also has a number of menu options. "Diagram" allows you to separate a drawing into layers so that you can manipulate objects on one layer without affecting another. The "Objects" menu option enables you to send objects backwards and forwards so as to be behind or in front of other objects, with the ability to set transparency for background objects. This feature allows for sophisticated and pleasing diagrams.
In summary, Dia is easy to learn and definitely not overly complicated, yet it still manages to deliver the functionality required to produce detailed diagrams that are pleasing to the eye.
Kivio basics
Thankfully, Kivio is just as simple and straightforward to use as Dia although it has its own slightly different personality. On starting Kivio via the menu option
Office/Kivio the standard KOffice startup occurs. Select and double-click "Basic flowcharting": Kivio should now run with a dialog similar to that in figure 4. In the center of the screen you should see the drawing plane and on the left hand side of the screen the basic flow charting stencil with all its related symbols (objects). To create your first simple diagram, drag and drop the object to the middle of the page , select the object and resize it and then double click the new object to add text.
To add another stencil select the top menu
Tools/Add stencil set and then select the extra set that you wish to add, or click on the relevant icon underneath the main menu. If you're not sure which icon does what, place your mouse pointer over each icon and wait a few seconds until a tool tip appears explaining the current icons purpose.
The view menu allows you to add a grid to the drawing plane and gives you the option of splitting the pane into two drawing areas—a nice feature especially in the age of 21 inch TFTs.
The right side pane allows you to gain a quick overview of the whole page even when you are zoomed in on a particular area in the left pane; the layers tab allows for adding and removing of layers while the object tab shows an overview of all objects in the page; the bottom half of the right hand tab displays the size properties of the currently selected object. Note, Dia has a slightly larger set of properties that you can manipulate. A second tab here allows you to protect more of the object from change which is handy when you want to perform bulk actions with the exception of a few objects.
For a more detailed basic tutorial, visit the "Help" menu and choose "Kivio handbook".
File formats and round trips
Microsoft Visio has a proprietary
.vsd file format that potentially has licensing dangers associated with it; therefore, both Dia and Kivio do not and should not import or export this format. This is unlucky for the end user within a diverse organisation and a good example of why, whenever possible, you should only accept tools that can output directly to open standards.
The wish to enable documents from one application to work effectively with another has come to the fore ultimately because of the previously stated frustration of end users: the effects of incompatibility. This swelling of frustration was, in a large part, due to closed file formats. Therefore, two questions about the possibility of making "round trips" with the documents produced in these applications emerge. The first: can stencils be imported and exported between both applications; the second: can we create a diagram in one to later be manipulated in the other.
Let's try "round tripping" the diagrams first. There is no direct import or export function between the native file formats, Dia however, has many more import options than Kivio: Kivio can only import its own native format at present, though it would not surprise me if the hard working developers had eliminated this issue by the time you have read this article. Exporting is rich in both applications and mostly involves various graphical formats.
Exporting from Kivio to Dia turned out to be more difficult than expected as there was no direct import option in Dia for files created in Kivio. Dia does, however, allow you to directly add images as objects via
CTRL + i, so by exporting the file from Kivio as an image you should be able to achieve the desired end result.
Exporting directly from Dia to Kivio appears to be impossible due to the limited import facilities of Kivio.
All modern word processors can use the graphical exports features of both tools, however, it is clear that Dia has more import options and therefore is more likely to function seamlessly within a diverse software environment. Further, the issues with compatibility will probably force you, or your ICT department, to choose one of the other products as your diagramming tool. I hope and expect this barrier to adoption will fall as we move into the open document era.
Stencil imports are another nice-to-have feature. One handy Sourceforge project for Kivio is xfig2sml.
xfig-stencils-0.1.tar.bz2, a resource in their download section which contains 900 stencil objects. The archive dates back to 2001 and imports directly via
File/Install stencil set. Kivio successfully displays the top-level directory structure, but sadly not the underlying objects. This is an issue with Kivio not being able to display a deeply nested directory structure accurately - you can eliminate this problem by flattening the archive out. As a result it is easier for a beginner to buy stencils or a stencil making application from the company "theKompany".
Kivio can also recognise Dia objects and the Ubuntu package has the Dia stencils already included.
Dia has its own
.shape format for storing symbols that is a version of SVG with some extra information for icons and connections. You may load this XML based file via
Diagram Editor/File/Sheets and objects.
In conclusion, the ability to import/export stencils is possible; realistically to use this function efficiently requires mid-level knowledge and a significant amount of experimentation.
The future of the common desktop
The free software market is a tough place where there are many products competing to be the best in their given field. There are more than a few excellent Windows managers—GNOME and KDE being the best known and with the most momentum behind them. Unfortunately, because of this competitiveness, there is a natural degree of repetition of their development efforts.
The removal of technical barriers such as the ability to import and export files between similar applications and improvements in some of the subtler details of the applications, i.e. compatibility between stencil sets, may play a significant role in the further acceptance of the GNU/Linux Desktop. I, therefore, welcome the initiative of Portland - a joint OSDL/Freedesktop.org effort. The first results of this project can be seen in the tools XdgUtils that help with common installation tasks between the desktops. Further, I welcome the ever nearer and brighter future of the Open Document Format and the SVG and XML formats in general that have already opened the way to consistent interoperability between similar applications.
I recognize that it is easier to be a critic than to build a tool that many use with pleasure: well done to the KOffice and GNOME office developers whose efforts allowed me to write this article.
Xfig2sml projecthomepage—http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfig2sml/
Read visio file
can Dia/Kivio readvisio file format (VDA)? I want to convert all my diagrams from Visio to Dia/Kivio.
Probably not.
Probably not. In my humble opinion, Dia or Kivio aren't as powerful as Visio and therefore, not able to handle Visio's many features.
The need for stencils
After a couple of years of searching for that perfect Visio alternative I've come to the conclusion that there isn't one. That's not to say that Visio is better, there is just nothing compatible. You did a fine job of putting this in a nutshell and I personally feel that instead of making these compatible with Visio the developers/users need to develop the stencils and templates for either of these programs. I mean after all if the stencils were available what reason would anyone have for using Visio. I prefer Dia because I can run it on my windows box at work. (not that I really want to but have to).
I use Dia regularly
I use Dia pretty regularly in software documentation. I find it's a lot faster than either Inkscape or Skencil for standard charts (like UML, entity-relation, and flow chart).
My only complaint about it is that it appears to be very difficult to script new drawing modes for it (I haven't figured out how to do it, anyway).
I haven't tried Kivio, and didn't realize it was in the same application genre. I may have to look into it.
