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College to Host Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on January 21
The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be honored during the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at St. John Fisher College on Monday, January 21, from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the Cleary Family Auditorium. This year's theme will be "Allow Freedom to Ring for All God's Children," and The Hon. Stephen T. Miller, Rochester City Court Judge and Executive Pastor of the Church of Love Faith Center, Inc., will serve as the keynote speaker. The free celebration is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Programs, and is open to the public.
Miller was born and raised in Rochester, and earned a bachelor of arts in history and psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, and a master's degree in education from Nazareth College. He also pursued his Juris Doctorate from SUNY Buffalo Law School.
He was elected to City Court Judge in November 2005, and is a member of the pastoral staff as well as a teacher at the Church of Love Faith Center. He has also volunteered as a tutor with the "Lawyers for Learning" Program at Adlai E. Stevenson School #29. Miller is a member of the Rochester Black Bar Association, the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission on Minorities, and the New York State Unified Court System. He has served on a variety of boards and committees over the years, including the YMCA of Greater Rochester.
In 2006, Miller was honored for his service by the Rochester Teen Court with the "Hero" award. That same year, he was recognized by Wilson Magnet High School as a Distinguished Wilson Alumnus for success in the Rochester community, and named one of Rochester's "Emerging African American Leaders" by the Democrat and Chronicle. In 2007, he was honored by the Austin Steward Foundation for his service and commitment to the Rochester community.
During the celebration, Fisher student Shaquille Payne will recite original poetry, and student Candace Benjamin will perform interpretive dance numbers. In addition, Fisher students Mohammed Husain Bawany and Kaelen Austin will be named the 2012-2013 Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Undergraduate Diversity Scholars.
The College is also now accepting donations through January 21 for its annual Hospitality Kit Project, which will provide kits with toiletries to community partners including St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center, A Meal and More, Saint's Place, Sojourner House, Foundations of Hope Ministries, Mary's Place, and Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network. Donations can be dropped off at the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Programs in Basil 117.
A shuttle service will be provided between the Park and Ride lot on Fairport Road and Kearney Hall. The program will be interpreted for the hearing impaired and the facility is wheelchair-accessible.
For more information about the celebration, please contact Yantee Slobert, Director of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Programs, at 585-385-8423.
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To pay his way through college, Arnold Newman took a job at a portrait studio in a Philadelphia department store. After taking dozens of "do-it-by-numbers portraits" (as the artist referred to them), Newman decided to "experiment with photographing people where they live or where they work, to say something about each individual." These so-called experiments became some of the most arresting portraits of the 20th century. In his early portrayal of Marc Chagall (1887–1985), for example, Newman places the artist before a painting, carefully incorporating Chagall's characteristically poetic imagery into the photograph and placing it on an equal standing with Chagall himself. In this way, Newman subsumes the painter's features, tousled hair and intense, almost skeptical gaze into the fabric of the canvas behind him.
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High-speed traders find bumps in road as they drive into FX
In the recent ruckus kicked up by the Michael Lewis book Flash Boys, high-frequency trading firms found themselves accused of rigging equity markets by front-running investor orders.
HFT techniques, however, are not confined to the trading of equities. In recent years, they have made increasing inroads into the currency markets, where there are allegations that they disrupt an orderly market. But they also provide liquidity to an industry that cannot afford to lose valuable marketmakers in the current environment.
In recent years, major FX trading platforms have been plagued by a series of disruptive practices such as placing orders without a genuine intention to trade or using multiple connections to exploit millisecond advantages when making trading decisions.
Whether HFT firms alone are responsible for such behaviour remains open to debate, but many trading platforms have taken steps to create a more level playing field. Their biggest challenge has been to control HFT without alienating it at a time when banks' ability to provide liquidity is not always as strong as it was, given the regulatory constraints on proprietary trading and increasing capital requirements.
Some still view the FX markets as too cosy a monopoly owned by big banks such as Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Barclays and UBS – collectively those four had just over 50% of global market share in 2013, according to an annual survey undertaken by Euromoney.
However, more nimble non-bank marketmakers such as Lucid Markets, GSA Capital and Virtu Financial pose a credible threat to that monopoly. Using ultra-fast technology, such firms can quote prices to trading platforms quicker than some of the largest banks.
But some consumers of FX liquidity complain that non-bank marketmakers are less committed than their bank competitors, which have longer records of liquidity provision and offer a wider range of services to clients, whereas HFTs may be more prone to flitting in and out of the market.
Paul Chappell, founder and chief investment officer of C-View, a UK-based currency hedge fund, said: "Non-banks really have less responsibility towards the market and its clients. If for a period of time it suits them to make markets, they will do so, but if volatility gets too high, they will effectively just switch off their machines."
It is a serious accusation that some HFT traders vehemently deny. GSA Capital says it provides liquidity in trade sizes of up to €50 million – larger than many banks – and it aims to differentiate itself by offering faster turnaround times and lower reject rates (in spot FX a marketmaker often has the ability, through a market convention known as "last look", to reject a client order on a price it believes to be stale – a practice designed to protect slower marketmakers).
Alex Gerko, head of FX trading at GSA Capital, said: "We have quoted FX prices continuously during stress events of recent years – throughout the 2010 Flash Crash and the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake in 2011, for example. Obviously, there may be some participants who do withdraw from the market in times of stress, but this is definitely not the case for GSA."
Meanwhile, Virtu Financial has a similarly positive opinion of its contribution to the market, revealed in its S-1 filing, which was submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 10 as part of a move to become publicly listed. Virtu stated: "We believe that marketmakers like us serve an important role in maintaining and improving the overall health and efficiency of the global capital markets by continuously posting bids and offers for financial instruments and thereby providing to market participants an efficient means to transfer risk."
The firm's net trading income last year was $624 million, the filing revealed, of which 20% came from making markets on FX trading venues.
But not all HFT firms adhere to the same rules. Virtu's S-1 filing refers to the practice of "instantaneous hedging", which is central to its marketmaking strategy and is designed to lock in returns and eliminate price risk by hedging positions at very fast speeds. At face value, the practice appears to be little more than prudent risk management, but not everyone sees it that way, with some complaining it is part of an accelerating race to compete on "latency" – the speed at which trading is done.
Gerko said: "Instantaneous hedging is technologically very complicated and very expensive due to the latency race, so most bank participants wouldn't be able to do it. In the case of a large trade with multiple marketmakers, if an HFT firm aggressively and instantaneously hedges its position, while the other marketmakers sit on their position and hedge it more slowly and cheaply, they end up being effectively front-run by this single HFT marketmaker. The end-result is that the trade becomes more expensive for the end-client and it reflects badly on non-bank liquidity."
Virtu Financial did not respond to requests for comment.
The battle between HFTs and traditional bank marketmakers has played out on the big trading platforms in recent years. Frustrated by the impact of disruptive behaviour on Icap's EBS, one of the FX market's primary interdealer platforms, a group of top-tier banks came together in 2010 to create their own venture. The resulting platform, ParFX, launched a year ago and is set to open up to the buyside this year, with a clear set of participation rules.
Dan Marcus, chief executive of ParFX at Tradition, the interdealer broker that provides the platform's technology, said: "Traders need an environment where participants can trade with each other in a fair and transparent environment; where all firms – regardless of size, technological sophistication, financial clout or volumes traded – are treated equally and play by the same rules; where disruptive trading behaviour in any form is effectively policed and eradicated."
Neither EBS nor Thomson Reuters Matching, its main rival, has been blind to the challenges created by HFT and both have engineered system and rule changes to create a more level playing field between participants. One of the more controversial has been a "latency floor" on EBS, which introduces a randomised batching window of between one and three milliseconds to all order elements. A similar feature exists on ParFX, while Thomson Reuters said in March it would also trial randomisation on the matching platform, initially for a single currency pair, as part of a broader set of rule changes.
