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The Good Life Festival Presented: wine tasting ~ food trucks ~ celebrity chefs ~ live musicFeb 9, 2013
The Good Life Festival Presented:
wine tasting ~ food trucks ~ celebrity chefs ~ live music
Saturday, February 9th
Food Network Stars & Celebrity Chefs Tyler Florence and Duff Goldman hosted a day devoted to wine tasting, gourmet food trucks, celebrity chefs, live music, and Valentine's gifts.
The Recap:
It's not every day that you see food trucks rolling onto the golf course of a high-end country club. Add to that live cooking demonstrations from Food Network celebrity chefs, wine and beer tasting, and classic rock hits from Fleetwood Mac tribute band Bella Donna, and you have the recipe for our first food festival.
On February 9, a few thousand foodies and festival-goers braved the chilly weather and streamed into The Good Life Festival at Encanterra to everything from tacos and lobster rolls, to grilled cheese and pulled pork from 16 of the best gourmet food trucks. The event centered around romance, offering guests the ultimate pre-Valentine's day shopping and noshing experience.
The celebrity chefs rose to the occasion by preparing and serving romance-inspired fare and sweet treats. The line-up on the Jenn Air Cooking Demonstration stage included chef and Petite Maison owner James Porter, restaurateur and Valley chef Aaron May, Phoenix confectioner Julia Baker, and Food Network celebrity chefs Tyler Florence (host of The Great Food Truck Race) and Duff Goldman (from Charm City Cakes and Ace of Cakes).
Live music from Bella Donna, a Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac tribute band, rounded out the day, leaving attendees with a swig of nostalgia to wash down all of delicious food of the day.
- Gourmet Food from the most popular Valley Food Trucks
- The Jenn-Air® stage featured a non-stop schedule of exciting Chef Demonstrations
- Food Network celebrity chefs Tyler Florence & Duff Goldman
- The Valley's own baker to the stars, Julia Baker
- Aaron May and James Porter, two of Phoenix's hottest chefs
- Wine tasting from a variety of vineyards
The celebrity chefs in attendance included:
- Duff Goldman, Food Network star of smash hit Ace of Cakes
- Tyler Florence, Food Network star of The Great Food Truck Race
- Julia Baker, the Valley's finest chocolatier and baker to the stars
- Aaron May & James Porter, two of Phoenix's hottest chefs
- Ann Nolan, Culinary Training Chef for Jenn-Air Appliances
Food Trucks:
The food trucks in attendance included:
|Burgers Amore dishes up made-to-order and freshly grilled beef burgers, chicken burgers, turkey burgers, veggie burgers, salmon burgers, bison burgers and pork burgers. Family owned and operated, Burgers Amore has been serving the Phoenix Metropolitan area since 1973.
|Lulu's Italian Ice features Italian flavored ice made fresh daily with seasonal fruit, 100 percent natural fruit juices, cane sugar and the best flavorings. Smooth like ice cream, but made without dairy, the Natale family brings this unique treat from Philadelphia and New York to the Valley. Flavors include all natural lemon and mango, plus kid favorites like cotton candy, blue raspberry and cherry.
|Maine Lobster Lady's lobster shack on wheels offers diners the "Ultimate White Meat." Responsibly harvested and sustainable, Maine Lobster is healthy, low in fat and cholesterol, high in protein, and off-the-chart delicious. Order up a lobster roll "Traditional Style" with chunks of chilled lobster meat tossed with a touch of lemon aioli in a butter grilled roll, or try it warm, drizzled with melted butter.
|Mister Softee has been bringing ice cream treats curbside since 1956. Mister Softee offers freshly made soft serve ice cream sundaes, soda floats, cones, cups, banana splits and shakes.
|Old Dixie's Kitchen gives Chef Michael Babcock a chance to share a true taste of authentic southern cuisine with the people of Phoenix. House (aka truck) specials include fried chicken and biscuit sandwiches, red beans and rice, Carolina style pulled pork, gumbo, and housemade boudin sausage.
|Pizza People are serving up pie on the fly. Pizza People is the vision of longtime Phoenix residents MaryBeth and Tim Scanlon who are focused on making great tasting, affordable food using fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
|Q Up! BBQ takes bomb diggitty BBQ to the streets. A chef and foodie at heart, the owner of Q UP! BBQ wanted to share his passion and love for food with everyone by way of good serving size, reasonable prices, and the freshest, tastiest ingredients available.
|Sandra Dee's Catering specializes in providing the finest Louisiana cuisine, offering the best of Creole and Cajun flavors. The menu features dishes with influences from France, Spain, Africa, Germany, Italy and the West Indies.
|Spice It Up makes life more flavorful, incorporating tastes, textures, ingredients and spices from around the world. Their menu uses spices as an artist uses a palette to tone and color the food.
|Tom's BBQ rolls out its iconic Pig Rig chock full of the great Tom's BBQ flavors. Menu items include a variety of smoked meats topped with Toms own recipe of BBQ sauce and homemade sides.
|Gourmet Command Center serves the best of East Coast fare with a Southwest flare. Husband and wife owners Bernie Boyle and Cindie Powell-Boyle make their food truck a family affair.
|J-Licious (aka T-Licious Teazy Taco) specializes in Mexican food, with dishes such as shrimp ceviche, machaca, nachos and award-winning tacos.
|Street Kitchen Food Truck – debuting at The Good Life Festival for its first event, this brand new food truck is the baby of LTB Concepts and culinary genius Chef Aaron May (helped to open establishments such as Over Easy, The Lodge, Renegade Tap and Kitchen, May's Counter Chicken & Waffles and Praying Monk). The menu features breakfast and lunch items such as fried egg sandwiches, breakfast burros, Korean tacos, turkey pastrami wraps, lettuce turnip burgers, and more.
|Udder Delights specializes in homemade ice cream, cookies, brownies, pastries and ice cream cakes. You won't find a more delectable assortment of goodies anywhere.
|The Grilled Cheese Truck brings a favorite childhood (and adult) comfort food, the grilled cheese sandwich, to the streets. The original truck is based in Los Angeles, but the concept has expanded to the Phoenix market. Its sandwiches are not just the classic bread, butter and cheese, but amazing creations that are constructed with the best ingredients, local produce and chock full of love.
The Wineries
About Tyler Florence
Chef Tyler Florence graduated from the prestigious culinary program at Johnson and Wales University, and immediately moved to New York where he honed his skills under the tutelage of premier chefs like Charlie Palmer at Aureole, Marta Pulini at Mad 61 and Rick Laakonen, ultimately moving on to become executive chef at Cafeteria. The buzz about the charismatic young chef's food picked up steam and a fresh television network took notice; the rest is history. After 15+ years as a Food Network star, he has starred in such series as How to Boil Water, a cooking show for novices, Food 911, his hugely popular "recipe rescue" show, his signature series, Tyler's Ultimate as well as The Great Food Truck Race. Florence has also hosted numerous other Food Network shows and specials, including Planet Food, All American Festivals and My Country, My Kitchen. He is a regular guest on the TODAY Show, CNN, The View, The Tonight Show, Oprah, Access Hollywood, Extra, Good Morning America, among others. Tyler is currently a contributing editor at House Beautiful Magazine, and designed their Kitchen of the Year at Rockefeller Center in 2011.
Learn more at TylerFlorence.com.
About Duff Goldman
Chef Duff Goldman started working for acclaimed Baltimore Chef Cindy Wolf while attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After graduating with degrees in History and Philosophy, Duff left Baltimore to study pastries at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, California. While in Napa, Duff was a stagiere at the French Laundry, working under acclaimed pastry Chef Steven Durfee. Following graduation from the CIA, Duff left Northern California to become Executive Pastry Chef of the Vail Cascade Hotel and Resort in the mountains of Vail, Colorado. While in Colorado he worked with such notable chefs as Jessie Llapitan, now Executive Chef of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, and Chef Jason Rogers, late of Olives in Aspen, and now at the Borgota of Atlantic City.
Learn more about Duff on the Food Network website.
About Julia Baker
Whether it's a delectable truffle overflowing with flavor or a breathtaking cake that tastes as amazing as it looks, there's one ingredient that goes into everything Julia Baker creates – her passion for chocolate. The chic culinary artist and confectioner serves as founder, head chef and CEO of Julia Baker Confections. Originally beginning her career as a statistician, Julia ultimately followed her zeal for food and took her personal and professional dreams in another direction. In 2002, Julia graduated first in her class and obtained the Grande Diplôme de Cuisine & de Pâtisserie – the highest diplomas in both pastry and cuisine from the world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu Paris. Her exceptional chocolates, desserts, one-of-a-kind cakes, and confections are all made from scratch each day without any preservatives or artificial ingredients.
