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Part Two of Six Women and a Men
Before I head back to CamelbackRanch this weekend, I wanted to post more pictures from my first trip so here they are:
The seven of us with Manny Mota. Too bad the kid taking the picture did not get us all in the picture. Good thing Rosie had another picture.
Sneaking in with Tommy Lasorda. Tommy had signed a ball for me back in 2010 but the ink was getting lighter (no, I did not originally use a blue pen) so he signed it again. He also signed my Mark Langill book. He started looking at the pictures in the book commenting about the rookies of the year on the opposite page where he signed. Thanks Tommy! Love you!
Everyone stopped to watch Kershaw pitch in the intersquad game.
Kershaw had a good outing.
It was time for us to head out but before that we spotted Pepe Yniguez with Bill DeLury. Mr. DeLury has been with the Dodgers since 1950, mostly as Traveling Secretary. He started with the Dodgers as a 17-year- old office boy. Evan of Opinion of Kingman's Performance did a wonderful job in interviewing Mr. DeLury. Here is the link http://opinionofkingmansperformance.blogspot.com/2011/06/second-longest-tenured-dodger-employee.html
Lorena with Pepe Yniguez. Pepe has been broadcasting Dodger games en Espanol since 1999.
Pepe also teams up with Manny Mota calling some games on TV on Time Warner cable channel 858
Javy Guerra got a kick of Rosie bringing the Rookie Hazing picture of Javy dressed as a Taco.
Javy when he saw me that I sporting my Javy batting practice jersey, he turned me around to show another player and said "See? she is my number ONE fan!" 🙂
I was playing photographer. Here is Priscy with Javy
Here is Amanda with Javy
Here is Tony Jackson, Beat Writer for ESPN Los Angeles. I like his long hair.
Taking a well deserved rest before we go inside Margaritaville
After food and drinks we headed next door to Saddle Ranch for some tequila shots and to ride the mechanical bull
The bull kicks Rene
Priscy is next
She gets knocked out but she gets back on the bull
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Nice going Desiree! Even falling, you fall with grace.
Time to head back to LA. I am going going back to Cali Cali…..
Next Trip: Leaving Thursday night with Lorena and her niece Elisa. Lorena will be driving. They will drive back to Cali. I on the other hand need to head to NH to work there the following week so I will miss Sunday's game as my flight leaves at noon. I can't wait for Thursday night!
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Emma, no one has more fun than you! I think it's so great that you go on these road trips with your buddies and hang out with the Dodgers. Have a blast on the next trip.
Thanks Jane. You know what made it work is that we all got along. There is only three of us in the car this time but Rosie and her brother who we will meet for the first time will also be going. I am supposed to meet other fans there. I love our Dodger community and our Baseball community.
What a great story Emma! Wish I could have been there. Sad to say that I had to cancel my plans to travel out there this weekend due to a work assignment. Thanks for linking up my DeLurey interview!


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There was an excellent article up on Most Wanted last week discussing the gun control debate, it's a must read. In it the author, Larry Correia, argues that armed teachers should be allowed in our schools.
The single best way to respond to a mass shooter is with an immediate, violent response. The vast majority of the time, as soon as a mass shooter meets serious resistance, it bursts their fantasy world bubble. Then they kill themselves or surrender. This has happened over and over again.
Police are awesome. I love working with cops. However any honest cop will tell you that when seconds count they are only minutes away. After Colombine law enforcement changed their methods in dealing with active shooters. It used to be that you took up a perimeter and waited for overwhelming force before going in. Now usually as soon as you have two officers on scene you go in to confront the shooter (often one in rural areas or if help is going to take another minute, because there are a lot of very sound tactical reasons for using two, mostly because your success/survival rates jump dramatically when you put two guys through a door at once. The shooter's brain takes a moment to decide between targets). The reason they go fast is because they know that every second counts. The longer the shooter has to operate, the more innocents die.
However, cops can't be everywhere. There are at best only a couple hundred thousand on duty at any given time patrolling the entire country. Excellent response time is in the three-five minute range. We've seen what bad guys can do in three minutes, but sometimes it is far worse. They simply can't teleport. So in some cases that means the bad guys can have ten, fifteen, even twenty minutes to do horrible things with nobody effectively fighting back.
So if we can't have cops there, what can we do?
The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by law enforcement: 14. The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by civilians: 2.5. The reason is simple. The armed civilians are there when it started.
The teachers are there already. The school staff is there already. Their reaction time is measured in seconds, not minutes. They can serve as your immediate violent response. Best case scenario, they engage and stop the attacker, or it bursts his fantasy bubble and he commits suicide. Worst case scenario, the armed staff provides a distraction, and while he's concentrating on killing them, he's not killing more children.
But teachers aren't as trained as police officers! True, yet totally irrelevant. The teacher doesn't need to be a SWAT cop or Navy SEAL. They need to be speed bumps.
But this leads to the inevitable shrieking and straw man arguments about guns in the classroom, and then the pacifistic minded who simply can't comprehend themselves being mandated to carry a gun, or those that believe teachers are all too incompetent and can't be trusted. Let me address both at one time.
Don't make it mandatory. In my experience, the only people who are worth a darn with a gun are the ones who wish to take responsibility and carry a gun. Make it voluntary. It is rather simple. Just make it so that your state's concealed weapons laws trump the Federal Gun Free School Zones act. All that means is that teachers who voluntarily decide to get a concealed weapons permit are capable of carrying their guns at work. Easy. Simple. Cheap. Available now.
Take it from a cop….we can't be everywhere. In South Central there are many of us, but by the time we get the call it still takes us minutes to get to a scene. Shootings, stabbings, murders and everything in between happen in seconds. In a low crime, rural area, it could be quite awhile for the nearest cops to arrive.