Phil Weisberg, global head of FX at Thomson Reuters, said: "Orderly markets rely on transparent and tightly defined rules that regulate trading behaviour.
The enhanced platform rules are intended to encourage genuine trading interest, high certainty of execution and a fair and orderly trading experience for all market participants."
But some platform providers believe now is the time to embrace HFT as a source of liquidity rather than looking to stifle it. New York-based TraderTools offers disclosed relationship-based liquidity in the FX market, matching price-makers with takers, but it does not charge marketmaking banks, in contrast to many other platforms that charge both sides to participate. In recent months, TraderTools has begun streaming an increasing volume of non-bank liquidity, especially in emerging market pairs.
Yaacov Heidingsfeld, chief executive of TraderTools, said: "The reason we need non-bank flow is that the top marketmaking banks often don't want to provide prices in emerging market currencies into those markets because they believe the regional banks in those markets will be advantaged by the information they have. But HFT firms can move in and out of markets much faster and we see a much greater willingness from those participants to make markets where traditional banks cannot."
Furthermore, the presence of high-frequency trading flow is becoming increasingly vital for liquidity in some emerging markets, Heidingsfeld added. "When trading in EM currencies was very volatile in January, particularly in the Turkish lira and South African rand, it would have been a lot more difficult to trade were it not for the presence of HFTs making markets."
This article was first published in the print edition of Financial News dated May 5, 2014


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To our many wonderful friends and family and to the Barre community: We cant begin to express our appreciation for all the love and support weve received while anticipating Lizs surgery, during her hospitalization and throughout her recovery.
At our open house the weekend before her surgery we were amazed but so happy that so many of you came to see Liz and wish her well. We know the outcome of her surgery and her quick recovery were the result of so many people caring and praying for her. A very heartfelt thank you goes to Cory Laferriere and Alicia Phillips, who hosted a phenomenal benefit at Mulligans Irish Pub, raising a significant amount of money to help Liz with medical and living expenses while she needs it during her recovery.
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Some do it for the fellowship and conversation. Some do it for the satisfaction of having something to show for all their hard work. Some do it for the art. But they all have the same goal: to make a quilt.
Quilting circles have become extremely popular in the Delaware River Valley region. Hundreds of (mostly) women have organized with other quilters who love the craft as much as they do. They subscribe to daily emails with quilting newsletters; they are slightly addicted to YouTube quilting videos, where they learn new techniques; and they belong to Facebook quilting groups and exchange ideas.
And in most cases, they started quilting in the same way: it was a natural progression from crafting, sewing, or needlework (like crocheting or knitting) to quilting.
"I was always a crafter. I used to sew dolls and their costumes, and always had a sewing machine. Quilting was just a natural progression," explains Keyna Hust of The Divas Quilting Circle out of Youngsville, NY.
Fellow diva Jennifer Berglas says, "I always sewed and was a crafter. I like to put things together. I made kids' clothes, place mats, and now quilts." Same with diva Ruth Pontious of Jeffersonville, NY, "I always sewed. I had four kids and made a lot of their clothes. I started quilting in the '80s, by hand, not a machine."
Given the recent popularity of quilting, you might think it was a fairly recent hobby. But the craft goes back centuries.
Quilts started as a necessity to keep humans warm and out of the elements. They were as basic as woven linen or spun wool. American pioneer women had no time to work on luxuries such as a decorated quilt; they were doing all they could to keep their families fed, clothed and out of danger.
Decorated quilts were for wealthy women who had time on their hands. They were not made of fabric scraps as many are now—rather, they were decorative and showcased the fine needlework women of privilege worked so hard to exact.
Big changes came after the mid-19th century. The advent of manufacturing on a large scale changed the textile industry, making fabric affordable and available. Women no longer had to spin or weave their own materials. Because of that, quilt making became widespread.
The style of quilting also changed around the mid-1800s; block-style quilts became the rage. Quilting bees became popular, with women working on individual blocks and sitting around quilting frames to attach them to the body of the quilt.
But the biggest change came after the sewing machine was invented. That allowed women to make clothing for their families in less time, which allowed more time for quilting. And the quilts could be made on the machine instead of the tedious and time-consuming hand sewing.
These days, most quilters use machines, from the simplest to the most sophisticated ones with computerized designs and even lasers to guide the quilter around designs. (They can also run into the thousands of dollars.) There are special machines made just for quilters with longer, stronger needles to go through thicker quilt material and batting. Many machines are called "long-arm" to handle the size of the material.
But not all of these talented crafters make their quilts on machines. Amy Dunn, owner of the Mountain Quilt Works on Route 652 in Indian Orchard, PA is a custom, hand quilter. She sells material and supplies in her shop, and she takes custom orders. While Amy enjoys her work, she says there's no easy way to "hand-do" a quilt. "It takes time and patience, and there's no way you can make much money on it. It's a labor of love." Amy has just spent about three months and 200 hours crafting a beautiful quilt for an older woman who has made quilts for all her children and most of her grandchildren. But arthritis robbed the woman of her ability, so she enlisted Amy to make three remaining quilts.
Amy started quilting when she was a teenager. When The Mountain Quilt Works opened in the mid '80s, it was a natural fit for her to work there. She eventually bought the store in 1992.
Six years ago, Jackie Murphy of Honesdale, PA decided she'd open a quilting store. Again, she was a crafter, scrapbooker, and she knitted and crocheted. She belongs to the Wayne Highlands Quilt Guild, and they meet at her store, "A Stitch in Time," on 7th Street. "We enjoy our 'sew-and-tell' time. We share ideas and see what we've made since our last meeting."
Jackie and other quilters say they've noticed a trend in recent years from quilts used as bedspreads and comforters to smaller art quilts.
That's what Katharina Litchman of Jeffersonville, NY specializes in. She calls herself a contemporary art quilter. Katharina was a New York City banker, when she caught the quilting bug. But after making many bed quilts, she felt she wanted to branch out and stretch her creative side. Katharina now designs and makes art quilts, which are in demand. She started experimenting with dying her own fabrics, using all natural dyes and material to make the designs. "It's a lot of work," says Katharina, "and I always make a mistake or two. My quilts are not perfect, and no two will ever be alike." She is the first art quilter to be inducted into the Catskill Mountain Quilters Hall of Fame.
Despite the difference in the styles and motivation for quilting, all have one special quality in common: they have huge hearts. Each group or individual participates continually in charity aspects. Quilt raffles are common in the Delaware River area—but did you realize each one raffled off has to be made by someone? In many cases, each member of the quilt circle makes a block or square, and they take turns finishing it. Local agencies are the beneficiaries of the money raised.
The divas in Youngsville save all their quilting scraps in what they call a "cat bag." Once enough scraps are accumulated, they're sewn together to make a cat bed, which the divas then donate to the Sullivan County Humane Society, at a rate of about one a month.
Amy Dunn from "The Mountain Quiltworks" participates in "Conkerr Cancer," a program where crafters make pillowcases for children with cancer. So far, Amy and customers at her shop have donated 2,240 cases and counting. She also participates in quilt raffles for charity.
At "A Stitch in Time" in Honesdale, Jackie Murphy is challenging quilters and customers to "Fill the Cradle" with 150 baby quilts between now and March. It's for "Project Linus," a charity that provides comforting quilts to kids in the hospital with serious illnesses. Her shop also saves scraps and accepts donations of fabric in a project called "Shreds for Beds". They make dog beds for Dessin Animal Shelter.
