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Queens College's student newspaper, The Knight News, won top honors at the National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C. this October. The bi-weekly was named "Best of Show†and selected as a finalist in the Newspaper Pacemakers Contest at the convention-which has been held annually since 1927. The awards are emblematic of the resurgence of student newspapers at a number of CUNY colleges in recent years. Editors Steven Appel and Lauren Talerman discuss their passion and personal vision for the newspaper, and the challenges in bringing it from a publication "fraught with conflict to one that matters.â€
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The Michigan Department of Education released rankings Wednesday�for public schools based on their ability to meet or surpass goals.
The data released includes the Michigan School Accountability Scorecards for districts and schools, as well as, its Top-to-Bottom Rankings, and the list of "reward," "focus" and "priority" schools.
Local schools ranking high on the Top-to-Bottom Rankings were Quincy Elementary School in the 98th percentile and Sandyview, Lakeshore and Lakewood elementary schools in the 96th percentile.
�We�re really pleased we�re moving in a good direction,� Zeeland Public Schools Superintendent DeKuiper said of having two schools put on the �reward� school list. �We always say our goal is to steadily increase. We always want to be up near the top.�
He said the district has kept its schools out of the �priority� and �focus� columns by encouraging cross-district communication.
A new initiative started last year called Monday Meetings, asks teachers to stay after school every week. During that time, they collaborate, troubleshoot and talk about classroom problems and success, which ultimately helps with student achievement, DeKuiper said.
Director of School Improvement at Holland Public Schools Patti Dobias said she was happy to see the district�s four �focus� schools increase their rankings this year. Jefferson, East, West and the high school were noted as �focus� schools along with West Ottawa�s Harbor Lights Middle School, Macatawa Bay Middle School, North Holland Elementary, Sheldon Woods Elementary and Woodside Elementary.
�Focus� schools have the largest gap in achievement between the top 30 percent and bottom 30 percent of students.
��Focus� doesn�t mean those schools aren�t themselves achieving at a higher level, it just means we have a gap,� said Kent Henson, West Ottawa�s Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services. �We just continue to focus on how can we not only be rigorous for the top 30 percent, but all kids.�
When it came to color-coded scorecard which grades schools on multiple levels of performance, most area school districts fell into the middle yellow range, meaning they attained between 60 and 70 percent of possible points. No area schools were given the best color ranking of green.
iCademy, a nonprofit, cyber charter school in Zeeland, fell in the red zone, the worst color�ranking.
Ruth Hester, teacher and lead for curriculum development at iCademy said that was because the school only had an 87 percent participation rate on the MEAP and the state requires 95 percent participation.
�Our challenge with that is we have a large homeschool population. Many of them have never had to do standardized testing,� Hester said. �Going forward, parents now need to sign an agreement that we are a public school and we require participation on the state standardized testing.�
�Follow this reporter on Twitter @SentinelLisa.
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The Michigan Department of Education released rankings Wednesday�for public schools based on their ability to meet or surpass goals.


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Oak Ridge police officers are investigating the alleged robbery and assault of a Knoxville man, but no arrests have yet been made in the case.
Oak Ridge police officers are investigating the alleged robbery and assault of a Knoxville man, but no arrests have yet been made in the case.
Police officers were called to Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, where 32-year-old Ronald Adam Hacker, 1400 Beaumont Ave., Knoxville, was being treated for broken facial bones on Saturday.
He previously lived in Oliver Springs and Oak Ridge.
He gave few details about being assaulted and robbed, telling Police Officer Garrett Robbins he lost consciousness and woke up with blood on his face and drove to the emergency room. He reportedly said he came to Oak Ridge to go Christmas shopping and was robbed of $300.
Reports said he had $145 in one pocket and the $300 was in another pocket. He said he had separated the money because he had designated a specific amount for each person he was buying a gift for.
Robbins reported the victim's entire face was swollen and red and he had two large knots on his head and a swollen ear. He also sustained a busted lip and a cut above his eyebrow. According to reports, Hacker had purple marks on his face and what appeared to be a shoe tread print on his cheek. Reports said Hacker was crying and told Robbins "my kids are going to be scared of me because I look like this."
He told Robbins he had been to Big Lots and Kmart in Clinton and was going to Walmart in Oak Ridge to finish his shopping. He reportedly remembered passing a sign that said "Welcome to Oak Ridge" and that he had been hungry, but couldn't remember if he had stopped to eat.
He told the officer he believed he was hit from behind and that he woke up on the ground outside of his pickup truck. Robbins saw a blue towel in Hacker's truck that appeared to have been soaked in water but Hacker couldn't explain where he got a wet towel, reports said.
According to the report, Officer Robbins "believes Hacker doesn't remember details because he has a motive to hide his actions leading up to the robbery."
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Univision News anchor Jorge Ramos knows firsthand the challenges facing media companies as they struggle to respond to younger viewers' dramatically different media consumption habits.
Ramos' U.S.-born teenage son Nicolas doesn't regularly watch traditional TV news, including the evening newscast that Ramos co-anchors on Univision. Nicolas primarily speaks English.
"We want to bet on the future, and this [generation] is the future," Ramos said.
On Monday, Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications is launching its solution: Fusion, an English language cable channel designed to appeal to young Latinos like Nicolas. The initiative, a 50-50 joint venture with...


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 2, 2012) – Fresh off a successful season-opening eight-game road swing, the ETSU volleyball team returns home for the first time in 2012 when the Bucs host Marshall on Monday night inside Brooks Gym. The match is scheduled to start at 7 p.m., while a pregame cookout will take place outside Brooks Gym beginning at 5:45 p.m.
ETSU is coming off a second-place showing at the Clemson Classic this past weekend where the Blue and Gold defeated Chattanooga (3-0) and Charlotte (3-1), but suffered a 3-0 setback to the Tigers in the championship match. Sophomores Bethany Gesell (High Point, N.C.) and Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) were both named to the all-tournament team, while junior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) moved closer to reaching a special milestone. Devine enters Monday's match with the Thundering Herd 14 kills shy of reaching career number 1,000. Meanwhile, Hardy continued her streak of recording a block in 34 consecutive matches this weekend after finishing play with 30 kills and 14 total blocks in the 10 sets played. Gesell was clutch with her hitting as she generated a .528 attack percentage in the first two matches on the weekend. The High Point, N.C. native collected 21 kills on 36 attempts with only two errors against Chattanooga and Charlotte.
Through its first eight matches, ETSU has been dominating its opponents on the stat sheet. The Bucs are plus-22 in kills (381-359), plus-12 in service aces (47-35), and plus-25 in blocks (85-60). Also, the Blue and Gold have committed 25 less attack errors than the opposition.
After winning the Thunder Invitational last weekend, Marshall suffered three straight losses this weekend to move to 3-3 on the year. The Thundering Herd were swept by Samford, Louisville and Duke in Louisville, Ky.
Marshall is led by junior outside hitter Laura Der's 48 kills (3.43 per set), while senior Katy Schad leads the Thundering Herd with 3.32 digs per set. Meanwhile, sophomore Sammie Bane was named Conference USA Setter of the Week on Aug. 27 after she guided Marshall to the Thunder Invitational title as she accounted for 10.46 assists per set and a team hitting percentage of .225. She also produced a pair of double-doubles on the weekend as she recorded 46 assists and 17 digs against IUPUI followed by 53 assists and 10 digs in the match against Miami (Ohio).
As a team, Marshall is averaging 10.7 kills and 1.14 blocks per set. Freshman middle blocker enters Monday's match with a team-leading 16 blocks on the season.
The Bucs and Thundering Herd have some history dating back to the days in the SoCon as Monday marks the 34th meeting between the two programs. ETSU leads the all-time series, 21-12.
Fans unable to make the trip to Johnson City can watch all the action online for free through A-Sun.TV, while live stats will be offered on ETSUBucs.com via Stat Broadcast.
For more information on Buccaneer volleyball, visit ETSUBucs.com.


