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- Go - navigate the image history list
- Graphics - annotate the image with text and graphics. These can be saved with the underlying image
- Catalog - access on-line source catalogs (including guide star), imager servers (including sky survey), archives and personal catalogs, configure the display of catalog overlays and access the catalog navigator. The overlays can be saved with the underlying image.
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Protecting the childrenJuly 23,2013
Two school administrators in the Northeast Kingdom are facing criminal charges that they neglected to report allegations of sexual abuse at Danville High School.
The case shines a light on protections the state of Vermont has put in place to protect children from abuse and also on the difficult task of enforcing those protections.
The difficulty of the task can be seen in the numbers: In 2012 the Department for Children and Families investigated 4,527 reports of abuse. That is a huge number. The department has 50 investigators, which works out to about 90 investigations for each.
The department receives assistance in identifying possible cases of abuse from a variety of groups that are mandated by law to report suspected cases. These include teachers, doctors and social workers. If a mandated reporter fails to report a substantive case of child abuse, the reporter may face criminal allegations, which is what happened in Danville.
The law distinguishes between abuse against a child and misconduct. The law defines sexual abuse by spelling out specific forms of sexual touching. Misconduct is inappropriate behavior with children that does not rise to the level of abuse. Teachers and other mandated reporters are not required to report misconduct to DCF.
In the Danville case, the superintendent of schools and the principal concluded they were dealing with a case of misconduct, and they did not report the incident to DCF. But the parents did, and DCF concluded that the case involved abuse, meaning that the school administrators had misjudged the case.
The realm of sexual abuse and the need to report it is full of pitfalls. Those charged with protecting children are aware that accusations of child abuse can destroy careers, ruin lives. Making an allegation is a heavy burden, which is why the job of investigating abuse belongs to DCF rather than to people who may be too close to the perpetrators to make sound judgments.
It is important to remember why this sort of bureaucratic machinery was set in motion in the first place. For as long as anyone can remember child sexual abuse has been a dark secret that people were afraid to explore because of what they would learn about the abusers within their families, within their communities, within hallowed institutions such as schools and churches.
And yet the toll suffered by children has been devastating, a cycle of tragedy that has scarred psyches over the generations, one generation visiting its pain on the next. The much publicized cases of abuse within the Roman Catholic Church are just the tip of the iceberg. The 4,527 reports last year in Vermont suggest a degree of pathology that requires consistent, vigilant attention to the welfare of children.
Determining the truth of what children report is not easy; it requires sensitivity, patience and discernment. No one wants to inflate unprofessional misconduct into a report of abuse. But historically, the criminal abuse of children has been an unaddressed scandal so vast that parents and those working on behalf of children are also loath to see a report of abuse go neglected.
Serving notice to professionals who neglect to file a report when one is in order is a good thing. We cannot go back to the days when a wink and a nod allowed for the continued indulgence of an abusive uncle or teacher or priest. These are harrowing cases for all involved for the accuser, the accused, for the family of the victim, and above all for the victim.
It always comes back to the victims, who for generations have been made to feel that the abuse they suffered was somehow their fault, that their pain needed to be hushed up and ignored, their humanity denied.
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After two successful games on the road over the last week, Newcastle United return to St. James' Park this weekend to face Stoke City on Sunday afternoon. And, as ever, your official matchday programme is on the ball with another packed issue.
There's an exclusive interview with Argentine ace Jonás Gutiérrez, who tells us why he's loving life back in the Barclays Premier League and gives us the low-down on his World Cup experience in the summer.
We also catch up with right-back James Perch, who has settled in quickly to life on Tyneside and more than held his own following his summer move from Nottingham Forest.
There's also a special one-to-one with goal hero Shola Ameobi, who takes a look back at a decade at the Club and picks out some of his favourite memories from the last ten years.
Elsewhere we chat to former Newcastle and Stoke defender Andy Griffin about his time on Tyneside and his affection for both clubs, plus there are match reports from our thrilling victories over Chelsea and Everton.
Our opposition pages bring you everything you need to know about our visitors from the Potteries, including an interview with former Tottenham and West Ham midfielder Matthew Etherington.
