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North Central College today is fertile ground for collaborations across disciplines and experiments with curriculum, facilities design and technology. It adds up to better opportunities for student learning and liberal arts education relevant to the 21st century.
In the fast-paced world of election-year politics, the students of William Muck and Suzanne Chod are tweeting about the fast-paced political scene.
Both assistant professors of political science, Muck and Chod require students to set up Twitter accounts for their phones and tablets (like an iPad). Outside of class, the professors and their students send Twitter messages at all hours of the day and night about any breaking news topic. A hashtag (#) with the course number makes all the messages easy for everyone to find.
"Twitter has been a wonderful classroom tool for getting students to engage in global affairs," says Muck. "As the term went on students started using Twitter to carry out discussions of world events as well as their reading assignments."
For Chod's capstone course, students tweet relevant news stories (sharing a web link). "They will frequently tweet a story with a phrase like, 'just like we discussed in class today.' They're making the connections. To set a good example and encourage participation, I also tweet stories and pose questions."
Students like Twitter but have found negative aspects, too. "I am enjoying the use of Twitter," says Ross Artley '12, a political science major. "I see a broad range of issues that I might not otherwise have been made aware. But I do feel that the 140 character limit is very frustrating—I'd rather have a few sentences to respond."
Emily Schaub '12 was skeptical at first but now sees the value of Twitter for class. "I originally liked keeping it as my outside-of-school time-waster," she says. "But I've had some meaningful discussion via Twitter with classmates and quite often with Dr. Chod. She answers questions that I have while I'm reading without having to email or wait until class time."
Nicole LeDonne '12 continues to be a fan even after her political science class ended. "For me, using Twitter was a fun and interesting way to get closer with people in class. I still use my Twitter account to tweet articles and keep in contact with my classmates."
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Salem cop charged with OVI resigns
SALEM -A nearly 20-year veteran of the Salem Police Department resigned Friday, just a few days after being suspended without pay pending the outcome of a case against him for charges of drunken driving and marked lanes.
Gary Poage submitted his letter of resignation to Salem Police Chief J.T. Panezott, with copies made for Mayor John Berlin, Service/Safety Director Ken Kenst, Auditor Betty Brothers and the Salem Civil Service Commission.
"He has that right," Panezott said, opting against further comment.
Poage, 47, was charged with OVI and marked lanes by Canfield Police after a traffic stop early last Sunday morning on South Broad Street. He was found to be more than three times over the legal limit for alcohol after blowing a .260 during a portable breath test. The legal limit in Ohio is .08. At the police station, he agreed to a chemical test which resulted in a reading of .244, also over the legal limit.
Poage entered a plea of not guilty during arraignment Wednesday night in Mahoning County Court #5 in Canfield. A pretrial hearing is set for March 20, according to online court records.
Items police took from his car included two empty beer bottles and two plastic cups containing what appeared to be beer, according to the arresting officer's report. His driver's license was also seized and his driving privileges suspended.
After noting he was suspending Poage without pay pending the outcome of the court case, Panezott said he was evaluating Poage's personnel file "to decide if any other action will be taken prior to this being resolved in court."
He also noted that he was evaluating the personnel file in the written notification to Poage dated Tuesday regarding the suspension.
The letter also said, "If this case results in a conviction on the OVI charge it is my intention to terminate your employment with the City of Salem Police Department."
Poage had been with the department since June 1993 and in that time he received numerous favorable performance evaluation reports which included high praise for his neatness, efficiency, cooperativeness, judgment, dependability, initiative and public relations.
The latest report dated in 2009 and signed by former Chief Bob Floor and Lt. Don Beeson said he did an "excellent job of seeing cases through to the end." The report also said he related to people well, resulting in several confessions.
He received a commendation for an act of valor in March 1998 when his actions resulted in saving the life of a young man in Salem. He received another commendation in August 1997 for an investigation of multiple thefts which resulted in the return of some electronic equipment. Letters from people he had helped recognized his professionalism and abilities in serving the public.
His record, though, also included other disciplinary suspensions besides the one he received this week.
According to a record of disciplinary action from Jan. 8, 2009, Poage was suspended for 30 days without pay for "reporting for duty while intoxicated."
A letter in 2010 from former city Service/Safety Director Steve Andres said he received a verbal warning for excessive absenteeism in March 2010 and a written reprimand in May 2010 and then in October 2010, he was suspended for three days without pay for excessive absenteeism, noting the taking of sick days before scheduled days off.
In March 2011, he was suspended without pay for 15 days, again for excessive absenteeism, a report of disciplinary action said.
According to records of disciplinary action for September 1999, he was suspended without pay for periods of 15 days and three days related to an off-duty incident in February 1999. He had been charged with misdemeanor counts for alleged criminal damaging, aggravated menacing and discharging a firearm while intoxicated by Perry Township Police, but was acquitted.
He later filed a lawsuit against the Perry Township Police Department and Perry Township which was eventually settled, with no details of the settlement released.
With Poage gone and another patrolman injured on the job, Panezott said he's currently down a pair of officers. He had already started to move the sergeant who's working part-time with the Columbiana County Drug Task Force to full-time with the DTF, but pulled him back because he's needed to help with coverage. Plans to move another patrolman to sergeant and then hire another patrolman also remain pending.
Panezott said a civil service examination for patrolman is scheduled for March 26. Eventually he'll be hiring two new patrolmen, one to replace Poage and one to replace the officer who will move to sergeant.
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Skip to comments.Palin Facebook Post on Ground Zero Mosque Deleted
Posted on 07/22/2010 1:31:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A Facebook note recently posted by Sarah Palin in which the former GOP vice presidential candidate called the planned mosque near Ground Zero "an intolerable and tragic mistake" was deleted from the social networking site -- apparently by Facebook users who reported the note as "racist/hate speech."
The note was originally posted on July 20 but disappeared; Palin reposted it today, with an addendum saying. "The original post of this statement (on July 20, 2010) was somehow unintentionally deleted by mistake or technical glitch."
However, it seems that the "deletion" was actually caused by Facebook users who reported Palin's note as containing "racist/hate speech." There was at least one campaign on Tumblr to have users report Palin's note.
Tumblr blogger "moneyries" -- also known as Brian Ries, a contributor to NBC New York orchestrated one such campaign -- posted on July 22: "Sarah Palin's Facebook note 'has either been deleted, or does not exist.' SHE HAS BEEN REFUDIATED!!!"
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
Two-Facebook !
Taken down and put back, it's world headlines don't cha know.
Journolista, indeed!
Obviously there are fanatics who disagree with Sarah. That they seek to silence her demonstrates the fascism of their position.
Let 'em delete it.
Hopefully, someone will delete that (**&ing mosque if it's ever built.
And I'll tape the broadcast and have multiple parties afterwards. (Sort of like the muzzies did for the twin towers.
What's good for the goose is good for the child molester worshipers.
It's straight from the liberals' playbook. They don't want to debate you, they want to shut you up. Shirley "Civil Rights" Sherrod wants Breitbart's Big Government web site shut down because it "divides us".
Facebook is run by leftists. There was some campaign to try to delete the post calling it "Hate speech" funny. I never saw the left making a fuss when liberals called for Sarah to be gang raped..but asking for this mosque to not be built, yeah that's hate speech..bastards..glad the posting is back up. Sarah will NOT be silenced
Not Facebook's fault. This is what the left does. They ask their little lefties to spend time at work flagging normal people's posts as "hate speech."
Facebook, like most other sites, deletes postings automatically when there are a certain number of flaggings.
Clever, these lefties, eh?
Normal people have better things to do in their lives than flag postings. Lefties have no life and are full of self-loathing and hate because they have nothing to look forward to and really despise their miserable putrid selves.