As busy as the hands of all our local quilters are, their hearts are just as full, giving back to those who need help the most. And whatever drives them, whether a quilter is making a specimen for a bed or the wall, for a child or a bride, whether they're meeting for the social aspect or the sheer creativity of art of quilting, this is one craft that won't fade away any time soon.


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The Washington Monument opens to the public, John Lennon is born, Che Guevara is executed, and President Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, all on this day.
1997: Dean Smith, head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, retires as the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men's basketball. His record of 879 wins would eventually be eclipsed by Bob Knight in 2007, Mike Krzyzewski in 2011 and Jim Boeheim in 2012. Krzyzewski is the current leader with 983 career wins going into the 2014-15 season.


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Problem with this photography lark is there's always something pulling at the purse strings!
Oh aye! It's remarkably similar to running a relatively rare Italian motorbike in that sense.
Longer term, I'd like to do more with photos than just taking them, hence all the queries now. For now, I'm think I'm going to settle for doing minimal editing using the raw processing built into the camera whilst connected directly to the tv. It may not be calibrated for printing them, but it's by far and away the best way to view them, and I can then just burn them onto a CD to share with others on a pc or dvd.


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Begin by concentrating on a clear image of yourself and forming the Tiger handseal.
Then try and make it physical by applying water chakra and molding it.
Kefa: okay sensei
*kefa walk to close to the water surface'the area where he learnt shark breakthrough'. kefa pictures an himself in his head, then he put his hand together making the tiger seal followed by focusing his water chakra now thinking of the clone appearing next to him, he uses shape manipulation to shape the water to be him, releasing his chakra a new kefa emerges from the water and walks next to kefa*
kefa: good right sensei?
Clone kefa: hello ^^
Very good, haha. xD
Now, what uses are there for a clone? State everything you can think of.
1 for distraction: sending in your clones while you think up a move or go in for the kill where you are unexpected
2 for confusion: the opponent will attack the clone thinking its you
3 to help: each clone can use a technique so if the user instructs all clones to use a technique against the opponent they help the user defeat the clone
4 to take a hit: when in battle the user will make a clone and when he gets hit all he says is you hit my clone not me .
Thats all i can think of
Well done, I will now give you my eight formulas for it.
First: Clones can perform various attacks all at the same time. Indeed, imagine if you had four clones in front of you all release different jutsus at you at the exact moment. Dangerous, no? You stated this.
Second: It is hard to tell the difference between the real you and clones. Only the Sharingan is able to tell such differences, or normally, people just godmode this in battle. You also stated this.
Third: Being able to combo greatly with split-second jutsus - imagine seeing several attacks coming at you at all directions.
Fourth: Distraction in general - for example, a clone used Thunder Up, and caused an explosion, the enemy will be drawn to the noise and you could then take advantage of this. You stated this.
Fifth: Release of Genjutsu.
Sixth: Sacrifice for information.
Seventh: Increase of field of vision. Blind spots.
Eight: Human Shield. You stated this.
Keep these in mind. ^_^ Also, that your Water clones can not use anything but up to C-Rank water techniques.
Also, this move requires a water source, which you will easily be able to create with moves we learn later.
(Mizu Bunshin) - Water Release: Water Clone
Rank: C
Range: Short
Type: Supplementary
Chakra Cost: 15
Damage Points: N/A
Description: After performing the Tiger hand seal the user creates a clone of themselves made of water. These water clones have 1/10th of the users chakra. These clones are also limited in that they can only travel short range from the user without losing control. When a water clone take enough damage they revert back to normal water.
Note: Can only perform up to C rank Water techniques and requires a water source.
Alright, go ahead and step over to this lake as this next technique also requires a water source.
Begin by placing your hand upon the water and then spinning it rapidly so that a huge wave of pressurized, dangerous water is aimed at my clone. Sort of like this:
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*kefa watches as Akihiko sensei does the technique*
kefa awesome! Sensei lemme try
*kefa turns to face the lake, his clone disperse back into water, focusing his chakra towards his right hand then he places his hand on the water surface release the chakra into the lake (now the are of lake where he placed his hand is fused with his chakra) after tis he uses the chakra to make the water act like a wave then he focuses his water chakra and uses it to rotates that area at high speed as it spins, kefa raises his hand up the rotating water then rises up, kefa use shape manipulation to make the water have a pointing head(just like in the picture) and still rotating hence spinning, kefa looks at Akihiko sensei's clone and sends the spinning pressured water towards the clone, the clone is hit in the gut and pierced(the clone is pierced due to its pointed head and the spinnings makes it like a drill so it'll pass through) by this water technique coming out from the back of this clone, the clone turns into a cloud of smoke and kefa drops the water*
kefa: yes i did it!
Very good. So since you are able to create more than one of these, how might you utilize three of them at once?
1 if i'm ganged up by clones lets say 3 clones i'll use this tech, 1 spinning pressurized water 4 each clone
2 As a distraction having my clone use this technique while i sneak up behind to land a powerful attack
3 as a defense each of the spinning pressured water to defend.
4 as a combination: i think you can mix all 3 of them to have a bigger spining pressured water or to defend
thats all i can come up with
No, that's great! Well done, keep in mind what techniques you came up with.
(Suiton: Suigandan) - Water Release: Water Fang Bullet
Rank: C
Range: Short
Type: Offense
Chakra Cost: 15
Damage Points: 30
Description: A technique that deals physical damage to the enemy with a liquid mass brought forth from underwater. Its power to kill and maim is augmented by adding a spinning motion to the compactly pressured water. During fights on water, taking advantage of its characteristic ability to attack from anywhere in a 360 degrees radius, in conjunction with other techniques for distraction, confusion and so forth, this technique has an extensive array of applications.
Note: Requires a water source.
Now, for this jutsu, I want you once again begin using the Hidden Mist jutsu. Once you do that, manipulate the chakra within the mist to reflect the light around us to blind me.
Describe how this can be useful in fights.
Kefa: okay sensei i should first release the hidding in the mist technique followed by nature manipulation to reflect light.
*kefa walks closer to Akihiko sensei making them be at close range from each other kefa builds up his water chakra infused with his raw chakra and spits it out as mist that cover and spreads around the area(i have mastered this technique so i dont need to explain the whole process, right?), then Kefa focuses on his infused raw chakra then he uses nature manipulation thinking of making the mist look shiny like diamond dust particles having them reflect any form of light. Akihiko opens his eyes while in the mist he gets blinded by the bright light and screams in pain then he start scratching his eyes*
kefa: are you okay?
Suiton: Kirigakure Shiryoku Hakudatsu) - Water Release: Hidden Mist Eye Sight Deprevation
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary
Range: Short-Mid
Chakra cost: 15(-3 each turn to keep it active)
Damage Points: N/A
Description: Using the hidden mist jutsu the user reflects the natural light an a way that it blinds there opponent temporarily as long as the opponent is in the mist.
Note: Must have already used hidden mist jutsu
Let us move on to the next jutsu. Now begin by pooling your Water Chakra into your hand. As you do so, gradually begin to spin it and release it to create a vortex around your body. Once you have done this, I will then start spewing fireballs at you to test its power.
kefa: okay sensei and please WTH fire balls! sensei please take it easy!
*kefa focuses his water chakra to his hands, thinking about what sensei said he pools water from the lake, then he starts to make it rotate/spin at high speeds just like the water fang bullet, he manipulates the water to surround him while still spinning then he releases and outburst of his water chakra making the water spin rapidly and also act like a tidal wave and drawing more water from the lake and covering kefa getting higher in height, kefa is left at the middle of this water vortex waiting for sensei's fire balls*
kefa: please be strong enough
*focuses fire chakra within me and exhales it at the water vortex, and they sizzle away as they touch the water*
Well done!
