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SPRINGFIELD The North Springfield Sustainable Energy Project does not help meet the states energy needs or contribute to the states renewable energy goals, according to the director of energy policy and planning for the Department of Public Service.
Without a power purchase agreement between the proposed facility and a Vermont utility, the proposed facility does not contribute to either the states renewable energy goals or its need for electric service, Asa Hopkins wrote in follow-up, pre-filed testimony filed with the board last week.
Hopkins took issue with statements by Dan Ingold of Weston Solutions, which is one of two companies that want to build a 35-megawatt wood chip plant in the North Springfield Industrial Park.
Hopkins, who declined to comment Thursday, also testified the project would not contribute to overall renewable energy goals.
None of the states SPEED goals, the goals of the Vermont 25 x 25 Initiative, or the needs of the states utilities for energy or capacity is met by the proposed facility in the absence of a PPA (power purchase agreement) with a Vermont retail utility, he concluded.
SPEED stands for Sustainable Priced Energy Development Program, and the initiative also deals with state renewable energy programs.
Ingold said Wednesday that Hopkins testimony filed in advance of upcoming technical hearings before the Public Service Board was a kick in the pants for the project to get a contract with a utility completed.
Ingold said Weston and Winstanley Enterprises, the two companies that make up the project, had been negotiating for a long time without success so far.
Thats what were working toward, have been in active talks for months and months and months, said Ingold. We want this to be a Vermont project.
Ingold downplayed Hopkins testimony, calling it a minor issue that would be resolved.
Ingold said he and others were working to reach legal agreements with various state agencies to resolve concerns about the wood-fired plant.
He said the project recently reached a memorandum of understanding with the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets over the issue of invasive species, specifically insects.
The state is concerned that wood chips harboring several dangerous insects such as the emerald ash borer and the Asian long-horned beetle, could be brought into Springfield via the chips.
Under the agreement, all wood chips must be no bigger than 1 inch square.
But Robert Kischko, chairman of North Springfield Action Group, which opposes the wood-fired project, said the 1-inch limit wasnt adequate to safeguard the state from the insects.
Ingold said he hoped the state would also reach agreements with the Agency of Natural Resources over concerns that deal primarily with forest resources.
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Raiffeisen, a leading Swiss bank, is the first bank in Switzerland to offer Cronto's Visual Transaction Signing Solution as next-generation protection for their online banking customers. Available to customers today, CrontoSign will help to defend online customers from most advanced attacks poised by Trojan malware specifically targeting online banking.
Pascal Dürr, Head of Electronic Channels at Raiffeisen, Switzerland, says: "We have been looking for a solution that can offer both the security of transaction signing and the user experience that meets the expectations of our 840,000 e-banking customers. We chose CrontoSign for our customers because it offers strong security, yet is extremely simple to use. "
The CrontoSign solution will be known to Raiffeisen customers as "PhotoTAN", and is recommended by the bank both for secure login and payment authorisation. During the login process, the CrontoSign image will be displayed on the webpage and the PhotoTAN App would automatically recognise it using the camera of the smartphone. Then, similarly to the security cards currently used, a unique password will be shown to the customer to complete the login. The advantages of the PhotoTAN App are really highlighted when customers use it to authorise their payment instructions: in addition to the confirmation code, the App will decode and display the payment information – for example, amount and recipient. All this information is securely transmitted from the bank to the customer's mobile phone using the CrontoSign image that is unique to every customer and every transaction.
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"Turncoat" Jo is an atheist from a country where that kind of shit can land your unbelieving ass in prison. He's been shot by religious extremists and hunted down for the unspeakable crime of writing a blog, and he's alive today only because he fled the hell out of Bangladesh on a student visa. Cracked sat down with Jo to hear about life in the shadow of religious extremism and to find out what it's like to have a dude straight up shoot you in the street. Here's what we learned:
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When I was 8 years old, I saw a pigeon poop on a Quran while we were outside doing an Islamic studies class. I showed the book to my grandma, who decided the pigeons were possessed and needed to be executed. So, some men got together and murdered all those pigeons in the name of God. We didn't know which bird actually did the pooping, so they had to kill all of them. So, you know. Just to give you an idea.
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Not that anyone who's ever lived in any city feels much sympathy for these guys.
In theory, things have gotten better since then -- the supreme court of Bangladesh upheld religious freedom in 2010. But it's also a country that is nearly 90 percent Muslim, and Islamic studies courses are very much mandatory. (Strangely, we were taught evolution in school, from sixth grade biology on. So there's that, I guess.)
I had come out as an atheist to some friends before the laws changed, but I kept that fact secret because did you read that thing about the pigeons? But being a teenager, what I couldn't avoid was getting into an argument with my teacher. It didn't take long for one of my classmates to blab that I was a non-believer. That was the beginning of a sequence of events that would lead to the whole "getting shot and fleeing the country" thing a few years down the line.
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So yes, bullying does get worse than this.
But at the time, I just had to settle for a good beating. Teachers could cane the shit out of students in Bangladesh until 2010, and he did just that, for like 15 minutes straight. And that wasn't the end of it. We got death threats. I have a little brother, and someone sent a letter to my dad saying they knew when he got off from school and they'd be coming after him for the crime of being related to me. My dad had to hire bodyguards for three months. And I felt terrible, because this was all my fault.
And if you think that classmate of mine was a jerk for ratting me out, you have to understand ...
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When you hear about some country on the news with crazily strict religious codes of dress or conduct, it's easy to imagine that it's just a small group of officials enforcing the rules on the common folk, who just roll their eyes and go along with it. But that's not the way it works: The fundamentalists are your neighbors, co-workers, and classmates, all getting more extreme as they try to top each other to prove they're the purest of all.
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In America, the most extreme people get reality shows.