Palin doesn't need no stinkin' Facebook. She could launch her own social networking site bypass FB all together,
She got way more attention with that post. More people know about the Ground Zero Mosque, due to Sarah. Mission Accomplished.
Hear, hear!
So is the page back up?
Killing 3,000 Americans is "love" according to the Left Wing Loons.
She's one smart cookie.
This incident really draws a sharp distinction between those who see the insult a Muslim Mosque next to Ground Zero would be and those who prattle on about 'tolerance' without realizing the ramifications of effectively bowing to the wishes of those who share a religion with the same people who willfully murdered almost 3,000 human beings on September 11, 2001 and now want to erect a symbol of that same religion that is an insult to the memory of those who died.
This kind of selective amnesia is one reason why the media quickly stopped running film of the burning World Trade Center and the horror of people jumping to their deaths to escape the enveloping flames. Flames caused by a hijacked airliner flown by young Muslim fanatics seeking to 'honor' their god by murdering people. How many clips of that film have been seen on TV since a few days following 9/11? I haven't seen any - and I doubt we ever will again. It would spoil the game of playing 'tolerance' and 'understanding' that the left enjoys - if America and it's people are the victim.
However, Muslims seem to play that game very well, don't they? Crying about 'religious freedom' (try building a Christian church in Saudi Arabia), 'tolerance', 'reaching out', blah, blah, blah. All the stupid buzz words that send a tingle up liberal's legs. It's a sham. They want to build a symbol of what they consider a victory over America, and the brain-dead folks that authorized this monstrosity played along. The NYC mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a fake 'Republican' (yeah, right) is just as bad, but who would have expected better? I didn't.
Sarah Palin gets it - so the left wants to silence her. It won't happen. This Facebook 'glitch' is almost funny if it didn't, once again, demonstrate the petty nonsense liberals will engage in to silence opposition. They failed. They'll keep failing. Sarah wins. She'll keep winning. God bless her.
He's the toad on the right and this is his Twitter page:
From the link you posted...
UPDATE: Noyes (A spokesman for Facebook) emails with an update:
"The note in question did not violate our content standards but was removed by an automated system. We're always working to improve our processes and we apologize for any inconvenience this caused."
I'd pay to see that.
Maybe their automated system deletes, without human intervention, if there are a certain number of complaints about a posting. They need to instead have a moderator review before allowing deletions. Works on FR!
Just darn. Another name (Brian Ries) to add my intel files. When TSHTF there is going to be a very target rich environment.
I've taken to "reporting" anyone remotely offensive now. Others should do the same. Hell, we could organize and pick a digg user per day to report. Just for fun. No reason to actually use digg. Except boredom.
I still see it on my Facebook page!
We should all duplicate her post on our facebook pages!
Nice English, Ries. You hammerhead.
Anyhow, it now appears that she has been "un-refudiated". To coin another new word.
Isn't it amazingly funny (not HaHa funny)how the liberals and blacks have such strong affinity for muslims regardless of the situation?
Or "defudiated"?
Facebook is run by leftists.
If so, they're not doing a very good job of keeping the conservatives and those against Islam and those against the mosque in New York City - off of Facebook, then ... LOL ... [because they're all over the place on Facebook ... ]
Normal people have better things to do in their lives than flag postings. Lefties have no life and are full of self-loathing and hate because they have nothing to look forward to and really despise their miserable putrid selves.
I don't know that the conservatives and Israel supporters don't have enough time to flag those anti-semites there and pro-Islamists. I just banned one guy a few hours ago from a page for being radically antisemitic. And then there's the JIDF on Facebook (the Jewish Internet Defense Force) who does a real good job of it, too. And there are a ton of others who are all other those guys ... they're doing it ... :-)
Palin doesnt need no stinkin Facebook. She could launch her own social networking site bypass FB all togethe
She does a pretty good job of it on Facebook. I wouldn't advise Sarah Palin to leave that network. It all works to her favor.
No, they're pretty much - right on the money there. There is a problem with the "automated system" in which those (like Muslims) can "gang up" on some post or person and "mass report" them and the computer deletes it. That is a problem and I sure do hope that they can work out the problem somehow. I'm sure they don't want to have a person "manually read" everything that gets a complaint - so I'm not sure how they can really work it out. But, it does need to get worked on. I can give you some examples of "mass reporting" and a website that was geared towards that ...
Maybe their automated system deletes, without human intervention, if there are a certain number of complaints about a posting. They need to instead have a moderator review before allowing deletions. Works on FR!
It does ... but there are way too many people and way too many posts to have a person manually reading every complaint. It would cause the whole Facebook thing to collapse of its own weight, if they were to assign people to do that. You can only do it - if it doesn't get beyond a certain number of posts and people. Facebook is way way beyond that ...
I hope the "intolerant group" that "refudiated her" isn't takng names. :)
Sorry for the length...but here is the whole text of her post in case no one else has posted it. If they have, then I also apologize for the duplication.
An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground Share Today at 10:47am Earlier today, Mayor Bloomberg responded to my comments about the planned mosque at Ground Zero by suggesting that a decision not to allow the building of a mosque at that sacred place would somehow violate American principles of tolerance and openness. No one is disputing that America stands for and should stand for religious tolerance. It is a foundation of our republic. This is not an issue of religious tolerance but of common moral sense. To build a mosque at Ground Zero is a stab in the heart of the families of the innocent victims of those horrific attacks. Just days after 9/11, the spiritual leader of the organization that wants to build the mosque, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, suggested that blame be placed on the innocents when he stated that the United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened and that in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA. Rauf refuses to recognize that Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of our ally, Israel, and refuses to provide information about the sources of funding for the $100 million mosque. Rauf also plays a key role in a group behind the flotilla designed to provoke Israel in its justifiable blockade of Gaza. These are just a few of the points Americans are realizing as New York considers the proposed mosque just a stones throw away from 9/11s sacred ground. I agree with the sister of one of the 9/11 victims (and a New York resident) who said: This is a place which is 600 feet from where almost 3,000 people were torn to pieces by Islamic extremists. I think that it is incredibly insensitive and audacious really for them to build a mosque, not only on that site, but to do it specifically so that they could be in proximity to where that atrocity happened. Many Americans, myself included, feel it would be an intolerable and tragic mistake to allow such a project sponsored by such an individual to go forward on such hallowed ground. This is nothing close to religious intolerance, its just common decency.
- Sarah Palin
*Note: The original post of this statement (on July 20, 2010) was somehow unintentionally deleted by mistake or technical glitch.
Well, I just duplicated it below on this thread...so copy and paste at will...unless MY post gets deleted! :)
Hello, dear lady! My personal feeling is that truth can't be repeated often enough, especially in this day and age.
Yep! City squares all over the country will be filled by old ladies knitting while they watch endless lines of "target-rich environment" participants climb the stairs...
Good evening! You are exactly right and that is why I just
had to post what she said...so it can't be distorted and
perverted without having the evidence at hand. (I also saved
it to my FB inbox. LOL)
Sarah is a beacon of the truth, as is "your" very brave and
intelligent Michele Bachmann. She rocks out loud in my book!
The Tea Party Caucus was simply brilliant on her part!
She and Sarah together? A solid bedrock of truth!
There is now.
smoke + fog = smog.
Now we have REFUDIATED.
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ROTH, Hazel Marie
ROTH, Hazel Marie, 93, of Bridgeport, died Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
She was born January 23, 1920 in Bridgeport, a daughter of the late Robert and Dorthea (Rinerich) Fowler.
She was a retired employee of the Kroger Company Bridgeport, St. Joseph Catholic Church Wolfhurst, the CWC of the Church, and a former member of Bridgeport Village Council.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her loving husband, William "Bill" Roth; a brother, Robert Fowler; sisters, Alma Kolb, Irene Reese, and Leota DeMuth.
