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McGowan takes one last look back at his public service, Part III
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the final piece in our three-part interview with Mike McGowan, who was West Sacramento's first mayor and later its longtime county supervisor.
We talked with McGowan in March, and that chat covered his view of a lot of the city's history and his own experiences. We hope you enjoyed the series.
You can find the other parts of the series here:
Mike McGowan Looks Back, Part I and Mike McGowan Looks Back, Part II
There were some contentions battles in West Sacramento in the late '80s, soon after the city incorporated. Councilwoman Thelma Rogers left, and was replaced by Greg Potnick – who occasionally became the "1" in some 4-1 votes.
On the winning side of those votes were Mike McGowan, Fidel Martinez, Ray Jones and Bill Kristoff (who is still a councilman).
Later, Wes Beers joined the council as a frequent ally of Potnick, and there were some 3-2 votes on major planning issues. One of the splits centered around the city's new master plan, which called for major industrial development in Southport near the port. The council majority supported that vision.
McGowan acknowledges those divisions, but they don't loom large in his mind:
"I got along with Greg (Potnick)," he said. "My biggest challenge with Greg was getting to know him. He was a very closed kind of guy. I don't remember how big of a deal that stuff was. I'm sure it was at the time."
Partly, those divisions occurred because of the need to make some kind of progress and get the city off the ground, he said.
"It was important for us to create momentum, to create synergy," he said. "Then, we were going from a dead stop (and) that's just impossible to do without offending or hurting or ruffling a lot of feathers and making a lot of people mad at you. Making enemies."
"We'll fix it later," he said was the attitude. "Let's just get this car running."
On the other hand, he allows, part of it was the fault of a young and callow Mike McGowan.
"My sin then was the arrogance of youth, because I wasn't going to pay much attention to (those who disagree). If I thought you were going to be in my way, I'd either walk around you or walk over you. I didn't really care. I've learned since then."
McGowan then succeeded Clark Cameron as the "District 1" member of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, representing Clarksburg and most of West Sacramento, in 1993. He won a four-person ballot, against chief rival Ray Hensley, "who's now a friend."
A year later, still early in that term, he made a bid for the State Senate against Republican K. Maurice Johannessen (father of current local councilman Mark Johannessen). McGowan, a Democrat, lost. He recalls that this was in the year of Newt Gingrich's conservative "Contract for America," and the senate district was more rural and conservative than he had realized.
That left him with a dose of "humility" and the remaining years of his term at the Yolo board of supervisors.
"I said, you know, I want to see what kind of supervisor I could really be," he remembers. "I started to take it really seriously and work at it and enjoy it – and I enjoyed it till I left."
There were a couple of things he had to learn when he went from West Sacramento's city council to the board of supervisors. One of them was the "culture shock" of going from a place where the city had tried to "develop its way out of a problem" to a place where development and its monies were shunned. The city saw tax dollars from new development as a solution and the county didn't.
"I went over there and I didn't get all this 'land preservation' stuff," McGowan commented. "These guys (in the county government) are broke, and they need to do some development and make some money. That's what you do in West Sacramento, right? 'We're going to develop our way out of this problem.'"
But Yolo wanted to keep its farmland as farmland, and wanted to preserve its open space between cities. County policy was to steer development into the cities. This was a costly policy for the county coffers.
As McGowan remembers this mindset:
"We're not going to do urbanized development in the unincorporated area. We're going to great lengths to protect the unincorporated land for agriculture and/or open space. Ag land is our number one commandment. . . We will drive urban growth and development back into the cities – we will take a vow of poverty, so to speak."
But McGowan said he saw the light of this approach and became an "ardent proponent."
Meanwhile, county officials were still smarting over the fact that West Sacramento had incorporated and taken a chip out of the county's revenue stream.
"We'd stolen all their money," McGowan summed up.
Relations weren't good and the city and county were squabbling over various small issues. McGowan believes that the relationship, though, is again trusting and healthy.
Another difference between the city's government and the county's is that local council members are all elected "at large," while county supervisors are elected from separate geographical districts. In the city, McGowan believes, councilman have historically been able to keep the "whole city's" interests at heart. But with districts, there was the potential for selfishness.
Was it a win-lose proposition between various districts in county governance?
"It's a combination," he answered. "It all depends on how you play the game. . . I guess I learned that if you muscle it to get a 3-2 vote, you're likely to be on the wrong end of another 3-2 vote down the road. So you really play it for the long haul. It's a give and take."
So the Yolo board – like the current city council – is now a collegial place to get things done, McGowan believes.
And then there's Clarksburg – the little town to West Sacramento's south. It's part of the same supervisor's district that includes the bulk of West Sacramento.
When he became a county supervisor, McGowan said he learned that Clarksburg residents had a strange view of their bigger neighbor to the north. Especially since there were developers trying to convince West Sacramento to allow a massive project to go in between the two jurisdictions.
"When I ran for supervisor for the first time, I went to a coffee klatsch down in Clarksburg," he recalls. "They knew more about what's going on in West Sacramento than most of the people in West Sacramento did at their own coffee klatsches. They're not obsessed, but they're very interested."
"It took me a while to figure out that they had this paranoia they had about West Sac taking over. And I said, 'I don't think you understand. (West Sac) is going to have a hard enough time putting in more growth in Southport, period. They're not interested in that project south of the city.'"
The project withered, and the distrust has ebbed, said McGowan.
"Clarksburg is like the little village in the Scottish glen, or something. What do you call it? 'Brigadoon'. . . It took me a long time to develop their support."
Working on the board of supervisors led to a leadership stint at the California State Association of Counties, and that led to working with the Governor Jerry Brown on projects such as prison realignment.
A year ago, McGowan – looking ahead to his retirement – stepped down from the county board of supervisors to take a governor's appointment to a special post at the DMV. He did so believing that his hometown is being well-run, and his old supervisor's seat is in good hands with Oscar Villegas.
He jokes about the lifestyle change – for the first time since before law school, he now has a boss at work. And his commute has doubled (!) from 1.5 miles to three miles.
He expects to put in another year or two at his post, working on things like implementation of the policy of driver's licenses for undocumented residents.
But at as Mike McGowan approaches age 67 later this month, he feels like a lucky guy:
"I got to be the first mayor of my hometown. I got to be the guy that helped launch all this stuff. Then I got to work as a supervisor and I got to work with the governor and do all those things."
What does he like about his hometown?
"I still see West Sacramento, for the most part, as being this incredibly good place to raise your family. It's the schools, it's the churches, it's the swim team. That's what's happening here."