VSD/VSS import into Dia and/or Kivio
Could somebody explain what 'potentially ... licensing dangers associated with it [visio format]' is?
Dia has a plugin to support VDX files.
Dia and Kivio don't support VSD/VSS just because there wasn't documentation about format available.
Btw, most of 'commercial' VSS stencils (for example Cisco's) can be converted with help of vsdump (http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsdump/).
Dia is not perfect but is Free!
Does anyone know how much cost Visio Professional do not mention Enterprise - which is real one and only. My company bought me for job use Visio license and I use it daily. But I like alternative. Dia is one. And the progress since past years I use it is quite good. Last week I wrote a diagram for my company's disaster site and it was quite fun.
So choose pay it or write it free. I did both :)
But I will now use Dia more and more. The only thing I need to find is more time to write some extra stencils for DIA.
And I say: GO DIA!


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Atop which, if they're gonna come out with just one damn song a year, I'm glad to have it be 'Steam,' a great addition to the songbook - given fine treatment here. Rich, textured, almost pre-millennial playing in this show, especially from Trey, whose inspiration and connectedness never falter in the second frame.
If this isn't the best show of 2011 I'm a monkey's uncle. Which wouldn't be so bad, really. Monkeys are lovely creatures, and many of them are good with tools.


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EDWARDS - Crazy Mountain Brewing Company announced the winner of its third annual Homebrew ProAm: Thomas Deverson of Avon. Deverson's Rye Pale Ale beat out 32 other beer entries from homebrewers around the state of Colorado (and a few from Kansas). The judging took place last week, on Thursday, when five local beer experts sampled and scored the many entries across all different beer styles, ranging from spiced winter beers to crisp Pilsners. After five grueling hours, they decided upon Deverson, who moved to Avon from Christchurch, New Zealand for the love of snow last year. He began homebrewing four years ago when his passion for beer was born. He loves homebrewing and hopes to open his own brew pub someday. His favorite part about brewing beer is the creative process.
"I take brewing beer very seriously - but at the same time, it's just beer after all," he said.
Deverson calls himself a fun-loving New Zealander who loves to share his homebrews with his friends. When he is not at his full time job at Sports Authority in Avon, Deverson enjoys homebrewing, spending time with his girlfriend and snowboarding in powder.
"I just sampled some of Thomas's Rye Pale Ale and it was very refreshing. It is a great springtime beer and we are happy to have Thomas come in and brew a scaled-up version of his original recipe on our 20-barrel professional system," said Crazy Mountain's Head Brewer Ethan Osborne.
The brewers at Crazy Mountain will be scaling up Deverson's unique recipe and ordering ingredients so he can brew his Rye Pale Ale next week. Deverson will also have the opportunity to name the beer and pair it with a local non-profit of his choice. The beer will be released at a special party at Crazy Mountain Brewery on March 29th. The brewery will pour $2 pints of the Rye Pale and The Olora Brothers will perform live music.
Crazy Mountain Brewing Company would like to thank all of the homebrewers who entered their beers into our ProAm. The official judges and the brewery employees really loved tasting the variety of styles of the 32 entries.
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STOCKTON - San Joaquin County's newest member of the Board of Supervisors hired his legislative assistant last week, slipping in under the wire before a rule change would have required the full board to vote before making an appointment to the high-level position.
After receiving 166 applications and interviewing 10 applicants for a position with a starting base salary of about $65,000 a year, District 5 Supervisor Bob Elliott picked the same legislative assistant who has held the position for the past decade.
"In the end, I chose the person I thought would be the best fit ... to hit the ground running," Elliott said.
He chose Scott Tyrrell, who was the legislative aide for outgoing Supervisor Leroy Ornellas. Elliott was elected last year and was sworn into office and made vice chairman of the board last week.
For the past decade, each of the five elected officials has been able to pick his top aide-de-camp by themselves. Before that, the appointment required a vote from the full board.
On Dec. 15, the Board of Supervisors voted again require board approval. Ornellas voted against the rule change before he left office, saying it was an attempt to target Tyrrell. Other board members denied this.
However, the change didn't go into effect until 30 days after the Dec. 15 vote.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Nate Maxey has been named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Pepsi. Maxey earned the award after his record-setting game on Sunday.
Maxey set a school record with nine blocked shots to go along with 10 points and three rebounds against Houston. The 6-foot-11 center smashed his own school record before halftime, swatting eight balls in the opening half. Through four games he already has 17 blocked shots this season and 65 for his career – sixth on the Islanders list. The San Diego native also went 5-of-6 from the field, finishing off five alley-oop dunks for the Islanders.
Maxey and the men's basketball team returns to the court Wednesday, Nov. 28, at Toledo. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.
Keep up-to-date with GoIslanders.com each week to see who is named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi. Also, for the latest information, follow Islanders Athletics on Twitter (@Go_Islanders) and Facebook (Islanders Athletics).
2012-13 GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi Weekly Winners:
9-5-12: Shannon Hullum, Volleyball
9-11-12: Ivy Baresh, Volleyball
9-18-12: Tyger Holt, Volleyball
9-25-12: Peter Nagy, Men's Tennis and Maider Martin, Women's Tennis
10-2-12: Peter Nagy, Men's Tennis
10-9-12: Shannon Hullum, Volleyball
10-16-12: Vanessa Johnson, Women's Golf
10-23-12: Odon Barta, Men's Tennis
10-30-12: Patrick Kimeli, Men's Cross Country and BreAnna Briggs, Women's Cross Country
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WATCH: Cam covers Pharrell's 'Happy'
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Pharrell's smash hit "Happy" has been taking over the world, and now, has even made its way into the country music world.
While visiting "The Bobby Bones Show," country cutie Cam performed a cover of Pharrell's viral sensation.
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CASTRO VALLEY -- His job as a BART police officer ultimately led to a complete life for Sgt. Tom "Tommy" Smith Jr.
He and his brothers -- Patrick and Ed Smith, also Bay Area law enforcement officers -- bonded over their common occupation, Patrick Smith recalled Wednesday. Tommy Smith met his wife, Kellie, also an officer, on the job, and they fell in love, married and had a daughter. When his K-9 partner, Boris, retired, Tommy adopted him into his family.
The job also ended his life, too soon, in an accident that has shaken the Bay Area law enforcement community. On Wednesday morning, more than 2,000 mourners, many from police agencies across California and as far away as Boston, came together to say goodbye.
