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Our graduates have a strong record of finding suitable positions, reflecting the fact that the UK is a major contributor to the global chemical industry. Our graduates have found lucrative graduate engineering/consultancy positions with companies including: Procter and Gamble, Stone and Webster, BP, ExxonMobil, Kodak, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Unilever, AMEC, British Energy, Kappa, Mowlem, BT, Corus and Pfizer. Further information about careers and salaries for graduate Chemical Engineers can be found at: www.icheme.org.uk www.whynotchemeng.com
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Whidbey Island lawyer turns attention to premium cigars
After 25 years of defending clients in a court of law, Tom Pacher's body and mind needed a break.
One day, he turned to his wife and suggested an idea that was literally right before his eyes.
Why not open a cigar shop?
Pacher had become somewhat of a cigar aficionado over the years, visiting shops during travels to South Florida and conventions in Pennsylvania.
He wound up collecting thousands of cigars, most through online orders, bought humidors to store them and purchased other items such as paintings, cigar boxes and old signs that reflected his passion.
A worsening back condition led him to look for more forgiving ways to spend his days than standing for long periods of time in court.
The stress of serving as primary appointed counsel on several high-profile criminal cases and others in Island County over the past several years also took a toll.
"My body thinks it's 100-years-old," said Pacher, who's 50.
Pacher spoke with his wife Marlene in November about making a significant career change and that conversation led to a new premium cigar and pipe shop that will be opening in Oak Harbor next month.
Whidbey Premium Cigar & Pipe will open April 1 at the site of the former Kits Camera store near Safeway on Highway 20.
Pacher's passion, research and difficulty finding premium cigars on Whidbey Island led him to believe the business would be a success in Oak Harbor.
"You have to go to the mainland to find a store like this," he said. "It's an old-fashioned pipe and cigar store."
The store will carry a wide range of cigars, humidors to store them and an assortment of pipes.
Although the store will offer some accessories for those who smoke electronic cigarettes, all other products will be tobacco related.
There will be no marijuana pipes or other accessories.
"That's not a knock on anybody with marijuana," Pacher said. "It's just nothing we're interested in getting involved in. I don't want to scare off customers. I'd like there to be somewhere men and women of the base could go to safely and not have their commanding officers worry about them.
"All of our cards are on the table. It's tobacco."
Pacher is amazed over the quality of cigars being made these days. His selection will include Graycliff, Don Pepin and Nick Perdomo and will range from cigars under $2 to those that will sell for more than $20.
He also will be selling, refurbishing and repairing pipes.
He believes the time is right for a premium cigar and pipe shop in Oak Harbor. He's been watching cigar trends, noticing far improved quality at reasonable prices.
It wasn't the easiest sell at first to convince his wife of 18 years that this was the right move, but she got on board and has worked tirelessly to catalogue their immense inventory to prepare for the opening.
Pacher, who will retain his law license, said it's been a tedious job to comply with all of the laws involving the sale of tobacco products.
But he believes it will all be worth it.
"Twenty years ago, there was a big cigar boom," Pacher said.
"It was volume back then. Now it's just amazing quality stuff being made out there. It's blue collar. It's white collar. I've been talking with groups from doctors, plummers, truck drivers to attorneys. It crosses all lines or barriers. It's really nice to sit and chat with folks about cigars."
"It's going to be a lot less stressful than the work I've been doing."
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Camp cuts officially announced
The Kings announced an official set of roster cuts, with goalie J.F. Berube and forwards Robert Czarnik, Justin Johnson and Rob Mignardi assigned to Manchester, defensemen Michal Cajkovksy, Colin Miller and Alex Roach assigned to their respective junior teams and defenseman Shaun Heshka released from his pro-tryout agreement. Also, forwards Marc-Andre Clich, Rich Clune and David Meckler will need to clear waivers tomorrow at 9 a.m. before they can be assigned to Manchester. [update: Cam Paddock must also clear waivers.] That takes the Kings down to the following in camp…
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HILLSBORO -- As Glencoe practiced under rare November blue skies Wednesday, a pair of walkers on the Hare Field track stopped for a moment to observe.
"They better get ready," one told the other. "They're playing Tyner this week."
Actually, Glencoe (6-4) is playing No. 9 Aloha (7-2) at 7 p.m. Friday in the first round of the OSAA Class 6A football playoffs at Aloha High School.
But yes, that also means the Crimson Tide are playing Tyner, as in Thomas Tyner. As in the Aloha senior running back who has captured the attention of people beyond the high school sports community.
That's what happens when you rush for 643 yards and 10 touchdowns in a single game, as the University of Oregon-bound Tyner did in Aloha's 84-63 win over Lakeridge on Sept. 14. The mark set a state record and was third-best all-time in the nation.
"When I saw that in the paper, my first reaction was, 'Wow,'" Glencoe senior linebacker Michael Schrader said. "I was astonished. That's up and down the field six times. Just an amazing feat for him. I can't wait to face him."
Tyner, the Metro League offensive player of the year, enters tonight's game well rested after Aloha's week off and has a chance to reach the 3,000-yard mark for the season. The 6-foot, 207-pound senior leads the state with 2,800 rushing yards and 35 touchdowns. He also has one receiving touchdown.
Which begs the question that has plagued opposing defenses all fall: How do you stop Tyner?
"Well, no one's been able to so I don't think it's a matter of whether you can stop him or not," Glencoe coach Steve Jones said. "I think the key is that they have to have as many offensive plays as possible. That means he just doesn't score on first-and-10 from 80 yards out."
Jones relishes the challenge, even if it means he's been watching more film than he usually does. Sleep has been scattered, with a thought waking him up at 3 a.m. and leading him out of bed and back into the office to devise strategies.
"My eyes are buggy right now, I've watched so much film," said Jones, who genuinely enjoys the process of preparation. "He's one of the top backs in the nation, and he's probably one of the biggest ones. When you combine that kind of speed with durability and size, that's a pretty big task."
It's a daunting assignment that the Crimson Tide defense is relishing. Schrader, who leads Glencoe with 70 tackles, said there's been "a buzz" around the football team this week.
The Crimson Tide, who went 2-8 last season, are full of confidence after clinching a winning record with their 28-17 win over Barlow last Friday in the play-in round.
"We have a great opportunity to prove to the rest of the state that Glencoe is back on the map in postseason play," said Schrader, a first-team all-Pacific Conference selection at linebacker. "Our defense has been the highlight of practice this week. Everybody's flying around, everyone's laying hat. I'm ready to go. I feel really confident in our whole defensive game plan.
"We have a plan ready to stop Aloha High School, not just Thomas Tyner."
On the same night Tyner earned nationwide headlines with his 643 yards, Glencoe quietly put together a defensive effort that set the tone for its turnaround season. The Crimson Tide held Tigard to a season-low 21 points in a 21-7 loss. The third-ranked Tigers average a Class 6A-best 48.3 points per game.
"That was a belief game for us," Jones said. "It showed that we could play with anybody."
Glencoe counters Tyner with a foursome of senior running backs who have combined for 2,265 rushing yards: Ryan Spaulding (1,135), Blaine Morgan (629), Ryan England (292) and Jake Weddle (209).
