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by Andrew Martin
MORRISTOWN – The downtown area of Morrisville is continuing on an upward trend. Several more of the buildings in the downtown area have been or will be purchased and renovated in the near future, continuing a recent recovery phase that the area has been undergoing after several years of trending downward.
"We are really excited about the progress," stated Morristown Zoning Administrator Todd Thomas, "According to one consultant for the Morrisville Co-op (MOCO) we have the strongest economy outside Chittenden County in Vermont."
Thomas pointed to several new businesses that will be moving into formerly unoccupied buildings in the downtown area to support this statement. The purchase by Jim Goldsmith and Kim Kaufman of the former train station that once housed Melben's Restaurant will soon be finalized. Goldsmith and Kaufman, who own the Blue Donkey in Stowe, plan to open a new restaurant in the building during the coming summer.
Gary Bourne is also finalizing his purchase of the unoccupied building next to the Morristown Town Offices. According to Thomas the plan that Bourne has for the building calls for retail space on the ground floor and six apartments located on the upper floors. The environmental work for the Arthur's project will also be commencing in April, and the former Malarkey's building is now owned by the United Way and is home to a United Way program with three apartments, as well as ReSource. Thomas further explained that since he has joined the team at the Morristown Town Offices he has also seen businesses like Buried Treasure open up in formerly empty buildings.
"I'm pretty excited about the downtown," stated Thomas, "The economy has improved... the zoning regulations in the downtown are very business friendly right now and people are responding to that."
Thomas continued on that line of thought by explaining that Housing Vermont, one of the partners in the Arthur's project, was willing to become involved with the project due to the friendly zoning regulations and lack of lengthy permitting processes in Morrisville.
"The new downtown zoning regulations are definitely drawing people and businesses," stated Thomas.
Thomas also explained that to him the improvement in the downtown situation for Morrisville is summed up in the amount of new housing now available. Along with the planned apartments in the former Arthur's building and in the building about to be purchased by Gary Bourne new apartments have also recently been added over Chuck's Bikes, in buildings owned by Roland Yost, and in the Buried Treasure building.
"To my knowledge these are the first new apartments that have received zoning permits since the mid-90's," stated Thomas, "This is new residential growth we haven't seen in years. For me new residencies translate to more people utilizing the downtown."
Cover Photos From This Week!!
The Peoples Academy Stage Company is again heading to States after another fine performance in the
regional competition, which was held at Mount St. Joseph High School in Rutland on Saturday, March 22.
Students at Lamoille Union Middle School race out to a quick start through the snow during the
Sixth-Annual I-Kid-A-Rod race on Thursday, March 21. The event is held every year at Lamoille amongst
the current eighth-graders. During the event students act as sled dogs and pull one of their teammates
through a course on campus. The I-Kid-A-Rod is held after students read a book on survival or a related subject.


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By Jan White There's a heart-warming story told about how President Dwight Eisenhower surprised a family while he was vacationing in Denver. A newspaper reporter had written an article in the form of a letter to the President to tell him about a little boy named Paul Henry Haley, who was dying of cancer. …
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Feb 28 2012
Family surprised by presidential visit
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Iraq was very disappointed with the results of yesterday's Security Council meetings, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this morning by that country's Foreign Minister, Mohammed Said Al-Sahaf, and its Minister of Oil, General Amir Rasheed. The Iraqi people continued to suffer under the imposition of sanctions, despite the fact that Iraq had complied with the provisions of relevant Security Council resolutions, they stressed.
Mr. Al-Sahaf said he had headed the Iraqi delegation to the United Nations to convey Iraq's message to the Council and the Secretary-General, and to present supporting evidence, information, figures and facts. The delegation had reminded the Security Council that Council resolution 687 (1991), set up to oversee the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, had been adopted in 1991, seven years ago, while the ongoing monitoring had been in place for four years, since 1994. All weapons prohibited under resolution 687 had been destroyed by the end of 1991. All related factories and equipment had also been destroyed. The Iraqi people and leadership had expected the sanctions to be lifted long ago.
The people of Iraq had been subject to unprecedented injustice, through the application of a policy of continued starvation, and repeated military assaults, he continued. Despite that fact, Iraq had cooperated with the Security Council and the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in the hope that the sanctions would be lifted.
During the crises last November and February, Iraq had held talks with Security Council members and had reacted positively to appeals of the international community, he said. Recently, Iraq had responded to initiatives by the Russian Federation and the Secretary-General. It had done so on the basis that implementation would lead to the lifting of the sanctions.
Allegations that the presidential sites contained prohibited weapons, plants and equipment were false, he said, adding that the United Nations group had entered the sites and found nothing of the sort in them. With that in mind, Iraq had hoped that the Council's discussion this month would lead to the lifting of sanctions, particularly in view of the fact that Iraq had fulfilled all the requirements for so doing.
If Iraq's relations with the Council and the Special Commission were to be based on equity and the proper legal interpretation of resolution 687, the sanctions should be lifted immediately, he said. Statements issued by Iraq's leadership, which included the appeal of the 22 million Iraqi people to lift the sanctions, should be taken seriously.
The result of Security Council negotiations yesterday were very disappointing, he said. A vicious circle was being perpetuated by lies and
allegations which only two Council members, the United States and the United Kingdom, supported. Iraq would continue to make efforts to contact the members of the Security Council, and it would continue to strive to provide more facts and figures to the international community in order to break that vicious circle.
Asked about other responses during the Council's consultations, the Foreign Minister complimented the position taken by several members, despite the fact that no positive results had been achieved. Many good questions had been asked, he said, but no real answers received. Members had expressed their support for lifting the sanctions, but unfortunately, as everybody knew, the Council was imbalanced and two countries dominated its work.
Was it still in Iraq's interest to continue to cooperate with the Special Commission? a correspondent asked. Mr. Al-Sahaf responded that resolution 687, like a contract, stipulated obligations to be honoured and met by both Iraq and by the Security Council. While Iraq had fulfilled its responsibilities, the Council had for years been prevented from implementing its responsibilities by the United States and the United Kingdom. That fact was illustrated by the fact that the United States' representative had threatened to exercise his veto power if anyone suggested lifting the sanctions.
A correspondent said the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verified some of Iraq's contentions, especially regarding its nuclear programme, and that the United States delegation was attempting -- albeit unsuccessfully -- to stave off acknowledging the report's findings until October. Mr. Al-Sahaf said he had not dwelt on the issue because it was so clear. The nuclear file had been closed for some time. The other files, too, had all been completed. The Russian Federation had prepared a draft resolution to close Iraq's nuclear file by transferring it from the disarmament area to the ongoing monitoring and verification area.
Iraq was demanding a lifting of the sanctions and implementation of paragraph 22 of resolution 687, he said. It was not a matter of only closing one file. That was a good step, but the real target was implementation of paragraph 22 of resolution 687. [Paragraph 22 of resolution 687 (1991) ties Iraq's actions with respect to the removal of its proscribed weapons to the removal of the prohibitions against the import of commodities and products originating in Iraq and the financial transactions related thereto set forth in resolution 661 (1990).]
A correspondent drew attention to several developments: the Council had met under the Arria formula to hear the Iraqi point of view; it had decided to resume reviewing sanctions every two months; and the United States' representative had recognized progress. Did Iraq consider those developments to be positive, and how would it build on them from now to October? [The
Iraq Press Conference - 3 - 28 April 1998
Arria formula is an informal consultation process, initiated by Diego Arria of Venezuela, which affords members of the Security Council the opportunity to hear persons in a confidential informal setting. The meetings are presided over by a member of the Council serving as facilitator for the discussions, and not by the Council President.]
It was important to ask why Iraq had for years been prevented from exercising its right to meet with the Council under the Arria formula, Mr. Al- Sahaf said. The Council was dealing with issues of concern to Iraq, yet it prevented the country from sending its representative to provide it with information. Iraq had been prevented from benefiting from the Arria formula because certain parties had sought to monopolize the Council and present allegations, lies and twisted information in order to distort its view and prevent it from lifting sanctions.
Now that the Council was allowing the Iraqi delegation to participate through the use of the Arria formula -- a practice he hoped would be repeated -- the United States was threatening to use the veto power if any suggestion on lifting sanctions was put on the table, he continued. There were threats that the veto might be used on the Russian Federation's draft resolution regarding the nuclear file. If there was any justice in the Security Council, there should be an immediate end to the sanctions, he added.
On the fiftieth anniversary of Israel, could the Foreign Minister assure Israeli citizens that Iraq would not attack them, as it had in the past, with non-conventional missiles, or chemical or biological weapons? a correspondent asked.
"I resent that question", Mr. Al-Sahaf answered.
The Iraqi Government had requested technical evaluation meetings with experts from a number of countries whose governments were sympathetic to Iraq, a correspondent recalled. Reports from those meetings had indicated that Iraq had failed to provide adequate information, and in some cases, Iraqi officials had challenged the experts' qualifications. Given that no other member of the Council was calling for an immediate lifting of the sanctions, why should the United States and the United Kingdom support lifting the sanctions when those technical evaluation meetings had not provided any more answers? he asked.
The problem was that the adversary was the judge, the Foreign Minister replied. The adversary was to determine whether Iraq's responsibilities had been met. If the Council was to be neutral, those false experts should be changed and instead, people who were not under the United States' control should be appointed. Those who were to determine whether Iraq had complied with the Council's resolution were serving the United States policy, rather than the United Nations aim for a disarmament process in Iraq.
Iraq Press Conference - 4 - 28 April 1998
Asked whether Iraq perceived UNSCOM leadership to have controlled the conclusions of the outside experts at the technical evaluation meetings, the Foreign Minister said the answer was yes.
Since the sanctions had not been lifted, was Iraq now willing to consider more fully the idea of agreeing to expanding the oil-for-food deal? a correspondent asked. [The oil-for-food programme was established by the Council in April 1995, by its resolution 986 (1995), allowing Iraq to sell oil to pay for the acquisition and distribution of humanitarian goods.] That programme had nothing to do with implementing paragraph 22 of resolution 687, the Foreign Minister said. The moment the Council took a decision regarding the implementation of that paragraph, the oil-for-food programme, which was temporary, would come to an end.
A correspondent asked whether progress had been made on the exchange of prisoners of war (POWs) with Kuwait. The Foreign Minister said there were no POWs in Iraq, only missing persons. The Kuwaitis officially admitted, except in propaganda, that the work of Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as well as their supporters and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was to account for missing persons, both Kuwaiti and Iraqi. The Committee's mission was to obtain information about the fate of Kuwaitis and Iraqis, and its work continued.
Did the Foreign Minister foresee a time when sanctions would be lifted? a correspondent asked. That question should be directed at the Security Council, he replied, and expressed interest in hearing the response.
Turning to the Memorandum of Understanding achieved between Iraq and the United Nations on special procedures for the inspection of eight presidential sites, a correspondent asked whether Iraq interpreted the document to mean that UNSCOM, accompanied by diplomats, had the right to continue searches of the presidential sites as it saw fit.
Mr. Al-Sahaf said the agreement did not say UNSCOM was to be accompanied by any other party. Rather, it referred to a special group, headed by a Special Representative of the Secretary-General and consisting of diplomats and experts selected by the Secretary-General from the IAEA and UNSCOM.
The United States, United Kingdom and others had shamelessly alleged that in eight presidential sites, the Iraqis were hiding chemical weapons, biological weapons, equipment and machines, he continued. They had threatened Iraq with military aggression if access to those sites was not granted. The Memorandum had been reached in light of the fact that a special arrangement was needed to verify whether those allegations had meaning or were baseless.
The agreement had indicated that an initial visit would be made and if that did not suffice, there would be subsequent visits, he continued. The
Iraq Press Conference - 5 - 28 April 1998
initial visit had taken place, and nothing had been found except that the American and British allegations were false. If the need arose, there would perhaps be a subsequent visit. The special group would not "go for a picnic"; at the same time, it would not go under normal disarmament procedures. Rather, the special arrangement would be followed until the United Nations was convinced that the allegations of the United States and the United Kingdom were baseless.
A correspondent said that during the Council's meeting yesterday, neither France, Russian Federation nor China had asked for the sanctions to be lifted, and none had stated that Iraq had complied with all its obligations. Mr. Al-Sahaf said that to the best of his knowledge, those countries were pushing for the sanctions to be lifted.
Was Iraq considering retaliatory action now that the Security Council had ignored its warnings and decided to continue with the sanctions? a correspondent asked. Iraq had been working with the Council since 1991, Mr. Al-Sahaf said. It was not a matter of retaliation, it was a process. Iraq was continuing to work with the Council and demanding its rights.
A correspondent asked whether the Foreign Minister was saying that the situation indicated a "policy of revenge" by which the United States was preventing the sanctions from being lifted. The Foreign Minister said the events could be described in many ways; the two countries were insisting on continuing the genocide against Iraq.
The Secretary-General had said repeatedly that the Memorandum of Understanding did not place limits on the number of inspections or the amount of time for those inspections, a correspondent said. The Secretary-General never said that, Mr. Al-Sahaf stated, adding that there were two parts to the Memorandum. First, the text emphasized Iraq's cooperation regarding the work on disarmament with UNSCOM and the IAEA. Second, a special arrangement pertained to the presidential sites, which was governed by the terms "initial" and "subsequent" visits. The term "unlimited" concerned the usual disarmament work, which took place in any area and had begun years ago. The term did not apply to the presidential sites.
The correspondent said the Foreign Minister's explanation contradicted that of the Secretary-General. Mr. Al-Sahaf said it did not and that Iraq was in full agreement with the Secretary-General.
The Minister of Oil added that the Memorandum's objective was to determine whether Iraq possessed prohibited material or prohibited activity, as had been alleged. The Memorandum established a mechanism by which such information could be obtained. With the initial visit, it had been made clear that the allegations were fallacies. It was possible that another visit might be needed.
Iraq Press Conference - 6 - 28 April 1998
Had Mr. Rasheed been misquoted by the Deputy Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, Charles Deulfer, or had he really said he expected there would be an end to the process within a set time-frame? a correspondent asked.
Mr. Rasheed said that since even facts supported by empirical evidence were being manipulated, imagine the extent to which statements were twisted. A whole day could be spent discussing twisted statements and changed facts regarding UNSCOM.
Had anyone suggested a need for follow-up visits to the presidential sites, and from whom would such a request be accepted? a correspondent asked. No such request had been received, Mr. Al-Sahaf said. According to the Memorandum of Understanding, the Secretary-General would decide whether there would be a subsequent visit. Asked whether the special group would notify Iraq of a pending visit, he said yes, for logistical reasons, but it would not indicate locations.
Asked when the new regime under the raised ceiling of oil exports allowed under the oil-for-food programme would begin, Mr. Rasheed said that first the Secretary-General had to agree to Iraq's distribution plan. According to his understanding, Baghdad would be finalizing that plan in the next few days. Also, spare parts and material were needed for the oil sector; that too had to be approved and finalized. The matter was currently under discussion by the 661 Committee, set up under Security Council resolution 661 (1990) to monitor the implementation of sanctions against Iraq. He hoped it would be approved by next week and sent to the Security Council. It was difficult to calculate the time, but both processes would probably be concluded in three weeks or less. Iraq would then be ready to export the additional amounts of oil, according to its capacity.
How many more six-month plans would there be? a correspondent asked. The Foreign Minister replied that they were temporary measures, which would be stopped the moment the Council implemented paragraph 22 of resolution 687.
What was Iraq's position on the Russian Federation's push to close the nuclear file and transition into long-term monitoring? What was the difference between on-going monitoring and inspection? a correspondent asked. Mr. Al-Sahaf said that efforts should be focused on closing all four files, since all the requirements had been met. Closing the nuclear file was a small step and should be taken within the framework of implementing paragraph 22. The ongoing monitoring and verification regime, which had been up and running since 1994, was defined in Council resolution 715 (1991).
When the stage of ongoing monitoring had been reached, sanctions were to be lifted, he continued. While some were determined to finalize the disarmament area, they had already started ongoing monitoring, which meant
Iraq Press Conference - 7 - 28 April 1998
that the disarmament process had finished, paragraph 22 had been implemented and ongoing monitoring was now in place.
Mr. Rasheed added that disarmament required identification and destruction of prohibited weapons and material. That phase had finished for all the files. Transference to ongoing monitoring and verification had started in 1994.
A correspondent asked for the Foreign Minister's view on a project by Americares, a humanitarian group in the United States, to bring $2 million worth of donated medical and nutritional supplies to Iraq. Mr. Al-Sahaf said that Iraq greatly appreciated that effort, and viewed participating bodies with deep respect. Asked whether the fact that the Clinton Administration had cleared the project indicated its concern for the Iraqi people, the Foreign Minister said he did not think so. The project was a popular movement; it had nothing to do with the Administration.
Asked to characterize the mood of the United States and the United Kingdom during yesterday's Arria consultations, Mr. Al-Sahaf said those delegations were working against any move towards lifting the sanctions. Their comments that progress had been made were hypocritical and sought to deceive public opinion.
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UNEP Organizes "Trees4Love" Campaign
10 February 2009: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has organized a tree planting ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, on 14 February 2009.
As part of UNEP's efforts to mitigate climate change and promote carbon sequestration, the "Trees4Love" campaign seeks to plant up to 5,000 trees in the Karura Forest. The number planted will be recorded under that "Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign," an effort launched by UNEP in 2006. Ministers attending the UNEP Governing Council, which is convening 16-20 February 2009, will attend the event. [UNEP Press Release]


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What: Pittsburgh (3-10) at Soul (11-3)
When: Sunday, 6:05 p.m.
Where: Wells Fargo Center (19,500)
About the Power: Their only win in the last eight games was a forfeit by Cleveland on June 8. . . . The Power's quarterback is Bryan Randall, who led Virginia Tech to the Sugar Bowl after the 2004 season. . . . Former NFL quarterback Mike Tomczak was brought in midseason as the offensive coordinator.


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The Multiethnic Church Podcasts
Thursday 3rd of November 2011
Efrem's thoughts on the need for multi-ethnic/missional churches.
Thursday 27th of October 2011
Don't miss this powerful story of conversion from Islam!
Thursday 13th of October 2011
Don't miss this challenging perspective on Paul, Romans!
Thursday 6th of October 2011
Dr. Kirk is an expert on Dr. MLK & the Civil Rights Movement.
Thursday 1st of September 2011
Guests discuss their experience and response to the movie.
Thursday 25th of August 2011
Mark and Greg discuss the ABCs of the multi-ethnic church.
Thursday 11th of August 2011
Andrew and Emily recap their recent experience in Africa.
Thursday 4th of August 2011
Amazing insights into the NT; foundations of the movement.
Thursday 28th of July 2011
3rd of 3 biblical foundations of the multi-ethnic church.
Thursday 21st of July 2011
Woodson Walker and Mike Clowers on crossing racial divides.
Thursday 14th of July 2011
3rd of 3 biblical foundations of the multi-ethnic church.
Thursday 30th of June 2011
2nd of 3 biblical foundations of the multi-ethnic church.
Thursday 23rd of June 2011
In this episode, Mark introduces you to a few multi-ethnic church planters and pioneers attending the Five-Two Wiki Conference in Houston, TX, June 2011
Thursday 16th of June 2011
1st of 3 biblical foundations of the multi-ethnic church.
Thursday 9th of June 2011
Jose Rijo-Berger of www.rijoathletics.com, Seattle, WA
Friday 3rd of June 2011
Why Mosaix / Community Transformation
Thursday 19th of May 2011
Pastors Anthony Hendricks & Dan Johnson, Mosaic Conway
Thursday 12th of May 2011
Pastor / Author Dave Ferguson, Community Christian Church
Thursday 5th of May 2011
Pastor Dan Backens, New Life Providence Church (VA)
Thursday 28th of April 2011
Ray Chang, Derwin Gray, ND Strupler, and more!
Thursday 21st of April 2011
Mont Mitchell and Rod Daniels, Westbrook Christian Church
Thursday 14th of April 2011
Jon Harrison & Linda DeYmaz on the chasing the dream.
Thursday 7th of April 2011
Scott Williams (Church Diversity), Harry Li/Anthony Hendricks (Race & the Church)
Thursday 31st of March 2011
Mark DeYmaz on what it is and from where it comes.
Thursday 24th of March 2011
DJ Chuang & Laurence Tom
Thursday 17th of March 2011
Nikki Lerner & James Wafford III re. multiethnic worship.
Thursday 10th of March 2011
Artie Davis shares his passion.
Thursday 3rd of March 2011
Dr. Paul Louis Metzger from Multnomah Biblical Seminary.
Thursday 24th of February 2011
Max Palmer (Christchurch); Harry Li and Daniel Henderson.
Thursday 17th of February 2011
ND Strupler (Zurich) re. the multi-ethnic church in Europe.
Thursday 10th of February 2011
Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, author of Many Colors
Thursday 3rd of February 2011
Tommy "UrbanD." Kyllonen, Crossover Church, Tampa, FL
Thursday 27th of January 2011
Esther Evans and Dr. David Anderson
Thursday 20th of January 2011
Alex Mandes and Dante Upshaw of the EFCA
Thursday 13th of January 2011
Pastors/Planters Derwin Gray and Mike Leonzo
Thursday 6th of January 2011
Dr. Michael Emerson and Dr. George Yancey


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Pick up, or drop off?
That's the question Lycoming County residents will have with their recyclable materials as more private waste haulers are getting into the business of picking up comingled - or "single-stream" - recyclable materials from their customers.
While the county's 27 recycling drop off sites will continue to be available for those who want to
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Some of the single-stream waste that will be processed at the county landfill.
deliver glass, aluminum and other recyclables, Lycoming County wants to get away from providing curbside recycling pickup, according to Commissioner Jeff C. Wheeland.
In addition, single-stream recycling - which allows all accepted recyclable materials to be stored and processed together - is being implemented in Lycoming County to save space in the landfill and increase the county's recycling participation rate, Wheeland said.
"My thought is, we're getting away from curbside recycling," he said. "The amount of money we spend on curbside recycling is a waste of taxpayer money."
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Items that can, cannot be placed in single-stream recycling
With the move to single-stream recycling, a wide range of recyclable materials may be picked up together without the need to sort. Acceptable items include:
Paper-dry and clean, no bags
Newspaper and inserts
Magazines and catalogs
Junk mail, envelopes, file folders,
Shredded Paper
Office white, colored and computer
Paper (staples and paper clips OK)
Corrugated cardboard boxes
Cereal and gift boxes (remove liners)
Paper bags and phone books
Containers, empty and clean, no bags
Aluminum beverage cans
Aluminum foil and foil products
Glass bottles and jars (food and drink only)
Nos. 1 through 7 plastics (plastic bottles, jars, tubs and rigid containers: soda, water, milk, juice, liquor, shampoo, detergent, condiments, yogurt, margarine, pet food, clear plastic food containers)
Metal food cans and lids (tin/steel)
Metal pots and pans
Empty aerosol cans
A number of items remain on the non-recyclable list, including:
Drinking glasses
Mirror, ceramics or pyrex
Window glass
Light bulbs, plates or vases
Frozen food, ice cream or frozen juice containers
Waxed paper
Waxed cardboard
Paper towels
Paper to-go containers
Stickers or sheet of address labels (affixed address labels and stamps are OK)
Tyvek envelopes
Plastic six-pack holders
Plastic microwave trays
Styrofoam (including packing peanuts)
Scrap metal
Propane tanks
Needles and syringes
Hazardous or biohazardous waste
Food waste, garbage
Electrical cords; garden hoses
He said tens of thousands of dollars a year are spent purchasing, maintaining and fueling county-owned recycling trucks and paying employees to operate them.
Lycoming County collected 487 tons of recyclable materials from curbsides in 2012, according to Jason Yorks, county recycling coordinator.
"When you factor in 2012's estimated average price per ton, the revenue from this material is estimated (at) $28,800 while our expenses were $88,000 not including depreciation," he said. "This gave us an estimated loss of greater than $59,000. These numbers reflect the collection of curbside in our 13 municipality's routes, not just our three mandated communities" of Williamsport, South Williamsport and Loyalsock.
Wheeland said that government shouldn't be doing a job that business could do instead.
"There's got to be a better way, and the private industry can do it. We will pay the haulers to do it, not the government," he said.
Several local and regional waste haulers now are providing pick up service of single-stream recyclable materials.
With the process, additional materials may be accepted that were not before, including Nos. 1 through 7 plastic material and aluminum foil and pie pans.
Traditional curbside recycling provided by the county only collects aluminum cans, glass and steel and tin cans.
Today, county commissioners will open bids for single-stream recycling equipment that will be installed at the landfill. Yorks said about $4.25 million has been budgeted for the equipment.
At that amount, it will take about six years for the county to break even, he said.
But Wheeland said a price can't be placed on extending the longevity of the landfill that serves six counties and more than 325,000 people. The two newest waste fields that have opened at the landfill have come with a combined cost of about $16 million, he said.
More recycling means more room available for garbage in the landfill, Wheeland added.
And if waste haulers drop off less garbage and bring in more recyclables, they can make more money. Haulers are charged by the ton for unloading waste and will be paid by the county for recyclable materials.
Wheeland said waste haulers that offer single-stream recycling services most likely will be very proactive with their customers to encourage them to include all eligible materials in their routine pick up.
"It's money in their pocket if they can get them to do a better job of recycling," he said.
Yorks said the county's recycling participation rate is about 29 percent.
"The goal for DEP has always been 35 (percent), and we hope we can even achieve higher than that" with single-stream recycling, he said.
Wheeland and Yorks said the county's efforts to introduce single-stream recycling are not meant to force private waste haulers to do something they don't want to do.
"It's going to work. Every time private enterprise is tried, it works," Wheeland said.


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Symbol Ism
"In the symbolic function of consciousness-as it operates in language, in art, in myth-certain unchanging fundamental forms, some of a conceptual and some of a purely sensory nature, disengage themselves from the stream of consciousness; the flux of contents is replaced by a self-contained and enduring unity of form." (Ernst Cassirer,
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
, Vol. I, p. 89.)
"I do not regard the symbol as an allegory or a sign, but take it in its proper sense as the best possible way of describing and formulating an object that is not completely knowable." (C.G. Jung,
, p. 73.)
"The psychological mechanism that transforms energy is the symbol. I mean by this a real symbol and not a sign." (C.G. Jung,
The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche
, p. 45.) "By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself." (Ibid., p. 336)
"Observation has become almost entirely indirect. The sense-data on which the propositions of modern science rest are, for the most part, little photographic spots and blurs, or inky curved lines on paper. The problem of observation is all but eclipsed by the problem of meaning. And the triumph of empiricism in science is jeopardized by the surprising truth that
our sense-data are primarily symbols
." --Susanne K. Langer,
Philosophy in a New Key
, 3rd ed., pp. 20-21.
In order to fully understand the nature of symbolism, we must examine Whitehead's exposition of the two pure modes of perception, one of which is essentially perception in space, and the other in time. Whitehead designates them "presentational immediacy" and "causal efficacy." "The pure mode of presentational immediacy gives no information as to the past or the future. It merely presents an illustrated portion of the presented duration. It thereby defines a cross-section of the universe: but does not in itself define on which side lies the past, and on which side the future." (
Process and Reality
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The Sierra College Music Department is proud to present a Winter Band Concert on Wednesday, December 4th at 7:30pm in Dietrich Theatre on the Sierra College Rocklin Campus.
Join Greg McLaughlin and the Sierra College Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony, plus special guests the Placer High School Wind Ensemble, under the direction of David Lawrenson, as they present an evening of standard and contemporary symphonic band music. Works to be performed include "El Capitan," by John Philip Sousa, "Second Suite in F for Military Band," by Gustav Holst, Alfred Reed's beautiful arrangement of "Greensleeves," "Polish Christmas Music," by Johan de Meij, and Michael Markowski's "Dreamland."
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Here are a few other reasons why you should take a RTW trip after graduation:
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March 12, 2010, 12:00 PM
Is C&R application fee still $30 in 2010? The forms ATF sent me do not mention the cost, fill in the blank. I'll be happy if its still 30 after all these years I found 7 year old threads stating $30.
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I just got my C&R license last month, and the fee is still $30 for 3 years.
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Great. thanks.
If I pay by CC under my own name do I still fill out the, "I am paying the application fee for the Following Person, Corp, Partnership.." section.
Put my own name in or leave in blank?
March 15, 2010, 06:20 PM
Anyone have any examples of C&R licensing time?
My application went in 5 weeks ago and still nothing... They did charge my credit card within a few days however.
March 15, 2010, 08:05 PM
I got mine about a week ago. It was four weeks, though I have yet to receive all of my information.
Ocelot, seeing as we sent them in at about the same time, you can probably expect yours soon.
March 15, 2010, 08:52 PM
I sent my paperwork and $30 USPS money order on Feb 3. License arrived on March 2.
From what i heard this is an anomaly. I had just gotten my CCW so maybe my background check was still fresh....
March 15, 2010, 08:59 PM
Back in summer of 2008 I got my C&R. From the day that I mailed out the application to the day I received the license in my mailbox was 2 weeks exactly.
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On the forms that I got, it was on the top of one of the back pages.
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Women's voices
I'm writing in response to Melanie Balog's column about Project XX and its attempt to have more women promoted to the state's boards and commissions. This effort is sorely (but not surprisingly) needed. And not just on state boards, but across the spectrum of positions of power and influence, the non-profit, for profit, religious and, most particularly, the political spectrum.
The obvious practical reason, as she points out, is that they represent one half of the planet's population and will therefore bring a perspective that is of critical importance and rightly represented.
But maybe even more important than the substance of their engagement is the tenor of conversation that they usually exhibit.
It is the tenor of the debate that is the seemingly largest obstacle to progress on almost all fronts. It is that progressive, empathetic willingness to recognize that women will enhance our public realm. I realize that there are certainly exceptions to that perceived generality that some may quickly point to: Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin will immediately jump to the minds of the left and Nancy Pelosi to that of the right. But acknowledging those exceptions, I believe that the world cannot help but be better a place by having more feminine influence.
So I salute Ginny Deerin and the Project XX efforts to push the state legislators to abide by their own self-imposed mandate by promoting more women to our state's boards and commissions. Go, girls!
Rusty Bennett
Marshall Boulevard
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Weak and shifting
A March 29 guest column about Captain Sam's Spit argued that it is suitable for a bunch of upscale houses. According to the author/developer, it's not a shifting sandbar.
But above the headline was an aerial photo of the place in question.
Yep, it's a sandbar — just like all barrier islands.
The columnist writes of how it's been 30 years since Captain Sam's was overtopped by a storm and how it has been more or less stable for 50 years, even growing a bit.
In a human-lifetime scale that is a long time. In geologic time it is like a snowflake on the tip of your finger. The sand can and will go elsewhere sooner or later.
The observation that hurricanes Hugo and Floyd didn't wash over Captain Sam's Spit misses the point. Hugo came ashore well north. The winds were actually blowing off shore, not on shore there, and Floyd made landfall in North Carolina.
A significant hurricane coming ashore a bit south would be a different situation, and anyone living there would wish he was in Summerville, or maybe Chattanooga.
If we must divide the entire coastline of the United States into 50-foot lots, I wish the owners would stop asking the people who live outside the exclusive gated wonderlands to underwrite the shortfalls in the government-provided insurance and the need to "renourish" their beaches.
If they wish to live on a glorified sandbar, they need to accept the risk.
Of course, it might be nice if every few hundred miles there was a small spot left for nature.
Bruce Smith
Serotina Court
Mount Pleasant
Parting thanks
After almost 15 years of serving the surfing and watersport community in the Charleston area we've decided that it's time to change course. We closed Charleston Watersport one final time on March 31.
I sincerely hope all of our friends, family and fans understand how much the support you have given our business over the years matters.
We appreciate your patronage and friendship. Since our closing the outpouring of messages and kind words have been very humbling and helped validate that working hard and doing the right thing still works today even in the midst of closing our business.
Locally owned businesses are the backbone of our economy, culture and country. I would encourage all who read this to support locally owned and operated business.
Thanks again; it's been a great run!
David Clifford
Bluebird Drive
Mount Pleasant
Keep rescue duty
Even my favorite columnist, Brian Hicks, has jumped on the bandwagon. Please, people, leave the Isle of Palms Fire Department alone.
We were residents on the island for over 15 years and lived only blocks from the station nearest Wild Dunes.
My elderly neighbor's cat was stuck for over 24 hours in an extremely tall palmetto in my back yard, so what do you do? Call the fire department. The answer, "Ma'am, we don't rescue cats anymore."
My response was, "Please, please, or he won't survive." They did come and decided that a burst of water from my hose on the back deck would probably motivate the cat to scamper down the tree.
It worked, of course, and these guys left with me and the neighbor looking adoringly after them. Can't we have at least one tiny touch of Mayberry?
Yes, there are legal and ethical issues, but give this noble group of professionals a break.
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This is a good book of basic human anatomy, but it is not outstanding. The latter fact reflects less on the author's ability with words and pictures than on her circumscription of the subject. Basic anatomy is not very amenable to condensation; its presentation should be an all-or-nothing affair.
We are told in the preface that the book is intended for beginning students; later in chapter 2 it is suggested that the book is designed for study without dissection. Presumably, it is a book for student nurses, physical therapists, and undergraduates with a passing interest in human anatomy. For such an audience this book will be a clearly-presented and well-organized reference text. For the medical student or other serious student of anatomy the book has little value.
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The American Red Cross announces the expansion of its partnership with Suburban Propane.
Over the past two years, Suburban Propane has provided promotion, volunteers and blood drive sponsorship across the Northeast and will now be expanding their support to more than 20 states.
The Red Cross and Suburban Propane have partnered again this month for the "Fuel Your Community" campaign. The monthlong campaign's aim is to raise awareness of the need for blood among Suburban Propane employees, customers and the population as a whole. Blood is an essential component for patient care in area hospitals, and the only source of blood is a healthy volunteer blood donor. One blood donation can help save up to three lives and it only takes about an hour of your time.
"The Red Cross is thrilled to team up with Suburban Propane for the fourth Fuel Your Community Campaign. We are so appreciative of the continual support that Suburban Propane has provided to our organization," said Ryan Corcoran, chief executive officer for the Red Cross South Carolina Blood Services Region. "It is because of dedicated and generous partners, like Suburban Propane, that we are able to provide lifesaving blood to hospital patients where and when it is needed."
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Calling all ecommerce marketers! Can you tell which version of this online store's product page raised actual purchases by 27.3%? Vote on your favorite.
This was a nice, clean A/B test with conclusive results. Only one element on the page was different between the two versions. (Which makes the bump in sales fairly remarkable.)
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Zaha Hadid. Hong Kong. The Innovation Tower
Zaha Hadid's off to Hong Kong. The renowned, London-based designer just got the nod to build the Innovation Tower at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (one of the schools featured on this year's BusinessWeek list of the Best D-schools).
The 130,000 square foot complex will cost $51 million (mostly funded by the local government) and is due to break ground by 2009. The design, meanwhile, is quintessential Hadid: both futuristic and organic. And the interior will certainly reflect her — and university leaders' — interest in the organic organization of things. A host of research labs, disciplines, spaces, lecture halls, classrooms and exhibition spaces will be housed here, with the idea both to elevate design's status within the campus as a whole (by luring unwitting students from other disciplines into the shiny new space) and so to bring about interesting, unexpected collaboration once they're there. A petri dish for innovation, if you will — and a very pretty one, at that.
PS What's with architects' obsession with boats? This one's touted as an "ocean liner in full steam". Frank Gehry's building for IAC in NYC is described as having the "billowing sails" of a ship. Renzo Piano's obsessed with Viking ships — and builds his boats. That's three. A trend!


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Show and Hide OS X Dock with Mac Keyboard Shortcut
Are you an innie or an outie? Then again, there is no need to choose. Here is a one-hand (three-finger) Mac keyboard shortcut to quickly toggle between show Dock and automatically hide the Dock.
Since getting an iMac with a 16:9 I've been an outie — the Dock is always displayed on the right-hand side of my display — there's always plenty of space over there for both the dock, as well as the files and folders on the Desktop. Other folks? They're innies and prefer to auto hide the Dock.
And, the keyboard shortcut is… Command + Option + D.
This keyboard shortcut works, if memory serves, in all modern versions of OS X, from Leopard forward.
Of course, one keyboard doth not a workflow make and here is a fairly long list of Mac keyboard shortcuts to get you well down that road…
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Zumaya to throw for teams mid-December
In case you missed it, I wrote an article for the site today about Joel Zumaya and the decision he faces as a first-time free agent after five injury-shortened seasons: Stick with the only team he's known and the team that knows his medical history, or get a fresh start somewhere else where his injury history won't be such an overriding theme. As the story shows, it's not an easy choice for him.
At this point, Zumaya is looking around to see what's out there. He's going to throw a bullpen session for teams on or around Dec. 14 in Houston, where his agents are based. About 10 teams have expressed some interest in taking a look, he said, including the Red Sox, who expressed interest soon after he became a free agent a month ago.
The Tigers may or may not have somebody there, but they already know his history and his rehab from this fall. One 30-pitch session isn't going to give them anything they don't already know.
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I guess it's all about the $$$$. Seems like he'd want to stay with the Tigers and if he's healthy he'd be in the bullpen. If he stays healthy all season, he'd be a set up guy or closer. I don't get it.
On the other hand, game 163 is being shown on MLB Network. Ranking the best 20 games, this game comes in at 16th place. It kills me to watch it.
"A dagger to the heart of the Tigers," Dan Dickerson says as Zach Miner gives up the HR.
Everytime I see that game I discover half a dozen new ways we could have/should have won it. What a nightmare. Nothing went right. I should quit looking at it when it comes on, but I'm like that guy in the Red Sox movie who keeps watching the Buckner play over and over until his friends show up for the intervention.
Had enough Bobby Valentine yet? Just wait. Boston opens in Detroit in April. And the media circus will come with them.
I think it's more like the Tigers don't want to count on Joel Zumaya again. Joel's got to market himself!
I doubt any team will give him more than a 1 year deal or maybe some sort of incentive type contract. The voodo child will always be one of my favorite players and my favorite picture of him is the one holding champagne bottles in both uplifted arms leaning against the fence with the fans hanging onto him. Agh, '06 memories again.
Kathy, thanks for the reminder about the MVP poster. I am sure my daughter will get me one as she got me a Verlander no hitter plaque. I have a poster that I got at Comerica in '06 with Zumaya and Verlander, "The Untouchables". I would love to Joel have some good luck.
i don't even know what to say – good luck, joel?
Wow, stayed out too late last night. "I would love for Joel to have some good luck"
It was fun watching some Whitecaps turn into Tigers.
I know I'm a few days late here but count me in as happy they re-signed Ramon. As for Zumaya, it looks like it will be his decision after he sees what offers come his way. With all the problems he has had over the years, it would be nothing short of a miracle if he can pitch well for a full season. Didn't someone who knows pitching well make a statement awhile back that his delivery or arm position is suspect? If that is true, I wonder if something can be done to improve it.
If you read it here, you may be thinking of statements I've made, although I don't pretend to know pitching well. A few years ago I was listening to a veteran pitcher (John Smoltz maybe?) describe the flaw in a young pitcher's delivery (not Zumaya) and it was exactly the thing that Joel does. His elbow comes up too high, among other things. Those classic fireballers like Verlander, Ryan, and Koufax get their velocity from their leg push, and can repeat it over and over again. Unfortunately, if Zumaya altered his delivery, he wouldn't be Zumaya anymore.
It's too bad because, like everyone else, I like Zoom. Possibly it will be Santiago all over again. No other club offers more than a minor league invite, in which case Joel may as well come down to Lakeland.
I've been reading about possible non-tender players. What does anyone think about Joe Saunders as a possible #5 starter for the Tigers? Left-handed veteran to hold the spot until one of those rookies is ready to join the rotation.
He is not Mark Fydrich. Year after year we waited for him to recover.He was great in his first year and them an injury .He did his best to recover until he was forced to left
But Zumaya caused his problems and made fail his recovery ( I guess everybody here remenber the infamous photo of the injured pitcher using his damaged elbow to carry weight). No , I would not sign him. Even if he ended been the new Mariano Rivera
His elbow comes up too high,.. Rich Sutcliffe, among others, did the same
Gosh thats tough. Let him go. I will cringe if he faces us and takes us to school but hes fragile and thats just a blockade to the tigers being a ws team again.
From MLBTradeRumors.com:
"One executive compared Cespedes to Cameron Maybin, albeit with more power and less speed."
Not exactly a ringing endorsement?
In fact , it is. Remenber Maybin was supposed to be the next Willie Mays .
264/ 323 /716 Cameron Maybin 2011 ( 125 SO, it is not MacClendon ´s fault)
249/317/690 AJax 2011
255 /318/704 Cameron Maybin career
271/.331/.718 AJax career
Its took to long but finally in the wide space of San Diego´s park he is beggining to break
BTW: I not saying that the Tigers need to feel buyer remorse. You need to give value to get value.He was the cost for Cabrera. Detroit won, and San Diego won. The Marlins did not have the patient to collect
I'm going to go on record as saying the money should be channeled in the direction of Mark Buehrle. This signing makes the most sense to me. It firms up the rotation on a division winning team, provides a veteran presence that JL does so well with, and eases the burden on the bullpen, thus making the latter less important in the acquisition market. It's not the quite the "kill several birds with one stone" deal that the Martinez signing was, but it's along the same lines. Regarding the position players on the market, nobody is realistically jumping out at me. There are a bunch of the types of players that can be picked up almost anywhere.
This would rule out going after Cespedes but that's going to be my stand, unless Dave has a blockbuster of a trade in the making. We'll know soon.
Yeah, Buehrle makes a world of sense and would solidfy this team greatly. I must admit I'd loove to have Cameron back here. I think his potential is ready to burst. He is an exciting player with a bravado in the OF that is admirable.
I'm on record for being overly critical of AJ's lack of "dirt" in his game. While it is true he outruns a lot of fly balls with good routes, great jumps and good speed. I still think that does not disqualify the occasional need for a diving catch. nothin picks up your team more than a great rally killing diving catch.
The down side of course are injuries. Look back at Kaline's career for proof of that statement. Sigh, now there was a ballplayer.
All of the above notwithstanding I feel we have an equal need for a leadoff hitting middle infielder. This team needs speed so bad and it can reconcile and offset deficiencies better than simply slugging the ball. No to Ramirez, yes to Reyes or an Aybar type.
I like Prado but wouldn't mind a Howie Kendricks on our team or even a nice young good looking Jemile Weeks.
If wishes were fishes.
I just don't want to see an infield that has two positions being platooned.
I concur with the Buerhle comments here. How often do we hear over and over again that it is all about pitching, pitching, pitching. Lock down this rotation with Behrle and we could almost sit with what we have around the horn although we definately need to get a real lead-off hitter yet. I love the Santiago signing and that eases up the pressure on the infield situation up the middle. Can we get a short-stop who can hit lead-off and move Peralta over to third? Would he be willing to make the move? If there is one big free-agent signing let it be Behrle as we would do very well putting our money primarily on the pitchers mound (although it sure would be fun to watch Cespedes hitting second and rounding out the outfield with Austin and Bosch). Can't wait to see what Dave pulls off next week at the Winter meetings.
wait, we sign buerhle with what money? are we just agreeing to raise the salary of the team or what?
2011 was easily the Tigs lowest opening day payroll since 2007 and understand they are willing to slightly stretch the $107m for 2012.
Allowing for the main additions with VV +1, Miggs +1, Justin +7 and Ramon +1 and deductions for Maggs -10, Carlos -13, Penny -3, Zoom and Thomas -2 the club can probably spend slightly over $20m on the right additions.
I like our bullpen provided JL stops throwing callups to the wolves. Around $12-14m on a proven starter makes sense still leaving you with options for trades involving LF and one more into the infield mix. I would like to see trades for position players likely on the cusp than pay top money for players likely over the peak.
I see you've forgotten the deferred money owed! http://www.freep.com/article/20111102/COL22/111020399/Michael-Rosenberg-Don-t-expect-Tigers-go-off-season-spending-spree
Again, when ppl talk mark b., they should then talk about who we'll get for porcello or sherzer then. The point was recently made that scherzer's value might be at it highest right now – so trade him.
Justin Henry.
AA and AAA in 2011
In Venezuela, .329/.398/.764
51 inni.28 BB 35 SO. WHIP 1.39 era 3.18 . As reliever
I extremely doubt DD has deferred every contract balance to fall due in 2012.
The terms must be favourable to the club for DD to delay making final payment on the old contracts.
Reyes signs with the Marlins:
DD—Strike one!
lol yea right! more like Marlins-STRIKE 2!
(with strike 1 being heath bell's signing)
6 years, $106 million, about $17+ million a year, and take a chance on causing internal strife on the team by having Hanley Ramirez move from the only position he has ever played? And look who they hired as a manager on top of it all. It could be a very wild ride in Miami. Will they stay the course or crash in flames?
I would rather sign Buerhle. Maybe we go after Hanley?


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What better way to end the semester than ice-cream! We took a short, but necessary, break from studying to indulge and talk about how much great stuff we did.
December 5, 2006 Kimmel 904
We screened An Inconvenient Truth. Even though it started late we had a good showing.
November 28, 2006 Kimmel 905
George Reis, from the NYU Garden Shop, was our guest at the meeting today. He talked about the interesting things that he has planned for the plants inside and outside of NYU buildings. We are getting closer to having a real composting program to handle the mountains of food waste and biodegradable waste, and we will be instituting native and sustainable plants starting in the spring. Starting around March, the Garden Shop will be able to use volunteers, and that is when EM will get involved! There are also student worker jobs available at the Garden Shop. Email George at email@example.com.
November 7, 2006 Kimmel 904
We treated ourselves to Newman O's and frosting in celebration of the excellent FreeMeet. After that we discussed the details of the hiking trip and got rowdy.
October 24, 2006 Kimmel 904
Ben Jervey came to talk about his book, The Big Green Apple, and it was quite an engaging conversation as there were only a few of us present. One of his favorite discoveries, he said, was the CSAs (community supported agriculture) around the city that get local farm fresh produce direct to city residents for super cheap. Go to our links page to find info on our very own Washington Square CSA!
October 17, 2006 Kimmel 904
This week we decided to plan a hiking trip! Nothing is enjoyable in quite the same way as a long walk through the woods. We are going to go on November 11, which is a Saturday. The two best ideas we have so far it to either go north on the Metro-North Hudson line or west toward North Jersey.
October 10, 2006 Kimmel 901 (we moved)
The last logistical issue for FreeMeet was taken care of. Brittany will head making food to sell during the event. It will mostly be sweets and munchies like cookies and muffins. The Enviro-Ed lessons will fall into three parts: Water Cycle, Conservation, and an Art Project. We talked about these and now have a few people working on each one.
We also now have a chance to get Ben Jervey, author of The Big Green Apple to come to our next meeting and do a Q&A before hand. Of course, he will also be selling signed copies at a discount. Look for that at next meeting.
October 3, 2006 Kimmel 904
The special Enviro-Ed meeting will be at 11am on Friday on the 7floor of Kimmel. Not Thursday. Contact Alev if you have further questions.
We fine-tuned the press release for FreeMeet. It now has a new subtitle, "At Least Something's Free at NYU." As soon as it is confirmed to be Nov 5, and not a switch to Nov 4, we will create the Facebook group to publicize FreeMeet. Everyone needs to keep bugging their RAs and CDEs to try and get the free-boxes in the lobbies of dorms. These will be great; we need to push them hard. Michelle will draw a flyer.
Nick and Amelia found a few community gardens in the Tompkins Square Park area that might be a good place to volunteer. Now all we need to do is call them until they return our calls.
Bob Butler, director of OSA, is very excited about the prospect of this. We should get lots of logistical help in that respect. We need to pick a date, contact recycling, and then go with it.
Intro to Earth now has some interested professors. But certainly we need more as professors are busy and cannot always fit their schedule with ours. Keep asking!
September 26, 2006 Kimmel 904
We have largely decided what avenues to take this semester, and we need now just to continue them.
September 19, 2006 Kimmel 904
Unfortunately, Sarah was sick so we jumped right into the meeting. Lizzy the VP made banana choco-chip cookies that were surprisingly tasty, considering this was her first time making them vegan. We then went over the activities that we have been discussing, and accordingly, broke up into small groups to work on each idea. The resulting groups were community gardens, Enviro-ed, Intro to Earth, and Free Swap. Each group then discussed how to further the idea and make it into a real event or program.
September 12, 2006Kimmel 901
At our first meeting Helen started of by reading "Think Like a Mountain" by Aldo Leopold. It is an excerpt from The Sand County Almanac. After briefly discussing the nature of the selection, and doing names, we dove into the agenda.


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An Ode to Othyus, Jeffers tabbed as the latest 10-day contract
Throughout the season, as the San Antonio Spurs have shuffled from one 10-day contract player to the next. Head Coach Gregg Popovich continues to feign ignorance on the hopefuls his team is trying out.
Popovich often jokes in the pregame media sessions, upon the debut of each 13th man to walk through the halls of the AT&T Center, that he barely has time to learn each player's name, let alone what they might bring to the team in the short time they are here. There probably is a lot of truth in that.
And yet, here comes Othyus Jeffers.
All indications are the Spurs will sign the 6'5″ converted wing to a 10-day contract following the departure of Steve Novak (ending the wondrous possibility—for now—that was a Bonner-Novak frontcourt). In all likelihood, Popovich actually probably knows little and will learn little about Jeffers over the course of this contract, but that Jeffers took an unusual path to the NBA means he probably already fits right in.
You see, while there are far too many hard-luck-overcoming-adversity stories around the NBA for the Spurs to monopolize the market, they have a pretty significant share of those that come through early setbacks with newfound maturity and poise. Pop likes to refer to them as players that have gotten over themselves, and it is one of the things that define this Spurs culture.
By all accounts, and we will delve into these in a bit, Jeffers is merely one of many physically gifted, but basketball-deficient, wings scattered across the NBA Developmental League. But of all the arenas, in all the outposts of the world, the Spurs walked into Iowa—and came back with a player who has a bit of a story.
A year ago Othyus Jeffers was a member of the Utah Jazz, and the Deseret News chronicled his unusual arrival to the NBA:
Adversity, however, is something Jeffers has battled and become familiar with during his life, though you'd never know by his demeanor.
"I'm always smiling," he said.
Not an easy thing to do considering his past.
Years ago, two of Jeffers' older brothers were shot and killed not far from his family's apartment in Chicago's rough West Side. He was also shot in the leg while trying to protect his sister during a fight with her boyfriend.
But what defines Jeffers is not these moments, but like many Spurs role players before him, what he has taken from these moments, to let the Deseret News continue:
Jeffers credits his mom and his college studies in psychology for helping him overcome his tough background, focus his emotions and make positive things happen in his life, with this call-up to the NBA being the ultimate highlight.
"You learn how to dissect the mind pretty much," said Jeffers, who finished his college career as Sporting News' NAIA player of the year at Robert Morris University after stints at Illinois-Chicago and Los Angeles Southwest College.
"Basketball is different from your outside life, so that's a whole 'nother part," he said. "So, I just try to channel to the right parts and, you know, I'm doing OK. I'm fine."
Jeffers tenure with the Spurs will probably be limited, with Popovich stating that anyone he brings in is not likely to take minutes from the people he has been playing all season. But that's not to say this can't serve as an audition for the Summer League, Austin, or even next year's training camp (assuming any of these exist for next season).
An excerpt from Draft Express on what Jeffers brings to the table:
Jeffers' biggest strength (besides his athleticism) clearly lies in his defense. He is incredibly tough and can absolutely smother opponents on the perimeter with his terrific combination of strength and length, taking great pride on this end of the floor. He gets in the passing lanes at an excellent rate, and is lightning quick getting out in transition. This activity level certainly translates to his work on the glass, where he is arguably the best rebounding wing player in the D-League, at nearly 10-boards per-40. He is especially impressive on the offensive glass, which is one of the main reasons he is so efficient from the field.
Of course, for such a desired skill set to be floating around the D-League, there would have to be some obvious flaws to his game:
The part of his game that needs to improve the most is clearly his jump-shot. He's currently not a threat at all to make shots from the perimeter, showing inconsistent shooting mechanics, with a release point way above his head, and very streaky range outside of 15 feet, both with his feet set and especially off the dribble. To really take his game to the next level, Jeffers must become at least a decent perimeter shooter, as he won't be able to get to the rim in the NBA or high-level Europe nearly as effectively as he does in the D-League.
This flaw probably negates any impact or hopes Jeffers might have for this season, but as we've seen in the past, the Spurs are pretty meticulous in who they allow into their locker room. And while Popovich might not know much about Jeffers, he knows enough to have him here, for the next 10 days at least.


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Both Class 3A team championship races remained evenly matched well into the evening's running events.
Kalon Bergeron won the 400-meter dash to provide Jewel Sumner's boys 14 points of breathing room with four events remaining, and his teammates continued to stretch that lead.
Donaldsonville's girls led Abbeville by three points, McMain by six, Port Allen by nine and Westlake by 12 at the same point.
But the Tigers pulled kept control behind an Outstanding Player performance from senior Ka'lynn Jupiter to join Sumner's championship celebration.
"My team and myself, we came here really positive, and I'd say today was a success," Jupiter said. "I really wanted us to win the 4x400, so that kind of broke my heart, but overall we had a good day, so me and the rest of my senior girls, I feel like we're going out pretty good."
Sumner finished with 86 in the boys meet, followed by North DeSoto at 59 and Lusher Charter at 41.
Willie Reed and Ricky Theyard placed first and second in the long jump to provide Lusher an early lead.
Reed later placed No. 3 in the high jump, while Theyard won the triple jump.
But Devin King started Sumer's scoring with a 16-foot, 8-inch mark that won the pole vault by 2 feet, 8 inches, and his teammates kept adding to the total once the running events began.
"It means a big deal to me," King said. "Everybody did well, and we can't out here to win, and we did, so it feels great."
The 4x200-meter (Bejamin Jones, Bergeron, Joseph Dickerson and Bradon Jynes) and 4x100-meter (Dion Hart, Dickerson, Miquel James and Jynes) relay teams took first, Leonel Moreno finished second in the 1600-meter and third in the 800-meter and then Bergeron began to pull the Cowboys away.
"I just fed off my teammates," Bergeron said. "Finding out about the pole vault just made me wanna go ahead and finish it out, then 4x200 we're going for records and personal bests, 400 I'm going for my brother Kellex's record and trying to keep setting personal bests, and the 4x400 we probably already had (the title) going into it, but we didn't wanna let that make us go slower. We just wanted to keep going faster."
LSU signee Jeryl Brazil, already the 100-meter champion, led the way late in the 200-meter dash before falling in the home stretch with an already-sprained big toe on his left foot.
Jynes took advantage to win the event and extend Sumner's lead, which they further increased with Moreno's 3200 championship and a win by the 4x400-meter team of James, Dickerson, Jynes and Bergeron to ice the cake.
Brazil meanwhile limped off the pain as best he could and eventually smiled in the wake of his misfortune.
"I've been in pain all week," Brazil said with just one shoe. "I'm fine. Stuff like this happens, and I've gotta learn how to deal with it. When I fell, I was hurt, but I have to get up and laugh it off because it happens. I'm not mad. It just happens."
Donaldsonville's 4x400-meter relay team of Kaylynn Joseph, Beaunca Lewis, Erica Johnson and Jupiter finished second to stretch the team's final point total to 58, followed by Abbeville with 48 and McMain with 40.
Nine different schools split the first 12 girls events, with only Donaldsonville, McMain and North Vermilion managing two individual titles each during that span.
Jupiter won both the triple jump (36 feet, 4 1/2 inches) and 100-meter hurdles (14.13 seconds) for Donaldsonville.
Aleia Hobbs began the state champion McMain 4x200-meter relay (1:45.02), then won the 100-meter dash in a Class 3A 11.68 seconds.
North Vermilion received first-place finishes from Chelcie Sonnier in the javelin (140 feet, 8 inches) and Meg Simon in the pole vault (12 feet, 7 inches).
Jupiter later added the 300-meter hurdle title with a Class 3A and composite record 42.63 seconds to her resume to earn top individual accolades.
"It's great because I love to run track, and I wanted to leave my mark here," Jupiter said. "I felt like I was successful at doing that."
Jerit Roser can be reached at email@example.com or 504.826.3405.


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If your concept of a Batman movie was defined back in the mid-'90s, when director Joel Schumacher's BATMAN FOREVER and BATMAN AND ROBIN surrounded Gotham City's masked avenger with flashy, "Circus of the Stars"-style cornball campiness, get ready to have your head turned around. Director Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNIGHT exists in an entirely different world.
One of the many fascinating aspects of this electrifying follow-up to BATMAN BEGINS is the way it manages to carefully maneuver between the kinds of sequences you'd expect from a Batman film (including high-speed chases, flying stunts, and the debut of the Bat-Pod, a stripped-down and pumped-up motorcycle) and a sophisticated crime drama that directly comments on the current political atmosphere, in which put-upon people seem to be starved for any kind of hope.
Nolan's screenplay (co-written with his brother, Jonathan) follows in the footsteps of BEGINS, which presented the transformation of the wealthy, haunted Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) into Gotham's guardian angel as a thought-provoking psychological thriller.
KNIGHT builds on that concept and boldly rewrites director Tim Burton's 1989 BATMAN, in which Jack Nicholson's gleefully malevolent Joker bedeviled Batman (Michael Keaton). While Burton's film was a twisted comedy, propelled by Nicholson's charmingly wicked performance, KNIGHT is powered by an entirely different kind of energy. There's nothing endearingly daffy about Heath Ledger's recasting of the Joker.
This man is a merciless, dyed-in-the-wool psychopath who delights in maiming and murdering anyone who gets in his way; he knows he's demented -- he's a self-described "agent of chaos" who admits to being "a dog chasing cars; I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it" -- but that's the world's problem, not his.
His face covered in messy, flaking makeup that seems to symbolize a decayed soul, Ledger gives a ragingly raw performance designed to make your skin crawl. He speaks in a gnarled, affected voice, like a schoolyard bully talking down to his targets, and makes a habit of constantly calling attention to his horribly scarred, brightly painted mouth. His tangled mass of greenish yellow hair is reminiscent of the snakes sprouting from Medusa's scalp.
"You wanna know why I use a knife?" he hisses to a police officer. "Guns are too quick -- you can't savor all the little emotions."
On the opposite side of the moral spectrum is Gotham's "white knight" Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), a hard-driving district attorney who's determined to shut down Gotham's underworld. Although Batman is officially considered a vigilante, Dent has a grudging respect for the mystery man. "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain," Dent theorizes, words that will soon take on an ironic ring.
Most of KNIGHT was shot in and around recognizable Chicago locations, which often call to mind another great crime story filmed in the same city: THE UNTOUCHABLES. As in that film, supposedly "decent men," such as Dent and Wayne, come to realize that in order to fight evil they must sometimes sidestep their own moral codes. Nolan has fun setting up the dark-haired, low-key Bale and towheaded, charismatic Eckhart as twin sons of different mothers, each seeking the same results -- and the same woman, lawyer Rachel Dawes (an underused Maggie Gyllenhaal, picking up Katie Holmes' former role) -- but traveling on different paths.
Nolan stages several brilliant, breathlessly paced action sequences and creates a few memorably creepy images, such as a fire engine wrapped in flames, or the sight of the Joker's vandalized circus van, on which the benign slogan "laughter is the best medicine" has been turned into "slaughter is the best medicine."
KNIGHT is even more impressive, however, for its brainpower and its determination to locate that shady middle ground between good and evil. In the same way that someone can be a "terrorist" in the eyes of some and a "freedom-fighter" in the opinions of others, Batman is painted here as a conflicted warrior who is questioning his standing in the world even before the Joker finds an ingeniously evil way to turn the public against him. Dent follows a similar track, which ultimately forces him to decide whether he's a dedicated crusader or just another hollow politician who crumbles under pressure.
Nolan has put together a compelling, even daring companion piece to BATMAN BEGINS that shows his first time out was no fluke. THE DARK KNIGHT has suspense, shocks, style and substance, proving that a superhero's best partner is a superb filmmaker.