"Being a police officer was what he did for a living, but what he did away from work is what defined him," said his older brother, Patrick Smith, an officer with the Newark Police Department. "When Tommy, Ed and I would get together, we would never say goodbye, and I refuse to do so today.
"Stay safe, little brother. We love you, and we'll miss you greatly."
Smith, 42, was accidentally shot by fellow officer Michael Maes on Jan. 21 during a search of a robbery suspect's apartment in Dublin. He was the first BART police officer to die in the line of duty in the agency's 42-year history. The details of the tragic confrontation have not been released.
The service at the Neighborhood Church of Castro Valley was at times heart-wrenching but also lighthearted as mourners told jokes and stories about a man who was loyal and committed to police work but found his true joy with his wife and 6-year-old daughter, Summer.
"He gave his life for what he believed," BART police Chief Kenton Rainey said. "We thank you for sharing Tommy with us. Our privilege to serve with him has now become our honor."
Attorney General Kamala Harris called Smith "a man of honor, bravery and commitment."
"We are gathered here under the most tragic of circumstances," she said. "To Summer, you beautiful girl: Your dad is a hero, and that is how California as a state thinks of him and how we will always remember him."
The service started under gray, misty skies shortly after 10 a.m. As Smith's casket, covered in an American flag, was carried from a hearse into the chapel, bagpipes played and officers stood at attention, saluting their slain comrade and shedding tears.
The slain officer's wife and daughter held hands as they followed the casket, borne by a group of pallbearers that included his two brothers and his brother-in-law, into the church.
Kellie Smith did not speak at the service, but the program for the funeral contained a statement attributed to Smith's immediate family.
"We have seen our little family grow to include other families, friends, co-workers, colleagues, communities and acquaintances," the statement read. "Each of you have helped, and will continue to help, with the healing process.
"The growth of our family proves what we already knew, that Tommy touched so many lives on so many different levels, and fortunately we continue to reap the benefits of his generosity, compassion and love. ... Remember, every new day brings another day of healing."
Earlier Wednesday morning, as the funeral procession traveled from Hayward's Chapel of the Chimes to the church, it passed by Hayward's Moreau Catholic High School, where Smith graduated in 1989. About 180 students and staff members gathered in front of the school to honor Smith, carrying signs and waving a flag.
At the church, dozens of K-9 officers and their police dogs stood outside the chapel -- Tommy Smith had been a K-9 officer and Kellie still is -- as hundreds of police officers and mourners walked by, umbrellas in hand.
Near the end of the service, a short video retrospective of Smith's life brought a good number of the rank and file, police brass and friends to tears as they gripped one another's hands and shoulders in comfort.
Patrick Smith urged mourners to remember his brother for his dry, quick wit and his ability to connect with every person no matter how busy his day, no matter what he faced in his own life.
"Now, when you go back go work, you better crack a couple jokes and remember him as he remembered all of you," his brother said.
Patrick Smith also talked about his brother's love for his family.
"Tommy loved Kellie more than life itself, and on the day of his wedding, he cried like a school girl," he told the crowd. Tommy's second love came six years ago with the birth of his daughter, whom he "brainwashed" into loving his favorite sports teams: the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland A's, Patrick Smith said.
When a San Francisco Giants fan would ask the little girl if she liked the team, she had her standard answer: "Not in this family. Go A's, boo Giants," Patrick Smith recalled.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Paul Delucchi grew up with Tommy Smith and knew him personally and professionally for more than 30 years. He said he was a man who would always offer help: "No favor was too big, no request too great."
Delucchi spent time with Smith at A's games and also saw him professionally when the sergeant came to his courtroom on official business.
"As we mourn and as we pray, let's not forget to celebrate that we were blessed to know a man like Tommy Smith," Delucchi said. "I was."
Staff writers Natalie Neysa Alund, Jeremy Thomas, David DeBolt and Rick Hurd contributed to this report. Follow Kristin J. Bender at Twitter.com/kjbender.


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Definition of overturn in English:
verb[with object]
1Tip (something) over so that it is on its side or upside down: the crowd proceeded to overturn cars and set them on fire
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- More than 4,000 students overturned cars and threw bottles out of windows at a university in Jiujiang, in the southern province of Jiangxi.
- A red-haired woman is taken away from the table after she overturns a full bowl of food.
- It was overturning cars and knocking over down buildings, trying desperately to catch Jordan.
1.1 [no object] Turn over and come to rest upside down, typically as the result of an accident: a large housetrailer overturned in the middle of the road
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- The car then overturned, coming to rest on its roof on the hard shoulder.
- The tragedy happened when the Vauxhall hit the central reservation and overturned, coming to rest on the hard shoulder.
- Any rower whose boat overturns in the ship channel faces a tough job getting to dry land safely.
capsize, turn turtle, keel over, tip over, topple over, turn over, flip;
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upset, tip over, topple over, turn over, knock over, upend
2Abolish, invalidate, or reverse (a previous system, decision, situation, etc.): the results overturned previous findings he fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery
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- She said she had taken on her chairmanship in December 2003, determined to overturn a previous board decision not to renew Mr Ramsay's contract.
- Residents hope they can overturn the decision.
- He introduced reliable methods of assessment and measurement, and an epidemiological framework, and thereby overturned many of the previous conclusions.
1An act of turning over or upsetting something; a revolution, subversion, or reversal.
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- For the most part the only people who actually bothered to look at the registration rolls and allow the overturn of bogus objections were a few retirees who volunteer as polling officials during elections.
- After the overturn of the Qing dynasty, Chinese intellectuals turned their eyes to Western countries and sought new ideas.
- We had five overturned sledge accidents - every one of our sledges suffered an overturn or two, but luckily no significant damage was incurred.
1.1 Ecology The occasional (typically twice yearly) mixing of the water of a thermally stratified lake.
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- The pattern of polygonal ridges bounding dish-shaped depressions is interpreted as the product primarily of embryonic overturn of this gravitationally unstable system.
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PIEDMONT -- Joanne Stetson has lived in Piedmont for five years, but never had the chance to attend one of the city's hottest events of the year.
And it couldn't have gotten much hotter on Sept. 30, the first day of an early autumn heat wave to hit the Bay Area.
Stetson, who said she is usually traveling at this time of year, joined her husband and daughter for a sunny Piedmont Harvest Festival, the day Piedmonters celebrate backyard gardening with an edibles contest, scarecrow presentation and kids carnival. Stetson proudly entered her chocolate cake covered in icing to resemble a pumpkin.
"We're getting a little bit of Indian Summer," Stetson said.
