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WAILUKU - Mayor Alan Arakawa wants to hike water rates by 5 percent across the board, noting repairs and upgrades are long overdue on the county's aging water system.
Arakawa proposed the rate increase Wednesday evening during his State of the County address in the Baldwin High School Auditorium where he also told an audience of at least 250 people that the state of the county is good, with visitor arrivals up, low unemployment and with Maui County benefiting from low interest rates with the best bond ratings in the state.
He added that, on Tuesday, he met face to face with billionaire Larry Ellison, who owns most of Lanai, to discuss the Oracle Corp. co-founder's plans for the island. Those plans include a state-of-the-art water desalinization plant and a laboratory to develop computerized drip-control systems.
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Mayor Alan Arakawa delivers his annual State of the County address Wednesday evening in the Baldwin High School auditorium in Wailuku. The mayor disclosed his plans to request a 5 percent increase in water rates, and he backed Eclipse Development Group's plans for shopping complex projects in north Kihei, which could bring as many as 1,800 jobs.
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Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa met with Larry Ellison, billionaire and Oracle Corp. chief executive officer, Tuesday on Ellison's yacht off Lanai. Ellison bought nearly all of Lanai last summer.
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Arakawa expressed a need to save the construction jobs for those waiting for Eclipse Development Group to move forward with its two retail centers and housing development in north Kihei. Those projects have been stalled over community objections to the state Land Use Commission that the current development plans went beyond what was originally presented to the state planning panel.
The mayor maintained that the projects could bring an estimated 1,800 long-term jobs to Maui, in addition to construction jobs to build out the developments.
In asking for a water rate increase, Arakawa said the county must continually invest in its water system to improve and maintain the valuable resource.
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"Please remember that our current water system was put into service more than 80 years ago," he said. "These are repairs and upgrades that have been long overdue, and it will be another decade of work just to catch up."
He asked for the help of council members to assist the county with the catch up.
Council Chairwoman Gladys Baisa said after the speech that she agrees with the mayor on raising water rates.
"Unfortunately, we are going to have to pay," she said.
County Council Water Resources Committee Chairman Mike Victorino said he doesn't want to raise water rates, but "it's needed."
"I hate to, but it's inevitable," he said.
The mayor's proposal to increase water rates comes as County Council members will take a final vote March 1 on a bill to allow the water director with approval of the mayor to declare a water shortage and to impose higher rates for Maui County residents in order to curtail water usage.
Arakawa told the crowd of county workers, government leaders and members of the public that he met Ellison on the Oracle chief executive officer's yacht off the coast of Lanai Tuesday, where he learned that Ellison's and Maui County's goals are similar.
"Like us, he is committed to developing clean renewable sources of energy for the community, wants to strengthen the visitor industry and improve local infrastructure and the overall quality of life for the people there," the mayor said.
Through Ellison's development of computerized drip-control systems, Arakawa said Ellison wants to irrigate organic farms throughout Lanai that will grow local produce and flowers.
Ellison, like Maui County, believes there is an agriculture market in Asia, especially for local fruits, Arakawa said.
"It turns out Larry Ellison is a big fan of mangoes," he said to laughter in the crowd.
Plans for Lanai also include a movie theater and a bowling alley with an old-fashioned ice cream parlor because "he thinks it will make the community happy," Arakawa said.
Although Arakawa said the state of the county is good, he acknowledged that it's not the best it's ever been, but better than a few years ago.
Economists agree, saying the county's economy is the strongest among Neighbor Islands, he said.
Arakawa added that Lanai's unemployment rate is at 1.5 percent, currently the lowest in the state.
Maui County's bond rating with Standard & Poor's is just below a Triple A rating, which allows the county to borrow money for projects and pay it back at much lower interest rates.
Arakawa thanked county workers and the community for persevering during the tough economic times.
Baisa and Victorino agreed with Arakawa's favorable assessment of the county's economy.
Victorino said he appreciated Arakawa noting that his administration, the County Council and the community all worked hard when the economy was down and played a role in keeping the county financially sound.
In the Kihei retail mall issue, Arakawa acknowledged there were people on both sides of the fence about the project, but he added the county believes the proposed project is in compliance with state and county land use designations, although the state Land Use Commission found current developers violated three conditions for development imposed in 1995 on the previous landowner, Kaonoulu Ranch.
Arakawa said the current developers can officially seek a modification of the original plans, but it would take a few months while construction workers are out of work and others might be out of work if more time passes.
"I'm not sure what can be done at this point, but we should work together to save these jobs, as well as the estimated 1,800 long-term jobs that this development would have brought to Maui," he said.
Arakawa also outlined the progress and goals of ongoing and future projects, including:
* Demolishing the old Wailuku Post Office to make room for a new county office building, saving the county millions of dollars in lease rent fees.
* Working on proposed projects that could either convert trash into a firm source of renewable energy or taking waste to produce a clean bio-fuel.
* Shortening the cycle of road repair and repaving from 40 to 50 years down to 20 years.
* Working on various water upgrades and repairs and drilling of new wells for West and Central Maui to improve the reliability of the water system.
* Exploring building a new Central Maui Aquatics Center.
* Breaking ground on the first phase of a Central Maui Regional Park Complex later this year.
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I am crazy about all the textures of this dress. Sequins and feathers, vintage fabric and buttons. I want to hang it on the wall.
This get-up was an awesome score from The Second Child this past weekend while out shopping with Sarah, Jen, Kate, & Casey. If you can believe it, I passed up a Misha Lulu outfit there. I KNOW. But one of the secrets of thrifting well is knowing when to say no... you'll love what you said yes to even more. (And no fun to hog all the goodies. What a fab find for the next person that came along!)
Like, I am so glad someone left these to find me. (True story: Ivy hugged and kissed those boots the first time they met.)
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A men's exhibitionistic garment consisting of a pouch and over-the-shoulder straps. Usually thong backed or nearly so. Can be marketed as either beachwear or underwear. An earlier definition of banana sling seems to describe a slingshot.
Koala once described a slingshot as the world's highest cut bathingsuit.
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sleeveless t-shirt that vatos love to wear to show off placas.
Rednecks call 'em wifebeaters, vatos call them slingshots
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An awesome sexual manuever! have sex with a girl, cum all over her insides make it sloppy, a fucking sloppy mess, but leave your dick inside, eventually it will get soft. with your soft dick in the girl ( it's good to leave it in there overnight for best results) just pull it out as quick as humanly possible. sick! ur dick has shrank inside her dilly-hole (a.k.a. vag) you will have created suction cause ur dick to stretch and finally give way and come snapping back into ur testicles at starship-enterprise-warp-speed hittin ur nuts so hard that for some reason u get sexually aroused -- rinse (or not :D) and repeat!
Dude, i slept of lafawndah's house and totally sling shotted myself like 7 times!
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An extremely effective napping method, also known as a "coffee nap". Drink a coffee or espresso quickly, then immediately go to sleep for 15 to 20 minutes. Waking up right as the caffeine hits your bloodstream makes you feel refreshed and alert.
Shit, I tried to slingshot but I just ended up having a dreamathon at double speed.
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When a guy is wearing a banana hammock and gets an erection causing the hammock bands to stretch out looking like a sling shot.
I was thinking about this fine ass chick last night and got a sling shot.
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Sexual act in which a woman's vagina is motorboated, yes, motorboated and the resulting mixture of air and pussy juice is then queefed immediately and violently back into her partner's mouth; preferably among lesbians. Not to be confused with a mudslide.
Dude, I was eating this girl out the other day when I sneezed and got an accidental slingshot. That bitch queefed so hard I almost choked.