One armed teacher would delay and/or stop the threat to young children.
Contrary to the hyperventilating liberals, no one is advocating that teachers should be mandated to carry a gun. As Larry argues above, make it voluntary. One state that does has concealed carry classrooms filled to capacity with teachers:
More than 200 Utah teachers are expected to pack a convention hall on Thursday for six hours of concealed-weapons training as organizers seek to arm more educators in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting.
The Utah Shooting Sports Council said it normally gathers a dozen teachers every year for instruction that's required to legally carry a concealed weapon in public places. The state's leading gun lobby decided to offer teachers the training at no charge to encourage turnout, and it worked.
Organizers who initially capped attendance at 200 were exceeding that number by Wednesday and scrambling to accommodate an overflow crowd.
And as the scumbag Piers Morgan blabbers about changing our Constitution (and the Bible) we have newspapers printing the addresses of gun owners (while simultaneously printing the addresses of those who DONT have a gun to defend themselves…friggin idiots).
Based on what we've heard so far, this "conversation" amounts to little more than an attempt by one side to shame the other into silence and acquiescence. If you refuse to admit that you, the gun owner, are part of the problem; if you dare to suggest that the public at large would not be less safe but safer if more law-abiding citizens were allowed to carry concealed handguns; if you refuse to acknowledge what is so patently obvious to your enlightened betters living in colonies along both coasts — which is that firearms are inherently evil and have no place in a civilized society — then you are an abettor in the slaughter of children and deserving of public scorn if not imprisonment and even death.
Indeed, this "conversation" has been marked by ignorance and emotionalism on the part of those who would see Americans surrender their guns in advancement of the utopia envisioned in such places as the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Manifesting this ignorance and emotionalism for all to see was CNN's Soledad O'Brien, who, while engaging in what was purported to be a "conversation on guns" with economist John Lott, seemed gobsmacked when Mr. Lott presented an argument in favor of fewer restrictions on citizens carrying concealed weapons — an argument based on his own extensive research. "I have to say," stammered Ms. O'Brien, "your position, your position completely boggles me, honestly. I just do not understand it."
That she did not understand Mr. Lott's position was obvious, as she was so completely boggled that she failed to address even a single one of the points he made, instead veering off on tangents that did little more than reveal her own lack of knowledge on the subject at hand.
…All the heated rhetoric that has followed the horrors of Sandy Hook obscures the legitimate questions we so yearn to have answered: could the gunman have been stopped, and can future madmen be prevented from carrying out similar crimes? Is there a law that might have been passed, are there steps that might have been taken, could anything have been done to protect those precious children and those who cared for them?
I suspect that those who seek a legislative solution to crimes such as this one are on a fool's errand. It would be difficult to tabulate the number of laws the gunman broke in the course of his murderous spree that morning; to think the enactment of one or a dozen more would deter such a man is to engage in childish fantasy. And talk of banning "assault weapons" is equally naive, not least for the fact that the very term has no real definition other than to describe rifles that some people find scary-looking.
Could he have been stopped? Yes. By someone armed and ready to take the shooter out or at least draw his attention away. Can future madmen be prevented from doing this again? No. There is evil in this world, always has been and always will be. Even putting away hundreds of thousands into mental institutions against their will, as we did in the past, didn't stop it. Take away the guns?
Meat Cleaver: A man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults.
knife: a man used a knife to kill eight children and seriously wound five others in the city of Nanping.
Hammer: Wang Yonglai used a hammer to cause head injury to preschool children.
Box Cutter: a female worker slashed eight children with a box-cutter at a daycare center for migrant workers.
Axe; two young girls and four adults taking their children to nursery school were killed with an axe.
And as we all know 2,996 people were killed by those only armed with box cutters on 9/11.
No, we can stop them by allowing teachers to be armed. Preventing them from ever happening again is fodder for liberal hippies who believe the world can be rainbows and unicorns someday if only there was enough hashish to go around.


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Dordt College News
Broker To Join Defender Football Program
May 5, 2014
(Monday, May 5; Sioux Center, Iowa) Eric Broker, a senior at Ripon Christian High School (California), has announced his intention to attend Dordt College and join the Defender football program.
Broker totaled 74 solo tackles and 154 total tackles on the defensive line with 9.5 quarterback sacks. On offense he helped block for a rushing attack that gained 3,813 yards in 2013 and 2014. He was a first team all-league pick in 2012 and 2013 and was chosen to compete in the North-South Rotary All-Star game. Broker is listed 6-1, 220 pounds.
Eric is the son of Beau and Heidi Broker of Ripon, California. He plans to study criminal justice at Dordt College.
Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, is a comprehensive Christian college rooted in the Reformed tradition. Dordt's athletic program is a part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC).
U.S. News & World Report, Forbes.com, Washington Monthly, and Princeton Review all list Dordt on their best colleges lists. Dordt is home to approximately 1,400 students.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/j6tb98/global_satellite) has announced the addition of the "Global Satellite Market Forecasts Report 2018: Boeing, Airbus SAS, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Sciences & Thales Group Dominate the Industry" report to their offering.
The Global Satellite market is expected to witness moderate growth due to the presence of some emerging trends that could have a positive impact on the market during the forecast period. One such trend is the increased demand for high power and HTS due to the continuing demand for broadband internet and internet connectivity with high bandwidth. Thus, the combined effects of various drivers and trends are expected to propel the growth of the market during the forecast period.
According to the report, one of the major drivers in this market is the growing Commercial Satellite market. This is mainly due to an increase in wireless and internet related use of satellites.