Her 6-year-old daughter's class at Wildwood Elementary was among many with creatively costumed scarecrows, hers made of stuff animals. Another from a class at Havens Elementary featured butterflies hanging out with a Ninja Turtle, which had a pumpkin for a head.
The Piedmont Community Center was bustling with residents sampling jams and jellies entered in the contest, for which there were 228 entries this year, a 10 percent increase over 2011. Visitors also bought gourds, ears of corn and other produce offered by the Village Market, visited a public safety exhibit featuring sheriff's and Red Cross vehicles and took in an art show.
Liz Laub and Jane Violich, president and vice president, respectively, of the Piedmont Neighbors and Newcomers Club, staffed a table welcoming new residents and encouraging neighbors to get to know one another. The group -- whose website is www.piedmontpnnc.com -- is readying its Oktoberfest party and has an annual holiday event in December.
"For me, it was a great way to get involved in the community," said Violich, who moved to Piedmont from the East Coast.
The 14th annual festival was founded in the late 1990s by former mayor Susan Hill and others who wanted to recognize those who grew tomatoes, zucchini and a host of other produce in their own yards. For a full list of winners in the edibles contest, visit www.piedmontharvestfestival.org.


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Wine & Bar AccessoriesGood food doesn't have to be relegated to your home kitchen. You can cook many a great meal in your RV. Of course, nothing makes a meal more enjoyable than a good glass of wine. Since you have to make due with less space when you are camping, you need to plan ahead a bit.
Camping World offers items both practical and entertaining for the wine connoisseur. From a practical, under the counter stemware holder, to a small, six bottle wine cooler and a number of picnic carriers which will keep your wine at the right temp, we can help you enjoy your drinks on the go. For a bit more fun, consider the "Wine Rack" sports bra drink holder, the "Barnoculars" which hold a couple of drinks, or the "Kooler Klub" which feels right at home in your golf bag.


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In promoting sustainable human development, UNDP Montenegro supports the country's European Union accession priorities, building on its global development network, access to innovative solutions, knowledge, experience and resources. We do so by (i) advancing democratic society and accountable institutions with greater citizens' participation, (ii) building an inclusive society with equal opportunity to all citizens to reach their full potential and (iii) promoting green future through market transformation toward a low emission, resource efficient and resilient economy.
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The report explains what it takes for Montenegro to reach a resource-efficient, greener and more competitive economy as per Europe 2020 with a strong positive and sustainable human development impact and it is a result of the analytical efforts to define a resource-efficient development agenda on the basis of the potentials, existing obstacles and limitations.


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The New School
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The New School for Drama presents The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, directed by Casey Biggs.
Considered one of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedies, The Tragedy of Macbeth is a ruthless tale of power, ambition, deceit, and murder. The Three Witches foretell Macbeth's rise to King of Scotland, and prodded by his ambitious wife, he murders the King – and many others – and gains the crown. But in the end, the prophecy proves to have come with a price.
The Tragedy of Macbeth will be presented May 8-11 at 8:00 p.m., with a matinee on May 11 at 3:00 p.m.
The New School for Drama Theater, Drama Building, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor
Free general admission; reservations recommended.For reservations, please call Ticket Central at 212.279.4200or visit www.ticketcentral.com.
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Jim Murray is an award-winning broadcaster with deep local roots. He was born and raised in Santa Barbara and was a Gaucho ball boy during the historic Brian Shaw and Jerry Pimm days. Murray went onto attend high school at San Marcos and Cate School before heading to college at Claremont McKenna.
With stops in Los Angeles, Oregon and Las Vegas, Jim has over 9 years of broadcasting experience. His career began in Los Angeles. He was the public address announcer at Santa Monica College and he performed play-by-play duties for the Granada Hills High School football team. He then became Sports Director at KVMD-TV, an independent cable station based in West Los Angeles.
In 2007, Jim was named Sports Director at KTVZ-TV in Bend, Oregon. He covered everything from the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver to the Oregon Ducks Rose Bowl run. Jim was courtside when Brandon Roy attempted his comeback from knee-surgery in the NBA playoffs and he documented Gold Medalist Ashton Eaton's rise to stardom. In 2010 Murray received the "Oregon Sportscaster of the Year" from the Oregon Association of Broadcasters.
Murray was also an accomplished collegiate athlete: in 1996, he set the Division III record with four doubles in a playoff baseball game while playing third-base for Claremont McKenna College.
Jim received his Master's Degree from Pepperdine University in Clinical Psychology in 2002. He is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice specializing in teens and adolescents. Murray is also an adjunct professor at Antioch University; he teaches classes in both the Communications and Psychology departments.
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Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has filed its 2011 premium rates for Iowa individual market policyholders.
If approved by the Iowa Insurance Division, approximately 46,000 Iowa policyholders under age 65 will see an increase in their base premium rate of 10.8 percent, effective April 1, 2011. Approximately 3000 Basic and Standard policyholders will receive an increase of 11.3 percent. Approximately 2500 Blue Transitions policyholders will receive an increase of 15 percent. (* See notes below for additional details.)
This increase does not apply to Wellmark policyholders with Medicare products.
Health care costs expected to rise over next year
Health care costs (medical claims paid to hospitals, doctors, pharmacies and other health care providers) are expected to increase during the next rating period (April 1, 2011 – March 31, 2012). Factors include:
Administrative expenses projected lower as a percentage of premiums
The portion of policyholders' premium dollars used to pay administrative expenses will decrease during the 2011 rating period, reflecting operational efficiencies achieved within Wellmark over the last year. This includes an estimated 18 percent per square foot savings in operational costs in Wellmark's new Des Moines headquarters when compared to remaining in the four buildings Wellmark occupied in 2010.
The percentage of Wellmark's premium dollar spent on health care exceeded the requirements under the new health care reform legislation. Insurers must spend at least 80 percent of premiums on health care services in the individual market, beginning January 1, 2011. Wellmark has exceeded this requirement in the past. In 2009, for example, Wellmark spent 94 cents of each premium dollar on health care services in the Iowa individual market. With these rate increases, Wellmark has budgeted to spend more than 80 percent of each premium dollar on health care costs.
Wellmark continues to have among the lowest administrative expenses and premiums in the country, and is committed to improving quality and reducing the cost of the health care services its members receive. Current initiatives in this area include:
For information on health care costs and insurance premiums, visit www.wellmark.com/Member/Costs/CostsHome.aspx
Wellmark, Inc. (www.wellmark.com ) does business as Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa. Wellmark and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, including Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Dakota and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc., insure or pay health benefit claims for more than 2 million members in Iowa and South Dakota. Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Dakota, and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc. are independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Enhances security and stability.
