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I've been spending a lot of time lately, talking to you about fishing the local ponds and streams. Every time I pull into a gas station to fill up with four-bucks-plus-a-gallon petrol, it reinforces in my mind how appropriate it is to try to fish as close to home as possible.
I believe in spending as much time as possible on the water, but I've learned to look at it in a different way. Rather than heading out for marathon fishing sessions, I've cut down on the length of my outings while increasing the number of outings.
That's hard for me to do, believe me. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't know the meaning of the word "quit." Put me near water with a rod and tackle box and it's a real battle to call it quits.
I've learned that it's better to pick what should be the most productive times to fish and leave when that time is up. Think about it this way. You go out to a nearby pond which doesn't incur much travel time. You get in a couple of hours of quality fishing and return home. Your spouse will probably greet you saying, "Why are you home so early?" You can look at your spouse, smile warmly and reply, "I'd rather be here with you, Hun." Congratulations! You have just won the brownie point championship.
During the summer, with our horrendously hot and humid weather, a good fishing outing can be made up of a couple of hours just after daybreak or just before dusk. Will fish bite during the middle of the day? Sure, sometimes they will, but your odds are better spent casting your baits during prime time.
I remember one time when I wanted to go out to the Illinois River on a Saturday. On Friday, I called noted walleye pro, Ted Takasaki, and asked him for his tips.
He said, "I wouldn't waste the gas, Steve. If you do go, get out there pre-dawn and don't stay later than 9. It's going to be a very tough bite."
Wow. How fortunate am I? Not many people can pick up the phone and ask someone of the caliber of a Ted Takasaki for advice.
Did I listen? Of course not. I got there before dawn and launched my boat. I caught a handful of sauger as the sun started rising. They stopped feeding, so I tried for, and succeeded in nailing a half-dozen stripers. By 8, the fish had turned off completely.
What time did I put my boat back on the trailer and head for home? It was a little after 6 p.m. I hadn't caught but one fish since 8 a.m. and burned through a half-tank of gas.
This was the beginning of my finally figuring out that it is better to fish smarter than it is to fish longer.
Of course, if you are on a trip to Canada or out for a day with a guide, you fish the entire day. When in Canada, I only stop to sleep. I even skip meals for fishing and if you've ever taken a look at me you'd realize what a sacrifice that is.
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Northern Illinois: Dave Kranz from Dave's Bait, Tackle and Taxidermy in Crystal Lake reports: "As this week cools down, you will find fish moving into the shallows to feed. I would continue to fish slop and shade patterns during sunny times throughout the day. Catfish are spawning and can be caught on cutbait and stinkbait. Early morning and dusk will be a good time for top water baits. I like buzz baits or Bang-O-lures. Bluegills can be caught on wax worms or red worms. Fish in sandy areas around weeds. Summer time scouting for deer can be fun (if you can take the bugs). I like soybean fields at dusk to get a look at bucks in velvet." Call 815-455-2040 for updated reports.
Lake Michigan: Captain Bob Rossa of Migrator Charters (www.ALakeMichiganCharter.com) says, "Fishing has been very good on Lake Michigan this past week. Numbers of large kings, Cohoes, and steelhead are being caught from 80 to 180-feet of water. Fish the top 60-feet of the water column. Moonshine's Night Crawler spoon and Sig's Hypnotist fly, tied 24-inches behind a green flasher have been two very good baits. Perch season is closed for the month of July. It re-opens on Thursday, Aug. 1."
Cabela's Archery Classic: Cabela's in Hoffman Estates is hosting its annual Archery Classic on Saturday and Sunday. Hunting with bow and arrow is exploding in popularity and shows no signs of cooling down. Experts from the world of professional bowhunting will be at Cabela's. Two of the most popular outdoor TV shows are "Dominant Bucks" and "North America Whitetail." They showcase the best back country hunting to be found anywhere. The star of the shows, Stan Potts, will be at Cabela's on Saturday and Sunday to meet fans and share his stories of legendary hunts seen on the show. On both days, Cabela's will present free seminars on the basics of archery hunting to help you get started in this most challenging method of whitetail deer hunting. For the free archery shooting clinic on both days, please pre-register by calling the store at 847-645-0400.
Believe it or not, guests at Six Flag's St. Louis location can enjoy roller coasters, raft rides, paintball, and even bowhunting. Officially located in Eureka, Mo., the amusement park owns several hundred acres of prime hunting ground abutting the park. The park had closed its grounds to hunters for the past half-decade. That is about to change. The hunts will be taking place far away from the amusement park proper and any residential areas. People looking to apply will need to contact the Six Flags St. Louis management. I wouldn't waste my time calling the Gurnee location and asking for permission to hunt there, though.
• Northwest Herald outdoors columnist Steve Sarley's radio show, "The Outdoors Experience," airs live at 5 a.m. Sundays on AM-560. Sarley also runs a website for outdoors enthusiasts, OExperience.com. He can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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As a nursing major and a hockey player, Dordt College junior Kevin has had to learn how to balance tenderness and toughness, whether he is caring for patients or body-checking an opponent.
Like most high school students, Kevin, a Chicago native, carefully weighed the pros and cons of several colleges before he made the decision to come to Dordt. In the end, it was his parents' experience as well as that of many friends who had attended Dordt that helped him make the decision. From his own experience, Kevin says that the environment at Dordt "allows you to 'blaze your own trail' and become who you want to be." That is exactly what he is doing by combining his passion to help others and playing the sport that he loves.
In Chicago, Kevin lives a short 20-minute drive from his favorite NHL team, the Chicago Blackhawks, something that undoubtedly helped fueled his passion for hockey. It also helped him decide to come to Dordt and play hockey for the Dordt Blades. Playing for the Blades keeps Kevin engaged and busy during the season and forces him to stay focused on his studies to keep his grades up.
Kevin is also part of Dordt's campus security team. He enjoys the job because "it is a great way to interact and socialize with people—and it only demands one day a week." It's the perfect job while he studies to become a nurse, he feels.
Kevin looks forward to great job opportunities once he leaves college. "There is always a need for male nurses," he says. He believes that being a nurse will give him job security while satisfying his desire to work in the medical field and help people in need.
As one of more than 1,400 students at Dordt, Kevin finds that there are enough people on campus to make a variety of friends, but not too many to feel overwhelmed. He's also found a great deal of support on campus, both from faculty and friends. That support and his own goals have helped him truly blaze his own trail.


