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By Daniel Serwer
The Syrian regime is crowing victory. The Russians are satisfied at preventing an American military intervention. President Obama is glad to have avoided a Congressional vote against it. Israel is pleased to see Syria's chemical weapons capability zeroed out, provided the framework agreement reached last week is fully implemented. Even Iran is backing it, while continuing to deny that the regime was responsible for using chemical weapons.
What about the Syrian opposition?
The agreement on chemical weapons leaves them out in the cold. Bashar al-Assad is now vital to implementation of the agreement and will procrastinate implementing it for as long as possible. While destruction of Syria's chemical weapons capability is supposed to be completed by mid-2014, the logistical challenges involved are colossal. Just accounting for and collecting the 1,000 tons of material will be an enormous task, before getting to deployment of observers and physical destruction, which will likely require shipping the material out of Syria to Russia. Wartime conditions will double the difficulties and prolong the process, even if the regime decides to cooperate fully. That's unlikely.
Nothing in the agreement changes the battlefield situation. Chemical attacks never made more than a marginal contribution to the regime's killing capacity. They have killed fewer than 2 percent of the total casualties in Syria's war. The regime is ratcheting up the violence using conventional weapons. It is raining ordnance on liberated areas with renewed vigor after a several weeks' lull.
The United States, Britain and France are pledging to step up assistance to the opposition, which last weekend finally named a "prime minister" to head an interim government. A dentist with both Islamist and dissident credentials, Saudi-friendly Ahmad Tomeh is expected to name a government that will try to improve delivery of services in liberated areas. There are reports of accelerated weapons deliveries to vetted Syrian Free Army units, and a possible shift of responsibility from the CIA to the Department of Defense, but at the moment the regime still seems to have the initiative on the battlefield.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is insisting on moving forward with efforts to negotiate an end to the war, by convening a conference aimed at implementing a June 2012 Geneva communique calling for a transitional government with full executive powers agreed by both regime and opposition. It is not clear however whether Russian willingness to cooperate with the U.S. on chemical weapons will lap over to convening the "Geneva II" conference, which has been stalled for months. In accordance with the Geneva I agreement of June 2012, it is supposed to transfer all executive power away from Bashar al-Assad and give it to a mutually agreed upon interim government. Moscow doesn't seem at all ready for that. Passage and implementation of a U.N. Security Council resolution in support of the chemical weapons agreement is likely to take up most diplomatic bandwidth for several more weeks, and perhaps more.
The Syrian opposition coalition is under no illusions. They are worried that Geneva II will not fulfill the promise of Geneva I. The chemical weapons agreement is welcome so far as it saves lives, but it is also a distraction. The opposition wants more weapons for the Free Syrian Army and Western military intervention against the regime's air force and missiles, which make governing liberated areas almost impossible. Without this, there is little prospect for a successful negotiation or implementation of the chemical weapons agreement.
While U.S. intervention might have helped extremist recruitment, the failure of the U.S. to intervene militarily does nothing to weaken radical opposition strains or strengthen the coalition moderates who have cooperated with the U.S. Already close to half the opposition fighters are thought to be jihadists or hardliners closely allied with them. The civic-minded nonviolent activists who began the Syrian revolution in 2011 are being pushed to the sidelines. They have shifted most of their efforts to supplying humanitarian relief, in competition with well-organized mosques and other Islamic organizations.
Perhaps the most promising news for the opposition in recent days — unreported by Western media — is the decision of the Kurdish National Council to join the Coalition, reportedly on the basis of a solid agreement ensuring Kurdish rights in the post-Assad Syria. Kurdish adhesion would give the Coalition a broader base and the Syrian Free Army important allies. But it is small comfort to those who had hoped for American intervention.
While the world celebrates American/Russian rapprochement, an end to the war and a transition to democracy seem farther off than ever.
(Daniel Serwer is a Reuters columnist. Opinions are his own.)


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Twenty-eight songs and a running time slightly over three hours. These are the hallmarks of a Bruce Springsteen live show. It was a special night from the start as Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine walked onstage with the members of the E Street Band at the onset for a ripping version of "Land Of Hope And Dreams." Morello guested throughout the evening, adding his sonic wizardry to "Death To My Hometown,""This Depression," "Badlands," "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," and a mind blowing whammy pedal solo on "The Ghost Of Tom Joad." The other surprise of the evening was Mike Ness showing up with his Les Paul for a slick rundown of Social Distortion's "Bad Luck." These were just a few of the many highlights that included the shimmery acoustics of "Waitin' On A Sunny Day," a barnstorming rendition of "Thunder Road," and the whole band donning Santa hats for "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town." Check out the gallery above and the lengthy setlist below.
01 "Land Of Hope And Dreams"
02 "Adam Raised A Cain"
03 "Streets Of Fire"
04 "Hungry Heart"
05 "We Take Care Of Our Own"
06 "Wrecking Ball"
07 "Death To My Hometown"
08 "My City Of Ruins"
09 "Spirit In The Night"
10 "The E Street Shuffle"
11 "Long Time Comin'"
12 "Reason To Believe"
13 "This Depression"
14 "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"
15 "Bad Luck"
16 "Because The Night"
17 "Darlington County"
18 "Shackled And Drawn"
19 "Waitin' On A Sunny Day"
20 "Raise Your Hand"
21 "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"
22 "Badlands"
23 "Thunder Road"
24 "Jungleland"
25 "Born To Run"
26 "Dancing In The Dark"
27 "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — A top U.S. national security official says President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping found "quite a bit of alignment" on the subject of North Korea and agreed that North Korea has to be denuclearized.
White House national security adviser Tom Donilon says that the leaders also agreed that neither country will accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state.
Donilon says the common ground between Obama and Xi on North Korea provides a key for enhanced U.S.-China cooperation.
He spoke Saturday at the end of two days of meeting between Obama and Xi in an estate in the California desert.