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It's fairly typical for newspaper columnists to write obligatory Thanksgiving columns. The pieces usually take one of two forms: There's the "what I'm thankful for this year" column and there are the musings about the holiday being about "more than turkey and football." Nothing wrong with those ideas. They need to be written.
Still, nothing I can scribble will compare to what was written by the man who declared the first national Thanksgiving holiday. And my words would surely fall far short of the simple pronouncements of grade-school children, rifting on the meaning of Thanksgiving and the blessings they are most thankful for this year.
So that's what my in-no-way "obligatory" Thanksgiving column is about this year. It's no obligation. It's a privilege to share these words and thoughts with the readers of my weekly column.
Our greatest president, Republican Abraham Lincoln, declared the first "national" Thanksgiving holiday in a Oct. 3, 1863 proclamation. In the document, The Great Emancipator, "invited" his fellow citizens, both at home and abroad, to "set apart" the last Thursday in November as a day for "Thanksgiving and praise." He also suggested that citizens, with "humble penitence," commend to God's care "all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the (nation's) lamentable civil strife."
No successor to the White House has matched Lincoln's literary ability. His gift is self-evident as he reminds Americans that even in the midst of unprecedented carnage, there remains value in quiet reflection. What does Lincoln find to be thankful for? He cites the country's natural bounties, including "fruitful fields and healthful skies." He writes that the United States has kept the peace with other nations, enlarged its borders, grown its population and maintained a general respect for law and order.
Lincoln's first Thanksgiving proclamation is a resounding call for American optimism and exceptionalism. It is all the more extraordinary because it was issued during the height of a national calamity.
Lincoln, gone all these years, makes me feel good about my country. And so do the children in Lisa Lang's second-grade class at Andover Central School. I visited their classroom last Friday, and asked the young students a pair of questions: What is Thanksgiving? and, what are you thankful for this year?
Here are some of their answers.
What is Thanksgiving?
"Thanksgiving is when people you love come and spend time with you." 7-year-old girl.
"It's actually when we gather around for all the food. We pray to God for all the food we have for Thanksgiving. And that's why we have a special kind of dinner on that day." 7-year-old girl.
"Thanksgiving is when your family gathers and has a good dinner, spends lots of time together, and plays a couple of games. 7-year-old boy.
"You dance the whirl and celebrate." 7-year-old boy.
"Thanksgiving all started, when everyone from America � the pilgrims �started a war. And America won. We celebrate that day with Thanksgiving." 7-year-old boy.
What are you thankful for?
"I'm thankful for the world, because of the people who made it. Because they made it very nicely." 7-year-old boy.
"I'm thankful that I have a roof over my head and a family," 7-year-old boy.
"I'm thankful for my mom and my dad." 7-year-old boy.
"I'm thankful for my family. I'm thankful for my dog. I'm thankful for my friends, and for books, and I'm thankful for everything in the world. 7-year-old girl.
"I'm thankful for my family and everything I have. I'm thankful that my mom and dad are going to take me to Missouri for Thanksgiving break." 7-year-old girl.
"I'm thankful for Christmas." 7-year-old boy.
Neal Simon is the city editor of the Evening Tribune.
The wisdom of Lincoln and children
It's fairly typical for newspaper columnists to write obligatory Thanksgiving columns. The pieces usually take one of two forms: There's the "what I'm thankful for this year" column and there are the musings about the holiday being about "more than turkey and football." Nothing wrong with those ideas. They need to be written.


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Down in New Orleans it's Super Bowl XLVII week — that's "Super Bowl 47" for those of us who use a normal calendar and numbers — and that means at least one off the wall story or more to digest.
As usual, the national sports media has pulled out all the stops, rooted the drain pipes and is publishing, broadcasting and discussing just about everything possible related to the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens. They'll be writing about Bourbon Street, showing food from Galatoire's, Brennan's, boozy scenes from Pat O'Briens, and the always cool Jackson Square on the Mississippi River. It's not just the sports media, of course. Mainstream media, bloggers, entertainment reporters and others are or will be in the Crescent City for Sunday's big game.
News broke Tuesday from Sports Illustrated about Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis and his alleged connection to an Alabama-based company that produces performance supplements. "Performance supplements" is generally lumped into the "performance enhancing" category and that phrase has now become toxic given all the incidents in professional sports, banned substances and such. So it's a story that is raising eyebrows and attracting questions, which Lewis doesn't want to discuss.
The company in Birmingham, S.W.A.T.S., is run by a guy, Mitch Ross, who told SI that for a couple of years he was a salesman at the Gap, a pool cleaner and a male stripper, before settling into personal training at a Bally's in Atlanta. He's now on the straight and narrow, a health-conscious Christian who believes in his products and like any other businessman is trying to make a living. Sounds like a script out of a Tarantino movie.
One of the items his company offers is an "antler spray" produced from deer antler velvet taken from animals in New Zealand. This purportedly is a health booster rooted in Eastern medicine and lore. The spray is ingested under the tongue, while powdered versions may be ingested in capsule form.
Deer hunters know antlers grow at a tremendous rate. Once the hormonal changes occur after the breeding period, it's not long before the antlers on deer, elk, moose, red deer and some other animals begin growing again. It's one of the fascinating parts of nature and for hunters, something we enjoy seeing each spring and summer before hunting season arrives.
It's no surprise what pro athletes will do to recover from injuries, get back on the field of play and possibly gain an edge over opponents. This story from The Miami Herald about former Dolphins linebacker Jason Taylor is eye-opening, as is this story from Esquire.
The story about Lewis and other athletes, including Alabama and Auburn football players, and former athletes, who allegedly used or admitted to using the S.W.A.T.S. products, definitely isn't out of the norm for Super Bowl week. The legitimacy of the products, of course, is a question still to be answered.