Now, in what ways could this move be used both offensively and defensively?
1. the user of this technique can make this vortex happen close to or where the opponent is, thereby making the opponent sucked in by the powerful vortex and become damaged
2. the user can surround himself with this technique, like the way i did to defend himself, or make this technique happen in front of the user to be sure the attack doesnt pass through to hit the user
kefa: thats all i can come up with
Very good, you gave it some great thought. xD
(Suiton: Mizu No Tatsumaki) - Water Style: Water Tornado
Rank: C
Type: Attack
Range: Short-Mid
Chakra cost: 15
Damage Points: 30
Descripton: The user will wave the Ram → Horse → Bird hand seals and utilize water to create a spinning water vortex around the ninja. The water acts both as a barrier and attack mechanism. The power of the vortex is enough to knock an opponent unconscious.
Note: Can only be performed if there is a water source near by.
Now, proceed to charge Water chakra into your hands and then put them together, slowly drawing them apart afterwards in order to create a spinning vortex of Water. Build enough pressure so that the Vortex is extremely high, eventually becoming a wave where you direct at my clone.
Kefa: thanks sensei, okay lemme give this one a try.
*kefa stands still facing Akihiko sensei's clone, then kefa focuses his water chakra to his hands, then slams his hands together, releasing a burst of chakra, A tidal wave is formed which starts to spin creating a powerful pressured vortex of water, kefa pulls his hand apart but maintains the powerful vortex, kefa then pushes his hand forward using four finger to point at Akihiko's clone, as kefa does this the water vortex immediately moves heading for Akihiko's clone. The tidal wave is so powerful that it hit Akihiko's clone from the neck to the lower abdomen, carrying the clone while damaging it till the clone goes poof, kefa drops his hand and seizes his release of chakra and the water vortex settles*
kefa: good enough senei?
Very good.
Let's pause a moment and examine this jutsu further.
It's a huge wave that can easily hide you behind it, given that you state how large it is.
So short range is 0-5 meters, mid is 5-15 meters, and long range is 15-25+.
Give an approximate size to this wave and tell me why kinds of things this can defend against and how you can take advantage of the height of this jutsu.
steps in and asks akhiko if i can join in with training as we are up to where i am at water ? seeing as you gonna train me in water why not nock out 2 birds wit 1 stone?
Actually that would be unfair, because people reply at two different paces, so make your own thread please. ^_^ Also, I can't respond to everyone in the same way because everyone gets different types of training.
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look where is Bryant and Parker where is Duncan that is disgrace
no comments for Griffin
I think that's about right, I had him somewhere between 13-18.
Last year he was ranked 17th at season's begin but finished 9th by the time playoffs started
This year he's ranked 15th I don't think he cracks Top 10 this time. For the record I think ESPN's rankings are a little skewed based on many different variables but going off the here and now I can't say I strongly disagree.
Appears their Top 10 will be...
Can't say I disagree with any of these guys cracking Top 10. Espn has plenty of good players ranked low though, like Kobe/Rondo/Wade to name a few.
look where is Bryant and Parker where is Duncan that is disgrace
no comments for Griffin
After a career year, it's hard to say. Let's see how Melo does this season. He's proven to be MVP caliber when he plays defense and rebound.
I'm worried about Melo opting out of surgery and how that will affect his body this season. We need everything from Melo this year.
Couldn't have been last yr because he didn't do really well in those areas although he finished 3rd(highest ever in his career) in voting. Appears to me he got it based on his scoring prowess being on a team that won 50+gms
I could care less about where he lies in the MVP race. The best he's done in his career as a winner, was when he played with Billups in 208-2009. Billups finished higher(6th in voting) in MVP race over Melo but the Nuggets got to the WCF that yr.
I want Knicks peak accomplishments, not what Melo can stat pad to his mediocre career.
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There is zero doubt that Melo will again injure his shoulder.....Rehab works but not when you are playing 80 games......There is zero reason to sign Melo for 130 million for 5 years,,,,,,,He says he wants to win a championship but he will make absolutely no sacrifice for that to happen..........Melo makes a ton on endorsements and surly does not need the money.........Test free agency means that Dolan will have to be a big shot and pay him the MAX.....Then Melo will complain how he does not have another star to play with......He needs to understand that in this day and age you need to make sacrifices and at age 35 he is not worth 30 million a year.
As soon as we start playing .450 b.ball, and the losses start adding up ISO-Melo will decline this season to go for surgery .. this will happen way before February, so Melo rehab return date will be in April. Leaving Dolan with two option, resign ISO-Melo or lose Melo to the FA market. Take one guess what Dolan will do? A-Rod A-Rod A-Rod
This u can take to the bank...
All this hype for an "Individual-Player" who performance does not spell Team-Ball.
In 2008-9 Melo played in 66 games for the Nuggets, and Billups made sure the Nuggets won all 16 games without Melo. So all the hype and increase ticket prices in the Melo trade, when the best player in the trade was ole man MVP winner Chuancey Billups.
but I don't disagree with you on everything except on Melo having a mediocre career. You can't find too many SF's who had a career like Melo.
I know he's not LeBron, Duncan etc but Melo is a HOFer we can atleast acknowledge that.
This Slick Oil Car Salesman should have done what he said he was going to do at season's begin last year and looked to make sacrifices while playing a more all around game instead of chasing points.
Here's exactly what he said he would do....although he qualified most of it showing what his true intentions were going to be in the end....
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]"I don't want to try to put all that burden on myself to go out there and try to do everything, so I'm willing to make any sacrifice in my game regardless of what anybody else says," he told ESPNNewYork.com on Friday. "If my scoring goes from 27 to 23, I'm cool with that. Right now, I'm willing to make any sacrifice that I have to."
"For me personally, I'm in my 10th year,'' Anthony said. "Everyone pretty much knows I can score the basketball. But for me to challenge myself, instill the trust into my teammates to give them that confidence when they do shoot the ball, to have that confidence that they can make it happen as well.
"I'm done trying to score 35, 40 points to win the basketball game. I don't want that role anymore. I can do it. That's what I do. But in order for this team to be successful, for guys we have right now, we need a more well-rounded team. If I have to sacrifice on the offensive end, I'm willing to do it. It's easy for me to sit here and say it. But this year it's going to be locking in and doing it as the leader of this team."
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I don't like him because individuals like him know what they can get away with in a city like this starving so bad to be in the mix. They'll say whatever you want to hear and do the exact opposite because they can. I really wish New York fans(those who actually live in the Tri-State are in particular) were more astute, cerebral, and judicial in how they go about demonstrating their fanfare.
You see, someone like Melo should have come here and done everything contrary to what he's been throughout his career....to earn your support. Instead he's the same guy he's always been, he's just wearing a different uniform. This is the same clown who sucker punched Mardy Collins(I don't care that he was a scrub and is no longer in the league) in The Garden. The guy is a first rate douchebag. He's not going to change, the sooner most of us realize this, the better.
Look you can keep romanticizing and feeling all fuzzy inside for what he did last year, which in essence was another Denver Nugget failure but I refuse to be fooled by this farce. I never was fooled and won't get to twice to feel a shame on me.
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looks like ESPN job is for ppl who just see Heat & money and First Take.
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West Sac Art Guild preps for art show & sale today near Nugget
Six members of the West Sacramento Art Guild took multiple awards at the Yolo County Fair over the summer, reports JoJo Gillies of the guild.
Among them:
Agnes Nilsen took a first-place award in cross-stitch, a third as "best overall" and a pair of second-place ribbons.
Linda Bowron won for embroidery (with third in "best overall") and took a second-place in embroidery.
Carol Hawkins took a first-place and two second-place awards in collage.