Spaulding, who leads the team with nine rushing touchdowns, said the presence of Tyner on the field tonight will provide added motivation.
"It's pretty cool to go up against him," said Spaulding, a first-team all-conference running back. "I've never played against him and I've always wanted to so here's my chance."
Glencoe senior wide receiver/defensive back Trebriel Larry is one of the few players who has played against Tyner, but not in football. Larry and Tyner often competed against each other in basketball in elementary and middle school, forging a mutual respect.
"We've always been really competitive toward each other," Larry said. "Even now, when we see each other on the street we always acknowledge each other. He's a great guy, but once those lights turn on, it's no more friends. It's game time."
Larry, a first-team all-conference selection at defensive back, knows how important it will be for him to make a key tackle if – when? – Tyner breaks free downfield. Larry has visualized that moment all week, bringing a smile to his face.
"Let's go, let's go," Larry said. "Trust me, we're not scared. We just want to get after it. We've been busting our butts this week and it's time for it to pay off."
That bring-it-on attitude starts at the top with Jones, who was full of energy and enthusiasm throughout Wednesday's practice. Along with veteran defensive coordinator Dave Ackerman, the Crimson Tide coaching staff can't wait to see what their players can do against one of the state's all-time best players.
"If you're made out of anything and you play defense, this is something you dream about," Jones said. "Kids are going to want to be able to say, when they see this guy play on Sundays, 'Hey, I once tackled him.'
"We've got kids that believe. We've got coaches that believe. And maybe we're just crazy for believing the way we do, but we do. On any given night, anything can happen."
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Squatted 106kg for 3 of five today, felt like I had a truck on my back. I'd forgotten what that 'how will I make the next workout' feeling was like.
It seems I've also briefly forgotten to stop being such a pansy.
So my 70s Big hoodie came today, which is pretty sweet (I'm wearing it to write this post). Not so sweet is the £13 customs duty I had to pay on it. Motherfuckers.
My book is nearing completion (again) and just has a few chapters left (still). When I say 'nearing completion' of course, I mean the first draft, but that's 120,000 words better than nothing. It's pretty cool. Will hopefully be done by the end of the month, then I've got a few changes I need to hop back and do (continuity corrections, that sort of thing) before it gets locked in a figurative drawer for three months. I need to defamiliarise (word?) myself with it before the second draft gets done. I've got another thing to do some work on while I'm waiting, anyway.
(edit: just finished today's writing at 25 words off 120,000 and quarter of a page off 200 A4 pages. Awesome.)
This is cool for anyone who likes A Song Of Ice And Fire (aka Game of Thrones if you only watch TV and don't read, you pathetic loser):
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Squatted 106kg for 3 of five today, felt like I had a truck on my back. I'd forgotten what that 'how will I make the next workout' feeling was like.
It seems I've also briefly forgotten to stop being such a pansy.
Just got back from the Lowry Hotel restaurant in Manchester, paid for by relatives somewhat richer than I - very posh establishment. Fabulous food and expensive wine. Nice to see how the other half lives.... and they live very well indeed.
The bastards.
Very interesting study on glucose and self-control.
Self-control relies on glucose as a limit... [J Pers Soc Psychol. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI
So regulated blood sugar levels help with resolve? Nice to see a study about how glucose affects us (when I talk about blood sugar, people go "You're not diabetic" and I face-palm).
Depression Lies
It's nice to see something like self-control, normally so vague and slippery, get a little grounding in biology.
A bit of food porn.
Last night's dinner: (chicken legs, parsnips, carrots, red cabbage, butter):
My regular lunch (sweet potatoes fried in butter with cinnamon, scrambled eggs and crispy bacon):
Book first draft is done now save for a couple of little epilogues that I've had in mind for a while. I'll get them done tomorrow.
This is pretty cool.
Also, on a random note, I'm doing yoga-type stuff. It's also pretty cool, but in a slightly different way.
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Milwaukee, WI (NNCNOW.com) --- Bartolo Colon won his fourth straight start and gave up just one earned run, and Brandon Moss hit a three-run homer for the Athletics as they cruised to a 6-1 win over the Brewers on Wednesday.
Colon gave up eight hits in seven innings as Oakland won for the 16th time in its last 19 games. The A's starter has been linked to a now-closed anti-aging clinic under investigation by Major League Baseball.
Carlos Gomez had the lone RBI for the Brewers with his triple in the bottom of the first.
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A Community Good Friday Worship Service is set for 1 p.m. at Horizons Conference Center, 6200 State Street in Saginaw. Rev. Gregory P. Seltz, speaker of The Lutheran Hour radio program will deliver the Good Friday message. The service also features vocal and instrumental groups from Valley Lutheran High School. Pre-service music also provided by the Valley Lutheran High School's music department.
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This article remembers key events that have shaped Wall Street history.
International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM ) first joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI ) in 1932. It was later removed in 1939, and would not rejoin until 1979. To call this a big mistake would be one of the stock market understatements of the century, as the value of IBM shares would grow by 22,000% from removal to reinstatement. One analyst has estimated that the Dow would have been worth twice its 1979 value had IBM remained part of it continuously.
One of the key events in IBM's market-thrashing transformation into a modern computing pioneer took place on this day in 1958. IBM's 305 RAMAC, the first "supercomputer" with its own 3.75 megabyte internal hard disk drive (also a first), was revealed to the public on Sept. 13, 1958. The IBM 350 disk storage unit contained 50 magnetic disks that could spin at 1,200 revolutions per minute, with an average data retrieval time of 600 milliseconds. It was so large it had to be moved by forklift.
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The 305 RAMAC was rented to businesses in need of real-time accounting for a monthly fee of $3,200, which would amount to approximately $305,000 per year in current dollars. IBM built more than 1,000 of these systems between 1958 and 1961. In 1962, at full utilization, the RAMACs would have contributed only about 1.5% of IBM's total revenue.
The internal hard disk IBM pioneered -- along with the integrated circuit first demonstrated by a Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN ) researcher just a single day earlier in that very same year -- would go on to transform the modern world. Over time, incredible progress would be made in hard disk construction, as you can see in this comparison of a modern Seagate (Nasdaq: STX ) Barracuda desktop hard drive to the original IBM 350:
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|Disk Speed
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|7,200 rpm
|500% increase
|Data Seek Time
|600 milliseconds
|9 milliseconds
|98.5% decrease
|Cost (1 year)*
|99.6% decrease
Source: IBM and Seagate press releases. *Not adjusted for inflation.
We often talk about the Moore's Law of microprocessors when it comes to the incredible pace of computing improvements, but it's easy to forget just how critical data storage has been as well. Today, five of the Dow's components -- IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO ) -- have business models built entirely on the expectation of continued exponential computing growth. Of the others, none can rightly claim that their present-day businesses would exist without proper data management, made possible by constant improvements to hardware and software. Our modern world owes IBM a debt of gratitude for the innovation it first revealed on this day 54 years ago.
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An Iowa parent wants to see certain non-prescription drugs taken off the shelves.