Learn more at JuliaBakerConfections.com.
About Aaron May
Chef Aaron May has a quick mind and a low threshold for boredom, which goes a long way toward explaining the local restaurant empire he's building. Given his passion for food and irrepressible creativity, it's hard to imagine any other path for this driven but surprisingly easygoing guy. He had his first job working in a restaurant kitchen at age 15, and by 20, he had left the university and his political science major to study culinary arts, including a year in Paris at Ecole Ritz Escoffier and working in local restaurants to refine his skills as a classically trained chef. His first professional position was at the Four Seasons Resort in Scottsdale, working at Acacia, before moving to Deseo at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa to work with celebrity chef Douglas Rodriguez. A stint at Mario Batali's Casa Mono was finishing school for May. In recent years, May has forged partnerships to open Over Easy, The Lodge, Renegade Tap and Kitchen, May's Counter Chicken & Waffles and Praying Monk. Like May himself, each venue is sophisticated yet approachable.
About James Porter
Chef James Porter may be best known for challenging himself and his guests to share his love of food without pretension or apprehension. He is committed to using only the freshest ingredients such as farm fresh produce, line caught and sustainable seafood, prime meats and farmstead cheeses, serving up French country bistro style dishes at his acclaimed Petite Maison. He makes daily changes to the days' dishes, and also changes the menu seasonally. Porter strongly believes supporting local independent restaurants is the key to helping the Valley reach our full potential as a culinary haven. Porter graduated from the Scottsdale Culinary Institute in 1992. Since then he has added to his resume by working at an impressive list of kitchens across the country, including an apprenticeship at the prestigious Greenbrier Resort where he worked under Irish born Master Chef Peter Timmons.
Learn more at PetiteMaisonAZ.com.
About Bella Donna
Bella Donna is the critically acclaimed, hauntingly familiar tribute to Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac. Based in Los Angeles and formed in 2002, the 7-piece show has toured throughout the USA performing hundreds of shows. Bella Donna was awarded the highest honor when Stevie Nicks met singer Michelle Tyler after a show and complimented the band. Appearing on local and national television, Bella Donna continues to tour throughout the U.S. Learn more at www.BellaDonna-Music.com.


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National Fund Backs Developer of Small Wind Turbines
The Estonian Development Fund and a co-financer, Sibo Invest OÜ, have provided 34,000 euros of startup funding to my!WIND OÜ, a company that develops mini wind turbines for individual households.
The turbines are designed for summer cottages or country farmsteads where cost of hooking up to the power grid can be prohibitive for an average family. The first turbine in the series has the nominal capacity of 5 kilowatts, but the company is also planning to extend its production line to 2- and 10-kilowatt generators.
The advantage of the turbine over similar ones already available in the market is its original design - according to the construction team, it is more robust, needs minimum maintenance and will be sold at a very competitive price.
The first my!WIND turbine was built by engineer Ott Pabut, based on an original electromagnetic concept by professor Ed Spooner of Durham University, UK, developed further by Ants Kallaste, a doctoral student at the Tallinn University of Technology. Lab tests were conducted by TUT engineering scientists. The first turbines will be set up for outdoor testing this summer, after which the company will be ready to launch serial assembly.
Erkki Sivonen

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Published on August 17, 2014
Firefighters used an aerial bucket for much of Saturday evening to battle a serious structure fire on Goodridge Street in St. John's.
— Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram
Published on August 17, 2014
It was unsafe at times for firefighters to try and fan flames inside a home on Goodridge Street Saturday, making the use of the fire department's aerial bucket a necessity.
— Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram
Published on August 17, 2014
The scene of Saturday evening's fire on Goodridge Street was a haze of smoke at times.
— Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram
Published on August 17, 2014
A look at the clouds of smoke billowing up into the sky as the result of a fire at a vacant home on Goodridge Street in St. John's Saturday.
— Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram
Published on August 17, 2014
An unidentified member of the St. John's Regional Fire Department takes a break at the scene of Saturday's fire on Goodridge Street. Three firefighters were eventually taken to hospital to receive treatment for heat exhaustion.
— Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram
Published on August 17, 2014
A firefighter douses the side of a home on Third Street in Mount Pearl with water.
— Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram
Published on August 17, 2014
A member of the St. John's Regional Fire Department carries a bird cage containing a small bird that was safely rescued from the basement apartment of a home on Third Street in Mount Pearl Saturday.
— Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram
The St. John's Regional Fire Department has confirmed all three firefighters who were treated in hospital for heat exhaustion Saturday night have been released.
Two of the firefighters were released from a St. John's hospital last night, according to Don Byrne, Deputy Fire Chief of Operations. The third firefighter had an overnight stay and was released late this morning.
"But all have been checked out and deemed OK," said Byrne.
The firefighters were taken to hospital while crews battled the second of three structure fires that occurred in the St. John's metro area between late Saturday afternoon and early Sunday morning.
The first fire involved a home on Third Street in Mount Pearl where people occupied the main floor and a basement apartment. A fire at an abandoned house on Goodridge Street in St. John's proved to be the most serious of the three, as firefighters worked to control the blaze for several hours Saturday night.
The third fire happened on Empire Avenue early Sunday morning. According to Byrne, the fire started in a basement apartment.
"There was extensive damage to the basement apartment and a lot of smoke and heat damage to the main floor area of the house."
There were no injuries. Those who were inside the basement apartment had already left the house when fire crews arrived on the scene at approximately 4:30 a.m. No one was home on the main floor when the fire started.
(Earlier story)
Three St. John's Regional Fire Department (SJRFD) firefighters were taken to hospital for treatment of heat exhaustion Saturday while battling a major fire on Goodridge Street in the centre of St. John's.
It was just one of two serious fires crews had to contend with in the span of just over an hour over the Saturday evening supper hour.
Crews from the Mount Pearl and Brookfield and Central fire stations were dispatched to 22 Third Street in Mount Pearl around 5 p.m. when several 911 calls were received of smoke issuing from the residence.
Acting Shift-Supt. Rick Mackey told reporters at the Mount Pearl scene, "At 4:43 p.m. we received the call stating that there was a fire here on Third Street. Our trucks arrived about three minutes later and rapidly put water on the fire, extinguished it fairly quickly and had it knocked down in just several minutes.
"The fire was confined to the basement area and as well it extended to the exterior of the building where the heavy body of the fire was too and the police investigators will determine the actual cause of the fire."
Mackey added there were five trucks on the scene and some sixteen firefighters who battled the elements.
As well, the heat from the fire melted the exterior siding on the adjacent home at 20 Third Street and firefighters had to use axes and pike poles to haul the siding off that home to ensure it didn't extend inside the home using their infrared heat detection cameras and checking inside the home as well.
Firefighters rescued two birds cages from the home. They were believed to have contained Parakeet's in them and they were handed over to their owner by firefighter John Coady when the resident arrived home to her basement apartment residence.
Just over an hour later, firefighter crews were once again called to battle another but more serious fire at 12 Goodridge Street. Crews were on the scene for several hours before the last firefighters and first on-scene crews from the Central Fire Station returned to their station just past midnight early Sunday morning.
Having fell victim to a fire on Christmas Eve on December 24, 2010, Saturday night's fire saw the abandoned home completely destroyed by the heavy fire, smoke and water.
Said Deputy Fire Chief Don Byrne, "The original call we got for here was just after 6 o'clock and the first trucks arrived here in about two minutes. On arrival, they were met with heavy smoke here and fire on the lower west side of the home and the basement was fully involved.
"Right now the first floor is (unsafe) for us. We were up on the second floor and that's all lattice . . . . . it's a wooden ceiling, so its very tough to get in through and the fire had travelled in the outside wall and up into the ceiling space.
"We pulled our guy's outside the house because it wasn't safe and we have our aerial device set-up there and we're just going to contain it by using that," added Deputy Chief Byrne.
He said the 15 firefighters in the initial call of the three-alarm fire "have really taken a hard beating here because of the heat that was inside and they are being replaced by fresh crews from two other stations.
"Eastern Health paramedics checked out a number of firefighters for their vitals and to make sure they are all OK and we got a couple of guys a bit on the stomach sick side a little overcome from the heat and exhaustion."
The media scrum took place just after 7 p.m. As smoke and fire continued, Deputy Chief Byrne said the fire was under control at that point and the firefighters were able to prevent the fire from spreading to the nearby homes.