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Greetings Earthlings! Sorry about the multi-month gap in posting. Truth is, we are very busy right now and blogging is rather low on the tasking hierarchy at RR HQ. That's not to say this blog's days are over. But the postings have clearly decreased, a reflection of our diminishing amount of free time and our diminishing enthusiasm about blogging in general. We're sure you understand completely. We're not going away for good though so please continue to check in on occasion!
Today's post is about World Famous Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, home to the hit cable tv show Pawn Stars.
We've been a fan of the show since the first season, mainly because few television shows make history into something fun and exciting. The shop has since become something of a tourist attraction; we arrived around 11am and already a 100 or so people were lined up outside the front door. Antoinne, the tatted security guard often seen on the show, let in groups of ten every few minutes. Inside, the store was packed like sardines, a notable departure from what you see on tv. They must clear out the tourists on production days.
How about this bronze Elvis piece. Or should we say 'Elvi' piece, as in plural: the skinny 1950's hip shaker from Tupelo on the left, and the fattened leisure suited Vegas act of the 1970's on the right. Both equally iconic in their own regard.
There were several original works of art from famous artists, like Picasso. There is another tv show (an inferior copy cat, in our opinion) about a pawn business in Detroit and they never have this kind of stuff. And frankly, there is nothing interesting about a business that sells used microwave ovens and old couches.
The cast have become something along the lines of rock stars, like Chumlee here. On the show, he's the affable doofus, fodder for ceaseless ribbing from the Old Man, Rick, and Corey. People now line up to get his autograph and a picture with him, probably several hundred times a day. All because he works at a very unique pawn shop.


text: On Feb. 4 the Garland City Council approved the 2014 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) which outlines the planned investments in the City's infrastructure, municipal facilities, specialized equipment, and economic development initiatives over the next five years. In particular, the CIP details a $173.8 million work program for the 2014 calendar year that focuses on making progress toward the completion of the 2004 bond program, making enhancements in the City utilities, and continuing the exciting transformation of Garlands Historic Downtown. The tax-supported portion of the CIP totals $74.2 million and is heavily weighted toward Street and Transportation projects, most of which were approved as part of the 2004 Bond Program. Economic Development is also emphasized with the continuation of the City Center Development and construction of the Walnut Street Pedestrian Corridor. The CIP also addresses Public Safety needs including construction of a new Fire Station No. 5, the replacement of fire apparatus, and design work for the almost $24 million replacement of the City's critical radio communications system. In addition, the CIP includes funding for the City's libraries to update and expand the materials collection and to provide for facility improvements. Project highlights in the Park program include construction of a dog park, design work on expansion of the Audubon Recreation Center, soccer field lighting, ongoing trail development, and park playground improvements. Furthermore, the tax-supported portion of the CIP includes the continued construction of Waste Cell #6 and the replacement of several pieces of critical equipment at the Hinton Landfill. The revenue-supported portion of the 2014 CIP includes $98.4 million in projects related to City utilities, including $4.5 million to replace a portion of the Environmental Waste Service collection fleet and to purchase 95-gallon recycling containers for the expansion of the Automated Collection Single Stream Recycling Program. Water projects total $21.3 million with a majority of the funding going toward Phase I of the West Pressure Plane Improvements to ensure adequate water pressure in Southwest Garland. The Wastewater program is $20.4 million and includes processing improvements to meet environmental standards and reduce odors at the Rowlett Creek and Duck Creek Plants. Finally, $52.3 million is allocated for Garland Power & Light infrastructure which includes the Texas Competitive Renewable Zone (CREZ) transmission line. Approval of the CIP will require the issuance of approximately $14.9 million in tax supported debt and 34.1 million in revenue supported debt. Approval of the CIP will not increase the property tax rate for fiscal year 2014-15, although it is expected to cause a $1.23 increase to monthly residential solid waste rates and contribute a modest amount toward the rate increase already anticipated for Water in FY 2014-15. For more information about the City of Garland budget, please visit GarlandTx.gov.


