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Our Zoderm (5.75% benzoyl peroxide) Side Effects Drug Center provides a comprehensive view of available drug information on the potential side effects when taking this medication.
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The customized bike fitting method created by PHYSIOINNOVATION™ since 2007 is based upon sports science and a throughout sports medical approach developed from our professional background within Physiotherapy and Sport & Exercice Medicine science. We unite our technology and knowhow to one of the worlds most extensive bike fitting protocols. Our main goal is to increase your body intelligence, prevent injuries and increase efficiency. The MyoKinematics Bike Fit System has been chosen individually by everything from professional cyclists like riders from IAM cycling, triathletes, mountainbikers, cross, track as well as cyclosportive riders.
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2 killed in separate dump truck crashes in NC county
The N.C. Highway Patrol is looking into separate traffic accidents involving dump trucks in which two people were killed.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reports a construction worker on the site of West McDowell Junior High School Road was pinned under the rear of a dump truck shortly before noon Tuesday and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The accident occurred near the site of another recent construction accident just three weeks ago, when eight workers were injured after scaffolding collapsed at McDowell High School.
Officials also said a driver was killed on U.S. 221 north of Marion after a rock came off a dump truck and through the driver's windshield. The victim was also pronounced dead at the scene.
The names of the victims haven't been released.
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NHL HomeGrown
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Imagine an NHL without free agency or trades, that once a player is drafted with a team he stays with that team for his entire career. What would the rosters look like? We at Eye on Hockey will take a look at the Home-Grown Teams of all 30 franchises -- three lines, two defensive pairs and two goaltenders. Three lines and two D pairs because this doesn't include undrafted free agents, only drafted players. We want to see who has drafted the best.
|NHL Homegrown Power Rankings
|1. Pittsburgh Penguins
|It's easy to say the Penguins got lucky by winning the post-lockout lottery and earning the right to draft Sidney Crosby but the Penguins have also drafted Evgeni Malkin, Jordan Staal and goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. Read more>>>
|2. San Jose Sharks
|The Sharks have been a playoff team year in, year out for a long time now and like most good teams that's a sign of some good drafting through the years. Read more>>>
|3. Los Angeles Kings
|The Kings finally put all the potential together last season and won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history based largely on the strength of their drafts. They could make almost two whole quality teams in this fictional world. Read more>>>
|4. Detroit Red Wings
|The Red Wings didn't own a first-round pick in the '02 draft and didn't pick until No. 58 overall but still produced three straight NHL regulars in Hudler, Fleischmann and Filppula. Read more>>>
|5. Chicago Blackhawks
|The picks of Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane helped boost the Blackhawks to a Stanley Cup and have positioned the franchise in a great spot for the next five or six years. Read more>>>
|6. Philadelphia Flyers
|Few teams have drafted as many quality forwards in recent years as the Flyers. They also like to trade a lot of them including Jeff Carter, Patrick Sharp and Mike Richards. Read more>>>
|7. Ottawa Senators
|The Senators top line of Daniel Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and Marion Hossa might be the best homegrown first line. Add in defenseman Eric Karlsson and it's quite a team. Read more>>>
|8. Boston Bruins
|Actually, Boston might have one of the deeper group of forwards of any team in the NHL during this series, and this one is no joke. Joe Thornton spent parts of eight seasons in Boston to start his career after being the No. 1 overall pick in 1997. Read more>>>
|9. Anaheim Ducks
|Anaheim has had some small struggles in recent seasons, using a late push two years ago to reach the postseason and then struggling to one of the worst records in the NHL last season. But had they been able to keep the draft classes together, something tells us that wouldn't have been the case. Read more>>>
|10. Dallas Stars
|The Stars are one of those teams that can put together a strong line of "the guys who got away," including Penguins star James Neal Read more>>>
|11. Washington Capitals
|The Washington Capitals have been one of the top teams in recent years in the NHL on the strength of their Core Four. In this world they will be one of the very best too. Read more>>>
|12. New York Rangers
|The Rangers have spent a lot of money in free agency over the years, but they've done a pretty good job developing their own players within the organization, especially when it comes to some of the forward spots. Read more>>>
|13. Colorado Avalanche
|Whether it was in Quebec as the Nordiques or Colorado, the Avalanche have done a solid job drafting over the years. The problem has been keeping those guys around, especially on defense. Read more>>>
|14. Vancouver Canucks
|Maybe the greatest move in Canucks franchise history was Brian Burke's deals to get the Sedin twins at No. 2 and No. 3 in the 1999 draft. More or less since then they have been drafting much later. Read more>>>
|15. New Jersey Devils
|Brodeur is obviously the legend and the Hall of Famer, but if I had him and Scott Clemmensen on my team this season, right now, I think I would be tempted to go with him, even with Brodeur coming off a really strong playoff run. Read more>>>
|16. Nashville Predators
|Ryan Suter and Shea Weber formed the foundation of the Nashville defense for a number of years until this offseason when Suter left for Minnesota in free agency. Read more>>>
|17. Montreal Canadiens
|A solid group of players but a lineup without a superstar player in it. PK Subban and Carey Price help solidify the defense for Montreal. Read more>>>
|18. St. Louis Blues
|The Blues organization has produced a lot of young talent over the years (and it all started to come into its own last year). Read more>>>
|19. Carolina Hurricanes
|The Carolina Hurricanes have had the same general manager for almost two decades in Jim Rutherford, making the team's draft picks. Read more>>>
|20. Edmonton Oilers