Microsoft Office 2004 allows you to experience the beauty, power, and stability of all four Microsoft Office for Mac programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage.
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here is a blog post that solves some issues with using office on an intel mac.
At last, some compatibilty with pc's.
I'm sure the fact that it crashes more often than ANY other app I have has nothing to do with it being a microsoft product.
I think Office 2004 for Mac is gorgeous. Entourage worked seamlessly with our office Exchange server, faster and with more useful features than PC. Word, Excel and Powerpoint all work typically better than the PC variants. I have not tried OpenOffice, but as kurisu says above I really need complete compatibility and it all just to work -- and it does. Worth every penny for me.
@badgerou : I work (as in "pay for food") with documents from my clients made in MS Word and Excel. I can't afford the time to deal with the approximate (albeit very impressive) compatibility of OpenOffice and the related headaches. I deal with multi-lingual documents, complex tables, long formulas... MS Office already has problems with its own file formats !
I kind of like this suite. I use Excel and Word every day, and it's powerful. Sure, other apps probably works better for many, but Word has what I need.
For those that are saying that they must use MS office, have you tried OpenOffice? For many users, it is all they need to work with others who use MS Office, as you can open/read/save/etc in most MS formats.
Although, I have to say, Excel is the best application of it's type I've ever used.
I have to use this, though I wish I could use something else. The mere fact that you have to buy a <b>localised</b> version and are stuck with it unless you buy it again in another language (I am talking about the interface here) is annoying enough. But the lack of decent Exchange support (try to connect to an Exchange server with a strict admin and the latest patches with Entourage : impossible) makes it just bad. Expensive, slow, but the only real option if your clients send you MS Office files.
THE WORST APP EVER!!!!!! I can not express how much I hate this app. Use iWork intead!
I've found Word incredibly sluggish, there is no comparison speedwise between the Mac and Windows versions regardless of whether you're using Intel or PPC.
Excel is the best application Microsoft has ever made, my Mac would be useless to me without Excel.
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10 Breast Cancer "Facts" You Shouldn't Believe
Do antiperspirants, hair straighteners, and birth control pills increase your odds of getting breast cancer? Here are the answers you've been looking for
From pink, leopard-spotted rifles (yes, hunting rifles) to the Adam & Eve Natural Contours Pink Ribbon Vibrator, you can't take two steps without being reminded that it's Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Get the facts on what causes breast cancer now.
We know you're rolling your eyes at the ridiculous number of salmon-hued paraphernalia inundating you this month. But if there's an upside to the pink product overkill, it's this: It often prompts us to slow down for a moment and wonder, "Am I really doing everything I can to prevent this life-threatening disease from happening to me?"
Sure it's easy to scoff at some of the more ridiculous behaviors that supposedly cause cancer, like gabbing on your cell phone for more than 10 minutes a day or eating too many French fries. But admit it -- instead of chalking these risk factors up to being totally ludicrous, you have a nagging suspicion that some of them might actually be true.
Before you drop $100 on a state-of-the-art cell phone headset or boycott McDonald's for good, keep reading. Dr. Ruemu E. Birhiray, MD, a leading oncologist in Indianapolis, debunks some of the most prevalent myths about what causes breast cancer, so we can focus on the risk factors that matter most.
SEE NEXT PAGE: Myth No. 1: Antiperspirant causes breast cancer
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I had no idea hair dyes have estrogen!
by sportimonki13 Monday, October 15, 2012 at 02:56AM Report as inappropriate
Wow! Some of what we might believe causes breast cancer sounds crazy! I, personally, love love love coffee so that would literally kill me if that did cause breast cancer. I have heard that the pill has some bad effects but im glad that breast cancer is not one of the effects. Antiperspirant? If that is true or might be true then we would have to come up with something really quick or a lot of people would be rather smelly! =)
by danny54f Friday, October 12, 2012 at 07:38AM Report as inappropriate
Important information to share with my friends.
by lilas Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 01:47PM Report as inappropriate
Cool article for the "Ta Tas". 8-)
by DatThao Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 01:23PM Report as inappropriate
The most common and studied truth about antiperspirant is that is has parabens, which have been linked to almost 100% of breast cancer cases.
by jackie_stabach Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 06:10AM Report as inappropriate
Wonderful article! This is a nice tie in to Breast Cancer Awareness month. It is refreshing to see that much of what we are told to worry about actually doesn't carry any weight.
by HeathRene Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 04:25PM Report as inappropriate
Wow I didn't even know these were rumors - but so scary!
by schien Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 03:11PM Report as inappropriate
Very good info!
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Wish you included some facts too...
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Lady Gaga, Spits and Spit Up at SXSW, Brought to You By Doritos
South By Southwest veterans who grumble about big pop stars hogging all the attention at the indie-focused festival might be gagging on Lady Gaga's Austin invasion, which has included a keynote address, an outfit made of coffee filters and some on-stage regurgitation.
Thursday she made an appearance in the paper dress on Jimmy Kimmel's show, which is broadcasting from SXSW this week. That night, she made a bigger splash during her performance at Stubb's, the barbecue restaurant whose compact outdoor stage hosts many of the arena- and stadium-level acts who now visit SXSW each year. During the show she was strapped to a barbecue spit and rotated over a simulated flame, perhaps in homage to the region's BBQ culture or, maybe as a conceptual sequel to her famous meat dress. Later, during her song "Swine," she was joined by artist Millie Brown, who drank green and black fluids and vomited them onto Gaga. The concert was sponsored by Doritos.
Though she releases her music on a major label, Interscope, Gaga aligned herself with the spirit of independence and DIY career-making that is at the core of SXSW. During the conference's keynote panel address Friday, she noted that she, not her label, funded some of the splashiest promotion for her "Artpop" album, and she encouraged artists to make their own way rather than compromise their artistic vision. Gaga, who was the first female musician to deliver a SXSW keynote, also hinted at a second release related to "Artpop" and vented frustration with media comparisons of her career with that of Katy Perry.
In her song "Applause," Gaga sings, "pop culture was in art, now art's in pop culture in me." Now, of course, it's in SXSW, too.


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Firm winning $1.2B contract to handle Obamacare paperwork has NH track record
'This contract has a lot to do with records management, processing applications and that kind of work,' Hill said. 'We do a lot of that work for other agencies, like processing visas. We do that work in New Hampshire and Kentucky.'
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MORAGA -- A benefit run/walk, "Jill's Legacy: Jog for Jill St. Mary's," to raise money for lung cancer research, takes place Saturday, Oct. 13 on the campus of Saint Mary's College in Moraga. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m., with a shotgun start planned for 11.
