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When people say that I dont know what Im talking about when it comes to sports or writing, I think: Man, you should see me in the rest of my life.
---Joe Posnanski
I believe that all NCAA athletes have 5 yrs to complete four years of eligibilty. Thus Luck is a senior academically (but who cares about that if you're a football fan) but a junior athletically
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That's good information Sea Ray. You are certainly more versed than I.
One other thing that could play into the classification, all of which comes from the school I'm sure, is how the school handles it.
I know Notre Dame for example rarely if ever recognizes redshirts until they in fact apply for and receive their fifth year from the university. I think it's the general policy that the rule should be a "student-athlete" should graduate in 4 years.
Stanford and Xavier may have similar policies.(I don't have any insight, simply recognizing some situations which are different than the standard state school.)
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When people say that I dont know what Im talking about when it comes to sports or writing, I think: Man, you should see me in the rest of my life.
---Joe Posnanski
This comes right off the NCAA website:
I have no idea where folks are getting the idea that a player like Luck has to apply to come back to Stanford next year...The term "redshirt" is used to describe a student-athlete who does not participate in competition in a sport for an entire academic year. If you do not compete in a sport the entire academic year, you have not used a season of competition. For example, if you are a qualifier, and you attend a four-year college your freshman year, and you practice but do not compete against outside competition, you would still have the next four years to play four seasons of competition.
If you are at Notre Dame and finish your fourth year having only played three, you do not need to petition the NCAA to play the fifth year. You do, however, need special approval from Notre Dame to come back and play it at Notre Dame.
It's semantics to an extent because scholarships always have to be renewed on an annual basis. But it does affect how the school refers to players' classes. At a normal school, a player who plays five years has this typical sequence:
Freshman, Redshirt Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
That's just a custom, though, it's not an NCAA-mandated thing. At Stanford, the progression goes:
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Redshirt Senior
At Notre Dame, I think they have a different name for the fifth-year guys but it's based on the same principle -- "seniors" are fourth-year players, and it may or may not be their final year of eligibility.
So, by Stanford's figuring, Andrew Luck was a senior this year. At most schools, he would be called a junior.
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Again, it's mostly semantics. At ND a player is expected to graduate in four years and it is considered an exception when he is allowed to come back for year number five even if he still has eligibility. I don't know what Stanford's specific policy is, although they do have fifth-year seniors, so we can presume Luck could have been one had he so chosen. What we do know is that Stanford appears to use the same policy as Notre Dame on how they refer to their athletes' class. And that's what this whole debate is about, whether Luck is a senior or a junior, and the answer depends on who you're asking.
Reading comprehension is not just an ability, it's a choice
How do you know he's not going to come back? Has he said that or is that merely speculation on your part?Stanford Athletics Parents Guide to NCAA Rules
Student-athletes are permitted to compete in four
seasons of competition in any one sport within five
calendar years; this is sometimes referred to as the
five-year clock. This clock starts when a studentathlete
initially registers full-time and attends his/her
first day of classes for a term other than summer school
at a collegiate institution.
A student-athlete uses a season of competition if he/she
participates in any competition, regardless of the length
of time, during a season. For example, if an athlete
plays in one minute of one game, he/she has used
one season of competition. One exception to this rule
is during the athletes initial year of enrollment, when
a freshman may participate in preseason exhibition
contests and practice scrimmages without triggering a
season of competition (if applicable to his/her particular
sport). A student-athlete who does not compete at all
during a season is commonly referred to as a redshirt.
We really need to be careful about being loose with the facts here. That's what gives the internet a bad name. Clearly Stanford, unlike ND does allow for athletes to redshirt contrary to the impression given by some around here and I see no factual basis to say as of today that "he isn't coming back".
Feb 3, 2012: Andrew Luck, "Coach, I want to comeback next year"
Coach, "You passed the deadline to apply for Stanford, sorry, cannot help you. Maybe you can try Ohio State?"
Everything else with respect to comparing the two schools should be considered an attempt to explain why they do it that way, and not a declaration that they do everything exactly alike. To the extent it might have muddied the water, my apologies.
Reading comprehension is not just an ability, it's a choice
--Honored as the Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for Division I football, Luck is a junior who is an Architectural Design major with a 3.48 G.P.A.
--2010 (SOPHOMORE): Was named the Pac-10's Offensive Player of the Year...was also a finalist for the Heisman Trophy,
As to your point, as fans of NCAA football, I doubt many of us care about his standing as a student. It's all about football.
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Chocolate Crown Pound Cake
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 50 min
- Ready Time: 90 min
- Yield: 16 servings
- Pillsbury™ Baking Spray with Flour
- 1 package Pillsbury™ Moist Supreme® Devil's Food Premium Cake Mix
- 1/2 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 1 cup water
- 4 large eggs
- 1 (3.9 oz) package instant chocolate pudding and pie filling mix
- 3/4 cup white baking chips
- 1 tablespoon Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 350°F. Spray a 12-cup fluted pan with flour no-stick cooking spray. Combine all cake ingredients in large bowl at low speed until moistened; beat 2 minutes at medium speed. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- BAKE 45 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 25 minutes; invert onto serving plate. Cool completely.
- HEAT white baking chips and 1 tablespoon oil in small saucepan over very low heat until chips are melted; stir until smooth. Cool slightly. In another saucepan over low heat, heat chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon oil until chips are melted; stir until smooth. Cool slightly. Drizzle cake with white chocolate, then with dark chocolate.
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Serving Size (1/16), Calories 290 (Calories from Fat 0), Total Fat 15g (Saturated Fat 4.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 95mg, Sodium 360mg, Total Carbohydrate 38g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 26g), Protein 4g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 4%, Iron 8%.
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Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard drives, on Monday officially announced its first solid-state drive family named Pulsar. The new product line is aimed specifically at OEMs producing storage solutions for applications that require serious reliability. The announcement comes after over three months of commercial SSD shipments by the company.
"Seagate is optimistic about the enterprise SSD opportunity and views the product category as enabling expansion of the overall storage market for both SSDs and HDDs. We are delivering on our strategy to provide our customers with the exact storage device they need for any application, regardless of the component technology used, with the Pulsar drive, and you can expect additional products in the future from Seagate using a variety of solid state and rotating media components" said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president of sales, marketing and product line management.
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April 24, 2013 —
People seldom meet the calm and reassuring voice of the person on the other end of the phone who answers at the time of crisis. These voices belong to devoted and dedicated staff of Wayne County's 911. They are stationed in a room ready to take calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays.
According to county commissioner Wendell Kay, five years ago Wayne County encountered difficulties and problems with communication in an emergency, but now, with the staff of 911, they have created a wave of communication. Commissioner Jonathan Fritz said that the staff is always cool and professional and do a "rock solid job."