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"Operating Systems, Concurrent and Distributed Software Design" by Jean Bacon and Tim Harris,
Addison Wesley 2003, is relevant to this course.
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|MLB Career Stats
|Myrtle Beach
|September 29, 2014
|3B Andy Marte elected free agency.
|August 9, 2014
|Arizona Diamondbacks sent 3B Andy Marte outright to Reno Aces.
|August 7, 2014
|Arizona Diamondbacks designated 3B Andy Marte for assignment.
|July 31, 2014
|Arizona Diamondbacks selected the contract of 3B Andy Marte from Reno Aces.
|April 2, 2014
|3B Andy Marte assigned to Reno Aces.
|December 13, 2013
|Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent 3B Andy Marte to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 4, 2013
|3B Andy Marte elected free agency.
|September 21, 2013
|Salt Lake Bees activated 3B Andy Marte from the 7-day disabled list.
|September 13, 2013
|Salt Lake Bees placed 3B Andy Marte on the 7-day disabled list. Dislocated left shoulder.
|August 6, 2013
|3B Andy Marte assigned to Salt Lake Bees.
|August 5, 2013
|Los Angeles Angels signed free agent 3B Andy Marte to a minor league contract.
|November 2, 2011
|DH Andy Marte elected free agency.
|April 6, 2011
|Andy Marte assigned to Indianapolis Indians from Pittsburgh Pirates.
|December 1, 2010
|Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent 3B Andy Marte to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 6, 2010
|3B Andy Marte elected free agency.
|November 4, 2010
|Cleveland Indians sent 3B Andy Marte outright to Columbus Clippers.
|June 7, 2010
|Andy Marte roster status changed by Cleveland Indians.
|June 5, 2010
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|May 15, 2010
|Andy Marte roster status changed by Cleveland Indians.
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Andy Manuel Marte...Attended Liceo Nueva Esperanza School in the Domincan Republic.2013
Played the majority of the season with the York Revolution of the independent Atlantic League, hitting .301
(111-for-369) with 26 doubles, 19 home runs and 74 RBI in 96 games...Signed by Angels as a Minor League free agent on Aug. 6 and appeared in 26 games with Triple-A Salt Lake, hitting .362 (34-for-94) with 2 doubles, 6 homers and 18 RBI.
Did not play.2011
Hit .202 (58-for-287) with 15 doubles, 7 homers and 37 RBI in 97 games for Triple-A Indianapolis.2010 Spent fifth and final season in the Indians organization...Made 45 appearances (28 starts) at third base and 32 appearances (15 starts) at first base...Also made first professional pitching appearance with 1.0 scoreless inning (0h/0bb/1so) of relief on 7/29 vs. the New York Yankees; he was the first non-pitcher to appear in a game for Cleveland since Tim Laker on 4/20/04 and 21st non-pitcher in club history...Went 0-for-9 with five strikeouts as a pinch hitter...Went deep for the first time while collecting a season-high tying three RBI on 4/22 at Minnesota...Was placed on the 15-day disabled list on 5/12 with a non-baseball medical issue...Appeared in one game on rehab with Single-A Lake County before being recalled from his rehab assignment and reinstated from the disabled list on 6/7...Was charged with three errors in one inning while playing third base on 6/10 vs. Boston (according to the Elias Sports Bureau, he became the first Indians player to commit three errors in an inning since shortstop Frank Duffy on 9/24/72)...Went 8-for-24 (.333) from 9/19 thru the remainder of the season...Went 7-for-50 (.140) with a double, two home runs and five RBI in 17 games while playing for Licey in the Dominican Winter League. 2009 Resurrected his tenure with the organization after being outrighted off the 40-man roster in spring training (Feb. 25)...Spent the first four months of the season at AAA Columbus where he hit.327 (98-300) with 24 doubles, 1 triple, 18 home runs and 66 RBI in 82 games (.359 OB%, .593 SLG%., .963 OPS)...At the time of his recall he was leading the International League in OPS (.963) and slugging % (.593), was 2nd in RBI, tied for 2nd in HR and extra base hits (43) and 3rd in batting average (.327)...Over his last 11 games he hit .400 (16-40) w/ 3 2B, 7HR & 15 RBI to go along with a .385 (30-78) July w/ 9 HR & 24 RBI...He hit .406 (52-128) with runners on base and .427 (38-89) with RISP for the Clippers (74G 3B, 6G 1B)...Had three 4-for-4 games with the Clippers and a pair of 2 homer games...Was named to the International League post-season all-star team & Topps Triple-A All-Star Team after the season...Appeared in 74 games at third base and 6 games at first base with Columbus...Contract purchased from Columbus on July 28 and spent remainder of the season with the Indians...Made 43 starts at first base and 1 GS at DH with the Tribe...Hit first HR of the season on August 25 at KC and hit go-ahead 2-run HR on August 27 at Baltimore (2-for-4, 3B, HR, 2R BI)...Enjoyed a career-long 10 game hitting streak from August 20-29 (.417, 3 HR & 12 RBI)...Started slowly in the big leagues, hitting .175 (7-40) in his first 12 games before hitting .252 (29-115) over his last 35 games from August 20th-on...Finished the season going 14-for-79 (.177) from August 30th-on (25G)...STATS: Hit .277 (18-65) with runners on, .313 (10-32) with RISP and .375 (6-16) with RISP-2 outs...Played for the Toros del Este after the season in the Dominican Winter League. 2008 Spent his first full season in the big leagues and was the club's regular third basemen over the final two months of the season...Average increased throughout the season as his playing time became more consistent...Over his final 34 games from August 5 thru the end of the season he hit .291 (30-194) with 7 2B, 1 3B & 11 RBI to raise his average from .167 to its final total of .221...Hit in a career best 9 straight games from August 22-Sept. 2 (.344, 2RBI) and over his last 22 games from August 22-on he hit .313 (21-67) with 3 2B, 1 3B, 0HR & 7RBI...Hit his first HR on the season on July 13 vs. Tampa Bay...Collected first RBI in his 57th at bat on July 5 at Minnesota...On July 4 he was hitting .125 (7-56) in 26 games...Overall made 68 starts at third base (76 games) and collected a fielding % of .971 (204TC, 6E), which would have ranked 1st in the American League ahead of Alex Rodriguez (.970) with the requisite number of games at the position...Appeared in first career big league game at first base on August 29 vs. Seattle...Missed the last 5 games of the season with a left calf strain, suffered at Boston on Sept. 23...Rehabbed in Goodyear before playing winter ball in the Dominican...Hit .293 (17-58) with 4 2B, HR, 9RBI off LHP (.379OB, .448SLG, .827OPS) and .297 (11-37) in Sept. 2006 Highly regarded prospect spent the majority of the season at AAA Buffalo before spending the last 2 months of the season as the Tribe's regular third baseman...From August 17 thru the end of the regular season he hit .262 (33-126) with 14 2B, 5HR & 21 RBI in 36 games (.508 slg %)...Hit .261 (93-357) w/23 2B, 15HR & 46 RBI in 96 games at AAA Buffalo and was named to AAA All-Star Team...Did not hit 1st homer until 119th AB of the season and had just 2HR in first 205AB before turning on the power...Hit 13HR in his final 152 at bats with the Bisons (1HR every 11.7AB)...Homered in 5 consecutive games from June 15-19 to tie the Buffalo club record (7R, 10RBI)...Also homered in 3 straight games, June 10-12, and had 8HR in a 10-game span from June 10-19...Was Int'l League Batter of the week, June 12-18 (7G, .346, 9-26, 7R, 2B, 5HR, 21RBI, .962 slug. %) and was named Topps IL Player of the Month for June (24G, .304, 28-82, 20R, 4 2B, 10HR, 22RBI)...Was in a 1 for 20 skid at the time of his recall... Had a .935 fielding % at 91 games at 3B (19E, 293TC)...Hit .275 (25-91) with 5HR off LHP and .256 (68-266) off RHP in AAA...Hit .238 (19-80) with RISP and .303 (10-33) with RISP/2 outs...Hit .278 (44-158) with runners on base (9 of 15 HR came w/runners on)...Recalled from AAA on July 28 and was the regular third baseman for the rest of the season ...Collected first AL hit/RBI on August 4 @DET...Started slowly, hitting .105 (4-38, 1 2B, 2RBI) over the team's first 14 games thru 8/15... From August 17 thru the end of the regular season he hit .262 (33-126) with 14 2B, 5HR & 21 RBI in 36 games (.508 slg %). Went a career-best 3-4 w/3RS, 2 2B and hit his first Major League HR on August 18 at Tampa Bay (off Casey Fossum)...Hit his first career grand slam on Sept. 5 at Toronto, giving him a career-high 4RBI after the 8th inning blast off Jeremy Accardo...Overall appeared in 50 games at third base in Cleveland, making 49 starts while recording a capable fielding % of .962 (6E, 156TC)...13 of his last 19 hits (8 2B, 1 3B, 4HR) went for extra bases...Hit .268 (19-71) with runners on and .294 (15-51) from the 7th inning on...Hit .246 (34-138) in the #9 spot in the order and .364 (8-22) on the first pitch. 2001
In his fi rst professional season, hit .200 (25-for-125) with 1 homer and 12 RBI in 37 games with Advanced Rookie Danville.2002
Named the Braves' Minor League Hitter of the Year after batting .281 (137-for-488) with 32 doubles, 21 home runs and 105 RBI in 126 games with Single-A Macon...Selected to the South Atlantic League mid- and postseason All-Star Teams…led the SAL in RBI...Rated by Baseball America as the Best Defensive Third
Baseman in the SAL following the season…entered the season ranked by Baseball America as the No. 23 prospect in the Braves' organization entering the season.
Batted .285 (132-for-463) with 35 doubles, 16 home runs and 63 RBI in 130 games with Single-A Myrtle Beach...Selected to start at third base for the World Team in the MLB All-Star Futures Game @ U.S. Cellular Field…also named to the Carolina League midseason All-Star Team...Rated by Baseball America as the Best Defensive Third Baseman and Most Exciting Player in the Carolina League following the season...Entered the season ranked by Baseball America as the third-best prospect in the Braves' system.2005 Was acquired by Boston in exchange for SS Edgar Renteria and cash considerations...Was named Boston's top prospect entering the 2006 season and was ranked #1 in the Braves system in 2005 by Baseball America...In fact, he was ranked BA's 9th best prospect in the entire minor leagues entering the 2005 season and was ranked as the 5th best prospect in the IL in 2005...Has been voted his league's best defensive third baseman by league managers in each of his last 4 seasons...Spent the majority of the season with AAA Richmond, batting .275 with 26 doubles, 20 homers, 74 RBI and 51 runs scored in 109 games...Posted a .506 slugging percentage and .372 on-base percentage...One of 12 Braves to make their major league debut in 2005, Marte had 3 stints in Atlanta, going 8-for-57 (.140) with 4 RBI from June 6-25, July 8-15 and September 1 through the end of the season...Filling in for the injured Chipper Jones, the 21-year old Marte started at third base in his major league debut June 7 vs. the Angels and collected his first RBI with a sacrifice fly in the 4th inning...Recorded his first hit June 11 vs. Oakland, a 5th-inning single off Kirk Saarloos to snap an 0-for-9 drought to begin his big league career...With Richmond, hit .314 (70-for-223) in 62 games on the road, but batted just .223 (37-for-166) in 47 games at The Diamond...batted .294 (32-for-109) with runners in scoring position, including a .300 (15-for-50) mark with runners in scoring position and 2 outs... Batted .305 (29-for-95) against lefthanders compared to a .265 (78-for- 294) average vs. righties...He finished 3rd in the International League in walks (64) despite spending three different stints with the Braves at the big league level at just 21-years of age. 2004 Named the second-best prospect in the Braves organization by Baseball America...Rated as the top prospect in the Double-A Southern League by Baseball America...Named the best defensive third baseman in the Southern League by league managers...Ranked third in the league with a .525 slugging percentage and fifth with 52 extra-base hits...Finished second in homers (23) among Braves farmhands, despite missing a month with sprains in both ankles...Played in the MLB All-Star Futures Game for the second consecutive year and went 0-for-2...Had two home runs and five RBI on 5/13 vs. JAX...Had another two-homer game on 7/30 vs. CAR...In 17 games during July, he hit .350 (21-for-60) with seven home runs and 15 RBI while walking 14 times and fanning just nine times...Went 2-for-3 with a home run in his first appearance in the Major League camp at Spring Training.