Twenty-five members of the Saint Mary's Women's Rowing team are helping organize this event, and team member Christina Bennett said they hope for at least 300 participants.
Jill Costello, a nonsmoker, was a UC Berkeley coxswain for UC Berkeley's rowing team. She died of lung cancer in 2010 at the age of 22. One of Costello's dreams, Bennett said, was to help find a cure for lung cancer. Jill's Legacy was founded to bring awareness to this most deadly form of cancer, with a 15.5 percent survival rate.
Day-of event activities include great music, fun prizes and giveaways along with awards for the top fundraising individuals and teams.
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February 12, 2013 7:46 pm
Towards the end of the 19th century, the City of London was close to the pinnacle of its power. It was, as one commentator remarked, the greatest shop, the greatest store, the freest market for commodities, gold and securities, the greatest disposer of capital and credit, and the world's leading clearing house.
Yet something was missing. For all its imperial strut, the City lacked reliable sources of information. This was the context for the launch, in 1884, of The Financial News and, four years later, The Financial Times, the two newspapers that later merged to form the heart and soul of the modern FT.
Today the FT celebrates its 125th anniversary. It still appears in its trademark pink printed format (a marketing wheeze conceived in 1893) but its news and views are now published to a global readership in real time on multiple platforms: the smartphone, the tablet and the desktop computer. The digital revolution has fundamentally changed the distribution and organisation of content but the FT's editorial values – its liberal international outlook, lack of party affiliation and ironclad commitment to authoritative news and commentary – remain unchanged. Indeed, in the age of the internet, where information is abundant, the FT's concise journalistic style, its authority and its editorial independence are priceless assets.
The story of the newspaper's first 100 years is best told by David Kynaston in The Financial Times: A Centennial History. In the subsequent 25 years the FT became a truly global organisation. In 1997-98 we expanded intrepidly in the US, while also relishing our role as an underdog. Five years later, at the height of the Sars outbreak, we wrapped our pink pages around a skyscraper in Hong Kong, the staging post for a broader assault on the Asian market.
There is a sturdy optimism about these overseas forays that defies notions of genteel British decline. If not quite a national treasure, the FT has become an export success. Top editorial and commercial executives grasped, sooner than many UK rivals, that our business had to expand beyond its domestic market to survive and thrive.
For a brief period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was touch-and-go. The decision to launch a print edition in Frankfurt in 1979 was visionary – but it was driven mainly by the need to escape print unions holding Fleet Street to ransom. From modest beginnings on the banks of the Main, some two dozen print sites followed worldwide. International circulation soon outstripped that of the UK edition. Our horizons expanded, reinforcing our best instincts and building on the legacy of the FT's most distinguished editor, Sir Gordon Newton (1949-73). Newton defined the FT's mission: to reach those who make or seek to influence decisions in business, finance or public affairs around the world.
It was Newton, along with a brilliant young foreign editor, J.D.F. Jones, who built the network of foreign correspondents that today comprises the FT's prize asset. It paved the way for an organisation with a uniquely international outlook and able to attract talent from around the world (check out those bylines!).
1884 Financial News is established by Harry Marks
1888 The Financial Times is launched as the friend of the 'Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker'
1928 Brendan Bracken becomes chairman of Financial News
1935 The FT introduces the 30-share index
1945 Bracken buys FT, merges with Financial News but keeps pink paper and FT name. Hargreaves Parkinson becomes first editor of post-merger FT. Lex column introduced
1949 Gordon Newton becomes editor
1953 Industry, 'Commerce' and 'Public Affairs' introduced to masthead, reflecting increased scope of the newspaper
1957 FT taken over by Pearson
1958 Sheila Black becomes the FT's first female writer after suggesting the FT pay more attention to consumers
1967 Black introduces the first incarnation of How to Spend It
1959 FT moves to Bracken House
1972 Gordon Newton retires, replaced by Fredy Fisher
1979 European edition starts printing in Frankfurt
1980 Geoffrey Owen becomes editor
1985 Weekend FT launched
1986 Circulation passes 250,000 mark, using the 'No FT, No Comment' campaign. FT printing switches from hot metal to coldset printing
1989 FT HQ moves to Number One Southwark Bridge
1991 Richard Lambert becomes editor
1994 First edition of How To Spend It magazine published
1995 FT.com launched
1997 US edition launched
1998 International circulation sales overtake UK sales
2001 FT hits 500,000 copies per day; Andrew Gowers becomes editor
2002 FT.com subscription system introduced
2003 Asian edition launched
2005 Lionel Barber appointed editor
2006 John Ridding appointed chief executive
2007 Launch of FT.com's metered pay model provides a template for paywalls later adopted by other media
2011 FT is first news publisher to launch HTML5 web app for iPad and iPhone
2012 FT.com subscriptions overtake newspaper subscribers
The FT's ascent as a global publication over the past two decades coincided with stories that played to our strengths: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the unification of Germany; the creation of Europe's single currency; globalisation and the quadrupling of the world's labour market between 1999 and 2009 as China, India, Russia and large parts of Latin America became market economies; the birth of the internet and the dotcom bubble; and finally the most serious financial crisis since the Depression.
Crises offer opportunities. As Sir Richard Lambert – editor from 1991-2001, who personally led the launch of the US edition – remembers, the Asian financial turmoil of the late 1990s proved a blessing in disguise. "People wanted to know what was going to happen in Indonesia and what the consequences of a Russian default would be for American mortgage holders."
At times, as I can testify, our assault on the US market was improbably audacious. We were heavily outgunned by the likes of The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. But we saw ourselves as nimble special forces, not stuck-in-the-mud redcoats. Rather than the scattergun, we employed the rifle shot, carefully selecting relevant stories and themes and selling them to a hitherto underrated readership category: "globally minded Americans".
Robert Rubin, who served as US Treasury secretary and Citigroup chairman, was among the early converts. He once told me that the FT was invariably more useful than his daily CIA news digest. The celebrated investor Warren Buffett described the FT as an essential guide to currency and trade stories.
Above all, Americans welcomed the arrival of a competitor to the incumbents, notably the Wall Street Journal. Several heavyweight scoops followed. My favourite was a 1998 Thanksgiving exclusive on the merger of oil companies Exxon and Mobil that ruined our US rivals' turkey lunch. Another eye-catcher, in 2002, completed after exhaustive research, was "The Barons of Bankruptcy", a list of the top 25 executives who profited handsomely from selling shares ahead of the collapse of their companies after the dotcom boom.
