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No Pipe Dream
Posted on Jan 31, 2014
By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch
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The Bixbys were offered more money than Briggs—more than $62,000—for a pipeline right of way and they, too, turned it down. He and his wife are holding fast and so, he says, are 60 neighbors. "They don't want it to bust up this little valley." Pointing, he added, "There's gonna be a path up our woods there as far as you can see, [and] there's gonna be another one over there. That's nothing nice to look at."
Driving around New York and Pennsylvania you'll spot odd, denuded stretches running down hillsides like ski jumps. On the crests of the hills, the remains of tree lines look like Mohawk haircuts on either side of shaved pipeline slopes. This is only the most obvious sign of pipeline environmental degradation. The Constitution pipeline would also impact 37 Catskills trout streams, endangering aquatic life. According to Kate Hudson, Watershed Program Director at Riverkeeper, one of the state's most venerable environmental watchdog organizations, the pipeline would "cross hundreds of streams and wetlands by literally digging a hole through them… Any project that jeopardizes multiple water resources in two states is clearly against the public's interest."
Holding the Line
Longtime residents aren't alone in opposing the building of the Constitution pipeline. This tranquil region has been attracting retirees like Bob Stack, a former electrical engineer. In 2004, he and his wife, Anne, bought 97 acres near Leona Briggs's home. Their dream: to build a straw bale house, a sustainable structure that uses straw for insulation. No sooner had engineers visited the land to start planning than the couple got a letter from Constitution Pipeline LLC. "We were absolutely clueless. We knew nothing about fracking or about pipelines. Fracking was about as remote from us as oil in Iraq or someplace else," says Anne. "We just looked at each other and said, 'What an outrage!'" The Stacks, who moved east from Nevada, are now living in limbo.
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Garti, a small, quietly assertive former interactive computer software designer, is now a lawyer; her aim: helping people like Briggs and the Bixbys. She grew up in the town of Delhi, near Briggs's home. In 2008, she found herself among a small group of activists who convinced New York's then-Governor David Paterson to impose a moratorium on fracking. Under the measure's shelter a powerful grassroots anti-fracking movement grew, using zoning ordinances to ban drilling in municipalities.
Mark Pezzati, a graphic designer, helped get his town, Andes, in New York's Delaware County to enact a fracking ban. "Pipeline news wasn't high on the radar [then]," he says. "Most people were concerned about drilling." In 2010, Pezzati was shocked to discover that a pipeline called the Millennium had penetrated his state.
It turned out that local land use laws govern only drilling. Under the 1938 Natural Gas Act, pipelines and compressor stations represent interstate commerce. "Suddenly there was this frantic flurry of emails, where people were saying, 'We've got to meet and make people aware.'" (The meeting took place and 200 people flocked to listen to Garti.) "As time went on," adds Pezzati, "it became apparent that you really can't frack without a pipeline. There's no point in drilling if there's nowhere for the gas to go. So a light bulb went on. If you could stop pipelines you could stop fracking."
That was when Pezzati and his friends, used to arguing for bans at town board meetings, came up against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which, among other responsibilities, regulates interstate natural gas transmission. It tilts to corporations, and even Garti found the bureaucratic hurdles it posed daunting. "I have some experience and training in environmental law and it took me a month to figure out the intricacies of FERC's process," she told me.
Because FERC refused to disclose the names of landowners in the pipeline's path, Garti, Pezzati and about a dozen other volunteers had to pore over county tax databases, matching names and addresses to the proposed route. "First we sent letters, then we did door-to-door outreach," says Garti. Her basic message to landowners along the right of way: "Just say no."
"People are kind of impressed that you came all the way to their house," Pezzati points out. "There's not that many landowners in favor."
Garti attributes local resentment against the pipeline corporations and their threats to exercise eminent domain to a "fierce" regional "independence" dating back to the anti-rent struggles of tenant farmers against wealthy landlords in the nineteenth century. "People don't like the idea of somebody coming on their land and taking it from them."
The activists drafted a letter refusing entry to corporate representatives and circulated it to local landowners. By October 2012, Stop the Pipeline was able to marshal a crowd of 800 for a public hearing called by FERC—"a big crowd for a sparsely populated rural area," Garti recalls. The vast majority opposed the pipeline's construction. By January 2013, 1,000 people had sent in statements of opposition.