But as the night wore on and darkness set-in, crews were still pouring water down into the structure as flames lit up the area of Goodridge Street, protruding from the roof and sides and front of the home near the eaves. Two firefighters in the aerial bucket poured gallons of water down into the flames.
Once the fire was significantly knocked down, a chain saw was used to cut away additional sections of the front of the home. This allowed firefighters to give a good soaking inside the roof area of home and its interior. Fire crews had the upper hand by approximately 11 p.m. with the loss stop (all-out) given minutes later.
Just before 10 p.m. Saturday night, Deputy Chief Byrne told The Telegram that the three firefighters were still at the hospital emergency room being treated and were being given intravenous liquids to help them recover and their conditions were improving.
As for the cause of the fire, he said it has to be thoroughly investigated. The scene was turned over to the RNC when the last firefighters left there just after midnight.


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Share your experience with Jewish guys . . . well endowed, good in bed, kink, vanilla?
Experiences with Jewish Guys
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 53
I like their cut cocks.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 2
Please elaborate, r1. I'm Jewish, and I really have no idea what you're blathering on about.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 3
R3 - Tell us about you and your friends. What have your experiences been?
Thank you.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 4
|by Davidic Size Queen
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My Jewish Man has a big, thick, cut cock. He likes bagels and puzzles and trying to screw Time Warner Cable as hard as they deserve to be screwed, the greedy fucking poor-people-screwing bastards.
And my blowjobs. We'll discover what all of this means tonight. But first-
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 7
In college, my roommate liked this jewish guy on our floor, he's short and skinny, he even told us he has a small cock. The whole floor would hang out and play truth or dare, drinking games etc.
He's a lawyer now in CT. He was into me but not my roommate and my roommate was upset about this. Anyways, I gave him a handy underneath the blanket(we were lying in bed together). He wasn't big, average girth. Since I never saw it, I'm guessing it was about 5 inches.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 8
R1=R6, a nasty little mess of prejudice, innuendo, illiteracy and, basically, a pile of pus. Can't publicly support or explain his hate, so has to rely on vague and unsubstantiated hints.... A coward and a creep.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 10
The ones I met were different from each other. They didn't carry the guilt that I have known; or, if they did, they sure hid it well.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 11
This thread is an embarrassment.
|by Davidic Size Queen
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I've hooked up with a couple of them on Scruff. One was an adorable pocket gay with sizemeat. So sweet and enthusiastic. We even had brunch the next day.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 26
How many threads about Jews is OP going to create?
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 27
I've dated a couple of Jewish guys. Both of them were dark-haired, hairy-chested and cut, obviously. Both had average penises.
I would say the other thing both of them had in common was the need to check in frequently with their mothers. If we were going out to dinner, they'd call first and say, "Oh, I'm going out now. I'll call you later." It got a little old.
Otherwise, they were pretty much different. One was wild in bed; the other pretty vanilla. One always acted pretty entitled; the other didn't. One had a professional job, the other didn't.
Both were pretty nice guys, but I realized the most important relationships in their lives would always be with their families. And they were fine with that.
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A moo-moo, R34?
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I hope you realize you're batshit crazy, R38.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 39
Wow, this thread derailed pretty quickly.
|by Davidic Size Queen
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hold on, let me get my popcorn ready
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 45
Jewish guys are like everyone else. Some are hot, some are not. Some have big dicks, some do not. Some are whiny, some are not. You get the idea. Learn to view people as individuals rather than as stereotypes.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 46
Both my LTRs have been with Jewish men, both raised in big midwestern/western cities (first from Chicago, as am I, current from Denver--we now live in the east). Both were funny, bright, articulate, warm, physically affectionate, committed to their families, and generous. Yes, they also had quirks and less wonderful qualities (as do I), but nothing I would even consider attributing to their Jewish upbringing (which was pretty secular in both cases--celebrate the holidays, neither were Bar Mitzvahed--by their own choice, did not go weekly to services). I am mainline Protestant by upbringing (Sunday School til confirmation, then only to church for weddings and funerals). I teach at a school with a larger than average representation of Jewish students--any "markers" seem more regional or geographic than based on religion or historical affiliation.
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 47
[46] got the best comment. It's so simple!
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 48
What they lack in looks, they make up for in passion!
|by Davidic Size Queen
|reply 49
I've dated a couple of Jewish guys. My experience has been the following:
*They tend to have big cocks and big asses.
*They tend to be close to their families.
*They tend to be opinionated.
*They tend to be big-hearted and emotionally generous.
*Their looks usually start to go and coarsen once they get past 35.
That's all I've found they all have in common. otherwise they've been a diverse bunch--some very political, some not; some very intellectual, some not; some very slutty, some not.
|by Davidic Size Queen
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I saw a Hasidic guy in a video booth place years ago. Black coat, hat, the sideburn things, the beard, the shawl tassel things peeking from the white shirt, etc. I was shocked he would take such a chance in public, I think he would be shunned by his community if he was found out. I didn't approach him, it was summer and I assumed he was sweaty and nasty under all that clothing.
|by Davidic Size Queen
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I picked up a Hasidic guy in a midtown garage bathroom a few years ago. He was about 23, wore the rekel, had the hat, the sidelocks, the tzitzis, etc. He had bright red hair! I had to take him home; he was fairly easy to talk to on the train down. I'm not proud of myself, but walking from the subway I got all embarrassed we looked such an odd couple -- I had never seen a Hasidic walking in the Village -- I told him I had family in the area and where I lived and had him walk about four paces in front of me, thinking to myself if anyone I knew saw me they'd not think I was dragging home a trick. He had the most pale body I've ever seen, as if he'd never been in the sun. He was clean, trim, virtually hairless except for a bright red crotch and legs. He did everything, was perfectly natural about gay sex. Later, dressing, he said "umm, do you know any other, uh, religious?" For some reason that just about broke my heart. I assured him I'd been in the jewelry district before and had never seen another to interest me. Never saw him again. Sometimes I've wondered of him, how he is coping with his urges, if he's still with the sect, how he's handling his life.
|by Davidic Size Queen
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[all posts by ham-fisted troll a removed.]
|by Davidic Size Queen
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Leadership Team
Visionaries in technology, proven in business.
Couchbase Management Team
Bob Wiederhold, President and Chief Executive Officer
Bob has more than 25 years of high technology experience. Until an acquisition by IBM in 2008, Bob served as chairman, CEO, and president of Transitive Corporation, the worldwide leader in cross-platform virtualization with over 20 million users. Previously, he was president and CEO of Tality Corporation, the worldwide leader in electronic design services, whose revenues and size grew to almost $200 million and had 1,500 worldwide employees. Bob held several executive general management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., an electronic design automation company, which he joined in 1985 as an early stage start-up and helped to grow to more than $1.5 billion during his 13 years at the company. Bob also headed High Level Design Systems, a successful electronic design automation start-up that was acquired by Cadence in 1996. Bob has extensive board experience having served on both public (Certicom, HLDS) and private company boards (Snaketech, Tality, Transitive, FanfareGroup).
Sujan Jain, SVP & Chief Financial Officer
Sujan Jain is an operationally-focused seasoned finance executive with a strong track record in strategic planning and comprehensive experience across all aspects of financial management, accounting, planning and administration. He most recently served as the SVP & CFO of Model N [NYSE: MODN], a leading provider of revenue management software, where he led a successful $120 million IPO within a year of joining the company. Prior to Model N, Sujan served as the VP of Finance and GM of Software Vertical for NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N], a leading provider of SAAS / cloud based financials and ERP suites. Before joining NetSuite, Sujan served as the EVP & CFO at Transmeta Corporation [NASDAQ: TMTA] and as CFO & Secretary at NanoAmp Solutions Inc. Sujan has held several investment banking and operating roles at J.P. Morgan Chase, Lazard and Schlumberger. In addition, Sujan is an advisor to several publicly and privately held high-tech companies.
Sujan holds a MBA, with Beta Gamma Sigma honors, from Columbia University, a B.S. degree in engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology and is a certified public accountant.
Doug Laird , CMO & SVP, Marketing
Most recently, Doug was the CMO at Telerik, a provider of cross platform and mobile development tools. Doug has been instrumental in helping B2B and B2C technology companies drive growth and become market leaders. His track record of success spans fast-growing industries such as CRM (Siebel Systems), Business Intelligence (QlikTech), Database (Oracle, Sybase), Social Media Marketing (Wildfire), Online Trading (Charles Schwab), and Compliance (SAP). Doug is also an expert in helping enterprise software companies define categories and establish market leadership, and he and his team will play a major role as we accelerate our growth and continue our push into the enterprise.
