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Fed Up with Feds
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Menu madness: Misnaming fish in restaurants makes me crazy ["Fish Fraud," by Robb Walsh, November 1]! It's especially bad here in Arizona, which I admit is not the best place to order anything that lives in water. My mom was from Arkansas, and I know a catfish when I'm not eating it, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for a great story.
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Families brought children with spina bifida to the hospital for medicine and were instead given placebos (without their knowledge or consent). The purpose of the research was to develop a "formula" by which the medical community could decide who was worth treating. It was assumed that poor minority families were incapable of dealing with the challenges of raising a disabled child, and those children were the ones given placebos. There was a class action suit on it that went to the Supreme Court around 1990 and lost at that level for technical reasons.
As nauseating as these stories are, we must not let them be covered up or forgotten, or we will continue to repeat the same mistakes.
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It would be interesting to know how many hundreds of thousands of dollars these "pulpit pimps" take in during the course of each election year, while the gutless, complacent suburban ministers say and do nothing because of their fear of losing their tax-exempt status and/or funding from their "politically correct" members.
Could it be that the liberal ACLU is in bed with the liberal pulpit pimps? Surely not!
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1.1 Introduction
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2.1 Introduction
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4.2.3 Pacific Controls
4.2.4 Schneider Electric
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4.3.6 Optimum Energy
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5.4.2 Government/Defense
5.4.3 Retail
5.4.4 Hospitality
5.4.5 Healthcare
5.4.6 Education
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5.5.1 North America
5.5.2 Europe
5.5.3 Asia Pacific
5.5.4 Rest of World
5.6 Conclusions and Recommendations
6. Company Directory
7. Acronym and Abbreviation List
8. Table of Contents
9. Table of Charts and Figures
10. Scope of Study, Sources and Methodology, Notes
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- Total Commercial Building Automation Revenue by Segment, World Markets: 2015-2024
- BEMS Revenue by Region, World Markets: 2015-2024
- Market Share of BEMS Revenue by Offering Type, World Markets: 2015
- Market Share of BEMS Revenue by Customer Type, World Markets: 2015
- BEMS Revenue by Offering Type, North America: 2015-2024
- BEMS Revenue by Offering Type, Europe: 2015-2024
- BEMS Revenue by Offering Type, Asia Pacific: 2015-2024
- BEMS Revenue by Offering Type, Rest of World: 2015-2024
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- BEMS Revenue by Offering Type, Europe: 2015-2024
- BEMS Revenue by Offering Type, Asia Pacific: 2015-2024
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- BEMS Revenue by Customer Type, Asia Pacific: 2015-2024
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- Representative Utility BEMS Projects and Offerings, United States
- Honeywell SWOT Analysis
- Johnson Controls SWOT Analysis
- Pacific Controls SWOT Analysis
- Schneider Electric SWOT Analysis
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The process was unlawful and in breach of his gambling licence contract, Judge Ryan said.
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The fact the money was taken by the Albion's receivers to pay a bigger debt didn't absolve him, she said.
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In sentencing McGurk, Judge Ryan said any reparation was impossible as he had been declared bankrupt and had no assets. Although he had a meagre income stream, it was not significant enough to impose any reparation, Judge Ryan said.
She instead sentenced him to five months' home detention and 100 hours' community work.
McGurk declined to comment when approached outside court.
The former rich-lister founded the Spa and Pool Factory and previously owned a string of pubs.
At the height of his success, his personal wealth was estimated at $60 million by the NBR Rich List.


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* Member At Large, Stuart A. Aust, Bug Doctor/Bird Doctor/Animal Doctor.
* Treasurer, Joe Kosakowski, Wildlife Control Specialists LLC
The Chapter board of Governors held their first board meeting on January 22, 2010 at the corporate headquarters of Bird Doctor inc. in Paramus NJ.
Numerous topics were discussed including NWCOA bylaws and policies, NJ state wildlife control regulations, committee appointments, general meeting schedule and considerations for training and fund raising events.
The following officers were assigned the to chair the following committees;
Kirk La Pierre, training and events / Frank Spiecker, state wildlife regulations and web site / Joe Kosakowski, fund raising / Stuart Aust, pest control industry liaison


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Samsung's 2Q profit record high but below forecast
Samsung Electronics reported a record-high profit for six straight quarters but still disappointed investors who had higher expectations for the world's largest smartphone maker.
Samsung said Friday its April-June net profit jumped 50 percent over a year earlier to 7.77 trillion won ($6.9 billion).
The bottom line was lower than the market forecast of 7.96 trillion won, according to a survey of analysts by FactSet.
Operating profit was also at a record high of 9.53 trillion won, up 48 percent. Sales rose 21 percent to 57.46 trillion won.