At the meeting on April 18, the Wayne County Commissioners, in recognition of their fine efforts to provide help to the community, presented the staff with certificates of appreciation. Another certificate went out to employee William McKennel recognizing him as Dispatcher of the Year.
In other news, Tabatha Deminglio resigned as a full-time correction officer at the Wayne County Correctional facility effective April 5 and George Kumburis of Shohola, PA has been hired as a security lieutenant, effective May 6. Four new part-time van drivers for Wayne County Transportation have been hired. They are William J. Gillette of Waymart, Thomas L. Lamberton of Lake Ariel, Kevin Schlosser of Beach Lake and Gerald Zintel of Lake Ariel. All four hold CDL licenses.
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He was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Alford, Mass., the son of Howard Sr. and Katherine (Coon) Love, and he attended schools in Massachusetts.
He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict.
On Dec. 26, 1961, Mr. Love married Helen Cussuttica in Copake, N.Y.
He was employed as a machine operator with Pfizer Minerals in Canaan, Conn., for many years, retiring in 1988.
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Police are calling it a murder behind bars. Authorities said a 76-year-old Oahu Community Correctional Center prisoner was beaten to death on Saturday.
Joseph Tui, Jr., 32, was arrested for murder in the first degree for allegedly assaulting his 76-year-old cellmate Saturday afternoon at the Oahu Community Correctional Center. Police said the attack took five minutes.
"When the officers on each floor completed a count they get together and make sure the numbers add up. While they were conferring the numbers, the incident took place. It happened 2:05 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.," said Ted Sakai director of the Department of Public Safety.
In those five minutes, the floors were left without an officer. And officials said the units are designed to hold only one inmate at a time. Yet, Tui and the victim were in the holding unit together for two days.
"We have 36 cells in the holding unit, two of them are out of commission because it's a very old unit, and yesterday we had 49 inmates who needed to be separated. So a number of cells had to be doubled up," said Sakai.
Tui was in jail serving time for a third-degree assault misdemeanor. He was in the holding unit for threatening jail staff members.
The victim was a pretrial felon for robbery. He was in the holding unit for misconduct for possessing cigarettes.
Police said Tui has been in and out of jail. Video footage shows Tui and three Halawa prison guards in a scuffle in 2009.
Police are still investigating this crime. If Tui is convicted of murder in the first degree, his sentence will be life without parole.
Police: Prisoner allegedly murdered his cellmate
Police are calling it a murder behind bars. Authorities said a 76-year-old Oahu Community Correctional Center prisoner was beaten to death on Saturday.
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The Sullivan County Legislature voted four to one in committee to revise the county charter to change the provision that requires a supermajority—or six of the nine legislators—to appoint a person to or remove him or her from the position of county manager.
In introducing it, legislator Alan Sorensen said, "This resolution will restore the original intent of the Sullivan County Charter bringing it back to a simple majority."
Five of the nine legislators have previously said they want to replace county manager David Fanslau, and they have not been able to do so because the charter was amended in 2007 with multiple changes, including the supermajority provision.
Legislator Jonathan Rouis, who opposed the resolution, noted that the supermajority provision was added at the request of the charter commission and did not originate from the previous legislature.
Legislator Cora Edwards said it was not foreseen that a situation such as the current one would come up, where the lack of a supermajority means that the county manager has not been appointed to a new term, but can't be removed from office because of the charter.
She said, "The whole reason there are amendments, whether it's to the U.S. Constitution or the Sullivan County Charter, is that as situations come up, you have the right to amend."
Rouis said he did not disagree, but "the process is you have a charter commission that has public discussion and public debate, and they come up with rational changes in an organized fashion. You don't change your charter to fit you circumstance."
County attorney Sam Yasgur said that, in the past, many amendments had come from the charter commission and some had been made by the legislature without a recommendation from the commission.
Sorensen added that some amendments recommended by the commission had not been adopted.
Legislator Cindy Gieger said, "These amendments today are going to enable the county legislature to be more responsible, more productive; there will be more control in the hands of the legislature where it should be. That's been a concern of ours all throughout 2012. There have been situations where the legislature has not had information; we have not had the control, the power that's required as part of our duties as legislators under the charter. There have been serious concerns about the power structure that has developed here."
Gieger said, for instance, that she had been told she was not allowed to speak directly to the commissioners of the various departments and instead she should go through the "chain of command," and communicate with the commissioners through the county manager's office. She and some other legislators have, in the past, cited this as an impediment to gaining the knowledge they need to make informed decisions on such matters as the county budget.
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Early spring classes begin in March at the Arts Center
Early spring classes and workshops for all ages are set to begin March 4 at the Randolph County Community Arts Center.
Here is a list of some classes available this spring, while full descriptions about winter and early spring classes and events are available online at "http://www.randolpharts.org">www.randolpharts.org.
Students from fifth grade to adult can take part in Jennifer Wagoner's Needle Felted Small Sculptures class on Wednesdays, starting March 13 from 7 to 8 p.m. Stab your way to make hand-held, fuzzy wool sculptures. In this class, you'll learn the basics of needle felting on a simple project and then move on to more complex projects as you become familiar with the process. The cost is $60.
Wagoner also will teach Experimental Weaving: The Portable Loom to ages 10 and older. This class will explore various ways of working unconventional "threads" within a small frame loom, as well as out of it in 3-D protrusions. Class will be Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m., starting March 23. Cost: $60.
Kindergarten through fifth grade students will enjoy Storybook Art with Sarah Ferguson. Students will create their own collages, paintings, drawings, prints and more. All new projects will be chosen for this class, so those who have taken it before will have new artistic adventures to experience. Classes are Thursdays, starting March 7, from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Cost: $50.
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Preschoolers have two classes from which to choose. The first is Read, Play, and Create: GRRRR! Parents and their children will enjoy this hands-on class that integrates reading and art. The art projects, music, games, crafts and snacks will be based on favorite stories about animals. The class is taught by Sarah Ferguson and will meet Thursdays from 2 to 3 p.m., starting March 7. Cost: $40.
Another class for preschoolers is Action Art" with Wagoner. Children and their parents will explore various ways of creating art through movement, using our own bodies and nontraditional objects. Ever wanted to paint with a flyswatter? Draw while swinging? Paint with your feet? This class is for you and your little one. Class is Saturdays from 11 a.m. to noon, starting March 23. Cost: $40.
The popular After School Art Club for kindergarten through fifth-graders, continues to meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. through March 22. The class is designed to provide children with a supportive and fun environment to develop their creativity, stretch their imagination, and learn art concepts and techniques. Tuition is $20/week for nine weeks.