Distribution in the US was more challenging. Sir Richard remembers being inundated with reader complaints after commercial colleagues unwittingly handed out his personal email address. "I rapidly learnt that American customers were quite demanding."
During this period, the FT became much newsier and more readable. Traditionally, editorial executives preferred to be right rather than first with the news. (In 1974 Jurek Martin, then foreign news editor, wary of Richard Nixon's "Tricky Dicky" character, insisted on delaying the front page on the grounds that the Republican president could not be trusted to leave office.)
The appointment of Alain Cass in 1989 as news editor changed the metabolism in the newsroom. Robert Peston, one of several bold hires and now the BBC's business editor, speaks of a "revolution". Suddenly the FT was leading the pack on stories such as the collapse of BCCI bank, the Maxwell pension scandal and the blow-up of Europe's exchange rate mechanism that brought UK-German relations to a new postwar low and led, temporarily, to the severing of ties between the FT and Norman Lamont, the embattled chancellor of the exchequer.
David Lascelles, then banking editor, revealed the Bank of England dossier on BCCI, having been passed a brown envelope outside Threadneedle Street. "I couldn't believe my luck – but of course it was part of a carefully crafted plan by the Bank to push blame on others, notably PwC [the auditors]." He adds: "We were under tremendous pressure to come up with scoops and once or twice we went over the top ... the cost of sharp news coverage is that you tread a fine line and the FT was not used to that."
Nor was the FT immune to controversy. Our halfhearted endorsement of Neil Kinnock and Labour in the 1992 general election caused consternation in the City but not at Pearson, where our owners maintained their traditional respect for editorial independence.
We took too long to recognise that British membership of the ERM was neither desirable nor tenable, even if it was in line with our pro-European views. The same was true of our flirtation, since ended, with UK membership of the eurozone. But on issues such as the Iraq war, which we firmly opposed, our judgment proved correct.
The second cultural shift took place in 1989 when the FT moved from Bracken House, its imposing headquarters in the shadows of St Paul's Cathedral, to One Southwark Bridge (OSB), then a rundown neighbourhood on the "wrong" side of the Thames, now a thriving area. The newsroom and printing presses were no longer housed on the same premises. This presaged the biggest cultural revolution of all: the launch of FT.com in 1995.
Sir David Bell, a former FT journalist and senior Pearson executive, recalls declaring that the website could one day be more important than the paper. "Most of those present looked underwhelmed by this idea and none of us had any idea how the internet would develop, let alone about tablets."
The inspirational figure during this period was Peter Martin, one of several astute hires by Sir Geoffrey Owen, editor from 1980 to 1990, from the Economist. Martin, who served as deputy editor and editor of FT.com, understood better than anyone the power of search and how it could transform the reader experience online. In a December 2000 article, republished after his death two years later of cancer, aged 54, Martin reflected on the lessons of the dotcom bubble and the news business.
Web businesses were either technically flawed ("slung-together systems using the electronic equivalent of string, toilet roll cores and sticky-backed plastic") or financially doomed ("nothing destroys value like misplaced capital").
His conclusions were as prescient as ever – and just as relevant today: "Stable technology, more mature business models, interpenetration of the 'real' and the virtual world, the arrival of always-on broadband connections, and the creation of the rich, permanently connected handheld device all mean that there is at least as much interesting innovation ahead as that which lies behind. There just won't be a capital markets frenzy to speed the process."
Both Martin and Sir Richard agreed that FT.com had to share the same editorial values and judgment as the paper. An influx of tech-savvy webbies who moved into the FT's headquarters at times begged to differ. Sir Richard recalls speaking with a new arrival who opined that if only the FT could stop being so boring everyone could make a mint.
As the dotcom bubble inflated to bursting point, it was decided in 1999-2000 to integrate the print and online editorial operation. Reporters were expected to work for both media – a controversial step that is largely accepted practice in newsrooms around the world today. Editors and production staff followed six years later, a tribute to flexible working practices.
The most important decision, however, was to charge for content. Olivier Fleurot, a French newspaper executive hired to run the commercial side, built the foundations of the subscription model that exists today. But the giant leap forward came in 2006-7 when the current management team led by John Ridding introduced a meter model for charging with dedicated web and mobile apps.
Users were given a limited number of free stories, then asked first to register their customer details and later to subscribe. In 2012 the number of digital subscribers (316,000) passed the circulation of the newspaper (300,000) for the first time. The total number of registered users topped 5m.
This audience is as influential as ever. The FT has followed Newton's maxim of reaching decision makers, not only with relevant news and information but also with expert and incisive commentary, particularly on international economics. Samuel Brittan was the pioneer; Martin Wolf is the present standard-bearer. We have also covered the more delightful sides of life. Lucy Kellaway, the Weekend FT and How To Spend It have brought a distinctively sharp and witty FT take on issues ranging from daily office life to arts, culture and lifestyle.
The global financial crisis and its implications for western liberal capitalism have again offered an opportunity for the FT to connect the dots and cover a crisis spanning New York, London, Dubai, Moscow and Beijing. In this sense, history has come full circle. The City of London may have been diminished by the recent crisis but it remains one of the world's great financial centres – open to immigrants, innovation and talent. It would be churlish to compare today's bloggers with the unregulated tipsheets of the late 19th century. But in this – the second wave of globalisation – the premium once again is on accuracy and authority.
A Chinese ambassador in Africa was once asked by a colleague why he was carrying a copy of the pink paper. "We always read the FT in the embassy because capitalists never lie." This may have been flattery; it is more likely that it was a testimony to the fact that financial publications live or die by the reliable provision of information.
In that narrow sense, 125 years on, the gold standard still applies.
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Maxine is this week's McPherson County Humane Society Pet of the Week! Maxine is a gorgeous little lady with a very unique purr-sonality. She will greet you with an eager meow and loves to be petted and have her ears scratched. Her former mom passed away unexpectedly which left poor Maxine homeless. This former single cat is still making an adjustment to shelter life. Having a home again would mean the world to Maxine! For more information on Maxine, or any other animal, contact the humane society at 241-3682 or stop by 201 S. Elm.