Further, the report states that one of the major challenges in this market is decreasing government for funding for space research. This is mainly due to the slow economic growth of many developed countries, especially in Europe.
Key vendors dominating this space are:
- Boeing
- Airbus SAS
- Lockheed Martin Corp
- Orbital Sciences Corp
- Thales Group.
Key questions answered in this report:
- What will the market size be in 2018 and what will the growth rate be?
- What are the key market trends?
- What is driving this market?
- What are the challenges to market growth?
- Who are the key vendors in this market space?
- What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key vendors?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the key vendors?
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/j6tb98/global_satellite
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Nearly 10 years ago, a small Internet and cable service provider in Kansas began serving applications via the Web. Almost two years ago, the third incarnation of our Perl-based web framework was released as an open source project called Gantry (under the same license as Perl). While Gantry is easy to use, we felt the need for even more laziness. Thus, we also developed Bigtop to generate code, SQL, configuration files, and other things for Gantry applications.
Bigtop is not only a code generator, it is a regenerator. As you'll see in the short story below, even after you have a running application, you can still use Bigtop to regenerate parts of the application. There is no risk of losing custom code you've written.
With Bigtop and Gantry, the core of a simple app can be ready in a few minutes. The start of a complex app can be generated in a short time as well. Then, the inevitable changes requested by users and developers can be incorporated into the application by regeneration. Only custom code needs to be updated manually.
To show the power of our tools, I've written a short story. Though it is set around Christmas time, I hope you'll find its meaning is timeless.
'Twas the Friday before Christmas, and all through the office, not a creature was stirring, except for my boss. At the door to the bat cave he made a request, "My wife needs an app to keep up with grandkids. Think about that while I order our lunch. After lunch, when you're done, you can leave for vacation."
From the corner of my ear I heard the boss order pizza from a place close at hand. Visions of pizza slices danced not in my head, but rather of the app, which I built in a flash.
"It should be here in half an hour," the boss said as he sat.
"You'll have to dine alone. I'm done."
"Now, that can't be."
Despite my protests, the boss wouldn't believe. When I showed him the app, he accused me of thievery. So, I replied, "I'll start again." And this is what he saw.
I typed at my keyboard, fingers in a whirl:
bigtop --new GrandKids 'child->family child(name,birth_day:date) family(parent,address,city,state,zip)'
This created a new two table application by the name of "GrandKids." The first table called child, having a foreign key to the second called family. Children keeping track of name and birth date. Families storing addresses for the boss to send toys.
When Bigtop finished, it told me on my screen:
I have generated your "GrandKids" application. To run the application:
cd GrandKids sqlite app.db < docs/schema.sqlite ./app.server [ port ]
The app.server runs on port 8080 by default.
Once the app.server starts, it will print a list of the URLs it can serve. Point your browser to one of those and enjoy.
If you prefer to run the app with Postgres or MySQL type one of these:
bigtop --pg_help bigtop --mysql_help
So, I followed instructions to the GrandKids directory and built my db with SQLite3:
sqlite3 app.db < docs/schema.sqlite
Then started the app with a bit of a flare:
Which gave me this list of where I could go:
Available urls: http://localhost:8080/ http://localhost:8080/child http://localhost:8080/family
I chose family.
Clicking Add, I put in some data to save. Then chose Child from navigation links and added one kid.
Having named one child, entered the date of her birth, and picked her parents from the pull down; I saved triumphantly and looked to the boss.
"Why," was all he could spout.
I rose from my chair to retrieve my long coat, but was stopped short by the boss fearing lunch all alone. "What about gifts?"
"Gifts?" I asked unsure.
"Yes, Mrs. Boss has long feared double gifting a child, after the trauma of giving one girl a 'My Little Pony Castle' two years in a row."
With coat on my lap I sat down once again, stopped app.server and typed:
bigtop --add docs/grandkids.bigtop 'gift(name,occassion,year:int4)->child'
In the new gift table I asked for a gift 'name,' its 'occasion' and 'year,' the later an 'int4.'
To amend my db, I asked to see:
cat docs/schema.sqlite
CREATE TABLE gift ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, name varchar, description varchar, created datetime, modified datetime, child INTEGER, occasion varchar, year INTEGER );
Which I fed in by click of my wonderful mouse:
sqlite3 app.db sqlite> CREATE TABLE gift ( ...> ... sqlite> .q
Then restarted the server to show off my change:
At that smiling moment our pizza appeared. So, I joined in the feast as we talked of grandkids. With the slices all gone and the box in the trash, the boss said, "It still needs reports, which can wait 'til next year. Head on home, with great thanks from me and my wife."
I fled with no need to twice be excused. The boss heard faintly as I flew from his sight, "Merry Christmas to all and too all a good afternoon."
Bigtop is a language for describing web applications. While you can follow the approach of the story above to add tables, you can do much more by editing the Bigtop file. You could do that with a text editor. That is not always easy enough, so we wrote tentmaker.
Tentmaker is a Bigtop source file editor delivered via a web browser like Firefox or Safari. With it you can safely edit the Bigtop file, without having to worry about typing the syntax correctly. Now, let me explain what Bigtop built for my little story above.
The code generated during the story is a complete CRUD only application for managing the family, child, and gift tables. The base URLs listed by
app.server show lists of all the items in the tables. From those pages, you can add more items, as shown in the story. Each row listed also has edit and delete links.
If you want variations on basic CRUD, you can get them using tentmaker. This would include things like: removing the delete links, adjusting which columns appear in the main listings, controlling which fields appear on input forms, how those field are validated, etc.
For more sophisticated changes, you might have to write some code. The next section gives a quick tour of the generated files and shows where to put modifications.