Club Historian Paul Joannou once again brings us some more gems from the United archives and we also get a view from the press box, with BBC Radio Newcastle's John Anderson.
Manager Chris Hughton and skipper Kevin Nolan pen their regular Programme columns plus there's the latest instalment of our all-new 'The World According To' feature, with United central defender Mike Williamson.
The programme will be available from outlets around St. James' Park on matchday. And if you can't wait until then, you can get your hands on it beforehand from the Club Store at the stadium and at The Back Page bookstore on St. Andrews Street.
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CRYSTAL LAKE – Explore Ireland with a 10-day air tour that features ancient castles, cathedrals, magnificent landscapes and a chance to kiss the Blarney Stone
To find out more about this trip sponsored by the McHenry County College's Trips and Tours program, attend a trip preview from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in Room B168-169 at McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14 in Crystal Lake.
The trip itself departs on Oct. 6, 2013, and includes 15 meals, air from Chicago, dinner and evening at the Merry Ploughboys Pub.
In Dublin, visitors will see St. Patrick's Cathedral and Book of Kells at Trinity College and the Guinness Storehouse. Other stops will include Glendalough, Kilkenny Castle, Old Midleton Distillery, Blarney Castle, Ring of Kerry, King John's Castle in Limerick and the Kissane Sheep Farm. A Medieval banquet at Bunratty Castle also is included.
The cost of this trip is $3,343 per person for double and $3,932 per-person for single.
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DDoS season begins, sites a little bit unstableposted by Dark0ne Site NewsWe've been no strangers to bog-standard DoS attacks and thousands-strong botnet DDoS attacks over the past 12 years. Any given week we'll be DoS'd, just most of the time you won't notice it because systems are in place to prevent such attacks. Every once in a while, though, someone with a rather large botnet or someone using more sophisticated techniques comes along that either requires us to adapt or just to weather it out. All I know is, it's been 12 years, we've survived countless DDoS attacks, and the sites aren't going anywhere.
Going hand-in-hand with that is the fact school holidays have begun which means kids have more time to waste. I used to enjoy playing football, cricket, skating and trampolining in my summer holidays but I guess some kids like to run bot nets instead. The why isn't really important (and I have no idea as to the why). All I know is that it's happening right now on the servers and we're doing what we can to alleviate the problem as best we can.
There's not much you can do on your end to fix this exact problem. There is, however, something you can do to help the general DDoS plague and that's to not be one of the millions of dolts out there browsing the internet without an anti-virus and firewall running as a bare minimum. Botnets form because "hackers" have gained access to insecure systems. The more insecure systems they control, the more powerful their botnet becomes. Typically gamers are more clued in than most in this regard, but still, I know some of you will be reading this without any anti-virus installed on your PC and to you I'll simply say this; you are a part of the problem. You're not the problem, but you're a part of it in the same way you're a part of the problem during an epidemic if you sneeze without covering your mouth with your hand or don't wash your hands after going to the toilet. You're in that group of people. You aren't the virus but you help to spread it through your lack of action. So get on to fixing it if you haven't already, or at least please don't complain to me about the sites being down if you're in that group.
A blunt news post, I know, but in all truth I treat DDoS attacks with utter emotional disregard. Not that we're not trying our hardest to solve the issue, but frankly, there's no point getting upset about it. Some idiot is DDoS'ing us and cowering behind the internet's anonymity, we've had no contact from said individual(s), it'll end when it ends or when we find a way to block it and there's no point getting upset about it.


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My DD will be 6 weeks old tomorrow. Once my milk supply issues were corrected, we've been doing well with BFing. However, in the past week or so, she seems to go on and off my nipple 3-4 times on each side during feedings. It gets really messy because she's usually dripping milk from her mouth, which ends up on my bra and nursing pillow. I've spoken to my LC over the phone and she thinks it's an overactive letdown and recommended I lie/recline while feeding. I've been doing that, which helps somewhat, however, she still comes off my breast at times and milk is dripping during most feedings. Sometimes LO does this at the beginning of a feeding, but other times she'll do it after nursing for 10 minutes on a breast too. It can happen during any feeding of the day too.