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Everyone needs to be humbled. We need to be reminded of how much bigger the world is beyond the realm of our small lives. We hear about extreme poverty from celebrities and we see starving children line the pages of National Geographic. But really– how does that affect me, so many miles away?
A few years ago my parents decided to partner with Compassion. Because my mother spent the first 18 years of her life in Bolivia, my parents decided to sponsor a child from that country. They soon found a little boy from Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Yeison.
I didn't know much about Yeison, except what the little packet we received told us: He was born on Valentine's Day, he enjoys playing soccer, and he likes playing with toy cars.
And so we began our relationship with him and his family, communicating through translated letters. Yeison always sent a colored drawing, reported on his soccer team, and told us how he was doing in school.
One summer, I had the extraordinary opportunity to travel to Bolivia on a mission trip supported by my youth group. It was announced that we would spend our 12 days in Santa Cruz.
I contacted Compassion in hopes of meeting the boy who felt so much a part of our family.
I met Yeison on a Monday. A representative from the local child development center met me in the morning, and we went by taxi to the center. The taxi took us past the city center toward the outskirts of the city.
The building stood out from the surrounding dilapidated houses and businesses. A sense of hope emanated from its high walls as the happy shrieks of the children within breathed life into the broken-down neighborhood.
And standing in the front entrance were Yeison and his mother, Beatriz.
Yeison wore a green button-up shirt and his hair had been neatly combed to one side. As we stepped out of the taxi and started toward them, a wide smile spread across the boy's face. I couldn't help but smile, too. Yeison immediately ran up to hug me, and his mother soon followed.
Did he really exist? Could we really impact the life of a child who lives 5,210 miles away?
We had no agenda for the day, so Beatriz invited me to come to their house. We rode a bus for half an hour, during which I gave Yeison a coloring book and a box of crayons. He immediately opened the book and colored for the remainder of the ride.
We ventured even further outside of the city, and finally reached our stop.
Beatriz announced that she would walk to a nearby shop to buy a bottle of Coca-Cola, and she assigned Yeison the task of walking me to their home. I had only taken three years of Spanish in high school, but I was surprised that Yeison and I had no trouble communicating. He immediately opened up, talking about everything from school to sports to cartoons.
We ambled along a dirt path, carved into the earth by truck tires, and chatted along the way. He held my hand as he happily pointed out the homes of friends in his impoverished neighborhood and showed me the park close to his house: a rusted swing set and a small muddy soccer field.
I was surprised when he announced that we had arrived at his house. To the left of the road stood a small shack that was no more than 15 feet by seven feet in size. The house was constructed mainly of brick, wood panels, and other improvised materials. And yet, Yeison had no shame in showing me his home.
As we walked inside, he excitedly led me to the bed that he shared with his cousin. Four people live in this small space? Spiderman stickers lined the headboard of the bed, and on top rested a small box.
Onto his bed, Yeison dumped the contents of that box: every letter we had written him over the past two years and the family pictures that my mom had sent him. He pointed to each of my family members, reciting our names.
Together, we reread some of the letters and he asked about my life in the United States. He then retrieved his school workbooks, proudly showing me the high scores that he received on almost every test, and we reviewed the few English words he had learned: colors, shapes, and animals.
I spent the next hours coloring with Yeison, talking with his mother, and sipping Coca-Cola.
Later, Beatriz suggested that we return to the Compassion center so that I could see where Yeison spent his days attending classes, playing with friends, and receiving meals.
We climbed aboard the bus once again, and along the bumpy ride back into the city, Yeison fell asleep on my lap. It was one of those moments that I will never forget.
This precious boy is so happy and at peace. How selfish I am.
Yeison gave me the tour of the center, holding my hand along the way. He greeted friends by pointing to me and saying,
"Ella es mi padrina!" (She's my sponsor!)
We sat in his classroom and I was introduced to his teacher, who was also his uncle. They offered us a lunch meal, and we enjoyed a hearty bowl of chicken soup.
We spent the remainder of the afternoon talking with the staff, playing games, and walking through the child development center.
Before meeting Yeison, I had never imagined the impact that he could have on my life. Through Compassion, I met the most incredible little boy, and that night, I couldn't help but feel that my family's decision to support him was one of the best decisions we had ever made.
Yeison lives with such happiness, despite his circumstances, and it is our incredible privilege to sponsor him. To this day, we continue to support and communicate with Yeison. He can write his own letters now, and his drawings have improved. And at the end of every letter, he always adds,
"Que Dios les bendiga." (May God bless you. )
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Heidi Feneis is a junior at Montana State University-Billings, majoring in Spanish and minoring in English and International Studies. Heidi loves to travel and play the guitar. She has been a sponsor for five years.


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Eric O. Stanchfield is the Executive Director of the District of Columbia Retirement Board (DCRB), a position he has held since 2007.
As Executive Director, Mr. Stanchfield provides leadership and manages all day-to-day operations of the Retirement Board and oversees both the investment of pension assets and the administration of pension benefits. Mr. Stanchfield is also the liaison between the policy-making functions of the Retirement Board and the implementation and execution of those policies by the staff.
Mr. Stanchfield worked for the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF), a state agency that administers employee benefit plans for Wisconsin's state and municipal employers, teachers, protective employees (police officers and firefighters), and all elected officials. During his tenure, he served as Chief Executive Officer from 1992 to 2007. He also served as Trustee and Secretary to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) during that period. Additionally, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of ETF from 1987 to 1992. Prior to his positions with ETF, he served as executive director of a multi-specialty medical clinic and vice president of a health maintenance organization.
Mr. Stanchfield is a native of Washington, DC, and is a graduate of Wilson High School. He received a B.A. in Political Science and Administration and an M.A. in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Currently, Mr. Stanchfield is a past-President of National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA), and he serves as a committee member of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP).


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Gateway Park in Fort Worth, Texas is a treasured community park. Close to home for many, this park is a prime destination for outdoor recreation, with trails, fields and waterways. This park is a place where the community can gather, connect with nature and improve their quality of life.
Gateway Park is also a success story – a success story of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) State Assistance Program – one of over 40,000 LWCF State Assistance program successes across America, to be exact. That's why it was only fitting that last week's announcement of this year's funding for the LWCF State Assistance Program was made in Gateway Park.
In case you missed it, $43 million will be distributed to all 50 States, Territories and the District of Columbia. The DOI provides a state-by-state breakdown of the funding so you can see how your state fared.
I was in Fort Worth on the day of the announcement meeting with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price to not only celebrate the 50th anniversary of LWCF but to continue to share our message that local, close-to-home parks are critical to the economy, the environment and the overall vitality of our people. And you know what? There was much agreement in the room.