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The romance. The intrigue. The big, beautiful country house.
We can analyze the recipe for success of "Downton Abbey" until our cups of tea go cold. The British television import's third season debuted Sunday on PBS. But one element that can't be overlooked, especially for those of a culinary bent, is the food.
Rather than letting it serve as mere eye candy, creator and writer Julian Fellowes has worked crêpes, puddings, roast chicken and other edible props into some of the series' most memorable plots.
Who can forget Mrs. Patmore's disastrously salty raspberry meringue pudding? How many fans fell hook, line and sinker for the implication that Branson the chauffeur would off the famous British general with a poison-laden soup?
The lavish spreads enjoyed by the aristocratic Crawley family in early-20th-century England are enough to inspire envy in those who might be watching with a microwave dinner in their laps. The show has revived an interest in British food, particularly that of the 1910s and 1920s, that could easily fall prey to stereotypes: Aspic! Haggis! Puddings! Instead, viewers have embraced the comestibles they've seen on the small screen, with spinoffs including Pinterest boards, blogs and a recently released unofficial cookbook.
"Because they love the show, it makes them more interested in the history of the food that was on the show," says Pamela Foster, a Toronto marketing professional who has put her history degree to good use on her Downton Abbey Cooks blog and in her e-cookbook, "Abbey Cooks Entertain." "It's sort of a teaching point to connect people to history."
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At Highclere Castle -- where "Downton Abbey" is filmed -- the downstairs area once included marble tops in a pastry area and separate preparation spaces for different types of food to avoid cross-contamination, says the Countess of Carnarvon, who, with her husband, the Earl of Carnarvon, lives at the 50-plus-bedroom castle.
Replicating that setting for the show requires a tremendous amount of research and logistics. The production team had to build a kitchen set at London's Ealing Studios, about 60 miles from the castle.
Production designer Donal Woods says research conducted through visits to nearly 40 English country houses helped inform what the kitchen should look like. The cast-iron range, which in its heyday would have run on coal, is modeled after one at a home in Leeds.
"You can actually cook on top of the range," Woods says. "It can sizzle and steam." Removable tiles behind the range allow for a camera to run on a track and film what Mrs. Patmore and kitchen maid Daisy are doing.
While the range might be the centerpiece, a host of other equipment is needed to fully bring to life a working kitchen. Thanks in large part to the inventory available on eBay, Woods helped acquire original tools such as copper molds, bowls, mixing machines, mincing machines and stone-glazed sinks. "Probably about 60 to 70 percent of the stuff in there is from that period," he says.
It's the kind of creative sourcing that the "Downton Abbey" crew does a lot of. Food economist Lisa Heathcote consults historical cookbooks as well as her own knowledge of period food to decide which dishes will appear. "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" is an important guide for her, as it is for Foster. Handwritten menus in French from grand country homes, similar to what Lady Carnarvon has collected at Highclere, are other good references.
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Of course, the food has to be cooked and plated -- twice, in some instances. A dish might be shown in the kitchen in one scene, then in the dining room in the next scene. Making the transition seamless requires that Heathcote defy the space-time continuum, because filming on each set occurs miles and weeks apart. She takes many photographs and tries not to make the dishes so overly complicated that they would be impossible to reproduce.
For scenes in the dining room, Heathcote prepares food off-site and then warms and plates it in a field kitchen. She tries to steer clear of too many foods that need to be served hot, though, because it's difficult to keep them that way. Filming a dining scene can take 10 to 12 hours, and multiple takes mean plates are constantly being cleared and refreshed.
"It's a bit like running a restaurant," Heathcote says, no easy feat since she's essentially a food department of one.
Long shoots can wreak havoc on prepared food, so certain ingredients, particularly fish, are off-limits.
"We don't use fish ever, although Julian seems to have written a lot of fish courses," Heathcote says.
Heathcote's tricks include dyeing cream cheese pinkish-red to resemble salmon mousse and serving a chimera-like entree she calls "chicken fish," or poultry prepared to look like fish with sauce on top.
The film crew does go to extreme lengths to convey authenticity. Designers created a family crest for the Crawleys, which is printed on menus and baked onto the china. The crest even had to pass muster with a heraldry authority to ensure it didn't resemble the coat of arms of a real family.
And when there are slip-ups, the audience is bound to notice. In Season 1, an identifying mark on the bottom of a cup held by the Dowager Countess gave away the anachronism that the piece had been manufactured after 1912, when the action is supposed to be taking place.
"All it was was [actress] Maggie Smith lifting up the teacup to her mouth," Adams says.
You can therefore understand why Adams says the crew will even scrub off the lion icon stamped onto most British eggs -- that is, when she can't get a few pristine specimens from a friend. It's all about getting everything as perfect as possible, even when Mrs. Patmore's poor eyesight caused that sugar-salt mixup in the pudding.
Lady Carnarvon says she and Highclere's head chef and two sous chefs don't live under the same kind of pressure felt by the characters of "Downton Abbey" and their real-life counterparts, especially now that she has been living at Highclere for 13 years.
"I think as you become more at home," she says, "you actually become more relaxed, so if something did go wrong, I'd simply ask the staff to go get a load of pizzas."
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Kapiʻolani Community College will join forces to capture the life stories of the Hawaiʻi-born Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJA) veterans of World War II. The three-year project will entail the collection, preservation, and dissemination of documents, manuscripts, letters, and oral histories. The platform for public access will be a high-quality, interactive web site, with high-resolution online viewing and streaming media capability.
The project began in response to requests made by several Hawaiʻi AJA veterans for UH Mānoa to not only preserve, but to tell their life stories. UH Mānoa Chancellor Peter Englert saw this as an opportunity to design a community-based project that would simultaneously provide an important educational benefit for future researchers, historians, students, and the general public.
During the first year of the project, the UH Mānoa Center for Oral History will conduct and video as many as 30 life history interviews of the veterans with special attention paid to their early years before the war. UH Mānoa's Hamilton Library will be the repository for the videos and transcripts. Kapiolani CC's Library will provide digital processing and web site development. All interviews and transcripts will be accessible online by 2007.
Life history interviews of members of the Varsity Victory Volunteers will be sought, as well as veterans from each major AJA military unit, including veterans from the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 1399th Engineering. The project will also seek to interview women who are related to the veterans.
The project complements another historical initiative made possible by Englert. Under the direction of Diane Perushek, university librarian of UH Mānoa Libraries, Hamilton Library has begun working with veterans groups and their affiliate organizations to build an archival collection of their personal letters, manuscripts, documents, and artifacts.
Anticipated completion of the AJA World War II Life History Project is 2007, though the web site may be accessible to the general public as early as 2005. UH Mānoa hopes that this collection becomes an important historical and educational resource for future researchers, scholars, students, and all those who value the tremendous contribution the veterans have made to Hawaiʻi and to the nation. In a broader context, the project will build awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of the American experience in Hawaiʻi.
Those wishing to learn more about the project may contact Mariko Miho, director of funds development for the UH community colleges and life history project liaison, at (808) 956-3859 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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VMware: More revenue now from services than software
Profits dip, but past license sales rake in cash for services
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware wasn't resting on its hypervisor laurels in the second quarter, but it certainly did benefit on the uptake and renewal of services on already installed sales to meet its revenue growth targets.
Last week, VMware pre-announced rudimentary results for the quarter ended in June during its revelations of executive management changes at both VMware and its parent, EMC, and on Monday it fleshed out its full financial results when announcing that it was shelling out a whopping $1.26bn for network virtualization pioneer Nicira.
Pat Gelsinger, the long-time Intel exec who had been running EMC's core Information Infrastructure Products group, will now take over a VMware that will be at the forefront of the network virtualization wave thanks to Nicira. And as announced last week, Paul Maritz, who has been running VMware for the past four years after spending decades at Microsoft, will become chief strategy officer for the EMC collective, reporting to CEO and chairman Joe Tucci.
VMware certainly has the cash to do the Nicira deal without even batting an eye, with $5.35bn in cash and investments on the books; $2.07bn of that is cash, of which $1.05bn will be burned to do the deal. The remaining $210m is to cover the value of unvested stock that Nicira shareholders have in their possession.
Cash flow from operations slowed in the second quarter, but VMware still generated $968m in cash for the first half of the year – and it is not like the stock market or a money-market fund is a good place to put all your money these days. From where we sit, spending $1.26bn on something that might generate many times that in revenues over the years and make VMware a player in networking to be contended with is money well-spent.
In the quarter, VMware's software license sales rose by 11.3 per cent to $517.2m. But as its ever-increasing pool of server virtualization customers comes back for more licenses and buys support contracts, the company's services revenue stream is swelling to the point that it is now larger than software license sales. In Q2, overall services revenues came to $605.8m, up 32.7 per cent from the year-ago period. Within this, software maintenance sales were $519.1m, up 34.4 per cent, and professional services revenues were $86.7m, up only 23.7 per cent.
Carl Eschenbach, now chief operating officer at VMware as well as a co-president in charge of customer operations, said on the call with Wall Street analysts after the market closed that customers continue to buy multi-year support contracts for the various VMware virtualization tools.
He said that VMware was doing more-complex sales with a mix of different products, and that the company did four deals that each had a value of more than $10m in the quarter – compared to none that large a year ago.
Lest anyone think VMware is not a player in application deployment platforms, one of those $10m-plus deals was for the vFabric framework and its related GemFire caching server.
Average selling prices for licenses rose in the quarter as well, contributing to the revenue bump, Eschenbach explained. Without providing any specifics, Eschenbach said that vCenter Operations and vCloud Director, two management tools that VMware is banking on for future revenues in the data center automation area, saw "increased traction" and the View 5.1 virtual desktop infrastructure tool was "performing well."
Add it all up and sales were $1.12bn, up 21.9 per cent. $551m came from the United States and $4570m came from the rest of the world; both geographic categories rose by 22 per cent, with Japan and China showing strong growth in the Asian region and the United Kingdom, France, and Russia having healthy demand in Europe and Brazil anchoring sales in Latin America.
VMware took a profit hit, however, with net income dropping 12.9 per cent to $191.7m. VMware has $2.9bn in unearned revenue on the books, about 80 per cent of which is for services contracts that have not been booked yet (and will be booked over the course of several years), and it has positioned itself with the Nicira buy to remain an ever-important data center player. So it stands to reason that Wall Street should overlook this profit stall – particularly if VMware can make it up later in the year.
Despite being cautious about business in Europe and cutting its expectations for government spending in the second half, VMware believes that it can book software license sales of between $70m and $500m in the third quarter, an increase of between 6 and 13 per cent year-on-year. That's a sequential decline, but one that Eschenbach says is in line with normal seasonality for VMware.
Overall revenues will be between $1.11bn and $1.15bn in the third quarter, rising between 18 and 22 per cent. For the full year, VMware expects annual software license sales to rise between 11 and 15 per cent, which is consistent with the first two quarter of this year in terms of growth, and that overall revenues will fall between $4.54bn and $4.635bn, or rise between 20.5 and 23 per cent across both license and service sales. As happened in the first half of the year, software maintenance sales in the second half will rise faster than license sales as customers renew support contracts and add incremental licenses and get support for those, as well.
In the worst-kept secret category, Eschenbach said that VMware was planning an upgrade to its vSphere server virtualization stack sometime in the second half. There certainly will be lots to talk about at VMworld next month, with the Wanova, DynamicOps, and Nicira acquisitions just done and new software on the way. ®