She says teens are buying them to get high.
Those drugs are cough medicines that contain Dextromethophan. But teens are referring to them as 'skittles', 'candy' or 'triple c's'.
This week the mother, who wants to remain anonymous, received a call no parent wants to get.
Her daughter overdosed on a DXM based cough medicine called Coricidin.
"She's gonna die is my biggest fear," the woman said. "I'm gonna end up with a phone call next time that she's dead."
Doctors say the most common side effect is hallucination but too much of the product it can cause cardiac failure and even death.
Coricidin and products like it, can be found on the shelves of most pharmacies.
In a recent Iowa Youth Survey 5 percent of high school juniors admitted to abusing over the counter prescriptions.
The anonymous mom said she wants pharmacists to require ID and purchases limited to a certain number.
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As of about 12:30 p.m. Monday, Muskegon and Muskegon Township firefighters were still putting out hot spots, Metcalf said. To do that, they were using equipment, including pike poles and front-end loaders, to spread out large piles of flammable paper and cardboard and dousing them with water and foam
"It'll sit and smolder," Metcalf said. "You have to make sure it's separated."
Metcalf said he would evaluate the building after the fire was completely out to assess the damage and when it might be safe to resume business.
"The workers here are probably done for the day," he said.
The smoke was relatively mild, with a dusty, white-and-tan color, and workers from neighboring buildings came out to watch the firefighters spray bales of recyclables. Their work was sometimes complicated by a brisk breeze, which caused small fires to flare up in the piles behind the building.
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In what is being touted as the world's biggest dam-removal project, an agreement was reached Tuesday to remove four dams on the Klamath River and restore a 300-mile migratory route for California's beleaguered salmon.
The tentative agreement was reached after a decade of negotiations among 28 parties, including American Indian tribes, farmers, fishermen and the hydroelectric company that operates the dams and distributes the water. The plan would set in motion one of the most ambitious efforts in U.S. history to restore the habitat of a federally protected species if it receives final approval by the parties in December, as expected.
The dams - Iron Gate, Copco 1, Copco 2 and J.C. Boyle - have blocked salmon migration for a century along the California-Oregon border and have been blamed for much of the historic decline of chinook and coho salmon and steelhead trout in the Klamath. Under the plan, the dams operated by the utility, PacificCorp, would be dismantled beginning in 2020.
The ultimate goal of the so-called Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement is to restore what has historically been the third-largest source of salmon in the lower 48 states, behind the Columbia and Sacramento rivers. Chinook once swam all the way up to Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon, providing crucial sustenance to American Indians, including the Yurok, Karuk, Klamath and Hoopa Valley tribes.
"This is the deal that we have all been working on for 10 years," said Steve Rothert, the California director of American Rivers, a national nonprofit river conservation group. "There were a lot of people who didn't think we could do this, and some groups that worked actively to prevent it. It's fantastic that we've reached this spot."
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Just Dam!
Turn out the lights.
FISH more important then humans ping.
How are we suppose to charge our electric cars?
Do fish ladders not work?
Every day I get happier I left California. I used to miss the redwoods and mountains (as if there weren't any others anywhere else). I only wish I could get my extended family to leave. Sad days for the west.
I guess they don't want the water and the electricity. Who knew SF was self sufficient?
Each salmon will be caught as it enters the river and an empty rechargeable batter and a generator will be attached to it. As it swims upstream it will charge the battery. Then the batteries will be retrieved when they reach their mating ground and sent to San Francisco to run their city lights.
SF has the megawatt mouth of Nancy Pelosi.
Well other than a small piece of Oregon there are no Redwoods anywhere else. I miss them too. It is sad that California has seemingly been lost.
We are sheep. If we were real men like our forefathers we would form up into units, march down there, are reclaim it from the invaders, traitors and idiots who have taken it over. So we post, we whine, we collaborate, we move, we talk, we lament.
We are all like old women now.
Yeah, who knew? In some ways, I would really like it if CA simply rebelled and said they were going their own way. Thing is, despite how looney they like to appear, they are rock-hard clear on exactly how important it is to have the rest of us as a backstop.
Say what??
What about global warming? Hydro power is carbon free and renewable. Doesn't that count for something?
I wonder how the people of Yreka feel about drowning?
Last year, the Chinese fishing fleet took more than 17 MILLION TONS OF FISH from the Pacific. I suppose they had nothing to do with this "decline"..............
JeffHead ping
My Dad worked in the Klamath area when he worked in the CCC camps during the Depression. It wouldn't surprise me if he worked on these dams. One liberal project destroying another.
ECC 2: 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
"Do fish ladders not work?
No, they have lost feet, hands and opposable thumbs through evolution...
As I see it, there's only one problem with your analysis. Hundreds of seals, sea lions and otters will die due to ingesting those batteries when they eat those salmon.
Or with our "policies" governing streams and "endangered species"? Central Valley is now a dustbowl to the double benefit of China.
I think that's a great idea, provided that they open up a nuclear power plant to replace the energy that we would stop producing. Oh, they're not planning on building a new nuclear power plant? Well, I guess they can all go to sleep when the sun goes down and not have any electrical appliances. But they'll have plenty of fish to cook over the fire.
It is my understanding that there is a stand of redwoods in New Mexico that has trees that best many in California. It's not well publicized because the folks there don't want the traffic to the area.
If I can find something on it, I'll post a link.
Reason 1A why global warming is BS.
This doesn't really bode well for the 4 dams on the lower Snake here in Idaho that have also been targeted to save a stupid (and tasty might I add) fish.
If you wrote this as the plot of a book in 1950, people would say you were off your rocker....................
If the fish is so tasty, why isn't it farmed?................
Apparently they work very well.
I wonder which hut Nancy will pick? The bike reminds of Pee Wees Great Adventure.
I do not agree with this foolishness, because the deal (which was talked about by the government some time ago) talks about finding other renewable sources for the energy.
The cheapest, most efficient, renewable energy is already in place with those dams and they now intend to take it out, eroding electircal production in that area on the unspecified, liberal promise of "something" in the future.
So, from an energy standpoint, it is very bad policy.
From an irigation standpoint, it will probably put more pressure on Klamath Lake to provide what is deemed the water necessary to meet the environmental/salmon needs. But the farmers in the Klamath Basin have been involved in the negotiations to try and ensure their needs are met and committed to.
In 2001 they did not have that capability, and those events dealt directly with their water in their lake Lake. These dams are all well below them and much more directed at electrical production.
We can replace them with coal-fired plants.
A little over eight years ago there was talk of Klamath Falls being Lexington Green West.
9/11 made the farmers and their supporters back off out of concern for our Republic. Meanwhile enviro wacko rabble continued on destroying 100 years of farm families and not caring one whit about the Republic?
Near Yreka the rive is in a very deep canyon. If it floods Noah has returned.
Thanks, that is a good response.
See my post 32.
I don't know about fish ladders, but there is a dam on the Columbia River, Bonneville Dam I believe, that has a very effective system for allowing salmon to get upstream. I don't know why that could not be added to the dams in question.