Gantry and Bigtop may be installed from CPAN. Once you install them (and their dependencies, of course) you can follow the example from the short story. If you do that, these are the files and subdirectories you will see in your build directory:
Build.PL MANIFEST.SKIP app.db html Changes README app.server lib MANIFEST app.cgi docs t
Some of these are familiar to anyone who has built a distribution for CPAN:
MANIFEST.SKIP, and
Build.PL is the
Module::Build replacement for
Makefile.PL. The
t directory has the tests. The generated tests check compilation of each module in the application, POD and POD coverage, and perform a hit on the default page of each controller. We'll see the controllers shortly.
html directory has a
templates subdirectory which contains a Template Toolkit wrapper called
genwrapper.tt. It has basic styling, and is meant for development use. The rest of the templates you need for a CRUD application come with Gantry. We use them, as they ship, in our production environment, albeit with different stylesheets.
app.cgi and
app.server are Perl scripts. In the story, the narrator used
app.server for his development server. It is based on
HTTP::Server::Simple, so it is persistent and fast, but not meant for production use. The
app.cgi script could be used in a CGI environment, so long as you place the SQLite database carefully (where your web server can write to it and to its directory). Alternatively, you could change to another database, like PostgreSQL or MySQL, by changing the connection string in
app.cgi. As we're about to see, Bigtop has already made the SQL statements for those two databases. Switching to
mod_perl is not difficult, but is beyond our scope here.
In the docs directory there are four files. One of those is the Bigtop file, which describes the whole application in the Bigtop language. In the story, the narrator worked on this file exclusively through the Bigtop script. That is not usually enough. Normally, you need to edit it with tentmaker or your favorite text editor.
The other three files in the docs directory hold the SQL commands, which can be fed directly to the command line tools for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. All of these are kept up to date by Bigtop as the model changes.
That brings us to the
lib directory, where the code lives. Gantry generally operates in MVC fashion (though it doesn't force that fashion on you). So the code modules are of two types: models and controllers. Views are Template Toolkit templates, not code modules.
In addition to dividing models and controllers, Bigtop introduces another dichotomy: generated and stub. Stub modules are made once, either when the app is initially built or when you regenerate after adding to the Bigtop description. Generated modules are overwritten each time you regenerate the application, by running
bigtop. This distinction gives you a safe place to put custom code, without having to worry about whether it will be overwritten. There is no way to get Bigtop to overwrite a stub, short of deleting or renaming it.
Now that you know what to expect, here is a listing of the two files and one directory in the lib directory:
GENGrandKids.pm GrandKids GrandKids.pm
Files which include
GEN in their name or path are generated and will be regenerated (there are ways to turn off generation, but they usually make life more difficult in the end). So the stub for the base module of our app is
GrandKids.pm, while the generated module is
GENGrandKids.pm. The rest of the modules are in the
GrandKids subdirectory, as usual.
Let's descend into the
GrandKids directory to see the more interesting code modules. In it there are again files and directories:
Child.pm Family.pm GEN GENModel.pm Model Model.pm
The modules here are stubs. There is not much useful code in them. Their main purpose is to provide a place for custom code. As a fundamental principle, stubs inherit from GEN modules whenever possible. This allows you to override GEN methods at will, simply by coding a replacement in the stub. You can use
SUPER to call the GEN version, then modify its effects as needed. There is even a utility module to help you modify forms made by GEN modules.
The interesting code is in the GEN modules. Which are in the GEN directory. Listing its contents we see:
Child.pm Family.pm
Even though the code in these generated modules is more interesting, and does the real work for CRUD, editing them is a mistake. Bigtop controls everything in them, so editing the Bigtop file and regenerating is the right choice.
The Model directory is less interesting, but not less useful. It contains stub and GEN modules for each table in the data model. These all descend from
That's what you get from a few minutes work with Bigtop at the command line.
Gantry and Bigtop have a home on the web: http://usegantry.org. Go there to join in the fun of our mailing list, watch screen casts of example sessions like the one in the short story above, check out the latest sources, and much more.
There is now a Gantry book available from lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/philcrow. The code from the book is available from usegantry.org, which also has another link to the book on lulu.com.
Phil Crow
Return to ONLamp.com.
Copyright © 2017 O'Reilly Media, Inc.


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This sequence of images from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a pulse of light emanating from the protostellar object LRLL 54361. Most if not all of this light results from scattering off circumstellar dust in the protostellar envelope.
An apparent edge-on disk visible at the center of the object and three separate structures are interpreted as outflow cavities. The extent and shape of the scattered light changes substantially over a 25.34-day period.
This is caused by the propagation of the light pulse through the nebula. Astronomers propose that the flashes are due to material in a circumstellar disk suddenly being dumped onto a binary pair of forming stars. This unleashes a blast of radiation each time the stars get close to each other in their orbit.
These false color, near-infrared-light photos are from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
Object Names: LRLL 54361, L54361
Image Type: Astronomical/Annotated
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Muzerolle (STScI), E. Furlan (NOAO and Caltech), K. Flaherty (University of Arizona/Steward Observatory), Z. Balog (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), and R. Gutermuth (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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Hi....if it makes you feel any better, I've had at least 3 root canals (lucky me, grew up on nonflourdated water) while breastfeeding my 2 kids. I had standard dental anesthesia, took Motrin for pain, and amoxicillin. We had no problems, and my endodontist (root canal specialist) was great. I'm sorry you had to go through so much.
I am a NP myself and the lack of knowledge doctors and NPs/dentists/nurses have about meds and breastfeeding absolutely floors me. It's one of my professional pet peeves.