Steven Mih, Vice President, Sales
Steven brings 15 years of software sales management and business development experience to Couchbase. Most recently, Steven served as vice president of worldwide sales at Transitive, the leading cross-platform virtualization software company. At Transitive, Steven successfully built the direct and OEM business which culminated in a profitable acquisition by IBM in 2009. Previously, Steven was director of sales at Cadence Design Systems Inc., a leading electronic design automation software company, where he was responsible for managing a $75 million software product and services business.
Ravi Mayuram, SVP, Engineering
Ravi Mayuram is responsible for product development and delivery of Couchbase NoSQL offerings. He comes to Couchbase from Oracle where he was a senior director of engineering leading innovations in the areas of recommender systems and social graph, search and analytics, and lightweight client frameworks. He was also responsible for kickstarting the cloud collaboration platform. Previously in his career, Ravi has held senior technical and management positions at BEA, Siebel, Informix and HP in addition to couple of start ups including BroadBand office, a Kleiner Perkins funded venture. Ravi holds a MS in Mathematics from University of Delhi.
Peter Childers, Vice President, Learning and Strategic Development
Peter has 18 years experience leading growth and change in open source, learning and performance, sales enablement, online strategy and operations. As an early Red Hat employee Peter designed and launched the Company's renowned Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training and certification program. Over seven years Peter grew Red Hat's learning services division into a $60 million worldwide operation, becoming the world's largest Linux and open source training business, a leader in performance-based testing, and one of Red Hat's most successful brands. Prior to Red Hat Peter led services and training operations for companies in software, networking and telecommunications.
Rod Hamlin, Vice President, Business Development
Rod is a proven mobile and enterprise business development and sales executive having helped lead and grow several notable companies to IPO or successful acquisition. Before Couchbase, Rod ran business development for WIMM Labs, a pioneer in wearable Android technology, which was acquired by Google in 2012. Prior to WIMM, Rod served as SVP of Sales & Marketing for Opera Software, a global leader in mobile browsing and advertising. Rod also owned the global P&L for several years at Nuance Communications were he served as EVP of Global Sales and Professional Services. As an early employee with CRM leader, Onyx Software, Rod helped the company achieve a global presence and dynamic growth, leading to a successful IPO. Rod began his career with IBM in Seattle, and has served on several advisory boards including Spoke Software and Jibe Mobile.
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Frank Artale was most recently Group Vice President, Business Development at Citrix Systems. He has over 26 years of experience in the software industry and was responsible for all aspects of Citrix's business development with software and hardware technology partners. Frank joined Citrix from XenSource where he was responsible for strategic marketing and business development. Prior to XenSource, Artale was a founder and CEO of Consera Software, a management software company, which was acquired by HP in 2004. Before founding Consera, Frank was Vice President of the Windows Solutions Group for VERITAS Software, where he oversaw overall product strategy of the Windows targeted solutions. He also held the position of General Manager In the Windows 2000 Group at Microsoft Corporation, one of the many and varied product management and sales positions he held during his nine-year career with the company. Frank attended Polytechnic Institute of New York as a Board of Trustees Scholar where he studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Kevin Efrusy, Accel Partners
Kevin joined Accel in 2003. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he built and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment with current annual gross sales over $500M. Prior to KPCB, Kevin worked at Zip2 and Bain & Company. Kevin focuses primarily on two areas for investment: consumer internet services and SaaS/open source software. Within consumer services, he sourced Accel's investment in Facebook, and led Accel's investments in Groupon, Tumri, RAMP, Metacafe, Medio Systems, and Mig33. Within SaaS/open source software, he led investments or serves on the boards of Xensource (acquired by Citrix for $500M), Genius, SpringSource (acquired by VMWare for $420M), Terracotta, Aptana, and Couchbase. He also served on the board of BBN Technologies (acquired by Raytheon). Kevin has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.
Paul Santinelli, North Bridge Venture Partners
Paul Santinelli joined the team at North Bridge Venture Partners in 2005, focusing on investments in open source, software, security, internet applications and infrastructure and communications. Previously, he served as director of Red Hat Network and was responsible for product definition, strategy, engineering, product management, marketing and lifecycle management for the company's flagship software services offering. Paul also served as the director of global information systems and technology during his tenure at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, Paul was founder and CEO of NOCpulse, Inc., a Silicon Valley software startup focused on delivering the next generation enterprise systems management platform (acquired by Red Hat in October 2002). While at NOCpulse, Paul was nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002. Before founding NOCpulse, Paul was chief technology officer of Global Center and vice president of technology for Global Crossing, a telecommunications company that built and operated the world's first independent global fiber optic network. During the past 12 years, Paul has held various engineering, product management and marketing positions in companies including Red Hat, IBM, Lotus Development and Compuware. Prior to North Bridge, Paul served on the advisory boards of Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco), Inflow, Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Mobility.net (acquired by Software.com) and One Secure (acquired by Netscreen). Paul received a BS from Emerson College in Boston.
Robin Vasan, Mayfield Fund
Robin is a software entrepreneur and investor. He invests in cloud computing applications, open source, virtualization, and security sectors in enterprise software. Prior to joining Mayfield in 1999, Robin was a founder and/or key member of several successful software startups including CATS Software, Infinity Financial Technology, acquired by SunGard (SDS) and Risk Management Solutions. Robin earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A.S. dual degree in industrial engineering and economics from Stanford University.


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Motley Crue is not saying farewell. After 33 years together, however, the band is embarking on its "Final Tour" comprising 72 dates. Alice Cooper will join the band for part of the tour.
On Oct. 29, the "Final Tour" comes to the Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse. Tickets range from $20 to $122.50 and go on sale Friday, Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. They will be available via Ticketmaster and at the Oncenter Box Office. The Syracuse show will not feature Alice Cooper.
The tour will also stop at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) on Aug. 26 and Darien Lake Performing Arts Center Aug. 31.
The heavy metal band--best known for songs like 'Girls Girls Girls' and 'Kickstart My Heart'--announced their final tour at a press conference at Beacher's Madhouse Theater in Hollywood Tuesday afternoon. The conference was broadcast on the band's website. Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars sat answering questions in front of "R.I.P." tombstones.
"We don't want to be one of those bands that has one guy left in it or somebody's brother," Neil said at the press conference. "We want to go out on top."
Each of the members signed a document saying this was the end for Motley Crue. They all agreed they have no intention of going back on the road after this tour.