Hazel is survived by a son, Mark (Rita) Roth, and Nanette (Edward) Porter both of Bridgeport; four grandchildren, Aaron, Windham (Matthew) Holtsclaw, Morgan Roth and her fiance Matthew McCauley, and Aislynn Porter, and her beloved Chloe.
Friends are invited to a celebration of Hazel's life on Friday April 26, 2013, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at Wilson Funeral Home 920 National Road Brookside.
Mass of Christian Burial will be said on Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Wolf hurst with Fr. John Mucha officiating.
Interment in St. Anthony's Cemetery Blaine. Wake services will be recited on Friday at 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Hazel's family would like to thank Dr. Lazo and the staff (nurses, aids, respiratory, lab, PT, OT, housekeeping, dietary, and activities) of EORH LTC facility.
The love, dedication and care provided to Hazel was given as if Hazel were the staff's own loved one. You have our respect and gratitude.
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Keymap documentation
A keymap is data structure that translates a sequence of keystrokes into
a message.
In order to create a keymap:
(setq km (keymap))
In order to add a key definition to a keymap (km):
(key km "\eA" 'up)
(key km "\eB" 'down)
(key km "\eC" 'right)
(key km "\eD" 'left)
In order to invoke a keymap:
(setq env (list ob1 ob2 ob3 ob4))
(kmprocess km env)
When kmprocess is called, it enters a character input loop calling kbin to
get single unechoed characters from the keyboard (note that you'll have to
figure out how to do single character input on your system and write a new
version of xlkbin.c to implement it). When a sequence of characters is found
that matches one of the sequences defined in a key function call, the
corresponding message is sent. Kmprocess tries to send the message to each
of the objects in the environment list. It stops when it finds an object
that knows how to answer the message. Along with the message selector given
in the key definition, kmprocess also sends the sequence of characters that
matched as a single string parameter.
I got this idea from emacs, but thought that it might be interesting to
implement it in a more general way to allow for experimenting with uses
other than text editors. I have used it to implement a form processing
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Jeanne LenoMarch 19,2014
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MONTPELIER Jeanne Claire Seguin Leno, 70, of Barre Street, Montpelier, and a resident of Woodridge Nursing Home, died March 14, 2014, at Central Vermont Medical Center.
She was born in Barre March 21, 1943, the daughter of Paul L. and Millicent (Fleurrey) Seguin.
Jeanne attended St. Michaels Grade School and graduated from St. Michaels High School in the class of 1960.
On April 8, 1961, she married Bernard C. Leno in St. Augustine Catholic Church.
Jeanne worked at National Life Insurance Co. and also for Thelma Corry, CPA, and she retired from the state of Vermont Agency of Transportation, Right of Way Division.
She loved to knit, read and play bingo. Jeanne will always be remembered for her dancing days with Bernie. She loved visiting with her family and friends.
She is survived by her mother, Millicent, of East Montpelier; five children, Michelle Dion and her husband, Mark, of Berlin, Bernard C. Leno Jr. and his wife, Vanessa, of East Calais, Christine Christensen and her husband, Jon, of Waterville, Maine, Christopher Leno and his wife, Laura, of Montpelier, and Crystal Lamson and her husband, Rob, of Northfield; 15 grandchildren, Melissa Cadorette and her husband, Jon, Monica Dion, Whitney Leno, Amanda Leno, Nicholas Christensen, Betsy Leno, Andrew Leno, Jennifer Christensen, Tabitha-Lee Leno, Nicholas Lamson, Curtis Leno, Hailey Lamson, Megan Leno, Elyza Lamson, and Autumn-Taylor Leno; five great-grandchildren, Riley Cadorette, Lydia Cadorette, Warren Richards, Hayden Leno and Jerimiah Leno; two sisters, Gaylene Kramer and Paula Perry; and many nieces and nephews.
Jeanne was predeceased by her husband, Bernie, on Dec. 11, 2009; and her father, Paul Seguin, on April 24, 2013.
A funeral Mass and burial will be announced at a later date in the spring.
The family wants to thank the staff at Woodridge Nursing Home for their excellent and always kind care of our mother. We would also like to thank the nurses and staff of CVMC. They were the best.
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If you needed any more evidence that U.S. immigration law needs a complete overhaul, let me introduce you to Veronica Jones.
A 22-year-old native of Barrie, Ontario, the Canadian citizen came to the U.S. in August 2008 on an academic visa to attend Arizona State University. After working hard for four years, Jones graduated from ASU in May 2012 with a degree in journalism.
While in school, she met and started dating Zach Wilson, a native of Crystal Lake.
With school over and their professional careers in front of them, the couple decided to move closer to Wilson's family. They found an apartment in McHenry and started searching for work.
Wilson, who received his degree in manufacturing engineering, got a job with a manufacturing company in Lake Geneva, Wis. Jones initially got a reporting internship with Milwaukee Magazine.
Wanting a full-time job and hoping to work closer to home, she applied for and was offered a job with Shaw Media, parent company of the Northwest Herald, in February.
Late last year, Shaw Media decided to launch a new weekly newspaper and website in the Barrington area, a new market for us. Jones was hired as its reporter.
As with any startup, there was some risk involved. There was some established competition for both readers and advertisers in the market, though we felt we could fill a void.
Jones jumped into the project enthusiastically. She spent countless hours introducing herself around town, seeking story ideas, and writing dozens of interesting news stories and features.
Our first edition published March 7, and we've delivered a new Barrington Life each Thursday since. It's been a huge success.
I've spent more than 20 years as a professional journalist, about 15 of those as an editor of some sort. Part of an editor's job is listening to readers. You learn early on that the vast majority of readers who call, write or visit you do so when they're not happy about something. That's just a fact of life.
But the complete opposite has been the case with Barrington Life. I've heard from a number of readers thanking us for bringing them a truly local newspaper. Jones deserves the credit for much of that.
Upon graduation from Arizona State, Jones received a standard, 12-month extended visa that allowed her to stay and work in the country. The extended visa, she was told by an immigration attorney, usually leads to a more permanent work visa.
In April, Jones traveled to the U.S. Immigration Services office in Port Huron, Mich., to apply for that work visa. There, she was told that, well, she was employed in the wrong field.
Chapter 16 of the North American Free Trade Agreement – yes, that's NAFTA – establishes certain "preferred" professions that allow immigrants from countries such as Canada to receive work visas.
Had Jones been a technical writer, hotel manager, librarian or psychologist, she would have had little trouble getting a work visa.
Jobs that are science- or math-focused dominate the "preferred" list.
But journalist? Sorry. No green card for you.
I'm not an immigration expert and I couldn't possibly get into all the minutiae here. (Not that you'd want me to, anyway.) But in my short foray into this topic, I've learned that the U.S. also has "preferred" countries from which immigrants should come as well. Citizens of China and Singapore take precedence in the immigration process over many other countries, for example.
I understand the need for immigration laws. We couldn't possibly accommodate every foreign national who wants to come here, nor should we.
But should we turn away bright professionals who play by the rules, receive their education here, and have no problem finding a decent job after graduation?
There are more than 11 million undocumented workers in this country, many of them working here illegally. Yet Jones – despite following all of the rules – won't be able to continue in her job effective June 2 until she works out her immigration issues. Thankfully, she won't be deported as she tries to do just that.
In her final column – final for now, hopefully – in Barrington Life, to publish on Thursday, Jones writes this:
"I didn't get a degree in math, science or engineering because, frankly, it doesn't interest me. People who do the jobs in those fields are incredibly important, and I applaud them because I couldn't do it. But that is where the government's priorities lie.