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Matamoras Borough Councilman Dave Clark did a public-spirited thing recently when he bought the Pine Grove Cemetery in Pike County's Westfall Township.
Matamoras Borough Councilman Dave Clark did a public-spirited thing recently when he bought the Pine Grove Cemetery in Pike County's Westfall Township.
To be sure, the purchase originated in Clark's personal dismay that the cemetery where his brother Bill, an accident victim, was laid to rest in 2011 had fallen into terrible disrepair. Fallen branches, unmown grass, tipped headstones made for a sorry sight.
Taking responsibility for the cemetery's maintenance wasn't easy. Even learning who owned Pine Grove was like unraveling a mystery. Clark enlisted the help of a real estate agency to help him trace its history and current status. He learned that it was founded in 1856 by Mae Rose and, 99 years later, a member of the Rose family asked a neighbor to tend the cemetery. The neighbor, then his daughter and her family, took care of it for decades. The neighbor's daughter, Linda Copertino, continued caring for the property until 2009, when an attorney told her the cemetery was not her family's responsibility and she needed a real estate license to sell burial plots. It ended up in the hands of Wayne Bank, the custodian. Another good-hearted citizen, Allen Ford, spent time trying to maintain the cemetery during that period, while Milford attorney David Chuff worked on the transfer for free.
It took Clark two years to straighten out the ownership, officially acquire the cemetery, and set up funds for maintenance and operations. Clark, Copertino, and the late Bill Clark's two adult children will donate to the fund to provide perpetual care.
Copertino spent decades helping to keep Pine Grove Cemetery respectable and attractive, and Dave Clark went to a lot of trouble to honor his brother's remains. Their exertions aren't unique. Here in Stroudsburg, volunteers from the Monroe County Historical Association and the Rotary Club of the Stroudsburgs came together several years ago to clean up and maintain the small, walled Hollingshead Cemetery off Dreher Avenue. Local Boy Scout troops have helped maintain other, private cemeteries. Across communities, across the state and the nation, many private or even public cemeteries fall into neglect. The lucky ones are rescued from oblivion.
Such efforts go well beyond keeping the crabgrass down. In showing respect for the dead, volunteers like Clark are maintaining permanent records of individuals' births and deaths, their family members' names, sometimes how they died. Gravestones often track entire families for generations and indicate military veterans.
Next time you pass a cemetery, tip your hat to its caretakers. They are preserving pieces of local history for future generations.


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The Detroit Lions have added undrafted rookie free-agent LB Quentin Davie (Northwestern).
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Thinking like a fish
Chad Hanson used to wonder what music trout would listen to if they could: Brookies might like bluegrass, browns might prefer classical, while rainbows, he thought, would dig grunge tunes from the Pacific Northwest.
But he was wrong, he learns. And as Hanson looks for an answer to what might seem like a silly question, we share his growing intimacy with and concern for Western waterways. Ultimately, the 11 heartfelt essays in Swimming with Trout lift Hanson's experiences far beyond mere fishing stories.
Currently chair of sociology and social work at Casper College in Wyoming, this Midwesterner grew up before fly-fishing became a "big money-guzzling industry." Unimpressed by expensive trappings, whether rods, clothes or country McMansions, Hanson cares more about the well-being of fish than about bringing one to hand.
Long ago, he writes in "The Happy Whale," he learned to be respectful toward fish the day he and some friends rescued a steelhead stranded in a small pool below a new diversion dam. The boys used a T-shirt to carry the fish to a nearby lake.
In "A Sharp Reminder," he catches a brookie trailing someone else's line; unable to remove the fly, he debates whether it's kinder to kill or release the fish. He worries about the environment, noting, in "Carp Unlimited," how cattle leave nothing but "mud and damage" in a creek's weed bed, while in "Black Canyon," the runoff from newly plowed fields clogs a bordering streambed with silt.
To understand this underwater world, Hanson braves the cold water trout need to survive. In "Jonathan Livingston Brook Trout," he swims with a brookie that plays with flies like toys; in "Apache Trout," he is lured into the current by his desire to see Cloud Creek's endangered fish.
In the title essay, he bumps up against Wyoming water-rights law. Streambeds on private property are closed to trespassers; only floating a river is allowed. Lacking a boat, Hanson dons wetsuit, fins and mask. And he finds magic. One melody plays beneath waterfalls, another in eddies. It's river music, and the trout listen to it "day and night. ..."
Hanson, who doubts his new sport will catch on, still fishes in the traditional sense. But his experience swimming with trout - and the thoughtful essay it inspired - show there is more to be learned from fish than simply how to catch them.