This showing of support is great, but without the support of our leaders on Capitol Hill, the LWCF faces an uncertain future. The law expires – done, finished, gone – in 2015, unless Congress takes action to renew it.
Here are a few things to know about this year's LWCF State Assistance Program Funding:
Efforts to address national issues such as jobs, conservation of natural resources and the childhood obesity epidemic will be successful only if implemented at the community level. The LWCF State Assistance Program has proven time and again that it is one of the most effective tools for protecting open space, helping urban parks and connecting all people to beneficial park and recreation opportunities.
We must continue to urge Congress to fully fund the LWCF now – including the State Assistance Program – AND, to support its reauthorization with permanent and dedicated funding in the future.
What successes in your community can you attribute to the LWCF State Assistance Program? Share them in the comments or tweet them to @NRPA_News and @BTulipane.
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Where Berber and Arab cultures meet in the heart of a lush palm grove… a mirage might appear to the enchantment of passing visitors. But this property goes beyond the dream, and is anchored in a beautiful reality.
Berber and Moroccan cuisines merge in the fragrant aromas bringing a new olfactory dimension to the herbs and vegetables grown within 5 kilometres of their place of consumption: in the neighbouring palm groves or the Chef's gardens. Themed gardens, veritable odes to local flora and fauna, surround the house built in the traditional kasbah design, using techniques and materials of the past and ensuring the transmission of this savoir-faire. Culture and traditions are passed on, both through the dishes and tools used and the staging of life rituals during themed soirées.


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Dairy farmer Joe Davitt, a third-generation Waymart dairy farmer, is having a rough year, like many other area dairy farmers. "The weather since the spring, with nearly 60 inches of rain, killed us," he said. "We couldn't plant as much as we wanted and we didn't get nearly enough hay cut."
Davitt showed me his hay maw, which was only half full. "This is usually filled to the top," he said. But that's not all. He, like all small dairy farmers in Northeast states, aren't making nearly enough on the milk they produce by the sweat of their brows.
You only have to spend a small amount of time to see him sweating, milking his 40 cows twice a day; packing away expensive bales of feed; driving his tractor, in need of repair, out to the fields with hay for the herd to eat; and doing the myriad of chores that make up a dairy farmer's day.
Most small farmers have piled up debts because of the low prices they have gotten for their milk for the last five or so years. "We had some relief just this year when the price we got was around $22 to $23 per hundred weight (per cwt)," he said. "We hear that the price is going down again to $15 or $16."
Davitt doesn't fault the coops like Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) for the low price. "They aren't the ones that determine the price as much as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), which constitutes the milk market for the nation.
"I have to keep the cows outside since I don't have a big barn like the mega-farms do," he said. "When cows are outside in wet weather like this, their milk is not of high quality so I get a loss there."
The direness of the situation is reflected in the number of dairy farms that have gone out of business. According to Ed Pruss of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, the number of dairy farms in Wayne County has dropped from a high of 400 in 1980 to around 80 in existence now. Some say that the real number has fallen to around 50.
Brian Smith, once a dairy farmer, now the chairman of Wayne County Commissioners, said he heard that the coops and the haulers are supposed to charge small farmers an additional fee if they can't produce at least 2,000 pounds of milk every two days when the hauler comes.
"That additional cost, added to the costs that they already have, will really put them deeper in the hole," Smith said.
"The continued decline in the value of manufactured dairy products, which will result in substantially lower prices to dairy farmers, clearly indicates that dairy farmers deserve a new pricing system to cover their continued increase in operating their farms," said Arden Tweksbury of ProAg, a tireless advocate before Congress for dairy interests.
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On Wednesday, October 12, Casey introduced the Dairy Advancement Act to ensure Pennsylvania dairy farmers are well positioned to compete in the global dairy market.
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T.D (Douglas) was our most impressive player on the court.
Hill is a NBA ready "hustler" who will get better in the paint with playingtime.
Tskitsvili better make the team, he showed impressive signs of being that C/F that Hill & Curry will need next season.
Carter hustling on both sides of the floor have to be refine with a jumper.
Almond scoring with no passing skillz, no defense is still questionable.
One would've thought Almond had the skillz to take control of this SLG with PG-Ahearn and C-Sene on the court with him.
I liked Ron Howard better than Alamond and Crawford
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I'd prefer Hill to finish around the basket with more authority. He needs to get a better feel for his strong spots around the paint. He made a couple nice moves but he still seems a bit raw. There is a possibility that he will not start over Harrington right away so don't be surprised. Also, i'd like to see Hill add about 25 lbs to his frame because he will understand the difference between these guys and players like Howard and Stoudemire in the paint.
TD was more impressive with his passing ability and ZERO turnovers. He didn't shoot the ball particularly well but we all know scoring is his strength so his PG play was the real story.
TD and JH are the only players that matter. Anyone else that happens to make the team from this league will get minimal playing time at best.
I'm not really sold on Skita yet...he always been a good summerleague guy...hes the least efficient lottery pick of all time and one of the worst to ever step foot into the NBA.
Skita has plenty of skill but it just doesn't translate into the NBA. That may be how Milicic's career ends up too.
Jordan should be atleast dominating the boards.
I just hope he shows up to games, sometimes I feel he disappears and its hard to find his presence or impact...kinda like Tim Thomas.
man this summer league team ****in sucks. douglas is shootin like 20% in 3 games, no wonder his assists are standing out. the knicks dont need a ****in passer, they need someone who can knock down open shots. yall think duhon or N8 can't spot someone comin off a screen of findin an open guy lurkin somewhere? get real. and hill is soft as ****. he's barely bangin inside. plus u don't go 2 for 11 or w/e it was in game 3 as a big man. that's unacceptable. if anthony morrow can go 18 for 26 and hit 7 three's, u better make at least half ur shots IN THE PHUCKIN POST FOR PHUCKS SAKE, don't matter if kevin garnett or gary coleman is on u.
this team gets worse game by game
Hill will be a bench player. I knew that when we drafted him. I hope he proves me wrong but I just don't see anything special about him. Atleast Gallo had 1 really good game in Summer Leagues last year. That game screwed up his entire season but atleast he looked good. Hill just looks lost out there. Another lottery pick turned bench player. That seems to be a pattern for us.
How many of the first 30 picks in this 2009 draft class will start one game next season? let's think logical!
U shouldnt have went there.....Gallo played like an absolute BUM his first 24 minutes of the game comitting turnover after turnover. The only player that had any confidence in Gallo was Mardy Collins who stop feeding the scoring Chandler & Anthony Roberson in the 2nd half of the game to work on a pick n roll with Gallo.
Gallo only played 6 decent minutes of B-Ball (scoring only) in that summer league game, and that was after he ran into a Truck.
Jordan Hill has been showing all kinds of athletic talent down-low in the paint in Vegas. U put Hill skillz n talents in the gym with Nate, Chandler, and Lee guidance in some scrimmage-games and u have a rookie player that will make very little mistake in his 24 minutes of playingtime this season.
T.D. Douglas must run in alot of scrimage-games this summer with speedy Nate to improve his IQ of being a combo-guard in the NBA.
For those who think Nate is not a natural-PG should watch him perform....if your shot is not there do not expect Nate to throw u the ball no matter how open u are. Players like Q.Richardson, Malik, Taylor, Jefferies, and Jerome James knew that Nate would never pass them the ball, that is why the lockerroom rumor of Nate need to mature never bothered me when I seen Nate chose to take the beating of taking the ball to the hoop than pass to certain players that came off the bench with him.
With all due respect Kiya, your analysis is out of whack. The words Nate, natural PG and IQ should never be in the same sentence.
Where the hell did you get the theory Q Rich, Malik, Taylor(??) and Jerome James starting rumors about how Nate is immature because he wouldn't pass them the ball because Nate, in all his wisdom, knew they couldn't score.
Sometimes I wonder if you're drunk when you post. And after that retarded post, we're supposed to take your Hill and Gallo analysis seriously?
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Caught most of the second half on NBA TV last night. Toney Douglas is nice!!! He has good all-round game and showed he could knock down shots as well as get to the hole. Hill's game I liked as well. If Gallo can't stay on the court or Lee is gone, Hill will fill in nicely. I like the fact he will face up or play with his back the goal and has the quickness to get to the rack. I would like to see him finish stronger, but that will come. If Hill can develop a mid-range jumper, he will be a very effective NBA scorer. I like both of our draft picks this year so far.


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May 20, 2011 —
A $600,000 cut in funding from the county will trigger a massive cut in state funding, with the total reduction amounting to $2.6 million.
That was the message Johanna Duncan-Poitier, vice chancellor for community colleges for the State University of New York (SUNY) system, brought to Sullivan County lawmakers at the government center on May 19. Duncan-Poitier brought a handful of other SUNY officials to try to persuade lawmakers that the proposed cut in county funding to Sullivan County Community College will have devastating consequences.
Dona Bulluck, an associate counsel with SUNY, reinforced the message. She said the language regarding "maintenance of effort" is written into the SUNY funding legislation each year, and if the sponsoring agency, in this case Sullivan County, ever reduces the funding level from the previous year, that reduction triggers a "snowball effect" that results in much greater state reductions.
A week earlier, county attorney Sam Yasgur said that he could find no such language in any statute, although his understanding was that such cuts would be triggered only if student tuition rose to more than 33% of funding for the college, and that is not the case. Legislator Ron Hiatt said that was his understanding as well.
County officials expressed further frustration because when the community college system was set up, 33% of funding was to come from SUNY, 33% from tuition, and 33% from the county. But SUNY is now providing only about 15% to 17% of the funding.
County manager David Fanslau said, "It seems to be somewhat punitive that SUNY and the state would want to punish the college because the county has to reduce its funding, yet the state is only funding 15% to 17%. So SUNY should come up with its share of funding, or allow the county to match the SUNY funding.
Asked if she was disappointed about the amount of money the state kicks in for community colleges, Duncan-Poitier said it would obviously be better to have a higher level of funding but she added, "The county and the state are experiencing financial difficulties, that's true all over. However there was a 40% restoration of cuts to SUNY this year, and given the cuts to health and education across the state, that's a pretty significant restoration."
Duncan-Poitier raised enough concern about the impact of the proposed cuts that lawmakers voted to table the vote on funding until more information can be gathered. In casting her vote to table, lawmaker Leni Binder said that the college is not a luxury but instead a necessity, and she wanted to see how the $600,000 cut would impact the college.


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Classified Staff Council of Bluefield State College Minutes
July 13, 2006
Members Present: Carol Baldwin, Joan Buchanan, Kim Daniels, Tracie Goss, Lisa Neel, Michele Noe, Berreda Ratliff, and Joanna Thomspon.
Visitors Present: Darlene Hager, Tom Harrison, and David Lord.
Chair, Carol Baldwin called the meeting to order at 1:15 in Room 202-F of the Physical Education Building.
I. Minutes – A motion to accept the meeting minutes for the June 8, 2006 meeting was made and seconded by Goss/Buchanan, all were in favor.
II. Old Business
A. Web Page-Michele stated that the page is up and running on the Bluefield State main webpage. She has sent out an all users email inviting everyone to visit the site and has gotten a lot of positive feedback. She went over what it consists of and reminded everyone that it is a work in progress, and probably always will be. She asked the opinion of the council about adding employee's birthdays to the site. David reminded that because this information goes out on the internet, some people may not appreciate that information being public domain. The idea was defeated. Everyone thanked Michele for her hard work on the site and applauded its appearance.
B. Constitution-Carol advised the council that she had looked at other institutions constitutions online and had emailed the Chairs of all the other institutions in WV asking how they handled the issue of vacancies on the council. She stated that most of the ones that responded stated that they hold a special election for that sector's employees only. If no one is interested in running for the vacant position, it is left vacant until the next elections. A committee was formed to examine the constitution and by-laws of BSC as it compares to other institutions. The committee consists of Carol, Joan, Tracie and Michele. Copies of all other obtainable constitutions will be sent out to the committee members for review. It was also suggested that we try to obtain one from HEPC's classified staff council.
III. New Business
A. Promoting from Within-David Lord addressed the recommendations that were sent to the president. He stated that there had been a meeting with the president, Carol, and himself to discuss these issues. Recommendation I-David handed out a copy of State Code 18b-7-1 and stated that it refers to non-exempt positions. He reminded everyone that adjunct faculty members are exempt staff. Recommendation II-David stated that the handbook may have this referenced, but that this is just handbook - not policy. He also stated that the handbook states that jobs MAY be advertised on campus for a 5 day period before being advertised off campus. He stated that Fred and Lisa were both on a committee that is reviewing different policies and procedures being used in the human resources office and that the policies are up for review in August. A recommendation was made and seconded that council request to amend policy number 17 to read that "All non-exempt positions be posted internally for a period of 10 days before posting
externally" by Goss/Buchanan, all were in favor. Recommendation III-David stated that the president wanted him to convey that he had already been supporting staff in questions about flex time. He also suggested including the possibility of an internship program being included in personnel development time. This program would allow employees to use the allotted 3 hours per week to internship in an office that they may be interested in. This idea received much positive feedback from council and David said he would work on trying to implement this program.
IV. Reports
A. Board of Governors- There was no one present that could give the report.
B. Personnel Development- Lisa stated that there was no meeting to report on.
C. ACCE-Fred was unable to attend today's meeting so he sent his a draft copy of the June ACCE meeting (which he did not attend) minutes to Michele to report on. She stated that the meeting was held at Shepherd University. After Shepherd's president welcomed the representatives, he fielded questions from the audience. The question came up about obtaining support from the President's Council for full funding of the classified salary schedule in view of the fact that 15 to 20 percent of classified employees earn wages below the poverty level. While he expressed support for funding of the schedule, he was less optimistic of such support by other presidents. Amy Pitzer presented a list of items that may be requested from each of the schools for data collection.
D. Flower Fund-Anita reported to Carol that the balance on the fund was $411.50.
E. Social Committee-Joan stated that the Spotlight Office of the Month program will begin in August and that the Athletics office would be the first recipients. She stated that Carol informed her that the all campus picnic was being tabled for the fall because of problems in coordinating the effort. She suggested that classified hold their own gathering with a carry-in meal. A tentative date was set for September 13 from 3-5 p.m.
F. Wellness Committee- Lisa stated that the committee has not meet, but she has heard that they will be offering water aerobics on Monday and Wednesdays starting toward the end of August.
A suggestion was brought to the table that BSC host a summit of classified staff councils from all over the state. It was suggested that a committee be formed to help explore the possibility. This issue will be discussed at the next meeting.
V. Next meeting/Adjournment
The next meeting will be held on August 3, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. in the Tierney Conference Room in Dickason Hall.
With no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned by Carol.
Minutes submitted by Michele Noe


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The spring mechanism is calibrated at the factory to close at 4.0 oz./ 115 g. The smaller red squirrels, as well as the larger gray squirrels, are shut out at this setting.
|Birds by average weight
|Red-breasted Nuthatch
|0.35 oz.
|10 g
|0.4 oz.
|11 g
|American Goldfinch
|0.5 oz.
|14 g
|Common Redpoll
|0.5 oz.
|14 g
|Pine Siskin
|0.5 oz.
|14 g
|Dark Eyed Junco
|0.7 oz.
|20 g
|Tufted Titmouse
|0.7 oz.
|20 g
|White-breasted Nuthatch
|0.7 oz.
|20 g
|House Finch
|1.0 oz.
|28 g
|Purple Finch
|1.0 oz.
|28 g
|1.0 oz.
|28 g
|Downy Woodpecker
|1.5 oz.
|42 g
|Rose-breasted Grosbeak
|1.6 oz.
|45 g
|Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
|1.7 oz.
|50 g
|Red-winged Blackbird
|2.0 oz.
|52 g
|Evening Grosbeak
|2.0 oz.
|56 g
|Northern Cardinal
|2.0 oz.
|56 g
|Hairy Woodpecker
|2.3 oz.
|66 g
|European Starling
|3.0 oz.
|84 g
|4.0 oz.
|112 g
|Common Grackle
|4.0 oz.
|112 g
|Mourning Dove
|4.0 oz.
|112 g
|Northern Flicker
|4.6 oz.
|130 g
|Domestic Pigeon
|9.0 oz.
|255 g
|Squirrels by average weight
|Douglas Squirrel
|5 to 10 oz.
|140 to 280 g
|Red Squirrel
|5 to 11 oz.
|140 to 310 g
|Gray Squirrel
|12 to 26 oz.
|340 to 740 g
|Fox Squirrel
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Sisyphus in Detroit
Even as the economy begins its long climb towards recovery, problems threaten to dislodge any toehold it has made and send it hurtling back to the base like Sisyphus' stone. And if there's any one problem that lies on peoples' minds extra heavily, it's the continued lack of jobs. Of course the government is creating programs to try and help with this problem but my personal feeling is that this is not so much an issue of people not having jobs as it is the wrong people still having jobs.
For instance, in Detroit, one of the hardest hit areas as far as job loss goes in the country, how is it that thousands of autoworkers no longer have jobs but an incompetent imbecile like Matt Millen manages to land on his feet? After turning an already dilapidated franchise into a synonym for failure, he blows town and winds up in Bristol, CT analyzing football for ESPN. Here's my analysis. Millen is a bum and should be on the street peddling pencils at a dime a pop. Although I'm pretty sure he could find a way to turn that into a shambles as well.
However, if you live in Detroit and you're a fan of the Detroit Tigers, you're probably just as worried about who is employed as who isn't. Since my analytical skills are pretty much limited to the aforementioned summary of Matt Millen, I'll leave the real analysis to someone who knows what they're doing:
"The Tigers are in trouble." (scroll down to 23 November to read the full entry)
Yeah, I guess Paul pretty much summed it up right there. Sometimes it's more about who does have a job than who doesn't.
The Tigers may not be in as bad of shape as the Lions but there isn't a whole lot to smile about in Motown these days, no matter where you're coming from. And even though Dombrowski is no Matt Millen, he definitely faces an uphill battle in making the Tigers competitive. Let's just hope he has a little more luck than Sisyphus.
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Our governor here in Michigan is doing such a great job destroying this State it's not even funny. Let's hope things go better in 2010 for us.
On the sports note, not even the Red Wings are a power house anymore with the salary cap. Will be a very long winter and a long baseball season for the Tigers unless players really step up.
At least I have my Minor League ball to look forward to…
For many years, we Red Sox fans knew very well about Sisyphus' rolling the rock up the mountain, only to have the Yankees, Blue Jays, or Tigers push it back down the mountain. We may or may not push the rock back up again, at least for a year or two, but we enjoyed the view from the top! I would like to see the Tigers be a competitive force again, but it does not look promising, with or without the economic woes.


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And what would your father think of the poor language you use?
oh. What am I saying? He doesn't care. He must be more concerned with the kids he gives a **** about.
dude, your ugly ex-wife you spent thousands on left your loser ass. You pay cash for sex. You're not picking up no girl. My girl would take a crap on your fat chest and I'll piss in your mother's mouth lol, you're lame man. You even sound lame trying to type out something you don't even believe in.
This is a guy with man tits. He's in an awkward position talking about fatness when he can't even get his punk self to work out.
Crazy8 is afraid of exercise. Probably bottom 3 most unfit guys who post in these forums.
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This guy will spent 400 cash on a hooker, but can't afford himself a gym membership.
Ever since I brought up Crazy8's failed marriage and his wife leaving him for a dude that doesn't have a small penis, he's gone on a mad rant
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I love when Crazy gets shot in the leg and starts typing stuff he has no confidence in.
Getting this dude in his most vulnerable state is always classic.
Why do you persist with talking about my body other than to talk about yours. You really are lost in this one, propounding what I've been saying. You're dumb. Bad stock. An unwanted boy who had to dedicate his life to being as you as possible because no one gives a **** about him.
just spotted crazy8 ex-wife and the guy she cheated on Crazy8 with....
Little man? Guy, I'm packing where it counts and you got a goofy frame and zero athleticism and strength. You're stiff, your hips don't make when you sex those hookers in doggy style. You're a sad man with a sad body. This constitutes a sad mind. We can see your depression.
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This week, APICS staff participated in the Global Symposium on Best Practices in Talent-Driven Innovation sponsored by the Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte, and the Alcoa Foundation. This interactive forum brought together global leaders to discuss the significant shortage of skilled workers in manufacturing. The message delivered: Failure to address the shortage of skilled workers likely will act as a constraint on future manufacturing advancement across the globe.
In his opening address, Craig Giffi, vice chairman of Deloitte, made the case that the key to manufacturing competitiveness is innovation driven by talent. Giffi referenced the 2013 Deloitte Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index Report, which showed developed nations have a competitive advantage based on their ability to cultivate their manufacturing workforce. The index, which is based on input from more than 500 CEOs, further defined the quality and availability of scientists, researchers, and engineers as being the most important factor in talent-driven manufacturing innovation.
The future of manufacturing has been a compelling topic for major research studies this year. In a recently released report, "Manufacturing the Future: The next era of global growth and innovation," the McKinsey Global Institute in conjunction with the McKinsey Operations Practice, examined trends affecting the evolution of manufacturing. This report does an exceptional job of presenting manufacturing's historic and current contribution to the global economy, analyzing the transformational impact of the Great Recession, segmenting manufacturing industries based on critical supply chain factors, and outlining the direction for creating supply chain strategy as well as public policy.
McKinsey's research underscores that talent is crucial to innovation and competitiveness finding "the new era of manufacturing will be marked by highly agile, networked enterprises that use information and analytics as skillfully as they employ talent and machinery to deliver products and services to diverse global markets."
Developing the supply chain professional
Today, workforce development initiatives in manufacturing tend to focus on improving elementary and secondary education as a foundation. There is no question that this is incredibly important to creating a qualified workforce. But advancing manufacturing starts with advancing the capabilities of supply chain and operations professionals who are well qualified for their current jobs, but who need to develop the knowledge and skills they will require in the near-term.
For example, according to the McKinsey report, "across manufacturing industries, the use of big data can make substantial improvements in how companies respond to customer needs and how they run their machinery and operations. These enormous databases, which can include anything from online chatter about a brand or product to real-time feeds from machine tools and robots, have great potential for manufacturers__if they can master the technology and find the talent with the analytical skills to turn data into insights or new operating improvements."
This year, APICS conducted a practitioner research study on the use of big data in operations and supply chain management. One of the challenges identified was the relatively low level of understanding survey participants possessed regarding big data. I am confident that as you read about the McKinsey report you immediately understood the potential impact of big data on planning, sourcing, producing, and delivering. If you do not feel you have a fundamental understanding of the concept of big data, I encourage you to download the APICS report. Learning about this transformational subject can be an important first step for you as a professional and for APICS in supporting your development.
Over the next three weeks, I am going to continue to delve into the McKinsey report, both through this e-newsletter and in the Operations Management Now community on the APICS Supply Chain Channel. I will explore critical themes in the report as they apply to supply chain and operations professionals today and tomorrow as APICS strives to create programs to better support you in developing the skills and knowledge you need to advance innovation and competitive success.
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The hostess shows me to my table at Eat, a new breakfast-and-lunch spot on an unlovely corner of downtown Las Vegas. Customers huddle inside the door, along a low wall crafted from wooden pallets that once held the restaurant's kitchen equipment. With lime green banquettes and clean midcentury lines, it's the kind of place where I half-expect to see the Rat Pack drop by for black coffee and some verbal towel-snapping.
Chef Natalie Young walks through the dining room, greeting old friends and fielding congratulations on her new opening, before stopping by my table to make sure I'm enjoying my breakfast burrito of cage-free eggs, bacon, and pico de gallo. We get to chatting and she sits down to tell me her story. About how after a dozen years of working Vegas' high-volume casino kitchens, she was burned out, done, bags packed, and ready to move back to New Mexico. Then someone introduced her to Tony Hsieh.
The Zappos CEO—and early investor in the company before Amazon gobbled it up for $1.2 billion—was starting an ambitious new project: revitalizing a threadbare downtown and using $350 million of his own money to do it. Hsieh's Downtown Project has seeded investments in real estate, education, and small business: retail shops, bars, restaurants.
"First question Tony asks me is, 'What size restaurant do you envision?' " says Young, laughing now at the absurdity of it all. She was a talented cook but had no real experience running a restaurant. So she took accounting classes and got help finding a suitable space and outfitting the restaurant. When she opened her doors last September, folks poured in. "It's unbelievable," she says to me, beaming. "I'm sitting in my own restaurant."
Can you build a new downtown around a breakfast burrito? Las Vegas is betting that you can.
That the opening of a single breakfast joint warrants any attention at all speaks volumes about where Vegas has been and where it seeks to go. Few American cities have been hit as hard by the real estate collapse as Las Vegas has over the last half-decade. Hotels have shuttered, major construction projects have been halted, and foreclosure rates remain among the highest in the country. And nowhere have the shock waves been felt as deeply as downtown. A snarky headline in a Canadian newspaper captured the gloom of recent times: "Downtown Vegas is great for $2 Coronas and persistent feelings of sadness."
"Businesses catered to the lowest common denominator," says Michael Cornthwaite, who in 2010 opened the Beat Coffeehouse in the corner of a 1950s-era JC Penney's department store that now houses a used-record shop and dozens of artist studios and retail nooks—a hangout for 20- and 30-somethings punching keys on their laptops. "It was about selling cigarettes and phone cards and booze by the single. It was about the cheapest junk food you could possibly buy."
Even during Vegas' boom years, downtown struggled to gain notice in the shadow of the billion-watt-glare of the Strip. The last big push was in 1995, with the Fremont Street Experience, four city blocks draped in a barrel-shaped canopy embedded with a light show, a cross between a pedestrian mall and a hallucinatory trip. It worked, luring visitors north from the Strip. But for the most part, downtown has always been a terrier chasing after a semi.
The current revival is vastly different. The emphasis isn't on competing with the Strip for the fickle attention of tourists chasing shiny bits of foil, but to create a world-class downtown to lure businesses and residents who want to put down roots and stay awhile. The Strip isn't viewed as the competition these days; Portland and Austin are.
I spent a few days wandering downtown recently and was struck by the sight of a more durable city springing up from the dusty lots. Last March, the $465 million Smith Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors, an anchor for Symphony Park, Las Vegas' answer to the wearying refrain that this city lacks high culture. Nearby is Frank Gehry's swirling-steel Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, which conducts research on neurocognitive diseases—and also shows world-class works by artists like Robert Rauschenberg. Coming soon: a big-money rehab of a downtown arts center, the new home of the Las Vegas Shakespeare Company.
In a city obsessed with tearing down and building anew, it's surprising to see Las Vegas embracing what's left of its past. The stately 1933 neoclassical federal building has become an interactive Mob Museum. Just up Las Vegas Boulevard, the Jetsons-like La Concha Motel's parabolic lobby, relocated piece by piece from the Strip, opened its doors as a visitor center for the Neon Museum, where people can gawk at a coffee-table book's worth of decommissioned signs.
Then there's the rebirth of city hall. In early 2012, the city moved its employees out of the late-modernist concrete complex into a soaring structure not far from Symphony Park. The environmentally friendly, strikingly angular glass-fronted new building is itself an attraction; at night it glimmers with a mesmerizing LED waterfall.
The old city hall was already vacant when Hsieh decided to make it Zappos headquarters, which for the past decade had been housed in a bland suburban office park a dozen miles south of the city. Now, instead of building a new corporate campus, he'll march his 1,400 employees right into the city. The move is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013.


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Lakers always paying .50 on the dollar.
After doing some research, I found out that head-to-head they average nearly the same stats. (6 games total)
Gasol vs Lopez
21.8 vs 22.8ppg
10.3 vs 9.7 rbs
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The Lakers are set to acquire Dwight Howard in a four-team trade involving the Magic, Nuggets and Sixers.
A source tells Marc Stein that a trade call has been scheduled with the NBA league office for Friday morning.
The reported deal would send Howard to the Lakers, Andre Iguodala going to the Nuggets, Andrew Bynum and Jason Richardson to the Sixers, while the Magic would receive at least Arron Afflalo, Nikola Vucevic, Moe Harkless and a first round pick from each of the other teams.
It was reported earlier on Thursday that Pau Gasol would be included in a trade, but sources indicate that he will remain with the Lakers.
Via Marc Stein/ESPN (via Twitter)
BTW IncarceratedBob said it first!
how the hell do the Lakers keep Gasol? if it was Dolan making the decisions, he would've traded away 1/2 the team for DwightHo!
so essentially LA is trading Bynum and draft pick(s) for Howard...?
amazing.. smh
Dolan should be ashamed of himself seeing how things get done smartly and efficiently by west coasters.
Damn it looks like Kobes gettin number 6...I dont mind as long as its not the Knicks that the Lakers beat in the Finals. We got our own obstacles to get through in the east with the Heat, Scumtics, and perhaps the Pacers and 76ers. Although im not sure how big of a fan i am of the trade for Philly. Getting Bynum is huge but losing Iguodalar hurts in my opinion, he does some of everything.
Ugh. Well thank you magic for being completely stupid and not sending Dwight to the Nets even though they clearly had a better deal for you.
on the brightside, Just 2 less teams in the east we have to worry about now
They got :
Dorrell Wright
Thad Young
Jason Richardson
*edit* Nick Young (?!)
Its gonna be a battle for that Atlantic Division crown next season... even the Craptors improved a little.
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LA also got Duhon. That should put them over the top. hehe
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Jodie Meeks has agreed to a two-year, $3 million deal with the Lakers.
Meeks was most recently with the 76ers and will give the Lakers depth as a wing scorer off the bench.
Via Mark Medina/Los Angeles Times
These guys are having the off-season of their life man lol
one is a businessman who earned his dollars, the other was born with a silver spoon
in his mouth and has NO business sense:
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Like me, last night, watching the game.
Pic from (where else) cuteoverload.com.
If you watched the final few innings of last night's slaughter at the hands of the Rockies, then you heard Keith Hernandez go just about loopy.
If you missed it? Tune in later for the transcript. Would you expect anything less from me?
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I have to say watching the game was utter pain.
In addition to the misery, I was watching the thing on the Rockies channel. Shame on MLB Extra Innings pack.
I mean come on, I want SNY!! I want to hear Keith babbling and the guys dancing in the dugout when all is lost or they are just having fun.
I missed the pink shirt, the Gomez Dancing Lesson, and the Castro gum-in-the-head thing. Thank God I have you Z! LOL
But no I had to hear the guy say "Just but 1 Rockie has scored tonight."
Why thanks for telling me… I honestly didn't need the reminder and in the meantime why didn't bring your bat boy to get a chance as well?
Wow. I'm not the only one who reads Mets blogs and CO!!!
On a day like this, you really need little bunnehs, kittehs and puppehs.
Great to hear that there's a transcript because Gary and Keith were completely loopy last night, and Mike and Steve at Zisk are having technical difficulties (or I don't want to think about the alternative). Loved the shots of Keith's harem of womenfolk. Don't you think Keith's daughters can probably hit a major-league curveball?
That bunny is just so precious. The game last night, on the other hand, was not. But thanks for making me smile today anyway, Zoe. Being an animal lover through and through, this little guy is just the tonic for me after a very very bad Met game.
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This morning in Clinton Township, two parades will set off from two fire stations simultaneously. Each will have a firetruck and a bunch of candy. Each will feature Santa Claus himself.
They'll be careful to avoid each other.
"We don't want to see two Santas at the same time," said township manager Skip Apple.
The township's annual Christmas Parade, now in its 65th year, used to be just one event. But years of annexation by Columbus left the 4,100-resident township fragmented — one chunk of it east of I-71, south of Morse Road; the other 7 miles away to the southwest.
"So we had to split the parade," said Fire Chief Brian Fraley.
At 9 a.m., one group will set off from the fire station at 3820 Cleveland Ave., while the other will start at the old station on 999 Chambers Rd. Both little processions, which include fire, police and township road vehicles, do something most parades don't: They head up and down every township street, about 15 miles total, as volunteers hand out boxes of candy and Santa stops for photos.
Apple said he's heard the parade started not long after World War II, when some areas of the township were so poor that the box of candy was the only present a child got for Christmas.
It's continued since, Fraley said, and been canceled only twice during the Korean War.
Local businesses donate the money for the candy, which is divided into some 2,500 boxes that are packed and taped shut by volunteers.
Those candy boxes go to anyone who wants them, Apple said. Children, teens, parents. Volunteers will run boxes up to homes where they know the resident is unable to get down to the street.
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Apache OpenOffice.org, day 10 catch up
By user13342178 on Jun 10, 2011
10 days ago, Oracle had announced that they would contribute the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation.
Too bad that I was on vacation then. I first did read this on Monday 6th, when already 800+ mails have been sent to Apache's incubator mailing list, and it became 1400+ until I finally caught up reading them all. On average, there seem to be 400 mails per month. Now with the OpenOffice.org contribution, there are 1400 in 1/3 of a month. Seems the interest is (of course) really huge!
In the beginning, there have been many discussions on why Oracle didn't contribute the code and trademark to The Document Foundation (TDF) instead of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and whether or not this step would split communities, which project developers would prefer and so on.
Of course there also have been many licensing discussions about having a very permissive license like ALv2 vs. a copyleft license like LGPLv3.
There are good arguments for both of them. A very permissive license like ALv2 allows people to create commercial products based on that code, without the need to contribute changes to the code back to the project. This can have the positive effect that companies contribute a lot to the project, to have a stable base for their own product, but it can also result in companies only taking code from the project, and never contributing back anything. Having a copyleft license means that companies might not be able to build their commercial products on that code base, and therefor wouldn't spend any resources at all.
I think ALv2 was a very good choice. This way, OpenOffice.org can become the base for many commercial products as well as for other open source products.
The only issue is that OOo makes use of some LGPL code. This needs to be cleaned-up before Apache can provide a full featured version of OOo. But others can combine the ALv2 licensed code base of OOo and complement it with the missing LGPL libraries. The licenses are one-way compatible. It needs to be discussed how new releases of OpenOffice.org can be provided in the near future.
So what will come next?
First, Apache OpenOffice(.org) is not an Apache incubator project yet. The proposal is available, and is being discussed on the general incubator mailing list. Soon there will the voting whether or not it really will become an incubator project.
It's also unclear what the name could be. Some call it "Apache OpenOffice", and some want to keep the name "OpenOffice.org". The first name is missing the fact that the registered trademark is OpenOffice.org, not just OpenOffice. The second one is missing the fact that an Apache project needs to have the name Apache in it. It needs to be seen what the final name will be.Please forgive me if I got anything wrong with all the Apache rules - this is also new to me ;)
Here are some references that I found in the various emails which might be useful for understanding the Apache processes:
- http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator
- http://incubator.apache.org/guides/index.html
- http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html
- http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
- http://community.apache.org/
- http://www.apache.org/dev/
- http://theapacheway.com/
Once the project is accepted as an incubator, and the necessary infrastructure is in place, the initial code hand-over can happen, and all people interested can help with many different kind of tasks. Feel free to join :)


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Makes 6 sandwiches (6 servings)
An out-of-the-ordinary sandwich for entertaining, try this for brunch, with a side of fresh fruit. Accompany the focaccia with a green salad and serve the sandwich for lunch. To make the omelet more substantial, first sauté vegetables, such as sliced mushrooms, before adding the egg. Herbes de Provence is an excellent seasoning for eggs; but you can substitute about 1 tablespoon minced fresh herbs, such as basil or oregano, or a combination.
For the bread
One 8-inch onion or plain focaccia, halved horizontally
Butter or chèvre cheese, as desired
For the filling
4 eggs
2 tablespoons cold water
1 teaspoon herbes de Provence
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup thin onion slices
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons butter
1 ½ cups coarsely shredded stemmed fresh salad spinach leaves
½ cup coarsely shredded Romano cheese
1 freshly roasted red bell pepper (or 1 jarred roasted red bell pepper, well drained), cut into ½-inch strips
Dash of freshly ground pepper
Dash of salt
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Spread the cut sides of the focaccia with the butter or cheese.
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To assemble the sandwich, layer the remaining filling ingredients on the top of the omelet: the cooked onion mixture, spinach, cheese, and bell pepper strips. Sprinkle with pepper and salt. Close the sandwich.
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After the initial horror of an event fades, the arm-chair quarterbacking begins.
It's a chicken vs. an egg conundrum. It's Schrodinger's Cat. Yes, guns kill people. Yes, people with guns kill people. Yes, people kill people. But we never know where the blame lies until we open the box.
And even if we open the box, I doubt we'll find the answers we seek. A normal human being does not shoot children in cold blood.
I've never been comforted by the words – God calls the little children to Him. (Suffer the little children to come to me.) Of course He holds the children close, after the fact. But the very fact of their deaths begs the question, a question man has asked from the beginning in our attempts to find meaning in tragedy – If our God is a just God, why does He allow these things to happen in the first place? Because if He does allow these events He's allowed them all over the world throughout history. Which, if I were to believe Him capable of such heinous indifference, makes God infinitely culpable.
Did He wake up one morning and say to Himself… I'm going to let twenty children die today? I'd hate to think so.
Thus the ancients pondered the tragedies in our world and came to the conclusion that the gods are fickle, a reflection of us– human in their outlook and their actions. Petty, bickering, murderous, adulterous, heroic, kind, sacrificing, capable of both great evil and great good.
Because of what I saw while I was dead, I prefer to think of God as having two faces. Two sides, like a coin. Sometimes the coin spins the wrong way setting in motion an incomprehensible chain of events. If a word existed for an anti-miracle, this would be the time to apply such a word. The thought process that would drive someone to commit such an unspeakable crime is inconceivable to most of us.
From the moment I held my first born in my arms I understood to the very marrow of my bones how fragile is the thread we call life. And how terrifying real love is.
I could not be as brave as the parents in Connecticut.
There is evil in this world. Yet we have our heroes too. I think God gives us a combination of the two. Whether we like it or not.