Oh...take it from one who knows, root canals aren't so bad. Think of it as a great big filling. You'll do fine! Good luck!!!


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After more than two years shut down, the former Hawaii Medical Center West, and the people who want to fill its halls, is itching to reopen.
It's a story uncovered by our partners at Pacific Business News.
"It's been a fast-moving project," said Susan Murray, COO of the renamed Queen's Medical Center West Oahu.
She said they're pretty much on track to open in the spring of 2014 and the recruiting process has begun.
She said they're aiming for a staff of about 400, including a 60-strong partnership of physicians from around the community, with 15 hired to work at Queen's full time.
"We're pulling from different parts of the island and we'll be recruiting from the mainland," said Dr. Whitney Limm, vice president of clinical integration and a transplant surgeon at Queen's.
"About a third of our health care staff lives in (West Oahu), and we've gotten calls from other health care providers saying their staff is buzzing about the opportunity," said Murray.
Not much has changed at the West Oahu campus except for the sign that was put up recently.
But Murray said she expects to get a demolition permit any day now, so the hospital can start rolling on renovations.
"We're looking to fix the lighting, make the parking lot brighter," said Audrey Hayashi.
Companies are scouting the area to hopefully partner with Queen's.
Hayashi works for EMCC Hawaii, which wants to update parking lot lighting, in what's expected to be one of many coveted contracts.
"It's a huge initiative and they're looking to improve all the standards here," she said.
"Fortunately we have about a year to plan for this," said Limm.
Physicians man some offices, companies work out of others, and hospice care still churns behind the parking lot at the old HMC campus.
But it's the return of what once was that this community is asking for.
"They are asking for services they want from a hospital," said Limm.
Murray said they have a solid pool of doctors and nurses to pull from the islands and expects roughly 10 percent of the staff will be mainland hires.
When it opens, the hospital will offer 82 beds, with a potential of up to 130, and an emergency room the size it once was.
She said they expect to start recruiting nurses in the fall.


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July 19, 2012
ISBE DELL e-Broadcast 2012.229 - Illinois Advisory Council on Bilingual Education Special July 23, 2012 Meeting
The Illinois Advisory Council on Bilingual Education (IACBE) will be hearing policy changes proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education's Division of English Language Learning (DELL) on July 23, 2012. Individuals interested in learning more about the changes are encouraged to attend. To obtain more information about the meeting location, times of meetings, call-in number and agenda see http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/htmls/iacbe_meetings.htm .
Representatives of the Division of English Language Learning will be presenting proposed policy changes in response to the recommendations made by the IACBE's Bilingual Education report submitted to the Governor on December 1, 2011. A copy of the report can be found at http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/pdfs/IACBE_pa097-0305_report120111.pdf.


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Rumors of lost ARRA funding quashed at Senate briefing
American Samoa Economic Stimulus and Recovery Office acting director Peter James provided a briefing last Thursday to the Senate Government Operations Committee on the status of the territory's share of the millions of dollars from ARRA, the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Committee chairman Sen. Velega Savali Jr. and other senators had asked for an update on the territory's ARRA funding after rumors reached the Senate that a large chunk of money had been returned due to the government's failure to allocate and use it prior to the deadline.
Senator Velega said he has heard that some $40 million in ARRA money had been returned, and wanted to know if it's true.
"That is absolutely not true," was the direct and clear reply from James, who also pointed out that only $100,000 under the State Stabilization Funds was returned, because it needed to be obligated by Sept. 30 of last year, but was not.
He said the federal government would not allow any more reallocation of Stabilization Funds and emphasized that only a very small portion of the funds has been returned.
Sen. Alo Dr. Paul Stevenson said the fear in the Senate is that projects will not be completed on time as required by the federal government and this means money will be returned to the U.S. Treasury Department. He asked for additional information on the total ARRA funding allocation.
Peters said American Samoa received about $120 million and some $11.5 million in stimulus money has been "encumbered" and "but not yet spent"; however, this money must be spent by the end of this calendar year — and it's expected to be met.
He said the most immediate need for American Samoa is for projects to be completed in this calendar year, adding the ASG stimulus office expects American Samoa to spent around 99% of all ARRA funding awarded to the territory.
Peters also explained that overall, American Samoa was awarded some $240 million in ARRA funding and this includes the $30 million for Section 1602, a housing program which is administered by the Development Bank of American Samoa and about $91 million to the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority for its Broadband Linking the American Samoa Territory (BLAST) project.
However, he said the BLAST funding is not included in the ASG stimulus office report for ARRA funds, because "despite several requests", ASTCA "would not allow us to review their financial records on this project."
The entire money for Section 1602 has been drawn down, Peters stated.
The federal stimulus website, recovery.gov shows that of the total funds awarded to the territory, as of July 2012, ASTCA has received and spent $8.49 million in ARRA money.
ARRA funding for American Samoa is also the subject of a probe by the Senate Investigative Committee and subpoenas were issued several weeks ago to the local stimulus office to provide all documents, reports and information — including expenditures.
The SIC probe into the Section 1602 housing program however continues to be on the back burner, as a claim of 'conflict of interest' is still to be resolved. The former Development Bank of American Samoa president, Lolo M. Moliga, who is also a candidate for governor in this year's general election has asked that the chairman of the SIC recuse himself, because of a 'bad' loan with DBAS.
Samoa News understands there has also been claims of political maneuvering, meaning the SIC probe is directed at the gubernatorial candidate and not at the Section 1602 housing program.


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The Des Moines Register reports Iowa Economic Development Board on Friday offered about $1.3 million in tax credits to St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M Co. to modernize its Ames factory which makes sandpaper products. The company plans to add 75 jobs.
