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Project: Free Smile Day
Free Smile Day is a one-day event where area dental professionals provide free dental care to anyone who lives in Ontario County and cannot afford it on their own. More than 14 dentists, 25 hygienists and over 100 community members will volunteer their time. MCT funding helps cover the costs associated with the event.
Project: Children's Community Garden - Therapeutic Work Bench
The Children's Community Garden at Sonnenberg was built in 2014 and is a wheelchair accessible area. Sonnenberg encourages integration and hosts students, ARC life skills students, as well as anyone in the general community with mobility challenges. However, the Children's Community Garden is not wheelchair accessible for potting, retrieving water or harvesting plants. With MCT funding, the Garden will build three therapeutic work benches to serve all populations who wish to participate.
Project: My Outcomes Counselling Initiative
Partnership for Ontario County runs four Family Support Centers that provides counseling to youth and families within four Ontario County School districts. MCT grant funding will help purchase four subscriptions and one training package for the My Outcomes Application, a web-based program that tracks desired outcomes and goals of the individual and/or families who receive counseling. This tool will streamline the data collection as well as allow more time in counseling for the individual/family.
Project: Community CPR
Canandaigua Emergency Squad (CES) will offer more Heart Saver CPR classes to Canandaigua area residents with MCT grant funding. CES's goal is to educate and certify as many people in the greater Canandaigua area in CPR as possible to increase the potential for lives to be saved.
Project: Supply A Smile
Supply A Smile is a community outreach program offering free dental care for those without access to dental insurance. Supply A Smile partners with local dentist and hygienists who donate their time. With MCT grant funding, the program will purchase dentures, partials, crowns and other supplies for those with missing or extracted teeth.
Project: Healthy Cooking, Healthy Lifestyles
4-H Camp Bristol Hills is committed to bringing campers a program that focuses on wellness and positive body acceptance. MCT grant funding will support the Healthy Cooking, Healthy Lifestyles program that will provide nutrition education and teach kids how to prepare healthy snacks and meals. Instructors from the New York Wine & Culinary Center facilitate hands-on cooking experiences while educators from UR Medicine's Thompson Health deliver healthy lifestyle information.
Project: Resocialization and Healthy Activities
Blue Star Mothers of America is a program that supports veterans and their families with reintegrating back into their communities without judgment or stigma. The MCT grant will help create the Victory Garden and provide additional food for weekly dinners. This project will provide and promote healthy food, but it will also provide a judgment-free support system, meaningful activity, and overall resocialization skills for veterans who have recently returned home from deployment.
Project: 3B Scientific® Patient Care Manikin, I
Canandaigua Comfort Care Home provides a loving, compassionate and peaceful home for the terminally ill. MCT grant funding will allow for the purchase a life-like manikin to assist in the training of volunteers (and family members, if desired) who are providing care to residents. The teaching manikin allows volunteers the opportunity to practice and develop skills and become comfortable in performing personal care which will directly impact the resident's overall health, well-being, and dignity.
Project: Revitalization of the Community Healthy Eating / Learning Space
The community kitchen space at the YMCA is focused on teaching healthy food options and healthy eating habits to children of all ages. The space is in need of updates. MCT grant funding will help cover the costs for new flooring, a sink, and counter tops.
Project: Baby Café
Baby Café is a program in Canandaigua that is a resource to pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. It is a relaxed and informal environment where mothers can meet other mothers, share breastfeeding experiences and receive help from trained staff and community volunteers. The cafe offers refreshments, comfortable seating, a play area for toddlers, and an open forum. MCT funding will cover refreshments, nursing supplies, breastfeeding materials, printing needs for outreach and marketing. In addition, the funding will contribute to a portion of the cost of the space. This project will help approximately 20 women overcome challenges with breastfeeding through support and guidance.
Project: Youth Garden Project
The mission of Gleaners Community Kitchen is to feed the hungry within Ontario and Yates counties. The project will use its MCT funding for a Youth Garden that teaches youth how to garden - prepare the soil, plant seeds, weed, and harvest the crops. The funds will help purchase rain barrels, soil, seeds and plants, general gardening tools and supplies, consultants, and a celebration for the youth at the end of the project. The 30-35 youth involved will learn valuable job readiness skills and learn about ecology as well as how to grow and prepare their own food. They will develop an understanding of how the earth can provide abundance. Vegetables and herbs will be used in meal preparation for approximately 60 Gleaners' clients.
Project: Let the Children Plant
Sonnenberg's MCT grant will offer local middle school students an opportunity to participate in an outdoor field trip on the grounds of their 20-acre arboretum. Students will learn basic tree identification skills, see some very unique trees, and participate in a restoration planting project within the arboretum. The planting project will also teach the students proper planting techniques and the types of soil and compost to use.
Project: Services to the Armed Forces Comfort Kits and Resource Guides
The Canandaigua office of the Red Cross strives to improve the emotional and physical well-being of local veterans. The MCT funding will provide Comfort Care Kits consisting of robes, slippers and toiletries to local veterans at the VA Medical Center. The kits will be assembled and distributed by Red Cross volunteers.
Project: Kindergarten & UPK Books
Budding Readers' mission is to educate, encourage and equip parents in Ontario County to read with their infants and young children as a natural part of their daily routine. MCT funds will help gift a new, age-appropriate book to each entering kindergarten and UPK child in the seven school districts FLACE serves. By doing so, they hope this will start each child's school experience with a book that will be enjoyed and treasured by them and their families.
Project: Window Replacement and Kitchen Repair
Since 1975, Naples Little Bunch has operated as a parent co-operative preschool to offer our community a quality preschool curriculum with an emphasis on self-confidence, exploration, creativity and fun. To ensure a safe environment for the children, MCT funding will help cover some of the cost of replacing windows and repairing plumbing and water-damaged cabinets in the kitchen area.
Project: Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
The mission of the Partnership for Ontario County is to create, support and administer alliances to cultivate positive social change. MCT funding will teach adult first aid responders to recognize mental health symptoms and how to guide the individual to seek professional help. The goal is to train adult populations who work with youth to become certified as Mental Health First Aid Responders.
Project: Educational Community Vegetable Garden
Sonnenberg's Educational Community Vegetable Garden is designed to help children and young adults understand how to grow a vegetable garden. The MCT support will assist in providing wheelchair-accessible gardening work stations and interactive games.
Project: Domestic Violence Community Awareness and Panel Discussion
The mission of FCS is to provide professional counseling and supportive services to individuals, children and families to improve the quality of life at home and in the community. Domestic violence is a significant problem in our area and MCT funding will be used to increase the community's awareness of domestic violence and bridge resources impacting those in immediate need. FCS will host a community event that will include an educational video followed by a panel discussion to start the conversation about domestic violence.
Project: 2015 Aging Symposium - The End of Life Journey
Ontario ARC is hosting a one-day Aging Symposium to review the components involved in advanced care directives for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Experts in the area of guardianship, advanced care planning and mental hygiene legal services will present information on how best to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through the end-of-life process. MCT will help cover the cost of this important community event.
Project: Ga-ga Pit
The Canandaigua Corps will use MCT grant funding to install a Ga-ga pit. Ga-ga ("touch-touch" in Hebrew), is a variant of dodge ball that is played with one ball. The game can be played by a group as well as in one-on-one matches. The project encourages outdoor activity for youth in the community, thereby helping with physical health, social interaction and sportsmanship, which will benefit those youth not only today, but for a lifetime.
Project: Community Supported Agriculture program
Thompson's on-site Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program is available to all employees, but the cost is prohibitive to many. MCT grant funding will provide access to healthy produce up to 20 associates in financial need at reduced or at no cost.
Project: ErgoNurse
The Canandaigua Comfort Care is a local hospice home that provides compassion and support to individuals dealing with a terminal illness and their families. This MCT grant will help purchase an ErgoNurse repositioning system. This piece of equipment will improve the health, well-being and the quality of life of residents, their guests and volunteers during end-of-life care.
Project: AED Acquisition
The MCT grant funding will purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED) that will be located directly in the Wellness Center for immediate access to members using cardio, free weights, and circuit equipment.
Project: Purchasing AED
The Canandaigua Police Department currently is equipped with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in each patrol car and since the inception of the Public Access Defibrillation Program, they have responded to over 1,300 requests to respond to cardiac incidents. Four of these AEDs are outdated and need to be replaced. MCT grant funding will help cover the cost to replace these AEDs.
Project: General Support of Operations
MCT funding will support the cost of 10 monthly group meetings that will include guest speakers, an annual picnic and a holiday luncheon for approximately 100 members. This group helps those with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers deal with this chronic and progressive illness, and provides opportunities to meet others with the disease and share ideas.
Project: Project Lifesaver
Project Lifesaver is a law enforcement-based tracking program that assists in locating those who are prone to wander, such as dementia patients or those with intellectual disabilities like autism. MCT grant funding will assist with purchasing a receiver that is placed in a general location and transmitter bracelets that at-risk clients will wear. If the client is missing, the bracelet will emit a signal to the receiver that will help police locate the individual. The Project Lifesaver program decreases the search time for those who have wandered from hours or days to just minutes.
Project: Believe Collaborative Conference
MCT funding will help fund the Child Advocacy Center of the Finger Lakes, Family Counseling Services of the Finger Lakes, Safe Harbors of the Finger Lakes, and the Ontario County Victim/Witness Assistance Program, all part of the Partnership for Ontario County, to create an educational conference for professionals and community members. The conference will provide pertinent, applicable and current information and education regarding child abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault to professionals and community members.
Project: Summer Day Camp
The Ontario County branch of the Salvation Army offers a five-week Summer Day Camp for approximately 45 underprivileged children ages 5-12 in need of daytime supervision. The program offers day-long supervision, activities and healthy meals and snacks. The Salvation Army will use its MCT grant funds to help subsidize registration fees, and to provide activities for the participants.
Project: Remineers
Bridges for Brain Injury (BBI) is a Canandaigua-based not-for-profit that provides in-home and community-based services for brain injury survivors. Mary Clark Thompson Grant funding will purchase start-up supplies for Remineers, a program that encourages and stimulates the mind to access past memories.
Project: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program
Thompson's on-site CSA program is available to all employees, but the cost is prohibitive to many. To increase the access to healthy local produce, MCT grant support will offer 10 free or up to 20 partial shares to employees. Financial need will be based on an application process.
Project: Canandaigua Comfort Care Home
Canandaigua Comfort Care will provide a loving, compassionate peaceful home for the terminally ill at no charge to approximately 30 Ontario County families per year. CCC will use its MCT funding for miscellaneous expenses to ensure ongoing operation.
Project: Richmond Recreation – Boys and Girls 5th-8th grade Basketball Program
Richmond Recreation coordinates a boys and girls basketball program each year from October through March. In the last six years, the program has grown from a 5th and 6th grade boys program to a 5th-8th grade program for both boys and girls. MCT grant funding will replace the program's five-year-old uniforms.
Project: Healthy Minds and Bodies for a Strong Community
The Red Jacket Community Library and the Canandaigua Family YMCA teamed up to provide approximately 6,000 residents of the Manchester/Shortsville School District with access to a fitness park and access to a variety of educational programs to promote a healthy lifestyle. The MCT grant will purchase library materials and a piece of fitness park equipment.
Project: Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Service Angels
Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Services provides assistive devices such as wheelchairs, canes, commodes, and financial assistance to individuals who have unmet health-related needs in Ontario, Yates, Wayne and Seneca counties. The FLVNS Angels will use MCT funds to provide approximately 50 individuals with assistive items that are not covered by insurance as well as transportation costs.
Project: Children's Vegetable Garden
Sonnenberg will use its MCT grant to expand its educational efforts by adding a container gardening program to teach children about herbs and vegetables. Participants learn proper planting and harvesting techniques, and how gardening can contribute to an active and healthy lifestyle. The fresh vegetables and herbs grown will then be donated to Gleaners Community Kitchen.
Project: Cinder for the Outdoor Fitness Trail
The Canandaigua City School District has installed a fitness trail with fitness stations at the Canandaigua Middle School to promote fitness throughout the school community (students, faculty, and staff). MCT grant funding will allow CSD to install a concrete sand trail, which will extend the use of the trail during the spring and fall.
Project: Early Childhood Vision Screening Program
Canandaigua Lions Club provides free vision screening using borrowed equipment to Canandaigua and Naples area schools, YMCA, Head Start agencies and various pre-school day care centers. MCT grant funding will allow the club to reach other private schools, home school programs, and church groups as well as be at other community events. The club will also be able to purchase a three-year-old PlusOptix Vision Screener and operating supplies.
Project: Recovery Event
The Council on Alcoholism is an alcohol and drug abuse prevention agency serving the five-county region of the central Finger Lakes. They strive to reduce abuse and addiction and its accompanying issues and problems. MCT grant funding will assist in covering the costs of a special event, "Pass It On," to support recovery efforts for local families. The event features a live stage performance designed to educate people about the history of recovery as well as appreciate and celebrate recovery in local communities.
Project: Bereavement Support
The Ontario-Yates Hospice, a program for terminally ill patients, established a bereavement program to provide peace and support to families following a loss at two weeks, one month, three months, six months, nine months and one year – as well as monthly bereavement support group. MCT funding supports the purchase of books and provides general support of the bereavement program.
Project: Child Advocacy Center Forensic Interviewer
Partnership for Ontario County is an agency that creates and cultivates positive social change through many different community programs. MCT grant funding will help provide an on-site forensic interviewer at a centralized location for professionals involved with child abuse victims and investigations. This will combine resources and efforts to reduce the trauma for a victim and provide the most thorough and comprehensive investigation possible.
Project: Children's Educational Vegetable Garden
Sonnenberg will use MCT grant funding to update the Children's Garden to include new raised beds for growing a larger variety of vegetables. From May through September, the children involved will learn proper planting and harvesting techniques and also learn about healthy eating and how gardening can contribute to an active and healthy lifestyle. The fresh vegetables and herbs grown will be donated to Gleaners Community Kitchen. Finger Lakes Community College students will lead the young gardeners in the project – increasing awareness of healthy food options, composting methods and gardening techniques.
Project: Care Packages for the Homeless
St. Vincent DePaul, an agency that focuses on struggling families and individuals, will use its MCT support to create 30 care packages for the homeless. The packages will contain hygiene and nutritional products along with a food voucher. The packages will be distributed by the volunteers in the society's Clothing Room Operation.
Project: Gleaners Growing 2
Gleaners Community Kitchen, a community food kitchen, plans to offer a program in food preparation and preservation that will help participants understand the nutritional and monetary value of fresh produce. The goal of the program is to help clients out of poverty through acquisition of new tools and skills, increase self-esteem and communication skills, learn how to cook healthy meals, and reduce obesity and other health issues related to poor nutrition.
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Memorandum of Understanding Entitled Infrastructure Asset Management Technology Exchange
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
/s/ Benjamin Grumbles 7/11/06
Benjamin Grumbles Date
Assistant Administrator for Water
U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration
/s/ King W. Gee 7/11/06
King W. Gee Date
Associate Administrator for Infrastructure
Purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding:
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is between the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Highway Administration, hereinafter referred as "FHWA" and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, hereinafter referred as "EPA."
The MOU is entered into as:
FHWA moves ahead with its strategic goal to -
Preserve, improve, and expand the Nation's highway transportation system while, at the same time, enhance the operation of the existing highway system and intermodal connectors; and to protect and enhance the natural environment and communities affected by highway transportation; and
EPA advances its strategic goal to-
Preserve, improve, and expand the Nation's water and wastewater infrastructure and assure that these systems are sustainable and that future communities can continue to enjoy the water quality and human health protection that water infrastructure provides.
The cooperation fostered by this MOU adds value in the pursuit of national strategies to address the growing and increasingly complex infrastructure related challenges that lie ahead for both Agencies and the United States. This MOU recognizes the synergistic benefit of collaborative undertakings and provides a platform for cooperation.
The intent of this MOU is to facilitate and encourage working arrangements between the agencies and amongst other Federal Agencies, and other State and local partners. This MOU fosters increasing dialogue and helps to identify commonalities in Asset Management approaches including policy initiatives; and encourages information sharing in efforts to advance the state-of-the-practice of Asset Management, as our respective agencies work with our customers and partners in various levels of government to protect and enhance our Nation's critical infrastructure assets.
Under this MOU, the FHWA and the EPA intend to exchange information, coordinate activities, provide opportunities for cross-training, and provide technical expertise and assistance in support of each other's Infrastructure Asset Management Programs. A cooperative endeavor is especially important in light of the fact that in many cases the local entities that own, operate, and maintain the transportation infrastructure also own, operate and maintain the water and wastewater management utilities.
The United States (Federal, State and local entities) have been successfully building and operating assets for generations. We are now into a transition from being focused at being really good at building and operating assets to becoming very skilled at managing assets. There are promising new approaches in systems monitoring capabilities, information handling and the maturing of decision support systems that have enabled us to think anew about how the work is best accomplished. These new tools and techniques are very timely in that they enable us to think about choices in more sophisticated ways; to better understand condition, to better predict failures and to make more informed choices about optimal strategies for meeting service objectives. Asset Management is a strategic approach to managing infrastructure that focuses on the managerial, business and engineering processes with the objective of better decisionmaking. The evolving Asset Management processes are adept at guiding decisions as to the effective mix of maintenance, repair, renewal or replacement of components within the systems. Asset Management techniques have been successfully employed in some States, urban centers, large and small municipalities, and townships to improve operational, environmental, safety, and financial performance.
This MOU recognizes that infrastructure owners have the primary responsibility for making sure those infrastructure systems stay in good working order. However, we also recognize that America's infrastructure is critical to our Nation's mobility and economic, environmental, and social health, and therefore, it is essential that we strive toward the goal of making state-of-the-practice Asset Management concepts, tools, techniques, and technologies the norm for managing for cost effective performance.
EPA is entering into this MOU under the authority of Section 104(b) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1254(b). FHWA is entering this MOU under the authority of Title 23, U.S.C. - Highways.
Cooperative Efforts:
FHWA and EPA plan to promote active dialogue, explore collaborative opportunities, and, when beneficial, cooperate in undertaking activities consistent with the following strategies:
Communicate and share information on state-of-the-art Infrastructure Asset Management practices with States, urban centers, large and small municipalities, and townships.
Share information on organizational approaches and issues related to application of performance measurement, development of common measures of performance, and decisionmaking tools for system performance including tracking program delivery.
Share information with policy and technical decision makers and elected officials on the benefits of applying Asset Management principles and techniques throughout the planning process from initial goal setting and investment decisions, through to operations, preservation, and maintenance.
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Develop partnerships with public and private entities having an interest in and commitment to Asset Management.
To the extent practicable, jointly sponsor workshops and seminars with other organizations.
Points of Contact:
For purposes of day-to-day operation of the MOU, the following individuals will serve as the primary contacts on behalf of each Agency
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A. All commitments made by FHWA and EPA in this MOU are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and budget priorities. Nothing in this MOU, in and of itself, obligates EPA or FHWA to expend appropriations or to enter into any contract, assistance agreement, interagency agreement, or incur other financial obligations. Any endeavor involving reimbursement or contribution of funds between the parties to this MOU will be handled in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and procedures, and will be subject to separate subsidiary agreements that will be effected in writing by representatives of both parties.
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Numpty Physics: A great use of the Hela keyboard
The terminal is fun and everything, but sometimes you might think that it's not the most fun you could get out of your rubber keyboard. For that you need Numpty Physics.
Michael Kluge compiled it for Openmoko:
You'll need to opkg install libsdl-1.2-0 & libsdl-image-1.2-0 before it will work, but Michael's promised to include all of these in the installer package if the annoying "pointer location in landscape mode" bug is ever fixed. With the keyboard you're able to make the most of all the key commands given in the instructions on the project's home page.
Thanks Michael, this is awesome.
Similar to http://www.crayonphysicsdeluxe.com/crayonphysics/
Funny you should say that, Cole, as this quote on the Numpty Physics website betrays no such inspiration at all: "Numpty Physics is a drawing puzzle game in the spirit (and style?) of Crayon Physics using the same excellent Box2D engine. Note though that I've not actually played CP so the experience may be very different." ;)
Posted by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen on July 30, 2008 at 01:05 PM BST #
Got the latest softwares, the required libsdl packages installed and I still get
root@om-gta02:~# opkg install http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~mkluge/numptyphysics_0
Downloading http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~mkluge/numptyphysics_0.2_armv4t.ipk
Installing numptyphysics (0.2) to root...
Collected errors:
* ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for numptyphysics:
* libsdl * libsdl-image *
Posted by risto h. kurppa on July 31, 2008 at 10:16 AM BST #
use the option -nodeps to install:
opkg install numptyphysblabla.ipk -nodeps
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nice game..
but how to restart the level on openmoko???
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"THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CINEMATOGRAPHY" Lab 101 - Panavision Hollywood
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PST)
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CINEMATOGRAPHY LAB with JAY HOLBEN
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
1:00pm – 4:00pm
6735 Selma Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028
Instructor: JAY HOLBEN
In today's digital age, higher quality and less expensive cameras have democratized the filmmaking process making it accessible to nearly everyone. Now that is easier than ever to get out there and start shooting on your own, it is important to learn the art, aesthetics and science of how to utilize digital technology to create an artistic and pleasing image.
Cinematographer-turned-director JAY HOLBEN, Technical Editor at DV Magazine, will take us on a journey through the basics of photographic imagery. Jay will cover what light is and how we see it, to understanding dynamic range, exposure and WHY we light (especially when modern cameras can nearly see in the dark). The Fundamentals of Cinematography explores how the professional cinematographer crafts their images. Move your own image-making forward quantum leaps.
This lab is perfect for aspiring DPs and camera crew, filmmakers who have recently acquired a digital camera package, and directors who want to improve understanding and communication with their cinematographers.
Jay Holben - Head Educator
HOLLYWOOD SHORTS Cinematographers Lab
Our Emerging Filmmakers Program (EFP) offer a full line up of filmmaking seminars and labs. This Cinematographers Lab for Filmmakers is designed for filmmakers, producer and aspiring camera crew. The monthly seminars encompass a wide range of topics and issues, designed for all ranges of experience and formats. The HS/EFP Cinematographers Lab takes us into some of the workrooms of some of our favorite camera shops and camera related organizations that every camera department professional and up-n-comer should know...
Seminar Topics include:
- Fundamentals of Cinematography
- Getting the Best Image From Your Camera
- The Camera Crew
- Flavors of HD
- The Camera Showcase
- Lighting from Home Depot
ABOUT JAY HOLBEN Jay Holben is an independent producer & filmmaker who worked as a director of photography for nearly a decade. Previously serving as Technical Editor covering film cameras and lighting, Jay has been a contributing editor to American Cinematographer Magazine for 12 years. He is currently the Technical Editor for DV Magazine, with a monthly column, 'DV101,' and has contributed to several books including the American Cinematographers Manual. Jay has contributed to several books on cinematography, including the American Cinematographer Manual, 9th Edition. He is the author of "A Shot in the Dark: A Creative DIY Guide to Digital Video Lighting on (Almost) No Budget" which was released earlier this year. This year, Jay also co-founded FILMMAKER IN A BOX, an educational resource for feature filmmakers. Jay has been a member of HOLLYWOOD SHORTS since 1999 with his short film adaption of the Stephen King poem, "Paranoid", and he is our Department Chair - Cinematography at HOLLYWOOD SHORTS FilmLab.
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Thu Jul 4, 2013, 04:43 PM
ProfessorGAC (29,996 posts)
Do You Owe The IRS More Than $10,000?
What is going on with this?
There are SIX different firms advertising on national TV to get people who owe the IRS more than 10 grand partly off the hook.
There are enough people in this boat to for 6 companies to compete on national TV for business? Really?
Here's my problem. Sure there are people who ended up in financial problems for issues they can't control, but what's the percentage of that? Seems to me this group of people is dominated by three groups"
- Teabaggers who hate the government and tried to get away with something. No bargains. Throw them in jail.
- Anarchists who are making a point. Less vitriol from me, but stay off my interstates and never use the internet or 911.
- Tax cheats who got caught. No excuses for cheaters. Send them to jail with the teabaggers.
I don't understand why there are enough people who owe at least 6 months tax to the IRS that it justifies this level of commercial competition.
I just have a bad feeling that these are sharks trolling for cheaters who are looking for a way off the hook.
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Response to ProfessorGAC (Original post)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 04:45 PM
NRaleighLiberal (42,911 posts)
1. I suspect they are all scams...
they are all over AM radio as well.
snake oil salesmen!
Response to ProfessorGAC (Original post)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 05:06 PM
enlightenment (8,830 posts)
2. I think there are also people who just get terminally confused by
the rules - especially people who start a small business solo, and then do well enough to hire a couple of employees. All of a sudden, they are responsible for taxes that they weren't responsible for previously and unless they're really on top of it, it can get out of control pretty quickly.
I don't know if that's a "issue they can't control" - just one that isn't deliberate malfeasance.
Response to ProfessorGAC (Original post)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 05:35 PM
Bonhomme Richard (8,738 posts)
3. A lot of small business owners rob Peter to pay Paul.
Make payroll (which they are obligated to do) or pay Uncle Sam so they don't make tax payments. Being optimist they think things will get better in the near future and Whamo...it doesn't and now they are in the hole for thousands.
And yes. They are scams.
Response to ProfessorGAC (Original post)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 05:37 PM
Hoyt (30,311 posts)
4. You'd be surprised how easy it is to get in a tax mess. But these firms are scams.
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Thu Jul 4, 2013, 05:38 PM
HiPointDem (20,729 posts)
5. lots of small businesses going under recently. maybe that's the reason.
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Thu Jul 4, 2013, 05:40 PM
itsrobert (13,562 posts)
6. If a business is losing money and going out of business
How are net losses taxable?
Response to itsrobert (Reply #6)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 05:41 PM
HiPointDem (20,729 posts)
7. i'd guess from past robbing peter to pay paul. or not pay paul. but i just threw out the small
business failures as a possible reason. could be that 5 years on from the recession, more and more people have just maxed out their options -- savings, etc.
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Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:25 PM
Hoyt (30,311 posts)
9. Failure to pay sales tax, payroll tax, personal taxes, etc.
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Thu Jul 4, 2013, 06:39 PM
jmowreader (36,169 posts)
8. Penalties and interest can be far higher than back taxes
I've spoken before of my tax-evading former state legislator Phil Hart. This is the guy who wrote a tax-protester book entitled "Constitutional Income: Do You Have Any?" (this book puts forth the debunked tax-protester argument that the folks who wrote the Sixteenth Amendment intended that "income" be what we'd now call "capital gains," hence anyone with no capital gains has no taxable income. This sounds even more stupid than it actually is, but some people seem to like it.), believed his own words over those of the Internal Revenue Code, and stopped paying taxes for quite a few years. (And for extra entertainment, he also went out on the school system's conservancy land, cut down enough trees to build a huge log home without paying anyone for them, and claimed he was allowed to do it because you could do it many years ago. You could also lynch all the horse thieves you could catch many years ago, but now they don't let you do that either.)
Anyway, Phil Hart owes over $500,000 to the IRS. Only $90,000 of that is taxes; the rest is penalties and interest.
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Fri Jul 5, 2013, 05:59 AM
ProfessorGAC (29,996 posts)
10. Thanks Folks Some Good Thoughts Here
i lost my internet access about 20 minutes after i posted. A transformer on the other side of the river cooked itself. Didn't take out our power, but damaged the fiberoptics. Lost TV, internet and VoIP phone. Not sure how it's designed, but TV came back in about 20 minutes, but no internet or phone until late last night.
Some thoughts in reply:
I know these outfits are likely scams, but there still has be a big enough market for the scam artists to drop advertising dollars.
I also know penalties are a major factor, and that one can often negotiate those down without the "experts", but you have to be underpaying to get penalized in the first place.
And, i guess the surprising thing to me is that the vast majority of people have enforced withholding. This means that SBO's must have a silly high proportion of people "robbing Peter..." as some of you have said. And that a silly high proportion of them are doing it by skating on the IRS.
I just find all this disproportionate.
Response to ProfessorGAC (Reply #10)
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 06:33 AM
Fumesucker (45,851 posts)
11. There are a lot of desperate people these days who have gone into business for lack of a job
I would guess that a great many of those desperate people are indeed robbing Peter to pay Paul.
And the tax code is a bewildering tangled thicket if all you've ever done before is work for someone else and had your taxes withheld.
Not letting everyone off the hook by any means but the lousy economy for the last few years has caused a great deal of damage in ways that aren't immediately obvious.


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Thursday, Nov. 17
The TCHS Cheerleaders would like to invite everyone to a 31 Purse Party in the high school cafeteria from 3:30-6:30.
Saturday, Nov. 19
Trimble County Historical Society will meet at 1 p.m. in the Kentucky Room at the Trimble County Public Library. All members are urged to attend as election of new officers will be held.
Tuesday, Nov. 22
The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Oldham, Trimble, Henry, Owen, Carroll and Gallatin during the period of Nov. 21 – Dec. 5, 2011.
The intent of a traffic safety checkpoint is to provide for high visibility public safety service, focusing on vehicular equipment deficiencies, confirming appropriate registration of vehicles and the licensing of drivers. Violations of law or other public safety issues that arise shall be addressed in accordance with Kentucky traffic and regulatory laws.
Monday, Oct. 31
11:15 a.m., traffic stop, Cardinal Hills
1:15 p.m., process service, Martini Ln and U.S. 421S
1:32 p.m., abandoned vehicle, U.S. 421S
1:51 p.m., miscellaneous traffic complaint, 12000 block U.S. 421N
3:42 p.m., burglary, 5200 block U.S. 42W
6:08 p.m., traffic stop, U.S. 421 and Victory
6:22 p.m., process service, 100 block Hi Grove Hill Rd
7:29 p.m., process service, 200 block Churchwood Ln
Tuesday, Nov. 1
2:47 p.m., Miscellaneous complaint, Trimble County Middle School
Items published in court news are public record.
The Trimble Banner publishes all misdemeanors, felonies and small-claims judgments recorded in district court, as well as all civil suits recorded in circuit court. Juvenile court cases are not published.
Crime reports are provided by local law enforcement agencies. Charges or citations reported to The Trimble Banner do not imply guilt.
The following cases were heard in court the week of Nov. 7-Nov. 11, 2011.
A Bedford couple was arrested Tuesday, Nov. 8, on several charges of car theft after a spree that started Monday night in Trimble County and ended in Henry County.
According to a news release, Kentucky State Police Troopers Brad Arterburn and Trooper Zack Morris were recovering a stolen Ford Mustang on Wooded Ridge Road in Henry County when they spotted the couple in a minivan, which also turned out to be stolen.
Exorbitant bids on the animal shelter project have forced Trimble and Henry county officials to return to the drawing board with architects to find ways to cut construction costs.
A plan for the 2,144-square-foot facility, to be built on two acres of land on Sulphur Road donated to Trimble County by Republic, owner of the nearby Valley View Landfill, was designed by 5253 Design Group in Louisville. The firm estimated the project at $217,000.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is studying the possibility of installing additional lighting on the U.S. 421 curve near the Milton Lions Club where numerous accidents and fatalities have occurred over the years.
Milton Constable Tom Persell addressed the issue with the members of the Milton City Commission Thursday. Persell said there is one light near the curve "but it's not really up by the road," he said.
It only took about two minutes for a lone gunman to rob Cook's Pharmacy on Main Street in New Castle of prescription pills, according to Detective Danny Stivers of the Henry County Sheriff's Office.
Stivers said at about 1:48 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, the robber lured an employee from behind the pharmacy counter, claiming that he thought he had pink eye. As the employee began pointing out products the man might want to try, the suspect allegedly pulled a gun and handed a plastic bag to the employee, ordering that he fill it with prescription pain killers.
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As sponsors prepared to pull out of NASCAR garages a year ago, Chip Ganassi looked to survive amid an economy shifting toward an ominous downturn.
In an effort to save his oft-floundering organization, the Pittsburgh native needed an elixir to weather the sickening feeling that stock-car racing had reached its zenith, that a supposedly inevitable depression would force the hand of suddenly thrift-minded corporate executives, who for years freely spent millions on sponsorships that kept the sport in high gear.
Ganassi had traveled this road before in the mid-1990s, having survived the breakup of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a dysfunctional open-wheel governing body that ultimately dissolved, in part, because of its inability to compete with rival Indy Racing League.
So, instead of shuttering his NASCAR operation to focus on his successful IRL drivers — including the past two series champions, Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon — Ganassi brainstormed with NASCAR team executives at his Pittsburgh headquarters and agreed to merge with then-troubled Dale Earnhardt Inc.
An apparent marriage of convenience quickly evolved into one of the most productive partnerships during an era when only the mighty are thriving — Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Roush Fenway Racing and Stewart-Hass Racing.
Now, midway through NASCAR's 10-race playoffs, the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates — buoyed by the sometimes-pugnacious Juan Pablo Montoya — has positioned itself to achieve the unthinkable, the unimaginable: becoming the first owners to capture the IndyCar Series and Sprint Cup championships in the same year.
Ganassi, who fielded his first Cup team in 2001, is enjoying this incredible ride. Already, Franchitti and Dixon have finished 1-2 in the IndyCar Series. Montoya remains in contention to dethrone three-time defending Cup champion Jimmie Johnson.
However, Ganassi's success in motor sports this year has been even more expansive. His Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series team, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, finished second in that series.
"I'm just glad (Ganassi) invited me back to come and play," Franchitti said. "I really enjoyed it. What a team Chip has assembled.
"I wanted to be part of the unified series, the places we get to race at and the people I get to race against and the cars I get to drive. It's pretty cool."
Ganassi, winner of seven open-wheel championships, surprised even himself with his Sprint Cup achievement.
"Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine this could happen in the Sprint Cup Series," he said. "It's about points and about taking these races one week at a time. You hear football coaches talk about this all the time, whether it's (former Steelers coaches) Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher or Mike Tomlin. But you have to have your eye on the big picture at the same time.
"We reached that point in the season when we looked at the what-ifs and wondered if we would make it. You don't think about that at the beginning of the season. To already have locked up the IndyCar championship and looking at our position in NASCAR, anything can happen between now and then.
"Our goal was to be in the Chase," added Ganassi, a former minority owner of the Pirates. "I don't think people rated us as contenders at the start of the season. We were considered back-markers of the Chase. It's nice to have surprised people with our performance."
In only his third full Cup season, Montoya has maneuvered his way through a crowded field of contenders.
After running in the middle of the pack the previous two seasons, the Colombian native rushed toward the front to put the No. 42 Target Chevrolet in contention with the Cup elite — including Johnson, four-time Cup winner Jeff Gordon and two-time Cup titleholder Tony Stewart.
Montoya began the Chase with four consecutive top-4 finishes, including third at the Pepsi 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., to move into third place in points behind front-runners Johnson and Mark Martin.
But last week at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C., his car got banged up in an accident he didn't cause, and he finished 35th. That dropped him to sixth in the points — 195 points behind Johnson.
"The team has always been capable of running the way Juan's running," Ganassi said. "It may be a surprise externally, but not internally."
Montoya and Ganassi enter today's race knowing they can't afford to fall farther behind with every remaining Cup venue — save Talladega Superspeedway — historically favoring Johnson.
A winless Montoya might be in a must-win situation. A flurry of top-five finishes may only protect his position down the stretch.
"It would be nice if we can get a freaking win soon, and we can move on," Montoya told reporters last week. "As I said before, once you pass Martinsville and Talladega, you look at the points and say, 'What do we need to do for that?' "
Admittedly, Ganassi and Montoya never envisioned this scenario when the season began.
Montoya and his teammates, Martin Truex Jr. and Aric Almirola, were hoping to be competitive. More importantly, they were hoping to impress nervous sponsors, who signaled during the spring that they would significantly slash their NASCAR budgets.
"In terms of satisfying our sponsors, I think our goal was to be in the Chase," Ganassi said. "Now, we're readjusting our goals. I think our sponsors are proud of what we've accomplished."
Ultimately, Franchitti's stock car racing career stalled when sponsors bolted from the team as he struggled to qualify and finish races. But Montoya's sponsors, including Target, stayed for the long haul.
"While we're trying to make our mark in NASCAR, we had some curveballs thrown at us, whether it was sponsors changing their priorities or financial downturns in the market," said Ganassi, whose relationship with Target spans 20 years. "The sports world and NASCAR have weathered some pretty serious blows to our business model — or the way we do our business — so we've had to make some changes.
"I'm lucky to have people who have been able to change, and Juan is certainly one of those people. He has adapted, and it hasn't hurt his performance."
Undoubtedly, the merger with DEI and the switch from Dodge to Chevrolet has helped. Heading into Race 6 of the Chase at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia, five of the top six in the points standing drive Chevrolets.
"Obviously, the merger took us to the next step," Ganassi said. "In this business, you don't have to be too far off to be toward the back of the pack. The back to the front is a half-second sometimes. It was just a small step we made, but you can't just look at the hard assets of the merger.
"What it brought more than tangible assets were the tradition of winning and of excellence. Sometimes, in sports, a little attitude is all you need to get to the next step."
Ganassi and Montoya envision a championship as the only obstacle to climb. Together, they already have scaled a higher mountain — winning the 2000 Indianapolis 500 and 1999 CART title.
If nothing else, they have the equipment and resources to take on the mountainous challenge of ending Johnson's Cup reign.
"Sports has two bottom lines: wins and losses, and profits and losses," Ganassi said. "You have to commit to both.
"When you race at a high level for a long time — like Gordon, Johnson and Stewart — we know the ins and outs of the guys. Juan has been racing at a high level for a long time, maybe not in our backyard."
Montoya isn't certain he wants to return to the Brickyard to chase after a second Indianapolis 500. But Ganassi acknowledged that a Montoya win in February at Daytona could pique the team's interest in vying for the Sprint Cup-IndyCar Series double — Daytona 500 and Indy 500.
"I guess it's a possibility because you cam never say never," Ganassi said. "Juan knows if it's something he wants to do, then he has a partner who will try to make something like that happen.
"We talk about things often, and I think he's so focused on NASCAR, it's not entering his mind right now. He wouldn't want to take an opportunity away from some other driver at Indy, but you never know. He's a competitor, and that's what everyone loves about him."
Montoya, though, is feeling much love for Ganassi.
"Last year was a tough year for Chip," Montoya said. "We lost a lot of sponsors, so there were a lot of changes, including three crew chiefs. But I always have faith in Chip. I never thought Chip was going to leave or something."
Instead, Ganassi is leaving nothing to chance as he pursues American motor sports' holy grail: a Sprint Cup and IRL title in the same season.
The Chip Ganassi file
Hometown: Pittsburgh
Born: May 24, 1958
College: Duquesne
Occupation: Owner of Pittsburgh-based NASCAR (Juan Pablo Montoya, Martin Truex Jr., Aric Almirola) and Indy Racing League (Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon) teams
Career highlights: Seven open-wheel championships, including back-to-back IRL titles. ... Franchitti and Dixon won 10 of 17 IRL races this season. ... Montoya is sixth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. ... Teams have won two Indianapolis 500s (Montoya and Emerson Fittipaldi). ... He finished eighth in the 1983 Indy 500. ... Former minority owner of the Pirates.


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Being a 3rd party candidate is tough enough, but when you are a candidate for the office of Assessor it seems it can be even tougher. With 40% of residents of Cook County being renters and not home owners (via ULI Chicago), many residents simply don't know all of what the Assessor does. Mr. Grota really breaks down what he wants to do and how he plans to do it.
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What made you join your party rather than one of the two major parties or another 3rd party?
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- Face to Face meetings between tax payers and assessment personnel so that the valuation process can be explained, new data presented and objections heard.
- The Board of Review needs to be overhauled so that only real, provable adjustments are made to assessments based upon accurate market data. Bribes, campaign contributions and other "pay for play" must be eliminated at both the Assessors Office and the Board of Review.
What can you do for Cook County residents that other candidates can't?
I am the only cadidate that has the experience and knowledge required by the Assessors Office to perform the job. I have worked in several states, 8 different counties as an assessor and done all of the functions of the Assessor. I have developed Assessment software to perform the many functions of the Assessor in a time and cost efficient manner, resulting in reduced costs and time savings for tax payers. I have led a team of Assessors that valued more parcels (properties) than are in Cook County at a cost of about 1/20th of the current assessors budget. All of this with better customer service are what I offer the people of Cook County. Compare this with the other 2 candidates. The Democrat is known for corruption, "Pay for Play" politics and is a political pawn for Madigan.
He sees to it that both he and Madigan make big bucks off the system. Plus, if he is elected Assessor, he will head both the Assessors office and the Board of Review. Complete control of the valuations set for tax purposes. Do you trust him with your taxes? The Republican ran a small township assessors office in Evanston. There was discord with the employees in the small office and with the Mayor of Evanston. Do you think she can run an office with 400 +/- employees and the Cook County Board?
Do you feel the new 10/25 ordinance is working? Was the change necessary?
The new 10/25 ordinance is nothing new. The Assessors office has been using those levels of assessment for many years prior to the ordinance being passed. They are just being honest about it now. For many tax payers, it makes no difference. The value that really matters is the "Market Value" of the property. 'Is the Market Value set correctly for each property' is the question that each property owner needs to know the answer to. If every property is lowered to the same Assessment Level, the "Assessed Value" becomes meaningless. In fact, you can't really appeal an Assessed Value. You can only prove the Market Value is not correct. That is the value that home owners can "prove" incorrect based upon similar houses recent Sales Prices. "Market Value" is the value that needs to be
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Do you think the 7% EHE is enough in times like these, is there a way
to better assist families effected by the recession?
The 7% Extended Homeowners Exemption is set to be completely phased out in 2011. It was not a way to reduce taxes but a method of shifting tax dollars to other tax payers. The only REAL way to reduce taxes is to reduce spending by government. Of course the politicians don't want you to know this because they feel they have more power the more money they spend. The truth is that, in todays government, much of the tax money collected is wasted. The only REAL way to reduce taxes is to reduce spending by government.
Do you think that the current exemptions for disabled veterans and
returning veterans are enough?
The exemptions for this are small compared to actual costs of returning from active military service. These exemptions should be increased to a maximum amount necessary to cover costs of defending the U.S. and returning to a productive life.
How do you feel about the "Religious Exemption?" Is it appropriate or does it cross the line of church and state?
The Religous Exemption is designed to exempt from taxation those organizations who provide services that would normally be provided by the state. The idea behind it is that if this service were not provided by churches, the state would need to provide the service at a cost to tax payers. Homeless shelters, food for the needy, employment counselling and training, providing relief in times of turmoil, etc. are provided by these institutions. The separation of church and state only means that the state cannot dictate what religion you just follow. It does not mean that the people of the state cannot practice religion, display religous figures (without predjudice) or be religous. This exemption is abused by many who take advantage of the system. A Minister living in a home is not a service the state would provide and should not receive an exemption for this. In other states, in order to receive a religous exemption, the property must be wholly owned and operated by the church, for religous purposes. No partial exemptions are granted.
I believe this exemption needs an overhaul to get it back to the original purpose.
Do you feel social media will have an impact on your campaign and how
do you plan on using it?
Social media is a big part of American life today. Many people get their news and information from the Internet and other social media outlets. I currently have a website < GrotaForCookCountyAssessor.com > and soon will be adding a facebook account to reach out to all of the voters who follow this media. Look for me in the future on facebook.
Is there anything else you think that people should know about you and
your campaign?
I am for responsible government. A government that makes sense to all of the people. Waste, hidden agenda, corruption and "Pay for Play" have no part in the office I seek. I need your vote to make this a reality!
How can those interested join your campaign?
Go to WWW.GrotaForCookCountyAssessor.com and find out more about me. From there you can contribute or take part in my campaign. I look forward to working with you and getting Cook County government under control and serving the needs of the people-not the politicians!
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Committee Charge and Membership
Position Table
Position Request Form
March 15, 2005
Building on models used by several divisions, faculty members should continue to think about their collections as a whole across the library, rather than as specialized unit-based collections.
Models of internal collaborations that support interdisciplinary research (e.g., Medieval Studies) should be extended by the AUL for Collections to other areas of interdisciplinary study that arise throughout the University.
The AUL for Collections, with advice from the CDC, should identify a collection of titles essential to the campus' teaching and research mission, thus ensuring continuing access to the most important resources for our users.
The fund structure should be assessed fully and re-tooled as necessary.
The role of special collections (some of which are located outside of the Special Collections Division libraries) should be articulated by the University Librarian and the AUL for Collections in consultation with the Special Collections Division.
The nascent Institutional Repository will pave the way for the Library's ability to develop another collection component in the future. BITF recommends that:
The University Librarian and the AUL for IT Planning and Policy should encourage Library faculty and to become involved in the repository's development.
Regular communication about the repository, even during its 'quiet phases,' is imperative to its success. Library faculty and staff should receive regular updates from the IR coordinator and the AUL for IT Planning and Policy. The University community should also receive regular, but less frequent, communications.
Under the guidance of the AUL for Collections and Division Coordinators, selectors should work more collaboratively to leverage current resources, both within the Library and with external libraries. On a campus with an increasingly global perspective, our subject experts in both international and broad disciplines need to work together to maximize the materials needed by students and faculty. Our international collections, and the allocations that support them, should be more closely intertwined with collection development in general subject areas. UIUC Library faculty should be playing key roles in developing new collaborations (e.g., UIUC's leadership role in ARL's emerging Global Resources Network).
The Library should continue to centralize electronic reserves services in the Undergraduate Library, which should continue to receive support from CAMELS.
The Library should continue to centralize print reserves in the Undergraduate Library, particularly for smaller units in the Main Library.
The Library should charge a small group, with representatives from the Undergraduate Library, Information Literacy, IRRC, Grainger, and other appropriate units to develop a plan to create more integrated classroom support services.
Appoint a task force to examine the mission, role, presence, and collection policies of central reference and undergraduate services, as well as their relationship to reference services offered throughout the Libraries, and deliver to the University Librarian a set of recommendations to determine how they can best support the majority of our Library users and the librarians who serve them.
Technical Services
Under the leadership of the AUL for Services, the Library should examine opportunities, in addition to those that will be recommended by the Access Strategy Team, to consolidate and centralize technical services activities now carried out in various units into central technical services units.
The Library should charge a small group, with representatives from technical services and public services units, to examine the desirability and feasibility of moving from Dewey to LC classification.
The Library should charge a small group of faculty and staff from public services and technical services to examine how to improve technical services quality control, streamline processing, eliminate duplicative efforts, automate statistics keeping, and improve services to users by assigning alternative tasks to staff in technical services and departmental library units.
Electronic Resources and IT
Focus on integrating and improving interoperability of electronic resources.
IT should provide firm guidelines and support for more consistency among Library web pages.
Systems should keep the Gateway updated and refreshed.
The head of the Digital Services and Development unit should develop aggressive outreach plans to implement new digitally-based support services.
IT, Systems, and DSD should support new communications tools to reach out to the Library's users, and in turn to provide users with better ways to communicate with the Library.
The AULs for Services and IT Planning and Policy should convene a group to develop a plan for a research commons.
Scholarly Communications
The Library should allocate resources to develop and maintain a web site and to reallocate a portion of a Library Faculty member's time to work on scholarly communications issues.
At least one more interdepartmental staff team should be created to provide emergency short-term coverage to public service units and to carry out call-slip activities in the Main Library.
Develop a team to retrieve materials from departmental libraries when they are closed.
Appoint a full-time training coordinator.
A small committee, led by the training coordinator and with representatives from HR and public and technical services units, should be charged to articulate the core competencies staff need to be successful and to develop a plan to provide more robust training opportunities, delivered by both the Library and other organizations.
Continue to test new models of service delivery. Under the leadership of the AUL for Services, consider different models for improving services in all libraries, in and outside of the Main Library Building.
Redefine the Women and Gender Resources Library as a physical library and configure the WAGR Librarian's position using the Biotechnology Librarian model.
Consolidate the History and Philosophy Library into the Newspaper Library space in 246 Library.
AUL for Services should convene a group to examine implications of GPO's aggressive move to eliminate print documents.
Track changes in the University's structure and consider different Library structures and models to best serve the changing needs that will ensue.
Working with the architect chosen for the Main Library preplanning study, develop the concept of reductions in service points to reduce confusion and improve service in the building.
Financial Considerations
Invest in adding personnel to activities that will increase the availability of financial resources to improve services (i.e., Development, revenue-generating activities).
Continue to advocate with University administrators for additional resources for the Library.
Use the methods and techniques that will come through the Library participation in ARL's 2005 assessment program to assess the effectiveness of the BITF's recommendations.


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Sunset Park
Couch to 2 Mile Group Run
Monday, August 25, 2014
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This event repeats every week on Monday between 7/21/2014 and 8/25/2014.
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Brooklyn Recreation wants to get you running! Whether you're a beginner or training for long distance races, this free, weekly program taught by a qualified instructor will boost your endurance and get you in shape.
Runners will meet in front of the Sunset Park Recreation Center and do a two mile run with instructor Shakeem Snipe in leafy Sunset Park. Bring a water bottle to stay hydrated. This program welcomes adults 18 and up.
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Amy Tan's recommended reading:
The Catcher in the Rye
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Changing Lanes,
The Power of Words
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The Power of Words
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Were there any teachers who inspired you, challenged you, opened up new possibilities for you? Did you have any role models?
Amy Tan: I remember all of my teachers. I think of them all as being very kind and dedicated. I remember one teacher in particular.
I was in a school in the third grade and they were thinking of skipping me, putting me in a higher grade. But then somebody said that would be bad psychologically. So, for that entire year, because I had learned all the lessons that year -- the multiplication tables, whatever the reading was -- this teacher let me go off by myself and draw pictures. So I had hours and hours of time where I was just left to my own devices, drawing pictures. And she would encourage me. That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer. I just sit by myself, being in my own mind, not being directed at what I should be doing moment-by-moment, not having a clear plan set out by anybody and just letting imagination enter into the blank page. So in that respect, I can thank Miss Grudoff of the third grade for allowing me that.
What was your attraction to reading, to literature and to writing? What drew you to literature when it was not part of your family life?
Amy Tan: Reading for me was a refuge. I could escape from everything that was miserable in my life and I could be anyone I wanted to be in a story, through a character. It was almost sinful how much I liked it. That's how I felt about it. If my parents knew how much I loved it, I thought they would take it away from me. I think I was also blessed with a very wild imagination because I can remember, when I was at an age before I could read, that I could imagine things that weren't real and whatever my imagination saw is what I actually saw. Some people would say that was psychosis but I prefer to say it was the beginning of a writer's imagination. If I believed that insects had eyes and mouths and noses and could talk, that's what they did. If I thought I could see devils dancing out of the ground, that's what I saw. If I thought lightning had eyes and would follow me and strike me down, that's what would happen. And I think I needed an outlet for all that imagination, so I found it in books.
[ Key to Success ] Vision
I also grew up, thankfully, with a love of language. That may have happened because I was bilingual at an early age. I stopped speaking Chinese when I was five, but I loved words. Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
I don't know where I got that feeling. Possibly from my father, since he was a minister. He could say words in church and make people go up there and pledge ten percent of their money. That was powerful. As a writer, you do the same thing today. You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
Were there any particular books that inspired you?
Amy Tan: I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. It's very gothic to have a little boy killing a giant, somebody's head being served on a platter, dead people being raised out of the grave, things like that. Also, because the rhythms, the prose style of the Bible is, of course, very influential, has been very influential on many writers. So as stories, I loved fairy tales. Anything that had a degree of the fantastic. I suppose what some people would call today "magical realism."
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Later, I loved all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, Little House on the Prairie, Little House in the Big Woods, By the Shore of Silver Lake. I read all of those. And then I felt very grown up when I was able to read To Kill a Mockingbird. I was only about 10 years old. I was trying very hard to see if I understood the whole book, because it had a lot of big words in it. I tried to read more adult books around then.
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. I remember we were given one book of Chinese fairy tales when I was about eight years old. The other books we had in the house, besides Bibles and medical textbooks of physical anomalies, were the World Book Encyclopedia and Readers Digest Condensed Books that had been discarded by various people. That's what I grew up with.
I meet writers these days. I remember one who sat at the foot of Thomas Mann and was reading Flaubert in French when she was 15. I wonder what kind of writer I would have been if I had had that kind of privileged upbringing. I don't regret it at all. I grew up in a family that didn't speak English that well. A lot of people couldn't understand my mother. Nobody really cared that much about literature, although my father was a natural storyteller, being a minister.
There was a lot of storytelling going on in our house: family stories, gossip, what happened to the people left behind in China. The gossip about people's character that went around as my aunt and my mother shelled peas on the dining table covered with newspaper. Overhearing things being said in Chinese that I wasn't supposed to understand -- which is the only reason I understand some Shanghainese and Mandarin. And being told there were certain books I couldn't read, which made me go out deliberately and find those books.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
I was forbidden from reading the Harrad Experiment and also a book called Psychopathia Sexualis, a Kraft-Ebbing text from the 19th century. When it was discovered that I was reading this, my parents called in the family minister to counsel me, actually, the youth minister. The Youth Minister said how this would corrupt my mind and I would go insane and all this kind of stuff. We were seated in my parents' bedroom on my parents' bed. And, I have to tell you, what was so profound about that is that here this man, who I was supposed to trust, was telling me about these things and suddenly he saw that I was very sad because, at the same time, my father was in the hospital dying. So he said, "Cheer up, it's not that bad." And he threw me on the bed and he started to tickle me. Now even at that young age, being very innocent, I knew that what he was doing was wrong. And he would not stop. I found out later that he had seduced a young girl, left his wife and ran off with a 16-year old. Because of that, it has also made me hate... I cannot stand being tickled to this day. It made me disbelieve everything he had to say about books being bad for you. I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
I think that, in part, also made me a writer, a certain stubborn streak. I'm not advocating disobedience to authority in general -- because that doesn't necessarily lead to anything -- but knowing the difference between your own intelligence and somebody handing you a set of things you should believe. It's important to understand their motivations, their intentions, where those beliefs derive from and then having a set of questions to make sure that what they give to you is equally important and meaningful to you.
As a result of that, I'm a very strong advocate for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and the danger of banning books. The danger is in creating the idea that somebody else is going to define the purpose of literature and confine who has access to it.
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From: "Dennis Dover" <>
Subject: [DMU] Using Aerial Maps for plat presentation
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:51:27 -0800
I discovered a way to show or present a series of contiguous plats that can
be verified for location that I'll share that involves using Google aerial
maps of your location of interest.
1. Locate your properties at Google Earth. Save the Google aerial from
Google at the scale of +/- 4,592 feet in the status bar. This zooming goal
should match the 1:24,000 scale of the USGS base map when you have decided
on the area you want the map to cover. The scale changes as you shift the
Google coverage. Print the saved aerial at it's true scale (that's
important). You may have to crop the saved image for a 8-1/2 x 11 sheet.
2. Print your DeedMapper boundary surveys on transparency sheets. Which type
of transparency sheet is important for quick dry/no smear. I use 3M
transparency film CG3460.
3. Trim the individual plats and tape them (slim pieces) to the Google
Aerial printout with, I recommend, Scotch Gloss Finish MultiTask Tape. The
least "show through" when step #4 is done.
4. Scan #3 as a new image.
My first goal with DeedMapper was to identify parcels of land in the
1772-1800ish time period for a first ownership for what was known as Kings
Creek in the old Craven/Camden/York area of South Carolina. There was a
state boundary dispute that included this area in various counties in both
North Carolina and South Carolina when my focus was the Grover, North
Carolina USGS map that shows both sides of the current state lines. It was a
historic area during the Revolution at Kings Mountain National Military Park
that now includes several more recent historical monuments on both sides of
the NC/SC state line.
DeedMappers base USGS maps are fine except that the latest USGS maps
(Grover, NC in this case) now show more landmark detail and historical
monuments. I was able to use the current USGS map with more detail and
repeat steps #2-#4 by scanning the newer USGS map as the base sheet for the
boundary surveys.
I love maps, especially old ones. It wasn't clear at the time, but seeing is
believing when the location fog clears. I was speechless. The hard part is
finding the deeds. A small irony is that a 1854 deed triangulated three
points, one a recent historical monument, on the 1772 deed that was
"finally" found recently that included the future chain of title.
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States reform: Give voters a fourth option, says Senator
ISLANDERS should be given the chance to vote against all options in a referendum for States reform, according to a States Senator.
ISLANDERS should be given the chance to vote against all options in a referendum for States reform, according to a States Senator.
Senator Lyndon Farnham wants a fourth option to be added to the public vote in April giving people the chance to choose 'none of the above'.
In doing so he says that Islanders would be able to register their opposition to all the recommendations of the Electoral Commission and to the current system.
Currently, it is proposed that the referendum would give people three options, from which they would choose up to two to rank in order of preference.
Those options, which have been proposed by the Privileges and Procedures Committee on behalf of the commission and would use transferable voting to get a result, are:
A – 42 States Members elected for a four-year term, known as Deputies
and split into six large districts
B – 42 States Members on a four-year term, with 30 Deputies split
into six large districts and 12 parish Constables.
C – 49 States Members with eight Senators, 29 Deputies in parish or sub-parish districts and 12 parish Constables.Subscribe to our Newsletter
Comments for: "States reform: Give voters a fourth option, says Senator"
In some ways, this is a little unhelpful, since it is back to the start. One would then wonder why a commission was set up in the first place. Mind you, it was not selected in an open way, and perhaps the commission itself ought to have been elected.
There are a number of people who think that there ought to have been a greater focus on senators, and perhaps this is what Farnham is getting at (I have not seen the print edition yet today).
Is this 'self preservation' in the way that G Southern has complained about the existing 3 choices: perhaps?
Or alternatively give everyone a clean sheet of paper a pen and a box of crayons, the best ideas could then be sent to Vision On.
What sort of political leadership is that?
A "none of the above" choice results in the same outcome as Option C.
Not sure it's that helpful to have half of the possible answers to the referendum be the same. A vote for Option C is surely the same as "none of the above"?
The referendum is better off with fewer options, so that the final winning one commands enough of a mandate to be put into practice.
James Mac
It isn't quite the same. You might want option A but with 48 members rather than 42, for example (there are questions over whether 42 members is enough for proper scrutiny of decision-making). I suspect that Sen Farnham has his own agenda of taking the senatorial numbers back up to 12. N'est-ce pas, Lyndon?
But on the whole I'm with you in saying fewer options are better.
I notice that the first 2 options state a 4 year term. The third option does not give any time limit.
My own preference would be something close to option A which is just Deputies and no Constables. I am sure that the Constables do a good job but it seems strange to give them two jobs and also have many of them "elected" unopposed.
The more important point is that 4 years is too long. We need to be able to get rid of politicians we do not like sooner than that. Just remember that Senator Ozouf promised to oppose any increase in GST and then he did increase it. It would encourage them to keep their promises if the term was reduced to two years.
Whatever the outcome is we will mostly get the same politicians anyway, regardless of their titles and districts. There are always only a few people who are prepared to go through the election process and do the job. Those who could do a good job are very unlikely to subject themselves to the process.
He is right. The options all allow for far too many members with a parish or even district only mandate.
My view is that there should be one constable to represent each parish together with 10 to 12 senators with island wide mandates (say 5 or 6 elected every 4 years).
There would be a maximum of 24 states members (which is enough for a population of 100k).
Members can be paid more and expected to do more (i.e. it must be their full time job), thereby (in theory) attracting the best possible candidates.
There is no need for such a large States. In the UK, you would find a maximum of 2 MPs per 100k. So, taken together with the equivalent (to the positions in Jersey's council) cabinet ministers who make the key policy decisions (which is really all we need the senators to be doing), a similar sized constiutency in the UK would expect to have about 12 people running the show for them (i.e. the MP and the cabinet). 1 deputy and 12 senators should therefore be more than enough from each Jersey voter's perspective - especially as the senators will have island wide mandates.
James Mac
A 24-member states with 10 ministers?
That's banana republic territory.
umm, not quite. whether we are a banana republic has nothing to do with the number in government.
in any event Jersey is a banana republic, using the oxford definition: "a small state that is politically unstable as a result of the domination of its economy by a single export controlled by foreign capital." describes us and our finance industry perfectly.
And a 5th option to re-introduce the Jurats
And a 6th option to re-introduce the Rectors
I had forgotten Lyndon Farnham was a Senator.
The whole revaluation of States seats has no doubt been pre decided and the referendum is just lip service.
After listening to Sir B and him saying that if there is not a 50% marjority then the 3rd vote will be split between the 2 bigger piles.......what happens when there is still not a 50% marjority then does that mean the vote is void!!!!
I think you'll find with only 3 options you are bound to get a 50% majority if the 3rd vote is split between the other two. Doh!!


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The two first met several months ago, when Once was in rehearsals in Cambridge, Mass., and Hansard begrudgingly went to see it.
Recently Hansard has been carried on by a company, but the old name still remains.
It is writ large in Hansard, in the Blue-books, and in the daily journals.
Stockdale then brought a fresh action, and Hansard appealed to the House for protection.
Why was there no Hansard in that Institution of the Country?
No wonder that unimaginative men still believed that Hansard was a property with money in it.
Hansard and the newspapers record these battles in ample detail.
A debate on this question may be found in Hansard, May 30, 1893.
Floods of Hansard Debates every year, and apparently little else at present.
And yet it is not long ago since a Hansard was worth three times as much.