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Will Nancy Pelosi protect your family?
Dear Editor: I am proud to be a member of NRA, our protector of our Second Amendment. "Shall not be infringed," this means can't take away from. I believe in this and support it. The NRA's Wayne LaPierre, worked hard, above and beyond, to protect it and to protect your rights. Everything he's been telling us is coming to pass. It protects us from invasions and tyrannical governments, the things (our) forefathers fought and died for.
Law enforcement is now telling citizens to buy guns, take safety courses and protect themselves and their families. Federal agencies protected by (President Barack) Obama put guns in the hands of drug cartels, and that got hundreds killed. If they think maybe someone is terrorist -affiliated, they are prone to drone strikes. And they want our guns? Go figure.
More than 6 million Jews would disagree, and so do I. They took away their guns. How would you feel not to be able to defend your little boy or girl. Hey, maybe Michael Bloomberg, Nancy Pelosi and Leonard Pitts Jr. will be there to protect you and your family. Maybe even Obama and the gun-banning politicians.
These are one proud American's opinions. They kill your families, serve 10 years and they're back on the streets, rehabilitated. That's the problem, not guns.
LETTER: Will Nancy Pelosi protect your family?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers are announcing the rare discovery of a new species of mammal.
It's a raccoon-sized creature with a teddy bear face called the olinguito (oh-lihn-GEE'-toe).
A Smithsonian researcher says it lives in the mountainous forests of Ecuador and Columbia where it leaps through the trees at night. It eats fruit and weighs about 2 pounds.
One of them also once lived at the National Zoo in Washington where it was mistaken for a similar animal.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says the "innocent little boys and girls" killed by a gunman at their school were "taken from their families far too soon."
He said in an address Saturday what's important right now is "love, courage and compassion."
Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown killed several adults and 20 children ages 6 or 7. A medical examiner says the victims were shot by a rifle multiple times.
Police are trying to learn more about the 20-year-old gunman, who also killed his mother and himself.
After the shooting, Malloy went to a firehouse where victims' relatives gathered. He said "evil visited" their community of about 27,000 people 60 miles northeast of New York City. He says since then love has "poured in from around the world."


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Alan D. Solomont, ambassador of the United States to Spain and Andorra, told Suffolk University graduates that "the world – now more than ever – is a small place with big problems," but that global issues offer them "a fantastic opportunity."
Paraphrasing a famous message from President John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech, he said: "When you ask what you can do for your country, you discover what you can do for the world."
Solomont spoke at the undergraduate commencement of Suffolk University's College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School during afternoon ceremonies on Sunday, May 20, at the Bank of America Pavilion on Boston's waterfront.
Linking his roots in America with his service in Spain -- where Suffolk University has a campus in Madrid -- Solomont told graduates to tackle their dreams with the same passion that led Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon to push farther than expected. As a result, he planted the Spanish flag on the North America mainland long before other Europeans staked claims there. "That was passion," said Solomont.
Suffolk University awarded Solomont an honorary Doctor of Public Administration degree.
Solomont has been an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist. He spent his professional career in the health- and elder-care arenas. He was chair of Solomont Bailis Ventures, investing in early stage health care companies; co-founder of HouseWorks, a home care company for seniors; and founder and managing director of Angel Healthcare Investors.
He served as chair of the bipartisan Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that oversees all domestic service programs, including AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, VISTA and Senior Corps.
Solomont has been a longtime leader in the Democratic Party, serving as national finance chair in 1997-1998. He drew on his personal involvement in American politics in teaching a course on the American Presidency as a Senior Fellow at Tufts University.
He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Urban Studies from Tufts University and a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Raymond Babu Kaniu delivered the undergraduate student speech.
Additional Speakers and Honorary Degrees
Entrepreneur Jeffery Taylor, founder of Monster.com, delivered the address at the Sawyer Business School graduate student commencement on Saturday morning at the Westin Copley Place Hotel. He received an honorary Doctor of Commerce degree.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Newton, delivered the address at the College of Arts and Sciences graduate student commencement on Saturday afternoon, also at the Westin Copley Place Hotel. He received an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree.
The Sawyer Business School and College of Arts and Sciences also awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree on Sunday to Dr. Augustus A. White III, orthopedic surgeon, professor of orthopedic surgery and the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medical Education, at Harvard Medical School.
The Hon. Fernande R.V. Duffly, who serves on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, spoke to Law School graduates on Sunday morning at the Bank of America Pavilion on Boston's waterfront.
The Law School also awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Sarah M. Buel, clinical professor and director of the Diane Halle Center for Family Justice at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
•College of Arts and Sciences bachelor's degree candidates: 789
•College master's degree and doctoral candidates: 280
•Sawyer Business School bachelor's degree candidates: 546
•Business School master's degree candidates: 399
•Law School juris doctor candidates: 475
•Law School master of laws candidates: 35