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West Sac Art Guild preps for art show & sale today near Nugget
Six members of the West Sacramento Art Guild took multiple awards at the Yolo County Fair over the summer, reports JoJo Gillies of the guild.
Among them:
Agnes Nilsen took a first-place award in cross-stitch, a third as "best overall" and a pair of second-place ribbons.
Linda Bowron won for embroidery (with third in "best overall") and took a second-place in embroidery.
Carol Hawkins took a first-place and two second-place awards in collage.
Vona Giese took place for a knitted baby set and second for a watercolor work featuring a fire truck.
Jerry Renno took first and "best of show" for a metal sculpture work, and a second-place in the same category.
JoJo Gillies took first place awards with a combined acrylic/collage painting and for an oil painting, as well as three "second place" awards in acrylic and two "third place" honors for acrylic painting.
Gillies and Renno also collaborated on three winners, after Renno fabricated art from steel plow discs and Gillies painting them. The results earned two first-place awards and a second-place, plus extra ribbons for first and third in "best of show."
The art guild plans an art sale on Dec. 20 outside Round Table Pizza in the Southport Town Center. The public is invited.
For more information on the local art guild, call Agnes Nilsen at 374-1810. To inquire about purchasing metal sculptures, call 371-3165.
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Mike McGowan looks back: Part II
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week, the City of West Sacramento opened a bridge named after Mike McGowan, the city's first mayor and later its longtime representative on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.
Earlier in 2014, the News-Ledger had a lengthy chat with McGowan about his own window into the city's history. We brought you the first part of that interview last week (you can find it here). We continue below, taking up roughly from the moment that local voters approved cityhood and McGowan became mayor of the first West Sacramento City Council in 1987.
When you ask Mike McGowan what it was like to be part of the city council that took control over the fate of four newly conjoined neighborhoods in 1987, he can answer with a simile:
"It was like fixing a car while you're driving it," he has said in the past.
"So much was coming at us at the same time, it was like drinking out of a fire hose," he explained much more recently. Either way, you get the picture.
You have to understand that West Sacramento was different then – the population was in the mid 20-thousands, or about half of what it is now. There was old West Sacramento and the less reputable Bryte and Broderick neighborhoods to the north, and the barely-developed Southport area, and a troubled downtown strolled by prostitutes and grifters.
This section of East Yolo had an inferiority complex. It did not compare itself well to, say, Davis or Sacramento. And local voters wanted change.
The new council members included McGowan – the top vote-getter and first mayor, along with Fidel Martinez, Ray Jones, Bill Kristoff (who is still on the council) and Thelma Rogers. The five met unofficially a number of times before they took their seats at city hall, which was then located on Stone Boulevard. They brought on a temporary city manager to serve as their C.E.O. – a college professor who had once worked for Governor Reagan's administration.
"We hired him, and gave him this pamphlet we got from the League of California Cities on how to start a new city," recalled McGowan. "And it quickly dawned on me that what he did was read one chapter ahead, then he would come into our meeting and said 'Okay, now it's time to hire our lawyer. . .'"
One of the city's first challenges was deciding on a police force. Unhappiness with crime and law enforcement (provided before incorporation by the Yolo County Sheriff's Department) was one of the reasons citizens approved cityhood in the 1986 vote.
"That was the platform – law enforcement, cleaning up West Capitol, and schools were important as well, and (providing more) shopping. Those were the issues," said McGowan.
The new council had the option of creating a local police department or paying Yolo County to provide patrols by deputies. The county was obligated to provide interim service for six months either way.
McGowan said the new city leaders went to see Sheriff Rod Graham about a Yolo County contract.
"He said, 'You're going to have to do a long-term contract with me and you're not going to tell me who I deploy over there.' We literally walked out of that meeting and said, 'Well, we've got to put our own police department together in six months. We did. I wouldn't recommend doing it that way. . . There were some bumps along the way, but it turned out fine."
In came the next city manager, Gene Roh, a former County official whom McGowan respected but with whom there were some "personality clashes."
"When we hired him," said McGowan, "he said 'I've only got two conditions. One is that we agree on the (salary) number, and also I get to hire my number two."
Roh chose as his "number two" another county employee – Carol Richardson. Richardson still remains as the assistant city manager, (although city managers have changed several times in the past 27 years or so.)
"Carol is another one of those people, in my opinion, who I would call an unsung hero," said McGowan. "So much of what we put together at the professional level has come through her."
One of the first big tasks for the new city was to come up with a "general plan" – a state-mandated document that includes land use zoning and other big, long-term policy choices.
The general plan contained broad outlines that have mostly endured and in some cases been fleshed out by succeeding "specific plans" and in some cases, actual development.
The early council developed this plan, "grandfathering" into it some existing plans for a major Southport industrial park near the port (championed by local developer Frank Ramos and his partners) and plans for what was then the Lighthouse Project (with a proposed marina) in the north. Lighthouse later morphed into "The Rivers" gated subdivision, and plans for the marina were dropped.
The industrial zoning for Southport became controversial and bred an opposing ballot initiative in 1990. The city council majority – including McGowan – took a strong stand against the initiative. The ballot challenge barely failed, and the Southport Industrial Park kept its zoning.
Does McGowan have any regrets on the general plan?
"The general plan was good," he said. "Looking back, I'm not very good at looking at specific things because that's not the way I approach the work to begin with. The work is the work. It's about how we work together to get stuff done. It's also more about building the team – I won't dare say 'leadership' – and figuring out how to put the pieces together to accomplish the goal."
Did the developers have too much influence over McGowan and the early city council?
"I don't think so," answered McGowan. "I think it's a subtle distinction to make. I think we agreed with what they wanted to do. I don't think we were doing it because it's what they wanted to do."
"Take (Frank) Ramos, for instance," McGowan continued. "And I think we were fundamentally in support of Lighthouse, the other big project. . . We were a little naïve, there's no question about that, I'm not going to over-defend it. Could we have been more knowledgeable about what to ask for, or looked at things more carefully? Of course."
At the same time, said McGowan, this city was fighting its reputation as a dumping ground. Sacramento's then-mayor, the late Joe Serna, famously vowed to keep state offices from moving to this side of the river, for example.
"This is the same environment where Mayor Serna is saying that we're only good for truck stops and warehouses and he'll put the kibosh on any state governing facilities coming over here," recalled McGowan.
So West Sacramento fought for progress, and "the attitude was that we're not going to let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
Did West Sacramento focus too much on developing industry at a cost to homes and other commerce?
"Well, only because that was the project that was in front of us, and it was so controversial – Ramos's piece," answered McGowan. "But we were even then looking at the riverfront and (removing its) tank farms, even though we didn't know how to deal with that."