The organization has created a website with instructions about FERC procedures and handouts for local organizing, as well as a list of organizations opposing the pipeline. These include the Clean Air Council and Trout Unlimited. Among state and federal agencies expressing concerns to FERC have been the Army Corps of Engineers and New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation, known in earlier fracking battles for its collusion with the gas industry.
"Just like we have a fracking story that's different in New York State, we have a pipeline story that's different," says Garti. "The force of the opposition to pipelines is in New York State. And we have a shot at winning this thing."
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The Foundation announced the creation of a Baukunst Prize and will award it for the first time in 2012. Awards will be given to work of an inter- or trans-disciplinary nature, or work that transcends interdisciplinary boundaries, as set out in the statutes of the Foundation: i.e. concepts that not only address architectural aspects, but also include a choice of landscape, urban and/or general spatial qualities.
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"I'm better with Leo, and Leo is better with Barcelona"
The Barcelona midfielder spoke to FIFA.com and said that playing with his Argentine teammate makes him "a better player".
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Trace Adkins Biography
13 January 1962, Sarepta, Louisiana, USA. Before entering the entertainment world and the Nashville music community, Trace Adkins was employed as an oil-rigger. What some critics have labelled his blue-collar authenticity was first conveyed to audiences on the honky-tonk circuit on his evenings off work. This eventually led him to Nashville and a meeting with Scott Hendricks of Capitol Records. Adkins became Hendricks first signing. Hendricks also served as co-producer of Adkins 1996 debut album, Dreamin Out Loud. This was promoted by the release of three successful singles - Every Light In The House, I Left Something Turned On At Home, and the number 1 hit (This Aint) No Thinkin Thing. By February 1997 the album had reached the Billboard Top 100, despite strong competition from an emerging new generation of Nashville singer-songwriters. Adkins profile was increased by singing the national anthem at Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers matches. He also received considerable attention from the press when he took the unusual step of proposing to his girlfriend from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in 1996.
Subsequent albums achieved respectable sales figures but did not accelerate Adkins career as had been widely expected, although Chrome (2001) did push the artist into the country Top 5 for the first time. He was sentenced to two days in jail in November 2001 after pleading guilty to drunken driving charges relating to an incident in July. He bounced back in 2003 with a chart-topping compilation set and a new album, Comin On Strong. Both albums racked up platinum sales and confirmed the artists continued relevancy as a commercial force. Adkins was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry later the same year. His career resurgence was confirmed when Songs About Me (2005) and Dangerous Man (2006) both debuted at the top of the Billboard country charts. The single Honky Tonk Badonkadonk, taken from the former, crossed over into the pop charts in 2005, while Ladies Love Country Boys from the latter provided Adkins with his second country chart-topper in 2006.
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IndyOfComo replied to Dark Sage's topic in For BeginnersIf you want to program in bed :) , I suppose you could get a really simple laptop and VPN into your desktop.
IndyOfComo replied to On Rye's topic in Game Design and TheoryWhy not? Recettear has the dungeons, but they aren't required. The friend who introduced me to Recettear beat it without ever doing a dungeon.
IndyOfComo replied to dleanjeanz's topic in For BeginnersI'm with Diego--maybe it can be shortened because there's a shorter way of saying what you're doing. Personally, I wouldn't bother with the +Event method if all it's going to do is call a method of the same base name and do nothing else. ButIRecognizeAndEmpathizeWithFolksWhoDoNotLikeTheCurrentPopularConventionOfRidiculouslyLongMethodNames. There's something to be said to reading something short (say under 30 chars) and know which method/value is being referenced, rather than having to read all the way out to characters 55-60 to finally distinguish entities.
IndyOfComo replied to lvenonl's topic in For BeginnersAlso you could put in a timer function to enforce delay, to put a maximum effectiveness or gimp modded controllers/programs.
IndyOfComo replied to DevForLife's topic in Writing for GamesBeen listening to any They Might Be Giants by any chance? ("The Statue Got Me High") I'll need a bit more direction. I like what you've got so far, but where are you liking input?