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A Sanctuary of Trees
Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions
As author Gene Logsdon puts it, "We are all tree huggers." But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimm's fairy-tale version of the dark, menacing forest, most people still hold a deep cultural love of woodland settings, and feel right at home in the woods.
In this latest book, A Sanctuary of Trees, Logsdon offers a loving tribute to the woods, tracing the roots of his own home groves in Ohio back to the Native Americans and revealing his own history and experiences living in many locations, each of which was different, yet inextricably linked with trees and the natural world. Whether as an adolescent studying at a seminary or as a journalist living just outside Philadelphia's city limits, Gene has always lived and worked close to the woods, and his curiosity and keen sense of observation have taught him valuable lessons about a wide variety of trees: their distinct characteristics and the multiple benefits and uses they have.
In addition to imparting many fascinating practical details of woods wisdom, A Sanctuary of Trees is infused with a philosophy and descriptive lyricism that is born from the author's passionate and lifelong relationship with nature: There is a point at which the tree shudders before it begins its descent. Then slowly it tips, picks up speed, often with a kind of wailing death cry from rending wood fibers, and hits the ground with a whump that literally shakes the earth underfoot. The air, in the aftermath, seems to shimmy and shiver, as if saturated with static electricity. Then follows an eerie silence, the absolute end to a very long life.
Fitting squarely into the long and proud tradition of American nature writing, A Sanctuary of Trees also reflects Gene Logsdon's unique personality and perspective, which have marked him over the course of his two dozen previous books as the authentic voice of rural life and traditions.
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In more than two dozen works of nonfiction, horticulture expert Logsdon has doled out invaluable advice on everything from berry growing and organic orcharding to homesteading and managing manure. Now, at 79, reflecting back on a life spent in close proximity to the woodland groves of his native rural Ohio, Logsdon offers both a fond recollection of his long relationship with trees and a meditation on the remarkable versatility of harvested timber. Beginning with his boyhood days on an Ohio family farm where his love of nature first took root, Logsdon takes the reader through his adolescence at a seminary where the one bright spot was a nearby forest, to his first professional job with Farm Journal in then untamed suburban Philadelphia, and finally back to Ohio, living with his growing family in a tree shadowed country home. Yet his own reminiscences are just a staging ground for a plethora of fascinating tree facts, including a virtual manual on using wood for total energy self-sufficiency. As always, Logsdon's superbly measured prose entertains as much as it educates.
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Gene Logsdon is a man with a mission: He wants to encourage Americans to maintain small home woodlots, heat with wood, and return to what he calls a wood culture and a wood economy. A Sanctuary of Trees, Logsdon's latest book, discusses in detail the feasibility of depending on wood for fuel, both for individual households and for our country as a whole. He makes a strong case. In A Sanctuary of Trees the reader learns about trees in American history and culture, how fast different species grow, how easily their wood splits, how hot it burns, and even which wood leaves fewest ashes. Techniques the author shares for using a chainsaw may save some fingers—certainly they should save some aggravation! The pleasures of gathering nuts and tips for cracking them come into the picture, too. Memoir, argument, lessons learned, advice offered—beyond these valuable elements, the book is simply a delight to read. Every page is rich with the happiness of a life well lived, a life the author wishes for us all. Like the woodlots he values so deeply, A Sanctuary of Trees is both resource and refuge. It is impossible to read this without feeling enlightened and grateful.
"Logsdon peels away the storied layers of our forests and beckons us to rekindle our connections with our most constant companions -- trees. This book belongs as much in the hands of educators as it does on every homesteader's handmade bookshelf. Seldom are reminiscences so forward-looking ... but that is ultimately Logsdon's hallmark as an author."--Philip Ackerman-Leist, professor, Green Mountain College, and author of Up Tunket Road
"I am more enamored with Gene Logsdon than ever after reading A Sanctuary of Trees. Without melodrama, angst, or anything resembling shock value, this lush autobiography details Mr. Logsdon's relationship with -- of all things -- trees! Trees. How sane and civilized it is. I learned so much from this grounded and completely wonderful book."--Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
"A Sanctuary of Trees is a beguiling, companionable read, full of sharp-eyed wonder, genuine humility, and a thousand nuts of useful wisdom: when and how to build a plank road; how to not get killed felling an old tree; how to get lost, and found; and -- if you read his book as Logsdon walks his woods -- how to live a long, alert, insatiably engaged life. This one's a keeper."--David Dobbs, author, Reef Madness, and coauthor, The Northern Forest
"Back in 1929 J. Russell Smith published his classic Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture. At the time, and mostly since, hardly anyone seemed interested in reading about, let alone doing, farming that includes trees as part of an appropriate, resilient agriculture and even suggesting that such agriculture is a love of country. I didn't expect to ever see a book like Smith's again, yet now we have Gene Logsdon's A Sanctuary of Trees, a renewal of all those classic ideas cast in the context of today's, and hopefully, tomorrow's world."--Frederick Kirschenmann, author of Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher
"Gene Logsdon does it again! This time he is out past the gardens, beyond the meadows, and deep into the groves and woodlots he has known and loved. What he brings back is a lover's report on a life-long affair of his. He is still contrary, thank goodness, more respectful of forests than of forestry; but A Sanctuary of Trees is a wonderfully woodsy book, neatly wrapped around a personal memoir. Reading it, we watch Logsdon casually learn about sassafras, chain saws, mistletoe, log houses, cordwood, birdsong, and a hundred other bits of vital forest lore. In private life he may be a tree hugger, and this narrative is seductive enough so that any thoughtful reader will probably develop similar symptoms."--Ronald Jager, author of Eighty Acres, Last House on the Road, and The Fate of Family Farming
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CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent announced today that he will not seek an extension of his current contract, which expires at the end of next year.
According to a press release, the CTIA Board of Directors will immediately begin conducting a search for Largent's successor.
In a statement, Largent said the coming year will be a busy one for CTIA, and above all else, he wanted to that his departure will not effect CTIA's work, noting both the upcoming FCC auction process as well transitioning to the Super Mobility week next year in Las Vegas.
"I believe it's appropriate to give our Board of Directors notice of my intentions so that it can plan accordingly, and proceed to find my successor," Largent said.
Prior to assuming the top job at CTIA in 2003, Largent represented Oklahoma's First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1994 to 2001. Largent was also a record setting wide receiver with the Seattle Seahawks for 14 years, setting six career records and participating in seven Pro Bowls. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995 and the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame in 2006.
Dan Mead, Verizon Wireless President and CEO, and current CTIA Chairman, said in a statement that Largent has done an "outstanding" job advocating on behalf of the industry.
"On behalf of the entire CTIA membership, we want to thank Steve for his hard work, commitment and impeccable integrity, and for being such a trusted and successful advocate for this great industry," Mead said.
Largent said that while he would miss his role at CTIA, he was very excited about the opportunity to spend more time with his Terry and his family, which is about to include an eighth grandchild.


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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globe nominations for best television comedy series have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The nominees announced Thursday morning are: "The Big Bang Theory," ''Episodes," ''Girls," ''Modern Family" and "Smash."
The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented Jan. 13 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and airing live on NBC.