The tour kicks off on July 2 in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Complete tour schedule:
07/02/14 Grand Rapids, MI, Van Andel Arena
07/04/14 Milwaukee, WI, United States Summerfest
07/05/14 Noblesville, IN, United States Klipsch Music Center
07/06/14 Cincinnati, OH, United States Riverbend Music Center
07/08/14 Columbus, OH, United States Schottenstein Center
07/09/14 Maryland Heights, MO, United States Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
07/11/14 Des Moines, IA, United States Wells Fargo Arena
07/12/14 Wichita, KS, United States INTRUST Bank Arena
07/13/14 Tulsa, OK, United States BOK Center
07/15/14 Cedar Park, TX, United States Cedar Park Center
07/16/14 Dallas, TX, United States Gexa Energy Pavilion
07/18/14 Albuquerque, NM, United States Isleta Amphitheater
07/19/14 Phoenix, AZ, United States AK-Chin Pavilion
07/21/14 Los Angeles, CA, United States Hollywood Bowl
07/22/14 Irvine, CA, United States Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre
07/23/14 Mountain View, CA, United States Shoreline Ampitheatre
07/25/14 Reno, NV, United States Reno Events Center
07/26/14 Ridgefield, WA, United States Sleep County Ampitheater
07/27/14 Auburn, WA, United States White River Ampitheater
07/29/14 Chula Vista, CA, United States Sleep Train Ampitheater
08/01/14 Salt Lake City, UT, United States USANA Ampitheatre
08/02/14 Denver, CO, United States Pepsi Center
08/03/14 Kansas City, MO, United States Sprint Center
08/05/14 Sturgis, SD, United States Sturgis Buffalo Chip
08/06/14 Sioux City, IA, United States Tyson Events Center
08/08/14 Tinley Park, IL, United States First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre
08/09/14 Clarkston, MI, United States DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/10/14 Toronto, ON, Canada Molson Canadian Ampitheatre
08/12/14 Cuyahoga Falls, OH, United States Blossom Music Center
08/13/14 Burgettstown, PA, United States First Niagara Pavilion
08/15/14 Pelham, AL, United States Oak Mountain Ampitheatre
08/16/14 Alpharetta, GA, United States Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre @Encore Park
08/17/14 Tampa, FL, United States MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Ampitheatre
08/19/14 Charlotte, NC, United States PNC Music Pavillion
08/20/14 Virginia Beach, VA, United States Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
08/22/14 Bristow, VA, United States Jiffy Lube Live
08/23/14 Camden, NJ, United States Susquehanna Bank Center
08/24/14 Mansfield, MA, United States Xfinity Center
08/26/14 Saratoga Springs, NY, United States Saratoga Performing Arts Center
08/27/14 Allentown, PA, United States Great Allentown Fair
08/29/14 Wantagh, NY, United States Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
08/30/14 Holmdel, NJ, United States PNC Bank Arts Center
08/31/14 Darien Center, NY, United States Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
10/10/14 Oklahoma City, OK, United States Chesapeake Arena
10/11/14 The Woodlands, TX, United States Cynthia W. Mitchell Pavilion
10/12/14 Bossier City, LA, United States CenturyLink Center
10/14/14 Louisville, KY, United States KFC Yum! Center
10/15/14 Nashville, TN, United States Bridgestone Arena
10/17/14 Hollywood, FL, United States Seminole Hard Rock Live
10/19/14 Jacksonville, FL, United States Veterans Memorial Arena
10/21/14 Greenville, SC, United States Bon Secours Wellness Arena
10/22/14 Greensboro, NC, United States Greensboro Coliseum
10/25/14 Atlantic City, NJ, United States Borgata Events Center Phoenix - AK-Chin Pavilion
10/26/14 Montville, CT, United States Mohegan Sun
10/29/14 Syracuse, NY, United States The OnCenter Complex
11/05/14 Biloxi, MS, United States Mississippi Coast College
11/06/14 Southhaven, MS, United States Landers Center
11/09/14 Moline, IL, United States iWireless Center
11/11/14 Green Bay, WI, United States Resch Center
11/12/14 Madison, WI, United States Alliant Energy Center
11/13/14 Omaha, NE, United States CenturyLink Center
11/15/14 St. Paul, MN, United States Xcel Energy Center
11/16/14 Fargo, ND, United States FargoDome
11/18/14 Edmonton, AB, Canada Rexall Place
11/19/14 Calgary, AB, Canada Scotiabank Saddledome
11/22/14 Spokane, WA, Canada Spokane Arena


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Dr. William Cua specializes in psychiatry, family practice in Hudson, Florida.
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This was my first Wimdu-Experience and it was awesome. But first things first.
Thomas and his partner are the perfect hosts. They are very helpful, flexible and courteous. Living in the house next door, they are just doorbell ring away if you need any assistance, advice or recommendation. They made our stay unforgettable, also in giving us unique St. Louis insights.
Our first thought looking on the map was - "oh, a little outside", but we were wrong; you're in the city centre in less than 10 minutes as the I-55 is nearby. This house is located on a river bluff providing an amazing view on the Mississippi river.
What a great house, huge space in every room. It has the charm of the old days but is completely renovated and modern in every facility - fully equipped kitchen, air condition, dimmable lights, WiFi. Highlight is the terrace and the big balcony with great views on the Mississippi.
We are so happy that we have chosen no hotel. Feeling very welcomed while arriving led to the feeling of leaving family when departuring. Thanks a lot for that wonderful stay. :-)
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Here are some photos of me that I have posted on my old message board from time to time. I thought these photos of me with a shaven head and wigs and whatever else I'm dressed in deserved their own page. *smile*
Here are some photos sent to me to post here. I scanned and posted a few magazine pages that had sexy bald women or those with extremely short hair.
Because several adult magazines have featured women getting their head shaved, but not everyone knows which issues the hair clippering photos were in when they find some of them on the internet, I thought it would be nice to have all the magazine information in one spot. That way a face to the shorn beauty can be known, so can the magazine issue for those who want to purchase the issue for their collection.
The following list is not a complete one. I hope that if anyone knows of any more issues or can provide more info, they will be so kind to forward it to me so I can post it here. Thank you in advance, from me and all your fellow hair enthusiasts.


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New Orleans linebacker Clark gets UK, U of L offers
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Pirates claim Thompson, sign Atkins
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The Pirates have signed infielder Garrett Atkins to a Minor League deal with an invitation to Spring Training. Also on Thursday, Pittsburgh claimed lefty Aaron Thompson off waivers from the Nationals. Left-hander Wil Ledezma was designated for assignment in order to clear a spot on the roster for Thompson.
The Pirates have 10 days to trade, release or outright Ledezma to the Minors, if he clears waivers. The club had already signed Ledezma to a 2011 contract in order to avoid arbitration with the left-hander. He was expected to compete for a spot in the team's bullpen this spring.
Thompson spent almost all of the 2010 season in Double-A, where he went 4-13 with a 5.80 ERA in 26 starts. The 23-year-old struck out 95 and walked 53 in 136 2/3 innings. He also made one start in Triple-A.
By agreeing to terms on a Minor League contract, Atkins is reunited with his former Colorado manager, Clint Hurdle. Atkins played for the Rockies from 2003-09, before signing as a free agent with the Orioles last December.
Atkins appeared in 44 games for Baltimore before getting released in July. He batted .214 with seven doubles, one homer and nine RBIs in 140 at-bats. In his seven seasons with the Rockies, Atkins hit .289 with a .354 on-base percentage. He hit 98 homers and 162 doubles in those 773 games.
Of the 781 games Atkins, 31, has played in his career, 642 of them have come as a third baseman. He has played 135 games at first, three in the outfield and one at second. The right-handed hitter will be competing to earn a spot on the Pirates' roster as a back-up corner infielder.
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Welcome to the Assessment Practices Survey Website. We hope the information provided will serve as a useful tool in understanding the processes and procedures of the Assessment Practices Survey unit.
The Government Code requires the BOE to survey each county assessor's office at least once every five years. The purpose of the survey is to determine the adequacy of the procedures and practices the county assessor uses in valuing property and to evaluate the assessor's performance of mandated duties. The survey concentrates on statutory mandates and revenue-related issues. The surveys are conducted as follows: For each county, BOE staff conducts an audit of the assessor's procedures and practices. The staff then publishes an assessment practices survey report that summarizes the findings and includes recommendations for improvement.
In addition, each year the BOE staff perform appraisal samples of five county assessment rolls. A statistically representative sample is drawn from the county assessment roll. BOE staff audits and appraises each property in the sample and compares the results to the assessor's values. Staff then expands the results to determine whether the total assessment roll complies with statutory standards.
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HANCOCK -Superior National Bank is celebrating its 120th birthday and the community is invited.
The two-day celebration kicks off Thursday, with complimentary coffee and bakery served at seven of the nine branch offices followed by a Parking Lot Picnic at Superior National's main office in Hancock Friday.
"Happy 120th birthday to each of you as we celebrate this huge milestone," said Judy Usitalo, vice president of human resources/marketing for Superior National. "It is the efforts of every single individual that ultimately leads to our success."
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This is the present location of Superior National, which is celebrating its 120th anniversary.
Friday's picnic will take place in the bank parking lot from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will feature a hot dog cookout, refreshments, gift and prize giveaways, along with live music performed by The Outlaws.
Tents, tables and chairs will provide plenty of seating room, Usitalo said, and she's planning on a big turnout.
"We've done many things like this in the past, not at this location, but at other branches and past events have been smashingly successful," she said. "People know that we throw a good party."
To mark the anniversary, Superior National is offering a special for deposits and loans.
On the deposit side, Usitalo said they're offering a 40-month CD anniversary special with a 4.06 percent APY. Effective Thursday for a limited time, the CD special is for personal accounts only and requires a $500 minimum deposit.
As far as the loan special, Usitalo said they're offering 1.2 percent off all automobile and recreation loans issued between June 3 through 9.
With nine branches in Houghton, Keweenaw and Baraga counties, and 115 people on the payroll, Superior National Bank is the largest independent bank in the Upper Peninsula. It is also the only locally-owned and operated bank in the area.
Currently, Superior National has $428 million in assets and has the highest savings rate at 1.25 APY.
"We have the 5-Star Rating from Bauer Financial (the highest rating possible) and are recognized as one of the top 10 banks in the state by the Michigan Bankers Association," Usitalo said.
In 2009, Superior National was ranked as one of the top 200 banks in the nation by U.S. Banker Magazine and this year, Usitalo said, the publication ranked Superior National 52nd in the nation.
There are many benefits for customers who bank with Superior National, Usitalo said, starting with the fact that Superior National is locally owned and operated and has the same technology other banks have.
