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Illinois State Board of Education
The State Board of Education engaged Achieve, Inc., to help focus its efforts on strengthening agency service and support for school improvement. Achieve, Inc. was created by the nationÆs governors and business leaders to follow up on commitments made at the 1996 National Education Summit. Like other states (e.g., Indiana and Ohio), we asked them to visit us and review our efforts û first with the Illinois Learning Standards and then with other priority areas where we are trying to bring improvements. We will use this report to adjust our improvement plans, just as we ask local schools to modify their strategies in line with internal and external reviews.
Listed below are the specific recommendations from the Achieve report and a brief statement about the status of these issues at ISBE :
Standards and Assessment
1. Leave the Learning Standards in place until 2002, as promised, but move immediately to develop new performance standards for each grade, pre-K-12.
À Committees of Illinois teachers are already working on grade-by-grade performance standards that will be available for pilot use in all grades in fall 2000.
Preserve the trend data provided by the Illinois Standards
Achievement Tests (ISAT), but begin
À ISBE has a process to annually improve test quality, including assessing more of the Standards, and to review contract specifications and evaluate contractor capacity..
3. Revise the statutory limits on testing time and open-ended items.
À ISBE is gathering input from educators and stakeholders regarding the need to test the Standards more broadly and deeply, and the need to provide year-to-year information about individual student progress. So far our feedback indicates general support for eliminating the 25-hour testing limit, adding a greater variety of question types to the tests, and testing each year to provide better progress data to students, parents and schools. This will require statutory changes. We will include a proposal for this as part of a larger package of accountability improvements we will propose for legislative activity in the next session .
Teacher Quality and Organizational Capacity
4. Fund district-based induction programs that are focused on helping beginning teachers develop the classroom knowledge and skills required for the Standard Teaching Certification.
À Agency staff are working with representatives of the education community to design a mentored novice teacher induction system (Illinois Induction Initiative), and develop legislative language and a funding appropriation to support the effort.
5. Create a statewide network of subject matter-based professional development academies.
À We will be revisiting the academy plan that was jointly developed with the GovernorÆs Office and other stakeholders, to create a viable work plan for statewide professional development delivery.
6. Create a statewide leadership academy that is focused on helping current and prospective principals become more effective leaders of instructional improvement.
À The State Superintendent has targeted the Illinois AdministratorÆs Academy for redesign. An external review is currently underway. In conjunction with the professional development academy design cited in #5 above, we will be developing a plan for an improved academy model.
7. Focus the quality assurance and improvement Planning (QAIP) program on schools ôabove the line,ö and clarify the purpose of this program.
À The Quality Assurance program is becoming more focused. School reviews for next year will concentrate on schools in which students are performing mostly at ôMeets Standardsö levels, but which are prepared to undergo meaningful school improvement with feedback from the external review team. Schools in which students are consistently under-performing will be served by our more intensive ôsystem of supportö which includes case managers, school audits and intensive technical assistance.
8. Simplify the proposed school rating system by reducing the number of publicly reported school designation categories, and incorporate attendance and dropout rates into the rating criteria in all categories.
À The Superintendent has appointed a School Designation Task Force to design and communicate new school and district accountability designations that incorporate student performance data and other school quality indicators. Recommendations will be ready by August, after public input is gathered during the summer. The State Board will seek legislative support in the next session to make necessary adjustments in statutes and rules.
9. Develop a school rewards program that acknowledges absolute performance as well as improvement, and that rewards schools only if all groups within the school show performance gains.
À The School Designation Task Force will also make recommendations to establish school and district incentives, rewards and sanctions within the new designation structure and to blend existing incentives with new ones (e.g. Blue Ribbon Schools, Those Who Excel, deregulation, funding preferences).
10. For schools ôbelow the lineö (i.e., on Academic Warning, Watch or Distress), replace the Quality Assurance and Improvement Planning process with an ISBE-appointed consultant team that is charged with providing on-site advice and assistance.
À QAIP visits have already been diverted from low-performing schools for the 2000-2001 school year. As referenced in our response to Achieve Recommendation 7, a comprehensive system of support for schools with large numbers of under-performing students is now emerging. It includes on-site assistance to districts and schools in the form of case managers, school audits, Educators-in-Residence and other technical support.
11. Allow parents to opt out of schools that remain in the lowest performance category for three consecutive years and to enroll their children in other public schools at state expense.
À This aspect will be included in our application for Title I School Improvement dollars. This option is a requirement for schools choosing to accept these funds, and will be administered according to federal law.
12. Engage the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) and the Illinois Business-Education Coalition (IBEC) in a public review of the proposed Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE), with the goal of aligning the exam with higher education admissions requirements and employersÆ entry-level hiring standards.
À This is being handled through the Joint Education Committee, which focuses on P-16 alignment issues and educationÆs relationship to the workforce. Public involvement will be broad and deep, with the goal of firm commitments to use the PSAE results from both business and higher education.
Public Leadership
13. Create a single, high-level, cross-sectoral leadership group for standards-based reform in Illinois and launch an ongoing public information and communications campaign.
À The State Board will study the operation of such leadership groups in other states, and will determine its appropriateness for Illinois.
À ISBE has planned a series of Schoolhouse Meetings around the state this summer and fall. These proactive meetings will represent the beginning of the new way of communicating with our customers. We will listen to our customers (the parents, teachers, administrators, businesses, community leaders and the public) and educate the community on what everyone can do to improve the quality of public education and help all students achieve the Learning Standards.


text: MTA pays tribute to Anne Wass I want to reserve special thanks for a special person – someone whom I treasure as a mentor, a role model and, especially, as a friend. I am talking about Anne Wass, president of MTA. I've known Anne since my early days of union activism. Her wisdom and guidance were invaluable when I served as president of the Cambridge Teachers Association and chaired the New Presidents Group. As MTA president, Anne made me a true partner. We shared good times, visiting members across the state, and we shared challenging times, dealing with those whose policies would hurt our members and the students they serve. Through everything – the good, the bad, the best and the worst – Anne never lost her humor, her compassion and her rock-solid belief in the power of a united education profession. I could go on about my friend Anne, but so could many of you in this room. She is a friend to every one of us, and she is leaving behind a legacy of achievement and deep feelings of affection and respect. So join me now in a trip down Memory Lane as we watch a brief video of your friend and mine, a video that might be entitled, Anne Wass: The MTA Years. I talked about Anne Wass being a friend of every MTA member, and she is. But the affection and respect I mentioned are shared by the entire Massachusetts labor community. Every MTA-AFT and MTA-AF of L collaboration in the past four years has her stamp on it. And every future collaboration – including the crucial collaboration to defeat Question 1 – will be built on the foundation she has worked to maintain and strengthen. In recognition of the vital importance of labor community unity and action, the MTA Executive Committee has voted to create an award to honor a person who has been instrumental in fostering the cooperation that makes such collaborative action possible.