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I was blessed to go home for Thanksgiving break last week. I can't describe the emotions I felt as, at the end of an eight-hour-long car ride journey, I started to spot familiar street signs and places. Sentimentality filled my heart, and I began to reflect on simple memories that have built me to who I am now. As I was lost in my ponderings, we finally pulled up to my pumpkin-colored home in the suburbs of Chicago. Normalcy. The life I've known for so long. As I trudged with my luggage to the front door, I could hardly contain my joy. I drank in the scent of my home. Home. As I gave my mom, dad and brother big hugs, I felt wonderful.
After 13 weeks of being away at school, I worried that I wouldn't be able to adjust to being back at home for a short weekend. Would I long to stay at home? Would my mind be filled with thoughts of school? Would I be fully present as I caught up with family and friends? My worries melted away as I asked the Lord to help me live "one day at a time," to fully experience and enjoy my time at home. To enjoy the presence of those who I don't see everyday at this season in my life. It was a fulfilling break filled with Starbucks chats, breakfasts, Jenga, nature walks, classic movies and laughs — and of course a Thanksgiving dinner!
One night, as I was lying down in my bed, my mom sat down next to me. With much wisdom, she had me ponder this statement: "Think about everything you've experienced and how much you have grown since the last time you slept in this room before college started." This thought made me reflect upon all the different opportunities I've been blessed to be a part of since being at Evangel. I have met many new friends who have a passion and love for Christ. I have expanded my mind by having the opportunity to be in classes from different disciplines. I have learned — although sometimes clumsily — to be more independent and make more of my own choices. I have been challenged to seek God with my whole heart as I surrender my life to Him. I have encountered God in a whole new way, realizing that He is my one constant.
As I keep adjusting to college life, I know I still have a lot of growing to do. I'm trusting, day-by-day, that God will continue teaching me as I keep asking Him to guide me.


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Nearly two dozen high school courses of study for nursing, carpentry, car repair and other jobs will be submitted to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in the first wave of Louisiana's overhaul of its career education system, state Superintendent of Education John White said Thursday.
The new program, which is called Jump Start, is designed to give high school juniors and seniors a way to earn national industry credentials and a newly crafted Jump Start career diploma.
BESE approved the overhaul in March.
The Legislature this year provided $12 million to boost career education.
Students have to earn 23 units for a traditional high school diploma.
At least nine of the 23 have to be in the field picked to earn the new speciality diploma, which can include high school courses, dual-enrollment college classes, internships and industry training.
White has said the overhaul will remove the stigma of career education and pave the way for students to learn the technical skills needed to land high-paying jobs.
The 23 routes to various occupations were submitted by regional teams of school districts, colleges and economic development teams.
They will be submitted to BESE at its October meeting.
The pathways amount to a course of study students need to finish to earn one of 35 credentials.
For instance, the statewide welding pathway allows students to choose from over 100 high school, dual-enrollment and internship course credits.
They are needed to earn a credential from either the National Center for Construction Education and Research or the American Welding Society.
One of the teams — Capitol — includes the East Baton Rouge, Ascension, Zachary and other school districts; Baton Rouge Community College and others; and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce and others.
The other teams in on the first round of job pathways are Greater Acadiana, including the Lafayette, St. Martin and Iberia parish school districts and the Gulf River Parishes team, which includes the Orleans, Jefferson and St. Charles school districts.
Eleven teams statewide are preparing routes to jobs, and White said 60 more are expected in the next few months.
Additional jobs include Web design professional, industrial maintenance mechanic, fashion design for costume and film, collision repair and manufacturing specialist.
White said that, despite some initial skepticism a year ago, every school system in the state is taking part.
"There is not an initiative in our high schools where there is greater attention or greater focus, greater energy, than there is on Jump Start," he told reporters.
The overhaul also shows that high schools, colleges and local industries can work together to improve student options, he said.
Students who earn the credentials also earn points for their high schools on annual school performance ratings.
More than 250 public high school teachers underwent a week of training this summer to earn their own certification needed to teach the classes.
Others will be handled by teachers in the Louisiana Community and Technical College System and local industry experts.
The state has about 75,000 juniors and seniors in public high schools.
Up to 25,000 students are eventually expected to be affected by the new career options.
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A 27-year-old teacher who was reported missing by school officials when he didn't show up for work Monday was identified Tuesday as a man who was struck and killed early Sunday morning.
A 27-year-old Columbia County High School teacher who was reported missing by school officials when he didn't show up for work Monday was identified Tuesday as a man who was struck and killed early Sunday morning when he ran into the path of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 75, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
Benjamin Gilliland of Alachua was a graduate of the University of Florida and was coming to the end of his first year as a language arts teacher at Columbia High School in Lake City. On Monday someone from the school called the Alachua Police Department to ask for a well-being check on Gilliland, according to Detective Jessie Sandusky of APD. The person said Gilliland had failed to show up for work and had not contacted anyone regarding his absence and that it was unlike him.
Two Alachua police officers went to Gilliland's residence at One51Place Apartments to find his car parked outside, but no answer at the door. A manager eventually allowed the officers inside, but Gilliland was not there. Family members of the missing man also showed up at the apartment and said they had not heard from him since Saturday night.
Little more than 24 hours prior, Jerold Pierce, 60, of Farmersville, Ohio, was driving his 2009 Peterbuilt semi north in the outside lane of I-75 at 12:27 a.m. Sunday when a man without identification ran into the path of the truck, according to the FHP report.
The accident occurred in Alachua County at the 397 mile marker, less than one mile from Gilliland's apartment. It wasn't until Tuesday morning that the man was identified as Benjamin Gilliland. He had turned 27 on Friday.
Patrick Gallagher is a teacher at Buchholz High School in Gainesville and served as a mentor to Gilliland, who interned in Gallagher's classroom the previous school year. Gallagher learned of Gilliland's passing from a Facebook post on Tuesday.
"He was fantastic, he was very studious and he was always on top of things," Gallagher said of Gilliland. "He would call or text if he was running 5 minutes late."
Gallagher went on to say his former intern had a deep love for literature that he worked diligently to impart to students.
FHP's traffic-homicide unit is conducting the investigation into Gilliland's death.