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Pre-Gamin': Cubs v. Cubs (2:00 CT) – Intrasquad Game, Lineups, Pitchers, etc.
Baseball! No, it isn't the playoffs. Or the regular season. Or even Spring Training. But it's baseball, dagnabbit.
Today, the Chicago Cubs will square off against the Chicago Cubs in a six inning affair. Pitching prospects Kyle Hendricks and Eric Jokisch will get the starts, with Arodys Vizcaino, Armando Rivero, Chang-Yong Lim, Neil Ramirez, Tsuyoshi Wada, Brian Schlitter and Marcus Hatley also potentially seeing action on the mound.
The lineups (I may have made up the team names):
Team Zack Attack
- Luis Valbuena, 3B
- Junior Lake, CF
- Starlin Castro, SS
- Nate Schierholtz, RF
- Ryan Roberts, DH
- Darnell McDonald, LF
- Chris Valaika, 1B
- Darwin Barney, 2B
- John Baker, C
Team Slater's Raiders
- Emilio Bonifacio, 2B
- Justin Ruggiano, RF
- Anthony Rizzo, 1B
- Ryan Sweeney, CF
- Welington Castillo, DH
- Donnie Murphy, 3B
- Javier Baez, SS
- George Kottaras, C
- Chris Coghlan, LF
Overreactions: OMG Junior Lake in center! (But also Ryan Sweeney in center.) OMG Chris Coghlan and Darnell McDonald as the "next" outfielders! OMG Welington Castillo isn't catching yet after his knee procedure last year! OMG Mike Olt not starting! OMG Luis Valbuena leading off! OMG JAVIER BAEZ!!!
Now that we've got that out of our system …
There's very little to actually be gleaned from these lineups, though I do think it's nice to see Lake getting a shot in center field. Today's benches include pretty much everyone else in big league camp, so there's a chance that many of the guys not in the starting lineup will get an at bat or two.
There's no video of today's game because most of the Cubs fan world is not as insane as we are, and there may not be a market for it. Hopefully we'll be able to follow along on Twitter, and you can feel free to share what you see in the comments.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of a claim by Texas that it has a right under a 30-year-old agreement to cross the border with Oklahoma for water to serve the fast-growing Fort Worth area.
The justices heard arguments in a dispute over access to southeastern Oklahoma tributaries of the Red River that separates Oklahoma and Texas.
The Tarrant Regional Water District serving an 11-county area in north-central Texas including Fort Worth and Arlington wants to buy 150 billion gallons of water and says the four-state Red River Compact gives it the right to do so. Arkansas and Louisiana are the other participating states and they are siding with Oklahoma.
Several justices pointed to the absence of an explicit approval for cross-border water sales in the agreement.
"This clause, the one that you rely on, is kind of sketchy, isn't it? Doesn't say how they're going to get it, if they're going to pay for it. There's a lot to be filled in," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said to Charles Rothfeld, the lawyer representing the Texas district.
To the contrary, Rothfeld said, "it is quite clear" that the four states have equal rights to the water in the stretch of the Red River at issue before the Supreme Court.
Justice Samuel Alito called Texas' aggressive language "very striking. I mean, it sounds like they are going to send in the National Guard or the Texas Rangers."
Rothfeld sought to assure Alito on that point. "Oklahoma's brief suggests that the Texas Rangers are going to descend on Tulsa and seize the water. That is not what is contemplated," Rothfeld said.
District officials say that Oklahoma has more than 10 times the water it needs to meet its own needs and the district wants only about 6 percent of water flowing into the Red River — water that eventually flows into the Gulf of Mexico. They say drawing water directly from the river is not financially feasible because of salinity issues.
But the water district's plans have been blocked by Oklahoma laws that govern the use of water within its borders, including a moratorium on out-of-state water sales.
Lisa Blatt, Oklahoma's lawyer, took issue with virtually every aspect of the district's argument, including the claim that water drawn directly from the river is too salty.
"They think all the water that their residents drink is salty, but they still are drinking it," Blatt said.
The case arose from a federal lawsuit the district filed in 2007 against the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Oklahoma Water Conservation Storage Commission that challenges the state's water laws and seeks a court order to prevent the board from enforcing them.
Lower courts have ruled for Oklahoma, including the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It found that the Red River Compact protects Oklahoma's water statutes from the legal challenge.
Legislation adopted by the Oklahoma Legislature in 2009 said no out-of-state water permit can prevent Oklahoma from meeting its obligations under compacts with other states. It also requires the Water Resources Board to consider in-state water shortages or needs when considering applications for out-of-state water sales.
The Obama administration is backing the Texas district at the Supreme Court, saying Oklahoma may not categorically prohibit Texas water users from obtaining water in Oklahoma. But the administration takes no position on whether the Texans ultimately should get the water they are seeking in this case.
A decision is expected by late June.
The case is Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, 11-889.


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- Whale approx. 50x26x29,5 cm or 19.7"x10.2"x11.6" WxHxD
- Hen approx. 40x25 h. 35,5 cm or 15.8"x9.8"x14" WxHxD
- Penguin approx. 23x20x40,5 cm or 9.1"x7.9"x15.9" WxHxD
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Teachers in the Neshaminy School District went on strike this morning for the second time this year, closing classes for 7,000 students.
Members of the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers started picketing outside the Lower Bucks County district's 13 schools starting at 7 a.m., on the day high school seniors were scheduled to start final exams. The strike will extend the school year to as late as June 29, though the district plans to stick to its June 13 graduation.
The teachers are completing their fourth year without a raise, working under the terms of the contract that expired in July 2008. After 39 negotiating sessions and a recent non-binding arbitration. both sides are still far apart on back pay, raises, health care contributions and retirement incentives.
"We're not here by choice, but because the school board has left us no choice," union vice president Jeff Dunkley said outside Neshaminy High School. "They have presented nothing but exceedingly more punitive proposals, while we've offered six proposals that have been exceedingly more modest."
The strike comes one month after the school board unanimously rejected an independent arbitrator's recommendations that President Ritchie Webb said would cost the district $20 million.
The non-binding arbitration was required by state law because of the union's eight-day strike in January.
"Without the January strike, we wouldn't have reached non-binding arbitration," Dunkley said, "and without non-binding arbitration, we wouldn't have reached the right to a second strike."
The district is waiting for the state Board of Education to set a deadline for the teachers to return to work to complete the required 180-day school year, school board member Mike Morris said. Classes must be completed by June 30, without extending school days or scheduling weekend sessions.
NFT President Louise Boyd said the union would welcome an order from Bucks County Court for daily negotiations to resolve the impasse, but "there's no guarantee a judge would become involved."
Morris said the union "is trying to steer this to binding arbitration, just like it did for the non-binding arbitration, superseding the public's rights."
Both sides described last week's negotiating session as unproductive, and the next session, scheduled for June 12, will be canceled if the union is on strike, board President Ritchie Webb has said.
Union leaders have said the board refuses to meet the teachers half way in the bitter impasse, while the district has said it cannot afford the midpoint or many terms of the expired contract. The district is facing a $5.5 million shortfall for next year and is planning to cut programs and union positions to help balance the budget.
The union is seeking 80 percent of back pay, including education and service credits, and annual wage increases of 1 percent to 3.25 percent from last year through the 2013-14 school year. The school board maintains it cannot afford any back pay, except for education credits, and has offered 1 percent raises for this year and each of the next two years.
Under the district's proposal, base salaries would range from $42,552 to $96,883 this year.
The teachers, who have never contributed to their health care coverage, have offered to pay 8 percent of the annual premiums, compared to the district's proposed 15 percent.
And they have offered to reduce the $27,500 retirement benefit after 10 years of consecutive service, plus free insurance coverage for them and their dependents, while the district is seeking to drop the benefit.
At the Langhorne Coffee House, Larry Good III, Class of 2000, said he now has friends who are teachers n the district.
"I think the contract should be more in line with what people in private industry get," said Good, who works in his family's heating and air conditioning business. ""It's not fair to pay 2, 3, 4 percent raises annually and not pay for health care."
His father added, "Everyone would like to se it just be over. My sympathies are with the school board – we can't afford it, and they [the teachers] want it.
"I hope they come up with a good resolution," Larry Good Jr. said, "but I don't think there will be one."