Samsung's latest quarterly report indicates that its explosive profit growth driven by Galaxy smartphone sales may be slowing down. Samsung says its mobile business posted a lower profit compared with the previous quarter on marketing costs.
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Concert review: The Rolling Stones at the Barclays Center
The world's biggest upper lip disgorged the world's longest-running major rock act Saturday, as the Rolling Stones took the stage -- and what a stage.
Fans who packed Brooklyn's new Barclays Center were confronted by a gaping mouth, maybe 40 feet across. From it protruded a big lolling tongue - the runway. This was the stage set for The Rolling Stones "50 & Counting" tour. And it afforded one of the most intimate looks at the Stones in performance you're likely to get -- even if, contrary to expectations, they don't decide to call it quits after this half-century anniversary tour, which also brings them to Newark's Prudential Center on Dec. 13 and 15.
The Stones are always something to see. They may be the best stadium act ever. But it's a whole 'nother thing to see them perform in a 19,000 seat arena, and be close enough to catch every skip and strut of Mick Jagger, and all the byplay between him and band mates Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts (you can also see every crevasse in their gnarled faces, but that's another story).
The Stones came on like heroes. True, they didn't get a 21-gun salute, and maidens didn't strew their way with flowers. But they got the next best thing: A thundering drum battalion, and a corps of gyrating women in black Spandex that made their way through the audience and revved the excitement to almost fever-pitch. Then the stage lights suddenly came up, and there were The Stones: victorious as Julius Caesar as they launched into "Get Off of My Cloud" and "I Wanna Be Your Man."
"Thank you very much," Jagger said, during one of the few moments where the show allowed him to catch his breath. "People say, why do you keep doing this?. . .The answer is, you're the reason we keep doing this."
It was, of course, a greatest hits show - the difference being that The Stones, unlike most bands, have a 50-year supply of greatest hits. They didn't even get to some of the most famous, like "Ruby Tuesday" and "Dead Flowers."
But there was still plenty of great music-making: including an epic "Gimme Shelter" duet that paired Jagger with guest artist Mary J. Blige, a one-after-the-other blitzkrieg of great guitar solos on "I'm Going Down" (Wood and Richards, plus another fantastic guest artist, Gary Clark Jr.), and a rendition of "Midnight Rambler" that had Jagger in dance overdrive, skipping around like a crazed schoolgirl. Two new tunes - "Doom and Gloom" and "One More Shot" - mixed seamlessly with the old ones.
"Honky Tonk Women" always brings out the creative in the Stones. In the "Steel Wheels" tour, the song was the cue to send three-story-high inflatable cuties billowing up over the stage. This time around, we were treated to a rear-projected movie: a giant lady, atop a building, swatting at biplanes. They are manned - if that's the word - by apes.
The evening climaxed - predictably, satisfyingly - with "Sympathy for the Devil," "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (with full choir), and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
Then the inevitable cherry on the sundae: "Satisfaction." Which is - without question - what this audience got. As the classic vocal group The Coasters once put it, back in the Fifties: "Baby, That is Rock and Roll."
Saturday Night Set List:
1. "Get Off of My Cloud"
2. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
3. "The Last Time"
4. "Paint it Black"
5. "Gimme Shelter"
6. "Wild Horses"
7. "I'm Going Down"
8. "All Down The Line"
9. "Miss You"
10. "One More Shot"
11. "Doom and Gloom"
12. "It's Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)"
13. "Honky Tonk Women"
14. "Before they Make Me Run"
15. "Happy"
16. "Midnight Rambler"
17. "Start Me Up"
18. "Tumbling Dice"
19. "Brown Sugar"
20. "Sympathy for the Devil"
21. "You Can't Always Get What you Want"
22. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
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A disabled 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped on Friday in West Bengal's Murshidabad ditrict. The son of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) couple was arrested in connection to the incident.
Majdar Sheikh alias Babu Sheikh, 26, allegedly took the girl to a jute field and raped her while she was returning from school. The incident took place at Balidear village, about 60km from Berhampore.
Sheikh's father is the TMC general secretary of Raninagar block 2 while his stepmother Rabia Bibi is its working president. She is also contesting the rural polls from Raninagar gram panchayat 2.
After returning home, the girl narrated the incident to her family. Her parents then lodged a complaint with the police. "Based on the complaint, we arrested Sheikh," Murshidabad superintendent of police Humayun Kabir said.
Sheikh, however, claimed he was impotent and couldn't rape anybody. He told the police that both his wives left him because of that reason.
"Sheikh's parents have nothing to do with the rape case," TMC district president MD Ali said.
In another incident, a monk was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in Nadia and then eloping with her.
Rabindranath Mondal, 48, of Taherpur rail gate area ran fled with the girl on Tuesday. Police arrested him from Dhantala on Thursday and rescued the girl after her father, Samir Saha, lodged a complaint.