Businessman Bill Ramos, for example, tried at one point to change his petroleum facility along South River Road to a commercial complex with a marina, McGowan recalls. While McGowan supported it, the early effort didn't work.
Part of that riverfront and its oil tank farms along South River Road now seem to be finally at the beginning of a transition to higher, urban-style uses. The bridge named in McGowan's honor last week has just connected that road to Southport, with related infrastructure changes on the drawing board. Together, they may help bring to fruition the dream of changing riverfront oil tank farms into riverfront restaurants, shops and condos.
Other proposed projects came and went. Frank Ramos tried to bring an auto mall to the area where Ikea now stands (McGowan favored the proposal because of the sales tax revenues it would bring). Later, when McGowan had moved on to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, Ramos championed building a tribal Indian casino at the same spot. The casino idea gained a lot of traction and drew a lot of controversy – arguments included jobs and economic growth, versus sin and social costs.
"I was vehemently against it," said McGowan. "It was one of the few times in my 20 years on the board of supervisors where I came over (to the council) and said 'This is a stupid thing and you shouldn't do it.'"
McGowan credits City Councilman Oscar Villegas and other allies for doing the work that eventually defeating that proposal.
Later, the same developers succeeded with a far more popular project – the shopping center that includes Ikea, Walmart and surrounding retail stores.
One of the big changes that West Sacramento has experienced since 1987 is an invisible one – a change to its psyche.
"Being in West Sac is a blessing and a curse," said McGowan. "Part of it is having an inferiority complex and the other part of it is having a chip on your shoulder. A part of you says, 'Hey, I had to fight my way back across the bridge when I was in high school coming back from a teen dance, and I'll fight you again.' It's the baseball-bat-in-the-trunk syndrome, and that was very much a part of who we were when we started out."
Did this inferiority complex cause city officials to lower their standards or give away too much when dealing with developers?
"I think that's partly true, but like any other generalization, it's not completely true," answered McGowan. "I'll give you a case in point. When we incorporated, there was a developer and he owned a property just about where Nugget is, and he wanted to develop it. I was mayor. He came in and said 'I want to develop this and that,' and it was zero-lot-line cookie-cutter homes. Thousands of them."
McGowan recalls telling him "that's not what we want here." The developer asked, "Well, what do you want?"
"Estates, million dollar places," said McGowan. "He laughed and said 'The market here won't support that.' I said, "Well, we'll just wait for the market.' He sold and left town."
Was there an inflection point – a time when West Sacramento seemed to shed its inferiority complex and become a proud little can-do community?
McGowan points to the evening of May 15, 2000 – opening day for the River Cats minor league baseball team at Raley Field.
"The River Cats were the game-changer," he said. "Opening night was the proudest moment I had since I got sworn in on the first council. . . All of a sudden, other than having nice communities, and Pheasant Club, and Whitey's and their peach shakes, and the new homes being built, all of the sudden, there was a really gosh-darn good reason to live in West Sacramento."
"People were sitting there (at the game), and they'd look at the panoramic view. . . and literally, people would say, 'Honey, this is really nice over here. Why don't we think about this? We were going to move to Roseville, but why don't we look at these homes they're advertising?' It was amazing."
Raley Field got built after West Sacramento essentially had to arm-wrestle with Sacramento for it. Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna, McGowan believes, was behind a lawsuit that tried to block construction.
But building it, McGowan said, "has done more for us than virtually anything else."
The early council decided to grow and develop the city's way out of its problems, said McGowan. There was a possible downside to that:
"I had a concern that along the way – because I grew up with such a strong sense of community – we'd lose that. We'd become, you know, Natomas. But in fact – and I don't understand this part – I think it's only enhanced this sense. People who move to West Sac don't have an inferiority complex. They think it's great and they love the community atmosphere."
The city has always been a city of different neighborhoods and of people who live "across the tracks" from each other In McGowan's eyes, has the City of West Sacramento come together from the communities of Bryte, Broderick, "old" West Sacramento and Southport?
"Probably not," he allowed. "It used to be the freeway and West Capitol Avenue that were basically the dividing line. I would say (the line) is shifting further south, and it's now around the deep water channel. It continues to be the big challenge for the community, how to integrate. People try. The farmer's market is a great example."
But in general:
"West Sac has been fortunate or blessed, lucky or smart, whatever it is, that there's been an agreement between elected officials, the professionals who run the nuts and bolts, and the community. There's more concurrence about the direction of the community than there is disagreement."
Next week: problems at the port, and more.
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River City students climb a roof and aim for the sun
By Al Zagofsky
News-Ledger Correspondent
For Fay and Russell Landry, one sunny day leads to another, for on Tuesday, November 18 they received a free photovoltaic solar energy system that not only will nearly eliminate their electrical costs while contributing to a greener planet, but offered the opportunity to River City High School students to be part of their solar system installation.
The solar system installation and teaching program was coordinated by Hillary Tellesen – volunteer training coordinator at GRID Alternatives, "GRID Alternatives and the Yolo Office of Education have developed a partnership to have the River City High School students come out and learn about solar installation," she explained. "We are funded through the California Solar Initiative and through corporate donations."
The nonprofit works with lower income homeowners, in sunny areas, and with roofs less than 12 years old to install solar systems.
GRID Alternatives has been working with Deborah Bruns, the science coordinator at the Yolo County Office of Education. "My role in the county office is to connect teachers with resources that help them and their students," she explained. "One focus right now is to give students real world experiences that might get them excited about college and careers in a variety of fields, but particularly in the sustainable energy field."
"I am excited about this program because I think that students often don't know how they're learning in class applies to the real world, and how it might apply to them as citizens, as consumers, and as workers," Bruns continued. "I think becoming familiar with the solar energy industry is an exciting opportunity."
"There are jobs available now and in the future, and they may as citizen consumers may one day have solar panels on their own house. The city of West Sacramento has really made it possible by putting money towards education for kids."
Mike Scharma – the solar installation supervisor with GRID Alternatives, directed the installation and the instruction of the students. "We are installing a 2.04 kW solar array using eight 255-watt panels which is designed to supply close to 100 percent of the family's usage," he said. According to Scharma, the system would have cost upwards of $10,000, and would be eligible for a 30 percent federal tax credit.
Scharma and his construction assistant, Anton Muller, instructed the students in the cutting and bending of electrical conduit, the splicing of mounting rails, and the installation of solar panels.
"This program is awesome because the kids not only learn what's in the classroom but they also get hands-on experience on real-life applications on what they learned in the classroom," noted Sedikeh Yusufi, Engineering and Science Academy teacher at River City High School.