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Hand signals tell motorists what you intend to do on the road. Signaling is required at least 100 feet before a turn or stop unless you need both hands to control the bicycle. If you have an available hand, let drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists know where you're going. Signal as a matter of law, courtesy and self-protection.
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A pedestrian can just push a button to get the "walk" sign, but a bicycle must be in the right spot to signal the traffic light. If you come to a red light and see this symbol on the street, position your bike directly over the middle line of the symbol. This will activate the traffic signal. If a car is already present at the signal, it will activate the signal for you.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. Its main services include the provision of credit cards and loans and other financial services to both commercial and individual customers in addition to the underwriting of new debt and equity issuance through its investment banking division. The firm has a significant amount of international exposure, with operations in over 50 countries and clients in every major financial market in the world. [1] JP Morgan Chase reported a full-year 2010 total revenue of $115.5B and a net income of $17.4 billion[2]
Investment banking is JPMorgan Chase's chief operation. The investment bank is employed by clients running the gamut from large corporations to governments to financial institutions. JPMorgan offers a wide range of financial services, including risk management, corporate advising, trading and market-making (enabling transactions between buyers and sellers of cash securities and derivatives), capital raising in equity and debt markets, and research. The investment bank is also responsible for investing and trading with the firm's own capital.[2]
JPMorgan Chase has the third-largest deposit base in the U.S., and has the largest market share in large cities like Chicago and New York, with the acquisition of Bank of New York's operations. The firm also operates the third-largest ATM network in the United States and the nation's fourth-largest branch network. [2]
Chase Card Services, JPMorgan's credit card services business, is the second-largest domestic issuer of Mastercard (MA) and Visa (V) cards. Chase Card Services has focused on expanding its network of private-label cards, which are cards issued by a specific retailer and are accepted only by the issuing retailer. Chase's current partners include BP (BP), Circuit City (CC), and Kohl's (KSS). Chase also issues cards jointly with various organizations, including Walt Disney Company (DIS), AARP, Marriott (MAR), Sony (SNE), and Amazon.com (AMZN). Private-label cards, while they offer better growth opportunities than traditional bank-issued cards, typically experience higher rates of delinquency, which adds additional risk to Chase's private-label expansion.
JPMorgan's asset management division provides retail investors, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide with investment and wealth management. The division's products and services include management of equities, hedge funds, real estate, fixed income, and private equity investments, as well as trust and estate services for its high-net-worth clients.
Treasury Services provides cash management, trading, and other services to corporations, financial institutions, and government entities. Securities Services holds, values, and clears securities, cash, and alternative investments for investors and broker-dealers, essentially facilitating transactions on stock markets across the world.
Commercial banking is a small but strong component of Chase's business. This division provides a range of banking services to corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and other financial institutions.[2]
JPMorgan Chase's Corporate/Private Equity division, J.P.Morgan Partners, LLC offers fund administration services to private equity funds, institutional limited partners, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, funds of private equity funds, distressed debt and hybrid funds.[2]
In June 2010 JP Morgan agreed to pay $153.6M to settle charges that it misled buyers on the purchases of complex mortgage investments. While this seems like a relatively large sum of money, it may singal the extent of lawsuits that the company may face after the crisis. This is relatively small compared to the size of JP Morgan.[3]
JP Morgan Chase is focused in the United States and changes in spending habits of Americans effects its credit card business. Beyond the credit card industry, JP Morgan's other services rely on a strong economic performance.[4][5]
Rising interest rates raise the cost of borrowing for all lenders, dampening the overall demand for mortgages and other home loan products. In addition, JP Morgan makes money by charging a spread between the rate in charges its customers and the rate it incurs to get the money. While JP Morgan can change the rate it charges to high enough for it to maintain a profit margin, as interest rates rise, the demand to borrow will fall. By contrast, lower interest rates increase the volume of demand.[6][7]
U.S. consumers have increasingly used credit cards to pay for more purchases than cash or checks, a trend that continued since then. In addition to credit cards, debit cards and electronic payments (like PayPal) have taken market share away from more traditional means of payment. One particular technology driving increased usage of credit cards is contact-less payments which do not require a swiping through a machine. The continued adoption of credit cards helps JP Morgan Chase's credit card segment.
JP Morgan Chase may be subject to a number of different changes or additions to the current regulation on the financial industry. These changes may impact the company's operations and prevent it from achieving the same level of profits it has in the past.[8]
First, All holding banks may be prevented from engaging in proprietary trading and in any trades where there is a "material conflict of interest". In addition, "material exposure to high-risk assets or high-risk trading strategies" will be banned. While the impact may be large, the true extent depends on the interpretation and implementation of the regulation.[9]
The Basel III rules will force banks to increase the amount of money they hold against liabilities. While the goal of the regulation is to prevent banks from becoming over leveraged, they may also prevent the banks from creating the same profit margins that they previously were able to attain.[10]
Other regulation may place limits on the extent to which banks may invest in hedge funds or in private equity funds. This is commonly referred to as the Volcker Rule.[11] In order to improve their returns, JP Morgan, like many of its peers, invests in organizations like hedge funds and private equity funds. These funds tend to have higher returns, but also tend to be higher risk. While the regulation aims to lower speculation and high risk investments, it may also prevent JP Morgan from achieving the returns it has historically gotten. Swaps, which are used by banks to offset their risk or hedge against potential outcomes, may also be regulated. This would prevent banks from taking certain positions because the risk would be too high without the possibility of a swap.[12] [13][14]
The U.S. Treasury has proposed a rule requiring U.S. banks to report all electronic transfers of funds in and out of the country. Previously, banks were required to report only fund transfers in excess of $3,000 and cash transfers over $10,000. The new rule would not apply to credit card and ATM transactions. The rule is an attempt by U.S. government officials to crack down on money laundering. This new regulation may deter customers, but also may increase the cost of operation for JP Morgan.[15]
As a holding bank, JP Morgan competes with a different set of companies including:


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