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POSITION: Defenseman
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Calgary, AB, CAN
DRAFTED: WSH: 2004-27 overall
|WHL East Second All-Star Team (2006) Missed majority of 2012-13 as a healthy reserve. Signed as a free agent by Los Angeles, July 5, 2013. Signed as a free agent by Anaheim, July 5, 2016.
|2014-15: Tallied his first point as a King (0- 1=1) Jan. 17 vs. ANA...Appeared in his 400th NHL game and first regular-season game as a King Dec. 29 at CGY...Tallied 16 points (3- 13=16) in 52 games with Manchester...In 14 postseason games, registered three points (0- 3=3) to help lead Manchester to the Calder Cup Championship
2013-14: Ranked ninth on Manchester with 67 games played and ranked sixth among team defensemen in points…PLAYOFFS: Appeared in his first postseason game as a King May 5 at ANA (one of four Kings all-time to make club debut in the postseason).
2012-13: Assist Feb. 23, 2013 vs. NJD…Assist Feb. 14, 2013 at TBL…Assist Feb. 9, 2013 vs. FLA…Played a season-high 21:00 Feb. 7, 2013 at PIT.
2011-12: Goal Feb. 13, 2012 vs. SJS…Assist Nov. 5, 2011 at NYI…Assist Nov. 21, 2011 vs. PHX…Assist and plus-2 rating Nov. 1, 2011 vs. ANA…Assist Oct. 20, 2011 at PHI…Played a season-high 21:46 Oct. 13, 2011 at PIT…Assist Oct. 10, 2011 vs. TBL.
2010-11: Second on WSH in blocked shots (138)…Played a career-high 26:35 March 31, 2011 vs. CBJ…Scored first career GWG March 18, 2011 at NJD…PLAYOFFS: second among WSH defensemen in SH TOI/gm (2:52)…Led WSH in blocked shots (22)…On the ice for an NHL postseason record 119 consecutive minutes without his team being scored upon.
2009-10: Set career highs in assists, points, penalty minutes and plus-minus (plus-50)…His plus-minus led the NHL and set a WSH franchise record…The first defenseman with a plus-50 rating since Chris Pronger in 1999-00 (plus-52)…Had a plus-14 rating in six games vs. ATL…First Capital to lead the NHL in plus-minus…Led WSH in blocked shots (129)…Earned a career-high three points Oct. 22, 2009 at ATL…Was a plus-5 Jan. 9, 2010 at ATL and April 5, 2010 at PIT…Had two three-game point streaks during the season (career high).
2008-09: Second among WSH defensemen (fourth overall) in plus-minus (plus-13)…Seven of his 12 points came in the third period…Fifth on WSH in blocked shots (93)…WSH was 9-1-1 when he recorded a point…Was a plus-4 Nov. 12, 2008 at CAR and Feb. 1, 2009 vs. OTT…Scored his first career SHG Jan. 14, 2009 at PIT.
2007-08: First among WSH defensemen (fourth overall) in plus-minus (+12)…Second among WSH defensemen in goals…Third on the club in blocked shots (90)…Scored first NHL goal Oct. 29, 2007 at TOR…Goals (three) in three straight games (Dec. 8-12, 2007)…First multi-point game (two assists) Jan. 17, 2008 vs. EDM…Played in his 100th career game March 14, 2008 vs. ATL.
2006-07: Split season with WSH and Hershey…Ranked 12th among NHL rookie defensemen with 18:12 TOI/gm…Tied for second on WSH in plus-minus (plus-5, tied for eighth among NHL rookie defensemen)…Made his NHL debut Dec. 22, 2006 vs. NJD…Recorded first NHL point (assist) Jan. 26, 2007 at CAR…Was a plus-4 Jan. 27, 2007 vs. CAR.
2005-06: Played final year in juniors with Calgary (WHL)…Joined Hershey in the AHL playoffs at the conclusion of his WHL season…Helped Hershey capture the Calder Cup Championship.
LAST AMATEUR CLUB: Calgary, WHL.
TRANSACTIONS: Selected by WSH in the first round (27th overall) in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
INTERNATIONAL PLAY: Played for Team Canada at the following tournaments: World U18 Championships (2004, 7 GP 0-0=0)…Other (2005 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge).
PERSONAL: Nickname: Schultzy…Off-season home: Calgary, Alberta…Wife: Mackenzie…Pets: Riley and Piper (Dogs)…Favorite TV show: Breaking Bad…Favorite band: Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean…Favorite sport other than hockey: golf…Favorite hockey moment: scoring first NHL goal… Favorite pro athlete: Vernon Davis…Favorite vacation spot: Maui…First job: minor hockey referee…Wears jersey number because: given to him at his first training camp…Charities: supports Inova Blood Donor Services/Washington Animal Rescue…Helps the environment by: recycling.


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On July 26, 2012 we were featured in Becker's Hospital Review:
Hurricane Irene ravaged the state of Vermont last year with heavy rains, but not even a torrential downpour could slow down Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, considered to be one of the top hospitals in central Vermont.
Here are 10 things to know about Gifford Medical Center.
1. Joseph Woodin is the administrator and CEO of Gifford Medical Center. He has led the hospital since 1999.
2. David Sanville serves as Gifford Medical Center's CFO.
3. As a critical access hospital, Gifford Medical Center has 25 beds. It also has a rehabilitation unit, a birthing center and a 30-bed nursing home.
4. Gifford Medical Center has 589 full- and part-time employees, including 100 people on its medical staff. Physicians and clinicians are spread across 30 different medical specialties and categories.
5. According to Gifford Medical Center's 2011 annual report, net revenue totaled nearly $64 million. GMC recorded $1.26 million in net income for a profit margin of 2 percent.
6. In 2011, Gifford Medical Center recorded 1,811 inpatient admissions, 1,300 short stay or same-day outpatient admissions and more than 68,000 other outpatients. The hospital also performed more than 2,900 surgeries and more than 7,300 emergency treatments.
7. Last year, the National Rural Health Association named Gifford Medical Center as one of the top 100 CAHs in America. The rankings were based on the Hospital Strength Index from iVantage Health Analytics. The HIS incorporates 56 different measures of performance, including a hospital's market strength, quality measures and balance sheet ratios.
8. John Gifford, MD, a local physician, founded the hospital in 1903. He almost closed the hospital after two years due to high expenses and the demands of running a hospital alone with only two nurses. However, local community members raised enough money to keep the hospital open, which officially became the Randolph Sanatorium. After Dr. Gifford died in 1933 from an infection he contracted while performing surgery, the hospital's shareholders decided to rename the hospital Gifford Memorial Hospital. In 1991, it became Gifford Medical Center.
9. In 1989, Gifford Medical Center became one of the first hospitals in the country to support primary care practices in rural areas. It opened or acquired four different community health centers between 1989 and 1994.
10. In March 2011, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin appointed Gifford Medical Center obstetrician/gynecologist Ellamarie Russo-DeMara, MD, to the State Board of Health.
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