Estefano Arellano, a senior at River City High School climbed unto the roof to complete the installation. "This is a good project that the school Incorporated because it gives students a hands-on experience at something they may want to do in the future," he said.
Dan Beveridge – outreach coordinator with GRID Alternatives works with families to qualify them for the program. "I've been walking the streets of West Sacramento, almost all of it at this point," he said, "trying to find clients. We are still looking to get 40 more clients this year." Interested homeowners may call Dan at 530-680-3852.
Homeowners Fay and Russell Landry said that both the installation by the students and the solar system were "awesome" and "exciting." In June 2014, they purchased their Alabama Ave. home in West Sacramento.
"I think it is very important to have collaboration between businesses, nonprofits, city agencies, and schools because students can actually be a force for change and help out on projects like this while they are learning," added Deborah Bruns. "So it's a win-win for the school and for the community. But it does take all of us working together and collaborating to make it happen."
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Hundreds get help at 'giveaway day'
From Lori Aldrete
Aldrete Communications
for the Yolo County Children's Alliance
It's a long way from Detroit to West Sacramento. But for 37-year-old Latina Taylor and her daughter Jamaica Rayne, a student at Westfield Village Elementary, they are feeling the love of the West Sacramento community and the Yolo County Children's Alliance.
As Latina collected her free turkey dinner, a blanket, toys for "Maka", and clothes for herself and her mom, she repeated over and over, "Thank you. Thank you!" to the volunteers helping more than 600 people needing a helping hand at the 8th Annual West Sacramento Community Give-Away Day on Saturday, November 22 at Westfield Village Elementary School.
Life hasn't been easy for Latina the past few years as the single mom gave up her dream of finishing college at Sacramento State to care for her 6-year-old daughter with serious health issues. She says she feels stereotyped when people look at her "outer shell" and "Coming here today made me feel good. I like to help people, and for people to help me right now…." She paused as tears welled up in her eyes and added, "I'm blessed, so blessed."
Latina and Jamaica aren't alone. For some children it will be their only coat to keep out the winter cold. For 400 families it now means having a real turkey dinner instead of an empty refrigerator at Thanksgiving. And for hundreds of children who may not get many holiday presents, the annual event sent them home with new toys.
Yolo County Supervisor Oscar Villegas and West Sacramento City Council member Chris Ledesma joined numerous student volunteers from River City High School to greet residents and help them navigate through the large multipurpose room and the walkways outside to fill bags full of free food, clothes, toys and blankets.
Yolo County Children's Alliance Executive Director Katie Villegas expressed her gratitude for the many people and organizations that donated their time and resources. "We need a lot of help to make this give-away day happen. Each donation, no matter the size, helped send someone home knowing their community cares about them."
Thousands of dollars were donated. Two local community leaders, Yolo County Supervisor Oscar Villegas and Marty Swingle, owner of Cap West Realty teamed up for a two-tiered match challenge that resulted in $2,000 being raised.
In addition to hundreds of small individual contributions, "YCCA Children's Champs" Tim Stewart and Sierra Health Foundation each donated $2,500. Dr. Dick Huang, Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 447, and the Northern California Construction Training donated at the "Helping Hands" level of $250.
The community give-away was hosted by the Yolo County Children's Alliance in partnership with the Yolo Food Bank, First 5 Yolo, West Sacramento Foundation, St. Joseph's Mobile Mall and West Sacramento Grocery Outlet.
For more information about the event or to find out how to help with it next year, call the Yolo County Children's Alliance at 530-757-5558 or 916-572-0560.
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Want to stand up for kids? Yolo CASA needs volunteers
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER of WEST SACRAMENTO —
Yolo CASA, a nonprofit that specializes in advocating for children as they spend time in the foster care system, needs new volunteers. Training provided. Successful volunteers will spend time with the child they're paired with, talk to professionals and caregivers in that child's life, and advocate in the court system for the child's best interests.
Call (530) 661-4200 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Next training session is in the evenings, Feb. 2. Orientation is noon on Thursdays at 724 Main Street, Ste. 102 in Woodland.
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Free flu shots Saturday in West Sac
NEWS-LEDGER of WEST SACRAMENTO —
From the County of Yolo
The Yolo County Health Services Department, in partnership with the city of West Sacramento, is holding a free seasonal influenza vaccination clinic on Saturday, November 22, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at West Sacramento City Hall, located at 1110 West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento. Besides providing opportunity for residents to receive the seasonal flu vaccine, this clinic also serves as a test of the county's mass vaccination response.
The Yolo County Health Services Department also provides seasonal flu vaccine for a $10.00 administrative fee (those unable to pay for a flu vaccine will not be turned away) as part of the regularly scheduled immunization clinic held every 1st Monday, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at 500 Jefferson Blvd in West Sacramento, and every 2nd, 3rd and 4th Monday, 2:00-5:00 p.m. at 137 N. Cottonwood Street in Woodland.
The final seasonal flu vaccination clinic provided by Yolo County will be held on Wednesday, December 10, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Woodland Senior & Community Center, located at 2001 East Street in Woodland.
In addition to getting a flu shot annually, everyone should also follow these simple steps to avoid the flu:
· Wash hands often with soap and water
· Regularly clean commonly-touched surfaces, i.e. countertops, doorknobs, telephones etc.
· Don't share cups, straws or anything that goes in the mouth
· Cover nose and mouth when you cough and sneeze, and promptly discard used facial tissues
· If you are sick, stay home
Other important factors that help prevent getting sick:
· Getting enough rest and staying physically fit to help the body fight off disease
· Not smoking and reducing your exposure to secondhand smoke
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How are the Birmingham Healthy Minds teams organised?
There are three Birmingham Healthy Minds teams which cover Birmingham East and North, South and Heart of Birmingham zones. The teams – made up of support workers, psychological wellbeing practitioners, mental health practitioners, therapist and clinical psychologists – offer NICE approved psychological interventions within primary care at steps 2 to 4a of the stepped care model.
What these teams do?
Birmingham Healthy Minds focuses on supporting people's capacity to maintain their psychological resilience through directed self-learning, computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), psycho-educational groups and psychological therapies, where necessary. We accept referrals from GPs for people 16 years upwards who are experiencing a common mental health disorder, mainly around anxiety and depression.
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Results: The union rate was 100 percent, with an average time to union of 7 weeks for the delayed union group (three of eight) and 13 weeks for the nonunion group (five of eight). No statistically significant difference was found between the preoperative and postoperative radiolunate angles, scapholunate angles, and height-to-length scaphoid ratio. All patients were able to return to their preinjury employment after an average of 10 weeks.