"I do, however, think that the role of a journalist is important. People should know what's going on in their communities. I hope that you can tell from my writing that I am passionate about this job and this community. It has only been a few months, but I have enjoyed every second of getting to know the residents of Barrington.
"I hope to be able to return to Barrington Life in a few months, once I overcome this latest obstacle. ... I won't be far away, and you still might find me drinking that delicious pomegranate green tea at Cook Street Coffee. It's been so nice getting to know all of you and thank you for getting Barrington Life off to a great start!"
We wish Jones the best, and are standing by her as she continues to try to get a work visa. Once she does, we plan to bring her back.
In the meantime, we hope that President Barack Obama and Congress are serious about overhauling our convoluted – and, frankly, unfair – immigration policy.
We should be opening our arms – and our borders – to welcome talented, hardworking people such as Jones. Not the opposite.
• • •
American heroes: Monday is Memorial Day, a day when every American should take time to honor those heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
As the newspaper has on every Memorial Day for years, the Northwest Herald on Monday will publish a list of local soldiers who died while fighting for our freedom, from the Civil War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sadly, seven people from McHenry County have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004. Both wars are officially over, but thousands of troops remain in harm's way as we continue to help each country with rebuilding efforts.
Keep our active-duty troops in your thoughts and prayers.
And remember always that we live in a free and prosperous country in large part because of the sacrifices made by those who died while protecting our freedoms and way of life.
• Dan McCaleb of Crystal Lake is group editor of Shaw Media's suburban publications, which includes the Northwest Herald. He can be reached at 815-526-4603, or by email at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Dan_McCaleb.


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An Atlantic Beach woman was struck and killed by a school minibus Thursday morning as she tried to cross Beech Street on her way to work, police and witnesses said.
Nassau County police said Gloria Moreira, 56, was hit near Vernon Avenue at about 7 a.m. as she headed for the N 33 bus stop.
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The National Weather Service in Honolulu has extended a wind advisory for the entire state until 6 p.m. Monday.
Forecasters expect east-northeast trade winds up to 35 mph, with localized gusts of more than 50 mph. They say winds this strong can bring down tree branches, cause local power outages and make driving difficult, especially in high-profile vehicles on bridges and overpasses.
High winds caused power outages Sunday in East Honolulu and in Ahualoa on the Big Island.
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He's a nice player but hes never going to be a star. A nice 2nd player or more likely a good 3rd player.
He just doesn't have that killer instinct or ablity to make the players around him better to be called a star.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]In His Quiet Way, Chandler Has Emerged as a Knicks Star
By HOWARD BECK
Published: April 13, 2009
MIAMI The search for silver linings in a dismal Knicks season can lead in many directions, although the trail usually ends with an asterisk.
David Lee and Nate Robinson had breakout years. But they could leave as free agents this summer.
Chris Duhon emerged as a solid point guard. But he withered in the last two months.
Danilo Gallinari showed fabulous potential as a rookie. But he is now recovering from back surgery.
So when Coach Mike DAntoni was asked which player made the biggest impression this season, he did not pause.
Wilson Chandler jumps out real quick, DAntoni said Sunday before the Knicks played their final road game of the season, losing to the Heat, 122-105, in Miami.
Chandler was a relative mystery to the Knicks new coaching staff. He had hardly played as a rookie. But his size (6 feet 8 inches, 220 pounds), athleticism and body type reminded DAntoni of Shawn Marion, the former Phoenix Suns star. That alone was cause for excitement.
With the season down its final days, DAntoni is still bubbling with enthusiasm. Through 81 games, including 69 starts, Chandler had averaged 14.4 points and 5.4 rebounds. He has come on strong down the stretch, averaging 18.8 points and 5.5 rebounds in April.
Chandler has guarded every position on the court and can play offensively at shooting guard or either forward spot. He is regarded as the Knicks best post defender and one of their top perimeter defenders.
Perhaps most critically, Chandler is under contract beyond 2010, making him one of the Knicks few reliable building blocks.
Hes a great kid that works hard, and I really think he has a chance to become a star, DAntoni said. That will depend on him and his work that he puts in the summertime.
The encouraging news on that front is that Chandler plans to spend the off-season in New York, working with the coaching staff. His top priorities are improved ball-handling skills and shooting. Chandler had converted just 43.3 percent of his field goal attempts and 33.3 percent of his 3-point attempts going into Sundays game.
Chandlers energy sometimes wanes, particularly in transition. Although he is a willing passer, he sometimes forgets to look for teammates before making a move with the ball. But he has proved to be eminently coachable, almost to a fault.
You tell him something and you can see he goes right on the floor and tries to incorporate it in his game, DAntoni said. We have to be real careful about telling him something, because hell literally do what we tell him.
Off the court, Chandler is easily the most reserved Knick the yin to Robinsons yang. He speaks the same way he plays, with a quiet confidence, but no detectable swagger.
I still got a long way to go, Chandler said in typically soft tones.
Chandler seemed deeply appreciative of DAntonis high praise, but, he admitted: At the same time, Im kind of nervous, because of him looking at me like that. Its like I got to do a lot this summer, to get a whole lot better.
Of the current Knicks, only Chandler, Gallinari, Eddy Curry and Jared Jeffries are under contract beyond next season and the latter two are candidates to be traded. They need Chandler and Gallinari to blossom, and quickly.
Marion is a four-time All-Star, so DAntoni is hesitant to make the Marion-Chandler comparisons too strongly.
I had an old coach who once said, Yeah, hes good today, but he might be a serial killer in about two weeks, DAntoni said, chuckling. We want to be real careful. But I really like the guy.
I'm telling you guys, this kid has a great future.
He's a nice player but hes never going to be a star. A nice 2nd player or more likely a good 3rd player.
He just doesn't have that killer instinct or ablity to make the players around him better to be called a star.
chandler needs to be our starting shooting guard...he has the height to cause mismatches, and the athleticism to keep up with the faster guards
An article to overrated a young overhyped player who isn't that good or talented.
Chandler won't really be more than what he is now.
His attitude to the game will always be the same...it hasn't change since his freshman year of college.
Good role player.
Future starter on a competiive team? Maybe.
Chandler isn't that good of a shooter or ball handler to be a SG.
He's not that aggrssive with slashing either, whcih at times he can be ineffective without the ball.
i think he has the chance to be a real good player a few yrs down the road...given that amount of time, here in ny, continuing to grow the way he has season to season, i think he'll become a pretty big star for ny...especially if we get a James...i can see James and Chandler being a good 1 2 for our team...he still has a ton of growing to do, whether it's driving or shot selection or consistentcy w/e...i don't think he'll be a kobe or james status obviously, but think he has some potential to be one the best 2 man or so in the league..we need to see more 'unstoppable' from him...like nate goes into a state where he can't be stopped when he's hot..don't see tht too much from Chandler..


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Twenty years ago, when Bela Koe-Krompecher founded Anyway Records with his friend and co-worker Jerry Wick, he was young, ambitious and nearly broke. Also: frequently drunk and constantly heartsick. A full-time employee at Used Kids, he lived for records, rock shows and the camaraderie that comes when friends, music and booze converge.
Now, in his North Campus living room the week before Anyway's two-night anniversary party at Ace of Cups, Bela, 44, sips coffee while classical music streams from a laptop. His four-year-old son Bruno frequently, humorously interrupts our interview. It's common in this household.
"How can you do something with somebody crawling on you, calling you a poopy face?" Bela wonders.
The obstacles change with time, but Bela's common thread remains: He releases some of the greatest Columbus rock records.