Better fire up that dirty Coal plant. Morons.
The project estimated at $450 million will likely go way over budget.
No hydo power for eco- electric cars.
"The effects on Agriculture of this Dam Razing will be horrific."
The above line is the real, unspoken goal of GangGreen.
Have they studied the impact this will have on the local bigfoot population?
California's big Valley has/is becoming a desert due to the envirowhacko's shutting off the water needed by farmers and ranchers.
Now this will happen to the farmers/ranchers trying to make a living along the Klamath River.
Speaking of 'Nuts': Agenda 21, in a nutshell
Klamath Bucket Brigade ^ | September 2, 2006 | Jim Kirwan
Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 11:55:01 AM by Issaquahking
While this new world of corporate governance/ lobbyists/ privatization of the commons etc; seems difficult to understand (disguised as it is with buzz words and meaningless jibberish), its really not as complex as one might think. After you learn how to ignore the superficial banalities, and get to the meat (if there is any) of the message being given. Most times youll hear just fluff and nutter talk sounds important but isnt.
While we naturally focus upon local issues and concerns such as community development, roads, tons of garbage, forest access, tourism, sportsmens rights, lack of snow, no color in foliage etc, one does need to understand the whys of local political decisions, and the decisions of local commissions, boards, councils, etc. There is rhyme and reason to our loss of rights, land, privacy, and public opinion.
Every American citizen, no matter where you live, must buy your countys Plat Book. Plat Books are maps that identify the owners of each and every parcel of land in your counties. You cannot know what is going on behind the scenes unless you buy your county Plat Book.
You will then discover that most of the land in your counties is now owned by 1) state or federal government, 2) land development companies, 3) land trusts or land funds, 4) environmental organizations, and 5) large corporations.
If you are lucky enough to have several Plat Books covering a 2, 3, 5, or 10 year period (Plat Books are published annually), you will see a connection between land trusts, land development companies, land funds, and corporations. You will discover that they buy and sell to each other, and that they change the names of their organizations, and also create spin off organizations, on a regular basis.
Then, if you go to the websites of these organizations, you will discover that they are partnered with 1) each other, 2) with larger global corporations, and 3) with environmental organizations.
In other words, you will find that the buying and selling of land in your counties is a highly organized business bureaucracy that circulates perpetuates profit and control between revolving door partnerships.
But what are partnerships? In a word, business has changed in the United States. On TV commercials, Im sure youve heard the term partners and certainly in your communities youve heard the lofty terminology of public private partnerships. It sounds nice like cooperative business ventures for the GOOD of the public. However this is a lie, sorry.
Partnerships, stakeholding, and NGOs (non governmental organizations) are Americas ( and the worlds) new governmental bureaucracy system. This system is the brainstorm of the United Nations and was defined in a document called Agenda 21, which means Agenda for the 21st Century.
Agenda 21, in a nutshell, mandated that all countries that were U.N. members implement Agenda 21 requirements into their nations and governmental structures. The U.S. is a member of the U.N. and therefore we were required to implement Agenda 21.
People mostly because they never do any research on their own, but buy everything they hear, (because it sounds good), get confused over the different language or mostly they, shrug, and dont care. In the U.S. (to confuse people) Agenda 21 is called by different names. We call it sustainable development, sustainable communities (New Orleans and Mississippi have this planned now that the po folks are gone), Local 21, Smart Growth and a whole bevy of other names. However all of these governmentally imposed programs and changes that we now see in our communities (world wide if you read) are upon the insistence of the U.N. as outlined in the Agenda 21 document.
First and foremost, Agenda 21 mandated there is to be NO ownership of private property (exceptions for elites) worldwide. Maurice Strong of U.N. fame owns a whole valley sitting on a huge aquifer Ted Turner owns the most land west of the Mississippi you wont, ha, see them sharing!!! The U.N. believes that all land, watershed systems, and natural resources (water) must be owned and administered by government. To American people (remember duck and cover) this is what we consider to be Communism. We believe (or did) that ownership of property is directly tied to freedom.
As the United Stats set up and is the primary financial supporter of the U.N., the U.N. had to come up with a plan to make palatable their right to confiscate our privately owned land. But how did they accomplish that plan? Masterfully, the UN, with their partners ( the World Bank, the World Trade Organizations, and the International Monetary Fund, and global corporations and groups), began funding environmental science organizations and universities with grant dollars. By doing so, they also formed partnerships with eco organizations and scientists, and a master plan evolved.
Under the direction of Agenda 21, a massive funding web of partnerships, stakeholders, and NGOs, a grant hired eco-doomsday scenario was created ( sounds like Iron Mountain report, huh), and served to manipulate American people into 1) giving up their privately owned properties for the good of sustainable nature and 2) to lay the groundwork for the partnership stakeholding NGO bureaucracy. It worked (is working) like a charm. Anyone who questions this, giving up of ones land, is called an extremist et al, and since nobody wants to be thought goofy, loony, crazy, or against protecting creeks, birds, turtles, frogs etc; they learn to stay quiet (or theyll have no friends and a forever empty dance card)! You have to be a good cow.
Once you buy your county Plat Books, you will clearly see that there is next to no property left to buy in the United States. It has already been purchased by state and federal government, land development companies, large corporations, land trusts like The Nature Conservancy, and land fund organizations all of which are partnered together in the greatest land and natural resource confiscation scheme in the history of the world. Watch and see dont take my word or thousands of pages of documents as proof!
In a nutshell, we are witnessing bureaucratic nation conquering. Rather than using warfare to collect new countries and landmasses, the partnership bureaucracy is collecting world territory (check it out indigenous people being put off their land for nature preserves etc) via land grabbing initiatives under the United Nations and its global partners.
These initiatives are operating in every town, village, rural and wilderness area in the U.S. Most people, including politicians/officials elected and appointed, vote yes on all this stuff, never looking beneath the surface. If you asked to discuss Agenda 21 with them, youd get a blank stare. They hear all the lofty idealism, of protecting the land for generations to come and BELIEVE it! Its being protected alright but not for the kids!
Equally, the professional sciences of ecology and conservation were bought by the Agenda 21 system, and are now solely funded by Agenda 21 partners in land confiscation. Not discussed by our politicians (local or otherwise) is that treaties, Memorandums of Understanding, etc trump Constitutional Laws of the U.S. Treaties trump national (local state) law. At the state level of government, our state governors, who hope to retain the financial support of the federal government, have also agreed to implement Agenda 21 into each and every one of our 50 states.
And now we come to our local levels of government, our local colleges and universities, and our local movers and shakers, which we well know are the affluent people who are our county commissioners, councilmen (well not affluent here) and businessmen. All the affluent locals (true), in efforts to gain dollars from their state governments, and to be privy to the endless money via international, federal, and state grants for land ventures, have signed onto the new partnership stakeholding NGO system of business, because that new bureaucracy is how wealth, power, and money works in our New Greedy World. In truth and fact, if you arent part of this new governmental bureaucracy, which includes grant money and non profit status, you are 1) NOT going to succeed financially, and 2) you are never going to gain any political or local power ( good luck).
We are losing not only our private property, but our access rights to our wilderness areas, as well. Its all dressed up in love of nature and/or sustainability language, but the facts remain the same. Private property is to end, and this is why, via your county Plat Books, you will see that there is literally next to no land left for us to buy in our country. This is why you are seeing access restrictions being imposed daily and all across our nation. This is why we are being herded into planned communities where we do not own the land. Agenda 21 originally defined these planned communities as human settlements. How many land development companies are in your areas How many deed restricted communities have been erected?
Todays government is a combination corporate financial system, with human beings as highly controlled servants to profit. We are highly managed (and will be more so) creatures much like chipped and reintroduced wolves and invasive species. Consider why anyone in their right mind, much less entire governmental departments, would agree to implement programs like large carnivore reintroduction thereby decimating deer and other ungulates and cattle populations, nationwide. Why? To force farmers/ranchers out of business and to sell their land, and to effectively end hunting (any thought of being self sustaining) and other outdoor wilderness sports. Its called getting the people off the land plain and simple.
Shasta Tribal Chairman, Roy Hall, says that coho salmon are not native to the Klamath River system.
Shasta Tribal Chairman, Roy Hall, says that coho salmon are not native to the Klamath River system.
"Coho have been used for political purposes," he said.
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Pioneer Press, Fort Jones , California
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Vol. 32, No. 42
Page 1, column 2
Shasta Tribal Chairman, Roy Hall,
rolls with the punches
— Native American uses horses to help youth.
Shasta Tribal Chairman Roy Hall with "Kamisha" (Photo Credit Liz Bowen)
By Liz Bowen, assistant editor, Pioneer Press, Fort Jones, California
(At the very top of the state.)
QUARTZ VALLEY , CALIFORNIA - "The spotted owl was used for political purposes," said Roy Hall, a man who ranched as a teen, logged for 25 years and now works as a horseman providing counseling to children through the horses.
Roy Hall Jr. is also chairman of the Shasta Nation, a California recognized Native American Tribe, which has been fighting for U.S. federal government recognition the last 150 years.
A treaty was signed by the Shasta on Nov. 4, 1851 , but was never ratified. Soon after the signing of the treaty, a barbecue was held by the soldiers based in Fort Jones . The meat was poisoned and hundreds of Shasta braves died, but two chiefs of the 13 chiefs in attendance did not eat and survived. Present-day Shastas can trace their genealogy back to these chiefs and the surviving women.
During the last 22 years, council officers of the Shasta Nation and members have traveled to Washington D.C. carrying 1000s of historical documents to no avail.
"Same as the coho salmon," continues Chairman Hall. "The coho is being used for political purposes."
(Last month, the California Fish and Game Commission listed the coho salmon with the California Endangered Species Act, citing low numbers in population, despite California Farm Bureau Federation, Cattlemen, and Siskiyou County groups to name a few, that presented scientific data that the coho numbers have actually improved.
The state Department of Fish and Game officials refused to include information from the last four years on coho numbers. Only the study by Brown and Moyles numbers were used and that study was done more than 20 years ago.)
But it is the next sentence that drops the bomb.
"Coho are not native fish. They have been planted here numerous times. The water is too warm," comes the soft-spoken short sentences. "Steelhead and chinook are native fish."
When asked, Fish and Game officials say they have no records of plantings, except for the plant of 200 adult coho in the French Creek in the early 1970s.
Yet, the shocking statements still do not stop.
"Spotted owls are not natural birds here either, so why are they being used for politics?" questions Hall.
It is his knowledge of timber and logging, along with the information passed down from generations of those who lived in this mountain forestland, which provides Roy with his facts.
"Logging and roads in the forest raised the number of the spotted owls. It gives them places to fly and hunt," he explains. "Miles of heavy forest is difficult habitat to live in."
For a Native American Tribe that called the area of Siskiyou County and several other counties in Northern California and Southern Oregon its homeland, the Shasta Nation knows the frustration of political schemes and governmental red tape.
But while the current Shasta Tribal Council and members still work towards federal status, this member of the Shasta Nation has learned to roll with the punches.
Roy followed an uncle into the logging business nearly 30 years ago after graduating from Etna High School in 1973. Logging made more money than ranching, even back then. He drove truck hauling logs, skidded logs down mountains, loaded logs onto trucks and even fell trees.
In 1991, one of the trees he was cutting fell on him. Injuries kept him out of work for over a year. His shoulder still doesnt work right, but he was able to go back to logging. Yet, because of the stringent regulations involved with the federal listing of the spotted owl to the Endangered Species Act, work was taking him farther and farther from home.
Roy and his wife, Monica, have five children. A dad needs to be home. They were living the economic shutdown in Siskiyou County , which was a result of the loss of the timber industry. But they do not want to move. This is their home in more ways than one.
By this time, the Halls were in the thick of studying the Parelli Horse Training methods. Roy and Monica liked the "natural" way of training, especially the results. His mare "Kamisha" works so well, Roy can actually ride her without a bridle or halter. Her head and mouth are free, but she listens to the rider as he shifts his body and slightly moves his hands.
Then "The Horse Program" began hiring. It was October of 2002 and Roy was ready to change careers. The tractor that he had most recently drove pulling a belly dump trailer is now hooked up to a long horse trailer. There isnt a problem pulling the steep mountain grades, Roy mentions with a smile.
"The Horse Program" is a private business that works to improve behavioral health, a problem facing many youth and families in todays society. The program works closely with the Siskiyou County Behavioral Health Department. Most of the clients are children and teens.
"Kids love the horses and respond well," Roy explains. "Horses teach respect, boundaries. Instead of an adult telling them what to do, we let the horse teach them."
Part II to follow next week: How Roy Hall took up the Shasta Tribal cause, following in his grandfather's footsteps.
You know what? I think that might even be the point. If the subject class will not voluntarily bend the knee and bow, then they must be forced to do so or eliminated. Any culture class that can endorse mass abortion as a convenience finds it no difficult move to take a Kulak-style approach to achieving political dominance over the working classes.
A nuclear plant will not replace irrigation water for the farms.
Some of those water rights date back to 1852.
It is hard enough to farm with irrigation water instead of rain. Who will support these people?
California will have higher prices for milk-cheese-ice cream-yogurt, etc. There are thousands of tons of hay raised in that area for dairy cattle.
Thank you for the clarification.
I didn't see anything about the Carbon Footprint to accomplish this fiasco. It also doesn't report on the fact that Salmon thrived for 30 or 40 years after these 4 dams were completed and have disappeared only since fleets of large foreign fishing vessels with modern electronic fish finders catching every fish in a school all processed by Mother Ships standing by. The electric rate payers of Oregon will get stiffed for a Calif River and the voters of Ca will give them a blank via bond issue after bond issue. And what happens to all the sediment built up behind the dams when they are removed plus there is no mention of more flooding below the dam sites...
And people wonder why I'm so down on GovernMental EnvironMentalists, along with CONservancies like Schwartzenegger's Sierra-Nevada CONservancy!!!
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Toeing the line on Mayor Mitch Landrieu's call for new limits on the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Commission, a slate of the mayor's hand-picked board members on Wednesday recommended that the board shrink from 16 appointees who serve 16-year terms to nine members serving no more than two four-year terms each.
The railroad board's governance reform committee also recommended that the quasi-city agency hire an internal auditor who would report directly to the board.
Revelations over the past year of overspending at the city-owned railroad might have been avoided "if we'd had a more engaged board, but also if we'd had the internal eyes to take a look at it," said the Rev. Kevin Wildes, the committee's chairman.
Landrieu has called for shrinking the Public Belt commission, which by state law comprises 16 citizen members, plus the mayor serving as ex-officio president. City ordinance requires commissioners to serve staggered 16-year terms and spells out several industry groups that get to recommend members. The agency also is enshrined in the City Charter.
In an odd quirk, the commission currently appoints six of its own members.
Under the new scheme, six industry and civic affiliates each would recommend three nominees to the mayor, who would select from among each trio of choices an appointee to represent each entity on the commission, with City Council approval. The mayor would choose the remaining three members.
The advisory groups would include: the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, the New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce, the Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region, the New Orleans Board of Trade, the Port of New Orleans, and a conglomerate of Loyola, Tulane, Xavier and Tulane universities.
The committee initially had suggesting giving the mayor sole discretion to appoint four members but backed off that option because it would give the mayor five of 10 votes on the commission, including his own.
"That doesn't bother me for the next seven years, but I don't know what happens after that," said Lynes "Poco" Sloss, referring to the Landrieu's remaining tenure, assuming he wins reelection in 2014.
Because of the overlapping legal authorizations of the Public Belt, the various proposed oversight changes must be approved by the state Legislature, the City Council and a majoriy of New Orleans voters. The full railroad board is expected to take up the recommendations next month.
With the Legislature convening April 25 for the 2011 regular session, a placeholder bill has been filed by state Rep. Jared Brossette to cover any changes at the state level, said Mike Sherman, the mayor's intergovernmental affairs director.
Once all changes are finalized, current board members would resign within 60 days, the committee recommended.
After reviewing a scathing report issued late last summer by the state legislative auditor, Landrieu requested the resignations of 14 board members who presided over out-of-control spending at the city-owned railroad; two seats were vacant. The agency's general manager, Jim Bridger, also quit under pressure.
The mayor quickly named -- and the City Council swiftly approved -- 13 new members, including three university presidents and former Mayor Sidney Barthelemy.
Among the new panel's tasks was reviewing the board's structure. At a September news conference, Landrieu said he wants many agency rules rewritten, including board composition and the length of terms.
State Reps. Jeff Arnold, Reed Henderson and Brossette joined the mayor at the City Hall event.
Landrieu has called the Public Belt, a century-old agency, "an obscure thing." The mayor acknowledged when he took office that he was surprised to learn that "the city actually owns a railroad."
The Public Belt Railroad was created in 1904 to bring the various tracks along the city's busy port under one umbrella. The agency moves freight cars along the tracks serving the port and also serves as a throughway for cross-country trains.
The railroad switches thousands of railcars a month and operates more than 100 miles of track along 25 miles of right of way from Avondale across the Huey P. Long Bridge and along the Mississippi River into the city. The track runs along the river wharves, the Industrial Canal and out to the public bulk terminal at the river's Gulf outlet.
All assets are owned by the city, with operational and capital expenditures financed by revenue from the business the railroad handles. The agency gets no taxpayer money.


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Wealthy foreigners are mopping up property in rich London neigbourhoods but have no time to stay in them, turning these posh localities into ghost towns
An odd thing was happening, or rather not happening, as dusk fell across London's Belgravia, home to some of the world's most valuable real estate: almost no one seemed to be coming home. It seems that the only people who can afford to live there don't actually want to. Last year, the real estate firm Savills found that at least 37 per cent of people buying property in the most expensive neighbourhoods of central London did not intend them to be primary residences.
"Belgravia is becoming a village with fewer and fewer people in it, " said Alistair Boscawen, a local real estate agent. He works in "the nuts area" of London, as he put it, "where the house prices are bonkers" - anywhere from $7. 5 million to $75 million, he said. The buyers, increasingly, are superwealthy foreigners from places like Russia, Kazakhstan, Southeast Asia and India. For them, London is just a stop in a peripatetic international existence that might also include New York, Moscow and Monaco.
Along Elizabeth Street, home to a Poilâne bakery outlet and tony boutiques, foot traffic the other day was very slow. A Belgravia resident from Colombia said that there were two English people on her street, and it was hard to tell whether many of her neighbours were there or not there. "French, American, Petra Ecclestone" - the daughter of Bernie Ecclestone - "and Russians, " said the resident. She asked that her name not be used because, she said, she was scared of the Russians.
London is not the only city where the world's richest people leave their expensive properties vacant while they stay in their expensive properties someplace else;the same is true in parts of Manhattan. "Many areas of central London have become prohibitively expensive for local residents, " a Smith Institute report said. "Some of the richest people in the world are buying property here as an investment, " says Paul Dimoldenberg, leader of the Labour opposition in Westminster Council. "They may live here for a fortnight in the summer, but for the rest of the year they're contributing nothing to the local economy. "
In its report, Savills found that in 2011-12, 34 per cent of people buying residential properties in the resale market in prime areas of London were from overseas, up from 24 per cent in pre-crisis 2007. In the most exclusive spots, foreigners accounted for 59 per cent of the sales.
This has made parts of London more international, more expensive and emptier. A salesclerk at a Belgravia clothing boutique said that at some times of the year the area was virtually abandoned. "We'll shut for the whole of August, " she said. Meanwhile, prices are rising beyond expectation. For single-family housing in the prime areas of London, British buyers spend an average of $2. 25 million, Barnes said, while foreign buyers spend an average of $3. 75 million, which increases to $7. 5 million if they are from Russia or the Middle East. Of new properties in "ultraprime" apartment complexes, 78 per cent of purchases last year were made by foreigners. Brokers are marketing new properties abroad in places like Hong Kong and Singapore even before advertising in Britain.
The most visible, and also the most notorious, of the new developments is One Hyde Park, a $1. 7 billion apartment building of stratospheric opulence on a prime corner in Knightsbridge, near Harvey Nichols, the park and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, which functions as a 24-hour concierge service for residents. Apartments there have been purchased mostly by foreign buyers with hidden identities. It is rare to see anyone coming to or going from the complex. Vanity Fair reported recently that as far as it could discern after a long trawl through records, the owners seem to include a cast of characters who might have come from a poker game in a James Bond movie: a Russian property magnate, a Nigerian telecommunications tycoon, the richest man in Ukraine, a Kazakh copper billionaire, someone who may or may not be a Kazakh singer and the head of finance for the emirate of Sharjah.
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Ranchos woman receives royal birthday wish
March 17, 2014
On Friday, Emily Glass' lifelong dream came true. She received a birthday card from the queen of England.
Glass celebrated her 100th birthday at the Douglas County Senior Center surrounded by family and friends.