Vona Giese took place for a knitted baby set and second for a watercolor work featuring a fire truck.
Jerry Renno took first and "best of show" for a metal sculpture work, and a second-place in the same category.
JoJo Gillies took first place awards with a combined acrylic/collage painting and for an oil painting, as well as three "second place" awards in acrylic and two "third place" honors for acrylic painting.
Gillies and Renno also collaborated on three winners, after Renno fabricated art from steel plow discs and Gillies painting them. The results earned two first-place awards and a second-place, plus extra ribbons for first and third in "best of show."
The art guild plans an art sale on Dec. 20 outside Round Table Pizza in the Southport Town Center. The public is invited.
For more information on the local art guild, call Agnes Nilsen at 374-1810. To inquire about purchasing metal sculptures, call 371-3165.
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Mike McGowan looks back: Part II
By Steve Marschke
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week, the City of West Sacramento opened a bridge named after Mike McGowan, the city's first mayor and later its longtime representative on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.
Earlier in 2014, the News-Ledger had a lengthy chat with McGowan about his own window into the city's history. We brought you the first part of that interview last week (you can find it here). We continue below, taking up roughly from the moment that local voters approved cityhood and McGowan became mayor of the first West Sacramento City Council in 1987.
When you ask Mike McGowan what it was like to be part of the city council that took control over the fate of four newly conjoined neighborhoods in 1987, he can answer with a simile:
"It was like fixing a car while you're driving it," he has said in the past.
"So much was coming at us at the same time, it was like drinking out of a fire hose," he explained much more recently. Either way, you get the picture.
You have to understand that West Sacramento was different then – the population was in the mid 20-thousands, or about half of what it is now. There was old West Sacramento and the less reputable Bryte and Broderick neighborhoods to the north, and the barely-developed Southport area, and a troubled downtown strolled by prostitutes and grifters.
This section of East Yolo had an inferiority complex. It did not compare itself well to, say, Davis or Sacramento. And local voters wanted change.
The new council members included McGowan – the top vote-getter and first mayor, along with Fidel Martinez, Ray Jones, Bill Kristoff (who is still on the council) and Thelma Rogers. The five met unofficially a number of times before they took their seats at city hall, which was then located on Stone Boulevard. They brought on a temporary city manager to serve as their C.E.O. – a college professor who had once worked for Governor Reagan's administration.
"We hired him, and gave him this pamphlet we got from the League of California Cities on how to start a new city," recalled McGowan. "And it quickly dawned on me that what he did was read one chapter ahead, then he would come into our meeting and said 'Okay, now it's time to hire our lawyer. . .'"
One of the city's first challenges was deciding on a police force. Unhappiness with crime and law enforcement (provided before incorporation by the Yolo County Sheriff's Department) was one of the reasons citizens approved cityhood in the 1986 vote.
"That was the platform – law enforcement, cleaning up West Capitol, and schools were important as well, and (providing more) shopping. Those were the issues," said McGowan.
The new council had the option of creating a local police department or paying Yolo County to provide patrols by deputies. The county was obligated to provide interim service for six months either way.
McGowan said the new city leaders went to see Sheriff Rod Graham about a Yolo County contract.
"He said, 'You're going to have to do a long-term contract with me and you're not going to tell me who I deploy over there.' We literally walked out of that meeting and said, 'Well, we've got to put our own police department together in six months. We did. I wouldn't recommend doing it that way. . . There were some bumps along the way, but it turned out fine."
In came the next city manager, Gene Roh, a former County official whom McGowan respected but with whom there were some "personality clashes."
"When we hired him," said McGowan, "he said 'I've only got two conditions. One is that we agree on the (salary) number, and also I get to hire my number two."
Roh chose as his "number two" another county employee – Carol Richardson. Richardson still remains as the assistant city manager, (although city managers have changed several times in the past 27 years or so.)
"Carol is another one of those people, in my opinion, who I would call an unsung hero," said McGowan. "So much of what we put together at the professional level has come through her."
One of the first big tasks for the new city was to come up with a "general plan" – a state-mandated document that includes land use zoning and other big, long-term policy choices.
The general plan contained broad outlines that have mostly endured and in some cases been fleshed out by succeeding "specific plans" and in some cases, actual development.
The early council developed this plan, "grandfathering" into it some existing plans for a major Southport industrial park near the port (championed by local developer Frank Ramos and his partners) and plans for what was then the Lighthouse Project (with a proposed marina) in the north. Lighthouse later morphed into "The Rivers" gated subdivision, and plans for the marina were dropped.
The industrial zoning for Southport became controversial and bred an opposing ballot initiative in 1990. The city council majority – including McGowan – took a strong stand against the initiative. The ballot challenge barely failed, and the Southport Industrial Park kept its zoning.
Does McGowan have any regrets on the general plan?
"The general plan was good," he said. "Looking back, I'm not very good at looking at specific things because that's not the way I approach the work to begin with. The work is the work. It's about how we work together to get stuff done. It's also more about building the team – I won't dare say 'leadership' – and figuring out how to put the pieces together to accomplish the goal."
Did the developers have too much influence over McGowan and the early city council?
"I don't think so," answered McGowan. "I think it's a subtle distinction to make. I think we agreed with what they wanted to do. I don't think we were doing it because it's what they wanted to do."
"Take (Frank) Ramos, for instance," McGowan continued. "And I think we were fundamentally in support of Lighthouse, the other big project. . . We were a little naïve, there's no question about that, I'm not going to over-defend it. Could we have been more knowledgeable about what to ask for, or looked at things more carefully? Of course."
At the same time, said McGowan, this city was fighting its reputation as a dumping ground. Sacramento's then-mayor, the late Joe Serna, famously vowed to keep state offices from moving to this side of the river, for example.
"This is the same environment where Mayor Serna is saying that we're only good for truck stops and warehouses and he'll put the kibosh on any state governing facilities coming over here," recalled McGowan.
So West Sacramento fought for progress, and "the attitude was that we're not going to let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
Did West Sacramento focus too much on developing industry at a cost to homes and other commerce?
"Well, only because that was the project that was in front of us, and it was so controversial – Ramos's piece," answered McGowan. "But we were even then looking at the riverfront and (removing its) tank farms, even though we didn't know how to deal with that."
Businessman Bill Ramos, for example, tried at one point to change his petroleum facility along South River Road to a commercial complex with a marina, McGowan recalls. While McGowan supported it, the early effort didn't work.
Part of that riverfront and its oil tank farms along South River Road now seem to be finally at the beginning of a transition to higher, urban-style uses. The bridge named in McGowan's honor last week has just connected that road to Southport, with related infrastructure changes on the drawing board. Together, they may help bring to fruition the dream of changing riverfront oil tank farms into riverfront restaurants, shops and condos.
Other proposed projects came and went. Frank Ramos tried to bring an auto mall to the area where Ikea now stands (McGowan favored the proposal because of the sales tax revenues it would bring). Later, when McGowan had moved on to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, Ramos championed building a tribal Indian casino at the same spot. The casino idea gained a lot of traction and drew a lot of controversy – arguments included jobs and economic growth, versus sin and social costs.
"I was vehemently against it," said McGowan. "It was one of the few times in my 20 years on the board of supervisors where I came over (to the council) and said 'This is a stupid thing and you shouldn't do it.'"
McGowan credits City Councilman Oscar Villegas and other allies for doing the work that eventually defeating that proposal.
Later, the same developers succeeded with a far more popular project – the shopping center that includes Ikea, Walmart and surrounding retail stores.
One of the big changes that West Sacramento has experienced since 1987 is an invisible one – a change to its psyche.