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DA: 15-Year-Old Girl's Pimp Faces Prison
A Rosedale man was indicted this week for allegedly pimping a 15-year-old girl in Rockaway and other areas of Queens, according to District Attorney Richard A. Brown.
Brown said Clifford Augustin, 19, of 138-05 Caney Lane, Rosedale exploited the girl by pimping her to "scores of male customers" in Rockaway, Jamaica and Queens Plaza South.
Authorities say the girl charged between $50 and $100 to perform sex acts, and turned at least two or three tricks a night for about three weeks.
Augustin, who allegedly recruited the girl from the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, is charged with multiple counts of second degree promoting prostitution, endangering the welfare of a child and conspiracy in the fifth degree.
In August of 2003, authorities say, Augustin approached the girl and her sister in a clothing store at the mall and told them that they could make a fortune as prostitutes. He later got in touch with the girl, whose name is being withheld, and taught her how to pick up men and lie about her age. She worked as a prostitute from September 12 to October 8, making nearly $5,000.
A law enforcement source said the grand jury heard testimony about Rockaway locations where the girl traded sex for cash, but could not be more specific.
Detectives and officers from the NYPD's Vice Enforcement Division put an end to the alleged operation in early February after Augustin was arrested and charged with fourth degree criminal weapons possession after a street altercation in the Queens Plaza area, Brown said. Detectives recovered motel receipts, a motel key, condoms and more than $600 in cash.
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Beach Channel forward Marlon Velasquez had only four shots on Far Rockaway goalkeeper Enrique Avila in last Tuesday's PSAL 'B 'contest between the two peninsula high schools.
But the senior knows that it's not the amount of shots directed at the goal, its how many goes into the net. Velasquez was a perfect 4 for 4 in shot attempts and the number of goals scored as Beach Channel (6-0-2) overpowered Far Rockaway (2-5-0) at home, 4-0.
Velasquez netted two goals in the first half and his third of the game brought loud cheers from the sidelines, especially from team manager Osei Akoto. The excitement came in the tenth minute of the second half when Velasquez received a long 40-yard pass from teammate Dustin Lara. The senior received the ball, dribbled once and coolly placed a right footed shot into the net for a 3-0 lead.
"They just give me the ball and I'll score. I trust them and they trust me," Velasquez said. "When we work together, we play good."
Dolphins GK Alpha Dia stopped his second penalty kick of the year on a right footed smash attempt by Seahorses' Abdulhakim Saleh in the second half. Head coach Dominic Stanco says home cooking is a huge factor for his team's success.
The Dolphins have not lost a regular season or playoff home game in 25 contests since a 1-0 loss on October 12, 2004 to John Adams.
"My defense played outstanding," Stanco said. "The confidence was there, they were relaxed, poised and we played good soccer."
Velasquez says he enjoys scoring goals but the senior is really focused on trying to help his team form into a strong and cohesive unit.
Beach Channel is fighting for first place in the division with John Adams and every win gets him one step closer to getting to a championship that he craves.
"A good player doesn't just score, he does everything. That's what makes a good player. You can score five goals and still get a loss," Velasquez said. "We wouldn't get the 'W' (win). We want the 'W'.
Three games this week against Franklin K. Lane, Far Rockaway and a pivotal division deciding game at John Adams next Friday will determine if Beach Channel is ready for the challenge.
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Far Rockaway defeated August Martin, 25-17, 25-17 as the Seahorses improved to 4-0 and leads the Queens '10B' Division. August Martin (3-1) and Beach Channel (2-2) are in second and third place respectively.
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He was man the late Princess Diana called "Mr Wonderful" and is regarded by many as the love of her life. Now, twelve years after her death, surgeon Hasnat Khan appears to have found happiness again.
At a fundraising for children's heart charity last week, the normally shy Mr Khan happily posed for photos and appeared 'very tactile' with his date – colleague Alexandra Panagoulos.
The Pakistani-born heart surgeon, who works at Basildon Hospital in Essex, never wanted to talk about his relationship with Princess Diana, although Diana had told friends she wanted to marry him and even convert to Islam. Their affair began when they met at London's Royal Brompton Hospital, and lasted 2 years, continuing until a few months before her death. Some even believe she only hooked up with Dodi Al Fayed to make him jealous. Since then, Mr. Khan had gone on to marry Hadia Sher Ali in May 2006, but the couple divorced a short while later.