You've probably heard about revenge porn, where jilted exes post compromising nude pics of their former lovers to be gawked at in the worst parts of the Internet. This happens in Bangladesh, too, only replace the naked pictures with pictures of women wearing jeans and suits, or even just not wearing hijabs. If someone shares a photo of a woman who isn't covered from head to toe, she'll be shamed as a slut. And while "slut" is a nasty word everywhere, there it's a prelude to straight-up violence -- our extremists consider things like this to be stoneable offenses. I should note that a picture of the health minister's daughter ended up on one of these sites, and that time it was the photographers who went to jail. Funny how that works.
Once, a friend of mine was driving a scooter past a madrassa with a bunch of kids out in front of it. As she passed, they pelted her with bricks and stones, calling her a slut. We came out there and asked what the hell they were doing, and they told us this was all part of comedic play, intended to teach proper values via hitting people with stones. We called the cops, and they told us the kids would probably stop on their own, eventually. We just needed to give it a few hours.
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So yes, police get worse than that one dick who ticketed you for going four miles over the damn limit.
And that's the thing -- once the extremists know the police won't respond to their craziness (or might even back it up), all sense of proportion vanishes. In 2012, a single Buddhist man insulting Islam was enough to get hundreds of people rioting and burning temples in the street. Living in the shadow of religious extremism is like having an invisible beehive hovering above your bed, and also being the kid from My Girl.


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More of the sameJuly 28,2014With ample justification, Americans love their democracy and it is only natural if they believe it is the answer to the political instability all over the world today. It works for us, why shouldnt it work for them?
But history as well as common sense tells us that for all its virtues, democracy by itself may not always be the best path to pacification of the populations in countries burdened with long (or even recent) histories of religious, cultural and ethnic rivalries.
Today, there are multiple examples that all too painfully make that point: Iraq and Afghanistan immediately come to mind, but the same lessons are there to be learned in Syria, Egypt, Libya and Myanmar, among others.
And western political leaders, in their admirable advocacy of democracy, may be overlooking the lessons learned from the aftermath of World War II and, as an instructive contrast, the fighting that followed the dismantling of Yugoslavia.
Yesterdays statesmen recognized that Germany, for example, would not be ready for democracy until the divisive issues that had led it into World War II had been satisfactorily resolved.
The German people needed to rid themselves of the demons that were turned loose by Naziism and to pay a price for their evil deeds.
Thats why there were the Nuremberg trials. They served as a national cleansing and ultimately made it possible for democracy to flourish.
The opposite has happened in the volatile Balkans, where Europe worries that another war is just over the horizon. They are well aware that World War I began 100 years ago next month with an assassination in that deeply divided region.
After World War II, the Balkans were peaceful only because they were under the thumb of a Communist dictator, Marshal Tito. It wasnt long after his death that the various parts of what was then called Yugoslavia began fighting each other over their differences and, despite the peace accord brokered by the United States, theyre still at it and at least partly, and perhaps largely, thats because there was no Balkan equivalent of Nuremberg.
Of greater immediate concern to Washington and other western capitals is the future of Afghanistan, where democracy is in its infancy and where its chances of survival seem slim.
It is one thing for the United States and its allies to steer the Afghan people to the polls, but that exercise in democracy wont cure that nations ills unless it is accompanied by a plan to resolve the deep and bitter rivalries, not only among those who are taking part in the democratic process, but even more importantly among those who seek to undermine it.
And consider the immediate example of Libya. The western democracies were ecstatic when Moammar Gadhafi was ousted as that nations dictator (mostly because he brazenly supported anti-western terrorism) but now the situation there is so dangerous that this past weekend the United States recalled its entire diplomatic delegation.
Similarly, by steering Iraq to democracy without making sure it had a sound foundation, the west has simply invited further instability that is fueled by religious and ethnic hatreds that existed long before the execution of Saddam Hussein and the introduction of the ballot box,
No one (in Iraq) feels that there has been sufficient progress by any means in the area of national reconciliation, Gen. David Petraeus observed as long ago as 2008.
Without this reconciliation, Iraqs politics have been overwhelmed by the concept of revenge rather than the cooperation and tolerance that are so essential to a successful democracy.
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Twenty students concluded a unique educational experience at the end of June with a special ceremony at the Grand Valley Institution for Women.
The students, who are part of the Inside-Out Canada program, are a mix of outside (Laurier-enrolled) and inside (incarcerated) students. June 23 marked the closing ceremony for the spring Inside-Out class, Gender, Race and Crime taught by Laurier Faculty of Social Work Professor Shoshana Pollack.
The closing ceremony also recognized the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation, which committed additional funding to the program, ensuring that Inside-Out can continue at Laurier up to and including the 2016-17 academic year.
Inside-Out brings inside and outside students together as classmates for a semester-long university course. The program is built around dialogue, critical thinking, collaboration and community building with classes taking place at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener. Inside-Out illustrates how learning together allows all students to break down social barriers, see beyond stereotypes and make constructive changes in their lives and communities.
"Experiencing the Inside-Out program helped me to realize that the best me to be is the authentic me, said Ashley, one of the students in the spring class. Inside-Out taught me to have compassion with myself as well as others. The program also taught me that everyone comes from different places in life but each of our truths are significant. This program was so much more than just a class to take for a credit. It had a profound impact on me personally and it gave me hope of the future possibilities for the correctional system, education system, and our society overall."
The spring course was the seventh offering of an Inside-Out course at Laurier. The Lyle S. Hallman Foundation has provided integral support to the program since 2012.
Lauriers Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work is the central hub for Inside-Out Canada, but the program has also grown beyond Laurier. Laurier coordinates instructor training and supports people who are introducing Inside-Out classes at their own institutions. Over 140 students have benefitted directly from the Inside-Out educational experience. By the end of this year, 14 Inside-Out courses will have taken place across Canada involving partnerships between six universities and seven correctional institutions.
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USDA Announces $4.3 million Investment in Eastern Kentucky
Funds to Expand Rural Health Care Services and Strengthen Local Economy
LONDON, Ky., July 11, 2014 –U.S. Department of Agriculture Administrator for Rural Housing Services and Community Facilities Tony Hernandez announced $4.3 million to expand health care services and create local jobs in eastern Kentucky. The funds will increase hospital capacity, expand health care services, and create continued economic opportunity in the region.
