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Experience leads the way as Tornados head into 2011 seasonAugust 26, 2011
Eight seniors return for Coach Shinohara as Brevard looks to the year with optimism
Brevard, N.C. - Passion is the theme of the 2011 Brevard College Women's Soccer team, and with the Tornados fielding their first four year class of seniors who have been members of the South Atlantic Conference throughout their entire playing career, Coach Shigeyoshi Shinohara is excited about the level of play and intensity the team will bring to the pitch in the upcoming season.
The Tornados are coming off a year in which they won their first South Atlantic Conference regular season victory, defeating Tusculum College on Sept. 28th at the BC Soccer Field, but missed out on the chance to go back to the postseason as they failed to earn a bid in the 2010 Food Lion SAC tournament.
However, this year, featuring a preseason First Team All-SAC forward in junior Allie Hovis, as well as eight returning seniors, the Tornados have an experienced group ready to take the next step this season.
Hovis, a 2010 All-SAC Second Team forward, is coming off a season in which she scored a pair of goals and added an assist in the season. Her technical ability and creative play help set up the Tornados attack and Coach Shinohara will look for her to continue expanding her game as the team looks to move ahead in the season.
Senior forwards Bailey Varley and Chelsea Watson will join Hovis up front in the battle for playing time. Varley, a 2011 captain, is the modern BC scoring record holder and led the team for the third straight year with five goals last season including a hat trick against Erskine last year. Watson's hustle and hard work have seen her play in 33 matches over the last two seasons and her "bulldog" tenacity on the field will help the Tornados throughout the 2011 season.
Also returning in a crowded front line are juniors Chantel Azevedo and Teresa Musick, as well as sophomore Elena Crowe. Azevedo is coming back from an injury after a standout freshman campaign and Musick worked hard in the offseason as she makes the transition from defender to forward, showing flashes of ability with a pair of preseason scoring strikes. Crowe returns after scored a trio of goals last year as a true freshman and is a relentless attacker on the net. Freshman Josie Rodriguez will also challenge for playing time up front.
Senior midfielder and 2011 captain Chelsea Freeman and senior Caitlin Hubbard return to provide leadership in the midfield. Freeman possesses the ability to set up the attack, with deft touch on the ball and an ability to place it anywhere on the field, while Hubbard contributes toughness and fighting spirit all over the field in a crucial role.
Juniors Hannah Graham and Carolyn Anderson and sophomores Jamie Bundy and Francie Blair return to provide depth in the midfield. Graham, a 2011 captain, is one of the quickest players on the BC team and has the ability to track the ball and turn it into instant scoring chances, while Anderson is fearless in the middle and the BC coaches look for good things from her this year. Bundy earned critical minutes in the center midfield position as a true freshman and tied for the team lead in shots on goal, while Blair brings versatility to the position, having the ability to play in multiple sets and schemes on the field, as well as multiple positions.
Freshmen Lizzie Graham and Megan Jenkins will also compete for playing time in the midfield for Brevard, with Graham bringing technical excellence to the position, while Jenkins comes into the program after a successful club and high school career and has flashed ability at several positions.
The back row returns the most experience for the Tornados as seniors Alyssa Caracena, Rachael Laughlin and Janet Basinger will line up on the back row for Coach Shinohara. Caracena has shown flashes of growth in her overall game in her career with the Tornados and is poised to break out this year and could see time at multiple positions on the field, while Laughlin and Basinger have been consistent through day one in their time at Brevard and their all-around ability and athleticism has served the Tornados well in their career.
Sophomores Lindsay Pritchard and Abigail Rusch also return on the backline. Pritchard, bouncing back from an Achilles' injury, possesses one of the strongest legs on the team and is called upon to handle all of the team's free kicks, while Rusch stepped up her play toward the end of last season and with her growth in the spring season, her leadership from the center back position will be instrumental in the team's success this season.
Freshmen Drasti Patel, Ana Drummond and Althea Dunn will also battle for playing time at the defender position. Patel brings in a high level of endurance and high energy into the program and will provide depth in both the midfield and defense, while Drummond, a converted midfielder, has great field vision which enhances her ability to pass and clear the ball from the back line. Dunn come to Brevard after playing in Vilseck, Germany, and her transition after playing at a high level of club soccer will help bring a high level of intensity and play to the Tornados team.
Returning in between the pipes are all three keepers from last year, senior Jordan Box and sophomores Brittany Webster and Crissy Moran. Box has looked strong in preseason play and the coaching staff relies on her steadiness both on and off the field to lead the team. Webster returns with the most experience in the goal for the Tornados, starting nine matches last season and recording two shutouts, including the conference victory against Tusculum. Moran also returns and brings elite athleticism to the box, making several spectacular plays in goal both last season and in the preseason, and all three keepers are expected to see playing time in the 2011 season.
The BC Women's Soccer team begins the 2011 regular season at home against Erskine College on Sept. 1. Kickoff between the Tornados and the Flying Fleet on the BC Soccer Field is set for 3 p.m.


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Washington, DC - The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) proposed an amendment to the Federal Travel Regulation requiring executive branch agencies to begin implementing the eTravel Service (eTS) no later than December 31, 2004 with complete agency-wide migration no later than September 30, 2006. The proposed regulation was published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2003 (FTR Case 2003-303).
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Police Shooting of Unarmed Man Has Community on Edge
UPDATE: Police Commissioner Kelly has ordered a top-to bottom review of street-level narcotics enforcement procedures, WNYC confirmed Thursday. The review is a response to the department's discovery that Officer Richard Haste, who shot Graham, had not been properly trained.
Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by an NYPD officer a week ago in the Bronx. Police followed the 18-year-old into his apartment believing he had a gun, but no weapon was ever found. There's been a passionate outcry by the community about the killing — especially because it happened inside the teenager's home.
A day after Ramarley Graham was killed, a candlelight vigil was held for him on 229th street, in the Wakefield section of the Bronx. It quickly morphed into a rally, with the crowd chanting "We want justice!"