"Being in West Sac is a blessing and a curse," said McGowan. "Part of it is having an inferiority complex and the other part of it is having a chip on your shoulder. A part of you says, 'Hey, I had to fight my way back across the bridge when I was in high school coming back from a teen dance, and I'll fight you again.' It's the baseball-bat-in-the-trunk syndrome, and that was very much a part of who we were when we started out."
Did this inferiority complex cause city officials to lower their standards or give away too much when dealing with developers?
"I think that's partly true, but like any other generalization, it's not completely true," answered McGowan. "I'll give you a case in point. When we incorporated, there was a developer and he owned a property just about where Nugget is, and he wanted to develop it. I was mayor. He came in and said 'I want to develop this and that,' and it was zero-lot-line cookie-cutter homes. Thousands of them."
McGowan recalls telling him "that's not what we want here." The developer asked, "Well, what do you want?"
"Estates, million dollar places," said McGowan. "He laughed and said 'The market here won't support that.' I said, "Well, we'll just wait for the market.' He sold and left town."
Was there an inflection point – a time when West Sacramento seemed to shed its inferiority complex and become a proud little can-do community?
McGowan points to the evening of May 15, 2000 – opening day for the River Cats minor league baseball team at Raley Field.
"The River Cats were the game-changer," he said. "Opening night was the proudest moment I had since I got sworn in on the first council. . . All of a sudden, other than having nice communities, and Pheasant Club, and Whitey's and their peach shakes, and the new homes being built, all of the sudden, there was a really gosh-darn good reason to live in West Sacramento."
"People were sitting there (at the game), and they'd look at the panoramic view. . . and literally, people would say, 'Honey, this is really nice over here. Why don't we think about this? We were going to move to Roseville, but why don't we look at these homes they're advertising?' It was amazing."
Raley Field got built after West Sacramento essentially had to arm-wrestle with Sacramento for it. Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna, McGowan believes, was behind a lawsuit that tried to block construction.
But building it, McGowan said, "has done more for us than virtually anything else."
The early council decided to grow and develop the city's way out of its problems, said McGowan. There was a possible downside to that:
"I had a concern that along the way – because I grew up with such a strong sense of community – we'd lose that. We'd become, you know, Natomas. But in fact – and I don't understand this part – I think it's only enhanced this sense. People who move to West Sac don't have an inferiority complex. They think it's great and they love the community atmosphere."
The city has always been a city of different neighborhoods and of people who live "across the tracks" from each other In McGowan's eyes, has the City of West Sacramento come together from the communities of Bryte, Broderick, "old" West Sacramento and Southport?
"Probably not," he allowed. "It used to be the freeway and West Capitol Avenue that were basically the dividing line. I would say (the line) is shifting further south, and it's now around the deep water channel. It continues to be the big challenge for the community, how to integrate. People try. The farmer's market is a great example."
But in general:
"West Sac has been fortunate or blessed, lucky or smart, whatever it is, that there's been an agreement between elected officials, the professionals who run the nuts and bolts, and the community. There's more concurrence about the direction of the community than there is disagreement."
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'Police Log': West Sac crime calls
News items below are collected from police dispatchers' notes and arrest reports. The information in them has often not been verified beyond the initial reports.
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Nov. 30, 5:50 p.m.
A police officer noted seeing a Glide Avenue man "wearing motorcycle cuts associated" with a biker gang, while the man (name withheld by police) was getting gas at a West Capitol Station. The "cuts" identified the man as a prospect with a club. This sighting was in March.
Then on Nov. 30, an officer saw the man wearing a hat with the gang's name on it. He said he lived in West Sacramento but belonged to the "Sin City" branch of the gang. The information was recorded by police.
Dec. 5, 7 p.m.
A Sacramento woman lost her wallet at a store on the 800-block of Harbor Blvd., and "later she discovered that unknown subjects are now using her info to make purchases."
Dec. 10, 8 a.m.
A woman reported her wallet had been stolen from a car parked on Merced Way during the night. The wallet contained ID, credit cards and a $50 gift card.
Dec. 10, 10 a.m.
A man reported a briefcase stolen from a car he parked at a Rogue River Court address.
In the case were paperwork and the man's notary stamp and book.
Dec. 10, 10:08 a.m.
Police were dispatched to a disturbance on the 800-block of Delta Lane. The victim, who worked at a vehicle repair shop there, reported he had been assaulted by a customer who "wanted to know if he had removed parts from his truck."
The victim had told the man to speak with the business owner, but the suspect than became angry. Before the victim could phone police, the customer "grabbed him around the neck, choking him with his hands, and forced him to the ground." The angry man had a knife as well.
The employee got up and grabbed a nearby board to "scare away" the customer. The suspect also plicked up a board before going back to his truck in the parking lot. The suspect went to jail. The victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital for treatment.
Dec. 10, 4:55 p.m.
On Coronado Street:
A woman reported that "she accidentally gave her SSN over to an unknown company not associated with her bank."
Dec. 10, 7:10 p.m.
A 50-year old West Capitol Avenue man was cited for trying to shoplift a bottle of wine from a Riverpoint Court store. A glass drug pipe was found on his person.
Dec. 11, 12:38 p.m.
A woman called police from an 8th Street home to say there was a man on the property harassing her and her mother. The man was "in the backyard yelling, and the (caller) was hiding in a shed waiting for police to arrive."
The man went to jail for public intoxication.
Dec. 12, 7:46 a.m.
A woman living on the 1400-block of West Capitol reported that a man had kicked in her door, breaking the chain latch. Police contacted the suspect nearby, and arrested the parolee.
The victim wished to press charges for vandalism.
Dec. 12, 2:20 p.m.
A Maryland Avenue resident reported that an unidentified male and female had stolen a package of the porch. The package contained a $25 sweatshirt, in medium, delivered by an online retailer.
Dec. 12, 2:14 p.m.
A police officer records that a 23-year old woman was involved in a hit-and-run accident at 19th and Jefferson, but fled the scene in her car.
Then, she "was involved in an other hit and run, with a residence."
She fled the car-versus-house crash on foot, and a different officer found her on 15th Street. There was a misdemeanor warrant out for the arrest of the Waterman Square Road resident, and she went to jail.
Dec. 12, 8 p.m.
An officer contacted a Taber Street man riding a bike near Joan and Kegle for a vehicle code violation. The 30-year old was found to be in possession of Vicodin and a methamphetamine pipe. He was cited and given a notice to appear in court.
Dec. 13, 12:06 a.m.
An officer stopped a car for a vehicle code violation at Kegle and Fremont. A warrant check showed that a 17-year old male passenger was wanted on a felony juvenile warrant out of Sacramento. He was booked into Sacramento's juvenile hall.
Dec. 13, 12:40 a.m.
A woman reported that her locked car was burglarized while she was in a Harbor Boulevard diner. The thief made off with a backpack containing schoolbooks and paperwork, for a loss of about $400. The incident was captured on surveillance video.
Dec. 13, 2 a.m.
A woman reported her car was burglarized while on the 2400-block of West Capitol. Gone were a backpack, laptop and cell phone, worth around $1380.
Dec. 13, 5:41 a.m.
Police responded to a 13th Street disturbance, and an officer contacted a 36-year old man at the scene. When asked if he had any weapons, the man admitted he had a knife. The officer removed the knife from one of the man's pockets, and did a pat-down search:
"In his lower left jacket pocket," reported the officer, "I felt a large baggie of a crystal-like substance." The man was placed under arrest for suspected possession of methamphetamine.
There was a second baggie inside the first, and the second one contained a "brown crystal."
In the man's wallet was found a "pay/owe sheet" – a simple accounting ledger that the officer believed was "consistent with selling narcotics."