"You have two things, all the bells, whistles and technology at your fingertips and you also have a live person answering your telephone," she said. "So, you have the best of both worlds."
In addition, Superior National has the only full-time, full-service trust department this side of Marquette and offers Saturday loan services at its Ridgecrest Plaza office.
"Our bank is doing remarkably well," Usitalo said. "We continue to grow in an environment where bank growth is almost nonexistent."
Superior National has quite the history in the community, dating back to 1870 when the Quincy Mine opened on Quincy Hill. A group of local businessmen, led by Charles Wright, formed what was then called Superior Savings Bank, offering financial services to the several hundred employees of the Quincy Mining Company.
Usitalo said the townspeople nicknamed the bank, "The working folks bank," because it was a place where little people could go to withdraw or deposit money, get a loan and plan for their future.
For the first nine years, the bank operated out of the back of a jewelry store on the corner of Quincy and Reservation streets, before Wright, who was the bank's first president, purchased the building, demolished it and rebuilt a three-story building on the site where it remained for 60 years.
Growth forced the bank to relocate to its current site, which had been occupied by St. Patrick's Church until a fire destroyed the structure in 1937. Along with the move went the bank's original vault door, which remains in an office of the present building.
The new bank was the first to feature drive-up banking services in the area.
Since then, Superior National has had 17 presidents and opened eight additional locations within Mohawk, Calumet, Lake Linden, Hancock, Chassell, Baraga, L'Anse and Houghton.
Current President, Willis Fontaine has been the longest serving president, Usitalo said, with 21 years of leadership. Prior to becoming president, Fontaine worked as a loan officer for 24 years. In total, Fontaine has been with Superior National for 45 years.
With a rich history such as that of Superior National's, Usitalo said, there's a lot to be proud of.
"We have much to celebrate," Usitalo said. "Little did Charles Wright and a few businessmen ever dream what Superior Savings Bank would become."
For more information, call Superior National Bank's main office in Hancock at 482-0404 or visit snb-t.com.
Superior National's website also features deals on real estate, businesses, properties, vehicles and recreational vehicles the bank currently has for sale.
Editor's note: This feature is part of a paid advertising package purchased by Superior National Bank of Hancock. Businesses interested in being featured on the Business page may call Yvonne Robillard at 483-2220.


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Barborak wants more revenue for county
LISBON – Not enough of the revenue generated by a proposed state tax on oil and gas production would go to impacted counties that need it the most, which is why state Rep. Nick Barborak said he voted against the measure.
The severance tax that was passed this week by the Ohio House allocates 17.5 percent of the proceeds for local governments. The money must first be used to protect cities, villages and townships and public libraries from any loss in state funds that would result from tax exemptions and incentives contained in the bill.
Counties impacted by the oil and gas boom, such as Columbiana County, would receive 25 percent of what remains, and Barborak, D-Lisbon, is concerned that would leave little for them.
"At a time when our communities are faced with enormous challenges to fix our roads and train our local workers so they can compete for drilling jobs, the paltry sum they left us insults our region," he said, in a news release issued by his office.
Barborak said he opposes allowing most of the money to be spent elsewhere in the state, which the bill allows.
"Until the needs of our local townships and municipalities are being met, we should not be paying for the priorities of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati with revenue from resources that belong to us," he said.
Barborak said he would have voted for the bill had the percentage of revenue directed to impacted counties been set at 50 percent, but that amendment was rejected by House Republicans.
He was also critical of the provision using some of the severance tax revenue to lower the state income tax rates across-the-board, something Barborak said would disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
"Columbiana County and the State of Ohio deserve better. I hope that the Senate will fix this flawed bill. If not, I urge the governor to veto it," he said.
Gov. John Kasich may do just that because the proposed tax falls short of the increase he requested. The bill replaces the current system of taxing oil and gas production based on volume and replaces it with a value-based tax.
Instead of a tax of 10 cents per barrel of oil and 2.5 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas, there would only be a flat tax of 2.5 percent. Kasich favored a 2.75 percent severance tax, in part, to fund his proposed income tax cuts. Democrats pushed for a 5 percent tax.
The Senate is not expected to take up the bill until after the November election.
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WOOD-BRIDGE — A new tide gate in Berry's Creek will help corral the salty tidal water that would otherwise regularly flood Meadowlands towns.
Officials unveiled the West Riser Tide Gate Wednesday, though it has been in operation for about a month.
It has already proven effective, Tom Marturano, an engineer for the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission said.
"We had some high tides in the past two weeks that normally would have flooded areas of Moonachie and they did not flood," Marturano said.
The gates open and close to allow rainwater to flow downriver, while preventing brackish water from coming upriver during high tide. Many of the surrounding businesses and homes, including Teterboro Airport, are not much higher than the water level, which can rise six feet during high tide. Though it won't be able to stand up to monstrous storms like Hurricane Sandy, Marcia Karrow, executive director of the commission, said the gate would save millions in business losses due to flooding.
"If this wasn't here," Marturano said of the gate, "that water would go straight up the river all the way into Teterboro and Moonachie and the surrounding towns."
The commission oversaw the project and paid $697,000 toward its $1.2 million cost. The rest was covered by a grant from the Port Authority, which manages nearby Teterboro Airport.
Although the gate lies outside of the Meadowlands district, Karrow said it would protect Meadowlands towns like Teterboro, Moonachie and Little Ferry.
Bergen County has agreed to maintain the riser gate. The new gate is a replacement of a tidal gate the county installed in the same spot in 1977 that had started to leak over the past few years.
The maintenance costs should be minimal, Karrow said. She predicted the gate would outlive her.
"We've sweetened the deal so much for them because we really didn't waste any money in putting the best materials available to make this tide gate sustainable," she said.


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - They're back! The Birmingham Zoo is now once again, officially a home for bears.
For the first time this morning, the public got a glimpse at Sassy and Bety, two North American Black Bears the zoo had rescued from southwestern Montana. The bears initially arrived back in March, but had to remain quarantined for a period of time based on zoo policy.
The orphaned siblings are currently being housed at the Predator building until the construction of their permanent home, the Barbara Ingalls Shook Black Bear Trail, is finished.
Theirs was a journey long in the making--made possible by FedEx.
Katrina Cade, Vice President of Marketing for The Birmingham Zoo confirmed to AL.com on March 6 that the zoo was expecting the arrival of two black bears cub siblings from southwestern Montana. The bears--both females--she said, were referred to as "yearlings" by zoo staff because they were unsure of exactly how old they are.
According to an Associated Press article published in March, the yearlings were sent to the Birmingham Zoo because they had become "too habituated to people."
A Montana-area resident had apparently been feeding the fuzzy females.
Montana Wildlife Rehabilitation Center manager Lisa Rhodin told the AP the bears were recently captured in Big Sky, where they had been "lounging around on somebody's porch."
Rhodin told the AP that although the rehabilitation center takes in orphaned wildlife with the goal of returning them to the wild, these two bears in particular were "simply too used to people."
The bears departed Great Falls early Sunday morning, March 9 on a FedEx plane, confirmed Cade, and the Birmingham Zoo was ready.
"For years now, the community has been asking when the zoo would bring bears back," said Cade. "I think this is something to get excited about."
The bear cub reveal was just one of the events planned as part of the Birmingham Zoo's baby shower to celebrate the Baby Bunch Weekend.
Today, visitors are invited to drop off a package of diapers to receive half price admission to the Zoo (only new, sealed packages of diapers will be accepted to qualify for the discount). This diaper drive will benefit First Light, a center for homeless women and children.
From Saturday, May 31 through Sunday, June 1, visitors are encouraged to bring the entire family to meet members of The Baby Bunch, enjoy face paintings courtesy of Children's of Alabama, baby-themed animal enrichments, educational keeper chats, Get Rhythm® Drum Circle and much more.
The Baby Bunch includes an ostrich, reticulated giraffe, Sumatran orangutan, two North American black bears, two giant river otters, two red pandas and nine Dwarf Nigerian goats. Families and guests can have fun spotting the various members of The Baby Bunch throughout the Zoo.
The public can also enjoy the Jane H. Brock Soaring Safari Zipline Adventure during Baby Bunch Weekend for an additional price. Guests of all ages can soar 20 feet above ground level as they glide on the zipline through the treetops of the Alabama Wilds.