"It's beautiful. I was so surprised. I've been waiting for it to come to my house," Glass said of her special card. "I thank Travis (Lee) a million times for getting me that."
Along with the queen's birthday card, Glass received more than 60 cards with birthday wishes from senior center members, and the Young at Heart board presented her with a bottle of her favorite drink, Bailey's Irish Cream.
"I'm so happy I've got so many people around me," she said. "It's overwhelming."
Glass was born March 14, 1914, in Forest Gate, England — 9.4 miles from Buckingham Palace. As a young girl she attended school at Good Hall Lane in London. When she started working she made shirts and pajamas.
During World War II, she began working in a tavern serving food and beverages to the American soldiers. Glass and her family survived the German Blitz on London that started Sept. 7, 1940, and ended in May of 1941.
In 1946, Glass came to America where she raised her five children Terry, John, Robert, Patricia and Carol.
Glass' son, John, and daughter, Carol, attended the party.
"She's a lovely lady, a great person and a great mother. She's so full of life. The world's a better place because of her," John said. "Many times I've asked her to live with me and she won't. She's so independent."
Carol said she learned a lot from her mother.
"She taught me to be responsible and treat people the way you would want to be treated. She also taught us good work ethics," she said. "It's wonderful she's able to have her dream of a card from the queen. She wanted to live long enough to get that card."
Glass has been a member of the senior center for eight years, eating lunch there daily, attending bingo regularly and participating in center outings.
She is also known for her monthly gifts of Cadbury candy bars wrapped up and decorated for senior center staff.
"She's somebody to look up to. She's everybody's friend and everybody adores her," said Bob Cook, senior advisory council chairman. "It wouldn't be the same here without her."
Glass has six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Senior Services Director, Travis Lee attended the party via Skype, and County Manager Steve Mokrohisky made an appearance as well.
Lee had written to Buckingham Palace in February to request a card for Glass. Cards are only sent to those celebrating their 100th and 105th birthday and every year thereafter. It is the queen's custom only to send messages to current citizens of one of her realms or UK overseas territories.


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How can psychology help you
Psychology is the scientific study of human mind and behaviour.
Psychologists work in many different areas of society and are concerned with practical problems. Below are only a few examples:
- Helping people to overcome depression, stress, trauma or phobias
- Easing the effects of parental divorce on children
- Speeding up recovery from brain injury
- Helping to stop or prevent bullying at school or in the workplace
- Ensuring that school pupils and students are being taught in the most effective way
- Making sure that people are happy at work and perform to the best of their abilities
- Helping the police, courts and prison service to perform more effectively
- Helping athletes and sports people to perform better
For more information about the discipline, check out our ten things you might not know about psychology section.
Many of the challenges we face in the modern world are rooted in human behaviour, so psychological knowledge can help us find solutions.
People with all sorts of problems seek the help and support of psychologists. For example:
Adult mental health problems
Every day counselling psychologists and clinical psychologists help a wide range of people of all ages with all sorts of problems.
Some people have particular emotional or mental health problems, such as depression or schizophrenia. Others have difficulties with their thinking, which is also known as 'cognitive' problems. These can take many forms, such as problems with memory or perception after a head injury, a learning disability or dementia.
There are many more areas of life where a psychologist can help. These could include helping people manage and live with health conditions such as HIV, cancer or chronic pain, assisting people who have difficulties in maintaining relationships or providing advice about how to care for a child who has been abused.
Whatever the problem, the psychologist will consider what scientific research says about its probable cause and what will be likely to help.
Sometimes the psychologist will be the one who then provides the help. Examples of this include seeing the person for a number of sessions to provide psychological therapy or giving advice on how to manage memory problems.
Sometimes the psychologist will recommend other people who can help, perhaps advising them on the best way forward for the client.
If you feel that a psychologist may be able to help you, discuss this with your GP.
Clinical and Counselling psychologists work across a range of settings, including the NHS, and are accessible to the public through that service.
It is also possible to see psychologists privately, though in this case you will have to pay a fee. Consult our Directory of Chartered Psychologists to help you find a suitable professional.
A child having problems at school
If you are worried about a child who has problems with academic work or behaviour in school, it may be that consulting an educational psychologist will help the situation.
Some education authorities will have an educational psychology department. Talk to the school or to the department directly about making an appointment. If you make an appointment in this way, there will be no charge for seeing the psychologist.
It is also possible to seek help from a psychologist privately. Visit our Directory of Chartered Psychologists to help you find a suitable professional.
Children and young people's mental health
We support MindEd – a programme that will provide electronic learning materials covering the breadth of children and young people's mental health for both the healthcare and non-healthcare workforces. The MindEd website provides free online education to help adults to identify and understand children and young people with mental health issues. Find out more.


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The defending Kent County Amateur champion has turned pro and last year's runner-up is the reigning Michigan Amateur Champion.
Tom Werkmeister, who won the Michigan Amateur two weeks ago at Spring Meadows in Linden, will headline the Kent County Amateur field this weekend at L.E. Kaufman Golf Course in Wyoming.
Clark Klaasen beat Werkmeister last year by four shots despite Werkmeister's final-round hole-in-one. Klaasen recently graduated from Duke University and turned pro in time for the U.S. Open.
Werkmeister, 41, is considered the favorite in the 54-hole event. He won the Kent County title in 2004 and '07, part of his 10 titles in local major events (four City titles, four West Michigan Amateur titles).
Nick Boone, the 2006 champion who was an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics All--American at Davenport College, is playing as an amateur this summer. He will decide on a possible pro career this fall.
• 2008: Clark Klaasen
• 2007: Tom Werkmeister
• 2006: Nick Boone
• 2005: Brian VanderPloeg
• 2004: Tom Werkmeister
• 2003: Rick Grover
• 2002: Marc Wierenga
• 2001: Eric Jorgensen
• 2000: Eric Jorgensen
Brian VanderPloeg (2005 champion), three-time champion Rick Grover, Marc Wierenga ('02 champ) and six-time champion Bob Sakocius are among the past winners competing in the event.
The starting field plays 18 holes Saturday. The low 90 scorers will move on to play Sunday morning.
Admission is free both days.
The top 30 players will compete in Sunday afternoon's final round.
Entries still are being accepted. The cost is $70. Stop by L.E. Kaufman or go towestmichigangolf.com.
Players must have a 10-handicap or less.
Rick Gilman, Werkmeister and Cullen Chapple are the event's co-chairs.
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After selecting Reed Doughty, a safety from Northern Colorado, in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, Joe Gibbs touted him as a "character guy." Translation: he possesses only marginal athletic skills, but might just have the internal gumption to make the roster. He did just that in 2006, and has done so every year since.
Doughty is limited physically — he's an undersized run-support safety, and struggles when isolated in coverage — but he's managed to remain available and, as advertised, is willing to do any job. The death of Sean Taylor, myriad of injuries to LaRon Landry and last year's suspension of Tanard Jackson, among other challenges, have left the Redskins frequently thin at safety during Doughty's tenure. While he's not an ideal starter, Doughty's been a steady "Plan B" when pressed into duty — and there have been many desperate Sundays when the 'Skins could have done far worse.