IndyOfComo replied to nagiF's topic in Production and ManagementQFT!
IndyOfComo replied to IndyOfComo's topic in For BeginnersI don't understand your code. Although, it looks like your List is of type Icon, but your item icons are subclasses of GroupIcon The List should be <GroupIcon> ? Also, get should return: get { return icons[selectedPointer] as GroupIcon; } meaning, you are being returned a GroupIcon, or one of its derivatives I think all of your problems will go away, simply by making the lists not <T> but <GroupIcon> and call it a day Sorry, slight mistake in the goal code...fixed BasicComponent. Before going down this path, I had tried just having List<GroupIcon> in BasicComponent but then ItemGroup with List<ItemIcon> didn't have access to the methods particular to ItemIcon. (There isn't an inverse of base., is there? Where I could have the parent say 'go execute the child's version'?)
IndyOfComo posted a topic in For BeginnersSomewhere in stackoverflow I found a question similar to my situation, which was like finding a needle in a haystack. But I foolishly closed my browser before I was completely done with my coding. Here's my goal.... class BasicComponent { List<GroupIcon> icon; } class ItemGroup : BasicComponent { icon.Add(new ItemIcon(seed)); } class MonsterGroup : BasicComponent { icon.Add(new MonsterIcon(seed)); } class GroupIcon {} class ItemIcon : GroupIcon {} class MonsterIcon : GroupIcon {} Using an interface for the icons worked great, until I needed additional methods for certain icons--not just different execution of the methods, but whole new methods. Since of course if the method wasn't defined in the interface the compiler couldn't find it, and I didn't want to add it to the interface and have to define it in all the other classes which didn't need it. The answer I had found at stackoverflow was basically making my own List<> which only accepted certain types of objects. The code looked something like this: class IconList<T> : List<Type> { public void Add(Type t) { if (!typeof(GroupIcon).IsAssignableFrom(t)) { throw new ArgumentException("Type must be IGroupIcon, or implement/inherit it."); } else { base.Add(t); } } } But this isn't really working for me yet, so I have something wrong. For instance, this accessor... public GroupIcon SelectedIcon { get { return icons[selectedPointer]; } } can't compile cause it's trying to convert Type into GroupIcon. And if I change it to Add(GroupIcon t) then IsAssignableFrom() isn't valid. (of course). What'd I do wrong here?
Probably spending more time on EVE yeh ;)? Cant believe I only just noticed the logo <- ex player, left for programming well worth it ;) Heh, ya used to. But I also dropped my subscription to code more. I lapsed in August. I just couldn't excuse the sub for 2-4 hrs/ week, not counting lunchtime PI updating. I'm thinking about taking a break in January and subbing again for a month, lose some internet space pixels. I used to blog a bit about my journey, just a little. And I love my Amarr ships.
To answer my own question, I am a professional non-game programmer. Assembly(as is described in my signature), so not remotely connected to hobby gaming. (If you're using assembly-level programming in your game, I'm calling it not-hobby. ;) ) On my hobby programming, I usually manage 4 45-min lunches through the work week, and one night of 1.5-2 hrs. So in total I only get in about 4.5-5 hrs per week.
IndyOfComo posted a topic in For BeginnersI'm just interested in hearing how much time people put into their game development. If you like, please respond with an average weekly total in hours, and what's your level of experience. (Are you hobby programmer only, or professional as well? Is this your first or second game, or have you completed 10 games?)
IndyOfComo reviewed BriceMo's article in Game Design and Theory
It isn't. GameState is uppercase, No, it's not.
Would it be good advice though to pick different names? gameState and gameStates are pretty easy to get confused.


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Taylor Lautner's OVO by Cirque du Soleil Date Night
Seemingly quite taken by the spectacle, Taylor Lautner turned up at OVO by Cirque du Soleil in Santa Monica, California on Friday night (January 27).
Accompanied by rumored girlfriend Sara Hicks, the casually dressed "Twilight" hunk checked out the production for the second week in a row - with the Cirque offering being inspired by insects while centered around the concept of the movement of life.
Meanwhile, Taylor was recently announced as one of the many celebrity guests set to appear on one of the "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" post-Super Bowl shows.