Here's the weekend's schedule of events:
Friday, May 30
- 9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Receive Half-Price Admission by Donating to the Diaper Drive
Saturday, May 31
- 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.: Face Paintings in the Special Events Yard provided by Children's of Alabama
- 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Red Panda Keeper Chat and Enrichment
- 11:30 a.m. - noon: Giraffe and Ostrich Keeper Chats and Enrichments
- 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Get Rhythm® Drum Circle
- 1:30 p m. - 1:45 p.m.: Otter Enrichment
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In the wake of a front-page Jersey Journal story about bedbugs in a school today, Jersey City public schools spokeswoman Paula Christen said the district is not even positive that there was an incident.
"At School 23 we don't have any dead (bed bugs) to prove that we have (a problem)," she said today. "We don't even know that it's bed bugs (that the student or students saw)."
The Journal reported in today's editions that district officials confirmed that the bedbugs have been contained to an area of the third floor of the Romaine Avenue school building.
"What we're doing in the school is cleaning and disinfecting classrooms. We go by the Integrated Pest Management plan (issued by the DEP)."
Christen added that the district has not contracted with an outside bedbug extermination company, and that the district's maintenance staff adheres to DEP-approved cleaning and disinfecting agents to deal with and reports of bedbugs.
The state IPM program does not list bedbugs among it common pest problems, but an update, dated June 24, gives an explanation of bedbugs and ways to combat them -- monitoring devices that gather the small critters and a dry ice device to freeze them.
Glenn Waldorf, director at Bell Environmental, which has bedbug extermination contracts with a number of school districts, said today that cleaning and disinfecting an area known to have have bedbugs would not rid the school of the problem.


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The Plain Dealer and the Northeast Ohio Media Group are exploring how much economic development is happening outside downtown Cleveland. Of the 150 projects collected from the suburbs, here is one of the three biggest in Avon.
The new, $100 million plus addition to the Cleveland Clinic facility will be the first full-service hospital to come to Avon.
Development: Cleveland Clinic Richard E. Jacobs Health Center will add a seven-story building with more than 100 beds and be open in 2016
Address: 33100 Cleveland Clinic Blvd.
Cost: More than $100 million
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Builder: Ruhlin-Shook Co.
Likelihood: Solid, considering the clinic's success in Avon and elsewhere
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Woei Wan Tan graduated with the Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical, Honours) degree and the Master of Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore in 1993 and 1995 respectively. After earning the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford for her work on self-learning neurofuzzy control of nonlinear systems in December 1997, she joined the National University of Singapore where she is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. She is also serving as the Director of the Electrical Engineering Programme, and as an Assistant Dean for the Faculty of Engineering External Relations Office.
Her research interests are in the areas of systems science and computational intelligence. In recent years, she has focused on theoretical development of type-2 fuzzy systems, and the application of type-2 fuzzy systems to intelligent modelling, control and fault diagnosis. Research accolades include the FUZZ-IEEE 2005 Best Student Paper Award and FUZZ-IEEE 2006 Best Poster Presentation Award. Dr Tan is also an active member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She has served or is serving on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Women in Computational Intelligence Committee, IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE CIS Graduate Student Research Grants Committee, and many conference technical programme committees. Besides research, she is a passionate educator. She mainly teaches core modules at the undergraduate level, and her commitment to teaching has been consistently recognized by Teaching Awards.


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2014 Goals
For the sake of good accountability I'm going to go ahead and post my goals on here. I do love fresh starts and the post holiday haze is the perfect time to get focused.
My goals are all pretty encompassing and simple so excuse me if they're boring, because they probably are.
1. Get fit
I've been terrifically out of shape the past couple years due to many things…but most notably I've had a very needy little boy. He has kept me from getting any even remotely decent amount of sleep in the past year and a half as well as being very dependent during the day. He's the only one who naps which means basically zero 'me' time. However this past month he cut his last tooth and that means waaaaaay more sleep. Obviously that doesn't give me much day time still but hey, with the power of rest I am fully determined to find a way, even if it means I hunker down and just get a freaking gym membership.
2. Settle into a seasonal pattern.
Last night Shane and I were talking about this winter (it was snowing and dropping into the single digit temps) which got me to thinking how gardening in the warm season and preserving food is a lot of work and how winter is the season of rest with a home filled with bounty, but if you don't put in that work during the other seasons it's kind of hard to feel anything but sort of depressed in the dark, cold months.
All that to say, I experienced a little piece of seasonal living this year by eating seasonally from the local farmers market and by doing a lot more food preservation than I've ever done and I'm excited to say that it did affect me positively going into winter. Add gardening into the mix and I think it'll be an even more positive experience.
3. Develop connections with people.
A few years ago this was a goal for me. Going deeper with friendships and committing more of my time to them. It was a big change for me which really gave me the opportunity to develop friendships. We moved to a new part of the city mid year last year and I've made so many great connections with neighbors, local moms and friends that are now closer. This year I'd like to be consistent in making time to develop those connections and make it our community.
4. Develop a long lasting successful eating pattern.
Ever since the whole 'no sleep forever' thing started I've found it very hard to keep up many areas of my life. Food preparation was a chore and I just felt like I was pumping out toddler food all day to my kids and not really eating well myself or spending time figuring out what I was eating. Often after really stressful bedtimes or mornings with Eli I'd munch of comfort food (aka chocolate). Half way through the year I realized having ANYTHING with sugar in my home was a big mistake and aside from holiday gifts I have managed to keep it that way.
After Thanksgiving it became apparent to me that I simply am not getting a high enough dosage of vegetables. It was after the farmers market had ended and I hadn't really managed to cope with buying crappy veggies at the grocery store. Once December started I just committed to having a fresh breakfast (generally just an apple or two with nut butter or a big cup of green juice), and a large vegetable dense salad for lunch as well as a salad accompanying any dinner I made for the family.
So far, it has helped me a lot. I'm excited to be out of the holiday season now (however enjoyable and joyful it truly is) so that I won't have rich foods tempting me constantly (aka me stuffing my face with them whenever I get the chance).
5. Be a good neighbor.
We have a new neighborhood and awesome neighbors…this is a first. Our last neighborhood was more about avoiding the crazies to protect my kids, but now I need to switch perspectives and really learn to build relationships with the people around me. They're going to be there for a while and so are we!
So there you have it. Things like 'be a better wife' and 'be a good mom' aren't on there because those are the things I'm always doing. These five things are just some areas I want to start improving on now.
I'll leave you with this cute little pic of Avery playing in the freaking freezing snow this morning.
Happy New Year:)


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You'll have to read a few thousand college basketball stories before you'll find another high school coach ripping a Big Ten coach as strongly as Kosta Koufos' coach, Jack Greynolds, laid into Ohio State coach Thad Matta in Sunday's Canton Repository:
"Listen, if you can't get along with a kid like Kosta, then you're clueless," Greynolds said. "If you're making $2 million season and can't figure out how to use a 7-foot-1 kid, you're clueless. If you can't get along with a kid who comes early, stays late and gets good grades, you're clueless, and you've got the problem."
Koufos left Ohio State after his freshman season and was drafted 23rd overall by the Utah Jazz in last week's NBA draft.
According to the story, Koufos and his family had differences with Matta over how the player was used. The Repository also reveals he dropped out of class mid-quarter, which could hurt Ohio State's APR and result in a lost scholarship.
Hardly anything unusual about a player and his family disagreeing with a coach over playing time and career development, but the Greynolds' comment is far out there as to leave you wondering whether something more went on behind the scenes.


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Interactivism Recap!
Stellar ideas, cunning coding, savvy social innovation, dynamite design, and some truly impressive young people came together at last week's Interactivism Young People's Hack Weekend to work on 10 ideas (out of a whopping 81 that were submitted!) to help young people get into the work, education, and training that is right for them.
Making our temporary home at Ravensbourne College the 17th and 18th of February, 2012, over 130 developers, designers, students, social innovations, and young people joined us to get stuck into the challenge.
After some intros from Dominic Campbell (FutureGov) and Andrew Eland (Google), we were lucky enough to have three brilliant speakers to help get those innovative cogs turning. Bruno Taylor, co-founder of FlipJobs, told the story of taking his idea for an alternative CV platform from hack event to functioning beta site. Next up, Sam Conniff, chairman at Livity, spoke of the importance of testing innovation (with an amusing anecdote involving a toothpaste dispensing toothbrush) with the wise words,
"Iterate your ideas. Keep changing and challenging yourself. Always relate back to the young people."
Paul Massey, of MentorWell, finished things off by pitching his mentoring platform as a way to help support the Interactivism ideas and participants after the weekend was over. With some inspiring words and our 10 teams divided, they were off to develop, build and design their ideas for the rest of the day.
The room quickly fell into a hum of ideas, with flip charts out and post-it notes flying up on the wall. In the late afternoon, the idea owners met for an early show and tell feedback session with members of the judging panel. Some teams had focussed in on delivering one clear product, while others were talking about their idea in a very broad sense. It was obvious from the energy levels of the group that the focused ideas were easier to understand and therefore more interesting and the judges encouraged all of the teams to distil their vision into something simple, distintive and tangible.
By dinner time, our teams were ravenous and fully embedded in their projects, eating, developing and designing their way into the night!
Day two brought sleepy faces to the breakfast table, but most were quickly re-energised and getting stuck into preparing their prototypes and presentations ready for 2.30pm.
Mid-way through the morning on day two, we gathered our glorious group of young people together for a chat to find out their frank and honest opinions on how they use the internet in their own lives – with Twitter ranking very low on the popularity spectrum, and BBM near the top, while Facebook caused mixed responses with concerns around privacy and personal interactions. We asked them how they use the web to find work and education, promote themselves and find opportunities, and heard about using Facebook for self promotion, sites like IdeasTap to find projects, Google to research businesses, and Twitter to network directly. Mobile phones (particularly Blackberry) were the preferred method of using the web, and the most common methods of contact between friends bounced between BBM, phone calls and Facebook.
It was so refreshing and insightful to sit down with all of these young people and hear what they really thought, and how their input into the hack event is ensuring that these projects were headed in the right direction.
Almost 36 hours after we started, it was time for our teams to show off what they'd created in front of their Interactivism peers and our esteemed judging panel, which included, Andrew Eland (Google), Naomi Brown (Livity), Carrie Bishop (FutureGov), Julian Thompson (the RSA) and Mark O'Neill, Head of Innovation and Delivery at Government Digital Service.
Interactive CV Timeline, renamed TreeVee, opened the presentations with their platform, born out of the desire for an online space that helps people display their CV in a way that does their experience and skills justice. Based around the rings of the tree, they designed an interactive CV format that allows users to plot official and unofficial experience (things like tweeting, blogging, ad hoc work) in a non-linear, multi-media way.
Next, Re:Skilled, who also made a name switch to OneUp, created a web app to help young people develop their soft skills, such as how to conduct an interview, by connecting them with local opportunities and staging online challenges and activities. They tested their challenges with the young people within the team, iterating based on their feedback.
GamePlan wants to help young people "play their way to success." They pinpointed that while many young people know what they want to do, it is the journey to get there that is the real challenge. They developed a service supported by mentors and sponsored by businesses to help young people find and design the path they need to get into their desired field.
Job Story wants to make young people better aware of what jobs are out there and available to them through a simple, intuitive website. In the same way you link through a string of different yet related videos on Youtube, Job Story uses videos and profiles of jobs to give users more information on a particular career, coupled with suggested related careers, allowing people to zigzag and browse through jobs they may have never seen before.
Cloud Gaming looks to aggregate a person's information that exists on other sites to help form a profile, which then helps find the jobs that will get young people where they want to be in life, rather than simply suggesting "the ten jobs you think you want." It then uses games and online challenges to help users develop skills and figure out how to achieve their goals.
Meet Market is an idea to teach young people enterprise skills by supporting them to set up market stall businesses. The activities would mix young people with different levels of engagement and direction, and the face-to-face interactions would be used to build a sense of excitement. The team behind the idea have already secured £9000 funding and are hoping to pilot the project soon. The technical solution would support the offline activities.
FutureBuilder is a site where young people can identify what skill gaps they have and are then directed to courses or other sources of support that will help them fill these gaps. The programme that the team developed also used strong graphics to show whether a person's skills match those required for a job that they are interested in doing. Each person has their own profile on the site and this tracks jobs applied for, training done and the development of their skills.
Mesh is a solution to young people not getting jobs because they have not developed the right networks. The site that Mesh have designed gives users their own Mesh page where they can arrange Mesh Days – or networking opportunities where they get personalised tasters of their future careers. Universities, colleges and employers can become Mesh Day providers.
Gamification transformed into Slurker (the name is derived from a combination of slacking and working) during Interactivism. Slurker is designed to exploit people's online procrastination habits to help them gain insights into suitable future careers, or in their words: "Putting your slacking to work to find the right job for you." The idea would take the form of a Facebook application and would make career searching social. By tracking what you are already liking online, Slurker would suggest career options that might be suitable for you.
InspireTree is an intelligence based application that helps you explore career opportunities. The tree itself shows the roots, branches and leaves of various career options, showing what various training or experience could lead to in the future, or what would be needed for a given career choice. The team were questioned by the judges about whether this would result in too linear a depiction of career paths, which are often much more fluid and unplanned. They responded that the full version would provide many more examples, but obviously could not capture every option.
The judges had quite a tough decision to make when it came to choosing a winner, but as stated in our previous blog post, the judges selected FutureBuilder as the winning team, each receiving a Google Chromebook, and the Young People's Choice went to Interactive 'CV' Timeline. Congrats!
If you want to see even more about the event, check out our photos on the Simpl Facebook page and these brilliant photos by our resident photographer Murtz. If you attended on the day and want to keep your conversations and connections going, we've created a Facebook group for just that!
For a more well-rounded view of the day, check out these blog posts from Paul Massey, Angelica Robinson, and one of our judges, Mark O'Neill of their own experiences of the event.
We were very honoured to have so many young people joining us for Interactivism and we'd like to share with you some of their feedback on their experience of the hack weekend:
Trim Lamba @trimlamba (Future Builder): "I was expecting a weekend slumped in a chair, listening to adults speak. Instead I was stood up speaking whilst they listened. It was a brilliant weekend, and our team winning made it even better- I took away new knowledge, new friends contact details and a Chromebook.
Stephen Isaac Wilson @stepheniw (Future Builder): " My brain was officially fried by the Saturday but it had all been worth it. I worked with some insanely talented and creative people; so talented that I actually was a member of the winning team! The best bit was realising that we had come up with something that may actually help young people regain their confidence and find future employment. The whole event was simply mind blowing."
Raphael @raphaelblake (Inspire Tree): "I didn't know what to expect, with a name such as Google involved it was possible that we wouldn't get the chance to actually do much because google knows how to do everything already. But I was surprised by how much I was able to contribute to the project I was working on and how much we were listened to. It was soo inspiring to be surrounded by other like minded creative people of all ages, backgrounds and professions."
We want to thank everyone who helped out and took part in the day, and are over the moon with the feedback we've gotten so far. We cannot wait to see how all of these stellar ideas develop in the future, and hope that they continue to use Simpl to keep those ideas going!


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Partridge doesn't get enough credit
I need to address a comment made by Nancy Backus, who has misrepresented John Partridge in his key role with the creation of the Auburn Valley Humane Society.
In her January 2013 newsletter, Nancy Backus wrote: "John Partridge is in his first term and devoted to the creation of the Auburn Valley Humane Society (AVHS). He was our Council liaison to AVHS as it was getting established and has spent numerous hours at meetings and events to promote the humane society. Our community has really come together to support our pets, and John has played a KEY role in that. I appreciate his work."
John has never mentioned this letter. I found it by mistake. In fact, when John speaks of the creation of the AVHS, he has given credit to the Auburn veterinarians.
Partridge spoke at the debate of serving you and of the changes Auburn needs. He speaks truthfully, and he has us in mind for the great future Auburn needs. Our current mayor and council could have made this change years ago, and we now suffer due to a focus on building empty dreams and allowing our justice system to fail.
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The fourth annual South Whidbey Acoustic Music Festival presents "The Year of the Blue Guitar" from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 30.
The event will be held at the beautiful Tilth Sustainability Campus at the intersection of Highway 525 and Thompson Road, which is the site of the Tilth Farmers' Market, just north of Bayview Corner,
Activities for kids will include an introduction to stringed instruments for young children, offered by Island Strings, at 11:45 a.m. in front of the Calyx School next to the market.
Local finger-style guitarist Quinn Fitzpatrick kicks off main stage performances at 11 a.m. followed by Blaine England and Joann Quintana at noon. Young violinists Liv and Gabby Barlow take the stage at 1 p.m.
Highly accomplished singer-songwriter Karin Blaine presents her urban folk songs starting at 2 p.m. An hour later, Texan Trevor Reichman, another excellent songwriter, will enthrall listeners with his quietly captivating tunes.
Steve Showell and Joanne Rousse take the stage at 4 p.m. along with their daughter Kendra. The Muse & eye (Russell Clepper and Sarah Dial Primrose) perform the closing set of the day, beginning at 5 p.m.
The event is free, but $10 suggested donations will be accepted to support musicians.
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