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Twitter in the Office: Fast, Aware, Open Teams
So I broke down and tried it. Yes, it's true, I twitter. For most people, that sounds like something a 12 year old girl does when a cute boy walks by but it's really not. It basically is like an away message, it allows people who "follow" me to see what I am doing or working on at any given time. On a personal level, it's a great tool for communicating my ideas, promoting blog posts and sharing information. Anyone who reads my twitter (or my Facebook and IM status now that they are all synced) knows that it is far from 12 year old twitterpaintedness but still, is it really viable as a business tool?I would argue that it is, for three reasons.
Status Updates
Every Monday, I start the day by putting together a status report PowerPoint of what I did the last week and what I plan to complete during the upcoming week as part of the project I am running. It's used by management to track projects and also has areas for escalations and deadlines. It is only sent to my manager and one other person and never to the team I work with (as they aren't interested and it clutters inboxes). What would happen if the milestones I reached were immediately convey as I completed them with a simple "tweet":
#milestonecomplete Design Phase complete
Immediately new milestones could be set with a "#milestonestarted" tag (# denotes a tag) and all progress could be monitored by sorting on those tags. Our new product introduction cycles are constantly decreasing, becoming more integrated and agile, why should our status reporting remain an old fashioned batch process?
Team Awareness
Every day companies strive to be more integrated and more cohesive. How can we continue to to have highly networked teams that respond quickly to each other when our inboxes continue to swell with CCs and instant messages tend to flow only between two parties. Twitter is the perfect application that fits right in between those modes of communication. Team members who all use twitter (and use the status reporting method described above) would all be aware of the progress made by their coworkers.
Just as many bloggers use the tool to reach out to each other with questions like "Do you know of a PC twitter client?" and quick replies of "@bhenak TwitBox" (@ denotes a reply to someone else's tweet), employees could converse about anything from document locations to acronyms. As a transparent team they could work quicker as a more cohesive group and less of a disjointed unit lobbing emails in CC fashion over cube walls.
Information Accessibility
So now the team is using a shared communications system residing right on their desktops, actively updating each other on their status, and querying the group in an ad hoc manner with any dilemmas. As they go through their work, twitter is building a historical archive of their interactions and answers that can be search by current or future employees thus preserving the knowledge gained that might have been lost and deleted out of someone's "Old CCs" Outlook folder.
Bottom line: Twitter could enable teams, centralized or globally distributed, to quickly relay status, share information and build a concise, historical and reusable knowledgebase.
Update: Here is one Twitter naysayer and one other positive opinion on Twitter in the workplace.
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According to IAFD, one of her first appearances was in "Dirty Debutantes", Vol. 37, with Ed Powers. In that video, she says she came up with the name Anna Malle on her own to describe her sexual style. She was very well received by fans and critics, mainly for the energy and enthusiasm that she put into every performance.
She also appeared in some Max Hardcore productions. According to IAFD, she performed in over 351 films, frequently with her husband, Hank Armstrong, as co-star. Of those films, she has a directorial credit in five of them in addition to performing in them. While Anna performed a variety of scenes, her most popular scenes involved lesbianism and anal sex.
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Three police officers resign after forcing man to eat marijuana
Phoenix Police Chief Joseph Yahner said, "Their actions are appalling and unacceptable. This conduct is against everything that we stand for"
Phoenix Police Chief Joseph Yahner said, "Their actions are appalling and unacceptable. This conduct is against everything that we stand for"
Sex assault case a nightmare for my family, says former IMF chief
The Andregg brothers might have the cure for all our illnesses in their grasp. But how do a pair of penniless science nerds raise the millions needed to unlock the very fabric of our DNA? Dream big - and get lucky...
Hal Hodson explains why a good heart is hard to find
Though he had worked as a stand-up comedian, as a dealer in antiquarian prints and paintings, and as a writer and publisher, Simon Bond was best known as a cartoonist and illustrator, notably creating the international bestseller, 101 Uses of a Dead Cat.
Double world junior champion Jack Laugher hopes he can one day enjoy his time in the spotlight currently occupied by Tom Daley after an eighth-placed finish in the 3 metre springboard final on his World Championships debut yesterday that belied his 16 years.
You could be forgiven for thinking it's summer.
Hispanics are the fastest growing minority in the US – and a new group wants to get them in the voting spirit
The accidental death of a cobra-lover has highlighted the strange passion some feel for serpents. Michael Bywater tries to explain
It's a big year for the Reading and Leeds Festivals. Not only is it 50 years this summer since Harold Pendleton, founder of the Marquee Club in London, launched the events' precursor, the National Jazz Festival, but it's also the 40th anniversary of the Reading site's initiation. To celebrate four decades of revelry at Richfield Avenue we've taken a look back at some of the defining moments of this most beloved of festivals.
She came late to acting – and the brilliant performance she gives in the hit film comedy 'Bridesmaids' suggests that this might just have been her best career move
Jerome Taylor tracked down one of Britain's most feared hackers to find out what motivates this new criminal underworld
<b>Simon Turnbull</b>: On the YouTube section of Roald Bradstock's website, you can see a clip of him throwing in the Olympic javelin final in Los Angeles in 1984.