Lautner joins other slated stars set to grace the talk show including Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, comedian Tracy Morgan, The Voice coach Adam Levine and Snoop Dogg, among others.
Enjoy the pictures of Taylor Lautner with Sara Hicks at OVO by Cirque du Soleil (January 27).
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That's A Lot Of Look: Katherine Heigl Is Overly Embellished
I realize critiquing Katherine Heigl's outfit is sort of like kicking someone when they're down. I mean, I saw "The Ugly Truth" (I was stuck! It was on a plane!) and it was terrrrrrible. However, personally, I like her. I think she's a ballsy lady who has been dealt a really crappy hand when it comes to publicity. And that's why I'm telling her, girl, you need to lay off the embellished tops. And if you insist on wearing them, don't pair 'em with an ugly white belt. I'm doing this as a service, really. [Photo: Fame/Flynet]


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John Gehring has a fine essay up at USAToday on what we Catholics should hope for in a new Pope. I especially like his call for a pope committed to a less ostentatious style of dress and demeanor. Much as I love Pope Benedict XVI, some of the costumes have been off-putting to those who, as Gehring notes, "are struggling to pay a mortgage or scratch out enough for tuition at a Catholic school."
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A 4-year-old girl and two adults are dead after a three-vehicle crash in Wheaton.
Killed were Elizabeth Lemus, 4, and Salvador Lemus Ramos, 39, and Felipe Pineda, 50.
The crash happened around 9:45 p.m. Sunday at Georgia Avenue and Kayson Street.
According to Montgomery County police, a 2000 Nissan Sentra driven by Salvador Ramos was making a left turn from Kayson Street on to northbound Georgia Avenue when it was struck by a blue 2008 Volkswagen Passat and an orange 2011 Chevrolet Camaro, both of which were traveling south on Georgia Avenue.
All four occupants of the Nissan were ejected. Elizabeth Lemus and Salvador Ramos died at the scene. Pineda was taken to a hospital, where he died. The other passenger, Elba Pineda, 31, remains in serious condition.
The driver of the Volkswagon is identified as Shaka Wakefield, 25, of Wheaton.
The driver of the Camaro is identified as Audias Sanchez, 35, of Wheaton.
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I have been reading a lot on the benefits of raw milk and really want to try. However, I just found out I was pregnant. I know the CDC and FDA advise against it's consumption whether prego or not (regardless of the slew of benefits) so I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts. Is it safe?
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I would drink it too. Provided you have a good source. According to the CDC's own numbers, way more people get sick from fresh vegetables than from raw milk. But no doctor is going to tell you to stop eating salad! (I would give you a reference for that, but I'm swamped right now, but I bet you can google it and find the report.)
Otherwise, Whole Foods sells a grass fed, low-temp pateurised, non-homogenized milk that I would consider a close second to raw milk as far as nutritional value is concerned. However, if you have lactose issues, it still won't have all the enzymes and good bacteria that raw milk does.
i did during my last two pregnancies, but i trusted my producers. to be honest, there is a bit of a gamble, as there is with anything. the main concern is listeriosis, which can also be contracted from deli meat (or rather, any processed meat which you do not cook fully before eating), cheese, and on the surfaces of fruits and vegetables. i hate to scare you, but it sounds kind of ubiquitous. there was a recent outbreak of listeria from shredded mozzarella cheese. however, cases of listeriosis are really rare, i think it's mostly a case of people making a big deal out of minute risks. as long as your milk producer knows what s/he's doing, and runs a clean operation with healthy cows, i wouldn't worry.
maybe if you're really freshly pregnant, wait another month or two before drinking raw milk after your risk of miscarriage drops by quite a bit.my primal journal:


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Relax - software directories are a lil bit more complex than that, software dir owners manually approve padfiles and some do it automatically and others may take 2 weeks and others 2 months depending on how popular a software directory is and the no. of submissions it has received..
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Selena Gomez's Friendly Sushi Dan Lunch Date
Getting in some much needed girl time, Selena Gomez had lunch with a friend at Sushi Dan in Studio City on Tuesday (February 12).
The "Wizards of Waverly Place" alum rocked a black skirt and a grey sweater as she and her pal took a stroll post meal.