Teens and adults have plenty of class opportunities as well. Students can join artist Maggi Rhudy for Decorating Gourds: Bunnies, Baskets, Bowls & Birdhouses workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 23. Rhudy will show students how to clean and prepare gourds to create a one-of-a-kind containers, birdhouses and Easter decorations for display or practical use. She will demonstrate many techniques including painting, wood burning and adding a variety of materials. Cost: $65.
Pastel Basics is also for teens and adults. In the class, taught by Ferguson, students will use both chalk and oil pastels and work on blending colors, applying colors and experimenting with various techniques. Class is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays, starting March 7. Cost: $100.
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Beginner and intermediate pottery students can join potter Kevin Boyle on the pottery wheel. Beginning students will learn wedging, centering, basic throwing and glazing techniques. Experienced students will refine their throwing/building skills and learn new finishing techniques to bring their pottery to a higher level. Class is two evenings per week, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m, starting March 12. Cost: $170.
Potter Jennifer Boyle will teach Standing Tall with Slabs to teens and adults. The class will create hand rolled pottery slabs with a focus on texture. The possible projects include wall hanging planters, tissue boxes, cabins and platters. Class meets Saturdays from 1 to 2:30 p.m., starting March 15. Cost: $85.
Pottery: Hand and Wheel for Adults will be Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. This class designed for beginning and experienced potters. Potter Susan Pell will teach beginning students the fundamentals of hand building and throwing. Experienced students will refine their throwing/building skills and learn new finishing techniques to bring their pottery to a higher level. Cost: $100.
Early spring music classes also begin this month for both youth and adults. Musician Wayne Rowand offers Fun with Fingerstyle Guitar/Beginning Guitar on Mondays. Students will explore the possibilities of fingerstyle guitar in this introductory class that will focus on instrumental guitar music played with a classical technique. Students will learn notation in the first position of the guitar, fundamental rhythms, proper techniques and musicianship through the use of music from around the world. The class will be structured as an ensemble with each student having the opportunity to play both melody and chordal accompaniment. The class for third- through eighth-graders will meet from 6 to 7 p.m. and the class for ninth-graders through adults will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuition for this 12-week class is $80.
Rowand also will offer private guitar lessons through the Arts Center. These individualized lessons include, but are not limited to, technique, musicianship, theory, improvisation, coaching and audition preparation. Lessons are $65/monthly for a 30-minute weekly session.
In Lab Band, band director Seth Young will lead two ensemble classes for students who like to sing or play an instrument – any instrument. Both Early Lab Band and Late Lab Band are open to students in the fifth through 12th grades. Early Lab Band is designed for students new to the Lab Band program and for those who have participated in only one session of Lab Band. Late Lab Band is designed for students who have participated in at least two or more Lab Band sessions. Classes began Feb. 12. Early Lab Band meets Tuesdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. and Late Lab Band meets Tuesdays from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.. Tuition is $80. Students should bring their own instrument. Non-refundable payment of $40 is due with registration with the balance due at the March 19 class. There will be a 10 percent discount ($70) if paid in full at registration.
Additional classes begin each month. Visit us at www.randolpharts.org for new class and event listings.
The Randolph County Community Arts Center, a nonprofit organization promoting and supporting the arts in Randolph County and the surrounding areas, is located at the corner of Randolph Avenue and Park Street in Elkins. The Arts Center's Art Education programs are supported by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, AES Laurel Mountain LLC., and Parrack Insurance. Funds have been provided in part by the Carol Lambert Judy Scholarship Fund and El Gran Sabor "El Gran Fest." For more information on classes and events, visit www.randolpharts.org or call 304-637-2355.


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Sapphire Technology, the world's largest maker of graphics cards based on the ATI Radeon graphics processors, said Wednesday it would increase performance of its latest graphics card named Blizzard. The graphics card powered by the Radeon X1900 XTX graphics processing unit (GPU) promises to be the fastest graphics card on the planet.
The Sapphire Radeon X1900 XTX Blizzard was announced at CeBIT 2006 exhibition and attracted a lot of attention, as the product features specially-designed water-cooling system that ensures great efficiency of cooling amid quiet operation, something that computer enthusiasts dream of.
"We have found that the cooling is quite efficient… and we decided to overclock [the board] a little," a spokesman for Sapphire told X-bit labs.
The retail versions of the Radeon X1900 XTX Blizzard will be clocked at 675MHz for the GPU and 1600MHz for the memory, up 25MHz and 50MHz compared to reference clocks of the chip and memory respectively. While the frequency increase is not very significant, it allows Sapphire to declare the world's fastest Radeon X1900 XTX and also demonstrate the efficiency of the Blizzard's cooling system. Users will be able to further overclock the part.
The Radeon X1900 graphics chip, also known under code-name R580, features 48 pixel shader processors, 8 vertex shader processors, 16 texture units, enlarged by 50% hierarchical Z-buffer (HyperZ buffer), higher amount of general purpose register arrays as well as Fetch4 feature designed to accelerate lookup of textures consisting of one component by the factor of four. The new chip naturally utilizes ATI's ring-bus memory controller as well as other improvements found in the Radeon X1000 family.
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Chief executive officer of Tecmo Koei, a recently formed Japanese game publisher comprising former Tecmo and Koei publishers, said in an interview that he asked Sony Computer Entertainment to cut the price of the latest PlayStation 3 video game console. The claim comes weeks after Robert Kotick, the head of Activision Blizzard game publisher, threatened to cancel game development for the PS3.
"Whenever I discuss this with Sony reps I always ask them: 'Please cut the price', but I don't have a clear view on Sony's situation. Yes, from a publisher's point of view we would welcome a price cut for PS3, and we are waiting, definitely," said Kenji Matsubara, chief executive officer of Tecmo Koei, in an interview with CVG web-site.
Tecmo Koei was founded on the 1st of April, 2009; Tecmo and Koie have developed such popular video game series as Dead or Alive, Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Bowl, Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors, Nobunaga's Ambition and so on.
It is not the first time when game publishers demand Sony to reduce the pricing of the PlayStation 3. Game creators are interested in selling as many titles as possible for the platform, but since the PS3 is the worst-selling new-generation game system, it becomes quite uneasy to sell a high amount of copies. While it is understandable that Sony PlayStation 3 is the most expensive game console to make at the moment, it will become rather hard for Sony to promote the latest game machine that costs starting from $399 during the global economic recession.
"It's definitely a way of boosting the PS3 market, but it's Sony's strategy and I don't know their cost structure. Sony introduced cutting-edge technology in the PS3, that's why people in the industry accept that the PS3 cost is so high, but we'd welcome a price cut," added Mr. Matsubara.


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Rising school costsFebruary 02,2014Legislators last week heard about the upward pressure on the states education tax, as well as some familiar ideas about how to relieve the pressure. At a time when the number of students is dropping, and spending continues to rise, the discussion is a frustrating and confusing exercise.