Monsanto Co. will receive $1.5 million in tax credits to expand its Grinnell and Williamsburg seed corn facilities and expand its research facilities in Iowa.
Among the other approved incentives: a company called HF Chlor Alkali received a $75,000 loan and nearly $2 million in tax credits to build a proposed plant in Eddyville to make caustic soda and hydrochloric acid to sell to Cargill. The project would create 18 jobs.


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Central American Leaders Stop By White House To Talk Border Crisis
By Tamara Keith • Jul 25, 2014
Originally published on July 25, 2014 7:40 pm
The presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras met with President Obama at the White House Friday, discussing the influx of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border from Central America. So far, Obama has not seen eye to eye with Congress on possible solutions to the crisis.
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"I am the leadership of the now." That's what Ely Flores told the White House Council for Community Solutions during our meeting in October 2011. Ely used this phrase to express his deep frustration with policymakers and organizations that refer to youth as the "leadership of the future" and dismiss any potential contribution that young people can make in their communities today.
Ely's words still resonate with me nearly seven months later – and motivate me to push harder to help young people with similar frustrations.
From business to government, nonprofits to families—everyone, across all sectors, can help opportunity youth find paths to training, support, and jobs.
By listening to and learning from one another, our communities can find common ground in a shared positive vision and work toward creating opportunities in the now.
Ely's words still resonate with me nearly seven months later – and motivate me to push harder to help young people with similar frustrations.
Youth Need to be Part of the Conversation
Young people want to be – and must be a part of the discussion. Their voices must be heard. Despite the barriers that keep many young people out of school and work, these youth do not see themselves as "disconnected." Rather, they have energy and aspirations and are eager to work hand-in-hand with local leaders to develop solutions that improve their lives, benefit their communities, and help their peers nationwide. That's why the Council sees them as opportunity youth – because of the untapped potential they offer.
The data show that opportunity youth are also optimistic that they can find a path to economic independence with some help. They are actively looking for full-time jobs (54 percent), confident they can achieve their goals (73 percent), and accept responsibility for their future (77 percent) – but also say they need flexible supports that meet them where they are.
Opportunity Youth Are Ready to Lead
As Ely's sentiments illustrate, it is critical that we approach our young people from a positive place – with a belief in the energy they can provide now and in the future. Connecting them with training and employment today can immediately change the trajectory of their lives.
As a nation, we have an opportunity to close the skills gap and show our commitment to ensuring that youth have the opportunity to achieve the American dream.
Everyone Has a Role to Play
The Council's work is rooted in a simple truth: the solutions to our most difficult national challenges live in our communities. And to create opportunity for young people, we don't need to look any further than our neighbors.
From business to government, nonprofits to families—everyone, across all sectors, can help opportunity youth find paths to training, support, and jobs.
At Goodwill Industries International, we take the responsibility of providing opportunities to youth very seriously. We see and invest in the potential of young people. We have a summer internship program for youth pursuing their bachelors or MBA. We also have GoodGuides® -- a national mentoring program for youth who are at risk of dropping out --builds career plans and skills, and prepares youth for school completion, post-secondary training, and productive work.
I firmly believe that we all need a caring adult in our lives; to know that someone is rooting for us and invested in our success. It is easy for some of us to take a listening ear and sound advice for granted—but many do not have such supports.
Turning Opportunity Into Action
The Council has been working to change the paradigm when it comes to supporting young people. We are not working to create new models, we're focused on helping local leaders scale and replicate what's already working – the cross-community models that share the commonalities of "needle-moving" collaboratives. These are communities where every sector has come together to understand one another's needs and perspectives – and put an action plan in place.
By listening to and learning from one another, our communities can find common ground in a shared positive vision and work toward creating opportunities in the now.
I look forward to joining my fellow Council members at the White House to discuss our final report and recommendations to create these critical opportunities. The momentum and resources are there. Now is the time to go all in for opportunity youth.
Jim Gibbons currently serves as the President and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. He has received several awards for his work, including the 2010 National Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged and the 2009 Young Presidents' Organization Social Enterprise Leadership Award.


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BURLINGTON A doctor has determined that a man accused of killing a Vermont social worker in her Burlington home in 2010 is incompetent to stand trial.
It was the third psychological evaluation for Jose Pazos, who has been found competent and incompetent since he was arrested nearly three years ago.
Pazos has said he is competent to stand trial and to represent himself.
The Burlington Free Press reported that the state said Friday that it will not challenge the latest finding.
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Stock Futures Cautious as Investors Await Budget Deal, Citigroup Slips
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Stock futures were little changed Tuesday as investors digested a disappointing earnings report from Citigroup
Investors have been cheering the possibility that congressional leaders were moving closer to achieving a temporary fix after President Barack Obama postponed a meeting with lawmakers amid signs of constructive talks between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The draft proposal would allow for a temporary funding bill that could reopen the government through January 15, suspend the debt-ceiling deadline until February 7 and create a blueprint for formal budget talks to end by December 15 with long-term recommendations regarding funding levels and reducing the U.S. deficit.
Futures for the S&P 500 were off 1.5 points, or 1.49 points below fair value, to 1,702.75. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 3 points, or 6.26 points below fair value, to 15,222. Futures for the Nasdaq were up 3.5 points, or 3.73 points above fair value, to 3,251.75.
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The October Empire State manufacturing index report on Tuesday came in lower than expected showing an edge down to 1.5 so far this month from 6.29 in September. An edge up to 7 was expected by economists, on average.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury was falling 10/32, lifting the yield to 2.728%. The dollar was rising 0.39% to $80.58 according to the U.S. dollar index.