She's also gaining weight remarkably well--is it perhaps when she comes off the breast she's done feeding? How can I tell if she's already coming off my breast only 3-4 minutes into a feeding?
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Disney Epic Mickey paints and thins his way onto this episode of Feedback, so watch and find out if he melted our hearts, or painted them over with a thin veneer of yellow dye #5. One thing is for certain: we really wish that Mickey had the legs to jump onto the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as well, because this story needs to branch out beyond just the Wii. We also have a couple of issues with the game, so find out what they are inside.
It's also nearly one week since American gorged itself on turkey and sugar-based foodstuffs. By now, all of that tryptophan should have worked its way out of your system, and any residual sleepiness you've been feeling needs you need a dose of something stronger. Normally we'd suggest a quick smack in the face, but we just happen to have a fresh prescription of Feedback for you, all ready to watch.
Tune in, tune out, and put your world on pause for awhile.
Here's your handy, freshly inked guide to what we talked about:
- Marky Mark is playing Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie. Can we start boycott plans now, please?
- Double Fine's newest game Stacking has you playing a Russian nesting doll named Charlie.
- Nintendo is sort of coming back to CES after a 16 year absence. They're taking meetings, but not boothing up the 3DS.
- Ubisoft loves all of you who purchased Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood so much that they're giving you free multiplayer DLC.
- Bungie proves that they have more Halo: Reach in their pockets by releasing the Noble Map Pack for 800 points.
- Kevin Kelly (hey, that's me!) went to Board Game Geek Con in Dallas last week, geeking out on cardboard and wooden bits.
- And of course, there's lots and lots of Disney Epic Mickey talk. I hope this becomes a franchise as well, because how awesome would Disney Epic Donald and Disney Epic Goofy be?
Feedback: Where no matter how much thinner we use, we just can't get Stephen Johnson to disappear.
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Enterprise Connect is buzzing with new and exciting technologies, and among other noteworthy demonstrations, Vidyo is showcasing its just-announced VidyoReplay solution, at Booth #1209.
VidyoReplay allows users to easily webcast and record their Vidyo conferences via their web browser and to watch them either in real time, or at any time after the conference. Users can also record and webcast from Vidyo endpoints, including hand held devices, laptops, desktops and VidyoRoom systems. With VidyoReplay, conferences can be recorded in standard web video file (FLV) format with no proprietary player required to view the recorded content.
Here is a clip recorded over VidyoReplay, of Vidyo's Director of Product Marketing, Mark Noble, giving a quick overview and demonstration of VidyoReplay's capabilities:
VidyoReplay has been used in a wide variety of environments ranging from legal firms, healthcare, governmental uses, to applications for K-12 and higher education. Charles Kazilek, Director of Technology Integration and Outreach of Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences, uses Vidyo in an ASU classroom setting for high-quality Vidyo exchanges with Smithsonian Institution scientists and researchers located in the jungles of Panama.
"With VidyoReplay we can now capture these valuable interactions to use as an educational resource for larger groups of students to view and learn from; it enhances the learning experience for our faculty and students alike," he says. "The Vidyo system transforms typical mediated classrooms on campus into real time, research and learning environments. No other video communications solution offers the kind of access, ease-of-use and quality that we're getting from Vidyo and now, with VidyoReplay, ability to record and broadcast the content of this video collaboration. Vidyo has opened a range of education and research opportunities that we never thought would be possible."
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"Anyone using Selenium 2 and Webdriver?"
One of our internal projects is using it.
"How to stop time in Jasmine?"
There were a couple suggestions:
"Whurl standalone, or more dynos?"
Apparently Whurl is running on a single dyno at Heroku, so a single bad request can tie up Whurl until the request times out. Where are you TildeWill?
"What's this called?"
Imagin these are records in a relational database, with the records on the left having a one to many relationship with the records on the right. How would you google this?
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How would you answer this on Jeopardy!?
A: What is a hierarchy?
Whurl is currently only running on a single dyno which happily serves the less than .1 requests per minute that I see in my New Relic report. Being on one dyno also means that there's a built in rate limiting that didn't have to be written in code.