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People are for the most part kinder. Not everyone but enough people on average that its officially part of the culture. In the same way that Brazilians are more family oriented and children are cherished.
I didn't experience any racism directly however check this out. One day two of my friends from America came to visit me. I was living in a condominium with security at the front door. The guards never let anyone in without calling my condo first. So basically my friends were downstairs telling the doorman in Portuguese that they were there to visit me. He didn't believe them. One of them had to call me on his cell phone to let me know they were downstairs.
The doorman didn't even call me to tell me that someone was downstairs so that I could at least come and see who it was. Oh yeah they were both darker complexioned than me and had dreadlocks. I guess he took one look at them and just knew they were up to something, lol. They knew my name, spoke English, and everything but he didn't even let me know they were downstairs because they were too black. (Shout out Joe and Amar!) Another funny thing is, the doorman was black!
So the complexion of my skin did have an impact on my experience in Brazil. My being American also had a huge impact on how people viewed and treated me in Brazil. Americans are perceived of as being rich. Race does not matter as much if you are American, or from another rich country like the UK.
Do not take the crime factor for granted! Seriously, I had three neighbors get robbed at gunpoint leaving the condominium. It's ridiculous. There was a poor neighborhood called Inferninho, "Little Inferno" or "Little Hell" right next to the nice buildings. It's not a joke. You have to watch yourself.
Hopefully for Brazil's future the money being spent to clean up the country in advance of the Olympics and World Cup actually goes towards improving the lives of the majority of its citizens.
|maybe it's just me but armed soldiers makes me want to stay away from the beach
Because Brazil is more than just beautiful people, beaches, Carnival, samba, and booty (threw that in to see if you were paying attention, lol). Brazil is a very complex nation, just like everywhere else, with its own advantages and drawbacks. It is very easy to fall in love with the place, especially if you are just visiting.
One can only pretend for so long though. There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to live somewhere where life is more convenient and the quality of living is higher. The water thing is serious though. I mean just because you are drinking bottled water doesn't negate the fact that you are still cooking and bathing in the unclean water coming out of the faucets. It's still soaking into your skin pores.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Alticor Inc. President Doug DeVos will speak on the topic "Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom" when he delivers Grand Valley State University's Ambassador Secchia Breakfast Lecture on April 14.
DeVos oversees daily operations of Amway's $8.2 billion company and shares the Office of the Chief Executive with chairman Steve Van Andel. DeVos has spent his career building enthusiasm for the Amway business. He has helped it grow into one of the world's most international companies, with 13,000-plus employees and more than 3 million affiliated distributors worldwide. He has also served in various leadership positions in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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Are performance figures an accurate measure of an investor's success?
Hedge fund managers live and die by their performance. Their profit and loss numbers show whether they made or lost money. But are performance figures an accurate measure of success?
Doug Hirschhorn, an author and trading psychology coach who coaches portfolio managers and principals at hedge funds, uses a sports analogy to show why looking at an outcome-based analysis of trading success can be misleading. He describes a tennis player who loses a match in three sets: 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. "If I asked you if this guy was a good tennis player, you would conclude that he wasn't. But what if I told you that his opponent was Roger Federer, and that every game had gone to deuce? Then you would rethink."
A hedge fund manager's performance figures don't show the mechanics of how he or she reached those gains or losses. A behavioural bias called the self-serving attribution bias suggests there is a tendency for managers who do well to attribute their success to their own skill, while those who trip up tend to blame external factors. The role that luck plays is underestimated. And looking at why traders have made money is just as important as looking at why they have lost money.
Clare Flynn Levy, founder and chief executive of Essentia Analytics, which has developed cloud-based software to capture performance data, said: "Performance data is not really a measure of your skill. It's a measure of an outcome. Your skill is a contributor to that outcome but so is luck. Without being able to discern between the two, you end up taking credit and blame for stuff that isn't you."
Simon Savage, co-head of European and global long/short strategies at GLG Partners, a hedge fund manager owned by Man Group, said: "The perennial challenge with financial markets is that so much is driven by a noisy data set. You might be completely right for the wrong reasons."
Improvements in technology and data analytics enable managers to dissect individual decisions so they can systematically understand their own attributes and work out where their "edge" lies. Is the trader good at running winners and cutting losers? Are the positions sized correctly? Was a trader correct for the right or wrong reasons? Was there a good outcome for the wrong reason? Often managers don't have a good grasp of why they are making money.
Hedge funds use the Sharpe ratio to show whether their outperformance is skill or luck. This ratio, which measures risk-adjusted returns, sets out to tell an investor in a hedge fund whether historical profits have been generated through accumulated smart trades or a single jackpot win – which could have been luck. But this new data analysis goes deeper because it focuses on the process and thinking behind trades. The decision matrix, taken from coaching materials at a large hedge fund, shows that this fund is looking deeper than just whether a trade made a profit.
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Data analytics can shed light on a trader's hit rate – the percentage of investments that are right or wrong – or their win/loss ratio. This is the average profit from a winner divided by the average loss from a losing position. A high number demonstrates that a manager has an innate ability to find investments with more upside than downside. Capturing data can also show whether a trader makes money from trading around positions or from a buy-and-hold strategy. It can compare the effectiveness of jumping into a position as opposed to scaling in.
Coaches encourage managers to keep an online trading notebook or diary to avoid relying on their memory, which is "amazingly inaccurate" and "dangerous to rely on", according to Savage. This has two benefits. It is an audit of decisions and within that audit, traders and coaches can look for patterns, with a view to practising more of the good things and less of the bad.
Savage said: "Now there is more evidence within the process of decision making. It's more evidence at a level at which you think skill will show itself. Outcome is completely ineffectual."
Hirschhorn said that just as a tennis player might repeatedly watch a video of their match, a trading journal forces managers to look at a replay of how they think about trading the markets, to hone in on what the trade is, why they're in it, anything that has changed, the risk/reward profile and the sizing of the trade.
Hirschhorn said: "Process is the core element. Process leads to profits." Typically managers have established conviction based on intangibles so Hirschhorn uses process to match the conviction level with the sizing.
Hirschhorn looks at the data with his clients in basis points and percentage points, rather than dollars. He said: "You have to be able to separate the money from the trading decisions because the market doesn't know if you're up or down, long or short. The market doesn't know your individual trading situation."