|The Oilers have a nice blend of young and old thanks to their strong selections every time they find themselves near the top of the picking pecking order, particularly of late. Read more>>>
|21. New York Islanders
|The Islanders have a great young franchise player in John Tavares to build around, and if he continues on his current path that six-year contract extension he signed is going to be a steal before it runs out. Read more>>>
|22. Buffalo Sabres
|It's not that the Sabres group is horrible as a whole but the only name that jumps out is goalie Ryan Miller. Read more>>>
|23. Phoenix Coyotes
|You'd think that a franchise that has had success on a shoestring budget would have done it mostly from within the system and building its own prospects. You'd think that, anyway. Read more>>>
|24. Winnipeg Jets
|There is probably no franchise more excited at keeping its prospects than the Jets/Thrashers. Over the years they had to watch some of their best players be shipped out of town. Not now. Read more>>>
|25. Tampa Bay Lightning
|The Tampa Bay Lightning have ebbed and flowed more viciously than a tide at full moon over the past decade, giving them really high spots in the draft and really low spots. That disparity shows. Read more>>>
|26. Minnesota Wild
|The wild are the youngest team in the NHL, along with their expansion brothers in Columbus, so you aren't going to have a team with gray-haired veterans. Whether that's a good or bad thing is yet to be seen.Read more>>>
|27. Florida Panthers
|The Florida Panthers have a decade's worth of high draft picks to put together what you would think is an elite roster. Well, that's what you'd think. Read more>>>
|28. Toronto Maple Leafs
|The Maple Leafs forwards aren't horrible but they haven't drafted a superstar scorer in a long time. The defensive pairing of Luke Schenn and Thomas Kaberle is above average. Read more>>>
|29. Columbus Blue Jackets
|Sure, the Blue Jackets made a good decision taking Rick Nash with their first ever draft pick as a franchise but the depth is pretty thin after that. Goalie Steve Mason had a good start to his NHL career but it's been downhill from there. Read more>>>
|30. Calgary Flames
|The Calgary Flames are just a wee bit thin when it comes to home-grown talent. How thin? Consider the last time they drafted a player who has scored more than 120 -- only 120! -- goals in his career was in 1993 when they took German Titov in the 10th round. Read more>>>


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Talk about a rough start. On the first play from scrimmage in the opening game for the Spencer County Bears' 2016 football season, Bardstown's quarterback dropped back and lofted a pass that went for a 67-yard touchdown. It was a play that put the Bears behind, where they stayed all night on their way to a disappointing 29-13 loss Saturday night at Nelson County High School.
Rehearsals to begin for annual Community Tree of Life
It's time to start working on the 2016 Christmas Musical production presented by the Community Tree of Life under the direction of Joy Thompson. The first meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 30 at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Taylorsville.
Everyone is invited to come and participate in this event. For more details, call Janet Barnett at 502-299-8543 or Sarah Hickman at 502-249-6425.
Work hard on a hot day and then grab a glass of ice cold sweet tea. Feel the cold glass in your hand and taste the sweetness on your tongue, . Ahh!. Just a short break in a hard and busy day, but it refreshes and renews your strength.
Spencer Co. Public Library offers Harry Potter trivia and games
Saturday, August 20th at 10:30 a.m., step into the books and movies of Harry Potter. The Spencer County Public Library will have trivia and games for fans of the series.
Non-profit groups can sign up for Roadside Litter Abatement program
Non-profit groups can begin signing up the last week of August to be a part of the Summer Roadside Litter Abatement Program. Roads will be assigned, and bags and gloves will be supplied.
Joshua Spencer, of Taylorsville, son of Ivan and Mary Ann Spencer, was welcomed to the Class of 2020 at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy this past week, capping off the introduction to the College with a White Coat Ceremony on August 14 at the UK Singletary Center for the Arts.
The ceremony concluded the annual three-day orientation for new students. The program stresses the importance of professionalism as an obligation for those that seek to practice pharmacy.
Spencer is a graduate of Spencer County High School.
The man wanted in connection with a recent kidnapping in Mt. Eden turned himself in to Spencer County Sheriff's deputies early Tuesday morning.
Michael Grubb, 39, who was listed as residing in Jeffersonville, Indiana, was taken into custody shortly before 3 a.m. by Major Carl Reesor and was then transported to the Shelby County Detention Center. Charges include parole violation, kidnapping, first degree robbery and first degree wanton endangerment.
The arrest came after law enforcement officers closed in on him Monday night.
Spencer County Public Schools Superintendent Chuck Adams praised the response to a threat phoned in to Taylorsville Elementary School on Friday.
"TES did a tremendous job of addressing that. They were very precise in their actions," said Adams.
The Spencer County Fiscal Court set the 2016-17 property tax rates Monday night, opting for a slightly lower rate of 8.7 cents per $100 of assessed value on real estate and 8.7 cents per $100 of value on personal property. The rate for the current year is 8.8 percent. The court passed a resolution approving the rate unanimously.
Mold in the Sheriff's office was confirmed through an inspection by an industrial hygiene service last month, prompting county officials to begin discussing short-term and long-term solutions.
Sheriff Buddy Stump said Monday that the mobile command center has again been set up next to the sheriff's office, and will be used for office space for some of his staff since the second floor of the office building they are in has been deemed unfit because of the mold.
This Labor Day weekend, families and friends will be celebrating the end of the summer. Sadly, this festive time has also become a dangerous time for America's roads, as many drunk drivers get behind the wheel after celebrating. For this reason, Taylorsville City Police are partnering with the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration to stop drunk drivers and help save lives.
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Remember your first CranioSacral course? How excited you were to start learning something new? Maybe you were a little nervous too. Wondering if you'd "get it", wondering if you'd feel the rhythm, understand the hand positions, remember the anatomy.