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An economic link to Busti, NY could play a role in where business develops in Sugar Grove borough.
Citing that the Borough is heavily reliant on economic traffic from New York State, Councilman Gregory Wilson said that Busti is currently reviewing its town plan. "There are two avenues from Busti into Sugar Grove," he said, referring to Big Tree Road and Jamestown Street. "In that plan, they will obviously choose one of those two avenues that they intend to have development on. It would be nice to find out what road they are choosing."
What that means for Sugar Grove borough was discussed at Monday's monthly meeting.
While Busti's decision will not be made public until April, "their decision has an enormous impact on us," said Wilson. "I think we want to wait and see what Busti says is going to be their main thoroughfare" before taking a closer look at specific portions of Sugar Grove that should be focal points for development.
"I don't think that we need to do anything about it until a proposal comes," Councilman Peter Allenson said.
"Business dictates where they want to go," Council President Kevin McIntyre said.
At last month's meeting, Council expressed a willingness to receive public comment on development in the borough after multiple development proposals received strong public backlash.
Explaining that there is a "negativity" regarding development in the borough, Dot Knapp said that "we don't need that type of negativity. We need to expand. I want this to be a place that people want to come."
While development brings jobs, it also brings revenue to the borough.
"Like most municipalities in this county, we are heavily reliant on payroll tax," Wilson explained. The way to garner more payroll tax? Add employment. "We do have to have a discussion as a community about where we would want business."
Councilmember Kevin Nicklas noted that a recently opened restaurant has already facilitated 30 jobs in the borough. "They bring a lot of people into town," Mayor Dutch Strand noted.
Wilson acknowledged the negativity that Knapp spoke of. "If you want to transform your particular property, there are some people that look at you as anti-community," he said, explaining that supporting rules for development is often viewed as anti-development, as well.
"I don't think hands-off is the way to approach development," Wilson added. "Look at our community, areas for potential growth, figure out what is needed and pursue it. Feedback from the community helps."


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The following pending cases involve FOIA issues of particular significance that are expected to be decided in the near future:
National Organization for Women v. Social Security Administration, No. 76-2119 (D.C. Cir.) Decision Below: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Usery, 426 F. Supp. 150 (D.D.C. 1976). Issues: Is the Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C.
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. v. Department of Justice, No. 83-1138 (D.C. Cir.) Environmentat Defense Fund v. OMB, No. 83-1685 (D.C. Cir.) (consolidated on appeal). Decisions Below: 3 GDS
Stern v. FBI, No. 83-1861 (D.C. Cir.). Decision Below: 3 GDS
Bartel v. FAA, No. 82-2473 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 17, 1984). Issue: Do only actual FOIA disclosures trigger the "required" disclosure exception to the Privacy Act's disclosure prohibition under 5 U.S.C.
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MUSKEGON, MI – An annual survey examining the economic security and overall well-being of Michigan children saw Muskegon County near the bottom of the state for its number of impoverished, abused and neglected children, among other areas.
The county saw the number confirmed victims of abuse and neglect, a phenomenon child advocates say is strongly linked to poverty, jump by 87 percent compared to the statewide increase of 28 percent.
Muskegon County earned an average rank of 76 out of 82 counties in 15 highlighted areas of the annual Kids Count survey. The state's highest performing counties included Ottawa, Livingston, Clinton, Oakland, Washtenaw and Midland, while some of its lowest performing counties included Wayne and Oceana.
The figures, released Thursday in the Kids Count in Michigan Data Book 2012, examined years 2010 and 2011. Released by nonprofits Michigan League for Public Policy and Michigan Children, the latest Kids Count edition assesses the state's counties in key areas of economic security, education, health, family and community.
It shows that more children in the state are impoverished, facing serious conditions such as food insecurity and neglect.
Where Muskegon County stands in key areas:
Areas of Advancement
• Infant mortality (per 1,000): Declined by 6 percent
• Child and teen deaths, ages 1-19: Declined by 22 percent
• Fourth grade MEAP reading scores: Improved by 24 percent
Areas of Regression
• Children in poverty, ages 0-17: Increased by 35 percent
• Young children ages infant to 5, enrolled in the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Increased by 41 percent
• Students receiving free lunches: Increased by 20 percent
• Teen pregnancy: Increased by 3 percent
• Children in investigated families: Increased by 38 percent
• Confirmed victims of abuse and neglect: Increased by 87 percent
• Children in out-of-home care: Increased by 12 percent
• Eighth grade MEAP math: Scores dropped by 5 percent
The study found that even in more affluent, higher-income counties, child poverty and the need for food assistance jumped significantly statewide. Jane Zehnder-Merrell, Kids Count in Michigan project director at the Michigan League for Public Policy, said that no area of the state escaped worsening conditions for children when it came to economic security.
There were 33,000 confirmed victims of neglect in the state, up from 18,000 since 2005.
Most of Muskegon County's improvements and regression coincided with statewide trends, except the number of children in out-of-home care. While the number of children in out-of-home care statewide declined, Muskegon County numbers grew by 12 percent.
The county saw a slight uptick in teen
pregnancy, increasing by 3 percent. The survey ranked Muskegon County at the
bottom of the state in this area, giving it the 80th spot out of 82
ranked counties. Overall, births to adolescent mothers have declined in the last
decade in the state and nationwide.
The number of students not graduating on time marked the only area where Muskegon surpassed the state in improvement. While the state saw a slight decline in student graduate rates, Muskegon County saw a 3 percent increase.
Despite the county's average low rating in
key areas, the region saw slight improvements in reading and math scores,
infant mortality and teen deaths.
RELATED: Michigan Kids Count report: Rural areas also face child poverty, well-being issues
Its authors recommend that policy-makers lengthen the duration of unemployment benefits, increase the state's Earned Tax Income Credit, reduce class sizes in the early grades, among other suggestions to combat the decline in children's quality of life.
Michigan League for Public Policy, which promotes economic security through research and advocacy, first released the data book in 1992, when it was still known as the Michigan League for Human Services. Institutions seeking grants and policy-makers often look to the book for funding and to make key decisions.


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Jefferson Parish schools Superintendent Diane Roussel will be among the keynote speakers Thursday at a Jefferson Chamber of Commerce lunch in Metairie.
Roussel along with Jefferson Parish School Board President Michael Delesdernier and Vice President Etta Licciardi will give an update of the Jefferson Parish school system, which is preparing to launch a search for Roussel's successor.
Roussel announced earlier this month that she does not plan to seek a long-term contract when her contract expires June 30.
The lunch begins at noon at the Four Points Sheraton, 6401 Veterans Blvd. The cost is $35 for chamber members and $45 for non-members.
For reservations, go the chamber web site. For more information, call 504.835.3880.


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Principles of organizational behavior applied to managerial practices; strategic management of human resources to accomplish work and maximize organizational effectiveness. Prerequisite(s): MGMT 3153 (150:153) or equivalent; consent of MBA Director.
Term: Fall 2013
Start/End Date: Sep 8, 2013 - Oct 5, 2013
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