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Carroll leads the Boys Division at AJGA Southwestern Junior
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.â Amanda Blumenherst rose above the competition in the first round of the AJGA Southwestern Junior to take the lead in the Girls Division. Cornelius Carroll edged out his competition with a one-shot lead. Carroll shot a 4-under-par 68, easing ahead of six players who finished with 69s.
Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the AJGA Southwestern Junior features 99 players from 17 states, including 18 New Mexico natives. The tournament, being played for the 20th time, is being held for the fifth year at Isleta Eagle Golf Course, in Albuquerque, N.M.
Blumenherst, 17, of Scottsdale, Ariz., shot a 5-under-par 67 and fired five birdies with an eagle on the first hole. She is a two-time Rolex Junior All-American, a two-time member of the PING Junior Solheim Cup Team and set the tournament 18-hole record last year after she fired a 66 in the second round.
âIâm very confident with my game right now,â said Blumenherst. âIâm hitting the ball very close to the pin, so the next two days will be a lot of fun.â
Blumenherst has high hopes for the rest of the tournament.
âMy goal is to be consistent and keep this round going for the next two days,â she said. âItâs exciting to be leading. To be leading in any AJGA event is an accomplishment in itself.â
Coming in behind Blumenherst are Lucy Nunn of Lawton, Okla., and Jane Rah of Torrance, Calif., in a two-way tie for second with 74s.
Carroll, 17, of Windermere, Fla., picked up his first AJGA win at the Buick Junior Open presented by Golfweek in 2003 and he was also named a Rolex Junior All-American. He finished off his first round with a 68, firing four birdies with an eagle on No. 10. Carroll said he is looking forward to the next two rounds.
âI played well today considering I didnât hit many fairways,â Carroll said. âI only hit two fairways and eight greens on the front with 14 greens total. My only disappointment was when I bogeyed both par 3s on the back.â
Carroll said that he had two really great shots that highlighted the round.
âI holed out from 125 yards on No. 10,â he said. âI reached No. 16 in two shots. Itâs a 610-yard par-5 and not many people did that today.â
âMy goal for the next two rounds is to play like I tried to play today,â he said. âI tried to keep the ball in play. I want to play solid golf for the rest of the tournament.â
Falling in line one stroke behind Carroll are Mark Jones of Odessa, Texas, Steve Saunders of Albuquerque, N.M., Jace Moore of Southlake, Texas, Guillermo Chavez of Clovis, N.M., Will Osborne of Wichita Falls, Texas, and Dalton Owens of Mount Vernon, Mo., in a six-way tie for second at 3-under-par 69.
The second-round tee times will run from 7-11:48 a.m., Thursday, at the Isleta Eagle Golf Course.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The largest association of its kind, the AJGA has a junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch U.S.A., a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became an AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 300 wins. AJGA alumni include Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Davis Love III, Mike Weir, Charles Howell III, Jim Furyk, Vicki Goetz-Ackerman, Grace Park, Cristie Kerr and Beth Bauer.
For more information on the AJGA Southwestern Junior, contact Tournament Headquarters at (505) 869-0950.
The Foundation
The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
What is Leadership Links?
Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.


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Murder-for-hire trial postponed
The trial of two men allegedly involved in what investigators believe is a murder-for-hire plot has been delayed at the request of the prosecuting attorney.
The trial of 30-year-old Robert Eugene Siron III of Weston and 29-year-old Jessie Lee Heater of Buckhannon will take place at some point during the next term of the Upshur County Circuit Court.
Both men are charged in the death of Joshua Oberg, whose remains were discovered in a shallow grave along Bull Run Road in July 2012. Both have been held without bond in separate Regional Jails since their arrests. An Upshur County grand jury indicted the two men in January on felony charges of murder, conspiracy and concealment of a deceased human body.
Senior-status Judge John Henning did not set a new trial date for the two men. The trial was originally scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. today with jury selection. The next term of the circuit court begins May 13.
Upshur County Prosecuting Attorney Jacob Reger asked for the postponement because he had only recently been able to turn over materials to the defense attorneys. He also said during an April 4 pre-trial hearing that he had not received the medical examiner's reports.
Heater's attorney, James Hawkins, had objected to the delay and asked that any evidence that had not been given to the defense by the court's deadline be excluded. Siron's attorney, Steve Nanners, also stressed that the two men have been in jail since July 2012, but were not indicted until January 2013.
Reger called the case "complicated," adding that it was not one "where someone is murdered and the body's found immediately."
West Virginia State Police investigators testified during a preliminary hearing in Upshur County Magistrate Court last summer that they believe Rodolpho "Chino" Correa Villagomez of Buckhannon paid Heater $5,000 to kill Oberg after Villagomez learned that Oberg had allegedly become romantically involved with Villagomez' wife. The troopers also testified that Siron gave a statement to them about Heater allegedly giving Siron $500 to remain quiet in the days after Oberg's death.
Villagomez was charged with being an accessory before the fact to first-degree murder, but he has not yet been indicted by an Upshur County grand jury. Reger said that case remains under investigation. Villagomez, however, is also facing a six-count federal indictment on immigration-related charges.


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School District Charged with Defrauding Muni Investors
By Hal M. Bundrick
NEW YORK (MainStreet)--In the first-ever enforcement action of its type, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a school district and its municipal bond underwriter with misconduct involving required disclosures. The West Clark Community Schools district in Indiana is accused of falsely stating that it had properly provided annual financial information and required notices prior to issuing bond offerings. However, the SEC claims West Clark had not submitted any of the required annual reports or notices for a $52 million bond offering in 2005, and that the underwriter did not conduct adequate due diligence to detect a false statement in the course of a 2007 $31 million offering.
"This is the first time the SEC has charged a municipal issuer with falsely claiming in a bond offering's official statement that it was fully compliant with the annual disclosure obligations it agreed to in prior offerings, and an underwriter and its principal for not doing the necessary research to attest to the truthfulness of that claim," said Andrew Ceresney, Co-Director of the Division of Enforcement. "West Clark Community Schools defrauded bond investors by leading them to believe that it had provided the annual financial information contractually required in a prior bond offering, when in fact for five years they failed to submit the required information. This case demonstrates that we will be vigilant in making sure municipal issuers and underwriters comply with their obligations."
The SEC also charged Randy G. Ruhl, who heads the public finance & municipal bond department at Indianapolis-based City Securities Corporation, the underwriter for the school district, for misconduct involving West Clark's disclosures. The SEC's investigation found that City Securities and Ruhl "provided improper gifts and gratuities" to representatives of municipal bond issuers, and then charged these and other expenses back to the issuers as costs for the "printing, preparation and distribution of official statements."
"City Securities abused its role as municipal underwriter by fraudulently obtaining reimbursement from bond proceeds for expenses unrelated to the issuance of bonds," said Elaine C. Greenberg, Chief of the Enforcement Division's Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Unit. "Moreover, City Securities violated MSRB rules by providing representatives of municipal securities issuers with valuable and excessive gifts such as multi-day golf trips and tickets to various sporting events."


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Inafune Hints At Major Mega Man Announcement Coming Soon
Tonight at Capcom's 2010 Comic-Con panel, Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune hinted that 2010 was going to be a good year for Mega Man fans. In...
Capcom Trademarks Mega Man Universe
In "Oh, what ever could it mean?!" news, Capcom has filed a trademark for a new Mega Man game called Mega Man Universe. The patent...
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(Bluefield)—Dr. Tesfaye Belay received the prestigious "Outstanding Leadership in Faculty Research" award during the Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Annual Member Universities Professional Institute & Exhibition Conference in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Belay, an Associate Professor of Biology at BSC, was one of only three faculty members from all Thurgood Marshall member institutions throughout the nation to be selected for the faculty research award.
"The award was presented for leadership and management skills, innovation and creativity in a project or program that was challenging in nature," noted Dr. Albert Walker, BSC President. Through Dr. Belay's grant writing and research initiatives, Bluefield State College has received more than $180,000 in research-related funding during the past three years, and his students' research posters have been accepted for inclusion and displayed at regional and national research conferences.
The BSC faculty member noted that the involvement of BSC's undergraduates in research serves to prepare, motivate, encourage and support the College's students—particularly underrepresented minority students—to become involved in biomedical research. "It has been a true joy for me to watch our students grow into skilled researchers," he added. "I have seen our students, all of whom are very intelligent, get the opportunity to succeed, and I have watched them move on to graduate school, medical school, and additional research endeavors."
After receiving the award from Thurgood Marshall College Fund President Dwayne Ashley, Dr. Belay said, "I am thrilled to have been recognized at this national conference, and I am very grateful that Bluefield State College nominated me for this honor."


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~ Vincent of Lerins, Saint, noting the essential difference between development and alteration of the deposit of faith, over 1,000 years before Protestantism radically altered the face of Christianity. (Commonitorium, I, 23; see P.L., L). (see "Science and the Church")


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BluesTones Benefit Concert
Sat, 2 Feb 2013 7:30 PM
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The BluesTones, an award-winning student a cappella group, presents their first benefit concert. There will be an amazing showcase of talent with performances from nationally acclaimed groups including the Accidentals of the University of Georgia, Juxtaposition of Virginia Tech, PandemoniUM and Generics, both of the University of Maryland, and RAMifications of Virginia Commonwealth University. All ticket proceeds go to Rockingham Memorial Hospital's new Women's Center. For more information, check www.thejmubluestones.com; Tickets $8 at the door (cash or check); $5 for children under 12 and senior citizens.


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Walker says Wisconsin won't set up health exchange
Governor Scott Walker says Wisconsin will not set up a state-run health insurance exchange under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Instead, Walker told the Obama administration Friday that Wisconsin will leave that responsibility to the federal government.
Governor Walker sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius notifying the federal government of Wisconsin's decision on the impletmentation of health insurance exchanges.
Walker's highly anticipated decision was not unexpected given his long opposition to the law. He stopped implementation last year on the hopes the law would be overturned either by the U.S. Supreme Court or Republicans following the November election.
Neither happened.
Walker announced his intention Friday despite the federal government late Thursday giving states an additional month to decide.
News 8 joined a conference call with Governor Walker at about 10:45 a.m. Stay with News 8 and News8000.com for more on the health insurance exchange.
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MONTPELIER The Obama administration has asked Vermont whether it can house immigrant children who have crossed into the United States over the Mexican border.
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Democratic opposition increased Wednesday to legal changes that would speed removals of young Central American migrants, jeopardizing President Barack Obamas call for $3.7 billion in emergency border spending to deal with the surge of unaccompanied youths at the South Texas border.
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Dordt College News
Baseball Faces Southwest Minnesota Friday
March 14, 2013
GAMETIME… Dordt College concludes its baseball trip to Arizona with a game against Southwest Minnesota State, an NCAA Division II member from Marshall, Minnesota on Friday, March 15.
SCOUTING REPORT… Southwest Minnesota State is 4-8 this season and is 1-5 on their trip to Tucson, earning a win over Bemidji State on March 13 to snap a seven game losing skid. Jordan Kontz is batting .350 this season with 14 hits and three runs batted in to go with seven runs scored. Jarred Carlson is batting .344 with 11 hits and a team high 14 runs batted in. Brian Ness bats .342 and Kyle Young .341. Ness has the lone homerun of the season for the Mustangs so far. Southwest Minnesota State is batting .283 this season while opponents are batting .314.
The Mustangs have a 5.91 earned run average with Steven Wehr boasting a 2.31 earned run average through 11 innings with six strikeouts and 12 walks issued. Brandan Alfson has appeared in five games and has a 1.29 earned run average in seven innings pitched.
DEFENDER NOTES… The Defenders are 2-4 on their trip to Arizona. Dordt is batting .252 this season with Nate Fraley leading the way with a .471 batting average and five runs with a team high eight hits and three stolen bases. Jason Wapnick is batting .444 with three doubles. Nick Serrato is batting .375 with six hits and Andy Kollbuam has knocked in three in five games played.
The Defenders pitching wins have come from Josh Van Kekerix and Ben Van Kekerix. Josh got his win in relief. Mark Nyhoff has the longest pitching outing on this trip with a six inning performance in a 3-1 loss to Wayland Baptist.
NEXT UP… Dordt will face Midland in Fremont, Nebraska on Tuesday, March 19 in a non-conference doubleheader. The Defenders will host Morningside on Thursday, March 28 in the opening of GPAC play.
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Like so many great ideas before it, Mikey's Late Night Slice was born out of booze.
"I can't say that it was like I had this great pizza recipe that I had to get to the people or anything," said owner Mike "Mikey" Sorboro. "It was literally inspired by being drunk at 2 a.m. and not having anything to eat but gyros."
Three years after the first pizza-by-the-slice business first opened in a tiny shack in the Short North, Late Night Slice has beckoned boozy patrons all over the city, from standalone shops to food trucks to — appropriately — shared spots in bars. You can even get a slice inside the Newport now. This pizza — and the accompanying signature sauces you can sloppily slather on it — are practically Columbus institutions now.
"Last year at a festival, a girl came up to me and said, 'Do you realize stealing the Slut Sauce (Late Night's most favored mystery sauce) is part of Columbus pop culture?'" Sorboro recounted with a chuckle.
Mikey is a jovial guy, and one of remarkable candor for a 31-year-old helping pilot a business through an explosion of growth in recent years. Sorboro and his business partners are planning to slow their expansion locally and focus on learning from their successes and missteps to get ready for the next step: franchising Late Night Slice within the next year.
"Slut Sauce soon will be an officially registered trademark of Late Night Slice," said Sorboro with a wicked laugh.
For all the tongue-in-cheek humor of the company known for its "Pay, Eat, Leave" slogan, Sorboro's success really did come the old-fashioned way: through hard work.
"If you work hard and you're focused, you know … stuff just starts happening," he said. "Hard work brings success. In anything, really."


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She was born Nov. 5, 1923, in Oklahoma City, Okla. to John G. and Rena Willett Steele.
She is preceded in death by her parents.
Survivors include her husband, John R. Roberts of Woodsboro; son, Brian L. Roberts of Odem; daughters, Maggie R. Pustejovsky of Taft, and Rosamond R. Bowen of Woodsboro; sisters, Mildred Toness of Seguin, and Doris Ann Byrd of Rowlett; 10 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
Visitation was held Tuesday, Jan. 10, from 6-8 p.m. at Moore Funeral Home Chapel.
Graveside services were held Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 10 a.m. at Oakwood Cemetery in Refugio.
Pallbearers were Dustin Pustejovsky, Paul Pustejovsky Jr., Sean Robert, Lawrence Von Rumhor, Charles Bowen, Wayne Bowen, and Dustin De Vos.


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Celebrate National Trails Day with a hike of the Tusten Mountain Trail
May 22, 2013 —
NARROWSBURG, NY — Celebrate National Trails Day by joining Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River Park Rangers on Saturday, June 1 at 10:30 a.m. for an informative guided hike on the Tusten Mountain Trail. This free hike will meet at the Tusten Mountain Trail head, which is located at the Ten Mile River Access on Crawford Road.
The Tusten Mountain Trail is a moderately difficult, three-mile loop that takes you through the historic remains of the Tusten Settlement as you climb to the summit for a magnificent view of the Upper Delaware Valley. Wear sturdy shoes or hiking boots, bring plenty of water, snacks, sunglasses, bug spray, binoculars, as well as a hat.
The Tusten Mountain Trail is one of six trails featured in the park's "Take a Hike!" brochure, which gives the names, locations, descriptions, and difficulty levels of trails in the Upper Delaware River Valley. It also provides a checklist to keep track of the trails you've hiked, which can be turned in upon completion for a "Take a Hike!" patch.
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Report of the U.S. Delegate, 7th Session, Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Animal Feeding
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The United States participated in the 7th Session of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Codex Task Force on Animal Feeding (AFTF), which completed their terms of reference to develop two documents, the proposed draft Guidelines on the Application of Risk Assessment for Feed and the proposed draft Examples of Hazards in Feed with Potential Relevance for Human Health. The Task Force recommended both documents for adoption by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) at Step 8 and Step 5/8, respectively.
The 7th Session of AFTF was attended by 139 participants, representing 40 Member countries, one Member organization (the European Union - EU), and 7 international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Daniel McChesney of the FDA Center for Veterinary Drugs served as the Head of the Delegation for the United States.
A summary of the results of the 7th Session of AFTF is given below. The full report of the Session can be found on the Codex Website:
Proposed Draft Guidelines on the Application of Risk Assessment for Feed
- The Task Force maintained their approach to make the document consistent with other Codex text and Codex principles on Risk Assessment as much as possible, with some modifications to make it specifically applicable to animal feeding.
- The glossary of definitions was modified to make it consistent with the Codex Code of Practice on Good Animal Feeding (CAC/RCP 54-2004) and other Codex texts. The Task Force agreed to add Codex definitions, such as 'food' and 'processing aids,' where mentioned in the text. The Task Force agreed to develop a new definition for 'biotransformation,' which is defined as a "product resulting from the transformation of a chemical or biological agent in the body of the food producing animal (e.g. via metabolic processes)."
- The Task Force indicated that preliminary risk management activities may encompass several steps, including identification of a food safety problem arising from feed; establishment of a risk profile; ranking of the hazard for risk assessment and risk management priority; determination of a risk assessment policy for the conduct of the risk assessment; definition of the output form of the risk assessment; commissioning of the risk assessment, and consideration of the possible results of the risk assessment.
- The Task Force agreed to the Netherlands' proposal to revise the Sections on Exposure Assessment. The proposed revisions further distinguished risk characterization from exposure assessment activities and clarified that feed risk assessments used to derive a risk estimate does not suggest a full human risk assessment. The Task Force accepted the proposal with some refinements.
- The Task Force also included text to illustrate the need for risk characterization and subsequent risk management options to consider exposure assessments of hazards from other sources, such those from the environment or food of non-animal origin.
- The Task Force also included text to explain that an initial output of a risk assessment could be based on a comparison of the estimated feed hazard in edible products with existing international or national levels for food commodities.
Proposed Draft Examples of Hazards in Feed with Potential Relevance for Human Health
- An electronic working group chaired by Switzerland finalized for review by the Task Force the draft guidance document for national governments in prioritizing hazards in animal feed. The final version includes one annex illustrating an example of the prioritization process and another annex describing examples of hazards in feed with potential relevance for human health. The Task Force decided to include a third annex to list separately additional references on information on potential hazard/feed/edible product combinations and examples of prioritization frameworks, processes and methods.
- The Task Force reviewed the draft and maintained the approach that the document should be consistent as possible with other Codex text and principles.
- The Task Force agreed to provide an example of prioritization process using a multi- criteria analysis approach, while clarifying that other approaches could be used for prioritization. The introduction to the example illustration makes clear that that this serves for illustrative purposes only and is based on generic example which does not apply to any real specific hazard/feed/edible product combination.
- The Task Force agreed to describe the prioritization process as consisting of seven steps, (identification of the hazard, the feed and edible product potentially associated with food safety problems;(2)identification and definition of the criteria by which each selected hazard/feed/edible product combination will be quantified;(3)assignment of criterion-based values to the hazard/feed/edible product combinations; (4) normalization of these values to make them comparable between criteria; (5)weighting of the criteria to reflect their relative importance;(6) combining the weighted normalized values for each hazard/feed/edible product combination to produce a score and ranking of the scores to obtain the order of priority; (7) reporting of the process, methods and results.
- The Task Force agreed to indicate in the document that the criteria which could be used for prioritization included those related to the extent of the occurrence of the hazard; effect on human health; and other legitimate factors relevant for the health production of consumers, in accordance with Codex principles.
- The Task Force amended some of the examples listed as hazards with potential relevance to human health. The Task Force agreed with the United States interventions to delete trichonella from the examples listed and delete 'viruses' from the annex since viruses pertained to animal health, which is outside the scope of work of the Task Force.
- The Task Force decided to include zeraleone as an example of mycotoxins, as requested by Thailand, but noted that it was not a major contaminant of edible products as it was rapidly metabolized and/or excreted.
- As requested by the European Union, the Task Force amended the section on organic chemicals to distinguish between dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls and to include medicated feed as another potential source of cross contamination of feed.
Upon the conclusion of the document, the Task Force opened for debate whether the Annex on Examples of Hazards of Potential Relevance for Human Health ("Annex") should be retained and advanced to the Commission for adoption. Some delegations supported retaining the Annex as it was essential for completeness of the document and served to provide a common understanding of these hazards. Other delegations opposed retaining the Annex, arguing that the information was too broadly described, it would be difficult to maintain and update, and it could be misinterpreted and possibly serve as a basis for creating unjustified barriers to trade.
The majority of Task Force members favored retaining the Annex but agreed to further include language in the document to clarify that the content of the Annex was subject to being updated, was not a comprehensive description of all situations related to feed and food safety, not necessarily applicable to all countries, and its primary purpose was to provide illustrative examples.
The majority of the Task Force members supported adoption of the document at Step 5/8. Countries, Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica expressed their reservation on the inclusion of the Annex. Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia and Thailand noted in the report that they required more time to consult at a national level on the changes made to the document.


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Equinox, Part II (episode)
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|"Equinox, Part II"
|VOY, Episode 6x01
Production number: 221
First aired: 22 September 1999
|119th of 168 produced in VOY
|119th of 168 released in VOY
|579th of 728 released in all
| Teleplay By
Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Story By
Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Directed By
David Livingston
|Unknown (2376)
|Arc: Equinox (2 of 2)
Captain Janeway takes her quest for revenge against Captain Ransom to extremes when she orders the use of photon torpedoes against the Equinox, tractors a neutral ship, nearly kills an Equinox crewman during an interrogation, and relieves Chakotay of duty when he questions her actions. (Season Premiere)
Summary Edit
An attacking nucleogenic lifeform knocks Captain Janeway to the deck, but she manages to dodge the thermionic radiation. Yelling for tactical control, she uses a deflector pulse to reinforce the shields – at least, temporarily. The aliens' attacks are halted, but damage has been done; Chakotay is unconscious, and there's no response from sickbay. Ensign Kim reports two casualties due to the alien attacks.
The USS Equinox, in the meanwhile, realizing that Voyager is under attack decides to maintain course and not charge to the rescue. With the multiphasic shielding in place, the aliens are staying clear.
Act OneEdit
Janeway, wandering the corridors of the USS Voyager, comes across the dessicated remains of a crewmember killed in the attack, before being handed The Doctor's mobile emitter by Neelix, who found the device on Deck 9. She takes it and reactivates the EMH back in sickbay, not realizing that it is the EMH program from the Equinox, whose ethical subroutines have been deleted. "The Doctor" explains that when he was taken hostage by the Equinox he deactivated himself to escape. He begins by treating Chakotay, whom Tom Paris has managed to stabilize. While Janeway insists that they focus their efforts on finding the Equinox, Chakotay argues that they need to stop the attacks by the aliens first. While they are debating, they are interrupted by the sound of the interspacial fissures, which indicate the presence of the aliens.
On the Equinox, Ransom tries to persuade Seven of Nine to stop resisting him and to become part of the crew, instead of spending her time in the brig for the remainder of the journey. Seven refuses to comply, however, telling him bluntly that he would be an inferior role model to her, and that Voyager made a mistake to trust him. While trying to treat Seven, Max Burke realizes that their EMH has left them a replacement, and activates The Doctor from Voyager. Seven and The Doctor realize they're stuck on the Equinox together.
Meanwhile, the Equinox prepares to activate their enhanced warp drive, using the aliens as fuel to get back to Earth within several months. However, just as the ship is accelerating, it stalls. The power relays to the modified injectors have been encoded – Ransom quickly realizes it must have been Seven of Nine. He tries to get her to give him the codes, but Seven refuses again. Burke suggests extracting the codes themselves if she won't give them. When The Doctor protests, Ransom simply deletes his ethical subroutines, and gets him to extract the information by any means necessary.
On Voyager, Chakotay and Harry Kim have come up with a way that may allow them to communicate with the lifeforms. Despite misgivings, they drop the shields around the bridge and send the message. An alien appears, flies over to Kim's station and shrieks unintelligibly at the ensign for a moment, then disappears into its realm. However, the shields are attacked again. Another deflector pulse is activated, but it loses power quickly. Janeway, who is growing more impatient, gives an order to repair the warp drive so they can pursue the Equinox. When Chakotay asks to take another shot at the message to the aliens, she rudely dismisses him. Over in the ready room, Chakotay tells Janeway that he understands her anger towards Ransom who has betrayed everything the Federation and the uniform they are wearing stands for, but that she cannot compromise the safety of this ship to satisfy some personal vendetta. She tells him that she appreciates his candor, but that even so, she is not going to stand for Ransom continuing to murder and torture another lifeform so he can get home faster. She vows to hunt him down no matter how long it takes, no matter what the cost and if he wants to call that a vendetta, then he can go right ahead.
Act TwoEdit
Ransom, who is hiding the Equinox in the atmosphere of a planet so they can make the repairs, checks in with The Doctor, who reveals that in order to access the information in Seven, he will have to remove her cortical array which contains an index of her memory engrams. By doing so, however, all of Seven's higher brain functions will be severely damaged. Ransom pleads with Seven to give him the codes, but she refuses. He says that doing this to her is not easy for him but that she leaves him no choice. Seven states that he uses that phrase quite frequently: destroying lifeforms to obtain his goals and then claim that they left him no choice. She stubbornly tells him that he will have to destroy her to obtain the codes. The Doctor proceeds.
- "Captain's log, supplemental. Our warp drive's back online but repeated sensor sweeps have failed to locate the Equinox."
Chakotay is summoned to Janeway's ready room – she notes it's unlike him to submit recommendations in writing, holding up a PADD. Commenting on their last conversation he tells her that this was the only way he thought he could interact with her. However, Janeway refuses this suggestion, namely getting in touch with the Ankari, the race who introduced Ransom to the nucleogenic lifeforms, as well. She argues that this would take them off course and waste their time. She notes that from studying Ransom's service record, she found that he has the tendency to hide when he is being pursued. She asks Chakotay to use astrometrics to find likely hiding places, such as a nebula.
Equinox, meanwhile, still in hiding in the planet's atmosphere which shields them from Voyager's sensors, sends Noah Lessing and Angelo Tassoni down to mine some dilithium. The pair beams down, but is captured by a Voyager away team.
The Equinox EMH tries to warn Ransom that Voyager has found them, and that they have polarized their hull to mask their approach. Voyager and the Equinox engage in a brief battle, Voyager taking the Equinox weapon systems off-line. Not willing to accept defeat, Ransom takes his vessel deeper into the planet's atmosphere. Voyager follows, but has to retreat when the deflector, which they are relying on to protect the vessel against the lifeforms, begins losing power in its attempts to protect the vessel against the atmosphere. Equinox escapes to warp, while Voyager is forced to repair its primary systems first before being able to pursue.
Janeway interrogates Lessing, whom she has tied up on a chair in the cargo bay. She threatens to drop the shields in the room and let the aliens in if he doesn't tell her Ransom's tactical status. Getting nowhere with him, she goes outside with Chakotay, and drops the shields. Chakotay quickly realizes Janeway isn't bluffing, and asks her to stop what she is doing, that she is going too far. When she refuses to do so, he goes in and rescues Lessing, saving him in the nick of time and gets him to tell him everything he knows on the Ankari.
Janeway agrees to try and find a nearby Ankari vessel. When everyone else is dismissed from the briefing, she confronts Chakotay, telling him that even though in the past they had their disagreements, he still never openly opposed her. Chakotay argues that she almost killed that man today and that this wasn't about rules and regulations, but about right and wrong; upon warning her that he won't let her cross that line again, she relieves him of duty until further notice.
Act ThreeEdit
Voyager pursues an Ankari ship, but it does not respond to Voyager's hails. Not having the patience to pursue normal diplomatic channels, Janeway orders Tuvok to use a tractor beam on the ship. Tuvok objects as the Ankari ship had done nothing, but she yells at him to "just do it". The Ankari, who don't want anything to do with Voyager after what the Equinox did, are forced by Janeway to agree to summon their "Spirits of Good Fortune" and act as translators. Speaking with them in the cargo bay, the lifeforms demand the destruction of the Equinox as retribution. Tuvok tries to persuade them that they will punish the Equinox crew in their own way, via imprisonment, but gets nowhere. The lifeforms don't believe they would harm their own kind. Janeway tells them the Federation has rules that the Equinox disregarded and unusually promises the lifeforms to deliver the Equinox to them if they stop their attacks on the Voyager. Now it is Tuvok's turn to object against Janeway's irrational behavior, reminding her the lifeforms will kill the Equinox's crew but Janeway makes him very much aware she's willing to confine him to quarters just like she did Chakotay. The lifeforms, however, accept Janeway's offer.
Ransom escapes the challenges of surviving by wearing a synaptic stimulator, a device which allows him to experience various alien vistas. Although only designed to view landscapes, being nowhere as advanced as a holodeck, he sees someone in it: he is amazed to discover it is Seven of Nine, who asks, then demands that Ransom find another way home. Seven turns into a nucleogenic lifeform, at which point Ransom ends the program. Burke summons him to the bridge at the same time, as Voyager has found them again. Ransom orders the starship to open a channel, preparing to surrender to Janeway and make peace with the aliens. Burke doesn't want to accept surrender, sends Ransom to the brig, and takes control of the ship. Marla Gilmore points her phaser at Ransom, and takes him away. Burke contacts the Equinox EMH aboard Voyager and asks him to find the vessel's current shield frequency.
Voyager opens fire on the Equinox, and the two ships engage in combat while at warp. Gilmore leads Ransom to engineering, and lowers her phaser – confessing that she is on his side and wants this to end as much as he does. The two begin trying to access the transporter controls.
Voyager destroys the Equinox port warp nacelle, and the ship falls out of warp, leaking plasma. Voyager continues to pursue, still firing its weapons. The EMH transmits the shield frequency to Burke. Voyager moves in, preparing to engage a tractor beam, while Burke manages to fire torpedos through the shields. Despite Tuvok rotating the shield frequency every ten seconds, Voyager suffers extensive damage, losing many weapons arrays and the impulse drive. Ransom suddenly hails the ship and tells Janeway he's ready to surrender, but Burke's mutiny left Ransom no longer in charge, but he says that he can transport the Equinox crew to Voyager. He also advises her to send over some guards, as not everyone may be happy to see her. Amazed at their captain's sudden change in attitude, Janeway agrees. She tells her crew that Ransom is a Starfleet captain after all, even if he forgot that for a while.
Burke isn't ready to surrender just yet, however, and places a force field around the bridge. Gilmore is able to transport the rest of the crew to Voyager, including Seven of Nine. She also transfers The Doctor's program back to his sickbay, with ethical subroutines restored. The Equinox EMH threatens to blow out every holoemitter in the room, and blow out The Doctor's command sequencers – when the Voyager Doctor simply deletes him, thus stopping his transmissions to the Equinox.
Ransom, still in engineering, contacts his bridge. He tells the stunned Burke that he has dropped the shields around the ship, except the bridge and his current location. The vital systems are exposed. Burke refuses to transport to Voyager, despite his captain's pleas – instead, he tries to lead the bridge crew to the nearby shuttlebay two decks down, but all perish en route.
As the lifeforms attack the Equinox warp core, Ransom hails Janeway. He tells her that his ship is about to explode, and he has to get it to a safe distance from the immobilized Voyager. Janeway tries to get Ransom off, asking him to set auto-navigation. He refuses, saying he has no time. He tells her that she has a fine crew and asks her to promise him to get them home. Having set a course away from Voyager, he wears his synaptic stimulator one last time, looking at a beautiful beach. A moment or two later, Equinox explodes and is destroyed, and the Captain goes down with his ship.
- "Captain's log, supplemental. With the Equinox destroyed, the aliens have withdrawn to their realm. I've reinstated Chakotay and we've set a course for home."
After dressing down and harshly rebuking the five former and surviving Equinox crew members, Noah Lessing, Marla Gilmore, James Morrow, Brian Sofin and Angelo Tassoni; Janeway strips them of rank, telling them that from now on they will serve as crewmen, that their privileges will be limited, and that they will work under close supervision for as long as she deems fit. They will need to earn her trust this time.
On the bridge, Janeway wonders how the crew is doing. Chakotay says that Neelix has organized a potluck to boost morale. In a silent moment, she tells him that he may have had good reason to stage a little mutiny of his own. Chakotay admits that the thought had occurred to him, but that it would have been "crossing the line." This strikes a chord with the captain who reflects upon how close her recent actions had come to being no better than that of the Equinox and Captain Ransom.
She then notices the dedication plaque of Voyager that has fallen down for the first time in all these years. Wiping it off, Chakotay suggests putting it back where it belongs – mirroring the earlier fall of the Equinox plaque and a similar conversation she had with Ransom...
Log Entries Edit
- "Captain's log, supplemental. Our warp drive's back online, but repeated sensor sweeps have failed to locate the Equinox."
- "Captain's log, supplemental. With the Equinox destroyed, the aliens have withdrawn to their realm. I've reinstated Chakotay and we've set a course for home."
Memorable quotes Edit
"Please state the nature of the... [looks around] don't bother."
- - Equinox EMH impersonating The Doctor, upon seeing Voyager's sickbay littered with casualties
"You know, Janeway's not the only one who can help you explore your Humanity."
"You would be an inferior role model."
- - Captain Ransom and Seven of Nine, when the captured Seven is brought to him on the Equinox
"First degree phaser burns, minor lacerations...looks like we'll have to amputate. [beat] That was a joke, you're supposed to smile and make a witty retort."
"I'm familiar with human banter. Yours is crude and predictable."
- - Maxwell Burke and Seven of Nine
"We've almost got him. One more torpedo ought to do it!"
- - Captain Janeway going too far and Tuvok preparing to object
"What the hell is he doing? Follow him!"
- - Captain Janeway
"We all make our own Hell, Mr. Lessing. I hope you enjoy yours."
- - Captain Janeway to Noah Lessing during the interrogation
"Do these programs have people in them?"
"No, just landscapes."
- - Captain Ransom and Marla Gilmore on the synaptic simulator
"Damn it, Kathryn!"
"You're panicking. He's going to talk."
- - Chakotay to Captain Janeway going too far
"I'm warning you: l won't let you cross that line again."
"Well then you leave me no choice. You are hereby relieved of duty until further notice."
"What's happened to you, Kathryn?"
"I was about to ask you the same question."
- - Chakotay to Janeway
"Tractor beam."
"Captain, the Ankari ship has done nothing to..."
"Just do it."
- - Janeway ordering to tractor beam the Ankari ship and Tuvok objecting.
"I will summon them, but you must talk to them. You must convince them."
- - The Ankari Captain agreeing to help Voyager
"They say, they want the humans to die."
"A difficult place to start a negotiation."
- - The Ankari Captain and Tuvok upon the former summoning the aliens
"This isn't the brig."
"I know. I'm with you, sir. Let's find a way to end this."
- - Captain Ransom and Marla Gilmore
"He's still a Starfleet captain. He may have forgotten that for a while but I believe him."
- - Janeway
"You've got a fine crew, captain. Promise me you'll get 'em home."
- - Captain Ransom (final words)
"It's quite disconcerting to know that all someone has to do is flick a switch to turn me into Mr. Hyde."
- - The Doctor to Seven of Nine about his ethical subroutines.
Background Information Edit
- From this episode until its finale "Endgame", Voyager was the sole carrier of the Star Trek franchise, following the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series finale "What You Leave Behind".
- This was the first Voyager episode on which writer Ronald D. Moore worked, having transferred to the Voyager writers' room after the conclusion of Deep Space Nine. Moore later told an interviewer, "We sat down and approached 'Equinox II' and tried to find what the show was about. What was the point of meeting this ship and this crew and this captain, and what did it mean? We finally landed on this idea that the two captains were going to go in opposite directions. Janeway was going to really feel the same kind of pressures and stresses that Ransom felt, and watch how it could turn a good, by-the-book Starfleet captain into what he had become. At the same time, his interaction with The Doctor and Seven of Nine would rekindle his humanity. It was this nice, double track approach, but it just got lost in the translation. It has no coherence. You're not sure what's really going on. You've got some potentially good scenes. The scenes between Janeway and Chakotay had some real fire to them, and you kind of felt like she is going off the deep end, a bit. Then she relieves him of duty, and there is this crisis of command between the two of them. But at the end of the episode, it's just a shrug and a smile and off to the next. I just hit the ceiling. I remember writing in the margins, 'This is a total betrayal of the audience. This is wrong. You can't end the show like this. If you are going to do all this other stuff, you can't end the show like this, because it's not fair, because it's not true, and it just wouldn't happen.'"
- Moore continued his criticisms of the episode: "The things that Janeway does in 'Equinox' don't work, because it's not about anything. She's not really grappling with her inner demons. She's not truly under the gun and suffering to the point where you can understand the decisions that she's made. She just gets kind of cranky and bitchy. She's having a bad day; these things keep popping around on the bridge, and we just keep cutting to shots of people grabbing phaser rifles and shooting, and hitting the red alert sign, over and over again. It doesn't signify anything. It's kind of emblematic of the show. There is a lot of potential, and there is a lot of surface sizzle going on in a lot of episodes, but to what end? What are we trying to do? What are we trying to touch in the audience? What are we trying to say? What are the things we are trying to explore? Why are we doing this episode? That was my fundamental question. When I would say, 'What was the point of doing the first part?' there was never a good answer for that. As a consequence, it was hard to come up with the ending to the show that has no beginning. You just start throwing things around. 'Two captains on different courses' at least sounds like an episode. At least there is something in it. Janeway will take something away from that experience, but not in the current version. What does she learn from that experience? I don't know how it's affected her. Chakotay, for all his trouble, he just goes back to work. There is no lingering problem with Janeway; there is no deeper issue coming to the fore. The show in general just kinda sucks frankly." [1]
- Ronald D. Moore would later take this same concept and rework it into the episode Pegasus, of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. The Pegasus experienced a similar voyage to the Equinox, finding themselves in Cylon Space and down to only about half her crew, and decide to take and use refugees to help fill the spaces, and then leave them to die. (citation needed • edit)
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- This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series.
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- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 6.1, 28 February 2000
- For the fourth season in a row, the video sleeve is redesigned. The character images remain in place, but the episode band is made smaller, with the volume number at the center, and the two episode names either side.
- In feature-length form, as part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek: Voyager - Movies: Volume 3 (with "The Killing Game"), 5 February 2001
- As part of the VOY Season 6 DVD collection
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- Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Ensign Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Robert Picardo as The Doctor
- Tim Russ as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok
- Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
- Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
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- Marvin deBaca as Timothy Lang
- Tarik Ergin as Ayala
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Adams Nets Record Seven in Detroit Victory
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PONTIAC, Mich. -- Freshman Shayne Adams (St.
Catharines, ON/Denis Morris) led nine Titan goal scorers with a
school record seven goals as the Detroit men's lacrosse team
picked up its first win of the season, 19-3, over Mercer at
Ultimate Soccer Arenas in Pontiac.
The 19 goals scored by the Titans (1-4) was a school record as well as the three markers allowed. Mercer, in its first year as a Division I program, fell to 0-5 on the season.
The seven points by Adams also tied a school record for the most points in a game in school history as the rookie attacker netted at least one goal in every quarter on the day. Freshman Alex Maini (Lynbrook, NY/Lynbrook) netted a hat trick with three goals, while junior Scott Harris (Saline, MI/Saline) and sophomore Chris Nemes (Novi, MI/Detroit Catholic Central) tallied two apiece.
Sophomore Jordan Houtby (St. Catharines, ON/Holy Cross Secondary) also set a Titan record with 11 ground balls, while tying his own school record for the second time this season causing six turnovers.
The Titans took a commanding lead right from the start with six goals in the first 11 minutes of play. All six goals were scored by two Titans as Adams and Maini picked up hat tricks in the first quarter.
Mercer ended the first period with two goals, but Detroit put the game away with six-straight goals in the second to jump out in front 12-2. The quarter started with sophomore Brandon Davenport (Grosse Pointe Woods, MI/GP North) winning the face-off, where he was 7-4 on the day, and eventually firing one past the Bears' goalie.
Nemes and Harris would then go on the offensive with each Titan adding a pair of goals, before Adams struck for his fourth of the game with 22 seconds left in the half.
The Bears ended the second quarter with a goal with five seconds left, but that would be the last time they found the back of the net as the red, white and blue kept Mercer off the scoreboard in the second half.
Detroit added to its lead in the third with Adams on the man-up goal and then redshirt freshman Wes Steen (Columbus, OH/Olentangy Liberty) posted his first collegiate goal to give UDM a 14-3 lead after three.
The fourth saw senior Tim Shoemaker (Rochester, MI/Rochester) come up with his second collegiate goal and that was followed by Adams' Detroit record sixth goal of the contest and the first on the day off the stick of senior Matt Gregson (Flint, MI/Powers Catholic). Adams got his seventh at the 7:52 mark in the fourth and freshman Matt Lining (Troy, MI/Troy Athens) ended the contest beating the keeper with 6:40 left in the game.
All three Titan goalies saw time in net led by sophomore A.J. Levell (Columbus, OH/Dublin Scioto),who picked up his third career win stopping two shots in 30 minutes of action. Freshman Danny Kransberger (Grand Rapids, MI/Forest Hills Central) had six saves in 28:06, while junior Mike Brown (Troy, MI/Troy Athens) made his collegiate debut recording a save in almost two minutes of game time.
Also picking up points on the day was junior Ty Maruyama (Lakewood, CO/Green Mountain), who had two assists and three ground balls. Harris added two assists to go with his two goals for four points in the game, while Maini totaled a four-point game as well with his helper added to his three goals.
Detroit set a school record outshooting Mercer, 51-26. The Titans also picked up 38 GB's to the Bears' 22 and forced the opposition into 29 turnovers. UDM also kept Mercer in check on the man-up advantage holding the Bears to 0-of-7 with the extra man attack.
The Titans will return to action next Sunday, March 6, in a lacrosse doubleheader at Titan Field. First the women will take on UC Davis at 11:00 a.m., and that will be followed with the men hosting Lehigh at 2:00 p.m.
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|Richard A. Hill, DVM
June 10, 1934 - March 22, 2013
Born in Klamath Falls June 10, 1934, Richard married Joan, his high school sweetheart July 26, 1953. After his mother's death from polio in 1952, Richard left college at Oregon State University to farm with his father Ralph. He later farmed and ranched in Bonanza before he, Joan and the kids moved to Pullman Washington where Richard completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1969. After practicing a year in Hillsboro, Richard and family moved to Ashland where he practiced until his retirement in 2006. He treated animals large and small, wild and domestic, ostriches and emus.
An avid sportsman and conservationist, Richard hunted, fished, hiked, rafted, canoed throughout Oregon and the Northwest. In 2009 he joined his son's family and all of the grandchildren for another Bowron camping adventure in British Columbia. Richard loved following high school sports and particularly the Ashland Grizzlies, and recently the Miami Heat with his daughter Lois.
He is survived by his wife Joan Gail Hill, Ashland, Oregon; brother Robert Hill, M.D. Bend, Oregon; sister Jeannie Arant, Klamath Falls, Oregon; children: Lois Ruth Hill, Weston Florida, Sharon K Hill, Portland, Russel Allen Hill and wife Jody, Walla Walla Washington; grandchildren Stephen Patrick Unger and Stephanie Joan Unger, Weston Florida, Ryan Anthony Hill and Miranda Jene Hill, Walla Walla Washington, as well as numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Daughter Susan Beth and parents Ralph and Lois Hill precede him in death.
Memorial service will be Saturday March 30, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Litwiller Funeral Home 1811 Ashland Street, Ashland Oregon, and officiated by his sister Jeannie Arant from Mt. Laki Presbyterian Church of Klamath Falls. A potluck Open House will follow the service.
In lieu of flowers, family encourages donations to the Ashland High School Booster Club in Richard's name, PO Box 121, Ashland, Oregon 97520.


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My son Big D is 10 months old and has been EBF since birth. Unfortunately I have to stop nursing for health reasons and I am wondering how am I going to do it. I am planning to give him BM until he is 1 and then try cow's milk, which I am praying he takes with no problem.
As of last month, he went on a "nipple strike" and he has not been nursing at all. I am pumping 4x a day to keep up my supply and I give it to him in a sippy cup. I've been planning the pumping amount for the month of October, which is when he will turn 1. By the 15th of september I've completed the 744 oz of milk I would need for him. I've been pumping and pumping for his feedings and for the storage.
I am just concerned as to how to wean off the pump. I am not sure how to go about it. I had thoughts on how to do it, but I still need to have enough milk to end september. I have about two weeks to wean completely. How do I start and continue about it. Also, my nipples are very sensitive and they hurt, I take it is fromt he machine.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciate it!!!
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Price Momentum Rises for Research in Motion
The graph provided by Barchart reveals over the last two and a half months RIMM was up 29% while American Tower (AMT) was up 5%, Crown Castle (CCI) was up 6% and SBA Communications (SBAC) was up 11%.
Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Canada, RIM makes the Blackberry mobile phones and supporting software and technology, including application suites and services for the enterprise sector.
Factors to consider :
Recently the stock has an 88% Barchart technical buy signal and a Trend Spotter buy signal. The gained 9.87% in the last month and has a 57.25% relative strength index. Currently, it is above its 20-, 50- and 100-day moving average and Barchart computes a technical support level at 8.45. Recently the stock is trading at 8.56, above its 50-day moving average of 7.67.
The recent earnings release surprised a lot of analysts on Wall Street and revealed things are not as bad as predicted. Thirty five brokerage firms have assigned 47 analysts to monitor the numbers and they have revised their projections. Although revenue is expected to be down by 40.10% this year, the Jan. 30th release of the new Blackberry 10 smartphone should level out revenue next year.
The company is actually selling more phones and signing up more subscribers now. Earnings are estimated to be down 130.60% this year but cost saving measures are predicted to result in earnings to be up 55.60% next year and increase annually by a 10%-plus rate over the next five years.
The price-to-earnings ratio is 6.83% and compares favorably to the 15.2% P/E of the market The financial strength is B+ and TheStreet rates this a D+ stock.
Individual investor interest is high with 5,800 readers of Motley Fool giving the stock a 76% vote to beat the market. Wall Street analysts have four buy, 26 hold, 11 underperform and six sell recommendations in place.
Other stocks in the telecommunications industry:
American Tower has a B financial strength and is rated A- by TheStreet. Revenue is expected to be up 11.40% next year and earnings to increase by 18.28% annually for the next 5 years.
Crown Castle has a B financial strength and is rated B by TheStreet. Analysts project revenue to be up 6.50% next year and earnings to increase by 20.45% annually for the next 5 years
SBA Communications has a C++ financial strength and is rated C by TheStreet. Revenue is predicted to be up 25.10% next year and earnings to increase by 17.00% annually for the next five years.


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Let's be honest, we are not living in the salad days of Aliens or Predators. For example, 2010's Predators was serviceable, but it didn't have nearly enough governors.
The much anticipated 2013 video game Aliens: Colonial Marines -- which was touted as a spiritual sequel to James Cameron's Aliens -- disappointed fans when they discovered it was a tureen o' turds. In that game, the enemies' artificial intelligence was so execrably pooptacular that the player's space marine could jog through entire stages unmolested by Aliens.
For extra joy, listen to this while you watch the above on loop for three minutes.
And then there was Prometheus, a film that proved $130 million, world-class actors, and phantasmagoric set design are all for naught if your script resembles an episode of Lost in Space written by an infinite amount of orangutans trapped in a doorless room with a single typewriter and an infinite amount of fermented papaya.
But as lousy as all these things were, they pale in comparison to Operation: Aliens, an animated series from the early 1990s that never made it to air.
Aliens Collection
Mountain lions can be cowed by a jacket raised above one's head, just as Aliens fear anatomically impossible legs.
That's right, the extraterrestrial species that was originally conceived as a hurdy-gurdy fuckball of phalli and vulvae juxtaposed every which way Mr. Potato Head style was once considered prime material for a children's show. Ghostbusters, Aliens was not.
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Let's not forget that this was a unique era in kids' programming when it was perfectly normal to transform the mental anguish of a PTSD-afflicted Vietnam vet into a Saturday morning cartoon about a one-man G.I. Joe squad who don't own any shirts.
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"Haha, Rambo jumped the shark himself! Fuck you, Mr. Future Blogger Man!"
Operation: Aliens never made it past rudimentary development stages, but the show received a slew of tie-in merchandise, including an extensive 1992 action figure line that came packaged with fantastically shoddy comic books.
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And from these comics -- which, let's be real, were written for the express purpose of selling toys -- we can glean a rough outline of what Operation: Aliens would've looked like. Here are four scenes that made AvP look like, uh, SvX. (That stands for Schroedinger Vs. Xenophon.)
4All of the Humans Are Suddenly Not Dead
The Operation: Aliens action figure roster drew from the cast of the Aliens movie -- you had protagonist Ellen Ripley and other assorted space marines. In fact, the only figure to not appear in the films was Atax, some guy who wouldn't shut up about the tactical benefits of cross-dressing as an Alien.
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In the future, "maximum" will be only one of but nine adjectives available to English speakers.
One smug bastard who got off wearing his yiff suit into battle aside, all of these characters appeared in the movies. And -- 25-YEAR-OLD SPOILER ALERT -- most of them died a gruesome death by the end of Aliens, and 100 percent of the action figure line kicked the bucket when the embattled Alien 3 stopped rolling.
Even more bizarrely, these comics go out of their way to feature the space marines wistfully recalling their adventures on the moon of Acheron, aka the setting of Aliens, aka the place where nearly everybody died.
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"What happened was I died in cryosleep! That shit was hilarious."
Later in the comic, the space marines rescue their sergeant from a xenomorph hive. They wax nostalgic about their time on Acheron and Sarge's speedy recovery.
Here's what happened to Sarge at the end of Aliens.
Hint: Those arrows are pointing to individual molecules.
Nothing galvanizes your troops like the ability to reconstitute your own corpse after a nuclear explosion. The only feat of leadership more inspiring would be commanding Sun Tzu to give Dwight Eisenhower a handjob while Lee Iacocca watches.
3The Aliens Had No Dignity
Operation: Aliens enjoyed not explaining to readers why all of their favorite deceased space marines were inexplicably alive. One must assume that its plot occurs in an alternate universe where 90 percent of Aliens unfolded as we know it, but these Bizarro dimension Aliens had their genetic code fucked up after they parasitized a species of grossly inbred cuddle yetis. I have immortalized such an eventuality in MS Paint below.
Indeed, the xenomorphs in the Operation: Aliens comics were so unthreatening they might as well have had marmalade for blood. The space marines tore right through them like honeydews with exoskeletons. Take this scene, in which the space marines square off against an Alien queen. To conserve ammo, the heroes park a winged terrarium on her.
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"You guys wanted 1,000 bullets to kill 1,000 Aliens, but I bought a spaceship to momentarily inconvenience one."
The artwork in the follow-up scene is no great shakes, but I love how the illustrator captures the Alien queen's incredulity at being killed by maybe the fiscally irresponsible boondoggle in the history of extraterrestrial murder.
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Side note: The 1990s Aliens toy line included almost no "normal" Aliens. You could buy a bunch of weird half-animal hybrids -- like mantis, crab, and rhino Aliens -- but very few straight-up "alien" Aliens.
Aliens 6: We Banged A Zoo.
It was not unlike a Dark Knight Rises action figure line that only offered cowboy-themed versions of the characters, such as "Sarsaparilla Force Batman" and "Alfred Wearing a Big Hat."


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Gidus adds that it is important for parents to be supportive of their child's decision.
"Ask them why they want to become a vegetarian and what you can do to support them," she says. "You can search for recipes together, go grocery shopping, and make meal planning a fun new family activity."
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MVPlease be okay, Carlos!
Ok, so I know Carlos Beltran tends to be dramatic when it comes to injuries. And I know that so far we've heard words like "swollen" instead of those evil words like "tear," but arrrrggghhhhh. These photos are NOT what you want to see when it comes to one of your most important players. Word is he went to the hospital after tonight's game in Houston, and we'll hear more tomorrow…
But what a play! What do you think: If you're Carlos Beltran, do you make the catch that saves the game but risk an injury to one of the team's best players? Or do you let the ball get away but ensure that you'll still be healthy enough to play with the team? I'm interested to hear your thoughts!
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I am from NJ and grew up a Mets fan. I now live in Houston. I have adopted the Astros to root for, as long as they're not playing the Mets. I think it's sickening that people in the stands, however many few, jeered Carlos as he was helped off the field. I think Carlos is really playing hard, and not letting the jeers bother him. He's a great MET.
You got to make the play and try to win every ballgame… I know they have a lead, but you have to think every play of every game is a risk for someone… One pitch and something can happen.. You can't play scared… Carlos gets paid a lot of money and he knows he gets that money to make those plays.
Lets hope he is ok.. If he needs to, take off a week.. We have Cliff back and Endy can play center field.
Hmmm… that's a tough one Zoe. Do I like seeing our guys taking risks like that in games that mean very litte? No way. But I think that's who they are. These guys play to win, no matter what's at stake. I wouldn't want to take that aggressiveness from them and risk them getting soft. Guess it's just up to Willie to give the guys lots of rest after they clinch this thing. lol
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Recently had an inspection from OSHA and they pointed out a requirement to have guards surrounding the Belt Filter Press. THis would not allow operators to visualize what is happening in the press in order to make adjustments etc. Has anyone else been required to fully "encapsulate" thier BFP? If so what measures have you taken to monitor the press operation - also are Belt Filter Press being constructed with this add on to meet this requiremnt?
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Hi Terry, we have not been caught but yes, now that you mention it this has been in effect for approx. the last four or five years and quite frankly if the Inspector says do it, then do it or face the consequences. I'm sure there would be a way to encapsulate it and when required to check the belt press it would have to be stopped or designed in a way that visual contact can still be maintained (preferably). There are alot of pieces of equipment here that need to be up-dated as far as machine gaurding goes. The only thing I can see is if you contact the manufacterer, this little Item will increase the price enormously for future puchasers. You should be able to have a guard fabricated by one of the local fabrication companies when they come in to do a quote, tell them exactly what you need and before they fabricate it make sure you take a good look at the drawings of what they plan on making.(then patent it)LOL
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GPod Episode #11: Cost of Living in Tokyo
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...and one of those is on a map.
China, with the world's 2nd-largest economy, is mentioned 7 times with occasional allusion, and America, still way up top with a GDP roughly twice that of China, is mentioned outright 15 times and referenced again and again.
This week Sony's purchasing part of Nintendo's supply chain (a factory that makes things with 4-letter acronyms), a Japanese artist teamed up with Nike to make artistic HyperColor spandex (deep cut!), and Honda's giving away 3D modeling data for their concept cars - print your own!
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Technology continues to break new ground. Last week in Japan, the latest development in Smart Clothing was unveiled, this time in the area of love - helping women understand their bodies, and helping men understand women's hearts.
There are many strategies employed by men around the world to unlock a woman's heart, which, as many of us know, is a good way to unhook her bra…
But just what is the right formula? What does it take to get the job done, and how do you know when it is all systems go…?
JAL (Japan Airlines) just announced that they will start in-flight Wi-Fi service for their domestic flights, beginning in July. Passengers can choose a 30 minute plan for 400 yen or a plan with fees between 500 yen and 1,200 yen per flight (depending on the flight distance). The specific flight routes and implementation dates for the service have not been announced yet.
Do you think that 400 yen for 30 minutes is too much?
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From Muji, file box-shaped Bluetooth speaker MJFSP-1 for ¥13,000 is now out.
The speaker looks like a file box that you keep documents in so that it looks very natural when you place it on a book cabinet.
Two of these speakers can be connected through an accompanying cable so that you can listen to them in stereo.
It support Bluetooth 3.0, SCMS-T (Serial Copy Management System), SBC (codec), and FM radio.


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Preston not only made second chair but is a member of the Area Jazz Band. He is the only member this past weekend to qualify.
The Jazz Band's Clinic and Concert will be held in the spring of 2013 in Kingsville. Congratulations once again on making your parents, school and community very proud!


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