"The ability to access good quality health care directly impacts people's everyday lives and influences the choices people make about where to live and where to start a business," said Hernandez. "Long-term investments that expand access to health care, education and good jobs build strong rural communities with a good quality of life for families."
Today's announcement includes a $4.2 million USDA Community Facilities Loan to the South Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital in Pike County to expand and renovate the facility. The project will expand bed capacity in the intensive care unit (ICU), improve the heating and ventilation system and upgrade facilities in the ICU and emergency room areas. This upgrade will expand the hospital's ability to serve the region in a state which is number one in the nation for cancer mortality rates and over 31 percent of adults are obese.
The announcement was made at the Hazard Community Technical College where USDA, the Appalachian Regional Commission and other federal agencies discussed partnership opportunities to benefit the regional community. Strengthening the health care sector is considered a top priority for the economic growth in the area.
Yesterday, USDA Rural Development State Director Tom Fern announced an $115,000 USDA investment in partnership with the Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation (KHIC) to expand a revolving loan fund to support local business development in southeast Kentucky. One local business in Bell County, Stallworth Internal Medicine and Pediatrics of Middlesboro, Ky., will be able to expand pediatric and primary care as a result of the funds being announced. Currently, there are a limited number of pediatricians and primary care doctors serving the Middlesboro area. These funds are being made through USDA's Rural Business Enterprise Grant program.
Today's announcement is part of USDA's StrikeForce for Rural Growth and Opportunity Initiative which addresses the unique set of challenges faced by many of America's rural communities. In eastern Kentucky, 68 percent of households live below the poverty line. Through StrikeForce, USDA is leveraging resources and collaborating with over 400 community organizations, businesses, foundations, universities and other groups to support 80,300 projects with more than $9.7 billion in USDA investments into rural America. StrikeForce currently serves 20 states including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
These announcements are also part of the Obama Administration's Promise Zone Initiative in Southeastern Kentucky. Through the Promise Zones Initiative, which was outlined in the President's 2013 State of the Union address, the federal government will partner with and invest in designated communities to create jobs, leverage private investment, increase economic activity, expand educational opportunities, and improve public safety. The Kentucky Highlands is one of the first five Promise Zones designated by President Obama in January 2014. An additional 15 Promise Zones will be designated over the next three years. Earlier this week, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) announced a $1 million investment to engage 52 full-time AmeriCorps VISTA members in eastern Kentucky.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).


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Predoctoral Fellowships
The CCEP sponsors five predoctoral fellows. Applications are accepted each year. Details of the fellowship and the application process are outlined below.
Applicants must be graduate students with an MS, MPH, MSPH, or an equivalent level of training, who are currently enrolled in doctoral programs at UNC-Chapel Hill, primarily in the School of Public Health and other Health Affairs Schools.
Applicants may be at any point in their doctoral career, although successful applicants are usually at least in their second year. A clear commitment to cancer prevention and control research is paramount for all applicants. Prior experience in cancer prevention and control research is a plus.
Fellows should have an identified primary CCEP mentor. The primary mentor is usually chair of the applicant's dissertation committee but should at least be a member of the dissertation committee. For fellows who have not formed a doctoral committee, the primary mentor is often the fellow's faculty academic adviser.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill are equal opportunity employers and encourage applications from women and minorities.
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The IBM (NYSE: IBM) board of directors today elected Alex Gorsky and Peter R. Voser to the board. Alex Gorsky, 54, is chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and his election to the board will take effect on September 1, 2014. Peter R. Voser, 55, a Swiss national, is the retired chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS.A). His election to the board will take effect on January 1, 2015.
Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said: "We are delighted that Alex and Peter will be joining the IBM board of directors. Both are accomplished international business leaders. Alex and Peter each have deep and successful experience running information-intensive global enterprises and both are well known as pacesetters in innovation. Their expertise and insights will be extremely beneficial to IBM and our shareholders."
After the elections of Mr. Gorsky and Mr. Voser take effect, the IBM board will have a total of 14 members.
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Mr. Gorsky is chairman of the board of directors, chief executive officer and chairman of the executive committee of Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Gorsky was named Johnson & Johnson's chief executive officer, chairman of the executive committee and joined its board of directors in April 2012. He was later named chairman of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson in December 2012. Prior to being named chief executive officer, Mr. Gorsky held multiple executive positions with Johnson & Johnson, including company group chairman for Ethicon, worldwide chairman of the Surgical Care Group, and worldwide chairman of the Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group.
Mr. Gorsky also serves on the boards of the Travis Manion Foundation and the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.
Mr. Gorsky holds a bachelor's of science degree from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. and a master's in business administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Voser is retired chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc, a global energy and petrochemicals company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom. Mr. Voser joined Royal Dutch Shell in 1982 and subsequently held various executive positions until 2002. Between 2002 and 2004, Mr. Voser served as chief financial officer and executive committee member of the Asea Brown Boveri Group of Companies, headquartered in Zurich. Mr. Voser returned to Royal Dutch Shell in 2004, holding the position of chief financial officer from 2004 to 2009 and chief executive officer from 2009 until his retirement in 2013.
Mr. Voser serves as a director of Roche Holding Ltd, a Swiss pharmaceuticals and diagnostics holding company, and has been appointed to the board of the Singapore-based investment company Temasek Holdings, effective January 1, 2015. He is also a member of the Business Council USA and the board of directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Mr. Voser serves as chairman of the board of St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies and the chairman of Catalyst, a non-profit organization that aims to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women in business.
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Complete Internet of Things (IoT) embedded device security is not just about the device but involves the entire product's identity, data and control integrity, and services traversing the cloud. A device can no longer be looked at as an island; it is a part of a system. In fact, given the cross-domain interactions enabled by IoT it could be a part of many systems. Also, depending on where the device is deployed, for example, in the office building versus a factory floor or oil field, security ha...