That said, I glad to see Whurl getting some use. At the moment there's no income being generated by Whurl (it's free!) so it'll probably stay at one dyno until some funding shows up in my mailbox.
Initially, Whurl was designed to be a plugin (https://github.com/TildeWill/whurl), to allow your site to have a white label web interface to your own APIs. The thinking being that you could change the free-form text box for the URL into a drop down with all your resource URLs and encourage discovery that way. You could even leverage some of Whurl to document your responses for GET requests.
How you 'x' something depends on your goal. In the case of googling, you rarely want to find everything on a subject. You want to target the results to your purpose (which is why googling 'hierarchy', while technically correct, is probably too broad).
That said, 'foreign key' might do the trick.
But tell us why, and we can tell you how.
If you use the mockClock in Jasmine, time should be stopped out of the box (we rewrite setTimeout, setInterval, etc). There should be a couple examples of this floating around somewhere. If not, ask Davis for help.


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India stay alive in the dying moments
The hosts' little victories in the last half-hour have proven to be a big deal in the Test series against England
The Mumbai hand behind Hameed's rise
Vidyadhar Paradkar knew Haseeb Hameed would go far when he first met him. He has, and it's due in no small part to Paradkar
Kohli matches Gavaskar, Tendulkar and Dravid
Stats highlights from the third day of the fourth Test between India and England in Mumbai, where Kohli completed 500 runs in the series.
Warner rivals Tendulkar's 1998 run
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All Karnes County high school seniors are reminded to apply for the 2013 Karnes City Rotary Club's Lonesome Dove Fest Foundation Scholarships. Thanks to generous sponsors and tremendous public support for the festival last year, the number and value of the scholarships were increased for 2013.
Applicants at all four county high schools are encouraged to apply for the academic scholarships available to each school - four for Karnes City High School and two each for Falls City, Kenedy, and Runge High Schools. In addition, there are now three vocational scholarships open to applicants from all four county high schools.
Each scholarship is now valued at $2,000, important assistance for deserving students as they begin their first year of college or trade/tech school.
Applications are available at the counselor's office at each school and the application deadline is Tuesday, May 14. Applicants must designate whether they are applying for an academic or vocational award. The schools will be notified of the winners prior to graduation. Award recipients must provide paid receipts for tuition or books to the Karnes City Rotary treasurer by May 2014 to receive the award or the scholarship is forfeited.
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Wish my AF would go on vacation now that I'm taking Dom... my AF returned at just 6 weeks after the baby was born :cry Major bummer. Anywho, I've been on the Dom for about 1 week now, and my cycles were rather short before starting the Dom (about 23 days), and I just started today, making this cycle only 19 days! ANOTHER major bummer. Not sure if it was random or not having a short cycle or perhaps due to taking Dom, but I am usually pretty regular at right around 23-24 days. Will have to keep an eye on this short cycle thing :shrug and keep hoping for AF to take a vacation like she is doing for you mamas!!
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With fewer than 100 left in the wild, the Florida panther is one of the most endangered mammals in the world. You can learn how to protect our state's official animal during a state-wide observance of Save the Florida Panther Day at the Palm Beach Zoo.
Save the Florida Panther Day will be held on Saturday, March 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This state-wide event focuses on the importance of saving the critically-endangered animal. Special keeper talks at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. will incorporate the history, habitat stresses and conservation efforts surrounding the Florida panther. Activities will also include interactive children's games and educational crafts in the Florida Pioneer House near the panther exhibit.
Palm Beach Zoo lost its only Florida panther with the passing of Colin Patrick last March. The two cats you currently see in the Florida wetlands exhibit, Washington and Idaho, are western cougars. They are members of the same puma family, but a different subspecies. Washington and Idaho serve as ambassadors for the Florida panther.
It has been illegal to hunt Florida panthers since 1958. They have been on the federal endangered species list since 1967 and on the state's endangered list since 1973. There are several reasons for their decline in population: habitat loss, disease and collisions with vehicles.


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Attica to clean up water systems
Attica has benefitted by $28,404.78 from the nationwide settlement of two class action lawsuits involving atrazine, the most widely used herbicide in the United States.
A press release stated an estimated 80 million pounds of the weed killer are sprayed on corn and other crops each year, much of which runs off into rivers and streams supplying drinking water to community water systems.
The lawsuits were against Syngenta AG, based in Switzerland, and the total settlement was for $105 million, with individual community water system payments determined by their history of atrazine contamination.
The funds are to help reimburse water systems for the expense of removing atrazine from their drinking water.
With all council members present, they resolved by emergency measures to proceed with the intent to place levies on the May 7 ballot for police protection and park operations. The .05-mill property tax renewal levy for park operations would generate $6,703 while the 3-mill renewal levy for police protection would generate $40,219.
Police Chief Keith Turner sought approval for the department to participate in the Seneca County search warrant team. Members discussed the opportunity for free training and requested Solicitor Rick Palau draw up a resolution for later action.
Since the Village Association meeting is coming up next week, they felt it would be a chance to discuss the team with other county communities.
Fiscal Officer Pat Krebs reported a total of $714,030.13 in all funds and stated that auditors are completing their task.
The meeting moved into executive session for discussion of land acquisition.
In other business, council:
Heard the second reading of the ordinance accepting the 2013 Ohio Basic Code.
Heard the second reading of the resolution authorizing mutual aid services provided by the Attica Police Department.
Announced the January 31 Village Association Dinner at the Attica United Methodist Church. Social time starts at 6 pm. with the meal at 6:30 pm. Dutch Shenefield will be speaking on identity theft.
Heard the village office computer has been upgraded.
Council meets next at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 14.


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The Eagles wasted no time in displaying their high octane offense. On their very first play from scrimmage, Eagle quarterback Lionel Brown hit receiver David Carmichael with a 28-yard pass. Jonathan Flores then broke free for a 20-yard run.
Brown capped the five-play, 88-yard drive with a 35-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jacob Nesloney. Dan Han kicked the extra point to give his Eagles a 7-0 lead after one quarter of play.
Brown opened the second quarter by following his blockers around the right side for a 38-yard touchdown run. Han again kicked the extra point to give his Eagles a 14-0 lead.
The Bobcats came right back with a score of their own to cut the lead to 14-6. The Eagles got the ball back with less than three minutes to go and took full advantage of the opportunity, going 63 yards in eight plays. The quick drive was capped by a 5-yard touchdown run by flanker Andres Villareal to give Woodsboro a 20-6 halftime lead.
"We wanted to come out scoring and continue scoring throughout the game," said Villareal. "Last year it seemed like we never really got going until the second half. We want to change that this year. We need to execute the entire game."
The Eagles opened the second half going 49 yards in three plays for another score. The drive was highlighted by a 29-yard Brown to Nelsoney pass and a five-yard touchdown run by Flores. Han again kicked the extra point extending the lead to 27-6.
The Bobcats switched to a ball control running game and were able to move the ball against the Eagle defense. The third quarter ended with Woodsboro up 27-13 and setting up what would be a wild fourth quarter.
Woodsboro dealt the first blow by scoring just nine seconds into the quarter as Flores sprinted around the left side for an 18-yard touchdown making it 33-13 Eagles. Bloomington came right back and scored with a touchdown of their own to cut the lead to 33-19 with 3:12 left in the game.
The Bobcats recovered a fumble deep in Eagle territory and punched it in from the 7-yard line to cut the lead to 33-25. After two previous onside kick attempts, the Bobcats tried kicking the ball deep.
Villareal scooped the ball up at his own 20-yard line and brought the Eagle fans to their feet with an exciting 80-yard touchdown return.
Coach Wade Miller then pulled a page from the 1985 Chicago Bears playbook. Senior lineman Brian "Bam-Bam" Wiginton was called on to run the ball in for the two point conversion giving his team a 41-25 lead with less than one minute to go.
The Bobcats scored on the final play of the game on a 42-yard touchdown pass to end the game.
"I was hoping they would kick the ball to me," continued Villareal. "I knew what I wanted to do the minute I got my hands on the ball, and it turned out great for us. We have some work to do on defense, but we will get there."
"I have always wanted to run the ball, and I am so grateful that Coach Miller gave me that opportunity tonight," said Wiginton.
"My line opened a good hole for me, and I followed them into the end zone. It was a great feeling. We will need to work on conditioning as we were running out of gas in the last six minutes. That is unacceptable for us. We have to be ready to play four full quarters if we expect to win games. We also need to work on basic fundamentals. Our tackling needs to improve. We are also happy to add another weapon in Dan (Han). He worked on kicking over the summer and he is a great addition to our team."
The Eagles will travel to Charlotte tonight to take on the Leakey Eagles. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.


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The Sepia Saturday prompt of off to the creamery, Austrailian farms, and men on horseback yielded for me a favorite picture of my Grandmother Sigfords brothers/half-brothers-cousins.
|Ray, David, and Phil Keyes on family ranch outside of Mitchell OR
circa 1920
|The Picture was on the face of this postcard "addressed to"
Mrs. Sigford (Agnes Keyes Sigford)
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this has been taken a long time
The photograph was most likely sent to my grandmother, tucked in a letter which has been long goen. Much to my chagrin, the postcard had no address, stamp or postmark. I wish I knew more about this picture and what they were doing, the names of the horses, and did they always looks so much like dapper horsemen.
I always thought they could have been casted in Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid. The youngest of the three, David (in the center) cowboyed most of his life. To all accounts, David Keyes was an expert horseman and was a horse wrangler for Rueb Long (rancher, storyteller and author of The Oregon Desert). He also worked for the ZX ranch near Paisly, Oregon, of course that meant working cows and horses from Paisly, Lakeview, Silver Lake and the hundred or so miles of sagebrush covered hills between.
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WSCC officials lobby Gentile
The proposed state biennial budget could put Washington State Community College and other institutions between a rock and a hard place when it comes to funding.
A proposed 1.9 percent increase in the state share of instruction isn't enough to support the student completion and success agenda Gov. John Kasich is emphasizing, while potential tuition hikes are also limited, according to a document Washington State Community College leaders gave to state Sen. Lou Gentile, D-Steubenville.
"We're finding it challenging to keep our tuition where it should be to support the institution," WSCC President Bradley Ebersole said.
Gentile visited the college Monday to tour the facilities and discuss budget issues with college officials. He also heard from Brenda Kornmiller, dean of business, engineering and industrial technologies, about how the college is working to meet the needs of the growing oil and natural gas industry.
The Ohio Association of Community Colleges is lobbying for an additional 5 percent increase on top of the 1.9 percent, Ebersole said. That would amount to about $20 million in fiscal year 2014 and $21 million in fiscal year 2015.
Over about the last six years, state money has dropped from 45 percent of Washington State's budget to 34 percent, college Treasurer Jess Raines said.
Jeff Robinson, acting director of communications for the Ohio Board of Regents, said the current state funding formula for community colleges is based on 90 percent enrollment and 10 percent success points. The new formula, as recommended by the Higher Education Funding Commission and approved by community college presidents approved, will be 50 percent enrollment, 25 percent success points and 25 percent course completion.
The budget language would allow community colleges to identify success and completion measures and recommend allocation of funding based on them, Robinson said in an email Monday.
"Without identifying the completion or performance metrics, I am not sure how they'd determine how much funding they need," he said.
Without more state funding, the natural alternative would be to seek more money from students.
"When you raise tuition, you start to limit access," Ebersole said.
Tuition for a full year at Washington State is now $4,140 based on 30 credit hours. The new state budget proposal limits that increase to no more than $100 for instructional and general fees. That works out to about $3 a credit hour, Raines said.
The college is suggesting either a return to the $200 tuition cap in the current budget or a change in the way allowed increases are determined. Ebersole said he would prefer additional state support to increasing tuition.
Robinson said it is important to limit cost increases for students because community colleges are "the low-cost options for many Ohio college students.
"We must do all we can to contain costs; $100 per year is approximately a 2.3 percent increase above the rate of inflation," he said.
Gentile said he understood the concern, especially since community colleges are being asked to play an important role in preparing Ohio residents to fill needed jobs.
"We're calling upon you to take a leadership role in developing our workforce, and you have to be able to (offer) the latest technology," he said.
Without more of an increase in state funding or tuition, the only other place to turn would be cuts in services or other areas. Ebersole emphasized it was premature to talk about that since the state budget process is only getting started and the final outcome still unknown.
Last fall, the college cut its budget by $1.5 million – including mandatory furloughs, a handful of job eliminations and money from the institution's reserves – due to lower enrollment attributed to the transition from quarters to semesters and changes in federal financial aid rules among other factors. The actual loss does not appear to be quite that high.
Other issues Ebersole and company asked Gentile to consider were the proposed reduction in funding for Post-Secondary Enrollment Option students, which Raines said could shift the burden for books and other material to high school students taking classes at the college, and allowing community college students to once again be eligible for assistance through the Ohio College Opportunity Grant.
Kornmiller described for Gentile the programs the college is offering and considering to train people for jobs expected to become available as interest in accessing oil and natural gas in the deep-underground Utica and Marcellus shale formations continues to grow. Among them are the geosciences degree established in 2009, a certificate for abstractor or title research work now in place and a potential arrangement with a local company for on-site welder training.


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A dry winter, on top of a dry year, is leaving some area farmers worried and some just waiting to see what happens.
Elida dryland farmer Greg Burris estimated that his crops have received much less than half of what is considered normal precipitation this winter.
In the fall, Burris said, he couldn't plant wheat early enough in some areas of Roosevelt County. The crop didn't have time to grow enough to withstand the winter's high winds and lack of moisture, so he is losing a cash crop he depends on selling in the middle of next year, he said.
"A farmer just gets one or two paychecks a year," Burris said.
In addition, farmers need to control the blowing soil by plowing, but doing the job properly requires moisture. To make matters worse, Burris said he hasn't been able to get much grazing use from his land this year, either.
Ricky Lockmiller, who farms northwest of Clovis, also said the winter has been dry. However, a wet fall for him has kept the current lack of moisture from affecting his crops too much, yet.
"We're going to have to go to watering wheat if we don't get some snow before long," Lockmiller said.
About a foot of snow or a couple of inches of rain at least would be ideal, and the sooner the better, he said.
Burris said he is very concerned about the situation. A weak milo harvest, also partly due to lack of moisture, and high fuel costs earlier in the year add to the stress.
With no cash crops, Burris said, a farmer's pocketbook eventually begins to suffer. Producers can live off the equity built up in their land for a while, but that eventually dries up and it's hard to find financing to continue farming, he said.
As for Lockmiller's farm, half is dryland, and the rest is irrigated. If the area doesn't receive the necessary precipitation, he said, the dryland production will suffer and irrigating the rest will drive expenses up.
"Right now, I'm not worried a whole lot, yet," Lockmiller said.
The farmer said he wouldn't be too concerned unless the dryness continued until February.
Houston Lee, who farms near Floyd, agreed the winter is dry, and said his wheat needs rain. He said he isn't worried about his finances now, but he doesn't know what the economy will do.
If the weather remains dry, Lee said, he plans to plant haygrazer later, after July. If his land gets precipitation by the first of May, he intends to grow milo and possibly a little cotton.
"Sometimes it doesn't rain in time to plant the haygrazer, and then you got to wait until September to plant wheat again," Lee said.
The farmer may raise other crops as well.
If the weather continues to be dry, Burris said, he might have to diversify his crops and cut corners to make ends meet. In the ideal situation, he said, the area would get enough rain or snow to replenish underground moisture, help the current wheat crop and prepare the land for the next planting.
"Being in dryland, you just have to wait for the moisture sometimes to see what you can do and what you want to do," Burris said.


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On other fora I am on, the question regularily arises about relactating.
Often the situation is that a mother started feeding too much solids and baby comes to depend on them over the weeks.
Mother wants to nurse more again, but supply has dropped drastically.
I would say to give a nursing supplementer a go.
But is that something you can do on your own? Or rather under supervision?
Also, until what age will a baby accept a NS in general?
Thanks for sharing your experience.