In this image-saturated age, you can believe you've seen a place before you have actually seen it.
Death Cab for Cutie's downbeat last album made No 1 in the US. But, for their follow-up, they have moved on from indie guitars and slowcore melancholy, they tell Gillian Orr


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Calling for a re-examination of all laws that empower government to interfere in markets, the Economic Survey today said regulators should be given only "limited powers".
"The biggest challenge today is improving state capacity suitable for a market-based economy. A long term, careful and systematic effort is required for undertaking institutional change," the government said.
As per the Economic Survey 2013-14 tabled in the Parliament today, in 1960s and 1970s, a series of laws were enacted that increased the role of government in the functioning of both product and factor markets.
"...Today, the situation is one of an awkward juxtaposition of over-intervention in some respects and inadequate state participation in others," it noted.
Stating that the agenda of removing inappropriate government interventions is far from complete, the government said it was also important to also focus on the second generation of reforms.
"There is need to re-examine all laws that empower the government to interfere in markets... Laws need to clearly define the objectives of regulation and give limited powers to regulators to meet those objectives," the survey noted.
Noting that vaguely posed objectives lead to loss of accountability, the survey said that once a clear objective is defined, laws should give the agency the minimum possible coercive power to achieve the same.
"If expansive powers are given, there is greater risk of abuse of power," it said.
According to the survey, India needs greater expertise for establishing intelligent, efficient, cost-minimising government organisations that successfully address market failures while avoiding the perils of central planning.
"A body of knowledge is now needed in India on how to construct laws, agency architecture, organisation structure, process manuals and human resources through which an effective state appropriate for the present can be obtained," it added.


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Architects promise community collaboration in designing new Genesee Hill elementary
BLRB Architects out of Tacoma have been given the nod to design the new elementary school slated for the Genesee Hill site in 2015 and, assuming voters pass the Building Excellence school levy in February to fund it, they want the West Seattle community closely involved in the $38 million process.
That was the theme of a Nov. 19 presentation by BLRB and Seattle Public Schools held at Schmitz Park Elementary for those who braved the torrential downpours to learn more about plans for the new school.
The new school at Genesee Hill is part of Seattle School's BEX IV (Building Excellence) Levy proposal. The district hopes to move Schmitz Park Elementary students and staff to the new building, and then continue to use the Schmitz building for yet-to-be-determined elementary purposes.
Tom Bates, managing principal at BLRB, laid out his firm's outreach goals:
Advisory board made up of community members, Schmitz Park staff and parents? Check. Open houses for the public to provide feedback? Check. Reaching out to community and business organizations to set up meetings for more feedback? Check. Moving their entire design team into the current Schmitz Park Elementary for a week, starting on January 21, to get a feel for the school's culture and allow students, teachers, parents, anyone (who checks in at the front office) to stop by and look at the work they are doing and suggest changes? Check.
While many architectural firms work behind the scenes, coming out from behind the curtain only for city-mandated public reviews, Bates said his firm takes a different approach, proactively working with the communities in which they build to create a building that will work for most.
BLRB has specialized in educational facility design since their 1953 inception, designing 700 schools (including 12 in Seattle) in that time, according to Bates.
Bates said his team has a "passion" for designing schools and believes the building design can have a positive effect on children's ability to learn and staff morale.
"The building becomes a teaching tool," he said.
Now is the time for brainstorming as the design process has yet to start. What is known is that the old Genesee Hill school will be demolished (carefully, due to asbestos and other environmental concerns when tearing down an old structure) and a multi-story, 500 to 650 seat school will be built somewhere on the property (and not necessarily in the footprint of the existing school).
Another open house will be held in January (specifics to be determined), and anyone with feedback on the project can either contact the Genesee-Schmitz Neighborhood Council at firstname.lastname@example.com or Janet Donelson, SPS project manager for the new school, at 206-252-0697 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bates presented some starting questions for the community to consider in the design:
- What is unique about the Genesee-Schmitz neighborhood, including culture, activities and history, and how can that be maintained or highlighted in the design?
- The same question for Schmitz Park Elementary, including any past student or historical memories to share?
- What must be incorporated into the new school?
Seattle Public Schools also has elementary school educational specifications (found here) and general school guidelines which include building a learner centered environment (learning is the core mission), program adaptability (variety is learning tools to adapt to different learning styles), community connections, aesthetics, safety, and sustainability (green building elements in the design).
The general timeline for this project is pre-design investigative work happening for the next month, schematic design from January into April, design development from April into July, creation of construction documents from July into February of 2014, putting the project out to bid from February into April, with construction ideally beginning in April of 2014. While Janet Donelson of SPS was careful to explain that delays are often times a reality, they hope construction will take anywhere from 15 to 18 months and the school could either be ready for Schmitz Park Elementary to move over in August or December of 2015. Ultimately, that means classes could begin either in September, 2015 or January, 2016.
For Schmitz Park Elementary, a need for more room
Schmitz Park Elementary was built in the 60's on land donated to SPS by the Schmitz family of West Seattle. It was built for a capacity of 285 students, and according to current Schmitz Park Principal Gerrit Kischner, their current population is 540 children. Illustrating the rapid growth of student population in West Seattle, Kischner said the population was 315 four years ago.
The school district will ultimately decide whether the new school will be built for 500 or 650 students during the design process. Bates said his firm will create two designs, one for 500 and another for 650.
An audience member questioned the logic behind the school size, saying "It seems like you gear towards 650 … it seems like you will almost already be at capacity with a brand new school right away if there is a surge of enrollment."
Donelson said the district plans to reopen Fairmount Park Elementary in 2013 and plans to keep Schmitz Park open for elementary students, meaning more overall capacity for West Seattle.
"All of the new elementary schools (scheduled to be built if BEX IV passes)… were budgeted and targeted for 650 but recognizing there are a couple of things we don't know about the future," Donelson said. "We expect enrollment will go up (we don't know that), we expect construction costs will go up moderately (we don't know that for sure)."
Early ideas for the new school
A number of open house attendees on Nov. 19 gave BLRB Architects early feedback to consider in their design, including finding a way for the community to continue to use the space around the school (such as the garden, sledding hill and old growth forest), working with the city to slow drivers down along Genesee St., minimizing asphalt, and designing the building for views of the Sound and Olympics.
The Genesee-Schmitz Neighborhood Council is also keeping tabs on community suggestions. They can be found at http://genesee-schmitz.org/.
The Genesee Hill site is located at 5012 S.W. Genesee St. and bordered by S.W. Dakota St. to the north, 49th Ave S.W. to the east, S.W. Genesee St. to the south and 51st Ave S.W. to the west.
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On their major-label debut album Stages, Vedera have at last been able to capture the magic that has made them such a hot live property over the past few years. The Kansas City, Missouri-based quartet, fronted by Kristen May, have toured incessantly since releasing their first EP in 2004, honing their sound and building their considerable fanbase the grassroots way — one fan at a time.
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Let me tell you – you're going to be feeling this music, in fact, I'll guarantee that. Jorgen is just about to release his solo debut album Noir Syndrom this will be released sometime in mid February of 2010.
Now it's not everyday that you come across a skateboarding, white rapper from Alabama who loves Old School Rock & Roll and has everyone from Raekwon to Juelz Santanato Slim Thug co-signing him. As a matter of fact, I'd wager to say you have never come across this before, but I bet you're interested! Welcome to the wild wild world of Yelawolf.
As impressive as the first EP (I'm a Bird) was Jake Newton assures the deliverance of the second masterpiece that will surely tune your heart to the structure of which combines the following feelings all together: love, delicate, delight, and leaves you with a taste to needing more.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves while Paul Birman assures that the year that has passed will remain reminiscent. Like they say "a good snapshot stops a moment from running away."
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Titiyo a Swedish mega star while the title of Sweden's Queen of Soul might not seem one of modern music's most coveted crowns but, in Sweden itself, there is little doubt that Titiyo not only merits all the acclaim lavished by her homeland, but that international acclaim has already demolished borders across much of Europe too.


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On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Phyllis wears a white long sleeve top. Wouldn't it have been hilarious if Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins reprised their commentator roles from Pitch Perfect and narrated this scene? Face it, Phyllis is Becca and Ronan is Jesse and while the two "will they or won't they" couples duet, the potential for juicy accounts are endless. Speaking of which, remember when Banks' character in the film says, "Nothing makes a woman feel more like a girl than a man who brings..." Well, Ronan obviously responds with "a juicy burger and fries." Although Fat Amy doesn't want Aubrey to "put her down for cardio," you better believe Phyllis and Ronan will likely do a bit of their own.
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EKU Looking for Memories of Special Teachers
As EKU prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2006 and remembers its roots as a teacher-preparation institution, the College of Education is soliciting and compiling stories of great teachers and the qualities that made them memorable.
?Have you stopped recently to ponder where you might be today if it weren?t for an exceptional teacher or two who decided you were special and worthy of a significant investment of their time and effort?? asked Dr. Mark Wasicsko, dean of EKU?s College of Education. ?Was it destiny or a twist of fate that placed you in their charge? These questions can bring to mind good memories about exceptional individuals who played a major role in shaping our lives. Kentuckians? recollections about their favorite teachers can help contribute to a large-scale study under way at EKU.?
Wasicsko said the College?s goal is to collect over 5,000 accounts of great teachers, glean the characteristics that made them so successful, and study the implications for preparing the next generation of educators. ?In addition, we plan to publish studies and articles about what we discover.?
Kentuckians can help by telling about their favorite teacher online at the Great Teachers, Great Memories website (www.education.eku.edu/favoriteteacher) or by mailing their submission to Great Teachers/Great Memories, College of Education, Eastern Kentucky University, 521 Lancaster Ave., Richmond, Ky., 40475-3102. Respondents should include the teacher?s name, school(s) where he or she taught, the first characteristic that distinguishes that teacher, a specific memory about him or her and a description of how that teacher treated them as a student. For more information, call 622-3515.
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Greg Cosell: 'The Patriots would be a better defense if they had an edge rusher that demanded attention'
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Greg Cosell hears you, Patriots fans. Cosell, who produces the show "NFL Matchup" for ESPN, and watches more game film than just about anyone, understands the hue and cry among New England fans to draft a pass rusher.
"I think an edge rusher that would demand attention is always important," Cosell said. "The Patriots would be a better defense if they had an edge rusher who demanded attention. That's what it comes down to."
Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio says this is a good draft if you're looking at the front seven. Rush linebackers who are expected to go in the first round include Whitney Mercilus, Courtney Upshaw and Melvin Ingram. Cosell, who calls sacks a "totally overrated" statistic, says the key is finding someone who will demand attention from an offensive coordinator. From there, he explains that it's a "domino effect."
"Having an edge rusher, he's not going to get 40 sacks. That won't happen," he said. "You want the defense, when they game plan, to have to say, 'We need to allocate an extra body for this guy.' So now, instead of being able to send five eligible receivers out, you can only send four. Defense then has an advantage right away. It's a domino effect.
"Football is a numbers game. How can you get to the quarterback with the fewest number of rushers? On offense, how can you protect your quarterback with the fewest number of protectors? It's all numbers. If you can win the numbers battle, pre-snap … because you have Randy Moss, who automatically allocates two guys. If you can win the numbers battle because you have DeMarcus Ware, who automatically dictates an extra guy somewhere along the line of scrimmage, you can do other things. That's what it all comes down to. It doesn't mean that he's going to get five sacks a game."
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Student speakers are needed for the Lions Student Speaker Contest, in its 76th year.
With a cumulative prize of $21,000, this year's topic is "How Do We Create and Keep Jobs in America?" Students interested in participating should contact Kitty or Dennis Kramer at 662-3896 as soon as possible for detailed guidelines governing the competition. Space is limited.
The Student Speaker Contest is open to students, including foreign exchange students in grades nine through 12. Students may attend any high school, charter school, private school, home school or independent study and must write their own five to 10 minute speech on the subject.
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Each level of competition includes monetary compensation starting with $25 for participants and $75 for the winner of the Reveille Club Student Speaker Contest. As a student wins contest levels, awards are provided for up to a grand total of $21,000. More than $2 million have been awarded over the 76-year history of this speech contest.
Last year's Area 4 winner, Deborah York, said, "Looking back on the past four months, I feel extremely grateful to have been a part of the competition. Before each level of the contest, I found myself excitedly looking forward to the competition because I so enjoyed the friendly, fun-loving atmosphere fostered by the Lions Club members.
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How A New Boss Got Conagra Cooking AgainGreg Burns
Less than a year after taking over as chief executive officer of ConAgra Inc., Philip B. Fletcher faced a critical dilemma. To soothe anxious shareholders, directors had asked Fletcher's revered predecessor, Charles M. Harper, to stay on as chairman. But while investors were happy, a survey of managers revealed that executives at the Omaha-based food giant weren't sure who was in charge. Time for a showdown? Not exactly. Harper told his protege that the question of command at Con-Agra would soon be moot: "I'm going to be chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco." Fletcher stared in disbelief. "I kept waiting for the punch line," he recalls.
Nowadays, there's little doubt about who's the boss at ConAgra. In the year since Harper left to run RJR, the 61-year-old Fletcher is applying a stricter regimen of top-down cost controls to ConAgra's 60-plus operating units, while forcing its independent fiefdoms to cooperate on everything from purchasing supplies to warehousing products. Fletcher is also reversing the slide in ConAgra's frozen-food unit with new recipes and stepped-up advertising for its Healthy Choice and Banquet brands. He's even talking of borrowing a page from Harper's expansionist strategy, using ConAgra's $800 million in annual cash flow for new acquisitions.