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The act of strategically breaking some distance before a red light in an open lane to prevent coming to a full stop before the light turns green, and speeding past the strugglers stopped by the lights and leaving them far behind you when the lights do change.
Slow down the lights will change soon and you can slingshot these strugglers!
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When you cum into a condom, then stretch it out and let it go at someone, like a slingshot.
If you sling shot on me one more time...
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The bible describes pious as being a very devout and learned fellow. I believe it is just being full of pie, or some sort of soft nougatty substance.
That dude over at Baker's Square is very pious.
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A person who doesnt do things against thier religion
A person who doesnt do things against thier religion
That women if very pious.
автор: Ruqi 27 февраля 2004
Used to describe a very devout and calm individual, one who does not sin and obeys the word of their god.
I'm the pious guy the little amlettes wanna be like, on my knees day and night, scorin' points for the afterlife. - Weird Al - Amish Paradise
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Piou: An onomatopoeia used to imitate a foghorn or laser sound, which are commonly found in Jamaican dancehall music. Used to display excitement or affection. Always recited in sequences of, though not limited to, 3.
I've been drinking Irish coffee's in my office all day. Who's down for "Happy Hour"? Pioouu!! piou! Piou! Piiooouuuu!!!!
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Living in a way which shows one's belief in a religion.
I behaved in a pious fashion when the existence of God was disproved.
автор: Kevin Watkins 27 февраля 2004
An adjective used to define a man or woman who enjoys hair pie.
You could tell Cletus was a pious man the way he ate Charleen's box!
автор: Kcally 13 июня 2008
Excessively devoted esp. to a specific cause, commonly the church.
Roughly equivalent to devout or zealous.
Roughly equivalent to devout or zealous.
The priest was so pious he wouldn't stop raping the 8-year-old for anything.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Berkeley County students are now being offered proficiency-based courses where 120-hour attendance requirements do not apply, according to BCSD Chief Academic Officer Dr. Kevin O'Gorman.
The courses were part of the discussion at the school board's Sept. 10 meeting at Sangaree Middle School.
According to O'Gorman, some methodologies for the courses include: distance learning, online learning, project and inquiry-based learning, independent study, and/or combinations.
O'Gorman said all teachers in the proficiency courses are required to be High Qualified, hold South Carolina certifications, and must be appropriately certified for the subject taught unless a State Board of Education waiver has been granted. Proficiency courses have to meet all relevant state statutes and regulations unless an SBE waiver has been granted to the district.
"In previous years, Berkeley County School District has used multiple vendors offering proficiency-based learning systems," O'Gorman said. "This year, after thoroughly auditing the full list of vendors and comparing services, the district has streamlined its systems and is now using only Apex, A+ and the South Carolina Virtual School Program."
He added that teachers need to have direct interaction with students on a regular basis. If the course is taught in a lab setting then a teacher must provide all instructional support in the lab. Students who have home access to the material will be required to take the assessments at the school so that they can be monitored. All courses are offered for free excluding the summer.
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It's been an awfully long time since the Goo Goo Dolls truly belonged to Buffalo.
When the band played the Continental regularly, could be seen around town on a consistent basis and seemed poised to fulfill our hopes as Western New York's own version of the Replacements, we felt like we owned them.
With the release of album No. 10, "Magnetic," (out today) it's more than obvious that John Rzeznik, Robby Takac and Mike Malinin now belong to the world. They're not our scruffy and sweaty bar band anymore. Rather, they are a mainstream hit-making powerhouse. Certainly, bassist and co-founder Robby Takac still makes Buffalo his home as much as is humanly possible, and he has invested in our town's culture immensely. But the Goos are primarily a Los Angeles band these days, and they sound like one.
That's not an insult. Survival on a major label these days is not guaranteed, even if you've had as many hits as the Goos have. You've got to keep cranking out those hits if you want to be deemed relevant. And "Magnetic" is the most potentially hit-filled release of the band's career. There are 11 songs on the album, and every single one of them sounds like a hit.
The Goos worked long and hard on the construction of "Magnetic," painstakingly trimming fat, honing hooks and fine-tuning arrangements over a two year period at studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles and New York City. Most significantly, principal songwriter John Rzeznik opted to work with outside songwriting collaborators on nine of the album's 11 songs. (The other two tunes were penned by Takac all by his lonesome.)
Rzeznik has said in recent interviews that working with outside writers was a liberating experience for him. That liberated feeling pervades "Magnetic," and makes it easily the band's sunniest collection.
2010's "Something For the Rest Of Us" revealed a narrative voice embroiled in turmoil, and Rzeznik has said that the album was written amid trying times in his personal life. "Magnetic" stands in stark opposition to its predecessor, as is immediately apparent from the get-go. Album opener and first single "Rebel Beat" makes a joyful noise, its blend of acoustic instruments and subtly interwoven electronica conspiring in service of a jubilant stomp of a pop tune. This is one of four songs Rzeznik penned with producer Gregg Wattenberg, known for his work with Train, Daughtry and O.A.R., among others.
The Rzeznik/Wattenberg team also is responsible for "When the World Breaks Your Heart," a ballad introduced by a lilting guitar arpeggio, before it evolves into a grandiose slab of arena-pop touched by shades of Coldplay-like grandeur and a hope-tinged lyric. "Slow It Down" boasts richly layered backing vocals, the electric guitars trimmed back in favor of electronic percussion, keyboard strings and acoustic guitars during the verses, before exploding into what by this point in the proceedings we can accept as the Rzeznik/Wattenberg style.
Elsewhere, Rzeznik teams with producer John Shanks (Keith Urban, Bon Jovi, Alanis Morissette, among others) for "Caught in the Storm," a classic power-ballad, and "More Of You," which represents the band's most successful assimilation of electronica into its ensemble sound.
"Bringing on the Light," the first of the two Takac tunes, starts as a ballad, with the bassist's vocal layered and heavily produced, but things return to familiar Takac territory with the song's chorus, a delicious slice of scruffy punk-pop that reveals the band's roots in that genre. The electric guitars are cranked up nice and loud for this one.
Takac's other "Magnetic" offering, "Happiest of Days," is a lilting ballad with a nice string arrangement. The tune commences with some lovely acoustic chordal work, Takac's charming rasp mixed front and center, and then builds slowly toward its strong chorus hook.
Magnetic concludes with the strongest of the Rzeznik/Shanks contributions in the form of "Keep the Car Running," one of the album's most richly detailed productions. This is classic Goos, redolent of the band's "Dizzy Up the Girl" period, and the blossoming of Rzeznik's gifts as a pop songwriter. Ultimately, "Magnetic" is a celebration of those gifts. It's also a testament to the fortitude of this band of survivors.
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The era of high school coaches lasting for decades seems to be waning, but, unfortunately for teams facing Bellwood-Antis on the football field, John Hayes still might be around for a while.
"I've already talked to the [assistant] coaches about things we want to do over the winter in preparation for next year. So, it seems like, in my mind, that's what I want to do," Hayes said. "The reason is that I just really enjoy it."
He's really good at it, too, and shows few signs of slowing down.
In his 33rd year guiding the Blue Devils, Hayes took the team as deep as it's ever been in the state playoffs by reaching the PIAA Class A semifinals, tied a school record with 13 wins and captured the program's sixth District 6 championship.
In recognition, Hayes has been selected a runaway winner for Altoona Mirror High School Football Coach of the Year through a vote of area coaches and Mirror writers. Hayes had 68 votes. Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic's Justin Wheeler was second with 39.
"This was a year we fulfilled most of the goals we set out to do," Hayes, who has a 279-90-2 career record, said. "I often tell [the players] when you look at yourself in the mirror next morning and you like what you see, then you've done your job. When I looked at how hard they played and how disappointed they were after we lost [to Dunmore in the state semis], it was a good feeling, because I knew they cared. That's when you know they got something out of the experience."
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1, John Hayes, Bellwood-Antis, 68; 2, Justin Wheeler, Bishop Guilfoyle, 39; 3, Gary Gouse, Portage, 11; 4 (tie), Jarrod Lewis, Cambria Heights, and Mike Smith, Juniata Valley, 9; 6, John Franco, Altoona, 7; 7 (tie), Dave Baker, Central, Jeff Batzel, Northern Bedford, and Max Shoemaker, Chestnut Ridge, 6; 10, Steve Guthoff, Tyrone, 5; 11, Matt Irvine, Glendale, 2; 12, Paul Taranto, Northern Cambria, 1
Bellwood typically enters the year as one of the favorites for the 6-A title, and this year was no different. However, the Blue Devils weren't guaranteed to win it by any stretch of the imagination. There were some major question marks - a new starting quarterback, inexperience on the offensive line - and a plethora of other teams like Guilfoyle, Bishop McCort, Northern Cambria and defending PIAA semifinalist Penns Manor that looked like strong contenders, too.
Hayes knew he had some talented skill players, but even that was a double-edged sword.
"One of the difficulties when you have a number of talented people is keeping everybody on-task and keeping them happy. When you have kids who know they're pretty good, there's a certain amount of ego that they have that they want to perform," Hayes said.
Hayes and his staff found a way to fit all the sparkling parts together while keeping the grinders grinding. While he said during the season he coached the same way he always did, nuances that came from experience were apparent to those that had worked with him before.
"I think he changed his play-calling a little bit, and I think it must have worked," senior guard Keith Shawley said.
Of course, with Hayes' resume, it's easy to get the attention of the players.
"You know from talking to him that he knows what he's talking about. He has a lot of wins because he knows how to make a good football team," Shawley said. "Honestly, he's like a celebrity in Bellwood."
Hayes admits, though, that the time has come when he is beginning to think about passing the torch.
"I'm in that window where evaluation is going on in my mind about the future," Hayes said. "Everybody knows when it's time. I think I'll know."


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Softball Places Three On Academic All-MAC Team
CLEVELAND, Ohio - - Senior third baseman Audrey Bickel (Munster, Ind./Andrean), sophomore pitcher Kelsey Schifferdecker (Belton, Mo./Belton) and sophomore designated player Sammi Cowger (Fenton, Mich./Fenton) have been named to the 2014 Academic All-Mid-American Conference Softball Team as announced today by the league office.
A total of 22 student-athletes from the league's 12 softball programs earned the honor this season, which is voted on by the league's faculty athletics representatives. The number of honorees on the Academic All-MAC Team is the number set for the specific sport or 33 percent of the number of nominees, whichever is greater.
"I am excited to see Audrey, Kelsey and Sammi honored for their hard work and determination to succeed both in the classroom and on the field," Ball State head softball coach Tyra Perry said. "They are great examples of the type of student-athletes we want representing both our program and our university."
Bickel, a sport administration major with a 3.745 grade-point average, is a first-time Academic All-MAC selection. She started all 52 games at third base to help guide the Cardinals to the 2014 MAC regular season title. A First Team All-MAC selection and NFCA All-Great Lakes Region Third Team honoree, Bickel ranked fourth on the team and sixth in the conference with a .369 batting average. She recorded 14 doubles and nine home runs, including a pair of grand slams. Her 46 RBI ranked third in the league, while her 0.92 RBI-per-game average was 75th nationally. Bickel, who was also a MAC Medal of Excellence Award Winner, drove in five game-winning RBI, while scoring the game-winning run on one other occasion. On defense, she finished the season with a .988 fielding percentage by committing just two errors in 165 chances. She also had a hand in seven double plays.
Schifferdecker, a business major with a 3.946 GPA, is a first-time Academic All-MAC selection. The three-time MAC West Division Pitcher of the Week in 2014, Schifferdecker led the Ball State staff with a 3.36 ERA, while posting a 15-6 overall record in 28 appearances in the circle. Her 15 wins ranked sixth in the conference, while her .714 winning percentage ranked first in the league among pitchers with at least two decisions. In 139.3 innings of work, Schifferdecker tallied 72 strikeouts while issuing just 48 walks. She posted a 6-1 record and a 2.29 ERA in MAC play, including one complete game shutout, to help guide the Cardinals to the 2014 MAC regular season title. Schifferdecker was also named the MAC Female Scholar Athlete of the Week on April 23.
Cowger, a sport administration major with a 3.741 GPA, is a first-time Academic All-MAC selection. She played in 29 of Ball State's 52 games, including 22 starts. She earned All-MAC First Team recognition after starting as the Cardinals' designated player for the final 14 league games, helping lead the team to the 2014 MAC regular season title. Cowger tallied a .343 batting average during league play, including her first career home run in Ball State's win over Akron (April 18). She drove in what proved to be the game-winning run in the second game versus Western Michigan (April 12) with a RBI double in the seventh inning. Cowger also scored the game-winning run versus Central Michigan (May 2), crossing the plate on a passed ball. She finished the entire season with a .313 batting average, two home runs, five doubles, eight runs scored and 10 RBI in 64 at bats.
The Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport. First-year students and junior college transfers in their first year of residence are not eligible for the award.
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2014 Softball Academic All-MAC (22 Members):
Kellie Roundabush, Akron
Jessica Schneider, Akron
Erin Seiler, Akron
Audrey Bickel, Ball State
Sammi Cowger, Ball State
Kelsey Schifferdecker, Ball State
Katie Yoho, Bowling Green
Alexis Curtiss, Buffalo
Sammi Gallardo, Buffalo
Trista Cox, Central Michigan
Cory DeLamielleure, Central Michigan
CarolAnn Sexauer, Central Michigan
Jessacca Gironda, Kent State
Emma Johnson, Kent State
Kim Kirkpatrick, Kent State
Dani Ramos, Kent State
Kristy Arbour, Miami
Shelby Miller, Northern Illinois
Adrienne Gebele, Ohio
Dakota Pyles, Ohio
Alyssa Wolfe, Ohio
Lani Ernst, Toledo
Honorable Mention:
Shawna Mailloux, Akron
Loren Cihlar, Ball State
Emily Dabkowski, Ball State
Braiden Dillow, Bowling Green
Shelby Fink, Bowling Green
Chloe Giordano, Bowling Green
Emily McClelland, Bowling Green
Marisa Shook, Bowling Green
Erika Stratton, Bowling Green
Heather Ryder, Buffalo
Kristen Kuhlman, Central Michigan
Evelyn Lorimer, Central Michigan
Chelsea Sundberg, Central Michigan
Raechel Zahrn, Central Michigan
Myranda Barnes, Eastern Michigan
Abby Davidson, Eastern Michigan
Aoife Duffy, Eastern Michigan
Lindsay Rich, Eastern Michigan
Amanda Stanton, Eastern Michigan
Lauren Wells, Eastern Michigan
Michele Duffy, Kent State
Chloe Kesterson, Kent State
Lauren Kesterson, Kent State
Caitie Kilbane, Kent State
Abbey Ledford, Kent State
Lauren McNeil, Kent State
Kim Morgason, Kent State
Ariele Patterson, Kent State
Shelbi Tilton, Kent State
Erika Warren, Kent State
Nicole Gremillion, Northern Illinois
Ashley Kopp, Northern Illinois
Bryanna Phelan, Northern Illinois
Erin Lashley, Ohio
Leigh Nebendahl, Toledo
Alyssa Smith, Toledo
Jenny Rohn, Western Michigan
Melissa Palmer, Western Michigan
Christina Pigozzi, Western Michigan
Caity Pixley, Western Michigan
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There has been a lot of talk over the years about how to undo the damage that was done to Niagara Falls by the Robert Moses Parkway, which cuts the city off from the spectacular Niagara River Gorge.
Some minor steps have been taken along the way, including the abandonment of the southbound lanes to pedestrians and bicyclists, but the massive task of reconnecting Niagara Falls to the river has never been seriously contemplated. The city has paid a high price for that. The dramatic and turbulent Niagara River Gorge is, in its own way, as interesting as the falls, themselves.
That was then, before Brian Higgins' 26th Congressional District was expanded to include Niagara Falls. Now, Higgins is a bulldog that's found a meaty new bone.
Higgins wants the New York Power Authority to pay the estimated $120 million cost to remove and redesign what he termed – correctly – as an "absurdly overbuilt" highway. His thinking on this issue is both straightforward and a touch Machiavellian.
"NYPA planned the parkway, NYPA built it, NYPA evicted several scores of homeowners and other property owners to seize the land on which it sits, and NYPA owns the land under the parkway to this day," he said. "As such, NYPA bears the responsibility for fixing it."
It's an accurate assessment, and also an affordable one. Higgins, who has made it his business to understand the ins and outs of the Power Authority, notes that the authority posted a $309 million surplus in 2008, 76 percent of which came from electricity generated at the Lewiston plant.
He also noted that NYPA helped take more than $1 billion from the Niagara project in the last six years to fund operations elsewhere and that it generated an extra $39.5 million last year from excess water flows at Niagara and should see its profits grow as it increases its generating capacity.
To incentivize NPYA to see matters his way, however, Higgins is prepared to hold a knife to the authority's throat. He suggested that he could object to the 2019 federal relicensing of a Catskills power plant that is considered crucial to New York City's power supply.
Higgins knows where he has leverage, and as others have learned – and as NYPA, itself, learned during the 2007 relicensing of the Niagara Power Project – he is prepared to use it to benefit his district. Money produced during that relicensing project is funding the rebirth of Buffalo's waterfront.
We hope it doesn't come to that. We don't like pitting Western New York's interests against New York City's. Instead, NYPA should simply accept its obligation to reverse the damage it inflicted on Niagara Falls decades ago, and use some of its massive surpluses to benefit this region.
It should also recognize that Western New York has never reaped the kind of benefits that this power plant should have provided it. Instead, most of the benefits go elsewhere. This is a way for the Power Authority to make a profound difference in the life of Niagara Falls, whose waterway has made a difference to NYPA.


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Prince Charles, 65, and wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, 66, have unveiled their 2013 holiday card, and the smiley couple is quite the cutest.
Fancily photographed at last June's Royal Ascot races, the couple is seen viewing horses in the parade ring, with Charles stealing a glance at his happy wife.
The inside of the card reads, "Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year."
Although most people won't have a chance to be inside the couple's holiday festivities, spoof photographer Alison Jackson shot pictures of familiar lookalikes of the royal family who portrayed what the clan – including the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, their infant son Prince George and even Prince Harry as Santa Claus – would be doing during the most wonderful time of the year.


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Klum may be onto something: She's already had luck in love, landing husband Seal. He's "a very romantic man, and he does little things that mean so much," she says. "I was in Mexico the past few days and he'll take photos of the kids and e-mail them to me. He'll write little messages on them. He surprises me with photos in my passport. He just does beautiful things."
Amanda: Self-Made ManIn She's the Man, Amanda Bynes plays a girl who disguises herself as a boy. How did she prepare? "I went to different malls and watched how guys and girls interacted," Bynes, 19, tells us. "When guys were walking with girls, the girl would be hanging all over him and the guy would have one hand in his pocket. They want to always appear like they're open for better offers, so I remembered that to keep an ego thing going."
Another inspiration: "I listened to Jack Black and Tenacious D because it's such a vulgar CD, all the stuff he sings about. So I would sing that to myself before I'd go out as a guy, and it felt like a little protection. And then I just created my own man character. People thought I was doing Elvis or some sort of hip-hop, but I wasn't – it just came out that way."
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Jordan Bunch is a residence hall director, a graduate student … and a pirate leader?
An ACU Graduate School of Theology student and director of Edwards Hall, the dorm for freshman and sophomore men, Bunch is also leading a group of seven freshmen in prayer, meditation, Bible study, fasting and "pirate challenges."
I love being around people who don't believe that Jesus is Lord yet. I wanted to be with people who for whatever reason did not feel comfortable showing up in church - because those are the people who need Christians to move into deeper relationships with them.
He calls them "pirate monks."
"It's really been a special deal for them," says Jordan, who is working on a master of arts degree in missions, focusing specifically on domestic missions. "It's transforming the way they interact with the world."
The group communicates daily, meets weekly, and its members pledge to pray and read the Bible daily and fast once a week. Bunch plans for the group to induct seven new freshmen each year into the two-year program.
Involved in the lives of people
It's a way, Jordan says, to practice "being involved in the lives of people," a passion he is developing under the tutelage of Dr. Kent Smith and ACU's Missionary Residency for North America program.
Smith, Bunch and several other ACU graduate students have started a house church that meets in various places throughout Abilene, giving the students an opportunity to learn in real life how it works to model the life of Jesus to the surrounding community.
"We are participating in the mission of God in Abilene and having life and community together," Jordan said.
Jordan came to ACU as a freshman expecting to become a full-time worship minister, but God had other plans, using an internship in New York City to call him toward missions.
A change of plans
"That really changed the course of my life," Jordan said. "I love being around people who don't believe that Jesus is Lord yet. I wanted to be with people who for whatever reason did not feel comfortable showing up in church - because those are the people who need Christians to move into deeper relationships with them."
So, after graduating from ACU in May 2009 and marrying his fiancée, Sara Beckett ('11), a week later, Jordan enrolled in the Graduate School of Theology. Depending on how many classes per semester he takes, Jordan will graduate either in 2012 or 2013.
"If you want to plant churches in North America, there's no better place to study than in the Graduate School of Theology and specifically with MRNA and Kent Smith," Jordan said. "It's definitely been an awesome decision."
That decision was made much easier when Jordan received the Gayle and Gwen Hensley Endowed Scholarship, awarded to students in the Graduate School of Theology. The scholarship paid half of his tuition, with the rest covered by his discount for being a full-time ACU staff member.
"To be able to get a master's degree at this caliber of a school and not pay tuition is unbelievable," he said. "To be able to have the flexibility to leave this university without debt is going to be an incredible blessing on my family. It's awesome."
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Every six months, Cara Altimus, Ph.D., asks herself: Am I making progress? Is what I'm doing relevant? Am I likely to get a job one day?
Eighteen months into a five-year postdoctoral position in the lab of David Foster, Ph.D., assistant professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Altimus has reason for concern. Postdocs are finding it harder to land academic positions, forcing them to take multiple postdocs, or leave academia for just-as-hard-to-find industry jobs.
Dr. Altimus' research examines reactivation of previous spatial experience, believed to be a memory trace, by recording large populations of neurons in the rodent brain. She isn't actively seeking an industry job and isn't open to doing a second postdoc.
"I try to keep myself open to other opportunities and continue networking, so that I at least know what jobs other Ph.D.s are getting, and keeping up with these people," Dr. Altimus told GEN.
Dr. Altimus is among thousands of biopharma postdocs uneasy about their post-postdoc futures—35,000 as of 2009, according to NSF. Data is often several years old, as NIH's Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group found to its frustration.
In a report issued June 14, the panel called in part for NIH-funded institutions to collect data on the career outcomes of grad students and postdocs. The task force also recommended shifting NIH postdoc funding from research project grants to training grants and fellowships, and allowing institutions to provide additional training and career development while testing ways to shorten the Ph.D. training period. Funding for those and other recommendations will likely prove elusive. NIH is facing a flat budget for FY 2013. Whoever wins the presidential election will be scrambling to fulfill promises to contain spending.
"The system has strong incentives to train people, particularly when the amount of grant funding grows, because faculty have strong incentives to staff their labs with postdocs and graduate students," Paula E. Stephan, Ph.D., professor of economics at Georgia State University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, told GEN. "One, they're young, and they're full of good ideas, we think. Two, they're very flexible, and they're willing to work real long hours. And three, they're cheap."
Dr. Stephan said she'd like more research shifted to research institutes from universities: "You cannot train people without doing research, but you can do research without producing a lot more postdocs and graduate students."
While the number of life-sci doctorates more than doubled between 1978 and 2008 (from 5,086 to 11,088), so too did the percentage of life sciences doctorates awarded to non-U.S. citizens or permanent residents (from 15.6% to 34.4%). There's not enough research to say how much that may have squeezed the job supply for U.S.-born postdocs, along with the move of R&D to China and India.
Cathee Johnson Phillips, executive director of the National Postdoctoral Association, said several factors explain the job squeeze: Universities are producing more Ph.D.s, more of whom are taking postdoc positions—often two or more. The number of Ph.D.s landing tenure-track jobs has held steady or dipped. And grad students traditionally shun nonacademic employment.
One nonacademic career option is Washington policy work, for agencies like NIH or FDA, or groups like AAAS. Another option is consulting. Firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain recruit at top-tier schools. The pay well exceeds the $41,000 median annual salary of life-sci academic postdocs, or the $47,000 median of nonacademic postdocs, according to 2008 NSF data.
"They pay you $120,000, $130,000 right off the bat," Thihan R. Padukkavidana, Ph.D., co-founder and president of the Career Network for Science Ph.D.s at Yale, told GEN. "Why do they want these Ph.D.s? They can sell this. They say, 'We've got 20 Ph.D.s working on your project.'"
Connecting postdocs with nonacademic careers is also a focus of the Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association's "80/20" program—while 80% pursue academic careers, only 20% land jobs.
"What postdocs don't realize is that by applying online, they will never get the job. It's the networking that will get them the job. We hear about postdocs that have been applying for even three years and they haven't heard anything back," Maria Sevdali, Ph.D., who runs 80/20 and is a postdoctoral fellow in Hopkins' Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, told GEN.
Yet few postdocs, Dr. Sevdali said, attend association networking events: "Where are the postdocs? They're not there networking. Then their contract is going to run out, and they're going to freak out if they cannot find a job."
Dr. Altimus, the association's incoming co-president, said the job squeeze has lowered expectations among postdocs since she began Ph.D. studies in 2005.
"When you talk to postdocs, it's always like, 'If I get a job this year,' 'If this were published,' and 'I sure need to get an academic job,'" she said. "It's not fair to say that's just an academic problem. The whole country—the whole world—seems to be in a recession."
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No way in hell they give us free center ice, although it had better be half price for a shortened season. Either way i will pay for it because i'm a hardcore fan and it's the only way i get to see all the Wings games.
I'm in the same boat my friend.
I've missed out on half the season...I'll be honest - unlike many I won't show my displeasure by not watching games, or not buying merchandise...I've been a fan of the game of hockey, and the Detroit Red Wings for many years...Like the child who draws on the wall with crayons - you're frustrated, but you get over it, and embrace/cherish them...I will do the same with the NHL.


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A circular, curvaceous blob. Can also be used as a verb: schlooping.
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I like the shape the of those schloops.
The texture is schlooping.
The texture is schlooping.
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That guy hella schlooped on me, he won't leave me alone.
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He is such a schloop.
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The act of swiftly taking off a condom, typically in one smooth motion.
I had to fake it so I Schlooped and threw the rubber hat behind the bed.
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The act of placing a uncircumcised penis over the shaft of a regular penis and jacking of the two together with the foreskin on the uncircumcised penis. Also referred to as "docking"
Hey dude, do you know of any Mexican buddies that we can schloop with?
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sucking up the frozen coke that comes out the top of the cap.
"The frozen coke came out the top of my cap, so i gave it a little schloop"
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The distinctive sound made at the point of entry during sex.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Residents with a current Incline Village General Improvement District Recreation picture pass or punch card will have an opportunity to ski or ride for free at Diamond Peak Ski Resort from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.
As part of a pilot program called Resident Appreciation Week, residents without a 2012-13 Diamond Peak season pass can get a free lift ticket per day during that week by going to the resort's ticket windows and presenting their current IVGID recreation pass or punch card.
"As a community-owned resort, we want to recognize and thank our residents for their contribution to the resort and to the district," Diamond Peak General Manager Brad Wilson said in a statement. "Resident Appreciation Week is an unprecedented way to do just that."
Current Diamond Peak resident season passholders won't be able to get free lift tickets, but they will have an opportunity to demo skis or snowboards for free on a daily basis - subject to availability - and have access to specialized, passholder-only clinics from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1.
The clinics are first-come, first-serve, with a limit of 10 per clinic, and will be held from noon to 2 p.m., each with a different focus:
• "Skill Improvement on Groomers" on Jan. 28 - basic tips for skiers on how to improve on groomed runs.
• "Carving" on Jan. 29 - for more advanced skiers, learning to use ski design to achieve more dynamic/higher speed carved turns.
• "Carving" on Jan. 30 - for more advanced snowboarders, learning to use snowboard design to achieve more dynamic/higher speed carved turns.
• "Switch Riding" on Jan. 31 - for snowboarders, learning to ride with your opposite (back foot) forward.
• "All Mountain Terrain Exploration" on Feb. 1 - Skiing the lesser skied parts of Diamond Peak.
To sign up for a clinic, visit the Guest Services window or call 775-832-1253.
The week is scheduled for the end of January "so residents can get the best of the mountain," said Andrew Baird, marketing coordinator for the resort, since it falls between the busy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents' Day weekends.
"They can experience the mountain uncrowded and no lift lines," he said.
Resident Appreciation Week also features a raffle, drink specials, a resident appreciation party on Saturday, Feb. 2, with live music, and a Super Bowl party on Feb. 3, starting about a half hour before the game in the Loft Bar. Time and location for the resident appreciation party have yet to be determined, Baird said.
As for Resident Appreciation Week returning next year, Baird said the resort is exploring the option, dependent on financial feasibility and resident interest and advantage of the program.
For information on Resident Appreciation Week, visit www.diamondpeak.com/resident_appreciation. For more information on Diamond Peak, visit www.diamondpeak.com or call 775-832-1177.


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The fourth annual iHeartRadio Music Festival lineup was announced Wednesday – and it's packed with the industry's finest.
"People can expect a weekend that they will never forget," festival host Ryan Seacrest told PEOPLE at the Clear Channel Media and Entertainment offices in New York on Wednesday. "I saw the list coming together, and I was so excited to announce it because it covers everything in music – all these artists in one place for the weekend and the biggest fans who make the pilgrimage who come to see them."
The genre-spanning mega-concert, slated for Sept. 19 and 20 in Las Vegas, will feature performances by Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Usher, One Direction and more and, as in the past, will highlight surprise collaborations.
"We literally want them to happen and no one know about them [beforehand]," Seacrest said. "We sneak an artist in, and all of a sudden, they're on stage. It creates this magic."
Though the collaborations are under wraps, one thing fans can expect is new material from Taylor Swift: The singer's follow-up to 2012's Red is due this fall, and Tom Poleman, president of national programming platforms for Clear Channel, confirms she'll be performing new music.
In addition to Swift, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Motley Crüe, Zac Brown Band, Paramore, Iggy Azalea, Train, Eric Church, Lorde, Calvin Harris, Bastille, Steve Aoki, Neon Trees, Kacey Musgraves, Childish Gambino, Magic!, The Pretty Reckless, Nico & Vinz, Lil Jon and more surprise artists are set to take the stage at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.
"These artists are all at the top of their game," Seacrest said. "They do this for a living; they're doing it every night on tour – but they also know that the other artists there are doing it are there and will be watching. So they try and change it up, amp it up a little. All eyes are on them."
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A U.S. bankruptcy judge Tuesday dismissed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization petition by a husband and wife team that may owe up to $10 million to creditors mainly through their one-time prominent Maui mortgage brokerage firm.
Judge Robert J. Faris ruled Tuesday in Honolulu in the case involving Kathleen Patricia Morris, also known as Tricia Morris, and David Duffy Herman of the Kihei-based Hawaii's Premiere Mortgage Co.
As a result of the ruling, creditors may soon be able to take legal action to obtain their money, said longtime Maui bankruptcy and immigration attorney Richard Berman, who was speaking generally on bankruptcy cases. When the case is in bankruptcy court, a stay is imposed on creditors filing actions to get what they are owed, he said.
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There still is one more key matter to be addressed by the judge. There will be a March 11 hearing on whether to dismiss the case with prejudice, court records show. If the motion is granted, Morris and Herman cannot return and file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Tricia Morris and Duffy Herman responded to the judge's ruling in an email statement to The Maui News on Tuesday afternoon.
"We filed for reorganization under the Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code one year ago to protect junior lien holders on our properties," the email said. "We then filed a plan of reorganization to preserve the rights of all creditors, including the most vulnerable of them.
"We intend to follow through and repay as many people as we can although now we do not have the protection of the court. We will be using revenue from our various businesses to do this, including our mortgage business, which is fully licensed. We appreciate the overwhelming support from the community."
Court records show that the couple had sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and submitted a reorganization plan that proposed paying first the mortgagees or most senior secured creditors on 26 different properties - including 19 on Maui - monthly payments at 3.5 percent interest over 20 years.
Multiple creditors objected to the proposed plan, court documents show.
Tuesday's actions were part of a continued court hearing on whether to confirm the couple's disclosure statement, the first step in finalizing a reorganization plan. The couple disclosed that between 100 and 199 creditors are owed between $1 million and $10 million in estimated liabilities.
In the joint bankruptcy filing, the couple described their debts as "primarily business debts" tied to their Kihei company, which included unpaid mortgages and loans against more than two dozen properties in Hawaii and Idaho.
The couple's voluntary petition requires only an estimated range of creditors, assets and liabilities.
The Office of the U.S. Trustee, a watchdog for the bankruptcy process, had asked the court to either convert the case to Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which would trigger a liquidation of assets to pay off creditors, or to dismiss the Chapter 11 filing.
A phone call and an email to an official at the Office of the U.S. Trustee in Honolulu was not immediately returned Tuesday.
Court and other legal documents show that Morris would broker short-term loans to borrowers using money from private individuals. The loans would be secured by real estate, often with multiple mortgages stacked against a single property.
A listing of Morris' and Herman's creditors holding the 20 largest unsecured claims show bank loans, credit card balances, deficiency judgments and money owed on multiple residences on Maui and the Big Island totaling more than $5.9 million, according to bankruptcy court documents.
Morris and Herman listed assets estimated at between $1 million and $10 million in their bankruptcy filing. However, they are both listed as the "fee owners" of at least 15 Maui properties with a combined assessed tax value of more than $14.5 million, according to Maui County property tax records.
An acting U.S. Trustee said in court documents that the debtors "have demonstrated gross mismanagement of their estates and have not provided information reasonably requested by the U.S. Trustee."
It accused the couple of having concealed assets, failing to disclose bank accounts, diverted "substantial amounts" of rental income into a business account that they claimed was inactive, and improperly solicited votes on their reorganization plan prior to court approval.
The couple said in court statements that their "finances suffered" after Herman suffered a heart attack in Idaho in 2009. They initially filed for bankruptcy protection in Idaho, but the case has since been transferred to Hawaii.
The statements said Morris tried to reorganize their debt and obtain hardship loan modifications.
The couple also are named in more than a dozen state civil lawsuits and have pending nonjudicial foreclosure cases against four of their Maui properties, court records show.
"These legal and health issues along with the declining economy and home values caused a dramatic decline in the net worth and income," the disclosure statement said.
"Debtors' income declined approximately 80 percent during this period. Property values declined 50 percent, wiping out about $12 million of net worth."
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The Peace Bridge Authority convenes today for the first time since discord erupted between its Canadian and American delegations in April, and every indication suggests that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's fresh comments on the situation have only sharpened the international dispute.
Authority Chairman Anthony M. Annunziata, a Canadian, on Thursday labeled as "incredibly arrogant and insulting" Cuomo's characterization of the Peace Bridge as a "metaphor for dysfunction" over the last two decades.
"The governor had a chance yesterday to resolve this," Annunziata said of Cuomo's comments to The Buffalo News on Wednesday. "But the governor did what he does best – try to get a headline."
Anthony M. Masiello, who will attend his first meeting of the authority board today as the governor's newest appointee, said that he fully supports Cuomo's agenda and recognizes his mission as a "tough fight," adding that "it's worth fighting for."
"I've been involved in enough situations like this to know we should let them vent and then get back to what we're charged to do – improving what's there," said Masiello, a close Cuomo ally.
Cuomo "is the governor, and there's a lot at stake here," the former Buffalo mayor added.
Masiello said Canadian members of the authority should recognize that "droves" of Ontario residents also regularly cross the Peace Bridge for business, shopping, entertainment and sporting events and would benefit from an improved Buffalo plaza.
"They should be thinking about their people, too," Masiello said.
In a prepared statement released through the governor's regional office, Masiello also said:
"Mr Annunziata's personal attacks on the governor, and his (Annuziata's) demeaning of female professional staff, deflect from the real issue; two decades of Western New York frustration with the inability of the Peace Bridge Authority to make any meaningful progress in developing Peace Bridge plaza on the Buffalo side. Residents and commuters deserve better, and Governor Cuomo is committed to making real improvements in real time."
Annunziata, who has taken the offensive in expressing Canadian disapproval over Cuomo's tactics for speeding up economic development on the Buffalo plaza, pointed to significant milestones over the last 20 years. They include 100 million vehicle crossings, $1 trillion in trade and a new plaza in Fort Erie, Ont., that features tollbooths relocated from the U.S. side.
Cuomo's remarks insulted all those who have worked at the bridge and on its projects over the years, as well as past authority members, Annunziata said. "I'm not very happy with the governor's arrogance," he said.
Cuomo, in a meeting with editors and reporters of The News, said he is making every effort to expedite expansion of the Buffalo bridge plaza as a way of improving traffic flow and encouraging cross-border commerce.
But he also said he was committed to aggressively moving forward on the project, even though the five Canadian members of the authority have expressed concern over his methods and can block any move advanced by the New York delegation.
Today's meeting is the second since the New York delegation boycotted the conferences for four months. The state delegation is headed by Sam Hoyt, a close Cuomo ally and regional president of Empire State Development Corp. Hoyt declined to comment Thursday on Annunziata's remarks to The News.
Hoyt and his delegation in April demanded the dismissal of Ron Reinas, the Canadian general manager of the agency, contending that he was insubordinate and guilty of other offenses. Canadians, in turn, responded with a strong defense of Reinas and vowed that they would no longer work with Hoyt as Cuomo's representative. After the governor reiterated his support for Hoyt on Wednesday, Annunziata said the dispute remains very much alive.
"Sam Hoyt has been a destructive and disruptive force on the board," he said, "and continues to become a very significant problem in moving forward. I will not work with him."
Annunziata also said Cuomo's refusal to replace Hoyt will mean that the authority, for at least the immediate future, will "not be terribly functional."
"He can appoint whomever he wants," Annunziata said. "But if an individual is not effective in that role, someone should probably look at that individual."
While Cuomo indicated Wednesday that he hopes outreach efforts to Canadian officials by Lt. Gov. Robert J. Duffy will help ease the tensions, Annunziata said Thursday that he is not aware of any such efforts.
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Front Park – the first park Frederick Law Olmsted designed and built in Buffalo – will be made whole again six decades after a road was paved through it to reach the Peace Bridge.
Work is expected to begin next year to remove that road by 2015, when a new entrance will be completed south and west of the park.
The changes, which are to be announced today, are seen as a milestone in making long-stalled improvements to the U.S. bridge plaza a reality, as well as restoring the historic park.
"The focus of what we're trying to do is make the U.S. plaza more efficient and move traffic more quickly," said Sam Hoyt, who is both regional president of Empire State Development and chairman of the Peace Bridge Authority. "Secondary benefits include air-quality issues, moving traffic away from the neighborhood and restoring this once-magnificent park."
Thomas Herrera-Mishler, president of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, said the announcement is one for which the organization has long hoped. "Restoring the integrity of the park's landscape is something the conservancy has worked on for decades. This is the cornerstone of restoring Front Park and its connection to the surrounding community," he said.
Among the key plaza changes:
• A new entry ramp will be created off Porter Avenue, just past Fourth Street, where an entrance to the northbound Niagara Thruway exists, with either a roundabout or traffic-signal intersection.
• Traffic coming off the bridge will flow to a single point away from the plaza, with vehicles going onto the existing ramp to the southbound Niagara Thruway; a new, direct ramp to the northbound Niagara Thruway; or onto Niagara Street instead of Porter Avenue. This is expected to eliminate crisscrossing traffic and jersey barriers that now slow cars and trucks alike.
The $22 million "off-plaza" project will be paid for with $15 million from an unspent federal earmark secured by Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, and $7 million that was set aside in last year's budget by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Hoyt said the neighborhood will benefit. "We're taking traffic currently on top of the neighborhood – the homes along Busti Avenue and beyond – and moving it a good distance away from that. The traffic will still continue, but we're moving it out of the neighborhood and onto a highway," he said.
But Erin Heaney of the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, which has often been critical of the state's response to the air pollution in the neighborhood from the thousands of cars that enter and exit the bridge daily, said there was no evidence the change will help with pollution.
"There is not a shred of science to back up that this will improve public health, air quality and the overall health of the community that suffers disproportionately from asthma and other respiratory ailments," Heaney said.
She also said the decision-making process continues to exclude neighborhood residents.
"Environmental justice is the meaningful participation in the design, implementation and output of environmental projects. Low-income people of color, particularly refugees and people who speak Spanish, have been systematically cut out of this process," she said.
Herrera-Mishler said he was thrilled about the prospect of regaining three acres of historic parkland in Front Park, saying it would allow the Olmsted Parks Conservancy to try to re-establish Olmsted's original design, which could include the return of the park's original entrance to the corner of Busti and Porter, and Olmsted's planting design around the park's perimeter.
The conservancy is currently working to complete the restoration of the "hippodrome," an oval walkway.
"It's the original park that Olmsted designed and built in Buffalo, the very first one, and we're going to be able to put it back very close to what it once was originally," Herrera-Mishler said. "The more authentic the Olmsted parks and parkways are, the better it is for cultural tourism, our quality of life, our real estate values and the neighborhood."
A fast-tracked environmental review, which includes public hearings, will proceed concurrently with efforts to seek design and building services.
That will allow contracts to be signed right after an environmental impact statement is approved and will get the project moving faster, said Joan McDonald, commissioner of the state Department of Transportation.
"It will allow shovels to go in the ground much sooner. It's tried and true on the Tappan Zee Bridge and other projects across the state," McDonald said, noting it could cut the time getting started by roughly half.
The environmental impact statement, which will include results from an ongoing state Department of Environmental Conservation air-monitoring study, is expected to take about a year to complete.
There are some decisions yet to be made regarding the plaza.
Hoyt said the duty-free shop could stay where it is on the 14.9-acre site, or eventually move to the former Episcopal Church Home across the street. He said there are no decisions yet on what to do with the Busti property between Rhode Island and Vermont streets, where eight homes, some of them historic, were recently torn down.
There are also unknowns regarding when a pilot project to allow truck inspections to be relocated in Canada, which has a 70-acre bridge plaza, will begin, and what the results will mean when the project is concluded.
But Maria Lehman, the Peace Bridge project manager, said traffic on the bridge has dropped to 1960s levels, rendering any talk of a new bridge moot. The existing bridge is "structurally obsolete because it's narrow, but some of the steel being looked at, and decking, could give it 20 to 30 years, no problem. As long as you stay on top of the maintenance, it will keep chugging along," said Lehman, who was director of risk management on the $6 billion Tappan Zee Bridge project.
Hoyt, who represented the Peace Bridge area for nearly 20 years in the State Assembly, praised Cuomo for getting things done on what has been a long-languishing project.
"The governor made it clear to me 18 months ago that a significant part of my portfolio here in Western New York was getting the Peace Bridge project moving," Hoyt said. "He knows [the failure to get something done] is kind of legendary, and this marks the first real sign of progress on the U.S. side of the border in 20 years."
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Remarks by Alumni Association President Julie Ross '84 and Josie Jones '12, a direct descendant of George Albion Calhoun, Hamilton's first graduate.
Remarks by Chairman of the Board of Trustees A.G. Lafley '69, including the presentation of a posthumus honorary degree to Alexander Hamilton in honor of the College's Bicentennial.
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DARKESVILLE - The most important thing for Mike Wiltshire was to get the two Bibles into the hands of their rightful owners, no strings attached.
"I'm glad they're back home and they'll be taken care of," he said after delivering two family Bibles to sisters Carolyn Palmer, Mary Graham and Dorothy Kane.
"I'm so excited - it's hard to believe they turned up after all these years," Palmer said Wednesday at her home in Darkesville.
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Mike Wiltshire returns a family Bible to Carolyn Palmer, who with her sisters, Mary Graham and Dorothy Kane, are the great-nieces of Harry and Minnie Lewis, the original owners of the 1912 Bible.
One of the Bibles belonged to the sisters' great-uncle and great-aunt, Harry and Minnie Lewis.
It was a Christmas present from Minnie to Harry - Christmas 1912. They had been married the year before.
The other Bible held the record of Minnie's family, the Forneys. According to a handwritten notation on the inside cover, it was purchased in 1878.
Both were filled with lists of births, marriages, deaths; photographs; a marriage certificate; a braided lock of dark brown hair; and mementos of the two families' long histories.
Wiltshire came into possession of the Bibles in October.
"A lady dropped them off," he said in an earlier interview. "She said, 'I know you'll do the right thing.'"
Wiltshire is well known throughout the area for his efforts to preserve burial flags - the American flags draped over the coffins of deceased servicemen and veterans that have been discarded, found in attics, at flea markets or estate auctions.
He has the flags cleaned and repaired, has cases made for them, and then he tries to track down the families of the servicemen so he can return the flags to their rightful owners.
The flags Wiltshire cannot return to the families, he presents to people he admires, such as Sen. John McCain.
Wiltshire said the woman, whom he identified only as Mary, had a thrift shop in Bunker Hill where she rented tables. When she closed the shop, several items were left behind by the people who rented the tables, including the Bibles.
"She didn't want to throw them away," Wiltshire said.
He contacted The Journal about publicizing his search for the families of the Bibles. The story appeared March 31, which was Easter Sunday.
"The phone started ringing at 8 a.m. and I took the last call at 10 p.m.," Wiltshire said Wednesday. "I had calls on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. A man called from Boyce, Va., who just wanted to talk about the Bibles and thank me for doing what I was doing."
Several people called to share information about the families and how Wiltshire might find their descendants, for which he was grateful.
One of the calls was from Carolyn Palmer, whose sister, Mary Graham, had seen The Journal's article.
Before he handed over the Bibles to anyone, Wiltshire wanted proof they were truly descended from the families mentioned in the Bibles.
Palmer had the proof - a notebook filled with relations and family trees, dates and places.
"I have the records of our family back to the 1700s," she said. "I'm Harry's great-niece. My grandmother, Florence Lillian Lewis Horner, was Harry's sister. My mother, Mildred Medora Horner, was Harry's niece."
Dorothy Kane pulled out the Horner family Bible, a tremendously impressive book that weighed several pounds and also was filled with family memorabilia.
"I had to buy it at an auction," she said. "I don't know why they sold it."
The sisters did not know Uncle Harry and Aunt Minnie, but they heard stories about their family while growing up and they are very interested in family history.
"We always talked about family," Palmer said. "Way back before radio and television, family is how you entertained yourself."
- Staff writer John McVey can be reached at 304-263-3381, ext. 128.


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Same as the ladies - I like all the guys that have got through to the Final. And they are all capable of winning it!
But, I voted for Yuzuru Hanyu, as it would just be a great achievement if he did manage to win it against all the more experienced guys. And, let's face it, he could beat them!


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The Open Course Library launches today with a vision for better open courseware | Opensource.com
The Open Course Library launches today with a vision for better open courseware
Today the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is launching The Open Course Library, a resource of open course materials from the top courses in the system, set to save nearly half a million students (and taxpayers who support many of them in financial aid) nearly a thousand dollars each every year.
But it's not just about savings--it's also about improving and customizing resources for better quality learning resources. The goals of The Open Course Library are to improve course completion rates and provide new resources for faculty. They approached openness in education based on four benefits:
- Efficiency: The ability to build on existing investments
- Affordability: Because students often can't afford textbooks
- Quality: We tend to do our best work when we know our peers can see it
- Self-interested: The side effect of increased faculty exposure, reputation, and opportunities
"It's an effort to take the highest enrolling and most critical 81 courses, and create openly licensed content for every course," said Tom Caswell, Open Education Policy Associate, SBCTC. Washington State set aside $750,000 for the initiative, which receives matching support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. About 90 community and technical college faculty are now involved across the state. The open courses have already been adopted by the creating faculty, who in one year who will have realized savings of $1.2 million--nearly enough to cover the cost of the entire first phase.
Courses are designed using existing OER whenever possible. "We didn't slam the door on publishers," he said. "We told them, 'We want all comers. We want to be able to work with high-qualtiy educational content, but $200 textbooks don't work for us.'" So they capped the textbook price at $30. Publishers responded well in working with them to meet that requirement. For students, that means a huge savings on the $1,000 a year they might have to spend on textbooks, which could be as much as a fourth of the cost of a two-year degree.
The Open Course Library differentiates itself from existing open courseware through a different workflow. The typical open courseware goes from content creation with the faculty to a support staff that turns that content into an organized, open course. OCL asks the faculty to use existing OER and fill in the gaps wiht their own materials to create an open course and teach directly from it, resulting in a more straight-line workflow. The organization doesn't have funding to keep a typical open courseware site alive, so they took this different approach in an attemp to jumpstart a cultural change instead. The ultimate model is two steps only: a master course and open course materials are linked, and the faculty course designer updates them both together.
Phase 1, featuring the first 42 courses is available today. The next 39 courses will come with Phase 2, available in Spring 2013. Also in that second phase, the project information will be better consolidated, and the project will use Google Docs and Google Sites for collaboration and sharing that are easier for faculty who many not be accustomed to an LMS.
Courses are primarily introduction-level "gatekeeper" and pre-college courses in subject areas across the board, from accounting and economics to languages, history, math and sciences.
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We will really advance when the learning materials are online for everyone and college credits are granted for demonstrating competency rather than attendance.
Challenge exams and extremely low cost testing procedures could dramatically increase the skills of students, lower the costs for certifying those skills, and improve the educational achievement levels nationwide.
I'd be thinking free materials, $150-300 charges per assessment test, and a typical college degree of 128 credits in approximately 32-36 courses would cost less than 9,000. No dormitory costs, no travel costs, no interrupted work schedules...
drtcbear- if this initiative can be paired with mozilla's OpenBadges.org project we'll make great strides in achieving that. Open Bages want to encompass not just traditional coursework but 'credit' and recognition for authentic tasks/work like contributions to open source, volunteer or even paid work achievements.
Great resource, thanks. I am always looking for good open course ware, so this is a great one-stop shop. Thanks for the article.


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The smelly yellow creamy substance on a mans cock that goes crusty when not washed.
Gary Atkins eat his own nobcheese as well as some of his gay lovers.
by Trevor (Garys gay lover) July 29, 2003
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Fermented, yellowish substance that congeals under a man's uncircumcised foreskin.
If Chris would show Mason how to clean his penis, he wouldn't get so much nob cheese.
by FRizzo August 22, 2005
Smegma - white stuff found
on one's bell-end under the foreskin when one hasn't washed for a while (allegedly.......)
on one's bell-end under the foreskin when one hasn't washed for a while (allegedly.......)
woman: Phor! Your nobcheese is really pungent tonight!
by anon..... :-) June 12, 2003
A fuckin' stinky substance which builds up under your Bell end if you dont clean it regularly.
After being ill for a few days in bed, Timothy found that he had a large collection of Nobcheese (Smegma) waiting to be cleaned underneath his bellend.
by Joe Nazmdeh January 05, 2006
See smegma.
"Urrgh, nobcheese!"
by Mad Walrus August 06, 2002
the very desgusting residue found on the penis when a man doesnt clean himself of properly, usually found on bottom enders.
Slly doesnt like sucking the man in the parks dick because of the aftertaste due to his nob-cheese.
by undercurent April 08, 2003
It is not a dairy product
it is a penis that smells and taste like cheesssseeeee
it is a penis that smells and taste like cheesssseeeee
person 1:your grandfather has a nob cheese down there
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