A higher state tax rate is owing to a number of factors, only one of which is the increase in local school budgets. For example, the statewide grand list has fallen, which means there is less property to tax, pushing the tax rate higher. Another cause for the higher tax is escalating costs that are beyond the control of local school districts, such as the rising cost of special education. It is a grim reality that the states schools are burdened with problems such as the growing prevalence of autism and of emotional trauma caused by poverty, addiction and family dysfunction. Schools, and taxpayers, cant duck these problems.
A problem unique to this year is the absence of the surplus that had cushioned the demands of the Education Fund last year. That surplus of $19 million has to be made up this year. Also, the failure to maintain the transfer of money from the General Fund to the Education Fund at the established levels means that more of the states education spending has to be covered by the property tax.
All of these factors, and more, have combined to force the Legislature to contemplate an increase of the base state education tax rate from 94 cents to $1.01 per $100 of assessed valuation. Moreover, none of these demands on the state Education Fund is ameliorated by the fact that the number of students is declining statewide.
Adjusting school budgets to declining enrollment is not a mathematically precise exercise. If an elementary school has 15 students per class spread over seven grades, that would mean enrollment of 105. A 20 percent drop would be significant, but the result could well be seven grades with 12 students each. In that case how does the school save significant money? It cant lay off the first-grade teacher because she has three fewer students. Sometimes layoffs are necessary; multi-grade classes are not uncommon in small schools. But it is simplistic to suggest that the solution to declining enrollment is an adjustment of student-teacher ratios.
Another commonly touted solution is to combine administrative districts. Because of its geography and history the state has many small schools and numerous supervisory unions to help administer them. Consolidating them is seen as a path toward greater efficiency. But its hard to see what would be gained by creating a large central bureaucracy handling the business of multiple districts. There would be the same number of teachers serving the same number of students. And the cost of supervisory administration remains a tiny fraction of school costs in any event.
Another supposed reason for escalating school costs is that voters, protected by the income-sensitivity provisions of the state system, have no incentive to impose restraint. Except that argument is based on the false assumption that voters tax rate does not rise when the budgets they approve increase. Its true that there is no direct correlation between the vote of a town at town meeting and its tax rate partly because all towns are part of a statewide grand list. Thus, when Vermont Yankee goes off the tax rolls, it will hurt all taxpayers, not just the taxpayers of Vernon. But when a town adds to its budget above the state base, taxpayers in that town, and around the state, see their taxes go up.
Calls to reduce the effect of income-sensitivity amount to a call to create an extra burden on middle-class taxpayers in order to force them to restrain school spending. In other words, make taxes burdensome so taxpayers will take steps to prevent taxes from becoming burdensome. It is contradictory.
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Board of Governors
Members Present: Mr. James Palmer, III, Mr. Norris Kantor (via conf. call), Ms. Anne Taylor, Mr. Richard Bezjak (via conf. call), Dr. Sarita Rhonemus, Mr. Jerome Powell, Dr. Norman Mirsky, Mr. Larry Ratliff, Mr. Robert Perkinson, Jr.
Members Absent: Mr. Roger Topping
Guests/Staff: Dr. Tom Blevins, Mr. John Cardwell, Mr. Jim Nelson, Dr. Lewis Jones, Ms. Shelia Johnson, Dr. Tracey Anderson, Ms. Sapphire Cureg, Ms. Karen Harvey, Ms. Christina Brogdon, Mr. Tom Cook, and Auditors Mr. Chris Deweese and Ms. Kelly Shaffer
Welcome, Chair's Remarks, and Call to Order – Chairman James J. Palmer, III
Mr. Palmer called the meeting to order in the BSC Othello Harris-Jefferson Student Center at 6:45 p.m. and asked for a moment of silent meditation for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting earlier today.
President's Report – Dr. Thomas Blevins
- Final team report from HLC to Bluefield State College. Dr. Blevins reviewed some of the HLC's remarks and informed the group that BSC's reply is pending.
- Full ACBSP School of Business Accreditation announcement for ten years with no stipulations.
- Commended the School of Business on the W. Paul Cole School of Business dedication on Wednesday, December 7, 2011.
- School of Continuing Education creation is underway.
- Pursuit of university status continuing. With HEPC Chancellor Noland leaving, it has been announced that Dr. Paul Hill will become Interim Chancellor.
- Visiting donors with Mrs. Karen Harvey to increase college philanthropy.
- Athletic reforms are underway:
o Athletic consultants to be hired to review athletic program and make improvement recommendations.
o Two men's basketball coaches hired.
o Women's softball field in progress.
o Title IX fee increase in progress to hire women's sports' coaches.
o Attended WVIAC President's meeting; recommendation to allow BSC to correct deficiencies in the athletic program.
o Working on women's volleyball and softball coach.
- BANNER position in progress.
- Shott Foundation letter regarding an outstanding note of $2 million for the MountainView facility. Working with Mr. John Shott to discover information.
- Working with Bluefield Gas Company on use of the property adjacent to the college. Also working with Norfolk Southern to expand the college right-of-way by the railroad.
- Ongoing efforts to assist MountainView to increase income and reduce costs.
- Submitted names to the Governor's office of two individuals to fill vacancies on the BSC Board of Governors.
- Asked Dr. Cureg to help with developing a foreign student assistance group.
- Dr. Jones has been asked to develop an Academic Affairs Council. Dr. Blevins informed the group that one HLC comment concerned communications to constituents.
- Visiting faculty and touring all campus buildings.
- Visited with legislators attending the Mahood dedication.
- Will be going to Charleston to visit with legislators during the legislative sessions.
Approval of the Consent Agenda – Chairman Palmer
A motion was made (RPerkinson/ATaylor) to approve the Consent Agenda. Motion carried.
Discussion followed on the Enrollment and Financial Reports.
Discussion Agenda
Audit Report – Mr. Chris Deweese and Ms. Kelly Shaffer – Suttle and Stallnaker
Mr. Chris Deweese and Ms. Kelly Shaffer from Suttle and Stallnaker were present to review the results of the audit with the Board. Ms. Shaffer discussed several items with the group and reported that the institution received a clean audit report. There were no internal control issues found. Discussion followed.
Non-Classified BANNER Position – Ms. Christina Brogdon
Ms. Brogdon discussed the need for an individual who has expert knowledge in BANNER to supplement information technology. She referenced a recommendation of the auditors to enhance the use of BANNER for accounting purposes and the indication from the HLC report for the need to improve the infrastructure associated with Distance Learning. She explained to the group that she is making the request to convert this position from a classified position to a non-classified position in order to pay a salary that will attract an individual highly qualified in using the BANNER system. Dr. Rhonemus, classified staff representative, read a statement from the Classified Council in opposition to the conversion of this position to a non-classified position. The Council also requested an updated Organizational Chart that would demonstrate the changes within ITC and Computer Services. Discussion followed.
A motion was made (NKantor/ATaylor) to create the BANNER position as a non-classified position. Motion carried with Dr. Rhonemus opposed.
Executive Session
Property Lease
A motion was made (RPerkinson/LRatliff) to go into executive session at 8:15 a.m. Motion carried
A motion was made (RPerkinson/JPowell) to return to regular session at 8:30 p.m. Motion carried.
A motion was made (ATaylor/NMirsky) to allow the college the authority to proceed with a lease on the gas company property after seeking appropriate council. Motion carried.
Next Meeting Date – February 16, 2012
With no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 8:35 p.m.
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#119336 - 01/09/04 02:36 PM crore
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[fr. Hindi karor, cf. Skt ko.ti]
100 lakhs, or 10 million rupees.
#119337 - 01/26/04 09:14 AM Re: crore
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Now would this be hard crore or soft?
Seriously, jheem, why have you brought up this term? Was it mentioned on another thread, or is this a term that you think we should know about? I've never read 'crore' before nor have I read 'laks'--but, yes, rupeees I would have associated with some form of currency.
#119338 - 01/26/04 09:19 AM Re: crore
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You've heard laks before, Dub Dub', You've maybe even had them on a bagel, with cream cheese.
#119339 - 01/26/04 09:22 AM Re: crore
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Well, it is an English word. I've heard and read it often, and I was surprised that Anu had lakh as AWAD, but not its sibling crore. I myself have never used crore in speech, except jocularly during the dot-bomb with Indian programmers, but found myself using (and having to understand) lakh when discussing my friend Krishnan's wedding (or the cost thereof) with his older brother Ganapati. Add to this that I am fascinated by the other Englishes of the world besides those of the States/Canada and the UK/Ireland. For example, African and Indian English.
#119340 - 01/26/04 09:33 AM Re: crore
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I just checked out an exchange rate graph, and it appears that approximately 45.5 rupees = 1 dollar. Does this sound approximately correct? If so, I read the graph correctly.
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#119341 - 01/26/04 10:08 AM Re: the crore is 1-1
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#119342 - 01/26/04 05:00 PM Re: crore
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Yes, it was about 42 to the dollar in 2000.
#119343 - 01/26/04 05:03 PM Re: crore
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English lox and German Lachs are cognate with the Indian goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. The root has to do with reddish color and dappling.
#119344 - 01/26/04 06:21 PM Re: crore
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I didn't know "lox" was English now. I remember buying
Laks and bagel back in the thirties.
#119345 - 01/26/04 06:30 PM Re: crore - ¿Qué?
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I've never seen the word spelled with a "c" before, but have often seen it spelled with a "k". Which transliteration is more accurate, jheem? BTW, if you can recommend any good sites on subcontinental English that I could to the ones I already have on my links page, I would be very grateful._________________________
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The founders came up with the idea over dinner at the 2013 IndexUniverse conference, where they discussed the number of moving parts in the ETF industry and the value of additional training outside what individual firms offer. The group will launch at this year's conference on January 27.
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To say they have not produced any Professional players is not totally true if you count the guys they have taken from the amateur game (I think 3 have actually gone on to play for GB)
I don't count them. The advantage of Sheffield being attached to the heartlands was they could fight for the same players that the traditional clubs are after. OK they got a share they developed into top players, but today in the pro game these players are already lined up for the big cashed up top SL clubs.
All were getting here is "that bit of your argument is not factually true" but firstly I did not say they didn't produce pro players, it was that they didn't widen the pool of pro players into Sheffield itself. Nor did Mansfield or Nottingham do that. Doncaster have spawned one current pro.
Secondly when they did get the Powells and Astons they could compete for them on contract value. Without the full salary cap to spend in SL they won't get the best and if they do they get someone who comes good they will leave if there's no money at the club and better prospects elsewhere. That's what happened when the money ran out at HKR.
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Parking assistant
When the driver backs up, the parking assistant system indicates the distance between the car and a large obstacle behind it, by means of signal tones.
Parking Assistant Limits
Parking assistant cannot detect small objects such as children and pets.
Responsibility for parking and for assessing the risk to persons around the vehicle lies completely with the driver.
The parking assistant system is activated automatically when reverse gear is selected and the ignition is on.
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- carbs34g
- sugars21g
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- protein4g
- salt0.5g
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- icing sugar, for dusting
Make the roasted rhubarb first, carefully draining off the juices before you let it cool. Butter and line a 23cm loose-bottomed or springform cake tin. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
Reserve 3 tbsp of the custard in a bowl. Beat the rest of the custard together with the butter, flour, baking powder, eggs, vanilla and sugar until creamy and smooth. Spoon one-third of the mix into the tin, add some of the rhubarb, then dot with one-third more cake mix and spread it out as well as you can. Top with some more rhubarb, then spoon over the remaining cake mix, leaving it in rough mounds and dips rather than being too neat about it. Scatter the rest of the rhubarb over the batter, then dot the remaining custard over. Bake for 40 mins until risen and golden, then cover with foil and bake for 15-20 mins more. It's ready when a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the tin, then dredge with icing sugar when cool.
Barney's roasted rhubarb
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Rinse 400g rhubarb and shake off excess water. Trim the ends, then cut into little-finger-size pieces. Put in a shallow dish or a baking tray, tip over 50g caster sugar, toss together, then shuffle rhubarb so it's in a single layer. Cover with foil, then roast for 15 mins. Remove foil. Give everything a little shake, roast for 5 mins more or until tender and the juices are syrupy.
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dawww! a friend made this and said it was amazing and gorgeous. i made it and we all found it very bland. just sharp from rhubarb and sweet from sugar but no actual custard taste at all. it looks identical to one in pic and i'm an avid cook and baker so i have done it right. Such a pity as was more time consuming and involved than a typical cake to bake. The chickens will no doubt enjoy some. :-/ (maybe the custard taste will come through more on day 3, baked it today and its disappointing, I used ambrosia carton of custard).
This cake was really moist and lovely and received rave reviews at my sons local football club where I sold it. It took about 20-30min longer than stated to cook and I made it a lot easier by chopping up the rhubarb into small pieces and added it to the mixture raw. I didn't bother layering it or putting any rhubarb on the top just mixed it all in together. It saved a lot of time and came out perfectly
Lovely cake, perfect way of using up an abundance of rhubarb. I used just slightly more than 400g rhubarb. Otherwise, I made no other changes to the ingredients. Did need substantially longer to cook. Probably at least another 20-30mins. Have taken this cake to work this morning and it was finished by mid morning!