Fletcher's approach is producing results. In an era of declining brand loyalty, with food companies battling for consumers, ConAgra announced on July 6 that its earnings rose 12% in the fiscal year ended June 30, to $437 million. Sales rose 9%, to $23.5 billion. And since Jan. 1, ConAgra's share price has climbed 13%, to about 30, while the Standard & Poor's index of the top 14 food companies has dropped 4% (chart). Thanks to those returns, Fletcher is finally out of Harper's shadow. "He's been a stronger leader than I thought he would be," says former Agriculture Secretary Clayton K. Yeutter, a director since 1992.
A good thing, too. Fletcher reached the top just as ConAgra was sagging. Harper had spent his 18-year tenure as CEO transforming ConAgra from a sorry collection of flour mills into a consumer- goods powerhouse, using acquisitions such as the $1.3 billion purchase of Beatrice Co. in 1990. But he insisted that each unit remain independent and nimble enough to respond to competition and changing consumer tastes. That worked fine until high commodity prices stung ConAgra's meat-processing businesses, which account for almost a third of total sales. A vicious frozen-food price war added to the company's woes, squeezing margins. In fiscal 1993, ConAgra's operating profits were unchanged at $979 million on a paltry 1% revenue gain, to $22 billion.
After Harper's resignation in May, 1993, Fletcher stepped up his campaign to wring efficiencies from ConAgra's companies. A veteran of Heinz, Campbell Soup, and Heublein, Fletcher joined ConAgra as president of its Banquet Foods unit in 1982. As a front-line manager, he reveled in the company's loose, entrepreneurial culture. But as CEO, Fletcher saw the downside of ConAgra's organizational chart: poor communication and high costs. For example, ConAgra's two popcorn makers, Golden Valley and Orville Redenbacher, were buying plastic packaging from the same vendor. But Golden Valley was paying 15% more, while buying four times as much.
NETWORKS. Fletcher still wants ConAgra's operating units to remain independent. But he has also created executive councils where division heads meet periodically to discuss how they can pool their resources to reduce purchasing, warehousing, and transportation costs. He's also introducing a computerized network that shows how much suppliers charge each ConAgra unit. And to ensure that executives fully embrace ConAgra's new ethos of cooperation and efficiency, Fletcher has tied 25% of their bonuses directly to savings targets. He called the program "Get the Family Money" to encourage executives to act as a single family. Division heads saved $100 million in the fiscal year just ended. Fletcher hopes to do even better this year. Thanks in part to the tighter rein on costs, NatWest Securities Corp. analyst David Nelson estimates that ConAgra's operating margin could widen to 4.7% this year, compared with 3.9% in 1990.
Along with improved efficiencies, Fletcher is also restoring ConAgra's competitiveness in the freezer case. As the price war subsided earlier this year, the company scrambled to broaden its share of the frozen-entree market. Although it won't provide exact figures, ConAgra says it boosted frozen-food advertising by a third, including its first TV ads for Banquet in seven years. Company cooks also came up with tastier recipes. The result: Healthy Choice, Con-Agra's biggest brand, expanded its share of the frozen dinner market a full percentage point last year, to 12.5%, according to Information Resources Inc. In all, NatWest's Nelson estimates that ConAgra's frozen-food sales rose 2% in fiscal 1994, to $1.2 billion, after a 12% slide in 1993.
ConAgra also revamped the recipes of some of the dry and refrigerated goods that carry the Healthy Choice logo. A year ago, analysts felt the mega-brand Harper launched five years ago had peaked. But last year, the combined supermarket sales for the 200-odd Healthy Choice products rose 16%, to $889 million, estimates IRI.
GLOBAL LIGHTWEIGHT. Now that ConAgra has finally digested Beatrice, Fletcher is searching for new acquisitions. Con-Agra's long-term debt is down to less than 30% of its capital, from more than 40% just after the huge Beatrice deal. "Now, it's a matter of: Where is there a sizable piece that makes sense from an economic point of view?" Fletcher says.
He may find the answer abroad. Con-Agra remains a global lightweight. Just 10% of its sales come from overseas operations, vs. 63% for rival CPC International Inc. To build foreign sales, Fletcher has closed ConAgra International, the unit created by Harper to lead the company's push abroad through joint ventures. Instead, he's leaning on his individual companies, which best know their own businesses, to expand overseas.
To be sure, there's still work to be done at home. Hunt-Wesson sales will rise just 2% to 3% this year--on target for a grocery unit with mature brands such as Peter Pan peanut butter, but hardly exciting. And competitors aren't standing still. Campbell Soup Co., for one, has slowed Healthy Choice's new soup entries with its Healthy Request line.
Still, Fletcher hasn't given shareholders any reason to miss Harper. Even Harper acknowledges his successor's new stature. "He's making more money than I did with the company," says ConAgra's ex-chief. With all the problems he faces at RJR Nabisco these days, Harper may want to take a few pointers from his old protege.


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