If you were like me, you came away from class with your brain filled to the brim, completely excited to offer your new skills to your clients.
You felt like you had discovered a new language – one you could use to talk directly to your clients' body.
Fast forward and you now have a decent grasp of at least the basics – where your hands go, what the craniosacral rhythm feels like, you feel things. You're getting results you're excited about.
And yet, you're frustrated by the holes in your anatomy knowledge.
These holes hold you back. They create uncertainty and cause you to doubt your skills. What are you really feeling? They make it difficult to explain to your clients what happened during their session in a way that's credible and builds trust in your skills.
Sometimes you have a sinking feeling that you're missing out on really valuable information that the body is trying to share with you because you just don't know enough to be able to translate it and act on it.
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Spanish 1 Course Expectations
Profesora: Señora Piza
This one-year course will provide a general introduction to the language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world. The course will focus on the acquisition of basic vocabulary, language structure and grammatical skills that will enable the student to function effectively within realistic settings. Listening comprehension, understanding of Hispanic cultures, communication and speaking are emphasized. This course will fulfill one of the elective credits required for graduation.
Materials: You are expected to have the following materials EVERY DAY: -Textbook, Realidades I The textbook will stay in class. -Internet access: is a requirement for certain assignments. At least two nights will be given to complete online activities therefore students may not be excused from completing these assignments. If you do not have access from home, the library is available from 7:30am-3:30pm (times may vary). -Workbook packets: one will be given to each student per chapter and will compliment the textbook. If lost, students are responsible for making their own replacement copy. -Cougar Planner -Pencil/black or blue pen-Red pen -Spanish 3-ring binder with pockets, must include 3 properly labeled dividers: (1) Vocabulary & Grammar (2) Classwork & Homework (3) Quizzes & Tests / Projects -Extra binder paper -Index cards or plain white paper to make vocabulary flash cards for each chapter
You are expected to have the following materials EVERY DAY:
-Textbook, Realidades I
The textbook will stay in class.
-Internet access: is a requirement for certain assignments. At least two nights will be given to complete online activities therefore students may not be excused from completing these assignments. If you do not have access from home, the library is available from 7:30am-3:30pm (times may vary).
-Workbook packets: one will be given to each student per chapter and will compliment the textbook.
If lost, students are responsible for making their own replacement copy.
-Cougar Planner
-Pencil/black or blue pen
-Red pen
-Spanish 3-ring binder with pockets, must include 3 properly labeled dividers:
(1) Vocabulary & Grammar
(2) Classwork & Homework
(3) Quizzes & Tests / Projects
-Extra binder paper
-Index cards or plain white paper to make vocabulary flash cards for each chapter
Spanish I Course Objectives:
-To participate in simple conversations in Spanish, to use correct pronunciation, to
share feelings, emotions, opinions, and information.
-To comprehend simple oral and written communication on a variety of topics.
-To present information, concepts and ideas to an audience in Spanish.
-To explore the relationships among the practices, products, and perspectives of
the diverse Hispanic cultures.
-To connect knowledge of Spanish with other disciplines.
-To recognize the distinctive viewpoints of other cultures.
-To compare the nature of the Spanish language to English.
-To contrast Hispanic cultures with individual ethnic background.
-To employ the Spanish language both within and beyond the school setting.
-To develop an interest in continuing the study of the Spanish language for
personal enrichment.
Spanish I Course Outline:
This course is divided into units. The concentration is vocabulary in context and knowledge of basic structures. Each unit will also build upon previous unit material.
Evaluation and Grading System:
Students will be assessed several ways, including: both oral and written tests/quizzes, homework, skits, projects, presentations, prácticas, in-class activities and participation. The final grade will be based on:
20% Classwork/Homework
25% Quizzes
35% Tests/Projects
20% Speaking / Daily Activities
Class work includes anything done in class that has been collected for a grade. NO LATE WORK IS ACCEPTED FOR CLASS WORK CREDIT. If a student has an excused absence they will have three days for everyday missed to turn in make-up work. Please take a look at my website or ParentLink to see what assignments are missing. The basket on the back table contains extra copies, notes, and any other handouts students may need. Students are responsible for looking at the website and turning in appropriate work into the marked basket on front cart. Please do not ask me what you missed until you have looked on my website.
Homework is an extremely important aspect of learning a foreign language and will be given as a review or continuous practice of what has been discussed in class. Students will receive homework 3-4 times a week, which will be checked for completion on a regular basis and sometimes collected for accuracy. Homework is often reviewed in class. Not all homework assignments will be taken for a grade, though it is expected that students complete all assignments. Homework may be collected at the door before being allowed to enter class. Homework will only be accepted if it is complete and turned in on the day it is due at the beginning of the period. LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Students who have questions regarding homework are to see me after school or before school. Anyone caught copying homework or allowing another student to copy work will receive a zero and/or a phone call home. My advice to you is to never let your work leave your desk. Types of homework given will include reading to an adult and requiring a signature of confirmation (please let me know if this will be a problem for you), conjuguemos/ phschool (online assignments which requires access to the internet), worksheets, workbook activities and projects. *At least two nights will be given to complete online activities. Students may not be excused from completing this assignment. Internet access is available in the library.
Quizzes are given on a weekly/bi-weekly basis and exams will be given approximately every 2-3 weeks. Each exam will contain a speaking, reading, writing, listening and culture section. In addition, there will be homework check quizzes, which will ensure that students are properly correcting their homework when we go over it in class. Last, the teacher reserves the right to give unannounced quizzes over any material covered in class or assigned as homework. This will be done in order to assess what students have actually retained.
At least one individual or group project will be given each quarter. Neatness, organization, spelling and grammar will all be considered in the evaluation of student work.
-A MAXIMUM of 25% of the total possible points may be deducted on projects or major assignments turned in one day late (excused or unexcused).
-A MAXIMUM of 50% of the total possible points may be deducted on projects -or major assignments turned in two days late.
-A MAXIMUM of 75% of the total possible points may be deducted on projects or major assignments turned in three days late (excused or unexcused).
Speaking / Daily Activities:
Speaking and active participation in daily activities are vital in the learning of a new language.
Speaking activities include repeating, reading aloud, answering questions and speaking in the target language.
Daily Activities include the "Hagan Ahora" (Do Now) or "Warm Up" activity, taking notes, and staying on task to complete class activities based on listening, speaking, reading and writing. Active participation in the daily activities also requires students to follow classroom rules and procedures.
Students may lose points and not earn back them back once they have lost them.
Excused and/or unexcused absences may also reduce your Speaking / Daily Activities grade.
A Speaking / Daily Activities grade will be entered into the gradebook every week.
Classroom Rules:
-Preparation – Come to class on time, prepared and ready to learn!
-Respect – Have respect for yourself, for other students' right to learn, for my right to teach, and for property belonging to others. No bullying.
-Responsibility – Be responsible for your own actions and choices!
-No cell phones, ipods or electronic devices.
-No food, drinks or gum in classroom.-No sleeping, disturbing others, working on work from another class, sitting in an unassigned seat, cheating, inappropriate comments, packing up early and speaking English when advised not to.
Classroom Procedures:
1.Quietly enter classroom.
2.When bell rings, students are expected to complete the Do Now (Hagan Ahora) activity in a given amount of time.
3.If absent, students have 3 days to complete any missed assignments for full credit, but he/she MUST write "Absent" and the "Absent Date" next to the missed assignments/notes.
5.Follow instructions and raise hand to be called on.
6.Cell phones, ipods and other prohibited items are not to be brought to class. If I see them, they will be confiscated and turned into the Dean's Office.
7. The teacher dismisses the class, not the bell.
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If a student is absent, it is their responsibility to make-up assignments, quizzes, or tests within three days per CCSD policy. There is a calendar on my website with information about what the class has done each day. Students are responsible for looking at my class website and turning in appropriate assignments, as well as keeping their notebooks/binders up to date. If a student needs a handout for the day he/she was absent, there will be extra copies in the bins in the classroom. *Students must write "Absent" on all Absent work or it will be counted as Late Work and therefore not accepted!
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*Students that participate in the Foreign Language Fair may receive extra credit at teacher discretion.
*Semester grades are based on 1st quarter = 40%, 2nd quarter = 40% and semester exam = 20%
*Students' grades will be posted online on a weekly basis and my door is always open if there are any concerns.
*PLEASE REMEMBER: I am here because I want you to succeed, so never hesitate to come see me for help.
Attendance and promptness are essential to the success in the study of a foreign language. Therefore, Coronado's tardy and attendance policy WILL be enforced. Any student with more than 10 unapproved absences will lose academic credit for the semester. All students must be in class on time and a student who is more than 30 minutes late will be counted absent. If a student is tardy, the tardy lockout policy will apply and it will be his/her responsibility to make up the daily "Do Now" on their OWN time.
Student citizenship grades are reported as follows
O = Outstanding
S = Satisfactory citizenship
N = Needs Improvement
U = Unsatisfactory citizenship
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Students need to make sure they are in compliance with the Coronado High School Honor Code. Any student caught cheating on any assignment or using a translator will receive a "0" for that assignment and a phone call home. Students should not be using technological applications/devices to look up sentences, but only single words. Furthermore, please do not allow native speakers to complete work for you, as this goes against the honor code as well. Every writing assignment turned in must be 100% authentically your work! Please see the Coronado High School Honor Code for further info.
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A number of factors explain why young Hondurans could be first in line for a U.S. government plan to allow them to apply for entry as refugees, an idea floated by the White House as a possible means to get control over the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S.
For starters, the biggest group of unaccompanied minors flooding the U.S.-Mexico border since October come from Honduras, although kids from other Central American nations and Mexico aren't far behind in making the journey north, according to U.S. government data.
Also, Honduras also ranks among the world's most violent societies and as Central America's poorest, key "push factors" behind the surge, according to immigration experts.
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"If you're going to pick a country for a pilot program, you can make a good case for Honduras," said Marc Rosenblum, of the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., research group.
The White House hopes that such a program – which would allow people to apply in their home country – would discourage people who don't qualify for refugee status from trying to enter the U.S. on their own, and President Barack Obama cautioned Friday that eligibility for any in-country program would be limited.
"There may be some narrow circumstances in which there is humanitarian or refugee status that a family might be eligible for," the president told reporters. "If that were the case, it would be better for them to be able to apply in-country rather than face a very dangerous journey all the way up to Texas to make those same claims."
The White House didn't comment on why Honduras could be first, but a senior administration official indicated the program could be quickly expanded."If this option is adopted, the first step would be to implement it as a pilot. In looking at how this would work, Honduras has been the example used but if this moves forward, there would be discussions with the other countries focused on doing the same," the official said.
One person involved in the administration's conversations said Honduras may be first up because its government is more willing to participate. It is not easy for leaders to acknowledge that things are so bad in their countries that people need refugee status to escape, she said. But she said the Hondurans have already begun thinking about their problems in similar terms and looking for solutions.
Of the more 57,000 unaccompanied minors detained at the U.S. Mexico border since October, about 16,500 were Hondurans. Guatemalans weren't far behind, with 14,000 apprehensions during the same period, followed by 13,300 Salvadorans and 12,600 Mexicans.
Perhaps more to the point, the number of Honduran kids caught this fiscal year was more than double the 6,700 detained in 2013. The number of child migrants from Guatemala and Salvador spiked as well, but to a lesser extent.
Hondurans also account for a large chunk of the 55,000 members of "family units" — adults attempting to migrate with children — detained at the U.S.-Mexico border in the past 10 months. The Border Patrol stopped only 9,350 such people in fiscal year 2013.
Honduras is by far the deadliest country in Central America, which in turn ranks as the corner of the world most affected by criminal violence, according to the United Nations. Honduras' Caribbean Coast, anchored by the city of San Pedro Sula, is particularly violent and has sent the most migrant children north this year of anywhere in Central America, according to U.S. government figures.
"Of the three countries, Honduras is the one that it's easiest to see a relationship between the violence and the communities that are sending migrant children," Mr. Rosenblum added.
Honduras suffered 90 intentional murders per 100,000 people in 2012, according to the latest statistics from the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime. That's more than double the rate of El Salvador and Guatemala, each with about 40 murders per 100,000 people, according to the UNODC.
Analysts note that El Salvador's murder rate has ticked up this year as a gang truce brokered by the government and the Catholic Church frays. In Honduras, an independent think tank focused on violence at the national university calculated the 2013 homicide rate at about 80 per 100,000 people, as the government deployed the armed forces in some of the country's bloodiest communities.
In comparison, Mexico's murder rate last year declined 12.5% to 19 per 100,000 people, according to the government's census agency, reflecting an easing of the gangland wars racking large swaths of the country.
President Obama called his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Peña Nieto, on Thursday to consult ahead of Friday's meeting with the Central American leaders. Mexico has tightened enforcement near its own southern border in recent weeks, adding a further impediment to the Central American migrants.
Last year, some 3,300 Hondurans were officially classified as refugees, compared with 6,600 Guatemalans, 9,400 Mexicans and 9,600 Salvadorans, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Refugees fled both Guatemala and Salvador during their civil wars in the 1980s and some might not have returned.


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German exports dropped by 5.5% on a monthly basis in April in adjusted terms, reversing two months of increases and lowering the trade surplus, the Federal Statistics Office said Wednesday. Admittedly, the decline followed an exceptionally strong March reading, when exports surged by 7.2%, the most since May 2010.
Still, it suggests external trade is likely to "make a much smaller contribution to overall growth in the second quarter," said Ulrike Rondorf, an economist with Commerzbank in Frankfurt. For a country that has typically relied on its export prowess rather than on domestic consumption, that could be a problem.
And it wasn't the only bad news. German industrial output also unexpectedly fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in April, after rising by 1.2% in March, signalling a slowdown in Germany's key manufacturing sector.
Analysts pointed to Japan's earthquake as one possible culprit. "The impact of the Japanese earthquake on the international supply chains was stronger than expected," said Carsten Brzeski, an economist with ING Bank in Brussels. Other suspects include high oil prices, slower growth in China and tighter monetary conditions in the euro zone, according to Ken Wattret, chief euro-zone economist at BNP Paribas in London.
"Germany, as an economy very closely tied into global trade developments, is displaying signs of the slowdown in growth also evident elsewhere," Mr. Wattret said. A German slowdown would be worrying for the euro-zone because the bloc's first-quarter growth of 0.8% was powered by a mighty 1.5% expansion in Germany. Still, analysts mostly remain relaxed, regarding any slowdown as a sign of "normalization" after a period of explosive growth.
German economic indicators remain near record highs, and with unemployment dropping sharply, economists expect consumption to pick up and power growth. "German internal demand prospects are more favorable than in other big economies like the U.S. and U.K., given that the labor market is in much better shape and the household sector faces lesser headwinds from housing and debt-related issues," Mr. Wattret said.
Mr. Brezki agrees. "Today's numbers show that the period of a roaring German growth engine might be over [but] the engine is not stuttering, it is rather purring," he said.


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The best solution I have come up with for my two children is each week I put an assignment sheet and any worksheets they may have in the left pocket of a double pocket folder (each child has their own folder).
When each day is completed, they check off the assignment sheet and put all completed papers in the right side pocket of the folder. This way - everything is in one place.
After the week is complete, I gather the papers out of the right side, check them, have the children correct anything that needs it, and then place the completed/checked papers in a large accordian-style folder (one for each child) to act as their portfolio.
If this process is completed each week, then I don't have papers strewn all around the house and the children aren't asking me what they have to do each day for school.
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For the first time in four years, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn has proposed a budget that doesn't include any major cuts to programs.
Instead, the budget gives the city 15 new police officers, more cameras in school zones, and additional money for the homeless.
McGinn said the budget would position the city to be in the best possible situation in case of an emergency.
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PARKERSBURG - The inaugural Destination Design fundraiser for Wood County Habitat for Humanity raised several thousand dollars for the organization.
"Things went well and we did more than break even, which we are very happy with," said Alvin Phillips, executive director of the organization.
The first-time event collected more than $11,000 without taking out the expenses Habitat had for the event.
"With the expenses taken out, we probably made about $5,000 on the Destination Design," Phillips said. "It was a wonderful night and event and we are thankful for everyone who supported it and Habitat."
The event was held Thursday evening at Grand Pointe Conference Center in Vienna with more than 200 people in attendance.
The program included 48 items donated by more than two dozen individuals and businesses for the auction as well as "vignette" displays with furnishings and decor.
The event featured a bed and breakfast theme with heavy hors d'oeuvres that included pancake-wrapped sausages and scones.
Phillips said he and others with Habitat hoped the event would raise $10,000, but knew it would be difficult since it was the first year.
"We are pleased, especially since this was the first time we held this fundraiser," he said.
All proceeds will be used to meet the mission of Habitat: to build decent, affordable housing with those in need who are willing to partner.
Phillips said the organization will likely get another $500 from the sale of a donated item and the generosity of a man at the auction on Thursday.
"One of the neat things about the night is the very last item up for auction was a patio set donated by Home Depot, which sold for more than $600," he said. "After the auction, the man who won the furniture asked that we keep the patio set and sell it in our ReStore, which is really nice of him."
With the first year for the event having been a success, Phillips said organizers are already looking forward to next year.
"We are looking at things we did well with it and things we can add and we look forward to doing it again," he said.
Habitat for Humanity is a Christian ministry that builds or renovates houses with lower-income families who are living in substandard housing. After being approved, a family works "sweat equity" hours for months, helping with other homes, at the Habitat office and in other ways.
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Peter Gurney offers some dos and don'ts for dealing with a stubborn trend line.
Editor's note: Peter Gurney is senior director, VOC solutions, at Seattle-based NetReflector Inc.
Once a slow and expensive process, collecting feedback from customers is now quick, simple and relatively cheap with the widespread availability of online survey tools and reporting systems. Companies can collect ratings and feedback at every point of contact, including phone calls, e-mails, Web visits and point-of-sale purchases. In addition, managers can view survey results instantly instead of waiting weeks or months to find out what their customers are saying.
This information is a valuable and necessary component of any voice of the customer (VOC) program. But if you've been collecting survey results for a while, you've probably run into a situation that many organizations face: flat trend lines. Once the easy wins are behind you, any upward movement in the overall ratings becomes increasingly difficult to achieve. This wouldn't be a problem if you could confidently say that your organization had reached a state of customer experience perfection, but in most cases, employees and managers are painfully aware that there is still plenty of improvement to be made.
The problem with flat trend lines isn't simply that they suggest a lack of progress. It's also that they're boring. It's difficult to keep stakeholders interested and motivated when they see the same scores month after month. Many customer-experience initiatives have stalled when satisfaction ratings reach a plateau.
Flat scores are actually just a sign that the VOC program needs to evolve. There are various actions that can be taken to push the program along and different organizations approach the challenge in different ways. As a start, we offer a few dos and don'ts:
Do: Bring other metrics to the foreground. Satisfaction ratings (or NPS or however you're keeping score) are not meant to be an end in themselves. They are intended to reflect customer attitudes and experiences as a means to achieving better business results. Eventually, satisfaction scores need to become less prominent as other success measures take the lead. Depending on what the goals of the program are, various operational and financial metrics may be brought forward, including complaint volumes, retention rates, new accounts, customer spend and average cost-to-serve. This doesn't mean that satisfaction ratings disappear; they should continue to serve as an important indicator of the customer relationship. But as the Chinese proverb goes, "When the finger points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger."
Don't: Change the scale. Some organizations fall into the trap of blaming the messenger, assuming that a different scale or manner of asking about satisfaction will change the result. Here are some hard truths:
Do: Focus more heavily on open-ended responses. Numbers are nice because they're easy to analyze and display. Words, on the other hand, are messy and analyzing them is labor-intensive. As a result, it is common for VOC researchers to severely limit the use of open-ended questions on their surveys. It is also common to find that the research team is sitting on a pile of unanalyzed comments, hoping they will eventually have the time to make sense of them.
Although customer comments are indeed more difficult to analyze and report on than ratings, it is often in the comments that the richest and most actionable information can be found. Companies that have hit a wall with their satisfaction ratings may want to look at redesigning their surveys to better allow customers to tell their stories in their own words. This may require additional work but it will ultimately provide more powerful and actionable information.
Don't: Shrink the scope. Satisfaction surveys can become overly focused on the needs of a specific user group, often at the expense of providing in-depth information about the customer relationship. For example, post-transaction surveys may be used primarily for coaching and rewarding call agents and other frontline service personnel and over time become shortened to exclude any questions that are not directly related to the customer's interaction with the agent. But this narrowly-scoped data leaves out important information about the customer's overall experience and relationship with the company. In general, voice-of-the-customer programs should include both in-depth relationship surveys and transaction-based feedback and the transaction feedback should capture information about the entire experience, not just the performance of the service agent.
Do: Segment the results. Rather than tracking an overall satisfaction score for the company, it is often more productive to break the scores out by relevant customer groups and monitor them separately. Different groups may have different satisfaction criteria, as well as different expected ranges of satisfaction. For example, business travelers typically give lower satisfaction ratings than leisure travelers, even though they may, on paper, appear to be more loyal to a specific hotel brand or airline. Understanding how different groups are best satisfied and what the relevant ranges of their satisfaction ratings are will allow you to focus your improvement efforts more effectively.
Don't: Settle for "good enough." If satisfaction ratings have reached a plateau, it may be tempting to rationalize by claiming that further improvement is unnecessary or unaffordable. But this is seldom true. Executives at companies with superior service levels, such as Nordstrom, are frequently heard to use phrases such as, "We're still far from perfect," "We have a long way to go" and "We're always working at getting better." If scores are flat, it's time to work harder, not to relax.