In career news, the release of Ms. Gomez's highly anticipated flick "Spring Breakers" is fast approaching, and the star has been busy with promotions.
Fans can check out the 20 year-old and her co-stars Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens and James Franco in theaters beginning March 22.


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Jordan Schafer has truly rejuvenated his career in his second stint with the Atlanta Braves, and he's actually proven to be a vital part of this year's team.
After Schafer was a highly touted prospect going into 2009 and homering in his first Major League at-bat, things went downhill. He had already been suspended for steroids in 2008, then after his homer in 2009, he was swinging for the fences before being sent back down after hitting .204 with 63 strikeouts in 50 games.
Schafer, who struggled with myriad injuries, didn't taste the Major Leagues again until 2011, when he was called up but then traded to the Houston Astros in the Michael Bourn trade. That's where he hit rock bottom for his career in the form of an Oct. 2011 felony marijuana arrest.
Then a shoulder injury limited Schafer to 106 games in 2012, leading the Astros to place him on waivers, leading the Braves to take a low-risk chance on him again.
Entering this season, Schafer's career-high batting average was .242. This year, he's been absolutely vital to a Braves outfield that has been nothing short of streaky. In 57 games this season, Schafer has posted a .313 batting average and .406 on-base percentage, both are higher than B.J. Upton, Justin Upton and Jason Heyward.
Speed has been Schafer's greatest asset. He's used it to provide some great defense at every outfield spot, and he currently leads the Braves with eight stolen bases.
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Record: 19-3
Streak: Won 4
Leading scorers: Kevin Hill 31G, 21A; Nick Jaeger 15G, 14A.
Goalie: Nick Modica 94.5 percent
Common opponents: The Mounties beat Saratoga 3-1 on Jan. 25, beat Bethlehem 3-1, split with Mamaroneck during the regular season, and beat the Tigers 3-2 in overtime in the Section 1 title game.
Record: 19-3-1
Streak: Won 5
Leading scorers: Tyler Bullard 28G, 26A, Nick Winters 19G, 27A.
Goalie: Dakota Smith 92.4 percent.
Common opponents: The Blue Streaks lost to Suffern 3-1, beat Bethlethem 5-0 and 5-1, and beat Mamaroneck 6-0.


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UNC disputes report saying teachers it produces are not prepared
August 1, 2013
UNC School of Education
Number of undergraduate programs: 8
Number of graduate programs (non-doctoral): 15
Number of doctoral programs: 11 with six doctoral minors available
Number of initial administrator and special licensure programs: 9
Number of full-time faculty: 104
Number of teacher candidates: 3,520
Number of candidates recommended for licensure last year: 783 for 849 licenses
Annual budget: $14 million
International colleges that link to UNC: Burapha Univeristy, Thailand; Kasetsart University, Thailand; St. Patrick's College and Dublin City University, Ireland; Tai Solarin University, Nigeria
Number of faculty- and student-published materials: 69 peer-reviewed research articles, six books and 168 presentations
Accreditations: Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Department of Higher Education, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, American Psychological Association, National Association of School Psychology
Campuses: Greeley, Loveland, Denver, Colorado Springs and online
Inconspicuously displayed on one of the bookshelves in Eugene Sheehan's office is a framed certificate that he says validates what he already knows about the teacher preparation programs at the University of Northern Colorado.
The Excellence in Teacher Education Programs award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities is one of hundreds of awards UNC has received in its more than 100-year history.
However, a recent report by the National Council on Teacher Quality gave the college just two out of four stars in its undergraduate elementary education program and no stars in its secondary education program. It did not rank the school's graduate programs.
Those close to UNC, whether it be former students, K-12 school district administrators or UNC personnel, don't agree. They say the report is flawed and people should look at the whole picture, not just a snapshot taken by a few people sitting in an office thousands of miles away.
I try to avoid the NCTQ report. It's just a diversion. I have a job to prepare educators. I am not accountable to NCTQ. I am accountable to the people who pay the bills
— the state of Colorado. We're going to meet (the taxpayers') standards before we meet the standards of an elitist, self-appointed, self-anointed organization in D.C.