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The Berkeley Wire: 05.04.12
Center for Independent Living to open store on Telegraph [Daily Cal]
Snapshots of UC Berkeley in 1970 [Retronaut]
Berkeley City College appoints Harinder Singh Academic Dean [Peralta Colleges]
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MAKE SOME MUSIC – Become a performer! Have you ever wanted to jump from your seat to join the musicians of Berkeley Symphony performing on stage? On Saturday at Malcolm X Elementary School you'll have your chance! The Berkeley Symphony is hosting an open–call to the community to perform alongside musicians of Berkeley Symphony. Open to instrumentalists and singers alike.
WORDS WORDS WORDS – The 10th Annual Poetry Festival brings together dozens of poets and artists in a daylong celebration of the arts. Held at Berkeley City College at 2050 Center St., the festival this year will honor poet Clive Matson with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Art from the BCC Digital Arts Club will also be on sale. Noon to 4:30 pm. … Continue reading »
Gay Austin, educator of Berkeley preschoolers
On the morning of April 15, Gay Austin passed away one month short of her 94th year. Born in Munich, Gay fled Nazi Germany at the age of seventeen for England where she entered a London training program in early childhood education at the North Hampstead Day Nursery.
In 1937 she arrived in America to join family members in Des Moines, Iowa and then moved to St. Louis, Missouri where she taught at Washington University's Lab Preschool. Two years later she returned to Des Moines to marry Kurt M. Austin, the young man she had known and loved as a young woman in Munich who had also made his way to America. In 1945 Gay, Kurt and their two children Michael and Ruth moved to northern California.
A year later she started the Gay Austin Nursery School in her home with Michael in her first group of children. In 1957 she and Kurt were able to purchase and renovate a dentist's office on Hopkins Street in Berkeley as the school's new home where it remains to this day. … Continue reading »
Berkeley Art Museum's architect talks
By Preeti Talwai
"Our work started out of a museum wall," said architect Elizabeth Diller on April 18, beginning the last lecture in the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design's spring series. Addressing an audience that ran the gamut from students to experienced professionals in the field, she spoke that evening of her multifaceted work, including our very own new Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
Leapfrogging across the world with a variety of highly acclaimed projects, ranging from installations to museums, Diller – and her collaborators at their New York based firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro – have now landed in our own backyard with their design for the new Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives. The evening's whirlwind survey of their multifaceted projects – which Diller summarized as "we just do a lot of different things" – shed light on and contextualized the project that is planned as a significant part of downtown Berkeley's revival.
The BAM/PFA project is planned as a significant part of downtown Berkeley's revival. The 82,000 sq ft space to be nestled between Center, Oxford, and Addison streets, is an example of the rejuvenation and occupation of existing sites that Diller states is "an important sustainable way to think." Its $100 million design embraces the existing Art-Deco style printing plant, an "industrial shed", and a new structure. … Continue reading »
Could UC and Occupy the Farm compromise on Gill Tract?
Stranger things have happened: Maybe six months down the track a crop of winter greens will occupy a stretch of land on San Pablo Avenue along the Berkeley-Albany border known as Gill Tract, site of a nearly two week standoff between the University of California, Berkeley and Occupy the Farm.
And everyone in this growing controversy might be happy. The saga over an often overlooked but special patch of earth began, aptly, on Earth Day. Now, both sides in this brouhaha in the normally quiet enclave of Albany appear to be making noises about having "meaningful dialogue" to facilitate a resolution that could include "shared custody" — though the situation resembles more of a spurned suitor (urban ag activists argue the university has repeatedly ignored requests to use this land for farming) than a marriage gone bad.
At stake: UC-owned land on the last parcel of Class 1 soil (considered the best for growing food) left in the East Bay that, except for a few months every summer when it's used for corn research, lies largely vacant — aside from a proliferation of wild mustard, wind-carried trash, (often fast food wrappers), and, reportedly, the odd hypodermic needle.
Indeed, a private meeting between Cal representatives, Occupy the Farm advocates, and attorneys for both sides was slated for Thursday night at an undisclosed location to dig into their differences and come to a compromise over the 15-acre plot, the remaining remnant of a 104-acre area that UC Berkeley bought for $400,000
bequeathed to UC Berkeley in 1928. It is named for the family that once owned he land.(No settlement was reached, UC spokesman Dan Mogulof said at 9:20 am) … Continue reading »
Police blotter: Recent crime in Berkeley
April 27:
Armed Robbery, Gayley Road, # 12-02229
On Friday, April 27, 2012 at approximately 11:00 p.m. an armed robbery occurred on Gayley Road just south of Hearst Avenue. The victim, a 20 year old male UC student, was walking towards the Foothill Dining Hall when he was approached by a male. The male asked to use the victim's cell phone and then attempted to grab the phone. The victim refused to let go of the phone. The victim was struggling with the suspect #1 when a vehicle pulled up. Suspect # 2 exited the vehicle and approached the victim. Suspect #2 was holding a handgun and yelled at the victim to give up his cell phone. The victim refused to release his phone and suspect #2 reached into the victim's pocket and took his wallet. Suspect #1 released the cell phone and both suspects got into the vehicle. The vehicle fled southbound on Gayley Road. The victim was not injured during the encounter. BPD and UCPD searched the area but were unable to locate the suspects or the vehicle. The suspects are described as: Suspect #1 – A Black male, 28-32 years of age, 6' in height, 200 lbs., bald with brown eyes, wearing a black sweatshirt with a front pocket, and long light colored shorts. Suspect #2 – A Black male, 28-35 years of age, 5'10" in height, 190 lbs., armed with a semi-automatic handgun. Suspect #3 – A White male, 22-25 years of age (driver of the vehicle). Suspect Vehicle – Light colored (possibly white, silver or gray) older four door sedan with a dark colored pinstripe. … Continue reading »


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Singing is the inner dance of the soul's imagination partnered with the body. It is a pathway to expressing your joy, courage, love and sorrows.
If you've always wanted to sing but just haven't had the right opportunity, your time has come! This class will provide a safe and fun platform for you to discover your voice and sing with confidence and joy. At each session you will learn vocal exercises used by the pros to enhance and strengthen your vocal range and flexibility. Breath work training will increase your connection to your body's energy and help you learn to relax while singing. We will explore a variety of musical styles and engage in the joyful activity of group singing through tonal sounds and the use of harmonies.
Rhythm practice is equally vital to the art of singing. In this workshop, you will also have a unique opportunity to find your groove and sing to the beats of African and South American drums played by percussionist Ian Dogole.
This is going to be a super fun ride, so join us, find your voice and fly!