The drugs seized from the Circle Street suspect included 61.5 grams of methamphetamine and 8.8 grams of heroin.
Dec. 13, 12 p.m.
A garage on the 1800-block of Merkley was found burglarized. Someone made off with about $500 worth of property, including a car battery charger, other tools and a house key.
Dec. 13, 12 p.m.
A 21-year old theft victim on Sands Court told police that someone had broken a window and stolen an X-box video game system and other items worth a total of about $370.
Dec. 13, 3:19 p.m.
A Rancho Cordova man reported that someone broke into his storage unit on Evergreen Avenue. Thieves took about $6,000 worth of property, including a washer, dryer, refrigerator, a couple of dining tables, clothes, bikes and a crib.
Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m.
A woman reported someone took her $550 bike from outside a motel on West Capitol.
Dec. 13, 10 p.m.
A police officer ran a license check on a red Chevy Malibu at the intersection of Harbor and Beacon boulevards. Dispatchers told the officer the car was stolen. The officer called for backup and pulled the car over on US 50 east of 15th Street.
The 25-year old man behind the wheel was then arrested and read his Miranda rights.
He told an officer that "a female he 'hooked up' with allowed him to borrow the car," which "belonged to the unknown female's baby dad."
He couldn't come up with the woman's name.
The suspect had a previous conviction on a stolen vehicle charge, and he was jailed.
Dec. 14, 2:50 p.m.
During an incident "100 yards west of Jefferson":
"An aggressive dog charged officers at a transient camp and it was shot."
Dec. 14, 7 p.m.
A Madrone Avenue woman reported that known suspects assaulted in her apartment and took $300 worth of items, including two mobile phones and some food.
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Changes coming to 'senior shuttle' in West Sacramento
By Al Zagofsky
West Sac's Senior Shuttle passengers are anticipating changes to the service, with the changes scheduled for review and approval at the Dec. 17 West Sacramento Council meeting.
Currently, West Sac and the United Christian Center partner to provide door-to-door shuttle service for seniors and disabled to the Recreation Center on Wednesdays for knitting and crocheting, and on Thursdays for Bingo; for two monthly shopping trips, and to the 'Commission on Agin'g meetings. The round trip fare's normal price of $3.00 costs qualified riders $1.50, with the additional $1.50 subsidized by the city of West Sacramento.
West Sac's contract with the United Christian Center is ending, with the Center indicating that they do not plan to renew; and further, plan to withdraw from their transit operations.
On Dec. 3, members of the existing ridership attended a meeting at the Recreation Center sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department.
At the meeting, Erik Reitz, Associate Transportation Planner for Yolo County Transportation District said that existing riders of the current Senior Shuttle can use the existing Yolo Bus scheduled and Special Paratransit Service in the city of West Sacramento.
It has been proposed that the fares for qualified riders remain the same when they do this, with the City of West Sacramento continuing to contribute $1.50 for the paratransit service.
The city council will take up the matter on its Dec. 17 agenda.
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Hanging out in a cemetery can be fun
I have a strange little confession to make. When I need to get away from everything and everyone for a few days, I often jump in my little truck and head down into Southern California, often ending up somewhere out in the desert, although usually near wonderfully civilized places like Palm Springs. And on the way, especially while I am in and around the Los Angeles area, I have been known to stop off at some of the more famous cemeteries down there that are the final resting places for many of the television and movie stars of my youth. Anyway, I happened to mention this to a friend of mine the other day and I could see by the expression on his face that he was a little worried about me.
"Maybe you have just reached that age where death is becoming a little more real to you," he suggested.
"No, I have always liked cemeteries, even when I was young, especially historic ones. And the one we have right over the bridge in Sacramento is a great place to hang out. All kinds of interesting people are buried there, including a bunch of California governors, Civil War veterans, quite a few of the famous Crocker family, and even Alexander Hamilton's son, who died in one of those cholera epidemics that used to be really common in this area back in the 1840s and 1850s. And if you go down to Southern California there are a bunch of Forest Lawn cemeteries that are the final resting place of lots of famous people like Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Ricky Nelson, Steve Allen, Charles Laughton, Michael Jackson, and the list goes on and on. Oh, and another really interesting cemetery down there is Los Angeles Cemetery. That's where Marilyn Monroe is buried. Did you know that the bid on e-Bay for the empty crypt just above hers has now reached $4.6 million dollars?"
"Really?" said my friend, not knowing how to change the subject. "Well, I guess since most of the old movie stars lived and worked in the Los Angeles area, it's only natural that they died and were buried there, too."
"One of the most interesting cemeteries I ever visited was a place called Desert Memorial Park," I continued, "which is down around Palm Springs. I stopped by there once to check out William Powell's grave – you know, the guy who starred in all of those great old `Thin Man' movies – and guess who I stumbled across in the process?"
"Who?" asked my friend very reluctantly.
"Frank Sinatra – Old Blue Eyes himself! And I was surprised by what an unpretentious gravesite he had, just a flat marker on the ground with his name, the dates of his birth and death, and an old song lyric of his — `The best is yet to come' – chiseled into the stone. And did you know that he was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a pack of Camel cigarettes?"
"No, I didn't know that."
"But the one grave I've always wanted to visit was Charlie Chaplin's, and you know what happened to him, don't you?"
"No, what?"
"Well, Charlie died on Christmas Day in 1977 at the age of 88, and his family buried him in a really nice cemetery in Switzerland, not far from where he had lived for many years after America wouldn't let him back into the country because of his politics. But a couple of months later his body was dug up and stolen from the graveyard and the thieves wanted $600,000 from his grieving wife before they would give it back."
"Really?" asked my friend, suddenly interested in our conversation for the first time. "So what did his wife do?"
"Well, she told them that she wouldn't pay the ransom, because Charlie would have considered the whole thing ridiculous and even humorous, so the thieves then threatened the lives of some of their eight children, all of whom Charlie had fathered after his 54th birthday, which was his age when they got married."
"But the family did get poor Charlie's body back, didn't they?" asked my friend with interest.
"Yes, but only after a five or six week investigation by the local police who finally found out that a couple of out-of-work auto mechanics from Bulgaria of all places had dug up Charlie and re-buried him in an old cornfield about a mile from his home. So the authorities arrested the thieves and went out and got Charlie back and returned him to his original resting place. But this time they buried him in a very heavy cement grave to prevent any future theft attempts."
"Wow, that's quite a story," said my friend. "And I guess that's probably at the heart of why you like to visit graveyards, isn't it? You know, the fact that every life has its own story, and you can stand there and think about the great life that someone you really admired has lived."
"Well," I admitted, "I usually just like to stand there and whisper to myself something like, `Even though you got to be rich and famous and I didn't, you are gone, and I'm still here'!"
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West Sac celebrates tree-lighting
Among the entertainers at Friday evening's Holiday Tree Lighting party were members of River City High School's Advanced Vocal Ensemble, shown here at the railings above the crowd.
Hundreds of citizens gathered to meet ceremony and watch the lights go on at the tree outside city hall, 1110 West Capitol Ave.
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West Sac woman is champion for California's senior citizens
By Al Zagofsky
News-Ledger Correspondent
For three days in October, 120 members of the California Senior Legislature met in the State Capitol building to propose legislation regarding senior citizens at both state and federal levels. Charlotte Dorsey of West Sacramento attended as an Assembly Member representing Yolo County.
"I think the California Senior Legislature is extremely important," Dorsey said. "I heard a quote the other day, It was by a radio personality, he said, 'Discrimination against seniors is the only remaining acceptable discrimination.' I believe that is true."
"Until you become of that age, you do not realize how differently seniors are treated many times," she continued, "and how the existing services are not necessarily geared for seniors."