"I'm here because my neighbor got killed by a police officer in his own home," said Sharla Buchanan, who lives across the street from the Graham family. It's that detail — that the shooting took place inside Graham's home, one he shared with his grandmother and younger brother — that particularly upset Buchanan and others at the rally.
"The NYPD should have done what they were trained to do," fellow neighbor Ainsley Lewis said. "They weren't trained to kick down the house without a warrant and go inside someone's house and kill them."
(Photo: Sharla Buchanan and Ainsley Lewis protesting the shooting death of Ramarley Graham. Kathleen Horan/WNYC)
Law Professor Jim Cohen, who teaches at Fordham University School of Law, said the location does matter in cases like these. Cohen thinks if police thought Graham was carrying a concealed weapon, they should have stopped him on the street and searched instead of permitting him to go into his home.
Cohen said in certain cases when police believe a dangerous crime is being committed, officers in "hot pursuit" may enter someone's house but they must have strong circumstances to enter.
"It is not routine at all for the police to invade a home absent legitimate cause. That said, it's also not unheard of. So I think the community has a legitimate fear for their families," Cohen said.
It's not clear how often the police enter a suspect's home without a warrant during an investigation.
The NYPD said they thought Graham had a weapon, but only marijuana was recovered from the second floor apartment.
At a second rally held in the neighborhood on Monday, Graham's mother, grandmother and father led the impassioned crowd to the 47th Police Precinct.
Outside the station house, Graham's sister, 22-year-old Leona Virgo, balanced on the shoulders of other protesters, told the crowd the shooting is about their brothers as well. "It's not just about Ramarley. It's about all black young men."
(Photo: Ramarley Graham's Family: Franclot Graham (father), Patricia Harley (grandmother) and Constance Malcom (mother) leading the community march to the 47th precinct. Kathleen Horan/WNYC)
Another detail that has alarmed some in the community is Graham's age. Justina Piggot has a 14-year old son. That's what brought her out to the rally. Piggot said he has already been stopped and frisked by police once.
"My child is very good not bothering nobody," she explained, "was just going to walk to the park to work out with his father. So I am just here for my son. If I don't stand here in support then it could have been my son [who was killed]."
Leanette Po said she also worries for her five teenage boys.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all lands now or hereafter classified as vacant and undisposed-of ceded lands (including townsite lots) on the following named Indian reservations are hereby restored to tribal ownership, subject to valid existing rights:
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David Nail is returning to the road - this time as the headliner. He'll head out this fall on his "I'm A Fire" tour, which is slated to start in Oxford, Mississippi on September 11th. The trek currently runs 22 dates, but more stops are expected to be added.
The duo Native Run is on board as the opener. David spent time earlier this year as an opener as well, warming up crowds for Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum.
Nail tells Rolling Stone Country it's "so much fun" to tour with big acts, knowing "there's going to be five, ten, or even 15,000 people out there when you play," but it's "always difficult" to only have a 35-minute time slot. David says when he's playing a full 75-to-90-minute set, he can "really lay back" and "show the range of the past three records."
Tickets for Nail's "I'm A Fire" tour go on sale this Friday.
David is also playing shows this summer. He'll be performing at the Sweetwater County Fair in Rock Springs, Wyoming on Tuesday. Fans can find Nail's full schedule at his website, DavidNail.com.
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September 11 - Oxford, MS - The Lyric Oxford
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Since at least 2003, some residents of Kendall County have dreamed of getting Metra to serve their fast-growing communities.
That's when then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, originally from Yorkville, helped to earmark $7.5 million in federal funds to study extending commuter rail service to the farmlands-turned-subdivisions west of Aurora.
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Kids With Food Allergies, a division of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, has many free resources for parents, schools, teachers and staff to use to prepare for the upcoming school year and keep students with food allergies safe.
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St. Louis Children's hospital, in collaboration with allergy experts from around the nation, created a free manual for schools to help schools create and adopt food allergy policies consistent with the CDC voluntary guidelines for managing food allergies in schools.
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504 Plans and IHCPs (January 2014)
Laurel Francouer, JD, presented the different options available for school health plans for students with food allergies, reviewed federal laws and definitions, and explained students' rights. A second webinar for Section 504 Plans Q & A was held in August 2014.
Food Allergy in School Part 1: Overview (July 2012)
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A panel of six experts (allergists and school nurses) from around the U.S. answered questions submitted by attendees. Topics covered included school staff training, where epinephrine should be located, cafeteria concerns, partnering with your school and more.
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School nutrition expert, author and speaker Dayle Hayes, MS, RD and KFA Nutrition Advisor Debra Indorato, RDN, discuss school meal regulations for students with food allergies; current thinking about food allergies in schools; the importance of establishing relationships with school food service directors, and more.
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Brevard, N.C. - Despite taking a 1-0 lead in the second half, the Brevard College women's soccer team was unable to hold on to the win on Wednesday against the USC Aiken Pacers. The Tornados dropped the match 2-1.
The first half was very evenly played as neither team was able to put one in the net. The Pacers were able to outshoot the Tornados 8-2 in the first half.
Brevard struck first in the second half when Jamie Bundy (Platte City, Mo.) took a corner kick and the Pacers' keeper, Nicole Westphal put the ball into her own net. The own goal gave the Tornados a 1-0 lead that held out for about nine minutes.
At the 67:05 mark USC Aiken was able to tie the match. Paige Busby was able to put one past Crissy Moran (Franklin County, Va.). Busby's shot came off a pass from Jenny Piniero. Moran played the entire game in net.
It was almost five minutes later that the Pacers struck again. Brittany Moores took a pass from Alex Cohen and netted one in the 72nd minute.
The Tornados were outshot by USC Aiken 18-5. Though they were outshot, Brevard had two more corner kicks than the Pacers with five.
The women's soccer team will be in action again on Saturday afternoon when they play host to Southern Wesley. Game time is scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Brevard College Soccer Field.


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Nvidia has introduced Tegra 4 for smartphones, tablets, gaming devices, auto infotainment and navigation systems, and PCs.
Previously codenamed Wayne, Tegra 4 features 72 custom Nvidia GeForce GPU cores - or six times the GPU horsepower of Tegra 3. It includes quad-core application of ARM's Cortex-A15, which delivers 2.6x faster web browsing and strong performance for apps.