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Enjoy a special evening of original compositions and fresh interpretations of well-known songs from the jazz, rock and pop traditions that will open your heart and bring joy to your soul. Vocalist/guitarist Deborah Winters has been described by legendary Jazz writer Herb Wong as "a proponent of elasticity and daring that reflects the seductive logic and artistry of jazz." She will be accompanied by internationally acclaimed global percussionist, recording artist and educator Ian Dogole and virtuoso jazz guitarist, composer and educator Rick Vandevier. In the magical setting at Rancho La Puerta, these three San Francisco Bay Area-based musicians will spin musical tales and cast a warm glow over all who share in this intimate musical journey. And don't be surprised if a few attendees from Deborah's "Singing from the Beat of the Heart" workshop make a guest appearance on-stage with the ensemble!
A lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Deborah Winters' childhood was immersed in music and dance. Heavily influenced by her father, who pursued the drums as a young man, and by her mother, who was a professional ballet dancer for the Oakland Metropolitan Ballet Company, Deborah developed a passion for music, dance and the theatre at a very early age. Big Band sounds rang through the household where Deborah and her father listened to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, to name a few. During her adolescent years, while moving around the country with her family, Deborah commenced her study of voice and the guitar. Deborah became increasingly influenced by singer/songwriters such as James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Rickie Lee Jones. As an acting/theatre major in college, Deborah sought to combine her love of music, dance and art through the stage as a musical actress. However, her ongoing desire to sing and play the guitar in intimate settings kept pulling at her heartstrings. This led to Deborah playing clubs and finding her way into the studio to record a few of her own compositions before graduating.
As her musical palate expanded to include jazz standards and contemporary musical forms, Deborah began to perform in San Francisco and establish musical alliances with some of the Bay area's most highly acclaimed performers.
In 2003, Deborah released her debut recording, live "in session" on her Pure Passion Productions label, featuring an all-star cast of Bay area musicians. The CD offers an exquisite program of Deborah's spirited and stirring original compositions, along with a few chestnuts such as "In a Sentimental Mood," "You Send Me," and "Fields of Gold." 2009 witnessed the release of Deborah's second CD, Inspired, again on her Pure Passion Productions label. Produced and arranged by award-winning producer / arranger / pianist / vocalist Gary Malkin, this project elegantly portrays Deborah's more introspective side, with heartfelt original compositions and a gorgeous rendition of world-renowned pianist/arranger/composer Dave Grusin's "What Matters Most."
On her soon-to-be released CD, Lovers After All, for the Jazzed Media label, Deborah joined forces with trumpeter/arranger/producer Peter Welker and a stellar cast of Jazz luminaries from San Francisco, New York, Boston and LA. This lofty big-band excursion traverses the vast expanse of jazz history – from the 40s to the present – from some of the best-loved standards to rarely heard gems. In choosing the songs in this recording, Deborah and Peter sought out jazz composers whose pieces provided the ideal platform to showcase her extraordinary versatility and her trademark feeling of intimacy.
Variety and versatility characterize Deborah's ongoing performance schedule. From straight-ahead jazz to inspirational to folk and rock, Deborah continues to dazzle and uplift her audiences at Bay Area music festivals, concert halls, churches and house concerts. Her jam-packed teaching schedule attests to the profound impact she has on developing up-and-coming vocalists in a broad array of musical styles.
Deborah Winters' perpetual search for new ways to express her highly captivating and emotionally riveting music are always front and center in her evolution as a singer, guitarist and songwriter. Her legions of fans are in for a treat as her quest continues.
For over 30 years, Ian Dogole has articulated his vision of Global Fusion Music as a multipercussionist, bandleader, educator, recording artist, composer and producer. He has released seven records and a DVD as a leader – Along the Route, Dangerous Ground, Ionospheres, Night Harvest, Convergence, Crossroads, Outside the Box – Jazz Journeys & Worlds Beyond and Ian Dogole & Hemispheres In Concert (DVD). Ian has recorded and performed with artists such as Hamza el Din, Tito La Rosa, Richie Cole, Paul McCandless and Alex de Grassi. He performs on a wide variety of percussion instruments, including udu, cajon, hang, African talking drum, kalimbas, cymbals and dumbek. Ian has received numerous grants, including a Jazz Performance Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two recent grants from the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (SFFCM) to present musical tribute concerts in honor of jazz legends Woody Shaw and Wayne Shorter, and multiple grants from the Marin Arts Council. Ian is very active as a music educator – having presented assemblies to more than 60,000 elementary school students in his four seasons with the San Francisco Symphony's Adventures in Music program and he has just completed his third season presenting a global world music appreciation series to students at Redwood High School in Larkspur, CA. Ian has also offered his music education programs through numerous nonprofit organizations, including Bread & Roses, Young Imaginations, Youth in Arts and Young Audiences of the Bay Area. On the web www.iandogole.com
Born in Lima, Ohio, Rick Vandivier is a graduate of the Berklee School of Music in Boston and San Jose State University. In addition to private studies with Pat Metheny and Mick Goodrick, Mr. Vandivier has taken master classes with Christopher Parkening, Ray de la Torre, Michael Lorimer, Michael Hedges, Tuck Andress and Manuel Barreuco. Other artists Rick has performed with include Smith Dobson, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Bruce Forman, John Handy, Mose Allison, Carl Saunders, David Grisman, Richie Cole and Dr. Lonnie Smith. Rick has also worked with the San Jose Symphony Orchestra, and the orchestras of the American Musical Theater of San Jose, Opera San Jose, and Theaterworks. Rick's performing career has been highlighted by performances in: The Hague, Berlin, Abidjan (Ivory Coast, Africa), the Chicago Opera House, the Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles, the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, the Great American Music Hall and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Seattle Opera House and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall, both in New York City. In addition to his performing career, Rick has been active as a teacher at Stanford University, San Jose State University, and at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA. Rick is a composer for video soundtracks for clients such as Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and SyberVision Systems. A devoted husband and father, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Kristi, and their sons, Preston and Kai.


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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players".
As the curtains of Waitangi Day rise and the sets of Te Tii Marae and the flagpole are polished up - the spotlight shines on Northland this week.
Beds have been booked and buses have been filled. Halftime refreshments are in abundance. The media critics have descended - poised for action.
With hours until the main show, who will be our leading lady?
Maori activist Titewhai Harawira is adamant that she will escort Prime Minister John Key on to Te Tii Marae tomorrow.
Yet, some of Te Tii Marae trustees, including Ngapuhi elder Kingi Taurua, believe it's time for Mrs Harawira to take a bow and leave the stage.
Mana is a funny old thing - from what I hear. I always thought the main characteristics were humility and wisdom. The beholder of mana is surely someone with grace and a sense of propriety.
The Irish writer John O'Donohue describes humility - "And may you come to see your life as a quiet sacrament of service".
The role of escorting the Prime Minister onto the marae is surely a "quiet sacrament of service". But there is nothing quiet about the Harawira matriarch and grandmother of Waitangi Day's most disruptive protesters.
Ngapuhi's David Rankin now calls it "cultural chaos". Kingi Taurua wants Mrs Harawira out to make way for kuia who get their hands dirty through silent service throughout the year.
Hopefully, there will not be violence at this year's Waitangi Day as a result of Mrs Harawira. If there is, perhaps we should remember that hers is one short part of many acts in this theatrical Northland event.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances."
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Justin Ritcey knows a little something about pressure.
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Justin Ritcey of the Halifax McDonald's make a save against the Moose Jaw Generals on Monday evening at Mosaic Place during Telus Cup.
He was the star for the Halifax McDonald's after facing 40 shots by the Moose Jaw Generals on Monday night and was definitely the difference maker in a 2-2 tie between the teams at the Telus Cup.
"A little bit (tired) … a lot of shots, but it was all good," said Ritcey still in his gear after the game.
The Macs had a two-goal lead heading into the third period, but the Generals held Halifax to just one shot in the final frame, resulting in two goals and earning a point in the standings.
"I think we had a little bit of confidence in the room, but you can't be too confident with a two goal lead because that is the worst lead in hockey. As you saw, they scored two quick ones that changed the momentum," said Ritcey. "Next time, we should be more confident and focused in the room so we can come out better in the third."
This isn't the first time that Ritcey has played with this much pressure on his shoulders either. Last year, he was between the creases for the Valley Wildcats at the Telus Cup in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
"I knew more than the guys in the room about what to expect coming out against the host team," said Ritcey. "They have the crowd on their side, so it helped that we had a goal there early and quieted the crowd so they didn't get any momentum."
Although the Wildcats went winless at the tournament last year, it was a great learning experience for 17-year-old.
"It helped me out a lot. I knew what to expect coming in, so I didn't have too many nerves. I had a few of course, but the boys played pretty good in the first period and I helped them out," said Ritcey. "Last year, I didn't have my best tournament, so I wanted to come out this year and make a statement because last year wasn't my greatest."
Ritcey went 15-3 this season for the Macs, where he posted a 2.31 goals against average with one shutout.
The Macs will take the point, but now turn their focus to the Toronto Young Nationals team. Both teams will be looking for their first victory of the tournament this afternoon (4 p.m., Mosaic Place).
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Professors at GSC featured in publications
GLENVILLE – Two professors from Glenville State College – Tara Cosco, assistant professor of special education, and Shelly Ratliff, assistant professor of education – were featured recently in national publications.
Cosco added an article in the New Teacher Advocate magazine to her accomplishments. She wrote the piece for new teachers beginning their careers.
"It is an honor to be part of the New Teacher Advocate Summer 2013 publication. I hope that new teachers will be able to learn strategies that will make their first year a success," Cosco said. "The article, 'Tips for New Teachers,' also provides the website address to my webinar for additional suggestions to create a positive learning environment for all students. Having quality teachers is critical to the success of our future and teaching is my passion. I enjoy sharing my experiences and lessons with others and encourage all teachers to continue learning and improving their skills," she said.
There are four main objectives that Cosco states to be most crucial to be successful in the first few years of teaching. She said teachers should set their own expectations high along with their students. Cosco also encourages them to always be organized and use time efficiently because every second counts. Her article said morning routines are another important factor because it gives the students a few minutes to get organized. Cosco's last main objective is consistency, adding that educators should set rules and enforce those rules.
Cosco has 13 years of teaching experience and five of those are at Glenville. She received her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Fairmont State University and a master's degree in special education from West Virginia University. Cosco is currently working on her doctorate in technology, and e-learning from North Central University.
Cosco is a native of Shinnston, W.Va., residing in Glenville. Cosco's book "Follow Your Dream: Become a Teacher" was published in 2012 and can be purchased at the Glenville State College bookstore.
Ratliff had the honor of appearing on the cover of a recent issue of The Reading Professor. The cover photo of the winter 2012 issue shows Ratliff with her husband Jon and their 4-year-old daughter Brooklyn.
The publication's editor also wrote about Ratliff and her family. The Reading Professor is a magazine read by educators all over the world.
"It is an honor to be asked to have my family featured on the cover of an international publication. I was asked by a Marshall University professor, where I am earning my doctorate, if we would submit a picture," Ratliff said. "This particular edition focused on the importance of family involvement in reading with children. Our 4-year-old especially enjoyed seeing herself on the cover." said
Ratliff is a 2002 graduate of Glenville State College and earned a bachelor's degree in education and a specialty in English education, elementary education, and early education. She received her master's degree from Marshall University with a focus in reading. She is pursuing her Doctorate from Marshall University with a specialty in curriculum and instruction emphasizing in literacy. Ratliff, who resides in Glenville with her family, is working on her dissertation.


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If you were saving the several million dollars needed to purchase a 3D television, and you finally picked one up, boy do I have bad news for you: According to a Japanese publication, Toshiba is set to release three different 3D TVs that don't require glasses. The sets will be available by the end of the year.
The first of the TVs will apparently feature a 21-inch display, and will cost several thousand dollars. The sets will use technology similar to the Nintendo 3DS, but with, apparently, a key difference. To put it in technical terms:
"The integral imaging system offers a significant reduction in eye fatigue during long periods of viewing, and features a multi-parallax[1] design that enables motion parallax, which cannot be achieved by systems using glasses. The multi-parallax approach results in images that change depending on the viewer's position. In addition, the viewing angle is wide, and the resulting stereoscopic image is natural and smooth. In some previous integral imaging implementations, there have been issues raised relating to the loss of effective image resolution. In previous implementations, if the number of pixels in the display is kept constant and not increased, then the multi-parallax approach will reduce the effective resolution of the 3D display in an inverse proportion to the number of parallax positions. We have addressed this problem by applying LTPS (low-temperature poly-silicon) technology to develop an ultra-high-definition LCD module for this newly-introduced high-definition and large-screen 3D display.
Where the DS is designed for one person looking at it from a specific angle, Toshiba's idea is to create a 3D viewing surface with no "sweet spot." In other words, you won't have to be viewing the image from a particular location to get the 3D effect.
This is not confirmed or anything. A Toshiba spokeswoman said: "We are not in a position to make any announcement."
It does raise an interesting question: There are several unique and incompatible "systems" for viewing 3D television. If the thing takes off, a segment or early adopters are really going to be left in the dust here, eh, people?
Are you backing a particular 3D horse yet?
Source: Gizmodo