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An IoT product's log files speak volumes about what's happening with your products in the field, pinpointing current and potential issues, and enabling you to predict failures and save millions of dollars in inventory. But until recently, no one knew how to listen. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dan Gettens, Chief Research Officer at OnProcess, discussed recent research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and OnProcess Technology, where MIT created a new, breakthrough analytics model for s...
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In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
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"We're a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it's become," stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with "legacy" technology forming the background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a lead...
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Video experiences should be unique and exciting! But that doesn't mean you need to patch all the pieces yourself. Users demand rich and engaging experiences and new ways to connect with you. But creating robust video applications at scale can be complicated, time-consuming and expensive. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Zohar Babin, Vice President of Platform, Ecosystem and Community at Kaltura, discussed how VPaaS enables you to move fast, creating scalable video experiences that reach your aud...
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"Once customers get a year into their IoT deployments, they start to realize that they may have been shortsighted in the ways they built out their deployment and the key thing I see a lot of people looking at is - how can I take equipment data, pull it back in an IoT solution and show it in a dashboard," stated Dave McCarthy, Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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What happens when the different parts of a vehicle become smarter than the vehicle itself? As we move toward the era of smart everything, hundreds of entities in a vehicle that communicate with each other, the vehicle and external systems create a need for identity orchestration so that all entities work as a conglomerate. Much like an orchestra without a conductor, without the ability to secure, control, and connect the link between a vehicle's head unit, devices, and systems and to manage the ...
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I just want to give out a HUGE thank you to all the people who participated in the support group that met for me today at Tom's blog: http://rockymountainway.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/01/mlblogs_first_ever_support_gro.html
In case you didn't know, I'm dealing with Trevor Hoffman loss syndrome right now. These people decided that I needed help, so they got together to tell their stories of players they've lost, and to help me through this time. That really meant a lot to me, and your stories really touched me and showed me that I'm not alone in this. Well, I knew that before, but this was a big help. You guys are amazing! We've got an incredible group of people here. Wow. I feel so great, you guys. Trevor's gone, but I'll be able to deal with it. This gathering made me laugh, it made me cry, and I feel so great right now. You guys are amazing, so thanks again!! Thank you so much to Tom, Jane, Julia, Elizabeth, Jen, Emily, Hyun Young, Homer and Happy. You guys totally made my day, if not my week. So, in an expression of my gratitude, please enjoy these beautiful flowers (Tom LOL):
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Kaybee – you are so very welcomed! We are all here for you – and we just wanted you to know that we have all suffered through the pain of losing a favorite player! Hang in there and Tom has promised to make more cookies for our next meeting. And I'm very sorry that I said mean things about the Yankees. I'll be good next meeting Jane.
Kaybee! Congrats on 22!!! Glad the support group helped, we all need it sometimes!
Losing a favorite player really sucks, but I guess it's all part of the business side of sports. I know it was tough for us Twins fans to lose Johan Santana, but gaining the exciting Carlos Gomez as part of the deal really helped to ease our grief. I just think the way the Padres' front office handled the whole thing was really crappy. though. If they had to cut payroll (which is understandable) they should never have made him an offer in the first place!
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Debating the pros and cons of government policy, applying scientific methods to pressing national challenges and teaching the next generation...thats ultimately what gets me out of bed in the morning says Michael Beckley, a research fellow with the Belfer Centers International Security Program who was recently named an assistant professor of political science at Tufts University.
According to Beckley, who expects to receive his Ph.D. from Columbia University later this year, It is clear to me that public policy, both domestic and foreign, has a tremendous effect on peoples lives and that individuals armed with information can and should work to improve those policies.
Beckley knows first hand what kind of an impact public policy can have. During World War II, a number of his immediate and distant family members were imprisoned at U.S.- run internment camps for Americans of Japanese ancestry. Among them was Beckleys grandmother, as well as one of her cousins, Gordon Hirabayashi. Hirabayashi was one of several Japanese Americans detained during the early 1940s who refused to be interned, and who, along with two other dissenters, were convicted of felonies and sentenced to federal prison.
In 1943, Hirabayashi took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court and argued that his detainment was unconstitutional. Though the court upheld his conviction at the time, it was overturned 45 years later by the U.S. Court of Appeals, with the help of Peter Irons, then a political scientist at UC San Diego.
Though Beckleys research now focuses on U.S. and Chinese foreign policy, Beckley credits his awareness of the internment experience and legal challenges as one of the factors that first sparked his interest in public policy. Since graduating from Emory University in 2004 with a B.A. in International Studies, Beckley has excelled in academia and has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships.
In 2009, he received the International Studies Association Carl Beck Award for Best Graduate Paper in International Relations and in 2010 was awarded the Journal of Strategic Studies Amos Perlmutter Prize for Best Essay of the Year. He is a former fellow with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and was a summer associate with the RAND Corporation.
Having accepted a teaching position at Tufts University for next fall, Beckley plans on staying inside the ivory tower for the time being, though he is leaving the door open to possible government service if the right circumstances present themselves.
Most of my idols are people who circulate back and forth; they are able to advance the academic literature on a subject and then are able to work as leaders and managers in the government and apply their expertise directly to the policy process, Beckley said.
Since arriving at the Belfer Center in September 2011, Beckley has continued to work on his dissertation, which looks at the foundations of U.S. power and challenges the general assumption that China is overtaking the U.S. He recently published a widely discussed essay on this subject in International Security titled Chinas Century? Why Americas Edge Will Endure, and is currently working on a full-length book on the same subject.
Speaking to the impact that the Center has had on his work, Beckley said, I really cant say enough good things about the Belfer Center. Im in a research center with fellows from around the world, so being able to bounce ideas off them, to share and present papers to them, has been incredibly helpful in developing my ideas.
Beckley also credits the Center with publicizing his work, Belfer has been amazing at promoting it, circulating it around, trying to feature it as much as possible, and getting it in front of as many people as possible so that it can have as much influence as possible, he said.