I have so much rhubarb in the garden every year and finally found a good cake to use it for.
I followed the recipe but halved the amount of butter as I thought it a bit much , and also reduced the sugar with one third. I used raw demerara sugar. I made my own custard and used the syrup from the rhubarb to pour over the cake when ready and still hot, then sprinkled with a little demerara sugar. Delicious!!
I was found this recipe whilst looking for a recipe for rhubarb crumble cake and thought I would give it a go instead. So glad I did. It was easy to throw together and this cake tastes fab. I used vanilla paste which I think gives a nicer flavour and an extra 200g of rhubarb. I did find that it needed an extra 20 mins in the oven though. Despite being full from roast dinner one slice of this for dessert wasn't enough for anybody! From the compliments received, I shall definitely be making this again.
As coeliac I used gluten free flour with 1tsp baking powder, 0.5 tsp xanthan gum, 2 tbsp milk and 190g custard. Consistency was great but family and myself found flavour quite bland. I'll try it again with some ginger or orange to bring out the flavour of the rhubarb. I didn't try ice cream but this may equally have helped.
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- Title
- Differentiation of ferrocene D5d and D5h conformers using IR spectroscopy
- Author(s)
- Mohammadi, Narges; Ganesan, Aravindhan; Chantler, Christopher T.; Wang, Feng
- Abstract
- Fingerprinting in the infrared (IR) spectral region of 450-500 cm−1 of ferrocene is discovered to be a sensitive way to differentiate the eclipsed (D5h) and staggered (D5d) conformers of ferrocene. The present study simulates accurate IR spectra for ferrocene using density functional theory (DFT) based on the B3LYP/m6-31G(d) model without any scaling and manipulation. The agreement with an early experiment and other theory is excellent. It is found that in the vacuum, the eclipsed conformer represents the true minimum structure of ferrocene, whereas the staggered conformer represents the saddle point structure, in agreement with a number of other theoretical and experimental studies. The study further reveals that the sandwich complexes are formed by stacking two Cp rings with an Fe atom in the middle and there are no conventionally localised Fe-C bonds in ferrocene. The vibrational frequency splitting of Δυ=17 cm−1 in the IR region of 450-500 cm−1 (expt. Δυ=16 cm−1) becomes the fingerprint of the eclipsed conformer in contrast with the staggered conformer of ferrocene. In addition, the present study suggests that the earlier IR spectral measurement of Lippincott and Nelson (1958) of ferrocene was not D5d alone but was likely a mixture of both eclipsed and staggered ferrocene. Finally, the study highlights that Fe-related properties of ferrocene hold the key to reveal one ferrocene conformer from the other.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 713 (Aug 2012), pp. 51-59
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0302 Inorganic Chemistry; 0305 Organic Chemistry; 0399 Other Chemical Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Density functional theory; DFT calculations; Eclipsed conformer; Ferrocene conformers; Fingerprinting; Infrared spectral fingerprint; Iorn involved properties; IR spectral fingerprint; MEP; Molecular electrostatic potentials; Staggered conformer
- Publisher
- Elsevier
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Leading the way for the Beeville girls was first team All-Region midfielder Heather McKinney. McKinney has speed, experience and the skills to lead the Lady Trojans. Head coach Jessica Pittman could ask McKinney to play anywhere on the field, and McKinney was able and willing to do so, anything to help the team. McKinney took most of the corner kicks and free kicks for the team. Her strong and accurate kicks led to many Beeville goals over the season.
Lady Trojan Victoria Elizalde was selected to the second team All-Region for her play this year. A forward for the A.C. Jones ladies, she was right in the middle of most scoring plays. Elizalde scored several goals on her own and picked up several assists along the way, setting up her teammates.
The third member to gain All-Region status was goalkeeper Randi Maupin. She was named to the second team as well. Maupin closed out several matches this season with no goals against. Two shutouts were recorded in the postseason. Maupin also kept the Region IV semifinals loss to Cedar Park under control with more than 10 saves in the contest.
All three Lady Trojans honored were also juniors this year and will be back for another year under coach Pittman. Next year's team will be senior-laden, experienced and talented. The Lady Trojans will be looking to return to the Region IV playoffs and for a possible trip to state.
"I want to congratulate them on their accomplishments. This is a huge honor," Pittman said.


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When watching a horror movie, the viewer's first impulse is usually to point out all of the hilariously bad decisions that the various characters make in their struggle to avoid getting their skulls ripped out of their assholes by whatever howling death banshee or slobbering mutant psychopath happens to be pursuing them.
However, the killer monsters make just as many ridiculous errors in judgment that, in my opinion, are way more unforgiveable. "Why?" it would help if you asked right now. Simple: Because the monsters are generally the only recurring characters in their respective franchises. By the second or third sequel, they've had plenty of time to work all of the kinks out of their murder strategy.
So how come stuff like this keeps happening?
4 Not Guarding Their Magic Weaknesses
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Almost every movie monster has some magic weakness that they either willingly divulge to their potential victims in entirely too much detail or leave sitting out like a magazine for anyone to discover (they occasionally do both).
Take a look at Hellraiser. Pinhead is only able to travel to Earth from his parallel dimension of bondage hooks and terrifying erections if someone in our plane of existence opens the puzzle box. He and his gang of baffling leather outfit enthusiasts show up to take the unfortunate person back with them for an eternity of extreme torture porn, but leave the box behind.
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If it wasn't for the fact that one of them is a woman, I'd say the whole thing was a statement on the sexual selfishness of men.
Pinhead should just take the damn puzzle box -- that should immediately be his goal every time he shows up in our dimension. Why spend years waiting for some hapless bastard to solve the thing and then only take that person? It's not like Pinhead only wants to kill folks who can figure out his puzzle box -- he wants to murder the entire damn universe. If he secured the puzzle box, he'd be able to open the door in and out of his unspeakable gore-boner realm whenever he felt like it. He should write that on his hand or something.
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"I should put this thing on a key chaaaaaaain!"
In the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, Freddy likes to creep people out with a few preliminary nightmares before he actually moves in for the kill. Invariably, he uses some little girls jumping rope and singing a nursery rhyme that details the precise nature of his supernatural crime spree:
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Three, four, better lock your door.
Five, six, get a crucifix.
Seven, eight, gonna stay up late.
Nine, ten, never sleep again.
Beyond being a terrible strategy (more on that later), Freddy reveals the biggest ace he has up his sleeve by deliberately telling his victims that A) he is powered by unholy magic and B) they have to fall asleep in order for him to kill them. He'd have a 100 percent success rate if he just kept that information to himself.
And maybe didn't put his face on every goddamned thing imaginable.