— Eugene Sheehan, dean of education at the UNC
"I try to avoid the NCTQ report," said Sheehan, who is the dean of education at UNC. "It's just a diversion. I have a job to prepare educators. I am not accountable to NCTQ. I am accountable to the people who pay the bills — the state of Colorado. We're going to meet (the taxpayers') standards before we meet the standards of an elitist, self-appointed, self-anointed organization in D.C."
According to its website, the NCTQ was founded in 2000 to provide an "alternative national voice to existing teacher organizations and to build the case for a comprehensive reform agenda that would challenge the current structure and regulation of the profession."
Sheehan said the group has been putting out this report for several years, but it never gained any attention until this year when it teamed up with U.S. News & World Report.
Coincidentally, in January, U.S. News & World Report ranked UNC's online education program No. 9 overall out of 208 programs nationwide and No. 1 in student engagement and accreditation.
It's not NCTQ's criteria that is flawed but the methodology they use to gather the data and the factual errors it produced, Sheehan said, pointing to things such as inaccurate program requirements.
According to Sheehan, NCTQ submitted an open records request for a lengthy list of syllabi — or course descriptions — for all aspects of the program. When UNC submitted a nearly $3,000 bill for the research required to pull it all together, the school and the organization argued back and forth over the price until nothing was ever submitted.
"We are the aircraft carrier of teacher prep programs," Sheehan said. "This isn't (a small program). The number of people it was going to take to pull it all together was going to take time and resources. We ended up submitting nothing. So honestly, I don't know what they reviewed. I'm not sure how they did that. They even listed us as non-cooperating."
Kate Walsh, president of the NCTQ, said in a telephone interview that UNC's charges were enormous and the bill claimed more time than it should have.
"We are a nonprofit," she said. "We reviewed 1,100 institutions. If each one sent us a bill for $3,000, how would you expect us to manage that?"
Walsh said the average school billed less than $300 for its time, while the larger institutions pushed the limits of what NCTQ could pay.
Walsh said NCTQ eventually used the information UNC posted online from its most recent accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
"If they pulled it off our website, it was outdated and incomplete," Sheehan said.
The last NCATE evaluation was in 2011.
UNC has a long and storied history of training Colorado's teachers.
UNC opened in 1889 as the State Normal School and was created to train teachers. The name has changed four times since then, but it still has the same main purpose. When people think UNC, they think education.
"There was no other option for me," said Hannah Lobato, who will begin her second year teaching kindergarten at East Memorial Elementary School this fall. "UNC is the only college I considered. It's all I ever heard about, and all I ever heard was how it was the greatest place to go."
Lobato, 23, was one of the more than 600 education students who graduate every year in one of 43 programs across four Colorado locations.
"I was 18 years old when I chose it. I was still confident at 22 when I graduated that I made the right choice," Lobato said.
In fact, the school's reputation is what led the state legislature to designate it "the primary institution for undergraduate and graduate teacher education in the state of Colorado." And, in 2009, the Legislature located the Education Innovation Institute at UNC.
"We are just huge here," Sheehan said. "We are one of the biggest public institutions that prepares teachers in the region."
The college employs more than 100 full-time faculty and administrators, along with three-dozen support positions, and currently, more than 4,000 students are seeking degrees in an education-related field with the average grade point average above a 3.0, most above 3.5, Sheehan said.
"Our teacher candidates, on average, have higher GPAs in their content area than their non-teacher peers," he said.
Historically, more than 30 percent of all teachers who win the Colorado Department of Education's Teacher of the Year award graduated from UNC.
UNC is accredited by a variety of organizations that Sheehan said spend weeks on advance research and then several days on campus with groups of six to 10 people talking to faculty, students and others about the program. The main accrediting organization for the teacher preparation programs is the NCATE, which reviews the college every seven years.
"They go through your books like nobody's business," he said. "They meet with students, faculty, teachers; they go to the schools and see the candidates in the classrooms."
NCATE chose UNC's educational technology program as a national model, and its most recent accreditation in 2011 said the college has no weaknesses.
But that assessment doesn't make Sheehan entirely happy, either. He said there is still more the college can do to improve.
