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Well, we finally picked it out. After two home depot visits, including this one, we ended up buying a rug for the playroom from the online selection.
If you're searching for a cool rug for your kid's bedroom or a playroom, Home Depot's website is where it's at, y'all.
Since the playroom is where Violet and Henry spend most of their time I want it to be colorful and comfortable. Home Depot's site has pages and pages of colorful, durable rugs in all shapes and sizes.
Ultimately, we narrowed our choices down to the five options below. Today I finally pulled the trigger and ordered one. It should be here in 3 to 5 business days (free shipping!) and then I'll unfurl that bad boy in our playroom, snap a few photos and show you which one we chose.
I know you'll be on pins and needles until then so, in the meantime, lemme know which rug you like best in the photos below. All of them are around $120. I'll be interested to see if you choose the one we ended up ordering.
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On July 13, the Obama administration unveiled a new national strategy to curb the AIDS epidemic, a plan whose stated goals include reducing the annual number of new HIV infections by 25% within five years. Motivating this crusade are a slew of sobering statistics, including an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a total of 1,106,400 adults and adolescents were living with HIV infection in the U.S. at the end of 2006.
As Seth Berkley and Alan Bernstein—who are president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, respectively—wrote in The New York Times in July, "Ending HIV/AIDS urgently requires a vaccine. The evidence that a safe and effective HIV vaccine can be developed is stronger than ever." This article provides a review of recent developments significant to the ongoing search for a viable vaccine candidate.
One notable advance was publicized in September 2009 by the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, which is focused on developing an effective HIV vaccine for use in Southeast Asia. In a six-year-long, community-based, Phase III trial known as RV144, researchers demonstrated that a combination of two vaccines—based on HIV strains that commonly circulate in Thailand—was safe and modestly effective in preventing HIV infection.
Specifically, the treatment consisted of a prime-boost combination of ALVAC® HIV and AIDSVAX® B/E vaccines. More than 16,000 adult volunteers in Thailand were involved in the study. Executed by the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the study included a team of leading Thai and U.S. researchers. The trial was funded by the U.S. government, specifically the Division of AIDS with the NIAID and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
According to the trial sponsor, the U.S. Army Surgeon General via the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity, the results showed that the combined vaccines lowered the rate of HIV infection by 31.2%—a statistically significant amount—in a heterosexual population compared with placebo.
For the first time ever, the ability to reduce the risk of HIV infection in humans was demonstrated. This news was presented by the lead clinical investigator in October 2009 at "AIDS Vaccine 2009" in Paris and subsequently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In 2010, more than 30 U.S. and international collaborators initiated lab studies of the patient specimens in an effort to define the immune responses mediating the vaccine-induced protection against HIV infection. These efforts are ongoing, and further work is required to develop and test a vaccine suitable for licensure and worldwide use.
In separate news from July 2010, researchers from the NIAID Vaccine Research Center (VRC) reported in two Science papers on their discovery of three human antibodies that neutralize HIV. Two of these antibodies were shown to target a broad range of HIV strains. Nearly everyone infected with HIV produces some antibodies to it; the newly identified antibodies are unique in their breadth of neutralizing activity.
The VRC scientists screened blood samples from HIV-infected people around the globe for antibodies against nearly 200 strains of HIV to determine how many strains the antibodies of each patient could neutralize. Blood from one particular patient, known as "donor 45," was found to include broadly neutralizing antibodies specific for HIV envelope proteins.
The screen identified three antibody-producing cells with the desired activity. Two of the cells, named VRC01 and VRC02, were found to neutralize 91% of the HIV strains tested, while a third, named VRC03, was found to neutralize 57%.
This finding lends support to the principle that it is possible for the human immune system to generate broadly neutralizing antibodies. However, as noted by the authors of these Science papers, the design of a vaccine that can induce antibodies with similar specificity will require significantly more effort.
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bongani madondo remembers mama africaBy bongani • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Hnic-ism, features
Fate's a bitch ain't it? I mean here we are. Celebrating what the magic realist, essayist, poet, and literary seer of sorts Ben Okri, regards as "probably the first great historic moment with a positive charge in the 21st Century."
The man you are bound to hear about and from, possibly for the next coming hundred years, eight of which, straight from Capitol Hill, or somewhere about.
And then what happens? That beautiful, healer, diva, sizzler Miriam goes on die on us.
I'm like, what, Mama? Why did they ask you to perform in an anti-Mafia concert in the first place when the Mafia had issued out death threats to all performers and attending audience in the South of Italy? Doesn't matter now.
A person of resolve and artist of extraordinary conviction and passion, you went to Italy, even when you were supposed to have retired by now, and performed to your heart and the audience's content even when your life was in danger, Mama.
Look, Mama; you are gone but you are still with us and I know I'm speaking for many when I say, you will still be with us for generations to come.
Yours was a sound straight from humanity, religion and the healers hearts.
Yours was a voice somehow trapped between that of a pure, sinless child and a wise, old and experienced soul to whom mere age was but just a number. You could have been 5OO years old and living in the mountains, for all I care. And I do.
Your voice conveyed the spirit and message from the world beyond. The world that came before us and which await us in the beyond. But also, yours was a voice of those not quite born.
I am not one of those fakes who'll just heap praises when you are no longer here, unafraid of telling it up straight when you were able to respond for yourself. I cannot lie, that yours was my all time favorite, or your entire body of work got my heart pumping, cause it didn't.
Not all of it, at least. And that's ok. Show me any artist who can fulfill all of their fans and critics' yearning for love, insecurities, idealism, and that old perception of what a helluva written and performed should sound like.
Sometimes we fans and critics expect a lot from artists. Sometimes the impossible.
I know that's childish. Churlish, even. Too "bad"- as in too beautiful: that's the emotional pact the artist signs with us, the minute they walk on stage or slam their vocals down in the studio. Too bad. Too unfortunate. This love we extract from you. But you applied for the job, we didn't.
Same applies to you. I loved you smacks and was even more critical of you. On all those moments of despair and neediness on my part, you fulfilled me to my wildest un-expectations. Like a lot of young black South Africans, I saw you, Hughie, Katse Semenya, Jonas Gwangwa and Letta Mbuli among others, as our true liberators when our leaders were in jail. They tried to silence your voice, but we smuggled and exchanged your cassettes and LPs on the underground in the townships.
Even as I write this, I can hear your teary voice on songs LPs such as Evening With Harry Belafonte, your live performance at Au Theatres Des Champs Elysees in Paris- which in my head matches Mack The Knife: Ella Live in Berlin, or better still, Ella Does The Cole Porter Song Boo !
I can go on and on. Talk about possibly – for me your most haunted and emotion demanding pieces, way beyond the level of classics, particularly the Katse Semenya produced album, A Promise.
Often, I would like to fancy myself a blues connoisseur. . .you understand the topography: Mississipi to Timboctou. Blind Willie Dixon, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, Howling Wolf, Bessie Smith, up to Nina Simone, Johny Cash, Ali Farka Toure, Lobi Traore, night crawlers who could elicit a painful scream of a slide guitar, mimic a lovers' moan, replicate the sounds of blackness that refuses to be defined only by slavery and n'ver do-good hipsters in it.