Anyway began after Wick, the frontman for seminal Columbus punks Gaunt, nursed Bela "back to some sort of sanity" after a crushing breakup. Having contributed $25 to help fledgling Columbus label Datapanik release the first New Bomb Turks record, Bela had vinyl on the brain.
"I started realizing I had a little extra money because I didn't have a girlfriend," Bela explains. "And I loved Gaunt. So I was like, 'Why don't we put a single out?'"
All 500 copies of that single, "Jim Motherf---er," sold out. So did Anyway's next seven releases from Columbus mainstays including Greenhorn, Belreve and Monster Truck Five plus Athens rockers Appalachian Death Ride.
Even Dayton lo-fi masters Guided by Voices released music on Anyway. Bela tells a great story about the Used Kids tape deck mangling the only copy of GBV's "Hardcore UFO's."
Wick left Anyway in 1994 to focus on Gaunt. Meanwhile, Bela inked a nationwide product and distribution deal with San Francisco distributor Revolver.
"So Revolver for the next five years paid for everything," Bela explains. "LP and CD for the most part, then it was just CD because nothing was really selling."
After catching fire with those early records, Anyway's fortunes cooled upon signing with Revolver. When the deal expired in 1999, Revolver didn't renew. Anyway maintained national distribution, but funding was back on Bela's shoulders. He drank a lot that year.
"I was a little disenchanted," he remembers, "because the three bands who I had worked with really hard, which was Jenny [Mae] and Moviola and ADR, basically all had this opportunity to go somewhere musically to reach a wider audience, and for whatever circumstances it never happened."
Bela's spirits worsened when Wick died in a 2001 hit-and-run. Still, Anyway never stopped releasing albums — Tiara, The Patsys, Terribly Empty Pockets.
Bela moved to Florida, got sober and moved back. In 2005, he re-enrolled at Ohio State, rattling off three degrees in seven years. He's a social worker now.
The records keep coming: Ghost Shirt, The Lindsay, The Kyle Sowashes. Next year brings Connections, The Whiles and Winter Makes Sailors. Bela has more money and time, at least when not reining in rowdy children.
Anyway persists, and that's worth celebrating. So Bela scheduled some of the label's past and present greats (including Belreve's first show in 18 years) for two stacked nights at Ace of Cups. Although he prefers to be in bed early nowadays, he's happy to celebrate these bands.
He's also fired up about the charities that will benefit, including the National Alliance of Mental Illness, which helps Bela's clients — mostly ex-cons and homeless people — bust through red tape to get food stamps: "I can use this silly anniversary thing to make people more aware that as a society we're not treating people with the dignity that they need to be treated."
Read the full 7,000-word interview with Bela Koe-Krompecher at ColumbusAlive.com.
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TUSTEN, NY — At the Tusten town board meeting on Tuesday, August 13, the board members discussed and voted on becoming an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, in actions involving municipal home rule in the court of appeals of the State of New York.
This pertains to a local law that was passed by the towns of Dryden and Middlefield banning gas drilling and other heavy industrial uses. However, the towns were sued in state Supreme Court, and the cases have been making their way through the appellate levels of court. The Supreme Court judges ruled in favor of the towns.
In 2012, the cases were appealed to the appellate court, and four members of the Tusten town board voted to file an amicus curiae brief in that case. The Appellate Court then also ruled in favor of the towns. Now, the cases are being taken to the New York Court of Appeals, which is the highest court, and again the board was considering a new amicus curiae or brief.
There was much discussion about whether or not the amicus curiae had to do with gas drilling. Both supervisor Carol Ropke Wingert and councilman Tony Ritter said that it is a case of home rule, and whether the town wants to enforce it. Wingert said, "The issue of this is not about gas drilling; as a board, if this community was pro-gas, this gives this board the power to change our zoning to it; it actually works for you. It's giving your local board, with the input from its constituents, the chance to do what's right for your community."
Councilman Ned Lang said that he believes it is indeed about gas drilling. He said, "The state has a lot to say about what's going on in the town, whether we like to have independent home rule or not—we do. This is about gas drilling, and I'm pro-gas drilling, I've been very clear about that."
Ritter said, "This is not a state decision, this is a township decision. So if the townships want it, they can, if the townships don't want it, that's fine too. They've put it back in our hands, which then refers back to the comprehensive plan and the zoning plan, which is what the public worked on for a year and a half. So we're listening to what the public wants."
Lang responded, "What the public wants and what me as an individual land owner wants, doesn't always congeal."
After the discussion, the resolution was put to a vote and it passed 3-2, with Lang and councilman Norman Meyer dissenting. This means that the Town of Tusten, as amicus curiae, is supporting Dryden and Middlefield in their court rulings.
Along with this resolution, the board also voted on another contentious issue: casinos. The resolution was to support the enactments of a constitutional amendment authorizing Class III gaming in the State of New York, and to send a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo supporting his casino bill (see article on page 3). Wingert took a stand against casinos in Sullivan County but said, "The constituents that I talked to seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of casinos. Personally I am not for it, but I am going to vote yes." All of the other board members voted yes, and the resolution passed.
The meeting ended with a presentation by Heather Jacksy, the associate planner for the Planning Division of Sullivan County, about the Sullivan County Waterfront Revitalization plan. This plan would put six new river access points in six towns stretching from Hancock to Port Jervis, of which Narrowsburg is one. Jacksy said that, right now, that spot would be at the Ten Mile River access, but that is up for discussion. The board members agreed that the Department of Environmental Conservation access point might be a better location. Overall, the revitalization plan intends to enhance the Upper Delaware River as a tourist attraction, complete with many amenities. Jacksy said that anyone in the community can get involved with the planning.


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Woman injured in Trempealeau Co. fire
A fire Saturday afternoon in Trempealeau County sent one woman to the hospital and destroyed their family's home.
It happened around 4:45 p.m. at N51497 State Road 93, in the township of Albion. That's about one mile north of Eleva.
The lone occupant at the time of the fire, Devon Becker, told first responders she was trying to light the fireplace when an explosion occurred. Authorities say she may have been knocked unconscious for a short time. When Becker came to, the walls in the house were on fire.
Becker was able to escape on her own but she was transported to a hospital in the Twin Cities for burns. Authorities say she is in good condition.
Highway 93 was closed for approximately three hours near the home to accommodate the high number of fire tankers at the scene.
A dog and two cats also perished in the fire. The house and an attached garage are both considered a total loss.
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Ethics board drops complaint against Rastetter
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- State ethics regulators have dismissed an ethics complaint filed against Iowa Board of Regents member Bruce Rastetter, saying there weren't sufficient legal issue to investigate.
The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, meeting in Des Moines on Thursday, voted unanimously to dismiss the complaint.
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, a government watchdog group, filed the complaint against Rastetter, a prominent Republican businessman, on June 19.
The complaint alleges Rastetter misrepresented himself on financial disclosure forms by failing to list investments and income he gets from executive positions at corporations he oversees.
Rastetter on Monday filed an amended financial disclosure statement.
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'Creative Vision' at WAA
July 31, 2013 —
WURTSBORO, NY — "Creative Vision," an exhibit of original art and crafts made by artists David and Susan Pendergast, will be on display at the Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) hallery from August 3 though 31. There will be an artists' reception on Saturday, August 3, from 2 to 4 p.m. The reception is free and refreshments will be served.
Susan and David use wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques for their pieces and especially enjoy incorporating nature into their art work. Together they operate a small business venture called "Round Lake Pottery." Email email@example.com, or visit www.waagallery.org.


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The Wolf of Wall Street
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Didn't see it, trailers looked awful (plus shitty Kanye song). Was it basically paying to see rich douchebags pretend to be richer douchebags? lol
No, it was awesome. It's based on the book of the same name and Leo portrays the guy who wrote it. Jonah Hill completely blew me away too. I honestly didn't think he was capable of such a role. And the soundtrack is really great too.