Meanwhile, Jason Voorhees is gullible enough to be convinced that any female wearing his dead mother's sweater is, in fact, his dead mother. And he just leaves the sweater out next to his mother's mummified head in a shrine in his backwoods meth shanty. He doesn't fold the sweater up in a drawer or put locks on his doors or anything. Sure, Jason probably doesn't have the level of awareness to recognize that the sweater is a crippling weakness, but he should at least be keeping his most sacred possession in a place where raccoons can't shuffle in and pee on it.
3 Wearing Impractical Outfits
Jason, Michael Myers, and Leatherface all wear masks that, while appropriately terrifying, seriously impair their vision to the point of catastrophic disadvantage. When you're doing the creepity-creep through some bushes in the middle of the night in your search for victims, it'd probably be best not to have some asshole gimmick stuck to your face that robs you of your peripheral vision.
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The addition of power tools just makes the mask even more of a liability.
Pinhead wears this complicated leather outfit that, while appropriate for his transdimensional sex-murder persona, really seems like it would restrict his movement, as well as squeak against his thighs while he's trying to sneak up on people. If he wore velour, or some other light, non-restrictive fabric, he'd have an easier time catching folks unawares and maybe stealing back that puzzle box like we talked about earlier. Really, it seems like a simple wardrobe change could drastically improve his entire situation.
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That and some Bactine.
The Leprechaun wears an elaborate leprechaun costume (and also speaks in rhyme like some kind of tragic dumbass, but that is inconsequential to my point). However, killing people isn't really his primary goal -- he just wants his gold, and motherfuckers keep stealing it. The outfit is working against him in that respect -- those buckled shoes were never designed to be worn while chasing down thieves, and they clatter around like Dutch clogs any time he tries to go Solid Snake on anybody.
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Also, he looks like a lawn ornament, and that's not helping anything.
Getting his gold back would be a much easier task in general if people couldn't immediately see that he was the Leprechaun. He should just wear an oxford shirt and some slacks and tell everyone he's Peter Dinklage, then ambush them when they put their guard down and reclaim his booty.
Bottom line -- if you're going to be lurking around in the dark, just wear a ski mask and some wrestling shoes. Don't be married to a look.


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Senate race is Capito's to lose
Here in West Virginia, we're going to do our part next year to shut down President Barack Obama's war on coal and, with any luck, some of his other crazy initiatives. Count on Mountain State voters to elect incumbent Rep. Shelley Capito, the Republican who represents the state's Second Congressional District, to the Senate.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is retiring and will not be a candidate in 2014. Capito is the hands-down favorite to succeed him.
Republicans already control the House of Representatives, and have attempted to curb Obama. But as long as Democrats – with nearly all of them loyal to the president – control the Senate, Obama is free to go his merry way.
In order to gain control of the Senate, Republicans need to gain six seats in the November 2014 elections. That's a tall order.
Analysts are, as you might expect, divided on the outlook. But good arguments can be made that Republicans will replace Democrat senators in South Dakota, Montana and West Virginia. Some see the outlooks in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina as "toss-ups."
If GOP candidates win in all seven of those states, the Republicans gain control of the Senate.
But wait. That may be good for the Republican Party, but what about West Virginia and the coal industry? Votes on energy issues tend not to be straight down party lines.
Perhaps the most vocal champion of coal in the Senate is Sen. Joe Manchin of our state – a Democrat. He was the only senator in his party to vote against confirmation of Gina McCarthy as new Environmental Protection Agency director.
Some Republican senators stand firmly with Obama in the war on coal. Six of them voted to confirm McCarthy.
Among senators up for re-election next year is Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. She has voted with coal's supporters at times. What if she's defeated by a Republican who, for some strange reason, is more interested in promoting oil and gas than coal?
Also up for reelection is Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. She and Obama see eye to eye on climate change.
Not up for re-election are a few Republicans who vote with Obama in his war on coal and a few Democrats, such as Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who oppose him.
Defending West Virginia against the White House assault isn't as simple as gaining a Republican majority in the Senate. Back to the race in the Mountain State: Capito is a shoo-in for the GOP nomination, even though a few Republicans, including Pat McGeehan, who formerly served in the House of Delegates from the First District, oppose her.
Most Democrats seem to be waiting to gauge which way the wind blows before deciding to take Capito on in the Senate race. Three people – Sheirl Fletcher of Morgantown, David Harless of Charleston and David Wamsley of Williamstown – have filed pre-candidacy papers as Democrats seeking the Senate seat. In all likelihood, the only one of the three you've ever heard of is Fletcher, who finished a very distant third in the 2010 primary to fill the Senate seat of the late Robert C. Byrd.
Other names are being bandied about among Democrats. They include Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, Agriculture Commissioner Walt Helmick, Auditor Glen Gainer and former state Democrat Chairman Mike Callaghan.
If they want to avoid being embarrassed at the polls, none of the above will run. The Senate race is Capito's to lose – and that isn't likely to happen. She'll be running against Obama, not whatever Democrat ends up on the ballot against her, and that's a virtually certain recipe for success in West Virginia.
It's possible, though far from certain, Republicans will take over the Senate. Again, however, that doesn't take West Virginia out of the woods in regard to the war on coal. Manchin, who has been working to win some of his fellow Democrats over on the issue, may hold the key to that.
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For Immediate Release
March 30, 2010
Illinois State Board of Education announces
Summer Food Service Program Hearing
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education announced today that a public hearing will be held on Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Springfield, Illinois for the appeal of the petition from the Community Consolidated School District 21 to opt out of the Summer Food Service Program requirements outlined in Public Act 096-0734. The hearing will be held at 100 North First Street; Springfield, IL 62777-0001 from 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. in the 4th floor board conference room and by conference call. The public is invited to attend and those wishing to participate may sign-in upon arrival or upon conference call log-in. Please provide a copy of all written testimony to be submitted. Copies may be faxed to 217-785-3972. The call-in number is 1.877.402.9757 and the access code is 4344545#. Questions before the hearing can be answered by contacting the Nutrition Programs Division at 800-545-7892.
- Those wishing to participate in these hearings may sign-in upon arrival at the board conference room or upon conference call log-in.
- Please provide 1 copy of written testimony. Copies may be faxed to 217-785-3972.
The public hearing for the appeal of the petition from the Community Consolidated School District 21 to opt out of the Summer Food Service Program requirements will be accessible to persons with disabilities. Persons planning to attend who need special accommodations should contact the Board office no later than the day before the hearing. Contact the Superintendent's office at the State Board of Education, Phone: 217-782-2221; TTY/TDD: 217-782-1900; Fax: 217-785-3972.


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Flashback: Do You Remember Those Racist Condi Rice Cartoons?
As liberals continue to counter the criticism directed towards Ambassador Susan Rice with the race card, Eliana Johnson at National Review aptly noted how similar criticism was lobbied at Condoleezza Rice when she was nominated for Secretary of State. : I made a note of this before in my previous post, Deciphering Susan Rice without Being Racist — but I only cited Katrina Vanden Heuvel's statements. : Vanden Heuvel is the editor and publisher of the far left magazine, The Nation, but Johnson detailed on November 21 how other media outlets and members of Congress were hurling the same accusations of incompetence and politicking we see in the midst of Rice's plausible nomination for Secretary of State. Johnson wrote that:
[Condoleezza] Rice's nomination, noted the: Washington Post, garnered "the most negative votes cast against a nominee for that post in 180 years." As the Senate debated her nomination, Senator Barbara Boxer charged that Rice "frightened the American people" into supporting the Iraq War; Senator Jim Jeffords accused her of being part of an effort to "distort information" in the service of "political objectives"; and Senator Pat Leahy, who voted in her favor, endorsed her by saying that her tenure as national-security adviser lacked "strong leadership, openness, and sound judgment." :
Hey, that's racist. : But so is this cartoon by Ted Rall, who has the then-Secretary of State saying she was Bush's 'house nigga."
Jeff Danziger, whose cartoons are syndicated in The New York Times, had a caricature of "a: big-lipped, barely literate Condoleezza Rice, nursing the aluminum tubes cited by the White House as evidence of Iraq's pursuit of nuclear weapons."
Johnson is dead on in her assessment that there's a difference when someone calls you a "house nigga," and when someone calls you incompetent. : One is blatantly racist, while the other isn't. : It's not that hard to comprehend. : Ambassador Rice misled the American people : — and we deserve answers.
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The first property, located at 1000 N. Timberline Road, entered foreclosure in January. The property is listed under Frazier's name, with $395,300 owed on the property. The sale date is scheduled for Sept. 12. The property is currently held by Bank of America.
The remaining three properties entered foreclosure in the first part of April. The first is vacant land on North Timberline, with Colomex Holdings I, believed to be Frazier's company, listed as the owner. About $1.4 million is owed on the property to Colorado Community Bank. It is scheduled for sale Aug. 8.
The next property, located at 2121 Midpoint Drive, is listed as the business address for Colomex Holdings. According to the documents, $1.2 million is owed on this property to Colorado Community Bank. Is is scheduled for sale on Aug. 1.
The final property, also listed under Colomex Holdings ownership, is located at 1615 Specht Point Road, in the Spring Creek Center subdivision. The record shows that $1.7 million is owed on the property, also to Colorado Community Bank. It is also scheduled for sale on Aug. 1.
Frazier owned the Fox Acres Country Club in Red Feather Lakes until the cabins on the property went into foreclosure in October 2010.
In June 2011, Frazier was indicted on seven counts of fraud after being accused of taking more than $1 million from investors in Colorado and three other states for real estate projects in Fort Collins and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, then using the money to repay personal loans.
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Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is quite large, containing several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member species are often noted for their showy flowers and are commonly known simply as hibiscus, or less widely known as rose mallow.
Hibiscus plants prefer a cosy fit when growing in a container. This means that they should be slightly root bound in the pot and when you do decide to re-pot, give the hibiscus only a little bit more room. Always make sure that your growing hibiscus plant has excellent drainage.
The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, as well as woody shrubs and small trees. Flowers may be up to 6 inches diameter, with colours ranging from yellow to peach to red. Hibiscus can be planted singly or grown as a hedge plant; they can also be pruned into a single-stemmed small tree. The flowers are attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Color: Yellow
Bloom time: The flowers are inconspicuous and the plants are grown mainly for their foliage
Height: The plants can grow to 15 feet tall in frost-free areas.
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It s important to refrain from watering with cold water in winter.
Temprature: Temperatures between 60-90 F. (16-32 C.)and cannot tolerate temps below 32 F.
Fertilizer: For prolific flowering, hibiscus must have regular feeding every week during the growth period, March-October. Water soluble formulas can be used with every watering.Choose a fertilizer with a low phosphorous value: N (Nitrogen) 20 P (Phosphorous) 5 K (Kalium) 20 is close to ideal. Too much phosphorous makes for many fine leaves but few flowers.
Hibiscus also need trace elements, especially iron and magnesium.
- Many people who are growing a hibiscus plant choose to do so in a container.
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- Hibiscus plants prefer a cosy fit when growing in a container.
- This means that they should be slightly root bound in the pot and when you do decide to re-pot, give the hibiscus only a little bit more room.
- Always make sure that your growing hibiscus plant has excellent drainage
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- The chemicals in hibiscus flower helps in growth of hair.
- It reduces dandruff and makes the hair black.
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Culinary use:
- Chinese eat this flower by making pickle.
- Jamaicans use this flower in herbal tea as it contains many minerals and vitamins Dried hibiscus is edible, and it is often a delicacy in Mexico.
- It can also be candied and used as a garnish.
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"Ruby's Teapots" Add Support to Local Alzheimer's Fundraising Effort, the Memory Walk
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|Sandra Wynn, BSC Associate Degree Nursing Program Director, was a featured speaker at the annual Memory Walk at Mercer Mall earlier this month. Wynn, who lost her grandmother, Ruby Davis, to Alzheimer's Disease earlier this year, spoke about the impact the disease has on caregivers and family members. The Memory Walk is the Alzheimer Association's largest fundraising and awareness effort.
(Bluefield)—As a nurse and the director of Bluefield State College's Associate Degree Nursing Program, Sandy Wynn has a professional appreciation for the effects of Alzheimer's Disease. When she lost her grandmother and great aunt to Alzheimer's earlier this year, Professor Wynn saw the disease from the perspective of a family member and caregiver.
Wynn was a featured speaker at the annual Memory Walk at Mercer Mall earlier this month. The Memory Walk is the Alzheimer Association's largest fundraising and awareness effort. It supports vital programs and services the Alzheimer's Association provides for families and caregivers facing the disease, while also promoting necessary research to seek a cure.
"My grandmother, Ruby Davis, died of Alzheimer's in 2012," Wynn told an audience of more than 250 walkers at the program. "Within our family, we were looking for a way to honor my grandmother's memory. The Memory Walk became a reunion of sorts for my family to support fundraising to combat the disease."
Noting that her late grandmother was an avid teapot collector, Wynn started a team, comprised primarily of Mrs. Davis' daughters and granddaughters. "We called the team 'Ruby's Teapots,' and we wore team shirts sporting the image of teapots on the front," she said.
"The turnout on Memory Walk Saturday was great," she continued. "We raised about $16,000 and there were so many walkers that we nearly encircled the mall when the walk started."
Wynn said "Ruby's Teapots" will make a return appearance at next year's Memory Walk, and she's inviting other teams and individuals to join in the effort.