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March 21, 2002
6:00 P.M. Dinner
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6:45 P.M. Business Meeting
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Call to Order
Approval of February 28, 2002 Minutes
Student Government Resolution to name mascot "Blue Devil" - action item
President's Update
Policy Review
Meeting Date - April 18, 2002
Executive Session
Bluefield State College
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March 21, 2002
Members Present: Mr. Norris Kantor, Chair, Mr. John Barnes, Co-Chair, Mr. Jack Caffrey, Dr. Steve Bourne, Ms. Carol Baldwin, Mr. Frank Wilkinson, Dr. Lyn Guy, Ms. Anne Crowe, Mr. Burt Clark, Ms. Ruth Payne Brown
Members Absent: Reverend Garry Moore, Mr. Aaron Judy
Guests: Dr. Robert Moore, Mr. Jim Nelson, Ms. Vivian Sidote
Mr. Kantor brought the meeting to order.
Mr. Kantor asked for approval of minutes of February 28, 2002. A motion was made and seconded (Caffrey/Barnes). Hearing no corrections, the minutes stood approved as distributed.
Resolution from Student Government
A motion was made and second (Caffrey/Guy) to approve to adopt Big Blues Mascot ( Blue Devil) subject to a determination by the administration that it does not violate any copy right rules or laws that Duke University may have. Motion carried. Mr. Kantor indicated once the administration checks on this, they can let the students know and report back to us their findings.
President Update
Dr. Moore gave a pack of material relating to the budget. Bluefield State College has to submit its tuition and fee request for next year on April 5 . Bluefield State College will receive $75,045 in state funds. The Governor has mandated a 3% base budget reduction. The reductions on the Community & Technical College component of Bluefield State College has been eliminated, however the Baccalaureate 3% reduction amounts to $61,929. Dr. Moore gave a summary of the budget and discussed the fee schedule for Academic Year 2002-2003. There are some fees to be increased which are: 1) Community College Baccalaureate Enhancement fee is increased from $10.00 to $15.00; 2) ASN 2nd year fee has increased $185.00; 3) Information Technology Certification Training fee is decreased $15.00. The new fees are: 1) Paramedic Programmatic Fee is $10.00; 2) Eight business courses, computer lab is $10.00.
After much discussion, Mr. Barnes indicated that the Board needed a complete copy of the budget to review before we can take control and understand what we are doing. Ms. Shelia Johnson, Vice President for Finance and Administration said she would send Mr. Barnes a extensive copy of the budget. He indicated to Ms. Johnson that he would come to college and look at the budget when she has it ready.
Mr. Barnes said that since we have the list of fees that this could be voted on for approval. A motion was made and second (Barnes/Caffrey) to approve the fees as listed. The motion carried with one abstention.
There was extensive discussion concerning the Tuition for community & technology component and baccalaureate component. Increases in tuition and all required fees, including auxiliary and other services cannot exceed 9.95%. Dr. Moore indicated that for Bluefield State to come out even that the tuition should be increased 9.2%, which is what the other colleges in West Virginia will recommend.
A motion was made and second (Caffrey/Guy) to increase the tuition to 9.2%. Motion carried with 2 abstentions.
Meeting Date
Mr. Kantor mentioned the next regular meeting date of April 18 has some conflicts. He said there is a meeting in Charleston on April 18 that the chair of the Board must attend along with the President. It was agreed to change the meeting date to April 23.
Policy Review
Mr. Kantor the higher policy commission has come out with proposed rules just passed changing the Title 133s. They will be their rules but the governing boards have to look at these rules to see if they impact us at all. They are also coming out with a suggested series 43 on Ethics and series 59 dealing with presidential appointment and evaluations. These rules have not been adopted yet. Mr. Kantor asked for a motion to adopt their work product. A motion was made and second (Crowe/Guy). Motion carried.
Executive Session
Mr. Kantor said they must go into executive at 9:15 p.m.
At 10:00 p.m. the Board came out of executive session. Mr. Kantor said that Dr. Moore presented to the Board of Governors his official letter of resignation wherein he activated the terms of conditions contained in item number thirteen 2) of his appointment letter dated December 10, 2001 thereby returning to his tenure professor rank faculty position for the 2002-2003 academic year at Bluefield State. His resignation is effective as of June 30, 2002. A motion was made and second (Barnes/Brown) to approve his resignation. Motion carried.
Mr. Kantor said the Board will have to go through the process of selecting a new president of Bluefield State College. We will follow the policy and procedures outlined by the rules and regulations applicable to this. He said in order to move forward expeditiously, He appointed a committee consisting of three people to review and draft a set of guidelines and a job description the committee consist of Dr. Lyn Guy, chairperson, Dr. Steve Bourne, and Ms. Ruth Payne Brown. It was requested that they have this information by the Meeting on April 23.
With no other business to transact, the meeting adjourned at 10:05 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Norris Kantor


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2011: Apple Inc. announces the release of its much-anticipated iPhone 4S. The phone retained the exterior design of its predecessor, the iPhone 4, but added a voice recognition system known as Siri, a cloud storage service named iCloud and other improved hardware specifications and software updates.


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I always knew that Illinois would get concealed carry through the courts and not through our lawmakers.
As we reported yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled that Illinois' ban on concealed carry is unconstitutional. Illinois is the only state in the union that does not allow law-abiding citizens some form of concealed carry.
Some random thoughts on the ruling from a journalist and firearms owner ...
• THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: While it sounds good that the court ordered state lawmakers to come up with a concealed-carry law within 180 days, there's the small problem that most of our state lawmakers cannot be trusted under any circumstances.
I think the odds of legislators coming up with a legitimate bill focusing only on concealed carry are about as good as winning the Powerball. So expect the gun-grabbers among our lawmakers to add onerous legislation including, but not limited to, an assault weapons ban, registration of all firearms concealed or not, and a permit cost that would require us to take out a second mortgage for the privilege.
Let's keep an eye on our state lawmakers to keep them – and this bill – honest.
• SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE SHOW: While Tuesday's ruling was great, waiting for the inevitable drooling apoplexy is priceless.