text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - art hagwon's? Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in art hagwon's? Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message danniedoodlesJoined: 27 Dec 2012 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:14 pm Post subject: art hagwon's? newbie here! currently in the process of trying to find a job in SK and I'm just wondering 2 things: do arts-based hagwons exist? how do i find said hagwons? any advice is appreciated Back to top cheolsuJoined: 16 Jan 2009 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:44 pm Post subject: I know many people who teach or have taught things like art, math or science in English as it's very popular in hagwons and private elementary schools to cover content in English as well. I taught math, social studies and science when I worked at a private elementary school, while we had special native speakers who taught art and drama at that school, as well as others. A situation like mine, teaching content in maybe a third of your courses, is not unheard of, especially if you find the right hagwon. Teaching art exclusively or almost exclusively, though, is much, much harder. Back to top danniedoodlesJoined: 27 Dec 2012 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:54 pm Post subject: thanks cheolsu! i'm ok with even being in a school that has an arts focus, even if i'm strictly teaching english. how to find these positions though....THAt is the question. Back to top thebektionaryJoined: 11 May 2011 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:32 pm Post subject: as the above poster said, you can get a job at a private elementary school where you could possibly teach art but you need experience for these kinds of jobs. I don't think there are any jobs for foreigners at strictly art hagwons but if you work at an English hagwon there are probably a lot of opportunities for you to do art activities. If you stay here for a year in a normal entry level English teaching job, you could probably find something at a private elementary school like the above poster said, but I think it is very unlikely that you will find an art teacher position from your home country just starting out. They don't really exist for foreigners outside of private elementary schools, and even then it would be rare to be selected as just an art teacher. If you want to be an art teacher, you should try it out in your home country because foreign teachers here are just for English or in English immersion private elementary schools where the other subjects are mostly Reading, Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math.Last edited by thebektionary on Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:19 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top ttompatzJoined: 05 Sep 2005Location: Kwangju, South Korea Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: art hagwon's? danniedoodles wrote: newbie here! currently in the process of trying to find a job in SK and I'm just wondering 2 things: do arts-based hagwons exist? how do i find said hagwons? any advice is appreciated Yes, they are called Kindergarten. Every recruiter in Korea will have 20 ads from Kindy's over the next 4 weeks. If you want to teach fine arts in a regular school to work with older kids then you are looking in the wrong place and almost too late in the year (the next school year starts March 2 and you are unlikely to get processed in time for the new school year). Get off the EFL boards and look for "Teaching" positions in the Arts. You might want to consider places like Thailand where "Art" majors are often hired to teach their subject in English (and the pay is comparable to Korea - unlike EFL where the salaries start in the 30k thb range). . Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


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Ben Dick: Teachers had good reason to reject Manchester contract offer
December 18. 2013 7:49PM
One gets tired of being a punching bag, though it's clear the New Hampshire Union Leader doesn't tire of punching. In an editorial dated Dec. 16, the paper claimed the Manchester Education Association is "continuing to taunt the city for fun." As is often the case, the paper has taken an opportunity to attack public education, its teachers and its union while neglecting to present the entire story.
The Union Leader stated that the MEA "had rejected a contract similar to ones accepted by school paraprofessionals, principals and every other city union." On the surface this is somewhat accurate, but in reality it isn't.
It is true that all three school unions that agreed to new contracts did agree to a 20 percent premium. It is also true that they all agreed to a salary increase that adheres to the tax cap. That last fact is misleading, though. You see, two of the three groups (principals and directors/coordinators) don't have salary scales to fill. Once a salary is set for people within that unit they receive straight cost-of-living adjustments (COLA's). Under this year's tax cap, they will receive roughly a 2.17 percent COLA. It should also be noted that these two groups are not only without a salary schedule, but they enjoy the largest salaries amongst the organized groups on the district side.
The MEA currently has a 14-step salary scale. Therefore, unlike, say, an administrator, it takes a teacher 14 years to reach the top of the pay scale. An administrator begins Day One at the top of the pay scale, then receives a straight COLA on that maximum salary. Any salary increase to the budget for the MEA would need to fulfill the salary scale before affording those on the top of the scale any COLA.
When factoring in the current breakdown of the teaching force (about 48 percent on the salary scale and 52 percent off), the tax cap salary increase would be enough to fill the salary scale and then give those off of it a 0.33 percent COLA. This is a far cry from the 2.17 percent COLA for the highest-paid organized employees in the district, but a punch the Union Leader is more than willing to throw nonetheless. I suppose one might call that a similar offer, but when played out it is far from the same.
The unions on the city side that have recently agreed to new contracts could also be said to have "similar" contracts, I suppose. Of course, they weren't asked to adhere to the tax cap. Instead, their salary scales were filled and they were given a 1 percent COLA. This in and of itself is a better offer than the one presented to the MEA. Throw in the insurance offer they received (17.5 percent vs. 20 percent) and one couldn't begin to call the offers similar, unless one was intent on hitting public education and its dedicated professionals again and again, as the Union Leader and its editorial staff seem committed to doing.
The editorial later claims that the MEA allies on the Board of School Committee are so "fed up with (our) intransigence" that they voted to have the mayor take over negotiations. What was this intransigence? If you've followed Dr. Avard's sharing of the district's offer (I'm told you can see it on Facebook), you know what they put on the table. Our intransigence was to ask for 1) 17.5 percent insurance premiums, 2) retroactive steps instead of concrete COLAs that would have been similar to the city unions or other school groups, and 3) a three-year deal instead of a deal that could force us to negotiate again in 12 months.
It should be noted that the original offer from the MEA back in the spring of 2013 was to increase the insurance over three years' time so that we maxed out at 15 percent and 20 percent for the HMO and POS plans respectively. The last offer we made was to jump to 17.5 percent, just like the city groups that recently settled. The initial offer from the district was to jump immediately to 20 percent. In the end, the city agreed to give us six months at 15 percent on the HMO before jumping to 20 percent, while moving the POS to 20 percent right away. I think the wrong group was labeled as intransigent, but then again that is keeping with the ways of the Union Leader and its editorial board: take punches at the dedicated public servants, even if those punches aren't warranted.


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Over the past couple of weeks we ran a series of posts by Michael Dever defining the 20 investment myths he highlighted in his book; Jackass Investing: Don't Do it Profit From it.
The myths ranged from the obvious long equity world standards of "buy and hold investing" and "Don't time the markets" to some of the stubborn biases against futures trading.
Dever included several insightful and amusing anecdotes regarding the irrationality of traditional investments and flawed analysis. My favorite — one I have heard before — is how people would not invest with his commodity fund because commodities are risky.
But the most compelling part of the book shows the carnage caused by subscribing to the orthodoxy of many of these myths.
I have my own anecdote in this regard and it explains part of the problem. It even produced a guffaw from investment guru Jim Rogers when I told it to him while interviewing him for his book Hot Commodities.
I told him how in an interview with an emerging commodity trading advisor (CTA) who was having some early success with a short-term stock program trading the E-mini S&P 500 that I asked the manager whether he thought his program was robust enough to apply it to a diversified group of futures markets, including physical commodities. The emerging manager told me that he would never trade anything as risky as soybeans. This from someone trading the S&P 500 and not only trading it but managing other peoples' money.
This highlights the problem. Most brokers (and bankers for that matter) are not interested in diversification — it is just a word they use in a sales pitch — they are interested in having product to sell. In the early 2000s the E-mini S&Ps grew so much in popularity that it broke through the niche world of futures markets and became mainstream. This meant it could be marketed and sold to a broader audience and brokers and managers moved in to fill the void. Hence, folks who were uncomfortable with commodity futures because what they heard and what they were told, were comfortable with the E-minis because everyone was trading them and they jumped to the erroneous conclusion that they were safer.
In the run-up to the financial crisis there were many institutions invested in various forms of mortgage backed securities, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and other new-fangled and popular investment products who were restricted from trading futures. Think of that: they would not invest in a low volatility CTA but were involved with credit default swaps! Worse yet rating agencies gave these products AAA ratings. Talk about mass hysteria.
It is not a surprise that someone can be ignorant enough to believe the S&PS are less risky than soybeans but it was troubling that someone managing other peoples' money in the futures world could be this ignorant.


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Basically don't feel pressured by anyone to do anything: follow your own path.
I would try to keep it quiet as long as I was at home. Getting kicked out before you are ready is NOT a good thing. Be a " stealth " druid and prepare a way to move out. Prepare for the future. But be yourself.


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Among others, Robinson is listed as one star that can improve his game. The major points are that he needs to work on using and reading screens since for the most part, he was a garbage man last year (crashing the boards and getting open for easy looks after Burke's drive). Also, it is mentioned that despte poor shooting from the 3-point line, Robinson has a shooting stroke that can develop into one of the Big Ten's best (making him one of the best players) thanks to Beilin being able to teach shooting like few other coaches.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday called the attack in a Nairobi mall a "terrible outrage" and said the United States was providing all the cooperation it could to Kenya.
"We stand with them against this terrible outrage that occurred," Obama said during a meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in New York.
Both men, who are in town for the United Nations General Assembly, expressed condolences to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
"I feel the pain of President Kenyatta ... terror anywhere in the world is terror on all of us," Jonathan said.
(This story has been corrected to insert dropped words in quote, paragraph four)
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Sandra Maler)


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Are you hungry for Episode 098 of He-Man.org's Roast Gooble Dinner?
Val Staples, Danielle Gelehrter, "Pixel Dan" Eardley and Eamon O'Donoghue are back to discuss He-Man and She-Ra.
In this episode Scott Neitlich and Eric Treadaway join us as we discuss
Danielle's chaos,
Outer Space Men,
cutting figures from the line (or not),
vintage toys and key animated,
replacement parts and returns,
Power-con give-away accessory,
polybagging requirement,
glass cabinets,
Netossa - January 2013,
direction of Princess of Power sculpts,
costs and material limitations,
skin tones,
Ram Man - January 2013,
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You cant nuke global warming
Last month President George W. Bush visited a nuclear power plant in Maryland to proclaim, "It is time for this country to start building nuclear power plants again." Bush has joined the nuclear industry's public-relations campaign for what it calls a "nuclear renaissance," putting construction of new nuclear plants on a fast track. One of the first new nukes in the United States is proposed by Exelon Corp. for Clinton, only 30 minutes from Springfield. Promoters give as a major reason for reviving nuclear power their desire to "fight global warming" because reactors themselves produce few greenhouse gases.
This is the same Bush administration that until recently denied that there is scientific proof that global warming exists and recently stiff-armed British Prime Minister Tony Blair's effort to get the United States to sign on to provisions of the Kyoto treaty to mitigate global warming. So, considering the administration's track record on the environment, promoting nuclear power for its environmental benefits already smells bogus. And when it is taken into account that enriching nuclear fuel depends heavily on processes that produce greenhouse gases, and that fossil-fuel plants provide the electricity to run enrichment facilities, the global-warming argument for nuclear evaporates.
A June 29 report by the National Academy of Sciences gives further evidence that nuclear power causes more problems than it solves. It has long been known that nuclear reactors give off low doses of radiation, both inside and outside the plant, yet until now the industry has argued that the low-level doses are harmless. But the NAS panel stated conclusively that there is no safe level: "The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial," the report states. "The health risks — particularly the development of solid cancers in organs — rise proportionally with exposure. As the overall lifetime exposure increases, so does the risk." The more nuclear plants that are built, the more people will be exposed to low-level radiation.
During the Illinois drought, another environmental problem has come to light. Researchers have shown that fossil-fuel and nuclear power plants account for 84 percent of Illinois' water use, mostly from rivers. This raises the concern that in a future warmer world, in which temperatures and evaporation will increase and rain will decrease, water sources may not be capable of supplying current power plants, let alone more nukes. According to the Nuclear Energy Information Service, the problem became apparent during the drought of 1988. "Over 100 reactor-days of operation were either sharply curtailed or cancelled completely because the reactors' thermal output into our rivers exceeded EPA thermal pollution standards," says NEIS.
Add these concerns to the necessity of isolating highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from the environment for thousands of years and the risk of accident or terrorist attack at a nuclear plant, and it becomes clear that nuclear power is no green bargain. It is no economic bargain, either, as evidenced by the fact that the U.S. Senate recently voted to spend more than $10 billion in subsidies to support nuclear-power expansion. There are alternatives, including clean-burning coal, wind, and solar power, as well as conservation. Dollars spent on energy efficiency and conservation can displace far more global-warming gases than dollars spent on nuclear power.
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No Lahontan cutthroat stocking this year
February 24, 2012
Fishermen hoping to hook into Lake Tahoe's only native trout this year won't have the benefit of the Nevada Department of Wildlife's stocking program this year.
"We don't have any trout to put in there," said NDOW spokesman Chris Healy.
Last year, the agency put more than 20,000 of the fish into Lake Tahoe. Hoping to continue the stocking, the agency planned on planting the fish again this summer. But last year's winter storms prevented NDOW staff from harvesting the eggs to grow the fish at their Mason Valley Hatchery near Yerington.
"We usually harvest the eggs in the first week of June," Healy said. "But we couldn't get in to Marlett Lake in time."
If the eggs aren't gathered from the population in Marlett Lake at the right time, they aren't any good, Healy said. The snows also blocked a lot of the Lahontan cutthroat from spawning. If the fish can't spawn, they'll actually re-absorb the eggs, he said.
Last year's Lake Tahoe drop was mostly well-received by fishermen in the area, according to surveys conducted by NDOW.
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"In general, the feedback we received from this effort was mostly positive," Healy said. "People were excited about the opportunity to catch native trout in Tahoe."
Lisa Haki, the complex manager of the National Fish and Wildlife Service's Lahontan National Fish Hatchery in Gardnerville said they won't be planting any Lahontan cutthroat either, though they do plan to work with NDOW and other agencies to put the fish into Lake Tahoe in the future.
"We don't have the allocation this year," Haki said. "The future plan is to provide a recreation allocation for Lake Tahoe."
Instead of Lahontan cutthroat, NDOW will plant 50,000 sterile rainbow trout into Lake Tahoe this year. The department makes them sterile by heat-treating the fertilized eggs for a short period of time.
"The whole goal is to not stock rainbows that are reproducing in Lake Tahoe," Healy said. "But don't forget there are plenty of rainbows that ascend tributaries and reproduce naturally already."
It is unclear whether the agencies are attempting to reintroduce the Lahontan cutthroat trout to Lake Tahoe or are just stocking the fish as an additional interest to anglers. A reintroduction effort would take a lot more work than simply adding a few Lahontans for the fishermen, Healy said.
Last year, putting the fish into Lake Tahoe was labeled as a temporary program aimed at generating a response from fishermen.
NDOW will resume the stocking next year, he added.
"The odds are that we'll be into Marlett Lake in plenty of time this year," Healy said.


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Childhood and Prenatal Lead Testing Information
Missouri Facts
- Missouri is the #1 lead-producing state in the United States.
- 21 percent of Missouri housing was built before 1950, when high lead-content paint was widely used.
- Approximately 65 percent of Missouri housing was built before 1978 and may contain some lead-based paint.
- Of the 92,920 children less than six years of age tested in FY2012, 728 had elevated blood lead levels (≥ 10 μg/dl). 4,672 children had blood lead levels between 5 and 9.9 μg/dL.
Recommendations and Requirements for Blood Lead Testing in Missouri
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Association of Pediatrics work together to provide recommendations for blood lead testing. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)/Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Medical Services and Department of Health and Senior Services have state requirements for the blood lead testing of children.
For more information on CDC and Association of Pediatrics blood lead test recommendations go to: http://www.pehsu.net/_Childhood_Lead_Exposure.html.
Who should be tested?
- Children should be tested between 6 months and 3 years of age because children at this age spend a lot of time on the floor and often put things in their mouths. The hand to mouth behavior is one of the most common pathways for lead poisoning to occur. Testing is highly recommended for this age group if the child lives in or regularly visits a house that was built prior to 1978.
- All siblings of a child who has an elevated lead level should be tested.
- All children receiving Medicaid benefits are required to be blood tested for lead at 12 and 24 months of age.
- Newborns of women who had suspected or elevated blood lead levels during pregnancy should be tested.
- Children and pregnant women who reside in a pre-1978 home, which is undergoing renovation, may require more frequent blood lead testing during the renovation process and after renovations are completed.
- If you are unsure if your child should be tested, consult your child's physician.
Childhood Lead Testing Requirement Areas
The State of Missouri categorizes its testing areas into two designations:
- High Risk also referred to as universal.
- Non-High Risk, also referred to as targeted.
A testing designation is given to a geographic area based on a formula developed by the Department of Health and Senior Services. An area's designation may change based on the yearly information provided by that area. These testing requirement designations assist physician's offices, local health departments, and others in determining whether children are required or recommended to be tested for lead. Regardless of the designation in which you live, it is recommended that all children be screened and/or tested for lead annually.
The Department publishes the testing requirement area maps annually, in April. The testing requirement maps for the State of Missouri can be viewed at: http://health.mo.gov/living/environment/lead/maps.php.
Universal (High Risk) Area Requirements:
- Any child under the age of 6 years will be blood lead tested annually if he/she lives in a universal (high risk) testing area.
- Day care facilities are required to record a "proof of lead testing" signed by the Health Care Provider performing the test within thirty (30) days of the child's enrollment. If the parent/guardian does not provide it or a written statement stating why they do not want the child tested, the Day care facility is to offer the parent assistance in scheduling a test.
Targeted (Non-High Risk) Area Requirements:
- Any child under the age of 6 years will be tested annually if he/she lives in a non-high risk testing area, but visits for more than 10 hours per week a universal (high risk) testing area.
- Each child will be screened annually by the child's physician using the HCY Lead Risk Assessment Guide to determine whether the child is at risk for lead poisoning.
- If a positive answer is given, the child is considered at risk for lead poisoning and is recommended to have a blood lead test.
HCY Lead Risk Assessment Guide
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Prenatal Lead Testing Information
- Pregnant women should discuss lead risk exposure with their physician as part of the first prenatal visit.
- Women should be screened by their physician using the Prenatal Assessment Questionnaire to determine whether she and the fetus are at risk for lead poisoning.
- If a positive answer is given, the mother is considered at risk for lead poisoning and is recommended to have a blood lead test.
Prenatal Assessment Questionnaire
Methods of TestingThe choice of a sample collection method (venous or capillary) should be determined by the physician. Capillary sampling can perform well as an initial testing tool. If the results of the capillary are 10 μg/dL or greater, the capillary results should be confirmed with a venous blood draw.


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Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT)
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Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT)
"For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier. For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible."
Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT) strives to enhance the lives of all Pennsylvanians with disabilities, older Pennsylvanians, and their families, through access to and acquisition of assistive technology devices and services, which allow for choice, control and independence at home, work, school, play, and in their neighborhoods.
This is Done Through a Variety of Activities
- Access to Assistive Technology (AT), or "How do I Know What I Need?"
- Device Demonstrations—A hands-on opportunity to learn more about different AT devices so individuals can make an informed choice about what will work best for them. For more information, email email@example.com.
- Device Loans—Pennsylvanians of any age and ability can borrow AT devices, at no cost, to try at work, school, home or in their neighborhoods. This short-term loan program has a "try before you buy" philosophy, and helps people with disabilities and their families make the right choice of AT devices before they obtain a device. For more information, email email@example.com.
- Acquisition of Assistive Technology, or "How do I Get What I Need?"—Device Reutilization: Previously owned devices are an affordable option instead of buying new, and several options are available to Pennsylvanians, including classified listings of used devices (REEP) and refurbishing programs (Changing Hands and Liberty ReTreads). For more information, email email@example.com.
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- Technical Assistance—Outreach to public and private agencies to develop and improve policies related to AT as well as transition from school to work or from nursing home to community living. For more information, email email@example.com.
- Public Awareness Activities—Information and referral which educates consumers, via phone, email or letter, about their choices of AT devices and services; AT exhibits and presentations at conferences, group meetings, staff in-services, and other events; and Case Management to help consumers navigate the maze of funding options available to obtain needed AT. For more information, call 1-800-204-7428 (800-204-PIAT) or email email@example.com.
- What is Assistive Technology?
- The Virginia Del Sordo Fund
Administered by the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University as part of Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT), the fund provides financial assistance through small grants to Pennsylvanians with disabilities to increase their ability to acquire the assistive technology (AT) devices they need. Virginia Del Sordo Fund: Information and Application
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Plan for Assistive Technology (download, Word-213KB)
- Assistive Technology Resource Centers
- Pennsylvania's Assistive Technology Lending Library
- REEP—Reused and Exchanged Equipment Partnership
- TDDP—Telecommunication Device Distribution Program
- Assistive Technology Device Demonstration
- Funding for Assistive Technology
- List of AT Act Programs Across the Country
- "Chasing Squirrels," Recorded webinar addressing successful women with learning disabilities. Presenters: Carolyn Phillips: RESNA ATP, Tools for Life, and Pass It On Center at Georgia Institute on Technology, and Jamie Arasz Prioli: RESNA ATP, project coordinator and assistive technology specialist at Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology.
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Building a Lowrider is not only a time-consuming process; it is also an extreme financial burden, depending on the level of build and type of car you are trying to build. An "at all costs" mentality is usually what it takes to achieve the ride of our dreams and many builders will sacrifice just about anything to get there; sometimes even food money! As an individual, that is more than acceptable, but for a family man, your wife and kids' needs take precedence over your automotive needs. Simply put; you gotta take care of home first. As husbands and fathers, our main object in life is to provide for our families. Not only must we provide love and support, we must put food on the table and a roof over the heads of our family. Many of us have put building a Lowrider on hold while we save for our own home, and put our children through private school and or college. We want to make sure our family is set before we start our builds.
Indio, California's Benjamin Felix is someone who understands this fully. A lifelong Lowrider, Benjamin comes from a family of Lowriders. We say lifelong because after his birth, he came home from the hospital in his father's 1976 Glasshouse that was patterned out in Candy Purple. Over the years Benjamin has built a number of cars but as his family grew it was time for a shift in his priorities, time for change of scenery and a new direction. Benjamin knew as a father and husband he needed to make sure that he and his family would be set for the future and be able to live comfortable so he decided to move away from the Coachella Valley and go back to school. Benjamin went to college, completed his studies and obtained his college degrees. After college, he started working for a large corporation in management. Even after he moved away and was in school, he was still attending car shows and cruise nights with his family. As Benjamin put it, he was still getting his regular dose of Lowriding he just took a break from building Lowriders.
After a period of five years, Benjamin and his family moved back to Indio, California and he opened Switch Happy Automotive. With his family set and his business flourishing, it was time to finally get back into building Lowriders. Benjamin had the El Camino for a few years as a driver but it had been parked for a while with a blown motor. Benjamin and his son, Benjamin, Jr. decided that the El Camino deserved a second chance so they put a plan together to turn it in to a show stopper and an example of what Switch Happy Automotive was capable of.
While talking during the photo shoot Benjamin provided a great piece of insight; "Building a car without a deadline is just a dream. If you don't set a goal, you will never finish the car." With that ideology, Benjamin had given himself a year and a half to complete the build. His goal was to debut the car at the 2010 La Gente Super Show in the Imperial Valley which was held in October of 2010. The La Gente Super Show is definitely the show to break out your latest goods if you are from the surrounding areas.
The day before the show, the motor was installed and test fired. The morning of the show it was driven into the indoor area of the show. Benjamin met his goal and debuted the completed El Camino at the show. At the end of the show, Benjamin and the El Camino left with Best Paint. Since this first show, the El Camino has won over 20 best paint trophies, as well as a number of first place awards in its class.
Benjamin would like to thank his wife, Arlene, for her support and motivation during those long nights at the shop while the El Camino was being built. He would also like to thank his kids, especially his son, Lil Ben, for all his help. Another thank you goes to Benjamin's friends, including Orlando, Indio, Angel, Snoop, Carlos, and Sam and Donald who are his brothers from Rollerz Only Valle De Coachella chapter. Benjamin also gives special thanks Mike Lamberson and Sal Elias who, along with Orlando from Perfect Kolors, gave him his award-winning paint job. We here at Lowrider Magazine would like to thank Benjamin for sharing his story and building a well thought out and well planned rolling masterpiece.
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Owner: Benjamin Felix
Nick Name: 87 Y-Que
Vehicle: 1987 Chevy El Camino
Club: Rollerz Only ~ Valle De Coachella Chapter
City/State: Indio, California
Paint: Benjamin and his son, Ben Jr. took care of all the metalwork on the Elco including molding the bumpers, firewall, inner fenders and door jams while also shaving the side markers, gas lid, door handles, key holes and emblems. All seams and rivets were removed. Lore and Ben from Indio, California took care of all of the body work on the El Camino. Once the body work was done, Benjamin started with a Candy Oriental Blue base and had Orlando from Perfect Kolors in Indio California finish off the paint work with patterns throughout, including the roof and mirrors. Sal Elias from Sal's Airbrushing in Riverside California added his murals to the body working in a theme incorporating a beautiful woman and some of the things found in the Coachella Valley. Mike Lamberson from Draggin Lines in Riverside, California added the Elco's pinstripes.
Interior: Benjamin had recovered the interior in complimenting blue suede and vinyl fabrics while Orlando, from Perfect Kolors, in Indio, California added candy paint to the interior inserts. David Ochoa from 1 Eleven Stereo Shop in Indio, California added a JVC head unit that pushes the sounds through the Infinity speakers and Kicker woofers. All of the components are powered by Kicker amplifiers.
Engine: Benjamin rebuilt the 5.7 350ci Chevy motor at his shop Switch Happy Autoworks in Indio California. He added Jet Hot Coated Headman Headers and Flowmaster exhaust to the power plant and a number of chrome accessories. The 700R transmission is mated to a custom-built drive line.
Suspension: The hydraulic system on the El Camino was installed by Benjamin at his shop, Switch Happy Autoworks and includes two Switch Happy Pumps, 8 inch cylinders in the front and 18 inch cylinders in the back, 3 1/2 ton front and 2 1/2 ton rear springs with two engraved Delta dumps, 8 Accumax solenoids hosed and hard lined, plumbed system powered by four NAPA batteries. Santiago @ Krazy Kutting took care of all of the engraving on the hydraulic system. Upper A-arms molded, adjustable lower A-arms, 6-inch, drop downs to the rear with all chrome plating and anodizing by Switch Happy Autoworks.
Wheels: 13×7 100 Spoke Wheels with blue spokes. Engraved Knock Offs by Troy Stahler, President of Rollerz Only.
Tires: OG 5.20 Premium Sport Ways


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At a U of I concert last month, Kid Cudi called his new album "Indicud," ""what my first album should have sounded like." For me, it's the opposite.
While "Indicud" holds me throughout, there are no songs like "T.G.I.F." from "Man On The Moon: The End of Day" that had me frozen in my tracks, not wanting to miss a single beat. That's not to say Cudi's not still head and shoulders over most acts out there, but I find myself longing for something to really sink my teeth into.
Cudi's commercial and critical success have probably been a pretty solid ego boost--at least enough that he's rhyming about the ladies. "Girls," featuring Too Short, is all about appreciating the finer sex--but lines like "I like to [bleep] em, then I say [bleep] 'em" aren't the kind of artistic subtleties I've come to expect. And did they really have to go and drop a big fat "BITCH" at the end?
I mean, Kid Cudi is the self-proclaimed "Man on the Moon," and normally I want more rappers to get on his level. Recently I listened to Lil Wayne's "I Am Not a Human Being II" for the first time, expecting to be blown away, but instead was met with a muddle of expletives and bodily fluids. Gross. Fortunately, braggadocio and crassness have never been Cudi's problem. He's introspective, self-deprecating and just silly enough to keep you from getting too worried about him. Lines like, "Neighbors knockin' on the door, asking can we turn it down. I say, 'Ain't no music on' she said, 'Naw, that weed is loud' " on "Just What I Am" have me laughing out loud.
"Indicud" does offer an intriguing twist, containing a dance break, "New York City Rage Fest," in the middle. From there, tracks get stronger and stronger, especially the standout "Red Eye."
If he can keep throwing down head-turning beats that stand out from the pack, Cudi is sure to hold on to his lofty post. Let's just hope success hasn't gone to his head.
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Mo Williams underwent a successful procedure Wednesday in New York to have two pins removed from his right thumb, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned. It represents the point guard's first major step toward a return to the floor for the Jazz point guard.
Williams missed his 25th straight game since tearing a ligament in the thumb on Dec. 22 in Miami, and his 29th overall. The Jazz (29-24) are 18-11 without Williams.
The 30-year-old point guard, acquired in an offseason trade with the Clippers, is a free agent after the season. In an interview with media earlier this week, General Manager Dennis Lindsey said Williams "could" be the Jazz's long-term point guard solution and that "he has acquitted himself well here."
However, a timeline for his return is still not specified. Williams is expected to return to Salt Lake City and begin rehabbing the thumb immediately.
How soon he appears in a game will be based on how quickly he regains full motion and strength in the thumb.
Williams spent six weeks with his thumb in a splint, but was frequently seen at Jazz practices working on conditioning and participating in drills with his left hand.
He originally underwent surgery on Jan. 4. The procedure was performed by specialist Dr. Michelle Carlson, who on Wednesday also removed the pins holding the repaired ligament in place. Williams was already familiar with Carlson: she repaired torn ligaments in the same thumb in 2008, when Williams was a point guard with the Milwaukee Bucks.
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