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Amidst his many and various portraits, la bruyere has drawn his own with an amiable pride.
la bruyere had just been admitted into the French Academy, in 1693.
Many observations of la bruyere and Rochefoucault—the latter especially—have obtained credit for truth solely from their point.
la bruyere, if I am not mistaken, said that nothing freshens the blood so much as to avoid committing a folly.
The characters of la bruyere are pictures from the life; most of them finely drawn, and highly colored.
This was not quite the opinion formed by Boileau of la bruyere.
la bruyere says, very truly, 'on ne vaut dans ce monde, que ce que l'on veut valoir'.
Remember that very true maxim of la bruyere's, 'Qu'on ne vaut dans se monde que ce qu'on veut valoir'.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by rat2k8, Jan 13, 2013.
Great something for the fans and fair weather fans to complain and moan about.
He's been doing this for years.
Cowboys haven't had fair weather fans for years tbh
I guess his ribs are ok.
Tony is an athlete with skills in multiple sports. What do you expect?
If you're on a Cowboys forum on January 13th, you are definitely not fair weather.
I don't really care what any of these guys do in the offseason. Their time is their time.
Every time we get a W....they come sniffing around.
But some like to hang around just to moan occasionally and then disapear for a time
Looks like the one on Inwood at Beltline Rd. in Addison. There's an indoor field tucked right behind the Red Coleman's Liquor store.
Wait a minute.
Soccer field...liquor store.
This is where the liquor store guy works.
Good to know his cracked rib healed.
Nothing to complain about. Great to see Romo having fun. AC Milan can use him.:laugh2:
But who will you and Zrinkill complain about?
It's American Indoor in Carrollton off 121. Tony is very visible around Dallas.
A cracked rib, depending upon the severity, can take a minimum of three weeks to heal.
Great offseason excercise and footwork training.
Pretty sure Romo did not have any broken ribs. Maybe bruised very badly--busted up a little--but not broken. Can't say I've ever once heard him make excuses. The hate is sickening.
Tony maybe a lot of things. Bum he is not. Now if we had Sanchez.....
how sweet would it be if Romo showed up at your mens league game?
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Fucking hilarious, when he hit that guy I think I pooped a lil' laughing.
If he was a UK Marine he would have got no new hands and a water bottle with a hole in it from the MoD.
Note: This is not meant to be funny.
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LMAO... clearly not a reputable "news" source. Kindda makes the traditional old school Muay Thai dipping of the hand wraps in glass look like a slice of humble pie.
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Nine Quarterbacks Named Manning Stars of the Week
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The Manning Award, sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl, has named nine quarterbacks as its "Stars of the Week." College football fans can now go to the Allstate Sugar Bowl Facebook page to vote for what they think was the best performance from this past weekend. When voting closes on Thursday at 11 a.m. (Central), the top vote-getter will be announced as the Manning Award Player of the Week.
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POMONA - David Ruiz was quite surprised when he learned his house would be in the path of a widened 71 Freeway.
Ruiz said he and his wife bought their house about two years ago near Fleming Street and Butterfield Road. They were told it would be years before the state would increase the 71 from a four-lane expressway to an eight-lane freeway.
Plans call for initial work beginning in 2023 and the project being completed by 2030.
However, the project may qualify for funding through a state public-private partnership program. If secured, the widening project could be moved up by about eight years.
"I didn't think it would impact the houses," Ruiz said in Spanish.
Pomona, Caltrans and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials have to update environmental studies, refine preliminary designs and conduct financial analysis before they can apply for the funding, said Lan Saadatnejadi, executive officer with the authority's highway program.
Widening the 71 between the 10 and the 60 freeways would bring several benefits to the city and the region, Saadatnejadi said.
"It would improve safety and relieve congestion," she said.
Last week, Ruiz and about 100 other residents living near the 71 learned about some of the changes at Westmont Community Center.
Attendees studied maps presented by Caltrans and peppered officials with questions.
The meeting gave "the community an opportunity to see the current design being considered" for the improved freeway, Saadatnejadi said.
The meeting, which was organized at the request of the Pomona City Council, also aimed to informed residents on efforts to secure revenues that could move up the widening of the 71.
Some attendees said the 71 needs to be widened, but expressed concern that they will be affected negatively since existing stop lights along the freeway would be eliminated and existing crossings would be closed.
Concerns were also expressed about the placement of proposed bridges connecting the neighborhoods on either side of the 71 in addition to the placement of soundwalls.
Xavier DeGuchy said he would like to see some of the proposed bridge locations in different places.
"This is not just to benefit me. It'll benefit the neighborhood," DeGuchy said.
Laura Romero, who lives along Grier Street, said she is concerned that the elimination of street lights along the 71 will make it harder for residents to travel within the neighborhood without driving or walking long distances.
"The freeway needs to be done, but, for residents, they're blocking us in," she said.
Residents' comments will be reviewed by Caltrans engineers and discussed with city representatives in order to try to make adjustments where possible.
The original plans called for building the freeway below grade, but plans now call for constructing it at ground level, which reduces the needs for property acquisition and reduces costs, Saadatnejadi said.
At one time, plans called for acquiring part or all of about 160 properties to complete the widening project, Caltrans engineer Andy Liao said.
That number has dropped.
"Right now, it's less than 40," said Liao, adding that close to 12 full properties will be needed.
Ruiz said he had questions related to the state acquiring his home for the freeway widening.
"I'll have to wait to see what they say," he said.
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"SUNY Plattsburgh is committed to establishing a safe, respectful, and dynamic environment for our students and our faculty and staff. This training program will help us achieve this goal and comply with federal, state, and SUNY requirements for training. Thank you for your time and effort in this endeavor." — John Ettling, President
As President Ettling says, this training will help us keep ourselves and our students safe and effective, and in compliance with various laws. These laws include:
So, the training is useful to the college and its programs — and we must do it.
This on-line program makes it easy for employees to complete the training without having to attend a formal training meeting.
You won't have to do all of these all at once! They'll be phased in; see schedule below.
All employees must receive training. Not all training modules are required for all employees, but some of the topics are required for all of us. You will have a very specific list of modules just for your position.
Most modules will take between 10 and 25 minutes. Some supervisor modules may run a bit longer. These modules will be phased in over time; you don't have to do them all at once.
Yes, of course. These trainings are a part of your work assignment. There will be a deadline date, but there will be plenty of time and leeway built in. If you start a module and are interrupted, no problem. You can come back to it later. You can schedule this work around your other duties.
No problem. For those employees who don't have a computer at work, or for those who are less used to using computers, there will be group sessions in a computer lab with our training coordinator there to help you.
Our modules are specific to SUNY Plattsburgh policies so you do need to take our training. And, we all need to have refreshers every now and again. It's good training practice and it's the law in many cases.
This is a company that has put together various training programs in on-line modules. We didn't have to reinvent the wheel here, though all modules are customized to SUNY Plattsburgh. Experts on our own campus have carefully reviewed the trainings.
There are a number of required trainings, but we won't make anyone go through training overload. We will phase in modules on a quarterly basis throughout the year.
After the first year, when we are catching up on requirements, we will have more flexibility and will spread the trainings out to be required every two or three years. Your patience is requested as we meet these mandates.
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If someone has been training ten years but hasn't been promoted, who has been teaching them?
Does Mourinho teach the technique of tackling or striking the ball? I would guess not. Either way, analogies to a totally different sport are pointless.
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I coach a beginners class purely focussed on fundamentals of grappling. I personally have been taught things from white belts better than I have been taught things by black, brown and purple belts. Some people are good at coaching, getting a point across, understanding body mechanics, physics or highlighting the relevance of a very specific movement then breaking it down and passing it on.
In my opinion experience helps build these things of course, but it shouldn't be the all of being a decent coach/teacher/instructor.
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My opinion is Blue Belts should not be teaching BJJ, thats just my opinion, even under guidance of another affiliation, i wouldnt pay £5 to be taught by a blue belt, when there is black belts teaching for £5 ! both at a total different level.
Ah ken min fits a blue belt teaching folk like me? nithin am basically a blue noo iv din like nearly ten seshs in the gi min!
In my opinion, it's all about the material you have, how it's put across and how you train it. A black belt may have much more knowledge, but be terrible at putting it across and structuring classes. What good is that?
It's been proven across sport that great players don't make great coaches. Developing the skills of other people is totally different to developing your own.
I have been involved in sport in a number of different capacities. I have a good understanding of what makes a great coach. And that's why I'm delighted to be coached by the people at my club - who are all blue belts.
What if you go to the club with a black belt coach, but don't like the vibe, finding the club run by blue belts to have a friendlier, more laid back, fun vibe?
What if there are no black belts in your area? My club run a class in a place called Old Meldrum which is a fair bit out in the sticks and if the blue belt that coaches there had not started doing classes in Old Meldrum, then his students, who have grown to love BJJ and have regularly won medals at Scottish competitions, would never have had the chance to even learn the sport.
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Having "only" blue belt coaches doesn't seem to be doing GCG any harm when it comes to competition results. Surely they should be getting steamrolled by other clubs who do have purples, brown and black belts to teach them.
I'd also say that getting a class for £5 in this day and ages represents great value for money, can't say that I've ever went home thinking that my fiver was wasted.
I remember when I was a teenager that bullshido TMA's all over the country had black belts galore and that they "had" to be black belts to be legit, seems like this mindset is still prevelant today.
Also, a blue belt may have the knowledge of what to do - but just not quite have the timing, energy and motion to make it work against a player at a higher level. That will come with time though. And in the meantime, he can still teach other people what they need to know. So long as the material is good and it is trained in a smart way.
Aberdeen has 4 main clubs that train in BJJ.
Plenty of choice and variety for anyone who wants to train. I of course recommend GCG
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For Shayna Balch, business is booming.
Since the start of 2012, the labor attorney at Fisher & Phillips in Phoenix is seeing — on average — one to three wage and hour cases filed each day. This is compared with one or two a month in previous years. Nationally, the number of new Fair Labor Standards Act suits lodged in federal courts between 2010 and 2011 jumped more than 15 percent, according to Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics.
Historically, Balch says wage and hour cases have not been an issue in Arizona. Because of that, employers are not prepared for the trend and she worries that this a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
"There are multiple causes (for the increase)" says John Thompson, who handles wage-hour cases at Fisher & Phillips and is the editor of the firm's Wage Hour Laws Blog.
"They include a greater familiarity of plaintiff's lawyers with wage-hour laws and with the many areas in which non-compliance can occur; workers' increasing awareness of wage-hour requirements — including via the Internet and the media; the growing number and complexity of the laws themselves; and the stepped-up enforcement efforts of government officials."
As the economy suffered and employers looked for ways to reduce labor costs, many of the cost-cutting measures conflicted with employment laws, according to Phoenix attorney John Doran of Sherman & Howard, and that has led to an avalanche of wage and hour claims. The number of collective actions has increased by more than 400 percent nationally in the last decade. In Arizona, the increase has been even more dramatic.
"In Arizona, there has been a sudden and dramatic increase in wage and hour collective and class actions," Doran says. "This should be a source of serious concern for Arizona employers."
It's particularly stressful for employers desperately trying to recover from the recession.
"Employers have looked for every possible angle to reduce labor costs including overtime, and many of those angles simply do not jive with the wage and hour laws," Doran says. "This has been especially true with employers trying to convert their employees into independent contractors, which is an extremely difficult, and often mishandled strategy that has the attention of the Department of Labor and the I.R.S."
The Department of Labor has increased its strength thanks to a significant bump in funding under the Obama Administration, increasing both its enforcement and public awareness campaigns. More than 250 new investigators have been hired and the revitalized Wage & Hour Division launched its "We Can Help" campaign in 2010 to increase visibility and accessibility to workers.
"The DOL has also been more aggressive in pursuing employers, by expanding the scope of wage and hour investigations, issuing more administrative subpoenas, and imposing more penalties on employers," says Phoenix attorney Tracy A. Miller, shareholder. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
And the DOL is making it even easier for employees to build cases against their employers. Last year, the DOL developed a smartphone application that allowed employees to keep track of their own time and monitor employer compliance with certain wage and hour requirements. The DOL also created hard copy "exhibits" for employees to track their time. In taking these steps, the DOL has stated that employees must be paid for any work they do, regardless of where they do it.
Empowered with DOL-provided tools, "We are seeing more individuals who file suit on their own behalf," says Stephanie Quincy, a partner in the labor and employment practice group for Steptoe & Johnson. "In Arizona, if wages are not paid when they are due or the wages are withheld without a good faith reason, the employee is entitled to three times the amount, as a punishment for the employer. We are seeing employees filing these suits themselves, without an attorney."
So where are employers most susceptible?
"The biggest increase has been in lawsuits and investigations involving workers who claim to be misclassified as independent contractors," Miller says. "Failing to pay workers for pre-shift and post-shift activities, such as computer boot-up and power-down, is also still a hot issue. Another common mistake that the DOL and private litigants are focusing on is the failure to include bonuses and commissions when calculating overtime. Wage payments during temporary company shut downs and furloughs has been a hot issue, although usually these issues are resolved without a lawsuit. Cases involving the misuse of the tip credit or tip pools have also been on the rise. Finally, we continue to see off-the-clock cases from employees who work remotely and/or routinely use smartphones."
All of this is a conundrum for employers, considering the changing face of the economy and the workplace. The DOL is encouraging employers to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act, which was enacted in 1938 when people worked at work. Now, thanks to technology, many of us can work anywhere and anytime.
To protect themselves, employers of all sizes should engage in serious introspection, Doran advises.
"An internal wage and hour audit, if not a must, is still the most valuable tool employers have to fend off such claims," Doran says, "Annual or bi-annual audits would include analyzing job descriptions and comparing them with what is actually happening in the workplace day to day; examining timekeeper practices; ensuring that supervisors and managers are adequately and accurately carrying out otherwise compliant pay practices; and much, much more. These audits are best conducted through outside legal counsel in order to cloak them in attorney-client privilege."
Quincy says employers should examine each employee and determine if the employee — not the position — is doing the type of work that is considered "exempt" or "non-exempt." Non-exempt employees must be paid overtime. Employers should also carefully examine deductions from pay and time, including automatic deductions such as rest and meal breaks. Employers must train supervisors that any changes to hours worked must be explained to the employee and the employee must sign off on them. The employer should hold supervisors accountable for encouraging — or pressuring — employees to work off the clock or not to accurately record their hours.
"Often businesses feel as though they must be in compliance because they have been paying workers in the same way for years without any problems," Miller says. "Very few businesses are completely in compliance with the wage and hour laws, however, and an investigation or a lawsuit is an expensive way to learn about violations. Businesses that proactively audit their pay practices end up saving a lot of money in the long run."


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It's not one of those wine warehouses that took over a defunct Winn Dixie and still has a row of checkout registers up front. And it's not one of those trendy storefronts that stock only Bordeaux and other cocky wines that cost three figures. No, this little brick-walled bistro lets you eat and drink and take home a bottle of that drink without signing over your weekly paycheck. Ask for Florent, the owner and your new best friend. Name a price range and a style. Florent will pull just the perfect bottle down from his expansive wall, from the very cheap to the very pricey. If you're not in a rush, find a quiet table and plunk down a modest corkage fee. Then order yourself a cheese plate or a nice soup, or bum out on the awesome housemade bread. Raise your glass to the colorful verve of this sassy Parisian dilettante. He has been everywhere, has seen everything, and commands a certain I don't know what that will have you ordering another bottle. Or take one home for the kids.
We know a seasoned vintage shopaholic who lovingly calls this place "Chez Armé." She proudly boasts about all of the amazing finds she's procured from here. It wasn't until she showed us photos of an incredible four-poster bed that seemed to be hewn from tree trunks that we began paying attention. When it comes to buying furniture, you can't do better.The store is a clean, well-lit place with the usual thrift store finds in abundance dishes, sweaters, winter jackets, and worn children's toys. To one side you'll find dining room furniture, bedroom sets, and men's clothing. A handsome ornate chest of drawers, side tables, and an armoire are a bargain at $350. Textured wall units and a dining table come for $800. A two-piece butter-yellow leather living room set is $150. There's bland furniture and random what-were-they-thinking items, like a pair of children's loft-style beds outfitted with wooden slides for that speedy (not to mention dangerous) disembarkation. Stop by early (it opens at 9:00 a.m.) if you want to find a specific furniture item that isn't on display: "We got a whole warehouse back there," says approachable clerk Clarence Williams. Every second Saturday of the month, the lot down the street hosts the Salvation Army auto auction. So quite literally you can walk in here with nothing and leave with a suite of furniture and a new car for less than a grand.
All of us have a bunch of stuff hanging around our homes that we don't want, don't need, or don't use. Why not streamline your life by getting rid of some of that junkç Freecycle, a national online trading post with a board here in Miami, is the perfect way to turn your trash into someone else's treasure. Here's how it works: You register on the Website and then offer your stuff in a posting. If someone wants it, you arrange a (safe) meeting time and place to make the exchange. Best of all, it's free.
Don't want to spend $300 on a BCBG dressç If you're lucky, you can find one at Rag Trade for $30. You can also earn a little cash on the clothes you haven't worn for four years, the ones lying wrinkled and unused in a cobwebby corner of your closet. If you would rather barter for something in the shop, that's fine too. Like any secondhand shop, Rag Trade carries a rotating stock of wares that ranges in style from vintage to contemporary. There's also a section devoted to new clothes by local designers and by London-based Religion (not to be confused with the brand of jeans). Feel good about shopping here: Rag Trade is pro-conservation, and even the price tags are recycled.
Maybe South Florida doesn't seem like the best place to pick up knitting as a hobby after all, summer is upon us. But there are always babies to crochet blankets for, relatives up north who need hats and scarves, and the three cold days next winter. Elegant Stitches carries more than 700 different yarns and offers knitting and crochet classes for $45. The shop also has patterns, books, kits, and needles. For the truly dedicated, the store organizes a November knitting cruise on Royal Caribbean.
Light catches your eye from all directions in the Gem and Bead Gallery. Everywhere you look, there are glistening gemstones of all varieties amethyst, rose quartz, and glass beads that look almost exactly like them. Coral branches, turquoise chunks, and amber circles; jade beads and freshwater pearls. You can buy anything, from a $1000 sapphire to adorn that perfect solitaire, to $1 glass beads for a hippie love necklace. The Gem and Bead Gallery is a direct importer of gemstone beads, colored crystals, horn beads, Swarovski crystals, and pearls. The store attracts customers who are practiced jewelers, as well as first-time bead stringers. To that end, they offer hands-on Monday and Saturday classes that range from $30 to $35. From beading to pearl knotting, you can learn how to do it and then successfully make it here. Few things are cooler than being able to chirp, "Thanks, I made them myself," when you're inevitably complimented on your amazing new earrings.


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Eva Bayer Tribbett, 101, of Havana, FL passed away Thursday, July 25, 2013, at her home in Havana.
A memorial service will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, 2013 at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, FL. Entombment will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at Lakeview Memorial Gardens in Avon Park, FL.
Mrs. Tribbett was born July 8, 1912 in Walnut Cove, NC. The daughter of John C. Bayer and Sarah A. Fagg, she was a homemaker and a member of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, FL.
Mrs. Tribbett is survived by her two children, John Oertel and Ruth Wilkinson, three grandchildren and four great- grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Everett Tribbett.
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Janet Bloomberg, AIA, and Richard Loosle-Ortega, RA, piloted their five-person firm KUBE Architecture to prominence by inviting clients to be close partners in the design process. For a Washington, D.C., firm like KUBE, that means a lot of time spent adapting the city's existing fabric. Bloomberg and Loosle-Ortega specialize in transforming the ubiquitous row house to suit more flexible ideas about space. But they also work to expand architecture's audience by making good design available to nontraditional clients.
I think our biggest investment is in a sense of place. It guides our thinking. We've done a lot of row houses in historic areas here in D.C., and oftentimes we can't touch the front façade. Obviously, we want to bring light into these homes, but at the same time, it has to feel like a home. A lot of our process centers on variations of opacity—creating shadow.
Pro bono work is also a real passion of ours—affordable, accessible design. We're working on a series of storefronts down in Southeast D.C., and we've just started a program with the District Architecture Center to connect good design firms in town with D.C. high school students. It's called Design in Action—and this is the pilot year. Seven students spent time at the firms during their spring breaks.
We've also worked with an after-school program called Beacon House—they had a space in the basement of an apartment building but wanted something more engaging. So they contacted us through the District Architecture Center, and we gave them a whole plan to pursue through in-kind donations and so on.
No matter who the client is, or what the program is, it's about designing the quality of space to support a purpose. And it matters how you interact with the space. Our website has a front end that talks about our work, and a back end called KUBE2 that talks about our process. We sell more of a lifestyle to our clients, rather than just a design. In other words, if the client's first question is, "What's it going to look like?"—that's not really the client for us. Our whole point is that we don't know—we grow the project based on an organic process. It's a process of discovery. The majority of our clients want us to invent something with them. It's always a team effort, we tell them. Our clients very much appreciate our focus on detail and materiality, and we give them an open, modern space that's warm.
More and more, clients are asking for a total concept for the site—for the bigger project. But maybe they can only do a kitchen at first. We do the project in smaller pieces. And we design as much of the house as possible, sometimes including custom furniture. For us, fabricators are part of our extended team. And we treat our clients and our fabricators as partners. —As told to William Richards
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They are nice sheets but haven't felt any temperature regulating properties
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I suffer from hot flashes and these sheets live up to everything they claim. The sheets do feel cool, which is very nice, and they do not get damp from night sweats. The fitted sheet is more than ample for our thick mattress. We liked them so much that I went ahead and ordered another set.
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Placed these sheets on our bed for everyday use. The sheets are very soft and comfortable that way - no break in to make them soft.Thought the first night just how wonderful the sheet felt! However, the sheets are not keeping me from throwing off the sheets because of swing in body heat that I have - this part is disappointing.
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Linda from TX writes:
I have satellite Internet service. I get notices from the company that I am or have exceeded my bandwidth. Then my access is slowed down to dial-up speeds. I think I am a normal computer user with lots of email and a couple of games I play on Facebook. I don't watch videos, play music or download movies. I find this situation very frustrating and wondered if you could offer some insight on how to keep track of just how much is downloaded and uploaded. My problem seems to be in the uploading area. Thank you.
Bandwidth caps, which are limits to the amount you can upload (send) and download (receive) using your Internet connection, used to be limited to satellite Internet providers, but in recent years have expanded to hard line (cable/DSL) and cellular Internet companies. The claim made by these companies (and mostly legitimately so) is that the amount of bandwidth they can provide to a given area is fixed, so if a few customers are using a disproportionately large percent of that bandwidth, everyone else suffers unfairly. Data caps usually limit a person to a certain number of gigabytes per month of upload and download and after that either charge a fee or reduce speeds significantly.
How do you monitor your usage? Well, the easiest thing to do is see if your provider has a bandwidth monitoring tool built into their service. Most companies who have a data cap will tell you exactly how much is being used and what you have left. You can find out how to access this tool by calling the technical support department of your provider and asking how you would monitor your bandwidth usage.
What if your provider doesn't have a way to monitor usage or you want an alternate way? The easiest tool I've found to do this is iTraffic Monitor from TRVX. Once you download and install iTraffic Monitor (I would recommend agreeing to install WinPcap during the install process, too, as it allows more advanced filtering) you will be presented with a bandwidth graph window. This graph will show you the total D/L (download) total U/L (upload), peak D/L and U/L and average D/L and U/L.
By default, the software will be configured to filter out any traffic going to the network mask of 255.255.255.0, which is the local area network. You can disable this if you wanted to monitor for local traffic, not just Internet usage (say if you wanted to see how much bandwidth your sending to a local server in a business network) by right-clicking on the graph and clicking setup. In the Advanced Network tab, uncheck Advanced Network Filtering and uncheck Ignore local network traffic.
Also in the setup options you can select how the graph will display information and what scale the graph will be in under the Graph-1 and Graph-2 tab. Under the options tab you can set the program to load when Windows starts.
If you press F2, or right click the graph and click Reports you can see daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports for bandwidth usage, which will let you determine how much you've used in those periods.
How do you use it to determine what is using your bandwidth? The easiest way is the process of elimination. With the iTraffic Monitor running, open and close programs, do normal tasks and monitor what is using bandwidth. For example, when I explained this program to a coworker he was shocked to find out that streaming radio service he uses while shipping was using over 450 megabytes per day of bandwidth. (16 KBytes/sec x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 8 hours a day = 460,800. To convert KByes to megabytes divide by 1024.)
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Let it not be said, this Easter, that the BBC has neglected Christianity. Over the past week they've treated us to three solid hours of a block-busting, expensive-looking, and largely reverential Passion. BBC4 (admittedly something of a ghetto) has begun a major new series about sacred choral music. And on Saturday, BBC2 transmitted what it claimed was an important new investigation into that well-known piece of medieval flim-flam, the Shroud of Turin. Presented by the foreign correspondent Rageh Omaar (who really should get back to covering wars) the film, Material Evidence, set out (according to a Beeb press release) "to discover exactly what it is about the image on the Shroud that has defied imitation and explore new evidence that may challenge the Carbon 14 verdict."
One would have expected, given the corporation's international reputation and much-vaunted objectivity, that any speculations in the film would be subjected to careful scrutiny, and that both sceptics and believers would be allowed their say. Instead, we were presented with one of the most egregious examples of special pleading, distortion, tendentious reporting and sensationalism I've ever had the misfortune to sit through. It was dire. Crude religious propaganda masquerading as science. Maverick enthusiasts presented as serious researchers. Misrepresentations of evidence, inconvenient facts passed over, ridiculous suppositions put forward as established fact.
There was even a "dramatic reconstruction" of events inside the tomb of Christ, with the body first wrapped in the shroud, then disappearing in the fashion of magician David Copperfield.
According to Rageh Omaar's accompanying piece on the BBC's website, many people had assumed that after three separate laboratories determined that it was a forgery the relic would be forgotten. "But the amazing story of the Shroud of Turin has simply refused to fade into obscurity and die, for the simple reason that a conflict of evidence has emerged which is about the re-ignite the debate around this compelling religious artefact."
Er, no, Rageh. The reason the story has refused to fade into obscurity is that there's a well-funded and persistent coterie of believers who refuse to face facts. They depend on the Shroud's "mystery", if not for a livelihood, then at the very least for psychological sustenance. They're like the CIA, confronted with the lack of evidence for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, who told inspectors to go back and look again. They are simply in denial. And some of the most deluded and obstinate would seem to have been largely responsible last night's farrago.
The film's director, David Rolfe, is a well-known Shroud enthusiast. Indeed, it wouldn't be too much to say that he owes his whole career to the Shroud. His 1978 film, The Silent Witness and the Shroud, (which he made in collaboration with author Ian Wilson, who has also made a career out of plugging the shroud) put forward many of the pro-authenticity arguments advanced in this latest film, and looked forward to the final confirmation that would come when, or if, radiocarbon tests were allowed. Despite the setback of the 1988 tests, which dated the Shroud to 1350 or thereabouts, he was soon back on the case. In 2000 he announced plans for a Jurassic Park-style fantasy in which "blood" taken from the Shroud would be cloned. This latest documentary would seem to be in large part an attempt to revisit former glories.
Also much in evidence was the American researcher Dr John Jackson, a physicist by training, who has been "studying" the shroud for more than thirty years. While Rolfe and Omaar presented him as an independent expert, Jackson is in fact a long-standing member of the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) a religiously-motivated group that has never, so far as I have been able to establish, acknowledged a single piece of evidence questioning the authenticity of the Shroud. Together with his wife, Jackson now heads the equally biased Turin Shroud Center of Colorado.
In a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jackson was quoted as follows:
If the Shroud of Turin is authentic and it did wrap what we Christians believe is the Resurrection event itself, then we are dealing with an image that has radical characteristics... I'm Catholic, and the center of my faith is the holy Eucharist.
I'm not saying that devout Catholics can't make objective scientists or honest researchers. Many do. But Jackson and his fellow STURP enthusiasts were not experts in the field. As the sceptical investigator Joe Nickell put it, "having this group investigate the Shroud was a little bit like having the Flat Earth Society investigate the curvature of the Earth."
The fingerprints of STURP were certainly all over this "documentary". No sceptics were given the opportunity to contest Jackson's evidence or put forward alternative theories. Outrageous claims were treated as fact. For example, it was asserted that "bloodstains" on the shroud had been analysed as type AB, and that the cloth bore evidence of both pre-death and after-death bloodflow. It was also claimed that the blood matched that on another relic, the "sudarium" of Orvieto which was said to date to, at latest, the 4th century. The "only explanation", we were told, was that the two cloths had been in contact with the same body. We were left to draw the conclusion that the body must have been that of Jesus.
The sudarium was identified with the "face cloth" mentioned in the Gospel of John as having been found in the empty tomb along with the other "cloths" (plural, notice). Even on its own terms, this makes no sense. If the sudarium had wrapped the face of Jesus, why was the image not imprinted on it, rather than on the Shroud? If it had been taken off before the body was wrapped in a shroud, why does the gospel-writer mention its presence in the tomb? Why was the blood-flow from the head, which the cloth was supposed to have soaked up, also found on the Shroud?
In fact, there is no proof of blood on the shroud, type AB or otherwise. Tests carried out by many years ago by Walter McCrone concluded that the blood-like stains were in fact a mixture of iron-oxide, vermillion and red ochre pigment. While the oxide traces could conceivably be formed by blood, the presence of vermillion is only explicable, thought McCrone, as an artist's pigment. Needless to say, this fact wasn't mentioned last night.
Another example: the film claimed that microscopic examination of the fibres had yielded no evidence of tempora or other fixative agents that would be required to if the image had been painted. Yet such agents were, in fact, revealed by McCrone's earlier tests.
If the science was dodgy, the history was, if anything, even worse. Omaar stated, correctly, that the Shroud's first confirmed location was in Lirey, France, in 1355. He then made much of the fact that the shroud's supposed owner, Geoffrey de Charney, was descended from one of the knights who ransacked Constantinople during the 4th Crusade in 1204. This was sufficient, apparently, to identify it with another relic, showing the face of Christ, that was formerly exhibited in a church in the Byzantine capital. The assumption being, of course, that Geoffrey's ancestor nabbed it. The commentary failed to explain why it then disappeared for 150 years, while most of the other plunder from the crusade was proudly displayed (at St Mark's in Venice, among other places). It also failed to mention that, when the Shroud was first exhibited, it was as part of a money-raising scam by Geoffrey's impecunious widow, that it was denounced as a fraud by the local bishop and that it was withdrawn from public view after a forger admitted to having created it.
Omaar even claimed that, by normal standards of historical evidence, the ancient provenance of the Shroud was well-attested, and were it not for those pesky Carbon 14 results no-one would doubt its authenticity. Such a statement reveals a Dan Brown-style approach to historiography, the kind of thing associated with pseudo-historical conspiracy theories where the game is to throw a lot of "what ifs" and "supposedlies" and "if true, this could only means" into a big pot and come up with the plot of a sexy thriller. What the authors of the notorious potboiler The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail memorably called "the need to synthesise".
Important questions went unasked. Like how a piece of linen, kept under non-ideal conditions, managed to survive more-or-less intact for two thousand years: almost as fantastical a notion, surely, as that it bears the imprint of the Resurrection. Or who was looking after it in all the centuries when it was lost to history. Or why the image on the cloth accords so closely with late medieval representations of Christ, but is nothing at all like the earliest images as seen, for example, in the Roman catacombs. Or why Constantine's mother St Helena, who went around Palestine collecting fragments of the True Cross, never got hold of it. And so on.
Instead, we got the usual onus-shifting and presumptions of mystery. Rageh Omaar's commentary actually used the word "miraculous" to describe the formation of the Shroud image. "If it is a medieval forgery, then how was this image made?" asks Omaar on the website. "So far, no one has been able to explain it."
So what? There are lots of theories, some more convincing that others, about how it was done. But the fact that something is unexplained doesn't make it miraculous. There are many ancient artistic and engineering techniques that are now lost. No-one is entirely sure how the pyramids were built, or the ancient Chinese achieved some of their glazes, or even how the Vikings navigated to America. Technologies have often been forgotten when they ceased to be useful or relevant. It's a fascinating puzzle, nothing more.
The centrepiece of the documentary was to have been a new test examining Jackson's latest hypothesis that the carbon 14 results could have been distorted by atmospheric conditions. No doubt the programme makers were hoping for a dramatic confirmation of their beliefs. In fact, the experiment, carried out by Oxford professor Christopher Ramsey, produced no such vindication: there was nothing to suggest that the 1988 tests needed to be repeated. Of course, in mystery-speak this merely means that they were inconclusive. More research needed to be done to be sure, said Ramsey, who may now regret sounding so open-minded.
What is going on here? Does the BBC now see its role as propagating and sustaining fantasy? Perhaps it's the corporation's strange interpretation of "balance". Perhaps they feel they have to answer criticisms that they have given Christianity a tougher time than Islam, and so have to set things right by spending public money on some unsubstantiated bilge with an apparently Christian theme. Would they give equally unquestioning coverage to sightings of Bigfoot or David Icke's reptilian conspiracy theories? They might as well, given that the Shroud has been conclusively debunked on many occasions, not just in the famous 1988 tests. Or perhaps they are now so dependent on funding from American production partners that they don't any longer care about the quality of their output, so long as it's guaranteed a good audience share. And pseudo-history of this nature is nothing if not crowd-pleasing.


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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
— Anatole France
Pete MacKay has over 22 years of teaching experience in Alberta across all grade levels, all of which have had a technology-based approach. Currently seconded to the 2Learn.ca Education Society from Edmonton Public Schools, he applies his experience to professional development activities for teachers across the province.
MacKay's last classroom work involved high school web design from the viewpoint of a freelance designer and applied all his lessons with the intention that his students could do the same. Even if they were to enter another career, they often came away with skills that either helped them in their work or paid for their education.
In its 14th year, MacKay's blog, The Teacher List, helps thousands of ed-tech contacts around the world with a daily recommendation of one free web-based tool that is useful to teachers. In 2007, he received the Alberta Excellence in Teaching/SMARTer Kids Foundation Innovative Use of Technology Award and in the spring of 2012, became part of the new Adobe Master Teachers initiative in Alberta. MacKay is well versed in Adobe® Photoshop®, Dreamweaver®, Illustrator®, InDesign®, and Acrobat® and uses Adobe Creative Suite® 6 Master Collection daily in his work as an educator and web designer.


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Nikki Williams Loves PORN! [LIVE PERFORMANCE + INTERVIEW + PHOTOS]
Born and raised in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Nikki Williams was discovered in the bathroom of a Hollywood club when a producer heard her singing. She has been banking her time in the music business for a while now, co-writing Demi Lovato's chart topping song "Heart Attack" as well as "Like My Mother Does" for American Idol's Laura Alaina and more.
Her first radio single "Glowing" has been gaining a lot of momentum and her LIVE performance today at Elvis Duran Show is a true testament to her unbelievable talent.
"YouPorn is my best friend!" she joked while talking about the grueling hours on the road.
Nikki admitted that she gets lonely while touring, "I miss holding hands.... I like to pretend that I have a boyfriend!"
She continued, "I'm learning how to love myself because I don't have time to love someone else."
What kind of guy is she looking for?
"Someone tall that is not into long walks on the beach, because I am not into walking."
Her debut album is set to be released this Summer!