"NCATE doesn't give you three stars or four stars. You are either doing your job or not. You either have weaknesses or you don't. But even though NCATE says we have no weaknesses, we all know we can always do better," he said. "I am proud. It is clear we have one of the best colleges of education in the country with a long history of preparing the greatest teachers. Could we do this better? Yes, of course. Every company can put out a better product. But I stand behind what we do, and I'm proud of what we do."
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There's nothing cats hate more than being dressed up in festive costumes. Seriously? Look at the miserable kitty faces in this collection of Santa cats — the disdain is practically dripping off their furry little bodies. And that's what makes Christmas cats so much fun.


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Craigslist ad leads to robbery
A man seeking a "casual encounter," over the weekend instead got robbed.
But the alleged criminals seeking to spend the stolen money walked right into the arms of a police officer.
As a result, Aimee J. Golden, 38, of 3603 Washington Ave., Finleyville, was charged with criminal conspiracy and recklessly endangering another person. She was remanded to the Washington County jail in lieu of $50,000 straight cash bond.
Kristopher Laughlin, 29, of 529 North Sixth St., Clairton, was charged with robbery, criminal conspiracy, terroristic threats and recklessly endangering another person. He was remanded to the Washington County jail in lieu of $50,000 straight cash bond.
According to police, the male victim, whom police did not identify, answered a listing on craigslist.org for "casual encounters." He made arrangements by email and through a telephone call to meet a woman named Aimee at her home at 3603 Washington Ave., Finleyville.
When he arrived there at 3 a.m. Saturday, a man wearing a mask and wielding a baseball bat and large knife allegedly robbed the victim of money and a cellular telephone.
Escaping, the victim went to the Sunoco in Finleyville, where he found a Monongahela police officer and reported the crime.
The officer called for back-up and was still in the Sunoco station when Golden and Laughlin walked in, police reported. They were arrested and the phone and money were recovered from Laughlin's home, police reported.
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Kentucky's 5'9" Tyler Ulis stares down Auburn's 7'2" Trayvon Reed
Kentucky point guard Tyler Ulis provided one of the greatest photos of the college basketball season on Saturday when he started down Auburn center Trayvon Reed.
Ulis, 5'9" freshman point guard, found himself in a confrontation with the 7'2" Reed (also a freshman) during the first half of Kentucky's 91-67 win in the SEC tournament semifinal.
One the best photos of the season. 5'9" Tyler Ulis stares down 7'2" Trayvon Reed (via: @lexingtonkycom) pic.twitter.com/8Uele8r4TF— Ryan Krasnoo (@RyanKras) March 14, 2015
Both players were issued technical fouls after jawing at each other, but neither took a free throw.
Ulis said he took some flak from his teammates—"They were like, how are you going to reach him!?"—but neither side seemed to take offense after the play.
Ulis finished with six points, six assists and five rebounds in 24 minutes. Reed scored one point and added two rebounds in 13 minutes for Auburn.
Kentucky will face Arkansas in the SEC tournament championship on Sunday after the Razorbacks defeated Georgia 60-49.
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Anderson, Charles W., Jr.
Birth Year : 1907
Death Year : 1960
Anderson, born in Louisville, KY, was the son of Dr. Charles W. and Tabetha Murphy Anderson. He was a graduate of Wilberforce University and received his law degree from Howard University School of Law. Anderson was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1933, and in 1936, as a Republican, was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives, making him the first African American Kentucky legislator. He had competed against five other candidates: Charles E. Tucker, Rev. Ernest Grundy, Dr. Richard P. Beckman, James D. Bailey, all Democrats, and Lee L. Brown, a Republican. Anderson is credited with a number of early Civil Rights measures, including the Anderson-Mayer State Aid Act, which provided funding for African Americans to seek higher education out of state because Kentucky enforced higher education segregation laws. Anderson was also appointed alternate delegate to the United Nations. For more see Not Without Struggle, by J. B. Horton; and Kentucky Encyclopedia 2000 [electronic version available on the University of Kentucky campus and off campus via the proxy server]. Charles W. Anderson, Jr. was the brother to Florence G. Anderson, one of the daughters of Charles W. Anderson, Sr. and his first wife Mildred Saunders Anderson.
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Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Lawyers, Politicians, Politics, Appointments & Elections, Legislators, Kentucky
Geographic Region: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky