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Dear TMC Family and Friends:
In 2009, the Walnut Creek Campus of The Center for Professional Studies came about through a special partnership with North Creek Church.
Over the years, we have found an environment that has been varied and not as responsive to the format of the Walnut Creek Campus as we had first projected. Subsequently, we have found that we cannot financially sustain the satellite campus. TMC Administration has been working to create an orderly teach-out plan and closure as of April 20, 2013.
The teach-out plan is designed to ensure that all the students currently enrolled will be able to take and complete all of their major cohort courses. General Education courses are taken by our current students in a number of ways; those options will remain available. We anticipate final teach-out and closure by October, 2014.
If anyone has any specific questions relative to the teach-out and closure plan of our Walnut Creek campus, please contact Wayne Dell at 362-2671. He will be able to answer your question, or refer you to the appropriate department for answers to those questions. Thanks for your continued faithfulness in the work God has given us.
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I love the words shabby chic. It must fit in a category such as modern, traditional, and everything in between...pretty much describing every section of a furniture store. In the paper crafting world it may be the mix of colors, addition of lace and ribbon, and just a little dust of glitter added to make it sweet and look as if it has been around for generations. All I really know is that it calms me...puts me in a trance and allows my mind to wander.
As I dive into challenges and requests I am finding that on those days when I need relaxing the most these soft colors do the trick. Although these papers on the ones currently settled on the top of my scrap bins, which means first pick when creating, I am still digging once and awhile for that perfect little piece. Sometimes that means an inch of pastel is all I need.
Hope this show and tell for today was relaxing for you as well. This mini card above is part of a challenge project coming up on Friday for Paper Garden Projects. I will return again tomorrow to bring you a project from Couture Cardstock, Nikki Sivils, and maybe something bright and full of color!
Go and scrap your style...enjoy!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
being a little shabby never hurts...
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Oscar Levant, Bridging High and Low
Today is the birthday of Oscar Levant (1906-1972). An anomaly in American public life, he managed to straddle both high art and popular culture. He was a composer and an interpreter (pianist) of both classical and popular music, but also a film actor, comedian, author, game show panelist (on both radio and tv) and talk show host. A protege of George Gershwin, he played the piano parts on recordings of several of Gershwin's works. He also studied under Stojowski and Schoenberg and was asked by Aaron Copland to play at Yaddo. From 1929 to 1948 Levant composed scores for numerous Hollywood films (and acted in several as well, usually playing some variation of himself, through the 1950s), and wrote several popular songs. Among many other pictures, you can see him in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), An American in Paris (1951), and The Band Wagon (1953). His first appearance had been in an experimental early talkie called Ben Bernie and All the Lads in 1924.
His crusty, cynical and spontaneous wit made him a natural writer. C brought home a copy of his first book A Smattering of Ignorance (1940) for me a few weeks ago. Extended essays on Gershwin and Harpo Marx were highly entertaining; I was less interested in the classical music gossip.
The greatest showcase for the breadth of his talents was perhaps his own program The Oscar Levant Show, which ran from 1958 through 1960. This little clip shows it all — his incredible physical awkwardness, yet also his skill at the piano and his verbal wit, and also his wife June, one of the Gale Sisters (a vaudeville act we'll be writing about subsequently). Oh yes, and Oscar's special guest is somebody named Fred Astaire:
To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold.
And don't miss my new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, just released by Bear Manor Media, also available from amazon.com etc etc etc
2 Responses to "Oscar Levant, Bridging High and Low"
Nice piece!!! See if you can get C to spring for–not that you need her too, I know–a copy of "Memoirs of an Amnesiac", a later work that deals with his life in NY and Cali more fully… He was quite the guy and an early role model for little me…"So much time, so little to do…" is emblazoned on my family crest!
Also see if you can find the Esquire Magazine article from the mid-70s ('73???) by Candace Bergen about how she found him dead in his bedroom! (All terribly innocent, though…)


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Mining Black Gold
Twice a week, every week, Middlebury College's custom-equipped Freightliner dump truck rumbles up South Street with about 10,000 pounds of food waste. It's destination? The College's composting facility where the staff from facilities services turn food waste into about 1,500 cubic yards of compost a year.
Composting can be a long and complicated process, both in terms of its labor and its science, but it's one that Middlebury has been dedicated to since 1993, not only to save money and reduce its carbon footprint, but also to maintain and improve the natural beauty of its campus.
"Compost increases soil fertility, not in a traditional 'fertilizer' approach, but by increasing porosity, nutrient capacity, and water-holding characteristics," explains Tim Parsons, the College horticulturalist. "Organic matter creates a living, breathing soil, a more natural ecosystem in an artificial construct, that of our trees, shrubs, and lawns."
Backyard composters might think that those 10,000 pounds of food waste are just about all you'll need to make compost. Mix in some leaves and grass clippings, turn it over a few times, wait a couple of months, and voila!—you've got compost. But no, not so fast. It's not compost until all the raw organic materials have decomposed—a process that takes a year or more of careful monitoring, mixing, turning, and screening.
Middlebury's recipe for compost is no secret: three parts wood chips, one part horse manure, and one part food waste. It's a formula that Director of Facilities Services Norm Cushman developed years ago while attending the Cornell Waste Management Institute. And all of the raw materials in Middlebury's compost recipe are local: the wood chips are produced on campus or sourced from central Vermont. (They are the same chips delivered to the College's biomass plant.) The manure comes from the Morgan Horse Farm in nearby Weybridge. And the food waste originates from the dining halls and the Grille, with a smattering from the Materials Recovery Center, the Bread Loaf campus and some of the College's residential houses.
The waste consists of pre-consumer by-products like eggshells, fruit and vegetable peelings, or chicken skins; post-consumer discards from students' dishes; and biodegradable items like paper napkins. And why is there so much of it, often 10 tons per week or more? Because the College serves meals to about 2,500 people a day, not counting special events like Commencement, Reunion, and Fall Family Weekend.
Six days a week (five in the summer) the white and blue Freightliner with its "hook-lift" box and hydraulically operated cover pulls up to the back of the dining halls to collect the food waste. Usually operated by Mike Field or Ricky Rheaume, the task of loading the food waste, hauling it to the composting facility, and depositing it at the composting site is not a job for the faint of heart. If the smell doesn't get you, the sight of the food waste and the vermin it attracts makes it an occupation well suited for the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, or for the book 50 Jobs Worse Than Yours by Midd alum Justin Racz '97.
But for Field and Rheaume, both of whom have worked at the College for 20 years, it goes with the territory.
Listen while Ricky Rheaume unloads tons of food waste into a holding tank at the composting site.
The staff at dining services plays a key role in the collection of food waste, and Melissa Beckwith, manager of waste management at Middlebury, salutes their efforts to keep the waste out of trash bound for the landfill, and for ensuring that almost no contamination gets into the future compost.
After the food waste is delivered to the composting site, it is mixed with the woodchips and horse manure on an enormous cement pad that's about 200 feet long by about 60 feet wide. The College employs a "turned windrow system" to make its compost. A John Deere loader periodically turns the mixture to achieve a core temperature of about 130 degrees F., a level at which bacteria and other helpful organisms in the mound will grow, thrive, oxidize, and cause the solid materials to decompose.
John Gosselin, waste management team leader, keeps a watchful eye and nose on the windrows. "You can tell a lot by the smell," he says, meaning that the aerobic oxidation of organic materials produces almost no objectionable odor. So when there is an unpleasant smell, Gosselin knows it's time to turn the pile to achieve more aeration or to consider adjusting the mixture.
Even so, the job isn't quite done yet. It's not "black gold" until the material is small enough to pass through a five-eighths of an inch screen and decompose for another six to eight months. The pieces that won't fit the screen, the "tailings," go back for another year in the windrow before seeing if they can pass the screen test again. Then, and only then, is the compost ready to enrich the soils at the College.
Last spring, Tim Parsons and the landscaping staff spread about 75 cubic yards of College-made compost on the quadrangle formed by Old Stone Row, Warner Hall, Davis Library, and the Axinn Center at Starr Library. "The purpose was to improve compaction problems underneath some of our older, more stressed trees," Parsons said.
"Certainly the lawn greened up as well, but the organic matter will linger in the soil for years improving aeration, holding onto moisture better in droughts, and allowing soil nutrients to remain available to the trees instead of leaching down into the soil profile."
Recently the College began spreading compost on its natural-grass athletic fields to transition those grounds to organic maintenance practices. So are there ever any concerns with the compost? "Only one," Parsons laments. "There's never enough of it, not by a long shot. If we had the resources to spread it, we could use four times the amount that we generate."
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Glenfiddich Distillery has leftover scotch.
This shouldn't surprise people. The bigger whisky distilleries have thousands upon thousands of barrels of whisky quietly aging in warehouses. Depending upon the whisky, the environmental conditions, and the type of barrel(s), the taste can vary wildly. That's why the bigger distilleries are even able to offer consistent flavor profiles: they have lots to choose from.
After blending barrels for their particular labels, they have leftovers. Hundreds of barrels of specific types of flavors laying about the warehouse just like scraps in your kitchen after cooking a large holiday meal. Now, Glenfiddich has done something very cool: they're willing to sell you a bottle of it.
Not enough for a true label, there's plenty in the barrel for you and a bottle or two. How to choose? They've created a huge library of different years and agings that allow you to explore. There's also a recommendation engine set up to help you select based upon your tastes called the Taste Profiler. The best thing about the Profiler is that it uses familiar foods and tastes to select your whisky; things like cheese, spices, and citrus fruits are your points of comparison making it easy for the novice to use. In seconds, you get "your whiskies." Here, you can see our position on the "flavour map" with whiskies linked helpfully nearby. Sadly, our nearest whisky was about $3,500 (22,000 pounds).
This is a great thing for scotch fans and it's a fantastic concept in general. In particular, the idea of a flavour profiler is a way to introduce scotch to people who are otherwise intimidated by the price and variety. The simplicity and the sheer fun of the experiment is something we hope is replicated in many other places.
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No restrictions on municipal land in Trafford
Although George Westinghouse is entwined with the history of Trafford, rumors that the industrialist placed long-lasting conditions on the land that housed the old municipal building and fire station appear to be nothing more than hearsay.
Since demolition of the former municipal building and fire station started last month, several borough officials said they were under the impression that a covenant exists that restricts Trafford from selling the land.
Though the deed transferring ownership of triangular-shaped "Lot C" to Trafford in 1911 prevented the sale or manufacture of liquor or "intoxicating drinks" on the property for the next 25 years — certainly, a sign of the mindset in those pre-Prohibition times — no other wording in the century-old document bars any future reuse for the land.
Word of a restrictive covenant had been passed down for years, Mayor Rey Peduzzi said. Council President Rich Laird said he had heard a rumor of a condition in which any borough resident could object to a sale of the property.
Both officials said there aren't any immediate plans for the property. At least in the interim, Peduzzi said, the open space likely will be an extension of Trafford Veterans Memorial Park, which is up a steep slope from the building site.
"Most of it is not buildable," he said. "It's not suitable for development."
The East Pittsburgh Improvement Co. — the Westinghouse-affiliated firm that sold the land for $1 — is considered inactive by the Pennsylvania Department of State and wouldn't appear to have standing to question if some other unidentified conditions exist, an attorney said.
The deed specifies that Trafford was to use the property at Duquesne Avenue and Fourth Street for a municipal building and the housing of the police and fire departments, but the administration and public-safety services migrated to the new municipal complex on Brinton Avenue.
The deed for that adjacent park, which Trafford bought from East Pittsburgh Improvement Co. for $1 in 1907, states that the borough shall use the land only as a public park and shall "repair and renew" the steps from Duquesne Avenue at Fifth Street up to Edgewood Avenue.
However, those steps are being removed as part of the building demolition coordinated by Westmoreland County's redevelopment authority.
Last year, borough officials blocked off the steps because they determined they were a safety hazard and decided they were too expensive to repair.
"(The deed) didn't even detail what they had to do, just that they had to maintain the property, which is a generic description," said Les Race, a former councilman who has researched the titles on many borough-owned properties.
Six years ago, the borough received a court order in Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court awarding it formal ownership of three parcels that Trafford had maintained for decades despite them being under the name of East Pittsburgh Improvement Co.
At that time, Solicitor Craig Alexander was unable to track down anyone representing the company. State officials also listed the company that began in 1888 as inactive in 2007, said Ron Ruman, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State.
If the company no longer exists, there might not be anyone left to challenge the use of the property, said Daniel Beisler, who has been a solicitor for Allegheny County municipalities.
Yet, Trafford isn't the only community in the area where local officials say Westinghouse — or his real-estate interests — dictated land use.
When a Wilmerding councilman supported the building of town houses at Wilmerding Park a few years ago, local officials said it couldn't be done, said Geraldine Homitz, who served 12 years as mayor.
Homitz, a board member for Wilmerding Renewed Inc., which owns Westinghouse Castle near the park, said Westinghouse wanted the land to remain as a park.
But she isn't sure where that's written.
"Everybody seems to know about it," Homitz said. "You're not allowed to touch the park."
With demolition in Trafford required to end by late September, Race said, he'd like to see the barren plot be available for his church, Trinity United Methodist Church, to use — temporarily, at least — as a parking lot.
"We'd like to see them backfill it with stone or asphalt," he said.
Chris Foreman is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-856-7400, ext. 8671, or email@example.com.


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|From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
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I think you are mostly right. There is not an obvious operation like the list operations for many collections. Nevertheless, we should have good defaults for making a user's life convenience. Jay On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Deren Dohoda <deren.dohoda at gmail.com> wrote: > I am a novice, self-taught programmer. Please forgive this possibly > naive question, but what's the problem? The big post I read seems to > say this one sentence: different containers are different, but they > should act the same. > > But, different containers are different for a good reason. > > Take a linked list. "map" is a well-known operation, taking a > procedure and a list, and returning a (possibly fresh) list with proc > applied to every element of the original list. Now, take a vector. > What does map mean? I can't answer this question. > > 1) Well, you chose a vector because it is mutable, so map should > really be something like map! and return void > 2) Well, you chose a vector because it is random-access, so this one > exceptional O(n) operation should return a vector for otherwise > random-access use > 3) Well, you only do something to every element as processing for more > doing-something-to-every-element so it should return a list with > better filter behavior > 4) Well, *I* have no clue what you want, so I'll just create this view > called a "sequence" and give you that (oh yeah it just acts like a > list) > 5) Well, *I* have no clue what you want, so I'll just leave it up to > you to make your own map-like function > > I can't pick between 1 through 3, because I don't know why someone is > doing something to every element of a vector (curiosity: why didn't > they use a list in the first place?). I don't believe (4) is so much a > "solution" as a way to relocate the problem to post-processing of your > containter-viewed-through-a-sequence rather than pre-processing by > selecting the right function in the first place. (Of course, (5) is > not a solution, either, but a refusal to do anything at all.) > > Can someone please elaborate a bit on why this map-vs-vector-map is a > problem? I feel like I am missing something kind of basic here. > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eduardo Bellani <ebellani at gmail.com> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> http://programming-puzzler.blogspot.com/2010/08/racket-vs-clojure.html >> >> Any opinions on the subject? >> >> - -- >> Eduardo Bellani >> >> omnia mutantur, nihil interit. >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkxi0/cACgkQSbLl0kCTjGnfxQCfTNJwqzEZKeStOgwoIUsqiRnr >> HLoAn3r0zWwINnluhSzwDqqCwN0qbssX >> =KaS5 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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Genre-bending rockers O'Brother beat the sophomore slump on Disillusion, an album as complex and textured as it is loud. Think Deftones meet Radiohead meet Alice in Chains. From distorted, sludgy guitars (there's three of them in the band!) to frontman Tanner Merritt's haunting vocals, this is an album with a beginning, middle, and end—each song building upon the last and masterfully bleeding into the next. Even longer tracks like the nine-minute long "Oblivion" don't feel overwhelming thanks to dynamic arrangements that keep listeners on their toes. Don't let the name fool you; this is an album that won't let you down. MEGHAN TRAYNOR
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A love story
It is the ultimate love story. Soldier meets girl in a foreign land, they marry and live happily ever after.
Well almost. The soldier was actually a fighter pilot, flying an F-16. the hotrod single engine jet they call the "Viper."
Ascribing to the typical fighter pilot creed of life in the fast lane -- fly, love, tomorrow we may die and may the devil take the hindmost -- Scot was stationed in Japan and living the life of a fun-loving bachelor.
Enter Linda, dedicated to bettering the lives of mankind by serving as a Christian missionary in faraway Japan. The last thing that she needed was to meet a loose-living fighter pilot who probably had no interest in settling down to raise a family in moral Christian home.
Then somehow the stars aligned, love won out and according to God's plan they married.
Scot fulfilled his military obligation and came back to his home on the family farm. They built a beautiful ranch home overlooking the Frenchman creek above the Enders reservoir south of Imperial, Nebraska.
Five children, three natural and an adopted younger son from African American parentage and a daughter of Asian heritage. The children are home schooled.
Their eldest son, Shane, graduated from high school and has completed his first year of study at the Air Force Academy. He is following in his father's footsteps as Scot, too, graduated from the academy.
Shane, like his grandfather, father and uncle before, learned to fly.
Truth be known, Scot taught his son, as well, so I, as the certified instructor simply rode along and tweaked his skills to pass his private pilot checkride ... Fulfilling a dream in aviation.
It doesn't get any better than that! Any reader of this column has to have noticed that the author has lived a fulfilling life, never far from his love of aviation. In retrospect, relations in the aviation community are more superficial than one finds in colleagues at work or church and especially family.
We know and respect each other as pilots. We are more interested in what kind of airplane the other guy flies than we are of how many children or even if he/she is married. I'm a thinking that the people that get together to ride and enjoy their motorcycles are of the same bent. In my role as a flight instructor I am confined to a noisy cockpit with another human being for an accumulative 20 hours or more. The old adage "Flying is hours of boredom punctuated by moments of start terror."
Usually the instructor is responsible for initiating those moments of terror and some of the hours of boredom are given over to discussions of family and friends.
Flying with Shane is how I came to know his parents, Scot and Linda. During that time, Grannie Annie and I were guests in their home and visited with Scot about his flying career. It was obvious that Scot was wonderfully proud that Shane was following in his, and my, footsteps pursuing his dream to become an Air Force pilot.
One can't be in the Imperial community very long before becoming aware that there is great respect for the German (that is pronounced gurrrman, not with the more familiar gee sound on the front) family.
The family patriarch, Cal, ran a school for missionary pilots out of Grant, Nebraska, in the not-too-distant past.
Shane's uncle, Eric, was a missionary pilot in South America for years. Scot went off to fly F-16s for the Air Force, but all came back to help run the large German Land & Cattle enterprise.
The family has a cherished reputation for being strong Christians living the honorable life and providing great support for their community.
Good people, the kind we all want for neighbors.
It was then with sickening heart that I received a phone call early Saturday morning from another of my flying students who had just landed at Imperial.
I could hear the tears in his voice as Dave reported that Scot had crashed his
Citabria airplane a few minutes before. The airplane burned and Scot was still in it there in the pasture south of the city.
Over the next several hours I received no less that six other phone and text messages from other students and past students relaying the same message.
Aviation enthusiasts grieve together when one or another of us suffers misfortune.
What happened? We'll probably know in six months to a year (The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly) when the National Air Traffic Safety Board releases findings of their accident investigation.
I am betting that the official finding will be "pilot error" which seems to be the catchall when the investigators really don't know what happened.
I do know that Scot was well-trained in how to fly an airplane. His father taught him to fly in the general aviation world. The Air Force trained him to fly the demanding, exquisite, F-16 and he did that well.
For Scot and Eric, the airplane was a ranch tool to herd cattle and Scot had years of experience doing just that, moving the herd from pasture to pasture.
Did he push the limit and ask more of the airplane than it could perform? Possibly.
Did he have a heart attack or stroke and was disabled before he hit the ground?
The official investigation will find the answer. Until that time we just know that a wonderful Christian man has gone to a better place and we who are left to mourn can only celebrate a wonderful life well lived.
His obituary appears in yesterday's Gazette.
Prayers and support to Scot's family.
That is the way I saw it.


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Since time immemorial, the black and white combination has been classic. Pairing black with white clothing and accessories has always been a hit, and seems to always make its way into celebrity closets, ranging anywhere from suits to dresses. Its the kind of colour combination that can take you from the office, to lunch, to dinner and back if worn correctly and accessorised well.

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Central bank governors should serve one non-renewable term
Central bank governors should be appointed for one fixed, non-renewable term. The ECB got that one right. Members of the Board, including the President, serve for one, non-renewable eight-year term. The Bank of England's arrangements are deficient in this regard. The governor is appointed for a five-year term but can be re-appointed as many times as the Chancellor of the Exchequer sees fit.
The Fed's arrangements for appointments to the Board are also flawed. From the Fed's website, Board appointments following the following set of rules: "The Board is composed of seven members, who are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The full term of a Board member is fourteen years, …. After serving a full term, a Board member may not be reappointed. …
The Chairman and the Vice Chairman of the Board are also appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The nominees to these posts must already be members of the Board or must be simultaneously appointed to the Board. The terms for these positions are four years."
The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board can therefore at most serve three consecutive full terms as chairman, followed by one two-year term. This would exhaust the maximum 14 year stint on the Board. [Addition on 29th July 2009: a reader of this blog (yes, I still have some) writes: "If a Board member is initially appointed to fill the remaining term of a member who has departed early, he can then be reappointed for a full term. So, potentially, one could serve almost 28 years, and be chairman the whole time." ]
Why is the possibility of re-appointing the chairman of the Fed, and indeed the re-appointment of the governor of any central bank, a bad thing? Clearly, it undermines the appearance and possibly the substance of independence of the chairman. The incentive to suck up to/please the power(s) that can reappoint you may be difficult to resist. It is not necessarily the case that the actions and policies most likely to secure the re-appointment of the chairman are the actions and policies that are best from the perspective of the central bank's mandate – price stability or macroeconomic stability, and financial stability.
The problem of lack of independence is always present at the initial appointment stage. This is unavoidable. Unless we choose the chairman of the Fed at random from among the adult population of the US (which would not necessarily be such a bad idea), we just have to live with it. It may also not be too problematic, because prior to the initial appointment, the candidate chairman does not have access to the regulatory and monetary instruments of the Fed. Any implicit or explicit commitments made or understandings reached with the appointing party (the nominating President and the confirming Senate) concerning future policy actions are unenforceable in any case and can be broken at will, as long as there is no possibility of re-appointment. What is avoidable and ought to be avoided is the potential corruption of the independence of the chairman at the re-appointment stage. At that stage the leverage of withholding nomination for a further term or of denying confirmation can be used to influence the actions of the chairman seeking reappointment. A single, non-renewable term of, say, 7 or 8 years would be the simple solution to this problem.
Self-regulation and self-supervision by the Federal Reserve System
If the possibility of reappointment is a flaw in the governance design of the Federal Reserve Board, the appointment process for the presidents of the 12 regional Reserve Banks in the US is a ludicrous anomaly. The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is always a member of the 12-member Federal Open Market Committee – the committee that takes the key decisions (including setting the target for the Federal Funds rate) affecting the cost and availability of money and credit in the economy. The remaining four slots on the FOMC are taken by the other regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating basis.
Each president of a Federal Reserve Bank is appointed by the board of directors of that Bank, for a renewable five-year term, subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Each of the twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks is separately incorporated with its own board of directors. In each Reserve District, commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System own the stock of their District's Reserve Bank and elect six out of the nine members of that Reserve Bank's board of directors; the other three directors are appointed by the Federal Reserve Board.
This arrangement amounts to one where a regulated industry, the US banks regulated and supervised by the Fed, elect their own supervisors and regulators. Regulatory capture is made inevitable with this institutional arrangement. Indeed, the governance structure of the regional Federal Reserve Banks, including the way in which they elect their Presidents, seems designed to ensure capture of the regulator/supervisor by the industry he is supposed to regulate and supervise in the wider public interest. It is an unbelievable and utterly insane arrangement from the point of view of the common good. It is a wonderful arrangement from the perspective of the US banking industry.
Surely it must be possible to design a governance structure that permits the regulators and supervisors to be aware of the views and interests of the industry they regulate and supervise that falls short of granting the industry the power to appoint or elect its own regulators and supervisors. When the inmates of the prison elect the warden, society's purpose for the prison is likely to be ill-served.
Kissing babies
Chairman Ben Bernanke is running for re-appointment. The open way in which he does this is, at least to me, toe-curlingly embarrassing. James Pethokoukis has a rather nice piece on it here. In case you believe I am making this up (I wish I were), the Federal Reserve Board provides you with a video record of much of the Punch-and-Judy-show here. The Fed itself calls it a town-hall meeting (a "Town hall event with Chairman Bernanke . View video excerpts from the town hall event with Chairman Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City on July 26, 2009").
Is it really necessary to defend the institution of the Fed, and what remains of its independence (independence from Congress that is; independence from the Executive went out of the window long ago), by making statements like the following:"The best way to have a strong dollar is to have a strong economy", "I don't think the American people want Congress running monetary policy"; "I was not going to be the Federal Reserve Chairman who presided over the second Great Depression" or "When the elephant falls down, all the grass gets crushed as well"? The first of these statements is utter nonsense, although US politicians use it all the time. As regards the second statement, I wish it were true but I am not so sure. As regards the third statement, I will take chairman Bernanke's word for it. He has, however, apparently decided to go down in history as the Federal Reserve chairman who presided over the creation of the biggest moral hazard machine ever. As regards the fourth, this is obviously incorrect if you make sure the elephant is in a place where there is no grass.
This "Town Hall Event with Chairman Bernanke" politicises the Fed even more. It does not serve the institution, but demeans it. It may serve chairman Bernanke's re-appointment.
And the runners are…
The race for the top job at the Fed thus far appears to have three runners: the incumbent, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, the current director of the NEC and Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco . Both Bernanke and Yellen are qualified for the job. Summers is not.
There are several reasons why Summers would be an inappropriate choice as chairman of the Fed. Let's start with Fed-relevant knowledge and expertise. Summers is not a monetary economist or macroeconomist. He has never shown any serious interest in researching and understanding the workings of the kind of complex, interdependent dynamic systems that represent the environment a central bank operates in. He is the arch-typical quick and dirty partial equilibrium man, full of clever isolated micro-insights, but incapable of grasping the whole. His macroeconomics stalled at the Keynesian cross. As a monetary economist he has never seen a Federal Funds rate target so low he did not want it just a bit lower.
As regards the regulatory and supervisory functions of the Fed, Summers would be a disaster. During his time in the Clinton administration, culminating in his stint as Treasury Secretary, he was, with Greenspan, the main official apostle of full-speed ahead financial sector deregulation. The same naive trust in self-regulation and market discipline that has tarnished Greenspan's reputation has been a trademark of Summers in action, both at home and abroad. Summers remains cognitively captured by old Wall Street and a prisoner of its culture and views.
Even before Summers went to the US Treasury, his approach to financial crises (in emerging markets and developing countries) never got beyond the putting out of immediate fires. The impact of the bail-outs and rescue efforts advocated and promoted by Summers on the likelihood and severity of future crises was either not considered or not given any weight.
The only time Summers mentions moral hazard is when he asserts that now is not the time to worry about it. And of course, it is always now. Well, now is always the time to worry about moral hazard. There is always more than one way of skinning the cat, and different ways will have different implications for moral hazard. Just one example. Bank of America and Citigroup did have an effective special resolution regime (administered by the FDIC) throughout the crisis. Why was the tax payer called on to recapitalise the banks when it was perfectly feasible to make the unsecured creditors pay instead?
Once the immediate crisis is over, the highest priority should be attached to designing and creating institutional arrangements and incentive structures that will minimize the likelihood and severity of future systemic crises. Summers has never shown any interest in creating institutions that enable policy makers (in the Fed, in the Treasury and in the regulatory agencies) to make credible, long-term commitments. He invariable favours opportunistic discretion over rule-bound flexibility. The last thing the US needs today is a chairman of the Fed with the long-term perspective and attention span of a fruit fly.
Janet Yellen is an outstanding monetary and macroeconomist. I have known this for a long time, because when I came to Yale as a PhD student in 1971, we all passed our Comprehensive Examinations (Comps) in macroeconomics thanks to the 'Yellen notes', the wonderful collection of 'augmented' lecture notes from James Tobin's lectures, created by Janet Yellen as Tobin's teaching assistant. She was a professor at Berkeley for many years, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1994 to 1997 and chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1997 till 1999. Her abilities as a regulator and supervisor have not, as far as I know, been tested. These are, of course, at least as important for a chairman of the Fed as his or her command of the conventional monetary policy tools. Her ability to stand up to the populists in the Congress and the relentless lobbying efforts of Wall Street and the rest of the financial establishment are also unknown. But at least we can hope.
With Ben Bernanke we know what we would get. An eminent monetary economist with a pretty good record managing interest rates, quantitative easing and credit easing from the perspective of mitigating the immediate financial crisis and the contraction that followed it; a dreadful regulator/supervisor who 'did not see it coming' at all; a fully-signed up contributor to the biggest explosion of moral hazard in US financial history; and the man who allowed the Fed to be turned into an off-budget, off-balance sheet subsidiary of the US Treasury.
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Monocot AToL Project
A major new effort to document the evolution of the economically most important group of plants on earth – the monocots – will be supported by a grant of nearly $2.9M by the National Science Foundation under its Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Program.
Monocots (including such groups as grasses, sedges, palms, gingers, bananas, orchids, onions, yams, pondweeds, and philodendrons) comprise more than 65,000 species of flowering plants, occur in almost all habitats on Earth, and provide the basis for the great majority of the human diet. Monocots also account for much of the commerce in cut flowers and horticultural bulbs such as crocuses, irises, hyacinths, tulips, and lilies. They dominate grasslands, seagrass beds, bamboo thickets, many wetlands, and are especially common on extremely infertile soils.
A consortium of investigators at seven North American institutions – including Cornell, New York Botanical Garden, Penn State, University of British Columbia, University of Georgia, University of Missouri, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as more than 30 collaborators worldwide – plan to use a revolutionary approach to develop a definitive family tree for the monocots over the next five years, and then use it to infer relationships among different groups and their evolutionary history across the globe.
For the first time, hundreds of whole chloroplast genomes (the circles of DNA inside the green organelles that conduct photosynthesis) will be sequenced and analyzed. Almost all previous studies using DNA to infer plant relationships have relied on sequences of only one or a few genes or spacers between genes. The new AToL approach – which will depend on collecting 600 monocot species around the world, from the jungles of southeast Asia, to the rich fynbos of South Africa, to the tops of the famed "Lost Worlds" of northern South America – will provide sequences for more than 100 chloroplast genes and, in many cases, the spacers between them, providing an avalanche of new data with which to assess evolutionary relationships. All the evolutionary history that can be wrung from the chloroplasts will thus be captured in this pioneering effort.
Sequencing the plastomes should also provide – at essentially no additional cost except computer analysis – the DNA sequences of all genes in the mitochondria, the organelles that conduct respiration within cells. The AToL team also plans to sequence transcriptomes – that is, the entire complement of RNA expressed from DNA – from the young leaves of several dozen monocots. For each species, the transcriptome sequences will provide information on thousands of nuclear genes. The unparalleled amount of genetic information from all three plant genomes should provide the most powerful analysis of relationships among any group of organisms studied to date. The monocot investigation is the first large-scale study to take advantage of the twin revolutions in sequencing technology and computer DNA analysis that have occurred in the last three years, making their phylogenomic approach possible.
The resulting insights into the family tree of the monocots will provide the foundation for many new studies in physiology, ecology, biogeography, and genomics. The transcriptome study, in particular, offers the hope for widespread discoveries of new genes associated with traits that are absent from the few model plants (for example, rice and corn) that have been studied previously, and may provide new insights into plant development and physiological capacity. Moreover, comparisons of nuclear, mitochondrial and plastid genes from diverse monocots will greatly enhance understanding of gene and genome evolution throughout the history of flowering plants. Plant breeders will be especially interested in using these data to unlock vast vaults of novel genes that could be introduced into key crop, forage and ornamental plant species.
Web access to the data, family trees, and conclusions from the study will be provided to researchers, students, and teachers around the world. Team members will develop a travelling exhibit to convey key findings at high-profile venues in New York, Chicago, Denver, and Berkeley. A children's monocot garden – and a planting list for other gardens around the country – will be developed at the New York Botanical Garden.
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"After": I always remove everything and measure the space. I also look at how the client uses the surrounding space and what their style is. I liked the original picture, but wanted to move the plants to a place where they were easier to water. I then selected other objects found elsewhere in the home that were more appropriate in height and balance.
Built in entertainment centers can be both a positive and negative focal point. They do eliminate the need for additional furniture, but they can be tricky to decorate. In the "before" picture below there is a certain heaviness to the bottom shelves and scale is not bring used correctly.
After: Visual weight is evenly spaced and grouping like items together provide more of an impact. (I apologize for the flash bouncing off the bottom picture.)
Always consider a room and its use of space when decorating. I look at this "before" picture of a kitchen space and cannot help but sing, "When the bough breaks the cradle will fall..."
As I was arranging the space I remember the homeowner saying, "I can't believe you are going to hang a picture way up there." My response was, "I always try to think outside the box. I promise it will look great. After all, the little girl in the picture is praying before she eats, and we are in a kitchen. " (Smile)
OK, obviously this client had lighting as well as balance and scale issues in this "before" picture.
After: Yes, it is ok to put a lamp in a niche if it has an outlet. Make sure you select pieces that are in scale with the space. These niches required huge pieces to really work in the space. Painting the niche a different color than the wall color is also a great idea.
Don't be afraid to bring the outdoors in. Garden statuary, orbs, and baskets can work indoors as well as out.
Let's talk about faux greenery. It recently made the top 10 in HGTV's "DON'T" category. It's true that I (as would most designers) would prefer to have a live plant versus a fake. But, as we all know there are exceptions to every rule. If you live in a hot climate and are decorating a space that is 10+ feet above the ground I think we can safely assume most plants will die because they will not get the watering that they need. But please, if you do use faux greenery, make sure you clean it at least once a year.
This grouping below works well because of the use of similar colors and scale.
Below is an area I am struggling err decorating in my own home. You saw this cabinet a few posts back. I have now painted it a celery green. I am in the midst of filling it with various combinations until I find the one that "works". I decided to turn the cabinet upside down.
From the ground you couldn't see the darling legs. Perhaps I will keep it this way.
Begin with a wire form. This one was found at Ross for $14.99. You can often find them at end of season sales in garden centers for even less.
Even at the discount stores, a topiary of this size, with greenery, will run $40-$50 dollars. Instead you can easily make it for $25.00.
How do you decorate your niches?
Last week's quote:
"Lately, I have been thinking how comfort is perhaps the ultimate luxury."
Billy Baldwin, designer


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GOLD-RUSH COUNTRY 1860's-1870's
Submitted by Erin Macdonald-Grimm
Compiled for Tom Macdonald at Martha Macdonald's request. A special message to my dear little granddaughter Ruthie Gist for whom this family history was written from the suggestion of her dear mother.
|Message: You little
angel you came into this beautiful world, a nice place for you, and you
can make it nicer by having lived in it. Never mind what people may say or
do, keep right on doing the best you know how. You will have your troubles
and mother will help you to over ride them and Daddy will guide you too. I
feel that you are going to be a joy to your mama and papa and you will
make them happy by your presence and youthful gayety. When your mama was a
little girl older than you, when we all went to church on Sundays we had
to walk about a mile from where we lived, your uncle Alfred rode in the
baby carriage because he was to young to walk. One day when we were
halfway home your mama said to me, pa, my legs are breaking and of course
I lifted her into my arms for awhile until she had her broken legs
repaired by resting. Then agreeably walked for awhile and her legs to
breaking again. This happened quite often when she wanted me to carry her
which I was glad to do. She was a schemer. Dear Ruthie, believe in
god, for after all is said and done and when you are of the gray there is
just one place left for you that is a heavenly abodes and all will be well
with you if your life has been well spent.
Berkeley California
My name is Grant Sidney Palmer I was born February the 20Th 1863 in Lancha Plana, Amador County, California, on the Mokelumne River near the location of the Pardee Dam. I was named for General Grant for at that time he was winning great battles for Uncle Sam and saved the nation. Lancha Plana was a small village of half a dozen houses and a store.
My father settled there and was engaged in placer mining with sluice boxes. He had been established in Sacramento but malaria drove him out of the place and he went to Lancha Plana to mine. He was married there to my mother. In a few years he moved to a place called French Camp(?) a few miles from Lancha Plana. I will never forget the place as I lost a .50 cent piece in a well there and I expect it is still there covered up by this time.
My brother and I, after dark used to raid our Spanish neighbor boys of pine burs which contained pine nuts. One night they nearly caught us too. I was about 4 years old then. Another thing happened there and was how my mother killed a very large snake in the cellar with a sledge hammer that father had used in mining. There was an old Frenchman, Carrie(?), that lived near by, he used to make reed rattles for us children and cook rabbits in vinegar. I tell you the rabbits tasted awful good.
One time grandmother was sick in Sacramento and my mother was called to take care of her during her sickness. My father took care of the house and us children. Father was a good cook as I well remember the large pan of cinnamon rolls that he made for us one time while mother was away. From this village the family moved to a town called Pine Grove, Amador County, California where my father was superintendent of a quartz mine. We lived in Pine Grove two or three years and then moved to Jackson, Amador County, California. Jackson is the county seat of Amador County.
When we moved to Pine Grove and on the way from French Camp I was stricken with chills and fever. I remember of sitting in a corner of the room wrapped in heavy blankets and all the family trying to make it pleasant for me. I got well soon. We had out first Christmas in Pine Grove and Santa Claus brought a large tin pail of mixed nuts and candy. We enjoyed it immensely but had no tree. The first Christmas tree I ever saw was in Jackson. It was a large manzanito tree and it was loaded with presents for the children of the town.
In our mining town as Jackson was and Jackson had the deepest gold mine in the world, two or three times a year we had celebrations of some sort. The greatest time of the year was the 4Th of July, Independences Day and I remember getting up at day light to celebrate the day. My father had a livery stable and he could hardly accommodate the teams and saddle horses that came to town that day.
My greatest enjoyment while I lived in Jackson was in organizing a brass band. Our band was composed of about eight boys and we developed into the best band in the country. while other towns in the mountains gave celebrations and dances our band got the job.
In the winter time after a hard rain made creeks and gullies roar with water washing down the hill sides to the creeks below and then into the rivers and finally into the ocean. At these rains I used to go out into the hill and gulches and look for gold and was successful. I did not find a great amount of gold but it paid me in two ways, financially and the joy of picking it out of the rock hid under the clear mountain water. Nothing looked more beautiful than a piece of bright yellow gold under the clear pure water. I went to school to a man named Gould a private teacher. I learned to read and write from him and knew the multiplication perfectly. I became a fair penman. I went to the public school after that and advanced to the Grammar grade and that was all the education I received, for in the mountain towns at that time if you could read and write that was sufficient as your parents needed your help in maintaining the family and of good size.
I was a hunter also and used to go hunting for quail and rabbits. The quail were too smart for me as I never got many and as for the rabbits I used to bring one home once in awhile. The shotgun I used was brought to California by my father when he came here from Boston. It did not use shells as they do now, you had to load the Gun with a ram rod, put the desired amount of powder in first, then paper for wadding to Separate the powder from the shot or bullets and then more wadding to hold the shot in form falling out and finally a copper cap on a little tube which led to the powder. The cap was exploded by a hammer attached to a spring and a trigger released the spring and gun went off.
My father had an old colt revolver that had a cylinder of six barrels in it, and one time I thought I would load and try it out. The loading was the same as the shot gun only it had six barrels instead of one. I loaded it perfectly and put the caps on. I raised the hammer and pulled the trigger, the pistol made a load report, that was satisfactory but when I raised the hammer for the second shot and pulled the trigger again there was no report, upon examination I found the entire six barrels went off at once.
I was an expert marble player and used to have several hundred marbles that I had won from other boys. In the band I played the small drum and always played for shows that came to town. Jackson is a mining town of about 2000 population. The residents are nearly all Austrians and Italian. Some of them were regular brigands and some were decent. They were also American miners.
Back to gold again. James W Marshall was the discoverer of gold in California in January 1848 was an intimate friend of my father. He was a kindly man and helped other in need. I remember well when he came to Jackson to visit my father. I think it was 1875. They did not go into the house after greeting my mother but went into the front yard to talk. It was at this time that Mr. Marshall gave my brother and I his book of himself with his photograph and signature in his own handwriting. That was the last time I saw Mr. Marshall.
After leaving Jackson about 1886 we moved to Santa Cruz, California, my sister Adelaide having gone there first. After a few years in Santa Cruz I went to San Jose and secured a position as back driver. Soon I secured a better position with San Jose laundry Association and served them for 15 years or more. While with the laundry Association a nice young lady came to work for the association. and it was not long before we were keeping company and it was not long before we were married in January 1894.
From our marriage two sons and a daughter were born all in San Jose. The first born son was Wallace, the second child was Ruth and the third child was Alfred Wallace was born December 5Th 1895, Ruth on October 22nd 1900, Alfred on March 17Th 1906, they were about 5 years apart.
We moved from San Jose to Palo Alto about 1910 to assist Mrs. Palmer's father in the bakery business and from there into the hotel business. After a few years Mrs. Palmer went to Long Beach California and engaged in the steam counter business and was very successful while I stayed in Palo Alto and ran the hotel. I finally sold the place and went to my family at Long Beach. We were successful until the depression came on and we lost everything we had. I was taken down with the shingles in 1929 and have never recovered from them. It is now 1936.


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2228 Phillips Highway Jacksonville 32207 USA
Location This motel is located in Jacksonville and approximately 9,6 km from Jacksonville Landing. Theatre Jacksonville and Jacksonville Municipal Stadium are area attractions, as is the Museum of Science and History. Facilities The motel was built in 1960. Travellers can feel at home in one of the 49 rooms. A laundry service is among the facilities. Wireless internet access is available to guests in the public areas. Those arriving in their own vehicles can leave them in the car park of the establishment. Rooms Rooms feature air conditioning, central heating and a bathroom. The carpeted rooms feature a double bed or a king-size bed. Cots are available for younger travellers. A fridge, a microwave and a tea/coffee station are provided as standard. An ironing set is also available for guests' convenience. Little extras, including internet access, a telephone, a TV, a radio and WiFi, contribute to a great stay. The bathrooms are fitted with a shower and a bathtub. A hairdryer can also be found in each of the bathrooms. Sports/Entertainment The accommodation offers attractions including sport and entertainment opportunities. The motel features a pool and an outdoor pool. Meals Breakfast can be booked. Payment The following credit cards are accepted at the establishment: American Express, VISA, Diners Club and MasterCard.


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SCLS Home
SCLS Committees
SCLS Board of Trustees
Present: J. Ashford, J. Carter, S. Carter, F. Cherney, P. Cox, L. Davis-Brown, J. Harrington, T. Iaccarino, J. Krembs,
S. Martin, K. Michaelis, M. Nelson, G. Poulson, J. Pugh
Also Present: M. Van Pelt, K. Goeden, M. Friesen
Absent: H. O'Donnell,
Excused: N. Brien, M. Larson, P. Westby
Call to Order: G. Poulson, President, called the meeting to order at 12:15 p.m.
Minutes: L. Davis-Brown moved approval of the December 27, 2012 minutes, K. Michaelis seconded. Motion carried.
Bills for Payment/Financial Statements: J. Pugh reviewed the bills for payment in the amount of $223,450.93 and moved approval. M. Nelson seconded. Motion carried.
President's Report: G. Poulson thanked the board for the opportunity to serve as president of the board. Library Legislative Day is February 5 which G. Poulson will be attending as well as P. Cox. The committee sign-up sheet was included with the board packet. Please return the form to Heidi Moe with your choices indicated. G. Poulson proposed that there be three standing committees of the board – Personnel, Budget/Finance, and Bylaws - with the option to create other committees as necessary. The foundation board has a trustee vacancy – J. Carter has agreed to fill the vacancy.
Committee Reports:
Budget/Finance/Personnel Committee: The committees met prior to the board meeting and determined there was no budget adjustment to approve.
Personnel Committee: L. Davis Brown noted the committee reviewed the revised handbook. There are no changes to the policies and procedures, except for minor changes to the explanatory language. All changes were reviewed by an attorney. L. Davis Brown moved approval of the handbook as amended. S. Martin seconded. Motion carried.
Action Items:
Approval to send G. Poulson as the SCLS Board representative to ALA Legislative Day held in D.C. in May 2013: J. Harrington moved approval to send G. Poulson to ALA. S. Carter seconded. Motion carried. M. Van Pelt will be attending as well.
Approval of AC's recommended governance revisions: The revisions include: Changing the current cluster model to a county based cluster model with seat/cluster total at 13 (7 Dane County, 6 for the rest); Eliminating the At-Large cluster representative; Holding three All Director meetings per year with the option of holding a fourth meeting if necessary – the meetings will take place in March, May and July; Clarification of the hierarchical structure of the committees – which is as follows: SCLS Board oversees all, Delivery and Technology Committees are under the AC. CM, CSS, and PAC are under ILS. Each committee will also have the potential to create "ad hoc" committees as needed. K. Michaels moved approval of the AC's recommended governance revisions as presented. S. Martin seconded. Motion carried.
Approval of possible bylaw revisions based upon Administrative Council's recommended governance revisions: F. Cherney moved to approve the SCLS Bylaws committee review the bylaws and make the necessary changes based upon the AC's governance revisions. J. Pugh seconded. Motion carried.
Recess the January SCLS Board meeting for the purpose of conducting the 2013 SCLS Annual Meeting:
L. Davis Brown moved to recess the January SCLS Board meeting to conduct the 2013 SCLS annual meeting. J. Pugh seconded. Motion carried. On behalf of the nomination committee, J. Pugh proposed the following SCLS Board members as 2013 officers: Jennifer Harrington, President; Phil Cox, V. President; Judy Ashford, Treasurer; Sue Martin, Secretary. There were no nominations from the floor. F. Cherney moved to close the nominations and to cast a unanimous ballot for the slate of officers. S. Carter seconded. Motion carried.
G. Poulson moved adjournment of the annual meeting to reconvene the SCLS Board meeting. J. Pugh seconded. Motion carried.
J. Harrington took over the meeting as the newly elected president.
SCLS Foundation Report: M. Van Pelt noted the Foundation board will hold its annual meeting following the January board meeting.
Circulation and ILL Statistics: No report.
System Director's Report: M. Van Pelt noted the Muslim Journeys display that SCLS members received through a grant that Denise Anton Wright wrote. The books and dvds were available for the board to review. S. Brommer, Youth Services consultant, purchased 7 Ipads for the member libraries to use. M. Van Pelt discussed the schedule of education topics for the board in 2013. A copy of the updated Trustee Essentials was distributed to each board member present. The Bill Examiner schedule was included in the board packet. If any board member has a conflict with the month they are scheduled to review the bills, please contact Heidi Moe.
Administrative Council (AC) Report:
The minutes may be viewed here: http://www.scls.info/committees/ac/index.html.
Other Business:
Discussion of Advocacy Committee future: SCLS provides informational packets to those advocating for libraries. If there are specific advocacy items that the board would like/need, please let SCLS know. It will be put on the February agenda as an action item to remove this as a committee. It is not listed in the bylaws as a standing committee.
Discussion of Facilities Committee Future: This topic will be put on the February agenda as an action item to remove.
Discussion of financial reporting, more in-depth monthly reporting or have Finance/Budget committee meet more often? At the February Board meeting, K. Goeden will be presenting information about how to read the financial reports the board receives each month. She inquired whether the board might benefit from an "exceptions report", which would indicate if there were changes to the budget. She also encouraged the board to review the financial reports so she can answer any questions they may have.
M. Van Pelt noted Dave Odahl of Wegner & Assoc., will need to briefly meet with the Budget/Finance committee after the February board meeting.
Information sharing:
J. Carter noted he met with Julie Chase, Director of Dane County Library Service, and they discussed how information could be exchanged between SCLS, local library boards and directors. It was suggested a SCLS Trustee attend Dane County Library Service Board meetings.
Meeting adjourned at 1:30 p.m.
Heidi Moe, Recorder
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YPSILANTI —The Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents today responded to the resignation of Board members Karen Quinlan Valvo, Jan Brandon and Sharon Rothwell.
"We would like to express our appreciation to Chairwoman Valvo, Regent Brandon and Regent Rothwell for their years of service to our students, faculty and the entire EMU community," said Regent Joseph Antonini. "Given the tough economic environment in Michigan, we recognize that these are challenging and often contentious times for serving on a university board. While the timing of the resignations is not ideal, we certainly recognize their concerns over the time commitment required to serve as a Board member, and we respect their decisions to allow other dedicated individuals the opportunity to serve.
"In every way, we are poised to continue to make the right decisions necessary for extraordinary growth in the future of EMU. President Fallon shares this vision and has the strong executive leadership qualities, personal character and willingness to make important, and sometimes unpopular decisions in the best interest of the University."
Regent Floyd Clack agreed.
"We appreciate Regents Valvo, Brandon and Rothwell's great leadership at EMU, which has been instrumental in making the important strides the University has seen over the last few years," said Regent Clack. "We wish them great success in their future endeavors.
"However, we believe in our capacity as Regents, working with the University's executive team, to continue to move EMU in the right direction. We look forward to the Governor's appointment of new leadership. These new Board members will join us in working collaboratively with the President and the entire EMU community as a team, as we continuing to provide the affordable, quality education our students and families deserve."
Regent Philip Incarnati also shared his comments.
"I was disappointed to learn that Regents Valvo, Rothwell and Brandon resigned from the Board, but I also respect their right to do so," said Regent Incarnati. "I am committed to continue to work with the remaining Regents and our administration to move the University forward consistent with my constitutional and fiduciary responsibilities, as I have over these last 15 years."
Regents Thomas Sidlik and Roy Wilbanks could not be reached for comment.
A copy of the above release is available as a PDF file here.
Read the resigning regents' letter to the EMU community here (PDF file).
Read the resigning regents' letter to Governor Granholm here (PDF file).
Eastern Michigan University is a public, comprehensive university that offers programs in the arts, sciences and professions. EMU prepares students with the intellectual skills and practical experiences to succeed in their career and lives, and to be better citizens.
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THERE'S going to be a whole lot of meeting going on when the Bombers return to practice at Investors Group Field on Monday.
Cornerback Jovon Johnson said Friday night that there will be a players-only meeting on Monday to allow for some airing of laundry, but head coach Tim Burke said Saturday that he's got a meeting of his own planned for Monday.
"I'm going to have a players' meeting with the head coach first. Before they have their meeting," said Burke.
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Johnson was less circumspect about what the players-only meeting will be about.
"I think guys are down and kind of emotional about the loss. But we're going to come in on Day 1 and meet as a team without the coaches and we're going to go from there," Johnson said after the game.
"Our destiny comes from the guys in our locker-room, so as long as we keep the team together and keep the unity, I think we'll be fine. We just have to come out and play better."
The fact the players are having their own special meeting just one month into a new season is perhaps reflective of how serious the Bombers' predicament is right now with a tough schedule in front of them.
"It's not usual," Johnson agreed, "but different situations call for different things. If guys want to get some things off their chest, that's just the way the business goes. So that's what we're going to do."
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Speaking of Johnson, Burke was asked if the CFL's most outstanding defensive player in 2011 has lost a step this season.
Johnson has looked bad on a number of big plays, but Burke said looks can be deceiving.
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Sgt. Pepper's Subs: Upscale Digs, Old-School Subs, Hosts Sub Contest Sunday
With its grand-opening party this Sunday, Sgt. Pepper's Subs is announcing to the world that it is here to stay. Owner Nelson Couso originally opened his shop on SW 183rd Street and remained at that location for 15 years. He later opened a second store near Dadeland Mall, which stuck around for five years, until the recession curbed people's spending habits. In its new location off South Dixie Highway and 172nd Street, Sgt. Pepper's has found a permanent home. We were invited to get a sneak peek and try some menu items before the grand opening.
Although it hurt to lose the Dadeland store, Couso embraces the lessons he learned there and has applied them to his new location -- the prettiest, sleekest, and cleanest sub shop you'll ever set foot in.
This Sunday, Sgt. Pepper's Subs is hosting a block party and a "Design Your Own Big One" contest with a live tasting from noon to 3 p.m. The winner gets an iPad Mini, his or her creation added to the menu, and a year of free dining.
Employee Richard Castro, owner Nelson Couso, and employee Patrick French
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The menu reflects Couso's stint in Dadeland. In addition to traditional sub-shop fare, Sgt. Pepper's offers wraps, flatbreads, and Italian coffee. You're not likely to find these items at your neighborhood sub shop. But in a way, Sgt. Pepper's retains the feel of your local sub spot. Customers are called by name, and some are so loyal they've had menu items named after them.
When Nelson tells you about his time at the Loew's Hotel or about his first job at Taco Joe's, his uncle's Tex-Mex restaurant up North, you can hear the traces of a New York accent that refuses to disappear. "My employees are like family. My customers are like family. We treat everyone the same here."
We tried a few steak and chicken subs along with a meatball sub, a burger and fries, and a flatbread pizza. At the end of our meal, Richard Castro, one of the employees, brought us some cookies. We discovered later that they were delicious, but at the moment we were so full we couldn't take another bite.
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Interestingly, enough, Sgt. Pepper's Subs seems to shine when it comes to its chicken subs. There's a chicken caesar with bacon ($6.99 to $7.99) that blew me away. The peppery, noncloying sauce perfectly complemented the chicken and quality bacon. Also, although I thought the honey-mustard chicken sub ($6.29 to $7.49) was a bit too sweet for a sub, it's all a matter of taste, as my dining companions proved when they both swooned over it.
TG4ED flatbread pizza, named after longtime customer Ed Diaz.
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We tried a flatbread ($8.95 to $16.95), the TG4ED, loaded (and we mean loaded) with toppings, sausage, pepperoni, ham, and so on. It's a shame we didn't get to really enjoy it, because the crust was burnt to a crisp. The shop was busy, so we don't think it's a regular occurrence, but we will be back to try it. The toppings were plentiful and looked incredibly fresh.
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Pepe's On Fire steak sub, named after longtime customer Pepe Gomez.
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The steak subs ($5.49 to $7.99) were pretty standard, expect for the Pepe's On Fire (named after a longtime customer). Steak, hot sauce, and hot peppers -- really good if you're into that sort of thing, which I am.
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The Sgt. Pepper's burger ($7.99) was fantastic and topped with blue cheese and plenty of bacon and accompanied by perfectly cooked, nongreasy seasoned curly fries.
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The block party and live tasting take place at Sgt. Pepper's Subs (17225 S. Dixie Highway, Palmetto Bay) this Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. Call 305-238-SUBS (7827) or visit sgtpepperssubs.com or Facebook.
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