And yet, I'd never ever imagined you as a blues torch singer, until that day after my own momma Nomvula got wheeled six feet under, that rainy February day 1991. Too numb to cry, I rushed to a friend's backyard shack in the village, and buried myself in your songs back to back. The symphonic strains of your wails!
Did I say you weren't my favourite voice? " Compared To What ?" Brothers Les McCarn and Eddie Harries would have asked. Better still, "So What?"
There's A Promise, you comforted me. There's a city, Gauteng, known for swallowing men and children, never to come back, you told me. But also you cautioned me to Quite It now. And when the tears rolled down my cheeks, you winked at me: Show Me The Way, My Brother.
But then I had to myself the way first. The way. Our way.
Many moons later, we met. You cooked for me. Reprimanded me. You told me personal, intimate tales about a cast of other tortured beauties: Nina, Nakassa, Hughie, Stokely, Coltrane, Aretha, Dolly, about Tsietsi, about your late and only daughter, Bongi.
And then you wept. Gave me a hug. And dished for me.
I left dizzier with love. Giddier with the sound of music in my head: Mas Que Nada, I remember. And I felt calmer. Slightly. I wrote the story. You became both upset and ecstatic. Then I met you in Lagos, a city on perpetual boil. You called me around, whiling away time at the airport. Ordered me on your lap.
"Sit ! " you mock commanded. "Tell me, what's new, what are the young artists doing?"
I mumbled something. Bit my lip. What exactly is it that I could have told you, other than, I love you, Mama?
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Aaron L. Wagner, 28, of Autumnview Drive pleaded guilty June 12 in Niagara County Court to a reduced charge of attempted fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. He originally had been charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance for selling Suboxone to a confidential informant out of his Wilson home and at another Wilson site on Sept. 20 and 21, 2011.
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Most emotions like fear, anger, lust, and envy are connected to our personality and the impulses from our conscious or unconscious mind, instincts for survival and procreation. Love is part of the emotional spectrum, but it is different because it emanates from our soul. Even when it becomes confused with our ego projections, love is actually from the
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5 Horrible Things You Learn Working at a Convenience Store
I don't think I'll be alienating too many people when I say, speaking purely from personal experience, that working at a convenience store kind of sucks. At the very least, it's not a "career path" that most follow willingly. I was no exception. I wanted to be a psychologist after college, a fact I only remember because that's what it says on the worthless degree I earned, but those plans were foiled when I realized that I dislike the average person way too much to devote a lifetime to helping them sort out their emotional bullshit.
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So, with few other job options available, I found myself mired in the drudgery of managing a convenience store for six damn years. Thankfully, about a year ago, my freelance writing and editing work picked up and I was finally able to make my escape. It was one of the happiest days of my life. Here are five reasons why ...
#5. Customers Don't Appreciate Nice Things
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In the convenience store universe, leaving a little bit of a mess behind while hurriedly assembling the fountain sodas and faux cappuccinos that will power you through the first quarter of your awful work day is perfectly acceptable. The problem is, everyone knows that, and like any other "luxury" in life, some people can't help but abuse it. No matter how pristine the place may be when you arrive, within minutes, expect an army of slobs to leave napkins, cups, lids, straws, and any other sort of snack food debris you can imagine all over the place. It wasn't uncommon for someone to pull a pint of ice cream out of the freezer, decide midway through their shopping excursion that they were no longer in the mood for it, and then just leave it on the shelf to melt. Who in the hell behaves this way? I'm afraid the answer is "You do, convenience store customers of America."
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We had a Native-American guy on retainer to keep coming in to do the tear thing.
An especially egregious example of the public's tendency to destroy anything shiny and new happened during the "grand reopening" of a store I worked at. In case you're wondering, "grand reopening" is convenience store slang for "We have a new slushie machine and self-service DVD rental kiosk." It's exciting stuff, so naturally the big corporate heads came down to cut the ribbon and throw the customers a big party, with free food, free drinks, and photo-ready happiness available to all.
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"Yes, thanks for coming, and please don't touch me."
It was apparent almost immediately that this was an awful idea. Customers did not respond well to a nice-looking, nice-smelling store in their proud town, and they would take us to hell to show it. They DESTROYED THE PLACE. The brunt of the damage was absorbed by that aforementioned slushie machine, which became an altar of discarded paper cups as customers fervently sampled all of the exotic flavors we stupidly labeled "new" even though we'd been serving them for years. It's just that the machine they were housed in was so filthy after years of customer wear and tear that the roving hordes barely realized it was there until we replaced it with a prettier model.
How bad did things get? Well, even those corporate bigwigs, whose only role in this endeavor was to smile at customers and watch the happiness spread in waves, fast became too disgusted to carry on. The planned three-hour event was shut down after just one hour. Did the trashers get the point? Of course not! They were coming in for over a week afterward asking if we were still giving out "free stuff."
Their chicanery wasn't contained to the shopping areas, though.
#4. No One Respects a Public Restroom
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It should come as no surprise that, during Operation Total Annihilation, the store bathrooms were also completely annihilated. It wasn't because we were giving away free stuff, though; that's what happens to a convenience store bathroom every single day.
If somebody used the toilet for toilet purposes, it was a small miracle. On several occasions, I saw people lock themselves in the bathroom for 30 minutes at a time, not because they had just eaten 5 pounds of Taco Bell, but because they needed a nice, private place to get high. Of course, none of them would ever admit it, but when a skinny and disheveled person with glassy eyes and slurred speech comes in, spends an eternity on the john, and then leaves without buying anything, we're guessing they weren't just scouting for the best bargain on milk.
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Spoiler alert: You're not finding it at a convenience store.
The best part was when they'd leave behind evidence of what they were doing. One time, one of my workers (I'll call him Biff) found a hypodermic needle stashed in the ceiling, along with the drugs it was to be used in conjunction with. So we weren't so much a store as we were a storage place for criminal activity. Biff, by the way, was initially suspected of planting the drugs, because the average convenience store worker is so bad at cleaning that paying enough attention to notice something in the ceiling sets off all sorts of store security alarms.
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"That clerk gave exact change and kept a smile the entire time ... I want a blood and urine sample."
Once the higher-ups realized that only someone with an IQ in the single digits would plant drugs and then say "HEY BOSS, LOOKIT THE DRUGS!" they set out to find the real culprit. As far as I know, they failed, because drugs were more common there than air and water, so catching one random junkie likely proved fruitless.
But drugs and needles were nothing compared to the time we found a bunch of shit in the sink. That's not a random curse word, by the way; somebody took a giant shit in the sink. The owner of the company (I'll call him Biff) happened to be in the store at the time, saw it, and did what any Fearless Leader would do: He immediately ran away so the hired help had to handle it. Whatever important issues he had come there to tend to were quickly forgotten about in the face of possibly having to clean the poo-poo himself. I can't say I blame him one bit.
#3. Health Codes Are Optional if the Alternative Is Not Making Money
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The last store I worked at had fast food: roller grill, pizza, hot dogs, nachos, and other stuff with more calories than the world's biggest cheeseburger. There were rules out the ass regarding how long stuff could stay out before getting tossed. We had to wear gloves and change them after we touched anything but food. We had to wear hats so our filthy greaseball hair didn't sully the chow. We had to wash our arms up to our elbows after literally every activity. We had to clean the oven every night until it was spotless.
Violations meant that the Health Department would have every right to shut our ass down. They should have done that within a week, because the second obeying these rules meant that we would sell less stuff or customers would get inconvenienced for any reason, everything went out the window. It became food anarchy. Slices of pizza and warm breakfast items stayed on the shelf way past their expiration time -- sometimes by hours, because the people in charge preferred to record sales than waste.
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"Just call it 'premium aged cheese'; some drunk'll buy it."
Arm washing? Glove changing? Both only happened if there were no customers waiting. In an ultra-busy, ultra-understaffed store, this almost never happened. So the same gloves usually touched multiple food items, the register, and packs of cigarettes. This was preferable, in the eyes of both customers and management, to making anybody wait ever.
Ovens would get a half-assed cleaning at best. Cleaning them took a long time, and the customers tended to bitch whenever our cleaning duties meant they had to wait in line for even one second. Even without customer influence, corners were cut on the daily. The ovens had filters in the back that needed to be scrubbed every night. One of them got stuck in its pouch and was never removed. Oh, the manager knew about it, but filters cost money, so there it stayed. As far as I know, it's still there, gathering filth to this very day.


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Heading into the final hours before Tuesday's Buffalo School Board elections, Carl P. Paladino had spent more than $25,000 of his own money to convince South Buffalo voters to choose him, the latest campaign finance filings show.
Jason M. McCarthy had raised more than $22,000 through the end of last week to try to retain his North District seat. The sums are part of a combined $70,000 that candidates have spent so far vying for positions that pay $5,000 a year.
But that collective amount is eclipsed by the money being spent by one group – widely believed to be the state teachers union – that is flooding mailboxes across the city with expensive, full-color smear ads trying to link various candidates to Paladino. In addition, the group sending the mailers is doing so illegally, far exceeding state spending limits.
The regional director of New York State United Teachers does not deny sending the ads, which have been distributed through a postal permit in Queens that is owned by a direct-mail company there.
Whoever is sending the glossy smear fliers has, by many accounts, succeeded in confusing voters. In addition, the group has violated state law that limits spending that is not authorized by candidates to $25 per candidate.
By the time the elections are over, whoever is sending the ads will likely have spent more than $100,000 – far more than any other money being spent on this year's battle to determine control of the Board of Education.
Michael K. Deely, NYSUT regional director, initially told The Buffalo News that he was not responsible for the ads and had no idea who was sending them.
"I didn't send them. NYSUT didn't send them out," he said in late April. "I don't know who sent them out, but I'm glad they sent them out."
A week later, Deely declined to deny that NYSUT had sent them.
"You should know after the election," he said last week.
Deely did not respond to a request seeking comment for this article.
The postal permit in Queens has been used in previous elections by Service Employees International and other unions.
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Whoever is sending the mailers has sown confusion in the run-up to the elections.
"They are linking me to something that has nothing to do with me," Bryon J. McIntyre, who is running for a seat representing part of the East Side and Allentown, said of the smear fliers linking him to Paladino. "That guy is running in another district. Whether he gets in or not has nothing to do with me."
Candidates benefiting from the ads say that even they do not know who is sending the ads – but even some of them believe that the teachers union is responsible.
"I think it's coming from NYSUT," said Ralph R. Hernandez, who is waging a write-in campaign to retain his seat representing the West Side.
"It's very expensive stuff. It's not me, and I'm not doing it. But I'm very grateful for it. I hope they don't send me an invoice, because I didn't authorize any of it."
Hernandez noted he was not consulted about any of the content in the ads. He said he does not condone the smear ads but does appreciate the positive ads promoting him that have been sent by the same entity behind the anti-Paladino ads.
Hernandez raised $1,800 for his campaign as of about a month ago – more than half of it from the Buffalo Teachers Federation, a NYSUT affiliate – and then stopped trying to raise any more money since early April.
"I haven't been soliciting any money," he said. "The people I know don't have any money. My whole focus is on doing the door-to-door thing, trying to do it as economically as I can."
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Hernandez isn't the only union-supported candidate benefiting from the ads who appears to have all but abandoned any fundraising of their own well before any of the ads started to appear in mailboxes.
Adrian F. Harris, who is running against Paladino, raised less than $500 as of early April and hasn't raised any money since.
Sharon Belton-Cottman, the Ferry District incumbent, also stopped raising money. Her situation, though, is somewhat different. She is the only candidate on the ballot and thought she was running unopposed until recently, when a quiet write-in effort to unseat her by electing the Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer surfaced.
In a somewhat similar situation, East District incumbent Rosalyn L. Taylor was knocked off the ballot a couple of weeks ago, when hundreds of signatures on her nominating petitions were deemed invalid. SUNY Buffalo State Assistant Professor Theresa Harris-Tigg appeared to be the certain victor – until Taylor decided in the final few days of the race that she would, in fact, launch a write-in campaign to retain her seat.
It's not clear how much money has been raised by some of the other candidates. That's because many have not filed the required disclosure forms.
Mary Ruth Kapsiak, the Central District incumbent, missed Thursday's deadline for the final finance report and had not filed by 3:30 p.m. Friday. Contacted by email this weekend, she said she had filed her report in City Hall on Friday. Asked to provide a copy of it to The News, she said she was too busy campaigning to do so.
Likewise, there was no financial disclosure in City Hall on Friday for Harris-Tigg, who is not supported by the union. She did not respond to requests for a copy of her report over the weekend.
McIntyre also had not filed a report but said he had not raised more than $500, which is the threshold over which candidates must detail their donations.
James M. Sampson, who is running against Hernandez, had raised more than $12,500 by the end of last week – including $2,500 from the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, apparently the only large donation the group has made so far.
Susan L. Gillick, a union-backed candidate, had raised $7,190 of her own as of last week. Wendy S. Mistretta, who is running against Gillick and McCarthy in the North District, reported $1,060 in donations.
'It's all dirty politics'
One version of the ads being sent from the Queens postal permit features a picture of Park District candidate Paladino next to a picture of one of the candidates in another district who is not backed by the union. An arrow points to Paladino, saying, "This guy is the zero-experience, race-baiting, pornography-loving millionaire who wants to take over Buffalo schools." Another arrow points to the other candidate and says, "And this guy thinks that's just great."
McIntyre, running in the Central District, was one of the candidates depicted in those ads. He said he was aghast when he saw them.
"How could anybody perceive me as a racist?" said McIntyre, who is African-American. "It's just horrible."
Some of the ads also call Paladino a "serial pornographer," a term that refers to someone who creates pornography. While Paladino has admitted forwarding pornographic emails, he has not been accused of creating pornography.
A number of the ads refer to Sampson, McCarthy and McIntyre as Paladino's "cronies." None of the three has taken money from Paladino, according to disclosures they have filed. All three say they take offense to being characterized as a crony of his.
"It's all dirty politics," said McCarthy, much of whose funding came from businesspeople, Democratic officials and charter school supporters.
Geographic distortions
Three years ago, McCarthy was one of the beneficiaries of a similar situation, when Democrats for Education Reform spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads in the race without even talking to candidates. Mailers flooded voters' homes then, McCarthy acknowledges, but they were not attack ads. Now, he says, he's doing all he can to combat the anonymous ads seeking to smear him.
"I ran out of the $23,000 I raised, so I had to go out and raise more," he said. "This is insane for a School Board race."
The union-backed candidates benefiting from the anti-Paladino ads, as well as those targeted by them, agree on one thing: The ads have confused voters.
There are six seats open on the board, each representing a specific geographic area in the city. Paladino, for instance, is running for a seat representing South Buffalo. But because Paladino's picture appears on ads sent to voters throughout much of the city, many voters think he is running citywide.
"I talked to one guy who's convinced Carl Paladino is running in the West District," said Sampson, who is running against Hernandez there. "It's really confusing people.
"My guess is the opposition is of the belief that the more they get people muddled, the better."
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Arriving shortly after 11 p.m., Jennifer Aniston and fiancé Justin Theroux relaxed at the Tower Bar where a jazz combo performed.
Aniston chatted with Molly Sims but Theroux was never far. The couple was inseparable, smiling and laughing as the night went on. Aniston looked like she was having a ball and so happy in her red Valentino gown.
Posing for pictures with huge smiles on their faces, the duo seemed carefree.
Another couple, Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas arrived later, around 11:30 p.m. Sitting in a booth with Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, both appeared very talkative – with Douglas standing a lot of the time to talk to some of the old timers. Several guests approached the actress to congratulate her on Chicago performance earlier in the evening.
Oscar winner Ben Affleck and wife Jennifer Garner also made a brief appearance before leaving to attend fellow Argo producer George Clooney's party.
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We have a house guest. All this week, Moxie Mona is visiting eight to ten different states a day to spread Moxie love to everyone, making it the grandest and fastest trip a traveling doll has ever taken in the history of traveling dolls.
So, naturally we went to the farmer's market. And out for ice cream.
Mona hanging with the dairy cow. "I feel a wee bit underdressed."
We put her to work at our favorite ice cream shoppe.
There's lots more to do around here yeah, like, uh, hanging with friends while sipping frozen hot chocolate or eating designer cupcakes. Pretty much only things involving food.
But one of the awesome things about Northwest Indiana is that we are just about a half hour away from both Illinois and Michigan.
And I've been into taking lots of field trips lately (especially to Chicago) as I'm working on this bucket list, you see.
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Road to the Isles, a six-member ensemble, will bring the music and dance of the Celtic lands of old to the Randolph County Community Arts Center March 16 for two special performances. A special family concert designed for young audience members will begin at 4 p.m. The evening concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Drawing from a wealth of experience, Road to the Isles combines virtuoso piping, fiddling and Irish flute playing, with championship quality Irish Step and Scottish Highland dancing to bring the traditions of Ireland and Scotland to life. Dance performances include the sword dance, highland fling, sean triubhas, Irish reel and jig, slip jig, and hornpipe, all complemented by songs, stories, and instrumental solos and duets.
The RCCAC performance will celebrate the cultural relationship shared by the Irish and Scottish people, who share many ties as well as contrasts in their music and dance. Road to the Isles concerts usually consist of two sets with costume changes, solos, duets, trios and ensemble performances, with raconteur and master musician Richard Hughes serving as guide through this beautiful territory. Hughes first started playing traditional Irish music almost 50 years ago on the flute and tin whistle for dances in Pittsburgh, and he has been playing music ever since.
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Road to the Isles will perform two St. Patrick's Eve concerts March 16: a special family concert designed for young audiences at 4 p.m. and an evening concert at 7:30 p.m. The group features George Balderose on the Great Highland Bagpipes and several varieties of Celtic smallpipes; Oliver Browne and Melinda Crawford on fiddle; the inspirational voice, guitar and flute of Richard Hughes; and traditional Irish and Scottish dance performed by Cliodhna Graven and Rebecca Craig.
Hughes is joined by piper George Balderose, who the New York Times described as having a "virtuoso's gift." He has studied for more than 30 years with many of the world's great piping masters. He is an instructor, a founder and the executive director of the Balmoral School of Piping, the foremost summer school in the United States for the learning of the bagpipes. Two exceptional fiddle players, Melinda Crawford, the 2003 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, and Oliver Browne, outstanding Irish-born fiddler, also are part of the group.
Dancers Becky Craig and Cliodhna Graven represent two different traditions of dancing, and each has successfully competed at Irish Feis and Highland Games throughout the Northeast United States. Their performances will highlight and contrast the dance styles of their respective traditions.
The Road to the Isles brings together the fiddle, bagpipe, flute music, dance, and folk songs of Ireland and Scotland for a performance that breathes vibrant life into the ancient traditions of Celtic cultures. It will be the perfect way to celebrate St. Paddy's Day.
Advance ticket prices for the evening concert are: $14 for adults; $12 for seniors; and $5 for students. Tickets purchased the day of the show, or at the door, are: $16 for adults; $14 for seniors; and $7 for students. All tickets for the 4 p.m. family concert are $5. Tickets can be purchased at the RCCAC office by phone at 304-637-2355, with credit or debit card, or at the door while they last. Doors will open 30 minutes before showtime.
Sponsors for the Family Concert Series and the Evening Concert Series, as well as the RCCAC Outreach Program, include Allegheny Insurance, Davis Health Systems, Family Dental Practice, FirstEnergy Foundation, Graceland Inn and Conference Center, The Inter-Mountain, WDNE Radio/WV Radio Corp., Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour/PennPAT, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, West Virginia Culture and History/West Virginia Commission on the Arts and several anonymous donors.
Individuals or businesses may sponsor the concert series, which provides year-round exposure throughout the community via posters, press releases and advertisements.
Any businesses or individuals interested in sponsoring any events should call the RCCAC office at 304-637-2355 or log on to www.randolpharts.org for more information.
The Randolph County Community Arts Center, a nonprofit organization promoting and supporting the arts in Randolph County and the surrounding areas, is located at the corner of Randolph Avenue and Park Street in Elkins.


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For patients with newly diagnosed myeloma, Revlimid is available through two national trials involving ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) and SWOG (Southwest Oncology Group). A number of other trials are being planned and will be available in the coming months in various disease settings. Check the Myeloma Matrix and the Myeloma Minute for announcements as these trials open, or call the IMF hotline at the above number.
At the present time, access to commercially available Revlimid by prescription is more limited. The FDA has approved Revlimid for MDS, (Myelo Dysplastic Syndrome), a type of pre-leukemia. This means that use for myeloma patients is "off-label." For myeloma patients whose oncologists have recommended therapy with Revlimid, this presents problems. First, since Revlimid will probably not be approved specifically for myeloma until later in the year, it will not, generally speaking, be covered by insurance for myeloma patients. Second, and perhaps more importantly, the commercial Revlimid pricing is currently set for the much lower dose schedule used for MDS (5-10mg daily versus 25mg daily for myeloma), thus making the cost disproportionately and prohibitively high for myeloma patients at this time. With specific FDA approval for myeloma, there are indications that the pricing will be geared to the recommended myeloma dosing and schedule. This is a delicate point in that although myeloma patients need and want Revlimid right now, FDA approval is absolutely required to promote use for myeloma. The 25mg capsule that is provided free through EAP is not an appropriate dose for MDS. Thus the 25mg capsule is not currently available commercially! This complex scenario will be worked out in the coming months.
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TAHOE CITY, Calif. - Transforming the communities around North Lake Tahoe into a coordinated winter festival filled with parades, dog and pet events, and food challenges is no easy task, officials said."We're sleeping and thinking SnowFest! year-round because it takes more time than we have," said Pam Pokorny, executive director of SnowFest! 2013. "It's always on our minds, and we're always trying to come up with better, bigger ways to keep SnowFest! going."SnowFest!, a 10-day celebration presented by the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, kicks off this year on Friday, March 1, and will feature more than 60 activities in which both locals and visitors can participate."With SnowFest!, it's fun, it's quirky, it's silly," Pokorny said.A lot of work goes into ensuring a successful festival, including encouraging businesses to host an activity, brainstorming and suggesting activities to businesses, securing sponsorships, organizing event logistics and promoting the event through various - mediums.Performing the behind-the-scenes work is Pokorny and Ruth Schnabel - who's served as the on-and-off executive director of SnowFest! since its inception in 1982 and is its current executive manager - with the help of about two dozen volunteers, many of whom get involved as the event draws nearer."We're always looking for volunteers," Schnabel said.Back in the day, SnowFest! had a larger staff, with its ranks made up of two year-round members - Schnabel and Pokorny are part-time employees - with one or two part-time employees coming in about a month before the event, along with roughly the same amount of volunteers as today.Yet, in 2000, SnowFest! found itself $250,000 in debt after an executive director out of Los Angeles was hired to run things - putting the event's existence in jeopardy, Schnabel said."The community loves the event, supports SnowFest!, so the community rallied and saved SnowFest!" she said.Today the budget for the event is $75,000, said Schnabel, adding that the most difficult part of her and Pokorny's job is finding funding, a result of the economy and a decrease in sponsorship from years past."We work on a shoestring (budget)," Schnabel said.Despite that and all time and effort needed to put on SnowFest!, both she and Pokorny find it rewarding."It's rewarding to see everybody, to have people smiling and happy and making money, having fun," Pokorny said. "There's nothing else like it."
In its 32-year, SnowFest! will feature some of its classic events such as opening night at Squaw Valley, 23rd annual Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim, The Great Ski Race, Duncan Golf Dog Pull and Tahoe City SnowFest! Parade.The parade will have a returning twist to it this year. The Truckee Railroad Regulators 601 will be in it, acting the part of railroad regulators, complete with cap guns and a western jailhouse."We'll just have to wait and see which unsuspecting shop keeper will get robbed and who along the parade route will find themselves locked up," Pokorny said.New this year will be the Crystal Bay Club's Tainted Love '80s Dance Party, complete with '80s tunes and dress; Diamond Peak Ski Area/Hyatt-Lone Eagle Grille's Last Tracks & Lone Eagle Snacks, combining wine, food and skiing with a "geek" theme; a Mother/Son Laser Tag; and the Blue Agave's Indoor River Rafting Party & Trivia Night, among other activities."What an event like SnowFest! does is cause people to make a decision to visit your community because there's so much going on," Schnabel said.A 2010 economic impact study on SnowFest! found that attendance for that year was more than 25,000 people, generating $3.5 million for the North Lake Tahoe economy over 10 days."It's really rewarding knowing ... it's one of the biggest money-making days that they (businesses) have of the year," Pokorny said. "It's really nice to know that we're helping them do that."Last year, local nonprofits sold $24,000 worth of raffle tickets, said Schnabel, adding that over the event's history, it has likely generated more than $250,000 for nonprofits."It's not just a small thing," Pokorny said, laughing.
The idea for SnowFest! came from Bob Everson, former marketing director at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort, after noticing that area drew visiting skiers in the months of December, January and February, but not in March when there is spring skiing to be had.In the spring of 1981, Everson approached the Tahoe City Chamber of Commerce and the Visitors and Convention Bureau with the suggestion of holding a winter carnival the first week of March, according to the SnowFest! website. At a June 1981 meeting, Everson presented his idea to members of the community, ranging from ski resorts to local service organizations. His idea was well-received and a follow-up meeting was scheduled for mid-July.Yet before he could attend that meeting, Everson died in a boating accident on Lake Tahoe on July 4.When the meeting was held, it was determined the community would move forward with a winter carnival called SnowFest in Everson's honor, with it taking place for the first time in 1982."Probably the biggest thrill was going to Squaw Valley on opening night and there were about 100 people there," Schnabel recalled. "We were so excited we could hardly stand it. We thought we had a huge success on our hands." Today, SnowFest!'s events draw tens of thousands of people to the North Shore."I think he (Everson) would be overwhelmed," Schnabel said. "I think those of us who started SnowFest! had no idea that it would last as long as it has, and it would become such an important part of community life at North Lake Tahoe."As for the future of SnowFest!, she said thinks the event will carry on all the while getting bigger and better."Wouldn't it be wonderful to see it go for a 100 years?" Schnabel said.


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It was a rainy day in Sonoma yesterday, something we all appreciated as an antidote to California's drought. Lloyd Kahn, who shelters in Bolinas, stopped by our Tumbleweed office and we discussed the upswing in tiny house interest. What's new is old, or what's old is new again.
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For those who don't know Lloyd Kahn, he first became fascinated with shelters of all types decades ago. He was one of the main editors of the Whole Earth Catalog and focused on the shelter section. Kahn hasn't lost interest in how people live in the U.S. and across the globe, and has published stunning, best-seller shelter books ever since.Read More


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Rose Marie (Meloy) Roub, 75, of 911 Green Ave., Altoona, died Wednesday at Altoona Regional after an extended illness.
She was born in Altoona, daughter of Joseph and Verna (Meloy) Eckenrode. She married Joseph F. Roub Sr. on Nov. 27, 1954, in Altoona.
Surviving are her husband; two sons: Joseph Jr. of Altoona and Jack (Doreen) of Johnstown; three daughters: Julia Vallade (Paul) in Maryland, Jeannette Shannon of Altoona and Rose Mary Roub of Altoona; nine grandchildren: Ryan Shannon, Erin Shumac, Sean Shannon, Andrew Vallade, Kimberly Vallade, Christin Roub, Joseph Roub III, Anthony Roub and John Roub; six great-grandchildren: Cameron Shannon, Kailah Shannon and Seamas, Kinley, Maeve and Meallan Shumac; two brothers: Raymond Eckenrode of Pittsburgh and John Eckenrode of Altoona; and two sisters: Elizabeth MacFarlane of Altoona and Mary Robb (William) of Altoona.
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She was preceded in death by a sister, Patricia Rhinehart; and a son-in-law, Patrick Shannon.
Rose attended St. Mark's Catholic Church and First Baptist Church. She was a homemaker and housewife and previously was employed at the Jaffa Shrine and Altoona Shoe Factory.
Rose was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister. She was a mother to all who knew her, and her home and heart were open to all. Family was everything to her, and most people she considered family.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, at The Stevens Mortuary Inc., 1421 Eighth Ave., Altoona. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, at Stevens Memorial Chapel by Pastor Jerry Sneath. Committal will be at Grandview Cemetery.
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Renowned author, diplomat and scholar, Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka will talk about Japan's first-ever National Security Strategy as well as the restructuring of the legal basis for Japan's national security.
Dr. Kitaoka is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Panel on Recon-struction of the Legal Basis for Security for Prime Minister Abe, which discusses and reports on the exercise of the right of collective self-defense and participation in collective security measures. On September 10, 2013, he was also appointed Chairman of the Council on Security and Defense Capabilities by Prime Minister Abe for the purpose of laying the groundwork for the "National Security Strategy" as well as reviewing the National Defense Program Guidelines.
A Professor Emeritus in Japanese Political and Diplomatic History of the esteemed University of Tokyo, Dr. Kitaoka has taught at many distinguished colleges in Tokyo for over three decades. In addition to his numerous achievements in academia, he also served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations (2004-2006). He was also Chairman of the Japan-China Joint History Research Committee.
Dr. Kitaoka also holds positions as President of the International University of Japan in Niigata, Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and Executive Director of Research at the Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS).
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The River Bandits baseball team, of Mount Pleasant, won the 19th annual Labor Day Classic 12U Championship hosted by the Diamond Devils. Team members include (first row, left to right) Kyle Jarocki, Darren Kraft, Jackson Lauritzen, Hayden Asbill, Brandon Stokes (second row, from left) Caleb Jackson, Matthew Besco, Alexander Marshall, Daniel Ravenel, Reilly Farrell, (third row, from left) coach Rick Farrell, coach Jim Kraft, coach Tom Jarocki, head coach Jason Asbill. Not pictured is Bailey Wiseman.
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Arizona trail runners found a new home at the Durango Double on Saturday.
Gary Krugger of Flagstaff and Katherine Metzger of Prescott ran away with the 50-kilometer trail race titles in the resurrected Durango Double running weekend, which will include a marathon and half-marathon today.
�It was a really tough run in terms of the terrain and the altitude,� said Metzger, a 32-year-old physician. �But the support on the course was great. The volunteers were wonderful.�
She credited a course volunteer with keeping her on track up in the Horse Gulch section of Saturday�s route � which she had not seen before Saturday morning.
�I got lost (briefly) a couple of times. Usually, I figure it out about a half-mile later,� Metzger said.
�But this time, one of the volunteers actually ran after me and tapped me on the shoulder to tell me to run the other way. ... That was really nice,� said the internal medicine specialist who finished in 6 hours, 5 minutes, 12 seconds to set the women�s course record � with the help of the timely volunteer from the Women�s Resource Center, the charity beneficiary of the 2012 Durango Double.
Metzger, who won the women�s division of a Flagstaff 50-mile trail run two weeks ago, finished sixth overall in the Durango 50K. She said she�s planning to run today�s 13.1-mile half-marathon.
Hannah Lippe of Carbondale (eighth overall) finished second (6:12:30) among the women in the 50K. Missy Gosney of Durango (ninth overall) finished third (6:21:03), placing three women among the top nine overall finishers.
Krugger, an Arizona transplant from Pennsylvania, won the men�s 50K in 5:11:58, ahead of second-place Erich Owen of Ophir (5:20:01). Thomas Scott of Denver crossed the finish line in front of the Animas Surgical Hospital in third place (5:44:24).
Two Durango runners � Matt Turgeon and Michael Manganello � finished fourth (5:52:38) and fifth (5:57:30), respectively.
�I took the lead around the half and tried to hold it,� said the soft-spoken Krugger, who primarily is a road racer.
�I ... do mostly road racing. I�ve done doubles and triples before,� said Krugger who moved to Flagstaff from Erie, Pa., a year ago. �And this was close, so I figured I would do both.�
Krugger, who averaged 10-minute miles in the 50K trail race, will compete in the Durango Marathon on today, starting at 8 a.m. at Fort Lewis College.
The half-marathon will start at the same time.
Both races will finish at Buckley Park at 12th and Main in downtown Durango. The course will use all sections of the Animas River Trail.
Krugger said he had contact from Owen for much of Saturday�s race.
�He kept pretty close. I�d hit the aid station, and as I was leaving, he was coming in. ... He was going pretty good,� said Krugger, a 27-year-old who broke the course record in winning the Madison Marathon in Montana last summer.
The Madison Marathon is the highest road marathon in the United States with an average elevation of 9,000 feet.
�It was pretty tough around miles 15, 16, 17 ... along that ridge where it is banked really hard,� he said of Saturday�s course that started and finished at Animas Surgical Hospital off County Road 9.
The course looped into the Sale Barn trail system and then climbed into Horse Gulch, eventually working across Raider Ridge to the Rim Trail and Chapman Hill.
�I felt good halfway through,� said Owen, the runner-up. �Me and the leader were together for ... 15 miles or so. But I bonked a little there at the end,� he said, toasting his finish with a cold beer from local sponsor Ska Brewing.
The winners of the 25K trail race in the Durango Double had their toasts earlier Saturday: Former Durango resident Mike Andres, currently living in Denver, won the men�s 25K in 1:44:16; Anna Moseley of Highlands Ranch, a former runner at Colorado Mesa University, won the women�s 25K in 2:03:10, finishing seventh overall.
�It was snowing when I left Denver,� said Moseley, who marveled at Saturday morning�s blue skies over Durango. She decided only Friday to enter Saturday�s 25K.
�I�m training for a full marathon in Moab on Nov. 3, so this is a good training run,� said Moseley, 27, who is a regional representative for Salomon. She staffed a booth at the Durango Double to support Gardenswartz Sporting Goods, she said.
�This is an awesome course. I�ve been on it before. I come to Durango pretty often,� said Moseley, who raced in the Tom Strandt Memorial Run at Fort Lewis College during her collegiate days.
She held off 25K runner-up Katy Dannenberg of Boulder, who was competing in her first trail run.
�I train on a lot of trails in Boulder, but I�ve never actually raced on the trails,� said Dannenberg, who was in Durango with a group from Boulder-based Avery Brewing.
Andres, who won the men�s 25K, found himself on familiar trails from his days as a pro mountain biker based in Durango.
�This (trail running) is the new thing,� said Andres, who also will run two at the Durango Double.
�My girlfriend is running the marathon (today), and I�m going to support her,� said Andres, who also had other plans Saturday afternoon.
�I�m also here for a good friend�s wedding. This is a good way to start the day,� said Andres, who finished ahead of runner-up Scott Simmons, a Durango ski mountaineer who is training for his winter events.
Mark Pfetzer of Farmington was third (1:57:22) in the 25K, and Matt Teague of Durango was fourth (1:58:01).


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quote: Debatable. It is stagnant. A paltry 2.3% growth is not mending. When Reagan inherited Carter's mess, his plans caused triple the growth than what his happening under Obama.
quote: More likely due to the fact that people have stopped looking for work, so the numbers are fudged making it look like, hey, less people are looking for work, so that means we have gains in employment. Kinda goes hand in hand with Obama putting more people on assistance than ever before.


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Oh, absolutely. I don't think Mt/M displayed poor sportsmanship or anything. But something seemed off.
BazLar's 3t should be downgraded big time. The technical specialist was not doing his/her job.
Now, would I say they are at the level of G&G or anything like that? Of course not but who is. I think either way that they do look 'Russian' in their skating, and in a good way.
I agree. They are very much a Russian pair and have great lines and good quality to their skating. Their SBS jumps are always woefully out of unison though, and they don't really try to sell their programs at all. They're a little bit flat.
Bazarova/Larionov's first GP Gold ?
looks like an overhaul for Russian pairs this season though I disagree they are Rus No.2 over Kavaguti-Smirnov, they are so overscored
I do wonder why Castelli & Shnapir keep going for that 2A 2A sequence when they always have problems with it. They land a nice 3S in the SP and a nice 3T at the beginning of the LP. They have options! For that matter, they can usually get some sort of first 2A-do some hops into a 2f or something and be done with it.
Congratulations on their first GP medal, though They were definitely a highlight for me at SkAm.
Happy for MT/M that they get to go to GPfinal. Get it together guys for the rest of the season.
ETA: Dylan seems to be struggling a bit with the lifts. Has Kirsten grown bigger?
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BELOIT- The West Branch Local school board and teachers union have agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement.
The school board and the West Branch Education Association Wednesday night entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that will provide eligible teachers an extra half step (roughly 2.5 percent) pay raise based on experience in the second year if money becomes available. The board had previously rejected the offer last week.
With the signing, the teachers accepted the contract imposed by the board last week and will cancel their work to rule directive restricting teachers' work schedule to the specific hours outlined in the contract.
"I'm happy that the WBEA and school board continued working together and came to a compromise," said Mike Helm, WBEA president. "It's a good day for everybody...especially the kids."
Teams for the two groups had been negotiating for several months with the assistance of a federal mediator but failed to reach an agreement before the start of school. The board imposed its final offer last week after the WBEA rejected both a tentative agreement and the final offer in August due to concessions which Helm estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars over the life of the contract, including 1.5 steps (roughly 7.5 percent) in salary raises for eligible teachers.
The contract includes an absolute pay freeze in salaries for the first year and a half step pay increase for eligible employees in the second year as well as additional compensation for advanced education and a financial incentive for outstanding attendance both years of the contract. Teachers will also pay more each month toward the cost of health insurance, but the amount of employee contributions will be frozen for the next two years.
According to schools Superintendent Dr. Scott Weingart, the Memorandum of Understanding, which acts as an addendum to the imposed contract, addresses the issue of pay raises based on experience by linking the additional half step to additional state funding.
"Specifically, school districts in Ohio that are experiencing declining enrollment, have traditionally been provided with 'supplemental guarantee' funding, which addresses loss of revenue due to loss of student enrollment," he said in a written statement. "West Branch continues to attract record numbers of students through open enrollment (nearly 300 students from other districts this year) but the school district continues to experience a decline in the number of resident students. This is not uncommon in northeastern Ohio, but the net result is fewer total students."
Weingart said that enrollment in the district is approximately 2,200 students, down about 200 students in the last three years. Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding, if the district receives the supplemental guarantee funding in the second year of the contract and if that funding exceeds $200,000, the district will provide the additional half step as compensation to all eligible teachers. If the district does not receive the additional funding, then the teachers will not receive additional compensation.
In the written release, board President Terry Criss praised the negotiating teams for their professionalism and commitment to the district.
"We worked together and met for many long hours to address the concerns expressed by both teams," he said. "I believe that this compromise is a good solution because it allows us to conclude talks and focus on the business of educating children in our district."
Helm also expressed his appreciation for the board's willingness to approve the Memorandum of Understanding.
"On behalf of the association, we want to thank the board for its dedication to the staff, our parents, and, most of all, our students," he said in the release.
With the teachers' contract settled, all employees in the district will experience a pay freeze this school year.
The board ratified a renegotiated contract with the classified employees union last summer which had the employees work last year under the same terms as the prior contract, but accept an absolute pay freeze, as well as pay more into health care premiums, this year. In June the board approved an agreement with all confidential employees and administrative staff under the same conditions. The confidential employees' medical and prescription drug rates will be consistent with the classified employee contract while administrative personnel's medical and dental rates will be consistent with the teachers' contract.
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The Obama administration announced yesterday
that it has instructed federal agencies to buy smaller, more fuel-efficient
vehicles in an effort to meet national energy and environmental goals.
U.S. Present Barack Obama is ordering government
agencies to buy cars like the Ford Fiesta, Chevy Cruze and Chevy Volt instead
of full-sized cars like the Ford Taurus or Chevy Impala. These instructions are
aimed to reduce U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025 from 2008's import
levels, and to place 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads by 2015.
The U.S. government plans to buy 116 plug-in
electric vehicles as part of its fleet efficiency effort. Of the 116 plug-in's,
101 will be Chevy
Volts, which will be made in Detroit, while the other 15 will be battery
electric Nissan
Leafs and Think City electric models. These environmentally
friendly models will join the government's 600,000-vehicle fleet.
There are exceptions to the rule, though. Obama
noted in a memo that federal agencies are not to buy full-size sedans unless
absolutely necessary, and said that government employees can continue using
full-sized SUV's that can run on alternative
fuels like E85. But those using larger vehicles six months
from now will have to post that they do so on their websites.
In addition, Obama suggested that optional
equipment should be limited unless it is vital to agency missions. Exceptions
will be made for vehicles used for military tactical operations, emergency
response and law enforcement.
The new electric vehicle pilot program will equip
20 government agencies in five cities with these vehicles. All branches of the
U.S. military as well as the Energy Department and Veterans Administration will
take part in the program, and the five chosen cities will be Detroit,
Washington D.C., San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In addition, 100
charging stations will be placed at federal buildings in Michigan,
California and Washington D.C.
The government hopes to encourage U.S. citizens to
adopt environmentally friendly vehicles by leading by example. According to
government estimates, replacing some of the government fleet with these
electric vehicles will reduce
government fuel consumption by 7.7 million gallons, which equates to 385,000 barrels
of oil. Obama hopes to have most government vehicles purchased in 2015 be environmentally
friendly vehicles.
quote: Income Flat tax 22% for everyone!
quote: would it also be fair that those same top 1% of people in the country have 65% of the say in what happens in the government?
quote: Why should it be that the less money you make, the more of it you keep?
quote: There many people refuse raises once they get close to that limit so they can continue to keep their money and receive the free government handouts.
quote: The top 1% also have more wealth than the bottom 95% do combined.
quote: Instead we've seen the biggest increase in the amount of government jobs under his administration.
quote: Bush increase the size and scope of Govt much further then Obama has.
quote: Everything else you posting is pretty accurate the Govt creates no jobs that actually grow the economy in a positive way. All the Govt does is steal money from the economy destroying far more jobs then they create.
quote: Again, your numbers are NOT taking into account the bureaucracies Obama is erecting that will have to be filled with Government workers. And, of course, all of these will require new IRS employees as well.
quote: the reason for this is last I heard all those republicans we elected were supposed to over turn it Right???
quote: Obama is just as bad as Bush was.
quote: Corporations earn their money, the government does not.
quote: The (our) government protects its citizens and their freedom, corporations do not
quote: So? I'm glad they've made jobs available...
quote: so what if there's waste in the government?
quote: I love hearing conservatives tell people in need to go get a job...let's not create any government jobs to help mitigate the issue.
quote: Stop crying about everything Obama does just because you don't like the word "Democrat."
quote: Spoken like a true Socialist
quote: Ah yes, the old standby when nothing substantial is at hand.
quote: Please identify and quote one instance where this person said anything about "spreading the wealth."
quote: Identifying corruption and flaws in a "capitalistic" system is not socialism, despite what the flag waiving TV personalities have told you.
quote: People that think for themselves don't need such reminders.
quote: What are talking about?!?! Neither nolisi or I commented anything about "spreading the wealth".
quote: So, it's okay and politically correct to call out all the corruption in "capitalism" and belittle "flag waivers" but it's not acceptable to criticize socialism or socialist comments made on this forum.
quote: Flag waivers have nothing to do with it. If you combine the two that's your limitation.
quote: Socialism is all about "spreading the wealth.
quote: So where's the definitive proof that government employee increase was the largest under Obama Administration?


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Commissioner?Roger Goodell?said there is a proposal under consideration to eliminate the normally routine point-after attempts.
"The extra point is almost automatic," Goodell said, according to NFL.com. "I believe we had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd (1,256 of 1,261). So it's a very small fraction of the play, and you want to add excitement with every play."
Four of the five failed extra-point tries were blocked.
One proposal being floated as a replacement would be to give seven points for a touchdown with the option to run what is now a two-point conversion play for an eighth point. It might be the one that Goodell pitches to his owners because he likes the idea.
"There's one proposal in particular that I've heard about," Goodell said. "It's automatic that you get seven points when you score a touchdown, but you could potentially go for an eighth point, either by running or passing the ball, so if you fail, you go back to six."
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Chelsea Breland is the pre-Black Friday shopper that merchants crave.
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As soon as the Thanksgiving feast is over today, she plans to stand in line at Best Buy in West Ashley to buy a new TV.
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The store doesnt open until midnight, but she will be there between 2 and 6 p.m. with cellphone, sister and friend in tow for the bonanza of deals.
Her sister will search for cameras; her friend will make a beeline to laptop computers.
From there they will head to Target, where Brelands brother will search for a TV and do reconnaissance on the crowds.
If Walmarts early doorbusters have winnowed down the crowds, she might stop by the worlds largest retailer in the wee hours of the morning before putting her head on a pillow by sun up Friday.
I go for the deals and the rush, the Mount Pleasant resident said. Its a whole lot of fun, and I am so happy afterward.
Breland and company will be among the 147 million people flocking to stores this long holiday weekend, one that comes the earliest in five years to kick off the annual shopping frenzy.
This year, Thanksgiving will take an even bigger bite out of Black Friday, the day that gets its name because stores traditionally begin to turn a profit on their balance sheets as most people are off work and out shopping.
More stores will open today than ever before, and they are opening earlier.
Retail juggernaut Walmart, which is open around the clock, usually sets the pace. Its special sales start at 8 p.m., two hours earlier than last year, and key competitors clamoring for customers still-paltry purses after the recession followed suit.
Kmart, which is open from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, will reopen with its crowd-pleasers at 8 p.m. Sears and Toys R Us fling open their doors at 8 p.m. Target, which opened at midnight last year, will allow shoppers inside at 9 p.m.
HHGregg will start selling appliances at 10 p.m. Best Buys registers will ring at midnight, as will Belks for its earliest opening ever. Kohls wont be left out either, also opening at midnight.
Several people were already forming a line at Best Buy in North Charleston on Wednesday afternoon.
Black Friday used to be a party-shopping-type thing where families went together, said Marianne Bickle, head of the Department of Retailing at the University of South Carolina.
Now, its not a social event. Its about saving money. Instead of family members going to one store, one goes to one store and one to another, and they are maximizing their technological resources to make sure they get the best deal.
Rising expectations
As for the blow back from shops opening earlier than ever, Bickle said merchants are just changing with the times.
The retailers arent making consumers shop, she said. They are simply giving people options. If they dont want to shop, they dont have to.
The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday sales will rise 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion. Thats lower than last years 5.6 percent growth in sales, but higher than the 10-year average of 3.5 percent.
This is the most optimistic forecast NRF has released since the recession, NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said. In spite of the uncertainties that exist in our economy and among consumers, we believe well see solid holiday sales growth this year.
Concern over the fiscal cliff and future economic growth could combine to affect shoppers spending plans, but Shay believes retailers promotions will hit the right chord with holiday shoppers.
Marlena Lunnon of New York City plans to be among the multitudes leaving the dining room and heading for the showroom today.
As soon as we get up from the table, we will go shopping, she said. Whatever is open, we will be there.
Lunnon, who is visiting family members in Goose Creek for the holiday, is trying not to spend over $1,000, but she doubts she can stick to her budget. Last year she shelled out about $1,500 on Christmas gifts.
Barbara Haney will be out later today too.
She and her husband, Johnathon, who is in the Air Force, scouted toys at Walmart this week for presents for their 2-year-old daughter, Leia.
I come for the deals, not the crowds, said Barbara Haney, who plans to spend between $500 and $1,000 on Christmas, the same as last year.
Anthony Duncan of North Charleston wont be out shopping this weekend, but he said his wife, Karen, will.
I just give her the money and let her go, Duncan said.
The Department of Defense system operator anticipates spending about $2,000 this year, not much more than in 2011.
A lot of it will be gift cards, he said while shopping this week for birthday gifts for twin grandchildren.
And you wont find Ellen Lawless and her family at the stores today either.
If we dont shop, maybe they will get the hint that they shouldnt be open on Thanksgiving, Lawless said.
But come Friday, she will be out with her daughter, Megan, looking for deals, because she plans to spend less this year.
The cost of a lot of things has gone up, she said.
Real conundrum
Locally owned Palmetto Moon refuses to open on Thanksgiving, as most other local businesses, but co-owner Bob Webster doesnt want to miss shoppers either.
Its a real conundrum, he said. Im concerned when customers are going to shop. Are they going to come back after going to Walmart at 8 p.m. and Target at 9 p.m.? It doesnt make any sense to me to open on Thanksgiving Day, and it doesnt make your employees very happy. But I have to open the hours that the customers are in the malls or the rest of the shops.
So his stores will open at midnight at Northwoods Mall in North Charleston, his earliest opening ever, and then at 3 a.m. at Citadel Mall in West Ashley, Towne Centre in Mount Pleasant and Azalea Square in Summerville.
Consumer researcher Britt Beemer believes consumers will bookend the holiday shopping season by snatching up the early-bird Thanksgiving weekend specials, then waiting until the final five days before Christmas for everything to go on sale.
I call it Christmas hibernation, said Beemer, who heads Summerville-based Americas Research Group. Americans are far more bargain-driven this year ... and say they will wait for the deepest discounts of the season, which they believe will be offered in the last days before Christmas.
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.
Joshua Blanton was waiting in line Wednesday afternoon till doors open at midnight tonight at Best Buy in North Charleston. Im here every year. I usually have a list for about 20 people. This year I have about six. Nobody has any money.×
By Wednesday afternoon, shoppers already were in line at the Best Buy store in North Charleston, which will open at midnight tonight.×
I make it my business not to be out there, said Anthony Duncan about shopping on the busiest shopping day of the year. He was shopping Monday at the Centre Pointe Walmart.×