It's started to creep into news coverage already. The Chicago Tribune story in the second paragraph called the ruling "a victory for the National Rifle Association." How about, like the AP wrote, "a victory for gun rights advocates?"
But I'm savoring the Sun-Times (the paper that helped bring you the 67 percent income tax increase). Their righteous indignation is just getting started. The resulting meltdown on its editorial page and among its columnists could make Karl Rove's election night Fox News meltdown look like Edward R. Murrow by comparison.
• AS LONG AS I'M ANGERING MY BELOVED FOURTH ESTATE: I have one piece of advice for lawmakers, and it's one you'll rarely hear from an open-government guy. The identities of concealed-carry license holders must absolutely, positively be exempt from the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
As I blogged here almost a year ago, news agencies in the past have come up with the bright idea of outing concealed carry license holders, and lawmakers subsequently respond to the public outrage by passing laws curtailing transparency. Trust me, media organizations will print the Illinois concealed carry list for the sole nefarious purpose of discouraging people from getting the license, which of course is not journalism but advocacy.
I don't think of this as opposing openness – I prefer to think of it as saving my beloved mainstream media from itself.
• YES, SHE ACTUALLY SAID THAT: The Tribune quoted the reaction of gun control advocate House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago:
"If we need to change the law, let us at least craft a law that is very severely constrained and narrowly tailored so that we don't invite guns out of control on each of our city's streets."
You mean, just like now in Chicago?
"I don't want people out of control wandering the streets with guns that are out of control."
You mean, just like now in Chicago?
Listen, ma'am, I understand your fears. But I'll say it plain – your city is a war zone, and has been for years, despite having some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. I'm not spouting NRA rhetoric when I state the obvious that criminals don't follow gun laws. The only difference now is that Chicago's bumper crop of thugs will have to think twice about whether the innocent person they want to terrorize is carrying a more powerful caliber than they are and are faster on the draw.
I have an idea – rather than guns, why don't you instead try to fix Illinois' $94 billion unfunded pension liability? I bet if we polled Illinois residents and business owners as to what keeps them awake at night, concealed carry doesn't hold a candle to Squeezy the Pension Python.
• THEY ACTUALLY SAID THAT, PART 2: I read an opinion on Twitter that concealed carry might mean more money for Cook County because of that $25 tax on gun purchases the Cook County Board just approved.
Uh, no. People will cross county lines to avoid the tax, just like they do for, well, everything else.
• AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN: Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is reviewing the ruling to determine whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
You mean, to the very U.S. Supreme Court that started all of this with District of Columbia vs. Heller? Good luck with that. The best-case scenario for gun-control advocates is that the court upholds the ruling. The worst-case scenario for them is that the justices hand down a ruling that forces other states to loosen their concealed carry rules.
I have an idea – how about focusing energies on cleaning up Illinois' rapacious corruption that costs taxpayers $500 million a year? Madigan's office has been great on the transparency and consumer protection fronts, but has shown little interest in cleaining out the Augean stables of Illinois graft that have resulted in our two previous governors making little rocks out of big ones.
• SPEAKING OF CONCERNS: For the life of me, I don't understand why so many journalists seem to be opponents of concealed carry.
One of my biggest fears is that one day some tea party "patriot" is going to decide to walk into a newsroom somewhere and open fire to "do something" about that evil liberal media that his endless stream of talk radio and fever-swamp blogs is telling him is destroying the county.
If you want to try to interview said maniac before he lets daylight through you, be my guest. I'll be busy returning fire.
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Grand Valley students sign final beam for Pew Library
Posted on April 12, 2012
More than 1,000 Grand Valley students made their mark on Laker history by signing the final beam for the Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons April 12. The four-story beam will complete the steel erection of the library, which will open in the fall of 2013.
Signers included Grand Valley President Thomas J. Haas, Student Senate President Natalie Cleary and kids from the Children's Enrichment Center. Kate Pew Wolters, former chair and current trustee of Grand Valley's Board of Trustees, was also in attendance and signed the beam for the building that is named for her mother.
"It's great to see all the Lakers here to celebrate the new library that will take us into another stage at Grand Valley," said Haas at the event. "Seeing all the excitement and support is a great testimonial to our university."
Cleary said, "Being here and seeing us all come together is what it truly means to be a Laker for a lifetime."
The event gave students an opportunity to express their gratitude to the donors who made the project possible. More than 1,400 private donors, students, alumni, and faculty and staff members have provided support and donations for the new facility.
The Pew Library will provide 1,500 seats for student study, 20 group study rooms, and offices and support areas for faculty and staff members. There will be room for 150,000 books on open shelves and 600,000 books in an automated storage/retrieval system.
Visit gvsu.edu/library/newbuilding to see floor plans and to take a virtual tour of the library.


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By Tony Parra: Freedom Newspapers
Manuel and Esperanza Garcia feel that every moment spent with their children is precious. Those moments are magnified when one of those children is visiting between stays in Baghdad.
Army Capt. Lupe Garcia, 35, has been in Iraq since August, assigned to the multi-National Security Transition Command and the civilian police assistance training team at Adnan Palace. He is scheduled to return on March 22.
"It's tough not knowing how he's doing," Manuel Garcia said. "I was extremely happy to see him (on Saturday)."
Manuel and Esperanza live in Portales, while Lupe lives in Las Cruces when he's not deployed.
"I was anxious to see him," Esperanza said. "I was worried he wouldn't come back."
Esperanza said she was surprised when she first got the news that her son would be deployed to Iraq.
"I didn't know what to think," Esperanza said. "I was sad. But still, we supported him and we support all of our children in their decisions."
Lupe is responsible for equipping and training Iraqi guards who provide security for the national buildings, banks, schools and ministries.
"You always have to be aware of your surroundings because your life is in your hands," Lupe said. "It's intense."
Lupe grew up in Portales and graduated from Portales High School in 1988 and from Eastern New Mexico University in 1992. He then worked as a New Mexico probation and parole officer in Clovis from 1994 to 2001.
"It's awesome to be here," Lupe said. "I'm ecstatic. We're a close family. You miss everyone while you are there (Iraq). It's tough to go from a war zone to a family. You go back to reality as you knew it."
Lupe arrived in Portales on Saturday, greeted by happy family members with hugs and kisses.
Lupe's sisters and brothers were happy to see him and are proud of him. Joe Garcia was full of smiles on Saturday, joyful to see his younger brother in Portales.
Carmen Pena, Lupe's sister, keeps in constant contact with Lupe through e-mail and phone calls.
Pena said she has coffee with Manuel and Esperanza frequently to keep them up to date. She also keeps in touch with the rest of the sisters, too.
"I have mixed feelings," Pena said. "We're all so proud of him, but I wish he didn't have to go back."
Lupe said he is receiving a short break from serving in Iraq and was in Las Cruces for three days before arriving in Portales on Saturday.
Manuel and Esperanza have nine children, and Esperanza said most of them live nearby, but it's terrifying to have a son living in a dangerous environment in Iraq.
Lupe has two children, Michael and Melissa who attend Las Cruces Onate High School.
Lupe said he won't get to see his son graduate from Onate High School in May. According to Lupe, his tour is scheduled to end in August, but that could change. Lupe said some members of the military have been stationed in Iraq for more than two years.


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By Tom Philpott: Military Update
An Army officer's complaint during a Pentagon "town hall" meeting might breathe new life into an issue Congress has ignored for years: a 1982 law that allows state divorce courts to divide military retirement as marital property, jointly earned.
The particular "injustice'' cited by the officer, whose comments caught Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld off guard, is a court order directing that she pay her ex-husband a share of her retirement when she reaches 20 years of service in 2006, whether or not she retires.
It will have the effect of forcing her out of service, said the officer, identified by associates as Lt. Col. Patricia Larrabee.
"I can't afford to write (a) check to my ex-husband every month out of my military pay,'' she told Rumsfeld during the June 29 forum, televised worldwide to U.S. troops over the Pentagon Channel.
"By the way,'' Larrabee added, "he makes thousands and thousands of dollars more than I do.''
Rumsfeld must have disappointed advocates for changing the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act (USFSPA) to be more favorable to retirees by confessing, "I've never heard of it.''
But Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had. Appearing with Rumsfeld, Myers stepped forward to advise his boss that the law in question had been written in an earlier era when military spouses were almost always women and "probably did not work'' outside the home.
"So it needs to be looked at,'' Myers said, endorsing Rumsfeld's promise to Larrabee to have David Chu, under secretary for personnel and readiness, review the issues.
Larrabee reminded Rumsfeld that the divorce rate in the military is higher than for civilian couples and is rising. According to Army data, the spike in divorces is particularly high among officers, attributed largely to the pace of deployments to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than 3,300 Army officer marriages ended in divorce last year, up 78 percent from a year earlier and triple the number in year 2000. Among Army enlisted soldiers, more than 7,100 were divorced last year, an increase of 28 percent over 2003 and 53 percent since 2000.
Critics of the USFSPA say more and more court judges are directing active duty members, as part of their divorce settlements, to begin to make payments based on estimates of the ex-spouse share of future benefits.
Indeed, though it escaped Rumsfeld's notice, the Defense Department in February proposed, as part of its 2006 defense authorization budget request, that the USFSPA be amended to prohibit court-ordered payments based on the "imputation of retired pay," thus forcing members to make retirement payments to ex-spouses before they actually retire.
The House and Senate armed services committees quietly dropped the suggested change from their defense bills.
Larrabee, who could not be reached for further comment, told Rumsfeld she had custody of the couple's two young children and that her ex-husband "resigned from the military because it wasn't lucrative enough for him.'' During their nine-year marriage, she said, "he tripled his income due to the support I provided him while he went to school full time. And by the way, I supported the family with my military paycheck.''
"Sir,'' Larrabee told Rumsfeld, "we are your supporters — some of your biggest supporters in this country — and we would like to get support from our leadership as well.''
Based on data compiled last year, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service had been receiving about 18,000 court orders a year directing the division of military retired pay as part of a divorce settlement
Larrabee told Rumsfeld her circumstance might "sound a bit shocking to you because now there's a woman having to pay an ex-husband who makes just a lot more than a lot of us in this room.'' But in fact, she said, it's a gender-neutral issue affecting many service members although "we can't get a congressman or anybody to touch this.''
Tom Philpott can be contacted at Military Update, P.O. Box 231111, Centreville, Va. 20120-1111, or by e-mail at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Dordt students participate in summer cross-cultural experiences
August 3, 2012
Instead of taking a semester-long class on Dordt's campus during the academic year, several students choose to fulfill their cross-cultural requirement by participating in a two- to three-week class in a foreign country.
This summer, 19 students chose one of the four summer international programs to The Netherlands, and Costa Rica, Northrise University in Zambia, the Nehemiah Center in Nicaragua. These summer off-campus programs are filled with learning about the country's history and culture, discovering the beauty and diversity of God's world, and exploring the region.
Allison Kraayenbrink of Sioux City, Iowa, went to the Netherlands where she and her classmates immersed themselves in the study and exploration of Dutch history. "One of the best parts of this trip was traveling every day. I learned so much about how the Netherlands developed as a country," said Kraayenbrink. "The parts of the trip I'll remember most are visiting Normandy, the Anne Frank house and the Corrie ten Boom house, and Camp Vught Concentration Camp. The whole experience was unforgettable."
During the school year, there are many off-campus programs, but the summer programs are unique because they are typically led by a Dordt College faculty member. "During the summer, when our own faculty members can be involved, the significant potential for growth and development and cross-cultural learning is amplified because our students are taught and mentored by our own faculty members," said Curtis Taylor, Dordt College director of international student and off-campus programs.
The 19 students are: Zambia: Aaron Crocker (Washta, Iowa), Krista Bosman (Everson, Washington), Laura Dykstra (Edmonton, Alberta), Derek Grace (Mount Vernon, South Dakota), Parker Merritt (Mason City, Iowa), and Ben Olthoff (Sioux Center, Iowa). Nicaragua: Rachel Brown (O Fallon, Illinois), Brittany Clausen (Schleswig, Iowa), Drew De Vries (Maurice, Iowa), John Luetchens (Mudock, Nebraska), and Cody Bremser (Denison, Iowa). The Netherlands: Jared Goedhart (Rochester, Minnesota), Matthew Kamp (Manhattan, Montana), Allison Kraayenbrink (Sioux City, Iowa), Katy Landwier (Newton, Iowa), Amy van Rijn (Mesa, Arizona), and Molly van Rijn (Mesa, Arizona). Costa Rica: Jenny Slagter (Prinsburg, Minnesota), Derek Brumfield (Kent, Washington), and Michaelah Swier (Albany, Oregon).
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Sheriff Carlos Carrizales Jr. says that the simplicity of that question is what makes it so difficult to answer.
"Is the rest of the country prepared?" he asked in response. "It depends how you say prepared.
"Washington needs to hurry up and quit pointing fingers and bickering and get something done."
On Aug. 5, the sheriff will speak on the issue of immigration and its effect on Bee County.
The sheriff is the guest speaker at the Tea Party meeting scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at the Joe Barnhart Bee County Library first floor conference room.
He will explain what we are to look for, how to protect ourselves and how the sheriff's department is impacted.
Stopping the flow
Carrizales admits that Bee County doesn't see the number of illegal immigrants coming through like other areas, but they are here.
Carrizales said that he has been told in the past that Border Patrol agents will find maps on illegal immigrants and over Bee County is an "X."
That symbol is a signal for the immigrants to avoid the area.
At issue is what will happen next.
"The coyotes are getting smarter. The vehicles they use, they either steal them or rent them," he said. "My biggest fear is these guys are getting more brazen."
Recently, the number of illegal immigrants coming through seems to have slowed, but that could change in an instant.
"We are spread pretty thin," the sheriff said. "ICE is inundated too."
Another aspect of this is that deputies only detain illegal immigrants. After that, they are handed over to agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"We are not immigration officers," he reminded. "Part of enforcing the law is how we come across these people."
Held in Karnes
Some of those detained by local deputies could be headed up north to the Karnes County facility where concerns are being voiced.
The unit which has for the past two years housed about 500 adult males, most of which have been undocumented immigrants from Central America, is being converted to house single-parent families with children where the sole parent is the mother.
Representatives of the GEO Group Inc., the company contracted with ICE to operate the facility, said that undocumented immigrant families where there is both a father and a mother are being detained in different ICE detention facilities across the U.S.
The majority of the single-parent families housed at the Karnes City facility will be undocumented immigrants who have crossed into the U.S. from Central America, GEO officials said.
Local reaction to the news is mixed as Karnes County suddenly becomes a focal point in an ongoing controversial national issue.
The national debate continues about what should be done with undocumented or illegal immigrants coming in ever-increasing numbers from countries such as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Karnes City resident Michael Vega questioned the spending of federal tax dollars to house the families for indefinite periods of time.
"It's cheaper to just deport them back to their country," Vega said. "People feel sorry for the kids that come, but what kind of parents send such small children away like that?"
Residents say send them home
Kenedy resident Jo Schuenemann also thinks the detainees should be sent home as soon as possible instead of being detained here for long periods of time.
"They need to be sent back to their home countries, and if they want to come to the U.S., start the process legally, as many others have done in the past," Schuenemann said. "We do have laws, and we need to enforce the law."
Others take a somewhat different view.
"My heart goes out to the children involved," Vikki Pruski said. "The parents made the decision that they needed to leave their country, for whatever reason that is. I wish everyone in this world had the opportunity that Americans have. I am not sure of the answer, but as a Christian I think we need to help the children."
Others expressed concern about possible health risks to the community as a result of housing the detainees at the detention center.
"What about the health issues?" Carol Martin asked. "Would you want a family member working there? As a former resident who still has family there, I am totally against it."
Karnes facility could also house children
During an interview with The Karnes Countywide Monday, ICE spokesperson Nina Pruneda said, "On July 11, 2014, ICE modified its contract with Karnes County, Texas, in order to transition the Karnes County Civil Detention Center (KCCDC) from a facility housing adult males to a female adults with children residential facility.
"This was done in order to expand the agency's capacity to house Central American female adults with children who've been apprehended while attempting to cross the border and placed into expedited removal proceedings. It is anticipated that KCCDC will begin housing Central American female adults with children within the next several weeks."
While the exact number of detainees that will be housed at the facility is at this time undetermined, Pruneda said that the facility has a maximum capacity of 532 detainees.
The $32 million center opened its doors in 2012.
Late last week, GEO officials said the name of the facility has been changed to the Karnes County Family Residential Unit.
There are no expected adverse effects to the local community as a result of the changes, GEO sources emphasized.
The civil detention facility model allows for greater unescorted movement, enhanced recreational opportunities and contact visitation.
Karnes agreement with ICE
In December 2010, ICE entered into an intergovernmental service agreement with Karnes County. The GEO Group Inc. was responsible for developing and operating the facility.
The contract was modified and the facility will now house single-parent families where the mother is the single parent
When first announced, Karnes County officials expressed great excitement about the facility which was expected to bring 140 jobs and an annual payroll of $5 million to Karnes County.
Not everyone was excited about the new facility, though.
A handful of protesters identifying themselves as a coalition of civil rights, faith and immigrants rights groups gathered outside the front gates demonstrating against the center which they called a "bad deal."
"No matter how 'civil' the Karnes facility is supposed to be, it will continue to lock up immigrants who should not be detained," said Krystal Gomez of the ACLU of Texas. "ICE should prioritize release and community-based alternatives to detention that allow people to remain with their families awaiting their hearings, rather than codifying a system of for-profit detention."


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