Posted 01 January 2014 - 02:50 PM
3 hours seems a bit long with out breaks, but whatever. I wait for Netflix.
Posted 01 January 2014 - 02:52 PM
Scosese is 70 something, still making dope shit.
3 hours seems a bit long with out breaks, but whatever. I wait for Netflix.
I thought it would have dragged on, but it flew by and I honestly didn't want it to end.
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Posted 01 January 2014 - 07:31 PM
I do like Scorsese movies so maybe it's better than how it was advertised. Was there any kind of twist on it or does the ad show what most of the movie is about?
No real twist, just good story telling. I feel like "Black Skinhead" is the go to song for trailers right now, but it's not in the movie. Scorcese works really well with the songs to set the mood or transition scenes. Also, the characters are SUPER vile.
Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:24 AM
Ultimately, it's a White-collar Goodfellas told by the master of gangster flicks. Definitely a must see.
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Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:52 PM
I've ready a lot of comments about this movie, but this might be the best to sum it up.
it's a White-collar Goodfellas told by the master of gangster flicks.
I saw this film only knowing that it was the new Scorcese, and saw it despite the awful trailer. I didn't know it was 3 hours, didn't know it was billed as a comedy. I did know it was with Leonardo Dicaprio of course, which didn't excite me. I haven't been a fan of this Dicaprio era of Scorcese movies. Even the Departed, as good as it was, could have done without Dicaprio. But I left the theater feeling like I could have watched another 30 mins, it was as exciting as anything I've seen in years. It's incredible that Scorcese made this at age 70.
It owed a lot to the style of Goodfellas, but i didn't feel like another one of these Goodfellas copies that we've seen so many of -- Blow, Boogie Nights, and Scorcese's own Casino.
Dicaprio: He was very good, especially the scenes where he's giving speeches to the sales team. He made up for Shutter Island.
Jonah Hill: His teeth should get a special effects award.
Matthew McCona-whatshisname: very short part, but he was great. how did this guy become a great actor all of a sudden?
The wife: It's easy to see this part as the token woman part. To compare with Goodfellas and Casino, she wasn't as strong as either of the women in those male dominated movies. But she didn't blow it either. I saw American Hustle this week, and it felt like garbage. The woman here played a similar type as Jennifer Laurence in American Hustle, but so much better.
SOUNDTRACK: The music was very good but inconsistent. Since Mean Streets, Scorcese is one of the originators of putting pop songs in action films, and he uses a lot of good music from the 50s & 60s. Music in Goodfellas was flawless, an important part of the chronology of the story. There was excellent music used in Wolf, but the chronology was all off. The movie takes place 1988-early 2000s. Sometimes we'd have 1951 blues from Elmore James, and suddenly we're listening to Foo Fighters. The best music in the movie was NOT in the right era: Devo "Uncontrollable Urge", Plastic Bertrand "Ca Plane Pour Moi", John Lee Hooker "Boom Boom", Romeo Void "Never Say Never", Malcom McLaren "Double Dutch" -- these tracks seemed like seriously inspired choices for soundtrack to rival the kind that Tarantino has become famous for, but Foo Fighters, Sir Mix-a-lot, and worst of all The Lemonheads, felt forced. It's as if the music supervisor (or maybe Scorcese's influence) was clueless about 1988-2001 era music, or just had no passion for the era.
The criticism of the movie is that it glorifies fraud, and makes celebrity out of Jordan Belfort, who really seems like a disgusting scumbag. Like all kinds of crime & drug movies, we have a great time seeing their rise, all their evil, and then there's a small part at the end where they fall and learn their lesson. In this movie, the "fall" section is extremely short. But in the end, this movie is about the criminals, not the victims. Do you want to see a movie about the victims? No you don't.
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SOUNDTRACK: The music was very good but inconsistent.
I completely agree. There were some really shitty songs I swear I've heard on the radio such as when they first ride the Naomi. I've always known Scorsese as a great selectah (Casino, Goodfellas) and I have a feeling it was some cunty exec producer getting in the way of what would otherwise be a masterpiece if he got to choose each tune.
Anyway, does anyone know the song that plays when Leo brings out the marching band and the whores? It's as if the person that mixed it in had no idea what the fuck DJ'ing and beat matching is, but that song totally fit the chaos of the office debauchery. Some kinda deep blues chune.
The flick IMO is quite a treat acting wise and visually as well, definitely one of the better choices of 2013. All I haves to say is...Quaaludes....And fuck Jordan Belfort that sonofabtiz
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Public Meeting and Internet Forum
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NHTSA held a Public Meeting and Internet Forum that focused on the potential safety implications associated with driver distraction while using advanced in-vehicle technologies that allow drivers to phone, fax, E-mail, obtain route guidance, view infrared images on a head-up display, operate multimedia entertainment systems, or use the Internet.
Although the Internet Forum is now closed for comments, interested persons can read the technical papers and other contributions that had been made by researchers as well as the general public, through the link below.
If you would like to submit your comments about driver distraction to NHTSA, please send them to the docket we have set up for this purpose at http://www.regulations.gov The docket number is NHTSA-1999-6270
The public meeting was held on Tuesday, July 18, 2000, at which representatives of the public, industry, government, and safety groups were invited to share viewpoints, information, and recommendations regarding strategies and research to help minimize the safety consequences of distraction from these in-vehicle technologies. Information about the public meeting can be found in several of the links below.


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Skidmore-Tynan ISD sophomore-to-be Brandon Loya Jr. did just that and in his first year of bull-riding he made it to the state event.
Loya was fourth at the Sinton regional meet and that was good enough to qualify the "rookie" rider to compete at the state level meet in Abilene June 7-15. The Bobcat rode just one bull at the meet, out of three tries, but his score was good enough on that one bull to capture 11th overall out of 50 riders from across Texas. He was the second highest "rookie" in the state.
Bull riders classify a rookie as anyone who had not ridden competitively before this year and not many ever make it to the state meet and score well enough to be in the top 20 riders.
Loya has been riding horses all his life and has grown up around rodeo and bull riding. His father, Brandon Loya Sr., was a bull fighter and Brandon Jr. took to it like it was second nature to him.
"It's real competitive and fun. It feels great when you make the ride," said young Loya.
"He's developed a lot of friends in the High School Rodeo Association and they all help each other out, even if they're competing against one another," said Brandon's mother, Samantha Loya.
"It's not something we wanted him to do but we're supportive of his decision," said his mother.
Nerves are not necessarily a part of bull riding, according to Brandon, at least for him.
"Not really," he said in answer to the question about being nervous when he gets ready to ride. His mother also confides it's not when he gets on the bulls; it's when he hits the ground.
"I know he can ride, but when he bucks off and hits the ground it makes me nervous," said Samantha Loya.
A lot can happen when the rider is basically defenseless in the dirt. The bull can change direction and try to run over him or kick him. That's when the bull fighters come to the rescue and divert the bull's attention, giving the rider time to make a hasty exit.
Area rodeo members reside in George West, Victoria, Sinton, Mathis and Premont, in addition to Skidmore. The Texas High School Rodeo Association is one of the largest high school rodeo groups in the country.
Loya began riding calves when he was four and has moved up through the years to bigger and bigger stock. Most of the time he practices at a ring in George West with the assistance of Mr. Fox and Mr. Lloyd Koerth of K-3 Bucking Bulls.
"I want to make it to nationals next year," Loya said.
The finals this year were in Rock Springs, Wyo., and have been held in places like Las Vegas and other big western cities. More than 12,500 students from 41 states and Canada and Australia are involved in rodeo's various events at this level.