"There are a lot of ways this happens. From the way that people communicate with seniors to the kinds of laws that are put in place that may or may not include support for seniors."
"Everything from putting in sidewalks and making sure that the handicap ramps are kept in working order—so that when people go from a sidewalk to a street, there isn't a pothole in the bottom of a ramp."
The California Senior Legislature was established by state law to help preserve and enhance the quality of life for older Californians and their families, and is primarily funded by the Code 402 checkoff on the California State Income Tax form.
Forty Senior Senators and eighty Senior Assembly members are selected in elections in 33 planning service areas as established by the federal Older Americans Act of 1965. Area 4/Yolo County, is represented by Senior Senators: Gloria Plasencia – Foresthill, and Lola Young – Sacramento; and Senior Assembly Members: Seth Brunner – Davis, Charlotte Dorsey – West Sacramento, Pam Epley – Arcata, and Lynne Farrell – Lincoln.
Dorsey first became acquainted with the CSL early last year through her involvement with the Area 4 Agency on Aging Advisory Council. She and fellow Assembly Member Seth Brunner were appointed to represent Yolo County currently on the Council. The Council elected Dorsey as a CSL Senior Assembly Member.
"The California Senior Legislature was proposed in 1979, and its first session was convened in 1981," Dorsey explained. "You have to be over 60, and be elected by your peers."
"There are limited voices for seniors in the state and in the country," she noted. "There are not many like the CSL—and it's all volunteers."
"Without the CSL, there would be fewer voices for seniors," Dorsey concluded. "They would be forgotten."
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I am sure some of you have faced this before, but I am really struggling here (or at least my DH is struggling). When my LO was around 5 weeks old we introduced a bottle, because I had to start working again 6 weeks post partum. He did ok with it, didn't love it but took it just fine. Starting at 6 weeks, I was gone for 4ish hours at a time and he again did ok with the bottle that whole week. Fast forward to the last few days and he won't take it at all. He just screams and screams bloody murder. He is almost 8 weeks old and I don't know what to do. I have to work. What should I recommend to my poor DH? How are we supposed to feed this baby while I am away?? Is this just a phase or is he doomed to hate the bottle forever?
(PS--We have three different types of bottles / nipples, and he doesn't want any of them. Oh, and I am flattered by this, I love nursing him...but I worry about his relentless screaming and my poor DH's sanity.)


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When he was younger, my son would pepper me with questions about how to do things. "How can I make a one-man flying machine?" was one that piqued his interest early on—enough so that he bypassed Mom's knowledge base and went straight to the President of the United States (then Bill Clinton). Bill wrote back, telling Conor that NASA was working hard on things like that and that Conor should study hard and stay in school. But Conor was a dreamer. He was a creative kid who could be kept happy and busy with a lump of Sculpey clay or a pencil and a pad of paper. The regimentation of school did not suit him, but he was easy to like so he never got into big trouble even when he missed deadlines or skipped class to work in the "tech office" in high school. His teachers would wag their fingers at him and then smile and tousle his golden head. His father and I worried about him too much, but we always had faith in his creative skills and hoped they would serve him well as an adult.
Cut to Conor as an adult. Faced with a sheaf of papers from his co-op board for making some slight alterations to his new apartment, Conor laments that this is too much like schoolwork. I reply that being an adult is what they were trying to prepare him for in school.
But even with his tendency to dream, Conor has already accomplished big things. A film school drop-out, he never stopped making films. Using the new technologies available—all of which he managed to master without formal instruction, seeming to achieve mind-meld with Final Cut Pro and other software—he made short films, wrote screenplays and edited other people's work. He landed a job at a French film school in Manhattan, first supervising college-level film students, then teaching pre-production and cinematography. He is as focused as a teacher as he was scattered as a student. He says teaching has made him understand what his teachers were trying to tell him. He just had to learn it himself.
It is hard to watch your children make mistakes knowing you can't help them. Sometimes I feel like the voice on my GPS trying to guide them "recalculating... recalculating..." as they ignore my well-earned wisdom.
Five years ago, at age 20, Conor wrote the screenplay for what would evolve to be his first feature film. With a cast and crew that became a kind of family, he saw a dream become reality. We watched as he began to value collaboration—a skill they tried to instill in middle school but one he never valued until recently. He learned the value of a script supervisor and became a more nimble filmmaker. He used his diverse talents as a writer, cinematographer, editor and composer, but he wasn't afraid to let go as an auteur when the film would benefit. My proudest moment came when he edited a short section of himself onscreen, forsaking his cameo for a tighter scene.
In April, the film, "Killing the Dog" premiered at TakeTwo Film Festival in Manhattan, garnering an award for Outstanding Film. His new family of collaborators shared the stage with him as we watched from the audience. There will be more festivals we hope, and there are already more film projects. Although he didn't follow the President's advice precisely, he has managed to make some of his dreams come true.


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It's not exactly a manger.
It's a hospital room at Gundersen Lutheran.
"No, there was no big star hanging overhead leading the way, no," said Mary Kulmaczewski, holding her baby girl in her arms.
"I think we had a lot of green lights," said her husband, Joseph Kulmaczewski.
On Christmas Day, Mary and Joseph Kulmaczewski celebrated a very special birth -- the birth of their daughter, Lucy Noelle.
Born a month early, the coincidence was far from her parents' minds as they raced to the hospital on Christmas morning.
"One of the nurses said, 'Well, isn't that neat that Mary and Joseph had their baby on Christmas?'" said Mary Kulmaczewski.
Just down the hall, another Christmas baby was born.
Joseph Curtis Nevsimal was 10 days late, but made it just in time for his mom's birthday.
"It just amazes me, like, what are the odds of that ever happening?" said Brittany Nevsimal.
That's right. A Christmas baby had a Christmas baby.
The good news for dad Josh Nevsimal is it'll be really hard to forget either of their birthdays.
"I'm sure I'm going to spoil him year-round anyways," he said.
Call it luck, call it coincidence, call it fate.
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50 year old time capsule from Franklin Elementary opened
Students of past and present enjoyed a history lesson Tuesday on La Crosse's Northside Elementary School.
A time capsule from more than 50 years ago at Franklin Elementary was opened for the public.
Fifth grade students did the research to find the time capsule in the old building's cornerstone.
Once it was opened, staff worked on contacting the people whose names were found inside. It contained pieces of the school's history; things like tests, pictures, and newspaper articles.
"I was really surprised at how thorough they were. I think they did an excellent job putting together the contents of a time capsule that reflected the times," said 5th grade Northside Elementary teacher Debra Keller.
The teacher thinks there may be more time capsules buried where Franklin stood, and wonders what they'll find at Roosevelt.
Students are also putting together a new time capsule for future generations to find.
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Subject: Agency Message from Superintendent Schiller 1-16-04
Dear Colleagues,
The issue before us today - as it was yesterday, and it will be tomorrow · is simply, what is in the best interests of our 2.2 million school children served by the districts and schools.
So long as we are focused minute by minute, hour by hour, and day by day on that inescapable pledge, then our work is noble, vital, important, and for me, very much appreciated.
The ISBE, of which you are all a part, is under scrutiny and will be, as it always has been, criticized·sometimes fairly and accurately and sometimes unfairly and inaccurately.
I will continue to represent my board and you, members of the agency, with dignity, intellectual honesty, and a dedication to my work and profession.
I ask that you carry on your work with high standards and professionalism so that no one can level a charge against any of us of not fulfilling our responsibilities when faced with adversity.
I cannot predict what may unfold in the future in terms of the State Board or your status, but know that we should take personal and professional pride in whatever good works we do.
Should you wish to speak with me personally, please let me know.
Thank you.
Robert Schiller