November crude oil futures were off 63 cents to $101.78 a barrel and December gold futures were sinking by $19.70 to $1,256.90 an ounce.
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Capital Sounds: No stopping Charlie O'sJune 26,2013
Ed DuFresne
Did ya' miss me? Apparently my column for last week never arrived to my editor, and due to my busy work schedule at my other job, I never got the memo. No need to rehash what was an excellent week of music around the area – hopefully some of you were out to see some of the excellent talent that I witnessed. And, my editor and I have a plan to make sure that things don't get lost in cyberspace again, so you can look forward to seeing this piece once again every Thursday.
In the meantime, I've not done any booking for a while, but that is changing this weekend. Being that I am afforded the luxury of shameless self-promotion here, I'm going to take full advantage of it. And, since I'm frequently stopped on the street and asked about events at more family-friendly hours, I'm happy to say this is one of them!
This Sunday, myself and The Vermont Thrush Restaurant will present Cumbiagra, NYC's premier Cumbia band, on the patio at 3 p.m. For those not familiar, Cumbia is an extremely infectious brand of traditional Columbian dance music; this particular band has been described as "Frank Zappa meets the Buena Vista Social Club," and I dare say that descriptor still does not do them justice — they are that good! Come on out, bring the family, and enjoy a Sunday afternoon of dancing, food and drink on the patio. For those that don't know, The Thrush is located behind the Gulf Station on State Street in the heart of ol' Montpeculiar.
Now back to the nightlife. Positive Pie II on State Street in the capital presents a CD release party Saturday night for local-ish new-folk artist Kris Gruen, who is celebrating the release of his latest "New Comics from the Wooded World." Also on the bill will be Worcester resident Chad Hollister, a pop artist who has achieved no small amount of success with his songs gaining radio airplay nationwide. No word on the format each will bring to the stage at press time, but my guess is there will be some band accompaniment rather than just solo appearances. The show starts at 10:30 p.m.
Charlie O's has really been upping their musical game lately, with a pair of stellar shows last weekend. The bar is becoming known as the spot in town for edgy, push-the-envelope performances, and this weekend should be no exception as they have two nights of punk rock.
On Friday, Swillbillie and Crazy Hearse bring the rockabilly side of the genre to the back of the barroom. Expect a loud and rowdy time starting at 10 p.m. On Saturday, the punk rock vibe continues with Lost World and Cellular Chaos, who I expect play a bit more straightforward brand of the genre, also starting at 10 p.m. And, as always at the ol' World Famous, the shows are fo' free!
If you're looking to get out of town, there are options galore this weekend at The Tupelo Music Hall in White River Junction. Tonight the Tupe presents former Vermonter and 8084 member Randy Smith and His Merry Band of Men. He'll be playing his solo work as well as some material from his former Vermont-based project. Up and coming singer songwriter Keeghan Nolan opens the show, starting at 8 p.m.
On Friday night, the TMH presents "The Jazz Stars Align" with The Interplay Jazz All-Stars at 8 p.m. Then, on Saturday night, the premier show of the weekend takes place when signature blues and folk artist Chris Smither takes the Tupelo stage. "With a weary, well-traveled voice and a serenely intricate finger-picking style, Mr. Smither turns the blues into songs that accept hard-won lessons and try to make peace with fate." Expect topnotch songwriting and impressive guitar work starting at 7 p.m.
And, if you fancy it, stick around for Club 188, the Upper Valley's popular dance party, starting at 10 p.m. For more info, tickets, etc., visit www.tupelohallvermont.com. Troop on down to the Tupe!
Heading in the other direction, you can catch American blues artist Sonny Landreth up in Stowe at the Spruce Peak
Performing Arts Center on the Mountain Road. The dude is known for his unique slide-guitar style, and has recently released his 11th album. The show starts at 8 p.m, and for tickets and more information, visit www.sprucepeakarts.org.
That about wraps up this week. Cheers!
Ed DuFresne is the former talent coordinator at Langdon Street Café and The Black Door, occasionally produces concerts, and books at various venues in the area on a freelance basis as well as being a PM sous-chef at The Vermont Thrush Restaurant. He lives in Montpelier with a lovely Polish anarchist, a budding renaissance man and a calico cat named Turtle.
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Anyone present at the last Town of Delaware Town Board meeting watched another spectacle by Councilman Roeder defending his pro-gas drilling position. And not only did we watch him act like a dictator, sitting like a sumo wrestler waiting to attack, but to my horror and amazement the other town board members just let him act out. And attack he did. Without regard to those of us who oppose gas drilling, the board (thanks for abstaining, Cindy Herbert) passed Mr. Roeder's resolution that welcomes the drillers.
I am sure that the board's big protection is going to be the second part of this resolution, "that those who are involved in the process of gas drilling, and those who regulate the gas drilling process, see to it that the entire process of gas drilling be made in a responsible and a safe manner."
Is that Mr. Roeder's way of saying, "hey, if an accident does happen, this board is really not responsible?" However, even though my comment was dismissed by him as "bullcrap," it is our town board which is responsible for protecting the health, safety and welfare of its citizens, and not the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. In no state do towns simply cede that responsibility regarding drilling to the state.
I think the bullcrap will hit the fan when the first accident happens and every town official will be sued for negligence and refusal to protect our health, safety and welfare. I remember the DeFalco lawsuit and it will pale in comparison to what can be coming your way.
Messrs. Sykes, Steppich and Gain: shame on you for voting for this resolution. Mr. Steppich, at least you were honest as to the monetary windfall you hope for. Mr. Gain, don't expect my vote at the next election. And Mr. Roeder, I'll be a spectator again when judgment day arrives.