Brandon will probably get to visit a few of those big national meets in the years to come.
The young rider will also be leaving to the Texas Youth Rodeo Association State Finals in July, he placed third in the bull riding division of that organization.


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April 20, 2011—North Central College is pledging to achieve the state's highest recognition for energy-saving and environmentally friendly initiatives by being among the first institutions of higher education in Illinois to seek gold status under a new Sustainability Compact.
College President Harold R. Wilde signed the compact April 18, saying the pledge is a fitting part of North Central's yearlong celebration of its Sesquicentennial.
"We've always been an institution that has had a waste-not, want-not ethic," Wilde said. "You can't solve the problems in the world unless you first solve the problems in your own house."
The Illinois Campus Sustainability Compact outlines environmental goals that colleges and universities—both public and private—may adopt on their campuses. The Compact includes objectives such as purchasing renewable energy, implementing green building practices, developing sustainable transportation options, improving water conservation and incorporating sustainable dining practices. Participating institutions are recognized by the state for achieving bronze, silver or gold status, depending on level of commitment. North Central is pledging to achieve gold status.
"Only a handful of campuses so far have sought gold status," said Eric Heineman, sustainability policy advisor for Gov. Pat Quinn. "Pat Quinn started this program when he was lieutenant governor, and as governor he would commend your campus for leading by example."
North Central is the 31st college or university in the state to sign the new compact, Heineman said. The College previously signed a Sustainability Compact in 2008, but the state has revamped the process.
At North Central College, sustainability is the collective effort of students, faculty, staff and visitors working toward the development of a socially just, environmentally responsible and economically functional campus community. The College's sustainability strategy incorporates alternative transportation options, green-friendly buildings and landscape practices, commitment and involvement, policies that encourage reducing usage of energy and water, practices that promote recycling and reduce waste, and encourage sustainability in dining hall operations.
"Students are hearing about sustainability initiatives the minute they set foot on campus, and those concepts stay with them all the way through graduation," said Abby Hahne, the College's sustainability coordinator.
Sustainability highlights in recent years include the elimination of trays in the dining hall; the creation of a community garden; the opening of the Residence Hall/Recreation Center, which is designed to meet Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) standards; implementation of the Cardinal Red Bike Program, which makes bicycles available to students on a per-term basis for free; participation in the Zipcar program, which allows students, faculty and staff to reserve a car online or by mobile phone; and implementation of the Cardinal Shuttle to encourage ride-sharing transportation.
"I'm very proud to be part of a community that has made such a commitment to sustainability," said Jeff Anstine, associate professor of management and cochair of the the College's Sustainability Committee.
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Jenna Troum joined News 8 as a reporter in July 2011. Her first year on the job, she won an Associated Press Award for Best Enterprise Reporting. Her winning series "Fighting Through the Fear" gave viewers an inside look at a self defense class that trains women how to fight off a rapist.
Jenna is originally from Orlando, FL, so the winters were a big shock when she got her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She graduated summa cum laude from NU's Medill School of Journalism with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and a concentration in Political Science.
During her time at Northwestern, Jenna did a journalism residency at KSNT 27 News/KTMJ FOX 43 in Topeka, KS where she reported live on-air every day. At Northwestern, Jenna was a freelance online video journalist for "The Daily Northwestern Online." She's a major political junkie, so she couldn't pass up the opportunity to intern with CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" during the summer of 2010. Other internships have included CBS 2 News (WBBM) in Chicago, a political strategy group, and WESH 2 News in Orlando, FL. Jenna co-hosted a weekly talk radio show on 89.3 FM WNUR for three years.
Do you have a personal motto or quote that inspires you?
Don't be afraid to ask for what you want. You'll usually get it.
If you could interview one person, living or deceased, who would that be?
Oscar Wilde.
What do you like about your job?
I love that I have a job where I get to go out into the community every day and meet people I would never have met, see things I would never have seen, go places I never would have gone, and do things I never would have done. I learn new things every day. I get to show people what's going on in their community and how it's going to affect them. I am genuinely fascinated by people. I'm fascinated by who they are, what they do, and why they do it.
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On my days off you can find me exploring new places, working out, and cooking. I also really love theater.
Favorite movie?
"The Birdcage." No matter how many times I watch it, it never gets old.
Favorite food?
There is no way I could pick just one. Food is my number one hobby. Favorites include pumpkin pie, chocolate, sushi, peanut butter, and anything barbecued. I'm also addicted to hot beverages. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, hot cider—you name it, I love it.
What are you bad at and wish you could do better?
Navigation. I get lost literally everywhere I go. It's really embarrassing.
Pizza. Sausage, pepperoni or everything on it?
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U.S. District Judge Michael Simon will hold a fairness hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 18, to receive testimony from the public on whether a settlement agreement on a package of Portland police reforms is fair, reasonable and adequate to solve problems identified by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Information on the fairness hearing is available at the Court's website. The site includes the proposed settlement agreement and a testimony form.
The fairness hearing will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Courtroom 13B of the federal courthouse,1000 S.W. Third Ave. It will be open to the public.
The Justice Department found in 2012 that Portland police engaged in a pattern or practice of using excessive force against people with actual or perceived mental illness. The settlement agreement calls for reforms to police policies, training and oversight.
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• Is the Agreement fair to everyone affected?
• Is the Agreement reasonable?
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ARM, a leading developer of low-power microprocessor technologies, said that the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40% over traditional bulk process for manufacturing chips. Usage of SOI process technologies will allow ARM to further reduce power usage of its chips without sacrificing their performance or, otherwise, boost performance without increases of power consumption.
"As a technology leader in physical IP and processors, ARM has been an active proponent of the benefits SOI may bring to our customers' products. Investing the resources to conduct a bulk vs. SOI comparison provides useful data to address previously speculated claims and demonstrates that there can be performance and power savings benefits from SOI," said Tom Lantzsch, vice president of physical IP division at ARM.
The test chip was based on an ARM 1176 processor and enables a direct comparison between SOI and bulk microprocessor implementations. The silicon results show that 45nm high-performance SOI technology can provide up to 40% power savings and a 7% circuit area reduction compared to bulk CMOS low-power technology, operating at the same speed. This same implementation also demonstrated 20% higher operating frequency capability over bulk while saving 30% in total power in specific test applications.
The results confirm SOI technology is a viable alternative to traditional bulk process technology when designing low-power processors for high-performance consumer devices and mobile applications.
ARM and Soitec collaborated to produce a test chip to demonstrate the power savings in a real silicon implementation with a well-known, industry-standard core. The goal was to produce a comparison of 45nm SOI high-performance technology with bulk CMOS 45nm low-power (LP) technology of the same product.
The design was implemented using ARM and IBM standard SOI libraries and leading EDA tools. The IP ecosystem and manufacturing solutions are in place for design starts with ARM and IBM libraries on IBM 45nm SOI technology.
"This benchmark by ARM and Soitec clearly demonstrates the potential power/performance benefits of our sixth-generation 45nm SOI technology now available to both ASIC and foundry clients," said Mark Ireland, vice president of semiconductor products and services at IBM.


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Terrible Phone -- Don't Be Fooled
There is almost nothing redeeming about this phone's design. While it's durable, it is cheap plastic with a metal back, it's far too large and heavy. The navigational buttons are small and awkward. The screen is pretty much the bottom of the barrel when it comes to color LCD screens.
The volume buttons on the side are useful but badly planned; if the phone is set to vibrate, should you accidentally press the "Up" button while it is in your pocket or elsewhere, your phone will be SILENCED. Signal quality is noticeably below par (I am in the Louisville market).