Do: Recruit new stakeholders. As VOC programs mature, they often apply customer feedback in new ways to meet the needs of an expanding base of internal clients. While VOC may initially be used for service recovery, frontline coaching and satisfaction monitoring, over time the information can be systematically applied to support product innovation, process improvement, vendor relations, training and communications content and other important organizational needs. At the same time, the VOC team may evolve from an analytical and report-generating group to an internal consulting organization, working closely with a wide range of stakeholders to help them advance their business objectives.
The main point to keep in mind is that customer satisfaction and VOC programs are not meant to be static. As the organization becomes comfortable with the process of measuring and sharing customer feedback, the program must continually evolve by incorporating new measures, serving new stakeholders, and making more effective use of the information.
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But it's hard to believe these umpires don't have it in for Berkman after watching how they called him out on strikes in the first inning today at U.S. Cellular Field.
A day after he was ejected, Berkman tried to check his swing on a pitch by Jon Garland. Third base umpire Sam Holbrook, who was the plate umpire Friday when he ejected Berkman for arguing balls and strikes, got the appeal of the checked swing and ruled that Berkman didn't check it in time.
Berkman eventually took a pitch that appeared low and out of the strike zone, but plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt rung him up.
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Anita Harding was grief-stricken over the death of her fiance; and is thought to have killed herself.
By the age of 20, the attractive blonde had suffered anorexia in a attempt to stay thin, a miscarriage, and a marriage break-up.
In April, her Italian boyfriend Giacomo Agostini - the father of her unborn child - died at 31.
The couple had been living in Italy, where Miss Harding was working in his hair salon.
Eighteen days before she died, the model - who has a young son from a previous relationship - posted a message on a website set up in his memory which talked of her "pain and devastation" and promised they would be together again soon.
She wrote: "Giacomo baby, what can I say? I have no words to explain the greatness of our love, the happiness, nor the pain and devastation of you leaving, you are my fiance;, my lover, my soulmate, my best friend, and my protector.
"You are so many things to so many people, I am simply your princess 4 ever, only yours, we will be together again soon. I love you, baby."
Miss Harding, who had modelled for newspapers and magazines, was found dead at Perran Sands holiday park in Perranporth, Cornwall, on July 12. Her unborn child, who was due in just a few weeks, also died.
Her parents and her elder brother and sister, who live in Plymouth, were too upset to speak about her death.
But her grandmother, Dot, left a website tribute to her which read: "My lovely Granddaughter and my Friend, The silken blonde hair and eyes so blue, I will always remember you. The precious times we had to share, You knew that I was always there.
"Now reunited with Giacomo as was your wish, I send you now another kiss."
Photographer Phil Carpenter, from Chelmsford, who often worked with Miss Harding, said she had died of a broken heart.
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Another photographer, John Tisbury, of Northamptonshire, said: "It was a catalogue of disasters for Anita - a real shame, because she didn't deserve it.
"She was a stunning model. She adored her little boy, and loved her family. She was open, honest and full of life."
An inquest has been opened and adjourned in Truro, Cornwall, by county coroner Dr Emma Carlyon.
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I don't drink, smoke, cuss, sleep around, party or watch r rated movies. All by choice because I feel that it is wrong to expose yourself to anything that could easily lead to temptation. I don't have anything against anyone who does, but it is better to protect your heart from unnecessary garbage. Innocence keeps you young and beautiful, in my opinion. & I am Christian because I trust Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. He is my everything and always will be. God is love.
Not terribly. I encountered too many bigots who called themselves Christians in my life to be very comfortable with organised religion.
Religiously, not at all. Culturally, growing up in middle class America I couldn't avoid picking it up.
not any, unless you count that i think jesus existed and his teachings were good.
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I see in the Tri-Valley Times that the Bay Area News Group has published their Top 100 Workplaces for the Bay Area. For the fifth consecutive year, Lawrence Livermore National Security has not made the list. As a retiree of LLNS, a private company, I still have plenty of contacts, so from them I have reasons why this is the case.
A manager there describes working conditions as "oppressive" and in some parts actually "brutal." All employees are subject to random drug testing where they have to empty their pockets before giving a urine sample. They also have to take polygraph tests where they are questioned for three hours to see if they are terrorists. In one case an employee passed the test but just one week later had to take the test again, wasting valuable work time.
I wouldn't be surprised if the offices are bugged and the phones tapped. Security is probably watching every keystroke typed on the computers. During the ranking process for pay raises everyone is put into boxes, with bigger boxes for the managers so they can get bigger pay raises. One year a long time ago, the salary committee said the bottom-ranked people were underpaid, so they all got the top raises while higher-ranked employees got smaller raises.
To get these pay raises everyone gets an annual performance review. These reviews are a little different from other companies. For example, a friend of mine told me in her review that she was doing things she was not supposed to be doing. When she asked her group leader, he told her "sorting the mail."
Finally, all employees with a Blue Cross health plan are required to use mail order for maintenance medications. As an enhancement for 2013, these meds can be shipped to a CVS store instead of to their home. All employees were very excited with this new feature,
I hope this explains why LLNS did not make the Top 100 list
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A lot of people are going after Dan Snyder to change the name of his football team, the Washington Redskins, because "redskins" is "offensive" to some people. If that is the case and the football team is forced to change it's name because "some people" have expressed offense, are we to assume the state of Oklahoma will have to change its name too? For the record, in the Choctaw language "okla" is people, and "humma" is red. The word "oklahoma" translates to mean "red people." When does "political correctness" become overkill? Just askin' ....
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The letter from Roger Hadlich (June 19) was so "on-target." I was born in the Bay Area on a farm 80 years ago, and life was wonderful and not too many people. Now we don't have enough water or electricity. Highways are at a standstill, no more Sunday rides just for pleasure. The more populated we are, the less services, less everything good and more of not-so-good.
I can understand why everyone wants to live here, but California needs to raise fruits and vegetables. We need to eat better. The produce from other countries isn't that good. I throw a lot of it away. Alameda County raised some wonderful produces (almost year around). Have you ever tasted a Hayward apricot? They didn't have to irrigate them, so they were wonderful. There used to be Dryers where they dried them and the jam that my family made was "food for the gods."
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We finally have definitive proof that climate change is a hoax. During the State of the Union Address, our liar-in-chief declared climate change a "fact." So now we all know it is not a fact. Barry lies every time he opens his mouth.
I love how the liberal drones always say that we must take action to save the planet "for the children." I guess the Obama Kool-Aid drinkers are OK with "the children" inheriting a country that has open borders allowing drug traffic, illegals, human trafficking and terrorists to pour into our country.
"The children" inherit a world where terrorists are released from Gitmo, and 36,000, including 15,000 drunk drivers, are released from our prisons.
"The children" inherit an $18 trillion national debt, high taxes, high unemployment, a stagnant economy, a failed education system, record welfare rolls and a corrupt, inept, inefficient, overbearing, over-regulating, overtaxing, wasteful, ever-growing federal government.
But I digress. If it were discovered that higher CO2 levels turned people into liberals, do you think Barry and his dwindling group of followers would care about "climate change"? No. And that's a fact.
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The syndicated column by Leonard Pitts Jr. published by your newspaper on June 16 was very disturbing to me. I was diagnosed with "early-onset, younger-age" Alzheimer's disease when I was 55 years old. Before receiving this diagnosis, like Mr. Pitts I also tried to excuse my memory lapses and many other symptoms as "old-timer's" disease.
But as the quality of my work as a registered nurse continued to deteriorate I had no choice but to seek medical attention, thus receiving the news that I was in the early stages of this progressive incurable illness.
With all the media attention, research and education presently going on to find answers as to the cause, treatment and hopefully the cure for Alzheimer's disease, it makes me wonder how Mr. Pitts conducts his research. In his article he states "somewhere in my research I ran across a doctor -- forget his name -- who said if you have the presence of mind to wonder if you have the disease, you don't have the disease."
I can assure you, I have the presence of mind to know I have this disease, and I live with it's unrelenting effects every day. I urge your readers to check out the Alzheimer's Association's list of the 10 Signs of Alzheimer's disease at www.alz.org/10signs for more information and also to look for a recently published book, "Chicken Soup for the Soul, Living with Alzheimer's and Other Dementias." It is filled with stories of caregiving, coping and compassion for those with this merciless disease.
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Update 6:45 p.m. by Avi Selk: Sheriff's deputies have charged the truck driver with DWI, and suspect he was on methamphetamines at the time of the crash.
Marcus Melvin Brownlow, 20 of Palestine, did not have the proper license to drive the truck, according to the Dallas County Sheriff's Department. He is being booked into jail, and could also be cited for safety violations
Update, 10:20 a.m.: The northbound lanes of I-35E has reopened, nine hours after this morning's accident.
Traffic remained backed up for at least a mile south of downtown, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to continue using alternative routes.
Update, 10 a.m.:The truck has been uprighted, and the highway should be reopened before too much longer.
Update, 9:30 a.m.:Dallas County sheriff's officials said it was fortunate that the crash happened overnight when traffic on the highway was light.
"We're real lucky," said Capt. Mark Howard of the Sheriff's Department. "It could have been a lot worse if it had happened at 6:30 instead of 1:30."
Howard said "it's not a nice scene" in the truck where Dallas firefighters and the sheriff's deputies had to wade through dead cows to get to the survivors.
Some of the yearlings were injured so badly that they had to be euthanized on the spot, and a veterinarian was at the scene to help examine all of them. The survivors are being transported to a Dallas County livestock center in Hutchins.
The driver was coming from San antonio, but it was unclear where the cows originated or where the truck is stationed.
The driver has been detained and investigators are examining his records and determining whether he was impaired in any way, as is routine, Howard said.
Officials had hoped to get the truck upright and reopen the highway by 9:30, but that didn't happen.
Update, 9 a.m.: The Texas Department of Transportation says northbound I-35E is unlikely to reopen for several hours while crews clean up the mess.
About 20 of the 89 head of cattle aboard the truck died in this morning's accident.
"Removal of the surviving cattle as well as the deceased cattle is extending the time to clear the scene," TxDOT spokesman Mark Pettit said.
Officers from the Dallas and DART police, Dallas County sheriff's office, Dallas Fire-Rescue and TxDOT participated in the cleanup.
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A cattle truck overturned on I-35E this morning just south of downtown Dallas, shutting down the busy highway throughout rush hour.
The accident happened shortly after 1 a.m. on the northbound highway near Colorado Boulevard on the bridge over the Trinity River.
The driver was reportedly OK, but several of the yearling cattle were killed and many more were injured.
Two died when they jumped off the bridge into the Trinity River bottoms, and crews were burying them near the highway.
It's unclear how the driver lost control, but speed appeared to be a factor, according to sheriff's deputies. The driver, who was not identified, may not have had the right license to operate the truck.
Sheriff's deputies, some wielding lassos, had to move the surviving cattle onto smaller trailers, and some of the animals wandered down the HOV lane before dawn this morning.
By 8:30 a.m., six hours after the crash, the truck remained on its side as crews loaded the dead cattle onto a truck. Traffic was backed up beyond U.S. Highway 67.
The northbound highway is expected to be shut down through the morning rush hour, and many of the alternative routes into downtown Dallas (I-45, Spur 408 and Loop 12) are backed up as well.