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On a recent Monday, I reluctantly faced the cold to check out the happy hour scene at the North Campus honky-tonk, Bossy Grrl's Pin Up Joint. I had been to the bar before, but never for the Monday Mayhem Burlesque show by the Sex Kitten Purr-lesque group. Typically I spend Monday watching "Wife Swap" re-runs and doing laundry. After my night at Bossy Grrl's however, the whites might have to wait until Tuesday. Here is a run-down of my happy hour adventure.
Drink specials: 3 out of 5
Bossy Grrl's scores major points for the wallet-friendly happy hour prices. Select beers are $1 and shots of Fireball go for $3, making it easy to get blitzed on a budget. However, the selection of bargain-basement booze isn't the best. If you want something other than beer and whiskey, you're going to pay regular prices. Also, due to some weird liquor license regulation, they don't carry wine or champagne. Bummer, right? Beggars can't be choosers I suppose.
Entertainment: 4 out of 5
The show got underway around 10 p.m. It got weird fast. A glamazon in a pink wig who called herself "Trulie Scrumptious" took the stage dressed in a Japanese maid outfit constructed completely out of paper. She writhed around seductively as an awkward male assistant cut parts of her costume off. A few less-experienced dancers performed, followed by a drag king who introduced himself as Dick Vicious. Dick gave a spirited rendition of a song with an opening monologue I'd never heard, which was met instantly with roaring applause. You're going to be hard-pressed to find a wilder night out so early in the work week anywhere else in the city.
Atmosphere: 3.5 out of 5
I can image there is a girl in the Short North feeling pretty "surly" that Bossy Grrl's sort of stole her look. That being said, I love that Bossy Grrl's does kitsch like a John Waters movie. Chandeliers draped with bras and jewels project dim light on the heaving breasts of the pin-up photos that line the walls. It's like having a private party in your Pinterest-obsessed friend's boudoir-themed basement bar.
Overall experience: 4 out of 5
I'm giving Bossy Grrl's Pin Up Joint 4 out of 5 because despite it being the worst day of the week, I had the best time — and I got home before my fairy godmother could turn my Mercury into a pumpkin.


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Fact: Jay Cutler is not that well established
Fact: Jay Cutler has not had playoff success
Fact: Jay Cutler has shown himself to be a crybaby
Fact: The NY media is ruthless
Fact: The Jets have a good defense
Fact: The Jets have a good O-Line
Fact: The Jets have a good running game
Fact: The Jets offense will be run through Thomas Jones
Fact: The Jets don't need to make a blockbuster trade
Fact: 4 QBs I cited won or played in the Super Bowl
Fact: If the Jets do poorly this year, they will able to have a shot at McCoy, Tebow or Bradford
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The nurse forgot to lock the door so I sneaked out
Fact: Saying fact is getting really old now...
I have faith in Donnie Walsh
Cutler is a franchise QB but if i were the Jets i would not want to bank on him. And i will sound like a heartless bastard on this one but simply put the fact he has diabetes worries me. Sorry but that position takes a lot of effort and you never know how it turns out with that type of illness. It can be cause of a lot of complications no matter how much the docs say it can be controlled.
Also the fact that he went ballistic on his coach don't help his cause. I mean no coach would want a player that can wreck havoc in the locker room.
acquiring cutler is looking more and more realistic...
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Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler has forfeited a $100,000 workout bonus by missing more thant 10 percent of his teams offseason conditioning program, the Denver Post [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].
The newspaper, citing Cutlers friends as sources, also reports that the embattled quarterback has left his offseason home in Nashville for another U.S. destination. The paper declined to name Cutlers latest place of residence.
With the workout bonus already forfeited, the next opportunity for a Cutler appearance in Denver is at the teams first minicamp, April 17-19. But that appears a longshot now with both sides seemingly far apart in smoothing things over.
Several teams that need an upgrade at QB. I would be very surprised if he end up in NYJ.
lots of teams need QB's but the jets need him the most imo. they have no one to step in and be decent at this point.
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'Even the Rain' showing todayMarch 23,2013WOODSTOCK — The Billings Farm and Museum will show the award-winning film "Even the Rain" as part of the third annual Woodstock Vermont Film Series at 3 p.m. today.
Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer, and crew are in Bolivia to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus and his treatment of the native population. Sebastián chooses Bolivia as the location because of a tight film budget and things go smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply.
Sebastian hires local actors to appear in his film but one of them is a leading activist in the protest movement and the film's completion is in doubt. "Even the Rain" was nominated for Best Film at the European Film Awards and has won 16 awards.
Tickets for members are $9 for adults and $5 for children. Nonmembers are $11 for adults and $6 for children.
For a list of screenings and ticket information, call 457-2355 or visit www.billingsfarm.org/filmfest. The Billings Farm and Museum is on Route 12 in Woodstock.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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True, the telephony metadata that the NSA collects does not include customer names, but it's really no trouble to figure them out.
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers dialed, lengths of calls. "There are no names, there's no content in that database," President Barack Obama told Charlie Rose in June.
No names; just metadata.
New research from Stanford demonstrates the silliness of that distinction. Armed with very sparse metadata, Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler found it easy—trivially so—to figure out the identity of a caller.
Mayer and Mutchler are running an experiment which works with volunteers who agree to use an Android app, MetaPhone, that allows the researchers access to their metadata. Now, using that data, Mayer and Mutchler say that it was hardly any trouble at all to figure out who the phone numbers belonged to, and they did it in just a few hours.
To view the full article please visit: Stanford Researchers: It Is Trivially Easy to Match Metadata to Real People