The features are useful, but in the grand scheme of things, they're well beneath standards also. Firstly, the phone's software is horrendous. Not only is the basic software flawed (when you receive a text message, you can't even tell who sent it to you--there's no way to discern that!), but it also is frequently unpredictable. My phone, as well as a co-worker's, has on multiple occasions entered "Airplane Mode" automatically, without even so much as a button press! And this is in an area where the TDMA signal is abundant. Once in Airplane mode, you have to search quite vigorously to find a way back out. And there is no way to disable this automatic, and often unpredictable, "feature." And the custom ringtones... sure... in WAV format.
But the worst of all offenses is the signal reception technology in this "phone." I drop calls sometimes a dozen times a day in locations that are perfectly saturated by the carrier's signal. I'm no Nextel fan, but this is hardly the fault of their network; the phone just seems to have terrible problems with switching cells in particular. You'll lose your call unexpectedly and receive an unintelligible, seemingly arbitrary error message as an excuse.
Don't believe the people here who clearly are just obsessed with everything Nextel produces. In all honesty, this phone is just a ridiculously overpriced piece of technological garbage. I'd say more but I out of room.
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Reception & Battery Not So Good...
I guess I really can't complain since I got the phone free plus a fifty dollar rebate. However the battery is not all that great or maybe it is just that I am use to the batteries on cingular phones. My signal strength is like a yoyo. I constantly goes from full service to no service.
If anyone else has the issue with the signal that I do please let me know so I will know that it is not just my phone.
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i730 Could be better...a lot better
The phone is somewhat big compared to others in the market...the reception is no good, its either the phone or craptel
-Plays addicting ringtones when you press ringer volume button
-Has GPS (dont think average people need that)
-loud speaker/ringers
-No Camera
-Small screen, low resolution
-Dont think it has MMS
-no calculator
-no bluetooth
-crappy feeling keypad
-Reception no good
-Asks for credit card number for an over-priced ringtone
if this is the "best" phone nextel has, I'm assuming the others are garbage.
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i730 is a good phone
i say i730 with nextel is a durable but still has a lot of features
-pros a good durable phone for work or play loaded with cool features loud speaker phone and ring tones like all nextel phones
kinda big tho but not to big tho and is high priced still signal is kinda poor to
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Delicate look, remarkable ability
This phone has so many good features it is one of my favorite phones I have ever owned. When I got it I was worried about the ruggedness of it, or lack there of, due to the fact I work in construction and landscaping. I wanted to get the i530 because of the rubber aspect of the phone, so I could drop it and not worry. But I liked the color screen and the options that were in the 730 when i got it. Every time I drop my i730, I close my eyes and let it hit the ground and wait to see what damage is done. When I do pick it up the phone it still works like it was new. I just can't wait until the i560 hits stores. With the rubber outside, and the "delicate" inside, it's the perfect phone for work and play!
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Let down again by nextel & motorola
Im a Nextel dealer in Indianapolis and have been waiting for the release of the I730 since last Christmas and now i wonder why I cared at all. I received the phone the first day I was released the 20th and immediately began to frown. The screen while nice and vibrant in color was half the size of my I95 screen. But I could live with that Motorola moved the headset jack from the top of the phone to the side of the phone which I absolutely hate. The software platform is completely different also so I will have to start from scratch learning the functions of the phone. I also noticed that the home & car charger are completely different, make me feel glad I just ordered 1250 of the old style did like the fact that the phone was slimmer than the I95 and the phone lights up when it rings, something Ill use when im driving and the radio is up to loud. My advise get take advantage of the great deals on the I95. Nextel has always had the most boring selection of phones and with the look at what the competitors are getting ready to come out with I see Nextel will remain boring.
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Great Expectations...It wasn't what I Expected
I guess I'll start off by saying that it is a great looking phone...a real eye catcher.
One thing I really think is nice about this phone is the "Disco Light" around the front speaker that lights up alternating colors when a musical ringer is on. I personally think it should light up for all the ringers and not just the musical ones because the phone only comes with 3 musical ringers. The speakerphone and walkie talkie is loud and clear. The volume on the earpiece could be a tad bit higher. The screen is bright, although small. I don't understand why the i95 screen was so big and they opted to make this one so small.(It's the same size as the i90) Another thing I really like is that when talking the conversation is clear, no static, distortion or anything of that nature.
It's features are about the same as any other Nextel phone, except that this one is GPS enabled. So basically it has the same Nextel/Motorola features all wrapped up in a new, slightly smaller, great looking folder style phone.
So besides the volume on the earpiece and the size of the screen I think the i730 is a great phone to have
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i730 compared to my old free nokia
The only reason i switched from cingular to nextel was the free incoming minutes. It's a great plan.
My problem is with this moronic phone and service.
#1. The battery life is pathetic. Seriously consider the double size or a backup or you will not be making many phone calls.
#2. The Text messaging took them over a week to activeate. Ok, whatever. But the WAY it works... it has to "Send"... and then "Receive" every time you want to view your messages! Nokia just had it there... click and BOOM!.. there are your messages. This phone literally takes like an extra minute to WAIT for each message you want to read or review to pop up... and if you are out of service range... forget it.
#3. Speaking of service range... I sure wishi it HAD the service range my old cingular did, i have to borrow my girlfriends phones sometimes cuz mine wont work!
#4. The alarm clock. Can you believe we have put a man on the moon, and robots on Mars... but they could not include a "Snooze" alarm with this clock. Huh?
- Oh, sure, you could BUY a download clock with a snooze... but read the fine print on that... it ONLY works when the phone is in Java mode.. meaning, if you want an alarm to go off, you wont be able to easily grab incoming calls... you need to switch mode. That is just plain dumb.
#5. Also dumb... when i want my phone to vibrate, i sure wish it would vibrate AND ring... like my old Nokia did. This phone will vibrate twice, then ring twice... so, if you don't feel the vibrate, you only have 2 rings to pick it up before you miss the call.... so much for those free incoming minutes because you wind up having to call back!
- Why can't it ring AND vibrate 4 times? Why don't they give us the option to set that?
#5. The Delete button(s)... talk about a learning curve! It seems like every function on this phone uses a different button for "back" or "delete"... it's never the same... dumb.
#6. The GPS service, it was a joke. I got a signal once.
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Very Impressed..........
I've been with Nextel for about 2 months, before that I had used Cingular and Verizon about 1 year each. My new i730 gets a better signal than any phone I had with either of them.
* Excellent screen quality
* LOUD ringtones
* LOUD Speakerphone
* Java Applications
* Downloadable Ringtones and Wallpapers
* Ability to make, recieve, and end calls without even opening the flip.
* Only one I can think of.....the battery does not last as long as most other carriers phones.....I can get two days out of mine with regualar use, but then again I have no problem with charging my phone at night so it's really a null issue.
Excellent phone. I would certainly recommend it to any Nextel customer and in my case I like the i730 and the Nextel service better than Verizon and Cingular.
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by Anton Shilov
The chairman of Intel Corp., Craig Barrett, said that the high-tech industry will indisputably recover from recession and will also help the whole economy to recover. Nevertheless, government stimulus packages are also tremendously important despite of the fact that no one knows their effects for sure.
"Everybody's looking for some sort of strengthening going on to 2010 [in the high-tech industry]. Frankly, that depends on the stimulus packets that the governments are running. If you can find a government official that can guarantee the outcome of a stimulus package, let me know. I don't think they know," said Craig Barrett in an interview with Reuters news-agency.
Since high-technology products enable more efficient work of staff in other industries, it may recover quicker than the rest. However, some actions from the government are still required.
Many high tech firms met with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to argue for more visas for skilled workers and against a plan to tax corporations on profits made overseas.
"We're not going to pick up and move but you are adding a disincentive (to invest in U.S. facilities) with this sort of tax policy," said Mr. Barrett.